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fledgling campuses abroad to supplement its Durham hub; a six-armed approach to corporate education. Fuqua Dean £lair Sheppard announced Monday that the school is developing outposts in St Petersburg, London, Shanghai, Dubai and New Delhi. The sites will eventually house all of Duke’s MBA curricula, but they will initially support the Cross-ContinentMßAprogrambeginning in August 2009, as The Chronicle revealed this past July. Students enrolled in the twoyear degree program will spend one to two weeks at each of the five international sites and conclude their coursework with a four-week stretch in Durham. Tuition for the program will cost $101,900, according to Fuqua’s Web site. Three women clad only in metallic gold bikinis and paint a shade of Duke blue captivated the business-casual crowd when they took center stage at The Lafe P. and Rita D. Fox Center Monday for the announcement of the global outposts. “We just saw a representation of the god-
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As of a 4 a.m. print deadline, several Duke Student Government officials had declined to comment on the results of an online vote to increase the student activities fee and elect freshman senators. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Monday and no irregularities in voting had been reported. U President] [DSG told [Giordano] Jordan me not to say anything,” said DSG Executive Vice President Sunny Kantha, a senior. Other DSG executives and members were either unavailable for comment or said they did not know the outcome. Students will be notified of the results at approximately 10 a.m. Tuesday, a senator told The Chronicle via online correspondence. Freshman senators who won their respective elections were told by DSG officials not to discuss election results with The Chronicle. CollegiateLink software was also used *
Dancers entertain a crowd prior to an announcement by Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business, Monday in the Fox Center regarding the school's plans to develop five internationalcampuses. dess Kali, the goddess of time and change,” said President Richard Brodhead, quickly explaining the reference to the six-armed diety. “We thought that might be an appropriate symbol to start with today because today we’re raising the curtain on a new business and indeed a new way to train and inspire the leaders of tomorrow.” Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications, said the sites have been in the works for about a year, and discussions with partners
began several months ago. Fuqua will collaborate with the Graduate School of Management at St. Petersburg State University, and partners for the remaining four sites will be publicized in the coming months. Monday’s ceremony was equal parts press conference and hoopla, with sound bites from industry leaders interspersed with cultural performances. Apair ofChinese acrobats in full-body spandex folded SEE
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pilot living group based on civic engagement and started by a group of sophomores, is currently seeking official approval from the University. If the proposal is accepted, it could set the standard for future Übuntu House, a
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College Day returns to campus this year with tiestations, bubble tubs, free food and up-and-coming dying bands —funded, for the first time, entirely by the Duke University Union Hip-hop duoShwayze will headline the festivities, which also feature the band White Rabbits—a far cry from Bob Hope and The Beach Boys, who served as the event’s entertainment in the ’6os. After a 30-year hiatus, the Main West Quadrangle muthrough the sic festival popular from the last year, and [Duke students] want it to be here forever,” DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, said. This year, the Oct. 4 festivities will take place from 3 to 11 p.m. and will feature arts, crafts and food. Additionally, the Union formed an official committee this year devoted to planning the day and appropriating DUU funding for the event. ’6os, and “Joe College was the LDOC of the
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HARARE, Zimbabwe President Robert Try Mugabe ceded some power in Zimbabwe for the first time in 28 years, signing a power-sharing deal Monday with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai amid questions on how the fierce enemies will work together to fix the collapsing economy. Thousands of supporters of the rival parties threw stones at each other as the ceremony got under way and several hundred broke through the gates of the convention center where it took place. Police fired warning shots and set dogs on the crowd, which calmed and cheered as their leaders left after the signing. Mugabe,Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leaderof a faction that broke away from Tsvangirai's party, all pledged to make the deal work. But long-simmering and bitter differences as well as the nation's economic collapse—inflation is officially running at 11 million percent —have put thedeal under intense pressure.
US officials say al-Qaida imploding WASHINGTON Top U.S. counterterrorism officials Monday said al-Qaida is "imploding" and that its violent tactics have turned Muslims worldwide against the organization. "Absolutely it's imploding. It's imploding because it's not a message that resonates with a lot of Muslims," said Dell Dailey, the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism. Al-Qaida still remains the most dangerous threat to the United States. But of growing concern are organizations like Lebanese Hezbollah and Hamas, which combine social services, local governance and national politics with extremist attacks, said Undersecretary ofState James Glassman. Vastly more Muslims than Westerners are killed by alQaida car and suicide bombs, particularly in Iraq, where local tribes have largely turned against al-Qaida in Iraq in the last two years. Extremist violence claimed more than 9,500 civilian victims in Muslim countries in 2007.
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CHICAGO Residents of the Midwest faced blackouts affecting more than 2 million homes and businesses Monday after a weekend of devastating weather caused by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. The violent weather in the Midwest, the latest in a brutal summer that has slammed parts of the region with severe flooding, brought Ike's total death toll to at least 34 in nine states from the Gulf Coast to the Ohio Valley.
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A Sept. 10 article,"Campout, insurance at top of GPSC agenda" incorrectly characterized a health insurance issue—customer service representatives had told students certain benefits were not included, and GPSC members were seeking more information.The Chronicle regrets the error.
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They are the fastest-growing minority group in the United States. They comprise more than 15 percent of the total population. They will be one of the country’s most powerful voting blocs for election seasons to come. But in this ye'ar’s presidential election, neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has taken a strong stand on an issue that is ofinterest to nearly all of the 45.5 million Hispanics in the United States. “Given that you have two candidates that are more alike than they are different on immigration, the broader issue is whether immigration is going to make much of a difference in the election,” said Noah Pickus, associate research professor of public policy studies and Nannerl O. Keohane director of the Kenan Institute for Ethics. In North Carolina—where, according to estimates from a 2005 Pew Hispanic Center research report for 2002-2004, 300,000 undocumented immigrants make up about half of the state’s foreign-born population —illegal immigration is an issue that is not
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Searching for a National Solution North Carolina’s response to illegal immigrants may have been incited by the federal government’s failure to address the problem. Congress’ inaction has shifted the burden of reform from the national level to state and city governments, Pickus said. “It’s not local communities who decide-who immigrates, it’s a border issue,” said sophomore Allie
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documented immigrants already in the U.S. Some students with des to immigrant communities said the federal government needed to step in because perceptions about immigration vary widely and often distort local policy. “The debate is very different here.... The idea of building a wall, people kind of laugh at that in Texas,” said Hayes, a Dallas native. She added that in Texas, citizens are aware that the foundation of their state’s economy would collapse without immigrants. Sophomore Catalina Hidalgo, who is from Miami, also said the contrasts between Florida and N.C. immigration dialogue were distinct. “In Miami, Hispanics run the city,” she Said. “It’s a very different dynamic in the sense that when you hear ‘Latino’ you don’t think farm owner—you thinkbusiness owner.”
royalties. Fie added that the company won’t waste money on textbooks with glamorous layouts, designs and illustrations that only distract students and may only be intended to delineate between old and new editions. Also sick of high prices and distracting layouts, Robert Brown, visiting professor of physics, started publishing his own textbooks decades ago. Today his lecture notes —online and free to the public —are accessed everywhere from Durham to impoverished classrooms in third world countries, he said.
“The market itself, not publishers, determines whether a new revision is necessary.” Stephen Hocheiser, vp of college store and public affairs for Cengage Learning
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With students and faculty growing weary of increasing textbook prices, publishers and professors have begun producing cheap alternatives, such as online lecture guides and open-source material. Textbooks are expensive to put together, Brown said, but it is the publishing companies that reap the majority of the profits. “The publishers of textbooks make out like bandits,” he wrote in an e-mail. Slackening demand for new textbooks, however, has forced companies like Cengage Learning to pass the investment costs onto consumers,
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vice president of college store and public affairs for Cengage Learning, wrote in an e-mail. Nicole Allen, campaign director of Make Textbooks Affordable, a non-profit student advocacy group pushing for legislation favoring cheaper textbooks, said traditional publishers like McGraw-Hill and Cengage Learning have done more than just raise prices to compensate for dwindling demand. She said that by publishing new textbook editions as frequently as possible, publishing companies have attempted to undermine the used book market. Hocheiser, however, said the introduction of multiple editions is a function of demand. “The market itself, not publishers, determines whether a new revision is necessary,” Hocheiser said. Allen said textbook bundles—textbooks supplemented with CDs, DVDs or other extra material—represent another way publishers attempt to inflate the cost.
Publishers often also withhold pricing information from professors in the endorsement process, she said, adding that it is a matter of neither the professors asking nor publishers volunteering the information up-front. The College Opportunity and Affordability Act, passed February 2008 in the House of Representatives, will curtail rising costs and prevent price inflation, Allen said. Some students said the rising cost of textbooks has forced them away from the bookstore as they look for cheaper ways to purchase class material. Other students are not as bothered by textbook prices, while some have turned to sites such as Amazon.com to save money. Senior Samir Derisavifard said he has found ways around high textbook costs. After spending around $3OO per semester his freshman year, he started borrowing and sharing textbooks. This year he spent only $l2O. Brown said he keeps his notes available for free online because open-source texts make educational capital available to all. “My notes are heavily used by students in third world countries for whom high textbook prices are a wicked form of reverse social engineering, literally pricing the knowledge required to uplift those societies beyond the means of those within them,” he said.
Courting the Hispanic vote Although President George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004 with an unusually high level of Hispanic support for a Republican candidate, Jacob Vigdor, associate professor of public policy studies and economics, said the Republican party was rapidly losing those votes. “They are going to have to do some hard thinking about whether they can build a coalition in 21st century America that excludes this rapidly growing group,” he said. Serun Alberto, a Mexican immigrant who makes his living as a butcher on North Roxboro Street, said, speaking in Spanish, that he thought most Hispanics would begin to see eye-to-eye with McCain because of his conservative views and greater experience. Alberto, an undecided voter, said immigration is not a big issue in the election because neither candidate has emphasized it. Outside the butcher shop, a different view was expressed by the N.C.-based Latino newspaper Que Pasa. A recent headline reads “Los Republicanos no quieren a inmigrantes”— “The Republicans don’t like immigrants.” In an editorial written in Spanish, General Editor Orlando Gamboa, who declined to comment for this story, said the problem of illegal immigration received little attention at both parties’ nominating conventions. “With McCain there isn’t a reason to hope. With Obama, there is hope for a solution,” he wrote in Spanish. Chase Olivieri contributed reporting.
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If Übuntu is successful, it can be used as a model for students who want to start other themed-living communities, he added. The success of Übuntu and other housing communities, however, all depend on student interest. The last Living/Learning community on West—called the Leadership and Civic Engagement Community, with goals similar to that of Übuntu’s—was actually discontinued due to lack of student involvement and support after one year, Thompson said. The community was created by Residence Life and Housing Sendees along with the administration in 2006 and was located in Kilgo Quadrangle during the 2006-2007 school year. Übuntu, however, has already received a high amount of student interest. Sophomore Ben Getson, treasurer for Übuntu, said approximately 100 freshmen expressed interest in Übuntu after the group labeled at the Student Activities Fair. Some of the group’s proposed activities include committing to a service project in Durham, working on a summer civic engagement experience, helping other members develop their own service projects based on their passions
and weekly meetings to discuss a larger issue affecting the world, Übuntu Little Team members said. But the group is not just about community service. Getson said they want to have a larger impact on campus culture. The new themed-living communities would remove the social selectivity aspect of the selective living process, Zhang said. Students who want to live in Übuntu will go through an application process that will be outlined in more detail when Campus Council’s document comes out. He added that he hopes it will counteract the negative findings stated in the 2007 Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee Report, which noted a high amount of selfsegregation and a sense of exclusivity portrayed by certain student groups. Reese said he wants people to think of Übuntu as a new way of uniting independents at Duke. [Many students want] to belong to an identity [at Duke] that’s not here, and I think that’s where the perceived exclusivity comes from,” he said. “We want to be a group of independents united around a common interest.” “
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Last year, the event—which attracted an estimated 2,000 part by DUU, Campus Council and the Duke Student Government, with $35,000 in funding from DUU alone. This year, however, Campus Council andDSG declined to fund the event, which received an unchanged amount of funding from DUU. Last year’s event received about $50,000 offunding in total. “We felt that people really saw the event as a DUU event [last year],” said Campus Council President Molly Bierman, a senior, explaining Campus Council’s decision not to fund the festival this year. “We thought our money would be better allocated to things that were more directly in line with our mission.” Although DSG and Campus Council have withdrawn their financial support for the event, Chen said the committee was able to book Shwayze, an acoustic-based hiphop collaboration of Shwayze and Cisco Adler featured in their MTV reality series “Buzzin.” Other artists featured in the event are the six-piece indie rock group White Rabbits, jam band The Brew, local hip-hop act Kooley High and Charlotte-based rock V roll band The Sammies. “This year, we really wanted to diversify the musical groups we bring on campus,” Chen said. “This addressed the various tastes students have here at Duke. You’ve got your indie act, your hip-hop act, your jam band, hip-hop/ rock, local acts, medium sized acts and national acts.” But students said they are most anticipating the day’s headlining musician. “I think everyone is most excited for Shwayze,” sophomore Ryan Ingram said. “That is no question at all.” Chen, who is also on DUU’s Major Attractions committee, said this is an example of the Union’s cognizance of the kind of acts it brought before and the kind of acts it hopes to bring in the future. The Union’s goal is to appeal to the various tastes of Duke students, she added. Goonewardene said he hopes the event has the vibe of a music festival. “With Joe College, it’s really not about the name recognition of bands and the recognition on campus,” he said. “There’s a link to iTunes U in which you can download music from all the artists coming, so students really get a chance to preview the music. The idea is for it to be like the event of the ’6os and ’7os.” Sophomore Zachary Abzug said he will attend Joe College Day not for the bands —none of which listens to —but for the traditional college experience. “Joe College Day isn’t LDOC.... I don’t go to hear famous bands that I can sing-along too from, half a quad away,” he said. “I go to hear good music in a great, relaxed environment. I just hope for a beautiful day, and then the rest will fall into place.” In addition to music, food vendors will sell funnel cakes, wood-firedpizza and fruit smoothies, and Arab Students’ Organization will provide hookah rentals. An eating contest will be sponsored by Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs and Midnight Cookie.
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AG subpoenas 7 gas stations Seven gas stations across the state received subpoenas Monday for raising their prices excessively in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper announced at a press conference that the state’s price gouging laws were triggered by “an abnormal market disruption” caused by the hurricane’s presence over the Gulf of Mexico Friday. He noted that the storm had caused some market instability and natural price increases. “This is no excuse to rip off North Carolina consumers who are already suffering from high gas prices,” he said. “Gouging for greed will not be tolerated in North Carolina.” No Triangle-area gas stations received subpoenas Monday because all of the gouging violations have come from the Western and Piedmont regions of
North Carolina The seven subpoenaed retailers allegedly charged more than $5.49 a gallon for gas on Friday or Saturday, Cooper said. He added that the seven retailers would have until Sept. 26 to respond to their subpoenas. If they are found in violation of the law they will face civil penalties consisting offines up to $5,000. “All they have to do is to keep the same profit margin that they’ve had all along,” Cooper said. Several retailers have claimed that their high prices were, in response to the prices charged by their wholesalers. Cooper said wholesalers and distributors were subject to the gouging laws as well. He noted, however, that his office had so far only received complaints against retailers.
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Reflecting values of the Chautauqua movement prominent in the 19th and
20th centuries, the University is debuting a lecture circuit to initiate conversations between professors and first-year students. In an effort to encourage better relations between professors and first-year students, the Office of Undergraduate Education is sponsoring the Duke Chautauqua Lecture Series, which begins tonight at 6:30 in Southgate Dormitory Commons. Rick Powell, John Spencer Bassett professor of aft and art history, will speak on, “The Libyan Sibyls: from Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama.” The themereflects the desire to encourage more casual conversations between students and professors by removing the lecture from the formal classroom settihg and placing the discussion in East Campus common rooms.
“The series will give first-year students the chance to meet superstars in their own homes,” said Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education. Nowicki has targeted some of the University’s most esteemed faculty as the series’ principal lecturers. “Bringing noted public intellectuals into honietowns is the foundation ofChautauqua, and we wanted the best of the best for our inaugural series,” he said. Some students, such as freshman Brian Heath, said they have little qualms about
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approaching esteemed Ph. D.’s. “I am as close to some professors as I was with my teachers in high school,” he said. Many first-years, however, find their initial encounters with professors intimidating. “It depends who the professor is. The ones who make an effort to get to know their students are definitely more approachable,” freshman Zhe Ma said. Class size, however, is a definite factor in establishing student-faculty relations. First years in introductory courses encounter larger class sizes than in their seminars and writing sections, and such numbers may discourage more individualized student-professor interaction. “To get close to students, professors [with larger classes] have to interact with them outside of the lecture,” freshman Ashlyn Karan said. With the Chautauqua series, there is hope that by bringing these noted individuals into students’ living rooms, they will not only develop closer relationships with the faculty, but they will be exposed to ideas they may not have had access to in their first semester. “I hope students realize we have worldclass faculty here who are open to conversation and that they can gain a cool insight into the world around them that they may not have encountered otherwise,” Nowicki said. Each lecture and accompanying dinner is open to all freshmen, but reservations are required.
The student activities fee is used in part to fund events hosted by student groups.A referendum to increase the fee was submittedfor a student vote Monday. As ofa 4 a.m. print deadline, DSG officials had not released theresults.
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[The bylaws] aren’t written for the DSG Executive Board elections last well—there are mistakes in and results were released the Spring, night there—the whole situation polls officially closed. The vote had been postponed and the voting window extendwas shoddy.” ed because of software glitches. Elad Gross, The referendum was proposed in a letter to the editor Sept. 2, asking students to junior and Chronicle columnist
support an increase in the student activities fee by $lOO over two years. After receiving student feedback, however, the DSG Senate voted Sept. 10 to lower the proposed increase to $6O over two years. The original proposal would have allotted DSG and the Student Organization Finance Committee $1.2 million annually to fund student groups as well as three DSG-led initiatives; a campus-wide car rental service, student legal services and a bus-tracking system. The revised proposal in Monday’s referendum decreased fees and cut the three initiatives to just legal services. A minimum 15 percent of the student body was required to legalize the vote, and a majority would be needed to pass the referendum before it could go before the Board ofTrustees for final approval. Junior Elad Gross, a Chronicle columnist, sent an e-mail to DSG leaders Monday urging them to terminate the referendum, pointing to various clauses in the DSG bylaws that he said make the referendum unconstitutional. “[The bylaws] aren’t written well—there are mistakes in there—the whole situation was shoddy,” he said. “If DSG waited 10 days from today, it’d be completely constitutional.” Clause 9b in die bylaws states that a referendum cannot take place within 10 days of an election unless it occurs in conjunction with an election. Gross argues that the freshman election cannot be considered an election in general terms because it only targets 25 percent of the student body. In addition, the clause states that the proposal must be approved by three-fourths of the DSG Legislature at least three weeks before the scheduled referendum. But Attorney General Will Passo, a sophomore, said the clause is null in this scenario because freshman elections took place Monday. Although it was not an entire student body election, DSG President Jordan Giordano, a senior, said the election is one of three that are regularly scheduled each year and thus qualifies. He added that the referendum complies with another clause, 9a, pertaining to referendum procedures—that a proposal must either be approved by 15 percent of the student body via petition at least three weeks before the elecdon or pass through the DSG Senate by a two-thirds vote prior to the referendum date. The current referendum is in compliance with the latter, Giordano said. The same clause, however, states that
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those rules only apply to “any individual or group who wishes to have a referendum question placed on either Spring election ballot,” making it void as well and thus the entire referendum unconstitutional, Gross said. “If you start to disregard the very basis of your organization, and if you keep moving in that direction, you won’tbe the same organization you were supposed to be,” he said. Still, Giordano said the referendum is also constitutional based on precedent, as numerous past referendums occurred in the Fall, noting that the DSG Judiciary would overturn those results if the current referendum were deemed unconstitutional. He said the bylaws have not been updated online, but he confirmed that the mostrecent revision to the bylaws was Sept. 12,2007—the current version on the DSG Web site. Giordano added that Pass© has had the ultimate decision to halt voting if he deemed the referendum unconstitutional. “We’d have to look at every other time the studentactivities fee has been changed in the Fall,” he said. “The Honor Code was updated last Fall—every single one of those changes we’ve ever done has followed the same procedure. We followed every rule by the book.” At the Sept. 3 Senate session, the options presented before DSG representatives were either to increase the student activities fee by $lO, $l5 or $25. The minutes from the meeting, however, do not reflect an option for senators to vote against increasing fees. A DSG senator who asked not to be named said the voting process was rushed, disorderly and “shady” because the meeting was long and senators had begun to leave. Though quorum was established at the beginning of the session, the number of representatives had dwindled down to about 20—quorum is 12—for the vote to pass, he added. “I think that the entire way it was handled—in that they pressured DSG exec members who weren’t originally on board [with the referendum], the fact that it was pressure to studentleaders and there weren’t any open meetings on this—it seemed like they wanted to rush this through at the earliest possible opportunity and not get enough student turnout,” the senator said. The senator said a suggestion to postpone the referendum for a month to allow for more student discussion was dismissed.
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Several cultural groups performed at an event during which plans for the Fuqua School of Business to expand its MBA program abroad were announced. Officials presented plans to partner with a university in St. Petersburg, Russia, one offive international sites Fuqua is exploring.
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themselves into steel cylinders, followed by a speech on the importance of cultural fluency by General Motors Chief Executive Officer Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75 and vice-chair of the Board of Trustees. “What we’re doing, launching five campuses at once, is a bit crazy,” Hogan said. “We wanted to communicate the scope of that in away that people would understand. Every region is very different, and we did this contrast between a cultural presentation and a business presentation.” This is not the first time Fuqua has tried its hand at globalization. In 1999, Fuqua announced the formation of the Fuqua School of Business Europe in Frankfurt, Germany, initially earmarked as the base for then-new Cross-Continent MBA program. Fuqua scaled back the effort three years later, citing diminishing interest from European students. “Three lessons from Frankurt: pick the right location, bring enough resources to bear and only go with quality and have a truly compelling offering,” Sheppard wrote in an e-mail. “This is an entirely different proposition and entails building and committing to buildthe first truly global business school.” Nor is Duke alone in its global aspirations. A host ofother eliteAmerican institutions—including Yale University, the University of Connecticut and New York University—have eyed a more global landscape and encountered special challenges. Fuqua administrators said they hope that the interdisciplinary curricula of the planned sites—drawing from the re-
“What we’re doing, launching five campuses at once, is a bit crazy.... We wanted to communicate the scope of that in away that people would understand.” Elizabeth Hogan, Fuqua’s assistant dean for marketing and communications
sources of the School of Medicine, the Nicholas School of the Environment, the Terry Sanford Institute ofPublic Policy and
the School of Law—will help Duke dodge the problems that have dogged its peer institutions and its own past venture. “Depending on the need of the area, there will be a different mix ofschools that are involved,” Hogan said. “In general, those sites will all be multi-disciplinary. We’re launching [all five sites] simultaneously, but one of the lessons we’ve learned is that it’s better to go slowly and do it with quality.” In addition, Fuqua administrators said they are confident that a commitment to cultural immersion will enable them to succeed where other universities have failed. “We have this concept of deeply embedded relationships,” Hogan said. “What we’ll be doing in these regions is... having a deeper kind ofpresence —[other universities] typically have more casual affiliations. It’s away to connect deeply and be in a region, not just sit on top of that region.” Beatles cover band “The Backßeat” closed the show, performing a medley that included the tune “Nowhere Man”—ironic, because soon enough, the Fuqua name will have sprouted up just about everywhere.
disease, but to intervene at the most basic biological level to enhance people’s lives? Julian Savulescu, director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, responds unequivocally: “Yes.” He maintains that there are strong social and moral arguments in favor of using new genetic and biotechnology breakthroughs to enhance ourselves and our children that could lead to social, moral and economic improvements in society. Savulescu holds the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University ofOxford and directs the university’s Program on Ethics and the New Biosciences in the 21st Century. MICHAEL NACLERIO/THE
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A gold standard for Duke’s tri-captains It’s
a Monday for Duke Basketball. Mike Krzyzewki and his coaching staff are talking to a five-star recruit just steps away from Cameron Indoor Stadium’s floor. On the court, the Blue Devils are beginning their first official practice of the season—but even without coaches, it’s clear who’s running the show. Senior Greg Paulus stands over the Duke ‘D’ at center court, his voice booming to fill the empty arena and his
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ing on cue to start their drills. They begin a three-man weave, like you’ve seen done in any other high school gym, except it’s Cameron and most of the players are former McDonald’s All-Americans. The seasoned point guard seems justas comfortable yelling orders in his first shift—flanked by veterans Dave McClure and Jon Scheyer—as he does in the next, guiding freshmen Olek Czyz and Miles Plumlee. Paulus is one of Krzyzewski’s three recently named captains, along with juniors Gerald Henderson and Scheyer. The trbcaptain model is making a comeback only a season after Krzyzewski emphatically turned away from it by naming DeMarcus Nelson the lone captain, even though Paulus had shared the honor as a
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sophomore two years ago On its face, the sudden switch seems like a knock on Paulus and his leadership ability, at worst, and contradictory at best—especially given how frequently Krzyzewski talked about the previous “dilution” of the captaincy in 2007 and the importance of having only one captain in 2008. But the coach insists that the decision was purely circumstantial and not a reflection on Paulus, who led Duke in assists and" 3-point field goals last season and in points in both contests against UNO “We have more guys capable of leading—it’s as simple as that,” Krzyzewski told me beford practice Monday. “Some of the years we’ve done multiple captains, we’ve done multiple and not all those guys were ready to lead. “It’s kind oflike on our Olympic team. We didn’t name captains, but if we did, they would have been Jason [Kidd], Kobe [Bryant] and Leßron [James], and they all brought something different. They had different styles of leadership and different levels of experience, and that’s what we’re trying to do with these guys.” No, Paulus isn’t Kidd, Henderson isn’t Kobe and Scheyer isn’t Leßron, but the three new Blue Devil captains are walking into an analogy that runs deeper than -
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With a 60-percent chance of rain Tuesday night, Davidson can only hope the precipitation will help cool down the red-hot Blue Devils. Duke hosts the Wildcats tonight at 7 pm. in Koskinen Stadium for the Blue Devils’ first midweek game of the season. The game could Davidson not come at a better time for head coach Kerr’s squad, John Duke fresh off a 3-1 upset over then-No. 22 TUESDAY, 7 p.m. Virginia Tech Friday Koskinen Stadium night Kerr’s squad is on a three-game winning streak, having beaten Harvard and American in the Duke Classic Sept. 5 and 7, respectively. Duke (3-2) capped its last game in style, which stands in stark contrast to a struggling Davidson team’s (1-4) most recent effort. After taking a 2-1 lead into halftime,
the Wildcats saw their match last Saturday
against High Point slip from their grasp in the final minutes of the tilt. Davidson surrendered two goals in the last three minutes and lost the contest 3-2. The Blue Devils, though, are still wary of Davidson despite the Wildcats’ late-game meltdown. “We have been watching the results, but so far, they haven’t impressed,” Kerr said of Davidson. “We can’t take anyone for granted. We are going to try to take it one game at a time.” The Blue Devils hope that Davidson will be another stepping-stone to achieving success this season and a good warmup for their return to conference play this coming weekend. They do, however, want to avoid relying on last-minute heroics to pull out the win. Kerr’s squad is counting on its defense to generate the offense it will need to keep the Wildcats tamed. “The day-to-day goals are the most important,” Kerr said. “Tomorrow, we are going to step up our defensive pressure and cause more turnovers.”
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After averaging 198 yards in the first two contests, the unit's production dropped dramatically. The Navy defense held the Blue Devils in check and only conceded 79 yards on the ground. The running backs themselves only logged 40 of those, and quarterback Thaddeus Lewis was the top rusher with 41 yards.
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Lewis continued his turnover-free play by extending his streak of consecutive passes without an interception to a school-record 206. His 317 total passing yards and three touchdown passes to Eron Riley were good enough to earn him ACC Player of the Week honors. After being slowed by injury last week, Riley was back in top form, catching eight passes for 137 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown catch. Sp
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A different defense came out of the Blue Devil locker room following halftime. After allowing more than 170 rushing yards in the first half, Duke shut down the Midshipmen's running attack, holding them to less than 40 yards after the break. Vincent Rey's fumble return for a touchdown was a huge boost for the Blue Devils and helped him take home ACC Player of the Week honors.
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Navy, not known for its aerial attack, was 8-of-10 and amassed 150 yards of offense through the passing game. Rey and defensive end Greg Akinbiyi both earned sacks, and Akinbiyi's came on the final play of the game to put Navy away for good. Senior safety Adrian had a crucial fourth-quarter interception that gave Duke the ball back to run down the clock.
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SHINER from page 11 what Coach K initially intended to imply. Krzyzewski followed up his Olympic anecdote by telling me that he chose Scheyer because he could be a forceful leader, Henderson because of his talent and nerves of steel and Paulus because ofhis enthusiasm and desire to make everyone around him better. But the real similarity between the two situations lies not only in the players’ attributes, but also in the task at hand Although the “Redeem Team” storyline was overblown this summer, it was clear Team USA had something to prove Under the weight of expectations and an intense national spotlight, Krzyzewski needed a gold medal to vindicate the system he developed and later sold to a roster of the NBA’s finest and an attentive nation of fans. Comparable to the United States falling short of gold in the 2004 Olympics, Duke is coming off two seasons in which it failed to advance past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Granted, Krzyzewski is quick to remind me that the Blue Devils have won 50 games over the last two seasons, which is, admittedly, a lot of wins. But the expectations here are different—and I get the feeling Coach K wouldn’t want it any other way, despite his occasional complaints about the media and fans’ reactions to the Blue Devils’ recent March woes. The beauty of the national team, though, was that all of the pressure didn’t have to fall on one man’s shoulders. There
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was Kidd and Kobe and Leßron, and for that matter, there was also Carmelo and Dwyane and Deron. With three Duke captains, each with different skill sets, strengths and personalities, the pressure to win—and win often—can be diffused, shared and, optimally, overcome. And Krzyzewski is banking on it. He needs his change in strategy to work, particularly considering how he elevated the captain’s importance relative to the successes oflast season—and downplayed it when the team faltered. Because just as he had to pitch a changing style of USA Basketball, he is constantly trying to sell the image ofDuke Basketball as both steeped in history and responsive to the evolution of the college game. Just ask the recruit sitting in the folding chair on Coach K Court watching
Monday’s practice. Or Paulus, who gets another chance to prove himself as Duke’s captain. “The guys on that team have gone through the last two years and have learned a lot. They have all evolved,” Krzyzewski says. “[Paulus] had to learn from experiences. And he [like Nelson] should be on a mission in his senior year, after going through ups and downs at the highest level. Now with experience, depth and talent, how can he now show what he can do?” After all, it’s a Monday for Duke Basketball. And the best part about Monday is that you have the rest of the week to show the world what you can do.
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needed to register is a student ID, a University-issued proof of address, a separate ID such as a driver’s license that proves a student is at least 18 years old and proof that a studentis notregistered to vote in another state. Even if a student is already registered to vote in his home state, there are compelling reasons to re-register in North Carolina. On the national stage, the presidential election in North Carolina is close. Students who are registered to vote in solidly Democratic or Republican states may want to change their registration to this contested state, where, according to a Sept. 12 Pollster, com poll, John McCain leads Obama by a small 48 percent to 43 percent margin. Moreover, students here have made great financial and
personal investments in this state. Over these four years, we
spend far more time here than at home, pay sales tax here and are protected by this state’s law enforcement North Carolina’s political decisions over the next four years affect the lives of students more closely than those decisions in our home states. In the recent past, several universities have faced opposition from local municipalities in their attempts to register students as voters. In 2004, for example, the local voting registrar in Blacksburg, Va., threatened the parent tax exemptions, health insurance and scholarships of out-of-state Virginia Tech students who tried to reregister in Virginia. Such efforts to prevent students from registering in the state where they go to school are as unacceptable as they are
unlawful. Voting law in Virginia and in North Carolina allows college students to re-register to vote using their college addresses, with the unenforceable and unenforced exception that a student must plan to continue to live in that state after he or she graduates. All University students are encouraged at least to register to vote and, especially, to register to vote in North Carolina. Voting here is a major sign of engagement and investment in this community and also an impetus to a new sense ofconnection to the political and civic life in this city and state. The University and the city have done an excellent job of making registration accessible and simple. Now students should make sure that these overtures have not been in vain.
Not changing with the times?
I’ve
heard over and over again—in fact, it’s been
pounded into my head—that adaptability and creativity are extremely positive and insanely
desirable qualities. That’s the first thing recruitment officers will tell you. Our generation is also the generation ofchange —we were born of it, we live it and we will make it. wet gan Yes—incredibly galvanizing and hopesmall potatoes ful So, over the summer, in my tiny room in my apartment, staring out at the brown Texas heat, I shook loose my mental muscles and decided to tackle the now notorious, and will be forever labeled as such, “new ACES.” You might all laugh at me, but I had somewhat of a hard time coming to that decision. It’s ridiculous, right? But because boneheaded behavior is frowned upon and commented on with condescending affection, all the time, everywhere, I was, to be honest, very apprehensive that I was going to find myself resistant and un-adaptable to the new ACES. What would that say about me as a Duke student? What would that say about me as an up-and-coming leader hailing a new era 0f... whatever? Well, I logged on, and hated the interface at first sight. I kept at it, though, a little desperately, and told myself that I’d get used to it. All I have to do is play around a little and soon it’ll be just as familiar as the old one. I mean, I don’t remember having any trouble the first time I went to bookbag my classes. It didn’t take me long to give up. I blamed it on my crappy computer and not having any coffee that morning. So it wasn’t that I didn’t get the new ACES; there were all these other factors. OK. Good. So I pretended, that ACES didn’t exist for the next week or two. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon the Facebook group, “The ‘new ACES’ sucks,” that I re-acknowledged it as something that required attention. I was gleefully amused at the description ofithe Facebook group; I loved the bluntness of its name, and the seriousness with which the creator wrote his (long) e-mail. I joined it without hesitation. But it didn’t make me any more willing to approach the site a second time. I ignored it for a couple more weeks. When I finally logged in to finalize my Fall \
schedule, I found it just as hopelessly inoperable as the first time. By then there were more Facebook groups,' and more people who hated the new ACES, so in a fit of frustration I clacked out an e-mail and sent it off to the address advertised on Facebook—registrar@duke.edu. My salutation was quite cheery: “hi there!” I filled the e-mail with indignant claims of how useless the new ACES is, and highlighted a few particularly annoying aspects. The entire thing carried the tone of some nosy neighbor writing her city councilor about somebody with unruly bushes in the front yard. Well, I felt perfectly justified, and signed off, proudly, as “Wei Gan, c/o 2009,” following what I thought was a tasteful finale; “i really appreciate your efforts, but really, this new aces is impossible, and it makes me want to hurl my laptop against the wall.” I felt funny for a moment, after Gmail told me my message had been sent, but, mission accomplished, I put the whole thing out of my mind. Three days later, I got an e-mail from Bruce Cunningham. He had been my pre-major adviser. For two years he knew mg as Natalie, and saw my transition from premed biology major to cultural anthropologist. We had shared stories about family and school, We discussed our hopes and dreams and all that good stuff. Why did he write me an e-mail out of the blue, almost two years since we had last talked? Why was his name tacked on to the subject line reading, “Re: the new aces”? “Thanks for your feedback Natalie,” said the first line. A stream of curse words ran in the back of my mind. My eyes lingered for a long time over “Bruce Cunningham, University Registrar.” I replied hastily, with a message of incomplete sentences and too many ellipses. It was a flustered apology. The tone of my original e-mail was sort of scathing, really, when I looked over it. Who knew it was going to go to Bruce Cunningham? I mean, I thought the registrar was just some formless mastermind to whom I could rail and rant, and magically all my ACES problems would disappear. It wasn’t so long ago that I bragged to my friends that my adviser was the registrar. Where did those days disappear to? I wonder what Dr. Cunningham thinks about this senior who has gone through three years of Duke education.... I’m adaptable, and creative. I’m still salvageable. And everybody hates the new ACES. So there. *
Wei Gan is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
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Locationships
Palin critics ignore her skills
Reading David Distenfeld’s Sept. 11 article, “Palin comparison,” I found myself confused by his partisan
According
to “The Daily Candy Lexicon: Words that Don’t Exist but Should,” a locationship (n.) is “a relationship based solely on proximity, such as with your neighbor.” Personally, this definition holds less relevance to my neighbors at home (whom my family would befriend solely for their fabulous tennis court) than it does to relationships here at Duke. As a function of our University environment, locationships are the rule ITlGgllci rUKSII rather than the exception. Most of the friendships I sex and bull city made freshman year were based on our random assignment to Giles, yet they are still relevant and important to me today. Sharing walls and bathrooms has the power to take a group of wide-eyed strangers to the level of close friends (or the “Real World”) in away that other experiences rarely can. East Campus neighbors are an important example of positive locationships that last, and if you look at our campus with a broader view, you can see that every student’s relationship with every other student is really a locationship. Would any of us have found each other unless we chose, and were chosen by, this particular University? Duke is our neighborhood, and the Blue Zone is our weekly block party. Living in such close proximity to our peers has many positive effects on platonic relationships. It strengthens community, fosters Duke spirit and allows you to experience the juxtaposition of attending section parties inside Gothic castles. But over the last two years I’ve come to the conclusion that locationships do not make such wonderful romantic relationships, much the same way office romances are frowned upon (and happen anyway). The fact of university life is that thousands of us live and work and party in the same few dorms. Although this means that someone is always ready to make a Cookout run with you at 2 a.m., this also means that you will see your ex-boyfriend. All the time. And the cute boy who lives downstairs? You will see him. Outside. When you look like death because a fire alarm went off at three in the morning. People discuss the difficulties of long-distance relationships ad nauseanj, but what about the difficulties of shortdistance relationships? Locationships where you can never get away unless you walk 15 minutes to your car and drive to Chapel Hill? Sometimes, all you need to get over your latest lover’s spat is a little space. And sometimes, you don’t want your boyfriend to see how much you obsess over your pores every night. And sometimes, you just want to go out with your girls without running into the boyfriend out with his friends. If your relationship is a locationship, good luck with any and all of the above. Outside ivory towers (and inside movies), grownups follow a pattern something like: Boy meets girl, boy gets to know girl, boy dates girl. Ifboy and girl believe This Is It; Boy proposes to girl, boy moves in with girl. At Duke, I have observed patterns closer to: Boy smooth talks flirty girl, boy has a few romantic trysts with girl, boy and girl see each other 24/7, intentionally or not. It seems as though college students skip relationship milestones as easily as we skip class. But does seeing one another too often take the romance out of a new relationship too quickly? What happened to the beginning stage of butterflies and picking the perfect outfits for him to see you in? Suddenly, initial sparks are cooled, by the dirty socks he happens to leave there too often. Not all of this is out of our control. We do have to be on campus, but couples often Spend at least half their nights together (we’ve apparently returned to the days of naptime and sleepovers). Rationally, why would we even want to squeeze two people into our extra-long twin beds? The logistics of arm placement and trouble avoiding inhaling your guest’s exhale are awkward without even considering how unsexy morning breath is. Here are some justifications of note: Puppy love. Cute bedtime conversations. Morning sex. Inertia. Cold weather/warm bed. Morning sex. Perhaps the pros outweigh the cons of our short-dis,
doublethink. Distenfeld and other Palin critics have furiously raised the spectre of experience in opposition to Gov. Sarah Palin’s'candidacy. Interestingly enough, such concerns have been unheard regarding the qualifications of their undistinguished candidate, who immediately started running for president the day he was elected to Congress. Unlike Sen. Barack Obama, Palin has actual accomplishments to her name, not just speeches. Palin presides over a state with one of the most powerful executive branches in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. She has managed a $l2 billion dollarbudget, negotiated the construction of an enormously significant natural gas pipeline from Alaska to the lower 48, aggressively cut wasteful spending and fought corruption in her state. And Obama? Well, he manages his campaign! It’s a sad and telling sign when a candidate must point to his own campaign for higher office as evidence of his qualification for that office. Unfortunately, even this argument is comic, because it is Obama’s campaign manager who is in charge of day-to-day operations, not him. Regardless, Obama is not running against Palin for the presidency. He is running against Sen. John McCain. It is quite revealing that he has chosen to have this experience argument with the vice presidential nominee, rather than McCain himself.
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Megna Raksit is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
Vikram Srinivasan Trinity ’lO Chair, Duke College Republicans
Vouchers—yet another conservative gimmick In his Sept. 12 column, “Inspired by conservatism,”
servatives aiming to destroy the public school system. This isn’t Lending Tree. When schools compete, children lose. Why? Because money spent on a voucher program is money taken away from public schools. This old idea is coming from the same guys who brought us No Child Left Behind, a law that actually punishes struggling schools. “School choice” is to education what “trickle-down economics” is to the economy. Cutting taxes for the richest one percent didn’t help our economy and wasting money on private school tuitionfor a tiny fraction of our nation’s children will not help our education system either. We need real change in. our education system, not gimmicks. Pat McCrory, the Republican candidate for governor, is currently advocating taking away hundreds of millions of dollars from North Carolina public schools for vouchers. Lt. GovernorBev Perdue, the Democratic nominee for governor, correctly rejects this distraction and pledges to not. “allow vouchers to break the back of public schools” in North Carolina. On the national level, Sen. Barack Obama has a comprehensive education plan that will reform No Child Left Behind by fully funding the law and making sure that schools prepare children for more than just filling in bubbles. Obama and Perdue, a former teacher, know that excellent teachers are the key an excellent education system. Obama will recruit an army ofnew teachers by offering scholarships that would cover four years of undergraduate or two years of graduate education for four years of teaching in high-need fields or locations. Sherouse may be inspired by McCain’s willingness to continue President George W. Bush’s failed record on education, but the rest of us aren’t. McCain and McCrory offer more of the same failed conservative solutions for Washington and Raleigh; that’s not the change we need. Ben Bergmann Trinity ’ll President, Duke Democrats
Oliver Sherouse praised Sen. John McCain for advocating vouchers, an idea put forth by right-wing con-
Holidays
Martin
Luther King, Jr. was a great man. Unfortunately for Duke’s administration, he wasn’t the only great man in history. Except for Fall Break, Thanksgiving and Spring Break, the January holiday commemorating Dr. King is the only day Dukies get off. Memorial Day and Independence Day were only recently carved out of the summer session. Occasionally, proposals are made to commemorate other jeffditzler holidays the same way, with Veterans Day, Presithe big ditz dents Day or Good Friday among the more popular candidates. As someone who can never have too many days off, I wholeheartedly support this movement. Here are my suggestions: Ask a Stupid Question Day (Sept. 28); This day would benefit faculty more than students, as it would celebrate many of their more obscure research topics. Was the Battle of Gettysburg the result of Robert E. Lee’s unrequited gay crush on Abraham Lincoln? How would a Marxist feminist post-colonial antidisestablishmentarian critique “The Old Man and the Sea”? How is the Bush administration manipulating breakfast-cereal commercials in order to influence public opinion toward Muslims? What exactly is an “antidisestablishmentarian,” anyway? Finally, the Duke community can have a day to celebrate these, uh, vital topics. First Day of Deer Season (second Saturday in November): Forgive me for being provincial, but I don’t think North Carolina does this quite as well as my native state, Pennsylvania. Back home, deer season begins on the Monday after Thanksgiving, and schools in redneck areas (such as my hometown) extend Thanksgiving Break in order to allow their students to orphan a new generation, of Bambis. This is an issue of public safety; deer are as common along rural Pennsylvania highways as hung-over girls in fancy dresses are on the C-l bus early on Saturday mornings. However, designating this as a holiday could have negative many of ~
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the young hunters in my high school developed a mysterious illness that kept them out of school for the rest of deer season. Festivus (Dec. 23): You knew this was. coming. We already have a Lithuanian day, Greek Week and Oktoberfest, so why not a Festivus for the rest ofus? Many traditional Festivus customs already have a place at Duke. The Airing of Grievances, in which revelers describe how disappointed they are in each other, could feature the lacrosse bloggers and professors talking past each other. The Feats of Strength, when guests fight the head of the household, could showcase the wrestling team or serve as a forum for drunken frat boys to take out their wrath on President Richard Brodhead. Weasel Stomping Day (June 31): Invented by that well-known cultural icon, Weird A1 Yankovic, Weasel Stomping Day combines wildlife control with holiday enjoyment. All you need to do is put on a Viking helmet (come on, you’ve worn worse things at Tailgate), spread mayonnaise on the quad to attract weasels and start the fun? The only problem is, there aren’t that many weasels in Durham, unless you count Mike Nifong (and even then, there’s only one of him). With a few minor adjustments, this holiday would be the ideal method of controlling Duke’s cat and squirrel populations, as well as scaring the Bryan Center raccoon away from the Armadillo Grill’s dumpsters. Boycott Gas Stations for the Heck of It Day (whenever Facebook says it is): You know the drill. Gas prices hit some obscenely high amount, and the guy who sat cattycornered to you in Mrs. Snodgrass’s AP Wood Shop class starts bombarding your Facebook account with demands that you refuse to buy gas on some date so as to send the oil companies a lesson they won’t forget. Never fear, our intrepid Congress is dealing with the problem by holding hearings where they can yell at oil company executives ! Brilliant! Unfortunately, that’s the limit of Congress’s involvement, and India and China aren’t about to undevelop anytime soon, so high gas prices, accompanied by Facebook boycotts, are likely to stay on our calendar for the near future.
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