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N.C. STATE SELLS 79,000 ACRES OF FOREST

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Uni labeled 5th most social media savvy college Library looks to roll out new site

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Duke librarians are hopeful that the new library website will be released in the near future after two failed roll outs.

After using the same web infrastructure for over seven years, the Duke library system is moving to an all-new website that is designed to give students and researchers easier access to commonly used resources. The website was first supposed to roll out over fall break, but technical issues forced its debut to be postponed. The second planned roll out in late October was also pushed back due to similar issues.

“We had done extensive testing before we launched the site over fall break,” said Emily Daly, head of the libraries’ user experience department. “But even that testing didn’t indicate the problems we would have until we actually flipped the switch.”

During the final stages of the site’s testing phase, users were unable to log in to their accounts. They encountered this problem during both of the planned website launches.

Daly added that the website worked better in the testing phase than when it was live.

Currently, there is no timeline as to when another roll out will be attempted, said Thomas Crichlow, the libraries’ user experience project manager. The library does aim to have a timeline within the next few days and is looking forward to rolling out the site soon.

The website will be redesigned to make commonly used features more accessible.

The masthead at the top of the page will be constant across most of the site’s webpages, allowing users to quickly access pages from any location. There will also be “quick links” to popular resources such as citation tools and library room reservations.

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The picture of the chapel on Instagram tagged “#DukeFall” may play a more important role in the University’s international presence than students think.

According to StudentAdvisor, a college-centered affiliate of The Washington Post, Duke was ranked the fifth

most social media savvy college, rising 39 spots from last year. The site, known for its data-based reporting, evaluated universities on their number of social media followers in proportion to their alumni and student base.

“We try to target our content so that it’s the most engaging for our audiences,” said Cara Rousseau, manager of Duke’s social and digital media strategy.

A team of fifteen students are responsible for updating the University’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook through the Office of News and Communication, Rousseau added.

“We have a very young, fresh perspective looking at how we’re using social media,” Rousseau said. “The great See MEDIA, page 9

Forum tackles N.C. voter law implications

by Georgia Parke THE CHRONICLE

Students in North Carolina took steps to understand the implications of the North Carolina voting reform law, passed this summer, at a forum Monday night.

Students have voiced their concerns on campus over the state’s election reform law, signed by Governor Pat McCrory on Aug. 12, regarding its effects on college students’ ability to vote. About 60 members from both the Duke and University of North Carolina

at Chapel Hill communities continued the conversation in the Keohane Atrium to hear from experts on the issue and discuss the implications of the law amongst themselves. The forum, called “A Voteless People is a Hopeless People,” was sponsored by the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

“College students are the enemy for people who want to restrict voting,” said Timothy Tyson, visiting professor of American Christianity and southern culture and education chair for the N.C. National Association for the Ad-

vancement of Colored People.

Tyson outlined the history of the achievement of equal voting rights and public education. Many major steps were taken in North Carolina, such as the tripling of African-American voter registration in 1946, he said. By 1960, 40 percent of African-Americans were registered to vote in the state—a higher rate than most of the South at that time, he said.

He went on to address the recent sweeping

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Foster’s to not return for Students spread passion for dance to Chinese youth lunch due to lack of business

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Five students traveled to China last summer in order to teach through dance.

by Hayley Trainer THE CHRONICLE

Trying to bridge the gap between the traditional Chinese educational system and the expression of dance, five Duke students traveled halfway around the world to work with youth.

During the summer, sophomores Maurice Dowell and Marisa Epstein, junior Ray Liu, senior Rebecca Pham and Bobby Lam, Pratt ‘13, spent six weeks in China teaching a dance summer camp to students, entitled “Growth through Dance: Motion Camp.” The experience taught Chinese students to immerse themselves in dance, which is often overlooked by the typical Chinese educational system.

“There was no guarantee that we wouldn’t fail,” Dowell said. “I think I appreciated the mystery and the adventure in the trip, in that we were the first to actually take on something like this.”

Dance and other art programs are not common in the Chinese school system, Dowell added. Although the American and Chinese students did not share a common language, they were able to communicate through their dance expression.

“More than anything the Chinese students gained both confidence and a new and more open-minded outlook on both life and other cultures,” Epstein said.

“Many of them do not have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular arts-based activities so for them this was truly an opportunity to grow through dance.”

The program was the pilot trip—organized through duARTS and facilitated by the Initiate Development for Education and Service, a Chinese nonprofit organization. No faculty members accompanied the students, but Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, helped organize the trip.

The Growth Through Dance program was conceived by Pham and Luou Zhang, Trinity ‘11, on past ventures to China together, including through the DukeEngage in Zuhai program, Dowell said.

After graduating, Zhang began working with IDEAS—which aims to “promote the social development of youth through the arts, service, and technology among other subject areas,” Pham See DANCE, page 8

The Foster’s on the Fly truck will not be returning to Telecom Drive for lunch anymore, said senior Chris Taylor, cochair of the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee, which met Monday evening.

Although the truck will still be part of the regular evening rotation, it will no longer return during lunch hours due to a lack of business. Several members speculated that this may be because Foster’s food is more expensive than most students would like to spend at lunch.

Taylor noted, however, that every time he has gone to Telecom Drive during lunch the area has “seemed empty.”

“The situation is, if we don’t get more people going to [food trucks], we might lose more for lunch,” Taylor said.

Other members noted, however, that they have experienced long lines at the Humble Pig food truck during lunch hours.

Senior Marissa Medine said that she is looking to set up an event so that the Merchants on Points vendors can give samples and free menus to students to promote their businesses.

With the new Merchants on Points payment system, which requires students to select to go to the tip page after the total has been displayed, vendors have experienced a major drop in tip revenue, Medine said.

Many members of DUSDAC used the meeting to report back on the progress of on-campus vendors.

Junior Ben Wang said the Divinity School Refectory is receiving a good amount of business during dinner hours, however there is a decline in the amount of students who eat there throughout the week.

Quenchers management has been upset that Red Mango has “cannibalized” much of their business by offering smoothies, Wang said. He added that after 15 years on campus, they are ask-

ing for a larger role once West Union reopns.

“They are just annoyed that Red Mango exists,” Wang said.

Wang added that Quenchers is looking to develop a smaller stand on East Campus.

Blue Express is the only venue on campus that has experienced a decrease in revenue from last year, Taylor said.

Sophomore Lavanya Sunder said she thinks that many students are deterred from eating there by the inconvenient location.

Freshman Katie Becker discussed the first-year dining plan. Because of the nature of Marketplace, there is not much variance in popularity from year to year.

“Business is obviously good, since freshmen are forced to go there,” Becker said, adding that Marketplace management is looking for ways to better get feedback from students.

Marketplace is trying to host more events this year, she said, however the building cannot support all of the students wanting to attend midnight breakfast, which is the most popular event.

Au Bon Pain management is concerned about their cart on the Bryan Center plaza because it is not getting as much traffic as they had originally hoped for, sophomore Brian Taylor said.

Several members suggested moving the cart toward the main residential quadrangle after the arches to the plaza close the first day of Thanksgiving break.

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Cathy Davidson pursues innovation in education

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Cathy Davidson, co-director of Duke’s Ph.D. lab in digital knowledge, is embracing the possibilities of technology in higher education through her work with a new, nationwide initiative. Titled “The History and Future of Higher Education,” the project is coordinated by the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory—an organization Davidson helped to establish in 2002 in order to pursue innovation in education. The initiative is designed to bring together professors from dozens of institutions and students from all over the world, and it will include webinars, online forums and international conferences, as well as a Massive Open Online Course to be taught by Davidson in the Spring.

Davidson sat down with The Chronicle’s Emma Baccellieri to discuss the initiative and the changing face of higher education.

The Chronicle: What will the relationship be between the MOOC and the course physically taught here at Duke?

Cathy Davidson: We’ve never done anything like this before. The first two weeks happen at the face-to-face level before the MOOC begins.... My classes are always student-created, I always work with students to create the syllabus [and] the assignments. We do peer grading and contract grading, they’re very experimental classes.

Once the MOOC starts, students will be reading a number of articles and books about the history and future of higher education, and they’ll also be watching the hour-long videos each week as if they were reading a one-hour assignment. But then they will be creating interventions online for the MOOC students as part of their own assignments, the biggest part of which is that they’ll be working in teams

to be envisioning what a university could look like if they invent a university from scratch.... And then they will put that up, and the 50,000 MOOC students can edit those in the forums in any way.

After midterms, we’re going to remix the course—it’s all going to be student generated. Students will figure out what they want to do with all the content that they have had from interacting with 50,000 students from around the world and thinking about the future of higher education.

TC: How do you see your course working with the other pieces of the initiative?

CD: The one part that’s very exciting for my face-to-face students is that there’s three other professors—Doris Sommer from Harvard, David Palumbo-Liu from Stanford and Christopher Newfield from the University of California at Santa Barbara. We’re all teaching at the exact same time, and we’re going to be doing Google hangouts so our students can have public conversations. We’re going to be reading each other’s books and having public conversations across the classes.

For me, what would be amazing—and I don’t want to dictate this, because the students should be driving this—would be if the students were doing projects with students at the other universities, and really comparing what different kinds of universities are like and making networks of students...so much of higher education is happening without students putting input into it. It’s your future, it’s not my future...so this is really to have students have an active role in thinking about the kinds of universities they want.

TC: Where does this course fit in the landscape of Duke’s other flipped classrooms, in which students usually watch a video lecture before coming to class and use class time to work on solving problems or team-based learning?

CD: I like to say, why make a classroom flipped when you can make it do cartwheels? In the humanities, we’ve been flipping classrooms since Socrates.

Smart people do the reading beforehand and come into class and then discuss it.

A humanities class is about that, that’s how you run a humanities class. So I don’t think the flipped classroom is all that exciting. I want to take real knowledge, make real networks and then have real-world changes and real-world transformations. And I want students in leadership roles, not just split-the-work roles but in real leadership roles.

TC: Why is this such an appropriate time to take stock of higher education’s past and start planning for the future?

CD: On April 22, 1993, the Internet went public, and for the first time in human history, anyone who had an idea could communicate that idea to anyone with Internet access. That’s a form of communication that had never existed before and an incredible power. But almost all of our educational institutions were created for the Industrial Age changes, which were mass printing [and] mass education. There’s almost nothing about contemporary education that was created for the world we live in post-1993.

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N.C. State forest sale highlights value of Duke forest

by Yiyun Zhu THE CHRONICLE

North Carolina State University will soon be without a forest to call its own.

The Board of Trustees of NCSU’s Endowment Fund has agreed to sell the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest to an Illinois-based agriculture business company for $150 million, the university announced last Tuesday.

“It just wasn’t a great investment anymore,” said Robert Brown, former dean of NCSU’s College of Natural Resources. “Our income from the forest has dropped almost 60 percent.”

According to a press release by the university, the sale will generate an annual return of interest estimated at $6 million for the benefit of CNR. This is more than three times the current annual yield from the forest, which has been approximately $2 million annually but dropped to $861,000 last year.

The benefits generated from the sale will go toward promoting research and academic resources within CNR, Brown said, and will be the largest endowment the college has ever received. It will also replace previously lost money in salaries, scholarships and student clubs. He added that there has been discussion about spending $10 million of the endowment

on a new building for CNR on the NSCU ing the legacy of the Hofmann Forest campus. by preserving the name, ensuring access to long-term research projects in the Too far to use forest for students and professors and The Hofmann Forest, located near guaranteeing that the forest would be a Jacksonville and about 118 miles away working forest. The Illinois-based agrifrom NCSU, was gifted to the N.C. State business that is buying the forest was the Endowment Fund in 1977 specifically to only potential buyer that agreed to all aid the CNR. three terms, Brown said.

“The Hofmann Forest was intended to be a teaching research forest and ‘An irreplaceable asset’ at one time it was used for teaching,” CNR forest manager Joe Cox said that Brown said. “But it was just too far away the university’s decision to sell the forest for the researchers to use much.” has upset quite a few people, including Because it is not frequently used now, himself. He noted that the decision has Brown noted that the sale of the forest affected faculty who are attached to the will not affect future research. The ma- forest and see the forest as part of their jority of the university’s outdoor edu- identity. cation is currently conducted at Hill “This upset me so much that I am goDemonstration Forest and Carl Alwin ing to retire at the end of this year,” he Schenck Memorial Forest, where the said. “It turns me off in the way that they university has facilities including dorms, manage their fund. It raises the question air-conditioned classrooms and dining of what the future of forestry might be in halls. this university.”

Hill and Schenck are approximately Students will also be affected by the 33.4 and 4.8 miles away from the univer- sale, Cox said, noting that fewer opporsity, respectively. tunities will be available in forestry train“Only 2 percent of research was done ing as a result of the sale. in Hofmann,” Brown added. “It became “When the forest was owned by the strictly an income generator.” university, students were given projects Brown noted that the three criteria down there and were hired to do work,” for the sale of the forest were protect- he added. “But this is less likely to happen since the forest is no longer a university property.”

Ron Sutherland, Nicholas ‘13, a conservation scientist at the Wildlands Network, said that even though the buyer has guaranteed researchers access to the forest, this condition might change in the future if the forest is sold to a subsequent buyer.

NCSU’s press release noted that the

agreement with the Illinois company recognizes the U.S. Department of Defense interest in obtaining a 70,000 acre military easement for aviation training.

Sutherland pointed out that the sale of Hofmann Forest could have a huge environmental impact. The forest connects natural forests in the West and large game lands to the Southwest, and needs to remain intact to preserve this continuity. Increased agribusiness in the forest could also have a negative impact on the water quality of rivers flowing out of the forest, he said.

Sutherland started a petition to stop the sale in January, which has garnered 216 signatures so far. He noted that selling the forest, a public property, without any protection is a violation of the State Environmental Policy Act and the state constitution.

Both Sutherland and Cox complained about the lack of transparency in the university’s decision process.

“This whole thing is being handled in a very non-open air,” Cox said. “They haven’t given [faculty] any detail of who the buyer was until the official announcement.”

The university could have improved the process by asking faculty for opinions before the sale, Sutherland added.

“They are losing an irreplaceable asset,” he said.

Hitting close to home Sutherland noted that the Hofmann Forest sale can serve as a lesson for the Duke Forest as well.

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Teen voters in Takoma Park, Md., will make history Tuesday

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On Tuesday, Ben Miller plans to step into a booth at the Takoma Park Community Center and do something that the country’s other 16-year-olds can’t: cast a vote in an election.

Heady stuff for a slim, freckled teen who works part time at a gelato shop in between attending classes at Montgomery Blair High School and playing with his band, Ladle Fight. He and about 350 other 16- and 17-year-olds were granted the right to vote in municipal elections by the Takoma City Council in May, making the Montgomery County community the nation’s first to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.

“It’s a valuable privilege,” Miller said as he sat on the floor with friends in a crowded school hallway, munching on his lunch of crackers, a fruit bar and a sandwich.

Even so, there’s hardly been a rush to the ballot box.

Takoma Park City Clerk Jessie Carpenter estimates that about 90 16- and 17-year-olds have registered to vote. And the election is a snore: the mayor faces no opposition and just one of six seats on the City Council was contested.

Then, on Friday, one of the Ward 4 candidates, Eric Mendoza, dropped out, leaving Terry Seamens unopposed.

Miller, a junior at Blair whose mother is a writer and whose father does international relief and development work, registered to vote a few weeks ago. He and a friend were wandering around an outdoor festival near Piney Branch Elementary School when they heard a voice say: “You guys look like you might be underage.”

A woman sitting at a table with a clipboard urged Miller to register to vote. Maryland allows 16- and 17 -yearolds to pre-register to vote through the Motor Vehicle Administration. But Miller doesn’t have his driver’s license yet. So the red-haired teen put his name down.

Miller said he has no burning issues motivating him,

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not even the legalization of marijuana, a popular topic with some of his peers. He plans to vote for incumbent Mayor Bruce Williams and his current council member, Kay Daniels-Cohen.

His new civic duty inspired him to accompany his mother to a recent candidate forum at the community center. Asked if he would have gone otherwise, Miller shook his head and said, “No way!”

His engagement is exactly what Takoma Park officials were after when they lowered the voting age.

“The question was, ‘How do we get more people to vote?’ “ said council member Tim Male, who introduced the proposal, one of several reforms to city election rules this year designed to boost turnout.

Other changes included same-day registration, allowing paroled felons to vote and giving candidates easier access to apartment buildings to campaign. Residents living in the country illegally have been allowed to vote in city elections since 1993—a gesture that barely raises an eyebrow in what’s often dubbed the People’s Republic of Takoma Park.

Male got the idea for lowering the age from Rob Richie, director of the national reform organization FairVote and a Takoma Park resident. Richie had seen reports from Denmark that suggested younger teenagers are more likely to cast a ballot than their slightly older peers.

Ever since the 26th Amendment gave 18-year-olds the right to vote more than 40 years ago, younger voters have been something of a bust. They typically go to the polls in much smaller numbers than their elders.

Turnout is especially dismal for local elections, even in the highly political environs of Takoma Park, which has a voter registration rate that tops 70 percent. During the last municipal elections in 2011, a meager 19 percent of eligible voters showed up at the polls, Carpenter said.

Eighteen-year-olds, it turns out, “are not a very good first voting age group,” Richie said, because many of them are in the midst of leaving their childhood homes.

“As you get more disrupted in your life, the less likely you are to vote,” he said. “Voting is this communitarian act, it is about a connection to a broader community.”

Offering that connection to younger teens could get them into the habit of voting for the rest of their lives.

Or at least that’s what Takoma Park officials hope.

Expanding the franchise to 16-year-olds also is not a stretch in Maryland, Richie said, since 16- and 17-yearolds can already pre-register to vote.

Not everyone on the council supported the change.

The lone no vote, Fred Schultz, said the result won’t be worth the time and effort the city devoted to the issue.

Nor will it do much to achieve the larger goal of getting younger voters engaged in politics, he said.

“The whole idea is rather lame,” said Schultz, but his colleagues seemed caught up in the idea that “it’s going to be so exciting to say we are the first municipality in the country to do this.”

“People in Takoma Park think they are special,” he said.

Schultz also objected to the way the voting age was changed—via a council vote. He said if the council had wanted to boost turnout, they could have put the issue on the ballot and let residents decide.

In letters and testimony, some opponents said that young people barely old enough to drive a car don’t have enough perspective to vote. One critic said that teens should not be allowed to “dilute” the value of the ballots cast by “older, more experienced voters.”

Others predicted that the 16- and 17-year-olds most likely to vote are from politically active homes and are thus likely to amplify the power of an already well-represented group.

“The cynic in me sees this not as an opportunity to increase the franchise among those less likely to participate,” wrote Donna Victoria, “but rather as a threat that could actually increase the over-representation of the mouthy, better off homeowner cohort in TP (insert my name here).”

Miller places himself in the category of “kids of politically active parents.” He has memories of accompanying them to peace rallies when he was younger and said he gets into a fairly in-depth political discussion about twice a week—“at least one time without my parents.”

Miller is aware that he is part of a tiny vanguard. “I understand the apathy. How much of a difference will it really make?” he said. “I’m still excited about the opportunity. The turnout is so low, even a small amount could make a difference.”

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from college students and minorities who will be affected by it.

Tyson cited the ongoing NAACP-sponsored Moral Monday movement to present bipartisan opposition to the state legislature’s actions and the efforts of Montravius King to prove college students’ rights to vote as signs of the contentious reaction to the law and the subsequent productive response by its opponents.

“This is not grandmama’s NAACP,” Tyson said. “We scare the mess out of them right and left. We’ve got a grassroots movement going on here, and it’s big.”

Duke Democrats President Diego Quezada, a junior, addressed the crowd to explain and educate on the contents of the voter identification law. These provisions include the requirement of a government-issued photo ID to register to vote, a seven-day cut in early voting and the elimination of same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting and pre-registration by 16- and 17-year olds. The reduction of the early voting window will likely eliminate Duke’s ability to host and receive funding for its on-campus early voting site.

All of the provisions will take effect in 2014 before the midterm elections, except for the photo identification provision, which will become law in 2016.

“This isn’t just a voter ID bill,” Quezada said to the audience. “That’s part of it, but it’s not the only thing.”

After Quezada spoke, the floor was opened up for a discussion moderated by Marcus Benning, president of the Black Student Alliance, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. Benning presented a question from a member of the UNC NAACP, asking if it was a valid argument that since flying on a plane and purchasing alcohol require photo ID, voting should also necessitate.

“The right to vote is a right every person should have,” sophomore Ernie Britt said. “To have that obstacle put on you where that should be a right makes the whole situation difficult.”

Students also brought up immigration laws that,

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more protected than Hofmann Forest,” he said. “If people start to look at one of their tracts of land as fairly dispensable and say, ‘Hey, we can make x hundred million dollars selling five acres,’ and if somebody high up in the administration wants to push that, it’d be pretty hard to stop.”

He noted that part of the reason why response to the sale at NCSU has been muted is that the Hofmann Forest is fairly remote and many undergraduates have never been to it.

“Hopefully the Duke Forest is used enough that people are pretty attached,” Sutherland said. “The big take-home is that people need to be ready to do something quick if something like the sale comes up.”

Duke Forest Resource Manager Judson Edeburn said that the situation at Duke is very different from that of Hofmann Forest.

“Our students are quite attached to it,” Edeburn said. “Duke Forest is a teaching and research labora-

tory with benefits for students and faculty who need an outdoor experience for exercise or for conducting research.”

Edeburn added that in the 1980s some sections of the forest were deemed not vital and sold in order to allow for the purchase of other beneficial pieces of land.

He said that there is no plan to sell the forest in the future.

“Having 8,000 acres of forest in one block is very unique,” he said. “As long as it is meeting our goals for research and the University deems it important, the future is well-assured.”

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Duke students participated in a discussion about voting rights in North Carolina.

like the voter identification law, have been criticized for infringing on minorities’ rights.

“Duke has openly supported the DREAM Act [on immigration reform], but words are one thing and policies are another,” said Adam Rodriguez, a senior and member of student Latino association Mi Gente.

“Next semester, do a campaign where we get the undocumented voices that exist all around this country.”

Co-sponsors of the event included both the Duke and UNC chapters of the NAACP, Mi Gente, the Asian Students Association, Duke Democrats, the Duke Women’s Center, Duke College Republicans and Students for a Democratic Society.

“These are really issues that reflect a wide crosssection of people and our co-sponsors reflect that,” Benning said.

Tyson called on young people to act as the core of the movement and emphasized the critical role young people will play in promoting voting rights.

“It’s really your world…. It’s broke and we don’t know how to fix it and we want you to fix it,” Tyson said. “Sorry.”

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our content easier for researchers to engage with,” Daly said.

The new website also aim to improve the overall online research experience. The default search option on the library homepage will be “catalog” instead of “all,” Crichlow said. This means that users will see a narrower selection of results by default, which Crichlow hopes will reduce the information overload that sometimes happens with the current search results page.

“Library websites are not like regular websites,” said Aaron Welborn, director of communications at Duke libraries. “In addition to being our virtual presence, it’s also a tool—It’s the primary way people get to our stuff, so we wanted to make sure it was designed in a very useful way.”

Crichlow explained that the site currently has many duplicate or out-of-date pages that are not managed by any person or department. The new site will eliminate these pages and ensure that a specific person or group is responsible for each page.

The developers of the new website got input from undergraduates, graduates and faculty during the website redesign.

“We started out with extensive research of how our patrons use the current site both by looking at data that we have through Google analytics and by looking at search terms that people have used on the current site,” Crichlow said.

The website team found that many users could not find features that were important or commonly used. These findings drove much of the site design and development process, Crichlow explained.

Welborn added that the redesign has taken about a year to complete.

“It has been a long, involved process,” he said.

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said. Zhang has since become the CEO of the company.

“The goal of the program was not to create professional dancers but rather just to expose students to a creative space for personal expression, something that is rare in the stringent, score-based culture of Chinese education,” Pham said.

Epstein noted that a common love for dance, brought the five Duke students together. All of them had experience with dancing and felt this passion was important to pass on to others.

“I have been dancing since the age of three and have always been attracted to the power it has to both express emotion and connect others through a non-verbal form of communication,” Epstein said.

The students are not yet sure whether the program will run again in 2014 because IDEAS hosts different summer programs each year. Pham said, however, that they are looking to expand the program beyond IDEAS by utilizing Duke Kunshan University and the Durham community.

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thing about working in higher education is that you have all these student talents to tap into.

Admissions blogger Nadine Goldberg, a sophomore, said that her blogs have reached a wider audience than she ever expected. The blogging team receives little instruction from the Office of News and Communication on what they should write about, but Goldberg noted that she always tries to blog about something unique to Duke.

Goldberg said that she has had multiple prospective students reach out to her about getting involved, either as a hopeful Duke student or a prospective member of the admissions blogging staff.

“There’s a girl who’s actually now writing for the blog who came up to me while she was visiting Duke as a high school senior and told me she read my blogs and knew all about me and thought I was so cool,” Goldberg said.

Harvard University, Stanford University, John Hopkins University and Yale University took the top four positions on Student Advisor list, respectively. Rousseau attributed this to the institutions’ brand recognition, which guarantees them an automatic fan base.

Although these schools have a longer history and, therefore, larger alumni pool, she added that the enthusiasm of Duke’s alumni makes up for its lack of size.

“Duke has a spirited population and I think that works to our advantage,” Rousseau said. “Having so many fans and a really strong alumni base throughout the world…has been a big contributing factor in how great and spirited our community is.”

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“When we get a presence on these different networks, we’re thinking about the audience that uses them,” Rousseau said.

Twitter manager Rachael Nedrow—a freshman who rose to fame with her cupstacking skills and presence in a Skrillex video—said that her strategy in organizing the Twitter is to reach out to anyone who mentions Duke in their tweets. Certain days, she will target particular topics anticipated to get high attention, such as basketball or admissions. Her goal is to get her audience engaged in what is happening on campus.

Nedrow noted that often prospective students are excited once they realize the University has tweeted at them.

“Usually nobody knows who’s tweeting from the Duke account,” Nedrow said. “All these people who are like, ‘Duke tweeted me’...it’s really just an 18 year old intern from her dorm room.”

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A more humble West Union The University unveiled redesigned plans for the West Union this week, the latest in a series of administrative responses seeking to correct the miscues that have plagued the project from the start. The Board of Trustees rejected the original plans for the West Union remodel in May due to financial aspects of the plan and features of the renovations.

The Charlotte-based Duke endowment donated $80 million for the renovations of Baldwin Auditorium, West Union and Page Auditorium. The remodel of Baldwin, which was completed over the summer, cost $15 million. The current West Union renovations are estimated to cost between $70 and $90 million, and the scale and cost of the renovations to Page have not yet been determined.

Although we recognize that University officials are investing in physical infrastructure for the future, many students are left wondering about the costs incurred in the present. Not only is the remodel of the West Union a significant financial investment, but it also requires current students, many of whom will never experience the improved facilities as undergraduates, to sacrifice a communal space at the center of campus.

The scaled-down redesign and delayed completion date do not inspire confidence among those

worried about more future setbacks. These recent developments also nullify much of the preliminary work done by student committees in early 2011. Perhaps the most disheartening aspect of the project is the striking lack of coordination between the Board and the administration, most visible during this sum-

Editorial mer’s fumbled attempt at beginning the project on schedule. It is easy to be critical of a long-term investment like the West Union remodel when we, Duke’s current students, must incur the costs of lost time and reduced facilities. Nobody denies, however, that diligent oversight now is better than addressing problems once the project is underway. We must also recognize that Duke, unlike many of its peer schools, faces structural limitations that other universities avoid through well-planned social spaces.

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In the meantime, the University should look to the shortfalls of temporary dining options, like Penn Pavilion, to better understand how the new West Union spaces can facilitate community and intellectual discourse. Many students expressed discontent at the University’s acceptance of the loss of communal space and at the assumption that the benefits of improved facilities in the future outweigh their current lack. The administration should understand that managing student expectations is critical if they expect students to bear the burden of construction for the duration of the remodel.

Further discord among administrative parties will only dampen student support and enthusiasm for the new West Union, and may end up costing some students the opportunity to enjoy the rewards of their patience. A communal and intellectual campus environment develops best when physical space becomes a venue for social and intellectual discourse. This kind of transformation can only occur when students come to the table, literally and figuratively, and claim the space as their own. If we are truly committed to facilitating this change, its going to take a little more patience by the students, the eventual benefactors of the project, and a little more communication by those in charge.

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ometimes drunk texts are great. A former girlfriend once rekindled our dormant relationship because she said, “I still love you”—in a 3:00 a.m. text from 500 miles away. If not for some liquid confidence and the ability to communicate as quickly as we blink, we might never have reconnected.

Usually, though, people regret their drunk texts.

The free market has produced a brilliant solution for our inadvertent bursts of honesty. Two University of Virginia juniors recently developed an iPhone application called “Drunk Mode” that lets you temporarily block numbers from your contacts. You set the block’s duration, up to 12 hours—useful for marathon days like LDOC. Then there’s “SelfControl,” a computerbased app that blocks selected websites. Lots of my friends turn on SelfControl when they need to churn out a paper; it helps them—makes them—avoid Facebook, Buzzfeed or ForeignPolicy.com. (My friends are odd.) Whatever your online temptation, SelfControl can resist it for you. Whoever your secret crush, Drunk Mode can keep it secret. What does this externalization of discipline do to our internal self-discipline?

We’ll come back to that.

In his Pulitzer Prize finalist book “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr describes how the Internet is changing the way we think and remember. When we have unlimited access to information through web searches and databases, we no longer need to retain information. When we focus on many sources at once (how many browser tabs do you have open right now?), we cease to practice the art of sustained attention. More and more during college, I’ve struggled to focus while reading for classes.

Maybe it’s because I’m immersed in an overwhelming torrent of information. I think my attention span has shrunk because of relentless texts, Facebook updates, news articles, emails from professors and other media that I consume. Rather than thinking in terms of theories and themes, I often find myself thinking in Google search terms. We don’t need to retain information anymore because it’s readily available at the tip of our fingers. Why remember, when we can just find?

Humans benefit from the externalization of memory because we can manipulate exponentially more information. We don’t have to cling to specific facts and figures like our ancestors did in oral cultures. But this outsourcing has serious side effects. Think about the Affordable Care Act, which made sweeping changes to health insurance and sprawled over a whopping 906 pages. What if no one had the mental capacity to consider the bill as a whole? What if lawmakers and even their healthcare staffers only comprehended bits and pieces and missed the big picture? We could never predict the consequences, let alone watch for unfair loopholes. On a very different level, our appreciation of literature might diminish: If I can’t focus long enough to read a Facebook post, how will I ever follow the intricate plot of a Gabriel García Márquez novel?

Fear of new technology is not new. The revolutionary and frightening technology before the Internet was written language. A character in Plato’s “Phaedrus” bemoaned the shift from an oral culture to a written one

Andrew Kragie ELEVATOR PITCH that would “implant forgetfulness in their souls: They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written.” When Gutenberg’s printing press made books more widely available, some people feared an information deluge. The Spanish playwright Lope de Vega bemoaned the new invention in a 1612 play: “So many books—so much confusion! / All around us an ocean of print. / And most of it covered in froth.”

The Internet externalizes memory more drastically than writing and the printing press did. I worry that it also externalizes self-control in a way that is new and frightening. With apps like SelfControl and Drunk Mode, we outsource an essential human capability: delaying gratification. This is dangerous because selfcontrol is a muscle that needs to be exercised. We get better at controlling our impulses when we practice it. Think back to the classic marshmallow experiment: give 4-year-olds a marshmallow and tell them they can have a second one—if they don’t eat the first while sitting alone in a room, just them and the marshmallow.

Some kids were better at waiting than others. For others, impulse defeated long-term thinking; they immediately ate the single marshmallow. Forty years later, the children with better self-control got more than an extra marshmallow. In the long run, they had higher SAT scores, more successful relationships and less drug abuse. Using apps to discipline ourselves helps in the short term, but diminishes our internal self-discipline over time. As the skill weakens, will that affect other areas of our lives?

I fear a world in which we rely on the Internet for self-control as well as memory. Imagine your office in 2050. No one bothers to remember anything; coworkers have to Google “stapler” to figure out where they left the office stapler. Self-discipline is also gone; managers have to implement an automated system of minor electric shocks to condition people to stay off social media. Workplace productivity declines. Family ties suffer as parents answer emails on their smartphones rather than bonding with young children. I fear that technology could be our downfall. The diabolical supercomputer from “2001: A Space Odyssey” won’t take control—but what happens if we lose our self-control?

Andrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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I recently spoke at a university where a student told me that it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father character in my novel. I told him that I had just read a novel called ‘American Psycho,’ and that it was such a shame that young Americans were serial murderers.”

-Chimamanda Adichie Ngozi, author

well as the profitability of publication, which curbs the opportunities of literature as a livelihood.

I bought two books from Aristoc.

The first was “White Teeth,” by a British author named Zadie Smith.

The second I bought the day before I flew home, a collection of short stories called “That Thing around Your Neck”

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a

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y maternal grandfather taught college English most of his life. He was a lifelong source of advice, especially when it came to my schooling, and he was invaluable when I began applying to college. When he passed away on my birthday during my first semester at Duke, my mom and I had long conversations about his important influence on our lives. I mentioned that

on those whose primary goal was getting into law or medical school. I resented those who were just motivated by grades. I was a haughty renaissance man, or at least I was trying to be.

I have since tempered my highbrow assumptions about how one should choose courses, largely because I have tasted too much of my own medicine from individuals who think philosophy is a silly

Patrick Oathout REALPOLITIK WITH PATRICK being at Duke when he died reminded me of one of his lessons I had previously disregarded: “Learn for its own sake.”

I entered my second semester at Duke with different motivations, inspired anew by this retrospection, convinced that credentialist pursuits were beneath me.

I decided I was in college not to learn facts or even tools, but to learn how to learn. I structured my education to balance different ways of knowing. The philosophy major provided me the theoretical, the precise, the rational. The public policy major was more practical, and it was applicable in a variety of grounded contexts. The art history minor filled the gaps between the two—the sensual, the visual, the ability to look beyond rhetoric and numbers to see an answer. It was a purposefully crafted undergraduate education, and it required a rigorous course load. The rigor itself was most definitely a factor that influenced my decision to go for it.

I have overloaded every semester since my first. My grandfather’s counsel made me realize I only had seven semesters to freely learn whatever I wanted. Given that there is no additional charge to students who choose to take five over four classes in a semester, it only made sense to get the most bang for my tuition buck. I wanted to deep dive in a few subjects and introduce myself to many others. There were too many subjects that intrigued me and too many professors I wanted to meet, and since Khan Academy was never quite as satisfying as a college classroom, I could never say no. It was a fantastic dilemma to have.

Admittedly, after a few semesters of overloading, my hyper-enrollment became less an inspired zeal and more a validating marker of my identity. Overloading every semester fulfilled my perennial desire to challenge myself. I probably took away some self-righteous satisfaction by thinking I was in college for the right reasons. I looked down on my pre-professional peers,

major. I have come to realize that seeing college as just four years of academic exploration bears a lot of privilege.

For better or for worse, I come from a background that praises this explorative approach to learning, but this is not the case for everyone. I have also discovered that any group, university, economy or society needs the pre-professional, the deep divers and the renaissance individuals. We need the people who will adroitly provide a service, those who will spend their entire lives perfecting their knowledge of one subject and those who discover synergies between the different fields. Duke cannot be motivated by interdisciplinarity alone. Perhaps this has always been a no-brainer to some, but it has taken me a long time to recognize the value in diversifying perspective.

I generally resent advice columns, so this will not conclude with trite recommendations like “take a cultural anthropology class for fun” or “study what you love.” You do you, and I will not think less of you for it. I am wearied by warnings that claim the humanities are disappearing and equally exhausted by calls for expanded STEM education. I want to forever continue learning for its own sake, but I have clearly violated this mantra when I overloaded for its own sake. I probably took my grandfather’s advice to some neverintended extreme. I now recognize I can be credentialist too but concurrently balance it with explorative learning. My education, however, will remain one that looks beyond deliverables. For that reason, I am not sure “knowledge in the service of society” fits me. It fits neither the credentialist nor the one who learns just to learn. I want Duke’s investment in me to reap returns for the world, but I also want the flexibility to take any class for its own sake.

Patrick Oathout is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. Send Patrick a message on Twitter @PatrickOathout.

of “Half of a Yellow Sun” and “That Thing around Your Neck,” in her TEDtalk “The Danger of a Single Story” It’s amazing to think about the relative novelty of Internet procrastination, even to my own life. As it is for many students at Duke, it’s only been in the past couple of years that I’ve had access to a personal computer.

But already I’ve become conditioned to expect content I read to be found online in easily digestible “Top 10” lists or 160-character chunks. There is no comparison between the volume of books I read as a middle schooler and those I’ve read as a college student. But this past summer, without Internet on demand, I re-discovered real novels.

Hours spent in taxis and waking up to a desk that didn’t hold a laptop was a noteven-thinly veiled blessing, and I started looking for things to read outside of the one book I had brought with me.

Rediscovering how great books are was kind of a weird process to go through in Uganda; on an extremely superficial level, Uganda doesn’t seem to be a literature hub. It is true that bookstores are hard to come by, and I didn’t come across any libraries external to universities. On maybe my third week in the country I came across the only bookstore I ever ended up finding: Aristoc Booklex. It was a store in an upscale shopping mall in the capital that seemed to sell only imported books. There were books written by some Ugandan authors, but all the books I saw were produced by foreign, and mostly American, publishing companies.

Ugandan publishing companies are, in fact, a rarity. I discovered Fountain Publishing, a local publishing company, but only after leaving the country and trying to look for more literature. Moses Isegawa, a Ugandan author who is a global favorite for his epic “The Abyssinian Chronicles,” published his books with Random House in the United States and Canada.

Hundreds of bookshops exist in the country, but they limit themselves to textbooks and school supplies, relying on the induced demand from the requirements set by schools. Aristoc, while posting comparable prices to those in American bookstores, is an expensive shop when you consider its prices in the context of the costs of other commercial goods in Uganda.

In the absence of cheap distribution methods, many authors post their work online, which limits access to literature for individuals who don’t have consistent or any Internet access as

Nigerian author who both Duke and UNC had the privilege of hosting last semester. Adichie is a powerful writer and an inspiring woman, and the deliverer of the single-greatest TEDtalk I’ve ever seen, called “The Danger of a Single Story.”

Her thesis is that Americans, and the west at large, have a onedimensional impression of “the African.” A proliferation of pity for the events that have plagued the continent (AIDs, colonialism, poverty, etc.) is accompanied by a misunderstanding of the people as nothing beyond disadvantaged. Literature that originates in the West often fails to provide complex characters. People are fed a single story which then forms the basis for their understanding of Africans, independent of their individual circumstances. Adichie asserts that people, knowing that she is African, look to her as a person for expertise on all of Africa, discounting that the stories you hear change between individuals, much less across borders.

In the literature produced and consumed by Americans, there’s a diversity of circumstance. If you used “The World According to Garp” as your basis for understanding the American man, you might consider him to be overprotective, assertive and intelligent. But then there’s Steinbeck’s story in “East of Eden” to show Americans as vindictive and cruel, as gullible and innocent, and as self-aware and guilty. So many American authors write and subsequently distribute their writing, sharing unique stories that highlight different people and different contexts in which Americans live.

There is a wealth of writing being produced in Uganda, writing which presents complex characters who invoke more than pity. Story telling is not divorced from Ugandan culture and history, and there is a collection of phenomenal writers who craft stories that occur with the hardships of Uganda’s recent history. They do not deny the AIDs epidemics or poverty, but they do not present hardship as the primary character. It is true that Uganda is not a hub of literature publication yet, but the talent and the multi-dimensional stories are there.

If only we wouldn’t settle for a single story, we could see them.

Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior.

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The 2013-14 Duke basketball sports book Duke is the fifth favorite to win the 2014 national championship, according to online sports book Bovada, behind Kentucky, Kansas, Louisville and Michigan State. Bovada gives the Blue Devils 12to-1 odds at cutting down the nets next April.

But maybe you don’t care about other teams. Maybe you want to bet on Duke and only Duke. Maybe this is your lucky day.

Before the season starts against Davidson on Friday, here is the 2013-14 Duke prop bet sports book:

point-total spread on current Blue Devil Marshall Plumlee scoring as much as much as Mason this season. (You can also take Marshall +480 against Miles.)

Over-under 1.0— Josh Hairston’s ratio of points to fouls. He finished last season with 2.6 points and 2.4 fouls per game.

Over-under 2.5— The number of times Alex Murphy is thrown in the doghouse.

Over-under 4.0— The number of times Rasheed Sulaimon is thrown in the doghouse this season. He missed the last exhibition game of the season because he was sick but Coach K’s postgame line—“hopefully this week he will get himself into shape”—leads one to believe this count is already at one this season.

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Over-under 10— Josh Hairston’s chest bumps with teammates per game.

Pounding himself on the chest from the bench counts as half of one.

Over-under 100— Combined number of times Quinn Cook pushes a teammate with two hands after a big play, slaps the floor and pumps up the crowd. Alright, this line is too low.…

I’m taking the over.

2:1— Odds Miles Plumlee ends up on

Over-under 2.5— The number of times Andre Dawkins is thrown in the doghouse.

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One of columnist Andrew Beaton’s over-unders for this season includes the ratio between Josh Hairston’s points and fouls. the Holy-Moly-Nobody-Saw-This-Coming Team at the end of this NBA season. It’s only three games into the NBA season, but the eldest of the Plumlee brothers is averaging a double-double for the Phoenix Suns after barely playing as a rookie. Holy moly, I didn’t see that coming.

Mason Plumlee’s points +400— The point spread on Brooklyn Net Mason Plumlee scoring as much as Miles this season. Mason may not play much, but at least he gets to play behind Kevin Garnett.

Marshall Plumlee’s points +80— The

Over-under 2.0— The number of times Quinn Cook is thrown in the doghouse.

Over-under 8.5— The number of times Tyler Thornton starts, likely because one of these guys is in the doghouse.

(Note: This introduces the Doghouse Power Rankings. Currently, based on not much, it’s 1. Sulaimon 2. Dawkins 3. Murphy 4. Cook. Just like any See BEATON, page 13

Why preseason rankings don’t really matter Yesterday, the NBA released its weekly power rankings, and the Philadelphia 76ers were No. 1.

What?

It gets better—CBS, Yahoo, and SB Nation all ranked the Sixers No. 1 too, and ESPN, NBC and USA Today each have them in their top 10.

I truly don’t know what to think of the Sixers’ ranking. They seemed to be headed towards the basement of the Eastern Conference again for the 2013-14 season. In the offseason, the Sixers traded Jrue Holiday, their best player, to the New Orleans Pelicans for the sixth overall pick in the draft. They later announced that Nerlens Noel, their selection, was out for the entire season with a torn ACL. So this year was the Sixers’ chance to earn a key rebuilding piece in the 2014 draft, as the “Winless for [Andrew] Wiggins” campaign swept Philadelphia. The city began salivating over the thought of the 0-82 Sixers drafting the Kansas freshman phenom, and him propelling the Sixers to first place in the future.

Yet it’s happening already.

Every single one of these media outlets had the 3-0 Sixers in last place just a week ago. They cite rookie Mi-

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chael-Carter Williams’ explosive play and new head coach Brett Brown’s fresh outlook as their rationale for putting the Sixers on top, but CBS’s explanation for advancing the Sixers 29 spots most accurately mirrors my own: CBS writer Matt Moore simply wrote, “I have ABSOLUTELY no idea.”

In my opinion, this sentiment holds true for college basketball rankings in general—especially when the season has yet to start (or, in the Sixers’ case, when they’re just three games in). What exactly are the criteria that determine each team’s ranking in the AP and Coaches’ polls?

Preseason rankings are nearly impossible to determine: aside from the fact that college basketball hasn’t been played since March, it’s an exceptionally volatile sport. Any player can leave his team for the NBA draft at the end of any season, and a team’s success is heavily dependent on replacing those players with a strong recruiting class.

However, the reputation of a team is probably the greatest determining factor. Preseason rankings are more so predictions than evaluations, yet voters are quick to identify the teams that have amassed a bounty of wins in the past.

Quite simply, if a well-known team has been historically successful, it will most likely appear high in the top 25.

The best example is No. 1 Kentucky.

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Although the Blue Devils are ranked No. 4 in the country heading into the season, columnist Danielle Lazarus urges readers to take preseason rankings with a grain of salt.

Although it ended its 2013 season with a first-round loss in the NIT, the Wildcats have eight national championships. Two Kentucky players declared for the NBA draft—Noel and leading scorer Archie Goodwin, who went 29th—yet the Wildcats enter 2013 with the top recruiting class in the nation. Four Kentucky freshmen were named to the Wayman Tisdale

Freshman of the Year Award Watch List.

In fact, since 2009, Kentucky has had the top recruiting class in the nation every year except 2012, when they were No. 2.

But do those things even matter?

Kentucky was No. 3 in the preseason rankings last year, and they didn’t exactly See LAZARUS, page 13

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A year after mustering just 15 wins, Duke has climbed back through the national rankings, moving up to No. 15 in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association Poll. The Blue Devils last held a top-15 ranking nationally Nov. 5, 2007 when they were No. 14.

After defeating both Syracuse and Boston College this past weekend by scores of 3-1, Duke has now won 16 of its last 17 games. The last time the Blue Devils won 16-of-17 matches was all the way back in 2006, when the team closed the season with 22 wins its its last 23 matches, including two 11-game win streaks.

With Saturday’s win against the Eagles, Duke improved to 20-3 overall this season. The last time the Blue Devils earned their 20th win this early in the season was 2009, when they won their 20th game Oct. 30 also against Boston College. That season, they went on to win 27 games but fell in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Duke’s two-win weekend also show-

cased some individual achievements as senior libero Ali McCurdy became the ACC’s all-time leader in digs.

With McCurdy’s dominance, the Blue Devils have maintained a 16.05 digs per set average, which tops the ACC. Duke also leads the ACC in kills per set and assists per set, ranking fifth in the nation in both categories.

With an 11-1 record in the ACC, the Blue Devils sit atop the conference with a one-game lead on No. 18 Florida State with eight games remaining in the season. Duke defeated the Seminoles in a five-set match Oct. 25 at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Against ranked opponents, the Blue Devils have a 3-2 record so far. Duke lost in straight sets to Minnesota and Florida—both ranked in the top 10 at the time—early in the season but have since beaten then-No. 16 Illinois and then-No. 10 North Carolina.

Duke will next put its ranking and its six-match winning streak on the line with a weekend road trip to Maryland and Pittsburgh. The Blue Devils are not slated to square off with another ranked opponent until their final three matches of the season.

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Senior Ali McCurdy moved into first place on the ACC’s all-time digs list as the Blue Devils defeated Boston College and moved up to No. 15 in the nation.

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subjective power rankings, these are to be taken extremely seriously and hold paramount importance.)

Rodney Hood +150, Jabari Parker +200, anybody else +300— Money line odds on who leads the team in scoring at the end of the season.

Over-under 5.5— The number of set plays Duke runs for Todd Zafirovski this year. Take a look at the schedule, and there should be some sure blowouts and some “We want Todd!” chants at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

He scored his first five points last season and could be in line for more in his final campaign. Sorry to freshman walk-on Nick Pagliuca: You’ll have your time to shine, but this is Todd’s year.

3:2— Odds Coach K says the opposing team “knocked Duke back” in any given postgame press conference. It already happened against Drury, and that was just an exhibition game.

Over-under 1.5— The number of “Kumbaya moments” Coach K and I have this season. He said during his last presser that he and I had one, so you’re just betting on whether there’s another by April.

10:1— Long-shot odds it’s not obvious that this is a joke, and the federal government contacts me for opening an illegal sports book.

Matty Ice -125, Basketball Jones +135— Money line bet on Matt Jones’ nickname. Matty Ice is already catching on among the players and Cameron Crazies. I really can’t believe Matty Ice is catching on. Please people, bring Basketball Jones signs.

2:1— Odds Semi Ojeleye throws down a ridiculous dunk in any given game.

He did it with a put-back against Drury and had a SportsCenter Top 10 Play with one of his practice slams. On a side note, I really hope he helps make flat tops a thing on campus.

Over-under 2.5— The ratio of Andre Dawkins’ 3-pointers to two-pointers by the end of the season. In his career at Duke, he has hit 79 twos and 167 threes.

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end up in a good spot at the end of the season. All nine members of their incoming freshman class were spectacular in high school, yet even Julius Randle hasn’t stepped on the floor in college.

And voters may rank the Wildcats highly because of their past success—yet that isn’t even a constant, because (I can’t say this enough) they lost in the first round of the NIT last year.

In fact, even head coach John Calipari is skeptical of his team’s No. 1 ranking.

“It’s a nice honor, but it’s way too early to figure out who’s the best team in the country,” he said to UKathletics.com.

“We may be very talented, but I can’t imagine us being the best team in the country at this point.”

Just like it’s hard to imagine the Sixers being the best team in the country, too.

So is Duke deserving of its ranking?

I don’t know, and neither do the poll voters. It’s impossible to tell. Yet, like Kentucky, the Blue Devils more than fit the criteria voters use to make preseason rankings.

Loyal Cameron Crazies know the drill: Duke is one of the most well-known programs nationally, helmed by head coach Mike Krzyzewski—the winningest coach in NCAA Division I basketball history. With more success, the public—and poll voters—have had more exposure to the Blue Devils, and this year is no different. Duke will play on an ESPN network 26 times this season, which is more than any other college or NBA team.

Last season, the Blue Devils lost their three seniors, Mason Plumlee, Seth Curry and Ryan Kelly—meaning their two leading scorers in Plumlee and Curry, and tallest player in Kelly. Kelly’s and

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Plumlee’s height is the most significant loss for Duke, since this year 6-foot9 sophomore Amile Jefferson is the leading candidate to replace Plumlee at center.

But Duke boasts one of the most athletic lineups in the NCAA, led by the No. 2 recruit in the nation––Jabari Parker. The forward, who scored a combined 29 points over his first two exhibition games, is one of four new faces for the Blue Devils, joined by freshmen Semi Ojeleye and Matt Jones and redshirt sophomore Rodney Hood. Hood has also been lighting up Cameron for Duke, leading the team in both points and minutes in both exhibition games.

Duke’s reputation and incoming players are good predictors for how they’ll fare coming into the season, yet it’s important to realize that absolutely nobody knows anything.

It was cool to see the new-look Blue Devils during the exhibition games, yet beating two Division II teams says nothing about how the team will fare against Kansas in next week’s Champions Classic. Neither does having a top recruiting class or the fact that they’ve won four national championships.

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November 5 - 11 Exhibitions The Very Loud Chamber Orchestra of Endangered Species.

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In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty. Work in a wide range of media by 17 Duke faculty members and instructors. Thru December 13. Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus. Free.

Soul and Service. A multi-panel exhibit celebrating the 100-year-plus history of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Thru December 20. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

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Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art. Thru December 29. Nasher Museum of Art. Tiksi. An acclaimed series of photographs by Duke Visiting Artist Evgenia. Thru January 11. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Outrageous Ambitions: How a One-Room Schoolhouse Became a Research University. Celebrating 175 years of Duke history. Thru January 26. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Exploring the creation and maintenance of borders. Thru February 2. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Events November 5 Encounters: with the music of our time. The New York sextet yMusic performs new works from their upcoming second album.

8pm. Casbah, 1007 W. Main St. $15 Gen.; $10 Duke students.

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First Thursday. Gallery talk with artist and Duke professor Pedro Lasch. 6pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Beyond Blue Borders. Student mixer hosted by Duke students with special invitation to students at UNC-Chapel Hill. 8pm.

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Lucumí Music. Singing, Dancing and Drumming Black Divinity.

Duke University Center for African & African American Research (CAAAR) Scholarly Conference 2013.

November 8 Lucumí Music. Singing, Dancing and Drumming Black Divinity.

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Doris Duke’s Shangri La ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND ISLAMIC ART

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Parlor Songs of the Civil War. Susan Dunn, soprano, and David Heid, piano. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

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Duke New Music Ensemble. Jamie Keesecker, director. 8pm.

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