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One sign Duke has been one of the

worst programs in the nation: in three

games, it has already exceeded its win total from the previous two seasons. A more important one: the Blue Devils are the only BCS-conference team in those two years to not win a league game. In fact, they haven’t won one since 2004. “I don’t think anybody would imagine that when they sign on the dotted line,” linebacker Michael Tauiliili said. For Duke (2-1), that nightmare can end against Virginia (1-2) Saturday at 12 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. A win would snap a 25-game conference losing streak and give theBlue Devils just theirsecond ACC win in 33 tries. And lest any of the players try to ignore that string of futility, head coach David Cutcliffe is ready to drill the embarrassment of the last three seasons into their heads. “We made the statement that we’ve got to join the ACC first—we’ve got to get in the game,” Cutcliffe said. “I try to talk truth to the players. I don’t sugarcoat anything.... The fact of the matter is our seniors are 0-24 in their threeyear careers playing in the ACC. We’ve got a few redshirts and theyre 1-31.” In doing so, Cutcliffe has probably reminded his team ofall the chances it had to snap that 25-game slide. There were the games two years ago against Wake Forest and Miami, when the Blue

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Thaddeus Lewis and theBlue Devils aim for theirfirst conference Win since 2002 Saturday against Virginia. Devils could not score inside the red zone to win the game, and there was the Wake Forest game last year, when, down by 25 points, Duke could not complete a rally and ended up losing 41-36. And most glaring have been the last two games against North Carolina, as the Blue Devils lost both on kicking errors. The one common thread among those games—and numerous others in which

Duke stayed competitive —was a failure to adjust and execute in the second half'. That has changed drastically this year, with the Blue Devils outscoring opponents 48-14 after the intermission. “It’s amazing to see how quickly [the staff] can make adjustments,” Tauiliili said. “It’s all about the fourth-quarter victories and beating SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 12

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newspaper over the years. Despite the chill of economic 771 J wU downturn experienced by some commercial and college newspa- Dv* ■{ 9 ■*“ T* pers, The Chronicle remains relarelit 3 013 lively “insulated” from both the shift away from physical papers to online content and drastic revenue decrease, said junior Chelsea Allison, editor of The Chronicle and president of Duke Student Publishing Company. Unlike most of its “real world” journalistic counterparts, the paper has a defined niche—the Duke community. Moreover, the University places a large *

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Although some newspapers have cut staff and distribution due to low profit

margins,The Chronicle has been largely insulated from the economic tumult.

Oct. 31, after which Residence Life and Housing Services officials will determine assignments for Few Quadrangle and other on-campus bed spaces. Students may apply for reassignment, a new roommate or housing cancellations for a semester abroad or on leave, RLHS officials wrote in an e-mail to students Thursday. The requests—which are solicited every year for Spring housing—will determine rearrangements while giving preference to those returning from study abroad, said Jen Frank, assistant director ofaccommodations for RLHS. She added that assignments will be made with a goal of “maximizing happiness,” noting that RLHS is making the assumption that some students currently living on campus will request housing in Few, though students returning from abroad who wish to live there will get greater priority. “We’re going for a balanced approach rather than blanketly denying one group [their requests],” she said. More than 400 bed spaces in Few and about 150 to 200 in other West Campus quads and on Central Campus will be vacant in Spring, according to the RLHS Web site. The organization hopes to notify students of assignments around Thanksgiving Break, Frank said.

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percentage of the ads in the paper, said Jonathan Angier, general manager of The Chronicle. He added, however, that the paper is responding to similar hardships that affect the media industry today, albeit to a lesser extent. “Because the housing market has gone down in the last year and a half, the number of ads has decreased,” he added. “As a result we have to print fewer pages, which decreases the news hole. All newspapers have to work out a formula for the ratio between ads and news, and we’re no exception to that.”

Maintaining ad revenue Because The Chronicle attracts the attention of so many students, the paper is prime ad real estate for people who want to reach students. About 40 percent of the paper’s ad revenue comes from departments SEE CHRONICLE ON PAGE 10

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Threats aimed at Finnish youth

Pakistani troops fire at US aircrafts KABUL, Afghanistan

Pakistani soldiers fired

Finnish media are KAUHAJOKI, Finland that several bomb threats and other reporting \| have been sent to stuthreatening messages and schools nationwide. dents Police have confirmed Thursday they are investigating threatening phone messages in the Kauhajoki region that have caused panic among the students there. They gave no details of the contents of the messages. A gunman killed 10 people and himself at a trade school in Kauhajoki Tuesday. Police spokesman Urpo Lintula says "the text messages are threatening in nature and are causing fear and hysteria among young people, and we must stop them."

at American reconnaissance helicopters that

were escorting Afghan and U.S. ground troops along the volatile border Thursday, sparking a five-minute ground battle between the countries which have been allies in the war on terrorism, officials said. The five-minute exchange, which could have easily escalated into a much bigger conflict, could heighten tensions at a time the U.S. is stepping up cross-border operations in a region known as a haven for Taliban and al Qaeda militants. It also came as new Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari was in New York meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Latin America on Russian agenda MOSCOW Prime Minister Vladimir Putin relations with Latin America will be a forsays eign policy priority for the Russian government. who Putin, is meeting with visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, says Russia is willing to discuss further military contacts with Venezuela and help it develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Chavez said during Thursday's meeting that close ties between Venezuela and Russia would strengthen a multi-polar world.

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Although baseball players normally call the Durham Bulls Athletic Park home, the venue hosted a different crowd Thursday, including hundreds of the city’s homeless. The nationwide event, Project Homeless Connect, is sponsored by the 10-Year Results Plan to End Homelessness in Durham. The city adopted the plan in 2007 and aims to provide not only housing but social support to the homeless. Thursday’s event was the second annual Project Homeless Connect in Durham. Attendees were greeted by a multitude of services meant to help them toward stability, including health, veterans, public school, social work, childcare, legal, dental and even veterinary

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Last year the event was held at a local homeless shelter, but Edy Thompson, director of Durham’s' 10-Year Results Plan, said the stadium was chosen this year because of its accessibility to the homeless. “The Durham Bulls Club let us turn the stadium into a giant triage for one day,” she said. “This is the first they’ve ever done anything like this, and it’s great because all of the people ofDurham have access to the park but can’t necessarily get tickets. We wanted to extend the ballpark to everyone.”

The ballpark was indeed extended to the community. Last year’s 200 volunteers serviced 240 homeless people, and this year, even more volunteers, ranging from county employees to people who just felt like doing a good service, provided aid to

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Homeless people visit the DurhamBulls Athletic Park Thursday for socialand healthcareservices aspart of Project Homeless Connect, a nationwide event to combat homelessness. Approximately 400people attended. more than 400 homeless people, Thompson said. “It’s an unusual use [of the stadium], but it is a public facility and certainly appropriate,” said George Habel, vice president of the Durham Bulls Club. Gina Brown, an Army veteran who has been on the streets for four years while bat-

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There are days on campus when the Chapel is framed by a blue worthy of the California sky and Silicon Valley native Jenni Brandon feels right at home. But then it dawns on her that many of her fellow Blue Devils are soaking up the sun in pearls and polos rather than board shorts and flip flops —and the sophomore finds herself California dreaming all over again. “There are things that I’ve done my whole life that aren’t really proper here,” said Brandon. “The first time I wore tie-dye some of my friends just couldn’t believe it. People are still very aware that I’m not from the South, and I still feel that this is a SEE CALIFORNIA ON PAGE

CORRECTION A Sept. 23 article/'Slowing the presses,'

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Group attacks mascot on religious grounds by

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Mark Dice has been an active member in the 9/11 Truth Movement, taken on the Illuminati, protested the Iraq War and called President George W. Bush “one of the most dangerous terrorists alive today.” Now Dice is taking on the Duke Blue Devil. Last week, Dice—leader of a Christian group he calls The Resistance—posted a press release on his Web site calling for Duke to get rid of its mascot of 85 years. Dice said the Blue Devil is a satanic reference and is therefore offensive to the Christian community.

“You wouldn’t call a team ‘The Jihaddists,’ or ‘al Qaeda,’” said Dice, whose group describes itself as a Christian movement dedicated to resisting evil. Although Dice resides in San Diego and said he has no connection to Duke, he said he thought a large number of students, especially Christians, would agree with him. Religiously active or not, however, most students disagreed. “It’s a little awkward cheering ‘Go Devils, Go!’ at the basketball games, but most people understand [its original context],” said senior Alex Gorham, a member of Campus Crusade for Christ. “And from that perspective it’s appro-

priate.”

Duke's mascot, the Blue Devil, hasbeen criticized by a Christian group as satanicand offensive.

Many students said they see the Blue Devil as being an important part of Duke culture. “You have to see it for what it stands for, not for what it i5.... People believe in the Blue Devil,” said Ankit Bhargava, a second-year graduate student in engineering management. Others pointed to the historic, rather than religious, origins of the Blue Devil. SEE MASCOT ON PAGE 6

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Dean of the GraduateSchool Jo Rae Wright presents a proposal to initiate a tuitionremission policy for graduate students at the biweekly Academic Council meeting Thursday.

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At its first meeting of the 2008-2009 academic year, the Academic Council listened to a proposal to implement a tuition remission policy for graduate students. Dean of the Graduate School Jo Rae Wright said the prospective implementation of such a policy has been one of her

priorities since she was appointed dean two years ago. Duke’s current policy charges graduate students both registration fees afid tuition. The current policy opens the possibility for inconsistent distribution of scholarships to students, Wright said. SEE TUITION ON PAGE 10

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GORILLA BUSINESS

Dr.

Fidel Valea, associate professor ofobstetrics and gynecology at the Duke University Medical Center, performed a hysterectomy on a gorilla namedDonna at the North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro, N.C. Aug. 27. Donna is 40 years old and weighs 160 kilograms, or roughly 350 lbs. The gorilla had been sufferingfrom vaginal bleeding, and veterinarians discovered the bleeding was caused by uterine cancer. Valea sat down with The Chronicle ’s GabeStarosta to discuss how he was brought into the project, the procedure itself, and its aftermath. Fidel Valea: After the cancer was discovered [several months ago], Donna was taken to the North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, the vets fly in a veterinary surgeon, they put her to sleep, they cut her and they can’t do the surgery. The Chronicle: Why not? FV: Too much scarring, it was very difficult. You have to remember, in a human, if you find that, you still go forward, and if you happen to get into the bowel, you do a bowel resection or a colostomy, which is that you make them poop in a bag. But you can’t do that to a gorilla, because she will rip it apart. In fact, you can’t even put a dressing on the incision, because she will take that off. These are wild animals. TC: So how did [the surgeons] close the original incision? FV: Just like they would in a human. They sew it, and then put in what are called subcuticular sutures, which are stitches that lie under the surface so you can’t see anything. TC: And also so the animal can’t rip it out? FV; Right. If the animal just sees a scar, there’s no suture, it’s all dissolvable, it’s all on the inside. TC: What happened next? FV: Sometime in the summer, I get a call from one of the 08/GYNs who was a resident with me, and he said, “Hey, I have a favor to ask. I’m going to send you an MRI in the mail, look at it and give me a call.” So I said, “Sure, I just need some —I’m not up on my gorilla anatomy.” TC: Had you done procedures on animals before? FV: The only animals that I’ve worked on was a pig in anatomy lab. You do some dogs —but pigs, really—but certainly never a primate. I told them I would do it, with a couple of conditions. No. 1, I need the vets there, be-

Q &A with Dr. Fidel Valea

cause I don’t know jack about taking care of a gorilla. Number two, give me something on gorilla anatomy so that I can go in prepared. So they sent me an article from 1946—1’m expecting a copy of an anatomy text or something, but no, just one article that was a case study of four

gorillas. TC: So what happened once you got to Asheboro? FV: We had called ahead, so they darted the gorilla and put her to sleep. Then I spoke to the vet [who had been flown in for the previous attempt] to see what problems they had had and why they had bailed out. TC: And this is on the day you are scheduled to perform the surgery? FV: Yeah, that day. So he told me about all the scarring, and then the two 08/GYNs and I operated on the gorilla. Let me tell you something: It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done. TC: Can you tell me a little bit more about the nuts and bolts of the actual surgery? FV: After making the incision from the belly button to the pelvic bone, you see all the scarring. If you’ve ever cooked spaghetti and leave it in the pot and then tried to get some, the whole thing comes up because it’s all mangled and stuck together. TC: And that’s what’s happening in this case? FV: Right. In order to get in, you can’t just cut across like spaghetti because they’ll die. So I had to individually tease out —untangle and unstick with scissors—all these strands of bowel to cut through the scars and separate the areas. The essence of the operation is really untangling the bowel to separate it out, find the uterus, and operate. TC: Did the gorilla recover well? FV: That day, the gorilla was a little bit under the weather. The second day, she was fine. By the end of the week, she was back in the general population. TC; Would you like to go to the zoo and check her out? FV: Oh yes. I said, “I will accept no payment, all I ask is for permission to go back and see my patient.” And [the vet] says, “I’ll one-up you. When you want to come back and see her, call me and I will give you a personal private tour behind the scenes.”

Dr. Fidel Valea, associate professor ofobstetrics and gynecology at DUMC, performed a hysterectomy ona gorilla from theN.C Zoo Aug. 27. TC: When do you plan to do that? FV; I hope to do it either this weekend or next, because I want to go before the winter comes. Not that she’s going to know any different. TC: You’ve got to keep an eye on her, right? FV: Well, in a human, you’re going to give them additional treatment, either chemotherapy or radiation. In a gorilla you can’t do that.... Neither chemo nor radiation is very effective and very stressful. TC: How have you reacted to all this? FV: I’ll tell you, this is the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my professional life. I’m getting e-mails every day. I got an e-mail from a woman in California who I don’tknow and she said, “I saw the articles in the paper and I just want you to know I love you.” This has gotten a lot of press. I am more known now for Donna the gorilla than anything else I’ve done. TC: And how many hysterectomies have you done before? FV: In my lifetime? I do about 100 a year and have been doing 100 a year since 1985, so that’s about 2,300 hysterectomies, easy.

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CALIFORNIA from page 3 very Southern campus.” But with Californiaboasting thesecondhighest number of students in the Class of 2012—following North Carolina’s 466 matriculants—Brandon’s culture shock may be subsiding. Although Duke and the Golden State are separated by more than 3,000 miles, a record-breaking number of Californians on East Campus has begun to shrink the distance between the coasts. 149 members of the freshman class hail from California—nearly double the number of students in the Class of 2007 and up from 106 students in the current sophomore class. Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag

“It's just not true that we’re

overwhelmed by students from the Northeast.” Christoph Guttentag, dean oj undergraduate admissions said the state’s representation is to be expected given that California graduates more high school seniors than any other state. But this year’s figures may come as a surprise to students who had written off the Gothic Wonderland as a way station for displaced New Yorkers and Floridians. “It’s just not true that we’re overwhelmed by students from the Northeast,” Guttentag said. “The reality is that there’s a significant representation from Florida, Texas, California and North

Carolina.... I think the geographic distribution at Duke is better than at a lot of other colleges.” Luring Californians away from their famed coastline, however, poses special challenges for admissions officers. Parents are almost always wary of sending their children away from home for the first time to a school on the other side of the country, Guttentag said. But he noted that many of the states in which Duke’s recruiting efforts are most successful lack a famed state school—a problem California, the home of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles, does not share. Although increased information sessions and a savvy Southern California admissions counselor may have helped the admissions office overcome these obstacles, Guttentag said he is not entirely sure what the difference was with the Class of 2012. “It’s hard to know,” he said. “Understanding why 17-year-olds make the decisions they do is not always easy.” Freshman John Mekjian, a native of Orange, Calif., said he can sense the heightened presence of Californians on East Campus—and it has eased his transition to the Southern way of life. “It’s been nice to reminisce about the California weather and In-N-Out [Burger],” he said. Brandon said most of her friends back home, and even many of her friends on campus, are perplexed by her decision to switch coasts. “Every single tour I give [as an Admissions Ambassador] I get asked, ‘Why didn’t you just go to Stanford?”’ she said. “But I think a lot of us come out because we want the different experience and to see the other side of things.”

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of Durham, said he believed he was one of the few alumni who would support a new mascot

Rev. John McDonagh, associate director and campus minister of Duke’s Newman Catholic Student Center, said the Blue Devil should be thought of for its original reference, nofin a religious context.

The Blue Devils were a group of French soldiers who won their fame in 1915 fighting in the Alps during World War I, according to the University Archives. In 1923, the nickname “Blue Devils” was first endorsed at Duke by The Chronicle. Students chose the name because they were inspired by the way the soldiers liberated people, McDonagh said. Flynn Cratty, Trinity ’O4 and director of College Ministry at the First Baptist Church

“It is making light of a spiritual reality, but we’ve never been up in arms about it,” he said. The Blue Devil has been “one of the most recognized and respected college mascots for the past 80 years,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said in a statement. “We’re confident that this is not an issue for the vast and wide Duke community, and the Blue Devil will continue to strike fear in the hearts of our opponents for years to come.” Dice said he is in favor of free speech—he has called for legal action against Duke. He added, however, that the group lacks the resources to pursue a lawsuit.

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Stop the Draft â€”Reduce Home Energy Costs By Deborah B. McGiffin Extension Agent, Family & Consumer Sciences North Carolina Cooperative Extension, Durham County Center

BRRRR feel that cool air coming from somewhere in your home? Have you ever been in a home that had a draft? Was it your home? Air leakage can be a serious problem and rather costly to the homeowner. Air leaks or "drafts" are the uncontrolled movement of air into a house. Think of your home like a balloon. It expands and contracts with airflow. Warm air leaking into your home during the summer and out of the home during the winter can waste a substantial portion of your energy dollars. One of the quickest dollar-savings tasks you can do is caulk, seal, and weather-strip all seams, cracks and openings to the outside. You can save 10% or more on your energy bill by reducing air leaks in your home.

Homeowners can perform a "simple" home energy audit. The key is to be diligent while performing the of your home and keep a running record of areas you have inspected and problems found. This will help you prioritize your upgrades. If you choose to perform your own audit you will need to follow four simples steps: check for air leaks, check for adequate insulation, inspect heating and cooling system, and evaluate your home's lighting.

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to locate these leaks. Moving air causes the smoke to waver, and you will feel a draft when it cools the hand.

Once you have found the air leaks the question will be what type of materials to use. There are a number of different types of weatherization materials located in your local hardware store. Before you go do the research. Visit the North Carolina Cooperative Extension website

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housing/pubs/weatherize.pdf. The size of the air leak and the scope of the project will dictate the type of material is used. You might choose from the following materials: caulk, mastic, spray-foam or weather-stripping. For more information on energy conservation tips for your home, contact Deborah McGirfin at 560-0521, Durham County's center of North Carolina Cooperative Extension.

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CHRONICLE from page 1 and organizations affiliated with the University, which has not suffered the same financial hardship as commercial businesses. The number of paid subscriptions from alumni, parents and Trustees—who have a vested interest in University news—also remains high and has not fallen in recent years, Allison said. “But if the University decided to have cutbacks, we wouldn’t be insulated from the real world,” Angier said. DSPC has not completely escaped the economic downturn, however, because University-affiliates are not the only ones filling The Chronicle’s coffers. Ever since The Chronicle established DSPC and became an independent nonprofit in 1993, the business has built up revenue through the housing market in the Triangle area by publishing its Housing Guide.This practice, which is unusual for a college newspaper, brings in 50 percent of the profits, Angier said. If the housing market drops much lower, Angier said The Chronicle might have to resort to drastic measures by embracing its educational foundation side and appealing to grants from alumni, instead of continuing to operate on the same business model as commercial papers. But it would take dire circumstances to push The Chronicle off its business track. Thanks to steady profits for the past few years, The Chronicle has built up a healthy reserve to carry it through relatively shaky financial times, said former Chronicle editor Karen Blumenthal, Trinity ’Bl and chair of the DSPC Board of Directors.

Sticking to print The Chronicle’s relative prosperity to date reflects the readership habits of students, Allison said. Most students prefer to hold the paper in their hands instead of checking the articles online, and nearly 50 percent reported they pick it up in classroom buildings or the Bryan Center, according to the 2005 Chronicle Readership Survey. Students prefer the tangible tabloid for several reasons, staff members said. For those who have visited www.dukechronicle.com, the Web site’s layout may appear lackluster compared to the The Chronicle in print. The vast majority of The Chronicle staffs production works toward putting out the physical newspaper, Angier said. Out of the more than 100-person staff, only a couple students work exclusively for online content, and a handful produce online-only features. “We’re very tied to seeing our names in print,” Allison said. “Because we’re here on campus, we might not appreciate the impact the Web site could have.” The tabloid size—as opposed to the broadsheet format ofThe New York Times or Daily Tar Heel—also appeals to students, so they can read it easily in class, said senior Sean Moroney, The Chronicle’s online editor.

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in one place.” Although the stadium cannot he used every day as a service center, the event models a site that could be created to help the homeless more regularly, Thompson said. “The Project Homeless Connect day is the ideal model of a service center, meeting the needs of the homeless people in an easy manner... and raising communities to the awareness of that fact that people that are homeless aren’t just drunks and had. They are people whose needs can be solved with an economic solution—a permanent day service center,” she said. On any given night in Durham, there are 590 homeless people out on the streets, Thompson said. In order to counteract this problem, the 10-Year Results Plan has implemented four key strategies: prevention, increased access to social services, increased access to,employment opportunities and support in finding and maintaining permanent housing —all elements of the stadium event.

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“[A tuition remission policy] would result in a reduction in taxable compensation for research associates,” she said. She added that it would also simplify accounting by making scholarship application more uniform. The switch to this policy, however, would cost the University a maximum loss of $2 million per year, even with some current grants available for rebudgeting, Wright said. She will present the tuition remission proposal at the Board of Trustees meeting next week, with the hope that the policy will begin to be implemented July of next year. Wright also raised other funding questions, including Duke’s competitiveness with peer institutions in terms of offering financial support for graduate students. Duke currently offers nine months of support, whereas some other institutions offer 12. Also at the meeting, Provost Peter Lange and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask reviewed the plans for f)hase one of the proposed New Campus construction along Campus Dnve. The

development, which ideally will as a bridge from West Campus toward the Nasher Museum of Art and East Campus, will consist of residential buildings, primarily for undergraduates, as well as dining, recreation and academic facilities. act

In other business: Following Wright’s presentation, Faculty Scholar Award Committee Chair Benjamin Ward announced the three seniors recommended by the committee as Faculty Scholars. Paula Rosine Long, Aaron Pollack and Daniel Roberts were chosen after a competitive nomination and interview process, where they were “really put through their paces,” Ward said. Council members approved the committee’s selection. Academic Council Chair Paula McClain announced the selection of Professor of Neurobiology Dona Chikaraishi as the vice chair of Executive Committee of the Academic Council. Representatives from each academic school presented the nominations of candidates for Earned Degrees in each school after summer sessions. Numbers of nominees ranged from 196 in the Graduate School to none in the School ofLaw.

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In welcoming Miami to Cameron Indoor Stadium for Thursday night’s ACC opener, Duke hoped to gain an indication of where it stacks up in its own conference. In falling to Miami 3-1, the Blue Devils showcased their scrappy, passionate style of play, but also discovered a need to improve certain technical aspects of their game. “Miami took of everyadvantage 3 MIAMI thing that we made Y7l nWr 1 W«li tJUIxE a mistake on, and that’s what good teams in this conference are going to do,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. After the Blue Devils (9-4, 0-1 in the ACC) took the first game 25-22, they fell behind early in the second and couldn’t recover—for the rest of the night. In failing to control the ball and putting together quality touches on its side ofthe net, Duke foreshadowed the troubles that would plague it for the rest of the night The team never could settle into a rhythm in an eventual 25-15 loss. In the third and critical set, which featured 14 ties and five lead changes, the Blue Devils held a 22-21 lead. Several late sequences, however, did not end up in the

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Missed chances That is what the No. 10 Blue Devils (81-1, 0-0-1 in the ACC) will remember after a 0-0 draw against No. 15 Boston College (6-1-2, 0-0-1) Thursday night in Koskinen Stadium. While Jo] Duke dominated possession and DUKE / 0 easilyoutshotthe Eagles after halftime, it could not come up with the breakthrough goal for a win. It wasn’t exactly the start to the ACC season that head coach Robbie Church had dreamed of—especially because it could have been different. “We missed three sitters,” said Church, visibly frustrated after the game. “Perfect opportunities.” Church changed his formation to begin the second half on the attack after the scoreless first He switched from the 4-4-2 to the 43-3 in order to have an extra player in the front third. The plan worked on every level—except, that is, on the scoreboard. “We know every ACC game is going to be a battle,” defender Christie McDonald said. “We are going to have to fight for every goal and defend for our lives.” No one could accuse Duke of not fighting. With Church screaming, “Step up the pressure,” the first 10 minutes of the second half produced a plethora of scoring chances. The difference between the first halfand second was visible. “We didn’t play as well as we were capable in the first half,” Church said. “I thought we were a step slow.”

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NeitherNo. 15Boston College nor No. 10 Duke lit up the scoreboard in theirscoreless tie Thursday night. After the first 45 minutes, the Blue Devils dominated time of possession. But even after earning five comer kicks in the second half alone, the Blue Devils could not slip a goal by Boston College goalie Jillian Mastroianni. The Eagles’ goalie also may have handed Duke its best scoring chance of the night. In the 63rd minute, McDonald hit a free kick into the box that Mastroianni hobbled and then dropped, giving Duke’s Kay Anne Gummersall an attractive chance from inside the box. But Mastroianni made up for her mistake with a diving stop, ending the Blue Devils’ early second-half pressure.

The Blue Devils were stingier in allowing chances. Duke’s aggressive style allowed it to outshoot Boston College 10-5 in the second half and both overtimes combined. Boston College looked determined to grind out the game, seemingly satisfied with a draw. It even substituted a player with less than half a minute to play in double overtime in order to run out the clock. In the end, the Blue Devils couldn’t capitalize when it counted—Mastrioianni batted away yet another Duke free kick with under two minutes remaining in the game, when the final score was all but decided.

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In Duke’s first conference loss to Maryland Friday night, senior forward Mike Grella’s somewhat dubious red card stole the show. And now, because of NCAA rules, Duke (4-3, 1-1 in the ACC) will be without its preseason All-American when it takes on Clemson (2-4-1, 1-1) Friday at 7 p.m. in Koskinen Stadium. Grella’s ejection has resulted in a uemson ra i seci intensity and urgency in the Blue vs Devils’ preparation Duke for an entire week of practice. As closesly as head coach John Kerr FRIDAY, 7 p.m. Koskinen Stadium may watch the game, his vigilant eye didn’t even catch the supposed altercation initiated by Grella, the team’s leading scorer. “I didn’t see the play,” Kerr said. “The linesman claimed that there was an altercation in front of the goal where there was a lot of pushing and shoving going on. The

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linesman claimed that there was an altercation right on the 18-yard line, but I didn’t see it, and the referee didn’t see it, but the linesman claimed he saw it.... The Maryland player went down a little too easy, in our opinion, and got Mike Grella sent off.” Grella’s booking confused his teammates, who seemed to do nothing to warrant such a steep punishment. “Basically, the defender went down, but Grella didn’t really touch him,” freshman forward Kyle Bethel said. “Grella just pushed him away, so he just held his face and fell to the ground.” And to junior midfielder Josh Bienenfeld, it was an instance of physical play that is simply a part of the game and should have resulted in a lesser penalty, at most. “I thought it would be a yellow,” Bienenfeld said. “I didn’t even know it would come out as a red.” Whether or not the ejection was justified, Kerr knows the team absolutely needs to get past the play. SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 12

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ed into the well-known “Go to Hell Carolina” chant most often heard on the basketball court or the football field. Saturday, But when No. 9 Duke No. 5 hosts No. 5 North UNC Carolina at Williams Field at 1 p.m., it will w0 3 be clear that this stoUUK6 r ie( i rivalry translates onto the field hockey SATURDAY, 1 p.m. pitch, as well. Williams Field Carolina,” “It’s head coach Beth Bozman said. “You don’t need any great motivational speeches before this game.... We respect them, and you want to beat a team you hold in top regard.

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M. SOCCER from page 11 “We have already addressed it, and we are trying to move on in the right fashion,” Kerr said. “We are disciplined, and we need to keep our composure.” Just ais much as Grella’s penalty evokes frustration for the team* it raises the question of who can step up in the offensiveminded forward’s place. And as the team makes adjustments, it is clear that the role of the freshmen will become even more substantial than it already has been. Kerr speaks at length about the balance of experience within his team, but also recognizes the fact that four freshman Bethel, lan Kalis, Temi Molinar and Joseph Pak—are in the starting lineup. And as the team’s second-leading scorer behind Grella, Bethel will be called on to lead the offensive charge. When Bethel talks about his own game, —

VOLLEYBALL from page 11 home team’s favor as Miami (13-0, 2-0) prevailed 25-22. And then Duke dug itself into a deep hole in the fourth and final set —one that it couldn’t escape despite displaying impressive resiliency. It was junior Rachael Moss, who led her team with 22 kills for the match, spearheading the comeback that ended in a 25-20 loss.

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It is a fun competition.” Bozman’s players echoed this sentiment, as evidenced not only by their emphatic post-practice cheer, but also in their attitude entering the game. “It’s Duke-UNC,” junior co-captain Lauren Miller said. “So no matter what, you are going to be excited to play.” This chapter in the historic rivalry will be all the more competitive because of the recent success ofboth programs. The Blue Devils (6-2, 0-1 in the ACC) have won six of their last seven games, including a victory over then-No. 5 lowa. The Tar Heels (6-2, 0-0), meanwhile, are the defending national champions and come into Durham riding a five-game winning streak of their own. Duke faces the challenge of shutting down a high-powered North Carolina offense, which has scored as many as eleven his voice lowers slightly and his tone becomes more reserved and humble. His speech slows, and he carefully selects his every word. Even so, he is unable to hide a grin, the most obvious sign of his excitement. “I’ve been playing with [Grella] so far,” Bethel said. “I’ll really be the only true forward playing. We also have Cole [Grossman], who is a midfielder. He’s going to be playing fight below me as the attacking mid. So it will be up to us two to get the goals that Grella won’t be here to get.” Bethel, quick to credit his teammates, remains confident that he is ready for this type of increased responsibility, despite the fact that it is just his eighth college game. And though Bethel may be humble, his fellow Blue Devils aren’t willing to downplay his importance in Friday’s ACC affair. “He’s going to have to come out hard like he always does,” Bienenfeld said. “He needs to have a good performance to help us out.” While disappointed in the outcome, Moss was impressed with the never-say die mentality of her teammates—one that the Blue Devils will need whep they take on Florida State, Friday in Cameron. “We didn’t give up,” Moss said. “We just took a little too long to get going, which won’t work in this league. We have a horrible feeling right now, but we’re going to use it as fuel to hopefully finish the conference season without losing again.”

goals in a game this year and is led by junior Danielle Forword, who has scored 12 goals in this young season. However, the Blue Devils maintain that the game will be determined not by the talent of their opponent, but by Duke’s own unique game plan. “We’re not really' concentrating on them as much as we’re trying to improve bit by bit, and we are improving every game,” Bozman said. “We need to stick to our game plan. Things will work out well if we stick to that plan.” “We just focus on playing our game and doing things that we know we can do really well,” senior co-captain Marian Dickinson said. “We’re not focusing as much on them as we are on ourselves.” Furthermore, the Blue Devils have no trepidations regarding North Carolina’s higher ranking, or their previous success. “The whole underdog thing goes away when it comes to Duke-UNC,” Miller said. “It doesn’t matter who’s ranked higher, but rather it’s just an exciting rivalry. Everyone gets up to play in that game.” Dickinson also was unfazed by the Tar Heels’ previous success.

“I don’t think thatlast year has anything do with this year,” she said. One new aspect of the rivalry, though, is Duke’s relative youth this season: the Blue Devils have six freshmen who will face the Tar Heels for the first time, including midfielder Megan Deakins. However, nerves appear to be playing no role in Deakins’ preparation for the showdown. “I feel extremely confident. Everyone on the team is so helpful,” Deakins said. “UNC is no different or any better than any other team we’ve played.” Indeed, while the matchup versus the Tar Heels is paramount because of the rivalry, in terms of Duke’s goals for the season it is just another challenging game. “Every time we’ve been tested and we come out on top it’s only helped us more,” Bozman said, “It is such a growing experience for most of the team because we’re so young.” Deakins’ outlook on the contest was a bit more straight forward. “Our goal for this season is to win a national championship,” Deakins said. “A win will give us confidence for the future.” to

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your opponents in the second half.” Against a Cavalier team that has several inherent advantages, those adjustments will be crucial for Duke to gets its seniors their first conference win. Virginia’s size, which safety Adrian AyeDarko called “legitimately NFLrready,” could pose a problem for an offensive line that is already small by ACC standards. Additionally, while the Cavaliers’ best, quarterback, Peter Lalich, has been kicked off the team, his replacements are more mobile, adding another dimension to Virginia’s offense. Most importantly for the Cavaliers,though, is that they, too, are coming off a bye, which has given them a chance to recuperate from blowout losses to Southern

California and Connecticut and implement a new game plan for the Blue Devils. Add up those factors, and it wouldn’t surprise Cutcliffe to see a Virginia team better than the one trounced by the Trojans and Huskies. ‘You don’t want to start with USC—I don’t care who you are,” Cutcliffe said. “They have had an open date to gather themselves. I’m expecting to see the Virginia we’ve all come to know.” But as the players have come to know themselves, this young season has come to belong to Duke. And when game time arrives, they don’t see any reason for that to change. “People know that they can’t come in here chalking it up as a ‘W’ anymore,” Tauiliili said. “I just can’t wait to go out there at 12 Saturday and get that first win.”

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my entire airline breakfast (au revoir, croissant) in the back of a black cab while listening to a British gentleman’s somber drone list the country’s deaths by teenage violence this year in sobering detail: “Jan. 3, John Doe 1 stabbed in Essex; Jan. 15, John Doe 2 beaten with a bat in Manchester; Jan. 18, John Doe 3 peeled and made into sausage....” (Clearly sad, but because the radio newsman was English, also strangely soothing.) Arriving at my dormitory, I unlocked the door to my cardboard box of a room, plopped down on what I thought was a mattress but felt more like metal slinkies at a Halloween party (draped in cloth and perhaps pretending to be a collective ghost?), and discovered, with much the same feeling I imagine I would have if my left arm spontaneously fell off, that my laptop’s motherboard had decided to jump ship some time during my flight (clearly ignoring the appropriate form of travel in its personification and only adding insult to injury). Then I had to go grocery shopping—and that was the most depressing part of my first day. Ogling the food in the supermarket, everything seems decently priced if you just read the numbers, but once you factor in currency, multiply everything by two and cry, there is really nothing left but to shuffle off to the pasta aisle and decide how best to ration spaghetti strands that week. My more worldly peers have told me foreign currency is like Monopoly money (also worth more than the U.S. dollar) and thus very easy to spend. Experiencing how painful it is to hand over each British pound, I don’t quite buy that, which is good because I just don’t have the money. It is trying times like these that make people stressed and cantankerous. And it is when people are stressed and cantankerous that the Germans

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Let me explain. I casually mentioned to flatmates M and S, of Germany, that I had witnessed one of the newly moved-in residents of the next-door suite, filled with U.K.-native freshmen (who, sorry kids, aren’t cool here either), scuttle through the broken fire door between our flats and snatch our toilet paper. “But ve bought dat and it vas quite expensive!” M said, before the two began an energetic discussion in German. Their reaction to the theft was unexpected, because a) it was just a bit of TP and b) flatmate A, of Denmark, had told me the night before that Germans were very agreeable, kind and humble people after the whole, you know, World War II thing. The rest of Europe holds the Nazi card, and Germany has to fold. “A German can’t win an argument,” A said. “It’s true. Ask any German if he’s proud ofhis country.” I said that was the saddest thing I had ever heard. “Holocaust.” And in that case-in-point scenario, I conceded. I was worried M and S were planning some sort of retaliatory invasion plotting our awkward alliance of Germans, Americans and Danes against the Brits and suggested a friendly note posted on the other side of the fire door. In retrospect, the one English word I did recognize from their conversation was “cucumber,” so it is very likely they were talking about something else (or were otherwise, very sick, sick people) and my interruption was unnecessarily, ahem, preemptive. M dictated the note: “Ve know you stole our toilet paper. It vas expensive. Buy your own ent give us back.” I wrote; “Howdy, neighbors! Did you borrow some TP? A bit pricey. Would you mind throwing some rolls our way when you can? xoxo!” I fancied myself a diplomat. Our neighbors fancied me a tool. I received a sarcastic note in return and an added bonus of angry glares in the hallway. It seems like an awful lot of hurt feelings over what amounts to £2, but when the exchange rate is out to get you and your little dog too, every penny counts. On the bright side, if the dollar bill continues to plummet in value, even if our TP isn’t returned, I’ll have something else my flat can use.

Lysa Chen is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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By “study,” I mean I huddle in a dark room dissecting the nebulous motivations of fictitious people. In film class, they give you fancy words to snack on so you don’t waste away in the dark obscurity of cinematic criticism. Recent tasties include; causal agent, mise-en-scene, genrification and my personal bunchacrunch; diegesis. Note: There is no practical application ofdiegesis in daily conversation. I can offer you byzantine claims on the cathartic role janetwu of transgender icons in the glam rock subgenre (Hedcounting sheep wig trumps Dr. Frank-NFurter). But should convo turn to politics or finance, my mind moseys away via yellow brick road into silhouetted sunset. Mine is a fairyland of studio-approved story goodness. Go ahead real world, make my day. Ask and you shall receive—in bulk. I don’t know much about them physics books, but I digg CERN’s particle acceleration like salacious celeb gossie. Sorry Apple Trailers, I’m busy loading my hadron collider rap YouTube video and completing my subatomic particle zoo order (can I have a bonus Tachyon plush toy with my Lepton-6 pack?) And last week I did something that hails ofnon-fire nonice apocalypse: I read Bloomberg.com. And I was intrigued. (Insert three beats of dramatic orchestra music.) I wasn’t intrigued by the fact that we’re probably heading towards a massive economic slowdown that will halt the dolla-dolla bills ofmy once-ambitious young adult career—so long Leblanc Mirabeau in red. “Depressed” is the more appropriate terminology for that headline. I was depressed, stupefied—Great Depressified. What I was intrigued by was the stark smell of Change. And since habit compels me to contextualize through what I know best, voila; genre study. ‘“Holy S—, What’s Going On?’ is a highbrow Wall Street drama meets sci-fi anarchist thriller gone ballistic on natural disaster action meets anti-war international political dramedy.” Right. Even Schumacher wouldn’t produce this hot tranny mess. In being so genetically hybridized, this hypothetical film requires some serious plot trimming, i.e. cut a few reaction chains so the audience can follow (my cause-effect web gets knotty somewhere around subprime crisis, gas shortage, Greek Security Team hackers, Category 4 tropical hurricane, parochial Bible-thumping “don’t know much about foreign or domestic policy” lipstick chick VP nominee with baby daddy drama debating a $7OO billion government bailout). Too bad you can’t splice reality. Or can you, Hadron Collider... So what does it mean when the absurdity of the actual trumps the absurdity of Hollywood? It means that not only is the natural landscape shuddering around and in response to us, but so too is the socio-political landscape. We watch it—history, that is—being made whether we’re middle row middle seat privileged or front far right big guy blocked. Same disaster, different terms: Do we jeer? Do we clap? Do we update our Facebook status in citizenly angst? Answer: Word. Literally: print, oral, electronic. To prolong this happy movie metaphor: Be the won’tshut-it-squeaky-oh-so-loud American commentator in the theater. If you think the quality of the film is undermined by the lead’s lack of credibility, the incongruous causal connections, the excruciating lack of resolution, then chuck those scholastic snacks at the screening supervisor and edit the IMDb page of our future—otherwise you’re just a bum with no class. With every cataclysm comes change, recovery, the potential for good; New Deal, Golden Age of Hollywood, hello 19305. And if there’s one thematic constant in the genre of “reality,” it is that culture will respond as it always does to the rocked out, ODed, gone to rehab “E! True Hollywood Story oflife.” And guess what folks, now we are the movers and the shakers. Here’s looking at you, emo kid.

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fall officially rolls around, I’m forced to wonder, as I have now for four years, at how few people notice the leaves. Leaves fall from trees all over the world, but at Duke they do it in rather spectacular style This is especially true on East Campus, where on a windy autumn day you can sit on a bench on the quad and be treated to a veritable blizzard of red, ■} L*ftr brown and gold And so it’s always a bit surprising and a bit sad to see how many people OllVCr S 1101*01180 not to notice the manage YOU tell me show that Mother Nature is kind enough to put on for them. I suppose they’re just in a hurry to get where •

they’re going. Hurriedness is a common trait at Duke; after all, one doesn’t get into this school by being lackadaisical. And whether you’re grabbing lunch and a coffee on the go, or trying to cram yourself on to this exact bus because you absolutely cannot wait for the next one, Duke’s frenetic pace leaves little time for slowing down: Work hard, play hard, pass out, repeat. And a lot of students seem determined to hurry through this part of their life, too. A good portion ofevery freshman class arrives on campus knowing, without doubt or hesitation, exacdy what they will major in, exactly where they will apply for law, medical or graduate school, exactly where they will be in five, 10 and 15 years. Indeed, some of these folks seem annoyed that they have to bother with the intervening time at all. If they already know what’s at the end of the road, why not just skip to it? And there’s nothing wrong with that approach, as far as it goes. Sometimes, however, it can cause problems. I recently overheard a hushed and worried conversation between two freshmen on a C-l bus. It seems that their respective long-term plans had included becoming investment bankers, and making absolutely obscene amounts ofmoney, which is all well and good. The problem was and is that the global financial markets have spent the last several weeks exploding, then recoagulating just enough to explode again.

“I might end up switching to pre-law,” moaned one. “Or worse,” groaned the second, “Humanities!” Events had intruded into the plan. Events are the planner’s worst nightmare. They are the reason that the best laid plans are gang aft agley. You can prepare until you’re blue in the face, and still be sure that events will have the best of you. They are unpleasant, unexpected, troublesome, and they are an absolute fact of life. And they are exacerbated by trying too hard to hurry through them. If the two troubled bankers-in-waiting had not been trying to immediatize the far future, while ignoring the all-important time between now and then, they might have realized that no course-correction was required, or at least not an immediate and fundamental one. Sure, the Dow’s dropping like a rock. Sure, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed Chair Ben Bernanke are pushing their Hanky-Bemanke-panky plan that may save the world or may do nothing at all. But these freshmen have four years to see how everything unfolds, at the end of which the world may look very different. Why rush yourself toward problems that may have solved themselves before you ever have to confront them? My point isn’t that the financial meltdown isn’t serious—it is. My point is that when you try to rush through life, events may very well trip you up. And the faster you’re moving, the harder it’s going to hurt. Sometimes it’s worth it to slow down a bit, to look around, to appreciate not just what may happen in the future, but what’s going on now. That doesn’t mean drifting through life without goal or purpose. It doesn’t even mean you shouldn’t have a 15-year plan. What it means is that if you’re not trying to rush to the end of the plan, it’s a lot harder to be tripped up by events on the way there. Not having to know the exact details of the future allows you to adjust course more gendy and easily, instead of forcing you to re-plot each point along the way. And, of course, it gives you time to watch the leaves fall. They really are quite Spectacular here. I hope you don’t miss them.

Oliver Shenmse is a Trinity senior. His column runs every otherFriday.

letterstotheeditor Save Halloween The Chapel Hill Town Council was presented with a report Monday night outlining a set of strategies designed to limit the size of the Halloween festivities on Franklin St. Under this plan, the town of Chapel Hill would try to discourage attendance by students from Duke and other Triangle universities. This misguided plan would severely restrict Duke students’ ability to enjoy Halloween in Chapel Hill. Whether the town of Chapel Hill wants to recognize it or not, dressing up for the annual Halloween party on Franklin Street has become a fun and harmless tradition for Duke students. Rather than discouraging student attendance, the town of Chapel Hill should think more creatively about ways to recoup their substantial costs for managing the Halloween event.

I have written a memo to Chapel Hill City Manager Roger Standi urging that, in recognition of the special connection between Duke and UNC, he keep Franklin St.’s Halloween festivities open to Duke students and that he solicit more input before making major changes to the Halloween event. The full memo can be found online at dsg.duke.edu. I look forward to working with the town of Chapel Hill to ensure that Duke students can continue to enjoy this signature Halloween event. Andrew Brown vice president ofDurham and regional affairs, DSG Trinity ’ll The four Fs I was disappointed to read Nana DufFuor’s Sept. 18 column, “Playing Blue Devil’s advocate,” as she clearly has a different image of Duke’s athletic pro-

gram than I do. Being a manager for the football team, I’ve come to see exactly what Coach David Cutcliffe and his staff are about. As he puts it, his program is about the “four Fs,” in order of priority: faith, family, future, football. That is, your faith comes first, then your family, then planning for your future (i.e. academics) and only then comes football. I’ve seen a man wholeheartedly committed to excellence—not only in football, but in every' aspect of life. He’s a man truly committed to virtue—he preaches hard work, commitment, dedication and humility on a daily basis. In fact, I’ve heard Cutcliffe regularly instill in his players the virtues of “intelligence and character,” which Duffuor seems to think are so lacking. I also think that Duffuor’s indictment of the response to Michael Tauiliili’s situation lacks prudence. Given the exploits of the Durham Police Department in the past three years and the fact that I assume Duffuor knows nothing more than what is public information about the situation, her claims are more grandiose than appropriate. Duke athletics is known throughout the country (and, to some extent, the whole world!) for doing things the right way. Duke athletics graduates its athletes better than almost any other school, does a ton of community service, provides huge exposure for the University and strives for athletic excellence all the time. For that, we—Duffuor included—are all privileged to be at a school that truly does blend academics and athletics well. I’d encourage Duffuor and anyone else interested to visit the following Web site: www.ncsasports.org/college-recruiting/ power-

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