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today’s Career Fair by

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Students who visit the annual Career Fair today will find representatives from more than 100 employers ready to tout their companies. But they will also notice gaps from a field whose tables historically drew long lines of interest: big-name investment banks. Several investment corporations that participated last year—including Goldman Sachs Sc Co., JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley—will not be found in the Bryan Center. Perhaps related to the faltering economy and the collapse of several large firms, only a few of the more prominent financialfirms will table at the Career Fair, said William Wright-Swadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of career services. “Wall Street is one of the most soughtafter places students seek to work in after graduation,” said Wright-Swadel', who was appointed to the post this year. “When a domain like that is in transition, it diminishes the number of opportunities available for students.” Still, the Career Fair Guide lists 17 companies under the financial sector that will be represented. Several students said the recent economic downturn has caused them to consider careers outside the banking sector. “It is inevitable that it will have an effect on students,” said freshman Paul Harraka, who is planning to declare an economics major. “Maybe not now, immediately, but SEE CAREER ON PAGE 9

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Bank troubles leave job offers uncertain More than a dozen students with postgraduation job offers at Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers are uncertain about employment possibilities after the current economic climate threatened the firms’ futures last weekend. While Merrill Lynch, plagued by toxic assets and financial stress, was being acquired by Bank ofAmerica Corp. for $5O billion, global investment bank Lehman Brothers was fast approaching failure. On Monday, Lehman Brothers announced that it will be seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and Bafclays PLC executives said Tuesday that

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Barclays would purchase a portion of the ailing bank. Senior Helin Gai, who interned at Lehman Brothers last summer and received a job offer for after graduation, said his two-month experience with the firm was worthwhile and educational—even if his presumptive position disappears in the coming months. “Most of us know that, after the Bear Stearns collapse, a lot of people have been speculating that Lehman would be the next one to go,” Gai said. “When this happened, it’s not so much surprising, but I certainly had a lot of hope

This week,Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was acquiredby Bank ofAmerica. Industry difficulties have left some studentswhohad hoped to enterfinance questioning their job prospects.

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Duke Student Government’s online referendum to increase the student activities fee failed by majority vote Monday. The results were announced in a blast e-mail to students sent by DSG Attorney General Will Passo, a sophomore, at around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. Of the 1,700 votes cast, 743 were in favor of the proposal and 920 were against—43.7l percent to 54.12 percent. Thirty-seven freshmen who cast ballots for freshman elections abstained from voting in the referendum. Additionally, freshmen and upperclassmen voted on different ballots, with large discrepancies in the results: 341 voted upperclassmen in favor of the referendum and 659 voted against, but 402 freshmen voted in favor

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The School ofLaw has published theAlaska Law Review since 1984 becauseAlaska does not have a law school.The editors of the journalare Duke law students.

There may be more than 4,000 miles between Durham and Anchorage, but the distance between the Duke Law Review and the Alaska Law Review is a little shorter. In fact, it’s about 15 feet. You can find the two journals in offices on the same dark stretch of hallway in the Law School basement. And the editors of Alaska’s most-circulated legal publication? They are Duke law students, most ofwhom have no connection to the northernmost state. “It’s a unique situation,” said Jeffrey'David, executive editor of die ALR and a third-year law student. The “unique situation” is that, unlike the other 49 states, Alaska has never had its own law school. And without a law school, it is also without a place to publish a scholarly journal about issues in state law. In the early 19705, the University ofCalifornia at Los

Angeles School ofLaw began putting out a publication called the Alaska Law Review. But the organization that oversees the Alaskan law community, the Alaska Bar Association, complained that the journal lacked relevance to Alaskan lawyers, said Paul Carrington, a professor and former dean at the School ofLaw. So the Alaska Bar Association began a search for a university that would put together a journal the Alaskan law community could actually use. When Carrington heard the ALR was looking for a new home, he snapped at the chance to bring the journal to Duke. “I thought, it’s a good deed in a cruel world and it’s not doing us any harm, so why not do it?” he said. That was 1984. Today, the journal has made itself at home in the Gothic Wonderland. Sandwiched between offices of law journals on gender and environmental SEE ALASKA ON PAGE 9

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yn. Recordholders meet in London LONDON Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs. He Pingping,of China, stands precisely 2feet 5.37 inches tall.The 20-year-old was bom with a type of dwarfism. Pankratova, 36,who is Russianbut lives in Spain, has legs that are more than 4 feet long. The two met to publicize the release of GuinnessWorld Records 2009."This year's version of the popular book is due out Wednes-

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TBILISI, Georgia In a bid to portray Russia as the aggressor in last month's war, Georgia has released recordings of what it says are two intercell cepted phone calls purporting to show that Moscow invaded before Georgia's offensive against South Ossetia. The recordings released Tuesday, if authentic, will not cut through the final hours when escalating tensions burst into war. But President Saakashvili hopes they will help dispel a dominant narrative that says his country was on the attack. He said they prove Russian tanksand troops entered South Ossetia many hours before Georgia began its offensive against separatist forces.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan's army said that forces have orders to open fire if Tuesday its \f launch another raid across the Afghan U.S. troops the stakes a over how to tackle militant border, raising in dispute havens in Pakistan's unruly border zone. Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,arrived in Pakistan lateTuesday amid the increased tensions. Mullen planned to meet with top civilian and military leaders to discuss a range of issues, including ways to improve coordination and cooperation along the Pakistan-Afghan border. Pakistan's government has faced rising popular anger over a Sept. 3 ground attack by U.S.commandos into South Waziristan, a base for Taliban militants killing ever more U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan says about 15 people were killed, all of them civilians. The new firing orders were disclosed by Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas in an interview Tuesday.

Wall Street took a step back NEW YORK from the ledge Tuesday, with the Federal Reserve resisting a cut in interest rates and the stock market staging a small rebound one day after a stomach-churning drop. Investors still kept a nervous eye on American International Group Inc., the world's largest insurer, which huddled with the New York Fed in hopes of staving off a failure that would create even more financial turmoil. The Fed, in its first unanimous decision this year, kept its closely watched federal funds rate unchanged at 2 percent—but noted that strains on the market have "increased significantly" and said it was ready to act if needed. Stocks slumped immediately after the Fed announcement, with the Dow Jones industrial average dropping about 100 points. But the Dow finished the day up 141, and back over 11,000.

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JUNEAU, Alaska— Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday from state Republican lawmakers who want to end it or delay it past the election. Alaska's House speaker, a Republican who supported the "Troopergate" investigation two months ago, openly questioned its impartiality and raised the possibility of delaying the findings. The surprise maneuver by Rep. John Harris reflected deepening resolve by Republicans to spare Palin embarassment or worse in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.

Bush visits post-Ike Gulf Coast

GALVESTON, Texas President George W. Bush got a firsthand look Tuesday at the fury that Hurricane Ike unleashed on the Gulf Coast, and was greeted by a virtual ghost town here where it made landfall. He urged frustrated storm evacuees to keep it that way until local officials say it is safe to return. Ike dumped heavy rains on parts of Indiana, lllinois-and Missouri after slamming ashore in Texas over the weekend.

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Literature professor Fredric Jameson will be awarded the fifth annual Holberg International Memorial Prize, including $900,000, for his contributions to literary and cultural studies. The Board of the Ludvig Holberg Memorial announced Tuesday in Norway Jameson’s selection for the honor, which is presented to those who display outstanding scholarly wort in the arts and humanities, social sciences, law and theology. Jameson, William A. Lane professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies, will be honored at a Nov. 26 ceremony in Bergen, Norway. He was chosen for the prize based on his literary contributions to cultural theory and cultural studies, hermeneutics, architectural and postcolonial theory, aesthetics, film and television studies and history, a University statement said. “Fred has not only been a leading scholar but a fieldchanger, a person whose research and writing have inspired others to re-examine what they were doing and how they were doing it,” Provost Peter Lange said in the state-

DSG starts ACES committee by

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Duke Student Government has charged a six-student committee comprising both undergraduate and graduate students with assessing the functionality of the new ACES. The group will work closely with Kathy Pfeiffer, assistant vice provost and director of Student Information Services and Systems, to suggest improvements and test any new changes. The committee will meet approximately once every two weeks during the Fall and take a “systematic approach to ongoing feedback from students,” Pfeiffer wrote in an e-mail to committee members Sept. 15. After analyzing issues students have with ACES, the committee will create a priority list ofrecommendations. Changes may be implemented before registration for

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Spring 2009 classes, said J)SG PresidentJordan Giordano, a senior. Pfeiffer, however, said the timeline for changes depends on their complexity and whether or not devel-

opers from PeopleSoft—the company that manages the new software—would need to be involved. A lack of organized testing during a trial last Spring accounts for much of the problem, Pfeiffer said. “When we had our focus group in April, we gave those students access for several weeks to continue to test and give us feedback,” she said. “But it was not as formal as this process will be. It probably was a mistake that we didn’t do anything in an organized fashion, which I wish we had.” Some changes have already been implemented—

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Prof discusses human-less world Research may lead to cure for cold sores by

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“Picture a world from which we all suddenly vanished.” Alan Weisman, a professor, journalist and environmentalist, told an audience gathered Tuesday evening to imagine this situation as they evaluate their environmental consciousness. Weisman’s fourth novel, titled “The World Without Us,” has brought him on tour across the world, landing him at Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. “We are literally pushing things off the planet. We’ll one day push one thing too many,” he said. “[However], I did not write this book because I thought human beings should disappear.” His 90-minute speech was observed by a nearly full house in Love Auditorium. The audience varied from undergraduate students to older couples and a range ofnationalities. Attendees said they were introduced to Weisman’s novel through radio, televisionand other media. But some graduate students at the speech who had not yet read the novel said they were drawn by flyers publicizing the event. One first-year graduate student in the Nicholas School said he liked that Weisman romanticized the setting of 3 world without humans. “He did a goodjob of connectingjournalism with a novelistic approach," he said. Weisman projected his hypothetical situation, a world where humans suddenly became extinct, by offering rentable examples. Manhattan, for instance, though it seems to be unconquerable, would turn back into forest within 50 SEE SPEECH ON PAGE 6

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Unpleasant cold sore outbreaks could soon be an ailment of the past. Their cause, the herpes simplex virus 1, can lie dormant in the cells it invades, causing permanent infections, but Duke scientists have discovered away to bring the virus out of dormancy so the outbreak can be treated. Cold sores are a common infection in the U.S. and affect an estimated half million people annually, said Dr. Devdutta Sangvai, medical director of the Duke Student Health Center. “They are such a common finding that many people don’t even, go to the doctor for treatment,” Sangvai explained. “People know that this is something that may go away with time.” But although individual cold sores heal with time, HSV-1 infections do not. Current antiviral drugs, such as Acyclovir, simply clear cold sores and shorten the duration of symptoms but do not prevent future outbreaks, Sangvai said. The new research may change all this. SEE HERPES ON PAGE 7

Technology found to improve classroom learning Derek Rycek THE CHRONICLE

Duke stopped giving away free iPods to freshman classes with the class that matriculated in 2004, but a recent Duke

study has found that the technology does enhance the learning environment for writing classes. The study, “Can You Hear Us Now?: A comparison of peer review quality when students give audio versus written feedback,” was co-authored by Julie Reynolds, Mellon lecturer in writing and biology, and Writing Studio Director Vicki Russell, and was recently published in the Writing Across the Curriculum Journal.

This new report may be the first published study that has shown learning gains as a result of the Duke Digital Initiative, a multi-year program to provide innovative technology for academic purposes, Reynolds said. The researchers discovered that, for writing classes, the recording abilities of the iPod provides a useful and effective means for providing peer feedback. Many professors were both surprised and intrigued by the iPod project for the Class of 2008, Reynolds said. “I thought at first, like many others, that they were just giving away a toy that would only be used for downloading music,” she said, “I was intrigued to find out whether or

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purposes.” The study was performed in Spring 2007 in two freshman Writing 20 classes.

The students gave peer reviews in both written and digitally recorded formats, and these reviews were analyzed for their quality. Reynolds and Russell found that digitally recording peer reviews rather than hand writing them tended to produce more comments, and these comments focused more on higher-order writing issues rather than simple problems with grammar and spelling. Although the digitally recorded reviews were found to be of a higher quality, the

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Members of Duke University Union discussed plans at their weekly meeting Tuesday night that would allow students to have a hand in shaping campus programming. President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, explained his idea for a Union Consulting Group to the Administrative Board. He proposed a new branch of the Union in which general members could not only give input on programming choices but also be trained and obtain skills to plan shows and events themselves. “What I really want to see is an up in the level of programming on campus,” he explained. Goonewardene has recently expressed a desire for further cooperation among all of the Union’s committees and for generally a greater number of students to be involved in the Union. He explained that programming seemed to be one area that is having “a significant impact on the rest of campus,” and with the Union Consulting Group, DUU could further unite the campus. The idea was heard with no immediate objections, and will continue to be discussed and further developed in the upcoming weeks. The Union also detailed several projects it is working on this Fall to a group of 20 or so eager-looking freshman interns sitting on the sidelines. The interns will work with various committees this semester to help organize projects. After a brief introduction of the committee leaders and members that spearhead the multifaceted organization, these future organizers presented themselves to the group as well, expressing enthusiasm

Fractured metatarsal, broken pride A student alleged that he was assaulted in the head by a stranger in the Belmont Apartments early Saturday morning. The student reportedly struck back and injured his hand.

An expensive error A student who ordered jewelry worth nearly $1,500 to an off-campus location gave the wrong shipping address. As a result, paperwork for the package, which was delivered Sept. 4, was not signed by the student. Filling the wrong tummy A student in Edens 3A alleged last Thursday that someone made food purchases using his DukeCard. False alarm

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DUU board members discussed several events that it plans to hold this semester, such as Joe College Day and "Gala de Plata" at the Nasher Museum of Art, at its weekly meeting Tuesday. with remarks like, “DUU just rocks!” The meeting went on to 14 committee updates, which were headlined by upcoming events that* committee heads said are progressing as planned. A number of events will be coming to Duke and Durham soon: Joe College Day, with iTunes downloads and an eating contest in the works; “Gala de Plata” at the Nasher Museum of Art, featuring baroque entertainment; the Coffee House, whose renovations continue to come along and now include a new logo; and Small Town Records’ local show Sept. 23.

Small Town Records also proposed an at the Broad Street Cafe in order to meet monetary standards that are “decent” compared to small-band performance industry expectations. But the Board decided that a $5OO increase was more adequate for the level of the band’s experience, and the increase then passed unanimously. As the meeting closed, Union leaders and freshmen familiarized themselves with each other and the plans that were discussed.

No mo’ shine The copper gutter on the Japanese Pavilions at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens was cut off and stolen, according to a report Monday morning.

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years of the theoretical extinction of mankind, he said. “I saw many fabulous examples all over the world of how things [in nature] can come back,” Weisman said. Indeed, Weisman drew significantly from his journalistic background, having interviewed hundreds of people worldwide ranging from religious leaders to population control headquarters. During his speech, he read significant excerpts from his novel with personality as he used hand modons and a story-telling style to relay his experiences from journalistic endeavors. In his speech, as in his novel, Weisman took

“I saw many fabulous examples all over the world of how things [in nature] can come back.” Alan Weisman, professor, journalist and environmentalist the audience across the globe to diverse geographic locations to observe situations where the world could benefit or already has benefitled from going back to nature. Dissecting the common anatomy of a home, Weisman suggested that any home that was not kept up by human beings would not exist within one century—leaving the bathroom tiles as the most indestructible material. “Let a house go for a century, most of it will be lying on the ground,” he said. Weisman challenged his audience to imagine that a world without humans is not just a hypothetical situation. At the end ofhis speech, an audience member askedWeisman how his ideas compare to the disappearance of the Mayan civilization. Weisman suggested that the situation leading tip to that disappearance does not differ considerably from the problems mankind lives with today, such as population growth and diminishing resources. “The World Without Us” has been a bestseller and was named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2007 by both Time Magazine and Entertainment Weekly.

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The results of the study are not exclusive to iPods, as they can be applied to any other technology that allows for recording. The new Wimba recording technology implemented in Blackboard can provide the same benefits to the classroom, Reynolds said. Other means of recording may be cheaper and easier to implement in classes. Reynolds said it was reasonable to scale back the program. The iPods may prove to be a valuable tool for writing classes, but they may not be as helpful in other classes, she said.

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Indeed, some students said they did not see potential in the iPod-giving program at its launch. “I think the iPod giveaway was a publicity gimmick,” said Tyson Wepprich, Trinity ’OB, one of the 1,650 freshman who were given iPods in 2004. “Over four years, I think I recorded one guest lecture and a couple of interviews for Spanish class.... It could be useful in language classes, but not any more helpful than a microcassette recorder that costs one-tenth as much.” Four years after the iPods were distributed, some students said they still do not see the possibility for its use in class. “I don’t imagine anyone using it for anything but music,” freshman Nate Carlin said. “The money spent on iPods could have been used elsewhere and it probably would have been more effective.”

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such as the return of the graphical calendar—but many students said more should be done in a timelier manner to solve additional issues. “Most [student] input seems to be that ACES is hard to navigate,” Pfeiffer said. “It would be a mistake to second-guess that input.” Committee member Matt Byrne, a sophomore, said excessive hyperlinking adds to this confusion. “The foremost problem I see with the new system is that

“Our work provides, for the first time, a molecular understanding of how HSV-1 establishes a life-long latent infection,” said Jennifer Umbach, a postdoctoral associate in the department of molecular genetics and microbiology. Along with collaborators at Harvard University, Umbach and her mentor Bryan Cullen, a professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, spent three years developing an understanding of how the virus reactivates from dormancy to cause cold sores on the mouth and face. Their most recent paper explaining the mechanism was published in the July issue of Nature. Umbach said the new knowledge provides a foundation for the development of drugs that may permanently cure HSV-1. If the mechanism that triggers this dormancy can somehow be interrupted, HSV-1 will be forced out of hiding. The virus can then be killed with current antiviral medications. Despite these breakthroughs, Umbach is reluctant to declare success. “There are no guarantees in science, and it is possible for the treatment to fail at any step of this testing process,” she said. Two years of experimentation Jn mice to test the “efficacy and toxicity” of their drug, plus a further year of experimentation in other animals, will be required to test the findings, Umbach estimated. Only then would the drug reach small studies in healthy volunteers before proceeding to clinical trials with HSV-l-infected patients. New information about HSV-1 could also prove significant to related viruses, such as those responsible for genital herpes and chicken pox. Umbach, however, predicted it would likely take until the end of the year to determine whether lessons learned with HSV-l can be applied to these other viruses.

“Most [student] input seems to be that ACES is hard to navigate.... It would be a mistake to secondguess that input.” Kathy Pfeiffer, assistant vice provost and director of SISS it practically requires a map and a GPS system to navigate properly,” he said. “I feel like I’m playing a completely un-fun version of ‘Where’s Waldo?’ when I try to register for classes.” DSGVice President forAcademicAffairs Chelsea Goldstein, a junior and member of the committee, said major declaration is another problem on the new system. “Sophomores are having so much trouble filling out their long-range plans that they are deferring major declaration, which is a huge problem,” she said.

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Kathy Pfeiffer, assistant vice provost and director of SISS, will work closely with a DSG committee charged with evaluating the new ACES.SISS may implement changes to theprogram for Spring 2009 registration. Although some students have commented positively on the new look of ACES, many said they find the interface clunky and overly complicated. “In general, the site should be arranged for quick access and intuitive use, not simply to include the multitude of tools and features that the new ACES tries to present via nested links and menus,” said committee member Nick Bottenus, a sophomore. Student input will be important for the committee, Byrne said. “I have my own issues with the current system, but I imagine I’ve only run into a fraction of the

problems that exist with it,” he said. “As such, only with significant input from the student body can all of the problems be

appropriately addressed.” As the DSG representative, Goldstein recommended students to serve on the committee. She said she chose students who had programming and site-building experience or had an active interest in making changes to the site. Student suggestions can be sent to the committee through Goldstein, and the Academic Affairs section of the DSG Web site will be updated to reflect progress that is being made.

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DSG referendum results

RESULTS from page 1 and 261 voted against. Polls closed at 8 p.m. Monday and votes were confirmed by approximately 9:30 p.m., said Ryan O’Connell, program coordinator for the Office of Student Activities and Facilities. The results of the referendum were tabulated by Passo, O’Connell, DSC Presidentjordan Giordano and Executive Vice President Sunny Kantha, Vice President for Durham and Regional Affairs Andrew Brown and Senator Gregory Morrison, a sophomore and Chronicle columnist. Passo declined to comment on whether Giordano told the six privy to the results not to divulge them. But Passo said he had absolute power to reveal the information and chose not to. “I wanted the students to know from the primary source,” he said. “You saw the e-mail—there was no commentary, just pure figures—I wanted the students to be able to digest the information for what it was. That was the goal.” Passo agreed before polls closed Monday to an interview

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with The. Chronicle when results were made available. He and DSC executive members, including Giordano and Kantha, however, were unavailable or declined to comment after polls closed until a 4 a.m. press deadline. The proposal, if passed, would have increased the student activities fee by $6O over two years, funding student groups and a Student Legal Services initiative. The Monday referendum was revised from the original proposal to increase the fee by $lOO over two years, to finance a campus-wide car rental service and bus tracking system in addition to legal services. “In the past, Duke Student Government has relied on other means of communication that do not communicate directly to the students, but we believe direct communication is best,” Giordano, a senior, wrote in an e-mail. Still, Duke University Union President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, said although student leaders would not have been informed of the referendum results prior to Tuesday morning, he was surprised results were not released to The Chronicle earlier. DSG Vice President for Athletics and Campus Services Mike Lefevre, a sophomore, said DSG’s method of correspondence with the student body was nonethelesseffective. “I didn’t know exactly what was going on—l was just as out of the loop as anyone else,” he said. “I think it’s not a bad thing for DSG to e-mail everyone directly with a blast e-mail, but I wish it were more clear that that’s what they were going to do.”

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Lefevre added that he had been unable to contact Giordano Monday night despite numerous phone calls. Passo said he continued to examine the results until 1 a.m. to ensure there were no voting irregularities. O’Connell confirmed that the results are accurate and that there were no system failures. “I don’t think anyone voted ‘no’ because they wanted to see student groups suffer,” Lefevre said. “They wanted Plan B. Hopefully Plan B will be as effective and all groups will survive—no groups will disappear because of this.” DSG Vice Presidentfor Academic Affairs Chelsea Goldstein, a junior, said the results are unfortunate but will allow DSG to evaluate what led to them, adding that contingency plans for securing funding and launching the initiatives are already in place for the future. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said his budget would not have enough funding to support the amount DSG is asking for. “I don’t know where new money is going to come from without students choosing to fund their new initiatives,” he said. “I don’t see my office or any other University office as a source of funds for funding mainstream activities.” Lefevre, however, said he has already met in the past week with Vice President for Campus Services Kernel Dawkins and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask, both of whom showed interest in funding DSG initiatives, including ZipCars and the bus tracking system. “Tallman has the capability, attitude and heart to fund projects he personally deems worthwhile,” Lefevre said. “Whenever an administrator says the University doesn’t have the money to do this, it’s not on their budget and [.they] aren’t willing to pay for it.” DSG is also looking to restructure funding and the way student groups are categorized, he added.

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ALASKA from page 1 issues and public policy, the ALR office is decorated with posters ofAlaskan scenery and a large sign reading “Anchorage: 4,448 miles.” A fleece blanket with a moose face on it lies draped over a couch. Here a team of approximately 30 second- and third-year law students undertake the work of editing and compiling articles about Alaskan law into the journal, which is published twice a year. The group is very close-knit because the staff is small and the work is intense, said ALR Editor-in-Chief Kelly Taylor, Trinity 'O2 and a third-year law student. But another perk stands out to ALR staff members. “One of the best parts about it is that we actually get to go to Alaska,” said John Gochnour, a second-year law student. Every March when Duke lets out for spring break, the ALR staff travels north to talk with Alaskan lawyers and judges. Their goal is to determine the issues most important to the Alaskan law community so the journal reflects issues that would be useful to those in the field, Taylor said. In its June 2008 issue, the journal published articles about mining, tribal sovereignty and psychiatric treatment for prisoners.

“One of the best parts about it is that we actually get to go to Alaska.”

—John Gochnour,

second-year law student The Alaska Bar Association, which contracts with Duke to publish the journal,

sends a copy to every lawyer in Alaska. This gives the journal, which goes out to more than 3,000 subscribers, the distinction of being one of the most widely circulated law journals in the country, said William Reppy, Charles L.B. Lowndes Emeritus professor of law and faculty sponsor of the ALR. Taylor, herself an Alaska native, said the journal provides a unique opportunity for Duke law students to connect with a community they would otherwise probably know nothing about. After Emily Jura, Law ’OB, spent two years on ALR staff and went on an Alaska trip she called “amazing, just amazing,” she moved to Alaska, where she now works as a public defender in the town of Bethel. “[The ALR] really exposed me to the wonder ofAlaska and the complexity of its legal issues,” Jura said.

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minor.” But freshman Cong Ding, who is planning to declare an economics major, said there is much more that can be done with the discipline than simply investing, noting that she is not overly concerned about her employment prospects after graduation. She added, however, that she is looking into public policy as a second major or a minor due t© the latest banking tumult. Wright-Swadel predicted that the recent

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economic downturn might cause some students to rethink their future career plans. He added that the diversity of fields presented in the Career Fair is designed to help them in their search for careers beyond the business sector. But students hoping to work on Wall Street after graduation may not be out of luck. David Lapinski, assistant director for Career Services, noted that in addition to the Career Fair, there will be several information sessions and a Finance Night to introduce students to the field. He added that some investment banks always shy away from career fairs. A number of companies have also planned appearances for more individual recruitment sessions. Nevertheless, Wright-Swadel acknowledged that the decreased presence of investment banks is sure to catch some students off guard. “There will be crossed reactions, I would imagine,” Wright-Swadel said. “Some will applahd that there are fewer representatives from Wall Street, giving students more diverse career path options. Others will be unhappy that something like this is happening in their senior year.”

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that the firm would survive.” Gai, like other students who had lined up jobs at one of the two firms, said he has yet to hear from Lehman Brothers regarding the status of his position. He said he is not optimistic about his future with the firm, but is still strongly considering a career in investment banking. “I’m obviously still looking for jobs,” he said. “I remain very interested in a job offer on Wall Street.... It’s kind of gloomy right now because a lot offirms are not hiring at all.” For students graduating in the next few

“I don'treally know what to expect.... In this market, anything can happen given what has happened.” Lydia Yao, senior

years, the job market for investment bankers will be slim, said Alon Brav, professor of finance at the Fuqua School of Business. “There’s a lot of good people looking for jobs,” he said. *And demand for themis probably going to shrink. For students coming out this year and next year, it will be very hard.” Investment Club President Jay Schulhof, a senior, said this past weekend’s economic turmoil will make it much harder to get a job on Wall Street in the near future, but he added that this is not necessarily a bad thing. “For those who do manage to land a job, rising to the top will be easier as those above them are laid off,” he said. “Having an investment banking job at age 21 is

these events will help Duke students realize this fact.” Brav said over the next few years students and administrators will have a better understanding of trends in the market and be able to decide whether or not to adjust their career paths. But some Duke students already seem to be doing just that, said William WrightSwadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of Career Services. This year, interest in investment banking has decreased, with nearly every investment bank receiving fewer applications from Duke students in 2008 than they did in 2007. “Duke students stay on top of this stuff,” he said, addressing students’ research into career options. “Student talent, combined with student interest, was down.” Senior Lydia Yao, who also had a job offer from Lehman Brothers after her summer internship at the firm, said she thinks it is in her best interest to look into other industries for employment. “It’s a real shame that this had to happen,” she said. “I think I was definitely interested in accepting [the job] until everything sort of started falling apart. I don’t really know what to expect.... In this market, anything can happen given what has

happened.” Although many students with job offers from Lehman said they were ready to move on, some with offers from Merrill Lynch said they still have hope for the company. Wright-Swadel added that Merrill Lynch will honor their job offers, but he encourages students to have a contingency plan. Senior Zack Stiefler, who was offered a job in Merrill Lynch’s investment division, said the sale to Bank of America will be good for all positions in the company, ranging from first-year employees to highranking officers.

Employees ofVision Financial Markets try to recruit brokers by a Lehman Brothers office in New York City Tuesday. Some students whointerned at thebank this summer said they may seekalternative employment. Still, Stiefler said some students may

change their minds about going into investbanking as the career path becomes more competitive and volatile. “When it comes to financial services industries, no one knows what jobs are available, and I don’t think many people know what to expect,” he said. “I’m sure [the situation] can change students’ minds... a lot of people want a concrete career and ment

steady options.” With fewer Wall Street positions available than in previous years, students may choose to take advantage of positively growing job markets in other parts of the country and the world, said Campbell Harvey, professor offinance at Fuqua. “There should be positive growth in

Charlotte—the location of Bank of America’s headquarters,” he said. “It is one of the largest banking centers in the U.S. You have to look at demand in other money centers.” Wright-Swadel noted that whenever the regional market does well, it is an advantage for Duke students. “[Charlotte’s growth] will help, but not dramatically,” he said. “But it makes Bank of America a more interesting experience.” Wherever the location of the bank, the market remains in a shaky position, Stiefler said. He added that few know the extent to which the weekend’s events will change the job-hunting experience for future applicants.

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No. 25 Duke, ranked in the national

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the tempo of its match against Davidson from the onset Tuesday night. One minute into the match, the Blue Devils strung together a sequence of passes in the midfield ulH&y dav. timately leading to y- "•—| a corner kick, and mm lJ they proceeded to Hnl control play for the 89 minutes. remaining And while Duke put away two ofits opportunities en route to a 2-0 win over the Wildcats, other statistics tell the story of the Blue Devils’ dominancebetter than the final score itself. Duke tallied 21 shots to Davidson’s 11, and earned 10 corners while blanking the Wildcats. In all, the numbers added up to a sound win, but one that could have been more lopsided. “We had a lot of opportunities, we just didn’t finish them,” head coach John Kerr said. “We had great chances in the final third, and we just weren’t sharp in front of goal tonight.” Still, Duke (4-2) was able to put enough goals on the scoreboard to take the midweek victory. Despite some sloppy play early, Duke

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Granted, I wasn’t here then to experience the sentiment on campus, but I imagine this season feels different. Franks had already gone 5-40 in his four previous SEE ELES ON PAGE 13

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Sophomore punter Kevin Jones was named to the watch list for the Ray Guy Award, honoring the top punter in the nation, Tuesday.In Duke’s three games, Jones has been forced to punt 11 times. His punts have averaged 45.1 yards, tied for the best in the ACC and 11th in the country. Five of Jones’ kicks have fallen inside the 20-yard line. In the third quarter of the Blue Devils’ 41-31 win over Navy Saturday, Jones squibbed a 38-yard punt to pin the Midshipmen at their own 1-yard line. Navy went three-and-out and Duke scored the go-ahead touchdown on its next possession to earn a lead it would not give back. After Duke’s opening week win over James Madison, Jones led the country with a 53.5-yard average. Jones was one of 46 punters named to the list, which will be trimmed to 10 in early November. He is one of eight sophomores among that group, \yhich also includes four other punters from the ACC. The winner will be revealed live on national television Dec. 11. The Ray GuyAward was first presented in 2000, and was won last year by Georgia Tech’s Durant Brooks.

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With their 2-0 win over Davidson, the No. 25 Blue Devils have now won four consecutive matches. into the box from the endline, yet Duke still could not put its scoring threats away. “I feel like I created some pretty good chances, getting low crosses in,” Molinar said. “We just have to work on finishes.” Grella, too, generated opportunities for Duke throughout the match, combining with his freshman counterpart for impressive play in the offensive zone before finally capping off his play at the end of the game. Grella posted five shots, tied for the team lead on the night with Bethel. A team-best three of Bethel’s shots were on net, and Molinar added two shots on goal. Now, with four straight wins underits belt, Duke can turn its attention to a Friday night matchup against No. 4 Maryland in College Park, Md. And in that game, the Blue Devils know they need to finish when they can. “We know we weren’t firing on all cylinders, and we know Maryland is a real tough opponent,” Kerr said. “We’ll hopefully be more prepared mentally and physically for that game on Friday.”

M. SOCCER from page 11 took the lead in the 21st minute. Defensive midfielder Josh Bienenfeld made a critical stop in the Duke zone and generated a fast break with, freshmen Kyle Bethel and Temi Molinar and senior Mike Grella. Ultimately the two newcomers connected when Molinar drove in a cross to Bethel, who recorded his fourth goal of the season. Davidson goalkeeper Robby Goldsberry kept the Wildcats (1-5) in the match with a great goalkeeping display. But he was finally beaten again in the 83rd minute, when freshman Joseph Pak scored off a low cross from Grella to seal the win. It was the two Blue Devils who contributed assists who doubled as the playmakers on the slick turf ofKoskinen Stadium. Molinar was a major contributor, creating numerous chances via the cross from the left side. He beat jus man often and with ease, enabling him to slot passes back

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ILES from page 11 seasons, and the two early wins in 2003 came against Western Carolina and Rice In head coach David CutclifFe’s first three weeks, with essentially the same players that finished 1-11 last season, Duke has seemed like a team destined to climb even higher. After all, Duke could easily be 3-0 after dominating Northwestern in every facet of the game except the score two weeks ago. Amd the last time the Blue Devils started 3-0 was when they went 8-4 and were ranked as high as No. 16 in 1994. But that brings me back to what some other people have been saying about Duke Football this year. It was only James Madison and Navy. We have no shot against Virginia Tech, WakeForest and Clemson. Don’t get ahead ofyourself. I’m not. Just like the players and coaches have stressed all along, I’m taking this season one game at a time. But not because I expect this team to implode or revert to its qld ways. No, I’m being realistic. Take Duke’s next two opponents as examples of winnable games. Virginia, which lost its two games against Division I-A schools by a combined 80 points, is terrible this year. And Georgia Tech runs the exact same offense as Navy, albeit with better athletes, essentially giving Duke two weeks of preparation for the most unique offense in college football. The important term here is winnable. How many winnable games remain on Duke’s schedule? In order to answer that, you have to realize that the definition has changed dramatically since last year. The Blue Devils, under Roof, were in position to win games, but hardly ever had the discipline or finishing strength to do so. This year, they do. Oh, so Duke’s going to run the table? Duke’s going to compete for the ACC title? Getreal. Cutcliffe needs at least a few more years of recruiting to do that. Probably. But when was the last time anybody has been able to say something4ike that with a straight face? Think about where Duke was last year at this time, and you will remember that even if Duke musters two or three more wins out of this season, it’s still a huge success It says something about how far Cutcliffe has already elevated the program that a Blue Devil fan could legitimately gripe about not being 3-0 right now. Because, at this point, who wouldn’t love to say, “Damn it, if we had just beaten Northwestern, we would be bowl-eligible.” After everything Duke fans have endured ovef the last several seasons, it would be greedy to ask for anything more.

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at the list of compapackages. This piece of rare nies recruiting at today’s positive news is that the Career Career Fair, and you will Center has done an admirable notice some conspicuous ab- job of preparing students for the challengingjob climate. sences. You won’t find J.P. MorThe Career Center’s extenLehman sive bankrupt freshly drop-in hours are a blessgan, Brothers or a ing for frazhost of other zled seniors editorial with spur-ofinvestment banks that tabled at fairs back the-moment questions. Career inJanuary and September 2007 counselors have been sensitive to the concerns of former in the Bryan Center. Their bottom lines have been crushed Lehman and Merrill Lynch and hiring plans forestalled by interns—many of whom were the subprime mortgage crisis. terrified to find their once-solid The current financial crisis is so job offers in post-bankruptcy or severe that one of the principal -acquisition jeopardy. In general, students who meet with employers of University graduates in recent years, Goldman counselors at the Career CenSachs & Co., has declined to ter come back pleased with the make an appearance today. advice they receive. There is, however, a silver In recent years, too, the lining to this economic cloud, Center has made admirable even for anxious seniors who moves to encourage students to are looking to pay off their pre- pursue unusual careers. For exFinancial Aid Initiative loan ample, featured speakers at last

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Once you add up the AmeriCorps grants and generous loan forgiveness programs (not to mention the less-than-90 hour workweeks), these positions start to look like a much better deal than corporate finance. Ofcourse, itis ultimately every student’s responsibility and opportunity to find the rightjob or internship for himself. Whether that involves curing river blindness in Guatemala or helping to reshape the American economy as a marauding McKinsey business analyst, you can’t count on the Career Center to magically connect you with a job without being proactive yourself. Students sometimes complain that the Career. Center funnels students into consulting and finance jobs, but it is up to you to make sure not to limit your search to information sessions and the endless “Analyst” and “Associate” roles

on eßecruiting. (After all, too, it’s understandable that the Career Center would devote the most resources to the trades that are the most popular among students and whose recruitment efforts are most

sophisticated.) So pigeonhole your friends and relatives; cold-e-mail some alumni on DukeConnecL If you’re starting to have second thoughts, reconsider that economics minor or Markets and Management Certificate. If you want to differentiate yourself from the rest of the swarm, you might be better off minoring in a rare language or learning pure mathematics algorithms instead. The point is to make your life and career search your own. In the meantime, make hay while the sun is shining, and steal as many highlighters and mints as you can from the financial firms that are still standing.

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spring’s Fannie Mitchell Career Conference included Ray Eddy, Trinity ’92, currently a stunt actor at Universal Studios in Orlando, and Chris Duke, Fuqua ’B7, who dropped out of the corporate rat race to create a dessert company with his wife. Additionally, the Career Center makes a conscious effort to steer students to socially responsible jobs. Groups attending this year’s fair include Teach For America—traditionally the most popular employer offormer University students the Peace Corps, the U.S. Department of State and myriad charter schools that serve lowincome communities. Although these jobs are often overlooked during economic boom times, many in fact offer students the best of both worlds: a chance to make the world a better place and attractive financial packages.

On the rare occasion that my best friend and I stop spinning in the whirlwind of our respective post-high school worlds long enough to sit down and have a phone conversation, our trip down memory lane ultimately detours into this area known as Present Time, where we try to provide each other with as ■rumh d irection as possible but never quite end up at the same place. So we settle for telling immaterial little anecdotes, compelled by the self-prescribed nina belief that attentiveness to such deone fish two fish tails demonstrates the sincerity of our efforts to preserve our special connection. One such story of hers described a particular incident concerning her younger brother, who was on the verge of entering one of the first rites of passage in his quest for eventual Maturity and Adulthood (although the two are not always mutually inclusive), namely, kindergarten. Something had invariably not gone to his liking, resulting in the mild throwing of a temper tantrum; thus it was time to pull out the big guns from the übiquitous parental stash of pedagogical-artillery. “Son,” his father told him in a tone of unquestionable authority, “Sometimes life is like a box of chocolates. You just never know what you’re going

get.”

“Sure you do,” I interjected into the phone “You’re getting chocolate.” “That’s exactly what my brother said!” my best friend exclaimed. “‘Chocolate!’ Like it was the most obvious thing in the world!” We 11... it kind ofis. So much so, in fact, that his father did not have much to say in response to this outburst from an exuberant kindergartner who had successfully evaded another one of those pesky lectures. After all, how do you argue with such flawless logic? It was one of those illuminating moments where children, in their enviable state of unassuming innocence, prove themselves capable of being strikingly more perceptive than their matured counterparts. What they lack in experience, they make up for with keen observational skills and cherubic candor. And what they are not yet required to learn, we consistently fail to acknowledge; that these operative words—“maturity” and “experience” connote more than just the final destination of —

Character Development and the means by which we arrive there. They are also euphemisms for the jaded few, the proud, whose senses have suffered countless dulling blows from this beast called Life, pitting us with trial after tribulation. We only grow wearier (read: more “mature”) as the exhausting burden of knowledge piles up on our shoulders like Tetris blocks, discontinuous but overwhelming in their inevitable accumulation. Things were so much simpler when we were kids because that’s just how we viewed the world—not in monochromatic black and white, but with an artless clarity, free from the bias of crippling self-awareness. Now, however, the ever-growing number of colors on my smugly intellectual paint palette is beginning to blend together into an obscure goop, so it’s a wonder my brain can discern anything at all. Society has also cultivated our world-weary paranoia by equipping us with an unnatural sixth sense for corruption, fear and weakness. The social rites we pass as we get older assimilate us further and further into this contradictory edification that warns against the moral pitfalls of others even as it urges us to see the best in everyone. Cynicism, is the new pathological sign of maturity, while passing judgment and bleeding sanctimony are its untreatable symptoms. So what’s so great about growing up? We learn life by the books, a habit easily developed from crafting an existence based entirely on being told rather than seeing for ourselves. We are tricked into thinking we know everything, when really, we know nothing at all —at least, not anything remotely useful. Ambushed by our own psychological vulnerability, our diminished capacity for appreciating or even comprehending the simplest and most fundamental aspects of life puts us completely out of touch with our premature counterparts. We craft pithy maxims based on our experiences so that we can believe they mean something more. Often, however, our attempts to instill these “life lessons” in children backfire when youth’s unadulterated wisdom blows some super wet raspberries in the face of our scholastic complacencies. Sometimes the moral of the story is that we shouldn’t always look so hard to find one. It’s as simple as that, and I’m pretty sure a certain fiveyear-old would agree with me. So in some respects I guess I still have a childlike mentality, but who’s complaining? I’m pretty content with whatever I happen to get out of my box ofchocolates. Now if you will excuse me, I have a phone call to make. Nina Hu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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lettertotheeditor Financial Aid Initiative: Change we can see In response to the Sept. 15 letter to the editor, “Where’s my financial aid initiative?” by Nicole Diaz Nelson, Nelson’s attack on President Richard Brodhead and financial aid at Duke was misguided and discouraging to say the least. For the past three years we have been working alongside the Duke Financial Aid Initiative with the goal of making a Duke education accessible to all qualified students. Although we sympathize with Nelson in her struggle to afford Duke, we would like to share some facts about Duke Financial Aid and some of the achievements of the Financial Aid Initiative that may give a clearer picture of the unique challenges confronting Duke. Duke is one of the few institutions in the country that is committed to need-blind undergraduate admission for United States citizens and permanent residents and meeting 100 percent of these students’ demonstrated financial need. Brodhead is dedicated to maintaining this commitment even as the amount of money required per year to fund financial, aid grows rapidly. For example, Duke budgeted $63 million for undergraduate need-based aid this year, an increase of $lO million more than last year. Duke faces a unique challenge with maintaining this promise. Compared to most of its peer institm tions, Duke is young and did not have the privilege of having a large endowment during the 1990 economic boom. Consequently, only onefifth of money needed to cover financial aid at Duke comes from its endowment whereas other institutions’ endowments cover up to 90 percent of their need-based aid programs.

In order to start to bridge this gap, Duke launched FAI in 2005 with the purpose of raijsing $3OO million for ift endowment by the end of2008; its largest goal being an increase in the permanent endowment for undergraduate need-based aid. Thus far, the Initiative has helped Duke to make several important changes. Parents who earn less than $60,000 in yearly income are no longer expected to pay tuition. Loans are no longer part of the financial aid package of families making less than $40,000 a year, have been reduced for families with incomes between $40,000 and $lOO,OOO and are capped at $5,000 per year for families that earn more than $lOO,OOO. Beyond these changes, Duke has always been committed to providing students on financial aid with all the opportunities Duke offers. Financial aid can be transferred for study abroad, and Duke offers a summer earnings replacement grant for students who take unpaid internships. As FAI continues to meet its fundraising goals we may see more changes in financial aid at Duke. Rest assured, Ms. Nelson, the administration is focused on affording students from all economic backgrounds the opportunity to attend Duke.

ployees here are ruder than others who make the same money but do not have to deal with Duke kids. If you want to know why service here is so similar to what you get at home in Newjersey, look no further than the mirror. Duke’s employees are only as unpleasant as the students make them want to be. Here in the South, phrases like “yes sir” or “please” and “thank you” are not justpoliteness, but minimal standards of decency. In a region known for its hospitality, most of us do not come close to treating the Duke staff with a basic level of respect. Subway employees come across as fed up because students forget to treat them like human beings. Bus drivers sound angry when they tell people to scoot back and make room because they get ignored all day. The mere fact that we even have to be reminded to make room for others makes a powerful statement about the typical Duke student’s character. Given what campus employees put up with, it is remarkable how much of the Duke staff maintains a positive attitude while at work. Interactions between people are a two-way street, and on the whole, our student body does not come close to holding up its end of the bargain. There are plenty of polite people at Duke, but for every one of them, there are three or four who never thank the guy who swipes their card at the gym. We are not a pleasant group to deal with in a customer service setting—just ask anyone who has an off campus job that involves dealing with a mixed clientele of Duke students and Durham residents. We treat employees like they were put on earth to serve us, and believe it or not, they notice. Nobody expects Duke students to morph into a bunch of Southern gentlemen overnight. After all, these are the same people who probably still think the orientation barbecue gave them a “taste of the South.” People on campus will never start saying hello to strangers, but a little decency every once in a while is not too much to expect. And who knows? Maybe that Marketplace dude with the tongue ring would stop yelling at everyone for “no reason.” Matt Graham is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

Kylie Harrell Trinity ’O9

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Jeff Singer

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Duke's politeness problem Freshman orientation is an experience that most

people would be happy to forget, but I remember one thing vividly: barbecue everywhere. Duke’s plan

introduce students to “Southern living,” it seems, was to serve up as much barbecue as possible. Unfortunately, the food was so catered to non-Southerners that it barely resembled North Carolina barbecue at all. Some of it even had barbecue sauce in it! I watched in disgust as my classmates excitedly dematt voured the nastiness, honestly Speaking talking about their love for the South as if they were really experiencing it. Most people in this state would tell you that my hometown, Chapel Hill, is less Southern than the North Pole. Jesse Helms, the patron saint of the South, once famously asked, “Why build a zoo when we can just put up a fence around Chapel Hill?” Although I will never be truly Southern, I am Southern enough to be bothered by many of the differences between Duke’s campus and the area just outside of it. The quality of the barbecue is not the only thing that changes when you put 6,400 generally over-privileged non-Southerners in one place. Southern people do customer service better than anyone else, hands down. You won’t find friendlier people anywhere else—which is why the flat-out rudeness by many food service employees on campus (particularly at the Marketplace) has been so flooring to me since day one. Getting service that is significantly worse than what you are used to is genuinely frustrating. It reminds me of the North. What is it about Duke that attracts so many •tide food service employees to its campus? Is it that Durham is exclusively populated by bitter, unhappy people who barely scrape a living together? That popular misconception is an entirely different debate, but it still would not explain why emto

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little more than a month ago, the president fired the next morning "soldiers quietly left .their barracks and occupied the White House, the Capitol and CNN headquarters.. When you and I got up for work, the chairman of thejonit chiefs was on all the morning news shows- His message was simple: The former president is safely in custody: please continue your day as oswiaL You and I might shake our heads a bit, but off we go to work. The world keeps mnnne. dill, gTCgOry mOITISOn Such a scenario cull to imagine in ihe tinted the talleyrand report States, but, sadly, it play* onI occasionally across Aim The leaders of the Mauritanian nuliiaay wcmmed their country’s first freely elected president from office Aug. 6, staging the second coup in four years: Granted, nobody much liked the president,, the country was paralyzed by a two-week-old vote of no confidence and just two days before the generals’ demarche, 48 members of Parliament resigned from the President’s party. In 2005, the world tolerated Mauritania’s military coup because it removed a repressive regime and its leaders left office after organizing the country’s first free and fair elections in 2007. Today, few outsiders are tolerant. The African Union suspended Mauritania’s membership. Africa’s giants, Nigeria and South Africa, condemned the military action. The United States and the European Union damned the coup, the former suspending aid and the latter threatening to follow suit. Inside the country though, the coup is popular. Thousands turned up at a rally supporting Gen. Mohamed Quid Abdel Aziz, the coup leader. More than two-thirds of Mauritania’s political parties, MPs and senators —all members of the same legislature democratically elected in 2007—have publicly supported the general. Even the former president’s allies aren’t too hostile. There is widespread agreement that the coup was unfortunate but better than a do-nothing government. So, what now? Neighboring Mali and its president serve as good role models. Mali and Mauritania are both dirt-poor countries divided geographically by the Sahara wasteland and ethnically by Arab-black African tensions. Mali, too, has seen its fair share of repressive regimes and coups, but in 1991, Gen. Amadou Toumani Toure overthrew the ruling one-party dictatorship and earned himself the sobriquet “soldier of democracy” when he handed power to elected civilians the next year. Toure withdrew from politics for a decade before standing for president in the 2002 elections and winning. He won a second five-year term in a contested election ruled free and fair by outside observers. By all accounts, the General, or ATT as the Malians call him, plans to step down when he is constitutionally required to do so in 2012. The “soldier of democracy” is a member of no party, but is championed by a coalition of 44 of them. His opponents all have representatives in parliament and he is constrained by a broadcast and print media deemed by the BBC “among the freest in Africa.” Toure champions free trade, hoping to boost the value of Mali’s cotton crop, and has worked hard to expand Mali’s gold mining industry, now the third largest in Africa. By 2012, he wants to increase Mali’s output of cereals from 3 to 10 million metric tons. Plans are being made to begin the export of oil in the next five years. If all goes well, and that is still a big if, Malians could see a significant rise in their paltry per capita GDP of $3BO. What Abdel Aziz does next matters. His new government has already received threats from al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a terrorist network responsible for deadly suicide bombings in Algeria and two recent attacks by gunmen on Western targets in Mauritania. Bruce Hall, associate professor of African history here at Duke, says in Algeria the struggle against the government, a government widely seen by its citizens as illegitimate, “has taken on Islamist themes in large part because the government has closed other avenues of protest.” Should Abdel Aziz become repressive and seek to dismantle Mauritania’s infant, but budding, democratic institutions, he risks transforming what Hall calls “pretty good places, pretty open places, [with] people not closed in on their culture” into exacdy the terrain al Qaeda finds ready recruits. If he follows this path, then Mauritania’s problems could rapidly become our problems. Despite Mauritania’s small size and poverty, what happens there next matters to us.

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