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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the keynote address for the dedication of the School ofLaw’s new Star Commons and newly renovated Goodson Law Library Saturday, concluding a week of programming celebrating the structures that officials said will enhance the school’s national repute. Speaking in the Star Commons, a building with floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Kennedy said the open design of the Commons would allow “light to inform our work,” and the theme for the dedication ceremony was

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President Richard Brodhead announces on the Plaza Friday that Duke's Financial Aid Initative—started in Fall 2005—recently surpassed its goal of $3OO million.

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More than 500 faculty, staff, alumni and current law students filled the 4,000 sq.ft. Star Commons to hear Kennedy, who was joined onstage by President Richard Brodhead, David Levi, dean of the School of Law, Richard Danner, associate dean for library and computer services, Professor of Law Thomas Metzloff, who oversaw construction and Allyson Duncan, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge and Law ’75. “The renovation of our building represents a commitment on the part of our alumni to the future of Duke law school,” Levi said in a statement. “We now have facilities that match the strength of our faculty and students. As spectacular as this building SEE KENNEDY ON PAGE 7

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Good things happen on the West Campus Plaza, which is perhaps why the site.was chosen for Trustees, administrators and students, alike to mingle and celebrate the Financial Aid Initiative reaching its goal. Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, which began Fall 2005, surpassed its goal ofraising $3OO million in permanent endowments for financial aid, President Richard Brodhead announced to about 500 students Friday evening at an event hosted by the Financial Aid Initiative Student Advisory Council. He made an official announcement to the public Saturday. “Basically, |3OO million is forever,” Board of Trustees Chair Robert Steel, Trinity ’73, said in an interview. “I get goose bumps just thinking about it.”

With the Initiative’s goal reached, total aid monies have increased to more than |1 billion, or about a quarter of the University’s full endowment. Despite having accomplished their $3OO million goal, members of the FinancialAid Initiative Development Committee said the campaign—officially ending Dec. 31—is hardly complete. “We will try to raise $ll million more,” said Trustee Emerita Sally Robinson, Woman’s College ’55 and committee cochair. “By far the most we were raising was for undergraduates.” As of Friday, gifts and pledges to the initiative totaled $221.4 million for needbased undergraduate scholarships, which is approximately $ll million less than the $230 million goal for undergraduates. The Chronicle reported Oct. 28 that the Initiative was $l2 million short of that al-

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to the campaign. $19.2 million was raised for athletic scholarships and $60.5 million for graduate and professional student scholarships, according to a University release. These donations push the Initiative total to $301.1 million. Jack Bovender, Trinity ’67, and a member of the Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors, donated $1 million to the initiative just days earlier, bringing it over the $3OO million mark. “I didn’t know that was going to do it,” he said. But when it did, students, alumni and Trustees showed their excitement, cheering for Brodhead in gym clothes and business suits sporting buttons reading “We did it!” and nibbling on more than 400 cookies

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Curator knighted by Spanish gov’t ACES glitch by

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Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks senior curator ofThe Nasher MuseumofArt, was knighted by the Spanish government for the exhibit/'EI Greco toVelazquez."

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Although Duke*s Gothic architecture has long reminded students-of castles, its aura was cemented Friday with the University’s first knighthood. The Spanish government besfowed knighthood upon Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks senior curator of The Nasher Museum of Art, for her work on the exhibit “El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III.” A vibrant assembly of art supporters packed into the Nasher’s lobby Friday to celebrate the success of the exhibit, which began Aug. 21 and ended Sunday, and to witness the recognition of its curator. Although Jorge Dezcallar, Spanish ambassador to the United States, was originally scheduled to bestow knighthood upon Schroth, he was unable to make the ceremony7 due to illness, said Wendy7 Hower Livingston, the , . . XT JNasher s manager or marketing and communications.

As ACES registration windows come to a close this week, administrators are asking that students drop courses for which they had been able to prematurely waidist. In e-mails sent to 378 students Friday, University Registrar Bruce Cunningham reminded undergraduates that Trinity School ofArts and Sciences policy allows a maximum enrollment of 4.5 credits before the drop/add period. In order to give “equal opportunity” for students to take classes, Cunningham requested that

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yK. Russian submarine accident kills 20 MOSCOW The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others to the hospital, officials said Sunday. The Russian Navy said the submarine itself was not damaged in Saturday's accident and returned to its base on Russia's Pacific coast under its own power Sunday. The accident also did not pose any radiation danger, the navy said. Overcrowding may have been a significant factor on Saturday.The submarine being tested had 208 people aboard, including 81 seamen, said Russian navy spokesman Capt.lgor Dygalo.

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China:Tibet talks yield no progress BEIJING —China says no progress was made at recent Tibet talks with representatives ofDalai Lama.

Government official Zhu Weiqun says the talks last week were frank and sincere but that no progress had been. Zhu, a vice minister of the United Front, the department in charge of the talks, on Monday accuses the Dalai Lama of seeking to split Tibet from China. The Dalai Lama has maintainedfor decades that he is trying to seek meaningful autonomy for the Tibetan people under China's rule, not independence, the Himalayan region has been part of its territory for centuries.

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BAGHDAD Bombs killed at least eight people Sunday across Iraq and wounded dozens of others, officials said. Syria's president blamed the U.S. military presence for Iraq's instability and called on U.S. troops to leave. In the northern city of Mosul, a roadside bomb ripped through an Iraqi army patrol soon after sundown, killing three soldiers and wounding four others, police said. To the south, a bomb attached to a bike wrapped in a trash bag exploded outside a cafe in Khalis, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding 13, including the city mayor, police said. The cafe is located in a market area that includes a public health clinic and the precise target was unclear. Khalis is a mostly Shiite town surrounded by Sunni communities and was a hotbed of Sunni-Shiite fighting in 2006 and 2007.

AIG may get revised bailout deal

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Murder shakes small community

ST.JOHNS, Ariz.— People in this small,tight-knit community are reeling from the killing of a wellliked man police say was shot by his own 8-yearold son, and they will likely turn out in droves for his funeral. "I don't think this church is big enough to handle it all,"said the Very'Rev.John Paul Sauter of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church. Vincent Romero, 29, and Timothy Romans, 39, a co-worker who also rented a room from him, were found dead inside Romero's home—one at the entrance and one in an upstairs room. Police charged Romero's son with two counts of premeditated murder.

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MIAMI After destroying hundreds of homes Cuba, Paloma has been downgraded to a tropical depression by the National Hurricane Center. At 4 p.m. ESI, Paloma's center was 15 miles south-south'n

NEW YORK American International Group Inc. west of Camaguey, Cuba. Once as strong as 145 mph, the late Sunday was reportedly near a deal for a revised storm's winds had weakened to 35 mph, Paloma was driftbailout package from the U.S. government that ing toward the north at about 1 mph. The Hurricane Center forecast put Paloma or its remnants near the north coast of would make borrowing terms easier for the troubled insurer. Cuba on Monday. $ bailout would be repackage A proposed 123-billion $ with a new 150-billion to the placed package, according Wall Street Journal. Details of the arrangement could be announced as early as Monday, when AIG is scheduled to report its third-quarter results, the Journal said. The plan reportedly would replace an $B5 billion two-year loan with a $6O billion five-year loan at a lower interest rate. The government also reportedly would inject $4O billion into AIG in exchange for preferred stock. AIG representatives were not immediately available for comment.

The government had earmarked $B5 billion in September for AlG's rescue. Another $37.i8 billion was made available in October.

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East Campus Council, however, wrote in the e-mail that a police report related to incidents in Giles would be filed. Wasiolek said East Campus administrators have been working with the victims of the attacks to ensure that they have recovered from the damaging slurs. “They’ve really worked with the students and dealt with their wishes,” she said. “At the same time, we’ve tried to make the appropriate people aware without broadcasting it.” But apart from the initial intervention by administrators, Wasiolek said effort has not been made to pursue the vandals who drew the swastikas on doors in Giles. “I think we will always be willing to obtain any information, but I wouldn’t call it an active investigation,” she said. Lisa Beth Bergene, assistant dean for residence life on East, could not be reached for comment. Resident assistants in Giles addressed the damaging slurs in a dorm meeting, but little else has been done to

The attorney representing senior Andrew Giuliani in a lawsuit against the University and head golf coach O.D. Vincent called on the court Nov. 6 to dismiss portions of the defendant’s claims. Durham attorney Bob Ekstrand, Law ’9B, first filed suit on Giuliani’s behalf in July for his alleged wrongful termination from the golf team, which was first reported by The Chronicle. The University’s response stated that Giuliani’s dismissal followed protocol and denied allegations that the University shut down other channels for the Giuliani family to file grievances. In addition to their response, defendants requested that the court rule on the matter, as the pleadings were closed. Ekstrand wrote in an e-mail, however, that this filing should conclude the pleadings portion of litigation. Citing Rule 12 to strike elements of the defendants’ Sept. 10 motion, the plaintiff s filing is dual-pronged. He requests that the court exclude matters outside the proceedings, calling documents defense attorneys had submitted as evidence “extraneous.” The motion would also prevent defense attorneys from converting a motion for judgment on the pleadings to a call for a summaryjudgment. The motion states that the defendants’ response violated both Rules 8(b) and 12(f). Rule 8(b) mandates that a party’s response to a pleading should be straightforward and either admit or deny allegations against it. The filing charges that the defendants’ motion was in violation of

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East Campus dorms vandalized by

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Administrators have taken notice of several acts of vandalism that have occurred on East Campus since the start of the academic year. East Campus Council alerted some freshmen to both small and large-scale incidents—ranging from writing racist slurs on doors to defacing benches—in an e-mail sent Oct 27, and urged students to come forward with any information. “Many of our fellow classmates have been subject to racial slurs, verbal assault and other forms of harassment,” the e-mail reads. “It is important to recall and recognize that we are, first and foremost, an academic community founded to foster relationships built on mutual respect.” In one case, swastikas were found written on several doors in Giles Residence Hall in October, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek confirmed. There are no leads on who drew the swastikas, and a police report has not been filed, she said.

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Obama to seek big impact in January by

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WASHINGTON President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. John Podesta, Obama’s transition chief, said Sunday that Obama is reviewing President Bush’s executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own. “There’s a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and 1 think we’ll see live president do that," Podesta said. “I think PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to gel off the course that President-elect Barack Obama addresses the media Friday. Obama's transition team is currently building a the Bush administration has set” Cabinetand reviewing President GeorgeBush's executive orders on energy issues and stem cell research. Podesta also said Obama is working to build a diverse Cabinet. That includes Obama could use his executive powers to Executive orders “have the power oflaw and they can cover just about anything,” reaching out to Republicans and indepenat least signal that Washington is changing. dents—part of the broad coalition that “Obama’s advantage of course is he’ll Tobias said in a telephone interview. Bush used his executive power to limit supported Obama during the race against have the House and the Senate working with him, and that makes it easier,” said federal spending on embryonic stem cell reRepublican John "McCain. Defense Secresearch, a position championed by opponents tary Robert Gates has been mentioned as Carl Tobias, a law professor at the Univera possible holdover. sity of Richmond. “But even then, having ofabortion rights who argue that destroying “He’s not even a Republican,” Senate an immediate impact is very difficult to embryos is akin to killing a fetus. Obama has Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada do because the machinery of government supported the research in an effort to find said. “Why wouldn’t we want to keep him? doesn’t move that quickly.” cures for diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Many He’s never been a registered Republican.” Presidents long have used executive ormoderate Republicans also support the reObama was elected on a promise of ders to impose policy and set priorities. One search, giving it the stamp of bipartisanship. On drilling, the federal Bureau of change, but the nature of the job makes it ofBush’s first acts was to reinstate full abordifficult for presidents to do much that has tion restrictions on U.S. overseas aid. The Land Management is opening about an immediate impact on the lives of average restrictions were first ordered by President 360,000 acres of public land in Utah to oil people. Congress plans to take up a second Reagan and the first President Bush followed and gas drilling. Bush administration ofeconomic aid plan before year’s end—an efsuit. President Clinton lifted them soon after ficials argue that the drilling will not harm fort Obama supports, But it could be months he occupied the Oval Office and it wouldn’t be surprising if Obama did the same. SEE OBAMA ON PAGE 6 or longer before taxpayers see the effect.

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“There is no indication that this is anything other

than an isolated incident.” Rebecca Simons, director forJewish Life at Duke Rebecca Simons, the director for Jewish Life at Duke, wrote in an e-mail that she had been contacted by the Dean of Students Office once they discovered the swastikas bn the doors. She added that the appearance of the offensive symbols has not prompted any changes in policy. “There is no indication thatthis is anything other than an isolated incident,” she said. In another incident, blood was found smeared on.the walls of the maintenance hall of Blackwell Residence Hall in mid-October. Freshman Kia Fathi said the shirtless perpetrator was seen leaving the hallway, where he had marked several large circles and wrote “f—” with his own blood. A razor was found near the scene, he added. Fathi said the mess was cleaned up soon after the vandalism occurred, and that no police report was filed. The Dean of Students Office was not informed about the incident in Blackwell, Wasiolek said.

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DATA may add free route between Duke, Durham by

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The DurhamArea Transit Authority may establish a free bus route to increase access to downtown Durham. The service could include stops at Brightieaf Square, Ninth Street and Duke University MedicalCenter.

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For students and employees looking to get into the city, a new Durham bus route could help them get in the loop. Durham Area Transit Authority is considering a downtown circulator bus route that would possibly stop at Brightleaf Square, Ninth Street and Duke University Medical Center, said Mancuso, transit administrator for DATA. The exact route will be decided upon when the Durham Station Transportation Center—a central station for city buses—opens in downtown early next year. DATA’S main goal in providing the circulator is to increase access to downtown Durham from the Durham Station. A key difference between the proposed circulator and other DATA routes is that the downtown circulator will be free. Mancuso said the route would be useful for Duke employees looking to go to downtown Durham for lunch. “The idea is when you have a circulator of this nature and you’re charging fares,, it really slows the nature [of the service] down,” he said. “We want people to be able to use it during the lunch hour. We want business people to use it for meetings they may have.” Duke Parking and Transportation Ser-

vices is unaware of a possible route through campus, Director Chuck Catotti said. If a loop that runs through Duke’s campus is approved, Mancuso noted that Duke Parking and Transportation Services may not have to provide its own route. Currently, the University provides the C-5 route that runs through West Campus, Central Campus, Ninth Street and Brightleaf Square. Catotti said that ifDATA establishes a route that provides better connections from campus to downtown, Duke may reevaluate the C-5 service. “We might reconsider providing our own route if DATA’S route duplicates ours,” he said. The project is estimated to cost between $300,000 and $750,000 a year, Mancuso said. DATA is engaged in talks with a number of organizations to reduce the cost, although it is unclear if the University is one of them. Many students said they have not used the C-5 route, but may use the proposed DATA route if it is well advertised. Junior Sam Bowler said he is enthusiastic about a possible circulator, saying it would help him get into the city. “It’s a good opportunity to connect Durham with Duke,” he said. “It’s always good to make a neighborhood smaller. The more exposure students have to the outside, the better.”

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some who aren’t.” The success comes during a time of global financial crisis, with more than 40 percent of Duke students already on financial aid. The majority of the Initiative’s funds, however, were brought in before the financial crisis first arose—and no one knows how the current circumstances will play out, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public relations and government affairs, told The Chronicle in October. “To be able to make that announcement in this financial climate.... That’s amazing,” Provost Peter Lange said. When Brodhead departed the stage, he glanced around at the crowd’s excitement and paused to give three short but telling words. “Life is beautiful,” he said.

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or The Illustrious One. Cheers of “bravo” erupted from the Nasher’s crowd. “I love Spain so much. It’s been a huge and enriching part of my life.” Schroth said, before attendees dispersed to enjoy decadent Spanish appetizers and desserts, Spanish music and elaborate Spain-themed decorations

“I love Spain so much. It’s been a huge and enriching part of my life.” Sarah Schroth, senior curator of The Nasher Museum of Art the gala. Schroth said she found out she would be receiving the knighthood in September and that it was a complete surprise. She added that she had been working on the exhibit’s material for 20 years. President Richard Brodhead began the ceremony by at

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praising “El Greco to Velazquez” for fulfilling the highest of purposes of a university. He thanked Schroth for creating a window into Spanish life by depicting a time when it was the center of the globalized world. De Salas, based in Washington D.C., began his presentation by shuffling through papers. He drew laughter from the crowd when he announced that the Spanish Embassy had sent him prepared remarks, but they were boring, so he would speak without them. De Salas said he was happy and honored to be at Duke, adding that he could tell “El Greco to Velazquez” was loved, because the exhibit had been crowded earlier, on a day when people could have been outside enjoying beautiful weather. “It’s a great exhibit,” said de Salas. “We don’t think the art should be only at national museums. Why not at

a university?” Kimerly Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher, said the formal evening celebration was originally supposed to be intimate. The party grew significantly when the Nasher received many enthusiastic responses aboyt the gala, she added. Getting the exhibit together was a long and difficult process, Schroth said. She mentioned that it took four visits to The Church of San Miguel in Valladolid, Spain before the Nasher Museum of Art was allowed to display the church’s statue of Saint Ignatius—the exhibit marked the first time the relic had ever left the church. [The exhibit] has done very well. People stop me and thank me,” said Schroth. “They’re amazed that a university could do this.” “

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those who had already enrolled and waitlisted in 5 credits for Spring 2009 drop down to 4.5 by Sunday. If they had not done so, however, Cunningham said staff would drop students from their waitlisted class. If a student had more than one extra class, they would be dropped front the one in which they were waitlisted in the worst position. The problem was reported and corrected Thursday, in time for Friday registration, Kathy Pfeiffer, assistant vice provost and director of Student Information Services and Systems, wrote in an e-mail. “I was disappointed that any issues with registration for the students had come up, even one that temporarily inflated the waitlist numbers for some classes,” she said. “We have worked very hard over the last year to make this a smooth enrollment on a new system.” In his e-mail to students, Cunningham attributed the problem to a temporary glitch in ACES, another issue with the system that was installed this year. Bookbagging and registration had been delayed by a day each due to errors.

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calls against Duke down the stretch. The Yellow jackets stuck to their defensive game plan in the fourth game, winning 25-19. The Blue Devils looked out of rhythm and tentative offensively, passing to the same player on consecutive plays, which allowed GeorgiaTech to effectively block several kill attempts and tie the match at two games. “Our passing started to break down in game four,” Nagel said. “We were too predictable and couldn’t run the things we ranted to run and weren’t passing well enough to do anything else.” The Blue Devils’ solid two-set lead had dwindled and they were forced to play a final set for the win. “I didn’t even look at the score and just focused on the court,” Moss said of the fifthset pressure. “There was no negativity on the court, and we keyed on specific players from Georgia Tech to stop. Our energy and consistency paid oft' in the end.” Duke came out prepared in the fifth set and caught Georgia Tech completely off-guard with a trick play from freshman setterKellie Catanach. After receiving a pass, Catanach tapped the ball over the net instead of setting it for an outside hitter, forcing theYellow Jackets to comically dive in futility. The Blue Devils fed offCatanach’s play and dominated Georgia Tech 15-9, with a gaudy hitting percentage of .368 and 10 kills. Moss led the attack for Duke with four of her 21 kills and three ofher 15 digs coming in the fifth set. “The difference between my double-doubles this weekend is that the whole team has really been coming together,” Moss said. “Before, I think that a lot of time, certain players would be off and others would be on, and we

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With two weeks left in the regular season, Duke needed a strong showing in Cameron Indoor Stadium to stay atop the ACC standings. And much like the rest of the season, the friendly confines of home were key to the Blue Devils’ victorious showings. Duke narrowly defeated Georgia Tech in five sets to maintain a three-way lie for first place in the ACC. The Blue Devils (20-7, 11-4 in the ACC) moved into the top spot Friday when they beat Clemson in four sets. After losing its first home match against Miami earlier in the year, Duke has remained unbeaten at home. “Wc were' absolutely not :going to lose in 'CwKwpr slid jiniinr outside hitter Rachael Moss, who led ike team with her second double-double of line weekend, posting 21 kills will only three rraors and 15 digs, Duke began the evening strong by winning'the first two sets, 25-17 and 25-21. Playing flawlessly in the opening periods, the Blue Devils appeared to be 100 lough for ihe Yellow Jackets to handle, and the match seemed fated for an early end. “I thought they came out really well tonight and executed,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “The girls were crisp and communicating, and it was really fun to watch.” After the break between the second and third set, however, Georgia Tech (18-7, 10-5) came out hungry to prove itself as one of the best teams in the ACC. The Yellow Jackets, who now sit in fourth place, were able to take the third set, beating the Blue Devils 25-23 by making several effective changes on defense and with the help of several questionable

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A glance at the preseason polls may not reveal it, but something is different about Duke this year. In 2006-2007 and 2007-2008, the Blue Devils entered the season as the 12th-and 13thranked team in the country, respectively.

But both of those years ended in losses in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Virginia Commonwealth upset the youngest Duke team since World War II in the first round in 2007. Lone senior DeMarcus Nelson carried last season’s squad for much of the year, but he—and, consequendy, his team —faltered in the postseason, bowing out to West Virginia in the second round. And so as the 2008-2009 season tips off against Presbyterian at 7 p.m. Monday in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the No. 8 Blue Devils are aware that preseason rankings and regular season success mean little if they are followed by March struggles. But they also know that this squad isn’t a reincarnation of any team of the past —and their opponents know it, too. “What they have this year maybe more so than they’ve had the last few years is they’ve got some upperclass kids that have been around for a while,” Lenoir-Rhyne head coach John Lentz said after his team’s 95-42 preseason loss Wednesday. “I don’t care how talented you are, you can’t overestimate that experience. If you don’t have it, the kids are talented, but they haven’t been there before, and you don’t know what

they’re going to do in certain situations. “[Kyle] those [Greg] guys, you know what you’re going to get from them, and that’s important.” Whereas the 2006-2007 team relied on three first-time captains—two of them sophomores—this squad has three leaders with a combined 10 years of experience. While the 2007-2008 team had just one senior, Duke now has four players who have been a part of the program since 2005. And in contrast to the little postseason experience of both of those Blue Devil teams, this year’s squad knows firsthand how difficult it can be to advance in the NCAA Tournament—and how much that can affect the perception of a season. “Absolutely we should [play with a chip on our shoulder],” junior Gerald Henderson said. “We feel like last year \ye didn’t accomplish some of the things that we thought we should have accomplished. We kind of underachieved, and this year, that’s definitely going to be in the back of our minds.” Duke will be judged largely on whether it can return to the Final Four for the first time since 2004, but the team knows that thejourney starts tonight, and it cannot take anyone lightly—not even the Blue Hose, who went 5-25, and 0-23 on the road, last year. “For most of us, it’s going to be our third season opener,” Henderson said. “We’vebeen here before, and we know how exciting it is to get the season started..,. When the season starts for real, you know it’s no going back or erasing anything. Every game counts.”

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It always seemed Just slightly out of reach for the Blue Devils Saturday. It could have been N.C. Suite quarterback Russell Wilson, who had enough speed to elude whatever pass rush Duke sent his way. It could have been the ball in the air, which on nearly every play wound up in a Wolfpack player’s hands despite blanket coverage from a Blue Devil defender. But mostly, it was the amount of talent and size Duke needed to compete with N.C. State. The discrepancy was on display all evening and especially in the first half when the Wolfpack rolled up a 24-10 lead en route to a comfortable 27-17 victory at Wallace Wade Stadium. “Big, strong guys—I’m going to start fertilizing and watering some of our guys,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “All I can say is daggumit.... N.C. State played really well. They took their

open date and got better and executed really well." The difference between the two teams first showed itself late in the first quarter, with the game tied at three after Duke’s Nick Maggio made a 29-yard field goal. On the kickoff, Wolfpack return man TJ. Graham fielded the ball at his own 6-yard line and advanced to the 11-yard line before handing the ball off to J.C. Romero. Cutcliffe mentioned that his team was prepared for special teams trickery and had seen it on film, but Romero simply had too much speed and beat ever)' Duke defender down the right sideline for a touchdown—it was a sign of things to come. After die Blue Devils (4-5, 1-4 in the ACC) failed to convert a fourth-and-1 at the N.C. State 10-yard line, the Wolfpack again utilized their extra size and talent in arguably the play of the game bodi in terms of sheer execution and impact on the course of the contest.

Facing a third-and-7 at Duke’s 30-yard line, Wilson took the shotgun snap and scanned the field. Immediately, however, the Blue Devil line broke through and forced the redshirt freshman to rapidly backpedal. At the last possible moment, Wilson threw the ball up for grabs over the middle of the field—an easy interception if there ever was one. N.C. State tight end Anthony Hill and Duke safety Adrian Aye-Darko were both in the area with a chance to grab the ball. But two things came into play at the moment the ball fell into their vicinity: Hill had a fourinch advantage over Aye-Darko, and Aye-Darko never even turned his head to look for the ball. Hill came down with an incredible catch over the senior, setting up the Wolfpack (3-6, 14) with first-and-goal at the 5-yard line. “Itfelt like [David] Tyree’s catch in the Super Bowl, Hill said. “I ended up going up just a tad bit higher and catching it.”

“I’ve always used the term ‘pi of the ball,’ you can’t play the cliffe said. “It’s hard for our gu; habits. They laid the ball up m Those could’ve easily been turnc Instead, the Wilson-Hill con again for a five-yard touchdowi State ahead 17-3 and in complex game. At that point, the Blue Devils throw. Although quarterback T finished with 317 yards, two tone interceptions, it was the touchdc materialized that cost Duke dear Running back Jay Rollings at the line of scrimmage on th fourth down 10 yards from the in the game, facing fourth-andyard line, Lewis underthrew a SEE

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category that mattered. N.C. State was 3-for-3 inside the red zone. Duke was 2-for-5. “I made some decisions not to kick field goals and kind of had told our team going in that we were going to be very aggressive,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “I thought we might have to be. I felt like we needed touchdowns to win and not field goals. “Red zone offense, you know, you don’t let it get to fourth down. That’s the key. Just finish drives. If we finish in the red zone and take care of business, then we are right i th;tat game ana .e, . d ma; 'ybe^win-thar^arn'' Part of'EEe'reason the Blue Devils came away with zero points on three trips, though, can be chalked up to aggressive play calling. Duke did not register an interception or fumble, but it did turn the ball over on downs each time it failed to score in the red zone—it was the unfortunate result of Cutcliffe’s go-for-broke playcalling strategy. Cutcliffe made four high-risk, high-reward gambles, and the Blue Devils went home empty. Duke ended the day 0-for-4 on fourth-down attempts, but two played a greater part in the loss than the others. The Blue Devils’ first fourth-down venture came on their opening drive of the second quarter. N.C. State kickoff return men TJ. Graham and Andre Brown had just run a reverse and scored on a 93-yard return to take a 10-3 lead, and Duke was

touchdowns to help North Carolina beat the Yellow Jackets 28-7 Saturday, ensuring its first winning season in seven years. Cameron Sexton added two touchdown passes for the Tar Heels, while Hakeem Nicks had a touchdown catch and set the school record for career receiving yardage in the final period (see page 8).

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Brandon Pendergrass rushed for 110 yards and a touchdown, Kevin Patterson returned an interception for another score and Wake Forest surged to the top of the jumbled ACC standings with a 28-17 win over Virginia Saturday. Behind a dominant defense that forced four turnovers and stymied the league's most accurate passer, the Demon Deacons ended years of futility against the Cavaliers, moved atop the Atlantic Division and became bowl eligible for the third straight year (AP).

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“We had a guardpull in on the backside, and I thought Jay had a chance to slip in that guards pocket... Jay just never saw that He went up and stopped. And once he stopped, they had momentum coming and he had no chance.” The Wolfpack took full advantage of the change in momentum and drove 89 yards for a touchdown on the ensuing drive, making the score 17-3. “Our backs were to the cliff [on the goal line], and they were trying to push us off the edge,” N.C. State linebacker Nate Young said. ‘You just try to sit back and

hold your ground. We’re on all fours. All we know is to go straight ahead.” That play alone did not break Duke. The Blue Devils came out of the tunnel for the second half down by two touchdowns and marched the ball all the way to the Wolfpack’s 1-yard line. Once again, the offensive line could not get the push it needed, and after Clifford Harris ran for no gain on second and third down, Cutcliffe called for another fourth-down try. SEE ANALYSIS ON SW PAGE 7

BOSTON —NotreDame still has the tradition, the reputation and the trophy case full of national championships that make it college football's most decorated Catholic school. For the past decade, though, Boston College has dominatedthe Fighting Irish. Paul Anderson intercepted JimmyClausen twice, running one back 76 yards for a touchdown Saturday night to lead BC to a 17-0 victory over Notre Dame—the Eagles' sixth straight win over their more illustrious rival and the first shutout ever in the series between the nation's only Catholic schools playing major college football (AP).

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Senior captain Darrius Barnes and the Blue Devils lost their regular-season finale Friday night, dropping them to the No. 5 seed in the ACC tournament.

Senior night did not go the way Duke planned. The No. 25 Blue Devils fell to N.C. State 2-1 in their last regular-season match Friday at Koskinen Stadium. *With the loss, Duke drops to No. 5 in the ACC tournament, which starts Wednesday in Cary. ~ And the reason Duke’s six seniors did not leave Koskinen v with a win was, once again, at-i lii l l tributed to a lack of intensity. IWrM PUKE “Everybody just came out flat,” sepior Darrius Barnes said. “We were unenthusiastic, we weren’t playing like we played the last few games in our five-game unbeaten streak. We just showed up.” After a strong first few minutes of the game, Duke (10-6-2, 3-3-2 in the ACC) lost control to N.C. State (88-1, 3-5) for the rest of the half. With 10 minutes left in the opening period, the Wolfpack’s Ronnie Bouemboue put the ball into the left side of the net beyond Duke goalkeeper Brendan Fitzgerald’s reach. The goal came after the Blue Devils repeatedly failed to clear the ball past midfield, allowing N.C. State to launch multiple attacks on Duke’s defense. The Blue Devils’ uninspired play continued through-

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second. Within 45 seconds of the whistle, Bouemboue had scored his second goal of the night. Wolfpack midfielder Alan Sanchez snuck a through ball to Bouemboue, who was streaking up the right side of the field. While Duke fans screamed for an offsides call that never came, Bouemboue outran his pursuers and shot the ball into the bottom left corner of the net. Less than a minute after they had emerged from halftime, the Blue Devils knew they were in trouble. “People started realizing that we were a better team than them, and that we couldn’t just show up, we had to put the effort in on the field,” Barnes said. “People started realizing a sense of urgency.” Fifteen minutes later, Duke began to turn the game around. The teams traded control of the ball, and after Duke’s Nick Sih was taken down just inside the goal box, Senior Mike Grellafound himselfbehind a penalty kick. Grella approached the kick, stutterstepped, faked the goalie to the left and blasted the ball into a wide-open lower-right comer. “The goal definitely gave us a big lift,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “We got a lot of energy and enthusiasm after we scored, and we created two or three other good opportunities to score.” Grella’s goal spurred a Duke offensive attack that produced nine shots on goal in the second half,’more than double the four taken in the first half. Still, the BlueDevils could not convert any of their newfound opportunities. “We were just unlucky there,” Barnes said. “We had a missed ball right on the six [yard box] right there... but it happens. You win some, you lose some.” “[The first two goals] gave us a lot to do in the second half,” Kerr said. “We fought valiantly 40 come back, but it was too big of a hole to overcome. Unfortunately, we just didn’tfinish on the right side of the score line tonight.” Kerr was disappointed that his six seniors—Barnes, Grella, Fitzgerald, Pavelid Castaneda, Graham Dugoni and Brad Ramsey—couldn’t go off on a winning note. But a loss doesn’t change the value of the seniors’ recognition. “I wouldn’t change anything,” Barnes said. “I love this place, I love my teammates and I’ve enjoyed every single time I’ve stepped foot on this field with my teammates. I just want this season to go on as long as possible.” Although Friday may have been the seniors’ last game at Koskinen, their season will continue in the ACC tournament and, most likely, the NCAA tournament. Duke enters the ACC tournament Wednesday with a quarterfinal match against fourth-seeded Virginia, and Barnes said Duke will “be coming in hungry” after Friday’s loss.

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ANALYSIS from SW page 5 The result was gutwrenching for Duke. One of the Blue Devils’ guards turned the wrong way and let a defender through the line. Lewis was hit just as he released the ball, and because the hit drove his throwing motion downward, he underthrew a wide-open Brett Huffman in the end zone. Huffman crumpled to the ground and placed his arms over his head in a sign ofclear frustration and devastation over the missed opportunity.

“It was a play-action pass and I saw him wide open,” Lewis said. “I thought I had, a free ball, and I was getting ready to throw the ball, and I got hit from my blind side. I thought I put enough on it to get it there, but unfortunately, my momentum carried me down and carried the ball down. Whoever that guy was made a great play.” Which is exacdy what the Blue Devils couldn’t do in the red zone Saturday and, as a result, lost the game and perhaps their best shot at winning another game this year. —

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North Carolina’s defense hung in against Georgia Tech’s triple-option attack long enough for the offense to finally get moving. It was enough to give the No. 19 Tar Heels a critical win in their muddled Atlantic Coast Conference division race. Ryan Houston ran for a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns to help North Carolina beat the 22nd-ranked Yellowjackets 28-7 on Saturday, ensuring their first winning season in seven years. Cameron Sexton added two touchdown passes for the Tar Heels (7-2, 3-2 in the ACC), while Hakeem Nicks had a touchdown catch and set the school record for career receiving yardage in the final period. North Carolina also used a strong 1-2 rushing attack with Houston and Shaun Draughn, and converted a pair of fumbles into touchdowns to break the game open late. North Carolina matched its victory total of the previous two seasons combined. “One of the things that you’re always concerned about is how you handle success when you’ve never had it,” second-year coach Butch Davis said. “A very important part of the growth process is we really need to enjoy the moment. But when they come in to watch that film, it’s as if this game never happened.” The Tar Heels were already enjoying their most successful season in a decade and their first bowl eligibility in four years. Yet they were more focused on what awaited them coming out oflast week’s break, primarily the chance to stay alive in a division race that entered the day with five two-loss teams. But the break served an even more vital role: providing the defense extra time to prepare for the offense that Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson brought from Navy. It was clear the Tar Heels were prepared; Georgia Tech couldn’t sustain a scoring drive nor push deeper than the Tar Heels’ 23-yard until Jonathan Dwyer’s 85-yard touchdown run—the longest rush allowed by North Carolina—with 6 minutes left. By then, however, the Tar Heels already had a 21-0 lead. “Seeing it for two weeks definitely played a part,” said linebacker Mark Paschal, who recovered the second of the two game-turning fumbles. “Everybody knew their assignment and carried it out and we were able to put ourselves in position to slow them down a little bit.”

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campus eating options, and was never intended to grow this much, because in general it’s bad for campus culture if students are ordering out and eating in their dorms. As Moneta put it, [WeTe] just wanting to be sure that [the program] isn’t promoting solitary and non-nutritious dining.” But while there is the paradigmatic case of the student who orders Grace’s to his dorm room on a Tuesday evening and consumes his unhealthy meal in silence in front of a computer screen, most students don’t use delivery this way. It’s most often ordered in groups, late at night and as a last option. So concerns about its negative impact on campus culture are probably overstated.

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Fridays ago, on the only holiday that centers around children taking candy from strangers (truly a great phenomenon) I was fortunate enough to meet one of the most delightful people on Duke’s campus. His name is Sam Hammond, and he has been making h:is presence subtly known since 1965 In fact, I’ll bet that you’ve probably heard him nearly every day while you’ve been here. How? you ask. The answer, my friends, lies within megan neureither the bells. nine and Hammond is quarters three none other than Duke’s official carillonneur. Those bells you hear every day at five are not automated like those you might hear at Chapel Hill or N.C. State (anotfier thing to add to your list of things we do better). And when I said that the answer lies within the bells, I meant literally. That is, every weekday at 5 p.m. and every Sunday before and after the 11 a.m. chapel service, Hammond plays in a small room essentially inside the carillon, directly beneath the fifty stationary' bells that comprise it. Hammond is only the second person to ever hold the position of being the official carillonneur. When I asked how he got into this position, he said he learned how to play in 1965 as an undergraduate from graduate students. He’s been here ever since—talk about a commitment to Duke. He graduated and stayed, working first in a research lab and eventually becoming a librarian; he’s currently a librarian for the Special Collections in Perkins. I thought that Hammond played in a room off the ground floor of the Chapel. But contrary to my expectations, he led me into a small, circular elevator with a brass-type cage, which we took past numerous stories of stone, and exited out the other side onto a catwalk running the width of the hollow bell-tower to look down at the carillon. The instrument itself is enormous: the fifty bells range from more than six feet (12 people would ±

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of the bells fit inside easily) to about six inches in diameter. I was surprised to find that the bells in the carillon are actually stationary—when it’s played, the only part that moves is the arm of the metal clapper attached mechanically via a lever to the key, a wooden peg about a square inch around. This kind of dashed all my hopes and dreams of becoming a chapel bell ringer... I thought it might be kind of fumto swing up and down on the ropes like the ringers in the Hunchback of Notre Dame. The entire instrument, however, is purely mechanical. To play it, thereare two rows of wooden pegs on the instrument (the upper row is sharps and flats, and the bottom row is whole notes) with a row offoot pedals that connect to the lower row. For you pianists out there, there are fewer notes than on a piano, but playing the notes is a great deal more physically demanding—you have to actually hit the keys with your fist to make them sound, and some of the clappers for the larger bells weigh well over 100 pounds. Some carillonneurs even wear pads on their hands like it’s a sport which is a fair analogy. Hammond, who says he likes to have greater control over how hard he hits the keys, does not wear them. Because it was Halloween, Hammond picked festively spooky tunes —ifyou listen, he themes his music based on the holiday or time of year. This is great for those of you holed up in Bostock who have trouble remembering what time of the year it is. He’s also open to suggestions, though he chudded when I asked him whether he played a lot of modern day hits, saying that he’ll always take requests but he can’t always promise he’ll play them if he can’t adapt it well or play it with feeling. That being said, he adapted one ofmy favorite tunes quite easily—when I mentioned that I had thoroughly enjoyed his Harry Potter piece on the previous Halloween, he whipped it out and added it to the day’s selection. So when you hear the bells today at 5 p.m., you’ll now know it’s not a machine or random people swinging on ropes in our bell tower—it’s Sam Hammond, University Carillonneur, sitting in that little room high above us.

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letterstotheeditor Policy for Presbyterian game The men’s basketball team plays Presbyterian tonight at 7 p.m. in Cameron Indoor. The policy for tonight’s game is a modified walk-up line policy. The walk-up line forms next to Wilson Gymnasium. People can create groups ofup to six people with half of the group required to be there at all times. To register the group, line monitors will be present in Krzyzewskiville. As Georgia-Southern plays Houston at 4 p.m. doors to Cameron will open at 3:45 p.m. and will remain open until the student section is full. Go Duke!

Joel BurriU Head line monitor Duke ’O9 RememberVeteran’s Day A year ago on Veteran’s Day, and again six months ago on Memorial Day, we joined in pointing out the University’s disrespect of our classmates who served in the Armed Forces, and most particularly those who died for our nation. We called attention to delinquency at the alumni memorial, where for more than 50 years—through wars in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan —the University has failed to add the name of anyone who made the supreme sacrifice. We also pointed out that two additions to the Divinity School were built as close to Duke Chapel as the architect dared, encroaching upon the memorial, leaving it in an air shaft We cited lack of patriotic observance

on holidays. It is rather incongruous that on Sept. 11, the Alumni Department laid a wreath at the memorial that marks the deaths of six Dukies who happened to be in the World Trade Center, but for Veteran’s Day, as always, the University calendar is devoid of any honor for our classmates—as well as faculty and staff—who deliberately went into harm’s way. President Richard Brodhead, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, Vice President Michael Schoenfeld and Alumni Executive Director Sterly Wilder were given personal notice of this neglect, yet not one of them has had any substantive response to us in a full year. As surely as our classmates in uniform answered the call of duty with bravery, courage and valor, Duke’s administrators uniformly bring dishonor to themselves by their dereliction.

Ed Rickards Trinity ’63 Law ’66 Kristin Butler Trinity ’OB

Prop 8 and Obama On Tuesday, Californians voted for Proposition 8 to remove a long-existing but only recently acknowledged civil right from a minority of its citizens: the right to marry whomever you choose regardless of gender. The California SupremeCourt made itclear in their May 2008 ruling that the equal protection clause of the California constitution

guarantees this right But which Californiansvoted to take away this right* A quick scan of the exit polls on cnn.com reveals that while white and young voters tended to oppose Prop 8 (51 percent and 61 percent, respectively), African-American voters were overwhelmingly in favor of it (70 percent). There is more than irony to this. African-Americans have experienced heavy discrimination throughout American history, so why should they choose to discriminate another minority group? One possibility is that African Americans tend to be socially and religiously conservative, but so do Asian Americans, and they tended to oppose Prop 8 (51 percent). Or maybe it’s like when Irish immigrants in Boston discriminated against newly arrived southern blacks in order to offset the discrimination they had faced upon their own arrival. No, I think the blame lies squarely with President-elect Barack Obama. African-Americans voted overwhelmingly for Obama (94 percent), and he made it clear during his campaign that he opposed marriage equality. Despite his progressive message of political inclusion, Obama failed to rebuke this overt hypocrisy. “Change”? “Hope”? “Yes we can”? Nonsense. Had Sen. Hillary Clinton been the nominee, fewer African-American voters may have turned out and Prop 8 may have been defeated. We’ll never know, but I would gladly trade Obama for marriage equality. Don’t get me wrong. I still voted for him because he shares many of my values and views, but it feels like a hollow vic-

tory. Let’s hope he can and will correct this in his new position as president.

Rick Dilling Graduate student The Mac is back The best speech Sen. John McCain has delivered in the past six months was his concession speech. I say this not as an Obama supporter but as a fan of the old McCain. His concession speech was delivered from the heart to the American populace that’s been bruised and jaded by aggressive campaigns. During the past six months I watched a man whom I considered one of my favorite Republicans devolve into an angry ultra conservative. The inspiration in his speeches was gradually replaced with sarcasm and false accusations. His selection of the epitome of narrow-minded conservatism, Gov. Sarah Palin, as his running mate was the culmination of his shift in ideals. This new McCain was not present last Tuesday night however. When he reaffirmed his “love for this country and for all its citizens,” I began to feel hope. Not the kind of hope Sen. Barack Obama has been advertising, but a hope'that this is the end of the McCain who isolated himself from centrists and intellectuals, and a return of a great politician whom I can once again call one of my favorite Republicans.

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rise for the Honorable Chairman. Can you keep it down, please? I’m trying to sleep off the aftereffects of Tailgate. Euuuuhhhh... well, 1 m awake now. now that I’m awake, I might as well share my precious thoughts with my precious readers. After all, I guess some important stuff happened last week... chairman ofthebored i guess. So, Wednesday monday, monday morning, I turned on my computer and was immediately assaulted with the news of the day. Sen. Barack Obama was elected president of the United States (pause for loud, raucous college student applause). That’s all well and good, but excuse me ifI don’t exacdy “trip the light fantastic” over Obama’s triumph. On Chronicle salary alone, the Chairman makes more than $200,000, which means a significant tax raise when the newly minted president-elect moves into the White House. I might as well move to the Soviet Union (I mean, when Putin re-unifies). Yeah, yeah, a presidential election, big deal. Don’t those things happen every four years? Booorrriiinnnggg... Instead, I’d like to take a second to mention the possibility of something that happens once every 15 years, if we’re lucky: Duke football making a bowl game. Now some of you might recall my seminal column when the team started out at a surprising 3-1. It seems like only yesterday but, in fact, it was sik weeks ago. What a long, strange trip it’s been.... Anyway, in the meantime, Duke _

has had some heartbreaking losses in some hardfought games, including this weekend, but the team now finds itself a mere two wins away from bowl eligibility. Yeah, you heard right: bowl eligibility. (That’s a funny word, eligibility. Ha! Think about it slowly. El-ig-i-bi-li-ty. That’s a lot ofi\s.... What’s the deal with that? Seems pretty narcissistic.) Anyway, this column represents the perfect time to discuss a subject forever intertwined with Duke football’s success: Tailgate. Ahhhh... Tailgate. Love of my life. I’ve been skirting around extolling its many vices and virtues (many of which overlap) for some time now, but the time has come. Why, you ask? You Duke kids ask a lot of questions... now I know why nobody likes you. Well, the answer is because, for all intents and purposes, this past weekend included the final Tailgate of the season. Just., just give me a second... please... Sorry: I just needed to compose myself. It just hurts my very essence that this past weekend represented the last Tailgate for an entire year. One whole year. That’s almost one-third as long as Barack Obama’s been in the Senate. In trying to describe Tailgate (yes, it is capitalized—it’s a proper noun) to a non-Duke audience, I find myself at a loss. No words or memories exist that can do justice to the major, semi-weekly block party that graces the Blue Zone every fall. Thank God for digital cameras, or the subject would be a complete wash. Where else can one find Sylvester the Cat, Power Rangers and guys in dresses screaming “Since U Been Gone” while swimming in a sea ofBusch Light? Where (and when) else is it not only acceptable, but encouraged to strip down to one’s skivvies and leap headlong into a kiddie pool full of ice and cans? And name me an image as memorable as The Chronicle’s stock photo of Tailgate: a melange*of men in uniform and women in bridal gowns jumping up

and down on the bed of a pickup truck. That painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware River, you say? Psssssshhh, please. That doesn’t compare in the least. Although Tailgate has taken many forms during its existence at Duke, and this year’s seniors contend that their freshman year was the height of its glory, it remains a cultural staple of this institution that is unrivaled by any other school’s pre-football festivities. How many ofyou have had non-Duke friends come for a nice, leisurely visit only to have their heads explode due to the sheer awesomeness of Tailgate? Only 15 of you? Huh, I could’ve sworn it would be more. Well, for you 15, I’m sorry for your loss. The bottom line in all this is that Tailgate is da bomb. Every year it represents a tremendous opportunity for everyone to get together in one place regardless of social circles, outside commitments and relative sanity. It is the embodiment of a unifying event that Duke needs in order to promote the more open and accepting campus culture for which it has strived in recent years. And now, Duke, my advice to you: Don’tfumble the tradition. Embrace the ridiculousness that is costumed revelry in support of our newly excellentfootball team. Although, from an outside (adult) perspective, it may not seem worthwhile, clean (that’s an understatement) or even fun, trust me when I say it is at least the latter. I know that, when (if) I finally graduate, I will miss it with every fiber ofmy being. I will surely stay up nights in my I-Banking cubicle with “Shout” on repeat, pining for the good old days of dressing like a cat lady and getting drenched in soggy carbonation. And then I’ll come back for Homecoming Meeting adjourned. out

The Chairman doesn’t even want to think about a world withTailgate. What a sad, sad world that would be.

CORRECTION The Oct 27 column by Megan Neureither, “On the history of the Gardens,” should have said that the Rose Garden and AzaleaWalk were not original features of the Gardens, but that they were added later on in the '6os. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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VISUAL STUDIES SPRING 2009 COURSES

All 100-level courses in Art History and Visual Studios can be taken without pre-refiilsltes.

ART HISTORY ARTHIST 69D ARTHIST 70D ARTHIST 113

ARTHIST 116 ARTHIST

121

ARTHIST 125A ARTHIST 152 ARTHIST 168 ARTHIST 171 ARTHIST 185 ARTHIST

to Art History (Bruzelius) Intro to Art History (Andiff) 18th Century Art and Architecture (Schroder) Museum Internship (Schroder) 945 (heighten) Visualizing Cultural Dissent in Modernism Art and Archaeology of Ancient Athens (Dillon) Renaissance Architecture in Italy: Brunelleschi to Michelangelo (Golletd) Experimental Art and Its Ethics Since 1945 (Kochurin)

Intro

1880-1

Chinese Art 1900-Present (Abe) Russian Art and Politics: 1800-Present (Kachurin) Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites (AlcVVi//iom) English Art Cubism and Culture (heighten) ARTHIST 198 ARTHIST 245 S Art and Markets (Van Miegroet) ARTHIST 255 S Museum Theory and Practice (Rorschach) ARTHIST 270 S Topics in African Art: Global Views and Purviews (Powell) Social Sculpture: Latin American and Other ARTHIST 2885.01 Locations of Contemporary Art (Gabara) ARTHIST 2885.02 From the Loire Valley to Versailles: Architecture and Social Life at the Court of France 1500-1600 (Galletti) Nationalism and Visual Culture Since 1789 (McWilliam) ARTHIST 341 ARTHIST 366 'British Modernism in the Early 20th Century (Antlrfjf)

1968

1740-1850:

VISUAL ARTS ARTSVIS 54 ARTSVIS 100.01 ARTSVIS 100.02 ARTSVIS 120 ARTSVIS 125 S ARTSVIS 169 S ARTSVIS 1908 ARTSVIS 200S

Intro to Visual Practice (Lasch) Drawing (Pick) Drawing (Wilmoth) Painting (Wilmoth) Intermediate Photography (Noland) Topics: Narrative Sequential Art (Fick) Photography (half credit course) (Bogaert) Senior Capstone in Visual Practice (Noland)

VISUAL STUDIES VISUALST

I 178

VISUALST

I I7JS

VISUALST 156 VISUALST 157

VISUALST IB4S

VISUALST 185 VISUALST 197 VISUALST 200S

VISUALST 20ISL

Contemporary Documentary Film: Filmmakers and Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Abe) Motion Graphics in Film and Video (Salvatella de Prado)

Pilgrimage and Tourism (Wharton) Netherlandish Art and Visual Culture in the 17th and 18th Century (Van Miegroet) Visual Cultures of Medicine (Olson) Digital Perspectives (Seaman) 3D Modelling and Animation (Salvatella de Prado) Theories ofVisual Studies (Weisenfeld) Wired! New Representational Technologies (BruzeliuslĂ&#x;radylDillonlOlsonlSalvatella de Prado)

232 S Urbanism (Wharton) 236 S Experimental Communities (Lasch) VISUALST 265 S Emergent Interface Design (Seaman) VISUALST VISUALST

See cross-listed Visual Studies courses from other departments on the Schedule of Classes page at: reglstrar.duke.edu