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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8. 2006

THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

Blue Devils pull away late Lane Towery THE CHRONICLE

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Facing its toughest competition of the year, No. 4 Duke struggled to establish the type of lead it has grown accustomed to so far this season.

But the Blue Devils’ 21-point win over llth-ranked Vanderbilt

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the Commodores, 69-48.

“Everybody who watched the game knows that the score is not indicative of the game that was played,” Duke head coach Gail Goestenkors said. “It was much closer than that.”

Although Duke never trailed in the contest, the Commodores kept the score close for most of the game. But with 4:18 remaining, the Blue Devils broke the game open with an eight-point possession that pushed the score to 57-40 and gave Duke a much more comfortable cushion.

Grabbing a rebound off of a missed Vanderbilt three-point attempt, Lindsey Harding dished the ball to Abby Waner, who raced up the court along with Wanisha Smith on a fast-break attempt.

Drawing Vanderbilt’s Caroline Williams to guard the ball, Waner slipped a no-look pass across the lane to Smith, who finished the layup for two points.

Waner then drew an intentional

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Senior center Alison Bales led Duke with 16points in the team's win over Vanderbilt.

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The Arts and Sciences Council unanimously approved the establishment of a dance major at its meeting Thursday.

Council members also listened to presentations on the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Duke and an overview of the student-run course evaluation system established earlier this semester.

Barbara Dickinson, director of the dance program and an associate professor of the practice, explained the history of the program and the requirements of the proposed maj The major will r 12 courses, 10 o which are academic full-credit courses and two of whic are studio courses technique and formance.

“It had strong ment from the cm committee and the tive committee, Robert Thompson of Trinity Colleg provost of undergi education. “I’m d think this is a me viding high-quality struction.”

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Thompson said he hopes the change will attract students passionate about dance to the University, who would rather receive a dance major as part of a liberal arts education instead of attend-

ing a conservatory.

The dance program has offered a certificate in dance since 1992 and a dance minor since 1997.

Following the approval of the major, Lt. Col. John Wroth, commander and professor of Duke’s AFROTC detachment, presented ' on the AFROTC prond fielded questions faculty members.

Toth, a member of the and Sciences Council, that after a presentathe executive commitlembers asked him to ;nt to the council as a ie because they said facdo not have enough nowledge about the AFROTC program.

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“I expect [LDOC] to be much better than last year,” Ganatra said.

The additional funding came from money allocated for “new programs” —a cushion for unexpected Campus Council programming expenses Ganatra said.

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Panhel preps for later rush Marking a change from past years, sorority rush candidates will not need to arrive on campus before the spring semester begins and recruitment events will start Friday, Jan. 12—two days after the start of the semester.

The Panhellenic Association was able to push back the recruitment process because the academic year began a week later last August, said Todd Adams, assistant dean of students for fraternity and sorority life.

“It was literally looking at seniors to come back just a few days after New Years,” he said in regards to previous years. “That was unreasonable. It was done off a

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WASHINGTON The question to President George W. Bush was brash and biting. Was he in denial about how bad things are in Iraq? And was he really sincere about changing course?

Bush bristled. “It’s bad in Iraq. That help?” he snapped. “Make np mistake about it: I understand how tough it is, Sir.” The question came from a British journalist at a joint news conference Thursday with British Prime Minister Tony Blair after Bush, in a moment of understatement, said the-violence in Iraq was “unsettling.”

Just a day earlier, the bipartisan Iraq

Study Group had presented the president with a report saying that “the situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating.” The terms “unsettling” and “grave” suggested that Bush and the 10-member commission had a decidedly different take on Iraq.

Over the course of the news conference, that became clear.

In a chilly response to some key recommendations, Bush objected to talks with Iran and Syria, refused to endorse a major troop withdrawal and vowed no retreat from embattled U.S. goals in the Mideast.

Blair, an unflagging ally in the unpopular war, stood with Bush and wholeheartedly supported his determination to fight to

victory in Iraq and spread democracy across the Middle East.

“The vision is absolutely correct,” Blair said. The two leaders agreed, nevertheless, on a need for new approaches in Iraq.

“I thought we would succeed quicker than we did,” Bush said. “And I am disappointed by the pace of success.”

Aside from its blistering assessment of U.S. involvement in Iraq, the bipartisan commission recommended fundamentally different U.S. policies. Its key recommendations called for direct engagement with Iran and Syria as part of a new diplomatic initiative and a pullback of all American combat brigades by early 2008.

KGB spy buried; probe continues

by David Stringer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON A former KGB agent was buried in a rain-swept London cemetery Thursday, his grave surrounded by Russian emigres and his body sealed in a coffin to prevent further contamination by the radioactive substance that killed him.

But the drama of Alexander Litvinenko’s death was not over. Whoever dosed him with polonium-210 appears to have left a lengthening trail of victims.

Seven employees at the London hotel where the meeting took place have tested positive for low levels of polonium-

210, Britain’s Health Protection Agency said Thursday.

The seven are not likely to suffer short term health problems, a Health Protection official told BBC Television, but the poison could cause “a very slight increase” in their risk of health problems over the long term.

The agency said the seven were working at the Millennium Hotel’s wood-paneled Pine Bar on Nov. 1, the day Litvinenko became sick. He died Nov. 23.

Among the others contaminated by the poison is Mario Scaramella, an Italian security consultant working with the Italian

parliament who also met the Russian in London Nov. 1.

Scaramella was found to have significant quantities of polonium-210 in his body and there are concerns for his health, but he has not developed symptoms of radiation poisoning.

Maria Litvinenko, the agent’s wife, also received a-dose of the poison, but doctors say it was not enough to make her sick.

The agent’s widow was among 50 family and friends Thursday who gathered to pay tribute to him Thursday in an isolated section of historic Highgate Cemetery.

James Kim, believing he could find a nearby town, probably traveled more than 10 miles on foot before he died, authorities said Thursday. An autopsy showed that he died of hypothermia in a creek's shallow water, about a mile away from his family's car.

Taco Bell tries to control PR An E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell fast-food chain with a major damage-control challenge Thursday.

The outbreak has left more than four dozen people sick in at least three states.Taco Bell ordered the removal of green onions from its 5,800 restaurants nationwide.

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Kansas Senator and Republican presidential hopeful Sam Brownback on Thursday called for a return to an American culture that promotes family values—a theme meant to set the conservatives'favorite son apart in a growing GOP field.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8,

Local civil rights leader passes away

Universities team up for biotech site

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Ben Ruffin, a vocal leader in North Carolina’s civil rights movement, died Thursday at the age of 64.

Friends described Ruffin, a former adviser to Gov. Jim Hunt and past chairman of the UNC-Board of Governors, as warm, passionate and principled.

The Raleigh News and Observer reported Thursday that Ruffin is believed to have suffered a heart attack leading to his death in his home Thursday morning.

Ruffin was known for his dedication to the causes of underpriviblacks. He has releged Ben Ruffin ceived the NAACP Kelly M. Alexander Humanitarian Award Appointed in 1998 as the first black chairman of the Board of Governors, Ruffin helped to oversee North Carolina’s 16campus system, simultaneously working to lower tuition rates in the state.

A native of the West End in Durham, Ruffin graduated from Hillside High School and later graduated from North Carolina Central University.

“I saw him as an inspiration for me,” said Rev. Keith Daniel, a relative ofRuffin’s and director of the Duke Chapel Pathways Program. “He helped open the doors for someone like me to attend a place like Duke.”

Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, commented on the loss in a Dec. 7 article of The Triad Business Journal.

“The University has lost a great leader today,” Bowles said. “Ben will always be remembered for his positive outlook on life, his great loyalty and determination, and his bedrock belief in the power of education to make our state a better place.”

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Za Za Zsu, a boutique located on Perry Street, has been selling shirts that benefit a scholarship fund.

ness about the challenges of higher education access for members of certain subsets of the Durham community,” said senior David Snider, an advisor and founding member of the fund.

Senior Ryan Kick said he came up with the slogan last year after listening to the Tag Team song, “Whoop There It Is.” He said the inspirational line was, “Here’s the shovel, can you dig it, fool!”

“It means that there’s a lot to Durham

in which to conduct research, thanks to David Murdock, owner and CEO of Dole Food Company, Inc When construction on the billion-dollar David Murdock biotechnology center located in Kannapolis, N.C., is complete, it has the potential to become a hub of research in this part of the country, said Bob Taber, vice chancellor for corporate and venture development at Duke. “[The biotechnology center] is quite an initiative,” Taber said. “There is nothing of this magnitude around that is quite like this.”

Many North Carolina universities, including Duke, have been in talks with Murdock about having a stake in the new biotechnology campus, said Jeff Davies, UNC chief of staff.

“This site is attractive to scientists across the state because it will have some of the most advanced technology in the area,” he said.

Duke is currently in negotiation with Murdock about establishing two separate buildings on the research campus—a core laboratory and a translational research building, Taber said.

“What’s envisioned for the core laborato-

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Durham—can you dig it?

Designed by a group ofDuke students last spring, T-shirts bearing the slogan “Durham can you dig it?” aim to raise both money and awareness for the Pi Phi First Generation Scholarship Fund.

The shirts, currently available at the Durham boutique Za Za Zsu, are part of a positive publicity campaign about Duke-Durham relations and were first sold at last April’s Springternational festival.

The fund, which was conceived in the Enterprising Leadership course taught

by Tony Brown, professor of the practice of public policy, provides financial aid to Durham high school students who are the first in their families to go to college.

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In three years, the fund has raised close to $40,000 and has provided more than $17,000 in financial aid to the

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The finding, which was published in chemical signals sent between cells durthe Dec. 7 issue of the journal Neuron, ing the processes of learning and memocould lead to new approaches for tackling ry formation.

But eventually the researchers were memory loss caused by aging and diseases to focus on the structural changes in Alzheimer’s, autism and mental reable such as tardation—all associated with the loss of the size and shape of the cells.

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DANCE from page 1 rather than three separate ROTC units doing similar things, but that are all different,” Wroth said.

Ron Grunwald, a lecturer in the biology department, asked about required AEROTC time commitment of which faculty members should be aware.

Cadets in the detachment have weekly physical training sessions and are required to take one class and go on two leadership retreats per semester, Wroth said.

He added, however, that students who wish to be competitive within the program may choose to take on additional commitments.

“We’ll make an effort to be more educated, have more information and provide leadership when needed,” said coun-

cil chairLee Baker, associate professor of cultural anthropology.

The council then listened to a report from junior Elliott Wolf, Duke Student Government president, about the online student course evaluations that were instated this semester.

The site, to which only students are allowed to submit rankings, has received 713 evaluations on 299 professors and 313 courses to date, Wolf said.

He added that the website is an improvement over the opt-out/opt-in system for administrative course evaluations displayed on ACES because it provides space for comments in addition to quantitative feedback.

“What we’re finding is that it’s not that students are slamming professors because they’re hard,” Wolf said. “Students are willing to explore but they want to know what they’re getting into.”

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KANNAPOLIS ry is quite spectacular,” he said. “It [will be] one of the finest labs in the word.”

Construction on the core laboratory has already begun, and is expected to be completed by early 2008, Taber said.

Duke is also negotiating plans to construct the translational research building on the biotechnology campus, he said. In this building, scientists will focus on transitioning lab tests with drugs and devices into human trials.

The translational research building, which will be operated by Duke, is expected to be open in late 2008, Taber said.

Murdock has already pledged approximately $1 billion toward the biotechnology center, and a combination of local universities and tax payers will fund the rest of it, Davies said.

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Although the deal has yet to be finalized, construction on some of the buildings has already begun, and $65-million to $7O-million dollars has already been invested in the campus, Taber said.

“We’re 75 percent to 80 percent sure that the deal for the main core laboratory will go through,” he said.

UNC plans to construct the UNC Institute for Excellence in Nutrition on the biotechnology campus and N.C. State will build the N.C. State Institute for Fruit and Vegetable Science.

There are also ambitions to construct four other campuses related to nutrition in the biotechnology center, Davies said.

“This is a major investment by billionaire David Murdock as an economic development project to revitalize Kannapolis,” Davies said. “This is an exciting opportunity for Kannapolis, and for the state of North Carolina.”

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DIG IT from page 3 that people don’t understand and ifyou spend some dme here, it kind of grows on you,” Kick said. “Some people dig it and some people don’t.”

Backman said she wanted to design a T-shirt that celebrated Durham, not just Duke.

“I guess people like the idea that Durham is the place where we go to school and everything we buy is from the Duke University Store, so it’s nice to wear something that’s representative of the place we’ve been living,” she added.

For Snider, the T-shirts represent a bridge between Duke and Durham.

“The underlying message is about students becoming involved in the community beyond Duke,” he said.

Although the shirts are available for $2O at her store, Lynda Lewis, the owner of Za Za Zsu, said she will not make a profit from the sales. Lewis said that after deducting the cost of making the shirts, about $7 from each sale goes to charity.

“I wanted to be be involved in some type of charity and

Pi Phi is the one who approached me first,” Lewis said. “Because I have a retailer’s license, I was able to get a better cut on the price of the T-shirts.”

As a senior at Hillside High School, Krystal Holman, currendy a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, found the Pi Phi scholarship application in her guidance office.

During the past three years, she has received $3,500 of financial aid from the fund to help her with expenses.

During the school year, Holman said she stays in contact with the committee to let them know how she is doing at school.

“I feel very attached to them, they’ve been following me since I was a freshman,” she added.

Holman said she went to high school with several of the other eight scholarship recipients, who now go to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina Central University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

“The fund gives die minority community at Hillside a chance for education,” she said. “A lot of those kids might not go to college without the financial assistance.”

SORORITY from page 1 calendar, not a major change in direction or policy.”

Apart from the scheduling adjustment, sorority-recruitment events will proceed no differendy than in previous years, Adams said.

“They’re both relatively the same duration they’ve always been,” he said. “From a timeline perspective you’re going to see a similar approach as to past years.”

At the start of the Spring 2006 semester, rush candidates returned to campus three days before classes began for meet-and-greet activities. Sorority leaders arrived earlier to organize rush procedure and plan events.

Starting later will eliminate past problems of limited housing, buses and food options on campus that occurred during past recruitment periods, said senior Chrissie Gorman, Panhellenic Association president.

“It made it a lot easier to start after classes began,” Gorman said. “The year before there were issues with whether buses were running and whether food places were open. It was putting a strain on the system.”

In response to suggestions made about the 2006 process, recruitment chairs from the 10 sorority chapters voted to approve a complete recruitment schedule that included the changed start date, said senior Bethany Schraml, Panhellenic Association vice president of recruitment and management.

“Everybody was really supportive of changing it to after the start of classes,” Schraml said.

The delayed start of the recruitment process, however, has raised some concerns, as some have said it may interfere with the hectic process of adjusting to new classes.

“I was initially disappointed because I thought it was a lot for our girls to handle,” said senior Lisa Rainey, president ofDelta Delta Delta sorority. “I am concerned about getting everyone together. People are going to be trying out new classes and adding and dropping, and it’s a lot of restraints put on the new members. I think it puts a lot of extra stress on the members of the sororities and the potential members.”

Marisa Siegel, a freshman who plans to rush sororities in January, said getting a few extra days of vacation makes enduring the stress ofrushing as classes start manageable.

“There are pluses and minuses,” Siegel said. “I’m glad that we get an extra week of break even if it means it’s a little more difficult to balance classes and rush.”

Schraml said the changed start date could have contributed to the increased turnout for recruitment registration—which ended Dec. 3.

“The numbers this year are up a little bit so I think it has some effect,” Schraml said.

Selective living houses have planned their events around the adjusted recruitment period to limit conflicts with sorority activities, said Brownstone President Rebecca Miller, a senior.

“We try to be aware of events when we are planning with our calendars, so it’s just one more thing to take into account,” Miller said.

With no other changes made to amend the upcoming recruitment period, Adams expects the process to run smoothly on the adjusted schedule.

“The timing doesn’t affect us that much,” Adams said. “We haven’t seen any effect at all in terms of securing rooms and location. From a planning and logistics perspective we can make either [start date] work with relative ease.”

STUDY from page 4 The team found that a specific organelle, recycled endosomes, were key to the growth of dendritic spines in stimulated neurons.

The Duke researchers collaborated with Kristen Harris, professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin, and her team.

While Ehlers and his team focused on imaging of living cells, Harris’ team worked with an electron microscope that allowed them to view cells at a high resolution.

Ehlers said the next step in research will be understanding the molecular system in more detail and eventually studying the processes in intact rodent brains. He added that such findings could influence the development of memory-enhancing drugs.

“Human research is still a long way away,” Ehlers said. “[But the recent findings are] bringing us closer to understanding the true cell biology of memory.”

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LDOC from page 1 He added that the Council was very willing to provide the additional $lO,OOO to the LDOC committee but is unwilling to give any more because any additional funding would cut into budgets for other Campus Council pro-

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Students participate in a dreidel tournament (left) and watch the lighting ofan ice menorah(right) to celebrate the Jewish holiday of hanukkah.

“We had to decide if every additional dollar is better for our regular programming or for LDOC —we want what’s best for the students,” he said. “We had to make that value judgment.”

The extra funding will most likely go toward bringing a better nighttime band to the event, said LDOC Chair Beth Higgins, a senior.

Custer, guitarist Matt Costa and rapper Rahzel performed at last year’s event.

“It’s great, every little bit helps and we really appreciate them even considering giving us more money,” she said.

Higgins is planning to meet with administrators in the upcoming week regarding further budget increases!

“Beth is doing an amazing job, she looked at both what can be done within the budget and how to expand it,” Ganatra said, noting that in previous years the LDOC chair only worked within the allocated funds. “She is setting a great example for future LDOC chairs.”

In other business: Ganatra updated the Council on The Group Living Initiative, which will be finalized before the end of the semester. The initiative contains a new evaluation of selective living groups and will start next semester.

“This is a big change for Duke,” Ganatra said. “Hopefully it’ll have as big of an impact as we think it should.”

Facilities and Services Chair Hasnain Zaidi, a junior, also updated Council members regarding the installment of an ATM in McClendon Tower.

The Council sent out a survey to residents ofFew Quadrangle and Keohane Quadrangle this week.

Council members also suggested placing additional ATMs in the Marketplace in addition to the existing one from Wachovia.

Campus Council approved a total of $30,000 to add to the budget for LDOC With other promised funds, the event has more than $140,000 in the coffers.

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“Words can’t really describe how it feels when you accomplish something like that,” Saturday afternoon, Duke will continue George Mason head coach Jim Larranaga its non-conference schedule against a 2006 said. “It makes it even more powerful when Final Four team. No, the No. 7 Florida people tell you we made the best run in Gators are not playing in Cameron Indoor NCAA Tournament history.”

Stadium tomorrow, and neither is No. 1 And what a run it was.

UCLA or No. 9 Louisiana State.

Before bowing out to eventual.national George Mason—which champion Florida, the Patriots defeated plays not in the Pac-10 or Michigan State, North Carolina, Wichita State and one of the tournament’s fathe SEC but in the Colonial Athletic Associa- vorites, Connecticut. yS, —marches into “We Understand that what we did is Cameron Indoor Stadium highly unusual,” Larranaga said. “Not only tomorrow, fresh off last winning those games but who we were able SATURDAY, 7 p.m. season’s unprecedented to defeat—three out of the. last six nationCameron Indoor tr tQ pina ] p our. al champions, including UConn, who had jp Stadium The Nq y Rlue Devils five guys drafted.”

This year’s team, however, has some (8-1), who are tied with Florida in the latest Associated Press poll, regularly schednew faces in the starting lineup. The Patriule mid-major teams like the Patriots (4- ots’ top three scorers from a year ago are 3) that contend every year for their all gone, and the team has struggled thus George far without them. conference championships.

Mason, however, did a little bit more than “We’ve had our ups and downs so far this season,” Larranaga said. “We haven’t that last season, winning the NCAA Washington, D.C. Regional en route to the naSEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 10 tional semifinals.

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Blue Devils prevail in battle by

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Although Vanderbilt was nationally ranked, the Blue Devils had a number of reasons to believe they would run all over the Commodores.

On the season, no opponent had come within 21 points of beating Duke, and in the CSBftlS team’s last matchup analysts against then-No. 17 Rutgers on the road, the Blue Devils rolled over the Scarlet Knights in a 40-point romp.

But last night’s game more resembled trench warfare than the fast-break runaway style that the Blue Devils have gotten used to.

Vanderbilt did not score any fast-break points in the game, and Duke only had six, all coming late in the second half. Moreover, the two squads combined for 41 turnovers.

“We were just in a rush to get out and get going,” guard Lindsey Harding said about the difficulty in the fast break. “It just took a lot to adjust to because Vanderbilt is a great team and they got back quickly on defense. We just have to figure out a way to push the ball, which we got going a little to late. But we didn’t [early on].”

The lack of a transition game on both sides was not just due to sloppy ball handling and poor choices on the break. Both teams were disciplined defensively and used their speed to create turnovers. Whenever either squad pushed the ball up the floor following a turnover or rebound, the opposing defense was usually one step ahead and in position to stymie the offensive push.

Harding and Wanisha Smith tried to

force the issue a couple of times by taking the ball hard to the rim. But they often faced a wall of Commodores that either redirected the shot or took a charge.

Head coach Gail Goestenkors said she thought her team forced some shots and was not patient enough on the offensive end.

Harding, though, managed to take it the length of the floor for a layup following her own steal with 6:13 remaining in the game, the team’s first fast-break points ofthe night.

Smith added two of her own two minutes later with a layup off a Waner no-look pass a play that began a hectic sequence in which Duke would score eight straight points and effectively put the game out of reach.

Because it was so difficult to establish a transition game, the two teams got mixed up in a war of attrition in the half-court for most of the game, in which Duke held the advantage. The Blue Devils prevailed in the gritty half-court batde due to their superior talent and defensive discipline.

Whenever Vanderbilt center Carla Thomas got the ball down low, Alison Bales stood up to Thomas’s physical play and limited the Commodores’ leading scorer .to 14 points—more than five points less than her season average entering the game.

On the Blue Devils’ offensive end, Thomas and Vanderbilt’s other posts clogged the middle. But Bales managed to break through on numerous occasions en route to a game-high 16 points.

With so much traffic in the middle, Duke turned to its three-point shot early to bombard the Commodores. The Blue Devils’ first nine points came off of threepointers by Harding, Waner and Smith.

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TheBlue Devils did not score as much as they usually do, but they stillprevailed Thursday in a hard-fought game.

When the shots were not falling, though, Duke was forced to show patience in the half-court against Vanderbilt’s pesky defense. At times, the Blue Devils threw some errant passes that led to turnovers.

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by 15 and limit talented offenses like Vanderbilt’s —which entered the game avteams

eraging 51.3 percent from the field—to 33.3 percent shooting and 48 points, then 80-point plus offensive outputs will not be necessary for the Blue Devils.

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second, especially on offense. Duke can ill afford to get off to such a start against the Patriots.

“If we come out slow to anybody, we could lose—especially to George Mason,” Blue Devil guard Jon Scheyer said.

“They’re not going to be intimidated or scared coming in here.”

Duke’s offensive woes have been a cause for concern all season, and the problems were visible again Wednesday night at home against the Crusaders. The Patriots’ defense allows only 58.4 points per game and could challenge the Blue Devils Saturday.

Leading scorer Folarin Campbell has also been a force this season, averaging 16.3 points per game. The junior guard scored in double figures in all five of George Mason’s NCAA Tournament games —including 15 points in 41 minutes of the team’s overtime victory over UConn—a season ago and headlines the Patriots’ guard-oriented defense.

“They snuck up last year on people a littie bit, but we know how capable they are as a team,” Scheyer said. “If you make it to the Final Four, you have to be really good, so we need to be ready for them.”

Duke is a team that George Mason has tried to schedule for a long time, Larranaga said, and his squad is ready and excited to play the Blue Devils on national television.

“When I came to George Mason 10 years ago, I asked my players ‘Who are the top programs, and what we can learn from them?”’ Larranaga said. “Almost every player said ‘Duke.’ We wrote on the board what Duke does, and we made a commitment to do those things. We haven’t had the national level of success that a program like Duke has had, but we’re very proud of our success in the CAA.”

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foul from Williams and was sent to the line for two shots.

After Waner missed her first shot, the Vanderbilt bench was called for a technical foul, which gave Harding two chances, and she converted both of them.

“I’d say [an explanation] is what I was trying to get,” Balcomb said.

Waner continued on to hit her second free throw, then Duke received the ball under its own basket and the sophomore sank a three-pointer from the corner to complete an eight-point swing in a total of IT seconds.

“That was a huge play for us,” Waner said. “That definitely got our crowd into it, and that’s what we needed because when our crowd got into it, we started getting energy on the floor.”

perfect 10-for-10 on free throws and extended their lead to 21 points by the end of the game.

The exciting finish covered up what was otherwise an underachieving night on the offensive end.

“We didn’t have the patience we need to have to be the best team we can be,” Goestenkors said. “Too many turnovers.”

The Blue Devils, who were averaging 84.3 before last night’s game, scored just 29 in the first half. They totaled 23 turnovers in the contest and failed to ever establish a transition game, posting just six fast-break points —all in the final six minutes.

But what Duke lacked on the offensive end, they made up for with a tireless manto-man defense that forced the lowest production of the season for the high-scoring Commodores. Vanderbilt’s previous low

was 67 points against No. 16 California.

“I’m really proud of our defense,” Goestenkors said. “We felt like if we could make them one-on-one players—they’re not as comfortable playing one-on-one basketball.”

Having shot more than 50 percent from the floor coming into the game, Vanderbilt managed to convertjust 33.3 percent ofits attempts while committing 18 turnovers.

Duke held Williams—who has averaged 15.6 points —to just six on the night. The Blue Devils are yet to allow more than 50 points this year.

Senior Alison Bales led Duke with 16 points. Waner chipped in with 11 points in the second half to total 14. Harding added 15 points ofher own, with 12 of those coming in the second period.

Duke will face its third ranked opponent in a row when it battles No. 22 Texas Sunday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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Filling in the gaps nation Nov. 27. He will become president of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. Committees are now narrowing down the replacements. field of potential editorial Douglas candidates to fill Breeden, dean the vacancies in the law of the Fuqua School of Business, was the first one to say school and business school, and final selections are exin March that he had decided to return to the Fuqua pected to be presented to faculty as a William W. Priest the provost and president later this month. professor of finance.

We wish Provost Peter Katherine Bartlett, dean of the School of Law, then Lange and the search comsaid in April that she will mittees of each school happy step down from her post in hunting in finding new June 2007. She will also re- deans as effective as the curturn as a full-time member rent ones.

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Lange told Duke News that Bartlett’s “quiet leadership” has helped the law school prosper, especially in the areas of faculty hiring and improving the intellectual culture of the law school while increasing the caliber of its students.

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So, why are they leaving if they have been so successful?

In truth, it’s not so unusual for deans to step down to pursue other academic and career interests.

The deans have put in their time in the administration and are doing what many deans do after they leave their positions—pursuing their research and teaching interests. although Additionally, these resignations could lead that to the perception Duke’s top deans are quitting en masse, this is most certainly not the case.

The open deanships truly appear to be a mere coinci-

dence; none of them is leaving under bad terms. In short, there’s no need to sound the alarm.

Also, if Duke is going to replace three deans in a relatively short period of time, it is in some ways fortunate that the search is taking place at the beginning of a new Uni-

versity-wide strategic plan, “Making a Difference.”

The steering committees and the provost should, and most certainly will, seek can-

didates that will fit in well with the University’s most recent articulation ofits goals.

Filling three deanships at an elite university like Duke will be a challenge, and the administration should work diligently to ensure a smooth transition when replacement deans take over.

ontherecord I expect [Last Day last year.

of Classes]

to be much better than

—Campus Council President Jay Ganatra, a senior, on the eno-of-the-year event. See story page 1.

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Walkup policy for George Mason game The men’s basketball game against George Mason is this Saturday, Dec. 9 at 12 p.m. The policy for this game is a walkup policy. Students may form groups of up to six people, with 50 percent of the group necessary at all times. Registration will begin as the line is established. All group members must be in line by 10 a.m.

Mara Schultz Head Line Monitor Trinity ’O7

Open letter to Duke students Where are you? The atmosphere at Cameron Indoor Stadium last night (as at several games this year in fact) was nothing short of embarrassing. Hundreds of empty seats in the student section!? Fans of the opposing team in OUR student section!? The high level of success enjoyed by the Duke basketball program does not just happen automatically year after year. We fans cannot take for granted that our team (and particularly such a young team) will win with or without our support. When Coach K speaks of the Duke student body being part of the team, he means what he says. I appeal to those ofyou who only attend the “big” games to reconsider your role on the team.

Collectively you have a shared responsibility

to do two

things: (1) continue the tradition of previous student bodies in making Cameron the single most difficult place to play in the country for every opponent and (2) embrace each year’s team as being unique and support them accordingly. This is the first and only year that “this” team will be here—don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of it. Take it from someone who grew up a Duke fan and was fortunate enough to be on campus when the program was “turned around” in the mid 80s; the current 20+ year string of unparalleled success will not last forever.

None of us should take for granted how fortunate we are to be part of this amazing run. The best way we can ensure itcontinues is to stay hungry and help earn it every year. That means taking a two-hour study break (exams or not) to loudly and proudly take your privileged position as a Cameron Crazy whether the opponent is Holy Cross or UNC. I promise you that years from now when you reflect on your amazing experiences at Duke, the memories of time spent in Cameron will rise to the top. GO DUKE!

Eric Barber Trinity ’B7 Fuqua ’BB

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How can you spend your time discussing trifling matters confined to a few grayish, smelly newsprint Real fury is square miles ofcampus?

Our national leadership is three-dimensional; can eroding our rights like a you see my banging fists and hear my cracking tropical hurricane!

The misguided priorities voice? Honest-to-God, 0 of the masses are contamitangible vitriol bums in •% nating candid discussion like more ways than one, like its close cousin alcohol. If a disagreeable plague!! I was this paper were burnhaving a casual conversation with a professor, innocently ing. .. well then it would be unreadable. ashwin bhirud pushing an informal, liberal These are falsities. agenda when he posed a aimless sameness All that drivel just question about campus greek life. makes a big bowl of Greek life?! Thousands are dying daily wrong. I say now to you: Know my wrath by the amount of exclamation points that in Africa, religious tensions are explodfollow it. Trust me, it’s more accurate ing to nuclear proportions, and all you than a yardstick. Two of them mean my can ask about is greek life? There’s a war going on, people!!!! voice is getting shrill, five imply I’m getI’m so pissed I could punch a hole in ting out my shotgun and 10 suggest I’m rounding second and on my way to my the wall!

It gets worse. Sitting down to lunch third heart attack. on a sunny afternoon with a friend, I was So get ready for this blitzkrieg. expecting an equally bright debate conAll you wannabe open-minded intellectuals indulge in irrelevant idiocy instead of cerning campaign finance reform. But 10, actual important issues!!!!!!!!!!!! (12 be and hold, what does he ask me inangry—call a doctor). It thoroughly offends stead? “How was your day?”

My day?!?!!?!? JoJo is almost 16, Britney me!!! There’s a war going on, people!!!!

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and K-Fed broke up, and all you can ask tendency to get a little high-pitched when me about is my day? There’s a war going I’m excited. on, people!!!!

And don’t think that I intend to piss Have you seen my everyone else off pacemaker anyjust because I am where? I’m so mad I angrier than al seem to have lost it But 10, be and hold, what Qaeda on Christmas even Day, Finally, just when does he ask me instead? though I could, if I my voice box is startwanted, incite a ing to repair itself, “How was your day?” riot. It’s just that I’m engaged in mais alMy day?!?!!?!? ture dialogue with people spend all the sandwich lady at their time focused most 16, Britney and Kon Alpine and she asks things that aren’t important, Fed broke up, and all if “I want a pickle with that.” and I have a real you can ask me about is A pickle with problem with how other people manthat!?!?!?!? A Dukie my day? age their time. got voted sexiest researcher, Whew, all this brain calm, rational ponquadrangle barbecues are ineffective at increasing West dering is tiresome. I wouldn’t be reduced Campus quad cohesion, and all you can to such tranquil, accommodating discusask me about is if I want a pickle? There’s sion if not for the fact that I broke my exa war going on, people!!!! clamation-point key.

Ah, I think I have a solution: If I have to listen to one more minute THERE’S A WAR GOING ON, PEOPLE ofyou discussing things I deem immaterial, I’m going to shoot myself!!!!!

Ashwin Bhirud is a Trinity senior. His colBy the way, don’t mistake my zealous ferocity for cranky whining. My voice has a umn runs every other Friday.

JoJo

Bottoms up

Three

years and $3lO million in the making, the medical school’s newly cemented partnership with the National University of Singapore is huge, even by Duke standards. Approved by the Board of Trustees last Friday, the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical Center is officially set to enroll its first class next fall. It will offer students a curriculum parallel to the one currently taught here and award full-fledged Duke medical school degrees. kristin butler This expansion is with all deliberate speed nothing short of unprecedented, a real coup for the medical school. But in the public sphere, administrators have left an important question unasked and unanswered: How does Duke plan to protect students, employees and their families from the Singaporean government’s repression?

Make no mistake; Singapore bans far more than just chewing gum and spray paint. The ruling People’s Action Party severely curtails freedom of speech, assembly and the press, censoring sexually, politically, religiously and racially “sensitive” material. It reserves the right to detain subjects indefinitely and without due process of law, and citizens have few privacy rights.

In fact, Reporters without Borders ranks Singapore 147th out of 167 nations for freedom of the press (easily the lowest ranking for any developed country). The citystate performed dismally in 5 of 7 categories of the 2005 Freedom in the World ranking.

Just ask Warwick University, which is ranked among the top 10 schools in the United Kingdom; it turned down a similar deal in 2005. The reason? Unsurprisingly, there were widespread concerns about academic freedom and government censorship, particularly that “the government will intervene if academic reports cast a negative light on their policies.”

Along these lines, Gary Rodan, Director of the Asia Research Centre at Australia’s Murdoch University, noted the following in 2005; “When other universities come to Singapore under the same terms, questions will have to be asked on whether they prize academic freedom and inde-

Other accounts of Malaysian canings note that officers surgical masks to protect their faces from blood spatter and flying chunks of skin and muscle. A former time someone asked; How is this deal compatible with our practitioner reported that “always after 15 strokes, howevinstitutional values? Are we really prepared to subject er accurate the flogger, the flesh will fly.” Even in senDuke-certified courses to the censorship of the People’s tences involving fewer than 15 strokes, “if it’s a wellAction Party? trained caner, the skin across the whole backside will split Most important of all: Doesn’t this partnership threaten 99 percent of the time.... the cane leaves huge red welts our identity as an open, inclusive community? Among other and permanent scars.”

And what effect does caning have on its victims? Singathings, Singapore enforces a ban on homosexuality—which it terms “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” pore’s Director of Prisons noted in a 1974 press conferand offenders can be sentenced to life imprisonment. ence that after three strokes “their struggles lessen and What, then, will happen when Duke wants to send a gay they become weaker. At the end of the caning those who physician to Singapore? Or one who studies birth control? receive more than three lashes are usually in a state of We know ahead of dme that the the country won’t want shock. Many will collapse... but they cannot fool the them; can Duke tolerate that level ofbigotry and discrimina- prison doctor whose presence is legally required.”

Michael Peter Fay, an American arrested for spray-painttion at one ofits affiliates? ing cars and stealing road signs as a teenager in 1993, This is especially concerning in a country where one common punishment is judicial caning. Performed thousands of found this out the hard way. Even the direct, personal pleas of President Clinton and times each year, caning is standard fare not only for vitwo-dozen U.S. Senators olent crimes like murder and were not enough to spare Fay; he ultimately received rape, but also for “outrage of What, then, will happen when Duke four lashes of the cane for modesty,” vandalism, “dealing with dangerous firepetty vandalism, reduced at wants to send a gay physician to the last minute from six as a works,” illegal entry and unSingapore? Or one who studies lawful overstay of more than show of “respect” to the U.S. 90 days government. birth control? We know ahead of In other words, when An extraordinarily Duke’s own (or their famitime that the the country won’t painful ordeal, caning uses lies) are strung up on a long, thin piece of wood want them; can Duke tolerate that charges, we will be powerabout four feet long and less to help them. half an inch thick to strike level of bigotry and discrimination So perhaps then-Seits victims across the butat one of its affiliates? nior Minister Lee Kuan tocks. The subject is Yew did us all a favor when stripped endrely naked behe smugly announced to fore the punishment beUSA Today, “If you think and his hands and angins, kles are tied to a wooden trestle. The cane is immersed in [caning] should not be done, don’t bring your water overnight to maximize flexibility, and it is wielded by 18-year-old son to Singapore. Or if you do. warn him officer trained to inflict wounds. of the consequences.” an especially deep Consider yourselves warned.

According to a Singapore Bar Association report, “the blows are applied with the full force of the jailer’s arm.

When the rattan hits the bare buttocks, the skin disinteKristin Butler is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every white line flow of blood.”

Friday. a and then a leaving grates,

pendence as highly as Warwick.”

I prize academic freedom and independence. I was under the impression that Duke does, too. So perhaps it’s

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