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FDA warns against caffeine, alcohol mix by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE
First Tailgate, now Four Loko. The Food and Drug Administration contacted 14 companies that produce alcoholic energy beverages Wednesday— including the makers of the popular Four Loko brand—calling the addition of caffeine to their products an “unsafe food additive” and warning that continued production of the drinks will result in prosecution. In response to the letter, a number of beverage producers have decided to remove caffeine from their alcoholic products. Although there are a number of drinks similar to Four Loko, it is currently the most popular such drink among students. Bottled in colorful, 23.5-ounce cans, it contains 12 percent alcohol and an undisclosed amount of caffeine. Some students on campus were indifferent to the news, but others opposed the FDA’s actions. Junior Scott Anderson said he believes the removal of caffeine from the highly alcoholic concoction will not have much effect on student behavior. “People will find ways to drink irresponsibly one way or another,” he said. “Before Four Loko there was irresponsible drinking, and there will be irresponsible drinking after Four Loko.” Senior Michael Krekel called the situation “pretty ridiculous,” adding that the beverage is “really no different than any drink you could mix on your own.” See four loko on page 5
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Group seeks involvement in int’l programs by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE
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In light of the Food and Drug Administration’s recent warnings against the combination of alcohol and caffeine in Four Loko drinks, some students are heading to local stores while the product is still available.
The Academic Council established a new committee Thursday that will assess Duke’s global initiatives to increase faculty involvement in international planning. The Global Priorities Committee, which will consist of 12 to 14 faculty members, is responsible for monitoring global programs. “We feel it is important to have a strong faculty voice in these global projects,” said Chair Craig Henriquez, professor of biomedical engineering. Although this committee increases the number of approvals necessary to authorize a global project, Henriquez said he hopes the GPC will develop a more expedient process to encourage faculty involvement. Henriquz pointed to Duke’s new campus in Kunshan, China which was approved “faster than the faculty was even ready for,” as an example of projects in which faculty members can be more involved. See academic on page 5
American students find ways around Chinese censorship by Sony Rao
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Students studying abroad in China sometimes use Duke’s Virtual Private Network to gain access to websites blocked by the government.
When imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize in early October, Chinese state media immediately blacked out the news. But the censorship of Liu, who was involved in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, does not mark the first time censorship issues have arisen in the country. As Duke expands its academic and service programs abroad, such censorship issues are increasingly relevant to American academia. Regarding limitations on the curriculum taught to students in China, Yan Li, program director at the Asian Pacific Studies Institute and an administrator of Duke’s study abroad programs in China, explained that although faculty members are not restricted in the content of their lectures, they understand that there are certain limitations to what they can discuss. “Faculty organize their classes as they see fit, but we do occasionally have to remind them that China has restrictions, and they have to be aware of how far they can go on certain topics,” Li wrote in an e-mail. Ralph Litzinger, a cultural anthropology professor and director of DukeEngage Beijing, said he plans to cover topics such as HIV and AIDS, prostitution and show several docu-
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mentary films, though some of those topics may be banned in China. Litzinger noted that certain issues such as Liu’s Nobel Prize cannot be openly discussed in the country. “Duke has a long tradition of critical studies around feminism, globalization, sexuality, film—everything,” Litzinger said. “The question is, when we go to China are we going to give up that tradition?” As Duke’s programs in China continue to grow, Litzinger noted that faculty members will have to be more strategic in maintaining spaces for open deliberation and discussion. And Duke is not the only institution establishing programs in Asia. According to a recent Institute of International Education study, study abroad programs in China saw a 3.9 percent increase in U.S. students in 2008-2009. The report concluded that students are increasingly interested in Asian and South American study abroad programs, in comparison to programs in Western Europe. In addition to censorship of certain topics that could be taught in the classroom, China periodically censors access to websites like Gmail and Facebook. Both sites were among several web pages that were inaccessible in China this summer. See china on page 5
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Campus Council representatives addressed their primary concerns with the new house model for West and Central campuses in discussions with administrators at the group’s meeting Thursday. Since the University decided to move from its current quad plan to the house model by 2012, administrators have been in conversation with Campus Council. Donna Lisker, associate vice provost for undergraduate education, and Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for Residence Life and Housing Services, co-chair the committee heading the transition. “We have what we know, we can tell you what we’re still working on and lastly we have unaddressed questions,” Lisker said. “This is the first third of the process and there are a lot of unanswered questions.” Because the University deemed an early ’90s house model a failure, issues must be ironed out for future success, Gonzalez said. Some students were concerned that in order for the plan work, a significant number of sophomores would need to live on Central Campus, which would require removing the perceived negative stigma associated with the campus. A council representative and Central resident pointed out that policies that “pushed” returning study-abroad juniors to Central perpetuate the idea that it is a lesser campus than West. Leslie Andriani, a junior, said that both campuses will require a diverse yet identifiable community. In order to
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achieve this, she proposed a system similar to the one that determined freshman housing, in which students are placed together based on their responses to about 13 lifestyle questions. But senior Johnathan Pryor, vice president and policy chair, introduced a potential issue with this model. “If there is a house that has a personality that I identify with, then I would rather pick it myself than have a computer pick for me,” Pryor said. Furthermore, people may be tempted to lie on these types of surveys about key information such as smoking or drink-
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ing, in accordance with knowledge about houses they wish to get into, said Jeremy Ruch, a sophomore and public relations chair. Another fear was that this sort of system would foster exclusive houses with individual identities similar to greek life. “We don’t want this to be a campuswide fraternity and sorority recruitment,” Lisker said. At the end of the meeting, Gonzales admitted there are several details to be worked out. Lisker said she hopes,
NCCU Chancellor Charlie Nelms addressed present problems facing historically black colleges and universities and the need for inter-university collaboration and student community during his appearance at Duke yesterday. Race relations continue to influence politics and society on multiple levels, he said, including at North Carolina State University, a public HBCU located in Durham. “[HBCUs] were designed to have less than other institutions—you can’t undo the 80 years during which [they] didn’t have as much funding,” Nelms said. “Even though the social landscape has changed... America has not dealt successfully with the issue of race.” A college student during the civil rights era, Nelms insisted on the need for leadership to rest on an understanding of personal heritage. Acknowledging the setting of the discussion—the Duke Chapel—he then maintained that religious language can be used to understand the process of social change. “Race is a part of our contemporary history, but we don’t always see it,” Nelms said, noting the similarity of racial
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nelms from page 3 awareness to religious experience. Each process, he maintained, is one of “conversion, in which people come to see things differently and know that they need to make things better.� The public event was the second installment of the Dean’s Dialogue series titled “Listening to the Heart of Durham.� The events are a series of public conversations between Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells and academic deans at Duke or members of the greater Durham community. Last week’s talk with Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez began the dialogue series with a discussion of poverty, immigration reform and Duke-Durham relations—themes yesterday’s event continued to examine.
Referring to racism as a “present-tense issue,� Wells asked Nelms for his response to an increasing Latino immigrant population in North Carolina. “Here in Durham, we have enough of a diverse population we can build on,� Nelms said. “We need to employ that diversity to attack some of the issues of under-attainment and poverty.� Toward the end of the discussion, both academic leaders acknowledged the need for collaboration between universities. “We both have civic engagement as a part of our mission,� said Nelms. “How can we do that in a more collaborative kind of fashion, where it is better resourced, and it is more sustainable?� Peggy Whiting, NCCU professor of education, said she appreciated the discussion’s focus on inter-university cooperation. “The takeaway for me was an invitation
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to collaborate... to do our part in forwarding collaboration and understanding and social action,� Whiting said. Because this Fall’s dialogues are focused on Durham issues, Wells stressed the need for Duke students to become more critically engaged in their local community. “There’s something glamorous about traveling around the world to ask questions whose answers lie perhaps two miles away,� Wells said. He commented tongue-in-cheek on the low turnout of the event—roughly 30 community members as well as students and faculty from Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill attended. “And the irony is that we try pretty hard to maintain a relationship with NCCU by arranging these expensive events that aren’t usually full,� Wells said.
cc from page 3 however, that by the Spring they will have enough questions answered to hand out forms to East, West and Central campus students to obtain their input as well. In other business: After surveying members and leaders of the three selective living groups on Central—Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, the Panhellenic Association, and Ubuntu—the council passed legislation outlining future policies for selective living groups on Central Campus. The policies will provide groups with a clear list of amenities as well as renovate common rooms and bathrooms to improve safety. The council also voted to block out a section of Central Campus for these groups.
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Gregory Jones, vice president and vice provost of global strategy and programs, gave a presentation at the Academic Council meeting Thursday.
four loko from page 1 In anticipation of the drink’s impending alteration, Krekel bought around 100 cans of Four Loko, with the intent of possibly buying more. He added he knows four or five people who did the same. Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center, said that despite the risks he believes such beverages pose, there have been no specific incidents on campus with alcoholic energy drinks. The administration is not currently considering a ban of the drinks on campus, he added. But even without caffeine, he said that students should be wary of drinking beverages like Four Loko. “It’s not going to be a safe drink with the caffeine removed—each can is equivalent to four [standard alcoholic] drinks,” he said. Phusion Products, the Chicago-based maker of Four Loko, decided to follow the FDA’s recommendations even though it disputes the agency’s assertions. In a statement Tuesday, the company’s founders said that if the combination of alcohol and caffeine is as unsafe as the FDA claims, then “popular drinks like rum and colas or Irish coffees that have been consumed safely and responsibly for years would face the same scrutiny that our products have recently faced.” There have also been claims that Four Loko is targeted toward minors with its fruity flavors and colorful packaging. But the company’s representatives noted that their product formulas and packaging were reviewed and approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau before being sold in the market. “We are taking this step after trying—unsuccessfully— to navigate a difficult and politically-charged regulatory environment at both the state and federal levels,” the statement said. In a statement released last Friday, Gov. Bev Perdue asked the manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks to voluntarily withdraw their products from North Carolina until they are proven safe. The N.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission voted yesterday to allow state retailers to return alcoholic energy drinks to wholesalers for credit, effective immediately. “Teenagers and college students are drinking these drinks and ending up in the hospital,” the governor’s statement noted. “The time to act on this is now, before we are faced with the death of one of our young people. The only responsible way to allow these drinks on our shelves is to first carefully review their health effects.”
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Council members praised the creation of the committee, noting that faculty presence in global projects is necessary. “The [GPC] could be most helpful establishing guidelines and priorities,” said Susan Lozier, chair of the Academic Council Committee on Undergraduate Education Before the council voted on the committee, Gregory Jones, vice president and vice provost of global strategy and programs, updated the council on his office’s current pursuits. Jones said he attended several meetings in China regarding the Kunshan initiative, but deferred discussion of the project until the council’s December meeting. In addition to expansions in Asia, Jones hinted at creating Duke programs in Brazil. Programs have not been created there in the past mainly due to the Portuguese language barrier, he said. There are two significant Duke research projects in Brazil, which Jones said have already generated name recognition. There is significant demand for education reform in Brazil, which Jones said is another incentive for expansion in the region. “When the Nicholas School [of the Environment] goes to the Amazon, that’s not where the [Fuqua School of Business] is going to go. They’re going to go down to Sao Paulo. Undergraduates who want to study abroad in Brazil, they’re going to want to go to Rio,” Jones said, pointing to different opportunities in the country.
Despite government censorship and bans of these sites, Duke students and faculty find that they are able to work around Internet restrictions. Duke has established a virtual private network, which provides a secure connection allowing faculty and students to access the Duke network from remote locations. But accessing certain websites has posed problems for students studying abroad with other universities. Students at Binghamton University in New York were unable to access their school e-mail accounts earlier this year because their university was caught in the cross-fire of China’s ban on Google servers, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Litzinger, who will be teaching as part of Duke’s Global Semester Abroad Program in India and China this Spring, said despite the issue of website censorship, intellectual and political discussion are still active on the web. “There is free speech in China and open discourse,” Litzinger said. “Probably the most active democratic space is the Chinese Internet. Websites are incredibly dynamic and, although they get shut down periodically, people find ways to get around it.” Litzinger, who has been teaching and doing research in China since the mid-1980s, compared the level of intellectual engagement in China to that of the United States, adding that the Chinese people he met were very interested in social and political issues. Even so, DukeEngage student Courtney Liu, a sophomore who taught arts education classes to middle school students in Zhuhai, China this summer, said DukeEngage students were advised not to discuss politics openly during their stay in China. “We were told that it’s not polite to talk about politics at dinner and to avoid talking about controversial topics. Basically, we were told to respect other cultures,” Liu said. However, Liu noted that the Chinese government was pleased that American students were teaching in the country. The Chinese press covered the students’ activities in Zhuhai and representatives of the Communist Party attended the arts program’s final performance, she said. As Duke begins to expand its educational ventures in China with the 200-acre Kunshan campus, which is scheduled to begin operations in January 2012, Duke administrators acknowledged the importance of respecting Chinese laws while creating and sustaining educational programs across the world. “China, like any international setting, is a place where we have to learn our way thoughtfully by engaging relevant decision-makers and understanding the culture,” Gregory Jones, vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs, wrote in an e-mail. “There certainly are constraints within which we must work and seek to understand while preserving Duke’s integrity.”
In other business: The council approved seniors Katherine Buse, Alan Guo and Maria Huang as the 2010-2011 recipients of the Faculty Scholar Award. Seniors Caitlin Drescher and Jared Dunnmon were recognized with honorable mentions. The Faculty Scholar Award is the highest honor given to undergraduate seniors by faculty members. Benjamin Ward, chair of the Faculty Scholar Award Committee, expressed admiration for this year’s winners. “These students have done truly remarkable and outstanding things,” he said. The council also approved the language of a new summer salary policy in the Faculty Handbook. In previous years, summer funding was given out at the beginning of the month for a particular grant, and faculty members would be limited to a single project. Now, salary and grant money will be distributed so that faculty members can participate in more than one project without putting Duke at risk for being audited.
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Finley suspended indefinitely
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Amid the hoopla of Duke’s 2-1 first-round win over Coastal Carolina Thursday was a conspicuous absence on the field—Ryan Finley. Finley has been suspended from the team indefinitely, the athletic department announced in a press release. When asked why Finley would be suspended at Duke’s most important time of the year, head coach John Kerr was curt. “Just a little bit of a disciplinary issue,” he said. The short explanation issued from the sports information department stated that the sophomore “has been suspended indefinitely for violation of team rules, effective immediately.” The athletic department had no other comment. Finley is Duke’s leading goal-scorer and the NCAA’s leading scorer on a per game basis. He won ACC Offensive Player of the Year, becoming just the second Blue Devil to ever take the award. Before his suspension, he was tied with Ali Curtis and Pato Gutierrez for Duke’s single-season goal record. Kerr was short when discussing if Finley would be allowed to return for Duke’s second round game or any other matches the Blue Devils might play. “I don’t know yet. We haven’t gone there yet, and we’ll see.” —from staff reports
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The Blue Devils lost their most productive offensive player before the game even started Thursday night, leaving fans wondering who would pick up the scoring slack. Senior Cole Grossman answered the call, taking mat2 DUKE ters into his own COAST 1 hands after Duke trailed early. The midfielder scored a pair of secondhalf goals and led the Blue Devils past Coastal Carolina 2-1 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Koskinen Stadium. “We just weren’t going to be denied tonight in the second half,” head coach John Kerr said. “We went out there, and we knew we just had to keep our discipline defensively and keep attacking them.” The Blue Devils elected to replace the suspended Finley up top with Grossman, but Duke seemed deflated in the opening stages of the contest. The team suffered another setback when defender Matthew Thomas went down with an injury in the first minute of play. Thomas ran into the sideline fence chasing a ball and dislocated his shoulder, missing the rest of the first half. The Blue Devils could only string a LARSA AL-OMAISHI/The Chronicle
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Cole Grossman came through for Duke Thursday, scoring two goals late in the game to lead Duke past Coastal.
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After last weekend’s comeback attempt against Boston College fell just four yards short in the last minute of the contest, Duke was officially eliminated from bowl game contention. With this season essentially finished, the Blue Devils’ coaches Duke focused on building the team for next vs. Georgia year at the postgame team meeting, sophTech omore running back Desmond Scott said. SATURDAY, 1:30 p.m. Atlanta, Georgia “We have two games left, we are going to try to win those games, but the preparation for next year starts now,” he said. According to head coach David Cutcliffe, there are still a few tasks the Blue Devils are trying to achieve this year, though. Among them are improving their 3-7 record, finishing higher than their current last-place standing in the ACC Coastal division and adding a statement victory to this
It has been smooth sailing for the No. 1 Blue Devils through the first two games of the season. The balanced offensive attack and strong defense have led to a 97-60 win over Princeton Nov. 4 and a 79-45 victory over Miami (Ohio) Tuesday. Tonight Duke looks to keep up the momentum as it takes on Colgate at 8:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. “We are improving,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Our kids are playing very hard so we have to keep building.” Part of this improvement has been figuring out which combinations of players work best for the team and where the chemistry lies. Sophomore Ryan Kelly got the start on Tuesday night, which enabled sophomore Mason Plumlee to play under the basket for the majority of the game. Plumlee responded well to the lineup change, posting his first career double-double, and leading the
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Desmond Scott said Duke’s coaching staff focused its attention toward building the team for next year.
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Andre Dawkins and the Blue Devils have blown out their first two opponents. Colgate awaits tonight.
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After an up-and-down regular season, the Blue Devils are free from the rigors of their brutal conference schedule and have finally found some consistency in the NCAA Tournament. Tonight, Duke gets another chance to show how much the team has grown with a match against No. 3-seed Oklahoma No. 3 State (19-3-2) in the Okla. St. Sweet 16 in Stillwater, vs. Okla. “We are extremely Duke young, and that’s led to our little inconsisFRIDAY, 8 p.m. tency,” head coach Stillwater, Okla. Robbie Church said. “But [the freshmen] are not young anymore; they’ve played a lot of minutes.... That’s what the ACC does for you—the ACC hardens you.” Nevertheless, the Blue Devils (11-7-4) will have their hands full against a very confident Cowgirl team. Oklahoma State won the regular season and the conference tournament in the Big 12 and is playing in the Sweet 16 for the first time in school history. The Cowgirls play a direct attack—very different from what Duke has seen in the ACC—and are led by a formidable front line, featuring senior forward Krista Lopez, who has 14 goals this season. Lopez’s flanking forwards in Oklahoma State’s 4-3-3 formation are also scoring threats. Sophomore Megan Marchesano has scored seven goals this year and senior Katie Richardson has chipped in six. Duke center back Ashley Rape, who is from Texas and is familiar with many of the players in the Big 12, insisted that the Blue Devils will be ready for the challenge. “Right now, our defense is at its best,” Rape said. “We’ve kind of learned from every game as we’ve gone on, and it’s great right now because we’re kind of at the top of our game at the right time.... We’ve already played the best forwards in the country. While [Oklahoma State’s] forwards are up there, it’s nothing we haven’t seen.” The Cowgirls’ physicality extends to their defense, anchored by sophomore goalkeeper Adrianna Franch. Oklahoma State hasn’t conceded more than one goal in regulation in its last eight games. Duke, however, will welcome back to the lineup freshman forward Mollie Pathman, who has scored eight goals this
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Laura Weinberg thinks Duke can use its speed to beat the Cowgirls, saying they are not good 1-vs.-1. season but missed the first two games of the Tournament with the flu. Her absence forced the Blue Devils into a 4-42 against Florida, and though the team dominated possession against the Gators, Duke was unable to find the back of the net in 110 minutes of play. Pathman’s return will allow the Blue Devils to be flexible with their shape against the Cowgirls. Fellow freshman forward Laura Weinberg believes that regardless of the formation, the two freshmen have the skill set to counteract Oklahoma State’s back line. “The fact that they’re pretty physical and big... we can use that to our advan-
tage,” Weinberg said. “We can use our speed to beat them because I don’t think they’re very good 1-vs.-1 defenders.” The Blue Devils will be facing their second consecutive hostile crowd in the Tournament. But after defeating Florida on its home turf, Duke is convinced that it has the fortitude to advance to the Elite Eight for the third time in four years. “As the Tournament goes on and you play tougher and tougher teams, you have to know how to come back when you’re down, win a game when you have few opportunities and figure out how to play under that pressure—I think our team is ready to do that,” Rape said. “The do-ordie situation brings out the best in us.”
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Senior Rebecca Allen, an Oklahoma-native, will be heading home for Friday night’s game against the formidable third-seeded Oklahoma State Cowgirls.
The Blue Devils only need one win in their last three games to clinch the ACC championship and the automatic NCAA Tournament berth that comes with it, but that doesn’t mean they’re losing sight of their larger goals. The team’s first chance to get the championship-clinching win will come tonight against Virginia Tech, which pulled Virginia off an upset against Tech Duke Oct. 14. The vs. next opportunity presents itself SaturDuke day against Virginia (13-14, 7-10 in the FRIDAY, 4 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium ACC) in the team’s final home game of the season. Virginia The Blue Devils (22-5, 14-3) see vs. these games as an opportunity to Duke not only close out their conference SATURDAY, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor Stadium championship but also improve their résumé for the NCAA Tournament selection committee. “We want to try to control our own destiny,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “It’s not only for an ACC championship that we’d like to do that, but... also going into the NCAA Tournament to help ourselves get the best seed possible.” One benefit of getting a high seed might be a home game in the Tournament, which would be a huge boon to a Duke team that’s been particularly successful in the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Blue Devils have racked up a spectacular 11-1 home record—their only loss coming more than two months ago at the hands of then-No. 12 Minnesota. According to Nagel, it’s unclear whether Duke—which sits at No. 12 in the RPI standings—has a chance at securing home matchups in early-round play. But she thinks that the athletic department’s willingness to host games might give them a chance to do so—provided they win out. Although the Cavaliers will almost definitely miss out on postseason play, the Hokies (18-9, 9-8) are No. 35 in the RPI. Duke knows that a win over Virginia Tech would impress the Tournament’s selection committee, but the Hokies will be hungry for a win to keep their own postseason hopes alive. “[Last time] they played a great match and took us out of our game,” Nagel said. “We know we’ve got a lot that we have to try to do in order to be successful against them.” The next night against Virginia, the team will celebrate the seniors’ contributions in pre- and post-game ceremonies, as that might be their last chance to play in Cameron. But the seniors— and the rest of the team—want to keep the season going, especially if it means another chance to play in front of the home crowd.
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m. soccer from page 6 handful of passes together, even though they were clearly the more talented team in terms of ball skills and passing. Coastal Carolina, meanwhile, resorted to the long ball, hoping to pick out the heads of 6-foot-1 Joe Anderson and 6-foot-3 Pedro Ribeiro. MORE The Chanticleers used their ONLINE size to their advantage when they scored the game’s first Check out a blog post goal in the 23rd minute off the with Cole Grossman’s head of senior midfielder Ross Kelly. Kristoffer Sandtroen sent best ever quotes. a perfect cross to the center of sports.chronicleblogs. the box from the right wing afcom ter running onto a through ball, and Kelly beat the Duke defense, nodding the ball past goalkeeper James Belshaw. “I think we actually were pretty flat until they scored,” Grossman said. “Then I felt like it was just an absolute
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domination.” Indeed, the Blue Devils had 10 more shots than Coastal Carolina in the first half, but only two of them were on target. Sophomore center back Andrew Wenger—the ACC Defensive Player of the Year—provided the most fruitful attacking opportunities for Duke. He made stellar runs through the heart of the midfield, easily maneuvering past defenders, but all of his six first-half shots went wide of goal. “We recognized when we scouted Coastal that there were some gaps there for [Wenger] to exploit, and he’s such a good player and makes good decisions on the ball,” Kerr said. Despite trailing by a goal, Duke went into the locker room at halftime “extremely confident,” according to Grossman, and the Blue Devils were finally able to translate that attitude into dominant play when the final period began. Thomas recovered from his injury and returned to the back line, contributing vital pressure up the left side of the field. Duke quickly began to stockpile possession and kept the ball in their offensive third of the field for much of the half. “We were resilient tonight,” Kerr said. “We came out in the second half with some real pride and some real energy. We worked the angles right, we got in the box and we got
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Hungry for change Vice President for Stu- ized dining model. Or, it can dent Affairs Larry Moneta rely more on non-contracted announced Monday that stu- vendors and move toward a dents could expect big chang- laisseiz-faire food court modes from Duke Dining in 2012. el. Sticking with the present This is good news—a new chimera of a dining model is model for dinnot an option. ing at Duke is Contracted editorial long overdue. vendors—like But any revision to dining the Great Hall and the Marwill have to reckon with an op- ketplace—allow the Universiposition that currently defines ty to control the dining expeDuke Dining—that between rience. Duke’s contract with contracted and non-contract- Bon Appétit supports the cured vendors. This opposition rent freshmen dining experigives rise to the perennial din- ence at the Marketplace. ing problems—lack of comContracted vendors also munity and a roughly $2 mil- have the disadvantage of belion financial deficit. ing out-competed by nonTo resolve this opposition, contracted vendors and offDuke needs to decide between campus restaurants. Because two courses. It can seek better the bon vivants among us terms with Bon Appétit—the prefer Merchants on Points vendor Duke contracts with— and non-contracted vendors and pursue a more central- to Great Hall fare, dining rev-
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enue is $2 million less than the amount it costs to contract with Bon Appétit. These financial difficulties are further exacerbated by the high cost of unionized labor and year-round contracts. Non-contracted vendors, on the other hand, tend to be financially successful—if they were not, they would have no reason to be at Duke. But they also give Duke less control over what kind of dining options are available. A move toward all non-contracted vendors might cast the future of the Marketplace, for instance, into doubt. Which direction should Duke Dining move in? First, the University should seek better terms with Bon Appétit when it renegotiates the contract next year. For contracted vendors to compete with non-
contracted vendors the quality of food must increase and the operating costs must go down. If the renewed contract incorporates these changes the dining deficit will be reduced and contracted vendors will be able to operate successfully. If these gains are not feasible, however, the University should pursue a shift to the “food court” model. Noncontracted vendors do not contribute to the dining deficit and would not impact the dining experience in an overwhelmingly negative way. Using non-contracted vendors exclusively may mean that the University would no longer be able to guarantee healthy eating options. But if student demand for healthy foods were high enough, health food vendors would compete to be on
Duke’s campus. Furthermore,non-contracted vendors do not necessarily pose a threat to communityoriented dining. Communityoriented dining is not about who we buy food from—it is about where we eat the food. Right now, contracted vendors like the Great Hall seem to promote community because they occupy large dining halls. But non-contracted vendors could accomplish the same thing were they given the space to do so. The community dining problem at Duke is not about vendors but space. If Duke can fix the current system by renegotiating its dining contract, it should. But if not, it must have the gumption to remake Duke Dining without burdensome contracts.
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ast Wednesday, London students rioted in re- tions to light. But it seems to generally suffer from sponse to the English government’s proposals a premature maligning by social apologists that to cut spending on education. A protest out- keeps its benefits, as well as its actual disadvantages, side of the Conservative Party headquarters descend- from being taken into serious consideration in any ed into chaos, and the steps of Parliament found sort of legitimate setting, thus depriving the public themselves steeped in resistance as of an investigation into a potential well. Over 50,000 citizens from all solution to one of its biggest issues. over the country gathered to show Sometimes it seems that, unlike the their distaste for the reforms, which English, we’d prefer to continue to would allow English universities to throw money at a defunct system in hike the price of tuition to between hopes of resolving its problems by two- and four-fold its current cost. drowning them with paper. Although inflation in the price of That is, however, a bigger topic education is, for some reason, akin to than can be dealt with in a single chris bassil a violation of rights in the minds of discussion, and so perhaps it’s just a minute many, the actual numbers paint a difbest to maintain instead our focus ferent picture, especially when brought on methods of higher education, before an American audience. Tuition as it is now in where there is one alternative that we have yet to England stands at an annual cap for each university consider. of $5,264, and the proposed cut in subsidy would What if, instead of attending an English univerbring that cap as high as $14,400. And although the sity or an American university or a public university latter figure represents a gross increase relative to the or a private university, you had selected a plan in former, it’s actually surprisingly close to the standard which you were given four years, as well as room in the U.S., where in 2008 the average annual cost of and board, in order to achieve your own educatuition at state schools was $13,424, while the number tion? Semi-annual payments to the tune of what for private institutions was over twice as high. you would have paid in tuition would be yours to In order to grasp the sense of injustice at the cen- allocate as you saw fit, and whatever you saved in ter of the English reaction to the proposed policies, exorbitant dining and housing fees could be put it’s worth taking a look at the differences between toward the eventual conception of your career. their system and ours, with a special focus on the tenIt’s a grand idea and, were it viable, would rival sion between public and private education (it’s also in the mind that of attending a university. Free from helpful to note that the meanings of these terms distraction, its efficiency would be unparalleled and, are, for historical reasons, inverted in England). The for those capable of the sort of discipline it would numbers in primary and secondary schooling are require, it could yield impressive personal and finannot drastically dissimilar between the island and its cial returns. Unfortunately, it amounts to little more former colony, as 7 percent of English students pay than a fairy tale, because without faculty interaction, to attend privately-run institutions, with about 11 per- constructive feedback, access to expensive equipcent of American students choosing to do the same. ment and the ever-important name recognition and As far as higher education goes, English students are networking, not to mention the education in social not afforded the same choices. All English universi- interaction, it’s tough to buy that such a set-up would ties, save for the unique example of the University of actually prepare a student for the real world. Then Buckingham, which receives no direct state funding, again, that’s a harsh reality that gets at the intersecare financed by the government. tion of personal preparation and the attainment of This, of course, comes into direct contrast with knowledge, and where our definition of education the largely autonomous (and globally rare) system actually lies. from which we benefit here in the U.S. and at Duke, At the moment, there doesn’t really seem to be an as made possible by the Tenth Amendment. The de- answer to any of this. The relative values of education bate rages on—as one can rest assured that it most are conglomerations of national policies and personal likely always will—both here and abroad as to the preference, of political talking points and theoretical relative benefits of a privatized system of education. philosophies. But that tells us that we’ve yet to discovHowever, the recent developments in the U.K. have er the true standard and, until we do, it’s worth breakto suggest at least a sense of relief that arises from ing away from and reframing our paradigms so as to the choice that comes from a system such as ours. better assess the nature of education and the ways in To take things a step further, the argument for the which we can improve our varied approaches to it. complete privatization of the school system, which is in no way novel and has been made many, many Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs evtimes before, also brings some interesting reflec- ery Friday.
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I am what I eat
In the waning weeks of 2010 and with children for the holidays. The travelers’ Thanksgiving around the corner, I be- tales we’re likely to hear in the weeks to came reminded it’s been a tough year. come will not likely be happy ones. It’s What was to become a true annus hor- a sorry world. ribilis began when rheumatoid arthritis The bicycle race season ended for and the complications of me last Saturday, and its therapy finally took my the musings above were mother. The hillside farmamong the many thoughts house in a remote part of I had in between minding central Vermont where the data I was generating she made her home didn’t as I completed the race, make visits there for her and trying to keep myDurham family easy, but self upright and turning thank God for Southwest pedals over on the thomas sporn the Airlines and the Manbike. The race itself was table for one chester New Hampshire aira 112 mile monster out port. Despite having good of Wrightsville Beach, medical care, she suffered wending its way inland mightily at the end, and as a physician then back to the Cape Fear River and a it was difficult to stand by helplessly, or grand finish at the USS North Carolina try in vain to make her better. As a son it battleship in Wilmington. An individual was heartbreaking. Thank God, too, for event, there were no pacelines, no camahospice nurses. raderie or conversations in the pack to Here at Duke University Medical break up the tedium. The race provided Center it is increasingly difficult to ad- a pastoral setting as the sun broke and here to the noble institutional missions warmed roads through the newly barof teaching, patient care and research ren fields and forests of the Carolina as we try to do ever more with less re- coastal plain, the silence broken by the sources, and struggle with the rules, steady drone of the rear disk and deep regulations, never-ending paperwork dish front wheels, punctuated from time and bureaucratic chores imposed by the to time by the chirping and scolding reapparatus. It is often difficult in my own minders from my cycle computer to pick little corner of the world here at Duke up the pace and jack up the heart rate. to confer sense, order and explana- But there’s nothing like suffering, starktion to death and disease, with its hor- ness and incipient lactic acidosis to spark rific actors like childhood embryonal thoughts in the realm of the existential, rhabdomyosarcomas (You don’t want and somewhere around mile 50 there one of these. Trust me.) that surface headed my own, and some of the less inamong the mundane from time to time. coherent ones are described above. There’s the parade of reports, deposiOn the trip home, rehydrated and tions and affidavits to file, subpoenas equilibrium finally restored, I am finally to respond to as thoracic pathologists reminded that there remains much to become enmeshed and deeply involved be thankful for. The rest of my family is in the country’s endless and ongoing as- healthy. I am privileged to work alongbestos litigation. side great people and some of the finThe country is in horrible shape, est and most skillful physicians on the balkanized and bereft of leadership, planet here at Duke. And I am fortunate with only the promise of more partisan to occupy the preferred side of the glass bickering and infighting as our nation’s slide and microscope, the pathologist many problems remain unaddressed. rather than the specimen or its source, The economy’s in shambles, unemploy- at least for today. Over in England, ment and underemployment are at a my old friend Mike Pressler and Team disgraceful level and news from Iraq USA just won the Men’s World Lacrosse and Afghanistan remains bleak. There’s Championship, earning more than a cholera in Haiti, and the Germans an- measure of redemption and continunounce they have genug gehabt with ing to make those of us here at Duke multiculturalism. Our own populace who loved him and the Pressler famseems restive and annoyed at the dawn- ily proud. It’s basketball season. Winter ing of the holiday season. As if airline around here will come and go quickly. travel wasn’t stressful enough during And finally, at least for me, we live in a these times, there’s now the prospect of state where middle-aged guys as well as full body scans or “aggressive pat-downs” younger men and women can still race and even longer delays at airport secu- their bicycles on quiet roads through rity as folks try to make their way home the forests and fields down at the coast or to see loved ones. I don’t detect a col- on a beautiful late autumn day in Nolective sigh of relief at the news of TSA’s vember. plans, or that anyone feels more safe in the knowledge that pensioners and the Dr. Thomas Sporn is an associate professor elderly will be scanned, patted down in the Department of Pathology. His column and frisked en route to see the grand- runs every other Friday.
he old adage says, “You are what the same books and more while in high you eat.” school and has since jumped into the In which case, I hope I can soon burgeoning Duke food scene as presisay “I am Duke.” dent of the Duke Community Garden. What I mean by that, of course, is that Located next to the Smart Home, the having eaten food grown Duke Community Garden locally and sustainably— was started in Fall of 2008. by Duke students on Duke It is run by undergraduland at a Duke farm—then ates and attracts its growers prepared and featured in mostly from the faculty and an eatery on campus, I staff populations. will be able to say, “I am A short hop away, the what I eat, I am Duke.” Honey Patch is another This is not a pipe on campus. Loliz bloomhardt garden dream, and it all started cated next to the Sarah P. green devil in a class: Professor CharDuke Gardens, the Honey lotte Clark’s “Food and Patch is operated largely by Energy.” Now holding the title of project Nicholas School students and the Duke manager for the farm, Emily Sloss, a Trin- Apiary Club, who make honey on the ity ’10 public policy major, told me “the site as well. idea for the Duke Campus Farm came These several existing food- and out of a research project to see if a farm garden-related groups on campus don’t would be feasible, and it was.” diminish the role of a farm. They enSo what started as a class project has hance it. Aiming for something the garturned into a full-fledged effort by sever- den groups have had limited success in al current and recent graduates to start accomplishing, the Duke Campus Farm the Duke Campus Farm. The Farm’s aims to partner with Bon Appétit, the mission, according to its website, is to food service company that manages the “educate the student body on sustain- Great Hall and East Union Marketplace, able farming practices, increase Duke’s and takes in roughly 30 percent of the sustainability and reconnect our genera- food revenue generated on campus. The tion with its food.” smaller garden projects have each faced Duke is not an agricultural school in hurdles trying to sell to Bon Appétit— the vein of public land grant universities, largely liability related—that a dedicated nor is this endeavor aiming in that direc- farm can overcome, especially with the tion. But, food is perhaps the most classic backing of administrators. of interdisciplinary subjects. It has impliThis is not a new or novel idea for Bon cations in health, environment, policy, Appétit, which touts a sustainable food economics, business and technology-re- philosophy that includes a commitment lated fields. In this sense, it fits the Duke to a 20 percent minimum allocation of model perfectly. food dollars to locally sourced goods We each follow our own journey toward from producers and growers. They have food awareness. For some, like Sloss—who also successfully partnered with campus comes from a family of farmers in Iowa—it farms and gardens at other schools. To can be inherited. “They are conventional encourage the idea, a student garden farmers,” she told me. “And it’s important, I guide is available on their website. It adrealized, that there was some sort of discon- dresses some of the issues that can hinder nect between their farming practices and a healthy relationship, emphasizing planhow I connected with my food.” ning, communication, customer expectaFor my turn, I ventured over to the li- tions, pricing and invoicing, all very relbrary. The last five years have seen a prolif- evant issues that fall on the business side eration in food-related exposés exploring of agriculture. the true nature of our national food systems. With plans to hold workshops and I started with “The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A incorporate class lessons with activities Natural History of Four Meals,” a book by on the Farm, the learning opportuniMicheal Pollon that follows the food chain ties are clear and limitless. This is a win from “earth to the plate” along an industrial, for Duke. pastoral and forest food chain. I then moved Support the gardens. Learn about to the couch to catch a few movies, starting your food. Support the farm. Connect. with the documentary film “King Corn,” “You can change the world [and Duke] before venturing into the more recent film one bite at a time.” (Food Inc.) “Food, Inc.” (Ah, movies. Sometimes reNote: The Duke Campus Farm will be search can be so fun.) I know I haven’t hit it holding its next work day this Saturday, all because each person I talked to in putting Nov. 20. Get more information and sign this column together has suggested another up at: http://sites.google.com/sites/ book or resource to add to my reading list. dukecampusfarm/. Perhaps representative of the recent blossoming of both Duke’s food scene Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate and the larger literary dialogue is Emily student in mechanical engineering. Her colMcGinty, a sophomore who discovered umn runs every other Friday.
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Rise to the president’s challenge I write in strong support of President Brodhead’s message to students to own their short time at Duke and, in his words, to accept the responsibility to visualize change, force discussion and take responsibility to reclaim a unique Duke experience from influences which seek to lessen or corrupt the experience. The Chronicle’s coverage of Brodhead’s call to action got me thinking about my return to campus this weekend, astounded that students have allowed the
administration of Wilson gym to be so antithetical to promoting student interests. I was particularly dismayed to realize that Duke’s immense Wilson Gym remains closed to students during home football games. It would seem to me that protecting the toilets and the floors from vomit is a weak argument for closing Duke’s only viable workout facility, considering the placement of a single off-duty Duke police officer at the front of the gym should be enough to allow it to operate without closure. Why do you let these folks get away with limiting your access?
Further, my research tells me that an element to the wider dialog the president is courageously calling on might also perhaps examine why, during these challenging economic times, Wilson Gym is staffed by an outside security service and not by Duke students? Wouldn’t it make more sense to pay Duke students who need jobs and struggle to afford a Duke education, and not an hourly wage roughly multiplied by two (for the agency fee) for every worker hired? During my wonderful four years at Duke, we wouldn’t have been pushed
aside so lightly by administrators who seem to place self-interest before student and Duke community interest. I encourage you to rise to the president’s challenge and visualize change and take responsibility for your own short, precious time at such a wonderful place as Duke. Start the dialog, eradicate bad decision making and embrace change. I am already cheering from the sidelines. Jeff Anton Trinity ’93
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m. basketball from page 6
each scored 10. “I thought the whole team played well,” said Kyle Singler. “We shared the ball well and played for all 40 minutes.” team on defense with a career-high 14 rebounds. Duke’s main weakness against the RedHawks was “Rebounding is always an emphasis, especially after an inability to convert at the free-throw line, shootbeing out-rebounded [vs. Princeton],” Plumlee said. ing just 67.7 percent. Krzyzewski stated after the “I think we’re playing great defensively.” game that they can’t miss that many free throws and Defense has also been key when they miss, they can’t for the Blue Devils thus far. miss them as badly as they did “It doesn’t matter who we Duke forced 27 turnovers Tuesday. against the Tigers and held the Following the matchup with play. Our goal is... to play RedHawks to just 33.3 percent the Raiders, the Blue Devils will hard throughout.” from the floor. travel to Kansas City to take “We played great defense — Kyrie Irving on Marquette and the winner throughout,” Krzyzewski said. of the Gonzaga/Kansas State “I’m pleased. That was a difgame. Krzyzewski said that ferent type of game for us to play.” Duke’s schedule is supposed to challenge them, yet it is The win over Miami was different on offense as crucial that Duke (2-0) does not overlook Colgate (0-2). well. The Blue Devils executed a very balanced attack The Raiders have only lost by a total of five points in their with everyone contributing. Sophomore Seth Curry first two games. led the way with 17 points, and freshman Kyrie Irving “It doesn’t matter who we play,” Irving said. “Our goal added 13, while Plumlee and senior Nolan Smith is always to go out and play hard.”
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Georgia Tech’s Paul Johnson said that Sean Renfree has played well lately, and he compared him to predecessor Thaddeus Lewis. year’s conference-play résumé. Duke (3-7, 1-5 in the ACC) is looking to make that statement Saturday at 1:30 p.m. versus Georgia Tech (5-5, 3-4) at Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta. Several of the Blue Devils’ defensive players said the matchup against the Yellow Jackets’ triple-option offense, a run-focused formation used by only a handful of college teams, is a favorable one for Duke. The Blue Devils have already played two other teams that run a similar offense, Army and Navy, and were pleased with their ability to stop the run. Duke beat bowl-eligible Navy 34-31 Oct. 30. Since Duke knew going into the season that it would see the triple-option attack three times this year, the defense began preparing to defend against it last spring. Cutcliffe said the defense practiced against a triple-option offense every day during offseason workouts, giving the Blue Devils confidence in their game plan. “Our coaches have given us a really, really great scheme against the triple-option,” freshman linebacker Kelby Brown said. “Watching us on film, you see how our defense and our schemes work with the triple option better than some other ones. You know if you and everyone else does their job, it’s probably going to stop the play.” Georgia Tech runs a slightly different version of the triple option. The Yellow Jackets have more formations, different blocking systems and the advantage of several allconference players at their disposal. Still, the Blue Devils aren’t planning to make any major changes on defense, Cutcliffe said. “We’ll have little change-ups, but we aren’t going to do anything drastic because I think the worst thing to do against the option is to try to outsmart yourself,” he said. “When you start getting cute, they’re going to burn you.” Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson is also preparing his squad for a different style of offense. Johnson told reporters in his weekly press conference that Duke has used the pistol formation—which is similar to the shotgun formation, except with the running back lined up behind the quarterback—more this year. In his diagnosis of Duke’s new offense, Johnson didn’t mention freshman quarterback Brandon Connette, who Cutcliffe has said is an essential part of the Blue Devils’ offense. Instead, Johnson compared quarterback Sean Renfree to his predecessor Thaddeus Lewis, now in the NFL with the St. Louis Rams. “They have changed a lot, they run a lot of pistol this year, and I don’t know that Renfree is the runner that [Thaddeus] Lewis was, but he has played well the last couple of games,” Johnson said. “He threw a lot of interceptions early, but he has cut back on that the last couple of games to give them a chance.” A chance to pick up another conference win against the defending ACC champions would certainly fulfill Cutcliffe’s goal of making a statement, even if Duke has shifted focus to next season.