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Students watch, but see Dems split Super Tuesday apathy among Dukies states, Clinton takes Calif.

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After countless hours of campaigning and millions of dollars spent, candidates for the 2008 presidential election faced the largest test of the trail last night—Super Tuesday.

At Duke, many students gathered in Fleishman Commons to watch election results from the 24 states that held their primaries or caucuses Tuesday night.

“This is the first time in my lifetime that young people appear to be mobilizing en masse for a candidate when not propelled to do so by the specter of a wartime draft,” Kris-

WASHINGTON Sen. John McCain seized command of the race for the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday

night, winning delegate-rich primaries in all regions of the country. Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama traded victories in an epic coast-to-coast struggle with no end in sight.

Clinton won the biggest state, California, for the Democrats, capitalizing on support from Hispanic voters.

McCain led the Republican race in the Golden State, hoping to inflict a crushing

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Senior captain DeMarcus Nelson looks to lead No. 2 Duke to a big win over the third-ranked Tar Heels when the two rivals face off at 9 p.m. tonight in the Dean E. Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

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Stephen Oates, the 19 year old arrested Jan. 23 for robbing and murdering graduate student Abhijit Mahato, was indicted Monday by the Durham County grand jury.

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For senior Bronwyn Lewis, a desire to help govern Duke as Young Trustee stems from having fully surrendered to the Duke experience.

“In my application [for Young Trustee], I wrote that I feel like I have absolutely ‘lived and breathed Duke University during my time here,’” Lewis said. “In my academics, my involvement and my personal life, I have soaked up a deep-seated—yet far from uncritical—pride in the University that I count among my strongest qualifications.”

A double major in political science and Spanish, Lewis said the question ofDuke’s identity and institutional potential has driven much of her undergraduate experience.

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Bronwyn Lewis is one of three finalists for Young Trustee.

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Mahato was an international graduate student in engineering from Bengal, India. He was found murdered in his home at The Anderson Apartments Jan. 18.

Oates also faces charges for a Nov. 19 armed robbery and has previously been charged for breaking and entering in 2005 and 2006 and with assault on a female in 2006.

DPD officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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CAMPUS from page 1 tin Goss, assistant professor of public policy and political science, wrote in an e-mail.

On campus, student interest in political campaigns seems to be more pronounced in this election than in previous elections, said junior Gillet Rosenblith. She added that she expects this interest to translate into a powerful youth voting bloc in the general election.

“If anyone can capture the youth vote and increase participation among that bloc, that could have a significant effect on the election,” said sophomore Vikram Srinivasan, an executive board member of College

figures speak.

Although primary season has engaged young people across America, some students questioned how politically interested Duke students are. Liz Bruns, a senior, attributed Duke’s “climate of disinterest” to North Carolina’s late primary, which will take place May 6.

“Duke’s climate is not nearly as political as other schools of its caliber,” senior Megan Moskop said.

Kelly Teagarden, a senior who campaigned for Barack Obama in South Caro-

PRIMARIES from page 1 blow on his closest pursuer, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

“We’ve won some of the biggest states in the country,” McCain told cheering supporters at a rally in Phoenix after pocketing victories in all regions. An underdog for months, he proclaimed himself the front-runner at last, and added. “I don’t really mind it one bit.”

With 497 delegates, the Arizona senator was more than 40 percent of the way to the 1,191 needed for the nomination—and far ahead of his rivals in that competition thatcounted most Even so, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Rom-

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He cautioned, however, that youth attention on the election thusfar does not guarantee that young people will vote in November.

Some student organizations have sponsored primary and debate-watching events on campus. In addition, College Republicans and the Conservative Union will attend a political forum in Washington, D.C., this weekend to listen to a number of political

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Teagarden added, however, that she has noticed a buzz on campus for the primaries, especially within certain student organizations.

“There is definitely a palpable sense of excitement building around the election on campus,” said sophomore Samiron Ray, president of Duke Democrats.

Regardless of who wins either party nomination, sophomore Utsav Kaushish said he thinks many young people will vote because of dissatisfaction with President George W. Bush’s tenure.

“People are just so upset with the past eight years and the government we’ve had that they’re going to do anything they can for change,” Kaushish said.

At top, students gather in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy's Fleishman Commons to witness the primary results. Below, locals watch at a Durham restaurant as returns from across the nation stream in.

ney said they were staying in the race.

Neither Clinton nor Obama proclaimed overall victory on a Super Tuesday that sprawled across 23 states, and with good reason.

“I look forward to continuing our campaign and our debateabout how to leave this country better offfor the next generation,” said the former first lady, looking ahead to the primaries and caucuses yet to come.

Obama was in Chicago, where he told a noisy election night rally, “Our time has come. Our movement is real. And change is coming to America.”

McCain, the early Republican front-runner whose campaign nearly unraveled six months ago, won in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Missouri, Delaware and his

home state ofArizona—each of them winner-take-all primaries.

Democrats played out a historic struggle between Clinton, seeking to become the first female president and Obama, hoping to become the first black to win the White House.

Clinton won at home in New York as well as in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Arizona and Arkansas, where she was first lady for more than a decade. She also won the caucuses in American Samoa.

Obama won Connecticut, Georgia, Alabama, Delaware, Utah and his home state of Illinois. He prevailed in caucuses in North Dakota, Minnesota, Kansas, Idaho and Colorado, all caucus states.

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Thomas Brodhead addresses GPSC questions recalls yore, rips Bush

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More than half a century in Washington, D.C., has not quelled the fire in Helen Thomas.

The pathbreaking White House correspondent, who has covered every president since John F. Kennedy, offered her opinions on the current state of affairs in Reynolds Theater Tuesday.

It was only fitting that as candidates batded for their parties’ nominations on Super Tuesday Thomas said hard work lays ahead for the next president.

“It’s wrongfor us to be in Iraq, killing and being killed,” Thomas said to a receptive audience of approximately 100 Durham residents and students. Her appearance was sponsored by the Baldwin Scholars Program.

“Who are we and what have we become?” she asked early on, underscoring a major theme of her address.

For most of her career, Thomas wrote for the UPI wire service and kept her opinions silent, but now she is a nationally-syndicated columnist—and she did not seem to hold back.

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council hosted a forum with President Richard Brodhead at their general body meeting Tuesday to address student concerns.

GPSC President Crystal Brown, a third-year law student, briefly introduced Brodhead before he gave a speech and answered questions in a Jeopardy-style format, starting with Academia for 300.

Graduate and professional students submitted questions over the past two weeks for the president to answer. Brown said the Executive Board reviewed these questions and selected the ones that were most pertinent to graduate students.

Julie Roy, a seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in cancer biology and the community service coordinator for GPSC, said in an interview with The Chronicle she disagreed with the setup and that reviewing questions did not provide a true forum for students.

“If you’re going to have it in that format, why not submit the questions and have him answer them to The Chronicle?” she asked.

Brown told The Chronicle, however, that prior selection allowed for the conversation with the president to pass more smoothly.

“We definitely provided ample opportunity to submit questions,” she said. “At an event like this, you have to have structure—there’s no way around it.”

Brodhead discussed the January murder of engineering graduate student Abhijit Mahato in relation to the recent spike in crime, and the University’s commitment to safety for their students on and off campus.

“In the span of your life, you’re going to want to live in places that have security

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President Richard Brodhead speaks during a question-and-answer session in front of GPSC Tuesday night. issues and everyone in the world has to pay some attention to these things,” he said.

“It’s certainly the responsibility of the University to work with the city and create the environment we require.”

He added that he has been working withAaron Graves, associate vice president for campus safety and security, and with local law enforcement agents to increase patrolling on and around campus.

Brodhead also spoke to the council regarding the importance of academic institutions and the students’ integral role in them.

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“Today you’re studying, and tomorrow you’re doing the thing you were studying today,” he said.

Brodhead commended the graduate

and professional students for their sense of community. He commented on the unfortunate segregation caused by their programs.

“You come and get locked into your subject and get locked in your school,” he said.

“It’s not a flaw of the school; it’s just a structure of advanced study. It’s not that you don’t want to specialize, it’s just you don’t want to be trapped in your specialization.”

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sor at the University of California at San Diego, discussed issues of free will —an important component of the field of neurophilosophy, which she

Jessica Lighter THE CHRONICLE

and conscioushave baffled philosopioneered. phers since they first began to “I’m here to talk about the reason. Now, with recent adPROVOST'S issues at the interface of the vancements in the mind sciLECTURE SERIES sciences and how we these abstract ideas are empirical ences, thinkabout responsibility,” she being examined by psychologists, geneticists and neuro- on being human said, adding that practical sciscientists as well ence and abstract philosophy have previously been studied At a speech titled “Deseparately. cisions, Morality and the Churchland began with a discussion Brain,” in Love Auditorium Tuesday, Patricia Churchland, a philosophy profes- of the problems of free will, which she addressed in three distinct categories: metaphysical, practical-social and moral-

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The metaphysical category, Churchland said, addresses whether or not our decisions are dependent upon biological factors. The practical-social question examines how we attribute responsibility to others, and the moral psychological aspect addresses the human potential to change over time.

To illustrate the first dilemma,

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Churchland described several studies in which human and animal behavior varied significantly depending upon the subjects’ genetic makeup, neuroanatomy and interaction with environmental stimuli.

In one study, researchers tracked a number of individuals from infancy to

Patricia Churchland discusses responsibility and free will during her speech Tuesday in Love Auditorium.

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Helen Thomas, shown at her speech Tuesday night, has covered every president since John F.Kennedy.

THOMAS from page 3 Thomas came alive when she railed

against the George W. Bush administration as “one of the most secretive in history.”

“This man has forgotten the poor and

the sick,” Thomas said. “We are hated around the world.”

Her frank manner is not a recent development. She famously tussled with former White House spokesperson Tony Snow in 2006 over the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, assailing the United States for not having done more to prevent the attacks.

‘Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view,” Snow responded at the time, referring to the Lebanese terrorist organization.

But yesterday, there was some honey in Thomas’ vinegar-laced speech.

Before the Internet age, reporters got to know presidents on an intimate level, Thom-

as said. She added that she was fortunate to work most ofher career in a time when our leaders were not under constant threat.

That didn’t mean, however, that she was any less aggressive in her reporting.

“I once scooped [President Lyndon Johnson] on his daughter’s engagement and he never forgave me,” Thomas recalled.

Asked who she supports among the current crop of presidential candidates, the self-described liberal hedged her bets.

“Not McCain,” she quipped to laughter and applause. In all seriousness, she added, the press should be vigilant in covering the Bush administration, which has “made end-runs around the Constitution.”

As the audience sat in silence toward the endof the speech, Thomas called for action.

“I want you in the streets,” she said. “I have aroused you all to revolution and yet you’re still sitting there.”

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was distracted during the decision process made the optimal selection unconsciously.

“I was fascinated by the power of the unconscious and the experiments that showed that sometimes, when we least worry about a problem, our subconscious is more likely to connect the dots for us,” junior Melissa Wiesner said. “It raises very tempting questions about internal limitations on freedom.”

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the researchers discovered an enzyme deficiency in this group of children that contributed to their aggressive behavior, environmental influences were necessary to induce its effects.

“Not iowonly was it ever, “Is ever anyone that they raised an carried the for anything?” important but gene, there had Patricia Churchland concern “Is anyto be an adprofessor, UC-San Diego one ever ditional beresponhavioral facsible for tor, namely child abuse,” Churchland said. anything?” she asked.

She then concluded that if “So if the children [had the deficiency] and they were abused, individuals pose a threat to a then there was an extremely high group, they must be punished probability that they showed the in order to protect society and behavior.” emphasize individual accountability.

In addition to abnormal beWiesner said she found the haviors influenced by specific lecture intriguing and wished chemicals, Churchor genes land discussed some instances that more students would attend these types of events. when people would uncon“I thought it was accessible,” sciously arrive at unexpected conclusions. She referenced she said. “I’m a [Public Policy] a study in which subjects were major specializing in ethics and asked to select the best apartI don’t have a neuroscience ment out of a group of several. background.”

The talk was the third in the Both the group that selected an apartment immediately and Provost Lecture Series “On Being Human.” The next lecture in the the one that was given 10 minutes to decide chose the wrong series will be Feb. 28.

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Duke is,” Lewis said. “I think that she’s embarked on.” we as Duke students expect someJunior Leslie Modlin, the exand ofeach othternal vice chair of the Honor ofourselves thing also praised Lewis’ diCouncil, find I very er, of involveand that’s something entire “My history plomacy and said Lewis was somement here has involved thinking compelling and inspiring.”

Because the position is designed body “people would strive to be.” deeply about the role that Duke “Bronwyn enters a room and the Duke to a particular student’svoice the about bring world, plays in student experience, about our to the Board of Trustees, a Young you can’t help but talk to her and public perception and about our Trustee should not have a prede- notice what she’s saying,” Modlin said. “She works so seamlessly with vision of who we are and who we termined agenda, she said.

“It’s not a political position,” faculty members, students and comcould and should be,” she said.

Lewis, a native of Lutherville, Lewis said. “It’s a position in munity members, and she’s able to Md., is co-chair of the First-Year which you contribute from your interact with everyone in such a Advisory Counselor Board and unique perspective in that setting positive way that you can’t help but think amazing and positive things chair of the Honor Council, as well as a Duke student.” abouther and who she is.”

Euben, a of of the Peter professor poas a member UndergraduLewis said the idea of working litical science and faculty adviser ate Judicial Board and a threewith the Board “lights [her] up” in time house course co-instructor. for “The GothicWasteland; A ConEthics,” versation Duke the same way that the FAC program Campus each forced her on She said position the house course Lewis helps to and the Honor Council have. to consider what a Duke experi“My work with both organizaence is really like —reflections that teach, said she possesses a “strong has been guided byasking the moral and a “democratic tions her should she be compass” would benefit notion ofleadership.” questions of ‘What kind of place selected as Young Trustee.

“She’s a leaderwith great tact,” is Duke?’ and ‘What kind of place “I’ve had to think about how to could Duke be?”’ she said. “I would other he said. “Her aim is not to domipeople represent Duke to and that of course raises inherent nate people but to draw them in be honored to become a part of that questions about what kind of place to join her in whatever endeavor conversation at the highest level.”

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I don’t have the chutzpah to predict a Duke victory tonight against Carolina. Last season, I watched as Tyler Hansbrough dominated the Blue Devils’ top-recruit-turnedNBDL-journeyman Josh Mcßoberts in both contests. The year before, Hansbrough torched the national defensive WaS player of the year at Senior Night in andrew How, Cameron. then, can I pick a team without a true post defender to beat a team with arguably the nation’s most effective power forward?

Funny I should ask. Obviously, the Blue Devils need to play smart basketball, their shooters need to shoot and their guards can’t turn over the ball. But beyond the cliches, Here are five keys, that if executed, will translate into the Blue Devils escaping Chapel Hill with an unblemished ACC record:

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With the exception of a quick shot to the face in the closing seconds of their last meeting, Tyler Hansbrough has always had his way with Duke.

With no true big man, the Blue Devils will have their hands full again with the star center—but the potential absence of North Carolina point guard Ty Lawson may be the equalizing force in a matchup of two of the nation’s top teams.

No. 2 Duke (19-1, 7-0 in the ACC) faces its toughest challenge of the year tonight when it travels across 15-501 to face the third-ranked Tar Heels (21-1, 6-1) at 9 p.m. in the Dean Smith Center. This evening’s showdown marks just the sixth time in history that the two teams face off ranked in the nation’s top three.

“Both teams are pretty confident,” guard Greg Paulus said. ‘You kind of throw out the records, and it’s kind of like one of those backyard games.”

Wednesday also marks the first meeting on the court between Gerald Henderson and Hansbrough since that infamous elbow-shot in last year’s 86-72 North Carolina victory. Lost amid all the talk about Henderson’s elbow, however, was Hansbrough’s dominance over the Blue Devils, as he scored 26 points and 17 rebounds.

And so far this season, Duke has yet to show that it can handle a good post player.

In the Blue Devils’ only loss this year, Pittsburgh freshman Dejuan Blair dominated inside with 15 points and 20 rebounds. Blair’s strong rebounding played a major role in holding Duke to just one second-chance point. Additionally, Clemson center Trevor Booker put up 15 points and 10 rebounds in the team’s 93-80 loss to Duke, and Maryland forwards James Gist and Bambale Osby combined for 46 points and 20 rebounds—each more than half of the team’s total.

Hansbrough, a second-team AP AllAmerican last year, leads North Carolina with 21.8 points per game and 10.4 rebounds per game.

“Hansbrough is the best college player as far as his value, what he brings and his

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1. Greg Paulus must play like playoff Eli Manning, not regular-season Eli Manning The comparison is obvious. Both players can frustrate fans to no end when they deliver the ball into an opponent’s waiting arms. At times, each can look like a child

who wandered into the middle of a movie.

But with two minutes left on the clock in one of the biggest games of the season, this is the guy who you want to have the ball. During the last two games, Paulus has played like a star when his team needed him most. At both ends of the court, he has emotionally taken over the game.

And in the most emotional of games, in the most hostile of environments, this is precisely the type of leadership the Blue Devils need tonight. When Psycho T bowls people over and Danny Green dances like a classless moron, Duke will need someone to help them match that intensity.

Though DeMarcus Nelson is the team’s captain, Paulus has to be this team’s heart.

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toughness,” Krzyzewski said. “Tyler gets fouled more than anybody in the country. You notice how hard he plays and how well they get him the ball, so he not only can put guys on the bench, he gets their whole team into bonuses by the way he plays.”

The Tar Heels also play 6-foot-8 Deon Thompson and 6-foot-9 Alex Stepheson, whereas the Blue Devils’ only true post player is Lance Thomas. Brian Zoubek will not play for the ninth straight game.

“We don’t have a big, bulky center that can bully his way down there so we have to use what we have,” Thomas said. “We have guys that shoot the ball incredibly and our front court is very versatile.”

That solid perimeter play might be bolstered by the potential absence ofLawson.

Four minutes into Sunday’s contest against Florida State, the point guard went down with a left ankle sprain but did not participate in team drills in Tuesday’s practice.

“He walked in the trainer’s room on crutches,” Williams said, “It’s awfully difficult to go from crutches one day to playing against Duke the next day.”

With junior Bobby Frasor already lost for the year with a torn ACL, thirdstringer Quentin Thomas and swingman Marcus Ginyard would handle the point if Lawson cannot play. Losing Lawson, who averages 13.6 points per game and 5.7 assists per game, could be a huge blow for the Tar Heels. The sophomore guard, whom Paulus called “one of the quickest guys in the country,” serves as the catalyst for North Carolina’s high-octane offense, often blowing by defenders in transition for easy layups.

Lawson’s absence may prove to be enough to propel Duke to its 10th straight

ankle Sunday afternoon. Truly, it is. But injuries are a part of the game, and Duke must adjust its gameplan accordingly.

With Lawson banged up and possibly out and backup Bobby Frasor sidelined for the season, ballhandling duties will belong to the only point guard left on the roster—litde-used senior Quentin Thomas, who has seen just 11 minutes per game thus far this season.

If Lawson is out, Thomas is one of just seven active Tar Heels who sees more than five minutes of playing time per game. With Green as the only wing bench player and Alex Stephenson in the paint, Duke should look to tire North Carolina as much as possible.

The Blue Devils need to take advantage of depth, and, if they get a lead late in the second half, they can’t afford to let up at all. Coach K’s patented stall-ball has a time and a place, but when the Tar Heels are panting like children, slowing down the game isn’t the answer.

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“Tyler Hansbrough is a great player and a huge force inside,” sophomore Jon Scheyer said. “We’ve played a lot of big guys who’ve been tough this year, but he’s probably the best one.”

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But he’s also one of the strongest players in the country, and he gets over 38 percent of his points from the freethrow line.

The Blue Devils don’t have the frontcourt depth to foul him repeatedly and be able to stay in the game. The half-court defensive gameplan, as it has been all season, should be to front him and put significant pressure on the perimeter in an effort to prevent entry passes. Once he gets the ball down low, don’t let him turn

a layup into three points

4. Make your free throws Suprisingly, this has been a weakness for Duke this season. It baffles the mind how a team that shoots 39 percent from beyond the arc can shoot just 30 percent better from four feet closer with no defense.

But these rivalry matchups are always physical batdes. Over the last four, a maddening 160 fouls have been whisded.

The Tar Heels know this lesson, too.

Hansbrough shoots more free throws than anyone in the country and makes them at better than 80%. Starting shooting guard Wayne Ellington shoots 88%, too. They already nosed Clemson in a game earlier this season because the Tigers threw up bricks from the free-throw line. It’s the first step to ensuring that debacle isn’t repeated.

5. Make Tar Heel big men play defense Sure, the Blue Devils have a small interior. Not only must they limit that deficiency on the defensive end, but they’ve also got to exploit it at the offensive end.

When Duke gets into its halfcourt offense, either Hansbrough or lumbering big-man Deon Thompson will be matched up with freshman stud Kyle Singler.

As he has shown, he’llknock down an open shot from the perimeter, so he’ll draw Tar Heel bigs out of the paint. Making them run and play defense at our end for 40 minutes will certainly make them less effective at the other end.

No matter how you slice it, two of the nation’s top three teams—and offenses —will take the floor of the Dean Dome tonight. But I think the Blue Devils can follow through on these points and set themselves apart. Ok, I’ve talked myself into it. Duke wins, 85-83.

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Hansbrough is, of course, the key to the Tar Heels' attack and the ACC's leader in both scoring and rebounding.

Neither Thomas nor Singler can singlehandedly defend the preseason ACC Player of the Year on the post, but they may be able to contain him if they don't give him opportunities for three-point plays.

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problem. It was really, really bothering me, big time...when you make your living with speaking engagements and working at ESPN, it really became a problem for me.

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Fll probably be a little emotional the day of the game. There was a moment there when I thought I would never be behind a microphone again..,. I thought my career was over and I got another lease on life. » Any time you talk about those two, I’m a little biased.

I think it’s the greatest rivalry in all of college sports.... The key to die game is obvious; the status of Ty Lawson. The one great strength of this Duke team is they generate a great deal ofoffense off their defensive pressure. Without Lawson, things change with the perimeter game for North Carolina.

I probably did about six or seven doubleheaders in November and December, and what we plan on doing is eliminadng as many doubleheaders and back-to-back games as possible. I really want to preserve my throat as much as possible, but still do as many games. Spacing and scheduling will be something we think about. » Over the last two, three years, I’ve really gone through a tough, tough time.... I think I did a great job of bluffing it. I was able to get through the telecast the last couple of years, but every game I was a worried, nervous wreck as to what was coming out of my throat. My throat was really a

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He said to me, ‘Talk to me.’ I couldn’t get any words out. I don’t know what happened, but I couldn’t get any words out. I started tearing up. He said, ‘Now, come on talk to me. Count. Count to 10.’ I guess I was afraid of what I was going to sound like. I heard rumors that your voice might not sound similar, all these crazy rumors go through your mind. Finally I counted to 10 and I felt really relieved I could get words out. » I was really, really down. I didn’t want my career to end with a situation where I was ending because of a physical ailment.... Everything comes to an end, but you’d like to be able to call that shot. You’d like to be able and say, *You know what, it’s been great, I’ve had a blast, it’s time for me to move on.’ But I don’t feel that. I feel like right now, I can’t tell you how excited I am to get back on courtside, how excited I am to be with the fans. » Last week, I shut off the sound and did my own commentary. I did all of that as a rehearsal. » I’m 68, and I can’t wait for Wednesday night, because I know I’ll be 12years old again.

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This board has not endorsed a candidate, preferring instead to encourage debate and participation.

We failed to reach a consensus on candidates, and the board feels that it is not our place at this time to endorse a national candidate.

The race leading to November has already been long and intense. Moreover, this has been a “super” week—first the Super Bowl, then Super Tuesday and today we have the first Duke-Carolina game of the season.

All three are culminating moments that have been a long time coming; in politics as in sports, the match-ups started early,

and the competition has been fierce for months.

Like a good basketball game, this year’s election looks like it will go down to the buzzer and nobody dares to call it either way.

Surprisingly,

politics

and the Blue Devils aren’t as separate as they might seem.

Former Duke basketball and football player Reggie Love has been touring the country as a personal assistant to Obama. In many ways, Love is a veteran of this kind of extended

competition.

And of course, this year the buzzword is “change.”

What that exactly means is up to voters like us to decide. The race is a striking spectacle —with

The meaning

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the first black, female and Mormon mainstream candidates ever—but the outcome is far from decided.

The Crazies tenting in K-ville attract a great deal of attention, but the volunteers canvassing for delegates draw little. We students pride ourselves on being more than just passive sports fans, on collectively serving as the “sixth man” in home games.

We can be just as decisive in the November general election, and in North Carolina’s primary on May 6.

And finally, there’s no need to lose sight of what really matters today. To that end: GO TO HELL, CAROLINA, GO TO HELL!

of hard work

and other supposedly blighted individuals could make it, if only they had their work ethic —if they “didn’t sitaround all day smoking crack and watching cartoons.”

Their work ethic. Hmm. What is that work ethic, exacdy?

Not to throw out the guilt trip here, but it’s a blessed privilege to sit in Bostock and write a paper without worrying how you are going to pay rent, pay for food, get the kid to child care and take care of a sick parent Or for those returning from abroad, to hobnob around Europe for a semester. they always depart Moreover, to even end up here, all the stars had knowing my musto align. I tell my cousin’s husband this. Yes, I have ings and life story, worked hard with what I have been given, but I but I protest—I rachel mclaughlin have been a lot. Although my family didn’t am an innocent effortless imperfection have means,given they had love. I lived in a neighborbystander.

However, peohood without gangs or crime; my school system ofthe “innofered AP classes and had enough money for stuff who know me well contest that pie like theaterand student council (the two things I cent bystander” line is a standard cover-up. Certainly I started the airplane conversations with threw myself into). When I dreamed crazy dreams a friendly (and always cheery), “Hi. My name about being a Broadway star or a civil rights lawyer, is Rachel. What is your name?” or the political I was told my dreams were possible. debate with a “Puh-lease, don’t tell me you are Each of us (if we think real hard) has a story how, quoting a favorite book, the unifor that about voting I-am-now-socially-conservativenever-really-believed-that-stuff-I-said-during-the- verse conspired to get us here—whether that Massachusetts-gubcnatorial-race guy... Romney, story is a top-notch private school, sheer brilliance or a friendly application reader who let something or another?”

Yet I promise that this Christmas I was happia few things slide.

To get rather Rawlsian, in our life Journey ly eating my fill of Christmas casserole when my cousin’s husband opened a can ofworms: “Rachel, we end up with different endowments (varyyou are a rugged individualist. I don’t understand ing degrees of cushy), and we exercise our free choice: we either maximize these endowments why you aren’t a staunch Republican.”

Remember that any self-respecting person stays or leave them untapped. The distinction is that a person with a cushy endowment has more leeaway from religion and politics at family gatherings, weddings, wakes, everyday life.... Luckily I am way to screw up. If Duke students exercise their free choice in a destructive way, they are likely not this self-respecting person, so sensing an opportunity to discuss ideological intricacies, I asked to still have health insurance, subsistence and a roof. For those with less cushy endowments, a him to clarify.

He recounted my life story—lower-middle-class screw-up or a job loss is grave.

Midwestern family, worked hard in school, made it So as I finished off my Christmas roast beef, I to Duke, the world is my oyster, lalalala. told him that this discussion ended up more philAt the core of this story was this notion of osophical than political, but no—l didn’t believe hard work. I had, as he said, taken myself up the bootstraps story. By maximizing some enfrom the bootstraps and created success for dowments, you end up at a university like Duke, myself (success being a loaded word that in his hopefully resulting in solid economic footing opinion connotes a nice GPA and getting to postgraduation. Maximizing others, you barely Duke, but in my opinion must equal much more get food on the table. than mere worldly possessions. And GPA is inI asked him: When will we, those with the cushy deed the same as toting around a very nice pair endowments, reach out to those less fortunate with of Manolo Blahniks). love instead ofmisguided judgment? Or recognize My mind went, “Aha—the bootstraps story.” I how privilege’s invisible hand operates behind all have had coundess discussions with my favorite our claims ofhard work? but more conservative friends about this familiar Rachel McLaughlin is a Trinity senior. Her column adage. It goes that the homeless, people bom into and terrible school systems, immigrants runs every other Wednesday. poverty

Every

year at Christmas I manage to get into some sort of political debate.

I swear that I play no part in this arrangement It’s just like me and in-flight heart-to-heart conversations. Alas, I am not the chatterbox.

The person next to me automatically divulginformation es about their job, their kids and (oh dear) their sex life. Of course,

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1983’s “Risky Business,” Tom Cruise underpants-danced his way into America’s heart.

Then he had sex on a train with a hooker, mak-

church’s coffers. Maybe it’s because the very structure of Scientology, its bureaucracy and its theology, is designed like a lobster trap: The further in you go, the harder it is to escape. ing him a bona fide American hero.

But underpants-dancing aside, now he’s a goddamn The church’s “fair game” policy is a good example lunatic. Cruise has become the Archduke Franz Ferof this. In the past, critics of Scientology, including exmembers, were labeled as suppressive. “Once someone dinand of the digital was identified as a ‘suppressive,’ all Scientologists were era: After Church of authorized to do anything to ‘neutralize’ that individuScientology lawyers had an interview with Cruise al—economically, politically, and psychologically,” said a removed from YouTube, California appeals court considering the claims ofLarry Wollersheim, a former Scientologist who won a signifia mysterious alliance cant verdict against the church. of web-dwellers calling themselves To be fair, Scientologists claim that the policy is no “Anonymous” declared war on followed. But the term “suppressive” is certainly longer mike devlin still used.

Scientology.

“The people of the at least it's an ethos In that case, Wollersheim v. Church of ScientolInternet., must band ogy of California, the court also discussed “freetogether for a fight that transcends our differences and loader debt.” Scientologist staff members received takes us to a level beyond our individual selves,” said a discounts on “religious” services. But upon leaving the church, staff members were charged for the message from Anonymous.

The Internet is going to war. difference between the regular price and the staff And the Internet is unforgiving: Anonymous has price. The court, in its 1989 decision, said “[a] perflooded Scientology Web sites with traffic, slowing some son who stayed in the Church for five years could down considerably. Real-life protests are planned, as easily accumulate a ‘freeloader debt’ of between $lO,OOO and $50,000.” are campaigns against Scientology’s tax exemption.

But Scientology might be an appropriate target So imagine you’re a happy-go-lucky 20-somefor this display of emergent Internet justice. Scienthing in 1983. You suffer from clinical depression. tology is a cult—a particularly litigious and arrogant But you see “Risky Business” and you want to be cult, but a cult nonetheless. It’s a brilliant moneythat guy. You want to zip across the floor in your making machine designed by a strangely creative underpants. You want to have sex with hookers on trains. And although even Tom Cruise has yet to pulp fiction author, L. Ron Hubbard.

In the 1980s, a U.S. tax join Scientology, you get a court considered the tax good feeling when you see a Scientology is a cult—a status of the Church of SciDianetics stand in a subway station. entology of California. litigious and “The goal of making monBut the e-meter doesn’t arrogant cult, but a cult work. You’re still depressed. ey permeated virtually all of petitioner’s activities —its sernonetheless. It’s a brilliant In fact, after spending thouvices, its pricing policies, its sands of dollars, you are even money-making machine... dissemination practices, and more depressed. Your Scienits management decisions,” tologist buddies hound you said the court. The church about the evils of psychiatry. sold books for at least five times their cost. And “auditYou’re going broke, but you can’t leave. You don’t ing,” which seems to be a cross between psycho-therapy, want to become “fair game,” and you’ve been doing Roman Catholic confession and interrogation, has always some auditing for the church—you’d owe a hefty been pricey—according to that case, a “25-hour intensum if you ditched. And they “audited” all of your sive” cost “3 months of pay for the average middle class own darkest secrets. worker in the district of the Scientology church providSo you stay, until they’ve sucked you dry of money and spirit. ing the service.”

This is not behavior that society should ignore; it’s During “auditing,” the auditor uses an “e-meter” to judge the participant’s reactions. But in 1971, a certainly not behavior that should be rewarded with U.S. District Court ordered that “[t]he device should tax-exempt status. bear a prominent, clearly visible notice warning that And although I certainly won’t participate in the someany person using it for auditing or counseling of any times-illegal tactics employed by Anonymous, I am pleased kind is forbidden by law to represent that there is that the underbelly of the Internet is concerned with any medical or scientific basis for believing or assert- something weightier than Britney Spears up-skirt shots. ing that the device is useful in the diagnosis, treatment or prevention ofany disease.”

Mike Devlin is a first-year student in the School ofLaw. Yet people still hemorrhage cash into the His column runs every other Wednesday.

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applaud the University’s efforts to encourage a partnership between Duke and Durham. However, Duke’s commitment to improving relations with Durham blinds our administration to certain actions of Durham residents take that strike me as in poor taste. Abusing library privileges, skateboarding on campus and spray-painting graffiti on the East Campus bridge are all problems that disrupt the Dtrke experience. Although they might be minor, they are nevertheless important Luckily, they are easy to fix. I hope that by bringing attention to them, we can find a solution Duke has generously opened its adam zell library facilities to the public. Duke should be commended for taking reflective solutions this approach. Other local schools, such as University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University, have very limited computer clusters for nonstudent use. Duke allows anyone, by simplyrequesting a guest login, to use any computer resource.

Unfortunately, some community members abuse this privilege.

After the Perkins Library renovations and the vast expansion of available computers, this is normally not an issue on West Campus. However, during testing periods when computers are in high demand, this problem is particularly pressing. On East Campus, where there are fewer computers, free computers are especially hard to come by.

During finals last semester, a slouching 12-year-old boy, with one leg smugly propped on the table and rented headphones placed cock-eyed on his headwith one speaker blaring for the wider public to enjoy, gazed at the third repetition of a streaming Soulja Boy video on YouTube.

Meanwhile, Duke students, struggling to carry 40 pounds of books and a large coffee, awkwardly hovered around the Perkins lobby waiting to use a computer to prepare for exams. That is simply not right Two very helpful library staff informed me that the current policy requires Duke students to complain before the staff can remove anyone not using the computers appropriately. Duke students have either been unaware of this right or too nice to exercise it.

The University shouldnot place this burden on its students. Instead, Duke should replace its guest computer login with two new options: guest scholar and community member. When guest scholars produce a student ED from another academic institution, a librarian would log them in, and they could use a computer indefinitely. The community member login would automatically logout after a set period of time such as 45 minutes, letting the librarians regulate computer use.

Now, on to another unnecessary disturbance. As most ofyou remember, after the West Campus Plaza’s completion, Durham teens began using it a skateboard park. The Duke community should not have to tolerate this behavior. It is not only a general nuisance to people who might otherwise enjoy socializing on the Plaza, but it disturbs the sleep of those living in Kilgo Quad.

Some of my female friends have complained about being lewdly ogled by these local teens. The Plaza is not a viewing gallery for the teens’ pleasure. They may ultimately be harmless, but they can fantasize somewhere else.

Thankfully, I haven’t seen many skateboarders this semester.

Duke has already taken steps to resolve the issue by instructing our roving security officers to first ask the skateboarders to leave and then, if they refuse, to charge them with trespassing and impose a fine. This credible threat will act as a sufficient deterrent to prevent this problem from reoccurring.

Our final problem lies in local graffiti artists. For some reason, about a year ago, people began spray-painting graffiti on the East Campus bridge. During my first two years here, this bridge was solely reserved for student groups to advertise events. The bridge was governed by the unspoken code of not painting over an advertisement until the event had already passed. The graffiti artists have no such compunction.

The bridge is a defining aspect ofDuke’s community. Itadds color to the routine CT bus route, serves as students’ favorite calendar of events and also provides many fun nights for social groups armed with paint buckets ready to advertise their events. The bridge must be reserved for these important purposes. There is a plethora of other options for local aspiring graffiti artists.

Similar to the skateboarder solution, Duke’s roaming security officers should be on the lookout for all spray-painters. Those not affiliated with Duke should pay a fine.

Even though these are all minor issues that won’t make or break a Duke experience, solving them demonstrates that the administrationis listening. Although Duke certainly has more pressing problems to address, it is also important not to lose sight of the minutiae. Just like the bigger problems, these minor disturbances make up our daily Duke experience. But, unlike the larger problems, these are much easier to fix. ,

Adam Zell is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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