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KANSAS CITY, Mo. Air Force may have been the veteran team, but it was the young Duke squad that made the necessary plays to pull out a 71-56 victory Monday in the semifinals.of the CBE Classic in Kansas City.

After a dominating first half in which the No. 9 Blue Devils (4-0) led by as many as 18, the Falcons (4-1) clawed back to cut the lead to seven with less than eight minutes remaining.

Air Force had two chances to make it a two possession game, but the Falcons missed a layup and an open three-pointer, and Duke took full advantage.

Following a Greg Paulus miss, Josh Mcßoberts kept the ball alive and DeMarcus Nelson split two defenders for a layup to put the Blue Devils up nine. On the next Duke possession, Jon Scheyer curled off a screen for a three, but his attempt was blocked by Jacob Burtschi. Mcßoberts got to the loose ball for the second straight play and kicked the ball out to Paulus. Andrew Henke nearly intercepted the pass, but Paulus caught it cleanly and buried a threepointer to put the Blue Devils ahead by 12, effectively ending the Air Force threat.

The Blue Devils hit 12-of-14 free throws and had just one turnover in the final four minutes to keep the game safely out of reach.

“Our guys showed a lot of poise tonight —it’s a young team in its first road game,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We played well, and they played well, and we were fortunate we won.”

Junior DeMarcus Nelson led the Blue Devils with 23 points as Duke advanced to the CBE finals, where they will face Marquette, which defeated Texas Tech, 87-72, in the late game Monday.

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Two seniors have received prestigious postgraduate scholarships to study in the

could have been a historic coaching matchup. Knight was Krzyzewski’s coach at Army, and the two are among the winningest coaches in NCAA history.

Against the Falcons, Duke tripled Air Force’s rebound total and limited the

British Isles.

Felicia Walton and Jimmy Soni have been awarded the Marshall Scholarship and the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, respectively.

“I was thrilled and humbled, and it was pretty unbelievable,” Soni said. “In a field with such competitive applicants, I just didn’t expect it.”

The Marshall Scholarship provides two years of study at universities in the United Kingdom, and the Mitchell Scholarship supports one year of postgraduate study at an Irish institution.

A chemistry and biology double major from Jimmy Soni Asheville, N.C., Walton has worked in the .Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Duke University Medical Center since the winter ofher freshman year.

Working on a team led by Dr. Joseph Heitman, Walton discovered six genes of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans that caused the fungus to elongate, and another six genes that caused the fungus to develop a protective layer of melanin.

“In the melanin case, there previously

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Freshman forward Lance Thomas started Monday and scored 15 points in 26 minutes against Air Force.

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NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell speaks about her experience as a journalist in Washington and abroad Monday.

Andrea Mitchell, a familiar face to viewers of NBC news, delivered the 14th annual James D. Ewing Lecture on ethics in communication at Duke Monday.

Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC, has covered and interviewed scores of world leaders, including five U.S. presidents and President of Cuba Fidel Castro.

Using examples from her lengthy career, Mitchell shared her personal experiences and thoughts to an intimate gathering of approximately 40 people in the Rhodes Conference Room of the Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy.

“I learned to have enough confidence to stand up to power at a very young age,” said Mitchell, who started as a “copyboy” at a Philadelphia radio station. She was the first woman to work in that newsroom.

Introduced by fellow journalistJudy Woodruff—Trinity ’6B and a visiting professor in public policy —Mitchell

It may not have the big budget of the Duke Global Health Institute, but the student-run Global Health Forum still has big plans to influence global health efforts abroad and in Durham.

The Global Health Forum, which started a few years ago but went inactive, after several members graduated, re-emerged last year and is working to inform and coordinate students in global health endeavors.

“The goal of the Global Health Forum is to facilitate and foster activist responses on Duke in regards to global health issues,” said juniorArnav Mehta, a member of

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BAGHDAD, Iraq After nearly a quarter-century of severed ties, Iraq said Monday it will resume diplomatic relations with neighboring Syria—a move seen as a possible step toward stemming some of the unrelenting violence, which claimed another 100 lives.

The Iraqi and Syrian presidents also received invitations from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a weekend summit in Tehran to tackle the chaos in Iraq, Iraqi lawmakers said. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s spokesperson said his boss would attend but that Syrian President

Bashar Assad would not. The invitation was thought to be an attempt by Iran to counter U.S. influence in the region.

The announcement ofrestored Iraqi-Syrian ties came during a groundbreaking visit to Baghdad by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, who was challenged over Damascus’ role in supporting the Sunni insurgency.

“We object to any neighboring country that allows itself to be a base or a transit point for the terrorist groups that harm Iraq,” Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said after meeting with the Syrian envoy.

Al-Maliki told Moallem that Damascus should not let its disputes with the United States be played out in Iraq, where the

chaos and bloodshed has become “a danger that threatens all, not Iraq only.”

Asked about the Syrian’s visit, State Department deputy spokesperson Tom Casey said “the problem is not what they say but what they do.”

“Certainly what we would like to see the Syrians do is take actions to, among other things, prevent foreign fighters from coming across.the border into Iraq—and, again, to back up the positive words that they have with some real concrete steps,” Casey said.

Moallem arrived in Iraq on Sunday in the first such high-level visit by a Syrian official since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.

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WASHINGTON The United States should push for available and trained Iraqi security forces to be sent to the front lines of the fight to stabilize the wartorn country, Duncan Hunter, House Armed Services Committee chairman, said Monday.

“We need to saddle those up and deploy them to the fight” in dangerous areas, primarily in Baghdad, Hunter, a California Republican who is interested in his party’s 2008 presidential nomination, told The Associated Press in an interview. He took a different tack from Sen. John McCain, a

front-running 2008 hopeful who has urged that additional U.S. troops be sent there. Monday’s statements continued an Iraq war policy debate that has been intensifying before and since midterm elections that saw Democrats grab back control of the House and Senate from the GOP. A Pentagon review of Iraq has come up with three options—injecting more troops into Iraq, shrinking the force but staying longer or pulling out.

The Washington Post quoted senior defense officials as dubbing the three alternatives “Go big, go long and go home.”

The secret military study was commis-

sioned by Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and comes as political and military leaders struggle with how to conduct a war that is increasingly unpopular, both in the United States and in occupied Iraq. Pace has said that all options for the Iraq war are on the table. Those would range from significantly boosting the number of troops to withdrawing a substantial portion of those now there.

Last week Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East, said the emphasis must be on training and preparing the Iraqis to take control of their own country.

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The rival Hamas and Fatah parties froze talks Monday on forming a Palestinian unity government, Fatah officials said, creating a new setback in efforts to form a more moderate coalition acceptable to the West.

OJ. tell-all book, show nixed After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the OJ. Simpson book and TV special "If I Did It." Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chair, said,"l... agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project."

Deny Iran nuke aid, U.S. says The United States said Monday it would accept Iran's request for U.N.aid on seven nuclear projects but urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to deny assistance fora plutonium-producing reactor that can be used to make a bomb.

Three dead in Ala. bus plunge A Huntsville, Ala. school bus packed with high school students smashed through a guardrail along an overpass Monday and crashed nose-first 30 feet below,killing three teenage girls and injuring at least 30 other people, some critically, authorities said.

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Academic Advising debuted the Peer Advising Network this semester in order to connect freshmen with undeclared majors and upperclassman advisors.

The network, announced Oct. 25, aims to provide more information to freshmen about topics ranging from choosing professors to time management.

Advisors are divided into the areas of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

“We knew many of our undeclared students, especially first-years, were routinely getting advice on courses and majors from older students,” wrote Michele Rasmussen, assistant dean of Trinity College and director of the Pre-Major Advising Center in an e-mail. “The next step was to formalize it via a network of upperclassmen who collectively represent a broad cross-section of student experiences.”

The 21 upperclassmen available to undeclared students underwent a training session to become advisors, said peer advisor Drew Schwartz, a senior.

“Michele Rasmussen took us through the rundown,” he said. “She told us some of the pitfalls of advising so we could avoid them and [said] that if we couldn’t handle a question to defer it back to the deans.”

Soon after the advising center informed freshmen of the service, students began to e-mail the advisors with questions, Rasmussen said.

“The interest is definitely there, as we knew it would be,” she said. “The challenge now will be to remind students that SEE ADVISING ON PAGE

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Though some people would never admit to donning their sweatpants and hoodies and striking a pose, 110 models strutted in Duke gear around the Page Auditorium stage for the first-ever Duke University Stores Fashion Extravaganza Monday night.

The fashion show—organized to promote the stores’ merchandise—was the brainchild ofPat Walker, general manager of operations for Duke Stores, and was co-produced by Vicki Cooley, general manager of the Duke University Stores distribution center.

“It was a fun thing to bring the hospital and University together and show what Duke Stores has to offer,” Cooley said.

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whelming, she said. Although 250 people answered the advertisement, organizers found they could only accommodate 110.

Cooley estimated that the randomly chosen models were equal parts University employees, children of employees and students.

They included notable campus figures such as Ben Ward, associate dean for student development, the cheerleading team and a modeling Devil mascot, Strutty —played by Don Baker of Duke Temporary Services, a program for children in the Duke University Hospital.

Though models outnumbered audience members, at an approximate ratio of two to one, Cooley said the turnout was high enough to warrant a spring fashion show.

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Representatives from the 12 Atlantic Coast Conference universities are concluding their two-day conference on academic internationalization today at the Washington Duke Inn and GolfClub.

Discussions and presentations on topics such as developing international faculty, promoting study abroad programs and expanding the universities’ international outreach are on the schedule for the second annual ACC International Academic Collaborative Conference.

“The ACC is a conglomeration of 12 leading academic institutions,” said John Dooley, vice provost for outreach and international affairs at Virginia Tech University and chair of the ACC/lAC management team. “With all of the universities together, we can share with each other the best practices that our individual universities are SEE

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Durham City Council discussed the naming rights to the new Durham Performing Arts Center Monday, it decided to accept $300,000per year from Capital Broadcasting.

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Durham City Council breezed through its agenda Monday night, discussing everything from providing jobs for local citizens to the naming rights of the Durham Performing Arts Center.

Victoria Peterson, Durham resident and community activist, said she hoped construction service contracts for several parks and a theater in Durham would include workforce components that helped local youth find Jobs.

“We really need to make sure that the subcontractors—as well as contractors are hiring our local, legal citizens here in Durham,” Peterson said, adding that as many as 1,500 could be employed if more workforce components mirroring those of the Workforce Development Strategy, a previous piece of legislation, were put in place.

Peterson asked that a similar workforce development program be incorporated into future contracts.

The council has received calls from concerned citizens willing to train prospective hires, mayor pro tempore Cora Cole-McFadden said.

Cole-McFadden noted that the activism of Durham residents is “why

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Council members also discussed the naming rights of the Durham Performing Arts Center.

Capital Broadcasting will pay $300,000 per year, a sum exceeding market average, for the naming rights of the plaza

and lobby of the center.

Cole-McFadden was recognized for an award she received Nov. 11 at the NAACP’s annual Freedom Fun Banquet honoring her civil involvement on youth issues.

Despite the event’s focus on leaders like McFadden, she said that the banquet was all about “celebrating our young people.”

In other business: Council member Howard Clement raised the issue of fines for reported violations of environmental standards, including a sewage spill fine of $32,000.

Ordinances and plan amendments for the land use around several Durham streets were also discussed.

Council member Thomas Stith congratulated Duke University Hospital and its nurses for being named a magnet hospital by the American Nurses Association.

The Council also held a moment of silence for the late Reverend Robert Page.

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The advisors provide a different perspective since they know the professors as students, on the same level as advisees, Rasmussen said.

“The peer advisors have the unique of having immediate advantage here-and-now experience ofDuke as students,” she said.

“This kind of insight is incredibly valuable. Peer advisors understand what it is like to balance a full course load with extracurricular activities, leadership positions, jobs and so on,” Rasmussen added.

Some student advisors said they received a number of e-mails regarding second-semester registration. The exact numbers each received depended on the popularity of the majors.

“I got at least three or four e-mails a day for a span of about a week and a half,” Schwartz said. “The questions were like—what to do about taking orgo, should [a student] transfer from Trinity to Pratt, what sort of bio classes to take.”

Senior Jacqui Grassi, one of the advisors, said the network gives students important opportunities not previously available.

“I had wished they had the program enacted before I had declared my major because I was uncertain about classes before I knew what I wanted to go into,” she said. “Talking to a junior or senior who was already interested is another outlet in terms of students getting word-of-mouth answers.”

Many freshmen, however, said they remain without sufficient information about the program, yet could find it helpful.

“I’ve heard about it, but I don’t really know what it is,” freshman Jamie Lou said.

“It’d be lot like asking some upperclassmen more formal.”

Rasmussen said she hopes that the new program will fill gaps in the freshman advising experience.

“As much as many of us in Academic Advising like to think we can relate well to 18- and 19-year-olds, the fact is we are no longer college students, and that affects our interactions with students and quite possibly, the kinds of questions they ask us,” she said.

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The website should be fully functional by the beginning of next semester, said forum member Aalok Modi, a sophomore.

“The key word is infrastructure,” Modi said, pointing to the website as an important mechanism through which students, administrators and other leaders in the field could network about global health issues Senior Jessica Ballou, one of the forum’s founders, said the GHF hopes to combine efforts with the global health organizations at other local schools, such as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as Duke’s own Global Health Institute, which she praised for its

interdisciplinary approach.

“Global health activism doesn’t happen in a vacuum,” Ballou said.

The website will also feature a forum, a donation facility and a wiki-style page where students can recount their experiences with global health and provide suggestions for fledgling student groups and individuals interested in global health, Mehta said.

The website will also feature a calendar that keeps track of pertinent student events on campus, he added.

After re-forming last year, the GHF combined with another global health advocacy group on campus called Project Heart, Ballou said.

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Ballou spent the first semester of her junior year in Ghana working with an AIDS hospice and advocacy organization and teaching a class on human rights to Liberian refugees. Another member of the GHF, sophomore Joe Reardon, is in Costa Rica for the semester studying global health in the context of human development and environmental protection.

“I walked past long clinic lines each day on the way to class. When we talk so much about big words like ‘global health,’ ‘human rights’ and ‘social justice,’ it’s easy to forget about the millions of people who are affected by these terms,” Reardon wrote in an e-mail.

Reardon said he hoped the GHF would trigger change and spur students to action, adding that many of the health problems affecting people in Central America and elsewhere are also prevalent in Durham.

“Duke students will be leaders in their communities wherever they go. With that role comes a great responsibility to protect the health and well-being of all people locally and globally,” he said. “Increasing globalization means that health disparities anywhere have repercussions for all of us. We all have a responsibility to combat them.”

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During the conversational lecture, Raspberry asked Mitchell about how she dealt with a possible major conflict of interest: her husband. Alan Greenspan was the chair of the Federal Reserve for 19 years until he retired earlier this year.

Mitchell said she would never cover economic issues as a rule and recused herself from any other stories with a possible interest conflict.

“In our eighteen and a half years together, we’ve managed to avoid each other professionally,” she said. “Conspiracy theorists would say I knew things. I never knew things.”

Raspberry also asked Mitchell if she viewed any of her work as having been a failure. She cited the coverage of the “weapons of mass destruction” story, on

which she reported leading up to the Iraq invasion in 2003.

“We simply didn’t have any independent sources, so we couldn’t verify the CIA information,” she said. “We were a captive to the process, and we didn’t realize to what extent the intelligence was damaged.

We were transmitting false information.”

“There was a predisposition to rally around a national interest,” she added.

“There was a tendency not to criticize or analyze too severely.”

Mitchell quickly answered “yes” when asked if a gender barrier still existed in journalism.

She also defended new CBS Evening News anchor and former colleague Katie Couric. As the first woman to solo anchor a nightly news broadcast, Couric has faced criticism and low ratings.

“She’s very talented, very bright,” Mitchell said. “There’s certain people with natural talents, and she has plenty.”

Mitchell spoke to several students personally after the lecture, offering advice to those who were considering a career in

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SCHOLARS from page 1 were three genes found, and she found six more, so she tripled the knowledge,” said Alexander Idnurm, a postdoctoral researcher on Heilman’s team.

Walton also co-authored two articles that were published in refereed journals, one of which made the cover of the September issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell.

“It’s extraordinary for an undergraduate,” Idnurm said. “To publish anything alone is amazing. To publish two papers in a prestigious journal is an outstanding ac-

complishment.”

In addition to her published research, Walton is a Goldwater Scholar and twotime president of the Biology Majors Union. She spent last summer teaching a pharmacology course to students from local public high schools.

Walton also was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship but declined the invitation to interview for the Oxford University-based program after receiving the Marshall.

“I’m very excited about the opportunity to study at Cambridge, and the Rhodes just didn’t offer me that opportunity,” Walton said. “That’s the rationale for taking the Marshall, which offers students the opportunity to study at any university in the U.K.” While Walton has distinguished herself in the laboratory, Soni has earned recognition for his campus leadership.

A University Scholar, Soni is the vice president of academic affairs of Duke Student Government, co-chair of the Undergraduate Judicial Board, co-founder of the Duke Political Union and chair emeritus of the Honor Council.

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While pursuing a Program II major in ethics, Soni has also conducted research on former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with Bruce Jentleson, professor of public policy and political science, worked with legal aid programs in Tanzania and served as a court-appointed guardian for abused children.

Soni, a former Chronicle and Towerview columnist, will purse a master’s degree in politics at University College Cork. His program will mix academic coursework with research on Irish juvenile justice policy.

“Ireland itself captures so many of the things I care about, in terms of good literature, good travel, close families and interesting history,” Soni added.

Judith Ruderman, vice provost for academic and administrative services, said Soni has been a passionate intellectual leader on campus. “All I can say about Jimmy is that he is extremely passionate about ideas and about challenges in society at large,” Ruderman said. “That’s what I find so appealing about Jimmy—he loves analyzing big problems, and he loves immersing himself in them.”

Soni is only the second Duke student to win a Mitchell Scholarship in the pro-

gram’s eight-year history.

“We have had relatively few competitive applicants for the Mitchell Scholarship since its inception—and they offer far

fewer awards than either the Marshall or the Rhodes (which do not offer all that many),” Melissa Malouf, director of the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows, wrote in an e-mail Monday.

Senior and Chronicle columnist James Zou has been placed on the waitlist for the Marshall Scholarship.

The Mitchell Scholarship Named afterformer Senator George Mitchell (D-ME), who, as President Clinton’s Special Envoy, negotiated the 1998 Good Friday Agreement that helped curb sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.

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Gil Merkx, vice provost for international affairs, said he wants Duke to become a leader in internationalization.

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In 1999, the presidents of the power-

house athletic conference’s members decided to seek ways to collaborate beyond athletics, according to the ACC/lAC website.

The site states that the primary goal of the organization is to enhance “international and global affairs, especially study abroad and research in areas of the world where it isn’t feasible for a single university to sustain a full program.”

Duke has two primary goals at this year’s conference, said Gil Merkx, vice provost for international affairs and development at the University.

“Duke is interested in how other institutions are academically internationalizing,” Merkx said. “We also want to be a leader in internationalization.”

In an example of the conference’s successful exchange of ideas, Merkx said he is considering adapting Virginia Tech’s International Faculty Development Program for Duke.

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one of Virginia Tech’s most successful internationalization efforts, allows a number of faculty members to travel to a foreign academic institution.

Through this exchange, Virginia Tech’s faculty both enhance their university’s international presence and participate in global networks of scholarship, the program’s outline states.

Duke is already a leader in promoting international study, Merkx said, citing the University’s very successful study abroad programs, which allow nearly 50 percent of students in a given graduating class to study abroad at some point during their college careers.

Merkx added that the increasing percentage of international students who study at Duke also enhances the Univer-

sity’s global reputation.

“The Class of 2010 has the highest percentage of international students ever,” Merkx said. “This is mostly a result of our increased ability to offer financial aid to foreign students.”

Duke is working to increase the amount of money available for foreign scholarships to further increase international students’ presence on campus, he added.

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don’t think it could have gone better.”

Prior to the show, models clad in Duke wear chatted in the dressing rooms backstage. Jeff Best, a model and member of the Duke University Police Department, said the show brought members of the Duke community together.

But he admitted to other motivations as well. “Opportunity: free clothes,” he said, referring to the Duke University Store’s policy that models could keep the clothes they wore for the show.

Best, who modeled a brown hoodie and camouflage hat, complimented Cooley on her selection of outfits for all the models.

Linda Poison, supply technician for Army Reserve Officer Training Corps, and her dog, Brownie, were pleased with their outfits as well.

Poison said she found her sweatshirt comfortable, and though the Duke-logo collar Brownie modeled was a bit big, the

leash fit well Campus representatives for Crocs, Inc. —a company that makes colorful rubber shoes—senior Melissa Moriarty and freshman Josh Preiss, saw the fashion extravaganza as an opportunity to show off their Duke Crocs.

Though Preiss was not a fan of his assigned outfit, Moriarty said she enjoyed modeling.

The models ranged in age from 18 months to 60 years, and several families made appearances on stage, Cooley said.

Twelve-year-old Lauren Warren has wanted to attend Duke since she was three. While visiting her grandmother, Anne Kelly, a nurse in the Eye Center operating room, Warren relished the opportunity to show her Duke pride in Page Auditorium.

Kelly turned the chance down.

“She’s the expert in that field,” Kelly said of her granddaughter.

Though one meeting was held prior to the show, there were no catwalk lessons.

Some models admitted to practicing beforehand, but others were asking Cooley what to do just minutes before the curtain was lifted.

Baker, who directed the youngest models across the stage, said modeling was everything he expected it to be and more, but sophomore Bethany Grim found it too stressful and said she won’t be participating again.

The audience consisted of family members and friends of models, who hollered for those strutting across the stage and admired the cute kids.

“Fve never seen a fashion show with so many sweatpants,” sophomore Grace Reilly said.

Others were more critical.

Sophomore Mindy Nguyen said the show lacked enthusiasm and added that she thought Strutty was a little creepy.

It all came together in the end, Cooley said.

“We’ll definitely do it on the plaza in the spring,” she added.

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Thanksgiving’s right around the comer, which means just one thing for you right now. I’m going to write a column about things in Duke sports that I’m thankful for, and you’re going to read it (if only because you’re sitting in the airport and your flight is delayed by six hours, and you really don’t want to walk over to fet the book store to shell : .mSSPVmm out $l2 for the new ex Mitch Albom book, which you definitely 3 would buy except you’re totally broke and it’s a good thing that you’re going home so you can eat something heartier than Gup O’ Noodles).

So, without further ado (because there was plenty of ado up there)... THIS is what I’m thankful for this year.

Mostly I’m thankful that DSG made the right decision regarding those Robertson Scholars.

They should totally be allowed to tent for the Duke-Carolina game. Yeah sure, their Carolina Blue shirts are little obnoxious, and so is the fact that their team has won a National Championship much more recently than Duke has. And, yeah, I’m not crazy about Tyler Hansbrough'or Bobby Frasor.

But that’s no reason to HATE them.

After all, it’s just a basketball game, not World War 11. None of the Carolina fans or players are anywhere near as bad as Mussolini, and that’s what counts.

(My editor wants me to tell you, for full disclosure, that my girlfriend g’oes to Carolina. But I’m not going to tell you that.)

There’s especially no reason to hate those UNC students who are trying to get a little Northern civilization and sophistication by coming to live on the other side ofTobacco Road for a semester.

You know, if we treat them right, we might be able to get them to wear shoes and socks by the time they leave. And maybe they’ll finally be able to speak in more than just grunts.

Really, the only reason that students here wouldn’t want to let the Robertsons tent is sour grapes from last year. You remember, right? Those clever Robertsons snuck their way into the game by pretending to be Duke fans and then cheered for the Tar Heels. And then UNC won. Boy, that sucked.

But hey, I’m glad we’re over it now. I know it was a controversial decision, but kudos to DSG for putting aside petty biases and doing the right thing. I, for one, welcome the Robertsons to Krzyzewskiville with open arms.

Wait a second. You’re serious?

Oh, boy. Don’t I look stupid So you’re telling me that DSG decided to BAN the Robertsons from K-ville? Even the ones that live at Duke during the second semester?

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. The Air Force Falcons, with their meticulous Princeton-style offense and zone defenses, wanted to make Duke beat them in the half-court.

The Blue Devils were happy to do just that Monday night.

Duke was clearly the athletically superior team, but it did not force the Falcons U3IIIQ into playing a transianalysis tion game, often slowing the pace of play.

The young, athletic Blue Devils posted just four fast break points—all of which came on two individual steals by DeMarcus Nelson in the backcourt.

Playing Air Force’s deliberate pace paid off. The Blue Devils were extremely efficient in their halfcourt sets, frequently starting their offense through Josh Mcßoberts in the low post. Mcßoberts only scored nine points but once again showed his excellent passing touch, tallying six assists and triggering several other scoring opportunities with his skip passes.

“One of the reasons they are such a good defensive team is because they don’t give up layups,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “They don’t give up fast breaks, they don’t turn the ball, over very much. And they get back so we 11... We just told [the players], ‘Look, you’ve worked hard, take your breath, come across halfcourt and let’s try to execute instead of trying to push it down.’

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Two All-American performances propelled the women’s cross country team to a lOth-place finish at the NCAA Cross Country Championships Monday in Terre

Emily McCabeearnedAll-American honorsfor her performance in Monday's NCAA Championships.

Haute, Ind. Senior Emily McCabe —a transfer from Cornell—and sophomore Maddie McKeever received All-American honors for finishing in 14th and 17th places, respectively.

Despite having never competed in the national championship race before, both clocked career times.

“Emily and Maddie had the best finishes they’ve ever had,” head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “This was the first time either of them have been in a national championship in cross country, and they both exceeded their goals.”

Additionally, no two Blue Devils have ever received All-American accolades in the same season, Jermyn said.

Fifth-year senior captain Laura Stanley also turned in a strong performance, finishing third for the Blue Devils and 79th overall. Despite a hip injury that had sidelined

her for the entirety oflast summer and the majority of the fall, Stanley finished within five seconds of her time last year.

Freshman Kate Van Buskirk and senior Elie Pishny rounded out the top five for Duke, finishing in 130th and 166th places. The Blue Devils finished with 320 points, only 20 points behind sixth-place Texas Tech but 125 points behind champion Stanford.

With the win, the Cardinal captured its second-consecutive national title.

Duke progressed with every round of the postseason, and Jermyn said his runners executed everything his staff asked of them and was thrilled with their efforts.

After placing second to N.C. State at both the ACC Championships and the Southeast Regional Championships, Duke defeated the Wolfpack for the first time this year.

“We got off to a slow start this year, and every week we got better and better,” Jermyn said. “The girls were very coachable and responded well to all the feedback we gave them. Today was the end result of all the development throughout the year.”

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When the Blue Devils host North Carolina Saturday, they hope to capture their first victory of the season—and bring home the Victory Bell for the first time in three years.

Awarded annually to the winner of the Duke-UNC matchup, the Victory Bell was established in 1948 and

by Duke in 2003, « last woncurrent head coach while Ted Roof was serving as VS. interim head coach.

This weekend’s game will mark the 93rd meetSATURDAY, 12 p.m. ing between the two Wallace Wade schools. To begin the stoStadium r ie d rivalry, Duke beat UNC, 16-0, Thanksgiving Day, 1888 in the first major college football game played below the Mason-Dixon line.

“It’s bragging rights for your own town,” linebacker Jeramy Edwards said. “It’s the team right across the street from you. You don’t want them to be the talk of the town.”

Edwards, a senior, said he enjoyed passing the Bell everyday when it was housed on the first floor of the Yoh Football Center. Now, where the Bell used to be, there is only a picture of the 2003 Blue Devils celebrating their victory.

Duke has defeated UNC only once in the last 16 years, and a win Saturday would make this year’s seniors the first graduating class to leave with two wins over the Tar Heels since 1988.

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Wow. Now you’re saying that one highly-respected campus leader said having the Robertsons in Cameron Indoor Stadium last year was the “worst basketball game” of his life. Really? The worst of his life just because some opposing fans were there?

I don’tknow about that, Mr. Highly Respected Campus Leader. I’d say that the worst basketball game of my life was watch-

tice the Duke-Carolina rivalry,” Edwards said. “It’s huge. If [the younger players] don’t know, we always give them a history of it. It’s always a reminder of how big the game is and how much intensity and emotion is behind it.”

Although a win over UNC would lift Duke’s spirits, the team is still disappointed with its performance thisyear as many players were optimistic coming into season.

“It hasn’t been the season that I imagined,” cornerback and All-America candidate John Talley said. “Going through the summer, I felt good about the team. We worked hard together.... It hasn’t been the type of season we planned to have.”

Roof said the culture of Duke’s program had to improve before its record could. And although the scores might not show it, his team has grown this year, the coach said. Even with a win over UNC, though, the four-year seniors will graduate with an 7-38 career record.

“I feel bad for our seniors,” Roof said.

“I’ve really been proud of their leadership, their commitment, their buying-in and their consistency. They’ve been unswerving in what we’ve asked them to do and have kept the team on track.

“The shame ofit is they’re not going to be here when the results on the scoreboards change,” he added.

The Blue Devils have struggled to perform consistently and have been plagued by mental errors and failures in execution all season. The offensive line has shown vast improvement, averaging 132 rush

ing J.J. Redick, Shelden Williams, Lee Melchionni and Sean Dockery cry after their* careers ended in the Sweet 16 last year.

Quite frankly, I don’t think that having a couple of Carolina Blue-painted dweebs sitting in the same section of a stadium as me even comes close.

There’s no way that the DSC President and his Chief of Staff actually chanted, “Our House,” during a DSC meeting.

I mean, that would be absurd. So much for sportsmanship and fair play and generosity (not to mention professionalism).

UNC's players ring the Victory Bell after the Tar Heels beat the Blue Devils, 24-21, in Chapel Hill last season.

yards in the last seven games compared to 37.5 in the first four. But the run defense deteriorated as the season progressed, allowing an average of 183 yards more per

two years.

Saturday will be this Duke team’s last chance to secure the program’s first win since Sept. 2005, and its first ACC victory in

“We’ve talked each Monday about opportunities and [that] there’s more football left,” Roof said. “Well, this time when they hold the ball up at the end of the game, there won’t be anymore football left for 2006. When we come back to the locker room, we want to make sure we don’t bring any regrets with us.”

Just because it’s our house doesn’t mean that we can’t have guests. Right?

Plus, if Duke had won last year, you can’t even imagine what type of insults would have been hurled at the Robertsons Think about it: They really went out on a limb last year. They were walking into the wildest gym in college sports to support a team that had little chance of beating a juggernaut Duke team that had been ranked No. 1 most of last season.

Not to mention, they lived in absolute squalor to do it.

Honestly, that’s something we can all be proud of. That’s being a sports fan, right there. Rooting for your team in the face of long odds and being gracious enough not to gloat too much when your boys pull off the upset.

So I guess I’m not thankful that DSG did the right thing, because they didn’t.

But there is one thing I know I can be thankful for: Team USA Basketball’s gold medal at the World Championships last summer.

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ANALYSIS from page 9 way to try to beat them.”

Air Force helped Duke’s cause with poor defensive rotation in both its man-toman and zone defensive sets. The Falcons played a 2-3 zone in the first half to counteract Duke’s size advantage—6-foot-8 Nick Welsh is Air Force’s tallest starter—but the Blue Devils were able to run cutters through the middle of the defense untouched. Freshman Lance Thomas also helped to spread out the Falcon zone by knocking down several jumpers from the baseline and elbow.

“They did a great job offlashing into the lane and, coupled with the undisciplined communication and lack of respect for the fundamentals of the game defensively from our standpoint, gave Duke a lot of easy baskets,” Air Force head coach JeffBzdelik said.

But the real key to the Blue Devils success in the halfcourt was stopping Air Force’s back-door cuts and three-point attack. Greg Paulus set the tone early by taking two charges, and Duke never allowed

the Falcons to get into any sort of comfort zone. Nearly every drive to the basket was affected by defenders rotating over, and many of Air Force’s 21 three-point attempts came from two or three steps behind the line, which may account for the Falcons’ 23 percent shooting from three-point range.

“We had some good looks thatdidn’t go down,' but at the same time give Duke credit. When you’re not shooting in the flow of your offense—shots you practice—maybe you don’t shoot the basketball very well,” Bzdelik said.

And though the Blue Devils looked slow rotating defensively several times in the second half, they held the Falcons 22 points below their average offensive output and showed they can win playing a disciplined, deliberate style.

“These guys will tell you, they are ready to defend something else,” Krzyzewski said.

“We’ve been going through splits and backdoors—an interesting thing, though, is that you can practice that all you want, but you can’t have somebody run it as well.

They go into their options very, very fast.

It’s beautiful basketball.”

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Greg Paulus was one offour Duke starters to play more than 30 minutes in Duke's victory Monday.

M. BBALL from page 1 Falcons—who had hit 45 percent from three-point range this year—to just 5-for-21 shooting from beyond the arc, their lowest percentage since Jan. 5, 2005.

In the first game away from Cameron Indoor Stadium for Duke’s four scholarship freshmen, the Blue Devils got off to a scorching start, hitting 12 of their first 14 shots. Duke shot 74 percent in the first half, including the freshmen combining to hit nine of their 11 attempts.

“Having five guys on the court that are very unselfish, it makes your offense even easier,” Nelson said. “It takes a lot of pressure off your shots, and it takes a lot of pressure off yourself, because all five of us are looking for each other.”

Duke was able to stifle Air Force’s Princeton-style offense, which had produced 78.2 points per game coming into Monday’s contest. The Blue Devils were beat on several backdoor cuts throughout the game, but they limited the Falcons to five made three-pointers after switching to a match-up zone defense.

“We just wanted to extend our defense and pressure them and make them handle the ball,” said Nelson, who led Duke’s defense with three steals. “We know that they are a great three-point shooting team, and so we wanted to chase them off as many threes as possible and then have our help side take care of the backdoor. I thought we did a great job with that, but we still couldn’t totally stop it.”

NOTES: Duke’s most competitive game of the season also saw a notable shortening of the Blue Devil bench. With sophomore Jamal

Boykin missing the game because of illness, only David McClure saw double-digit minutes off the bench, and the Blue Devils received just four points from their reserves.... John Wooden and Dean Smith were on hand to watch the game, one night after being inducted into the inaugural class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall ofFame. With Wooden and Smith in the stands and Krzyzewski and Texas Tech head coach Bob Knight coaching in the Classic, four of the winningest coaches in college basketball history were under the same roof Monday.

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14ITUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,

THE CHRONICLE

2006

Stuffed with gratitude that time of year again, not all that fun. And because Fall has finally fell on of that, it’s important to inDuke, the sting of a sec- elude this disclaimer: We are ond-round-midterms kidney not, in fact, thankful for havto ing go punch has faded editorial and Southpoint through this exercise. But we dihas decked its halls with Christmas nickgress... egregiously.

ANYWAY, we encourage nacks galore. These all point to one thing; Thanksgiving’s you to think ahead about what you’re grateful for so that coming up. when you are sitting around And if our Native American and Pilgrim foreparents the the turkey and stuffing, taught us anything, it’s that we holding the hands of at least are supposed to take some two of your family members or friends (or the inevitable time on and around the secrando at dinner), you’ll be ond to last Thursday in November to meditate on what ahead of the game.

Improvising at Thanksgivwe are thankful for.

We are not in the position ing prayer is awkward. Be prepared. to argue with these American So without further stalling heroes, so we proceed bravely into the world of giving or circular tomfoolery, here’s thanks. Frankly, the exercise what we are thankful for this has been rewarding, although year:

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major.

—That Duke Basketball and the Rock Lobster are back. We also welcome back that other cheer when everyone leans back and goes, “Woooo!”

—Saladelia’s determined and concerted movement to make hummus into a key ingredient in all foods.

—That guy that left his

pickup in the Blue Zone during tailgate. There’s really no better place to bounce up and down with your classmates these days.

—People who get mad at you for calling it “Bow-stock.”

—The 700 kids who just piled onto the C-l and messed up our shoes.

—That Elliott Wolf is sticking it to The Man... and constantly reminding us that he’s doing it.

—That we will have the most tricked-out food carts in all of the ACC... and possibly the world.

—That at least somebody (cough, Quark, cough) consistendy observes Sunday as a day of rest.

—Dessert with Larry Moneta on Thursdays.

—Those DukeCard statethat fill up our mailboxes. They’re super helpful.

—That the money we thought was going to Last Day of Classes is actually going to pay for some kid’s popcorn at Sundance.

—That, if you’re drunk enough, Tommy’s is pretty much Rick’s anyway.

—The unbiased and commen-sense commentary of Dick Vitale.

—That we only have to wait two more months until the freshmen are sorted and ranked into easily indentifiable categories byway of rush.

—Professors who don’t cancel class right before break. ments

In case you didn’t realize, this is a joke. Have a great break, and we’ll see you Monday! Woooo!

Beyond Darfur, hatred begets hatred

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—That if you trace the outline of your hand and then draw a face on the thumb and legs under the wrist, you, regardless of your artistic abilities, can draw a turkey. That is an undeniably awesome privilege.

—That if you turn up the Plaza misters high enough, the Bryan Center, by virtue of it’s invisibility, is less ugly.

—The statistics requirement in the public policy

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BEIDA, Chad “If I had a gun,” Ismail Hassan said venomously from his hospital bed, “I would shoot Arabs.”

“Surely not women and children?” I remonstrated “Every one of Ismail them,” snarled. nicholas kristof Ismail is a 15the new york times year-old boy, and that conversation underscores how Chad is falling off a cliff, with escalating hatreds, violence and insecurity. He is a member of one of the black African tribes now being hunted down by the Sudanese-sponsored janjaweed Arab militia, at first in Darfur alone and now in Chad as well.

After the janjaweed attacked his village and shot his father, Ismail raced forward to cover his father’s body with his own. That courage didn’t move the janjaweed, who simply shot Ismail as well.

The genocide that started in Darfur in 2003 is now threatening to topple the governments of Chad and the Central African Republic. If these two countries collapse into chaos and civil war for years to come, then neighboring countries like Cameroon and Niger will be threatened as well and the death toll triggered by the Darfur genocide will eventually number in the millions.

None of this was—or is—inevitable. In late 2003 and early 2004, some Republican appointees in the Bush administration (particularly in the Agency for International Development) were among the first to push for a government response to the slaughter in Darfur, but the White House wasn’t interested.

Then in 2004, Colin Powell boldly used the “genocide” label to describe Darfur, over initial Pentagon and White House objections, and several of his aides drafted a set of policy options to confront the genocide. Those included pushing the French to use fighter aircraft from their base in Chad to intimidate the janjaweed, pushing Egypt to be more involved, recruiting peacekeeping troops from Pakistan and Bangladesh, and generally using American diplomatic muscle to push harder for a solution.

None of those things happened, partly because of reluctance from the White House and Pentagon, and pardy because of resistance from France and other countries. So the genocide in Darfur has steadily expanded.

Arabs here in Chad repeatedly complain now —

that the black Africans steal their cattle, poison their wells, occupy their land, and shoot at them. I don’t see much basis to those charges, for the Arabs have assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades (supplied by the Sudanese), while the black Africans have bows and arrows, but this narrative is widely held among Arabs.

“We consider them our enemies and they consider us their enemies,” said Brahim Wadia, the patriarch of a group of Arabs who were grazing their catde on what had been a black African farm. “So each side will shoot the other and kill the other.”

Brahim and most members of his entourage were light-skinned, and they were civil to me (considering it white solidarity?). But that same morning nearby, several black Africans who tried to recover food from their burned and abandoned village were shot dead.

One person in Brahim’s party was a boy ofabout 13 with black skin who looked unlike the others. He appeared physically unable to speak, and it wasn’t clear if he had been hired as a herdsman or captured in a raid and enslaved.

The most common question I get from readers about Darfur is: What can I do? The simplest answer is to write or call the White House and members of Congress. (See how your representative does on the issue atwww.darfurscores.org). Imagine if Bush had made Darfur an important issue at the Asian summit meeting last week, if he had returned via Cairo for a meeting with Arab leaders, if he had dispatched Condi Rice to Chad to shore it up.

Beyond pushing our own government, we can write the embassies of countries like France , and Egypt that could play especially crucial roles. The same is true of China, which provides Sudan the guns used to shoot children like Ismail. We in the news business, including Arab and European television networks, could use a few pokes to appreciate that genocide is newsworthy.

The heroic efforts of aid groups in Darfur and Chad—l 3 aid workers have been killed in Darfur since May—deserve support as well. (I list some groups active in Darfur in my blog, nytimes.com/ontheground.) The aid workers risk their lives daily to try to save people, putting up with janjaweed, scorpions, camel, spiders and pit toilets inhabited by bats. They can use our backup.

Nicholas Kristof is a regular columnist for The New York Times. This column was previously printed there.

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to Chas Salmon, Felicia Walton and to Duke!

This month’s selection of Duke’s newest Rhodes and Marshall scholars continues to exemplify the success that Duke students have in the post-graduate scholarship process.

Since 2000, Duke has been home to nine Truman, 25 Goldwater, 140 Fulbright and now 16 Rhodes/Marshall Scholars.

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Some have suggested that the University cultivates a preselected class of scholarship students. Others believe that students begin scheming and planning for recommendations and resume-building activities as freshmen. But the real reason is Duke’s intense focus on its undergraduates: providing students with the access to faculty and resources to help them pursue whatever interests them.

Not to sound too reminiscent, but my most meaningful college experiences were the result of a professor going out of his or her way to help. I, like many Duke students, found a professor willing to offer me research opportunities my freshman year—well before students at our elite Ivy counterparts could get the same type of attention. On the non-academic side, I had the chance to play violin/piano duets with Ben Ward, who amazingly squeezed rehearsals in between helping students as a member of the Pitchforks and as faculty-in-residence of the Arts Theme House. We have all witnessed and benefited from similar acts of kindness, and the relationships that develop between students and faculty are some of —

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Successful applicants develop meaningful relationships with faculty because they are intellectually curious and passionate, not because they’re strategizing for a future recommendation. the highlights of Duke. And when students have access resources and people, they can stretch the limits of a typical undergraduate experience. Whether its starting an international non-profit organization, like Billy Hwang, or publishing in leading academic journals, like Chas and Felicia.

This makes some of the opinions expressed in the Oct. 27 Towerview article, “The Rhodes Race,” extremely troubling. The article implied that students spend their Duke careers plotting to win future prizes. The assistant director of the Office of Undergraduate Scholars and Fellows was quoted as saying that your application for the Rhodes begins “on Day One of College” when you begin “recruiting [for] recommendations.” Even worse, a University scholar went on to describe how it could be difficult to have “meaningful conversations about art, literature or politics” with .his “non-scholar friends”—a highly elitist and appalling view of the Duke community.

While these opinions do exist at Duke, they’re held by a small and shrinking group. Most importandy, they’re absolutely wrong. Successful applicants develop meaningful relationships with faculty because they are intellectually curious and passionate, not because they’re strategizing for a future recommendation. They’re involved with academic and extracurricular activities throughout the Duke community instead of isolating themselves within an elitist scholarship group. They didn’t set out from day one to win a scholarship. They set out to explore and enjoy Duke.

On the other hand, students who use Duke’s resources with the goal of winning a future scholarship will instantly be detected and screened out by scholarship committees. While congratulating Chas and Felicia on their upcoming journeys to Oxford and Cambridge, I strongly urge any freshmen and sophomores to put off thoughts of post-graduate plans until much later and instead, to genuinely make the most of what Duke has to offer. . to

Rahul Satija, Trinity ’O6, was selected as a Rhodes Scholar last year. He is currently studying at Oxford.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,

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Giving thanks, Ugandan style KAMAPALA, I arrived home one Uganda night last week to a large group gathered to hear a young Ugandan doctor, fresh from two years in the United States, breathlessly sharing his

travel stories.

“They have this day called Thanksgiving to celebrate Columbus finding the Red Indians, and on this day, they just eat and eat and eat. Isn’t that right?” sure,” I “Um

replied.

The conversation got me thinking. unThanksgiving shades of blue doubtedly will be a bit ‘ difh iitterent in Ka.mp.ala. I have spent several columns —not to mention countless study hours—contemplating Uganda’s problems. But as the season for giving thanks approaches, I realize there is so much to be thankful for here.

I have loved nearly every minute in Winston Churchill’s christened, “Pearl of Africa,” and here are just a few reasons why; 1 ) You can buy anything, anywhere, anytime—Perhaps you thought Wal-Mart was convenient? Well, here in Uganda, everything you could ever want is available on the roadside, from furniture to chickens.

If that’s not enough, hawkers periodically stroll through our resource center peddling fruit and homemade sponges and giant plastic basins, in case someone has the impulse to purchase a huge purple washtub. And a kiosk near my hut features popcorn, toilet paper and individual cigarettes. What more could you want?

2) The scenery is amazing, everywhere—Stunning waterfalls pour from sheer rock cliffs, mountains topped with snow loom in the distance behind huge expanses of scraggy plains and lions and elephants roam in thick forests.

In gritty Kampala, the scene is a bit different, but there is no shortage of the weird and wacky to keep people constantly entertained. A restaurant boasting “decent food and service” sits next to the “God Can Do Everything Dry Cleaner” and the “Look Smart Italian Salon,” which is no more Italian than the “Exclusive Luxury Italian Boutique” housed in a modified shipping container. There is the “God Cares High School” and the street sign warning, “Change Priorities Ahead.”

3) A uniquely inefficient trash disposal system—The country may not have actual trash collection, but where

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else can you watch cows, goats and obscenely large Ugandan cranes flap around and munch on the same expansive trash heap?

4) The rocking music—The beats never stop. Tiny stereos blare twenty-four hours a day, distorting grooving rhythms and catchy lyrics that combine English, Swahili and a host of local languages. For extra pleasure, local zero-budget music videos play constantly in tiny, delightfully sleazy drinking rooms. Whenever I crave 1990 flashbacks, “rock night” at any bar boasts middle-school pop music that reminds me of those horribly awkward first school dances.

5) African time —Being on time is not necessarily my strong suit in the United States, but here, it is virtually impossible to be late. Arriving within an hour of the stated meeting time is ahead of the game. Everything is wonderfully relaxed; buses leave when they are full, meetings start when everyone arrives and parties rarely really begin until well after midnight.

6) Heaping mountains of food—At first I thought six starches on a plate might be overdoing it, but it turns out that when rice, potatoes, fries, bread and mashed plantains are piled on a dish for about a dollar, a person can get very full, very quickly—and it tastes great. For the organically conscious, crops grow naturally and “free-range” chickens wander around the yard until about an hour before dinner.

Grasshopper season has just started, and the critters are surprisingly delicious. Think prawns, but a bit sweeter and crunchier.

7) Great public transport—Coming from Durham, my expectations were not particularly high, but the transportation system here is amazing. To catch a ride anywhere, people just head to the sprawling taxi parks, where old ramshackle vans sit in a hopeless gridlock.

When a taxi is full—really, really, really full—it crawls out of the maze and takes off at breakneck speed, dodging enormous potholes that appear out of nowhere with impressive agility.

8) Finally, the amazingly warm, generous, friendly Ugandans—People never stop giving, and the übiquitous glowing smiles can fix any bad day. Every stranger is happy to stop and help or just chat, and a friend becomes a brother. One ofmy best friends here insists that I cannot go home without a cow to seal our relationship; when I try to explain that it just won’t fit in my luggage, he refuses to listen.

So for all ofyou not lucky enough to spend your holiday here with me, you can have your electricity and running water and paved roads. I will stick with Thanksgiving, Ugandan style.

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David Fiocco is a Trinity junior studying abroad in Uganda this semester. His column runs every other Tuesday.

lettertotheeditor Key aspects of American culture left out I enjoyed reading Stephen Miller’s Nov. 20 column on the unity ofAmerican culture (“America: the forgotten campus culture”), but I feel that he overlooked some important points, which, going unrepresented, would be a travesty.

I myself did not see the unity of American culture until I studied abroad in Paris during the summer. In such a foreign atmosphere where racial identities melt away in a country with a completely different history and insight, I felt a unity with my fellow Americans I had never felt before.

Asking for ketchup with French fries and smiling stupidly at passersby on Parisian streets singled out my fellow Americans with our sunny dispositions and open, welcoming faces.

Meeting another American from a completely different part of the country became equivalent to meeting distant relative with whom one was delighted to recap pop or political issues.

Yet one must ask why this unity melts away when we return to our native soil. It is ambitious to think that 500 years of history does not have an impact on the every day life of Ameri-

cans. Whether it is the history of JapaneseAmerican internment camps, slavery, racial discrimination in who could apply for American citizenship or racial profiling in airports, unfortunately the American experience has not been the same for everyone, and this history extends into our times. I for one remember the stories of my grandparents in a Jim Crow south, and I think history is important to learn from to never repeat past mistakes.

When one looks at the list of American people Miller quoted as great —“Jimmy Stewart, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash”—l see but one thing and am left wondering where Mahalia Jackson, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King Jr., Amy Tan, Jim Thorpe and many others are in his mind of the “unique and cohesive American culture.”

Here is acknowledging the fact that our own minds and culture still have a long way to go.

Valarie Davis Trinity ’OB

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