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A report released Thursday estimates that Duke’s economic impact on the city and county of Durham for 2006-2007 amounted to $3.4 billion, nearly 62 percent more than the study found when it was first conducted 10 years ago.

“I continue to believe that a strong towngown partnership is key to the success of both the University and the community we call home and to improving the quality of life we all enjoy,” President Richard Brodhead said in a statement. “This report illustrates some of the many ways in which Duke and Durham are moving forward together.”

Duke’s Office of Public Affairs and local organizations performed the analysis, which used a standard formula to estimate the overall impact of every dollar spent.

Researchers assumed that every dollar changed hands only once within the community before leaving.

The study analyzed the University’s and the Duke University Health System’s total spending in Durham, the amount spent by students and the wages and benefits of Duke employees living in Durham.

Itfound that the majority of the economic impact by the University, as the county’s largest employer, stems from employment expenditures, which totaled $931 million.

“As this report so clearly shows, the economic impact of Duke on our community is significant,” Mayor Bill Bell said in a statement. “As important as this is to us, we should also remember that the many intangible benefits that Duke brings, such as entertainment, culture and research, also contribute to the quality of life we enjoy as Durham residents.”

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will not investigate potential criminal misconduct by former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong in his handling of the Duke lacrosse case.

North Carolina General.

Attorney Roy Cooper and Jim Cooney, lawyer for the exonerated former lacrosse player Reade

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ofjustice look into the in October.

The department decided such an investigation would be better conducted at the state level, spokesperson Peter Carr said in a stateMike Nifong

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With a chance to seal the game at the free-throw line, Carrem Gay didn’t let her memory drift back to the last time Duke faced Rutgers.

The junior forward nailed a key freethrow with 30 seconds left to give the No. 17 Blue Devils (6-3) a one-point lead over .the third-ranked Scarlet Knights. Then, tough defense and four more free throws capped the 49-44 win over Rutgers (5-2)

and provided sweet revenge against the team that dashed Duke’s title hopes in the Sweet 16 of last year’s NCAA Tourna-

In that game, Duke was down 53-52 with star guard Lindsey Harding at the line for two shots with 0.1 seconds-remaining.

Harding missed both, and Duke’s 32-win season came to a screeching halt.

But none of that was in Gay’s mind

“We believe the state of North Carolina has the primary interests in this matter: protecting the integrity of its judicial proceedings, holding Mr. Nifong accountable for his actions as an officer of its courts and vindicating the principles of justice under state law,” he said.

Philip Seligmann, father ofReade Seligmann, said in an interview with The Chronicle that he expected the department to

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Duke Student Government senators issued mixed reviews to members of their Executive Board in a November survey evaluating leadership and efficacy within the organization.

DSG The four vice presidents on the Board received an average overall score of 4.3 out of five on the survey, which was initiated and drafted analysis

by Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano, a junior. The average score was based on- individual evaluations of each vice president by his or her respective committees.

Nancy Nasher, Law ’79 and a member of the Board of Trustees, and her husband David Haemisegger gave a $lgift to the Nasher Museum ofArt to endow a curatorship, museum representatives announced Thursday.

The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curatorship of Contemporary Art is named after Nancy Nasher’s late mother and father. Raymond Nasher, Trinity ’43, was the museum’s founder and namesake.

The Board has also voted to name the museum’s 173-seat lecture hall the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Lecture Hall, recognizing their ongoing support for the museum. With the recent gift, the Nasher family and its foundation have donated more than $ll million to the museum.

“My father would often remark that art is like air and water—it is needed to survive and to enjoy life to its fullest,”

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When junior Jordan Giordano took on the job of executive vice president, his goal was to increase the efficacy of Duke Student Government’s Senate.

Five months later, the organization has seen a marked increase in Senate proposals.

So far this year, senators have pored over 19 resolutions proposed by 13 individuals, up from the four resolutions proposed by this time last year. The most dramatic increase was seen among freshmen, who have proposed six resolutions in the time last year’s class submitted one.

“In my experience the iOll Senate is the real power of organization,” legislation 51 Giordano said. “It’s reanalysis ally what makes the organization what it is.”

Proposals span a variety of categories, touching on the environment, academics and social life on campus.

The increase is a product of the newly implemented legislative intent program and the revival of the DSG retreat at the start of the academic year, Giordano added.

“The program is absolutely a success,” he said. “I think it’s made our organization more effective.”

The retreat helped teach freshmen and other new senators the basics of working in DSG, with workshops on parliamentary procedureand resolution writing, Giordano said.

The legislative intent program has been successful because it holds senators accountable for their goals, said junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services.

“It has been doing a good job in the sense that it allows other people to see what my senators are doing,” he said.

Increased accountability has led to increased initiative among senators, Kantha added.

“I feel like the freshmen have really done much better than previous groups of freshmen,” Giordano said.

Several freshmen attributed their legislative successes at least in part to the program.

“I think that the legislative intent program has helped senators to get organized

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Duke Student GovernmentExecutive Vice President Jordan Giordano said a new legislative program andrevived DSG retreat has helped increase senatoractivity within the organization. and focused on working on a specific project,” said Clarke Hitch, a freshman student affairs senator.

Freshman Andrew O’Rourke, a community interactions senator, credited the program with helping him stay on track.

“It has done more for me in the sense that it allows me to review my own progress and set a more strict timeline for myself,”

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tions, wrote in an e-mail.

However, freshman Mike LeFevre—an athletics and campus services senator who proposed opening a cafe on East Campus—attributed his resolutions to personal drive rather than to the DSG program.

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TheBlack Student Alliance showedits support for the Jena 6—the sixblack men from rural Louisiana who are facing a civil lawsuitfor beating a white student—by posting notes ona tree outside theWest Union Thursday.

Members of the Muslim Students Association and others gathered in front of theChapel Thursday night to pray for a woman in Saudia Arabia who was raped and now faces charges of adultery.

this prosecution,” he wrote.

A federal probe has investigative powers unavailable to the state, such as the ability to call a prosecutorial grand jury and subpoena witnesses, said Duke Professor ofLaw partment to deny the request, but added that he is disappointed that the case will not be investigated on a national Thomas Metzloff. He added that these powers would be level. very useful in looking into possible criminal misconduct. “[This kind of investigation] is to find whether or not “Given the performance of the Department ofjustice in the past eight years, I’m not at all surprised at the decision there would be additional criminal charges,” Metzloff they have made,” he said. “It is right in line with the rest said. “It would be obstruction of justice questions....

What they’re looking at is not of their civil-rights efforts—effecthe information we already tively non-existent.”

“Given the performance of the know about but some of the Duke law professor James Coleman, a frequent commentaaspects of the police invesDepartment of in the past other tigation.” tor on the case, said the Department of Justice rarely takes on Specifically, the families and eight years, I’m not at all surprised of the former lacrosse of this lawyers nature. investigations at the decision they have made.”

“As the Department of Justice players want authorities to detersaid, it’s a matter of state law with Philip Seligmann, mine if the accuserwasin the case, local official for Crystal Mangum, prodded a prosecuting Reade Seligmann to change her story during the state crimes,” he said. “That’s orinvestigation to strengthen weakdinarily the kind of investigation would done and nesses in the prosecution’s case, by state that be Metzloff added, local authorities State authorities also acknowledged the difficulty of Cooney wrote in a Oct. 9 letter to top department officials that state-level officials, such as the Office of the continuing the case without the intervention of the moreNorth Carolina Attorney General, might face a conflict powerful Department of Justice.

“It would be difficult to conduct additional investigaof interest if they are asked to investigate the actions of tion into this matter withoutfederal participation,” Noelle law enforcement officials in their own state.

“On behalf of Reade Seligmann and his family, I reTalley, a spokesperson for the Office of the North Carolina spectfully request that the government of the United States Attorney General, said in a statement. “Our attorneys and the [State Bureau of Investigations] will discuss the impact grant the request of the North Carolina attorney general and participate in a joint investigation into the events of of this refusal.”

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“One of the things I really want to do is increase accountability and feedback,” Giordano said. “With these surveys, it gives us the ability to assess whatwe’re doing and improve.”

All 40 senators ranked their respective vice presidents based on six categories; helpfulness in completing the senator’s project, knowledge in the area, responsiveness, ability to lead, work done on his or her own projects and overall performance.

Categories for ranking DSG President Paul Slattery, a senior, and Giordano, a junior, were the same, but replaced “knowledge in the area” with “approachability.” All surveys also consisted of a ffee-response section for comments.

The only individual reviews that have been publicly released, however, are those of Giordano, who conducted the surveys, and junior Sunny Kantha, vice president for athletics and campus services. Giordano received an overall average score of4.5, and Kantha received a rating of 4.7 out of five from the seven members of his committee.

Giordano noted that it was ultimately up to each Board member to make his or her ratings public.

Slattery, Vice President for Academic Affairs Gina Ireland, Vice President for Community Interaction Genevieve Cody and Vice President for StudentAffairs Lucy McKinstry did not follow suit and called into question the validity oftheir ratings.

“Jordan didn’treally tell us: one, that he was really doing a survey, or two, what kind of questions were going to be asked,” said McKinstry, a sophomore.

Moreover, all four individuals said the survey was methodologically flawed because not all questions were pertinent to each position.

“I thought the survey design was somewhat idiotic in the sense that the same questions were asked about me as were asked about vice presidents,” Slattery said. “Senators never have cause to ask me for help on their individual projects because they have designated vice presidents to do that.”

Questions also failed to account for the differences among vice presidential roles, McKinstry said.

The athletics and campus services committee, which Kantha heads, produces “simple” and “tangible” effects, McKinstry said. Ireland, a senior, added that survey questions were more conducive to Kantha’s committee than to others that produce more abstract policy changes.

Most vice presidents decided not to make their ratings public because they thought “there wasn’t any reason to,” though Kantha had pushed for their release, McKinstry said.

Slattery said releasing the senators’ feedback would encourage divisive comparison among the vice presidents.

“The problem with this approach is that it’s likely to generate division on [the Board] where cohesion is going to be much more helpful in policy advocacy on behalf of students,” he said.

But Kantha said he decided to post his ratings in order to “differentiate” himself from the rest of the Board.

“My ratings were significantly higher than the general results,” he said. “I feel like I’ve been putting a tremendous amount of work in and don’t want to be clumped in with everyone else’s results.”

Kantha added that the ratings of the other vice presidents are “not terrible, but they’re not good,” and they affect the Board’s overall image and ability to get things done.

“It all comes down to how much time are you willing to put into this—that’s what I’m worried about for the other people,” he said.

Nancy Nasher said in a statement “David and I are proud to support my father’s vision for Duke to have one of the best university art museums in the world. It has become our own vision.”

Nasher and Haemisegger also serve on the museum’s board of advisors.

Kim Rorschach, the Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans director of the Nasher, said the curren t curator of contemporary art, Trevor Schoonmaker, will likely inherit the curatorship.

The donation will cover the salary of the curator, freeing up funds that could provide additional programming for the museum, Rorschach said.

She added that the gift will help the museum reach its goal of acquiring $lO million in endowmentfunds to lure exhibitions and acquire new pieces.

“We’re delighted that we’re off to a great start with this very important gift and what it does for this museum and for contemporary art,” Rorschach said.

Some DSG Board members, likeSunny Kantha, left, chose to release theirreview results while others, likePaul Slattery, right, did not.

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The Nasher Museumof Artreceived $1 million toward its goal of $lO million.

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Conflicting opinions on a new postdoctoral policy and proposed changes to Academic Council-voting bylaws were voiced at the council’s meeting Thursday.

Provost Peter Lange presented an overview of a draft of the new postdoctoral policy in place of James Siedow, vice provost for research and a professor of biology, who was unable to attend the meeting.

Distinctions between the roles of postdoctoral associates and scholars as set out by the policy and the different benefits offered to each position by the University were the foci of debate.

Following a period ofunresolved debate, Lange changed the implementation date of the new policy from Jan. 1 to March 1.

“The new implementation date... gives everyone two and a half months to have the discussion and get [the issues] resolved,” he said.

Lange’s presentation focused largely on the policy’s assumption that postdoctoral positions are only temporary and intended to serve as preparation for an academic career.

“The new policy does say that for both post-doc associates and scholars, the maximum term is five years,” he said. “Post docs are supposed to be in training.”

Lange said a major concern the new policy tries to address is the unclear specification of two distinct postdoctoral positions—postdoctoral associate and postdoctoral scholar.

“All incoming post docs will need to enter Duke as post-doc associates, which means they will need to be funded for at least one month so that they attain employee status at Duke,” he added.

Postdoctoral associates are comparable to University employees and earn a wage as well as benefits for working, Lange said.

“Having attained employee status, [postdoctoral associates] may then enroll in Duke health, dental, vision, disability and retirement plans,” he said.

Postdoctoral scholars, on the other hand, have reached an academic level at which they are paid by grants and are therefore not considered employees of the University or eligible recipients of the

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Provost Peter Lange postponed a new postdoctoral employment policy after unresolved debates at the Academic Council meeting Thursday night. same benefits, Lange said. He noted that postdoctoral scholars may enroll in Duke health, dental and vision plans, but not retirement or pretax plans.

Members of the council expressed their concern regarding the new policy’s stipulation that postdoctoral associates lose benefits after advancing in theirresearch to the point of earning grant support.

Council members said they were also concerned that professors and members of Arts and Sciences steering committees had not been properly consulted in the drafting of the new policy.

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largely by chance, that this had not gone through the Arts and Sciences committee,” Lange said. “So I think the concerns you are raising have merit.”

Academic Council Chair Paula McClain, a professor of political science, congratulated the council for helping to preserve the voice of professors in University affairs by sharing their opinions with the provost.

“I’m glad you have pointed out that faculty have not been consulted,” she said.

Also at the meeting, Professor of Law Thomas Metzloff presented a set of proposed changes to a council bylaw concerning voting procedures in the elec-

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“Each faculty member entided to vote may vote for as many candidates as he or she wishes,” the proposed bylaw reads.

Members, however, said the language of the bylaw after the changes was still vague, and the proposal was returned to the council’s Faculty Committee on Elections for further adjustment.

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Ex-DUHS head wins prospective medicine honor by

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The man who stood at the helm of the Duke University Medical Center for fifteen years has been recognized for his role in leading the charge for prospective medicine.

Ralph Snyderman, chancellor emeritus of health affairs, received the Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award from the Personalized Medicine Coalition Nov. 29 at their annual conference held at Harvard Business School.

“I am most proud that Duke is being recognized nationally as the leading academic institution that is putting forward the prospect of preventive health care,” Snyderman said.

Personalized medicine, a component of preventive health care, utilizes a patient’s genetic information to determine which diseases that person may be at risk for and provides physicians with a useful tool for making targeted treatment options based on genetic profiles.

It is part of a paradigm shift from current models, which broadly speaking, focus on preventing disease rather than treating disease after it develops. Furthering this new model was one of Snyderman’s primary focuses when he served as chancellor from 1989 to 2004. “[Current health care] is such a waste of money, a waste of people’s good health, a waste of some of the best time and parts of people’s lives,” he said. “We should be able to do things a heck of a lotbetter than we’re doing now.”

Under Snyderman’s tenure, emphasis was placed on bringing people together from a variety of fields including medicine, policy analysis and business, with the ambition of changing the way health care is

theinitiative takenby undergraduates to form the Duke Prospective Health Care Club.

Joel Burrill, a junior and the club’s president, said Snyderman played an important role in getting the group off the ground.

“The ability to talk to Snyderman has let us, as an undergraduate organization, flourish,” Burrill said. “He’s brilliant, one of the nicest guys you could meet.”

Snyderman said he was impressed by the efforts the club has made to educate the public and fellow students on preventive medicine.

“If students understand the importance of prospective health, it’s about time the politicians did,” he added.

Duke Prospective Health Care, which offers individualized health care to Duke employees and their families who use Duke Select or Duke Basic health care plans, represents part of Snyderman’s grand vision for the future of health care.

He said current reimbursement systems punish rather than encourage people to participate in prevention programs that, for example, help people quit smoking.

Many of Snyderman’s colleagues praised him for his role in elevating Duke’s reputation in preventive medicine.

“Some other universities have genome centers now, and a few have centers for personalized medicine, but early scienCHRONICLE FILE PHOTO tific discoveries need to be translated Ralph Snyderman, chancellor emeritus ofhealth affairs, received an award for his work in personalized medicine. into meaningful clinical results,” said Dr. Geoff Ginsburg, director of the Institute medicine and for Genome Sciences and Policy’s Center prothe on emphasis genomic country. practiced in [Prospective medicine] was really initial- spective health care has caught on among for Genomic Medicine. “No one is doing ly identified at Duke, and Duke was the one undergraduate students. They are the ones that translation except for Duke. And it’s who held up this banner of a prospective who will see changes in health care come to because of the foundation Ralph laid that fruition, he said. we can build, expand and explore further change in health care,” Snyderman said. said he is of dimensions of prospective health.”

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Sunny Kantha, DSG vice president for athletics and campus services, said the legislative intent program holds senators accountable for their goals.

“The difference between a senator who has got a lot done and one who has not is their own motivation,” he said. “I don’t think [the legislative intent program] did very much for me because I had a lot ofideas. I think it was a reminder for a lot of people in the Senate to come up with projects on their own.”

LeFevre also said Kantha’s encouragement helped him with his projects.

“He’s an incredible member [of the committee],” LeFevre said. “He really has a practical grasp on everything.”

Kantha said he takes a hands-on approach in working with his committee to develop each member’s projects.

Senior Kristin Pfeiffer, an athletics and campus services senator, credited both Kantha and Giordano with helping many senators with their projects.

“I know Sunnyis always encouraging us to write resolutions,” she said. “[Giordano] is always there if anyone needs help or has a question or maybe wants to run something by him.”

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Rep. Jane Harman of California, then the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and one of only four members of Congress informed of the tapes’ existence, said she objected to the destruction when informed ofit in 2003.

“I told the CIA that destroying videotapes of interrogations was a bad idea and urged them in writing not to do it,” Harman said. While key lawmakers were briefed on the ClA’s intention to destroy the tapes, they were not notified two years later when the spy agency went through with the plan. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., said the committee only learned of the tapes’ destruction in November 2006.

Jennifer Daskal, senior counsel with Human Rights Watch, said destroying the tapes was illegal. “Basically this is destruction of evidence,” she said, calling Hayden’s explanation that the tapes were destroyed to protect CIA identities “disingenuous.”

The CIA only taped the interrogation of the first two terror suspects the agency held, one of whom was Abu Zubaydah. Zubaydah, under harsh questioning, told CIA interrogators about alleged 9/11 accomplice Ramzi Binalshibh, President George W. Bush said in 2006.

Binalshibh was captured and interrogated and, with Zubaydah’s information, led to the capture in 2003 ofKhalid Sheikh Mohammed, the purported mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

Hayden said a secondary reason for the taped interrogations was to have backup documentation of the information gathered.

“The Agency soon determined that its documentary reporting was full and exacting, removing any needfor tapes.

Indeed, videotaping stopped in 2002,” Hayden said.

The CIA is known to have waterboarded three prisoners since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but not since 2003. Hayden banned the use of the procedure in 2006, according to knowledgeable officials.

The disclosure of the tapes’ destruction came on the same day the House and Senate intelligence committees agreed to legislation prohibiting the CIA from using “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The White House Thursday threatened to veto the bill.

Hayden’s message was an attempt to get ahead of a New York Times story about the videotapes.

“What matters here is that it was done in line with the law,” Hayden said. “Over the course of its life, the Agency’s interrogation program has been of great value to our country. It has helped disrupt terrorist operations and save lives. It was built on a solid foundation of legal review. It has been conducted with careful supervision. If the story of these tapes is told fairly, it will underscore those facts.”

The CIA says the tapes were destroyed late in 2005, a year marked by increasing pressure from defense attorneys to obtain videotapes of detainee interrogations.

Beginning in 2003, attorneys for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui began seeking videotapes of interrogations they believed might help them show their client wasn’t a part of the 9/11 attacks. These requests heated up in 2005 as the defense slowly learned the identitiesof more detainees in U.S. custody.

In May 2005, U.S. District JudgeLeonie Brinkema orderedthe government to disclose whether interrogations were recorded.

The government objected to that order, and the judge modified it on Nov. 3,2005, to ask for confirmation of whether the government “has video or audio tapes of these interrogations” and then named specific ones. Eleven days later, the government denied it had video or audio tapes of those specific interrogations.

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When Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie described a team as physical, scrappy and gritty Thursday, she was not talking about Rutgers.

She was referring to Duke, the toughest team on the floor last night—the squad that beat the Scarlet -Knights at their own game, The Blue Devils game overcame an early 11-2 analysis deficit They Rutgers 5-0 run that put the visitors up four with less than six minutes to play. They converted their critical free throws down the stretch to secure their first win over a top-five foe.

But, most importandy, Duke played the type of defense that was absent in its recent three-game losing skid, defending with the type of ferocity that McCallie has tried to instill since her first day on the job.

When asked about the difference between last night’s monumental win and an 86-84 loss to Penn State Sunday, McCallie

responded immediately.

Center Chante Black recorded 11 points, seven rebounds and six blocks in Duke's home win Thursday night.

“That is so easy to answer,” she said.

“This team played defense. What did we give up [Sunday], 86 points? 44. 86. That’s kind of funny, in away.”

The Blue Devils were on the laughing end of the result Thursday because of that defense—especially late in the game, when the home team needed it most.

McCallie said after the game that she could not recall how many times she yelled “One stop!” to her players. Leading by a point with 30 seconds left, Duke needed one final defensive stand in a game in which the Blue Devils had already halted the rugged

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Bridgette Mitchell takes Rutgers forward HeatherZurich to thebasket in Duke's4944win Thursday night Rutgers attack on numerous occasions.

When McCallie uttered the phrase for the last time, Duke responded with the biggest stop it has made in an up-and-down season.

The Blue Devils dropped back into a vigorous matchup zone that they switched to after Rutgers raced out to an early lead. Matee Ajavon dribbled into the lane and hoisted a contested jumper that Duke’s Chante Black blocked, her sixth swat of the game.Keturah Jackson grabbed the reboundand—after she was fouled byEpiphanny Prince and Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer was slapped with a technical foul—Duke had earned the SEE ANALYSIS ON PAGE 12

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After a week without competition —its longest break of the season—No. 6 Duke is ready to get back on the court.

The Blue Devils (8-0) have a chance to show if they have benefited from the rest when they clash with Michigan (3-5) Saturday at 2 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Following a 79-73 win over feisty mid-major Davidson, Duke has been busy fine-tuning parts of its game that have been lackluster, particularly second-half defense, a weakness exposed in its win over the Wildcats. Up by as much as 16 in the first half, the Blue Devils’ lead was cut to two in the waning minutes of the game before Greg Paulus buried Davidson with two key buckets and a steal.

“We’ve just been working on basics and doing our fundamentals,” senior guard Demarcus Nelson said. “We’ve been looking at our defense and work-

ing on our offensive execution and getting back sharp and fresh.”

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justments against an opponent that has struggled recendy. Michigan is in the midst of a three-game losing streak and has lost five out of it last six contests. The Wolverines are coming off a 62-51 defeat

Harvard, led by former Michigan head coach Tommy Amaker, and also fell 77-64 in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge to Boston College.

A young team with two starting freshman guards and a rookie head coach in John Beilein, the Wolverines are clearly going through some growing pains, but Duke still recognizes the challenges Michigan to

presents.

“They do a great job of running their system,” guard Greg Paulus said. “Offensively, they’re very patient and can shoot the ball. They also do a great SEE M. BBALL ON PAGE 10

JuniorGreg Paulus, whois averaging nine points per game,looks to lead Duke Saturday.

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M.BBALL from page 9 job of mixing up their defenses.”

Recognizing and adapting to Michigan’s different defensive schemes could be critical for a Blue Devil squad that wants to impose its tempo on the game.

Duke has used its run-and-gun offense to average 85.6 points per game, which is second in the ACC to top-ranked North Carolina’s 89.9. This stands in stark contrast to last season when the Blue Devils were the conference cellar-dwellers in scor-

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ing, averaging 70.4 points per game.

Duke was especially successful in dominating the pace in its 82-58 win over Wisconsin in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge Nov. 27. The Blue Devils know that controlling the flow of the game could prove critical in toppling their third Big Ten foe of the

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“Every time we play, our goal is to go out there and play our style of game,” Nelson said. “In the Wisconsin game, we wanted to play up-tempo, space the floor, shoot the three and get second chances. That’s what we have to do for Michigan. It’s really about playing our style of basketball.”

Saturday’s contest marks the 25th meeting between Duke and Michigan. The two schools have had many significant clashes in the past—most notably when the Blue Devils bested the Wolverines’ Fab Five 71-51 in the 1992 NCAA Championship game.

Though most of Duke’s current players are too young to remember the details of that particular bout, they are still very much aware of the rivalry between the two programs.

“I think it’s great,” Paulus said. “It’s good to get the tradition going again. I think it’s a good thing for college basketball.”

The Blue Devils will not be thinking about any of these past experiences when they take the floor Saturday, though. Instead, they will be focusing on continuing their strong start to the 2007-2008 campaign.

With just three games remaining in 2007 and final exams approaching, Duke is anxious to play basketball again, especially after a one-week hiatus.

“We’re always excited to play games,” sophomore Gerald Henderson said. “It’s a break away from studying and taking tests.

We don’t have that many games left, so when you get out there, you get really excited and really look forward to them.”

Singler has continued to be an offensive force for the Blue

Devils, leading the team in scoring. Michigan's big men will struggle to contain the freshman, and do not have the athleticism to match up with forward Lance Thomas.

Manny Harris, nicknamed "Fresh", has scored in double digits in every game for the

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Michigan's bench has contributed very little thus far, with no reserve averaging more than six points per game. Taylor King and Jon Scheyer, meanwhile, are consistent contributors from the bench, averaging 9.9 and 11 points per game, respectively.

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W.BBALLfmm page 1 when she toed the line Thursday night.

“I didn’t think about last March at all,” Gay said. “It’s like a regular free throw we shoot in practice.”

With the win, the Blue Devils put the skids on a three-game losing streak and earned not only a momentous victory over a quality opponent, but also a win over the team that haunted Duke last postseason. As the team huddled at center court to celebrate the win, thoughts of missed free throws and missed opportunities last March couldn’t have been further from their minds.

“This feels so good,” forward Joy Cheek said. “We really needed this to give us a boost. We’ve got a lot of momentum for the next game, but we really needed this win.”

After Gay’s shot put Duke up one with 30 seconds remaining, the Blue Devils received a lift from an unlikely source—Rutgers head coach C. Vivian Stringer.

With 11 ticks on the clock, Rutgers guard Matee Ajavon’s shot was blocked by Chante Black, Duke’s Keturah Jackson came down with the rebound and the guard was immediately fouled. Stringer felt that Ajavon was fouled in the act of shooting and ran on to the court to argue the call, drawing a technical foul.

That violation gave the Blue Devils four consecutive free throws. Guard Abby Waner sank the two shots from the technical, and Jackson hit one of her two attempts, giving Duke a two-possession lead that effectively put the game out ofreach.

But even before then, Duke’s hustle and grit on the defensive end frustrated a Rutgers team that entered Thursday’s contest with a five-game winning streak. The Scarlet Knights started the game with an 11-2 run, but sputtered to close out the half, allowing Duke to claw back to a two-point halftime deficit.

“It was never really frustrating,” freshman guard Jasmine Thomas said of the team’s first half. “You just have to take your time and be patient. We got good shots, but they weren’t falling for us. We had to slow down, concentrate and let the game come to us instead of forcing things.”

Soon after the second half began, however, Stringer became so frustrated with the play of her team thatshe pulled allfive of her starters at the 17:51 mark, sitting her team’s core for nearly five minutes. The starters

returned after Duke had seized its first lead since scoring the game’s first bucket.

“Winning games doesn’t mean that much to me,” Stringer said. “If we aren’t doing the things we need to do, I will take out everybody. I’ll take a loss with four players on the f100r.... I’ll give you the loss.”

Stringer did decide to re-insert her starters with more than 12 minutes to go, which gave her team a quick spark.

Rutgers regained the lead with two quick baskets, and Duke would not again take back the lead until Thomas hit a three-pointer the Blue Devils’ only triple of the game—to give Duke a 38-37 lead with 5:27 left.

Although Thomas went only 3-for-ll from the field in her first collegiate start, her calm play during a game in which Waner found herself relegated to the bench with foul trouble provided Duke with a steady presence and drew raves from her teammates.

So did a win over the national power that ended Duke’s last season—which could be the perfect remedy to a recent rough patch.

“We needed this game to get us on a roll,” Waner said. ‘We’ve been through a lot, and we’ve been learning and growing from it.”

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Rutgers scored just two points in the last eight minutes of the first half, allowing Duke to crawl back. The Blue Devils froze the opponent’s offense by playing McCallie’s trademark matchup zone. They trapped comers, blocked penetration and forced ineffective shots with the shot clock winding down.

“We weren’t as tough as we needed to be,” Stringer said. ‘We deserved to lose.”

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But the disruption of the Scarlet Knights’ offense had more to do with the Blue Devils’ intrusive defense than Rutgers’ off night. Ajavon and Essence Carson combined to shoot 4-for-21 because the Duke defense made them take buzzer-beating, off-balance, low-percentage shots.

It was Duke’s physical defense that created a sloppy, hard-fought contest that the lower-ranked squad could win. That ruggedness translated into points on the other end of the court and frustrated the Scarlet Knights into pressing even more when they had the ball.

Before the game,Stringer told McCallie that she hoped Duke would find what it was missing in its three-game losing streak.

The Blue Devils found that sense of toughness Thursday night—just in time to discover their winning song and regain their groove.

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Re-assess a ssessment Indeed, although the basic prinrankings aren’t the only results sparking talks—and in ciple of the rankings is sound, their some cases debate—on cam- execution looks like it can be improved upon. pus these days, Earlier this week, the Residential Many SLG representatives said Assessthey were unclear Group ment Committee about the process. editorial evaluated 23 seThe committee also lective-living groups based on reports did not survey or take comments from independent neighbors of the and presentations across eight flexThe of the rating SLGs—the ones who are arguably ible criteria. success itself, however, seems to this the most affected members of the process board to be as mixed as the rankings. “community.” The rating committee In concept, RGAC’s rankings also needs to be careful to ensure its members’ objectivity and distance aim to give SLGs a new set of standards to meet, ensuring that they from the SLGs to ensure fairness. interact well with the community Tight housing on West Camand stimulate their members sopus and the upcoming Few Quadrangle renovations will give these cially and intellectually. fair that these rankings true significance, as they It seems to argue have a to encan be used to determine housing responsibility groups hance their community as well as priority for the groups themselves. their own members’ experiences Given their importance, the process needs to be refined in the fuin exchange for their housing priority. And so an assessment of some ture, and this first set of data should be taken with a grain of salt. form makes sense.

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Phillip Seligmann, father of Reade Seligmann, on the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement to not investigate former Durham district attorney Mike Nifong. See story page 1.

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exams approach, many students can look back on three busy, productive months of work. But this certainly does not appear to be true forall members ofDuke Student Government On the somewhat bright side, some muchneeded new transparency initiativesmayenable students to see which DSG members are producing the most This editorial board sincerely hopes the initiatives will have the teeth they need to have as we move into the spring semester.

Last week, DSG’s Senate PresidentPro Tempore Spencer Eldred issued a press release detailing the genders, ethnicities, greek affiliations, majors and even home states of the organization’s senators.

In a memo to these senators, moreover, DSG Executive Vice President Jordan Giordano observed, “In previous years, some senators have accomplished more [than] others.” Giordano required all of them to submit plan of “legislative intent” and two followup reports this semester—which were to be published on DSG’s Web site.

Executive board members are also hypothetically accountable, with lists of“completed” and “ongoing” projects on their Web

pagesand a new evaluationsby the senators of the executive board members’ individual

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performances.

Unfortunately, only of these surveys have actually been released, and many executive board members’ lists of ongoing and completed projects are also blank Giordano declined to comment to this board on the unreleased surveys. Furthermore, none of the promised progress reports are available on the DSG page, and a couple do not even have legislative intent forms linked next to their names.

DSG deserves praise for some small but useful improvements —witness new Bryan Center power outlets, a few new vending machinesand new staplers in the libraries.

Ideas to improve accountability are there. We hope and expect that all members of the DSG executive board—notjust a few—will be held to a higher standard two

next semester.

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Had I never gone through the initial misery of apartment hunting in medium-sized, amply-acred Tallahassee, Florida, I would have been unquestionably overwhelmed by my experience with my first New York super, who lives on the ground floor and has practically requested DNA samples to ensure that I’ll be a decent tenant.

And so I began to wonder to what extent Duke undergrads will be poorly served by Duke’s requirement that all students live on campus for three years. For all the uses of such a policy, like safety and encouraging students to interact and focus on school, it falls short of offering Duke’s promising students a real life education in dealing with credit checks, crazy roommates and incorri-

at Florida State University. I sat in the commons room, watching “Friends” (which was still first-run then, ’cause I’m old), and colormg in a coloring book as a part of an elementary school-themed social my RA had designed to relieve the stress of exams. Right as I was decorating a parUl Pro Please hire. Desperate tog oudine frog, my roommate rushed out into the hall. gible appliances.

In short, although students will be academi“You’re number 10,486!” she said, panting. cally prepared to move to a big city, nothing but “No, I’m your roommate, Jacqui. How many exams did you hase today?” experience can prepare you to face a landlord who wants six months’ rent and your firstborn as “Your housing numberis 10,486,” she said.

‘Yeah, and...?” a guarantee you won’t paint the walls green and “And that’s not high enough for on-campus rip out the cabinets.

I mean, hell, I wasn’t prepared for that. housing. We got rejected. When did you turn in And so, if I could only offer five pieces of adyour housing application?”

“Erai....” vice from my six-year apartment living frenzy, they In a few days I was hoofing my butt all over town, would be these: 1. Be prepared for arguments about the kitchpraying for an affordable place close to a bus stop and a grocery store. By the grace of God, I found en, because I swear that’s the only thing roommates ever argue about. a three-bedroom closet with an avocado green re2. The best recipe for a roommate that argues frigerator and stove and an unheard of price tag of $260 a month. about pots and pans is an understanding friend This year I finally succumbed to that little and enough booze to float the Titanic.

3. Should you end up with avocado green apdevil that sits on the shoulder of many grad students—the one that tells people to take pliances, join them, for you cannot beat them, no some time off, live in a big city and figure matter how many red rugs and hand towels you out if they really have any idea what it is that toss their way.

4. If your stove has a habit of lighting itself on they’re doing. And so, I again found myself take-home final while to find writing a trying fire, buy a fire extinguisher. You’re only gonna an apartment. Only this time, the apartment be able to blow it out so many times (four, in was in New York City. my case).

The first day I really needed to spend con5. One last piece of advice, if I may—don’t ever try to find an apartment during finals templating the function of adult hippocampal neurogenesis I spent reprinting paycheck week. That’s the dumbest idea I’ve ever stubs. Another I spent begging my parents to heard. guarantee my rent. One more I spent copying tax forms, finding my admissions letter to Jacqui Detwiler is a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience. This is herfinal column.

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Why you hate The Chronicle (and why this is good) Every

other week for the last two semesters, have to listen to someone tell me how they think The I’ve given you all 750 words of my own Chronicle is pure garbage or how the overwhelming thoughts. Unfortunately, most of these majority of people who write for it are complete idiots. thoughts were met with a profound and suffocat- And honestly, Fm-no different. Every day, I open The Chronicle and I’m greeted with opinions I don’t share ing ambivalence. and news I could not care less about.

If there is one Seriously, I don’t know what I’m going to do if I thing I’ve learned read another column about the horrors of dining while working for The on campus. I know, options are limited, overpriced Chronicle, it’s this; and unhealthy. And yes, I realize that the Chick-filyou care a lot more A people are very nice. Guys, I get it already. You about what you write than other people do. can stop now.

Yet, I continue to read, not out of some twisted joy To the author, a column is a momentous I feel out of being annoyed, but because every day The axt Chronicle verifies the refreshing fact that the whole event—something in palindromes which you hope to world doesn’t think like I do. After all, übiquitous agreement is not just scary; it’s incredibly boring. spark a reaction.

To the reader, it is away to kill time before class starts.

I don’t know what I would have to find to comOf course, there have been exceptions. People plain about if I enjoyed everything I read. I shudder have occasionally told me that they liked what I just thinking about it. I’ve realized that I do not just wrote, while others have eone out of their way to simply enjoy the process of hating or disagreeing with remind me that I am utterly incompetent. Perhaps columns; I need it. And I know that I’m not alone here. the best example comes from an anonymous online We can all probably recall only a handful ofcolumns or critic who once wrote in response to a particular articles we actually liked, yet we could fill a book with column, “This was a poorly thought-out, poorly the ones we have despised. written, uncreative, uninsightful [sic] article. It was And all of this is what makes something like The also very juvenile. I feel as though I am a bit less Chronicle so worthwhile. Psychologist Dan Gilbert educated for having read this once wrote that, “We live in a world in which people Ouch. are censured, demoted, Yet, I almost feel like imprisoned, beheaded, this was a compliment because they hive Every day The Chronicle verifies the simply on my writing ability. opened their mouths, The bottom line is that refreshing fact that the whole world flapped their lips, and it’s very difficult to ofdoesn’t think like I d0.... I’ve real- vibrated some air. Yes, fend someone this badly. those vibrations can make Not just any crap would ized that I do not just simply enjoy us feel sad, or stupid, or the process of hating or disagreeing alienated. Tough sh—. prompt such a passionThat’s the price ofadmisately negative response. with columns; I need it. sion to the marketplace of I firmly believe that anyone can write a medioideas. Hateful, blasphecre, forgettable column. mous, prejudiced, vulgar, But only my words have the power to actually make rude or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know people dumber!

Leaving your work open to public criticism teaches we are in one. When all the words in our public conversation are fair, good and true, it’s time to make a run you that it’s wrong to simply dismissyour negative feedback. One of life’s harshest yet most beautiful truths for the fence.” is that there are always going to be idiots. And if not On a similar note, the morning I open The Chronidiots, then at least people you wildly disagree with. We icle and find that I like—or even agree with—everyhuman beings have been around a while now, and I thing inside its pages is also the morning I stop reading know that if we haven’t found the way for everyone to it. Please, let’s all just pray that day never comes. like and agree with each other yet, we never will.

Nowhere is this, more evident on campus than in Jordan Axt is a Trinity junior. His column runs every The Chronicle itself. Not a week goes by when I don’t otherFriday.

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is one college interview that I will never forget.

Before discussing anything, the interviewer asked me to fill out a simple form explaining some of my “top three’s”—interests, high school clubs, potential majors, that sort of thing—as some basic talking points.

We made some small talk, then, after looking at the form, where I had listed | Latin as an interest, she attacked, “Why do you study a dead language?”

Ouch.

Glaring back at her, I rotated the “Admissions Infor■“W mation” pamphlet she had allie vergotz handed me at the beginning of our meeting. “There,” I with a grain of salt said, pointing to the heading. ‘“Admissions’ from the Latin admittere, to admit or receive, most likely from ad meaning ‘to or towards’ and mittere meaning ‘to send.’”

Since I began my study of Latin in seventh grade, I’ve met with a lot of haters and, each time, it has pained me to hear their ignorance. Even some of those who have had a brush with Latin don’t fully appreciate it—after over seven years of study, I know I still don’t. But that’s no reason to write it off.

That’s why I was positively gleeful this past Monday when I saw the New York Times commentary entitled “A Vote for Latin.” In this piece, Harry Mount, author of “Carpe Diem : Put a Little Latin in Your Life,” discusses his disappointment with the lack of Latin language study among the presidential hopefuls. He argues for many of its merits —a greater knowledge of history, culture, language, rhetoric, etc. Excellent call, Mr. Mount.

Although I can’t say I’d necessarily rather see a classicist than a political scientist on Inauguration Day, I can say there is great value to the study of Latin. I am undoubtedly a better linguist because of it, having learned more about English grammar from my study of Latin than from “English” classes all through high school.

More than anything, though, what I’ve learned from Latin reaches far beyond better comprehension of passive verbs or the ability to identify cognates. I’ve learned precision, patience, creativity, focus and myriad other skills, mostly as a result of hours and hours of meticulous translation.

And although I’d be thrilled if all students studied Latin, I realize when taking into account what one Times reader calls the “opportunity costs” of studying Latin namely, less time spent on math, science, English, the arts and so on —and many other factors, this will never be a reality.

But then, I also feel that all students should be required to study math through multivariable calculus.

Call me a liberal artist, but I believe your average “Renaissance Man” (or Woman) is simply better prepared for life.

So although Times readers get caught up in the battle of whether or not we should instead be studying Greek or Spanish or Chinese or, for that matter, science, I don’t think we should be replacing one language with another or spending so much time focusing on supposed “relevance.”

Now, I know that unless I try to use the ATM in Vatican City or find myself chatting with the Pope, I’m not going to be spending a lot of time using the Latin vocabulary I’ve studied.

But then, I will probably not make much use of triple integrals later in life either. And my knowledge of the Civil War will only get me so far, as will many of the other things I’ve learned over the years.

Until I specialize in some particular career, it is the skills, the themes and the general concepts that I have acquired from Latin, math, history, art and all those other subjects that will help me in the real world. So as the semester comes to an end, and you contemplate what notebooks you can burn come Dec. 16, pause for a minute. Think about what you’ve learned. Take a broader perspective. Let the ideas marinate your mind. There is something to be said about learning for the sake of learning. Carpe eruditionem.

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Allie Vergotz is a Trinity sophomore. This is her final column of the semester.

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