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The two games could not appear more similar: two season openers, at home, versus PCS schools. But the results could not differ more. Last season, Duke soundly defeated James Madison by a score of 31-7, stoking fan interest in the team and giving head coach David Cutcliffe momentum in his first season in Durham. In 2006, though, the Blue Devils were shut out 13-0 by Richmond, a miserable start to a wretched winless campaign. Now, as the 2009 season begins Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium versus that same Richmond team, Duke looks to avenge that 2006 loss by mirroring last year’s opening result in what the Blue Devils hope will be a bowl-worthy season. “The guys that were here, we still remember [that loss],” senior running back Re’quan Boyette said. “But this is ’O9, and we’re looking to compete.” That loss may have been most memorable for the premiere of now-senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis. Lewis was thrown into the fire in the first game of his college career, and his inexperience showed on his first play. “I called the play, got to the line of scrimmage and forgot the play,” he said.
The aftermath of Iran’s hotly contested 10th presidential election has demonstrated that the technology of expression is far ahead of the technology of repression. This seemed to be the conclusion of an expert panel of four scholars from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who held a wide ranging discussion on the topic Wednesday. Approximately 40 attendees participated in the discussion. “What is happening in Iran is a manifesting of the contradiction between democracy and despotism,” said Mohsen Kadivar, an Iranian scholar and visiting professor of religion at Duke. “The majority of the Iranian citizens elected [Mir-Hossein] Mousavi. But the hardliners ignored the votes in the box. So Iran has two presidents right now—[Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad is the selected president but Mousavi is the elected president.” Adding to suspicion in people’s minds was the fact that the election results were declared within a few hours and without the constitutionally manSEE IRAN PANEL ON PAGE 4
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President Barack Obama’s national approval rating has dropped to 56 percent, according to a Sept. 1 CBS News poll, the lowest to date during his term and down from 68 percent in April. But the prognosis in North Carolina may be even worse for the president. In a Public Policy Polling study, released Aug. 11, 46
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percent of voters in the state of North Carolina approve of Obama, while 47 percent gave him poorreviews. PPP surveyed 749 North Carolina voters from Aug. 4 to 10 and reports the survey’s margin of error as plus or minus 3.6 percent. The poll named seven major policy issues and asked people taking the poll to name which one was their top priority. 48 percent named the economy and jobs as most important. “There was a lot of hope, excitement and anticipation that since [Obama] had made the economy a major issue, that the economy would turn around rapidly. And instead we’ve seen the economy through things like the job market continue to deteriorate,” said Michael Walden, Neal Reynolds distinguished professor of economics at North Carolina State University. “It is very hard as a president to turn around the economy very quickly and since that hasn’t happened people have reduced their opinion of him.” Walden added that many voters have an unrealistic per-
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ception of how quickly the president can turn the economy around. “As a professional economist, I would not base his performance based on what has been going on in the economy, [but] others who are not economists would have a very different view,” he said. “I frankly don’t believe that there has been a fair amount of time, and this has nothing to do with whether or not I support his proposals or policies.” Some feel that the policies Obama has instated to jump start the economy are off base and that a quick turnaround in the economy should have been possible. “If you look at the past they did make a huge turnaround in the New Deal in the FDR days. What FDR did was make a comprehensive plan and stuck to it,” said Kenneth Strickland, a sophomore. “What Obama is sort of doing is making several different plans and trying to hodgepodge them together, so it is not New Deal-esque. It is more of a patchwork quilt. I feel Obama is optimistic almost to a fault, but I do believe the economy is coming back. I think it is a natural comeback.” Emotions are high and strong in both directions. The poll asked people to rate Obama’s performance on a scale from one to nine. The results gave a good indication ofNorth
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The first Campus Council meeting of the year Thursday showcased a number of changes from last year and new plans for the upcoming year. One of Campus Council’s goals is to have an even focus on all ofEast, West and Central Campuses in order to provide a holistic experience for students, said President Stephen Temple, a junior. He added that there would be a particular focus on renovating and revitalizing Central. Their efforts begin with the Endless Summer Pool Party, said Programming Committee ChairBen Goldenberg, a sophomore. “Our goal is to improve the residential experience across all campuses and hosting this event on Central Campus is important as it shows that Central Campus is a lively community just like East and West Campus,” he said. “We want to show that Duke is really a special place where people from different social niches can come together and have a shared experience.” The council also introduced its new Web site, which is scheduled to launch in the next week. The new site includes advertisements for future events, photo slides from past events, Campus Council Twitter feeds and a section that allows students to report poor cell phone reception, said Public Relations Director Christine Hall, a junior and Towerview staff member. She said the changes are an effort to create direct communication between students and the council. “This is going to make the Campus Council Web site much more interactive and allow us to get different ideas from students and what they want,” Temple said.
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President Stephen Temple (left), VP Alex Reese (middle), Public Relations Director Christine Hall (right), discuss plans to equalize residentai experiences across all campuses at CampusCoundl'sfirst meetingThursday night. “It is a valuable resource that can play an active role in improving students’ experiences here at Duke.” Cell phone reception problem reporting is an initiative by Campus Council to help the Office of Information Technology limit dead zones on campus, Temple said. Through the Campus Council site, students can report the time of day and place where there is no service. Vice PresidentAlex Reese, ajunior, added
that because some students, especially those without service in their rooms, can be severely inconvenienced by lack of telephone signal, itis important that Campus Council help OFT improve wireless telephone coverage on campus, he said. Other issues covered during the meeting were making minor updates in the constitution, such as changing wording, and setting schedules for Quad Council and partymonitor training.
Anne Yoder, director of the Duke Lemur Center, had the rare opportunity to witness the birth of red-ruffed lemur triplets Esther, Thoebe and Orion Jr.April 29. The baby lemurs are three of 11 bom throughout this spring and summer. The breeding of these newborns is part of an effort spearheaded by the Center to conserve the thinning lemur population. Primate Technician Niki Barnett said that like all lemurs at the center, the triplets were named according to a theme—in this case, celestial bodies. The other lemurs born this birthing seasoning were: twin ringtails Hibernia and Limerick—born on St. Patrick’s Day, the blue-eyed black lemurs, Belushi and Akroyd—named for the Blues Brothers, black and white ruffed lemurs Eros and Krok—named for asteroids, the aye-aye SEE BABY LEMURS ON PAGE 5
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Apanelist discusses the impact oftechnology in the recent Iranian election and the protests that followed.Scholarsfrom Duke and the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill said social media, such asTwitter, allowed informationto leave the country despite alleged censorship by the Iranian government.
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dated approval of the Guardian Council. Soon after, massive protests broke out in the streets. Negar Mottahedeh, an associate professor- of literature and women’s studies at Duke, commented on the role that social media played in the revolution, noting that there are approximately 60,000 Iranian blogs touching on a wide range of issues such as religion and pop culture. “As Iranian journalists and bloggers were being thrown out of the country and imprisoned, it led to a whole underground movement,” Mottahedeh said. “Facebook, Twitter and Flickr became the best way to get information out of the country.” Charles Kurzman, a UNC sociology professor specializing in Islamic affairs, said that in perhaps the most intense show of “victimhood” this summer, a YouTube video of a young Iranian protester’s death went viral on the internet with the video spreading through the Twitter community. Mottahedeh noted that for the two weeks following the Iranian presidential elections, “#iranelection” was the top search topic on Twitter. “Social media allows us to connect, plan things and give people information that they don’t have,” Mottahedeh said. “This is threatening to a government that wants control.” Robin Kirk, director of the Duke Human Rights Center, expressed similar sentiments about the power of new technology as a vehicle of protest. “People were tweeting to get the news out about protests and allegations of fraud,” Kirk said in an interview. “[Twitter] slipped through their fingers because no government has complete control over these new technologies. The revolution of our time is Twitter. Tomorrow it will be something different.” Fariborz Ghadar, senior advisor of the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Pennsylvania State University, said there were economic factors that led to the demonstrations, as well as a general discontent with the system. “Forty percent of the young people don’t have jobs,” he said in an interview. ‘You have people between 15 and 30 representing a large chunk of the population. So you have a situation where it’s like a pig going through a boa constrictor.” The panel also discussed the possibility of the increasingly powerful Revolutionary Guard mounting a military coup. “The power of the Revolutionary Guard is the highest [it has been] in 30 years,” Kadivar said. “We [could] have a coup d’etat like in Pakistan.” The panel was unanimous in its assessment thatthe best thing that the U.S. could do in Iran was to stay out. “This is not our game. We have no diplomatic relations with Iran,” Kurzman said. But he added, “I’m all for negotiating with enemies. It can’t hurt to negotiate.” Yet the panel held out hope that non-violent protests would eventually reform the political situation in Iran. “It is the right of Iranian citizens to have non-violent protests,” Kadivar said. “The government should be made responsible and limited in its power. No one is appointed by a metaphysical force. No divine rights.”
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disapproved. “His healthcare reform plan for universal health care would put us heavily in debt,” said Julio Ramirez, a sophomore majoring in economics. “It would harm America more than help it, but overall, I feel like he’s doing an average job. He’s done good things and bad things. It is too soon to tell. I think in a year or so we’ll be able to give a better judgment. Although time seems to be of essence, the full effect of Obama’s agenda will not be known in the near future. “A lot of those things take a long time to take effect,” Walden said. “For example, with the stimulus package, we’ve only spent a tiny bit in order to jump start the economy. It is going to take time. Besides, I don’t think it is in the President’s power to pull us through this economic hardship. His hands are tied because he can only do what Congress allows him to do.” ”
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A total of 11 lemurs were born inside the Lemur Center throughout this spring and summer. Three of the baby lemurs were red-ruffed triplets with distinct personalities, each named after celestial bodies.
BABY LEMURS from page 3 Norman—named for the fictionalized murderer Norman Bates and most recently the ringtail, Alastor. Barnett noted that the babies have distinct personalities. Eros, who looks like his father, is more shy, while Krok looks like his mother and is bolder. Their mother, she added, is the more dominant of the pair. Theirs was a “monumental birth,” Barnett said, as black and white ruffed lemurs have not been born at the DEC since 2000. As natural as the family set-up at the DEC may seem, the process leading to the birth is carefully planned to conserve the lemur species. The DEC, like zoos all over the United States that hold lemurs, complete a population analysis to determine which lemur species to breed, said David Haring, DEC registrar and photographer. “We try to breed animals according to the goals of cooperative breeding programs because we want to make sure we maintain a healthy population for as long as possible,” said DEC Colony Manager Andrea Katz.
Local zoos, which have conservation goals similar to those of the DLC, collaborate with the Center in finding breeding pairs. “If a single population [breeds the] species it has over and over, the population becomes inbred,” Katz said. A breeding loan from the local zoo stays at theLemur Center to mate until the agreed upon number of babies is bom. DLC officials said they hope their work will aid in the effort to preserve the biologically invaluable lemur species and spur further research into their evolutionary relationship to monkeys, apes and humans. In the past, the Lemur Center has also led a conservation effort in Ivoloina, an “agro-forestry training center,” and a reintroduction effort in Betampona. Both sites are in Madagascar—the country home to the largest population oflemurs in the world. Yoder said “limited funding” and “government instability in Madagascar” have been the greatest obstacles in conducting further projects in Madagascar. For now, the DLC will continue to be “genetic reservoir of each species” of lemurs in the United States that functions both a conservation effort and a research opportunity, Yoder said.
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Half a year after WASHINGTON enacted the largest economic Congress stimulus plan in the nation’s history, the measure is contributing to what increasingly looks like a budding recovery, analysts say, but significant concern remains about rising unemployment and the initiative’s contribution to the federal budget deficit. With the Obama administration under fire for what critics call unrestrained spending and polls showing the American public ambivalent about the impact of the stimulus plan, officials are pushing back, seeking to highlight the role played by their polices in fueling a recovery.
Vice President Joe Biden, making what the White House billed as a major speech Thursday, touted the impact of the $787 billion economic stimulus program in lifting the economy. “The Recovery Act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy and changing the conversation about the economy in this country,” Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, a research institution. “Instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we are talking about the end of a recession.” While some congressional Republicans and others remain dubious about the success of the stimulus plan, economists generally agree that the package has played a significant
part in stabilizing the economy. They are less certain about how big the impact has been. “It’s starting to play a role, helping us to have slightly positive rather than slightly negative GDP growth,” said Phillip Swagel, an assistant Treasury secretary in the Bush administration who is now a visiting professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. “It’s a gigantic amount of fiscal stimulus, and anyone who tells you it has had no impact you should be skeptical of.” IHS Global Insight, an economic consulting firm, estimates that the stimulus has increased 2009 gross domestic product about 1 percent over what it otherwise would have been, with the benefit almost entirely in the second half of the year.
The firm also forecasts that the package will, in total, result in around 2 million more jobs than otherwise would have existed at the end of 2010. Moody’s Economy.com, estimates the initiative will increase employment by 2.5 million jobs. Both estimates are below the 3 million to 3.5 million jobs the Obamii administration estimated the package would or save, because the firms assumed more modest ripple effects from the stimulus spending than administration economists. Still, Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Economy.com, said, “I don’t think it’s any accident that the economy has gone out ofrecession and into recovery at the same create
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STIMULUS from page 8 time stimulus is providing its maximum economic impact.” Yet even as the economy shows signs of improving, labor markets remain as weak as they have been in a generation, with unemployment standing at 9.4 percent. Just hours before Biden spoke, the Labor Department said that another 570,000 people filed new claims for unemployment insurance benefits last week, little changed from the previous week. On Friday, the Labor Department is due to report monthly jobs numbers for August. Economists expect the unemployment rate to rise to 9.5 percent. The administration was criticized this spring for the slow pace of stimulus spending. One hundred days after the plan was passed, officials said it was still too early to judge its success. Now, with Saturday marking another 100 days, the administration is making the case that the legislation helped move the country away from the edge of an economic abyss. Biden defended the program’s slow start. While he acknowledged this blunted the initial impact, he said it was
crucial to put safeguards in place to ensure that stimulus money was not wasted. “This was all about establishing credibility at the front end of this; that this was going to be done well and differently, with accountability and transparency,” he said. “Otherwise it had no chance.” Biden said the pace of stimulus spending has increased significantly in recent months, predicting that the impact will grow as more money is spent on public works and other construction projects. So far, much of the stimulus has come from other forms of spending in the package, which also provides tax cuts for businesses and individuals, aid to state and local governments that helped avert layoffs, and money to extend unemployment benefits and provide health insurance to those thrown out of work, as well as huge grants for renewable energy, education, job training and health care. “If you look at the Recovery Act as a two-year marathon, we’re at the nine-mile mark,” he said. “We’re just approaching the nine-mile mark. Two hundred days in, the Recovery Act is doing more faster and more efficiently and more effectively than most people expected.”
The public has had mixed views ofObama’s economic policies. Just 43 percent ofAmericans believed the policies were improving the economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted last month, while 32 percent said they were having no effect and 23 percent said they were making things worse. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Thursday discounted the impact of the stimulus
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Despite earning a 2-0 victoryover this past Tuesday, Duke (1-0) exhibited some potentially fatal flaws, flaws that stronger opponents could be able to exploit. TTiis weekend, the Blue Devils’ competition becomes markedly more difficult, as Koskinen Stadium Columbia hosts the anvs nual Duke/ Nike Classic. Duke will Duke face ColumFRIDAY, 7:30 p.m. bia Friday at Koskinen Stadium 7:30 p.m. and then Denver Sunday afterDenver noon at 2:30. vs. In the first half of their over win Duke the JMU, SUNDAY, 2:30 p.m. Blue Devils Koskinen Stadium struggled to string passes together and build their attack. They opted instead to play long, Hail Mary-type passes down the field that had a very low chance of success. Often, James Madison was able to turn the ball right back around and launch counter-attacks against Duke. “We told our players to move the ball quicker, because we were moving it, but much too slow[ly]...,” head coach John Kerr said. “We had to move the ball around a little bit quicker to break them down, and we were finally able to get the
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Denver sophomore Sam Garza provides much of the firepower for the Pioneers, who are the preseason selection to defend their Mountain Pacific Sports Federation title. The talented striker was named MPSF Newcomer of the Year last season and will represent the United States in the upcoming U-20 World Cup. Thankfully for Duke, goalie Nick Tsipis and the defense showed tremendous poise in the season opener against JMU.
former club teammate,
Ann Dylla. “lam alSATURDAY, 4:30 p.m ways really competitive with her,” Burling said. “We played each other every year in the Colorado state tournament, but we are very close friends. Whenever we are both at home, we make sure to hang out.” When Duke faces off against Georgia (2-1) tonight, Burling and sophomore Dylla will be competing against each other for only the third
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time in the past three years. Burling came out on top in their only meeting at the collegiate level, helping lead Duke to a 3-2 victory over the Bulldogs last year. In the previous showdown, Dylla and her Heritage High School team topped LewisPalmer High School in the Colorado 5A state tournament, handing Burling her final loss as a senior. Dylla has recorded 15 blocks on the season—compared to Burling’s 16—but Duke will have to contend with a strong Georgia offense as well. Junior Erika Clark has laid down 34 kills and posted 26 digs, which were integral in helping lead the team to consecutive sweeps of Mercer and Austin Peay. “Georgia has the ability to win big games,” Burling said. “Last year they beat Florida away, and Florida is always a top-ten team. They will probably bring out a big crowd and being Duke, we always have a target on our back. It should be a pretty hostile environment, but we are all really excited to get out there.” The Bulldogs’ only loss on the season came against rival Georgia Tech in five-set match, with a 1416 score in the fifth set. Georgia Tech is also a contender in the ACC, so the game against Georgia may be a good indicator as to how Duke will fare this season in conference play. Duke will have only a short time to prepare for its next two opponents, Tennessee State and Southern Alabama. But that did not seem to worry head coach Jolene Nagel. “The girls will be able to watch the -
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Blue Devil shooting spree pays off in victory by
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After a first half that saw Duke get 13 shots yet fail to score, the Blue Devils (2-2) knew it was only a matter of time before they broke through on nilltn Xri / J scoreboard. “We came out pretty tough,” said senior Kay Anne UNLV Gummersall, who tallied Duke’s first goal just over one Duke minuteinto the second half. “We knew Saturday, 1 p.m. Koskinen Stadium the goals were go-
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ing to come.” After Gummersall’s goal, senior Elisabeth Redmond added a secondjust six minutes later, and junior Rebecca Allen closed the scoring in the 71st minute as No. 24
Duke defeated unranked UNC Wilmington 3-0 Thursday night at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils used crisp passing to keep the Seahawks (1-2) under constant bombardment throughout the game. Seahawks’ goalie ChandlerFollett was initially up to the task, posting a great save on a brilliant left-footed strike byRedmond, who had outmaneuvered her defender, in the 35th minute. But 30 seconds into the second half, Duke had already garnered a comer kick, and under a minute later Gummersall gave the Blue Devils the only goal they would need following a pinpoint cross from Allen. “[Allen] just had a great pass and all I had to do was touch it in,” Gummersall said. “She did all the work in the comer.” Head coach Robbie Church was satisfied with the effort his team put forth, almost too satisfied. SEE W. SOCCER ON PAGE 12
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er. That experience, combined with an improved set of offensive weapons including Boyette and young receivers Johnny Williams and Donovan Varner, plus a year of experience in Cutcliffe’s system, gives the quarterback confidence that this year’s result will be different that the one three years ago “We’ll have the opportunity to go out there and play fast and have fun without thinking, so it’ll be fun on Saturday,” Lewis said. As much as the Blue Devils have improved over the past three years, though, so have the Spiders. Richmond is the defending PCS national champion and returns a very experienced team, including starting quarterback Eric Ward, who threw for 17 touchdowns last season, and linebacker Eric Mcßride, who led the team with 108 tackles. “Richmond is starting 15 redshirt seniors and seven redshirt juniors,” Cutcliffe said. “I don’t think I’ve ever faced that in my career. They’re also good.” Indeed, Ward was the Spiders’ starting quarterback during that 2006 matchup, when he threw for 120 yards and a touchdown. But the issue for Duke that day was not necessarily the defense, which held Richmond to only 225 yards, but the offense, which amassed only 210 yards and lost two fumbles. Cutcliffe, though, expects the more experienced and explosive offense at his command now to get off to a much better start in the rematch. “It was a tough day for Duke, particularly offensively,” Cutcliffe said. “You just hope we start much faster than what they
The last time Duke faced Richmond, the Spiders stunnedthe Blue Devils 13-0 in WallaceWade Stadium in 2006. were able to start in 2006.” How Duke performs in the opener should shed light on the Blue Devils’ chances of making a bowl this season, even though the competition is sure to improve as Duke heads into ACC play. Still, Cutcliffe has spoken confidendy about the team’s ability to make a bowl throughout the preseason, and an earlyseason burst of momentum could be the impetus behind a bowl run.
That confidence appears to be rubbing off on the team. “Coach is a straightforward man, and he’s not going to tell you something if he don’t believe you can do it,” Lewis said. “He tells us we’re a good football team, that we have the potential to be in a bowl game, but it’s also up to us. We go out there believing we can win, we have an opportunity every Saturday and we just have to go out there and execute.”
After a successful start to the season with two wins over ranked teams at home, Duke hits the road for the first time this weekend. The No. 10 Blue Devils (2-0) travel to Philadelphia for a double-header, this time against Drexel (2-0) and St Joseph’s ((H)). The Dragons, Duke’s opponent Saturday afternoon, aren’t ranked, but they did receive the most votes in the national preseason poll of any team outside the top 25. Drexel started its season with a road win at Rugers and then defeated La Salle in its home opener Aug. 30. St. Joseph’s has yet to play a game, and did not receive any votes in the season’s inaugural poll. Duke defeated No. 13 Louisville and No. 8 Michigan State, the latter in overtime, to win the Champions Challenge at Williams Field last weekend. Senior Lauren Miller scored three goals over the two games, including a penalty stroke in overtime against the Spartans, and earned ACC Player of the Week honors. No new poll will be issued until Sept. 8, so the Blue Devils remain ranked No.
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and OSAF officials deserve praise for envisioning creative ways to strengthen this commitment. Raising the level of arts awareness on campus could also be of benefit to Duke Perfor-, mances, which unfortunately is not a very well known program among students. Plus, as Durham struggles through the recession, the program’s ticket sales may help local arts venues keep up their business. In creating The Hub, OSAF has taken an already successful Duke Destinations program and made it better—all without stretching the budget. It should be commended for demonstrating that, even in economic tough times, creativity can go a long way in enhancing the student experience.
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tickets will drive a similarly that they only can be used by Duke students. The Hub high student demand. As with any new program, would also benefit from a stuthough, there are ways in dent feedback mechanism so that it can better cater to stuwhich The Hub could improve its services and ensure dent interest. Keeping track that it uses its funding most of ticket sales would be a useeffectively. Discount tickets ful metric, as would surveys for The Fray may have drawn and focus groups. And although it is enstudents’ attentions to the program in its opening week, but couraging to see the probinding big-name concerts in gram take advantage of new which there is already ample social media like Twitter and interest should not be the Facebook to promote itself, program’s focus. Rather, The traditional advertising techHub should concentrate on niques would perhaps reach promoting small-scale events a wider and more diverse to expose students to differaudience. Ample notice of ent cultural niches and allow sales will also help to inthem to experience the local crease awareness and raise the number of students who community. take advantage of the ticket Resale of these cheap tickets is a potential problem of offerings. The Hub is another exThe Hub’s business model, and an accountability system ample of Duke’s ongoing should be in place to ensure commitment to the arts,
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are two essential freedoms afforded to a Duke student; drinking on campus, and drinking off campus. The former of these things can be attained easily: you find a handle of Aristocrat Vodka in the corner of a packed
Thursday-nigh t dorm room, and go to town on it. But, if you happen to be under the age nate freeman of 21, the latter can good night, and be a little tougher. Tom Szigethy, good luck associate dean and director of the AJcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, doesn’t have a problem with that—he’s going to the off-campus watering holes that attract hordes of Duke students and talking to them about the safety concerns of dealing with hundreds of drunk students. And of course, Szigethy started with the worldfamous, perpetually jam-packed and gloriously dirty Shooters 11. “I wanted to meet the owners, exchange phone numbers —a meet and greet sort of thing,” he said. Szigethy, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek all sat down with Kim Cates, owner and manager of Shooters, to discuss the ways the saloon-styled bar can ensure the safety of students who frequent it. Szigethy said he is setting a high standard for the way drinking establishments comport themselves regarding the droves of inebriated students who frequent the club—students who, usually, are not comporting themselves with anything but sloppiness. “Shooters has it pretty well handled,” he told me. “The have cameras with security watching. They don’t allow people to go out and in again to drink in their cars. It’s for their own safety and the liability of their business.” For everyone’s benefit, the Duke-Shooters summit occurred during the daylight hours, avoiding the sweaty masses that cram through the doors Thursday, Friday and Saturday. And though the idea of a clean Shooters may be something beyond the human mind’s capacity for wonder, Cates assured me the previous night’s mess was cleaned up—a feat I consider comparable to Hercules cleaning the Augean stables in a single day. “They were very shocked to come in the club after a night of partying—they said it was the clean-
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they’d ever been in,” Cates said. Szigethy’s tour of Durham’s libation destinations comes at a time of relative change for Shooters: The booze-swilling weekend revelers who have not yet met their 21st year will have to fork over
$lO, instead of the regular five. The fee increase—which will help pay for increased security and surveillance cameras —goes hand-in-hand with Szigethy’s mission, but he said it was not discussed at their meeting. Though the extra five bucks per underage head may discourage some penny-pinching freshmen from mobbing that particular comer of Morgan Street, Cates insists that the fee was not implemented to temper the passion of its younger parishioners. “People don’t understand the purpose of the high cover,” Cates said. “We had to increase security to watch over the students. Everything [all over Durham] has gone up.... It takes a lot to run a club.” Even if it was just a “meet-and-greet,” the meeting with Cates did result in the resurgence of the Shooters bus, a line that will haul drunk and sweaty students from the d-floor to their apartment door. “The one concern is that students get separated from their friends,” Szigethy said. “It was after the meeting that they decided they would install the bus.” As he continues his pub crawl through the places where Duke students add to their bar tabs, Szigethy told me he plans to check out places on Ninth Street, and beyond. His attempt to reach out to popular off-campus weekend locales certainly fits within his job description and the role of the Alcohol and Substance Abuse Prevention Center, and will likely increase awareness among their owners regarding the high chance that young kids will be dangerously drunk at their establishment. There is progress to be made here, and this is a good first step. But let’s be honest—no matter what influence Szigethy has over Durham bars and the studentswho drink at them, Duke students ofallages will always get drunk and go to Shooters, now and until eternity. Even if it costs more than the six quesadillas you and your friends will buy at Cosmic after the 2 a.m. kick-out, you will hand over your $lO, walk in under the oodles of cheesy Western paraphernalia and make your way to the d-floor. And despite Szigethy’s urging, students will drink excessively beforehand, and probably have a lot of fun in the process. Not all of it will be safe fun, but all of it will be fun. NathanFreeman is a Trinity senior. His column runs on Fridays.
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lettertotheeditor DukeEngage supports conversation post-program Doris Jwo’s Sept. 3 column asks a very important
question about life post-DukeEngage: “It’s over, now what?” It’s heartening to learn that students who participate in the DukeEngage program find the service experience meaningful, and even more exciting when they return to campus from either an international or domestic site eager to sharewhat they’ve discovered or challenge others to carry on the work they’ve started. While there are a range of events and opportunities in place for students to reconnect, advise and continue exploring service themes—a student-led house course tied to DukeEngage, a public policy course on civic engagement taught by Robert Korstad, openings on the DukeEngage Student Programming and Advisory Committee, a peer mentoring network through DukeEngage, and so much more in this realm—my sense is that Jwo is really issuing a charge to herself and others to elevate the campus conversation about civic engagement to even greater heights. The DukeEngage program is more than just a short-term service immersion experience. In many cases, it’s an introduction to a lifetime of service or to new academic interests. While we endeavor to be as involved as possible in this post-DukeEngage ex-
ploration, we also actively encourage students to take some ownership and exercise leadership with respect to “life after DukeEngage” or any service-related program in which they may have been involved. In es-
themselves to an impressive cross section of campus life, from buildings to energy and most recently, to fish. The newest “green” addition to Duke life is Walking Fish, the community-supported fishery project that students at the Nicholas School plan to pilot this month. courtney han Walking Fish offers the good life? “fresh, locally caught” fish sourced from Carteret County fisheries to Durham residents, according to Walking Fish’s Web site It follows the community-supported model culled by a similar, established campus venture, the Duke Mobile Farmers Market. Emphasizing three major benefits—supporting local economies, social improvements and environmental stewardship—Walking Fish piggybacks off the momentum of Duke’s green metamorphosis by linking “buy local” with “for the greater good.” By equating “local” with “good,” Walking Fish is guilty of helping to convert something once routine—finding and preparing food—into a loaded ethical issue. Today, deciding what to eat, where it comes from, when to buy, who to buy from and the size ofits carbon footprint can transform eating into more of a headache than a gastronomical pleasure. But “buy local” isn’t just a headache. Obscured in the gushy rhetoric of Walking Fish’s community-loving, eco-friendly goals lies an oft overlooked reality. By promoting “buy local,” Walking Fish fundamentally pits fishermen in Carteret County at odds with fishermen across the developing world. But when it comes to food purchases, does acting local help globally? As Walking Fish extols the virtues of sustaining North Carolina fishermen with a stable market, one has to wonder; Where do non-local fish come from? Fish don’t jump out of the water into refrigerated trucks and flop into the seafood aisle at Kroger. Fishermen in Malaysia, women’s cooperatives in Mozambique and tuna farms in Seychelles rely on export markets like the United States to purchase their catches. The victims of our “community” consciousness and environmental conscience are fishermen who live beyond the Carolina coast. Furthermore, buying imported non-organically certified fish doesn’t necessarily mean it is harvested unsustainably from toxin-ridden waters. Many developing country fishermen can’t boast organic certification be-
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eco-pedigree. Capitalizing heavily on the ethics of food, Walking Fish also highlights that its product decreases the consumer’s carbon footprint by reducing the distance the fish travels. But calculating carbon footprints for international food imports is extremely tricky. Kenyanproduced green beans exported to Britain match the carbon emissions of domestically produced ones even after factoring in air transport, Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones at Bangor University in North Wales told The Guardian. Gareth Thomas, the U.K Minister forTrade and Development agrees, telling The Guardian that “driving 6.5 miles to buy your shopping emits more carbon than flying a pack of Kenyan green beans to the U.K” This makes one wonder how the carbon output of an extra weekly or bi-weekly trip to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, not to mention refrigeration, weighs against the ecobenefits of purchasing said “low-emissions” fish. Now, my point is not necessarily to condemn Walking Fish or similar “buy local” initiatives. Plenty of reasons exist to buy local produce. Community programs oriented around locally-grown products, like farmers markets or block gardens, are fantastic social tools to pull people together and into the sun. The ethical value of consuming local however, shouldn’t be blown out of proportion. Although it’s great to relish being a part of the community, it’s foolhardy to unload the burden of one’s eco-conscience onto the unsuspecting piece of flounder on one’s dinner plate. A better way to feel good about what you consume may be as simple as changing what you eat instead of where you get it from. You can use an online carbon calculator, like http://eatlowcarbon.org, or take the advice ofTara Garnett from the Food Climate Research Network and stop eating meat, milk, butter and cheese. You can also help combat climate change by signing up your unused computer power to virtual research at http://climateprediction.net. On campus, cut down your carbon footprint by riding a Duke bike, using green technology, printing double-sidedand shopping with canvas bags. Enjoy your Food Lion mahi-mahi while you’re at it. Chances are, it’s coming from a small-scale farmer in Panama who’s every bit as dependent on your purchase as the one you’re not buying from in North Carolina.
to a new year, and as a matter of annual tradition, allow me to acquaint you with the latest quasi-plan for Central Campus. As was noted by the editorialboard in these pages last Friday, Central Campus—no, not the imaginary “New Campus,” THE one and only Central—is finally getting some love in an odd twist of fortune after decades without a dance partner. Why? Because this time it’s different. This time improvements are being implemented with an eye toward the present instead of fixating in the distant, theoretical future. This presents the University with a unique opportunity to refocus their goals upon us, the students ofthe present mike meers There’s no doubt that mike check Central Campus has been in sore need of upgrades for years (maybe decades?). Alas, the propensity of the Duke administration to treat Central as the bastard child of some regrettable unholy union from the ’7os means our “Loneliest Campus” is universally regarded as something of which to eventually rid oneself, rather than to embrace and nurture. That’s beginning to change though, as Duke realizes it’s short on the cash needed to quiedy dismiss Central into oblivion and usher in the New Campus kid on the block. Accepting that Central Campus is still just that—a campus thatremains a part of the mainstream Duke community—has involved a painstaking realization process of “what took you so long” proportions, but we’ve mercifully made it to an important crossroads. Enhanced facilities, unique dining options and new social spaces are all pieces in the puzzle that forms community, something that has been severely lacking on Central to the detriment of the predominantly unaffiliated students that reside there. Here we have an opportunity to forge a new sense of community culture unique from the exclusive fraternity and selective living model ofWest Campus, and provide all students with a broader community structure that is currently only afforded to residents ofWest. All this because we finally acknowledge that we can no longer merely wait for the Central we’ve created to be put out ofit’s misery like some inheritance-laden octogenarian. Charming. Previous community and culture initiatives have cited greek life as a problematic and divisive elementboth culturally and in terms ofactual bedspaces, but have failed to tackle the problem at its roots, namely by reorganizing the broken West campus housing model. Heck, the system is so entrenched that even the Campus Culture Initiative, the end-all be-all of administrative idealism (which, to nobody’s surprise, already is all but forgotten), found conclusively that “the current differential room assignment process... is neither equitable nor does it reflect Duke’s obligation to empower all students fairly,”...and still no one did anything about it It is clear that assigning a special fact-finding committee to determine once and for all whether the sky is indeed blue doesn’t do much for the other colors of the rainbow, and so here we stand. Enter Central Campus. If we continue to stand still, the only thing that will change is the name of the next blue-ribbon commission assigned to discover what can already be ascertained by a simple stroll from the spot-lit Gothic Wonderland to the brown brick Heart ofDarkness. But, by upgrading Central, there is the potential to transform the campus into a self-contained cultural experiment pitted against the old guard of greek-dominated west. Picture a thriving late-night diner that draws students craving food-point fodder, other than McDonalds. Picture an improved outdoor social space, with live music on weekends perhaps, and a renewed sense that Central can indeed be a place to proudly call home. What advocates of “independent equality” (myself included) must come to realize is that frats and SLG’s aren’t going anywhere. Greek life is an integral and much beloved part of the Duke experience—a part that also happens to monopolize both the physical and cultural space on a currently superior West Campus. It always has and it will continue to as long as the greek tradition is held in high regard. So instead of reorganizing at its expense, let’s take this opportunity to replicate a tight-knit, cultural community in a new location. We owe it to ourselves to improve the living situation of hundreds of students, and facilitate a new direction for campus culture, all in one fell swoop. By focusing squarely upon the present, the future looks brighter already.
Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every otherFriday.
Michael Meers is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.
sence, we ask students upon their return: How are you going to put into action what you’ve learned
about yourself and the world around you? Certainly students can channel their activism and advocacy into local service (for example, through the Duke Center for Civic Engagement’s Durham programs America Reads and Counts and NC-ACTS) and/or they can intentionally remain connected to the community they served during their period of engagement. Whatever they elect to do—and there is no shortage of ideas based on conversations I’m having with students who meet with me following their DukeEngage experience—we will be there ready to support and encourage them to continue challenging themselves and changing their worlds. And to the extent that Jwo hoped to encourage a campus conversation about what happens next, I commend her for beginning that here in the pages ofThe Chronicle. Eric Mlyn, director ofDukeEngage and the Duke Centerfor Civic Engagement
Local fish: here’s the catch What’s greener than 7,060 acres ofDuke Forest? Perhaps Duke University, where the words “green” and “sustainability” are attaching
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cause they cannot afford to test their catch’s allegiance to international quality standards. Choosing local, then, only confirms a fish’s organic origins. Poverty is a high price to pay for insurance against a fish’s ambiguous
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