September 25, 2007

fundraiser

.

The volleyballII team collects pennies for multiiple sderosis research, PAGE 3

youtube

m. football

Duke uses Web site to boost the University's profile, PAGE 6

The Blue Devils hold open tryouts for the placekicker position, PAGE 9

mT-*

The Gnromctef

FT! 1

f

Marisa Siegel THE CHRONICLE

Thing I and Thing II are soon to invade East Campus—just two of the specials that will be offered when the new Pauly Dogs stand opens on East.

The introduction of Pauly Dogs —the popular hot dog stand on the West Campus Plaza—is the first of several planned changes, which include a Quenchers-like juice bar in Brodie Recreation Center and new restaurants on East to increase dining options for freshmen, said Jim Wulforst, director for dining services.

Thought and Action

®

'tk

1

Duke Med gets S3SM forresearch

Pauly Dogs preps for East opening by

1

The decision to put another Pauly Dogs stand on East was an easy one, Wulforst said.

The many requests he received for Pauly Dogs on East and the ease of installing a cart—as opposed to a whole new restaurant —prompted the decision to expand, he added.

“There are limited options on East and this is an option that students have asked for and we need to deliver it,” he said.

The cart will be located to the left of the East Campus Union in the courtyard area.

“The ultimate spot would be the bus stop,” said Pauly Dogs owner Paul Konstanzer. “I think the bus stop would kick butt, but as of right now we’ll probably be over by that little

courtyard.”

When the stand will actually open, however, is still unclear. The original plan was to open the cart two weeks ago, but because of a recent theft problem among Pauly Dogs workers, the East Campus cart has yet to be staffed, Konstanzer said.

“That’s the difficulty for me right now, finding the staff that I can trust,” he said.

Once the cart is properly staffed, Konstanzer said the East Campus menu will stay true to the current menu at

Pauly Dogs owner Paul Konstanzer will open up a cart on East Campus.

SEE PAULY ON PAGE 4

Billionaire David Murdock speaks at the North Carolina Research Campus to announce his donation for healthresearch.

Money will go to new approaches to fighting diseases by

Joe Clark

THE CHRONICLE

Billionaire David Murdock announced Monday that he will donate $35 million to Duke for a landmark biomedical research project.

The donation by Murdock, owner and chair of Dole Food Company, is the largest ever received by the Duke University School ofMedicine.

“This is very unique because, to my knowledge, I don’t know of

anyone who’s given in this fashion, that is to say, ‘I have faith in your research,’” said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “[Murdock] has a kind of vision and it’s kind of a passion, and he’s willing to give the dollars to support it.”

The named project, M.U.R.D.O.C.K.—for the Measurement to Understand the Reclassification of Disease of Cabarrus and Kannapolis—will study

how examining genes could di-

rectly predict a patient’s potential risk to develop certain medical conditions in the future.

This research could possibly allow doctors to assess an individual’s chance of developing a condition such as heart disease or diabetes early in that person’s lifetime, said Dr. Robert Califf, director of the Duke Translational Medicine Institute and lead investigator of the SEE MURDOCK ON PAGE

4

Spate of fallen limbs may be result of drought by

Hon Lung Chu THE CHRONICLE

Two broken limbs can cause the campus buses to reroute their services. That is, if they are tree limbs.

Within the past month, two tree branches have fallen near the East Campus bridge, disrupting traffic on Campus Drive and Main Street, although no one was injured.

Some experts said recent drought conditions throughout the state, including in Durham County, may have weakened the structure of tree branches, causing the collapses.

“Many of the trees on campus have shown signs of stress brought on by the heat and dry conditions of the summer,”

assistant director of grounds, sanitation and recycling services, wrote in an e-mail. “Trees could have suffered from other little problems within their structure that did not become as pronounced until certain conditions [brought them out], such as a drought.”

Although the Facilities Management Department did not perform extra analysis in response to the recent incidences, Jackson said the department routinely inspects trees.

“We have had a certified arborist inspect the trees to determine as best as possible the extent of decay and any

Joe Jackson,

CHASE

SEE TREES ON PAGE

6

OLIVIERI/THE CHRONICLE

Two trees fell in the past month on the south sideof the bridge that runs over CampusDrive near East Campus.

2 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

THE CHRONICLE

Burmese monks given warning

Iranian prez fields criticism at Columbia policy, as well as Ahmadinejad’s statements denying the Holocaust and callIranian President MahNEW YORK ing for the disappearance of Israel. moud Ahmadinejad questioned the official “Mr. President, you exhibit all the signs version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended of a petty and cruel dictator,” Bollinger the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in said, to loud applause. a tense appearance Monday at Columbia He said Ahmadinejad’s denial of the HoloUniversity, whose president accused the caust might fool the illiterate and ignorant. hard-line leader of behaving like “a petty “When you come to a place like this it and cruel dictator.” makes you simply ridiculous,” Bollinger said. “The truth is that the Holocaust is the Ahmadinejad smiled at first but appeared increasingly agitated, decrying most documented event in human history.” the “insults” and “unfriendly treatment.”

Ahmadinejad rose, also to applause, Columbia President Lee Bollinger and and after a religious invocation, said audience members took him to task over Bollinger’s opening was “an insult to Iran’s human-rights record and foreign information and the knowledge of the by

Nahal Toosi

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

audience here.”

“There were many insults and claims that were incorrect, regretfully,” Ahmadinejad said, accusing Bollinger of falling under the influence of the hostile U.S. press and politicians. “I should not begin by being affected by this unfriendly treatment.”

During a question and answer session, Ahmadinejad appeared tense and unsmiling, in contrast to more relaxed interviews and appearances earlier in the day.

In response to one audience, Ahmadinejad denied he was questioning the existence of the Holocaust: “Granted SEE AHMADINEJAD ON PAGE 7

Steroid bust arrests 120 in blackmarket by

Eric Tucker

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PROVIDENCE Federal authorities announced the largest crackdown on illegal steroids in the nation’s history Monday, arresting more than 120 people and raiding dozens of labs that manufactured growth hormone for sale on the black market.

Agents seized 56 labs, many of which were located in dirty basements, and recovered 11.4 million doses of steroids, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“We were a little bit stunned at the *

amount of labs we found as a result of this investigation,” DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney said in Washington. “It’s not something that’s on a scale that we’ve ever seen.”

The announcement follows a growing number of scandals in the sports world over steroids, but authorities said the probe was focused on distributors, not users, and that no professional athletes were direcdy involved in the investigation.

U.S. investigators were helped by governments of nine other countries, including China, which is hosting the 2008 Olympics.

Among those facing charges are a Chinese manufactureraccused ofsmuggling human growth hormone into the U.S. and others who allegedly got steroids from China and sold them to U.S. customers.

The probe, dubbed Operation Raw Deal, targeted manufacturers of raw materials needed to produce steroids, as well as underground steroid labs in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Agents also investigated Web sites that offered kits to convert steroids from powder into injectable forms and Internet discussion boards frequented by bodybuilders.

Myanmar's military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist monks who led 100,000 people marching through a major city in the strongest protests against the repressive regime for two decades.

U.N. addresses climate change With tales of rising seas and talk of human solidarity, world leaders at the first United Nations climate summit sought Monday to put new urgency into global talks to reduce globalwarming emissions.

Pakistani police arrest activists Police intensified a crackdown Monday, that opposition parties say has left hundreds of activists in custody while the Supreme Court dismissed three challenges to the re-election bid of Pakistan's military leader.

Snipers told to'bait' insurgents Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then kill whoever picked up the items, according to thedefense attorney for a soldieraccused of planting evidence on an Iraqi he killed.

News briefs compiled from wire reports "Do not the most moving moments of our livesfind us withoutwords?" —MarcdMarceau

THE CHRONICLE

As

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007 I 3

students continue to meet with Provost Peter Lange and Dean of Under-

graduate Education Steve Nowicki about the Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience at Duke University, The Chronicle asks how students

feel about the report.

"[The Interim Report] is supposed to understand the issues that undergraduates are concerned about—their social lives and services that are available to them on campus. I feel like that's as simple as you can put it, but I feel like it's more complex than that."

Junior Jordan Giordano, executive vice president of Duke Student Government and vice president of community interaction for Interfraternity Council

"All I hear about is selective living groups.... It's the way it's publicized.

You get the e-mails and you just go through them."

Sophomore Amy Tsai "I felt like it took a lot of time to actually talk about the Campus Culture Initiative and for the average student who's actually worried about doing classes and being part of the social scene, there's not enough time in the day."

Senior Katelyn Donnelly Duke University Union president "I think it's safe. They said what they thought wouldn't offend people."

Senior Zapporah Young "[The Interim Report] declared that they're not going to eliminate selective living groups, and that's about the only concrete thing that's in there."

Senior Paul Slattery Duke Student Government president

"I took [the Interim Report] and just shuffled it out of The Chronicle like one of those Arby's ads so I could do Sudoku."

Sophomore Rebecca Ouyang "I think the provost is trying to make students care [about the report]. of people who are in the loop and a lot of people who are not."

—Senior Simone Randolph, Black Student Alliance president I don't really know what the best strategy is. I know there are a lot

"We're engineers and we don't care about things that aren't numbers."

Sophomore Thomas Gallmeyer

the menu

O^'lltAXe/

The volleyball team hopes to raise moneyfor MS research based on the number of points it scores this season.

Team aims to change lives with spare change by

Christine Hall THE CHRONICLE

Although those extra pennies around the dorm and under the sofa cushions may not amount to much on their own, the volleyball team is putting them to good use.

Pennies for Points, the team’s new fundraiser, asks fans to pledge a penny or more for every point scored in any of its 22 ACC games. All proceeds will go to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, which funds research and provides services to people with MS. Volleyball team member Shelley Capito, a senior, said the team came together to raise money for MS research because the issue hits home for team member Carrie DeMange, a senior, whose mother was diagnosed with MS more than 20 years ago.

“No one is direcdy affected as close as Carrie, but it was a team decision to support the [National Multiple Sclerosis] Society over any other society,” she said. “It was just the most obvious place. Mrs. DeMange

is everywhere in our lives—she organizes activities and has even planned Thanksgiving meals for the team, so she’s a prevalent force and we all know her pretty well.”

DeMange said her mother still comes to many of the volleyball games even though she is wheelchair-bound, and added that and she is excited to be raising money for a good cause.

“I think it’s a really cool idea,” she said. “It really hits the heart a lot, thefact thatmy mom has been dealing with it for over 20 years now.

It’s cool to be able to play and be helping a good cause at the same time. It’s what I love doing—helping my mom and whoeveris dealing with multiple sclerosis as well.”

According to theNational Institute ofNeurological Disorders and Stroke, approximately 250,000 to 350,000 people in theUnited States are currently diagnosed with MS. Although there are treatment options for people living with MS, there is currently no cure.

SEE VOLLEYBALL ON PAGE 7

THE CHRONICLE

|

4 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

PAULY from page 1 the Plaza stand, which includes a variety of hot dogs and sausages along with 34 topping styles and “Pauly’s Top 12 Topping Styles,” which include Thing I and

Thing 11.

The East Campus stand will likely be open during lunch hours only, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday and will accept both food and FLEX

CHRIS MCGUIRE/THE CHRONICLE

The new Pauly Dogs cart will be located outsidethe Marketplace in the courtyard area and will be open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.f Monday through Friday.

points, Konstanzer said.

For freshmen, the stand will mean an entirely new lunch option on East.

“It will be nice to have another option for eating instead of the Marketplace or [Trinity] Cafe,” said freshman Adam Price-Pollak, who added that he plans to eat at the East Campus Pauly Dogs.

For upperclassmen, however, the addition of Pauly Dogs to East Campus may have few effects because of the many lunch options currently available on West Campus, student said.

“It does nothing for me, but that would have made my life last year,” said sophomore Alyssa Kuhn.

All students and other members of the Duke and Durham Communities are cordially invited to the

Clarence G. Newsome ’72; M.Div. ’75;Ph,D.‘B2

With an Address by

SEAN BUSHER/DUKE MED NEWS

David Murdock is the former chiefexecutive of Dole Food Company.

MURDOCK from page 1

The Distinguished Alumni Award

M.U.R.D.O.C.K,

Ginny Lilly Nicholas WC *64 and Peter M. Nicholas *64

The University Scholar/ Teacher of the Year Award Thomas J. Nechyba

111111

!

\

1

iiillUf MJlUilllUlli

111

M".

mu

HU

I

llljl

KillI.

U HIIMI lIM

IU

1,1

.....p.i

I

1

__

study.

“This idea of using modem genomics and other stateof-the-art biotechnology to get a new look at diseases at the molecular level has been dreamed about for several years now,” President Richard Brodhead wrote in an e-mail. “But only Duke has been able to pull together the massive databases, the tissue banks and frankly, the funding to do it the way it needs to be done.”

Integrating all of the knowledge of the human genome will allow scientists to measure risk factors they were unable to assess before, Califf said.

The research is the beginning of a major change that will mark the next big step in personalized medicine, he added.

“Having $35 million in our pocket will enable us to do things we imagined could never have been done,” Califf said. “To me, this is sort of like a dream.”

Research for the new biotechnology project will take place at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, N.C., located west of Durham. Murdock funded the construction of the research campus earlier this year.

In addition to the work done by Duke scientists, M.U.R.D.O.C.K. will depend on contributions from local doctors in nearby counties to provide valuable information and field studies, Califf said.

“With the long-term participation of the citizens and health care professionals of the Kannapolis area, we’re viewing this as a project that will become a true landmark in American medicine,” Brodhead said.

In the presentation ceremony Monday, which Brodhead, Dzau and Califfattended, Murdock said the reason for the donation stems from the death ofhis wife to cancer.

“With my gift to Duke and the work that will be done at the North Carolina Research Campus, this passion becomes the point of departure for a scientific adventure that will save countless lives,” Murdock said in a statement.

“And for that, I am grateful.”

David Graham contributed reporting to this story.

THE CHRONICLE

Umc~

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

-I

THE NASHER STUDENT ADVISORY BOARD PRESENTS

Nl Q J |q| Q I

mmas

.

*"*•

-

*»m *

Th Ssptsmbsr

9 p.m. to 12 Hors cToeu Live m

Cash/FLEX-only Hip /

iiWM

15

THE CHRONICLE

6 I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

Duke News finds virtual home on video Web site by

Troy Shelton THE CHRONICLE

From Blue Devil mascot tryouts to Provost Peter Lange wheeling

the popularity of the online video market, Todd said. The office switched to YouTube—which reports over 100 million videos viewed every day—because of the site’s growing popularity.

around on a Duke Bike, the Office of News and Communicadons has it all on video.

"TT On YouA Tube, to be Postexact. ing under the ******'***•■«•. user name ] jnlp “DukeUnii/Uhv. rif versityNews,” the office has THf. NEWS DUKt been creating videos since October 2006 about camiLli' pus news and projects and research done by students and pr o lessors inside and outside the classroom Though there is “no strict “[Videos] permeate more and deadline,” the Office of News and more the way Duke communicates,” Communications usually puts out said James Todd, Trinity ’9B and a one new video per week, he said.

Todd added that the videos writer and producer for the Office ofNews and Communications. are advertised primarily through In addition to writing articles word ofmouth by students or facfor online publication, the office ulty featured in the videos.

To date, the mostpopular video, began streaming videos in 2003 on their Web site as a result of entided“Invisibility CloakFindings »

]

M <,w-

-

>«».<•

at Duke

University,” which is about nationally acclaimed research of Duke scientists into cloaking objects from electromagnetic waves, has had more than 120,000 views, though the median views per video is lower, at 569, Although many of ideos have relalarge numbers ts, some Duke \ts said they are letely

unaware videos created Office of News Communications. have not seen said freshJesse Sun. “I even know xisted.” dd recomled that stu> check out the newest video, which captures part of the mascot tryouts to be one ofDuke’s “Blue Devils” for sports games. The video features a few anonymous interviews with those trying out for the position and highlights moments from the tryouts.

The videos created by the Office ofNews and Communications can be accessed at www.youtube. _

com/dukeuniversitynews.

“The Ister”

Film Screening & Symposium Duke Department of Germanic Languages & Literature proudly welcomes

CHASE

OLIVIERI/THE CHRONICLE

Duke officials say two recent tree crashes were likely caused by therecent drought.

TREES from page 1 other structural defects. We performed additional safety pruning as a result of this inspection,” Jackson said. “We don’t have a situation on campus where trees that are eminently dangerous are still there.”

He noted that the department keeps an inventory of trees on campus, including information such as species, age and environmental conditions and maintenance activities to help foster healthy forest community.

Aging trees are especially vulnerable, since they struggle with adversities specific to the urban environments, Jackson added.

Duke Forest Resource Manager Judd Edeburn wrote in an e-mail that lightning strikes, wounds, soil conditions and

age are also factors that might have caused the tree crashes.

“Various wood rotting fungi such as [those] in the genera Armillaria, Ganoderma arid others are likely [to be] the source of decay in trees in the area,” he added.

It is difficult to foresee whether more tree branches will collapse on campus, experts said.

“I will say that predicting the timing of breakage from internal tree damage is very difficult, though one might expect such events to be most common in storms with wind, ice or snow, when stresses on weakened areas are greatest,” Edeburn said.

Students said they were not worried about the recent crashes.

“If there was a possibility of [the trees] falling on me, I would be concerned,” freshman Melanie Plageman said.

nheard Voices e 'War on Terror' Presented by the Duke Human Rights Center Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Noon 5:30 pm Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center -

«*•

-

I 1

Dan Ross Co-Producer/Co-Director of "The Ister" for a

Film Screening

Thursday, 9/27, s:oopm, Nasher Museum of Art, 2001 Campus Drive, Durham.

Symposium Friday, 9/28, 2:oopm at the Center for Documentary Studies, 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham.

"The Ister" is based on the work of one of the most influential & controversial philosophers of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, and the late-18th and early-19th century poet Friedrich Hoolderlin.

Free and open to the public Parking in medical center lot free with voucher

12-1:15 PM Ghost Planes: the US Policy of Extraordinary Rendition and North Carolina’s Role Stephen Grey, Author of Ghost Plane Lunch provided

1:30-3:30 PM Conversation with Maher Arar via live video-conference from the University of Ottawa with Steve Watt, ACLU attorney and Christina Cowger, North Carolina Stop Torture Now -

3:45-5:00 PM Readings from Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak

Ariel Dorfman and Duke Students Reception to follow

Panels will be web streamed http://ibfc.duke.edu/today/livevideo.php and at the Bryan Student Center.

A live audience will also take part at the University of Ottawa.

Ghost Plane and Poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak will be On sale from 1-3 PM at the John Hope Franklin Center, courtesy of the Regulator Bookshop Additional support from the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Duke University Center for International Studies, the Franklin Humanities Institute, the University of Ottawa, the Law SchooL's Guant&inamo Defense Clinic, the ACLU of North Carolina, the Duke student chapter of the ACLU and the Duke Human Rights Coalition

Questions? E-mail rights@duke.edu

THE CHRONICLE

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007 | 7

AHMADINEJAD from page 2

VOLLEYBALL from page 3

this happened, what does it have to do with the Palestinian people?”

But then he said he was defending the rights of European scholars, an apparent reference to a small number who have been prosecuted under national laws for denying or minimizing the Holocaust.

“There’s nothing known as absolute,” he said.

He reiterated his desire to visit ground zero to express sympathy with the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, but then appeared to question whether al-Qaeda was responsible.

“Why did this happen? What caused it? What conditions led to it?” he said. “Who truly was involved? Who was really involved and put it all together?”

Asked about executions of homosexuals in Iran, Ahmadinejad said the judiciary system executed violent criminals and high-level drug dealers, comparing them to microbes eliminated through medical treatment. Pressed specifically about punishment of homosexuals, he said: “In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country.”

With the audience laughing derisively, he continued; “In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don’t know who’s told you that we have this.”

Bollinger was strongly criticized for inviting Ahmadinejad to Columbia, and had promised tough questions in his introduction to Ahmadinejad’s talk. But the strident and personal nature of his attack on the president ofIran was startling.

‘You are either brazenly provocative or astonishingly uneducated,” Bollinger told Ahmadinejad about the leader’s Holocaust denial.

During his prepared remarks, the Iranian president did not address Bollinger’s accusations direcdy.

Suzanne Maloney, a foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Ahmadinejad’s softer tone on Israel in this speech may reflect backlash in his own country.

“There’s been widespread commentary in Iran, even on the far-right, that Ahmadinejad’s position on Israel has hurt the country’s diplomatic relations,” said Maloney.

“The fact that he was frankly unwilling to go as far as he has in the past suggests there may have been some consequences for him at home.”

President Bush said Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia “speaks volumes about really the greatness of America.”

He told Fox News Channel that if Bollinger considers Ahmadinejad’s visit an educational experience for Columbia students, “I guess it’s OK with me.”

Other American officials were less sympathetic.

On Capitol Hill, conservatives said Columbia should not have invited Ahmadinejad to speak. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said “there is a world of difference between not preventing Ahmadinejad from speaking and handing a megalomaniac a megaphone and a stage to use it.”

Last year, the team scored approximately 3,000 points in the preseason and regular season, head coach Jolene Nagel said. She added that there is no estimate for how much the volleyball team hopes to raise through Pennies for Points because this is the first fundraiser of its kind. Based on last year’s statistics, however, the amount could easily surpass $4,000, Nagel said.

“Since this is the first time that we’ve done something like this, it’s difficult to know,” she said. “I would never want to put a limit on how much money we can raise because I hope we raise as much as we can.”

Every player is encouraged to get at least 10 sponsors, but Capito said the primary purpose of Pennies for Points is to provide as much support as possible for those suffering from MS. “I hope we make enough to make a difference,” she said. “Honesdy, any money will help. But I want us to be able to make a difference in not only Mrs. DeMange’s life, but also in anyone’s who has MS.”

Be A Part

CHASE OLIVIERI/THE CHRONICLE

Senior Carrie DeMange's mother suffers from multiple sclerosis.

of

in the

Fall.

Available in chestnut, orange, eggplant, military green and dark chocolate.

Limited sizes in some colors. Available sizes S 2XL. Regularly priced at $12.95 -

Available for sale in the University Store, East Campus Store and Medical Center Store.

Available TODAY on the Plaza from 10am 3pm -

In case of inclement weather. Plaza Sale will be held in the University Store.

Departments of Duke University Stores

*

THE CHRONICLE

8 I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

no boundaries.

Full-time and Summer Opportunities With imagination, dedication, and drive, your opportunities at Bates White are limitless. We recruit highly successful students who attend leading universities, have excellent quantitative and analytical skills, and are motivated

by challenging work. In advance of our October on-campus interviews, we invite you to meet a team of our employees for an information session on our exciting career opportunities.

Please join us for an Information Session tonight

Tuesday, September 25,2007 Old Trinity Room 6:00 to 8:00 p.m

To apply

Submit cover letter, resume, transcript, and three- to six-page writing sample through eßecruiting, Duke's online recruiting website, by Thursday, September 27,2007.

Bates White is a consulting firm offering services in economics, finance, and business strategy to leading law firms, FORTUNE 500 companies, and government agencies. We provide our clients wltfi a unique combination of quantitative and analytical expertise, and an understanding of business issues across a range of industries.

Bates White is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

•

•

•

B AT E S

•

W H ITE

www.bateswhite.com

##

*

September 25, 2007

BLUE DEVILS OPEN STRONG

REPORT CARD

Go to www.dukechronicle.com to read about the women's golf team and its field-leading Day 1 performance Monday in New Mexico.

OiViNO DUKE MARKS FOR ITS rur against not PAGE 10

Are Blue Duke holds open tryout for kickers Devils the real deal?

FOOOTBALL

by

Matthew Iles

THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils are in dire need of a

I told myselfI wouldn’t do this. I promised that this column would be a footballfree space this year.

But a funny thing happened when Duke beat Northwestern last weekJMk end: I couldn’t help fa. but care again. I couldn’t help but believe that Ted Roofs football proM gram had finally emerged from its decade of misery. After seeing the oncampus celebration break out over a win that had occurred 800 miles away (without a local televisionbroadcast available), I couldn’t help but think that there would be more days like that to come.

For several hours this Saturday, it looked like the Blue Devils were going to do it again, against an opponent whose triple-option offense had befuddled Roofs team in each of the past three years. There the Blue Devils were in Annapolis, Md., up 11 points at halftime and by the same margin with less than 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter, even after missing a 31-yard field goal and fumbling the ball inside the 25-yard line on two second-half drives.

After watching another heartbreaker Saturday, however, the Blue Devils have left me questioning whether the losingstreak-ending victory over the Wildcats was an exhilarating tease or the groundwork for a long-term relationship with the win column.

Let’s take a look first at argument A: that the win over Northwestern is evidence that the football program has finally turned the corner under Roof, notwithstanding the 58-7 thumping the Wildcats took from Ohio State this weekend.

placekicker and they opened their doors to any and all interested students Monday to take a crack at walking onto the team.

Despite two all-state selections in high school and offers to play at major football schools such as Florida, starting kicker Joe Surgan has converted just four of 14 field

goals and 13 of 18 extra points since the beginning oflast season. He was pulled this past Saturday against Navy after missing another point-after attempt, but backup Greg Myers went on to miss a 31-yard field goal.

With that, the kicking game’s disappointments finally became too much to bear for members of the Duke coaching staff, who visited other teams’ practices early Monday to invite interested students to try out.

“What we did was just say, ‘Hey, let’s see if there’s a kid that might be an athlete on one of the other sports teams that might have kicked in high school,”’ special teams coach Danny Pearman said. “We opened it up to them and the rest of the student body... to just come try it out and see if we can find a spot for them.”

Nine students came out to show off their kicking legs, including players from the lacrosse and baseball varsity teams as well as rugby and soccer club teams. The students kicked in gym clothes and in a

DGatOn

SEE BEATON ON PAGE 12

CHASE

LAURA BETH

DOUGLAS/THE CHRONICLE

SEE KICKERS ON PAGE 10

MEN'S SOCCER

Blue Devils travel to Wilmington by

David Ungvary THE CHRONICLE

Heading into its first away game of the regular season tonight at 7 p.m. against UNO Wilmington, Duke seems to have hit its stride.

No. 12 Blue Devils (5-2) are still reveling in their thrilling 2-1 overtime win over ACC foe Maryyj land in front of a crowd of more than 5,000 Saturday at Koskinen Stadium.

BThe

-2

TONIGHT,7p.m.

Wilmington

Wideout Eton Riley, this week's ACC Player ofthe Week, is one of the reasons to believe in Duke's success.

OLMERI/THE CHRONICLE

Senior Bo Carrrington, a member of the Duke lacrosse team, made it through thefirst tryout for placekicker.

‘‘lt’simportant to enjoy n l. S oahe Jusnn Papadakis said after the r

t* lB

™

game. “It was a great performance and a great crowd, which made for a fantastic evening. So we enjoy this tonight and tomorrow we need to start focusing on our next game.”

It will be a test, however, for Duke to carry the energy and excitement of its latest, and arguably most impressive, win into its match against the Seahawks (1-4-1) —a weaker non-conference opponent that will try to play a slower, stingier game to hinder the normally fast-paced Blue Devil style.

“They’re going to sit back and defend, and you have to score goals,” head coach John Rennie said. “They’re very well-organized, a very physical team, and they’ll have a plan —and the plan is probably going to be to sit in and counter-attack with corner kicks, free-kicks, throw-ins.... so that’s going to be the way the game will be played

and it’s up to us

to

score goals.”

UNC-Wilmington has struggled this season, collectingjust one win while averaging a mere 8.7 shots per game. The Seahawks, however, surprised Duke last year when

they served the team with its first loss of the season in a 1-0 victory in Durham Sept. 19.

Duke, on the other hand, is a contender for the national championship and is an offensive machine this year. The Blue Devils have taken 163 shots in seven games, outshooting their opponents by 104 attempts.

On top of that, the squad has managed to put 14 goals in the net, which places them among the top-25 scoring offenses in the country.

And although the Blue Devils try to approach each game with level heads, they are brimming with confidence.

“We’re not going to be more cautious [against UNC-Wilmington],” senior midfielder Zack Pope said. ‘You have to respect every team you play, week-in and week-out, and obviously you can’t overlook that game because of the result we had last year. But if we play our game, there’s not really any team that can stay with us.”

If Duke can avoid being slowed down or tripped up—as it was in its loss to Villanova Sept. 7—and finish its scoring opportunities, the team should have no trouble taking down the Seahawks.

“We need to make sure that we dictate the game,” Papadakis said, “If we can do that, we’ll come away with the right result.”

MAYA ROBINSON/THE CHRONICLE

Zack Pope and the Blue Devils look to ride their momentum from Saturday into Wilmington at 7:30.

10 I TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

THE CHRONICLE

KICKERS

FOOTBALL

MAKUftj OFFENSE

THt CKAPt

EXfiH NO. 3: The Nary Midshipmen

A^er a stubborn attempt to establish the running game out of the l-set last weekend against Northwestern, the Blue Devils finally made some progress on the ground from the shotgun formation.

Duke's running game went for 92 yards and the season's first two rushing touchdowns.

Tbaddeus Lewis and WR Eron Riley hooked up six times for four touchdowns. Lewis finished the Pass game with a career-high 428 passing yards, good for seventh on Duke's all-time list, and Riley ended up with a career-high 235 yards and school-record-tying four touchdowns. About their ability to hook up for the long-ball, Riley said, "I just toldThad in practice that he can never overthrow me."

Xs&Ok Peter Vaas exposed the Midshipmen's weaknesses in the secondary by throwing long and throwing often. Several of the Blue Devils' long pass plays came when they would line up three receivers to one side of the field and leave Riley in isolated coverage to the other side of the field. The Blue Devils just needed to execute late in the game and score one more time in order to earn the elusive A+ grade.

Rush: *

DEFENSE Rush:

Pass:

Xs&fJs v

Overall Grade:

The Midshipmen tallied over 300 yards on the ground, but Duke still held them under their seasonaverage. The Blue Devilsplayed extremely well against Navy's vaunted triple-option attack, but allowed too many big plays, me most crippling came when QB Jarod Bryant weaved and dodged around several Duke defenders en route to a 35-yard gain that eventually set up the deciding field goal.

When Duke stood up to their rushing attack, the Midshipmen were supposed to crumble.

Instead, Navy took to the air with surprising efficiency, amassing 236 yards when the previous game-high was 78. Making his first career start at linebacker, Marcus Jones made a crucial interception at the end of the first half that led to another score for the Blue Devils.

On f'rst ap d secon d down, the Duke defense appeared world-class, stuffing Navy's rushing attack and pressuring the QB. The Blue Devils forced the Midshipmen into 19 third-down situations, but were only able to stop them seven times, three of which led to field goals, The overall scheme was well-executed, but the defense lacked focus in dire situations.

Highest murks: WR Eron Riley

I

&

&

Hit the books: The officials

WR Eron Riley was named ACC Player of the Week after The refs botched two calls on Duke's final drive, arguably endthe first 200-yard receiving game of his career. He also ing its bid for a second win. Riley was flagged for holding on his first four-touchdown game ever, including high a 80-yard touchdown catch and run by WR Jomar Wright, but I had the review seemed to show Riley executing a legal block. school, scoring from 9,35,69 and 76 yards.

from page 9

non-live situation, but Pearman warned about the added pressure that comes with playing against a live defense gunning for a block.

“There’s a big difference between coming out here in a punt, pass and kick situation versus coming out Here with some live bullets,” Pearman said.

Each student was asked to first kick a series of extra points and then 35-yard field goals. Afterward, coaches singled out lacrosse midfielder Bo Carrington, who converted his field goal attempts with plenty of distance to spare, and asked him to try booting some kickoffs.

“It’s been a long time,” said Carrington, who kicked in high school. “If there’s anything we can do to help out... ifit’s kicking the ball or doing anything eke, and we can help the team win, then, absolutely, I’ll do it.”

Carrington and at least three others, sophomore club soccer players Ray Caesar and Michael Burdick, and freshman rugby player Will Snyderwine, were asked back to attend practice with the rest of the team today at 7:30 a.m. Although Pearman cannot guarantee any one of them a roster spot, the option k on the table. With a game coming up at Miami, he made sure to include a little bit of extra incentive for the candidates.

“I can get you one night in South Beach this Friday,” Pearman said.

Whether a decision will be made that soon is yet to be seen. But the Blue Devils look forward to putting an end to their kicking woes, even if it means staying with what they have.

“We’re just looking to solve a problem,” Pearman said. “Obviously, we’ve got eight games left, and I’m hoping Joe or Greg or [backup] Nick [Maggio] can solve the problem. But if they can’t, we’re looking for our next best answer.... We had a great turnout and the kids looked good. So, we’ll see where it goes.”

w �

US, AIR FORCE

R’OT’C

Languages Azerbaijani

Choose the division of Duke University Stores you want to address your e-maii to.

Ask the Director

Please give us your correct e-mai! address so we can respond to you individually.

Compose Message

If you’re ready to compose your message, click the COMPOSE MESSAGE button. You'll be taken to a page where you can select a subject and write a detailed message. Your comments will not be sent until you click the SEND MESSAGE button

Give us your feedback on any of our operations via our online question/comment page, DevllSpeak.

Just visit www.dukestores.duke.edu and click on the Devil Speak link.

KE A Division

*

Monthly living allowance Officer commission

Persian Russian Serb-Croatian Swahili Thai Turkish

Uighur Urdu-Punjabi Uzbek Vietnamese

Connect with Duke University Stores!

Duke University Stores.

We are the Stores that Work for You!

Bengali Cambodian Chinese Hausa Hindi Indonesian Japanese Kazakh Malay Pashtu

of Campus Services

If you speak any of these foreign languages or are currently learning one, we have countless opportunities awaiting you in Air Force ROIC

Call 1-866-4AF-ROTC or visit AFROTC.COM.

THE CHRONICLE

CLASSIFIEDS RESEARCH STUDIES

ANNOUNCEMENTS EGG DONORS NEEDED $15,000 (plus all expenses)

WORK

STUDENT Maintenance of Drosopophila strains. No previous experience necessary. Has to be careful and responsible. Apply to asano@duke.

We are seeking women under the age of 29, SAT 1300 (math verbal), physically fit and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. If you have a desire to help an infertile family and would like more information please contact us. Email: darlene@aperfectmatch.com www.aperfectmatch. com 1-800-264-8828

STUDY

edu

HARVARD BUSINESS

SCHOOL Introducing the HBS 2+2 Program.

Learn more: 103A Allen Building, October 11, 2007, s:3opm-7:oopm, Register for the info session: hbs. edu/2+2/duke. For all students, especially sophomores and juniors

DUKE FINANCIAL PLG CERTIFICATE Fall Program begins 9/28 in RIP. Graduates eligible for national CFP exam®. Visit www.learnmore.duke.

919-668edu/financialplanning 1836

HELP WANTED LIFEGUARD

HEY LADIES SPICE UP YOUR LIFE! Invite the girls over for fun,

@

$lO/HR!

The Duke Lifeguard Program is seeking lifeguards for the Wilson pool on West. Open 7 days a week most of the year. Great part-time job to round out your resume while protecting campus swimmers. Contact jeff.anton@alumni.duke.edu for

educational party! Be inspired by lingerie, lotions, bedroom accessories & more. Get $lOO in hostess rewards. Confidential ordering and product delivery the SAME night!

Women 18+only. nicole.rowan@ slumberparties.com 919-641-5474

details.

NP OR CNS DIABETES EDU-

BARTENDERS ARE IN

CATOR F/T NP or CNS Diabetes

DEMAND!!!

Educator needed for referral based

Earn $2O $35 per hour. 1 or 2 week classes & weekend classes. 100% Job Placement Assistance. RALEIGH’S BARTENDING SCHOOL, Have Fun! Make Money! Meet People! CALL NOW (919)676-0774 www.cocktailmixer.com

WORK

STUDY

STUDENT

WANTED The Budgets, Planning and Institutional Research Department of the Provost Office is looking for a P/T Work Study Office Asst. Must be dependable, flexible, have some computer knowledge.

Involves phone coverage, filing, deliveries on campus, copying and stocking of supplies. Great office environment. Pay $7.50/ hr. Fr or So pref. Email resume to: sarah. revels@duke.edu. 919-684-3501

$lO PER HOUR OFFICE WORK Undergrad wanted for PI T office assistant, 10 hours per week.

Duties: filing, copying, internet searches, campus deliveries, some Excel and database work. Flexible hours, easy boss. Email resume to cmorris3@duke.edu or call 919660-1503

DUKE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Duke Women’s Basketball is seeking male practice players!

Manager positions also available.

If you are interested email lrice@ duaa.duke.edu or call 919-6137571.

PERSONAUADMIN

NEEDED

ASST

Hill, flexible hours 8-12 weekly, $ll-14/hour, long term, must have prev exp and exc refs. 919-493-0702 Chapel

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

GRADUATE STUDENT

FT NANNY NEEDED: $ll-

PART- TIME OPPORTUNITY

Chapel Hill, 11 mos and 4 years, M-F 7:3oam-6pm, long term, PTO included. Must have exp and exc refs. 919-493-0702

Part-time (15-20 hrs/wk) position for a graduate student in the Office for Institutional Equity. Work includes data analysis and interpretation of quantitive and qualitive data; editing; research and preparing presentations. Flexible hours. Contact Inderdeep Chatrath, 684-1925.

Duke Department of Germanic Languages & Literature proudly

DRIVER NEEDED Pick up child from school

HOMES FOR RENT

8:30-5:30pm, Tue 9-2, $ll-14/hr

+

PTO, 1 yr commitment. Must have prev exp and exc refs. 919-4930702

SCHOOL CARE AFTER NEEDED Need care in Durham for my 3 year old M/W/F 4:30 6:30 preferred, but flexible. Reliable car, -

good driving record and non-smoker essential. References required.

Contact mclenoos@mc.duke.edu or via phone. 919-225-6591

THE ISTER Film Screening & Symposium

NEWHOPE CHURCH NURSERY HIRING www.newhopenc.org

CHILD CARE

FT NANNY NEEDED: $ll-14/ HR Durham, 2 and 4 yr old, MWF

MEETINGS

-

Hiring for Sunday mornings (Bam-Ipm), and/or Wednesday nights, and/or some Friday nights. $lO/ hour. Send resume to amy@newhopenc.org.

Days flexible. $2O/ hour. 919-2405372

111

welcomes Dan Ross, Co-Producer/Co-Director of “The ister” for a film screening Thursday, 9/27, s:oopm, Nasher Museum of Art, 2001 Campus Drive, Durham. Symposium Friday, 9/28, 2:oopm at the Center for Documentary Studies. 1317 W. Pettigrew Street, Durham.

“The Ister" is based on the work of one of the most influential & controversial philosophers of the 20th century, Martin Heidegger, and the late-18th and early-19th century poet Friedrich Holderlin.

For further information, please contact Prof. Michael Morton or Mini Jolly at 919-660-3104

3bd/2ba, appliances include w/d s96o+dep, popularto Duke students.

2809 Shaftsbury 919.819.1538

ENTERTAINMENT EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE- The expansion of the universe is usually described as “is occurring”, indicating it is taking place now. However, what can be seen in deep outer space “now" is not occurring now, and what is occurring “now”, can not be seen now. For more comments on the universe, visit my website: www.

TRAVEL/VACATION SPRING BREAK ’OB The Ultimate Party Lowest Prices Reps -

Wanted

-

Free Travel

-

&

Cash

www.sunsplashtours.com 1-800426-771

-

ejdoscher.com

-

only private Endocrinology practice in Wilmington. Must have CDE certification or equivalent, current NC licensure, Master's degree, 2 years clinical experience, and diabetes teaching experience. Need intelli-

gent, organized, enthusiastic team player and skilled patient friendly diabetes teacher. Fax resumes to 910-762-9705, attn: LWooleyßN

CAREER

EXPO!

Thursday.

October 4, 4:00-7:00pm, Durham Bulls Athletic Park, Presented by Quintiles Transnational. For More Information or to Pre-Register, Visit www.durhambulls.com or Call 919687-6535

ROCK THE WORLD TEACH! Make a teaching license part of your undergraduate studies! The Program in Education at Duke offers students the opportunity to earn a teaching license at the elementary level (grades K-6) or at the high school level (grades 9-12). Applica-

www. duke chronicle Around the world 24 hours a day

DUKE FOOTBALL NEEDS YOUR HELP!

tions for admission are now being accepted. For elementary licensure, contact Dr. Jan Riggsbee at 6603077 or jrigg@duke.edu. For secondary licensure, contact Dr. Susan Wynn, at 660-2403 or swynn@ duke.edu.

Duke’s Football program is looking for fun and energetic managers to help with practice in the mornings.

Come and be a part of our program.

Contact Chris at cschieder@duaa. duke.edu or 919-684-3982

The Chronicle

PACT #<t2;

90% of Chronicle readers DO NOT subscribe to either the News & Observer or Herald-Sun. Source: Newton Marketing

&

Research, 2005

class! led advertising

www.dukechronicle.com/classifieds rates

All advertising $6.00 for first 15 words lOtf (per day) additional per word 3 or 4 consecutive insertions -10 off 5 or more consecutive insertions 20 off special features online and print all bold wording $l.OO extra per day bold heading $1.50 extra per day bold and sub headline $2.50 extra per day online only attention getting icon $l.OO extra per ad spotlight/feature ad $2.00 per day website link $l.OO per ad map $l.OO per ad hit counter $l.OO per ad picture or graphic $2.50 per ad deadline 12:00 noon 1 business day prior to publication -

%

-

%

TUe CUvoHide Is looking

-

-

-

-

■Pov

€hHmasl^sHc RepvesenhnHves

-

-

-

fo wovV. in H\e

-

-

MvevHsing o^lce.

payment

Prepayment is required

Master Card, VISA, Discover, American Express, Cash or check

Please *pply Ih pevson.

ad submission

online: www.dukechronicle.com/classifieds email: classifieds@chronicle.duke.edu fax to: 919-684-8295 phone orders: (919)-684-3811

No refunds or cancellations after first insertion deadline ADVERTISERS: Please check your advertisement for errors on the first day ofpublication. If you find an error, please call 919-684-3811. The Chronicle only accepts responsibility for the first incorrect day for ads entered by our office staff. We cannot offer make-good runs for errors in ads placed online by the customer.

1 0 1 Wesf Union Building

THE CHRONICLE

12 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

BEATON

four touchdowns on six catches against Navy), and Jomar Wright and Raphael Chestnut round out a very capable receiving corps. On the defensive side, Vince Oghobaase and Ayanga Okpokowuruk are finally coming into their own, and Michael.

Tauiliili and Vincent Rey are formidable forces at linebacker.

Ever since Roof took over, we’ve heard that the talent level was improving and that we’d see it in years four and five of his tenure. It’s year four, and it’s obvious that the Blue Devils have better players—and therefore a better chance of winning games that aren’t against VMI or The Citadel.

In four games this year, Duke has been competitive for seven of the eight halves, and the Blue Devils have put themselves in positions to win games against two respectable Division I-A programs.

There has undoubtedly been progress.

Then there’s argument B: that even in

from page 9

There’s no doubt from watching the that there’s a demonstrably higher level of talent on the field this year. Thaddeus Lewis is destined to be (if he isn’t already) a star quarterback in the ACC. He showed spurts last year, like in his breakout performance that nearly drove Duke to victory over eventual ACC-champion Wake Forest, but the jurywas still out on whether he could produce consistendy at this level.

There’s no doubt now that he can.

Lewis has plenty of help, too. Roof and Co. took heat last year for committing to such an inexperienced offensive line, but with more than a year of playing together under its belt, the group appears to be rounding into shape. On the outside, Eron Riley is emerging as a top-flight, big-play receiver (as evidenced by his 235 yards and team

Duke Chinese Student and Scholar Association

Learn Chinese Paper-cutting? \Mant Free Moon-cake and Presents?

Chinese Traditional Games?

P \aV Fantastic

Chinese Culture Week Chinese Paper-Cutting

Mid-Autumn Karaoke Contest

*

#yxj|

Workshop

Wmm

Sep 22th Sat 7:30-9:3opm Schiciano Auditorium (Pratt’s Fitzpatrick Center)

,

ijmwb

gdiylf

K

Chinese Game Expo Sep 29th Sat Ipm-3pm (Campout weekend) Campout ground

SeP 25th Wed 5-7pm Women’s Center Please email to: cj2s@duke.edu for registration

Chinese National Day Celebration Oct Ist Mon 11am-3pm The Bryan Center Plaza

Go to www.dukechina.org for more information

Free Admissions and Test Strategy Seminar Attend our free seminar and team: •

•

•

how to successfully navigate the admissions process how to craft an application that gets you noticed

score-raising strategies critical to acing your admissions test

Durham Kaplan Center: September 27th GRE Admissions & Strategy Seminar 6:oopm GMAT Admissions & Strategy Seminar 7:lspm

Space is limited.

Call or visit us online today to register.

Higher test

score

guaranteed or

1-800-KAP-TEST

|

kaptest.com

your money

"Conditions and restrictions apply. For complete guarantee eligibility requirements, visit kaptest com/hsg The Higher Score Guarantee applies only to Kaplan courses taken and completed within the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and France

back."

the win over Northwestern, and especially down the stretch against Navy, Duke football still looked like the same Duke football that has lost 34 of 38 times since Roof took over full time as head coach.

First, it should be acknowledged that the Blue Devils got absolutely hosed by the referees during the fourth quarter of the Navy game. Of the two holds called on Duke’s final offensive drive, one was questionable and the other (the one on Eron Riley that caused the officials to negate a Blue Devils touchdown) was downright wrong.

That aside, there were still signs that this was the same old Duke. Whether it’s been bad refereeing, ill-timed penalties, poor kicking or overly-conservative play calling in the second half, the Blue Devils have found ways to lose over the past few years under Roof. Each game there seems to be a reasonable explanation for the loss—and to Roofs credit, he never makes excuses —

but the collective profile of Duke’s defeats indicates a troubling trend.

The Blue Devils needed a gritty goalline stand to escape Northwestern, but the demons were apparent even in that game, as Duke almost gave away a two-score second-half lead. Those same demons have been there all year, as Duke squandered chances to keep within striking distance of Virginia and then blew a game it had controlled from the opening kickoff against Navy. These were the same demons that haunted Duke against Wake Forest, Miami and North Carolina in 2006.

Four games into the 2007 season, it remains to be seen whether argument A or B will prove to be correct in the long run. But the bottom line is, while there are plenty of positive signs about the football program’s future, there are still doubts surrounding a team whose leadership seems to find ways to lose against beatable opponents.

THE CHRONICLE

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

I 13

hOH HtLtAbt StKIbMBtH 24, 2UU7

THE Daily Crossword

Edited by Wayne Robert Williams

ACROSS 1 Dry African riverbed

Shoe Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins HOW CAM VOU 6AV THIS CAR IS A DINOSAUR. WW, IT EVEN HAS A PUSH-BUTTOM TRANSMISSION. D, L, N '

AH-HAA!

JURASSIC PARK.

'

5 Indent key 8 Staircase type 14 Grace ending 15 Arctic explorer John 16 Novelist

LeGuin

17 Raucous party 19 Cry like a baby 20 Flabbergast 21 Major ISP

22 Notes of scales 23 Take a fall 24 Lively pace 26 Fast crowd 29 Crown colony until 1997 33 Point: pref.

34 Sweet, sticky liquids

36 Scent 37 Day of songs 39 William Toll's canton

40 Like me 41 Abel's nephew 42 Winter vehicle 44 R-V connection 45 Petula Clark's big hit 47 Can opener

Dilbert Scott Adams 6

E

8

DONATE TO NY CAMPAIGN, AND I'LL LET YOU DRILL FOR OIL IN MY OPPONENT'S LALJN.

I\

oo

W*J-I

l

o ®

a a

V

c

AND I'LL APPOINT YOU TO RUN THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS.

8

ti

mS |

n

«

6

49 Spanish snack

IS THAT AS FUN AS IT SOUNDS?

NOT FOR YOUR NEIGHBORS.

1

of

1

€

E o o

K

>*

ts

/i

<55

CM ©

t

1

G °]

j®1_

l»

daughter

"

63 64 65 66

Butterfly' 1

Sister's sib Parched Model Kim Swed.

6 Supermarket

chain

7 Solicit alms 8 Hires a hit man, e.g.

9 A.I. language Late starter?

11 Essen's river

12 Bum balm 13 S.E. Asian country

18 Coercion 21 Like a hereditary

condition 25 Ring calls 26 World-weary 27 Low-budget

transporters 67 Uh-uh

prefix

Burden of Proof" author 29 Saginaw Bay's lake 30 Pindar, for one 31 Greet silently 32 Cluster 35 Models' ramp 38 Ain't right?

28 "The

DOWN 1 Muted trumpet sound 2 Author of "Lucky Jim"

3 Small ding 4 Bullion bars

Doonesbury Garry Trudeau

5 First nuclear bomb test

10

Flow out 54 Your, of yore 55 Inert medication 59 Fruity cocktail 61 Helter-skelter 51

62

<

so

50 Eugene O'Neill's

New York, NY

40 Lacking a key 42 Streep film, Choice" 43 Hunks 46 Japanese mat 48 Video-game classic 50 Puccini work 51 Austen heroine ”

52 False god 53 Wait patiently 56 Architect Saarinen 57 Radar image

58 Quaint, quaintly

60 Withholding sum

61 “Nova" network

The Chronicle Our positions on the Duke football team: Left tackle. Resurrect old #77: sean david, jia Left out: Team therapist, no hitting for this pacifist: yousef leslie Bench-warming Buddha: shiner, dave Middle linebacker, Urlacher-esque: chase, alex No football in Puerto Rico. Only.futboi: kevin, rali Waterboy: Cheerleader: sparikh Roily C Miller wishesRoof would bring back the wishbone; Roily

Ink Pen Phil Dunlap

Student Advertising Coordinator:

HMHoCk,

A Co fa RACK \ /

lm STILL FEEL HIS

TWHTS" '

Sudoku

Margaret Stoner Lianna Gao, Elizabeth Tramm Cordelia Biddle, Melissa Reyes Advertising Representatives: Marketing Assistant: Kevin O'Leary National Advertising Coordinator: Charlie Wain Keith Cornelius Courier: Creative Services Coordinator: Alexandra Beilis Creative Services: Marcus Andrew, Rachel Bahman Sarah Jung Online Archivist: Roily Miller Business Assistants: Rebecca Winebar, Percy Xu Account Assistants:

Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. (No number is repeated in any

5

column, row or box.)

3

8 Answer to yesterday's puzzle

1

2 6 5 1 4 7 3 7 1 4 6 9 8 6 4 2 6 5 9 1 5

8

7

9 www.sudoku.co

14 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

THE CHRONICLE

Save water

Unbeknownst

Easley made an e-mail apNorth peal to all state residents Carolina is in the (including to students at the midst of one of the worst University ofNorth Carolina droughts in its history. at Chapel Hill) to cut “nonLast month, the state had essential water use” and reduce normal its lowest editorial streamflows water conalmost in sumption by 110 years. Farmers and city20 percent dwellers alike are feeling And last week, Durham the water crunch.

City Manager Patrick Baker Here at Duke, however, enacted restrictions on wathe lawns are well-watered tering lawns and serving free and a healthy shade of green. water at restaurants.

For a university that At Duke, water freely claims to be “green” and flows from showerheads concerned about the surand sprinklers all over rounding community, Duke campus. The Sarah P. and its students should Duke Gardens and all West make a better effort to pracCampus lawns are alive tice conservation during this and healthy. time ofneed.

The “drought” at Duke is Today most of the state just another news story, ocis still suffering under the curring outside the campus drought. Governor Michael but not on it. to most

students,

2 E—|

-M

cd

f—H

“With the long term participation of the citizens and health care professionals of the Kannapolis area, we're viewing this as a project that will become a true landmark in American medicine. ”

President Richard Brodhead on the M.U.R.D.O.C.K project, a $35-milHon biomedical research initiative announced Monday. See story page 1.

LETTERS POLICY The Chronicle welcomes submissions in the form of letters to the editor or guest columns. Submissions must include the author’s name, signature, department or class, and for

purposes of identification, phone number and local address.

Letters should not exceed 325 words; contact the editorial department for information regarding guest columns.

The Chronicle will not publish anonymous or form letters or letters that are promotional in nature. The Chronicle reserves the right to edit letters and guest columns for length, clarity and styie and the right to withhold letters based on the discretion of the editorial page editor.

Direct submissions to: Editorial Page Department The Chronicle Box 90858, Durham, NC 27708 Phone: (919) 684-2663 Fax: (919) 684-4696 E-mail: letters@chronicle.duke.edu

The Chronicle

Inc 1993 _

DAVID GRAHAM,Editor

SEAN MORONEY, Managing Editor SHREYA RAO, News Editor MEREDITH SHINER, Sports Editor SARA GUERRERO, PhotographyEditor

RYAN MCCARTNEY, Editorial PageEditor WENJIA ZHANG, News Managing Editor JONATHAN ANGIER, General Manager

CHELSEA ALLISON, UniversityEditor LAUREN KOBYLARZ, OnlineEditor HEATHER GUO, News PhotographyEditor YOUSEF ABUGHARBIEH, City & State Editor JOECLARK, Health & Science Editor VARUNLELLA, Recess Editor KATHERINE MACILWAINE, Features Editor LESLIE GRIFFITH, Editorial Page Managing Editor LYSA CHEN, WireEditor ALEX WARR, Recess Managing Editor SARAH BALL, Towerview Editor PETE KIEHART, TowerviewPhotography Editor ADAM EAGLIN, Senior Editor MOLLY MCGARRETT, Senior Editor GREGORY BEATON, Sports SeniorEditor NALINIAKOLEKAR, UniversityAd Sales Manager DAWN HALL, Chapel Hill Ad Sales Manager MONICA FRANKLIN, Durham Ad Sales Manager

NATE FREEMAN, University Editor TIM BRITTON, Sports Managing Editor KEVIN HWANG, News Photography Editor GABRIELLE MCGLYNN, City & State Editor REBECCA WU, Health & Science Editor LAURA BETH DOUGLAS, Sports Photography Editor RACHEL RODRIGUEZ, Online Design Editor LISA MA, Editorial Page Managing Editor EUGENE WANG, Wire Editor IREM MERTOL, Recess PhotographyEditor MICHAEL MOORE, Towerview Editor PAJ KLINSAWAT, TowerviewManagingPhotography Editor MINGYANGLIU, Senior Editor ANDREWYAFFE, Senior Editor MARY WEAVER, Operations Manager BARBARA STARBUCK, Production Manager YU-HSIEN HUANG, Supplements Coordinator STEPHANIERISBON, Administrative Coordinator

TheChronicle is publishedby the Duke Student Publishing Company, Inc, a non-profit corporation independent ofDuke University. The opinions expressed in thisnewspaper are not necessarily thoseof Duke University, its students, faculty, staff, administration or trustees. Unsigned editorials represent the majority view of the editorial board.Columns, letters and cartoons represent the views of the authors.

To reach the Editorial Office at 301 Flowers Building, call 684-2663 or fax 684-4696.T0 reach the Business Office at 103 West Union Building, call 684-3811 Toreach the Advertising Office at 101 West Union Building call 684-3811 or fax 684-8295. Visit TheChronicleOnline at http://www.dukechronicle.com.

2007 The Chronicle, Box 90858, Durham, N.C. 27708. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the prior, written permission of the Business Office. Each individual is entitled to one free copy. ©

more environmentally conscious school, to step up. We urge Duke, as a gesture of unity and commitment, to let the grounds go brown until the drought has ended.

Futhermore, the administration should, as their counterparts at UNC did, send an e-mail to the student body asking them to reduce nonessential water use. students Prospective coming to visit Duke will not be deterred from applying based on some brown grass.

In fact, the situation could be used as positive publicity, demonstrating that Duke is concerned and committed to both the environment and the community.

This is also a chance for the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions to showcase itself as an institution devoted not only to the study of the environment, but also to action. The institute recently released a report on the drought for the state, which was a good first step, but the institute should move to engage students,

especially undergraduates, here at Duke.

Finally, we encourage all members of the Duke community to conserve water. We have all long been told to take short showers or turn off the faucet when brushing our teeth. These individual changes, if implemented across the University, will yield significant results.

Bikes wont be enough

ontherecord

Est. 1905

This is a perfect opportunity for Duke, which has expressed a desire to become a

Since

Duke students became aware of the Jena Six case, most have expressed one of two reactions; Either studentsfeel the charges brought against the Jena Six were unjust and racially biased or they find that the justice system should be allowed to work without being swayed by the court of public opinion.

But a more intriguing opinion has also surfaced among the Duke population. Some students say that n% in segregation Jena is not unlike aria branch racial segregaround three tion here at Duke.

Some have even questioned whether or not the “white tree” at Jena High School is analogous to the “black bench” here at Duke Conversations about racial segregation and selfsegregation have a long history at Duke. Discussions about the so-called “black bench” are always inserted into the larger concept of self-segregation.

Self-segregation first surfaced at Duke in 1993when Duke’s undergraduate student government president had this to say in a commentary published in The Chronicle: “I’ve watched us segregate ourselves in the dining halls. I’ve watched the majority of my African-American peers move to Central Campus.

I’ve watched two social systems thrive.”

The fact that the majority of students at Duke live mosdy segregated lives is undeniable. The Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report states, “Across different racial and ethnic groups, student networks during the first two years, at best, remain as racially or ethnically homogenous as they were during high school. At worst, they have become even less racially or ethnically diverse.”

Some might say, “OK, who cares? Duke students are just like the rest of college students in America.”

But the report continues, “Duke Caucasian students and fraternity and sorority members are less likely than their peers at comparable institutions to engage in interactions with diverse peers.”

This, my friends, is a problem.

I don’t think we can attribute this problem to the existence of the “black bench” or any other symbol of the racial divide on campus. Every bench on campus besides the “black bench,” which has been known to attract its share of white students, is a “white bench.” Until the day when white students congregate around the “black bench,” and they

find a knife planted inside a bucket ofchicken the next day, I refuse to compare the “black bench” here to the “white tree” in Jena. The black bench is not a symbol of self-segregation by the black community at Duke. The truth is, white students also self-segregate all the time.

Neither can we accept racial segregation on campus as a natural phenomenon. We can no longer argue that “this is just the way things are” and that this racial divide on campus has nothing to do with race and everything to do with choice. Race is a socially constructed concept and therefore there’s hardly anything natural about race-related matters.

Each year, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions reports that our campus is becoming more and more racially and ethnically diverse. But do we care? As the character Ron says in the movie “Anchorman,” has diversity on our campus become nothing more than an “old, old wooden ship used during the Civil War period?”

If it has, it’s our job to fix it. As members of the Duke community, we can influence how much our campus culture embraces diversity and integration. The CCI report completed the first step in the process of turning around Duke’s racial history. We now have information and a documented investigation that should help us reverse the segregation on campus. The two ideas I’ll put forth in this column are not new and not originally mine, but they do stand a chance at making Duke a more racially integrated place for all of us.

First, freshmen should take a “diversity” class that would open their eyes to the histories and presentday plights of all of the different races and ethnicities that freshmen will undoubtedly encounter at Duke. A diversity class would target students when they have not yet gotten accustomed to the segregated nature of Duke culture. It would also force students who would otherwise graduate from Duke without taking a liberal arts class to do so.

The second suggestion would take more effort but would alter the racial makeup of students living on West Campus. Black fraternities should be given sections similar to those of their white counterparts. This would give black students an alternative to the unsafe habit of attending parties off campus and would increase the black presence on West Campus.

I hope that the small section of the CCI report that does address race and ethnicity will not go unnoticed. Last spring’s dialogue about the CCI should never have ended; new bikes and a dinner in the Faculty Commons just won’t be enough.

Aria Branch is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

THE CHRONICLE

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

commentaries

115

The neverending story

If

you thought the $3O-million lawsuit against Durham was the end of the lacrosse litigation, think again. According to blogger KC Johnson, “Duke, its administrators, and its extremist professors are not out of the legal woods yet.... A high-powered legal team representing most of the other 44 members of the 2006 lacrosse team is exploring a possible lawsuit.”

Johnson added that the grounds for such a suit could include “mistreating the entire team, including misleading smears of the players by Duke President Richard Brodhead and dozens of professors.” In this scenario, attorneys would likely argue that those “misleading smears” were slanderous and asserting with all deliberate speed that Duke should be held liable for the actions of its

kristin butler

employees A more creative rationale could hold that participation on the 2006 team constituted a de facto contract to play for the University. Because Board of Trustees Chair Bob Steel admitted that negative publicity ended the team’s season (Steel told The New Yorker he did it “to stop those pictures... it doesn’t necessarily mean I think it was right”), attorneys might argue that this justification was not sufficient to legally void that contract.

No matter how attorneys decide to structure their arguments, the bottom line is that the University may not be done cutting super-secret settlement checks yet. And although the remaining players’ cases probably aren’t as compelling as the ones that have already been settled, they could (in a worst-case scenario) lead to lengthy depositions and eventually a trial. Important facts could be revealed if proceedings went that far, but that would effectively end Duke’s chances of “moving on”—at least within this decade.

Turning our attention to ongoing settlement negotiaJust three months later, the University’s newly antions for Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David nounced $1.25-million expansion of the School of Law’s Evans in Durham, it becomes apparent that local resiWrongful Convictions Clinic and Innocence Project goes a dents are exploring innovative (and occasionally hilarilong way toward fulfilling that pledge.

The new center, which will be led by prominent laous) ways to protest a potential $3O-million payout. You may recall Barry Saunders’ offensive vow to “go down crosse commentator and law professor James Coleman to City Hall and slap somebody” if officials acquiesce; and Associate Dean Theresa Newman, will combine compared to this, Cindy existing law school programs with unWrenn took the high dergraduate coursework and a miniroad when she pleaded lecture series.

No matter how attorneys for “compassion” on laGiven Duke’s questionable condecide to structure their crosse players’ part, duct during the scandal, it seems Durham resident arguments, the bottom line is somehow appropriate that we now Donna Tanzi, by contrast, become a national standout in comthat the University may not claims she has “100 supbating judicial abuse. porters, and I can get It is doubly fitting that the announcebe done cutting super-secret ment more” who will refuse to was accompanied by law school settlement checks.

Dean David Levi’s affirmation that Duke pay extra taxes in the event of a settlement. Accord“has a unique responsibility and opportunity to address [acts of judicial misconing to Tanzi, “These boys should have been taking duct], to increase public awareness of their girls out to the mall, the movies, bowling.... [They] made them and to assist those who are wronged by flaws in the the wrong choice.” At the very least, Tanzi reasons, Durham system.” residents shouldn’t have to fund any more “drunken orgies” A final aside: It was hard to miss the hidden irony of for wealthy ex-Dukies. this announcement, which came on the same day Dean Ongoing threats of Tanzi-esque civil disobedience of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki proposed a should make for significantly better-than-average political committee to evaluate whether students shouldretain due theatrics as we complete a local election cycle this fall. process rights on campus. How Duke can simultaneously Yet as the debate intensified in Durham last week, lacrosse employ Larry “However-evidence-is-obtained-is-immateriplayers were attracting a different sort ofattention on campus. al” Moneta—who has so little respect for the Constitution When settlements with the Seligmanns, Finnertys and that he doesn’t think students merit its protections—and Evanses were announced in June, players signaled an interestablish a center for the defense of civil liberties remains est in working “with the University to develop and implea mystery to me. ment initiatives that will prevent similar injustices and enPerhaps lawyers for the remaining 44 lacrosse players can take up this discrepancy. sure that the lessons of the last year are never forgotten.”

Duke echoed that sentiment when it promised to “work to protect others from similar injustices in the criminal jusKristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every tice system in the future.”

Tuesday.

Rescuing the Buddha

Somewhere

on the Mongolian plain, two small children are playing in a cozy yurt filled with brighdy colored fabrics. Looking for a toy, the two-year-old boy grabs a fat, brighdy painted porcelain Buddha.

“You can’t play with God!” says the boy’s wiser, older sister of four, snatching the statue and rescuing the Buddha.

Filmmaker Byambasuren Davaa latersaid this unscripted moment was the greatest gift she received while filming and directing “Cave of the Yellow Dog” —her movie that follows the daily life of a nomadic Mongolian family with three small children.

Davaa says the purpose of the film is to express reverence for nature and show the culture of the nomads, yet she invites each viewer to make their own interpretation. For chrystal stefani me, the Buddha reprechange from within sents our divine relationship with nature.

There is an old joke from the seventies: “What did the Buddhist say to the guy at the hot dog stand?” Pause and reflect a calm inner smile before answering. “Make me one with Everything.” In the age of “globalization,” the central Buddhist philosophy of kindness to all creatures seems particularly germane. Much of our food comes from the same oceans. We all breathe the same air. And what’s the most typically American food export? McDonald’s golden arches.

The Earth is waking up to her abuses with a rising fever, and a powerful thirst. All the mercury and pesticides we’ve pumped and poured into her have made her out of balance. And if she isn’t cooled down before she reaches 450 CG., parts per million, she could go into a permanent coma. Will we shield her, or continue to treat the symptoms with dirty band-aids as the patient withers?

If you checked the numbers more than three years ago, get a copy of the latest National Geographic.

The current statistics, which include a more refined analysis, look grim. All the science of climate change is documented there, thankfully, along with many of the solutions.

Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House

when he was president. Ronald Reagan had them removed and launched a quiet assault on the environment by dropping regulations and appointing James Watt as his secretary of the Interior. Ah, the Reagan years. The evil empire.

The eighties. The “Me” generation.

If only we’d set caps on consumption of nuclear and coal-fired power plants in the seventies and begun using wind and solar sources then. How much easier this would all be now.

Now, we have solid projections ofhow much solar, wind and bio energy we need to generate to stay at current emission levels according to the latest National Geographic, and the crucial next step would be making these technologies available to China and India. In any case we cannot start too soon, setting the right example and making up for lost time.

Wind and solar power are naturally immune to terrorism. Five times more people died in France in the heatwave of August 2003 than in the WorldTrade Center bombing.

Yet, it’s the numbers we don’t know that jolt me the most: How many years will it take us to regenerate the nearly extinct species in our food chain? How many dams should be dismantled? If we start today planting mangrove trees around tropical coastlines, how long before these coastlines are protected from the rising sea levels and tsunamis?

And who of those among you reading this column will be major actors in these goals toward change? Talented entrepreneurs will make the difference. The job markets are already open for college grads to work in research, analysis and business. Surf job openings at the World Resources Institute for example. The online news service Environmental News Network is

hiring too

Duke students are uniquely situated to design and market solutions. We have Engineers Without Borders already at work, and the new Global Health Initiative. And you. (Hopefully you are reading this out of more than morbid curiosity.) Many ofyou are brilliant, talentedand persuasive. Add a good idea, vision and a dash of compassion and... voila!

Pseudoscientists like Bjorn Lomborg and who shamefully skew hard evidence with muddled language and distortions are the bad guys.

They are playing with God in my book. Their manipulations of facts and distortions of statistics and actual lies add ballast as we sail through this new science of priorities.

We all need to convert to cleaner energy, cut waste, conserve and act locally with our neighbors. All politics are local now. Both political parties need to hear this as they prepare their party platforms for the elections. We may not get their ear for another eight years.

Factor conservation into everything you do each day.

In the seventies (I’ve heard) a common slogan was, “Save water, shower with a friend.” When the Buddhist asked the hot dog vendor for his change, the vendor smiled and said, “Change must come from within.” .

Chrystal Stefani is assistant to the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Physics. Her column runs every Tuesday.

16 | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2007

THE CHRONICLE