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Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender supporters. gathered on East Campus Quadrangle Saturday to celebrate the 25th annual North Carolina Pride Festival and Parade.

From the eye-catching costumes, multicolored parade floats, high-blasting music and constant candy showers, the scene was nothing short of eventful. The crowd included a mix of Duke affiliates as well as supporters from across the state.

Although many East Campus residents like freshman Sunhay You came out to show their support, others like freshman Curtis Beach just wanted to see what all the hustle and bustle was about.

“I’ve had a lot of friends participate [in the festival] in previous years,” You said.

“It’s really interesting to see it in person as opposed to in pictures or on TV.” You and Beach, among others, said they were most interested in the conflict between the protestors and supporters at the event. You said she was curious to observe the interaction between the conservatives and liberals, referring to the Duke-Durham community as a relatively liberal bubble in a generally conservative state.

Of the protesters at the festival, the most visible and prominent were the picketers at the corner ofWest Main and Broad

After mustering a less than inspiring performance last Saturday in what amounted to a rough loss against Kansas, the Blue Devils needed all the help they could get as they looked to bounce back against cross-town rival N.C. Central in the first-ever Bull City Gridiron Classic.

They got that help at Wallace Wade Stadium from some of the usual suspects, like quarterback ThaddeusLoewis and linebacker Vincent Rey, and from a first-time source.

Running back Desmond Scott contributed 100 yards and a touchdown in his first college game as the Blue Devils (2-2) took down the Eagles 49-14 in a torrential downpour Saturday night.

For Scott, Homecoming lived up to its meaning in every sense of the word. Scott, a Durham native, not only had the opportunity to participate, in the first game between these schools, but also suited up for his debut as alumni poured into town.

The freshman seized the moment in this historic game breaking the century mark in just 16 carries. The highlight of his Homecoming performance came with 8:42 left in the first quarter when on his third carry, Scott broke two tackles and scampered 23 yards into the end zone for a touchdown.

Freshman running back Desmond Scott, a Durham native,ran for 100 yards in Duke's 49-14 win over NCCU.

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Students ride along in the 25thannual North Carolina Pride Festival and Parade off East Campus Saturday.

North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company will transfer its historical archives to Duke and North Carolina Central University, the company announced Friday.

The documents consist of commercials, documents, newsletters, photography and books written about the company and its history. This includes information about the families of two original founders, John Merrick and Dr. Aaron Moore, as well as Charles Spaulding, who was the general manager for the company in the early 1900 s.

The archives will be housed in the Library Service Center, an offsite location that serves as a document storage facility forboth schools as well as for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

The move is scheduled to take place next month and the archives’ contents are expected to be catalogued by the end of this year and converted to digital form by the end of 2010, The (Durham) Herald Sun reported Friday.

The collection may be the largest assortment of business material from a black-founded business in the United States, according to a news release from NC Mutual.

“The North Carolina Mutual Collection” will be administered jointly by the Duke University Libraries, the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and

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“Thanks to the diligence, attention to detail and dedication of employees for more than a century, North Carolina Mutual’s history has been exceptionally well documented and preserved,” James Speed, president and CEO of North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, said at an event Friday celebrating the signing of the transfer agreement. President Richard Brodhead and NCCU Chancellor Charlie Nelms were also present at the event.

The collection serves as a history of Durham’s “Black Wall Street,” a thoroughfare of black commerce located on Parish Street in the heart of downtown, providing access to home mortgages, small business loans and insurance to what W. E. B. Dußois once hailed as a model black middle class.

Founded in 1898, NC Mutual is the oldest and largest insurance company founded by blacks in the United States and the oldest remaining insurance company founded in North Carolina. Currently, NC Mutual has more than $l2 billion of insurance in force, and surplus exceeding $lB million, according to the company’s Web site.

NC Mutual was located on Parish Street until 1966, when it moved to its current Chapel Hill Street location, which Duke donated to the company.

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The 45-minute clash outside Al Aqsa mosque underscored the volatility of Jerusalem's holy places in the decades-old Middle East conflict. It sparked protests

by Jordan, the 22-nation Arab League

and the Palestinian Authority, which is engaged in U.S.-mediated efforts to revive talks with Israel.

Palestinian leaders called the police action a deliberate Israeli provocation. Police officials said Palestinians started the fight.

Seventeen police officers were reported hurt and 11 Palestinians arrested as the violence spilled into the narrow streets ofthe Old City and beyond. Medics said eight Palestinians were treated at hospitals for injuries.

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Polanski taken into custody change with sanctions LOS ANGELES Three decades after he fled the United States following his arrest for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl, Roman Polanski was taken into custody in Zurich Sunday and faces extradition to Los Angeles.

Polanski, the famed film director whose career continued to flourish even after fleeing for Europe, was arrested as he arrived in the Swiss city to accept an award at the Zurich Film Festival.

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office learned last week that Polanski had plans to travel to Zurich this weekend, said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Prosecutors sent a provisional arrest warrant to the U.S. Justice Department, which presented it to Swiss authorities.

WASHINGTON Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday that the severe sanctions the West is threatening against Iran could force a change in the Islamic Republic's nuclear ambitions, especially since the country already is under severe economic distress.

Speaking as officials from six world powers were preparing to meet with Iranian negotiators this week to discuss Tehran's nuclear program,'Gates noted that the unemployment rate is 40 percent among Iran's young people and asserted that past economic sanctions "are having an impact."

Severe additional sanctions "would have the potential to bringing them to change their policies," Gates said on ABC's "This Week."

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Thelma Spencer, exiting her house, is worried that she will be forced to go to a nursing home because there are not enough funds for thein-home care she wanted. Many like Spencer are concerned about health care but believe that the debate inWashington will not improve their situation.

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The Pitchforks'Blackwell Arch Show Blackwell Dorm, 9-10 p.m.

INTERPOL InformationSession Page 106,1 2 p.m.

Meet with INTERPOL representatives to

Duke Symphony Orchestra Baldwin Auditorium 8-10 p.m.

The Duke Symphony Orchestra, with music director Harry Davidson, continues the Mendelssohn Bicentennial Celebration.

Shake Your Stresss—CAPS Creative Dance Class Marketplace^-7 p.m.

Experience a combination ofyoga, creative danceprocess andAfrican dance.

Careers in Health Care with Dr. Guy

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The Pitchforks will be singing their first show of the year under the Arch of Blackwell Residence hall on East campus. Free admission.

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Students interested in internships should bring aresume and a writing sample.

Arnall, T'Bs Flowers 201,1 -2 p.m, Join Dr. Guy Arnall as hekicks offthe Career Center's 2009-10 Expert in Residence series. Register at duke.experience.com.

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Award winners will present a poster describing their project at Visible Thinking Day in April, 2010. Winners will also be eligible to apply for a Student Impact Award ($100) in the Spring in recognition of the impact of their project on the K-16 community.

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Two anesthetized mice lie on a laboratory table, separated by a wooden partition.

Someone suspected to have psychic healing abilities attempts to wake up one of the mice with his mind. N Although experiments like this may seem out-of place at Duke today, they were not a few decades ago.

For 30 years, Duke was home to a parapsychology lab within the psychology department, led by Joseph Rhine, who received his Ph.D. in botany from the University of Chicago in 1925. Established in 1935, the lab was a center for the study of extra-sensory perception and psychokinesis, byway of dice machines and Zener cards—special cards used to test extra-sensory perception. Duke students were often

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trical and computer engineering professor William Joines said he does not think a reconnection would be possible. University research involves more established scientific techniques, he said, but this has not discouraged him from working with the RRC. Joines collaborates with the RRC to research photon emission from individuals who believe they have psychic abilities. In

Duke Student Government has been locked in a “he said, she said” debate.

With a referendum in the Sept. 14 DSG election, DSG called on the student body to make the language in its constitution gender neutral. The students obliged, approving the change by an 80 percent margin.

“Gender equality is a core principle of DSG and the University,” said Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior.

“Readability was the biggest issue. The good thing about a referendum is it’s not just a bunch of DSG folks sitting around a table.The students have a voice.”

But both DSG senators and students seemed to have trouble figuring out where they stand on the issue of gender neutrality in the constitution. The DSG constitution had “he/she” pronouns until the body voted narrowly to approve a “streamlined” document with masculine pronouns Feb. 25. Students, for their part, voted to approve the masculine language along with a slate of other changes to the constitution at the end of March.

But one week later, the senators had another change of heart, deciding to dodge the problem of pronouns entirely

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participants in experiments.

In 1965, after tension between Rhine and his wife and other Duke researchers escalated, the Rhines left the University to create the Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man a few miles from campus.

It was renamed the Rhine Research Center in 1995, on what would have been Rhine’s 100th birthday.

Today, the center pays homage to its past with a museum ofbent utensils, Ouija boards, pendulums and dice-throwing machines.

Sally Rhine Feather, the current RRC director, is the daughter of Joseph and Louisa Rhine and earned a Ph. D. in psychology from Duke in 1967. Part of Feather’s job is continuing her mother’s research, which began in the 1940 and consisted ofcollecting case studies of individual parapsychological experiences, including premoni-

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Although items such as dice machines are now out of fashion, the Rhine Research Center continue to collaborate with the University to make new discoveries in parapsychology despite skepticism from otherscientists. tions and communications with the dead.

Still, research at the RRC has experienced some changes since* the 19605. In ESP experiments, for example, instead of asking participants to guess the image on the back ofZener cards, they are now asked to guess what movie clip a telepathic “sender” was watching.

“Our research is done very carefully here,” Feather said.

Feather said the center is open to more involvement with the University. But elec-

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University faculty publish research on topics such as color blindness in monkeys and asexual fungus-gardening ants work that is sometimes overlooked by the general public.

In response to what they see as a lack of coverage of research-related news, Duke and 34 other universities have launched a Web site to pool and publicize their latest discoveries.

Futurity.org publishes articles on faculty research written for the general public in four categories: earth and environment, health and medicine, science and design and society and culture. The site’s front page currently features stories on topics such as alcoholism, cow breeding and influenza.

“We have created a place where readers could get access to the latest science and research news information from universities directly, and to have research from up to 40 universities in a single place will be very attractive,” said Futurity co-founder Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations at Duke.

Schoenfeld and fellow Futurity co-founder, Bill Murphy, vice president for communications at the University of Rochester, spoke with representatives of 14 universities at a meeting last winter at Johns Hopkins University’s Washington D.C. center to discuss a solution to the shrinking news coverage of scientific research, Murphy said.

“The number of science sections in major metropolitan newspapers have shrunk drastically,” Murphy said. “All the major networks have now closed their science departments.

When they report on science news, they do it with general assignment reporters, not specialty science reporters.”

Murphy said participants at the meeting felt a need to find a collaborative way to publicize their universities’ research.

“One of the things we came up with as a solution was a Web site, but a number of people around the table were skeptical that we could do it ourselves with credibility and that we could actually staff such a thing,” Murphy said.

“It seemed like there was a niche, if we added a selectivity process and we didn’t just print everything that everyone turned out.”

Schoenfeld wrote in an e-mail that the Web site was funded by a $2,000 contribution from each member university and will not take advertisements.

“There are a lot of dot-coms who have approached us and want to feature our content on their Web sites. They would sell advertising,” said Lisa Lapin, assistant vice president for university communications at Stanford University and a Futurity co-founder. [But] our content is really valuable and we didn’t want to just give it to a for-profit business.... We thought it would be better to do it ourselves.”

The group of university representatives worked on prototypes and quiedy launched a beta site in May, Murphy said.

“We said, ‘We’ll run this through the summer, learn by doing, not push too hard to publicize it, and wait until the faculties will be back in the Fall when-there’s a much greater flow of research,’” Murphy said, “[We wanted to] wait until readers are back from summer vacation.”

University membership has increased from 20 last winter to 35 in September, he added. The main requirement to join is that schools must be members of the Association ofAmerican Universities, a nonprofit organization of public and private research universities.

Murphy said each individual university already has a news office thatpublicizes faculty research. But the top stories from each university are selected and posted by a fulltime Futurity editor based at the University ofRochester.

To increase its viewership, Futurity has a presence on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. University representatives are also in talks withYahoo! and Google for partnerships to publish Futurity news directly on search engines, Schoenfeld said.

“We’re going to be feeding our news to Yahoo so a lot of people who might not ordinarily see hews from University of Rochester or University of Colorado or any number of our institutions will actually see it on Yahoo,” Lapin said.

Schoenfeld said Futurity plans to produce its own content in the future.

“For example, there are a number of universities that are doing research on influenza,” he said. “So say, in addition to having primary data on Futurity, we’re going to look at doing a special report on influenza research that would combine and synthesize all the research done.”

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PARAPSYCHOLOGY,™ page 3 a 2008 experiment, he said he measured approximately 1,000 times more photons per second than average radiating from the head of a Buddhist monk.

“I admire what they’re doing, and I think there may be something to it,” Joines said. “Once you explain [paranormal phenomena], they become science rather than para-

psychology.”

Still, others like Gregory Lockhead, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience, remain skeptical.

Lockhead wrote “Guess for Success; Sequential Behavior and Parapsychology” in 1970, a 12-page paper in which he stated that guessing, when it occurs in a sequence, follows a pattern.

Through several experiments, Lockhead found that a

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participant believed to be psychic follows the same guessing procedure as the general population.

“As a scientific topic, it’s not worth pursuing,” he said.

“If I explained their findings as common things, there’s nothing left for parapsychology to do for you.”

But some find value in the RRC beyond scientific experiments. History professor Thomas Robisheaux has invited Feather to speak to his class about four or five times over the more than 10 years he has taught “Magic, Religion and Science Since the Renaissance.” In addition to exposing students to parapsychology’s history, he said he wants to make students aware of Duke’s own relationship to the field.

“I’m not terribly interested in the pro-con debate,” he said, referring to the scientific controversy. "What I’m really interested in is... how a field of science, in this case, psychology, developed over time.”

* Unbrakeable An employee damaged University property Thursday morning by stopping abruptly while driving a Duke vehicle. A loose item in the truck bed shifted and shattered the back window.

Hot wheels An employee reported that a visitor took awheellocking apparatus in Parking Garage II Thursday afternoon.

Petty cash

A wallet was taken from a student’s unattended duffle bag in Wilson Recreation Center Thursday.

Post-workout munchies An employee reported that someone had stolen grocery bags from Card Gym Wednesday afternoon.

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Unwanted attention A patient at Duke Hospital reported Wednesday night that she had been receiving a number of harassing phone calls from another female.

Unsafe A safe was reported stolen from the Levine Science Research Center Monday morning.

Caller ID An employee’s ex-boyfriend had made numerous harassing phone calls to Duke Eye Center Monday morning.

Sketchy Crowell building was reported vandalized Monday afternoon. Someone had written on the building with a marker.

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The Sun Ra Arkestra headlines a jazz concert, featuring selectionsfrom their 50 years of composition, in Page Auditorium Saturday night.

The audience also heard from the ensemble Mingus Big Band at the event.

Loose change Money was reported stolen Monday afternoon from Triangle Family Practice’s money bag.

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Streets. There, two men held signs that read “Jesus Saves From Hell.”

“We’re not just preaching against gay people,” protester Ken Mcßae said. “We’re here preaching against sin—just sin.”

Mcßae, a man who devotes his time to spreading the Gospel across the country, said that if he does indeed love lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, then it is his duty to try and save them from their sin.

Many of the supporters at the festival, however, considered themselves Christians.

“It’s interesting to see how two people who believe in the same fundamentals of religion can argue so much about the most trivial details,” Beach said.

Aside from the expected protesting and groggy weather, the event drew a substantial crowd.

Following the parade, spectators and supporters migrated to a tented area where they could shop, eat, dance and listen to several speakers.

One of the speakers, Marjore Rudinsky, Grad ’94, spoke of her dedication to end the “don’t ask don’t tell” military policy. Rudinsky is a member of Knights Out, a group ofWest Point graduates, staff, faculty and allies dedicated to supporting service members who want to serve in the military openly.

“I served in the closet for 14 years and voluntarily resigned my commission,” Rudinsky said. “I know people who were kicked out of the service just for being gay because of DADT.” Dwayne Cornelison, stage manager and master of ceremonies for the event, said the celebration is a positive for the LGBT community, noting the festival is non-alcoholic and receives 20 percent of its support from “straight allies” as well as from 15 different churches.

Cornelison also noted his appreciation for the warm welcome Duke offers each year, especially the great student involvement. “[The festival] gets better every year,” Cornelison said. “Although it’s a long way to go, we’re making a lot of progress.”

by using specific nouns such as “the president” throughout the document.

The gender neutral language was first put to the student body for a vote in March but did not pass because less than the requisite 25 percent of the student body cast a ballot.

Last week’s 27 percent turnout was enough to finally approve the changes.

Morrison supported the move to make language in the constitution masculine and,' later, to make it gender neutral again.

The original document was inconsistent with its use of gender neutral pronouns, alternating between “he/she,” “s/he” and “s(he),” he said. Morrison explained that the Rules Committee decided that masculine pronouns would clarify and modernize the document.

“There were a lot of errors,” he said. “We wanted to fix it—the errors hindered the conciseness and readability of the document.”

Then-DSG Senators Julia Chou and Spencer Eldred, both currently seniors, raised concerns about the masculine pronouns before the Senate voted to approve the revised constitution. But most DSC senators did not think that the masculine language was a good enough reason to reject the new document given all the other changes that it included, Morrison said.

After the Fall'elections, 27 of the 64 members of DSC are women.

Eldred, currently vice president for student affairs, said he thinks that students approved the masculine language at first because they also agreed with other aspects of the revised document.

“It was two choices—you either take the bundle of changes or reject them completely,” he said. .With the usage of specific nouns, Morrison said DSC has found the right grammatical balance, noting that the body’s biggest concern has always been to maintain the clarity of the constitution while keeping everyone happy.

Regardless of how the change came about, several linguistics faculty members applauded DSC for taking a step forward on what they think is an important debate over the relationship between gender and language.

Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies Edna Andrews,

who teaches a course titled “Gender and Language,” said she believes that language is a negotiation and speakers—and DSG senators, by extension—should aim to offend as few people as possible in their discourse. She added thatalthough the masculine form is grammatically correct, some people object to its use as the default pronoun when gender is ambiguous.

Replacing gender pronouns with specific nouns is a good solution, Andrews said.

“The shift from pronouns to nouns alleviates a lot. of ambiguity,” she said. “Getting away from pronouns is a better decision although not necessarily a more politically correct one.”

Others find it encouraging that students are even having these discussions. .

“Gender equality is a core principle of DSG and the University.... Readability was the biggest issue.”

Gregory Morrison, DSG executive vice president “It’s important to keep gender in the public eye,” said

Jim Fitzpatrick, Trinity ’O3 and lecturing fellow for the De-

partment of Romance Studies. “I think the fact that DSC is even considering this is really good. DSC is a Very visible group on campus—in a lot of ways the face ofDuke.”

Fitzpatrick, whose research interests include language and gender, recalls having similar debates when he was an undergraduate at Duke.

“Conversations like this got me interested in language,” he said.

Sophomore Kemp Knott, however, said he thinks DSC could make better use ofits time.

“Shouldn’t DSC be fostering community relations between Duke and Durham or making Tailgate safer rather than debating pronoun usage?” Knott said.

Sophomore Reshma Kalimi said she believes that changing technicalities in the constitution is not as effective as making institutional changes.

“The debate is worthwhile, but it shouldn’tbe the number one issue,” she said.

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The Blue Devils dug themselves into a deeper hole in the ACC with their 2-0 loss to Boston College (5-3, 1-1 in the ACC) Friday night. Now with a 1-2 in-conference record, No. 12 Duke (5-2) will need to beat the likes ofWake Forest and Maryland, both near the top of the national rankings, to remain near the top of the ACC. Duke yet again struggled to find the back of the net, despite having multiple scoring opportunities. The Eagles’ goalkeeper, Justin Luthy, DUKE was forced to make three key in the match, two coming \2 saves in the second half to maintain a one-goal lead “The team played well and it just wasn’t our night,” head coach John Kerr said. “The goalie made some big-time saves and had the game ofhis life tonight for Boston College.”

The stalemate broke in the 51st minute as Boston College’s Edvin Worley found Colin Murphy for the easy score.

Duke didn’tallow the deficit to get it down, as senior Ryan McDaniel and freshman Ryan Finley both had shots parried away in the following ten minutes.

The back-and-forth flow of the game ended with 30 seconds remaining, as Boston College was awarded a penalty kick and converted it to seal the game.

On Oct. 2 the Blue Devils will face No. 4 Maryland and attempt to even out their ACC record. To be successful in their talent-heavy conference, they will need to have a more explosive offense that can get out to early leads.

The habit of getting behind early and coming back late or in overtime is unlikely to be a successful strategy for individual games or the season as a whole, though Duke has already won two games in overtime.

Duke needs to procure early goals to win games, and from that it will be able to build upon a positive record, rather than struggling late to piece together a successful season.

The Blue Devils step out ofconference play for a match against Elon Tuesday night before taking on the Terrapins Friday as students leave campus for Fall Break.

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“For a guy in his first game to go out there and not be scared or not turn the ball over is big,” senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “For [Scott] to play in

front of his home crowd the way that he did and not get too anxious shows the maturity level he [has].”

Scott and the Blue Devils jumped out to an early 21-0 lead, as Duke scored on its first three possessions.

The Eagles (0-4), though, fought back and managed to score two consecutive touchdowns in a four-minute span. Late

in the first quarter, running back Tim Shankle scored on a one-yard run, and just three minutes laster, safety Jeffe Henderson picked off Duke quarterback Sean Renfree and returned the interception 83 yards to pull N.C. Central within a touchdwon of the Blue Devils.

The rest of the game, however, was dominated by Duke, as the Blue Devils scored

28 unanswered points to seal the victory.

Duke’s offense proved two-dimentional Saturday, as for the first timeall season, the team successfully ran the football.

Scott was the first Duke player to rush for over 100 yards in a game since Justin Boyle managed the same feat in 2006 against Vanderbilt. His performance gave the Blue Devils hope that they could revitalize the running game despite losing running backs Re’quan Boyette and Jay Hollingsworth to injuries. “[Scott’s play] was huge,” senior defensive tackle and fellow Durham native Kinney Rucker said. “From a freshman who played in high school last year to come out and have a 100-yard game is huge. It’s huge for his confidence, for the offense and [for the] run game where we’ve been struggling for a bit. Hopefully he just keeps progressing to the next level.”

It is only natural that playing in a game of this magnitude would evoke some nervousness for the freshman. Understanding that his running back would be anxious in his career debut, head coach David Cutcliffe had Scott under a watchful eye.

“I could tell that Desmond was way into this thing,” Cutcliffe said. “I was a little concerned when we won the toss, when we put Desmond back on the kick. Here’s a guy in his first game handling the ball and was wound up pretty tight.... I watched every step he took with that ball and he had a nice return.”

Cutcliffe notified Scott that he would be taking snaps with the first team early last week after it became clear Boyette and Hollingsworth would not be able to start Saturday.

Redshirt freshmen Patrick Kurunwune contributed 93 rushing yards of his own in Duke’s 223-yard rushing effort, their highest of the season.

Kurunwune’s output was his career best and he also scored a touchdown on a 14yard run in the first quarter. While his play should not be overlooked, it was Scott who stole the spotlight.

“I knew Desmond was ready, and he’s got a lot to learn and a long way to go, but he’s got a lot of quickness, capability and strength,” Cutcliffe said. “He’s got a lot of confidence, and that’s a good thing, but sometimes we have to harness a little bit of that... It’s a real opportunity next week for him [at Virginia Tech].”

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The Bull City Gridiron Classic was a game of milestones—and not only because it was the first Egflj time in school history that Duke played Durham neighbor N.C. Central.

The Blue Devils had a running back pick up 100 yards for the first time since 2006, and the last time they amassed more than the Gallic Ha 487 total yards accumulated | Analysis Saturday was two years ago in a 46-43 loss to Navy.

Duke wasted no time kicking the offense into high gear, scoring on its first possession of the game using five plays to cover 59 yards in 2:27. Redshirt freshman Patrick Kurunwune capped off the drive with a 14-yard touchdown run, the first of his career and the first score on the ground by a running back this season.

“It was very important [to get off to a quick start] because we stressed that all week—that we wanted to get it going and get the offense clicking,” senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said.

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True freshman Desmond Scott got the start in the backfield and spearheaded the Blue Devil rushing attack, fdling in admirably for the injured Re’quan Boyette and Jay Hollingsworth. Boyette was sidelined by a leg injury and did not play, and Hollingsworth, who had an injured ankle, appeared sparingly.

On Duke’s second drive, the 5-foot-10, 185-pound Durham native took a handoff up the middle for 23 yards and a touchdown, finding the end zone for the first time in his career after just three carries.

When Scott picked up 100 yards on the ground after 15 attempts near the end of the third quarter, he became the first Blue Devil back to reach that plateau since Justin Boyle did it three seasons ago.

Taking Kurunwune’s 93 yards into account, Duke racked up 233 rushing yards in all and seemed nothing like the squad that had generated a very limited rushing output in its first three contests.

Granted, N.C. Central is still making the transition to Division I football. But nonetheless, Kurunwune was quick to praise the offensive line for stepping up and playing to its potential.

“All the credit goes to our offensive line,” Kurunwune said. “We can’t move the ball from the running back position unless the offense line is doing what they’re supposed to do. They did a greatjob of showing what they can do today.”

Head coach David Cutcliffe, for his part, thought that in addition to good blocking and smart running, sticking to a simple game plan was one of the reasons why his team had so much success rushing the ball, even given the absence of Duke’s two top runners coming into the game.

“There’s no schematic change, no technical change in the design of the run game [compared to the last three weeks],” he said. “We didn’t run a lot of [different] plays tonight in the run game... but we kind of knew that going in against them, they’re so multiple and pressure-oriented in their fronts. We really limited the number of schemes we used and that obviously helped us a little bit—we handled them very well.”

But the running game was not the only area in which the Blue Devils excelled. Duke’s gains on the ground laid the foundation for an efficient aerial assault. Lewis completed 17-of-25 passes for 189 yards and two scores in what Cutcliffe called his best performance this year.

Lewis and redshirt freshman Sean Renfree connected with eight different receivers on the night, and found the second or third option throughout the game. Lewis finished with 189 yards through the air, while Renfree had just 61 yards passing on the night.

In addition to throwing the short screens that Duke usually relies on in the passing game, the quarterback duo came up with a number of long completions over the middle of the field as well.

Lewis had throws of 28 and 25 yards to Austin Kelly and Brett Huffman, respectively, and Renfree hit freshman receiver Conner Vernon for 22 yards on the game’s final scoring drive.

“What we haven’t had here is what you’d call a receiving corps,” Cutcliffe said. “I think we’re developing a receiving corps...and we’ve obviously at this point in time developed a couple of quarterbacks that are capable of playing.”

All in all, the Blue Devils scored touchdowns on seven of their 12 offensive possessions and boasted a 50 percent third-down conversion rate. The last time Duke scored more than 49 points was all the way back in 1994.

Saturday was an optimal time to .establish an offensive rhythm, as the Blue Devils will need as much chemistry on that side of the ball as possible next week at home against a Virginia Tech defense that held Duke to three points last year and No. 9 Miami to seven points Saturday.

“We’re better than we’re playing —I said that all along,” Cutcliffe said. Tm anxious to see this tape and see if we are coming closer to reaching that level of what we’re capable of being.”

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ground from quarterback Tyrod Taylor and a special teams unit that blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown.

No. 18 FSU 7-17 USF Florida State’s up-and-down season continued Saturday as the Seminoles dissapointed a massive home crowd with a 10-point loss to unranked South Florida.

In the first-ever meeting between the two Florida schools, Bulls’ freshman quarterback BJ. Daniels threw two touchdown passes and the Seminoles lost four fumbles and were stopped once at the goal line.

GaTech 24-7 No. 22UNC Georgia Tech recovered quickly from a loss at Miami 10 days before to dominate the Tar Heels in Atlanta. The Yellow Jackets held onto possession of the ball for 42 minutes, and stopped UNC when it did have the ball, holding the Tar Heels to only 154 yards of offense.

N.C State 38-31 PITT Wolfpack quarterback Russell Wilson's four touchdown passes and a late defensive stand gave N.C. State a win in its final game before it enters ACC play. The Wolfpack's Toney Baker scored on a two-yard run in the fourt quarter to give his team its only lead of the day against the Panthers.

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Duke traveled to College Park, Md., and Chestnut Hill, Mass., this weekend to face off against two conference opponents. The Blue Devils (13-3, 3-0 in the ACC) had a strong weekBglgj DUKE end, sweeP* nS Maryland (9-6, 1-1) sr lajilil UMD /O Friday night and Boston College (10-4, 0-3) Sunday afternoon.

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won all three sets by a convincing margin. This strong performance allowed the Blue Devils to extend their winning streak against Maryland to seven consecutive victories.

“We want to keep a level of consistency up at all times,” Moss said. “We have been trying to play each game at as high a level as we are capable of, without losing our momentum. This weekend we did a great job of keeping up the momentum throughout the entire game.”

Two weeks ago, the Blue Devils’ showed a major weakness of unforced serving errors against the defending NCAA champion Penn State. Head coach Jolene Nagel told The Chronicle two weeks ago that she planned to have the team focus on reducing these service errors while still continuing to attack the opponents on serve in practice this week.

Duke’s focus on serving this week appeared to pay off, since the team was able to keep the Terrapins guessing throughout the match by presenting a number of different offensive schemes that all began with the serve.

“I thought we did really well in the match against Maryland,” Nagel said. “We made some errors, but we were able to apply a lot ofpressure with our serve starting in the first set. Maryland came along and made some changes but the serve was pretty consistent throughout.”

Penn State was the only team this season that was able to minimize the effectiveness of Duke’s powerful front blocking, and Maryland attempted to follow with an offensive attack that was similar to what had worked for the Nittany Lions. The Terrapins continually hit the ball deep and put pressure on the Blue Devils’ back row, but Duke’s blockers were not caught off guard by the unorthodox attacking strategy.

“One of the things we focus on all the time is making sure that blocking is where it needs to be,” Nagel said. “Our defense starts with our blocking and when we are blocking balls well, it allows us to dig balls around it.”

The match against Boston College appeared that it would be a difficult battle for the Blue Devils as the Eagles tied the first set at 21. Duke rallied by winning four of the next five points and sealed the first set at 25-22. But after the first set, the Eagles were no competition for the Blue Devils, as they lost the next two 25-14 and 25-16. Duke showed the consistency it had been looking for throughout the weekend against Maryland and Boston College.

The Blue Devils had 10 service aces in the win; Junior libero Claire Smalzer had three, sophomore setter Kellie Catanach had two and freshman Nailah Waterfield had one. Freshman middle blocker Christiana Gray had seven kills with an outstanding hitting percentage of.186, in addition to her six blocks.

After the set of victories this weekend, Duke is currently tied for first place in the ACC standings. The Blue Devils’ defense has proven itself to be one of the strongest in the ACC, holding opponents to conference-low .142 hitting percentage.

The Blue Devils continue conference play at Cameron Indoor Stadium next weekend. Duke hopes to stay undefeated in the ACC as the team lines up across from Virginia Oct. 2 and Virginia Tech Oct. B.

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Although No. 12 Duke defeatedNew Hampshire 7-1 Sunday, the weekend was tarnished by a 7-0 loss to No. 2 North Carolina Saturday. The Blue Devils were shut out by their archrivals in Chapel Hill, leaving them winless in theACC. “We were tired after midterms but that’s not an excuse. We knew what a big game this was,” head coach Beth Bozman said. “We were very reactive to Carolina instead of being proactive.”

The ue ev^s O-2 in MP| mTyc "\ PUKE /O the ACC) were dominated in \y every aspect of the game as they suffered their worst loss of the \-| mu season. The Tar Heels (10-0,1-0) outshot the Blue Devils 23-3 and ■ DUKE had nine penalty corners while Duke had none “I think everyone was scared,” senior tri-captain Amie Survilla said. “Playing at UNC, it’s a very intimidating atmosphere. They have hundreds of fans.... Being a senior, I’ve played there several times and it can be very intimidating if you’re not mentally prepared for what’s about to hit you.”

The Tar Heels scored early Saturday on their first penalty corner of the game as freshman Jaclyn Gaudioso Radvany knocked in a pass from Melanie Brill at 1:06. Later in the game freshman Kelsey Kolojejchick added two more goals for the Tar Heels.

Despite North Carolina’s top-two ranking, the Blue Devils are convinced that they underperformed Saturday.

“Carolina is very talented—l think they’re one of the top two teams in the country and we just didn’t arrive,” Bozman said. “We played them in preseason and played even with them. I think we know it’s in us, we just need to actually arrive at the field next time.”

Duke came out strong Sunday against the Wildcats (5-3) as junior Susan Ferger scored the first ofher three goals at 4:19. Duke took a commanding lead toward the end of the first period when Survilla scored first at 8:05, then added two quick goals at 26:42 and 27:10.

On her second score of the day, Survilla received a pass from midfielder Chelsea Amsley and buried a shot from close in. Thirty seconds later, after a restart, Survilla scored again off a pass from Megan Deakins.

“The goal I scored from Chelsea was basically textbook,” Survilla said. “We’ve been practicing the mids hitting it from the outside of the circle into the circle all week and we finally got it to work.”

The Wildcats scored a goal early in the second period, but th Blue Devils answered with three more to close out the game. Survilla finished with four goals on the day.

“Today everyone played great,” Survilla said. “It was a great morale lifter from yesterday.”

Next weekend the Blue Devils travel to Boston to take on No. 9 Boston College and Boston University. Duke is still looking for its first conference win of the season.

This weekend in Winston-Salem, Duke kicked off its quest to defend last year’s national championship at the Wake Forest Invitational. And if this weekend’s results are any indication, the squad is a talented one—but one that will need to develop more consistency.

Of particular significance to the Blue Devils was the return of senior Elizabeth Plotkin, who played her first weekend of tournament tennis in almost two years due to injury. Plotkin’s return to the lineup is crucial for a Blue Devil team that lost graduated seniors Melissa Mang and Jessi Robinson as well as underclassmen Mallory Cecil and Tara Ayer from last year.

Plotkin picked right up where she left off, going 3-1 on the weekend in singles matches, including an impres-

sive blanking of Richmond’s Kelly Tidwell 6-0, 6-0. Plotkin showed no residual effect from a devastating knee injury she has worked hard to rehabilitate.

“I just had to remind myself that for the past year-anda-half I had been watching on the sidelines and now I had the chance to be playing again and I needed to just enjoy it,” Plotkin said. “Physically, I’m fine, and I knew that would take care ofitself.”

While much of the spotlight and attention of the coaching staff was on Plotkin’s return, her teammates faired equally well on the weekend.

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Saturday marked the first time Duke has ever finished among the top five at the meet.

The Blue Devils were also the first team to finish all seven of their scoring runners in the meet, with sophomore Andrew Brodeur’s time of25:33 locking in the podium finish for Duke.

This speaks to the strength of the Blue Devils’ depth this season, as Brodeur, Duke’s seventh-best finisher this weekend, still ended up 33rd overall in the race out of 176 runners.

“Our guys ran extremely well on a very soggy course,” head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “Bo [Waggoner] had an All-America-type performance today and this was the best cross country race of Nanni’s career. We are very excited about the depth of our top seven men.”

Saturday’s results put Duke’s record for the season at 23-2.

Next weekend the team returns closer to home to compete in the Great American Cross Country Festival in Cary Oct. 2.

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Despite a waterlogged course at the Roy Griak Invitational Saturday in Minnesota, the Blue Devils brought home third place in both the individualand team competitions. Junior Bo Waggoner ran a 24:53 on the 8K course, finishing third behind All-Americans Hassan Mead of Minnesota and Guor Majak oflowa State, for Duke’s best individual finish in the history of the meet.

Waggoner’s strong effort was followed closely by that of his teammates, as junior Cory Nanni finished 13th and sophomore James Kostelnik earned the 24th position to round out the top three for Duke. The Blue Devils’ top five individual scores combined for a team score of 94, good for third place out of 18 teams, an improvement of five places from last year’s finish.

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The team’s top-ranked player, No. 13 Reka Zsilinszka, started the tournament off with a bang before dropping her last two matches to unranked players and finishing the weekend with a 2-2 mark.

However, Zsilinszka was more successful with her doubles play this weekend where she was paired with Nze. The duo looked very convincing in its first three competitions, advancing to the finals without much difficulty. But in the finals, the Illinois pairing of Marisa Lambropoulos and Breanne Smutko proved to be too much as the Blue Devils’ two fell 8-4.

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Nowicki is spot-on in idenDuring the past years, administrator-driven task forces tifying socioeconomic diverthat focus on various aspects sity as a key area for adminisof student life have come and trative focus. Perhaps to their gone. They identify areas fault, past examinations of for improvement, generate student culture have glossed lengthy reports, and largely over the issue of class—one fail to spur any substantive that is deeply intertwined change. We hope this latest with race, gender, social effort is different. space and residential living.

The SDI, led by Dean and And although the UniVice Provost for Undergraduversity does a good job of ate Education Steve Nowicki, equalizing the playing field will attempt to gather informaby requiring all students live tion about the ways in which in the same dorms, and by socioeconomic status shape providing funds for those on

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You see, when it rains and I’ve got nary a thatched roof to shelter me, I like to nobly think not of how cold and wet I am, but

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dents, administrators, faculty and trustees —to the existence of an important issue on campus. This is encouraging.

But at this point in time, it is unclear whether this initiative will bring any meaningful change to a problem that is larger than our University and whose solution is complicated and multifaceted.

Dean Nowicki’s open-ended fact finding approach—similar to the strategy used by the CCI and Women’s Initiative—rarely leads to tangible results. This problem is particularly relevant in the case of the SDI because the administration has proven par-

focus group model seems flawed. It is unclear why legacies who are not on financial aid are an appropriate control group. In addition, this methodology misses a key demographic of students who are particularly affected by their economic status: students who are not on financial aid, but still have difficulties making ends meet.

As a whole, the SDI indentifies a key problem. But in working towards a solution, it should focus on small, tangible and concrete steps that can make a big difference for students whose economic situation leaves them marginalized.

By doing so, perhaps the SDI can avoid the fate shared by its culture report predecessors—collecting dust in the University archives.

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financial aid to pay for things like textbooks and study abroad, these efforts only mask underlying socioeconomic difference.

Class is a seemingly taboo subject of conversation at Duke, but for many students, its impact is felt on a daily basis, influencing decisions on everything from joining a selective living group, choosing to live in a cheaper Central campus apartment and going off campus to eat on the weekend.

For these reasons, it is not surprising that many social circles on campus contain people of similar socioeconomic backgrounds.

By leading a study to quantify and record the onthe-ground effects of socioeconomic difference, Dean Nowicki is drawing the attention of key stakeholders—stu-

of Ireland and my pallid, not-so-very distant ancestors, for whom wet and cold were marginal concerns.

These were people so connor southard desperate (for the dead poet totally non-weather related reasons of famine, poverty and their Celtic inability to forget a grudge over unrequited egg-borrowing) that they left their rain-battered native Island to settle in sunny Canada.

As an English major with a few shots of Irish blood in his veins, thinking of the homeland leads me to think not of James Joyce—l’d rather drink in his pubs than read his books—but of dear old W.B. Yeats, the man who, in some ways, invented Ireland.

To be sure, as Ireland edged towards independence in the early years of the 20th century (and as Yeats hit his poetic peak), the country was seriously in need of inventing. There wasn’t much “culture” to speak of in the Ireland of a century ago: everyone was too busy either digging peat or blowing up post offices.

Yeats could fence, but he’d have been a right poxy gobshite at trying to blow anything up. And so in his poetry, in his politicking and in his theatre work, W.B. Yeats labored to shape a modern Irish culture. His efforts went a long way towards locating the intellectual and cultural heart ofwhat would become a miraculously successful firstworld country.

If only Great-Grandfather O’Connor, then living on the wheat farm in balmy North Dakota, had known all this was coming. He might have moved back to Eire, and I wouldn’t have had to invest so very much in sunscreen for my banshee-white skin.

But anyway, why (besides a suitably Joycean, bizarre set of associations with rain) do I dedicate the umbrella I bought a few days ago to a poet and Irish cultural icon, instead of to, say, RainmakerFor-LifeJJ. Redick?

Two reasons: First, for all of the good Irish work he did, and all the rural lyrics he wrote, Yeats was basically an urban fellow, and more of a Londoner than a Dubliner. So, he was more the umbrella

type than any of my sheepherding, beer-swilling Connaught ancestors.

Second, the $6 umbrella now permanendy oncall in my bookbag is emblazoned with “Eruditio et Religio,” along with the rest of the Duke crest.

And Duke is the kind of place that’s always being

invented and reinvented.

Friday’s Chronicle featured a lengthy article on some of Duke’s most veteran faculty. Because it was smartly done, the article didn’t forget to pay homage to the most amazing fact about our beloved University: It’s fairly bloody new, new enough that dedicated lifers like James Bonk have spent more than halfofDuke’s life-span under the Gothic eaves ofWest Campus.

As we all know, those Gothic eaves were put up less than a century ago in a self-conscious effort to make Duke appear old, mighty, distinguished and assuredly cultured. Duke wasn’t built to look, or be, unambitious.

When James B. Duke and the founding cadre set about building the foundations (figuratively) and spires (literally) that would eventually turn a local college into an international powerhouse, they weren’t justpursuing a pet bit of philanthropy; they were inventing with Yeatsian bigness of vision.

This inventive, ambitious spirit is reflected in James B.’s outlandish generosity, Terry Sanford’s famous “outrageous ambitions” and today’s feverish efforts to shape a distinctive identity that kowtows less and less to our older peers (DukeEngage, anyone?). No one in a position of power at this University has ever made a secret of the fact that Duke is gripped by a desire to constantly reinvent itself and keep true to that original spirit of self-aware ambition.

Perhaps Duke now and in the past could do a better job with its identity and its self-definition; perhaps Yeats could have done a better job with his poetry and his cultural work. I’ll leave parsing all of that to such learned luminaries as the Editorial Board and Jacques Derrida, respectively.

Still, North Carolina’s rainy days are an unfamiliar novelty to a high altitude Wyoming boy, and rain reminds me not only of the spirit of Yeats and his Ireland, but also of the soul of my wet University.

My umbrella came inscribed with “Duke”; I add to that moniker a dedication to Yeats because, like Duke, he wasn’t especially humble and he didn’t dream small. He went looking for all sorts of greatness. Just like Duke, he found it.

ConnorSouthard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

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was a lot of division in the- name of unity this weekend.

At President Brodhead’s Homecoming Ball on Friday night, alumni, seniors and particularly intrepid underage tricksters found themselves cordoned off in the I.M. gym in search of alcohol. Separate from the freshmen both spatially and temporally (why doesn’t anyone ever- issue a to telling the freshmen come right at 9 pan.?), the old folks were given ample incentive to defy the spirit j charlotte ofreunion.

SIITIITI.OIIS Enjoined from drinking, the freshmen were to enjoy monday, monday the dance floor stone cold sober. Enjoined from dancing, the elder of the young adults were to drunkenly inter. act with one another without the convenience of a dance floor. How do you get sloppy without a d-floor? It’s a ball, «

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In other sequestering news this weekend, the North Carolina Pride festival took place Saturday morning and early afternoon on Duke’s East Campus. Carefully planned not to interfere with the football festivities (or vice versa?), the Pride festival still celebrated its Silver Anniversary (that’s 25, you cretins) with a bang.

Durham bridged some strange binaries with this division-cum-unification scheme. But the Duke-North Caro-

lina Central University football showdown on Saturday night took the cake.

The Blue Devils against the Eagles. Pitting a big ‘ol football band against our more Cameron-suited band. The first Maroon-Blue face-offs, not counting our constant struggle with UChicago to stay in the U.S. News Top 10.

And, to point out the big-ass, racially charged elephant in the room, NCCU is where a certain Crystal Mangum attended school when a certain cadre ofDuke lacrosse players came under certain accusations.

I initially thought that little said “Bull City Unity” worse than a historically black university and a historically racechallenged university sending oversized students to pummel one another on the gridiron. Although a lot of cooperation goes into coordinating this game, I just didn’t see diametrically opposed fan bases rooting for diametrically opposed outcomes as a good vehicle for overcoming tensions.

When the Mets and the Yankees play each other, New York doesn’t pass around the peace pipe and resolve all its conflicts. When the Cubs and the White Sox play each other, Michael Barrett punches AJ. Pierzynski. Why should a Duke-NCCU be any different?

Not to mention, football is a much more physical game than baseball. The Blue Devils were literally grabbing the Eagles and forcibly jerking them to the ground. It’s as if President Ob?ima, hoping to strengthen ties with Iran, staged a mock tactical bombing of underground nuclear facilities. Unity, my left foot!

How could adversarial athletic events possibly bridge racial and socioeconomic divides?

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can only imagine what Tyrone Wells was thinking last Friday when all of a sudden, almost every student milling about in the Great Hall darted to the center of the room and began to form a massive line behind boxes filled with prized Duke commodities. It was probably the first time that afternoon that all eyes and ears were actually turned towards the stage to the singerouter spaces songwriter whose music has recently been featured in “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Cold Case” and the trailer for the movie “My Sister’s Keeper.”

Anyone who has never attended this school would be surprised to find normally orderly students transforming into wild beasts at the mere whiff of freshly shipped fabric. Although this practice of swarming for free T-shirts at Duke is a common and even time-honored practice, I was embarrassed that fellow students paid more respect for free clothing than for a musician performing on stage.

Last week, Sona the Voice, a hip hop artist from Cameroon, performed songs related to social issues, including poverty, hunger and violence that he experienced in Africa, to a dwindling audience of passersby in Few Quadrangle. Many factors probably contributed to the lack of turnout, including not enough publicity prior to the event, the weather and a small fan base.

Likewise, for Andy Grammar and Tyrone Wells, moving the concert to the Great Hall due to forecasted rain, although probably necessary, may have caused some excitement to die out. With the length of the building stretching from the West Campus Plaza to Alpine Bagels, few students were actually focused on one end of the Great Hall, illustrating the importance of choosing a good venue. More than anything, however, I believe the general lack of interest on campus for live music is responsible for the

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In the past year or two, a new wave of student bands has emerged, with Panda Force and Mike Posner as two of the most well known, replacing the older generation’s Stella by Starlight, Soulless Dogs and Smooch and the Big Hug. President of Small Town Records David Munoz, a senior, told me that he agrees that not many students are aware about

student bands on campus. Although he acknowledges the difficulty of playing in a college band, especially without adequate marketing and advertising, as a guitarist for Panda Force, he must deal with the fact that “you could come up with amazing songs but not attract any attention due to the general stu-' dent body’s preference for over-commercialized rap or pop.”

These realities make it even more disappointing that, as demonstrated by various YouTube videos of Mike Posner, who recently signed with J records, students from other schools can belt out more of his lyrics than students at Duke.

Remnants of Duke’s past make me believe that this might not always have been the case. The now defunct Duke University Music Exchange, with a vestige of a Web site, existed so that “musiciansand music lovers can discover the music scene found in the Duke area.” Lydia Simmons, Trinity ’O9, has a music blog “Sunsets in the Rear View” that also strives to “spread the word about lesser-known music of all

genres.”

You may ask: Why should we care? If there is no support for obscure or local bands to play on campus, shouldn’t these funds be better allocated to getting more well known artists? At a school that tends to isolate itself from the community that it resides in and that surrounds it, local music is away to bring students and talented individuals from the region together. Music also enriches our culture. Inviting diverse artists to Duke exposes students to music that falls outside of the mainstream radio hits that blast from Shooters.

As a socially conscious campus, student organizations also can benefit from the power ofmusic to promote their cause. As Purple’s concert featuring Mike Posner has shown, live music can work in conjunction with social activism to raise important themes, deliver a message and gamer support.

Are free T-shirts the only gimmicks that will make students come out to support live music? I hope not.

(If all else fails, though, maybe the solution lies in giving out free T-shirts with the statement: “SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC.”) From the couches in the Coffeehouse to the bar stools in the Armadillo Grill, at Duke, we should take advantage of the opportunities to discover and experience free, live music in unique and intimate settings unavailable outside this campus.

Sue Li is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

I turn your attention to “The Secret Game,” a clandestine basketball match between the North Carolina College for Negroes (now NCCU) and the “Duke Navy Medical School” team. In 1944, a full two decades before the Civil Rights Act, the all-black {earn hosted the all-white team in what a metaphorical gentleman named Jim Crow deemed an illegal racially mixed meeting. The vastly superior Eagles whomped the Blue Devils to the tune of 88-44, but the real loser was unjust division.

In “The Secret Game,” all the participants risked certain arrest, and half of the participants further risked the violent extra-legal “justice” of the Jim Crow system, but they defied the system. With these roots we can see how a football game might be able to bridge some gaps.

Letting a sea of maroon complement our sea of blue in Wallace Wade stadium certainly isn’t a statement to the same degree as defying Jim Crow segregation laws to play basketball. Nor is a football game going to overcome the long, complex history of town-gown and gowngown tensions.

But we know our team—they always seem to let our FBS opponents make a game ofit. And whether black orwhite, Eagle or Blue Devil, young or old, LGBT or no, biting your nails as Duke fails to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory lets us see our Bull City spirit—or “Bullship” —that brought us to the stands in the first place.

Now that’s what I call unity.

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lettertotheeditor No need for “democratization” of universities Michael Stauch’s Sept. 25 column “Democratize universities” was an insightful look into the mind of a highly educated intellectual with naive views and a liberal agenda.

His knowledge of the campaign that has been waged in Afghanistan over the past eight years is so one-sided that it appears to be confined to what he may have read about in Al-Jazeera and on AI Qaeda Web sites. He probably ought to talk with Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster and glean some other points of view. McMaster is advocating an improved counterinsurgency strategy in the theater—hence the review and recommendation from Gen. Stanely McChrystal. Clearly, this subject is not something that can be left to “useful idiots” such as Stauch who are misguidedly “committed to opposing imperialism and supporting a vision of society organized from the bottom up along anti-racist and democratic lines.”

Perhaps Stauch was oblivious to the depredations of the radical Islamic fundamentalists under the Taliban who had their way in Afghanistan and who nurtured the attacks on our nation in 2001.

I, for one, appreciate the opportunity to examine the broad points of view being offered by the University. I am also appreciative of the service many of our professors have proffered to our nation. It is with enthusiasm and pride that I serve in our ROTC corps and I look forward to the opportunity to serve this great nation.

I recommend Stauch continue to focus his efforts on organizing overtime complaints and picketing the nearest plywood factory. I have confidence that these efforts will someday lead us to “a place where every person can incorporate the collective development of the world, in science and technology as well as art and literature and any other area, into themselves.” Meanwhile, to extend a quote from George Orwell, we students can “sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to do violence on those who would do us harm.”

Kase Diehl Trinity ’ll

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