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Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., successfully underwent surgery Monday at the Duke University Medical Center for a malignant brain tumor.

Kennedy, 76, has been known to aggressively seek the best medical care for his friends and family, and the renown of Duke’s tumor center, as well as the expertise of Dr. Allan Friedman—an internationally respected tumor and vascular surgeon may have drawn him down South for the operation to treat a malignant glioma in the upper left portion of his brain.

Shortly after the procedure, Kennedy told his wife he felt “like a million bucks,” family spokesperson Stephanie Cutter said in a statement.

The senator was initially treated at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering a seizure at a family home in Cape Cod May 17.

Friedman, Guy L. Odom professor of neurological surgery and neurosurgeonin-chief at Duke Hospital, also successfully operated on Reynolds Price, Trinity ’55 —

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Kevin White was introduced as Duke's seventh Director ofAthletics Saturday. White comes to Duke from Notre Dame, where he was athletic directorfor eight years.

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Before Kevin White left his position as Notre Dame’s athletic director, he spoke with Theodore Hesburgh, the school’s president emeritus. When White told him he was thinking about taking the same role at Duke, Hesburgh gave him the approval he was seeking.

“That’s the only place I’d give you a blessing,” Hesburgh told White.

White was introduced as Duke’s athletic director and University vice president in a press conference atYoh Football Center Saturday afternoon. He succeeds former Director of Athletics Joe Alieva, who leftfor Louisiana State in April, and begins June 16.

At the press conference, White, who will be the school’s seventh athletic director, sat on a dais next to President Richard Brodhead before a room filled with athlet-

ic department personnel, from Interim DiChris Kennedy to men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“You are an equally great leader of revenue sports and non-revenue sports, men’s sports and women’s sports, varsity sports and intramural sports,” Brodhead said to White. ‘You have been the comprehensive leader ofathletics [at Notre Dame], but in addition, your teams have completely enviable and admirable records as students as well as athletes.... All these things made you the kind of person we wanted here, and we consider ourselves extraordinarily fortunate to have acquired you.”

Brodhead, who announced April 18 that he had formed a 12-person search committee charged with finding the school’s next athletic director, met with rector ofAthletics

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Obama clinches Dem. nomination Duke, others ask Senator passes delegate mark for suit dismissal as Clinton ponders her status by

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Cheered by a roaring crowd, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois laid claim to the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday night, taking a historic step toward his once-improbable goal of becoming the nation’s first black president. Hillary Rodham Clinton maneuvered for the vice presidential spot on his fall ticket without conceding her own defeat.

“America, this is our moment,” the 46-year-old senator and one-time community organizer said in his first appearance as the Democratic nominee-in-waiting. “This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past.”

Clinton praised Obama warmly in an appearance before supporters in New York, although she neither acknowledged SEE OBAMA ON PAGE 5

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Duke and other defendants asked a federal court Friday dismiss a lawsuit filed Feb. 21 by 38 unindicted players of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team and some of their family members.

The lawsuit seeks damages from Duke, the City of Durham, Durham police Cpl. David Addison, former Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, lead investigator Benjamin Himan and attorney Wes Covington—all of whom filed for dismissal—and 23 others, including several Duke officials and Durham Police Department employees Duke attorneys argued in documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Greensboro that the plaintiffs alleged that the University had a legal duty to stand between themselves and the prosecutor and to “try to prevent the police and the to

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Duke, Durham community leaders and local business executives collaborated to raise a record-breaking $1.2 million to benefit 12 neighborhoods near campus and the eight schools attended by children living in those neighborhoods, Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership officials announced Friday.

“I am grateful to the Duke employees and students and the many volunteers who have worked hard this year to advance the goals of our partnerships with Durham,” Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said in a statement. “These funds really do make a difference in the lives of people in our

The spike in fundraising occurred at least partly because the Duke Surplus Store—a University-operated warehouse that once peddled excess classroom and research supplies for profit—closed its doors in July 2007. The used but still usable furnishings, computers and medical equipment are now donated to charity, which has boosted Duke’s contributions to the community significantly, Miglarese explained.

Increased donations from local construction companies also augmented the fundraising total, he said.

Miglarese added that contributions community.”

The Duke-Durham Neighborhood from the citizens of Durham set a new record this year.

Partnership is funded by the Duke-Durham Campaign, “People rewhich seeks doally appreciate “These funds really do make a the fact that nations from local companies their donation is difference in the lives of peoand individuals. going to Duke’s Goals for the ple in our community.” partnership with Durham,” partnership inPhail Wynn, he said. “They clude boosting know that their K-12 educationVP Durham and regional al achievement, donation really

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Emergency sirens will be installedthis August in seven places—including onWest, East and Centralcampuses, and near the Medical Campus and Sarah P. Duke Gardens.The gray areas indicate each siren'ssoundrange.

Outdoor warning sirens set for August installation Speakers to be placed in seven locations across campus as part ofemergency notification system Outdoor emergency sirpns will be installed this August in seven locations across campus as a last-resort warning system in the event of major campus violence or a natural disaster.

This final component of the University’s DukeAlert emergency notification system, which includes running police across campus and sending campus-wide e-mails and text messages, is already in place at more than 25 colleges and universities. The University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University installed their systems in March.

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“We will use the system to give [those on campus] rapid instruction to go inside, take shelter in a secure location or take some other action for [their] safety,” he said.

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Campaign officials are still determining how the funds will be spent, but K-12 education and youth development will be emphasized in the coming year, said Sam Miglarese, Duke-Durham Campaign director and director of community engagement for the Office of Community Affairs.

The success of the 2008 campaign—which saw an increase of almost $500,000 from last year—was somewhat unexpected given the sagging economy, Miglarese said.

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With the addition of Wynn’s post, President Richard Brodhead has given Durham a seat at the table of the University’s top administrators, Miglarese said. “[The creation of the position] has reinforced to the internal Duke community and to the external Duke community the importance of Durham to Duke,” he said. can

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cial aid landscape have made for one of the most unforeseeable years in admissions on record, Guttentag said.

“This is probably the least predictable year that I’ve Many elite universities have reached deep into their waitlists this year, making dreams come true for some seen in admissions in the 26 years I’ve been working,” he applicants who had writtem off their top choice school said. “I’ve never seen so many changes at one time that affect us fairly direcdy.” for Fall.

Two hundred students who were once unsure of their Kaplan said the elimination of early action programs statuses as future Blue Devils will join the Class of 2012 at other institutions altered the composition of UPenn’s from the waidist, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions applicant pool. Top students who had previously sent their applications to only Harvard or Princeton applied Christoph Guttentag said.

He attributed the increase in to a broader range of schools waidist acceptances —about 40 last year, resulting in significantly more students than lastyear —to a more overlap among admitted “This is probably the least prestudents, he explained. spike in waidist admissions at Harvard, Princeton and Yale.

“In the past there were studictable year that Fve seen in dents who applied exclusively to “We can see the effects of a admissions in the 26 years I’ve Harvard or Princeton, and with couple of schools having admitstudents off the waitlist,” been working.... I’ve never seen the elimination of those schools’ ted said.

“This is exactly early action programs many of Guttentag what happens when schools like so many changes at one time them applied to [UPenn] as well,” Harvard and Yale take people off he said. “We certainly admitthat affect us fairly directly.” their waitlists.” ted them in very high numbers.

Sometimes In May, Harvard expected to they chose [UPenn], Christoph Guttentag, but take 150 to 175 students from many times they chose Hardean undergraduate admissions vard or Princeton.” its waidist this year, Princeton Despite the fact that a larger planned to accept 90 and Yale was looking to offer admission to 45 proportion of students did not applicants, the schools’ deans of admissions told The New make Duke’s first cut, the Class of 2012 is no less accomplished than the classes that preceded it, Guttentag said.

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Duke received a record-breaking number of applicaAdditionally, the University of Pennsylvania accepted 90 applicants from its waitlist this year, exceeding last year’s tions this year, and Guttentag approximated there are 100 total by 35 students, said the university’s Interim Dean of more students to whom he could easily offer admission.

Admissions Eric Kaplan.

“This is a class that is at least as qualified as we’ve had in “We’re sort of in a wait-and-see mode at this point,” the past and may very well be more diverse than we’ve had he said. “Our class looks very good. We’re holding steady in the past,” he said.

With college admissions still more fiercely competitive right now, but there are external factors we can’t control, like the waidist admissions at other schools.” than ever, admissions officers at UPenn said they have An unusually large class of high school seniors, the enjoyed the opportunity to send out a few more precious elimination of early action programs at several of Duke’s “thick envelopes” this year, Kaplan said. peer institutions—including Harvard, Princeton and the “This is a real treat for a lot of people on our staff to be University of Virginia —and drastic changes to the finan- able to call students and just really make their day,” he said. by

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KENNEDY from page 1 and James B. Duke professor of English, to remove a malignant spinal tumor in 1984.

Friedman also serves as deputy director of Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, established in 1937 as one of the first brain tumor research and clinical institutions in the nation and now boasting a staffof more than 250.

Kennedy has experienced no complications from the operation and was walking around the hallways, visiting with family and following the news the next day, according to a statement released by his office Tuesday.

“I am pleased to report that Senator Kennedy’s surgery was successful and accomplished our goals,” Friedman said in a statement Monday.

Although his team at Massachusetts

General did not mention surgery as an option after his diagnosis May 20, Kennedy and his wife met with a group of neurosurgeons from Duke and other leading institutions Friday, the New York Times

reported.

The surgery, which began at 9 a.m.

Monday, was expected to take six hours but lasted only three and a half. Because Kennedywas awake during the procedure, he should experience no permanent neurological affects, Friedman said.

Kennedy will recover at Duke for about a week before returning to Massachusetts General Hospital for targeted radiation aimed at the bed of the tumor and chemotherapy treatment to knock out stray cancer cells.

“I hope that everyone will join us in praying for Sen. Kennedy to have an uneventful and robust recovery,” Friedman said in the statement.

Doctors at Duke University Medical Center operated on Sen. Edward Kennedy Monday to remove a malignant brain tumor. Renowned neurosurgeon Dr.Allan Friedman headedthe operation, which was deemed successful.

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N.C senator proposes bill to require student service by

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There may be another graduation requirement for Duke students beginning » The bill: If passed, the bill will with the Class of 2012. create the "Carson/Abhijit Mahato Last week, North Carolina Senate MajorCommunity Service Program," which ity Leader Tony Rand introduced a new bill that would require students seeking a bacwould require college students across calaureate degree from public and private N.C beginning with the Class of universities in North Carolina to devote 20 2012—-to complete 20 hours of comhours per semester tutoring or mentoring students in public schools. munity service a semester. • The Eve Carson/Abhijit Mahato Community Service Program was named to honor University ofNorth Carolina at Chaidea: N.C Senate Majority pel Hill student body president Eve Carson ony Rand introduced the bill last and Duke graduate student Abhijit Mawould affect both public hato, both of whom were killed earlier this Lovette, Laurence and 17, universities across thStephen year.

Oates, 19, face first-degree murder charges for Mahato’s death, and Lovette and DeRand said mario Atwater, 21, have been charged with Carson’s slaying. eate a program to “I was thinking about what a tragedy college students and the loss of these two young lives is to soci•ans for other students to ety,” said Rand, a Democrat. “I was wondering what we could do to help make heir communities. society better. The people responsible for the crime were deeply troubled individuals.” vice president for government relations for If passed, the program would be manthe UNC system, told The N&O that few of the 16 system schools require community datory for students attending public universities. Private universities would be able service graduation. to opt out but would lose state grants and North Carolina Central University need-based scholarships provided to North requires its students to volunteer for 15 Carolina students. hours per semester for the Academic ComRand told The (Raleigh) News & Obmunity Service Learning Program, which server that he had discussed the legislation has been running since 1995. During the with UNC and Duke officials, but he did 2004-2005 academic year, NCCU students not say whether or not they support the put in an estimated 155,000 hours of comproposal. munity service, which Independent Sec“Passage of the legislation will depend tor, a philanthropic group that calculates service value, estimates to be valued at upon persuading the public that mandatory service for college students is the $2.7 million. best means for achieving the dual goals “We call it a skill-building exercise beof promoting a sense of civic responsibilcause it prepares our students for when ity among college students and effectively they go out into the professional world,” meeting the needs of younger, at-risk stusaid ACSLP Director Jarvis Hall, Ph. D. dents in the public schools,” said Elaine ’92. “Many of our students go above and Madison, director of Duke’s Community beyond what is expected of them once they Service Center. see how they can improve the lives of the Although there is no mandate for Duke people in the community.”

Hall said the proposed legislation is posundergraduates to volunteer, during the 2007-2008 academic year students put an itive for colleges but there may be an initial estimated 20,000 hours into tutoring and resistance because people would be forced mentoring programs within the Durham to participate. community.

“There is also the possibility that without Rand noted that all universities within adequate resources to prepare schools for the UNC system already have community training and supervising a massive number service programs, but said universities of volunteers, the schools may initially, at would be expected to expand their existleast, be overwhelmed with the logistical ing programs if the bill passes. Andy Willis, challenges,” Madison said. .

OBAMA from page 1 his victory in their grueling marathon nor offered a concession of any sort.

Obama’s victory set up a five-month campaign with Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, a race between a firstterm Senate opponent of the Iraq War and a 71-year-old Vietnam prisoner of war and staunch supporter of the current U.S. military mission.

And both men seemed eager to begin.

McCain spoke first, in New Orleans, and he accused his younger rival of voting “to deny funds to the soldiers who have done a brilliant and brave job” in Iraq.” Americans, he added, should be concerned about the judgment of a presidential candidate who has not traveled to Iraq yet “says he’s ready to talk, in person and without conditions, with tyrants from Havana to Pyongyang.”

McCain agreed with Obama that the presidential race would focus on change. “But the choice is between the right change and the wrong change, between going forward and going back-

ward,” he said Obama responded quickly, pausing in his own speech long enough to praise Clinton for “her strength, her courage and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight.”

As for his general election rival, he said, “It’s not change when John McCain decided to stand with George Bush 95 percent of the time, as he did in the Senate last year.

It’s not change when he offers four more years ofBush economic policies that have failed to create well-paying jobs.... And it’s not change when he promises to continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave young men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians.”

In a symbolic move, Obama spoke in the same hall where McCain will accept the Republican nomination at his party’s, convention in September.

Campaign officials, citing the local fire marshal, put the crowd at 17,000 inside the Xcel Energy Center, plus another 15,000 outside.

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ADF celebrates its 75th year this summer at Duke by

represent the best of modern dance, past and present.

“We’re celebrating the history of the American Dance Festival but also the history of the art form,” Duncan said.

To involve as many individuals from the dance world as possible in the celebration, each night will offer ore companies. The fes' premieres and commis'l make their debut with

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This summer, the rhythm of toe shoes tapping the floor will echo throughout Reynolds Theater and Page Auditorium for the 31st consecutive year.

The American Dance Festival—a giant in the dance industry that draws spectators, professional and amateur dano world—will celebrate its 75th June 5 to July 23 at Duke, the home since 1977.

The festival got off the gro. cut College in New London, Co ADF directors decided to find' the showcase, Duke presented to host the event.

“Throughout the years, <a ticularly this season, Duke been very gracious in their support towards us,” said Concetta Duncan, North Carolina press representative for ADF. In a nod to the festival’s diamond anniversary, ADF directors have selected 60 pieces that

the program, four are mances that draw from nspiration but look forture of dance with their on, Duncan said. .tival will kick off with nces by three companies ne 5 to 7. in Reynolds.

Connect Transfer,” perd by Shen Wei Dance 2007 MacArthur Founon “genius grant” re.ent Shen Wei revisits an

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tioned can’t put these players back in the position they were before the case broke,” Miles said. “What [the players] are trying to do is be compensated for that loss.”

This lawsuit is one of four still pending in response to prosecutor from investigating them for a serious crime.”

“No legal system in this country supports such a claim,” the 2006 lacrosse case. the documents read.

In December, three unindicted current and former laThe University’s attorneys said the actions of former crosse players—Ryan -McFadyen, Trinity ’OB, Matthew Wilson, Trinity ’O6 and Breck Archer—filed a lawsuit against Durham County district attorney Mike Nifong, who pursued rape allegations even after it became clear they had 45 defendants, including the University, Nifong, the Durno merit, were “indeed shocking.” They added, however, ham Police Department and several individual officers, the that those actions “were not the Duke Medical Center, the Sexual fault of Duke University or any of Assault Nurse Examiners and the its employees.”

“Duke did not investigate the DNA lab and its owner. University “Duke did not investigate the officials said they plan to respond crime. Duke was not privy to to those allegations crime. Duke was not privy to the in July.

DNA test results. Duke did not seek Former men’s lacrosse coach the test results. Duke did not the indictment,” Duke attorneys told Mike Pressler filed slander charges seek the indictment.”

The (Raleigh) News and Observer. against the University in October “Moreover, these plaintiffs were not Duke attorneys told The 2007, despite reaching a private arrested or indicted on any charge settlement with Duke in Spring (Raleigh) News and Observer 2007. A judge ruled in April that arising out of the incident.”

Duke representatives were unPressler could pursue his charges available for additional comment against Duke without having to go None of the plaintiffs in the through University arbitration. lawsuit were indicted in the case that falsely accused Dave Although Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann reached a priEvans, Trinity ’O6, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann of vate settlement with Duke in June 2007, they later filed a lawsuit against Nifong and officials in Durham that is still pendraping exotic dancer Crystal Mangum.

The Feb. 21 suit, filed by Washington attorney Charles ing. A federal bankruptcy judge ruled May 27 that the three Cooper, does not specify damages, but seeks compensation exonerated players could pursue charges against Nifong in for emotional distress, fraud, negligence and other injucivil court. As of Wednesday, Nifong had not been added to ries allegedly pursued by the defendants. the 38 unindicted players’ suit.

Criminal defense attorney and former Wake County asCooper also filed a motion May 22 that the court order desistant district attorney Hart Miles said he thinks the unfense attorneys to participate in a discovery conference, saying indicted players filed the lawsuit to redeem their reputasuch a conference “specifically contemplates that the parties tions, which he said they likely feel were tarnished. attempt to fashion a discovery plan that addresses the sorts of “Obviously, the University and whoever else is men- issues implicated by the filing of a motion to dismiss.”

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ADF in 2004 Next, David Parsons will present “Caught,” an innovative work in which one dancer’s movements are punctuated by the flashes of a strobe light.

The evening will conclude with Alvin Alley’s “Revelations,” danced by Ailey 11, a piece that chronicles African Americans’ journey from slavery to freedom to the tune of spirituals and holy blues.

Before the curtain closes on the festival season, ADF will shine the spotlight on six Japanese companies July 16 and 17 in Page and July 18 and 19 in Reynolds with a display that harks back to the first Japanese showcase in 1982. at

dance program that hosts performances, workshops and concerts. Duke has hosted the ADF since 1977. »When?: The festival starts June 5 and ends July 23. This year is its 75th anniversary. »Random fact; ADF has premiered more than 598 pieces up to 2007,387 of which have debuted In N.C,

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The system’s speakers will be 55 feet off the ground and will emit siren sounds as well as voice messages that can travel half a mile, Graves said, adding that the University plans to run drills in August to test the system.

He noted, that the sounds are mixed and thus distinguishable from those of a police vehicle or an ambulance. “It’s a tone that will get your attention,” he added.

Randy Young, a spokesman for UNO’s Department of Public Safety, said the school plans to use the sirens to warn of an active shooter on campus, a tornado on or near campus or any other life threatening situation.

“This is not a police call box,” he added. “It has to be an absolutely imminent, verifiable threat—a life-anddeath emergency.”

Sgt. John Barnwell of the NCSU Police Department, which is in the process of testing the sirens, said NCSU has nine different prerecorded voice messages as well as the ability to do a live voice directional.

[The system preparations] started directly after the Virginia Tech incident,” he said. “All of North Carolina’s state universities saw the need for mass notification and an emergency audible notification system by the first months of 2008.”

Duke University Police Department representatives said they will have the exclusive ability to set. off the system. They added that Duke, which boasts a campus of 8,709 acres, will especially benefit from an outdoor security system because a significant portion of .students, faculty and staff roam the large campus during the day. “

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As Duke Athletics turns anotherpage with the hiring of a new athletic director, I can t help but think of a fluorescendy lit room in Little Rock, Ark., a loud Clinton campaign strategist, and a single line taped to a wall that spurred a seminal moment in American

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new athletic director caps a campaign to revive Duke Football from the NCAA Tournament’s first weekend for the second consecutive year. From the hiring of football coach David Cutcliffe, to the departure of Joe Alieva to LSU, to the department’s first comprehensive strategic plan and now the of the White

Duke Football nearly ran a $780,000 deficit in the last fiscal year. Football was one of the central focuses of the strategic plan (in many ways, because football isalso about “the economy, stupid” when it comes to the department’s annual losses). Football, which Alieva called

support the firing, and then was allegedly pressured later by the same board to give new head coachCharlie Weis a 10-year contract just seven games into his Notre Dame tenure. An article in last Sunday’s Chicago

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The Blue Devils will kick off their first season underhead coachDavid Cutcliffe with two night games,the first night contests at home since 2006.

The Cutcliffe Era at Duke will be greeted with Duke’s first night football game since 2006, ACC Commissioner John Swofford announced Tuesday.

The Blue Devils, playing under first-year head coach David Cutcliffe, will open their season at 7 p.m. in Wallace Wade Stadium against Division I-AAJames Madison. The next week, Duke will host Northwestern at 7 p.m. in Wallace Wade.

Last season, Duke played two night games, earning its only win of the season over Northwestern under the lights of Ryan Field in Evanston, 111., and dropping a 25-6 decision to Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla. Cutcliffe, the* offensive coordinator at Tennessee last year, coached in five night games. The Volunteers finished '4-1 in evening contests.

Dukd last played a home game at night in its 2006 season opener, a 13-0 loss to Richmond.

In the third week of the season, Duke will welcome Navy in a noon game that will air on ESPNU. The rest of the television schedule that dictates game times will be released over the course of the season, 12 days before each game.

After the contest with Navy, Duke has a bye week and then starts ACC play at home against Virginia.

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SHINER from page 11 Tribune cited a high-ranking source within college athletics who said White “was out there with the responsibility but not the authority.”

So when White expressed his euphoria over the situation at Duke and, in particular, his appreciation of the “vole of confidence” from the people he met here, perhaps the move from one high-profile job to another makes a bit more sense. At Notre Dame, he seemed to have Hide power in guiding of one the nation’s most historic football programs.

At Duke, White has the opportunity to play a huge role in directing the renaissance of one of die nadon’s most historically bad ones.

“I think the future of Duke Football is awfully bright, but it is going to need a lot ofattention and a lot of hard work,” White said Saturday.

Attention and hard work the new athletic director seems delighted to be able to give.

White said Cutcliffe, while one of the best coaches in die country (and he should know; his son played for the offensive guru at Ole Miss), could not fix Duke Football alone. It is now his job to be the help the coach needs.

When I watchedWhite’s press conference, I remembered the comments offormer Blue Devil and NFL player Brian Baldinger.

“Right now, Duke Football is a drag on

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Search committee chairman Roy Bostock and Mike Krzyzewski welcomeKevin White to Duke Saturday.

everybody, in every way,” he said before the summit. “It’s a drag on publicity for the university. It’s a drag on revenues for the athletic department. I’m sure Coach Kand the basketball program would benefit from a good football team, too.”

It seems to me that White knew exactly what he was getting into when he signed up for this job. He knew Duke Football was more than just your average fixer-up-

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per. But in sports, just as in politics, there’s always a certain thrill in the challenge, of being central to changes in prevailing attitudes and cultures that guide the world you live in. White seemed to know that, too.

“It’s the economy, stupid” was a harbinger for an era of economic prosperity.

Perhaps a similar phrase will bring a comparable fate for Duke Football—or at least inspire a couple of wins in the meantime.

have any connection to Duke before taking the job since 1931. He does, however, have coincidental ties to numerous Duke coaches, including Cutcliffe—White’s son, Michael, played for Cutcliffe when he was the head coach at Ole Miss.

White’s first hire at Notre Dame was men’s basketball head coach Mike Brey, who served as an assistant under Krzyzewski from 1987 until 1995. “[Brey] said, ‘We’re lucky, he’s just a regular guy,”’ said Krzyzewski, who spoke with Brey Friday. “He’s not someone you work for, you work with.”

“I talked to [Krzyzewski] this morning, and I was thinking about his three titles and thinking, ‘How can you posto

While for more than three hours in New York Wednesday morning with Roy Bostock, the chairman of the search committee. While was first approached by former ACC commissioner Gene Corrigan, who assisted the search committee as a consultant. White had his formal interview with the committee Saturday morning in Durham, and by Saturday afternoon, he had signed a contract.

The committee reviewed more than 60 candidates and interviewed 10, Bostock told The Herald-Sun. In his introductory press conference, White pinpointed specific challenges: maintaining the balance of academics and athletics of Duke, handling compliance issues and dealing with finances, a sector in which the business-oriented leader has plenty of experience.

Under White’s leadership, the Fighting Irish athletic department earned more than $26 million in revenue in 2006-2007. Duke made less than $lOO,OOO. White will bring his experience directing the defining sport of Notre Dame to guiding a renaissance of Duke Football.

“We’ve got to find away to get the program back to where it was a number of years ago, too long ago,” White said. “The first step, the right step, is to hire a high-quality coach, arguably one of the best coaches in the country that has a great Duke fit, and that’s David Cutcliffe.”

Before he was Notre Dame’s athletic director, White, 57, served the same role at Arizona State, Tulane, Maine and Loras College. The Amityville, N.Y. native received his undergraduate degree from Central Michigan and his Ph.D. in education from Southern Illinois.

White is the first Director of Athletics in school history not

“[Alieva] said to me, ‘I think it’s in pretty good shape, Kevin, but there are some opportunities here,’ and I can’t agree more.”

Kevin White, athletic director sibly take it to another level?’” White said. “And I love the fact that that is just what he wants to do—to take it up a notch, if that’s possible.”

The current president of the National Association of College Directors of Athletics, White presided over the Notre Dame athletic department for eight years.

He made two futile football hires—George O’Leary, who was forced to resign because of inaccuracies on his resume, and Tyrone Willingham, who was fired after three

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“This hire is notjust a home run, but a grand slam home run for Duke,” ACC commissioner John Swofford said in a statement. “Kevin is one of the very best athletic directors in the country and brings a wealth of experience to the job.”

White will take over for Kennedy, who has led the department since Alieva’s departure and authored the department’s first strategic plan, which was approved by the Board of Trustees in May. White said Saturday that he has read the plan twice already, and that he spoke with Alieva early Saturday morning.

“Joe said to me, T think it’s in pretty good shape, Kevin, but there are some opportunities here,’ and I can’t agree more,” White said.

The strategic plan calls for improvement in Duke’s recreational sports, and White oversaw a revival of Notre Dame’s club sports and intramuralprogram. More than 95 percent ofNotre Dame students participate in recreational sports.

White hosted a weekly, hour-long radio show in Chical go and also had a pre-game segment on Westwood One’s Notre Dame football coverage, fulfilling the criterium of communication skills the search committee sought.

White’s contract at Notre Dame was extended through 2012 in 2002. He was hired in 2000 and last Wednesday, the same day he met with Brodhead, White was named an honorary alumnus, one of the school’s most prestigious honors.

“There’s an interesting set of challenges and opportunities here that got me really excited,” said White, when asked why he left Notre Dame. “And to do it in an environment like this—this is a world-class institution with high aspirations athletically. It really doesn’t get any better than this.”

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athletics strategic plan. We trust that he has the knowledge and skills to supplement and expand upon its vision—and implement it effectively.

Moreover the University’s programmay have a few things it can leam from the institution White has served over the past eight years. Duke is as much invested in athletics as Notre Dame, and should make the pursuit of profit a similar priority. White’s business sense will certainly be a boon to our program as it prioritizes finances.

The attention White has given to Olympic sports and intramurals will also be important as he translates his experience to the Duke model, where the talent pools for such athletics run

deep. Additionally, the new strategic plan targets both these areas in effort to bolster the presence of athletics on campus, and White’s experience could prove valuable in the execution of these lofty goals.

White’s communication skills are also highly experideveloped —his ence includes hosting an hour-long radio show in Chicago —which will be an advantage for the face of Duke athletics. We also look forward to White using his experience with the football tradition at Notre Dame to help transform Duke’s struggling team.

Overall, White is impressive, and we look forward to seeing the impression he makes on Duke athletics.

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It is also encouraging that White is seen not only as an effective leader but also as a strong colleague.

Support from department leaders like men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski will be crucial for White as he steps in to his new role, and we are glad he has been able to secure it.

The department is making commendable strides toward progress with the recent passage of the school’s first athletics strategic plan.

This plan perhaps provided shape to the search for a director, but White should be given the leeway to put his seal on the new

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Tuesday,

June 3,

2008 will be branded in my memory for many years to come, and no doubt this is true for many people across the country.

Unless you’ve been lost somewhere near the South Pole this week, I’m sure you know that Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination Tuesday, beating his tenacious opade a. sawyer ponent —Hillary maybe ifs me Clinton—and becoming the first black candidate to head a major-party presidential ticket.

Throughout the primary process, pundits asserted and reasserted that no matter who won, with a woman and a minority vying for a major party’s nomination, the country was witnessing history in the making. Certainly this is unprecedented, but I take it with a grain of salt.

Westerners—and Americans in particular—are infatuated with firsts. We recognize Nancy Pelosi as the first woman to become Speaker of the House or Neil Armstrong as the first man on the moon, and likewise if Obama is elected in November we will hail him as the first black president.

In large part this is due to the Western tradition—grounded largely in the Enlightenment—that views human history as a linear stream of progress..

However, in this context it may be useful to approach this moment in time from a different perspective. Many ancient societies understood history as an ongoing cycle of seasons, ages or even dynasties. Life exhibited an ebb and flow, but in the end there was —as the saying goes—nothing new under the sun.

That’s an off-putting idea for many Americans. The sense that we are exceptional—a “city upon a hill” as John Winthrop put it—is central to our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world. Therefore it may trouble us to think that the man who is now a hero to many (myself included) may not be as exceptional (among presidents) as we’d like to think.

Like many presidents, Obama attended an Ivy League university as an undergraduate, and

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followed up with a law degree from another Ivy. Many of our presidents came from well-educated backgrounds, and though Obama’s family is not among the country’s wealthy elite, his father was a Harvard graduate. As a highly educated, well-to-do lawyer, Obama is apart of what Antonio Gramsci would have called America’s hegemonic upper class.

Hegemony, according to the Oxford Dictionary of Politics, occurs when a dominant social class exerts pbwer over others without coercion or law. In essence a hegemonic class rules by consent as its values and interests are transmitted throughout society by a network of institutions, social relations and ideas—essentially through civil society.

Those in power are therefore able to advance their interests by framing them as universal interests. National politicians tend to be among the highest class in our society, so it follows that our presidents, like Obama, have overwhelmingly been of the hegemonic class.

However, in Obama’s case I don’t think hegemony is as sinister as it may seem. This is chiefly because according to Gramsci (and as evident in Obama’s rise) the hegemonic class is not static.

Although the class guards its power fiercely, it is possible for others to make their way into it, and in the course of doing so they expand the range of interests and ideas that permeate society. And although they don’t do much to throw the old out, they tend to bring in the new, and in my opinion, therein lies their power. Concurrently, I think that therein lies much of Obama’s appeal.

I fear that if we laud Obama as a messianic hero of American politics (many in the media have been criticized for doing so) we risk creating unrealistic expectations that he will bring a sea-change in American politics. Instead, it seems more appropriate that we embrace Gramsci’s idea of the struggle for hegemony: “alliance and extension.”

Essentially the idea is that one changes the dominant culture to include those who have not been represented in the past. Much of Obama’s message has essentially been about that, and if he wins in November that’s what I expect him to do, but I guess “alliance and extension” doesn’t sound as cool as “A Change We Can Believe In.” Ade A. Sawyer is a Trinity junior. His column will run every other Thursday over the. summer.

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Bored and blue Upon

learning that “only boring people get bored,”

I resolved

never be bored again in my life.

Vehemently striving to stray from that dangerous label, I have spent a substantial portion of my day-to-day activities trying to create as much exgrace huang citement iHI can muster up for myself by going to just my pterodactyl random events, talking to strangers and trying things on a whim (i.e. being a columnist for the summer).

Last summer, this mindset resulted in my taking an internship that would introduce me to the mysterious world of corporate America. Excited about the opportunity to veer from traditional pre-med summer experiences of doing research and/or taking organic chemistry and with the offer of earning $24/hour, I happily embarked on this journey to the cubicle.

By the end of second week, I found that meetings were more likely to spawn more meetings than results, and managers were less likely to be found than a working printer. Furthermore, there was an unspoken pressure to constantly look preoccupied regardless of amount of real work.

As I spent the day sitting in meetings, compiling and recompiling databases and revamping the animations on my presentations that actually did not need any more work, it was obvious that my situation was dire: I was becoming bored.

Though I tried to resist, the fall was inevitable. I became sullen and whiny about the fact that I had nothing to do, and rather than look for events that I could go to in the near future, I began torturing myself by researching things I could have done with my summer that would have been infinitely more enriching: the ultimate experience, in my opinion, was a certain study abroad program.

I continued in this masochistic manner until it dawned on me that rather than just drool over this trip, I could start planning it for next year. Therefore, this study abroad trip became an obsession. I had to first convince my parents that study abroad was a valuable experience and then save enough money to pay for the trip by myself. Soon, I was asking myself, “Would I rather buy this to

shirt or go to Belgium?” and “Would I rather go out to dinner tonight or see the Mauritshuis?” Some sacrifice required, of course, but when phrased like that, it was an easy decision.

With a focus on something besides the rudimentary happenings of the near future, my days became more

meaningful.

Upon finding a festival in a country that I wanted to go to, I stumbled upon a concert series happening in the city I was working. Because I refused to Spend more than $5 on a tank top, I was able to encounter some amazing deals in new shops.

It was only by looking past the humdrum of the present that I was able to see the potential of what each day could bring.

So, consider that boredom is the best media to cultivate passion. For it’s during these lulls that one has the time, the clarity of desperation and the motivation to really discover the hundreds ofother things out there.

Currendy, I’m in Durham working a couple of jobs to fund my trip to the Netherlands, for which I leave at the end of the month. As excited as I am to go, I’m equally pleased with my decision to stay on campus for the first halfof the summer.

For those lucky ones on campus with me, I encourage you to discover that Durham is far from the boring city that some would have you believe.

There are free or cheap concerts every week at American Tobacco Campus, Broad Street Cafe and on campus. This summer, Duke is hosting the American Dance Festival’s 75th anniversary with student tickets available one hour before each show. Downtown Durham is peppered with art galleries, not to mention our very own Nasher Museum of Art. And I haven’t even started talking about the places to eat, which are many and excellent.

Go, then, and rent a Duke Bike (get on http://www. nichomachus.net/maps for bike-friendly routes), and find what makes Durham so awesome (besides Duke, of course), because I assure you, it is. Lots is happening all around you.

Grab hold of it; if necessary, become bored first.

Grace Huang is a Trinity junior. Her column will run every other Thursday over the summer.

twelve of the DukeEngage students in Guatemala climbed on to a camioneta, a Guatemalan Chicken Bus. Parents who read the Lonely Planet Guide to Guatemala told us that we should never set foot on one of these things, and yet on our first day in the country, we were squished together riding to a small village andrCd COTaVOS named Magdalena. blue jaguars A Chicken Bus is like a reformed school bus that most of us used in elementary school, except that it is decked out with Latin music and people store their live chickens on the shelves above the seats. Locals bring all kinds of stuff onto this bus. In fact, just yesterday one of the DukeEngagers sat next to a man with a machete.

In the U.S., we generally sit at maximum two people per seat, and no one stands in the aisle. Guatemalans have no such concept of personal space—people sit together with at least three people per seat and there is no room in the aisle. It is a great place for pick-pocketing, because people are literally packed like sardines. Imagine how uncomfortable the bus is when everyone is soaking wet from Guatemalan tropical storms.

We each spent our first night with our homestay family, and the next morning we road the Chicken Bus back into work. I live with the Batista family, apparently one of the most prominent village families. My host mother, Dona Raquel is from a family of 10 children and my host father is one of six. And another one of the DukeEngagers met the Batista grandfather, who claims to have 53 grandchildren.

I am the only DukeEngager who did not know Spanish seven days ago, and that first night with my host family, none of whom speak English, was spent with a dictionary and lots of hand signals. I spent most of my time smiling and nodding.

Miscommunication is common. I learned yesterday that for the past week I have been saying “Yo tengo veinte anos,” which literally means “I have twenty assholes,” instead of the correct “Yo tengo veinte anos,” which translates to “I am twenty years old.”

Our first two weeks in the program are spent studying Spanish in Antigua, Guatemala, living with homestays and preparing for our fieldwork. We are members of Soluciones Comunitarias, a nonprofit company whose mission is to encourage a socially responsible business climate in Guatemala.

The program leaders use the famous Chinese proverb to describe the program: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Traditional “relief” and international aid can be compared to “giving of fish,” whereas “teaching someone to fish” is “development” assistance.

Deciding when to use development and went to use relief can be a tough call. For instance, places devastated by Hurricane Katrina needed relief, and many rural environments in Guatemala need development.

Soluciones Comunitarias focuses primarily on development and trains local entrepreneurs to sell products that many people in the U.S. take for granted. The five main products sold by the entrepreneurs are water purifiers, reading glasses, vegetable seed, energy efficient light bulbs and wood stoves. In many villages, people have no access to these products, and the market opportunity is vast.

As Duke Engagers, we have a unique opportunity to be a combined student and consultant. We are learning the cultural differences, making mistakes in Spanish, and riding the Chicken Bus. We are also acquainted with some effective business practices and can provide labor for their projects.

Considering that I have already consumed an entire bottle of Pepto-Bismol in six days, perhaps I can start by introducing some of these products to my village. Food washed in the local water can carry amoebas and stomachupsetting bacteria.

A water purifier would be a healthy addition to the households in Magdalena.

Andrea Coravos is a Trinity junior. Her column will run every other Thursday over the summer.

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