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University officials met Tuesday to discuss possible renovations to the West Union Building and the relocation ofWest Union eateries, sources confirmed. Details are expected by the end of the week. Talks of renovating the building began years ago, and administrators have most recently considered constructing a new building on West Campus to accommodate West Union eateries during renovations, sources said. Because the building is so old, it is also likely that the West Union will be tom down entirely and reconstructed within the next few years. If renovations are approved, construction could take up to four years, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki previously told The Chronicle. Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst was not available for comment about the Tuesday meeting. ‘We need to figure out how to put in a dining location because if we do any renovations, the West Union will be put out of service for at least a year, and that would put a number of current dining locations in the West Union out of service, so we need to come up with some alternatives.” said Duke Student GovernmentExecutive Vice PresidentSunny Kantha, a senior. SEE RENOVATIONS ON PAGE
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GOP vice presidential nominee SarahPalin speaks to a crowd ofapproximately B,oooTuesdayat East Carolina University.The Alaskan governorhoned in on fiscal policy and energyissues in herfirst campaign trip to N.C.
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baby drill,” a country music performance and two U.S. senators helped create a convention-like buzz for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s first appearance in North Carolina Tuesday. An excited crowd of approximately 8,000 packed into Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum near the campus of East Carolina University to see Alaska Gov. Palin discuss government spending, energy independence and the military ex-
perience of nominee Sen. John McCain before the second presidential debate in Nashville, Tenn. “What we are going to see tonight is the difference between a politician who puts his faith in government and a leader who puts his faith in you,” Palin said. “He believes in our troops and he believes in their mission, and I’ll tell you, as the mother of one of those he is exactly the kind of man I want.” Stickers, buttons, T-shirts and signs SEE PALIN ON PAGE 4
The bus stops here. There will be no University-sponsored buses for students who wish to visit Franklin Street in Chapel Hill this Halloween, Duke University Union officials announced at their executive meeting Tuesday night. “We get the feeling we’re not welcome,” said Vice President of Programming Gabriela Borges, a junior. The Union’s decision comes on the heels of the announcement by the Chapel Hill city government last week to restrict its annual Franklin Street Halloween party to residents. The “Homegrown Halloween” campaign is an effort to scale back a party that local officials said has imposed unfair costs and safety concerns on the city. DUU officials said they respect Chapel Hill’s decision. “I think it’s very rude for us as an official student organization to charter buses when they have asked us not to,” Borges said. DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, said he does not think the decision will significantly change the Halloween plans of Duke students. He added that if students want to visit Franklin Street they will find away to go, with buses or without them. But that is exactly what worries sophomore Jideka Nwosu. “People are always going to drink,” she said. “The bus limits drinking and SEE DUU ON PAGE 5
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DUU officials decided at its meeting Tuesday not to charter buses to theFranklin St. Halloween party.
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yn. Half-ton man dies after seeking help JUAREZ, Mexico A 990-pound, bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said. Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza's bedroom wall and load him onto the back of a friend's pickup truck as he fought for his life.The 47-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in northern Mexico. Garza followed in the footsteps of the world's fattest man, fellow Mexican Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, by taking his
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Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land in a mix-up over whether it had permission to enter its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday.The plane was later allowed to continue to Afghanistan. The ministry said the airplane, carrying a four-member Hungarian military delegation, had permission to fly over Iran, but that because of an "administrative error," characters in the craft's call signal were changed around and Iranian authorities did not recognize it. It said the plane landed in Tehran. "After clearing up the problem, the airplane was able to continue its journey to Afghanistan," the ministry said in a statement released in Budapest. It said the incident took place on Sept. 30. The military personnel were part of a Hungarian team that took over direction of Kabul's international airport this month, it said.They were flying in a civilian Hawker 800 plane rented from the private Hungarian firm JAS Cargoways.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Barack Obama and John iz McCain clashed repeatedly over the causes and cures for the worst economic crisis in 80 years Tuesday night in a debate in which Republican McCain called for a sweeping $3OO billion program to shield homeowners from mortgage foreclosure. "It's my proposal. It's not Sen. Obama's proposal, it's not President Bush's proposal," McCain said at the outset of a debate he hoped could revive his fortunes in a presidential race trending toward his rival. In one pointed confrontation on foreign policy, Obama bluntly challenged McCain's steadiness.'This is a guy who sang bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, whocalled forthe annihilation of North Korea—that I don'tthink is an example of speaking softly."
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As the days shorten and the temperaplummets with the approach of winter, the Duke University Union will give campus life a jolt with a “truly electrifying” performance by electronic rock ensemble Ghostland Observatory. With a laser light show and free “glowwear” provided to those in attendance, DUU’s Fall concert will be more than just music to students’ ears, said DUU Major Attractions Chair Vincent Ling, a senior. Tickets for the Nov. 9 concert will go on sale Oct. 17. Admission is $l6 for Duke students and $22 for the general public. “It’s not the kind of concert that you’re ture
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going to go to for that one hit single—it’s a show that you go to for the experience,” he said. “People that have gone to their live shows are just blown away. It’s an understatement to say they’re unique.” Ghostland performed at Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival this year and in an episode of NBC’s Late Night with Conan O’Brien last year, and was named The Austin American-Stalesman’s band of the year for 2007. DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a senior, noted that the choice is a break from tradition for the committee, which brought XL, Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab for Cube to campus in the past. “We have heard feedback requesting different types of music,” he said. “I think thatlast year we catered to a smaller niche crowd of people—l feel like the shows kind ofkept the same genre throughout. It’s certainly a different genre of music, and we want to make sure that all Duke students are catered to in some shape or form.” Having already hosted Russell Peters and The Hush Sound, DUU was not planning a Fall concert—but when the opportunity to bring Ghostland Observatory to campus inexpensively arose a few weeks ago, Major Attractions could not resist, Ling said. Sophomore Dustin Gamza, head of productions for the Major Attractions Committee, added that though the concert will take place in Page Auditorium, a venue typically reserved for more mellow acts, “there really is still room to dance and be lively” for students ready tb rock.
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Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, spoke with a group of studentsand Campus Council members Tuesday on therole themed living groups might play in the housing system.
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Dialogue on themed living groups continued Tuesday as Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, Campus Council members and some students gathered at a forum to discuss the pros and cons of the proposal. The conversation revolved around concerns by current members of selective living groups about the difference, if any, between current selective living groups and the proposed TLGs. The discussion brought into perspective many concerns ofSLG members but less those of independent students, as most attendants had some affiliation with an
SLG. Approximately 15 students attended the forum, and most were upperclassmen. Many students at the discussion doubted the distinction between SLGs and TLGs, saying there seems to be no reason to create a new category. “They are not different, so why should they be treated differently?” said senior Amanda Knutson, social vice president for Psi Upsilon fraternity. “I don’t feel confident about TLGs adding anything to the campus culture.” Campus Council President Molly Bierman, a senior, noted that like SLGs, TLGs SEE TLG ON PAGE 4
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The crowdcheers for Gov. Palin as she speaks about economic and energyissues Tuesday at Eastern Carolina University. Several North Carolina GOP candidates addressed thecrowd before her speech. earlier speech by explaining that she had tried to introduce legislation that would “reign in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” Dole, who is locked in a tight battle for throughout the coliseum carried slogans like, “Read my lipstick,” “Tar Heels love reelection with state Sen. Kay Hagan of high heels” and “Palin power.” The crowd, Greensboro, said her opponent was well which sporadically broke into chants of funded by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y, “No-bama,” was also enthusiastic to hear chair of the Democratic Senatorial CamPalin criticize her Democratic opponents. paign Committee. “He’s trying to buy North Carolina with “The phoniest claim in a campaign that’s been full of them is that Barack Obama is his New York money,” she said. North Carolina’s junior senator, Richgoing to cut your taxes,” said Palin. She added that she had eliminated ard Burr, a Republican who is not up for reelection until 2010, introduced Palin, small business taxes and “annoying” government fees during her time as a mayor saying she shafes the values of ordinary and governor. Americans. “Most in this crowd already feel like they ‘You can spend money better than government can spend it for you, I guarantee know her, because she’s one ofus,” he said. “Every day she wakes up and balances her you,” she said. McCain’s administration would impose a personal life with her professional life.” Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, who is spending freeze in the federal government,,, Palin said. She also discussed energy inderunning as the Republican candidate for pendence but did not join in the crowd’s N.C. governor against Democratic Lt. Gov. calls to “drill baby drill.” Instead, she called Bev Perdue, said in his earlier speech that it “a matter of national security” that rePalin’s experience as mayor of small town Wasilla, Alaska made her an ideal choice as quires an “all-of-the-above approach also.” Palin largely avoided discussing the fiMcCain’s running mate. Durham’s allotment of tickets for the event nancial crisis on Wall Street in her roughly 30-minute speech. But Sen. Elizabeth Dole, sold out within an hour after they became R-N.C. and Woman’s College ’5B, brought a available, said Steve Hill, regional victory disense ofeconomic anxiety to the rally in her rector in McCain’s Durham Victory Office.
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A faculty-led team has received an $814,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to launch a new online system for editing ancient Greek and Latin texts preserved on papyrus. The team is headed byjoshua Sosin, associate professor of classical studies, and Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice provost for library affairs. Over the next year, Sosin, Jakubs and a team of approximately 12 researchers hope to design a program that will integrate ancient text databases from universities across the gfobe, Sosin said. The Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri, which contains more than 50,000 published texts, is currendy the University’s primary collecdon of ancient documents preserved on different media, according to a University release. This vast compilation, however, can only be viewed by Sosin and the few other scholars to whom he giants permission, he said. The new editing technology would change diis limited access, allowing any Internet user to explore, observe and comment on ancient texts as well as translations and images in a “Wiki-like fashion,” Sosin said. Once completed, the collaborative online program will include documents from the Duke Databank as well as from collections from Columbia University and the University of Heidelberg in Germany, according to the statement. Duke researchers are also working with the University ofKentucky and New York University to develop the editing technology. Sosin anticipates diat die expansion of access to diese documents will help to connect the subfields ofclassical studies. “We will start to pick away at the walls dial separate disciplines of classics,” he said.
The Graduate and Professional Student Council reviewed the group’s goals and elected a new judicial committee at its general assembly meedng Tuesday night. GPSC President Alethea Duncan started the meeting with a presentation of the council’s central objectives. She emphasized the core goals of the year—communication, relationships, academic success, continuing progress and the transparency of the executive board. “Next semester, I will update [the body] on our goals and how much we’ve accomplished,” said Duncan, a fourthyear Ph.D. candidate in chemistry. “A lot of our goals we’ve already accomplished... so we at least have a lot of the groundwork going. I am glad to say things have simmered down for GPSC, so we know where we’re going and what we’re expecting.” The body also held elections for a new judicial committee;. Attorney General
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Members of GPSCelect representatives to the new judicial committee at its meeting Tuesday.
TLG from page 3 will be inherently socially selective. At the meeting, attendants focused on the immediate implications ofTLGs rather than those down the road. “People are concerned about what is going to happen next year because we are not going to be here tour years from now,” Bierman noted, Nowicki expressed concern regarding housing for independent students who do not want to join a living group. He proposed bringing back House P, which housed such students years ago. “Independents are treated like hermits and nomads: Hermits in that they are placed in any space and nomads in
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Steve Nowidd met with students Tuesdayto discuss themed living groups.
Yvonne Ford explained the responsibilities ofmembers of the judicial committee, who will hear complaints and review bylaws, and asked for nominees. Four representatives self-nominated, but bylaws allow only three to be elected—prompting the body to discuss why it could not elect all four. Ford, a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the nursing school, said she could not remember such enthusiasm for the process, and invited the four candidates to briefly introduce themselves and take questions. The representatives moved to vote only for the candidate they did not want on the committee —an unorthodox method that passed once the candidates left the room. “We roll by the will of the assembly,” Ford said when the decision to vote against a candidate passed. The body elected Daniel Griffin, a graduate student in classical studies, and law students Waverly Gordon and Rob Tiefenbrun to the judicial committee.
In other business: The financial committee presented its proposed group funding budget. The financial committee would distribute a total of $14,689 to 69 groups under the plan. After determining that the budget could come up for review if groups that were promised funding were found to be left out, the body approved the funding. The body closed its meeting with a discussion led by Communications Coordinator Laura Johnson in response to complaints about GPSC News, the only listserv that includes all graduate and professional students. “When I [ran for office,] one of my points was I want to give the right information to the right people at the right time,” said Johnson, a graduate student in biological anthropology and anatomy.
that they are forced to move,” he said. “Independents would have their own house—House P—where you wouldn’t be a hermit because you are not putinto the cracks.” Members of Übuntu, a pilot TLG based on civic engagement, were some of the supporters of TLGs at the forum and emphasized the purpose of the living groups as “uniting around a theme.”
“This is a dialogue and nothing is set in stone; it is going to take time to figure out the details.” Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education Many attendants sought clarification for the selection process for TLGs. Nowicki mentioned the idea of selection through a lottery system, but it received low support among the students. “You want people who are committed to your cause, not who get in by luck,” said sophomore Carissa Mueller, a member of Übuntu. Nowicki reminded the attendees that discussions will continue on the proposed living groups. “This is a dialogue and nothing is set in stone; it is going to take time to figure out the details,” he said. Bierman said the Office of Undergraduate Education hopes to organize more forums with student groups to solicit greater input. “As far as the future of these discussions, I hope to take the thoughts that students communicatedand bring this issue from its current high-level status to something that has greater definition and more detail,” she wrote in an e-mail after the meeting.
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James B. Duke initially wanted to use a quarry that provided other institutions with stone —particularly Princeton University, near where he had an estate —but setded on the local stone, according to a Fall 2005 article in the Duke Library Magazine. Duke imposed various tests of durability that had come back satisfactory, and the stone has stood the test of time, as well. The choice also led to considerable savings because of the quarries’ proximity to the University. But the choice to use Duke stone was not just based on convenience. “Mr. Duke liked the colors and shadesof thestone,” Edebum noted. With strains of seven colors and 17 shades, the Duke stone adds complexity to the Gothic wonderland. Although there are strains of the stone that remain in the pit, it is now used sparingly due to the high cost to quarry and lay it. Today the stone can be seen on various new buildings as accent pieces, such as on the renovated Fuqua School ofBusiness and School of Law, in addition to edifices on West.
Last year was the first year the Union provided free transportation to Chapel Hill on Halloween. Goonewardene said that as a result, he does not think students see it as an entidement. Union members also said that without the cost of buses, they will be able to provide more on-campus programming this Halloween than last. The Union has scheduled a midnight screening of the film “Teeth”-a dark comedy about a girl whose vagina has teeth—and plans are being made for other events. “Duke has to amp up what they’re doing, definitely, but whatever they do can’t rival Franklin Street,” said sophomore Aliza Lopes-Baker.
In other business: Renovations are nearly complete on the Duke Coffeehouse, which will re-open Oct. 18 with a party featuring free music, coffee and T-shirts for students.
Nowicki said the stone is used as a design element, as the accents composed of the stone on these new buildings offer a sense of connectivity and reflection of the Gothic-style buildings on West. The New Campus project, though designs are not themselves set in stone, will also feature some of the rock, Nowicki said. He noted, however, that New Campus buildings will not necessarily be reminiscent of those on West. “The goal is to create a third style in addition to the Gothics on West and the Georgians on East,” he said. “The buildings will certainly be stylistically compatible with those on West, but the goal is not to attempt to replicate them.” More definitive detail on the lookofNew Campus is yet to come—this Fall, bids will be sent out for architecture firms to design certain parts of the new buildings and decide how to integrate the traditional Duke stone, Nowicki said. Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, master planner for the project, has laid out a general plan of the location and shape of the buildings and a few broad design guidelines. The architecture firms selected through the bidding process, expected by December, will design the buildings, Nowicki noted.
RE NOVATION Sonpaa In recent weeks, student groups have met to discuss the division of socialspaces. Although current plans are preliminary, some student leaders said they have been meeting with administrators to solicit student input on possible changes. Although DSG Presidentjordan Giordano, a senior, did not attend the Tuesday meeting, he said University officials are working to seek student feedback prior to making a final decision regarding construction and renovations. “I think they’re trying to make sure this is done quickly but done really well so we have a nice space for students,” he said. “Some of the less functional aspects of the Bryan Center will be compensated in the West Union after it’s renovated—you’ll see a real working student center.”
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and two sisters insisted enjoining the party. Powers wasn’t as sharp in net as she would have preferred that weekend, but the pack of relatives laughing in the stands didn’t seem to notice. The family, though, hadn’t missed the insignificant mistake. So after earning the embarrassment of a goalkeeper’s most humiliating fate—an own-goal Powers shuffled over to the sidelines, where her dad greeted her exactly die way she thought he would, “Great goal,” he said. “That’s how he was,” Powers said. “When I was younger, ifI did something wrong and would come off the field, I would be completely battered and so upset with myself, and he would joke around with me and make fun of me for it.” Just more than one month later, Gerard, his wife, two daughters, five siblings and countless friends learned his pancreatic cancer had progrossed further and he had only months to live. He never made it to the end of August, and couldn’t have picked up the phone when Cassidy would have called him after Duke’s 9-0 seasonopening win Aug. 24. He died July 28—just days before the Blue Devils started training camp, days before Powers started her senior season, months after she had abandoned all her summer plans and returned home to him, for the last time.
traditional bowl system and one that establishes a clear champion. The BCS undermines the basic premise of sport itself. You see, there’s one goal in sports: to win. Sports only have the meaning we ascribe them; hence, the illogical idea of preseason exhibition games that don’t count. And winning, as Vince Lombardi somewhat tautologically reminded us, is the only thing we care about. College football isn’t tee ball, where every game ends in a tie and we all go out for ice cream afterward. (Although again, maybe this explains why Duke was so out of shape under Ted Roof. “Let’s stick to the medium sundaes this week, boys! Miami’s up next!”) Nobody really cares about the exercise, the fun or the team bonding that occurs on the gridiron or the diamond. We love sports like football because they offer us simple closure. At the end of the day, one team quantitatively wins. This isn’t gymnastics or figure skating, where execution and aesthetics get equal play on a subjective scorecard. So why should a season have a different outcome than an individual game? Everyone knows the most efficient and effective way of determining the best team is a playoff system SEE BRITTON ON PAGE 8
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That’s why every major sport, even golf, ends its season with playoffs. Man, every minor sport has playoffs, dating back to my third-grade intramural basketball league. I’ve been to week-long camps that had playoffs. Instead, college football has the BCS, which introduces the French judge to football’s calculated dichotomy of winning and losing. By the end of the season, it becomes less about your record and more about who you’ve beaten and by how much. Subjectivity reigns supreme —a problem exacerbated by the uneven schedules that allow mediocre teams (Go Buckeyes!) to look more impressive than they actually are. Worse yet, college football creates a postseason whose excitement is inversely related to that of the regular season. Think about it: The best championship games have occurred when No. 1 and No. 2 were clear-cut all season long with little shakeup (Texas-USC in 2006, Ohio State-Miami in 2002). And the best regular seasons end anticlimactically and often controversially. (Quiz: what was the score of last year’s title game? Better yet, who played?) Trusting the BCS has become as scary a proposition as trusting the Mets’ bullpen with a lead in September. Even when it works, it’s usually coincidental. But we’ll stubbornly place our faith in it once again this fall, hoping it somehow overcomes its inherent deficiencies. And when the Blue Devils are snubbed by the BCS for the 12th straight year, we’ll at least know who to blame.
during an interlude from law school. Pancreatic cancer, though, doesn’t accommodate college requirements, Eurotrips or depth charts. Gerard had been diagnosed in May 2007 with the disease that leaves 96 percent of its victims dead in five years. The prognosis became direr in May 2008, leaving Cassidy with a choice. Stay in Durham, train for the starting spot and visit dad for a week? Or fly back to California, drop the planned regimen of classes and soccer and spend a summer with dad? Only Gerard’s objection to the latter made Cassidy’s decision thorny. “Initially, dad didn’twantus to come home,” said Cassidy, whose sister also opted to cancel her overseas ticket “We were like, ‘What are you talking about* We have to come home.’” With one visit to the doctor, family had supplanted soccer and school at the forefront of Cassidy’s attention, but she needed something to distract her. Rituals helped. The family played Cranium and Scene It and watched America’s Funniest Home Videos every day. Everyone laughed and tried not to remember that day’s episode could be the finale. Sometimes, though, the world was too much with Cassidy. Board games and Tom Bergeron could not quell the feelings of anxiety that lingered in the Powers house, where Gerard was cooped up all day. Cassidy, embroiled in her past and present, turned to her future, and recalled what she might have been doing if life hadn’t interrupted. She returned to soccer. She joined her old club team and ran by herself on a local track, all at the urging of Gerard, the selfless father who didn’t want his sickness to disrupt his daughter’s other plans. “He knew my situation, knowing I still had
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fight for the starting position this year, and every day he’d be encouraging me to go and work out,” Powers said. “It didn’t matter what was going on with him. He was encouraging me to play well and do what I want to do. “Personally, I think it helped me cope with everything and kind of keep my mind off it, to
because you can’t really focus on one thing. Otherwise, I would have gone crazy. And I think my dad would’ve gone crazy, also.” It wouldn’t be the last time she turned to soccer for solace.
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Powers died 11 days before the training camp. Cassidy no longer had to make a decision that had been looming all summer. If he had lived longer, after all, she might have decided to stay in California rather than setde in at Duke for her senior season. “It did cross my mind [to stay home], but it didn’t stay there very long,” Powers said. “My dad wouldn’t let it happen. He would have physically put me on the plane to bring me back here if he were still there to do it.” Instead, she relied on her teammates and coaches to act as her gravitational force. Powers talked with fellow senior Kelly Hathom start of Duke’s
“Soccer has been, like, a lifesaver. When you step on the soccer field, everything else in your life disappears.” Cassidy Powers and head coach Robbie Church about once a week during the summer. They chatted about her dad and, of course, soccer. But they could have talked about anything—the Blue Devils just wanted to let Powers know she had another team waiting for her. “They were very important calls,” Church said. “I just wanted to find the right amount of time to touch base with her. I wanted to make sure she knew we were all thinking about her here.... The family knew how much she put her stock in and how long she had waited for this opportunity.” She was forced to wait a few days longer, though, when Gerard’s funeral services interfered with the start of practice, slated for Aug. 8. Gerard’s friends lived in California and his family in New‘York, so he was the recipient of two memorials. The first, in the Powers’ hometown of San Ramon, Calif., took place Aug. 7. The second, at St. Raymond’s Parish in East Rockaway, N.Y. landed in the middle of training camp Aug. 13. Hathom had heard something in Powers’ voice all summer, something that told the senior forward that Duke’s goalkeeper was itching to get back into a normal routine—which, for Powers, included a heavy dose of soccer. “She wanted to be at home and wanted to be with her family, but at the same time, she had to leave her summer league team here,” Hathom said. “You just could tell she was a little bit bored and wishing she was playing.” Which is why Hathom and Church did their best to bring Duke to Powers one day earlier than she had imagined. The two flew to NewYork for the second service—Hathom represented the players, who had spoken with Powers on speaker phone during the Blue Devils’ first practice, and Church went for the staff, including goalkeeper coach Nathan Kipp and TJ. Grams, Duke’s assistant director for academic support. They traded barbs with Powers’ uncles, the ones who cracked them up in the spring when they did the wave. They heard stories of Gerard that allowed them to learn more about the man who impacted their friend. More than anything, they left camp to be there for Powers—to show her that she still belonged to a team even if she was without her biggest fan.
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“Before the service, I talked to [Church] and said if it had been me, I think she would have done the same thing,” Hathom said, “She would have wanted to be there. It was just one of those things where there wasn’t really a doubt in my mind that’s where I needed to be.” And after the summer with her family, after coping with the loss that she had anticipated but never learned to expect, after celebrating her father’s life on both ends of the country, Powers, too, knew where she needed to be.
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exhilaration of a new season tends dissipate in the face of two-a-days, those grueling preseason workouts that try to accomplish months’ work in weeks. By the time Powers, Hathom and Church arrived back in Wrightsville Beach, N.C. for training camp the day after the New York service, the Blue Devils were slogging. They were almost a week into official practice, and the thrill of beginning was already stale. For Powers, though, the energy of a new season was a fresh respite. She walked into the team’s rented house Friday morning and was visibly enthused to see the teammates who had e-mailed and text-messaged her all summer. And then the Blue Devils proceeded to the practice field, where Powers could no longer contain her emotion. “Oh, I was like a kid in a candy store I was so excited,” she said. “I swear I had a grin on my face the entire practice. While everyone’s been doing double-days for a week, I was just like, ‘Come on guys, this is great!’Just getting that first catch with [Kipp]—probably the greatest feeling I’ve ever had.” It didn’t hurt thatPowers was the expected starter for the first time in her career, no longer trapped behind four-year starter Allison Lipsher. Even though she earned valuable time as the team’s only goalkeeper in its 10 spring games, Powers had to earn the job, Church said. She understood the position wasn’t necessarily hers —and so, too, did her father. “She never whined, she never complained, she never tried to say it was anyone else’s fault,” Church said ofPowers’ first threeseasons. “She knew [Lipsher] was a heckuva goalkeeper. She just did the best she could every day, and she got better and better. She wasn’t handed this job. She came out and won the job.” And she has kept it all season, playing with an aggressive fervor that reminds her teammates ofher predecessor, Lipsher. Powers was previously prone to occasional self-criticism, but her confidence has risen to the point where she no longer finds herself affected by one miniscule mistake, Hathom said. Powers has already notched four shutouts for No. 11 Duke, and her goals-against average is 0.8. Lipsher’s career mark was 0.87. Maybe her success is rooted in a surge in confidence—or maybe it has more to do with using soccer as an escape, away to finally free herself from griefs grip. On the soccer field, Powers must focus solely on preventing the 10 players in front of her from guiding the ball into the net behind her. The other team scores, or she makes a save. The task is simple, butfar from meaningless. “Soccer has been, like, a lifesaver,” Powers said. “Being able to come to practice—there would be days when I would think about it and can’t get it out of my head until I come to practice. When you step on the soccer field, everything else in your life disappears, and soccer is all that matters. It’s something that has gotten me through this and allowed me to not go crazy.” Not that she wants to forget about her summer. She keeps a photo of her father m her locker and writes his initials on her wnst in Sharpie before each game. Powers knows she can’t talk to him after every game like she used to. She finds comfort, instead, on the soccer pitch, in practices, where her thoughts cant wander, and in games, where she knows the wind blowing throughKoskinen Stadium might just be a devout Duke fan doing the wave. to
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when did intelligence become a bad thing? Since when do we want an average citizen running our country? I don’t want someone ordinary in charge. I’d make a terrible vice president, as would anyone I know. I want someone in office who knows what’s going on, who knows about politics and economics an nealth and societies. I want Dfian Steiner someone who can guest commentary with negotiate Vladimir Putin or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I want someone who notices the rising Chinese dragon and has plans for it. Are the voters really too thick to understand this? Clearly, I’m not just ranting on politics in general, but pointedly speaking toward this election with the vice presidential debates superficially sitting on my mind. Having watched the debates and been somewhat amused by Gov. Sarah Palin’s true lack of ability to say anything that wasn’t entirely rhetorical or obviously playing to the average “Joe Sixpack and Hockey-Mom’s” of the country, I was completely bemused by the media’s resounding response that she did a good Job in the debate. Sure, she didn’t crash and burn as so many people anticipated, but that doesn’t mean that she did well. Essentially, what the media did was completely lower its standards for every politician just because Palin has previously proven herself to not be at the lowest standard. That’s completely unjustified. We can’t allow someone who isn’t on par with the rest of her colleagues be considered highly just because compared to her previous performances she didn’t shove her entire leg down her throat and expose her vacant skull. In comparison with any other speaker in either presidential or vice presidential debates thus far, Palin said the least. Sen. Joe Biden was able to provide numbers, dates and figures—and didn’t shy away from any question, including one about what the Democratic administration would not be able to do because of this economic crisis. Not even Sen. Barack Obama of Sen. John McCain were able to answer that question clearly (I do understand that it is a much more difficult question for them to answer than Biden, but the fact remains that he answered it well). All I heard Palin say the whole debate was, “You voters are upset, and we’re gonna fix it." Yet, she never said how, and when Biden clearly provided evidence that Palin and “
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highly visible outgrowth of all of these efforts, and evervone of those broader initiatives is now either inactive or extinct So of course the program is not to be blamed when it falls short of addressing all the ills of women here. It was clearly intended to be a single initiative that would be a positive force in the lives of a select few female students. The important thing to understand is that although the program may be successful,! it’s been mostly left behind. In short, the Baldwin! Scholars review should keep context in mind. It should remember that, though its program may be doing well and need only minor changes, it’s small consolation to win a batde if you forget that you’re fighting a war.
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McCain’s plans would do nothing to help the middle class, Plain had no response. And that’s considered doing a good job?! What’s worse is that she is more highly rated in opinion polls than Biden, who clearly has more experience and knowledge of all matters political than she does, and that many women voters are turning towards her because they identify with her. I must say that I’m disgusted with the public at this point (as well as at many, many other points for that matter). What I think people don’t understand—and this is across the board, mind you, Democrats, Republicans, men, women, blacks, whites... everyone—is that we don’t have an obligation to our parties, gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, etc. when it comes to our political views. The economy is not going to be better just because the president is black. You have to know what he wants to do with the office. We’re not going to get better health care just because the vice presidential candidate is a woman, you have to know what she wants to do with the office, Just because McCain is a Republican doesn't mean his ideas on the war are sound, and just because Obama is a Democrat doesn’t mean he knows the best way to handle welfare. You ve got to understand the issues in order to lit our country any good. Mark Twain once said, “You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, to care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags that is a loyalty of unreason.” All of these politicians’ identities are rags" don’t vote for them merely for their superficialities, vote for them because of their stance on pertinent issues that will truly affect the way you live every single day, potentially t° the rest of your life. Vote for someone who understands the consequences of his actions and has the country’s best interest at heart. If public continues this trend of voting for pohti‘ dans for all the wrong reasons, or essential!'' any reason other than the political issues a hand, I think I’ll find England a nice placet0 call home. —
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Brian Steiner is a first-year medical student.
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Duke
has a relationship problem. There are so many people at Duke stuck in the hookup culture that they’re never monogamous. There’s scene. It’s a dating no
deep-rooted problem to which I have a solution.
The solution? Get rid of effortless perfection. Seriously, women at Duke are bound by a double-standard that’s really tough i to break. On the one dailliy ieWlll hand, they want to be in a relationship, but on the immaculate other hand, they want to misconception be socially accepted in our hookup culture. On the other hand, they want to randomly hook up with as many guys as possible. On the other hand, they have to work really hard and balance work and play. But on yet another hand, uh... effortless perfection. Maybe fraternities are to blame. And sororities. Which, of course, means the administration is to blame. The administration is so mean. Just like the Group of 88. They stink. Has anyone else noticed this? There were, like, a bunch of professors who called out the lacrosse team and didn’t apologize. That’s bad. Bad like effortless perfection and hookup culture. Perhaps it’s a lack of engagement with the community. You see, we have this community around Duke. It’s called Durham. And we’re not engaging it enough. That’s almost as big of a problem as effortless perfection and the hookup culture. But, uh... it’s actually also interrelated with those two problems. And the “Hate 88”. No, actually, after some more consideration—it’s the DSG’s fault. DSG sucks so bad. How do I loathe thee, DSG? Let me count the ways. You tried to increase the amount of money I have to pay you so that student groups can get more funding. That’s, like, a tax. I’m only OK with taxes when I don’t have to pay them—like those proposed by Sen. Barack Obama (Hope! Change!). Also, you don’t tell us everything right away. What’s up with that? That’s, like, secretive. Oh, and you’re really ineffective. Seriously, though. You suck, DSG. I think I’ll blame you for effortless perfection and hookup culture. Actually, maybe Sarah Palin’s the root of the problem. Has anyone else noticed how dumb she is? I mean. She’s really not good at answering questions. She also teaches abstinence-only. 800, Sarah Palin. The hookup culture is the direct result of her abstinence-only stance. And how dumb she is. She’s sooo stupid. She also has a pregnant daughter. What’s up with that?! Doesn’t that, like, contradict with the fact that she suppprts abstinence-only education? That could almost be a joke, that her daughter’s pregnant but she thinks people should only have sex after marriage. I’m gonna write a joke about that for my next column. Speaking of my next column, I want to talk to you about what it’s like to write a column for The Chronicle. It’s really hard! I had an idea, but then I didn’t like the idea, so I wrote something else. Writing for The Chronicle is almost as perspective-changing for me as my study abroad. Have I mentioned my study abroad? It really made me think about what the rest of the world is like. For instance, in my sojourn in the most impoverished region of the most impoverished country in Africa, I realized that my engagement really made a difference and personally brought the indigenous peoples out of the squalor in which they lived. It really opened my'eyes, too, seeing them without their... you know, stuff that sorority girls stereotypically have here. And how privileged I am. And how I should buy sustainable and organic stuff back at home. Like, Africa, man. We have to save it. Wow. I hope reading this column made you realize how much the Group of88, the new Central Campus, the new ACES, RLHS, DSC, OIT, IFC, DDT, Jordan Giordano, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Bristol Palin, writing for The Chronicle, alienating Duke from Durham and pre-DuheEngage Africa all suck. Oh, and effortless perfection. ,
Danny Lewin is a Trinity junior. Some version of this col-
Urnn with only slight alterations, runs Monday ,
wny week of the year.
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Something out of nothing
If
you could take a pill that would make you 10 perstupider but would make you appear 20 percent smarter, would you take it? Is the ability to pretend you know something more valuable than your ability to actually know it? That’s the question posed by Chuck Klosterman in his last book. It seems to me that the answer is a resounding yes. It’s not about what you know—it’s about what people think john schneider you know. I first realized how guard your ears! overwhelming this phenomenon was at Duke’s Career Fair (loyal readers will remember that I have already covered this in my previous column). But the event is not really an accurate representation of Duke life because attendants looking for ajob only had a small window of time to make an impression. By the same token, the intellectual posturing that goes on in classes is understandable, if not always excusable. But it’s not just superiors and potential employers whom we try to impress with big words and pretentious pronouncements —we do it to each other too. In the wake of last month’s economic implosion, for example, I must have overheard more than 10 amateur analyses of the banking crisis. Most often it was between students. It’s generally considered a good thing to have students discussing current events, but that’s based on the assumption that those conversations involve the free exchange of real ideas. The debates I hear, however, are almost never substantive, and typically boil down to broad abstractions and generalizations. Someone says something meaningless like, “The market for derivatives was negatively impacted by the high price of oil,” and nobody forces him to defend that claim. This kind of statement can never really be “wrong,” because it’s so vague and malleable, but it can also never be “right” for these same reasons. Nobody really cares if the statement is right or wrong, though, because you have successfully proved that you know how to use “derivatives” in a
sentence and
that you know gas is really expensive.
Replace the economy with the presidential election, or
cent
foreign affairs or the last reading you did for class. The subjects change but die formula remains the same: Connect a few buzzwords together with some fancy language, but be evasive enough to avoid being pinned down to a specific idea. We are all caught between constantly trying to impress each other and the deathly fear of being wrong, so we setde for a stream of worthless pratde. It is easy and common to blame this on the level of Duke’s intellectual discourse —to say something about the pre-professional atmosphere and “effortless perfection” and maybe toss some invectives at the Greek scene. The problem with this oversimplification is that it ignores how widespread the issue really is. Everywhere I look—politics, the business world, academia, sports journalism—it seems to me that the most valuable asset you can have is the ability to equivocate and hedge, to use a lot of words to say nothing. In last week’s vice presidential debate the moderator actually told the candidates, “Let’s try to avoid nuance.” The state of discourse at Duke is not really markedly different from the state of discourse in any other arena oflife —if anything, Duke students have a remarkable ability to fit into the real world. If, for one reason or another, you don’t want to participate in this kind of real world—a world where style is valued over substance and intellectual frauds rule—then the only conceivable solution is to abstain. First of all, start calling people out. If you make people back their points up, eventually you will poke a few holes in the pseudo-intellectual armor they’ve created. Secondly, don’t do it yourself. It’s incredibly easy, and tempting, to impress people with big words. But once you start, it’s hard to stop. Trying to impress a professor or future employer with your vocabulary is just a short, slippery slope away from forgetting how to have a real conversation. It may be difficult to construct a cogent argument, and it may mean that, at times, you turn out to be wrong, but it’s the only way to have a meaningful discussion. Ifyou can’t do that, you might as well swallow the pill
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