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Duke’s Board of Trustees spent the weekend culling information about—rather than passing resolutions on—the underlying structures that have kept its finances relatively secure.

“There is a fact that we are in a very challenging financial time for everyone,” Chair Robert Steel, Trinity ’73, said in an interview with The Chronicle Saturday. “The good news is that Duke has been very prudently and conservatively managed from a financial perspective Robert Steel for quite awhile. No. 2, we also have very, very good day-to-day controls. And the combination of having been managed prudently and having good controls puts us in a position of having to work through the current challenges as well as one can.”

Although officials have said they anticipate that more students may seek financial aid, this need will be cushioned by the 2005 Financial Aid Initiative, which has reached its overall $3OO million goal.

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What a difference 15 days can make.

Just two weeks after defeating Michigan in the 2K Sports Classic final in Madison Square Garden, No. 4 Duke could not contain the Wolverines’ Princeton-style offense the second time around, falling 81-73 in a sold-out Crisler Arena Saturday. It was the Blue Devils’ first loss of the season.

Playing in an atmosphere usually reserved forfootball games at Michigan Stadium, the Blue Devils (8-1) shot 21.2 percent from 3-point range and missed countless open shots in their second road game this week against a Big Ten opponent.

“We knew they were a good team. They played with us for most of that [2K Sports] game, and we pulled away at the end,” junior guard Jon Scheyer said. “We’ve played hungry all year, but today I don’t think we played hungry.... ! don’t know what it was about this game.”

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Retired Army Gen. Eric Shinseki, Grad ’76, will serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of the veterans affairs department, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

Obama announced Shinseki’s appointment Sunday at a news conference recognizing the 67th anniversary of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor.

“When I reflect on the sacrifices that have been made by our veterans and I think about how so many veterans around the country are struggling even more than those who have not served—higher unemployment rates, higher homeless rates, higher substance-abuse rates, medical care that is inadequate—it breaks my heart, and I think that General Shinseki is exactly the right person who is going to be able to make sure that we honor our troops when they come home,” Obama told NBC News’ Tom Brokaw in an interview taped earlier for broadcast Sunday on “Meet the Press.”

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Retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, Grad 76, was named President-elect Barack Obama'sVeterans Affairs secretary-designate Sunday.

In the last five years, college athletics recruiting has become an enterprise, and to keep up, coaches are forced to offer scholarships earlier than ever.

The University approved a change in admissions policy this year to afford coaches of Olympic sports more flexibility in the timeline of offering scholarships and admitting reaches and stretches.

The policy’s revision will not affect the number of total players on any team or the number of total athletes at the University. Instead, it will only impact the number of athletes in one particular team’s class.

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When students return for the Spring, an annual sight will be missing from West Campus—crowds of well-dressed girls making their rounds in the Panhellenic Association’s formal recruitment process.

This year’s recruitment will take place on East Campus, a departure from where it has been traditionally held on West, said senior Ruthie Chen, Panhel’s vice president ofrecruitment and membership.

“There’s been a trend of us having difficulty obtaining spaces that we need for the recruitment process,” she said. “We wanted to see what it would look like on East Campus.”

Chen said the move to East was proposed by her predecessor, Samantha Prouty, Trinity ’OB, and added that feedback on the possibility of moving to East was “overwhelmingly positive” on last year’s post-recruitment survey.

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BOT from page 1 President Richard Brodhead and Steel said there has been no discussion of tuition changes; last March, the Trustees approved a tuition increase of 5 percent. Actual budgeting across the University will come inJanuary.

The agenda for this meeting was more than a year in the making, meant to deeply analyze financial modes for the University, health system, DUMAC and strategic planning and fundraising.

“As it turned out, that was a really good thing to be doing at this meeting,” Brodhead said. “We just want to make sure that we match our resources with our mission and aspiration in the right way going forward.”

Brodhead and Steel did not disclose specific numbers, noting that Duke has had to be adaptive but relies less on its nearly $8 billion endowment than some peers. DUMAC’s most recent quarterly report for fiscal year 2008 showed the endowment had increased by 6.2 percent —still a much more conservative gain than typical —but Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle in October that he expected much of that had been lost in the ensuing economic crisis. Other streams of revenue for the University include tuition, gifts and grants.

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poor kids, or the poorest of the rich kids,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations, said in an interview Thursday.

Steel added that University management is not a contest, but a matter of the individual execution of a University’s priorities. Brodhead and Steel noted that current projects may be completed at a differentpace or in a different order, depending on how each is funded or on the current economic outlook.

‘You choose your analogy, but our boat is quite strong in these seas and they’re rough seas, but it’s in good shape and we’re going to work through it,” Steel said, echoing a sentiment that the University would be remiss to table plans for expansion.

To prepare for different sorts of storms, the Trustees approved a $75 millionrenovation of decades-oldWest Campus roofs. Over the past week, 10 architects presented individual visions for New Campus to University officials. Schoenfeld has said that New Campus will be funded from several resources, including debt, philanthropy and reserves.

In addition, the University is planning a major hospital expansion, and renovations are also expected for the West Union Building and future Dining Pavilion—to which the Trustees gave the go-ahead—and Page Auditorium.

Looking off-campus, plans for the Fuqua School of Business’ ambitions abroad also moved forward, as the

Lack of permanent Panhel space on campus is a pressing issue and was one of the main catalysts for this move, Chen said.

“We need spaces that have the capacity for about 150 women at a time, and we need nine of those for an entire week during the same time slots every day,” she said.

“Even on West, spaces are less than ideal for conversation. If you end up in a theater like Griffith [Film Theater], you’re hard-pressed to figure out how to work with that space.”

Holding recruitment on West is becoming less feasible because competition from other events has made reserving spaces more difficult, said senior Jackie Dickey, the group’s director of administrationand order.

Even if East does prove suitable for formal recruitment, the task of securing these locations will simply occur again next

Trustees approved the establishment of an international corporation to account for the business portion of structuring overseas outposts.

The Trustees approved nine nominations for upcoming vacancies for its self-selecting Board. Brodhead and Steel declined to name the individuals being considered. Under the current bylaws, members of the Board are limited to two six-year terms. Some current Trustees have served more than this requirement, including Steel, because they were grandfathered in to the rules. Steel’s term will end in June.

In an interview, Brodhead and Steel acknowledged the prominence of many members of the Board in managing the international economic crisis—including Steel, president and chief executive officer ofWachovia; Trustees Vice Chair Richard Wagoner, chair and CEO of General Motors; John Mack, CEO of Morgan Stanley; Xiqing Gao, president of China Investment Corp.; Alan Schwartz, former CEO of Lehman Brothers. Brodhead and Steel said the University would remain entrusted to experts across a broad swath, consistent with the Board’s “vintage.”

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The Duke University Police Department has launched a larceny prevention program to keep students and their belongings safe through the holidays.

Operation Group Initiative for Theftprevention increases security in high-risk areas on and around campus, targeting public locations such as libraries and parking lots where the number of thefts has historically been high. The program began Nov. 26 and will conclude Jan. 6.

“We’re hardening the target—making it known that there’s nothing to steal so the thieves go somewhere else,” Maj. Gloria Graham said. ‘You can literally put police on every single corner, and you can’t eliminate crime. So our biggest issue is prevention—we don’t want [thieves] to think that Duke is a good place to go and steal things.”

The number of thefts on campus has decreased since Tuesday. Just one act of larceny was reported Thursday, Graham said, noting that a typical day this time of year witnesses several thefts.

But the overall number of thefts has increased in the last two weeks. Friday saw 13 reported car break-ins, mainly in the

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Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander Alumni Lot on Duke University Road and Frank Bassett Drive. Global Positioning System units left in plain sight were the most common stolen item.

Since then, DUPD has posted notices around campus alerting students to lock their doors and hide their valuables. Resident assistants and residence coordinators have also been notified to inform students of the uptick in crime, and extra patrols have been stationed in parking lots.

“If you see something, say something,” Graham said. “We’d much rather come

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doesn’t belong. Those arrests will make a big dent in the thefts this year as opposed to last year.”

More crimes tend to occur during the holiday months, Graham said. During the holiday season last year, there were 15 residential thefts ofunattended items, 17 auto burglaries and eight thefts of unattended laptops. Thieves frequently target laptops, iPods, cell phones and GPS units from cars, libraries and the Bryan Center, Graham noted.

“These criminals talk to each other,

Four years ago, Vinay Lekharaju envisioned himself as an accomplished investment banker after college.

But like many other I-banking hopefuls, he has been forced to explore other careers due to The current financial crisis.

Lekharaju now is a student in the Master of Engineering Management Program at the Pratt School of Engineering.

“I actually applied to quite a few companies and only got a few calls back,” he said.

“The economy makes it difficultand I don’t see it improving. Friends of mine are more or less apprehensive to go into investment banking while many are being laid off.”

Numbers show that many other financial job seekers from Pratt have turned to engineering instead.

Out ofPratt’s MEM Class of 2008,17 percent went into finance, according to MEM 2007-2008 employment statistics. But only about three students out of the 112-member MEM Class 0f2009 are interested in financial jobs, according to data collected by BusinessWeek in November. Most of the others said they want to pursue engineering jobs.

Xiaoyu Wang, a senior who is double majoring in biomedical engineering and economics, said engineering is a traditional job that society is always going to need.

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Operation Group Initiativefor Theft-prevention, a OUPD program to prevent thefts, began Nov. 26 and will run until Jan. 6.The initiative will increase security in areas on and around campus with a high risk of theft. and it be a false alarm.”

Operation GIFT has been effective so far, but given the size of Duke, campus will not be crime-free, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. The University will continue to work toward a reduction in crime, however, and the actions of a single individual could contribute to that decrease.

“I think it’s more of the same—everybody use their eyes and ears, and when in doubt, let the police check it out,” Moneta said. “There’s nothing remarkably sophisticated about neighborhood watches. In some respects, we just need to have the entire student body and University take on the whole neighborhoodwatch approach.”

In recent weeks, trespassers were also observed in residence halls, but their presence was reported to DUPD by students because the police do not patrol inside dormitories, Graham said.

“We treat the residence halls as your guys’ houses,” she said. “That’s why it was important that students and residents living there have the opportunity to let us know when someone is in there that

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Franzoni said an influx of more engineers would not be unusual because historically different engineering sectors have gone through oscillating periods of high and low

“Engineers, doctors, lawyers, scientists—those are jobs that aren’t hot because they don’t have the glamour or the ‘it’ factor,” he said. “But those people will always be in demand and, in times of economic slowdown, are still going to be in demand.”

Engineers will always be needed to address many of today’s serious problems, saidLinda Franzoni, Pratt associate dean for student affairs. She said fields like the environment, medical technology and alternative energy will require the skill sets of engineers to create innovative solutions for their problems.

And especially given the shortage of engineers in companies in the last 10 to 15 years, the profession will likely remain in high demand, said George Truskey, chair of the biomedical engineering department.

“There has been a very heavy demand of engineers, such that we have needed to get engineers from foreign countries,” he said. “With that, we have even needed to change our immigration laws.”

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“There has been a very heavy demand for engineers, such that we have needed to get engineers from foreign countries.... With that, we have even needed to change immigration laws.”

George Truskey, biomedical engineering department chair “There have been times throughout history when certain engineering fields were popular and then fell out of popularity,” she said. “It is probably expected that there

will be cycles both in employment prospects and popularity in any given field.”

Engineering may be a stable occupation, but people still need a background and commitment to engineering to pursue a career in it, Truskey said.

“Engineering is a pretty demanding program,” he added. “You can’t just say, ‘the economy is bad and so I’ll become an engineer.’”

Although Lekharaju said he will consider trying to get into financial services again when the economic situation improves, for now he will focus on pursuing a career in information technology consulting.

Wang said even though he thinks more students like Lekharaju might pursue investment banking jobs again when the financial crisis subsides, he doubts the field’s popularity in the long-term.

“People usually go for what’s hot,” he said. “In the ’9os, it was [information technology] and computers. Recently, it has been investment banking, but down the line it may be something else entirely. Hot jobs are going to pay the most, but it’s never going to last.”

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Going into halftime, No. 12 Duke’s sloppy offensive play had given it only a fourpoint lead against Michigan. It looked as if it would be another close finish against an unranked opponent, But that all changed in the first six minutes of the second half.

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Kevin Borseth, the Wolverines’ head coach, pointed to Cheek’s two 3-pointers in the first 1:30 of the half as the turning point in the contest. “[Cheek] came in there right in the nick of time at the start of the second half and got two baskets,” Borseth said. “And that really separated the game.”

Cheek’s bombs ignited Duke’s 15-4 run in the first seven minutes of the half. And on the other side of the court, the team’s defense clamped down and held Michigan’s shooters in check by forcing them to go I-for-5 from the field.

The defense was strong throughout the tilt. The Blue Devils dominated on the glass with a 46-22 advantage, and played with discipline when they went after die ball. Duke only registered 11 fouls and held Michigan (54) to just two free throw attempts for the endre game. This stood in sharp contrast to MAYA SALWENAHE CHRONICLE

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There is no question the Blue Devils are hurt-

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Jasmine Thomas, who sprained her MCL over a week ago. Hurting without backup point guard Chelsea Hopkins, who just underwent surgery on her knee. Hurting without any true floor leader who has the ability to run the offense.

And Sunday, Duke’s 30 turnovers were proof of just how deeply the injuries at the point are affecting the team.

Playing without a point guard is usually the kiss of death for teams. In their last contest against lowa, Duke seemed capable of executing efficiently without a reliable point guard, committing a season-low eight turnovers.

But three days later, the ip Vrailie Blue Devils coughed the ball U P enou gh i n their 6045 win Analysis against Michigan for a new season high. In a year already filled with unexpected surprises—including a loss to Hartford Nov. 21—Duke can only hope this game isn’t an indication of where the team is headed.

“Any time you have 30 turnovers, it will never just be one of those games,” senior Abby Waner said. “So you hope to never have one of those games ever again. We are hurting without [Thomas], and I think that’s evident.”

With Keturah Jackson moving over to point, the team has attempted to bandage its injury woes until Thomas returns, which could be in time for Duke’s Dec. 16 matchup against No. 4 Stanford. And as if Duke wasn’t suffering enough, Jackson left the game with 10 minutes remaining after sustaining a hip injury.

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Even without Thomas or Hopkins, the Blue Devils’ reliance on one thing carried them past Michigan’s threat of an upset: senior leadership. Waner, center Chante Black and forward Carrem Gay each played more than 30 minutes Sunday. With Black dominating from the block, Waner waited on the wings, either to take the shot from behind the arc or split the defenses with one of her six assists. And after failing to break double digits since the first contest of the season, Gay scored 12 points in addition to her team-high nine rebounds.

“There was great leadership on the floor,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Abby played a whole lot of minutes out there. Carrem did some great things and really led us defensively. And I thought Te was rock solid and poised in what she was doing.“ There was only so much the three seniors were able to accomplish on the court, though. Having the three seniors play so many minutes didn’t come without a cost. The threerecorded 15 combined turnovers, with Waner giving up eight.

“Eight turnovers is just absolutely ridiculous,” Waner said. “I think its a matter offocus.

On games like this where you feel like you’re on the verge of getting a run, it’s really easy to start being loose with the ball and wanting to make more things happen than what’s actually there and playing sound basketball.”

Luckily for Duke, conference play is still a month away, with the team set to face Miami Jan. 9. With no other choice, the Blue Devils can only bandage up their wounds and march through the rest of their schedule. Duke is hurting and there’s no doubt about it. But the Blue Devils proved Sunday that their season is far from lost.

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Devils clinging to a 53-50 lead in the late stages of Saturday’s game against Michigan, the Wolverines’ Zack Novak drilled a 3-pointer from the right wing.

GregPaulus tried to counter with a three ofhis own on the following possession.

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Andafter another Novak 3-pointer—this time from the left corner —Michigan had the lead for good, largely thanks to plays exactly Lame like th e ones in that 29second snapshot. c Analvsis “To me, those two ;

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head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of the Novak hits with around 8 minutes left in play.

“That’s what I’m talking about maturitywise. No matter what’s happened, at that point you say, ‘That’s it. We got it. We got the lead, we need to stop them.’"

But Duke failed to do that, in part because the Blue Devils were unable to counter the Wolverines’ offensive success with baskets of their own. Despite attempting more than twice as many 3-pointers as Michigan, Duke made the same number of shots from that distance: seven.

And prior to a 4-for-6 surge from beyond the arc in the final three minutes when the Blue Devils were already down by nine, Duke was a paltry 3-of-27 from long range, including 2-of-l8 in the first half.

The Blue Devils’ 33 attempts were a season high, and the game was the third straight in which the team launched more than 20 threes after falling below that mark in its first six contests.

“Some shots are going to fall. Some shots aren’t,” sophomore guard Nolan Smith said. “We’re going to keep shoodng our bullets, and maybe next time they’ll

fall. That’s just the way it went tonight.”

The loss, however, continued an unsettling trend for Duke. The Blue Devils have shot less than 30 percent from beyond the arc in five of their nine games this season.

Their two worst performances have come against Michigan’s 1-3-1 zone defense.

Duke was just 4-of-19 in the 2K Sports Classic final Nov. 21.

“That’s what that zone gives you,” Krzyzewski said. “Obviously, it was not a very good shooting night.... If we blew them out of the gym in the first half by hitting nine of them, then we would’ve been God’s gift to the 3-point shot. That’s just the way the game is played.”

The Blue Devils stayed within striking distance by shooting a blistering 75 percent on 2-pointers when they were able to successfully attack the zone. But with more than half of their attempts coming from long range, their struggles from that distance eventually caught up with them.

Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer epitomized the disparity between the inside and outside shooting percentages, combining to go 1 l-for-14 inside of the arc but 2-for-14 behind it.

“We had some good shots, but maybe we didn’t shoot them with confidence, and we took some rushed shots,” Scheyer said. “Those are going to end up being bad shots if you shoot them like that. When we got the ball inside, we were successful. We just didn’t stick with it.”

As a result, Duke suffered its first loss of the year against a team it beat by 15just over two weeks ago. And the Blue Devils know that shooting 21 percent from beyond the arc is not going to be good enough going forward, no matter who they’re playing.

“Those same shots are shots that if you don’t take them, then you don’t deserve to win,” Krzyzewski said. “But you’ve got to take them.”

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dance—or simply a shot at revenge—Michigan was more visibly animated and energetic than the Blue Devils for the entire game. Duke, which was playing its second road game in five days the week before final exams, came out flat and failed to get into a rhythm long enough to put Michigan away and take the crowd out ofit.

“It’s a tough week for us,” Krzyzewski

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92,000 fewer fans than they’re used to, but even Lloyd Carr and Rich Rodriguez must have been impressed by the atmosphere inside Crisler Arena Saturday afternoon.

On a day of the week typically reserved forfootball in Ann Arbor—although not for any longer this season—a capacity crowd of said. “We didn’t handle it in a mature way.

13,751, including Carr We didn’t have energy today.” and Rodriguez, was in atAs the Wolverines stayed in the game Notebook tendancefor Michigan’s late into the second half, the fans become biggest home win in more and more of a factor. After freshman years. And the Wolverine fans made themselves heard, from the opening tip to the final buzzer, when they rushed the court after their team’s first win against Duke since 1997, which Michigan also won 81-73 in Crisler Arena.

[The Blue Devils] play standing room only wherever they go, and that’s a credit to what they’ve done,” Michigan head coach John Beilein said. “But it is also, I think that there are some people that are curious because we were able to split in New York against two top-5 teams.”

Now, after their second win of the season against the nation’s fourth-ranked team, the Wolverines might be on their way to building a resume that will get them into the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1998.

And it may be thanks to a crowd that isn’t known for being one of the best in the Big Ten—only 8,190 showed up for a 66-64 win over Savannah State Nov. 29—but that made its presence felt against Duke.

“It’s party time when we come to town, so everywhere is tough,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Come here all the time, and that’s when you have a really great arena. But they were great today, and any team at any school deserves that type of support for every game.”

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Jon Scheyer pulled the Blue Devils back within one on the following possession, but Duke never regained the lead.

At that point, the Michigan fans were not about to let their team blow the lead.

And despite a late barrage of Blue Devil 3pointers, they didn’t. An early difference in intensity was too much to overcome.

“They played harder than we did,” Krzyzewski said. “We wanted it—I’m not saying our kids didn’t want it—but they really played hard and well the whole game.

They deserved to win.”

With a long break ahead of them, the Blue Devils will have to wait until Dec. 17 to have a chance to show they are not the team that came out flat Saturday afternoon. Not only will Duke be back in Cameron Indoor Stadium then, but it will also be without the end-of-semester distractions that plagued it against the Wolverines.

“There’s a lot of interruptions in a basketball season,” Krzyzewski said. “If you have extraordinary talent, sometimes you can just overcome that. But we don’t have that. We have really good talent.”

And for one afternoon at least, that wasn’t enough.

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After the ensuing Duke timeout, Scheyer hit an open layup to cut the lead to one.

That, however, was the closest the Blue Devils would get. Behind the strong inside play ofDeShawn Sims—who gave Duke fits all afternoon en route to a game-high 28 points—Michigan opened up a nine-point lead with Just more than three minutes to play and never looked back.

“I think at tough points in this game, the crowd, their team, their coaching staff were terrific, and they were able to make big plays,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They made some really big plays when we got two leads in the second half.”

The two teams played evenly for the game’s first 30 minutes, seesawing through eight lead changes .with no team opening up a lead of more than six points. Early in the second half, after junior Kyle Singler’s only three of the game and a few baskets by Scheyer gave Duke a 44-40 lead, it looked as if the Blue Devils would build a sustainable lead.

Sims, however, would not let that happen. The junior forward scored 17 of his 28 points in the second-half, many of which came from inside the paint or at the foul line, where he went 6-for-7 down the stretch.

“We’ve been known for our defense and rebounding, but they picked us apart tonight,” sophomore guard Nolan Smith said. “They were able to get into our paint and score with ease, at will, and that’s the main thing.”

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Despite the many misses from the perimeter, Duke found itself very much in the game in the second half, but could not get the defensive stops when it counted. When the threes finally started to fall as the Blue Devils played catch-up in the game’s final minutes, Wolverine guards Manny Harris and Kelvin Grady secured the ball and prevented Duke from causing any turnovers.

With 1:36 left, Harris found a seam in the Blue Devil defense, blowing by Scheyer for an emphatic dunk that put the Wolverines up 72-65 and sent the Maize Rage into a frenzy —a feeling that will stick with Duke now, but the Blue Devils hope will help them in the long run.

“If you just play people so that you can have wins, then eventually it’ll catch up to you,” Krzyzewski said. “If you put yourself in that [atmosphere], maybe you get a little bit better and hopefully by the end of the year, you’ll have a chance to play for something really important.”

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Duke advances, but loses in NCAA tourney Blue Devils swept by UCLA in second round Just 24 hours after perhaps its biggest win of the year, Duke’s season came to an abrupt end in the NCAA tournament Saturday.

The Blue Devils advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament with a 32 win over No. 25 San Francisco FriBgSS DUKE day before being shut out by ninthseeded UCLA to duke end their season Saturday in Pauley Palivion in Los Angeles, Duke (25-9) started the weekend well, advancing to face the Bruins by coming from behind to beat San Francisco (22-8). The Blue Devils trailed 2-1 after three sets before stonning back to win the last two behind junior Rachael Moss, who finished with 16 kills and 17 digs, and sophomore Becci Burling, who posted a .467 hitting percentage.

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The Blue Devils had less success the next night, though, when they ran into a UCLA juggernaut in the tournament’s second round.

The Bruins (22-10) dominated, sweeping all three sets and failing to surrender more than 19points in any set.

Once again, Moss dominated the Duke boxscore. contributing 11 kills and 14 digs for her fifth straight double-double. Burling, 100, added nine kills and two blocks, committingjust five attack errors in the two postseason matches.

The loss Saturday ended the careers of seniors Aana Wherry, Carls and Nourman.

In their four years at Duke, the trio led Duke to four NCAA tournament appearances, two ACC championships—including one this year—and a combined record of 103-28.

—from staff reports

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W.BASKt I bALLfromSWpage2 the offense’s struggles to hold onto the ball, evident in its season-high 30 turnovers.

Borseth was quick to give credit to the Blue Devils’ tenacious defense.

“Duke is so big around the basket,” Borseth said. “All those big kids, they just get around there and either alter your shot, change your shot, block your shot, make you rush your shot—those kind of things.”

In a style of play more in line with the ACC than the Big Ten, the Wolverines relied on the long ball to keep them in the game early. They started off strong, going 4-for-6, and did not make any shots from inside the arc until there were nine minutes left in the half. Duke struggled over the same stretch, and the game went back-and-forth for the rest of the half.

The Blue Devils took the halftime break as an opportunity to shake off their early struggles and get back to playing the way they know they can.

“I don’t think there is anything I said that was tremendously significant,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said about her halftime talk. “We were just talking about trying to finish strong and playing our game, and we just acknowledged in the first half that we didn’t do some things. We missed some shots, were off balance, things like that. We just have to focus and keep our poise.

We just tried to regroup a little bit, and I thought the team did a great job. We came out, we found each other.”

Duke’s three senior captains—Abby Waner, Chante Black, and Carrem Gay—all stepped up in different ways in the second half. With Jasmine Thomas and Chelsea Hopkins already out due to injuries, Waner took over the point when Keturah Jackson, the team’s third point guard of

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SeniorCarrem Gaydoubled her scoring average with 12points and grabbed a team-high ninerebounds. the season, went down with a hip pointer injury. Jackson is expected back in two days, but Waner stepped in with a teamleading six assists.

Gay came out aggressively and doubled her average scoring output, dropping in 12 points. She was also the most dominant on the boards, grabbing a team-high nine rebounds.

And Black came on strong at the end of the game, scoring seven of her teamleading 13 points in the final seven minutes.

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ADMISSIONS from page 1 team used to be able to recruit two stretches and four reaches to his team and had a set number of players per class. A stretch is less academically qualified than a reach. Now, the coach’s scholarship class can vary from year to year, as long as the overall number of players stays the same.

The new proposal does not affect admissions procedures for the football or basketball teams, but it does adopt the model of flexibility that those programs already use. It also serves to formalize certain policies that are already in place.

“It occurred to us that we could do with the other sports what we currently dowith football and basketball,” Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag said. “The way it’s always worked is they have a limited number of scholarships, and how those scholarships get distributed over the years is up to them. Coaches will feel greater flexibility and won’t have to worry about underusing or overusing spots in a given year.”

The plan, which was presented before the Academic Council Nov. 20 and approved by Provost Peter Lange, went into effect immediately.

Duke’s Office of Admissions has more stringent requirements than some of its peers, which can offer scholarships to students before their applications are complete. The admissions branch will not lose that control now, as an admissions counselor will personally interview Olympic sports reaches and stretches on campus. Admissions officials typically interview reaches and stretches, but this policy clarifies that practice.

In addition, if an Olympic coach brings in a reach or stretch who leaves Duke in bad standing, the coach will lose that spot for the four years he would have been at the University. If, however, a coach goes after a studentathlete whom the admissions department would have admitted anyway, that player will not count toward the team’s total number ofathletes.

That type of dichotomy is indicative of the carrotand-stick approach of the plan, said Michael Gillespie, chair of the Athletic Council.

“It’s intended to keep [coaches] from taking risks that they probably shouldn’t take,” he said. “On the other hand, if they bring a candidate who would otherwise go through the admissions process pretty easily, we don’t count that as a spot on their team. The goal there is to bring in people who are going to raise the academic profiles of the team —that’s the incentive.”

The new policy will likely not significantly impact the number ofathletes at Duke, Guttentag said. Admissions and athletic departments studied data and found that the number of athletes per class was “remarkably constant,” he added.

“In the aggregate, when you look at all the sports together, it’ll average out so that year to year, the numbers will stay about as constant as they have been,” Guttentag said.

No coach would be myopic enough to bunch all their reaches and stretches into one class, because they plan for the long run, Gillespie added.

Although admissions and athletics typically collaborate, the process of writing the athletic department’s first strategic plan last year helped pinpoint some immediate areas for improvement and bring some policy revisions to the forefront, said Associate Director ofAthletics Brad Berndt, who oversees academic affairs and worked closely with Guttentag and Lange.

Coaches of Olympic sports were all in favor of the move, Berndt said, even if not all of them embrace the push for early recruiting.

“Some teams are offering kids positions on teams and scholarship money as early as sophomore year, and that’s a trend that’s growing in nature,” said Robbie Church, head coach of the women’s soccer team. “But I appreciate [the Office of Admissions’ effort]—I think all the coaches do—to try to work with us and understand the landscape that if we wait so long, there’s not going to be any quality players.”

The admissions and athletics departments will review the amendment at the end of the next school year to determine its successes and flaws.

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Va. Tech tops BC to win ACC TAMPA, Fla. A pair of Virginia Tech fans in the South end zone seats held a sign above their heads, summing up the Hokies’ jubilation and Boston College’s disappointment.

“History Repeats Itself,” the message began. “VT over BC when it counts.”

Tyrod Taylor scored two first-half touchdowns and Darren Evans ran for 114 yards and one touchdown in a less than half-fullRaymond James Stadium Saturday, helping the Hokies become the first two-time winner of the ACC championship with a 30-12 victory.

It was the fourth meeting in the past 14 months between the one-time

Big East rivals. Boston College (9-4) won during the regular season this year and last, but the Hokies (9-4) prevailed for the second straight time with the league’s BCS spot and a trip to the Orange Bowl on the line.

“That was real sweet,” Evans said after becoming the sixth player in league history to rush for more than 1,000 yards as a freshman. “It would be good to get the regular-season games, but you can’t be too greedy.”

The Hokies are just that when it come to collecting ACC tides. They’ve won three in the five years they’ve been in the conference.

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Although each school was allotted about 10,000 tickets for Saturday’s rematch, the Eagles and Hokies reportedly combined to sell fewer than 5,000.

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Thirteen on-campus car break-ins were reported Friday. DUPD has started a larceny prevention program that will run until Jan. 6.

ANTI-THEFT from page 3 they know each other, they share information with each other,” she said. “When an area’s an easy target, they talk about it. When there’s heavy patrol in an area, they talk about it, too.”

Crimes and reported thefts are logged each week, and DUPD will conduct weekly crime analysis meetings to examine the effectiveness of Operation GIFT beginning Tuesday. Adjustments to the program will be made

accordingly.

The goal of the initiative is to reduce the number of incidents by 25 percent, Graham said, noting that the reduction has not yet been reached.

Still, Moneta said the crime rate on campus is relatively low for the size of the community, and no patterns have surfaced regarding the perpetrators.

“Crimes on or near campus are just crimes of opportunity,” he said. “We just need to take those opportunities away.”

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SHINSEKI from page 1 Shinseki—then the Army chief of staff—gained notoriety for testifying before Congress that the invasion could be complicated by ethnic tensions in the region, predicting that several hundred thousand soldiers would be needed to restore order, The NewYork Times reported Saturday.

Shinseki’s remarks did not sit well with former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and Shinseki soon retired from the army, according to the Times. But many felt Shinseki was redeemed when President George W. Bush called for a surge in troops in 2007, gaining him a following among soldiers and veterans of the Iraqi war.

Some political minds have cited Shinseki’s appointment as an attempt by Obama to further distance himself from the Bush administration, the Times reported.

Shinseki, 66 and a Vietnam veteran, will run the government’s second largest department—responsible for providing active military and veterans as well as their dependents with health care and other benefits—and oversee more than 240,000 employees, The Washington Post reported.

Hailing from Obama’s home state of Hawaii, Shinseki was once the highest-ranking Asian American serving in the armed forces and was twice awarded the Purple Heart during his time in Vietnam. Shinseki received a master of arts degree in English literaturefrom Duke.

year, she said.

“It becomes a huge run-around trying to get all these spaces together, which is actually one of the frustrations of having to deal with this every year—having to rebook [and reconfirm] these spaces,” Chen said. “For this one week especially, it becomes a huge stress on us.”

Dickey added that East locations—which include Gilbert-Addoms Down Under, the Southgate Residence Hall, the Upper East Side of the Marketplace, the Nelson Music Room and the Randolph Residence Hall commons rooms—would be more convenient than spaces on West.

“In past years, we’ve had girls trying to walk from [the Levine Science Research Center] to Edens [Quadrangle] in heels in 25 minutes, and that’s just not fun for anyone,” Dickey said. “Also, we hope that [potential new members] might be more comfortable on their own turf.... West is huge and pretty confusing for some freshmen.”

Faith Villanueva, a freshman who is registered for for-

mal recruitment, said holding the process on East would benefit a majority of potential new members.

“I think most of the people who are [going through recruitment] are freshmen anyway, so it’s really nice that it’s so close,” she said. “I actually don’tknow anyone other

“We hope that [potential new members] might be more comfortable on their own turf.”

—Jackie Dickey, senior and director of administration and order for Panhel than freshmen who are rushing.”

Chen said approximately 400 girls were registered for formal recruitment this past Friday but acknowledged that the number typically decreases slightly as individuals choose to drop out before or during the process.

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Over the course of the past of transparency and accountmonth, prominent organizaability, we have decided to and intions publish it. dividuals from Here goes: editorial —The Durham across the University community have been Performing Arts Center: Tatconducting a gift exchange too. Really, you can just have it —Elizabeth Dole: Ted in the holiday spirit. All parties involved thought long Kaufman’s old position at the and hard about what to give School of Law —with a joint their secret partners. Now, evappointment at the Divinity eryone is reaping the benefits School. of what promises to become —Tallman Trask: A balsa a happy tradition for years to wood modeling kit that can be used to build the only vercome.

The Chronicle has been sion ofNew Campus anyone’s likely to see for awhile. investigating this Santa business since it began, and final—The Weedicle: A nice big ly obtained the list of who reprinting press. ceived which presents. (Sadly, —The Plaza: Great things

that happen —David Cutcliffe: An eleventh-hour bowl invitation.

—Selador: The Collected Works of Jefferson Davis and diplomatic recognition from the University.

—Blair Sheppard: A Duke outpost on the moon to be used for the new Intergalactic Semester Abroad.

—Kevin White: The ear plugs he’ll need for Few. —Scott House: 20 bonus points on their Residential Group Assessment Committee score.

—Ubuntu House: A small village in the developing world that’s willing to play dodgeball all the time.

—Sarah Schroth: A real suit of armor and a host of vassals to go along with it.

ontherecord Even on West spaces are less than idealfor conversation. Ifyou end up in a theater like Griffith [Film Theater], you’re hard-pressed to figure out how to work

—Residents of Central Campus: Sorry about the bats. Seriously, we are.

—Joe Alieva: Boatloads of Unrivalled Ambition at LSU. —Steve Nowicki: Unlimited focus groups for a whole

year.

—Subway: Coal.

—Chick-Fil-A: All of Subway’s

profits.

—R. Sanders Williams; Three more job tides.

—Employees in the construction of Few: A well-deserved break.

—Larry Moneta: A Christmas ham. (Wait a minute.)

—Dean Sue: An ab rolling machine.

—Duke University Union: A bunch of paper planes.

—Wilson Gym: A neighborhood watch.

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—Richard Wagoner; A job offer for $2 and a bailout of $34 billion.

—PeterLange: The Collected Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

—Richard Brodhead: The Annotated R.L. Stine reader, with critical essays in the back.

—Bob Steel: A new start and a great time to go back to graduate school.

—SAE fraternity: A Magnum, P.I. of their own.

—The Cameron Crazies: The old mascot back.

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This

time of year, anyone can write a ret-

rospective of 2008, but what’s the fun in that? You already know what happened.

While everyone else bores you by rehashing the events of the previous year, your fearless columnist will give you the very first retrospective of the upcoming year.

The year 2009 was, perhaps, the rockiest in Wall Street history.

Despite bailouts of the financial sector, the auto

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industry, states, cities, several major newspapers, Ben and Jerry’s, Krispy Kreme, Crocs, the butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers, Cook Out, the tobacco companies, UNC and Jon Stewart, the stock market lost most of its remaining value, as investors turned to more stable investments, such as gold, Treasury bonds and hoarding cans of soup. The lousy market left New Yorkers even more depressed than the Mets’ announced move to Las Vegas did, and is a major reason why Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s bid for an unprecedented third term ended in a loss to Hank Steinbrenner. New Dubai

(formerly Michigan) fared even worse; after the bailout failed to keep the auto companies on the road, it was sold to a group of Middle

Eastern sheiks. Michael Moore announced plans to make a documentary about his home state’s plight, but had to cancel when he realized there aren’t any Republicans in power anymore and he’d have to mock the Democrats this time.

Naturally, this made life difficult for the Obama administration, whose approval rating took quite a beating after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s husband attempted to seduce Queen Elizabeth 11. By year’s end, the nation’s most popular politician was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who calmed California’s furor over gay marriage with his immortal statement, “I believe that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.” Sarah Palin, continuing her quest to avoid the spotlight and focus on Alaska, was named Duke’s 2010 commencement speaker, which fueled speculation concerning a Palin-Munger fusion ticket in 2012.

K-ville was struck by tragedy when the Blizzard of 2009 occurred during personal checks and, despite the claims of some, Natty Light didn’t cure hypothermia. Duke basketball won the ACC title after a bird flew into Tyler Hansbrough’s mouth in February, leaving him unable to play the rest of the season, and we made it to the Elite Eight. The most exciting sport at Duke, though, was football. The ACC made history this year when every single team led the conference for one week. Duke finished the season on top, and was scheduled to meet Ball State in the Fiesta Bowl. At year’s end, Coach David Cutcliffe announced the hiring of former Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis as his offensive coordinator, generating great optimism about the future of Duke Dining Services.

“Lost” fans had both good news and bad news in 2009. The secret behind the show’s mysterious plot was revealed; unfortunately, this occurred when the show’s writers were arrested for possession and use of “magic” mushrooms.

Amy Winehouse sobered up and became a leading figure in the environmentalist movement, dating Leonardo DiCaprio and hosting endangered birds in her hair. Madonna’s love of New York sports figures continued to get her in trouble even after her marriage to Alex Rodriguez. After New York Jets first-round draft pick Michael Tauiliili spurned her advances, she moved in with newly hired Staten Island Community College football coach Rich Rodriguez, claiming she got him confused with Alex.

The biggest hits of 2009 were the new Star Trek and Sasha Baron Cohen movies and Dancing With the Stars, which pitted Brett Favre against Dick Cheney in the finale Fortunately, the situation in Iraq continued to improve in 2009; unfortunately, it improved so much that your job was outsourced there.

The global economic crunch threatened several countries’ currencies; Japan devalued the Pokemon card and the European Union held an emergency summit to make the Euro less funny-looking. Samoa managed to stay out of the headlines for another year. Neither global warming nor the Large Hadron Collider threatened the existence of Earth in 2009, but when Somali pirates hijacked a ship loaded with pirated DVDs of Pirates of the Caribbean, scientists warned that it could suck the planet into a black hole of irony.

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rise for the Honorable Chairman.

Thank you. Thank you all so much for standing one... last... time.

Is this really true, Duke? Have we come so quickly and irreversibly to the end of another semester, the first one that we’ve been able to spend .

together?

The answer is, as you chairman of the bored may have figured out, yes. monday, monday We’ve been through a lot together, mi amigos.

The Loop closing earlier, our football team disappointing us later, the new ACES causing the student body to burn Larry Moneta in effigy... it’s been a very good year.

In my never-ending quest to give my professors reason to fail me, I had plenty of time this week to think of how I wanted to frame my final anonymous column. Write about all the things that happened this Fall? Pssh, please. Write about all the things that every Duke student should do before they graduate? Talk about cliched. Write a poem about the Christmas season for all you nostalgic Dukies to enjoy? Booooorrriiinnnggg...

Which puts it right up my alley.

So, without further ado, I present to you my exam vision quest... otherwise known as “Mr. Chairman’s Opus.”

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On thefirst day ofChristmas my true huegave to me, A C+ in Chem 83.

On the second day of Christmas my true love gave to me, Two Locopops, and a C+ in Hold it, hold it That’s not it at all. I don’t know how that got in there. I apologize that you had to hear my terrible singing voice... but now, without further ado, the genuine article (pun intended); ’Twas the night before exams When all through the quad Not a creature was stirring, except Ryan Todd The stockings were hung on door handles with care In hopes that some roommates would know to beware The students were nestled all snug in their rooms WhileLeachman and Bonk stayed up plotting their dooms When out from the Blue Zone, there came such a clatter I sprangfrom my loft to see what was the matter Then what to my sleep-deprived eyes should appear But a gaggle ofpeople all covered in beer With speakers of such immense size and such weight I knew in an instant it must be Tailgate More rapid than freshmen to section they came I couldn’t help notice them greeting by name “Yo, Dasher! Sup Dancer? Oh Prancer, you vixen.

Don’t vomit! Hey stupid, look yonder, he’s blitzen!”

Their costumes were truly a sight to behold Needless to say, I was totally sold So out to the first lot with great haste I made In hopes Mr. Brightside might soon be played I threw on my hat and my T-shirt that read Don’t cry for Elvis, he’s not really dead” To follow the ruckus I ran from my dorm Hoping I too could soon be in rare form I went straight to my work, I spoke not a word And shotgunned with somebody dressed as Big Bird In no time at all I became rather merry My cheeks were like roses, my nose like a cherry In the midst of this all someone rang up my celly And it quivered all over like a bowlful of jelly I wondered aloud as to who it could be ’Til I opened my eyes and what did I see?

It had been but a dream, I awoke to the ringing Nearly 30 whole minutes the phone had been singing Running late to my test, I yelled in my wake Merry Christmas to all, and to all a great break.

Now, I know that some of you have made a game out of guessing who I am from week to week. To you, I say simply: Get a life. To the rest of you, however, I present a very dramatic, unexpected, altogether world-altering reveal that will quite possibly shake you to your very core and make you stay up nights as you contemplate that every minor witticism, every tiny, infinitesimal little keystroke in the semester-long history of the Chairman of the Bored was written by none other than the one, the only, the fabulously wonderful...

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lettertotheeditor The opportunity cost of DPAC The Dec. 4 editorial, “DPAC excitement and reservation,” is insipid and infuriating. The $46million Durham Performing Arts Center has four seats less than Carnegie Hall. The average ticket will be “around $68.”

Durham’s $67-million debt—bond and interest—will be settled in 2036; Duke already paid $7.5 million; and no one yet wants to buy naming rights. Consultants made rosy predictions, but predictions didn’t stop similar projects from flopping. (Google Randy Parton Theater, Asheville Civic Center and the National Whitewater Center.)

Additionally, DPAC will compete with successful local theaters (e.g. Manbites Dog Theater) on those owners’ dime.

Insipid: the editorial board approves of DPAC will little research, no analysis and vague platitudes about arts and community. Infuriating: Durham suffers from blight and poverty, aging public infrastructure, overburdened courts, perpetual crime and woefully under-performing schools. But $46 million is awarded to a yuppie’s dream “arts center”—and the

board doesn’t even give a damn

vious” that this story is completely and that we care about the members ofAlpha Omicron Pi.

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Abby Alger Trinity ’O9 Rumors unfounded The Panhellenic Association’s chapter presidents would like to respond to the statements about Alpha Omicron Pi published in the December Towerview’s “Rumor Mill.”

Not only were the statements about Alpha Omicron Pi unfounded, they were mean-spirited and callous. The Panhellenic chapter presidents, which included the president of Alpha Omicron Pi, collaborated extensively over the past years to help the sisters and leadership of Alpha Omicron Pi. The Panhellenic community has lost an integral part of its organization.

When the chapter presidents were informed about Alpha Omicron Pi’s decision to close their chapter, we were deeply saddened. We would like to recognize the dedicated work of Alpha Omicron Pi’s leadership, and we empathize with their members. Had the reporter discussed the issue with Panhellenic leadership, it would have been “ob-

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No one sees The Hills

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Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, “White Noise,”

two char-

acters visit a tourist attraction billed as “The Most

Photographed Bam in America.” Once there, one of them declares, “No one sees the bam... once you’ve seen the signs about the bam, it becomes impossible to see the bam.” In other words, when confronted with the now-omnipresent images of advertising and popular culture, it becomes impossible to tell which of your emotions are genuine and which are contrived At Christmas, this seems especially relm evant. Good cheer and the desire to go shopschneider 9 expected ping are guard yoilT ears! come December, no matter what your personal tastes or religious beliefs are. This is particularly nauseating this time of year, but the confusion of sincerity and prescribed emotions, as DeLillo points out, is a problem fundamental to modern society. And this is what makes me love MTV’s “The Hills.”

“The Hills” is fascinating, but people are skeptical when I tell them that I watch the show because it is interesting and not “as a joke.” They think I must be watching either out of pure escapism or out of a desire to watch it and condemn the cast as fake, superficial and dumb.

Most of this sentiment stems from the fact that the show is technically “reality television,” a classification that is only slightly more respected than child pornography.

Watching television of any kind is generally seen as a waste of time—the only shows that get any sort of intellectual respect are well-written dramas like “The Wire” or “Mad Men.” The rest is fluff. The logic behind this is that, supposedly, a show has to be smart to be interesting to smart people. Anything else is a guilty pleasure.

But this is only intellectual laziness. “The Hills” is not a “smart” show—a transcript of the dialogue probably reads like an anthology of small talk. It is not “well-written” or “well-acted” and the people on it do not come off as very intelligent. And yet it is more relevant than a lot of much better shows.

The complaint most often lodged against “The '

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Hills,” however, is that it isn’t “real.” It seems like every discussion of the show always hinges on how the show is staged, how unreal it is, how MTV sets up every encounter. When the villainous Heidi and Spencer got married last week, and several Web sites reported that they had actually failed to obtain a marriage license, this was supposed to be some perfect example about how their relationship is all fake. And all of this is supposed to detract from the worth of the show—it is apparendy very important to people that they not be lied to about the lives of people whom they shouldn’t really care about anyway.

This focus, however, is completely misguided. Today, as DeLillo points out, sincerity is overrated—the fact that it is not “real” is the point Certainly this show is not unique in trying to pass off a concocted situation as “reality,” but the show is differentfrom other reality programming in that the “stage” being set is actually the lives of its characters. In other words, the people featured on “The Hills” are not whisked away to some island or mansion to participate in some competition or tape confessionals—they are merely living their lives and allowing MTV’s producers to control a large part ofit.

One ofLauren’s “best friends,” for example, is Audrina. The fact that the two were actually introduced by the show’s producers and that their friendship was largely enabled by the filming of the show might seem to undermine the sincerity of their friendship. But they still lived together for two years, and Lauren really did cry when their friendship was in danger earlier this season. Their friendship is certainly staged, but that doesn’t make it any less real.

This is just one of many examples. Entire portions of the lives of the cast are governed by the show. So much so that it is impossible to tell which aspects are real and which are fake. And this is what makes the show so fascinating. It directly confronts the modem problem ofhow to distinguish between perception and reality.

For the cast of “The Hills,” DeLillo’s problem is especially true —the images they are faced with are themselves.

No one, not even them, can ever really see the cast of“The Hills.” And thatis why you should be watching.

John Schneider is a Trinity senior. This is his last column the semester.

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We lost control of this position during the Traffic Circle Surge disaster of the Keohane Expansion in the winter months. It was a risky call to come straight down the road—too exposed in the open—that cost us some good troops, and Gen. Keohane his job. A poor decision to give him command over the Keohane Dorm Expansion. From the Duke records our spies recovered, legacy appointments made die most sense. Obviously those days are long past. No one questions that we need the best for the job now. Gen. Keohane was immediately demoted and transferred to the spy corps.

There’s movement in the west tunnelway. From the sound of it, they may have one of our guys down here. I’m going to investigate.

Signing off. Cpl. Hard Townes, 2126 AT). made it out. I may be outside of one of I the medical center buildings. I’m not sure

what I saw, and in case they find me I am e-mailing this voice recording to everyone I can from my iPhone.

I volunteered for theLSRC trip to see ifwe could find something to kill these guys with.

Anything. I ended up in the B section. Some big chemical lab over Blue Express. The last door I checked had the letters AC.O.R.N.N. written over the top. I had to push hard to get it to open. The room had tons of cages, all empty and unlatched, two large cabinets on either sideof the room, some electronic monitors and a cold white table at the room’s center. As I walked in, I noticed dozens of syringes on the floor, some still half-full. There was a huge book by the open window. The window pane hadbeen shattered, a few shards remaining with bloody tips. The book was covered in small brown footprints. I opened it and began flipping through pages of diagrams and animal illustrations. There were pictures with squirrels and their brains exposed, drawings ofsquirrels hooked up to machines, and a few pictures toward the end of squirrels organized in packs. I flipped to the front of the book, to see when the book had been written. It was pretty old, 1993 I think. A few pages later, the intro began, “AC.O.R.N.N., or Animal C...”

Then something rusded to my right I looked around. A small squirrel was hanging off the edge of one ofthe cages, his nose pointed and eyesfixed on me. He didn’tflinch when I turned. They have no fear. I tried to reach for him, but he leapt off the cage and scurried to the door, running down the corridor to theleft as I tried to cut him off. I looked down the hallway to see the squirrel stop at a brown, thick mess at the end of the hall. He squeaked and then turned back to look and point at me. The brown mass lifted in unison. It began racing toward me. It was an entire army of squirrels, all coming right for me! I ran back in the room and slammed the door shut, locking it as I

backed away. The door shook as they slammed into it, some squirrels trying to fit underneath the door. I had to get out, and the window was the only way. I turned to the window, punched out the rest of the glass, and jumped on the sill.

There was cement below, and I was pretty high up. Then I remembered the bookand thought it might be useful. I turned around, squatted down and put my hand on the page I was just reading. That’s when I noticed the squirrels had stopped banging on the door. There was squeaking on the other side, but the squeaks seemed to be mixed in with something shaking, something metal. The shaking moved from the floor up the door. And then it inserted into the keyhole. It turned and the door unlocked. The knob was turning. I ripped the page out of the book and jumped down from

thewindow. My knees bentand buckled as I hit the ground and I fell on my back. I flipped up straight quick and ran out of there as fast as I could. I’m dizzy and I don’tknow where I am.

I think I’m somewhere in the medical center.

My ankle is panging and I’m all scraped up, but I think I’ve lost them.

I read the page I ripped. I think I know what’s going on. These squirrels aren’t natural. The page says that A.C.O.R.N.N. stands for Animal Control Operation to Rewire the Neural Network... oh God. End of recording.

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Earlier this semester I penned a piece about a lack of accountability and a poor promotion of ethical behavior among male athletes at Duke. I expected that this observation would rub some the wrong way, but I’d like to elaborate on my sentiments: If certain male athletic environments lend themselves to questionable ethical behavior (which I believe they do), it is in part because there is a lack of accountability and poor promotion ofethical behavior among Duke’s student body.

I’ve met plenty of Dukies whom I consider to be “good people,” inspiring individuals with good intentions. What I feel is missing are the vital elements of moral courage—the ability and sense of duty to do what is right when it is not easy, popular or promoted by the culture that one is part of—and a campus culture of high ethical expectations.

It’s not Just Duke that’s struggling with this issue.

Over the past decade Americans have faced countless examples of shady, illegal and unethical business practices. Concurrent with the explosion offair-trade and eco-friendly businesses were the ethical flops of Enron, WorldCom and the like. To combat the moral deterioration of big businesses, companies began instituting ethics training, reviewing official rules and standards with employees.

But it’s not as if these companies had no rules or standards prior to these incidents. Outside of the rules companies set are their unofficial expectations. Just like any other community or organization, businesses have their own unwritten laws and moral codes. When the culture of a company encourages doing what one can get away with as opposed to doing what is right, these ethical failings come as no surprise.

In high school, the issue was not that John wasn’t aware that it was wrong or illegal to videotape that young lady. The probability that 1. he could get away with it and 2. that his behavior was permissible among his set of friends and, evidently, among the rest of the student body deemed his actions acceptable given the standards of his community, regardless of the rules.

At Duke we’re constantly confronted with moral challenges for which rule books and ethics training could never have prepared us. Certainly I’ve struggled with my own development ofmoral courage, independent thought and action.

Retired Duke professor and Washington Post columnist William Raspberry wrote in an October 2005 column titled “The Price of Low Expectations,” “We are not inherently good or bad, law-abiding or criminal, but are nudged by forces both within and outside us into becoming what we become.”

Perhaps what is needed is a rise in expectation, both internally and externally, to help mold us into the insightful and ethical leaders that the world so desperately craves. At Duke we’re told that we are the leaders of tomorrow, and I believe that. As banks collapse and layoffs ensue, the world is not only at the mercy of a financial crisis, but an ethical crisis as well. It is going to be up to us to change that course.

In the same column, Raspberry referenced a Goethe quotation he keeps framed on his wall: “If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

At this point, it’s well worth a try.

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referenced in the Dec. 2 editorial, “RGAC scores low,” the annual assessment of selective living groups is a process designed to evaluate groups’ contributions (or lack thereof, at times) to the Duke residential commuWith nity. new any molly bierman process (the gUes t commentary Residential Group Assessment Committee first evaluated groups in calendar year 2007), it is important to educate stakeholders—group members and independents alike—about its purpose, merits and shortcomings. As a co-chair of the 2008 RGAC, I hope to illuminate here some of my predecessors’ rationale in creating the system, clarify some potential misconceptions and reaffirm the committee’s willingness to consider constructive improvements.

High-level discussions about the very concept of SLGs and low-level discussions about RGAC’s mechanics aside, there is an undeniable need to hold SLGs accountable for their actions. This stems from the fact that theirresidentialreal estate (a section) is a privilege—not a right—from which independent students currently do not benefit The assessment process is meant to be an opportunity for a group to demonstrate to their peers why its contributions render it worthy of this real estate. A fundamental cornerstone of the process is that a group’s residential presence can—and should—be of value to both the immediate quad in which it resides and the University at large. Although many see RGAC solely as a punitive process, itis also intended to reward groups that offer contributions to theresidential community and the greater Duke community with more desirable real estate in the future.

I do concede that some improvements in

the process still need to be made and that the system is partly limited by the effective lack of a coherent and logical housing model on West Campus. The RGAC appreciates the input already received from the Interfratemity Council, The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board and others and encourages constructive feedback. The assessment process runs on a three-year cycle, with the first cycle ending in December 2009; in the interest of consistency, the RGAC will likely review all suggested changes for potential implementation in the second threeyear-cycle, starting in Jan. 2010.

The assessment is structured to offer a degree of flexibility that is reflective of the diversity ofSLGs themselves. Groups are able to choose some of their evaluative categories in order to highlight their strengths most effectively. The grading criteria was structured to allow a group the opportunity to tailorits community plan as closely as possible to the specific nature and mission of the organization.

Although some have argued that the system is inherently biased in favor of groups that are service-oriented or place significant emphasis on intellectual engagement, statistical analysis comparing group rankings and supplemental categories chosen demonstrates no advantage for groups who participate in a large degree of social programming. In 2008, social programming was actually the supplemental category with the highest average score, and the average overall score for groups who chose this category was a 74.44, while the average overall score for all groups was 74.81.

Based on RGAC’s current scoring system, however, it does behoove a group to engage in a greater diversity of programming and to provide something that would otherwise not be available for students.

SLGs that contribute in ways other than purely through solely social programming

(such as through community involvement, faculty and staff interaction or arts and culture experiences) offer a greater diversity of programming that the RGAC views favorably. Section parties and social events can certainly add to the residential experience, but their positive impact (and their ability to contribute to a group’s RGAC scores) is diluted when upwards of a dozen groups put on virtually identical programs.

If a particular group (I will call it ABC) that only throws section parties ceased to exist, other groups could continue to host similar events, and ABC’s absence wouldhave an arguably negligible impact on the overall residential experience (thus calling into question why ABC even deserves to exist in the first place). If ABC, however, were known for planning a diversity of events (which could perhaps include some purely social events) and offered things that no other group offered, its contributions would be more valuable. The social aspect specifically is not hurting social groups’ scores; however, thelack of programmatic variety and excess of “sameold, same-old” is.

Furthermore, scores over the past two years have shown that social SLGs, “themed” SLGs and IFC groups are all equally capable of achieving high scores on the RGAC assessment Social groupswith lower scores may have been docked points in the group conduct or section management categories in the event of community violations or excessive section damages that at timesresult from outrageous social programming, but in general, there is no significant advantage or disadvantage for groups inherently dedicated to one particular mission over another. Evaluators were consciously harsher thisyear in an effort to achieve a wider spread ofscores among groups, as one complaint in 2007 was the minimal point discrepancies separating groups.

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Potential improvements to RGAC I would suggest for my successors to initiate might be requiring fewer supplemental categories (I would argue that a group who excels in two supplemental categories is perhaps preferable to a group who performs decendy in four), developing a clearer set of guidelines for what minimum is required of a group to maintain its section and/or implementing an appeals process for a group unsatisfied with its outcome.

Aldiough some critics of the RGAC process dismiss it as a “waste of time” that holds students in SLGs to an unnecessarily high standard relative to their independent counterparts, it is also important not to overlook some of the positive effects that RGAC has engendered even in its first two years. The implementation of the RGAC has, in general, led to a significant decrease in the amount of section damages and RC write-ups and an increase in diversity of programming, as well as greater collaboration and improved relations among various groups.

The underlying goal of RGAC is to improve the overall Duke residential experience for both SLG members and independents alike; as such, I would like to reemphasize that the committee welcomes suggestions from the student body regarding ways to make this process as fair, legitimate and effective as possible.

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What, you don’t follow the every word of Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s number two terrorist?

In a congratulatory message from al-Qaeda following the election, Obama was termed an abeed al-beit literally, a “house slave.”

Why would al-Zawahiri use a term so loaded with abhorrence, with such a history of hate and strife?

In many ways the epithet is more demeaning than the “infidel" and “Great gregOry IllOlTlSOn Satan” to which we have the talleyrand report become accustomed. Why would he step so gingerly across that line in the sand, knowing that Obama’s election has proved popular among Muslims across the globe?

The answer: Obama’s victory scares al Qaeda.

Had they really wanted to create a stir, the terrorists would have issued a statement saying: “Welcome Brother Barack Hussein Obamal A fellow believer is now ready to destroy our eternal enemy from within. Let us work together to throw the Zionists into the sea!”

Everyone’s worst fears about Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers would seem al Qaeda-sanctioned.

But no. Al Qaeda is scared.

Scared because America has proven more tolerant than they could ever expect. Scared because people across the world see Obama’s victory as a cause for hope. Scared because yet again, our country has shown the strength those wishing to establish a new caliphate cannot comprehend: As a nation, we went to the polls, our votes were counted and the government of our choice will take over in a peaceful and orderly transition.

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Qaeda.

But what about the terrorist attacks in India? Don’t they prove that the terrorist ideology still has currency?

Unfortunately, yes.

Hate and fear will always be powerful tools in the hands of those wishing to do others harm.

A1 Qaeda, with a defeat in Iraq and a surprisingly popular American president-elect to contend with, is in retreat for now, but it will, serpent-like, make a comeback unless the Obama administration handles three delicate situations with grace, strength and aplomb.

1. We must have victory in Afghanistan. America and Europe need to make the commitment to build a state that is capable of protecting its citizens and delivering them services. Democracy will follow on the heels of a function-

ing state.

2. Pakistan

become a failed state. The fragile civilian government in Pakistan must be maintained and the state strengthened. Pakistan could be an invaluable ally on the Afghan border, and we should be more circumspect with our missile strikes. Weak states are fertile recruiting grounds for terrorists. It appears, at least according to Indian police, the killers responsible for the Mumbai massacres were Pakistani.

3. The time has come to renew U.S. engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. A new president has the ability to breathe fresh air into long asphyxiated talks.

Obama’s choice of Sen. Hillary Clinton as secretary of state raises intriguing possibilities. She has the star power to command the attention of the protagonists and the iron will and work ethic that it will undoubtedly take to make a successful go at negotiations.

These are the three tests we cannot fail. If we do, al Qaeda has a new lease on life. They will have new recruitmust not

ing grounds. They will have a new rallying cry, one much better than, “Attack the house slave!”

At Duke, we need to be wrestling with these problems, thinking outside the box for solutions and carefully studying the cause and course of history in these regions.

Believe it or not, our nation is run by people under 35. On Capitol Hill, in the White House, in the military and in the Foreign Service, recent college graduates provide the backbone of the work force. We will be the ones sent to clear the Afghani poppy fields, to teach in that slum in Karachi and to run that microfinance program in the Gaza Strip. This is why it is important that we institute the South Asian Studies certificate as soon as possible (full disclosure: I approved of a resolution in favor of the certificate as a DSG member last year).

We should also expand DukeEngage, when safe, deeper into the Middle East and South and Central Asia.

Hate and fear will always be powerful tools in the hands of those wishing to do others harm.

The future of our national security lies thousands of miles away. As students, we can prepare to make a difference by engaging with the regions and the issues which seem to drive violent anti-Americanism. A jihad-free era for our generation is not unimaginable.

It starts right here with us.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity sophomore. This is his last column

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