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DNA Security, Inc. laboratory direcBrian Meehan has left his position with the company.

Meehan directed the private lab that provided DNA testing for former Durham County district attorney Mike Nifong during the 2006 lacrosse case and was accused of participating in a cover-up to withhold Brian Meehan DNA evidence that would have exonerated the defendants—CollinFinnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans, Trinity ’O6.

Meehan was reached at his home Monday afternoon by The News & Observer and confirmed that he no longer works for the lab but declined to share any more information.

“I’ll be able to say more in two days,” he said to the newspaper.

Meehan, along with DNA Security Inc., Nifong and the city of Durham, are defendants in a civil lawsuit filed last month by Finnerty, Seligmann, Evans and their families.

In May 2006, Meehan’s lab released a report stating that none of the DNA extracted from the lacrosse players matched evidence from exotic dancer Crystal Mangum. The report failed to mention that DNA from other men was found on or near Mangum.

Earlier this year, Meehan testified that Nifong had asked him only to include

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After being diagnosed with an innerear infection last week, singer Regina Spektor may not perform as scheduled today, Duke University Union officials confirmed Sunday.

Spektor is still expected to arrive on campus today.

“She will be here, so any decision she makes will be very last minute,” said DUU Vice President of Programming Adam Nathan, a

sophomore.

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Attractions Major Director Chamindra Goonewardene, a junior, said Spektor performed Sunday night in Charleston, W.Va., and is expected to perform today.

“She will be performing from what we already know,” he said. “She’s coming in tomorrow morning, hopefully she won’t fell sick” Junior Vincent Ling, head of production for Major Attractions, said Spektor’s agent contacted the Union Saturday to inform them of the situation and said she was still not feeling well.

Because herinner-ear infection developed into an unexpected case of vertigo, Spektor collapsed in Nashville, Term., before a performance Nov. 14. As a result, she postponed her Nashville, Adanta, Ga. and Norfolk, Va., concerts, scheduled for Nov. 14,15 and 16respectively, according to her Web site.

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Though Duke hung with Notre Dame for most ofthefirst half, the Fighting Irish scored two touchdowns before halftime en route to a 28-7victory Saturday at historic NotreDame Stadium in front of a selloutcrowd.

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Duke opens tourney in Maui Two students wot by

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LAHAINA, Hawaii There are some images you would expect to see on a 7:30 morning jog 10 yards from the coasdine of the Pacific Ocean on a beautiful Sunday in Maui.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski might not be one of them.

Making the scenic mile-long trek on the Hawaiian brownstone to a press conference as if he were walking briskly onto the Cameron floor, Krzyzewski could not help but look a bit out-of-place. Joggers pointed as they maneuvered to the Hall of Famer’s left, questioning whether they actually had seen what they just saw. Fathersknelt down to whisper in their sons’ ears, telling

TheBlue Devils open up theMaui Invitational tonight against Princeton at 9 p.m. If Duke wins, it will face eitherArizona State or Illinois Tuesday.

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Two Duke seniors have been awarded prestigious nationwide scholarships for postgraduate study in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Seniors Ryan McCartney and Lee Pearson are recipients of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship and the Marshall Scholar-

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This year was the first since 1993, however, in which a Duke student did not receive SEE SCHOLARSHIPS ON PAGE

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Pakistan sees no new proposals President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's government dismissed a last-ditch U.S. call to end emergency rule. Pakistan said U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte brought no new proposals on a make-orbreak visit.

Cyclone kills 1,700-plusin Bangladesh by

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Hundreds of DHAKA, Bangladesh thousands of survivors were stuck Saturday behind roads blocked by fallen trees, iron roofs and thick sludge as rescue workers fought to reach towns along Bangladesh’s coast that were ravaged by a powerful cyclone that killed at least 1,723 people.

Tropical Cyclone Sidr, the deadliest storm to hit the country in a decade, destroyed tens of thousands of homes in southwest Bangladesh Thursday and ruined much-needed crops just before harvest season in this impoverished, low-lying South Asian country.

More than a million coastal villagers were forced to evacuate to government shelters.

The official death toll rose to 1,723, and authorities feared the figure could rise further as the country works to recover.

The government scrambled Saturday to join international agencies and local officials in the rescue mission, deploying military helicopters, thousands of troops and naval ships.

Rescuers trying to get food and water to people stranded by flooding struggled to clear roads that were so bad they said they will have to return on bicycles.

“We will try again tomorrow on bicycles, and hire local country boats,” M. Shakil An-

war of CARE said from the city of Khulna.

Many of the evacuees who managed to return home Saturday found their straw and bamboo huts had been flattened by the storm.

“We survived, but what we need now is help to rebuild our homes,” said Chand Miah, a resident of Maran Char, a small island in Khulna district.

Bodies were found among muddy paddy fields and along river channels, said Bishnu Prashad Chakravorty, a local journalist who visited the hard-hit coastal area of Bagerhat.

“Advance warnings from the weather office helped us take shelter, but still, the damage is colossal,” said Abu Hanif, 60, a Bagerhat resident.

Police shootings revive debate The killing of a hairbrush-brandishing teenager last week was the latest instance of police shootings in which officers reacted to what they erroneously feared was a weapon.

It has revived debate over the use of force, perceptions ofthreats and police training.

China adds to electronic waste For five years, environmentalists and the media have highlighted the danger to Chinese workers who dismantle much of the world's junked electronics. Most e-waste in China comes from overseas, but the amount of domestic e-waste is on the rise.

Detroit disputed as most dangerouscity by

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DETROIT In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.

The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive strike Friday, issuing a statement attacking it as “an irresponsible misuse” of crime data.

The 14th annual “City Crime Rankings: Crime in Metropolitan America” was published by CQ Press, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc. It is based on the FBl’s Sept.

24 crime statistics report.

The report looked at 378 cities with at least 75,000 people based on per-capita rates for homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft. Each crime category was considered separately and weighted based on its seriousness, CQ Press said.

Last year’s crime leader, St. Louis, fell to No. 2. Another Michigan city, Flint, ranked

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third, followed by Oakland, Calif.; Camden, N.J.; Birmingham, Ala.; North Charleston, S.C.; Memphis, Tenn.; Richmond, Calif; and Cleveland, Oh. The study ranked Mission Viejo, Calif, as the safest U.S. city, followed by Clarkstown, N.Y.; Brick Township, N.J.; Aanherst, N.Y.; and Sugar Land, Texas.

CQ Press spokesperson Ben Krasney said details of the weighting system were proprietary. It was compiled by Kathleen O’Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan, whose Morgan Quitno Press published it until its acquisition by CQ Press.

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Silicon Valley wiz talks about big boat DUHS files for OK on new 7story building by

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Tom Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s major pioneers and former administrative head of Hewlett-Packard’s research department, treated students, faculty and community members to an in-depth discussion about the Maltese Falcon —the world’s largest privately owned yacht—in Griffith Film Theater Friday.

Perkins, co-founder of Kleiner Perkins Canfield & Byers, a leading venture-capital firm in Silicon Valley, discussed the technical aspects behind the making of the 289foot yacht with approximately 100 people.

Perkins said his boat uses new technology absent from most other boats. He referred to the multiple sails used in the boat, which rotate with the wind, allowing the Maltese Falcon to achieve higher speeds. “[The Maltese Falcon] is basically the first ofits kind,” he said.

Perkins opened the discussion with a few humorous lines resulting in laughter and applause from the crowd.

“When it comes to shameless self-promotion, I yield the arena to no one, though Paris Hilton may be winning,” Perkins said.

He then talked about how Patrick O’Brien, an English writer, was his model.

O’Brien’s books contributed to Perkins’ passion for sailing and boating.

“When we first sailed together, I realized [O’Brien] had never sailed and that he wasn’t Irish, but he was a great writer,” Perkins said.

Hefollowed with a shortvideo clip about the creation of the ship and its capabilities and technologies upon completion.

“The creation of the boat involved many computer designs, but real-life models were still made later on to test it,” he said.

Perkins also gave a PowerPoint presentation that gave explanations of the techniques used to create the Maltese Falcon as well as descriptions of all the important parts of the boat.

“Here is your ‘James Bond’ interior,” he said, displaying a picture of the inside of the yacht.

The Maltese Falcon was manufactured in Istanbul, Turkey and cost more than 1150 million.

Duke University Health System filed a certificate of need with the state of North Carolina for a $596-million expansion of Duke University Hospital Thursday.

The proposed seven-story building, which would replace the Bell Medical Research Building, would create 16 new operating rooms and 160 extra beds.

“Development of this expansion of Duke University Hospital is essential to our ongoing ability to meet the growing demand for patient care services and to conduct cuttingedge research and training in an era ofpopulation growth and accelerating innovation,” Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, said in a statement.

If the new facility is approved, construction will begin in Fall 2008 and is projected to be completed by 2013. The expansion would cover nearly 550,000 square feet and be the largest Duke Hospital has seen since 1980.

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Tom Perkins discusses the technical aspects of building the Maltese Falcon—his 289-foot sailing yacht, constructed at a cost of more than $l5O million.

‘You can visualize the hull as a hole that you fill with money,” Perkins said.

He also discussed the speed ofhis boat and his success racing with the boat.

“It is great to sail through the fleet and watch their jaws just drop,” Perkins said.

He added that he is now focusing on creating a sports submarine, which will be named the Falcon.

“It is like a torpedo with wings, basically,” Perkins said.

Audience members said they enjoyed the speech and found Perkins surprisingly funny.

“Tom Perkins’ speech was amazing.

It was both informative and hilarious,” freshman Ashwin Goyal said.

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OUHS hopes to build a new seven-story building to give it additional operating rooms and beds.

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MEEHAN from page 1 test results related to the Duke players, although Meehan stated

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Brian Meehan, the director of the laboratory that analyzed DNA during the lacrosse case, left his job abruptly last week.

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Meehan’s sudden departure has sparked speculation about the outcome of the lawsuit. Some attorneys have said that Meehan’s move is a bad omen for DNA Security, but others believe it will have little impact on the course of the suit.

“I don’t think it’s going to have any bearing on the lawsuit,” Bob Sar, an attorney for the lab, told The Herald-Sun. “I wish it would, but I don’t think it will.”

James Williams and Bill Thomas, attorneys for two Duke players who were not indicted, said, however, that Meehan’s departure will reflect unfavorably on DNA Security.

“What was done in the Duke lacrosse case was an obvious violation of scientific protocol,” Thomas told The Herald-Sun. “I think it would jeopardize the accreditation of DNA Security. It seems to pose significant accreditation problems for the company. [Meehan’s] departure is not at all surprising.”

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Kids’ mental health linked to adult crimes by

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Giving credence to a belief already held by many psychologists, a recent study conducted by Duke researchers has shown that childhood psychiatric disorders can lead to crime later in life.

The study, conducted by William Copeland, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, found that a large proportion ofyoung adults—as many as half of male participants and 40 percent of female participants —arrested before age 21 had been diagnosed with a prior disorder. By contrast, only 25 percent of those without an arrest had had childhood disorders The researchers compared the risks associated with different types of psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety disorders, childhood depression and William Copeland conduct disorders like habitual lying or cheating, Copeland said. Substance abuse problems were also considered.

“The kids who get into trouble with the law in adulthood are the kids who have these conduct disorders,” he said.

Additionally, the study, which appeared in this month’s American Journal of Psychiatry, categorized the arrests by magnitude of crime, ranging from minor crimes like shoplifting to severe or violent crimes.

Although substance-use disorders alone accounted for many minor crimes, violent offenders'often had more complex backgrounds.

“They not only had [conduct] disorders, but tended to have multiple psychiatric disorders,” Copeland said.

He cited childhood anxiety or depression as disorders that combined with behavioral problems to increase the risk of severe crime. He said the children who had been diagnosed earliest often had the strongest forms of a disorder.

Copeland’s findings are part of the Great Smoky Mountains Study, which included 1,420 children from 11 counties in rural North Carolina. “[The study] was designed to follow a representative sample of children... through adolescence and into adulthood, looking at risk and protective factors for psychiatric and substance-use disorders and access to needed care,” Jane Costello, professor of medical psychology in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, wrote in an e-mail.

Costello designed and initiated the Great Smoky Mountains Study in 1993 and is one of the authors of Copeland’s report.

The children were interviewed annually to assess possible disorders, beginning at age nine, 11 or 13 and concluding at age 16. The researchers returned when participants were 21 years old to trace criminal charges in the intervening years, when criminality peaks in young adults, Copeland said. About one in three participants had at least one arrest on theirrecord.

The link between childhood disorders and later crime could be used to prevent criminality at an early age, potentially saving the money spent on incarceration, the researchers said.

“Being able to identify them in childhood is very attractive,” Copeland said. “We have effective treatments for these disorders, and we can administer them in a cost-effective manner.”

Costello said efforts to prevent crime through psychiatric treatment should be expanded from behavioral disorders to include depression and anxiety as well.

They noted, however, that the study’s findings should not be taken as conclusive because the racial makeup of the participants reflects that of rural western North Carolina, where black, Latino and AsianAmerican children are underrepresented relative to the general population.

Many similar studies are already in place in urban areas, Copeland said, adding that corroborating the findings of the Great Smoky Mountains Study could be only a matter of analyzing the existing data.

“We know a whole lot more about what goes on in urban areas than in these rural areas,” he said.

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Friend runs marathon for fallen soldier by

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Like many of his peers, James Regan, Trinity ’O2, left Duke with a job offer from a financial-services company and a law-school scholarship. Regan, however, decided to follow a different path and become an Army Ranger.

On his second tour of duty in Iraq, Regan was killed by an improvised explosive device Feb. 9, 2007.

Army Capt. Mike Keilty, who attended Chaminade High School on Long Island, N.Y., with Regan, ran the Philadelphia Marathon Sunday while on a two-week leave from Afghanistan in honor of his former classmate and two other graduates of Chaminade who recently died in Iraq. Keilty finished 242 out of 6,668 participants.

Regan attended Duke on a lacrosse scholarship and helped lead his team to two ACC Championships, along with four trips to the NCAA tournament.

“He was the kind of kid that every coach in America would be proud to call his own,” Mike Pressler, Duke’s former men’s lacrosse head coach, told USA Today in February. “I can’t imagine a better teammate or a better friend.”

After hearing of the death of Regan and the two other Chaminade graduates, Keilty began training for the marathon in May. His days in Afghanistan, during which he helped to train the Afghan national army, started at 4:30 a.m. with a 21-mile run.

“Chaminade is not a very big high school,” he said. “It is shocking that three have already died in Iraq.”

Keilty is not the only one who took up the cause of memorializing Regan and his fellow troops—he also partnered with Take Pride, a charitable T-shirt company.

Take Pride designed a shirt specifically for Keilty that honors all three fallen Chaminade graduates.

All of the proceeds from the sales went to Keilty, who is donating the money to the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that helps those who have been injured at war.

“When we first started, I was hoping we’d raise $5,000 to $6,000,” Keilty said. “Our cause spread like wildfire.”

In the end, Take Pride raised almost $60,000, he said Patrick Gray, co-founder ofTake Pride and another graduate of Chaminade High School, said he felt an immediate bond to the graduates who died in Iraq and to Keilty’s cause. “[Mike and I] didn’t know them personally, but we’re all from the same town so we feel a connection to them,” he said.

On Take Pride’s Web site there are specific stories for each shirt. The shirts are designed to appeal to a younger, college-aged crowd, Gray said.

“There wasn’t away for young people to support the troops that was meaningful and apolitical,” he said. “With our shirts, you can get something tangible that makes you feel connected to the troops.”

TakePride and Keilty’s story have recently received national media attention from oudets such as Fox News and ABC News.

Keilty and Gray both said they are positive that the American people still want to support the troops despite their personal feelings on the war.

“I knew people would be inspired by Mike’s story,” Gray said. “This is thefirst time in awhile that positive news is coming out of Iraq. People still want to cheer for our troops.”

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Quad full of hot air for balloon event by

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Students gathered on Keohane Quadrangle Friday to enjoy free food, live music and, for the first time ever, hot air balloon rides.

Keohane and Edens quadrangle councils brought two hot air balloons to campus late Friday afternoon for an event sponsored by Campus Council.

“We wanted to do something unique and never done before,” said sophomore Alison Norris, communications coordinator for Keohane Quad Council. “The balloons provided a new, interesting view of campus that people have never seen before. We wanted to make it a social event to bring all students together and make it an event that they’ll remember.”

The idea of hot air balloon rides attracted many students to attend the event, but delays in setting up the rides posed a problem, Norris said.

“The only problem was that the hot air balloons weren’t set up on time because of the wind,” she said. “It was pretty cold and people got pretty annoyed about waiting for such a long time. But bearing that, the event was still successful.”

Despite the delays, several students said the ride was worth the wait.

Sophomore Hannah Guerrier said she was pleased that students were able to sign up for a time slot and wait inside until the baHoons were set up.

“It was definitely worth the wait,” said sophomore Zach Harris. “When else are you going to have a chance to go on a free hot air balloon ride?”

Although many found the ride enjoyable, some said they were disappointed.

“We kind of thought we’d get a view of campus,” said sophomore Amanda Marchese. “Instead we just got a view ofKeohane Quad.”

Sophomore Megan Banghart added that she also wished the ride had gone higher.

“We live on the sixth floor ofKeohane,” she said. “That’s higher than we were in the balloon ride.”

Duke University employees Chaitinarja Acharya and Dereje Demissie also agreed that the ride was worth the wait, but said it did not meet all of their expectations.

“I was expecting to go much higher than this, but apparently you aren’t supposed to fly at night,” Acharya said. “But it was still worth the wait. You get to hang out with your frieqds. Also, the man flying the balloon was very friendly and an-

swered a lot of our questions about the mechanics of hot air balloons and how you control it.”

Although many students wanted the hot air balloons to go higher, “we can only go just so high,” said April Persons, a ground crew member of Above and Beyond Hot Air Balloons.

“Height-wise, we might be able to go a little higher,” she said. “But we need to be tied down at three points. We cannot really navigate across campus either because we need a big enough area and it’s hard to navigate. Plus, there’s so many students and we can’t give all of them a tour of campus.”

Marchese said the idea was very original and hoped there would be hot air balloons again next year, albeit with a better view ofcampus.

“Considering how many people came to the event and enjoyed it, I think we could try to bring the hot air balloons back,” Norris said.

Alum sends DUPD juicy tip A student hacker allegedly caused an alumnus-owned Web site to crash, according to a report released by the Duke University Police

Department.

Officials received word of the incident Nov. 12 when the alumnus, who lives in California, complained that the hacker had divulged his methods in a Nov. 9 issue of The Chronicle.

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A University employee reported that a fellow employee ffaudulendy charged personal bills to his Duke credit card Nov. 12.

Dude, where’s my dough?

More than $1,700 was reported stolen from 1712 Pace St. Apartment O sometime between Nov, 5 and Nov. 13. Officials said there were no signs of forced entry.

Parking lot petulance A visitor in the Bryan Center

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Keohane and Edens quad councils brought two hot airballoons to campusfor students to take rides Friday.

An Archimedes refresher: How a hot air balloon works Any studentwho has taken introductory physics should understand the mechanics ofhot-air balloons, said Bemdt Mueller, James B. Duke professor of physics.

“The Law «f Buoyancy states that any object immersed in gas or liquid, which in this case is gas, has an upward force called buoyancy that equals to the weight of the displaced cold air,” he said. “The buoyant force has to be larger than its own weight and whatever it is carrying on the balloon.”

Hot air is less dense than cold air and because the density ofairrelates inversely to its temperature, when the hot airballoon is heated to 120 degrees Celsius, the balloon is less dense than its outside environment Mueller added that other sources can be used to lift the balloon.

‘You can fill it with helium, which is also less dense than air,” he said. “But that is relatively more expensive. Hot air is cheap because you just have to heat it.

There are also solar balloons, which you

could use where there is a lot ofsunshine.

But hot air is easier to control because you can change the amount of heat.”

Navigating the balloon, however, is much more difficult, Mueller said.

‘Youcontrol going upand down by controlling the temperature and volume ofhot air,” he said. “Otherwise, it depends on the wind and there’s really nothing for you to steer very well. So you don’t want to go up when there is strong or variable wind.”

Pilots can navigate to a certain extent by shifting altitudes, said April Persons, a ground crew member of Above and Beyond Hot Air Balloon Company.

“Winds at different altitudes go in different directions,” she said. “So if you want to go a little more right, you can shift your altitude and catch a right.”

A balloon also has a turning vent, which the pilots open to steer the balloon, Persons said.

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the Rhodes Scholarship, though six were selected as finalists.

“It’s incredibly exciting and incredibly humbling,” McCartney said. “These are the types ofscholarships you apply for and never expect to get.”

McCartney, editorial page editor of The Chronicle, served as editor-inchief in 2006-2007 during the lacrosse case. He is one of 12 Mitchell Scholars chosen from more than 300 applicants.

Pearson, a double major in civil and enRyan McCartney environmental gineering and biomedical engineering, is one of 40 students selected under the Marshall Scholarship to complete two years of master’s study in the United Kingdom.

He said his involvement with Engineers Lee Pearson without Borders at Duke—for which he served as president and established two projects in Uganda—stimulated his interest in environmental engineering.

A political science and philosophy double major, McCartney will spend the next year studying political communication under an interdisciplinary journalism program at Dublin City University.

“Ireland is a really interesting place to study media right now in that its situation is different from the United States: 91 percent of adults there read the print version of the paper,” McCartney said.

Pearson’s tentative two-year program includes completing a master’s in ecological economics at the University of Edinburgh in the first year and a master’s in engineering for sustainable development at the University of Cambridge in the second year.

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Freshman Krystal Thomas led the Blue Devils with 20 points and 10rebounds against UNC Greensboro Sunday.

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New head coach Joanne P. McCallie got her career at Cameron Indoor Stadium off to a good start.

After opening her Duke tenure with a pair ofroad wins, “Coach P” notched a victory in the home opener Sunday afternoon as her No. 10Blue Devils defeated an overmatched UNC Greensboro squad 84-39.

“It’s just a great UNC-G 39 tmosphere, I love 84 the enthusiasm of DUKE the crowd,” McCallie said ofher first regular season game at Cameron. “It didn’tfeel like a first game because of the other exhibitions, but it feels kind ofnatural and very exciting.”

Duke (3-0) struggled on the offensive end of the court in the opening minutes and held a modest 10-7 lead over the Spartans (0-3) with 12:18 on the clock. The Blue Devils then went on a 10-0 run and headed into the locker room with a commanding 28-point advantage, sending the crowd of 5,534 that came to see McCallie’s Cameron debut into a frenzy.

In the second half, Duke continued to pull away from the Spartans. The Blue Devils’ fast-paced play proved to be too much for UNC-G as McCallie’s team scored 44 points off turnovers compared to just two for the Spartans.

“It was a little bit of a slow tempo, so we started pressing and running, and it opened things up for our team,” McCallie said. “The tempo of the game wasn’t for us [in the opening minutes]. We’ve got to be able to dictate the tempo regardless ofhow anybody plays against us.”

Freshman Krystal Thomas led the wayfor Duke, scoring 12 points and pulling down seven rebounds in the first half and finishing the game with a team-best 20 points and 10rebounds. Thomas’ neighbor in the

post, center Chante Black, was 5-for-9 from the field and 7-for-8 from the charity stripe to finish the game with 17 points.

“Being a freshman is just about learning,” Thomas said. “In each game, it’s about getting better and better and, as the season goes on, just learning and understanding the game more at this higher intensity level. It’s just about the opponents to come—it’s not so much about what we did tonight, but it’s about applying that to the greater games and the greater opponents throughout the season.”

With experienced guards AbbyWanerand Wanisha Smith sidelined by injuries, sophomore Keturah Jackson got her second start of the season and notched two assists and two of the team’s school-record 28 steals.

Waner injured her ankle in practice and Smith suffered a small fracture in her wrist in the Blue Devils’ win over South Florida.

McCallie said both players are listed as dayto-day and will possibly be available for the team’s game Thursday against Purdue in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam. Even without two of their best players, the Blue Devils showed off their incredible depth Sunday. McCallie used a total of 10 players in the contest, and all 10 recorded at least one point, rebound and steal.

Sophomore Brittany Mitch and senior Emily Waner ran the point for Duke for much of the game.Waner dished out a career-high seven assists and was 2-of-3 from beyond the arc. Mitch set career highs in steals with seven and points with 11.

“To lose two scorers like Wanisha and Abby and still come up with 84 points is pretty good,” McCallie said. “At no point can it ever stop—even as we add in Wanisha and Abby back, we need to continue to throttle forward and know what everyone can do and how people can contribute.”

Charlie Ogbum and James McMahon contributed to this story.

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Even as Duke struggled earlier in the year, Elisabeth Redmond remained confident that the Blue Devils would be able to do damage in the NCAA tournament.

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Duke advances 4-1 onpenalty kicks winning goal in the Blue Devils 1-0 upset of third-seeded GeorDUKE 1 gia Sunday in Athens, Ga. ___Dr SjcClKialA | U Redmond’s score came in the 71st minute of a scoreless tie and sent Duke (9-5-7) on to the sweet sixteen of the NCAA College Cup. Defender Kelly McCann made a great run down the right side of the field and found Redmond at the comer of the 18-yard box. BullMAYA ROBINSON (LEFT), CHASE OLIVIERI(RIGHT)/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO dogs’ goalkeeper Michelle Betos got a hand on the ball, but Redmond’s left-footed strike into the upper left corner of Forward Elisabeth Redmond's goal (left)—coming off a pass from defender Kelly McCann(right)—was the difference in Duke's 1-0upset of Georgia. the goal was too powerful and put the Blue Devils up 1-0.

“As soon as she turned and lined up to kick it, I knew it Carolina (14-6-3). Despite the Gamecocks entering the out, just because we’ve practiced it so much,” senior goalwas going in,” McCann said. keeper Allison Lipsher said. game with a higher ranking, Duke emerged as the aggresThe goal highlighted a strong stretch of play for Duke sor, scoring first and taking six more shots.

After a regular season in which the Blue Devils had been “We came out really strong,” Redmond said. “We estabduring the second half. Georgia (18-4-2) took control of the competitive with some of the best teams in the country but game early on, outshooting the Blue Devils and taking five lished our pace in that game, and it was hard for them to were often unable to swing a positive result, it was exciting more comer kicks in the first half, but Duke responded effecfor the team to get two consecutive big wins. come back.”

Although the Blue Devils seemed to dominate for the “Throughout the season, we’ve played with a lot ofheart tively and was able to maintain possession for the remainder of the contest. the found themselves tied at one and contest, of they passion,” McCann said. “It’s finally paying off.” majority The players also believe that the difficulties they have “We definitely got caught back on our field because after regulation and heading to overtime for the fifth time encountered fielding a young lineup in the toughest conthey came out really hard,” Redmond said. “I think right in seven matches. after that, we calmed down and adjusted really well. We Due to the high number of games in which the team ference in the nation have made them more resilient and started to find feet and pretty much kept the ball for the played extra periods, head coach Robbie Church actually had will help extend their run through the tournament. rest of the game.” the players start practicing penalty kicks early on in the sear “We never give up,” Redmond said. “We’ve always come The win against Georgia followed a penalty kick shootback, and that’s helped us in these games that are single son. As a result, Duke cruised in the shootout, winning 4-1. out in the Blue Devils’ opening-round match against South “Everyone had a lot ofconfidence going into the shoot- elimination because we’re going to go down with a fight.” '

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M. BASKETBALL from page 1 boys too young even to remember Duke’s last NCAA title about the man standing merely two feet away. And then, there were the boldest of passers-by, the ones who uttered a confident, “Morning, Coach!” and got a Krzyzewskian nod of acknowledgement in return.

Yet, for as novel as Krzyzewski’s appearance on the shoreline seemed that morning, his presence at the Maui Invitational has been anything but. When Duke tips off against Princeton tonight at 9 p.m. in the Lahaina Civic Center, the coach will be looking for an all-time tournament recordtying 10th win to add to his already-impressive island resume. His Blue Devils have taken three Maui Invitational crowns—one more than Michigan, North Carolina and Syracuse, the only other teams to ever repeat. Winning nine games en route to those titles, Duke has yet to drop a contest in college basketball paradise.

“Bobby Hurley, Grant Hill, Jason Williams, [Mike] Dunleavy, [Steve]' Wojciechowski—you have to have really good players,” Krzyzewski said when asked of his secret to winning in Hawaii. “Pretty veteran teams have come here, and with really good players. And we’ve been lucky.”

This year, Krzyzewski hopes his balance of seasoned upperclassmen and talented freshmen can provide the same result to a slightly different equation. With five Blue Devils averaging in double figures, including freshmen Kyle Singler and Taylor King, and nine players clocking significant minutes, the Duke scoring attack is deeper and faster than it was a season ago.

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Sophomore Jon Scheyer has thrived in his role off the bench and leads the team in scoring after putting up a game-high 22 points in an 86-61 victory over New Mexico State. And the 6-foot-8 Singler has lived up to his ACC preseason rookie of the year billing, chipping in an average of 12.5 points and six rebounds per contest to date.

The Blue Devils should match-up wellwith a smaller Tigers’ squad that features 6-foot-9 sophomore center Zach Finley, who averaged 18 points in Princeton’s wins this week over Central Connecticut State and lona.

The Tigers, in contrast to their firstround opponents, are making their Maui Invitational debut tonight, becoming the first Ivy League school to participate in the Thanksgiving tradition. Led by first-year head coach Sydney Johnson, who was an assistant at Georgetown for three seasons before returning to his alma mater last spring, Princeton has relied heavily on its pair of senior forwards Kyle Koncz and Noah Savage to provide consistency on and off the court.

“We’re still running our stuff, still passing, dribbling, shooting,” Johnson said.

“Now we certainly have a challenge in front of us, but we’re grateful and excited for this opportunity.”

With teams such as Marquette, LSU, Illinois, Arizona State and Oklahoma State also in the Invitational’s field, this mix of old and new—of players, coaches and approaches to the game—is as striking as Krzyzewski walking down the beach in the early morning Hawaiian sun.

The Blue Devils, however, hope that when it all comes to an end Wednesday night, the sight of hoisting hardware will be the same as always.

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Playing in Cameron Indoor Stadium for potentially the last time, Duke’s four seniors reminded the home crowd of the legacy they will leave UN C behind. Thanks to the seniors’ DUKE spark, the No. 22 NX. STATE Blue Devils (22-6, 17-3 in the ACC) DUKE 3

swept N.C. State 3-0 Saturday, 30-21, 30-19, 30-21.

Seniors Carrie DeMange and Ali Hausfeld once again directed the Duke offense, overwhelming the Wolfpack (3-27, 0-20) with a dominating performance.

DeMange recorded 17 kills and 14 digs for her third consecutive double-double and moved within 20 kills of the Blue SARA GUERRERO/THE CHRONICLE Devils’ all-time record. Hausfeld set 50 asSenior Jenny Shull and the Blue Devils celebrated sists in the three games, her highest total senior night by sweeping N.C. State, 3-0, Saturday. of the season.

On the defensive end, senior Jenny “We were excited to beat North CaroShull had a team-high 16 digs while relina in three games after playing in a lot maining perfect throughout the match of four- and five-game matches,” Wherry with 18 errorless service receptions. Fellow said. “We just knew that they’re a good senior Shelley Capito also contributed with team and even if they’re down 2-0 they’ll 18 errorless serves. come back even stronger. We’ve been “The seniors have made a huge impact having trouble with putting teams away in ever since their arrival, not only on the court, the past, and it almost haunted us, but we but in their work ethic and in their commitnever let up with our intensity.” ment and aspirations,” head coach Jolene The Blue Devils have just two matches Nagel said. “They’ve really been a huge lift remaining on their schedule, both in a for Duke volleyball, and we hope we can road trip this week. Duke heads to Virginia continue with the standards they set.”

Wednesday to take on the Cavaliers followed Friday night, the Blue Devils also swept by a match Friday against Virginia Tech.

North Carolina 3-0 (30-23, 30-20, 30-24).

We have a really short time to recover Middle blocker Jourdan Norman paced and prepare for the matches this week,” Duke on both sides of the court with 10kills Nagel said. “We just need to focus on doand six blocks. Duke overpowered the Tar ing what we can do to control our destiny Heels at the net, outblocking its rival 11-6. going into the tournament.”

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Blue Devils run in Bronx, prepare for NCAA Championships The Duke women’s cross country “B” team finished in 12th place in the ECAC Championships in the Bronx, N.Y. for their final meet of the season. Junior Jessica Davlin placed 22nd with a time of 18:38 while freshman Devotia Moore and sophomore Priya Khatri finished 65th and 66th, respectively.

The Blue Devil men’s cross country team had a second-p] at the IC4A Championships, ach also took plate in the Bronx, uke was paced by freshman Bo Waggoner, who earned second place in the five-mile course in 25:22. Senior Chris Spooner followed two seconds later, finishing third in the race. Four seconds after that, Kevin McDermott crossed the finish line in eighth.

Freshmen Cory Nanni (25th) and Joshua Lund (35th) also finished in under 26 minutes.

The top-25 finishes of Waggoner, Spooner, McDermott and Nanni earned them All-East honors—the first time in nine years four Blue Devils received the award.

The women’s team competes in the NCAA Championships today at 12:58 p.m. in Terre Haute, Ind. The appearance marks the sixth consecutive bid for Duke.

Duke finishes in top five at Georgia Tech Invitational The Duke men’s swimming and diving squad placed fifth at the Georgia

Tech Invitational Sunday with 360 points.

Sophomore Andrew Clark earned a fifthplace finish in the 1650 free and freshman Spencer Booth finished sixth in the 200 back.

Duke’s 400 free relay teams took sixth and 10th place to earn points for the Blue Devils.

The women placed fourth at the tournament with 422.5 points. Freshman Ashley Twichell earned third place . 1650 free and sophomore Shannon Beall finished third in the 200 fly finals.

Sophomore Julie Brummond finished fourth in the platform diving event with a score of 222.95.

Strong showing for Duke grapplers at East Stroudsburg Open Three Blue Devil wrestlers finished in the top four Saturday at the East Stroudsburg Open.

Sophomore John Barone earned a second-place finish, bringing his record to 5-1 this year. Senior Kellan McKeon placed third with a 51 decision in the wresdebacks.

Sophomore Voris Tejada finished fourth at 157 pounds.

Sophomore Michael Degli Obizzi advanced to the quarterfinals before bowing out to the eventual winner in the 149-pound class. Degli Obizzi is now 8-1 on the young season.

For the afternoon, 11 of the 14 Duke wrestlers to compete finished with a winning record.

The Blue Devils will next travel to Bloomington, Ind. Saturday to compete in the a Duals.

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Duke lined up against Notre Dame for thefirst time in 41 seasons Saturday, but theBlue Devils could not take advantage of the opportunity,falling to the Fighting Irish, 28-7.

smiling for the first time in five weeks following Notre Dame’s 28-7 victory over Duke Saturday in South Bend, frowns painted the faces of a disappointed Blue Devil squad thatrecorded its 10th loss for the third consecutive season.

“This is a heartbreaker,” Duke fullback Clifford Harris said. “This was a big game for us to prove ourselves to everybody, especially on national TV, that we could beat good teams.”

In a battle of programs desperately trying to save face down the stretch after compiling matching 1-9 records, Duke (1-10) and Notre Dame (2-9) had been equally inept on both sides of the ball throughout most of the first half, combining for 104 penalty yards and two missed field goals while rarely threatening to reach the end zone.

But as it increasingly looked like the teams would share a scoreless tie going into halftime, it all fell apart in the last 1:17 for the Blue Devils.

Fighting Irish quarterback Jimmy Clausen connected on a 25-yard touchdown pass to David Grimes with just over a minute remaining to put Notre Dame up 7-0. Fifty-nine ticks later, Irish free safetyKyle McCarthy knocked the ball loose from Duke wide receiver Jomar Wright, forcing a fumble that again set up Notre Dame at the Blue Devil 25-yard line.

With 12 seconds remaining in the half,

Clausen lofted a pass' to the left corner of the endzone, where 6-foot-5 Duval Kamara had established himself in front of 5-foot-9 comerback Leon Wright. Kamara pulled down the jump ball, giving the Fighting Irish a 14-0 lead going into the break.

“We had one score and 12 seconds left and I said, ‘I really don’t have time to run the ball to get in better position to kick a field goal because I won’t have time to clock it, so we’ll take one shot to the end zone,’” Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis said. “Fortunately Duval came up with that play, and that was a big momentum changer going into the locker r00m.... I thought that if either team got up two scores, it was going to be a tough task for the other team to win the way things were going at the time.”

The stunned Blue Devils could not recover in the second half, as the Notre Dame running attack continued to pound the rain-soaked turf and a fatigued Duke defense for 220 yards and a touchdown on the game.

“It’s very disappointing,” head coach Ted Roof said. “We’re knotted up there at zero until they get 14 points in the last two minutes of the first half, so.you’re talking about a onescore game that could go either way.... It was certainly a great opportunity for us that didn’t work out.”

Duke had its chances to strike back in the second half, but inconsistency doomed the Blue Devils every time. Following a 16-yard completion from quarterback Thaddeus Lew-

is to Eron Riley that put Duke on the Notre Dame 42-yard line early in the third quarter, Lewis overthrew a wide open Riley down the field on a play that would have put them on the board or in the red zone for the first time in the game. Two plays later, a fumbled snapone of the team’s three fumbles on the afternoon— led to a fourth-down punt.

The Blue Devils were held scoreless for 58 minutes, as two first-half turnovers, a missed 42-yard field goal by Nick Maggio and an inability to convert on third down pushed Duke to the brink of its first shutout on the season.

In the game, third downs were key, as Duke managed to convert just 4-of-16 opportunities, while Notre Dame captured 10-of-18, its most on the season.

Meanwhile, in the air and on the ground the Irish freshmen reigned supreme. Clausen racked up 194 yards and three touchdowns on 16-for-32 passing, including the two 25-yard touchdown tosses, his longest on the season.

Robert Hughes, who came in with just 48 rush ing yards on the year, racked up 115 yards on 17 carries, including a 13-yard touchdown run right through the teeth of the Blue Devil de fense to give Notre Dame a 21-0 lead with 2: seconds left in the third quarter.

“On defense, we had way too many big plan down the field. Offensively, we couldn’t pi' points on the board,” defensive tackle Vintf Oghobaase said. “We got our butts kicked, and we feel terrible. The score is evident, we played terrible as a team.”

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The stage was SOUTH BEND, Ind. set, the cameras were rolling and the nation was watching as Duke took the field for one ofits most highly anticipated games in recent history. Before long, though, the Blue Devils’ performance was as dreary as the

weather hanging overhead at Notre Dame Stadium Saturday.

Plagued by the same symptoms with which the Duke faithful have 3113lySIS become all-too-familiar, the team committed back-breaking mistakes, failed to convert opportunities and made the Fighting Irish appear more like the national-title contenders they have been in the past.

“Those guys just came out and outplayed us today,” quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “The score on the scoreboard speaks for itself. We can’t feel it should have been a closer game when we didn’t put up enough points to make it a close game.”

The Blue Devils displayed another classic case of how an ineffective offense can lead to the demise of its own defense. For the sixth time this season, Duke had at least 15 fewer snaps than its opponent. Half of the Blue Devils’ 12 drives lasted just four plays or less, forcing the defense to stay on the extremely wet and muddy field longer than it would have liked.

Duke showed some wear and tear when Notre Dame shifted gears in the second half and concentrated on running the ball straight up and down, effectively daring the Blue Devils to stop it. When the Fighting Irish marched 69 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter by rushing the ball on 10 of their 13 plays, it became clear Duke was out of gas and out of answers.

“They found creases in the holes that weren’t covered by us,” defensive lineman Vince Oghobaase said. “That’s a part offootball. You find weaknesses in the defense and you execute that. They did a good job doing that, and I give all the credit to Notre Dame.”

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Wide receiver JomarWright's fumble late in thefirst half set up Notre Dame's second touchdown of the day. scoreless tie and headed into halftime with a 14-0 lead, the Blue Devils did their part in facilitating the soon-to-be rout. Both of Notre Dame’s scoring drives came as the result of two Duke fumbles.

As the rain picked up and the Blue Devils’ passing offense had trouble clicking—evidenced by fumbled snaps, dropped passes and misthrows—Fighting Irish head coach Charlie Weis noted the importance of those two quick strikes.

“In the first half going into the locker room, I think that those two scores right before halftime really changed the complexion of the game,” he said.

It transformed a game thatlooked promising, albeit ugly, into one that seemed out of reach, despite just a two-touchdown differential. Although Duke had somewhat

earned a ‘second-half team’ moniker this season, it never really showed any indication of coming back against Notre Dame.

An inability to convert third downs, a proclivity for giving up the big play and turning the ball over at the exact wrong moment were yet again the most critical reasons for the Blue Devils’ 10th loss this season.

But in this game, especially, there was not that sign of life fans had seen many times before, no flash of hope and no sense of almost turning the comer. Instead, the Blue Devils did not seem like they could even see the comer from where they were standing.

Perhaps Oghobaase, who repeatedly said his team got its butt kicked after the game, put it best.

“Notre Dame came out to play, and we didn’t,” he said. “Point blank.”

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. Although Notre Dame was struggling through its worst season in recent history, the Fighting Irish fans filled the stands and carried on their historic gameday traditions Saturday.

“People didn’t care it was an off year,” said Molly Bierman, a junior who joined her mom and dad—a Notre Dame law school graduate—in South Bend. “And the fact that they have so much history overrode the fact that this wasn’t their best year.”

The loyalty to a 1-9 team was surprising to manyDuke fans who trekked up to South Bend to witness their team’s first game against the Irish since 1966. Unlike the Duke student section that typically has enough room for fans to sprawl out for post-Tailgate naps during home games, the Notre Dame section was just about packed from start to finish.

“I was in the student section,” said Jason Prager, a senior visiting his best friend who attends Notre Dame. “I had never been to a football game like that. Coming from a basketball school, it was really cool to see the traditions another school has.”

Among other traditions, the Fighting Irish faithful lined the path leading from the Sacred Heart Basilica to the stadium prior to the game. After attending mass in coat and tie, the team walked from the chapel to the stadium.

“At first I didn’t know what was going on,” Bierman said. “There were hordes of people in a line, and after a while, you could see the players all coming out from mass. Everyone cheered a lot, and then the band came out. It was a great feeling to see that sort of tradition and personal connection between the team and fans.”

Despite a cold rain and their team holding onto a commanding lead in the fourth quarter, most Notre Dame fans stayed until the end. Following the game, the Notre Dame players crowded in front of the student section and saluted theirfans. The band played the Alma Mater, “Notre Dame, Our Mother,” as the crowd linked arms, sang the lyrics and swayed from side to side.

“The long-standing football traditions at Notre Dame are incomparable,” Prager said. “Eight-thousand people in Cameron is really impressive, but 80,000 in Notre Dame Stadium was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.”

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The logic for the change is clear. The most compelling argument for the change focuses on at starting nrlitftrial euilUildl increasing 7:30 a.m. accessibility Campus Council members discussed to ePrint stations. Earlier acthe issue last Thursday night cess to West Campus dorms and voted to set card access would allow students who back to an earlier time. The have classes starting at 8:30 changes, however, must be a.m. to use ePrint stations on approved by Eddie Hull, their way to class.

Furthermore, many athdean of residence life and letic teams, as well as memexecutive director of housing services, before going bers of the Reserve Officer Training Corps program, into effect.

At the moment, students begin their activities early have restricted access to in the morning. Members of West Campus dorms from these groups who would like to meet at early hours should midnight to 9 a.m. on weeknot have to deal with the inand a.m. to 9 a.m.

2 days on weekends. During this convenience that restricted time, DukeCards can only card access may cause.

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The restrictions on dorm access also create a number of unnecessary problems.

On weekends, students aiding friends who may by impaired by alcohol back to their dorm room often face unnecessary hurdles in obtaining dorm access late at night. Such restricted access endangers the security of the campus for students.

Although Campus Council should be commended for their proposal to allow access to West Campus dorms on weekdays back to 7:30 a.m., this board feels that Campus Qouncil should call for an even more unrestrictive policy.

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weekdays is unacceptable.

On a college campus where many students are up late at night, students should be allowed to move around freely on campus. Restricting card access to a more realistic time, such as after 3 a.m., seems to be a more logical solution.

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We live on the sixth floor ofKeohane.... That’s higher than we were in the balloon ride.

Sophomore Megan Banghart on free balloon rides offered in Keohane Quadrangle Friday afternoon. See story page 6.

source documentation, he was going to publish a column attempting to eviscerate DSED and me. Though I easily substantiated my arguments—indeed I bent over backwards to meet his absurd time demands—with publicly available sources, he ignored them in his column.

With some minor modifications to a single sentence from my piece in The New Right Review, I stand by my arguments as I have done my research. We welcome criticism, and as Michael Gustafson, assistant professor of the practice of electrical and computer engineering, will attest, we often have to pry it from him.

However, it is a bit much to be accused of things like “plagiarism” and “rush to judgment” in a defamation piece for which some of the “investigation,” let alone writing, was conducted after Wolf’s deadlinefor submission of the column. Equally odd was the absurd claim we are “rapidly losing support,” substantiated by an incredibly damaging misquote of Gustafson (intentional or not) and anonymous “Chron[icle message board] postings,” according to Wolf, who accused us of substantiating with “hearsay” and “gossip.”

Regarding what he calls our lack of “policy objectives,” Wolf did not even inquire about them, nor did he ask about any of our Michael Gustafson non-lacrosse related initiatives. We have not assistant professor of the practice, sought publicity for much of what we have electrical and computer engineering done because we wait until we have done our due diligence.

Wolf’s DSED column damaging, inaccurate Wolf has made a variety of mistakes and I am profoundly hurt and disappointed wildly misappropriated several quotes. by what Elliott Wolf has produced in the While he included a quote of which I am Nov. 15 issue ofThe Chronicle, “Physician, quite proud, he left out the most imporheal thyself,” but I am especially appalled tant sentence; “Similarly, when we are at the way Wolf has gone about producing shown to be wrong, we must readily admit it. We—Duke Students for an Ethical Durthat we are wrong.” I am committed to that statement, and we hope Wolf will make the ham and friends/partners —are all preparing a well-reasoned, fair and well-informed same humble commitment. I do not know response to Wolf’s column, not only as a what has prompted this betrayal of his necessity but also a courtesy to Wolf that usual journalistic integrity or his rush to we believe he has not extended to us, nor discredit us, but we hope that we will be is it what he has provided to the readers of able to continue working for a better, ethiThe Chronicle. cal Duke together.

In the meantime visit our blog, where you Ken Larjey will find much of the substantiation that he demanded and that I provided to him. Wolf Pratt ’OB made it clear that unless I betrayed my own founder, Duke Students integrity by revealing to him anonymous for an Ethical Duke

Apologies for a possible misstatement I was quoted in Thursday’s issue of The Chronicle, in Elliott Wolfs column “Physician, heal thyself,” as stating, with respect to Duke Students for an Ethical Duke, “I told them that I will not be part of this lynch mob.”

To clear up what I said to DSED early on before they had really formed —was I would not be part of *a* lynch mob. I do not believe Duke Students for an Ethical Duke is a lynch mob, nor is that why I am not their faculty advisor. I do not blame Wolffor the wording in the quote because it is entirely probable that I spoke incorrectly. I do think it is important to clear up what a huge difference in meaning one word makes as well as the timing of my statement.

I will also point out, because it is important and because it is something I did not emphasize to Wolf, that DSED founder Ken Larrey has sought inputs and critiques from me at several stages along the way and from the very beginning—and that while I provided a few, I failed to deliver on most, especially recendy. It is a professional failure for me as well as a personal one, and for that I apologize to Larrey and to DSED. It is also highly unfair for me to criticize them given my own lack of communication with the group and the people in it, despite their requests for same, and so I apologize for that as well.

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ditioning while driving my car. rachael massell But surely this can’t sidelong glance be so, my brain says, for in three days the quintessential fall holiday will be upon us: Thanksgiving.

Now, years of pop culture indoctrination mandate that I associate Turkey Day with cozy sweaters donned by even cozier relatives, straight out of a Norman Rockwell painting. And I certainly remember a few actual Thanksgivings that brought the first snow flurries of the season.

But global warming, or whatever is responsible for this weather, has rendered all my harbingers of our national day of eating-till-it-hurts irrelevant. In case I’m not the only one caught unawares this year, let this column serve as your reminder.

At the risk of achieving a level of triteness and sentimentality never before seen on these pages or under my byline, here are a few things at Duke that I’m thankful for: Our Gothic Wonderland architecture.

It’s been said before, but seriously—we go to school on a veritable Harry Potter movie set. By the time you’re a senior it’s all too easy to forget just how beautiful this campus is, especially when the leaves are (finally) changing. It wouldn’t hurt to stop and stare once in a while.

The availability of fair-trade coffee on campus. All Alpine locations, Saladelia Cafe, the Refectory—it’s hard not to support fair wages in developing countries these days around here.

Functional ePrint. There was a time there early on in the semester when I thought there might be ePrint riots, but

all is well with the reinstitution of 12-hour retention window.

The growing prevalence of reusable coffee mugs. Nothing warms the green side of the soul like seeing caffeine addicts saving the world one less paper cup at a time.

Reusable water bottles. See above My friends. Not that everyone isn’t thankful for their friends, but there’s no better time or forum in which to reiterate my gratefulness for those who are there when it really counts. Thanks, guys, for everything.

The housekeeping staff. Their hard work and generosity of spirit have been acclaimed before in these pages, but it never hurts to repeat it: thanks (especially to Miss Betty in Few Quad).

Selective living groups. My Duke experience would have been a sad shadow of itself if it were not for my years in Round Table, and I know that most SLG members feel the same way. Let’s hope they don’t become a casualty of the Campus Culture Initiative, but in the meantime, let’s be thankful we have them at all.

Hot showers and intense water pressure.

This time last year, I was bucket-bathing abroad—’nuff said. Also in this category: washing machines, toilets, running potable water generally and the absence of tropical diseases. After all too little time back in the states, it’s tempting to take these amenities for granted. Maybe we’ll appreciate the running potable water portion more if the drought continues through the winter and we have to start showering with “gray water.”

And of course, this wouldn’t be a Thanksgiving “I’m thankful f0r...” list without mentioning my family. Though they might seem somewhat incongruous with the rest of the items on this collegiate list, they are often as much a part of a college student’s life as hours at the library or Cook Out runs. Nothing quite makes my day, or anchors me to something beyond these walls, like e-mailsfrom my 87-year-old

grandfather.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Rachael Massell is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

Everybody dies famous in a small town

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of today, the lowa caucuses are 45 days away—a mere month and a half, broken up by the biggest holidays of the year.

someone who works in lowa for a political camthis paign, is terrifying.

Forty-five days, 10 of which no frank holleman one will listen to your candiout of the pan... date because they’re either watching football or “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” As someone who came here five and a half months ago, it’s shocking how fast time has passed. I am literally racing against the clock here, and the thing about Father Time is that he never gets tired and slows down.

For me, this urgency has not only made me incredibly tense about myjob, it’s also led me to think about my plans after the caucus.

I will return to Duke, perhaps study abroad over the summer, finish my degree and move on to even higher education. I’ve thought about eventually moving back to wholesome South Carolina to my hometown, staying in the slightly more tarnished Durham or disappearing into the buzz of the Northeast and its many Babylons. But while driving through the hills and fields of lowa, I have never considered coming back to this place, or moving to anywhere like it.

So I will exit Duke with one of the best educations in the world, probably accumulate more, and then settle down next to a million other internal migrants like me.

Here in these counties in rural lowa, Ivy League educations are unusual and the population has declined since 1890.

It seems a bit selfish not to consider a place like this. After all, a lot of people live in places like it rural, small and shrinking. According to the census bureau, 21 percent ofAmerica’s population lived in rural areas in 2000, down from almost 25 percent in 1990. Comparing the absolute numbers, that comes to a 2-million-person drop in population. There are many reasons this is happening, but the obvi-

ous result is that people are leaving rural arPeople like us are not moving to places in rural America that might need our expertise and our ambitions.

That’s not to say rural lowa—or rural America—can’t take care of itself. Many of the communities do quite well despite the population decline. Thousands of highly educated professionals do move back to rural areas. By no means is rural America an empty intellectual wasteland.

But on the whole the picture is not satisfying. There is a disdain that sometimes borders on negligence about the way that many well-to-do East Coast Americans view rural America, whether it’s 20 miles away or 2,000. The classic way of rural life is being squeezed out by agribusiness and the sheer dollars and cents of our American economy. The ability of someone to leave rural lowa and come back to buy a farm or a house has been greatiy diminished by rising property values. And all too often, the political forces that could help preserve the quality of life of rural Americans abandon them as “Red-State Voters” who aren’t as important as suburban Pennsylvanians or corporate donors.

So whatdo I propose? I propose that people return and relocate to communities in rural areas where they’re needed the most.

I’m not talking about the several-week, volunteer junkets that rich Americans are apt to go to fulfill a sense of civic duty. Those do good workbut they are not enough. And I’m not talking about witiessly preserving a way oflife whose time passed with the end of the 19th century.

I am talking about making sure that there are services that are as equal as we can make them in urban, suburban or rural areas. The market hasn’t done it and the government’s efforts aren’t enough. It takes the decisions of committed future bankers, doctors, lawyers and engineers like us to keep some sense of national community alive, even if it means spuming a hedge fund or a comer office.

I hope that some of us, at least, are up to the challenge.

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Frank Holleman is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

Zach Braff wishes you Merry Christmas ZACHBRAFF’s column this week has been judged as too offensive and controversial to be printed. We apologize to those individuals who may have obtained the early printing of today’s edition that included the outrageous column. All of those copies that were accidentally made available in the Levine Science Research Centerbetween 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. have been replaced ■ with this new edition.

Although we are unable to HI Oil day, mOVUiay print the title of the distasteHO SCflibS ful column, we can say that it resembled a cross between Phillip Kurian’s Fall 2004 column, “The fews” and ZACH BRAFF’s previously offensive “Zach Braff and the death of Duke Basketball”—yes, it was about Jon Scheyer.

As is customary with all Chronicle columnists, we asked ZACH BRAFF to prepare emergency columns for every possible contingency at the beginning of the semester should the need arise. In place of the hateful column, we have decided to print one of thosepieces. .

Merry

Christmas from ZACH BRAFF!

Today is Monday the 24th of December and

it’s Christmas Eve. Personally, my favorite part

about the night before Christmas is that it’s not three days before Thanksgiving.

But more than not being just three days before Thanksgiving, the true meaning of Christmas is a universal time of reflection. On Christmas, people of all religions can come together to reflect—Catholics, Protestants and Jews for Jesus.

It’s been a great year and an even better first semester, especially the last few weeks following Thanksgiving Break.

So let’s reflect on what happened.

After the heartbreaking loss to football powerhouse Notre Dame, our beloved Devils responded with a resounding 10-9 pounding of our hated rivals down Tobacco Road. Finally, we proved we’re slightly better than another mediocre football team at a basketball school. In a related note, Priya Patel has finally been released from the hospital after running headfirst into the goal post for the second time this season. (It’s OK, I still know her.)

And after the unpredictably nuts season of college football in which top-ranked teams went belly-up each week, the events of the final weekend came as a shock to no one.

I’m sure we all could have predicted that not only did the other 118 teams in Division-IA all lose on the final weekend (yes, it is technically impossible for more than half to lose), but they were all so soundly crushed that the BCS voters determined this season’s national champion would be determined by academic rather than athletic prowess.

The entire campus is surely stoked for our appearance against Stanford in the Texas Instruments Bowl.

The Regina Spektor concert fiasco was also one few will forget. In her defense, Spektor noted she behaved in a manner concordant with previous, headlining Duke performances. This explains wjiy Spektor barely showed up in time for her concert after treating her 17-person entourage to RF. Chang’s and then walked off stage after a mere 40-minute set. Spektor also apologized for her negative comments about the Duke lacrosse case she retroactively made before the concert.

Said Spektor, “I’m sorry for publicly condemning those individuals based on erroneous evidence. Am I going to get paid now?”

Many students are also still trying to sort out their schedules for next semester after the ACES mishap. Hopefully you weren’t one of the nearly 1,200 students who mistakenly validated for the Michigan basketball game rather than sign up for Spring classes.

My gift to you this Christmas is-this column. Unfortunately, the only way you’d get to read it is if I wrote something highly inappropriate like a slang term for oral sex in the middle of my column. Merry Christmas to all and someone please buy Scheyer a Hanukkah bush.

ZACHBRAFFand Brandon Curl learned that “Christmas is the eighth acceptable spelling of “Hanukkah. ”

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