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J. Lorand Matory, co-chair of Harvard’s Association of Black Faculty, Administrators and Fellows, will join Duke as chair of the African and African American Studies department in July 2009, relocating to the Gothic Wonderland after nearly two decades in Cambridge. The professor of anthropology and AAAS received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard and held appointments at the university for 18 years. But he was a vocal tory critic offormer Harvard Lawrence president Summers, and he leaves raising questions about the ethnic diversity of the Ivy League university’s faculty.

“Duke made it very clear that they very much wanted to have me,” Matory told The Boston Globe. “The dean of [Harvard’s] Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Mike Smith, did not make that as clear....

Duke adds voting site to campus

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Head coach David Cutcliffe went under the knife for emergency triple-bypass surgery in March 2005. Wiserand more grateful, he became the Blue Devils' leaderless thanthree years later. SEE STORY, SW 4-5.

As the presidential election draws nearer, students, faculty and staff will not have to go far to cast their ballots. An on-campus voting site will debut Oct. 16 ki the Old Trinity Room in the West Union Building —a result ofefforts by Gunther Peck, associate professor ofhistory and public policy studies, to boost Duke students’ votes. Peck said it was “dismaying” that of3,000 registered Duke students, only 343 voted in the May primary. There was nearly 60 percent turnout at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and 20 percent voted in the primary at North Carolina State University, Peck said. “The Duke students I knew and taught were not self-absorbed and politically apathetic,” he said. “The only clear and obvious difference was that only Duke did not have an on-campus voting site.” Peck noted that this site will be unusual because most voting locations are at public places. The nearest voting site forDuke students during the primaries was at the old Durham Athletic Park, close to East Campus. This summer, Peck discussed his findings with Provost Peter Lange, who then set SEE VOTING ON PAGE 2

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The nation inched closer to increased offshore drilling last Tuesday when the United States House of Representatives passed an energy bill that would allow states to decide about drilling in their waters. Currently there is a congressional moratorium on any new offshore drilling leases. The Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act would lift that moratorium if the Senate passes it as well. The bill follows the impact Hurricane Ike had on drivers’ wallets across the country, prompting candidates up for election in November to take stances on a potential domestic source of energy: the continental shelf. “It’s an election year, which means that it is silly season for politicians,” Michael Munger, the Libertarian candidate in the North Carolina Gubernatorial race and chair of the department of political science at Duke University, said in a press release. “The supporters of new drilling are promising miracles, and the opponents are predicting disaster.... They are both exaggerating for their owp political purposes.”

Monger’s plan takes a hands-off approach, asserting that “the increased price of oil and gas will solve this problem for us, if we letit” by driving down demand and opening up new supplies. His plan does not address environmental concerns. Pat McCrory, Republican nominee for governor and mayor of Charlotte, believes “just the threat of drilling would reduce prices immediately,” Amy Auth, communications director for McCrory’s gubernatorial campaign, wrote in an e-mail. She said McCrory also supports drilling in the Manteo Project region, an area Mobil Oil attempted to tap into during the ’Bos and ’9os until North Carolina forced the company to abandon its efforts through a lawsuit. Moreover, McCrory would petition the federal government for the right to drill for oil off its coast and receive 37.5 percent of the revenue. States receive all royalty fees from drilling within the first three milesoff their coast But after that they can currently only receive up to a quarter of the royalty fee—with the rest going to SEE DRILLING ON PAGE 5

The U.S. Houseof Representatives passed a billTuesday allowing states to decide whether to drill offshore.The Senate has yet to vote on thebill.

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Students explored Jewish heritage Sunday as they learned how to convert cucumbers intokosher pickles at a workshop hosted by Chabad, a Jewish-interest organization.

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Freewater presentation of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” made a splash with about 450 students, as they made the sing-along a “part of theirworld” Friday night Students, some in various stages of inebriation, flooded the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theater to sing along, with some help from subtides, to the midnight screening of the classic animated movie, sponsored by the Duke University Union. Those in attendance sang so loudly and projected so many editorial comments at the screen that they nearly drowned out the movie’s characters. The energy of

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Duke students and Durham residents learned about Judaism

Sunday afternoon—by packing cucumbers into plastic Tupper-

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Chabad, a campus Jewish organization, hosted a kosher picklemaking workshop in the Bryan Center to provide a creative, hands-on way for students to learn about the great American kosher dill while exploring their Jewish

heritage. “We’re trying to create fun, Jewish, relaxed types of events that are easy ways for Jews to engage in their own Jewishness and leam to cherish their identity,” said Rabbi Zalman Bluming, who leads Chabad at Duke and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Participants in the workshop

Jewishness, crowding around tables topped with pickle jars and handpicking their own cucumbers from a large paper bag. Workshop leader Mendy Margolin, a “roving rabbi” who travels around the country leading picklemaking sessions, guided students through the process of cucumber conversion, while highlighting what it means to keep kosher through jokes and anecdotes. “There are two types of pickles in the world—Republicans and Democrats,” he said. “No, just kid-

ding, our pickles are apolitical. They’re pickles for peace.” Margolin also explained the difference between so-called kosher pickles and authentically Jewish kosher pickles. Jewish kosher pickles contain no vinegar or sugar and therefore require refrigeration. He SEE KOSHER ON PAGE 4

VOTING from page 1 up a meeting between Peck and other administrators, including Executive Vice PresidentTallman Trask. Peck said his proposal for an on-campus early voting site garnered much support among the administrators. “I would hope and expect that this will substantially increase the turnout,” Lange said. “It will make voting and registering much easier.” This voting site will speed up the voting process significantly, freshman Steven Feister said, adding that there now is less

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so they are something we all have in common,” said Kousha Navidar, a junior who had previously attended four other Freewater Disney sing-alongs. “When you mix that with intoxication, it’s like camaraderie on crack.” Navidar noted that the singalongs are an opportunity for him to meet up with old friends SEE MERMAID ON PAGE 4

Duke College Republicans Chair Vikram Srinivasan, a junior, said he is looking forward to a stronger turnout of youth voters during both early voting and on Election Day. The new voting site will be public and open to anyone, including approximately 13,000 students, 18,000 employees and many other residents in the county —but the primary motive behind the effort is to encourage young voters to come out to the polls. “Youth votes are huge, not only at Duke, but nationwide,” Peck said. “It could decide the election.”

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On stage at Page Auditorium Saturday night, Luke Dollar surveyed the room before sighing with satisfaction. ”It’s good to be home,” he said. “It’s good to be back at Duke,” But Dollar wasn’t alluding to a threemonth summer absence, or even an exciting semester spent studying abroad. Instead, Dollar, Trinity ’95 and Nicholas ’O6, had returned to his alma mater to present his on-site research on Madagascar’s mammalian predator, the fossa. The lecture, hosted by the National

Geographic Society and the Nicholas School of the Environment and titled “An Evening of Field Research and Exploration,” also featured presentations by adventure filmmaker Rick Ridgeway and John Francis, vice president for research, conservation and exploration at National Geographic. Many members from the local community as well as some students attended the lecture. A National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Dollar has been studying the elusive fossa for over a decade, he said Saturday evening. In his time abroad, he has painstakingly documented the habits of the “big bad wolf” of Madagascar as well

as worked to prevent deforestation of the country’s diminishing dry forest at Ankarafantsika National Park in the northwestern part of the country. Dollar also partnered with natives to help them transition from their traditional slashand-burn lifestyle to a more sustainable alternative, he said. An ecotourism camp site he helped convert from a soccer field has served more than 60,000 plates offood with minimal harm to the environment “The synergy of sound science combined with grassroots ground-level intelligence information about what the SEE EXPLORERS ON PAGE 5

Potential basketball spectators littered the lawns with beer and food this weekend—not in legendary Krzyzewskiville, but in a practice soccer field off of Science Drive. From 7 p.m. Friday through Sunday, approximately 1,600 graduate and professional students slept in tents and RVs during the annual Graduate and Professional Student Council campout for the opportunity to buy men’s basketball season tickets. The students tented to be entered in a lottery to distribute the 700 seats allocated for graduate and professional students, said Mickey Tekippe, co-chair of the GPSC Men’s Basketball Committee and a student in the School ofMedicine. Yet Campout holds a social purpose as well, he said. “We are looking to foster community amongst the graduate students and of different schools at Duke,” Tekippe said. Students from all seven ofDuke’s graduate schools participated in the campout. Among the most memorable moments this weekend was an appearance by Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski and players from the men’s and women’s basketball teams, Tekippe said. Juniors Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas of the men’s team joined some students in a Guitar Hero tournament.

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AAAS from page 1 Harvard clearly has an insufficient number of African-American professors, and it’s being abandoned by one more.” George McLendon, dean of Trinity College and dean of the faculty ofArts and Sciences, said the University surveyed leaders in the field of African and African American Studies and couldn’t help but notice the frequency with which Malory’s name kept popping up. “The answer came from a lot of people: ‘The best person is [Matory], but you will not be able to move him,’” McLendon said. “Whenever someone tells me I can’t do something, that really motivates me.” Because of its location below the MasonDixon line, McLendon noted that Duke has a special voice in discussions on African-Ameri-

KOSHER from page 2 also spoke about the significance of the Jewish dietary restrictions as he urged participants to make themselves comfortable, roll up their sleeves and get to work loading their cucumbers into containers of water and salt before adding garlic cloves to taste. “Keeping kosher is so important because, after all, you are what you eat,” Margolin said. “We believe that if what you’re being fed is pure, your soul will become more pure as well.” Durham residents Ir-

can affairs—making Malory’s hiring a particular coup. “Since Duke is the premier university in the South, it has a different place in understanding the role ofAfrican Americans within our nation,” McLendon said. “[Matory] is a leading figure in understanding roles of race within the United States —he has the right

profile.” McLendon added that as the University pursues internationalization—developing sites overseas and sending more students abroad than ever with DukeEngage —a knowledge of the African continent will be cridcal. Until Matory’s July arrival, the AAAS department will be chaired by associate professor Thavolia Glymph. Glymph and Matory will work closely in the interim, McLendon noted. Previously, the department was led by associate professor Charles Piot, who is on leave but remains a member of the faculty, McLendon said.

ving and Linda Herman took notes as Margolin explained the steps in preparing the perfect kosher pickle. Irving Herman said he hoped to be able to make pickles at home. “My father founded a pickle factory up in Massachusetts, and every time a family member came down, he’d send me a pail of kosher pickles,” he said. Irving Herman said he jumped at the opportunity to learn how kosher pickles were actually made when he heard about the

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to a farmer’s market in Durham soon, and I’ll see if I can get some pickling goods and go into production,” he said. Some students, like junior Matt Garreffi, simply attended the workshop as a fun way to spend an afternoon.

“My friend did picklemaking last semester and recommended it,” he said. Bluming said events like Sunday’s session are typical of Chabad’s efforts to. connect students with their heritage. “Judaism is experiential, joyful and relevant,” he said.

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Students keep kosher while turning cucumbers into pickles at the Chabad-sponsored workshop in the Bryan Center Sunday.

MERMAID from page 2 from his freshman dorm “We target the entire student population because we all have a strong connection to these movies regardless of what subsection [of Duke people] are in,” said Aileen Liu, co-chair of Freewater. Some students also mentioned they enjoyed watching the film now because they noticed new facets that they did not pick up on as children. Freshman Rosie Phillips, for example, said she remembered the film from when she was four, but only now did she notice that Ursula refers to Ariel as a “tramp.” Several students said they ended up at “The Little Mermaid” for lack of anything better to do Friday night. Section parties held by Mirecourt and Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity were both shut down by campus police around midnight, prompting many students to trickle into Griffith. Whatever the reason for their attendance, piost students said they would come to another sing-along. Friday’s show marked the first Disney sing-along of the 2008-2009 school year. The sing-along tradition began three years ago and has become one of Freewater’s most popular events. Freewater’s next sing-along will be a presentation of Hercules Nov. 7.

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Despite sporting an appearance of comfort and control, No. 9 Duke found itself tangled in two tight contests this weekend at Williams Field. And still, the Blue Devils managed to win both, topping Ohio State 3-2 Saturday and Old Dominion 1-0 Sunday. ■After the close wins, though, Duke found areas in which it has to improve. “Even though our team is coming together, everyone needs to step it up to the next level,” said senior captain Marian Dickinson, who scored two goals Saturday. The Bpckeyes (6-3) took an early lead, scoring the first goal in the game’s third minute, but the Blue Devils (6-2) were not fazed. They quickly regained control and retaliated when sophomore Susan Ferger tallied a score 81 seconds later. The short turnaround seemed to solidify Duke: its offense ran rampant, and the defenders rarely retreated behind midfield and pushed Ohio State into earning nine penalty corners. EMILY-BRAY/THE CHRONICLE The Buckeyes seemed content to let the Blue Devils loiter at their striking circle, as No. 9 Duke took two wins this weekend over Ohio Stateand Old Dominion. Duke posted 17 shots on net, three of which manifested themselves onto the scoreboard. The fact that most of the Blue Devils were familiar The shot-to-goal ratio left head coach Beth with the Buckeyes might have added an unexpected asBozman “not happy at all.” pect to the game plan. Both Ferger and junior captain “With the number of opportunities we had, Brooke Patterson squared off against high school teamwe would have liked to have capitalized on mates Saturday—field hockey is a “very small world,” Fermore of them today,” Bozman said. “You have ger said. And while the adaptation from friend and teammate to be able to score when you have as many opto opponent could have become awkward, Duke was glad portunities as we had.” But with five freshman starters, time may it didn’t result in something even more foreign: a loss. be a necessity to bring opportunities to imple“We see each other before and after the game,but on mentation. And with at least 11 games left in the field they’re just the opponents,” Ferger said. And Saturday, the Blue Devils were on the winning the season, the team should have ample opend of the friendship. portunity to maximize its potential.

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this. We know we can play with one of the top three teams in the nation, even after going down a goal and losing a man. I feel like this is definitely a stepping stone for our young team.” After senior goalkeeper Brendan Fitzgerald blocked a shot over the end line early in the match, a Maryland corner kick found the head of Gonzalez and then the corner of the net for what would turn out to be the game-winning goal. The scoring stopped there. The defense, aided by Fitzgerald’s eight saves, effectively shut down the Terrapins (4-1,2-0) for the rest of the match. But defense alone was not enough to overcome the one-goal deficit, because while Duke created a number of scoring opportunities, it never got the ball into the net. “After they scored the first goal, we didn’t really change how we played,” Barnes said. “We just stayed aggressive, and we actually started to get more attacks on goal. But after the red card we played down a man, so we SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 6

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Duke in home tourney “Ashley is a physical presence,” head coach Robbie Church said. “She’s our best ball winThe Blue Devils are hoping defense wins ner in theair. She’s aggressive, she steps to the championships —and a little bit of offense ball, she wins the ball and she puts balls down in their end. She’s an outstandingplayer.” wouldn’t hurt, either. No. 9 Duke’s defense stifled opponents Rape’s performance was representative this weekend and the offense continued to of the entire back line, as the Blue Devils prosper, as the Blue Devils defeated Ford- were able to constandy win the ball oneham 2-0 Friday and on-one and in the air. The strength of the W)| FORD Georgia 3-0 Sunday- back line led to long stretches of possession at the Duke Classic for Duke, including a string of almost nine RRI u / lili DUKE m Koskmen Sta- minutes at the end of the first half against dium Georgia, during which Quinn scored her UGA “As a team, we third goal of the match. A duke came out great with As important as the defensive aspect defensive of the line was its offensive contribution great pressure in the first half,” senior Lorainne throughout the weekend. Part of this sucQuinn said. “We didn’t let them play out cess came from the tactical matchups set of anything. We really kept them locked in up by Church, as he moved the outside and took advantage of that as a team.” backs into the attack. And Quinn led the charge for Duke “[Georgia] started playing one forward and then moved in and played two (8-1), registering a hat trick Sunday afterforwards, so we knew we would be open noon. She was named the tournament Offensive MVP after registering three goals in outside,” Church said. “Whenever we play the first half against Georgia. a team that plays two up front or one up Despite the offensive success, it was front, that’s always an option—we always Duke’s back line that served as the model look centrally but then we look wide.” of consistency, leading the team to victory The approach worked early in the game offensively as well as defensively. Sunday for the Blue Devils, as senior ChrisThe Blue Devils were strong defensively tie McDonald jumped into the play from all weekend, as senior goalkeeper Cassidy the left back position, sending a cross inside to Quinn for the first goal of the match. In Powers was able to pick up two more shutouts. The back line was particularly effective the second half, McDonald carried the ball for Duke, as the unit, led by freshman Ashthrough traffic and was able to get in behind ley Rape, managed to shut down Fordham the Bulldogs’ back line before her shot was (3-3-1) and Georgia (2-6) with strong play. stopped by Georgia’s Michelle Betos. by

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conference’s preseason poll. “We are going to want to win it,” McDonald said. “That’s always a goal for us, and I think it’s a practical one.” “Every ACC game is a dogfight,” Church said. “You have to play 90 minutes. If you don’t, you’re going to get beat, but that’s the great thing about this conference. I thinkwe’re a very confident team right now, and we’re committed to play both sides of the ball. Committed to attack, committed to defend.We’re a handful to handle.”

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“I kinda knew, but I was pretty stupid,” Cutcliffe says contemplatively as he leans back in a rolling chair in his office overlooking Wallace Wade Stadium, its grass drenched with sun on such a gorgeous fell day that Cutcliffe can’t help but mention the weather. It’s on days like these when it’s good to have a windowed office on the fourth floor of the Yoh Football Center, and it’s in Septembers like these when, finally, it’s good to have a closet full of Duke Football gear. And for the man in the chair, ifs good to be alive, and its good to be a head coach, and its good to believe in destiny, and if s good to watch practices on a 52-inch flat screen without swiveling, and it’s good to have a photo of a packed student section in eyesight, and ifs good to hear from a star freshman that he turned in his paper and—and—more than any other and, it’s good to know how to scramble from a blitz.

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schedule by the hour, whose office looks like the inhabitance ofan interior decorator rather than a grizzly football coach. Coaches are anticipators. Ifthey could, they would simulate every game scenario. Sometimes the tailback dances left and sometimes he counters right, and it’s the coach’s fault if the defense guesses wrong. How could he have not seen the linebacker’s twitching toes and jiggling fingers? Perhaps he was too busy worrying about 20-year-old linemen and strong safeties, nickel defenses and zone defenses, pass protections and run blocks, Brady Quinn’s footwork and the way the ball floats in the crisp i Indiana air. It’s enough to give any man a

he was supposed to spend time with his family for just a week before flying back to the grind at Notre Dame. Yet again, the strong-side linebacker rushed the ailing Cutcliffe. “All of a sudden, my heart gets crazy out of rhythm, and it got really bad,” Cutcliffe says. “They put me back in the hospital and couldn’t get my heart to get back into rhythm. My blood pressure dropped to 60over-30, which makesyou feel like you’re gettingready to die. I was losing consciousness. It’s the only time I really ever got scared during all of this, I got scared at that moment when I was in the hospital. And when I got out ofall of that, I was miniscule in weight, and I was weak.” And he owed Weis a phone call. He told the first-year head coach, who had graciously visited his lead assistant in the hospital, that he didn’t feel up to his responsibilities. Weis told Cutcliffe to think about it over the weekend; he did, and he came to the same conclusion, “I said,‘Charlie, I don’t believe I can do this,”’ Cutcliffe recalls, his tender-stricken voice shrinking in stature from his sideline bellows. “‘I can’t—l’m not gonna half do anything. I’m not gonna be effective. I’m not well.’ He told me to think about it. I called him back and said,‘Listen, I can’t do it.’ So that kinda ended that.” The resignation became official June 1. In just six months—in just a beat of the heart, a pang of shooting pain—Cutcliffe was fired from his first head-coaching gig. then hired by the hottest coach in the game to help guide the most historic program. Then, nothing. Everything had been

changed by one congested artery, But, Cutcliffe learned, change isn’t bad. Maybe, after all, it was destiny, ~yt A yhat do you do when you have %\ nothing to do? Cutcliffe, for one, \ \ did the things he never could have done and never would have done, all the while knowing he still wanted' to do the only thing he’s ever done.

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“People probably don’t believe in destiny, but I know I’m in the right place, right now, where I’m supposed to be.’’ Cutdiffe had no coachingjob to preoccupy him. For the first time in 29 years, he was staring down another sort ofunknown—thekind you can’t diagram. It’s one thing to speculate the defensive coordinator’s next move and try to preempt it It’s another to wonder about fate’s next act First came the process of cardiac rehabilitation, an obstacle Cutdiffe faced in Oxford. He brought his youngest daughter Emily, who was 5, into Baptist Memorial almost every day. He was joined by five or six others rehabbing themselves after bypass surgeries, including Alan 'Locke, 78, who was there after his second bypass. Cutdiffe was the youngest in the group, and he not only acted his age but also his occupation when the men were pedaling on stationery hikes, walking on treadmills and pumping light dumbbells. “I was coachin’ ’em up a little bit, trying to energize those guys, and they loved it,” says Cutdiffe, who has a not-so-surprising disposition to equate any mass of people to a football team. “I’d say, ‘All right boys, where we ridin’ today? Tall wanna ride on up here to Holly Springs, see what’s goin’ on? And then downtown, we might stop off at the Tasty Freeze, get us a little ice cream on the way back.’ That’s growth. That’s meeting people I would have never met.” And Locke, from Oxford, would never have met Cutdiffe, either. They remain pen pals to this day, e-mailing each other about once a week. Locke doesn’t remember any °f the rehab after , his first bypass—“ The second was more outstanding; the first time [in 2001 ], it’s a lost history to me,” he says—but he talks about his introduction to Lutcliffe like it was yesterday. “I was sitting over in a chair doing something, arid David comes in and walks in the door, walks straight over to me and stuck out his hand and said, ‘l’m David Cutdiffe,’” hocke says. “I had never seen him at all. And that’s how we started our acquaintance.”' : '

Cutdiffe was supposed to be in cardiac rehab for six weeks, like Locke, but after T"V uke’s campus is eerie at 5 a.m. It five, he had sufficiendy recovered. He I I should be dark, but light poles illuminate the quads’ walkways, and soon found himself, of all places, back in Knoxville, Tenn, passing time and earn- the Chapel, smack in the middle of West ing money by, all of things, appearing Campus, is like a lighthouse on choppy on television and talk radio shows. If his seas. Bleakness and desolation are offset post-surgery stint in Oxford brought out by the sheer awesomeness of the campus the motivator in Cutdiffe, the downtime centerpiece as night turns to morning. Cutin the town where he spent 17 years revi- cliffe first saw the University in this light, aftalized the strategic edge of the X’s and ter driving down 40-East in the blackness, O’s maven. He still prefers to walk campus in the He talked football for hours every day, deserted hours of morning, and he does on the radio and television, in a studio in so with a 20-pound weighted vest. He stops his house. In that sense, he was forced to to greet custodial workers, to get his hair watch football to be knowledgeable —but trimmed by Dave Fowler at the Duke BarCutdiffe is not one to be obliged to any- bershop and, more often, to admire West thing football-related. He couldn’t have Campus buildings —his favorites are the done anything else. So he contacted the Allen Building and Perkins Library. He video coordinator at Tennessee, who passed sometimes sees students, some that “maybe along any tape Cutdiffe wanted, despite don’t want to see me,” he says. And while the coach’s temporary unemployment. Cutdiffe enjoys haphazard conversationHe watched professional schemes and he “I like talking to people I don’t know, just observed Southern California’s prolific of- saying, ‘Hello, how you doing?”’ he says fense and, by the time Philip Fulmer hired he walks primarily for exercise, him to be his top assistant again, Cutdiffe A foot problem has hindered his strolls, had accomplished the transcendent goal but Cutdiffe still makes it to the office by 5 of any sabbatical: he was more learned as a.m. and works out in Yoh. He eats a bowl of a football man. oatmeal for breakfast, and his favorite foods “I looked at a lot of different alterna- are grilled chicken and turkey spaghetti. Duke lives, and it confirmed my belief in what we Athletics officials quizzed Cutdiffe about his do,” Cutdiffe says. “Itjust confirmed what I health during the interview process—after felt like I already knew. We had one of the all, the search committee was.about to recombest systems in all of football.” mend a man less than three years removed His heart was functioning normally. His from triple-bypass surgery to lead a program passion was seeping from his mouth, show- that needed a resuscitation ofits own. “They asked me, and I hadall the doctors’ by-show, and his enthusiasm had arisen again.Football, his destiny, beckoned. Nine months names and numbers,” Cutdiffe says, his voice after triple-bypass surgery, he was back. perking up with excitement as the conversa“Philip was saying, ‘Take it easy, David,’” tion transitions to football. ‘You couldn’tfind Cutdiffe says. “I said, T ain’t taking it easy, anyone healthier than lam to work.” Or, for that matter, more excited—and If I’m gonna work, I’m gonna work.” And so he did, until December 2007, some of it must derive from his time away when he was offered Duke’s head coaching from football. »Watch the way he-interacts with the mediaj position. Destiny was on the line> and CutV>> < cliffe answered the call. < He moseys into his Tuesday press conferences .

looking dapper in a coat and tie and is lighthearted throughout, chiding media members for the digital recorders and iPods in front of him, telling them that game weeks require more stringent questions, teasing them on conference calls for being inside while he’s on the practice field on a gorgeous Sunday. He

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wasn’t like that at Ole Miss; it comes from his time in their ranks. And don’t mistake his excitement on the sidelines as an act, either. It’s as pure as his interest in Alan Locke. “It’s hard to share in words,” Cutcliffe says of what he learned in his nine months off. “I think Ijust grew a litde wise, enjoying every day. And that, in turn, affected how I coach. Man, I make the most of every minute. When I get to talk out onto that practice field, there’s nobody on earth—there may be somebody as happy to be out there but I can’t imagine anybody on earth happier to be doing what I’m doing than I am. I think it’s strengthened that” We all can die at any time; it’s our ultimate destiny. Cutcliffe knows how close he was. The linebacker’s hands brushed against his knees, and he almost fell. One beat of the heart, one touch of the knee, and he’s fallen on fourth down, never to get up from this sack. Quarterbacks call it scrambling. Cutcliffe calls it destiny. “I’m a believer in that, in the path the Good Lord set,” he says. “He put his hands out there and pushed me here and pushed me away, here. The Ole Miss thing—it all kind of happens for a reason.” Just then, mid-sentence, a fly whizzes by Cutcliffe’s head. Its buzzing stings the silence of the office, and its flying tantalizes Cutcliffe. In this perfect order, on this perfect sunny day, in this perfect reflection of die flat screen, the bug’s destiny is to be snatched by Cutcliffe. One swat He misses. Then another. Zap. “Did you see that?” he asks, as he opens his hand on a piece of paper and the insect falls lifelessly, its fate ended when it suddenly intersected with Cutcliffe’s. “I caught l ‘him!”/ "

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M. SOCCER from page 2 were playing a 4-4-1 at that point. It was hard only having one frontrunner up top to get the ball to, so we just had to hold tight defensively and look for our chances on the counters, look for our chances on our set pieces.” The box score shows a 1-0 loss, but the final doesn’t take into account the added difficulty, the extra effort, and the mental strain created by playing short-sided for two-thirds of the game. What Duke takes out of this game is not a win, but a new image of itself and a huge boost of confidence from being able to keep up with a top-5 team. The squad proved itself Friday not only to the players, but to everyone watching at Ludwig Field. “Coming into the season, people outside the program and even inside the program had doubts about it, so you know what our confidence level was taking on a top ACC foe,” Barnes said. “But I think this game proved that we can play with anybody, no matter what’s

coming our way.” The Blue Devils will have to live up to that mentality in the coming weeks as their challenging conference schedule continues. Grella’s red card will carry over one game to Duke’s next match against Clemson Friday. But the experience and confidence the Blue Devils gained against Maryland will stay with them as they face the stiff competition of the ACC for the rest of the season. “There’s really no time to take any breaks or look over anybody in the ACC,” Barnes said. “We just need to take it a game at a time, and try to get better each time out.”

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and Saturday, giving head coach Jolene Nagel her 400th career win. The Blue Devils (9-3) topped the College of Charleston Friday, and then took down Delaware and Gardner-Webb Saturday to take the tournament and get their coach to her milestone win. Nagel became the 47th coach to reach the 400-win mark with Duke’s 3-1 win over Delaware. “I’ve been really lucky to have the opportunity to coach at such highly-regarded institutions that have allowed me to coach the brightest and the best,” Nagel said. Freshman setter Kellie Catanach ledDuke with 45 assists and six kills in the first round against the College ofCharleston. The Blue Devils swept the Cougars Friday night, 34). A tough Delaware team took an early lead against the Blue Devils in the second round of the tournament, winning the only set against Duke, 25-23. Led by a spectacular defensive performance and by sophomore middle blocker Becci Burling, the Blue Devils were able to rebound from the early loss and win the next three sets. “We didn’tfeel too much pressure after losing the first set,” said Burling, who posted a career-high nine blocks. “We were relaxed and composed about the whole situation, especially since we knew we shouldn’t have 105t... We worked on blocking a lot in practice this last week and it really showed with everyone, not just me.” The final Saturday night proved less problematic for the Blue Devils, as they cruised to their second 3-0 sweep of the

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Duke head coach Jolene Nagel won her400th match Saturday in theBlue Devils' 3-1 win over Delaware. tournament, this time over Gardner-Webb “This was a challenging tournament with qualitycompetition,” Nagel said. “There were three teams from last year’s NCAA tournament, so we are really proud of this victory.” Senior Jourdan Norman was named

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DRILLING from page 1 the federal government, Orbach said. The House’s bill would not give any royalty fees to states, leading some politicians to label it as a “hoax.” Auth also noted that “tourism in Eastern North Carolina will be positively affected by lower energy prices and jobs would be created in the areas where they are needed most.” But Michael Orbach, professor of the practice of marine affairs and policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment, said skilled workers are typically brought in from other places, “so it doesn’t often create very much local employment.” He added that tourism could be hurt not only by disturbing sites in the ocean, but also because ofassociated land development. “Really one of the biggest impacts ofoffshore ocean drilling is onshore, where you have the staging facilities for development, and you have the processing facilities for the product you bring back,” Orbach said. Although Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue, Demqcratic nominee for governor, said in a June press release that she is “100 percent opposed” to drilling off the coast of North Carolina, she said in an August ad that she supports offshore drilling, but only in lands currently available to oil and

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“Given our current known resources, it looks as if we’re going to start getting real supply difficulties in forty to fifty years.” Michael Orbach, professor of marine affairs and policy rium, give states the option to drill no closer than fifty miles from shore and give states 37.5 percent of the royalty revenues. Dole’s opponent, Sen. Kay Hagan, has expressed similar views on offshore drilling. She supports legislation by the “Gang of 20,” a group of bipartisan senators who favor ending the congressional moratorium and giving states the option to allow drilling adjacent to their territorial waters, said Hagan press secretary Dave Hoffman.

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EXPLORERS from page 3 problems are” is crucial, he said. Dollar, who got his start “scooping lemur poop”

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lot for cars that have “carSpring Duke Student Government pool” stickers on them. The JL—i started an initiative people who organize carto encourage students to pools are students who live carpool to campus and off campus and who get together with three friends to park in the Blue Zone. It’s a use a single car in order good idea editorial On the one to get to and hand, it’s created a system from campus. The carpool that’s easy to cheat—which a sticker is cheaper than a lot of people do. But parking regular Blue Zone pass, plus at the University is an arena you get to park in the best where good ideas are few lot every time. and far between, and DSG The reason this is a should be applauded for this worthwhile initiative is that new initiative and encourit promises to reduce car aged to stick with it even if congestion on campus and there seem to be problems especially in the Blue Zone. It’s also nice to reward stuin its enforcement. The plan, which was put dents who want to save monin place at the beginning ey on gas in an environmenof this year, is to designate tally responsible way. But nice as the idea is, a row of about 40 parking spaces in the first Blue Zone DSG should be modest about "W”

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how successful it expects the carpooling initiative to be. DSG cannot expect that too many students will want to carpool from off-campus. The 40 spots now designated for carpoolers is about accurate. The original 132 spaces that DSG wanted reserved for carpoolers was clearly overkill, although more students should look into carpooling. Also, if you want to game a system at the University, this carpool one is probably your second best bet after the “Alpine Shuffle.” There is often no punishment for non-carpooling students who park in the carpooling spaces. Then again, you could organize three other off-campus friends who never drive to campus and get them to sign

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The answer came from a lot ofpeople, ‘The best person is [J. Lorand Matory], but you will not be able to move him....’ Whenever someone tells me I can’t do something, that really motivates me. George McLendon, dean of Trinity College and of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, on the new chair of the AAAS department. See story page 1.

All rise for the Honorable Chairman. • Whats Huh? Oh, sorry... I must have dozed off. I wonder why... Oh, yeah, that’s why: This weekend sucked.

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live on Central, could park everywhere else. And offcampus students could park anywhere in the Blue Zone, But the first lot would have a separate entry pass available only to commuters. This way, the first lot couldn’t be used as a storage lot for students living on West who hardly ever use their cars. Off-campus students, who every day have to make “the search” of the parking lot before “the walk” from the parking lot to Main West, would have an easier time of the whole thing. And maybe late at night and on the weekends, when off-campus students usually don’t have to be on campus, anybody could park in that first lot.

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their names to your car’s carpool permit, pay their fees for them and have yourself a carpool pass for a car on which you are the sole driver. Or you could drive your carpool car by yourself when your friends don’t need it. So you see there are some issues with this policy that DSG needs to tweak, and DSG cannot expect truly tight enforcement, but that’s no reason to do away with this'good initiative altogether. It’s a small policy, too, and if DSG wanted to make a real change to the Blue Zone that would be for the better, here’s an idea: Make the whole first Blue Zone lot for off-campus students only. On-campus sophomores, juniors and seniors, in addition to students who

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bored. Then that’s again not really news. I mean, it is in my name. And you call yourself a Duke student/parent/employee/ professor/cat? You should be ashamed. As I sit here in my Few single writing this, I am forced to ponder what the cause of this unshakeable ennui might be. Right now, everything is going right for the Chairman: hot significant other, off-the-charts grades, a surefire I-banking offer from Merrill... what more could I possibly want? A change. That’s right, the Chairman needs a change. And sadly, it doesn’t only involve writing in the third person. I think, as sad as it sounds, I’ve finally figured Duke out. Gone are those blissful days in Bell Tower, looking out over the huddled masses begging me to throw them food and flat screen TVs. Back then, each passing day held new promise, new surprises. The Marketplace was my temple and Lilly my church. Baldwin was Mount Everest, and the tunnels were cramped, smelly hallways lined with dirt and insects. I felt so alive, and yet, I knew it couldn’t last. I knew there would only be so many times I could make the walk of shame back from Jarvis 165 before someone noticed that room didn’t exist. I felt certain I could only go out six nights a week for so long before I had to get a new liver (thank you, black market). I figured there was no way my Marketplace kleptomania could continue, unabated, without The Chronicle crime briefs reading something like,, “Felonious freshman filches forks for friend’s frat-tastic fish-fry Friday.” Lo and behold, I have finally reached the end of the road, and it feels just as unnatural as Boyz II Men made it out to be. I find myself unimpressed by campus happenings. It seems to be the same routine, over and over, until you die. Excuse me, graduate. Well, same thing. Perhaps it was just a bad weekend. I am willing to concede that perhaps the last few days are not indicative ofDuke life in general... for a price.

However, instead of evaluating myself and my choices this weekend, I’ll let you be the judge. All rise for the HonorableJudge. Hey! Don’t go stealing my line! This is a onetime thing, got it? Good. Now, where were we? Ah, yes, my weekend. Well, I supposed it started on Friday night, although a case could be madeforThursday or even Wednesday. Friday, I found myself on The Fratio (I think it’s Latin for, “terrible place to have a party”). Long story short, some dude came in and shut the whole party down. Must have been Tallman Trask 111 himself, cause I don’t know anyone else with that much power. Well, except maybe Jordan Giordano (if you consider “power” the ability to win DSG elections by Photoshopping his name into Coke ads). Anyway, the point is I was forced to vacate the premises and pour out all the contents of my stomach into the bushes. Well, I guess I wasn’t technically “forced” to do that last part, but I might as well have been. Damn police state. Luckily, the hootenanny ended just in time for me to catch the pre-screening ofNick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, for which I had a ticket because, according to my passport, my name is “Chamindra Goonewardene” (Thanks again, black market—you’re the gift that keeps on giving). Now I know some of you “loved” the movie because it was so “cute” and Michael Cera is “hot” and it was “free.” Personally, I hated it. Those of you who saw it, just answer me one question: Why did the black guy have to die first? After sitting through two hours I wish I could have back, I got a good night’s sleep so 1 would be ready to go out again on Saturday. What a waste. I should’ve gone with my gut and watched Knight Rider reruns on Hulu. Saturday night I had a semiformal, which to me means “shirt and shoes required.” Apparently, some people have shirts with buttons on the front (damn kids) and they had the audacity to tell me I had to go change. “Screw this,” I said to my hott date, “Let’s go someplace cool.” So we did. We went to CookouL Take that, hipsters, As amazing as my banana pudding shake was, though, it wasn’t enough to get me off the slow boat to boredville. So here I sit, pondering, disappointed that I have so little left to discover at Duke. I just wish, for once, the routine would change and I could convince myself that Duke had much more left in store for me. Wait, there’s a Panda Express on the Plaza? Maybe I haven’t figured it out after all.

Meeting adjourned. THE CHAIRMAN doesn ’I mind that his BBQ pork has 1570 milligrams of sodium. I mean, it has at kasl 1571 milligrams of taste.

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first time I saw it I thought it was a birthmark. I was walking through Midan Tahthe past rir Mogamma,

when I saw a middle-aged Egyptian man dressed in the completely ern yousefabugharbieh rene attire—with the arab street a black patch of calloused skin right in the middle of his forehead A few minutes later, I saw two more men with the same mark. And by the end of the day I had seen dozens the same mark: in shops, on the metro and walking home along the Nile. The mark, I learned later, is called a zebiba, and to' many devout Muslim Egyptians it’s considered a mark of piety. The zebiba, which means raisin in Arabic, is supposed to result from the frequent prostrations practicing Muslims make during their five daily prayers. But here’s the thing: Millions of Muslims all across the world pray, yet the zebiba is only prevalent in Egypt, and only recently so. With millions of Muslims across the world pray five times a day, why is it that only Egyptians—and Egyptian men at that—seem to develop the zebiba? Because they consciously try to. Like keeping a beard for men and wearing the hijab (the headscarf), the zebiba has become another cultivated sign of piety in Egyptian society. It’s a public declaration of faith, an advertisement that says: “I pray a lot.” Its increasing prevalence —along with more women choosing to wear the hijab—is indicative of the larger trend of greater religious observance across the country in particular and the Arab World in general. And like all other such symbols of faith, the zebiba is not only a religious statement; it’s often a political one too. Its outright religious nature is a stab at Egypt’s secular state. It’s a form of dissidence that Egypt’s autocratic government can’t clamp down, because the sanctity of Islam is something that even the state can’t question. It’d be difficult for them to claim that anyone who prays too much isn’t a true patriot. And unlike the beard, which is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the zebibalacks an outright political affiliation even though it makes the same political statement. It’s a comparatively safer way to bear criticism of the Egyptian government on your face. Having a zebiba is also a sign of class. Walk through one ofCairo’s leafy, wide-avenued, European-inspired upper-class neighborhoods like Zamalek or Maadi and you’d be hard-pressed to find a single person with a zebiba, but if you take a stroll down a narrow lane in one of Cairo’s more humble neighborhoods you’ll find them to be a little more übiquitous. It can also act as a bond between people, a way to communicate trust and affinity. In a city of so many millions, the zebiba is a symbol of solidarity among those who may not know one another but who share a common religious experience and common economic reality. But for those who are not of a similar

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Yousef Abugharbieh is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

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letterstotheeditor Tauiliili’s strength of character evident In response to Nana Duffuor’s Sept 18 column, “Playing Blue Devil’s advocate,” in athletics—and in academic, social or working life—the term characters not an indicator of perfection. All of us make mistakes, and it is the word character that defines how we deal with those mistakes. In athletics or in life, a person of strong character makes as many—if not more—mistakes than anyone else, but it is how they deal with their mistakes that give them the title of “strong character.” Football linebacker Michael Tauiliili made, without a doubt, a grave error in judgment when he got behind the wheel of a car after drinking. That mistake, however, does not define his character. It is the humbled, selfless approach in dealing with his mistake that defines Tauiliili not only as a football player, but a man. When he stood in front of his teammates during training camp and made a presentation about the perils of drinking and driving, choosing to constructively lead rather than selfishly defend his actions, there was no doubt surrounding the strength of his character. Tauiliili’s election by his teammates as a captain further serves to emphasize that he is a true leader, with a strength ofcharacterfew can claim.To those who consider perfection the only true test of a person’s character, you will never find a person of strength, because perfection is a quality no human being possesses. It is the pursuit excellence, the constant effort to improve oneself, that truly defines their character. And by that definition, Tauiliili’s strength ofcharacter has no equal.

George Pearkes Trinity ’l2 DSG actions seem retaliatory Duke Student Government’sretaliation against student input in thereferendum is both offensive and misguided on so many levels. DSG is so consumed with pushing its own agenda that the concept of even considering student priorities has become unfathomable. You may be asking what could lead one to believe that DSG’s

actions are retaliatory and not just innocuous. Well, not much really, outside ofthe shady and unprecedented disclosure of the referendum results. This is representative of DSG’s reluctance to admit a discrepancy between its views and students’, and its response is to penalize us for our “shortsightedness.” It seems petty for DSG to attack such a widelypopular program like the Readership Initiative so it can find away to track buses. The Readership Initiative is an unaffiliated benefit for everyone. It is our window to the outside world, a vision beyond the Duke bubble. Without it, we’d all be in for a much bigger surprise come graduation day. Its proposed downsizing is a testament to the discontinuity between DSG and the student body. To base our entire fiscal philosophy around, as President Jordan Giordano puts in a Sept 18 Chronicle article, minimizing the “impact on student groups” and maximizing “the bang for our buck” is silly. This isn’tDuke Student Group's, Government, it’s Duke Student Government! If the growth of student groups is spiraling out of control, then curb it Make groups accountable for activity and membership by having their members’ petition for maintaining the group’s status. Everyone knows the fate of the average student group. A group offriends band together around a novel concept These students, usually comprised of the same generation of Dukies, goes forth and creates a student group. It thrives for a year or so until its initial advocates graduate, at which point the group tends to fell apart I do want to applaud DSG for its prompt response to the student-DSG disconnect. The forthcoming and forgivable admission of its shortcomings as an organization shouldn’t go unmerited. What also shouldn’t be left unsaid is that DSG is representative of the student body and that these shortcomings are a reflection of us as well. As students, we have to take personal responsibility to keep our government informed of our desires and values.

Jesse Hilaire Trinity ’O9

Campus Council responds to loft policy The following is an abridged version of a memorandum by Campus Council in response to the current Residence Life and Housing Services loft policy prohibiting the construction of student-made lofts. The full version is available at www.duke.edu/cc. lofts are prevalent across campus because they afford students a safe and convenient method to expand the versatility of their residence. Understanding the great value that dents place in campus council

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lofts, it has been the aspiration of Campus Council to ensure that any Residence Life and Housing Services policy allows student-built lofts on West and East campuses. Campus Council has placed this issue at the forefront and has developed sound and reasonable guidelines that would permit the inclusion oflofts. Currently, East Campus residents are not permitted to construct their own lofts. Students can lease lofts through an approved vendor for as much as $240 or request that RLHS install bedpost extenders (this option is only available in residence halls with low-loft furniture). Although, West Campus residents can still construct his/her own lofts this year, next year the policy will reflect what is now being enforced on East. Campus Council was approached by RLHS more than a year ago to develop a loft policy that would primarily address safety guidelines. The previous policy was void of any enforcement for safe practices and still precludes students living in Bassett, Bell Tower, Giles or Keohane from constructing lofts. Campus Council unanimously approved the first policy resolution regarding lofts Feb. 14. This reinforced much

of past RLHS guidelines and was further the “University was somehow negligent strengthened by adopting numerous in that it knew of [or] should [have] guidelines enforced by peer institutions. known of the faulty construction [of It was also recommended that students student lofts] or [violation of] fire safety issues, and took no action.” Moreover, complete a permit acknowledging compliance to guidelines. A formal response mandating a waiver will not only bring from RLHS stated that, “restrictions on attention to the regulations and risks instudent-supplied/constructed beds in a volved, but it is also “a reasonable part of number of residences... includ[e] proda risk management plan.” uct safety, damage to building walls and It has now been noted that the new flooring, irresponsible disposal ofbeds at RLHS policy exists to temper fire conyear-end and a shortage ofspace in which cerns. We believe the additional wood to warehouse furniture.” used to construct a loft does not pose as a fire safety hazard and does not significantUnwavering, Campus Council submitted a memo in May urging the adoption ly add to the fire load. The main concerns of a policy that would include a variety are other artificial or synthetic products of options to suit the varying needs of that could exacerbate an accidental fire. students. Campus Council still believes The gradual prohibition of wooden lofts that an improved loft policy must insimply does not address safety concerns. clude options to: For instance, the current policy fails to 1. Provide low-loft furniture in all stipulate that placing beds on top of desks residence halls with the option to add and bookshelves is unsafe and also fails to state how poor configuration and placeuniversity-provided bedpost extensions 2. Permit the construction of lofts, ment of purchased lofts can also create and have students complete a permit and unsafe conditions. waiver. Residence Asssitants, during their Campus Council strongly believes normal working procedures, should have that a variety of options need to be offered to students in order for them to the authority to identify flagrant inconsistencieswith policy stipulations take ownership of their living areas. 3. Allow students to purchase lofts Broad student support underscores the through a vendor of their preference. importance of this issue and the under-* Students will need to obtain a permit. signed parties recognize this fact and A concern vocalized by RLHS was also endorse our statements and viewthe potential liability to which the Unipoints. We hope to restart discussions versity could be exposed by allowing about this topic and urge RLHS to rethe construction of wooden lofts. We consider the current loft policy. believe our guidelines include measures that would allow students to construct Molly Bierman, Pratt 'O9, and Kevin lofts without creating a risk manageThompson, Trinity ’O9, are the president and ment issue. Detailed conversations with vice president, respectively, of Campus Counthe Director of Corporate Risk Managecil. Campus Council unanimously approved ment and the Deputy General Counsel the memo Sept. 18. The memo is endorsed by Assistant Professor Michael Gustafson; Duke highlighted that the fear of litigious consequences should not deter student loft Student Government president Jordan Giordaconstruction. According to Chris Borosno, Trinity ’O9; Interfratemity Council presiki, Director of Corporate Risk Managedent Lee Hathaway, Trinity ’O9 and Wayne ment, litigation would only have merit if Manor president Greg Rivers, Trinity JlO.

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