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A new set of requirements for registering social events on campus may save students time and paperwork. The new system, developed by Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery and Chris Roby, director of the Office of

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communication procedures to be implemented in case of an on-campus emergency were sent to all parents via mail over the holiday break. The revamped plan —which primarily focuses on more efficient methods of notification in case of a crisis—was unveiled Nov. 7. A similar letter and brochure was also mailed to all undergraduate students. “Following the tragic shooting at Virgin* ia Tech this spring, many of us at Duke, like others across the country, began to ask the ‘How would we have ed?’” Larry Moneta, resident for student rs, wrote in the letto parents. “We ave since completed a thorough review of our emergency preparedness and made a number of enhancements in our emergency plans, communication procedures and technical capabilities.” Some parents said although the new emergency procedures were a promising start, more could be done to ensure the safety of students. “These are the things that should already be in place—they are just general guidelines,” said Rekha Patel, mother of a Duke sophomore. “In extreme situations,

Coming off of back-to-back victories against Cornell and Temple, Duke takes on Virginia, its first ACC foe of the season, Sunday at 8 p.m. in CameronIndoor Stadium.

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The Recording Industry Association of America has 16 more illegal file-sharing pre-litigation letters to Duke students, the organization announced Thursday. The most recent batch ofletters is part of an ongoing legal campaign to deter the transfer of copyrighted files among college students. In the first wave of the new year, the RIAA once again offered defendants the option of settling out of court, orapprox imate jy $3,500, or facing potential fines as high as ■poo,ooo in court Bringing lawsuits has never been our first choice,” Jonathan Lamy, RIAA senior vice president ofcommunica10ns sa *d in a ’ statement. “But for those who continually jgnore enticing legal alternatives and plentiful warnings, 1 s a necessary part of the equation." U^C ’ ot^er schools, has been a continuing target of h ownloading lawsuits. This month, the RIAA sent out a

Student Activities and Facilities, allows for undergraduates to hold more casual and spontaneous events without first registering them with OSAF. Under the new policy, students no longer need to register events where alcohol is present unless more than 25 people attend. Additionally, nonalcoholic events do not require registration unless they are outdoors and use sound amplification. “Our goal was, based off some of the initial reports from the Campus Culture Initiative, to look at the social scene on campus [in order to] figure out’ ways to help streamline the process for registering events,” Roby said. Other situations no longer requiring registration are advertising; holding events outside a residential space, on the West Campus Quad or on the West Campus Plaza; or using sound amplification indoors. Furthermore, unless University services are required, there is no longer a registration deadline one week prior to the event. These changes, established during Winter Break, comprise the most substantial overhaul of OSAF’s event registration policy in the last five or six years, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. Slattery, a senior, said talks surrounding the CCI Steering Committee Report —in particular the recent conversations held SEE EVENTS ON PAGE 6

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total of 407 letters to 18 universities In November, 26 Duke students received similar pre-litigation letters, and even more letters were delivered earlier in 2007, In order to reach students, the RIAA sends letters to universities using IP addresses identified by the organization’s online dragnet. It then asks university officials to identify the names connectedwith the IPs or pass letters along to offending students. If a university refuses to cooperate, the RIAA has the power to threaten it with subpoenas. Since November, the University has worked to refine its procedure in handling the pre-litigation letters with students, said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “Over the break we’ve been substantially updating the quality and quantity of the information we’re giving students,” he said. “We’ve completely refined the protocol.” The Dean of Students Office will now serve as the primary SEE RIAA ON PAGE 4

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U.S.formallyprotests Iranian harassment by

Matthew Lee

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WASHINGTON

The United States

Thursday lodged a formal diplomatic pro-

Iran over an incident last weekend which Iranian speedboats harassed U.S. in warships in the Persian Gulf. The protest repeats U.S. complaints about Sunday’s “provocative” action in the Strait of Hormuz and was sent to the Iranian Foreign Ministry via the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, the State Department said. “It reiterates the points that we have made publicly in the last few days,” deputy test with

spokesperson Tom Casey told reporters. “We certainly don’t want to see the Iranians taking any kind of provocative actions or provocative steps against our ships or against any ships that are transiting what is a primary international waterway.” In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry officials said they were unaware of the U.S. protest. At a Pentagon news conference, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the Iranian boats had acted “in a pretty aggressive manner.” “What concerned us was first the fact that there were five of these boats and, second, that they came as close as they did to

our ships and behaved in a pretty aggressive manner,” he said. The Bush administration had been considering the move for several days, debating whether a formal protest would have any impact on Iranian behavior, given numerous strong public comments about the incident already delivered by the president and his top aides, according to officials familiar with the discussion. They said the decision to proceed with the protest was made after consensus was reached to back up and reinforce those comments with a formal diplomatic demarche, or communication.

Unpaid phone bills halt FBI wiretaps by

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WASHINGTON Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau’s repeated failures to pay phone bills on time. A Justice Department audit released Thursday blamed the lost connections on the FBl’s lax oversight of money used in undercover investigations. In one office alone, unpaid costs for wiretaps from one phone company totaled $66,000.

In at least one case, a wiretap used in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act investigation “was halted due to untimely payment,” the audit found. FISA wiretaps are used in the government’s most sensitive and secretive criminal and intelligence investigations, and allow eavesdropping on suspected terrorists or spies. “We also found that late payments have resulted in telecommunications carriers actually disconnecting phone lines established to deliver surveillance results to the FBI, resulting in lost evidence,” ac-

cording to the audit by Inspector General Glenn A. Fine. More than half of 990 bills to pay for telecommunication surveillance in five unidentified FBI field offices were not paid on time, the report shows. Assistant FBI Director John Miller said wiretaps were dropped only a few times because of the backed-up billing, which he said didn’t significantly set back the investigations under way. He said the FBI “will not tolerate financial mismanagement, or worse,” and is working to fix the problems.

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Grant from UNC chancellor saves N.C. Literary Festival UNC system felt that they wanted to respond to the concern that they A six-figure grant has rescued had seen in the community about what happens if the festival dies,” UNC from the black list. chancellor of she said. “Everyone kind of rallied. Moeser, James the University of North Carolina at For us, in the library world, it’s a Chapel Hill, announced his deci- wonderful thing. I’m pleasantly sion to invest a surprised but not really surprised, $200,000 grant because I knew the festival had a lot from unreof support in the community.” stricted private The festival has been praised funds to supfor featuring both national and port the North local writers. In his letter, Moeser Carolina Literdescribed the festival as “an outary Festival in standing showcase for the area’s a letter written important literary heritage.” Dec. 14 to PresWhen Duke hosted the event ident Richard in 2006—calling it the North James Moeser Brodhead and Carolina Festival of the 800k—it the chancellors of North Carolina drew big-name authors such as Tom Wolfe, Barbara Kingsolver State University and North Caroand Pat Conroy and cost the Unilina Central University. The biennial festival, founded versity $280,000. Panitch admitin 1998, rotates between UNC, ted that additional funding will NCCU, N.C. State and Duke as be needed for UNC to pull off a hosting schools. The next festival, similar feat in 2009. which was originally scheduled for ‘We are in the beginning of the the spring of 2008 at UNC and is planning process,” Panitch said. now set for the spring of2009, was “Our very first step will be to hire a in danger of being discontinued due to a lack of funding. “It was very good news,” said Judith Panitch, director of library communications at UNC. “We are very grateful for this, and we are very excited. You never know when someone is going to step up and allow for something like this by

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festival director. We know we have some additional fundraising to do as well as the work of actually scheduling the event, contacting the participants and deciding exactly what the theme is we want.” Anna Dahlstein, director of external relations for the NCSU libraries, said she was delighted about the news and noted the importance of this step in furthering collaborations between the Triangle university libraries. “Now that Chapel Hill has been able to secure that [grant] from the chancellor we’re very excited and looking forward to that and looking forward to continue cooperation,” she said. All four institutions will be counted on to aid in additional funding and planning for the 2009 event. “I know that UNC is very committed to putting on a very excellent festival, and we’ll be collaborating with them as well,” Jakubs said. “I’m sure we’ll be hearing a lot more about it as it gets developed.”

The African Children’s Choir has been added to this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. celebration agenda. The group is scheduled to perform Jan. 21. at 3 p.m. in Page Auditorium. It is part of a three-part event tided “The Power ofYouth.” “As Martin Luther King was a positive catalyst for change on behalf ofAfrican Americans suffering human rights abuses, the African Children’s Choir is a voice and positive force for change on behalf of the most vulnerable African children suffering from poverty, war and disease,” Elsa Mugyenzi, the group’s manager, said in a statement.

—from staff reports

Duke chooses strategic philanthropy center chief Edward Skloot, former president of the Surdna Foundation has been named the first director of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy. “We are absolutely delighted to have Ed join us in this important effort,” Bruce Kuniholm, director of the Sanford Insti-

tute, chair of public policy studies and professor of history, said in a statement. Once Skloot assumes his spot this spring, his responsibilities will include administering research and education initiatives at the new center and teaching as a visiting professor of the practice.

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Deborah Jakubs, the Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway university librarian and vice provost for library affairs at Duke, said the negative public outcry following news that the festival would be cancelled most likely had a large impact on the chancellor’s decision to provide the funding. “I’m very heartenedto know that the university administration at the

Choir to perform at MLK celebration

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AuthorTomWolfe speaks at the North Carolina Festival ofthe Book held at Duke in 2006.

candidate for district attorney later this year—has received threatening phone calls because of her alleged involvement in the Duke lacrosse rape case, The Herald-Sun reported Thursday. Cline told The Herald-Sun that she was being harassed with “racist” phone calls. The controversy was spawned by Cline’s alleged part in advising police investigators on drafting a nontestimonial order during the early stages of the investigation, The NTO allowed investigators to photograph and request DNAsam-

pies from 46 of the 47 members of

the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team, The procedure was later called unconstitutional by some attorneys, and the recent lawsuit filed by three unindicted former members of the lacrosse team accuses officers oflying in an affidavit supporting the NTO when they were unable to prove that all 46 players were at the March 13, 2006 party. Cline denied having played a part in the investigation, but notes from two lead investigators indicate that she was present at a March 22, 2006, consultation regarding the NTO.

—from staffreports

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New program gives docs chance to work overseas by

“We’ve actually envisioned this program since we’ve put forth the white paper that initially outlined the Duke Global Health Institute,” said Dr. Chris Woods, an associate professor of infectious diseases. Woods, who will also aid in creating the curriculum for the global-health residency, added that the program was developed further by HYC and DGHI in response to a request from Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “The idea is that this program will expand the existing residency programs in obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, emergency medicine, surgery and internal medicine by adding on extra training for another year,” said Dr. Nathan Thielman, who has been appointed as the program’s faculty director. The residents will use the extra year to

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Those who dreamed of taking their medical ambitions abroad will now have more opportunities to do so at Duke. The new Global Health Residency Program will be available in the 2008-2009 academic year and offers residents a master of public health through the University of North Carolina at Nathan Thielman Chapel Hill and nine months of working overseas at a Duke global-health site. The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health and the Duke Global Health Institut founded the program through funding from the Duke University Health System.

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receive formal public-health training and also work at one of Duke’s global-health sites dealing with prevalent diseases in their specific disciplines, said Thielman, who is also an associate professor of infectious diseases. He added that there are currendy only two sites open for overseas training at Eldoret, Kenya and Moshi, Tanzania. “We plan to expand to Nicaragua and probably to Sri Lanka as the program grows,” Thielman said. Woods said the first batch of residents in the program will receive didactic training at the UNC School of Public Health because Duke currendy does not have enough components of the program on campus. He added, however, that the University will eventually offer a master of global health option in addition to the master of public health. ‘We’re developing what intends to be a

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schools, like the University of Oregon, which has contested the procedure in court. After Duke’s recent overhaul of procedures, Moneta said he does not foresee any major changes in policy in the future. A 2006 study by the Student Monitor—an organization that provides research services on the college student market—found that more than half of college students download music and movies illegally. To challenge the widespread practice, the RIAA has built up a formidable online copyright violation force. Using an intellectual property law passed in 1999, the RIAA can now send generic subpoena letters—linked with a unique IP address—and demand the school to release that individual’s name. Since 2003, the RIAA has processed more than 26,000 lawsuits regarding copyright violations. Although a vast majority of students settle outside of court, many have contested the lawsuits or attempted to have subpoenas quashed before their identifying information is revealed.

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Kerry endorses Obama

at South Carolina rally by

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CHARLESTON, S.C.

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2004 Democratic presidential nominee, gave Barack Obama a timely endorsement Thursday, snubbing Hillary Rodham Clinton as well as his own vice presidential running mate.

Kerry came to South Carolina to embrace Obama, two weeks before the state’s primary and with Obama needing a boost after Clinton’s emotional victory over him in New Hampshire. Quoting a black American hero in endorsing the man who hopes to be the first black president, Kerry told a cheering crowd, “Martin Luther King said that the time is always right to do what is right.” Now is the time, Kerry said, to declare “that Barack Obama can be, will be and should be the next president of the United States.” The Massachusetts senator said there were other candidates he had worked with and respected but Obama was best able to bring Americans together. “Who better than Barack Obama to turn a new page in American politics so that Democrat, independent and Republican alike can look to leadership that unites to find the common ground?” Kerry said. “That’s what this is about.” Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, the third contender in the Democratic presidential race, was Kerry’s vice presidential running mate in 2004. Despite their political alliance, the two men were not close personally and differed behind the scenes on campaign strategy in a race that President George W. Bush won.

Edwards responded to word of the endorsement with a diplomatic statement: “Our country and our party are stronger because of John’s service, and I respect his decision. When we were running against each other and on the same ticket, John and I agreed on many issues.” Edwards defeated Kerry in the 2004 South Carolina Democratic primary. Kerry had considered running again but decided a year ago he would not. Kerry dismissed Obama critics who say the Illinois senator lacks the experience to be president. And he took a swipe at Clinton, saying, “Some have suggested in this campaign that Barack is guilty of raising ‘false hopes....’ My friends, the only charge that rings false is the one that tells you not to hope for a better tomorrow.” In a debate in New Hampshire, the New York senator said in comparing her ability and Obama’s to fulfill pledges to bring about change: “I think it is clear that what we need is somebody who can deliver change. And we don’t need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered. The best way to know what change I will produce is to look at the changes that I’ve already made.” Returning to the subject, Obama said when he took the microphone from Kerry: “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.” Obama supporters were hoping the timing of Kerry’s endorsement could give him a lift as he seeks to put his New Hampshire primary loss behind him. Obama also picked up the endorsement of South Da-

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Sen. JohnKerry standswith Sen.BarackObama at a rally in Charleston, S.C, Thursday where Kerry endorsedObama. kota Sen. Tim Johnson Obama praised Kerry’s Vietnam War service, calling him a patriot and a man ofconviction. Kerry was Obama s political benefactor once before, selecting the relatively unknown Illinois senatorial candidate to deliver the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston. It was Obama’s first turn in the national spotlight and helped launch him on a remark-

able ascent that has made him one of two leading contenders for the party’s presidential nomination only four years later. Kerry had withheld his endorsement, hoping to have an impact on the race and avoid the fate of fellow Democrat A1 Gore, the 2000 nominee who endorsed Howard Dean in 2004 shortly before the former Vermont governor’s campaign imploded. Gore has made no endorsement so far this year.

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SECURITY from page 1 what should [students] do? There need to be specific instructions.” Under the new measures, officials said they hope to notify students, faculty and staff as well as parents and the news media within 30 minutes of being informed of an emergency. Channels of communication include a new Web site where emergency information will be posted, messages posted on Duke’s emergency hot line and alert e-mails that can quickly be sent to all Duke accounts as well as to parents whose addresses are listed on ACES. Patel said an online training system similar to AlcoholEdu—which would provide specific instructions for different emergency scenarios—would be more useful. Some students said they still feel Duke’s emergency plan is too vague. “Any measures you take toward preparing for something like that is good, but I still think you can

prepare more,” sophomore Stephanie Dreifuss said. “I would like to know that if a situation like [Virginia Tech] were to emerge, what would be the best thing to do?”

“In general, we are reasonably well positioned to respond to the full panoply of emergencies that could arise.” Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs Although the new plan defines an emergency as anything from severe weather to a pandemic outbreak to a terrorist attack, it provides few details on the appropriate actions to take in the event of an emergency. “In general, we are reasonably well positioned to re-

spond to the full panoply of emergencies that could arise,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail to The Chronicle. “These measures are not intended to be exhaustive.... Each circumstance will inevitably require unique actions, and we’re well positioned to have the right people come together immediately to plan those action steps.” In the coming year, the University will also work on a text-messaging system to notify students of emergencies via their cell phones and on installing a siren/public address system to broadcast messages in and around buildings on campus, according to the brochure. A recent task force on campus security appointed by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper plans to recommend that all of the state’s colleges and universities practice emergency drills regularly and train faculty, staff and students to respond accordingly. Campuses such as the University of North Carolina at Greensboro have already had simulations of campus shootings to test their emergency drills. Moneta said Duke is currently planning drills and further educational efforts.

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events on West Campus was implemented over Winter Break. Events must be registered only if

they meet one offour requirements: 1. Alcohol is present and more than 25 people are expected,

2. The program is outdoors and involved sound amplification, 3. There is live entertainment, a paid performer, and/or a contract is involved or if University support is required. 4. Unless the event requires University services, there is no longer a deadline for registering.

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tion Steve Nowicki and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs John Simon with students regarding the report —is one reason for the administration’s receptiveness to the

changes.

Nowicki emphasized DSG’s push for the new policy and the organization’s collaboration with OSAF. “The CGI process report and the post-CCI discussions that occurred last spring and fall did help to identify issues such as this one that needed attention,” he wrote in an e-mail. “[However,] I think it’s important also to note the importance ofDSG working with OSAF to make this happen.” A new registration system was first suggested in a September memo—written by Slattery and DSG Executive Chief of Staff Kevin Troy, a junior—entitled “A More Perfect Party Scene.” The memo states that event registration is one of the “barriers to entry” that University policy has created that prevent small groups from holding events and contributing to a more diverse social scene. “The event registration system robs the campus of the public spontaneity, quality of access and sense of community that should be thehallmarks of any university,” the memo reads. Slattery said the old policy was overly restrictive and “internally inconsistent.” “There’s a sense that the degree to which the social scene has been regulated is unnecessary, and in some ways counterproductive to the University’s goals,” he said. Moneta said he expects the policy to provide an additional way to stimulate programming on campus. “Hopefully, [this policy] just becomes another tool, another opportunity for [programming] to happen... I don’t think a single policy change in itself will change the whole character of student programming,” Moneta said. Some students said they were unsure of how effective the changes will be in encouraging independents to host events. Sophomore Anant Agarwalla said registering events was never a barrier for independents. “The issue has rarely been that it’s hard to register an event,” Agarwalla said. “The big issue for registering events is [that] there really isn’t a motivation to do it.... If there isn’t a community for which [they’re] doing it, I don’t see anyone going out and planning events on their own.”

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diplomatic demarche, or communication. In his remarks, Casey dismissed Iranian claims that there was nothing unusual about the incident as well as a videotape aired by Iranian television Thursday that appeared to be an attempt to show there had not been a confrontation between the vessels. “We all understand what happened in this incident,” he said. The Pentagon maintains that Iranian naval speedboats swarmed around U.S. warships in a threatening manner and released its own video of the incident in which a man in accented English says, “I am coming to y0u.... You will explode after... minutes.” comments with a formal

consequences.”

Iran denies its boats threatened the U.S. vessels, and accused Washington of fabricating its video. The Pentagon has dismissed that claim and warned that its ships would respond with force if threatened. The grainy 5-minute, 20-second Iranian video shows a man speaking into a handheld radio, with three U.S. ships floating in the distance. It appeared to be shot from a small boat bobbing at least 100 yards from the American warships. But the footage does not show any Iranian boats approaching the U.S. vessels or any provocation. The entire incident lasted about 20 minutes, according to the U.S. Navy, and a Pentagon official said that while the Iranian video appeared to have been taken around

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When David Cutcliffe was hired as Duke’s head football coach nearly a month ago, people started talking about the Blue Devils and the gridiron with an intensity and an optimism that hasn’t been heard in nearly two decades. The buzz was over Cutcliffe’s resume: his prolific passing offense, his NFL Pro Bowl players, and his SEC conference championships. But all of that pales in comparison to the first thing you notice about Cutcliffe when you shake his hand—his national championship ring.

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Earned in 1998 as Tennessee’s offensive coordinator, it gleams with numerous orange gems around a white “T” of diamonds. Even more impressive than his sparkling ring, though, is his steadfast attitude that it won’tbe his last. “I’ve never gone into a season not trying to win them all,” Cutcliffe said. “One of the things we are going to focus on is being bowl eligible or better. And you don’t do that unless you expect to win.” He spoke with no hesitation despite sitting in his comer office at Yoh Football Center with a view of Wallace Wade Stadium, which has only seen 12 wins in the last 10 years. Reminiscing about his first head coaching job at Mississippi, Cutcliffe even said that Duke’s football program is further along than Ole Miss’ was in regards to facilities, staff and administrative commitment. “I want everyone to understand that Joe Alieva and Dr. Brodhead—make no mistake about it—they are totally committed to having a really, really outstanding football program,” Cutcliffe said. “There’s no reason we can’t.” Cutcliffe has almost filled out his coaching staff, which consists mosdy of people who worked under him at Mississippi, and said he had no trouble convincing his assistants to leave jobs with teams such as Alabama, the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets to come to Durham. Since they have prior experience together, they are SEE CUTCLIFFE ON PAGE

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Despite a fast start to the season and a high-paced offense, the Blue Devils have struggled from the field over their last three contests and are not quite where they want to be heading into ACC play. But No. 9 Duke (12-1) is still confident in its position as it heads into its conference slate, squaring off against Virginia (10-3) Sunday at 8 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium in its ACC opener. “We can always get better at some things,” sophomore Gerald Henderson said. “We feel like we’re a good defensive team, but we feel like we can be a lot better. That’s just something we do here-” Improved defensive play will be even more important if Duke continues to struggle offensively, as it has in recent games. In its last three games, the team’s production has dipped, averaging 73 points while shooting 40.3 percent from the field and 28.6 percent from long range. This stands in stark contrast to their first 10 contests of the season, when the Blue Devils scored 89.1 points per game, shooting 51 percent from the field thanks to the implementation of a more uptempo offense. The team was also hot from beyond the arc, sinking 44.1 percent ofits 3-point attempts. In their most recent contest Wednesday night against Temple, Duke’s shooters went cold in the SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 12

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In preparing for her first ACC home opener, head coach Joanne P. McCallie is looking for one thing from her team more than anything: consistency. When the No. 12 Blue Devils take the floor tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, they will play Florida State with a shorter rotation, a renewed focus on rebounding and creating shots, and trying to find their groove. McCallie has given all 12 of her players opportunities on the court early in the season, an open in-game tryout of sorts to make sure that each Blue Devil got her fair shot in the transition to a new program. But the coach said she will reduce that number to eight or nine, and that she hopes her team will find more stability and

comfort with the combinationsand players on the floor. “Consistency is what was needed,” McCallie said of the team’s early-season performances. ‘You’ve got to be not only outstanding, but then you’ve got to repeat it over and over again, regardless of who you play.” Duke (12-3, 1-0 in the ACC), however, has played its fair share of tough teams heading into conference play. In a six-game stretch in November and December, the Blue Devils faced four ranked opponents, including No. 1 Connecticut, and dropped three straight for the first time since 1997. “The biggest thing about those three games that we did lose was our rebounding,” senior captain Wanisha Smith said. “But we did learn a lot about ourselves. We SEE W.

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them from dominating the Owls. “We really stopped hitting shots at a point in the second half. We couldn’t really expand our lead much,” Henderson said. “We’re a team that’s hungry to blow teams out. We haven’t had wins like that in awhile here, [but] we feel like we have the talent to really open games up on the offensive end pushing the ball.” Duke will be looking to rediscover its shooting stroke against the Cavaliers, who have allowed 69 points per game thisyear third-worst in the ACC. The Blue Devils will have do so without Brian Zoubek, who is shooting a team-best 59.5 percent from the field. Zoubek will sit out indefinitely with a small fracture in his foot, but “it’s not a long time,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of the injury. But with their only true post player out for up to a couple of weeks, the rest of the Blue Devils will need to improve their shooting to start ACC play on the right note. “We’re hoping [the drought] is a onetime thing,” Nolan Smith said. “We have so many great scorers and shooters, but we just went cold, like there was a lid on the rim.” In addition to the challenge of getting back into its pre-break offensive rhythm, against the Cavaliers, Duke will be faced with the task of shutting down senior guard Sean Singletary. Singletary is fourth in the ACC with 17.8 points per game, and he leads the league in assists with 6.8 per game. But after holding off Temple, no matter who it may play, Duke is confident entering its conference schedule. “I don’tknow where people should be at any time, really,” Krzyzewski said. “I’d like to be healthier going into the ACC. Our kids are in shape and they want to play well. We’re a real together group, but we’re not a real strong physical team, so We’ve got to shoot the ball, play collective defense.”

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ready to hit the ground running, he said. “I’ll tell you how you win in college football,” Cutcliffe said. “My simple, solid philosophy is you win with great assistant coaches and great organization. And we’ve got both.” The players are just getting their first hints of the kind of man Cutcliffe is and the change he is trying to instill. The Blue Devils met their coaches for the first time Wednesday in a team meeting, and quarterback Thaddeus Lewis needed only one word to describe his first impression ofhis

new head coach. “Intense,” he said. “Like a disciplinarian. He wants you to be accountable and say what you mean and mean what you say.... He was telling us what we’re going to do—not what he wants to do, but what we’re going to do.” The coach sharedlife stories, enumerated some ofhis pet peeves and just tried to convey who he was and what he planned to do here, Lewis said. Cutcliffe admitted he had not learned any names yet, so he will make the players wear tape on their helmets with their names during spring practice. All he really knows about this group of Blue Devils, Cutcliffe said, is what he’s read in the news. When asked if he was happy to have a quarterback like Lewis and a wide receiver like Second Team All-ACC selection Eron Riley to lead his no huddle, pro-style of-

fense, Cutcliffe said he was more than pleased. But while Riley caught 40 passes for 830 yards this season, Cutcliffe said his offense will call on Riley to haul in as many as 70 or 80 balls next year. “It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Cutcliffe said. “The fans and the students are really going to enjoy it. There’s a lot of tempo to it. We can slow it down, we can speed it up.... I think you’ll see a lot of creative game plans from week to week.” He’s been doing a lot of thinking about the students during his time at Duke so far, he said. Grabbing some ofhis meals in the Great Hall, which he said makes him feel as if he’s in a Harry Potter movie, he’s been mingling with students and looking forward to next fall. He plans on playing louder and better music before and during the games. He wants to have more pre-game festivities. He even has a few traditions he hopes to start, which he won’t share until the season, that will make the footballwatching experience at Duke something entirely new: enjoyable. He’s already made himself right at home and has voiced emphatically his ambitious expectations for the program. With plans already approved to renovate Wallace Wade Stadium, Cutcliffe’s officeview might look vastlyimproved in the coming years in more ways than one. Of course, another ring would suit him well, too. This one white and blue.

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learned that we can fight back.” McCallie, too, believes her team has emerged stronger and that their continued improvement will be on display tonight against the Seminoles (11-5, 1-0), who will play without their leading scorer, Tanae Davis-Cain. The 5-foot-ll junior guard was averaging 13.7 points per contest but is currently serving a seven-game suspension. With Florida State short-handed, Duke will turn to its power tandem of senior captain Wanisha Smith, who drained a career-high five 3-pointers Jan. 5 at Miami, and junior Abby Waner, who is averaging 11.5 per game. We’re getting to the point of recognizing reboundlng, creating husde offense,” the coach said. “Offense cannot just come from open shots.” Offense, in McCallie’s mind, also comes from attacklng gluss, which as Smith said, has not been one ofher team s strong suits. The team is averaging 43.7 boards per contest, but has struggled against stronger teams. Duke °u y pulled down 28 and 29 rebounds in losses to UConn ar *d Penn State, respectively. In addition, rebounding will be key in all senses of the tvor for Duke this weekend, as the team must travel to No- 4 Maryland Monday.

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OMAHA, Neb. Lincoln Airport officials were trying to figure out how to get Boeing 737 out of the mud and back onto a taxiway Wednesday. The jet was a charter flight carrying the University of Texas’ women’s basketball team to a game Wednesday night against the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Airport executive director John Wood said no one was injured. The jet landedwithout incident Tuesday evening, Wood said. After it turned off the runway and headed for the terminal, the pilot reported that he had lost hydraulic

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The Chronicle takes a look at the next three days in sports and tells you whatyou can't miss, from basketball in Cameron, to other college hoops games around the country, to the NFL and NBA. You might not even have to leave your coach this weekend.

Florida State (11-5) @ No. 13 Duke (12-3) 7 p.m. THE RUNDOWN: With Florida State's top scorer suspended, the Blue Devils' ACC home-opener should be a good chance for the women's squad to get back on track by exposing the weakened Seminoles.

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site, www.emergency.duke. edu. They assert in clear bullet-point form exacdy how members of the Duke community will be contacted in the event of an emergency by email, Internet and phone. Residence Life and Housing Services will also contact oncampus students directly. What’s more, the pamphlet indicates that public broadcasts via a “new siren/public address system” and text messaging will be added by 2008. And, in true, traditional Duke-pamphlet form, the brochure even includes tear-out, information cards to put in your wallet. Not too shabby. When the University first announced its plan for an enhanced security and emer-

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brochure in their home and on-campus mailboxes this past month The University’s pamphlet—along with its accompanying note from Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta—was unusually succinct and easy to navigate. Indeed, it was precisely what this editorial board has called for several times since April 2007—at least in spirit, if not in particulars. In the brochure, administrators advertise the school’s comprehensive new Web

gency response system last November, this board asserted that although the plan seemed promising, it left some questions unanswered. At that time, we said that administrators should aim to provide an effective system to alert individuals in the event of a crisis and clearly articulate a course ofaction for students and staff in an emergency. Clearly, the former has been accomplished. Since its less-than-stellar communication with students following the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007, the administration has clearly worked to improve the way in which it reaches out to the Duke community, both on and off campus. At the same time, Duke has still yet to outline exactly what would be done if the

Sophomore Stephanie Dreifuss on the new security measures soon to be implemented by the university. See story page 1.

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to two bullets devoted to the issue in the December brochure, all students need to do is “follow instructions carefully” and then notify family, close friends and roommates once they find a safe space. Thanks. Of course, to be fair, emergencies are unexpected and no one-size-fits-all model of response can be implemented. We hope that the University has or will develop immediately a clear-cut plan as to how it would deal with the various emergencies outlined in the brochure (severe weather, shooting, building collapse, etc.). Basic guidelines for dealing with these types of emergencies, moreover, should be

communicated to students as soon as possible. In addition, we hope that the University goes to great lengths to test its methods of emergency communication in one way or another during the upcoming months. Finally, Duke needs to improve cell-phonereception on campus. Almost every student has a phone with them and yet cellular reception on campus is dangerously inadequate in its current form. It’s worth the investment. Bottom line: The University should be praised for its recent efforts to communicate with students, but still needs to outline substantive, concrete steps to take in case of an emergency, lest it get lost in the gloss of its admittedly impressive new brochure.

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ontherecord Any measures you take toward preparing for something like that is good, but I still think you can prepare more. I would like to know that if a situation like [Virginia Tech] were to emerge, what would be the best thing to do?

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what they keep asking me. One acquaintance almost knocked her pearls off chirping, “Wow! That’s, like, really far away.” The neighbor with Pierre the labradoodle cautioned, “You’re not going all alone, dear?” Meanwhile, those who know my a-wanderin’ ways “Will whispered, you come back?” And then, of course, there are the sly smirky few who ask the queswu tion waiting for the biack sheep confession. them So I offer an English major pining for the Walden-esque, or start spouting statistics on New Zealand’s environmental performance index (first in 80 countries, in case you were wondering). Sometimes I just gaze romantically into the distance and sigh, “Sheep. I want to herd sheep.” But back to that confession bit. Here it is: Why am I really studying abroad the world yonder when the very thought makes me clench my bottle of Dramamine? Because on an inconceivably cold day in Seattle one Christmas, now seven years past, I stepped into the salty glow of a movie theater. Three extended DVD sets, soundtracks, and a hoard of fanatical memorabilia (there may have been prosthetic ears involved) later I remain let me hereby flourish my scepter of geekdom—a “Lord of the Rings” lover. For the pooh-poohing culturist cringing in horror, allow me to argue: Until those two-and-ahalf hours, I was still trapped in my eighth grade, SAT-studybook-toting sensibility. Sure, I had a penchant for pulp fantasy fiction. Maybe I rented “Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time.” Still, the thought of living the box-on-the-cornerof-Sunset-and-La Cienega-life was still only a Ph.D. father’s nascent nightmare. But there was something about that movie and, as I soon discovered, its shooting location, New Zealand—oh feral, untouched, beautiful New Zealand—that dashed out my left brain once and for all. I became woozy with daydreams of filmmaking and Tinseltown and everything that the inspired could project onto a 16-by-24-foot screen. We all carry secret muses in the guise of a film clip, quote or character. (Hey you, in the econ class—tell me you haven’t hoarded a few snarky

Janet

Gordon Gekko-Patrick Bateman-isms?) For me, this film was Romanticism reinvigorated for mainstream cinema: here was something epic and idealistic and heart achingly poetic. So there you have it. I found art in a movie and inspiration in a blockbuster. And it’s why sophomore summer I took the ‘N’ Line from 121st to 14th St. to live the hard-knock life of a New York City film production intern. It’s why I found myself in debauched Hollywood herself last semester, slaving away among the Beamers and Botox, hoping to get a foot, arm, appendage in—and praying I would still love the movies when I came out. (As chance would have it, one tediously sunny day when the titillation of seeing Leonardo DiCaprio mosey into the office had faded into numbness, I saw “Eomer of Rohan” himself—alas, sans livery—stride through the door, glistening in the Southern California heat. I almost dropped the 1995 Dom Perignon Rose I was to deliver to so-andso offWilshire). So no “Viva la France!” pour moi—no pretending to be an expatriate aficionado a la Barcelona, no branding the resume with Oxbridge. No, what I needed most in my seen-too-many-graduationrequirements state of cerebral paralysis was a little. Middle Earth inspiration. I’m going far and I’m going all by my lonesome, but then that’s how studying abroad ought to be. And let’s hope there will be tales that need telling, lest this column become a bi-weekly top 10 list of why I like sheep. No. 10: Fluffy. Of course, I know I won’t bunk in a hobbit-hole dorm only to be visited by my cane-brandishing Shakespeare professor touting the end of civilization, while Howard Shore stands behind me and conducts six movements for orchestra and chorus. But I do have an inkling that the real New Zealand, the Land of the Long White Cloud, the pre-trilogy beauty that puts up with my glaring American fandom, the real Middle Earth—that it will be even better. I know what you’re thinking: At the end of the day, in spite of the lofty testimony, I’m still, after all, Just a geek. But to me, that’s just fine. Then again, I can’t help but feel a bit romantic, a bit adventurous. To borrow words from a very old friend: “It’s a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no telling where you might be swept off to.” Here’s to getting swept off somewhere magical.

Janet Wu is a Trinity junior and a former Jilm editor for recess studying abroad in New Zealand. Her column runs every other Friday.

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childhood

That is enough melancholy poetic prose for one column, but face and space rhyme so I had to do it My apolojordan rice gies. Now, on with Chocolate. Sexual sexual chocolate An all-too-short Winter Break proved to be a time of rebirth into adulthood. I, for instance, with shorter hair and the beard that I model after my rabbi, my father (Grandma Faye would be proud), and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Grandma Faye would be a bit less proud), have shed the Keith Partridge look. Worldly juniors have returned from abroad able to discern between Franzia from a cardboard box in Kroger and a Chianti from Tuscany. Argyle print and sweater vests are everywhere, a few blondes have returned looking five years older as brunettes and I am pretty sure I saw a student sitting on a bench feeding ducks in the pond in the Duke Gardens. Indeed, there appears to be a trend: youth is out, age is in. This makes sense considering the manner in which we perceive time. Consider the theory of French philosopher Paul Janet (although to be honest, I heard it from a friend... I will not feign that level of erudition): As time passes, every one second is a decreasingly significant percentage of our total lives. Five years to a five-year-old is a lifetime, but five years to a seventy-year-old is only a moment in the grand scheme of their life. New experiences become less afid less common as we fall into routine. Time congeals; the average day becomes less unique, contributing to the seemingly increasing pace of time’s passage. Remember that summer that you thought would last forever between fifth and sixth grade? That was only a fleeting instant. We no longer think in days, weeks or months, but in years. We, Francis Ford Coppola would say, are youths without youth—something akin to reverse Gary Colemans. Can we get some “Matlock” showing on the Bryan Center TVs and some Metamucil and prunes at the Great Hall? Our newfound maturity, our graceful entry into our early-onset golden years suits us. Waiters could confuse us for 21, older women may try to holler and, since Confucius had a beard and Confucius is wisdom personified, by the transitive property, my new beard makes me wiser. Life is sweet with the benefits of age without the actual age. We can feel free to use the word “whippersnapper” but we don’t have to worry (yet) about the state ofSocial Security or our trick knees acting up. Perhaps we are not “acting our age” when we think of time linearly —when one year is just one year no matter our age. But if time really is relative, if a year at age 60 seems like an eternity for a five-yearold, then it is an opportune time to get ready for life to rush by us. Besides, I’m feeling the sweater vests and argyle, and word on the street is that my beard is a bit sexy in a Ulysses S. Grant kind ofway (which, of course, is really really sexy). There is no resisting time, no need to hold on to ephemeral youth. Maybe itis premature to get dentures fitted, but with age approaching ever more quickly, it is never too early to get started. Think of it this way,you get started playing bridge now, you will run the table when you move into retirement community for active seniors.

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not a religious man. Not that I lack spirituality (I take frequent catnaps and consider myself an avid practitioner in the art of meditation); I simply choose not to observe the customs of organized religions. I find them too arduous

yet I haven’t heard a peep about this scandal in months. I haven’t gone a day without hearing the words “steroids” and “baseball” in the same sentence in four years, and that’s with a week trekking through the jungles of Thailand last fall. Yes, steroids are performance enhancers. Yes, they are illegal. Yes, they are dangerous to one’s health and are potentially deadly. What isn’t potentially deadly? Enough. Steroids haven’t provided any kind of competitive advantage in the last decade because, well, everyone takes them. Refs fixing games, that’s a competitive advantage, one that truly tortures the soul of competition. Thus, I forgive every player who used steroids, as I imagine most will in the near future. What I can’t forgive is being an a—hole. Clemens, unlike the rest of his brethren in the Mitchell Report, refuses to admit to any wrongdoing. Fine. Foolish, but fine. However, Clemens has gone about his denial in the most smug, self-righteous manner I could imagine, and I couldn’t love it more. Denying the truth wasn’t enough for Clemens. Instead, he had to go out and hire lawyers to seek a defamation suit against his former trainer, Brian McNamee, for naming him in the report. Then, straight out of the OJ. Simpson “How to Get Away With Murder” handbook, Clemens hired private investigators to search for the truth. It wasn’t steroids he was being injected with, claims Clemens, but die painkiller lidocaine and the vitamin 812. That’s odd, I didn’trealize that side effects of vitamin B include impulsive bits ofrage such as the time Clemens threw a cracked bat at Mike Piazza. It’s also quite amazing that the Red Sox thought he was over the hill in the mid ’9os, and then, due to his unmatched work ethic, he miraculously went on to win another three Cy Young awards. You know what I’ve heard helps prolong careers as well as intensify workouts? Steroids. Then, as if he needed to up his credibility as a certified sleazeball, Clemens held a press conference in which he played a secretly recorded tape of a conversation with McNamee. As it played, he sat there with his smug little smile the entire time as if the conversation somehow cleared his name. In reality, it proved nothing, as McNamee repeatedly asked Clemens, “What do you want me to do?” without ever once admitting his claims were false. In the end, all Clemens did was look like a snake for secretly recording the conversation, and then look like an idiot for thinking that it helped his cause (if anything, it made him look more guilty). Snake Idiot A—hole. It’s simple math. The sports gods have made it clear. Pride comes before the fall, and don’t mess with Boston. Watch your back, Pey-

and self-deprecating. There is one faith I hold strong. That is the religion of sport, quickly becoming the most powerful religion in America. No deities receive more universal attention than what commentators and tom segal writers often refer to as j-..,, wood: part deux the “sports gods Catho- morning lies, Muslims and Jews alike pray to them at some point or another. Don’t believe in these gods? Try asking any New Englander about their faith. In the last few years, Boston has transformed from New York’s whorish, alcoholic cousin to the Mount Olympus of Sport. Turn on SportsCenter on any given night and try telling me the gods aren’t chilling in an Irish pub in South Boston drunkenly trying to one-up each otherwith ludicrous claims. “I can turn a fat designated hitter with seemingly no potential (David Ortiz) into the most clutch batter in baseball history.” “Oh yeah? Well, I can take a scrawny college backup quarterback (Tom Brady) and make him the greatest player in football history.” Thank God for Guinness. I know divine intervention when I see it, and by golly, this is divine intervention. Have you ever looked into Tom Brady’s chin dimple? It was like the first time I heard the Beatles. Those stunning features (as well as that pocket presence) can only be the work of the gods. My favorite thing about sports is that these gods seem to be fair. In the sports world, the underdog actually does win and karma is as abundant as sweat stains on a Gary Williams used undershirt. And, as they say, karma is a bitch. Which leads me to the most recent sighting of the sports gods’ hands at work: The fall from grace of Roger Clemens. Long has Roger Clemens been adored by all Americans outside ofNew England, and long have I awaited his coming downfall. Well, my friends, thanks to the sports gods, former Sen. George Mitchell, the media and good ol’ common sense, that moment is finally upon us. It’s official, Roger Clemens is... an a—hole. True, many now hate him for his alleged steroid use. Not me. I couldn’t care less about this revelation. I’ve been disgusted at the attention the baseball steroids scandal has gotten. I mean, the NBA was proven to have referees fixing ton Manning. games. The Phoenix Suns undoubtedly had a championTom Segal is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other ship stolen from them because Tim Donaghy was going to have his leg snapped in half by a bunch of mobsters. And Friday. ”

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