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CHAPEL HILL All thatstood between Duke and its first win against North Carolina since 2003 was a 40-yard field goal as time expired.

As true freshman Nick Maggio lined up to kick, the players stood nervously on the sideline, ready to capture the Victory Bell and return it to Durham—and perhaps save head coach Ted Roofs job.

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Jon Scheyer and theBlue Devils blew out the Colonels 78-43 Sundayafternoon in Cameron Indoor Stadium.Duke shot 55.3 percent from the floor, and freshman Taylor King led the team in scoring with a career-high 27 points.The Blue Devils take on Wisconsin Tuesday night at home.See story page 7.

“I started running, trying to get to the bell first,” senior safety Chris Davis said. “By the time I got there, [UNC] was celebrating.”

Once the players looked up at the replay, they realized what had set off the Tar Heels bench: Maggie’s kick missed the uprights just a few feet to the left. Although the game went into overtime, the Blue Devils (1-11,08 in the ACC) would never recover, falling 20-14 Saturday at Kenan Stadium.

Maggie’s kick turned out to be Duke’s best shot to beat UNC (4-8, 3-5), as Joe Surmissed wide left on a 42-yarder in the extra period, and the Tar Heels scored on their first play to pull off the stunning victory.

It was the first overtime game in the history of the rivalry and was also Duke’s 17th loss in 18 tries against the Tar Heels.

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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, the saying goes.

But 1,246 high school seniors did just that earlier this month when they applied early decision to Duke for admission to the Class of 2012.

“From what I have been able to tell so far, it looks like a really good pool,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag.

The number of early applicants is up approximately 7 percent from last year, he said.

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Despite having a 14-7 lead going into the 4th quarter, Duke gave up a touchdown and failed to make a last-second field goal to seal the win.

Duke’s most significant loss, however, may not have been to UNC. With a meeting looming between Roof and Director of Athletics Joe Alieva as early as today, the head coach’s job appears to be in serious jeopardy. After the game, Roof declined SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE

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Attitude is everything.

The Rev. Bobby Laws is a firm believer in this idea. So much so, in fact, that he wrote a book about it.

When Laws’ “The Positive Flow: Your Life Can Be So Much More!” was published in October, becoming an author was just the latest twist in Laws’ highly unusual career path. Currendy a Duke postal worker, he also recently became a pastor in Oxford, N.C., about 30 miles northeast of Durham.

Laws, now 34, said he felt a strong draw toward the ministry.

“I didn’t have a dream or a revelation or anything. I just kind ofknew that was what I wanted to be,” he said.

At the age of 23, he became an assistant minister—the same year he began his job at with Duke Postal Operations.

“I’ve made a lot of great friends there,” Laws said ofthe post office. “When people are going through things, they’ll come to SEE LAWS ON PAGE 5

The Rev. Bobby Laws worksfor Duke Postal Operations and also serves as a pastor in Oxford, N.C., about 30 miles northeast of Durham.

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Residents began making their way through back streets and dirt roads Sunday afternoon into evacuated areas of this upscale community to see whether their homes survived a wind-driven wildfire that scorched surrounding brush-covered hills.

Some homes along a road near the source of the blaze had been reduced to blackened wrecks, while others were barely damaged.

“There’s no rhyme or reason to it,” said Frank Churchill, who returned home with his wife and four children to find his white stucco home largely undamaged, while three surrounding homes were leveled. “It

doesn’t make sense.”

Fifty homes were destroyed Saturday by the fast-moving wildfire, pushed by Santa Ana winds. Twenty-seven other homes were damaged, and 10,000 to 14,000 people remained under evacuation orders.

The fire, which scorched 4,720 acres since early Saturday, was about 40 percent contained, with few flames visible to water-dropping helicopters deployed over the fire zone, said Ron Haralson, Los Angeles County fire inspector.

“Winds have subsided considerably, and we’re making good headway,” he said.

By late Sunday morning, skies had cleared, and the column of smoke billowing over the hills had all but vanished.

Aside from the dozens of fire trucks dotting the Pacific Coast Highway, there was little evidence the fire was still burning.

Investigators had determined that the fire, which broke out along a dirt road off a paved highway, was caused by humans but had not determined whether it was started intentionally, said county Fire Inspector Rick Dominguez.

Sheriff’s deputies with dogs surveyed the roadside area Sunday, which neighbors said is a popular spot for late-night outdoor partying by young people.

“I’ve been up there and seen howling groups of teenagers drinking,’’ nearby residentRicardo SEE FERES ON PAGE 12

Exiled leader Sharif returns to Pakistan Sharif, the head of one of the country’s main opposition parties, said he had not LAHORE, Pakistan Exiled former negotiated his return with Musharraf, who Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned overthrew him in a 1999 coup. Musharraf home to a hero’s welcome Sunday and expelled Sharif when he first tried come called on President Gen. Pervez Musharraf back to Pakistan this year. to end emergency rule before elections, a “My return is not the result of any deal,” fresh challenge to the U.S.-backed leader.

Sharif told reporters. “My life and death “These (emergency) conditions are not are for Pakistan.” conducive to free and fair elections,” Sharif Thousands of frenzied supporters told reporters at the airport after arriving pushed past police barricades into the airfrom Saudi Arabia. “I think the constituport in this eastern city, carrying Sharif and tion of Pakistan should be restored, and his brother on their shoulders and cheerthere should be rule of law.” ing wildly as Sharif stood among them on by

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a raised platform. An armored car carrying Sharif left the airport on a procession toward a shrine in the center of the city, surrounded by screaming supporters.

Musharraf has grown increasingly unpopular since he declared a state of emergency Nov. 3, locking up thousands of opponents, purging the Supreme Court and muzzling the media.

If Sharif and other opposition parties refuse to take part in parliamentary elections slated for January, it would undermine SEE PAKISTAN ON PAGE 6

Arab holdout Syria agreed Sunday to attend a Mideast peace conference called by President George W. Bush to restart talks to resolve the six-decade conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, yet expectations for the summit remained low.

Wisconsin company recalls beef American Foods Group voluntarily recalled nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef products after two people were sickened, possibly by the Ecoli bacteria. Products were distributed to retailers and distributors in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio,Tennessee, Wisconsin and Virginia,

Researchers:Kids will eat healthy Bucking some common notions, a University ofMinnesota study has found that school lunch sales don't decline when healthier meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don't necessarily cost schools more to produce.

Broadway strikers return to table Negotiations resumed Sunday between striking Broadway stagehands and theater producers struggling to find a solution to

their thorny, seemingly intractable labor dispute as theaters faced a third week of dark stages and mounting box-office losses.

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The House of Representatives unveiled an omnibus education bill tided the College Opportunity and Affordability Act Nov. 9 to extend the provisions of the Higher Education Act of 1965.

The bill, which is more than 700 pages long, contains provisions affecting tuition rates, accreditation and information tech-

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Three N.C. State deansbreak ground for the Randall B.Terry, Jr.Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center, a 115,000-sq.-ft.pet hospital funded by a $2O-million donationand appropriated tax dollars.

NCSU breaks ground on S72M pet hospital annex Last week’s groundbreaking of the new Randall B. Terry Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center marked the beginning of a $72-milhon expansion.

The project was funded by appropriated taxpayer dollars and a $2O-million donation from the R. B. Terry Charitable Foundation. The donation is the largest private gift ever given to North Carolina State University.

The new 115,000-sq.-ft. facility will include a hospital, surgery suites, conference rooms and teaching laboratories and is expected to treat 25,000 animals per year.

“In the past 20 years there has been a strong trend toward specialization and even sub-specialization within the veterinary profession,” Dr. Michael Davidson, associate dean and director of veterinary medical services at N.C. State, told The

News & Observer. “The design of the Terry Center will feature separate pavilions for specialty practices as well as cuttingedge technologies for imaging, cardiac care, cancer treatments, internal medicine and surgery.”

The center is named in honor of the late Randall Terry, former president of the North Carolina Veterinary Medical

The House Committee on Education and Labor discussed and amended the bill for the past two weeks, and will send the bill to the House floor after the Thanksgiving Day Recess ends Dec. 3. The Senate passed a similar bill in July.

“WeTe still trying to digest everything that’s in it and understand the implications of it,” said Chris Simmons, associate vice president for federal relations. “There are just huge implications for this bill for higher education.”

The bill has drawn fairly bipartisan support thus far and is motivated by

Some contentious language in the original legislation called for “Higher Education Price Increase Watch Lists,” which would draw negative attention to universities that have the highest tuition increases.

In an effort to hold colleges accountable, the bill also calls for new reporting requirements on university spending and academic policies.

John Bumess, senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, however, said these new requirements may actually raise tuition by increasing costs.

“There is always the issue of why does tuition rise the way it does.... [But] it’s sort of a Catch-22 that gets built in here,” Bumess said. “You’re going to have to report this, report that, you start adding it up and it’s going to require people to do those things.”

Another major component of the bill SEE BILL ON PAGE 6

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One of Terry’s six golden retrievers was treated at Veterinary Teaching Hospital, and he donated more than $4 million to the Veterinary Medical Foundation when he served his two terms as president of the foundation.

“Mr. Terry’s generosity is tramforming the CVM,” Warwick Arden, dean of the College ofVeterinary Medicine, told The N&O.

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As two of its Atlantic Coast Conference rivals square off in a competition to conserve water, Duke is watching from the sidelines.

“It is time to take our friendly athletic rivalry to a new level,” Chancellor James Oblinger ofNorth Carolina State University wrote in a formal letter to James Moeser, chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, early this month.

Oblinger and Bobby Mills, a junior and student body president at N.C. State, proposed a “water-conservation challenge” with UNC to see which campus’ residence halls could cut back the most on water use. The challenge, which is a response to the current drought, will be measured in gallons used per student.

The contest began with the football game between UNC and N.C. State Nov. 10 and will end with theirFebruary basketball game.

Mills said the idea for the challenge emerged from an environmental contest among dormitories at N.C. State, which he said is similar to Duke’s Eco-Olympics, “In the state ofNorth Carolina, we are one of the largest users of water and utilities, so it is definitely something we should take a stand on,” he said. “A lot of [us] have had this rivalry since birth, so that sort of feeds the fire.”

N.C. State freshman Maggie Ernest said the rivalry dial-

lenge will promote awareness of the drought’s severity.

“The competition aspect is going to make a big difference,” she said. “I don’t think people realize that this is serious and this is actually going to happen. Once people realize that, there will be change.”

Duke sophomore Ciara Wirth said she thought a similar challenge could work at Duke.

“I will be in touch with our colleagues at Carolina and our colleagues at State in regards to some of the efforts that they have under way.... We may look for some sort of competitive program at Duke as well.”

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“It would be really helpful because there is so much energy and excitement over the basketball games,” she said.

“If you just get some e-mails, there is a hard time telling there is a drought.”

Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins, who is also the chair of the Water Conservation Management Group at Duke, said he was encouraged by the waterchallenge idea.

“I will be in touch with our colleagues at Carolina and our colleagues at State in regards to some of the efforts that they have under way,” he said. “We may look for some sort of competitive program at Duke as well.”

But sophomore Kelsey Shaw, co-vice president of Environmental Alliance, said she did not think a competition would encourage Duke students to respond to the

drought.

“I am inclined to say it wouldn’t really motivate them,” she said. “I think there is just sort of a conception that we can buy it fromAsheville or Atlanta or wherever,” Wirth agreed that many Duke students do not recognize the drought as a major problem.

“I think people who are from the South and from North Carolina, just from seeing their hometowns change, they are more aware,” she said.

Oblinger wrote in his letter that N.C. State and UNC “share a common goal of being good stewards of the state’s resources.”

“Ifyou grew up here that is going to be really important to you,” Ernest said. “I think taking a stake in your state’s environmental resources is something that could motivate

people.”

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increase is less than some peer institutions Duke University: 1,240 applicants (7% increase) Georgetown University: 5, 925 applicants (30% increase) University of Chicago: 4,329 applicants (42% increase) Yale University: 4,289 applicants (36% increase) of Virginia followed suit and eliminated their early application programs. Other schools, The increase is relatively including Duke, chose to consmall, however, in comparison tinue admitting students early. to other top-tier colleges, where “Whether we still want to early application numbers have consider changing our early despiked following the decisions of cision program remains an open Harvard and Princeton universiquestion, but for right now we’re ties to eliminate their early addoing pretty well,” Provost Peter missions programs last fall.

Lange said.

At Duke, unlike Harvard, stuGeorgetown University received 5,925 applications, 30 perdents who apply early commit to cent more than last year. At Yale attending if they are accepted.

The University typically admits University, the 4,820 early applications represent a 36-percent about 25 to 30 percent of each increase, and at the University class during the early applicaof Chicago, the number of applition process. cants is up more than 40 percent, Guttentag said Duke has no according to statistics released by plans to change admissions polieach respective school. cies in the foreseeable future.

Early admission programs, in He added that the current policy which students submit materials strikes a good balance, allowing

by Nov. 1 and receive decisions in the University to be responsive to mid-December, fell under close students for whom Duke is an unscrutiny by the higher education equivocal first choice and to still accommunity last fall after Harvard knowledge that most high school eliminated early applications for seniors are not ready to commit to the class of 2012. a college in November.

Harvard administrators cited “[Eliminating early decision] the tendency of early admissions is going to make life a lot more to “advantage the advantaged” frenzied for the subset of kids as the reason for their decision. who really know where they want to go but can’t make the “Students from more sophisticated backgrounds and affluchoice until later in the year,” ent high schools often apply Lange said. early to increase their chances For admissions officers, Gutof admission, while students tentag said the combination of from... high schools with fewer early and regular pools for adresources miss out,” Derek Bok, missions works well. then-interim president at Har“From our perspective we have something that serves our vard, said in a statement in September 2006. needs,” he said. “We, think it’s After the Harvard decision, fair to the University and to our Princeton and the University applicants.”

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It was from these kinds of personal exchanges—in both of his workplaces—that Laws took much of the inspiration for his book, which began as a sermon thatLaws delivered in October 2006.

“I attempted to turn it into a booklet, and it just snowballed,” Laws said. “There was too much information, so it became a book.”

Once he decided to write a book, Laws said, he wrote it in seven months.

“Most of it was stuff I knew already,” Laws said, adding that much of the book’s advice comes in the form ofpersonal anecdotes.

“There were a lot of life stories and a lot ofheartache involved.”

He said drew on his own experiences as well as those of friends

and colleagues.

Laws said he hopes that his book will help others reach fulfillment, as he said he has.

“I’m a Christian, so I hope the book helps many other Christians reach their potential, but it’s full of valuable principles from which people from all walks of life could benefit,” he said. “In my opinion, most people go through life and never really reach their destiny or maximize the opportunities and gifts God has given them.

The whole point of this book is to tell you how having a certain attitude—seeing yourself in the best possible light and seeing your circumstances in the best possible light—helps you excel in life.”

In the short time since its publication, “The Positive Flow” has generated a lot of positive feedback from the Duke community, Laws said.

He added that he is excited about the book’s increasing popularity throughout many Duke departments, citing examples of University employees who have purchased as many as five copies. Laws said a woman told him that she used one of the principles from the book to help her solve a personal situation.

Although his current focus is on marketing “The Positive Flow,” Laws said he may have a sequel in the works before long.

“Once you start writing, you get more ideas,” he said.

He mentioned “The Positive Flow, Volume II; Finding Your Design” as a potential title, adding that the second book would bring greater specificity to the overarching ideas examined in the first.

“The first book gives overall, general principles; the second one will go into fine-tuning your niche in life,” Laws said.

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BILL from page 3 concerns accreditation. Accreditation is the process by which universities are certified every 10 years in order to ensure they are meeting basic higher education requirements.

The bill originally gave universities the authority to define student achievement, but an amendment was proposed Nov. 14 by Representative Robert Andrews (D-NJ.) thatwould have shifted control to accrediting agencies. Although the amendment ultimately failed to make it into the finalized bill, many college officials said they were upset at its consideration.

Judith Ruderman, Duke’s accreditation director and vice provost for academic and administrative services, said in an interview with The Chronicle Nov. 16 that she was “shocked” at the amendment and angry that accrediting agencies had motivated it.

She added that she was unaware if the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, Duke’s primary accrediting agency, pushed for the amendment.

“We want to know where our accrediting body stands on this; they either listen to us and agree, or they don’t,” Ruderman said.

She added that SACS had previously told Duke that the

“I believe very strongly that institutions of higher education... should not have one standardized way of assessing student learning outcomes.”

—Judith Ruderman, vice provost and accreditation director Association would leave educational policy up to its member colleges.

The accreditation committee from SACS is set to review Duke in December 2009.

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Regarding information technology, the bill calls on universities to stop on-campus illegal downloading by adopting “technology-based” deterrents. Some college officials, however, said this would increase operating costs and the use of unproven technology.

College officials have also expressed concern at the speed of the legislative process.

“The committee put this bill together sort of quietly, and popped it out there sort of quickly, so the higher education community hasn’t had time to analyze it,” Burness said.

Although the bill has drawn criticism from college officials, the response has not been entirely negative.

Officials are pleased with provisions to expand the Pell Grant Program and simplify the financial aid process.

Musharraf s claim to be taking the country back toward democracy.

Equally tricky for Musharraf would be an alliance between Sharif and another recendy returned prime minister, Benazir Bhutto.

“If they come to us with a proposal ofany electoral alliance, we will consider this positively,” Bhutto said aboard a flight from Karachi to her hometown ofLarkana, in southern Pakistan. “I welcome him home.”

A spokesperson for Sharifs part said he, his brother and his wife will all file papers Monday that would allow them to run if they choose to do so, The presidential spokesperson was not available Sunday for comment on Sharif s return.

However, the pro-Musharraf ruling party, which broke away from Sharifs group after the coup, is already wooing him as a potential ally.

Ruling party spokesperson Tariq Azim urged the Sharif camp to “forget the old egos and start with a clean slate.”

The scene at Lahore airport was eerily reminiscent of the early jubilation that greeted Bhutto when she came back to her home city ofKarachi in October, but the number of supporters was far lower. Bhutto’s return was greeted by a massive suicide bomb which killed about 150 people in a procession through the streets.

In a reminder that Pakistan remains under emergency rule, security forces had rounded up some Sharif activists and attempted to seal off the airport.

But the supporters who found their way through tight security swarmed into the terminal building waving the green flag of his party and shouting slogans including “Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif” and “Go, Musharraf, go!”

Police lifted batons to drive them back from the arrival area, but had no space to swing them amid the dancing, jubilant crowds.

Television footage showed Sharif, dressed in his trademark white shirt and a dark waistcoat, on an airport stairwell next to his brother, also a politician, and surrounded by security officials, waving to the cameras.

Tight security thathad surroundedSharifafter his plane touched down appeared to melt away amid the chaos.

Both Bhutto and Sharif have been seeking to return to power after the parliamentary elections. But the ballot, which the West hopes will produce a moderate government able to stand up to Islamic extremism, has been thrown into confusion by Musharraf s seizure of emergency powers.

Major opposition parties —including Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party—have been lining up to take part in the elections with preliminary steps such as filing nomination papers.

Bhutto, a more liberal and openly pro-U.S. politician than Sharif, filed her papers to contest the election Sunday in Karachi. She says her party could still pull out if Musharraf doesn’t ensure the vote is fair.

Sharif indicated his party, the Pakistan Muslim LeagueN, would demand a restoration of constitutional rule before it took part in the vote, but that any decision on whether to boycott would be taken in conjunction with other groups.

Sharif has been angling for a return ever since Musharraf overthrew him and gave the jailed politician a choice: accept 10 years of exile or face life in prison on charges including hijacking and terrorism. The charges stemmed from Sharif’s desperate attempts to turn away a packed civilian plane carrying Musharraf—then the army chief—back from a trip abroad.

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Taylor King 13, Eastern Kentucky 12.

This wasn’t the halftime score posted on the Cameron Indoor Stadium scoreboard—but in light of the freshman sharpshooter’s breakout game, it certainly would have been accurate.

King stole the show Sunday, pouring in a team-high 27 points, a record for a reserve player, to lead the No. 13 Blue Devils (6-0) to a 78-43 win over the Colonels (2-3) at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The record previously had been shared by five players, including Jeff Capel and Luol Deng, at 25.

“Taylor’s performance was just terrific,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He really did a good job and gave us a lift.”

The 6-foot-7 freshman, who played limited minutes during Duke’s final two Maui Inviational contests—victories over Illinois and Marquette—made the most of his 21 minutes Sunday. King went 9-for-14 from the floor and 6-for-l 1 from 3-point territory in a performance that offered a tremendous shot in the arm to the young wing’s confidence. His six makes from behind the arc match the most from a rookie, putting him in the company of Trajan Langdon and JJ. Redick.

King’s first stint off the bench certainly showed that he was more than ready to play Sunday. Starting with a 3-pointer from theleft comer at the 11:43 mark, King would work his way around the arc over the next 2:12 to score nine points off three triples—nailing one from the right comer before rising up to hit another from the top of the key.

King’s quick barrage of points gave Duke a commanding 18-5 lead just before the eight-minute media time out and ignit-

ed the Cameron faithful, who broke out in boisterous chants of “Taylor’s Winning.”

“When the first one went in, I felt like if maybe I keep shooting, I’ll get a groove and maybe I’ll get into the zone,” King said.

The 9-0 run came as a relief to a Duke team that struggled in the early going to impose the fast-paced running attack that propelled them to a Maui Invitational tide just days earlier. Despite these difficulties, the Blue Devils adapted when they started to feed the ball direcdy to their outside shooters.

“They did some things within their zone which really took away our penetration,” Krzyzewski said. “We took our time with that for awhile until we started skip passing. You weren’t going to get all the way to the basket with them today.”

But with excellentoutside shooting from the whole team—King was just one of five differentBlue Devils to hit a 3-pointer—the denial of the inside scoring did nothing to slow down undefeated Duke.

And despite early offensive struggles, the Duke defense was stout from the opening tip. The Blue Devils held the Colonels to more first half turnovers (18) than points (12), and tough perimeter defense held Eastern Kentucky to a season low 14 3-point attempts.

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Duke (10-5-7) defeated Indiana (13-7-3) 2-0 Sunday at Armstrong Stadium in Bloomington, Ind. to INDIANA 0 advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament for the third time in school history.

The Blue Devils have not been this far in the postseason since 1994. Duke is now the only unranked team—and is one of two unseeded squads—remaining in the tournament.

Gummersall, Duke’s leading scorer last year, found the back of the net for her first tally of the season to give Duke an edge in the 41st minute. The Blue Devils carried the momentum into the second half, when they came out firing to try to add to their lead. After several shots barely missed, Redmond took a pass from CJ. Ludemann, drew Indiana goalie Lauren Hollandsworth off the near post and fired a shot just out of the keeper’s reach to score

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her team-leading eighth goal in the 62nd minute With the two tallies on the board, it was the defense’s turn to step up and starve off the Hoosiers’ attack. Senior goalkeeper Allison Lipsher and the rest of the Duke defense stopped four consecutive Indiana shots to preserve the shutout and seal the victory. After the game, Lipsher credited the team’s focus for getting them through the thirdround matchup.

“Both 1-0 and 2-0 are very scary leads to have,” said Lipsher, who earned her seventh shutout of the season. “It’s just a matter of focus and I think that we managed to stay focused throughout the entire game and throughout the second half when we had those dangerous leads.”

The road to College Station, Texas, the home of this year’s final four, does not get any easier now. The Blue Devils will return to the state of Indiana to face off with Notre Dame, winners over top-ranked North Carolina 3-2 Saturday.

“Nothing’s been easy for us all year,” head coach Robbie Church said. “The girls have fought hard all year, and I think the key thing is when your team is going to hit the stride. There’s no question about it, we’re playing our best soccer of the year.”

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Sean Glennon threw for 260 yards and Tyrod Taylor ran for two touchdowns Saturday, leading the Hokies past the No. 16 Cavaliers 33-21 and into the ACC championship game.

They beat the Cavaliers for the fourth straight year and the eighth time in the last nine

meetings.

The victory earned Virginia Tech a rematch with Boston College (No. 14 BCS, No. 15 AP) in next Saturday's conference title game in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP)

No. 14 BC 28 -Miami 14 Matt Ryan threw for 369 yards and three touchdowns Saturday to lead BC to a 28-14 win, BC's first victory over Miami since the 1984 "Hail Flutie" pass that ended one of the greatest games in college football history.

BC already clinched the Atlantic Division with last week's victory over Clemson. (AP)

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Defensive end Wesley Oglesby runs off the field Saturday In Chapel Hill after theBlue Devils' 20-14 dramatic overtime loss as theTar Heels celebrate behind him.

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speculate over whether he will return to the sidelines for the Blue Devils in 2008.

“I have no idea—that’s for somebody else to decide,” Roof said. “Would I like the opportunity to coach the football team next year? Absolutely.”

In his four-year tenure as. head coach, Roof has compiled a &45 record, including 25 straight losses to ACC opponents.

Roof s performance is actually worse than Carl Franks, his predecessor, who went 7-45 during his time as Duke’s head coach.

After Saturday’s heart-breaking loss, however, several of Roofs players stood up for him. Davis, who has been with Roof all four years, said that the head coach has gotten the team on the right track and has done things behind the scenes to improve the program. Defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase was much more adamant in his support of Roof.

“It would be an injustice to all the players if they let Coach Roof go,” Oghobaase said.

If Roof is fired, his tenure would end on what may be the most disappointing loss this year.

Unlike other losses this season, in which the Blue Devils hung around until the last minute, they dominated the majority of Saturday’s game, garnering 111 more yards of offense, holding the ball for 12:46 longer and running 23 more offensive plays than UNC. “We wish we could’ve ended the game on the field goal,” Oghobaase said. “I don’tknow what happened. It was a mystery to me.”

Through three quarters, it appeared Duke would finally get its first ACC win since 2004 and its first multi-win season since 2003. to

The defense, after giving up a touchdown pass on the Tar Heels’ opening drive, flustered freshman quarterback TJ. Yates, holding him to just 9-of-21 passing for a mere 64 yards and two interceptions in the »first three periods. UNC’s rushing attack did not have much impact in that span eithen Although freshman GregLittle had 70 yards off 14 carries, 23 of those had come on one rush and the defensive line often found itself in the backfield.

Once the fourth quarter began, however, Little became a big nightmare for the Blue Devils.

With 11:15 left in the game, the Tar Heels went on a nine-play, 72-yard drive that did not include a single pass. Litde began and ended the drive, pushing hard right for a first down on the first play and diving for a touchdown on an end-around on the last play of the drive from seven yards out.

In the overtime period, Litde put to rest any doubt whether UNC would score quickly, as he took the first-down handoff right, broke some tackles at the line of scrimmage and outran comerback Leon Wright to the end zone for the game-winning score. Over the course of those two periods, Little more than doubled his rushing output, finishing with 154 yards on 26 carries with the two decisive touchdowns.

“We were pretty effective in the first half, but in the second half they came out, and they had some sparks in the running game,” Oghobaase said. ‘We didn’t do a goodjob of stopping that and they capitalized.”

Duke certainly pulled out all the stops for its second win of the year. The running attack, which had not broken the century mark in a game all season, had 115 by the end of three quarters and finished with 145.

Roof said that it was the first time his team

demonstrated balance all year—except that the Blue Devils actually ran 17 more times than they passed.

Zack Asack, who led the team to its only touchdown last week against Notre Dame, saw significant playing time, as he often alternated snaps with quarterback Thaddeus Lewis to provide a scrambling option.

Despite all that went well, though, the result ended with an all-too familiar feeling: a disappointing loss.

“Should have won, could have won,” Davis said. “But we didn’t.”

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Senior Ronnie Drummer and theDuke run game were as strong as they were all season in Saturday's loss.

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UConn hands Blue Devils Ist loss of season by

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In head coachjoanne P. McCallie’s rookie season, almost every game will provide a first for Duke. On Sunday night against No. 2 Connecticut, the ninth-ranked Blue Devils had a chance to gamer their first win over an elite opponent in their first marquee matchup of the year.

Instead, the Huskies dealt Duke a more sobering first: the first loss of the McCallie Era. UConn (5-0) raced out to a 16-point halftime lead en route to a 7448 win over the Blue Devils (5-1) in the championship round of the Paradise Jam in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Junior center Chante Black paced the squad with 16 points, but no other player scored more than six in Duke’s first regular-season loss since 2006.

The defeat was also the team’s largest since Nov. 21, 1998, when the Blue Devils lost 84-57 at Notre Dame.

After the game, McCallie was quick to point out the month of the loss: November, rather than March, when the Blue Devils dropped their only two contests last season.

“It’s what I would categorize as very important lessons to be learned in November,” McCallie said. “UConn proved they’re the better team right now. These are just great lessons. Adversity reveals character.

Character is not about games being easy.

It’s revealed when things are hard.”

And things were certainly hard Sunday.

Leading scorer Abby Waner, playing for the first time in four games, finished 0-for-7 from the field on a bum ankle. SeniorWanisha Smith, battling a broken bone in her hand, posted only two points. Connecticut outrebounded Duke 31-22 and outshot the Blue Devils from the field by more than 16

percentage points After scoring the game’s first two buckets, Duke surrendered 13 unanswered points. The Huskies, led by Tina Charles’ 13 points and eight rebounds, enjoyed their biggest lead, a 64-37 advantage, with less than six minutes remaining in the game.

In spite of the loss, UConn’s first win in the teams’ last three meetings, the Blue Devils have plenty of positives to take from their time in the Virgin Islands.

After all, they reached the championship round with a more positive first: the first win over a ranked opponent Thursday when they beat No. 22 Purdue 53-41.

The Blue Devils followed that initial triumph with a 64-53 win over Temple.

Freshman guard Jasmine Thomas led Duke in the first game, scoring a career-high 15 points to make up for Waner’s absence.

Black, a 6-foot-5 red-shirt junior posted a double-double with 10 points and 11 rebounds—the first of three times she scored in double figures in the tournament.

Black and fellow forward Carrem Gay led the Blue Devils in scoring Friday against Temple. The two posts each tallied 13 points, while Gay added 12 rebounds to secure her first double-double of the season.

Still, Black was far from pleased with her offensive production in the face of a loss.

“This isn’t a pleasant feeling,” Black said. “Every game, we have to prove ourselves and be ready to play. But we’re going to take these lessons and move forward.”

In the last five minutes of Sunday’s game, the lights in the arena dimmed to the point where the two teams were almost playing in darkness. It was a fitting end to the tournament —the Blue Devils left their loss in the dark.

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Huskies'Lorin Dixon drives past Abby Waner in Duke's 74-48 loss in the Paradise Jam title gameSunday night.

MEN'S SOCCER

Duke downed in the NCAA tournament 1 st round by

Gabe Starosta THE CHRONICLE

A season that began with such high ex-

pectations ended in disappointment Friday,

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Forward Michael Videira and 12 otherDuke seniors laced up theircleatsfor the last time as Blue Devils Friday.

as head coach John Rennie and 13 seniors finished their careers with a 1-0 loss to Louisville (11-6-4) in DUKE the first round of L'VILLE I 1 the NCAA toumamerit. The match, which was played in near-freezing temperatures at Cardinal Park in Louisville, Ky., marked the end of an era for both the players and their coach.

“It’s not so much the loss but the fact that my entire career here at Duke has come to an end,” senior defender and captain Tim Jepson said. “It’s humbling. It’s real humbling.”

The only goal of the game came in the 28th minute, when the Cardinals’ Marco Terminesi fedforward Frankjonke through the middle of the defense. Jonke beat goalkeeper Brendan Fitzgerald from 20 yards out, and the Blue Devils (11-8-6) could not even the score despite attacking the Louisville goal throughout the second half.

The contest with Louisville was reminiscent ofmany of Duke’s other losses this season. All year, the team had consistently outshot its opponent and controlled possession, but giving up soft goals and an inability to play from behind doomed the Blue Devils in close matches.

Friday’s matchup was no different. Duke outshot the Cardinals in both halves and finished the game with a 14-12 advantage,

but simply could not capitalize on the few opportunities it created.

“This game is about finishing chances, and we certainly had our chances tonight and didn’tfinish them,” Rennie said.

Both teams opened the game cautiously, but Duke was forced to play more aggressively after allowing Jonke’s goal. The Blue Devils, however, recorded just one shot on goal in the half—a header by freshman Cole Grossman that was cleared off the goal line by a Louisville defender.

Unfortunately for Duke, the second half played out in much the same way. The team struck three shots on goal, but the Cardinals defense held on to advance.

With the loss, Rennie ended a career that spanned 35 years, 29 of them in Durham. In that time, Rennieled theBlue Devils to their only national championship in 1986 andfive ACC titles.

“It’s an honor to coach against [Rennie] at any point, but this one is bittersweet,” said Louisville head coach Ken Lolla, who played at Duke between 1980 and 1983. “I have such great respect for John and what he’s done not just as a coach, but what he’s done in my life.”

In addition to Rennie’s retirement, the team’s first-round exitalso marked the end of a successful four years for the Blue Devils’ seniors, who won consecutiveACC titles in 2005 and 2006 and compiled a 59-23-5 record.

“I’ve been around these guys every day for the past four years, and you build such a brotherhood and in terms of soccer, that’s gone,” Jepson said. ‘Just thinking about that is the hardest thing right now.”

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Blue Devils get home edge after weekend wins by

MadelinePerez THE CHRONICLE

The No. 24 Blue Devils traveled to Virginia hoping to cap off their season with two conference victories. Leave it to seniors Carrie DeMange 3 DUKE and Ali Hausfeld to walk away with | UVA two new records.

When Duke DUKE 3 (24-6, 19-3 in the VT ACC) took on Virginia and Virginia Tech (14-8,8-14) last week, DeMange and Hausfeldeach set the single-season records for kills and assists, respectively.

After knocking down 24 kills in the win over the Cavaliers (17-13, 12-9), DeMange also earned the tide of Duke’s all-time kills leader. With 568 kills on the year and 1,920 for her career, the middle blocker surpassed former Blue Devil Ashley Wacholder in both categories.

“It’s absolutely huge, especially as a middle blocker,” senior Jenny Shull said of DeMange’s record-setting performance.

“She never thought that she would even reach the record, so for her to break it just made it that much better.”

Hausfeld is no stranger to records as she became Duke’s all-time assists leader earlier in the year. The setter tossed up 106 assists during the two-game road trip, bringing her season total to 1,594. Hausfeld now owns the first, second and fourth-best single-season assists totals for the Blue Devils.

“They’re just a dynamic duo,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “Whether it’s Ali ~

Senior Carrie Demange broke the Duke record forkills in the Blue Devils'wins over Virginia and Virginia Tech.

getting up there to run the transition, or Carrie coming through with a huge kill, they make great plays out of things others can’t. They’ve set a very high standard that we hope to build upon.”

Duke handily defeated Virginia Wednesday night 3-1 before turning around and sweeping Virginia Tech 3-0 two days later.

With the two victories, Duke finishes the season ranked second in the ACC behind No. 25 Clemson.

Outside of the record-breaking performances, Shull delivered another flawless performance—39 digs without a single error in the two matches.

With the seniors setting the pace offensively for the Blue Devils, the junior class provided the majority of the defense. Both middle blocker Jourdan Norman and outside hitter Aana Wherry each slammed down eight blocks during the two matches.

After suffering two straight losses to GeorgiaTech and Clemson, Duke used the setbacks as fuel to finish the season in dominating fashion and swept three of its last four opponents. The strong performances paid off as the Blue Devils earned homecourt advantage for the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament.

Duke will kick off the postseason Friday against American. With their shortstumble now behind them, the Blue Devils hope their renewed focus will key a long run in the NCAAs. “When our serves are going in and we’re spreading out the offense, we’re playing disciplined volleyball,” Shull said. “And when we’re playing our game, no one can beat us.”

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Duke, Singler maintain Maui Invite perfection by

Meredith Shiner THE CHRONICLE

LAHAINA, Hawaii With only 13 seconds remaining in Wednesday’s Maui Invitational title game against Marquette, Kyle Singler went to the line with No. 13 Duke up 75-73.

The 6-foot-8 freshman sunk his first shot, and Marquette head coach Tom Crean called timeout to try to psyche-out the rookie. Singler, however, would not be

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Freshman Kyle Singler was named as the Maui Invitational's MVP after Wednesday night's victory.

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shaken. He nailed his second shot, sealing the Blue Devils’ 77-73 win over the Golden Eagles and cementing his place as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player.

“I knew I was going to make it. There was no doubt in my mind,” Singler said of the second free throw. “There was no doubt I was going to make it a two-possession game.”

With the tournament’s top accolades, Singler joins the likes of Bobby Hurley, Steve Wojciechowski and Mike Dunleavy, who earned MVP honors in the Blue Devils’ island-crown runs in 1992, 1997 and 2001, respectively.

“He’s got great moxie,” Crean said. “Kyle is someone who has gone in and done an excellent job of understanding what the Duke program wants from him. He can play outside, he can play mid-range, and he can play at the rim, and for a young freshman, he’s a very good defensive player.”

Singler’s performance in Maui, where Duke has been perfect in four trips and 12 games, could be indicative of the Blue Devils’ resurgence this season and the freshman’s emergence as a go-to scorer.

He demonstrated maturity and prowess around the basket in a 21-point, 12rebound effort over Princeton in Duke’s first round matchup and in bouncing back Wednesday after a weaker performance in a 79-66 win over Illinois Tuesday night.

After their victory over Marquette, the Blue Devils hoisted the Maui Invitational trophy amid cheering fans at their vacation home with a view from the top. With the continued growth of its freshman class—led by Singler—Duke hopes it can recreate that image when it really counts: in March.

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Freshman Nolan Smith tries to split his Eastern Kentucky defenders Sundayafternoon in Cameron IndoorStadium.

M. BBALL from page 7 in that they spread you, but I thought that our defensive intensity for the whole 40 minutes was excellent,” Krzyzewski said.

King is just one offour differentBlue Devils to lead the team in scoring this season, providing balance that could prove invaluable as the schedule stiffens down the stretch.

“Everybody can break out in any game,” King said. “It’s just the way our offense is too, and how unselfish our team is.”

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“This time I lost,” said a soot-covered Glen Sunyich, who watched the stucco-and tile-house he built in 1990 burn to the ground. “It means that I didn’t build it well enough.”

Another resident who lost his home was Flea, the bassist for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose real name is Michael Balzary, property records showed Balzary had bought another home in Malibu last year, but the one destroyed was for sale for $4.8 million, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said Sunday he is putting relations with Colombia “in the freezer” after its president ended the Venezuelan leader’s role mediating with leftist rebels in the neighboring country.

The announcement drew a strong rebuke from Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who said Chavez’s actions suggest he wants to see a “terrorist government” run by leftist rebels in Bogota. Uribe also suggested Chavez might be looking to stir up conflict to boost his image ahead of a referendum on constitutional changes next weekend.

The spat was the bitterest yet between Chavez and the U.S.-allied Uribe. The two had previously sought to cultivate cordial ties despite their deep ideological differences.

It could have serious economic consequences. The two countries are major commercial partners, with $4.1 billion in trade last year, about two-thirds of that in Colombian exports to Venezuela.

Neither leader announced any concrete plan, but Chavez said economic relations will be hurt as a result of Uribe’s actions, which he called “a spit in the face.”

“I declare before the world that I’m putting relations with Colombia in the freezer because I’ve completely lost confidence with everyone in the Colombian government,” Chavez said in a televised speech.

He later describedrelations between the two governments as being in “a crisis.” But he said he did not want to break ties with Bogota, saying that will depend on Colombia.

Chavez was responding to Uribe’s decision Wednesday to end Chavez’s role mediating preliminary talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, better known as the FARC. The talks aimed to free rebel-held hostages including three U.S. military contractors and Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian seized in 2002 while campaigning for Colombia’s presidency.

Uribe’s government said Chavez broke the conditions ofhis involvement by directly contacting the chief of Colombia’s army. On Sunday, Uribe questioned Chavez’s motives.

“Your words, your attitudes, give the impression that you aren’t interested in peace in Colombia, but rather that Colombia be a victim of a terrorist government of the FARC,” he said at a town-hall meeting in the town of Calamar. “The truth is, President Chavez, we need a mediation against terrorism, not people who legitimize terrorism.”

Uribe suggested Chavez’s harsh criticism ofhis government might be part of an attempt to build public support before Sunday’s referendum on changes to Venezuela’s constitution, which would allow Chavez run for re-election indefinitely.

The confrontation marks a sharp break for two leaders who have often appeared together smiling. Just last month, the two opened a natural gas pipeline between their countries, pledging to boost ties.

But on Sunday, Chavez told his ministers and military officials to “be on alert.”

“Commercial relations, all of that is going to be harmed. It’s lamentable,” he said, warning it could affect “the businesses Colombians have here.”

Chavez accused Uribe of lying and acting under pressure from the United States and the Colombian “extreme right.”

The spat comes amid another dispute with Spain that could affect Spanish businesses with major investments in Venezuela. Chavez has demanded Spanish Kingjuan Carlos apologize for telling him to shut Up publicly during a recent summit in Chile.

Chavez said the situation with Colombia is similar: “It’s like the case of Spain: Until the king of Spain apologizes.

I’m freezing relations with Spain.”

Uribe replied: “President Chavez, the truth is you can’t set fire to the continent like you do, talking one day against Spain, the next day against the United States.

You can’t mistreat the continent, lighting it up like you do, and speaking of imperialism when you —based on your budget—want to create an empire.” ...

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President Richard Brodhead wrote a new mission statement for athletics, declaring that “Duke aims for a level of athletic performance that will frequently produce winnings seasons and the realistic opportunity to compete for team or individual cham-

pionships.”

The past four years have proved that Coach Roof is

Knock.

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Barbara Kingsolver.

Barbara Kingsolver, who?

Exactly.

That’s the joke surfacing around campus this week as students return back from Thanksgiving Break. Unfortunately, if you get the joke, you don’t really get the joke.

For those who don’t know, Kingsolver is the awardwinning novelist and bestselling author of “The Poisonwood Bible” and, officially as monday, monday of last week, the .

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unable to come close to accomplishing these goals.

President Brodhead’s newly drafted mission statement for athletics also emphasizes the “educational value” of athletics for students. A good coach should be a good teacher and numerous on-field mental mistakes have proven that Roof has not done a good job as a teacher.

Although by all accounts he is a very well-liked guy, Roofs mishandling of the Duke football program should not be allowed to continue. It is time for Brodhead and Director ofAthletics Joe Alieva to make a crucial decision on the future of Duke Football.

This editorial board firmly

believes that it is time for Duke to cut ties with Coach Roof and go in a new direction.

Moreover, some of the blame for the Duke football program’s failures needs to be placed on Alieva, who has made bad decisions with his last two football hires (both Carl Franks and Ted Roof, who have gone a combined 13-90).

Both of these coaches had previously never served as head coaches and were under prepared to turn around a struggling Duke program. Perhaps a head coach with an established track record as a leader of a program is exactly what Duke needs to once again become at least somewhat competitive in football.

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to give the commencement address at graduation this coming May. But since her announcement as the commencement speaker, Kingsolver’s been about as warmly

received by the student body as the Cameron Crazies would welcome an opponent’s starting lineup in Cameron Indoor.

“Hi Barbara. You suck!”

In President Richard Brodhead’s hush-hush meeting with campus leaders to unveil the selection, there was reportedly little to no response. I imagine the meeting went a little like unwrapping a highly anticipated yet unwanted present like sweat socks on Christmas morning.

“Barbara Kingsolver... Wow! Just what I always wanted. Thanks, dad.”

Only it appears we haven’t been discrete with our displeasure this time.

Apparendy, Elliott Wolf—the most infamous student on campus not named Gerald Henderson—reportedly had to ask how to spell Kingsolver’s name.

And if you have to ask how to spell a name as phonetically simple as King-solver, it might signal the insincerity of your satisfaction. (After all, I bet you Elliott Wolfknows how to spell Krzyzewski.)

But let’s not pin this only on Elliott Wolf. The entire student body seems less than thrilled. According to a recent Chronicle Online Internet poll, 73 percent of respondents are not satisfied with Barbara Kingsolver’s selection as the University’s commencement speaker. Of course, The Chronicle warns their poll is not scientific. The number would be higher if not fqr the fact that people now positively associate the name “King”

with Taylor King’s 27-point explosion Sunday.

Still, Duke is sticking to its guns with this selection. In a retort to the Barbara-backlash, President Brodhead reportedly had this to say: “If anybody has any doubts about this speaker, people should go read more books.”

Ouch. I think President Brodhead just called us stupid.

Apparently doubting the soundness of our University president’s decisions makes us ignorant.

Sound Uke another president?

But more than anyone, I feel bad for Barbara Kingsolver. All of this must be really quite humbling for her.

Imagine being Barbara Kingsolver. You’re an accomplished writer and have been for nearly 20 years. At one point, Time Magazine called you a “gifted magician of words.” You were awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton the same year as Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. On top of that, you established the Bellwether Prizefor literature thataddresses issues of social justice. You even wrote a book that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and was an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Oprah, for God’s sake!

But all of that doesn’t matter because a bunch ofDuke students think you’re a no-name.

“Sorry, never heard ofyou. Call us when you’ve actually accomplished something. Is Stephen Colbert available? He’s on TV.” Or imagine being Kingsolver’s daughter, who is a junior here at Duke. You thought it was awkward when your mom accompanied you on the middle school field trip and you had to endure the countless “yo momma” jokes on the bus ride. Try having those jokes printed in the school newspaper.

“Yo momma is so unknown that she used P. D. Eastman’s ‘Are You My Mother?’ when you were younger as an educational tool!”

But the real joke of this whole uproar is the fact that it’s not really an uproar at all. The controversy surrounding Kingsolver’s selection is really more of a dull apathy.

“Who’s the commencement speaker? Barbara Kingsolver? Never heard of her. Loop and swiss to go, please.”

If only the students and the administrators cared as much about the commencement speech as they do about who performs at Last Day ofClasses. Here’s hoping we bookThird Eye Blind thisyear. Otherwise, we’ll have a real campus riot on our hands.

ZACH BRAFF, Brandon Curl, Barbara Kingsolver.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.

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official. The holiday “season of giving” is upon us the time for planning year-end shopping assaults, considering charitable giving and thinking about budgets for next year.

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Between the ongoing debacle of U.S. aid in Pakistan, heated foreign policy arguments in the presidential primary debates and continued reviews of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, American foreign aid has been under a lot of scrutiny recently. Here’s a holiday wish list with ways to improve our performance next year.

Wish 1: The United States will finally keep its promise to give adequate foreign assistance.

Despite the perceptions that America gives huge amounts of foreign aid, the grand total of U.S. aid dollars is barely four-tenths of one percent of the U.S. gross national product—one of the lowest figures in the world.

Since 2002, our country joined developed nations around the world to pledge to give 0.7 percent of our annual GNP in development assistance. Now, almost six years later, we are no closer to fulfilling our promise.

Conveniently, aid statistics also include all debt the United States forgives as part of our aid total. Often past debts were accumulated when the United States was giving money to dictators for purely political purposes, knowing that money would never achieve any kind of development.

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We are still fond of such stunts today—the loans continuing to pour into Pakistan would be Exhibit A. Canceling bad debts from U.S. mistakes or manipulations is not the same as giving aid.

Instead, the United Nations argues that if every country honored its aid pledge, we could halve global poverty and hunger by 2015. It’s time to stop posturing and put our money where our mouth is.

This leads nicely to Wish 2: Quit playing political games with foreign aid.

It would be one thing if the government weren’t so bad at deciding whom to give to. Instead, recipients ofU.S. dollars include 19 ofParade Magazine’s “20 Worst Dictators,” featuring Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Myanmar’s Than Shwe, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and North Korean President Kim Jong-11.

I am not saying cut off all aid to the horribly unlucky citizens ofthese leaders. We should definitely look for ways to help suffering populaces. But here’s some basic common sense: Stop giving aid money for these terrible governments to waste. It is not possible to hold these governments accountable, we are not seeing development and sometimes the money goes directly to weapons to harm the country’s population directly.

And finally, Wish 3: Do better actually helping people with American aid dollars.

The top two recipients ofU.S. aid are Iraq and Afghanistan, totaling more than a third ofAmerican aid. Wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could count what they spend to clean up their mistakes as a charitable donation?

Further, most of the money the United States claims to give does nothing to benefit its purported recipients—the citizens in developing countries. Instead of giving directly to the recipients, more than two-thirds of the money actually comes back to the United States, either to pay the salaries of U.S. administrators or to purchase American products to distribute abroad.

For example, as much of 99 percent of U.S. food aid Programme is actual American food, which must be purchased at inflated U.S. prices and inefficiently shipped across the world. The U.S. has a nasty habit of flooding local markets, depressing prices and prolonging hunger crises all over the world. The World Trade Organization declared American actions illegal, the Government Accountability Office found the policies “inherently inefficient” and CARE International, one of the world’s largest aid organizations, announced they would no longer accept U.S. food aid. Yet, somehow the practices continue.

Even when aid dollars are given as cash, getting the money all the way to citizens in need is the final challenge.

Instead of stuffing files with countless reports and allowing most cash to be skimmed off by a vast bureaucracy, we could see a lot better bang for our buck if field staff were used to verify that what is actually going on in the field matches the long, required donor reports.

Even in a season of giving, there is no shortage of people who think that the United States should not “waste” its money on development aid.

In 2001, a U.N. development report commented that, “In the global village, someone else’s poverty very soon becomes one’s own problem; of lack of markets for one’s products, illegal immigrations, pollution, contagious disease, insecurity, fanaticism, terrorism.” Almost seven years later, we have only begun to see how true this statement can be. The costs of addressing these issues will only increase.

As the election season opens, cut through the empty promises and demand your foreign aid money is spent well. We wouldn’t just throw away our holiday spending money. Why should we allow the government to do so? to the World Food

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Proud to have Kingsolver speak

letterstotheeditor Administrationresponse to criticism arrogant, flawed As frustrating as it is to have another commencement speaker who’s most relevant experience appears to be herconnection to Duke University, far worse is the total disregard for student opinion demonstrated by PresidentRichard Brodhead in his comments to The Chronicle.

Not only did the administration never bother to seek student input about possible speakers, but, according to Brodhead, those students who don’t agree with the speaker selection (approximately two-thirdsof thosestudentswho tookThe Chronicle’s admittedly unscientific online poll) have just not read enough books to know better. That kind of condescending attitude needlessly undermines students’ trust and support of the University administration and further displays the University’s unwillingness to seriously engage students in substantive conversation about what kind of a school we want to have. I hope thatBrodhead will reconsider his comments and work to include students in a meaningful way in the decisions that affect theirlife at Duke in the future, but, given the dismissive attitude exhibited by the administration in the past to student requests, I’m not holding my breath.

Sam Howe Trinity ’OB

Kingsolver is distinguished To quarrel with the notion that Barbara Kingsolver cannot be considered among the “more distinguished speakers” hoped for by The Chronicle in their Nov. 20 editorial, “For graduation, get ‘big name’ speakers,” I wish to suggest thatwhat should have been asked was: not only distinguished by what, but distinguished for what?

Surely the aim ofa commencement speech, if it is to be more than ceremonial, is to leave studentswiser than they were about theworld they are about to enter. No great commencement speech does not contain good advice. Thus the accomplished are invited to speak to new graduates in order to bring them word of what to expect as they make their first forays into the world. But not all of those who have distinguished themselves by their prowess in business, athletics or public life have distinguished themselves by their understanding.

True, speakers are sought after because their achievements alone can inspire us, but why should we not seek those who have learned the most along the way?

The artist, in this case a most distinguished writer, can serve as an example of accomplishment, and more. She can understand its meaning. Indeed, the vocation of the artist is to convey the understanding of the world one has reached. Before students enter the world, shouldn’t they be moved to reflect once more on the meaning of the aims they seek to pursue?

One would have hoped that any misgivings about Kingsolver might have instead had to do with her work or the views she has expressed publicly. At least this would take her more seriously. Whatever one thinks ofher views, she has clearly given them a great deal of thought, and we will likely profit by her speech. If there really are reservations about her, we would do well in searching for future speakers to consider whether we would be better served by knocking on the doors of the merely prominent or of the wise.

Raymond A. Mercado Ph.D. student Department ofPolitical Science

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four seniors, preparing to gradthis spring, we are happy about the selection of Barbara Kingsolver, and upset by last Tuesday’s editorial, “For graduation, get ‘bigname’ speakers.”

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Regarding the Board’s alternatives: the recommendations suggest that the selection of a commencement speaker should be reduced to a survey of onetime “Meet the Press” or SportsCenter guests. Our four years of Duke coursework should have taught us to appreciate different perspectives and types of achievement, political nuance and creative expression—not to bow to power or celebrity. We need more from speakers than an ability to repeat talking points or to recite a speech some intern has drafted—speakers that will work to enrich the audience, not themselves.

And, it wouldn’t have been difficult for Editorial Board members to dig a little deeper on Kingsolver either—there they would have found abundant evidence of success, even in their narrowly defined terms. Kingsolver has more Google hits than one of The Chronicle’s suggested substitutes, Elizabeth Dole (735,000 versus 461,000). Her Web page, kingsolver.com, tells of her establishing

an award for novels that demonstrate literary quality and a commitment to literature as a tool for social change and of the National Humanities Medal Kingsolver won in 2000, “our nation’s highest honor for service through the arts.”

It seems then it is not Kingsolver that is “underwhelming,” but The Chronicle’s idea of the Duke brand.

These though, are not the .Editorial Board members’ true concerns—mostly, they write, it is “a pride thing.” But, being seniors ourselves, knowing a few more as’friends, we are fairly sure that the “bottom line” is not “that seniors want to say as a matter of pride that they had a standout speaker send them off into the real world.” (As a practical matter, who do you imagine saying this to? Where?) Frankly, the graduation speaker has nothing to do with why we chose to attend Duke, with the relationships we have made while here and with the things we have learned and accomplished. The pride we will feel on that day, that we will carry with us into the future, will be shaped not by the “high profile” of our speaker, but the content of our own achievements and experiences here at Duke.

We are sorry if you do not share this sense of accomplishment in your own right, if you continue to compare the size of your “speaker” with friends at “peer institutions.” Please, please, for your own sake, as well as everyone else who has to suffer through The Chronicle’s editorials, get over your Harvard-envy and evaluate Duke on its own merits. And while you’re at it, take President Richard Brodhead’s advice and “read more books,” especially the (highly acclaimed) works of the author that you so readily (and thoughtlessly) dismiss.

Darin Christensen, Kyle Knight, Sam Swartz and Matt Zafirovski are Trinity seniors.

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