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Come Fall 2009, students may see changes in the University’s Merchants on Points program ranging from more late night delivery options to the addition and elimination of different off-campus vendors.

To date, the number of vendors in the program operating during peak student delivery hours, 12-2 a.m., is minimal, said Jim Wulforst, Director ofDuke Dining Services.

I Love Manhattan Pizza, Domino’s Pizza, Jimmy John’s and Papa John’s Pizza currently deliver during those hours.

“The purpose of the program was to take care of students after our dining options on campus were closed or limited.” Wulforst said. “And that’s where the program started back in 1985. But in the last few years merchants that want to be in the program want to be in it from 6 to.B [p.m.] I don’t need that.”

He noted that he and other administrators are concerned about the program’s effects on

N.C. goes to Obama by slim margin

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No. 8 Duke opened its exhibition season with a 98-29rout of Division-ll Anderson Thursday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Senior guardAbby Waner led theBlue Devil charge with 23 points.

President-elect Barack Obama, who clinched his historic bid for the White House Tuesday night, officially added North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes to his already sizable win, theAssociated Press reported Thursday.

The race was deemed too close to call in North Carolina by election officials as of Wednesday, with more than 13,000 votes separating Obama and Republican opponent Sen. John McCain. The AP called the state in favor of Obama only after conducting a canvass of counties and determining there were not enough remaining provisional ballots to make Barack Obama up the difference.

Although the election was decided long before North Carolina was counted, Obama supporters hailed the surprise win as symbolically significant—an indication of a political shift in a state no Democratic presidential contender has been able to capture since former president Jimmy Carter’s 1976 win over incumbent Gerald Ford.

Durham County Board of Elections Director Mike Ashe told The Chronicle Wednesday that there were an estimated SEE ELECTION ON PAGE

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Plaza food carts undergo transition

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Duke Dining Services may revamp the Merchants on Points food delivery system starting Fall 2009.

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What happened to “Free Cake Friday”?

Though students miss the mid-day morsels, re-establishing the end-of-the week treat will likely take some time.

The introduction of Caribbean Kitchen was meant to signal the return of Victoria’s Sweets and the crowd-favorite dessert samples. But the cart the restaurants shared is now temporarily closed.

“Let’s call it a hiatus,” said Kevin Pariss, owner of the Caribbean Kitchen cart.

The original partnership between Victoria’s Sweets and Caribbean Kitchen recently dissolved, forcing Pariss to shut down the cart while he worked out legal issues. He said he is still committed to serving Duke students and is sorry they are currently missing out on his authentic Caribbean cuisine.

Caribbean Kitchen had planned to let Victoria’s Sweets control the dessert offerings of their cart, but Pariss mentioned that they will begin offering Caribbean-themed ice cream, with papaya and rum raisin flavors, and Caribbean cookies and pastries.

The rest of the items on the menu will remain the same as they were when the cart was previously open, but prices will drop.

“We know price was a major concern for a lot of folks,” said Pariss. “We offer restaurant-quality food, but we’ve tried to address these concerns. Our goal is to do what’s in students’ best interest.”

Pariss added that he hopes to have “a grand reopening of sorts” sometime next week. The cart’s hours will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m By the time Caribbean Kitchen re-opens, the Loco Pops cart will be closed for the winter. Sumner Bicknell, Loco Pops founder, said this past Saturday would be the last day ofLoco Pops on the Plaza until Spring. The cart will re-open as early as mid-February or during March at the latest, she added.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said Joe van Gogh coffee shop has expressed interest in carrying LocoPops’ products during the winter. Bicknell said Loco Pops is in favor of this possibility but has yet to confirm the agreement. Nothing will take the place of the Loco Pops stand, Wulforst added.

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JERUSALEM The Bush administration has conceded that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is no longer possible by the end of its term and is preparing to hand the fragile, unfinished U.S.-backed peace effort to president-elect Barack Obama.

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TEHRAN, Iran Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday congratulated Barack Obama on his election win—the first time an Iranian leader has offered such wishes to a U.S. presidentelect since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

An analyst said Ahmadinejad's message was a gesture from the hard-line president that he is open to some sort of reconciliation with the U.S. Obama has said he is willing to hold direct diplomacy with Iranian leaders as away to break the impasse between the two countries or give the U.S. more credibility to press for tougher sanctions if talks fail. His policy marks a departure from the Bush administration, which has refused high-level engagements with Iran.

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LONDON British police charged a 43year-old man Thursday with plotting an act of terrorism and having two improvised explosive devices, chemicals, timers, and a Nazi-themed handbook.

Neil Christopher Lewington was first arrested last week after police discovered a suspected explosive device when they searched him at a railway station in Lowestoft, a coastal city in eastern England.

He was originally charged with possessing an item to cause criminal damage and was released on bail Saturday.

But he was immediately re-arrested by Scotland Yard.

Scotland Yard said in a statement that Lewington carried two improvised explosive devices to Lowestoft from Reading, a city near London where he lives, on Oct. 30. It said Lewington was being charged with making or having an explosive substance intended to "to endanger life, or cause serious injury to property in the U.K."

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Bush administrationofficials consider these to be greataccomplishments within a system that President-elect Obama calls "broken and overwhelmed" on his transition Web site.

"We are seeing the kinds of results that the country hasn't seen for many years," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said last month.

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CHICAGO President-elect Barack Obama is shift a in tactics and temperament as he signaling moves from candidate to president-elect, picking sharp-elbowed Washington insiders for top posts.

His choice Thursday for White House chief of staff—Rahm Emanuel, a fiery partisan who doesn't mind breaking glass and Bush sets meeting with Obama hurting feelings—is a significant departure from the soft-spoken, WASHINGTON President George W. Bush low-key aides that "No-Drama Obama" has surrounded himself an d president-elect Barack Obama Monday will with during his campaign. And transition chief John Podesta,like hold their first substantive talks about the na- Emanuel, is a former top aide to Bill Clinton and a tough partisan tion's daunting priorities as the transition to a Democratic infighter,though less bombastic than the new chief of staff. administration accelerates.

Bush, soon to return to Texas after two terms in office, ordered employees Thursday to ensure a smooth transfer of power to Obama.The transition is a delicate dance in which the White House keeps the president-elect in the loop, and even solicits his input, but the decisions remain solely the president's.

On Monday's discussion list for the current and future presidents: the financial crisis and the war in Iraq.

"We face economic challenges that will not pause to let a new president settle in," Bush told a gathering of hundreds of employees from the presidential bureaucracy, gathered on the back lawn of the White House.

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Campus Council members discussed the woes faced by orphan residents—students independent from a block but surrounded by one—at the group’s general body meeting Thursday.

The two potentially disgruntled categories of non-blocking residents include those in singles—-mainly juniors and seniors—who found themselves surrounded by blocks and students in independent doubles or triples surrounded by blocks,

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“I’ve had an increase in complaints from juniors and seniors in singles surrounded by blocks,” said Jen Frank, assistant director of accommodations for Residence Life and Housing Services. “All singles are salt-and-peppered around campus. Ifyou’re in a single, you are probably surrounded by people you don’t know.”

Despite receiving frequent inquiries ZACHARY TRACER/THE CHRONICLE regarding why students in singles cannot block, Frank said there “just aren’t Campus Council members discuss the blocking system at its weekly meeting Thursday. RLHS has received complaints about the system from juniors and seniors living in single rooms surroundedby blocks. enough singles near each other.”

She prefaced the meeting by summarizing the history of blocking at Duke, which pendent students surrounded by a block forming some community consisting of was introduced in 2000 and limited to sinneed to be considered. those who choose to block during Room “We want to engender a community that Fix but are unable to as a result of a high gle-sex groups of four, six, seven or eight.

Currently, students can live in groups of [residents of independent rooms] can get lottery number. This year, 25 percent of four to 12 people in either a single-sex or from the housing system,” Thompson said. those who chose to live in a block last co-ed block—an option introduced during “We shouldn’t be putting them in a system Spring were separated but remain in the Room Fix ‘OB. that is making their experience worse.” same quadrangle as other members of “Blocking has really evolved since it Council members said the ultimate their block, and 10 percent were split enfirst began,” said Campus Council Vice goal was to figure out what students want tirely.

President Kevin Thompson, a senior. to achieve and to create a housing model “We’re creating a lot of isolation for Although the blocking system has im- to reach those goals. those singles,” Frank said. proved in recent years, Thompson and Members discussed surveying indepenThe council did not reach any concluthe council said the experiences of inde- dent students to determine their views on sions from its discussion.

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Paper losses during that time in U.S. stocks came to $1.2 trillion, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which represents nearly all stocks traded in America.

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ELECTION from page 1 40,000 provisional ballots, which are used when a voter’s eligibility is in question, but that those ballots that end up being counted generally split similarly for candidates as the unofficial total.

“I was asked by a lot of reporters last year whether North Carolina would vote for a Democratic president in 2008 and my response was candidly, ‘I don’t know in 2008,’” said Jerry Meek, chair of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

“I just think there are fundamental demographic shifts going on in our state that make North Carolina competitive

“Obviously we were hoping to keep North Carolina red, but Barack Obama ran a tough, disciplined campaign and he earned the state."

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N.C. GOP spokesperson and there’s no indication that’s going to let up.”

The victory pushed Obama’s total to 364 electoral votes, well over the 270 required to become president. North Carolina is the ninth state the Illinois Senator carried that President George W. Bush won in 2004. Missouri’s 11 electoral votes are still too close to call, according to the AP, but McCain holds a slim lead in the state.

“The fact that he won North Carolina, although it’s kind of arbitrary at this point, it does increase the validity of his mandate,” said sophomore Mark Thysell, an Obama supporter from Oregon who decided to cast his vote in North Carolina after its transformation into a swing state. “It provides a clear image of how supportive of his policies the nation is.”

Many emphasized Obama’s victories in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia as significant accomplishments for regions that have reliably been a strong base of support for Republicans in previous years.

“There were people—political scientists and strategists —who advised the Democrats not to campaign in the South,” said Ferrel Guillory, director of the Program on

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President-elect Barack Obama supporters cheer as they watch election results Tuesday night at a watch party in Raleigh. The Associated Press officially called the Tar Heel state for Obama Thursday, making 2008 the first year in which N.C. voted Democratic since 1976.

Public Life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an expert on Southern politics. “It’s important that [Obama] rejected that advice, that he had enough money to build a base, and to find a persuadable base black voters and white voters alike.”

Obama’s triumph in North Carolina came after a costly campaign in which he poured considerable resources into the state to turn the tide against McCain.

“Obviously we were hoping to keep North Carolina red, but Barack Obama ran a tough disciplined campaign and he earned die state,” said Brent Woodcox, N.C. GOP spokesperson.

The Obama campaign was particularly aided by an early start after his primary battle with Sen. Hillary Clinton in May and a considerable ground game to both register voters and get them to the polls, he noted. Republicans intend to continue to exercise their political power in the state.

One of the challenges the Republicans will need to address is the dominanceDemocrats exhibited during North —

Carolina’s early voting period. Obama amassed 1.1 million early votes, giving him a 180,000-vote lead heading into Election Day. Although McCain won the most votes Nov. 4, Obama’s early voting edge was large enough to deliver him a victory in the Tar Heel state.

“This is a tremendous opportunity for Republicans.

Obama ran on a lot of promises and things that he wanted to accomplish,” Woodcox said. “There are a lot of promises we’re going to hold him to and this coalition that he’s built is going to be very dissatisfied with the Democratic party if he doesn’t follow through.”

Election observers of all political stripes said that with the results affirmed, Obama must now confront the difficult challenges facing the nation.

“All of the people have invested their hope into this guy,” said junior Christian Richman, a McCain supporter.

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CARTS from page 1 A new portable eatery, however, has set up shop in the Kilgo Quadrangle firelane.

Onlyßurger, a restaurant truck offering burgers, veggie burgers and skinny salt and peppered fries, began selling their products at Duke two weeks ago.

“They have been testing different locations on campus, seeing if they can drum up some business,” said Wulforst. “They’ve had some good days here, and they really love the Duke community, so they’re trying to find a place to fit in.”

Just a short walk down the stairs from the Plaza, Onlyßurger is content with its current location, Wulforst added. But Manager Mena Fanous said most students don’t realize Onlyßurger is on campus, and he thinks that will change.

Onlyßurger is based out of the kitchen of Durham Catering Company, a home-run

business. Its hours are typically 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Fanous added that they will consider opening late at night when business picks up.

“The catering company does a lot of par-

[Onlyßurger has] had some good days here, and they really love the Duke community, so they’re trying to find a place to fit in.” “

—Jim Wulforst, director of dining services EMILY BRAY/THE CHRONICLE ties on Duke’s campus, so we thought we’d give [Onlyßurger] a try,” said Fanous. “We The shared CaribbeanKitchen-Victoria's Sweets cart on the Plaza recently closed shop due to legal issues. CaribbeanKitchen owner Kevin Parris said he expects the cart to reopen sometime next week. figure students will love our burgers.”

DOW from page 3 barometer of the economy’s health, the Labor Department said the number of people continuing to draw unemployment benefits jumped to a 25-year high.

The increase by 122,000 to 3.84 million in late October marked the highest level since late February 1983, when the economy was being buffeted by a protracted recession.

“The economy is in a pretty significant downturn and I think that is broad-based because it is all interconnected,” said Ed Hyland, global investment specialist atj.P. Morgan’s Private Bank. “This is something that we haven’t really seen, this level of this rapid and significant pullback both in the market and the economy.”

Thursday’s rout follows a drop of more than 5 percent in the market Wednesday that saw the Dow plunge nearly 500 points as investors fretted that weak readings on employment and downcast profit forecasts and job cuts from financial companies to steelmakers signaled broad economic troubles.

Still, the market’s two-day slide follows an enormous run-up since last week so some pullback was expected, analysts said. Through the six sessions that ended Tuesday, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index surged 18.3 percent.

Richard Campagna, chief investment officer at Provident Investment Counsel in Pasadena, Calif., contends the market’s pullback isn’t surprising given the size of. the recent run-up, which gave the Dow its best run in 34 years last week. He said the weak economic readings aren’t a surprise because of the freeze in credit markets that has disrupted lending and other economic activity "

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“Everyone has been shellshocked with the moves in the market,” he said.

The Dow fell 443.48, or 4.85 percent, to 8,695.79 after falling as much as 502 in the final five minutes of trading.

The blue chips remain 520 points, or 6.4 percent, above 8,176, their Oct. 27 closing low from the market’s year-long decline.

Broader stock indicators also posted sharp losses. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 47.89, or 5.03 percent, to 904.88, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 72.94, or 4.34 percent, to 1,608.70.

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MERCHANTS from page 1 health and the dining experience for students.

“There’s talk of eliminating the Merchants on Points program,” Wulforst told The Chronicle in September.

“If you order a pizza and have it delivered to your room, there’s no dining experience there. Is it really healthy to eat at 2 o’clock in the morning? But if you didn’t have a Merchants on Points program, would get it delivered?”

He later said, however, that administrators had simply discussed nixing the program and that they are not planning to follow through with those plans. He added that if there is going to be a shift in the program in the future, it will be to require merchants to extend their hours.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said he and Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, in conversations with Wulforst, have been weighing the merits of the program and whether it contributes to an inclusive dining experience on campus as suggested by the Campus Culture Initiative. “[We’re] just wanting to be sure that it isn’t promoting solitary and non-nutritious dining,” Moneta wrote in an email. “1f... most is done in groups and with some sense of community dining, then it’s a useful component of dining at Duke.”

Wulforst noted that numbers from Dining Services indicate that most students do order from the program in groups Many students said ordering Merchants on Points is a convenient option during exams and on busy nights, and several also cited late-night eating as a reason why they value the program. Sophomore Angela Cai said she orders

“There’s talk of eliminating the Merchants on Points program.... If you order a pizza and have it delivered to your room, there’s no dining experience there.”

—Jim Wulforst, director of dining services in two or three times a week because she gets back to her room during the middle of the night and feels like she has already exhausted on-campus options.

“Late at night, the Great Hall is not open, The Loop is not open. Should we starve? Please,” sophomore Ege Kurtulus said. “Sometimes you just don’t like the food in the Great Hall and it’s nice to have options and va-

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In upcoming months, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, which works closely with the Dining Services to oversee the Merchants on Points program, plans to initiate a discussion with merchants about setting specific delivery-hour expectations and parameters. DUSDAC is also beginning to explore adding more diverse and healthy vendors to the program, like TGI Friday’s and Chai’s Noodle Bar & Bistro.

“My goal for next year is to have the program revamped,” said DUSDAC Co-chair Jason Taylor, ajunior. “So, students come in and have a new Merchants on Points, which may mean a few old places are gone and a few new ones come on like TGI Fridays and Chai’s.”

But requiring merchants to extend hours may be difficult for businesses that do not operate solely as corporate take-out restaurants. Bill Whelan, manager of Spartacus Restaurant, said extending hours leads to increased staffing costs that may not be absorbed by student demand.

Merchants who operate late-night have also expressed the challenges of trying to meet and gauge student interest.

“There is some frustration associated with it because sometimes you over-staff and you don’t get anything, and then sometimes you under-stafF and you get a lot of orders,” said Omer Essader, manager of I Love Manhattan Pizza. “But if we can find the patterns, it shouldn’t be a •problem.”

As the program is reevaluated, administrators said they hope to improve it in away that makes it the best fit with students’ other dining options. .

“Overall, our objective is to find a good balance between retail, on the go, delivered, wait service and marche dining options to both meet student consumer preferences [while] encouraging ‘family’ meals, great camaraderie and dialogue through these various dining alternatives,” Moneta said.

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Time is winding down on the Blue Devils’ postseason hopes.

Duke needs two wins in its remaining four games to crack .500 and become bowl eligible, and the Blue Devils face their last opponent with a losing record in N.C. State Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium.

For the Blue Devils (4-4, 1-3 in the ACC), this final stretch in the season is a chance to bounce back from recent adversity and, at the same time, prove once again how different they are from Duke teams of the past.

“You never get accustomed to losing, and it doesn’t ever become any easier,” senior offensive tackle Fred Roland said. “It definitely lit a fire in me at least to go out and play harder every game, every down, even in practice this week.

“It would be one thing for us to take a loss and then lay down and take four more. You honesdy get tired of being the underdog.

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“I was a little upset to hear that” Duke, though, is not taking N.C. State lightly, despite its sul> par record. Head coach David Cutcliffe went so far as to say that the Wolfpack are actually more talented than the Blue Devils’ last two conference opponents, Miami and Wake Forest, both of which are likely bowl-bound.

“Man, they’re good,” Cutcliffe said. “And that’s not coach talk.

You know Tom O’Brien is going to put a good product on the field. I know how good he is.”

O’Brien is in his second year at the helm at N.C. State, but he enjoyedprevious success in his lastjob at Boston College. Cutcliffe mentored the Manning brothers, and O’Brien presided over the Eagles when highly touted quarterback MattRyan guided the offense.

Still, Cutcliffe and the Blue Devils are not focusing strictly O’Brien and N.C. State.

Duke, after all, is more concerned with what is happening on its own sideline.

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On Thursday night, Duke and Anderson both made seven

3-pointers.

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Trojans, the Blue Devils also sunk 30 more two-point field goals, giving them an easy 98-29 blowout win over Division-II Anderson at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Duke’s first exhibition contest of the season.

No. 8 Duke took advantage of

long Anderson scoring droughts,

which were caused by the Blue Devils’ harassing press defense.

Duke started pressing from the opening tip and never seemed to let up until the final whistle, leading to 50 Anderson turnovers, 32 Duke steals and a 57-3 run that spanned halftime and clinched the victory early.

“I really liked the intensity that both halves provided,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I didn’t feel a let-up of pressure or intensity regardless of substitution

patterns, margin in the game or any other factor—that is very important for us right now, that we are prepared to really get after it.”

The Blue Devils fell behind 82 one minute into the game, but then turned up the pressure on defense, resulting in a 42-0 run that ballooned into a 57-3 streak and a 59-11 lead.

After closing the first half by scoring 29 straight points, Duke began the second half by not letting SEE W. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 10

FIELD HOCKEY

Blue Devils bow out in ACC tourney’s Ist round by

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For Duke, the scene was all too familiar, On Saturday, the Blue Devils walked out ofKatz Stadium with the sound of the field’s water cannons replacing fans’ cheers.

And on Thursday, in the first round of the ACC tournament, the fourth-seeded Cavaliers recreated the moment, knocking DUKE off No. 5 Duke 5-2 in what could have been the Blue Devils’ last home game of the season.

The Duke players trudged off the field not to a rousing ovation and Crazy Towel Guy’s waving, but to the unknown of the NCAA tournament that awaits them.

“You can pretty much spread the blame around,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “Give credit to Virginia —they capitalized on all of our mistakes. The difference was that we didn’tfinish when we got in our attacking end.”

The statistics support Bozman’s claim, as Duke (13-7) matched the total shots on goal from the Cavaliers (145). But where the Blue Devil defense fell short, Virginia’s Amy Desjadon took over. Her eight saves proved to be the deciding factor in the lopsided Virginia win.

Along with Desjadon’s stellar performance, Virginia’s de-

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about your opponent and what they are going to do,” Cutcliffe said. ‘You anticipate their best game. What you have to do as a competitor is believe you can be your best.

And if your best is good enough, you win.”

The Blue Devils have played less than their best in their last two losses. Against Miami, Cutcliffe felt like his team gave up in the fourth quarter. Against Wake Forest last weekend, he felt like it did play all four quarters but a few critical errors left Duke feeling “frustrated and truly dejected” when Thaddeus Lewis’ final pass was intercepted in overtime.

“The game is about critical errors often times,” Cutcliffe said. “And we are not a team that can afford to make critical errors. It’s about preparation, but you can’t guarantee that you’re not going to make mistakes. Let’s face it; It happens.”

“It” happened a lot on special teams.

The tone was set when Jabari Marshall fumbled the opening kickoff and things kept spiraling downward until Nick Maggie kicked the potential game-winning field goal right of the uprights at the end of regulation. Cutcliffe, though, hopes that the unit got all of its mistakes out ofits system last week and still has faith in Maggie’s kicking leg.

“Nick makes 10 out of 10 of those at practice now most of the time,” Cutcliffe said. “I thought he just hurried himself.

If you get a little hurried, then you don’t have your rhythm. I know in golf, when I used to play g01f... my swing was all about tempo. And that’s what I told him—it’s just the same thing. Always manage the same tempo. It never changes. Hopefully, he will get that opportunity again.”

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No. 5 Duke lost its second consecutive game to No. 4 Virginia Thursday in theACC tournament at home.

FIELD HOCKEY from page 7 fense kept the Duke offense at bay. As Duke learned last weekend, the key to beating the Cavalier defense is stringing together crisp passes —but the Blue Devils couldn’t leam from their previous mistakes.

“We needed to have a little bit quicker passing inside the circle,” junior Lauren Miller said. “We needed to execute when we were in there, by either drawing a corner or scoring.”

Virginia’s Traci Ragukas set the tempo for the game with her goal in the second minute, giving the Cavaliers the start they had hoped for. The Blue Devils quickly responded, though, with a goal from Ashley Pultorak in the 25th minute. Duke wouldn’t score again until the 59th minute, when the Cavaliers already led 4-1.

The problem? Duke simply couldn’t capitalize on its opportunities.

“We weren’t taking good shots,” Boz-

man said. “The second half, they had one save on all of our shots.”

Duke’s trouble in the offensive end put the burden on its midfielders and defenders. The midfield couldn’t handle the load, as it had difficulty stopping the Cavaliers’ clearances, leading to numerous Virginia breakaways.

“A lot of our stops could have been more solid and then the deflections wouldn’t have gotten down [into our zone],” Miller said. “[Virginia] has very strong forwards. You need to keep them from getting the ball, but once they have the ball, they are very quick and they have very good skills. You have to try to keep them outside the circle.”

That task was easier said than done, and the Duke deficit, for the second straight match against Virginia, was too much to overcome.

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Friday night could very well mark the last time Duke’s six seniors lace up their cleats together at Koskinen Stadium as the Blue Devils take on N.C. State in their regular-season finale at 7 p.m.

But th te Duke players know that they can secure a chance to play at home again as a host in the NCAA tournament with a N.C. State strong showing in the vs.

ACC tournament.

Still, before No. 25 No. 25 Duke (10-5-2, 3-2-2 Duke in the ACC) can look ahead to either postFRIDAY, 7 p.m.

Koskinen Stadium MICHAEL NACLERIO/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO season tournament, it must take care of Mike Grella has started at forward since hisfreshman business against the Woflpack (7-8-1, 2-5) in year. Duke's Friday gamecould be his last homematch. a match that has serious implications in the conference standings.

Mike Grella, a preseason All-American With a win, the Blue Devils can likely who Hhs started at forward since his freshlock up third place in the league, as long man year, has led the Blue-Devils in goals as No. 1 and undefeated Wake Forest topscored in each of the past three campaigns.

MidfielderPavelid Castaneda is a threeples third-place Virginia. Wth a loss and a number of other possibilities playing out, year starter who has consistently been though, Duke could drop as far as sixth among the team’s leader in minutes logged place in the ACC—and the Blue Devils are and is consistently praised for his contribuaware of Friday’s matchup’s significance. tions as a defensive midfielder.

“We know what’s at stake,” head coach In the secondhalf of theyear, theBlue Devil John Kerr said. “They are a team that has seniors have done almost everything within gotten better as the season has gone along, their power to avoid a sluggish end to theirfinal and we’re prepared for them.” season. Duke has gone unbeaten in its last five As if positioning itself for the ACC tournamatches, boasting four wins and a tie—a badly ment wasn’t enough, Duke will also host senior needed streak after the Blue Devils seemed to faII into a midseason rut, losing to North Caronight Friday. The team’s departing seniors expect to see plenty of passion and intensity as lina and FloridaAdantic at home. possibly theirlast game in Koskinen plays out.

“Early on, our goal was to peak at this time “We want to go out with a bang,” seniorDarin the season,” Kerr said. “We knew we were gorins Barnes said. “I never thought that this day ing to face some ups and downs, but I feel like would come so quickly, but we just want to keep we’re picking up pace at just the right time.” these moments going as long as possible.”

And if the Blue Devils can extend that Barnes, a four-year starter and the linchpin up into Friday’s tangle and then through of the defense during that period, is one of the ACC tournament, they might be able several seniors who will be leaving his signato return home and try to extend it further ture on the Duke program at season’s end. in the NCAA tournament.

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Sophomore point guard JasmineThomas collected 10 assists in Duke's 98-29 rout ofAnderson Thursday.

W. BASKETBALLfrompage7 Anderson get the ball past midcourt in the first 40 seconds, leading to a quick 8-0 run.

Shooting guard Abby Waner paced Duke with 23 points and hit four of her first five shots, including two 3-pointers to help Duke break out of its early funk. At halftime, Waner had outscored the entire Anderson team 14-11—still, the senior attributed her highest-scoring output since last December to her teammates.

“When you shoot 17 shots, some of them are bound to go.down,”Waner said. “Look at Jasmine [Thomas’] assists—she’s passing the ball so well right now. That’s something that we’ve really worked on in practice, knowing where each other is and how to move together.... It felt good to knock a few down.”

In the midst 6f Duke’s big run was a near first from center Chante Black. After yet another Duke steal, Waner missed a layup and Black almost followed with a dunk, which would have been the first in the program’s history.

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With a commanding 50-point lead, the Blue Devils continued to pressure Anderson in the back court, but began experimenting with different lineups using their entire roster. McCallie was especially impressed with the play of all three freshmen, who saw significant minutes in the game.

“I thought they gave us a great lift,” McCallie said of Chelsea Hopkins, Kathleen Scheer and Shay Selby. “All three freshmen are ready, willing and able when their number is called to come in and do a little something. That is important.”

Yet even after a 69-point rout, McCallie was quick to point out that Duke still needs to get better before its regular-season opener against Oklahoma State Nov. 14.

“There are a lot of areas of improvement,” she said. “Maintaining defensive intensity, becoming better by position—games are going to become much more physical.”

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Weekend slate could decide Duke's ACC fate by

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One thing’s for sure: Duke is excited.

With the close, competitive and intense competition that has defined ACC volleyball this season, the Blue Devils know any given night can belong to any given team.

The incredibly close standings have created a mentality within the conference that pumps up every team. As it gets later in the season, every match for the top eight teams is increasingly significant.

Duke (18-7, 9-4 in the ACC) plays firstplace Clemson (18-6, 10-3) and secondplace Georgia Tech (17-6, 9-4) Friday and Saturday nights at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium, and the Blue Devils know the importance of both matches—they both have heady implications in ACC standings.

“Both of the teams are extremely competitive, which makes them extremely exciting to play and get ready to play,” senior Sue Carls said. “We just need to take care of all the little things we can control, because when we are consistent, we are a very exciting team to watch.”

After a disappointing loss against the Tigers earlier in the season in which Duke couldn’t stop All-American Danielle Hepburn, the Blue Devils understand the importance of not forgetting about the entirety of Clemson’s strong squad. And although Duke beat Georgia Tech 3-2 on '

Sue Carls and Duke play two critical ACC games this weekend that will likely determine the team's ACC finish.

the road in the teams’ first match, the Blue Devils go into this contest seeing themselves as a more mature team that is able to handle more of the situations that come its way. “[Hepburn] is a very talented, physical player who puts up a nice block,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “But it’s just not her on that team. That team has a lot of talent, and their setter does a good job of distributing the ball. They are a formidable opponent, and we have to be ready to compete.”

“Being a young team this year, we really have matured a lot since the beginning of the season,” Carls said. “I think that’s going to help us a lot this weekend against Clemson, as well as Georgia Tech. I feel like we have improved in our skill level and level of play a lot.”

But for Nagel and the Blue Devils, it’s all about the competition —and with Clemson and Georgia Tech coming to Cameron this weekend, the team couldn’t ask for more challenging opponents.

Although Duke’s players are unique in their own ways, they all share an overwhelming need to compete at a high level—and that factor could help them in this weekend’s matches.

“We are in the hunt, and the team is excited about it,” Nagel said. “We compete and we play because our team enjoys it, and thatJs also why we all came to Duke.”

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the least The College Board, already famous for its SAT and PSAT, has offered no credible support to show that school districts requested the development of ReadiStep. Though claiming that more than 500 teachers and schools have strongly supported the creation of ReadiStep, the College Board has only offered two of those teachers, one of whom is a trustee of the College Board, the other a developer of ReadiStep.

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‘Religion must die for mankind to live.

So

says Bill Maher, swashbuckling across Megiddo, Israel—prophesized site of apoca-

lypse.

Thus concludes a rather sensational five-minute tirade in Larry Charles’ post-“Borat” docucomedy jab at a taboo topic: religion.

But why is religion taboo? I wondered, slinking out of “Religulous” with the creepy guy in the corner, as if we had just seen a

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fastened itself to ah counting sheep otherwise rational modern society, a society where holographic Will.i.ams are possible.

Yet, cable comedians are left to point out a Bronze Age absurdity when the world’s classier intellectuals won’t.

Take politics, for example. Politics isn’t cozying up to religion. Politics is straddling religion in the post-marital bedroom hoping for orgasmic results.

Bush defined foreign policy within the context of good and evil. Both candidates revved up the God-loving rhetoric. Don’t forget about Palin the creationist, Romney the Mormon, Huckabee the ordained evangelical preacher. And then there was Dole’s PSA slamming Hagan’s “Godlessness” as if it were a minority poor tax.

But who cares about that whole separation of church and state farce when religious institutions can mobilize voters and faith can bump a partisan platform?

In Bible country, it is anti-religious conversation that is taboo. In fact, it’s the reason this column is coining out now instead of a month ago when my brain exploded in Trinity Cafe. The aneurism occurred during an overheard monologue that went something like: “OMG, this guy in class called the Bible literature and I was like, no, it’s not just literature, but I, like, didn’t have the words to argue with him even though he was so wrong.”

(My rational sister told me it was too controversial—best if I “chew” on the subject some more.

Well, I chewed.)

Religion is a taboo topic, but a fundamental problem. Religion is a problem because it has infused modern government with casual mystic jargon. For atheists and agnostics, attempting to extricate religion from the 500 thread count fabric of democracy is too colossal an effort to tackle.

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And you can’t mobilize members of a non-creed.

(Technically, there’s Godless Americans, but I hesitate to bravo an organization that defines its nonreligiosity in the context of religion.) If religion remains wedged in our sociopolitical dialogue, if religion has the smallest influence on, say, our military decisions, then religion is potentially dangerous —religion is problematic.

Before the pious can damn me to a fiery fate, I might add thatI’m not an atheist. Call me spiritual if you must, interested in conversations of teleology and pantheism. Steven Hawking and Stephen Colbert can leave room for a God (I can tool). But my “God” stays safely in the interior, along with my Ayn Rand quotes.

And that’s where Maher, in all his iniquitous questioning, makes a sensational and yet terrifyingly rational statement: If theological apocalypse has become a self-fulfilling prophecy made real by nuclear technology, can we trust a body ofbelievers at the governmental helm?

Maher is, of course, somewhat of a drama queen. But you’ve got to hand it to him: He is a plucky David slinging jokes at the Goliath that is religion (forgive the parable). Even if Maher wields a partisan pitchfork with the nuance of a FOX news broadcast, he asks a viable question most lack the energy or nerve to talk about. Why? Because the average Joe skeptic has to watch out for the average Joe Judeo-Christian’s emotional retaliation.

But back to my sister’s comment: Why was I forced to chew? Why can Maher’s interviewees define their argument within a context of faith, of abstraction, while I fear the wrath of ajealous God and even worse, livid readers?

I know we live in difficult times. I understand that men need a sense of hope—a figure to have faith in now more than ever. All I’m saying is that maybe instead of God we can find solace in people. We can give credit to man. You have faith in God. I have faith in smart people. Brian Williams, humbled by the significance of Barack Obama’s once unimaginable presidency, wondered what the children of the next century might witness. I hope it will be a rational dialogue, a formidable peace struck by the morality of people on behalf of people not dependent on the blessings of God. Ultimately, like Maher, I confess that I don’t know what the hell or heaven I’m talking about.

Neither do you. But someone needs to talk about the big Godly elephant in the room.

Janet Wu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every otherFriday.

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me, father, for I have sinned. I have followed in your footsteps.

On a winter weekend in the first grade, my mother flfew across the country for a business trip, leaving my dad to watch me in our Newjersey home, which I thought was haunted because the radiators rattled, Waking up in the middle of the night possessed by an unrelenting urge to empty my 6-yearold bladder all over my lyScl cheil Little Mermaid sheets hi, society I leaped out of my bed scuttled and down the hallway, turning on eve 17 light along the way and leaving the bathroom door wide open. Nothing deters a bogey like an open door.

In my drowsy state, I remember overhearing murmurs and stifled laughter and then squinting up through the blinding bathroom blaze to see a stark naked woman in my parents’ bedroom doorway.

Years later, I wouldn’tbe sure ifI really saw the woman, though she wouldn’t have been the last infidelity, and I certainly wouldn’t have thought that 6-year-old girl, chubby like the Michelin Man with tangled hair and chapped lips, would be in that woman’s place 14 years later. Although, with my pink pony panties down at my ankles, I guess we had more in common than I thought.

Enter the Emu. We met at work this summer. He was a 25-year-old hypochondriac with a photocopier fetish, an admitted Peter Pan complex aftd an obsession with his urination schedule. Nervous about an upcoming drug test and physical, he kept me regularly updated on his daily water, vitamin and false hope intake.

In short, ladies, quite the catch.

Unfortunately, he was also a catch with a catch—a :

girlfriend.

But regardless, the Emu and I bonded over our shared love of words and shared interest in the ridiculous and unnecessary trouble in which I tend to find myself, like my summer run-in with S, my stalker.

I met S only a few weeks after I met the Emu. I was sitting in a Starbucks on my laptop when S, a 50-something-year-old with the teeth and smell of someone 150, tapped me on the shoulder and began to tell me about

his encounter with the fattest man in Britain That isn’t the sort of story you can ignore or interrupt with a phone call to the police, so I allowed him to continue the tale and shower me with his caffeine-imbued spit Eventually S left, only to return later to purchase me a bottle of water, which was sweet, and later again to give me a picture of himself, which was creepy.

I’d made a friend. Yes. And as new friends do, S asked me for my full name, cell phone number and home address, and as I’ve been through kindergarten and learned how to deal with strangers... I gave them to him.

In the coming weeks, S would mail me two collages and leave me coundess voice messages until one day I looked up from my laptop at Starbucks to see him sitting across from and staring straight at me.

“I guess I asked for it, but I didn’t realize he’d actually stalk me,” I’d tell the Emu later to complain and entertain.

But the tables would turn; and somehow the stalkee became the stalker.

Three months of hours-long phone calls, passion on the PATH trains and secret stairway rendezvouses later, I demanded respect as a friend, woman and human being, and when the Emu gave it to me in the form of ending the affair, I failed everything the Spice Girls and their girl power taught me in the third grade, by begging him to take me back.

Here I would sarcastically point out that I’ve never been prouder, but things got even better with my showing up at his flat two hours away by train, attractively half-drunk on rage, repeatedly calling his phone on speed dial, missing the last train home and spending, the night on a bench.

Definition of crazy: me.

It was a wake-up call, or at least the conductor prodding me awake the next morning was.

The story doesn’t end there, but real life rarely fits neatly into a narrative even if, like stories, it teaches us lessons. The lesson here was about moving on, looking forward, forgiving others and forgiving myself. The lesson was realizing even the “others” of any relationship deserve another chance.

And the lesson was keeping my contact information safe and secure and not talking to strangers. You know, the basics.

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letterstotheeditor Baseball has a global perspective In his Nov. 5 column, “This column counts as an NS, John Schneider makes an astute point about the benefit of a core curriculum. However, I wished to address his comment “Duke cannot justpretend ‘Baseball in Global Perspectives’ is more important than the French Revolution.” Having taken this class, I can attest to its historical and cultural relevance. One historian has said that to understand America, one must learn baseball. This course, taught by Prof. John Thompson, is not just comparison of statisticsand awards like some Fantasy Baseball get-together. It is a medium to understanding significant cultural aspects of our country as well as others such as Japan and areas of Latin America. This is by no means some “fluff’ class, but rather one of the most analytic and provocative courses I have taken at Duke. Although its listing on ACES may give the impression of being a class designed for baseball players and others trying to pad theirCPAs, I contend that nobody who has taken the course would consider it as such.

Nate Freiman Trinity ’O9 The last Tailgate Duke Football plays its last home game of the season (with classes in session) tomorrow against N.C.

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State. Let’s be there in full force and give the Wolfpack hell. Seniors: this is your last chance to catch our groundbreaking football team under the new leadership of Coach David Cutcliffe, unless you’re staying here over Thanksgiving break or coming back for a fifth year victory lap.

Tailgate won’t start till 11:30 a.m., but you can drop your stuff off at 11 a.m. We’ll provide food, grills for students, restrooms, trash cans and water. Tailgate policies are the same as they’ve been all year—each overage student is allowed to bring only enough alcohol for himself or herself, no glass bottles, no throwing beer cans and no getting too hammered. Cars should be out of the blue zone by midnight tonight.

Tailgate will end promptly at 3:00 p.m., Just in time for everyone to make it to the game.

Duke football will take on N.C. State at 3:30 p.m. in Wallace Wade. The last thing we want is more red than blue in Wally Wade, so pack the stands and throw some blue into your tailgate costume..

See you at the game—Go Dukel

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Well,

we’ve finally done it. We elected George McGovern.

What does this mean, especially for my fellow conservatives on campus? Defeat, depression and despair?

An early death and a shallow grave? Somehow, I think not.

To quote the late William F. Buckleyjr., it means “something less than the death for the republic or the resurrection of the republic.” Something less than a complete rout, as well; Sen. Barack Obama did not reach deeply into his opponent’s home turf as did Reagan, Nixon, Johnson or even the elder Bush.

His party did not secure a p* • filibuster-proof majority.

OIIVCF SIIGrOIISC There is also no reason to believe that he shifted yOU tell me the ideology of the country to any significant degree.

In fact, he either sidestepped the issue entirely, offering “Hope” with a side of “Change,” or wrapped himself in the language of conservatism, recognizing (thankfully) that “government can’t solve all our problems.” This is still a center-right nation that values freedom, strength and tradition.

It is also, however, a nation weary of war and in economic retreat, and so it booted out the party in power, and decisively so. When Obama assumes the presidency he will do so with large majorities in the Congress. For a few weeks he’ll be allowed to bask in the glow of his victory, and we will no doubtbe subjected to a great deal of grand historic talk from a media that sacrificed its final shreds of credibility to see this day.

And then he’ll get down to the task of governing the country—a task he has sought all his life but prepared for surprisingly little. The cultish enthusiasm will slowly fade as “Hope” and “Change” are translated into bills and budgets.

And then America will realize again why it so rarely votes for the policies of the left: They do not work very well.

So the question becomes what will the nation have to turn to when it feels the need for turning? And that’s where the next generation of conservatism comes in.

There’s no question that we’d rather have our philosophy in power than in exile, but that doesn’t mean that exile cannot be put to good use. Indeed, modern conservatism was born in the liberal wilderness of the 1950 and 19605, and we have a head start today because of the trails blazed by our intellectual fore-bearers.

The left wasted its out-of-favor years on anger. Unwilling to admit imperfection, its'members imagined conspiracies of comical proportions, called everybody in sight stupid and clamored for the impeachment, arrest and summary execution of pretty much the entire executive branch. I think we can do better.

This is time we can devote to considering our principles and re-articulating them for a new generation. We should stew ourselves in the old classics—in Friedman, Buckley, Kirk, de Toqueville and the rest. And as we soak we must always ask, “What do these ideas mean for us today?”

And then we go on the offensive. In our classrooms, in our churches and clubs, on the bus, in the dorm common room, we must always be ready to explain what we believe and why we believe it, not to confront but to convince. We must never shrink from engaging when we hear that America is not a force for good in this world, or that corporations are evil and success is a crime or that morality is always relative and there is no such thing as truth.

After all, if you cannot stand up to the Nietzsche-andRawls-spouting hippie knock-off in your lecture class who fancies himself an intellectual, well, who is it exactly that you think you can stand up to? , The conservative struggle in this country has always been uphill, if not outright Sisyphean. As surely as power corrupts, it draws those who want to tear down the world and remake it in their own images. A quick glance at Europe will remind us what a testament this country is to the success of those who stood athwart history, yelling “stop.” It is now our time to do the same.

Keep your heads up on campus. We lost an election, but there’s another in two years, and you’ll probably live to see it. Most of all, keep in mind the one advantage we have that neither speeches nor platitudes nor rabid fans will ever be able to take away: At the end of the day, we’re the ones in the right.

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