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Don’t ask President Richard Brodhead whether he supports lowering the drinking age. As if repeating a statement, Brodhead will say firmly that he neither advocates nor thinks it worthwhile to fixate on such a policy. And though his signing of the Amethyst Initiative—a pledge that decries the effectiveness of the 21-year-old drinking some age —has cause opponents of the moveROWS a ment to speculate oth-v erwise, Brodhead insists that his pledge is

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lutely not” about the legal age limit. “The question about the drinking age is really not the interesting question,” he said. Instead, the interesting question is whether discussion can focus primarily on responsible behavior and alcohol education—and only then touch upon the age limit, he explained. Whenever Brodhead speaks, he chooses his words carefully—and when he talks about the Amethyst Initiative, he is especially cautious to make his point clear. The current system for addressing drinking is ineffective, he said, but before anything can change, there needs to be thorough discussion. “In the existing world, we understand how we have to address this is that we have to remind people that the law is 21. We can’t encourage people to break the law. At the same time we also have to, in every way we can, urge people to understand that the freedoms of adult life require a sense of responsibility with them,” he said in a September interview with The Chronicle. “But on every campus in America there’s a need for more.” For Duke, Brodhead pointed to the recent hiring of its first associate dean and director of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, Tom Szigethy, as an important step toward reforming the University’s drinking culture. But at least one student said the president could do more to follow up directly on his signing of the initiative. Senior Lauren Maisel, Duke Student Government’s vice president for student affairs, said Brodhead should take advantage of the publicity his pledge has received to generate the debate SEE BRODHEAD ON PAGE

CORRECTION A Nov. 19 article,"Rhee pushes contentious education reform policy," incorrectly stated the number of Duke graduates participating in Teach for America.There are 45 2008 graduates in their first year, and 53 2007 graduates in their second year.The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Artist Barkley Hendricks compares an enlarged photograph he took of a famous jazz musician with the original print at"A Conversation with Barkley Hendricks'Tuesday in the Nasher Museum of Art.

First-year Director ofAthletics and Vice President Kevin White is new to Duke, but by next year, he might know more about student life and campus issues than most of his fellow administrators. After all, he’ll be living among students on West Campus. White and his wife, Jane, will move into Few Quadrangle and serve as Few’s Faculty-in-Residence for the Spring becoming semester, perhaps the most highprofile faculty member or administrator to live with students. “It’s going to be great fun for us to live on campus and be part of campus,” said White, who came to Duke in May after eight years at Notre Dame. “We’ll learn a whole lot about Duke that we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to learn otherwise.” Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, first approached White about moving into the newly renovated space as he waits for his SEE WHITE ON PAGE 8

Trespassing cases put students on watch by

Julia Love

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As temperatures plummet, students living on campus have been urged to practice extra vigilance to keep trespassers out in the cold.

Residence coordinators on East and West Campuses have sent e-mails to their residents outlining safety procedures in response to several recent incidents of trespassing in the dormitories. “With the weather getting colder, it is possible we may experience more people trying to use our residences as a haven,” Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, wrote in an e-mail to administrators Nov. 10. Just one day later, a man unaffiliated with the University was arrested for trespassing in Crowell Quadrangle after being incarcerated for sleeping overnight, showering and laundering his socks in Bell Tower Residence Hall three days earlier. In addition, Duke University Police Department suspects that “two suspicious males” who entered Randolph Residence Hall Monday may be responsible for a theft in the dormitory that evening, Residence Coordinator Chris Ellis wrote in an e-mail to residents of Blackwell Residence Hall, Randolph and Bell Tower obtained by The Chronicle. The suspects, both in their mid-to-late 20s, are described as a thin black male ofaverage height with comrows and a white male SEE WATCH ON PAGE

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Crowell Quadrangle was one of a few dormitoriesthat recently housed unwanted guests, leading administrators to encourage students to watch out for trespassers.

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Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, was named vice chair of a new national study on climate change last week. The study—America’s Climate Choices—was created at the request of Congress to examine issues and problems related to global climate change. It will be conducted by the National Academies with support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The National Academies is comprised of four public organizations: the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. The organization announced the appointment of Chameides, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, on its Web site Friday. Chameides said a representative from the study asked him to become involved, adding that his experience as an academic gave him the unique combination of skills necessary to hold the position of vice chair. “The issues that we are addressing SEE CHAMEIDES ON PAGE 8

Pratt initiative to offer two degrees in five years by

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Engineering students who work long hours to get through their undergraduate years may no longer have to dread the thought of doing it all over again for a master’s degree. The 4+l Initiative, reintroduced to Duke by Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, gives students the option to complete a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree and Master in Science degree in five years. The program is available across all engineering departments. Although the opportunity to obtain both degrees was actually available in the past, Katsouleas said the program was “awkward and inactive.” But the new program is resurfacing with great momen-

tum, allowing undergraduates to advance their training and further their research, he said. As many as a quarter of the Pratt graduating class is expected to participate in the coming academic year. “It was recreated in response to the changing needs of professional engineers,” Katsouleas said. “We feel that a broad four-year curriculum and an in-depth concentration is the right kind of preparation for industry needs and the

global economy.” A new faculty committee will oversee the program’s development and a detailed Web site is also in the making that will guide interested students in preparing for graduate school.

Although the program is ideal for students who enter Pratt with advanced placement or summer course credits

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that allow them to lighten their senioryear academic load, the program is open to any students who have space for two or more graduate courses in their final semester. Students participating in the program would apply before the standard graduate school application deadline in January and would be given provisional graduate student status as an undergraduate. Participants would also only pay the undergraduate tuition rate for the graduate courses taken during the senior year. Jeff Glass, Pratt senior associate dean for education, strongly encouraged students to participate, noting the advantages the rigorous curriculum can bring. “A masters degree can provide the additional education SEE INITIATIVE ON PAGE 4

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that will give students deeper knowledge in their field and even some business and leadership training, depending on their curriculum,” he said. The program may also give students a leg up in the competitive job market, Glass said. He added that employers recognize the value of a master’s-level education in an engineering discipline to complement the undergraduate coursework. “This will give them a competitive advantage and enable them to take on

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To showers of giggles and a few stumbles over words such as “efficacy” and “utilization,” Duke University Union board members read aloud the organization’s goals up to next year at their weekly meeting Tuesday night. Some of the Union’s goals for the upcoming semester that members suggested in evaluationslast week include to “promote the DUU brand as a fully-loaded brand” and increase transparency. DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, had members read the goals aloud to make them sink in. “This is basically where you guys want us to be going,” he said. “This is not just about this year.”

“This is basically where you guys want us to be going.... This is not just about this year.” Chamindra Goonewardene, senior and president of DUU Members hope to improve the Union so that the organization will be a model for student unions at other universities. The board also heard a funding proposal from Last Day of Classes Chair Meredith Estren, a senior. Estren distributed the proposal for Union members to consider, which Goonewardene declined to give to The Chronicle. Last year, DUU granted $25,000 to the LDOC committee. Also at the meeting, junior Christie Fal-

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Members of Duke University Unionreviewed their goals for the semester and discussed a funding proposal for theLast Day of Classes celebration at the group's weekly meeting Tuesday. co, DUU Special Projects co-director, said the Yule Ball held Saturday evening was a success. “We had about 400 people come out, so it was a good turnout,” she said.

Falco added that her committee is working to put a new spin on the annual Duke Royale party scheduled for April, though she did not specify details of the new plans.

In other business: Campus Concert Series Chair Gorina Apostol, a senior, said her committee is work-

ing to organize a Battle of the Bands for March 21, 2009. They plan to team with the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other DUU programming in the works includes an event for students to break a world record and a contest for the most spirited Blue Devil, Falco said. Goonewardene also said DUU hopes to collaborate with the Durham Performing Arts Center, which is scheduled to open next Thursday. He said he is excited that the center’s programming lineup next semester will bring big-name acts to Durham.

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the Amethyst Initiative calls for. “I don’t think that this conversation has gained a lot of traction at Duke,” Maisel said. “It’s a great thing that President Brodhead wants to have this conversation on a national scale, but I don’t see a lot of that being facilitated on a very local scale.... I hope this isn’t something that Duke puts a rubber stamp on and lets others handle.” Maisel cited the first-ever President’s Forum On Critical Issues that Brodhead held in October on the financial crisis as a model for sparking campus discussion about the drinking culture. As of the September interview with The Chronicle, Maisel also noted that she has not focused on the issue in talks with administrators, but she said she plans to make it a part of her agenda. The pledge, started by former Middlebury College presidentjohn McCardell, has done little to bring its 134signatories together in pushing for a discussion beyond the initial signing. The group of presidents have no cohesive strategy nor even a single goal in mind—“for better or worse,” McCardell said. Since this past summer, a small staff recruited university presidents to sign the pledge, and were overloaded with

of medium build with very dark hair worn in a crew cut, scruffy facial hair and bloodshot eyes. Student vigilance may be the key to improving security in the dorms because residents appear to have granted the trespassers access to Bell Tower, Crowell and Randolph, Ellis said. But Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the recent trespassing incidents have highlighted the shortcomings of dormitory security. “[The incidents] are obviously troubling,” he said. “They certainly reveal some weaknesses in the entry system that are based on the ability of anybody to tailgate behind. I’m struggling to think of some ways that we can prevent that. I’m hoping that those are isolated incidents—we have not seen a pattern of this behavior.” He noted, however, that die University has periodically seen trespassers over the years, and he does not think this year has been marked by an atypical number of incidents. Duke may experience slightly more security snafus than its peer institutions due to the relatively open nature of its dormitories, Hull said in an interview with The Chronicle. On most college campuses, dormitories have a front desk and a single point of entry, students have card access to only the building in which they live and guests in the dormitories must be escorted at all times—a model Duke has resisted, Hull noted. “There’s a very strong sense of community among Duke students,” he said. “They have said to University administrators that they want to have unfettered access to their friends.” Administrators have contemplated installing surveillance cameras at dormitory entrances to tighten security, but they fear students would be wary of such a measure, Hull said. “Students’ trust level isn’t at a point where we’ve been able to go in that direction,” he noted. Maj. Gloria Graham wrote in an e-mail that DUPD had increased on-campus patrols, but noted that ultimately, residents have a better ability to control the situation by locking their doors and contacting police when they notice suspicious persons. Moneta also said he does not believe increased oncampus patrolling would eliminate trespassing in the dormitories. “You can’t hire enough police to cover every single spot in the residential system,” he said. “I don’t think the situation is just about trying to deploy police.” Moneta noted that he has not been approached by more students concerned about security, and a Bell Tower resident who interacted with the trespasser said students have continued to feel safe in Bell Tower since the arrest. [The trespasser] was a nice guy, he was very polite,” the resident said. “The general consensus is that it’s just an unfortunate incident. I think people are paying more attention, but I don’t think anyone has expressed any real concern over it.”

“It is a call to raise the sense of responsibility and figure out if we can’t find a more successful way to address the question of drinking.” Richard Brodhead, president phone calls and work when the pledge was unexpectedly leaked to The Associated Press in August, said Grace Kronenberg, assistant to the director ofChoose Responsibility, the organization that created the initiative. “We have only infrequent communication with the presidents. We have no governance structure, we have no budget —we have no nothing,” McCardell explained in a September interview with The Chronicle. “The Amethyst Initiative is just 130 people who have signed the paper.” And Brodhead noted that he did not necessarily wish to be particularly vocal or active after signing onto the pledge. “In signing my name I simply wanted to join a company of other people who are calling for the subject to be raised,” he said. “I don’t have an instant solution to this, and I’m pretty much going to distrust anybody who does, but I think that the publicity about the Amethyst Initiative has itself helped to raise discussion.” Duke is among the more prominent colleges listed on the initiative, which also includes Dartmouth University and Syracuse University—a point that McCardell said has helped bring credibility to the movement in itself.

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Concerns about the drinking culture at Duke prompted President Richard Brodhead to sign the Amethyst Initiative over the summer. Brodhead has taken special care to not present himself as a leader on the issue, but the University has nonetheless been thrown into the spotlight of media coverage on the Amethyst Initiative. The pledge has not stirred as much discussion among students as it has among the media, noted Szigethy, who has spent his first few months in the position talking to students about the campus drinking culture. It has, though, prompted responses from proponents of a conservative alcohol policy —including Durham City Councilman Howard Clement, who called Brodhead and others’ support of the initiative an “easy way out” of facing the drinking culture on campus. Clement also said the underage drinking that occurred at the now-infamous March 2006 lacrosse party cannot be separated from the culture of drinking that exists at Duke. “I’m not saying we could have stopped it, but I lay the onus on Duke University and other institutions for allowing a climate to exist on campus that exacerbates a drinking problem,” he said. Brodhead, however, said the linkage is unfounded and

“particularly regrettable.”

McCardell said “natural occasions in the university’s calendar,” such as Homecoming, could be an appropriate time for presidents to generate discussion on their campuses. But he noted that he does not expect Brodhead or other signatories to pursue a more active stance. For his part, Brodhead said outrage from a movement decrying presidents for supporting a lower drinking age is simply unfounded, and has not deterred his support in the slightest way. “I signed it on the basis of a life lived in universities and caring about the well-being of students. And for all the controversy it has been disappointing to me that so much of the coverage has made it seem that this was a call to lower the drinking age,” he said. “It is a call to raise the sense ofresponsibility and figure out if we can’t find a more successful way to address the questio i of drinking than the drinking age.”

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WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for top attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation’s chief lawyer. The Obama transition team has gone so far as to ask senators whether they would confirm Holder, who reviewed Clinton’s controversial pardon of fugitive Marc Rich just before leaving office, an Obama official and people close to the matter said Tuesday. But the Obama official said the decision has not been finalized, and transition spokesmen said no decision has been made. Holder did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday. Asked Monday by The Associated Press whether he expected to be nominated, he responded in an e-mail: “Who knows?” One person involved in the talks said the Obama team has received some assurances that, while the pardon would certainly come up during hearings, the nomination likely wouldn’tbe held up. Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the pardon “would be a factor to consider.” Asked if Holder would be a good choice for attorney general, Specter said it was too soon to say. “I know something of Holder’s work in the Clinton administration and that’s about it,” he said. “I’d have to take a much closer look at his record and talk to him and think about it.” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., had not been informed about Holder, his spokeswoman said. On the last day of Clinton’s term, Holder, then the deputy attorney general, was asked whether Clinton should pardon Rich, a wealthy commodities dealer who had spent years running from tax charges. Holder said he was “neutral, leaning toward favorable” on the pardon. Clinton later cited that as among the factors that persuaded him

President-electBarack Obama is expected to ask Eric Holder, a top JusticeDepartment official in the Clinton administration, to be attorney general. issue the pardon. Holder has publicly apologized for what he said was a snap decision that he should have paid more attention to. Had he taken more time to review the case, he would have advised against a pardon, he said. Holder, 57, also a former judge and U.S. attorney in Washington, is widely respected in legal circles and among Justice Department career lawyers. He has been on Obama’s short list to be attorney general since before the election, and already has had private conversations about how he would run the department. One of his top priorities, according to a person familiar to

with his thinking, is to rebuild the department’s reputation after its fiercely independent image was tarnished by charges of political meddling by the White House during the Bush administration. Holder has been one of Obama’s most trusted advisers. He was a member of the team that helped select Sen. Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate. The two have known each other only briefly, however, after meeting at a dinner party four years ago. Holder has other deep ties to Obama’s team. Holder’s wife, an obstetrician, delivered incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s daughter.

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Automakers ask Congress for $258 bailout package by

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WASHINGTON Detroit’s Big Three automakers pleaded with a reluctant Congress Tuesday for a $25 billion lifeline to save the once-proud titans of U.S. industry, pointedly warning of a national economic catastrophe should they collapse. Millions of layoffs would follow their demise, they said, as damaging effects rippled across an already-faltering economy. But the new rescue plan appeared stalled on Capitol Hill, opposed by the Bush administration and Republicans in Congress who don’t want to dip into the Treasury Department’s $7OO billion financial bailout program to come up with the $25 billion in loans. Rank and file Republicans and Democrats from states heavily impacted by the auto industry worked behind the scenes trying to hammer out a compromise that could speed some aid to the automakers before year’s end. But it was an uphill fight. “Our industry... needs a bridge to span the financial chasm that has opened up before us,” General Motors Corp. CEO Rick Wagoner told the Senate Banking Committee. He blamed the industry’s predicament not on management failures but on the deepening global financial crisis. And Robert Nardelli, CEO of Chrysler LEG, told the panel the bailout would be “the least costly alternative” when com-

pared with damage from bankruptcy. Under questioning from skeptical senators, both said they’d be willing to consider slashing their salaries to $1 to show a willingness to sacrifice for federal help. Sympathy for the industry was sparse, however, with bailout fatigue dominating Capitol Hill. Lawmakers bristled with pent-up criticism of the auto industry, and questioned whether a stopgap loan would really cure what ails the companies.

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Even the car companies’ strongest supporters conceded Tuesday that changing the terms of the fuel-efficiency loan program might be the only way to secure funding for them with Congress set to depart for the year and the firms in tough financial shape. The White House said the government shouldn’t send any more money to the struggling auto industry on top of the already-approved loans.

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new house in Durham to be completed. The apartment, which is being re-done with the rest of Few, has extra space for the explicit purpose of interacting with students. White mulled over the offer with his wife before making the decision, because they have never lived on a college campus before in White’s 26 years as an athletic director. The two plan to live in their new quarters until the end of the summer, when they will be replaced by another faculty member committed to a longer term. Nowicki said the deal made perfect

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sense, because the Whites, who currently live in a house while they wait for construction to be finished, needed a place to stay, and the University would have been hard-pressed to find someone to move in on short notice in January. “It’s definitely different from our typical Faculty-in-Residence model, but the whole Few apartment thing is different, too,” said Nowicki, who added that the Whites’ first concern of not being able to

in scope in the sense that they need to combine scientific issues and public policy issues.” Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School ERIC MANSFIELD/THE CHRONICLE

A newly renovated Few Quadrangle will house Director of Athletics Kevin White this Spring as Few's Faculty-in-Residence. White came to Duke from Notre Dame in May.

live with their dogs was quickly quelled, “We’re looking for interesting models for what to do with that apartment, and it may be that we do something a little different with the traditional Faculty-inResidence there—certainly, having Kevin move in there gives us a chance to see how that works.” White plans to host students for informal get-togethers, and Nowicki said White’s access to Duke coaches and stu-

dent-athletescould be a centerpiece ofhis planned interactions with Few residents. “I can see a bunch of different kinds of people who would want to live in Few for some period of time and who would be beneficial for students to get to know and vice versa,” Nowicki said. “And Kevin is an interesting and lucky first shot at it.” Meredith Shiner contributed reporting for this story.

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(finally) the season Football, you did good. It looks like you’ll top out at four wins, which doubles your total from the previous threeseasons. Duke students really couldn’t have hoped for more, even as you lined up for that game-winner in Winston-Salem. If nothing else, David Cutcliffe’s first season re-energized the campus and revealed to students—if only a little—why at many college campus in the South, those six or seven football Satur7•llll days are the best days oflhe y ear LUinuii But Duke isn’t one of those schools, and it might not ever be. It’s hard to ignore the weekend’s athletic juxtaposition: One day after the Blue Devils’ last-gasp bowl hopes were essentially suffocated in Death Valley, it took all 40 minutes for Duke to escape Rhode Island on the hardwood. As Mike Krzyzewski said afterward, the game was a bit of an eye-opener: “Welcome to the season.” Emphasis on “the.” This is the real season at Duke. Sorry, football, but right now, you’re more of a fling than anything else—something to distract students while they count down the days until basketball’s triumphant return. That return came a bit quicker than anyone thought Sunday, with Rhode Island providing a test instead of the expected

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urday’s 1-0 win over William & Mary, the

Blue Devils not only earned themselves a place in the Sweet 16, but also guaranteed their seniors’ season would continue for at least one more game. Four years ago and five in the case of one player, this year’s graduating class Kelly Hathom, Sheila Kramer, Kelly McCann, Christie McDonald, Cassidy Powers and Lorraine Quinn —arrived in Durham as a highly touted bunch hailing from all different comers of the country. Now, after eitherfour wins or one more loss, the group will leave as one of the mostaccomplished classes in Duke history. —

“As individuals, we have a lot of different personalities in our senior class,” McCann said. “We’re each able to benefit the team in a different way.” Hathom, a Durham product, is a 5foot-9 forward who was honored as the team’s freshman of the year at the conclusion of her rookie campaign. Quinn, the nationally regarded 5-foot-2 midfielder out of Farmingdale, N.Y., actually entered Duke in 2004, a year before her fellow seniors, and made the All-ACC freshman team only to receive a medical redshirt the following year because of a foot injury. Powers, a 5-foot-ll goalkeeper from Northern California, is in her first year as the starter in the net.

Although they represented varied backgrounds, personalities and abilities, the players began to develop a tight-knit

cohesion shordy after arriving on campus. Head coach Robbie Church attributes this instant chemistry to the current success that his upperclassmen have had, both in terms of tangible results on the field and development as mentors to younger players. “Haring just two seniors on last year’s team allowed the seniors to assume leadership roles last year,” Church said. “Now, you are seeing that growth this year. Our seniors have just trilled us to win on several occasions.” SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 11

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Starting quarterback Thaddeus Lewis didn’t practice Tuesday, starting running back Clifford Harris will be sidelined with a broken arm Saturday and the real starting running back, Re’quan Boyette, has missed all season with a broken leg. Duke’s wide receiving corps has been subject to change almost every week, and its four-member secondary could be composed of two backups at Virginia Tech. Three weeks ago, head coach David Cutcliffe welcomed his team to November, the month that he said would define the Blue Devils. So far, it has only managed to injure them. An 0-3 November record has turned the once-surging Blue Devils into a reeling squad seemingly destined for the bottom of the ACC again. But it has also battered more than just Duke’s bowl chances. “Every team has injuries—it’s just the course of the season,” offensive tackle Kyle Hill said. “Especially toward the end of the season, people get bumps and bruises. Ev-

ery team goes through the same thing.” Duke might feel their effect more acutely than others, though, because more ofits skill players have been hindered with injuries. Lewis left Duke’s 31-7 loss to Clemson Saturday in the first quarter with a foot sprain. He will be listed as day-to-day until Duke releases its injury report Thursday, but the starting play caller did not practice Tuesday, and much of Cutcliffe’s Tuesday press conference was devoted to questions about his backup, Zack Asack. CutclifFe announced that Harris, the team’s leading rusher who emerged as the starter when Boyette went down in the summer, will be out ofSaturday’s game, but could return for the Blue Devils’ regular season finale against North Carolina Oct. 29. Five of Duke’s top widereceivers—Eron Riley, Austin Kelly, Raphael Chestnut, Johnny Williams and Donovan Varner—have all been hampered by some sort of ailment this year. All but Riley have missed at least one game, even though the entire stable is SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE

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Backup quarterback Zack Asack, who played at Clemson, will start Saturday if Thaddeus Lewis isunable to play.

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BRITTON from page 9 Despite the surprising difficulty of the material, the Blue Devils passed Sunday’s lest. They didn’t get an A, but they passed. It’s hard to gel excited by blowout wins over Presbvterian and Georgia Southern where the suspense isn’t tied to the result but rather revolves around which freshman will throw down the best dunk (Elliot Williams took the prize this season). You can’t extract amthirig meaningful from these contests, because regardless of how Duke plays, it will win, and likely by a lot. But you can leant a lot from tests like Sunday’s, especially when you don’t pass with flying colors. Lost in the effusive praise and J.J. Redick comparisons deservedly bestowed onjimmy Baron’s second-half piece de resistance is the fact that the Blue Devils were outplayed before Baron turned into Jimmy Chitwood {we can only imagine how good Chitwood would have been with a 3point line). Although Baron had just three points at intermission, Rhode Island led by as many as 12 late in the half. Duke allowed the Rams plenty of open looks and second chances—things that won’t fly against teams that regularly shoot lights-out and are bigger on the interior than the Blue Devils. The Rams, despite Sunday’s evidence to the contrary, possess neither of those qualities. More immediately distressing was Duke’s inability to score in the halfcourt. During the Blue Devils’ 4-for-19 start from the field, they weren’t exactly missing open looks. They were missing con tested jumpers and layups taken off of 1-on-l play. Duke’s

saving grace on offense was the free-throw line, where it shot 88 percent and scored more than one-third of its points. The ultimate trait tested Sunday, however, was the Blue Devils’ resolve, and luckily for them, it was the one area they aced. Krzyzewski admitted his team wTas caught a bit off-guard by Rhode Island’s energy in the first half—something that shouldn’t happen again—but Duke responded in the cliched moments “when it mattered most.” It’s not how you start halves; it’s how you finish them. An 11-0 run to close the first 20 minutes got the Blue Devils back into the game, and the Singler and Scheyer Show down the stretch got them the win. This was a team that faded down last year’s stretch and didn’t have a go-to scorer for the season’s biggest possessions (one fairly notable exception being a certain coast-to-coast layup against a certain 15seed in a certain NCAA Tournament). Late Sunday, with Gerald Henderson never getting into a rhythm, Krzyzewski had no problems giving the ball to his early-season star, Singler. Down one with 20 seconds left, the Blue Devils didn’t try anything tricky—not even a ballscreen. It was an isolation for Singler, and the sophomore got himself to the line and sank two free throws for the second straight possession. Singler got the call on the defensive end to stop Baron, and that’s when he halted the “Hoosiers” analogies. It was the first test of many, and there’s obvious room for improvement. But Duke showed promise—the kind of promise fans had grown accustomed to the Blue Devils fulfilling in the past. Welcome to the season.

Duke announced that cornerback Leon Wright would miss the rest of the season Oct. 30 after the junior re-aggravated a left hamstring injury'. Cornerback Jabari Marshall is also day-to-day, and defensive end Wesley Oglesby has missed three of the last four games with a leg injury'. Getting nicked up and worn down at the end of the season is natural for a college football player, but the injury bug that has bitten Duke has been on the severe side. “We’ve always had guys beat up,” said Asack, who would start if Lewis is unable to play Saturday. “But in one game with a lot of our starters being hurt and getting hurt—I don’t think I’ve seen it in a long time. Guys have been playing their butts off, so you kind of expect it the way they’ve been playing, but it’s unfortunate.” And it doesn’t help that the teeth of the Blue Devils’ schedule was reserved for the end of November. Clemson, Virginia Tech and North Carolina were billed as three of theACC’s top four teams at the beginning of the season, and while none of those teams are in first place in the topsy-turvy league, their talent base and athletic play is still mostly superior to Duke’s. Add in the fact that the Blue Devils

haven’t had a bye week since Oct. 11, and the injuries and lack of chance to recover starts to result in more lopsided losses. “It was like the ACC said, ‘We’re going to put you through a test your first year,”’ Cutcliffe said of his team’s slate. “We play seven games in a row to end the year, five of those are in November and all five of them are big, critical ACC games. We could’ve used an open date somewhere along the way, but we didn’t get that, didn’t draw that card. We just have to play with what we’ve got.” Which, right now, is less than what Duke had in August. And just as Asack was forced to fill in on one tackle’s notice Saturday, more of Duke’s backups have been called on to replace ailing starters as the season has progressed. It gives credence to Cutclifie’s telling his reserves that they need to be ready, but it’s still not ideal. Cutcliffe said he won’tburn anyredshirts by inserting players who haven’t seen the field yet —the most relevant case being that of highly touted quarterback Sean Renfree. Now, in addition to preparing for a win, he has to hope the Blue Devils remain as healthy as they are against the Hokies and Tar Heels, because the list of replacements is thinning by the game. “I try to keep it awayfrom my brain,” safety GlennWilliams said of the possibility of going down with an injury. “It’s just a part of college football—you take the good with the bad.”

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Kelly, Plumlee sign to play for Krzyzewski One’s brother already plays for Duke and theother lives in Raleigh, and next year, both will officially join the Blue Devils. Recruits Mason Plumlee and Ryan Kelly signed their national letters of intent to play for Duke, head coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Tuesday. National signing day was last Wednesday. Plumlee and Kelly are both five-star prospects, according to scout.com. Plumlee, a 6-foot-l 1 power forward, is the sixth best at his position. His brother, Miles, is a freshman on this year’s team. Kelly, a 6-foot-l0 power forward, is list-

W. SOCCER from page 9 Based on its previous experiences in the NCAA tournament, the senior class knows the precarious nature of a team’s stay in the postseason. As freshman and sophomores, the current seniors fell early in the tournament in particularly heartbreaking fashion. In 2005, the Blue Devils dropped a second round matchup with Yale on a lastminute goal. Then, in 2006, Duke played Tennessee to a scoreless tie through regulation in the second round before ultimately losing in a shootout. Luck, however, changed for Duke in last year’s tournament. After a mediocre regular season, the team advanced all the way to the national quarterfinals before Notre Dame eventually knocked out the Cinderella squad.

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ed as the third best power forward in the Class of 2009.A Triangle native, he gave a verbal commitment to Duke in October. “Ryan and Mason are both terrific young men and outstanding basketball players,” Krzyzewski said. “We are excited about them joining our program and look forward watching them continue to grow and develop on and off the court.” Scout.com has reported that Duke is still recruiting 6-foot-4 guard John Wall, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2009 who also lives in Raleigh.

—from staffreports Last year’s achievement was directly dependent on the play of leading upperclassmen, who again will be leaned upon heavily in this year’s postseason. “Kids come in and look up to you,” Quinn said. “Your teammates are going to follow your lead, and I think our success the past two years reflects the quality of our upperclassmen.” And it will be up to the seniors to lead Duke into action Saturday at Virginia in the thirdround of the NCAA tournament “These girls are just very strong-willed and have put their stamp on the program,” Church said. And by continuing to win, this year’s senior class could depart doing something last year’s class could not by further distinguishing its stamp with a final four appearance.

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future advances in gay rights in the same way that the lunch counter sit-ins and the March on Washington paved the way to the Civil Rights Acts. In the meantime, this Board is proud that the University has taken difficult stands for equal rights on an institutional level. The University faced backlash from many quarters when it made the Duke Chapel available for samesex unions beginning in 2000. Likewise, Duke has a vital Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life and offers health benefits to same-sex couples. This is proof that the University (along with the country) has come along way since 1968. At least today’s Dukies have more work to do off-campus than on in their fight for civil rights.

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Most religions call for brotherly love and instruct their followers to treat others as they would wish themselves to be treated. Opposing marriage rights for adult samesex couples on “religious” grounds is morally reprehensible and contrary to any honest interpretation of the Golden Rule. There may be a silver lining, however, amid this major backslide for civil rights. Proposition 8 is becoming a touchstone for gay rights in a way that similar state amendments never have before. Tens of thousands of protestors have amassed across the country to rally against the Proposition, including a crowd of 1,400 that gathered outside the North Carolina State Capitol last Saturday. We hope that these rallies will build the foundation for

convinced, the hundreds of hate crimes that the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center has documented since Election Day help back that up). I highly doubtmany full-fledged racists are going to have epiphanies due to Obama’s election. But the question fundamentally misses the point. Yes, racism still exists, but not in the Strom-Thurmond-“Segregation forever” manner in which it once thrived. Racism of today is much subtler than it was in the middle of the 20th century (I understand that I’m not breaking new ground with my racial analysis here). It manifests itselfwhen people say things like, “I’m not vodng against Obama because he’s black, I’m voting against him because he’s not one of us,” or “I have nothing against black people, I just don’t like black culture.” It arises from a basic unfamiliarity with people of other races that causes essentially decent and open-minded people to misunderstand someone else’s background. And this is why Obama’s election is not the dawn of a new day that people are making it out to be. Yes, Obama is black —he faced issues that only a black candidate would have to face throughout the campaign. But he is also not black—he was not raised by black parents, he is not a descendent ofAmerican slaves, he grew up in Indonesia and went to a private high school in Hawaii. The dominant obstacles facing blacks today stem from a specific culture and background—a culture that Obama (as he himself notes in “Dreams of My Father”) was not a part of—not the mere biological fact of having African ancestry. Obama’s election does not prove that any African American can be the president some day because there is nobody of any racial background with the unique upbringing that Obama had. I do not mean to rain on Obama’s parade —I think his background is a good thing. What makes Obama so appealing is the extent to which he transcends not just racial politics, but identity politics. He did not waste his time pandering to “small-town America” or stake his candidacy on where he came from. He is not a “black” or “small-town” or “heartland” American—he is different. That, like inhaling, is the point.

John Schneider is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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put the Cameron Crazies to shame. Thousands of people converge in Fort Benning, Ga., every November, for an entire weekend. Some have come from the nearby area; others have flown or driven hundreds of miles to be at this annual event All around, people cany jamCS tager 9 postsigns, ere, even frill- suburban subversive sized puppet figures, singing and shouting slogans and generally making their voices heard. But they’re not rooting for a basketball team. In fact, this has nothing to do with sports. This is theannual November vigil to shut down the School of the Americas. The School of the Americas, or the School ofAssassins as its critics call it, is a U.S.-operated military training institute that instructs Latin American military officials. From its de°

scription, you wouldn’tassume that theSchool ofAmericas has a reputation for spreading torture and violating human rights. But, as a proposed congressional bill pointed out, “some of the worst human rights abusers in our hemisphere” have been graduates of the SOA, including Panama’s dictator Manuel Noriega, two of the killers of Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador and numerous leaders of variousLatin American death squads. The alumni list for SOA reads like a blueprint for Latin American atrocities of the past several decades. Meanwhile, the SOA takes the tongue-in-cheek approach of claiming that ‘just as any college or university cannot guarantee that some of theirstudents will not someday commit crimes, neither can we.” But the school isn’t just apathetic towards the egregious human rights violations perpetrated by its students; it actively encourages torture and violence against Latin American citizens. The New York Times ran an article in 1996 after examining the SOA training manuals, which refer to informers or captured insurgents as “employees.” There are such gems as; “The C.I. [counterintelligence] agent could

cause the arrest or detention of the employee’s parents, imprison the employee or give him a beating as part of the placement plan of said employee in the guerrilla organization” or “if an individual has been recruited using fear as a weapon, the C.I. agent must be in a position of maintain[ing] the threat” The rest of the manuals are found to include: “torture, extortion, censorship, false arrest, execution and the ‘neutralizing’ ofenemies.” The SOA changed its name to the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001 in an effort to shake off the bad press. But the scars it has inflicted on Latin America still remain. It was just this month that a Colombian Army commander, Mario Montoya, resigned over his involvement in a campaign of “extrajudicial killings.” Montaya was both a student and an instructor at the SOA Thousands are expected to show up this weekend to protest the School’s continued existence. The protests began in 1989,after Salvadoran soldiers (the majority of which were SOA graduates) murdered six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her young daughter. The vigil, then, is not just a protest, but an

annual reaffirmation of the lives of the SOA’s victims. I haven’t met many Duke students who plan to attend this year’s vigil, and I doubt that my column will make you decide to drive down to Georgia in order to participate (though I wish it would). So I can only conclude byasking you what you will be doing in place of attending the vigil. The amazing thing aboutDuke is that we are constantly offered the opportunity to learn something new about how other people live their lives, and to advocate for policies that would help other people. It seems like every day there’s an event on campus that helps us better understand and advance issues of social justice, human rights and human equality. As students in general, and as Duke students in particular, we have a powerful voice to advocate for those that cannot be heard. Starting this Friday, thousands of people will meet to advocate for human rights and human dignity, here in the U.S. and across the Americas. What are you doing this weekend?

James Tager is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

lettertotheeditor Ability grouping has benefits too Although I applaud Matt Graham’s Nov. 12 column, “Equal opportunity takes a backseat,” for highlighting inequality inherent in our schools, I hesitate to endorse favoring “high achievers” through ability grouping. Graham makes the claim that “pooling students of varying ability levels inherently compromises the quality of education” but provides little evidence to substantiate such a claim. In fact, the research suggests otherwise. Incorporating mixed ability groups—ones built on collaboration and fluid participation into the classroom can provide academic and social benefits for both high achieving and low achieving students alike, as —

noted by a number of educational researchers whose roots are found in Robert Slavin (1986), Walter Secada (1992) and Anne Wheelock (1994). But shouldn’t there be some sort of program in place to allow those “high achievers” to reach their fullest potential? Certainly, but I believe that should be the case for all children. Ability grouping merelyreplicates much of the ethnic and socioeconomic stratification that exists currently in schools. Attempting to categorize students as either low or high achievers, a process that occurs as early as third grade, is often permanent, and is often along ethnic and socioeconomic lines. Why don’t we place a focus on maintaining a highly rigorous, relevant cur-

riculum that is built upon good teachers and best practices—those privileges currently enjoyed by the “high achievers”—and enact that across all academic levels? Instead offocusing on the bottom, all students start at the top and stay there. It is amazing what high expectations and best practices will do for a seemingly “lowachieving” student All of a sudden, those categories become increasingly blurred and meaningless. In this instance, low, middle and high achievers alike are given “equal opportunity” to the best quality education possible. Graham’s right, that opportunity shouldn’tbe denied. Aaron Markham Trinity ’O9

Fantasy transition team

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the ensuing “Save Time: I.M. a Libertarian” program, the political science department is rolling out its inaugural fantasy transition team league in the form of a junior seminar. It will be taught by commissioner Peter Feaver, and it is giving game theory a whole new meaning! Feaver will be using default roster settings: three advisers, three potential cabinet appointments, one communications member, one potential CIA/FBI appointee and two utility players. Scoring will also be based on league defaults: one point per position paper, two points per policy influenced, three points per policy enacted, two points per quantity political capital earned, .75 points per month in office and -4 points per major scandal. Grade distribution: Top 25 percent of the league get As, middle 50 percent get Bs and the bottom 25 percent fail. The draft takes place the day before inauguration.

I’ll offer the rest of this space as a preseason ranking guide based on past performance, predicted outcome and injury status. 1. Rahm Emanuel (UTIL) —Emanuel is a virtual lock for the Chief of Staff position, having already accepted the role. Congressional record includes the badass HAMDT.4BO, amending H.R.2829 to prohibit the vice president’s office from using funds appropriated to the executive branch. Take that, Dick Cheney! Drawbacks: Doesn’t work on Shabbat, and triathlete status makes him prone to season-ending injuries. Projection: 173.5Fantasy points. 2. Valerie Jarrett (ADV, CAB)—Jarrett benefits from a close relationship with Obama (she gave Michelle ajob at City Hall in Chicago!). This bodes well for her fantasy production. Based on her quality output as the point woman in Obama’s tight-knit cadre of advisers during the campaign, expect her role as White House senior adviser to be substantial. Output boost could come in the form of an appointment to secretary of housing and urban development. Projection: 164.75 Fantasy points. 3. Arianna Huffington (UTIL) —Although she’s not likely to be offered or to take a post in the White House, she’s last season’s ranking Most Annoying Liberal, and thus controls a lot of clout. Former Obamatrons follow her every beck and call vis-a-vis her Huffington Post. We can guarantee her Web site will influence at least four major policies. Great sleeper pick for your UTIL slot. Projection: 151 Fantasy points.

4. Edward Rendell (CAB) —Secretaries of smaller departments are the most likely to direcdy influence policy because the president doesn’t have time to care enough to come up with his own program. Rendell, now being considered for secretary of energy or transportation, looks to continue a long career of consistent fantasy production. Extra points for this current governor of Pennsylvania for helping the re-election campaign by courting a major swing state, blue collar workers and party fringe members all at once. Projection: 143Fantasy points. 5. Dick Lugar (CAB) I have a feeling Sen. Lugar, despite reluctance now, will be hard-pressed to turn down the secretary of defense role if it’s offered to him. Bonus points: simultaneously “reaching across the aisle” and opening up a GOP Senate seat for contention two years ahead of schedule. Projection: 139Fantasy points. 6. Anthony Zinni (CAB, NSC) —Unlike Jay Bilas, I have no problem giving Blue Devils credit where credit is due. He’ll wield biggame influence in the inexperienced Obama team. Projection: 138.5Fantasy points. 7. Gregory Craig (ADV, UTIL)—If scoring defaults gave points for rhyming names, Greg Craig would be tops. Although this is unfortunately not the case, Craig still looks like a top-tier performer. Pegged as the White House counsel, a typically lowimpact position, Craig establishes his value based on the launch-pad nature of the job. Former counsels include big-name players —

like Alberto Gonzales and fantasy flame Harriet Miers. Projection: 126Fantasy points. 8. William Ayers (CAB) —Ayers is considered the frontrunner for secretary of education. He has not only served on an educational board with the president-elect, but he’s also the big man’s best friend and closest confidant Projection: 108Fantasy points. 9. Warren Buffett (ADV, CAB)—His name was tossed around on both sides of the presidential debate as a potential secretary of the Treasury. Upside, he’s very very good with money, and would single-handedly save the economy. Downside, he’s not seriously being considered for the job. Multiply impact times probability, though, and you still get solid numbers. Projection: 102.5 Fantasy points. 10. Hillary Clinton (CAB) —If Andruw Jones taught us anything this year, it’s that bigtime players don’t necessarily produce big-time numbers. Clinton commands some of the best raw stuff on the market, but personal tensions between the senator and the president-elect could spell trouble for your fantasy transition team. Currently she’s being vetted for secretary of state (and she’d produce big-time in that role), but she has to overcome some liabilities before you consider her for your draft namely, the potential scandal points lost on her should she turn down the role, and shady finances from her husband. Buyer beware. Projection: 93.75 Fantasy points.

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

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