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The Duke University Police Department has released its annual Clery Campus Security Report, which few changes from the 2007 report on campus crime. According to the document’s crime statistics, the totals for forcible sex offenses, assault, aggravated drug law arrests and drug law violations remained the same or decreased while burglaries, motor vehicle Gloria Graham

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violations and arrests for the possession of illegal weapons all increased slightly. Burglaries had the highest increase: 53 in 2006 to 63 in 2007. There were 301 alcohol consumption violations in 2007, with 463 in 2005 and 294 in 2006. The neighboring North Carolina Central University has a similar-sized undergraduate population but only nine liquor law violations. North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported 533 and 202 liquor law violations respectively, but their undergraduate populations are three to four times larger than Duke’s. “Alcohol consumption [violations]

were very high and have fluctuated over the years,” said sophomore Andrew Brown, a member of the DUPD Student Advisory Council. The report is issued in compliance with the jeanne Clery Disclosure ofCampus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, part of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which requires colleges and universities to publish a report about crime on and near their campuses by Oct. 1 of each year. The report contains campus crime statistics from the past three years, and statistics must reflect crimes from on-campus, unobstructed public SEE REPORT ON PAGE 7

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Iraqis gain control, more lose lives The number of Iraqi security BAGHDAD forces killed in September rose by nearly a third to 159 compared with the same period last year, Associated Press figures showed Tuesday. U.S. troop deaths for the same period fell by nearly 40 percent to 25 percent. The figures are a sign that U.S. military is increasingly relying on the Iraqis, including U.S.-allied Sunni fighters, to take the lead in operations so they can assume responsibility for their own security and let the Americans eventually withdraw. Overall civilian casualty figures remained relatively low despite a spate of deadly attacks in Baghdad and surrounding areas during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. ~

Many killed in temple stampede

JODHPUR, India Thousands of pilgrims panicked by false rumors of a bomb stampeded at a Hindu temple in western India Tuesday, killing at least 168 people in the crush to escape. Television footage showed dozens of bodies lying on the sidewalk, while nearby frantic people tried to revive unconscious devotees, slapping their faces and pressing on their chests. The disaster occurred just as the doors of the temple were being opened for worship at dawn for more than 12,000people celebrating a key Hindu festival in the historic city of Jodhpur.

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INYOKERN, Calif. Thousands of dollar bills stolenfrom a restaurant in California's high desert could not have been more clearly marked: The Homestead had a tradition of customers writing messages on the currency and hanging it on the walls. Authorities allege that didn't stop 34-year-old Donald Dejarnette from using some of the cash last week to pay for—of all things—a court fine. Kern County sheriff's Sgt.Tyson Davis said a clerk immediately recognized the bills. Some even had "Homestead" written on them. Dejarnette and four others have been arrested on suspicion of taking $B,OOO from the restaurant. About $l,OOO has been recovered. The sheriff's department Tuesday didn't know whether any of the suspects has hired an attorney.

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Friend crosses Alaskan senator WASHINGTON A longtime friend of Alaska Ted crossed the powerful lawmaker Sen. Stevens Njr Tuesday and testified that he gave the Republican senator thousands of dollars in gifts, The fiercely loyal Stevens gave no indication he even saw Bill Allen enter the courtroom, and the two men barely looked at each other as Allen testified about their 26-year friendship and the expensive gifts he gave along the way.

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The Wall Street Journal ranked the Fuqua School of Business 10th overall and fourth in corporate rank in its survey of the best executive MBA programs. Duke’s 20-month program was rated 18th by students and 22nd in the executive skills students acquired, each of which was factored into the overall ranking. Fuqua’s Cross Continent, Global Executive and Weekend Executive programs all counted toward the school’s ranking. The Journal, which ranked 25 international programs, worked with Management Research Group and Critical Insights to surveyapproximately 2,500 students and 200 companies. The ranking’s objective was to identify the EMBA programs that would best prepare managers for company LINA COLLICCI/THE

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In Robert Heinlein’s 1961 sciencefiction novel “Stranger in a Strange Land,” an alien coins the term “grok,” a concept that embodies both intimate understanding and sympathetic communication. Now, Sill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, has borrowed the term for the title of his blog about the environment, which officially launched Monday. The blog, called The Green Grok, seeks to explain environmental issues to non-scientists, with a particular emphasis on sustainability, energy and climate change. Erica Rowell, the Nicholas School’s online managing edi-

topics.

“I think that the trick is to provide something with enough depth to indicate the complexity of the issue

but to present it in away that is easily understood and accessible,” Chameides said. “So there is a simplification in the explanation but not in the discussion of the basic

concepts.” The blog contains posts from leading scientists and policy analysts and covers a range of issues. This past

leadership. Schools were eligible for evaluation if they were accredited by AACSB or Equis, had at least four previous graduating classes and at least 25 students enrolled in the most recent graduating class. Additionally, the Journal stipulated that a program’s students must have an average of at least 10 years of work experience and three years of management experience. Some students must also have traveled more than 45 miles to attend classes. The Fuqua student profile showed that students had an average of 10 years of work experience and five years of management experience. The average age of the program’s students was 34. Sixteen percent were women, and just more than 6 percent were minorities. The first and second-ranked programs were Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, respectively. Fuqua was ranked 28th in the Financial Times’ 2008 global MBA ranking.

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The Financia Crisis; What Happened, and Iftlt's Next? All members of the Duke community are invited to the first President's Forum on Critical Issues on Wednesday, October 1, at 3:30 p.m. Come join President Richard H. Brodhead and five distinguished members of the Duke faculty for a wide-ranging conversation about the ongoing financial crisis that can help us understand the issues and bring some sense to a chaotic situation. Craig Burnside, Professor of Economics James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law Cam Harvey, J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business David Rohde, Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science Katherine Schipper, Thomas F. Keller Professor of Accounting President Brodhead will moderate the discussion. An opportunity for questions and answers will follow. •

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Last year, Joe College Day returned campus following a 30-year absence. This Saturday, the event continues complete with live music, food vendors, an eating contest and a free blanket giveaway. At their executive meeting Tuesday night, Duke University Union officials reviewed this weekend’s major event, ensured that all logistics were covered and discussed marketing and advertising leading up to Joe College Day. Hip-hop artist Shwayze will headline the May’s performances, which will also feature White Rabbits, The Brew, Kooley High and The Sammies. As an incentive to encourage students to show up early when the festivities begin at 3 p.m., a limited number of fleece blankets will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis, said sophomore Karen Chen, president of DUU’s Joe College Day committee. “We have 100 blankets that students can keep as a memorabilia and that they can use the day of,” she said. “We hope a lot of students will come out, and it’ll be a really chill atmosphere out on the Main Quad.” DUU members also discussed Devil’s Eve programming for Halloween, a joint effort with Campus Council. Because of the massive crowds that accumulate during the annual Franklin Street Halloween festivities in Chapel Hill and incidents of property damage, University students may be discouraged from revelry there by monetary fees or tickets

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Members of DUU discuss plans for Joe College Day at its weeklymeeting Tuesday.The day-long festival Saturday on Main West Quad will feature hip-hop artist Shwayze, as well as other musical performances. from the town of Chapel Hill, Union tivities on Franklin Street,” she said members said Although the final fate of the Chapel In other business: Free tickets for the political debate Hill celebration is still unknown, DUU wants to provide Duke students with an featuring Harold Ford, chair of the enjoyable alternative, said Vice Presi- Democratic Leadership Council, and dent of Programming Gabriela Borges, Michael Steele, chair of a large Reajunior. publican Political Action Committee, “We want to create an atmosphere of GOPAC, in Page Auditorium Oct. 22 will crazy, spooky excitement right here on 'be available to students at the box office campus, regardless of the scale of the fes- Monday, Oct. 6.

Patricia Edwards was in an “emergency situation.” “If I tilted the wrong way, I could drown in my own fluid,” the 60-year-old said. It was in this condition that her doctor started her on dialysis. The treatments—four hours a day, three days a week—lasted three years. She then Joined 3,000 other North Carolinians in the wait for a new kidney to replace her failing organ. Fortunately for Edwards, she didn’t have to wait long. Her son, 34-year-old Duke University Hospital System employee Maurice Channer, volunteered to donate his own kidney. “It was just something I felt like I had to do,” Channer said in an interview with ABC 11 Eyewitness News Aug. 20. At first, Edwards had some reservations “I knew that it was a major undertaking, you know, on his part,” she said in the interview. “And I was just as a mother concerned about him, but I do recognize that people can live with one kidney.” Eventually, both her doctors and Channer convinced her that this procedure would be the best solution possible. “It’s amazing that he would do this because there are so many people waiting,” said Maurice’s wife, Kendra Channer. “We’d SEE KIDNEY ON PAGE 7

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House maneuvers to pass bailout bill By

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WASHINGTON In a surprise move to resurrect President George W. Bush’s $7OO billion Wall Street rescue plan, Senate leaders slated a vote on the measure for Wednesday—but added a tax cut plan already rejected by the House. Majority Leader Harry Reid, DNev., and GOPLeader Mitch McConnell ofKentucky unveiled the plan Tuesday. The Senate plan would also raise federal deposit insurance limits to $250,000 from $lOO,OOO, as called for by the two presidential nominees only hours earlier. The move to add a tax legislation—including a set of popular

business tax breaks—risked a backlash from House Democrats insisting they be paid for with tax increases elsewhere. But by also adding legislation to prevent more than 20 million middle-class taxpayers from feeling the bite ofthe alternative minimum tax, the step couldbuild momentum for the Wall Street bailout from House Republicans. The presidential candidates Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-111., intend to fly to Washington for the votes, as does Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, the Democratic vice presidential candidate. SEE BAILOUT ON PAGE 7

Free from spouts and chains A Duke bike was filched from a student’s home on Buchanan Boulevard Monday afternoon. The student said her bike was locked to a spout before it was taken. JULIE JACOBSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tourists peer through the studio window at the NASDAQ Marketsite in New York City Tuesday. A day after Congress failed to pass a bailout bill, markets rallied.

Academy of Sciences, added that this confusion is due, at least in part, to scientists unnecessarily complicating the concepts.

BLOG from page 3 week featured posts about how markets affect environmental issues, the causes of radical climate change and the prospect of oil drilling. After having dinner with Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist who spoke at Duke last week about a “green revolution,” Chameides also discusses ideas from Friedman’s book, “Hot, Flat, and Crowded.” In addition, the blog uses videos to make its content more appealing to viewers. “We’ve produced one video on how to make your trip to the grocery store more sustainable,” Rowell said. “We’ve reached over 2,000 people through that video.” One of the primary reasons Chameides said he created the blog was to clarify the confusion surrounding environmental concerns. Chameides, a member of the National

All’s fair in love and war A female student was reported for assaulting her boyfriend, a male student, when she pushed him because he was late picking her up in the Bryan Center circle Monday evening.

“The nice thing about someone like Bill is we don’t get sci-

entific information through a second-hand source, we get a

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Rowell said Chameides’s scientific expertise, along with his clear prose, make The Green Grok ideal for the purpose it tries to achieve. “Bill’s voice is a really important one because he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a really clear communicator,” she said. “The nice thing about someone like Bill is we don’t get scientific information through a second-hand source, we get a first-hand source.” Although the blog may cover the candidates’ positions and the impact their policies might have on the environment, Chameides said the blog is nonpartisan and is not intended to persuade individuals to vote for one candidate over another. Even before the blog became public, Chameides has been posting since April and his posts have been featured on sites such as The Huffmgton Post and Gristmill.

Roommate woes Two Central Campus roommates, living on 204 Alexander Rd., got into an argument Monday night. The fight ended in one of the students pushing her roommate.

A lesson in finance An employee in the Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center reported Monday that her wallet was stolen from her purse. She had left her purse unsecured in the Radiology department. Melodic mugging Two cars were broken into in the Green Zone gravel lot Monday. The stereo equipment from one of the cars was stolen.

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REPORT from page 1 areas immediately adjacent to or running through the campus and certain non-campus facilities such as Greek housing and remote classrooms. “The Clery is bound by geography so it does not include off-campus apartments and Ninth Street,” Brown said. “I would like to see a more inclusive report.” Although crimes in those locations are not required to be reported through the Clery Act, DUPD does have an extended jurisdiction patrol beat in areas where students live or frequent, Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander, wrote in an e-mail. “There is a perception among students that Central Campus has a higher number of incidents,” she said. “However, crime statistics do not support that, perception. Theft of unsecure property is by far the most frequent crime.” Libraries, recreational facilities, meeting rooms and medical facilities have the highest number of incidents on campus. Most crimes that occur on campus are cited as preventable, including those instances in which goods are left unattended, Graham said. “Think about how long it takes to sit a bookbag down next to a laptop, close it and slide it in: less than 30 seconds.” Graham said. “So if you were gone two minutes, that was 1.5 minutes too long.” Such thefts have occurred recently in the Wilson Recreation Center, which now posts neon signs on its front desk to alert students and Duke employees of the crimes. There have been more than 50 thefts in the Wilson

KIDNEY from page 4 never know how long his mother would be on the list.... [lt was] the blessing of God to be a match, perfect match at that.” The mother-son pair, accompanied by family, arrived at the hospital May 26 at about 6 a.m. The two-hour procedure went well— Maurice Channer stayed in the hospital for about a day. Since then, he has recovered smoothly, without pain. “Everything came out good,” Kendra Channer said. “He’s a real trooper.” Edwards said she has been fortunate, too

facilities dating back to January of this year. To combat the recent string of thefts in the Wilson, many operational changes to the facilities have been made. Since instituting these changes, the crimes have stopped. Colleges in the Triangle area have been forced to reassess existing safety measures following the murders of Duke graduate student Abhijit Mahato and UNC student body president Eve Carson in January and March of this year.

“Theft of unsecure property is by far the most frequent crime.” Maj. Gloria Graham, DUPD operations commander “We wanted to assure our community members’ safety and assist in finding those responsible for the crimes,” Graham said. “We increased patrols, conducted personal safety workshops and met with groups and individuals to talk about any specific concerns they had.” Brown noted that Duke has expanded its safety efforts with the hiring of new Safeßides drivers and better communication with students. “I do not feel that we currently live in a ‘state of fear,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an e-mail. “I do believe that most students and parents feel quite good about Duke’s approach to student safety.” “I’ve not been in any pain,” she said Before the surgery, Edwards was a nurse case manager for Crawford Insurance Company. She took a leave of absence for medical reasons and is now in the process of applying for a new job. Edwards noted that her son “gave me the gift of life,” extending her lifespan by 10 to 15 years. “He has given me something so valuable,” she said. “I will just never forget it. And the love he has for me is tremendous. And that’s a good feeling.” Asked if he would do it again, Maurice said, “If I had a third one, I would. No

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BAILOUT from page 5 The surprise move capped a day in which supporters of the imperiled multibillion-dollar economic rescue fought to bring it back to life, courting reluctant lawmakers with a variety ofother sweeteners including the plan to reassure Americans their bank deposits are safe. Wall Street, at least, regained hope. The Dowjones industrials rose 485 points, one day after a record 778-point plunge following rejection in the U.S. House of the plan worked out by congressional leaders and the Bush administration. Before Reid and McConnell’s move, lawmakers, President Bush and the two rivals to succeed him all rummaged through ideas new and old, desperately seeking to change a dozen House members’ votes and pass the $7OO billion plan. The tax plan passed the Senate last

week, on a 93-2 vote. It included AMT relief, $8 billion in tax relief for those hit by natural disasters in the Midwest, Texas and Louisiana, and some $7B billion in renewable energy incentives and extensions of expiring tax breaks. In a compromise worked out with Republicans, the bill does not pay for the AMT and disaster provisions but does have revenue offsets for part of the energy and extension measures. That wasn’t enough for the House, which insisted that there be complete offsets for the energy and extension part of the package. The Senate move seems aimed at jamming the House into accepting the deficit-financed tax cuts. Conservative Democrats won’t like the idea, but some Congress-watchers suspect most Democrats might be willing to go along. Still, leaders there were scrounging for ideas that might appeal to a few of the 133 Republicans and 95 Democrats who rejected the proposal Monday.

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DUKE from page 1 DUMAC does report that only about $2.25 billion of its approximately $7.7 billion in assets is directly in stock and bond markets, with the rest in hedge funds (about 40 percent of the $7.7 billion) as well as private equity, real estate and other areas. Hedge funds create an intermediate level between stocks and investors, and funds may profit by “shorting” stocks. By doing so, the funds may improve even as the market tanks, said Cam Harvey, a professor of finance at the Fuqua School of Business. As a result, it is difficult to link stock market volatility directly to DUMAC’s returns.

“When you watch the numbers on the stock market, we really have relatively little direct exposure to the U.S. stock market,” Trask said. “There’s a lot ofother things to work through. I’m not particularly worried by yesterday nor am I particularly encouraged by today.” But with precipitous drops in the stock market and a $7OO billion bailout in doubt, the next few years may be

leaner for Duke, as a weak economy translates into lower investment returns, fewer federal dollars and decreased giving to the University. “Given that the government has to bail out [failing companies] eventually, there will be less money for grants. It is more difficult for students to get loans, it’s more difficult for students to get jobs,” Harvey said. “Put that all together and it is not good for the University. However, the University is in the enviable position that is has [|7.7] billion of back-up and very few liabilities. And it’s got risk-free income from a constant flow of tuition dollars.” In addition, the Duke University Health System, like the rest of the healthcare industry, is reasonably immune to economic downturns. Bill Brown, a visiting professor of law who previously held leadership posts at Goldman Sachs, American International Group and Morgan Stanley, said Duke may see shrinking donations. Many of the titans of the financial sector—including Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack and Wachovia CEO Robert Steel —are members of the Board of Trustees and major donors. “To the extent that the University has relied on fund-

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raising from people who have done well in the financial markets, those people will not have free cash to make charitable contributions the way they used to,” Brown said. Another major donor to University efforts is the Duke Endowment, an independent fund based in Charlotte. But since last year, DUMAC has managed the fund’s assets, meaning that any slippage for the University’s endowment returns would also hurt the Duke Endowment.

But both Brown and Harvey said many investors are being forced into quickly dumping undervalued assets, creating opportunities for long-term investors like DUMAC to buy solid stocks near the market’s trough. “The fact that Duke hasn’t done as well over the last year doesn’t bother me, because I know there are extraordinary, once-in-a-generation types of opportunities that are available today and over the next few months,” Harvey said. “I said to some senior people at Duke that I would be extremely disappointed if in the next three years we didn’t have really good returns from DUMAC.”

iubprimes and derivatives and bear markets, oh my The current crisis was caused in large part by lending to borrowers with subpar credit and the bundling of these loans into derivatives—financial tools whose value depends on an underlying asset that an investor does not actually purchase. Trask said the University has some holdings in financial services, but not much. It is also DUMAC’s policy to avoid junk debt, so anyjunk holdings in the portfolio are assets whose credit rating was downgraded since being acquired. He added thatDUMAC was well prepared for the collapse, partly because of a recent reduction in domestic equities. “[The portfolio] is well diversified, but if all markets go down, we go down too,” Trask said. “No one foresaw this exact series of events, but DUMAC got nervous about where the economy was going a year or 18 months ago and adopted a defensive position.” The estimated value of assets such as private equity and real estate can be misleading. For instance, in some cases, owners may legally choose not to report losses on longterm holdings if they decide that losses may be temporary, putting off write-downs. Other products are also based on estimated values. In its 2006-2007 Year in Review, Duke stated that DUMAC uses some derivatives with risk that does not appear on the balance sheet. The fair value of these assets might comprise one portion of a larger project, but a collapse in the larger whole would wipe out an investor’s holdings. Risky cases like these contributed to some of the high-profile Wall Street collapses. Although reasonably well-protected from the financial crisis, the University is not without links to some of the companies that have been bailed out by the government or forced to liquidate themselves. Duke had accounts with Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that filed for bankruptcy Sept. 15. Trask said the transition from Lehman to JP Morgan, though involving copious paperwork and legal consultation, had not caused any financial problems. Yet another danger is hedge fund secrecy. In order to maintain a competitive edge, many fund managers refuse to divulge their strategies and holdings, butTrask said DUMAC’s size allowed it to insist on transparency in most but not all—cases. “If [managers] don’t tell other people, they probably tell DUMAC,” he said. —

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Back to the future Despite the drop this year, DUMAC’s returns in three other major metrics—three-year, five-year and 10-year growth —are still among the nation’s best. And Trask said in the middle term, a weakened but stabilized market might make it easier for Duke to pursue some projects, such as issuing bonds to cover new construction, such as the massive New Campus plan. “My guess is when it all setdes back down, credit from Duke will in fact become quite attractive in the market,” he said. The University debt-financesbecause of tax advantages, not because there is no money in the bank, so Duke bonds could become popular with some investors, he explained. Trask said the shape of the bailout that eventually passes—a deal is expected Thursday—will have wide-ranging results. Either way, the picture for Duke may not be as rosy in the longer term, he said. “I do worry about going forward whether our options may be somewhatreduced in two or three years,” Trask said, with a wistful nod back to the days of double-digit growth. “To me the biggest question—and I think no one knows —is, will we ever be back into a market where those returns are possible?”

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something else, too. A man ofhis word. And maybe a magician. Is there any other way to explain how he’s been able to follow through on so many of the promises he made when he was hired in December? Matthew He predicted 30 [£ 0 g points per game. Duke ranks in die conferOn Football ence with a 30.8 mark. He said he would whip the Blue Devils into better shape. Thanks to a comprehensive strength and conditioning program, almost every player lowered his body-mass index, increased his stamina and shaved time offhis 40-yard dash. But then he said Duke would compete for a bowl bid, and that’s when everyone seemed to collectively say, ‘Yeah, right.’ Well, with eight games to go, he has the Blue Devils—essentially the same group of players that had won only one game in the last two years—just three wins away from its first bowl-eligible season in 14 years. Magic, right?

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win since 2004 with their own eyes, along with 25,525 fans more interested in Duke than wall-to-wall coverage of the Bi g Ten All three were also in Wallace Wade for the Blue Devils’ last conference victory—except they were on the field, part of the action, dressed in Duke uniforms. Now, under a new coaching staff, driven by a burgeoning confidence and surrounded by more than just empty bleachers, the Blue Devils seem primed to eradicate the losing streaks that came to define recent graduates’ four- and five-year careers at Duke. And it’s people like Stefanow, Nichols and Maurides that want their former teammates to win more than anyone, even if a slight curse of bad timing does not allow them to reap the tangible ben-

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in a corner of Joe Senser’s, a Minnesota sports bar, Nick Stefanow watched Duke beat Virginia Saturday on a television decidedly smaller than the 20 bigscreens dotting the tavern. Eli Nichols and Zach Maurides didn’t need to rely on the good will of a bartenderto watch theirBlueDevils. Instead, the two former football players sat in the bleachers

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“I’m probably more excited for those guys after watching the games,” said Stefanow, a tight end whose five-year career ended last fall. “It is a little bittersweet, I’m not gonna lie. It’d be great to be part of that team. I wish I had another semester, but I’m not jealous in anyway.” The sentiment is echoed by Stefanow’s former teammates, the players who rarely grasped the euphoria of winning. They were the butts of too many bad jokes and easy punchlines for the football punditocracy, as Duke compiled a dismal 442

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“Any time you return the best player in the country, it helps a lot,” Grossman said of Grella. “On my goal, I just tried to find his feet and he gave it right back to me. I was all alone, and I was able to put it right

under the goalie.” Later in the game, Grella lit up the scoreboard all by himself. With 15 minutes to play, Grella scored his first goal. In the 79th minute, Grella scored again. And, finally, to cap off his hat trick, Grella added a final score six minutes later. It was a fitting return for the team’s leading scorer. “I was just excited to come back and play,” Grella said. “I haven’t played for over a week now.” Freshman Kwasi Ayisi completed the Blue Devils’ scoring with an unassisted goal in the 85th minute. Duke dominated play from the start, but only Grossman was able to score in the first half despite the Blue Devils’ controlling the ball. “We looked pretty good,” head coach John Kerr said. “We passed the ball pretty well, and we moved into good spots. Wejust didn’t get that last finish, but I was pleased SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 10

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Stefanow said. “Being in the locker room for five years, that wasn’t... very rarely was that the case. A couple of times, me and Coach [Ted] Roof, early in his career... we knew we were going to win the game. And a lot of times when you know you’re going to win, you do win the game.” David Cutcliffe, though, is not one who lacks confidence, and he injected a shot of life into an perpetually stagnant program when he was hired Dec. 15, just 21 days after the seniors’ careers had ended. For the returning players, he brought with him the gift of winning. And it keeps on giving for the graduates, even more proud to walk around their post-college parts in Duke Football garb. “There’s definitely a bit of jealousy, but at the same time, I’m so happy with these guys,” said Matt Rumsey, who traveled from Atlanta to Wallace Wade for Duke’s season opener against James Madison and who will attend the Blue Devils’ matchup at GeorgiaTech Saturday. “All the hard work we put in, finally for them to have the opportunity to go out and make something of it, there’s not really words to describe it. To have that opportunity after things were as bad as they were for as long as they were... they’re gonnahave a special thing.” Things are no longer as bad as they were, or bad at all, because the program has been overturned by a litany of changes—starting, of course, at the top. Cutcliffe came in and brought in an almost

essentially cutting almost all ties to the previous players. The team has new uniforms, new traditions and new slogans. If this year is, indeed, the dawn of a new day, what does that mean for the inhabitants of the extinct era? “I’d rather the program get turned around now than never,” said Eli Nichols, a 2006 captain who works as a research and development engineer in the Pratt School of Engineering. “I can’t do anything about what happened in the past. It makes me feel good that the same guys I played with are winning games now. We’re on par in terms of the type of players the old coaches were getting, which are quality players. It’s just nice to see that we are capable of winning.” The impact of a winning streak has been felt beyond campus borders, too. Maurides, a 2008 graduate working for SciQuest in Cary, walked around his office and told N.C. State and North Carolina graduates that Duke was ready to turn the corner under Cutcliffe. Maurides had sensed it in his conversations with current players. Then again, when he was playing, the Blue Devils always thought they were ready to turn the corner. This time just felt different, Maurides said. “That wasjust my secondary confidence coming from the guys on the team,” he said. “I felt really confident in those statements. It wasn’t just me hyping up my team.” And with one minor tick of language—“my team”—Maurides’ loyalty is spoken for.

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It’s been said by CutclifFe, members ofhis staff and several players that this is the best coaching staff in the country. Given what’s taken place at halftime of the first four games, either that is truly the case, or some serious hocus pocus is going on. Let’s look at the numbers. This time last year, Duke was 1-3 and had been outscored 69-18 in the second half. Fast forward 12 months, and the new-look Blue Devils are 3-1, trouncing their-opponents 76-14 after intermission. No team has scored more than seven points in the second half, and Duke has reached doubledigits all four times out. But there must be some scientific explanation here. “Conditioning,” linebacker Vincent Key said. “I really bought into what Coach told us—that we get out what we put in.... If you’re not conditioned, you’re not as focused as you should be when you’re tired and you need to make those plays.” “Coach always stresses finishing the game,” quarterback Thaddeus Lewis said. “That’s in the back of our minds, Coach always saying, ‘Finish. Finish. Finish.’ The conditioning factor makes it easier to finish.” In each game so far, the Blue Devils have come running out of the tunnel after the break seeming fresher and more fired up than they were on the opening kickoff. “The biggest part was just

with the movement and the sharpness of the group.” But the half that brought offense also brought some bad news for Duke. Early in the second half, freshman forward Kyle Bethel went up for a ball and collided with 6-foot-7 Stony Brook goalkeeper Dawid Ditrich. As Bethel fell to the ground, all his teammates heard was a loud crack. “I heard the pop, and I wasn’t even that close,” Grossman said. “I was halfway between midfield and the box, but I was talking to guys on the bench afterwards, and they heard it, too.” Bethel left the game for Xrays. His prognosis was still unclear after the game. But despite losing its second-leading scorer, Duke raised its level of play soon after the Bethel injury and finished the opportunities it had missed in the first half—thanks in large part to its other goal-scoring forward, healthier than ever.

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getting them to buy in that getting into shape would help win football games,” said Noel Durfey, the team’s strength and conditioning coach. Why didn’t the last guy think of that? Lewis said his leaner, more muscularframe has helped him absorb some blows that would have left him shaken last year. Rey and fellow linebacker Michael Tauiliili lost 18 and 25 pounds, respectively, under Durfey and Director of Strength and Conditioning Sonny Falcone’s training regimen. This season, they both have more tackles than anybody else in the ACC. And after so many years of trying to break free from mediocrity, the Blue Devils now know the true key to their success. Not magic. Just plain, old elbow grease.

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cash will have less extra money to give away. Indeed, the tide of building and expansion that has helped the University transform from a good regional institution into an excellent global one will probably be somewhat quelled. Not only will planned building projects, whether the proposed China and India campuses or New Campus, suffer. The ability of the University to pay off debt incurred in the contracting of finished projects will be hampered as well. As a consequence of economic distress, the administration might be forced to make hard choices about just which projects are important, and which are less so. For the student body, the collapse of the investment in-

Executive Vice President Tollman Trask, on DUMAC’s returns. See story page 1.

the United States we’ve seen a lot offocus recently on domestic issues, what with the American economy in recession and all. But we need to remember that what goes on outside our country effects our lives as well. Closest to home, the Conservative Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, called a snap election for Oct. 14.

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est trading partner with a minority government since 2006. He doubtless hopes to increase his share of seats in parliament gregory morrison to a majority. The the talleyrand report Conservatives look set to do well, despite the fact that they are tested by unpopular involvement in the war in Afghanistan, several juicy sex scandals and an opposition newly energized by Sen. Barack Obama’s popularity south of the border. Expect Harper to still be Canada’s prime minister after Oct. 14, but he might not have the majority government he so desires. His victory would be a good thing for Americans—his government provides key support in Afghanistan and on diplomatic initiatives ranging from the genocide in Darfur to the Doha trade talks. In Thailand, the country’s highest court ruled Sept. 9 that the prime minister, Samak Sundaravej, had violated the law by accepting payment for hosting a cooking show. Samak was under pressure anyway: His office was made unusable by crowds staging a sit-in and once again Bangkok’s elite writhed with coup rumors. The court saw off action by the military, but the plotters are no happier. In their 2006 coup, they ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra for corruption and have accused successor Samak of being a proxy. Now Samak, too, is gone, but last Wednesday, parliament elected Thaksin’s son-in-law prime minister. It seems that populists have a nasty habit of being popular. Meanwhile, the government ofYasuo Fukuda in Japan stepped down after less than a year in office. The younger Taro Aso, Japan’s foreign minister, formed a government and took over the same day as Thaskin’s son-in law did in Thailand. This is the third unelected government in Japan in two years. In a risky move, Aso will likely call early elections. Frustration toward the Liberal Democratic Party is

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high and they mightjust lose this one. Such a loss would be seismic considering that they’ve been in power since World War 11. A loss for the LDP would be a loss for us because a leftwing government is hardly inclined to help our efforts in Afghanistan, and, more importantly, is less tough when it comes to the delicate negations with North Korea. Israel’s prime minister, Ehud Olmert, resigned after being charged with corruption. His successor, Tzipi Livni, is the first female prime minister Israel has had in 34 years. Her task is, unsurprisingly, difficult, but a change in leadership is an opportunity for change in approach to the Palestinian question. Olmert disastrously invaded Lebanon and has failed to reconcile Fatah with Hamas, and, consequently, has no working relationship with either. Livni brings all the experience from her time as foreign minister, but also the advantages of being new to the top job. She has a short window in which to be bold. Coupled with a new administration in Washington, this could result in long-awaited breakthroughs in the peace process. Livni is hampered by Israel’s ultra-fragmented parliament and an unwieldy governing coalition. Nonetheless, her arrival, if she has the necessary courage and boldness, could bring greater stability in a region where the U.S. has few allies and little room for maneuvering. Perhaps the most momentous fall of all occurred in South Africa. The disastrous reign of Thabo Mbeki has finally come to an end. His ignorant policies on HIV/AIDS have cost countless lives, and he proved an inept mediator in the Zimbabwean crisis who had a singular lack of commitment to democracy. Recently, he began showing unsettling tendencies towards interference with nominally independent agencies, namely the anti-corruption police and the state broadcaster. He steps down after a call from the African National Congress, having lost a tightly contested race for the party leadership last year to Jacob Zuma. Now, a Zuma devotee, Kgalema Motlanthe, is interim president until elections next year. Motlanthe, who only became a member of parliament this May, was elected by the ANC-dominated parliament and sworn in this past Thursday. Zurna will most likely become president next year. Five governments fell. Several forts of folly plague us no more.

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

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your facts first. Then, you can distort them as you please. —Mark Twain Recently, the student body has begun to question whose side Duke Student Government is on. The failed Sept. 15 referendum was poorly conceived and mishandled around every turn, and DSG President Jordan Giordano’s decision to go off the record at the following DSG meeting was not the smartest choice given the circumstances What has been more disconmatt graham certing, however, is the honestly speaking way that many students have instantly turned on their government without bothering to learn the true nature of its actions. Chatter on campus reflects a distorted view of DSG’s actions that even Big Brother would be proud to have produced—which is ironic, because the prevailing myth is that DSG wants to be Big Brother. Upon hearing that Giordano went off the record at a Sept. 17 meeting, most students immediately decided that DSG’s new newsletter would become the face of a state-run media organization with complete control over all information about DSG business. Such a notion is nothing short of ridiculous. A quick look at the real implications of going “off the record” shows that even if Giordano had been trying mislead students, it would not have mattered. DSG’s constitution mandates that its meetings be open; nothing said in them can be kept from the public. DSG was quickly reminded of its constitutional responsibility to keep everything on the record after meeting with Chronicle reporters. Even though Giordano went “off the record,” no information was kept from students. The point is moot. More important to the student body’s perception of Giordano and his government, however, is the fact that he never intended to hide information. He went off the record to protect off-the-cuff, unofficial advice to the Senate from scrutiny it did not merit. Claiming that you are “off the record” is accepted DSG practice when a statement is, as Giordano put ”

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it, “incoherent and could be taken out of context.” Since nothing can actually be removed from the record, all he did was clarify that what he said was not an accurate reflection of his or DSG’s precise intentions. “[Giordano] never said that we’re definitely cutting this or that,” explained Athletics and Campus Services Vice President Mike Lefevre. “He said ‘things like’ and then listed a thing or two and t01d... the Senate to start thinking about what needed to be cut. That was it.” Giordano’s timing was terrible, but his actions were harmless in their intent and consequences. Conclusions to the contrary stem from an incomplete analysis of the facts. Additionally, the failure to understand Giordano’s intentions has led to another popular misconception about DSG: that it is careless with its finances, cutting programs without even talking to the people in charge first. At the Sept. 24 meeting, DSG cut the Chanticleer’s budget by $25,000 to compensate for the referendum’s failure. The truly impressive thing about the cut was that the first people to speak in favor of it were from the Chanticleer. DSG had been in discussions with yearbook leadership since last year, and both organizations agreed that the cut was necessary. It was a responsible, well-planned process that ended with the yearbook asking the Senate to cut its own budget. DSG worked with the Chanticleer every step of the way. Why, then, do so many students believe that DSG cuts funding from organizations without talking to their leadership? Once again, it comes back to an imperfect picture of DSG’s behavior. When Giordano went off the record to throw out names of campus organizations, part of his motivation was the fact that DSG always talks to groups before it comes close to cutting their funding. The truth is very different from the decontextualized view of his words and actions to which many subscribe. DSG is not perfect, but it is not Boss Giordano’s tyrannical mafia either. Students should criticize their government all day and all night if they choose to —but first, they should get their facts.

Matt Graham is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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what appeared to be the contents of her entire dorm room. Bottled water was the first to emerge, followed by a rather weak cup of coffee—and I nina hu say “weak” because the 64 fluid ounces of soda one fis h mQ flsh looming nearby looked like they meant serious business. Next appeared a Styrofoam container bursting with her breakfast, which appeared to be several large clogged arteries with a side of heart disease and liver failure. Despite the fierce rays of malice I was attempting to shoot at her with my eyes, she charged relentlessly forward with her assault on my personal space. A loud assortment of office trinkets and baubles suddenly materialized at my elbow, including an extensive collection of pens boasting a rainbow medley of highly practical colors, like goldenrod and cornflower blue. I briefly entertained the thought of caveman-hurling her laptop in the general direction of her head. Meanwhile, her tote bag still looked as though it were six months pregnant with some kind of alien baby. What else could she have possibly managed to fit in there? A microwave? Then I caught sight of a Belkin voice recorder accessorized with one of those old-fashioned video iPods, resting in crafty camouflage against her black notebook and angled oh-so-subtly toward the oblivious professor. I’m going to take the liberty of assuming that she didn’t request his permission first, not wanting to be bothered by such pesky details as potential copyright infringement. Now that’s just bad manners. If you’re going to make the effort to show up to an 8:45 and sit in the front row next to yours truly (yes, sometimes I am one of those students), then the least you could do is pretend to pay attention, rather than have your iPod do it for you. To be fair, I have to admit that I rely primarily on manic fumes as my default source of mental energy when forced to maintain consciousness at obscenely early times in the morning. But I was positively overcome with glee when the red recording light blinked out halfway through the lecture. In fact, I think I might have let a creepy grin escape my face before realizing that the professor was looking directly at me (that’s what I get for sitting in the front row) as he described the origins of dental plaque in animated detail. I glanced back at the iPod and felt a trifle disappointed that it hadn’t been able to catch all of the enthusiastic inflections in his tone. Anyway, the girl had failed to notice any of this until it was too late because she had been preoccupied with highlighting continuous blocks of text in a b00k... for a different class. (In all seriousness, people, why do you do that? I realize that sometimes it’s difficult to pay attention to what you’re reading unless it’s flooded in neon pink, but a little moderation never hurt anyone.) Either she was multitasking to ridiculous extremes, or she had simply lost the ability to hit pause on her life. And then I wondered if she had even remembered to press play. We have somehow managed to stuff our lives like giant overpriced tote bags, filling them to the brim with all these accessory commitments meant to enrich, but instead simply overwhelm. In trying to juggle so many priorities, we have lost sight of the most important one: being able to make time for what we want the most rather than hoping that we can have it all—handed to us on a silver iPod. Nina Hu is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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