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century-old black and white photograph hangs in the lobby of the only newspaper office left standing in Durham. “Eighteen people were the entire Moming-Herald organization in 1896,” the accompanying plaque Part lof 3 reads underneath the first staff photograph of what is now the The Durham HeraldSun. The picture is a reminder of the newspaper industry’s progress in the last hundred years and the uncertainty that faces print media in the next hundred. Declining 'vertising revenue exacerbated by slumping economy and the availal ity offree news on the Staff members at The (Raleigh) News & Observer gather to Internet has 1 some to question if and The (Durham) Herald- newspapers, ii iuding two staples of decide front Sun low revenues.

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Durham County elections officials have called for an investigation into possible voter registration fraud involving national liberal acdvist group ACORN. Last week, Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, asked the State Board ofElections to look into roughly 80 voter registration cards submitted by ACORN over the past six weeks. “We received many duplicate registrations and many applications that were poorly filled out, missing critical fields or just not readable,” Ashe said. Canvassers for the group had registration quotas to fill, turning in fraudulent information to reach their minimums, he added. Both Duke Democrats and Duke College Republicans are also working to register students on campus, from the Marketplace to sorority chapter meetings. “We turn every form into the Durham office, even if it is incomplete,” said Duke Democrats President Ben Bergmann, a sophomore. “If a student does not provide an appropriate address, the form will be rejected and sent back to the student.” Unfortunately, not all forms are returned to voters, Ashe said.

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Tired of spending cash on cab rides or wearing your feet out to get to and from Shooters II? Some students have found creative ways to get to their favorite neighborhood saloon. Recently, the C-5 bus has been dropping students off at Shooters in addition to its scheduled stops at BrightleafSquare and Ninth Street And since last year, a liino has also been transporting students to the late-night hot spot The bus trips have spurred rumors that the C-5 will be permanendy redirected to stop at Shooters. But Assistant Director ofTransit Peter Murphy said J no changes to the bus s route have been planned or that there had been any formal rerouting. “The C-5 has had the same route for a year and a half—there are certainly no changes being made to —

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this schedule right now,” he said. Student accounts of the past few weekends, however, indicate otherwise. Sophomore Margaret Baughman said that last Saturday night, she asked the bus driver if he could take her and her friends to Shooters, and the driver quickly granted her request. Within minutes, all on the bus arrived promptly—and drunkenly—to the saloon. “Even if it isn’t official,” Baughman said, “it’s happening.” The 05 driver, who asked not to be named, said he has been amenable to students’ requests because the redirection is only a minor change in his route. If they are outside the loop from West Campus to downtown Durham, students may opt for a SEE SHOOTERS ON PAGE 4

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Einstein telescope now on display Albert Einstein's long-lost teleJERUSALEM scope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this weekafter three years and $lO,OOO spent restoring therelic The old reflecting telescope is cumbersome by modern standards, but a demonstration for showed it still works well enough to see five of Jupiter's moons and stripes on the surface of the huge planet. It was a gift from a friend named Zvi Gizeri, who probably made it himself, said officials at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Gunman kills 10 at Finnish school KAUHAJOKI, Finland A masked gunman whose violent YouTube postings prompted police to question him just a day earlier opened fire Tuesat his trade school in Finland, killing 10 people and burning day some of their bodies beforefatally shooting himself in the head. Witnesses said panic broke out as the gunman, dressed in black and carrying a large bag, started firing in a classroom during an exam.The shootings began just before 11 a.m.as about 150 students were at the Kauhajoki School of Hospitality. Police had questioned the gunman Monday about the YouTube postings, but he was released because there was no legal reason to hold him, Interior Minister Anne Holmlund said.

UNITED NATIONS Iran's president accused "a few bullying powers" of trying to thwart his country's peaceful nuclear program and declared in a speech Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly that"the American empire" is nearing collapse. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sharply attacked the United States and NATO, accusing them of acting as aggressors in Iraq and Afghanistan, and of starting those wars "in order to win votes in elections." "American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road,and its next rulers must limit their interference to their own borders," Ahmadinejad said. He reiterated Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is purely peaceful, not aimed at producing nuclear weapons as the U.S.and some European countries allege.

Palin meets with world leaders Sarah Palin met her first world NEW YORK yS leaders Tuesday. It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once. Palin sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.The conversation was private, the pictures public meant to pad her resume for voters concerned abouther lack of experience in world affairs. Palin also asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights on Georgia, Russia, China and Iran, and she'll see more leaders Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings. At several points, Palin's motorcade got stuck in traffic,and New Yorkers, unimpressed with the flashing lights, sirens and police officers in her group, simply walked between the vehicles to get across the street. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, three hours behind Palin in seeing Karzai, found herself overshadowed for a day as she made her own rounds.

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whose salaries peak and plateau around age 40. Teacher salaries start off at $30,000 a year and climax at $60,000 around age 55, a point at which most teachers retire within a few more years, he said. “What I’m saying is that we push that starting salary from around $30,000 to around $37,000 and push those raises up so that they make in the mid-forty thousands within a couple years,” he said. “They might not get their $60,000 until they’re in their fifties, but they’ll get consistently more money when they’re young.” Maggie Scarborough, a seniorwho plans to enter into teaching following graduation, said although she is not going into teaching for the money, she will pursue a master’s degree for the base salary increase. “I will go back to grad school even though [the study] showed it doesn’t improve effectiveness because itpays more,” she said. “The money is a factor but also if a teacher wants to move into administration, you need grad school and so that’s why I would go back.” Kristen Stephens, associate professor of the practice at the program in education, said she supports raising initial teacher salaries because most teachers get out of the profession within the first five years of teaching, but does not know if Vigdor’s proposal will solve the problem oflow teacher retention. “There is a stigma with teaching and to some degree [teachers] feel like other people don’t perceive teaching as a profession,” she said.

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Duke Energy may up solar energy in 2009 Christopher Ross THE CHRONICLE early as next year, Duke Energy—one by

As of the largest utility companies in North Carolina—could be using more solar power to generate electricity for its customers. The company submitted a $lOO million plan to the North Carolina Utilities Commission in June, and is currently seeking bidders to supply and install the panels. If the proposal passes, Duke Energy will install photovoltaic solar panels over the next two years at up to 850 sites, adding 16MW of power to the regional grid. Lincoln Pratson, associate professor of sedimentary geology, noted that solar technology is one of the most expensive energy generators. He said solar energy becomes

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more attractive if costs are lower and a cap is put on carbon dioxide emissions. “[lt meets] a requirement of the North Carolina Renewable Energy Portfolio,” Duke Energy Spokesperson Dave Scanzoni said. “We really wanted to move forward in the renewable energy sector because it is the new wave of the future.” The energy generated will not be used to power the buildings on the land that the panels occupy. The panels and the electricity will belong to Duke Energy, and they will pay rental fees to property owners. “I think it is great Duke Energy is taking this step,” junior Yishan Cheng, co-president of the Duke Environmental Alliance, SEE SOLAR ON PAGE 4

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SOLAR from page 3 wrote in an e-mail. “If North Carolina can just increase energy efficiency and decrease energy demand, we would be able to meet more energy demand with these greener alternative energies.” From June 23 to the deadline to petition to intervene today, organizations ranging from the National Council of Structural Engineers Association to Kroger Co. have filed to intervene with Duke Energy’s plan, according to the NCUC’s Web site. Duke Energy will file a rebuttal before Oct 10. NCUC, for one, firmly supports alternative energy, said Roy Ericson, senior operations analyst for the Utilities Commission. Last year, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 3, a mandate requiring that all utility companies gradually increase the amount ofrenewable resources they use to generate power over the next 10 years. Although solar generators are expensive, the cost of construction is dropping, Scanzoni said. As a result,

he predicted that utility bills will increase by 34 cents a month to cover the program, although the figure has not been finalized. Pratson noted that solar energy is much less efficient than natural gas and coal. Currently, coal and nuclear energy generate 97 percent of Duke Energy’s power, Scanzoni said. “This is a pilot project for the industry, and it is ultimately cost effective,” Scanzoni said. “The costs of traditional power plants are soaring, and it takes 10 years to build nuclear plants. This is making renewable energy more competitive, and there are environmental benefits to it also.” The lifespan of the panels is 20 to 25 years. In addition to its solar plan, Duke Energy has announced other environmentally friendly projects involving wind power and plug-in electric vehicles. “To this end, I think that different sectors of society have different responsibilities,” Cheng said. “Ultimately, using clean energy sources falls into the hand of utility companies. It seems that they are moving naturally in this direction due to market forces, which is a positive sign.”

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decked-out lima ride from Bull City Carriage Company. The company started as a horse-drawn carriage service and has since upgraded to include a limo, which visits Shooters on weekends. The ride, which is not affiliated with the saloon, provides service Wednesday through Saturday, taking up to 10 people to anywhere in the area for $65 an hour. Though this rate may sound steep, Company Owner

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and Driver Kenneth Johnson only charges $2O per trip to Shooters, and with his limo seating 10, the investment is just $2 per person. Johnson even explained that prices are often negotiable. Junior Anthony Marzocca, who rides the limo to Shooters often, said he takes the ride because the price is low with a large group offriends. He added that it arrives faster than a taxi and the driver is good company. “It’s pretty nice as normal limos go,” he said. “You’re getting what you’re paying for.” The limo is also smoker-friendly, which Johnson said is a rarity these days, and is BYOB for those over 21, so they can pre-game in style. A very large selection ofchasers and non-alcoholic beverages are also available, he said. Whether students choose the free ride or the chic one, there are two new beautiful ways to get to Shooters.

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The Duke University Union wants to hear from the student body—what events it enjoyed, what new programming it wants to see and what it thinks DUU could do better. At its weekly administrative meeting Tuesday night, Union officials discussed the importance of soliciting student input and evaluating both specific events and the organization as a whole. Union executives brainstormed several methods of gathering feedback, including holding informal conversations with DUU members on the Bryan Center Plaza, inviting students to stop by the Union office and utilizing the Duke Groups Web site so students could submit suggestions online. The Union currently asks for student input at the end of its weekly blast e-mails, but officials debated the efficiency of that method. “We need to step back and see how we’ve been doing,” said President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior. “DUU uses students’ money [from the student activities fee] and we want to make sure the use of that is optimized and that we’re using it responsibly.” He said ideally the Union would have an established way of effectively collecting student opinion by the end of October. DUU committees could then use the feedback from the first half of the semester to evaluate and improve programming for the rest of the year, he added. DUU officials also discussed ways of attracting graduate students to Union events, from advertising in School of Law and Fuqua School ofBusiness buildings to posting notices on the Graduateand Professional Student Council Web site. “Whatever events you guys organize, make sure it’s marketed to the graduate students as well,” Goonewardene said to committee heads, noting that there are approximately 4,000 graduate students at Duke. “They are part of our constituency and we need to serve them as well.” He added that the University’s student population can be a bit more scattered than desirable, a challenge DUU has to face when it tries to create and advertise major events.

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Members ofDUU discussideas at the group's weekly meeting Tuesday to solicit studentresponse and attract graduate students to its events. “We’re trying to figure out away to facilitate undergraduate-graduate interaction... that’s not really something that’s necessarily visibly present at Duke now,” Goonewardene said. “The graduate community lives off-campus, the freshmen live on East, the sophomores live on West and the juniors live on Central. We need to figure out ways to bridge these fragments.”

In other business: DUU’s La Gala de Oro party will be held tonight at the Nasher Museum of Art from 8 p.m. until midnight. The event, co-sponsored by the Nasher Student Advisory Board and Mi Gente, will feature a cash bar, a limited number of free tickets to see the Nasher’s current El Greco exhibit and live entertainment, including Spanish bands and baroque dancers.

In addition to the usual announcements, committee reports and regular business, attendees of the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting received a visit from a special guest Tuesday night. The University’s first student ombudsman, John Blackshear, attended the GPSC meeting to familiarize students with the services he provides. Meetings with him are “totally confidential, totally independent and a resource for alternative dispute resolution,” Blackshear said. He added that 89 percent of the services he has provided thus far as ombudsman have been to graduate students, as opposed to 11 percent for undergraduates. An ombudsman acts as an independent party to help students and groups work through differences. Blackshear, clinical director of the Academic Resource Center, was appointed to the position of ombudsman

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GPSC also used a new electronic voting system elect members to the Graduate and Professional Young Trustee Screening Committee, a group that narrows down the pool of graduate young trustee nominees to three finalists, who are subsequently referred to the GPSC general assembly for the final to

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The body also elected Executive Secretary Kat Mitchel, a graduate student in molecular genetics and microbiology, as chair of the committee. SEE GPSC ON PAGE 8

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McClatchy Co., to reduce costs. As of Tuesday, it was unclear how many people had accepted the offers, though The N&O reported Sept. 17 that it expects to eliminate at least 70 jobs. Tuesday, it was announced that Ted Vaden, who is a visiting lecturer in public policy and the paper’s public editor, was reduced to part-time. The staff of the Herald-Sun has similarly been reduced since the Paxton Media Group, a private newspaper corporation, took control— from 87 newsroom workers in January 2005 to approximately 40 today. Newspaper editors said they sought to maintain the quality of their coverage even with limited resources. “Our biggest expenses are people and newsprint. The paper has definitely gotten thinner,” said John Drescher, executive editor of The N&O. “The question is can you keep your quality even as your paper is getting smaller? I think you can and I think we have.” The Herald-Sun has meanwhile shuffled functions within the newsroom to maintain a steady number of reporters. But the rearrangements were not without a price. “It’s just a little overwhelming. Everybody has to do a little

Durham news—The Herald Sun and The (Raleigh) News & Observer —are soon-tobe extinct. “I don’t have a crystal ball any more than anyone else does,” Bob Ashley, editor-in-chief ofThe Herald-Sun, Trinity ’7O and former managing editor ofThe Chronicle, said in an interview. “Our goal is to come out of this well-positioned in the market to do what is most important, which is to cover local news. We want to come out of this guns blazing when the economy kicks back up.” The business of bad news Simply surviving the tumult, however, will be a tall order for the newspapers that have in recent months dramatically cut their staffs and news pages to meet the profit margins of their corporate owners. The News and Observer offered voluntary buyouts to approximately 320 workers—about 40 percent of its work force—Sept. 4 as part of an effort by its parent company,

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more than they used to do,” said Lisa Young, a former copyeditor turned reporter, noting that the most prolific writers at the organization write approximately 10 stories a week. Despite the stresses of being in a constantly evolving industry, the editors said their staffs have remained focused on the task at hand. “I’ve been in this business for... 40 years and I’ve never been interviewed as an editor... where we didn’t talk about how bad newsroom morale was,” Ashley said. “We came into this business because we have a contrarian disposition.” Drescher said that reporters at the N&O had risen to the challenge and shown their commitment to journalism. “For a living we handle bad news so it’s not any different,” said Ryan Beckwith, an N&O political reporter, adding that he very rarely has “slow days” anymore. “We’re all dedicated to doing our jobs and we’re just going to continue doing them while we have them.” Profit-driven corporate ownership of what used to be family-owned community newspapers may partially be to blame for the cutbacks in the newsroom, those familiar with the media industry said. At least part of the reason for McClatchy’s cost reduction is to pay off the $4.5 billion cost of buying their former competitor, Knight Ridder, in 2006. “In a perfect world, all newspapers are owned by families who care deeply about the community, but that framework is gone. Corporate ownership is here for better or for worse,” Drescher said.

The impact on Durham In August, The N&O closed its Durham bureau and moved its 10-member staff to Chapel Hill, where it will share headquarters with its Orange County counterparts. “I hate it because I feelremoved from the city I’m supposed to cover,” said Durham News Editor Rob Waters. “It’s a bad signal for The N&O to be sending about our commitment to Durham, but I don’t think it’s impacted our news coverage.” The N&O attempts to provide broader perspectives on issues affecting the entire Triangle area rather than just focusing on local news items. In the past year, most of its investigative reporting has been done at the state-level. “Editors often ask ‘Can you Triangularize this?”’ Beckwith said. “There has also been a focus on the metro desk at notjust covering the small local story you might be tempted to write but to see if this is indicative ofa broader trend in the region.... We’ve been an intellectual newspaper in that regard.” Conversely the Herald-Sun has tried to fill the niche for purely Durham-centric news items. “The News and Observer is retreating from the Durham part of its market,” Ashley said. “We’re asking people to really push hard right now in what we see is a moment of weakness for our competition and see if we can once and for all establish... the dominant paper in the market by a considerable margin.” Fiona Morgan, a staff writer for Independent Weekly in Durham who covers local media issues, had a different take on The Herald-Sun’s coverage. A year after the Paxton Media takeover in 2005, Morgan collaborated with Philip Meyer, professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications, to conduct a quantitative analysis ofThe Herald-Sun’s coverage. Based on measures like the number of sources per story, the length of pieces and the output per reporter, Morgan and her colleagues found that the quality of coverage had substantially declined a year after the takeover. “The company line has been do more with less,” Morgan said, based on anonymous interviews with sources inside the newsroom and the analysis. Ashley said, however, that even in the last few months, The Herald-Sun has refocused on local news with the efforts apparent in the print. “If people want to read about the financialcrisis on Wall Street, they can look to the New York Times’ coverage,” Ashley said. “The question is what does a local newspaper bring to the table?” He added that in-depth reporting and writing are areas in which The Herald-Sun hopes to improve in the future. .

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Ike, Gustav highlight global warming debate by

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The effects of global warming might blow your mind—literally. When Hurricane Ike hit the coast of Houston two Fridays ago, pictures of the flooded city only served as vivid reminders of what happened three years ago in New Orleans. Causing more than 50 deaths in the U.S., Hurricane Ike is the deadliest hurricane so far in this year’s hurricane season, which technically ends Nov. 31. Ike is already the third costliest U.S. hurricane in history, behind Hurricane Andrew in 1992 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ike reignited the debate on the link between global warming and the increased hurricane activity. Robert Walko, research scientist of civil engineering at the Pratt School of Engineering, said warm water is the source of energy for hurricanes. Increased sea-surface temperature causes more energy to be available at the ocean’s surface, allowing hurricanes to reach higher intensity. Walko, however, called such reasoning about global warming “simple-minded. “There are a number ofother things that could also contribute to the weakening of hurricanes under global warming,” he said. Most of today’s predictions about global warming and hurricane forecasting are done with computer modeling, and Alex Rebel, a junior who has doneresearch on hurricanes over the last five summers, said the models are producing inconclusive results. “About half of them say [the hurricane activity] will increase, about half say it will decrease,” he said. Robel added that the model that he helped developed this past summer found that some basins would have increased activity, and some would have less. Although the 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons are considered the most intense in historical records, the evidence is not strong enough to blame global warming for the cause. Other scientists, however, said global warming does have an effect on the intensity ofhurricanes. David Enfield, a meteorologist at the Hurricane Research Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said although global warming causes the environment to be less favorable for development of hurricanes in general, the

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maximum potential internal energy ofeach hurricane is greater. “This means that there will be fewer storms all together, but there will be more of the strong ones proportionally,” Enfield said. Perhaps the most important issue at hand is not determining this link, but preparedness for the intense storms, Robel said. Willis said although deaths can largely be avoided, some of the damages from hurricanes are unavoidable. “Apathy was a problem in South Florida until [Hurricane] Andrew, and probably in New Orleans until [Hurricane] Katrina.”

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FRAUD from page 1 “The problem is people are walking around thinking they are registered,” he said. If a student is living in a dorm, the appropriate address to enter is either 1 Duke West or 1 Duke East, and the mailing address can either be listed as a student’s P.O. Box or permanent home address. “We instruct voters how to fill out their forms while they are completing their registration,” said Duke College Republicans Chair Vikram Srinivasan, a junior. “We cannot fill the forms out for them, but we try to check it for accuracy while students are completing their registration.” Accuracy is crucial for complete registration, Ashe said. The most common issues with voter registration are illegibility and incompletion of forms. Such documents cannot be registered and must be returned to voters for resubmission. ACORN State Director Pat McCoy said his group has registered thousands of voters in Durham, Raleigh and Charlotte, and the group tries to ensure that canvassers are well trained. The group has not previously been investigated for violations in North Carolina, according to The (Durham) Herald-Sun. “If we see issues, we address them,” he said. “We are both cooperating with the investigation and pursuing the issue internally. We want to maintain the integrity of the program.” Students are eligible to vote if they are legal, U.S. citizens and they will be at least 18 years of age by Election Day. The deadline for voter registration is Oct. 10.

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Members of GPSC elected representatives to the Young Trustee Screening Committee via electronic ballot Tuesday at the body's biweekly meeting.

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In addition to discussing their visions for the University and the issues they want the young trustee to embody, some general candidates for the screening committee supplied unconventional reasons that they should be elected. “I have a suit, and being a graduate student in math doesn’t give me much of an opportunity to wear it,” said Shishi Luo, a graduate student in mathematics. Chairman of GPSC’s University Committee Ali Saaem, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, brought to students’ attention that 36 of the graduate student positions in various University bodies are not yet filled, and he encouraged students to apply by Friday Sept. 26, the extended deadline. Members also discussed an approaching National Association of Graduate-Professional Students conference from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 and Entrepreneurship Week from Nov. 17 to Nov. 23, as well as upcoming community service opportunities and social events.

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Stephens added that many highly qualified Duke students feel pressure from families to not become teachers because of the stigma. “A lot of families aren’t thrilled with [students] coming to Duke and wanting to become teachers,” she said. “I think that’s because you go to Duke, spend the money to come here and so when you graduate you should be making six figures.” Reid Simpson, a first-year teacher for Wake County Public Schools who graduated from Duke in May, said Vigdor’s suggested proposal will not fix the problem of teachers leaving after their first few years. “All this is going to do is encourage people to teach just for the money,” he said. “People will teach for a few years and then go to a |70,000-salary job at a consulting firm. Teaching just can’t compete with the private industry.”

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McFadyen’s football career started in July. He has already undergone a position change, switching to tight end Sept. 7 after two months at defensive end, and the fifth-year senior has, at most, 10 games left before he’ll hang up his football helmet. And then he’ll trade them for a lacrosse helmet and a long pole. “Why not?” McFadyen said of his decision to start playing football after his undergraduate years. “With Duke Football getting [David] Cutcliffe as the new coach and me having the opportunity to come back and do a fifth year and start graduate school, I thought, ‘Why not mix things up a little bit?’ I’d like to play lacrosse, obviously, but I’d like to try football as well.” And so McFadyen isn’t just in his first year in the Liberal Studies program. It’s also his first year on the gridiron, and despite his athleticism and body frame—at 6-foot-6, 245 pounds, he’s built like a football player —it showed, at least initially. A drill as routine as doing swim moves through dummies can be difficult when you’ve never set foot on a football field before, even if you’ve been playing lacrosse for years. “I was lining up in a sprinter’s stance, and I was too far forward, and I couldn’t get

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Ryan McFadyen returnedfor hisfifth year to play lacrosse, but decided to join thefootball team, too.

the concept ofstepping with the same hand and the same foot,” McFadyen said, “laterally, I looked like a robot. I was all awkward and falling over, and the guys were grabbing my arms and legs and moving them.” But after. two months of practice, McFadyen has picked up the basics. He plays on the punt return, kickoff return, field goal and PAT units, enabling him to contribute to the team despite his lack of experience distinguishing a draw from a sweep from a passing play. And that, more than anything else, was the reason behind his recent position change. Without ever having played football before, McFadyen had a hard time reading offenses and responding appropriately. Whereas other Duke defensive linemen have had years of practice chasing down opposing players, McFadyen had none. Now, as a tight end, he can focus more on his own role, whether that’s blocking or running routes. And although he lines up on the other side of the ball, his time at defensive end wasn’t a waste by any means, McFadyen said. “I spent the last two months getting down the defensive concepts andjust learning things that most guys pick up in high school,” McFadyen said. “I never had an opportunity for that... Now that I have the SEE MCFADYEN ON PAGE 10

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jumps off the small print of the local newspaper. Virginia (+7) at Duke. Just weeks after the Blue Devils successfully argued in court that they possessed an “inability to ever win games,” they are favored to win their first conference matchup since 2004. This, my friends, is the first and only exhibit we need to prove that theACC has hit a rough patch. An ACC in which Duke is favored is like an NFL in which Ed Hochuli makes mistakes and an October without Yankee Stadium. Ignoring Blue Devil football had become an autumnal rite ofpassage, like —:— lm picking pumpkins or forgetting to vote 11 I on Rut the spread in Saturday’s game says a lot more about Virginia and the ACC than it does about Duke. The Cavaliers are just one of a number of teams in the conference who have been nothing short of embarrassing early in the season. Virginia has lost its first two Division IA games by a combined 80 points. Sure, USC is good. UConn? Not so much. N.C. State earned the conference’s biggest upset of the season last week. Over East Carolina. I’m not questioning the prestige of the Pirates; after all, they did eke out that win at Tulane. But *

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MCFADYEN from page 9 background in football thatI got through camp in the first couple of weeks of playing, it’ll be easier to pick this up.” And he’ll undoubtedly do it with his lacrosse coach looking on. “I do believe that he’s earned his way,” said John Danowski, who has attended every game this season. “He’s allowing other guys to rest, maybe a key offensive or defensive player that would have to play those spots. So he’s contributing to the team, he’s making plays and he’s learning and getting better.” Danowski, a self-proclaimed “football guy,” would know. His father, Ed Danowski, was a quarterback for the New York Giants for eight years and was later the head coach at Fordham. John Danowski coached high school and college football, and he even played quarterback at Rutgers when he was one of the top lacrosse players in school history. But Danowski quit the football team after his junior year after he wasn’t named the starter, a decision he still considers “one of my biggest regrets of my life.” And it’s a major reason why McFadyen wanted to try out for football. “You get to a certain point in your life, and you observe a lot and you see a lot,” Danowski said. “As an educator or as a parent, you want to say to your children or your students, ‘Go out and experience as much as life has to offer.’ And what a great experience this is for him. And again, have no regrets. Don’t look back.” McFadyen’s doing just that, and others are noticing. “I don’t think a lot of people gave him credit,” said lacrosse defenseman Jay Jennison, McFadyen’s teammate for five years. “They weren’t really sure

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what to expect, and people are kind of impressed with the work he’s put in. He’s a physical talent, and [they’re impressed with] how well he’s catching up on the

game.”

But it would be impossible to be completeease just two months into playing a new sport. McFadyen said he constantly secondguesses himself playing football, a stark contrast to the comfort he feels playing lacrosse. That familiarity will pay off in the spring, however, when McFadyen has to readjust to playing his natural sport after missing fall workouts. “He’s probably going to be in better shape being over there right now in the season instead ofbeing here for the offseason,” attackman Chris Loftus said. “It’ll actually prepare him better. Maybe his stick skills will be a little rusty, but he’ll pick those up right away.” After all, as Danowski noted, that’s how it used to be. Two-sport athletes used to be commonplace. Now, they’re rare—and McFadyen may be one of a kind. Consider the circumstances. Not only does he not have football experience, but McFadyen was suspended from the University in March 2006 for a graphic e-mail he wrote to the Blue Devils after the offcampus party cited in the lacrosse case. McFadyen was reinstated in June after Duke found he did not break any school policies, but his reinstatement did little to mollify the rampant criticism he faced. “He was vilified here a couple of years ago,” Danowski said. “He loves Duke. He gets it. He could’ve left here and packed his bags in May with his 3.4 GPA and left, and [instead he] decides he’s going to go to graduate school, he’s going to represent the University in two sports and he is going to leave a legacy here of excellence.” Given Duke’s football progress this year, McFadyen seems well on his way. And

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Lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen has earned time on several special teams units in hisfirst year offootball. nine—or, Duke hopes, 10—games from now, McFadyen will return to cementing the other aspect of his legacy, working to secure the school’s first national championship in lacrosse. “What Ryan is doing is an absolutely amazing story. It might be one of the greatest stories that I’ve ever witnessed as a coach,” Danowski said. “This really sounds sappy, but he represents what this place is about. Kids here walk around and they’re excellent in all sorts of areas that they don’t even know what they’re excellent in, and they will be if they give it a shot. And I think he’s a testament to that.”

Since then, the ACC is 0-9 in the BCS without earning a single at-large bid to college football’s postseason payday. But maybe I’m being unfair: BCS wins are reserved for transcendent programs like Boise State, Utah, Kansas and Oregon State. Paramount to the ACC’s demise has been the collapse of Florida State, which hasn’t been nationally relevant since it stopped playing 28-year-olds at quarterback. The Seminoles have been joined in mediocrity by their old rivals, Miami. The two programs that have combined to make five appearances in the BCS title game have gone 24-25 the last two seasons. That’s opened the door for Virginia Tech, which has become the Seatde Seahawks of theACC—a decent team thrust into prominence by an incompetent division. The Hokies, like their analogue, continue to fail on the big stage, going 0-3 in the BCS. The other teams in the ACC haven’t been able to fill the void with any compelling stories.Wake Forest remains a well-regarded underdog that can’t possibly contend nationally without a bigger financial commitment Clemson, meanwhile, is harder to figure out than the new ACES, North Carolina already reached its “one-goodpass-rusher-per-decade” quota with Julius Peppers and N.C. State longs for the glory days of Chuck Amato. Maryland, Virginia and Duke are all schools that score more on the lacrosse field than on the gridiron. But conceding that the ACC is awful doesn’t mean it’s uninteresting, especially when your team hasn’t won a conference game in four seasons. And in a worldwhere Hochuli blows the play dead and Jose Molina is the last player to homer at the Stadium, why not Duke (-7)?

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—John Drescher, executive editor at The (Raleigh) News and Observer, on the future of journalism. See story page 1.

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the 21st century. The newsletter will have a small readership at best, and it is not a legitimate source of news, because it offers only to frame debates for students, rather than present them with the issues, facts, contexts and opposing opinions. (One can only imagine how the recendy defeated referendum would have been portrayed in a DSG-

sponsored publication.) As past DSG leaders have pointed out, the new method of communication misses the point about how a student government gains credibility on a university campus. The real accomplishment of former DSG President Elliot Wolf during his 2006-2007 tenure was to significantly increase communication and transparency. Regular updates through a variety of media—including extensive communication

with The Chronicle on a wide range of subjects—kept students current on what was going with DSG. In terms of accessibility, Wolf held regular office hours. He even posted his entire personal calendar online to better facilitate meetings with concerned students. Recently, however, DSG has become less rather than more transparent. The most visible aspect of this walling-off has been the decreasing communication between DSG and The Chronicle. For instance, DSG withheld the results of its Sept. 15 referendum from The Chronicle for an unprecedented 10 hours—a small but disappointing step taken in order to restrict the free flow of information from the student government to the student body. For DSG, bad communication with The Chronicle isjust

an option. The Chronicle is the acknowledged way of communicating with students. The University, across all divisions, uses the student newspaper as the most effective way of disseminating information. And from a logistical standpoint, The Chronicle is published five days a week, while the new DSC newsletter will be a biweekly publication. It’s hard to fathom any democratically elected government that only released information once every two weeks. In short, DSC should remember its own mission statement, which promises to “execute the will of the student body and to serve as a stable support and foundation for student organizations, activities, views and information.” The last is not the least. Chelsea Allison recused herself from this editorial. not

More than a bar scene

What that tells me is that the demand for information is higher than its ever been before but the problem is how to get people to pay for it.

at an elite American university in

spent my Saturday afternoon hanging out with 15,000 people. OK, so that’s a bit misleading. What I mean is, this Saturday, I went to Durham’s CenterFest Art Festival, which had approximately 15,000 attending that day. I listened to music, saw some great artwork and ate a delicious chicktager en-on-a-stick in a venue that made suburban subversive Duke’s Oktoberfest party look like a poorly arranged homecoming parade. And through it all, I was laughing and Joking with native Durhamites, enjoying the comfortable surroundings and the friendly atmosphere. All of which, eventually, made me think back on the perennial Duke-Durham debate that has so often graced the backpages of The Chronicle, as well as informal talk amongst Duke students. You know the debate I mean: “Durham sucks” versus “Durham’s not so bad,” argued endlessly and without conclusion, like some second-rate Norwegian saga. In my experience, the average student takes on the former view, that Durham is a second-rate penumbra for our first-rate university. But this constant debate over Durham’s suitability for students says less about Durham’s worth, and more about what we Dukies consider worthwhile. The truth is that Durham is far from the sleepy town we imagine it to be. If you don’t believe me, pick up The Independent: This weekly publication, offered in the Bryan Center, lists pages of events going on every day in Durham and other parts of the Triangle. But students still refuse to venture beyond the bounds of campus, or past a few Duke-approved hotspots. And our rationalizations that we feel insecure in Durham, after we go to the nearest hall-crawl and drink sketchy homemade punch, seem a little thin. The reason we don’t appreciate or interact with Durham has little to do with our concerns over security or our unfamiliarity with the area. These things can be solved by a Google search and a few common-sense rules like walking in groups. The real issue is that we don’t truly consider Durham to be our community. We consider Duke to be our community, and Durham as

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to tolerate. Reflect on this: This summer, we had a Durham Duke Engage project, where Duke students immersed themselves in projects benefiting Triangle residents in order to make a positive difference in Durham and augment their education through service in their community. This is a wonderful thing. But doesn’t it embarrass you that we actually need a University-sanctioned program to encourage Duke students to work in Durham? In an ideal world, at an ideal Duke, this program wouldn’t be called Durham DukeEngage; it would be called Regular Life! It would be easier to write off the Duke-Durham debate as just another manifestation of town-gown rivalry, an inevitable friction that occurs for no good reason and has no lasting significance. But the truth is, our refusal to accept Durham as our community prolongs this unfortunate source of conflict between us and our neighbors. And it’s the reason why, one mile out from campus, we find ourselves back in Tar Heel country, with Durhamites proudly wearing Carolina shirts while still in sight of the Duke Chapel. If we’re unwilling to accept Durham as our town for the four years we live here, Durhamites are under no pressure to extend us the same courtesy and root for Duke athletics. But don’t engage yourself in Durham’s community because you want Durham to be supportive of Duke. Do it because it will make your experience at Duke so much richer. Perhaps you didn’t even know that there was an arts festival this week, with live music and thousands of people in attendance. Durham has a lot of other events, and it may surprise you how much our Bull City has hidden up her sleeve. By the time the average student graduates from Duke, he or she will have lived in Durham for four years. Under any other circumstances, that would qualify anyone to consider him or herself part of the Durham community. And yet we refuse to see ourselves as Durhamites. We should accept that our time spent at Duke is also time spent living in the epicenter of Durham and the Triangle Area. So pick up an Independent, grab a friend and step offcampus for a while. Maybe you’ll learn that Durham is more than just a weak bar scene. It’s also a community. Our community.

James Tager is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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friend ofmine let me know thatmy column from two weeks ago made a brief appearance at an Interfraternity Council meeting. I hope I’m not overstating my influence in guessing that it involved a burning effigy of myself and The Chronicle editors who allowed such an anti-IFC opinion to find its way onto the “Tower of Campus Thought and Action.” Despite whatever colorful language uttered on my behalf, I’m glad to know people read my column With this proud honor of writing a coldanny lewin umn some people read comes drawbacks—immaculate namely, publishing remisconception tractions. You see, in my last column, I wrote, “this isn’t to blame RLHS exclusively,” and proceeded to lambaste selective living groups. My apologies to IFC and all SLGs indicted in my column; I failed to realize that RLHS should never, in fact, be relieved ofany culpability for their actions. Ever. This error was brought to my attention long before I wrote the column. First, when RLHS alerted me I would probably be living on Central Campus. Then, they said I would definitely be living on Central. Next, they said I would definitely be living on Central, but if my lottery number was low enough, I wouldn’t know exactly where until August. Then I was assigned to Central, but 55 sophomores had no housing at all. And then, before solving that crisis, RLHS initiated a testrun of an emergency flyering campaign (please tell me you remember this—there was a flyer on every door saying “No need to panic. RLHS is simply testing its process for posting emergency notices as part of the University emergency notification process”). But, as [insert religious leader here] says... actually, I don’t know what he or she would say, but I’m sure it would involve forgiving and forgetting, even in the case of RLHS. And so I did. In a symbolic gesture, I used my summer study abroad in China as a sort of rebirth: I allowed myself to believe that if a middling '

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university in a developing country can provide quality housing, so can RLHS. And they proved me wrong again.

This year, they kicked off with a slew of winners, starting with the Great Double-Booking Fiasco of midJuly. Ah, the memories. RLHS helped solve their selfcreated housing crunch by putting four students into a double without telling them! Clever. With that warmup under their belts, they began the school year in earnest with the “Quiet Hours” concept. Again, this upset students who were looking for something a little more coddling, like “Naptime” or “Potty Training.” Not-so-finally (you think they’re done making stupid policies?), RLHS rolled out its new lofting policy. You’ve heard enough about it recently, so I’ll spare you the details and just summarize: RLHS has finally proved to me that they will never think about, listen to or care about students. I’m finally done believing that such a long track record of incompetence can signify anything but a total disregard for students. I’m not one for ad hominem attacks, and I truly don’t believe that the leadership of RLHS is actually absent-minded enough to have simply slipped up so consistendy. So there’s only one conclusion to be drawn: RLHS is literally a boardroom full of villainous scoundrels, twirling their moustaches, grinning maniacally and plotting their next move to harm students’ housing experience. No matter how many resolutions Campus Council passes, RLHS will always work in away that seems at odds with our best interests. What’s the solution? If RLHS solicits your advice, ask for the exact opposite of what you actually want. Instead of sending them e-mails with headings like “Please let me keep my loft” or “I showed up to my room this afternoon and someone I don’t know was already living there,” use reverse psychology. A good “I have too much freedom on East Campus” or “Pretty please? Can you relocate me?” should do the trick. As long as we make a concerted effort to never let the powers that be know what it is we actually want, they can’t prevent us from getting it.

Danny Lewin is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

commentaries

Masquerading as a careerist Nothing.”

That’s the answer I always give whenever someone asks what I want to do after graduation (which is starting to happen more and more often now). Working isn’t for me. I’m not really the kind of guy who seizes every opportunity and tries to get ahead in life. I’m more of a sleep-late-and-listen-to-music kind of guy, But it occurs to me that I’ve never really given the idea of“work” a fair chance. schneider Maybe if I started to play the part I would realize guard your ears! I’m no different than any other nine-to-fiver. So it was with this in mind that I attended last week’s Career Fair. I wasn’t really looking for a job, but for my inner sellout. My suspicions about not belonging, however, were almost immediately confirmed. It turns out that I was somewhat underdressed. To look important, one has to wear a suit. But my only suit is in a closet in my parents’ house, so I wore jeans and a T-shirt, and I hadn’tshaved in five days. Also, it seemed as if a lot of potential employers don’t like me in sunglasses. To avoid alienating myself any further, off they came. One thing I refused to do was put on a nametag with my major and year on it. I’m not on display here. The only problem is that not wearing a nametag at the Career Fair is like not putting up a real photo on Facebook—everyone knows you’re hiding something. Choosing which tables to go to was another dilemma. As I’ve never planned to work before, I have no idea what kind of job I want. So I picked the table with the best name—Joint Warfare Analysis Center. I have no idea what “warfare analysis” is, but it certainly sounded cool. When I asked the quartet at the table what exactly the term means, though, all they told me was where JWAC is located. They also seemed a little disappointed when I confessed that I don’t have a “strong” natural science background. This is a recurring theme. I’ve heard plenty of (bad) jokes about the lack of career options afforded to philosophy and English majors, but this fair seemed like it was organized by a bitter engineer. Since my majors were not big hits (they were, at best, enthusiastically tolerated), I did what any self-respecting job applicant would do—l start lying, er, exaggerating the truth: “I’m an Econ major” (I’ve taken one class).... “I have a strong quantitative background” (I’ve finished half my QS requirements)..,. “I’m taking the LSAT in a few weeks” (I still c0u1d).... “I worked for a consulting firm this summer” (if by “consulting firm” you mean

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I’m sure plenty of people saw through these embellishments, but luckily there were a few tables that prided themselves on being available to anyone—“if you’re smart, we can train you in any field you’re lacking,” said a Macy’s

representative. And despite the wide range of options (from advising consulting to strategy management!), a lot of the employers seemed to be looking for the same things: “adaptability,” “communication skills,” “grace under pressure,” “eagerness to work,” “ability to answer questions”... Recruiters love cliches. What they don’t like, apparently, are stubborn, weak-willed, isolated idlers who hate answering questions. If that covers you, don’t even bother. Any attempts to get more concrete responses from recruiters were met with more generalities that eventually made me sound like an idiot—“What do you mean by ‘intelligent’, exacdy?” I don’t really know whom the vague abstractions are meant for. Is anyone really naive enough to be won over by a company’s belief “that sound and inspired ideas triumph” (The Advisory Board Company), or is unquestioned acceptance of that kind of pabulum how they discern lapdogs from cynics? It seems to me that everyone avoids details because the details are tedious and boring, and any open acknowledgment of that is too depressing. Truthfully I don’t even really want specifics. The only specifics that would make me happy—“Here at Bain & Company we have ice cream parties and take long naps!”—don’t exist. Work sucks. It’s supposed to suck. If you need me, I’ll be in bed with my iPod on. to

John Schneider is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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