January 14, 2010 issue

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2010

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Moneta to 79 DUKE BC 59 lead RLHS, Big men clip Eagles’ wings stalls search

by Harrison Comfort The chronicle

Decision comes amid major staff departures

by Lindsey Rupp The chronicle

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Wednesday that he will run Residence Life and Housing Services for at least the Spring semester, temporarily postponing a search for its new head.

Former RLHS dean Eddie Hull left Duke in July after managing the department for seven years. At the time, MiLarry Moneta chael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Duke would begin a national search in the Spring to replace Hull.

“I don’t think we are ready to bring in a director,” Moneta said. “There are too many things in the air we need to manage.”

He added that he would like to develop a better sense of what leadership RLHS needs before working to recruit a new head.

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Center Brian Zoubek’s six points and 11 rebounds helped Duke overcome a poor shooting night from the outside in a badly needed win over Boston College. The victory moved the Blue Devils’ ACC record to 2-1.

The Blue Devils have primarily relied on their perimeter shooting this season to put points on the scoreboard. And though Duke’s outside shooting struggles continued against Boston College, the team’s frontcourt stepped up in a big way and made large contributions on both sides of the floor.

After a first half that featured 12 lead changes and eight ties, the No. 8 Blue Devils (14-2, 2-1 in the ACC) eventually blew out the Eagles (10-7, 1-2) 79-59 Wednesday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Though Duke did not get into a rhythm early, the Blue Devils came out strong in the second half and earned a much-needed conference victory.

Nolan Smith scored 24 points and dished out four assists, including an alley-oop to swingman Kyle Singler early in the second half that sparked a 22-6 Duke run.

Singler bounced back significantly after a less-than-inspiring performance against Georgia Tech and posted a double-double with 15 points and 10 rebounds. But against the Eagles, Duke’s interior play— not its long-range shooting—proved to be the difference. “[Tonight] was really satisfying for the See M. BbAll on page 10

Duke Student Government

Task force to evaluate MCC H1N1 vaccine clinic opens to all students

by Matthew Chase The chronicle

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Vice President for Student Affairs Spencer Eldred was appointed to head the Multicultural Affairs Task Force to explore improvements to the MCC.

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Duke Student Government established a Multicultural Affairs Task Force at its meeting Wednesday to evaluate the Center for Multicultural Affairs, in response to the elimination of two staff positions from the center last semester.

Vice President for Student Affairs Spencer Eldred, a senior, will lead the task force and suggest improvements for the center. Undergraduates can apply for six spots on the task force. The Graduate and Professional Student Council may also elect one graduate student to it, and the task force will include faculty and staff members.

President Awa Nur, a senior, said opening up the positions to the entire student body is crucial.

“This process... will allow us to find the six students who are most passionate about the project, and who are involved with the center from many different perspectives,” Nur said after the meeting.

Members of the DSG Student Affairs committee and junior Jack Zhang, president of the President’s Council on Multicultural Affairs, will select the six undergraduates

The H1N1 vaccination will now be available to all Duke students.

In an effort to keep the number of swine flu cases low, Student Health has organized a clinic Friday to administer H1N1 vaccines to students, said Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of student health. The swine flu clinic will be held in the Old Trinity Room of the West Union building from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Purdy said that although the number of swine flu cases has been declining, students should still get vaccinated because it is unclear what the trend will be in the future.

“We have plenty [of vaccinations] and if we run out, which we won’t because the hospital has gotten a huge amount in, the hospital said we can get more if we run low,” he said.

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by Tullia Rushton The chronicle

ONTHERECORD

“It took a lot more courage for them to come here in the first place.”

­—Li-Chen Chin, director of the International House on int’l students. See story page 5

‘Canes host No. 7 Duke in Coral Gables, Page 9

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Obama orders U.S. relief Obama to impose bank fees efforts, assistance for Haiti WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama will announce Thursday his intention to impose a fee on roughly 20 of the country’s largest banks and financial institutions to help recoup taxpayer bailout money and trim the federal budget deficit.

Obama will outline his proposal to raise as much as $120 billion at the White House, Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters. Gibbs said the president’s economic team has worked on a structure to prevent the levy from being passed onto consumers.

The fees, expected to be spread over as many as 10 years, will be based on the leverage or amount of liability each firm has, according to an administration official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama set the U.S. government Wednesday on a massive rescue and relief operation in the devastated capital of Haiti, ordering the rapid mobilization of military and diplomatic assistance, and pledging an aggressive effort to save the lives of those caught in Tuesday’s earthquake.

Naval ships steamed south and flights began shuttling search-and-rescue teams to dig through rubble in Portau-Prince. Military aircraft flew over the island, mapping the destruction, while U.S. officials coordinated the efforts of non-governmental aid agencies. Coast Guard helicopters began flying seriously wounded Americans from the island nation’s U.S. Embassy to the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, about 200 miles away.

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SAN’A, Yemen — Yemeni security forces killed an al-Qaida leader during clashes in an extremist stronghold while a road ambush by militants left two soldiers dead Wednesday in the latest battles in an escalating war.

Soldiers surrounded the home of alQaida cell leader Abdullah al-Mehdarhad in the Habban region of Shabwa province in Yemen’s southeast. That triggered a shootout in which Mehdarhad was killed, according to 26Sep.net, a Yemeni Web site that serves as a mouthpiece of the nation’s military.

Meanwhile, Mehdarhad’s followers ambushed a Yemeni military unit on a nearby road, killing two soldiers. The attack was thought to be an attempt to draw soldiers away from the siege, the Web site reported.

Four suspected militants were arrested.

Wednesday’s operation was the latest

in a series of strikes against suspected al-Qaida fighters conducted by Yemen’s government, with U.S. assistance, in the wake of the attempt to bomb an American airliner Christmas Day. Yemen, the poorest nation in the Arab world, is under immense U.S. pressure to combat al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which has asserted responsibility for the airliner plot. At the same time, the government increasingly views the Yemen-based alQaida affiliate as an internal threat, not just a problem for the West.

“We consider al-Qaida a risk now, maybe greater than before,” Yemeni Foreign Minister Abubaker al-Qirbi told reporters Tuesday.

Since the failed bombing, the United States has doubled its counterterrorism funding and training, as well as increased its economic aid.

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Alan Mulally, Ford Motor Co.’s president and chief executive officer, greets an attendee of the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week. Ford’s exhibit covered nearly a quarter of the convention floor, as the company unveiled the Focus compact. Mulally has set Ford apart from its domestic rivals by avoiding bankruptcy and leading the automaker to its first annual gain in U.S. market shares since 1995.

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FreshBerry brings new fro-yo flavors Earthquake

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by Sanette Tanaka The chronicle

Come March, frozen yogurt lovers will have a few more options in the Triangle area.

Raleigh couple John and Linda Lenzmeier plan to open two new franchises of the FreshBerry Frozen Yogurt Café chain by mid-2010. The lease for the newest suburban location at Six Forks Station shopping center in Raleigh was finalized at the end of December, while the more urban spot is still under consideration. The Lenzmeiers plan to begin construction on the first café in the next few weeks.

Boasting all-natural, low-calorie frozen yogurt, FreshBerry is a Midwest chain with seven locations throughout Nevada, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. The idea for FreshBerry was born in 2006 in Tulsa, Okla., when local owner of Camille’s Sidewalk Café Carolyn Archer approached its parent company, Beautiful Brands International, about incorporating frozen desserts into the café. BBI transformed the concept into a multi-store expansion.

In recent years, the frozen yogurt industry has exploded in popularity as people became more aware of healthy eating trends. With the addition of shops like The Yogurt Pump in Chapel Hill and Local Yogurt in Durham, the interest and market of “fro-yo” continues to grow in the Triangle area. John Lenzmeier said he hopes to develop additional branches throughout the state.

“I think North Carolina is ready for it,” he said. “We’ve got nine million people in the state, and it made sense to have a healthier alternative for a snack in the marketplace.

It’s not that easy to eat healthy and fast.”

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what they’re getting into before they get into it,” Lenzmeier said. “With a brand, you get that. And with FreshBerry, we have the franchising model to cut and paste from.

It’s easier than starting from scratch.”

Ted Domville, co-owner and manager of Local Yogurt, said he appreciates the flexibility and community aspects of local joints and never considered franchising as an option.

“The Durham area has always seemed to shy away from chains,” Domville said.

“We can do a lot that a chain can’t do, like choosing all our ingredients and menu options. We can be more active in the community.”

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian leaders estimated Wednesday that tens of thousands of people have died in the aftermath of the earthquake that throttled this impoverished Caribbean nation, as the United States and other countries mobilized a vast rescue and relief effort to assist the legion of desperate survivors.

Untold numbers of people remained trapped under rubble a day after the 7.0-magnitude quake struck the capital, Port-au-Prince, a coastal sprawl of makeshift shacks, cinder-block buildings and historic gingerbread homes that witnesses described as a scene of unfolding chaos.

Caked in the flour-white dust of crushed plaster and cement, Haitians dug out family members by hand and piled bodies on street corners, as clusters of bloodied and dazed survivors pleaded for help. The government, depleted by death and injury itself, appeared unable to mount a significant rescue effort in the hemisphere’s poorest nation.

President Obama dispatched military relief vessels and warships to stand off the Haitian coast, pledging “the deep condolences and unwavering support of the American people.” Capitals from Brasilia to

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John Lenzmeier, who plans to open two new FreshBerry fro-yo cafés in the Triangle area, said North Carolinians are ready for the healthy snack alternative and hopes to open additional cafés throughout the state.

Each frozen yogurt treat is around 200 calories and is high in both protein and calcium. The FreshBerry chain has six flavors always available with six to ten more currently in development. Toppings include fresh fruit like strawberries, blueberries, kiwi and pineapple, as well as additions such as Fruity Pebbles cereal, coconut and chocolate chips. FreshBerry also offers smoothies and FreshPops, popsicles made from frozen yogurt. The wide array of the franchise appeals to the health-conscious generation, Lenzmeier said.

In contrast with Yogurt Pump and Local Yogurt, the Lenzmeiers decided to adopt a chain rather than open a grassroots shop.

“I’ve found that consumers like knowing

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Delivery service may expand dining options

by Maggie Love The Chronicle

This Spring, food delivery options could double for students willing to buy food from restaurants that are not a part of the Merchants on Points program.

Durham Take-Out owner Wes Garrison plans to expand the company’s delivery services to the Duke area by the end of March. The business, which opened in southwest Durham last month, has not yet expanded to an area near Duke, Garrison said.

“We want to build up our numbers in [the Duke area]....

We would like to get up to 25 [restaurants] quickly to get a lot of variety,” Garrison said.

The 16 restaurants working with Durham Take-Out in southwest Durham include Sitar Indian Cuisine, Cold Stone Creamery and Mellow Mushroom. Garrison said the company delivers ethnic cuisines as well as traditional southern favorites.

Although Garrison said the business has been trying for the past three months to get into MOP, Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst said the program is for restaurants, not take-out companies.

Wulforst said MOP typically adds restaurants in the Fall, reducing the likelihood that Garrison’s business will be added this semester.

The selection process begins when students submit a proposal to the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee for a restaurant to be added to MOP. If there is a space available and the committee approves the restaurant, it recommends the vendor to Wulforst, who makes the final decision.

In other words, the 25 restaurants Garrison hopes to add to Durham Take-Out would have to be added to MOP

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on a case-by-case basis.

MOP vendors have a one-year contract, at the end of which the restaurant decides whether to stay on the plan.

Wulforst said the success of businesses on campus should also be considered.

“If the on-campus vendors took a nosedive in sales because we continue to add vendors to our delivery program, it would compromise vendors on campus,” he said.

In Chapel Hill, where Garrison uses the name Tarheel Takeout, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill constitutes 40 percent of the company’s business. But Garrison is determined to expand Durham Take-Out even if food points are not on the table.

“The biggest advantage we offer is variety and our online ordering,” Garrison said.

Some students said, however, that the benefits of this delivery program do not outweigh the cost. Durham Take-Out requires a $10 minimum order and a $5.99 delivery fee. Junior Megan Sherrell, who orders from MOP about twice a month, said she probably would not order from Durham Take-Out, even if it were a part of the program.

“That sounds a little expensive, especially if I’m ordering by myself,” Sherrell said.

Others, like sophomore Kevin Rutter, said they value taste and variety over food points and money.

“I don’t care [about price] as long as the food’s good,” Rutter said.

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Lone international students face unique challenges

by Alexandra Wexler The chronicle

Senior Amar Baatartsogt can say with confidence he is one of a kind.

The only international student from Mongolia, Baatarsogt is in an elite club: only 20 of Duke’s sizable international undergraduate population are the sole representatives of their countries, coming from places as diverse as Azerbaijan, Burundi, Cyprus, Iraq, Mongolia and San Marino.

And for the most part, when they get here, they are almost completely alone.

Li-Chen Chin, director of the International House, said students who are the sole representatives of their countries are trailblazers. They are also becoming increasingly more common as Duke expands its international reach.

“It took a lot more courage for them to come here in the first place, and in a way they might adjust to the Duke culture more so than students with a large base of support here,” Chin said.

Baartartsogt said his first month at Duke was a difficult adjusting period, and although it is sometimes challenging to be the only person from Mongolia at Duke, he has managed to befriend both other international students and Americans, which has made him more of a global citizen.

Josephine Mwenda, a second-year graduate student in public policy, is one of just three students from Zambia at Duke.

“It’s a bit lonely sometimes,” Mwenda said. “I find myself thinking really why we are not doing well as a country.

I look at India and China and I see a lot of people that are coming here. It gives me a sense that people are moving in a certain direction, and in my country I don’t think we are moving in that direction.”

But not all international students from under-repre-

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sented countries feel the same. Sergiu Ungureanu, a Romanian third-year graduate student in economics, feels that students from countries that have a lot of representation at Duke tend to miss out because they are not forced to immerse themselves in the culture here.

“It restricts and limits all the possibilities,” Ungureanu said. “Chinese and Indian people tend to hang out with their nationality most of the time.”

He noted that he tends to be friends with Americans rather than other international students. Still, he starts to miss people after a while who speak his language and know his culture, Ungureanu said.

These are problems not necessarily shared by the international students from the People’s Republic of China, South Korea or India, which represent the three largest groups of international students on campus with 550, 335 and 451 students, respectively, according to numbers compiled by the International House this academic year.

Pallavi Daggumati, a first-year graduate student of electrical and computer engineering, has found comfort in the large Indian community here during her first semester.

“It feels good to talk to your people, you have a huge number of Indian students at Duke,” Daggumati said.

“When I feel nostalgic and think of home, I have people.

It’s nice.”

Despite the comfort that her fellow Indian students of-

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And after just three months at Duke, she feels as though the University is a second home.

Alvaro Mendez, a recent graduate from the Fuqua School of Business who was one of the handful of students from Guatemala, admitted that it was easier to integrate with Spanish-speaking peers.

“I kind of merged with the Latin people here, whether they be from Spain, Argentina, Chile or El Salvador,” he said.

“Whenever you hear someone speak Spanish you’re like, ‘Hey!’ but the accent’s never exactly the same as yours.”

Many students from under-represented countries are hardened internationals, however, and do not let the number of students that speak their language or know about their culture affect their foreign experience.

Mwenda said she is thankful that she is not part of a large group of students from her country because it forces her to engage with a more diverse group of people.

“Because Indian and Chinese students group together, they sort of lose out on that extra learning opportunity,” she said.

The mix of many different nationalities is one of the things Mendez likes best about his Duke experience.

“As diverse as it can be, it’s better for everybody—I wouldn’t change a thing,” he said.

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Although RLHS will lose four employees, Duncan said he does not expect the departures to affect students, particularly this semester.

“Most of us could walk away for a few months, and as long as someone answers the questions... and can give [the staff] direction, they’re the nuts and bolts of this anyway, so short-term they’ll be great—they’ll step up and be fine,” Duncan said. “Future planning and future direction is the key to how things go.”

RLHS as a whole has been working to reorganize since Soweto the summer, several RLHS officials said. If Duncan had not Gospel Choir accepted the early retirement incentive in December, he said JAN 17 he would have had to reapply for a new job with RLHS. Moneta said many options for restructuring facilities JANUARY 2010 management are currently under consideration, but he 15 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance hopes to promote from within the University. In the meanCompany – Fondly Do We Hope… time he will be looking for places to streamline RLHS. Fervently Do We Pray “It’s an area in which we must be efficient, given our ap17 Soweto Gospel Choir propriate obligation to manage our resources responsibly,” 29 the break/s – Marc Bamuthi Joseph he said, noting that he does not foresee a need for layoffs.

The FEBRUARY 2010 Shipment While Moneta works to reorganize RLHS, its deans will 9 Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano FEB likely have to take on some responsibilities of the vacated 12/13 12/13 The Shipment – Young Jean Lee’s positions.

Theater Company Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said 15 Tinariwen more responsibility is part of the University’s downsizing 19/20 STREB:Brave challenge.

26 Terence Blanchard, trumpet “The reality is there are people throughout the institution being asked to do a little more, and that’s no different for us than any other department,” Gonzalez said. “I’m confident that with the people we have in the department we will be able to take that on and the student services won’t suffer.” www.carolinaperformingarts.org Gonzalez said RLHS employees are excited to have Order tickets online or at the Box Office, (919) 843-3333 M–F 10am – 6pm Moneta, who was housing director at the University of Pennsylvania for 20 years, leading their operations.

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not directly running the process, it’s part of DSG, it’s part of student government, so we should stay out of it.”

for the task force. The task force will report to DSG after finishing its report.

In other business: Senators also voted down a statute that Senators passed a resolution encouraging would have required them to conduct a the use of electronic course evaluations in non-binding vote to select the Young order to decrease paper use and make the inTrustee and then publish the results. formation easier to share. Other peer instituAcademic Aftions, including fairs Senator Yale University “The reason why we started Ari Ruffer, a and Princeton this whole reform business freshman who University, use presented the electronic course was to minimize DSG’s statute to the evaluation sysSenate, said the tems. influence in this issue, and vote would be To improve this maximizes it.” similar to an enthe relationship dorsement, add— Gurdane Bhutani, between police ing “some peoofficers, TrinStudent Affairs Senator, freshman ity Heights resiple look to our expertise.” dents and stuBut other sendents, senators ators said the Senate should stay out of the passed a resolution to organize a barbecue process. on East Campus in April.

“The reason why we started this whole The Senate also authorized the Student reform business was to minimize DSG’s Environment Sustainability Committee to influence in this issue, and this maximizes use $550 of DSG funding to purchase 40 it,” said Student Affairs Senator Gurdane collapsible recycling bins for use at events Bhutani, a freshman. “Even though we’re such as section parties.

vaccine from page 1 Unlike in the Fall when the swine flu vaccine was in limited supply and was reserved for high risk groups such as pregnant women, people with compromised immune systems and hospital staff, the vaccine will now be available to all students, Purdy said.

The supply of vaccines arrived at the end of the Fall semester, but Student Health decided it was more practical to wait until the

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Connie Semans, co-owner of LocoPops, said she did not feel threatened by the commercial expansion. She added that the quality of her products should maintain LocoPops’ share in the market.

“Our products are all handprocessed—more than 50 percent of our product line is made with local ingredients and over 50 percent of our menu changes on a weekly basis,” Semans said. “The quality of our ingredients is much higher than other frozen products on the market. Although we’d prefer to see local businesses open up shop, we understand there’s competition.”

Annie Kinney, a junior and North Carolina native, said she always loved the area’s commitment to local businesses and worried about the implications of adding

chains. Other students, however, said they were glad for the additional options.

“If FreshBerry does it better—with better prices, better service and better product—then they deserve to get a chunk of the market,” sophomore and Durham resident John Bria said. “It’s competition.”

Because frozen yogurt is still relatively new to the Triangle area, Domville said it is too early to predict the consequences of additional shops, especially since Local Yogurt has expansion plans of its own.

Lenzmeier said FreshBerry can help grow the total market share, which can sustain multiple concepts. Although it is a franchise, the couple said their FreshBerry shop will have a local flair and a focus on the family.

“It’s going to be a family business,” Lenzmeier said. “Every new venture is full of excitement, challenges and risk, but we’re ready to give it a go.”

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French cinema production was among the most culturally rich of any national cinema during the 20th century.

Course explores the history of French talkies from the 1930s until the 1990s, with a particular emphasis on the crucial periods of the 1930s and the 1960s and 1970s.

Features some of the best French theoreticians of cinema. Students develop not only a sense of the richness of French film history, but are provided with the conceptual tools and vocabulary to think and talk about movies and how they are constructed and viewed. FVD 120S.04 ALP, CCI, FL.

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Memory & Uses of the Past in French-Speaking World Professor Helen Solterer TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 305

beginning of the Spring before administering them to the students, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

The start of the flu season may make it harder to observe and predict the trend of swine flu cases this semester, Purdy said, adding that it will be difficult to differentiate between swine flu, the seasonal flu and other respiratory viruses.

The swine flu vaccinations will also be offered for the remainder of the year at Student Health.

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Examines fictions of the French-speaking world that have contributed massively – over centuries – to the way we think about what is retained from the past, how it is reconstructed continually, and the pleasures and painful consequences of this process. Investigates memory as a tool of analysis, and a source of creativity – or individuals and communities alike. Victor Hugo, Th´eophile Gautier, Jacques Legoff on history and memory, Freud on remembering and forgetting, and Giorgio Agamben, Qu’est-ce-qu’un. ALP, CCI, FL

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After Italy’s Unification in 1861, Massimo D’Azeglio famously said: “We have made Italy; now we must make Italians.” But how could nation-building occur in a country whose inhabitants would soon be dispersed throughout the world due to the lack of opportunities at home?

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Brazilian cinema is undergoing a renaissance in cinematic style and theme. Brazilian documentary film has configured Brazilian film traditions, such as Glauber Rocha’s famous concept of the “aesthetics of hunger,” social documentary, national allegory, comedy and social commentary. ALP, CCI, R.

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haiti from page 3 Beijing quickly put together relief packages and organized search missions in Haiti, where thousands of foreign residents remained unaccounted for. Within a fearful Haitian diaspora following the tragedy through grim television images, relatives scoured the Internet and taxed the already weak communications links to the country in search of information on their loved ones.

“It’s the disaster of the century” for Haiti, Karel Zelenka, director of Catholic Relief Services in Port-au-Prince, told U.S. colleagues in an e-mail Wednesday morning. “We should be prepared for thousands and thousands of dead and injured.”

Years of political strife and a devastating 2008 hurricane season have left Haiti a volatile country with battered roads, a weak public health system and a landscape of slums that witnesses said Wednesday had largely collapsed across the capital. The relief efforts are likely to be severely hampered by the fact that government agencies and international organizations charged with helping coordinate

assistance operations have themselves been shattered by the quake.

The hotel that served as the United Nations headquarters in the country collapsed, leaving more than 100 people, including special envoy Hedi Annabi, unaccounted for in the rubble. U.N. officials confirmed the deaths of 13 Brazilian and Jordanian peacekeepers, with many others missing. In Washington, a White House official told Haitian activists that three Americans have been confirmed killed.

On the outskirts of the capital, two cranes and dozens of rescue workers scooped up gravel, dust and wood beams from a four-story building that had collapsed the day before. Three bodies had been removed from the pile earlier in the day, and as night fell, the men worked to rescue three more believed to be trapped in what had been offices. Some used plastic buckets to scoop at the plaster and scattered wood.

As he watched the rescue, Dunois Jean-Baptiste, 44, recalled the “huge dust cloud and ... big rumbling” of the previous day.

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At U.N. headquarters in New York, officials told reporters that heavy equipment, search personnel and medical teams were urgently needed in a nation that has scant public resources in the best of times.

“Basic services such as water and electricity have collapsed almost entirely,” said Secretary General Ban Kimoon. “Medical facilities have been inundated with injured.”

In an interview with the Miami Herald, Haitian President Rene Preval described scenes from his city that he characterized as “unimaginable.”

The Haitian parliament building crumbled, and the graceful, snow-white National Palace that sits on a rare patch of emerald lawn in the heart of the capital lies in ruins. A prison in Port-au-Prince broke apart, allowing some surviving inmates to escape. The city’s Roman Catholic archbishop is among the dead.

“The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed.

Hospitals have collapsed,” Preval said. “There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.”

Later, on CNN, Preval said he been informed that the death toll could be 30,000 to 50,000. He lamented that injured people have been lying in the streets since the quake struck, saying, “We don’t have the capacity to bring them to the hospital.”

“There are risks that houses continue to collapse,” he said. “There are risks of an epidemic.”

Public health officials in Washington echoed those concerns. The Pan American Health Organization dispatched a team of experts from Panama to assist in the management of mass causalities, the delivery of emergency medical care and the disposal of bodies.

“We fear the impact of this earthquake will be particularly devastating due to the vulnerability of Haiti’s people,” said Jon Andrus, the organization’s deputy director.

The United States, France, China and the Dominican Republic are sending search-and-rescue teams to Haiti, a country of 9 million people with a primitive network of two-lane roads, only the most major of which are paved.

Andrus said Brazil has sent three jets carrying 21 tons of equipment, and many countries have pledged money.

Spain has sent planes with surgical teams.

A U.S. military official said tentative plans are underway for the hospital ship USNS Comfort — which aided Haiti after hurricanes struck Port-au-Prince two years ago — to dock off the coast and assist the sick and wounded.

“An unknown number, tens if not hundreds of thousands, have suffered varying degrees of destruction to their homes,” Vincenzo Pugliese, deputy spokesman for the U.N. mission in Haiti, said in a statement. He said “major transport routes have been severely disrupted” by debris, smashed vehicles and cracks in the Earth.

The quake’s epicenter was about 10 miles west of Portau-Prince, home to as much as a third of the country’s population. News reports from the capital said survivors were piling bodies of the dead outside as the sun rose. Communications networks were crippled across the country, making it difficult to determine the extent of the damage to other cities and towns.

Bob Poff, director of disaster services for the Salvation Army in Haiti, said much of the organization’s compound was badly damaged, although the children’s home was intact. Poff was traveling in a truck when the quake struck, and he wrote in a message to colleagues that the vehicle was “tossed to and fro like a toy.”

“I looked out the windows to see buildings `pancaking’ down,” Poff wrote. “Thousands of people poured out into the streets, crying, carrying bloody bodies, looking for anyone who could help them. We piled as many bodies into the back of our truck, and took them down the hill with us. ... All of them were older, scared, bleeding, and terrified.”

Officials said the Port-au-Prince airport, which lost its control tower, is now able to receive relief flights. But pilots were on their own to coordinate landings.

U.N. officials said 3,000 peacekeepers had secured the airport and were patrolling the streets of the capital. John Holmes, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the chief U.N. relief agencies were relatively unscathed by the earthquake and would be in a fairly good position to mount relief operations on the ground.

“My own staff there, they are okay, they’re safe, reasonably intact,” Holmes said, adding that the World Food Program was flying in 90 metric tons of high-protein biscuits for displaced earthquake victims. “We can kick-start the operation.”

Witnesses and journalists working in the capital described scenes of dust-covered women clawing out of debris and wailing. Stunned people wandered, holding hands, while many gravely injured people sat in the streets, pleading for doctors. Witnesses reported strong aftershocks.

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Men’s Basketball

Blue Devils thrive despite cold outside shooting

by Jason Palmatary The chronicle

Just like in the defeat Saturday at the hands of Georgia Tech, the Blue Devils failed to shoot the 3-pointer effectively.

This time, however, Duke was able to use its balance offensively and create offense out of its defense to offset a 1-for-12 shooting night from downtown.

“We’re not going to live and die by the three this year,” guard Nolan Smith said.

“When the threes aren’t falling, we showed that we have other ways to score.”

Coming out of the locker room at halftime and clinging to a three-point lead after Boston College played a scrappy first half and managed to Game effectively around Analysis finish the basket, a different Duke team emerged and never looked back.

By the first TV timeout of the second half, the narrow lead had ballooned to 15 points, and Eagles head coach Al Skinner had already burned two timeouts.

The Duke coaching staff is obviously putting emphasis on the need to apply suffocating full-court on-ball pressure. Given the combination of length, athleticism and depth that this team possesses, turning up the defensive intensity can fluster the opposing team’s backcourt and lead to a barrage of turnovers.

Using that formula, the Blue Devils were able to reel off a 22-6 run to start the second period. With Smith spearheading the defensive pressure and pestering Boston College’s primary ballhandlers, Reggie Jackson and Biko Paris, Duke forced four turnovers in the first five minutes of the second half.

“It started with our defense once again,”

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Miles Plumlee’s energy on offense and defense helped Duke pull away from Boston College Wednesday. forward Miles Plumlee said. “We were able to break that lead open and force them to take some timeouts.”

Cranking up the heat defensively paid dividends, as many of these turnovers were converted into high-percentage shots in

transition. Beyond just the turnovers Duke was able to force—Boston College gave the ball up four times in the game-deciding run—speeding up the game and maintaining an impressive 40-27 rebound edge on the boards created many opportunities to

get out and run, something Duke has done infrequently this year.

“The live-ball turnovers were the key to the win in the first four minutes [of the second half],” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “When our defense can force some turnovers and we are unselfish on the break, then the bucket gets a little bigger.”

As effective as the Blue Devils have been while relying on Smith, Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer, especially late in the shot clock, the team is more dangerous when opposing defenses are forced to defend all five players on the court. On the fast break, the guards are able to distribute to the frontcourt players that excel at running the court––such as the Plumlee brothers and Lance Thomas––and create a more balanced attack offensively.

Both Brian Zoubek and Miles Plumlee chipped in with significant contributions on the offensive end Wednesday. The pair combined for 18 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field and created most of its offense by doing the dirty work around the basket. Krzyzewski noted that by combining their numbers at the center position, the collective outcome would be a very impressive 18 points and 16 rebounds. While no single Duke frontcourt player has the ability to dominate a game from the inside, as a group they can provide adequate production, and they did so last night.

While neither Mason Plumlee nor Andre Dawkins provided much of a spark against the Eagles, the supporting cast is noticing that the 3-pointer becomes less important when the rest of the team is able to create some offensive output.

“It gives us a lot more confidence as a team,” Miles Plumlee said. “With the whole See analysis on page 10

Women’s Basketball

Challenging stretch begins in Coral Gables

by Patricia Lee The chronicle

With only one loss and seven consecutive wins in the past month, the Blue Devils are looking to remain unbeaten in the ACC and bring their enthusiasm and aggressiveness to Miami this evening.

No. 7 Duke (14-2, 2-0 in the ACC) defeated Clemson and Wake Forest early last week to start off its conference play with two straight wins.

No. 25 With two of the conference’s lesser Miami teams out of the way, the Blue Devils now take on two of the toughest vs. teams on the season schedule in the No. 7 next five days.

Duke Duke travels to Coral Gables, Fla. tonight to face an improved Miami squad THURSDAY, 7 p.m. at 7 p.m., and returns to Durham MonCoral Gables, Fla. day for a showdown with No. 1 UConn.

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie said her team has gotten used to playing on the road—Duke competed in four road contests in the last month and won three of them—and the matchup against the Hurricanes will be another such test.

“It’s been a great experience to travel, and we played some excellent opponents,” McCallie said. “We’ve been a larsa al-omaishi/Chronicle file photo

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Senior Bridgette Mitchell led Duke to its most recent win against Wake Forest with 20 points, and hopes to do the same Thursday against Miami.

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m. bball from page 1 big guys,” center Brian Zoubek said. “At Georgia Tech, we relied a little bit too much on the guards. And for us to help those guys out when they are not having that great of a game shooting from the 3-point line feels really good, and hopefully we can continue to do that.”

Zoubek had six points and 11 rebounds, including five on the offensive side. The senior’s success on the boards enabled sec-

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Kyle Singler defends Boston College’s Dallas Elmore during Duke’s win Wednesday.

ond chance opportunities that are critical when outside shots are not falling.

Fellow big man Miles Plumlee also played well and had arguably his best game in a Blue Devil uniform. Plumlee scored 12 points and added five rebounds.

The team’s post players both anchored the defense effectively and their interior presence dictated the game’s tempo in the paint.

“I thought Miles and Brian… if you just added their two totals up it would have been a monster game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Brian especially in that second half…had a couple buckets that he just scored, he kind of roughed it out.”

Plumlee has also made strides of late, Krzyzewski said. “[Miles] is gaining experience. He’s started every game and has played well. It’s a matter of getting accustomed, especially once we get into conference play, to the physicality.

Playing the people that we have played has given [Miles] some experience with that. There’s a lot of contact and you have to learn to play through and shoot through contact. A big guy has to do that and as a sophomore he is coming on.”

Plumlee showed his strength under the basket throughout the game against the Eagles.

Midway through the first half, off a missed outside shot, the sophomore grabbed an offensive rebound, drew contact and managed to connect to complete a three-point play. Plumlee re-

peated the same feat just a few minutes later.

The Eagles could not match up with Duke physically and the Blue Devils took advantage of their size despite shooting a season-low 8.3 percent from behind the arc.

Duke outrebounded Boston College 40-27, and managed 18 of those on the offensive glass.

The Blue Devils’ dominance under the basket was evident as the team scored 47 points in the paint and had 21 secondchance points.

That success on the boards, however, is no surprise for Duke’s players. “[Rebounding] has really been a point of emphasis for us in terms of helping out the guards on defense and on offense, especially against a team where we have a little bit of a size advantage,” Zoubek said.

“We had to make sure we took advantage of it on the boards.”

Though Duke has a number of players capable of shooting the ball from the perimeter, the team will inevitably endure cold streaks. And when those slumps occur, the Blue Devils need the versatility they showed Wednesday to make up for not being able to connect from behind the arc. “[Rebounding] is something we work on hard every day in practice.... Now we have got to do that every game to be at our best,” Plumlee said. “It should be something we hang our hat on.”

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analysis from page 9 team working together, even when the three’s not there, we’ve got some other options.”

Over the last decade, the deep ball is one of the images that has come to be associated with Duke Basketball, and there is no indication that the three will play any less of a role as the season continues to progress.

But when jump shots stop falling

in a rugged game on the road later in the season, as they did in the game against Villanova that ended Duke’s season last year, the Blue Devils will be able look to this victory over Boston College and remember finding other ways to win.

“We only hit one three today and still scored 79 points,” Krzyzewski said. “Last year, we wouldn’t have won a game like that—we would have had to have hit threes.”

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Nolan Smith had three steals and played efficient perimeter defense in Duke’s 79-59 win.

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w. bball from page 9 very good rebounding team, we’re attacking better, and we’re turning over less.”

The team’s lone recent loss away from Cameron Indoor Stadum was to No. 2 Stanford Dec. 15, but Duke hopes to extend its winning streak in tonight’s away game against No. 25 Miami. The Hurricanes (13-2, 1-0) took down another top ACC squad, then-No. 11 Florida State, last week.

The Hurricanes are paced by 5-foot-7 guard Riquna Williams, who averages 22.4 points and 4.3 rebounds per game, and Diane Barnes, a senior forward who is averaging nearly a double-double in points and rebounds.

McCallie said Duke’s pressure defense is sure to be tested by an explosive Hurricane lineup that is scoring 80 points per game on the season.

To counter Miami’s athleticism and physical style of play, two traits McCallie highlighted, the Blue Devils must play their own style of basketball, especially on the defensive end.

“We are taking everything seriously and constantly try-

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Fifth-year senior Keturah Jackson and the Blue Devils travel south for a key conference matchup with No. 25 Miami Thursday evening.

ing to get better as a team. Our strength is our defensive energy and intensity, but at times, that can be our weakness,” senior forward Bridgette Mitchell said. “When we’re not playing our type of defense, they start scoring, but when we play Duke defense, we’re unstoppable.”

Senior Keturah Jackson stressed the need to focus only on the game against Miami at the moment—the Blue Devils’ schedule also includes the top-ranked Huskies, plus traditional ACC powers Maryland and North Carolina. According to Jackson, the matchup with the Hurricanes will be dictated not by how well Miami plays, but by how well Duke executes.

“There is a very close connection between the games we already played and the games we will be playing,” Jackson said. “They help get us prepared, and we take each game individually and work on excelling in what we need to. We come with a focus and play Duke basketball. We don’t want to give them anything easy.”

And if they do so tonight against the Hurricanes, the Blue Devils expect to stave off the storm and stay atop the ACC.

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Head coach Joanne P. McCallie said Duke will have to stop Miami’s multitude of scorers, particularly Riquna Williams, to move to 3-0 in the ACC.

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Early admit spike needs explanation Christmas came early for program that can decrease a record number of high competition and encourage school seniors. Last month, gaming of the system. the Office of Undergraduate Because of a larger early Admissions doled out an un- pool, this year only 30 perprecedented 602 spots in the cent of students who applied Class of 2014 to students who early were admitted, a 4 peropted to apply cent decrease to Duke early from last year’s editorial decision, the rate. But the University’s binding admis- real number of students adsions program. mitted early—602—is actuBut the good news for ally significantly higher than these applicants raises ques- in past years. The Class of tions about a troubling re- 2013 admitted 547 students cent trend in early admission. early, and the Class of 2012 Over the past three years, the admitted only 472 students number of students admitted through early decision. In early by Duke has grown al- just three years, this number most 28 percent. has jumped dramatically.

While high early decision As we stated in an editorinumbers make for a smooth- al last Fall, we support Duke’s er admissions process, the Ad- early decision program bemissions Office should make cause it is an effective and a concerted effort to explain efficient way to allow strong such a large expansion in a students to commit to Duke

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earlier rather than later. It gives those who are uniquely passionate about Duke a chance to stand out in the admissions pool, and it helps the University to secure the best and brightest athletic recruits.

In tough financial times, too, high early admit number carry practical benefits.

Securing many students in the Fall helps to improve the University’s yield calculations and increase the predictability of the class size.

A reasonably sized early admissions program can work in the University’s best interest. But when the number of early admits is drastically increased, the program’s positive returns slowly diminish.

For every spot that is given out early, there is one less spot remaining in the Spring.

In the past, the University admitted around a quarter of the freshman class through its early program. Now, with 602 early admits, more than one third of the Class of 2014 has already been filled.

A larger early admissions class does not necessarily equate to a decrease in quality, but it does decrease competition.

When Duke extends an early admission offer, it does so without fully knowing what the quality of the year’s applicant pool will be. Thus, students admitted in December could be less qualified than those denied admission later in the Spring.

Given the relative consistency in the quality of applicants from year to year, this scenario is unlikely to play out. But as the size of the ear-

ly admissions class increases, so do the chances of finding better qualified applicants in the Spring.

Moreover, an increase in the number of early acceptances encourages high school seniors to game the system if they apply early as part of a strategic move, not because because they are particularly committed to Duke.

This becomes even more problematic if the spike in early admits is advertised to prospective students.

As most of our peer institutions have moved away from early admissions in recent years, Duke has increasingly relied on it. Instead of touting high applicant numbers and low acceptance rates, at the very least, the Admissions Office should explain why.

Free rides

e all have our own reasons for looking forward to the holidays, but my personal motivation is that I get to listen to my alltime favorite Christmas song, a recording made by Pearl Bailey called “Five Pound Box of Money.” It is a comedy number in which Pearl reads Santa a wish list that forgoes the usual requests in favor of “a little gift loaded with lots of sentiment,” as Pearl puts it­—namely, a 5-pound box of money. dan flavin Now I am sure in real life that you got some nice gifts for Christmas (or Hannukah, or your birthday) this year, but what if I told you that in addition to that Zhu Zhu Pet you could have received not a five pound, but a 500-pound box of money? What if instead of a 500-pound box of money, it was a 500-pound box of golf cart? From the truth-is-stranger-thanfiction files, that is exactly what you and I and everyone else could have gotten for Christmas from our dearest Uncle Sam. In case, like me, you missed out on your free golf cart, let me explain what happened. President Obama’s stimulus package last year included a substantial tax credit in the neighborhood of $5,000 to be put towards the purchase of an electric vehicle. In addition, many states offered similar credits large enough in value that, in combination with the federal credit, one could purchase a golf cart in 2009 and have the entire cost recovered in tax credits.

It seems too good to be true, right? Here I have spent my whole life thinking that I had to be good for goodness sake only to find out that, thanks to an IRS decision that street legal golf carts qualify as electric vehicles, I could have spent a whole year being wonderfully naughty and gotten not only a nice lump of coal but a sweet set of wheels to drive it around with. And believe me, it is a sweet set of wheels. We are not talking about your run-of-the mill, municipal golf course, open-topped buggy.

We are talking about a four-seater Cadillac of the links equipped with headlights, seat belts and faux

leather upholstery. Too bad I missed out on my free ride. The credit is only good on vehicles purchased in 2009.

I would be lying if I did not admit that I always get a bit of the post holiday blues, and that this year they are a little bit harder to shake off than usual. Time is supposed to heal all wounds, but I have found that living without a golf cart stings me more every day. At first I thought I could cope with a cart-less existence. After all, with buses to take me around town, and most places within easy walking distance, I really have no need for a golf cart. But then I thought about how there never seems to be a C-1 when I want one. And I thought about how some days I just don’t feel like walking.

And I thought about how fun it is to drive golf carts. Suddenly I am not sure if I can carry on.

It was when I put all these realizations together that I finally realized how glad I am that people in Washington really care about me. They knew that deep down, in spite of what I first thought, I really did need a golf cart. How stupid I was. I used to think I could look out for myself just fine, but I am not so sure anymore. Am I really smart enough to be trusted with important decisions like which refrigerator is right for me, or which TV is best for my dorm? Why would I bother to do something like adding more insulation to my home to save money on heating unless I had smart people like the president telling me it was a good idea? Why should I worry about silly things like who is going to pay for my free golf cart and insulation? I am just glad I have such a wise government that is willing to hold my hand and guide me through the complex and confusing world. If only I had not been so arrogant to think I could do it alone. I could be breezing across the quad in relaxed comfort at 15 mph.

I guess it is all cart-path under Club Car now (or do you prefer the EZ-GO?). With my golf cart bliss snatched from my hands just as I have come to realize what I am missing, I can only hope Uncle Sam gets me something good for Christmas next year. I missed the electric car, but if I start wishing now maybe I can get an electric train, or even an electric football game.

Dan Flavin is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday.

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n June 1, 2009, I boarded a plane to Trinidad and Tobago as part of a DukeEngage program under the direction of Fuqua Professor Lucy Reuben. On July 13, 2009, I returned to North Carolina, almost four weeks shy of the program’s official end date. I paid back DukeEnlisa ma gage $752 and I paid the travel agency $324 to secure an earlier guest commentary return date.

I withdrew from my DukeEngage program because, in my opinion, my site was a waste of financial and human resources.

Another student and I were assigned to a site known as the Women’s Cooperative Group in the Village of California, under DukeEngage Site Supervisor Letitia Cole. To me, the word “group” implies more than one person and the capitalization of the term implies some sort of formal infrastructure. Imagine my surprise when I found myself spending almost all of my six weeks in Trinidad in my bedroom, wondering exactly what was going on. And then I discovered Cole was Reuben’s sister-in-law and suddenly everything seemed clearer to me. I asked to be assigned to another site in Trinidad—and I wasn’t surprised when Reuben denied that request.

Instead, I was told to devote myself to making logos, writing press releases and taking pictures of villagers. I felt like I was thrown into a marketing and public relations internship. And from what I could tell, nobody in the village was actually benefitting from my so-called work—at least, nobody other than Cole.

By the fourth week of my time there, I was tired of it all: the publicity mongering, the assignments with unclear purposes, the inconsistent statements….

I pretended I had forgotten to bring my camera when I was asked to take photos of students at a primary school. I argued with Cole about the merits of attaching my name and photo to press releases. I asked DukeEngage Director Eric Mlyn to intervene and demand answers from Cole and Reuben. But things only got worse, and I realized that my presence in the village was generating false hope.

When I got back to the United States, I attempted to erase DukeEngage from my life and pretended that the entire summer never happened. But when I found out that the site would be renewed for a second summer, under the same leadership, I couldn’t let it go. I met with Mlyn, I spoke directly to students about my experience and I even brought the issue up with Duke Student Government.

Both Mlyn and Reuben insist that the site’s written report for my summer is not available to the public (i.e. me). And, if all goes according to plan, the site will continue for another summer.

Lisa Ma is a Trinity senior and former editorial page editor of The Chronicle.

lettertotheeditor A library like home In reference to The Chronicle’s Jan. 13 article “Duke sees record-high applications,” I’d like to suggest another reason for the remarkable increase in applications over the past two years: the remodeling of the Perkins Library complex and the addition of Bostock Library.

This has given Duke students a study space and common social space that has transformed West Campus life. Notice how tour groups now enjoy lingering in the library plaza, how visitors immediately seem to feel at home in its interior and how prospective applicants and their families tend to leave the facilities excited, even dazzled.

If the library is the heart of a university, we’ve had a transplant. Visiting applicants now hear the strong beat of that heart, and I have no doubt that this helps inspire a wish to join our community.

Vivat Perkins and Bostock Libraries!

Dr. John Madden Associate professor of pathology

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A misdirected choice

ou’d think Duke Student Government PresiIt’s arguable whether directed choice is a “sodent Awa Nur, a senior, was expressing com- lution” at all. If anything, it is little more than a mon sense when she told me that “students Band-Aid to the long-term problem of a bloated know the difference between choice and non- union contract that drags the Great Hall and Marchoice” in their dining options. ketplace into unprofitability by loading them with Duke administrators, though, an unmanageable set of financial are betting on the off chance that responsibilities. she’s wrong.

Duke Student Government Chief In one of the most egregious of Staff Mike Lefevre, a junior, excases of this administration trying plained that the University is in the to hoodwink its students, Univerposition of having to over-hire emsity officials have proposed a plan ployees in anticipation of rampant to streamline Duke Dining’s budtardiness issues. Employees often do get—by forcing students to eat at not show up to work, or show up so vikram their least profitable, and unsurlate (union workers are allowed to srinivasan prisingly, least appetizing venues. be up to three hours and 59 minutes uncommon To add insult to injury, these of“tardy” 20 times under the contract, ficials have the gall to dub their Lefevre said) creating a scheduling conviction oxymoronic proposal “directed nightmare for managers. At the end choice.” of the day, union venues on campus Yes, it is true that hard economic times call for struggle with being variously both over- and underhard decisions. Students owe administrators some staffed because of the hurdles imposed by union degree of understanding as they undertake the no contract rules, Lefevre added. doubt difficult task of across-the-board fiscal belt“When we have to find work for people to do tightening. But the recent proposals by administra- because we have to pay them, that’s a problem,” tors to require students to spend a predetermined Nur said. subset of their food points at specific unprofitable No kidding. Because it seems rather obvious venues are not “hard decisions.” They are a cop that the union contract presents a more than out—a refusal to do the obvious in confronting small predicament for the University, administhe union contract responsible in significant part trators’ support for directed choice is unlikely a for Duke Dining’s budget problems, while instead mere oversight. A more convincing explanation loading costs on to students. is that the University is afraid of the political First, a recap: Duke, like many other universi- fallout from taking a tougher line towards the ties, is facing serious fiscal strain resulting from the unions given the historically testy state of towneconomic crisis of the last year and a half. Aiming gown relations. Vice President for Campus Serto cut $125 million from its operating budget, and vices Kemel Dawkins could not be reached for coping with a $2 million deficit in Dining Services, comment. the University has been forced to develop strateIn fairness, this is an understandably delicate gies to cut expenses and increase revenue inflows. situation. But the University cannot continue to Under the design of the Duke Dining system, put its students on the hook for the increasingly some venues are privately operated, while others ridiculous concessions that it is apparently ex(such as the Great Hall and Marketplace) rely pected to tolerate. One has to wonder what the heavily on University subsidies. Given that some University’s tipping point is—and if it does not of these venues are profitable while others run occur now, under severe fiscal stress, will it ever? enormous financial losses, University officials Are the political ramifications of arguing more have concocted “directed choice” as a way to forcefully for changes to the union contract so forcibly direct student food points to the loca- much worse than the absurdity that students tions that are least effective in attracting them would be forced to endure under the directed voluntarily. The proposed plans would require choice plan? students spend 500 to 700 of their food points Tough choices will need to be made, and perat non-contracted (read: union-operated) eater- haps some venues will need to be closed to balies, such as the Great Hall, the Marketplace and ance the books, Nur conceded. But “directed Subway. choice” is no choice at all.

“It’s a very easy solution that puts the cost on Enough is enough. At some point, this Universtudents to bear,” Nur told me. “The University sity needs to stick up for its students—and better has very little action to take. No one needs to be late than never. fired, [and] no changes in personnel [are necessary]. It’s a cost that can easily be transferred over Vikram Srinivasan is a Trinity senior. His column to students.” runs every other Thursday.

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