February 26, 2010 issue

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, Issue 104

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Back in my day, it wasn’t so easy Have new Krzyzewskiville policies hurt the tent city’s dynamic?

Trustees will raise tuition, set broad goals

by Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

The Board of Trustees will meet this weekend to discuss the University’s finances, strategic goals and increasing tuition prices.

The Trustees are expected to increase undergraduate tuition this weekend “below the average” of what peer institutions have announced, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

Last year, the Board Dan Blue approved a 3.9 percent increase. This year, Yale University has announced a 4.8 percent tuition increase and Stanford a 3.5 percent increase.

Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73, said the Board’s Business and Finance Committee generally compares Duke’s proposed increase to peer institutions and debates the reasons behind increases before approving them. He added that part of the increase goes toward funding financial aid.

Part of the tuition and fee increase the Trustees will be asked to approve is a 6 percent board fee increase, Trask wrote in an

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

Some say there has been too much grace in Krzyzewskiville, and others assert too little.

Head line monitor Zach White is stuck in the middle, shouldering the burden of overseeing the tenting experience while keeping students—and the Duke Department of Athletics—satisfied.

“There has been a positive response overall from tenters,” White, a senior, said of K-ville this year. “The single largest complaint has been that there’s too much grace. I guess my response would be that I can’t dictate how the weather is and I’m certainly not going to jeopardize anyone’s health or safety just to keep people out there.”

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academic council

New K4 dorm Brodhead addresses cyberattacks awaits Board’s final approval

by Lisa Du

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The Board of Trustees will vote on whether to give the K4 housing project the greenlight at its meeting this weekend.

Individual presentations will be made to the Facilities and Environment and the Business and Finance Committees. The Board will act on the recommendations of these committees, said John Pearce, university architect and a former member of the Facilities and Environment Committee.

“The bottom line is, we’re asking for permission to build,” said Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education. “I think everybody’s very positive about [K4]...the Trustees are very supportive of our efforts to continue to improve the undergraduate

Thursday afternoon’s Academic Council meeting deviated slightly from the initial agenda when President Richard Brodhead gave an impromptu speech.

In light of the recent allegations that cyberattacks on Google and other American companies were related to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Brodhead addressed Duke’s partnership with the Chinese university at the request of Academic Council Chair Craig Henriquez, professor of biomedical engineering and computer science. Duke’s partnership with SJTU, which will allow the two universities to collaborate on mutual educational interests, was finalized Jan. 25.

“Duke has a further relationship to Shanghai Jiao Tong, which is in order to advance with our campus in Kunshan... we needed a Chinese university to cross-endorse our proposal,” Brodhead said. “China won’t let American universities enter without a Chinese partner, and Shanghai Jiao Tong is the university that was to partner with us on that proposal. So I actually believe the educational case for our partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong remains as compelling today as it did in the past.”

Newspapers have reported many possible origins behind the cyberattacks, with some pointing to sources in

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Duke toughs out win vs. Tulsa in Cameron, Page 11

Predatory towing?

A law student takes on Durham’s towing companies, PAGE 4

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President Richard Brodhead was asked to address Academic Council Thursday on the recent cyberattacks linked to Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

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“They have instilled enough fear to encourage us to not cheat.”

­—Sophomore Caitlin Ryan on the Computer Science Department. See story page 6

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UC prof nominated to bench

Prosecuters charge Madoff aid with counts of fraud

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated to the federal bench a California law professor who has criticized conservative legal theories and strongly opposed Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s nomination.

The selection of Goodwin Liu, who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit was announced as a group of liberal law professors urged Obama to be more aggressive in reshaping the judiciary by stepping up the pace of progressive nominations.

In a letter delivered to the White House this week, the 11 professors take Obama to task for not making transformation of the federal bench a priority the way President George W. Bush did. White House officials blamed Republican obstructionism for much of the delay in moving nominations through Congress.

NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff’s former operations chief was charged Thursday with helping his boss run a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors and illegally infused $750 million into parts of the business that Madoff insisted was legitimate.

Daniel Bonventre, 63, became the sixth person charged in the largest ever U.S. Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors and regulators said he was a key aide to Frank DiPascali, the Madoff lieutenant who is helping the government unravel a fraud that cost investors as much as $65 billion.

“As Bernard Madoff’s director of operations, Daniel Bonventre allegedly authored the fraudulent books that for years effectively hid the doomed state of an investment firm founded in fraud,” U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in New York said in a statement.

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PARIS — French President Nicolas Sarkozy, paying homage to the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide,said France,which had troops in the country at the time, had made “serious errors of appreciation.”

These “mistakes had dramatic consequences,” Sarkozy said at a joint news conference Thursday with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali, the Rwandan capital. He stopped short of a formal apology, saying he was “not going to get into a contest over vocabulary.”

Sarkozy’s visit, the first by a French head of state or government in 25 years, cements the restoration of relations between the two countries, which share a common interest in ending the fighting in neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kagame didn’t repeat earlier accusations he’s made that France is partly responsible for the murder of an estimated

800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, and he didn’t push Sarkozy for an apology at the press conference.

“France and Rwanda have had a difficult past, but we are here for a new partnership and relationship,” Kagame said.

“This visit by the French president has a strong meaning.”

Sarkozy, who arrived in Rwanda after a swing through Gabon and Mali, first stopped at a memorial to the genocide atop mass graves holding 250,000 victims.

“Sarkozy has always made reconciliation with Rwanda one of his goals,” Philippe Hugon, head of research at the Paris-based Institute of International and Strategic Affairs who has written 15 books on Africa, said in an interview before the trip. “It’s a dark period in France’s relations with Africa that he wanted to get behind him.”

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First Lady Michelle Obama, shown in her East Wing office in the White House, launched her new initiative, Let’s Move, in early February. Targeting childhood obesity, Obama has been pushing for federal funding to address the problem, the plan totals a whopping $10 billion over 10 years.

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Participation in black history events lags YTs answer

students’ questions

by Caitlin Johnson THE CHRONICLE

The Duke community celebrated Black History Month with a sprinkling of events across campus.

And while some were well-attended, others saw little student interest.

The Black Student Alliance hosted “Black Love 2010,” a discussion on the relationship dynamics in the black community, and painted the East Campus bridge in honor of Black History Month.

The dialogue drew more than 100 students, a majority of whom were black. The lack of representation by other races, despite BSA’s efforts to publicize the event to the broader community, is an issue BSA wants to address. “[I’m] not sure if it’s advertisement, or if people feel that it doesn’t pertain to them,” said BSA Executive Vice President Ayrenne Adams, a senior. “But I would hope it’s not that way, and that people know that black history is America’s history... it’s their history too.”

She added that BSA chose to paint the phrase “celebrate your history” on the East Campus bridge to highlight the connection of all Americans to black history.

The Mary Lou Williams Center encouraged student engagement in black history by screening the film “February 1”—the story of the Greensboro Four who launched the lunch counter sit-ins in the 1960s­—and by hosting a conversation with Samuel DuBois Cook. Cook came to the University in 1966 and was the first regular rank black professor at Duke or any other predominantly white school in the South.

Despite Cook’s prominence and the center’s efforts to advertise the event, fewer than 10 students attended the conversation with him, said senior Jesse Huddleston, a student intern at the Mary Lou Williams Center “If we are to be Duke University, who celebrates diversity and liberal arts education, doesn’t that mean you explore yours and others’ stories?” Huddleston said.

“It boils down to, in life there are many things you can do... we over-program at Duke. So I don’t know if the whole Duke community is celebrating, but portions

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at the end of the exhibit, Moore said.

Some responses have described the display as “provocative” and “more than moving,” she noted. The mural, which has been well visited by a diverse mix of students and

A small audience of approximately 15 students gathered for an hour-long question and answer session with current and future Young Trustees Thursday night.

Outgoing Young Trustee Ben Abram, Pratt ’07, current Young Trustee Sunny Kantha, Trinity ’09 and Young Trustee-elect John Harpham, a senior, made up the panel for the informal session, which doubled as a meet and greet. The event was organized

by DSG Executive Vice President Gregory Morrison, a junior, and sophomore Lauren Moxley, DSG senator for student affairs and chair of the Young Trustee nominating committee.

“I think that students need to have the opportunity to physically communicate with the young trustees,” Morrison said.

“It personalizes the names that you read in the paper.”

Morrison and Moxley asked the young trustees for a panel discussion, as the Board of Trustees meeting this weekend called the two current young trustees into town. Both feel face to face communication with the trustees is important to emphasize their roles as part of the student body.

“I think it’s important in terms of

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Members of Black Student Alliance painted the East Campus bridge to commemorate February as Black History Month, but some members said they were disappointed by the low turnout at events. are actively celebrating and seeking to include the whole community... in order to come to terms with this history.”

In the Divinity School, a mixed media mural depicts the 1963 bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church, a black church in Birmingham, Ala. The bombing killed four little girls. The exhibit, a multi-ethnic collaboration, is part of a series titled “Beauty for Ashes: Truth, Triumph & Tension.” “[The exhibit includes] focus questions on what racial reconciliation could mean for you,” said Joy Moore, associate dean for black church studies and church relations. “Truth, Triumph & Tension gets folks to not just look and move on, but to look and reflect.”

Visitors to the exhibit were encouraged to write personal responses on red cards

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Law student seeks to combat ‘predatory towing’

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

Carmen Jo Ponce will not graduate from Duke Law until 2011, but that has not stopped her from trying to change a city’s laws.

The laws she wants to change concern “predatory towing,” a term usually meant as criticism of towing companies that remove vehicles from private lots and then demand cash payments for their release. An incident with a tower that cost her $150 first piqued Jo Ponce’s interest in the topic.

Jo Ponce said she and her friends had dinner at a Mexican restaurant in town, but walked outside a few minutes later to find a tower about to place a boot on her car.

“He replied that I was parked in a private parking lot,” she said. “They had one sign, but it was dark and the sign was placed in the corner of the parking lot, so

I couldn’t see it.”

This experience and her subsequent research into Durham’s policies and those of surrounding cities convinced her that Durham’s regulations were lacking.

“I found that Durham’s ordinance was written in a way that enriched towing companies and gave them wide discretion in the fees they assessed,” Jo Ponce said.

She compared Durham’s laws to those in Asheville, Chapel Hill, Charlotte and Raleigh, according to a news release. She found seven areas in which those cities’ ordinances were designed to be more fair than Durham’s laws, such as requiring private parking lot owners to set up signs indicating tow zones and specific times towing is enforced, as well as contact information for the towing company.

She presented her findings to the Durham City Council during a Nov. 19, 2009 work session. Partly as a result of

this session, City Council’s towing committee decided to examine Durham’s regulations on towing.

“The towing committee is the first and logical step,” City Council member Eugene Brown said. “We’ll see what kind of response Carmen’s investigation gets from that. It’s out of my hands now. She did the research, and I think some of my colleagues were surprised by the extent of the problem.”

Brown said Carmen could, at least, count on his support.

“Carmen was towed even though there was no sign,” he said. “I’ve done thorough research on this topic too, and suggested she do a comparative analysis, which she did with other cities. It appears that our statute as it exists now is tilted more toward predatory towing than it should be.”

“It appears that our statute as it exists now is tilted more towards predatory towing than it should be.”

— Eugene Brown, City Council member But the towing committee may not be able to meet for a while, City Council member Howard Clement said.

Clement, who is heading the committee, said it was having trouble scheduling a meeting with Jo Ponce because she is not currently in town, adding that he is extremely concerned about the issue and wants to resolve it as soon as possible.

Jo Ponce acknowledged that the towing committee’s meeting might need to be postponed because of her unavailability. “[Clement] is waiting to hold the meeting until I’m able to be there, since now I’m in Washington D.C.,” she said. “He wants me to give a detailed presentation on my research in front of the whole committee and the towing industry.”

Although Jo Ponce is directly involved with City Council, she is not the first person to have problems with towing companies in Durham.

“This is not without precedent at all,” Clement said.

“I’ve been chair of the towing committee a number of years, and there have been problems before.”

But not all Durham residents think the city needs to change its regulations.

“I haven’t had any drastic things happen,” said Mike Thomas, a Durham resident. “Once I got a ticket for parking, which might have been excessive, but I wasn’t towed.”

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Duke Law tudent Carmen Jo Ponce may not be able to help with parking citations, but she hopes to reduce aggressive towing in Durham.

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New clinical research unit shows ‘forward thinking’ by maggie love THE CHRONICLE

By combining cutting-edge technology with disease-specific populations, the Duke Clinical Research Unit may provide a novel basis for understanding and treating medical illnesses.

The DCRU is an early phase research unit located in Duke Hospital South. Research at the center began in December and the official ribbon cutting ceremony was held earlier this month.

“It’s a marvelous, forward thinking opportunity that the Board of Trustees allowed us to be able to build this unit so the faculty can level it to the benefit of their patients that they see every day in the clinics,” said Dr. Barry Mangum, director of clinical pharmacology for DCRU. In either March or April, the unit will launch a clinical trial in which volunteers will inhale dihydroergotamine, a drug designed to alleviate migraines, said DCRU Medical Director Dr. Robert Noveck. The drug is currently only administered intravenously.

Currently, the unit is pursuing research on a new class of anti-diabetic drugs, pediatric seizures and adolescent asthmatics, Dr. Noveck said. The unit is also seeking to match aspirin doses to individual phenotype and provide treatment that desensitizes people with peanut allergies.

DCRU, which collaborates with pharmaceutical companies, is funded by the National Institutes of Health’s $53 million Clinical Translational Science Award and approximately five million dollars from the

medical school, said Dr. Mangum.

The CTSA award was granted in 2006, and the grant must be renewed for DCRU to continue to receive funding in 2011.

Duke was one of the first five centers to receive the award, and of those five, it received the highest score in the CTSA’s evaluation process, DCRU Program Director Dr. John McHutchison said.

The unit totals 17000 square feet and is home to 30 new beds. There is a pediatric unit on the second floor and an adult unit on the third floor, Dr. Noveck said.

About 40 employees work in both units, Dr. McHutchison said. The center is an expanded replacement of Duke’s General Clinical Research Center, another program NIH started in the late 1960s to bring research centers to academic medical research institutions, Dr. Noveck said.

“GCRC had over time developed a number of rules and regulations that almost prevented the entry of clinical research into Duke,” Dr. Mangum said.

DCRU is also partnering with Medanta, a global translational research facility in India, and a research unit in Singapore. Dr. Noveck said it is important to understand how people in different cultures respond to drugs. He added that this international collaboration is an educational opportunity for all parties involved.

“It’s very exciting—we’ve got an opportunity to really approach clinical trials in a different way and try to improve the process of understanding how drugs work,” Dr. McHutchison said.

CampusCouncilelectionresults Campus Council elected five new officers in a six-and-a-half hour meeting Thursday night. The new leaders said they want to increase Campus Council’s visibility on campus, involve more students in the organization and work to improve Central Campus.

“I’m really excited for the residential future of the campus,” said Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a junior who was elected to a second term Thursday.

President

Stephen Temple, ‘11 Major: Public Policy Campus Involvement: First-Year Advisory Counselor Board, Disciplinary Advisor in the Office of Student Conduct, Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Goals: Develop and improve Central Campus, continue branding Campus Council, promote funding requests for student programming

Vice President John Pryor, ‘11 Major: Economics and Chinese Goals: Examine how Campus Council fits into Duke’s housing model

Programming Chair Betsy Klein, ‘12 Major: Visual Studies Goals: Increase collaboration with other organizations, involve all three campuses in programming

Treasurer Leslie Andriani, ‘12 Major: Evolutionary Anthropology Goals: Fund student ideas

Facilities and Services Chair Doug Hanna, ‘13 Major: Undeclared Goals: Solicit and implement student feedback for facility improvement

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CompSci cheating seen as preventable Credit CARD Act takes effect on campuses

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by Carmen Augustine THE CHRONICLE

Students should feel a bit more comfortable opting for plastic over cash this week.

Major provisions of the federal Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 took effect Monday. The CARD act is largely intended to protect credit card users, and it prevents citizens under 21 from getting a credit card without a sufficient income or a guardian as a co-signer. The Act also imposes laws to make credit card companies’ interactions with consumers more transparent. Companies marketing their cards on college campuses are not allowed to offer inducements to students, and universities must disclose the contracts they have with creditors.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the Act will be beneficial to vulnerable students but will not greatly affect the University as a whole.

“The direct impact of this act on Duke in relation to our programs and services will be minimal,” Schoenfeld said. He added that Duke does not allow companies to market credit cards on campus as part of its policy prohibiting solicitation on campus.

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Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V may no longer be an effective way to cheat.

Computer science students at Stanford University account for a disproportionately large percentage of honor code violations, according to findings by Stanford computer science professor Eric Roberts that were presented to Stanford faculty members this month.

The level of academic dishonesty is traditionally higher in computer science than in other disciplines because it is easy to copy code, but both the Stanford and Duke computer science departments are using a variety of methods to lower the prevalence of cheating.

The violations primarily occur in work completed outside the classroom and by students new to the discipline. In a 2002 paper, “Strategies for Promoting Academic Integrity in CS Courses,” Roberts notes that motivating factors to cheat include the cumulative nature of the courses, the reuse of assignments by professors and the ease of obtaining homework solutions from other students, the Internet or unemptied computer recycle bins.

Roberts also points out the unforgiving nature of the computer, which will not run a program containing errors, as a factor that can lead to high levels of frustration for students.

Although the nature of computer programs makes cheating as easy as copy and pasting, it also makes detection easier. “[Copied code] is not obvious to someone in a nontechnical field, but it’s completely obvious to someone in the field,” Roberts said.

But both schools’ departments rely on more than their

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A disproportionately large proportion of computer science students cheat by copying code, according to a Stanford professor’s study. expertise to identify potential cheating—they also use the program Measure of Software Similarity, to compare student assignments to the work of current and past students to determine similarities in submissions. The program yields a percentage that reveals the level of similarity between pieces of work.

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residential experience.”

The Facilities and Environment Committee will review design of the project, while the Business and Finance Committee will assess funding and financial planning, Pearce said. If both committees approve of their respective proposals, they will then present K4 to the Board as a whole.

William Rawn, of William Rawn Associates, Architects, Inc. in Boston—the architectural firm hired by the University to work on this project—will present to the Facilities and Environment Committee. Nowicki said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, the University’s chief financial officer, will present the budget to the Business and Finance Committee.

“Rawn will have a model of the inside and the outside,” Trask said. “Basically, it will look like other wings.”

Speculation about the Board’s decision is positive, and Board Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73, said construction is likely to begin. Pearce said he does not expect any controversy over the project.

K4 will include a new residence hall and will complete Keohane Quadrangle. Plans for this fourth building were included in the 2000 Master Plan when Keohane was originally proposed, Pearce said.

“It’s been a relatively logical and reasonable process to explain the siting of the building and context of the architecture,” he said. “We want to keep this architecturally compatible with the rest of the quad.”

The residence hall was slated to open in Fall 2011 but this date was recently pushed back to Spring 2012. The postponement was due mainly to student concern about the impact and disruption caused by construction. Nowicki said that relaxing the timeline by six months will allow the most disruptive construction to be completed over the summer, adding that he does not forsee the decision to postpone the opening as being a problem for the Board.

studies for Duke computer science, tells students he reserves the right to run MOSS. “There’s an atmosphere you are [impressing] with your students by saying I’m catching cheaters, I’m catching cheaters, I’m catching cheaters,” he said.

Sophomore Caitlin Ryan believes the threat of being caught is all the incentive most students need.

“They have instilled enough fear to encourage us to not cheat,” Ryan said.

Duke’s department does not aim to rely solely on threats, but also implements measures to prevent students from reaching the point where they feel cheating is the only option. These measures include providing options for which assignments to complete and requiring students in introductory courses to submit a “readme” file in conjunction with their work that details their time spent and anyone they talked to about it.

This information would provide justification for some significant similarity between students, Astrachan said.

Junior Kosta Kostadinov, a computer science major, noted that academic integrity reminders discourage cheating.

“I think if you are reminded about the honor code, people cheat significantly less,” Kostadinov said. “[The readme files] trigger a sense of that.”

These discussions have led Astrachan and the department to reconsider their policy of only small point deductions for a student failing to submit a readme file. He noted that the department should implement a more stringent policy of refusing to grade a student’s assignment if a readme file is not turned in alongside the work.

He noted that one of the biggest challenges for professors is the fine line between cheating and collaborating.

“Collaboration is good, copying is not,” Astrachan said. “But there is a slope between talking and taking.”

Given the cloudy boundary between collaborating and cheating, both Astrachan and Roberts noted the situation requires careful consideration.

Ryan, who is not a computer science major, said she is taking a computer science course to learn about the subject.

“I’m in the class to learn how to program,” she said.

“If I copy, then I’m not learning.”

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William Rawn of William Rawn Associates will give a presentation to the Trustees this weekend on architectural plans for K4.

“I don’t know the specifics, but if it’s delayed to keep from inconvenience to the students, that’s a worthwhile purpose for delaying it,” Blue said. “[Students] have enough interruptions, I think. “ Associate Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said the benefits of the delay, such as lessening the impact of construction on students, will actually appeal to the Board.

“There were a lot of things gained by making that adjustment,” he said. “I feel that we have a lot of wonderful opportunity here that people will be excited to see realized.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said he agreed, characterizing the new opening date as “more functional.”

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academic council from page 1 Taiwan or Ukraine, Brodhead said.

He noted that many sources close to the University—including one in the U.S. Department of State—have told him that there is no further information on the issue and that it is too early to draw a direct connection between SJTU and the cyberattacks. The State Department source also told Brodhead that the only point of concern for Duke would be if the partnership involved technology that may have been utilized in the attacks. Brodhead said the collaboration between the two universities did not involve those technological areas.

Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, has spoken with University officials about Duke developing its own computer presence at foreign universities for protection, Brodhead said.

“Let’s be frank, we all knew when we talked about going to Shanghai, that China is not the United States­­—that it does not embrace all the same values, it does not offer all the same protections to free exchange of ideas,” Brodhead said.

“We went to China not because we endorsed every practice of China but [despite] the differences we still thought there was a profound educational value in going.”

After Brodhead’s speech, council members discussed and approved a proposal for a new Masters of Engineering degree. Administered by the Pratt School of Engineering, the professional masters program will focus on preparing students for jobs in the engineering industry.

Jeff Glass, director of Pratt’s Master of Engineering Management program, said the masters program will also help attract more engineering field-related companies to recruit at Duke because of the influx of more engineering students.

In other business: The council heard a proposal from Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs of the Duke University Health System, to transition orthopedic surgery from a division in the Department of Surgery into its own separate department.

The council will vote on the proposal at its next meeting.

According to criteria set by the School of Medicine, any division changing into a department must have a set national model, a significant amount of ongoing clinical practice, significant funding, an approved graduate training program and minimal financial impact on other departments, Henriquez said.

In his presentation, Cuffe addressed the criteria and noted that Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the DUHS, Dr. Nancy Andrews, vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of the School of Medicine and the Clinical Sciences Faculty Council have expressed their support for the transition.

Council members also discussed the proposed Duke Open Access policy, which would allow the legal foundation to collect all scholarly works by Duke academics in a permanent digital repository.

Some professors questioned the costs that would go into creating the repository and its practicality.

“If we don’t know the architecture, we can’t even begin to estimate the cost,” said Provost Peter Lange. “I don’t think this is going to happen tomorrow. I think what’s being asked here is ‘Is there a commitment to the philosophy of open access, and ... [will] our faculty live up to the institutional commitment of open access?’”

black history from page 3 faculty, set the stage for a Thursday panel discussion on church involvement during the Civil Rights Movement and a showing of Spike Lee’s film “Four Little Girls,” a documentary about the 1963 church bombing.

At the Center for Documentary Studies, the month was marked by the national release of the film “Blood Done Sign My Name.” The film is based on the book of the same name written by Tim Tyson, a senior research scholar at CDS and visiting professor of American Christianity and southern culture at the Divinity School. The story, which takes place in Oxford, N.C., explores the racial tensions and social changes prompted by the acquittal of a white father and son accused of murdering a black man in public.

CDS also hosted a talk by photographer William Earle Williams on his black and white photography exhibit “Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War.” Other programming by the Center for Multicultural Affairs, the Center for Race Relations and the multicultural selective living group PRISM included workshops and discussions on black culture and community dynamics.

Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for student affairs, said she thinks it is important to continue learning about black history beyond February.

“I would rather have a sustained dialogue that happens all the time,” she said.

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trusteees from page 1 e-mail. That decision may result in a $100 increase to the Dining contract fee next Fall, Duke Student Government President Awa Nur, a senior announced at Wednesday night’s DSG meeting.

The Board will also hear a financial update. At last year’s February meeting, the Trustees decided to cut $125 million out of the University’s budget over three years. Blue said the Board will continue to consider ways to reduce Duke’s deficit.

“If we can eliminate spending and not affect the quality of the institution and not affect what Duke is about, we will encourage Duke to seek those efficiencies and make those cuts,” Blue said.

“You have to deploy the resources in a way that you think will benefit Duke in it’s strategic choices not just five years from now, but 25 years from now.”

— Dan Blue, Chair, Board of Trustees Duke’s financial situation has improved since last year’s February meeting. President Richard Brodhead announced that the budget gap is closer to $100 million in his address to employees last Tuesday. He added that because cost-cutting measures have already reduced the deficit by about $50 million, the University is about halfway toward its goal.

“The economic climate has changed so much over the last year, but I still think we’ve weathered the storm fairly well,” Blue said. “We created several scenarios—doomsday scenarios—and those are the kinds of things you have to plan for and be aware of. You come back a year later and things are more upbeat.... We had the down period, but you have to look long-range, and that’s what we try to look at as a Board.”

But the University still has another $50 million to cut in

credit cards from page 6 Another provision of the act recommends that universities offer a financial education session during new student orientation. Currently students receiving financial aid are required to attend a financial education session during orientation, but other students have no similar opportunity said Clay Adams, assistant dean of new student and family programs. He added that the Orientation Welcome Week Advisory Committee is reviewing a proposal on a general financial literacy model that would be optional for the entire first-year class.

The session would likely be offered during the concurrent information sessions on Saturday of orientation week for 50 minutes. OWWAC will decide by March whether or not to offer this session starting with the Class of 2014, Adams said.

Though the act will not impact Duke as an institution, it should have an overall positive effect on students, administrators said.

“Anything that encourages or mandates more information about credit cards is a good thing,” Schoenfeld said.

Although the Act will make it more difficult for students to get a credit card and harder to begin to earn credit during their college years, it will ultimately benefit them more than it will disadvantage them, said Jim Blaine, president and chief executive officer of the State Employee’s Credit Union of North Carolina. He added that the hassles would be offset by consumer protection. “[Students] were graduating college with damaged credit, which can really hurt you when the job search comes,” Blaine said.

Some Duke students who have credit cards have joint accounts with their parents.

“I would not apply for a credit card by myself,” junior Alex Tirado said.

Pia Hoellerbauer, a senior, said she thought age did not matter as much as personality and that some students are more responsible with their money than others.

Most students said they thought the Act was a good idea.

“For a lot of people they do see credit cards as free money,” Tirado said. “That’s how you end up in debt.”

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the next two years.

Vice President for Finance Hof Milam said Duke appears “to be on track” to eliminate its deficit, but said the University will need to continue to make difficult decisions to cut expenses and look to increase its revenue.

Increasing tuition is “one of the few places [revenue] can increase right now,” Milam said. He added that academic programs, like the Masters of Engineering degree, approved by Academic Council Thursday and under review for approval by the Board this weekend, can also be revenue sources.

Still, Trask said it is up to individual units to make local trade-offs to continue to cut costs. He said the University as a whole will continue reviewing all proposals to fill vacant positions and keep costs down.

“It’s not going to be fun and its not going to be easy, but it’s doable,” he said.

As the Trustees consider the University’s finances, they will also consider its strategic goals and strategic planning for interdisciplinary institutes.

Trask said he expects the Board to consider “some small capital items” and internationalization efforts unrelated to

the Kunshan, China site.

The Board will take a “big dive” into the University’s strategic plan and review its efficacy over the last five years, Blue said.

“We’ve got huge aspirations for this University... but we’ve got finite resources and in a time like the one we are experiencing... you have to deploy the resources in a way that you think will benefit Duke in it’s strategic choices not just five years from now, but 25 years from now,” he said.

Although Milam said Duke has dedicated more resources to its strategic goals than most, he noted that “our commitment outstrips revenue traditionally available to meet those commitments.”

Blue said he expects the Board to approve construction on K4, the fourth wing of Keohane Quadrangle. He said the Board will also discuss the construction of a new chilled water plant.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the plant will include two large chillers and cost about $20 million.

Blue said the project is necessary to provide infrastructure for future campus expansion and changes.

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Outgoing Young Trustee Ben Abrams, Pratt ‘07, current Young Trustee Sunny Kantha, Trinity ‘09, and Young Trustee-elect John Harpham, a senior, participated in a small question and answer session with students Thursday.

young trustee from page 3 transparency for students to have the opportunity to ask questions,” Moxley said.

Despite the low attendance, both the hosts and the trustees said the panel was a success. Civic engagement, campus culture and segregation and women’s housing were among the topics discussed.

The size of the audience allowed for a discussion, as opposed to a question and answer panel.

“It was a conversation and the conversation was very informative both for students and the young trustees,” Morrison said. “I think in that sense this was the most productive forum we could have had even though there weren’t 50 people.”

Each of the trustees emphasized the importance of having a background of stu-

dent life to help bolster their experiences on the board.

“We have a good sense after four years of what undergraduates face,” Kantha said.

“Coming back to Duke helps you approach issues from a different perspective, and it’s illuminating to have student experience as a backlight.”

The panel was well received by the students in attendance, several of whom were DSG senators who were curious about the

role of the young trustees insofar as student life was concerned.

“It definitely cleared up a lot of ambiguity in terms of what the young trustees are actually thinking about,” freshman Gordon Wilson, a DSG senator for Durham and regional affairs, said. “It was refreshing for me to know that these issues of campus culture and inequity in terms of gender, race and marginalization were on the forefront of their minds.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

ACC title in reach for Duke

by Harrison Comfort THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils have looked forward to tonight’s game all season.

Seniors Joy Cheek, Keturah Jackson and Bridgette Mitchell will play their final ACC home game in Cameroon Indoor Stadium as the trio leads their team this weekend to finish conference play.

No. 21 And head coach UVa Joanne P. McCallie vs. will have the opportuNo. 6 nity to accomplish a Duke goal she has strived to attain since arriving FRIDAY, 8:30 p.m. in Durham: winning Cameron Indoor Stadium an ACC regular season championship.

Tonight at 8:30 p.m., Duke hosts No. UNC 21 Virginia (20-7, 8-4 vs. in the ACC) in CamNo. 6 eron on its senior Duke night, and the Blue Devils will honor their SUNDAY, 3 p.m.

Chapel Hill, N.C. seniors shortly before the game. By earning its 17th straight victory against the Cavaliers, Duke (23-4, 11-1) will be able to pay tribute to its seniors and earn its first ACC championship since McCallie took over at the helm for the Blue Devils three seasons ago.

And though McCallie’s squad tries to focus exclusively on its opponent, the See W. BBALL on page 14

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70 DUKE TUL 52 Tulsa treated to ACC welcome

Blue Devil spurt after halftime sends Golden Hurricane spinning

by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

With a regular season ACC title trophy almost in the cabinet, an unfamiliar foe had a chance to crash the senior night party last night in Cameron Indoor Stadium. While Tulsa (19-9) gave Duke all it could handle in the first half, a composed Blue Devil squad rode out a Golden Hurricane to improve to 16-0 at home on the season.

If the Blue Devils aspire to cut down the twine in early April, however, a nonconference matchup with Tulsa proved Duke still has a long way to go.

The Blue Devils came into Thursday nursing a six-game winning streak, and after Nolan Smith sprung from the 3-point line to pick off a lazy Joe Richard pass and threw down a thunderous one-handed dunk with a Tulsa defender in his wake, it seemed No. 5 Duke (24-4) was on the fast track to a late season confidence boost.

But the Golden Hurricane had other plans.

“I thought we thought we were going to be able to knock them out,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “But they’re not a team that’s going to get knocked out.”

Following a Ben Uzoh miss from outside four minutes into the game with the score 4-2, sophomore reserve Steven Idlet out-hustled Miles Plumlee and Ryan Kelly inside for an offensive rebound and deposited a putback of his own that elicited an energized scream from the 6-foot-10 forward, in unison with an irate Krzyzewski.

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Senior Lance Thomas and the rest of Duke’s interior players made key adjustments after halftime to get the win.

men’s lacrosse

No mercy for Duke vs. Quakers

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

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Senior Joy Cheek has been a catalyst for Duke’s offense lately, highlighted by her game against Maryland.

Duke has split the first two games of its season, winning a game on the road but falling at home last weekend to then-No. 9 Notre Dame.

This weekend, the No. 8 Blue Devils hope to finally give their fans some cheer and record their first home win when they host Penn Pennsylvania Saturday at 3 vs. p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

No. 8 Penn (0-0) will be playing Duke its first game of the season, which will also be the SATURDAY, 3 p.m.

Koskinen Stadium Quakers’ head coach Mike Murphy’s debut at the helm.

Murphy, who coached at Haverford College for the last seven years, was a three-year starter at Duke and a captain of the team in 1991.

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Duke dropped its home opener to then-No. 9 Notre Dame last Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.

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k-ville from page 1 After discussions between Duke officials and White’s staff of line monitors before the season, K-ville policies were changed this year to lessen what many students considered unbearable rigor. Blue tenting, which makes up the bulk of the K-ville experience and lasted this year from Jan. 30 until Feb. 22, not only started later than it has in recent years, but also required just six members of each tent to spend each night in K-ville instead of the traditional eight.

For the most enthusiastic, hardcore tenters with sights on front-row seats to the March 6 matchup against rival North Carolina, the changes have taken away from parts of the experience that they enjoyed most.

Senior Amanda Marchese has not only tented all four years she has been at Duke, but is also a member of the first tent—technically, her tent is No. 2, but only because No. 1 is reserved for the basketball players themselves. Still, she will be one of the first 12 students to walk through the doors of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

This year more than in years past, Marchese admitted, grace has been granted as a mixed result of bad weather and new tenting policies.

“From our freshmen year, I’d say it’s been double, easily double,” Marchese said of the number of nights off this year. “It’s actually really messed up the community of K-ville, I think. In years past, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, K-ville was the place to be. Everyone [was] out here. People [were] just outside their tents partying, talking, hanging out. This year it has been more come to your tent, get in your tent, go to sleep, wake up in the morning.”

It’s a difficult balance that White is forced to constantly keep in mind. Call too much grace, and students who remember the way K-ville once was think the whole concept has been destroyed. Call too little grace, and White runs the risk of getting students too sick to attend classes or even the basketball games themselves.

Tenters looking for the ultimate challenge had another more intense option: black tenting.

From the week of Jan. 23 until K-ville turned over to the more lenient blue tenting rules, all 12 members of tents needed to sleep in K-ville each night and each group needed two students on the grounds at all times during the day instead of the usual one. And perhaps most importantly, black

tenters couldn’t even sleep under a physical tent: Nothing more than an overhead tarp was allowed.

Marchese and 11 of her friends earned the top spot in K-ville after winning a day-long competition during which the eight black tents were ranked based on their ability to race to a secret spot on campus, perform on a Duke Basketball trivia challenge and submit dirt on players of opposing teams. (After all, knowing things like Virginia Tech’s Jeff Allen flipping off Maryland fans last season is valuable information for cheers.)

“Black tenting was a lot of fun,” Marchese said. “We really had a lot of community in black tenting since we were all signed up for something so absurd, sleeping under tarps.

Since blue tenting started... it’s been a lot different.”

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Head line monitor Zach White (shirtless, center) was given the difficult task of organizing K-ville in a way that pleases students and administrators.

On the other extreme, there are first-year tenters like freshmen Jeanette Cheng and Kara Karpman, who have found K-ville to be a far more enjoyable place than they could have imagined as a result of the lessened rigor. The two enjoyed the talent contest that the line monitors organized (and which all of K-ville later got the night off for) and have been relieved by their experience instead of being overwhelmed as they had originally expected to be.

“It feels like every other day,” Cheng said about getting grace at night.

Karpman added that of the 13 nights she was expected to be in K-ville for blue tenting, he only spent four nights in the tent city.

Ultimately, it isn’t just the tenters whom Zach White is forced to answer to.

Before the season started, White worked with everyone from Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek to Duke Basketball External Relations Director Debbie Krzyzewski Savarino, and from assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski to Director of Marketing and Promotions Bart Smith.

Smith was involved as a representative of the athletic program and sought to work with White and the other line monitors to structure K-ville in a way that would maximize consistent attendance to Duke games throughout the season—not just the home matchup against rival North Carolina.

“From athletics’ perspective, we just felt like the length of time [in K-ville] can affect the quality of the students’ cheering, or if they’re healthy, and all those types of things,” Smith said. “We thought it was very important to come up with new ideas to get new people into the stadium. That’s why we did the Greek night, the freshman night, the sophomore night, the club sports night. I think that Zach has maintained the integrity of K-ville while also recognizing that there were some aspects of it that were unnecessary.”

The divided feelings on the rigor of K-ville will soon become a discussion of the past.

In just more than a week’s time, Cameron’s doors will open once again to host college basketball’s most famed rivalry. Suddenly, White will return to being senior math major Zach White, another Cameron Crazie squeezed into the student section.

Once inside the game, the tenters’ discomfort from sleeping in the cold will be at once forgotten. And the future of K-ville—and whether the changes made this year should become permanent—will be a conversation for another day.

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women’s tennis

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Zoubek’s intangibles spur Duke Junior Nze fights back in Blue Devil win

by Scott Rich THE CHRONICLE

by Andy Margius THE CHRONICLE

Following its impressive victory over then-No. 7 Michigan Sunday, Duke managed to sweep crosstown rival N.C. State en route to its first ACC victory of the season Thursday at the Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

For the No. 6 Blue Devils (10-1, 1-0 in the ACC), the match also marked an important moment for head coach Jamie Ashworth. With Thursday night’s victory over the Wolfpack (3-3, 0-1), Ashworth earned his 300th career victory and cemented his place in tennis history.

“It’s a great accomplishment,” Ashworth said. “And it says a lot about the players we’ve had here... to the quality of individuals we’ve been NCSU 0 able to recruit.”

On such a momentous occaDUKE 7 sion for Duke, both Ashworth’s 300th and the ACC opener, the Blue Devils did not play like the national contenders they have shown to be earlier this season. Despite winning eight of nine matches on the day between singles and doubles, Duke’s sets were incredibly close. At many points, it even appeared that the Wolfpack was about to pull away. Duke’s training, coaching and heart, however, allowed it to bounce back in every close game.

Down 7-6 in their pro-set doubles match, the 28th-ranked team of sophomore Monica Gorny and freshman Jessica Stiles managed to force a tiebreak , but lost the match 8-7.

But that was the only match N.C. State would win all day.

In singles, junior Reka Zsilinszka managed to storm back from being down 4-2 to take the first set, 6-4. Zsilinska then quickly returned to form and earned a straight-set victory.

The highlight of the night for the Blue Devils came from junior Ellah Nze. Playing against her close friend and former junior French Open roommate, Sandhya Nagaraj, Nze pulled out an incredible second set in which she overcame a 5-1 deficit. Storming back and winning six straight games, including three breaks of serve, Nze secured the victory in one of her toughest matches of the season.

“Being down 5-1 was obviously tough,” Nze said. “But I’ve come back before against other great players. Also, looking over and seeing [senior] Liz [Plotkin] clinch the win in her match, it gave me a new confidence.”

Plotkin earned a hard-fought victory as well. After struggling in her opening set, Plotkin managed to turn her game around and defeat her opponent, 6-4, 6-2, to stay unbeaten on the year.

Going into Saturday’s matchup against No. 9 Florida, Duke will need to play more consistently, as the contest against the Gators presents the greatest road challenge of the year for the Blue Devils.

“Florida has always been a tough place to play. In our programs history we have only won twice,” Ashworth said.

“They’re expecting close to 1,000 people for that match, and it should be an exciting and fun place to play.... Our team likes playing three times a week, and today play helped us get into that match mode.”

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Junior Ellah Nze won a second straight match against a marquee opponent by defeating N.C. State’s Sandhya Nagaraj Thursday.

One game might have been a fluke. Two or three might have been a streak. But after his fourth straight blockbuster performance Thursday night against Tulsa, this much is certain: a renaissance of Zoubekian proportions has occurred.

Less than two weeks after his 16-point, 17-rebound performance after being inserted into the starting lineup against Maryland, senior Brian Zoubek posted another double-double against the Golden Hurricane with 10 points and 11 rebounds.

Zoubek’s performance transcended mere statistics, a routine occurrence lately. His ability to free jump shooters with screens and energize his team with emotional exclamations proved to be the impetus behind Duke’s gameclinching run in its 70-52 victory in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Game “Zoubs has been awesome, obviously,” senior Jon Scheyer said of the center. “He’s Analysis made so many plays throughout the game, and because he’s been playing more, I think you’re seeing his passion come out.

His intensity has helped us. He’s all over the boards, protects our basket, finishes inside and plays with a lot of pride.”

While Zoubek’s previous stellar performances came

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Brian Zoubek’s double-double against a talented Tulsa frontcourt showed how much the senior has improved in the last few weeks.

against generally shorter teams, Tulsa features 7-foot center Jerome Jordan, who many consider a legitimate NBA prospect. And while Jordan finished with 12 points and eight rebounds, it was Zoubek’s efforts in the first half that forced the Golden Hurricane star to pick up two quick fouls and play only 10 minutes in the period.

“They have a really good 7-footer... so that’s motivation enough for me,” Zoubek said. “I wanted to prove myself.”

In the second half it was Zoubek’s newfound offensive prowess that spurred Duke’s decisive run. With the game tied at 34 early in the period, it was a Zoubek and-one, followed by a steal on the defensive end, that led to an 11-0 run that proved too great for the Golden Hurricane to overcome.

And fittingly enough, it was a pretty turn-around hook shot, over Jordan no less, that put the exclamation point on a hard-fought Duke victory.

“I got the ball in the post and I felt other guys weren’t open, so I had the guy on my back, and I’m feeling more confident, so I figured, ‘Why not go for it?’” Zoubek said.

“It worked out today.”

But Zoubek’s biggest contribution—and one that doesn’t show up in the box score—was the boost he provided when lethargic and sloppy play threatened to doom the Blue Devils early on.

After the score was tied at four at the 16-minute media timeout, it was a Zoubek screen freeing up Scheyer for three, followed by his own turn-around layup in the post, that spurred a 10-0 run.

And when Tulsa fought back to tie the score at 28 with 3:10 to go in the half, it was Zoubek who secured Duke’s lead at the break. While for any other player, sinking two free throws might seem mundane, that couldn’t be further from the truth for the senior, who vigorously pumped his first as he ran down the court on defense. This sent the Cameron Crazies into their first legitimate frenzy of the night, which was only augmented when another Zoubek screen led to an open Blue Devil jump shot.

“He’s a good screener, he’s our best screener.... He takes a lot of pride in that,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Brian understands his value whether he’s scoring or not.... When you’re a veteran you’re more apt to do that, and that’s what he’s done. Brian’s playing outstanding basketball for us, no doubt about it.”

Largely thanks to Zoubek’s performance, Thursday night’s victory was also one of Duke’s most balanced scoring efforts of the year. Whereas the Blue Devils’ big three of Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler scored 63 of the team’s 67 points against Virginia Tech Sunday, the trio was only responsible for 50 of Duke’s 70 points against the Golden Hurricane.

Indeed, by providing Duke’s first legitimate inside threat in recent memory, Duke’s big three may have just added a big Z to its ranks.

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baseball

Blue Devils host Fordham in first series at DBAP

by Chris Cusack THE CHRONICLE

Duke opens up its home schedule this wekend against traditional Atlantic-10 conference power Fordham. Although the Rams (03) have garnered over 4,000 wins in their 150 seasons—the most wins in NCAA Division I baseball history—the last decade was forgettable, as Fordham has Fordham an NCAA vs. tournam e n t Duke drought stretchFRIDAY-SUNDAY Durham Bulls Athletic Park ing back to 1998.

After losing three of four in their opening series against Baylor and No. 22 Georgia, however, the Blue Devils (1-3) are in no place to take any team lightly.

“Fordham’s a good team,” Duke head coach Sean McNally said. “They are one of the better teams in the Northeast year in and year out. They are really scrappy and really aggressive, especially around the bases.”

Friday’s contest will not only be the series opener, but the Blue Devils’ first home game of

the year in the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in downtown Durham. The slightly smaller ballpark will be a boon to a struggling group of Duke hitters, though the pitchers may not share their enthusiasm.

The fences at Jack Coombs Field, Duke’s home park on campus, are 330 feet from home plate down each foul line and 405 to straight center. DBAP is a similar 400 feet to dead center, but the real change comes in left field, where the Blue Monster is only 302 feet from the plate.

“We built our team around pitching and defense, which fits our park,” McNally said. “This will impact us to some degree. There is more of an opportunity to hit home runs, both for us and for the opposition. But the positives outweigh the negatives.”

This weekend appears to be an inopportune time for the Blue Devils to move into a smaller park after their pitchers were lit up for 27 runs over four games last weekend. With the exception of Saturday’s game with Baylor, in which Michael Ness and Ben Grisz gave up a combined three runs in a losing effort, Duke’s pitching staff struggled in Waco,

Texas. Starting on the mound this weekend for the Blue Devils will be Ness (0-0, 1.80 ERA), Eric Pfisterer (0-1, 10.38) and Jonathan Foreman (0-0, 5.40).

“We’ve had some good pitching performances out there, but there’s work to be done,” McNally said. “In all phases we have got to be better.”

Additionally, the offense will need to wake up this weekend if the Blue Devils are to unveil their new home on a high note. Senior Jeremy Gould and freshman Eric Brady have been the lone bright spots at the plate so far, combining for 13 of the team’s 34 hits this season.

Both have recorded hits in all four games this year, but the pair will need some support from the rest of the squad to get over the hump.

“I think our offense is the key,” McNally said. “We scored 19 runs in four games, so we showed signs of being a good offense. Hitting comes and goes, but we expect to be better this weekend.”

Although the matchup with Fordham highlights two teams moving in opposite directions, if Duke is not careful it will simply become another notch on the Rams’ decorated belts.

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Starting pitcher Michael Ness will take the hill Friday in Duke’s first game against Fordham.

W. BBALL from page 11 team recognizes the implications of tonight’s matchup.

“You set your goals at the beginning of the season, and our first goal was ACC regular season champs,” junior Jasmine Thomas said. “[Against Virginia] we just have to focus on what we have to do to get it done. We haven’t been board dominant in a while and that’s something that we are going to need to do going into this game. It would be nice to get it done for our seniors, especially with it being senior night.”

The seniors have made large contributions on and off the court this season, especially of late. All three started in the team’s most recent victory against Maryland Feb. 21, and Cheek led the way with 17 points, five rebounds and four assists. Cheek has averaged 9.9 points per game this season, and Mitchell has chipped in 8.7 points per contest. The pair lead the team in 3-point shooting, managing 39.4 and 35.5 percent shooting from behind the arc, respectively.

Jackson, meanwhile, has been exceptional on the defensive end this season, totaling 65 steals, the team’s second-highest output. She has often guarded the opposing team’s top offensive players due to her tenacity on the defensive side of the ball.

And although the trio has made its presence felt on the hardwood, its experience and leadership has proved invaluable to team chemistry and attitude.

“Juniors and seniors together have formed a bond of understanding of what it takes to compete at this level, and I think their leadership is very important,” McCallie said. “I think I see more of our team demanding more from each other.”

The senior class has remained a vocal force in practice all season. The team leaders have not been afraid to call out younger players when they deem it appropriate, either.

“In practice, sometimes you can come in

and it can be a little lackadaisical, and [the seniors] are always the ones who come in and get on people and get everyone fired up,” Thomas said. “It definitely translates to games. I know there have been a few times where our defense has slipped and KJ will come in and just rip somebody and that’s something they have done a good job at.”

After tonight’s game, the Blue Devils will travel to Chapel Hill Sunday to take on North Carolina (17-9, 5-7) at 3 p.m. For Duke to be successful this weekend, the seniors need to set the tone—especially around the basket.

“What would mean the most to me is to get two games this weekend,” McCallie said. “For me as a coach and us as a team, the best thing that can happen to us is having a dominant rebounding game Friday night and then do it again on Sunday. [If that happens], Monday you would find me happy as a clam.”

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Head coach Joanne P. McCallie believes rebounding is the key for Duke to clinch an ACC title this weekend.

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Jerome Jordan backed down an overmatched Mason Plumlee, drew the double team, and still finished with a 10-foot turnaround hook shot over the Duke big men to draw the Golden Hurricane within five.

The front court trio of Jordan, Idlet and Richard helped lead Tulsa to 20 points in the paint in the first half, providing a consistent scoring option on a night when leading scorer Uzoh—who averages 16.1 points per game—shot 20 percent from the field.

“In the first half, they were just relentlessly getting into the paint, and we were just fouling,” senior Lance Thomas said.

Duke maintained a slim lead in the first period thanks to an effective two-man game between point guard Jon Scheyer and resurgent center Brian Zoubek. The big man, who was integral in screening and facilitating the pick-and-roll, repeatedly earned his team open shots and was effective around the rim when his number was called.

The possession after a Zoubek doublescreen enabled a Scheyer triple, the 7-foot center corralled a missed shot and instinctively kicked the ball out to Scheyer.

The Tulsa defense recovered and collapsed on the Duke guard, but Scheyer flipped it to an unmarked Zoubek, who comfortably layed the ball in, sending the Crazies into a frenzy and giving the Blue Devils a 10-point lead at the time. Still, the Golden Hurricane stuck around until the intermission.

Following a halftime speech in which Krzyzewski urged his team to be better or face snapping a winning streak against nonconference opponents in Cameron that stretches back to 2000, the Blue Devils made an obvious effort to ratchet up the defensive intensity. An opening Richardto-Jordan alley-oop aside, Tulsa was not afforded easy baskets in the second half.

both against ranked opponents, while Penn has yet to take the field. Head coach John Danowski, however, does not believe the Quakers’ lack of game preparation will make much of a difference against Penn, citing last week’s loss, Notre Dame’s first game, as an example.

This game will be Duke’s last nonconference game before the Blue Devils takes on two ACC foes, playing Maryland in the Konica Minolta Face-off Classic March 6, before taking on North Carolina March 10.

Danowski and his team will not look ahead to those games, however, placing equal importance on all opponents.

“It’s like a test,” he said. “The midterm’s important, then the final’s important.”

Danowski stressed that Duke has to improve upon keeping possession on the offensive end, maintaining a strong defense and instill a presence on the faceoff game.

The Blue Devils will also hope senior attackman Max Quinzani can continue his goal-scoring streak. He has scored at least one goal in the last 48 games, and leads the team with seven tallies this season.

After the loss last weekend, the Blue Devils are eager to go and get the taste of defeat out of their mouths.

“We’d like to think that losing brings you back down to earth a little bit,” Danowski said. “It makes you a little bit edgy and makes you a little bit cranky. And that’s always a good thing.”

Danowski also hopes for other factors to go in Duke’s favor, one being the weather.

“We’d like to see the weather cooperate a little bit,” he said. “It’s cold and kind of nasty.”

But even if it rains or snows Saturday at Koskinen Stadium, Duke should still be able to look forward to its first home win of the year.

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Junior Nolan Smith led all scorers with 18 points and added four steals against Tulsa Thursday night.

“We calmed down, relaxed and played our defense that we have been doing,” Smith said.

A weak-side rejection from Kyle Singler in transition—one of four Blue Devil blocks in the half—exemplified Duke’s effort. After a battle in the post in the first 20 minutes, Duke outrebounded Tulsa 20-13 in the second half, added 11 points off of turnovers and matched the Golden Hurricane in the paint.

“It was good for us to play an outof conference-team,” Thomas said. “It’s something we’re going to see later this year.”

Still, the Duke faithful will be concerned

with the defensive performances against marquee post players. ACC rivals Gani Lawal and Al-Farouq Aminu have both put up more than 20 points against the Blue Devils, and if Jordan didn’t pick up two early fouls, it’s likely the Tulsa big man would have eclipsed that mark as well. Whether or not Duke can advance deep in the NCAA Tournament will likely hinge on post defense, but Krzyzewski accepts players living up to their hype.

“They’re good,” Krzyzewski said. “You’re not going to pitch shutouts against good teams. There’s 40 minutes, and you hope you win more of them than they do.”

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Carefully consider tuition hike This weekend, if past dents for their education and trends hold, the University’s the actual cost incurred by Board of Trustees will vote the University to educate each on a tuition increase that student. And the University’s will hike the undergraduate commitment to full financial cost of attending Duke above aid, in theory, means that only $50,000 for the those who can 2010-2011 acaafford the hike editorial demic year. will pay it.

Even in a time of high unAs a result, yearly tuition inemployment and widespread creases have assumed a degree national recession, a tuition of necessity within the Amerifreeze would be a knee-jerk can higher education landreaction because of the Uni- scape. But they should not beversity’s own sizeable budget- come an exercise of habit. ary shortfalls and financial Instead of a ritualistic 4 needs. Given this situation, a percent hike each year, the restrained increase in tuition decision to increase the fiand fees is rational. nancial burden on families For Duke and its peer must be made with detailed institutions, tuition is an im- consideration and foresight. portant source of revenue, The University has a hisand yearly increases manage tory of using a strategic apinflation and cover the gap proach to setting the price of between the price paid by stu- undergraduate education. In

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the late 1980s and early 1990s, aggressive tuition hikes provided substantial capital for investment in building projects, endowed professorships and academic departments.

Since then, however, annual tuition increases have become an expectation—so much so that many budgets incorporate revenue from a tuition increase even before such an increase has been approved. This mindset heightens the demand for tuition increases and reinforces the necessity of charging students more.

For Duke and American higher education as a whole, costs are spiraling out of control. It was only five years ago, in February 2005, that the Board approved a 5.1 percent increase in tuition and fees that pushed the total cost of

an undergraduate education for the 2005-2006 academic year past the $40,000 mark.

By this weekend, that figure will have risen by more than 25 percent as it surpasses the $50,000 mark.

The rapid rise in tuition costs is striking. Yet University officials are usually quick to dismiss concerns by pointing to improvements made to financial aid in recent years.

Increasing access to a Duke education is important, but the entire financial aid system rests on the false assumption that the University will meet the full need of students in all cases.

Students from middle class families often do not qualify for significant amounts of aid, and raising tuition only increases their unmet financial burden.

If the University continues

on this unsustainable trajectory, tuition costs will continue to skyrocket. With the price tag of an undergraduate education growing by leaps and bounds, it is not unreasonable to envision fewer middle class students enrolling at Duke because they cannot afford to pay.

Of course, the University does not face this problem within a bubble; soaring costs of education have affected nearly every American college. But that does not mean Duke cannot be a leader in addressing the affordability of higher education.

For the Board of Trustees, careful conversation and thoughtful dialogue on the relationship between large annual tuition increases and long-term institutional priorities is a good place to start.

Turning on the brakes

afety is a necessary but not sufficient condi- cludes itself from doing any thorough analysis on tion for buying a car. the problems that landed said scape goat in WashIf a given vehicle has no air bags, seat belts ington. Toyoda himself, recipient of a law degree or NCAP crash test rating, you’d have to be an id- and MBA, probably had very little to do with the iot to buy it. Contrarily, there is no safety defects in Toyota vehicles; he hard and fast correlation between does not design braking software a car’s safety rating and its market or floor mats or acceleration pedvalue (in fact, without looking at als. He has no formal schooling in the numbers, I’d guess there’s an engineering or software programinverse correlation primarily due ming. He cannot tell you why exactto luxury sports cars). Selling a ly so many Toyotas’ brakes failed. car, then, rests on achieving some This question should be the fominimum standard of safety and cal point of any extended Toyota ben brostoff maximizing the quality of other investigation. To Congress’s credbro’s stuff features—comfort, design, hanit, a number of House and Senate dle—that drivers care about. members did broach this question The latter qualification is something consum- with both Toyoda on Wednesday and U.S. Presiers can pretty easily gauge through experience dent of Motor Sales James E. Lentz III, a marketand the Internet. The former, unfortunately, de- ing executive with an MBA, on Tuesday. Was the fies any supposedly fair method of assessment. We problem mechanical or electrical in nature? Toyhave no idea how safe our cars actually are until ota does not know for sure at this point, although we crash them.

Lentz leans mechanical. For recalling purposes, a When we do crash them, it’s usually due to a mechanical mistake is far less costly than an elecconfluence of factors, only some of which may trical one; consequently, without presentation directly relate to the vehicles involved. A car ac- of empirically gathered data, Lentz’s testimony cident is so complex an event it defies simple about anything even remotely technical should classifications like “stickiness of an acceleration be disregarded. pedal” or “improperly placed floor mats.” ObEven if Lentz could fluidly discuss the physics viously, an automaker alone can significantly of anti-lock brakes or the coding errors behind bump up the conditional probability of an ac- software malfunctions, how could Congress or, cident, but the real probability of a lethal crash more importantly, consumers understand him? from driving, a Prius, for instance, is determined It is likely the case that understanding why Toyoby myriad disparate forces of the universe acting tas are unsafe requires a level of technological in combination over a significant time horizon. literacy uncommon among the people who drive When Toyota issued a recall of the Prius in early them. Short of enlisting the help of our engineerFebruary because of a software glitch result- ing brethren, there’s little we can do in the way of ing in a small but potentially deadly time lag in properly evaluating a vehicle’s safety. Brakes and the line’s braking system, blame could reason- car software are merely the tip of the iceberg: To ably have been placed on engineers, regulators fully get a sense of how safe a car is, you’d have and environmentalists. Cars are a much more to have detailed knowledge of crash test methcomplex version of pencils, and, in the words odology, the deployment of air bags, how other of Milton Friedman personifying a pencil, “Not drives react to the prospective car on the road, a single person on the face of this earth knows etc. Even if you did all that, it’s probable most how to make me.” of your assumptions from the research would be To Congress, however, Akio Toyoda makes Toy- disproved in five years. otas, Mark McGwire destroys baseball and CEOs As such, Congress would be well advised to deface the economy. Toyota, specifically company shelve the moral indignation and realize the falliPresident Toyoda, is strictly to blame for any and bility of both automakers and prospective car ownall injuries sustained from failures of their prod- ers. Granted, Toyota did engage in an elaborate uct line. The House Oversight and Government cover up to mask its cars’ shortcomings and threw Reform Committee made this abundantly clear away taxpayer money, and for these things its highon Wednesday, chastising Toyoda in the process er-ups should be punished. Yet, punishment is not for not showing enough remorse and waffling on progress. Differentiating between a mechanical questions. Once again, it was a prototypically un- and electrical brake failure is. productive session of lawmakers.

When Congress spends several hours scapeBen Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs goating a big-name executive, it necessarily pre- every Friday.

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n sharp contrast to the celebratory at- almost burst with joy in 1960 when Ethiomosphere that prevailed in China for pian runner Abebe Bikila ran barefoot past the Summer Olympics two years ago, the the Obelisk of Axum, which fascist Italian Winter Olympics in Vancouver have from troops had looted from Ethiopia in the the start had an embattled 1930s during their colonial inair. As soon as the Olymvasion of the country, on his pic torch was lit in Victoria, way to Olympic gold in the British Colombia, just across marathon? from where it would come to At their best, then, the rest almost four months later, Olympics tell us profoundly Olympic officials knew they human stories. were in for a fight.

The most exciting story of Indeed, the torch relay michael stauch these Olympics has perhaps seemed in many of the citbeen the pursuit of the quad ies it passed through like a spread the embers jump in men’s figure skating. funeral procession for jobs, Although Evan Lysacek won indigenous rights and the environment. gold in the men’s individual competition In Kitimat, a small town in western B.C., without attempting one, the quad jump is the torch came through the day after one the future of the sport, and it will come to of the town’s biggest employers, Eurocan be its mark of excellence, like the four-minpaper mill, shut its doors, laying off about ute mile in track.

550 people. Three days earlier, a crowd of Such milestones occur only once in a parents and children protested the torch generation, sometimes less. They represent in Prince George, angry over a recent an- the coming together of a gradual accumulanouncement that 14 schools in their district tion of the hard work of generations of comwould be closed. A similar situation prevails petitors and individual, exceptional athin Vancouver, where the city has again and letes, genuinely “new” talents that change again come to the financial rescue of the the game forever. “No poet, no artist of any Olympics, at the same time as it lays off city art,” T.S. Eliot once said, “has his complete teachers. meaning alone.”

Elsewhere, community members from In the same way, no athletes are the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Ontario de- product simply of their own hard work, clared their land unconquered, and sought but they embody the whole history of their to prevent the torch from passing through sport. Each move is informed by the work it. To no avail—the torch came and went, of generations of previous athletes, while though not without protest. In spite of this at the same time dependent in the decisive blatant disregard for the rights or interests moment of execution on the individual’s of indigenous people, of course, the Olym- preparation and will, their commitment pic committee had no problem basing its over time. logo on indigenous cultural traditions.

But how do these athletes’ performances Finally, since 2001, the Liberal Party in relate to the protestors’ actions throughout power in B.C. has systematically auctioned Canada? off the province’s natural resources, many The athletes at the Winter Olympics have times not even to the highest bidder, all dedicated themselves not to guaranteed sucthe while throwing money at the Olympic cess, but to a vision only dimly visible, a vicommittee to bring the Winter Games to sion of perfection whose realization depends Vancouver. In their scramble to profit off on their hard work and commitment. Many the natural environment they temporarily of them will never experience firsthand the administer, they’ve shown they will leave joy of what they’re working so hard for. Still, no stone undrilled, no river undammed, no they lay the groundwork for others. forest unclear-cut.

In a similar way, many of these protestors But to conclude our analysis with a mori- are partisans of a future implicit in our sobund survey of what’s wrong with the Olym- ciety today. The world they dedicate thempics would be a disservice to what makes selves to fighting for is informed by the these biennial corporate circuses, at bot- struggles of workers and indigenous people, tom, so worth watching. and the need to live in a sustainable, ecoWho but the most reactionary imperial- logical manner. It builds on their past at the ist could not feel a smile creep across their same time as it posits a vision of the future face in 1956, when the Hungarian water only dimly visible today. polo team crushed the Soviet juggernaut, In this way, there is nothing new under less than a month after Soviet troops and the sun, only new shadows cast, themselves tanks violently crushed the Hungarian Rev- inseparable from seeds sown in earlier days. olution, in what would come to be known as the “Blood in the Water” match?

Michael Stauch is a second-year Ph.D. candidate Is there a heart beating blood that didn’t in history. His column runs every other Friday.

lettertotheeditor More should volunteer to host library party I would like to thank The Chronicle for covering the obstacles to planning the library party this year, and for the Feb. 19 editorial, “Too quiet in the library.” I appreciate the issues raised by the editorial, but want to clarify one point.

In the best possible world, we would receive numerous creative proposals for the party from student groups. The reality is that I have been approached each year by only one or perhaps two groups with ideas. This year, the Duke Partnership for

Service was alone in presenting a proposal, so rather than selecting theirs from among many (as the editorial implies), we encouraged them to plan the party.

It didn’t work out, for reasons that are well explained in The Chronicle article, but I want to reiterate my interest in continuing to host a library party, and I invite interested student groups to put their creativity to work in developing proposals for future events.

Deborah Jakubs Vice Provost for Library Affairs

The politics of independence

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n case you missed both the news article and editorial in Monday’s Chronicle, let me fill you in. Independents now have a new reason to wear their letters, GDI, with pride, thanks to the formation of the Group of Duke Independents.

If you did read the editorial or article, here’s something else that hasn’t been in the paper quite so recently. In September 1995, independents celebrated a reason to wear three different letters—ISA—with the creation of the Independent Students Association.

That month, The Chronicle ran an eliza french editorial, “Unaffiliated voices,” which je ne sais quoi articulates many of the same hopes and concerns surrounding the new group that Monday’s “A voice for the silent majority” does about GDI. Both acknowledge the unfair structure of Duke’s bureaucracy that necessitates the proliferation of “interest groups,” and both identify the difficulties inherent in representing the interests of a heterogeneous subset of the student population without homogenizing them in the process.

That’s right. In 1995, when I was running around playing boyschase-girls at recess and sneaking bites of play-doh during activity time, the issue of securing equal housing and other important rights for independents was already an established issue on campus. And students were taking a new approach to address it.

Fifteen years later, I have since outgrown at least one of the aforementioned childish tendencies. I realize 15 years is a relatively shorter time period in the lifespan of a well-established institution than a maturing young adult. Still, it is reasonable to expect some progress on such a pressing issue in more than a decade.

Instead, students are still struggling to gain fair access to the University’s resources. Monday’s editorial explicitly states that “[a] formal organization should not be necessary to uphold the rights of independent students,” and the 1995 editorial stops just short of pointing out the unfairness in a system in which “[t]he flow of information on campus from students to administrators has been dominated by organized groups.”

It seems that students have been complaining about this structure for years. True, we may have been participating in it all the while. But when the alternative to following a paradigm that has proven ineffective and may conflict with our personal ideologies is continued disenfranchisement and neglect by the administration, our choice is made for us.

We are forced to compromise and grant some of our incomplete independence to an imperfect group.

The power—and responsibility—lies ultimately with the administration to shift the conversations currently taking place between acronyms and entities back down to a more basic, personal level.

At this point, I have to admit that I don’t have any brilliant ideas for how to initiate this type of dialogue. I know that we can’t all have a personal meeting with Larry Moneta to whine about how we got shafted in RoomPix and wound up in Edens sophomore year or how malfunctioning doors sometimes lock us into our Central Campus apartments. But there has to be some alternative to this politicized game of compromises that produces only ineffectual results.

Of course, some of the housing negotiations could have been prevented before they began if the administration had acted with more foresight. Maybe it wasn’t possible to predict the Central Campus quagmire. But to me it seems pretty obvious that such an isolated area that the University has failed to integrate socially into the campus as a whole would be the least desirable housing option for the majority of students. Since SLGs and fraternities stayed on West, there was no group to make noise and complain through the usual outlets about lack of buses, poor maintenance and safety issues on Central.

Given the situation, the University was either extremely shortsighted or under-handed in its conception of Central Campus. I hate to believe that either case is true. And if there were ever an appropriate time for the administration to prove such accusations wrong, it is now.

Students, however naive we may be, are newly galvanized to resolve the ever-contentious and endlessly complicated housing dilemma. But, as our history shows, we can only accomplish so much on our own.

It remains to be seen whether GDI will eventually assume its new meaning in the campus vernacular. The most important questions stemming from the formation of GDI don’t concern the contradictions inherent in the group itself, but rather the inefficacy of the greater campus bureaucratic structure.

Most of the commentary on student groups for independents see these organizations as amplifying students’ “voice” in campus dialogue. The 1995 editorial even describes the ISA as a “microphone” for independents. I think the conversation is already loud enough.

We don’t need anything else that merely adds to all the noise. We need the administration to step up close enough to hear each of us over the crowd.

Eliza French is Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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