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Dozens offans greeted Mike Krzyzewski at RDU Monday when he returned to North Carolina after leading Team USA to a gold medal in Beijing.

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Freshmen feeling fatigued after Orientation Week should be advised not to lose too much sleep over the matter.

For the first time this Fall, residents of each of the 14 dormitories on East Campus will vote to designate Courtesy Sleeping Hours, a time in which optimal resting conditions are enforced in the residence halls during the wee hours ofSunday through Thursday nights.

Campus Council Vice President Kevin Thompson, a senior, said students were marginalized by the manner in which the policy was implemented. Although Eddie Hull, dean of residence life and executive director of housing services, has said he hoped to collaborate more with student leaders in the coming year, Thompson said he and Duke Student Government President Jordan Giordano, a senior, did not learn of the Courtesy Sleeping Hours until they were alluded to at a First-Year Advisory Council training session.

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As students from all corners of the world transition to classes, the International House is beginning the year under the guidance of a new leader, chosen after a committee scoured the States for candidates.

Li-Chen Chin, herself a former international student, began work at Duke July 1 following a nine-month search for a director.

In less than two months, Chin has already hired new staff and reassigned

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Li-Chen Chin becameInternational House director in July after a nine-month search process. Prior

to her appointment, Chin served as director of International Programs at Bryn Mawr College.

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at the International House, said Zoila Airall, hiring manager for the position and assistant vice president of student affairs. Chin added that she plans to work closely with administrators and faculty to enhance what the International House has to offer to the University at large as Duke’s international community expands.

“I was very excited to hear that the number of international students at Duke will continue to grow,” Chin wrote

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The new ACES has failed to ace the test of winning students over to its revamped format and features.

Garnering immediate and ample response from students—much of it negative—the new ACES Web site that went live July 15 has been criticized for its “primitive” interface and convoluted hyperlinking system.

Still, Student Information Services and Systems, which administers ACES, does not plan to revert to the old version of ACES or its faculty counterpart STORM, University Registrar Bruce Cunningham said.

“The new ACES and STORM are part of an upgrade of the student information system, and retrofitting the old ACES and STORM into this new system would not be easy or advisable,” he said.

Perhaps the biggest complaint about the new site is its lack of a graphic bookbag feature. Many students said they preferred the old method, in which the week’s schedule was shown in a colorful block format, instead of the plainer version used in the current ACES. “I’ve always been extraordinarily proud of the old ACES, and my friends from home have seen me registering for classes and have been awed by it. Now, I feel like we’re behind some community colleges,” said senior Danny Mistarz, who created the Facebook group “The ‘new ACES’ sucks.”

Administrators have made some changes to the interface in response to complaints—like enabling students to view a course’s waitlist—but some students said the changes did not adequately address majorconcerns about difficulties in navigating the site and the lack of a graphic bookbag.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The ruling coalition that just a week ago drove U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf from the presidency broke apart Monday, throwing Pakistan into political turmoil just as it faces an increasingly difficultfight against Islamic militants.

The collapse of the fragile alliance threw more power to Asif Ali Zardari,the widower of assassinated ex-leader Benazir Bhutto and a corruption-tainted former polo player who now becomes the front-runner to replace Musharraf.

Iraqi PM demands U.S. pullout BAGHDAD Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday no security agreement with the United States could be reached unless it included a "specific deadline" for the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq.

Last week, the two sides had agreed tentatively to a schedule which included a broad pullout of combat forces by the end of 2011 with a residual U.S. force remaining behind to continue training and advising the Iraqi security forces.

But al-Maliki's remarks Monday suggested that the Iraqi government is still not satisfied with that arrangement. An aide to the prime minister said Monday that Iraq remained adamant that the last American soldier must leave Iraq by the end of 2011 —regardless of conditions at the time,

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TBILISI, Georgia Russian lawmakers Monthe Kremlin to recognize the indeday urged of two pendence separatist Georgian regions, heightening tensions with Georgia where the government said hundreds ofRussian soldiers remained at checkpoints.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev did not immediately respond to the unanimous votes in both houses of Russia's parliament, but he has said Moscow would support whatever choice the people ofAbkhazia and South Ossetia make about their future status.

Western countries warned Moscow that recognizing the breakaway regions of Georgia, an allied nation pressing for NATO membership,would prompt international denunciation.* TheTJ.S.said Russian recognition "would be unacceptable."

NATO needs Russia more than Russia needs NATO, Medvedev said, and it would be "nothing frightening" if the Western alliance were to sever all ties.NATO has suspended operations of the NATO-Russia Council over the Georgia crisis, which has broadened Europe's post-Cold War fault lines.

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Democrats opened their national DENVER convention on Monday, seeking peace in the family as they pursue victory in the fall for Barack Obama and his historic quest for the White House.

An appearance by the ailing, aging Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and a primetime speech by Obama's wife, Michelle, headlined the convention's first night.

Yet the opening gavel fell with Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton still struggling to work out the choreography for the formal roll call of the states that will make him—a 47-yearold senator bidding to become the first black president—the party nominee.

"There is no doubt in anyone's mind that this is Barack Obama's convention,"the former first lady told reporters. And yet, she said, some of her delegates "feel an obligation to the people who sent them here"and would vote for her.

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Most cattle that were grazing or resting tended to align their bodies in a north-south directions team of German and Czech researchers reported Tuesday.

And the finding held true regardless of what continent the cattle were on, according to the study led by Hynek Burda and Sabine Begall at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany.

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NEW HAVEN,Conn.— Nine-year-old JerichoScott is a good baseball player—too good, it turns outJhe right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more.

Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho's team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $5O sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it.

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Praised for his scholarship and teaching abilities, Jeffrey Glass, professor of electrical and computer engineering and Hogg Family director of En-

gineering Management and Entrepreneurship, is adjusting his focus to a new position as senior associate dean for education of the Pratt School of Engineering.

Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas announced the appointment when Glass began work July 1. Glass succeeded Tod Laursen, who had held the position since 2003 and is now serving as the chair

of mechanical engineering and materials science.

“Jeffrey Glass has distinguished himself as a teacher and as a scholar,” Katsouleas said. “His research makes him one of the most highly cited scholars of the school of engineering for his work on nanofabrication and in the [lnstitute for Scientific Information] index for that work. He has built up the Master of Engineering Management program... so he’s got the experience to really help our master’s programs in the other departments to growand flourish as well.”

As senior associate dean for education, Glass said he will oversee the master’s programs and undergraduate educational programs, but will focus more of his time developing the former. Glass will work closely with April Brown, senior associate -

dean for research, and Linda Franzoni, associate dean for student affairs, to optimize engineering education as a whole.

Emphasizing “globalization and innovation,” Glass is striving to make engineering a more interdisciplinary field.

“In order to implement engineering solutions, [engineers] have to understand a basic aspect of all levels of business, how to work on teams [and] customer needs,” Glass said. “Whereas 20 years ago they would just need to know engineering issues, they now have to provide a complete solution.”

Glass said he will work to expand existing programs and develop new ones. The “Four Plus One” program, on which members from SEE PRATT DEAN ON PAGE 4

Members of the Class of 2011 enjoy free food and games on the Main West Quadrangle Monday during the sophomore class picnic.

information on robbery Sunday crime occured offMorreene, not Erwin The off-campus robbery of a Duke student Sundayafternoon actually occurred in the 1300 block of Morreene Road by Mordecai Street, Duke University Police Department Major Gloria Graham confirmed Monday. Reports initially indicated that the student, who was with a female companion at the time, had been assaulted on the other end of the street, by Erwin Road.

DUPD and Durham Police Department officers went door-to-door to update residents in the area, passing out more than 200 flyers concerning the incident. The student told police that a short, darkskinned black male, around 15 years ofage and weighing about 150 lbs., jumped on his back and took his money after indicating he was armed.

The incident occurred less than half a mile from a robbery of three students Saturday at 2052 Campus Walk. The suspect, who reportedly indicated he had a gun before fleeing with the students’ money, was described as a bald, black male in his 20s of medium build.

No injuries were reported in either incident, which each occurred near the Chapel Tower apartments. Police said they have not linked the weekend crimes.

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“At the time, I was sitting with Jordan.

He looked at me in great surprise, and [the policy] was much to my astonishment as well,” Thompson said. “It truly disappoints me because as a member of Campus Council for three years, I hold these issues very near and dear to my heart.”

The policy was recommended by a wellness steering group chaired by representatives from the Duke Student Health Center, Counseling and Psychological Services, the Athletics Department, the Center for Multicultural Affairs, the Women’s Center, the Office of Undergraduate Education and Residence Life and Housing Services, Hull wrote in an e-mail.

“Duke has noticed a correlation between a lack ofsleep and numerous health issues among students,” Hull said.

Freshman dorms will determine the start and stop times of their Courtesy Sleeping Hours—beginning at either 10 p.m., 11 p.m. or 12 a.m. and concluding at either 7 a.m., 8 a.m. or 9 a.m.—for a total quiet spell ranging from seven to 11 hours in length.

RLHS quiet hours policy stipulates that residents of East should never be able to bear their neighbors more than three doors away at any time, with the exception of 5 to 7 p.m. during the week and 1 to 6 p.m. on Sundays. The threshold will be reduced to two doors during Courtesy Sleeping Hours, and environmental cues such as dimmed lighting in the hallways may also be added to set the nocturnal mood, Lisa Beth Bcrgene, assistant dean for residence life on East, wrote in an email. Quiet hours are observed on West Campus all day long during the week with the exception of 5 to 7 p.m.

ResidenceAssistants on East will enforce Courtesy Sleeping Hours only if residents

the educational programs are working, would allow students to graduate with a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in five years, Katsouleas said. Glass said he is also hoping to investigate distance learning opportunities, which would give students more flexibility in earning master’s degrees by combining online learning with briefresidencies at Duke.

The incoming senior associate dean is also involved in revising the engineering curriculum and increasing collaboration between Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Pratt. To achieve this goal, he helped create the Energy and Environment certificate last Spring and is working to launch the Uncertainty and Optimization certificate next year, Katsouleas said.

Glass’s research focuses on the growth and characterization of thin films and development of sensors with a focus oh carbon-based materials, including carbon nanotubes, diamond, diamond-lik'e carbon and silicon carbide. He has published more than 130 papers and book chapters, edited six books and is listed as co-inventor on 11 patents.

Having given more than 50 presentations in 12 different countries, Glass served as a member of a Presidential .Science Advisor’s committee for the assessment of diamond technology in Japan, consulted for venture capital firms and Fortune 500 companies and testified as an expert witness in patent litigation.

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Freshmen will decidethe duration of theirdorm'sCourtesy Sleeping Hours, during which nocturnalconditions will be enforcedlhe policy isdesigned to curb healthproblems related to a lack of sleep, RLHS officials said.

bring forth complaints, Bergene noted.

By putting the duration of the quiet hours to a vote, Hull said he hopes the policy will empower students to exercise greater control in shaping their living environments.

“In this way we expect that students will be more likely to own their living environment and not feel like they must either suffer or expect the RA to alone manage the ability for students to sleep,” he said.

“It is a practical example of shared governance that should yield direct benefits for our students.”

But Thompson said the implementation of the policy sidelined students, citing the new policy that prohibits students from building their own lofts —approved in June—as another decision RLHS made

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Giordano said RLHS has a responsibility to include student leaders in their discussions about policy changes. “This is not the first time RLHS has made decisions and not told anybody about them,” he added.

Hull said Bergene plans to evaluate the Courtesy*Sleeping Hours with East Campus Council after officers for the body are elected. In the meantime, Thompson said he has requested a meeting with Bergene and hopes to weigh in on the policy before it is put before the freshman dorms for a vote.

“I highly doubt that on a day-to-day basis you often hear thatmuch noise,” he said. “But [the policy] creates an aura of restriction, an aura ofhesitation in how you leadyour life in a residence hall. It doesn’t place students in a position of being responsible adults.”

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HARROLD, Texas Along with normal first-day jitand excitement, students in this tiny district’started school Monday wondering which teachers might be toting firearms.

“It was kind of awkward knowing that some teachers were carrying guns,” said Adam Lira, 17, a senior. “I don’t feel like they should be, ‘cause we already have locked doors and cameras. But I didn’t feel threatened by it.”

Several parents said they had no idea that employees of the K-12 school were allowed to carry concealed guns on campus until recent publicity about the school board’s policy, approved quietly last fall. They said they were upset that the rural community near the Oklahoma border had not been able to give input-

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“As far as I’m concerned, teachers were trained to educate my children—not carry a gun. Even police officers need years of training in hostage situations,” said Traci McKay, whose three children are among the 110students in the red-brick Harrold school. “I don’t want my child looking over her shoulder wondering who’s carrying a gun.”

But Harrold Superintendent David Thweatt said the board approved the policy in an October open meeting that had been publicized. He said the decision was made after nearly two years of researching the best school security options at the school, which is just off a busy highway and 30 minutes away from the sheriff’s office.

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in an e-mail. “It means that the campus environment will continue being enriched by the presence of people from around the world.”

Duke’s population has become increasingly diverse in recent years, and a total of 2,074 international students from more than 100 countries were on campus for the 2007-2008 school year.

The search for a new International House director be-" gan last Fall, when previous director Carlisle Harvard—who had worked at Duke for more than 20 years—announced she would retire, Airall said. More than 80 candidates applied, and although the University had narrowed down the initial search to three candidates, the committee ultimately determined that the candidates were not strong enough.

Efforts were'temporarily put on hold and Assistant Director Lisa Giragosian was named interim director in September, until the search was resumed in January.

Airall said:thatafter reading the comments about Chin from the selection committee—comprised of University administrators, faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students—she knew Duke had found its next International House director.

“What impressed me the most was her effective work with academic departments and administrative offices to create a comprehensive program from admissions to commencement, significantly improving the services the college offered to international students and scholars,” Airall wrote in an e-mail.

Before coming to Duke, Chin was the associate dean and director of International Programs at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where she helped increase the number of students studying abroad from 20 percent to 45 percent in four years. She also established joint support programs for international students in 12 of the area colleges and universities in the Philadelphia suburban area, Airall said. Chin has also worked in international offices at the University of Pennsylvania, Michigan State University and the University of Oregon.

Chin received her B.A. in music from National Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan and her Ph. D. in music education and research from the University of Oregon. She said her experience as an international student inspired much of her work in international education administration.

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night, loyal Duke students and alumni braved Durham’s summer showers and humidity for free food, beer and assorted Duke paraphernalia at Forever Duke, the Duke Alumni Association’s first mixer of the year.

Attendees ranged from freshmen to graduate students to alumni, all ofwhom grabbed abundant swag while noshing on complimentary hot dogs and listening to music by Panda Force, Rhythm and Blue and the Soulless Dogs with friends and classmates.

“This is the coolest event so far this year. I got in touch with my Duke student side. And the music was pretty sweet, too.”

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ACES from page 1 Cunningham said ease of navigation was affected by the addition of new features, which required more hyperlinks. He added that many students’ concerns about navigation most likely came from an unfamiliarity with the newer version.

“It really is just a matter of learning the software and then using it,” he wrote in an e-mail Kathy Pfeiffer, director of SISS, said the department plans to implement a visual bookbag resembling the old graphic in the next few days, adding that SISS had anticipated some concern about the loss of the graphic calendar.

“We had talked to the students about a compensation for not having as simple a calendar—you would be able to upload the calendar to the calendar [software] of your choice,” she said. “That proved not to be the case for the majority of students.”

Pfeiffer added, however, that she found some of the criticism surprising.

“For a lot of students this has been a difficult transition and we’re trying to be responsive to that,” she said. “This is the same team of people that brought them ACES in the first place.”

Although administrators said they do not have estimates of the number of ernails and other forms of feedback they received from students, three Facebook groups denouncing the new site have been created since it debuted. Mistarz’s £roup is the largest, with more than 800 members.

Pfeiffer and Cunningham headed an effort to switch ACES from a solely Duke-handled site to a version offered by the PeopleSoft Corp. student information system.

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a more student-friendly long-range planning application—PeopleSoft provided Duke with a support system to assist University technicians with programming tasks, Pfeiffer said.

“We have the whole weight of a big company behind us instead of a very small team working to edit ACES,” she said.

Sophomore Alex Beutel said administrators had mentioned to him that the transfer of the software—and its editing duties—into the hands of a large company would also save Duke money.

The aspect of the site that struck Mistarz when he first logged on was its layout. He said the interface resembled an information storage site rather than one suited for interactive features. He then sent three or four e-mails to administrators that same

day and created a template e-mail that he encouraged members of his Facebook group to send as well, Faculty members have reacted to the new ACES with many of the same complaints as students, Pfeiffer said.

Michael Gustafson, Pratt ’93, Grad ’9B and Ph. D. ’99 and assistant of the practice professor of electrical and computer engineering, said he also had concerns about the new interface and had asked the Engineering Student Government to voice criticism to SISS. Loyal to the blue-and-red blocks of the old system, Beutel, along with sophomore Nick Bottenus, created the Duke Schedulator, a Web site that generates a mimic of the old calendar after students enter details of

their week’s schedule. Beutel criticized the current system’s interface, saying it restrict-

ed the way data was presented.

“There’s no reason they can’t make multiple interfaces of the same data [instead of] restricting it to one way of doing it,” he said.

Beutel added that users had to click a “coundess number of times” in order to navigate the site—an element of the new ACES that he said was inefficient.

Many students decried the hyperlinking system for spreading information disparate ly around the site.

“We don’t have that same idea of contemporaneous information—there are like 80,000 links and no hard information,” junior Cory Massaro said.

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A message Coach K greeted with reception from the OV Ball Coach by

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MORRISVILLE, N.C. There were no “Let’s go Duke” chants when head coach Mike Krzyzewski walked into baggage claim of Raleigh-Durham International Airport Monday night.

Instead? dozens of fans screamed “US-A” in the baggage claim to welcome Krzyzewski back from the Olympic Games in Beijing. Two

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the Bryan Center.

I was crossing the Chapel quad like I have a thousand times before' Out of habit, I reached for my cell to see if anyone had hit me up during my “Living the Middle Ages” lecture.

One missed call. Unfamiliar number.

Probably a delivery guy for the new apartment or something. Whatever. I decide to check the message anyway. You never know. . 1 Uh, Meredith, Coach Spurrier down at South Carolina calling y°u at about 1:35.

He had me at Uh. Meredith Steve Spurrier, the nine closest thing Duke has had to football royalty in what feels like the last century, found time in his busy schedule to phone a lowly Chronicle columnist. His voice is distinctively Southern, the perfect mix ofnonchalance, colloquialism and levity you would expect, except that at times, he speaks with the speed of a blitzing linebacker.

I stopped dead in my tracks to listen to what the voice had to say. As someone who has worked in college journalism for three years now, I was shocked that Spurrier returned my call. The Big Whigs of Sport are usually too important to be bothered by people like me. But apparently, not Spurrier.

Late last week, I had sent an e-mail to a public relations person at South Carolina because I wanted to personally ask the Ol’ Ball coach why, for the first time in five years, Duke didn’treceive its one top-25 vote in the preseason USA Today Coaches’ poll. Since 2004, Spurrier had been slating Duke at No. 25 on his ballot in deference to the institution that gave him his first head coaching job. As the years passed, however, the vote became more and more controversial—Duke isn’t a top-25 team!—and people all over college football were clamoring for this utter chaos to be stopped.

The reason I didn’tput Duke down there at No. 25 is because thePresident of the American Football Coaches Association, Grant Teaff asked me, not to do that. He said for the validity and integrity of the poll, I shouldn’t do that.

And, uh, so I said, ‘OK, I won’t do it this year. ’ On its face, I understand where the AFCA is coming from. There is an infinitesimally small chance that in the convoluted matrix that is the BCS system, one vote could make a difference somewhere, somehow in the final standings. And, I mean, this is about “integrity” right?

Sure. But with all due respect to the great football powers that be, I think there is something much more important than the integrity of a meaningless preseason poll; the integrity of the game and, for that matter, of sport.

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Duke fans waited in Raleigh-Durham International Airport Mondayto welcome Mike Krzyzewski back from China.

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USA grabbed gold by beating Spain, red, white and blue balloons filled the baggage claim.

And after spending three weeks in China, Krzyzewski was merely glad to

be back in America.

“It’s so good to be on American soil and it’s so good to just be the Duke coach,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s really good being the Duke coach having won the Olympics.”

Krzyzewski said his gold medal was more gratifying than any ofhis other tides, including three national championships at Duke.

“This is differentThis is the best,” Krzyzewski said. “You are representing your country and trying to show respect for the world.

To be a part of that and win the gold medal, I don’t think you can get any better.”

Despite thefeelingofpatriotismsurrounding the event, most fans were still adorned SEE KRZYZEWSKI ON PAGE

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FOOTBALL I RECRUITING ROUNDUP

Local recruit keys commitment string by

Stephen Allan THE CHRONICLE

Most college football staffs have about four members who focus heavily on recruiting.

But with higher academic standards than most of its competition and a long streak of futility, Duke and head coach David Cutcliffe couldn’t afford to recruit with an average effort.

So he more than doubled the typical resources given to recruiting.

“This is the only staff I’ve been on where you have nine guys that can go all day and all night and recruit against anyone anywhere,” Cutcliffe said at Duke’s preseason media day Aug. 3.

That extra recruiting push paid off in a big way this summer, as Duke received 22 commitments. The haul was highlighted by a one-week period at the end of July when the Blue Devils garnered 13 commitments, including four-star recruit Desmond Scott out of Durham Hillside.

The 22 commitments arejust threeshort of the maximum number of scholarships allowed in a given year. Of those* commitments, Scott is the only four-star recruit and six additional players are listed as three-star

recruits. Nine players were ranked in the top 100 at their respective positions.

“The biggest thing is [Cutcliffe’s] reputation,” said Burke Hayes, scout.com’s Southeast recruiting coordinator. “Kids see a lot of the players he’s more or less developed. They want to be a part of something special in a rebuilding process like Duke.”

Cutcliffe got exactly what he wanted, too. When he was hired, he promised to recruit for speed and in the state ofNorth Carolina. Nine current commitments are in-state products, and scout.com describes Scott, the best of them all, as having “quick feet, good vision and the speed to be a home run threat.”

While Scott’s commitment was noteworthy enough considering his athletic prowess, his recruiting process was even more surprising. The No. 27 running back in the country had originally committed to Rutgers June 4, but just a little more than a month later, he shocked nearly everyone by switching from the Scarlet Knights to the Blue Devils.

That commitment set off a chain reaction that Hayes clubbed a “nine-day SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE

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David Cutdiffereeled in an impressive first full recruiting dass highlighted byfour-star Desmond Scott

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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

McCallie hires former Blue Devil Brickey

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South Carolina head coach Steve Spurrierended his traditionof including Duke in his preseason poll this year.

SHINER from page 9 the pros and is turning South Carolina around. Here is a guy who has millions of dollars in the bank and an immense amount of national respect, And here is a guy who, along the way, hasn’t forgotten where he came from and the opportunities given to him before he made it big.

So if a renowned coach wants to do soniething, however small, for the program that gave him his start, then people should lighten up and get over it.

In the end, though—and perhaps in a move indicative of the current sports atmosphere in this country —the integrity of a poll beat out the integrity of a man.

Spurrier didn’t cast his vote for Duke this year. And it seemed by the tone of his voice blasting through my cell phone earpiece that he was truly sorry.

Grant Teaff is a man I admire and resped—good guy—and he asked me not to do it.

So the Dukies didn Y gel a vote this year, but I’ll be pullin’for the Dukies. Put that in the paper. I’m pullin’for 'em every game. See y a. Bye. There you go, Coach. I got it in the paper for you. And also the fact that you care enough about this place to talk to a student reporter to get the message out there—even if you couldn’t do it this year with your vote.

I hope you get to cast a preseason top-25 vote for Duke sometime real soon.

I hear Coach Cutcliffe is the best thing to happen to Duke Football since... well, you.

Former Duke basketball star and Shaw head coach Robert Brickey was hired by Joanne R McCallie to be the women’s basketball program’s assistant director of basketball operations, McCallie announced in a statement Monday.

Brickey was released from Shaw in March when his contract was not renewed afte three years.

Before taking the helm at Shaw, Brickey was an assistant at James Madison, Southern Methodist and Army. He also served as the athletic department’s community outreach coordinator in 1999.

In his new role, he will coordinate off-campus camps, on-campus recruiting and marketing efforts—all part of the program’s push for greater recognition.

“Robert’s passion for Duke is totally motivating to all of us here,” McCallie said in a statement. “Having the oppor-

tunity for him to work with our studentathletes and allow them to glean from his experiences at Duke as a student-athlete and somebody who has pursued the highest level, will be excellent for our program.”

Brickey graduated from Duke in 1990 after a four-year career playing for Mike Krzyzewski. He led the , Blue Devils to three Final Fours, including Robert Brickey a national championship appearance in 1990, when he was a team captain.

He brought his Shaw teams to Cameron Indoor Stadium for preseason games the last two seasons. .

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Krzyzewski also shared stories withthose in attendance, describing one of the key moments before the team even reached China. Prior to Krzyzewski and the team’s departure from Las Vegas, Collins’ father, former Olympian Doug Collins, talked abouthis time at the 1972 Olympics, when Team USA lost in the gold medal game to the Soviet Union in perhaps the most controversial international contest ever.

When Team USA sealed the win Sunday, Leßron James draped his medal

over Collins “It was 36 years later and it was kind of a fulfillment,” Krzyzewski said.

Other stories had a lighter tone, including the players’ messing with Krzyzewski’s classic look. .

“They were goofing around, saying ‘l’m going to mess up your hair/” Krzyzewski said. “And usually you try to stay real clean, and you’re hugging all of those guys and by the time you went to the press conference, I said, T stink.’ And I said, ‘You guys really worked hard today.’ There were a lot of good memories.”

When asked if he would be interested in defending the gold at the 2012 Olympics in London, Krzyzewski did not seem too eager to jump back into the red, white and blue. Krzyzewski simply wanted a chance to get back home to Durham and catch his breath after three years with Team USA. “I want to really enjoy this,” Krzyzewski said. “I’d like to say thank you and put [Team USA clothing] to rest for a while, for good—and to get back to being a North Carolinian, the Duke coach.... I’m anxious to be home.”

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Scott has such explosiveness and skill that Hayes said he could eventually be dominant enough to leave for the NFL after his junior season.

“He’s a big-bodied, big-framed kid with all the tangibles and intangibles,” Hayes said. “If he stays for four years, he’ll be a four-year guy. Duke will get at least three really good years out of him.”

Scott was not the only marquee player to change his mind and decide to play for Duke. Originally committed to Geor-

gia Tech, defensive tackle John Drew, the 36th-best defensive tackle in the country, swapped ACC schools four months after he had decided on the Yellow Jackets.

In the two days following Drew’s sudden switch, Duke reeled in Corey Gattis, also out of Durham Hillside, and quarterback Sean Schroeder from Dana Hills in California.

With the recruiting effort, it appears Cutcliffe has accomplished what he set out to do, Hayes said.

“The thing that stands out to me is the speed,” Hayes said. “There’s a lot of 4.5 in there. A few knock 4.4 and really that’s not something Duke’s known for, but there’s a change of culture happening.”

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The new ACES is actually Popular features from the old system are now hard to not ACES at all; instead, it is a software package from the find, buried behind five or six company People Soft. When mouse clicks. Everything from searching for classes to enrollDuke began working with Peoing in a course waidist has bepleSoft in 2000, the University decided to custom build come more complicated.

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the new ACES. In fact, these days you’d be hard-pressed to find a student on campus who is “enthusiastic” about the new ACES. Moreover, this is not the first unsuccessful software launch by a University group.

In the past the RoomPix software used by Residence Life and Housing Services has delayed housing selections for undergraduates. In 2007 technical problems during the online selection process forced RLHS to revert back to in-person selection.

With a more time-sensitive entity like course selection, both speed and reliability must be top priorities.

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a little kid, I knew that some day I would be president. In fact, I wanted to be the first female president so badly that when Elizabeth Dole ran for the Republican nomination in 2000, I didn’t want

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age student, though, the most frustrating aspect of this whole affair is that there seemed to be no significant problems with the old system. The oldACES had been tailored to suit the needs of Duke students. Students were comfortable with the old ACES and had already learned how to use it.

To tell students that, if “done right,” the new system is actually better—as Cunningham has done—is bad logic. If students find software confusing, it’s usually the software’s fault rather than the students’s.

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schedule. Student demand for this feature was high enough that rather than wait for an official fix from SISS, an individual student built his own software to perform the task.

Another complaint about the software is that it is slow.

What took seconds to do in the past now takes minutes, even for students who know what they are doing.

According to a July email from Pfeiffer, the new ACES was shown “to student groups and members of the student government,” who “were enthusiastic about the new interface.” University Registrar Bruce Cunningham supported this claim.

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lack the ability to foretell the future, and contrary to what I may sometimes proclaim, I am not always right.

These abilities are exactly what we demand of our presidential candidates. They cannot falter.

They cannot make a mistake. They must have all the right answers now. And when new information causes them to change their minds or pave a new course, they are called flip-floppers, criticized for not making the best decisions in the first place.

These expectations are not fair. Our candidates are not messiahs—they are humans. We need leaders who are intelligent, who have good judgment and who understand the needs of our nation. But we cannot demand that our leaders be infallible. The most important quality in our next president will be his willingness and ability to listen to others and fairly evaluate their ideas.

I attended a lecture this summer by Oxford University Professor Philip Davies about evidence-based democracy. It’s a relatively new concept, but one that seems like it should be common sense. The theory holds that leaders of a democracy should be elected for their stated beliefs and priorities, but when new evidence arises that points to a contrary solution-, they should prefer that evidence to their own convictions.

In America, we seldom do this. Our leaders often care so much about the support of their base and their own re-election that they never take the time to consider evidence that can cause them to change their mind. Partisan politics is stronger than the search for complicated truths.

Politicians rely more on the “evidence” spouted out by lobbyists than the evidence of academia.

The lobbyist’s version is shorter, easier to comprehend and always points toward a simple solu-

tion. It provides them with better sound bytes.

But history and current events should have taught us that there are no easy answers. Bills such as the USA Patriot Act should have taught our politicians that they cannot cut corners or skip pages. The excuse that they didn’t read it thoroughly should never be accepted.

Our elected leaders are paid by our tax dollars to evaluate all sides of issues. If we understand that we elect leaders based on their instincts and analytical skills, we should understand when their opinion on a particular issue differs from ours. It is their job to translate expert testimony into political solutions, arid their positions give them access to more information and more time to deliberate than average citizens.

But Americans don’t approach politics in this way. We want leaders who agree with us and always will agree with us. We criticize the few leaders who change their minds, even when overwhelming evidence calls upon them to do so. And because politicians’jobs depend on our votes, they usually listen to us instead of the experts.

No one person can possibly know all the answers. But people can have the ability to seek out the opinions of others who know more about the issue at hand. In electing our leaders, we need not only look at the solutions they propose in the short term, but also their willingness to adapt plans to accommodate the future.

Political ideologies still should have a place in our society. They tell us a lot about how people believe our society does and should operate. But neither Republican nor Democratic ideology is the one correct answer to politics.

There is a vast middle ground that is full of potential. Once leaders are elected, it is not their job to remain Republicans or Democrats, to ensure that their party remains in the majority or gets its whole platform passed. It is their job to work as analysts and legislators to fix problems.

So maybe I won’t ever be president. I’m not very good at shaking hands, kissing babies and following party lines. But I can do my part to help elect leaders who have the humility to know they aren’t omniscient and the desire to listen to the real experts in order to find the complicated solutions.

Aishlinn O’Connor is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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Most ofyou know the last long stretch when you’re home for the summer.

All your friends from home can’t wait to get back to school. All your friends at school complain about the long summer. Everyone dreads classes but needs the impetus to do something with themselves again. From this perspective, the freedom of college outweighs its responsibilities.

Even your fellow students who got shout-outs in President Brodhead’s warm welcome e-mail probably empathize with me. (I’ll confess—I was not one of the Dukies out saving the world this summer or otherwise being a credit to our school, so I can only venture a guess.) Even they must have had enough downtime between DukeEngage, well-salaried internships, documentary filmmaking and Olympic training to lose their enthusiasm for the summer.

One of my friends put it best when he explained that the excitement of summer, especially in college, is that you can do so much.

Anything, almost.

That overwhelming possibility also causes the inevitable twinge of disappointment.

You can do anything, but you can never do everything. Not in three months, anyway.

You regret the chance missed or the plan failed, even when it is beyond your control, and especially when it is within your control.

One of my best friends from high school spent most of the summer in Europe, while I stayed most of the summer in my hometown, Suburbia, USA. Needless to say, we each had a completely different few months, but by August we felt the same way—it had to end.

In part, it was the eerie sense of going back in time as we went home. The limitations of living at home felt uncomfortably similar to last summer, and the one before that. I had the same fights with my parents, went to parties at the same houses and saw all the same

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lettertotheeditor Olympic Basketball Gold Medal As a very senior Iron Duke Durham Grad, I am so proud of Coach K and his U.S. Olympic basketball team winning the gold medal by defeating Spain in a very physical game.

Coach K continues to provide Duke with an excellent competitive basketball team and Durham is blessed that he and his family have been such generous citizens to the whole community.

I was fortunate to be a student when Wallace Wade (after whom our stadium is named) was our football coach. He was

honored with two Rose Bowl invitations my freshman and senior years. The first game against Southern California was played in Pasadena, CA in 1939 and we lost 7-3. Because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the second game against Oregon State was moved to Wallace Wade Stadium and we lost 2016. So, our new football coach, David Cutcliffe, will hopefully bring glory back to Duke football;

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people.

Once the nostalgia wore off and the restlessness kicked in, I began to doubt if I even had

changed.

Since returning, I know that I have certainly changed a little, but it was mostly in acclimating to Duke, an environment ultimately better

suited to me than most places I have been in my life.

I’ve never been someone to say that anywhere is perfect, or that Duke is, without a doubt, the greatest place on earth. It’s in my nature to criticize, and I haven’t changed that much.

After my best laid summer plans were successful only in convincing me not to spend it in the exact same way again, I started to understand why I couldn’t wait to be back at Duke.

Regardless of what I did this summer, it’s always possible here to stumble into something that matters or run into someone worthwhile.

No planning required.

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

dukevotes: on government reform Wasteful government spending Changing the, culture of Washington Nineteen months ago in Springfield, 111. Senator Barack Obama began his presidential campaign with a commitment to run a people-powered campaign that was not funded or run

by Washington lobbyists. Obama recognizes that it is impossible to change America surrounded by, advised by and funded by Washington lobbyists.

Although many did not believe it was possible to run a successful campaign without lobbyist money, Obama has to this day not accepted a single dollar from a federal lobbyist.

This approach stands in stark contrast to that of the current administration, where oil and natural gas lobbyists literally wrote the nation’s energy policy through Dick Cheney’s secret Energy Task Force.

Obama has a consistent record of attacking the culture of corruption in Washington, sponsoring and passing strict ethics legislation to prevent another Keating Five scandal or Abramoff debacle. As president, Sen. Obama would continue to bring transparency to the lobbying industry through the creation of an Internet database that tracks federal contracts.

He would also require all non-emergency legislation to be posted online for at least five days to allow for public oversight Sen. Obama has run his campaign the same way he will run his White House lobbyist-free and accountable only to the American people.

Unfortunatelyjohn McCain is uninterested in truly ending the excessive influ—

ence of special interests in Washington.

On Nov. 4, American voters will decide Despite his rhetoric, McCain has allowed thefate ofour nationfor the next four years lobbyists to not just fund but run his camwhen they select the next president of the paign. Even though he United States. Amid ramargues that “there are pant pork-barrel spendtoo many lobbyists” in ing, earmarking and McCain Washington, corruption scandals, the reportedly has at least government faces a crisis 150 current or former of public confidence. Relobbyists storing the public trust in Washington the government’s ability running his campaign, including his campaign to both fix itself and the nation’s problems may be manager and top foreign dukevotes the next president’s greatpolicy adviser. Charlie series on politics Black, one of McCain’s est challenge.

Indeed, Washington’s chief advisers, admitted recent history ofwasteful spending should in February that he regularly conducted his lobbying business while riding the embarrass any American. The scandals and indictments of the last year, ensnarStraight Talk Express. When one looks at the wayhe has run his campaign it is clear ing both Democrats and Republicans, that a McCain White House will continue demonstrate that our government needs the Bush legacy of catering to the special serious reform. Some have responded to interests while ignoring the interests of this with dramatic calls for “change.” But the American people. change is more than a slogan. It demands Barack Obama began his campaign a serious understanding of the complex Washington landscape and a commitwith a simple message: Change. As young ment to reform. people we have been direcdy affected by a Bush-McCam style of governing: John McCain has always been Washington’s resident reformer. ThroughStudent loans have become more diffiout his distinguished Senate career, the cult to attain and the number of good “maverick Republican,” as he has become jobs available to us after graduation are known, has irritated even members ofhis quickly diminishing. We cannot afford a third Bush term; it’s time for real change own party by fighting for bipartisan solutions and against wasteful spending. in Washington.

In so doing, he has repeatedly chalBenjamin Bergmann is a Trinity sophomore. lenged the established power brokers of He is the president of the Duke Democrats. the political machine. Much to the cha-

grin of some party stalwarts, he fought for higher taxes on tobacco products.

McCain spent almost a full decade with Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., to pass campaign finance reform, despite facing countless obstacles to his efforts. He passed aviation security legislation with the help of yet another Democrat, Sen. Fritz Rollings, D-S.C. The McCain-Kennedy immigration reform bill he coauthored last summer drew much ire, but sought to provide a bipartisan solution to a national problem. John McCain has a history of setting aside his own political reputation and affiliation in order to put the country first He has been a leading opponent of farm subsidies, despite the extensive political benefits from organized interests to supporting them.

McCain has vowed to check the abuses of Washington. The Arizona senator will fight for the line-item veto, which would allow him to remove wasteful pork-barrel projects from bills that reach his desk, also threatening to expose the authors of pork-barrel legislation.

Putting aside catchy campaign slogans and attractive bumper stickers, only one candidate has a history ofproducing such effective reform over and over again. The nation needs a candidate who has a proven and distinguished track record as an agent of reform. The nation needs ajohn McCain.

NatalieFiguereo is a Trinity junior. She is a juniorclass rep. for Duke College Republicans.

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