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Although a few unaware husbands stumbled into a room full of ladies lunching in the Bryan Center Friday afternoon, what appeared to simply be a social gathering was really the beginning of a heavily-structured weekend—open to females exclusively—on women’s health. Duke invited alumnae of all ages to return to campus Friday and Saturday, for Duke Women’s Health and Wellness Weekend, which was hosted by the Alumni Association and the Women’s Center.

Activities for the weekend ranged from panels on managing health throughout different decades to tai chi on the lawn outside the Chapel and opportunities for networking between students and alumnae. “We decided that we wanted to invite all alumnae back for the weekend and develop a program that would appeal to all ages and would promote interaction with the campus,” said Sterly Wilder, executive director of alumni affairs. Many alumnae said they attended the weekend’s events to reconnect with old

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students, John Hope Franklin and Romila Thapar treated members to an

professors and community in-depth discussion on the role of historians in social and cultural change at the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel Saturday. Franklin, James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, and Thapar, professor

John Hope Franklin

emeritus of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India, discussed the evolution of the study of history in front of a packed audience Saturday afternoon. The talk—“The Historian in the World”—was sponsored by the John Hope SEE FRANKLIN ON PAGE 5

friends. “I came this weekend to get together with my friends in a constructive way. There are seven of us here from my year this weekend,” said Marcy Martin, Trinity ’B4. Wendy Marantz Levine, Trinity ’95, said she appreciated the opportunity to return to Duke and discuss women’s health issues. “I came with my two closest friends from Pegram to get awayfrom our husbands and kids,” Levine said. “I sat on the Women’s SEE WELLNESS ON PAGE 5

The Robertson Scholars Program will implement a range of curricular and extracurricular changes. Tony Brown, Robertson Scholars Program president, announced a series of new initiatives that will occur in the upcoming year in his weekly e-mail to scholars Friday. The changes include the suspension of the Faculty Partners Program and modifications to both Second Summer; International and First-Year Colloquium. “We want to never be Tony Brown satisfied with what we’re doing so we’re always looking for ways to make things better,” Brown, a professor of the practice of public policy and sociology, told The Chronicle. “The best way to do that is to listen to our scholars.” Prior to its suspension, the Faculty Partners Program provided an opportunity for Robertson Scholars to develop close relationships with faculty members from the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill or Duke through meetings and outings. Scholars take classes at both UNC and Duke, primarily enrolling at one school and taking at least five courses at the other. The program focuses on service. Brown —who took the program’s helm in July—wrote in the Scholars’ Weekly SEE ROBERTSON ON PAGE

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First lady wins presidency

N.C beach fire kills 7 college students Estes Thompson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An inOCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. fire ravaged a beach house packed with more than a dozen college students early Sunday, killing seven and leaving little left of the structure but its charred frame and the stilts on which it stood. Six survivors were hospitalized and released, including one who jumped from the burning home and into a waterway, Mayor Debbie Smith said. The cause was being investigated. “There were three kids sitting on the ground screaming,” said newspaper deliverer Tim Burns, who called 911 after seeing a column of smoke rising from the house. “There was one guy hanging out the window, and he jumped in the canal. I know he got out because he was yeHing for a girl to follow him.” Burns said he didn’t know whether that girl was able to escape. Officials at the University ofSouth Carolina said six of the students who died were from the school in Columbia; the seventh Firefighters examine the wreckage of a house in Ocean Isle Beach.The house burned early Sunday, killing 7. attended Clemson University. The six who the door at the fraternity house. The fire survived were also from USC. The private residence hall advisers and clergy members, Sostruck sometime before 7 a.m. and burned home was being used by the owner’s daughrensen said. Classes will be held Monday. ter and a group of her friends, Smith said. Dennis Pruitt, dean of students, said completely through the first and second “These are young people in the prime the fire appears to have affected two floors, leaving only part of the frame Greek organizations —the Delta Delta Standing. The waterfront home—named of their life,” USC President Andrew So“Changing Channels” —was built on stilts, rensen said at a news conference. “They Delta sorority and the Sigma Alpha Epsito forward and it’s lon Earlier the a in fraternity. to, had so much look day, campus forcing firefighters to climb a ladder onto at house declined to the house’s deck to reach the first living minister the sorority profoundly tragic.” just Students will have access to counselors, comment, as did an adult who answered floor. tense

Early returns and major exit polls suggested that first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner won the Argentine presidency Sunday by a large enough margin to avoid a runoff. She would be the first woman in Argentina elected to the post.

Spacewalkers find damage Spacewalking astronauts doing construction work outside the international space station Sunday made a disturbing discovery: what appear to be metal shavings inside a joint that is needed to turn a set of solar power panels.

Red Sox sweep World Series The Boston nine defeated the Colorado Rockies 4-3 in Denver Sunday night to complete a four-game sweep and win their second series since 1918.The Red Sox were lifted by homers from Mike Lowell and Bobby Kielty.

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Over the weekend, a Duke took first place and qualified for a spot in the World Finals but did not receive coverage on team

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The University’s “robowat” team,

consisting of seniors Jason Bosko and Andrew Waterman and sophomore MattRognlie, placed first out of 138 teams in the IBM-sponsored regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held at

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Professor Owen Astrachan coached the "robowat"team in the ICPC thisyear.

Duke Saturday. Duke’s other teams placed 17thand 24th. “Some people play football games, but this is sort of a competition for us,” said Bosko, a third-time participant. “So you get a rush doing it. It sounds dorky, but it’s fun.” The annual computer science competition brings together top collegiate computer programmers from 82 countries to regional sites, challenging teams to solve complex, real-world problems within a five-hour time limit. “Robowat” solved four out of eight problems in the shortest amount of time and will continue along with 89 other teams to the World Finals held next April in Canada. Teams may submit answers multiple times throughout the competition and are informed whether they are correct or incorrect within 10 minutes of submission. Each incorrect submission adds 20 minutes to the team’s time score. Results are updated as the competition progresses so that teams can see what problems other teams have solved. “So if you see that five other teams have done a problem and you haven’t done it yet, then you know that it’s a doable problem,” Bosko said. Team coach Owen Astrachan, SEE BATTLE ON PAGE 8

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The wet weatherdid not stop studentsfrom enjoying ethnic foods served by studentgroups on theWest Campus Plaza Friday. by

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enough to keep the International Association from hosting its third annual Food Fest Friday. Despite rain showers, approximately 1,500 people attended Food Fest to taste ethnic foods and view cultural performances. Free tickets were given out on the West Campus Plaza with food stalls located both on the plaza and inside the Bryan Center. Twenty seven groups cooked food for the event, which lasted two and a half hours and featured four dance performances. “The purpose is to increase

awareness of distant cultures,” said Junior Akash Bansal, president of lA. “We feel food is a good way to get people to come to the event and mix with people they normally wouldn’t mix with.” Students lined up outside the Bryan Center around 4:30 p.m. waiting to get free meal passes that entitled them to food from three different groups. The first 200 people in line also received a complimentary T-shirt. IA also took donations for monks in Burma persecuted for protesting against the government. Bansal said he estimated around $2,000 was raised. “We heard about the monks in Burma, and we found out that

there were people at Duke interested in raising money,” he said. Food was subsidized for participating groups, and volunteers prepared the ethnic cuisines. Clubs said they participated both to spread their names and to introduce their food to new people. “We thought it was a very cool idea for everyone to get exposure to the cuisines of the world. It’s also to help the Burma cause, so we thought it was really good,” said sophomore Shari Baker, who was working outside at the Students of the Caribbean Association food stall. “It was a SEE FOOD FEST ON PAGE 6

STUDIES Spring 2008 Course Schedule 49S

Ist Year Seminar: Sex and the Global Citizen

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Exchange of Chains: Women in Eastern Aging, Sex and Popular Culture

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Native American Women: Religion and Colonization Gender, Difference and Empire Money, Sex and Power

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share their opinions on the new line policy—where they had to register before the game—and the dilemma of rooting for and against the Blue Devils during the Blue-White Scrimmage Saturday. "It was so much fun, we loved it. The players were so hot. We took so many pictures with them in the background." —Farah Dadabhoy, freshman "We were literally like two feet behind them. Just watching them in real life was amazing." —Deepti Garg, freshman "For normal games you go there to help your team crush the opponent, for this one it was to check out our new team. It was a little bit weird

to root against our own players, but they know we're just kidding." —Ben Wu, junior "I thought it was nice to see the freshmen in action. I saw people throwing down some phat dunks and I was like, 'yeah.'" —Cullen Sinclair, sophomore

"I think the incoming class is really good. think it's going to be a better team working together." —Will Gray, sophomore

"Blue-White is always kind of awkward because one of the things we do best is booing the other team, and this time there was no one to root against." —David Gain, sophomore

Theannual Blue-White scrimmage Saturday afforded freshmen theirfirst chance to experience Duke Basketball.

"I think the policy was a good idea because for those people who wouldn't have time to wait four or five hours to get in, the thought is no longer, 'Oh, 1 won't even get in.'"

—Vivek Upadhyay, sophomore

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get there until a little bit after six, so had to wait in line with everyone else. It wasn't that big a deal, I wasn't really looking to get a great seat."

—Lily Chen, sophomore

Newsletter Friday that he is developing a revised program plan for the 2008-2009 academic year that will focus on fostering more natural student-faculty relationships. Stephen Weiss, professor of computer science at UNC, said having participated in the Faculty Partners Program he believes an evaluation will improve its effectiveness. “It was a good try,” he said. “All of us tried to [schedule activities], but we didn’t think it was appropriate to force activities down these students’ throats because they were so busy.” FreshmanDuke Robertson scholar Meryl Colton said the revisions to Second Summer: International—an opportunity for scholars to engage in an international summer program—will provide more options for participating students. “I think [Brown’s] intentions are really encouraging,” she said. “He wants to give the scholars more freedom in planning where they spend their summers, and he also wants us to be more accessible to the rest of our peers and community.” Among the other changes, the First-Year Colloquium will be offered in Spring as a half-credit, pass-fail course. In previous years, the course was graded and merited a full credit. All freshman Robertson scholars are required to take the course, which alternates its meetings between UNC and Duke. In the e-mail sent Friday, Brown also announced the establishment of the Robertson Fellows Program, a program that allows Robertson

scholaralumni to continue conducting research after they graduate. Junior Duke Robertson scholar Nick Anderson said the continued relationship among Robertson alumni and the program will assist graduates as they try to find careers. “One thing that gets me excited is the idea ofkeeping the Robertson program active in scholars’ lives until they are in their 30s through career counseling, workshops and more,” he said. “It’s smart to keep the Robertson program supportive of their initial careers relevant to their lives.” Brown said the impending changes will gradually improve the program. “These are not earth-shaking changes,” he said. “The program last year made three changes and next year we’ll make three changes. We just want to make the program the best it can be [so we] have great Robertson scholars.”

Tony Brown, Robertson Program president, is developing a revised plan for 2008-2009.

Poetry and Documentary Experience A conversation with Robert Pinsky and Tom Rankin, Director ofDocumentary Studies. Lyndhurst House Lunch will be provided Tuesday October 30“', 12-1:30 pm -

An Evening with Robert Pinsky Introduction by President Richard Brodhead Tuesday October 30lb 7:30 pm Doris Duke Center at Sarah P. Duke Gardens ,

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John Hope Franklin (above) and Romila Thapar spoke

at the Divinity School's Goodson Chapel Saturday.

secondary schools. Thapar said objecivity

in school textbooks is particularly a problem in India, her home country. Franklin Institute, with Srinivas Aravamudan, “When I evaluated the textbooks used by director of the institute and a professor of 12- and 13-year-olds in India, I found that English, moderating the discussion. they were horrible,” she said. “The textbook The talk opened with conversation publishing committee is not autonomous, so about how historians from different acaevery time a new [political] party is elected demic backgrounds—Thapar as a classicist to power the information in the textbooks is and Franklin as a modern historian—could changed to conform to the party’s ideals.” relate to one another. Franklin said he is concerned about “There is a common experience one has how ideologies affect people’s perception as a historian, whether it is 19th-century of history. “When historians look at history United States history or history from 1000 through an economic viewpoint, or just a political viewpoint, or a viewpoint dealing or 2000 years ago,” Franklin said. Much of the talk focused on the necessiwith just social groups, history can become ty of avoiding bias in historical scholarship. narrow and imprecise,” Franklin said. As an example, he said bias can lead to the One topic of discussion was the importance history of certain U.S. regions being misrepof properly finding and interpreting historical evidence and the necessity of having resented as the history of the entire country. “The history of the South, or the West, accurate history textbooks in primary and

who remains extremely involved and exemplifies the best that Duke has to offer. “What I have come to realStudies Council for six years and with ize is that the real bottom line have enjoyed reconnecting women who were great mentors for women’s health is about culture,” Jenkins said. “A state of a and friends.” Wilder added that President woman’s health is dependent on the culture she lives in. To change Richard Brodhead was supportwomen’s health we must change ive of a weekend meant to provide meaningful engagement the circumstances by which we and interaction for female live our lives.” Jenkins explained the role graduates. Brodluncheon, the gender plays in the way women During head spoke of the need to gather experience their college years. the women of Duke together to She spoke of an “effortless perrenew friendships and make new fection” that many college women —and Duke students in parones, to discuss matters of concern, to pool shared wisdom and ticular—feel the need to portray. She also discussed the hook-up to check up on the place. “You see in me a person who culture at Duke and said women shares the conviction I know you strive to be intellectual during have, which is that talent is evenly the day but dumb themselves distributed around the human down at night. In her address, Jenkins ofpopulation,” Brodhead said. “It is not a property of one gender and fered suggestions for future it is not a property of any other alumnae involvement and noted the importance of alumnae sharsecondary trait.” The event’s keynote speaker, ing their stories with current stuKimberly Jenkins, Trinity ’76 and dents as well as the necessity for Grad ’77 and ’BO, was introduced mentor programs. The closing session consisted by Cynthia Brodhead as a woman

or the Industrial North is different from the complete history of the United States,” Franklin said. “Emphasis on the history of a certain region stands in the way ofunderstanding [the] history of the United States as a unified history.” Franklin and Thapar stressed that bias is a problem for historians themselves. “Every historian has an element of bias, but the better historian makes quite clear what his or her element of bias is and tries to separate himself or herselffrom it,” Thapar said. The discussion was followed by a questionand-answer session and a small reception outside the chapel where audience members could speak to Franklin and Thapar. “I thought it was a great event in which two leading historians exchanged ideas and reflected on their work and the meaning of history for both of them,” said Ebrahim Moosa, professor of Islamic Studies.

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Alumni practice tai chi in the Divinity School Friday afternoon as part of Duke Women's Health and Wellness Weekend. of an interactive panel that ineluded Wilder, President Brodhead and Donna Lisker, associate dean of undergraduate education and former director of the Women’s Center. Alumnae were then offered an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists, and Brodhead discussed the many steps taken by the Women’s Initiative, a program started by former University president Nan

Keohane “The last message a university should wish to give to its students is that some fields are women’s fields and some fields are men’s fields,” Brodhead said. He noted that in 1997 women occupied 26 percent of all

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“When Duke finishes enumerating the things that they have done in the past five years you have to stop and say that is impressive and that is important but you can’t stop and say that the problem is solved,” Brodhead said. “I can only offer you a sense that we have worked hard but that it is our obligation to continue to work hard on these issues.”

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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Blue Devils shine in first-ever Blue-White game Sabreena Merchant

and added seven rebounds, garnering praise from her teammates. “I was afraid to go in the lane because With seven minutes left in the inauguwant to get embarrassed [by KrysBlue-White didn’t scrimmage, Abby I ral women’s Waner stole the ball from her older sister, tal],” Abby Waner said. “She is going to be Emily, and seemed poised for a breakaway. such a presence inside for us.” The rest of the Duke frontcourt also The elder Waner husdedback and tripped up the junior to played well, particularly center Chante BLUE 50 force a jump ball. Black and forward Cafrem Gay. Black, who After the whisde, played for the first time after sitting out last WHITE the two sisters season with a torn calf muscle, showed little joked, playfully pushing each other before re- sign of fatigue after playing all 40 minutes. suming play. The moment was emblematic of Her 16 points led all scorers, and she also grabbed eight rebounds—the second-highthe game, which was not only a means to seriously evaluate the team but also a day to enjoy est total of the afternoon. Gay pulled down 14 rebounds, a feat Duke Basketball. that caught her coach’s attention. McCallie Head coach Joanne P. McCallie said Sunsaid the Blue Devils have four post players day’s intrasquad scrimmage in Cameron Into who could potentially start but that the deciessential both door Stadium was popularizsion will come down to who shows the most the women’s team and a creating stronger ing link between Duke’s two basketball programs. toughness and strength on the boards. “I make such a big deal about who fin“The connectiveness is so important,” McCallie said. “To share passion with people is ishes,” McCallie said. “Those rebounds are really what this is all about. Basketball is bas- going to be rewarded The ultimate prize the coaching will ketball, but to be able to take part [in thisweekdole out is a spot in the starting lineup. Alend] meant a whole lot to our program.” McCallie and her coaching staff also though the starting five for the Blue squad used the scrimmage as an opportunity to —Abby and Emily Waner, Black, Gay and try different combinations of lineups for Wanisha Smith—is a potential combinathe Blue Devils. The game was played in tion for Duke, McCallie said the coaches four 10-minute periods, and the 12 players will look at tape to evaluate each player’s were switched between the Blue and White contribution in the Blue-White game. But the Blue Devils downplayed the inditeams during the breaks. White defeated vidual of lineups aspects of the contest, instead choosBlue 61-50, but the shuffling shifted the focus from teams to players, ing to focus on the increased attention and energy surrounding their program. and several shined in their season debuts. “The atmosphere was great,” Smith said. Thomas made Freshman center Krystal “We were really excited about how many her presence felt immediately on the defensive end as she blocked t he first shot people showed up. We just hope that they finished with four blocks continue to support us.” Chante Black (right) and Carrem Gay led their respective squads in Sunday's inagural women's Bl lue-White. of the game. She by

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Midway through the second half of Saturday’s Blue-White scrimmage, Nolan Smith lofted a pass to fellow freshman Kyle Singler for an alley-oop. As Singler caught

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the ball and apthe net, though, Gerald Henderson came out of nowhere, leaping well above the rim to knock the ball away. The block sent the crowd into a frenzy, one of several highlight-reel plays from the Blue Devils during the annual intrasquad exhibition, which the Blue team won 69-64 at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Both squads exhibited a more up-tempo style than a season ago, in which Duke

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good time.” Singler’s classmate Taylor King was

the star of the first half, nailing five

three-pointers and helping the Blue team amass an early 27-9 lead. In one stretch that lasted less than a minute early in the period, King nailed a pull-up three from the elbow to make it 7-2. Two plays later, the forward stole the ball, pulled up from even further beyond the arc and swished the long-range shot to make it 12-2. The White squad called timeout as King howled and bumped chests with Zoubek and GregPaulus. “Coach told me to take good shots and when I get on a roll and make two or three in a row, I feel like I can expand my range,” King said. “We can definitely hurt teams pretty bad with three-point

routinely experienced scoring droughts shooting.” Henderson picked up the slack for in the halfcourt offense. The 69 points in the second half, scoring 14 of action the King 30 minutes of by just scored in his 21 points after the intermission. For victorious Blue team—composed primarthan the starters —was more game, the sophomore was 9-of-15 ily of expected what the Blue Devils tallied in 13 games from the floor and sank all three of his attempts from beyond-the-arc. last season. Henderson also stood out on defense, much better basketball team “We’re a recording two steals and two blocks, inthan we were last year—a lot older, deeper, and more athletic,” head coach Mike cluding the incredible swat of Singler’s Krzyzewski said. “We’re going to take dunk attempt. Three of last year’s starters—senior shots and I thought we took a lot ofreally captain DeMarcus Nelson, and guards good shots.” Paulus and Scheyer—were relatively quiet still time, Duke struggled At the same the offensive end. Zoubek on Brian picking the with in post, Nelson scored 10 points, while Pauup six fouls for the contest—one more than allowed in a regular season game. lus took only four shots for the Blue team. The junior did hit a big threeLance Thomas also failed to grab a depointer with 1:30 left to push the lead fensive rebound. to five. with back however, led all players Singler, Scheyer, meanwhile, was just 2-of-8 from 23 points, displaying an array of moves both on the block and from the wing. the field, but Krzyzewski attributed that to The freshman also got to the foul line Nelson’s defense. The coaches and players are looking seven times, knocking down five of his to putting points on the scoreof forward Singler’s free throws. The highlight first action in Cameron was an alley-oop from Jon Scheyer, which he finished onehanded with authority. “The pass made the play,” Singler said. “It was just a good pass by Jon, and I happened to be in a good spot at a

board in a hurry with an offense that suits the team’s natural athleticism. “We have a different offense and it will create those types of things,” Krzyzewski said. “There is a lot of stuff to learn about the team—but all good stuff.”

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. In a parking lot adjacent to Doak Cambell Stadium, one FSU fan’s car bore the shoe polished one-liner “Homecoming 2007—Thank God for Duke.” Although the upstart Blue Devils gave them’ a run for their money, the Seminoles probably couldn’t have agreed more with that windshield witticism. Despite a strong Duke red-zone defensive effort that held Florida State to only three field goals in first half, the Seminoles (5-3* 2-3 in the ACC) tacked on two third-quarter touchdowns to pull away and defeat the Blue Devils 25-6 in front of a homecoming crowd of 79,159 Saturday night. “I feel like we let it get away from us,” safety Chris Davis said. “We played a great first half, and we came out in the second half and gave up a couple of big plays that hurt us.” Despite a woeful offensive first half that saw Duke (1-7, 0-5) rack up more penalty yardage (50) than yards of total offense (49), timely and opportunistic red zone defense prevented Florida State from breaking the game open early. On the Seminoles’ second drive of the game, quarterback Drew Weatherford marched his team down from its own 13-yard line to the Duke 2, only to fumble the ball away on an errant quickpitch recovered by the Blue Devils’ Vincent Key. On their next four drives of the half, Florida State moved the ball inside the Duke 25 each time, but were forced to attempt field goals on all four possessions, with FSU kicker Gary Cismesia missing one attempt wide right. Despite surrendering 253 yards, tough defense in their own end of the field kept the Blue Devils’ deficit at 9-0 entering halftime. “We forced them to kick field goals, which

kept us in the game,” head coach Ted Rool thought we hung in there tonight and did those lapses we’ve had against Florida Stall

past, where all of a sudden you look up and down by four or five touchdowns.” But although the Duke defense did an adi job of keeping the Seminoles out of the ei early, Florida State finally broke through int quarter on the back of speedy wide receiver Parker. Hauling in a swing pass from Weath the Blue Devils’ 9-yard line, Parker cut in two Duke defenders at the goal line andd the end zone for a touchdown to give the Si a 16-0 lead.

“We let it get away from u We came out in the secon hald and gave up a couple big plays that hurt us.’ Chris Davis, sal Florida State defensive back Pat Roberts

cepted quarterback Thaddeus Lewis on the Blue Devil drive, and Parker again starred

Seminoles’ next offensive possession. Taking around,the right end from the Duke I4f Parker tight cut inside a block just sho goal line before flipping into the end zone o' Wright’s low tackle attempt to put FSU ahead “He’s a fantastic football player,” Roof said er. “He’s what they’re used to playing with her guys who can change direction and are gre: open field and make it real tough when its one situation against him.” Parker’s brilliance helped the Semind

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TALLAHASSEE Fla. It’s starting to sound like a broken record. In its seventh loss this season, Duke once again found itself perhaps just one or two plays away from stealing a victory. But even though the Blue Devils showed signs of - ; ■ frustration during their 25-6 loss to Florida State analysis Saturday, they were happy about their increased level of competitiveness. After all, it was the closest, game in the 16-game series between the two teams. “It definitely felt like we were right there,” safety Chris Davis said. “We were just waiting for something to spark to get us some points offensively, defensively or with special teams. We needed somehow to get the ball in the end zone to keep the momentum going for our side. But we couldn’t get that score.” Despite giving up Seminole season-high totals of 195 yards rushing and 339 yards passing, Duke did its job on defense, managing to keep Florida State offense relatively in check. By halftime, the Blue Devils’ offense, the stronger of the two units for most of the season, had converted just two first downs and accumulated only 49 total yards, in part because of a lifeless running game and some poor throws from quarterback Thaddeus Lewis. But with the help of a strong red-zone defense, which epitomized the “bend-don’t-break” philosophy, Duke was still very much in the game, trailing 9-0. It was not until the second half—when the Blue Devils spread out more and better executed the passing game—that they began to show any signs oflife. And for the third time in four weeks, Duke scored more points in the second half when it dedicated itself to the air more, begging the question, why wait? “It definitely puts more pressure on the passing game to perform when you don’t have a sufficient running game,” wideout Jomar Wright said. “I was frustrated with the execution of the offensive line and the running backs. I wasn’t frustrated with the ,

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mecoming ahead, but his fumble and defensive end Wesley Ogelsby’s recovery with 10:28 left in the fourth quarter gave the Blue Devils a glimmer of hope. Taking over at the FSU 48, Lewis found receiver

play call. I feel like the coaches know what they’re doing, and I have trust in them. If they call a play, they think it’s going to work, and we should go out and execute it.” Threatening for the first time all game in the third quarter, quarterback Thaddeus Lewis lofted a pass into the front-right corner of the end zone for wide receiver Eron Riley. The former ACC Player of the Week was tightly covered, though, and Seminole cornerback Patrick Robinson made a spectacular interception to kill the Blue Devil drive. On the next series, after a miscommunication between Lewis and Wright resulted in an incompletion on third down, the quarterback’s emotions boiled over on the sidelines as he shook his helmet and screamed with frustration. Even after Duke’s first scoring drive of the game following a Florida State fumble in the fourth quarter, the disappointment continued. On the ensuing kickoff, everything initially appeared to work seamlessly. The play call was right—to fake a normal kick and lob it over the front line of the Seminoles in the hope of recovering a lose ball. The Joe Surgan boot was perfecdy placed, taking a bounce after 10yards, and the Blue Devils were even in position to recover the onside kick, but Duke’s Matt Pridemore just missed the ball and Florida State took over. Instead of regaining possession, driving for a score and drawing within one touchdown, the Blue Devils were forced to watch the Seminoles milk almost seven minutes off the clock and kick a game-sealing field goal with only 1:16 remaining in the game. Although there are no moral victories for Duke, the close score does lend itself to some optimism for a team that has been routinely routed by Florida State before. “We hung in there tonight, and we didn’t have those lapses that we’ve had against Florida State in the past where all of a sudden, you look up and you’re down four or five touchdowns,” head coach Ted Roof said. “It’s a sign of our program moving forward and developing and maturing.” The next step in the process is turning close losses like this one into victories. When the Blue Devils will be able to do that is yet to be seen.

Jomar Wright on two separate first down completions before hitting fallback Brandon King on a three-yard touchdown reception. Although Duke failed to convert its twopoint conversion try, the touchdown still meant that the Blue Devils could tie the game in the final 8:07 with a pair of touchdowns and twopoint conversions. Duke’s attempt at an onside kick, however, was recovered by the Seminoles, and Florida State chewed up 6:50 on an 12-play drive that ended with a Cismesia 35-yard field goal that effectively doomed the Blue Devils’ chances for their first win in 16 tries against Florida State. “We definitely felt that we had a shot there at the end,” Wright said. “They were up 22 points, but we’ve scored three touchdowns in a quarter before and we’ve converted on two point conversions before.” Although Duke has yet to record a win against the Seminoles, Saturday’s 19-point deficit was the smallest in the history of the series between the two teams. Even though the sting °f yet another loss was impossible to ignore, Roof pointed out that ability to stay competitive against a talented team like Florida State speaks volumes to the progress that the team bas made this year. I think it’s a sign of our program moving forward and developing and maturing,” Roof said. “When you build a program, there are s teps, especially in a league like this, because there are no bad football teams in this league, ve got to get to the point where you beSARA GUERRERO/THE CHRONICLE come that and then you take the next step.” Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis makes a pitch in theBlue Devils' 25-6 loss to the Seminoles Saturday night.

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Golfers falter on Day 1 of match play Eighth-seeded Duke lost 4-1 to No. 9 Florida in the first round of the Collegiate Match Play Championship in Greensboro, Ga. MatthewPierce was the lone Blue Devil to win his match, as the freshman upended the Gators’ Amoud Vongvanij 1-up. Freshman Wes Roach and junior Andrew Giuliani each lost their matches, 2 and 1, to Florida’s Billy Horschel and Will Strickler. Junior Clark Klaasen dropped his match to Toby Ragland, 3 and 2, while senior Michael Shachner was defeated by Manuel Villegas, 5 and 3. In all four matches won by Florida, the Gatorsjumped out to a lead within the first three holes. Duke was not the only team upset in the first round, as four of the eight matches ended with the lower-seeded team advancing. No. 16 Coastal Carolina scored the biggest upset, knocking off top-seeded Charlotte.

Blue Devils finish 6th in ACCs Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams finished sixth in the ACC championships in Charlottesville Saturday. Junior Maddie McKeever paced the women with an llth-place finish on the 6k course at Panorama Farms. Sophomore Kate Van Buskirk crossed the line three seconds after McKeever in 12th. For the men, freshman Bo Waggoner finished 14th on the 8k course. It marked the third time this season the freshman was the first Blue Devil to cross the line. Fellow freshman JoshuaLund placed 30th for Duke, while brothers Kevin and Ryan McDermott finished in 35th and 36th, respectively, just one half-second separating the two. The top-14 finishes by McKeever, Van Buskirk and Waggoner qualified the runners for All-ACC honors. Both teams travel to Cary next week for the Wolfpack Invitational.

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Duke stormed past Boston College and Maryland this weekend with a pair of hard-fought conference road victories. No. 14 Duke stomped the Eagles 3-0 Friday and defeated the Terrapins 3-1 Sunday. “Itwas a really exciting match,” | head coach Jolene Nagel said of • 0 BC Sunday’s contest in College Park, Md. “We had a good crowd there. DUKE I was really pleased with how our MARYLAND 1 team executed today and hung tough against a Maryland team that had a really good block.” Duke (17-4,12-1 in the ACC) won the first two games at Maryland but faltered in the third, as the Terrapins maintained a constant lead over the Blue Devils and sent the match to a fourth game with a 21-18 win. DeMange led with 22 kills while Moss posted 17 and juniors Jordan Norman and Sue Carls picked up nine apiece. The Blue Devils defeated the Terrapins through a team offensive effort, Nagel said. “Maryland hasn’t lost at home yet this season, and it was very crowded,” Hausfeld said. “We were just very happy to come away with the win.” Senior Ali Hausfeld led in assists both games, tossing up 46 and 55 against the Eagles and Maryland, respectively. In Chestnut HiU, Mass., Hausfeld notched a career-high six service aces while scoring 11 digs and six kills for a team-high .750 hitting percentage. “We went in and knew they were going to come out and play their best especially when they’re at home,” Hausfeld said. “They’re a very emotional team so to get some momentum against them was very important.” At Boston College (10-13, 4-9), Hausfeld posted four of her aces in the first game while Moss connected on five kills. In Game 2, Moss contributed six kills, and Hausfeld put up 17 assists to carry Duke to its win. The Blue Devils fought hard in Game 3, where they trailed by as many as six points, but Moss picked up eight more kills and senior Carrie DeMange added 11 points to push the team to a win. -

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Heading into Saturday’s contest at Virginia, No. 11 Duke was looking to build off a four-game winning streak and take momentum into postseason play. Instead, the Blue Devils (11-7, 1-4 in the ACC) came out slow and lethargic, falling DUKE 3 to the Cavaliers (10-8, 1-4) by the count of 5-3 Saturday afterUVA 5

noon in Charlottesville in front of a season-high crowd. “I don’t think we played well,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We had a pretty specific gameplan and if we had executed the gameplan we would have been fine. Everyone’s taking responsibility for the loss.” From the beginning, Duke was playing catch-up. Virginia scored two quick goals to take a 2-0 lead with just under 11 minutes left. The Blue Devils were able to claw back, though, as they notched a pair of goals in just over a minute to tie the game heading into halftime. The Cavaliers broke the game open at the beginning of the second half, getting goals from Haley Carpenter and Kaars Sijpesteijn to put Duke in a 4-2 hole. And after Blue Devil sophomore Amie Survilla converted a short comer for her second goal of the afternoon, Virginia’s Traci Ragukas slammed in a goal just 33 seconds later. Duke had two more short comer opportunities but could not put them into the net. “The whole team was really slow,” Survilla said. “We kind of didn’t think that UVA was good as they were. We thought that because we were Duke, we would win.” Statistically, the Blue Devils had 14 shots and eight corners. But they were unable to turn enough of those chances into an advantage on the scoreboard. The loss drops the Blue Devils into a three-way tie for last place in the ever-competitive ACC. Seeding for the tournament will occur following games on Oct. 28.

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in the top 10, No. 24 Duke (8-5-1, 3-5-1) has been dealt a fair share of adversity. And that adversity didn’t just disapHead coach John Rennie gazed out on the rain-soaked field Friday night at Klockpear Friday. As time dwindledaway late in the second ner Stadium for the final time. half, the Blue Devils were down 1-0, again “Wow. That was unbelievable,” the retirfacing hardship with their winless streak ing coach said. Heading into DUKE threatening to stretch to five. The Cavaliers its match against had scored soon after halftime, following a 1 UVA No. 10 Virginia, defensively dominatedfirst period for both CLEVE.ST 0 Duke had not squads. But Duke kept Virginia at bay and won a game in stayed in the game. DUKE Late in the match, the Cavaliers had nearly a month. But the Blue drawn into a compact defense to protect Devils finally managed to secure that elusive their single-goal advantage, making it difvictory, defeating the Cavaliers (9-4-2, 1-3-2 ficult for the Blue Devils to create any ofin the ACC) with a stirring 2-1 comeback fensive opportunities. Duke even inserted senior Paul Dudley as a third forward to try win in double-overtime. After an overtime period where both to get the tying goal late. “We had been putting a lot ofpressure teams made continuous offensive runs into their opponent’s territory, Mike Grellapuncparticularly in the last fifteen minutes of tuated Duke’s comeback with a chip shot regulation on Virginia, and we had gotten into the net off a Zach Pope serve. Earlier in a lot of chances,” Rennie said. “But they the period, Virginia had a chance go off the were all backed into their penalty area with crossbar early in the second overtime while pretty much everyone defending, so you weren’t going to [score] on the ground.” Grella had just missed a shot wide left. So the Blue Devils did it through the air. He didn’t miss his second chance, as the With less than two minutes left, freshman Blue Devils’ notched theirfirst win since Sept. 28. Five of Grella’s team-leading eight goals Cole Grossman lobbed a nice cross into the Cavalier box to forward Joshua Medcalf. this year have been game-winning scores. Medcalf took advantage of the chance, “To tie it with two minutes left in regulaheading the ball into the net for the gametion and win two minutes before the overideal combination tying goal, his fifth score of the season. time expires, really it’s the Duke showed resiliency and toughness of a win,” Rennie said. “[lt’s] a great win, a on defense throughout the game, enjoying win in the conference, a win for our confithe long-awaited resurgence of senior Tim dence—it’s just an ideal development.” Plagued with injuries to senior start- Jepson, who has been plagued by injuries ers all year long and faced with a difficult for nearly the entire 2007 campaign. schedule over the last four weeks, which in“Against Virginia Tech [Tuesday], we cluded four conference opponents ranked had a great result against a team ranked THE CHRONICLE

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Five offorward Mike Grella's team-leading eight goals on the season have been game winners for Duke. fourth and this gives us a top-10 team that we have awin with,” Rennie said. “[This win ls] a combination of players getting healthy and deserving to win.” The Blue Devils continued the momen-

turn Sunday night with a home 3-0 shutout of Cleveland State (3-12-2). Midfielder Michad Videira scored six minutes into the contest, and Grella and Medcalf tallied goals later to put the game out of reach.

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GoalkeeperAllison Upsher and forward Elisabeth Redmond were the difference-makers in Sunday's draw.

When No. 10 Florida State came to Koskinen Stadium Sunday, the Blue Devils were looking to avenge a 2006 ACC tournament loss that kept them out of the semifinals for the first time in five years. Duke, however, FSU would have to •j DUKE settle for its third consecutive draw, tying the Seminoles 1-1 in 110 minutes of play. The Blue Devils’ best chance to win came with 7:48 left in the second overtime, when junior Lorraine Quinn had her shot blocked off a Elisabeth Redmond corner kick and Kendall Bradley missed the rebound attempt wide right. That was the best opportunity for Duke (7-3-6, 2-2-4 in the ACC) to walk away victorious, but instead the team is one tie short ofits singleseason record, set in 2002. Despite the draw, head coach Robbie Church said he was impressed with his team’s performance against the Seminoles (10-4-3,5-2-2). “This was a different tie,” Church said. “This is the best we have played all year for 90 minutes. We asked three things from [our players] all week. We asked them to play with emotion, passion and together for 90 minutes. We did it today, and we were the better team out here.” Down 1-0 with less than 10 minutes left in regulation, the Blue Devils appeared to be facing a loss until Redmond scored off a Meaghan Fitz Gerald assist, sending the ball past the outstretched arms of Florida state goalie Erin McNulty to even the match. “One thing that we have done pretty well is fight back.” said Redmond, who

leads Duke in goals scored with six. “We never gave up.” Church, who called the sophomore a “big-time player,” said he has been impressed with Redmond’s poise when facing defenses that are keying in on her as their primary target. On the other half of the field, Church continued to emphasize the importance of senior goalie Allison Lipsher, who again seemed to save the day for the team. With just over a minute remaining in regulation, Florida State had a wide-open shot on a breakaway, but Lipsher ran out and made a spectacular save to send the contest into overtime. “[Allison] is one of the best keepers in the country,” Church said. “We can take some chances knowing that she is back there and we know that if we make some mistakes she will cover up.” The Seminoles threatened again in overtime, but solidBlue Devil defenseand another strong save from Lipsher kept the game tied. Although content to come away with a point against one of the nation’s best, Duke is still frustrated with its recent string of ties, especially with the postseason looming. “It is frustrating because we’re a really good team, and I think we worked really hard today,” Redmond said. “We deserved to win.” The Blue Devils’ road ahead to qualify for the NCAA tournament will be tough, but Church believes his team is up to the «*

challenge.

“I think a lesser character group would have dropped their heads and said ‘Maybe it’s not our year.’” Church said. “But they know that if we can just get into this tournament, we can play with anybody in the country.”

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BATTLE from page 3 professor of the practice of computer science and a former ICPC participant, noted that one challenging part of the contest is sharing one computer between

three team members. “Since we can only be programming to solve one problem at a time, one person programs while the other two work on another problem on paper,” Bosko said. The competition helps participants develop problem-solving and teamwork skills, along with computer programming abilities, Astrachan said. He added that the benefits of the competition also include recruitment

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pants from Duke’s teams have interned at Google, Microsoft or IBM. Bosko, who is currently in the process of applying for a job with Microsoft, said his positive experience at the competition is one of the reasons he is pursuing this line of work. “Ideally, if you do well enough at this, then you can sort of do something similar with a job like Microsoft or Google,” he said This year’s win continues Duke’s historical success at ICPC. The University has participated in the competition since 1989 and sent a team to the World Finals every year but 1996. In 1994, Duke achieved its highest placing at the World Finals with a third-place finish. The competition has not been won by a team outside Eastern Europe or Asia for the past five years.

“[Preparing for the competition] is really all those teams do. It’s almost like their job,” Astrachan said. “U.S. teams don’t do as well because the students do lots of things.” One of the challenges the competition and the field of computer science faces is a lack of female computer programmers, Astrachan said. “Duke has had two female participants in the last 16 years,” he said. “That’s too bad. That’s a problem with computer science.” Headded that he hopes the diversity ofcomputer science majors will increase as the field becomes better publicized in high schools. “People are working a lot on outreach so that there are a lot of people that don’t consider it sitting behind a terminal writing code,” Astrachan said. “Even though this competition is sitting behind a computer writing code.”

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enough to warrant a full bus route, as few Duke students take classes at NCCU, and

Realistically, NCCU is eight minutes away, and stu-

vice-versa. This fact alsorenders comparisons to the Roberteditorial son bus route as inaccurate, since the Robertson Scholars Program is a strong component of Duke’s academic setting and Franklin Street is a big draw for Duke students’ social lives. Symbolically, a DukeNCCU route might exhibit interaction with our peer institution and Durham as a whole, but any real problems that might exist within these communities would run deeper than a single bus route. This fact might potentially become painfully clear, especially if the bus traveled empty between

dents who travel there on a regular basis probably already have a solid transportation schedule in place. A better use of University funds would be to provide busing for special events occurring on the NCCU campus and in the surrounding area. Just as additional buses will be provided for Halloween festivittes on Franklin Street, DSC and the Unviersity should identify NCCU events like Sen. Barack Obama’s speech this Thursday as affecting the Duke student population and provide busing to them. Additionally, Duke and its student leaders should strongly consider creating

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Some people play football games, but this is sort of a competition for us. So you get a rush doing it. It sounds dorky, but it’s fun. Senior Jason Bosko, a participant in this m weekend’s regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. See story page 3.

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and funding a student-initiated extension of “Duke Destinations” (a well-used but little-known program), which allows groups of students and student groups to identify off-campus events that they would like to attend. The surrounding area is often host to a diverse selection of concerts, sporting events, social events and speakers, especially given the proximity of a large number of college campuses to Duke. If the program were created accessibly and transparently, with a simple process for student use, it would undoubtedly become popular. Expanding this aspect of student busing would also complement a host of other successful changes to the

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lived in three different residences in the past six months, and in each place I’ve shared my space with a cat or dog. They haven’t been my pets —they’ve always been in the house when I arrived, and I’ve marveled at my roommates’ desire to share their home with an animal. Besides not wanting to smell like kitty litter or get dog slobber on my face, I’ve never wanted a pet because I don’t leftof cool have the desire to be responsible for another living thing for an extended period of time. I had a plant freshman year. It’s dead. I learned my lesson. This phenomenon of seniors moving offcampus and adopting animals initially confused me. We already have to think of some way to put food in our bellies without running over to the Loop; why worry about some other animal’s belly? A lot of us can barely remember to take out the trash; why would we want to take out the kitty litter? When we make plans for Spring Break, do we really want to make plans for our pets, too? That was the downfall of my potted plant freshman year: apparently they still need water when classes aren’t in session. Who knew? Of course, as a senior I am infinitely more mature and could probably keep a house plant for more than three months. If I put my mind to it, I could probably even keep a cat alive for a year. The tricky thing is, cats live for longer than a year (if fed and watered properly, of course). When seniors adopt pets, they’re signing up for at least 10 years of having to rent apartments that allow animals, making sure someone can dog-sit when they go on vacation and never being able to wear an outfit that doesn’t have some trace of cat hair. There are a handful of irresponsible kids who don’t plan for their pets’ future and wind up abandoning them in Durham, but many more students are actually making the 10-year commitment.

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Despite all this extra responsibility, a surprising number of Duke seniors have pets. I didn’t really understand it until I came home late the other night and my roommate’s kitten had already gone to bed. Instead of playing the timeless “chase my fingers across the rug” game or wasting precious minutesabsent-mindedly petting the kitty, I walked sadly to my desk and actually got some homework done. It was awful. But it made me understand why people have pets. If cats and dogs make our off-campus apartments and houses feel like homes, it makes perfect sense that so many Dukies are pet owners. A lot of Duke students spend their junior year bouncing from one place to another. We spend a semester abroad, then a semester in Durham, and then the summer in some city working an internship. Of course we’re going to be looking for some sense of home after spending a year basically living out of a suitcase. Switching from dorm life to off-campus apartments and houses is also a huge shift. Living in the dorms is such a community-intensive experience that living off-campus can feel like living on an island. Something about having a cat on that island makes the fact that you can’t walk three feet and be at a huge party not matter very much. I’ve joked with a handful of my friends about how we’ve gotten “old and lame,” but maybe it isn’t really a joke. As hard as it is for me admit, evidence that we can handle the responsibility of a pet abounds. My peers are paying rent, preparing for job interviews and producing some really original academic work. Next semester, one of my friends will actually be teaching middle school. Not only do I think we’re ready for pets, I think we deserve them—or at least the sense of home they provide. Sure, we could still out-party the freshmen if we tried, but I see most of my fellow seniors working incredibly hard this year doing amazing things. Getting a pet as a senior may not be a sign of thoughtlessness or poor planning, as I first assumed. Perhaps it’s a sign that my little Class of ’OB is growing up.

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

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Why WISER?

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word all over campus last week was WISER. From barbecues and bake sales to dance night at Shooters, you would have to be living under a rock to have missed WISER Week—the push to raise awareness and money for the -Women’s Institute of Secondary Education and Research, Muhuru Bay, Kenya’s first

all-girl’s secondary boarding school. By the end of the week, hundreds of •j x* Q3VICI tIOCCO enthusiastic students sported wiser Tshades of blue shirts. However, as WISER cofounder and Associate Professor Sherryl Broverman pointed out, the challenge is to get everyone wearing those T-shirts to understand what it is WISER does. The week raised incredible awareness and funds, but WISER is intended to be much more than a fundraising group. Unlike a number of campus fundraisers for global causes, the WISER organizers really know their stuff. The vision, mission statement and business plan the group has written are some of the most comprehensive education aid proposals out there. As Duke students, though, it is up to us to look beyond the fundraising, pitch to really examine the tough development issues WISER raises. A major question to ask is whether the school can really get at the root of girls’ education problems in Kenya. In general, there are two approaches to development: You can create something new or attempt to reform the system that’s already in place. Especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, working within the existing system is extremely daunting. Ridiculous bureaucracy and lacking infrastructure can slow even the worthiest projects; endemic corruption and nepotism can drain entire budgets. With vision and resources, however, you can avoid these pitfalls and start from scratch. The problem is that creating something new rarely gets at the root of the problem—it works around it. UNICEF studies have shown that only 40 percent of both males and females of secondary school age in Kenya are currently enrolled. When it comes to attendance, only 12 percent of males and 13 percent of females actually make it to school. Before building new private schools, it seems important to figure out what the barriers stopping students of both genders from getting to school now are. Duke student researchers conducted an exhaustive study of why females are not succeeding in Muhuru Bay, concluding that a lack of financial ,

support, damaging male teacher-female student dynamics, relationships between male and female students and low self-confidence among the girls were all contributing factors. For the 30 students who will graduate from WISER each year, the allgirls’ boarding school will boost self-confidence during the school day and provide women teachers as role models. WISER deserves credit for involving large numbers of local teachers, administrators and government officials on their board of directors. Yet, if right now in Muhuru Bay parents will not allow their girl children to attend school, secondaryschool administrators are corrupt and there is no infrastructure connecting the village with the rest ofKenya, a fancy new boarding school will not fully address the problem. Nor does it feel right to exclude the nearly 2,000 Muhuru Bay secondary school-aged girls not lucky enough to receive WISER scholarships and abandon them in the current failing system —or worse yet, in no school at all. One has to wonder if all the money being spent on WISER could be put to use instituting teacher training programs to support qualified teachers for all girls in the region, not just the chosen 120. These are not easy questions. In Muhuru Bay, not a single girl has graduated from secondary school in 19 years. Beginning next year when WISER opens, this will change. In the meantime, though, we can’t lose sight of those not directly benefiting from the new school; to do so would create resentment and drive the community apart instead of uniting it. Ideally the school will serve as a model and a lacus for community development. Perhaps some of the new graduates can go on to college and eventually come back to Muhuru Bay as women teachers themselves. The proposed school is designed to be far more than a collection of classrooms—it will also include a technology lab, health clinic and microfinance outlet. The WISER philosophy is that to make a sustainable difference, development must begin at the grassroots level. If the model works, organization members say, then they will somehow figure out how to broaden the scope of their project. “The bottpm line is that education is not a privilege, but a right,” WISER cofounder Andy Cunningham emphasized. I couldn’t agree more. But as even WISER leaders themselves recognize, donating a lot of money is not going to remedy the complex education and development problems the region faces. Wearing WISER T-shirts enthusiastically is great, but as Duke and its students support the school, we must continue to ask the tough questions about its long-term impact.

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

letterstotheeditor Scheduling of Blue-White game embarrassing Director of Athletics Joe Alieva should be embarrassed by the athletic scheduling situation Saturday night. At 7 p.m., during the nationally televised Duke-Florida football game, the Blue-White scrimmage was taking place. Without a doubt, more students watched an exhibition game than our football team play a game against the most beatable Florida State team in years. The athletic department has paid a lot of lip service to the importance of rebuilding our football team, including the first-ever football summit last year and significant investment in the Yoh Building and other facilities. However, until it stops forcing Duke students, alumni and fans to choose between the two sports, our football team will never have a chance to build an audience and fill Wallace Wade. Yes, I know the Blue-White scrimmage was scheduled months in advance before the final football game time was scheduled. However, things changed and you need to be able to change with them. At any uni-

versity serious about having a winning football

team, the basketball exhibition would be moved. I wish I was an alumnus of one of those schools.

Mark Johnson Trinity ’99

Respect national anthem during games

Saturday night’s Blue-White scrimmage was entertaining. Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski gave a nice talk during “halftime” about how Duke has always led and not followed. In that light, I

would like to make a recommendation. It would be great if the Cameron Crazies could lead by stopping its tradition of yelling “O” during the national anthem. In this day and age, when Americans are dying every day protecting our country, please respect our national anthem. It would be a strong sign ofsupport for those who are serving, and have served, our country.

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According to Tom, they are the most unfit species to live on this planet. The panda birth process, which is itself front-page

news, is so entirely complicated that it requires six vets and a painfully descriptive process known as a “breach birth.” In fact, Tom swears that the vets have so much trouble getting pandas to mate that they actually have to show

the animals wild videos of pandas mating so the captive ones know what to do (which is actually not so differentfrom Duke students). They’re on the edge of extinction and the pandas aren’t even alarmed enough by their own imminent snuffing-out to spur them to monday, monday reproduce—all of which makes one no scrubs wonder how they even survived before the advent of modern zoology. And yet, they’re cute. So it makes the tortuous process of sustaining their species all worthwhile. But not if Tom has anything to say about it. He insists that if we raised awareness, we could take panda hatred worldwide. “Once you know the facts,” he says, “it’s so clear.” But this isn’t an article about pandas. It’s an article about Tom. Who is Tom? Tom is a Trinity sophomore from D.C., a potential psychology major and was once described in a Washington Post article as “cherub-faced.” You may not know him personally (he has barely onefifth the Facebook friends of Hasnain Zaidi). But the most unique thing about Tom is the fact that he is an expert on everything—including pandas. Because of a natural ability to always remain hyperobservant, Tom knows more about electric razors, sweatshirts and sandwiches than I do about Zach Braff. And that’s saying a lot considering I know offhand that Zach is exactly 1.84 meters tall. He is what Malcolm Gladwell, bestselling author of “The Tipping Point,” would call a Maven. A champion of the social theory of word-of-mouth epidemics, Gladwell’s premise is simple—little things can make a big difference. According to Gladwell, three types of people carry a distinct power to spread social epidemics. They are Connectors, Salesmen and Mavens. While Connectors link us together and Salesmen persuade us to adopt new trends, Mavens are experts—intense gatherers of information who are often the first to pick up on new movements. Tom is Duke’s Maven. His knowledge base is absurd. If you ask Tom, he’ll tell you that “the expertise stems from observing everything—even dumb, minute things—carefully and really pondering.” To give you an idea of what he’s talking about, let me just point out that I first noticed Tom’s extraordinary ability when he helped me through a sweatshirt purchase by speaking more intelligently about thread counts than Elliott Wolf discusses the Undergraduate Judicial Code. (Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about? It must be way over my head...) Let’s take a look at one Duke social trend in particular—the flu shot. First off, let’s set one thing straight. The flu shot is not science. It’s a fad. Personally, I think it’s a bunch ofhocus pocus. People wildly interpret any cold symptoms as the flu so we have no basis to assert getting vaccinated to avoid the “epidemic.” And if the flu shot were a legitimate vaccination, it’d be a one-time thing—not a profit-driven enterprise that requires you get a new shot every year like you’re replacing last season’s outdated fashions. And for some reason they want us to believe that flu shots are always in short supply, like they’re iPhones or something. It’s a vaccine. Make copies! But Tom sees things differently. Tom notes that “getting sick in college is a terrifying proposition. It’s totally out ofyour control, and if you get sick at the wrong time, you’re totally [screwed]. If there’s even a 10-percent chance that it does work, then it’s worth it.” And he tells me it’s not hocus pocus. Apparently, “It’s developed yearly by some very smart people. Plus in your $45,000 per year, so take advantage of it.” Makes sense doesn’t it? Curious about some more of his opinions? Here’s a quick Duke Consumer Reports of sorts from Tom. Overall best campus eatery: The Loop Fall or Spring semester: Spring Campus nightlife spot: Devine’s Best place to take a date: “My bedroom” One thing’s for sure, when Tom does take a date to his bedroom, he no doubt (as Method Man says in “Garden State”), “drops some knowledge on that [female]!” ZACH BRAFF and Brandon Curl are gettingflu shots right now.

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RELIGION la, and the Bible

RELIGION 205.01 Chad Spigel

This course will explore the intersection of archaeology, contemporary media, and the Bible.

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