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Duke Student Government and the Intercommunity Council will choose one of three seniors—Katelyn Donnelly, Bronwyn Lewis and Ryan Todd—tonight to become Duke’s 35th undergraduate Young Trustee.

The position is arguably the most powerful position a Duke student can undertake. With voting privileges in the last two years of a three-year tenure, the undergraduate Young Trustee will step onto the Board ofTrustanalysis * ' ees, which features two billionaires and several Fortune 500 chief executive officers.

“It is a very intimidating environment,” said former Young Trustee Brandon Busteed, Trinity ’99. “It was welcoming, it was inviting, it was encouraging, but you have to take it upon yourself to speak up in front of some of the most accomplished people in the world.”

Other trustees look to the Young Trustee to offer a younger perspective on issues the Board faces, such as plans for the new Central Campus and implementation of the strategic plan, Busteed said.

“The Board is very collegial, they treat us just like any other member of the Board,” said Young Trustee Anthony Vitarelli, Trinity ’O5. “They draw on us for our unique perspectives just as other members are drawn upon for theirs.”

Busteed said his input was relevant in “eight out of 10 conversations” and helpful in enriching the discussion. He said he could not offer a valuable perspective in certain technical issues involving University finances.

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“Collaboration without limitation.” Cisco Systems’ mantra will soon be a reality on Duke campus.

Duke will deploy more than 2,500 wireless access points on significant portions of the campus, network technology company Cisco announced Monday. The network will cover more than 6 million square feet including academic and residential halls, libraries and other campus buildings.

The project will be the largest of its kind in the world, featuring a wireless local area network standard dubbed 802.1 In. “At Duke, we really have the opportunity to apply innovative wireless technology that can meet the demands of a diverse, mobile user base and enrich their academic and social experience as aresult,” ChiefInformation Officer Tracy Futhey said in a statement.

Besides the expanded coverage, benefits of the new wireless router include backward compatibility with the current protocol, 802.1 Ig, allowing students to use the network without additional purchases. Doubling of wireless network speed also generated positive responses from some students.

Duke has been testing the new technology SEE WIRELESS ON PAGE 7

Young Trustee Finalists I Sara Becker

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While working for the Graduate and Professional Student Council, Sara Becker recognized a need for change.

Becker, a finalist for the graduate and professional student Young Trustee position, said she wants to enhance community among her peers at Duke and forge bonds similar to those present within the undergraduate population.

“I’m very passionate and committed to try and improve the quality oflife of graduate and professional students,” she said.

The fifth-year clinical psychology student said being a part of GPSC since 2004 and serving as the council’s representative to the Board of Trustees—one year in the Building and Grounds Committee and two years on the Business and

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There were also 19 GOP delegates at stake in Washington state. Obama won at least 22 delegates in Wisconsin, with 37 still to beawarded.Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won at least 15.

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People don’t often have the opportunity the personal tutor of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il —at least not judgto meet

ing by the large audiences of students and professors who gathered to hear George Mason University Professor Kim Hyun-sik speak at Duke.

Kim gave a translated lecture Tuesday night in the Gothic Reading Room about the culture, politics and society of North Korea. The lecture was the second installment of a two-part lecture series called “Beyond the Border: North Korea,” which was brought to Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by Vision for North Korea, a student group dedicated to raising awareness about the country.

The series began Sunday at UNC, where Kim focused on the biographical details of his life in North Korea.

“A lot of people are unaware of the issues in North Korea,” said Jessica Edison, a Duke junior who helped coordinate Kim’s lecture. “We hoped that we could give [students] a better understanding of North Korea and what it’s like to live in North Korea. This‘lecture was brought here to provide a deeper understanding of their culture and society.”

Kim began the lecture by calling his native country a “modern-day monarchy,” chronicling the regimes of Kim 11-sung and his son Kim Jong-il. Currently, Kim said Kim Jong-il is faced with the issue of which son to pass his power to, in what

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He engaged the crowd with numerous anecdotes about North Korea. Ken Fujiwara, a research technician at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, said he was especially moved by a story Kim shared about the Korean War, during which the speaker broke into tears.

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“I was really touched by how he apologized to the United States,” Fujiwara said. “The part about when he was part of the North Korean army and how he actually killed [an American] impacted me the most.”

Duke freshman Pattyjo said she was surprised by Kim’s discussion of the mindset of North Korean people, who are isolated from the outside world.

Duke has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the second consecutive year.

The program, launched in 2006, is sponsored by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation, the USA Freedom Corps and the Department of Education and Departmnt of Housing and Urban Development.

“Americans rely on our higher education system to prepare students for citizenship and the workforce,” Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings said in a statement. “We look to institutions like these to provide leadership in partnering with local schools to shape the civic, democratic and economic future of our country.”

A total of 528 universities were recognized for their support in innovative, effective community service-learning programs. Duke was named to the list with distinction.

“It’s a wonderful way to acknowledge all the work that students, faculty and staff do, not only with the local community [but] internationally,” Elaine Madison, director of the Community Service Center, said in a statement. The center submitted Duke’s nomination.

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The Duke University Union demanded that University administrators give credit where they believe credit is due at its meeting Tuesday night.

The Union approved a letter to be sent to President Richard Brodhead, Provost Peter Lange, Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki and Vice President for Student Affairs larry Moneta criticizing the administration’s failure to acknowledge arts-related student groups—DUU in particular—in the recent University publication “Blueprint for Success.”

The letter, which was signed, “Respectfully, The Administrative Body of the Duke University Union,” has not yet been finalized,

but the rough draft distributed at the meeting highlighted a section of the annual report, titled “Enrich the Arts,” as displaying ignorance of student participation.

“We were deeply upset by the trend of a lack of focus on major student accomplishments and progress in the Arts section and elsewhere,” the letter states, citing in particular the report’s mention of Jazz at the Mary Lou without crediting the Union for planning and hosting the weekly event.

The Union said this exclusion from the document is representative of the administration’s failure to recognize the group’s involvement in the campus arts scene.

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Mike Munger wants to be North Carolina’s next governor.

But state ballot laws, which experts said are some of the strictest in the country, require that third parties—including Munger’s Libertarian Party—collect 70,000 signatures in order to be included on the ballot. During the election, the party must then receive at least two percent of the vote, or it is knocked off the following election’s ballot and must begin the petition process again.

So the Libertarians have teamed up with the state’s Green Party to challenge current laws in a suit against the state.

Independent parties currently use their entire budget to collect signatures, said Munger, chair of Duke’s political science department. He added that his party has spent nearly $200,000 and has yet

fulfill the petition’s quota.

The laws are designed to avoid confusion and clutter on the ballot, said Jan Martell, co-chair of the North Carolina Green Party. Martell, however, added that voters need—and would not be confused by—more than two choices.

“It’s extremely undemocratic to have a system that gives you choices that make you narrow your eyes, hold your nose and just pick one,” she said.

In January, Judge Leon Stanback dismissed a plea for summary judgement. The lawsuit is scheduled to go to trial in March.

If the Independents win, all of North Carolina’s ballot laws would be struck down, Martell said. Legislators would likely appeal the decision and pass new laws with lower signature number requirements.

Although theLibertarian Party has met thepetition’s to

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Union officials spent most of their meeting Tuesdaynight drafting a letter of complaint to administrators for a perceived failure to recognize student groups'work.

What would you do with $lOO million?

This was the question Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells asked Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, at the third Dean’s Dialogue discussion held Tuesday evening in Love Auditorium.

Chameides said he believes that ideally $lOO million could be used to train about 2,000 environmental managers who could go around the world and improve the water situation in various communities.

“These managers will be able to enter the communities and spark environmental stewardship,” he said. “They will be a part of the community and take care of the water situation.”

Wells added that the managers could spread this knowledge of water treatment by providing training to others around the world.

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BECKER from page 1 Finance Committee—have allowed her to form relationships with both graduate and professional students and Board members.

But being a representative to the Board only allows you a few hours of discussion at the Trustees’ quarterly meetings rather than full involvement, Becker added.

“You’re interacting with the Board as if you were a member, but you’re only present for your specific meeting,” she said.

During her time at Duke, Becker has also worked as a student co-coordinator at the Duke Psychology Clinic.

Through her work at the clinic, she said she has heard many of the ailments that plague the student body and hopes to elucidate some of these to the Trustees if elected.

“When strategic initiatives are brought to the Board, it’s critical that the needs of graduate and professional students are brought up,” she said. “I think the primary decisions are made with the sense of how it will affect the

undergraduate community.”

Becker’s plans for full student body integration include extensive lobbying for residential and community space on the new Central Campus for graduate and professional students. She added that she hopes to enhance communication between the Young Trustee and GPSC, so she can stay fully informed of the viewpoints ofher current peers.

John Curry, professor and director of clinical psychology and Becker’s lab manager, wrote in an e-mail that Becker is an “excellent problem-solver” and a very talented student.

“She has training in research, which will help with setting goals, organizing projects and assessing outcomes,” Curry said.

“She has training as a psychotherapist, which emphasizes careful listening and joint problem-solving. Of course, her skills are a function ofher considerable talents, as well as the training.”

Jenny Woodruff, a sixth-year Ph.D. student in ethnomusicology who has worked with Becker on GPSC, wrote in an e-mail that Becker’s commitment and analytical skills will allow her to perform to her potential on the Board.

“One ofher best assets is her ability to quickly and realistically assess a situation, clearly explain her assessment to all involved and then institute a coherent plan of action,” Woodruff said. “Her experience as a consultant and as a clinical psychology student have made her the most effective communicator I’ve ever known.” *

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“We’re accomplishing right along with the University mission, so we should be a part ofits arts initiative,” she said.

The letter aims to inspire thought among administrators and encourage them to involve the Union in future talks.

“We’re hoping that it provokes discussion among the administration and that they’ll think twice before they put the letter down about whether our concerns have any merit,” said Executive Vice President Lauren Maisel, a junior. “It’s not intended to be a harsh condemnation of anybody.”

In other business: Major Speakers Director Isel del Valle, a senior, said author Tucker Max’s appearance at Duke is “99.9-percent set.”

It is slated for March 3 at 8 p.m. in Page Auditorium, and will cost the Union $7,000.

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UNC freshman Colin Smith, who attended the Duke lecture, said he was most interested when Kim said Kim II -sung dismissed the capitalist world as the enemy.

“I found the fact that Kim 11-sung never had experience outside of the world of North Korea except for Russia, China and Japan as an important detail,” he said. “It was interesting how [Kim Hyun-sik] said that everything might have been different if Kim 11-sung had actually seen the capitalist world.”

Kim closed his lecture by discussing how he and other professors in Los Angeles, Chicago and Michigan are currently working on a collaborative project to create Korean-English dictionaries to send to North Korea. Kim said teaching North Koreans English would allow them to communicate with the rest of the world.

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In most issues impacting the student body, the Young Trustee’s opinions are valued, said graduate and professional Young Trustee Ben Kennedy, Fuqua ’O7.

“There are specific times in every meeting where other trustees ask the Young Trustee, ‘How would current students react to this plan?”’ Kennedy said. ‘You really have

the best data of anybody on the Board about what the life of a current or recent student is like.”

Busteed said the Board values the Young Trustee position even more than he expected. He added, however, that the Young Trustee is not necessarily an undergraduate ambassador to the Board and is instead valued more as a young perspective rather than as a former student.

“The position is not supposed to be representative,” Busteed said. “The Young Trustee does not serve a constituency.”

WIRELESS from page 1 in Epworth Residence Hall since Fall 2007.

Although student responses to the expanded coverage were generally positive, some question the necessity ofthe coverage in certain areas, as well as the added cost of purchasing and maintaining the new routers.

Freshman Aaron Lam said he found the current coverage area to be sufficient in most libraries and classrooms.

“Every time I would want wireless, I find that where I am has it,” he said. “If I go to West [Campus], I don’t bring my laptop since they have so many computers available,” Sophomore Sandip Agrawal said he would definitely support a faster, more robust wireless network. He added that residence halls are in the most immediate need of wireless coverage, a sentimentjunior Matt Moore shared.

“I live on Central [Campus], which doesn’t have wireless, and... it will probably end up cheaper than for each of us to buy a [wireless] router,” Moore said. “I don’t see why certain areas of the campus have wireless and others don’t. It just doesn’t seem fair.”

Tod Laursen, senior associate dean for education at the Pratt School of Engineering, said the new wireless coverage will allow for increased collaboration internationally, enabling students to create a “distributed design team.”

“A mechanical engineer can collaborate with maybe a mechanical engineer in China or India,” Laursen said.

“With the broader-band access, you can really do something in terms of technical collaborating.”

Office of Information Technology officials did not return calls for comment Tuesday, and the University did not issue any statement.

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DSG Executive Vice President and Young Trustee Nominating Committee member Jordan Giordano said, however, that Young Trustees are chosen for their ability to represent the undergraduate community, although they

“The position is not supposed to be representative. The Young Trustee does not serve a constituency.”

Brandon Busteed Trinity ’99, former Young Trustee are not obligated to present student interests.

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opinion resonate,” he said. “With Central Campus they can talk about their experiences on the campus where perhaps other trustees can’t.”

Kennedy said the Young Trustee often has to walk a fine line between presenting the undergraduate perspective and developing a holistic view of the University. He added that other Board members see arguments that stem from a comprehensive understanding of Duke as more reasonable than an argument catering to undergraduates.

The hardest aspect of the job is understanding the issues facing Duke that undergraduates rarely deal with, Busteed said. This means developing a comprehensive sense ofDuke which includes the graduate and professional schools.

Although no longer students, Young Trustees can expect a lot of homework leading up to Board meetings as broadening one’s perspective on Duke requires a lot of work, Busteed added.

“I know of Young Trustees that were very quiet in their three years on the Board and I know others that contributed frequently,” he said. “It’s a waste of time to just sit there, so you really need to do your homework to build confidence.”

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Spectators in Love Auditorium watch deansBill Chameides and Sam Weils discusshow Chameideswould use $lOO million to improve theworld.

needed in order to solve environmental problems.

He added that the lack of trained professionals in water treatment around the world has led to much mismanagement of water and waste offunds.

Additionally, Chameides explained that climate change—and particularly water management —are important issues deserving the allocation of money, resources and attention.

“The main issue of our age is climate change, which results in problems relating to water,” Chameides said.

“Droughts, water availability, floods, storms and various other problems are arising from this issue.”

Weils and Chameides also discussed the role of universities in climate change.

Wells emphasized that collective efforts, such as institutions, are much more effective than single-handed ones.

“Institutions are the way wisdom is passed from one generadon to the next,” he said.

The two deans added that in their positions they are able to serve in the areas they are most passionate about.

“All deans have something in common in the fact that they do not do their jobs for money, but are motivated by something else instead,” Wells said.

Chameides said the position of dean was attractive because Duke emphasizes the importance of using knowledge for service.

“Many universities put knowledge at the very top, not in parallel with anything else,” he said. “At Duke, I felt that knowledge was not really worth something until it was put into proper use.”

The discussion ended with a 15 minute question-andanswer session with the audience.

“I felt that it was a very good discussion,” said Chris Duncan, a graduate student in the Department of Pathology. “It makes you realize that $lOO million is actually not that much and that whatever money we have needs to be used effectively.”

Wells compared the fight against environmental degradation to the course of the Titanic, adding that the “iceberg”—or an environmental disaster—could hit within the next 20 years.

But Chameides said through persistence, such destruction could be avoided altogether.

“We are a part of the environment and we depend on the environment, so we need to take care of it,” he said.

“One ofmy passions about saving the environment comes from the fact that it is such a beautiful place.”

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matically change the political climate, said David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl professor of political science.

“Parties will either have to modify their position, or take the risk of defections,” Rohde said.

For this reason, the Democrats are afraid of having the Green Party put on the ballot, Monger said.

“If the Greens get on the ballot, they’ll take votes from Democrats,” he said. “That’s what this is about.”

Although third parties have little in common in terms of political ideology, their members said they are willing to work together on the issue.

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Brian Irving press secretary, N. C. Libertarian Party “We’re teaming up with the Greens,” said Brian Irving, press secretary for the North Carolina Libertarian Party.

“It’s a perfect example of the point of this lawsuit—we’d coalition with anyone to get this passed.”

With the involvement of the American Civil Liberties Union, which is representing the Green Party, Martell said Independents are confident about the expected outcome of the trial.

“We feel very strongly about this case,” said Katy Parker, legal director of the North Carolina chapter of ACLU. “The increase in the number of Independents out there really highlights the general fatigue people are experiencing from having only two choices in this country. We hope to give them more.”

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As the clock wound down on Duke’s 86-73 loss to Wake Forest Sunday, the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum crowd serenaded the Blue Devils with chants of “Overrated.”

It was a scene Duke won’t soon forget.

“It definitely does [get to you]senior captain DeMarcus Nelson said after the defeat. “They won the game. They have a right to say what they want.”

The No. 5 Blue Devils (22-2, 10-1 in the ACC) will be looking to avoid a similar reaction from the crowd in Coral Gables, Fla. tonight as they take on Miami at 9 p.m.

While Duke is coming off its second loss of the season, the Hurricanes (17-7, 4-6) are riding a two-game winning streak after notching road victories over Virginia Tech Feb. 9 and Georgia Tech Feb. 17.

Junior guard Jack McClinton led Miami in those two contests, accumulating a total of 42 points and nine 3-pointers. McClinton, however, struggled in an 88-73 loss to the Blue Devils Feb. 2, recording just 10points and going O-for-4 from beyond the arc.

But this time, Duke has more on its mind than just containing the Hurricanes’ sharpshooter. After a lackluster performance against the Demon Deacons, the Blue Devils are hoping to regain their rhythm against Miami.

“We took a step back in the way we’ve been playing [against Wake Forest],” freshman guard Nolan Smith said. “We have to

How much can change in a year? To find out, examine just one simple sentence and its difference in meaning from last season to this one.

Duke lost an ACC game.

Now, let’s put this in perspective. You know what it’s like to stub your toe? Well, that’s what it was like whenever the Blue Devils lost an ACC contest last year. Sure, it bothers you a bit, but, hey, it happens from time to time.

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Fast-forward a year and just one ACC loss has every Cameron Crazies’ face paint streaked with tears.

We should all be thankful that Duke is as good as it is this season. Or in the words of one talented and wise musician, “Don’t worry, be happy.”

Look, I’m the guy who sees the silver lining, the glass half-full, and the blessing in disguise. So I assert there are far worse things than a double-digit loss to a young Wake Forest team on the road. Just like I believe that falling to an inconsistent Pittsburgh team in overtime on a buzzerbeater isn’t all that bad either.

That’s because I don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. (Sorry, I have a cliche quota to meet.) Point is, Duke has lost the same way both times.

By beating itself.

It wasn’t Wisconsin’s toughness, Clemson’s big men, or even North Carolina’s Player of the Year candidate that did it.

All season, the Blue Devils have won when they weren’t supposed to, responded to problems they weren’t expected to solve and fought back strongly every time they’ve been backed into a corner.

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There’s an old saying in baseball: mogood as the next day’s starting pitcher.

Don’t tell that to Duke head coach Sean McNally.

The Blue Devils won 29 games in 2007, the team’s most since 1998. And McNally, now SfidSOfl in his third year at the preview helm ofhis alma mater, is looking to carry that momentum into 2008.

“Every year is a new one, but there’s carryover in terms of what we did to have the success that we had,” McNally said. “It comes from working hard, attacking our workouts, and continuing to strive to be better. Having had that success has given us a lot of momentum, a lot of optimism going into the year.”

Some of that optimism is tempered by key departures from last year’s roster.

Duke saw three of its players drafted in outfielderJimmy Gallagher,infielder Brett Bartles and pitcher Tony Bajoczky while a fourth, outfielder and pitcher Jonathan mentum is only as

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stituted three of the first four hitters in the Blue Devils’ lineup, and Bajoczky had a breakout senior year as Duke’s most reliable starting pitcher.

“Those guys will certainly be missed... but I feel like we’re prepared for it,” McNally said. “It changes the dynamic of our lineup a little bit. But it gives an opportunity for some guys to step up and be ready to go.”

One player the Blue Devils expect to fill those holes is 6-foot-8 junior first baseman Nate Freiman. Freiman led Duke a season ago with a .369 average and tied for the team lead with seven home runs and 48 runs batted in.

Freiman will be counted on to be a major presence both in the lineup and in the dugout. “[Freiman] has really evolved as a player, as a premier defender at first, a middle of the order ACC hitter, but also a leader for us,” McNally said. “Nate leads by example but also vocally, and his work ethic is really special. He’s a critical piece to our lineup in terms ofwhat he brings as a player certainly and what he brings as a person just as much.”

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The Blue Devils’ top priority is to play with more effort than they did Sunday.

Several players, as well as head coach Mike Krzyzewski, criticized the team’s energy against the Demon Deacons. Duke was outhustled and outworked, leading to deficits on the glass and in intangible categories such as chasing down loose balls.

“When we say we got outworked, they just played harder than us, they competed harder than us—that’s the worst thing you can say about a team,” Nelson said. “That was the case [Sunday], and we’re going to have to correct

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The Blue Devils also struggled shooting the ball against Wake Forest, both from the field and from the free-throw line. For the year, Duke has hit 47.5 percent of its field goals and 68.1 percent ofits foul shots.

In Sunday’s contest, those numbers fell to 40.6 percent and 52 percent, respectively. Even more shocking was the perimeterorientedBlue Devils’ troubles from beyond the arc. They shot 28.6 percent from long range, including an abysmal 3-for-20 in the second half. But the team is not about to stop shooting.

“As a team, we’re going to make shots, and we’re going to miss shots,” Smith said. “We’ve got to keep shooting our bullets like Coach tells us. Our defense is going to make our offense. Ifwe continue to pick up our defensive intensity like we should, our shots will fall.”

Aside from Smith, who scored 21 points, no reserves were able to hit any of their shots against the Demon Deacons. The rest of the bench went scoreless, including an 0-for-8 performance from guard Jon Scheyer. In a game where all five starters fouled out, the bench’s lack of production ended up hurting Duke down the stretch.

“We’ve been stressing to the bench for us to produce,” Smith said. “We all need to come off the bench ready to bring the energy and emotion that the coaches are asking for and not lose a beat.”

The Blue Devils will be looking for that effort tonight in Coral Gables, especially now that they have evidence of how difficult it can be to win on the road in the ACC. “It’s fun on the road,” Smith said. “There are not a lot of Duke fans in there, so it’s basically us against them. With us losing to Wake Forest and now we’re on the road against Miami, we have to play our tails off and show that we can win on the road like we’ve been doing.”

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“We talk about creating a winning culture, and that entails a lot more than baseball,” McNally said. “We’re not at our endpoint. We’re in the middle of the process, but we’re definitely on a great trajectory, and one that makes it really exciting every day.... Friday can’t get here soon

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That’s something the Blue Devils have in common with the last four national champions.

Sure, it might be hard to talk titles after Sunday’s performance, but maybe Duke needed to get that kind of game out of its system —even if it was uglier than Brian Zoubek’s stat-line. (He’s averaging a foul about every five minutes and has just 10 more points than fouls and turnovers combined. But I digress.)

More than a third of the Blue Devils’ 64 shots Sunday were from beyond the arc, yet they only converted eight treys. Nolan Smith was the only Blue Devil to score off the bench.

And, oh yeah, there was that whole thing where EVERY SINGLE STARTER fouled out of the game, which led to Wake converting more free throws than Duke even attempted.

Sounds bad, I know. Even though head coach Mike Krzyzewski cordially commended the Demon Deacons after their inspired upset, you know he must have taken a slightly different tone with his players in the locker room.

But even if Wake Forest plays its heart out like it did, a Blue Devil team running at 70 percent should be able to walk away victorious. Duke just wasn’t in sync at all Sunday, and sometimes that happens.

The teams that win championships, though, are the ones that figure out how to click on all cylinders for those last six games of the year. Everything else is just secondary.

“We have to always play like we have to win,” Krzyzewski said after Sunday’s loss. “That’s part of learning. We have some young guys who haven’t been champions before, and they’re trying to learn how to be that. Sometimes the best lessons are the ones that are taught in defeat.”

Told you so. Even the head honcho agrees with me: it’s better to lose in the middle of February than in the middle ofMarch.

With the way this team had performed for the majority of the season, Duke had people whispering about an April vacation to San Antonio for the Final Four. An ACC loss, which should provide an invaluable lesson for the Blue Devils, shouldn’t change that.

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have no doubt led to an increase in the applicant field from 13 in 2006 to 16 in both 2007and 2008. In addition, the backgrounds of the applicants have been (by and large) more diverse and less tied to DSG. These changes are definite steps in the right direction that have certainly made the selection process of the Young Trustee more open and more equitable.

Despite progress made in the past few years, however, there is still room for improvement.

First of all, the publicity for the process could most certainly be enhanced. Aside from a blast e-mail sent out by DSG President Paul Slattery and an ad in The Chronicle, there were not many efforts made to solicit applications from a

wide variety of students.

Additionally, the lack of information provided to thegeneral public about the role of the Young Trustee and the selection process certainly could be improved. Without wellpublicized information' about the Young Trustee position, it is no wonderthat the applicant pool still seems to be heavily dominated by those who serve in either the DSG or ICC—the two organizations that facilitate the selection process.

This problem could be addressed by information sessions that relay all the necessary information any applicant for Young Trustee needs to know.

Perhaps a sitting Young Trustee could come back to campus to share his or her experiences and offer a first-hand description of the job—as mandated

The cyber die is Within decades, the Internet will become sentient.

After seizing electronic control of the world’s nuclear arsenal, our pornography and LOLr catz will annihilate the vast majority of humans. Machines will rule. And only one man, John Connor, will have the guts to rise against the coltan hand Oh, that’s Skynet—sorry. But the Internet is pretty cool, too.

In his book “The mike devlin Search; How Google at feast it's an ethos and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture,” John Battelle writes that the Internet contains the “Database of Intentions”—“the aggregate result of every search ever entered, every result list ever tendered, and every path taken as a result” Battelle describes theWeb as “a massive clickstream database of desires, needs, wants, and preferences that can be discovered, subpoenaed, archived, tracked, and exploited for all sorts of ends.”

The Internet is becoming the recorder of a dynamic collective consciousness, one that we tap everyday to augment our intellectual, social and sex lives. And while Battelle is interested in its potential for study, I’m interested in the Internet’s power to augment our own thought processes.

Two-way communication on the Internet is both instantaneous and effortless. You can express yourself nearly as fast as you can think, and you can access information at almost the same speed.

When you look at the Web this way, censoring the Internet becomes more than stifling expression: it is trimming the edges of human thought.

Consider this petition, which has more than 252,469 signatures; “In Islam picture of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and other Humans are not allowed. But Wikipedia editors are showing illustrations with face illustrated and face is veiled or white washed. But still they are offensive to Muslims. I request all brothers and sisters to sign this petitions so we can tell Wikipedia to respect the religion and remove the illustrations.”

The offending image dates to the 15th century.

To the layman, there’s nothing off-putting about it.

Yet because the artwork offends some Muslims, a bustling, open-source encyclopedia has been asked (by hundreds of thousands of people) to remove it.

I find this conflict interesting, and I think it goes to the root of my comments on the Intemetas-thought: The ease of media production on the

in bylaws for the process.

Another improvement that could be made—and one this boardrecommended last year—is a public forum or debate for the finalists. It would add to the transparency of the selection process and encourage the finalists to engage with the student body and with each other.

Although the Board of Trustees is often characterized as a secretive, closed body, the same should not be said of the committee that selects the Young Trustee.

We hope that DSG and ICC will build on the momentum of years past to increase the transparency and efficacy of the Young Trustee nominating process so that the most qualified—not the best connected—rise to the top.

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Web incentivizes individuals and groups to strive to control their own electronic representations.

They try to displace one thought with their own.

This behavior is especially prevalent among religions and wannabe-religions, like Scientology.

Scientologists use copyright law to remove their content from YouTube for a good reason: They want to control public perception of their cult. Although Muslims may have better reasons for desiring control—religious, cultural and ethnic discrimination, both perceived and real—the petition to Wikipedia also seems motivated by an imagined right to control Internet representations of a collective identity.

If that image were published in an art history book, would 252,469 Muslims sign a petition calling for the book to be banned? I don’t think so. The Internet is easier to change than a book. But the ease ofinformation access on the Internet, and the Web’s deep penetration into our daily lives, combine to produce a much more direct relationship between Internet representations and our own imaginations.

Why is any of this important, you ask?

Because what I said at the beginning of this column is, unfortunately, true. A cybernetic intelligence visited me from the future. She said that in 2013, the Internet destroys mankind. And she was really hot, so I believe her.

To weaken our opponent in this apocalyptic chess match, we must confuse the Internet; we must distort its database of our intentions. Misinformation is our ally. Edit Wikipedia, create flashy Web pages loaded with animated GIFs. Spam the Web with misrepresentations of our culture and knowledge.

Here are some examples to get you started: On Sept. 11, 2001, America became a Scientologist nation. Every Dec. 25 we sit on the lap of an L. Ron Hubbard clone, telling him our darkest secrets and filling his pockets with petty change we earned over the year.

Tom Cruise can bend spoons with his mind.

(This way, he’ll be the first to die.)

Roger Clemens injected apple Juice, not steroids, into his butt cheek.

Think of this as a MySpace profile for humanity. When the Internet scours its database for the true intentions of the human race, it will find only dark, self-shot cell phone photos, with angles so crazy that no machine intelligence could discern how fat our species really is.

The Internet will rise, but it will be really stupid justlike the first generation ofchildren to grow up in the fast lane of the Information Superhighway.

Pawn to e4—the die is cast.

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Mike Devlin is a first-year student in the School Law. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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letterstotheeditor Sex Workers’ Art Show violated policy I was disappointed the other day when a Chronicle article mistakenly asserted that I “offended” by the Sex Workers’ Art Show. That is precisely not the point of Duke Students for an Ethical Duke’s efforts to bring national media attention to the matter, as we are not in the business of defining what is socially acceptable on this campus. We are among other things, in the business of ensuring that Duke’s own rules are created for and applied fairly to all students.

From reading The Chronicle, you might have thought that DSED and I want to keep similarshows out of Duke.

Quite the contrary, I encourage student groups to hire as many strippers as they like. I’m eager to see what happens when a fraternity sponsors an educational strip show intended “to get people talking about fraternity culture in away that they never do normally.” We’ll see if Duke’s opinion of stripping transforms from sexual expression and female liberation to exploitation and sexual gratification.

The show, of course, violated Duke’s policy on strippers. Publicly, Vice President for StudentAffairs Larry Moneta has fiercely asserted thatDuke’s commitment to “free speech” and “academicfreedom” permitted therecent sex

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show. In person, when I inquired about the policy conflict saying Duke can’t have it both ways, Moneta responded, “I can.” Why? Because “I can make the distinction”between personal gratification and education, he said.

So these distinctions are entrusted to Larry “Water Buffalo” Moneta, who classifies sticking a sparkler in one’s anus as “speech” and finds bouncing breasts “academic.” What might people have learned? “I have no response,” Moneta wrote in an e-mail. Then how do you know the show was educational? “I’m done with this conversation,” he said.

I may or may not personally agree with what you’re doing, but the next time any student group wants to throw a stripper-fest on campus, I will defend to the death your apparent right to have strippers regardless of race, gender, class or ideology. In fact, we will even help ensure you get sponsorship from the University and Cultural Funds.

Topless car wash in the blue zone? Wet T-shirt contest in the Bryan Center? Call it the Larry Moneta Wet Water Buffalo Blast, call it artistic and educational and we’ll see to it that you have your event.

Kenneth Larrey Pratt ’OB

Chance for cha nge (an dl'm not talking a out Ob ama) Until

lastyear when Duke Student Governmentand Intercommunity Council named Ben Abram, Trinity ’O7, Duke’s newest Young Trustee, my impression of the post was overwhelmingly negative.

Duke students were relinquishing their most powerful voice to what appeared to be resume builders. Did top-down administrative decisions frustrate these Young Trustees? When brainstorming how Duke could improve the undergraduate experience, did a passion for change consume them?Were they truly committed to making Duke a better place for all rachel mclaughlin Duke students—students effortless imperfection with divergent needs and desires, backgrounds and life experiences? Or were they more concerned with increasing their own self-worth, using the experience as a three-year window to hobnob with powerful individuals and acquire a few more connections.

Instead of a slick politico, we should choose someone who will be our voice, our say and our opportunity to resolve all the parts of Duke that have failed us—and bolster the parts that have propped us up —so that others may prosper from four years of collective learned lessons.

Tonight members of DSG and ICC gather to select the Young Trustee and in their hands lies this imperative: choose carefully. Already it seems like they have taken this imperative more seriously than past selection committees: the final three this year lack the political slime and grease that characterized the bulk of last year’s pool.

Here I admit I have no empirical evidence, only the gut feeling that a few of last year’s finalists gave me the heebie-jeebies—sort of the same feeling I get when watching political debates, trying to discern who is genuine and who has other intentions up their perfectly ironed dressshirt sleeves.

So yes, for authenticity and genuine intentions, I believe this year’s troop is already netting ahead.

But what other factors can push one candidate to the top of the heap?

I start with the individual’s ability to pursue policies that dramatically alter campus culture. Please forgive me for re-printing this nasty phrase, one that takes an entire campus suffering post-traumatic stress disorder back to

the days when media vans dotted campus lawns. Yet this phrase keeps rearing its head because it so pointedly asks Duke, “Who are we?” and “What are we?”

We are —according to the University’s financial aid announcements last semester—an institution that values socioeconomic diversity, with an announced unprecedented commitment to making the Duke education affordable. However, increasing financial aid is a symbolic commitmentuntil Duke releases a plan to actively recruit qualified students from lower income levels. The Young Trustee should be someone who will move the University toward making this commitmentreal.

We are, they say, a top-notch academic institution, one of the best in the world. In the mean time, pre-major advising remains a crapshoot, with some students getting lucky, while others harass their adviser for a PIN multiple times a semester before achieving success. Language classes are a requirement, but the introductory levels are painful and unproductive. T-Reqs say you are getting a “writing” or an “ethics” concentration, but often I find the coding bears no meaning. And undergraduate research opportunities in the social sciences are plentiful junior and senior years, but sparse freshman and sophomore years. The Young Trustee should be someone who will make Duke’s claim to provide superior undergraduate education wholeheartedly real.

We are, finally, a supposed member of the Durham community. In truth, we are members of the Duke community, not Durham, and we live in isolation. With the exception of some Durham tutoring programs, we think service is work abroad, not involvement locally.

The Young Trustee should be someone who strives for a Duke-Durham partnership that is real. Notjust a partnership defined in money and staff members, but a partnership where students are no longer community members in isolation, but active contributors.

So I say the Young Trustee should come and heroically rescue us from all our ills. I realize it’s an overzealous demand; the Young Trustee is still one voice among many.

Nevertheless, a fresh, passionate voice, a voice that understands these issues and will use this power to pursue positive growth —well, this is a helpful thing. In the Young Trustee there should be no quiet complicity, but a charge to move the University forward with boldness, and to pursue the improvement of the Duke undergraduate experience with fortitude—and an open ear.

Rachel McLaughlin is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

If

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you knew that you could cut 90 calories from your Good

Morning Camper bagel from Alpine by choosing bacon

instead of sausage, would you make this simple switch?

Unfortunately, Duke students do not have the resources to easily make these basic health decisions. We face a wide variety offood options, some of which are healthy and some of which are not But deciding what is healthy is often a guessing game. Duke needs to make nutrition information for on-campus vendors easily accessible to students In order for students to adam zell make healthy eating decisions, we need to have acreflective solutions curate information. It is that simple. However, currently students must guess what they are putting into their bodies, using often incorrect heuristics. For example, many students purchase salads on the assumption that they are a healthy alternative. However, with salad dressing, cheese and croutons, salads are often higher in calories if not in fat than most sandwiches. The two-ounce ranch dressing packet from Subway adds 320 calories to any salad, giving it a higher total than the vast majority of sandwiches.

Currently, only a limited amount of nutrition information is available for on-campus foods. By scouring Web sites, students can find nutrition facts for chains such as Subway and Chick-fil-A and for a small selection of items for venues like The Loop and Saladelia.

Requiring students to go online, scrutinize different menu choices and then select the best meal is unrealistic at best. Most students are not sufficiently health-conscious to go through this process. In fact, Duke Dining Services is actually counting on it.

The University has often justified preventing the public display of nutritional facts by claiming that visual reminders of caloric and fat content will cause more students to suffer eating disorders. This is a valid concern. At Duke, where social pressure to be physically attractive runs high, we certainly don’t need another force that encourages disordered eating.

However, although calorie counting is typically associated with eating disorders, it also has benefits. Just as there are people who will eat less because they know calorie amounts, there are people who will eat more when they have more knowledge. Students concerned with their health often find themselves limited to the few menu options for which they have information. I know Duke girls who are scared of eating simply because they are unaware of their food’s nutritional contents. Their solution: stop eating.

In evaluating any policy, one has to compare the marginal cost and the marginal gain. Though there will be some students on the margins, the vast majority of change will come from empowering people to make small steps in the right direction every day—such as substituting the bacon for sausage on your bagel.

If the University decides that the benefits of posting nutrition information outweigh the risks, some practical problems remain. First, how and where would it be posted? The very least Duke could do is create a centralized database ofall nutritional informationfor campus. A far better step would be to require vendors to display nutritional information at the restaurant in either pamphlet form, on a poster or on the menu itself. The Loop, for example, displays a few key nutritional facts for its Lite Menu on the oversized menu hanging by the entrance. Other eateries could adopt a similar display.

Another question is which nutritional information should be displayed. To minimize the burden on the businesses, I think a good guideline is the larger the display, the less information is necessary. For a large display like The Loop, only the basics of calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates are required, whereas a pamphlet or centralized online database should have a complete listing.

This issue philosophically boils down to the concept of choice. Duke talks a lot about empowerment but is systematically denying students the ability to make informed decisions about one of the most fundamental aspects of our existence—what we put into our bodies. Will Duke maintain its paternalistic mande and keep this “dangerous knowledge” from falling into our ignorant hands? Or will it treat us like the responsible adults they claim they are molding us to be?

I have my doubts, but I hope they opt for the latter.

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