September 9, 2008

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Slow Internet caused by hardware issues

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Duke is known to cull the top of applicrops, but a recent study found that one group of students typically underperforms compared to its peers once they matriculate—legacy students.

Professor of Sociology Kenneth Spenner and graduate student Nathan Martin recently published a paper in August examining the academic profiles of Duke legacy students compared to those of students whose parents are also college-educated but not Duke alumni.

“A Social Portrait of Legacies at an Elite University” reported that legacies—defined as students with family members who graduated from Duke—collectively have lower-than-expected grades during freshman year, slightly lower SAT scores and typically do not choose to major in the natural sciences or engineering. According to self-reported academic skills, legacy students also had slightly lower levels of ability and confidence, although they normally close any academic gaps by cant

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Duke head coach David Cutcliffeoffered a crash course in football for about 30 freshmen in the Marketplace Monday night. Cutcliffe broke down game film and explained his team'sstrategies.

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For the past three w "eks, Internet connections across campus have been spotty at best. Students living on East, Central and West campuses have all reported issues with their wireless access, and so ie_uave had trouble connecting via Etherm cables.

Duke upgraded its wireless infrastructure over the summer, adding newer, faster Cisco Airohet 1250 access points that provide speedy Internet and better range. Although Duke’s wireless network has been enhanced, the campus has recendy been plagued by connection issues.

The upgrade stems from technology company Cisco Systems’ February announcement that it would partner with the University to deploy more than 2,500 wireless access points for a wireless network spanning more than 6 million square feet—the largest ofits kind in the world.

The Office of Information Technology was given a very short time frame to install the new wireless equipment on campus over the summer, said Bob Johnson, OTT’s senior SEE OIT ON PAGE 5

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka The Sri Lankan military says its fighter jets have shot down a small plane used by the Tamil Tiger rebels, The destruction of the plane would be a major moraleboost for the military.The rebels have frustrated the military with numerous attacks by their small fleet of aircraft.The military has never before been able to shoot down one of the planes.

Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Janaka Nanayakkara says the rebel aircraft tried to attack a government air base early Tuesday morning when it was driven off by antiaircraft fire. Air force jets then attacked the plane and shot it down over rebel-controlled territory.

Russia deploys navy to Venezuela CARACAS,Venezuela Russia's plan to deploy ships and warplanes to the Caribbean for joint military exercises with Venezuela is allowing President Hugo Chavez to capitalize on tensions between Moscow and the U.S.and showcase a growing military alliance.

Russia announced Monday that it will send a naval squadron and long-range patrol planes for the exercises later this year—a move that appeared retaliatory after the U.S. sent warships to deliver aid to Georgia following its conflict with Russia.

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Afghan children dead after U.S. raid

KABUL, Afghanistan The bodies of at least Xrr 10 children and many more adults covered in blankets and white shrouds appear in videos obtained by The Associated Press Monday, lending weight to Afghan and U.N.allegations that a U.S.-led raid last month killed more civilians than the U.S. reported.

The sounds of wailing women mixed with the voices of men shouting inside a white-walled mosque in the western village of Azizabad, where an Afghan government commission and U.N. report said some 90 civilians—including 60 children and 15 women —were killed.

The two grainy videos, apparently taken by cell phones, showed bodies lying side-by-side on the mosque floor, covered by floral-patterned blankets and black-and-white checkered shawls. One young boy lay curled in a fetal position; others looked as thoughthey were asleep. One child had half its head blown off.

Bush pulls some troops by Feb. WASHINGTON President George W. Bush W plans to keep U.S. troop levels in Iraq near their current level through the end of the year and will pull home about8,000 U.S. troops by February when the next president will be in charge of wartime decision-making.

If security in Iraq keeps improving, Bush says, "additional reductions will be possible in the first half of 2009."

The president's decisions amount to perhaps his last major troop strategy in the war that has come to define his presidency.

He was to announce the details in a speech Tuesday, the text of which was released in advance by the White House.

One Marine battalion, numbering about 1,000 troops, will go home on schedule in November and not be replaced. An Army brigade of between 3,500 and 4,000 troops will leave in February. Accompanying that combat draw down will be the withdrawal of about 3,400 support forces.

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Bush had sent the agreement to Congress for approval in May, after a much-heralded signing by the two nations that capped two years of tough negotiations. Monday, he officially pulled it back, a move announced by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

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Woman kills baby in microwave DAYTON, Ohio A woman was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the chance for parole for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend. Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman lashed out at 28-year-old China Arnold, who opted to watch her sentencing from a side room on a monitor.

The judge rejected a plea by Arnold's attorneys for a minimum sentence of life in prison with the chance of parole after 25 years. A jury last week spared Arnold the death penalty when it couldn't reach a consensus.

"I am innocent of these charges," Arnold said in a statement read by her attorney, Jon Paul Rion.

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Harmony echoed throughout Biddle Music Building’s atrium as Kol Kachol, the University’s newest a capella group, gathered around the fountain to rehearse “Od Yavo Shalom,” which from Hebrew translates to “Peace Will Come Upon Us.” Although the group’s polish might suggest years of experience, officially, the group is only six months old.

“It started out as an interest group meeting,” -said junior Alaina Pleatman, president of Kol Kachol. “We are very proud of what we have done; we did a lot of things in a short time.”

Meaning “Blue Voice,” Kol Kachol is a Jewish-affiliated group, created to show appreciation for Jewish culture and religion. Pleatman said, however, that the group aims to appeal to everyone, singing a combination of pop and traditional Hebrew songs.

“Having religious affiliation makes them a little different from other groups in terms of their music and singing,” said sophomore Josh Silverman, business manager of Rhythm and Blue. “But it is great to have such diversity. It is good for Duke a capella in general to have more people involved.”

The novice group showed promise and talent at the freshman concert even following the Pitchforks, one of the most reputed and experienced a capella groups on campus.

Kol Kachols Secretary Laura Pierce, a sophomore, said the performance was intimidating at first because they were a new group, but she added that she was proud of the way they sang at the show.

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Newly formed Kol Kachol is one of several singing groups that is religiously affiliated but is the first Jewish a capella group.Their repertoire ranges from pop to traditionalHebrew songs.

“We sounded great and did our own

thing up there,” she said.

Silverman said he was pleased to have more people singing in a capella, adding that Kol Kachol has a lot of potential to improve soon and be on par with other groups.

The freshman concert and the upcoming sophomore concert featuring five a capella groups and a professional group mark only the beginning for Kol Kachol.

“What we aim for is a full, balanced sound and to let the entire campus know who we are,” said senior Bryan Fleming, a senior music director of the group, He added that Kol Kachol is preparing to record a few songs that will eventually lead to their first album.

“We have the time and talent to greatly advance this group,” Pierce added. “We don’t want this group to be called ‘new’

Every year, 4,000 babies are bom in Durham, and in order to help the new mothers, a new program has also been bom.

Durham Connects, a program to provide free nurse visits to any Durham resident taking home a newborn, was launched in August by the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy and the Durham County Health Department, among other community groups.

Through the program, nurses visit a family once the newborn is about four weeks old to give a physical check-up, discuss issues related to being a hew parent and deliver a gift basket stocked with diapers, a thermometer, a bath kit, a baby toothbrush and brochures.

Iffamilies have farther concerns, they can request up to three in-home nurse visits.

But Durham Connects is more than a nursing program. One of its main goals is not only to provide free in-home nurse visits but also to act as a connector for new mothers to community resources, such as Cribs for Kids of Durham for free used cribs or the Grandparent Network, a program Durham Connects created that pairs new mothers with older mentors.

“I hope that what we’ll see is an improvement in childcare,” Durham Mayor Bill Bell said. “Certainly we’ll help mothers seek out

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Sen. John McCain named the chairmen of his N.C. campaign today.

Obama has an established campaign organization after a contested primary against Sen. Hillary Clinton.

North Carolina gubernatorial candidates Pat McCrory, a Republican, and Beverly Perdue, a Democrat, are scheduled to have a debate tomorrow night to be aired on WRAL. to

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As Nicole Baxter stood by the gas pump filling up her tank at the West Durham BP on the comer of Ninth and Main streets, the rapidly rising total on the meter was not the only thing on her mind.

In addition to being concerned about the financial burden, Baxter said she hopes higher gas prices will encourage Republican and Democratic presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama, respectively, to focus on improving public transportation in the upcoming election.

The rising price of fuel is an issue important to Americans in Durham and across the country, and is a major talking point in the presidential election.

Baxter added that despite her usual preference for “bleeding-heart liberal policy,” she would suspend her political leaning to vote for the candidate whom she feels has the best stance on specific energy issues. “[My] vote is going to be based on whether Obama or McCain is willing to give funding to states to use for public transportation development,” she said.

Energy and environmental policies have captured the nation’s attention, to the extent that some Americans are willing to stake their vote on a single issue. And as the candidates gear up for the last stretch

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Damien and Tiara Paris, who live in Durham but commute to work in Raleigh, are among those struggling to conserve resources “It affects how often you go out, especially to places like Raleigh,” Damien Paris said. “We really have to plan our trips so we get a lot of things done at once.”

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Proposed lifting a ban on offshore drilling to reduce dependence on foreign oil, but oppose: drilling in some areas •

•Supports suspending the purchase of foreign oil for the strategic reserve in order to reduc< demand. eral ban on offshore drilling in an effort to curb high fuel prices, a move that Obama has heavily criticized.

Duke College Republicans Chair Vikram Srinivasan, a junior, said McCain’s support for offshore drilling is based on the fact that most of the country’s untapped oil reserves are offshore.

“We clearly need to drill for more of our own domestic sources of oil as pan SEE ENERGY ON PAGE 7

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Hurricane Ike roared down Cuba’s spine HAVANA Monday and toward the island’s densely populated capital of fragile historic buildings after ravaging homes, forcing 1.2 million people to evacuate and killing at least four. U.S. residents from Florida to Texas braced for Ike’s next wallop.

Ike, which raked the Bahamas and worsened floods in Haiti that have killed at least 312 people, made landfall on eastern Cuba as a terrifying Category 3 hurricane, then weakened Monday as it ran along the length of the Caribbean’s largest island.

It was a Category 1 storm Monday afternoon, but forecasters expected it to strengthen again before hitting Louisiana or Texas this weekend.

“This critter was angry, really angry;” Delia Oliveras, 64, said in the central city of Camaguey. Winds tore the roof from the living room where her family was huddled, and they fled to a covered patio. “We have seen hurricanes, but never as big as this.”

State television reported that Ike killed four people in Cuba the first storm deaths on the island in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. Two men were killed in central Cuba while removing an antenna from a roof. On the island’s east, a woman died whenher house collapsed on her and a man was killed by a falling tree.

Cuba, which has carried out well-executed evacuations over the years, ordered 1.2 million people to seek safety with friends and relatives or at government shelters, state television reported. In Havana, where the hurricane was expected to unleash heavy winds and rain by Tuesday morning, evacuations began in earnest late Monday afternoon.

“I feel safe here, above all for my granddaughters who are the most important thing in my life,” said Marta Molas, who evacuated with seven relatives from a marginal neighborhood. “They take good care of us, we have television and food. Right now we are watching TV to see where Ike is

OIT from page 1 director of communications infrastructure. Delivery delays meant that installation was not completed until the day before everyone returned to campus. This allowed virtually no time for hardware testing, and as a result issues did crop up, Johnson said.

OIT uncovered those issues Thursday oflast week and staffers were able to fix them.

“Essentially, there was a piece of hardware that was corrupting data,” Johnson said. “We fixed the problem, and service [has] dramatically improved since Friday.”

ACES and Blackboard—two Web sites that students use on a daily basis—have been more difficult to access.

“I was having so much trouble with wireless that it’d take 45 minutes to get on Blackboard,” freshman Sam

Portelli said Internet access in the libraries, however, has been fairly normal, students said. Those who go there to work have reported minimal issues connecting via Wi-Fi and said the hard-wired computers in the library are also working.

Apossible problem in the dorms is interference from personal routers, said senior Scott Steinberg, who works at an OIT help desk in Lilly Library.

Indeed, Johnson said wireless routers in addition to 2.4 GHz cordless telephones can disrupt Internet connections.

He proposed talks with Residence Life and Housing Services to lay out a new policy concerning students’ use of such devices that can cause problems with the new network.

Johnson said if students notice any areas with lacking service, they should submit a help ticket to OIT. “We just can’t see every problem area, and we are committed to providing the best coverage possible,” he said.

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For the past few weeks, Internet access has been spotty across campus as Oil has implemented new wireless infrastructure designed to improve the reach and speed ofonline connectivity. Service has improved since OIT pinpointed and repaired problematic hardware Thursday.

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FRO-YO from page 1 “Fro-yo is not a meal replacement. It’s not a ‘meal,’” she wrote in an e-mail. “A meal should have a nice balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat. Frozen yogurt has proportionately more air and water whipped in than yogurt, so it’s not a good source of protein, certainly not complex carbohydrates and can be very low in fat.”

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said he would be surprised if students had a scoopful. as their only dinner. The dessert, however, does seem to be an attractive option for some dieters or students on-the-go.

Chris Sullivan, co-founder of Alpine Bagels, also characterized a fro-yo lunch as unhealthy, adding that a smoothie might be a better substitute.

“I am aware that many students use fro-yo as a meal replacement in that they are concerned about consuming too many calories, and so hold offon the meal and indulge in what they ‘like’ while perhaps saving some calories,” Alphin said. “Frozen yogurt in its many versions is usually

are not so great.”

A seven-ounce cup of Alpine’s fro-yo has about 240 calories, no fat and seven grams of protein, according to approximate nutrition facts from the Freshens Web site, whereas a half-cup ofBen and Jerry’s vanilla ice cream has 190 calories, 14 grams offat and 3 grams of protein.

Junior Emily Sherrard, a member of the Duke track and field and cross country teams, said the comparative nutrition value makes the sweet particularly enticing.

It is significantly lower in fat than ice cream, so I still feel like I am eating healthy when I have fro-yo for dessert,” she said. “It is sort of away for me to treat myself at the end of a long day of classes, practice and school work.”

Sherrard added that the new Alpine machine from Archibald is health-oriented, with live and active cultures.

Although a cup of fro-yo may not be the best lunch a student could have, a cup of fro-yo as a snack every now

“Fro-yo is not a meal replacement.

It’s not a ‘meal’.... A hreal should have a nice balance of protein, carbohydrates and fat.”

Franca Alphin, director of health promotion at Duke Student Health and then is not necessarily unhealthy, Alphin said.

But the dessert’s appeal with students indicates that is more than a snack—it’s an experience, from the friendly faces who swipe students’ food points to the very last spoonful in the cup.

“I love the fro-yo people,” said sophomore Lindsay Levine, noting that the ritual extends beyond simply loving the dessert and choosing a favorite flavor..

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The Bush Years & the Supreme Court The Death—yes, the Death—of Judicial Conservatism with

David A. Strauss Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law University of Chicago School of Law President George W. Bush’s appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court are generally thought to have moved the Court decisively in a conservative direction. But are the Uush appointees and their allies really conservatives? They do not appear to believe in any of the principles that have traditionally been associated with judicial conservatism in the United States, or any other set of principles that can be described as a conservative approach to judicial review. The Bush appointments almost certainly ended, for at least a generation, the possibility of a progressive Supreme Court, but the Bush legacy is also the death knell of judicial conservatism in any recognizable sense. Although the Court’s role in American government seems secure for now, the ultimate result may be a justified renewal of questions about the legitimacy of judicial review.

David A. Strauss is the Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago. He has published many scholarly articles, principally on subjects in constitutional law, and he is at work on a book on constitutional interpretation. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a co-editor of the Supreme Court Review. He has served as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and as an Assistant Solicitor General of the United States, and he has argued eighteen cases before the U,S. Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School.

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PROGRAM from page 3 help when they need it, which thef might not have done in the past.”

Only a month after Durham Connects launched, 100 nurse visits have already been made. Seven nurses are currently employed, which is only enough to serve half of Durham County, but the goal is to have 20 nurses serving all of Durham by 2010, Durham Connects organizers said.

Nurses are trained beforehand and employed full time.

Durham Connects furthers the Center for Child and Family Policy’s objective to address important issues in the lives ofchildren and families. The program—expected to cost $2 million in expenses and salaries—will be funded by the Duke Endowment for 10 years, saidKenneth Dodge, directorof the Center for Child and Family Policy.

“The current phase is implementation, to see whether the community can successfully bring the program to families with newborns,” he said. “Then, we will evaluate impact, to see whether the program has positive effects on families and their children. If we can successfully implement the program and it has positive effects, then we will work to sustain the program in Durham.”

Durham residents who have received nurse visits have praised the program’s efforts to address the needs of newborn mothers, said Jeannine Sato, director of the Office of Community Resources for Durham Connects.

“The parents really like the nurses’ one-on-one attention and the convenience of the home visit,” she said. “They al§o love the new parent welcome pack the nurse brings. It’s full of goodies for mom and baby.”

Bell said Durham Connects is a great collaborative effort to improve the community’s health.

“Stepping up to this effort says an awful lot about the University,” he said. “This is an opportunity for Durham to use its resources in a very positive way. We consider ourselves the ‘City ofMedicine.’ We can make sure we’re also the city of health and stay one step ahead in that direcdon.”

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LAS VEGAS OJ. Simpson went on trial for kidnapping and robbery Monday with a judge determined to find a jury unaffected by his long-ago “Trial of the Century.”

“What happened then, happened then,” Judge Jackie Glass told prospective jurors.

“If you are here and think you are going to punish Mr. Simpson for what happened in 1995, this is not the case for you,” she said, urging them to confess if they had such a motive. All stayed silent.

While asking many questions about the past, the judge stopped short of asking the big question that Simpson’s lawyer wanted: Do they consider Simpson a murderer?

“My determination is no, we are not going there,” Glass told lawyers outside the prospects’ presence. “We are not OJ.Simpson (center) arrives at theOaric County Regional Justice Center for juryselection. Heis in court for robbery, burglary andassault charges.

LEGACIES from page 1 the time they graduate.

Admissions preferences was not an emphasis of the study, Martin wrote in an e-mail. But he said both costs and benefits to the current admissions policy exist—for example, campus diversity could suffer, as legacies were more likely to be white, Protestant, U.S. citizens and private school-educated.

Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said Duke’s policy is to give special attention to children and stepchildren ofDuke alumni during the admissions process, adding that qualifications between legacy applicants and the rest of the pool are “virtually indistin-

guishable.”

“I don’t think giving preference to well-qualified children of alumni is unusual,” Guttentag said. “From our perspective, the Duke community extends for generations, and one of the ways that bond is maintained is by paying attention when children of alumni apply to Duke.”

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Sophomore Kirsten Moy, whose parents both attended Duke, said she thought being a legacy student did give applicants a greater chance of being accepted and noted that her father is currently employed by the University. But she disagreed with the assertion that legacy students don’t work as hard, attributing any lack of effort to individual characteristics.

“I feel like I might not have performed nearly as well as my peers in high school,” said Moy, who is a biology major. “But I think the stereotype is that rich kids don’t work as hard as poor kids, and Tdon’t necessarily think that’s true.”

Admission decisions ultimately came down to personal factors, not necessarily just numbers, Guttentag said.

“Within a particular range, 10 or 20 or 30 SAT points is just not a meaningful range in terms of an applicant’s readiness for Duke,” he said. “What we pay attention to is a willingness to engage in the community, a willingness to take advantage ofall Duke has to offer and an interest in learning and being challenged.... Those tend to be the distinguishing factors.”

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ies. Along the seaside Malecon promenade where youths hang out at night, businesses were being shut down.

Nancy Nazal, who lives on the second floor of a high-rise apartment building overlooking the ocean, said authorities had told her to be prepared to evacuate and she was: “The truth is, we are scared,” she said.

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on the West Campus Plaza are getting acquainted with the Bigßeffy, a 100-percent solar trash compactor. The Bigßelly holds five times the waste of a traditional trash can and reduces fuel consumption by 80 percent.

But that’s not all: The tricked-out receptacle completely encases all refuse students dispose, minimizing the stench and insect presence that tend to result from greasy McDonald’s wrappers and queso containers. The Bigßelly was dreamed up by Jim Boss, Trinity ’96. But is one man’s trash a university’s treasure? Students sound off.

“One night I walked by and it made a noise. I was here for [residence assistant] training and no one was here, so I guess I was more aware of my surroundings. They’ve got to let us know what it is and what it’s for. It’s almost as bad as that [Tattoo] statue.”

—Eden Shiferaro, junior “It seems like a tacit homage to environmental friendliness, but if they’re really going to make a change they should have them all over campus. Just one is not enough. And then they also installed those water sprayer things, which seem to be a waste of energy."

—Sarah Hamerman, sophomore “It’s like having a Wall-E on campus, except it’s not nearly as cool or lovable. But as much as vve all want to have Wall-E’s in the future, hopefully the world won’t get to that point.”

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A car sits underrubble after Hurricane Ike hit the area inHolguin, Cuba Monday. Ike made landfall in Cuba as a Cat. 3 hurricane, but soon weakened to a Cat. 2 storm.

SIMPSON from page 7 here to re-litigate that case. The jury reached a, verdict in that case and people have strong feelings about it. This case is about what happened here in Las Vegas last year.”

The new case debuted as a pale postscript to the murder trial that riveted America in the 1990 when Simpson, a former

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pro football star, was charged with murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman, and ultimately acquitted.

Missing were the crowds that surrounded the courthouse when Simpson was arrested last year for allegedly robbing two sports collectibles dealers in a hotel room, and the media throng that has followed him over the years was dramatically diminished.

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“McCaims energy plan is really like, ‘just drill baby, drill,’”

of a comprehensive strategy to reduce energy dependency,” Srinivasan said. He added that McCain has emphasized alternative sources of energy, especially nuclear power.

But Duke Democrats President Ben Bergmann, a sophomore, said Obama’s opposition to offshore drilling is justified because oil companies already have access to enough drillable areas.

Bergmann said. “Sen. Obama, he really has i more holistic plan.”

Some Durham residents said they were opposed to McCain’s proposal because of its environmental impacts.

“I definitely am not in favor of offshore drilling,” Durham resident Alison Aucoin said. “I am looking for long-term solutions, not rhetoric that sounds like soludons.”

Damien Paris said he was most interested in efficiency

rather than purely environmental factors—he said he is opposed to offshore drilling because it requires too much time and energy for too little results.

But others emphasized that the environ mental cost would impact any debate over gas prices in Durham—and on national scale.

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Senior Greg Paulus and juniors Gerald Henderson and Jon Scheyer were named captains of this year’s Blue Devil squad, head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced in a statement Friday.

“We are excited to have these three men as our team captains,” Krzyzewski said. “They have each grown into outstanding leaders on and off the court and w'e are looking forward to watching their growth continue.”

Paulus previously served as a captain as a sophomore, when he shared the position with DeMarcus Nelson and Josh Mcßoberts. Henderson and Scheyer are first-time captains.

Paulus has a career average of 9.9 points and 4.1 assists per game.

Henderson has posted 9.9 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, and he led the team in dunks and blocks last year.

Scheyer, who came off the bench as the th man last season, has averaged 11.9 Ints and 3.6 rebounds in his career. His 7 percent free-throw clip is second in ke history to J.J. Redick.

The appointment of three captains ems to be a change from Krzyzewski’s ition last fall, when he said that having je captains the previous year had “died” the leadership role.

Nelson, a senior, was the lone captain of

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something in the air at Wally Wade—and it’s not just the Carolina humidity, the residual smoke from those gratuitous postgame fireworks or even drifting dust from the Few Quad construction.

No, it’s something thicker than that Something harder, better, faster, stronger.

Even I could feel it Saturday, despite being confined to a sterile, soundproof press box and observing the Blue Devils getting amped up on the sidelines from afar. *At first, I couldn’t quite identify this foreign atmospheric presence. But after some reflection upon Bak the first loss of the highly touted David Cutcliffe Era, the postgame analysis Meredith from Duke’s players and even the coach himself, I think I’ve finally pinpointed this mysterious “iL” Attitude is in the air at Wally Wade—and the Blue Devils have been breathing it in like swimmers finally emerging for oxygen after being caught in an undertow for 14 years.

I know, I know. Last week in this very space, I satirized change and hope. But, to be honest, change and hope are like sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice when it comes to football. They can only take you so far.

Attitude, my friends, is everything.

And Duke revealed a lot more about its newfound attitude in Saturday’s disappointing 24-20 loss to Northwestern than it ever could have in last week’s win over Division I-AA James Madison.

Don’t get me wrong, there is no such thing as a moral victory in football: You play to win the game (thanks, Herm Kcl wards). But there’s also something to he said for not putting up a demoralizing defeat (thanks, Ted Roof). Ultimately, it doesn’t matter that the Blue Devi thwestern in total yards, first downs and possession. They didn’t Northwestern.

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—from staff reports

WOMEN'S GOLF

Blue Devils falter at Fall Preview by

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This was not the type of start the third-rankedBlue Devils expected.

After the final round of the NCAA Fall Preview, Duke was surprised to find itself in eighth place, posting a 13-over 30Ton Monday’s 18-hole conclusion to the two-day event.

The Blue Devils carded a collective score of 34-overpar on the 6,270-yard, par-72 1. ASU +8 Caves Valley Golf Club in OwUSC +l6 i n g Mills, Md., after 54 holes of 8. DUKE +34 golf. Arizona State finished the NCAA FALL PREVIEW Fall p re view in first place, domVa J].®y inating the closest competition Cav.es Owmgs Mill, Md. s j;ooting by ejg s rokes of 8-over a collective score 872.

Southern California, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama rounded out the top five.

“We were clearly off,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “We didn’t play very well as a team, and we were way off the mark.”

Senior Amanda Blumenherst and freshman Mina Harigae led Duke by finishing the tournament in 14th place, posting a tournament total of 4-over.

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Amanda Blumenherst finished 14th, but No. 3 Duke took eighth in the NCAA Fall Preview.

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Senior Clifford Harris and true freshman Jay Hollingsworth were outstanding on the night, combining for 130 yards on 29 carries with Tony Jackson out. But the biggest boost for the Blue Devil running game was the output of quarterbacks Thaddeus Lewis and Zack Asack, who racked up 53 and 13 yards, respectively.

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With senior wideout Eron Riley sidelined with an injury, Lewis found a new favorite target—at least for the night—in freshman wideout Johnny Williams, who hauled in 11 catches for 135 yards. Williams' prolific night was the second-best for a freshman in school history. But Lewis overthrew receivers on several long balls, preventing the big play Duke needed.

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Statistically, Duke's offense was impressive. The Blue Devils doubled Northwestern's first-down total and held the ball for 15 more minutes than the Wildcats, while posting 178 yards on the ground and 294 in the air. The only problem? Duke couldn't translate the numbers to the scoreboard.

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While the front line couldn't wrap up Bacher all night, the defensive front did display a relatively impermeable run defense.

Duke held standout Northwestern running back Tyrell Sutton to only 72 yards on 16 carries and managed to corral him for most of the contest, allowing few long runs throughout the night.

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The Duke defense made experienced Wildcat quarterback C.J. Bacher look erratic at times, but it was certainly not because of a consistent pass rush—Northwestern did not yield a single sack all night. A solid effort from the Duke secondary kept the Wildcats at bay for most of the night, but its shutdown coverage couldn't last forever, especially without any pressure from the front line.

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The Wildcats didn't look all that impressive Saturday night, and statistically they were manhandled. Northwestern's offensive leaders, Sutton and Bacher, weren't spectacular. But the squad did enough to get the victory by taking advantage of the few Duke gaffes. The quick-tempo, spread-offense allowed them to strike fast and when it mattered..

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THEY SAID IT: Northwestern head coach Pat Fitzgerald "Duke had some answers to what we're trying to d0.... We're lucky to escape here with a win."

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was passionately frustrated. He was proud of his players, but angry at the game’s outcome—even at himself—and acknowledged flady that he thought his Blue Devils were the better team.

If you watch the video of the postgame press conference, Cutcliffe’s performance seems worthy of SportsCenter—that is to say that the man had the gravitas of a big-time college coach.

“I told [my players] this is certainly not a time to hang your head,” Cutcliffe told reporters with a raised and authoritative voice. “This is not typical of Duke losses in recent times. But it’s daggum time to be frustrated.... I have been doing this a long time. You don’t lose games you should win. That is my job to see that happens. We have no

excuses.”

On an impassioned press conference scale from one to 10, with one being President Richard Brodhead and 10 being Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy, I’d say it was a solid six.

Cutcliffe was disappointed, and he wasn’t going to hide it.

Neither was quarterback Thaddeus Lewis or middle linebacker Michael Tauiliili, whose emotions both fell in line with their coach’s.

The losing outcome was old hat for the Duke players. Their reactions, however, were refreshingly different.

In trying to process the Blue Devils’ emotions oq the field and later in front of the cameras, I couldn’t help but think of a brief encounter I had before kickoff.

I was on an elevator on my way to the press room. The doors opened. But instead of an empty hallway in front of me, there was Coach K. We exchanged

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disappointment—the type that comes when a team actually believes it was the better one on the field. a couple words. He was off to the VIP box—where I bet the food is fantastic—and I, to my place with the rest of the plebeian folk we call the media. In recalling that moment, though, I was reminded of something the basketball coach said recently in a press conference upon his return to Durham from

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I had asked Krzyzewski then if his USA Basketball experience had tired him.

“We all get tired,” he said. “But there’s a good tired and a bad tired. A bad tired is when you’re tired doing something you don’t love. A good tired is doing something that you love with all that you can.”

After Saturday night’s game, Cutcliffe and his players all talked about disappointment

We all get disappointed.

But Saturday’s was a good disappointment—the disappointment that comes when a team actually believes it was the better one on the field, that it gave all it could in a system that everyone involved with the program loves.

It wasn’t the bad disappointment of a team resigned to mediocrity, at best, and failure, at worst.

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W.GOLF from page 9 14 consecutive top-five finishes in collegiate tournaments.

The Blue Devils and Blumenherst were plagued by both sickness and adverse weather throughout the event. Tropical Storm Hanna prevented all the teams in the tournament from playing the typical preparatory practice round the day before the event began.

“Personally, a practice round would have definitely made a difference in my performance, by helping with my tee and approach shots, several of which left me in the bunkers and hills,” said Blumenherst, the three-time defending National Player of the Year and U.S. Amateur champion.

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“It was great to see the course before we come out in May and to know whatshots we are going to need, especially the difference between the grass in Durham and Maryland,” Blumenherst said. “Unfortunately, it was really wet because of the tropical storm, so the course will play different come May.” And, like Blumenherst, Brooks is still optimistic and confident despite the relatively lackluster finish.

“We are going to continue to work and prepare, which is something we definitely know how to do, but we don’t need to make any major changes,” Brooks said.

We are taking the highs and lows in stride and looking toward the future.”

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pilot programs have been proposed to gauge real demand.

A better solution to student dissatisfaction with the bus system—which is not widespread by any means—is merely to ensure that buses are on time, which is a task beyond the scope ofDSG. The second expensive DSG idea—$180,000 up front—which would be better handled by Parking and Transportation Services is ZipGars. Not only does this program stretch the definition of a student activity, but—like the bus tracking system—it is also poorly planned.

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When I walk across the Plaza, I’m in a constant state of deja vu. Groups of girls walk by, wearing brightly colored h},ike shorts or designer jeans topped with a Hanes white V-neck Tshirt. Oversized pearls or Tiffany knot earrings glint from their earlobes and Longchamp bags are slung over their slim shoulders.

It’s even creepier when I look down and I’m wearing almost the exact same thing.

I run into these girls everywhere: waiting in line for an elliptical at the gym, enjoying a fro-yo at Alpine, studying hard at the library and going out at night. Looking and acting alike gives them a strength-in-numbers effect rather than robbing them of their individuality.

I say “them” not to deliberately establish a separation between myself and any other girls on campus. At best, I’m a close approximation of them. At worst, I want to be just like them.

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look into more flexible solutions such as an option not to opt in to this service, the way students can opt out of University health insurance.

According to its own definition of itself, DSG’s main task is to “represent student concerns and causes to the administration.” The many flaws in these three proposals, however, indicate a failure on DSG’s part to both solicit meaningful student input and to lobby University administration.

Instead, this DSG administration has proposed that the student body pay for initiatives that reflect a real misunderstanding of student concerns and for which students should not have to pay in the first place. Lobbying is free, and an effective student government is priceless.

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Princeton and the University of North Carolina—keep between two and five-cars on campus. DSG’s proposal calls for 10. This number is arbitrarily high. Moreover, there is no reason to forego a pilot program on ZipCars, which would start with fewer cars and could bring more to campus if student demand is high.

Of the “big three” ideas, the retention of a reduced-fee lawyer available to students is the most plausible. Students could use this service to answer legal questions and to decidewhether or not they need to hire an expensive attorney.

Still, the question remains: Why does this $150,000 per year project have to be funded by the student activities fee?

As an idea, too, the project is unwieldy, and DSG should

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I can’t say this problem is particular to Duke, nor can I attribute it to the active Greek scene or the relative economic privilege of Duke students.

These factors may facilitate the structure of our social scene, but none of them alone determines it. Ultimately, we each dictate what we value as a

community.

On a college campus, it is not surprising that many of us have similar tastes in clothing and similar social tendencies. I’m not criticizing the student body for wearing J.Crew or accepting a social hierarchy. It goes beyond our consumer and style choices to what we have collectively deemed as attractive or desirable.

We have set an impossible standard for ourselves, and we convince ourselves that everyone else around us is meeting it.

We should want to better ourselves, but we should not want to make ourselves better than the next girl (or guy). It is fine to have similar tastes and concerns as our peers; it is not fine to let what we care about as individuals be replaced by what we think we should worry about as part of the Duke community.

It is impossible for me to discern the motivations behind Duke students, girls in particular, dressing or acting in a particular way. Why have we settled into uniformity when we all came to Duke looking for people much differentfrom ourselves?

How do we let ourselves feel inferior when we all (ostensibly) walked onto Duke’s campus with a level playing field?

What surprises me is the extent to which we have established and refused to challenge social expectations. In fact we have institutionalized these norms by giving particular groups priority housing and giving them influence over freshmen via outreach opportunities like the FAC program. I’d like to think we didn’t set out to create a social machine, that sucks in freshmen and spits them out labeled as part of certain groups that are branded with certain images and have certain privileges. But it is hard to deny that this is what we have done.

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Eliza French is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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enforcement of lofting reguof University policies lations almost entirely relies that impact the daily life on resident assistants who are of every student. Among these themselves students, Then again, happy few, the Council most pressing Campus editorial provides a chanright now is the University’s lofting policy. Giv- nel for student opinion about en its wide-ranging effects, this residential issues such as loftpolicy should solicitstudent in- ing policy. So if RLHS wants to put, be reasonably transparent hear student concerns, it’s only and, most importandy, make a too easy to ask.

That’s what RLHS did two bit of sense. Unfortunately for the student body, Residence years ago, when it requested life and Housing Service’s that Campus Council pronew lofting policy meets none pose policies about the future of lofting on campus. of these requirements.

To an almost unparalleled Campus Council responded well-redegree, student opinion is es- admirably, with sential in the formuladon of searched proposals for how lofdng policy. Students have to maintain safe studenthands-on experience with the built lofts on campus. Then, funcdon and form of room over the summer, in the abfumiture, as no University ad- sence of further discussion ministrator does. Moreover, with Campus Council, RLHS

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lofts.

No student could build his or her own loft on campus students would either not loft or would purchase their lofts from designated outside vendors. The policy is now in effect on East Campus and will take total effect on West Campus next year.

There is no justification for soliciting good student ideas and then tossing them into a bureaucratic black hole.

Good student ideas, in addition, should not be replaced with policies that are as muddled and self-defeating as this new one is. If RLHS truly wants students to sleep in safe lofts, then its own standards don’t serve that purpose.

RLHS has stressed the need for safe and standardized lofts.

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But of the two vendors authorized to lease student lofts, one does not offer safety railings with its lofts, and neither is a big enough improvement over student designs to be reassuring.

What’s more, both vendors sell lofts that are more expensive than a self-built loft. Both also sell unwieldy, stubby lofts that take up far more space in a room than a creative student design would.

For many students, building a loft demands creativity, which results in room layouts that improve the living experience.

For every student, building a loft demands care, because no student wants to sleep in a bed that might collapse in the middle of the night. By and large, in fact, student lofts are well-built and they last RLHS,

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Sit down! Are you crazy?! Don’t you know there are hurricanes coming? Jesus, (pronounced hey-ZEUS) don’t you people know anything about safety?

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the large jaw), monday, monday consider all of the ways in which a little hurricane every now and then could really put some things at Duke into perspective.

First, it would put the drought even further from everyone’s mind. Ahh yes, the drought. Remember those days of “Stage 4” or “Stage 5” or “Code Blue” or “Red 41, red 41, set, hike” during the drought last year? Remember the administration assuring us that everything would be fine as long as we installed hand sanitizers in each bathroom and everyone took Evian showers (like every good Duke student should anyway)? The fish were jumpin’ and the cotton was high.... yeah, those were the days....

Sorry, I got lost for a second there. My point is, since Raleigh sold all its water to Aquafina© or Aquafresca® or Aquafuqua™ or something, it seems like this area is always in a drought. Thus, despite the tremendous pain-in-the-tush it would be for Dukies to walk on those glorified puddlecatchers that line the quad during torrential rains, the hurricane would bring major benefits to all the beautiful flora and fauna of Durham. What flora and fauna, you ask? I think there are some fine specimens of both on the Cosmic staircase. You should totes check ’em out.

In addition to helping with our perpetual shortage of H.. 0, the hurricane would give Duke students some serious perspective on the concept of “the outdoors.” The way I see it, a lot of people here don’t like to go outside. They give alllll sorts of excuses for why they can’t go play in the sunshine on a beautiful day.

“I have class,” “I’m not dressed up enough,” “Edens is too far,” “I’m in Pratt,” “I have a hernia,” “What are yon doing in my room?” Etc. If you ask me, these people need to lighten up (for the record, I was in your room because I thought I had

by the way, has not pointed to any failure of a student loft as the reason for its new policy.

Admittedly, there are certain clangers involved in letting students construct their own lofts, but Campus Council addressed every one in its work and still formulated a plan that kept student-built lofts.

The worst aspect of this arbitrary RLHS policy is that, together with the new East Campus Sleep Hours policy, it is part of a trend. RLHS seems to have a bad habit of forcing unnecessary changes in student life without regard for student opinion and practice.

This way of doing things is unreasonable and unsustainable. We urge RLHS to reverse this policy while it still can and to take this whole episode as a lesson in how not to operate.

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left a pair of pants in there. Sorry for the misun-

derstanding).

But with a hurricane on the horizon, instead of

reusing these dred excuses, students would surely focus on really important conversation, such as, Hey man, wanna go outside and throw the Frisbee?

Nah, my allergies have left myface more swollen than Kanye’s ego.

I think you ’re making a big mistake...

Why? Cause it could hurricane ANY MINUTE NOW. Touche.

See? How touching. Two friends just making some time to enjoy the nice Carolina weather.

Couldn’t have written it better myself.

The moral of the story is, why not have a hurricane come through? Now, let me make very clear that I do not wish any devastation of any kind upon people or property, as that is no laughing matter. However, with Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike and whatever other alphabetically relevant weather patterns on the way, it seems that whatwe’re talking about is more along the lines of some wind and rain. Big freakin’ deal. I saw more damage at the Golden Corral on John Goodman’s birthday. A LOT more. ...

Now, now, before you bite my head off for being insensitive... consider all of the ways in which a little hurricane every now and then could really put some things at Duke into perspective.

If this hurricane gets out of control, please burn all copies of this column. Please disregard any of these words if anyone is injured during or after or while swimming naked in a pool ofBusch at Tailgate. If no serious damage occurs, though, please heed my fresh and insightful opinion on what I hope becomes a natural non-disaster. And for goodness’ sake, go out and play on the quad.

Before it’s too late.

Meeting adjourned THE CHAIRMAN is holed up in the new Perkins Link in order to “weather the storm. With plenty of HDTVs. ”

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Tuesday, September 9

TALK. Culture as Performance: Developing a Concept of Performance, "Erika Fischer-Lichte, Theatre Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin / FHI Distinguished Scholar in Residence. 4:3opm. 240 Franklin Center. Free. "

Thursday, September 11 TALK. “9/11 and the American Landscape: National Trauma and Roadside Public Expression. An illustrated talk by Jonathan Hyman about his photographic journey from Maine to Virginia and across the Midwest to document spontaneous memorial responses of average citizens to the events of 9/11. Co-sponsored by the Center for Documentary Studies and the Duke University Libraries. 7pm. Biddle Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free. "

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Thursday, September 11 MUSIC. Robert Parkins: Cabezon to Cabanilles.

Cabezon was organist to Queen Isabella’s court, and Cabanilles composed in Golden Age Valencia. Duke’s official organist uses a harpsichord to show how these two masters of sacred music can fill another magical space, the Hasher. 7:30 pm. Nasher Museum Auditorium. Free.

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Saturday, September 13 ART/ACTIVITY. Face Up Mural Tour.

See the 14 murals that more than 1,500 people helped to create with artist Brett Cook for Face Up: Telling Stories of CommunityLife, a documentary arts project devoted to building and strengthening community in Southwest Central Durham through the collaborative creation of a series of large-scale, locally inspired public murals. Ride your bicycle or ride our bus. 2pm. Centerfor Documentary Studies. Free.

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