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Philanthropic giving to Duke reached a new record this year, eclipsing last year’s sum by 11.1 percent.

Alumni and non-alumni gifts to the University between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007 totalled $380,059,931, surpassing the record of $341.9 million set in the previous year. The sum includes only actual gifts or money, not money pledged for the future.

John Bumess, vice president for public affairs and government relations, wrote in an e-mail that he was pleased with the increase in this year’s giving.

“This sort of result overall is a function of a lot ofhard work on the part of our development officers and the confidence in and affection alumni and others have for Duke,” he said.

According to an Aug. 2 statement released by the University, aptely 98,000 dogave to Duke, >0 of whom are imni. The Duke Endowment gave $74.7 million, the largest donation, for a variety of purposes. The Enlowment typically SEE GIVING ON PAGE 8

Duke Bikes, a new initiative to promote health and community, is now peddling bicycles below the West Campus Plaza in hopes that students might ride to class instead of drive.

The pilot program, which partnered with Campus Services, the Office of Student Affairs, the provost’s office and the executive vice president’s office, describes its efforts as part of a broader plan to provide “no-cost options for exercise, adventure and campus commuting.”

It also links to more long-range goals to improve campus culture by promoting sustainability and health.

“It’s related to [the Campus Culture Initiative] by virtue ofits community-building angle, and I have high hopes for its contribution to the student experience,” Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote in an e-mail Sunday.

The CCI report, released in February, prompted discussions on how to enact tangible enhancement of the student experience, and Duke Bikes is one of several programs planned for the fall related to the recommendations. It was inspired by Provost Peter Lange, who had seen community biking groups in Europe and thought a similar program would help promote a cycling culture on campus, Moneta added.

“Biking is healthier, better for the environment and community building, with fewer people ‘encapsulated’ in cars,” he said.

The fleet—located in the new adventure Outpost, which also will loan tents and backpacks —will be free for all Duke undergraduate, graduate and professional students with their DukeCards. The program may be expanded to include faculty

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Duke Studentsfor an Ethical Duke, a newly created student organization devoted to eliminating race, gender and classbased prejudices on campus, will be hosting speakers and hold-

ing other events in the first few weeks of the academic year.

“Duke Students for an Ethical Duke exists to achieve and protect a constructive and wholesome educational and extracurricular environment for ALL Duke students,” the group’s mission statement on their Facebook group website reads. “We pledge to defend the dignity and the academic and legal rights of Duke students, both individually and collectively, whether threatened by other students, faculty, or administrators alike.”

Senior Kenny Larrey, founder of Duke Students for an SEE ETHICAL ON PAGE

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FireANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece fighters backed by aircraft dropped water and foam on the birthplace of the ancient Olympics Sunday to stop wildfires from burning the 2,800-year-old ruins, one of the most revered sites of antiquity.

But the fires burning for three straight days obliterated vast swathes of the country and the death toll rose by 11 on Sunday to 60.

New fires broke out faster than others could be brought under control. Desperate residents appealed through television stations for help from a firefighting service already stretched to the limit and many blamed authorities for leaving them defenseless.

“Fires are burning in more than half the country,” said fire department spokesperson Nikos Diamandis. “This is definitely an unprecedented disaster for Greece.”

Government and firefighting officials have suggested arson caused many of the blazes, and several people had been arrested. The government offered a reward of up to $1.36 million for anyone providing information that would lead to the arrest of an arsonist.

Forest fires are common during Greece’s hot, dry summers—but nothing has approached the scale of the last three days.

Arson is often suspected, mosdy to clear land for development. No construction is

A team from Warner Robins, Ga„ triumphed over Tokyo in South Williamsport, Pa., to win the Little League World Series, the third consecutive United States championship.

The U.S.team was lifted to a 3-2 victory on Dalton Carriker's eighth-inning home run.

Edwards calls for troop pull-back Speaking in New Hampshire, Democratic presidential hopeful and former N.C. senator John Edwards said Sunday that Congress should continue to push for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq regardless of what top military advisers say in their progress report next month.

Two die in balloon accident A hot air balloon burst into flames over western Canada, burning a woman and her adult daughter to death while their families looked on,officials said Saturday,Other passengers leaped to the ground, some with their clothes in flames, witnesses said.

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Firefighters battle a fire in the Greek village of Kapsala, one of several fires sweeping across the country. More than 50 have died in the fires, which are now threatening a 10th-century BC religious site. allowed in Greece in areas designated as forest land, and fires are sometimes set to circumvent the law.

The front of one fire reached Ancient Olympia in southern Greece Sunday, burning trees and shrubs just a few yards from the museum at the site. Although the pristine forest around the site was burned,

none of the ruins were damaged.

Ruined temples of Zeus, king of the ancient Greek gods, and his wife Hera stand on what was a lush riverside site—a flat stretch of land surrounded by pine-clad hills—near the stadium that hosted the ancient Olympic SEE FIRES ON PAGE 20

A fossilized penis bone from an extinct walrus sold at auction for $B,OOO, far below the expected price. The 4y2-foot-long item, covered with weathered skin and dry muscle tissue, was sold to the company that runs the Ripley's Believe It or Not museums.

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For many, lounging poolside, sipping cold drinks and tanning in the sun are popular ways of passing the long, lazy days of summer.

For senior Chris Bryant and junior Brook Osborne, this summer was hardly a time of rest and relaxation, but instead an opportunity to expand robotics education in the Triangle area.

From July 1 through 7, Bryant and Osborne took seven students from Chewning Middle School and one student from the Durham School of theArts to compete in the RoboCup Junior competition at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

RoboCup is an international competition of elementary and high school teams from around the world that compete in three challenges in soccer, dance and rescue, where the team objective is to build a robot to follow a line through an obstacle course and find stranded victims.

The “Chewning Cardinals” participated in the rescue and dance competitions.

The rescue team finished 13th out of 24 teams. The dance team was chosen as one of the top three “Super Teams,” and finished the highest of all U.S. teams in their division.

“Compared to the American teams they did very, very well,” Osborne said. “Compared to the international teams, they did better than one could expect a team like this to do given this was the first time they participated in this kind of competition.”

The RoboCup program was started at Duke in the fall of 2004 by Jeffrey Forbes, assistant professor of practice of computer science.

In preparation for the competition, Bryant, Osborne and several other Duke mentors met with students regularly throughout the school year and summer.

“I definitely think that the overall goal of the program is making a difference in the lives of the kids,” Bryant said.

After his experience, Bryant has decided

Durham PublicSchools officials are partnering with the University to increase thenumber of schoolchildren participating in the RoboCup Junior competition (above). to forgo law school and send in an application for Teach for America, where he hopes to continue working in Durham with robotics education.

This semester, Forbes will teach a new service learning course called “Teaching with Robotics.” Bryant will be the teaching assistant for the course. The class, endorsed by the Durham Public School superintendent, Carl Harris, will teach Duke students

about robotics and various teaching methods and allow them to work in small groups ofDPS students on various projects.

Forbes said he hopes his class will help increase Duke student involvement in this

year’s RoboCup competition.

“We’re inviting students from all Durham public middle and high schools this year,” he wrote in an e-mail. “We’re hoping to have 10 to 13 teams of three to four stu-

dents. Each mentor has one student.”

Osborne added that the future of the robotics program is promising, with complete funding and support from the administration. She said that Forbes’ new class will help to get the word out on campus about robotics education, “The only thing limiting the project is the number of Duke students that want to get involved,” she said.

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in the Duke Chapel Sunday evening, world-renowned poet, dancer and actress Maya Angelou appeared once again writer, to greet Duke's newest class of freshmen. Hailing from the Deep South, the 79-year-old Angelou is known for her role in the Civil Rights Movement and has accumulated a number of honorary degrees.

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speech Sunday encouraged students to take advantage of the opportunities available to them and to "celebrate" their time at Duke. Recounting tales of hardship from her own childhood, Angelou urged students to "internalize" their sense of humanity, accepting evildoers and heroes alike as equally human.

"How are we truly different? At some point in these next few years you will have a chance to answer that question and you will be liberated."

"Human beings are more alike than they are unalike."

"I am a human being. Nothing human can be alien to me."

"Here you are to celebrate for the next year and the next year—please do."

"Poetry can help you out of many difficulties."

"All of the work belongs to you, men and women."

"Make these four years mean so much and all of it is here for you."

"All those years ago I realized every day was a day for celebration."

A Duke tradition, Maya Angelou speaks to the Class of 2011 Sunday evening in theDuke Chapel.

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“Neal Cassady” from California is training a chicken to scratch lottery tickets while “Dave The Intern” has images of fire and other special effects on his show, “Scratching Extraordinaire.”

These are just two people who have posted videos of themselves scratching instant-win lottery tickets, and the best part about it is that they don’t even spend any of their own money to tickets A team of four current and f< Duke students created a start-up pany this summer and their we SeeMeWin.com launched July 14 The project examines how lot ies really work. The company gi people money from advertise revenue to buy lottery dckets an requires scratchers to send in livi footage of their shows, as they scratch the cards.

“A lot of people really enjoy this and we have a lot of loyal viewers and people in the chat room online for several hours each day,” said sophomore Andrew First, who works on the programming and engineering aspects of the company.

Anyone can do a show, said ju Alexander, chief of marketing and sales and a Chronicle columnist. People just have to send in an audition and if the hosts are entertaining, they are given a time slot and money for tickets. Scratchers can keep their winnings, but many choose to donate them to charities, said Breck Yunits, Trinity ’O7, president of SeeMeWin.com.

At the very beginning, people would just scratch tickets and they didn’t need to talk, Alexander said. SeeMeWin.com now has more TV-style shows and one of the first shows Alexander did—with Julius Degesys, Pratt ’O5 and a graduate student at Harvard University, who helped start the company—was similar to a game show.

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Yunits said he came up with the idea to start SeeMeWin.com when North Carolina debuted its own lottery last spring.

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“My friends bought two tickets and I wondered if anyone would hit the jackpot and how we could ever see that,” he said.

“The chances of actually witnessing something like that is really small.”

Close to 50 people have scratched tickets and it seems that everyone who watches the shows will never play the lottery again, Alexander said “O ou see that many tickets get ched, you see how hard it is to win anything,” he added.

According to statisdcs posted on SeeMeWin.com, $14,277 have been spent on buying tickets while scratches have won a total of $10,562 as of Sunday, with a winning percentage of 25.95 percent.

Although Yunits and Alexaner said they did not have enough ta to be sure, they noticed that the Massachusetts $BOO Million ictacular ticket, winning tickets ied to come in streaks.

We didn’t have enough tickets lake it statistically conclusive, seemed that if you hit a big was likely you would win some ones pretty soon as well, and on a streak of smaller ones, d soon win a big one,” Alexd. “The lottery says that it is completely random, but that may be a marketing strategy. If someone plays the lottery for the first time and they win three times in a row, they are more likely to get hooked.”

First said he did not think the lottery was rigged, but that there was not enough data to make any conclusions yet.

I might hesitate to use the program,” freshman Kirby Erlandson said.

Some students acknowledged that cycling is not a popular means of transportation on campus, but added that the loan program could help ease other commuting problems, including parking.

“There are a lot of classes you can’t get to by car, and parking can be difficult sometimes,” said' Troy Swimmer, a second-year graduate student in biomedical engineering. “Personally, I wouldn’t rent one because I walk a lot, but I could see how it would help other people.”

Moneta added that one feature of the program was that the implementation costs were low relative to its potential.

“I have no statistical expectations—one rider is one more than we might have had and Over time I hope we’ll see many cyclists traversing the campus and the near environs,” he said.

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GIVING FROM PAGE 1 Student robbed off East Campus A student was robbed of her backpack in Trinity Park offEast Campus Aug. 23 at about 11:30 p.m., officials announced Friday. The student was riding her bike when she was pushed down by two attackers.

The 22-year-old student told police that at least one of her two assailants was armed. The student was not injured and no arrests have been made.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, notified students of the incident Friday morning, reminding students to be wary of travelling alone and at late hours, but said that Duke is a safe campus plagued only by occasional incidents. The attack is being investigated by the Durham Police Department.

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The Duke Annual Fund, which includes gifts from alumni, family and friends, met and exceeded its goal for the 32nd consecutive year, the statement said. The contributions totalled |26.5 million.

“Donors—alumni included—care about Duke and want to support what goes on here,” Peter Vaughn, executive director ofalumni and development communications, wrote in an e-mail.

Robert Shepard, vice president for University development, said two new or recent programs, the Financial Aid Initiative and DukeEngage, encouraged potential donors to begin contributing or contribute more to the University.

“I suspect the Financial Aid Initiative mattered as did the large gifts for DukeEngage,” Burness said.

The Initiative, launched in December 2006, aims to raise $3OO million for academic and athletic undergraduate and graduate scholarships. Shepard said $BO million of this year’s donations were directed to die Initiative, raising the total to $230 million.

Shepard added that many donated several “very generous” gifts to DukeEngage. The program, officially beginning this Fall, provides funding to Duke students who choose to pursue an activity that contributes to the public good.

He stressed the importance of meeting the Financial Aid Initiative's goal before concentrating fully on additional programs.

“There are certainly going to be a variety of programs and projects coming online in the future,” Shepard said.

“The first and foremost is to continue to have success in the Financial Aid Initiative and that, I hope, should draw

Alumnus launches video generating website Video making just became easier with Animoto.com, a website recently launched by Tim Clifton, ’O2.

The website generates videos from user-selected images and music using patent-pending Cinematic Artificial Intelligence technology, which “thinks like an actual director and editor,” an August 14 statement read.

Every video created is unique, even those created from the same images and music. The program is able to take into account all aspects of the songs, including the genre, song structure, energy, rhythm, instrumentation and vocals.

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Ohio residents removed piles COLUMBUS, Ohio of waterlogged carpet, couches and upended refrigerators from their homes Sunday as they began the cleanup from recent flooding that Gov. Ted Strickland called “devastating.”

Strickland and Federal Emergency Management Agency officials surveyed damage in the heavily flooded northwest Ohio village of Ottawa, where he walked through the muddy streets.

“It’s difficult to exaggerate or embellish upon what’s happened here. It’s absolutely devastating,” Strickland said.

The governor wants the federal government to declare a major disaster in the parts of north-central Ohio inundated by the past week’s powerful storms and record floods that were blamed for at least 18 deaths in the Midwest.

In southern Michigan, utility crews had restored power to all but 26,000 of 427,000 homes and businesses leftwithout power two days earlier.

The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes touched down in six areas Friday along an 80-mile line in the state, destroying at least 250 homes and businesses in Fenton, Mo. “Fenton sustainedthe greatest amount of damage where the tornado path widened to approximately one-quarter mile—including the snapping and uprooting of hundreds of trees,” the weather service said in a statement.

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aged apparently found shelter with relatives, said Dick Beauchamp, damage assessment officer for the GeneseeLapeer Chapter of the American Red Cross.

“Last night there was nobody in the shelter. Everybody apparently had someplace to go,” Beauchamp said. “Pretty much everybody is insured so I doubt we’ll have any client

casework to do.”

President George W. Bush on Sunday issued a disaster declaration Sunday in five southwestern Wisconsin counties after a Federal Emergency Management Agency assessment a day earlier.

The disaster declaration means residents can apply for assistance, including grants for temporary housing and home repairs and low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses.

Strickland said a similar declaration in Ohio could come late Sunday or early Monday.

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Ethical Duke, said he started the group to promote understanding about issues of race, power and privilege in the wake of the lacrosse scandal.

“There’s a lot we can learn from the lacrosse affair,” he said. “For a lot of people, their perception of it is assembled from a piecemeal of poor media coverage. It’s not just to increase awareness ofDuke students, but also alumni and the

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“We’ve seen a very antagonistic approach to dealing with difficult matters of race, sex and class,” he said. “In particular, gaining outside perspective [through speakers] is very valuable.”

Starting this week, Duke Students for an Ethical Duke will be selling copies of Don Yeager and former men’s lacrosse head coach Mike Pressler’s book “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the Lives It Shattered,” on the West Campus Plaza at a reduced price, Larrey said.

“We’re selling it at a discount because it’s not about making money, it’s about selling the book and selling the truth,” he said.

hosting KC Johnson, professor of history at Brooklyn College

and author of “Durham-in-Wonderland,” a well-read blog on the lacrosse scandal, for a speech in Page Auditorium Sept. 11. “(Johnson is] somebody who knows about as much or more about diis case than anyone,” Larrey said.

The speech is co-sponsored by the Program on Values and Ethics in the Marketplace and will be open to the public, Larrey said.

Duke Students for an Ethical Duke will ask students to reevaluate their attitudes regarding issues ofracial prejudice, he said.

“We want to encourage people to question their approach to racism and racial issues on campus,” he said. “I’ve been talking to people with different perspectives to see how we can serve the student body in the best way possible.”

Michael Catalino, a junior and a member of the lacrosse team, said he joined the organization to voice ideas that could foster a higher degree of tolerance among students and faculty.

“We’ve realized that there are issues of communication within Duke’s administration and students,” he said. “If that communication would improve, all the major issues could be better than in the past” Larrey said Duke Students for an Ethical Duke will continue to host speakers and hold events throughout the academic year.

Freshmen art aficionados donned their fancy garb and gathered at the Nasher Museum of Art Friday evening for "Night at the Nasher," the second annual orientation event meant to introduce incoming frosh to the museum and encourage interest in the arts on campus.

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Fidel Castro signed a HAVANA lengthy essay published Sunday saluting a Cuban political figure but giving no hint of how he is feeling, even amid rampant ru-

mors ofhis death.

The 81-year-old Castro has not been seen in public in over a year and has not even appeared in official photographs or video footage since taping an interview with Cuban state television June 5.

The lack of images has fueled speculation among the Cuban exile community in Miami and elsewhere that Castro might have died. He announced on July 31, 2006 that he had undergone emergency intes-

tinal surgery and was temporarily ceding power to his younger brother Raul.

Officials in Havana have refused to speak aboutCastro’s condition, but foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told reporters in Brazil last week that “Fidel is doing very well and is disciplined in his recovery process.” He insisted the gray-bearded leadermaintains “permanent” contact with top government officials.

Castro’s essay, the latest in dozens of “Reflections of the Commander in Chief” columns he has published several times a week since late March, was signed Saturday evening and appeared in the CommunistYouth newspaper Juventud Rebelde on Sunday.

Verbose but clearly stated and easy to follow, Castro wrote of Eduardo Chibas,

him up for public scrutiny.”

There was no hintof trouble over theweekend in Havana, where the streets have been calm and Cuban flags remained at full-mast.

Official media was dominated by stories ofCuban officials’ preparation for the new school year and news from Venezuela and Iraq.

Rumors of Castro’s death are a staple in Miami. But their frequency has intensified in recent days, after his 81st birthday came and went Aug. 13 with neither pictures, letters nor recordings from him released by the government.

Speculation went into overdrive Friday when Miamiofficials met to go over their plans

the president of Cuba’s Orthodox Party, who was bom 100 years ago this month.

Chibas campaigned against corruption that plagued Cuba’s government before Castro and his band ofrebels toppled dictatorFulgencio Batista in January 1959.

Castro listed political events that linked his younger years with Chibas, who shot himself during a radio broadcast in 1951, a year before Batista seized power in a coup. At Chibas’ funeral, a young Castro jumped atop the grave to denounce the government.

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WASHINGTON Florida Democrats would forfeit their votes in selecting a presidential nominee unless they delay their state election by at least a week, the national party said in a stern action Saturday meant to discourage others from leapfrogging ahead to earlier dates.

The Florida party has 30 days to submit an alternative to its plannedjan. 29 primary or lose its 210 delegates to the nominating convention in Denver next summer.

Karen Thurman, the state party chairwoman, said she would confer with state officials about the ultimatum.

“It’s going to be a difficult discussion,” she said, because Floridians are wary of having their votes taken away.

Elected officials in Florida have said they would consider legal action and a protest at the convention if the national party barred the state’s delegates.

There is general agreement that the eventual nominee will seat Florida’s delegates rather than allow a fight at a convention intended to show party unity. But the decision by the Democratic National Committee’s rules panel could reduce Florida’s influence because candidates may want to campaign in states where the votes are counted.

Florida party officials said they originally opposed the early primary date, which covers both the Democratic and Republican primaries. The Republican-controlled Legislature passed the change and the GOP governor signed it into law in an effort to give the state a more prominent voice in national politics.

But Florida Democratic leaders now are committed to the state-run election because

voter participation would drop drastically if Democrats held an alternative contest.

Members of the DNC rules committee expressed skepticism that Florida Democrats did enough to stop the change and they approved the harshest penalty. Florida’s representative on the panel, Allan Katz, was the only vote against the penalty.

Refusing to seat the delegates would set a “terrible situation for Florida and a very bad situation for the Democratic Party,” Katz said.

Party rules say states cannot hold their 2008 primary contests before Feb. 5, except for lowa on Jan. 14, Nevada on Jan. 19, New Hampshire on Jan. 22 and South Carolina on Jan. 29.

The calendar was designed to preserve the traditional role that lowa and New Hampshire have played in selecting the nominee, while adding two states with more racial and geographic diversity to influential early slots.

Several DNC officials said before the vote that they wanted to take the strong action against Florida to discourage Michigan, New Hampshire and other states that were considering advancing their contests in violation of party rules.

Garry Shay, a rules committee member from California, said allowing Florida to move forward “would open the door to chaos.”

DNC committee member Donna Brazile also argued for a strong penalty, saying, “I hesitate to see what happens ifwe show somehow some wiggle room in our process.”

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The Blue Devils' expectationsremain high even after losing several key players from last year's squad.

The loss of a successful senior class usually causes teams to quickly lower expectations for the following season. Duke, however, is not letting the departures of former AllAmericans Amy Stopford and Hilary Linton, along with Liz Floyd and Cara-Lynn Lopresti, affect its aspirations for the 2007 season.

“Our expectations are higher this year,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We’ve set the bar much higher with stronger goals.”

It is hard to fathom a higher bar for the Blue Devils, who have made eight straight NCAA tournament appearances and four consecutive final fours. It is even more difficult to find players to produce the 27 goals and 12 assists provided by last year’s senior class.

With a dozen players returning from last year’s squad, though, the fourth-ranked Blue Devils have good reason to be optimistic. Headlining the returnees is midfielder Marian Dickinson, who led Duke last year with 19 goals and tied for the team-lead with 10 assists. The Blue Devils also return senior goalkeeper Caitlin Williams, who started all 22 games last year and was an All-Region pick in the NCAA tournament.

Williams, senior defender Courtney Elliott and junior midfielder Laura Suchoski have been named captains for the season.

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Seniors (left to right) JennieSchull, Ali Hausfeld and Carrie DeMange have liftedtheBlue Devil program into national prominence in theirthree years at Duke.

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Seniors Carrie DeMange and Ali Hausfeld have dominated opponents in Cameron Indoor Stadium for three seasons—but they were an intimidating force together years before they ever came to Duke.

Classmates since the third grade, DeMange and Hausfeld are looking to secure the perfect ends to the volleyball careers they have played out together for over a decade.

Although the two weren’t recruited as a packaged duo, both players filled empty positions on the team and were able to have an immediate effect on the squad when they came in as freshmen. Head coach Jolene Nagel considers herself extremely lucky that four years ago, the two teammates both chose to come to Duke.

“We knew they played together and were really great together,” Nagel said.

“But they didn’t necessarily have to go to school together. I feel blessed to have coached them and know they’ve made history for Duke volleyball.”

The current senior class, which also includes stand-out libero Jenny Shull, has definitely made history.

After recording only one loss in conference play last season, the reigning ACC champions are expected to repeat, especially with the experience provided by ACC Player of the Year Hausfeld and fellow AllACC teammate DeMange.

Although the team finished their season with a second round loss in the NCAA tournament, the No. 18 Blue Devils—their best ranking to date—are far from satisfied with tiieir previous performance.

“We want this to be our best season ever,? Hausfeld said. ‘We don’t want to have peaked our junior year, so it’s definitely a motivating factor.”

Duke hopes the experience of a tougher non-conference schedule, which includes Purdue, Nebraska and USC, will pay off and give them an edge that will translate to postseason success.

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After making a significant impact for Duke in their first three seasons, the mature seniors now seem comfortable with the added responsibility of leading the team.

“They’ve had to have a lot on their shoulders,” Nagel said. “They matured on the court and have been asked to take a lot of responsibility, but also matured off the court because of how they developed as people.

Now they have the right energy and the competitive mind frame to lead the team.”

As one of the best recruiting classes to play for the Blue Devils begins its final season, another group is waiting in the wings.

Freshmen Becci Burling, Alex Sail and Claire Smalzer may play significant minutes for the team, giving the Blue Devils more weapons in their arsenal.

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Duke’s 2006-07 season will be remembered not for what the Blue Devils won, but for what they lost.

Legendary head coach Rod Myers passed away from leukemia in the spring, capping a difficult year for the team on and off the course.

Despite the harsh conclusion to the season—Duke failed to win a tournament after September—optimism abounds in Durham for the 2007-08 season, thanks largely in part to last season’s emergence of Adam Long.

The sophomore from St. Louis, Mo. fits the criteria of a star student-athlete: he’s humble and well-spoken, an Academic All-American and quite good at his sport.

In fact, Long played well enough early in his freshman year to reach the top of college golf.

“After the Fighting Illini Invitational [in late September] I was ranked No. 1 in die country for a little while, and for me it wasn’t a big deal,” Long says. “The guys gave me a hard time for it, but I took it in stride.”

In the end, Long’s—and Duke’s—season comes back to that tournament at Olympia Fields Country Club in Chicago. The Blue Devils outclassed a field loaded widi top teams to take the tide, but that week will always be remembered more as Myers’ last victory than Long’s coming out party.

“I will remember that for a while because I think it was Adam’s first tournament he played in college and finished second, but it was the last tournament we won with Coach Myers,” senior Michael Schachner said, “I’m sure many years from now he will still be 7 remembered as the father of this age of Duke golf.”

That attitude—the reverential, team-first mentality that appears so at odds with the inherent individuality of golf—is one of the things thatmakes Long, Schachner and the rest of this squad such a dynamic mix.

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The upcoming season promises many things for the Blue Devils: a new coach—O.D. Vincent, who comes over from UCLA—higher expectations and a whirlwind beginning to the fall season that includes a tournament in Japan.

“I hope the professors will be understanding,” Long said. “It’s all about time management, though, and I think I can handle it.”

If he can, Duke golf can certainly challenge for the ACC title and perhaps improve on its 13th-place finish at last season’s NCAA Championships. teammates who

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When the Blue Devils won the NCAA championteam since Arizona State to win three consecutive national titles.

Now Duke is chasing another one of the Sun Devils’ records: six NCAA trophies.

With five titles in the past nine years, Duke has cemented its position as one of the premier programs in the country, and with juniors Amanda Blumenherst and Jennie Lee pacing the team, the Blue Devils are well-positioned to sustain their high level of success.

The two teammates faced off against each other August 10 in the quarterfinals ofU.S. Amateur match play —one of the most prestigious events in the sport.

“It was a great match between Jenny and Amanda,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “They both played great golf. It was a sad thing knowing that one of them would be outat the end of thatround. You would have loved to see the two of them left at the end of the tournament.”

Blumenherst went on to the finals, where she lost on the last hole to Maria Jose Uribe two days later. But the experience proved how much the junior has grown.

Despite being the reigning National Player of the Year, Blumenherst had struggled in the past with match play.

“It takes a while to learn how to play match play,” Brooks said. “It’s a process of learning to stay focused on the golf course and your own thing. You can’t be just totally focused on your game. You have to be aware of what your opponent is doing. It’s easy to get too caught up in what’s going on.”

With Blumenherst, Lee and sophomore Rebecca Kim all advancing to match play in the U.S. Amateur, Duke should be poised to make a real run in the 16team Women’s Collegiate Match Play Nov. 4 to 6 at the

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Independence Course in Kissimmee, Fla. And a tough fall schedule, including the Match Play and filled with weekends facing the nation’s toughest competition, should help prepare them for their quest for a fourth title in the spring.

‘You can’t cram for golf like you cram for an interview,” Brooks said. “With golf, it’s different. All along the way it’s about developing habits—habits of confidence, habits of focusing on your weaknesses and cor-

recting them, habits of disciplining yourself to do the tasks you need to make yourself better.”

For a team that has already proven itself to be one of the nation’s best, getting better could mean trouble for any team that comes up against them—and for Arizona State’s place in the record book.

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In the winter of 2005, the immediate future ofDuke women’s soccer looked extremely bright.

Despite the No. 10 Blue Devils’ loss in the second round of the NCAA Tournament months before, the team ended with a 14-6-1 record and spent the entire season ranked in the nation’s top ten. Eight players graduated after that stunning loss to Yale, but head coach Robbie Church’s team welcomed eight starters in addition to an impressive recruiting class.

The 2006 season, though, left a bad taste in the mouths ofChurch and his players. The team struggled to score goals late in the year, failed to string together more than three consecutive wins all season and finished tied for a disappointing sixth place in the ultra-competitive ACC. The Blue Devils closed the season 9-8-1 (5-4-1 in the ACC), a far cry from the previous season.

“We have always had potential on this team, and sometimes we have come up short from that,” senior goalie Allison Lipsher said. “I think we are feeling that a little

bit, but we have some pretty high expectations for this season. And, of course I have a little bit more of a sense of urgency.”

The 2007 campaign will present Church and company with a new challenge; translating youth into success. In the past, the team thrived on experience, senior leadership and chemistry developed over dme. With the graduation of four key senior starters, Duke will rely on promising sophomores Kay Anne Gummersall and Elisabeth Redmond to pump in goals. Gummersall and Redmond paced the Blue Devils in scoring as freshmen —Gummersall posted seven goals and two assists while Redmond amassed two goals and seven assists.

“I think we have to do a lot more teaching than we have the last couple of years,” Church said. “We have graduated 17 players in the last two seasons, and so with only two seniors this year, we have had to slow some things down and do more building.

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It was the kind of loss you don’t forget The Blue Devils were cruising in last year’s NCAA quarterfinals against UCLA, holding a 2-0 lead at home with a defense that had not given up a goal in four games. But in just under an hour, the lead and four months’ worth of aspirations vanished.

Sal Zizzo’s overtime goal, just 30 seconds into the extra session, capped a late Bruin comeback and abruptly halted then-No. 1 Duke’s quest for a national championship.

“From a competitor’s standpoint, that was one of those losses that sticks with you,” senior captain Tim Jepson said. “When the NCAAs come around again this year, it’s going to be the first thing on our minds. We were here in this position last year, and now we know what it’s going to take to get back to that spot and hopefully further.”

After last season’s ending, the senior-laden Blue Devils did not need extra motivation heading into 2007. But Duke got just thatwhen long-time head coach John Rennie announced that his 29th season at the helm would be his last.

Rennie’s resume includes five ACC championships, five College Cup appearances and the University’s first national championship in any sport in 1986. He hopes, however, to add a little more to it by the end of 2007.

“I told the guys the other day we have 13 seniors on this team, and now we have 14,” Rennie said. “I’m a senior as well, and all the seniors always want to go out on top.”

Rennie looks to have picked the right year to do just that. Duke adds the nation’s top recruiting class to a corps that won the last two ACC championships.

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needed to take small steps this year to improve upon its national quarterfinals finish last season, the team took a giant leap forward during the offseason, bolstering its roster with the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation.

With 13 seniors on the 29-man squad and head coach John Rennie leaving at the end of the season, bringing in such talent to an already-loaded team seems to ensure some degree of success in the near future.

The freshman class includes five nationally-recognized and highly-touted players at every position on the field.

Duke picked up two defensive stalwarts and Parade All-Americans in Christian Ibeagha and Doug Femer, Rise Magazine’s No. 1 defensive recruit. Goalkeeper Nick Tsipis of Perry, Ohio, who led his high school club to' two state tides, brings even more depth and skill in net.

He will help back up senior Jus-

tin Papadakis, entering his third year between the posts. Although Perry might not see that much playing time this season, he could be Duke’s future in goal.

Offensively, midfielder Cole Grossman and forward Nick Sih, rated the 19thand 20th recruits in the country, will reinforce Duke’s dynamic offense, which ranked seventh nationally in scoring last season.

The individual awards and honors are critical to the ranking, but the young players wasted no time in showing their new teammates that they are not just big fish from little ponds.

“The freshmen have done a great job of working into the rhythm of the team,” senior midfielder MikeVideira said. “They fit in pretty much right away, right off the bat. The first day they adjusted very well.”

Rennie noted that this year’s veteran players jelled with the newcomers more smoothly than in years past, and he lauded his upperclassmen for taking the freshmen under their wings.

“There’s a lot of good players there, and if they wanted to, they could act very differendy toward the younger guys on the team, but they don’t,” Rennie said. “That’s one of the real reasons we have as strong a team from a character standpoint that we have.”

For the most part, the Blue Devil seniors attribute their success to having built such a close team bond.

“Aside from the soccer aspect, we’ve had a really tight-knit class,” senior captain Tim Jepson said.

“We’re a bunch ofbrothers—we’ve all got our backs. We all love being around each other.”

For a squad that prides itself in creating a sense of family—continually stressing the importance of chemistry and togetherness as ingredients for success—the early comraderie that has developed among the freshmen seems reminicent to that of this year’s seniors.

And if the Class of 2008’s success is any indicaton, the next four years could continue to be very promising for the Blue Devils.

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game.”

Also returning for the team is ACC Freshman of the Year Rachel Moss, who will be one of the primary offensive threats for the Blue Devils.

As Duke prepares to begin its season, the seniors expressed their desire to finish their careers on a high note.

“We definitely want to go out of here with no regrets,” Shull said. “Every single day at practice you’re giving a hundred percent because you don’t want to look back and wonder what could’ve happened.”

W. SOCCER from page 6 think they have done a great job of listening and carrying out our concepts offensively and defensively.”

Lorraine Quinn joins Lipsher as the only senior on the team. Quinn, a scrappy midfielder, scored a goal and compiled four assists last season, but her true effectiveness did not necessarily translate to the statistics page.

The Blue Devils will receive few respites in their schedule this year. Their non-conference slate includes a matchup with No. 5 Texas A&M and a season-opening tournament in San Diego against San Diego and Pepperdine. The toughest stretch of the season, though, is the ACC schedule. The conference has five preseason ranked teams, a group that does not include Duke. Once again, North Carolina opens the season atop the polls, and the Blue Devils will also take on No. 4 Florida State. To make it more challenging, Duke hosts just two ofits ranked foes.

“One of the things we always try to do here is develop our players, and we’re firm believers that we can do that by playing a tough and national competition,” Church said. “That is why we are going out and playing Pepperdine and San Diego, two teams out of one of the best conferences in the country, right away.”

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“It’s always been of one of my goals to play for the national team,” Suchoski said. “It was an absolutely amazing experience to see all the other athletes.”

Duke’s roster is further bolstered by the addition of six new recruits, several of whom are competing for spots in the starting lineup. The new class includes forward Camille Dagom, who received player of the year recognition by three different sources in 2006, and Casey Beyel, who was named field hockey player of the year by the Atlantic City Press.

“They’re a very impressive class,” Bozman said. “They came in fit, worked really hard and are extremely talented.”

Duke will need every bit ofits depth and talent to compete in the always-brutal ACC. All six conference teams are ranked in the top ten, with Maryland, Wake Forest, North Carolina and Duke filling out the top four. Virginia and Boston College weigh in at numbers eight and nine, respectively.

With such a demanding schedule, the Blue Devils will need to quickly cultivate their youth and relative inexperience, especially when compared with past Duke teams. Bozman, however, sees this team’s fresh perspective as a major positive.

“It’s a little differentfrom years past,” Bozman said. “The margin of improvement this team has the potential ofachieving is the biggest difference from other squads. The chemistry on the team is great.”

With their unique combination of talent, depth and closeness, the sky is the limit for these new-look BlueDevils.

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Duke enters the 2007 season looking build off of an IC4A championship in 2005 and fourth-place finish at the IC4As last year.

Senior Chris Spooner and junior Kevin McDermott will accompany a talented class of incoming freshmen that includes McDermott’s younger brother, Ryan. Ryan comes to Duke as the reigning national high school champion in the 2,000-meter steeplechase and USATFJunior Champion in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He and six other freshmen make up what head coach Nonn Ogilvie said was “probably the best recruiting class we’ve ever brought in here.”

The freshmen will try to fill the gap left by the departure of ten graduating seniors.

“I feel really good about this team, despite its youth,” Ogilvie said. “It’s really exciting because we don’t know how good this team can be.” to

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The composition of the seven-member that will score points for Duke will likely change as the season progresses and the freshmen adjust to collegiate running.

“It would probably be accurate projecting four of those seven freshmen to be in our top seven come November,” Ogilvie said.

One big question for the team will be die status of junior Geary Gubbins, who is recovering from a stress fracture and may not be ready in time to compete this season.

The men hope to compete with the best teams in the ACC, which include N.C. State, Florida State, and Virginia. Duke finished fourth behind these teams in last year’s ACC championship.

The team begins its season at the Wake Forest Cross Country Relay next Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C. After that they will compete at the Lou Onesty Invitational September 8 in Charlottesville, Va. and the Bill Dellinger Invitational September 29 in Eugene, Ore.

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young team, which welcomes six new runners.

Infused with new talent, the Blue Devils “This group is a littlebit inexperienced,” are preparing to make a run at the regional Jermyn said. “We’re going to work hard to and national cross country championships develop a mentality to make sure we’re cathis fall. pable of putting together our best perforAlthough the Blue Devils lost five of mance in the biggest competitions.” their top seven runners to graduation last Duke has consistently performed better year, expectations are high for the team than its ranking at important meets in rethat has finished second, third and 10th in cent years and hope to continue the trend. the past three national championships, “This group will do as well as they de“Our goal is to develop a team that will cide they want to do,” Jermyn said. continue to contend for ACC championIn addition, Liz Wort, who finished her ships and go after our first national title,” Duke running career last season, will join head coach Kevin Jermyn said. to the team as an assistant coach. She will Junior Maddie McKeever returns as help with communication, team building, one of the Blue Devils strongest runners. and recruiting.

She finished 17th at the 2006 NCAA Cross The women will begin the season at the Wake Forest Cross Country Relay next FriCountry Championships, earned All-American honors amd was the only Blue Devil to day in Winston-Salem, N.C. After that they attain All-American status in all three runwill compete at the Western Carolina Open ning seasons.

September 15 in Cullowhee, N.C. and the Junior Patricia Loughlin and sopho- Murray Keatinge Invitational September more Kate Van Buskirk will captain the 29 in Orono, Maine.

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The Blue Devils kicked off the 2007 campaign with mixed results, falling 2-1 to unranked Ohio Saturday but rebounding to take down No. 14 Louisville 2-0 Sunday at the Champions InvitationalTournament in East Lansing, Mich

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“The freshmen looked great,” Bozman said. “They didn’t play like freshmen.”

Duke senior goalkeeper Caidin Williams also enjoyed a strong game against the Bobcats, despite the loss, as she recorded eight saves, five of which came in a matter offive minutes.

The Blue Devils next take the field against William and Mary Sept. 1 at Williams Field to begin a solid stretch of six games at home.

Dudley's late goal lifts team over UConn Senior Paul Dudley scored with less than three minutes remaining to boost No. 4 Duke to a 1-0 win over No. 25 Connecticut in Stores, Conn. Sunday afternoon.

DUKE The preseason matchup I0 UCONN between two traditional soccer powerhouses, which drew more than 5,000 fans, seemed primed for a scoreless tie until Dudley knocked home the game-winner off a pass from senior Joe Germanese. Senior goalkeeper Justin Papadakis saved three shots in 90 minutes of acdon, good for his first shutout of the season. UConn controlled the first half,

posting seven shots to Duke’s one, while the Blue Devils took the reins in the final period, outshooting the Huskies 7-2.

Head coach John Rennie, who recently announced that this season is his last on the sidelines, used 19 players to better prepare his squad for the regular season gauntlet. The win was a marked contrast from Duke’s first preseason game, a disappointing 2-1 loss to Coastal Carolina.

With the preseason now over, Duke plays its first regular season game of the year against Delaware at 7 p.m. Friday night in Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils will cap off its opening weekend with a Sunday night match with Valparaiso.

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Cassidy Powers made seven saves in the first half, and usual starting goalkeeper Allison Lipsher played the second half and saved five shots.

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FIRES FROM PAGE 2 games for more than 1,000years after they started in 776 B.C. The site strewn with fallen columns includes the remains of a gymnasium, a wrestling hall, hostels, bathhouses, priests’ residences and altars. The fifth century B.C. limestone temple of Zeus is one of the largest in mainland Greece.

Helicopters and aircraft covered the ruins with water and foam. The flames reached the edge of the ancient stadium, searing the grass and incinerating the trees on the hill above. Volunteers grabbed buckets of water and joined

firefighters.

“We don’t know exactly how much damage there is in the Olympia area, but the important thing is that the museum is as it was and the archaeological site will not have any problem,” Culture Minister George Voulgarakis told The Associated Press at the site.

Firefighters remained in the area after dark to ensure the fire did not re-ignite.

“It’s hell everywhere,” said Costas Ladas, a resident of battle the flames, others, stunned, walked the streets holdKolyri near Ancient Olympia, who said the fire covered ing their heads in their hands.

The worst-affected region was around the town of Zamore than a mile in three minutes. “I’ve never seen anyharo, south of Ancient Olympia. Thick smoke blocked it.” like thing out the sumLocal mer sun and schoolteachcould be seen er Gerassimos there is damage in “We don’t know exactly how much more than 60 Kaproulias miles away. the Olympia area, but the important thing is that the criticized the The worst of government, museum is as it was and the archaeological site will not the fires have saying it was been concenhave any problem.” totally unable trated in the to deal with culture minister Voulgarakis, George mountains of the fires. the Peloponi—am “I very nese the in he angry,” south and on said. “Nobody Athens. winds blew Strong areas the island of Evia north of in that one of the five most highly protected thought smoke and ash over the capital, blackening the evening sky Greece could be burned like this.” and turning the rising moon red.

The fire also blazed into the nearby village of VarvaIn the ravaged mountain villages in the Peloponnese, saina, destroying several houses. As residents rushed to rescue crews found a grim scene that spoke of last-minute desperation as the fires closed in. Dozens of charred bodies have been found across fields, homes, along roads and in cars.

The remains of a mother hugging her four children were found near the town of Zaharo in the western Peloponnese, where the country’s largest fire has been burning.

Four people were killed in a new fire that broke out on Evia Sunday, including two firefighters, the fire department said. Another two people were found in villages in the Peloponnese.

New fires also broke out Sunday in the central region of Fthiotida—one of the few areas that had been unscathed, Diamandis said.

Elsewhere, flames were about less than two miles from the Temple of Apollo Epikourios, a 2,500-year-old monument near the town of Andritsaina in the southwestern Peloponnese, said the town’s mayor, Tryphon

Athanassopoulos.

“We are trying to save the Temple of Apollo, as well as Andritsaina itself,” he told Greek television.

Across the country, churchgoers prayed for the blazes to abate.

Nearly 4,000 soldiers, backed by military helicopters, were sent to reinforce firefighters over the past three days, and at least 12 countries were sending aid.

By sea and by land, authorities evacuated hundreds of people from villages, hotels and resorts. More than 60 new fires broke out on Sunday, although 40 of them were brought under control by Sunday night, Diamandis said.

The wildfires started Friday and quickly engulfed villages, trapping dozens of people and killing at least 37.

OEMS FROM PAGE 16 less than five months Advisers to Sen. Hillary Clinton, who has a wide lead in Florida polls, said she will go wherever elections are held.

Sen. Barack Obama, who was campaigning in Miami on Saturday, said: “The national party has a difficult task, which is to try to create some order out of chaos. My job is really not to speculate on how to make it all work. I’m a candidate, I’m like a player on the field. I shouldn’t be setting up the rules.”

Campaigning in New Hampshire, Gov. Bill Richardson ofNew Mexico Democrat said it is important that the leadoff roles of lowa and New Hampshire “not be usurped.”

“As a candidate, I just want to get this settled and just appeal to all parties to get their act together and have some definitive roles,” Richardson said. “Let’s have an orderly process instead of states trying to outdo each other.”

Florida’s congressional delegation has raised the possibility of a voting rights investigation in response to the punishment National Democratic officials insist there is no legal basis to force the party to seat delegates in violation of its rules. Florida officials could not say what law the DNC would have violated or where the case could be pursued.

Jon Amman, a DNC member from Florida, pleaded for a role in what could turn out to be a historic election, with the potential of thefirst woman, black or Hispanic nominee, even if the state were the “black sheep” of the primary season.

“We’re asking you for mercy, not judgment,” he told the rules committee meeting in a hotel conference room.

The party’s action comes seven yearsafter Florida was at the center of an unprecedented dispute over presidential vote counting. In 2000, the election between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat A1 Gore was held up for a recount in Florida.

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people paying a discount fare (jf just $5, the $95 million Hawaii Superferry made its maiden run Sunday with a rushed launch for a three-hour voyage to Maui the first passenger ferry service between the islands.

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More than 500 passengers and crew, and 150 cars, were aboard when the fourdeck, blue-and-white vessel emblazoned with manta rays pulled away from the dock to a chorus ofcheers.

“It’s beautiful,” exclaimed Stephen Imamoto of Honolulu, who was traveling with his wife and six-year-old daughter. “I don’t like to f1y.... You can’t beat the price.”

Imamoto said he wanted to try the first voyage to see if he gets seasick. Choppy water and strong wind between the islands have scuttled previous attempts at interisland ferry services with much smaller ships.

Even in seemingly calm seas, the Alakai swayed at times Sunday, causing some passengers to become nauseous as the ferry passed the green, rugged mountains of Molokai and Lanai.

Inside the 349-foot Alakai built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala., passengers browsed the gift shop, played cards and ordered breakfast while watching live NFL Sunday football games on high-definition TV screens as the ferry sailed past Aloha Tower.

Alan and Terry Kahanu, of Kailua, arrived to board the ferry at 4:20 a.m. They and their four children sat in the first-class cabin, eating doughnuts and sushi.

“It’s spectacular,” said Alan Kahanu. “It’s so nice to be able to walk around instead of having to be buckled in.”

Before Sunday, the only way to travel among the Hawaiian Islands was with highly competitive local airlines now engaged in a fare war.

Superferry sold out its first voyage in 30 minutes Saturday, offering $5 one-way fares for passengers and the same for cars. More than 400 of those aboard got right back on the Alakai for the voyage back to Honolulu.

Superferry Chief Executive John Garibaldi, who mingled among passengers, said one reason for the service was to avoid a repeat of the effect of the nation’s grounded airplanes after the Sept.

11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Then, island residents and tourists dependent on air travel were stranded for several days.

Garibaldi said the voyage “went very, very well and the response was phenomenal from passengers.”

The launch, originally set for Tuesday with fares 10 times that much, was moved up after the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the state should have required an environmental review before the Superferry started service.

Three environmental groups have sued, concerned that the vessel could collide with humpback whales, spread invasive species and create long traffic delays.

A dozen protesters greeted the hundreds of enthusiastic passengers after the ferry docked at Maui’s port.

Among theprotesters on Maui wasjoyclynn Costa of Haiku, who held a sign, “Respect our home.” She said the company did not consult with Maui residents about the service, which she said will pollute island waters.

The environmentalists’ attorney, Isaac Hall, said he will seek an injunction Monday to prevent the Superferry from doing business until environmental studies are completed. Environmental reviews are typically required of projects that use state money and land, such as harbors, and they can take months or even years to

complete.

Superferry supporters say it is being

treated unfairly because other harbor users like cruise ships didn’t have to go through extensive environmental reviews.

“These standards should apply to all players, not just the newest, the smallest and the most popular,” said David Cole, the chairman, president and CEO of Maui Land &amp; Pineapple Co., which invested $1 million in the ferry.

Superferry officials also say the ship’s water jet propulsion system means there are no exposed propellers to strike aquatic animals.

State transportation officials had allowed the Superferry to start service, noting that the Supreme Court did not explicitly say the ship couldn’t run.

Environmentalists, however, pointed out

that state law prohibits projects from operating during formal environmental studies.

Environmentalists saidthe company acted in bad faith by launching early and trying to build public support with steep discounts.

“This is really a slap in the face to the residents ofHawaii and to the state Supreme Court,” said Jeff Mikulina, executive director of the Sierra Club Hawaii Chapter.

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WASHINGTON After six decades in which the venerable greenback never changed its look, the U.S. currency has undergone a slew of makeovers. The most amazing is yet to come.

A new security thread has been approved for the $lOO bill, The Associated Press has learned, and the change will cause double-takes.

The new look is part of an effort to thwart counterfeiters who are armed with ever-more sophisticated computers, scanners and color copiers. The C-note, with features the likeness of Benjamin Franklin, is the most frequent target of counterfeiters operating outside the United States.

The operation of the new security thread looks like something straight out of the Hogwarts School of Witch-

craft and Wizardry. This magic, however, relies on innovations produced from decades of development.

It combines micro-printing with tiny lenses—6so,ooo for a single $lOO bill. The lenses magnify the micro-printing in a truly remarkable way.

Move the bill side to side and the image appears to move up and down. Move the bill up and down and the image appears to move from side to side.

“It is a really complex optical structure on a microscopic scale. It makes for a very compelling high security device,” said Douglas Crane, a vice president at Crane & Co. The Dalton, Mass-based company has a $46 million contract to produce the new security threads.

Larry Felix, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, confirmed details about the security thread in an AP interview.

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The redesign of the $lOO is about one-third of the way complete. The bill is expected to go into circulation late next year.

Starting in 2003, splashes of color have spruced up the $2O bill and other currencies. Those changes followed the addition of a first round of security features in the mid-19905.

Benjamin Franklin’s latest makeover was delayed while the government searched for a high-tech security device that would provide extra protection on the bill.

The $lOO bill represents more than 70 percent of the $776 billion in currency in circulation, two-thirds ofwhich is held overseas.

Holograms, used extensively on credit cards, were considered for the $lOO. They were rejected because they did not offer the strong visual signal the government wanted.

“We were looking for features that had very distinctive types of actions so that we could tell the American public, you will know that it is authentic if you do this and the note does that,” Felix said.

The new security thread is used on the Swedish 1,000 kroner note and has been selected by the government of Mexico for some higher denomination notes.

Felix said many other devices expected to be included in the $lOO redesign will be similar to features added over the past four years to the $2O, $5O and $lO bills. That means subtle pastel colors on the currency and patches of micro-printing that are difficult to duplicate, along with a touchup on Ben Franklin’s portrait.

Originally there were no plans to redesign the $5 bill.

That decision was reversed once counterfeiters started bleaching $5 bills and printing fake $lOO bills over the bleached paper, certain security features were in the same location on both bills.

The new $5 design will be made public on Sept. 20 and will go into circulation early next year.

The bleached bills represent the latest skirmish in a battle with counterfeiters.

“Counterfeiting is becoming highly organized and highly efficient,” Felix said. He said some clandestine printing plants in Latin America and Eastern Europe have been caught counterfeiting not only the U.S. currency but other countries’ notes.

The government says $llB.l million in counterfeit U.S. currency was detected in 2006, an increase of 3.8 percent from 2005.

While that is a fraction of the currency in circulation, the Secret Service is concerned with the threat, especially the challenge posed by new digital technology. Digital copies account for about half ofall counterfeit notes passed in the U.S., compared with less than 1 percent of all counterfeit bills detected in 1995.

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Maliki strikes back at Levin, U.S. critics by

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BAGHDAD Iraq’s embattled prime ministerlashed out at American critics Sunday, saying Sen. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who have called for his ouster should “come to their senses” and stop treating Iraq like “one of their villages.”

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also lambasted the U.S. military' for raids in Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, adding new strains ahead of next month’s showdown in Washington over the future of the U.S. mission.

The grim combination of ongoing violence and political deadlock have increased frustration in both Washington and Bagh-

dad, with American lawmakers increasingly critical of al-Maliki’s performance and Iraqi leaders growing weary of what they consider unfair U.S. criticism.

Clinton and Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have called for al-Maliki to be replaced.

“There are American officials who consider Iraq as if it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton and Carl Levin. They should come to their senses,” al-Maliki said at a news conference.

Al-Maliki denounced recent U.S. military actions in the Baghdad Shiite neighborhoods ofShula and Sadr City thataccording to the Iraqis resulted in civilian deaths.

“Concerning American raids on Shula and Sadr City', there were big mistakes committed in these operations. The terrorist himself should be targeted not his family,” al-Maliki said. “We will not allow the detaining of innocent people.”

Two nights ago the U.S. military clashed with Shiite gunmen in Shula after they attacked an American patrol. The United States said eight “terrorists” were killed, but some Iraqis reported civilians were among the dead and injured.

U.S. forces also are routinely raiding Shiite militiamen in Sadr City, often calling in helicopter fire.

Al-Maliki launched his verbal counteroffensive about two weeks before the Amen-

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can commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker are due in Washington to report to Congress on progress in Iraq since the introduction of 30,000 more American troops.

The presence of diose reinforcements has done little to bring about political reconciliation among Iraq’s Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds—the key to lasting stability.

In the latest in a series of political crisis meetings, Iraq’s top leaders failed again Sunday to convince the main Sunni bloc to join a new alliance of Shiites and Kurds to break the political impasse.

This month’s decision by the Sunnis’ SEE MALIKI ON PAGE 29

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HUNTINGTON, Utah Despite three weeks of drilling and digging that have revealed no signs of life from six men trapped inside a collapsed coal mine, officials said Sunday the search was continuing.

Federal and mine company officials said a seventh borehole was being punched into the Crandall Canyon mine and that a special robotic camera was being lowered into a hole drilled during previous efforts to find the men.

The camera is similar to one used to search within the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York City after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It can take images in the darkened cavern from about 50 feet away with the help of a 200-watt light, can travel 1,000 feet from the end of the test hole and has some ability

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She said it was not clear whether the camera would fit if they survived the cave-in.

Digging through the rubble-filed mine shaft was halted after a second collapse killed three rescuers and injured six others Aug. 16.

Sunday’s announcement came a day after crews penetrated the mine with a sixth borehole, finding a debris-filled area too small for the men to survive, officials said.

“There could be no sign of life in such a condition,” mine co-owner Bob Murray said Sunday.

Murray said the seventh hole would be drilled into the kitchen area of the mine, an area where miners are trained to flee in case of collapse. “We haven’t given up hope,” he said.

Murray had previously said the sixth borehole, drilled more than 1,700 feet deep, would be the last before sealing the mine.

“We believe the right thing to do is to put another hole down and try to locate these men and in discussions with [the Mine Safety and Health Administration] that was agreed to and that is what has been done,” said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy Corp.

The sevendi hole was being started Sunday and officials did not estimate when it may be completed. Previous holes have taken about two days to hit the mine shaft.

Cesar Sanchez, brother of trapped miner Manuel Sanchez, said the prospect of a seventh hole encouraged the families, who had been outraged when told that the search might end. to “It brings the hope back up. We needed that and we’re going to keep going until we find these guys,” he said.

Murphy said the robotic camera will be lowered into either the third or fourth boreholes drilled, neither of which had given any sign of the miners.

Horizontal digging through the nibble-filed mine shaft was halted after a second collapse killed three rescuers and injured six others Aug. 16.

Federal MSHA officials say the instability of the mountain makes it too risky to resume underground digging or to drill a hole widen enough to send a manned rescue capsule into the mine.

Seismologists describe the mountain as crumbling in upon itself, bursting support pillars as it shifts in a phenomena known as mountain bumps.

MSHA officials have not specifically said they will close the mine, but have grown increasingly pessimistic about the chances of finding the men alive or even recovering their bodies.

Bruce Hill, president and chief executive officer of UtahAmerican Energy, part owner in Crandall Canyon, said there was a possibility the mine company could continue to drill holes even after the completion of the seventh.

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Testimony begins in case of Cuban child by

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to emigrate legally to the United States with her mother to

Perez, won thevisa lottery to come to the United States with her son and daughter, each of whom has a different father.

Both fathers agreed to let their children go with her.

But after Perez was hospitalized in December 2005 following a suicide attempt, the children were put in foster care and ended up with the Cubas family. Perez agreed to let them adopt her son, now 13, but not her daughter.

Izquierdo said he wants to take his daughter back to his family home in the central Cuban village of Cabaiguan, where he and his wife have a seven-year-old daughter.

“Her room is ready with and her bed and her little toys,” he said Thursday.

Perez agrees. “Now that she’s not going to her mother, she should go to her father,” she said of her daughter.

“Those are the two best people in the world to be at the

side of a child.”

An independent guardian appointed for the girl favors leaving her girl with Cubas. Several top attorneys for the Florida Department of Children &amp; Families also appear to favor Cubas.

Cubas said the girl, who calls him “Papi,” should not be separated from her brother and does not want to go back to Cuba.

“I don’t believe this is a matter of where their betterlife could be provided,” he said. “It is our belief, as is the wishes of the children, that they remain together and that’s why we’re here.”

Cubas drew critics in the late 1990 who said he helped top Cuba ball players leave the island. In 2005, his sports agent certification was suspended following accusations by one defector that Cubas took his immigration documents and refused to return them. He has denied the allegations.

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It would seem a simple case, especially since the mother agrees her daughter should return to Cuba.

Yet on the eve of the trial, a judge has warned that it could “inflame the community,” where the battle over Elian Gonzalez nearly eight years ago divided the city and became an international incident.

Testimony is to begin Monday over whether 32-yearold Cuban farmer Rafael Izquierdo can regain custody of his four-year-old daughter—whose name is being kept secret—or whether she shouldremain with a wealthy CubanAmerican and his wife who want to adopt her.

Until now, unlike Elian’s case, this custod batde has moved quietly through family court.

But on Thursday, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Jerri Cohen reluctantly lifted a gag order at the request of the girl’s foster father, Joe Cubas, 46, a former sports agent who has represented the NewYork Mets’ Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez and several other ballplayers who defected from Cuba. Cubas said he asked that it be liftedbecause he said he was getting many questions about the case.

The judge warned that allowing the parties to speak to the media “could have the possibility to inflame the community.”

“It’s going to explode,” Cohen said. “I know that as sure as I sit here. I can’t prevent that.”

Still, civic leaders, many of whom fought hard to keep Elian from returning to Cuba, say they do not believe this case will spark similar reactions. The facts are differentand neither the U.S. government nor the Cuban-exile community, burned by its negative portrayal during the Elian case, have a desire to repeat the past.

Elian, then five, was found floating at sea on an inner tube on Thanksgiving Day 1999,after his mother drownedwith others attempting to defect to the United States. The boy’s Miami relatives and many Cuban exiles insisted that Elian remain in this country, but immigration officials ruled in favor of his father, who wanted him returned to Cuba. A standoffended only when armed federal agents raided die Little Havana home of Elian’s uncle to seize the boy and send him to Cuba.

In the current case, both parents are in Miami and have agreed to participate in the U.S. legal system—and both say the girl should go with her father.

“The reaction in the community has been incredibly mature up to this point, and I’m sure it will remain this way,” said Carlos Saladrigas, head of the Cuba StudyGroup, a nonpartisan group of business and civic leaders formed after the Elian case to promote democracy in Cuba

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that the U.S. general would “be supportive of the govSenate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky and will disappoint the politicians who are Republican, said Sunday that al-Maliki’s government “is still pretty much a disaster” despite some progress made. relying on it” to be negative.

“It’s a demoNevertheIraqi Accordance Front to bolt the al-Maliki government less, al-Maplunged the country into a polidcal crisis. cratically elected government, and During the meeting, attended by Crocker, the leaders liki appeared endorsed holding provincial elections, releasing prison“There are American officials who consider Iraq as if I don’t think we stung by the ers held without charge and changing the law preventing recent series can dictate to many former members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party of critical it were one of their villages, for example Hillary Clinton them,” McConfrom holding government jobs and elected office. statements nell said. Nonetheless, McConWhite House spokesperson Emily Lawrimore hailed the about his govand Carl Levin. They should come to their senses,” nell said, senators agreement as an “important symbol” of the commitment ernment, in“to work together for the benefit of all Iraqis.” from both cluding one Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq Prime Minister agree the parties But details were left to a committee to hash out and it from PresiShiite dent George miniswas far from certain that those steps would soon be impleprime ter has been “a mented. Iraq’s oil law, for example, has been in the hands W. Bush, who of a constitutional committee for months and has not said he was huge disappointfrustrated ment.” emerged in parliament for a vote. that al-Maliki had failed to make progress on political In an interview with Newsweek magazine, French ForDuring his press conference, the Shiite prime minister said a negative report by Petraeus would not cause benchmarks. Crocker has said the lack of movement had eign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who visited Iraq this him to change course, although he said he expected been “highly disappointing.” month, said he told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that al-Maliki has “got to be replaced.”

Al-Maliki said the Iraqi government would demand an apology.

Criticism of al-Maliki’s stewardship has fueled Democrat calls in Congress for an end to the increasingly unpopular war.

Last week Sen. John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said the United States should order a token withdrawal of forces by Christmas. Warner said such a move would show al-Maliki that Washington was serious about progress on reconciliation among the country’s religious NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY sects and ethnic groups. nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 North of Baghdad, fighting broke out in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, when about 30 masked gunmen stormed a house where American soldiers had established an observation post, according to U.S. spokesperson Lt. & Col. Michael Donnelly.

That triggered a gunbattle in the stairwell, after August which the gunmen fled in a vehicle. Donnelly said U.S. aircraft tracked the gunmen to the house that was p : : bombed. Iraqi officials said seven civilians, including five children, were killed.

An informal discussion featuring Romanian artists Dan and Lia Perjovschi, The assault on the observation post led to “multiple engagements throughout the next several hours in the moderated by Kristine Stiles, professor of contemporary art in Duke’s city” as troops from the second Battalion, 505th ParaDepartment of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, and curator of the chute Infantry Regiment tried to apprehend the attackexhibition States Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi. Nasher Museum ers, according to Master Sgt. David Rhodes, another U.S. spokesperson.

Auditorium. Free with admission. Open to the public.

Fighting continued at sundown and “U.S. observation aircraft continue to monitor suspicious moveSCHEDULE & PARTICIPANTS: ment throughout the city while U.S. and Iraqi ground Welcome and Introduction forces conduct patrols and building searches,” Rhodes said. “Numbers of civilian and enemy casualties are Kimerly Rorschach, Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director, Nasher Museum at still being assessed and cannot be confirmed at this Duke University time,” he said.

In Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, fighting Moderator broke out between U.S. troops and Shiite militiamen, Kristine Stiles, professor of contemporary art in Duke’s Department of Art, Art Iraqi officials said. Eight Iraqis, including two women, History & Visual Studies were killed and six others were wounded, said police Lt. Mohammed al-Shameri.

Elsewhere, a Kurdish security official said a U.S. heliPanelists (in order of appearance) attacked two Kurdish police outposts on Sunday, copter �Dan and Lia Perjovschi, featured artists in States of Mind: Dan and Lia Perjovschi killing four policemen and wounding eight. The U.S. mili�Gorina Suteu, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York tary said it was investigating the report.

Jabar Yawer, spokesperson for the Kurdish peshmerga �lleana Pintilie, art historian and curator, Timisoara, Romania militia, said two police vehicles also were destroyed in the airstrike 65 miles northeast of Baghdad and he believed �Livia Dragoi, Director of the Art Museum, Cluj-Napoca, Romania the attack was mistaken friendly fire. �Liviana Dan, art historian and curator, Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania “We demand American troops to give an explanation �Aurel Chiriac, Director of the Art Museum, Oradea, Romania for the U.S. airstrike against a police station,” the Kurdish Interior Minister said in a statement. “The U.S. troops �H. Keith H. Brodie, President Emeritus of Duke University should take care to understand what troops are deployed in the border areas.” �Adrian Bejan, J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Pratt School of Meanwhile, waves of Shiite pilgrims descended on Engineering, Duke University Karbala on Sunday for a festival marking the birth of the ninth century Hidden Imam. A woman making the 50•Julie Tetel, Associate Professor of English, Cultural Anthropology, Slavic Languages mile journey from Baghdad was shot to death by men in a and Literatures, and Chair of Linguistics, Duke University passing car in the southwest of the capital. ernment

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The exhibition and related programs are sponsored in part by the Duke University Provost’s Common Fund, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and Duke University’s Office of the President Additional program support was provided the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, NY, and the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, and the Visual Studies Initiative, Duke University.

Nastier Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary D.B.T. Semans and the late James H. Semans, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Marilyn M. ArthurFund, the Victorand Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the North Carolina Arts Council, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University, and the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art.

CASTRO FROM PAGE 14 for when Castro dies. Even celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, a Cuban-American who normally deals with Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton, jumped into the fray, writing that sources were saying theMiami police were poised to announce Castro’s death.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addressed speculation about the health of his close friend and ally on Saturday, saying “I’m not going to be clearing up rumors and more rumors every day. Every little while they say Fidel died.”

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I purchased my prized memorabiiia for $3O at monddy, monday a silent auction no Scrubs in Tulsa last year.

Silent because everyone was stunned someone would cough up 30 bones for the piece.

But let me explain. I was in Oklahoma with Duke University Improv where we travel to make our annual donation for pediatric cancer research. So really, Zach is more than a picture. He is a symbol that the united synergy of mere college kids can bring about meaningful change in people’s lives.

That... and it just so happens that “Scrubs,” “The Last Kiss” and “Garden State” are the Holy Trinity of entertainment, “The Last Kiss” being the Holy Ghost. Let’s face it, it’s the weakest of the three and no one really knows what it does.

Since last summer, the photo has engulfed my existence. I am defined by it. I use my Zach Braff photo as my fun fact at icebreaker functions, classroom introductions and on first dates. Hell, I would use it on second dates if I ever got that far. (Speaking of which, I’ve found that for some reason a movie about cheating on your pregnant girlfriend doesn’t set the right mood.)

Before Zach, I felt mired in an existential crisis of self-definition. Growing up, I was the smart kid—measured by my grades and academic success. In high-school I was two-time captain of the math team, the neediest extracurricular position next to Chess Club statistician. But I had a niche.

I could cradle my “All A’s Honor Roll” plaque at night and sleep easy knowing that friends were overrated.

But at Duke, academic success is no unique identifier. I’m not a big fish in a small pond anymore. I’m phytoplankton in a sea ofsharks—sharks that are really good at solving equations with triple

integrals.

Starting this summer, students were given the first opportunity to participate in DukeEngage, the University’s new multimillion dollar service-learning initiative.

Though the initiative appears inspiring in concept and generous in scope, publicity for the program could undoubtedly be improved.

Students seem to be generally unfamiliar with the process of obtaining funding and perhaps more significantly, the mission of the program remains largely an abstraction.

Last first day of classes, Duke was mired in the midst of a media maelstrom. At that time, everyone wanted life to return to normal. Now, there needs to be an internal push to redefine that normalcy.

Zach Braff and Me

own an autographed photo ofZach Braff.

This fact is possibly the second most interesting thing about me. The first is my unabashed pride in prominently displaying him in my Central Campus apartment. When visitors stop by, they usually think two things: (1) “Central apartments aren’t as dirty as I thought” and (2) “Is that the guy from ‘Garden State?’”

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it received its fair share of criticism but prompted Provost Peter Lange to move forward with a follow-up report and encouraged various other campus leaders to respond with their own suggestions and feedback. Still, many if not most students remain unclear as to how the administration plans to handle recommendations on residence life, dining, academics and social life in general. Bikes for rent and summer reading on DukeDurham relations are nice, but they hardly seem to fulfill the grandiose plans initially put forth by the Steering Committee last spring.

In addition, without a clear explanation from the administration as to how the recommendations will be

It’s no longer unique to say that I’m a hardcore fan of Duke Basketball. Football, maybe. Even my ambitions aren’t greater than most. I’ve met three

people at Duke who want to be president. And that’s just not realistic considering Duke has no

cool alumni.

I faced a question more puzzling than “Tattoo”—the crotch-lit sculpture on the Plaza. How do I stand out in a spectrum of Duke students so vast that they have comprised casts of both “The Bachelor” and “Beauty and the Geek?” And how should I determine my level of success? IfI have a 3.70 GPA, 370 Facebook friends or a blood alcohol level of 0.37?

I found the answer in a line from the Holy Ghost ofZach Braff movies: “What you feel only matters to you. It’s whatyou do to the people you say you love, that’s what matters. It’s the only thing that counts.”

Zach’s movie father-in-law is right. I’ll define myself by the things I do. Things like purchasing signed memorabilia of Zach Braff and taking life directions from movie quotes.

I’ll probably always describe myself by my academic or monetary success. It’s ingrained from a

Zach is more than a picture.

He is a symbol that the united synergy of mere college kids can bring about meaningful change in people’s lives. young age. As a Tibetan baby I probably crawled toward the books and gold coins.

The real challenge in life will be redefining myself with each new change when the seas become oceans and the sharks become whales that pay rent and raise families rather than do math. Either way I’ll be exceptional at creating metaphors.

So to you I present your Monday, Monday humor columnist for the Fall Semester—the guy with the signed Zach Braff photo. I will be gracing the back page of The Chronicle every Monday with this semi-anonymous column. Uncovering my true identity will be a bit like the “Where’s Waldo?” book you read when you were seven—only if Waldo were always drawn in the bottom right corner of every page in italics.

I won’t always own that picture of Zach Braff.

We could be best friends at some point and the picture would be superfluous. But at least for the duration of this column, I will still be known as ZACH BRAFF. Brandon Curl wants to know a publicist.

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received a nice little e-mail from Duke the other day entided “Senior Class: Save the Date.” Obviously, the subject line got me excited. This was clearly the first in a long string ofinvitations to super-special senior activities, many of which must include some sort of free wine. What would this one be: A picnic? A gala? A soiree?

According to the email, this “Senior KickOff’ designed to “equip rising seniors like yourself with the information, strategies, and resources that you will Julia lOiil need to be successful left of COOI in your job search this year.” Call me naive, but I thought I still had 25 percent of my education left, and I was hoping to get a better idea of my strengths and passions before choosing a career, but apparently there’s no time for that. You see, Senior Kick-Off is today. That’s right, it’s not the first day of classes; it’s the first day ofyour job search.

Actually, I feel like a lot of my time at Duke has been geared more toward making me an attractive job applicant than purely toward education. It seems like the seniors are always wearing suits and flying around to job interviews, juniors are preoccupied with finding internships and sophomores are stressing about what major (read; career path) to choose. Freshmen aren’t exempt either; the Activities Fair this Friday serves the dual purpose of finding something to fill your time and finding something to fill your resume.

It’s probably a good idea to keep one eye looking toward the future, but I feel like a lot of us are staring straight at it wearing blinders.

What ever happened to the idea of college as a place where young people came to be exposed to new ideas or to develop intellectually? Duke has a core curriculum that is supposed to ensure that all students take a few seminars and a few courses from a wide range of disciplines, but students rarely seem to put any brainpower or intellectual effort into the courses they’re “forced” to take to fulfill requirements. Instead, a lot of us just end up doing what we need to do in order to get a decent grade. We can write stellar papers, but when was the last time you had an earth-shattering discussion in one ofyour classes? I’ve had a few, but I don’t think they’re the norm.

There are those who believe that the purpose of college is to get a career. I don’treally agree with that point of view, but I respect it. However, a deep intellectual discussion isn’t just helpful for those people who are looking to develop their mind. Those discussions about big ideas and old books are important because they help us develop our passions and interests, which in turn gives us a sense of direction. The lack of this sort of cerebral environment at Duke is quite evident.

Without any idea of what we want, we end up plugging ourselves into life paths that meet some conventional idea of what success looks like and just crossing our fingers and hoping that we’ll be happy.

A lot of graduates end up working in consulting or investment banking because for some reason that’s become the path of least resistance. With so much pressure to be successful (which means having a job, of course), we don’t have time to ask ourselves if we think I-Banking is a worthwhile use of our talents; it probably hasn’t even occurred to many of us to ask that question.

This sense of urgency, cultivated by having events like Senior Kick-Off on the first day of school, is both false and dangerous. Duke has an interest in seeing us employed upon graduation. It looks good on their recruitment materials if they can claim that such-andsuch percentage of graduating seniors had jobs. They don’t really have an interest in making sure we lead fulfilling lives—that’s our responsibility. It’s also our responsibility to take time to find out what sort of life we want to live. If you don’t know what you want, maybe the first step isn’t a workshop on networking; maybe the first step is something as simple as raising your hand in class. ...

You’ll

be hard-pressed to find anyone who values the right to free speech more than a journalist.

That’s why it was with great disappointment that I asked our online team to pull the message board function of The Chronicle’s website down in

mid-August.

Several members of the University community contacted me about comments posted on the board that they said were racist, repulsive and unbecoming of both The Chronicle and Duke University, and I agreed and was more than happy to remove those comments. After some reflection, I decided that in the short term, the more drastic step of disabling the boards was necessary.

Since the lacrosse case began, The Chronicle Online has been a major discussion site for those interested in the case. Although the vast majority of our readers that posted have been willing to conform both to basic standards of decency and to our request avoid profanity and vulgarity, there are others who have seen fit to post obscene, offensive and objectionable content, including racist and sexist speech.

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Julia Torti is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

That will not be tolerated on our website I am unhappy to find The Chronicle in this position; I think the message boards—as well as the ability to comment on articles, which will remain available and continue to be monitored—can provide a valuable public service by creating a forum for discussion.

The level of discourse reached such a nadir by August that we could not allow the boards to continue without careful screening of all comments on a regular basis. At the moment, we do not have a good method for implementing such screening.

As soon as we are able—which I hope is very soon indeed—the boards will be reactivated. It is my hope, however, that users will ensure that such close monitoring will be an unnecessary precaution.

Please feel free to contact me at editor@lists. chronicle.duke.edu if you have any questions about this matter—or, as always, about The Chronicle in general.

David Graham Editor

Keep It Real

It’s

good to be back. Sort of.

Don’t get me wrong—I love Duke. But this is the second time I have made the transition from living in Africa to living on campus. For all of us returning from summers of exploration and service at home and abroad, it’s easy to get blindsided by Duke re-entry shock.

As a Resident Assistant on East Campus, my first

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programming, coordinating or advising students.

No amount ofmoney is spared to ensure that our students are well coddled.

On move-in day I watched families pull up with vans and trucks overflowing with every imaginable possession—some even needed U-Hauls for the load. I heard more than one parent complain about student rooms being too small (and I wasn’t even working in Blackwell or Randolph).

Watching the Class of 2011 flood East Campus was surreal for me. I spent my summer conducting research in Sierra Leone—the small West African country known to most Americans only through Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in Blood Diamond.

Sierra Leone is ranked 179 out of 180 on the Human Development Index. The country has almost no infrastructure. Freetown, a city of more than a million people, still has almost no electricity and very little running water. For most ofmy summer I lived in a mud hutand bathed out of a bucket, often by only the light ofmy flashlight.

I did some of my research at Forah Bay College, West Africa’s oldest university. A popular song in Sierra Leone now talks about how six or eight students would crowd into a single room on campus and sleep on the floor. For the tiny percentage ofSierra Leone’s students lucky enough to make it to college, the spectacle of move-in at Duke would be like something out of a fantasy movie.

We live on a campus that is a lot like a country club.

At Duke we have a library with almost 6-million volumes.

In Sierra Leone, where the whole country’s literacy rate is 29.6 percent, the national university’s library catalogue stops in 1979.

It would be easy to write some kind of preachy column

about how privileged and spoiled we all are as Duke students. But that isn’t really my goal. (Although it would be nice if someone shaved down the Student Affairs office a bit—l promise we could find better uses for some of those 300-plus staff members and $4O-million annual budget.)

What is curious to me is the disconnect between fascinating summers of service, exploration and innovation and life back in the bubble from September to May. Over the summer, hundreds of undergrads were involved in service and research across six continents. DukeEngage sent students all over the region and the world—and the program is only beginning. I randomly bumped into the Duke Engineers Without Borders contingent bringing clean drinking water to rural Uganda. Students built houses in Vietnam, taught English in Chile and established a boarding school in Kenya. Even more undergrads worked all over the United States in all imaginable fields.

One cannot help but be amazed by the stories of incredible experiences exchanged the first few weeks of fall each year. In fact, President Richard Brodhead was so impressed that he shared some of the stories in his convocation address to the Class of 2011 last Wednesday.

He named “engagement” as one of the “cardinal points of Duke’s compass.”

For us, however, these summer stories are often colorful interims between comfortable semesters. They are exotic and eye-opening, but their significance is easy to forget once back in the world of classes and kegs.

For students at Forah Bay College, summer only means two months of backbreaking plowing in the rice swamps.

For them, summer is not a resume-builder or a vacation; it’s often a sad preview of their lives after college.

With the creation of DukeEngage on top of the countless existing service and research opportunities, students will have even more chances to experience cultures and standards of living far differentfrom their own.

It sounds great—but I hope the rhetoric is matched by real commitment, both from our administration and the student body. Real engagement does not come from an amazing summer experience that fades back into the fantasy world of a $4O-million Student Affairs budget. “Drink for Durham” and “Shooter’s Night for Darfur” don’t really count either; real engagement is about connecting our summer experiences and the struggle s we observe with the resources and opportunities at Duke.

So get out there. Keep those summer experiences alive.

And stay tuned this semester. I promise to look for the real stories of engagement and share as many as I can.

DavidFiocco is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Monday.

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