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Although Lupe Fiasco may have already slipped from many students’ minds, Duke University Union has not forgotten about him.

Fiasco will be unable to perform at Duke this Fall because of financial and logistical constraints, DUU Major Attractions Chair Vincent Ling, a senior, confirmed. Union Officials said last Spring that they had received a verbal commitment from Fiasco to come to Duke sometime this semester.

In February, the rapper, who was originally slated to perform at last year’s Last Day of Classes celebration with alternative rock band Third Eye Blind, pulled out of his contract with DUU and instead went on

tour with fellow rapper Kanye West, singer Rihanna and alternative band N.E.R.D. The William Morris Agency then offered the Grammy Award-winning hiphop band the Roots as a replacement of a similar caliber and price, Ling said.

“When we got the Roots, it was through the same agency as Lupe, and we had a verbal commitment that he would come back this year but they couldn’t commit to anything formal,” said Ling, who served as the former LDOC co-chair along with current DUU president Chamindra Goonewardene, also a senior. “There was never any guarantee from the get-go.”

Lie added that Fiasco would ideally perform outside if he comes, and LDOC, the year’s largest outdoor performance, is

“the most natural fit for him.”

“The bottom line is that financially it wasn’t possible,” Ling said. “With anything that happens outside, there are huge costs associated with production, setting up a stage, security and parking.”

Goonewardene said much of what happens for LDOC ultimately depends on the decision of the LDOC committee chair and student input.

“It’s a difficult situation, but at the same time we need to evaluate what artists students really want to see this year,” he said. “If the answer is Lupe, then we’ll keep working on it.”

Some students said, however, they SEE FIASCO ON PAGE 4

The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a founding member and former president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will be the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Jan. 18 in the Chapel, kicking off a week of programming commemorating King’s life, officials announced Tuesday.

The 20th anniversary celebration will also showcase a variety of performances, including music, dance and a student monologue concerning the challenges of life in an increasingly diverse world. Television journalist Soledad O’Brien, host of CNN: Special Investigations Unit, will close the week of reflection with a speech Jan. 22, said Ben Reese, co-chair of the Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Committee.

This year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration programming will center on the question, “What Becomes of the SEE LOWERY ON PAGE 7

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(from left) Jessie O'Connor, Rebecca Harbuck and Mindy Vawdrey are roommates,

and three of an estimated 10 practicing Mormon undergraduates.

O’Connor doesn’t do her homework.

Not on Sundays, anyway. But she swears it isn’t a rampant case of procrastination.

“I’m trying to keep the Sabbath holy,” she said.

“The Bible tells us not to do work, so I try to respect that.”

O’Connor, a junior, is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints—better known as the Mormons—and is one of about 10 undergraduates who are practicing members of the Church.

It is a diverse group; one that includes a premed varsity athlete, a backpacking engineer, a chess-playing aspiring writer, and, yes, a couple of straight-laced kids straight out ofUtah.

But they all have a few things in common. On a campus that sometimes appears to subsist entirely

on coffee and Busch Light, none of them drink caffeine or alcohol. In the midst of Duke’s hookup culture, they have dating and marriage on the brain.

And then, of course, there is their religion Mormons are Christians, with a twist. In addition to the Old and New Testaments, they subscribe to another scripture called the Book of Mormon—a text they believe was delivered as revelation to their first prophet, Joseph Smith, on gold plates in upstate New York in 1827.

“I’m not afraid to tell people but it’s not like, ‘Hi, I’m Mindy and I’m Mormon,’” said Mindy Vawdrey, a freshman.

Before coming to Duke, she didn’t spend much time explaining herreligion either, but for a different reason: Her high school in Highland, Utah was SEE MORMONS ON PAGE 5

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CULLOWHEE, N.C Authorities said Tuesday AMSTERDAM, Netherlands A Dutch court for that a student not a political statement, stealing prank, has convicted two youths of theft and sentenced was the motivation for dumping a dead bear cub virtual items in a computer game Sen. Barack Obama service, draped in signs on a North Carolina camthem to community world, cases heard the earlier this week. pus have been in Only a handful of such and they have reached varying conclusions about the legal Seyen Western Carolina University students were involved, and possible charges were being discussed with the local status of'Virtual goods." the and culprits, 15prosecutor, said Campus Police Chief Tom Johnson. Police did The Leeuwarden District Court says coerced a into a not release the students' names.

13-year-old boy transferring 14 -years-old, The students told authorities they took political signs at "virtual amulet and a virtual mask"from the online adventure to their accounts. random to cover the bear's wound and prevent blood from game RuneScape game These virtual goods are goods (under Dutch law), so this is spilling into the bed of the truck they were driving. theft,"the court said Tuesday in a summary of its ruling.

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Guantanamo charges dropped SAN JUAN,Puerto Rico —The Pentagon said Tuesday it has dropped war-crimes charges against five Guantanamo Bay detainees after the former prosecutor in their cases complained that the military was withholding evidence helpful to the defense.

There are no plans to free any of the men, and the military said it could reinstate charges later.

America's first war-crimes trials since the close of World War II have come under persistent criticism, including from officers appointed to prosecute them.Some of the harshest words came last month from the very man who was to prosecute the five men against whom charges were dropped.

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NEW DELHI India has successfully launched first unmanned mission to the moon. it's Chandrayaan-1 has blasted off from the Sriharikota space center in southern India into the dawn sky Wednesday in a two-year mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions.

Chief among the mission's goals is mapping not only the surface of the moon, but what lies beneath. If the launch is successful, India will join what's shaping up as a 21st century space race with Chinese and Japanese crafts already in orbit.

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AUSTIN Faced with reports of widespread contraband smuggling and illegal cell phone usage at state lockups, Texas political leaders pressed authorities Tuesday to crack down on corrupt guards and upgrade security at the nation's second-largest prison system.

Sen JohnWhitmire, chairman of the state Senate Criminal Justice Cqmmittee, said in an emergency meeting Tuesday with prison administrators that he was "disgusted with our prison officials"for failing to stop rampant security failures.

The hearing comes a day after Texas Gov. Rick Perry ordered the lockdown of the state's 111 prisons and a systemwide search for contraband. The security measures were prompted by the arrest of a death row inmate's mother who is accused of buying minutes for a cell phone, which was given to Richard Tabler and used by him and nine other inmates in his cell block.

Perry's office said the phone was smuggled into the prison by a bribed corrections officer.The officer's name and whether he or she had been apprehended were not disclosed.

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Duke engineers’ lives may be dictated by their coursework, but their careers are certainly not dictated by their majors.

Only about half of Pratt School of Engineering students go direcdy into a field related to their majors after they graduate, said George Truskey, chair of the Biomedical Engineering department. Others may MARGIE TRUWIT/THE CHRONICLE

Members of DUU met with Duke PerformancesDirector Aaron Greenwald at DUU's weekly meeting Tuesday to discuss the possible benefits of a partnership between the two organizations.

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For around $5, students can buy an Alpine Bagels sandwich, ePrint 250 blackand-white pages or—thanks to Duke Performances —see renowned artists like jazz bassist Charlie Haden, pianist Leon Fleisher or tap dancer Savion Glover.

At Duke University Union’s executive meeting Tuesday night, Union officials spoke with Duke Performances Director Aaron Greenwald and Marketing Director Ken Rumble about co-sponsoring an upcoming concert by folk-punk musician Billy Bragg with The Watson Twins Nov. 1,

part of the year-long “Art/Politics/Now” series.

Greenwald said he appreciates DUU’s contribution to campus arts and hopes that the two organizations can help each other grow and expand their respective audience bases.

“Tve been deeply impressed by the transformation of the Union over the past two years.... It’s been a really powerful and positive force for performances, presentations and showings on campus,” he said. “I recognize that one of the arguments in the SEE DUU ON PAGE 4

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Pratt senior Jordan Yoder intends to be part of that 33 percent of BME graduates by planning to attend medical school. He said although it was clear that he would never want to pursue a career in biomedical engineering, the major offered him

many exposures and opportunities that were relevant to his intended career.

“I repaired medical equipment in a Nicaraguan hospital this summer with Engineering World Health and there are design classes that pair engineering students with hospital projects,” Yoder wrote in an e-mail.

But graduates who work in non-engineering fields said they consider their engineering education valuable. Cristian Liu, who graduated last May with a dual degree in BME and Electrical and Computer Engineering, is currendy working for an information technology consulting firm. He said although his job is not directly related to his majors, his Duke engineering training—including both technical and problem solving skills—has been useful in his everyday work.

“The analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills that I developed throughout my four years of engineering training have been instrumental in succeeding at my career,” Liu said.

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CORRECTIONS An Oct 20caption accompanying the article,"Forum talks politics,the Muslim vote,"

incorrectly stated the host ofthe panel. It should have said Jen'nan Ghazal Read, associate professor of sociology, moderated the event.

In the same issue, another caption incorrectly noted sponsorsof Friday's Homecoming festivities. In fact those events were sponsored only by Campus Council, the Duke Alumni Association, the Athletics Department and the Office of Student Activities and Facilities.

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In other business: The political debate featuring Harold Ford, chair of the Democratic Leadership Council, and Michael Steele, chair of a large Republican Political Action Committee, GOPAC,

Union has been between big-name artists and people who are leading-edge, and I appreciate the fact that you have to do a little bit ofboth.”

In this partnership, DUU and Duke Performances will market each other’s events using their respective outlets, which include but are not limited to; Facebook groups and event invitations, Web sites, blast e-mails and flyers around campus, Rumble said.

DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, said he was looking forward to the collaboration and thinks that more students should take advantage of the opportunities offered by Duke Performances.

“This [partnership] is something that we’ve been thinking about for a long time because Duke Performances is a great organization that has provided a lot of interesting performances,” he said. “You probably can’t even get a meal on campus for five bucks, but you can get to see Grammy Award-winning musicians.”

“You probably can’t even get a meal on campus for five bucks, but you can get to see Grammy

Award-winning musicians.”

Chamindra Goonewardene, senior and president of DUU will be held in Page Auditorium tonight at 7:30 p.m.

Small Town Records is hosting a Musician’s Meet and Greet at the Duke Coffeehouse on East Campus tonight at 8 p.m. All campus musicians—band or no band—are invited.

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If more students remembered last year’s situation and the verbal commitment from Fiasco, there could potentially be a larger movement to bring him back to campus, said sophomore Jake Lee. “A lot of freshmen don’t even realize that he was supposed to come last year and then was supposed to come this Fall,” said Lee, who recently created a Facebook group named “Lupe Fiasco for LDOC again....”

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“I found I had more of an interest in BME as an academic endeavor rather than a job prospect,” Liu said.

This, however, is not the norm throughout Pratt, where 40 percent of its 2007 graduates began working in engineering and technical fields, according to Pratt’s Web site.

Dual majors in Pratt also complement each other well and build comprehension in coursework, Pratt senior Daniel Beeler wrote in an e-mail. He added that the curriculum offered by the ECE department is heavily based on projects and designs. “[They] taught me valuable organizational and teamwork-skills essential for the workplace,” he said.

Kirsten Shaw, senior program coordinator for Pratt, said Duke engineers are better prepared for industrial and client-facing positions because of the interdisciplinary focus of the entire University. She added that Duke students are able to “talk and walk” through the process with their clients much better than students from larger state institutions.

Much of the engineering curriculum is designed to teach students skills that are applicable in a variety of situations, Truskey said.

“A lot of what we teach now will be outdated in 10 years, and [students] are not going to be competitive in the long-run,” he said. “We want to train the students to be creative problem-solvers, and understand how they want to learn.”

Jason Zhu, Pratt ’OB and a student in the Master of Engineering Management Program, said the best learning still happens on the job. He added that the most useful aspect ofhis engineering coursework was not developing technical skills, but figuring out how to work with others.

“There are tons and tons of people who are good at engineering, but you need to learn how to work well with people to succeed in many of the engineering projects,” Zhu said. “That’s a concept that can be applied to any job you have.”

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MORMONS from page 1 95 percent Mormon, she said. Students received time off during the day for Bible study, and after graduation, her classmates flocked to Brigham Young University, a sprawling school of 34,000 in Provo, Utah, that is owned and operated by the LDS Church.

An estimated 98 percent of BYU’s students are practicing Mormons, and the school adheres to a strict code ofconduct that includes prohibitions on drugs, alcohol and pre-marital sex. Some classes are preceded by a professor-led prayer.

But Vawdrey wanted something different, and she is not the only one.

“BYU has too many Mormons,” said sophomore William Barlow, who added that he was looking for a diverse school where he could meet people both in and outside of his faith.

And Duke had something else going for it too.

“In high school I was working so hard and I didn’t want to settle when I picked a college,” said sophomore Chalette Lambert. “BYU is a great school, but I really wanted

somewhere top.”

Prestige also brought sophomore Laurel Gray to Duke,

but unlike otherLDS students on campus, BYU never even crossed her mind. The reason? Before she came to college, she was not Mormon.

“I had never really met a Mormon,” said Gray, who was raised in Canton, Ohio by a pair of lapsed Quakers.

That is, until the summer before freshman year, when she engaged in the time-honored pre-college ritual of Facebookstalking her future roommate. A few clicks around the profile revealed something Gray found intriguing. The roommate, sophomore Rebecca Harbuck, was from Salt Lake City, and she was a practicing member of the LDS Church.

When the two girls met in August, Gray didn’t know what to expect, she said. But she and Harbuck became fast friends, and when her roommate invited her to attend a Mormon service, Gray eagerly agreed.

And somewhere between the hymns and the Bible study and the welcoming church members, Gray discovered something she had been seeking for a long time—a spiritual community.

After that first Sunday, she said, she threw herself into investigating the church.

“I started sucking the poison out of my life, fixing all

“In high school I was working so hard and I didn’t want to settle when I picked a college.... BYU is a great school, but I really wanted

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sophomore the little things that weren’t right,” she said.

Soon, with the help of Harbuck and other Mormons she had met, Gray made a life-changing decision: She would convert. And on Oct. 13, 2007, she was baptized as a member of the Mormon Church.

Back home, she said her parents watched the change supportively, but with a little apprehension.

“I feel like sometimes as teenagers we do things like get our nose pierced just to see what our parents will say, so I think at first they thought I was like, ‘Oh I’ll just become Mormon to see what they say,”’ Gray said.

But within the Duke LDS community, Gray found a strong backbone for her new faith. The group met about three times a week for Bible study and social activities and carpooled to Chapel Hill on Sundays for church services.

Gray grew so close to her Mormon friends, in fact, thatshe decided to room with Harbuck and O’Connor this year.

The three girls share a narrow triple in the Wellness Dormitory, where the walls are papered with photographs of Mormon leaders and paintings of biblical scenes. There, the trio works and studies the Gospel and sometimes just hangs out, talking late into the night. And like their peers, their conversations seem to gravitate towards one topic in particular. Boys.

Dating in the Mormon world is a game with serious repercussions. One tenet of Mormon faith holds that one must marry another Mormon—either in this life or the next—in order to achieve the highest level of salvation.

In other words, the stakes are high—and for collegeage Mormon girls, the odds are pretty low.

When they reach the age of 19, most Mormon males take leave from school and home life to serve a two-year mission for the Church. During this time, they live only with other missionaries—often in countries thousands of

miles from home—where they are prohibited from using phones or e-mail to keep in touch with family and friends.

In most cases, their only link to the outside world is oldfashioned snail mail.

So, the girls said, they write. And they wait.

“Right now we’re just in this awkward gap,” O’Connor said. She keeps correspondence with two boys she dated freshman year, who are both in their second year of missionary service—one in Uruguay, the other in Ukraine.

Han Woong Lee was on the other side of that equation.

In the Fall of 2006, the Mormon international student from Korea enrolled at Duke and became active with the LDS community on campus. But after the Spring 2007 semester, he packed his bags-not for the next four months, but for the next four years.

That summer he began a two-year missionary service in New York, which he intends to follow up with two years of mandatory service in the Korean military.

“Truthftilly, door-to-door or street proselytizing can be frustrating,” he wrote in a letter from his mission home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “But it really builds your character in away that no other experience can.”

But despite the centrality of missionary service in the

Mormon faith, Duke’s Mormon students said they aren’t broadcasting their religion or trying to convert everyone they meet.

Gray, for example, is currently dating a non-Mormon

boy. She has given him a copy of the Book of Mormon and

talked to him about her faith, but ultimately she said it is his decision.

“I’m not out there to flirt to convert,” she said Junior Spencer Jasper, a varsity wrestler who is active in the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, said he feels like it is important for him to form ties with the larger Christian community at Duke.

“Every once in a while [at IV] I’ll share my specific beliefs, but for the most part we just read the Bible and try to get closer to Christ,” he said. “We know we have different beliefs but we just go on that central theme.”

Barlow said he also feels continuity between his religion and the wider Christian community.

“A lot of the difference in my experience at Duke doesn’t have to do with me being Mormon so much as me being religious at all,” he said. “It’s about spending time in prayer and with God, and I think anyone who does that will have a different way of seeing things.”

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LOWERY from page 1 Dream? Faith and Politics, Vision and Leadership” —a theme that is especially poignant given the historic

presidential candidacy of Sen. Barack

Obama, said Reese, who is also vice president for institutional equity.

“Whether or not [Obama] wins, I think the whole

process is in line with Dr. King’s dream for the kind of

society where everyone truly has opportunity,” Reese said. “Dr. King’s hope for America is really a hope for a transformation of a society.... That task is not one that can be accomplished in a year or two or even a decade or two, so I really hope that none of us think that the place that we’re at currently in our society is as good as it gets.”

Although student turnout for Martin Luther King Week programming was been low in recent years, Reese noted that attendance figures have varied depending

‘lt’s yet another thing to have been a close colleague and partner in the struggle for social justice.... I think Rev. Lowery brings a very special perspective.”

Ben Reese, co-chair of the MLK commemoration committee on the speakers present.

Reese added that he hopes O’Brien—whom students may know for anchoring the popular CNN special “Black in America” in July—will also draw a sizeable crowd, as boosting student attendance at the week’s programing is one of the planning committee’s most important objectives.

Lowery —who is the recipient of the NationalAssociation for the Advancement of Colored People’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Martin Luther King Center Peace Award and the United Methodist Church Justice Award —worked extensively with King throughout the Civil Rights Movement, helping to found the SCLC and leading demonstrations against segregation. Although King passed away more than 40 years ago, the presence of a speaker so close to the civil rights visionary may heighten the event’s relevance for students, Reese said.

“It’s one thing to have a perspective on Dr. King’s written words, to have had the opportunity to see him from a distance. It’s yet another thing to have been a close colleague and partner in the struggle for social justice,” Reese said. “I think Rev. Lowery brings a very

special perspective.”

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Two years ago yesterday, Duke took Miami down to the final play, falling 20-15 when Thaddeus Lewis’ pass from the Hurricanes 11-yard line was intercepted.

After the game, then-head coach Ted Roof was proud of his squad’s effort.

“You saw a team that got behind but stayed with it and fought their way out of some bad things,” Roof said. “They gave themselves a chance to beat an extremely talented and wellcoached football mm team in the Atlantic Coast Conference.”

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Roofs pride at his team’s effort underscores his limited expectations for Duke.

Losing by five to Miami was a step in the right direction for the 2006 Blue Devils, and that’s to say nothing of the fact that this “extremely talented and well-coached” team played without 13 suspended players that day, went 7-6 and saw its head coach get fired at the end of the season.

On Saturday, Duke led the Hurricanes midway through the third quarter before letting the game, quite literally, slip through its hands.

Afterward, David Cutcliffe wasn’t as effusive as his predecessor.

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Hearing head coach David Cutcliffe rip Duke’s effort after its 49-31 loss Saturday to Miami wasn’t enough for senior linebacker Michael Tauiliili.

With only six games left in his career, he wasn’t about to see the old habits of succumbing to stronger opponents and giving up potential victories rear their ugly head, as they did when the Blue Devils gave up 35 straight second-half points.

He wasn’t about to be satisfied with just winning one more game this year than he did in his first three years at Duke.

So after Tuesday’s morning practice, which Cutcliffe described as unacceptable for being “good but not great,” the captain gathered the team and demandedall the players step up their play and perform for the seniors.

“Tauiliili challenged the team today, saying, ‘We got six games left. If you don’t want to do it for yourself or the coaches, do it for the seniors,”’ quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “Players challenging other players brings out the best of the team.”

In doing so, Tauiliili could help Duke rebound from arguably its most disappointing loss of the season. After a first half in which the Blue Devils committed just one five-yard penalty, they accrued seven more flags for 48 yards and dropped numerous key passes.

Senior running back Clifford Harris said Cutcliffe was disappointed in the team’s effort rather than angry about the final result.

“He felt like a lot of the players on the team gave up early,” Harris said. “I don’t think the team quit.

The game just kinda got out of hand. We just failed to make the plays we needed.... It was just little things, but things like that turn the game around.”

Tauiliili, on the other hand, has been far from lethargic. He leads the team with 66 tackles—11 more than the next closest player, fellow linebacker Vincent Rey. His 11 tackles per game is good for sixth-best in the country, and his 66 total tackles are tops in the ACC. Tauiliili’s dogged determination and relentless play were rewarded Monday when Sports Illustrated named him a midseason second-team All-American.

When Cutcliffe heard Tauiliili was named second team, he had just one question: “Who’s the first team?”

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It’s hard for a team to raise its level of play after it stayed neck-and-neck for 90 minutes with the best squad in the country.

Just three days after drawing with No. 1 Wake Forest, Duke (7-5-2) came out sluggish but turned it around in time to knock off Elon 2-0 TuesDUKE day at Snyder Field and break a winless streak. three-game n am / The letdown against Elon (68-I)'was something that sophomore midfielder Cole Grossman understood, but not one he was willing to accept. Grossman scored a goal and assisted NickSih’s tally in the second half.

And as the regular season nears its end, Grossman deemed the inferior play unacceptable.

“We weren’tprofessional in our approach to the game,” Grossman said. “We can’t take our foot off the pedal. We don’t have any room for error anymore in the season.”

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“[Elon] had a great chance where [defenseman] Joe Pak stuck a header off a comer kick off the line,” head coach John Kerr said. “From that clearance, we were able to counter-attack them.”

On the break after Pak cleared the ball, Grossman placed a shot in the lower left corner of the net to give Duke a 1-0 lead in the 33rd minute.

To Kerr, Grossman’s goal marked a major turning point in the game. At halftime, he called for even more motivated and inspired play. In what his players called a matter-of-fact tone, Kerr spoke about the times during the season when higher intensity has yielded better results. “[A letdown after Wake Forest] really showed in the first half,” senior goalkeeper Brendan Fitzgerald said.

“But good teams find away to win.”

Fitzgerald needed just two saves in his seventh shutout of the year. Duke’s defensive unit made it easy for the goalie by limiting the Phoenix to seven shots.

“They were very good in the air, tight on their men —the pressure was excellent,” Fitzgerald said. “We played exactly according to plan, and it showed.”

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FOOTBALL from page 9 “Pick an All-American team and sometimes there’s 11 guys, but Michael Tauiliili is an All-American football player,” Cutcliffe said. “His photo needs to go up somewhere, and I can say that because he won’t change.

He will not back down from a challenge.”

At the moment, that involves getting the team to do what Tauiliili himself did;

respond in the face of adversity. So far this season, Duke has not yet managed to win a game in which it fell behind by two possessions or more. In the past two games, the Blue Devils have given up 59 points in the second halfafter allowing just 14 in the previous four contests, and they know they will continue to face tough situations.

All the players really need to do, though, is follow their unofficial All-American linebacker’s example.

BRITTON from page 9 mad. To be honest with you, Fm really mad. Fm angry. That’s all I can say.”

That’s not all Cutcliffe did say, though.

He didn’t spend much time talking about how the Blue Devils had led a superior team for two and a half quarters or how his game plan to run the ball and control the clock was executed to perfection in a dominating first half.

Instead, he focused on the last quarter and a half, when Duke lost the lead and seemingly its will to compete.

No, expectations are a little higher than a third-quarter lead this time around “Fm not going to baby them,” Cutcliffe said. “I understand where we’re coming from, but I don’tplan on being real patient” What was so disappointing to Cutcliffe may not have been that Duke lost the game. Any football fan can discern the talent gap between Miami’s receiving hares and the Blue Devils’ secondary tortoises, or the size gap on the line of scrimmage—just to be clear, the Hurricanes’ nine starters on the line outweighed their counterparts Saturday by an average of 35 pounds.

But Saturday, Duke somehow neutralized these intrinsic disadvantages. The Blue Devils’ relatively miniature defensive line pressured the Hurricanes’ quarterbacks into two early interceptions while the offensive line paved the way for 94 first-half yards on the ground.

Sure, the secondary got burned late, but it might have been a different story if the comerbacks ever managed to turn their heads and locate the ball.

What was disappointing was that Duke could overcome the talent gap, but not its own mistakes. The Blue Devils dropped passes from Lewis, interceptions from Jacory Harris and kickoffs from

Matt Bosher. Bosher’s game-changing 76yard punt would just have been a mildly impressive 56-yarder if Donovan Varner hadn’t let it get over his head.

And it isn’t hard to read between Cutcliffe’s lines and decipher that his team quit down the stretch.

“I’m really interested in looking at this tape and seeing who the responders are in the tough times,” he said. “It’s disappointing to me that we didn’t respond when the game got tough any better than we did.

We’ve got to take baby steps in everything we do, and we took some steps back.”

Something tells me Cutdiffe’s film session with the team wasn’t all smiles and Coke Zeroes.

And it all comes back to the coach’s first and biggest task at Duke: erasing a losing culture that has permeated the program down to its core. Three wins in his first four games—more than the Blue Devils had in the last three seasons combined—applied some polish to a roster used to losing. But that rotten core re-emerged late Saturday.

“We can’t let those habits creep up on us, because this a whole different team, a whole different situation and what happened last year is in the past,” senior running back Clifford Harris said. “We can’t let those types of things haunt us.”

It was naive of us to think a deep-rooted problem could be solved so early in the season—the stench of losing covered up with the Lysol of an easy non-conference schedule.

The next game—an away tilt at Vanderbilt, a team hungry to clinch its first winning season in 25 years—offers a chance for Duke to improve on Saturday’s rough draft Whetherit submits an editedversion will reveal a lot about the trajectory of the 2008 season and Cutcliffe’s tenure in Durham.

After all, the last thing Cutcliffe wants is to be compared with Ted Roof.

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state’s best option.

In his defense, McCrory has enjoyed some success as Charlotte’s mayor. He led the creation of the city’s light rail line, and under his leadership the Queen City has enjoyed enormous economic growth.

Too many of McCrory’s proposals, however, stem from a discredited big government conservative ideology—from his harsh views on crime and immigration to his regressive social views and support ofmassive road-building projects.

Many will argue that voting for a candidatewho has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning is a wasted vote. But the value of emboldening Munger’s unique voice outweighs the cost of his electoral irrelevance.

The Chronicle Editorial Board formally endorses Michael Munger for Governor ofNorth Carolina.

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those ofhis opponents. Calls to reform Raleigh sound more sincere coming from this tenured faculty member who has been willing to talk to whomever will listen.

That is the advantage of being a second-tier candidate.

Munger has been free to make sensible, politically unpalatable proposals that a major party candidatewould never be brave enough to air. In fact, Perdue and McCrory are surprisingly similar and mechanical.

We have been especially disappointed by Perdue. For instance, she originally staked out a courageous position opposing offshore drilling, but reversed her stance when the political tides turned. Nonetheless, she has progressive views on healthcare and has had major victories on environmental issues.

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rabbi chose an odd topic to discuss on their debt. Meanwhile, large food chains thrive off thisYom Kippur: food. a system where a mistreated labor force supplies For those of you who miss the irony, cheap produce, at the cost of human rights. It’s Yom Kippur is a Jewish holiday that requires a 24- something that most consumers don’t think about hour fast. So, when your rabbi is speaking about when eating their oranges or tomatoes.

Recently, farmworker organizations, under the how concepts such banner of The Coalition of Immokalee Workers, as environmental have started fighting for a fair wage, asking for just sustainability and relate an extra penny per pound of tomatoes picked. Cursocial justice to what you eat, rently, farmworkers receive between 40 to 45 cents for every 32-pound bucket of tomatoes they fill. A your stomach isn’t on really focusing penny a pound, in this case, means very little to the message. large food chains, but represents a better quality of Which, unforlife for those who supply us our food.

Already, Burger King, Whole Foods and McDontager strikes tunately, ald’s have acceded to the Coalition’s demands. But me as the norm suburban subversive when it comes to Chipode and Subway haven’t yet decided to pay fair food options on wages to its farmworkers. The Coalition isn’t calling and around campus. We’d like to eat healthier, for a boycott, but has started a national campaign support sustainability or buy Fair Trade, but when to change the minds of both restaurant chains. dinner time comes around, we’re just focused on As students who so often advocate for change in what would best satisfy our taste buds. After all, it’s our own environments, it’s clear where we should not like we have a lot of options for food. When stand on the issue. But it’s difficult; Subway and we are rushing between classes, or trying to get in Chipode are two of the more popular places for us Dukies to eat, and we don’t have that many solid a quick bite during an all-nighter, we value convenience over quality. We eat what’s offered, whether options to begin with It’s easy to accept our lack of control over what it’s McDonald’s at 2 a.m. or whatever happens to be in the fridge. Existing restaurants have a monopoly we consume. But perhaps I’m being overly fatalisofconvenience: our own hectic lifestyle forces us to tic. After all, this week heralds the re-opening of Duke’s Coffeehouse, a brilliantly rendered symeat what’s available and not what’s preferable.

This is one of the reasons, I think, why some bol of the possibility for student empowerment at students are so upset about Panda Express’s presDuke. Three students took it upon themselves to ence on campus. The new fast-food restaurant will create a space to meet, chat and even have somesucceed by sheer virtue of the fact that it delivers thing to eat or drink in an atmosphere that’s very quick food in a convenient location on campus. different from what you might find at Panda ExWhether we like Panda Express or not, whether press or Chipotle. The new Coffeehouse goes to show that we do have a choice on where and what we think the food is good for us or not, we’re inevwe decide to eat. itably going to end up eating there at some point So if you believe in social justice, make sure the during year.

This is not a column bashing Panda Express; you’re eating Fair Trade food, produced by workwe’ve already had enough of those. Instead, we ers who receive a living wage. If you believe in environmental sustainability, make a commitment to need to reevaluate our eat-first-think-later mentality. It’s a lot easier not to pay attention to what goes eating local. And if you believe in human dignity, into our food, where it’s from or who grows it. Case make sure to treat your servers with kindness and in point: Most people don’trealize that food giants respect. When we’re rushing from class to class, or Chipode and Subway are currendy under attack for just trying to get our fix of coffee for the night, it their perpetuation ofsubstandard wages forFlorida may be inconvenient to focus on what we’re eattomato pickers. ing. But food isn’t just something you put in your Farmworkers in Florida and the Carolinas often stomach; it’s a fundamental aspect of life. What we eat has ramifications for our health, the earth work in near-slavery conditions, with some vegetable and citrus pickers being forced into literal and other people. So for your next meal, challenge slavery. This year saw the seventh farm labor opera- yourself to go beyond what’s convenient. Demand tion to be prosecuted for slavery in the past decade, more from your food. in Florida alone. Some of the indicted employers used schemes in which they sold crack cocaine to James Tager is a Trinity senior. His column runs every to to off other Wednesday. addicts, forcing them work in order pay

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want to take this space to talk about a relatively un-

known political character. His name is John McCain.

You may have heard of him, although I don’t blame you if you haven’t. He’s running for president of the United States ofAmerica.

Politically, he’s slightly between Bob Barr and Barack Obama, though probably a bit closer to Obama. I’m going to make a point to explain some things about him now, because you may not danny lewin hear anything like this immaculate again before you vote (if misconception you haven’t already).

You see, I am voting for Obama, and you probably are too. But I want to let you know about this would-be political figure because I’m appalled to think that people justjumped to one conclusion without weighing all the options. And how can we know all the options, when some campaigns just refuse to waste their time and money on us?

Here’s the breakdown: To Sate, I have seen only two campaign ads for this man: one from my girlfriend’s roommate (a staunch Republican), and one hanging from Kappa Alpha Order’s section (I’m not even gonna touch that one). Sure, McCain runs campaign ads on television from time to time, but they’re generally not geared toward telling you where he stands on the issues. His main opponent has a cadre ofcommitted undergrads who have been campaigning for him around the dock since school started.

They painted the bridge, they brought in Kal Penn, they doraistormed, they knocked on every door on Central Campus and even brought in top North Carolina Democrats to lead the charge to the early voting stations.

I hate to use the word marginalizes... but this imbalanced attack marginalizes us.

Allow me to explain.

Democrats come out in force in order to get out the vote. They’re investing time in simply getting students to register because, well, students are all Democrats (duh).

As much as the Republican candidate (that’s the McCain guy I mentioned earlier. You remember him, don’t you?) has negative attack ads that ignore policy discussions, I’d say that Obama’s ads reference policy even less. Polls disagree with me, but they’re overlooking the countless

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online Obama ads simply asking you to register. He’s not asking you to register and then vote for him because he doesn’t have to. It’s a foregone conclusion. You’re a student, so you’re a Democrat. Case closed.

Republicans don’t waste their time on us, because, again, we’re all Democrats. Rather than trying to woo us with pro-nuclear energy policy or reduced taxes on the highest-paying jobs (you know, the ones that we want), Republicans simply sit and hope to God that we don’t vote.

The only Republican candidate to penetrate the thick smog of liberalism that apparendy engulfs our campus is one William (BJ.) Lawson. His campaign literature, distributed liberally (pun intended) near the entrance to the early voting stations, reads, in part, as follows: “Are you voting for change?Vote forWilliam (BJ.) Lawson. David Price is a career politician and has been in office for 20 years. Voting for Price is not a vote for change.”

In other words, the one Republican with the guts to enter the gauntlet of bleeding heart liberals decided, probably along with a team of well-versed strategists, that the best way to reach us was to show he was like Obama because he has no experience.

That blows. That’s treating us like we’re idiots, and I don’t appreciate it.

But maybe I’m not being cynical enough. I know a student voter who picked judicial candidates based on the degree of their suffixes (so rest easy, Sam J. Ervin, IV). In an Oct. 17 article, The Chronicle asked a number of students what they thought about the FoodTax Referendum and none of the respondents had even heard of it. And when they did hear about it, they summarily denounced it. I can only assume they voted against tax-levying Democrats, right?

I know it’s extremely important that we exercise our right and go out to vote, and I’m inclined to agree except for one caveat. Don’t vote if you’re only listening to your friends, your teachers or the one-sided ads that manage to reach you. Go to elizabethdole.org and find out exactly what it is that makes her less preferable to Kay Hagan. Go to price.house.gov, and figure out if our representative is the same guy who helped send the Rays to the World Seties. Most importantly, go to www.sboe.state.nc.us to check out your sample ballot, and make sure you know enough about every candidate in every race before you vote for Obama,

Danny Lewin is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other

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Please don’t vote

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mean it. Just don’t vote.

I don’t mean “do not vote for Obama” or “do not vote for McCain.” I do not mean “vote for a third party candidate” or “vote in only local elections.” I do not mean it ironically. I am not saying it to sound hip, contrarian or iconoclastic. I do not know how to be any clearer: Do not vote. At all.

For anyone.

A lot of you probably still think I do not mean this. I schneider must be trying reverse psyguard your ears! chology, like those celebrities in that YouTube video who facetiously urge you to neglect your civic duty. I’m probably trying to guilt-trip you into voting. That is not what I am doing.

You are probably skeptical because you’ve been raised to think that you have to vote—that voting is the only way to make your voice heard on important issues like taxes, the war in Iraq, healthcare, education, etc. This is not the case.

Casting a vote says nothing about these issues. All it signifies is that you prefer one candidate to the others.

Democracy is not about the substance of governance; it is about the cult of personality. Votes are not cast for policies, but for people. This is not to say that policy positions aren’t important, but no election can determine which position a majority of voters actually support. If, for example, Sen. Barack Obama gets elected, does his healthcare plan get elected? What about his tax policy? Or his stance on abortion?

Voting assumes that opinions about a variety of complicated and nuanced issues can be successfully translated into a checkmark on a ballot. But the only “issue” really decided by an election is who gets more votes (and, actually, not even that)—democracy really is a popularity contest.

Voting doesn’t “make your voice heard” unless all you want to say is “I like this guy more than that guy.”

“Sure there are limitations to elections,” you are probably thinking, “but it is still the best process on Earth.” But voting reduces every substantive issue down to a false binary of two caricatures. Even without the “liberal media,” “interest groups,” “lobbyists” and all those other evil entities, democracy is a fundamentally flawed system.

We are raised to think that voting and democracy are the tools offreedom— thatyou cannot have liberty without fair elections. This is nothing but propaganda. Hitler was elected. And who knows how long slavery would have lasted if it was left to an election? There is no real correlation between democracy and freedom.

Instead, voting empowers people to do terrible things in the name of “the people’s will.” Does the fact that President George W. Bush was legitimately elected (and he was legitimately elected) excuse any of the incompetence that has defined his presidency? And yet casting a vote—no matter whom it’s for—buys into the very system that got him elected. Democracy means that we all have to endure the catastrophic consequences ofBush’s presidency because on two separate days in the span of eight years, some people liked him more than another guy.

The greatest merit ofAmerican democracy, we are told, is that it gives an equal voice to everyone. Every citizen can cast a vote and affect the outcome. But why on earth is that a good thing? There are people who think that Obama is the anti-Christ. There are people who think the U.S. government invented AIDS. There are people who think Dane Cook is funny. Why should these people have the ability to select the most powerful man in the world?

That sounds elitist, but there is no other way to say it. I do not mean that most people are stupid, or that only smart people should be allowed to vote (as I said, nobody should vote). But the presidency is an important position, and the deciding factor for many voters this year is a candidate’s race. Why is this a system worth supporting?

It’s not. And yet by casting a vote you acknowledge the legitimacy of a president elected by a process so corrupt and pathetic that the outcome this year may hinge on how many people think someone is a Muslim.

And if that doesn’t convince you, remember this: For every vote cast, God kills a kitten.

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