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Nate Freeman THE CHRONICLE

For the first time in two years, students at Tailgate were not the only ones flipping burgers —the administration did all the grilling for them. Students showed up in droves Saturday morning to the first University-sanctioned Tailgate since administrators decided to divorce itself from the pre-football game ritual in Fall 2006. Vendors provided Tailgate attendees with free botded water, hamburgers, hot dogs and several other food choices. Administrators and student leaders made arrangements earlier this month to provide funding for the event—including provisions for security and portable toilets—on the condition that students be held responsible for their behavior. As planned, students brought food, grills and stereo speakers before the event began and removed their cars from the Blue Zone parking lots by 8:00 a.m. Also, security personnel checked the IDs of any student carrying alcohol inside and upheld the limit of one case of beer per person. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said the new policies made for a problem-free Tailgate with few instances ofpoor behavior. “In general, there was a focus on good, friendly camaraderie,” he said. “There were some people who feel excessive consumption is part of the norm, but the vast majority were there to enjoy themselves and raise the spirit of the football game.” Moneta said the only major problem that occurred during Saturday’s Tailgate was the confusion among students when security started leading them out of the

breach suit Ex-coach seeks to void confidentiality clause by

Chelsea Allison THE CHRONICLE

Less than a week after the exonerated former lacrosse players filed suit against the city of Durham, the Durham Police Department and Durham’s former district attorney, their former coach Mike Pressler is suing the University, seeking relief from a confidential agreement he reached With Duke in March 2007. The suit, which was filed in Durham County Superior Court Thurs-

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torney Jay Trehy, accuses the University of violating terms of the settle-

Mike Pressler

Studentsrevel in thefirst Duke-sponsored Tailgate in two years by dancing tomusic and spraying beer in the air.

parking lot at 12:00 p.m., when the football game began. “My understanding is that there were some problems terminating Tailgate and getting people to leave,” he said. “The arrangements that the group agreed to was that Tailgate ended at kickoff. I heard there were some students who were resistant.” Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery, a senior, said the administra-

live support convinced students to show up Saturday even if they had been unsure whether or not they would attend. “I think this is the biggest one we’ve had this year, by far,” he said. “With the food and with the sense that it’s not so underground, people who were on the fence decided to come.” As part of the effort to dissuade Tailgate SEE TAILGATE ON PAGE

Can a female lead DSG? Numbers lag, and prez says culture may contribute by

Shuchi Parikh THE CHRONICLE

A mounted plaque in the Duke Student Government office proudly displays the names of the organization’s presidents since it was established in 1967. Of the 38 names gracing the plaque —which dates up to the year 2002—only seven are the names of women. The last time a female was elected DSG president was in Spring 1999 “In a campus full of women who were student government presidents in high school, it makes very little sense that we would go eight years with no women elected to the top DSG post,” Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center and co-director of the Baldwin Lisa Zeidner, Trinity 'OO, was in 1999 the seventh and last female to be Duke student government president.

ment by making defamatory statements against Pressler. “The defendant wrongfully fired Coach Pressler on April 5, 2006, and publicly and falsely suggested he bore responsibility for the alleged misconduct,” the suit reads.

Pressler led the team for 16 seasons until he was pressured to resign as allegations of rape surfaced against members of the 20052006 lacrosse team. SEE PRESSLER ON PAGE 5

Duke assets see high returns Eugene Wang THE CHRONICLE

The University’s largest asset, its endowment, recently grew by more than $1 billion, creating opportunities for new programs, construction development and future research. Duke’s endowment received a 25.6 percent return on its investments in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, raising it from $4.5 to $5.9 billion. The return is the third highest among top U.S. universities. Yale University’s and Amherst College’s endowment returns surpassed Duke’s with 28. percent and 27.8 percent increases, respectively.

The endowment’s five-year re17.5 percent and 10-year of 17.1 percent are the third and second highest in the

turn of return

SEE DSG ON PAGE 4 SEE ENDOWMENT ON PAGE

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Spelunkers found safe in Texas

House Dems pledge health program by Hope Yen THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON House Democratic leaders said Sunday they were working to gather votes to override a veto on a popular children’s health program, but pledged to find away to cover millions without insurance should their effort fail. At the same time, the White House sought to chide the Democratic-controlled Congress as the obstructionists in reauthorizing the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. It said Democrats were the ones who had shown unwillingness to compromise.

Deputy press secretary Tony Fratto quoted President George W. Bush as saying he is “willing to work with members of both parties from both houses” on the issue. In talk show interviews, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer did not dispute claims by Republican leaders that the GOP will have enough votes to sustain Bush’s veto when the House holds its override vote on Thursday. “Isn’t that sad for America’s children?” said Pelosi, D-Calif., when asked about the GOP’s assurances the override vote will fail. “It doesn’t mean we aren’t working hard throughout the country: governors, mayors, people who deal with children on a regular basis.

“We’ll try very hard to override it. But one thing’s for sure: We won’t rest until those 10 million children have health care,” she said in an interview broadcast

Sunday.

Hoyer, D-Md., declined to predict Thursday’s vote. “This is a defining moment for the Republican Party, in my opinion,” Hoyer said, before adding later; The program is “not going to die. We’re going to go back and we’re going to pass another bill.” House Democrats scheduled the vote after Bush earlier this month vetoed legislation that would increase spending for the SCHIP by $35 billion over five years.

Turkish general warns ties at risk by

C. Onur Ant

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ISTANBUL, Turkey Turkey’s top general warned that ties with the U.S., already strained by attacks from rebels hiding in Iraq, will be irreversibly damaged if Congress passes a resoludon thatlabels the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide. Turkey, which is a major cargo hub for U.S. and allied military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, has recalled its ambassador to Washington for consultations and warned that there might be a cut in the logistical support to the U.S. over the issue.

But there is more at stake for NATO’s “If this resolution passed in the committee passes the House as well, our military only Muslim member when it comes to its ties with the U.S. will never be the same relations with the U.S. The Turkish military, again,” Gen. Yasar Buyukanit told the daily and especially the air force, is heavily deMilliyet newspaper. pendent on the American defense industry, Despite the general’s strong words, it is experts say. Still, when Washington imposed an not clear how far Turkey will go to express its dismay to Washington. arms embargo against Turkey in 1975 Turkey suspended its military ties bee ause of a dispute over Cyprus, Turwith France last year after the French key ended all its logistical support to U.S. parliament’s lower house adopted a bill troops and sharing of intelligence until that that would have made it a crime to The embargo was lifted, said Onur Oydeny that the Armenian killings consti- men, the country’s former permanent tuted a genocide. representative to NATO.

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Al Gore wins Nobel Peace Prize Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Congress to keep down tuition Colleges and universities raked in money by the billions last year. But their investing success now has a price —a movement in force the wealthiest schools Congress to to spend more of their money to keep down tuition. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Informational Technology Review Committee Announcement Duke University conducts periodic administrative reviews for all university officers. Tracy Futhey is her fifth year as Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, and a review is underway The review committee includes Professors Jeffrey Chase, (chair) and Alex Roland, and Administrators Asif Ahmad, Hof Milam, and Molly Tamarkin.

“Global Security Challenges” October 19th at The Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill campus at 7:45pm. Free to the public. Information online: www.tiss-nc.org October 20th William Perry will be joined by faculty members from our constituent universities Gerhard Weinberg, UNC- Chapel Hill (History), Cori-Dauber, UNC (Communication Studies), Timothy McKeown, UNC (Political Science), and Peter Feaver, Duke University (Political Science) and Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies. Richard H. Kohn, UNC (History and Peace, War, and Defense) will serve as moderator. This distinguished group of scholars will continue the discussion on global security and answer questions from the audience.

The committee invites all members of the Duke community to provide written comments regarding Tracy’s leadership effectiveness as well as insight into central Information Technology support including telephone services and computing. Basic questions are as follows: What are OIT/Tracy’s strengths and accomplishments? What are OIT/Tracy’s greatest weaknesses? How has IT at Duke changed under Tracy’s leadership? What are the greatest challenges Duke IT will face in the next 5 years? What are your recommendations for improvement?

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Information provided to the committee will be held in confidence but may be reported without attribution as part of the summary report that will be submitted to Executive Vice President Tallman Trask 111 and Provost Peter Lange. If you wish to share your thoughts with the committee, please do so by October 26. Tracy Futhey Review Committee Box 90027 Durham, NC 27708 Email: chase@cs.duke.edu

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15,2007

Man slain in weekend stabbing at Northgate by

A 22-year-old male was murdered inside Northgate Mail Saturday evening.

Gabby McGlynn THE CHRONICLE

A fatal knife attack inside Northgate Mall Saturday killed Keanan Odom, 22. Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of Xavier Moore, 21, a suspect for the murder. Moore has not yet been located, police said. The stabbing occurred at about 5:45 p.m. between Entrance Two and Entrance Three of the mall, in the area facing the Northgate Stadium 10 movie theater. Odom was taken from the scene by an unidentified individual and died at Duke Hospital later Saturday, police spokesperson Kimberle Walker said in a statement. Moore, of 1913 Essex Drive in Durham, was one of two people

shot outside a Wendy’s restaurant on South Miami Boulevard in May 2005, although crime reports show he was never before charged with a violent crime. At the time of his death, Odom was out ofjail on bail despite previous charges ofmurder in the two separate shooting deaths of Kashaun Patterson and Sesaley Hunter in 2005. Odom was scheduled to appear in court later this month. Police blocked off the crime scene where investigators found blood Saturday and sectioned off several storefronts including GNC and Claire’s. The facility was closed one hour early, at 8 p.m., after officers escorted customers out of the mall. Police also closed offanother area at the opposite end of the mall, near

Sears, where the victim may have

gone as he tried to leave the mall. “I can’t confirm that,” Walker told The (Raleigh) News & Observer. “There is another crime scene.” Walker added that police had not identified a weapon used by the attacker but had a number of witness interviews from the scene of the murder. Odom is the fourth person slain in or near Northgate Mall since 2002. The last fatality in Northgate occurred in December 2005. Police have requested that individuals with information regarding the crime contact the Durham Crime Stoppers at 683-1200 or investigator Michelle Soucie of the Durham Police Department at 5604440 ext. 274.

Durham

City Manager Patrick Baker enacted a new lawn-watering restriction effective Monday, Oct. 15 in response to the exceptional drought.

Residents can only water lawns, grass, trees, shrubbery, flowers, golf greens or vegetable gardens on Saturdays either between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m. or 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. •

Residents may only water enough to provide no more than one-half inch of water to the landscape

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Stage 111 Moderate Mandatory Conservation restrictions, enacted Sept. 21, are still in effect.

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Restaurants and similar establishments may not serve water except upon request. •

Residents may not wash the exterior of a motor vehicle unless a private well water system is used, or unless 50 percent or more of the water is recycled or if it can be demonstrated that 30 gallons of water or fewer are used to wash the vehicle. •

Residents may not use water to wash down outside areas such as sidewalks, patios or driveways. •

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North Carolina hasfaced a drought over the past few months, prompting the city ofDurham to enact lawn-watering restrictions effective today.

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“The answer to that is that there needs to be an effort to recruit more female administrators.” Slattery said he has been able to develop casual, “mentee-mentor relationships” with top male administrators, Scholars Program, wrote in an e-mail. DSG leaders said they hope that the presence of three such as Provost Peter Lange and Dean of Undergraduate women on the current executive board of seven members Education Steve Nowicki, which have allowed him to be a more effective lobbyist. will soon lead to another female in charge. “There are a lot of girls out there who could run and “It’s helpful to beable to relate personally and casually to someeasily win,” said DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior. “It’s one when you’re advocating a policy, particularly because they’ll give you sound advice and informationabout what’s going on in just getting them to run for this position.” Social sanctions against women campaigning for top University politics,” he explained. Nowicki and Lange said, however, there is no difference positions along with few female role models in the administration may deter undergraduate women from running in how they work with Slattery and other male student leaders and with female leaders such as Duke University for DSG president, Lisker said. “One might argue that we look to our models to see Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior. Slattery and several women leaders in DSG said it was possible for a fewhat’s possible for us,” she added. But Slattery also said that based on his own experiences male president to form mentee-mentor relationships with interacting with administrators, it might be harder to be a male administrators. “I believe women can mentor men and men can menfemale in the head position. “A lot of the relationships that I have with administrator women —I do not see this as a constraint for student leaders,” DSG Senator Kristin Pfeiffer, a senior, wrote in tors developed into friendships that I think would be difficult to develop with a different gender dynamic,” he said. an e-mail. Pfeiffer was the only female to run for the DSG presidency last year. Women leaders in DSG added that their gender has not posed an obstacle to them, but noted the value of having visible female leaders they could look up to. “I haven’t felt disadvantaged in any way by being a female,” said sophomore Lucy McKinstry, vice president for student affairs. “It’s just the nice thing about having a [female] role model [in the administration] is that it opens your eyes to the possibilities for yourself.” The Baldwin Scholars Program and the newly-created Women’s Mentoring Network are working to encourage undergraduate women to run for key leadership positions on campus, Lisker and McKinstry said.

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Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery said it would be possible for a female to win a DSG presidential election.

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Speech, study Veto may harm insurance program analyze Duke hook-ups by

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As a result of President George W. Bush’s Oct. 2 veto of a children’s health insurance bill, North Carolina will have less funding to help uninsured children. The bill proposed a $35-billion increase in funding for the State Children’s Health Insurance Program over the next five years, bringing the total funding to $6O billion and exceeding Bush’s proposal by $3O billion. Congress will vote this week to override the veto. Although the veto’s influence on North Carolina has not been calculated, the veto of the legislation will negatively affect children in the state, said Brian Letourneau, director of the Durham County Health Department. The Bush administration justified the veto with two reasons, said Christopher Conover, assistant research professor at Duke’s Center for Health Policy. “One of the administration’s concern was the program already was not reaching the lowest income children for which it was intended, and now the states were starting to expand coverage into groups that the administration felt was unnecessary,” he said. Conover added that he believes the bill aimed to provide health coverage for children from middle-low income class families, and the government probably did not want to spend tax dollars on children that already had access to health coverage. “I don’t know the exact impact on North Carolina in terms of numbers of children affected, but it definitely will reduce the number of children the program

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Casual sex is increasingly described as the normative form of romantic relationships on campuses, said Suzanne Shanahan, associate director of the Kenan Institute of Ethics and assistant professor of

sociology. Shanahan led the presentation “Love on the Quad: Romantic Relationships,”

Saturday to an audience of Duke’s HalfCentury Club members, who attended the event as a part of Homecoming Weekend activities. In a cross-disciplinary research study, Shanahan examined the changing relationships among students at Duke and other college campuses, along with the concept of a “hook-up” and its effects on student interaction. “Popular press has become obsessed with the hook-up culture ofyoung people,” she said. According to a report produced for the Independent Women’s Forum in 2001, 91 percent of college women surveyed on campuses nationwide described their school as having a “salient hook-up culture,” Shanahan added. Other surveys found that approximately 70 to 80 percent of college students engaged in intercourse with a casual sex partner during the previous year. SEE LOVE ON PAGE

The case against David Evans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, was dropped this April, and Pressler alleges that his firing was a “very public response

to the media coverage, without any semblance of a fair hearing or any willingness to consider the truth.” He reached a financial settlement with the University for an undisclosed amount in the spring of 2006, a year before entering into the confidential agreement, which spokespersons for Duke said they will fight

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Former lacrosse head coach MikePressler reached a settlementwith Duke in the spring of 2006.

uphold. “Mr. Pressler, aided by his attorney,

reached a fair and final financial agreement with Duke University in the spring of 2007,” University Counsel Pam Bernard said. “We are disappointed that he is now trying to undo that agreement

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existing agreement.” The suit specifically cites comments made by John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, that were made to Newsday April 9, 2007, and to The Associated Press June 7, 2007.

Pressler also claimed that the statements Burness made comparing him to John Danowski, who took over as head lacrosse coach July 2006, were in violation of the private arrangement. “One of the things we certainly have come to understand in this case is that the coaches in general in each of our sports are responsible for the behavior of their teams,” Burness told Newsday. “Danowski is night and day... As [President Richard Brodhead] said, ‘This guy’s a mensch. This

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primary care and the access of children to a medical home and to have a continuity of medical care and to have the ability

have preventive health care delivered them,” he added. Letourneau said Congress should try to revive the bill because more funding to

means more coverage for children. “It doesn’t make any sense to cut funding and the veto itself doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “The legislation was a win-win and vetoing the legislation does not make any sense to any health care provider in the state.”

guy gets it.’” Burness’ remarks breached a dependent part of the agreement —which will remain under seal—and should make it void, according to the suit. Following his resignation, which broke a three-year employment contract that became effective July 1, 2005, Pressler was cited as saying he had trouble finding new work and that the case had caused considerable damage to his reputation. He now coaches at Division II Bryant University in Rhode Island. In addition to calling for an end to the confidential agreement, Pressler’s suit also requested a jury trial for unspecified financial compensation for attorney and court costs, as well as further relief as specified by the court. Attempts to reach Pressler and his attorney were unsuccessful, and Burness declined to comment on the matter.

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can cover not only in North Carolina but across the country,” Conover said. North Carolina Health Choice for Children—the state’s child health insurance program—provides free or reduced price comprehensive health care for children of families who do not qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford health insurance premiums. Letoumeau said the veto reduces the funding for Health Choice for Children and will create waitlists to get into the program, which will delay caregiving to children. “It has been a very successful program, and it has increased the access of

with an unfounded claim against Duke. We will address the matter through the legal process and insist on honoring our

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Students go crazy for Duke during Homecoming Weekend

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at the pep rally on the West Campus Plaza Friday afternoon (left); the Blue

Devil mascot drums up support for the football team at Tailgate Saturday morning before the game (middle); a student dances as part of the DefMo performance at Brodhead's ball Saturday night (bottom); students dress up in costumes and dance in the Blue Zone Saturday morning at Tailgate (right).

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Heading into this weekend, No. 11 Duke knew that winning both of its contests was almost imperative to qualify for postseason play. And the Blue 4 DUKE 1 Devils (9-6) showq LONGWOOD cased that intensity with two offenDUKE sive explosions, steamrolling 1 ODU Longwood (5-11) Saturday 4-0, before defeating No. 10 Old Dominion 4-1 in Norfolk, Va. The win over the Monarchs (8-7) Sunday avenged a 1-0 home defeat Sept. 16. “We talked about putting together two halves,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We knew that if we wanted to get into the [NCAA] tournament, we had to come out on top. It was a tremendous team effort.” The biggest difference between the Duke squad that fell to Old Dominion in September and the one that played Sunday was the ability to convert offensive chances. The Blue Devils struck first at the 17:40 mark, with sophomore Lauren Miller scoring off a penalty corner opportunity. After the Monarchs evened the score, Duke forward Marian Dickinson connected on another penalty corner less than two minutes later. The Blue Devils continued rolling in the second half, as sophomore Amie Survilla and Dickinson both found the net in the second half to quash any hopes of an Old Dominion rally. “Our biggest key was sticking to our gameplan,” Survilla said. “We played a re”

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SophomoreLauren Miller struckfirst in theBlue Devils' 4-1 victory over Old Dominion Sunday in Norfolk,Va.

ally good team, and our passing was amazing. Our forwards played awesome.” As in its earlier matchup with the Monarchy, Duke outshot Old Dominion, this time by a 15-6 margin. This time, though, the Blue Devils finished near the net. Survilla’s elevated play lately has been crucial to Duke’s recent success. The forward has scored four goals over the last three games and is becoming a consistent offensive contributor. “I’ve been really focusing in practice on how to improve,” Survilla said. “The biggest problem before was the mental aspect. Each game, I’m building more and more confidence.” Dickinson also continued to demonstrate her offensive prowess, notching two more goals this past weekend to bring her season total to eight. For the Blue Devils, the positive results are a manifestation of the attitude that the team had been continuously preaching in practice. The team’s intensity and focus ensured that over four halves, Duke never let up. “We knew that we had to beat ODU to get into the [NCAA] tournament,” Bozman said. And with only three regular-season games remaining before the ACC tournament, the Blue Devils’ win column is increasing at the right time. Duke believes that the biggest change between its sluggish start and its recent victories is improved team chemistry. “I think that we’re really peaking right now,” Survilla said. “We’re winning games that we need to win, and it’s such a major improvement. We’re finally connecting.”

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Tigers end Duke’s 38-game home win streak by

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The Blue Devils were forced to deal with

something Saturday night that they hadn’t

encountered since 2004—a loss in Cameron Indoor Stadium. When Clemson (15-2, 8-0 in the ACC) narrowly GA.TECH defeated No. 13 Duke (14-4, 9-1) DUKE 3 in five games, the Tigers snapped CLEMSON the Blue Devils’ _

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38-game home winning streak as well as their string of 18 straight confer-

ence victories. After dropping the first two games, Duke rebounded in the middle frames before being edged out 15-10 in the final game, which was sealed by a 6-2 Tiger run. The loss not only ended the Blue Devils’ run at perfection in Cameron Indoor, but also took away its share of the top spot in the ACC. “Once the fifth game came up, we made a few too many errors,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We’re incredibly disappointed, but teams get better through adversity and going through a loss. I’d rather have it happen now than later in the season, so we can become better.” Duke was particularly plagued throughout the match by attacking errors, as Clemson committed a mere five through the first three games while forcing Duke into 17 over that same span. The Tigers were led by junior Danielle Hepburn, who had 19 kills on the night, and senior Meghan Steiner, who notched

eight of the team’s 14 blocks, Seniors Carrie DeMange andjenny Shull led Duke’s resurgence in the third game, as the middle blocker threw down eight kills and the libero notched eight digs. Shull, who was honored before the contest for setting Duke’s all-time digs record, recorded a match-high 35 digs on the night. One of the other problem points for the Blue Devils was their service, as they were less efficient than Clemson on the night, with an average .46 percentage points lower. “We focus on serving every single day,” Nagel said. “Sometimes I think we need to focus on it less. We try so hard that I wonder if we need to let it go more. We didn’t get as many aces, but we got less errors.” Duke’s battle with the Tigers followed Friday night’s 3-2 victory over Georgia Tech (10-7, 4-3). In that contest, the Blue Devils also faced an early 2-0 deficit but were able to fight back and take the final three games 30-25, 30-22 and 15-12. DeMange recorded her 10th straight double-double and was one of four Duke players to reach double figures in kills, along with sophomore Rachael Moss and juniors Jourdan Norman and Sue Carls. The Blue Devils look to rebound from this weekend when they take on Virginia Tech in the third match of their four-game

“I’ve seen this team come through with tough obstacles before,” Nagel said. “They’re an experienced and great team and work incredibly hard. This time they just came up short.”

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Senior Jenny Shull was honored before Saturday's contest for being Duke's all-time digs record holder.

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Matt Ryan threw for 291 yards and two touchdowns, Andre Callender scored three times and No. 4 Boston College beat Notre Dame 14 Saturday to remain undefeated. Boston College is 7-0 for just the fifth time in 107 seasons, the first time since 1942, and beat its rival Notre Dame for the fifth straight time. The Irish lead the series between the only two Catholic schools to play major college football 9-8, but the Eagles have won six of the last seven. (AP)

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After Chris Smelley threw a career-high three touchdowns in the first half, the No. 7 Gamecocks nearly blew an 18-pointhalftime lead before escaping with a2l -15 victory over the Tar Heels Saturday. The redshirt freshman improved to 4-0 as a starter by helping the Gamecocks (6-1) successfully defend their first top 10 ranking since 2001. (AP)

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The sobering result of Saturday’s game was all too familiar for the Blue Devils, but the inability to keep the score close seemed to be an even more crushing setback for a team that has been competitive for most of the season. After establishing a 13-0 lead within the first 10 minutes of the game, the then-No. 12 Hokies made an assortment of big plays on special teams that propelled them to a 43-14 domination of Duke at Wallace Wade Stadium. “We’ve been doing pretty good as a ball team of fighting, fighting, fighting every week, but this week we didn’t fight,” defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase said. “They’re a great team on special teams, and that’s what I think really got us today. We had our backs to the wall too many times as a defense, and as an offense we didn’t score as many points as we needed to.” After staying competitive deep into their three most recent games and only losing by narrow margins of 3, 10 and 5 points, respectively. the Blue Devils never really threatened Virginia Tech (6-1, 3-0 in the ACC). Duke (1-6, 0-4) scored its first points on a 1-yard Thaddeus Lewis quarterback sneak that capped off

an 11-play, 71-yard drive. The touchdown left the Blue Devils behind by only six points with a minute remaining in the first quarter, but the Hokies went on to score 30 unanswered points. Duke’s only other score—a 19-yard Brandon King touchdown reception —came in the fourth quarter with the game already well out of reach at 43-7. “That was a great drive, one of the best we’ve had all season,” running back Re’quan Boyette said of Duke’s first scoring drive. “We ran down the score, but for some reason, we got the ball back, and we couldn’t capitalize on them again.” One area that plagued Duke Saturday was its special teams unit. Although the Hokies didn’t come close to repeating their threetouchdown kick-return performance from last week at Clemson, they were spectacular in coverage, as they took advantage of poor execution by the Blue Devils. Kick returner Jabari Marshall fumbled two kickoffs —both of which were recovered by Virginia Tech. As a result, head coach Ted Roof pulled Marshall from the gameand replaced him with running back Ronnie Drummer for the opening kickoff of the second half. “We have worked and worked and worked

with [Marshall] on ball security, and just got to continue to work to get that Roof said. Duke’s punting unit also struggled Sa Punter Kevin Jones averaged a mere 35. on his kicks, and Virginia Tech added on a Jones punt in the second quarter. It gave them possession of the ball on the yard line and led to an easy Branden Ore down run the very next play. “We worked all week long about not mistakes in the kicking game and takii of the football,” Roof said. ‘You can’t against Virginia Tech. You can’t fumblei on kickoff returns. You can’t let them

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terback Sean Glennon, who lost his ' job after Virginia Tech’s 48-7 loss Sep LSU, stepped in for Taylor and gave secondary fits. Glennon finished the with 258 yards in the air and two touch eluding Duke pass rushers on a nunibc 16 completions.

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with Hokies “Glennon came in and provided a spark for them and threw the ball very well,” Roof said. “A couple of times, I thought we had him for sacks and let him slip away, and we’ve got to make those plays.” The environment surrounding Duke’s homecoming game was even tilted in favor of the visitors. Wallace Wade might as well have been dubbed “Lane Stadium South,” as around 10,000 Hokies fans clad in maroon and orange filled the visiting team sections of the stadium. The Virginia Tech supporters easily outnumbered Duke fans and loudly chanted “Let’s Go Hokies” as the final quarter

But at the end of the game, when the box score showed that only two of the Virginia Tech’s eight scoring drives spanned 03ITIG more than 50 yards, the Blue Devils knew that their numerous mistakes on special teams contributed to a shorter field and pushed the game out of reach. Known for its impact plays on special teams, Virginia Tech lived up to its reputation Saturday and capitalized on a variety of Duke mistakes on both kickoffs and punts, giving the Hokies yet another runaway win over Duke. The Blue Devils’ special teams nightmares began quickly, as kick returner Jabari Marshall lost die first of two fumbles seven minutes into the first quarter. At that point, Duke trailed only 6-0 despite going threeand-out on each of their first two possessions. Virginia Tech kicker Jud Dunlevy kicked the ball short to the Blue Devils’ 12yard line. Marshall ran up quickly to field the ball, but instead of catching it on the run, he letit bounce offhis chest, and Hokie Dorian Porch picked up the ball off the second bounce. Virginia Tech would score on a 19-yard touchdown on a skinny post to wide receiver Josh Morgan three plays later. ‘You can’t have fumbles like that in our territory,” defensive tackleVince Oghobaase said. “They capitalized on all those times they were moving down in our territory.” Marshall also fumbled on a kick return midway through the third quarter with the score at 34-7. Although the Hokies did not convert on the ensuing drive because of a failed fourth-down attempt, the coaching staff had seen enough of Marshall, who was benched for the remainder of the game. “That’s unacceptable and if you look back on the course of the season he’s done it a couple of times before,” head coach Ted Roof said. “There’s two choices—either work and get better or replace him.” Roof also mentioned that Chris Davis and Ronnie Drummer have returned kickoffs for touchdowns in their careers, and with Drummer replacing Marshall after the second fumble, it appears the kick return job is up for grabs. Roof, however, said Marshall is still in die mix for die position. To say thatthe kick return unit cost Duke the contest, though, would ignore the team’s woes in the punting game. One four-minute stretch midway through the second quarter exemplified Duke’s plights for the day. Virginia Tech running back Kenny Lewis had just run straight up the gut for a

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five-yard touchdown to put his team up 20-7

with 9:25 left. After Duke went three-and-out, Kevin Jones came onto the field to punt from his own 25-yard line. His kick appeared to go off the side of his foot, and the ball went a meager 23 yards and landed out of bounds. It took all of four plays and just over a minute for the Hokies to take advantage of the shortened field, as quarterback Sean Glennon lofted a perfect pass to the back of the end zone for wide receiver Eddie Royal, who had easily beaten his defender on the corner route. The next series, Duke went three-and-out again, and the ensuing punt was even more disastrous dian the last. Virginia Tech stacked the left side of the line with multiple defenders, drawing gunner Eron Riley in for blocking help. It did not matter, however, as cornerback Stephan Virgil came off that same side untouched and blocked Jones’ punt. Even then, the Blue Devils could not catch a break. Instead of the ball going into

the back of the Duke end zone for a safety and the chance to stop Virginia Tech with much better field position, the ball went out of bounds at the Blue Devil 2-yard line, where the Hokies would score on a bruising rush by running back Branden Ore one play later with 5:42 left. “Anytime you average 31 yards a punt, that’s not a good day,” Roof said. “It was a classic example of field position...whether it was from a short punt, a turnover, a fumble or a blocked punt.” Nevertheless, in a game in which only two Virginia Tech scoring drives went longer than 50 yards, Duke knows that making those kinds of miscues on special teams—especially ones that can shorten the field for the opposing team—can make it almost impossible to win. “They’re good enough as it is without helping them,” Roof said of the Hokies. “I sensed us making mistakes against a good football team and paying dearly for them.”

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the Hokie-friendly cheering. “They always bring a great crowd, but that didn’t have anything to do with how we played.” With a bye-week ahead before their Oct. 27

game at Florida State, the Blue Devils will have some extra time to evaluate what they can do to prevent another poor showing against a talented foe in the Seminoles. “We’ve got five games left,” Roof said. “We’ve got to be smart with whatwe’re doing, but at the same time do a very in-depth, self-scout of what We ’re doing bad and what we’re doing good.”

The Blue Devils were unable to catch the Hokies after miscues on special teams gave Virginia Tech good field position and let the game slip out of reach.

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FIRST QUARTER What went right: Duke scored for the first time against Virginia Tech in nearly two years, as Thaddeus Lewis snuck the ball in on fourth-and-goal with less than a minute left. What went wrong; Jabari Marshall fumbled on his third kickoff return, as the ball bounced off his chest and the Hokies recovered, setting up their first touchdown of die game. You MIGHT HAVE missed...: The pass dial set up Duke’s touchdown, Lewis rolled left, then set and threw hard down die middle to an open Austin Kelly for 28 yards and a first down at Virginia Tech’s 4-yard line. Key stat: Duke 1 turnover, Virginia Tech 0

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What went right: Nothing. Virginia Tech scored on three straight possessions and Duke went three-and-out on all of its possessions. What went wrong: Sean Glennon came into the game for the Hokies, going 9-of-l 1 for 135 yards and a touchdown while directing all three scoring drives. You MIGHT HAVE missed...; Before Virginia Tech blocked the punt, the Blue Devils had lined up to punt, only to flinch because of the Hokies pressure, pushing them five yards back and making Virginia Tech’s job easier. Key stat; Time of Possession: Virginia Tech 9:26, Duke 5:34

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Role reversal in passing game Entering their matchup with Virginia Tech, Duke boasted the ACC’s third-best passing offense. The Hokies, meanwhile ranked at the bottom of the league in that category. But from a look at the stat sheet, those roles were reversed at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday. Duke fell more than 100 yards short of their season average for passing yards, as quarterbacks Thaddeus Lewis and Zack Asack combined to only throw for 122 yards and one touchdown on 14 completions. Virginia Tech, meanwhile, accrued 346 yards and three touchdowns through the air, with 258 of the yards coming off the arm of quarterback Sean Glennon. The Virginia Tech backup excelled in relief of injured starter Tyrod Taylor, adding two touchdown strikes to his impressive numbers for the day. Head coach Ted Roof pointed to the Hokies aggressive pass rush and Duke’s difficulties to protect the quarterback as culprits in his team’s aerial struggles. The Blue Devils’ offensive line surrendered five sacks, making it the third straight game that they had surrendered four or more sacks. “It’s tough to take seven-step drops and things of that nature against Virginia Tech because of how good they are up front and the pressure that they bring,” Roof said. “At the same time, we’ve got to perform better than we did today.” Duke deep threat grounded One week after hauling in a seasonhigh eight receptions for 143 yards and two touchdown, Duke wide receiver Eron Riley had a quiet day against Virginia Tech. The juniorreceiver led the team with three receptions and 37 yards, but like many of

his teammates, couldn’t find the end zone to tally what would have been an eighth touchdown in his last four games. “When teams do things to take [Riley] away, we’ve got to find away to make plays somewhere else,” Roof said. “Somebody else has to step up, whether it’s in protection, delivering the football, catching the football, running the football. That didn’t happen today.”

Bye week at opportune time With no game next weekend, the Blue Devils will have extra time to evaluate their progress this season and gear up for their final five games of the year. “We all have to look at ourselves each and every day in the mirror, and you have to pass the mirror test,” Roof said. “I’m anxious to see the film. I didn’t sense quit.” Roof said that he would meet with his coaches to determine the team’s practice schedule for the off week, and that many ofhis coaches would use some of that extra time to go on recruiting trips. The break will also help Duke recover from injury woes, and Roof mentioned that linebacker Charles Robinson may be healthy enough to see some playing time against Florida State. Robinson has been nursing a knee injury. BCS standings released Ohio State tops the first BCS Standings of the season released Sunday. The Buckeyes, who spent all oflast regular season on top of the BCS, are followed by South Florida, BC, LSU and Oklahoma in the top five. Virginia Techranks 11th in the BCS while fellow ACC member Virginia comes in at 19th. —by Will Flaherty

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the Penn State Invitational in “It’s always good to beat University Park, Pa. “It was our first disappointing UNC,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said after his team’s strong finish competition,” head coach Kevin Friday at the Blue Ridge Open in Jermyn said. “We were hoping to Boone, N.C. place better than sixth.” Duke finished second in a field Junior Maddie McKeever of 20 teams, which included its Topaced the women, placing third bacco Road rivals, clocking in bein the 6-kilometer race with a hind only 1 Ith-ranked Texas. • time of 20:51. She was followed The team was led by ninth-place by sophomore Emily Sherrard in finisher Bo Waggoner with a time 34th (21:55), freshman Christy of 24:45, followed by junior Kevin Adamyk in 43rd (22:03), juMcDermott in 16th (25:06), senior Patricia Loughlin in 50th nior Chris Spooner in 21st (25:14) (22:17), junior Molly Lehman in and freshman Ryan McDermott in 55th (22:19). 27th (25:19). Jermyn praised McKeever’s Fellow Freshmen Cory Nanni performance, while emphasizing and Isaac Dunkelberger and sophthe need for some of the other omore Tradelle Ward rounded out runners to improve their preparathe Blue Devils top-seven finishers tion for meets and practices. “The big thing is some of our by placing in 31st, 44th and 48th, respectively. kids need to get more focused,” he said. Ogilvie said the men successfully adopted a conservative strategy Both the men and women during the race, starting slow and will race next Oct. 27 at the passing many runners in the later ACC championships in Charlotmiles of the course. tesville, Va. “We were happy with the “We have the talent to go out race,” Ogilvie said. “Our guys did there and do good things,” Jermyn a good job.” said of the women’s team, which He highlighted the perforfinished second behind N.C. State mances of Duke’s freshmen, five at the 2006 conference championof whom finished in Duke’s top ships. seven. In particular, Ogilvie pointOgilvie has similarly high hopes ed to Waggoner, who was the first for the men at their race, where freshman finisher, saying that he they finished fourth in 2006. “It CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO ran “an outstanding race.” will be a batde for third between LAURA BETH DOUGLAS/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO Junior Maddie McKeever was the top finisherfor theBlue Devils, The 17th-ranked women’s us, Florida State and Virginia Freshman Bo Waggoner was Duke's top finisher at Friday's who placed in sixth at the Penn State Invitational Friday. team also competed Friday, finTech,” he said. Blue Ridge Open in Boone, N.C., placing in ninth for the meet.

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Blue Devils compete at Both Duke sq uads m the Head of the Oklahoma start of ices Friday Both the men’s and women’s basketball kicked off the 2007-08 season over the weekend with their first official practices of the year. The men held their first practice Friday night at 7. DeMarcus Nelson is the team’s only senior and was voted the team’s captain. Unlike last season, the Blue Devils will have only one captain this year. “It’s a prestigious honor to be named captain here,” Nelson said. “The most important thing is winning and going out there and leading by example. I need to be a role model for the young guys coming up and use the experience that I have to make sure that everyone on the team is doing the right things, that we’re working hard, practicing hard and getting better.” Those young guys include three freshmen: guard Nolan Smith and forwards Kyle Singler and Taylor King. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski said Singler would start if the season began now. A number of Duke’s players are recovering from off-season surgeries. Nelson has come back strong from a left wrist injury while Greg Paulus and Brian Zoubek have bounced back from foot surgeries. Forward Dave McClure is still coming back from surgery on his left knee and has not started practicing with the team. The annual Blue/White Scrimmage is Oct. 27. The women completed their first practice under new head coach Joanne P. McCallie Friday at 7 in Card Gymnasium. “I loved the energy, I loved the enthusiasm and everybody gave a great effort,” McCallie said. “It was a three-hour practice and to be quite honest with you, it feels like more like a two hour.” The Blue Devils return three starters from last season’s 32-2 squad. Senior Wanisha Smith and juniors Abby Waner and Carrem Gay are back, as is junior Chante Black, who missed all of last season with a knee injury. “They are very quick learners,” McCalteams

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The Blue Devils kicked off their 2007-2008 season at the Headof the Oklahoma regatta thisweekend. Duke opened its 2007-08 campaign with three top-three finishes over the weekend at the Head of the Oklahoma hosted by Oklahoma City University. The Blue Devils’ 4x team of Michelle Lancto, Kate Kearney, Jessica Gaul and Liz Martin placed second in the qualifier for the night sprints. The 2x squad of sophomore Emily Rothfield and freshman Alex Japhet finished third in the qualifier, while the junior duo of Virginia Kane and Alison Sagar placed fifth. Senior Lia Hart notched a second-place

finish in the lx, one spot in front of teammate Laurel Sisler. “This was a great race to start our fall season,” head coach Robyn Horner said. “The night sprints were very exciting, and the athletes had a great time. We had some excellent small boat performances, but we need to get into our big boats and keep looking for ways to execute the stroke and elevate our intensity.” The Blue Devils will look to do just that next weekend when they travel north to Boston to compete in the Head of the Charles.

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Wanisha Smith and the Blue Devils, along with their male counterparts, opened practice Friday at 7 p.m. lie said. “I am very impressed. They have picked up things very quickly in terms with what we’ve tried to teach.” Duke adds the third-best recruiting class in the nation with Jasmine Thomas, Krystal Thomas and Karima Christmas. The Blue Devils will have their first-ever Blue/White scrimmage Oct. 28.

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Laettner and 4 others honored Top rectruit Monroe in Duke Hall of Fame ceremony commits to Georgetown

Christian Laettner led a group of five in 1933, and he served in the Duke athletic Blue Devils inducted into the Duke Hall department from 1942-78. Cox was an asof Fame Friday night at the Washington sistant football coach, freshman football Duke Inn. coach and men’s tennis coach during his Joining Laettner in the Class of 2007 27 years in Durham. were Robert Cox, Jason Krels, Ellen ReynCox passed away in 1978 and was repreolds and Eric Steinhouse. sented at the ceremony by his three sons. Laettner is one ofDuke’s most celebratKreis was a three-timeAll-American soced players and also one of the most succer player from 1991-94. He recorded 39 cessful players in college basketball histogoals and 38 assists for the Blue Devils and ranks fifth on the school’s all1989-92, from Laettner led currendy ry. Competing the Blue Devils to four Final Fours and two time scoring list. national championships. He is widely reKreis was selected by the Dallas Bum in membered for his perfect performance in the inaugural MLS Draft in 1996 and won the league’s MVP award in 1999. the 1992 East Regional Final against KenReynolds was a two-time All-American tucky, in which the forward went 10-for-10 runner at Duke from 1985-86. She still from both the field and the foul line, inholds the school record in the 10,000 cluding his memorablebuzzer-beater. meters. For his career, Laettner was a threeSteinhouse was an ACC Champion in time All-American and earned ACC and National Player of the Year honors in the breaststroke three times from 1977-80 1992. He is the NCAA Tournament’s ca- and was MVP of the ACC Championship reer leader in points, free throws made and an All-American in his senior season. The inductees were honored at Wallace and attempted, and games played. Cox was an All-Southern Conference Wade Stadium during halftime of Saturfullback for the Blue Devils’ football team day’s football game with Virginia Tech.

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Duke was interested in recruiting Greg Monroe, who made a verbal commitment to the Hoyas this weekend.

The Blue Devils’ future took a big hit when their top target and the top-ranked recruit in the nation, forward Greg Monroe, committed to Georgetown. Monroe, a native of Harvey, La., had visited LSU recently and was scheduled to visit Duke along with Texas and Connecticut in the future. But the &-foot-10 power forward was overwhelmed by his trip to Georgetown over the weekend, when he took in the Hoyas’ Midnight Madness Friday night to kick off the new season. Earlier in the month, Monroe praised the Georgetown coaching staff and the Hoyas’ free-flowing offense where he wouldn’t be stuck on the block. Georgetown, unlike Duke, has a long tradition of developing big men for the NBA, from Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning to current star Roy Hibbert. The Blue Devils now shift their attention to Tennessee shooting guard Elliot Williams, who visited the campus in September. Nevada power forward Olek Czyz has already verbally committed to Duke.

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ENDOWMENT

The study aims not only to define “hook-up,” but also understand how students’ environments affect their decisions and perceptions of relationships. “We are just getting underway with our systematic work at Duke—so much is still speculative,” Shanahan said. “[ln the winter] we hope to bring the survey findings back to the students to think them through.” Some Half-Century Club audience members such as Tom Cottingham, Trinity ’37, said they found the statistics “fascinating.” For an audience familiar with the transient relationships of past campus culture, the prevalence of a casual romantic interaction is still surprising, he said. A few current Duke students said, however, that they are not at all surprised. “I don’t really know anyone who is in a relationship with someone here,” freshman Jessie Mark said. “There’s drama because one person always wants more.” Generally, females are more likely than males to prefer a relationship to a “hook-up,” Shanahan said. Her research found that only 40 percent of women surveyed had themselves participated in casual sex during the previous year—a contrast to the percentage engaging in casual intercourse as a whole. “Right now, I’d rather be in a relationship than not,” Mark said. “I’m not trying to be that crazy girl at Shooters.” For first-year students like Mark, entering college is like taking a break from your life course, Shanahan said to a crowd of Duke alumni nodding in agreement. “There’s a periodicity involved in participation,” she added. “Freshman and sophomores tend to participate more than juniors and seniors.” Nastassja Marshall, a junior, has witnessed her peers move each year from hooking up to entering into relationships. “Freshman year makes yon want to go out and explore,” she said. “By junior year, people have realized what they want in a relationship.” Jonathan Schwartz, a senior, said he has also noticed the changing ideas of relationships on campus. “I know a lot of people who got in a relationship after their freshman year,” he said. “They have been together since and are just hoping for that long-term commitment.” Another cause of “relationship avoidance” is students’ sense that long-term, committed relationships get in the way of other activides in which they want to engage during college, Shanahan said. University students are often over-committed, and they instead anticipate getting into a relationship shortly after graduation. “Relationships may be too time-consuming and distracting for some people,” Schwartz said, explaining his peers’ preference for non-commitment. Mark, commenting on her opinion of the campus

country, respectively. “[The Duke Management Company] has achieved a remarkable record over the past several years, with returns that rank consistently among the very best,” President Richard Brodhead “The said in a

“hook-up” scene, agreed. “People are trying to have fim without the complications of a relationship,” she said.

general,” she said. “[lt] speaks very highly of the team that is managing the endowment.” Junior Jay Schulhof, president of the Duke Investment Club, said it is difficult for investors to consistendy perform well. He added that large returns often come at increased risk. “The people managing the funds are

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attendees from endangering others by throwing beer cans or starting fights, student leaders wore T-shirts with the message, “Don’t be an asshole. Save Tailgate.” Interfratemity Council President David Melton, a senior, said the T-shirts were part of the general message that he shared with members of the greek community and other student organizations. “What made it most effective was that we communicated with groups ahead of time,” he said. ‘You can have as much fun as you want, but there’s no reason why anyone needs to throw beer cans in the air. That’s what we were trying to get across.” Sophomore Shivam Desai said the Tailgate on Saturday did not differ much from previous ones, apart from the abrupt effort to break it up at the end. “They brought in sirens to push people out,” he said. Slattery said administrators have not made plans to provide funding for future Tailgates, but he expects that a similar policy will be in effect at the next Tailgate. “I haven’t had any indication that there will be any significant changes,” he said.

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‘endowment’ is sort of an umbrella for the aggregation of all the endowed programs at Duke,” said John Burness, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations. The Economist reported in January that a more forward-looking investment oudook allows universities to take less traditional positions. For instance, endowments were among the early investors in hedge funds, venture capital and private equity, often leading to large profits. “To the extent that an endowment does have a very long time horizon, it tends to give the portfolio manager more latitude in terms of taking very long-term positions,” Rasiel said. She added that endowments are also less exposed to market bubbles because they service only one client, the University. Rasiel cited the 1990 s technology bubble as one instance when individual investors pressured portfolio managers to invest in overvalued stocks. “An endowment doesn’t have to be worried about [investor pressure],” she said. “The managers know that the University is patient and is willing to accept lower returns for a short period of time.”

fessional “These doesn’t just because you’re profesaren’t just abstract mean you sional doesn’t mean you can numbers. can consisEvery perconsistently beat the market.” tently beat the marcentage —Jay Schulhof, ket,” Schulpoint represents many Duke Investment Club presdient hof said. millions “There’s or dollars byeen a 1 ot of research done that a lot of fund more for Duke to invest in financial aid, research programs, scienmanagers [who] try to beat the tific infrastructure and other new benchmark have trouble [doing so].” facilities.” DUMAC manages the University’s Rasiel said endowments differfrom assets in three investment pools, the traditional investments because they Long Term/Endowment Pool—the operate on longer timelines. Duke’s endowment is also more largest pool—the Employees’ Retirement Pool and the Institutional Reinthan a single pool ofmoney. vestment Account. “[The] endowment is from years David Jarmul, Duke’s associate vice and years of giving to thousands of president of news and communicaprograms at Duke, and the term tions, said the specifics of DUMAC’s investments are confidential. He added, however, that information on DUMAC’s general investment strategy is available in the University’s annual endowment saw a 25.6 percent return during the financial statement. 30. The return was 2006-2007 fiscal year that ended “It’s fair to say that all large uniranked third among top U.S. universities, following Yale versities with endowments... invest University and Amherst College. their money in different ways,” Jarmul said. “They’re not going to put all their money into one stock. They How the endowment has fared in previous years: try to have asset allocation across 2005-2006:20.2 percent broad categories, but the magic is 2004-2005:18.1 percent in the details. DUMAC has been just remarkably gifted in investing 2003-2004:18.0 percent

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wisely.” The University’s endowment performed significantly better than the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index for the same time period, said Emma Rasiel, director of undergraduate studies in the economics department and an assistant professor of the practice in economics. “[The endowment’s performance] was phenomenal —a really outstanding return relative to the markets in

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2002-2003:6.6 percent Other related facts and figures: Duke's endowment in 2006: $4.5 billion Duke's endowment in 2007: $5.9 billion

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food (a successful endeavor), again showed strong student Duke knows how to throw spirit and was well attended. a Homecoming, even if football catered particularly toward the At the game, however, the was not its centerpiece. University’s important young Duke student section was barely filled and even included spillIt is good to see that events alumni base. like the President’s HomecomThere also was excellent over from Virginia Tech’s six full commumca- sections offans. ing Dance have Duke needs to either do become annual tion by the adeditorial rites. An immore to encourage student ministration pressive student turnout at the and current undergraduates to turnout at the Homecoming actual Homecoming football attract former students back to football game, or include a game, however, would make campus. Both groups should different athletic event as the our rich Homecoming experibe commended. center of the weekend. Whether this means schedence even richer. Though Friday’s T-shirt giveDuke did well to plan an inaway on the West Campus Plaza uling a weaker opponent (or teresting assortment of events was extremely poorly planned an opponent with a smaller fanbase) for the Homecoming on campus that created an atand sent many home emptymosphere people wanted to be handed, the most unfortunate game, giving away T-shirts in the a part of—and attracted a diaspect of weekend festivities was student section or even moving verse cross-section of both past a depressingly poor showing of the Blue-White Scrimmage to and present Duke students. students at the football game. the weekend of Homecoming, This weekend’s Tailgate, something must be done to inHigh attendance at the weekend’s main events was augwhich was largely unchanged clude athletics as a major part of mented by a large alumni presexcept for the addition offree the annual celebration.

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Duke men’s Although the University lacrosse head coach has sustained much critiMike Pressler’s recentcism for the numerous lawly filed lawsuit against Duke suits recendy filed against marks yet another chapter it, we have learned all too in the seemingly unending well that we cannot rush to judge Pressler or the judicial process that has followed the laUniversity crosse case as details of editorial Pressler’s the setdeattorneys seek to void the ment are confidential. This financial setdementreached board awaits new informalast March between Pressler tion to come to light to and the University because evaluate this highly sensithey claim it was violated tive case. Indeed, at this point, we when John Bumess, senior vice president for public know very litde about this affairs and government resuit in particular and don’t lations, made disparaging pretend to know much comments about Pressler. In about the intricate legal proa press release from Univercesses at play. We need to sity Counsel Pam Bernard, give both the University and the University seems confiPressler’s attorneys time to dent in its ability to defend present their arguments beagainst the lawsuit fore reaching conclusions.

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a party. Notice how a lot of girls look skep-

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can never be far from their minds. Count the number of times you hear words like “slut” or “ho.” Are some girls laughing just so guys will accept them as easygoing and chill? Is that the same reason they’ll hook up without expecting a call the next morning? Keep in mind that Nan Keohane’s Women’s Initiative report showed that girls leave Duke with much less self-confidence than they had when they entered. At that same party, count the number of people who are a different race than you. Given that there are probably so few, do you really think they can speak up when they feel uncomfortable with a racially-charged “joke”? Count the number of people who are openly gay, and then consider that nearly 10 percent of the population is gay. How many people at that party could be in the closet? How do you think they feel when someone yells “this song is so gay!” Do we even realize how we’re hurting our friends? The CCI has provoked many proposals for sweeping structural changes at Duke—including the recent discussion on who should receive housing. These are important issues, but they tend to give the impression diat our campus culture is an institutional problem. Just make a few adjustments here or there and we’ll all get along and sing “Kum Ba Yah” around the postUNCgame bonfire. What the CCI fails to acknowledge is that campus culture is in the details. We, the students, make the campus culture what it is. We’re the ones who are keeping the races segregated, the women quiet and the gays in the closet. This is hard to accept, however, because Duke students are amazing people. For the most part, we’re not racist, sexist homophobes—l honestiy believe that wejust don’t understand the effects of our small words and actions on others who are not like us. Perhaps we don’t understand because no one ever talks openly about these little issues. We have an amazingly diverse student body, but die lack of com-

munication between groups is stunning. As a personal example, I am from a very homogenous region and was excited about meeting students from different backgrounds. As a freshman, I was so ignorant about issues of race (and so intimidated by the reports ofawful racial problems at Duke), that I never approached a friend on the “Black Bench” because I actually believed I’d get weird looks. I was afraid of doing something that was socially unacceptable or not politically correct. As a result of this feeling, my friend group is still pretty homogenous. As a senior, I realize that those thoughts were ridiculous. As Duke students we generally care a lot about each other and would never say half the things we do if we realized how much we were hurting our peers. However, we’ll never know how much our actions harm others if issues like race, gender and sexuality are not discussed openly and comfortably. These dialogues need to begin as soon as students arrive at Duke, but many freshmen are incredibly unfamiliar with and nervous about these issues. I know I was. Duke currently has a complex matrix of graduation requirements that try to ensure that every Dukie explores different academic disciplines at college. It is at least as important that no student leaves Duke without having explored issues surrounding race, gender and sexuality that will affect us every day for the rest of our lives whether we are cognizant ofit or not. The CCI report acknowledges that and includes a recommendation one ofeach student’s Cross Cultural Inquiry courses focuses principally on issues of race, gender, sexual preference, ethnicity and class in the United States. This is a great start, but discussing issues like these in an abstract, academic fashion is not as powerful as putting a face to these topics. Duke students are diverse and engaging; let us learn from each other’s experiences. Lucky for Duke, there is already a successful model for these student dialogues. The Center for Race Relations offers a few house courses on these issues, and any participant on Common Ground will tell you that the experience was one of their most educational and inspirational experiences at Duke. Use the model that the CRR has established, expand the number of house courses offered on these issues, and require that every Duke student take two before they leave. In the meantime, let’s take some responsibility for the culture we’ve created and try not to shy away from the issues that make us uncomfortable. The students are the ones with the power to change our campus culture.

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

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Zach Braff and the death of Duke basketball

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Saturday night, a great tragedy befell one ofour dearnight away with President Brodhead and that strangely ’7os est friends. While many of us were off dancing the

cover band at the Homecoming Dance, Duke Basketball died peacefully in his sleep. He was 102 years old. The immediate cause of his death was from a condition known as SLBJ (Sudden Loss of Basketball Jesus). Duke’s would-be program savior, Greg Monroe, verbalmonday, monday ly committed to Georgetown no scrubs Saturday night, For those unaware of Duke’s not-so-secret love affair with the 6-foot-10, 226pound Basketball Adonis out of Harvey, La., Monroe was widely regarded as the nation’s top high school senior. The loss of Monroe at this juncture has quite possibly been the most devastating disaster out ofLouisiana since the New Orleans Saints’ disappointing 04 start to this season. (What? I couldn’t think of any other recent Louisiana disasters.) The powerfully built forward was athletic, an excellent passer and left-handed. Greg Monroe was basically the second-coming of Josh Mcßoberts. So let’s face it, Greg Monroe was the first-coming of Josh Mcßoberts. SLBJ, while debilitating, is not always fatal. Duke’s longtime rival and neighbor Carolina suffered from SLBJ last year with the loss of big-time recruit Kevin Love to UCLA. But by treating Monroe as his primary and pretty much only big man recruit for next year’s freshman class, Duke endangered his already troublesome frontcourt. Before his death, friends commented that Duke looked increasingly less like himselfand more like the team from “Hoosiers.” But we shouldn’t blame the death of our friend on Greg Monroe. Duke Basketball was already engaging in a series of reckless behaviors thatled to his untimely death Saturday. The first was the move away from quality big men. Duke has and probably would have always been a guard-oriented team. And that’s fine. It’s more up-tempo, high-scoring and fun to watch despite the fact that last season’s guard-dominant team set offensive basketball back to the pre-shot clock days. But championship caliber teams need at least one big guy to match up on defense and keep opposing teams from

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overplaying the guards. In recent years, Duke’s apparent vision problem has led to his mistaking large, athletic centers for small, shrimpy white dudes. That makes about as much sense as anointing a former point guard as the big man coach. (At least Lance is extremely skilled at slapping

the floor.) Duke’s friends will also recall his arrogance as a contributing factor to his death. Duke would often assume he could continue to recruit the nation’s top players without fanfare or pageantry. Up until his death, Duke stubbornly refused to engage in a practice known as Midnight Madness on the first night ofNCAA-sanctioned practices. While many of his colleagues including Kentucky, Carolina and (what was that school called...) Georgetown held Midnight Madness this weekend, Duke apparently ran three-man weaves and lay-up drills. And while Monroe was scheduled to visit Duke during the annual Blue-White Scrimmage, somehow I doubt there’s anything the watered-down Crazies section could have done to compete with the entire Georgetown basketball team crankin’ dat Soulja Boy with NFL Hall-of-Famer Jerry Rice at the helm while the raucous Hoya crowd chanted his name. But who knows? Maybe we could have thrown in a really solid “Let’s Go Duke!” I know for many of us it will be hard to believe that Duke really gone. It seems like justyesterday we watched him win an astounding four of his last 12 games and almost upset Virginia Commonwealth in the NCAA Tournament. But I gained acceptance thisweekend when during our annual football pommeling at the hands of Virginia Tech, I couldn’t confidendy retort, “We’ll get you during basketball season.” But when we remember our friend, we should be thankful of the good times—the three National Championships, the many Final Four appearances and Gerald Henderson’s elbow to Tyler Hansbrough’s face. Duke Basketball is survived by his 13 children, his father Mike Krzyzewksi and 6,000 angry fans, most notable of which includes the Class of 2008. It will become only the second class since 1985 to never witness a Final Four appearance. An ongoing memorial service will be held from November until March and will be called the 2007-2008 Duke Basketball season. ZACH BRAFF and Brandon Curl are canceling their subscriptions to Rivals.com.

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Chronicle coverage of mayoral race unfair I am writing to voice dissatisfaction over The Chronicle’s story, “Durham mayoral race heats up,” last Friday. Not only was the article on Mayor Bill Bell much longer than the one on City Council member Thomas Stith, but its presentation was slanted. Also, the stories failed to scratch the surface of major issues facing the city. The coverage ofBell fawned over his record and was completely positive, focusing on his fighting the lacrosse lawsuit. On the other hand, the story on Stith was much more critical, focusing on unimportant issues like how Stith hired a consultant to help on the campaign. Quite frankly, I don’t care about who Stith hires to conduct his campaign. Instead, I care about the issues at hand. Both stories cover other council members endorsing the candidates. However, while the council member supporting Bell was featured prominently in the beginning of die article, die one supporting Stith received only die final sentence. Such treatment is an unfair representation of die candidates’ supporters. The real shame of these articles is that neither article manages to discuss the most important issue at hand: crime. The unfortunate circumstances off East Campus over Fall Break are a sad reminder the current mayor has not addressed violent crime successfully. In fact, violent crime increased in 2006 by 32 percent, according to the Durham Police Department. Why was this issue not discussed in The Chronicle’s stories? Why was the nearly 1000-percent increase in the city’s gang participation since 2001 not discussed? This is a real campaign issue, and Stith has addressed these concents with proposals, including an increase in police protection and application of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act for prosecution of gang activity. Yet with all the criticism of Stith using a consultant, the story on Bell contained no criticism of the rise in violent crime, something far more important As a student, I am more concerned over my safety than on what Professor James Coleman thinks about Bell’s handling of a lawsuit against the city. Friday’s Chronicle coverage failed to inform the student body on the issues of the campaign and failed miserably in fair coverage of the mayoral candidates. Samuel Tosher Trinity ’O9 Chair, Duke College Republicans

Considering divestment—at last

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it is not the money you give that makes a difference. It is the money you don’t give. This is the argument of a large student coalition pushing for an official pledge from the Board of Trustees not to directly invest University funds in corporations doing business in Sudan’s t&Stm. oil sector. A resolution from a* the Board would add Duke to the 55 universities and 20 states, including North USES’ Carolina, who have already officially divested. 3V IOCCO Harvard led the charge for divestment beginning shades of blue in 2005, and even the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill supporting divestment. Considering the length of the campaign and the breadth of global divestment efforts, it seems Duke is already behind. While the University did quietly sell its holdings in the only targeted company it held last year, there has not yet been a single official statement or pledge to avoid investing in companies that support the Sudanese government and, indirectly, the atrocities in Darfur. In the spring of 1986, students built a shanty town on the main West Campus quad to protest for Duke’s divestment from apartheid South Africa. Duke listened; from 1986 to 1994 the University divested from all companies doing business in South Africa. Since then, though, interest in divestment faded, and so did official policies on socially responsible investing. Recently, student groups have raised questions about the morality of University holdings in a range of areas, from Big Tobacco to Israel to Sudan. In response, the ”

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Trustees decided in 2004 that it was time to reestablish a process for reviewing the University’s holdings. The “Guideline on Socially Responsible Investing” states that the “primary fiduciary responsibility of the Board... must be to maximize the financial return on those resources,” but that “the University wishes to be a good corporate citizen and a responsible and ethical investor.” The new process entangles our quest for “good citizenship” in a whole lot of red tape. Here’s the deal: Anyone can submit a written proposal requesting a study of university holdings to the President’s Special Committee on Investment Responsibility. If this group finds the issue has merit, it will forward the study to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. The ACIR will conduct research and ultimately make a recommendation to the president, who then decides whether to advise the Trustees to take action. If the Board concurs, it will direct the Duke University Management Company to persuade the company in question to change its ways, or if that fails, to divest in the company’s securities. Sound like a long process? It is. Since the process was adopted in 2004, it has never been carried out. This Tuesday will mark the first hearings ever held by the ACIR. It’s not exacdy clear what the required burden is for an issue to reach the full committee. In 2005, students noted that Duke was one of only five top-tier universities nationwide that had not officially divested from tobacco stocks, but the conversations fizzed pretty quickly; the issue never reached the Advisory Committee. For years students, alumni, staff and faculty have urged Duke to divest from companies with military ties to Israel. A petition with more than 260 signatures, including 44 faculty members, called for the divestment. President Richard Brodhead, though, called the move “an extraordinarily

blunt weapon to address an issue of extraordinary complexity.” Again, the issue never reached the committee. The Duke Sudan divestment campaign is committed to finally setting the wheels of social responsibility in motion. Last April a coalition of 10 graduate and undergraduate activist groups came together to demand action. The President’s Special Committee met over the summer, decided the topic warranted further study and referred the issue to the ACIR. This Tuesday night, six months later, the committee will finally hold a public forum to consider the issue. If Duke passes a resolution, will it have a major impact in stopping the killings in Darfur? Realistically, probably not, especially given that Duke no longer has holdings in targeted companies. However, divestment is beginning to have a clear impact in Sudan. Investors have left the country, and many even attribute the Sudanese government’s signing of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement to pressure from the campaign. In any case, as Andres Luco, a philosophy graduate student and one of the campaign’s leaders, pointed out to me, it would be nice to know that our university has made a commitment that its money will not provide financial support for genocide. So often it is hard to know what we can do as students to make a difference in major global affairs. The students of the Sudan divestment campaign have offered us a concrete example, and hopefully this can be an example for future action. With an almost $6-billion endowment, Duke’s decisions can have an impact. Add your voice to Tuesday’s hearings at 6 p.m. in Room 139 of the Social Sciences Building. David Fiocco is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Monday.

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