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just more than a year after the Interim Report on Undergraduate Education left the Office of the Provost, Duke’s administrative leaders are taking their ideas off of paper and onto campus. Research for the Interim Report began in March 2007, when Provost Peter Lange met with students, faculty, alumni to discuss the findings of the 2006 Campus Culture Initiative Steering Committee’s report. When the Interim Report was published in September 2007, Lange compiled respondents’ perceptions of cultural issues addressed in the CGI report, including the University’s social life, the initiative’s proposed recommendations, musings on possible improvements and the means by which to attain them. Lange has since transferred responsibility to Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, who said he relies on a “bottoms-up” approach to successfully remedy common housing, social life and academic woes. SEE INTERIM ON PAGE 7
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Top University administrators mixed with students and faculty at a sold-out Page Auditorium Monday night to hear a speech about politics, energy, the environment—and a dubious geographical concept. “People used to know that Columbus discovered the world was round, now everyone knows that Thomas Friedman discovered that it was flat,” said President Richard Brodhead in his introduction of the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The New York Times. Friedman, whose 2005 book “The World Is Flat” proposed that globalization has “flattened” the world’s economy, was on campus to promote the release of his new book, “Hot, Flat and Crowded; Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America.” The United States has lost its collective focus since 9/11 to become a “United States of Fighting Terrorism,” Friedman explained. The book calls for an environmental transformation in the U.S. “It actuallyjust masquerades as a book about energy and the environment. It is really a book about America,” he said. “Green is obviously the new red, white and blue—it has to be.” Pulitzer-Prize winning columnistThomasFriedman argues Monday in a packed Page Auditorium for a new Several students said Friedman made an "green" economy to solve problems such as climate change, energy shortages and petro-dictatorships. argument about energy and the environment in away that could appeal to everyone. warming, flat through rising economic identified in the book. Environmental “I don’t necessarily know thatFriedman prosperity in developing countries and technology could be the next great global is saying anything new, but he is definitely crowded from rapid population growth. industry and create a social and economic saying it in away no one has ever said it “When flat meets crowded, watch out,” overhaul mirroring the information techbefore,” junior Vivek Upadhyay said. he said. ‘You will know the green revolunology revolution, he added. Climate change, biodiversity loss, suption is here when somebody gets hurt.” Although Friedman called himself a ply and demand for energy and the rise of Friedman advised that the develop“capitalist,” he said government would have oil-rich dictatorships are among the major ment of an abundant, cheap and clean to intervene someWhat to implement price global problems, Friedman said. He added source ofreliable energy is the single soluSEE FRIEDMAN ON PAGE 7 that the world has become hot from global tion that will address all of the problems
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A year afterthe interim Report, administrators are using student input to address housing and social lifeissues.
When Duke Student Government Presidentjordan Giordano addressed the Sept. 17 DSG weekly meeting, he began his discussion of whether to cut funds from student groups with a warning: “The following,” he said, “is off the record.” When this portion of the meeting was removed from the official minutes that had been publicly available on the DSG Web site, Execuanalysis | DSG tive Vice President Sunny Kantha, a senior, explained that the information had been, at first, accidentally kept in the minutes “If we say off the record, it means off the record,” he said And when The Chronicle obtained the results of the Sept. 15 referendum the night of the election —10 hours before DSC informed the student body —it was unable to print them. The information was, again, off the record. DSG last week adopted a new policy of communicating with students through self-contained mediums such as blast
e-mails and biweekly newsletters —methods, Giordano said, that are more “direct” than those used by previous administrations. “In the past, Duke Student Government has relied on other means of communication that do not communicate directly to students, but we believe direct communication is best,” Giordano wrote in a statement posted on the DSG Web site. “Our bylaws require notification ofreferendums and amendments in student publications—thus our original notification through that medium; however, based on student feedback from my September 12th e-mail, direct blast e-mail will continue to be our means of communication.” Giordano, a senior, agreed to be interviewed for this story only by e-mail. Several past DSG leaders, however, sharply criticized the shift away from second-degree news sources. “If you’re any government, and you don’t like what the SEE DSG ON PAGE 5
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LONDON The first excavation of Stonemore than in henge 40 years has uncovered evi\y dence that the stone circle drew ailing pilgrims from around Europe for what they believed to be its healing properties, archaeologists said Monday. Archaeologists Geoffrey Wainwright and Timothy Darvill said the content of graves scattered around the monument and the ancient chipping of its rocks to produce amulets indicated that Stonehenge was the primeval equivalent of Lourdes, the French shrine venerated for its supposed ability to cure the sick. An unusual number of skeletons recovered from the area showed signs of serious disease or injury. Analysis of their teeth showed that about half were from outside the Stonehenge area.
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SAN FRANCISCO A woman whose dogs viciously attacked and killed her neighbor in the hallway of their apartment building seven years was sentenced ago Monday to 15 years to life in prison. Knoller was convicted of second-degree murder Marjorie the 2001 death of Dianne Whipple, but a judge in mauling later reduced the charge to involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her in 2002 to a four-year prison term. Last month, Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard reinstated the murder conviction, for which Knoller was sentenced Monday.
Investors nervous, markets on edge NEW YORK Volatility swept the financial markets again Monday as investors grew nervous about an amorphous government plan to buy $7OO billion in banks' mortgage debt.Stocks fell sharply, taking the Dow Jones industrials downmore than 370 points, while investors sought safety in hard assets such as gold and oil, which at one point shot up more than $25 a barrel. The credit markets were still uneasy but not showing the frantic trading they saw last week. And,the dollar skidded lower, contributing to oil's surge. ~
Texas mayor to request $2.38 in aid GALVESTON, Texas As repair crews work to make this hurricane-ravaged island city inhabitable for the thousands of residents set to return this week, the mayor is seeking more than $2 billion in emergency federal aid. The final price tag to fully restore Galveston after Hurricane Ike plowed ashore early Sept. 13 and displaced most of the 57,000 or so residents is still unknown. Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas, along with officials from the Port of Galveston and the University ofTexas Medical Branch will meet with a Senate ad hoc committee in Washington Tuesday.They will seek $2.3 billion in emergency appropriations; nearly $1.2 billion for Galveston; about $6OO million for the city's hospital; and about $5OO million for the port. Hurricane Ike battered Galveston with 110 mph winds and a 12-foot storm surge and has been blamed for 61 deaths, including 26 in Texas," Fratto said. More than 1 million people evacuated the Texas coast, and about 45,000 residents fled Galveston Island.
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For the first time in 10 months, the term “Stage 4 Drought” is no longer applicable to Durham County or Duke’s campus. The U.S. Drought Monitor released a map Sept 11 promoting Wake, Orange, Durham, Johnson and Chatham counties from “moderate drought” to “abnormally dry” areas. Much of the improvement might be attributed to the 5 to 7 inches of heavy rains Tropical Storm Hanna poured over the Triangle two weeks ago, The (Raleigh) News and Observer reported. In September alone, 6.5 inches of rain has fallen at Raleigh-Durham International Airport—s inches more than normal during this time ofyear. “It was probably the worst drought in 100 years,” said Miguel Medina, professor of civil and environmental engineering and director of the Center for Hydrologic Science. He added that another drought of the same magnitude would be extremely rare within the next few decades. Although the drought has officially ended, the University is continuing water conservation efforts, Medina said. “There are plans to use storm water when we have it to feed chiller plants,” he said. The University also has sophisticated water flow computer models that monitor water usage across campus, he added. Last year, students were alerted to the severity of the drought when low-flow showerheads, hand sanitizers and flyers were brought into bathrooms across campus. “I don’t think that little things like limiting my shower time or using thehand sanitizer actually made a difference on the impact of the drought,” sophomore Chelsea Nkwodimmah said. Despite the University’s push for conservation, some students said the measures did not have the desired effect on their personal habits. Several students said they have been less phased, even though at first they attempted to adjust. “Honestly, I take really long showers anyways,” sophomore Katie Patellos said. “I tried to change during the drought... but I don’t think I succeeded.” Duke Dining Services implemented more extreme measures to curtail its water use when the City of Durham asked businesses to reduce consumption by 50 percent last year. Both the Great Hall and- the Marketplace swapped china
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IS. Hanna dropped several inches of rain on local reservoirs two weeks ago, prompting the Ui.Drought Monitor to declarethe area's drought over. and silverware for plastic plates and utensils. Although the china is back in campus dining establishments, something else has gone missing in the name of conservation. “One of our greening initiatives this year was to remove the trays in the Marketplace,” Tammy Hope, quality assurance specialist for Dining Services, wrote in an e-mail. “We felt that taking away the trays would help in a variety ofways; good waste and water savings were two major reasons.” Medina said the University should have a long-term interest in continuing to find ways to save water. “It is in our economic interests as a University to conserve where we can,” he added.
President Richard Brodhead will preside over the 108th annual Founders’ Day Convocation in Duke Chapel next Thursday, Oct. 2. James B. Duke Professor of Economics Craufurd Goodwin, Trinity ’55 and Ph. D. ’5B, will deliver the convocation address to celebrate the University’s founders and honor exceptional members of the Duke community. Roy Bostock, Trinity ’62 and a former member of the Board of Trustees and chair of the board for Yahoo! and Northwest Airlines Corporation, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award. Bostock also serves on the board of Morgan Stanley and is, along with his wife, the namesake of Duke’s Bostock Library. The University Medal for Distinguished Meritorious Service will be presented to Allison Haltom, Woman’s College ’72, and John Forlines Trinity ’39. In the more than 36 years that Haltom worked at Duke before her retirement in December 2007, she held the positions of University secretary, director of the Duke Annual Fund and vice president. Forlines, former head of the Bank of Granite in Granite Falls, N.C., was president of the Duke Alumni Association from 1970 to 1971, a Duke Trustee from 1970 to 1990 and a member of the board of the Duke
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As the post-convention buzz lingering from the Democratic and Republican presidential nominadons begins to subside, the shock of the financial crisis on Wall Street has refocused voters on the issue that most directly impacts their wallets. “The press is more interested in idiodc commentary,” said David Brady, associate professor of sociology, “The most salient issues to [voters] are often not the economy, despite what people think.” He added that the recent turmoil on Wall Street has restored the economy’s significance to an electorate distracted by partisan wedge-issues. Last week’s events in the financial world featured a hasty arrangement by Bank ofAmerica to buy failing investment bank Merrill Lynch following the collapse of investment services firm Lehman Brothers. Troubled insurance company American International Group, Inc. subsequently received an $B5 million emergency loan Tuesday. The federal government further responded Friday by
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self as credible on the economy. “He is going to have to really sound like he knows what he is talking about,” he said. “They are [both] making it up on the fly. There is not a lot of precedent for this sort of thing.” The McCain campaign has emphasized that the fundamentals of the American economy are solid SEE ECONOMY ON PAGE 5
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ECONOMY from page 4 despite the recent financial panic “This foundation of our economy, the American worker, is strong but it has been put at risk by the greed and mismanagement ofWall Street and Washington. The top of our economy is broken,” McCain said in a Sept 16 statement.
Although bipartisan support has emerged for using government bailout plans to save financial institutions from failing, Brady said it was hypocritical for McCain to support government regulation. “McCain has been very firmly in favor of deregulating the same industries that he has [recently] been criticizing as greedy,” he said. “Trusting Wall Street to regulate itself is absurd.” The meltdown on Wall Street, however, is so unprecedented that McCain should not be criticized for shifting away from his customary ideals, said senior Matt Gray, president of Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity. “I don’t think anyone expected this, so I don’t think it’s fair to quite call him a hypocrite, but I think he definitely did some reevaluating” Gray said. He added that he plans to vote for McCain
because of his conservative economic policies. When companies as big as AIG start to fail, there are few options left besides intervention, added senior Jay Schulhof, president of the Duke Investment Club. Schulhof said that despite his strong preference for free market capitalism, he felt government intervention was sometimes necessary. Schulhof said Obama was more willing to propose long-term solutions to the fundamental problems in the economy. “We are going to have to raise taxes, we are probably going to have to consume less,” he said. “It’s not necessarily what Americans want to hear.” Schulhof, who worked for Deutsche Bank last summer, said although he agreed that both candidates do not fully understand the specific details involved in the financial crisis, new presidents can boost public morale. Schulhof referred to the hiring of head football coach David Cutdiffe as an example of how new leadership alone can produce positive results. “We are seeing it with Duke football now,” he said. “Not even that [presidents] can do something, but that they can instill a new spirit in the people.”
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Going off the record Kantha said the practice of going off the record during the public weekly meetings gives DSG leadership a chance to discuss policy that needs to be ironed-out with senators before the public can chime in. ' He added that the off-therecord portions of the meeting slipped into the unedited version of the minutes—which are posted each week on the DSG Web site—unintentionally. “In the future, anything we say off the record won’t be in the minutes,” he said. Former DSG president Paul Slattery, Trinity ’OB, said the weekly meetings are an “open and public space” and that he would “never bother” to go off the record in order to scratch a conversation from the official minutes. “What the f happens if [Jordan] just says at the start of the meeting ‘This is off the record’? Does the meeting disappear?” he said. “Basically you could edit the meeting to make it look like whatever you want it to look like.” The original version of the minutes appeared online with a record of Giordano’s unveiling of “Plan B”—the reaction to —
the failure of the referendum hibit anyone from informing The that would cut from some stuChronicle of the results as soon as dent organizations in order to they were confirmed—the practice fund others. The unedited verby which students were notified sion of the minutes—no londuring previous elections—Brown ger available on the DSG Web said the representatives present to site—had left intact lines that tabulate votes were aware of the specified where the cuts could protocol at play. occur, and included notes such “We left the room with the as, “Publications like Journal of understanding that there would Public Affairs etc., may have to be a blast e-mail in the morncut them.” ing,” he said. Senior Andrew Tutt, editor Wolf, however, said he has of the Journal of Public Affairs found blast e-mails to be ineffective and a former candidate for because few students read them. DSG president who ran against Kantha confirmed that it was Giordano, said he believes the Giordano’s decision not to reveal the results until the following day. re-editing of the pubic minutes is “unprecedented.” He Wolf, who indicated that he added that it was “suspicious” had been following the elections, to attempt to hide such inforsaid Giordano’s decision to delay mation if, as Tutt says, the edithe release of the information tors of the publications were was misguided. not contacted by DSG prior to “All Jordan accomplished by Giordano’s preliminary sugwithholding the information was gestion to discuss that their to make the election look very funds be cut. sketchy, as if it were rigged —it “The Journal of Public Affairs made Jordan look stupid and it sits right at the edge of being able made the whole organization look to print—you go with what you corrupt,” Wolf said. can,” said Tutt, former DSG WebThe newly founded bi-weekly master. “All the publications are DSG newsletter will provide already so cash-strapped—that’s students with updates on each why you don’t see .high-quality committee’s legislation and contributions from members of publications on campus.” Giordano said DSG has bethe executive board, said sophogun to evaluate spending, and more Wonnie Song, public rethat during the meeting, he tarlations director of publications geted publications after evaluatand director of the newsletter. ing how they are funded at other But like the e-mail sent following schools. the election, the newsletters will “At other universities, publicareceive no contributions from tions are not funded through the outside DSG, Song said. student activities fee since they have Even as DSG embraces blast egreater ‘university value’ than value mails and stacks their own newsfor specifically undergraduate stuprint next to the campus paper, dents,” he wrote in an e-mail. several senators and executive board members stressed the inherent problems of having an Selling the referendum DSG also applied its new policy adversarial relationship between of communicating with students DSG and The Chronicle. through directmethods in its treat“Anyone that goes to this school ment of the results of the Sept knows thatjordan doesn’t have the 17 election* Sophomore Andrew best relationship with The ChronBrown, vice president for Duricle,” said senior Lauren Maisel, ham and regional affairs, said that vice president for student affairs. “I want to improve that relationship.” although Giordano did not pro-
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“This is not going to be a top-down imposition,” Nowicki said. “That was the mistake of the Campus Culture Initiative group. They had some student input, but not 6,000 [students]. The key thing is to have a conversation.” He added that student input is perhaps the best way to respond to and deal with specific issues on housing, social life and diversity. “It was a mistake to create a task force that was essentialwith discovering all that’s wrong with Duke and charged ly presenting how to fix it,” Nowicki said. “My own approach with Duke is to look at specific issues and to find leverage and to solve them one by one.” The Independent Housing Model The most relevant tangible outcome still in the process of being evaluated is the “deep rethinking of our housing model,” including how it will impact the planning for construction on New Campus and on the current campus, Nowicki noted. He said he thinks the University will get half of the housing on New Campus built in four years. Executive Vice President Tallman Trask could not be reached for
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The Interim Report found that there was widespread student support for the status quo, which contradicted the CGl’s recommendation to possibly eliminate selective living groups. Nowicki noted that the University has “three streams of housing”; independent, social selective and fraternity. He said, however, that he will first and foremost focus on the “plight” of independents. “Right now, the current system of housing that we have essentially treats independents as though they were a combination of hermits and nomads,” he said. “This is [in living] the primary thing we need to normalize and make right.” As part of these efforts, Nowicki and Campus Council are working with Übuntu House, a pilot “themed housing” group based on civic engagement that is now seeking official approval from the University. If the proposal is accepted, it could set the standard for future themed housing, yet another component to the housing model. Übuntu House has received positive student feedback, said Campus Council President Molly Bierman, a senior. “[Themed groups] are inherently different from social selective living groups,” she said. “I would anticipate this wouldn’t be as segregated as Wayne Manor or such would be. It’s just unifying independents under a common theme or mission, who otherwise would have been scattered about the campus like nomads.” Other new housing options opening to current independents are independent sections and residence halls, like those Duke had in the 1980s, Nowicki said. He noted that “House P,” a group of independents that created a block ofreal estate in the ’Bos, would serve as an example for this new model. He said he hopes to reserve certain houses exclusively for independents. But ideas for new living options may be delayed—Novvicki added that the University is constrained in housing options now because of the abundance of living options on Central Campus. “Central Campus sucks in many ways,” he said. “When we get New Campus built, we’ll have these degrees of
freedoms.”
New Committees In response to the Interim Report, Nowicki has taken steps to establish new committees to facilitate faculty-student interaction. The Academic Council Committee on Undergraduate Education, chaired by Susan Lozier, chair of the Earth and Ocean Sciences Division at the Nicholas School of the Environment, was formed to provide a University-wide faculty forum to address issues of concern about undergraduate education' broadly. In addition, the Arts and Sciences Council formed a committee to promote faculty-student interaction and monitor pre-major and upper-class advising, House Courses, the faculty-in-residence program and the Faculty Associates Program. “Some departments have really strong majors unions.... 1 bey really provide great connections for students to find mentors by disciplines,” Nowicjd said. “It’s very hit and miss here at Duke. We’re trying to understand what makes [these unions] work and how to get this out to other majors.” The Academic Standards committee, also created following the report, is addressing the pass-fail and underloading policies.
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signals and standards. Friedman concluded by saying he was an “optimist” about the challenges he presented, but junior Ananth Srinivasan said Friedman’s tone seemed to become more urgent since his last book. “I certainly feel that we are in slightly more dire times than we were a few years ago when ‘The World is Flat’ came out and he came to Duke to publicize that,” he said. Students who had tlje opportunity to attend a questionand-answer session with Friedman earlier in the day said they were impressed by his message, even if it sounded at times rehearsed. “Even in our question-and-answer session he managed to work in what sounded like scripted answers,” junior Alyssa Back said. “There is nothing wrong with that He still has a great personality that comes through when he is talking.” After the speech Friedman headed to the Doris Duke Center at the Duke Gardens where he was scheduled to attend a dinner in his honorhosted by Brodhead, said Teddie Brown, a staff specialist at the Terry Sanford Institute-of Public Policy.
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Instead, Kalis was struck by an overpowering smell. A friend of Ayisi’s from the D.C. area had come bearing a gift; a frozen batch of peanut butter stew. Ayisi is, after all, from Gambia. And in his home country, when the smell of peanut butter stew hits you, you don’t cringe. You smile. Kalis didn’t try the African delicacy, but that didn’t stop Ayisi from keeping it frozen until last week. “I miss the African food I used to have,” Ayisi said. “I think the food at the Marketplace is horrible—not tasty at all.” For Ayisi, a freshman midfielder who has started three of the Blue Devils’ seven games, that African food isn’t too far in the past. Because even though Ayisi is a Bronx resident and sports a 646 phone number, Duke’s newest import didn’t leave Gambia until the summer of 2007. And at this time last year, Duke head
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is hard to spot Gambia on a map. The country, located on Africa’s west coast and surrounded by Senegal and the Atlantic Ocean, is the smallest on the continent. Gambia occupies 4,000 square miles, an area 13 times smaller than the state of North Carolina. The country’s official language is English, but many local dialects are spoken. Ayisi’s family, which originally hails from Ghana, speaks Wolof, a language offered at Duke. When Ayisi was young, his mother immigrated to the United States and setded in the Bronx; meanwhile, Ayisi grew up with his father in Kanifing South, a small town on Gambia’s western tip. There, he attended a private school run by Gambia’s Catholic mission. Organized soccer, the type millions ofAmerican kids participate in every year, was the last thing on his mind—mosdy because it was never even an option. Soccer is by far the most popular sport in Gambia, but the country’s sporting infrastructure is poor and lacks organization and funding. Even still, the sport is often seen as away to escape poverty, much like the way basketball is viewed in America’s inner cities. In Africa, Ayisi said, children have to essentially choose between soccer and academics at a young age; Ayisi’s father chose academics for his son. To hone his skills, Ayisi played mostly on dirt streets with neigh-
borhood pals. Different towns set up games against each other every Saturday and Sunday, but Ayisi attended church on Sundays. To make up for the lost time, he often played during lunch period at school. “That’s what everybody does. It makes sense,” Ayisi said of filling his spare time by playing soccer. “Some kids try to play basketball, but what’s the point? With soccer, you can have big dreams about it.” One of Ayisi’s biggest dreams was joining his mother in her adopted country. Like many immigrants with families, Ayisi’s mother had come to the United States on her own to try get her son’s paperwork through the bureaucratic system more quickly and more smoothly. Unfortunately for the Ayisis, that didn’t quite work out as hoped. Kwasi Ayisi’s paperwork was first filed with the American government in 1995. He didn’t receive his visa until 2007.
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moving to the Bronx, Ayisi enrolled at DeWitt Clinton High School, an institution with no real soccer tradition that is bestknown for being across the street from the prestigious Bronx SEE AYISI ON PAGE 10
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taken me 21 years, but I’ve finally discovered the secret to surviving the barren desertknown as bye-week Saturday. It’s called Frankie’s Fun Park. It’s in Raleigh, and it’s fantastic. When my friends suggested the daytrip, I was more than skeptical. But I’m a senior now, life’s short and I decided to roll with the punches. Besides, it didn’t take long to realize that Frankie’s is where the cool kids are. ft And by cool kids, mean that when my I Meredith posse and I emerged from the laser-tag arena en route to the Icee machines, Brian Zoubek was there, wandering the arcade. (Poor Brian. It’s hard to be stealth when you’re a 7-foot-l, 280-pound college center gallivanting among throngs of eight year-olds.) After catching a glimpse of the junior big man, though, my columnist instincts kicked in and I knew what I had to do: I had to challenge Zoubek to a game of pop-a-shot. It was my Bill Simmons videogames"
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with-Tiger moment, and I’d be damned if I didn’t give it the good ol’ college try—no matter how annoying or obnoxious it made me. So armed with the 86 tickets I won playing trivia, I approached Brian and asked him if he would be willing to play a game of pop-a-shot with me so I could write about it. He graciously agreed. In my head, I was embarrassingly confident. I’m a great pop-a-shot player, don’t get me wrong, but I didn’t even take a practice round to get myself adjusted to the hoop. And it was the full-sized basketball, cage-style machine—not the more childish mini-hoop one. I was an overmatched amateur playing a man’s game. And I thought I could beat Brian Zoubek. When the buzzer went off on both of our machines, it was on. I nailed my first shot. This is it. I’m golden, I thought. But then my next shot rimmed out. And the next. And the next. Ordinarily, this would have been the point where I would’ve started swearing like a trucker, but I felt compelled to make a small effort to maintain what was left of my SEE SHINER ON PAGE 12
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High School of Science. As a senior—in his first year of organized soccer—Ayisi led his squad to an 11-1-1 record and a berth in the state
quarterfinals.
That season, Ayisi met then-Truman High School head coach Marcus Dißemardo. It was a meeting that changed the trajectory of his soccer career. “I was coaching [Truman] and I didn’t think [Clinton] ever had a real strong team, but then here comes Kwasi—he scores two goals on us and is one of the best players I had seen in a long time,” Dißemardo said. “I was like, ‘Where did this kid come from?’” Dißemardo, now the head coach at Monroe College, had recendy founded a club team called FC Harlem. The club was made up of about 60 high schoolers from all over New York City, and Dißemardo invited Ayisi to try out for the team soon after that initial meeting. FC Harlem is vastly different from wealthy national clubs like Boca Juniors or the Dallas Texans, which fellow freshman Kalis played for in high school. Those clubs often place players into Olympic Development Program teams and age-group national squads, giving those players exposure at a young age. Kalis, for example, trained at the well-known IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., and committed to Duke midway through his junior year in high school. FC Harlem, meanwhile, was only able to travel to places like Rochester and Connecticut for tournaments. But at home, the club lacked even a full-sized field for practice. That didn’t stop Ayisi from sticking with the club. And his role on FC Harlemwould eventually lead him to a spot on the Duke roster.
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Head coach John Kerr had not heard offreshman Kwasi Ayisi until Ayisi's club coach badgered him with calls.
John
Kerr did not initiate contact with Ayisi, nor did he ask him if he was interested in playing for Duke, as he does with normal recruits. Instead, Dißemardo called Kerr. Re-
peatedly. “I literally harassed John Kerr on the phone for months, saying, ‘Listen, John, I’ve got a player for you, and you’ve got to
look at this kid,’” Dißemardo said. Ayisi also did his part to attract Kerr’s attention. “I was calling him all the time.... And [Kerr] asked me to send a video, which I didn’t have because we didn’t really play games,” Ayisi said. Eventually, all the phone calls paid off. Kenasked former Duke star Ali Curtis to check out Ayisi at practice, and the 1999 Hermann Trophy winner was impressed enough to suggest Kerr make the trip to see Ayisi himself. And so as part of a trip to New Jersey to look at freshman forward Kyle Bethel, Kerr
and assistant coach Michael Brady attended an FC Harlem practice at Van Cortlandt Park in the heart of the Bronx. “This team was made up of Europeans, Africans and no Americans. The coach and assistant coach were American, but everybody else was foreign,” Kerr said. “There was no actual practice field—they just kind of found a spot and put down a bunch of cones and held a practice session.” To add to the surreal scene, Dißemardo said he found Kerr and Brady lost near a swimming pool by a train station near the park. Regardless, Kerr was impressed with the way Ayisi played the game, in terms of both technical skill and on-field attitude. “What really excited us about Kwasi was that he was playing the game with a huge smile on his face the whole time we were watching,” Kerr said. “Obviously he’s very talented, and Coach Brady and I looked at each other and said, ‘We’ll have us some of that.’”
recruiting process smoothed considerably thereafter. Ayisi had offers to play at less prestigious colleges, but he had already been admitted to Duke on academic merit, and he said he would have matriculated here with or without a spot on the team. Nonetheless, Kerr gave him one,- and Ayisi has appeared in five of seven games since the season kicked off in August. Now that Ayisi is here in Durham, he is, by all accounts, adjusting well on and off the field. In playing terms, Kerr said Ayisi has many attributes, not least of which is his strength on the ball. On the negative side, Ayisi is best as a center midfielder, which happens to be the Blue Devils’ strongest point. Still, Kerr has been nothing but pleased with his new player’s development. “We knew it was going to be a little bit of a challenge for him to come into a more structured group of players and get used to that,” Kerr said. “He’s done a great job coming to terms with the demands of being a studentathlete at a high-level Division-I school.” As for the responsibility of living alone, Kalis said he, Ayisi and the team’s other freshmen are still getting into occasional trouble with their coaches. But despite the stark differences between Duke and the Bronx—let alone Gambia—his transition has been easy. “For me it is a totally different experience, this kind of lifestyle,” Ayisi said. “The people that are around me—I’m used to Africans, Hispanics, Jamaicans and all those kind of people, but it’s been good.” And for the Gambian-bom son of Ghanaian parents who played one season of soccer for a club in the Bronx with no field, why wouldn’t it be? A new land sits at Kwasi Ayisi’s fingertips—really, at his feet—even if no one will serve him peanut butter stew at the Marketplace.
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SHINER from page 9 professionalism. Before I knew it, the game ended. After 60 seconds of popping and shotting, the score was Zoubek 46, Shiner 22.1 got my clock cleaned. Granted, had I taken a one-point handicap for every inch Zoubek is taller than me, we almost would have tied. And practice might have helped. But the point is, I was naive enough to think I could compete with a guy with a pterodactyl-like wingspan at a game tailored for him to win. What was I thinking? The whole humiliating experience reminded me of my most recent conversation with Zoubek, whichxame after Duke’s 76-68 loss to North Carolina in Cameron Indoor Stadium last March. Zoubek had just played what teammate Jon Scheyer called the best game of his career. In only nine minutes of action, Zoubek went 3-of-4 from the field for six points, grabbed threerebounds and visibly frustrated All-American Tyler Hansbrough, whom he blocked once. In the locker room, I asked Zoubek about Scheyer’s comments and of guarding Hansbrough in college basketball’s biggest rivalry. “I felt great playing against him,” he said of the more renowned Tobacco Road center. “I think I can hold myself against anybody in the country. Obviously, he’s a pretty good player, and so just to be able to match intensity and husde as well as skill with him is pretty good. “The intangible stuffthat I bring to the table [is important]; the intensity a,nd just energy, I hope that my teammates can feed off it, and I can provide a boost that way, and hopefully a presence inside.”
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lot of opponents this season who, like me, underestimate 7-foot-l center Brian Zoubek. That night, Zoubek was just as confident as I had been—only he was justified in his thinking. He can compete with almost any center in the ACC. It’s just that up to this point, injuries and roster realities have kept him from the chance to prove it. But this could be his breakout year. And the Blue Devils need it to be. He and Lance Thomas are this team’s question marks in that they have the power to elevate Duke from a very goodjteam to a great one, but haven’t yet established that they can. If they can combine for 2020 per contest—or even 16-16—there’s no reason why this team can’t be a Final Four contender. The Blue Devils’ perilneter is one of the deepest in the nation, with Greg Paulus, Nolan Smith, Scheyer, Gerald Henderson, Dave McClure and Elliot Williams all vying for minutes. And Kyle Singler is going to be solid at the four. But all of their jobs become so much easier if Zoubek and Thomas can keep opposing big men occupied inside. Zoubek knows that. He also knows he is good enough to compete. But I bet there will be a lot of opponents this season who, like me, underestimate Duke’s 7-foot-l center. And when the buzzer sounds, they just might find themselves blown out of the Fun Park.
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The other alternative would be to charge seniors on West the same fee, but this is a flawed idea with no clear justification behind it. In fact, we commend RLHS for not charging students who live on West. Once again, CC is to be applauded for addressing policy issues salient to student interest. These tangible details leave a lasting impression on the campus living experience. The truism still goes that CC excels at trying to fix the little things. In the final week of a senior’s time here, the University goes out of its way to make its final impression a positive one. One more inexplicable RLHS fee on the old Bursar is not the way to say goodbye.
Sen. John McCain says it’s greed that did us in. Sen. Barack Obama says it was lack of proper government regulation. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says it started with “excesses in the system, irresponsible behavior and practices at financial institutions.” But no matter what caused it, we still face the same situation today. The financial sector is clogged with illiquid assets, ones that can’t be easily sold for a variety of reasons. The bailout plan announced by Secretary Henry Paulson would allow the government to buy up to $7OO billion worth of these illiquid assets from financial institutions and attempt to liquidate them. Basically taxpayers are taking the risk, paying out the money in an emergency short-term solution and hoping the government can then sell off these assets over time. Under the current plan, the government does this for free. They offer to help both foreign and domestic banks out of their financial crisis without demanding anything in return. Paulson justifies this decision with the urgent timeframe; we must save these companies now before the domino effect bankrupts them all, but we need time to study what regulations are needed. He also argues that unlike AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, these companies have yet to fail. This bailout is preventative. Any restrictions would make saving these companies “difficult for them,” not to mention him. “We need this to be clean and quick, and we need to get it in place.”
Many in Congress disagree. Thdy point to the fact that the government only has leverage over these financial giants now. Once the government determines exactly how they are doling out the $7OO billion, the corporations have no need to cooperate with the government. What’s to say they won’t go back to the same risky practices that got us in this mess? Congress wants to have some control in the form of an oversight board over the way the money is spent. They desire caps on CEO’s pay and the “golden parachutes” they receive when fired. Democrats would make more resources available to homeowners in order to prevent more of the foreclosures that created the illiquid assets. They wouldn’t take on the risk for free. But no one knows exactly when this impending freezing of money is going to happen. I, though, am not comfortable letting Congress and the Treasury take their own risks by delaying the bailout. Too much gambling has already occurred. In authorizing this money so quickly, Congress should demand the oversight capabilities they desire and appoint experienced individuals to the board. Congress must also demand something from these companies. We can’t know yet what new regulations will be needed on the industry, but we can demand that the institutions who are aided by the bailout help us figure out what those should be. These institutions should be asked to cooperate fully—to open up the financial books, the investing strategy proposals, the lending requirements, the company management models and anything else the Treasury or Congress needs in its investigation. Congress should continue to look at options in increasing aid to homeowners and regulations of Wall Street, but needs to use its leverage quickly. Demanding transparency and cooperation could be the most effective way to use this leverage. Any other regulations should only be for this transitional time. This way no more risky snap decisions are made. The government will use taxpayers’ money to take on the illiquid assets, to fix the financial situation in the short term. In return, the financial industry itself will have to give the government the information it needs to keep the economy fixed in the long run. Aishlinn O’Connor is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.
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letterstotheeditor “Offshore oil” article off base I
appreciate The Chronicle’s Sept. 22 front page article, “Offshore
drilling emerges as issue in N.C. races,” on the issue of“offshore” drilling, but the claim that my “plan does not address environmental concerns” is a bit inaccurate. Look, the reason we waste so much, and pollute so much, is that the price ofoil is artificially low. It is subsidized by tax breaks to oil companies, and huge payments for unjustified foreign wars. If we had to pay the full cost of oil, two things would happen. Oae, we would use less, a “demand side” response to high prices. (Environmental concern no. 1; Reduces pollution!) Two, we would focus on alternative, and likely less-polluting, energy sources. (Environmental concern no. 2: Make green energy profitable, and it would flourish.) Both of my opponents want to use tax money to bring the price down. I say, charge the real price of gas, and let those prices produce the positive environmental effects. That’s my plan. It is my opponents who refuse to address “environmental concerns.” Mike Munger Chair, political science Libertarian candidatefor governor Drunken singing not DUU-approved The Disney singalongs hosted by Duke University Union Freewater Presentations has proven to be a big hit among undergraduate students since its inception. What is meant as away for Duke students to reconnect with their favorite childhood films was disrupted last Friday by the actions of a handful of irresponsible individuals. We do not endorse this behavior, and we’re taking measures to prevent it from happening in the future. First and foremost, we are committed to ensuring the safety of our patrons and the cleanliness of Griffith Theater. Freewater Presentations encourages patrons to clean up after themselves and reserves the right to deny entrance to individuals who behave inappropriately. Let’s keep this new Duke tradition alive, fun and safe for everyone—keep alcohol and glass bottles out of Griffith Theater. AileenLiu Trinity ’OB Co-chair, DUUFreewaterPresentations Matt Tolson Trinity ’O9 Ccxhair, DUUFreewaterPresentations
ike most suburban children, I spent the paying (or our parents are paying or the school is summers in between my elementary paying ) $200,000 for the luxury of having hours .JL —ischool years on my neighborhood’s swim of work, endless meetings or practices and a team Unlike lovely dormitory to live in. This bargain price also most of these includes a Duke seal on your diploma, but what does that guarantee, exacdy? kids, I was inbad credibly Some of us have always had our ambitions at to reassure us. You have your future Thankswimming. I couldn’t stay ing salary or your future M.D. or J.D. to keep afloat swimming you warm through those long, cold nights in backstroke. I was Perkins and a padded resume to catch you if afraid to dive. I you fall. Others just have a pile of debt and ill“iWirnTl CllZcl irGllCil never mastered a less-than-stellar GPA. Most of us are getthe kick-flip. ting by and working hard, but we don’t know je ne sais quoi My coaches what for just yet. would make One time during a cab ride to the Amtrak us tread water, hands held above our heads. I station, the driver asked me why I’m going could do this for about three seconds before to college. It was impossible to give him a dimy leg muscles seized and I started to sink. I rect answer. For a momeat I wanted to say remember this vaguely panicked feeling so vivthat I am going to be an engineer, or a lawyer idly because I can feel it now when I’m finish- or a doctor. I have some idea of what I want ing an assignment before class, running in late to do with myself, in my nebulous concept to a meeting, watching the e-mails pile up in my of “the future” but whether it is worthy of a inbox or stepping over the pile of dirty clothes $200,000, four-year-long academic endeavor on my floor. is yet to be determined. For sophomores pondering the to-dedareAn accurate answer would have been that early-or-not-to-declare-early dilemma, the past I come from a family of relative privilege and four weeks have been a whirlwind. Sophomore that I take tests relatively well. I’m interested year is infinitely better than freshman year, but in the classes I take, and I love being on a colit is also when reality hits. How do you pay back lege campus, especially this one, surrounded by your loans with your psychology and Canadian other students. But I didn’t come to college for studies double major and your BAA minor? any specific reason. We have to operate under the assumption Why are you killing yourself in orgo if you finally decided to drop pre-med? Can you live that all of this—whatever you gave up to come in a villa in Italy for a semester and still be a here or all of the time you spend on classwork—will be worth it. Otherwise, it’s hard not chemistry major? How much time will you waste filling out to feel like you’re justa kid treading water with your Long-Range Plan when you could have your goggles pressing tightly into your eyes and been studying for your midterms? your swimsuit riding up. Let’s consider what we’re doing here if we cut out the intangibles like social life, extracurricular Eliza French is a Trinity sophomore. Her column opportunities and Duke’s reputation. We’re all runs every other Tuesday.
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dukevotes: “A nation of whiners?”
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the U.S. economy started to spiral uncontrollably into dire trouble, proving to Sen. McCain’s economic adviser Phil John Gramm that we are not “a nation of whiners.” Banks are collapsing. Stock prices are plummeting. Unemployment is rising. Wages are decreasing. The housing market is stagnating. Alan Greenspan believes this is the worst financial crisis in 50 years, and despite all of this evidence, the only thing McCain had to say was that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” Huh? McCain is so out of touch that it took the collapse ofLehman Brothers and a massive drop in the' stock market for him to realize the economy was in deep trouble even though the economic bedrock has been cracking for months. This shouldn’t surprise anyone because this is the same John McCain that admitted months ago that the economy isn’t his strong suit. Since the start of his campaign, Sen. Barack Obama has been stating that the economy is in trouble. He realized that the Bush-McCain economy is too lightly regulated and unbalanced; therefore, from the outset, Obama has proposed progressive economic policies to deal with regulatory loopholes and economic inequalities. Obama plans to increase regulation of the financial industry in order to crack down on system abuses and predatory lending while increasing trans-
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since 1992 has the economy parency. McCain says he wants more been this crucial to the U.S. regulation, but this is just political expresidential race. Recent events pediency; his record shows that he faon Wall Street have revors deregulation. We have had eight years of minded voters of the Bush-McCain economic urgent need for prinpolicy and look where cipled leadership over it got us. We cannot afpartisan politics. Amidst economic turbulence, ford four more years. the Americans need more Contrary to than hope, they need false Republican asserleadership. Only Sen. tion 'that Obama will raise taxes on everyone, dukevotes John McCain has the experience and the plan Obama will cut taxes for series on politics to fix America’s latest anyone making under economic challenge. $250,000 and will raise Any effort to restore America’s econotaxes for the wealthy back to the levels seen during the Clinton administration, my must put the taxpayers first and special interests last That starts with keeping taxa time of economic prosperity. McCain, however, wants to give more tax cuts to es low, especially those affecting die heart of our economy: small business, which the wealthiest Americans and corporahas produced nearly 80 percent of all net tions, ignoring the needs of the middle class. Obama will give tax incentives to new jobs this decade. There is no surer way to force jobs overseas than to raise companies that keep jobs in America taxes on businesses, and that’s what Sen. while McCain will help his corporate lobBarack Obama intends to do. Obama has byist friends send jobs overseas. called for higher income, social security The difference is clear. You can vote and corporate taxes, as well as doubling for John McCain, the man who cannot the capital gains tax rate. By contrast, Mcperceive an economic crisis, the man Cain has pledged to eliminate the Alterwhose policies of deregulation sank the native MinimumTax (saving middle class economy. Or, you can vote for Barack families $6O billion), cut business taxes, Obama, the man who sensed an econokeep income taxes low and he opposes my in peril, the man who has true vision Internet taxes. to bring about the change we need. In addition to keeping the tax burden low, the next president will have to reJoseph Catapano is a Trinity sophomore. form some ofAmerica’s most entrenched He is treasurer of the Duke Democrats.
institutions. First, McCain will work towards balancing the budget by the of his first term. Second, McCain will use investment and research incentives to jumpstart rapid growth, especially in new technology. Most important, a McGain-Palinadministration will end the disgraceful culture of cronyism in Congress. McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin each have dedicated their careers to rooting out corruption, and as the failure of Lehman Brothers and AIG boldly demonstrates, we need a president capable of reforming Wall Street Finally, because we send more than $7OO billion per year to unfriendly oil producers, McCain knows that successful economic policy must include energy solutions. McCain will initiate an “all of the above” approach to break our addiction to oil. While American families suffer from high gas prices, Obama has stubbornly opposed additional oil drilling and more nuclear power. McCain knows we need to take advantage of the resources we already have while still promoting alternatives like flex-fuel vehicles, new nuclear facilities and other low-carbon fuels such as wind, hydro and solar power. The fact is Obama wants to: raise taxes, hope and inflate oiir tires... in that order. That’s not change we can believe in, that just leaves change in our pockets.
Cliff SateU is a Trinity sophomore. He is a vice chair of theDuke College Republicans.
THE CHRONICLE
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Friday, Sept. 26
TALK..
“Mozart and Marxism." Stephen Rumph (University of Washington). 4pm. Rm 104, Biddle Music Bldg. Free. N
Friday, Sept. 26
MUSIC. Duke New Music Ensemble and pulsoptional The Music of Jennifer Fitzgerald (1975-2007) featuring Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; and John McDonald, piano; Glenn Mehrbach, piano; and Sloan Hoffman, horn. Bpm. The Ark Dance Studio. Free. -
Saturday, Sept.
Monday, Sept. 29 FILM. “The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun. Screening and panel discussion of award-winning documentary. 4pm. Divinity School, Westbrook 0016. Free. "
Tuesday, Sept. 30
MUSIC. The Borromeo Quartet Discussion/performance of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. 4pm Baldwin Auditorium. Free.
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MUSIC. Discord: Soviet Music Memories. Terry Rhodes, soprano; Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin; Fred Raimi, cello; Jane Hawkins, piano. This concert will feature music by the wellknown Russian composers Prokofiev and Shostakovich, but the centerpiece of the performance is a presentation <bf 5-7 piano preludes by the relatively unknown Vsevolod Petrovich Zaderatsky interspersed with monologues excerpted from interviews with a Gulag survivor performed by Duke senior Gretchen Wright. Bpm. Nelson Music Room. Free. &
Sunday, Sept. 28
MUSIC. Violin Master Class with Dmitry Sitkovetsky. 7pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.
Thursday, September 25
MUSIC. Lionel Loueke Trio Karibu. Jazz @ Home Series: Herbie Hancock’s guitarist for the past five years, -
this Benin-born “gentle virtuoso” [NY Times), now with his own trio, unfurls percussive, shimmering rhythms that are rooted in Africa but reach past national boundaries. 8 pm. Reynolds Industries Theater. s2B*s2o*ss* Friday, September 26
MUSIC. Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra featuring Carla Bley Not in Our Name. Jazz @ Home Series: With arranger Carla Bley again on piano, Haden has updated their Nixon-era document, Liberation Music Orchestra [ 1969), with a trenchant, melancholy new set of compositions for the epoch of Bush—allAmerican music that moves from sparse power to passion and toward a fragile hope. 8 pm. Page Auditorium. s3B*s3o*s22*ss* -
TICKETS
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Saturday, September
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MUSIC. Dafhis Prieto Sextet Taking the Soulfor a Walk. Jazz @ Home Series: Born and trained in Cuba, Prieto is an Afro-Cuban drum phenomenon who’s also a -
masterful composer. His driving, complex music twists folk motifs into a new kind of Latin rhythm. 8 pm. Reynolds Industries Theater. s2B*s2o*ss* Sunday, September 28 MUSIC. Frank Kimbrough Air. Jazz @ Home Series: Kimbrough’s “generosity and composure”, on the piano (NY Times) will warm the Nelson Music Room as this Roxboro native illuminates compositions by Duke Ellington and the Rocky Mount-born Thelonious Monk. 3 pm. Nelson Music Room. s2o*ss* -
*Duke Student price
IN DURHAM, AT DUKE, A WORLD ALIVE WITH
Scenes of Secrecy series. Master filmmaker Errol Morris turns his keen eye to the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in this intense and provocative documentary.
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