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Committee accepts Longhorns hook their coach apps for new dean Greg Beaton THE CHRONICLE

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Two weeks after administrators announced the creation of a dean of undergraduate education, they are working with faculty members to fill the new position —and to define what that role will mean news in practice. The search analysis committee has begun to solicit applications from faculty members and will convene next week to begin discussing the selection process, said Peter Burian, the committee’s chair.

A search committee has

been created to look for a new dean of undergraduate education who will have the following responsibilities: -chair the current Undergraduate Leadership Group -work to better integrate the different components of undergraduate life at the administrative level -address student needs from the perspective of an individual who currently holds a faculty

Burian, chair of classical studies, professor of theater studies and former chair of the Academic Council, said the six-person committee hopes to submit a list of three finalists to Provost Peter Lange and President Richard Brodhead by May 10. “This needs to be a person with a' very strong commitment to the coordination of all the aspects of undergraduate education,” Burian said. Brodhead, who announced the position March 22, said it was created largely to address the disconnect among the different aspects of undergraduate life at the admhiistrative level. “The administration ofundergraduate education is done here by very thoughtful and goodhearted people,” he said. “But the structure is a very compartmentalized one.” Since his announcement, Brodhead has emphasized that the search will be internal and that the position will be filled by a member of the faculty. “It needs to be someone who knows and cares about what it means to be a teacher, who knows students the way a teacher knows students, but also who has a broad interest in student life and. a deep commitment to student welfare,” he said. Lange said the principles of the new position are well em-

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Donning a recently-acquired sweater, Gail Goestenkors was formally introduced Thursday as Texas’ head coach in a press conference that came two days after Duke announced she was leaving. “I’m so proud and so honored to be the new coach here at Texas,” Goestenkors said. “[Duke] was a tough place for me to leave.... It was a tough decision, Thad been there for 15 years. But I felt like it was really time for me to make a change and accept a new challenge.” After informing her old team ofher decision in a meet-

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afternoon, Tuesday Goestenkors met with her new one Wednesday in Austin. “I know several of the players, and we talked about a lot of things,” Goestenkors said. “We talked about style of play and I said ‘pressing, running and trapping,’ and they got all excited and that got me excited.” Goestenkors replaces legendary Longhorns’ coach Jody Conradt, who retired at the end of Texas season. During her career, she accumulated 900 wins and won the 1986 National Championship. On Thursday, Goestenkors said her relationship with Conradt—as well as Texas women’s athletics director Chris Blonsky—influenced her decision. She also cited the welcoming

Gail Goestenkors was officially named as Texas' head coach at a press conference Thursday in Austin, replacing the legendary Jody Conradt.

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Durham schools miss federal mark by

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With many Durham public schools failing to meet national standards, local educators are now debating the effect of the No Child Left Behind Act on area schools. In 2006, only 11 of 45 schools the Durham Public Schools sysin tem reached the standard of“Adequate Yearly Progress,” as defined by the federal mandate signed into law five years ago. Under NCLB, students are categorized by ethnicity and socioeconomic status, among other criteria. In orderfor a school to meet the standards of AYP, students

from all groups must achieve a targeted proficiency rate John Heffernan, a thirdgrade teacher at Forest View Element a r y School —which failed to meet AYP standards last year—said the law has helped teachers at his school consider the educational needs of its ethnically diverse student body. SEE NO CHILD ON PAGE

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Bush and his team were tracking a group of men believed to be responsible for four robberies, the FBI said. In two of the robberies, the suspects had fired assault weapons while inside the bank, the agency said. When the agents found three suspects outside a bank on Route 22 in Readington around noon Thursday, a shootout ensued and Bush was hit. Josh Bavosa, 35, said he was making a business deposit at the PNC Bank when he heard three gunfire bursts that sounded as if they were from an automatic weapon. When he looked out the window,

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READINGTON, N.J. An FBI agent who was killed Thursday in a shootout with three bank robbery suspects might have been shot accidentally by another agent on his stakeout team, the FBI said. Agent Barry Bush, 52, assigned to the Newark office, died after agents confronted three men suspected in a series of armed bank robberies. “Preliminarily, information suggests the agent may have been fatally wounded as a result of the accidental discharge of another agent’s weapon during a dynamic arrest situation,” the FBI said in a

Bavosa said, he saw law enforcers swarming around a car, pulling two people out and ordering them onto the ground. Brian Agans, who works in an engine shop across from the bank, said he heard a “pop, pop, pop.” He ran outside to make sure a mechanic was not having a problem with equipment, but instead saw law enforcement swarming. “All hell was breaking loose. I’ve never seen so many police and authorities take action ever in my life,” Agans said. Two suspects, Wilfredo Berrios, 28, and Michael Cruz, 21, both of New Brunswick,

911 calls on cell hard to track People make more 911 calls from cell phones than landlines, and police and firefighter are worried about finding those callers in distress. The accuracy of the technology that guides rescuers to cell phone callers can range from a few yards to several miles.

Tourists evacuate cruise ship Scores of passengers climbed down rope ladders to rescue vessels after a Greek cruise ship, Sea Diamond, struck a reef Thursday and started listing in the Mediterranean, forcing the evacuation of 1,600 people including North Carolina high school students.

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regrets for entering Iranian waters. Defense officials sought to quash the criticism and said that none of the sailors and marines will be punished for making the apologies. Prime Minister Tony Blair was somber. He said that while the country celebrated the safe return —and praised the diplomacy that secured their release—the joy was diminished by the killing of four British soldiers in Iraq Thursday. “Just as we rejoice at the return of our 15 service personnel, so today we are also grieving and mourning for the loss of our soldiers in Basra, who were killed as the re-

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Last year’s addition of two majors—dance and statistical science—have allowed the Dance Program and the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences to expand their curricula and promote increased student interest. So far, there is one declared dance major and one declared statistical science major, program directors said. “As soon as Duke got the dance major, it seemed like no choice for me—I had to do it,” sophomore Audrey Fenske said. Since the Arts and Sciences Council established the dance major in December 2006, the Dance Program will offer a new capstone course—Dance, Research and Methods—and has hired a full-time staff musician to develop a new course in music for dancers, said Barbara Dickinson, director of the Dance Program and associate professor of the practice of dance. “Part of the development of the major will be developing a couple of new courses.... But we’re also creating a course on performance, in other words, examining beyond technique,” Dickinson said. “You’re technically facile, you’re a good dancer, but how do you become a performer, what is the artistry of a performer?” She added that having a major has helped the dance program better integrate the academic and performance aspects of dance. This allows for students to study dance in its cultural context and advances a more holistic understanding of dance, she said. “At most other universities that have dance majors, all their courses are heavy in studio work,” Fenske said. “But the dance major at Duke is different because it’s very heavy in... academic courses.” Dickinson said the dance program at Duke has always been strong, even without the major. She added that when professionals and other universities’ dance faculty have visited Duke, they were surprised that no dance major existed. The new statistical science major—established in April 2006—will allow the ISDS to offer more advanced classes, said

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The dance program has expanded both its staffand its course offerings since the establishmentof a major in 2006. Dalene Stangl, director and professor of the practice ofISDS. But she added that it is still too early to tell how a major will affect the statistics program. “I think it’s way too early to say that it’s had any impact at all,” Stangl said. “I’m guessing there’s going to be a lot more change down the road.” Stangl pointed to the rise in the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement statistics courses as evidence of the increased demand for a statistics major. She added that a statistics major is useful in many industries and occupations such as law, finance and medicine.

“It’s just an incredibly broad, useful degree that’s going to help you in most any major or any field you go into,” Stangl said. She added that in addition to the one declared major, there are five declared minors in statistical science. But sophomore Megan Kuhfeld, the declared statistical science major, said she is planning on dropping down to a minor. “If I had entered freshman year, I probably would have kept with it, but because it just came [last] fall, I didn’t have really any time and I didn’t really know I was interested in stats until sophomore year,” Kuhfeld said.

Since Spring 2006, a group of about 15 undergraduate and graduate students have been trying to bring environmental sustainability to Duke’s campus. Students for Sustainable Living, a group dedicated to grassroots environmental change, has been working behind the scenes to encourage environmentally friendly behavior at the University. But unlike most student groups—many of which receive funding from the Student Organization Finance Committee—SSL is financed by the Office of the Executive Vice President and its members are compensated for their work. “SSL is set up almost like mini student internships,” Tavey McDaniel, program coordinator for the Office of the Executive Vice President and adviser for SSL, wrote in an e-mail. The students are assigned to various departments at Duke, including the Office of Information Technology, Duke Dining Services and the Office of Parking and Transportation, and are charged with instituting environmentally friendly change within the department, McDaniel said. Projects have focused on reducing paper use on campus, making the campus more bike-friendly and reducing water use in dormitories. Instead of trying to just raise awareness and spread information, SSL uses a social science research method called community-based social marketing to identify barriers to sustainability and implement practical, tangible changes, said SSL member Bradford Harris, a senior. SEE SUSTAINABLE ON PAGE 5

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Campus Council discussed requirements for quadrangle programming—debating whether alterations should be made to the current policy for the upcoming year—at a general body meeting Thursday night. According to Campus Council regulations, West and Central quad councils must currently hold five types of events —social,

faculty interaction, community

outreach, culture and wellness. President Ryan Todd, a junior,

said the categories are meant to foster community, but the guidelines and the respective punishment policies are ineffective. Under the current system, if a quad does not complete the requirements, the council can freeze their finances for the following semester until the quad holds the events—a process that seldom occurs, Council members said. Some members said fulfilling the requirements often impairs the success of an event. “We have to wander away from

‘kegs and carrots’ where we have a keg and some carrots nearby, so it’s healthy [and fulfills the wellness requirement],” said junior Hasnain Zaidi, facilities and services chair. At-large member Dan Piech, a sophomore, said students lack incentive to fulfill the requirements because few students live in the same quads for more than one year. Other members said, however, that the funds are used for SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE

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“The provost has been serving on-point in connecting the dots on the undergraduate experience,” Moneta said. Moneta, Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, and Kristina Johnson, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering will now report to this dean, in addition to reporting to the provost and other top administrators. Although the announcement of the position was made soon after the Feb. 27 release of the Campus Culture Initiative’s

Group, which was created about a year ago to address the varying components of undergraduate life. The ULG is composed of the deans and administrators whose positions affect undergraduate life. Upon his or her selection, the dean of undergraduate education will chair the ULG, said Lange, who currently chairs the “The CCI is certainly a group. In efstimulant, even though fect, the the CCI itself did not new posit i o n mention this.” will shift the rePeter Lange sponsi-

bilities of other administrative positions, Brodhead said, although he noted that the primary intention of the position was not to alter current roles. “Its principal function is to provide a place of integration and coordination,” he said. The new deanship will have the largest effect on the Office of the Provost, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. In many ways, the dean will serve as the “spokesperson” for undergraduate educational priorities, Brodhead said, adding that Lange has served much of that role in the past.

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Lange and Brodhead emphasized that although coordination and interaction among the different components of undergraduate life will be the dean’s primary objective, both said they see the possibility for new ideas and projects to arise.

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are paid, the work of SSL is more structured than that of EA. “The fact that SSLers are working for the initiatives that Duke is both legitimizing and limiting,” think a lot of stu“I Barnett-Loro wrote in an e-mail. “In dents have undertaken have been designed to raise people’s awareness, but some cases it facilitates collaboration SSL is incorporating CBSM to change with admins, but at the same time, the fact that Duke is signing your paycheck people’s habits,” Harris said. For instance, means you have less freedom to SSL has discovbe confrontaered that student “We have the tional and opposition to the t0... really make sustainability adamant about use of low-flow the issues.” showerheads in an part of the Duke Although dorms is due in SSL and EA experience.” part to an inactry to encurate percepTavey McDaniel both courage envition that low-flow showerheads are ronmentally advisor, SSL friendly behavless comfortable, lor on campus, Harris added. “People have a very bad impression of the methods to do so are different, Barlow-flow, but actually that is a fallacy,” he nett-Loro added. The structural differences of the two said. “We’ve found that the people who low-flow showallow SSL and EA to promote sustainabilhave never experienced a erhead have a worse impression than ity from several directions. “I think we have the opportunity to those who have experienced [it].” [a] huge impact on the campus have Junior Vanessa Barnett-Loro, a memculture and really make sustainability ber of SSL and president ofEnvironmental Alliance, said SSL is distinct from EA. an integral part of the Duke experiAside from the fact that students in SSL ence,” McDaniel said.

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COUNCIL from page 4 what the students in the quad often want, and the restrictions can hamper attendance. “Kegs and carrots is not what we want [quad events] to go to, but those will be much better attended,” said sophomore Zach Goodman, Wannamaker Quadrangle representative. “If you want people to get the bang for their buck, these rules should be less stringent.” Todd said some quads spend a majority of their budget on clothing, decreasing the significance of events. “The purpose of having these requirements is so that we keep people in check and make sure they do something productive,” he said. “If we were to remove the clothing altogether, it would make the programs double-incentivized.” Other members said the clothing gives residents a sense of community and increases attendance at events.

“If you don’t give away shirts and sweatshirts at Midnight Breakfast, [the students are] going to complain,” said senior Shaunte Henry, a Central Campus representative. Eddie Hull, dean ofresidence life and executive director of housing services, said there is still the argument of quality over quantity. “One of the biggest traps is how you define success,” Hull said. “You can have an event that 400 people show up [and] that can be a lousy event, and you can have an event where 10 people show up and it indelibly changes their lives.” Campus Council also discussed making the individual quad council vice presidents representatives to Campus Council, instead of having the representative as its own position. The vice presidents could better enforce that the programming requirements are met, and the Council will discuss the possibility further at later meetings, Todd said.

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Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg worked with congressmen on a new bill promoting personalized medicine.

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As knowledge of the human genome penetrates the arena ofhealth care—aided by recent advances in personalized medicine—the contrasting goals of health systems, pharmaceutical companies and governmental agencies appear to pose some

problems.

Several Duke scientists have recendy to draft the Genomics and Personalized Medicine Act of 2007, which was recendy introduced by Sen. Richard Burr, RN.C., and Sen. Barack Obama, D-111. If approved, the bill will play a major role in future efforts to deploy genomicbased and personalized medicine—health care based on individuals’ genetics and social backgrounds. “I believe this legislation will help improve the quality and safety of health care by providing a better understanding of what causes certain diseases,” Burr

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said in a statement last week. Scientists from the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy collaborated with the two senators and other congressional parties in creating the authorization bill, which aims to foster standardized, safer and more efficient approaches to personalized medicine. “Right now, personalized medicine is bubbling up from the bottom,” said Dr. Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Duke’s IGSP. ‘You have the interests of technological and diagnostic companies, pharmaceutical

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GENOMICS from page 5 terminology and guidelines. Ginsburg said the issue of standardized vocabulary and guidelines is an important one, as it currendy poses confusing challenges related to sex and other modes of criteria for genomic data. Such a system of records would aid ongoing efforts to make individuals’ medical data more readily accessible, he added. [The bill] aims to transcend what is today a fragmented health care system by creating national databases,” Ginsburg said, adding that he was not sure how national systems could incorporate existing medical records. In addition to collaboration between pharmaceutical companies and genetic test developers, the legislation proposes for an interagency organization to merge the interests of the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and other governmental bodies. Organizations such as the NIH and FDA hold different interests—posing a potential for confusing discrepancies regarding criteria and methodology for developing personalized medicine, Ginsburg said. In recent years, the NIH, pharmaceutical companies and other government bodies have emphasized the advantages of preventive and genomic-based approaches over traditional medicine regarding cost and effectiveness. “The intended purpose of the bill is to enable technologies relevant to personalized medicine to be incorporated into health care expeditiously, effectively and safely,” Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, director of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy and professor of public policy, wrote in an e-mail Tuesday. Duke, where genomic applications for cancer treatment and diagnostics loom large, could benefit from educational and training initiatives proposed by the bill as well as receive funding in the future. “I am proud that North Carolina is a leader in genomics and personalized medicine research,” Burr said. “This legislation will increase federal support for initiatives at Duke and Chapel Hill—a win-win for North Carolina and patients.” “

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were captured, officials said. State and local authorities were searching for another man who ran into the woods, identified by state police as Francisco Herrera-Genao, 22, ofNew Brunswick. Berrios and Cruz were to be charged with attempted armed robbery of the Readington bank, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark said. It was not immediately clear if the men had attorneys. The FBI had started investigating Berrios, Cruz and Herrera-Genao after a March 2 bank robbery. A surveillance camera at a shopping center caught the masked gunmen abandoning a stolen car they had used in the robbery and getting into their “switch car,” a rental vehicle that was traced to Berrios, according to a criminal complaint released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The FBI started watching the men, and found them driving up to the bank in Readington Thursday in two cars that had been stolen earlier in the day. Believing the men were preparing to rob the bank, FBI agents approached one of the cars and arrested Berrios; Herrera-Genao fled into the woods. At the same time, shots were fired as agents approached Cruz, who was in another car, and that was when Bush was hit, the complaint said. After his arrest, Cruz admitted the men were attempting to rob the bank, according to the complaint. He also said they had robbed a bank along with Efrain Lynn, 21, on March 16. Lynn was arrested Thursday on a bench warrant unrelated to the bank robberies, federal prosecutors said. Bush, 52, joined the FBI in August of 1987, serving in Kansas City and transferring to Newark in 1991. He is survived by a wife and two grown children, the FBI said. Giovanni Finazzo, owner of Mangia Bella, a nearby pizzeria, said that other than a string of break-ins several years ago, there is not much crime in the area. “Are you kidding?” Finazzo asked. “After 7 o’clock, you don’t even see a ghost in this town.”

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NO CHILD from page 1 “[The No Child Left Behind Act] has

helped us focus on specific areas of student achievement,” said Heffernan, who has taught in Durham for 10 years. He said Forest View is one of the most diverse schools in the state—with more than 25 nationalities represented—and consequendy it is evaluated in more categories than the average school. Heffernan added that it is especially hard for a school like Forest View to meet proficiency requirements because the average of every group must reach the designated level. “Teachers need to be held accountable very early,” he said. Schools that fail to meet standards more than once receive technical assistance from the State Board of Education, but if they continue to fall short, teachers are replaced and schools are restructured. Virginia Hill, an instructor in the Duke Program in Education and a former North Carolina public school teacher, said NCLB has increased aware-

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ness of at-risk and minority students. Hill, however, said she opposes some of the provisions of the law, including an increase in standardized tests. NCLB has required an increase in the number and frequency of standardized tests schools administer. “The extra help kids are getting is good, even if it is forced by a mandate that is not funded and for something as unnecessary as high-stakes testing,” Hill wrote in an e-mail. “However, the toll it is taking on attitudes towards school and learning is bad for everybody.” Sophomore Chelsea Echenique, who has tutored in Durham schools for two semesters, said teachers spend a good deal of time simply “teaching to the test.” “A lot of the emphasis is being put on test scores and not on learning for the sake of learning,” she said. Echenique added that testing can also have a detrimental effect on students who feel extreme pressure to perform well. “The emotional and social environment ofthe classroom has to be addressed, notjust the intellectual [environment],” she said. ‘

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SLEEP from page 1 Sophomore Eric Sukumar said he slept on average six to seven hours a night and took one and a half hour naps three to four times a week. Harrell suggested that students maintain a good sleeping routine seven days a week and avoid napping during the day and sleeping in on weekends. He added, however, that it was better to nap than not to sleep at all. “I think a lot of students feel that missing out on sleep is just a regular part of the college experience, but it definitely doesn’t have to be,” Harrell said. “With proper planning, you can ensure that you get enough sleep, which will probably improve academic performance as opposed to staying up later studying.” On the night before an exam—when many students sleep least—freshman Priyanka Kanakamedala said she makes sure to get at least seven to eight hours of sleep. “I usually sleep five to six hours per night, but generally try to sleep more if I have an exam the next day,” Kanakamedala said. Not getting enough sleep and not sleeping well can affect your concentration and decrease efficiency, Harrell added. “There have been studies with animals that were kept awake repeatedly over a certain number of days that actually died,” he said. [Sleep difficulties and lack of sleep] decrease performance and reaction time and increase memory lapses, accidents “

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and mood problems.” Harrell, who organized the Sleep Awareness and Stress Management activities and workshops this week, said attendance at the events has been fair overall. “We’ve been tabling on the [West Campus Plaza] and giving away goody bags with information about stress management and some kind of stress management tool like a squeezy vegetable or fruit or an acrylic back massager,” Harrell said. “The relaxation workshop Monday wasn’t very well attended, but the massage workshops had very good turnouts.” Harrell added that the Sleep Awareness and Stress Management Week would end with a bouncy casde on Main West Friday, providing students with a fun opportunity to relax.

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SAILORS from page 2 Gordon Johndroe, spokesperson for the National Security Council, said Washington saw no sign of Iranian willingness to work with other nations on scaling back its nuclear program, which the United States and its allies suspect is aimed at producing atomic weapons. “What would show that they’re more in line with the international community is to comply with the U.N. Security Council resolution” calling for a freeze in the Iranian nuclear program, he said. The freed crew left Iran Thursday morning, traveling in business class on a British Airways jetliner with staff from the British Embassy in Tehran. Flight attendants passed around champagne as a Royal Navy officer reminded the former prisoners they were on duty. Filing off the plane at London’s Heathrow Airport after a six-and-a-half-hour flight, the team members carried blue and orange duffel bags and shopping bags, some apparently holding candy and souvenir gifts from Iranians. They spent a few minutes on the tarmac, smiling and

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When freshman infielder Ryan McCurdy steps onto the field Friday, he will see a familiar face in the opposing dugout. McCurdy will be reunited with high school friend Ryan Hudson, a senior catcher for Virginia, when Duke (21-11, 2-10 and the No.' 6 Cavaliers (27-6, 84) square off in a three-game series this weekend at Davenport vs. Field in Charlottesville, Va. The Tampa, Fla., naFRI.-SUN. lives played at H.B. Plant Charlottesville, Va. High School. Although McCurdy never actually played with Hudson, he is still close friends with the catcher and his family. “He played his senior year when I was a freshman, so I was on JV,” McCurdy said. “I didn’t actually have a chance to play with him. Ijust know him, but it’d be fun to play against him.” Often times in the off-season, McCurdy will play with Hudson and his family. McCurdy said Hudson has always maintained a positive attitude, teaching him to never let his poor days on the field affect the play ofhis teammates.

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It has been two years since Duke has faced Johns Hopkins, but the memories of that last outing could not be clearer for the Blue Devils. Meeting on the sport’s biggest stage, Duke squandered a third quarter lead to fall 9-8 to the Blue Jays in 2005 National Championship game —denying the Blue Devils the program’s first national title pMpfl as Johns Hopkins secured its eighth. No 4 Duke ( 8-2 ) SATURDAY, 1 p.m. Baltimore, Md. have a shot at redemption Saturday, when it faces the No. 9 Blue Jays (4-3) at Ip.m. in Baltimore. “It’s hard to say that we wouldn’t be a little hungrier for this game,” senior Casey Carroll said. “It’d be nice to get one on them, definitely.” Carroll and his fellow seniors have come up empty in their three matchups against Johns Hopkins, including a 6-5 loss their freshman year and a 11-10 doubleovertime defeat in 2005. The Blue Jays are the only team the current seniors have faced and not beaten at least once over the course of their careers. “They cancelled the game last year, which has left a bitter taste in our mouths, and again them beating us in the National Championship two years ago,” senior

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Coming off a thrilling 19-18 triple overtime win against Virginia last weekend, the Blue Devils (10-1) carried their momentum into Wednesday’s matchup with No. 10 Notre Dame for a 20-10 victory. No. 4 Duke jumped out to a quick 10 lead against DUKE 20 the Fighting "|Q Irish (9-3) off a ND goal from Caroline Cryer less than a minute into play. Notre Dame countered with a goal of its own at the 27-minute mark to tie the score. Similar to their play in the past few games, the Blue Devils started off slowly, dropping two more goals to the Fighting Irish to fall behind, 3-1. This two goal deficit was all Duke needed to inspire a comeback, however, going on a 9-0 run over the next 18:09. The scoring spurt was highlighted by goals from six different Blue Devils, including three from sophomore Carolyn Davis and two from senior Kristen Waagbo. “We were just able to have possession of the ball,” Waagbo said of the turnaround. “We got the draw controls and were able to push the tempo of the game like we wanted to.” The Fighting Irish managed to sneak in one more goal before the end of the period to end Duke’s run. But the Blue Devils would go into halftime with the momentum, as Cryer netted a

score of her own on an assist from Leigh Jester, putting Duke up, 11-4, at the break. After their strong showing in the first half, the Blue Devils opened the second period with an unanswered three-goal blitz to solidify a lead that Notre Dame could never overcome. “We did a great job on the draw,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “We scored nicely in transition, and we scored really nicely on our settled offense as well. The ball was moving really well to a lot of different people.” Eventually the Fighting Irish, down 16-6, responded with a 3-0 run to cut the Duke lead to seven. Yet this small hiccup was not serious for the Blue Devil squad, who answered in kind with a run of its own. The scoring barrage was capped off by two goals from Cryer and one each from Davis and Waagbo to bring Duke to its final tally of 20. The Blue Devils travel to Evanston, 111. Saturday to face No. 1 Northwestern, an opponent that defeated Duke last May in the NCAA semifinals, 11-10 in overtime. Although the Blue Devils topped the Wildcats, 16-10, in last year’s regular season, that Duke squad could not overcome the eventual national champions in the final four contest. “We’re all ready for a really great game,” Kimel said. “To play a game Thursday and turn around and play Saturday is really tough especially against teams of this caliber.”

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BASEBALL from page 9 “Whenever he struggled, he never let that influence anyone else,” McCurdy said. Since his days at H.B. Plant, Hudson mostly has been a backup at Virginia, starting only four games this year. When McCurdy does step up to the plate, however, potentially meeting with his old friend will probably be the last thing on his mind. Led by a strong pitching staff, Virginia has allowed more than five runs only five times. The Cavaliers’ pitchers have given up a mere 2.44 earned runs per game and have posted five shutouts on the year, as opposed to Duke’s one. Over the three game series, the Cavaliers expect to send Jacob Thompson, Matt Packer and Sean Doolittle, who are a combined 15-3 and have ERAs of 1.75, 3.12 and

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“Virginia’s a club that’s pretty well rounded but built on pitching and defense,” head coach Sean McNally said. “We saw two of their three starters last year in Thompson and Doolitde. They’re very good, they’re very polished and straight throwers.” Virginia enters Friday’s game coming off a 5-2 loss to VMI Tuesday. Duke, on the other hand, hopes the momentum from its 17-12 win at Davidson Tuesday will carry over into this series. In that game, the Blue Devils knocked out 19 hits and four home runs. “It’s nice to see us build some momentum in that Florida State series and carry it through Davidson,” McNally said. After playing No. 1 Florida State last weekend and with No. 2 North Carolina on the docket next, this weekend will be the second of three straight in which the Blue Devils will face top-10 opponents.

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than anything else.” The Blue Jays are likely going into the weekend matchup with a little extra anticipation as well. For the first time since 2000, Johns Hopkins dropped consecutive matches in the same season. The traditionally dominant Blue Jays have struggled at both ends of the field lately, allowing 13 goals in their last outing against North Carolina—the most a Hopkins team hasr forfeited since 2003. Before that, the Blue Jays’ offense sputtered versus Virginia, when it managed just five goals. “They’ve had so much success in the past,” Danowski said. “That’s why it’s going to be tough to beat them, because they don’t want to be the team to lose three in a row, and they just don’t want to lose because ofhow successful they’ve been the past couple of years.” Despite Hopkins’ recent struggles, head coach John Danowski has spent the week preparing his team for the plethora of defensive configurations he anticipates the Blue Jays will field. Danowski said that he also expects Hopkins will attempt to slowMatt Danowski and fellow attackman Zack Greer—who account for 43 percent of the Blue Devils’ offensive output—with a combination of zone and soft man-toman defenses. But even after a week of preparation, John Danowski said his team should be prepared for anything. “We always caution our guys and say you can watch film, but when a team’s got a whole week to practice they might come up with some new wrinkles or things that we haven’t seen, so we’ve got

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ready for those things,” he said. But regardless of what Johns Hopkins throws at Duke’s offense, the Blue Devils are focused on themselves and their play, not their opponent’s. “Our attitude this year is, ‘lt’s about us, not about them,”’ Matt Danowski said. ‘You can line up anybody you want against us and we’re going to play the same way. We’re prepared for all situations, and it really doesn’t matter what their jersey is, just what we do.” to be

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The Blue Devils will host more than 1,800 athletes this weekend for the Duke Invitational at Wallace Wade Stadium, making it the second largest meet on the East Coast behind the Penn Relays. The women’s team looks to make its mark in the record books as several athletes try to defend their Invite titles. Senior Debra Vento looks to become the first studentathlete to win four straight Invite titles when she competes in the pole vault Friday at 3 p.m. The only other athlete to win four titles at the Duke Invite was Jillian Schwartz, who won three straight pole vault titles as a Duke student from 1999-2001 and a fourth as an independent. Junior Daina Pucurs will attempt to follow Vento’s lead by winning every Invite title event she has competed in. Pucurs won javelin titles her freshman and sophomore years.

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lated from Durham, in reality, it is not. Take the C-5 bus off of East Campus to Brightleaf Square or Ninth Street to see for yourself what the city has to offer. 4. Take a walk. It’s the perfect time of year to visit central North Carolina. Take advantage of the weather to peruse the Sarah P. Duke Gardens or the trail around East Campus. 5. Go to theNasher Museum of Art Affectionately known as “The Nash,” this new addition to campus is the only place in the area whereyou can catch up on your sculptures of giant faces and circles over an elegant meal. 6. Read the fliers. From

advertisements for weekend parties, to witty, borderline religiously insensitive Duke University Improv posters, to notices for academic speakers, you can learn more about extracurricular campus activity from fliers than from anywhere else. 7. See the freshman dorms. It is widely acknowledged that Duke has done the first year experience right, but you can make sure of this by visiting the dormitories of East Campus. In order to scout out your experience next year, ask to look inside a freshman’s room. You may receive a knuckle sandwich, but, hey, you may make a lifelong friend. 8. Explore the library. Both Perkins and Bostock li-

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weekend was fairly run-of-the-mill. I hung out with friends, went to a couple of parties, pretended to do some homework.... Oh, and I jumped out of an airplane. That’s right, you heard me. I went skydiving with Duke’s Catholic Student Center, even though I am Jewish (I figured if anything were to happen, this way I’d have all my bases covered). What compelled me to leap from a small aircraft 14,000 feet up with nothing between myself and a grisly death but a thin piece of nylon? Aside from the fact staCV Chlldwlll that I am a thrill-seekshenanigans ing bad ass, I also was very interested by an idea that struck me a few weeks ago: what is the best way to capture a once-in-a-lifetime experience? Allow me to elaborate. There are moments in life we all experience that we know will only happen once. Whether it is the birth of a child, getting that perfect spot at the Carolina game after tenting for two months or even seeing a particularly spectacular view of the Duke Chapel framed by a blue sky, we all get that eerie feeling that we are literally living in a memory. We reach out with our senses, trying to grasp every sound, every smell, every tiny pixel of sight, greedily trying to hold onto an ephemeral moment. But there is not the time, or the brain space, to capture every gorgeous experience of our everyday lives.... But I digress. Back to skydiving. So there I was, 14,000feet up, about to plunge from a plane made in Africa that was about the size of a minivan and seemed to have a child’s rendering of a jungle scene painted on the side. I was strapped to a scruffy old Vietnam War vet, who I fondly refer to as Tandem Master Randy. This dinosaur of a man has been jumping out of planes since ’69, so to him, Saturday was just another day at work. For myself, this was a moment I had been waiting for my entire life. A moment when I could do something truly daring, truly courageous; something that I could one day cherish on my deathbed (or, right before I smashed into the ground at 120 mph). The company I went with offered a service where you could pay $99 to have a photographer jump out of the plane with you and record you both on DVD and with still-shots. It seemed like a no-brainer: for a one-time fee, I could have someone give

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braries (as well as the von der Heyden Pavilion) are centers of intellectual life on campus, and a visit to their reading rooms and stacks will help give you a glimpse into college academics and research. 9. Go to parties, but be safe. Whether you visit a section party or a student-performed play on West Campus or an off-campus party at Shooters or Parizades, going out at night is the best way for you to see whether the social life here is a good fit for you. At the same time, be responsible. Your impressions of the night life here may not be useful if you cannot remember the night at all. With these words, welcome to Duke, and have a good Blue Devil Day.

a moment by my brain a rest and capture the memories for me. And therein lies the rub: does filming a moment enhance it, or ruin it? To use an example that more ofyou can probably relate to, have you ever had that inner debate about whether to bring your camera to a Duke basketball game? Sure, it’s amazing that we can capture shots of our friends with painted faces, of our favorite players warming up or of Tyler Hansbrough getting smashed in the face by Gerald Henderson. But it can also min the game. Having to annoy your friends to pose for you, or fumbling with your camera while the entire crowd is jumping up and down, is irritating, cumbersome and detracts from the very experience you are trying to capture. It was the same thing with skydiving. When I backflipped out of the plane into a 60-second free fall, I found myself focusing more on blowing a kiss to the camera man than on the fact that I had just jumped out of a plane. Before I knew it, Tandem Master Randy had ripped the chute, and my free fall was over and gone. It all comes down to a trade-off: do you want to have physical evidence of an experience to cherish for the rest of your life, or do you want to be truly present in the moment you are experiencing? Is life the physical accumulation of experiences over time, or is it in each second, each individual moment that we are here on earth? As we all learned from the movie Zoolander, the Aborigines believe that photography steals a person’s soul. I believe that it steals the soul of a moment. While my $99 got me a digitally enhanced, soundtracked DVD of myself skydiving, I would pay every cent of it again, and more, to be back in that moment, free falling out of the expanse of a cool blue sky. Because when you think about it, life is kinda like jumping out of a plane. You get a little nudge from your parents and then offyou go into a chaotic free fall, praying that you have the inner strength and resources to open your parachute to guide yourself down. But once you have that chute open, and are beginning the calm, quiet descent to the earth, all you want in the world is to be back in that terrifying free fall once more. That’s when you felt most alive, when every second was thrilling, and new, and gone so fast. And while it is wonderful to reflect back on it, whether by photography or by memory, you always wish to God that you could have appreciated it just a little more, right then, in that moment. Stacy Chudwin is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

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that I need to remind you, but Duke is an innovative and progressive place. Our academics here are not only world-class but incredibly inventive as well. A variety of disciplines are constantly joining forces to tackle relevant and intriguing problems. Since I just registered for classes this morning, I decided to highlight some of the more captivating courses I have taken so far here at Duke. I hope that this list will help as you frantically search for what to take when all ofyour preferred courses undoubtedly fill up. Women’s Studies 124/ Robotics 66: Robot Sexuality; What a wealth of information I learned in this class. Even in just the first day I learned that yes, C3PO is gay and that no, this information does not make Star Wars any more interesting. jordan axt The final project required palindromes each student to construct his or her own robot. Mine could compute a variety of functions and generate complex algorithms. But perhaps most importantly, it could watch, and even enjoy, episodes of Will and Grace. Also, through some highly intricate programming, my robot can actually tell me what not to wear. Music 75/ Biology 42: Is there something wrong with a hide bump and grind? Sure, the class sounds intimidating, but the answer is actually pretty simple: R. Kelly was right. Through a variety of approaches, we all discovered that there is absolutely nothing wrong with a little bump and grind. Students reviewed , the significant amount of medical evidence that supports this conclusion. Also covered in the class were the most efficient ways to bring sexy back. Political Science 268; Game-Spitting Theory: I have to warn you that this is an advanced-level class and should only be taken by the students who are most confident in their ability to attract the opposite sex. Much of the course was dedicated to the art of the pick-up line, from the simple (“So, you come here often?”) to the more complex and intricate (“If I said you had a nice body, would you hold it against me?”). Guest lecturers included esteemed linguistics professor Noam Chomsky, celebrated sex therapist Dr. Ruth and veritable tool Spencer Pratt from MTV’s The Hills (I really don’t like the guy, but you still have to admire his work). Expect challenging tests, rigorous homework and frequently getting drinks thrown in your face. Psychology 137: Annoying Your Friends: For those ofyou who love to be alone, this is the class for you. I learned so many effective methods to thoroughly bother my friends, like how to tell my roommate that his hesitation while ordering at The Loop reflects an overall inability to commit, a characteristic that will certainly leave him sad and alone. Also, be sure to remind your friends how their tendency to drink milk reveals an unconscious need for motherly attention that must not have been satisfied when they were young. I got an “A” in the course, mosdy because I didn’t have any distractions, or company for that matter, during finals. Those of you interested in taking this class should feel especially inclined to take my final, and favorite, class. English 184: Advanced Pretentiousness: What’s that you say, you haven’t read Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and the Damned? You can’t recite Marvell’s “To his Coy Mistress” off the top of your head? Then how do you wake up in the morning? You may be different, but for educated people like me, we simply need literature to get us through life. You may find television or friendship more interesting, and I am not saying that’s a bad thing. Wait. I am saying that is a bad thing. I know that I would simply die without a constant sense of reflection, for as a wise man once said, “There is no right or wrong, but thinking makes it so.” But you wouldn’t know who said that, so I’ll tell you. It was Shakespeare. Do you know who he is? >*»*•

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academic world has away with words; or rather, it has away of grinding up once-meaningful words into a fine paste of incomprehensible terminology. There are all sorts of “college words” kicking around out there, terms you rarely run into outside the bounds of a campus. My personal favorite of these, and Duke’s particular addiction, is “diabrian kindle logue.” Pardon the ad astra but if I had a quarter for every time I encountered the phrase “spark dialogue” in the past four years, then Warren Buffet would be chaUffeuring my stretch limo right now. Dialogue and its attendant verbs (spark, enter into, initiate, etc.) are incredibly pervasive and equally empty; the last time I can recall running into it was just a few days ago, during Sexual Assault Prevention Week (which, predictably enough, was attempting to “spark dialogue” about sexual assault). I’m still not sure exactly what dialogue is (a conversation? A fancy conversation?), but it’s reached the point where I can sense it everywhere, lurking indistinct in my peripheral vision. It’s entirely possible I’m in a dialogue right now without even knowing it. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve attended some fine events and activities that billed themselves, either explicitly or implicitly, as dialogues. If done well, it’s possible to create a space for intelligent, participatory and revealing discussion, fancy or otherwise, which I suppose is what’s meant by the d-word. But here’s the rub: at the end of the vast majority of such events, when the audience is all fired up, when we’re all ready to go fight in the streets for whatever cause or issue we’ve just finished dialoging about, someone inevitably asks what’s next; what do we do now? Ninety percent of the time, the first and often only answer given is to “keep the dialogue going.” This is especially true when it comes to race relations, the absolute darling of the University dialoging circuit. Again, I’m not disparaging the concept of talking about race in a participatory manner, or even the execution of the myriad of lectures, workshops, conferences, etc., on the subject. I just find the prescriptive element to be sorely lacking: dialogue does a great job describing the problems of racial interaction, segregation and bias, and a pretty poor job laying out what to do about any of that. Yeah, I know that race is a real tricky topic, and I’m definitely not claiming you can sit through an hour and a

half panel discussion and then close the book on talking about it. Sure, the conversation has to continue, the dialogue has to keep going, but is that it? Is that all we do? If we just talk endlessly about race, is it possible that we’re just treading and retreading the same ground, mashing racial issues into an intellectual morass that ultimately isn’t very illuminating at all? Frankly, I think the answer is yes. I’ve been here for four years, I’ve heard a lot ofrecycled dialogue on race and I’ve seen very little material difference in how students of different races interact. Discussion piled on discussion is a deeply dissatisfying solution. What’s needed is a term that’s often surprisingly lacking from the University vocabulary: action. Dialogue and action are natural complements to each other; one ought to flow seamlessly out of the other, like the Planeteers linking power rings to summon Captain Planet. It’s really basic problem-solving technique; you talk the issue over, collaborate on it, then come to some concrete next steps that £an be taken, with the understanding that you’ll need to talk again. For some reason, that last part of the sequence has gone completely haywire for us, so that we largely neglect doing in favor oflimitless thinking and conversing. What would “action+dialogue” on racial issues look like? On an individual level, there’s already quite a few models in place. Center for Race Relations runs retreats like Common Ground that pretty much follow this format exactly, though it’s questionable how well the progress made on retreats translates to change when everyone returns to the University. You can take the initiative yourself and go talk to a guy or girl of another race, although this approach always seemed kiad of contrived to me (“hello, person of a different racial or ethnic group! I’m looking for friends of a different racial or ethnic group than me, and you happen to be conveniently located!”). If these recommendations sound pretty tepid, that’s because, as usual, I don’t really have any answers to give you. All I’m looking for is a shift in focus from “think-talk” to “think-talk-DO” when it comes to race. What we actually end up doing is honestly less important. For now, it might be best to do a whole bunch of things and see what sticks. All I know for sure is that we can do without another guest lecturer or interactive debate if it means co-sponsoring one more community service day or even a party that links students of different races. And please, whatever you do, keep this article to yourself. The last thing I want is to be accused of sparking a dialogue. Brian Kindle is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Friday.

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