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After an up-and-down battle with numerous swings and five lead changes, Waner’s first three of the night brought the Blue Devils back into contention to complete the upset. But a quick layup by Parker with 22 seconds left gave Tennessee (18-1) a two point lead, and after Waner missed another 3-point attempt from the same spot with nine tics left, Parker was fouled and hit a single free throw to close out the victory for the Lady Vols.

Two members of the Duke football team were arrested and given misdemeanor charges after a fight broke out at Club 9 Friday night Junior wide receiver Eron Riley and freshman wide receiver Austin Kelly were cited with simple affray and resisting, delaying or obstructing, respectively. The players were attending a birthday celebration for another team member, students said.

Durham Police Department officers arrived at Club 9, located on Ninth Street, shortly after 1 a.m. to assist in an emergency medical services call regarding an unconscious girl, saidKammie Michael, DPD public information officer.

Upon arriving at the club, officers did not find a girl in need of medical .assistance but witnessed Riley strike another man, she said, adding that the officer then arrested Riley, at which point a large, “unruly” crowd formed.

“The officers were trying to get the crowd to disperse, and one person, Austin Kelly, was told about 10 times to disperse and did not leave the area,” Michael said.

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Abhijit Mahato’s body may have been put to rest, but the repercussions from his death are still floating in the air, both on and offcampus.

The waves reached as far as India, where the deputy chiefminister of the state of Jharkand,

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Sudhir Mahto, told The Times of India he felt there was a “deep conspiracy” behind Mahato’s murder.

Some members of the local Hindu community are also questioning whether the crime was racially motived, said Ganga Sharma, a priest at the Hindu Society of North Carolina in Morrisville, where Mahato’s memorial service was held Sunday.

In contrast, however, many Duke students said they do not consider the crime to be racially motivated.

“I think he was just unlucky,” said junior Nayantara Atal, vice president of the InternationalAssociation.

Kalavati Bhashyam, a biomedical engineering graduate student, also said she did not view the murder as a hate crime, and added that it did not sway her opinion about thebenefits of studying in the United States. Instead, Bhashyam said the biggest impact of the murder was that itmade her feel unsafe being at home.

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Duke played well behind inspired defense, but not quite well enough to beat No. 2 Tennessee in front of a sellout crowd in Cameron Indoor Stadium Monday night, eventually falling to the Lady Vols 67-64.

Tenth-ranked Duke (15-5) had a chance late in the game when junior Abby Waner nailed a 3-point shot over the outstretched arms of Tennessee’s Candace Parker to tie the game at 64 with just 47 seconds remaining.

Bush gives final State ofthe Union Juniorleads charge against disease by

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President George W. Bush delivers his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress Monday night.

WASHINGTON President George W. Bush, standing before Congress one last time, urged the nation Monday night to persevere against gnawing fears of recession and stay patient with the long, grinding war in Iraq. He pressed Congress to quickly pass a plan to rescue the economy.

“We can all see that growth is slowing,” Bush said in a blunt acknowledgment of rising food and gas prices, increasing unemployment and turmoil in the housing and financial markets.

He cautioned against accelerating U.S. troop withdrawals from Iraq, saying that would jeopardize progress achieved over the last year.

“We have unfinished business before us, and the American people expect us to get it done,” Bush declared. It was his final State of the Union address and he faced a hostile, SEE BUSH ON PAGE 4

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When junior Josh Sommer was diagnosed with chordoma midway through his freshman year, he had never heard of the rare cancer. Now he is spearheading an international effort to find a cure.

Sommer, along with his mother, Dr. Simone Sommer, founded the Chordoma Foundation last February after their search for an organization dedicated to curing the disease proved fruitless.

“We were disappointed to find out that chordoma is a disease that fells through the medical cracks,” Dr. Sommer said “We needed to create an organization that bridges the gap between patients, researchers, care givers, government agencies SEE SOMMER ON PAGE 5

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RAFAH, Egypt Hamas militants joined Egyptian forces for a second day Monday in trying to restore control at three breaches in the Gaza border, building a fence to seal off one opening and directing traffic at two oth-

PARIS Investigating judges filed preliminary charges Monday against a trader accused of causing billions in losses for France's second-largest bank and released him from custody, his lawyer said Monday.

The allegedly illicit trades, if confirmed, would amount to the largest securities fraud ever committed by an individual. Societe Generale said it lost 4.82 billion euros—s7.o9 billion—but that the low-level trader was making deals worth tens of billions.

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Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have flooded into Egypt unchecked over the past six days since Hamas militants blasted holes in the border partition.They have been buying up food, fuel and other goods made scarce by Israeli and Egyptian closures of Gaza's borders.

Hamas seized control of the Palestinian territory in June but before the breach, it had no role in policing the border with Egypt.

Sen. Kennedy endorses Obama WASHINGTON Summoning memories of his brother, the slain president, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led two generations of the First Family of Democratic politics Monday in endorsing Barack Obama for president declaring, "I feel

Senator adds on benefits to bill WASHINGTON A top Senate Democrat unveiled a $156 billion economic stimulus package Monday thatawards rebates to senior citizens living off Social Security and extends unemployment benefits, setting up a clash with the White House and House leaders.

As the House planned a vote Tuesday on a plan that would speed rebates of up to $6OO to most income earners—more for couples and families—Senate Finance Committee Chairis scheduled a Wednesday vote le add-ons, which would send :he richest taxpayers.

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WASHINGTON —The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second.

Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama's race—he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas—but rather his personal gifts.

Morrison, whose novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision.

Snipes' defense rests in tax trial OCALA, Fla.—The defense in the tax fraud and conspiracy trial of Wesley Snipes rested Monday.

Snipes, Eddie Ray Kahn and Douglas P. Rosile were named in an eight-count indictment. Snipes and the co-defendants allegedly stopped filing his federal tax returns in 2000, demanded some $ll million in refunds on taxes previously paid and tried to settle other U.S.Treasury debts with fake checks.

ODDS & ENDS Cat to go from five legs to three Cats may have EIGHTY-FOUR, Pa. nine lives, but one unique feline has five legs—for now.

The cat, named Babygirl, will undergo surgery to remove the extra leg and another crippled leg, though the operation has not yet been scheduled.

The surgery is expected to leave the cat with three legs, and improve her quality of life, according to the Washington Area Humane Society, where the cat will live until a home can be found for her.

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After one million years of evolution, Duke students actually aren’t so different from their primate relatives when it comes to on-the-fly mental math.

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Cognitive Neuroscience and graduate student in psychology and neuroscience, who compared basic addition capabilities in rhesus macaques and college students. On average, Candon found that the students’ accuracy was only slighdy better than the monkeys’.

The study was published last month in the Public Library of Science Biology journal and suggested that a common evolutionary base gave rise to pre-verbal cognitive processes in both priniate species.

“People think that language is the holy grail ofhuman thought, but language might ter for

just help us build on abilities we’ve had for thousands of years, abilities we share with monkeys and other animals,” Candon said.

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monkeys use—this kind of fuzzy arithmetic where they don’tknow exacdy how many there are, but have a rough idea,” Candon said.

The students chose the correct total about 90 percent of the time, whereas the two monkeys—nicknamed Feinstein and Boxer after the California senators —trailed them by 10 percent. The primates’ accuracy was high enough to rule out randomness as a factor.

The monkeys had previously been conditioned to choose the larger of two numbers on a touch-screen, Candon said.

Nevertheless, she and Elizabeth Brannon, assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience and Candon’s dissertation advisor, were surprised by how quickly the duo mastered the rules ofaddition.

“There was no way that they were simply memorizing the answers,” Cantlon said. After a few weeks, the monkeys were able to add any two numbers between one and 17, although theirperformance decreased as the sums grew larger and closer together. For instance, “1 +1 2” was considerably easier than “2 3 5.”

The experiment demonstrates that primitive mathematicalabilities evolved inprimates before more complex forms of symbolic representation, such as language, Brannon said.

“We think that monkeys are keeping track of [quantity] because it’s meaningful in their environment,” she said. “When they’re trying to form accurate representations of how possible patches of food for foraging are, or comparing the number of individuals in different groups, adding becomes important.”

Cantlon remarked that certain Amazonian tribes without verbal counting systems showed the same patterns as the students in similar tests—evidence for a mathematical base extending beyond language or culture.

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The team is now researching the ability of primates to perform subtraction and probability, because it is unclear whether or not these functions require the use of language. As for addition, Cantion cautioned against drawing too-drastic conclusions from the study’s results.

“It’s not the case that monkeys can take a college math exam,” she said.

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Any student who has seen the movie “Drumline” would applaud Duke for lending instruments to North Carolina Central University’s marching bandlast weekend.

Using instruments borrowed from Duke and otherorganizations, the 250-man NCCU Marching Sound Machine participated in the high-eneigy Battle of the Bands in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome Saturday despite losing 14 sousaphones and otherinstruments in thefts during the past three months.

Duke’s Director ofAthletic Bands Jeffrey Au said he contacted NCCU after he learned about the band’s situation.

“Someone in the music department mentioned it to me, and then I saw it in the paper as well,” he said. “I just called up [NCCU Band Director] Jorim Reid and asked if they were still needing the sousaphones, and they were.”

Au said he was aware that the NCCU marching band was preparing for their Battle of the Bands performance, and he wanted to help them out.

Replacing the sousaphones with new instruments would have cost at least $3,000 to $4,000 per instrument.

“It’s not that common but sometimes [thefts] happen,” he said. “Its just the luck of the draw.”

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mean higher tax bills for 116 million American taxpayers.

For those who say they’re willing to pay more, Bush said, “I welcome their enthusiasm, and I am pleased to report that Democratic-led Congress eager for the end of his term the IRS accepts both checks and money orders.” next January.

Before speaking, Bush turned to shake hands with With his approval rating near its all-time low, Bush a smiling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice Presilacked the political clout to push bold ideas and he didn’t dent Dick Cheney, seated behind him. Bush’s wife, Laura, and their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna, try. He called on lawmakers to urgently approve a $l5Oplan—worked out with House leaders —to avoid or sat in a VIP box. His speech lasted 53 minutes, intersoften any recession through tax rebates for families and rupted frequently by applause, most often by Republiincentives for businesses to invest in new plants and equipcan lawmakers. ment.

Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the war has been a “The actions of the 110th Congress will affect the secumain topic of Bush’s annual addresses to Congress. He rity and prosperity of our nation long after this session has said Monday night the buildup of 30,000 U.S. troops and ended,” the president said. an increase in Iraqi forces “have achieved results few of us Senate Democrats want to expand the economic stimucould have imagined just one year ago.” lus plan with rebates for senior citizens living off Social “Some may deny the surge is working,” Bush said, “but Security and extensions of unemployment benefits for the among the terrorists there is no doubt. Al-Qaida is on the jobless. Bush said those changes “would delay it or derail it run in Iraq and this enemy will be defeated.” and neither option is acceptable.”

Still, Bush said, “The mission in Iraq has been difficult He also pushed Congress to extend his tax cuts, which and trying for our nation. But it is in die vital interest of are to expire in 2010, and said allowing them to lapse would the United States that we succeed.”

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The murder has sparked new discussions about safety in Durham. Some students said they do not feel differendy because of the incident, and Matthew Somoroff, a graduate student in music, recendy formed a Facebook group called “Duke Students who are not Scared ofDurham.”

But other students living off campus and on Central Campus have begun taking extra precautions. Junior Jacquelyn Burmeister, a Central resident, said she now locks her apartment door even while she’s in the apartment.

Other students said they make the decision not to walk home in the early evening anymore.

Crystal Brown, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council and a third-year law student, said safety has become a more immediate issue on the council’s agenda.

“We’re working to make sure we have plenty of well-lit areas on campus,” she said. ‘We’re also working to introduce an extended bus route into the H lot [on the comer of Yearby and Anderson streets], where many graduate students park.”

Despite the widerange ofconversation topics, junior Roshen Sethna, president of the Hindu Student Association, said she believes that thecrime has brought communities together, “Hindu students, Southeastern Asian students and the International House all came together and talked about the tragic event and how we need to stop this from happening again,” Sethna said.

Several students said the murder also led to many discussions centered around the Duke-Durham divide, and how best the barriers should be overcome.

“I don’t see why this crime should be seen as somehow more heinous and awful because it was against a Duke student,” he said. “I think it’s heinous and awful because it was against a human being.”

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NCCU students in the marching band said they were unsure how the large wearable tubas could have been stolen.

“I don’t really understand how someone could have gotten them,” one freshman band member said. “They had to know something because it doesn’tmake any sense.”

Band members were confident the use of the borrowed instruments did not affect their performance in theBattle of the Bands. The annual event showcases ten of the best marching bands from historically black colleges and universities.

“I think it made us work harder,” (he student added. “It wasn’t intimidating or anything like I thought it was going to be. I was nervous at first, but I felt good whenI got out there.”

Freshman band member Garrick Brown agreed that the borrowed instruments had not affected their performance, but said he had been told not to comment on the stolen instruments.

“We did just as well as we would have,” he said. “It was a great experience and we performed very well.

NCCU spokesman Miji Bell said an announcement after the performance thanked Duke and other groups for loaning their instruments and added that the school would look into purchasing replacement instruments.

Reid could not be reached for comment.

ARRESTS from page 1 many police cars were there [because] I’ve never seen that before in my life,” said sophomore Rebecca Dell, who was inside the Erwin Square Apartments on Ninth Street and came outside to witness the scene after hearing the commotion. “It was out of a movie or something.”

The Office of Student Affairs and the Department of Athletics officials declined to comment on the arrests. The criminal charges, however, could affect the players’ National Collegiate Athletic Association standings as evidenced by similar cases across the country.

Last Fall, an Ohio State University football player was suspended after receiving a misdemeanor charge, and three Pennsylvania State University football players were temporarily kicked off the team after a campus fight

JuniorJosh Sommer, who was diagnosed with chordoma freshman year, helped start an organization to find a cure for the disease.

SOMMER from page 1 and pharmaceutical companies working together to find a cure.”

About 300 cases of chordoma are diagnosed in the United States each year, according to the Chordoma Foundation’s Web site. The bone cancer can occur anywhere along the spine, and patients survive, on average, seven yearsafter they are diagnosed.

The Chordoma Foundation has set ambitious fundraising targets. It hopes to raise $500,000 by April and $3 million by the end 0f2009 to fund its goals, which include awarding research grants and creating a “biobank” of chordoma tumors and cell lines to increase the availability of such tissues to researchers.

In addition to seeking funding from traditional sources like the National Institutes of Health, the foundation is also collecting donationsand spreading its message through Facebook.

The ChordomaFoundation has raised more than $B,OOO using the Facebook Causes applications, which allows users to support registered nonprofits and invite their friends to do the same. The program awards $l,OOO to the cause receiving

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the most unique donors each day—a prize won by the Chordoma Foundation on the day the program was unveiled.

Facebook will also donate amounts ranging from $lO,OOO to $50,000 for top-ranked causes over a roughly two-and-a-half month period ending Feb. 1, and the ChordomaFoundation is currently in therunning for a $lO,OOO award.

A Web site has been set up at curechordoma.org to direct visitors to the Facebook Causes program. As part of an effort to gather 500 new donors before the competition closes, the group will give away an Apple iPhone to one Duke studentwho donates before Friday at 3 p.m.

Sommer has also taken an active role in finding a cure.

“After the diagnosis, I started going through all the articles I could find and found Dr. [Michael] Kelley’s work. He was the only researcher in the country with a grant to study chordoma,” Sommer said.

Weeks later, he was searching for genes that cause the disease in Dr. Kelley’s lab, working alongside the associate professor of oncology.

Once the responsible genes have been identified, the hope is that targeted treatments can be developed, Sommer said. Traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments have proven less effective against chordoma than more common types of cancers.

Heather Lee, an associate professor of human resources at Peace College in Raleigh, serves as a volunteer member of the Chordoma Foundation’s seven-person board. She brings extensive experience in consulting nonprofit organizations and a personal drive to find a cure for chordoma.

Lee, whose 12-year-old son is currendy fighting the disease, said she joined the Chordoma Foundation because its founders were on a fast track and well-connected within the medical community. She was also impressed at the amount of detailed knowledge Sommer had amassed in the months following his diagnosis.

“Because ofJosh, my family has hope that a cure may be found and my son could grow to adulthood, and honestly six months ago we didn’t have that hope,” she said.

Dr. Sommer said she is proud ofher son and grateful to those who have helped the foundation.

“The support we’ve received from Duke has been phenomenal,” she said. “We never imagined that when Josh came to Duke it would be a place not only to get a great education, but one that could also help save his life.”

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day night’s win over Maryland, Duke’s lead

was down to three. As the Blue Devils milked the shot clock, the Terrapins had sliced their deficit from nine with consecutive 3-pointers.

One more bucket would kill Maryland’s momentum and likely seal the gameforDuke.

Naturally, theBlue Devils looked to DeMarcus Nelson, the senior captain who has earned that mantle with his heady play so far during the ACC season.

Nelson took the ball the top of the key, dribbled off Kyle Singler’s pick and drove down the left side of the lane to the basket, grog where he somehow managed to muscle the DGalO ball into the hoop. The Blue Devils were up by five with 1:01 to go.

The game was over.

When head coach Mike Krzyzewski named Nelson Duke’s sole captain at the beginning of the season, I was one of the Blue Devil fans who wondered if the team’s lone senior was ready to take—and make—shots like that. Last year, if you recall, Nelson, Josh Mcßoberts and Greg Paulus shared Duke’s captaincy and were similarly expected to share the end-of-game responsibilities.

We all know how that worked out, but still it seemed a little strange at the time to put all the weight on Nelson’s shoulders. I guess it’s a good thing fans like me are not the ones coaching the Blue Devils.

At the beginning oflast season, Krzyzewski emphasized to reporters that Nelson’s first two years at Duke had been marred by injuries and that Blue Devil fans had yet to really appreciate his talents outside of a

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Duke seemingly did everything to earn a win over Tennessee Monday night. They forced 23 turnovers. They held the Lady Vols’ starters to 32% shooting. And perhaps most importandy, they kept all-Universe Vols’ forward Candace Parker out of her offensive element and scoreless for the game's first 13 minutes.

But when the final hom blew with Tennessee on top, theLadyVols’ anaiVSlS victory on the boards propelled the nation’s No. 2 team to a 67-64 win over No. 10 Duke.

Tennessee outrebounded Duke 40-29, earning extra shots and free throws off ofoffensive rebounds and denying Duke secondchance opportunities throughout the game.

The Blue Devils were unable to register a single second-chance point, while the Lady Vols had 21 second-chance points of their own.

“The most glaring statistic that will bother us from this game is the second chance points and the boards, and whatTennessee created off the boards,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The basketball gods said, ‘No, not tonight. Not if you’re going to rebound like that. Not going to happen for you.’”

Although the Blue Devils had little trouble scoring points inside—they had 30 points in the paint—the length and athleti-

cism of the Lady Vols’ post duo of Parker and Nicky Anosike wiped the defensive boards and denied the Blue Devils opportunities for putbacks. Parker finished the night with a game-high 12 rebounds, and Anosike chipped in six boards.

“What you have to do is make defensive rebounding a priority, because that’s where you can take away the edge,” Tennessee head coach Pat Summit said. “Duke is a great rebounding team, and I just really felt like we had to take away a lot of their second-chance opportunities, and I thought we were more focused in really concentrating on the defensive boards.”

Duke’s decision to consistently doubleteam Parker also many have played into the rebounding disparity. Although the Blue Devils’ tight defense against the Lady Vols’ two-time National Player of the Year was effective in denying her good looks from the floor—she finished 4-of-13 from the floor—the commitment to double down left fewer Blue Devils free to pursue defensive boards.

“No doubt there have to be rotations and boxouts when you throw some people at Candace Parker,” McCallie said. “We didn’t finish well. We defended well, but boxouts are how you finish.”

Parker’s struggles on the floor did not extend to the free-throw line, however, where she scored nine ofher 17 points on 12 freethrow attempts. Many of these foul attempts came on put-back tries, with Parker on one

Junior AbbyWaner went 2-for-8 from the floor to score eight points in Duke's 67-64 loss Monday. occasion pulling down two offensive boards before being fouled on a third, successful attempt. Parker stepped to the line and hit the extra shot. Plays like those doomed the Blue Devils on a night when most everything else seemed to be going their way.

“The stat sheet doesn’t lie,” Duke center Chante Black said of her team’s rebounding disparity. “[A win] would have been huge, in front of a big crowd and everything. It’s just the way it falls.”

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few select examples, like his first two home games against North Carolina. Coach Kwas right to some extent,, as Nelson led Duke in scoring with 14.1 points per game and chipped in 5.4 rebounds, too.

But it was not until ACC play began this year that Nelson emerged as the leader Duke had hoped for when he arrived as a freshman as California’s all-time high conference school scoring leader. games, Nelson is averaging 17.6 points per game, good for sixth in the conference.

He’s also shooting 56 percent and leading the Blue Devils in steals and 3-point percentage, all the while averaging a teamhigh 34 minutes a game. All of those statistics are up from the non-conference slate.

But the numbers do not tell the whole story of just how important Nelson has beSYLVIA QU/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO come as of late. The once-reserved wing Nelsonhas into his leadership role, stepped Duke’s emotional leader.

DeMarcus also become has During Thursday night’s win over Virgin- averaging more than 18points in Duke's last two wins. ia Tech in a testy atmosphere in Cassell Coliseum, Nelson drove the ball into the ets in the first minute of the second half lane before sustaining a hard foul from helped Duke get right back into the game, the Hokies’ Deron Washington. Nelson and his 19 second-half points carried the bounced up from the ground and started team to a meaningful victory in a tough jawing back at Washington, whose behavior road environment.

Duke fans have been waiting four years toward the Blue Devils all game bordered since Nelson arrived, and two seasons on downright dangerous.

The technical foul Nelson picked up for since he took over the role as the team’s his words meant he had to leave the game, eldest member, for him to deliver on his but that was OK, because Duke was up 75-58 potential. In the preseason, before Nelson at the time. The coaches might have been helped lead Duke to a championship in upset with Nelson for losing his cool —and Maui and five straight wins to open up the Nelson apologized for his actions after the team’s ACC schedule, Krzyzewski said that game—but the most important point was the team’s captaincy had been “diluted” that he stood up for his teammates. That’s with the shared responsibility last season.

That no longer appears to be a problem. what captains do.

In their lone captain, the Blue Devils All year long, but especially recently, Nelson has been exhibiting the traits of a have found the leader they so badly needed to once again become one of the nation’s Duke captain. It was most on display during the Maryland game, when his two buck- most feared teams.

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“Obviously, we’re very disappointed,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We can see the direction we need to move for us to be a special team.”

Duke, however, played a stellar defensive game. They held Tennessee to 14 points fewer than its average, and the Lady Vols shot just 40 percent from the field.

The defensive effort helped propel Duke to a strong first half, as they rendered the Lady Vols’ top two scorers virtually ineffective in the first 20 minutes. Parker—arguably the nation’s best player —did not score until the 6:48 mark while her teammate Alexis Hornbuckle went 0-for-4 before the break.

Although impressive defense helped Duke fight off the Lady Vols for most of the first stanza, the Blue Devils finally yielded to a 33-33 tie at the break.

“It was definitely one of the best [defenses we’ve seen],” Hornbuckle said. “They’re just so active, they’re long, they’re big.”

The Blue Devils fell behind early in the second when junior Chante Black, who had been dominant in the post, left the game with foul trouble. The Lady Vols scored 12 points in the first four minutes of the period, with Parker accounting for five. With Duke down seven at the half s first media timeout, Black returned to the game and helped her team climb back into contention. The Blue Devils drew even at 48-48 with 12:28 to go in the game, and the two teams see-sawed back and forth until the final minute.

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“We definitely can control that, and I felt like we didn’t guard Wanisha Smith said. “We were outrebounded by 11, so just with things we can control, I did think we let it slip away.”

Chante Black led the offensive attack for Duke, scoring with ease in the paint en route to a team-high 13 points. Freshman Jasmine Thomas, on the other hand, played well in the backcourt, scoring 13 points on 3-of-4 3-point shooting.

Waner continued her recent shooting troubles, going l-of-6 from beyond the arc.

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Though he spent more time on foreign policy issues, Bush acknowledged the economy was struggling, reassuring the public that his stimulus package

would spark growth. As the economy is largely beyond his control, he could say little more.

Breaking with tradition for the second year in a row, Bush did not expressly mention the state of the union at the beginning of his address. Last year, as this editorial board noted, the*, standard statement came 49 minutes in; this year it arrived only in the penultimate paragraph, conditioned upon his often-repeated “trust the people.”

With this, perhaps unintentionally, the president acknowledged the shift in public attention; many Americans are looking to next year’s president to ensure that “the state of the union is strong.”

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in office, low public approval ratings and a Democratic Congress, Bush’s forwardlooking rhetoric rang a bit hollow.

There’s a limit to what Bush can accomplish in the next few months, but it seems he will have the opportunity to make strides on a few key issues, including increasing research spending and reducing earmarks. He also gave a welcome, if brief, nod to the importance of combating climate change and at times took a surprisingly

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stapo-style alcohol raids and their disgraceful conduct during the lacrosse case.

But the tragic murder of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato—coupled with last week’s string of violent robberies many o them near campus and some involving Duke community members) underscores an even more diskristin butler turbing reality: DPD officers with all deliberate speed are pretty bad crime fighters.

Statistics bear that out. The city’s homicide rate, which was up 53 percent last year, now stands at approximately one murder per 6,960 people.

That’s much higher than New York City’s rate of one per 14,400and Raleigh’s totals, which stand at one per 20,000 people.

Just as alarming is Durham’s overall rate of violent crime, which stood at 937 offenses per 100,000 people in 2006. Consider that those statistics were 638 per 100,000 in Raleigh and 637 per 100,000 in New York City during the same year.

All those figures add up to a very serious crime problem in Durham—one that threatens this county’s continued growth and vitality.

And although much of that crime is confined to a limited number of “bad” neighborhoods, it touched our community last week when Ahhijit Mahato was brutally shot and killed in his own apartment and several other Duke students were robbed at gunpoint. Dolores Benito Gomez, a Honduran immigrant with no connection to Duke, was also tragically murdered not far from our campus.

Four men—two of themjust 14years old—have been arrested in connection with those attacks, but serious questions about the DPD’s conduct and Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez’s judgment still remain.

That’s because Lopez (who has already earned the nickname J-Lo for his occasional temper tantrums) made the controversial decision not to inform the public about an unusually violent cluster of robberies emerging this January, reasoning that the guilty parties would “hide out or commit crimes in a neighboring city for a while to throw detectives off their trail.”

Surely those outcomes would have been preferable to the Mahato and Gomez families, who now find themselves burying loved ones. And make no mistake, had Lopez alerted the community, it is entirely possible that these tragedies could have been averted.

In fact, one recent graduate told The Chronicle that he narrowly escaped the band of criminals when he recognized their silver SUV following him Jan. 19. As the unidentified man explained, “If I hadn’t known from my team member that it was a silver SUV that mugged him, I probably would have just kept walking home and wouldn’t have noticed.... Communication is key.”

That Lopez’s vision for the DPD does not embrace that spirit of open exchange is deeply disturbing. Unfortunately, his remarks also cast serious doubt on the chiefs judgment for the second time in less than six months on the job.

As you may recall, Lopez drew pointed criticism when he withheld information that Durham police officers were back under investigation for prostitution and other misconduct charges (for the third time in 20 years, no less) until after municipal elections had concluded last November.

Two officers—Sgt. Keith Cheeks and Officer Demond Gooch—have since resigned, leaving no doubt that it has been a tough year for the man hired to restore public confidence in Durham’s police force.

January’s events leave me with serious doubts as to whether Lopez is the right man for that job.

Between the University’s increasing emphasis on unarmed security guards—indeed, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask suggested in a September 2006 Chronicle article that “the number of occasions where it’s important to have an armed officer is somewhat less than you might think”—and the growing number of students living off campus, Duke community members rely on DPD officers more than ever for protection.

But the department’s unforgivable failures in the lacrosse case and officers’ heavy-handed pursuit of noise and drinking citations have strained that relationship severely. It’s hard to see how any of Lopez’s actions thus far stand a realistic chance of rehabilitating the DPD’s image on campus.

Although we all know that Durham has a crime problem, perhaps it’s time to ask whether we have a police problem as well.

Kristin Butler is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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For the average freshman guy, the main reason to join a frat (other than to gain or cement a certain level of social status) is to live with the people you like for the next three years. Sure, they could just block together, right? Duke’s social culture, however, continues to evade such innocent and straightforward logic.

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I can’t attribute this to anyone in particular, but it’s the generic quote we’ve all heard a thousand.times before. The existence of selective living groups seems to verify this notion. Even if guys don’t want to go greek and aren’t on a sports team, they can still be part of =

something.

So, instead of just blocking, guys go out every night for three weeks straight, shell out enough money to cover every rush function and incur irreparable damage to their livers (and sometimes dignity) in the process. They generally rush the same frats as guys they already know and want to live with next year. After all, being associated with the right group can make or break your chances of

getting in.

Don’t mistake thisfor a diatribe against greek life on campus or the social tendencies of Duke males. I happily participate in a sorority and believe that guys know what they want when they’re rushing. It isn’t their participation in rush that upsets me. It’s the motivations behind it.

Girls are just as guilty. There is a reason behind the disparity in sorority pledge class numbers this year. Certain sororities are linked with certain groups of girls and certain social behaviors. Recruitment counselors encourage girls to keep an open mind, but some come in knowing exactly what they want. But the reputations are so ingrained into the collective psyche of Duke that they are impossible to

forget.

Cliques and groups are nothing new and nothing peculiar to Duke. We find it much easier to know someone when they are already sorted into familiar social categories for us, but we’re creating a vicious cycle for ourselves. This campus remains socially stagnant because no one wants to intentionally exclude themselves from the ready-made social

hierarchy.

Meanwhile, the reputations of many social organizations continue to deteriorate as their members live up to the caricatures they have been portrayed as online, in the national media and, most importantly,

in the minds of their peers.

We can all relax when rush is over (well, as long as you’re not pledging). Even if you weren’t involved in the perennial frenzy, you can again enjoy such luxuries as walking across West Campus in the evening without seeing empty liquor bottles strewn on the grass.

But it’s going to be the same next year and the next.

The stress of rush and its more disgusting aspects will surely endure, as will the more endearing date functions and genuine bonding.

The problem isn’t rush. The problem is our singleminded pursuit of a place in the social scene we have set for ourselves.

Eliza French is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

Obama’s hand-painted populism

You

know what word I haven’t heard in a long time?

Populism. The past eight years have seen the American federal government move just far enough in

quite have time to get my arts and crafts supplies together.

Fortunately, this turned out not to be a problem,

the direction of autocracy that we have managed to forget there was a time when we thought Presisap mm: dent George W. Bush was a populist.

However, that sweeteasy-walkin’ talkin,’ good old boy and his cronies have been re- andrew kindman get up, stand up sponsible for some of the most flagrant and destructive abuses of power and clientelism in recent memory. Most of you probably remember the wire-tapping, FEMA, Alberto Gonzales and Valerie Plame scandals. More recently the destruction of Gitmo interrogation tapes comes to mind, alongside a curious fire that broke out in the vice-presidential wing of the Executive Office Building (very subtle, Dick). And not to beat a dead horse, but there’s also that whole Iraq thing.

As the rear bumper of a Volvo station wagon once told me, “If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention.”

Okay, that’s all old news. There’s been quite enough Bush-bashing to go around over the past couple of years and I really haven’t said anything new, so why bring it up now? I mention it to highlight the fact that America is ready for & real populist. America, to an extreme degree, is tired of smoke and mirrors, hidden allegiances and generally the sort of paternalistic approach to governance that the Bush administration practices.

Disillusionment has spawned a wave of grassroots action. For opponents of the Bush administration, from protesters to conspiracy theorists, the question has become not what they can do for their country, or even what their country can do for them, but rather what they can do in spite of their country. What does this mean for the 2008 presidential elections? It means a movement back to populism is on the horizon.

Something that has always impressed me about Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign is that whenever you see footage of a rally on TV, a decent proportion of the signs seem to be hand-painted on store-bought cardstock. Nothing screams grassroots like a candidate who can inspire people to paint their own signs with slogans like “gObama!” and “Barack the Vote.”

I had the opportunity to go to an Obama rally this past summer, and although I was excited, I didn’t

because about 10 minutes before Obama took the stage a group of exhausted interns darted through the crowed handing out pieces of posterboard with Obama slogans painted on in primary colors. Once you get over the image of the nation’s most eligible interns sitting on the floor of the Obama office surrounded by finger-paints, take a moment to reflect on the intelligence of this strategy.

Obama is already very much the populist. He is attractive but not sculpted, articulate but not esoteric, quick on his feet with inspirational rhetoric and on top of it all he has a chin that is just short of statuesque.

Thus, I bring up the anecdote about the hand-painted signs not to crush any hopes of Obama the fairy-tale candidate, but rather to illustrate the extent to which decided by populist appeal. this race will The Obama campaign understands his strengths and is capitalizing on them in the best way that they can.

If Sen. Hillary Clinton wants to keep up, she is going to have to figure out really quickly that Americans don’t seem to care about her time in office as much as she does. After what we have seen of politicians over the past eight years, accusing Obama of not having enough political experience may not be as destructive as Clinton likes to think.

Nothing screams grassroots like a candidate who can inspire people to paint their own signs with slogans like “gObama!” and “Barack the Vote.”

Ultimately, surrounded by advisors and at the mercy of a fiercely polarized Congress, political experience and campaign promises become all but irrelevant. After what this country has been through, this is hardly the time to squabble over minor policy issues. Rather, this is an opportunity to reaffirm America’s faith in government.

Aanerica wants transparency, accountability and integrity. In short, I believe America is ready for a populist. Though we should be wary, given our recent experience with the Connecticut boy who donned an inexplicable yet incredibly endearing Southern accent, I honestly do think Obama is the real thing.

Andrew Kindman is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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