September 25, 2009

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Victor Strandberg’s desk is framed by*a mosaic of newsprint. He can see it while he works.

When he arrived at Duke, Strandberg, professor of English, got into the habit of clipping memorable images and mounting them on posters that were once neon orange and have since faded to manila.

For 43 years now, the collage has inched its way across the wall.

Four Kennedy brothers with boyish grins, Heather Sue Mercer making a field goal for the Duke football team in 1995, former President George W. Bush making his “Mission Impossible” speech—Strandberg has watched it all unfold, “from the local to the immense,” in his time at the University.

“It’s almost completed,” Strandberg, 74, remarked, pointing to the few empty spots he has saved.

At 85 years of age, Duke has reached a curious crossroads—finally old enough to possess some of the history suggested by its Gothic spires, yet still young enough that a professor like Strandberg can see more than half of its development over the course of his career.

A baby amongits Ivy League peers, Duke has grown dramatically over the past halfcentury. As foreign partnerships and graduate schools have sprouted, the constancy of a few devoted faces has kept the campus grounded, Provost Peter Lange said.

“We’re the youngest on the list,” said Lange, who has been at Duke since 1981.

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When Duke and North Carolina Central University meet in the first annual Bull City Gridiron Classic Saturday, more than a football game will be on the line.

From the time it was announced Duke and NCCU would meet on the field for the first time in their histories, University officials realized the game provided an opportunity for two institutions, separated by both space and custom, to continue to foster connections between them and the city they share.

The University’s deliberate celebration of this game stands in contrast to the happenstance way the game came about.

Last May, Director ofAthletics Kevin White saw an opening for another home football game.After examining various options, NCCU revealed an open away game date, White said.

“I thought there was a value in creating a pretty significant, special event in the city of Durham,” he said. “We have Duke University, an ACC institution, that co-habitates this city with a historically black institution, N.C. Central.”

Soon, the idea took on a life of its own with community service projects, a basketball clinic hosted by former Duke All-American Jay Williams, concerts and Thursday’s Bull City Football Fest at the Durham Athletic Park, which served as the official kickoff for homecoming

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Randall Kramer, a professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment, proposes the creation of a doctoral degree program in environmental policy at the Academic Council meeting Tuesday.

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Professors from the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Sanford School of Public Policy presented a proposal to create a doctoral degree in environmental policy at the Academic Council meeting Thursday. If the degree is approved, it will be the first joint Ph.D. program between a policy school and an environment school in the country, said Randall Kramer, professor of resource and environmental economics at the Nicholas School.

“Duke is very well situated to mount a top-notch program in environmental policy,” Kramer said. “We believe the program will quickly emerge as a top-tier Ph.D. program.”

He said the five-year program would require students to take courses in the political economy of public policy and environmental or resource economics and concentrate in a discipline such as economics or political science. Students would also take courses in research methods and do fieldwork.

Ph.D. candidates would be funded primarily through teaching assistantships and research assistantships, said Jacob Vigdor, director of graduate studies in Sanford and a professor of public policy and economics.

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The Blue Devilsand North Carolina Central University Eagles will meet for the first annual Bull City Gridiron Classic at Wallade Wade Stadium Saturday.

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WASHINGTON Evidence of one of WASHINGTON A new wave of anthe most significant home grown terrorti-American sentiment in Pakistan has ism threats in nearly two decades unfoldslowed the arrival of hundreds of U.S. ed Thursday as investigators described civilian and military officials charged an advanced-stage plot to detonate with implementing assistance programs, explosives made with beauty-supply undermined cooperation in the fight chemicals on American soil. against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban and Using information gleaned from phone put American lives at risk, according to and e-mail intercepts, surveillance footage officials from both countries. and receipts from venders, prosecutors drew a In recent weeks, Pakistan has rejected picture of Najibullah Zazi,a 24-year-old Afghan as "incomplete" at least 180 U.S. governman at the center ofthe scheme, whothey acment visa requests. Its own ambassador in cused of conspiring with at least three others Washington has criticized what he called in the country to deploy weapons of mass a "blacklist" used by the Pakistani intellidestruction in theform of hydrogen peroxide gence service to deny visas or to conduct bombs. Zazi, who had permanent legal U.S. "rigorous, intrusive and obviously crude residency, was in "urgent"contact with al-Qaisurveillance" of journalists and non-govda operatives in Pakistan and had purchased ernmental aid organizations it dislikes, and tested a volatile brew of chemicals before including the Congress-funded Internaheading from his home outside Denver to tional Republican Institute and National New York this month, prosecutors said.

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A memorial ceremony was held Thursday at the School ofLaw for Professor Robinson Everett, who passed away June 12.

The participants commemorated Everett and his 51 years teaching as a professor, as well as his contributions to the country as a senior judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the ArmedJForces.

Everett, Law ’59, was described as a “wonderfully kind and brilliant man” by James Dever, U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District ofNorth Carolina.

“He was a wonderful teacher, mentor for all the Duke law school students who we talked t0... [he] rendered great services to the United States,” said Dever, who had been Everett’s student, colleague and friend.

Everett is the youngest faculty member the law school has ever hired, starting his teaching career at the age of 22. Besides teaching classes, Everett also had a “major impact on the field of national security,” said Scott Silliman, executive director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, which Everett founded.

Silliman noted that Everett also served as counsel to the Subcommittee ofConstitutional Rights on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, where he assisted the development of the Military Justice Act of 1968.

Beyond his own accomplishments, Everett was also very accessible to students.

“He’s so personal, so welcoming, almost like a family,” said James Markham, Law ’O7 and assistant professor ofpublic law and government at the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. Markham added that almost every student built a personal relationship

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Law School Dean David Levi speaks at a memorial ceremony for Professor Robinson Everett Thursday.

Everett, a judge,passed away in Juneafter a distinguished career that included 51 years at Duke. with Everett, as everybody in Everett’s classes would be invited to Everett’s home and many were treated to a barbecue. “[Everett] energized many lonely or lost students to make them happy at Duke law school,” said William Reppy, Charles L.B. Lowndes emeritus professor of law.

Law School Dean David Levi said Everett was a generous source of ideas and assistance for both the law school and its students.

“Often upon hearing a student’s problem, [Everett] would pay the tuition bill, pay the traveling [costs] to job interviews for students,” Levi said. “Offering a helping and guiding hand to these young people is his special mission. And he is just so good at it.”

Everett’s students will remember him “standing tall and slightly leaning toward the student” and proposing challenging

questions, said Theresa Newman, clinical professor of law, who had also been a student ofEverett’s.

Reppy said Everett was also an ardent supporter of Duke Athletics, particularly the football program.

“I believe that I won’t—and neither will anyone else —access the level of [Everett’s] support for Duke football,” he said.

Reppy added that he believes Everett missed fewer than three home football games in the last 30 years.

Levi concluded the memorial by revealing Everett’s portrait, which will hang on the fourth floorof the law school building among other portraits of faculty who have devoted themselves to Duke Law. “His colleagues will remember him as a gentle and unassuming force of nature,” said Professor Clark Havighurst, William Neal Reynolds professor emeritus oflaw.

Five weeks into the schoolyear, the estimated number of HINI virus cases on campus is 350, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

But this estimate may not accurately reflect the actual number of cases, said Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health. The number of confirmed cases remains at 50, as reported by The Chronicle two weeks ago.

Schoenfeld said the University’s approach to preventing and treating the pandemic has not changed significantly since the start of the year.

“We are continuing to take the steps of education, treatment and prevention by having hand sanitizers available [and the] meal delivery service for students who might be confined to their rooms,” he said.

Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs, also said she was not aware of any real change in policy or procedure.

Purdy said the University has been abiding by standard health guidelines, as it has in months past.

“We’re really just following the recommendations ofall the disease experts [and the Centers for Disease Control],” he said.

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Research center will expand to Orlando campus By

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Duke Medical Center’s Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center is teaming up with the Burnham Institute for Medical Research to build a collaborative new research facility in Orlando, Fla. An extension of Duke’s Stedman Center laboratory will be established at the Burnham Institute’s Lake Nona campus in Orlando next month. The grand opening is set for Oct. 8, and the new facility is expected to be fully operational by 2010, said Brett Wenner, a researcher at the Stedman Center Metabolomics Laboratory. The center’s extension is expected to hire its first personnel by November 2009, said Christopher Newgard, director of the Stedman Center.

“The opportunity to partner with the Burnham Institute makes sense because it pairs two strong research institutes within the Southeast,” Newgard said. “By working together, we feel we can expand our ability to do this very high tech science much faster than if either institution was trying to do it by themselves.”

Newgard said the Stedman Center’s progression in the research area of metabolomics is what caught the attention of the Burnham Institute. Metabolomics, the study ofchemical products in the body, may give insights into chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cardiovascular complications and cancer, said Robert Stevens, a senior scientist and technical director at the Stedman Center.

This research, along with a friendship between Newgard and Dr. Daniel Kelly, scientific director of the Burnham Institute at Lake Nona, was the catalyst for collaboration between the institutions.

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EnvironmentalAlliancePresidents Mikael Owunna (left) andBen SoKoff (right) discuss the new Students Taking an Active Role in Sustainability committee.The new body will be in charge ofa $25,000 grant to help individualsand groups carry out projects focused on environmental sustainability.

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One of Duke’s mottos, “bleed blue, live green,” is further advancing as Duke’s Environmental Alliance delivers in the form of two new sustainability committees.

Students Taking an Active Role in Sustainability, created by active EA member Kelsey Shaw, a senior, will be a stand-alone product of EA starting this Fall. STARS will have $25,000 to grant to individuals and groups who have an environmental vision they would like to carry out.

Another group, the Student Environment Sustainability Committee, is the brainchild of senior Spencer Eldred, Duke Student Government vice president for student affairs. SESC will consult with student groups to help them make their events more environmentally friendly. The

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“There are a lot of people who are very, very motivated... they have great ideas,” said EA co-president Mikael Owunna, a sophomore. “Then there are other people who don’t really care.”

Shaw said that although most Duke students are environmentally conscious, she is concerned that students are not as active as they are well-meaning.

These two new committees will aim to spark more student interest in sustainability and encourage action, said EA co-president Ben Soltoff, a sophomore.

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Four years ago, a snake’s heating lamp and a botde ofAxe deodorantstarted a fire in a Central Campus dorm. Today, heating lamps are no longer allowed on campus, but snakes—or at least pets—are being reconsidered.

At its meeting Thursday, Campus Council discussed the implementation of policies that would allow pets on Central Campus. The council discussed the possibility of launching a pilot pet program next year that could allow a maximum of 24 cats or dogs to join the Central community.

Central residents who wish to have a cat must submit an application including a recommendation from a non-family member and a reference who could care for the pet if the applicant could not. Members expressed concern for the abandonment and welfare of pets on campus, particularly if the program were to include animals like dogs.

“I honesdy don’t trust a college student of any age to be that on top of their game,” said Facilities and Services Chair John Pryor, ajunior.

In addition to care, the council discussed considerations for non-pet owners on Central

and for animal waste disposal.

“If the owner doesn’t take responsibility, it would fall to the people policing the quad that would be unfortunate,” said Vice President Alex Reese, ajunior.

Still, President Stephen Temple, ajunior, said he sees this project as away to continue his mission to “make the living environments equally appealing on East, West and Central Campuses.” Othermembers said pets on Central would increase the overall sense of community. '

In other business: Temple said 1,300 students responded to the blast e-mail sent out Monday about cell phone reception issues on campus. Temple said the Office of Information Technology now has all the data.

“I think [this issue] is really important because of its safety ramifications,” he said.

The Council also agreed to move $20,000 from a budget specific to Last Day of Classes funding to unallocated funding. Temple said that once the LDOC committee has formed, it can request this funding again. The Council also allocated $1,320 to the International Association’s International Food Festival.

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Campus Council President Stephen Temple (right) is considering a new proposal that will allow pets on Central Campus. Temple said he hopes theproject will equalize the living environments across all three campuses.

A recent study found that parents tutoring their children may lead to poor academic performance.

Scientists attribute part of the negative impact to students'desire to be independent of their parents.

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Late nights at the kitchen table with textbooks, problem sets and hovering parents ntay not be as useful as some believe.

In a recently published study conducted by feigner Duke researchers, tutoring by parents was found to be less effective for the child than intended. Results indicated that beyond elementary school, parents are often ill-equipped to help students with their homework as the level of academic difficulty increases. “[The study] is about identifying the types of parental involvement strategies that are most effective for middle school students and fit with the middle school context,” said Nancy Hill, associate professor of psychology at Duke and professor ofeducation at Harvard University.

It is often only after a student performs pOorly that a parent becomes involved in a child’s school work, leading to a correlation between an increase in parental help and a decrease in academic achievement, said Hill, who was the primary researcher on the study.

Because parents are not physically present at the time of classroom instruction,

their assistance may not parallel the techniques formally taught in class.

“Parents, for example, may have learned to solve algebraic equations differently,” Hill said. “When the parent attempts to show the teen their own way of doing it, they may undermine the student’s understanding.”

Findings also revealed that students’ emotional psychology plays an important role in the effectiveness of parental tutoring.

“We. think .part of the reason the study was correlational is because when kids enter adolescence, they are trying to be independent,” said Diana Tyson, who was a co-collaborator on the project and graduated in 2008 from Duke’s Department of Psychology and Neuroscience graduate program.

During the early stages of tion, teenagers are affected by a multitude of developmental changes in social, biological and cognitive aspects.

This collection of changes renders the tutoring techniques designed on an elementary school level less effective or completely irrelevant, Hill said.

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Duke experts skeptical about ‘soda tax’ proposal by

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In light of a recent push to implement a soda tax to reduce obesity, Duke dietician Martin Binks has voiced his skepticism for the proposal.

Approximately $147 billion—or 9.1 percent of all money spent on health care in the U.S.—is spent on fighting diet-related diseases, according to a report published by the New England Journal of Medicine Sept. 16. A number of public health officials are advocating a tax on high-caloric beverages to decrease consumption of sugary drinks such as soda, sports drinks and energy drinks. An excise tax on producers of high-caloric beverages could generate up to $14.9 billion in tax revenue next year, the NEJM

reported.

The report also pointed to past success when high taxes on cigarettes effectively curbed smoking, noting that similar results could be anticipated in relation to high-caloric beverages.

But Binks, research director at the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, said the negative consequences of smoking are more direct and severe than those associated with drinking soda.

“It doesn’t mimic the situation with smoking as much as people would think,” Binks said. He added that tax revenues should be allocated for a comprehensive and concentrated educational program, and that an excise tax coupled with government subsidies for healthy alternatives would be the best way to ensure that public preference is steered in a healthy direction.

Frank Sloan, the J. Alex McMahon professor in health policy at the Fuqua School of Business, noted that the implementation of a soda tax would be accompanied by a

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Although a tax on high-caloricbeverages could generate up to $14.9 billion in revenue, professors and dieticians are skeptical about the proposal. decrease in consumption of sugary drinks, but added that he was not sure what people would look to as substitutes.

Sloan, however, said Binks’ suggestion to implement subsidies is not in the government’s best interest.

“With such huge deficits, subsidies might not work,” Sloan said. He noted that increased demand for bottled water in response to higher soda prices could contribute to elevated prices of water and other healthful options.

Connel Fullenkamp, associate professor of economics, said the government'would have to impose a substantial tax to discourage people from consuming high-caloric

beverages. But he noted that the negative consequences of such a tax would cancel out any positive benefits and over time, as governments can become too dependent on such taxes.

“When we put taxes on goods, we can’t anticipate all the consequences,” Fullenkamp said. “They will always exist and always frustrate policy makers.”

Economics aside, Binks said a shift in public preference away from soda will not guarantee that preference will shift to heathier food items, as it is just as likely that consumers will choose equally unhealthy food items.

“In principle and spirit, I would say that I agree in using some global approach to influence the food industry,” Binks said. “My first concern is that sometimes, the reactionary taxation of a single food item might not be the best way to do it.”

Freshman Tejen Shah said a soda tax would not largely affect his spending habits because he does not drink soda

regularly.

“But I know a lot of friends who would have to make a tough decision about buying soda, especially those that drink it alljthe time,” he added.

Consumers look for certain qualities in their soft drinks and may be reluctant to give up current drinking habits for fear of not finding satisfactory alternatives, Fullenkamp said. He noted that those looking for caffeine in soft drinks could turn to other beverages like coffee but may not obtain the same value from such a substitute.

“I think it’s much more symbolic, you can argue that soda is the place to start and follow-up with more taxes on other unhealthy foods,” he said. “Maybe this is the most politically feasible way.”

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Carolina Parent magazine has ranked Duke University and Health System in its list of the top 50 familyfriendly employers in North Carolina.

This is the Triangle area publication’s 11th edition of such rankings and Duke’s sth straight year appearing on the list. The ranking was based on various criteria including vacation time offered to employees, maternity leave and discounted prograjns for child wellness and educations This year, 50 companies were deemed family-friendly, up from 40 last year.

Companies are putting more emphasis on the health and welfare of their employees and creating new and innovative options for their benefits, said Holly Rice, director of the evening MBA program at the University ofNorth Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Rice helped to select the final list of 50.

“We all know that happier and healthier employees are more productive,” Rice said, noting that employers like Duke are putting greater resources into familyfriendly benefits to increase retention.

“Employee retention is a huge component,” she said.

A university as competitive and selective as Duke does not want to lose its faculty and staff to other institutions providing better benefits. Rice added that greater benefits “attract more talented employees and encourage them to develop academically and to contribute their ideas.” Because their families are covered, they have less to worry about and can dedicate more positive energy to their work.

Alfiee Breland-Noble, assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, said one, of the greatest benefits of working for Duke is the support she has received, noting that the Duke Children’s Camp day care was one of the things that appealed to her.

“My primary benefit has been that for the past three and a halfyears, I have been able to take my children to daycare and go to work with a great deal of peace of mind that my children are well cared for,” Breland-Noble said.

Faculty and staff can take advantage of time-offbenefits, discounted wellness programs and extended leave for childbirth or adoption. There is a “phase-back” option for new moms and health insurance provided for newborns, Carolina Parent reported in its findings. Employees can even “bank” their hours so that colleagues may use them in times of family emergency—one of many innovative ways Duke has allowed its employees to balance their time between the workplace and the home.

Fred Maurer is an informations technology employee at the Fuqua School of Business who has recendy taken advantage ofDuke’s six-week parental leave option after the birth of his now 2-month-old daughter.

“I almost feel guilty at times because we get such good treatment here,” Maurer said, noting that he had a friend who returned to work days after his child was born. “What made it really good was that I have a twoyear-old in the house and was able to spend more time with my wife and both children.”

The University is working to trim its budget by $5O million this year, largely by cutting human resources expenses. But if anything, the harsh economic climate has shown that the health and well being of workers everywhere is an important factor in cutting costs and maximizing production, Rice said.

It has also forced companies that developed wasteful practices during times of economic prosperity to “think economically,” Rice said, adding that the economic challenge presented by the recession has made innovation a necessity for survival.

“Even in difficult economic times, Duke continues to be labeled as an employer of choice,” Vice President of Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh said, noting that its wages and benefits packages have remained competitive.

To date, Duke has been able to avoid the more challenging types of approaches that its peer institutions have had to face,” he added, noting that Duke has not experienced a large-scale reduction in force.

“Duke continues to provide its employees with positive, proactive programs that balance demands between work and outside life,” Cavanaugh said.

He added that employees may still take advantage of an important tuitionassistance program, work-site health programs through Live for Life and employee-assistance programs through Personal Assistance Services.

“We want to be as competitively practical as can be and at the same time want to be as supportive of our employee population as we can,” Cavanaugh said.

Duke University and its Health System were listed as one of the top 50family-friendly employers in North Carolina by Carolina Parent magazine.

Inaugural Series

THE SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY Special Events

October 1-3, 2009

Founder's Day Convocation Thursday, Oct. 1,4:00 p.m., Duke Chapel Professor of Public Policy and Law Joel Fleishman, founding director of what is now the Sanford School, delivers the Founder's Day address and is awarded the University Medal for Distinguished Service.

Terry Sanford Distinguished Lectures Fleishman Commons, Sanford Building

"The New Global Economy: A Conversation

"Prospects in Public

with Richard Fisher"

Health: A Conversation with Dr. Gail Rosseau"

Friday, Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 3,10:00 a.m.

Reception follows

Richard Fisher, CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, offers an insider's view of the global financial crisis in a conversation with National Public Radio Senior News Analyst Cokie Roberts. An audience O&A follows the lecture Fisher was assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Carter,administration and later served as deputy U.S. trade representative with the rank of ambasI sador. He oversaw implementation of NAFTA and various agreements with Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Chile and Singapore

Using examples from her work with patients, Gail Rosseau, M.D., illustrates core issues in the health insurance debate such as equal access to care, medical liability and high costs.

John Harwood T'7B, political journalist with CNBC and The New York Times, engages Rosseau in a dialogue about health insurance reform.

Rosseau, chief of surgery at the Neurologic and Orthopedic Institute of Chicago and a brain tumor specialist, was among President Obama's candidates for U.S. Surgeon General.

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Additional Events “Terry Sanford: An American Original" Photography Exhibit All Weekend, Sanford Building Preview 20 images from a new exhibit about Terry Sanford, the progressive leader who served as governor of North Carolina, U.S. Senator, president of Duke University, and founder of what is now the Sanford School.

Student Poster Session Friday, Oct. 2,2:00 p.m., Sanford Building Public policy seniors are on hand to answer guestions about their honors thesis research projects.

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LIFELONG DUKIES from page' to try new things to be of our really great assets as compared to those schools that are about three times as old as we are. But in a place which has undergone so much change, that continuity of these people is very healthy and important to have.”

Strandberg is a member of a select club of faculty members who have taught at the University for more than 40 years. Professor ofEconomics Craufurd Goodwin and Professor of Chemistry James Bonk have him beat, clocking in at more than half a century.

Goodwin has been at Duke for 54 years.

Before verifying the count on his fingers, he could have sworn it had been longer—he has spent almost all of his adult life on Main West Quadrangle. like Strandberg and Bonk, Goodwin said it was the promise ofsun that lured him to North Carolina.

In 1955, the 21-year-old wanted to spend a year as a graduate student in the United States before returning to his native Quebec for law school.

The decision to come to Duke was “pure happenstance,” Goodwin said. Flipping through the pages of LIFE magazine in the throes of a long Montreal winter, his eyes lingered over a snapshot of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens in full bloom.

Goodwin said he can still remember the oppressively hot August day when he arrived in Durham for the first time.

“I remember the heavy scents of tobacco and magnolia and other things that were blooming, and it was just a very different feel from Canada,” he said.

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A university in bloom Goodwin could sense big things were in

store for Duke, and he said the University has blossomed exactly as he hoped it would.

The Duke that Strandberg first knew was very much a Southern school, not yet on the radar of the rest of the country, much less the rest of the world.

“This was a relatively provincial school, considered one of the best in the South.

Now it’s one of the best in the world,” Strandberg said. “It has sprung from its

launching pad to spectacular heights.”

Bonk carries on a conversation the way he addresses a group of students—slow and steady, occasionally delivering a joke to draw the listener back in. He is the consummate teacher, having taught an introductory chemistry, course for 30 years to more than 30,000 Dukies.

“You get a feel for a large group after a while, you look across the room and it’s almost like a sixth sense—you can tell when the light bulb goes on,” he said. “When people are able to understand a relatively complex mathematical subject, that has always brought me great joy.”

Bonk came to Duke because it was first and foremost a teaching institution. But without a serious interest in research, he might not have been hired today.

Duke’s transition to a major research institution has contributed to the rise of “Darwinian competition” for tenure among faculty members, Strandberg said.

“Among young people, there are pressures I never had to face when I came up,” he said.

Robert Behringerjames B. Duke professor of physics, said competition among students has both increased and decreased since he enrolled at Duke as an undergraduate in 1966.

Although the acceptance rate is a fraction of what it once was, the standard academic load was five courses and students routinely had 8 a.m. classes on Saturdays, he said.

Dr. Joanne Wilson, a professor of medi-

cine specializing in gastroenterology, was one of three women and the only black student in her class when she enrolled in the School of Medicine in 1969. Since that time, the University has become more diverse—but not as much as the idealistic Wilson had hoped.

“I kind of expected the country as a whole to be further along,” she said. “I was expecting in 40 years that someone’s race would not even be a commentary.”

There are times when Strandberg feels he is still at the University he arrived at 43 years ago. Main West Quad, perhaps the heart of Duke, remains essentially unchanged—the trees are just taller.

But then he remembers Science Drive.

Strandberg said the pace of Duke’s expansion beyond its West Campus core makes him feel as if he knows less and less about his workplace with each passing year.

“Duke has grown far beyond my capacity to encompass it,” he said.

A lifetime bond Shock and awe were the only feelings that Sue Wasiolek, dean of students and assistant vice president for student affairs, registered when she first visited campus as a newly accepted student in 1969.

“I had macaroni and cheese and blueberry pie for lunch in the Great Hall, and I remember it being one of the most delicious meals I had ever had,” she said. “I don’t know that the food was as delicious as I remembered it, but I wasjust overwhelmed by the entire experience.... I was starstruck.

I was looking around with my mouth open, trying to imagine myself being here.”

Forty years later, Wasiolek has trouble imagining her life apart from Duke. She has been away for just nine months since coming to Duke as a wide-eyed freshman, and she returned quickly.

Wasiolek accepted a job-at a law firm

in 1994. She consciously thought she had left Duke for good, but she filed for a leave of absence rather than terminating her employment —on some level, she now realizes, she must have known better.

“When I tell people about my tenure at Duke, I always say I never left because that nine months was almost to me like a sabbatical,” she said. “I’ve always considered what I do here at Duke away of life, whereas practicing law to me felt like a job.”

There was a time when everyone thought President Richard Brodhead would be at Yale University forever. Brodhead arrived in New Haven as a 17-year-oldfreshman and spent 40 years of his life there, staying on as a graduate student, a professor and then a dean.

Brodhead figured out early on that he wanted to spend his time “living in universities,” but he never tried to imagine what shape that life might take.

“I’m telling you the truth when I say I’ve never given one second’s thought to what the whole ofmy life would look like,” Brodhead said. “I take my life one second at a time. I’ve never tried to plan 10 years ahead. Year by year you do what seems most interesting and most gratifying. That led me to stay at Yale, and that same logic led me to start a new life at Duke.”'

If someone hagi told a 28-year-old Bonk that he would still be at Duke 50 years later, he would have been overjoyed, he said. Bonk has never married, but he fell in love with Duke early on and has found a family here.

In half a century, Bonk has never strayed from Duke’s campus. He hopes he never does.

“Obviously there will be a health issue someday, and you never know how that’s going to turn out. But if it doesn’t get too bad I’ll just keep going until one day the class will have to carry me out,” he said with a smile, his eyes sparkling a shade ofDuke blue.

CLASSIC from page 1 weekend and the Classic, “More than anything, this is an opportunity for two institutions to come together and have fun and compete and use that for a foundation to build a strong sense of community throughout the year,” NCCU Chancellor Charlie Nelms said in an interview.

Playing a game against a non-Division I school may put Duke at a disadvantage en route to a bowl game—a win against NCCU would not count toward the Blue Devils’ aim to achieve Football Bowl Subdivision Status.

But Duke head football coach David Cutcliffe was not worried as he looked out into the pack grandstand.

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Kicking off in Durham Duke students were outnumbered by their NCCU counterparts at the Bull City Football Fest Thursday. The event featured performances by both schools’ marching bands, cheerleading teams and various performing groups. Coaches and captains from both football teams also addressed the crowd.

Senior Christie Falco, director of special projects for Duke University Union, said despite the low turnout ofDuke students, she thought the event was a success, thanks to the collaboration between both universities and Durham.

Sophomore Jessica LeHigh attributed the low student turnout to exam week.

“People are probably studying,” she said. “I feel like if this were basketball, more people would show up.”

Although NCCU senior Justin Spivey said he was surprised that the universides partnered for the event in spite oftensions, Duke and NCCUadministrators said they do not believe the schools have a tense reladonship and pointed to several examples of cross-insdtudonal collaborations, including research projects and community service projects.

Durham Mayor Bill Bell also dismissed notions that Duke, Durham and NCCU are divided.

“We don’t have two separate cities,” Bell said. “We have two separate universities who are coming together on the football field. There’s only one city in Durham.”

Sophomore Michelle Zhang said she enjoyed the opportunity to connect with local Durham residents in a new way, especially with local children present.

“I feel like I’m more a part ofDurham here,” said Zhang,

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North Carolina Central University cheerleaders perform during Football Fest at Durham Athletic Park Thursday to kick off theBull City Classic. who headed DUU’s advertising efforts for the

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Two men, one game White and NCCU head football coach Mose Rison have know each otherfor more than 35 years, and theirreunion in Durham is likely responsible for Saturday’s game.

In 1974, White was a track and field coach and Rison a football player at Central Michigan University. Through mutual friends, the two struck up a friendship of their own.

“He was around and I got to know Mose and followed Mose and we stayed connected all these'years,” White said.

“That was certainly a factor for me personally.”

White and Rison spent the next 25 years apartas they moved up the athletic ranks at universities across the country.

But it wasn’t long before Rison andWhite found themselves at the Washington Duke Inn and Golf Club having lunch.

“He said to me, ‘What can I do to help?’ and I said to him, ‘we can play football,’” Rison said. “If you can pull this off, you might be the mayor ofDurham.”

A ‘Classic’ every year Although schedule restrictions limit Duke and NCCU’s ability to compete annually, University officials are hopeful

that there will be a Bull City Classic every year.

The contract between NCCU and Duke requires the two schools to meet every three years until the 2015 football season. The University hopes to fill the remaining gaps in the schedule with other Historically Black Colleges and Universities, such as Howard University and Morgan State University, hosting one school per year in the Classic.

“We’re looking to build an affinity for Duke football,” said Deputy Director ofAthletics Stan Wilcox. “Within the Durham community, there are a number ofindividuals who probably have attended some of these historically black colleges that are in the region and it would give those individuals the opportunity to see their alma mater in Durham.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said that although the Classic may have' a different atmosphere if Duke plays colleges other than NCCU, Duke will commit to a great community celebration surrounding the event.

Cutcliffe mirrored Schoenfeld’s sentiment, noting that he welcomes the opportunity to host HBCU’s annually at Duke.

“I would love it,” Cutcliffe said. “It’s absolutely a positive for everyone, with the traditions involved in football at historically black colleges.”

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STARS has been in the making for two years now, Shaw said. The group began to take form when she first noticed that a “problem for Environmental Alliance... was the desire to do a lot of sustainability-oriented projects without funds.”

The committee was formed in hopes of facilitating more environmental projects around campus and in the greater Durham area by providing necessary funding.

Seven undergraduates and four graduate students will be selected from a pool of more than 30 applicants to be on the STARS committee, which will review proposals from individuals or groups on campus and dole out funds based on their perceived value of the project, Owunna said. Projects can range from sustainability to education and beyond, as long as they foster environmental awareness and activity on campus. Groups and individuals are also encouraged to partner with local groups at Duke, in Durham or at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, N.C. “This is another way for students at Duke to reach out,” Owunna said.

Whereas STARS will provide away for groups to complete their environmental projects, SESC will provide the will. SESC will be the mechanism for obtaining funding from the various places around campus where money can be found—the programming fund, the STARS budget and other smaller funds available on campus.

Eldred said he noticed a lack of coordination between student groups during his years on DSC and was inspired to create this committee so that “information flows freely” on campus.

The committee will consist of a chair and vice-chair who coordinate with DSG, Duke University Union, Campus Council, a Graduateand Professional Student Council coordinator who will communicate with graduate students about their environmental endeavors, a Grants and Funding officer who helps groups find and apply for grants and various other representatives responsible for researching ways to improve campus sustainability.

Previous experience is not required to be offered a position on the committee, but Eldred said the groups are looking for members who are enthusiastic about environmental issues. Students are invited to apply for the committee until Oct. 6.

“The possibility is open to furthering our relationship with Durham,” Eldred said, adding that the committee must first execute its duties on campus before reaching out to the Durham area.

In the first year, the goal of these organizations will be to establish themselves on campus and make sure students are aware of the resources they provide, Eldred said. He noted that over time, the presence of committees such as these will hopefully have a greater impact on student life and lead to a greater shift in campus culture.

dents would be admitted each year to the program initially.

Ultimately, the program intends to have about 30 students.

If the Academic Council votes to approve the program at its October meeting, the new degree will be submitted the Board ofTrustees for final approval.

Council members also heard an update on Duke’s financial situation from Provost Peter Lange and Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.

Lange said financing undergraduate financial aid may become more difficult in the future. The University budgeted enough money to cover financial aid this year, but has used up much of its reserves to do so. He said that in past years, the Trustees have provided additional funding to cover the cost of financial aid.

Trask said that although the economy has improved somewhat, Duke is still working to cut $125 million from its annual budget over the next three years.

He noted that the early retirement of 295 biweekly emto

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“The field of metabolomics is very large and by collaborating, we will be able to identify the gaps within the field and then use resources to address those gaps,” Gardell said.

Newgard said he has hopes that other institutes, such as the National Institutes of Health, will be more eager to provide funding and support for research, as a result of the ne\y partnership.

“It is going to be a place to come and collaborate to further the knowledge of metabolic regulatory mechanisms,” Newgard said.

The research agenda for the new laboratory is still in its developmental stages. In addition to studying metabolites, researchers at the new laboratory hope to develop new technological instruments in order to work with them more efficiently.

“The way to make breakthrough discoveries is to look at and obtain data that one would not ordinarily have,” Gardell said. He added that he hopes by acquiring these new sets of tools, both research institutions will gain a unique insight into complex biological problems.

In addition, the new laboratory may provide opportunities for members of the Duke community.

“We will be able to develop programs where scholars, which would include post-doctoral fellows, graduate and undergraduate students and faculty, would be able to travel back and forth between the two Centers,” Newgard said.

ployees over the summer will help the University meet its financial goals. Trask has said those retirements will save the University between $l5 and $2O million this year.

A second round of early retirement offers will be extended to about 100 carefully-chosen salaried employees in October. If 10 to 20 employees choose to retire under this plan,as projected, it would save the University just below $5 million, Trask said last week.

To meet budget goals, Lange said he has been working closely with the deans of every school. Budget meetings normally begin in November or December, but this year Lange began meeting with deans in May, he said.

“Our goal has been to maintain academic excellence and momentum,” he said, adding that deans have been told to prioritize hiring some professors in their budgets.

He noted that Duke has authorized 57 faculty hires in the 2009 fiscal year.

Duke’s budget will also be aided by an influx of federal stimulus funds, Lange said. As of Sept. 18, Duke will receive $96 million in stimulus funds, $67 million of which will go to the School ofMedicine.

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in suspected cases, Purdy said. But these tests are labor intensive, and when testing was being done, about 40 percent of people who visited Student Health reporting flulike symptoms ended up testing negative for the virus.

In the past few weeks, students who have developed symptoms of the swine flu-specifically a fever, runny nose, congestion, headache or fatigue-have called Student Health and have been diagnosed over the phone, he noted. Students said they were advised to drink plenty offluids, take Tylenol or Advil and stay in their rooms until 24 hours after the fever broke.

“I felt like it was hard for [Student Health] to be helpful because it was something they couldn’t actively treat,” said freshman Heather White, who contracted the swine flu in mid-September.

Although Student Health has available stores of Tamiflu, the drug that has been used to treat the HINI virus, they are being reserved for high-risk patients, Purdy said.

“We don’t feel that it’s really needed. The flu [at Duke]

has been mild,” he added. “Ifyou start giving a lot out, there’s a higher chance that the virus will develop resistance to it.”

Next month, the recently developed swine flu vaccine will be made available by the Durham County Health Department, Purdy said. Free seasonal flu vaccinations will also be offered at the Bryan Center Oct. 7.

In addition, the University recently launched the Care Meal Program, which allows sick students to order meals and have them delivered to their rooms.

Some students, however, have not responded enthusiastically to the new program.

“I actually think Merchants on Points was more helpful because I could order it when I wanted to,” White said, noting that the meal program requires that students order by certain times.

Sophomore Nafeesa Jafferjee, who had the HINI virus last week, said she filled out an online order form, but her food was never delivered.

James Tomberg, a lecturer in mathematics, said the virus has not seriously affected attendance in his classes.

“I don’t think this semester is particularly worse than others,” he said.

Five weeks into the semester, administratorsestimate thatthe number of cases of the HINI flu virus on campus has reached 350.

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Although Duke students rarely turn to their parents for help with their studies, students are often unsure of whom to ask for help with a subject, failing to take advantage of Duke’s resources, said Ben Cooke, assistant director of the Academic Skills Instructional Program.

In searching for help with a course, students should seek assistance from those familiar with the subject material and the methods through which the subject is taught, he added.

Teachers and non-parent academic tutors can help build students’ confidence by “helping them to construct their own'knowledge, offering hints and timely information during the thinking process,” Cooke said.

In an attempt to identify effective strategies for parental involvement with teenage children, Hill and Tyson also uncovered positive results. Although parents may not direcdy be able to help their children with homework, they can engage their children in “academic socialization,” or activities that emphasize how the material they leant in school relates to their personal interests, Hill said. Examples of such activities include visiting museums, browsing art galleries and attending book clubs, she noted.

Self-restraint on behalf of the parent was found to be crucial to their child’s independent learning development Parents commonly interpret normal difficulties associated with the learning process, such as struggling with challenging problems, as red-flags for seeking out homework help.

The most helpful thing parents can do for their children, Cooke said, is to “support their students in managing the emotional part of learning... so as not to interrupt or interfere with a child’s natural learning process.”

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Duke’s Abraham Kromah has heard about it for a while now.

At Northgate Mall. In his barbershop.

All around Durham. The buzz is palpable, the linebacker says —this game is not like any other.

“I’ve heard about [the game] since this summer,” he said. “Everywhere I go in Durham, I hear about it.”

It’s no wonder thatKromah has heard about this game for months now, because Saturday’s clash marks the first time in school history that Duke (1-2) has played crosstown N.C. Central (0-3). It’s being billed as the “Bull City Gridiron Classic,” and, as Kromah has found out, it has the sensation of being more than just a game.

In a town torn apart by racial tension between the two schools three shortyears ago, it represents something more—a healing of past wounds.

“This game is a long time in the making,” Duke president Richard Broadhead said in a statement. “[lt] will be an important and historic moment for Duke, NCCU and the city of Durham.”

Although the game has historic mean-

ing, when the 7 p.m. kickoff comes, the focus will be just on football.

“I think the game is a unique opportunity for Durham to celebrate two fine universities,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “But more importandy, it’s about two good football teams that are moving in the right direction.”

Duke does not come into Saturday’s contest with positive momentum, however. A 44-16 loss to then-No. 22 Kansas last week, while not unexpected, left the Blue Devils frustrated at their inconsistent play.

“If they’re not frustrated [about last week], then I’m mad at them,” Cutcliffe said. “And I’m a little bit angry.... I’m surprised we haven’t played better than we’ve played.”

The offense continued to look stagnant last week.

Senior Thaddeus Lewis and redshirt freshman Sean Renfree were shuffled back and forth at the quarterback position the entire game. Lewis went 16-of-27 for 184 yards with two interceptions, while Renfree completed 14-of-23 for 115 yards and one touchdown. Lewis will still start this week.

The running game was also ineffective against the Jayhawks. Duke backs have combined for. only 184 yards rushing, an average ofjust 2.3 yards per carry.

Lewis’s touchdown run on the opening drive of the game last week was the only time the Blue Devils have scored on the ground all year.

Running backs Re’quan Boyette and Jay Hollingsworth are both hampered with injuries this week—Boyette will not play Saturday and Hollingsworth is listed as doubtful.

Luckily, help is on the way. True freshman running back Desmond Scott will make his first appearance forDuke against the Eagles Saturday. Scott was a blue-chip recruit—ranked No. 5 at his position by Rivals.com—who rushed for 2,249 yards and 24 touchdowns as a senior at Durham’s Hillside High School. “[Scott has] been practicing with the first and second string and has come a long way,” CutclifFe said. “His performance in practice was the biggest reason [for playing him]. He knows now what we want from him.”

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As the 2009-2010 season gets ever closer, head coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Blue Devils hope to lock up a top recruit for the following season—ideally this weekend.

High school senior Kyrie Irving,, the No. 6 prospect in the country according to Scout.com, is set to take his official visit to Duke today.

The point guard from Elizabeth, NJ. is said to be considering other schools including Kentucky, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M. Indiana was long considered one of the favorites to land Irving, but he indefinitely postponed an official visit to the Hoosiers last week.

Irving’s uncle, Sye Dean, said Sept. 18, “Indiana is out'’, and the Blue Devils might be in position to swoop in, said Dave Telep, Scout.com’s national recruiting director for high school basketball.

“This is a guy that Duke has an excellent chance to get, and we’d be naive to think that Duke can’t get him,” Telep told The Chronicle. “I know that he has a lot of visits scheduled, but [Duke has] an excellent shot. And Duke wants to lock this guy up this weekend.”

Telep described Irving as one of the more mature players in the high school Class of 2010, and on the court, Telep said Irving’s speed, scoring ability and ball distribution make him one of the best unsigned players.

Irving is listed at 6-foot-l and 165 lbs.

“He would be a starter right away at any program in the country,” Telep said.

“He gives a presence not seen at that position [at Duke] since Chris Duhon.”

According to blogger Adam Zagoria, Irving intents to study journalism in college, and Irving’s father Drederick confirmed that the Blue Devils were near the top of his son’s list.

Duke is still pursuing two ofScout’s top three players in fhe country, No. 1 Brandon Knight and No. 3 Harrison Barnes.

The Blue Devils have already signed’ prospect Joshua Hairston for next year’s class.

Andy Moore contributed to this report.

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No. 1 North Carolina (8-0-1,1-0 in DUKE the ACC) defeated Duke (4-4-2, 0-1) n opener 2-1 in overtime UNC Thursday night at FetzerFieldbehind two second-effort goals—one coming after a header deflected off the crossbar and the other resulting from a shot that the Blue Devil keeper could not corral.

Duke, however, found away to turn back an aggressive Tar Heel offense again and again for 83 minutes of play, even though the team could barely get the ball across midfield for the majority of the second half.

The back four held North Carolina’s leading scorer Jessica McDonald without a shot on goal for the entire game and kept Casey Nogueira—the reigning National Player of theYear—off the scoreboard as well.

“We couldn’t ask anything else of our group,” head coach Robbie Church said. “Coming on theirhome field is a very difficult assignment, but we asked [the team] all week to make sure that we did one thing—to make sure that we all showed, we all wanted theball. Nobody hid, nobody was in awe ofthem, nobody didn’t want to make plays and they all did it today.”

But the defending national champions’ offensive onslaught finally proved too much for the Blue Devils in the 84th minute.

Ali Hawkins sent a high, curving cross off a comer kick and found midfielder Maria Lubrano open in the box. Lubrano headed the ball against the crossbar and then picked up her first career goal when the shot bounced right back to her foot and she buried the rebound.

Before the go-ahead goal, Duke’s defense had seemed unbreakable, clearing away ten Tar Heel comers in the second half. North Carolina went on a particulary threatening stretch that began in the 56th minute, launching five comer kicks and three shots over the next seven minutes of play.

Juniorcenter back Gretchen Millersaid the back line turned its in best performance of the season because it was mentally prepared to take the game to the Tar Heels.

“We talked about [the game] a lot before with our sports psychologist Greg Dale, and just saying, ‘We shouldn’t respect this team too much because they’re beatable, they tied Auburn last weekend,”’ Miller said. “Each [comer kick] that we would get out, I think we got a little more confidentand our marking got a little bit stronger and a little bit better.”

After North Carolina took the lead, a victory seemed out of reach for the Blue Devils, as the Tar Heels kept Duke boxed into its own side of the field by bringing their defendersall the wayup to the halfline.

Church said making seven substitutions in the first half enabled North Carolina to stay fresh after halftime and apply heavy pressure on the Blue Devils’ goal. Indeed, the Tar Heels tallied 13 shots in the second half and held onto the ball for long stretches, keeping Duke from launching an effective counterattack through the midfield, something Church said his team usually does when it is playing well.

But the Blue Devils did not throw in the towel and finally broke through the Tar Heels’ packed defense when senior midfielder Jane Alukonis played a diagonal ball to sophomore winger Cody Newman on the left side of the field. With just over a minute remaining in regulation, Newman got by two defenders and blasted a cross to the six-yard box that found the head of senior forward Kay Anne Gummersall, who nudged the ball toward the inside post and past the goalkeeper for her team-leading sixth score of the season.

Duke looked to build on the equalizing goal as it entered its third straight overtime game, but the Tar Heels’ most experienced players stepped up when it mattered most Nogueira sent a rocket straight at Campbell with three minutes left in the period. The goalie did her best to wrap up the shot, but she could not bring it in and let the ball glance offher chest Alyssa Rich managed to get behind the Blue Devil defense and easily slotted the rebound into the right side of the netting, bringing Duke’s upset bid to a grinding halt.

Duke’s loss was perhaps most frustrating because the team seems to continue to fall shortofits potential on the pitch.

“It’s just a shame,” Church said. “The only thing we’re not doing is getting results. We’re doing a lot of really good things on the field, and I’m a little baffled. Why aren’t we getting the results? But we still have to keep working at it”

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and its finishing. This was also stressed in the team’s final training session beFrom a wet and rainy Koskinen Stadium fore departing for New England. to the cooler climate of Boston, the weath“We need to be positive in the attacking er conditions have become another one of third, make hard runs across the box and the opponents'Duke will have to take on to get good balls in from wide positions,” Kerr secure a second ACC victory. said. “Our execution has got to improve.

After recovering from a narrow loss to Even though we created a lot of chances rival North Carolina last weekend with a against Wilmington, I feel like we weren’t tough 2-1 victory over non-conference foe taking our chances enough.”

UNC-Wilmington in the heavy rain TuesIn the corresponding matchup last year, day, Duke returns to action in the ACC Duke came away with a narrow 1-0 win with against Boston College tonight at the Newa goal from Mike Grella—now at Leeds ton Campus Soccer Complex at 7 p.m.

United —in the second extra period.

The No. 12 Blue Devils (5-1-0, 1-1-0 in After two double-overtime victories althe ACC) look to keep the momentum ready this season, the Blue Devils are oozgoing against a strong Eagle team that ing with confidence at the thought of anis currently on a three-game winning other overtime contest. streak, including a win over then-No. 14 “Overtime is something we look forward Boston University. to if we have to go there,” Kerr said. “We’ve “It will be a very difficult game,” head shown we can be successful in overtime this coach John Kerr said. “They are a good, tal- year, and we’ll be ready for it.” ented team playing with a lot of confidence, With six games left on the ACC schedand we will have our hands full.” ule, including., tough matchups against Boston College (4-3-0, 0-1-0), although highly ranked rivals Maryland and Wake unranked, will nonetheless have the crowd Forest, Duke will be hoping to get a posiand the climate on its side. tive result from this game.

“We are heading into a tough environ“Every ACC game is a big game,” Kerr ment,” Kerr said. “There will be a lot of cra- said. “If we can go away from home and zy fans up there. It will also be a bit colder take some points, we’ll be happy.” than what we’re used to. We’re going to have to be ready for the conditions.”

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NCCU from page 11 Also helping the running game will be a newly refocused offensive line. The line has been criticized all year for not helping Duke’s running backs, perhaps deservedly so, guard Brian Moore says.

“I think that we need to take responsibility for [the lack ofrunning game],” he said.

“We need to get our job done. Every week it needs to be our focus.”

The offensive line showed flashes of effectiveness during the Kansas game. During Duke’s first drive, several key blocks on an Austin Kelly catch allowed the receiver to hit a seam in the Jayhawk defense and run for 66 yards. After the subsequent Lewis touchdown, though, the linemen were powerless to stop a swarming Kansas pass rush and stifling run defense. Three sacks

and 11 tackles for loss later, Duke left Lawrence battered and bruised.

Starting guard Mitchell Lederman will join Boyette on the sidelines because of an undisclosed leg injury.

Another reason for the loss lies in continuingly underwhelming third-down play. Duke is 9-for-42 on third-down conversions this year—a 21 percent clip. Cutcliffe sees poor offense on first and second downs as part of the problem.

“You’ve got to protect the quarterback better, and you’ve got to throw and catch it better,” he said. “I’ve seen lack of production on first and second downs that create long third downs.”

Still, while there are major problems to address with the offense, they are not likely to matter much this week. The Blue Devils face a team in N.C. Central that has not won a game this year, totaling only five of-

Tensive touchdowns during its three losses.

The Eagles are not technically an NCAA Division I team yet—they are still making the transition from Division II —which means that this game doesn’t go towards Duke’s bowl count if the Blue Devils win.

Regardless, the Eagles do have their weapons. Duke is particularly concerned with Will Scott, N.C. Central’s go-to receiver, who has two touchdowns this season.

And the team will have a strong fan base at Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday.

Although the game is equivalent to an exhibitionfor the Blue Devils, the ramifications of a loss have not escaped them.

“We definitely have to win this game. I don’t even want to think about [losing to Central],” safety Matt Daniels said. “It would affect our confidence so much—they live five minutes from us. If we lose this game this week and win out, it’s still going to affect us.”

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Duke looks to carry its success from last year’s NCAA individual and team national championships into the new year, as the Blue Devils begin their season at the Wake Forest Fall Invitational this weekend.

The three-day tournament, held in Winston-Salem, will mark the first time that the team has played together since May, when Duke rolled through the NCAA tournament to win its first national title.

“We are excited to play,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “Some of these girls haven’t played a match in three and a half months.... I know [my players] have been playing points against each other, so to get a different face across the net is going to be good for us.”

This year’s team is without Mallory Cecil, last year’s NCAA singles champion who left Duke to pursue a professional career.

Cecil started life on the WTA tour by competing in the first round of this month’s U.S. Open. Her NCAA singles individual title merited her a wild card bid from the U.S. Tennis Association.

“Obviously we would love to have [Mallory] back, but we still have girls that are going to fight and compete,” Ashworth said.

Four out of six players from last year’s team return, including Reka Zsilinszka, the MVP of the 2009 NCAA tournament.

Ashworth said that winning the national championship will impact the intensity that the team faces from its opponents.

“They are going to have to understand that because of how we finished last year, people are going to want to beat us,” Ashworth said. “They have to be able to raise their level of play every time they step on the court and we will have to start working on that this weekend.”

The team brings back three nationally ranked single players, led by the 13thranked Zsilinszka. Junior Ellah Nze is ranked 19thwhile seniorAmanda Granson comes in at No. 57.

The Wake Forest Invitational will also mark a return to action for senior Liz Plotkin, who missed all of last season with a se-

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“It kind of takes pressure off of us because we finally achieved something that we strived so hard for, but we definitely want to keep the pressure on ourselves to do it again,” Plotkin said,

“We have to continue to work hard and ease up.”

The Wake Forest Invitational also features Davidson, UNC Greensboro, Illinois, Old Dominion, Richmond and Wake Forest, Duke holds three out of four top individuals seeds and the pair of Zsilinszka and Nze are ranked first in doubles play. not

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Maryland beat Boston College 3-1 last week, and the Eagles were picked to finish at the bottom of the conference in the preseason.

Duke embarks on its first ACC road trip outside of North Carolina in a confident mood after sweeping the Black and Gold Challenge in Winston-Salem last weekend. In that tournament, the Blue Devils defeated nonconference foes Liberty and Appalachian State, and also beat host Wake Forest to win the challenge.

As a result, sophomore setter Kellie Catanach was named ACC Player of the Week. Catanach recorded 136 assists, four service aces and 11 kills last weekend.

After returning from the northeast, Duke has five days off before a home match against Virginia next Friday.

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After falling 3-2 in overtime to Old Dominion at home last weekend, No. 12 Duke hopes to regain momentum in the heart of the ACC season as it talces on rival No. 2 North Carolina Saturday at 1 p.m. in Chapel Hill.

The weekend of action concludes Sunday afternoon, when the Blue Devils return home for a matchup with New

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Duke (4-3, 0-1 in the ACC) goes into the matchup with the Tar Heels (9-0, 1-0) in desperate need of a marquee victory. The Blue Devils opened the season with victories against ranked opponents Louisville and Michigan State, but have since lost to Drexel, Wake Forest and Old Dominion. Duke has alternated between wins and losses in its last six games.

The good news for the Blue Devils is that All-American defender Lauren Miller, a senior, was able to return to action last week.

Miller’s injured hand has not completely healed, but she should be well enough to take the field this weekend.

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Sept. 15, aims to compile the Futurity.org is a transparresearch endeavors of 40 unient way of communicating to versities across the nation and the public exactly how their make them more accessible to money is being spent while the public. simultaneously making the Michael Schoenfeld, vice case for continued governpresident for public affairs ment funding in the future. and government relations, A site like Futurity is esshould be commended for pecially relevant given the his role in establishing this shifting 21st century news environment. Profits at news important initiative.

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Sept. 24, F. Scott Fitzgerald reached his 113th birthday..

That is, he would have reached that age if he had not died at .44 on Dec. 21, 1940.

And his death is what concerns me most: F. Scott Fitzgerald, my favorite of all American writers, is buried 10 minutes from where I was born and raised in Bethesda, Md. i fc*** Although no introduction is Mr. necessary, Fitzgerald is the nate freeman author of “The good night, and Great Gatsby,” “This Side of good luck Paradise,” “Tender is the Night,” and other peerless examples of the short story, essay and novel. Even if you abandoned your ‘study ofAmerican writers soon after you faked your way through the AP Lit exam, you must know of the works of this man, and the way in which our country has been perceived according to his prose.

I have read enough in college to potentially find hundreds of books better than “Gatsby,” but I still feel a certain affinity for it, an attraction that transcends the subject matter’s obvious allure of sex, liquor and jazz. To this day, I am still struggling to find a novel more complete than Fitzgerald’s masterpiece—and, to be honest, I do not think I ever will.

As evidenced by the extravagance of his stories, his life was lived to excess—and thank God it was! Without his intimate knowledge of how champagne spurred on wild exploits and recklessly bad decisions, his fiction would not have featured the savage wit and priceless insight that keeps it fresh well into the 21st century.

And however tragic it is that his joie de vivre expedited a romantic “author’s death,” I am still compelled by it. I, too, am a writer, and the fact that he is buried so near to where I was born has been an inspirational frustration—because my own birthplace is so near to his grave, I have tried not to dip below the standard he set for himself.

This may sound morbid, but it’s actually an example of true reverence: I think of Fitzgerald as a forbearer—a person whose family settled on the land of my birth long before I staked my own claim.

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His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was born on the Maryland estate founded by his grandfather’s great-grandfather (who was, in turn, the father of Francis Scott Key, the author of the Star-Spangled Banner). F. Scott would return to this area often in his childhood: first, to avoid the tubercular cold of his early home of Buffalo; next, to attend the wedding of his cousin Cecilia in 1903; then, two years later to again visit his extended family.

Fitzgerald’s next consequential visit to my Montgomery County would not be until 1931, when he came to attend his father’s funeral.

“Scott felt a strong attachment to this corner of the Maryland earth, which his years of wandering had made emblematic of the stability and permanence to which he would aspire for the rest of his life,” Andre Le Vot writes in his biography of Fitzgerald, remarking upon the effect Maryland had upon him.

Unfortunately, Fitzgerald’s next visit to my hometown would be upon his death. He died in Hollywood but hated it there, so his bereaved (and, so it is told, insane) wife Zelda made the decision to ship his body back to the East.

Fitzgerald’s wish was to be buried in a Catholic cemetery, but he was denied—he had not been a practicing Catholic at his death, and the Baltimore Diocese forbid him a proper burial.

So he was sent to the Pumphrey Funeral Home in my hometown of Bethesda—yards away from the places where I have sat and thought and written in Moleskine notebooks. Only 30 people attended the service, and soon afterward he was set to rest at the non-Catholic Rockville Union Cemetery, not the burial grounds that his father was pious enough to enjoy.

Then, in 1975, Fitzgerald’s daughter Scottie obtained permission to move her father’s remains to St. Mary’s Church, the Catholic burial plot in Rockville, Md. where the rest of his family is buried. And he is still there today, not 10 minutes from the house in which I was brought up, and not 5 minutes from where I was born.

But I have not yet driven out to St. Mary’s to see the great novelist’s grave. Though I consider myself a writer, I don’t feel like enough of one to visit his cemetery.

So, Scott Fitzgerald, happy birthday. Maybe someday it’ll be time for me to stop by and say hello.

Nathan Freeman is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Friday.

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early 2008, a 39-year-old Japanese man was arrested for trespassing at an all-girls high school in Tokyo. He was dressed in a girl’s school uniform—complete with a wig—in an attempt to blend in, which obviously failed.

Confession: Urn, I kind of want to be that man Not in the sense that I want to be arrested. I just understand his need to dress up in a school uniform and go prancing around random school grounds though mine may be less related to my libido.

I like uniforms. Not in the French maid or Catholic school girl way that about 64 percent of d&W my male friends do, but in the sense that L 1 seeing someone in uniform makes me happv for absolutely jrs no reason. It’s somewhat similar to the Hs<l dll feeling one might exItlOSlll IUOSiII perience after seeing I a cute puppy sneeze.

The reason I enjoyed the movie Valkyrie so much was not because Tom Cruise was missing an eye or that I am a history major, but because all the characters spent the whole movie in uniform. It brings a bit of indescribable contentment.

Although I’m more than 9,000 miles away now, I still miss internship-interview season at 'Duke and was always secretly giddy whenever the Career Fair rolled around. I loved the fact that all the males on campus wore suits (which I still consider to be the closest thing I can get to uniforms at Duke), so if you caught some small Asian girl staring at you that day—sorry, It was just what you were wearing. One plus of being in Japan is that I get to be a happy, giddy and slightly creepy person every day because school uniforms are everywhere. Thus, I’ve particularly become an expert on the Japanese school uniform.

In Japan, school uniforms are usually mandatory from middle school on, regardless of whether you go to a public or private school. Some elementary schools also require uniforms, which usually results in death-by-cuteness scenes on the subway involving clusters of tiny barely-to-my-waist girls running around waving “bye-bye” to each other.

If you can imagine a pleated skirt or trousers in navy or plaid with white dress shirts, blazers, sweater vests, knee-high socks (for girls) and a ribbon bow or tie around the neck, then you can imagine the basic Japanese school uniform. So awesome.

Then there are the variations. A female school uniform might be a sailor fuku (literally meaning sailor clothing) style, with a large nautical-striped collar hanging at the back. Boys might wear a gakuran—a high collared all-black uniform inspired by the Prussian military. Seasonal changes will bring in short-sleeved shirts and a standardissue pea coat.

Though the uniform’s style and color will vary from school to school, all in all, they are pretty standard. They encourage conformity by suppressing creativity and expression, but in my opinion are the ultimate kind of cool. I love them.

When I was in high school, a very influential factor in my desire to learn Japanese and go to Japan was my hankering to wear a school uniformand take some sort of public transportation to school with fellow girlfriends—all the while gossiping about the coolest boy in school. Something about that way of life attracted me more than cruising around in my beat-up Toyota Corolla to high school and skipping last period to buy Cook-Out milkshakes. Sadly, my chance for that has long gone.

As much as I aspire to “kind of’ be like Mr. School-Uniform-in-Tokyo, I’m not sure I’ll be found frolicking on random school grounds anytime soon.

Though I see Japanese students everyday, I have actually yet to walk by a Japanese school. (This might be a good thing, as I’d probably have an aneurysm from sheer glee.) I simply consider the overall abundance of school uniforms to be another reason why this country understands my needs so well. So thanks Japan, for the daily dose of happiness.

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Lisa Du is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

Democratize universities The U.S. is losing the war in Afghanistan. It has tried bombing funerals from afar with anonymous, unac-

countable drones. It has aimed airstrikes at Taliban fighters and hit wedding parties instead. It has tried indiscriminately raiding homes, killing hundreds of civilians in the process. It has even tried installing puppet regimes with little popular backing, only to see them shamelessly rig elections, undermining their own legitimacy. michael stauch All to no avail. Eight spread the embers years of terror have not been to the hearts win enough and minds of the Afghan people As a result, policymakers in Washington are starting to rethink their strategy. You can tell they’re anxious because it’s all they seem to be talking about these days. Our own campus is little different. This week, Brig. Gen. H.R. McMaster visited Duke. Although he didn’t talk only about Afghanistan policy, his visit coincided with the release of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation for Afghanistan—-

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The week prior, Nicholas Kristof appeared at Duke, launching the speaking tour for his upcoming book, “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.” Although here to talk about women’s rights, Kristof is an influential advocate of a “hearts and minds” strategy for Afghanistan.

“The solution,” Kristof offered in a New York Times oped early this month, “is neither to pull out of Afghanistan nor to double down. Rather, we need to continue our presence with a lighter military footprint, limited to training the Afghan forces and helping them hold major cities, and ensuring that Al-Qaeda does not regroup. We must also invest more in education and agriculture development, for that is away over time to peel Pashtuns away from the Taliban.”

This strategy represents a counterpoint to the “doubling down” ofMcChrystal and McMaster and an attempt to gain the trust of the Afghan people by downplaying the more blatant evidence of occupation. In love and war, Kristof knows, it’s best to aim for the heart.

Neither of these strategies offers anything for those of us committed to opposing imperialism and supporting a vision of society organized from the bottom up along antiracist and democratic lines. They seek merely to counsel the Obama administration on how best to manage an empire.

Our task is something different.

As students, we should begin by casting an unflinching

gaze at the University, for it is in the halls of universities that the policies of Kristof, McMaster and others like them emerge.

Why, we should ask, do we have ROTC programs on campus training military officers like McMaster? Why do so many of our professors either come here after serving in the White House, or arrive at the White House after teaching at Duke? Why do universities develop biological and other weapons for deployment against insurgent people of color?

Why do we have events where CIA agents explain the exciting opportunities available to us as secret agents?

Why does everything we learn seem only to serve the interests of authority and domination, and not democracy, freedom and justice?

The answers to these questions can serve as a guide for our future actions, as we, in ones and twos at first but slowly gathering strength, begin to challenge the militarization of our University and the way it supports a bankrupt status quo.

We must also challenge the division between mental and manual labor that the University maintains.

We must, together with Duke workers denied overtime and custodians and groundskeepers asked to retire until they finally accept; with the people fighting to keep The Know Book Store on Fayetteville Road open against efforts to drive it out; and with workers like those at Moncure Plywood in Moncure, N.C., who fought for nine months to unionize their workplace, turn the university into a space available for the development of all people. We are living halfway, when we could be living fully.

We must democratize the university.

Toward the end of the Civil Rights Movement, students and community members began to challenge this divide.

They began in small groups, and over time became powerful enough to force administrations to open universities to the community. Their efforts democratized the university, introducing ethnic studies programs, community studies programs and other programs designed to tear down the walls between the university and the community, between mental and manual labor.

We need a similar movement today, able to demand and win concessions from recalcitrant university administrations, and ultimately to transform universities from places where the future McMasters and Kristofs of the world are trained, into a place where the future Ella Bakers, Yuri Kochiyamas and Grace Lee Boggses are trained, a place where every person can incorporate the collective development of the world, in science and technology as well as art and literature and any other area, into themselves.

Michael Stanch is a second-year Ph.D. candidate in history. His column runs every other Friday.

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Duke University Homecoming Schedule of Events September 24-26, 2009 •

5:30 p.m.

11:00 p.m.

Durham Athletic Park (newly renovated, W. Corporation St.) -

Bull City Football Fest The Bull City Football Fest is a free event to celebrate Durham and its two universities Duke and NC Central. The event will include a pep rally, food vendors and local artists, as well as performances by local bands and student groups forboth universities. Moon bounces, rock climbing, face painting, balloon animals, and carnival games will be free!

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Bryan Center, upper level -

Homecoming and Half Century Club Registration/Check-in

8:00 p.m.

Reynolds Industries Theater

Corey Harris Quintet James "Blood" Ulmer Trio Tickets available at the box office or http://tickets.duke.edu/s +

9:30 p.m. 1:00 a.m.

Wilson Gym and IM Building

1:30 2:30 p.m.

Location will be available at registration desk Robotics: the Future is Now! This family-friendly event allows participants to "meet" robots and to observe how real-life -

applications are guided by artificial intelligence.

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President's Homecoming Dance The tradition continues, so don't miss a moment of the festivities at President Brodhead's sixth annual Homecoming Dance, featuing performances by various Blue Devil dance and a capella groups, as well as a band that will play music for all generations! Wine, beer, nonalcoholic beverages, light hors d'oeuvres, and desserts will be plentiful. Attire; festive, from business casual to cocktail.

1:30 3:00 p.m.

Griffith Film Theater The End of Civilization As We Know It? The Future of Reading Duke Magazine celebrates its 25th anniversary with a program featuring a conversation with key thinkers, moderated by Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University Librarian and vice provost for library affairs. Special guests are: Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies, a widely acclaimed book about the lure and cultural significance of -

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Words on War: Is There a Consensus on American Grand Strategy?

Join Duke experts Peter Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science, and Alex Roland Ph.D.74, professor of history, for an intriguing discussion.

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2:00-3:00 p.m.

Duke Chinese Alumni Association Launch Reception Schiciano Auditorium, Sides A&B, Fitzpatrick Center 2:45-4:15 p.m.

Homecoming and Half Century Club Registration/Check-in continues...

10:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

Bryan Center Plaza

Homecoming Hub activities continue...

Meet up with friends and family to enjoy snacks and cold beverages (complementary with registration) and kick back for some casual fun.

10:00-11:30 a.m.

Graduate & Professional Student/AlumniSpeed Networking Returning graduate and professional school alumni can share their experiences in a variety of fields with current students. Like speed-dating, alums and students who sign up will be paired appropriately. Previous registration required.

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What little the world knows about lemurs comes almost exclusively from the internationally known research facility, the Duke Lemur Center. What is a lemur? Find out in an exclusive tour, and see the world's largest collection of lemurs and other endangered primates in an enclosed woodland habitat. Because.of gravel paths, walking shoes are necessary. Van departs from Bryan Center at 2;45 a.m.

Space is very limited.

Lemur Center Tour 2:11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m., Saturday

Picasso and the Allure of Language

Join Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks Senior Curator at the Nasher Museum of Art for a presentation on this groundbreaking exhibition. (Those who register for this event will be able to advantage of the reserved and discounted exhibition tickets for the 11:00 a.m. gallery viewing.)

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Vbn Canon C A select group of students will share their learning experiences, moderated by Steve Nowicki, dean of undergraduate education and professor of biology.

3:30 4:00 p.m.

Tours meet on the first floorjobby ofPerkins Library.

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of Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion, already signature buildings on a campus boasting stunning architecture, as well as the renovated 1968 portion of Perkins Library, which includes the Link.

4:00-7:00 p.m.

Main Quad, West Campus

Campus Council Hbmecoming Pep Rally Pep Rally will feature two amazing up and coming musical acts, Andy Grammer and Tyrone Wells, performances by the Cheerleaders, Dancing Devils and Band, plus more. There will be free food, catered by hometown favorite'Cookout, inflatables and free Tshirts.

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of English at Duke, author of Linguistics Reimagined: Language Study for the 21st Century Philip Bennett, former managing editor of The Washington Post, (10 Pulitzer Prizes, including six in 2008, during his oversight); newly appointed Eugene C. Patterson Professor of the Practice of Journalism at Duke.

Andy Berndt 'B9, managing director of the Creative Lab at Google, the company embarking on a massive Book Search Initiative •

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reading; contributor to The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, Esquir Lynn Neary, covers books and publishing on the National Desk for NPR's Afts and Information Unit; former NPR newscaster on Morning Edition and weekend host of All Things

Millennium Hotel Ballroom Half Century Club Dinner Catch up with classmates during a festive, yet relaxed social hour featuring a cash bar and light snacks, dinner in the ballroom. Business casual attire.

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NPHC Step Show This annual event is a crowd-pleasing, foot-stomping show presented by Duke's National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). Tickets available at the box office or

10:30-11:00 a.m.

Tours meet on the first floor lobby ofPerkins Library

Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion Tour 2 See description for Friday 3:30 p.m. tour.

10:30 am

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Fuqua Admission Open House Targeted at prospective students for the MMS, Daytime, Cross Continent, Weekend Executive, and Global Executive programs, the Open House will provide an opportunity for alumni

to experience "a day in the life of a Fuqua School of Business student." The event will include information sessions, a career services presentation, an optional admissions interview, and

networking with fellow perspective students, alumni, staff, faculty, and administrators.

11:00 a.m. noon Nasher Museum of Art Exhibition at the Nasher: Picasso and the Allure of Lan-

guage Note: Alumni must register to receive the reduced ticket price (which also indudes audio headset) This exhibition examines Pablo Picasso's lifelong relationship with writers and the many ways in which language affected his work. "Picasso and the Allure of Language" comprises some 60 works in all media by Picasso, as well as select examples by fellow artist Georges Braque and photographs, letters, manuscripts, and book projects by a diverse group of artists and writers.

11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Duke Lemur Center Tour 2 See description for Friday 2:45 a.m. tour. Van departs from Bryan Center at 11:00 a.m. Space is very limited.

Fitzpatrick

Center, West Campus

Pratt School of Engineering Tour Explore the Pratt School of Engineering, which includes the Fitzpatrick Center, a 322,000-square-foot,

$97-million

uate teaching and project labs,

complex featuring undergrad-

state-of-the-art research facili-

ties, and "intellectual collision spaces" as well as other points of interest in the Hudson Hall and Teer Building, 3:30-4:00 p.m.

Tours meet on the first floor lobby ofPerkins Library

Bostock Library and von der Heyden Pavilion Tour 3 See description for Friday 3:30 p.m. tour.

4:30 p.m.

Blue Devil Walk from Perkins Library to Wallace Wade Stadium 5:00-6:30 p.m.

DAA Gathering Area on the Bryan Center Plaza

Duke Alumni Association Pregame Gathering Get ready for some football at the Homecoming Hub on the Plaza!

Enjoy light snacks, frosty beverages, and the company of fellow alumni.

7:00-10:30 p.m.

Wallace Wade Stadium Duke vs. NCCU Football Cheer for football and Coach Cutcliffe as the Blue Devils take to the

gridiron against the Eagles.

7:00 p.m.

Page Auditorium

Sun Ra Arkestra Mingus Big Band Tickets available through the ticket office orr http://tickets.duke.edu/show.asp. +

8:00 p.m

Reynolds Industries Theater

Takacs Quartet featuring selections from Haydn, Schumann, and

Beethoven. Tickets available through the ticket office orr http://tick-

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It’s been a tough financial year of drops and cuts for the University as it tries to balance its budget and protect academic programs during the recession.

During fiscal year 2009, which ended June 30, the value of Duke’s endowment fell about 33 percent to just under |4 billion, and private giving fell 22 percent to $302 million, The Chronicle reported last week. These losses, and the prospects that both donations and the endowment will linger well below their fiscal year 2008 highs, have forced the once rapidly expanding university to shrink its budget by about 6 percent—approximately $125 million—over the next three years.

“It won’t be altogether easy, but we’ll be fine,” President Richard Brodhead said at his annual “State of the University” speech in April. “The secret of Duke was never about having tons of resources. The secret of Duke was having tons of ideas.”

To cover yearly deficits as the University works to reduce its spending, the Board of Trustees approved up to $l5O million in extra endowment spending in May, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told The Chronicle this month. Additionally, the University approved a $5OO-million debt issue in late January to provide operating capital and avoid having to sell endowment assets at low prices.

But spending cuts have not forced the University to stop hiring professors—s7 faculty hires have been authorized for fiscal year 2010, Provost Peter Lange said at the Academic Council meeting Thursday. An average of 67 professors a year were hired over the previous three fiscal years. However, a salary freeze for all employees earning more than $50,000 a year was imposed this year.

Deans have been told to prioritize hiring faculty and other strategic goals in creating their budgets, Lange said.

“Our goal has been to maintain academic excellence MICHAEL NACLERIO/THE CHRONICLE and momentum,” he said. “We’re still able to do a lot of Provost Peter Lange (left), Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh (middle) and Vice President for Finance Hof Milam (right) forward moving.” discuss the University's new earlyretirement package at the Sept. 17 Primetime Employee Forum "The Duke Economy-A Year Later."

To find ways to save money across the University, Lange and Trask launched the Duke Administrative Reform Team Many of those who chose to retire were service workers. have substantially improved and expanded Central Camin March. Some cost-saving measures targeted by DART inOne result of the retirement incentive is that the Univerpus. Instead, the addition of social space, an exercise room clude keeping buildings hotter in the summer and cooler sity will no longer clean residence halls on Saturdays. and a restaurant are planned for Central this year. in the winter, decreasing overtime opportunities and cutDuke has received a boost, however, from federal stimulus A second round of early retirement offers will be exfunds. Thus far, the University is expected to receive about ting travel and entertainment expenses. Additionally, a tended to a hand-picked group of about 100 salaried emtransition to internet phone service will save the University ployees in October, Vice President for Human Resources $96 million from the government, $67 million ofwhich is ear$1.5 million, Trask said Thursday. marked for the School of Medicine, Lange said Thursday.

Kyle Cavanaugh announced last week.

Some of the largest savings Duke has announced thus Cavanaugh estimated that 10 to 20 employees will Higher enrollment and new graduate programs in sevfar have come from reducing its workforce. The departure choose to retire. If this projection proves accurate, the eral schools have brought in additional revenue as well, this summer of 295 biweekly paid employees under an earUniversity will save less than $5 million, Trask said.

Lange added. He offered as an example the Nicholas ly retirement plan will save about $l5 to $2O million in the In addition, all large construction projects have been School of the Environment, which increased fhe number 2010 fiscal year, Trask said. put on hold, including the New Campus plan that would of students enrolled this year by 40.

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Campus sees approximately3oo cases ofHINI virus by

Rachna Reddy THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s International Travel Oversight Committee labeled Mexico a restricted region April 29. A new strain of influenza had appeared in the country—a new strain of the MINI virus, commonly known as swine flu.

Duke distributed hand sanitizer at commencement, launched a “Preparing for Pandemic Flu” Web site and relocated summer Duke in Mexico programs to Durham.

Today, administrators estimate more than 300 cases of the virus on campus.

By May 15, the ITOC deemed Mexico as risky as any U.S. location, and voted to remove it from the restricted regions list.

At the end ofJVlay, swine flu arrived in Durham when both a resident and a health care worker from a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill clinic tested positive for HINT They had returned from a trip to New York City, which at that time had 450 confirmed and suspected cases, and were isolated tp prevent spread of the epidemic.

This summer, campus was filled with students participating in Duke’s Talent Identification Program, the American Dance Festival and science and writing camps. Two swine flu cases came to the attention of Student Health June 15.

The infected campers were sent home, and all students exhibiting symptoms were housed together in Giles Dormitory on East Campus.

Three days later, The Chronicle reported that more than 24 confirmed and suspected cases had arisen. During the summer, Student Health stopped testing for HINI, assuming students displaying flu-like symptoms had the new strain, as it was not the season for regular influenza.

By July, the number ofconfirmed cases had risen to 17, and more than 20 were suspected. The University took action by closing Brodie Gym June 26, removing the selfserve salad bar in the Marketplace and continuing to isolate infected students in Giles.

When football players arrived at the start of August, playing and living in close quarters, almost 50 contracted swine flu.

As orientation week approached and the influx of

Administrators estimate that more than 300 cases of the new strain of the MI NI virus, commonly known as swine flu, have broken out on campus. Theflu outbreakhas led to a number ofcampus initiatives, including delivering meals to infected students.

13,000 students loomed, the University put plans in place to maintain student safety in the middle of an epidemic, one that seemed to target a younger population.

“What is unique about swine flu compared to regular flu is that it is more common in young people,” Michael Merson, director of the Global Health Institute, said in August. “We need to take precautions. We’re going to have flu at Duke, there’s no question-we’re having it everywhere else. Thank goodness so far the symptoms have been generally mild for most people.”

Prevention started with education. Flyers enforcing hand-washing adorned bathroom walls and hand sanitizer dispensers were installed in campus buildings.

Administrators complied with Centers for Disease Control recommendations, advising students with symptoms to stay in their rooms until 24 hours after their fevers dissipated and instructing professors to be accommodating should students be absent due to swine flu.

“Symptoms for swineflu include a fever and possibly shortness of breath, fatigue, chills, muscle aches, a runny nose, headaches, a sore throat, vomiting, wheezing or diarrhea.” Dr. Bill Purdy, director ofStudent Health, told The Chronicle. .

Most students were able to recover from swine flu after resting and drinking fluids without using medication.

Three weeks into the Fall semester, there were an estimated 120 cases of HINI on campus. The University has planned for 15 percent of students and faculty to contract the illness, Purdy said this month.

Most sick students have reported fevers, sore throats and muscle aches and cases have been mild. The University continues to follow CDC guidelines that sick and well roommates can safely remain together, as long as they minimize physical contact and stay six feet apart.

Administrators also implemented the Care Meals Program, which allows students with the flu to order food to their rooms.

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Admins and UnitedHealthcare address complaints by

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After a rocky start with UnitedHealthcare Studentßesources, University health administrators said they anticipate fewer problems this year.

UHCSR replaced BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina as Duke’s Student Medical Insurance Plan’s provider in 2008, a change that has sparked sharp criticism, particularly among graduate students. The Chronicle investigated complaints regarding coverage, access to in-network doctors and customer service in a series Sept. 15 to 17.

Jean Hanson, administrative director of Student Health, said glitches often accompany major changes, and most complaints arose from errors that occurred early in UHCSR’s inaugural year.

Hanson said that from August to October of 2008, the Duke Patient Revenue Management Organization sent student insurance claims to the main UnitedHealthcare office instead of the college-specific subdivision, UHCSR. In addition, although UHCSR had pledged to mirror services previously provided by BCBS of N.C., Hanson said University administrators soon discovered dis-

crepancies.

Susan Barry, UHCSR director of marketing, said the company is in daily contact with Duke Student Health to refine the plan as requested by University administrators.

“We continue to work with Duke University representatives to adjust the [Student Medical Insurance Plan] according to their guidance,” Barry said in a Chronicle article Sept. 15. “Large plans often have transitional periods of adjustment.”

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Last year, the University replaced Blue Cross BlueShield—its health insurance provider for 30 years—with United Healthcare Student Resources.

The selection of UHCSR to be the Student Medical Insurance Plan administrator followed two years of deliberation, Hanson said. Stephen Beckley, who was hired as an independent broker for the University, worked with students and administrators to devise a scoring system, which examined 23 criteria, including the cost to students, the quality of customer service and the availability of in-network providers both in Durham and across the country.

Hanson said UHCSR set co-payments for medications and for specialist appointment expenses, instead of charging 20 percent of the cost, as BCBS ofN.C. did.

“Under tjie previous plan, if you get a prescription medicine, you pay your part and the insurance pays their part-the amount of coinsurance depends on the medicine,” she said. “With UHCSR, we’ve instituted co-pays, so if you get a new, generic drug, you pay $10.”

In addition, she said UHCSR also provided their own customer service—an improvement on the “nightmare” of managing a separate customer service company with BCBS of N.C. Dr. Bill Purdy, executive director of Student Health, said the University routinely re-evaluates its insurance policy by sending

a Request for Proposals about every three years.

Although Purdy said he does not know when the University will send out another Request for Proposals for student health insurance providers, he said the University may consider partially self-funded plans for coverage in the future. With this plan design, the University, not UHCSR, would manage the funds to pay insurance claims.

A few colleges and universities around the country have experimented with selffunded insurance plans to keep costs low and benefits high, with positive results, Purdy said. out

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8 I FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2009

FOOTBALL

Blue Devils strive to meet bowl expectations by

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In the run-up to his second season in charge, head football coach David Cutcliffe publicly declared what many around the Blue Devil program were silently thinking: Duke has the potential to make a bowl game this season.

People outside of the program might have balked at the thought, especially considering standout linebacker Mike Tauiliili and wide receiver Eron Riley were trying to make NFL rosters, not warming up for their senior seasons.

Nonetheless, the lofty goal of a bowl game brought a sellout crowd to Wallace Wade Stadium Sept. 5 when Duke took on Richmond, but events since kickoff have not gone according to Cutcliffe’s master plan.

In the season opener, the Blue Devils fell behind early and never really recovered, going down against the Spiders 24-16.

Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis threw for 350 yards that day, yet had little success in turning those yards into points, prompting calls for his talented backup: Sean Renfree.

Lewis was the lone quarterback against Richmond, but has since split time with Renfree, a redshirt freshman. .Renfree’s first appearance came in the second half ofDuke’s second game against Army, when he—and cornerback Leon Wright, who returned two interceptions for touchdowns in the fourth quarter—sparked a Blue Devil win in West Point, N.Y. “I love coming from behind and winning a game—I don’t care what the circumstance is,” Cutcliffe said after the game. “I told our team at halftime it’s why we play two halves.

There’s an opportunity ahead of you.”

Even though Lewis is no longer the un-

questioned signal-caller, he has expressed support for Renfree and was impressed with the younger quarterback’s composure after the 35-19 win at Army.

“I told a lot of people from the beginning he’s a great player,” Lewis said.

“When his number is called, that’s what you want to see.”

Lewis and Renfree shared quarterbacking dudes the next week as well, but the results were not as effecdve against No. 20 Kansas.

Duke had not won a road game against a ranked opponent since 1971, and that streak condnued for yet another week as the Jayhjiwks rolled 44-16 in Lawrence, Kan. Despite the disappointing nature of the early season, the Blue Devils remain confident that a bowl game remains within reach.

Although tomorrow’s contest with N.C. Central will not count toward the six-win total FBS teams need to qualify for bowls—the Eagles are still transitioning from Division II to Division I, making Saturday’s game essentially an exhibition—several dates remain for Duke to build its win total.

Home dates with Maryland and Wake Forest promise challenging but winnable games, and visits to rivals N.C. State, North Carolina and Virginia could prove to be must-wins. With quality foes Virginia Tech, Miami and Georgia Tech left on the schedule, chances are limited for Duke to achieve the goals Cutcliffe outlined before the season.

A win against the Eagles, though, could lift the team’s spirits, if not its FBS win total.

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CRIME

Annual report favorable despite recent incidents Lindsey Rupp THE CHRONICLE

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Despite several recent crimes, Duke saw a decrease robberies and burglaries in 2008 and Durham saw an 11 percent drop in violent crime in the first halfof 2009.

Several students found themselves victims ofcrimes on and near campus this Summer and Fall.

Freshman Neha Sharma was robbed at gunpoint near the East Campus Bridge as she walked from West Campus to East Sept. 22. This summer, a senior was shot and robbed as he walked home on Watts Street off East Aug. 8, and a junior was robbed at gunpoint behind the East Union buildingjuly 28.

Also, six cars across three campus lots were broken into Sept. 19 by three suspects Duke Police thinks are also responsible for three car break-ins March 6.

“I think if you look at the actual crime numbers, Duke is a very safe place,” The Chronicle reported Chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police Department as saying Aug. 17. “People just need to be aware and not fearful.”

Serious crime on campus dropped in 2008 and violent crime dropped 11 percent in Durham in the first half of 2009.

DUPD recently released its annual Clery Security Report, which listed crime statistics for the 2008 calendar year. The report indicated that burglaries and robberies were down on and immediately adjacent to campus, but referrals and arrests as a result of liquor, drug and illegal weapons law violations were up.

The report cited 51 burglaries in 2008—34 of which occurred in residential facilities. Dailey said larcenies, of which there were 490 between January 2008 and September 2008, and burglaries are generally a preventable campus crime. Thus far in 2009, 426 larcenies have been reported.

“In just one or two cases was there forced entry,” Dailey said, The Chronicle reported Sept. 24. “If students would lock their doors—and I understand it’s inconvenient—most of those would be prevented.”

In 2008, referrals to campus disciplinary authorities for

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Despite recent armed robberies of students on Campus Drive and off East Campus,DUPD reported a decrease in buglaries and robberies in 2008.

liquor or drug law violations increased from 308 in 2007 to 352. Arrests for the same violations increased from 24 to 30.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, said the increases may stem from standardized reporting policies for residence staff that went into place in the 2008-2009 academic year. He said Residence Life and Housing Services emphasized to staff members to report suspected drug activity to the Office of StudentConduct and to DUPD. Durham saw a decrease in crime, as well.

Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez told the City Council Sept. 8 thatalthough violent crime fell, the first six months of 2009 saw two more murders and six more rapes than the same period in 2008.

“Anytime you can reduce crime, it’s a good thing,” City Council Member Eugene Brown said, The Chronicle reported Sept. 17. “But I think there’s still too much crime, and we need to address it.”

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Burglaries also increased in 2009, Lopez said. Although overall property crime dropped 2 percent, burglaries surged 13 percent.

The Durham Police Department does not know what is causing this increase, said Kammie Michael, information officer for the Durham Police Department, adding that similar spikes can be seen in Chapel Hill and Wake County.

Brown said one problem that might be contributing to Durham’s crime rate is the county’s poor judicial system that struggles to keep track ofcriminals on patrol and probation. He pointed to high recidivism numbers and few effective rehabilitation programs as part of the problem.

Michael and Brown advocated for increased citizen awareness, encouraging community members to make use of the CrimeStoppers hot line and neighborhood watches and listservs.

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10 I FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25,2009

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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Scenes from last year's Homecoming

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In the past year, Duke’s highest governing body has welcomed a new chair as well as several new members, approved a newly tightened budget and facilitated the addition of a new school to the University.

Dan Blue, Law ’73, was elected as the Board of Trustees’ first ever black chair at its May 8 meeting, and he began his term July 1. He formerly served as the Board’s co-vice chair, along with Richard Wagoner, Trinity ‘75, a former chief executive officer of General Motors. Wagoner was re-elected as vice chair at the same meeting.

“I’m extremely honored to be the chair of the Duke Board—to come from being a plain and simple student, to lead the University policy-making board, it’s a lifetime honor for anybody I believe, and I especially feel very good about that,” Blue said in July. “I look at it first through those lens, but given Duke’s history in the South, you can’t help but reflect back a little bit on where we come from as an institution-it’s a pretty strong statement of where we are that those issues don’t matter in who we choose as a leader today.”

Like his predecessor Robert Steel, Trinity ‘73, who served as chief executive officer of Wachovia, Blue has deep North Carolina ties. He earned his bachelor’s degree at North Carolina Central University in 1970, and served as partner of Raleigh law firm Blue, Stephens & Fellers after graduating from the School of Law. He also served in the N.C. House and now is part of the N.C. Senate.

Blue’s political background is a distinct change from Steel’s business experience.

“This is the first time Duke will have a prominent voice in the General Assembly,” Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs, said in July. “He’s still very well-connected in Raleigh-locally as well as nationally-and can provide real help to Durham in terms offederal programs and federal dollars,” he said.

‘Tin extremely honored to be the chair of the Duke Board —to come from being a plain and simple student, to lead the University policymaking board, it’s a lifetime honor for anybody I believe, and I especially feel very good about that.”

Dan Blue, Board of Trustees chair Blue, who has also served on the Audit Committee and as chair of the Budget and Finance Committee and the Trusteeship Committee in the time since he joined the Board in 1995, will remain chair of the Board until his term expires in 2011.

At the May meeting, the Board approved a flat budget of $l.B billion for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, which includes an undergraduate tuition increase of 3.9 percent and changes the designation offinancial aid from an expense to a reduction in revenue.

The University still faces a $125 million deficit to be eliminated over three years in light of heavy endowment losses from the recession. This fiscal year, they hope to cut the budget by $5O to $7O million.

“It’s going to get worse before it gets better-we’re not out of the woods yet, we have some issues to fix this Fall,” Executive Vice President Tallman Trask told the Chronicle in May. “If I had to guess, next year will be worse than this year.”

Over the last several months,-the University has been focusing on tightening its payroll, offering early retirement to hundreds of biweekly and monthly salaried employees.

The Board also approved the transition of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy to the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy.

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