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Global health Prez's Yale tenure may offer glimpse center marks Duke's future into by

Chelsea Allison THE CHRONICLE

A long-time champion of undergraduate education, with

the lacrosse scr behind him an ments of three trators in front dent Richard Bi has an opportunity focus toward his own And after spending New Haven, Conn., h by modeling it on what' Brodhead’s third term Yale College be 2003, barely five months before he was appointed the ninth president of Duke. He gradu. j in 1968 and r. torate in Engl; fore joining the Ivy League instf named dean o: L ■ in 1993, a post A aspects of Duk( dean of the fac Sciences positi The deans of Yale’s 5,200 students and a. of faculty, reporting to both the provost and the president, Brodhead said. “The interest of the job was that it drew everything together,” he said.

“I was generally regarded by faculty as the leader of the faculty. And [to] students... I spoke on behalf of their education.” he was considered wildly *oth students and adminis,rt because he knew the colired students and faculty sensitive, perceptive and seeches,” Richard Levin, Yale University, wrote in He was beloved for his easy ly rapport with students, deeply respected by the is wisdom and good judgis

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Dr. Michael Merson is a very busy man The director of Duke’s $3O-million Global Health Institute, Merson has spent the last 12 months building an organization designed to reduce health disparities both abroad and in the United States. Launched in April 2006, DGHI did not begin officially functioning until Merson’s arrival in November. Since then, Merson has met with faculty, administrators and student groups to learn about their interests and expectations. He has also hired new staff and created a long-term plan for the first five years of DGHFs existence “Global health shows us the future ofhow universities can work—to have the best scholarship, and to focus our educational programs to train the best leaders, and, in that process, making a difference,” Merson said. To do that, DGHI has expanded the number of global health courses offered to students and has identified more opportunities and funding for summer internships and fieldwork. DGHI is also currently exploring the possibility of a global health major, Merson said. “What was clear to me from the beginning

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Drought persists in Durham by

Joe Clark

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Even though Durham County received four inches ofrain last weekend, the added water did little to affect the drought, city officials said. “The weekend rains only gave Durham about seven more days of news water,” said Eben Polk, associate in research at the Nicholas School of analysis the Environment and Earth Sciences. “Though it’s helpful, this creates small a impact.” only pretty Durham should not expect that amount of rain over the course of three days to occur very often, Polk added. Since the county still has a rain deficit of approximately 20 inches, it will take much more than a few days ofrain to break the drought, he said. “I think an inch of rain in a day is a pretty substantial amount and is not a typical rainfall” Polk said. “We are still in an ‘extreme drought’ and likely will stay that way,

Rain showers last week were not enough to end the severe drought in Durham and the region.

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Egypt unveils King Jut's face

Pakistani opposition leaders arrested by

Robin McDowell

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Police and ISLAMABAD, Pakistan soldiers emboldened by state of emergency powers swept up hundreds of activists and opposition members Sunday, dragged away protesters shouting “Shame on you!”, and turned government buildings into barbedwire compounds. Gen. Pervez Musharrafs government said parliamentary elections could be delayed up to a year as it tries to stamp out a growing Islamic militant threat—effectively linking two of the greatest concerns of Pakistan’s biggest international donors; the United States and Britain.

Increasingly concerned about the unfolding crisis, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Washington was reviewing billions of dollars in aid to its close terrorism-fighting ally. Britain is also examining its assistance. “Some of the aid that goes to Pakistan is direcdy related to the counterterrorism mission,” Rice told reporters traveling with her. “We just have to review the situation.” But, she said, she did not expect the U.S. “to ignore or set aside our concerns about terrorism.” Scores of paramilitary troops blocked access to the Supreme Court and parliament. Streets in the capital appeared largely calm, with only a handful of dem-

onstrations. But one, attended by 40 people at the Marriott Hotel, was broken up by baton-wielding police. “Shame on you! Go Musharraf go!” the protesters shouted as officers dragged some out of the crowd and forced them to the ground. Eight were taken away in a van. Others were apathetic. Standing at on a dusty street corner in Islamabad, Togul Khan, 38, said he didn’t care about the emergency declaration. “For us, life stays the same, even when politicians throw Pakistan into the sky, spin it around and watch as it crashes back down to earth,” the day laborer said as he waited for work.

Rubin replaces Prince as Citigroup chair by

Madlen Read

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NEW YORK Citigroup Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Charles Prince, beset by the company’s billions of dollars in losses from investing in bad debt, resigned Sunday and is being replaced as chairman by former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. The nation’s largest banking company announced Prince’s widely expected departure in a statement following an emergency meeting of its board. Citi also said Sir Win Bischoff, chairman of Citi Europe and a Member of the Citi management —

and operating committees, would serve as interim CEO. Rubin, a former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co., has served as the chair of Citi’s executive committee, and it was also expected he would take a greater role in leading the company. In a separate statement, Citi, which took a hit of $6.5 billion from asset writedowns and other credit-related losses in the third quarter, said it would take an additional $8 billion to $ll billion in writedowns. “It was the honorable course, given the losses we are now announcing,” Rubin said ofPrince’s resignation in an interview with

The Associated Press Prince joined former Merrill Lynch & Co. CEO Stan O’Neal, who resigned from the investment bank last month, as the highest-profile casualties of the debt crisis that has cost billions at other financial institutions as well. Prince, 57, became chief executive of Citigroup in October 2003. Many shareholders criticized him openly for much of his tenure, as Citigroup’s stock lagged its peers while Prince executed what was called an umbrella model of corporate organization, with several separate lines ofbusiness.

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King Jut's face was unveiled Sunday for the first time in public—more than 3,000 years after the youngest and most famous pharaoh to rule ancient Egypt was shrouded in linen and buried in his golden underground tomb.

7 Europeans released in Chad

Seven Europeans among 17 detained for over a week in an alleged attempt to kidnap 103 African children were released Sunday and left the country with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.The children were orphans from Sudan's Darfur region.

Hollywood writers avoid strike Hollywood writers were back at the bargaining tableSunday in a last-minute push to avoid ‘ a strike against TV networksand movie studios over writers'share of profits from DVDs and the InternetThe deal struck will likely be used as a template in talks with actors and directors.

Patriots defeat Colts, 24-20 Against the Colts, the New England Patriots had to struggle just to survive. The win keeps the Patriots (9-0) on course for the NFL's first unbeaten season since Miami did it 1972 and gives them the first tiebreaker over Indianapolis (7-1) in the AFC playoffs. News briefs compiled from wire reports "The early worm is for the birds." —Anonymous

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Student groups, admins aid in premed discernment by

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Still premed? Whether the answer is yes or no, you’re not alone. Last year 122 members of the Class of 2007 applied to medical schools across the country. Of these, 103 received offers of admission. One doesn’t need to have slogged through Math 32, however, to realize that these numbers are probably less than the number of “premed track” students that entered Duke as freshmen in 2003. On thejourney to becoming a physician, the premed phase is a period of questions, self-reflection and deciding if medicine is the right career choice. “Even in the freshman year, we encourage students to start exploring [their commitment to the premed track],” said Daniel Scheirer, director of the Office of Health Professions Advising and associate dean of Trinity College. “Do they know what life in a hospital is like, what being around sick people is like and can they handle a stressful environment? These are questions that need to be answered.” Programs like the Career Center’s Health Careers Exploration Program aid students in answering the questions by providing opportunities to work direcdy with both patients and health professionals, a service premeds said is helpful. “HPEC is amazing,” sophomore Connie Chai said. “I was paired up with a cardiothoracic surgeon over the summer, so I had the opportunity to watch open-heart surgery in the operating room.” Student organizations also encourage premed students to volunteer and gain experience within the medical community. Last year, junior Bilal Lateef and seniorNandini Palaniappa felt the need for a mutually supportive organization of premed students and co-founded a chapter of the American Medical Student Association at Duke. “We wanted to start a chapter at Duke because we realized there was no umbrella organization, which is rare among schools,”

Palaniappa said. “We could use it as away

facilitate communication between students and staff. We also wanted to create a network of students, so it was easier to be aware of opportunities available and easier to seek out peer advice on what classes or professors to take.” AMSA has instituted an informal mentoring program, matching up juniors and seniors with freshmen and sophomores. Some students, however, said they did not feel the need for additional mentoring. “I can ask my friends for advice on classes and professors,” sophomore Amee Patel said. “But I can see how it might be helpful to freshmen, who might not know that many upperclassmen.” Last year’s first meeting of the newlyformed organization attracted more than 250 interested students. This year, AMSA has hosted a number of lectures, including a talk by Dr. Brenda Armstrong, director of admissions at the School of Medicine. The group also tries to provide students with an extensive list ofmedicine-related job and research opportunities. “We contacted all the physicians at Duke specifically interested in hiring undergrads,” Lateef said. “We compiled a pretty comprehensive list on our Web site of over 30 research opportunities for undergrads in areas ranging from public policy to molecular biology to chemistry.” Although majors like biology or chemistry are popular for premed students, many pursue bachelor’s degrees in the social sciences or humanities. Palaniappa said she balances her premed track courses with a major in public policy studies. “I want to be a practicing physician but remain involved in health policy,” she said. Palaniappa is also waiting a year or two after graduation to apply to medical schools. Between then and now she said she hopes to work in health policy. “It’s increasingly common for students to delay applying to medical schools for a year or more,” said Deborah Wahl, a premed adviser and associate director of the Undergraduate Research Support Office. to

Many undergraduatepremed studentsfind themselves considering whether a career in medicine is right for them. She added that students often spend gap years working to earn the money to finance the considerable medical school expenses. Palaniappa said premed advising has been very helpful and supportive ofher decision to wait a few years to apply to medical school. Although some students may decide not to enter medical school immediately following their senior year, many students who enter Duke with medical school as their goal end up deciding to pursue a different career path altogether. Brittany Rhodes, Trinity ’O7, now works as a strategy management consultant, but she entered Duke intent on becoming a doctor. During her time at Duke, however, she became interested in other aspects of health care besides practicing medicine

and graduated with a certificate in health policy. She suggested that premed students consider if medicine is really what they want to do. “I think kids are sometimes afraid to change,” Rhodes said. “I was afraid to change from the premed track because that’s what I thought I wanted to do since middle school.” She added that it’s important for students to find a career they can devote themselves to without reservations. “If they’re not doing something they really love, they won’t be fully happy or fully satisfied, and they won’t be working up to their full potential no matter how hard they try,” she said. “Just because you have the ability to do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should do it.”

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New Mac OS users see

problems with ePrint by

Tina Mao

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Trendsetters walk a dangerous line, especially when it comes to technology. Duke students who installed the newly released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard found that ePrint does not works with the system due to compatibility issues between Popup Client—the window that asks for a student’s NetlD—and Leopard. As a temporary fix, the Office of Information Technology has developed and released a workaround solution for Leopard users, available online. Because Duke purchases ePrint software from the commercial vendor Pharos Systems, a more permanent solution would h ave to come directly from the company, said Kevin Davis, senior manager for academic technology services at OIT. “[Pharos is] working on an updated version that will work but haven’t announced a date when it will be available,” he said. “We’ve been in touch with Pharos, and it’s too soon for them to have a timeline.” Until then, OIT is offering a short-term solution similar to the workaround they developed when Windows Vista was released and experienced problems. But Davis said though students did not upgrade to Vista in large numbers, many have switched to the highly anticipated Leopard, a possible effect ofincreased Mac ownership at Duke. He estimated that OIT heard from approximately 30 students between Monday and Thursday last week re-

garding this issue. “We’re actually seeing more concerns about Leopard than we did from Vista, which I suspect is because there is much more active interest around Leopard than we saw with Vista’s release,” he said. For some students, ePrint complications are a small price to pay. Alex Gorin, a sophomore who works for OIT, said he simply e-mails documents to himself and prints at computer labs. “So far, it hasn’t been a big deal,” he said. “I only print papers, and when I have articles to read, I’ve just been reading them off my screen.” Even if he had known that ePrint would not be compatible with Leopard, Gorin said he would have upgraded anyway. “I actually guessed with 75 to 80 percent certainty that ePrint wouldn’t work, but I wanted to upgrade and didn’t really care,” he said. Other students, like freshman Susan Carter, said they want to wait until ePrint issues have been resolved before even considering an upgrade. “I wasn’t going to install Leopard, and if it doesn’t work with ePrint, then I’m definitely not going to,” she said. Owen Astrachan, a professor of the practice of computer science, recommended that Mac users install Leopard now only if they absolutely need it or have time to play around with the system. Although he already bought five copies, he said he is waiting until winter break to upgrade in order to avoid problems mid-semester.

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The softwarebehind ePrint is not compatible with Leopard, the new Mac operating system, students say.

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students were on dieir best behavior this weekend when mom and dad visited Durham for Parents’ and Family Weekend. The weekend featured various activities, including a football game and performances by student groups. Students share their thoughts about spending the weekend with their folks.

"I didn't do anything school-related with my parents. My mom had fun at Tailgate." —Johnny Lai, sophomore

cleaning their rooms." —Amaris Whitaker, junior "To be honest, Parent's Weekend is not a big deal. It's pointless that it's just before

Thanksgiving."

—Brian Kim, sophomore

"I enjoyed it and my parents did too. I think it's a good way for parents to see what their kids are doing around campus." —Allison Putterman, freshman

"I was happy to see my mom immersed in "I think Parents' Weekend is effective beDuke culture." cause it allows parents to understand the envi—Van Dang, sophomore ronment their kids are in." —Shang Gao, junior "My parents didn't come. When my friends' parents were around, it was extremely uncom"It was great to have my parents here and fortable to talk to them." have them see what they spent $40,000-plus —Andrew Eibel, sophomore per year for four years on." —Zachary Moss, senior "It's a great time for us to meet with our parents because the majority of us only get to see "My grandparents flew all the way out from our parents in the Duke environment on moveOregon to come see me during Parents' Weekin day." end. We had a great time going to the Duke—Bruce Reaves, sophomore sponsored events, admiring the campus, and exploring Durham. 1 loved introducing them "As an RA, it was really nice to see the stu- to my friends and having them see all of the dents with their parents and all the nice things things I do here." —Marilyn Tycer, senior parents do for their kids, like laundry and

HEALTH from page 1 is that student passion for global health at Duke is palpable,” he said. Embracing this passion, DGHI is developing a Master of Science program in global health, as well as considering the development of doctoral and postdoctoral programs. Merson said the institute is also working to collaborate withvarious professional schools—such as the Pratt School of Engineering —to strengthen and broaden theirmaster’s curriculums in a global health context, and establish a global health residency program with the Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health at the Duke University Medical Center. DGHI’s unique approach to tackling health disparities is what sets it apart from other institutions of its nature, said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “Many global health institutes are started by schools of public health and a few... are started in hospitals and medical schools,” Dzau said. “Very few are university-wide in which you have multi-and inter-disciplinary approaches to this issue. Global health touches on all areas of scholarship—not just public health.” The creation of Duke Global Health Placement of Life-changing Usable Surplus—a program that donates Duke’s surplus medical equipment and supplies to global health projects abroad—and the co-sponsoring of various global health-related conferences are testaments to DGHFs university-wide approach, Merson said. He added that another important aspect of DGHI’s unique approach is student involvement. “To rid the world ofhealth disparities, we need creative thinkers, innovative problem solvers and entrepreneurial spirit,” said Sumi Ariely, student projects coordinator at DGHI. “Solutions are within our grasp—it’s just a matter of inspiring commitment on a large scale.” DGHFs establishment of funding opportunities for service-learning projects is an effort to cultivate this passion. “We want people to have social responsibility,” Dzau said. “Go and serve, but with education. Learn from your experiences. Learn from others.” Sophomore Frances Aunon, who spent last summer in Costa Rica researching the dynamics between disabled and ill children and theirfamilies, said she considers her summer experience a valuable part of her Duke education. “It has certainly made my classes a lot more relevant,” she said. “I can now connect the subject matter to my experiences from real life, and it has helped me define my interest in public policy.” Such experiences are important in exposing students to the injustices of disparities in health, Merson said. “The world can no longer be half well and half sick,” he said. “It’s just unacceptable.”

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DROUGHT from page 1 least in the short run.” According to guidelines set by state officials, an extreme drought is the second-highest of the drought classifications and is characterized by major crop losses, widespread water shortages and an exceptionally high danger offires. In addition, significant rainfall is not expected until the spring, and regulations on water usage will likely stay in effect until that time, said James Lim, the conservation coordinator for the Durham Department of Water Management. “The governor has requested that citizens cut back their water usage by 50 percent, and even with the recent rain, this certainly still applies,” he said. “We have yet to see this amount of conservation... but we are still at

hopeful.”

The latestrainfall increased the city reservoirs and lakes to an

amount able to sustain 69 days of water consumption as ofMon-

day, Polk said, adding that rain in the coming week is unlikely. “What we got this weekend was just a small drop in the bucket,” Lim said. “We are still a long, long way away from

normal water levels.” In the coming months, however, milder weather may ease water consumption and result in the available water lasting longer, Lim said, adding that water use is highest in the hot summer months.

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Future water usage Even if the city received no extra water over the next several months, residents and students could still take showers and turn on their faucets as they normally would, Lim said. “There are emergency supplies we can tap into like water below the ground and in other sources,” he said. “This additional supply, however, is oflower quality and more difficult to treat before it is drinkable.” On the other hand, water prices could have the potential to skyrocket because increased, more expensive measures would have to be taken to isolate, purify and decontaminate the water, he added. Before Durham runs out of water, the city government would enact higher levels of restriction and rationing to further decrease consumption. Homeowners and businesses that do not comply with the rationing would face surcharges and legal penalties froth the state, Lim said. “Rationing would mean the prohibition of watering anything outside,” Polk said. “That means lawns, landscapes, flower beds, anything.” To prevent this stage of rationing, Polk said he encourages residents and students to cut back on their consumption. “Depending on where you live in Durham, there are already some mandatory measures in place right now,” he said. “But obviously, as a student, the best thing to do is take shorter showers, turn the water off when you’re brushing your teeth and perhaps most importantly, learn about what kinds of things Duke is doing to cut water use and support them.”

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MEN'S SOCCER

Alabama A&M stuns Duke at home in 4-3 win by

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Mike Grella converted on a penalty kick (above) and Justin Papadakis was pulled from Duke's 4-3 loss (right).

Duke entered Sunday riding a threegame winning streak into its matchup with Alabama A&M, a non-conference foe with a record under .500. But on a mild autumn afternoon, the Blue Devils got anything but a walk in the park In a game feaALA. A&M ±. taring 22 fouls and five yellow 3 DUKE Alabama cards, A&M (7-7-1) stunned No. 19 Duke (106-1) with a 4-3 win at Koskinen Stadium. The Bulldogs found the back of the net four times on only eight shots, as Blue Devil goalkeepers combined to make just one save on the day. “It’s as frustrating as any loss can be,” senior forward Joshua Medcalf said. Duke fought back from 2-1 and 3-2 deficits in the second half, but Alabama A&M used a swift counterattack in the final minutes for the game-winning goal. MfanaFuthi Bhembe led forward Mosito Ranko ahead of the defense, and Ranko beat backup goalie Brendan Fitzgerald to the upper right of the net for the 4-3 lead in the 81st minute. It was Ranko’s third tally of the day—ironically on “Free Hat Day” at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils had tied the score six minutes earlier when Zack Pope’s free kick was deflected by Mike Grella to Graham Dugoni for a chip-shot score. It was Pope’s second assist of the day and the second Duke goal to come off a set piece. Earlier in the half, Pope’s comer kick was headed by Medcalf to Joe Germanese, who headed the ball into the back

of the net to knot the score at two “Pope and I made eye contact, and I knew exacdy where he was going to play the ball, and he played a perfect ball,” Medcalf said. “It was very fortunate that Joe was running offof it. I needed someone there, and he was at the right place at the right time. It was a very pretty goal.” The Bulldogs, however, responded just 36 seconds later off a set piece of their own. Ranko’s free kick from just outside the 18yard line curled into the top left corner of the net for the 3-2 advantage. The second half in particular was marked by physical play. Five yellow cards were handed out—four to Alabama A&M and one to Duke freshman Christian Ibeagha—and there was a scuffle between Medcalf and Bhembe near the sideline. Even the Koskinen crowd began exchanging words with players and coaches on the Bulldogs’ bench. “It was very physical,” Medcalf said. “They’re a little bit of a physical, sometimes cheap, team, and we let it get to us a little bit” The Blue Devils, however, had Alabama A&M on the ropes in the first half. In the 21st minute, Medcalf was pulled down in the box, and Grella converted the penalty kick into a 1-0 lead. Just a minute later, though, the game turned on an initially innocuous play. Duke goalkeeper Justin Papadakis retrieved a ball played too far into the Blue Devils’ zone. Papadakis went to throw the ball out to Dugoni on his left, but it instead slipped out of his hand and right to Ranko, who finished the chance—Alabama A&M’s first SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE

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WOMEN'S SOCCER

Blue Devils drop final contest of regular season by

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This was not the time for Duke’s four-

game unbeaten streak to end. In their final regular season contest, the Blue Devils dropped a 1-0 heartbreaker at Clemson Saturday night, ending ACC play on a 1 sour note and potentially jeopardizing their chances for an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Clemson defender Elizabeth Jobe scored the evening’s only goal in the 36th minute, collecting a loose ball near midfield and weaving her way through the Duke defense before blasting a 27-yard strike past goalkeeper Allison Lipsher. The Blue Devil back four’s hesitant challenges opened just enough of a window for Jobe to take aim, and the Clemson senior, playing in her final home game, fired with all the power she could muster. “Shejust really did a goodjob ofrunning at us,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “She realized that nobody stepped to her, and shejust unleashed a cannon right in the corner.” On Senior Night at Riggs Field, Clemson (9-4-5, 2-3-5 in the ACC) charged out of the gates with the reckless abandon of a team fighting for its postseason life. The Tigers needed the win to secure a berth in next weekend’s conference tournament and to preserve their hopes of an invitation to the NCAA tournament. Though the Blue Devils (8-4-6, 3-3-4) knew they would face a dogfight from the opening whistle, Clemson played like it had more at stake throughout the first 45 minutes. “In the first half, I felt like they played

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harder than we did—theywon a lotof second balls and were able to keep us pinned in,” Church said. “They were a desperate team, and they played like a desperate team.” Clemson’s energy and clear sense of purpose seemed to throw off the Duke defense at first, and the unit did not respond as it should have. “We weren’t as organized as we would like to be,” defender Lorraine Quinn said. “We needed to be more on the same page. Some people were pressuring and some people weren’t. We needed better communication as a team.” Lipsher made three first-half saves to keep her squad from falling even further behind, but her offensive counterparts could not equalize the score later, despite generating several second-half opportunities. For the game, Duke outshot Clemson 10-8, but only three of the Blue Devils’ attempts were on target. Tiger goalkeeper Ashley Phillips blocked all three, the last a C.J. Ludemann effort in the 86th minute. The nail-biting loss damages Duke’s at-large resume, but the Blue Devils still have one final chance to impress the NCAA selection committee at the ACC tournament, which begins Wednesday at Disney’s Wide World of Sports complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Even though Duke made the postseason tournament with a 9-8-2 record last fall, it knows it must play as if there is no tomorrow because if it drops its quarterfinal matchup, the team’s season might very well be over. “We’re going into the ACC tournament like we need wins,” Quinn said. “Nothing’s ALEXIS STEELE/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO guaranteed for us at all.” CJ. Ludemann had Duke's last chance at a score in the 86th minute of theBlue Devils' 1-0 loss at Clemson. —

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DUKE 10 47 CLEMSON

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AROUNDTHEACC Florida State 27 -No. 2 BCI7

Geno Hayes returned Matt Ryan's third interception for a 38-yard touchdown with 1:10 to play on Saturday night to help Florida State beat second-ranked Boston College 27-17, ending the Eagles' run at an unbeaten season and shaking up the BCS standings yet again. With the loss by BC, only Ohio State, Kansas and Hawaii remain unbeaten. A handful of one-loss teams—LSU, Oregon and Oklahoma among them—had their hopes for reaching the Bowl Championship Series title game aided by Florida State. (AP)

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Mikell Simpson ran 1 yard for a touchdown with 2:18 to play Saturday and Virginia beat No. 21 Wake Forest 17-16, the Cavaliers' third onepoint victory in four games. Wake Forest drove to Virginia's 30 in the ’closing seconds, but Sam Swank, one ofthe best kickers in the ACC, missed a 47-yard field goal attempt with 2 seconds left. (AP)

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As he broke through the line of scrimmage early in the third quarter, defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase was sure he had Clemson running back James Davis trapped in the backfield. But then something happened that Oghobaase could do nothing about—Davis used his superior speed to bounce outside. No Blue Devil defender could touch him, and 70 yards later down the right sideline, the Tigers had quelled any slim hope Duke had to vanquish a 33-7 lead. “I thought I stopped him myself, but he has field vision like no one else,” Oghobaase said. “He made a hell of a play —hell of a long run.” That long run summed up Duke’s day on the field, as Clemson (7-2, 4-2 in the ACC) exploded for numerous big plays en route to a 47-10 victory over the Blue Devils Saturday afternoon in Wallace Wade Stadium. Since Duke’s 16-13 home stunner over Clemson in 2004, the Blue Devils (1-8, 06) have not won a game against an ACC opponent. “Well, it seemed like we were ready to play,” Duke head coach Ted Roof said. “We seemed out of sync a little bit and part of that is staying on schedule and making

big plays.” The Blue Devils gave up 12 plays of 10 yards or more on the day, a number that does not include 167 kickoff yards on just three returns. Early in the first period, however, Duke was the squad making the big plays and looked like the team to beat. With 9:10 remaining and the ball at Clemson’s 45-yard line on second-and6, quarterback Thaddeus Lewis audibled

before snapping the ball. Lewis dropped back and lofted it down the left sideline to wideout Eron Riley. Riley out-fought and out-leaped the defender, hauling in the ball near the 10-yard line and stumbling down to the five. Two plays later, Lewis found Riley wide open in the back of the end zone for the 7-0 lead. Riley, though, would never touch the ball again, and Duke’s hopes for an upset seemed to vanish soon after. The next drive, Clemson started racking up yardage, as wide receiver Kendrick Taylor caught one pass in the middle for 11 yards and then grabbed another for 26 yards. The Tigers’ other star running back, CJ. Spiller, also got in the act on a reverse later that drive, when he Juked away from linebacker Charles Robinson in the backfield and rushed for 11 yards. Duke lucked out when quarterback Cullen Harper just missed an open Tyler Grisham for a touchdown and Clemson had to settle for a field goal, but the cracks in the team’s defense had become apparent Over the next 33 minutes, the Tigers turned a 7-3 struggle into a 40-7 cakewalk as they went three-and-out just twice while tallying 298 of their 350 offensive yards. Conversely, Duke went three-and-out seven times over that same stretch and racked up

just 70 yards. “They pretty much capitalized on all the big plays and made points on them,” Oghobaase said. “I don’t know what the

breakdowns were, but they were very devastating to us.” Even if Oghobaase did not know what the breakdowns were, he can point to where they were: everywhere. On offense, defense and special teams, Duke suffered mental lapses

that allowed Clemson to make big plays In a stretch late in the first half that lasted just over a minute, the team demonstrated just that—allowing a 43-yard pass to a wide open Grisham that set up a touchdown, blocking the wrong defender on the next drive allowing linebacker Corey Vincent to sack Lewis for a safety and failing to cover Spiller on the ensuing kickoff. Spiller then shed would-be tacklers en route to an 84-yard touchdown. That run transformed a manageable 10-7 deficit into an insurmountable 26-7 hole, and all Roof could do was toss his headgear to the side in utter shock and

disappointment.

Duke failed to slow down the Tigers on offense, as the dynamic backfield of Spiller and Davis rushed for 176 yards on 16 carries. Harper, who closed the first quarter with five completions on nine attempts for just 48 yards, finished the game by completing 12-of-17 attempts for 136 yards and two touchdowns. “We knew we had to go in and correct some things and make some adjustments,” Oghobaase said. “There were just some breakdowns and missed tackles in the coverage and the whole defense, but they capitalized on that and made some big plays that hurt us.” Nine games into the season, Duke still cannot explain why the team is making so many mental errors. With 12 penalties for 80 yards highlighting the team’s mental woes —including several offsides calls where the defensive linemen simply did not concentrate —the Blue Devils can only wonder how good they would be if they

played smarter.

“I don’tknow the answer,” Oghobaase said. “If I did, we’d probably be 9-0 right now.”

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Duke running back Re'quan Boyette gets taken down by a pack of Tigers in the Blue Devils'47-10 loss to Clemson Saturday afternoon at Wallace Wade Stadium.

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Eron Riley goes for a grab (left); quarterback Thaddeus Lewis pitches the football (top right); fullback Clifford Harris gets drilled in Duke's 47-10 loss Saturday (bottom right).

ictory vanishes in a mere 39 seconds by

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When quarterback Thaddeus Lewis opped under center at the Duke 26-yard ie, down 10-7 with less than four minutes reaming in the first half, the Blue Devils still

id a chance to win. Four minutes and a Clemson touch)wn, safety and kick-return score later, the chance disappeared quicker than fans at Walame lace Wade Stadium. naiysis That critical stretch, when Clemson took a commanding 26-7 lead, guarded that there would be no reprise of the n-field celebration that occurred the last time Tigers visited Durham in 2004. Sixteen points in 39 seconds. Another loss in 39 seconds Almost every facet of the team unraveled: le offense stagnated, the defense splintered the special teams split wide-open. The ■gers capitalized on all three breakdowns to °re and effectively end the game. The Lewis-led offense, which embarked on touchdown drive on its second possession, ailed late in the second half, as it has in too ia ny games this year. Lewis threw on three out ‘six plays on the scoring drive, but only passed 6-of-20 first-half plays following that drive, when he took the ball with 3:39 left on his 26, Duke really was still in the game. The Blue Devils didn’t even need to score to y in it—if they had simply put together a deat drive and killed the clock to keep the ball ay from the Tigers, they would have gone

into the locker room with a legitimate glimmer Yet, down 10 points with three timeouts at of hope, down only three to the No. 25 team in its disposal, Duke ran into arun blitz. Roofand the country. his players defended that decision after the Instead, Duke went three-and-out. A game, claiming they were waiting for a big play hurried Lewis threw an incomplete pass to on the ground to make their move. “The holding penalty changed our plans,” Re’quan Boyette, Ronnie Drummer ran for three on second down and Lewis threw behead coach Ted Roof said. “We didn’t want to hind a slanting Jomar Wright on third. Even get back into a situation where we didn’tforce if the sliding Wright had caught the ball, them to use those timeouts. On third down, we though, he still would have been behind the were going to throw a long pass, and figured if first-down marker. To make matters worse, it got picked off, it would at least be a punt.” Duke’s standout wide receiver Eron Riley But the Blue Devils have unequivocally found himself in rare single-coverage down been at their best when Lewis throws to Riley the left sideline when Lewis, under pressure, or Wright. Even the team’s longest play Satthrew to Wright over the middle. urday was a 40-yard jump-ball from Lewis to Clemson took the ball back one minute Riley, who leaped above the cornerback for later on its own 41-yard line, and even the most the reception. That’s what he does best. The 6-foot-3 Riley is a big-play receiver that will optimistic, die-hard Duke fans must have suspected that the momentum had swung to the eventually suit up on Sundays. He is the only side of the orange and purple. At that point, it Duke receiver that can jump over defenders would have been more surprising if Clemson or come down with a pass that seems fated for didn’t score to extend the lead. Of course, the the ground. So with three timeouts, why not take a shot Tigers did score. Still, down 17-7 with one minute left, the downfield? Throw the ball 50-yards in the air, Blue Devils were in the game. After a holding and let Riley chase it down. Worst-case scepenalty pushed Duke back to its 10-yard line, nario, a defender wresties it from Riley and it Drummer rushed on first down for a loss of serves as a long punt. four and Boyle ran for four on second down. Instead, Duke ran twice and then Lewis, Clemson took two of its remaining three trying to throw on a rollout, was sacked in the timeouts and literally forced Duke to do what end-zone for a safety. Yes, Duke has to establish it should have been doing the whole time: a running game, which has become a painstakthrow the ball. ing process this year. But late in the first half, The Blue Devils are 1-7 and 0-5 in the conwhen good teams execute a two-minute drill ference. They haven’t won at Wallace Wade (or, in this case, a one-minute drill) to reverse since 2005, and they haven’t beaten a Division- their fortunes, the Blue Devils exacerbated I opponent at home since 2004. This team has theirs and showed exactly why they are not yet a good team. nothing to lose.

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Freshman Kyle Singler led all Duke scorers Saturday evening with 27 points (left); sophomore Jon Scheyer attacks the basket (top right); Freshman Nolan Smith comes off a Singler screen on the drive (bottom right).

Blue Devils show bite against Bulldogs at home by

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For 10 minutes Saturday, Division-II Barton did more than just hang around against

No. 13 Duke—the Bulldogs dealt with the Blue Devils’ aggressive defense, made open shots and stretched their lead to 16-11. Then Duke woke up. The Blue Devils closed the first half in Cameron Indoor Stadium with a 36-11 run and carried that momentum into the second period, running all over Barton en route to a 105-44 victory in their final exhibition game of the season. “Initially they handled our pressure real well,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We Just seemed to be ahead of ourselves and didn’t finish a lot of plays. Obviously we should win, but they challenged us and never gave up, and I thought our kids played hard the whole time.” Early in the game, Barton took its time on offense and protected the ball in transition. With the Bulldogs refusing to play to the Blue Devils’ desired tempo, Duke could not create the turnovers it needed to fuel its new fast-paced style. Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils were forced to play defense for 30 seconds at a time before sprinting downcourt in search of an easy layup, only to take a quick shot and return to the defensive end. That all changed midway through the first half, as Duke’s pressure proved too

much for Barton to handle. Over the last 30 minutes of the game the Blue Devils showcased their ball-handling and unselfishness along the perimeter and in transition. Freshman Nolan Smith dished out six assists and led the fast break effectively, and the team’s obvious advantage in athleticism and depth made the transition from defense to offense smooth. Duke’s defense forced 36 turnovers against the overmatched Bulldogs. Senior captain DeMarcus Nelson led the way with six steals, as nine different players recorded steals on the day and Duke turned those Barton mistakes into 50 points on the break. Junior Martynas Pocius’ behind-theback pass to Smith late in the first half and Smith’s first-half buzzer-beater highlighted Duke’s desire to run as often and as quickly as possible. “We read the paper about what they had done to Shaw and how they were trapping and pressing and pushing the ball,” Barton head coach Ron Lievense said. “We prepared for that yesterday, but you really need a week to prepare for that. Duke took advantage of our poor communication in filling our lanes and got great shots.” On the offensive end, forward Kyle Singler impressed again, scoring a game-high 27 points on 10-for-12 shooting. The fresh-

man got to the basket and rebounded ef-

fectively against the shorter Barton players, capping his day with an emphatic putback dunk early in the second half. Including

the Blue Devils’ game against Shaw last

Thursday, Singler has scored 50 points on 20-for-23 shooting. “Kyle is obviously a special player,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s got real good talent, and he plays every second and he’s 6-foot-9, so that makes him a good guy to have on your team.” One area in which the team continued to struggle was its 3-point shooting. In the first half, Duke made just l-of-12 attempts from beyond the arc. The Blue Devils shot better in the second half, going 5-for-15, but Krzyzewski said his players had been making the fundamental error of moving their feet while

shooting.

“For the first two games, most of the time when we’ve shot threes we’ve been moving,” Krzyzewski said. “Part of that is we’re playing defense so hard that when we get to the other end and we’re running, you have to pause just a little bit.” With the exhibition schedule over, the Blue Devils begin their regular season Friday in Cameron against North Carolina Central. Although Duke’s competition will certainly improve, the players hope their fan-friendly style of play continues.

“I’m having a lot of fun,” Smith said. “Playing with so many great players makes it easy out there, and we are out there running and just making plays.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Blue Devils

come

back for win, sweep series

on the offensive end, blocking was crucial for the Blue Devils to earn the victory. With the No. 14 Blue Devils facing a Duke outblocked Florida State 16.5 to 12, potential second defeat at the hands of with DeMange and Jourdan Norman each an ACC opponent, they turned to their swatting away six. After starting the match with a domisenior class for guidance. And once Carrie nant win in Game 1, the Blue Devils again, DeMange and Ali had difficulties handling the Seminoles’ 3 DUKE Hausfeld pulled lineup change in the second frame, The MIAMI hitting power of the Seminoles’ Makini through and secured the 3-2 win Thompson and Mira Djuric overwhelmed DUKE Duke’s defense and recorded 14 comfor Duke. FSU Despite hand- bined kills. After winning Game 3, the Blue Devily defeating the Seminoles 3-0 earlier in the season, the ils found themselves down eight. Though Duke eventually lost the match, the Blue Blue Devils (20-4, 15-1 in the ACC) narDevils clawed their way back into the game defeated Florida State 30Saturday rowly thanks to an 11-5 run. 24, 25-30, 30-27, 28-30, 16-14. “We spotted them way too many points,” When Duke was down 11-8 in the final game against the Seminoles (12-12, 9-7), Nagel said of her team’s performance in the team called a timeout to reshift the the fourth game. “But we refocused and gameplan back to the seniors. DeMange tied it at 28. Thanks to our comeback, we and Hausfeld took over, earning three regained the momentum and hoped it straight kills to tie the score at 11. The would carry us over.” duo then combined for nine points to On Friday night, Duke posted a conpush the Blue Devils ahead 16-14 and win vincing 3-0 defeat over conference foe Miami (10-14, 4-11). Sophomore Rachel Moss the match. “In Game 5, we had to pick it up and led the team with 13 kills and 14 digs. The play up a notch,” head coach Jolene Nagel Blue Devils served 10 aces in the match, said. “We could’ve gotten rattled and lost with Moss, DeMange, designated server confidence [in Game 4], but we showed a Shelley Capito and libero Jenny Shull each lot ofcharacter by hanging in together as a contributing two. Conference play continues for Duke, team and fought back.” Hausfeld finished the day with 59 assists, with the team traveling down south to take 12 digs and eight blocks, including two in on GeorgiaTech and Clemson Nov. 8 and 9, the final match. DeMange added 22 kills respectively. With the matchup against the Tigers, the Blue Devils will look to avenge and 12 digs for a double-double. While the seniors controlled the tempo their lone ACC loss of the season. by

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M. SOCCER from page 2 tie the score. shot of the “That’s just an awful mistake by our goalkeeper,” head coach John Rennie said. “That was a devastating point in the game—the turning point of the game, no question. It gave them all the confidence in the world. For 20 minutes, they didn’t have a thing, anything. We had a goal, we had the lead, we had everything under control. And then, just an awful mistake, it’s a tie game, and it gives them new life.” Papadakis was pulled to start the second half, but not before the Bulldogs took their first lead in the 41st minute off another free kick. Henry Kabeta bent the ball to the outside left, where Rogers Atugonza was positioned perfectly to head the game—to

ball into the top left comer. ‘You’ve got to give Alabama A&M credit,” seniordefenseman Darrius Barnes said. “They came in here and had a plan. They got physical with us, we weren’t ready and we didn’trespond early. So it paid off for them in the end.” Duke now has five days offbefore finishing its regular season in Raleigh Saturday against N.C. State. The Blue Devils could use the break after playing four games in a span of 10 days and with senior captain Michael Videira nursing a quadriceps injury that could keep him out for four more weeks. “We need rest. There were a lot of tired bodies out here,” Medcalf said. “And then we need to put in some work. There’s a lot of things we need to work on before we head into the ACC tournament and before N.C. State.”

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Junior Mike Grellatallied one ofDuke's three goals in a 4-3 upset loss Sundayafternoon at Koskinen Stadium.

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Senior Carrie DeMange came through in the dutch for Duke, sealing a Gai

Rowing squad takes two tides

Two boats, in both the open and novice divisions, secured first-place finishes and three other boats placed in the top five at the Head of the Hooch on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tenn. this weekend. The 4X squad of Janet Bartholdson, Kate Kearney, Michelle Lancto and Emily Rothfield won the open 4X. Sophomore Danielle Beckerman also took gold in the novice single division. Lia Hart, a two-time All-American, finished second in the championship singles division, narrowly edging out teammates Laura Fisher and Laurel Sisler, who crossed the finish line sixth and seventh.

PHOI

5 victory and match win Saturday

tional Player of the Year Amanda Blumenherst and senior Jennifer Pandolfi both won 1-up, and sophomore Alison Whitaker clinched Duke’s fourth point with a 4-and-3 victory. In the second round, Oklahoma State seized early advantages in all five matches but was soon caught by a charging Duke squad. Blumenherst leads 1-up after 15 holes, and Lee and Pandolfi lead 1-up after 14 holes. Pandolfi is all-square in hermatch after 15 holes. This is Duke’s first and only match-play tournament of the year. Should the topseeded and second-ranked Blue Devils advance, they will begin their semifinal match Monday at 9:30 a.m.

Doubles falls in Ohio, singles win in Cary Junior Melissa Mang and sophomore Amanda Granson fell 8-2 Sunday to North Carolina in the finals of the ITA National Indoor Championships consolation bracket in Columbus, Ohio. The series between the two rivals’ top doubles tandem is now tied at one. The Blue Devils had more success closer to home at the Duke Invitational at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C. Sophomore Elizabeth Plotkin won her match 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, and junior Jessi Robinson also triumphed in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1. After taking the first set, senior Tory Zawacki lost in three to Wake Forest’s Emilee Malvehy, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3. Duke dominates in opening day in match play Top-seeded Duke defeated No. 16 TCU 4-1 and led No. 9 Oklahoma State in three offive matches Sunday in the National Golf Coaches Association Collegiate Match Play Championship in Kissimmee, Fla. The ongoing contest, suspended due to darkness yesterday, resumes today. In the Blue Devils’ first match, junior point, Jennie Lee secured Duke’s first with a closing the match on the 13th hole 6-and-5 triumph. Two-time defending Na-

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JuniorJennie Lee paced top-seeded Duke on Day 1 of the NGCA Collegiate Match Play Championship.

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BRODHEAD from page 1 implemented during the past four years,” Levin said. It was Brodhead’s passion for undergraduate education that made him an appealing candidate to succeed Nannerl Keohane in

2004, Peter Nicholas, then-chair of the Board of Trustees, told The Chronicle in 2004. When he came to Duke, Brodhead said he noticed a structural deficit, which was one reason the dean of undergraduate education position was created last March. Steve Nowicki was installed in the post in July. “The Duke administrative structure worked because people worked so hard, because they tried so hard... to compensate for structural weaknesses,” Brodhead said. “What we did last year is change the structure so that the structure would support what you’re trying to accomplish.” In addition to his other efforts, such as the massive Financial Aid Initiative, Brodhead said he will continue to engage community interaction and examine aspects of the Interim Report on Undergraduate Education. In some ways, the undergraduate education dean’srole is analogous to Brodhead’s old position at Yale in its promotion of under-

dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle in October. “Alignments will certainly take into account the new opportunities afforded by Dean Nowicki’s there could be Duke versions of charter.” One result of the new posithese things that we could still tion is that regardless of the create.” Currently, searches are unreplacement, Thompson’s secderway to replace deans of both ond post as vice provost for unTrinity College of Arts and Sci- dergraduate education will be eliminated, Provost Peter Lange confirmed. [My role at Yale] gave me Pratt has itself been without a head since forapproach mer dean Kristina Johnto eductaion.” son left in August to become provost of Johns

graduate issues. He noted, however, that there are key differences between the two posts. “It never was and never will be my plan to recreate that at Duke,” Brodhead said. “But

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Engineering, and options for redefining these roles are being considered. Bob Thompson, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, announced his resignation Oct. 18 and will vacate his post a month after John Burness, vice president for government relations and public affairs, steps down June 30, 2008. Thompson said he plans to return to

teaching Aug. 1.

“We are examining a number of ways of organizing Trinity to insure that the momentum Bob created is sustained and advanced,” George McLendon,

Hopkins University. Robert Clark has served as interim dean since then. The Pratt School dean search committee has convened six times since its inaugural meeting, and an announcement of the new dean is expected by March 2008, Lange wrote in an August letter to Pratt faculty and students. Although the Yale model essentially incorporates Duke’s deanships within the Dean of the College post, Brodhead said he has no plans to combine them. “I think we created the position of the dean of undergraduate education the way we wanted to, so it’s not like a...

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It never was and never will be my plan to recreate that at Duke. But there could be Duke versions of these things that we could still create.

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versity “maintain the Quad Model but with concentrated efforts in diversifying residential options and restructuring Quad Councils.” But in a subsequent section, the report expresses the desire to “expand the number and variety of Living/Leaming Communities and Theme

Housing.” These two suggestions are clearly at odds with one another—one suggests maintaining a quad model that this board has become convinced does not really exist, and another argues for a change that would further fragment an already-segregated student body. Such problems were also evident in the Interim Report. We also question if there is a student interest in ei-

ther of these initiatives. The present campus situation already has an extensive variety of selective living groups, themed housing, and living/learning communities. It seems unlikely there is enough of a demand to create too many more. Overall, the report is wellintentioned, and is a good effort by Campus Council to identify areas of student residential life in need of improvement. The next step is clear: Campus Council should now focus on defining specific objectives and do its best to accomplish them. The small details are not necessarily trivial details. And Campus Council has shown time and again that it does the best job with the little things.

Lessons from rural lowa and Craig T. Nelson

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namic and lively residential communities on West and Central campuses. The report contains a number of proposed changes for the new Central Campus. These suggestions are largely irrelevant, however; little is still known on the exact nature of the new Central and what can and cannot work. Any suggestions at this point will remain-just that—suggestions. Campus Council should focus more energy on getting tangible things accomplished now, especially in regard to the living situation on West Campus—an entity that is not set for a major overhaul in the near future. A major conflict in the report is the issue of the “quad model.” Campus Council at once advocates that the Uni-

hope I don’t kill a deer sometime in the next with the hippies who chain themselves to trees two months. Driving through rural lowa, I and face the wrath of a thousand land developprobably travel more than 700 miles a week, ers and a million grumpy suburbanites. On the and at least every day I slam on the brakes as one of other hand, you look rapacious and short-sightthe animals leaps across a two-lane state highway or ed if you build retirement homes in the middle of a fire hazard or encourage other people to do county gravel road. After years of beso. To paraphrase and old adage, you’re darned if you don’tand danged if you do. ing hunted, I guess It’s a tough choice to take a stand on the isthis is their form of sue, ate but I think something must change. If things —th re nrevenge continue as they are, we should start getting used ing drivers with the to annual droughts. The fastest growing counties possibility of several hundred dollars in body work frank hoileman Across out of the pan... nature country, seems to be striking back in other, more dangerous ways. The entire Southeast is currently in the midst of a terrible drought. Atlanta is facing the prospect of running out of water entirely. Across the country, Southern California is facing massive wildfires that are causing millions of dollars in property damage. Of course, the alarmist media hype that surrounds all natural calamities, from shark attacks to cicada swarms, has almost assuredly blown both disasters out of proportion. But it can’t be denied that fall 2007 has been the season of nature’s revenge. Even George W. Bush, after his downright negligent handling of Hurricane Katrina relief, has taken notice of these calamities. Last week he flew over the California wildfires to survey the damage. Although the gesture was largely meaningless, it at least made him look compassionate. I can understand why the president would opt to fly over the problem, generally keeping the entire thing at arm’s length. It’s hard to come away from any of these disasters looking very good. They’re essentially the result of runaway, greedy development. Atlanta has been growing like a concrete and glass tumor for decades, and housing in parts of California has been almost uninsurable for years. Even the deer problem in northeast lowa can be traced to a human desire to expand agriculture while wiping out the troublesome predators that would otherwise keep the deer population in check. It’s obvious that human expansion needs to be changed in some way, but to advocate any shift in course makes you look like a tree-hugging laughingstock. You become unfairly lumped in

in the United States are largely suburban or rural

places, where new development continually bites into former wildernesses. Wildfires and wildlife won’t make any exceptions for these new homes and Wal-Marts. Like the real estate agent played by Craig T. Nelson in the classic movie “Poltergeist,” we will continue to be haunted by the disturbed ghosts of the land we hungrily develop. Instead of cheesy special effects, however, we’ll be assaulted by continually worsening ecological problems that will be dutifully reported on cable news. In “Poltergeist,” the haunted house is eventually destroyed by the tormented spirits possessing it. We can only hope that our cities don’t meet the same fate dealt out by a peeved Mother Nature. After all, in the movie the distressed family could simply flee their house before it was destroyed. The entire population of Atlanta doesn’t really have that option. Not all my deer experiences have nearly resulted in insurance claims. A few days ago as I was driving down a rural route, and I stopped as I saw a buck deer standing at the side of the road. I rolled my window down and we looked at each other for a minute or two. It was a calming moment shared between man and nature during the first dusk of November. Every once in a while I need a quiet minute like that to keep me going. I hope that in the future, Americans can look at nature like that and feel rejuvenated, instead of staring at the woods at the edge of their lawn as a potential enemy. And I hope that the next businessman plotting a subdivision has his own moment like that, to remind him that there may be away to be a partner with nature, instead of its adversary. Frank Holleman is every other Monday.

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the liquor out ofits hiding place, put that fish bowl full of condoms back on your coffee table and throw those crisp, unused textbooks back in the closet where they belong. We’ve survived another Parents’ Weekend! It’s the one weekend a year you have to convince your parents that they’re spending their money wisely by sending you to Duke instead of that state school back home. “Sure Duke costs three times as much,” you say, “but have you seen the Plaza misters?” For many, the weekend is also a time of explanation. monday, monday Finally your parents get to Scrubs see what you’ve been up to when you say you’ve been studying all night long. Basically, it’s a time to explain, “Yes Dad, this building with all the books is called Shooters.” Instead ofmy parents this weekend, I was lucky enough to get a visit from my 80-year-old Nana. My Nana is the archetypal grandmother. Every time she sees me, she swears I’ve grown another foot. If you tried to gauge my height based solely on her comments, you would have guessed I was Brian Zoubek. It is literally impossible to escape a visit from my Nana without eating and taking home more food than one could consume in a lifetime at the Marketplace. And just in case I should I ever arrive at her doorstep without warning, my Nana has converted her old 1960 s nuclear fallout shelter into a storage facility for pecan pies. It doesn’t stop with food either. My Nana is so accommodating that she will actually offer me every item in her home. On my way out her door, she usually chimes in, “Take these paper towels. You’re gonna need paper towels! Do you need another lamp for your apartment? Here, I don’t use this one.” And if you ever witnessed the way my Nana slips me money, you’d think she was bribing me to spend more time with her (which she probably was). When we hug, my Nanais smoother at planting a five-spot in my palm than Robert De Niro in “Goodfellas.” To sum up, my Nana is—quite literally—from a different time. I’ve learned that my hours spent with her are as close as the human race will ever come to time travel. Bom 59 years before the invention of me, she speaks a completely different language. Rather than “classes” or “performances,” she always asks me how my “lessons” or “programs” are going. And over the course of the weekend I learned that Duke is not designed for Nanas. It’s startling to find out the limited number ofactivities available at Duke that don’tinvolve alcohol.And that’s in spite of the feet that some activities on campus have been created for the sole purpose of entertainingyour parents. In feet, ifit weren’t for Parents’ Weekend, theLemur Center probably wouldn’t exist After I’d taken Nana to see everything there is to see at Duke (read; the Chapel, Cameron Indoor and the Gardens), I tried to give her a feel for my Duke life. But at every turn I was met with confusion. Granted, it took me three years to figure it out myself, but Nanas cannot grasp the idea of a public policy major. I ended up having to tell her I was majoring in “Government.” Now I’m pretty sure she thinks I want to be president. But everything this weekend paled in comparison to the dizzying confusion caused by Awaaz. To preface, let me explain that my Nana was bom and raised in Graham, N.C., and has probably never left the state for an appreciable time. She taught me how to be Southern, watch NASCAR and drink sweet tea. But until this weekend, the only Indian person my Nana had ever seen worked in a casino.When I asked her what her favorite part of the performance was, she responded, “I liked the dancing part.” Above all else, I realized this weekend that my Nana is extremely proud of me. I don’t think there’s a person in her town that doesn’t know she has a grandson that attends Duke University. She tells people about me like it’s attached to her name. “Hi, I’m Ruby. My grandson goes to Duke” to which they usually respond, ‘Yes ma’am, paper or plastic?” So whether you spent it with your Nana or your parents, Parents’ Weekend can be a stressful time. More than convincing our families that Duke is a good investment, we spend much of our time here worrying how to make our families and our parents proud of us. But if there’s anything my Nana has taught me, it’s that they probably already are.

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am a cold, cold person. No, not of the ice queen variety —more of the ice cube-without-proper-outerwear ilk. I dread the warm months of the year, when buildings are kept frigid by that most evil of innovations, air conditioning. My thumbs literally go numb as I wonder why I bother to wear anything classified as “summer weight.” It’s always winter to me, whether in here or out there So you can imagine how thrilled I am when I can switch from bundling up against the brutal gales of, ahem, rachael massed

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a building. I Whoever invented air conditioning must have been the evil twin of the person responsible for heat, whom I thank as my personal savior every time I crank up the thermostat. But to what, exactly, do I owe that blessed warmth emanating from the vent above my roommate’s bed (regardless of whether it’s dispersing mold spores as well; see Causes for Few Quad renovations )? It turns out that all heat on campus, as well as all sterilization processes in the hospital and humidity controls for artwork and laboratories, are generated by Duke’s very own steam plant. “What steam plant?” you might be thinking. I was as surprised to learn about it as you may be. Even more surprising is that three of its six boilers run on coal—and lots of it. In order to produce 1.3 billion pounds of steam per year, the plant burns 54,000 tons of coal. The plant even has a set of railroad tracks leading directly to two 100-ton roof bunkers that feed coal to boilers, which allows it to stockpile between 4,000 and 6,000 tons of coal at a time. If you don’t believe me, you can go check out the heaping black mountain at the end of the aptly-named Coal Pile Drive, behind the LSRC and the hospital. An impressive sight, indeed, even if it’ll never make it on to the campus tour. At this point, you’re probably expecting me to launch into a diatribe against such an easy target as coal, and indeed, it wouldn’t be hard. While living for a summer in eastern Kentucky—the source, along with West Virginia, for most of Duke’s coal—l enter

saw for myself the environmental and economic devastation left in the wake of strip mining and mountaintop removal. The bleak “reclaimed” landscapes and pervasive poverty are just the start of it. It also wouldn’t be difficult to criticize the use of coal on the grounds of its contributions to global warming. Heck, I’m in Earth and Ocean Sciences 155: Global Warming right now, and my professor would probably love it if I explained how burning fossil fuels like coal not only releases “ancient sunlight” into the atmosphere but also adds greenhouse gases to it. But a tirade on the evils of coal is not my intention. In fact, Duke’s steam plant is extremely well-run, by all accounts, and it is either in compliance with or often ahead of the latest environmental standards. Emissions must pass through 820 filters that collect particles and remove 99.7 percent of soot and ash before they are released through the smokestacks, and newly added $4.5-million “lime scrubbers” further remove gases and heavy metals. Duke even recycles 8,000 tons of ash annually to make concrete blocks, walking trails and roadbeds. It’s difficult, therefore, to come to a rigid judgment on this issue. Yes, coal is bad for the environment on many fronts, and is ultimately unsustainable as an energy source. And yes, our society should certainly move away from reliance on fossil fuels if we hope to continue living life as we’ve known it since the Industrial Revolution. But what, exactly, is Duke’s role in that shift? What is our role as Duke students? Workable alternatives to the current system are unclear at best. Perhaps when they finally do emerge, we should do everything we can to encourage the University to adapt accordingly. In the meantime, I urge you to be aware of the sources of our energy and of the far-reaching implications of the tiny actions that, in aggregate, add up to a lived life. Locating ourselves within the enormously complex web of interrelated processes and systems that make up modern life allows us to see ourselves as active agents in the world, rather than passive cogs in the machine. When fall and, inevitably, winter finally set in, I may not forego cranking up my beloved thermostat. But at least I’ll know at what cost I do so—and in case I forget, I can always steal a piece ofcoal from Coal Pile Drive and use it as a paperweight.

Rachael Massell is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

letterstotheeditor Noia argument insensitive, flawed that “gay sex is wrong” is insensitive and hurtful. He begins by questioning why there should be emphasis on gay pride and asks if he should “be proud because I’m white.” In that comment he reflects an insensitivity to the difference between being a part of a large majority and being a part of an often vilified minority. Gays are referred to by epithets and long have been made to feel ashamed. “Gay pride” is about gays and lesbians being encouraged to be proud of who they are as human beings and that includes their sexuality. The rest of Mr. Noia’s column expresses opposition to gay marriage. This is based on his assertion that the “social basis for marriage is procreation.” But heterosexuals can marry even if one or both are incapable of procreating or they have no interest in having children. And contrary to Mr. Noia’s assertion, gay and lesbian couples do have children, through surrogacy, adoption and artificial insemination (all techniques also used by heterosexuals). Marriage is about expressing love and commitment and receiving the many benefits the law bestows on married couples. Sexual orientation should have nothing to do with this. Mr. Noia says that for expressing his views he will be subjected to “bullying” and “intimidation.” He certainly has the right to express his views, but free speech also includes the right of others to criticize him for sounding bigoted and insensitive. If he believes that “gay sex is wrong,” he shouldn’t have gay sex, but he shouldn’tbe making pronouncements on the sexuality of others. Erwin Chemerinsky Professor, Law and Political Science

Justin Noia’s Nov. 1 column declaring

“Marriage” is based on love, devotion The tangled skein of Justin Noia’s spurious argument begs response (“I don’t hate gays (and neither does God),” Nov. 1). I shall confine myself to questioning one idea. This is the fear that society will crumble under the tenuous foundations of marriages based on love. First of all, Noia seems to equate “normal, stable” with non-unnatural. Now this means that the spousal abuser who rapes his wife and impregnates her is carrying out the purpose of a normal, stable family—after all, he is procreating in away consonantwith biological features. Now, I think that Noia might consider this a tad off the mark. But why is this? Because normal and stable are not just predicated on the idea of procreative ability, but on something else as well. Normal and stable families are normal and stable because of that “arbitrary” idea oflove. Society does not get on because humanity continues to propagate itself. Society gets on because people are connectedwith each other. Ifpeople had babies but hated or didn’t have connections with one another, there would be humanity, but no society. And since Noia has propounded that marriage has a social purpose, he should accede that the social purpose will be tied up not only with temporal continuance but also present harmony. And harmony, as I think most would agree, is very well served by the notion oflove. So in declaring that the definitionof marriage be expanded to include relationships based on love, we are not falling into some abyss where society will die out, but rather strengthening society by emphasizing that element by which society becomes possible—that is, love or true, committed devotion to other human beings. Leslie Kirkman Trinity ’OB

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