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DSG, DUU, Voters hand Bell fourth term Catotti, Brown, Ali Council boost land Council seats collaboration by

Downtown Durham’s Marriott Hotel buzzed with excitement Tuesday night as supporters of Bill Bell waited to congratulate the mayoral incumbent on his re-election.

Family and campaign members greeted Bell with hugs and applause as he entered the ballroom to begin celebrating his victory.

“We are very, very pleased with having the results in, with having won this election,” Bell said. “It is important for us to be victorious in this election. It is important for Durham.”

Bell captured 58.11 percent of- the 35,687 votes cast Tuesday, winning the mayoral seat over opponent and former

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This year, collaboration has been the name of the student-serving game for Duke Student Government, 'Campus Council and the Duke University Union.

The leaders of DSC, CC and DUU—the alphabet-soup power-houses of the student body—said they have committed their organizations to working together in order to present a united student voice to University administration and—enhance programming capabilities.

“It is a big time for change [on campus]. It is important that we work together and try to find a coherent student vision,” said Campus Council President Ryan Todd, a senior.

Todd said he meets frequendy with DSC President Paul Slattery, a fellow senior, to discuss policy-related issues.

“Particularly this year with the [lnterim Report on the Undergraduate Experience] and space reallocation of student venues, Campus Council and DSC need to be on same page,” Slattery said.

Space concerns discussed by the groups included the impact of the Few Quadrangle renovation on students’ living space.

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Election season in Durham came to a close Tuesday night with nearly 36,000 of the almost 146,000 registered voters in Durham casting votes. The race's three incumbents were reelected, though the council will see one new face replacing former member Thomas Stith.

Mayoral Race; Bill Bell, 19,000 votes (58%) Thomas Stith, 13,000 votes (42%)

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City Council; 1. Diane Catotti, 21,000 votes (26%) 2. Eugene Brown, 18,000 votes (21%) 3. Farad AH, 14, 000 votes (17%) Italics indicate winner

Mayor Bill Bell celebrated hiselection to a fourth term by addressing supporters at the Marriott Tuesday night.

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Premed undergraduates often feel the heat in “weed-out classes” such as organic chemistry and physics, get too overwhelmed and eventually drop out of the premed track Christine Eyler, Trinity ’O4 and a M.D.-Ph.D. candidate, said she disagrees with the mindset of many premed students—particularly the misconception that grades are everything in the quest to reach medical school “They are weed-out classes not because grades weed people out, but people weed themselves out,” said Eyler, who will return to medical school as a fourth-year student after she completes her doctorate degree in 2009.

She said her first year at Duke School of Medicine was “basically college continued.”

“It’s sort oflike college except it’s your job,”

Eyler said. “There are classes generally from nine until five, every day. And then about a week before a test, you start freaking out, staying up late, [and you] study and freak out some more.”

Some medical students said the second year, which includes full-time clinic rotations, brings both excitement and moans to students.

“During my first year, I got tired of going to classes and yearned to actually be in the hospital,” said Liza McClellan, a second-year Duke medical student. “I absolutely love being on my rotations [now].”

Walker Robinson, a third-year medical student, said his second year required a huge time commitment, with some portions taking 80 to 100 hours per week.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. With the mission finally coming to a close, Discovery’s commander acknowledged Tuesday she had been “extremely concerned” about the safety of the spacewalker who went out to fix the space station’s ripped solar wing.

And the spacewalker, Scott Parazynski, said he barely managed to reach the tangled wires that had snagged the wing. If the damage had been just another foot away, “it would have been a Plan B or C or D,” he told The Associated Press. “I don’tknow what it would have been.”

As they prepared for an early Wednesday afternoon landing, the seven astronauts recalled for the AP the dramatic highlight of their 15-day space station construction mission.

Saturday’s emergency repair of the torn wing at the international space station was an unprecedented and daring feat whipped up by flight controllers in just a few days.

Discovery’s commander, Pamela Melroy, described how nervous she was when Parazynski approached the torn wing on the end of a 90-foot robodcally operated boom.

‘You may have heard me at one point kind of squeak out ‘Be careful’ as I saw the

solar array coming toward him,” Melroy said. She got more comfortable as she saw him do just that, and she took comfort that another spacewalker was watching the wing “like a hawk” from its base and calling out the clearances.

Parazynski said he could have used another pair of hands once he got right up to the solar wing, which was coursing with more than 100 volts of electricity. He had to stabilize the wing as it swayed back and forth, using a hockey-like stick wrapped with insulating tape. He figured out away to hold the stick and another tool in one hand, while using his other hand to loop homemade braces into the wing.

Oil prices rise, expected to worsen by

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NEW YORK Oil futures jumped to a new record of $97 a barrel Tuesday after bombings in Afghanistan and an attack on a Yemeni oil pipeline compounded the supply concerns that have driven crude prices higher in recent weeks.

Those concerns were further fed by a government prediction Tuesday that domestic oil inventories will fall further this year while consumption rises.

Oil was already up before news of the blasts in northern Afghanistan that killed

64 people and the attack in Yemen. Severe weather forecasts for the North Sea, expectations that domestic crude supplies fell last week and the weak dollar all contributed to the latest move upward.

While Afghanistan doesn’t produce much oil, traders watch for the possibility that any escalation in the conflict there between U.S. armed forces and Islamic militants could spill over into other countries, disrupting oil supplies out of the Middle East.

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Meanwhile, investors believe crude supplies are declining in the U.S. Analysts surveyed by Dowjones Newswires predict, on average, that crude oil inventories fell by 1.6 million barrels last week. The Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration will issue its weekly inventory report on Wednesday. Oil futures’ rise above |9O a barrel has been fueled in part by two weeks of unexpected declines in inventories.

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The U.S. military announced six new deaths Tuesday, making 2007 the bloodiest year for American troops in Iraq, despite a recent decline in casualties and a sharp drop in roadside bombings thatWashington links to Iran.

Businesses embrace Facebook Companies can now create their own pages on Facebook for the first time, under a new program announced Tuesday. Advertisers also will be able to show users their pitches in the guise of based on what the friends buy and do online.

Writers hold out in Hollywood Production of the hit show "Desperate Housewives" and at least six sitcoms filmed before live audiences will be halted as a result of the writers strike.The stoppage raised the stakes Tuesday in the walkout targeting movie studiosand TV networks.

Afghanistan suffers attack A bomb attack struck a group of lawmakers Tuesday as they were being greeted by children on a visit to a sugar factory in Afghanistan's normally peaceful north. At least 28 people were killed, including five parliament members as well as children News briefs compiled from wire reports

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A small group of juniors feasted on

grilled salmon, red velvet cupcakes and

career advice from a young Duke alum Thursday at the Upstairs@The Commons.

In the pilot program of a series of intimate meetings sponsored by the Junior Class Council, Duke Conversations, the Career Center and the Alumni Association, seven Duke juniors dined with alum John Hudson, Trinity ’O2, to discuss internship and career opportunities in investment banking and consulting. “[The program’s] main goal is to get juniors talking to alumni candidly,” said Junior Class President Lauren Lee-Houghton of the meetings, which focus on career MARGIE TRUWIT/THE CHRONICLE

Last Day ofClasses Co-Chair Chamindra Goonewardene discusses theLDOC budget at DUU's meeting.

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Duke University Union representatives discussed funding for Last Day of Classes festivities and presented internal evaluations at their weekly administrative meeting Tuesday night.

LDOC Committee chairs asked the Union for $25,000 in funding for the annual celebration.

In April 2005, a $7.50 increase in the student activities fee per student per semester was approved to provide the LDOC Committee with $90,000 every year, but the funding from the fee increase is not enough for the planned events, said LDOC Committee Co-chair Vincent Ling, a junior.

“When you’re trying to bring in two [bands], that’s really not possible,” he said.

Ling and Co-chair Chamindra Goonewardene, a junior, presented Union members with an estimated budget for the event, stating that the expected cost is $145,225.

Approximately $lOO,OOO is budgeted for contracting fees, and the remaining funds will be used toward production costs and marketing efforts, among other things.

Union President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, however, was hesitant to grant the committee their request. She noted that the estimated cost for the event is $50,000 more than any Union committee is budgeted.

Donnelly said representatives should consider losing the mentality of making LDOC “bigger and better” every year SEE UNION ON PAGE 8

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The informal dinner provided students with an open forum to question Hudson, an employee of Cambridge Associates in Boston for four years, about his career search and experience without the pressures of an interview or recruitment process.

University request race-restriction waiver Though deeds for 232 plots in Duke Forest contained restrictions included to disallow blacks from purchasing the land, University officials have filed for waivers that would make it impossible for the restrictions to be enforced.

The announcement was made Monday and was largely a formality because the Supreme Court ruled that the restrictions were illegal in 1948.

“Several decades have passed since anyone enforced these types of covenants,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “Even though we have no reason to expec t the covenants ever to be enforceable in the future we have revised each deed to disavow symbolically the language that is a reminder of the segregation of a past era.”

“I’m not here to recruit anybody,” Hudson said. “I want them to ask their honest questions and not hold back.”

A double major in economics and Spanish, Hudson now hopes to give back to the Duke community by engaging students interested in related fields in small group conversations.

“This isn’t a marketing pitch,” he added The evening’s discussion centered on preparations for internship and career interview processes, as well as “insider tips” on everything from handshake quality to spell-checking a firm’s name on a resume cover letter.

Despite the weighty topics of conversation, plenty of laughter escaped between mouthfuls of roasted potatoes.

“The alumni the program will bring are very young, so they can relate to being juniors but also have a direct career path,” Lee-Houghton said.

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Lacrosse book gets top nonfiction pick Rolling in at No. 4 on Amazon.com’s editor’s picks for the best nonfiction of 2007 was “Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case.”

Released earlier this year, the book, coauthored by Stuart Taylor and blogger KC Johnson, narrated the story of the Duke lacrosse case and included interviews with Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, Trinity ’o6—the three Duke students falsely accused of rape in 2006.

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IRKYI U The brain constitutes less than 2.5 percent of our total body weight, but accounts for 20 percent of our energy consumption when we are at rest.

Poll honors Duke prof as A-list genius Student athletes at risk fromheartfailure NEW YORK An enlarged heart is the biggest cause of sudden death among young athletes, deaths that could be prevented with more and better screening, experts said after the weekend death of a marathon runner.

About 125 athletes under 35 involved in organized sports die of sudden death in the United States each year, said Dr. Barry J. Maron of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation. The institute tracks such deaths in a national registry.

An analysis of 387 cases from the registry showed the vast majority were cardiac-related. About a quarter involved a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which causes an enlarged heart. About 20 percent were from a blow to the chest, such as being hit by a bat or ball.

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Tuan VoDinh is a genius—literally.

VoDinh was ranked No. 43 on a listof the world’s top 100 living geniuses in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm. He is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering, professor of chemistry and director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics.

The ranking was published in The Telegraph, a British newspaper, along with the group’s criteria for selection.

“The top 100 living geniuses was compiled by a panel of six experts in creativity and innovation from Creators Synectics,” The Telegraph stated. “Each genius was then awarded scores out of ten against criteria which included: paradigm shifting; popular acclaim; intellectual power; achievement and cultural importance.”

The list, which included the likes of Nelson Mandela, was topped by chemist Albert Hoffman and computer scientist Tim Bemers-Lee. Vo-Dinh tied Bill Gates, boxer Muhammad Ali, author Philip Roth, inventor James West and Osama bin Laden on the list.

Vo-Dinh said the University allows researchers from different fields to collaborate on projects —an opportunity that he said has helped him with his research.

“I think that Duke has this exceptional environment where you see engineers working closely with the scientists and the medical school,” he said, adding that the three work “symbiotically” to achieve a goal none could reach individually.

George Truskey, chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, said Vo-Dinh excels because of his broad range of research experience combined with his ability to integrate engineering and chemistry with biomedical engineering and sensors.

“I think he was chosen for this honorfor his creativity,” Truskey said.

Vo-Dinh specializes in photonics, the sci-

Tuan Vo-Dinh tied Muhammad Ali, Bill Gates and Osama bin Laden as No. 43 on a list of the top 100 geniuses. ence of the interaction between light and mainly on environmental protection and improving human health, he uses nanosensors that can go inside living cells and look for early marks of diseases in genes, cells and tissues. The research is advancing the future of global health with its use of nanobiotic technology, laser pulses and equipment that can send light through fibers to detect tumors. Vo-Dinh’s current research involves attaching a bioreceptor to a small chip that recognizes DNA and early signs of diseases such as cancer. matter. Focusing

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Born in Vietnam, Vo-Dinh earned his doctorate degree in biophysical chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology in Zurich and researched at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee before coming to Duke in March 2006. Vo-Dinh said he is honored by the recognition but added thathe doesn’t take it too seriously.

“Everyone in his or her own field has contributions to the world in very unique ways,” he said. “I don’t think that I am anything special and after the survey I haven’t changed my belief.”

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Alum and consultant John Hudson speaks with juniorsat Upstairs@The Commons.

JUNIORS from page 3 variety of career paths, including the popular fields of public policy and the creative arts, said Kim Hanauer, director of young alumni and student programs.

“Getting the alums to come is the easy part,” she said. “There are so manyalums who wantto engage with students—it’s giving them an outlet that’s the difficult part.”

The intimate outlet provided by die Upstairs@The Commons location allowed students like Alexandre Abboud, a junior, to obtain personal information about a potential career as a result of the small-group environment, he said.

“It’s one of the first times that I’ve heard from someone in the field who is also a Duke alum,”

Abboud added. “It sets us on a different level ofcommunication.”

Junior Christen Tingley, a public policy major who attended the dinner to discover how consulting may connect with her interest in nonprofit work, also found comfort in the intimate discussion setting.

“Juniors in general are confused as to what they want to do,” she said. “John let us know that it’s not an uncommon place to be.”

The dinners will continue in the Spring with professionals from a variety of fields and will grow into a sustainable program with the infrastructure already established for future junior classes, Lee-Houghton said.

“We want to bring alumni who are able to emphasize the idea of attainable and realistic career goals,” she added.

actually being in the hospital.

“Perhaps it was not die most fuzzy moment when a vascular surgeon screamed at me, ‘Get your f—ing hand on that artery!’ when the carotid was spurting all over the place,” Robert Jones, who is now teaching in London for a year and will return to Duke as a fourth-year medical student, wrote in an e-mail.

The third year of medical school is spent doing research in various departments across Duke’s campus. Robinson noted that students have the opportunity to conduct research elsewhere if Duke does not provide the opportunity in a particular field ofinterest.

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“I can get a master’s degree in my third-year [of medical school] In the last of the four years, students have the opportunity to perform advanced clinical rotations, which spark similar excitement among the medical students, some students said.

Reflecting on their undergraduate careers, many medical students said undergraduates should explore their other interests during college.

“I think ifI could go back to undergrad, I would have been more aggressive with my service activities and pursued some causes that I am passionate about,” McClellan said.

Mrinali Patel, a third-year

Duke medical student, added that the courses pre-med students take should not always be related to medicine.

“My advice to undergrads at Duke is to try to take as many nonscience classes as you can and are interested in,” she wrote in e-mail.

“As much as I want science, now that [it] is all I do, I really miss being able to take a literature class.”

Students also stressed that in order to survive through four years of learning how to keep patients alive, pre-med students need to first endure the hard undergraduate courses.

‘You have to make a solid commitment—once you make that commitment, life is not bad,” Robinson said. “It’s actually a pretty enjoyable experience because we are all in it to help people.”

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ELECTION from page 1 council member Thomas Stith In addition to re-electing the incumbent mayor, Durham voters also elected Farad Ali and incumbents Diane Catotti and Eugene Brown to the City Council.

Bell said he was pleased that the voters of Durham rejected his opponent’s negative campaign tactics.

“Not in Durham... do we accept the type of campaigning that my opponent did,” Bell said.

He said he was “very honored” to win the election, adding that he takes his elected roles very seriously.

Bell said he will continue to pursue the projects he advocated

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MayorBill Bell and his supporters celebratehis victory over chaiienger Thomas Stith at the Marriott downtown Tuesday night.

during his campaign; fighting crime, practicing fiscal responsibility, improving Durham’s infrastructure and protecting the envi-

ly 150 students utilized the service when it was offered during last year’s district attorney election.

Political groups on campus ronment. also tried to increase student in“[I will] work to continue the volvement in local politics. revitalization of downtown Dur“For people who don’t get out ham,” he said. onto the town, whose only impresThe effort will include working sions are Whole Foods or Cosmic [Cantina], they’re probably not going to care about “Duke is a valued part of the what’s going on here,” said Sam Tasher, Presicommunity, and I hope that junior dent of Duke College ReDuke students will involve publicans.

Vikram Srinivasan > a themselves LliembClVcb. sophomore who sits on the Bill Bell, mayor boards of both the Duke Conservative Union and College Republicans, said offering more volunteer to meet the needs of Durham’s opportunities could help students become more invested in young people, he said.

Bell also said Duke students Durham. can engage themselves easily in “If we want to help to form the Durham by volunteering in local conditions off campus, we need schools, employing their skills to to participate in the political process,” Srinivasan said. relate well to young people.

“Duke is a valued part of the Duke Democrats encouraged community, and I hope that students on theWest Campus Plaza to volunteer for Bell’s campaign, Duke students will involve themsaid group President Samiron Ray, selves,” he said.

Duke Student Government a sophomore. College Republitried to encourage Duke students cans; on the other hand, registo vote Tuesday by in increasing tered students to vote at the recent access to off-campus voting stastate fair in Raleigh.

Still, many Duke students choose tions with DSG-sponsored shuttles that transported students to and not to vote because they are regisfrom polls. tered in their home towns and are Fewer than 20 Duke students, more concerned with issues at home however, utilized the shuttles that than in Durham, Tasher said.

“Even though they help out, ran from 9 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., said junior Sunny Kantha, DSG’s vice a lot of people aren’t registered president ofathletics and campus 50... [the] support does not translate into votes,” he said. services. Kantha said approximate”

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GROUPS from page 1 Todd and Slattery both said their organizations independently thought of the idea to give first-semester Juniors the option to enter their names in the off-campus lottery. The groups then presented the proposal together and were able to have it approved by the administration.

Slattery also said he and DUU President Katelyn Donnelly, a senior, have been communicating about space allocation for the Union office because of discussions about a Starbucks moving into its current Bryan Center location.

In order to further enhance communication between Campus Council and DSG on policy issues, the two organizations created a new position within DSG’s Student Affairs Committee to be filled by sophoCHASE OLIVIERI/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO more Christina Azimi, who will attend Campus Council meetings and serve as a Events such as JoeCollegeDay have grown out ofcollaboration between the Union, Campus Counciland DSG. formal liaison between the two groups.

“A lot of members on the [DSG] Stupresident of student affairs, said although was to increase collaboration with all camdent Affairs Committee have experiences DSG does not currently have a senator liaipus groups,” Donnelly said. “We collabothat are relevant to our mission,” said Camson for the Union, members are considerrate the most with Campus Council because they have a big budget and we both pus Council Vice President Kevin Thomping the idea. son, a junior. “We want to see what we can “Currently, the DSG public relations di- do campus-wide programming, so it makes do to improve the residential experience.” a lot of sense.” rector [sophomore Adam Nathan] is also All three student organization presiThough Azimi said Campus Council a Union vice president, which helps bridge and the Student Affairs Committee are the gap,” she said. dents deemed their groups’ increased costill finalizing the details of her new role, The fruits of cooperation more visoperation a success. she will begin attending council meetings ible to the general student population Donnelly said most of the communicabefore Thanksgiving Break. between various combinations of Campus tion of the leaders has been informal and “This is really exciting for me because Council, DSG and DUU can be found in has resulted in the success of student iniCampus Council is a really great organiprogramming events such as Joe College tiatives in policy and planning due to posization and so is DSG, so I’m glad to be a Day, Devil’s Eve, devilDVDs—the movies tive personality dynamics.

“It doesn’t matter [if you have previouspart of things on both sides,” Azimi said. available in Perkins and Lilly libraries “We are all working towards making life and the Epworth Haunted Inn party, a ly known the other leaders],” she said. “As at Duke better for the students. We don’t Halloween bash held in the East Campus long as student leaders are friendly and draw lines between each other. If it helps residence hall where Donnelly is Presioutgoing [they will get along]. All three dent assistant. of us have done that really well, and it has you, we are going to make it happen.”

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Other representatives expressed similar concerns.

“Twenty-five thousand sounds like a lot to me—l think you can get away with a lot less,” said Joe College Day Co-director Max Entman, a senior.

Executive Vice President Lauren Maisel, a junior, said she was hesitant to approve hinds for LDOC because in the past many students did not connect the celebration to the Union.

“We gave money lastyear, we gave money the year before, but students still don’t associate us with the event,” she said.

At the meeting, Union members also discussed their internal administrative evaluations.

Donnelly listed cohesive advertising, creative programming and improved communications as the group’s recent accomplishments. She added that DUU should act as a more united body, increase marketing and reward productive members.

She said DUU will survey the student body about the success of individual Union programs throughout the year in order to better evaluate its strengths and weaknesses.

In other business: DUU members discussed marketing plans for a WXDU postgame event after this Saturday’s men’s basketball game against North Carolina Central University. The event would include disc jockeys on the Armadillo Grill patio.

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If you’re reading this, then you already know: The Blue Devils are going to be damn good this year. You’ve probably already heard or thought about things crazier than the towel guy, preposterous ideas like Duke averaging 100 points this year.

Here’s something else you might know: Kyle Singler is already the best player on the team. And the presence of a “best player on the team” bodes well for the Cameron Crazies.

For the first time A.J.J., Duke has a goto scorer. ben Something you Vw 11 Cl I might not know: When Duke has a go-to scorer, it tends to win, A lot.

Kyle Singler, just a freshman, will be Duke’s go-to scorer. And Duke will win.

A lot.

Look up the statistics from the Coach K era, and a pattern quickly emerges. The iconic Duke teams had balance, but they also had one transcendent scorer, the type of player that was always ready to stab a dagger into the opponent, even if he was having an off night.

The three national championship teams had a go-to player—Christian Laettner in 1991 and 1992 and Jason Williams in 2001. There was Johnny Dawkins in 1986, Grant Hill in 1994,and, ofcourse, JJ. Redick in 2004, 2005 and 2006. (Yes, Luol Deng was the best overall player on the 2004 team, but who would you want shooting with the game on the line, Deng or Redick?)

Last year, Duke didn’t have a premier player, someone to entrust with the last shot. Perhaps it was DeMarcus Nelson at the beginning of the year, and maybe it

On the strength of an overpowering performance by Amanda Blumenherst,

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Tight end Nick Stefanow is one of 14 seniors who will play their final home game for Duke this Saturday.

Seniors prepare for final game at Wallace Wade by

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Saturday will mark the last dme that Duke’s 14 seniors run out on the field at Wallace Wade Stadium. But for senior tight end Nick Stefanow, it took some queries from friends to ultimately realize the finality of the home matchup with Georgia Tech.

“It didn’t really hit me until after the game this weekend,” Stefanow said.

“I had a bunch of friends visiting, and they said, ‘Next week is your last one, huh?’...lt went by fast, but it’s been a

good experience.”

Senior safety Chris Davis expressed a similar viewpoint, mentioning that the significance of his last home game really hadn’t set in. Still, he knows that the rush of his final game in Durham will be an ex-

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Freshman Kyle Singler has led theBlue Devils in scoring in all threeexhibition contests this year.

“I’m sure I’ll feel it on Saturday when I walk out there for Senior Day,” Davis said. “I’m sure it’ll be very emotional, but I just see it as another opportunity to go out there and win a game and play with my teammates again, one last time in Wallace Wade. I’m just looking forward to it.”

And although it may seem disappointing to some that this year’s senior class averaged only one win a year over its four seasons, Stefanow said that the impact and progress this class has seen during its tenure at Duke is still tremendous.

“Everything is in place except the numbers in the win column right now, and I didn’t realize it until later in my career about how big of a difference it is [from] when I first got here,” Stefanow said. “We’ve got guys who want to be here, want to play football, want to win. I noticed in my freshman year that a lot of the older guys, by the time they were fourth and fifth years, they just wanted to get out ofhere. That’s not the case now.”

“Bumblebees” with Bite Football coaches often dip into the bag of motivational tools to refine their team’s focus for a game late in the season, and the news that head coach Ted Roof has been calling the Yellow Jackets the “Bumblebees” this week in practice certainly fits that trend. But don’t let Roofs joking moniker for his alma mater make you think that he doesn’t have tremendous respect for Saturday’s opponent.

“They run the ball very well, and they don’t give up sacks,” Roof said. “Defensively, they bring pressure about threefourths of the time, and as a result of that...we’re going to have to keep our poise when they make plays and not come unraveled.”

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Duke defeated Georgia 3-1-1 Tuesday to claim the National Golf Coaches Association Match Play Championship. The victory was the Blue Devils’ second consecutive in the event and fourth in five years.

“We weren’t playing the best golf this can play throughout all the matches,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “The fact we came out with a victory in the end is a testament to the experience of some of the players on this team. When you’re not playing your best, you have to be patient.”

Blumenherst, however, was on top of her game Tuesday. The junior won seven of the last eight holes to roll to an 8 & 6victory.

“She would’ve beaten anybody in the field,” Brooks said. “She’s a superior talent and has learned to stay patient and not get panicked at all by being behind.”

Alison Whitaker followed up Blumenherst’s win with a 5 & 4 win over the Bulldogs’ Mallory Hetzel. The victory pushed Whitaker’s record to 8-0 in the event over the last two seasons. Freshman Kim Donovan clinched the title by defeating Krystle Caithness 5 & 3.

The championship capped Duke’s fall season. The Blue Devils have nearly four months off before they tee it up again at the end ofFebruary in Tucson, Ariz.

“We’re going to relax and get down to academics,” Brooks said. “I like the idea of having a cultural change for each of the players, of having the winter be different for them.”

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Duke may be headed down to Disney World for the ACC tournament, but you won’t find the team in line for Splash Mountain this week. The Blue Devils have to rebound quickly so they don’t get soaked by the competition. Luckily, they have the perfect solution to their recent disappointment —short-terin memory loss.

“One thing you have to have in the ACC is a short-term memory,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It is always a nationalranked team right behind the one that you had, so win or lose, you have got to really be ready to go the next day.”

Duke (8-4-6, 3-3-4 in the ACC) will try to forget last Saturday’s disappointing 1-0 loss to Clemson as it prepares to take on No. 18 Wake Forest (11-5-3, 6-2-2), the second seed in the conference tournament. The Blue Devils enter as the number seven seed, but Church believes his team can string together three good games and make a run for the conference crown.

Duke has seen the Demon Deacons before, as the two teams played to a 1-1 draw October 18th . In that game, sophomore midfielder CJ. Ludemann came to the rescue with a game-tying tally late in the second half. Church is confident that this time the outcome will be more favorable for the Blue Devils.

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“We were kind of on different pages of pressure where some people were pressuring and some people weren’t,” Quinn said.

Duke will not need any extra motivation to pick up the level of play this week. Everyone on the team is well aware of the fact that a loss could end their season. Quinn said the Blue Devils know that nothing is guaranteed and that they will be playing like a desperate team fighting to keep their season alive.

Even though Duke made the NCAA tournament last year with more losses than they have this year, Church feels like the team needs another win or two to guarantee them a spot in the tournament.

He also said the freshmen on the team should be better prepared for the style of play they would see down in Florida after the Clemson game Saturday night.

“They all looked a little shell-shocked, and I think they got a preview of what the ACC tournament and the NCAA tournament are going to be like,” Church said after the game. “The level goes up, and I think we had a hard time staying with that.... We have to be that team playing with a sense of urgency.”

The competition looks to be fierce—the Blue Devils only earned a victory in the regular season against one of the seven teams in the tournament—but with a little bit of magic, the team should be able to make its dreams come true.

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was Greg Paulus by the end. But go-to players don’t fluctuate. They emerge as the go-to player in October and hold that title until April. Like Miss America, it’s a year-long commitment.

Last year, the go-to player was more like Miss South Carolina. Nelson led the team in scoring with 14.1 points per game, the lowest average for a Duke leading scorer since 1987.

In 1987, Kyle Singler wasn’t even born.

Not so coincidentally, Duke’s 2007 season was its worst since 1996. The Blue Devils preached balance last year, as four players averaged in double figures. On the three national championship rosters, five players averaged double-digit point totals, but those teams still had a marquee player. One of the problems with last year’s team was the bevy of complementary players with no one to

Choice to play Saturday. The ACC’s leading rusher was sidelined last week against Virginia Tech, but some TV intelligence done by Roof has led him to believe that the conference’s top back will be back against the Blue Devils.

“I anticipate Tashard Choice getting ready to go', because if a guy is not close he doesn’t wear his pads out to the game, and he wore his pads last week,” Roof said. ’’This week, I expect him to see him in pads with a helmet, with a football under his arm.”

Injury Update Last Saturday’s game against Clemson marked the return of defensiveend Ryan Radloff, who saw action for the first time since he started the season opener against Connecticut. Radloff only played 15 snaps against the Tigers and recorded no tackles, but his performance still caught the eye of Roof, who expects him to see more playing time against Georgia Tech.

“He can really help, and it was good to have him out there,” Roof said. “At the start of the season, we thought he might have been our best pass rusher, but when you take seven to eight weeks off, you get a little rusty. But at the same time, he’ll be better this week.”

Roof also said that the team has been smarting from injuries at the running back position. Backs Ronnie Drummer and Justin Boyle both saw reduced carries against Clemson and did not practice Tuesday. Fellow running back Re’Quan Boyette only participated in half of the team’s drills. Roof said he’s not sure at this point if Boyle or Drummer will play Saturday, but he does expect Boyette to suit up against the Yellow Jackets.

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This year, the supporting pieces are still in place. Three of Duke’s leading scorers —Nelson, Paulus and sophomore Jon Scheyer— return, and Gerald Henderson, Lance Thomas and Nolan Smith will also contribute. The balance is intact, and it will be even more effective this year with Singler at the top of the scoring charts.

STEPHANIE KOZIKOWSKI/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO Scoring seems to come easily to the 6-foot-8 ACC PreKyle Singler can be the go-toscorer thattheBlue Devils lacked a season Rookie of the Year, thanks to his penchant for being in the right place at the right time to grab offensive season ago, when they were last in the ACC in scoring offense. rebounds and collect easy putback buckets. He averaged more than 24 points in Duke’s three preseason exhibi- and longer than any other Duke player. But it’s a safe tions—the Blue-White scrimmage and games against Shaw bet that the wunderkind has another gear—or three—and Barton —by racking up the gimmes Josh Mcßoberts that he hasn’t even needed to tap into yet. It seems like couldn’t last year.

Singler is barely breaking a sweat. It’s too easy for him He draws easy comparisons to Mcßoberts, mostly be- right now. cause he has essentially replaced him in the starting lineOf course, that will change. He still hasn’t played ACC up, but any analogies between the two players are moot. competition, still hasn’t batded freshman jitters, still Singler looks better in every facet of the game, from drib- hasn’t been forced to overcome a scoring slump. Therein bling to shooting to passing to rebounding. Singler is more lies the beauty of this year’s team: if Singler does have an reminiscent of a Larry Bird-Adam Morrison type, the kind off night, the Blue Devils can more than make up for his of player who can score inside and outside and make it scoring production. look effortless.

But the way he’s played so far, Singler won’t be having And that’s the scariest part about Singler: it doesn’t that many off nights.

And if history repeats itself, this year’s Blue Devils even look like he’s trying yet. Sure, he wants to win and even Mike Krzyzewski admits that Singler plays harder will win. A lot.

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Panhellenic is still waitof Duke women are a part ing. Dean of Undergradudoesn’t have any real real esate Education Steve Nowicki tate on campus.

Really, it’s no wonder at told The Chronicle this week that he hopes to find some all Panhel has complained about its lot for more than solutions by Fall 2008.

50 years now.

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meetings, speakers and other sorority events (not to mention storage) also reveals a much larger and much more pressing needfor all groups on Duke’s campus at this time.

The allotment of space for student groups is flawed—a fact that has been recognized by the Campus Culture Initiative and in Provost Peter Lange’s Interim Report on the Undergraduate Experience.

And unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be easily fixable until the new Central Campus comes along. And it doesn’t seem like that’s happening any time soon.

Central does When emerge from blueprint form, though, we hope that Panhel—along with other student groups—will get the space it so deserves. Until that ter

Perhaps it was not the most fuzzy moment when a vascular surgeon screamed at me, “Get yourf—ing hand on that artery!” when the carotid was spurting all over the place.

Robert Jones, who will return to Duke for his foruth year of medical school next year, on the thrill of working in hospitals as a medical student.

See story page 1.

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forced to seek out commons rooms and public spaces for sorority events. It’s inconvenient for those groups and for other students as well.

“Fixing” the current problem will likely involve looking for some unique solutions in the West Union, the Bryan Center or the Chapel basement. It will involve restructuring these existing areas or constructing new spaces entirely. It is, without a doubt, a heady issue.

But it’s an issue nonetheless. And the University at this time has a continued obligation to address the very problem it said it was committed to remedying nearly 50 years ago.

Let’s just hope we wonlt have to wait until the new Central gets built.

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day, however, Duke needs to look in a more concrete way toward creative solutions for the student space problems it has on its hands right now.

It’s a shame that the University’s campus—especially West—isn’t conducive to allowing such room for Panhellenic and other organizations in need of areas to meet and take up office space. And although it is absolutely necessary that such groups do get the space they deserve, it looks like they’ll have to settle for the time being.

Bottom line: The basement ofTrentDrive Hall is in no way, shape or form enough for the Panhellenic Association.

What’s more, it is not acceptable that for rush every January and chapter meetings every week sororities are

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evening before I departed Madrid for Athens, my TOGA! TOGA! This Halloween, I found myself in the city father had finally reached Pakis and his wife Rita.

From thousands of miles away, he sent me to that gave birth not only to democracy, but the Greece with instructions to call them as soon as quintesalso—perhaps more importantly—to my flight landed, and I dutifully obeyed, earning sential costume for college students: the toga. myself an invitation for an authentic Greek lunch Walking around on my third day in Athens.

Athens, it’s not One of the most outstanding differences behard to imagine the ancient Greeks in tween the Greeks and their Italian neighbors is that the former sacrifice an afternoon siesta in fatheir togas strolling around the Acropovor of lunches that begin around two or three in the afternoon and last until it would be time for an lis and philosophizAmerican early-bird special. ing about the meanPakis and Rita planned to meet me at three in ingoflife. victoria ward the Syntagma, also known as Constitution Square But on this par because it houses the Greek parliament. ticuiar day, i saw parli Italian©? such Exuding Homerian hospitality, they took me to one outonly fit—and its bearer one of Athens’ most chic restaurants and insisted was an American backpacker participating in the on ordering far too many dishes than we could evening’s festivities, which included bobbing for possibly eat just so I could try everything. I spent hours hearing about what my father was like in his apples soaked in water and cornflakes in my hostel’s very own breakfast-nook-by-day, bar-by-night. early 20s, learning about Greece’s gradual modAs cliche as it sounds, I’ve dreamt of going to ernization and its struggles to prepare for the 2004 Athens for my entire life. I’ve grown up surroundOlympics, and even discussing the 2008 presidened by the memories of my father’s year teaching tial elections.

What struck me most about Pakis and Rita—and English there fresh out of college—18th century maps of Greece, watercolors of Mediterranean the rest of the Athenians I encountered—was their cliffs, handmade rugs and painted pottery. willingness and eagerness to share their culture But more than that, I’ve been raised hearing with us. Atlhough some Europeans harshly rebuff about his transformative year abroad —how he Americans (but not their money, of course), the spoke to his family only three times (something I Greeks welcomed us warmly. And although I traveled there without knowing a single phrase in the couldn’t fathom) and about the political upheavals that were occurring in the unstable areas he native language, I felt completely at ease. ventured to in the Middle East.

After being in Florence for my first few weeks, Although his Greece was incomprehensibly dif- I concluded that I probably couldn’t live abroad. ferent from what mine will be, I couldn’t help but But after being in Athens for just a few hours, I find my father in each step I took, in each column became obsessed with the idea of living there at of the Parthenon, in every bite of baklava, in each some point, even if for just for one scalding-hot summer. of the Plaka’s market stalls.

And I couldn’t help but imagine my parThe blue-and-white Greek flag blows in the ents exploring the Acropolis exactly as I saw it, gentle afternoon breezes atop its Acropolis perch, and couldn’t escape a lingering sense that they representing the pride the Athenians take in their should’ve been there instead of me. history and in their aspirations for future progress. while the nature of the people, their culture was, however, able to serve as ambassador for And I my father. After I told him I’d be going to Athens and their city seemed pleasantly transparent, it’s for part of my Fall Break, he began an odyssey to inevitably still all Greek to me. track down one ofhis students, who became one of his closest companions during his fellowship at Victoria Ward is a Trinity junior studying abroad in Athens College. It took nearly two months, but the Florence. Her columns runs every other Wednesday.

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Student-faculty interactions should not stop there.

Existing systems that allow collaboration need to be strengthened. The house course system could provide a fertile ground for students and faculty to work together in designing a course, syllabus and readings. But too few house courses are undertaken today, and it is difficult for many students to find a professor interested in helping them lead a course.

Undergraduate teaching assistants could provide another great point of collaboration, yet too often they are treated like hired red pen-wielding graders whose sole goal is to reduce professors’ workloads. They are that, obviously, but they also could come up with auxiliary readings and be real assistants to professors in planning and organizing their courses.

Small steps are already being taken towards this goal.

For instance, Duke Student Government President Paul Slattery is pushing the institution of a system connecting students and faculty interested in the same topics. Still, we need strong student advocacy to ensure this remains a high priority in improving our undergraduate education.

the point in being up in every poll if it seems like the whole world is against you? No doubt something like that thought is endlessly coursing through Hillary Clinton’s brain—what little part that retains any capacity for emotion.

It’s been a rough couple of months for the 800-pound gorilla of Democratic politics. First, there were the Wall Street Journal’s revelations about a family of six of modest means in Daly City, Calif, who had somehow cobbled together $45,000 in donadons to New York’s junior senator; their donagill stevens dons correlated strongly la droite, c'est moi with those of another Clinton donor, Norman Hsu, the man behind some of her most public and successful fundraisers. What followed was a drama fit for daytime television as it emerged that Hsu was wanted in California (how California officials never noticed he was living it up in the Big Apple and raising vast sums for the Democratic Party is another question); the donor became a fugitive, only to be arrested a week later after what was apparendy a failed suicide attempt.

Then there were the Los Angeles Times’ revelations about the impoverished Asian immigrants—some ofwhom couldn’t be located—working as dishwashers and street stall hawkers who had donated as much as $2,000 per person to the Clinton campaign. In addition to the obvious media scrutiny, the incidents put the infamously aggressive campaign on the defensive.

Things haven’t gotten much better of late. Hillary has always held a peculiar place in American politics; She poses as a moderate (an act which fools almost no one), is universally despised by the right and is distrusted by many within her own party.

Much of this has become painfully obvious in recent weeks. She voted for a million-dollar earmark to a Woodstock memorial museum—and John McCain used it to his advantage (“I was tied up at the time”), simultaneously painting Clinton as a free-spending hippie and underscoring his heroism in Vietnam. She voted to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization—calling a spade a spade, or, as the case may be, a terrorist a terrorist—and got slammed by the left wing of her party. She then promptly backpedaled, causing the rest of the country to scratch their heads.

The wheels really came off the wagon during last Tuesday’s Democratic debate in Philadelphia. The whole event was more than a little reminiscent of a Cinco de Mayo party featuring Hillary the Human Pihata, as moderator Tim Russert more or less invited the other candidates to take a swing. The biggest short-term damage was John Edwards’ attack on her Iran stance, which will hurt her among primary voters; long-term, her waffle on New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s initiative to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens (she was for it before she wouldn’t say whether or not she was for it) will likely come back to haunt her next November.

Because let’s be honest here—Hillary’s no ordinary candidate. She’ll hang on and win her party’s nomination.

She’s the Teflon Prima Donna. She’s supported by one of the most disciplined and vicious campaign organizations in modem memory, has vast piles of cash and universal name recognition. And she still doesn’t have any real competition within her party. John Edwards comes across as little more than a pretty-boy populist with an opportunistic selfloathing streak. Barack Obama has been flat and inoffensive—even his attempts at attacks seem half-hearted and ineffective. Dennis Kucinich admitted that he saw a UFO. Meet the Democratic Party.

But conventional wisdom to the contrary, winning the Democratic nomination isn’t the same as winning the White House, Republican difficulties aside. Her private papers from her husband’s administration are scheduled to become public early next year. The full depth of the Hsu scandal has not yet been determined; nor has her complicity in the matter. She’s easy to paint as a flip-flopper and the scandals (personal and political) ofher husband’s administration may still have legs. Republican operatives may fear and loathe her, but they understand that she’s vulnerable.

Jordan Everson is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Wednesday.

Gill Stevens is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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my last column, I focused on the lack ofinteraction between students and faculty in individual or smallgroup settings. Now I want to turn toward poshmim sible solutions administraThough m tors have worked to in“SBi crease faculty-student interaction, a more comprehensive approach is still necessary. everson Dean of Trinity College Robert Thompson one fine morning wrote me in an e-mail that he focuses on influencing the culture of both faculty and undergraduates at Duke indirectly rather than through curricular changes.

Efforts to increase research opportunities have already made significant progress. In the last five years, the percentage of students participating in mentored research has more than tripled, to 48 percent of Trinity students. Furthermore, the percentage of students writing an honors thesis has increased from 13 to 21 percent in the last two years.

But still, more than half of the Trinity student body will never have a real one-on-one academic experience with a faculty member.

Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki shares Thompson’s interest in affecting Duke’s culture rather than its policies. Students and faculty should be brought together simply through their common interests and activities, not through any forced interaction, he told me.

He cited Wednesday night’s Jazz at the Mary Lou Williams Center as an example of a “real ‘scene’ where a bunch of faculty, undergraduates and graduate students all get together, hang out and listen to music.”

Yet there is a real danger that events like this succeed only in getting the two groups together, not in facilitating real communication.

Nowicki acknowledges this, and notes that though students are often shy about speaking with faculty, many faculty members are equally unsure ofhow to communicate with students.

“I’d like to get faculty more involved in Orientation, have them meet with small groups of freshmen who expressed an interest in their field,” Nowicki said. He envisions “no checklists and no notes,” just a friendly meetand-greet in groups of about eight students.

This idea seems sensible: In some cases the time together might prove fruitless, but for the most part, an hour spent in casual, normal conversation will open lines of communication and ease qualms about approaching faculty.

And who knows, on rare occasions these meetings might create a link between a student and a faculty member that will prove meaningful as students start thinking about majors, projects and goals for themselves.

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Yet neither Nowicki nor Thompson feels it is necessary to alter Duke’s curriculum to ensure that all students had this kind of experience.

“The approach we have taken is to empower students to be responsible for their own learning, and intellectual and personal growth,” Thompson wrote.

Perhaps the problem is that students are not taking the initiative themselves. They should. But despite Thompson’s best work and intentions, individual research, mentorship and collaboration with faculty is not yet “expected and normative,” as Thompson said he hopes it will be.

Of course, Trinity College already requires that all students take two research-designated courses. Yet looking at my own transcript, I can think of no way in which the courses marked as research differ from my other courses. There needs to be real mentored learning built into the Duke experience from the outset.

I agree with Nowicki: Direct connection with faculty membersshould begin freshman year. Students in Focus programs seem to get to know their professors very well, yet those who don’t enroll in Focus are left taking a smattering of often-large introductory classes.

Writing 20 courses and the required first-year seminar create some connection with faculty, but it is still too easy to blend into groups of 12 or 15. Truly small learning groups should exist, in which the faculty member does not act as lecturer or discussion moderator but mentor.

In my vision, second-semester freshmen or first-semester sophomores should either be required to or be clearly given the opportunity to work on a research project with a faculty mentor on any subject that they have taken or are taking a course in, regardless of their

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