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Color-blind students beware. Duke has a new hue— China red. For the second year running, the University has seen a record-high number of Chinese applicants —increasing the diversity of the student body. “Best damn admissions class!” said Gu Ten Ta Ge, dean of admissions. “This class is the most smartest, most diverse, most motivated, most diverse, most prettiest, most superlative and, of course, most diverse.” With a population of more than two billion, the People’s Republic of China appears to be seeking a solution to overpopulation by shipping youths to Duke’s campus. According to statistics released by the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, approximately 10 percent of the incoming freshman class are Chinese, the biggest minority group in the class. “Ni(3) hao(3),” said freshman Guo Qing Ren, who recently arrived from Beijing. “Zai(4) du(4) ke(3) da(4) xue(2) li(3) du(2) shu(l) rang(4) wo(3) gan(3) jue(3) wo(3) fang(3) fu(2) zai(4) jia(l) li(3).” Ta Ge said this year’s average math SAT score for applicants peaked at 790, adding that verbal scores .plummeted to 420. “Numbers just make sense to me, they’re the same in every language,” said senior Jake Wang, a mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and biomedical engineering quintuple major. Currently, all 100-levelclasses in the mathematics department have extended waitlists. “Students ofDuke University, rise up! Stronger, firmer, mightier!” Chairman Dick Inabox said. The University also recently announced that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “Communist Manifesto” has been chosen as the incoming freshman class’ summer reading book. Chinese restaurant owners around the Triangle area said they have seen an influx of customers because of SEE TIAO (4) ON PAGE

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In a bizarre turn of events Monday, junior Larry Shen, not Gordon Jiordano, will be Supreme Overlord of Duke Students, election officials said. His term will run indefinitely. It turned out that 609 votes for Jiordano were write-in votes—interspersed between votes for “Genghis Khan,” “a leprechaun” and “that man who does the Moviefone voice.” In fact, after accounting for the “leprechaun” votes, Jiordano’s write-in vote total rose to 683, said Supreme Council Secretary Pauline Slarian. “We realized the votes for Gordon were all part of an elaborate, spontaneous joke,” Slarian said. “People thought they were being funny when they wrote down Gordon’s name. Thank God we caught the joke before it was too late.” After hearing ofhis victory in the election, Shen responded, “That’s ridiculous, yo.” He added that he won because of his lack of campaigning and his aversion to change. “All this change stuff turns me off,” Shen said. “Change is hard. Kind of like walking from Edens to McDonald’s.” Students said they were amazed at Shen’s refusal to accept endorsements, attend last week’s debate or generally try. They added that playing “hard to get” with the position made students want Shen that much more. “I voted for him because he doesn’t need votes to get elected,” a random student said. SEE C-FOOD ON PAGE 479

Man sues Duke for bracket loss DPD awarded for excess force by

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John Mathews, Trinity ’69, is suing the University for emotional damage and conspiracy after the men’s basketball team’s loss to West Virginia, putting him at the bottom ofhis NCAA bracket pool. The suit was announced on JuicyCampus.com in a thread entitled, “What does a bracket disaster look like?” Readers rated the thread 88percent juicy Suits were rumored last week when John Burnedout, vice president for government affairs and public relations, announced that the University had added literary attorney Atticus Finch to its legal team. “A lot of people said it couldn’t be done, because [Finch] is fictional. And overqualified. It’s really unprecedented,” he said. “We’re pre-

pared to defend the University vigorously in this matter, byway of seances and memoranda.” Duke’s attorneys filed a motion Friday saying that Mathews had broken state bar rules in publicizing his suit

and called for JuicyCampus to be shut down. Burnedout said the details of the University’s legal strategy were a secret that many wouldn’t understand. Duke Students for a Moral 'uke President Ben T. Jarry, a iper-senior, said Duke’s motion w is actually a thinly-veiled aspect Laurence “Of Arabia” Vender's “secret file” to have a post -moved that criticized the West Campus Plaza and veganism. “I have been told by a number sources, including members of ie Board of Trustees, that Duke jcrewed,” Jarry said. “Oh wait—;an I go off the record? Pm not re I can say that,” he said. SEE RAC ON VOLUME 104

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The Durham Police Department was commended Monday for its use ofextensive arsenal and raids in fighting crime. The ceremony, held at the Michael Knifimg Institute for Ethics, drew a large crowd as members of the community gathered to thank police for disregarding their rights and to reflect on the safety of their environment. “They barged into my apartment, pointed a bazooka at my head and demanded I strip naked for a search ofmy cavities,” seniorDope Dup told attendants. “It was a true demonstration of their unfaltering persistence —I’ve heard they searched all the Duke students on my street.” Although the busts did not yield any contraband, Dup and all other searched students were arrested and charged anyway. DPD Public Information Officer Lynn Visible could not be present at the event, but she sent a message noting that SEE DPD “ETHICS” ON PAGE

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Announcement of Nominees Congratulations to the following students, student organizations, faculty and administrators, who have been nominated to receive Duke University's most prestigious campus-wide honors for leadership and service, Awards will be presented at the Student Affairs Distinguished Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony on April 16.

Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award Joycelyne Absolu Lesley Chapman Felix Descamps Katelyn Donnelly David Fiocco Sarah Gordon Tim Jepson Shivam Joshi Claire Lauterbach Lee Pearson

Philip Wolfe Baldwin Scholars Unsung Heroine Award Denise Comer Christine Drea Ava Vinesett

Leading at Duke Awards Priyanka Amin Jordan Giordano Chamindra Goonewardene Vincent Ling Aileen Liu Lauren Maisel Det Mo Future Is Now

Wesley Fellowship, United Methodist Campus Ministry

Julie Anne Levey Memorial Leadership Award Wesley Brown Stephanie Chang Edwin Coleman Eric Dejong Emma Donaho

Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award Felix Descamps Sarah Gordon Lee Pearson Brence Pernell Grant Smith

Student Affairs Distin k Leadership and Service Keliey Akhiemokh Kamaria Campbe Jeremy Crawfon Katelyn Donnell Katharine Eggiest David Fiocco Annie Fleishmai Sarah Gordon Adam Hartstone-Rose Carla Jordan-Detamore Shivam Joshi Rachel McLaughlin Brence Pernell Rachel Shack Ashley Sobel Claire Teigland Ashley Walker Laura Welch Victoria Weston David Wynn

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A total of 55 freshman women did not receive a West Campus room assignment Sunday, and at least four freshman men have been asked to relocate from their Craven Quadrangle assignments Monday afternoon. Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of

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Director of Athletics Joe Alieva has been named one of six finalists for the athletic director position at Louisiana State University, LSU officials announced and Duke representatives confirmed

housing services, explained RLHS’ plans resolve the situation in an e-mail to The Chronicle Monday afternoon. The first step is to make the 16 rooms on West normally reserved for specialneeds students available, he said. RLHS will then redesignate 20 unselected West Campus male rooms that are near proper female restrooms for women. “These solutions take care of 36 of the 55 spaces, leaving 19 that still need to be identified,” he said. to

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Forward Taylor King has decided to transfer from Duke after one season, officials announced Monday.

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Gearing the way Itis unclear how manyfreshman men have been asked to relocate. Residence Life and Housing Services officials did not respond to requests for comment

Monday night. “In evaluating the space that is still open on West, we noted that the four of you are currendy the only residents

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Freshman Taylor King has decided to leave Duke, University officials announced in a statement Monday. King, a 6-foot-6 forward from Huntington Beach, Calif., logged minutes in each of Duke’s 34 games this season and ranks eighth in the Blue Devil freshman record book for 3-pointers made with 43. He finished the season having averaged 5.9 points and two rebounds per contest. “Taylor is a solid young man and has the ability to be a good player,” head coach

Mike Krzyzewski said. “We support him in his decision to transfer and wish him the best ofluck in the future.” King went home to Huntington Beach, Calif., over the weekend to spend time with his family and discuss his future, a Duke Athletics official said. The freshman sharpshooter, who did not clock more than six minutes in any ofDuke’s final six games, ultimately decided it was in his best interest to part ways with the Blue Devils and look into his options to

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to a released Monday afternoon by Louisiana State University, the six named finalists will be interviewed by the Athletic Director Search Committee Wednesday at the Law Center on the Baton Rouge campus. The committee also intends to make its final recommendations of candidates to Acting LSU Chancellor William Jenkins Wednesday. “I have been contacted by a representative of Louisiana State University regarding its vacant athletics director position and am honored to be considered for such a prestigious position,” Alieva said in a statement Monday evening. “At this point, the conversations have been limited and exploratory in nature. I plan to meet withLSU officials

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Blog allows students to share frustration, joys by

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What secrets would you confess to theDuke

public if no one could find out it was you? A new blog started March 19 by junior Deepika Ravi, and supported by organizations across campus, invites students speak about their fears, secrets and insecurities on its Web site—and promises total anonymity to encourage open confession. The blog, MeTooCampaign.Blogspot. com, currently features more than 230 posts from students confessing to chronic loneliness, dissatisfaction with Duke’s hook-up to

culture and feelings offailure on a campus of perfectionists. The majority of students’ submissions are intensely personal statements, including entries like “I’m a healthy weight, but on campus I feel obese,” “I was raped during study abroad,” and “Sometimes I am afraid that being me just isn’t enough.” Ravi said the volume of responses on the site in its first weeks shows that students needed an open, honest forum to express such issues for the first time. Junior Megan Kuhfeld, who recendy SEE ME TOO ON PAGE 8

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HARRISBURG, Pa. Democrat Hillary Clinton criticized the George W. Bush administration's plan to overhaul regulation of U.S. financial institutions Monday, saying the proposal "comes late and falls short." The New York senator said the government must move more assertively to contain the mortgage and credit crisis rattling financial markets, especially in finding ways to ease soaring rates of homeforeclosures. "No amount of rearranging the deck chairs can hide the fact that our housing and credit markets are in crisis, and they're sinking deeper every day," Clinton said at a campaign appearance. "Every day we fail to take aggressive action is a day lost." The former first lady pledged as president to offer $lOO billion in tax cuts for middle-class families to pay for health care, education and other costs. Among other things, she proposed a $3,000 tax credit to help pay for the care of an elderly parent or a disabled child, and said she would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit to make it available to a broader range of low-in-

New President Raul Castro's has lifted a ban on Cubans staygovernment at hotels ing previously reserved for foreigners, another restriction that had been espeending irksome to citizens. cially at the Nacional, Valencia and Employees Santa Isabel hotels in Havana said Ministry of Tourism officials told them Cubans were allowed to stay in hotels across the island as of midnight on Monday. Like other guests, they will be charged in hard currency worth 24 times the Cuban pesos state employees are paid in. On Friday, Cuba authorized its citizens to obtain mobile phones, which only foreigners and key officials in the communist government were previously allowed to have. A resolution signed by the Interior Commerce Ministry March 21 also authorizedthe sale of computers, microwaves and DVD players, items which had only been sold to companies and foreigners.

NEW YORK You can skip the mouth-tomouth breathing and just press on the chest to save a life. In a major change, the American Heart Association said Monday that handsoniy CPR—rapid, deep presses on the victim's chest until help arrives—works just as well as standard CPR for sudden cardiac arrest in adults. Experts hope bystanders will now be more willing to jump in and help if they see someone suddenly collapse. Hands-oniy CPR is simpler and easier to remember and removes a big barrier for people skittish about the mouth-to-mouth breathing.

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ODDSAND ENDS Man dies from billboard accident SYLVA, N.C State inspectors looking into the death of a Waynesville man impaled by a plastic stake after falling from a billboard found the company he worked for failed to give employees safety equipment. The man was working on a billboard on U. 5.64 near Murphy when he lost his balance and fell 10 feet from the platform while unrolling vinyl. He landed on a plastic cable marker.

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ENTERTAINMENT Smith's son died from drug overdose NASSAU, Bahamas A Bahamas jury ruled Monday that Anna Nicole Smith's son died from an accidental drug overdose, just like his mother. The seven-member jury, which deliberated for less than two hours, recommended no criminal charges in the September 2006 death of 20-year-old Daniel Smith. The son of the former Playboy playmate died after coming to the Bahamas to meet his new baby sister on Sept. 10,2006. His mother died early the next year in Florida from an accidental drug overdose at age 39.

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Today Third Annual Edible Book Festival Perkins Library Room 201,2 p.m. A showcase ofedible art. Participation is open to all. Speech by John Brandon, Apple VP SocialSciences 139,5p.m. Come hear the vice president of Apple for the Americas and Asian Pacific speak on 10 ways to be successful in business.

Sabrosura: Hips of Glory Page Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. Duke's Latin Dance Group's annual showcase.The show will cover an array of dance styles from salsa to merengue, swing to samba, and more! Free admission. News briefs compiled from wire reports

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Stats student takes on bracket study DUES, Blue Number of top 4 seeds Cross Blue picked In past NCAA Tournaments Shield re-up by

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Cameron Crazies like to paint themselves uniformly in blue, but a similar herd mentality could ruin your chances of winning a March Madness bracket, according to a paper by a Duke graduate student. The best strategy to win a pool is to create a bracket as differentfrom other people’s as possible, said Jarad Niemi, a Ph.D. student in statistical science. He explored the topic in the paper he co-authored, called “Contrarian strategies for NCAA tournament pools: a cure for March Madness?” published in the January edition of Chance magazine. “You want to be as dissimilar as everybody else,” Niemi said. But he added that people following this strategy should still pick teams with a high probability ofwinning. For instance, in a pool in which he is participating at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, many people have put down UNC as winning it all, he said. “So I actually chose UNC as the champion and my goal is to beat them on the rest of the games,” Niemi said. “So I chose a bunch of the 12-[seeds] and 13-[seeds], and I chose Davidson [College] to beat

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The Duke University Health System announced Monday that it has made a multiyear agreement to remain in the network of Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina. “This long-term agreement protects our community’s ability to access quality, compassionate care,” Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of DUHS, said in a statement.

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A study conducted by Jarad Niemi, a Ph.D. student in statistical science, looked at how membersofan office pool in Chicago picked number one seeds.His results showed thatpicking a dissimilar bracket would yield a higher return.

Even if UNC wins the national championship, his score will still be higher than other players because of the points he got from the opening rounds of the tournament, Niemi said. And if UNC loses, he will still have a relatively high score because his opponents would lose the same amount of points.

Freshman Colin Hwang, who created his own NCAA pool, said he believes the strategy is too simple. “It’s more complex than that, maybe it does apply for the ones in the middle,” Hwang said. “But for the ones you have a good hunch, I think you should pick your hunch.”

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Hwang’s pool, said he also follows his gut when he fills out brackets. “I don’t believe in the strategy when you have to pick a 12-seed beating a 5seed,” he said, referring to the perception SEE BRACKETOLOGY ON PAGE

Bob Greczyn, president and CEO of BCBS, said in a statement that he is pleased to continue his company’s relationship with DUHS in order to ensure the highest quality care to members. “With 3.6 million customers, we take our commitment to the region seriously and understand that access to quality health care is critical to every community,” he said. In 2007, DUHS provided health care to more than 70,000 BCBS customers.

—from staffreports Dear reader, Once you have finished perusing these pages, please recycle the newspaper.

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Conference eyes Durham renewal Six panelists discuss status, future of Durham reconstruction project by

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that the downtown initiative has Downtown Durham: find made thus far, including $1.2 billion in investments obtained by your cool. So goes the slogan of Downthe city. town Durham Inc., the compaSince 1990, the downtown at the forefront of the sevenDurham workforce has more ny year-old project to renovate the than tripled to 16,000 workers. Bull City’s downtown area. In 2007 approximately 1.8 milSix panelists, including DDI lion people visited downtown atPresident tractions. Du r Bill Kalkhof “We don’t think the city ham’s city spoke Monday center can be successful night plan already has to a full sepaunless more people —local rated die audience downtown in Love Aupeople—get involved in di t o r i u m area into downtown.” districts, regarding the present proMichael Lemanski which vide landstate of the developer marks for city’s recons tru cti o n visitors to the Bull projects and its future plans. The first City. Downtown Durham Conference, The expansion of the West Vilsponsored by the Duke Real Eslage Urban Loft Apartments and construction of a new transportatate Club, attracted Duke students, city leaders and Durham tion center and a free shuttle sysresidents. tem downtown are some projects Discussion centered around currently in progress. the improvements made to All members of the panel fodowntown culture and the concused on the need for continued tinued need for community ingrowth in construction and downtown usage in all districts. volvement. “We don’t think the city cen“Every time someone does anter can be successful unless more other project, it helps us all move people—local people—get in- the ball forward,” said panelist Dr. volved in downtown,” said panelAndrew Rothschild, president and ist Michael Lemanski, managing founder ofScientific Properties, a real estate development firm. partner of Greenfire Development, a company commited to Scott Selig, Duke associate improving the overall quality of vice president for capital assets, life in Durham. said the Duke campus expands Kalkhof started the conference 150 feet into the Durham area -

Six development experts talkedabout the progress of the downtown Durhamreconstruction project at a panel discussion Monday night every year. The growth catalyzes downtown expansion but cannot and should not do so by itself. “Durham will not fail,” he said. “We are well past the tipping point... Get ready for the ride. The ride has only started. It’s re-

ally exciting.” During his speech, City Man-

ager Patrick Baker described his commitment to not only creating a beautiful downtown area,

but also ensuring that nearby inner-city neighborhoods would not become neglected. A question-and-answer session followed the presentations explaining the panelists’ projects. Attendees asked about transportation options, inclusion ofresidents in planning small-scale projects in fringe areas and women and minority involvement in city planning. Real Estate Club President

Rick Bagel, a senior, said he was pleased with the conference’s turnout and the way it represented Durham as a whole. It provided a great case study, he said, adding that it generated publicity for the downtown renovation project. “People care more about downtown than any other part of the city,” City Council member Michael Woodard said.

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relocate,” Jen Frank, Residence Life and Housing Services assignments coordinator, wrote in an e-mail sent at 3:56 p.m. to four freshman men. “We would appreciate it if you could each e-mail us back with your mutual selection by 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 1.” The students were given four rooms from which to choose, one of which was previously expanded from a double to a triple but will be reverted back to a double, and two of which are in Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity’s Edens Quadrangle IB section. “I was just confused by this. I thought the way the lottery system worked, once we get a number, we pick a room,” said freshman Pat Lang, one of the four students asked to move. “They never said anything about once you get a room there’s the possibility that they boot you.” Lang, who had been assigned to House C in Craven Quadrangle, said that if he has to move, he and his roommate will be separated from the rest of their block. He said he was unsure if the situation is negotiable, noting that in the e-mailFrank wrote that RLHS is “asking” the students to relocate. “I assume it’s a polite way of them saying, ‘Get out,’” Lang said.

Sophomores on Central? To account for the remaining women without assignments, RLHS will permit the 19 remaining unhoused freshman women to live on Central Campus in single, roommate-pair or multiperson apartments on a voluntary basis. “As we experience attrition on West between now and August (and we always do), [we will] give these women the first choice to be reassigned to West Campus,” Hull said. Several freshman women who did not receive a housing assignment Sunday said they were confused when the message, “There are zero beds remaining that fulfill your requirements,” appeared on the Room Fix Web site. “The number [of available rooms] just kept going down, and then it was gone,” freshman Amy Matulewicz said All students who did not get a West Campus housing assignment received an e-mail Sunday night from RLHS assuring them an eventual housing assignment on West. With a high lottery number, freshman Allie Sterling said she did not expect to get her first-choice dormitory or even to be able to block with her 11 friends but did expect to get a room. “Ending up with nowhere to live is unacceptable,” Sterling said. Although freshman Sarah Lumsden said she is worried about having to live on Central, she said she understands that she just got unlucky with the lottery system. “Obviously I’d like to know where I’m living right now, but it’s not something they did intentionally to screw us over,” she said. “It’s just a mistake.” ‘Dear RLHS, Build us a tree house’ But Lang said he does not understand how RLHS did not foresee the problem. He noted that statistics were posted on the Room Fix site that indicated how many available rooms were on West and how many women and men applied. “From the stats, it was obvious there were too many girls,” he said. “I don’t know what the plan was.” Some freshman women said they were also frustrated with the Room Fix system and RLHS’ lapse in account-

ability. “All of us were pretty heated about the situation,” Sterling said. “[We were] pretty upset with RLHS when we found out we were homeless.” Angered by the prospect of not having West housing next semester, Matulewicz created a Facebook group called “Dear RLHS, Build us a tree house on the quad.” She said the group was made in response to the situation as a stress reliever for her block. “I mean, I’m not actually going to live in a tree house,” she said. Although RLHS officials did not foresee this problem, Hull said it will be solved and all rising sophomore women will have a bed next semester. “It’s not the way we anticipated this process working out, but the important thing at this point is to work with these students as proactively as possible, to get them assigned and not have them worry about where they are going to live next year,” he said.

bracket. He said he is familiar with teams in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but is less confident picking teams he does not follow. that one 12-5 upset occurs every year. “I just go with my “When it comes to teams across the nation, we’re instincts.” just like, ‘Eh, we don’t really know anything about Others believe that stratboth of them,’ so we will just either pick the higher seed, or egizing depends on the scoring “These ESPN tournament scheme of the particular pool. if we know one team has the national player of the year, we Jerry Reiter, an assistant professor have been challenges... of statistical science, said he picks will just assume they will win,” teams like Davidson because they running for years now and no he said. are examples of strong programs Niemi noted it is extremely one has ever correctly picked difficult with a lower seed number, which to select the perfect could yield higher returns for upbracket. all the games.” sets depending on a pool’s scor“These ESPN tournament Niemi, graduate student challenges... have been runing method. “It certainly makes sense to ning for years now and no one has ever correctly picked all of pick teams that are undervalued,” he said. the games,” Niemi said. “The odds are very, very small Studying the conference and the location of the teams that you will actually do it. There’s just so many poshelps freshman Adam Price-Pollak choose winners for his sibilities.”

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posted on the site, said she felt she could submit a candid reflection on the blog without having to consider what others might think. “I liked the idea of being able to say something without other people knowing,” she said. “The whole anonymous nature makes it feel like something that people would read, without having [my confession] come back to me.” Other students who have perused the site said they were struck by how many posts echoed the same issues of body image, self-confidence and chronic depression within “this Duke bubble,” as one post said. And although many of the themes are common to both men and women on campus, junior Christen Tingley, co-chair of Students to Unite Duke, which is sponsoring the campaign, noted that the myth of “effortless perfection” —that female students should succeed without struggling—pervades the blog. The site was inspired by a speech Ravi heard at a leadership conference by Gary Glass, senior coordinator of outreach and developmental programming for Counseling and Psychological Services, which discussed students’ mental health and initially referenced the idea of a “Me Too” T-shirt as ajoke. Glassnoted in the speech that although many students were willing to support their friends during times of struggle, few were comfortable discussing their own problems. “I joked that if I ever won the lottery, I would buy T-shirts for all Duke students and have the words “Me Too” printed

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Great Hall employee Curtis Payne receives an award for his service as a non-faculty Duke employee at an event held by DSG Community Interaction Committee in the Bryan Center Monday.

on them so whenever they were having a rough day or an overwhelming semester, they’d see the shirt and smile at the reminder that they’re not alone,” Glass wrote in an e-mail. Early this year, Ravi approached Glass about bringing the idea to life and has since spearheaded the blog and campaign efforts with sponsorship from STUD, CAPS, the Office of Student Affairs, Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, the Academic Resource Center and Residence Life and Housing Services. Although the “Me Too” submissions site tells students to be open in voicing their reflections, Ravi said comments are censored for offensive or violent content before they are allowed to appear on the blog. Moderating the posts can prevent what junior Adya Baker, co-chair of STUD, called the “Juicy Campus effect,” referring to the gossip site where anonymity often sanctions offensive and derogatory posts. In contrast, Baker said, “Me Too” uses anonymity in a positive way—to promote a sense of community and understanding among students with similar problems. Ravi and the STUD co-chairs said the blog marks the beginning of the larger “Me Too” campaign, which will feature more promotional events in coming weeks. Next year, Ravi said the campaign’s leaders hope to expand it to include more face-to-face discussions among students about the issues addressed in the blog. Collaboration with other groups working on similar initiatives, such as the Duke Student Government Committee on Gender and the Duke Social Relationships Project, may be a part of the campaign’s future, she added.

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College hoops honors announced Monday Krzyzewski 2 former greats named to all-time Tourney team Duke legends Christian Laettner, Bobby Hurley and head coach Mike Krzyzewski added yet another accolade to their distinguished lists of awards yesterday, as CBS Sportsline named Laettner and Hurley to the All-time NCAA Tournament first team and Krzyzewski to the second. Laettner and Hurley were the only two players from the same school to earn spots on the first team, and UCLA was the next most honored with former player Bill Walton and head coach John Wooden. The top six were rounded out by Princeton’s Bill Bradley, Notre Dame’s Austin Carr and Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson. Laettner earned three All-America selecSARA

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Tyler Hansbrough (right) andKansas State's Michael Beasley (top left) were both unanimousAll-America selections.Kevin Love (bottom left) was also named to the first team.

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North Carolina’s Tyler Hansbrough and Kansas State’s Michael Beasley were unanimous selections to the All-America team Monday. For the first time, no senior was chosen. For the second consecutive year, two freshmen were selected with Beasley and Kevin Love of UCLA making the team. Sophomore DJ. Augustin ofTexas andjunior Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis rounded out the selections, shutting out the seniors. The AP started choosing All-America teams after the 1947-48 season, and for the next six decades there was at least one member of the senior class on every first team.

Until this group Hansbrough, a junior and the ACC Player of the Year, and Beasley, the Big 12 Player of the Year and third freshman to lead the country in rebounding, were named on all 72 ballots and received 360 points from the same national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. The voting was done before the NCAA tournament. “To be one of just two players in the country to receive such an honor is very humbling,” said Beasley, who led Kansas State to its first NCAA bid since 1996. “I have never been about individual accomplishments, but about helping my team win games. I wish we were still playing, but I am

happy with the success we had this season.” The 6-foot-10 Beasley averaged 26.5 points and 12.4 rebounds for the Wildcats, shooting 53.5 percent from the field including 38.9 percent from 3-point range. He is Kansas State’s first All-America since Bob Boozer in 1959. Hansbrough, a second-team selection last season, compiled impressive numbers (23.0 points, 10.4 rebounds) and lived up to his “Psycho T” nickname while leading the Tar Heels to a school-record 36 wins and their 17th Final Four. The 6-foot-9 Hansbrough and Beasley SEE ALL-AMERICAN ON PAGE 12

Christian Laettner hit one of the most famous shots in the history of the NCAA Tournament in 1992.

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Fans can criticize teams and still be fans After Duke loses, I pull out my watch and start counting the seconds. It’s unusual that I reach before hearing my phone ring with my parents on the other end ready to offer their take on what just took gifog

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a good thing; I wasn’t much in the mood to talk. Several hours later, when I finally began to accept that I would never again watch the Blue Devils play as a Duke undergraduate —knock on wood, pending my graduation, of course—l fired up my laptop to read what the rest of Duke nation was saying, hoping they might have more valuable insights than my mother (sorry, Mom). For most Blue Devil fans, myself included, Dukeßasketballßeport.com is the first stop at a time like this. There are a few other Duke basketball websites with lively message boards, but DBR is the most active and accessible. It doesn’t charge a subscription fee and doesn’t even require registration to “lurk”—that is, reading what others SEE BEATON ON PAGE 10

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play elsewhere A source close to the team confirmed that King did not show up to team workouts Monday, and that the scout.com five-star recruit intends to explore the option of transferring to either Villanova or Gonzaga—two programs that had offered King scholarships when he originally was recruited in 2006. .Although King posted six doublefigure efforts in games before Jan. 9—including a 27-point output against Eastern Kentucky and 15-point performances against Temple and Big Ten champion Wisconsin—his minutes and production declined sharply in February and March. The 3-point specialist failed to crack double-digits in scoring in those months, scoring only six 3-pointers in that time frame.

are saying without contributing. Unfortunately, on this night, DBR’s message board had been shut down. The moderators posted a note: “We’re turning the board off for a bit. Some of you are out of control. We will be back.” This isn’t about my distaste for the DBR moderators. (My editors don’t give me enough space to fully explain the hypocrisy of an institution that shuts down its message boards when a few too many people speak poorly of Duke players —because they are just students and kids after all! —yet think it’s OK to use an exclamation point to punctuate their headline about a Wake Forest recruit who has been arrested for allegedly shooting a woman with a BB gun.) It is about the notion they expressed, which is that the Duke fans who caused the message board shutdown by being too critical are “fickle and spoiled” and “ignorant and foolish,” as they wrote in a column posted on their website the next day. (By the way, that column also blamed the West Virginia loss on the flu, which was interesting coming from a website with a specific policy against rumor-mongering. But again, this isn’t about DBR.) Now, I know some of the fans who were expressing the types of sentiments that I’m sure drove the DBR moderators nuts. I think an argument can be made for them being “spoiled” and maybe even foolish at times. But fickle? Ignorant? Far from it. In fact, I’d argue that some of the best sports fans are the ones who take off their Duke-blue glasses from time to time and criticize their team when they don’t like what they see. It doesn’t mean that they aren’t informed about the team or the sport, and it doesn’t mean they’re fairweather fans. If anything, it means they care about their team to such an extent that they aren’t able to tolerate the current state, that they want to improve upon the status quo. And sometimes when people invest themselves so heavily in anything, they express those feelings with emotion. We watch sports because they give us a sense of purpose and community, even if there are much more important things in our lives. We celebrate when our teams win, and we become more upset than we

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Duke fans were left questioning their team's finish considering the wealth of talent on theBlue Devil bench. should be when our teams lose, Part of what makes this process so fun is the opportunity to second-guess coaching decisions and criticize players for things that we know deep down we couldn’t do any better ourselves. For example, how many times this season did a fellow Duke fan turn to you and claim they could make more free throws than DeMarcus Nelson or ask why Coach K wasn’t playing Taylor King in the second half? That doesn’t mean when fans complain, they are always right —or even usually right for that matter. There’s a reason people like Coach K have the jobs they do, and the rest of us are stuck sitting in the stands.

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appointed. It’s tough love. But it’s not hate. Hey, even my mom does it.

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North Carolina forward Tyler Hansbrough was an unanimous selection to the All-American first team. seventh grade. We played against each other so many times,” Love said. “He’s a great player. He had one hell of a year this year, joined Jameer Nelson ofSaint Joseph’s and and I think if he decides to leave he’ll be Emeka Okafor ofConnecticut in 2004, nnd the No. 1 pick in the draft.” Douglas-Roberts, the third member J.J. Redick of Duke and Adam Morrison of Gonzaga in 2006 as unanimous tandems. of the All-America team playing in the FiHansbrough said he knew his name and nal Four, had 52 first-team votes and 309 Beasley’s were linked most of the season by points. The 6-7 swingman averaged 17.2 fans and media. points, 4.1 rebounds and shot 44.9 percent “I think everybody wants to make comfrom 3-point range for the Tigers, who lost parisons about stats and things,” Hansjust one game this season and earned the brough said. “To me, I thought he was defi- school’s second No. 1 ranking. “It’s an honor. I’ve pul a lot of work in, nitely in a different situation than [me].... He definitely had a good year and has had over the summers, during the season and a lot of accomplishments.” staying after practice just trying to improve. The 6-foot Augustin was named on 66 I feel now that I’m finally getting the recballots and had 346 points. He directed the ognition I deserve,” said Douglas-Roberts, Longhorns to the regional final, averaging Memphis’ first All-America since Penny 19.8 points and 5.7 assists in 37.2 minutes. Hardaway in 1993. “But I still say when It is the second straight year a Texas player people look at that All-American list, it’s a was on the first team, as Kevin Durant and motivation because I’m the one that peoOhio State’s Greg Oden became just the ple know the least about.” third and fourth freshmen to be so honNotre Dame sophomore center Luke ored since 1972. Harangody was sixth in the voting with 211 “It shows if you come here and work points, and he was joined on the second team by seniors Shan Foster of Vanderbilt, hard, ready to learn, great things will happen,” Augustin said. D.J. White of Indiana and Roy Hibbert of The 6-foot-10 Love led the Bruins to Georgetown, and college basketball’s newtheir third straight Final Four appearance, est star, Davidson sophomore guard Steaveraging a double-double in their tournaphen Curry who led the Wildcats to the ment run after getting 17.1 points and 10.6 regional final by averaging 34.5 points in rebounds, shooting 55.7 percent in the the NCAA tournament. regular season. The third team was senior Chris Lofton Love received 52 first-team votes and of Tennessee, junior Darren Collison of 318 points to become UCLA’s second All- UCLA, sophomore Brook Lopez of StanAmerica in as many seasons as Arron Afford and freshmen Derrick Rose of Memflalo was chosen last year. Love said he folphis and Eric Gordon of Indiana. lowed Beasley closely this season. Lofton was picked for the second team “That’s my guy. I’ve known Mike since last season.

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soon to determine if interest in the position remains mutual.” Alieva was reappointed as Duke’s director of athletics August 7, after a nineperson review committee comprised of Trustees, alumni and faculty recommended his retention to President Richard Brodhead. Administrative positions carry a five-year contract. Monday’s announcement that Alieva was in contention for the LSU job was not the first news to surface in recent months about Alieva taking a position elsewhere. In late December and early January, it was reported that Alieva was in the running for the athletic director opening at Miami. In a March 3 interview with The Chronicle, Alieva confirmed he had been nominated for the position by “some folks that [he knows] down in Florida,” but dismissed the notion he ever considered leaving Duke. “I was nominated for that job,” Alieva said. “[But] I frankly never considered it at all. Never considered it. I have one of the best jobs in the country right here.”

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Head coachMike Krzyzewski was named to theAll-time NCAA Tournament second team Monday by CBS Sports.

ALL-TIME from page 9 tions while leading Duke to a quartet ofFinal Fours and back-to-back National Championships in 1991 and 1992. The forward has gone down in NCAA history not only for his famous turnaround 16-footer to beat Kentucky at the buzzer in the 1992 East Regional Finals, but also for his NCAA tournament records—most points (407), free throws made (142), free throws attempted (167), games played (23) and wins (21). Hurley, a two-time All-American, steered

Duke to three Final Fours and consecutive national titles. He also was named as the tournament MOP in 1992. The point guard holds the NCAA Tournament records for assists and 3-point field goals with 145 and 42, respectively. Krzyzewski—who ranks second only to Wooden in Tournament winning percentage with 76.7—has led the Blue Devils to 24 big dances and three National Championships in 1991, 1992 and 2001 in his 28- year tenure at Duke.

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Sunday, dozens of rising sophomores were told they might not be able to live on West Campus with their classmates after all. Sunday 55 night,

one that has led one group of difficult in upcoming years. students to form the Facebook Given RLHS’ track record, group “Dear RLHS, Build us a that makes this board more tree house on the quad.” than a little bit worried. It’s clear that RLHS needs RLHS’ primary job is to to come up get the numbers right and to with some see its commitment to the rescreative soluidential experience through. tions to fix its blunder. And it Officials absolutely must be needs to do so fast. completely transparent with Indeed, RLHS’ most re- the 55 girls affected, and cent mistake—a product of with the student body in general. And up to this point, human error instead of computer glitch, as in years past—is RLHS’s communication has much more than a mere snafu. been anything but clear. It threatens the fabric of the At theend ofthe day, RLHS cannot view this as a matter of University’s promise of a cohesive three-year residential life “having a bed” for every student. It needs to keep larger experience for all its students. The process of assigning commitments in mind. First and foremost is the rooms is no doubt a complicated one. Upcoming renovacommitment Duke makes to tions to Few Quadrangle and its students—from the time other areas ofMain West will they apply —of providing an inno doubt make it still more tegrated three-year on-campus

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fresh man women received an e-mail vaguely informing them that Residence Life and Housing Services had not accounted for them in Room Fix ’OB. Now, RLHS is scrambling to fix the problem it created by opening up several specially designated “special needs” rooms and using 20 men’s bedrooms for the women. Nineteen of the women contacted, however, might need to move to Central come fall. April Fool’s? Not so much, Instead, it is another miscalculation on the part of RLHS,

There are zero beds remaining that fulfill your requirements. No April Fool’s joke here. This message was received by 55 freshman women trying to select a room on West Campus using the Room Pix Web site Sunday. See story page 1.

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er moving graduate residents and perhaps even faculty who do not absolutely need to live on West. Only then should it see if there are sophomores who should go to Central. We also hope that this mistake will not unfairly hurt independents on West. After all, RLHS decided this year that it would not remove the selective living group with the lowest Residential Group Assessment Committee score from West. That decision now seems the more questionable given facts on the ground. RLHS’ current handling ofits blunder raises important concerns about how it will deal with room assignments as renovations continue into the upcoming years. Let’s just hope a tree house isn’t in the works.

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residential experience. This year, a mistake has already been made and RLHS needs to think outside itsbox in order to figure out the leastbad solution to the issue at hand. Pushing sophomores to Central should not be the go-to answer here. Instead, RLHS should try to entice rising juniors and seniors slated to live on West to go to Central. Some incentive structure might be necessary to do so—financial or otherwise. Offering incentives sets a bad precedent moving forward, but it is preferable to relocating rising sophomores. Surely, using special needs rooms cannot be a good idea. If they are necessary to begin with them, eliminating them only risks new problems later. RLHS should also consid-

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This

weekend, you may have noticed an

alarming number ofhigh schoolers wandering around campus, bemused by their surroundings. Some even sported the ultimate in novelty items—Duke Class of 2012 backpacks. Yes, p-frosh have begun to descend m on the University as the admissions season has begun eliza french in earnest je fie sals quoi As a current freshman, this is almost unfathomable. I remember the students I saw when I visited campus last spring. They seemed so purposeful, walking in their mosdy solitary routes —to class? To practice? I had no idea, but they were certainly going somewhere. The freshmen seemed so independent, knowing which bus to take and where to get off. Now, I do not feel particularly purposeful as I trudge to the gym or rush to class. I do not feel independent waiting at the bus stop. I remember, too, at every college I would scrutinize every student I encountered. I noticed how people dressed, if the girls looked nice, like people I would talk to, and if the guys looked good, like people I would want to date. Now, I wonder how the confused girl in a tour group blocking my way to the plaza sees me. Do I look too preppy or too casual? Too thin or too chubby? Too mean or overly friendly? I doubt any minor judgment of me on her part would cement her decision about Duke either way. But what if the next 10 girls that pass by also look like people she could never relate to? It’s strange to realize that in deciding about Duke, these 17-year-olds have to decide about all of us. What’s more, their questions present us with the unique opportunity to give our honest opinion about Duke to impressionable high school seniors who consider us an invaluable source of information on “life at Duke.” A simple question like, “So, how do you like it here?” becomes an invitation to analyze our lives since coming here and to gauge overall satisfaction with the University... in the 10 seconds you

have after the question is asked and before it is socially acceptable to respond. Especially when a parent is there, I opt for the most simplistic version of an honest answer to the question. Normally something along the lines of a peppy, “I like it here a lot!” accompanied by the signature I-go-to-Duke-ergo-my-life-is-amazing smile. Other times, I feel that in trying to relay such a long message in a relatively brieffacial expression, I run the risk of baring too many teeth and scaring the p-frosh away. At these times, I tell the more nuanced version of the truth. I think what scares me the most about this manifestation of the college-scouting ritual (besides the fact I think I should feel much more experienced than I do) is that I realize how precarious and haphazard my own choice about college was. More surprising still is that I wound up making the right decision. My choices are still affected by chance variables and other people’s opinions, no matter how meticulous or independent-minded I try to be. Whether you’re a senior trying to figure out what to do with yourself and your Duke degree next year, or a freshman trying to figure out a more impressive way to spend your first college summer than working your old minimum-wage job at McDonald’s, you have more in common than you think with those wide-eyed kids swarming campus on Blue Devil Days. Like it or not, our choices—from the most monumental to the most inconsequential—will always be at the mercy of chance. And more often than not, other people’s opinions will be our best and only resource about life experiences. Maybe your neighbor’s daughter used her public policy degree to work at an NGO in Washington, and now you’re thinking that would be a pretty good plan for you next year, too. Maybe the only people you’ve met who take internships during the summer are over-achieving, future-investment-banking types and you’re thinking about taking a summer class, instead. Maybe that p-frosh you Just talked to is thinking that since you seem to like it here so much, he will, too. Eliza French is a Trinityfreshman. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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Nickeled and dimed

letterto theeditor

High-quality

education is a costly thing,” began President Richard Brodhead in his Feb. 29 press conference announcing a 4.8-percent bump in tuition. And with the cost of a Duke education about to top $47,985 next year, students hardly need reminding. But should tuition really be that high? Unsurprisingly, senior administrators swear up and down that it should. In an interview last spring, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask even insisted to me that Duke pursues cost savings wherever KriStlD bUIIGT possible But even a cur- with a(| deliberate speed sory look under the hood (so to speak) reveals that that’s blatantly false. Take Duke’s exorbitant student fees. A glance at any undergrad’s bursar statement reveals that Duke students pay $546 per year toward a “health fee.” I remember assuming as a freshman that this fee represented some sort of Dukemandated health insurance, but that actually costs an extra $1,564 if you want it. No, the health fee is a required subsidy for Duke’s largely ineffective student health programs, particularly the Student Health Center, which can’t do anything for you if you’re actually sick (well, besides offering you the “cold/flu/allergy self-help table”). It also funds Counseling and Psychological Services, which hardly has time for kids who are suicidal. And in the unlikely event that Healthy Devils’ “Sex Jeopardy” and “Outercourse: Intimacy without Intercourse” programs don’t meet your special needs, those $546 further ensure that peer educators can customize their X-rated offerings for you. Of course, students are also on the hook for Duke’s $2OO recreation fee; a $206 student activity fee; a $250 student services fee; a $lOB residential programming fee; a $42 post office box rental fee (I totally thought those were free!); and, my favorite, a $39 “Dining Plan Contract Fee,” which I pay for . the privilege of renewing my required meal plan each

Yaffe’s criticisms of Coach K unfair The most objectionable aspect of Andrew Yaffe’s March 25 column, “This year was not-so-‘great’” was Yaffe’s assumption that Coach K truly felt that the season was “great.” Taking a single descriptor offered at the end of an emotional season and emotional press conference, and then using that word to pummel the program and Coach K seems more than a little bit unfair. As any follower of the program knows, Coach K is one of the most competitive individuals in American sport, and no one holds a team or a program to higher standards of excellence. He proved as much this season. Coach Kwas the one, after all, insisting that this was just a “good” team when it was 22-1, contrary to the adoring media and fans who had already dubbed it superlative; Coach K was the one calling the team out when it started to whimper in regular season play, chastising his team for having played like it had “already accomplished

something.”

And yet, Mr. Yaffe used Coach K’s bit of benevolence at season’s end to ridicule and mock Coach K for having lost sight of the program he’s been steering so well since 1980. Criticizing is one thing, but reading such condescending and unfair extrapolations in the student newspaper is discomfiting to this former Chronicle sports editor. Michael Corey Trinity ’O5 Columnist, GoDuke.com

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Oh, and let’s not forget the artificially inflated rent we Central residents pay so thatWest will seem more affordable to poor kids like... well, us. But where do those thousands of dollars in student fees actually go, you ask? The answer, oftentimes, is to Larry Moneta, who can “administratively” increase them at will —see the student activities fee’s 45-percent hike in 2006. And what L-Mo doesn’t siphon off for Student Affairs’ own “structural support” usually goes to student groups, including ones like the 20-member Students of the Caribbean Association, which received $1,865 in funding for the 2006-2007 school year. Now I have nothing against students hailing from the Caribbean (far from it), but it’s frankly insulting to pay thousands of dollars each year to support clubs I’ll never join, services I don’t use and “quad barbecues” I don’t attend. This, my fellow financial aid recipients, is what we’re borrowing money to finance —events we’ll never enjoy run by people we don’t know. And what about those elite professors we all came to study under? Well, they have a pretty cushy deal too. With a fivehour-per-week teaching load common throughout the humanities, today’s Duke professors spend much less time in the classroom than their predecessors. In fact, teaching loads at Duke used to be as heavy as 15 hours per week until the 19605, including mandatory Saturday classes. Seeing as undergrads pay an average of $4,291.88 per course (that’s $17,167.50 in semesterly tuition divided by a standard load of four courses), it appears we’re not getting our money’s worth. And although there’s a very good chance that I’ll be run out of the English department on a rail for saying this, there is no good reason why humanities-based professors can’t teach more than five hours per week—or at least as much as their colleagues in the sciences. In the long run, though, I think most of us still believe our Duke educations will have been worth their cost; as a soon-to-be graduate, I’d probably sell my soul for Duke all over again if I had to. But next time Dick Brodhead waxes poetic about the high cost of a good education, let’s not forget that Duke’s tuition bills fund much more than just academic excellence. a

Trinity senior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

Quixote de fourthfloor Perkins

Munger is a rare specimen. Ifyou don’t already know him as the chair of the political science department or recognize him for his enviably lush head of hair, you might soon meet him in a new capacity: gubernatorial candidate. A self-described “recovering Republican,” Munger is the Libertarian nominee in the 2008 election for North Carolian governor. Having gathered nearly 100,000 petition signatures, Munger will not only be listed on the ballot but will also be the state’s first third-party candidate aildreW kifldmatl to ever participate in the get UP Stand tip gubernatorial nominatedcandidates debate I sat down with Munger Friday to chat about his campaign and learn a little bit about his brand of politics and activism. “There’s a paradox about politics,” he explained. “No individual matters. It’s easy to think of yourself as being inconsequential, and if everybody thinks that then the system is going to break. So somehow we have to all act as if we were consequential. And if we do that, we will be. It actually does make a difference. All you get to do is decide what you do as an individual.” Munger and the Libertarian Party have committed to this philosophy. Running for any office as a third-party candidate takes audacity, but in a state like North Carolina, the race is uphill the entire way. In fact, what is most impressive about Munger’s bid is the strength with which it has tackled the meta-issue. -

Vast quantities of time and money have been spent campaigning just for the right to campaign, for ballot access and participation in the debate. They’re up against North Carolina electoral laws that he says are “designed to make third-party candidates arrive breathless at the starting line.” Reasonably, Munger asks, “Where’s the outrage? Why is nobody upset about this?.... As I worked through the ballot access process and heard the dismissive things that the state says, that [Democratic candidate] Beverly Perdue’s campaign manager says.... ‘We really shouldn’t have any third parties, it’s just a distortion.’ Like it was up to him? Voters can decide that. He doesn’t get to decide that. I am constantly worried George Bush is going to invade to try to restore

democracy.”

It’s for quotables like this that you should all be excited for the debate in October (Also noteworthy: “I was asked what I would do about heroin, to which I responded that I am opposed to mandatory heroin use.”). But Munger is actually making a valid point. You may not identify with Libertarianism, but if you appreciate democracy, North Carolina electoral laws should concern you gravely. “What would justify any interposition of the judgment of the state in between candidates and voters? Why would the state get to decide who runs?.... The state talks about wanting to avoid ballot clutter when more than half of the general assembly seats are unopposed. The reason is not that they care about clutter, it’s that they don’t want competition,” Munger says. Electoral laws and restrictions aside, the Libertarians have succeeded in getting on the ballot and into the debate. The question is, How serious is Munger’s candidacy? After having agitated and petitioned for access, could the

Libertarian Party actually see a candidate win office? “I’m not going to win,” Monger asserts time and again. “I have no political experience. I’m a good administrator, but elections in North Carolina aren’t about administration. They are about politics.” What separates him from the others, however, is that this doesn’t really seem to bother him. A successful campaign, from Munger’s perspective, doesn’t have to involve

winning.

“It’s an entirely quixotic campaign—tilting at windmills,” he says. “But I do hope to be able to talk about some

issues and increase the sense ofactivism among some people who don’t think we have a voice.” The Libertarians are approaching an election stacked solidly against them, and they are doing it with the utmost stoicism. The lengths to which they are going to make sure their voices are heard through the grinding bankruptcy of the North Carolina political machine make them incredibly worthy ofadmiration. The campaign is a powerful demonstration ofcivic duty, of citizens organizing to regulate their government. To summarize Munger’s chances in terms only a political scientist could muster: “In a first-past-the-post [electoral] system there’s something called Duverger’s Law, and Duverger’s Law is that there is going to be at most two effective parties. My question is which two are they? It’s not clear to me that it is the Democrats and Republicans as they are currently constituted. It’s true that we’re going to end up with two parties, but the presumption that it’s these two, with their rotten, corrupt hearts—I am not persuaded.” Andrew Kindman is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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Thursday, April 3 THEATER. SpringAwakening -

the play by Frank Wedekind. A pro-

vocative, funny, profane, and theatrically playful work about young people in the painful process of “waking up” in a world that seems hemmed in by the brutal hypocrisy of adults. Directed by Jeff Storer, Department of Theater Studies faculty. Bpm. Sheafer Theater. $lO Adults; $5 Students/Seniors.

MUSIC. DUKE WIND SYMPHONY Emily Threinen, director. “Out of this World,” featuring Holst, The Planets: Mars and Jupiter; Offenbach, Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld; De Meij, Symphony No. 1, The Lord of -

The Rings: Gandalfand Hobbits and selections from Williams, Star Wars Trilogy. Bpm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free. Friday, April 4

TALK. Olivia Bloechl (UCLA). “Colonial Amide.” 4pm. Rm 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

MUSIC. Duke New Music Ensemble. New works for carillon by Kathleen Bader and Dan Ruccia, as well as new music by Alex Kotch and Paul Swartzel. Also Stravinsky’s “Three Songs From William Shakespeare.” Refreshments served. 8-9 pm. Biddle Music Bldg. Lobby. Free.

THEATER. Spring Awakening. (See April 3.) Bpm. Sheafer Theater. $lO Adults; $5 Students/Seniors.

Saturday, April 5

MUSIC. Duke Collegium Musicum. Tom Moore, director. English Music of the 16th Century, including the Byrd Gradualiafor Corpus Christi. Bpm. First Presbyterian Church, 305 E. Main St., Durham. Free. THEATER. Spring Awakening. (See April 3.) Bpm. Sheafer Theater. $lO

Adults; $5 Students/Seniors.

Sunday, April 6 THEATER. Spring Awakening. (See April 3.) 2pm. Sheafer Theater. $lO Adults; $5 Students/Seniors. MUSIC. Duke Wind Symphony Gardens Concert, 4pm. Sarah P. Duke Gardens. Free. -

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“Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool,”

on view through July 13 The Nasher Museum presents the first career retrospective of the paintings of renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Vogue magazine listed the show in “The Vogue 25” top cultural events of 2008. APRILS First Thursday at the Nasher. Meet Kenneth Rodgers, director of the North Carolina Central Art Museum. Cash bar at s:3opm, gallery tour at 6pm. Free with admission. nasher.duke.edu

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