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Duke Performances Interim Director Aaron Greenwald has been named permanent director of the office, University officials confirmed Friday. “We conducted a nationwide search for the director which yielded many candidates,” strong Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth wrote in an e-mail Friday. ‘We wiere already impressed with Aaron’s leadership of Duke Performances this year, and his vision for enhancing the presence of Duke Performances on campus and in the community is very exciting.” The hire comes only 12 months into Greenwald’s IS-month contract. After coming to Duke to head the 2006 North Carolina Festival of the Book, he was to serve as interim director for a year and a half beginning Jan. 1, 2007. In his year on the job, Greenwald booked an ambitious season, supplementing his regular budget with grants and other funding to create six series, including tributes to soul music and late jazz great Thelonious Monk. “I’m elated,” Greenwald said. “I’m really excited, mosfiy by the vote of confidence and to have gone through the full open, nationwide search, to have come out as the first-choice candidate,

win in its ACC opener over the Cavaliers. After the game, head coach Mike Krzyzewski described the effort as his team’s most complete of the season. “I thought we didn’t have one guy who didn’t play hard or play pretty well,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s kind of the first game that that’s happened.” The Blue Devils (13-1, 1-0 in the ACC)

The Durham Police Department is investigating a number of armed robberies that occurred throughout the city over the weekend, two ofwhich happened just blocks from East Campus. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, sent an e-mail Sunday morning alerting the Duke community that a student was robbed at gunpoint at the corner of Trinity Avenue and Buchanan Boulevard Saturday night, urging students to be vigilant. Sgt. L.B. Evans of DPD also posted an alert Sunday afternoon to the Partners Against Crime Web site informing District 2 residents about several armed robberies, two ofwhich took place Saturday. One robbery was on the 600 block ofWatts Street and the other occurred on Woodrow Street, neither of which involved Duke students. The student mentioned in Moneta’s e-mail was walking home from the Shell gas station on Main Street around 9 p.m. when he noticed he was being followed by a sport utility vehicle about two blocks from his apartment in the Trinity Park neighborhood. “[Two men] came up to me with a gun out —I must have been yelling for them not to hurt me or something because they were telling me to shut up,” the student, who wished to remain unnamed, said in an interview. “I handed over my wallet and I had my backpack on, which had my iPod and Macßook

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A minute and a half into the game, Virginia head coach Dave Leitao didn’t like what he saw and called a timeout after a 5-0 Duke start. But with the relentless Blue Devils running on all cylinders, that early break did nothing to halt Duke’s winning tempo. Duke built on its quick start and led wire-to-wire, notching an impressive 87-65

Panhel chapters dole out 305 bids by

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The Best Damn Pledge Class. Ever has officially arrived. Ten of them, to be exact. After four rounds of small-talk, smiles and crafts, more than 300 freshman and sophomore women received bids to the 10 sororities of the Panhellenic Association yesterday. Following a pattern from previous years, most of the sororities filled their target quota of 32 new members. Nine of the 10 groups met or exceeded that goal. Delta Gammafinished with 34 new members, the most ofany sorority, while Alpha Omicron Pi had a total of nine, according to SEE BID DAY ON PAGE 4

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ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates President George W. Bush gently nudged authoritarian Arab allies Sunday to satisfy frustrated desires for democracy in the Mideast and saved his harshest criticism for Iran, branding it “the world’s leading statesponsor of terror,” Speaking in this Persian Gulf country, about 150 miles from the shores of Iran, Bush said Tehran threatens nations everywhere and that the United States was “rallying friends around the world to confront this danger before it is too late.” The warning about Iran was much

tougher than Bush’s admonition about spreading democracy in the Middle East,

which had been billed as the central theme ofhis speech. In a region of autocratic rulers, Bush did not single out any country for criticism. He spoke about democracy in a deeply undemocratic country, the United Arab Emirates, where an elite of royal rulers makes virtually all the decisions. Large numbers of foreign resident workers have few legal or human rights, including no right to protest working conditions. “To the people of the Middle East: We hear your cries for justice,” Bush said. “We share your desire for a free and prosper-

ous future. And as you struggle to find your voice and make your way in this world, the United States will stand with you.” Usually averse to sightseeing, Bush rode out into the sand dunes to the desert encampment of Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheik Mohammed Bin Zayed A1 Nahyan. He let Bush hold one of his prize falcons. Later, Bush returned to his suite in the opulent Emirates Palace Hotel, constructed at a cost of more than $3 billion and reputed to be the most expensive hotel ever built. The next stop scheduled on Bush’s eightday Mideast journey was Saudi Arabia. Its

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Clinton:Obama distorted race comments by Beth Fouhy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Democrat Hillary RodNEW YORK ham Clinton suggested Sunday thatBarack Obama’s campaign had injected racial tension into the presidential contest, saying he had distorted for political gain her comments about Martin Luther King’s role in the civil rights movement. “This is an unfortunate story line the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully,” the former first lady said in a spirited appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I don’t think this campaign is about gender,

and I sure hope it’s not about race.” Clinton taped the show before appearances in South Carolina, whose Jan. 26 primary will be the first to include a significant representation of black voters. Blacks were 50 per cent of primary voters in the state in 2004 and the number is expected to swell this time. Both New York Sen. Clinton and her husband, the former president, have engaged in damage control this weekafter black leaders criticized their comments shortly before the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday. The senator was quoted as saying King’s dream of racial equality was realized :

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only when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, while Bill Clinton said Illinois Sen. Obama was telling a “fairy tale” about his opposition to the Iraq war. Former President Clinton has since appeared on several black radio programs to say he was referring to Obama’s record on the Iraq war, not on his effort to become the nation’s first black president. At an awards dinner Sunday in Atlanta celebrating black achievement, Michelle

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The third player, who has not yet testified, was separated from the other two during the course of the night. When Dyer and his teammate returned to their apartment,

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three University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill football players at an off-campus apartment Dec. 16. Three suspects, Michael Lewis, T’Nikia Washington and Monique Taylor were originally charged with kidnapping, robbing and sexually assaulting the players. After a probable cause hearing Jan. 4, District Court Judge Michael Lewis Alonzo Coleman dismissed the seven felony charges against Washington. UNC center Lowell Dyer and another player testified that they and a third player went out drinking at several bars on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill just be-

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bed. His teammate walked down the hall to find the third player in a bedroom with the two women, Taylor and Washington. Lewis was also at the apartment naked and holding a Monique Taylor paring knife. Lewis has told the police that the third player, who has not yet testified, propositioned.the two women outside of a bar and brought them back to the apartment. “In all honesty, I wanted to give [the third player] a hard time about what he was to

ROBBERY from page 1 in it. They asked me what was in it and I kept saying, ‘lt’s just notes for class, I swear.’ One of the guys punched me in the face and then I think they punched me again, on the shoulder.... They kicked me a couple times when I was down on the ground.” He then dialed 911 from a friend’s apartment, and was contacted by Clay Adams, program coordinator of new student and family programs for the Dean of Students Office and the dean on call at the time, about the crime. “I thought the e-mail to the student body, however, had a lot of important information omitted from it, like a description of the suspects and their car and the fact that there had been another robbery the night before in the same neighborhood,” the student wrote in an e-mail. “I just don’t understand why Student Affairs wouldn’t try to educate the student body about stuff like this. Are they trying to create the perception that Durham is safer than it is by not alerting students of imminent risks? If so, that’s a dangerous and deeply troubling strategy.” He said he had heard from a friend about a robbery that occurred Friday night near the James Joyce Irish Pub Restaurant. The student added that he thought it may not

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doing and tell all the guys a story the next til Taylor began to bind him. The witnesses also saidLewis stole home day,” the second player said. When he entered the bedroom, he said electronics Washington and the third player moved to Dyer testified that he was not sexually a chair. Taylor then pushed him down on assaulted but that Lewis later stole his walthe bed, unclothed him and began to bind let and demanded his bank PIN number at his hands with a knifepoint. belt Lewis is Jailed “I repeatedly said ‘No, no. I When he reon $500,000 bail sisted, the player don’t want any of this. What are on charges of said Lewis held a kidnapping, conknife to his throat tying me up.’ spiracy to kidyou doing? and threatened nap, robbery and And I made that very clear.” his life while Taysexual assault. lor fondled him. UNC football player Taylor posted He added that $50,000 bail last the knife broke month but still his skin faces charges. “I repeatedly said, ‘No, no. I don’t want Orange-Chatham County District Atany of this. What are you doing? Quit tytorney Jim Woodall said a grand jury could ing me up.’ And I made that very clear,” still indict Washington after his office interhe said. views the third player who did not testify at The defense said the encounter was the hearing. That player is the one who witconsensual. The player maintains it was un- nesses said had contact with Washington.

have been reported by Student Affairs because it was unclear whether the victim was a student. “I wouldn’t have walked home by myself if I had known that 24 hours before there had been an armed robbery,” he said. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said StudentAffairs had been prepared to alert students of Friday’s crime, but had no details for or confirmation of the incident. “As oflast night [DPD] said there was no report to confirm,” she said, adding that a student did not necessarily have to be involved to warrant alerting the University. “Our policy is to make information available to students that is relevant and important for them.” Wasiolek said the Duke University Police Department stepped up patrol in the area to respond to heightened risk, but Moneta added that he did not think there was more crime in the area than usual. “I don’t believe we’re seeing an unusual frequency of crime,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail. “Often students are targeted at the start of a semester when [they’re] just back and thought to be more vulnerable.” Three students reported being robbed at gunpoint in the Whole Foods Market parking lot across the street from East Campus over Fall Break. DUPD said at the time, however, that armed robberies so close to campus are rare. DPD was unavailable for comment for this story.

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THE CHRONICLE to bid day. Though the overall number of freshmen entering recruitment was smaller than in previous years, the number of bids doled out matched those in the past. In another change from last year’s pep-rally-esque bid day, new members donned their letters and joined their sisters in several different locations—including commons rooms—across campus for food and entertainment. Delta GammaPresident Hayley Meyer, a senior, said joining a Panhel chapter marks a commitment to the larger greek

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BID DAY from page 1 figures obtained by The Chronicle as of Sunday. “It’sjust part of the recruitment process, different chapters are going to have different intake sizes,” said senior Samantha Prouty, Panhel vice president of recruitment and membership. “Itjust depends.” AOPi plans to extend snap bids to expand their pledge class, as they have in past years, incoming president Grace Reilly, ajunior, said. She added that four women who joined in the Fall will also be members of the new pledge class. Recruitment’s early start thisyear mirrored the 2006 schedule, when all the evenly took place in a one-week period. “It was more organized this year,” Prouty said. “We made it so that it went back to the normal time schedule, time-structure, so it didn’t go on so long, and I think that helped out a lot of people.” Out of the approximately 400 girls who began the recruitment process, about 100 dropped out or were cut

community. “This year Panhel was very interested in promoting more of a greek unit—being in a sorority as a unit of 1,400 greek women, as opposed to being split up,” Meyer said. Prouty said she was pleased with the entire incoming group ofPanhel women. “I think Duke is definitely in a fortunate position in which the majority of our chapters had a great recruitment,” Prouty said. “All the new members are really going to be great additions to Panhellenic council.”

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last semester: After a week of readjustment —Andrew Holmberg, junior i and going back to class, what's it like to be back on campus. "|t' s been pretty overwhelming moving into an apartment, going through recruitment and "It's been intense with rush and seeing ing ett used to Duke classes after 9 Each seems three times as

day long friends. and is unbelievably packed—in a good way." -Ben Berg, junior

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GREENWALD from page 1 really validates the work we’ve been doing from every per-

spective —students, faculty, patrons.” Lindroth led the search committee, which found three

finalists before recommending Greenwald to Provost Peter Lange for final approval “He’s very innovative, he has a big vision [and] he understandsboth the role that Duke Performances has to play for our on-campus constituencies and for the broader Duke community,” Lange said. “He understands both the pure performance aspect and how the office has to work with departments.” Duke Performances was formed in 2004, replacing the Institute of the Arts as the University’s primary programming body for classical and jazz music, classical theater and dance. The office’s staff this year consisted of four, including the interim director. Greenwald and Lange said they expect to see the staff increase in size. The hire will also likely alter the funding structure for Duke Performances. Greenwald and Lange both said that although the budget will not increase substantially, it should stabilize, taking the heat off staff to find creative funding sources for programming. “As part of completing the hiring, we’ve talked about putting into permanent place temporary increases in his budget that have been in place this year,” Lange said. The arts have become an area of increased emphasis at Duke since the approval of the University’s newest strategic plan, “Making A Difference,” in September 2006. The plan calls for “transformation” of the arts on campus—a goal that also resulted in the creation of Lindroth’s post and his hiring. “I think that I’ve received every indication from both Scott Lindroth and Peter Lange that there’s going to be a continued support for the performing arts—continued and improved support,” Greenwald said. “So I think we’re going to be able t0... do more involved activities, and frankly to reach out to students more.” Greenwald replaces Kathy Silbiger, who served for more than two decades at Duke, first leading the Institute of the Arts and later overseeing its reorganization into Duke Performances.

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Accidental archery Duke University Police Department officers responded to reports of a bow and arrow being fired outside Epworth Dormitory on East Campus Jan. 7. The perpetrators were a 13-year-old male and his 44-year-old mother. The two were found practicing archery' with a simple long bow and rounded arrow tips. The two were informed that the activity was illegal on an educational campus arid directed to local recreational archery facilities.

Stop right now, thank you very much When a graduate student did not stop for a parked school bus on LaSalle

Street Jan. 8, she was cited for passing a stopped school bus, revoked driver’s license, displaying an expired plate and no insurance. The police seized her plate and license.

reportedly painted on the front entrance of the Biddle Music Building located on East Campus last Tuesday. Duke’s Facili-

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I got no chair to call my own A 1150 chair was reportedly stolen from an employee in Hudson Hall room 254 Jan. 10.

An officer issued a DWIJan. 5 to a driver of a red car at The Big Pig located on the comer of Hillsborough Road and Trent Drive. The vehicle was “fishtailing” in the parking lot and squealed as it turned onto Hillsborough Road, the officer reported. A bond of $2,000 was set. Hey Mr. DJ, change that song The words ‘YOU ON REPEAT?” were

ties and Management was notified to remove the phrase.

and Circuit Drive, Another person, who is unaffiliated with the University, was cited Jan. 7 for Unsafe Movement when they ignored a stop sign at the intersection of Erwin Road and

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I (didn’t) saw the sign A state citation was given to a student who ran a stop sign at an approximately speed of 40 mph in the early morning of Jan. 8. The stop sign was located at the intersection of Towerview Drive

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CLINTON from page 2 Obama said Sunday her husband is the person America needs in the White House right now and was critical of anyone who would “dismiss this moment as an illusion, a fairytale.” He is the right candidate “not because of the color of his skin, but because of the quality and consistency of his character,” she said. As evidence the Obama campaign had pushed the story, Clinton advisers pointed to a memo written by an Obama staffer compiling examples'of comments by Clinton and her surrogates that could be construed as racially insensitive. The memo later surfaced on a handful of political Web sites. Obama later called Clinton’s accusations “ludicrous,” and said he found Clinton’s comments about King to be ill-advised and unfortunate. “If Senator Clinton wants to be distracted by the sorts of political point-scoring that was evident today then that is going to be her prerogative,” Obama said. Another rival, John Edwards, added his voice to the

IRAN from page 2 ruler, King Abdullah, has tried to push some reforms on education and women’s rights, and there have been limited municipal council elections. But he has been cautious and limited in his efforts, apparently hampered by others in the royal family worried that fast changes could upset the country’s conservative clerics and citizens. In Egypt, the last country Bush planned to visit, the democracy effort has stalled badly. The opposition candidate, Ayman Nour, who ran against longtime President Hosni Mubarak in the first multiparty elections, remains jailed on what many critics view as trumped-up criminal fraud charges. Apparently referring to Egypt, Bush said, “Unfortunately, amid some steps forward in this region we’ve also seen some setbacks. You cannot build trust when you hold an election where opposition candidates find themselves harassed or in prison.” Bush cast the broader campaign for democracy in terms of the battle against terrorism, saying there was a desire for freedom from terrorism, oppression and injustice. “We see this desire in the ordinary people across the Middle East, who are sick of violence, who are sick of corruption, sick of empty promises—and who choose a free future whenever they are given a chance.” Bush praised some democratic reforms in Arab countries. He urged leaders to show support for the fragile Iraqi government, open their societies and provide backing, and possible money, to help make an Israeli-Palestinian agreement stick. “Leaders on both sides still have many tough decisions ahead, and they will need to back these decisions with real commitments,” Bush said. “But the time has come for a holy land where Palestinians and Israelis live together in peace.” Bush’s blistering words about Iran appeared intended to reassure Arab allies about U.S. readiness to confront Tehran. There have been doubts about Washington’s intentions because of a new U.S. intelligence report that said Iran had stopped pursuing nuclear weapons in 2003. Bush appeared to put the danger posed by Iran on par with that from al-Qaida, which the U.S. national intelligence director, Mike McConnell has said is America’s greatest

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“One cause of instability is the extremists supported and embodied by the regime that sits in Tehran,” Bush said. ‘lran is today the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. Bush said Iran funds militant groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad and sends arms to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Shiite extremists in Iraq. “The other major cause of instability is the extremists embodied by al-Qaida and its affiliates,” he said. His words brought a stern response from Iran’s foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, to end what he called U.S. meddling. ‘Mr. Bush has tried unsuccessfully to undermine our relations with the countries of thie region. We believe his mission has totally failed. We have making strides in building ties with the region, politically, economically and even in security,” Mottaki told the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television. “It is much better if the Americans had stopped intervening in the region’s affair.” Also Sunday, the U.S. focused new attention on the Jan. 6 confrontation between American and Iranian naval vessels in the Strait ofHormuz. U.S. Vice Adm. Kevin Cosgriff, commander of the U.S. Navy’s sth Fleet, which patrols the Gulf, briefed Bush on the incident before the president left Bahrain Sunday morning.

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chorus of criticism ofClinton’s comments about King. “I must say I was troubled recently to see a suggestion that real change that came not through the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King but through a Washington politician. I fundamentally disagree with that,” Edwards told more than 200 people gathered at a predominantly black Baptist church in Sumter, S.C. Later Sunday, the Clinton campaign scrambled to explain comments by one of its top black supporters, BET founder Bob Johnson, that seemed to raise the issue of Obama’s admitted teenage drug use. “I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues—when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book—when they have been involved,” Johnson said at an event with Clinton in Columbia, S.C. In his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama described using marijuana and occasionally sampling cocaine as a youth.

The Clinton campaign later released a statement in which Johnson said his comments referred to Obama’s years as a community organizer in Chicago. During the televised interview, Hillary Clinton praised King as one of the people she “admired most in the world,” and suggested his record ofactivism stood in stark contrast to Obama’s. “Dr. King didn’tjust give speeches. He marched, he organized, he protested, he was gassed, he was beaten, he was jailed,” she said, noting King had campaigned for Johnson because he recognized the need to elect a president who could enact civil rights into law. While Clinton praised Obama’s eloquence, she also stepped up her contention that his record did not match his rhetoric. She noted that while he had spoken out eloquently against the war in 2002 before coming to the Senate, he voted repeatedly to fund the war once in office. “If you are part ofAmerican political history, you know that speeches are essential to frame an issue, to inspire, and lift up,” Clinton said. “But when the cameras are gone and when the lights are out, what happens next?”

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Welcome to the ACC The intensity, the crowd, the heat in Cameron Indoor—everything was turned up a notch for the Blue Devils’ conference opener against Virginia Sunday night. Coming off two lackluster efforts against weak opponents, Duke put together its most complete game of the season and sent a message to the rest of game

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“Duke is Duke,” announced senior DeMarcus Nelson. “WeTe coming back this year to win this league. Everyone in this locker room believes that we can win this league.” While Sunday night’s 87-65 win sent a message about the future, its emotional draw came from the recent past. When the Blue Devils looked across the court, the Cavaliers most visible player—Sean Singletary—elicited memories of the last time they saw him—suspended in air, parallel to the floor, launching a ridiculous Feb. 4 game-winner that sparked a losing streak in a season that featured too many of those. On the way to their victorious locker room Sunday, Nelson and GeraldRender-

son let out deep, cathartic yells. After the game, there was little echoing the party line of approaching each game the same way. The players made it very clear whatlast night’s batde was about. “Payback,” Lance Thomas said. “Last year hurt, and people from last year’s team vowed that wasn’t going to happen again. We’re not going to come into the locker room having that feeling of ‘we woulda, coulda, shoulda.’ We’re not losing games by one or two points anymore.” Sunday’s matchup was indeed never in doubt, as the Blue Devils dominated defensively, pressuring the Cavaliers into 19 turnovers—including seven from Singletary before halftime. Duke also outrebounded a team that came into the week with the nation’s best rebounding margin. Many of the Blue Devils’ boards came away from the basket off of missed threes or tip-outs, where they always seemed to be a step swifter than Virginia. “We know we’re not the biggest team at any position, but we do know that we’re quicker than almost every team we play,” Jon Scheyer said. “We can be faster than the ball, and we’re pretty aware of where each other are.” Perhaps most importantly, Duke’s SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 12

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With eight minutes remaining in the first half, sophomore Keturah Jackson stole the ball and quickly pushed it up the court to junior Abby Waner. With no Florida State players anywhere near the basket, the Duke guard confidently went up for what appeared to be an easybucket. Instead, the ball bounced off the backboard and into the hands of a FSU Seminole The DUKE Plarthough unusual for the No. 12 Blue Devils, was one in a series ofmistakes that plagued the team during its game Friday against Florida State in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Despite the lopsided final score of 70-38, Duke’s offense failed to establish a rhythm as players missed open shots and layups in the ACC home-opening win. “The lulls were self-imposed,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We missed layups. I mean, if we had made all our layups you would not have seen any lulls. We

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Friday night’s game against Florida State, Duke’s starting backcourt of Abby Waner, Wanisha Smith and Jasmine Thomas was uncharacteristically quiet. The trio, which entered the game averaging 27.6 points per contest, had managed just two on l-for-8 shooting. Against

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a Seminole offense that had been productive all season, the Blue Devils • could have easily found themselves in a deep defTONIGHT, 7 p.m. icit to start the game. College Park, MD Instead, at the 13minute mark, Duke led 12-8,riding on the shoulders of its dominant center and leading scorer, Chante Black. Black began the game on a tear, scoring 10 consecutive points for the Blue Devils Thomas’ opening jumper. The junior individually outscored Florida State in that

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Freshman JasmineThomas pulled down six rebounds in Duke's 70-38 home victory over FSU Friday night.

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started off on an 18-6 run in the game’s first six minutes and didn’t let up, never letting Virginia (104,0-1) pull closer than six points from that time on as they rolled to the win. Duke had four players with doubledigit points, paced by guard DeMarcus Nelson’s game-high 20 on 8-of-12 shooting. That group of Nelson, Kyle Singler, Gerald Henderson and Jon Scheyer had tremendous success penetrating the Cavaliers’ interior defense, giving Duke plenty of opportunities for kickout three-pointers. The Blue Devils hoisted a season-high 31 shots from beyond the arc and hit 11 of them in comparison to Virginia’s four makes from three-point range. “Defensively, we didn’t keep the ball out of the paint enough to prevent the amount of open perimeter shots they got,” Leitao said. “They have a number of guys, and not just one guy in [Greg] Paulus or [Nolan] Smith coming off the bench, but anybody—whether it’s Nelson, or anybody all the way up to Singler—guys who can put the ball on the floor, make positive plays and really test a team’s defense. They did it to us today.” Cavaliers guard Sean Singletary, who nailed a last-second floater against Duke in Charlottesville last season to give UVa a 68-66 win, had trouble getting anything going in his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Singletary finished with a team-high 18 points on 6-of-12 shooting, but he turned the ball over seven times and struggled to get into a rhythm. Singletar)' also fought through cramps that periodically sidelined him midway through the second half. “Singletary is such a good guard, so you’ve got [to keep] constant attention on him,” Krzyzewski said. “You just hope to hold him to a reasonable number, and 18 was fine—just so he doesn’t go off, because he can play.” UVa’s All-ACC guard was primarily defended by the duo of Nelson and Smith, who agitated Singletary and forced him into those seven turnovers. Krzyzewski also said he was pleased that Singletary only saw four attempts at the free throw line, where he is shooting 83.5 percent on the season. Duke’s defenders also did an excellent job swarming the ball and denying their targets

were a little bit fast, a little bit quick.” As the offense failed to establish any sort of efficiency, the Blue Devils’ saving grace was found on the opposite side of the court: their defense. In a messy game in which Duke (13-3, 2-0 in the ACC) recorded 18 turnovers to only 17 assists, the Blue Devils’ defense bailed them out of what could have turned into a close game. But Duke held the Seminoles to a seasonlow 38 points. Thanks to a relendess press that hounded Florida State (11-6, 1-1) and forced 25 turnovers, Duke extended its home-court winning streak to 23 games. “Anytime you can really defend and get other teams out of sync, that’s a very positive thing,” McCallie said. “We had to do some great things to hold any team to 38 points. This team has to be very proud of that.” Duke finished the game with a 42.9 field goal percentage, largely due to poor shooting nights from guards Wanisha Smith and Waner, who went 0-for-9 and 2-for-12, respectively. Without their usual sources for offensive production, the Blue Devils found themselves relying on their post players to provide the majority of the scoring. On a night when the team shot an unheard-of eight percent from behind the arc, junior Chante Black took over for the Blue Devil squad, proving to be the most efficient scorer with 19 points on 9-for-ll shooting. The center excelled on the defensive end as well, swatting away a team-high four blocks. Duke’s other scoring came from a productive bench that finished the game with 34 combined points. Sophomore Bridgette Mitchell finished with 10 points and four assists, and forward Carrem Gay was solid on both ends of the court, leading all Blue Devils with seven steals while also bringing down seven rebounds. “I was extremely pleased with our bench in terms of the activity and what people coming off the bench did and how they played,” McCallie said. in contrast, the Florida State bench was severely shortened, as three Seminoles, including leading scorer Tanae Davis-Cain, were out due to suspension. With only an eight-player lineup, Florida State was shorthanded throughout the entire match, and the demanding Duke defense tired out the visiting team as early as the first half. With conference play in full swing, the Blue Devils know that those errors on offense will need to be minimized to compete with the rest of the ACC. “Eighteen turnovers is too high,” McCallie said. ‘We weren’t passing to each other with sort of a thoughtfulness. When it’s self-imposed, and you still put 70 points on theboard then I feel pretty strongly that that’s a good sign and thatwe’ll iron those things out.”

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reshman point guard Nolan Smith beats Sean Singletary on the dribble in Duke's 87-65 victory Sunday.

quality shot attempts. “We were really active on defense,” said

Henderson, who had two of Duke’s 12 turnovers. “Guys were in the passing lanes and pressuring the ball, and that was really important in imposing our will on them.” And against the nation’s top rebounding team, the Blue Devils out-rebounded the Cavaliers 35-34. David McClure tied with Singler for a team-high six rebounds, and Lance Thomas chipped in off the bench with five boards, contributing for a team that was robbed of much of its frontcourt depth when center Brian Zoubek was lost to a foot injury last week. “[Thomas] and Dave, they only scored one point between them, but they had 11 rebounds,” Krzyzewski said. “If that posidon would get us 11 rebounds a game, that’s a pretty good guy. I’d draft him. “If they keep doing that, then they’ll keep getting better, because both kids have had some interruptions in their seasons so far,” Krzyzewski said. Duke will continue it’s ACC slate with a road game against Florida State

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span, prompting the Cameron Indoor Stadium crowd to yell, “Chante’s winning!” The center scored her first 10 points in the paint, going hard at the Seminoles’ defense and attacking 6-foot-4 Jacinta Monroe with ease. She sank five of her first six shots, rebounding her only miss to put it back for an easy bucket. Although Black only scored four points in the second half, mosdy a result of playing fewer minutes as the game slipped out of the Seminoles’ reach, she still finished the game with 19 points on 9-for-ll shooting. “Incredible,’’-Florida State head coach Sue Semrau said of Black’s play. “She was not only a dominant scorer, but she was a dominant rebounder. She is a force—one of the best post players in the ACC.” Just as they did against the Seminoles, the Blue Devils need Black to be at her best when they travel to College Park tonight to face Maryland (19-1,3-0 in the ACC) at 7 p.m. If Duke is to pull off the first major road upset of head coach Joanne P. McCallie’s Blue Devil career, it will have to come from the strong play of its maturing ffontcourt, particularly on defense. The No. 4 Terrapins boast one of the most productive ffontcourt tandems in the conference in seniors Laura Harper and Crystal Langhome, who combine for 28.4 points and 16.7rebounds per contest

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“They do have some of the best post players, not only the conference but in the U. 5.,” Black said of Maryland. “Hopefully, we’ll just continue to cany over what we’ve been doing. That’s our focus —to always shut down those players.” Friday night, Duke put its solid interior defense on display, with Carrem Gay adding seven steals, four defensive rebounds and a block to complement Black’s play. Black’s defense in the paint, including four blocks on the night, frustrated Florida State, and the Blue Devils’ collective press forced the Seminoles to shoot a season-low 23.4 percent from the field. Tonight, Duke needs to be on its game again—and early, as it was against the Seminoles—to have a legitimate shot at taking down a Terrapin squad that averages over 82 points per contest “The first 10 minutes were excruciatingly intense from our standpoint [defensively] causing a lot of missed shots,” McCallie said of Friday’s opening half. “The tone was set and then regardless of who we put in, they followed suit.” One of Duke’s biggest struggles this season has been with consistency, and with this weekend’s quick turnaround and in front of a hostile ACC crowd, the team faces one ofits greatest challenges yet. Having taken seven in a row, the Blue Devils have been setting a winning tone, and they hope a victory tonight will follow suit.

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weekendwrapup Swimming 8c Diving teams split meet The Blue Devils’ men’s and women’s squads both went 1-1 this weekend, dominating Davidson and falling to South Carolina in dual meets in Davidson, S.C. The Duke men defeated the Wildcats 146-58 and lost to the Gamecocks 137.5-93.5, while the women recorded a 160-83 win and a 145-98 loss against the same opponents. The highlight of the weekend came when the women’s 400 medley team ofDanielle Spearman, Shannon Beall Jessica Perry and Katie Magee set a pool record with a time of 3:54.51. Duke dominates Michigan Invitational The No. 17 Blue Devils women’s tennis team completed a nearly perfect weekend in Ann Arbor. Mich. Sunday, sweeping all six singles matches against Denver and winning two of four doubles matches against the host Wolverines. Duke dropped just one total match combined on the other two days of the tournament, dominating Miami (OH),

—from staff reports Michigan State, and Michigan. Freshman Reka Zsilinszka

emblematic of the Blue Devils’ success with six totalwins on the weekend, three in singles and three in doubles play.

Blue Devils compete in Virginia Tech Opener Eight members of the Duke men’s track team qualified for the postseason after completing a successful weekend in Blacksburg, Va. Four freshmen, Cory Nanni, Sean-Patrick Oswald, Andrew Palumbo and Bo Waggoner, teamed to finish fourth in the distance medley relay. Duke returns to the track at the Tar Heel Invitational in Chapel Hill Jan. 19. Blue Devils sweep New York matches Duke defeated both Princeton and Davidson at the New York Athletic Club in New York City Friday. The Blue Devil grapplers cruised past the Tigers 46-6 to open the dual meet, and then earnedanother win against the Wildcats by a score of 28-14. Duke’s record now sits at 6-5.

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ANALYSIS from page 9 intensity did not wane throughout the game. Last year in Charlottesville, the Blue Devils blew an eight-point lead in the last 3:42. But Sunday, as Virginia chipped away to reduce Duke’s lead with just over 11 minutes remaining, the Blue Devils emphatically shut the door on the Cavaliers with a 17-4 stretch over the next five minutes. “We didn’t shoot the ball cra2y well tonight,” Henderson said. “We hit shots at times, but our defense is really what pushed us throughout the game.” The crowd seemed to recognize the significance of this conference opener. Cameron was packed and louder than it has been all season. Part of that was due to Crazy Towel Guy riding the Blue Devil’s surfboard, but the Duke players fed off the crowd while building its first-half lead. “Our crowd was great,” Krzyzewski said. “It was like an old-fashioned Cameron game tonight.” Part of the old-fashioned feeling harkened back to the days pre-dating air conditioning, as Cameron bordered on steamy during much of the game. The heat seemed to have an effect on the visitors, as all three of Virginia’s starting guards went down with cramps in the second half. Leitao said his team had dealt with the problem of cramps before, attributing some of it to his players being out of shape. “The game was so intense that I don’t think they kept up,” Thomas said. “That’s a really good thing that we’re in that type ofcondition where we can let teams’ bodies wear down while we’re still reaching our max.” The memory of last year’s 8-8 conference record will propel this Duke team throughout much of its ACC slate, but that mark will quickly be eclipsed if the Blue Devils continue to put away teams like they did with Virginia. “We haven’t had a game where everyone has played really well and is on the same page, and this game was one of those games,” Henderson said.

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advance, unless University sendees are required. The new guidelines are a much needed revision of the old system, an unclear system that made it relatively difficult for independents to hold social gatherings. The changes address one of the key social issues highlighted by the Campus Culture Initiative, the dominance of the campus social scene by selective living groups and organizations. The new rules will not revolutionize the campus social scene by themselves, but taken in conjunction with another recent policy change, the revision indicates that DSG is actively striving to liberalize the social protocols on campus.

over Winter Break, is anodier significant step by the Duke Student Governeditorial ment and die Office of Student Acdvides anti Facilities toward developing a more open social scene for undergraduate independent students. Under the new rules, which stem from a September DSG memo entided “A More Perfect Party Scene,” an event on West Campus must be registered only if it will involves alcohol and more than 25 guests, if it uses outdoor speakers or if it uses University or professional resources. There is no longer a need to register an event a week in

The implementation several months ago of a new party monitor policy was equally significant, as it allowed any student to become a party monitor online and without bureaucratic hassle. As any event with alcohol and more than 25 people requires party monitors, these two changes together could catalyze a gradual transformation ofcampus social life. To fully enable the proliferation of unaffiliated student events, however, one more ingredient is needed: space. The need for public spaces that independents could rent or book for events cannot be overlooked, as the September memo stressed. The new event registration Web site features an impressive list of

spaces for parties, from Page Auditorium to rooms in the Social Sciences Building, but this promising feature is underdeveloped. A request for a room or site on campus results only in an e-mail promising a reply by OSAF within 72 hours. There is no way to tell in advance which spaces are available for a certain time or who has reserved them. OSAF could feasibly develop an online schedule to provide this information, and its utility should not be underestimated. It would be far simpler to implement than the ACES software, without which scheduling classes would be a tedious and lengthy (or lengthier) chore. In the meantime, even clipboards on commons

[7wo men] came up to me with a gun out—I must have been yelling for them' not to hurt me or something because they were telling me to shut up. A student, who wished to remain unnamed, on being robbed at gunpoint off East Campus Saturday night. See story page 1.

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A similarly enlightened approach to booking social spaces, large and small, will provide Duke students with a great deal more social flexibility in the future.

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room doors would serve the same purpose and allow independents to request use of these spaces when needed—whether for Super Bowl parties or sushi nights. Though the work is not yet complete, the new event policy may well be remembered as a significant milestone. Together with relaxed party monitor training requirements, the reduced need to register events could increase the spontaneity of gatherings on campus and may help to eventually transform the campus party scene.

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force. When, you think about it, tenting is pretty unbelievable. Students sleep outside in the cold for two months (way longer than Britney’s first marriage) just to watch a game that lasts two hours (also longer than Britney’s first marriage). One hundred years from now an anthropologist with no knowledge of basketball might conclude that students just tended to get “sexiled” most frequently in January and February. But seriously, before I go any further I must confess something—like Frenchy and beauty school, like Kanye and college—l am a K-ville dropout. Last year I spent two nights in a tent after Winter Break and by the time that third night rolled around I had already found myself a tenting replacement. I had less stamina than Kirstie Alley on a treadmill, less willpower than Star Jones at a sorority bake sale. If K-ville 2007 were the famous Seinfeld episode “The Contest,” I would have been Kramer. Needless to say, I’m not the best authority when it comes to what truly motivates these crazy kids to brave conditions that would likely force even Bear Grylls to sleep in a hotel—again. So, I decided to make the treacherous trek to K-ville to get some answers from the tenters themselves. Walking through K-ville I felt like Clive Owen in the final scenes of “Children of Men,” but more handsome, of course. It was as if a group of students had suddenly moved into a Hudson Trail store and decorated the place with an interior design that could only be described as “refugee camp chic.” I asked several students why they were tenting and got some fairly boring responses. They used words like “bonding,” “rite of passage” and “UNC sucks,” but all I heard was “cliche,” “cli-

che” and “UNC sucks.” I listened to these seemingly canned answers and couldn’t help but think that maybe this week’s column would be extra short. Finally, I came across a brave freshman girl who was willing to give me an honest and unusual answer. “Oh,” she explained, “they’ll probably show me in the stands and I’ll get to be on TV. That’s worth weeks of tenting.” It didn’t even matter to her that her face would flash faster than “Gilmore Girls” dialogue. “That’s why TiVo was invented,” she retorted. Touche. I asked her tentmates what they thought about this rationale and many of them begrudgingly echoed her camera-hogging sentiment. The more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Obviously, Duke is renowned for its Cameron Crazie cheering section—a group of students that jump higher and scream louder than Tom Cruise on daytime TV. However, as I noticed at the game last night, whenever the cameraman neared a portion offans, those Crazies became downright psychotic. Ultimately, I guess it all comes down to 15 minutes of fame (or in this case several seconds). Deep down all of us want it and we’re willing to do some pretty ridiculous things to get it (See: “A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila”). Fortunately,! think we all end up achieving that fame in our own unique ways, whether it’s inventing a life-saving new medicine and appearing on NBC News or performing as an extra on

“According to Jim.”

Of course, there are more important reasons for a Duke basketball game. However, for many students the prospect of having the image of their painted, sweaty body sandwiched between Coach K calling a timeout and an ad for Cialis is to tent

surprisingly appealing. So, was I, Mr. Quitter, somehow immune to the lure of momentary fame? The reality is that the thought of TV face time never even crossed my negative Celsius mind. It was much, much

colder last year than this past week when I tried out tenting. Frankly, all I wanted was out of my sleeping bag and back into my comfortable, warm bed. In all honesty though, if someone a year ago would have mentioned that I had the chance of being featured prominently before ESPN cut to a Fathead commercial, I just might have toughed it out for a few more shifts in our Kville tent. David Distenfeld is currently tenting for the “I Love Nexo York 3” auditions. It’s his time to shine.

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iettertotheeditor Derivatives-related mishap prompts Duke to abandon validation system Although every article about the basketball game line policy makes for scintillating reading, The Chronicle could have improved Thursday’s article “Validation system suspended” by changing the headline to “Derivatives-related mishap prompts Duke to abandon validation system.” Not only is this headline sexier, it gives a better indication of what the problem with the validation system is. The validation system replaced a spot market (the walk-up line) with an option market. The walk-up line is a spot market because the sellers bring their goods and services—seats at the basketball game for immediate sale to the consumers, who are the students. The validation system is an option market. When a student validates, she receives the right but not the obligation to attend a future basketball game. To be exact, the option here is a call option because the student is essentially obtaining the right to buy a seat at the upcoming basketball game. Options are useful and valuable because they provide insurance. In this case, the validation system provided boredom insurance for Duke stu-

dents. If a student validates before a game, then she knows that she can go to the upcoming game, which is far better than being bored or having to study during that time. But between validation time and game time, she may receive an opportunity to do something else that she likes even better than going to the game. In this case, she simply doesn’t exercise the option and it expires, worthless, at no cost to her other than the time spent going through the validation process. The University was selling call options to students, presumably without realizing it, or assuming that the option would always be exercised if it was purchased—not a good assumption, given the clever (I hesitate to say rational) nature of Duke students. The University’s intention, to offer any unclaimed seats to non-students in order to fill Cameron Indoor Stadium with fans, was certainly a good one—but using options (at least by themselves) isn’t the right way to achieve this goal, because as we learned, students will gladly buy options to insure themselves against boredom, especially when they’re cheap.

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smaller crusades propawheeler frost largely unchalgate big wheel lenged, each on the frontier of political, moral or social activity. The studentfinds in his grasp a plethora of opportunities; taking advantage of them yields a plethora of other opportunities. The sum of these opportunities and subsequent advantages taken yields a suitable life experience for the young person trying to find the right path. Such, I believe, is the view of the contemporary college campus—a veritable pinwheel of exciting chances to explore the world, and by implication, oneself—which, unlike the world, is the real locus ofattention. The student is told, with great gravity, to pursue his own dreams and ambitions and to make a difference according to his own preferences; from then, the student embarks upon anything that meets his fancy and experiments with his passing desires, It is clear that the nature of these exertions is oriented along the lines of what is “present” and “relevant.” Eschewed, then, are the spires and ramparts of ancient knowledge. Instead, the ambitious student uses the trope of global community to make a specious difference in the name of individual fulfillment. The Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report pontificates, “[Duke] University as a community has the opportunity and responsibility to challenge the purported norm, to define what is, and what is not, normative for Duke and reset the default more positively.” Because the University community does not actually exist, this sentence is nothing more than license for students ,to “reset the default” according to their own whims. Assiduously incited to question” power structures or “affirm” difference, the student is thereby encouraged to tread his own path—in the name of community, no less. The paradox ofindividual struggle at the behest ofivory tower directives hangs like a wispy fog—noticed only upon reflection.

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Witness the curriculum. Hundreds of courses are available for perusal and selection. The underlying impetus (epitomized by the administration-induced distribution requirement system) is to expand the student’s options, to cater to his needs, to pander to his interests. Believing that he is truly exploring the world, the current student is actually gratifying his own desires. The present curriculum is not designed to present the student with the full panoply of deep and penetrating thoughts—merely to allow the student to choose which thoughts he is challenged by (and, as a result, not be challenged). Through it all, the modern adolescent is troubled by the lack of “something more.” A palpable unease is prone to momentarily overtaking the youth, whereupon he realizes that a deep philosophical underpinning to his existence is altogether missing. The student, unfettered as he is from the profound realms of human thought, is suddenly overtaken by an urge to validate his existence. He utters, not without a bit of derring-do, “just live.” Sayings like “just live” are fit for those who think an effusive phrase both profoundly sums up philosophical angst and reflects an acceptable basis for future action. Yet “just live” is an admission of defeat—an acknowledgment that providing a serious and thoughtful account of one’s life is not worth the effort. In other terms, the phrase is an utterance for adolescents. An account of one’s life would involve writing out one’s beliefs, reflecting on past behavior and attempting to ask whether one is living the right and good life. It would necessitate looking at oneself from , the outside and questioning one’s very existence, one’s most fundamental assumptions and ambitions. It involves discarding “just live” for something more meaningful, something beyond the confines of “relevant” experience for something that rigorously asks, for instance, whether the aforementioned crusades are good and right or not. Who can deny that it is the role of a university to give students of the liberal arts an opportunity to begin to give such an account and thus grow into adults? There are many who do deny it in practice, if not in words, and one is not surprised to find them here at Duke. Indeed, the administration’s goals and the inability of the student to come to grips with his own existence through serious study are linked. Wheeler Frost is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Monday.

Frank Holleman is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

Connel Fullenkamp Associate professor, Department ofEconomics

The wispy fog and the palpable unease Gay

The hope of politics is the most vigorous campaign season in living memory. Living at Duke you wouldn’t really know. There’s the obligatory Barack Obama worship, of course, which emerges once you scratch the surface. Every once and a while you’re confronted with someone who supports the laughably frank hollGVTian terrible candidate Ron Paul, who represents into the fire the worst parts of 1920 conservatives and 1990 conspiracy theorists in one curmudgeonly bundle. Most students are reasonably well-educated about the election. But there’s a lot of silence on campus about politics, except in the abstract. I see a lot of explanations for this. Most politicians talk about middle-class issues like income taxes, health care costs and unemployment. Most people at Duke don’t have to worry about these things—we’re either too young or too rich for them to matter. The war in Iraq is a distant, slowly receding problem, and few people who have not already joined the armed services will ever have to fight there. Aside from mild irritation at President George W. Bush’s foot-in-mouth disease, most of us don’t have a particular practical motivation to become political pundits. And, I suspect, most people our age feel totally alienated by politicians. There is a widespread view—and not just among people our age —that political campaigns are a chance for about a dozen people to scramble for millions of dollars in campaign contributions. As this thinking goes, these campaigns have nothing to do with average people, and the huge contributions received from corporations ensure that regular people will have little say in the decisions politicians make after the elections. This view leads people our age to support in droves the candidates who seem to buck that trend. There’s Paul, who bucks every trend in politics, and because of it has acquired an undeserved reputation for integrity. Obama, of course, constandy talks about changing the way politics work, and his life story is certainly radically different from that of your average old, white, male president. And so both these men receive the lion’s share ofyoung people’s support. But beyond that support, our political involvement remains limited, even when it comes to voting. That’s emblematic of what’s wrong with our generation’s view of politics. The political process is not just about individual personalities or presidential campaigns, no matter how long they drag on. It’s not about the avalanche of polls and stump speeches regurgitated by the press every day. The way I see it, politics is about identifying problems and then finding ways to solve them. Our government and politicians are a means to that end. The great political issues of our nation, from the gay rights movement to urban poverty to the national deficit, will not be solved by opinion polls or joining Facebook groups. They will be solved by people taking actions that have real results. The most basic of these is voting. The most extreme is actually holding office. In between are nearly infinite opportunities to create positive change, from becoming active in community organizations to volunteering to just talking to people about the problems our country faces. What I’m trying to get at here is that there isn’t a real difference between politics and the sort of activism in which Duke students regularly take part. The major difference is scope. The political campaigns we scorn are often made up of the efforts of thousands of people to create a positive, real and lasting change for the better in America. By embracing those we agree with, instead of blowing them all off, we can be a part of that process. I think that’s pretty exciting, and the vast options with which we’re provided for accomplishing things for this country in 2008 are downright electrifying. ,

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