Duke researchers explore funding alternativesby Ashley Mooney

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Duke researchers are taking extra measures to strengthen their applications for NIH grants given a shrinking pool of dollars at their disposal.

In order to improve their chances of receiving funding, many Duke researchers are taking advan-tage of numerous, new University-led initia-tives to improve the quality of applications. Researchers are having to be smarter about how they seek research, whether that means

diversifying their interests or applying to both private and public sources. Still, some faculty members—especially those who have had to put their own research on hold—are con-cerned that the reduced funding will deter some from enter-ing the field of scientific research at all.

“Research is a bit like insurance,” said Lee Jones, scientific director of the Duke Center for Cancer Survivorship and as-sociate professor of radiation oncology. “You have to spread your risk. To this end, I have been increasing my collabora-tions since you need to have several irons in the fire that are associated with your overall program goal but if one fails, you have some back-up plans.”

Last November, Congress ended deliberations without de-livering a budget proposal, resulting in spending cuts of $1.2 trillion across government programs—including the NIH—in 2013. The NIH funds scientific research across the country and devotes hundreds of millions of dollars to research at Duke.

Increased competition for funds is also causing some re-searchers to spend more time writing grants, which limits the time available to pursue other projects, said Beth Sullivan, co-director of the Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics and assistant professor in molecular genetics and microbiology. Although Sullivan noted that she worked long hours as a graduate and later as a postdoctoral student, a prin-cipal investigator’s hard work does not necessarily correlate with success.

“Cuts have already affected my research by making us shelve several lines of research,” Sullivan said.

Securing fundsThe University is taking notable measures to help research-

ers in the grant writing process.In September, the School of Medicine instated the Path

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Endowmentreports $113M in grants in 2011

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The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment donated more than $28 million in grants to the University in 2011.

According to a press release Feb. 6, the endowment donated approximately $113 million to organizations in North and South Carolina last year, compared to nearly $110.5 million in 2010. Of the funding, $26,141,781 was allocated to Uni-versity ventures in 2011.

The 14 grants allocated to the Univer-sity and its ventures, include $12.5 million

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Brodhead’s performance to be reviewed

by Margot TuchlerTHE CHRONICLE

Halfway through his second term, President Richard Brodhead will undergo a review commissioned by the Board of Trustees this Spring.

The review involves numerous con-versations with Brodhead’s colleagues, faculty members, students, almuni and other members of the Duke commu-nity. The seven-member review com-mittee is comprised of Trustees and faculty members and is led by Board Vice Chair Jack Bovender. In May, the committee will present its assessment to the Trustees, who will decide the re-

appointment of Brodhead, Bovender said.Bovender, former chairman and CEO of Hospital

Corporation of America and Health Administration’69, said the committee will consult a wide range of Duke affiliates, including the deans of every University school, faculty leadership, executive members of the Academic Council and past Trustees.

“It’s a very thorough process,” he said. “It takes a lot of time to do it and do it right.”

Brodhead, who became president of the University in 2004, was last reviewed in 2007—the midpoint of his first five-year term as president. This Spring’s assessment is part of a regular review process that occurs every five years and was first instituted in 1982.

The interviews should be completed by the end of Febru-ary or the beginning of March, at which point the commit-tee will begin the process of compiling all of their notes into

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Duke pays high cost for free-throws

by Alex KrinskyTHE CHRONICLE

Despite erasing a 16-point deficit in the second half to force overtime, an 0-for-6 performance from the free-throw line in overtime proved to be Duke’s undoing in a 78-74 to Miami Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. It was No. 7 Duke’s second loss in its last three home games, and the first overtime game in Cameron since the Blue Devils won in extra time against Miami in 2009.

The Hurricanes established their inside presence ear-ly by repeatedly feeding the ball to junior center Reggie Johnson. The 6-foot-10, 284-pound center set the tone by scoring Miami’s first six points of the game. He would finish the first half with a team-high 10 points.

“He dominated the paint, is the bottom line,” Ryan

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The crux of the former House speaker’s new plan is math: a complex analysis of each state’s delegates, how they’re awarded and how many, rea-sonably, Gingrich can expect to win.

He will focus heavily on upcoming Southern states, where he expects his Georgia roots and conservative rheto-ric to play well. And he will step up his attacks on his leading rival, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Rom-ney, for being too liberal to take on President Barack Obama in the fall.

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Changes to the short-term ill-ness notification form policies likely contributed to a decrease in student use during the Fall.

Usage of the short-term ill-ness notification form was sig-nificantly reduced in Fall 2011 as compared to Fall 2010, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts & Sci-ences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education. In 2010, 7190 forms were submit-ted, compared to 5740 submit-ted last semester—indicating a 20 percent decline, Baker wrote in an email Thursday.

At the beginning of this aca-demic year, the administration—in collaboration with the Honor Council—made changes to the STINF policy in response to the faculty’s concerns of student mis-use. Administrators and faculty wanted to increase student ac-countability, said Norman Keul, an associate dean in Trinity Col-lege and adjunct associate pro-fessor of German.

“The concern the faculty had, as well as we in the Dean’s office, is that the system was so magnan-imous that students could, at two in the morning, submit a STINF,” Keul said. “There was no need to contact the faculty member after-wards to have a conversation and account for their actions.”

Beginning Fall 2011, students were required to contact their professors within 48 hours of submitting the form. Otherwise, professors were under no obliga-tion to accept work from students who miss class.

Keul noted that up until last semester, STINF usage had been steadily increasing since its cre-ation in 2003. It remains unclear whether or not the decline in STINF use in this Fall is a direct result of the changes.

“We’ll of course look at [the numbers] again at the end of the semester to see whether that

sort of decline continues,” Keul said. “I have no idea how it will change.”

Some students said their ap-proach to the STINF has not changed at all.

Sophomore Hilary Novatt said she used the STINF last year, and her habits have remained the same.

“I use it when I need it, and I think I know when I need it,” Novatt said.

Junior Matt Carder said he re-ceived an email at the beginning of the year that urged students to only use the STINF when it was essential. The email, which was sent by Baker, did not have any effect on the way he views the form, and he said he believes that is also the case for his peers.

“It’s probably still used the same way,” he said, noting that he has not used the form yet this year.

Elizabeth Fox, director of the Academic Advising Center and associate dean of Trinity College, said the changes served to clar-ify the original purpose of the STINF system as it was conceived eight years ago.

“Faculty had questions, students had questions, I as a dean had questions, and we just

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LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney won an overwhelming victory in Saturday's Nevada caucuses, giving the former Massachu-setts governor his second con-secutive victory of the year as he tightened his claim to dominant front-runner status in what had been a turbulent Republican presidential race.

After his easy victory in Florida last Tuesday, Romney’s big win in Nevada, where he also won four years ago, will provide ad-ditional momentum heading to Tuesday’s caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota and set him up for more significant primaries in Michigan and Arizona at the end of the month. The outcome will increase pressure on his rivals to demonstrate how and where they plan to stop him, if they can.

Romney was far ahead of his closest rivals. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas were battling for second place. Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania was running fourth. Turnout was far below that of the primaries in Florida, South Carolina or New

Hampshire and less than in Iowa’s caucuses.

As Romney celebrated his third victory in five contests, his rivals vowed to continue fighting. But the upcoming calendar pro-vides those chasing Romney with few significant opportunities for victory in coming weeks. Gingrich and Santorum would each like to take on Romney without the other draining off conservative votes, but neither has shown any interest in bowing to the other. Paul demonstrated again in Ne-vada that he can do well in caucus states with limited turnout, but has yet to show real strength in a big state.

The first weeks of the Repub-lican race have played out at the pace of a sprint. But the primary-caucus calendar slows to a walk in February, before resuming with a flurry of contests March 6, this year’s Super Tuesday.

Romney is favored in Colorado on Tuesday, whereas Minnesota is less predictable. Maine caucuses began Saturday but will not be completed for a week. Both Ari-zona and Michigan are regarded

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as Romney territory at this point. Gingrich’s first real op-portunities won't arrive until Super Tuesday.

Romney will use the lull in the calendar in part to re-plenish his campaign war chest. But he has political needs, as well, despite his commanding position in the race for the nomination. He still suffers from lack of enthusiasm for his candidacy, especially among the most conservative of Republicans. Beginning to win over those voters and consolidating the party will be his most important objec-tives.

At the same time, Romney plans to use February to flesh out some of his policy positions. His image has been hurt by a month of attacks from Gingrich, a super PAC back-ing the former speaker and by the Democrats. They have focused on his work at Bain Capital, the private equity firm he founded, which became the source of his personal for-tune.

Verbal miscues by the candidate have contributed to questions about just whom he stands for and whom his policies would help. Romney earlier laid out a detailed economic plan, but some Republicans have said he needs something simpler and bolder to draw clearer distinctions with President Barack Obama and excite his party.

As Romney deals with those problems, his rivals will continue to look for any way possible to try to consolidate whatever anti-Romney forces exist and keep the race going as long as possible. Despite Romney’s strong position, it will take him months to accumulate enough delegates to claim the nomination.

Santorum told CNN Saturday night he doesn't see an obvious victory in the next few states, but nonetheless ar-gued that he would make the strongest nominee against Obama. “This race is a long, long way from being over,” he said. “People are going to start looking at this race, and they're going to see that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich don't have what it takes to win the general election.... Even-tually this race will come to us.”

Paul told CNN that Romney was always a prohibitive fa-vorite in Nevada. “I think that everybody does recognize that the Mormon vote is significant,” he said. He added that he is beginning to accumulate delegates and said that even if he wanted to drop out, “there would be a strong rebellion with my friends.”

Entrance polls showed that Mormons accounted for about a quarter of the caucus electorate, and Romney, who is Mormon, won about nine in 10 of those voters.

Those entrance polls also showed that the economy was the dominant issue for caucus attendees Saturday, not surprising in a state with an unemployment rate of 12.6 percent and one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. At the same time, a strong plurality of voters said the most important quality they were looking for in a can-didate was someone who could defeat the president in No-vember. Romney won overwhelmingly with both groups.

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a formal review, Bovender said. The review committee includes Trustees Frank Emory,

Trinity ’79; Robin Ferracone, Trinity ’75; and John Harpham, Trinity ’10. Joining the Trustees are Linda Burton, James B. Duke professor of sociology; Gregg Trahey, professor of biomedical engineering; and Dona Chikaraishi, professor of neurobiology and associate dean for biomedical graduate education and leadership services.

Vice President and University Secretary Richard Riddell said he commends the comprehensive nature of the presi-dential review process. Because the committee is comprised of both Trustees and faculty—who govern different aspects of the University—they can assess Brodhead’s performance from all angles.

“Every constituency is informed that the review is taking place, so there can be wide input to the committee on the president’s performance,” Riddell wrote in an email Sunday.

Chikaraishi said she has found her first review of an ad-

ministrator to be an illuminating process because the people she has talked to have been so eager to share their opinion.

“Everyone I had to meet with was very agreeable,” Chikaraishi said. “They seem to be very good at volun-teering their time, and they want to help [and] enable the process.”

As opposed to Trustees who spend most of their time away from Duke’s campus, Chikaraishi said she and her peers have the benefit of experiencing University issues and interacting with administrators on a day to day basis, bringing to light both the faculty and student perspectives.

“We’re certainly closer to the local environment and we can... address some of the things that people who aren’t on campus all the time wouldn’t necessarily be impacted by,” Chikaraishi said.

The committee will accept feedback from the Duke com-munity on Brodhead’s performance until Feb. 20.

“I want to be very objective,” Bovender said. “We’re well into this process doing interviews, but it’s premature to make any kind of comment about what the result of this review is going to be.”

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to Independence program, which helps researchers in the School of Medicine secure independent funding—through workshops, internal review of draft applications and feedback sessions—approximately five months pri-or to NIH submission.

The institutional support offered by the program is essential in launching careers in the current economic environment, said Heather Whitson, assistant professor of medicine and ophthalmology. Whitson added that the senior researchers who are working on the initiative ought to be commended, as they under the same fund-ing pressures as those they are helping.

“It shows a real commitment to supporting the next generation of physician scientists, who are facing a very uncertain future,” she said.

According to the program’s website, senior faculty who have served as reviewers for the NIH offer struc-tured reviews and feedback on grant applications.

“[Grant writing] is a blend of scientific writing with salesmanship,” said Mark Dewhirst, associate dean for faculty mentoring at the Duke Translational Medicine Institute, who spearheaded the program. “A lot of it is about making the reader understand how important your work is.”

Specifically, the senior faculty work with applicants to bolster their Specific Aims page—a summary of the grant that is often used by NIH officials in making decisions about which grants to support. The program also includes one-on-one mentoring and an internal review process.

During the internal review, faculty members provide an NIH-style review and commentary about two months prior to NIH submission, Dewhirst said. Applicants then meet with reviewers to discuss their revised applications and the comments they received earlier.

“I knew nothing about applying for NIH grants before this program, and I am learning a lot,” Yiping He, assis-tant professor of pathology research, wrote in an email Saturday. “I believe it makes people who are already in research feel supported and perhaps more confident.”

Some researchers depend entirely on grant funding, which may pose issues for completing certain projects.

E. Jane Costello, associate director of research at

Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy and professor of psychiatry and behavior sciences, wrote in an email Feb. 1 that her research projects are too expensive for independent foundations to fund.

“As a new lab, we have very exciting projects that are moving forward really well, but the cut is shadowing ev-erything,” He said.

Funding cuts would make continuing his experi-ments almost impossible, He added.

‘Losing a generation’ of scientistsAlthough the Path to Independence program will

help Duke investigators become more competitive on a national level, Jones said he is unsure if it will incentiv-ize more people to pursue research as a career.

“Most scientists are extremely passionate about what they do and if you’re not passionate about research, or anything for that matter, you shouldn’t get into the field of research,” he said.

Many factors, such as the low success rate for secur-ing funding and the years of training it takes to become a researcher, are driving many away from the field.

“We’re losing a generation or two of scientists and the intellectual capacity to drive the economy forward with innovation being lost,” Dewhirst said.

Dewhirst added that scientists are usually more than 40 years old by the time they apply for their first grant.

“You go to school for all these years, do a four to five year Ph.D. and then do a post-doc for another three [years] only to find there are no jobs—so you do an-other three year post-doc only to find there are no jobs,” Jones said. “If you are fortunate to get a job, the starting pay is not great, and you are given three years to get fully funded, but grant funding is at an all time low.... Is it a career that you would want to get into?”

Sullivan noted that, as a graduate mentor and co-director of a graduate program, she will not encourage students to pursue academic research unless they are truly passionate about it. Instead, Sullivan urges stu-dents to pursue diverse science careers, such as medical writing or biotechnical opportunities.

“It troubles me to think that as much as 85 percent of proposed science in this country is not getting funded,” Whitson said. “How can we remain a leader in medical in-novation and discovery if this continues to be the case?”

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Fox noted that STINF misuse is a possibility, but said it ultimately helps students.

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Respectively, DUHS received $10,266,781, the Divin-ity School received $2,581,000 and the Center for Child and Family Policy received $2,149,687 in total grants.

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Backcourt rotation clears up during loss

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It took a trip to China. It took 23 games, 920 minutes of regulation and five more of overtime. It took the Blue Devils losing two of the last three games at Cameron Indoor Stadium, after they had won 45 consecutive there since 2009. And it took Duke’s 78-

74 loss to Miami, their first home overtime game since edging out the Hurricanes in extra time in 2009.

But head coach Mike Krzyzewski may have finally found his backcourt.

After a lackluster first-half performance sent the Blue Devils into the locker room down 42-28, it was clear something had to change in the second period for Duke to reverse its fortune. At the 17:39 mark in the second half, Seth Curry and Quinn Cook replaced Tyler Thornton and Andre Dawk-ins, joining Austin Rivers in the backcourt.

And they stayed on the floor throughout the ensuing second-half comeback.

“[Playing them] was an indication we were winning with them,” Krzyzewski said.

Such consistency has been non-existent for this team. This season Krzyzewski has started seven different lineups, and none of them for more than six consecutive games.

Within moments of stepping on the court, their presence was felt as Curry nabbed a steal at the 17:37 mark and threw it ahead to Cook for a layup. Curry and Rivers led Duke with 22 and 20 points, re-spectively, with 17 of Curry’s coming in the second half.

“We had a rhythm,” Rivers said. “We were playing well with each other.”

The trio’s quickness and athleticism was critical as Krzyzewski implemented a press defense, trapping Miami’s guards near midcourt. At one point, Curry stole the ball on two consecutive Hurricane possessions, leading to a 3-pointer on the first series and a Josh Hairston layup on the second.

Those baskets brought the Miami lead down to eight, after it had been as large as 16 just 1:31 earlier. Rivers, Curry and Cook combined for six steals.

“We just wanted to trap the ball to speed them up,” Cook said. “And it worked, but in the end they made some tough plays and we didn’t respond.”

Rivers played a career-high 43 min-utes as the only of those three to start the game on the floor.

“I’m not tired now. I could play another overtime—I wish we could,” Rivers said.

Dawkins and Thornton joined him in the starting lineup, combining to go just 2-of-8 from the field for six points. That pair began the overtime period on the floor, but was subbed out after just seven seconds.

Although Rivers, Curry and Dawkins sparked the comeback, they were far from perfect down the stretch. Rivers began the extra period by missing a 3-pointer. Curry followed that up with two missed free throws and then a missed jumper on the next possession.

On Duke’s ensuing turn with the ball, Rivers missed two free throws. With 26 seconds remaining, Cook missed two from the line with the Blue Devils down just one. The trio went 0-for-6 from the charity stripe in overtime.

“We make the free throws, we win the game,” Rivers said. “We had the lead, we had chances and to come all the way back and give it away—there’s nothing worse than that.”

Duke’s next chance with the ball—after Miami’s Reggie Johnson continued the trend of abysmal free throw shoot-ing with two misses of his own—Cook airballed a shot from the middle of the floor, attempting to shoot over the much larger Johnson.

The Blue Devils’ furious comeback, however, began with those three guards. Cook shot just 3-of-9 from the field, but he and Curry tied for the team high with four

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Referees did not notice head coach Mike Krzyzewski trying to call timeout as time expired in Sunday’s loss.

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Austin Rivers scored 20 points Sunday, but missed free throws down the stretch spelled doom for Duke.

by Alex Krinskythe chronicleDespite erasing a 16-point deficit in the second half to force overtime, an 0-for-6 performance from the free-throw line in overtime proved to be Duke’s undoing in a 78-74 to Miami Sunday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. It was No. 7 Duke’s second loss in its last three home games, and the first overtime game in Cameron since the Blue Devils won in extra time against Miami in 2009.The Hurricanes established their inside presence early by repeatedly feeding the ball to junior center Reggie Johnson. The 6-foot-10, 284-pound center set the tone by scoring Miami’s first six points of the game. He would finish the first half with a team-high 10 points.“He dominated the paint, is the bottom line,” Ryan Kelly said. “He rebounded ev-ery missed shot they had. He got whatever he wanted and really hurt us.”

Miami (14-7, 5-3 in the ACC) com-pounded its inside threat with lights-out shooting. In the first half, the Hurricanes shot 47.1 percent from the field. They were also accurate from beyond the arc, shoot-ing 5-of-12 behind forward Kenny Kadji and guard Shane Larkin, who each made two timely 3-pointers in the first half.

On the offensive side of the ball, Duke (19-4, 6-2) failed to create any momentum as it shot 36.7 percent from the field in the first half, well below their season average of 48.8 percent entering the game. Big plays from guard Austin Rivers, who led Duke with 11 points in the opening half, kept the Blue Devils within striking distance.

Nevertheless, Miami continued to re-spond after each Duke score, and a dunk by Rion Brown sparked a 20-6 Miami run that gave the Hurricanes a 14-point lead heading into the locker room.

“This game was a tale of two halves, and that was the problem,” Rivers said. “We played terribly in the first half. We had no fight on defense. You can’t play hard in one half and expect to win.”

In the second half, Quinn Cook, Curry and Rivers combined to provide a spark to the Duke offense. A bucket each from Cook and Rivers and a 3-pointer from Curry cut into Miami’s lead, but the Hurri-canes continued to produce as Johnson hit two layups and bullied the Blue Devils for

putbacks after offensive rebounds. “Rebounding is basically effort,” Mi-

ami head coach Jim Larranaga said. “And our effort was a little greater today in that area, both defensively and [in] rebounding. It was an area that our guys had been working on and getting a little bit better at, but today was really more of a culmination of days of work that finally paid off for them.”

Kelly and Curry hit back-to-back 3-pointers that started a 16-2 Duke run that brought the Blue Devils within two with 8:33 to play in regulation. Although Duke’s shooting improved, it was a concentrated defensive effort and a focus on trapping the ball down low that helped Duke cut into the defi-cit.

“We got more aggressive on the defen-sive end,” Curry said. “We played the ball screen a lot more aggressively, and we were able to rotate faster and get some steals and buckets. I think our defensive mindset was just to force turnovers.”

In the end of the second half, Curry and Rivers took control of the game, drawing fouls and hitting jumpers to keep the Blue Devils close. Curry finished the game with a team-high 22 points and Rivers with 20. With 2:49 to play in regulation, Curry hit a jumper that gave the Blue Devils their first lead since 7:52 remained in the first half, sending the crowd into a frenzy.

Despite Duke’s apparent momen-tum, Johnson hit two baskets, sandwich-ing a Kelly layup, to keep Miami up by one. Johnson finished the game with 27 points and 12 rebounds.

“I thought Johnson was spectacular,” Krzyzewski said. “We played outstanding defense on Johnson at the end of regula-tion. It’s just brute strength that helped him score a couple of those. It wasn’t bad defense. He just made some big plays.”

With 21 seconds left in regulation, Rivers stood at the charity stripe with the Blue Devils trailing by one. He missed his first attempt, but made the second to tie up the game. On the last series of regulation, Duke was able to hold off a dangerous Johnson down low and force the game into overtime.

“Our defense was very good the last 16 minutes—I mean really good,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s what got us back in the game. We missed open shots. We missed a couple of shots right by the bas-

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by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

As Duke and North Carolina prepare to tip off Monday night in the first of this year’s four basketball games between the two schools in men’s and women’s basketball, one family finds itself right in the middle of the contention. Matt Henson is an avid college basketball fan, having grown

up a North Car-olina supporter before play-ing for Nor-folk State University. The televi-sion in his home was frequently tuned in to

Tar Heel basketball as his two old-est children grew up. The first child of Matt and Annette Henson only encouraged the family to contin-ue bleeding the Tar Heel shade of blue when he matriculated to North Carolina, but his younger sister Amber has forced them to ac-commodate a darker hue as well.

Older brother John is a North Caroli-na junior and the reigning ACC defensive player of the year, and Amber is a Duke freshman who is sidelined for the season after undergoing knee surgery. Following in their father’s footsteps as kids, John and Amber did not have a difficult time figuring out which team to root for.

“We always pulled for UNC,” Matt said. “It was kind of a one-sided affair.”

Amber and John watched super-stars like Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Antawn Jamison and Vince Carter in the late-1990s.

“My whole family has really been Carolina fans,” Am-ber said, “so... that’s the team we rooted for, and Duke was just the enemy.”

From very early on, John already was dreaming of some-day wearing the powder blue uniform.

Nevertheless, as John developed into one of the top five recruits of the 2009 class according to Scout.com, North Carolina was not on his immediate radar.

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Hensons make Tobacco Road rivalry personal“They weren’t necessarily on my list at first, but I

would say [head] coach [Roy] Williams came in and swept me off my feet and it’s the best decision I think I’ve ever made,” John said.

For Amber, it was an entirely different story. Although she, like the rest of her family, consid-

ered herself a devotee to the Tar Heel men’s basket-ball squad, her allegiance in women’s college basket-ball was not as clear-cut.

“I remember when I was in eighth grade, Duke came to play Texas when I was liv-ing there, and I re-member watching Monique Curry play and Ali Bales play,” Amber said. “And I was like, wow, I really

like Duke wom- en’s basketball.”Despite her interest in the

Blue Devil women’s basket-ball program, her family ties made North Caro- lina an extremely en-ticing option. As the Henson siblings both became sought-after recruits, Amber often made school visits at the same time as her brother.

“Really, Carolina was the frontrunner… be-cause I’d visit there all the time because John was going there,” Amber said.

Duke stepped in to recruit Amber a little later in the process, though, and once Amber started to explore her option down the road from Cha-pel Hill, she came to realize how good a fit the Blue Devils could be for her.

“I tell people all the time that I kind of just as-sumed I was going to Carolina, but when Duke start-ed recruiting me, I came to visit and I met everybody

and just felt right,” Amber said.Amber now had to choose between rivals, while also

weighing in basketball, academics and family. The two siblings talked often about going to school together, but John made sure that Amber made her decision based on

where she felt she would fit best, reminding her that she would still be in school for two years after he graduated.

On top of that, Matt emphasized to his daughter that it was her choice, telling her to look past the rivalry and the basketball and pick the school she liked best.

“I said, ‘Think about if he’s not in that school. Think about if he’s not around. Pick the school that you’re going to feel most comfortable with from an academic perspec-tive, and think about what if you weren’t playing basket-ball, what school would you want to go to?” Matt said. “I

wanted it to be her decision and not somebody else’s.”Since making her decision and signing with Duke, she

has ventured over to Chapel Hill to watch a number of John’s games. And she has yet to renounce her loyalty

to North Carolina, especially with her brother play-ing there.

“Even when they play Duke, I will find it hard to wholeheartedly go for Duke,” Amber said.

John, too, makes an effort to watch his sister play as often as possible, with assistance

from the Duke staff to ensure that things do not get out of hand

with a North Carolina player spectating in Cameron In-

door Stadium.“He tries to kind of

walk in incognito,” Am-ber said. “He’ll either have a hood on and try to sneak in quietly because people recognize him wherever he goes…. It’s a little different

for him coming here than it is for me going there.”

Having spent three years in Chapel Hill and a lifetime cheering on the Tar Heels, John takes a different approach from Amber on how he cheers for his

sibling in the rivalry game.When 23rd-ranked North Carolina

(17-5, 7-2 in the ACC) takes on No. 5 Duke (18-3, 9-0) tonight at 7 p.m., John will be firmly supporting the Tar Heels.

“Whenever I ask him, he’s like, ‘I hope you do well, but I want

my school to win,’ Amber said.

“The fact that she’s not playing right now makes it a little easier,” John said.

As for Matt Henson, the task of supporting both Duke and

North Carolina has be- come a black-and-white issue—Blue Devils in women’s basketball and Tar Heels in everything else.

“I have worn to some Duke women’s games a Duke shirt, but I wouldn’t wear it to a Duke men’s game and I wouldn’t wear it anywhere other than the game,” Matt said. “I’m not going to be seen out in public, walking the streets with it.... If you see me in any [Duke] apparel it has to have ‘Amber’ on it. I wouldn’t want anyone getting confused.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Blue Devils complete comeback win at home

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

by Shiva KothariTHE CHRONICLE

Down a set in four of their six singles matches, it appeared that the Blue Devils would go down to the wire Saturday.

But a capacity crowd at Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center propelled No. 3 Duke (5-0) to a decisive 6-0 comeback vic-tory over No. 12 Northwestern (4-1).

The singles match at No. 5 between Mary Clayton and Linda Abu Mushrefova epitomized the Blue Devils’ resil-

iency. After losing a tight first set 6-4, Clayton fought back to capture the second set 6-2.

“After the first set, I was pretty disappointed with my performance and came out in the second set really determined,” Clayton said. “[Mushrefova] was hitting quite a few shorter balls, and I started to take advantage of those.”

The boisterous crowd began to play a significant role in Clayton’s comeback victory in the third set, draw-ing the ire of Northwestern head coach Claire Pollard. That did not deter the Blue Devil fans from helping will Clayton to a 6-3 third-set victory.

“The crowd honestly was awesome,” Clayton said. “Had it not been for the fans, I do not know if I would have got-ten through the third set.”

Ester Goldfeld, Rachel Kahan and 35th-ranked Monica

Turewicz—who was back in action after sitting out the pre-vious three matches with a wrist injury —also earned come-back victories after dropping first sets.

“I think we competed really well,” head coach Jamie Ash-worth said. “I am proud of the way we fought back. We have to do a better job to not lose four first sets but we fought back.”

The freshman Turewicz, who had not lost a set in 12 matches this season, completed her comeback with a convincing 6-2 third-set victory, and Kahan provided the clinching singles point with a 6-3 win in her third set.

The top two singles players, seventh-ranked freshman Beatrice Capra and sophomore Hanna Mar, did not provide the same drama as their teammates. At No. 1 singles, Capra easily disposed of 26th-ranked Kate Turvy, 6-1, 6-3, while Mar pulled out a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Brittany Wowchuk.

Although Duke lost a doubles match for the first time all season in dual match play, it still prevailed to capture the doubles point and gain an early 1-0 advantage. The duo of freshman Beatrice Capra and Kahan won a thrilling 9-7 match over Belinda Niu and Nida Hamilton of North-western, finally sealing the win on their third match point.

Coming off their first true test of the season, the Blue Devils look primed to make a deep run at the ITA National Women’s Indoor Championships in Charlottesville, Va. next weekend, where they are the No. 1 seed in a 16-team field.

“We are playing well but we needed a match like this. We

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Blue Devils bounce back from NYC mishapby Sarah Elsakr

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This weekend the Blue Devils traveled to New York City to compete at the Armory Collegiate Invitational, where they broke both school and personal records to keep their streak of success alive.

Both the men and the women had strong showings at the meet, placing within the top 10 in a variety of differ-ent events. Although the meet ended up representing a significant success for Duke overall, it began inauspiciously for the Blue Devil men.

The 1000m race started promisingly for Duke, as senior Stephen Clark stepped up to take the lead just ahead of his teammate, junior Domenick DeMatteo. Clark managed to hold onto the lead for the first 700 meters of the race, but

as he and DeMatteo approached the end, a sudden accident took DeMatteo out of the running and left Clark unable to secure the win.

“It happened fast,” DeMatteo said. “I was moving up and a bunch of guys started moving up at the same time and I think someone hit my back leg and I started stumbling. I don’t re-ally remember much of what happened—I was just running and then got wobbly and then all of a sudden I was on the ground.”

As a result of the pile-up, DeMatteo was unable to finish what would have been his first 1000m race for Duke, and Clark lost his hold on the lead and slipped to ninth. Both Duke runners were able to escape serious injury, however, un-like some of the other athletes involved in the collision. Clark even went on to take 10th in the mile the next day.

That instance of bad luck proved to be the exception and not the rule for the Blue Devils, though. Several of the other Duke men stepped up against an increased level of competition and proved their readiness for the tougher races approaching in the second half of the season. Sophomore Brian Atkinson and senior Andrew Brodeur, both of whom already showed themselves to be strong competitors during the cross-country season, took third and fourth, respectively, in the 5000m. At-kinson’s stellar performance of 14:13.95, which repre-sented a marked improvement from his previous times, gave the Blue Devils a boost of confidence and earned him the third-place slot on Duke’s all-time list. Atkin-son’s teammate, Morgan Pearson, a freshman who has consistently been turning in quality times for the Blue Devils, managed to do so again as he raced to a fourth-place finish in the 3000m race. In the college 3000m, junior Dominick Robinson ran 8:20.10 to cross the fin-ish line in third ahead of teammate Shaun Thompson, who took 11th.

The women brought home several quality finishes on the track as well. Freshman Abby Farley took sixth in the college 800m, while Carolyn Baskir ran a time of 4:52.82 to take 15th in the college mile. Their class-mate, Elizabeth Kerpon, also benefited from the in-creased competition, breaking her own school record in the 400m.

The next day Kerpon was back, racing in the 4x400m relay beside teammates Brittany Whitehead, Alexis Roper and Lauren Hansson to earn the second-fastest time in school history.

In the field, Michelle Anumba mirrored Kerpon’s success, taking third overall while shattering her own school record in the shot put. On the men’s side of the field, the Blue Devils placed two pole vaulters in the top 10, with Justin Amezquita and Ian Rock taking sixth and 10, respectively. Their teammate, Tanner Ander-son, competing for the first time this season, jumped 6-feet-9.75 to land in seventh place.

Despite the mishap during the first day, the Blue Devils were able to show that they have made the neces-sary progress to this point of their season. Despite their successes in New York, they are staying focused on the challenges ahead.

“We went and competed has hard as we could,” De-Matteo said, “But today it’s back to work, because the big meets start in three weeks.”

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our team offense really, really well.”In addition, Maurer—who would finish the game

with three goals —had already tied the program’s single-game record for assists by halftime.

“I just think our offense was really flowing,” Maurer said. “I fit in today. It was just how everything fell into place that it happened to be me taking the shots and me that was taking the feeds that made it happen. “

Although the pace of play slowed down in the sec-ond period, the Blue Devils continued to attack, add-ing eight more goals as the freshmen continued to prove themselves.

Smith and Maurer each added another goal, and Callie Francis scored a goal, won a game-high three ground balls and forced a game-high two turnovers de-spite not playing in the first half.

“I’m not entirely surprised [by the performance of the freshmen] because I think we have some very talented freshmen who I’m confident are going to help us this year,” Kimel said. “But it was their first game, and we know that we have a long road ahead of us. This is definitely a nice game to start the year off for their confidence.”

Duke junior Alyssa Ogle also continued to pick apart the Bison defense in the second half, recording her third assist to go along with two goals for the game. As a team, the Blue Devils controlled 20-of-27 draws and outshot Bucknell 45-8.

“I’m really pleased given the fact that we’ve only practiced sixteen days that we were able to come out and play a pretty complete game from one end to the other,” Kimel said. “What we saw as coaches was a lot of what we worked on manifesting itself on the field, which is what you want to see... so I thought today was a great way to start the year off.”

by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

Saturday was a record-setting day for the Blue Devils as Duke scored 25 goals —the most in school history —and fresh-man Kerrin Maurer tied the program’s single-game record for assists with five as the Blue Devils rolled over Bucknell.

Receiving scoring contributions from 15 different play-ers, No. 5 Duke (1-0) defeated the Bison (0-1) 25-3 Satur-day at Koskinen Stadium.

It took the Blue Devils just over 30 seconds to get on the board, and after just 13 minutes of play, they had already

accrued a 10-0 advantage over the Bison.

“We moved the ball really well. We have confidence in every single

player, and we have a lot of depth on the bench,” said Duke sophomore Maddy Morrisey, who notched the first goal of the game. “It was just really awesome to see everyone score today.”

By the end of the 16th minute, Morrisey had already put away her third goal of the game, giving the Blue Devils an 11-1 advantage.

“Our goal offensively is to play aggressively, and we felt like we were able to do that right out of the gate,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Our offense is a little young, and we want them to feel like they can get into a rhythm quickly and play hard.”

Duke’s youth did not prove to be a problem, as the new-er Blue Devils did not hesitate to take control of the game early. In the first half alone, freshmen Kerrin Maurer, Bir-gid Smith, and Taylor Trimble combined for five goals in their debut, helping to put Duke up 17-1 at the break.

“[The freshmen] were great,” Morrissey said. “They had a lot of faith in themselves I love how they worked together and they also work with us really well. They’ve meshed into

Blue Devils set school record with 25 goals to open season

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Miami made 47.1 percent of its shots against Duke Sunday, leaving little opportunity for Miles Plumlee to utilize his rebounding skills.

ANALYSIS from page 2

assists each. Cook assisted Kelly’s 3-pointer and Curry made the pass for Mason Plumlee’s dunk in overtime—the team’s only five points in extra time. Cook’s 3.43 as-sist-to-turnover ratio would be the best of any Duke fresh-man in school history.

But listening to the players after this game, there were no threads of optimism within the locker room.

“That’s the worst loss I’ve ever had in my life,” Rivers said. “I just don’t have the words. It’s not a good feeling.”

Maybe, though, despite the messiness of the loss, the team found a cleaner backcourt rotation to lead them through the rest of the season.

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by Hunter NisonoffTHE CHRONICLE

It was a weekend of fighting for the Blue Devils at Shef-field Indoor Tennis Center, as the Fighting Illini and the Fighting Irish visited Durham for dual matches. No. 10 Duke defeated both of those teams and captured a third vic-tory over N.C. Central to move to 6-0 in dual-match play.

Friday’s opponent was No. 19 Illinois (4-2), and the Blue Devils’ 7-0 victory was their first over the Fighting Il-lini in 10 years.

“It was a really good team win,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “[Illinois] is a team that has given us some problems for a bunch of years now…. One of the things that we really stressed last week was han-dling adversity. That is one thing that I think we did really well.”

In doubles play, David Holland and Chris Mengel took the first win, and Henrique Cunha and Fred Saba soon followed suit to give Duke the

doubles point. The Blue Devils carried that momentum into singles play, where freshmen Raphael Hemmeler and Jason Tahir struck swiftly to put Duke up 3-0.

“I was really pleased with the freshmen,” Smith said. “Both of them stepped up and got off the court quickly.”

On court one, seventh-ranked Cunha captured an up-set victory over No. 2 Dennis Nevolo.

Cunha lost his first set 7-5 but never lost his confidence, winning his second set 6-1 to take the match into a tie-breaker. The tiebreaker remained close throughout, but Cunha came up on top with a 10-7 victory, earning the sev-enth and final point of the match.

“[Nevolo] is a great player,” Cunha said. “It’s always a tough match, always a three-set match. I started the second set breaking him, and that was very good momentum.”

The team also was able to gain momentum from a crowd of over 675 fans, the largest of the season.

“The crowd was awesome,” Smith said. “I think the guys really fed off the crowd, especially at the end of doubles. And then midway through the singles, I just felt like the crowd gave us a boost there.”

After a day off Saturday, Duke took on Notre Dame (5-3) and N.C. Central (0-1) in a doubleheader.

The Blue Devils defeated the Fighting Irish 6-1 for their first win of the day.

Cunha and Saba came up with another victory in dou-bles play, but Holland and Mengel could not repeat their winning ways, falling 8-5 to Notre Dame’s Greg Andrews and Spencer Talmadge. That left the doubles point in the hands of Torsten Wietoska and Raphael Hemmeler, who

pulled out an 8-6 victory.Notre Dame was able to tie the score at one, as

Sam Keeton came away with a quick victory over Saba to open the singles play.

It was not long before the Blue Devils were able to regain the lead, though, as Cunha posted a 6-1, 6-2 victory at No. 1 singles over Casey Watt.

Wietoska, Hemmeler, and Chris Mengel would fol-low with two-set victories, and Tahir came out on top of a third-set tiebreaker to give Duke their sixth point.

The Blue Devils continued to dominate their home court against N.C. Central later in the day, with several Duke players bringing home their second wins of the day as the Blue Devils shut out the Eagles.

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Henrique Cunha (bottom) upset No. 2 Dennis Nevolo Friday, and Torsten Wietoska (top) helped seal the doubles point for Duke.

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Applications are now open for a new program offered by the Fuqua School of Business in the United Arab Emirates. This two-year Master of Man-agement Studies in Finance degree program is slated to begin classes Spring 2012. However, less than a year from the purported start date, there are still troubling ques-tions left unanswered.

First, the administration has not yet addressed the hu-man rights situation in the UAE, which has no demo-cratically elected offi cials. The situation is worsening, accord-ing to a January 2012 Human Rights Watch report. Last Spring, the state charged fi ve activists for publishing public “insults” of government offi -cials and skirted these activists’

rights to a fair trial. Even more foreboding for Fuqua’s educa-tional mission is the decision of UAE offi cials to disband the board of directors for the country’s Teachers’ Associa-

tion, which co-signed a public appeal in April

advocating for greater de-mocracy. The government re-placed these boards with state-appointed offi cials.

In light of this crackdown on freedom of speech, it is unclear how Duke will keep its teaching, research and cur-riculum planning safe from government interference. If Fuqua administrators have given substantial thought to the issue, they certainly have not shared those thoughts with the broader Duke com-munity. Duke should follow

in the footsteps of New York University—which has hired a British fi rm to oversee la-bor conditions at NYU in Abu Dhabi—and keep close watch on the many stages involved with starting a pro-gram in the Middle East.

This attitude of caution should also extend to fi nancial dealings with Fuqua’s Middle Eastern partners. The MMS-Fi-nance program will be largely funded by the Securities and Commodities Authority of the UAE. Fuqua should be wary of close ties with ESCA, which seems to have taken more than a fi nancial interest in the pro-gram: ESCA plans on paying for its employees to attend the program. Receiving funding from ESCA may put Duke in a vulnerable position, should its fi nancial or educational goals

clash with those of the UAE government.

These risks are real. The di-rector of the London School of Economics resigned last year amid a controversy re-garding donations from a foundation run by the son of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi . Georgetown University and Cambridge University expe-rienced similar scandals after accepting millions of dollars from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia and the suspect Chong Hua Founda-tion in China, respectively.

Preserving human rights and institutional integrity in the UAE presents a delicate and complex problem. But Fuqua pushed the program’s approval through and does not seem to have thought these issues through. The

Academic Council passed the proposal “without many questions” and allowed an in-choate idea to pass for a well vetted plan. Likewise, the pro-posal did not get approved by the full Board of Trustees.

If Duke is going to stake its reputation in the Middle East on a thrown together pro-gram, it should be able to pro-vide the Duke community with some guarantees—that it can maintain academic freedom, that it can withdraw from the UAE if its academic or moral commitments are compro-mised and that it can maintain the quality of instruction that Duke wants to be known for.

Right now, it does not seem like Fuqua can guar-antee any of this. We should not go forward with the UAE until it can.

Even most staunch conservatives tend to agree that some level of education is a right. We think of food and water as rights, pre-

sumably ones that ought to be guar-anteed to everyone for the entirety of their lives. Education is a very different matter: Exactly how much education ought we guarantee?

Before I answer this question, I’m going to make what should be an obvious statement: Education does not make everyone better off. If you are unsure of the truth of this statement, consider the most miser-able Ph.D. candidate you know.

This next statement is going to sound even more obvious, but it has never directly guided American education policy: We should stop funding education at the point when it doesn’t leave the person any better off.

Default rates for federal student loans are ris-ing sharply—if a former student can’t pay back his or her debt, that’s pretty grim news. It means the education didn’t help the student fi nd a job that would pay well enough to cover the cost of the schooling. It didn’t fulfi ll the student’s goal (to be economically better off), or the obvious social goal of broadening the future tax base.

In the 1990s, Congress took tepid steps to ad-dress this problem, passing legislation so that schools with the very highest rates of student loan default—many of which are for-profi t colleges—lose eligibility for federal fi nancial aid after three years. The Obama administration has made these criteria a bit stricter.

What if we went further, though? When banks decide to issue loans, they think carefully about whether the individual will be able to pay the loan back. If the government were similarly prudent, there would be fewer former students burdened by back-breaking debt. Instead of broadly fund-ing all higher education as long as the student is suffi ciently low-income—what if we thought more seriously about what loans students would actually be able to repay?

1. Funding only the programs that students are prepared for: A 2003 study found that students that don’t graduate have a seven times higher default rate than students who do. Students from disad-vantaged backgrounds, from our nation’s under-served and sometimes crumbling public schools, often come to college without the basic competen-cies needed to succeed in university, and yet some colleges are happy to admit these students anyway. For students with the lowest test scores, GPAs or other indicators of academic preparation, federal fi nancial aid should be contingent on attending a

community college fi rst. It is incredibly important that these students continue their education, but spending federal money to put them in an envi-

ronment they are not yet prepared for is in no one’s best interest.

2. Funding only the universities and programs that are good values: If students have a right to higher education, it is hard to justify why they have a right to receive that education at any university they might choose. We guarantee a free K-12 education, but students gen-erally have their choice of schools limited to nearby public schools. Why should college necessarily be

different? I’m of course biased toward Duke, but there are also clear statistical indicators that dem-onstrate that Duke and its peer institutions offer an academic and intellectual “product” above-and-beyond what even fl agship public universities provide. The vast majority of the nation’s 2,441 private colleges, though, aren’t as good as fl agship publics in their states, and are considerably more expensive. Controlling for the academic quality of a university, the more expensive the tuition, the more likely it is that a student will default on their debt. By restricting the schools where students could spend federal fi nancial aid, default rates would decrease, and in turn, the federal govern-ment could be more generous with the amount of aid offered—a virtuous cycle.

A less obvious, but still compelling case can be made for shifting funding toward high-value de-gree programs. I’m not saying we shouldn’t give student loans to English majors. If a particular vocational degree, though, (as opposed to a lib-eral arts degree) doesn’t add to a student’s earn-ing potential—that student and society might be better-served if that student were nudged down a different path. We might similarly think of using federal fi nancial aid to incentivize students to pur-sue careers of high social value, like teaching or STEM careers.

At its best, education is a transformative and transcendental experience—economics aside. Let’s be real though—while talking about philoso-phy on the Main Quad is great fun, it isn’t why taxpayers subsidize us. By getting tougher with what we hand out cash for—while not decreasing the total funding available—federal fi nancial aid could do a better job of improving socioeconomic mobility and preparing the future workforce.

Elena Botella is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday. Follow Elena on Twitter at @duke-democrats

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Two mathematicians are sitting in a bar, arguing about what degree of mathematical literacy one could expect from the average person. In a con-

spiratorial whisper, the optimistic math-ematician instructs his waitress: “When my friend (A) comes back from the bath-room, I’m going to ask you a question, to which I want you to respond, ‘one-third x cubed.’” Sure enough, the friend returns, (no doubt after computing the base to his own natural log) and the mathemati-cian bets that their waitress will be able to vindicate the average man by providing a correct answer to a proposed integral. He then calls the waitress and asks “What is the integral of x squared?” The waitress responds “one-third x cubed,” and, while walking away, turns back with a smile and adds “plus a constant!”

I confess to feeling twitches of this old joke whenever I have occasion to overhear my quantitatively inclined social science colleagues talk shop. Indeed, there has been something of a mathematical gold-rush in most so-cial science fi elds, which is sometimes characterized by a prickly penis envy that roughly corresponds to how well one’s discipline is able to approximate the numerical rig-ors of the “hard” sciences. What is truly astonishing is the speed with which even the most fl accid competitors are catching up. Anyone who is familiar with the great Tom Lehrer (mathematician, satirist, alleged inventor of the “Jello shot”) might have heard rumors of “fanatics, in their attics, learning mathematics all for sociology … ”

To what should we attribute this astonishing, and by now decades-long surge in quantophilia? Surely math-ematics reliably imposes at least some minimum stan-dard of cognitive ability. This cannot, however, be the primary answer. There are many disciplines that impose the same kind of quality control, perhaps even more so than many of the math-crazed social sciences—in my whole life, I have met just one profoundly stupid classicist. Besides, the idea of standards in the mean-ingful sense is loathsome to our enlightened, radically egalitarian tastes. The spectacle of social policy types testifi es to how ingenious we have become with our euphemisms. With sigmas and chi squareds proudly in tow, they cannot seem to grasp the idea that half of any group of people is below average. Only the most Pol-lyannaish polynomials survive the cut. I once heard a math activist, completely enamored with “persuasion by equation,” argue that all positive integers are spe-cial, because even the least special of special numbers is still special.

But I digress. The reason for the enormous and in-creasing infl uence of mathematical methods is, quite simply, that they work. Mathematics corresponds to

the physical world in such a way that its models are accurate enough to send us safely to the moon, and make accurate predictions about the fate of an electron travelling at a certain velocity and angu-lar momentum toward another particle. Whether or not we want to extend these success stories to the social sciences is an-other story. Economics, the most quanti-tatively developed of the social sciences, is looking highly questionable these days. The point is rather that the will to-

ward quantifi cation, whether justifi ed or not, owes its attractions to motives of a vulgar, utilitarian variety.

It is only the “pure” mathematician who is able and inclined to defend mathematics from a more lofty and aesthetic perspective. Perhaps the most famous in-stance of this is G.H. Hardy’s 1941 memoir, “A Math-ematician’s Apology,” which positively relishes in the “uselessness” of what he calls “real mathematics.” He argues that the kind of mathematics responsible for these achievements is “elementary” and ugly, and not the sort of thing any truly gifted mind would waste its time thinking about. Beauty and seriousness shines through most of all in number theory, and Hardy gives a number of examples of accessible proofs that illus-trate this claim. My own pick would be Euler’s Identity. Go ahead and look it up.… I challenge you not to be enchanted. Hardy’s gloats with touching anachronism that, in addition to its inherent beauty, no area of “real” pure mathematics can be put to destructive use in war-time—a claim soundly refuted by the modern science of cryptography. In a modest refutation of my own, I habitually drink my whiskey out of a Klein bottle.

Where does this leave the social sciences? A cynic might suggest that they possess all of the uselessness traditionally attributed to pure mathematics together with the mathematical inelegance of engineering. I close with one of the best limericks I’ve written on this sad possibility:

When the cops discover your stashAnd your payoffs decidedly classYou’ve gotta confess …That it’s anyone’s guessWhether Cochran ain’t better than Nash!

Darren Beattie is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in political science. His column runs every other Monday.

Contrary to popular belief, most dogs go to hell. This is because most dogs are dicks. They piss all over everything but people let it slide because

“they’re marking their ter-ritory.” Don’t try that de-fense with DUPD.

A week ago I started taking care of a yellow lab puppy because the frat I’m pledging told me to. I named him Satan’s Little Helper. They say you can learn a lot from keeping a dog. Loyalty. Dedication. The dangers of chocolate. But this column isn’t about avoiding diabetes or dog vom (keep your eyes peeled in March). It’s about the importance of dedication.

Dedication is the whole reason I got a bid to my fra-ternity. During rush when the fridge in section got too cold and froze all the Busch Lights we had stored up for our Vikings and Eskimos party, the older guys got furi-ous and missed an opportunity to integrate the party theme into drink choices. (It’s the little things that make a good party.) So I cut the power chords to the fridge and hung them above the doorframe like a severed limb meant to warn other fridges not to start s*** with us. I know it sounds extreme, but if I hadn’t extracted violent revenge on that fridge, people would’ve spent the whole party bitching about it and our rush chairs would’ve lost their jobs a la 2008.

But it’s hard for most people to be as dedicated as me. This campus is packed with tempting distractions meant to lure us off our paths. It’s like Las Vegas except none of what happens here stays here. It usually ends up on Deadspin. Or Gawker. Or the NBC news. Just walk around West Union and you’ll be overcome by rush gos-sip pouring out of the Duke Barber or the clamor of Chick-fi l-A’s “Fil-a-chick” pro-life rallies. But instead of obsessing over who got cut or who got a bump, we have to stay dedicated to the real reason we’re here: attend-ing men’s basketball games.

My new brothers have forbidden us from wasting time at games when we could be drinking with hot chicks. “Cameron? That place is way too sober and nobody’s trying to grind,” they’d explain. But I couldn’t shake the feeling that when we lost some of the student section to ticket sales, the old dogs took a whiz all over our turf. So I’ve been painting myself up and sneaking into the games anyway because the heckling’s never been easier. St. John’s star is named God’s Gift? I hope God included the receipt.

I keep going on these incognito Cameron trips be-cause if we lose any more seats, K-ville is gonna become as tired as Farmville. And I feel we owe it to Coach K to prevent that, because he just recently learned the dan-gers of Farmville fi rsthand. Duke might’ve beat Florida State if Ryan Kelly hadn’t been planting virtual strawber-ries in between free throws. I can forgive him though, because sometimes we all need a little bit of Coach K’s sweet encouragement.

Late on the fi rst night of pledging my judgment got particularly hazy and I began to doubt my decision to accept my bid. I looked at the picture of Coach K I keep encircled in candles on my nightstand, and from the other side of the glass his face whispered to me, “Don’t give up dude. There’s gonna be hot bitties waiting for you at the end of this. And those bitties will be even hotter because of all the gross stuff you have to eat and smear on your body. Seriously man, trust me.” His reas-suring words rang in my head the entirety of the next day as I kicked a box of silverware up the Plaza.

This may be the hardest time of year. You’ve got to fi nish papers for your teachers, tenting shifts for your friends and entire jars of mayonnaise for your brothers. So what can you do on days when there’s both a bas-ketball game and a mixer? Do both. It doesn’t matter whether it’s spittin’ or dribbling, you gotta stay dedicat-ed to the game.

I’m going to teach Satan’s Little Helper to shake now. I’d like to work out a deal and buy his soul before my pledge class eats him next week.

@Monday_Devil tweets: The Devil has a dog but he ain’t a devil dog. He’ll probably taste better.

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Diya endorses Danesh for Young TrusteeGiven the three excellent and supremely qualifi ed

Young Trustee fi nalists, Duke Diya had a hard time deciding which one to endorse. All of the candidates has given years of hard work and devotion to Duke and its students and each candidate had his own unique perspective.

We appreciated Olly Wilson’s dedication to work-ing with minority groups on campus, his recognition of the importance of taking an interdisciplinary view on campus issues and his commitment to bringing different groups together through the Center for Collaborative Action. We also found Michael Mandl’s commitment to maintaining the Duke brand, prior Board experience and recognition of the need to build credibility on the Board as a Young Trustee particularly compelling. However, after interviewing all three candidates and considering each carefully, Duke Diya is happy to announce its support of Kaveh Danesh for Young Trustee.

Kaveh’s creativity and enthusiasm is what drew our members to him, and we were further impressed by his wide range of experiences on campus. In particular, as

representatives of Duke’s undergraduate South Asian student body, Diya was attracted to Kaveh’s “Big I’s” stance. He is committed to improving Duke’s involve-ment with interdisciplinary and international initia-tives. He understands the importance of taking Duke’s many global programs and integrating students’ wide range of experiences during the course of these pro-grams. We found Kaveh’s experience on the Academic Affairs Committee for the Board of Trustees as well as his position as the Vice-President for Academic Af-fairs on DSG to be especially impressive. We believe that these experiences, as well as his time on the FAC Board and position as a line monitor, have given him a diverse perspective of Duke’s student body, which we believe will be invaluable to him as a Young Trustee.

Above all, we believe that Kaveh’s dedication to in-terdisciplinary and international solutions and deep knowledge of Duke’s academic affairs align best with those of Diya’s constituency. We wish all the candi-dates best of luck in this year’s election.

Tara Iyengar, Trinity ’13Co-President of External Affairs, Duke Diya

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