January 25, 2010 issue

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monday, January 25, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 80

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Students team up to help Haiti

by Zak Kazzaz The chronicle

The aftershocks have ceased crumbling Haitian buildings, and the Duke community has jumped at the opportunity to help.

Haiti’s recent earthquake that shattered homes, infrastructure and lives has created an opportunity to rebuild and renew. Duke students and alumni have banded together in the effort to raise money as well as supplies for the struggling country.

From sporting patches on basketball jerseys to paying cover fees for beer pong, members of the Duke community have rallied around Haitian relief.

Three alumni—Doug Rosenberg, Trinity ’07, Jenna Green, Trinity ’08, and former men’s basketball team manager Nick Arison, Trinity ’03—teamed up after the disaster for a sleepless night to discuss how they could help, Rosenberg said.

“Everybody is so numb to [the situation] right now,” Green said.

“They’ve done hundreds of amputations and need places for the limbs to go, they’re rotting all over the place.

It’s like a war zone.”

See haiti on page 5

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President Richard Brodhead (left) signs an agreement with the municipal government of Kunshan, China Friday, during a trip to formalize Duke’s expansion into the country. Under the agreement, the Kunshan government will donate 200 acres of land and construct a five-building campus for Duke over the next two years.

Duke finalizes China expansion plans

by Naureen Khan The chronicle

University administrators capped off a week-long visit to China Friday by breaking ground at the site of Duke’s new campus in the city of Kunshan.

President Richard Brodhead, Provost Peter Lange, Dr. Sanders Williams, senior adviser for international strategy, and Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, traveled to China last week to meet with various university and government officials to formalize the partnerships

between Duke, Kunshan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The Kunshan municipal government will provide 200 acres of land and foot the bill for the five-building teaching, research and residential facility.

“It will give Duke a very visible presence in one of the most dynamic areas of Asia,” Brodhead said in an interview Sunday. “The further advantage is that since we’ll be having Duke faculty teach there, our faculty will come to gain a better understanding of this very dynamic society, which will be a benefit to our students in Durham.”

Fuqua will be the first to use the site. It will offer executive MBA and non-degree executive education programs, a pre-experience management training master’s degree and additional Duke programs for Ph.D. students.

The graduate programs that will be conducted in Kunshan, however, are only the foundation of Duke’s plans to establish a presence in China. The first phase of a three-phase plan for Chinese expansion was See kunshan on page 14

Panhel sororities give out 311 bids Blue Devils claw out road win Groups offer 51 more bids than

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by Caroline Fairchild The chronicle

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Senior Lance Thomas’s hustle and aggression helped limit Clemson big man Trevor Booker’s production in Duke’s milestone road victory Saturday.

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CLEMSON, S.C. — Saturday night in South Carolina, the Blue Devils finally got the road monkey off of their back.

Stellar games by Nolan Smith and Lance Thomas propelled No. 6 Duke over No. 16 Clemson, 60-47, at Littlejohn Coliseum, making last season’s crushing 7447 defeat nothing but a distant memory. With their first road win of the season, the Blue Devils (16-3, 4-2 in the ACC) made it clear that, despite three previous road losses this season, they can win away from Cameron Indoor Stadium doing so in a big way against the Tigers (15-5, 3-3).

Smith led the Blue Devils with 22 points Saturday night, the ninth time he has led the team in scoring this season.

His aggressive offensive efforts coupled with Thomas’s effective control of Clemson big man Trevor Booker allowed Duke to leave Littlejohn with the victory. Thomas

In a return to pre-2009 numbers, the nine Panhellenic Association sororities offered bids to 311 women Sunday—51 more than last year.

Registration for sorority recruitment also increased from 367 women last year to 434 this year. And throughout the day, sorority sisters could be seen marching down academics quads en masse, many chanting “Best Damn Pledge Class!”

“I think we had a more formalized [public relations] plan and we held information sessions on East Campus which I think were really successful,” said senior Margaret Morrison, Panhel vice president of recruitment and membership. “We made a much more concerted effort to answer questions about the recruitment process before it

See m.BBall on page 11

See bid day on page 13

ONTHERECORD

“I want to be cautiously optimistic, but I don’t want people to be complacent.”

­—Executive Vice President Tallman Trask on Duke’s investments. See story page 3

by Jeremy Ruch The chronicle

Young Trustee candidates Meet the seven Young Trustee semifinalists, PAGE 3

Duke ekes out victory over struggling Terps, Page 8

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U.N. to convene Haiti summit of 20 nations Monday The United Nations will convene an emergency summit of 20 nations Monday to coordinate aid for earthquakestricken Haiti.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be among the delegates attending the meeting in Montreal to discuss long-term reconstruction and arrangements for a donor conference to be held in March, the U.N. said in a statement.

The world body is continuing its search-and-rescue effort after Haiti’s gov-

ernment ended its hunt for survivors of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ravaged the Caribbean nation, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in an e-mailed statement.

“We are very, very focused on search and rescue,” U.N. spokeswoman Choi Soung-ah said in a telephone interview from New York on Saturday. “At the same time, relief efforts are fully activated.”

More than 111,000 people are confirmed dead, the U.N. said Saturday.

Obama approves bipartisan Scam targets Haiti refugees committee to handle deficit A coalition of relief organizations warned Sunday of a scam targeting Haitian Americans trying to transport relatives from the island after the Jan. 12 earthquake.

The scheme promises documents to bypass the official government process for bringing family members from Haiti to the United States, according to the Haitian Embassy and the Greater Washington Haiti Relief Committee.

C.J. Jordan, a spokesperson for the coalition, said Haitian Americans in the Washington region and throughout the country had been handed fliers or reached by phone. Callers are asked to wire $500 via Western Union in exchange for the documents and a confirmation number to allow them to fly to Haiti to extract five relatives.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama agreed Saturday to back legislation creating a bipartisan commission to develop a plan to address the nation’s soaring budget deficit.

Obama previously had urged that a presidential fiscal panel be created. But he relented after senators objected, favoring a statutory commission that would be empowered to force a deficit-reduction plan through Congress by year’s end.

Some Democrats opposed forming a statutory panel, fearing it would forfeit the power they enjoy as the majority in Congress. A presidential panel, however, would not have the power to require a vote on its blueprint, stoking objections among bipartisans concerned about the spiraling deficit.

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Wu Tseng-dong, a native of Kinmen, Taiwan, melts an artillery shell to make kitchen knives that are sold to tourists from mainland China. The number of visitors to Taiwan from the mainland has more than tripled since 2007, and trade with China has boosted the Taiwanese economy.

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Young trustee semifinalists The Young Trustee Nominating Committee named seven semifinalists Sunday afternoon. The three finalists will be selected Thursday, and the Young Trustee will be elected Feb. 9 by the student body.

Meg Foran Senior Majors: English, Linguistics Involvement: FAC Board Co-Chair; Student Alumni Advisory Board Chair

Long-term investments grow 8.4% to $6.47B I don’t want people to be complacent,” Trask said.

The University is on track to significantly reduce its shortfall if it continues to manage vacant positions effectively, Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh said. He added that the two retirement initiatives, overtime management and natural attrition have eliminated more than 400 full-time employees, which has saved the University more than $25 million.

Trask said if Duke does not fill between one-fourth and one-third of vacancies, the University could meet its budgetary goals, but he added that vacancies will not all occur in the ideal places.

In the 2009 fiscal year, investment returns provided 18 percent of Duke’s operating revenue.

Despite the recent positive returns, the University still needs to spend prudently, said Board of Trustees Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73.

by Lindsey Rupp The chronicle

Ben Getson Junior Major: Computer Science Involvement: Founder and Vice President of Ubuntu

John Harpham Senior Majors: Political Science, French Involvement: Former Chair of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board; A.B. Duke Scholarship Selection Committee

Chelsea Goldstein Senior Major: Political Science Involvement: DSG VP for Academic Affairs; Duke Debate President; member of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board

Zachary Perret Senior Majors: Biology, Chemistry Involvement: President of DUU; Institutional Advancement Committee of the Duke Board of Trustees

Adam Nathan Senior Major: Program II: International Development Involvement: President of Duke Partnership for Service; Founder of Hope Scholars Program

Alexis Rosenblum Senior Major: Public Policy Involvement: President of the International Association; President of Duke Consulting Club

Editor’s Note: Chelsea Goldstein and John Harpham, members of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board, recused themselves from the board Jan. 12 to apply for the position of Young Trustee. Due to the anonymous application process, their recusals could not be made public until now. Both Goldstein and Harpham will continue to recuse themselves from the board as long as they are candidates. If elected Young Trustee, both candidates have agreed to resign from the editorial board. Please contact Will Robinson (wrr3@duke.edu) if you have questions.

After suffering substantial losses, the University’s investments have started to gain ground.

As of Dec. 31, the University’s longterm pool of investments was valued at $6.47 billion, up 8.4 percent for the calendar year, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. The long-term pool includes the University’s endowment and other investments managed by the private firm Duke University Management Company.

Although the longterm pool is up from Tallman Trask the June 30, 2009 figure of $5.97 billion, Trask said the University still has a long way to go in eliminating its $125 million deficit. The long-term pool reached a high of $8.1 billion at the end of June 2008.

“I want to be cautiously optimistic, but

See investments on page 4

CORRECTIONS A Jan. 22 article “Panhel, frats to get space on Central,” incorrectly described Alyssa Dack’s role in Alpha Delta Pi sorority. Dack, a senior, is the current president of Alpha Delta Pi. The Chronicle regrets the error.

Also, a Jan. 22 article “Kip Frey blazes his own trail,” incorrectly characterized musician Sergei Rachmaninoff, who is primarily known as a pianist. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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investments from page 3 “We need to make sure the University is operating as efficiently as possible, and where we can squeeze out savings we still need to be doing that,” Blue said.

Trask said he is “reasonably confident” that the University is beyond the need for centrally administered large-scale layoffs.

“What I was worried about a year ago was that we would have to stand up on the quad and say 500 people had to go away. We’re past that,” he said.

Going forward, Trask said the University is considering a flat endowment payout instead of making a small cut. Endowment payouts—$250 million in the 2009 fiscal

year—were projected to fall through at least 2012, Vice President for Finance Hof Milam said last October.

Still, the increase is “not only encouraging but reassuring,” Blue said. A change in the long-term pool’s direction could mean that some new endowments supporting initiatives such as financial aid and DukeEngage, which are currently underwater, could resume paying out funds.

“The endowment is certainly important and is extremely important to Duke’s ability to provide the opportunity that it provides for its students to be a place of research and inquiry and a place of new ideas for the betterment of human kind,” Blue said. “So it’s critical the endowment be in the positive territory so you can benefit from the increasing value and the revenue it creates to support... the priorities.”

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What can Bassett do for you?

Between 3:18 a.m. and 9:42 a.m. last Tuesday, five separate reports were made that UPS packages left outside students’ doors in Bassett Residence Hall had been stolen.

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An unidentified individual discharged two fire extinguishers on the second floor of Kilgo Quadrangle House O last Tuesday night.

Black Tuesday

Several items, including laptops, were reported stolen from officers early last Tuesday on Blackwell Street.

Dogged by damage

Damage was reported last Monday morning to display signs on the Pauly Dogs stand on the West Campus Plaza.

A sticky-icky situation

Four students were seen smoking an illegal substance in Jarvis Residence Hall late last Sunday. One student admitted possession of marijuana, and the case was referred to student deans.

Bad Santa

A student reported last Sunday night that her room in Gilbert Addoms Residence Hall was entered over winter break and was missing several items.

Klepto Crazies

Two graduate student basketball passes that were stolen were recovered in Cameron Indoor Stadium last Sunday evening.

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haiti from page 1 Together, the three founded Save Haiti Saturday, a fundraising group based in Miami to support Project Medishare, a health outreach non-profit working in Haiti, Rosenberg said.

Save Haiti Saturday, which began Jan. 16, asks businesses for a percentage of their Saturday proceeds and will culminate in two weeks during Superbowl weekend in Miami, he said.

Donors and corporations have offered the use of their planes and have given hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, Green said. An expansive list of celebrities have also endorsed Save Haiti Saturday, including singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, who created a video to publish on the group’s Web site.

Rosenberg said they received more than half a million dollars in online donations alone, and he estimates that they’ve raised more than $1 million dollars.

Duke Athletics has backed the effort, with the 15 teams in season, including men’s basketball, displaying patches on their jerseys, said Mike Craig, senior associate director of athletics.

“It was really a matter for our coaches,” he said. “Once they knew what was a possibility they all said ‘yes, we’re on. We’ll do whatever we can.’”

Students who recently worked in Haiti under DukeEngage also felt the need to act, junior Juyon Kang said. Along with others who spent last summer at the Duke Engage site in Haiti, Kang is planning a 5K run to raise money and awareness to tentatively take place in April.

Some students have been partying for the cause. Spartan Entertainment hosted beer pong at Shooters II Thursday night and promised proceeds to the Save Haiti foundation. The following night, Students of the Ca-

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Duke guard Nolan Smith, a junior, wears a “Save Haiti” patch on his jersey at Saturday’s basketball game as part of a student-wide movement to raise aid for Haiti. ribbean Association hosted a party at Mt. Fuji and solicited donations of cash and goods.

SOCA raised $1,100 as well as significant amounts of food and clothing, said senior Vanessa Vincent, president of the association.

The clothing will be shipped to Haiti through containers donated to North Carolina Central University’s Haitian Student Alliance.

Haitian Student Alliance co-President Isabelle Figaro, a senior, said that her organization, in conjunction with Duke Student Government and others, created a venue for students to donate food points to Haiti. The efforts have raised $31,957.13,

according to the donation Web site.

Both HSA and SOCA will meet separately to decide where to allocate the money their respective organizations raised. Figaro added that she hopes to put the money toward smaller grassroots organizations.

“I’ve been in awe of the galvanization of the students at the moment,” Figaro said.

“This is obviously a very important cause for me and a lot of Haitians on campus, and it was just staggering for me to see how much Duke students support us.”

Rosenberg said that though the donations so far have been promising, the initia-

tive is far from over.

“This is going to be a long effort, and it’s going to take a couple months,” Rosenberg said.

“The hard part is going to be keeping awareness of this in four or five months when these people are really going to be needing us.”

Despite the destruction, some still retain optimism for the future of Haiti.

“This earthquake is not just a disaster,” said Stephanie Darand, a Haitian junior.

“It’s an opportunity to rebuild and improve upon the independence that we’ve gained and independence that we’ve been trying to reach since 1804.”

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Debate grows on whether U.S. should let more Haitians in

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From morning until night, Dieula Celestin’s cellphone rings in Miami’s Little Haiti. It is her younger brother, Roger Paul, calling from Port-au-Prince, where he and their 65-year-old mother live with no food, no job and no money in the street outside the remnants of their house.

Celestin knows that federal immigration rules forbid her brother, her mother or half a dozen other people in her family who survived the earthquake—as eight others died—to enter the United States.

Still, she flew to Haiti late Saturday night, hoping that somehow she can find a way to bring them back.

Now that the earthquake’s initial shock is giving way to the realities of trying to cope in the ruins, a growing number of Haitians—and their relatives in the United States—are starting to chafe under the Obama administration’s edict to resist, as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has put it, “an impulse to leave the island and to come here.”

The tension between U.S. policy and the desperation to leave is spawning a debate in Washington over whether the government should let more Haitians in. Immigration advocates and several members of Congress have begun pressing the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to ease the rules. So far, the focus is on two groups: Haitians with relatives legally

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in the United States, and a few hundred injured children who, in the judgment of doctors doing relief work in Haiti, could die without sophisticated medical care.

In the first days after the Jan. 12 quake, Napolitano announced that the government would admit Haitian children already on the cusp of adoption and that it would allow Haitians who were in the United States illegally to stay for 18 months. The administration has not eased restrictions for children newly orphaned or injured by the disaster, Haitians who had already been seeking U.S. visas, or any other earthquake victims who want to come.

Late last week, Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., said Homeland Security officials had told him the agency would grant “humanitarian parole” to about 200 severely injured Haitian children. Even after that, Nelson said, he got a late-night e-mail, with the subject line “HELP,” from a Miami neurosurgeon doing relief work, saying the U.S. Embassy in Haiti would not allow three critically burned children to be flown to a Miami burn unit.

Nelson also said the State Department had issued a memo saying that a 17-year-old named Samantha, with a broken back and a father in Michigan, “would be ineligible to board an aircraft to the United States.”

“Typical bureaucratic crap that needs to be cut through,” Nelson said in an interview.

While Nelson wants to admit only critically injured children for treatment, a groundswell is building in favor of letting certain Haitians emigrate. Advocates’ immediate focus is Haitians who, before the disaster, had applied—and in some cases been approved—for a kind of visa available to foreign relatives of U.S. citizens or per-

manent legal residents.

About 19,000 Haitians have pending applications for such visas, according to DHS. Nearly 55,000 Haitians have been approved for family visas but are on waiting lists to enter because Congress has set limits on how many may come each year, the State Department says. Given the quotas, “it can take years and years for families to be reunited,” said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.

A spokesman for Homeland Security’s Citizenship and Immigration Services said the agency would “put at the head of the line” applicants for relative visas from Haiti. But he and a State Department spokeswoman acknowledged that quicker visa approvals would not mean those Haitians could enter the United States more quickly unless Congress alters the quotas—something lawmakers are not discussing.

Lavinia Limon, president of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, said that letting Haitians join U.S. relatives would relieve at least some of the humanitarian burden in Port-au-Prince. The United States, she said, has airlifted foreigners out of other emergencies, such as Albanians from Kosovo and refugees from the Vietnam War. Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a think tank that favors tighter controls on immigration, countered that “poverty and underdevelopment can’t be criteria we use to pick immigrants. There are too many of them.” And he said that Haitian earthquake victims could consume U.S. social services and displace American workers—without generating enough income to send back to Haiti “to make a difference” there.

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Tired Blue Devils win squeaker at Maryland

by Patricia Lee The chronicle

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — It was a shot that came nine seconds too late.

With 10 seconds left in Duke’s road game with Maryland Sunday night and the Terrapins gunning for the tie, down three with just a few ticks to go, the fans at the Comcast Center held their breath as they hoped for an end to the Blue Devils’ perfect ACC record.

But as Anjale Barrett’s 3-point attempt— a shot that would have likely sent the game to overtime—hit the rim and was rebounded by No. 6 Duke (17-3, 5-0), the only option for the home team was to foul and pray for a rebound off the free throw.

Senior guard Jasmine Thomas, who led the Blue Devils with 20 points, was probably not the best choice to foul, and she made one of two free throws to put the contest out of the Terrapins’ reach.

With Duke up 58-54 and almost no time left on the clock, a 3-pointer by Barrett at the buzzer tightened the score to 58-57.

But had the earlier three fallen, this one may have ended on a very different note.

“It was a great basketball game and obviously a very defensive game, and I’m really proud of our fight,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I’m not a big fan of rankings or anything like that. I’m just a fan of playing hard.”

Both team’s coaches highlighted the physicality exhibited on defense during the game and stressed how the match was one which tested how much the teams

had grown recently. Terrapin head coach Brenda Frese especially singled out Duke’s Thomas on her 20-point performance.

“Like I told [the players] in the locker room, if that was the No. 6 or No. 7 team in the country, and the team battled and competed for 40 minutes, I’m really proud of them,” Frese said. “[Thomas] did a great job putting her team on her back, which is why we had to adjust our defense. She just really had her way with us and is a special player.”

With strong defense played by both sides, points were kept to a minimum, and Duke led Maryland (14-6, 2-4) by just two at halftime and by a single point at game’s end. The Blue Devils gained momentum in the second period and held an 11-point lead over the Terrapins before the home side caught up and pulled ahead by one with just over three minutes left, 54-53.

Still, Duke was able to recover, and the Blue Devils did not allow another point until Barrett’s meaningless three at the buzzer.

“I passed up a few shots that I thought I should have taken, but they were still there in the second half, so I took them,” said Thomas, who had 13 consecutive points in the second period. “We never relaxed, and we just stayed aggressive.”

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Duke’s Karima Christmas fights for a loose during the Blue Devils’ one-point victory Sunday night in College Park.

EDITOR’S NOTE A sidebar accompanying the story “Hitting the Links with His Airness” in Friday’s issue presented information pertaining to the Duke University Golf Club in an inappropriate manner. The sidebar intended to convey the thoughts of head golf professional Ed Ibarguen, the subject of the story, on the scarcity of Duke students who take advantage of the course. Instead, it listed course rates and regulations in a manner more befitting an advertisement than a piece of journalism. The Chronicle wishes to apologize for printing such a graphic without clear instruction to do so from its advertising department, and to express clearly that The Chronicle does not print such graphics upon request from sources. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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Blue Devils dethrone Monarchs Duke eases

by Andrew Ermogenous The chronicle

Despite sporting a roster filled with six players from outside the U.S, Old Dominion’s international appeal proved no match for the No.1 Blue Devils Fri1 day night at Sheffield Indoor Tennis ODU After sweeping the Monarchs DUKE 6 Center.

(1-1) in the doubles competition, the Blue Devils (2-0) dropped one match in singles to win 6-1 in their second straight victory.

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Junior Ellah Nze earned her first quality win of the season by dispatching Old Dominion’s second seed in straight sets Friday evening.

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Head coach Jamie Ashworth attributed the win to a strong emphasis on doubles and an increased focus through the singles matches.

“We really talked all week about having more energy and more enthusiasm in our doubles and I think we did a really good job of that,” Ashworth said. “We got off to a really good start…. With singles, we told [our players] after doubles that win or lose, we have to get out there and play a good singles. We have to do that all year no matter who we play.”

The only loss of the match came when No. 20 ranked Reka Zsilinszka retired due to illness. After Zsilinszka exhausted her medical timeouts, it was decided she was not fit to play the rest of the match. But despite her illness, her performance was very impressive considering she remained level with the No. 21 player in the country, Nadine Fahoum, through nearly one complete set.

“She was not feeling well, and still, five-all speaks a lot about her,” junior Ellah Nze said.

Nze, ranked No. 91, played another close match, beating Joanna Dobrowolska, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Yet aside from that, most of the matches were fairly lopsided, as all doubles matches were won by a margin of at least seven games. As for singles, both senior Amanda Granson and freshman Mary Clayton finished their matches unusually quickly, and senior Elizabeth Plotkin and freshman Jessica Stiles weren’t far behind. Collectively, they lost just seven out of the 48 games played.

The most important matches of the early season are yet to come. Next week, the Blue Devils will compete in the National Team Indoors, considered by most to be an even harder competition than the NCAA tournament in May. It could be a good barometer as to just how good the No. 1 ranked Blue Devils actually are—the event consists of the top 64 teams in the country, as opposed to the NCAA tournament, which includes only conference champions.

“Next week is a big weekend for us,” Ashworth said. ”It’ll be our first matches against decent teams that have had good results, and we have to take advantage of opportunities if we want to win.”

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Duke’s year of high expectations started off on the right foot Saturday, as the No. 19 Blue Devils (1-0) opened their season with a 7-0 sweep of Elon (0-1) at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

The two teams met the week before at the Duke Invitational, an exhibition tournament ELON 0 held on campus. In that contest, three of Duke’s top players—junior DUKE 7 Reid Carleton, freshman Henrique Cunha and sophomore Torsten Wietoska—did not participate, and the Blue Devils were not at their best, dropping No. 1 doubles and Nos. 5 and 7 See m. tennis on page 12

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Reid Carleton defeated an opponent he had soundly beaten as a 12-year-old again Saturday in helping Duke to a 7-0 sweep of Elon.

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Duke uses methodical pace, not speed, to beat Tiger press

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Often in college basketball, the box score garners far too much attention. Scoring and rebounding totals are tossed around as measures of players’ effectiveness when frequently they don’t tell the whole story.

Saturday’s game against Clemson was a perfect example, as Lance Thomas, Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer played some of their best basketball of the season despite not accumulating eye-popping statlines.

The Tigers’ press is one of the greatest weapons in the country, as North Carolina learned after being run off the court at Littlejohn Coliseum earlier this year. Saturday night, in one of the most hostile environments in the Game nation, Singler, Scheyer and Thomas Analysis rendered the Tigers’ greatest strength completely ineffective.

It all began with Thomas. Closely guarded by athletic forward Trevor Booker, the Blue Devil senior successfully inbounded the ball nearly every possession, sprinting along the baseline to create space.

“They want you pass the ball to the first corner, so that the trap goes well,” Thomas said. “By running the baseline it makes your man have to move, and it takes longer for him to get to the trap.”

All night long, Thomas was able to do just that, forcing the Tigers to retreat a bit. That’s when Singler and Scheyer took over. By swinging the ball from one side to the other, Duke’s veteran perimeter players forced Clemson’s fullcourt zone to move, exposing openings.

The Blue Devils then sliced right through those holes,

breaking the press with composed dribbling and smart passing. That, however, may have been the easiest part of dealing with the press. What happened next in the broken court was what made all the difference.

“What we wanted to do was not beat the press to score, but beat the press and score,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “If we broke the press and had a numerical advantage we wanted to take advantage of it. If we didn’t we still wanted to score instead of having the press beat us up.

I thought our veteran perimeter did a really good job of controlling the pace of the game.”

Time after time, Scheyer and Singler found themselves in the open court, identified that numbers were against them and set up a half-court offense. As simple as this may seem, the temptation to force a bad shot right away is one of the press’s strongest attributes.

“The press is only effective if it speeds you up,” Thomas said. “If you take your time with it, then you can break it.”

During the second half against Clemson, Duke ran a clinic in game management. The Tigers managed to force only two second-half turnovers as the Blue Devils built a 13-point advantage in the period’s first eight minutes and hardly let Clemson close the gap.

“When we started the second half, our goal was to make sure we got consecutive stops,” Thomas said. “We caused a timeout and after that we just took it to them.”

Stopping Clemson over and over took on added importance Saturday because each stop gave the Blue Devils a free pass up the court before the Tigers could set up the press. Duke executed its plan to perfection, limiting Clemson to 47 points and linking stops together countless times over the course of the second half.

Perhaps nothing told the story of Duke’s performance better than the atmosphere inside Littlejohn. The orangeclad Tiger fans usually feed off the energy created by Clemson’s exciting play, but the orange shirts in the stands started giving way to empty purple seats before this one was even over.

Unfortunately, smart passes, intelligent decisions and crowds silenced aren’t part of a player’s stat line. Against Clemson, however, they were a major part of Duke’s win.

Freshman Mason Plumlee (left) battles for a loose ball with two Clemson players as he

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Senior guard Jon Scheyer attempts a contested jumper over Clemson’s Jerai Grant during Duke’s 60-47 win Saturday at Littlejohn Coliseum.

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m. bball from page 1 For the 11th time this season, Duke held its opponent to under 30 first-half points as both sides’ solid defense made points hard to come by before intermission. The Blue Devils shot a mere 2-of-6 from 3-point range and missed three of four foul shots.

Clemson’s 47 points marked the Tigers’ lowest home scoring total in seven years.

Early on in the half-court offense, the Blue Devils successfully got into passing lanes and limited Booker’s open looks down low.

Although Booker ended the game with a team-high 22 points, head coach Mike Krzyzewki was pleased with Thomas and the team’s efforts against one of the top players in the country.

“I am proud of our men,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought Lance Thomas was very strong tonight…. You are not going to stop Booker…. He has such a strong influence on the game and may be one of their best passers, but tonight he was not able to influence the game in that area.”

Entering the second half tied at 23, Smith jumpstarted the Blue Devils with a 14-2 second-half run and turned Clemson’s student cheering section from a screaming sea of jumping orange into a demure scene of disappointed fans.

ESPN College GameDay enticed 4,000 students to line up 10 hours before tipoff for tickets and Oliver Purnell’s Posse was ready for the matchup. Smith didn’t underestimate the importance of maintaining command of the game to ensure the OPP didn’t have too much to cheer about and get out of hand.

“Outside of Cameron, I think this is

the toughest place in the ACC to play,” Smith said. “It was very important that we played with poise out there. That’s a big thing for us on the road…. We have to take care of the ball or that gets their crowd into it. It’s a very loud arena, but we were able to stay in control.”

Although the Tigers were able to cut Duke’s second-half lead to 29-28, a timely 3-point jumper by Kyle Singler signaled the beginning of the end for Clemson. Smith followed Singler’s efforts with another three, and Singler extended the run with a quick jumper. Singler finished the night with 12 points.

Duke’s dominant second half also came in part because of Jon Scheyer’s control of the pace of the game. Clemson attempted to increase the tempo with a vigorous full court press, but Scheyer calmly brought the ball down the court while simultaneously bringing down the clock and still finding ways to execute the offense. Scheyer had 11 points for the Blue Devils and committed just three turnovers.

Scheyer also keyed Duke’s stifling second-half defensive effort. The Blue Devils held Clemson to just 24 points in the second period while scoring 37 themselves.

“We talked about really coming out strong defensively in the second half,” Scheyer said. “We played a really good first half, but we couldn’t let up. Finally we got some offense from our defense.”

Booker refused to give way to Duke’s defensive efforts and posted eight assertive points in the last four minutes of the game. However, it was the Tiger’s inability to increase the tempo of the game and gain control of any momentum that lead to their defeat.

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Nolan Smith showed his slashing ability over and over in getting to the basket against an athletic Clemson squad.

Clemson head coach Oliver Purnell tipped his hat to Duke’s impressive defensive effort.

“During the second half, Duke handled our pressure as well as anyone in a half,” Purnell said. “We played defense well enough to win, [but] we just couldn’t score.”

After a strenuous week of ACC play with a disappointing defeat on the road to N.C State last Wednesday, Duke

showed true fortitude and proved it can succeed even under the most difficult of circumstances. The game marks a significant victory for the Blue Devils as they look forward to two more tough matchups this week.

“There is no question that teams gain confidence after a win,” Krzyzewski said.

“This is a really big win for us. The guys should feel good about this.”

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m. tennis from page 9 singles to Elon.

With the return of those three, Duke’s strength and skill could not be matched by the Phoenix. The Blue Devils jumped out to an early lead, winning the doubles point by sweeping all three matches.

Cunha and Carleton, the eighth-ranked doubles team in the nation, led the Duke charge, topping Elon’s Philip Nemec and Chatse Helpingstine, 8-6.

The Blue Devils never faltered in singles and managed to sweep Elon in every match

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Jasmine Thomas’s 13 straight second-half points and clutch free throw sealed Duke’s win over Maryland.

w. bball from page 8 score at 25 before a Duke basket gave the Blue Devils a slim lead.

Duke came out rejuvenated after the break and shot better from all distanes— almost 10 percent better on two-point field goals, 20 percent better on threes and 10 better at the free-throw line.

And with Maryland being the third opponent Duke had faced in the past seven days, it took every ounce of strong will and energy for the Blue Devils to follow

through and remain the only undefeated team in the ACC. The loss at the Comcast Center was the Terrapins’ first since losing to Duke nearly two years ago.

“Credit to Duke in the second half, as they just came back stronger. I think their physicality wore us down,” Frese said.

“Obviously there’s no moral victory, but I’m proud of how we fought back through a lot of adversity.”

But Frese might have had more than a moral victories to celebrate—if Barrett’s three had come just a few seconds earlier.

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Junior Jared Pinsky has had success as a low seed in his career, and did so again Saturday against Elon.

throughout the evening.

“Elon is a good program, but we just took care of business and looked great,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “It was the perfect start to the season. I couldn’t have asked anything more from the guys.”

17th-ranked Cunha crushed Elon’s Nemec in the No. 1 singles match, 6-1, 6-2.

Carleton followed suit and was one game away from sweeping Helpingstine in the No. 2 singles match, 6-0, 6-1.

“Today was a really good start to the season,” Carleton said. “I played him in 12-and-unders and beat him 6-0, 6-0. I pretty much started exactly where I left off.

This was really good because I didn’t get to play last week, so this was a good way to get back into the swing of things.”

Junior Jared Pinksy had an impressive performance for the Blue Devils as the fifth seed. Pinsky topped Elon’s Carlos Arboleda, 6-0, 6-1 in a mere 40 minutes, scoring Duke’s second point of the evening.

“We looked great one through six,” Smith said. “I am really excited about this year because I don’t really see any holes in our lineup. This is the most complete team we have had for a couple of years.”

The Blue Devils travel to Tuscaloosa, Ala. Jan. 30 for the ITA Kick-off Weekend to play No. 18 Alabama and No. 23 Auburn.

This match will place Duke outdoors, where players will face imperfect conditions, but the Blue Devils will spend the week practicing outdoors to prepare for the elements.

They will also have their first chance to compete against top-25 teams, giving fans their best look yet at the team’s talent.

“We are going to continue to work on our doubles. I think that is the key for us this year,” Smith said. “As you can see, we have six good spots in singles. If we can get those doubles playing, we are going to be really tough to beat, even with top-25 teams.”

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bid day from page 1 began.”

In previous years, recruitment was conducted over a consecutive five-day period and required that registrants return to school early. This year, the recruitment process was spread out over two weeks and took place after classes started Jan. 13. In addition, recruitment events were spread out over both East and West Campuses as opposed to past years, in which the events were held exclusively on one of the two.

Morrison attributed this year’s Winter Forum—which took place immediately before the start of the second semester—and the limited availabilty of space as reasons why Panhel made these changes.

“There wasn’t anything Panhel could do about the schedule because we needed to have the recruitment events on the first two weekends of school,” she said.

Delta Gamma President Becki Feinglos, a junior, said she was generally content with this year’s recruitment, but noted that it may have been difficult for women to travel back and forth between East and West in a limited time frame for recruitment parties.

Alpha Delta Pi President Alyssa Dack, a senior, said Panhel maximized its use of available resources.

“It’s really just that the Panhel office is doing the best they can to work with the space they have.”

— Senior Alyssa Dack, Alpha Delta Pi president “It’s really just that the Panhel office is doing the best they can to work with the space they have,” Dack said. “I think that the [Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life] staff worked with the situation as best as they could.”

Morrison initially said the quota for each sorority was set for 35 members, but later retracted the statement. Krystal Clark, program coordinator for fraternity and sorority life, declined to release quota numbers, noting that it was “personal information” for sorority chapters.

Chi Omega gave out 27 bids, eight fewer than any other chapter.

“It was just decisions we made that were best for the chapter,” said Chi Omega President Page Krugman, a senior.

Pi Beta Phi President Casey Miller, a senior, said that in spite of regular recruitment challenges, the process usually yields a favorable outcome.

“I think the process always has its way of working out,” she said.

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New members of Delta Gamma celebrate their offers during the annual Bid Day Sunday afternoon.

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kunshan from page 1 approved by the Board of Trustees at its December meeting.

The University will use the facilities for the Global Semester Abroad program beginning next semester and hopes to add additional programs in the future in other disciplines, administrators said.

Brodhead and Lange also met with city officials in Shanghai to talk tentatively about developing programs in its financial district in conjunction with SJTU. “The purpose of the visit was to make progress in pinning down our relationships—the highest priority was to sign the agreement with the city of Kunshan,” Lange said. “This is a great step for us....

We’ve always believed that if we’re going to establish this kind of presence, we wanted to do it in a meaningful way.”

Negotiations for the partnership have been in the works for more than two years, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for government affairs and public relations.

The opportunity to establish a partnership with Kunshan and SJTU was particularly appealing, because facilities will be built at minimal cost to the University at a time when the administration is making budget cuts in various other programs and endeavors.

“Duke is on the vanguard and on the cutting edge in establishing the model for a new education structure,” said Trustees Chair

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and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73. “If you look at how our involvement in Kunshan will differ from the way other universities have made their presence in China and other countries—it’s a new model for educational collaboration across international borders. The increased opportunities for research, education and service are very profound and very significant.”

The appointment of Gao Xiqing, Law ’86, to the Board in June 2008 also aided the process, Brodhead said.

“When we arrived in Beijing, the first person we met was Gao,” Brodhead said. “There are many different layers of government in China, and having someone who can help us understand what’s what has been very helpful.”

Nevertheless, administrators acknowledged the risks inherent in an international expansion of this scope—in a country that defines and values academic freedom differently than in the United States, and that has also had a sometimes shaky diplomatic relationship with the U.S..

“We definitely took those risks into account and we believe the best way to come to terms with a society is to engage them in a meaningful way and to deal with any situations as they arise,” Lange said.

Brodhead noted that Duke will still be in full control of faculty appointments, curriculum and admissions for the Kunshan site.

“We’ll not abandon our beliefs in freedom of inquiry in China or

anywhere,” he said. “It’s also true that when you go to work in other countries, you work in circumstances not identical to the ones at home and that’s just one of the consequence of the initial choice you face—are you going to go and learn something about the world or are you not?”

Blue also noted that the potential opportunities and benefits of the venture outweigh the risks.

“From a Board perspective, we believe the Duke partners in China are very worthy partners and are equally dedicated to this business venture,” he said. “The thing about education is—especially if you’re going to lead—you have to lead and you can’t wait for the obvious moment, until all the risks are gone.... There arguably could be some risks, they’re not substantial and they don’t pose any threat at all, certainly not to the academic freedom for Durham.”

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President Richard Brodhead completed a weeklong visit to China Friday with the signing of an agreement formalizing Duke’s expansion plans in Kunshan. The five-building campus, scheduled for completion in 2012, will house executive MBA and doctoral students.

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Mortgage markets brace for future without federal aid

by David Cho, Neil Irwin and Dina Elboghdady The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For more than a year, the government pulled out the stops to revive home buying by driving down mortgage rates.

Now, whether the housing market is ready or not, the government is pulling out.

The wind-down of federal support for mortgage rates, set to end in two months, is a momentous test of whether the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve have succeeded in jump-starting the housing market and ensuring it can hold its own. The stakes for the economy are massive: If the market again falls into a tailspin, homeowners could face another wave of trouble, and it would deal a body blow to President Obama’s efforts to get the economy on track.

Keeping the mortgage rates at historic lows, which required a commitment of more than $1 trillion, was viewed within the administration as a central plank of the economic strategy last year, senior officials said. Though the policy did not attract as much attention as rescue efforts to bail out banks, it helped revitalize home buying in some parts of the country and put money in the pockets of millions of homeowners who were able to refinance into lower monthly payments, the officials added.

“We did what we thought was necessary to stabilize the market, but we don’t think the government should continue special efforts forever,” said Michael Barr, an assistant secretary at the Treasury Department. “As you bring stability, private participants come back in. We do expect this now that the market has stabilized. I’m not going to say there will be no effect on rates, but we do think you are seeing market signs and market signals that there should be an orderly transition.”

A few federal officials and many industry advocates disagree, saying the government is exiting too soon. They offer dire warnings of higher rates and a slowdown in home sales. Fed leaders say they will end a marquee program supporting the mortgage markets in March. Obama’s economic team, led by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, has decided not to replace it and has been shutting down its own related initiatives.

Over the past year, these programs have enabled prospective home buyers to get cheap loans, helping those buying and selling property as well as those eager to refinance existing mortgages. If the end of the initiative drives up interest rates, say from 5 percent to 5.5 percent, homeowners could be deterred from refinancing, industry officials say. A sharper increase in rates could make homes too expensive for many buyers, forcing them from the market and causing the recent pickup in home sales to stall.

“Mortgage rates are the lifeblood of the housing market, and we have cautioned the Fed about the sudden stoppage of this program,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors.

But senior government officials said it could be hard to reverse course without damaging the credibility of the Fed and the administration. If the government loses the trust of the financial markets, preparing them for policy changes could be tougher, possibly resulting in economic disruptions. The officials said they also worry the mortgage market is becoming overly dependent on federal support, inserting the government too deeply into private enterprise.

Only a new crisis would be able to persuade the administration and the Fed to change their minds, officials said.

“This is a worthy experiment to see if they can begin exiting after providing an unprecedented amount of money to one sector of the economy,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com. “It’s a close call, though. I can see why they are debating it.”

The Fed’s policymaking body sets a key interest rate at periodic meetings, which in turn influences other rates for all kinds of loans. But mortgage rates also are shaped by the health of the market financing these loans.

Banks typically create giant pools of home loans and turn them into securities that can be traded on the open market. When the system is working, many investors buy these mortgage-backed securities, providing a stream of money for lenders so they can make loans at relatively cheap rates. But the trading of these securities seized up when the financial crisis struck and panicked investors.

Government officials feared that the mortgage market would collapse.

The Fed and the Treasury stepped into the breach, becoming the only major buyers of these mortgage-related securities, and they kept the mortgage market flush with cash.

The Treasury spent about $220 billion, and the Fed pledged $1.25 trillion, the single largest foray the central bank has made into the markets since the onset of the crisis. In essence, the Fed has been printing money and funneling it to people

looking to buy a house or refinance an existing mortgage.

At the same time, the federal government stood behind the mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by taking them over and pledging to cover their losses.

That helped the firms lower their borrowing costs, since lenders know they cannot fail, and the companies passed on their savings to mortgage borrowers in the form of low rates.

Combined, these federal efforts helped push down the rates ordinary Americans pay for a mortgage. The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage declined from 6.04 percent in November 2008, according to Freddie Mac data, and hit an alltime low of 4.71 percent about a year later.

Refinancings surged, while home buying perked up.

Existing-home sales climbed nearly 10 percent in September, their highest level in more than two years.

The policy was the government’s most effective salve for the ailing housing market at a time when other initia-

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Now the government wants to end its support for low rates and has been striving to convince others to buy mortgage securities.

The success of this approach hinges on the willingness of private investors, from China to big Wall Street funds, to buy large amounts of the mortgage securities and fill the void left by the government.

On Christmas Eve, Treasury officials announced a move that would cover losses suffered by investors who buy these securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together now back about half of the nation’s $12 trillion mortgage market. The goal was simple, officials said. They wanted private investors to be reassured that mortgage securities are safe to buy.

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Ni hao, Kunshan Last Friday, President RichOver the course of the ard Brodhead signed an agree- next two years, Duke will comment with the municipal gov- plete construction of a 200ernment of Kunshan to break acre, five-building campus ground on a Duke campus in in Kunshan, located about China. With the stroke of his 15 minutes by train from the pen, Brodhead took a bold metropolis of Shanghai. At step forward first, the Kunfor Duke and shan campus editorial American highwill house exer education as a whole. ecutive MBA and Ph.D. proThe move to create a per- grams, but in the long term manent physical campus in the University hopes to use China, a first for any Ameri- the facilities for various mascan university, carries with it ters degree and undergraduhuge potential to strengthen ate programs like the Global the Duke brand, expand in- Semester Abroad. ternational presence and enSince his inauguration hance the quality of educa- as president, Brodhead has tion the University provides. articulated a vision for a Despite the inherent risks “global Duke” that is intiinvolved with such an ambi- mately involved in exploring tious project in a politically the problems of our world uncertain country, Duke’s and formulating solutions to expansion into China is an these global challenges. The exciting prospect.

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China—the culmination of the global trajectory set into place by Brodhead five years ago—will continue this work by building a name for Duke abroad and enriching the educational life of the University.

China’s recent exponential growth makes it a ripe market for American higher education, and Duke administrators are prescient to be the first American university to establish such a strong presence in China. This first-mover advantage will heighten Duke’s reputation and better position the University to attract the best and brightest Chinese students and faculty.

Self-interest aside, a presence in China has the potential to enhance the quality of a Duke education by

providing students with an unparalleled global experience. The Kunshan campus will increase the University’s direct ties to China and encourage students and faculty to engage first-hand with one of the world’s most dynamic societies. With China increasingly becoming an influential player on the world stage, the benefit of this opportunity cannot be understated.

The decision to build a campus in another country, however, is an incredibly risky endeavor, and the stakes are only heightened by the Chinese government’s limit on academic freedom and free speech. While Duke administrators have emphasized that the University will have full control over curriculum and faculty appointment, government interference is a real

threat that must be monitored and minimized. If the political situation should deteriorate, the University must have an exit plan ready.

Establishing a Duke outpost in China also carries the risk of being seen as an imperialistic move by a wealthy American university eager to exert its influence abroad. Such a concern is mitigated by the fact that Duke is acting in partnership with the government of Kunshan and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, two entities that stand to gain from a relationship with Duke.

Expansion into China could strengthen Duke’s position as a global leader in higher education. It’s a risk the University is rightfully willing to take.

Drink coffee, not fair trade

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hen it comes to coffee, I prefer taste, price and convenience over how it is made. I don’t seek out bad quality coffee just as I do not favor only shade-grown fair trade. I don’t consider my behavior unethical, selfish or cheap.

Rather, fair trade agreements negotiated between farmers in developing countries and buyers in industrialized ones are at best, concencourtney han trated charity cases ultimately hurtful on the other hand to non-privileged coffee farmers, and at worst, exploitative.

Fair trade certification indicates the bean meets certain social and environmental standards while its farmers are paid a “fair wage.” Michael Munger, professor of political science and economics, calls the extra cost of fair trade a “tip for growing better coffee.” Ideally, when we buy fair trade coffee, we are rewarding a poor farmer.

Neither the Web sites of Pura Vida or Larry’s Beans, fair trade coffee suppliers for the Great Hall and both Alpine stores, respectively, clarify how much this reward is. Their Web sites do, however, boast proud pictures of their adopted, beaming farmers from the lush hills of Colombia, the salty heart of Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru.

Their photos allow fair trade businesses to create a kind of “lemonade stand” effect, where customers in industrialized nations are lured by the quaint, cutesy novelty of ho-hum coffee farmers. This one-to-one arrangement is only successful as a preferential system that rewards select friends over the nameless masses.

But neighboring farmers who witness the astronomical wealth gains of fair traders immediately want it too.

For instance, in 2007, Sam’s Club cut out coffee middlemen to buy straight from coops in Brazil, according to the New York Times article “Fair Trade in Bloom.” One grower said, “Everybody is doing their best to come up to standard… Everybody wants to earn as much as [the fair trade farmer] can.”

But altering pesticide practices and farming techniques is a long and expensive process.

Farmers will sacrifice time, money and the opportunity cost of exploring alternative incomegenerating activities in hopes of gaining fair trade certification.

If they fail, they will have lost precious time and

money. If they are successful, the supply of fair trade coffee will boom. Recent data reflects a seismic appetite in the U.S. for fair trade products. The amount of certified fair trade coffee sold in 2006 was more than eight times of that in 2001, according to TransFair USA, an American fair trade certifier.

Eventually however, demand will not be able to keep pace. American consumers may appreciate high quality and exotic flavors. But although they may pay an extra 30, even 50 cents to substitute plain black for a caramely Peruvian joe, they won’t drink three more cups of coffee just because it’s fairly traded. As a result, the global market-clearing price of fair trade coffee will fall, and producers will be able to receive less and less of their promised premium, or reward, for high quality.

In the late 1990s, coffee production was rising at an average annual rate of 3.6 percent, but demand was only increasing by 1.5 percent, according to the United Nations International Coffee Organization. By the early 2000s, world coffee market prices fell to the lowest they had been in 100 years, and millions of undiversified coffee farmers suffered from poverty, social unrest and unemployment. ICO’s Executive Director Néstor Osorio attributed the coffee crisis to new crop expansions in Brazil and Vietnam.

Fair trade market saturation could be years away, but even the eventual collapse of fair trade gains for farmers assumes that fair trade benefits cooperatives.

This is a tenuous assumption at best. Today, fair trade offers no hint of incentive reform that can put market power in the hands of producers rather than buyers.

Here at Duke, Chick-fil-A and the Refectory sell 12-ounce cups of certified fair trade java for $1.50. Alpine Atrium, the Great Hall and Saladelia sell similar do-gooder products at 20 to 30 cents more, for $1.80, $1.69 and $1.79, respectively. The extra quarter may or may not go into the farmer’s pocket in the latter three companies. To not know is to take advantage of the customer’s innocence because raising output price doesn’t mean a higher input price, or income, for the producer.

The only way developed countries can fulfill fair trade’s promise to coffee producers in the global South is by pushing themselves to consume increasingly more coffee products. Unfortunately, our demand for coffee is constrained. The allures of fair trade—its mission to “Create Good,” according to Pura Vida—may be no better than a regular cup of coffee.

The best way to help coffee producers is not to drink just fair trade, but to just drink more.

Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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One Helluva Time A butler once said, “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” He was right. I take pride in being one of those bastards.

I don’t want to go to Heaven. Even with just what I’ve been caught doing, I’ve comfortably secured a place in Hades. If God’s seen the rest, he’s probably gone into my stomach and installed some kind of magnet that repels pearl, thereby ensuring I don’t make it anywhere near his precious gates. This monday, monday is all good news, as I prefer the joker my afterlife with fire and brimstone. You can take my eternal bliss, roll it with some cannabis and set it ablaze.

Just imagine for one second what Heaven is like. You probably went through it between Dec. 20 and 31 of last year. Yeah, constant visiting with relatives and discussing obnoxious subjects that drag on for weeks. And there’s no escape: no competition, no nights you can’t remember, no random hookups. But in heaven, there’s no respite, no way to get away, so Grandma’s stories about how revolutionary sliced bread was will never end. And you know she can talk with the best of ‘em. I just don’t want to meet the rest of the best of ‘em.

Isaac Asimov wasn’t afraid of the afterlife because “whatever the tortures of hell… the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” His logic is almost flawless, but he forgot that he’s only hearing God’s side of the story. Satan didn’t have to write a book to convince us that sinning feels great.

Just ask Gov. Mark Sanford or former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. The men knew how to have a good time. In Heaven, you can’t drink, smoke, start forest fires, kidnap or murder. Just imagine how hard it must be to get laid. And then you’re stuck with the first person you choose. Not to mention only one sexual position, the one designed to limit pleasure as much as possible.

Everybody in Hell is lustful and fun-loving. It’s where all the athletes and playboy models are. And for those of us disinclined to lust, there are also unlimited explosives and weaponry. I’ll have fewer desirable victims in Hell, but thank Satan for the thin-skinned mobsters, at least their tortured shrieks are more gratifying than those of pathetic civilians.

Hell is fun. The Bible got it all wrong. Hell is for the sinners, not for them to be punished. The afterlife is a continuation of your life. That’s why Satan washes his Bojangles down with a healthy handle of single malt whiskey. There’s a reason Beelzebub means The Lord of the Flies. Flies know what tastes good, and my friend Lucifer provides it for one and all. God can have his salmon crudités. I’ll reserve a spot next to the Prince of Darkness.

There is a reason people really enjoying themselves don’t have one “Heaven of a time.” Who wouldn’t rather listen to penetrating electric guitar than cuddly harp music? Mostly because penetrating is a lot more appealing than cuddling. Wouldn’t you much rather get down with someone than get up with them? Heaven is strict about curfews and hours to wake up by. Hell allows you perpetual teenage-hood with all of the benefits of being fully mature.

It’s the perfect deal; you can only ask for one thing more.

The one thing God got right.

In His defense, the best video game saga happens to be named after a heavenly symbol. Here’s to you, Master Chief. Hopefully you won’t ever receive a Heaven-sent Halo, ‘cause it’d be an awful shame to be forced to take you down along with The Batman when we Hellians conquer Heaven.

The Joker is a smoker and a midnight toker. He gets his lovin’ on the run.

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The Sneetches and other (sorority) stories

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nce upon a time, in a Gothic Wonderland, there lived a girl. Let’s call her Katie. Now Katie was a bright-eyed, 18-year-old freshman when this story started. After being hyper-involved and hyper-successful in high school, Katie had chosen to come to Duke. To her, it seemed to offer the best of both worlds— top-notch academics with a visible, vibrant social life to boot.

When Katie had rolled into Duke one laura keeley scorching August duke wonderland morning, she met her roommate in person for the first time. Let’s call said roommate Melissa.

They got along fabulously and would hang out almost every night with the other girls on their hall.

Katie LOVED Duke, and when Christmas break came, she was hoping it would fly by so she could return as soon as possible.

But before Duke life could return to normal second semester, Katie, Melissa and most of the other girls on their hall had a task to complete—sorority recruitment. Katie had not been super sure about joining a sorority, but all of her friends were doing it, and she felt like most of the upperclassmen girls she had met at all those section parties and Shooters were in sororities (this author included). So, with a timid step, she dove off the board and plunged into the world of Greek life.

The process was jarring and exhausting, but she made it through to the end. “Congratulations, Katie!” her nice recruitment counselor said to her.

“You’re an anchor!” And with that, the recruitment counselor stamped an anchor on Katie’s belly and led her to meet all of her other anchors.

On that day, most of the girls on her hall also received stamps—some diamonds, crowns, keys and more. After an exhausting day, Katie returned home to find Melissa, who was now wearing a triangle.

They both smiled their weary smiles, and Katie, for the first time since Christmas, finally had a moment to breathe.

In the ensuing weeks, Katie’s guy friends got stamped with letters too, so now it felt like all of East Campus was walking around with a new mark on its belly. For Katie, it was a lot of fun to meet and hang out with the other anchors, obviously, but something was bothering her—Melissa didn’t seem quite as friendly toward her anymore and started blowing her off for other triangles. And it wasn’t just Melissa—other girls on her hall started to dis-

tance themselves as well, choosing to hang out only with the “right” kind of stamp.

“We only talk to guys with two letters instead of three,” one girl said. “I would never want to be seen with anyone else.” “Totally girl,” her friend said.

“We only mix with the right type of stamp.”

As the semester rolled on, Katie was dismayed by the changes she saw. To her, it seemed like the stamps had changed everything, and not necessarily for the better. It wasn’t like first semester, when she was bare-bellied and free and could go anywhere and talk to anybody. Now she played by a new set of social rules, complete with a fairly strict hierarchy. Whenever anyone met her, the first thing they wanted to know about was her stamp. “Why did this have to happen?” Katie wondered. “Why does everyone seem to forget that just last semester we were all best friends?”

Katie and Melissa decided not to live together next year, and consequently Katie barely saw her when they moved to West. The stamps showed brighter than ever on West campus, especially on her guy friends who now lived with their other stamp mates.

Katie still enjoyed Duke and loved meeting other people through her stamp, but she still longed for those first semester freshman year, Kumbaya-let’sall-be-friends days.

Katie left Duke for Europe the next fall and had the time of her life. While there she made a new group of friends—some of them even had stamps that she would never have hung out with on campus. Over the course of the fall, Katie thought she noticed the stamps start to fade in her group.

She was glad and hopeful that maybe the changes would stick back at Duke. When she returned, she did think that the stamps on her classmates’ bellies were, in fact, a little faded. And when that stamp got harder and harder to see, Katie noticed people starting to look more at her face and less at her belly when they met her. And she liked it.

By senior year, the stamp was all but gone. She hung out at the bar scene, Big Beers, the Joyce and all the other tried-and-true favorites. She even ran into Melissa and had a great time catching up. “It’s all coming full circle now,” Katie thought to herself with a smile.

At graduation, all the senior class laughed about how silly the stamps had been. “Mine had started to itch,” one girl joked to a round of laughter. “I wouldn’t want to go out into the real world with that mark still all over my belly,” another offered. “Me neither,” Katie said. “Me neither.”

Laura Keeley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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Class Visit: Beyond Technique — Spirit & context: The process of performing Dance with Alonzo King & Company 1:15 - 2:30 pm, Reynolds Theater Free & Open to the public

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tuesday, January 26 Class Visit: Global France — ballet russes and orientalism with LINES Artistic Director & Dance Researcher 10:00 - 11:20 am, Allen 326 Free & Open to the public

Wednesday, January 27 Master Class with Alonzo King 9:30 -11:30 am, Reynolds Theater Free & Open to the public Space available for viewing

Class Visit: Performance as Innovation — Scheherazade from Two perspectives with LINES Dance Researcher 1:15 pm - 2:30 pm, Friedl 204 Free & Open to the public

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open rehearsal: Scheherazade 6:00 - 7:30 pm, Reynolds Theater Free & Open to the Public perforManCe: Jason Moran feat.

Alicia Hall Moran & Thomas Flippin 8:00 pm, Nelson Music Room Duke’s East Campus

friday, January 29 lunChBoX disCussion with Alonzo King & Company life as a lineS Dancer 11:45 am - 1:00 pm, Reynolds Theater Lobby Free & Open to the public. open rehearsal: refraction w/Jason Moran 3:30 - 4:45 pm, Reynolds Theater Free & Open to the Public perforManCe: Alonzo King LINES Ballet with Jason Moran’s Bandwagon refraction & Scheherazade 8:00 pm, Reynolds Theater with a Post-Performance Discussion & Reception

saturday, January 30 BroWn Bag lunCh with Jason Moran & Alonzo King. Moderated by Duke Dance Faculty Andrea Woods on collaboration 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm, Reynolds Theater Lobby Free & Open to the public perforManCe: Alonzo King LINES Ballet with Jason Moran’s Bandwagon refraction & Scheherazade 8:00 pm, Reynolds Theater with a Post-Performance Discussion

sunday, January 31 Master Class with Alonzo King 11:00 am -1:00 pm, Reynolds Theater Free & Open to the public Space available for viewing