September 12, 2008

The Chronicle Adviser to help pioneer int’l projects

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Money to fund new masters program

Williams to lend expertise to expansion by

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Serving as counsel to top University officials, Dr. Sanders Williams will have the whole world in his hands.

As Duke’s first senior adviser for international strategy, Williams, Medicine ’74 and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs forDuke Medicine, will advise the University on international ventures and make recommendations to President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange on global academic issues, Brodhead announced Sept. 5.

“Duke has expanded its international reach dramatically in the last decade,” Brodhead said in a statement. “Building on this base, we now seek to create partnerships to share the benefits of Duke’s teaching and research around the world. There is no one more knowledgeable about Duke’s opportunities than Sandy, and he will be a critically important adviser as we identify and assess the choices that will best advance us toward this goal.”

Chief among Williams’s responsibilities in the newly created role will be informing and coordinating the moves of the University’s graduate and professional schools as they scout the globe for prime sites for expansion.

Each of the graduate and professional SEE INTERNATIONAL ON PAGE 12

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Senior running back Clifford Harris (above) and theBlue Devils, coming off their first loss of the year, try to rebound this Saturday at noon when they welcome Navy to WallaceWade Stadium, SEE PAGE 13.

The Duke Global Health Institute is looking to create an interdisciplinary Master of Science in global health program upon receiving a three-year grant of about $375,000 from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.

The grant is one of 12 Framework Programs for Global Health that Fogarty has bestowed upon Michael Merson institutions this year.

“We are very pleased, said Df. Michael Merson, DGHI director.

“This will help us launch this new program.... If it’s approved we’d be one of the first universities to push forth an interdisciplinary Master’s program in global health.”

Drawing faculty from across the campus, the program will allow for collaboration among the School of Medicine, Nicholas School of the Environment, Fuqua School SEE GLOBAL HEALTH ON PAGE 6

DSG to address growth in groups SAF increase by

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Feedback on a proposal to increase the student activities fee •has led Duke Student Government leaders to re-examine their process for funding student groups.

The DSG Executive Board submitted the proposal last week, suggesting to increase the student activities fee by $lOO over two years.

After receiving student feedback, analysis | DSG however, the DSG Senate voted Wednesday to reduce the proposed increase to $6O over two years—from $222 to $252 for the 2009-2010 academic year, and then to $282 for the 2010-2011 academic year.

The student body will vote on the proposal in a referendum

Monday.

Dr. Sanders Williams was named Duke's first senior adviser for international strategy Sept. 5.

DGHI gets $375K grant from NTH

The need for infusions of cash points to a sharp trend in demand. Since 2005, the number of student groups on campus has nearly doubled—from 61 to 102—-and some administrators and student leaders have raised concerns about the current approval

process for new groups. “[The Student Organization Finance Committee] is doing everything it can to make sure that groups are using the money appropriately, to refine the new group process,” said SOFC Chair Sam Halls, ajunior.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the increasing number of groups poses challenges for DSC and SOFC, adding that a major question is if the number of groups has expanded beyond what is reasonable for the size of the University.

“I think it requires some pretty deep diligence on the part of DSC to really review its protocol for adding groups, its management processes for tracking allocations and expenditures and for holding groups accountable for managing budgets,” he said.

To tap into the annual $lOO,OOO Programming Fund managed by SOFC, campus organizations must obtain either chartered or recognized statrHxom the committee and demonstrate need for funding.

Former SOFC chair Alex Crable, a senior, said that in his three SEE DSG ON PAGE 7

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vrl, McCain's prison footage released STOCKHOLM, Sweden

Previously unseen footage emerged Thursday showing Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanpi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.

A former reporter from Swedish broadcaster SVT, 71-yearold Erik Eriksson, told The Associated Press he found the video in the network's archives while researching a book he was writing about his experiences as a Vietnam War correspondent.

The footage was filmed by a North Vietnamese photographer with whom Eriksson had contracted to film the release. ~

Record US deaths in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan Insurgents killed two U.S. troops in Afghanistan on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Thursday, making 2008 the deadliest year for American forces since U.S. troops invaded the country in 2001 for sheltering Osama bin Laden.

The deathsbrought the number of troops who have died in Afghanistan this year to 113, according to an Associated Press tally, surpassing last year's record toll of 111.

Afghanistan was the launching pad for al-Qaida's terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,2001.U.S. forces invaded in October 2001 in response and quickly drove the Taliban out of power.

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North Korea's Kim Jong SEOUL, South Korea II had brain surgery after a stroke last month and could have partial paralysis on one side, media reports saidThursday,after the South Korean government said the communist leader remained in control ofhis country.

Foreign doctors, possibly from China and France, performed the operation after Kim,66,collapsed about Aug. 15,thenewspapers Dong-a llbo and JoongAng llbo reported, citing unidentified government officials.

Kim's condition has improved and he is not suffering from slurred speech, a disability associated with stroke, the reports said.

IfKim were incapacitated, itcould have serious implications for international negotiations on North Korea's nuclear disarmamentThe talks recently hit a snag because of a dispute between North Korea and the U.S. over how to verify the North's nuclear programs, and a delay by Washington in its promised removal of North Korea from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism.

"Butt Bandit" scandalizes town VALENTINE, Neb. Boy, how people here wish their busiest vandal would find another way to make his mark. Beginning more than a year ago, some man has been skipping from one business to another at night, pressing his naked behind—sometimes his groin, sometimes both —on windows.Store owners,church workers and school janitors have had to wash lotion and petroleum jelly off the windows he selects.

"This is the weirdest case I've ever seen," said police Chief Ben Mcßride.

Some residents ofValentine,a town of about 2,650 people, find some humor in the strange vandalism and have taken to calling the perpetrator the "Butt Bandit." But they also can't help but cringe when finding his marks.

"We were completely grossed out," saidKalli Kieborz, who works in a downtown building." One day I walked into the office and an employee said,'Oh, my God, we've been struck!"'

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Bill Clinton predicts Obama win NEW YORK Sen. Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton talked for two hours Thursday, their first meeting in a White House race that had once bitterly divided them. Clintpn predicted that Obama will win the presidency "pretty handily."

Their conversation started with small talk about the former president's commute to his Harlem office and ended after a lunch of sandwiches, flatbread pizza and salad from Cosi.

"They discussed the campaign briefly, but mostly talked about how the world has changed since September 11, 2001 /'their spokesmen said in a joint statement.

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Kanye West arrested in airport

LOS ANGELES Kanye West and one of his bodyguards were arrested Thursday at Los Angeles International Airport after an altercation with paparazzi in which the rapper allegedly smashed a camera on the floor.

Airport police arrested West and his road manager, Don Crowley, who also serves as a bodyguard, on suspicion of felony vandalism shortly before 8 a.m., LAX spokesman Marshall Lowe said.

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UCrime provides stats,. tracking for area crime by

Julius Jones

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Party indentification marks race in N.C. By

Jared Goodman THE CHRONICLE

With the presidential election only two months away, North Carolina political parties are in a fight to the finish to capture the state’s changing electorate.

Although Republicans have successfully courted 36,000 newly registered voters this election cycle, Democrats have added 167,000 residents to their voter rolls in the traditionally red state.

“We were under no illusions going into 2008 that it was going to be anything other than easy,” said Brent Woodcox, spokesperson for the North Carolina Republican Party.

As of Sept. 11, there were 2,693,616 registered Democrats, 1,943,590 registered Republicans and, coming in at a close third, 1,305,396 unaffiliated voters in North Carolina, illustrating the increasingly competitive political environment for the campaigns this November.

Students have a new resource to help keep them diligent about on-campus crime through a crime mapping site at their fingertips.

UCrime.com, an interactive Web site that tracks crime at more than 170 campuses across the United States, became available at Duke in August. The Web site provides specifics like the date, time, location and type of crime using information in releases from the Duke University Police Department.

“Our goal at UCrime is to disseminate crime information so students can make safer decisions in their daily lives,” said Greg Kastner, the site’s cofounder.

But Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander, warned students

against relying too heavily on the information the Web site provides. She said the site does not always paint an accurate picture of the amount of crime taking place on campus.

“The information on the UCrime Duke page Contains inaccuracies,” Graham wrote in an e-mail. “It shows two robberies occurring on [June 13, 2008] within 15 minutes of each other. If you look more closely at them, the second one is actually an arrest of the robbery suspects in the first. The two ‘robbery’ icons were actually all one incident.”

She added that the site is not updated regularly, noting that the site itself states that it does not guarantee accuracy or completeness of information.

But Kastner said any inaccuracies on SEE UCRIME ON PAGE 8

Crimes near Duke since March*

The trend is also reflected nationally, as Democrats have increased their share of registered voters in 15 states, with Republicans only making gains in six of the 26 states that require voters to register by party.

In a state where President George W. SEE

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Dean McLendon presents goals as

dean of Trinity by

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Arts and Sciences Council began its 2008-2009 term with a meeting Thursday, featuring the annual address from George McLendon, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences.

McLendon, who is also dean of Trinity College, began the address by expressing how “the new school year is always exciting for me.” His excitement was manifested in the P.F. Flyers shoes he chose to wear as a throwback to his youth.

The address outlined several of McLendon’s hopes for the University. He was quick to discuss his support and admiration of Perkins Library’s Link area—a part ofcampus he calls “the keystone ofdesign and information technology.”

He latershifted his attention to service engagement projects by Duke students. Specifically, McLendon addressed theformal launch of DukeEngage during the summer and called on his colleagues and faculty members to transform the Duke Engage program “into a national model.”

He also expressed his gratitude to the student body for its active participation in the program. McLendon reminded attendees at the meeting that President Richard Brodhead “is currently in NewYork speaking withSenators Obama and McCain about the DukeEngage program.”

Last month, McLendon took on a new set of duties previously under the purview of retired dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson. He concluded Thursday’s address by assuring the faculty that despite campus-wide SEE A&S ON PAGE 6

CAMPUS COUNCIL

Board approves ’OB-’O9 budget, votes to not raise housing fees by

Julius Jones

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Campus Council held its first meeting of the yearThurs-

day night, with 24 members of the council and two mem-

bers of the University’s staff in attendance.

The agenda for the meeting included approval of the budget for the 2008-2009 school year and votes on two resolutions concerning whether or not students should pay for cable service and extra living time spent on Central Campus in the interim between the end of exams and graduation.

The council unanimously approved a $133,637.20 budget and moved not to raise the programming and residential fee this year, with the understanding that next year’s council will

have to do so to account for a more than $lO,OOO projected revenue decrease between this year and next.

“It is pretty clear that the next Campus Council is going to have to raise the fee,” said Campus Council President Molly Bierman, a senior.

The council also considered a motion to ask Residence Living and Housing Services to quit charging seniors who live on Central an additional $l4O to $l7O for the time they use their apartment between final exams and commencement.

“The idea behind the fee is that since Central Campus is used for Summer Session, we need to move people out SEE BUDGET ON PAGE 8

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Senior Nick Alexander created Verdegle.com, which features Google's search engine on a green background, after working with colleagues over the summer who said green was the best color to lessen eye strain.

Green Google easy on the eyes for Web users

Residents of Edgewater retirement home board a bus as Hurricane Ike approachs Texas Thursday.

dump 10 inches or more of rain.

“It’s a big storm,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said. “I cannot overemphasize the danger that is facing us. It’s going to do some substantial damage. It’s going to knock out power. It’s going to cause massive flooding.”

Hurricane warnings were in effect over a 400-mile stretch from south of Corpus Christi to Morgan City, La.

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For students who spend countless hours each day Googling, there is an alternative that claims to be much easier on the eyes.

Verdegle.com, a site designed by senior Nick Alexander, uses Google’s search engine but has one obvious difference: the background is green. The color is meant to give tired eyes a break while surfing the web, Alexander wrote in an e-mail.

A recent work experience inspired Alexander to create the site this past summer, he explained.

“I worked with a group of engineers that had their computer monitors all set

to green backgrounds,” he said. “When I asked why, they said that green was the best color for your eyes, health-wise.”

Alexander is registered with Google as an official AdSense partner, which enables him to use Google’s web search engine for customized searches. He said creating the site took only an hour ofhis time.

The site’s name combines the Spanish word for green, “verde,” with the ending of Google. On his site Alexander points out other everyday objects, like chalkboards and highway signs, that use the color green for the same reason.

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HOUSTON Cars and trucks streamed inland and chemical companies buttoned up their plants Thursday as a gigantic Hurricane Ike took aim at the heart of the U.S. refining industry and threatened to send a wall of water crashing toward Houston.

Nearly 1 million people along the Texas coast were ordered to evacuate ahead of the stonn, which was expected to strike late Friday or early Saturday. But in a calculated risk aimed at avoiding total gridlock, authorides told most people in the nadon’s fourth-largest city to just hunker down.

Ike was steering almost directly for Houston, where gleaming skyscrapers, the nation’s biggest refinery and NASA’s Johnson Space Center lie in areas vulnerable to wind and floodwaters. Forecasters said the storm was likely to come ashore as a Category 3, with winds up to 130 mph.

But the storm was so big, it could inflict a punishing blow even in those areas that do not get a direct hit. Forecasters warned that because of Ike’s size and the state’s shallow coastal waters, it could produce a surge, or wall of water, 20 feet high, and waves of perhaps 50 feet. It could also

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GLOBAL HEALTH of Business, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, the Divinity School and School of Law, said Lisa Croucher, assistant director for education and training for DGHL “I think they probably saw in our proposal a unique opportunity that brings together schools, programs and institutions from all over the University,” Croucher said.

“Since we are not housed in a particular school, it enables us to work more freely with otherentities across the University.”

The program is seeking approval from Duke’s Academic Council and Board ofTrustees this Fall, and would be advised by the Graduate School and administered by DGHL If accepted at this time, Crouqher said the program would admit its first class of 10 to 15 students in Fall 2009. Eventually, each class would have between 35 and 40 students.

Students would be required to take core courses and electives as well as perform overseas research, Merson

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said. The program is designed so dial it can be completed in one year, but it is likely that most people will take one and a half to two years to earn the degree, Croucher said.

“The idea is to prepare researchers to conduct interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary global health research that approaches global health from many perspectives,” she said. “So what we hope is that the graduates at our program excel and find leadership positions.”

These positions would include research at academic institutions or for policy think tanks, work at multilateral international lending agencies, governmental agencies and ministries, as well as for foundations, nongovernmental organizations and the private sector, Croucher explained.

Previous efforts to expand global health programs at Duke include the development of a global health certificate program, a Global Health Focus cluster, a Global Health Third-Year Study Program for medical students and the Global Health Residency, a joint effort between DGHI and Duke’s Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health.

A&S from page 4 changes in leadership, the goals of the University remain intact.

“We have a lot of challenges, but we have an extraordinary resource in our faculty to meet these challenges,” he said.

The council’s monthly meetings serve as a venue for deans and professors from various backgrounds and departments within Trinity College to discuss key issues with regards to faculty and departmental policies.

In other business: Suzanne Shanahan, chair of the council and assistant professor of sociology, introduced several new deans in arts and sciences: Sandy Connolly, senior associate dean for finance and administration; Ed Gomes, associate dean for information science and technology; Kevin Moore, senior associate dean for faculty affairs; and Penny Sanders, associate dean for communication and emergency management. Each dean gave briefintroductions and outlined his or her overall goals for their respective posts.

Sanders signaled her role as a facilitator to help various departments that “want to change direction or go in a new direction over the next five to 10 years.”

She urged faculty to bring forth concerns, adding that “no issue is too small, no issue is too big for us to handle.”

The meeting also marked the introduction of Dean of Academic Affairs Lee Baker. Baker, an associate professor of cultural anthropology and African and African-American studies, assumes the role after having served as the chair of the council from 2005-2007. Baker will serve as McLendon’s administrative partner.

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DSG from page 1 years on SOFC, only about five applications for group establishment were rejected, mainly when the proposed groups duplicated the roles of existing organizations.

“It’s not unheard offor a group to be rejected status,” he said. “But it’s very rare.”

Financing greater demands DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, said student groups have experienced almost a 20-percent decrease in average funding —from an average $5,400 to $4,321.

But according to data from the 2008-2009 DSG Annual Budget, 66 percent of student groups existing since 2005 or before have seen an increase in annual funding since the 2005-2006 academic year.

Sixty-eight percent of groups existing since last year or before have seen either an increase or no change in funding.

If the new proposal passes, DSG will see a $360,000 increase in funds—slso,ooo of which will pay for an attorney to provide full-time legal services for students. A portion of the remaining $210,000 may be used to double the size of current Programming Fund, Giordano said.

During the past two weeks, DSG leaders have said additional funding will enable campus groups to organize higher quality

programming.

But more money does not necessarily lead

“It’s not unheard of for a group to be rejected status.... But it’s very rare.”

Alex Crable, senior and former SOFC chair —

to better events, said Duke University Union President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior. He added that stricter regulations are necessary to raise expectations on groups.

“Student groups will take any money that is given to them—that’s how student groups operate. If they get more money than they actually need, then there’s a problem with that,” he said. “There are a lot of things this campus would like to have.

There are a lot of things this campus needs as well. Balancing this need versus want argument is extremely important.”

Although most groups have seen an increase in funding, some have had to work with a smaller budget. For example, Black Student Alliance- has seen shrinking funding over the last four years, from almost $15,000 to less than $ll,OOO annually.

Allocations for new groups on campus this year vary widely—from $75 for Bridge Club, currently the smallest budget, to $9,000 for Rival Magazine.

BSA President Brandon Roane, a senior, said SOFC needs to establish a system to keep student groups accountable.

“There’s no check on how SOFC is handing out the money and there’s no check on what the student groups are doing with it or whether it’s benefiting the student body,” he said.

Brainstorming solutions The challenges regarding funding allocation and student group growth are two issues that go hand-in-hand, Moneta said.

“We realize there are major problems,” Giordano said. “It was really questions regarding SOFC that made us think about our funding structure overall and the different funds that are available.”

He added that he plans to make the allocation process more transparent, while only granting amounts based on what groups really need—which would be de-

cided after analyzing how the groups made use of their previous budgets.

Giordano said other changes to SOFC’s procedures may include streamlining the funding request process—which currendy takes two weeks—to just a few days and moving the annual budgeting process from Spring to Fall.

But Goonewardene said additional changes are necessary as well, including a stricter timeline for groups to submit event requests and more stringent evaluations of the activities they propose.

“What improves the quality ofprogramming is planning,” he said. “Events need to be more well-planned, more organized and have a positive impact on campus.”

Additionally, DSG leaders said they would launch a new Web site to keep track ofstudent group activity and ensure all serve separate purposes. SOFC will undertake an auditing process to make sure appropriated

funds are used properly.

Moneta said SOFC could also consider clustering allocations to remedy funding abuse. For example, the committee might allot a certain amount to a performing arts council that would be responsible for distributing funds among performing arts groups.

Giordano, however, said student groups are not fiscally irresponsible, but said those that are will be called to account. He noted that changes to the SOFC structure have been in the works since his election last Spring.

SOFC needs to make procedural changes, Halls said, adding that he hopes to implement the improvements in the near future.

“It’s a slow process, but I’m working with other student groups to come together and reach an approach with how to judge student groups,” he said. “There are steps in place to make the process [to approve of groups] a little stricter and tougher. We’re also going to make sure current groups are functioning.”

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the site are from DUPD’s reports rather than an error of their own “We get information directly from the police departments,” he said. “What we put on the Web site is exactly what we get—no editing, no scrubbing, no altering, no

deleting.”

Students who register with the Web site can report crime as well, though some said they would not find it useful to do so. Freshman Caroline Buck said she might be more inclined to check the site, but she noted that reliance on the site would not be necessary for accessing such information.

“I mean, Duke sends out e-mails about crime that happens here,” she said. “I used a Web site once to find out if there was a rapist back on my block at home. So, if I was curious about something, I would use it.”

Some students said they feel an overall sense of security at Duke. Others, however, said they felt Duke could do more to protect them.

“What we put on the Web site is exactly what we get—no editing, no scrubbing, no altering, no deleting.”

Greg Kastner, UCrime.com co-founder “As much as we hear about crime, I feel the security has done enough here,” said sophomore Alexandra Tirado.

The University has stepped up efforts intended to help reduce the incidence of crime, including new ways to alert students that DUPD implemented over the summer. “[An] outdoor warning system was selected, purchased, installed, tested and activated,” Graham said.

“Another step taken was the acquisition of a text messaging system. This system will be utilized to send out safety related notices, including crime- alerts, to the community.” not

BUDGET from page 4 of the apartments to clean them as soon as possible,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life.

Seniors who live on West Campus do not have to pay the additional fee, and proponents ofthe resolution said it is not fair for some seniors to incur extra charges while others do not.

“Would you ever expect to live somewhere for free? You pay for the amount of time you live here,” said Jen Frank, assistant director of accommodations at RLHS. After approximately 20 minutes of discussion, the council tabled the resolution so revisions could be made.

Keeping with the issue of fairness, the council passed a resolution asking RLHS to end its practice of not providing cable for televisions in selective living group commons rooms.

“We believed that this was an issue of equality that was so important that we paid for cable for three of the SLGs,” Bierman said.

Currently, RHLS will provide cable at no charge to any common room with a television, except those in common rooms owned by SLGs. “If they’re not gding to provide the cable, then people who live in these groups should not have to pay the fee and can use the money to buy the cable themselves,” said Kevin Geek, a sophomore representative and member of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity.

Campus Council has struggled in recent years to show they are an active and important part of student life. Efforts to increase visibility include the addition of a public relations chair, re-designed Web site and logo and an increased effort to help students understand how Campus Council fits into student governance.

“We are the only body that does both programming and policy. DUU only does programing, DSC only does policy, but we do both,” said Hope Lu, a senior and programming chair.

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Members ofCampus Council unanimously approved an approximately $133,000 budget at its first meeting of the year Thursday.

VERDEGLE from page 5 Ray Fligman, clinical services manager at Duke University Eye Center, said, however, that green may not be the only soothing color for eyes.

“There is no one specific color that is the best,” he said.

“Green is a little more soothing than a stark white background, but there will still be people who prefer another

color.”

For people with extreme eye conditions, such as retinal degeneration, different contrasting colors like white on black or yellow on blue may be appealing.

But the normal healthy eye may have preferences varying for each, person. Although black text on a white background does offer the most contrast, it can be fatiguing after long periods of time, Fligman said.

After visiting the site, junior Sam Halls said he thought the green background was too weird. He said he preferred to use cuil.com, which uses a black background.

On Verdegle.com’s home page there is a link labeled “Save the planet.” It takes the user to the A1 Gore documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”

[The link] is just to support climate awareness since the site obviously has a green motif,” Alexander said.

Alexander has created other sites in the past, such as SeeMeWin.com, CampusNewslol.com and QuickDuke. com, although the former is not currently operational and the second is no longer in existence. In addition to those, he is currently working on his largest project yet, which will feature online music. He said the site will launch soon. “

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INTERNATIONAL fro. page, schools is cultivating ties abroad. In particular, the Fuqua School ofBusiness has two overseas outposts in the works—one probably in the Chinese city ofShanghai and the other at an undeterminedlocation in India—that will house students in the Cross Continent MBA program for two-week stints, Vice Provost for International Affairs Gilbert Merkx told The Chronicle in June. It now falls to Williams to set these blueprints in stone, Lange explained.

“Getting these initiatives launched in the next few years will be critical,” he said.

Williams said although dme is of the essence, the University is taking care to forge lasting bonds with overseas partners.

“We don’t want Duke engagements abroad to be small, isolated arrangements,” he said. “It would be far better if when Fuqua has an outpost in Shanghai there is leverage between that operadon and something that the engineering school might do. All parts of Duke should know what the others are doing and draw strength from that. Each individual project in a specific academic area will reinforce the others.”

As the founding dean of the School of Medicine’s expansion in coordination with the National University of Singapore, Williams is no stranger to the challenges individual schools face when expanding their reach abroad. He will spend October in Singapore, negotiating an extension of the University’s partnership and welcoming the institution’s second graduating class of students to campus.

“I went from being a skeptic about the Singapore project to thinking that this might not be a good idea for Duke to being a key person,” he said. “We knew [the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School] had real potential to be a really big deal, a statement of Duke’s truly global reach. We also felt we could learn from the experience in ways that could help us succeed in other ventures.”

Williams added that he had derived several “cardinal rules” from the Singapore partnership that he will follow when mapping the University’s global outposts to come. As in its domestic endeavors, the University must consider the needs ofits partners and harness faculty enthusiasm for the projects —while being careful not to make promises it cannot keep. “[The project] may be serving Duke’s goals just fine, but if it’s not serving our partners’ goals it won’t last,” he said.

“For an enterprise to succeed, there has to be a member of

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Dr. Sanders Williams, senior adviser for international strategy our faculty who really believes in this project and is willing

to put their career on the line to make it work.... The final

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Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellorfor health affairs and president and chiefexecutive officer of the Duke University Health System, said Williams’s leadership on the Singapore venture has demonstrated his fitness for the new position. But he said that although Williams now has a world ofresponsibility, the Duke medical school will remain his top commitment.

“We were very careful to make sure this is his primary role,” Dzau said. “[The position of senior adviser for international strategy] is a part-time job.”

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GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain greets Dem. presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama at a forum on service Thursday. Some analysts have said the two nominees may see a tight election in N.C.

Bush captured 56 percent of the vote in 2004, the presidential campaign of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is seeking to take advantage of the new dynamic. According to a Sept. 10 Rasmussen poll, Republican candidate Sen. John McCain leads Obama 48 percent to 42 percent.

“The Democratic primaries created a lot of interest that has carried over through voter registration,” saidKerra Bolton, communications director for the North Carolina Democratic Party.

As aresult, Democrats have organized further grassroots work to capitalize on the increased attention garnered by the May 6 primary between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Obama, said Paul Cox, deputy communications director for the North Carolina Obama campaign.

Woodcox said, however, that the new trends are simply a response to the last eight years under a Republican administration.

“When it’s a two-percent increase as far as total number of voters, that’s not a significant advantage the Democrats have gained,” he said.

He added that Democrats have often enjoyed an advantage in voter registration numbers in North Carolina.

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“Illinois was pretty much a decided state, so I felt that due to the system my vote mattered more in a state like North Carolina, a projected battleground state.”

Another emerging trend suggesting increasingly competitive politics in North Carolina is the rise in registered independent voters, a constituency that now represents more than 20 percent of the North Carolina electorate.

To turn North Carolina blue, Democrats must attract support among white independents and effectively encourage young adults and blacks to vote on Election Day, said Ferrell Guillory, founder and director of the Program on Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication and an expert in Southern politics. Campaigns must also make efforts to promote high turnout at the polls to cement gains made in voter registration, he said.

“The conventional wisdom is that the higher the turnout, the better for the Republicans [in North Carolina],” Guillory said. “The Obama campaign is trying to defy that wisdom, saying if they can get more young people, more black voters, more independents who are ready for a change-that they can shift the dynamic so a greater turnout favors the Democrats.”

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The big breaks in close contests have had a penchant for bouncing away from Duke.

They didn’t last year against Navy, when the Blue Devils blew an 11-pointlead in the fourth quarter and had a long touchdown calledback on a questionable holding penalty.

They certainly didn’t last week against Northwestern, as Duke won nearly every statistical category except turnovers, sacks, plays over 20 yards and, of course, the final score.

And with the Midshipmen’s vaunted and unique triple-option attack coming to Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday at noon, the Blue Devils (1-1) recognize the need for an explosive and game-changing play over the course of the contest.

“When the plays are presented and it’s there to make a play, we got to make a play,” quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “We’re a good offense right now, but if we can make those big plays, we can be a great offense.”

Those big plays will be especially crucial against a team that both Lewis and defensive

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lineman Greg Akinbiyi called tough-nosed and disciplined. Navy (1-1) has already racked up 904 yards of rushing offense and put up 64 points in its two games despite throwing only 16 times all season. Combine the 117 rushing attempts with the fact that the Midshipmen have lost a fumble only once, and you get a team that usually dominates with near-flawless execution.

Much of the running game success comes from Navy’s chop-blocking schemes.

Preparing for low blocking is difficult because the team doesn’t want any players getting injured in practice, head coach David Cutcliffe said.

Trying to replicate an offense that an opponent has run for several years is essentially impossible, Akinbiyi added.

“With the speed of the game, you can never simulate that even if you’re playing your own offense,” he said. “With Navy, it’s a very unique situation. What we try ta concentrate on during the week is our SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 14

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This weekend, Duke heads to senior Norman’s hometown of Dallas, Texas, to compete in the Hilton Invitational, hosted by UT-Arlington.

Each match the Blue Devils play, Norman inches closer to the all-time Duke blocks record, but the pressure hasn’t yet affected her.

“I don’t really think about it much,” Norman said, “It’s an honor if I do break it, but Wl I just go out and play. nV It’s not a big deal.” m For Duke head FRIDAY-SATURDAY Texas-Arlington coach Jolene Nagel, Arlington, Tex. Norman’s though, career record and prospects of breaking the record is more significant.

I’m excited for Jourdan to play in the area she is from—to get to play in front of her high school coaches and teammates from club volleyball,” Nagel said.

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Duke The two matches vs. mark Duke’s first Ohio St. road trip of the season, and the team seems up to the chalSUNDAY, 1 p.m. lenge—especially givColumbus, Ohio en its last game.

“We need to get out of our comfort zone and learn to handle going on the road,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Every team is different, and we don’tknow how this team is going to react right now, but I feel this team is excited about playing again.”

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Besides hoping to send a message to the rest of the ACC, which boasts five top-25 teams including No. 1 Wake Forest, new Duke head coach John Kerr is excited to finally get a better indication of where his team stacks up within the conference.

“We played four really good games up to this point to try and prepare for these ACC league encounters,” Kerr said. “We’re excited about the opportunity to head over to their place and have a crack at them.”

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FOOTBALL from page 13 execution. We have to make sure that when the speed of the game goes up, our technique doesn’t go down.”

And so far, Duke’s technique has yet to falter. Lewis has not thrown an interception in five games and 171 attempts—a new school record. Aside from giving up three sacks last weekend, the offensive line has paved holes for a successful running game.

But then why haven’t the Blue Devils made the big play?

Cutcliffe’s answer is simple: it just hasn’t happened yet.

“One of the things we work very hard at is taking the ball away, and it’s been proven you win a lot of games by doing that,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m not overly concerned about [not doing] that unless it becomes a consistent trend.”

Akinbiyi echoed that sentiment, noting that as long as the players hustle and play with solid fundamentals, the big plays will come in due time.

But, as last year showed, if the big plays aren’t at the right time, they don’t matter much in the end. In Navy’s 4643 win over Duke, wide receiver Eron Riley had touchdown catches of nine, 35, 69 and 75 yards —but none came in the fourth quarter. His last touchdown, with '10:50 remaining in the third, was also the Blue Devils’ last score of the gutwrenching defeat.

This year, however, Duke comes in with something it didn’t have last year the attitude that it can win and can make the explosive play to get that win.

“We could have easily gone into the shell [after the Northwestern loss] and said, ‘Here we go again,’ but that’s not the case,” Lewis said. “Now we know you have to make the plays to make the W’s.”

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“It was important to play good teams early on,” senior captain Graham Dugoni said. “We’re not going to be surprised by anything we see. We feel like we’ve played some of the better teams in the country, and we can compete with anybody.”

At the Indiana tournament starting Aug. 29, the team struggled to get consistent play from the offensive end of the field. Yet with a return home to Koskinen Stadium last weekend, the Blue Devils seemed to hit their stride, scoring six times in two games.

Dugoni feels like such an outburst is a sign of the team uniting around Kerr’s offensive-minded coaching style.

“It takes a little bit of time to adapt a new philosophy,” Dugoni said. “[Kerr] encouraged us to really take chances and get forward. This past weekend was a good example of that all coming together in the form of goal production.”

To this point in the year, Duke fans are growing accustomed to watching freshmen receive significant minutes in the lineup, a result of losing 13 seniors to graduation. So far, defenseman lan Kalis, midfielders Kwasi Ayisi and Joseph Pak and forwards Temi Molinar and Kyle Bethel have all drawn Kerr’s praise for their first-year play.

“It’s exciting. At one point against American, we had five freshmen on the field,” Kerr said. “That’s a good sign for the future, but also a good sign for now.”

And if the freshmen can help Duke leave Blacksburg on an up note, the Blue Devils might be on their way to establishing themselves at the top of this season’s ACC hierarchy;

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One weekend can change it all—something the No. 6 Blue Devils have already learned just two weekends into the season.

After starting the year 1-1, Duke (3-1) came out of last weekend with two topnotch wins, defeating No. 14American and then-No. 5 lowa.

Now hat the Blue Devils’ confidence is sky-hi; h, they have a chance to prove their mettle Saturday No. 6 at No. 2 Wake Forest Duke (4-0) at 1 p.m. Duke then returns to Williams Field for its first No. 2 home game of the Wake year Sunday at 1 p.m.

SATURDAY, 1 p.m. against Drexel (4-1).

Winston-Sa ilem, N.C, “We knew we were capable of good things, Drexel and last weekend showed us we were capable of great things,” Duke head coach Beth No. 6 Bozman said.

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Blue Devils’ slate is Williams Fi ield just, as difficult as it was last weekend Coming offof big wins against then-No. 1 North Carolina and then-No. 7 James Madison, the undefeatedDemon Deacons’ confidence is also through the roof. Wake Forest has already beaten the same lowa squad that Duke just topped, and the Saturday game figures to be Duke’s toughest test to date.

“Wake is always very good,” sophomore Susan Ferger said. “They are very wellcoached. They are going to know exactly

No. 6 Duke plays its first home game of theyear Sundayafter a game with No. 2 Wake Forest Saturday. where to go and what to do, so we are going to have to execute our game plan.”

Sunday’s home opener against the Dragons could prove difficult, as well. But the prospects ofplaying at homeafter five seasonopening road games could be just what the Blue Devils need to rise to the challenge.

The return has made Duke excited to come back to the friendly confines of Williams Field after what was its longest road trip of the season.

“I think it will be an incredible feeling

having our home opener,” Ferger said.

“Hopefully there will be a lot of fans to cheer us on for another big win.”

And after edging two elite foes last

weekend, the Blue Devils believe they can

ride their newfound momentum to two more marquee wins this time around.

“We gradually prepared for this weekend, upping our level of competition each weekend and getting our freshmen experience, and we feel like we’re ready,” Bozman said.

VOLLEYBALL from page 13 And now that they are used to playing matches again, Nagel said it is important for them to stay like Norman, one of their leaders.

“We need to keep like we ended the last tournament, playing with intensity and confidence and keeping the momentum going,” Norman said.

This weekend, after a dominating performance at its own tournament, Duke once again travels to face fierce competition.

The Blue Devils look forward to facing another ranked opponent after dropping their first two matches to then-No. 25 Purdue and then-No. 14 Kansas State.

“They were strong competition, arid we couldn’t scrimmage another opponent before the matches,” Nagel said. “It was important for us to settle down and get rid of our first-game jitters.”

Those early-season woes caused the Blue Devils to start 0-2, but they won the closing match of their first tournament and have not looked back since.

That string figures to continue in the Blue Devils’ first two matches against host UT-Arlington (3-5) Friday at 8 p.m. and South Carolina State (1-7) Saturday at 1 p.m., but No. 13 Middle Tennessee State (6-0) at 8:30 p.m. will be another story.

The final match of the tournament against MTSU will be even more challenging for the squads, because both teams have games earlier in the day Saturday. MiddleTennessee plays South Carolina State at 6 p.m. and has a quick turnaround against Duke later that night.

“It is a challenge,” Nagel said. “In that situation, we try to play a lot of people to get everyone game time and make sure no one gets too exhausted. We end up learning a lot more about our team from having everyone compete.”

W. SOCCER from page 13 play, traveling to the unfriendly environments of Dayton and Ohio Suite should be a preview for what Duke will experience in the ACC. But the Blue Devils are confident they are ready for die task at hand.

“We are approaching it as we have to win two games, but are Uiking it one game at a time,” senior defender Sheila Kramer said.

“This is a good test, and we have used the words ‘hungry’ and ‘aggressive’ to describe our attitude this season.”

The team’s hard week of practice should leave it well-prepared for the upcoming games. With the highly touted Flyers being the first contest of the weekend for Duke, Church’s team has devoted most ofits attention to Friday.

In addition to being a pivotal point in the early season, this weekend also is a homecoming for sophomore midfielder Marybeth Kreger.

Kreger, from Noblesville, Ind., will have some extra support from family and friends, who are making the short trip to Ohio to watch her and the rest of the Blue Devils try and improve to 6-1.

“I’m pretty pumped about it, and we are going to have a really good showing,” Kreger said. “We are ready to move on from [the Notre Dame game] and play our best this weekend.”

Sophomore Marybeth Kreger, a product of Nobtesviile, Ind., will have a large fan base at Duke's games in Ohio this weekend.

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Are

you alive?”

The roommate query via text message: an alien vibration but familiar question behind a duct-taped eypai

So I’m a bit overdue for my senior year (cough, three weeks). In fact, I haven’t hit up campus since December 2007-. And I did janetwu just touchdown in Dulles Internationcounting sheep al Airport yesterday three skin tones darker and transporting a potentially illegal satchel of wooden safari animals and a tooth plucked off an impala skull jawbone.

But here I am Durham! Here I am, Duke—back again from the African wilds and New Zealand vistas for two remote hours and already incapacitated by the sinking sensation of soul-consuming dread.

Here I am, back to real minute-by-minute life: woohoo.

Technically, it’s back to “non-real life”—the envied days of collegiate clubs and classes and camping out in front of Cameron. But it’s sans the giddy relief of being college-free. My years on campus have been a flitting phantasm—a blurred mirage of blue and buildings used to shade in the gaps between real life away from Duke—real life thanks to Duke.

And the truth is I can’t remember how to be a student.

There was an old-man time when I marveled in the musty pages ofacademia and Perkins’ faux-antiquity, when I stocked up on dry Victorian literature and disillusioned American poetry in stacks solitude. There was a semester when I took masochistic pleasure in whipping up environmental policy memos until finger arthritis loomed and my contact prescription rocketed from -5.75 to -7.00.

And before that, I joined the league of aspirant scholars—boxed up and booted to college toting a hefty check and the expectation of formatting life beneath the almighty major declaration. But now as a gray and grizzled senior, it dawns on me that we students abide by something of a ludicrous arrangement. We’re given one hazy year in one scholastic setting to configure the course and courses of our ambitious futures. We’re given three years to sculpt our cognitive awareness into something that resembles a professional intellect. Indecision—the academic flip-flopper—is sentenced to

undergraduate inadequacy (or graduate school absolution) where English majors who fancy premed their third year are akin to post-menopausal women shopping for bassinets. No wonder so many cling to campus, refusing to relinquish their grasp on the last remnants of humanly freedom before here and now is supplanted for a ten-year health insurance plan.

But work-party-student body shenanigans aren’t enough to assuage the stabbing reminders of imminent responsibility. And even a Chapel-height perch doesn’t permit a contemplative reimagining.

What I learned about myself, I learned outside of campus in down-under hemispheres and scattered time zones. And though Ibarely exist to Duke as an enrolled student, though 19 students might recognize me via faint hallucinations offreshman Focus, I maintain this counsel for the dazed and confused: Leave campus, gain perspective.

Because beyond this metropolis of petty details, this color-coordinated (but categorically unique) land of automatons thriving on the mini-reality that is University-living, big bona fide life ebbs and flows in unsystematic incidence, unsupervised by DSG or the Office of the University Registrar.

I’m the self-professed poster child of Duke International—the wannabe mascot happy globe that rolls down the BC walkway walloping undergraduates with vivid brochures of transnational arts and culture.

My suggestions: Weasel your way into a legit movie production company where you can barter slave labor for a true Hollywood experience.

Check off Environmental Science credits in the celestial valleys of Nelson Lakes, New Zealand.

Make the savannah your workplace, the rhino and zebra your colleagues. Teach Zulu children about elephants on Wednesday; hunker down in a reversing 4x4 to let a Maputaland male tusker pass on Thursday. Cross the Mozambique border on foot.

Talk history with the local Rastafari. Clear invasive guava trees with a machete. Join a bush course in indigenous herbology.

That was my undergraduate OMG drama.

Overcome the financial pretext and major-specific restrictions—at Duke there is away: Find it. Why go Greek when you can go to Greece?

Don’t get me wrong, I love Duke and being a Duke student. But what I love most about Duke is its capacity to let us go—to dispatch us outside the furious flurries of this collegiate shaken snow globe and exhort experience.

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Inspired by conservatism

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greater columnist than I once noted, “Though liberals do a great deal of talking about hearing other points of view, it sometimes shocks them to learn that there are other points of view.” Duke’s liberals are no exception, and its conservatives

often grow weary of constant defense and fall back on the intel-

Oliver sherpuse you tell me

lectually lazy but unyieldingly entertaining tactic of mocking Sen. Barack Obama.

In the wake of last week’s Republican National Convention, however, and while the campus is caught up in the.fervor of this election, I think it’s time to o%r some insight into just what inspires at least one Duke conservative, as well as to what the electorate saw last week that pushed it in my direction.

It’s easy to be inspired by the candidates, of course. Very few politicians rise to national prominence without being impressive in one

way or another. But what really got me excited last week, and what I believe triggered McCain’s poll surge, was the solid, presentation of two conservative principles.

The first of these principles is trust in the American people—a sentiment I seldom find in my fellow students. We live in a cynical age, and it’s very easy for Duke’s undeniably intelligent students to fall into the trap of assuming that people, in general, are pretty stupid. Arid this assumption can easily grow until one takes it as a matter of course that the average person will take the silly, shiny choice against their own self-interest.

Take the issue of education, which I was glad to hear emphasized last week. The “people are stupid” mentality necessitates that the wise in society direct the dumb—-shaping the curriculum and style of instruction, preferably through the central institution of government. After all, they know what’s best. This is basically the current philosophy of our public schools. And as most of Duke’s students who are public school alumni and international test score comparisons suggest, this philosophy has been a miserable failure.

The philosophy based On trust, however, assures access to education with education vouchers, but allows several different forms of

education—private, public, parochial, charter—to compete. It trusts parents to act in the

interest of their children, and schools to act in their own interest by improving.

This idea oftrust finds policy-wise expression in the familiar Republican litany: school choice, gun rights, low taxes, free markets and so on. It finds more poetic expression in die refrain of optimism—“ Our best days are ahead of us.”

Obama calls these ideas old and outdated; I call them tried and true. Either way, they are not new to the public conversation, but are rather carryovers from the Reagan revolution 30 years ago.

What is new is not the call to shrink government, but rather the re-emphasis on making what government thereis work as it should.

One of the more disturbing moments of my young life was the one in which I realized thatthere was no great, overarching conspiracy. I had always assumed that there was someone behind the president, the Congress and the courts who actually knew what they were doing. Alas, what we see is what we’ve got, and what we see isn’t pretty.

Congress has been at each other’s throats since the Clinton impeachment, with a brief respite after the attacks of Sept 11. Both parties seem obsessed with burning through cash

thatyouand I and our kids and our grandkids will have to pay back. Congressmen funnel money from Indian tribes, and stash bribes in their office freezers. I noted our age is cynical; government inefficiency, unaccountability and corruption are good reasons why.

And now we have not one but two candidates for office who have actual records of rooting out corruption. For some providential reason, they’re both hard-wired to go after the system rather than along with it, and to not care who they alienate in the process. And every bill Congress passes would have to pass through that gauntlet.

I don’t really care about lipstick on pigs or on pitbulls, or the definition of the word “maverick,” but the thought that reform could actually perceptibly happen, that in four years we could have a little more pride in our government appeals not just to the partisan in me, but the patriot as well.

So look with wonder, ye liberals, and see how theother halflives. We believe in trusting the American people. We believe in a government that works. That is what we’re voting for in this election, and that is what inspires us.

Oliver Sherouse is a Trinity senior. His column runs every otherFriday.

letterstotheeditor DSG responsive, responsible The rally that took place in the late hours of Wednesday night’s Duke Student Government meeting was neither a platform shift nor a dramatic change of course. It was, quite simply, a budget adjustment. Nonetheless, it represents the culmination of a beautiful episode in student government history.

DSG first proposed the increase in the student activities fee in order to bail out student groups and bring great new initiatives onto campus. These projects remain some of the most noble and worthwhile undertakings the student body could invest in for itself. A while back, the University made it clear that it would not fund them for us; responding to their unwillingness to help students, your classmates on student government decided to take action on everyone’s behalf.

But an initiative is only as strong as the voices behind it, and by Wednesday’s meeting it became clear that the full fee increase, with aid to student groups and three new projects, was impractical.

Strapped for cash, DSG line-edited the new budget and cut two of the three programs. Student groups had to get more funding—that much was clear. The senate reasoned that of the three projects, student legal services was the most pressing and most popular.

What has taken place over the past three weeks—culminating at Wednesday’s senate meeting—is a dramatic improvement in the student body’s understanding of its student government.

Whether or not The Chronicle witnessed it, DSC mobilized its newly created outreach chairs and sent representatives, from vice presidents and senators to the president himself, to just about every student group on campus. I personally met with the Muslim Student Association, two fraternities, representatives from the Baldwin Scholars and Mi Gente, and the Inter-Greek Council. Across the campus, members ofDSG have been pitching the fee increase and soliciting feedback for three weeks. Never in the history ofDSG has there been such a coordinated and widespread outreach effort.

The modifiedfee increase is the product of hundreds of voices speaking from

every comer of campus. And when the referendum passes on Sept. 15, we will all benefit from the new precedent for responsible student government.

Mike Lefevre Trinity ’ll VP for Athletics and Campus Services, DSG No student fees for legal fees The student activities fee is a great... job opportunity. The Chronicle article on Sept. 11, “DSG overhauls fee proposal before vote” was a good try at explaining what in the world Duke Student Government is doing. The article provides more current info than the DSG Web site. I’m for a balanced DSG budget and some student groups—but DSG wants to raise the fee to help provide students with legal aid? This seems utterly ridiculous to me. The DSG Web site states “Whether you’ve had a rough weekend at Shooters or picked up a speeding ticket on 15-501, you’ll be able to get all the legal advice you need right on campus.”

So here I find the job opportunity.

How about DSG pay me $150,000 (what will be budgeted) to tell students to stop breaking the law? I realize there are other reasons to get a lawyer but as the Web site suggests, most of the time it will be a defense attorney. I am not willing to pay for other students’ mistakes. If you break the law and need a lawyer, then face the consequences and stop asking me to pay for it.

Jonathan Odom Pratt ’O9

ACES, performing the impossible They said it couldn’t be done, it was impossible to incorporate with this format. We were told it was a casualty of the “upgrade.” The graphic schedule was gone forever and it’s format not compatible with the “new ACES.” Then, they said maybe, just maybe, they could find away with such high demand to bring it back. And after two months of waiting, the graphic schedule has magically appeared.

At first glance, I say “well done” for (at least partially) listening to student

demands regarding ACES. Then, I get to thinking... if it wasn’t impossible in the first place (since clearly they’ve managed it now), then why was it missing to begin with. The only answer that can come to mind of why the, perhaps, most popular feature of old (good) ACES was missing from the downgraded “new ACES,” is that the programmers and designers cut corners. They built a bare-bones system to save time and money, it was like the bar I built sophomore year... worthy as a counter, and kinda cool, but nothing compared to if we had put in the hinged door and a rail, perhaps some stools. So ifthey cut corners there but managed to bring it back, is the rest of it salvageable too? Maybe they can get rid of the ten thousand hyperlinks and make menus more user-friendly, maybe they can get rid of the flashing “working...” in the upper right corner. Maybe they can make it compatible with resolutions beyond 1024x768, maybe they can even make enrolling in classes simple again.

But then again, it took two months to get a picture loaded onto the site, perhaps the freshmen better pick up this fight, I’ll be long gone before any real progress is made. Although one step better, ACES is still unacceptable as a student information service or system.

Danny Mistarz Pratt ’O9 Contributions do not reveal leanings I’m writing to take issue with an insinuation given by my friend and colleague Mike Munger in the Sept. 8 Chronicle article, “Prof, admin contributions lean to the left.” It is a mistake to equate a person’s campaign contributions to their political leanings. If Munger, the Libertarian candidate for North Carolina governor, would simply look at the list of contributors to his campaign, he would find ample evidence to refute the impression he gave in his statement to The Chronicle. People contribute to politicians and campaigns for a host of reasons. Supporting like-minded folk may be chief among them, but it is not the only one, and it is difficult to determine why an individual has contributed

in any give instance simply by highlighting their name on a list.

Kerry Haynie Associate professor, Political Science Palin talented, savvy In his column “Palin Comparison” yesterday, David Distenfeld provided valuable insight into the club recruitment process on campus. It was when he attempted to equate this process with Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential pick that he veered into error. Distenfeld’s assertion that “the McCain-Palin ticket certainly has an uphill battle to convince the American public that Palin is a good choice for .‘veep’” completely ignores McCain’s substantial “Palin bounce” in the polls. Distenfeld may have his doubts, but a glance at the poll numbers contradicts his assumption that “the American public” shares them. Whether “rational” or not, the Palin selection has boosted McCain’s appeal dramatically.

Perhaps Distenfeld’s qualms about Palin’s “lack of experience” would be diminished were he aware that after her distinguished career as the mayor of Wasilla was followed by a successful crusade as governor against notorious corruption of Alaska’s government.

When has Obama ever accomplished as much? Oh, and that Bridge to Nowhere?

Once she became governor and realized what it entailed, she changed her position to become one of its most fervent opponents. (The idea of changing one’s position in the light of new information is clearly, however, a difficult one for the Obama camp to understand, judging by Obama’s persistent refusal to admit his error in opposing the surge, even in light of its clear success.)

I, for one, am immensely flattered

by Distenfeld’s conclusion that Duke students are as talented and savvy as Palin. I certainly hope that in time some of us may achieve equally impressive victories against corruption and bureaucracy. But for now, we’re really just community organizers.

Rachel Stem Trinity ’ll

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