january 19, 2010 issue

The ChronicleThe independenT daily aT duke universiTy

TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2010 ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTH YEAR, ISSUE 76www.dukechronicle.com

See where RGAC placed each living group, Page 3

Duke falters vs. undefeated UConn, Page 8

onTherecord“Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford... all have very nice medical spaces. It’s something we desperately need.”

—Vice Dean Edward Buckley on the new medical school building. See Q&A page 4

Three football players face gun charges

by Lindsey RuppThe chronicle

Three football players were arrested Sunday after police said they fired several shots from a handgun on east campus.

Freshmen John Drew, Kyle Griswould and Brandon Putnam were charged with felonious possession and discharge of a weapon on educational property. All three have been dismissed from the team and are barred from campus until the charges are resolved.

The three were held in jail Sunday, each on $40,000 secured bond, said chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police Department. According to jail records, the three have since been released.

A fourth suspect, who is not a student, is still under investigation and police have

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Cutcliffe turns down Tennessee

by Gabe StarostaThe chronicle

The David cutcliffe era will extend into at least a third season after Duke’s head coach rejected overtures from the University of Tennessee near the end of last week and decided to remain with the Blue Devils.

“After much thought and consideration, Karen and i reached the decision that Duke is the place for our fam-ily,” cutcliffe said in a statement. “We have both family members and lifetime friends in the Knoxville commu-nity and share a deep respect for the University of Ten-nessee. our ties to the school and the eastern Tennessee area are obvious. But before Tennessee’s hiring process comes to a conclusion, i know that Duke University is where we want to coach.”

The Volunteers have since hired former louisiana Tech head coach Derek Dooley to fill the vacancy in Knoxville.

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As a part of Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, students and Duke com-munity members participate in a march to the Chapel Monday before a candlelight vigil remembering victims of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti.

Huerta stresses economic equalityLatina labor leader and activist recalls King’s message

by Maggie LoveThe chronicle

it is well known that Martin luther King, Jr. had a dream. But Ariel Dorfman thinks grapes have dreams too.

At the University’s 2010 Martin luther King, Jr. com-memoration—“Where Do We Go From here? overcoming inequity and Building community”—in the chapel Sunday, Dorfman, Walter hines Page research professor of literature and latin American studies, discussed keynote speaker Do-

lores huerta’s leadership alongside cesar chavez in the successful 1960s Delano grape strike.

huerta, Dorfman said, had helped make the dreams of the

farm workers who picked those grapes come true by de-manding higher wages for the workers. Today, huerta is president of the Dolores huerta Foundation, an organiza-tion that helps people start grassroots groups.

“[Grapes] do not want their sweetness sullied by know-ing that the hands that pick them are not free,” Dorfman said while introducing huerta.

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Plumlees power Duke in win

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Duke’s Miles Plumlee (left) and Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq Aminu (right), the key figures of Sunday’s contest be-tween the two ACC rivals, battle for a loose ball during the Blue Devils’ 90-70 win in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

by Dan AhrensThe chronicle

Before Sunday night, Miles Plumlee had yet to put it all together in one cohe-sive performance. countless times he had finished plays with powerful dunks and wiped opponents’ shots out of the air with his long arms. But while Plumlee dominat-ed certain possessions, he had never taken complete control of a game.

That is, until Sunday against Wake For-est (12-4, 2-2 in the Acc), when the sopho-more forward registered career highs with 19 points and 14 rebounds in leading the no. 7 Blue Devils over the Demon Deacons, 90-70, in cameron indoor Stadium.

The elder Plumlee’s breakout perfor-mance could not have come at a better time. Facing an extremely athletic Wake Forest front line in a brutally physical game that featured 47 fouls, Duke (15-2, 3-1) needed inspired inside play to carry them.

“When [Miles] plays like that, it energiz-es everybody,” said Mason Plumlee, Miles’s younger brother and fellow forward. “Any time he’s hitting shots and dunking on peo-ple, he’s fun to play with.”

Miles Plumlee wasted little time getting on the scoreboard. The sophomore threw down an alley-oop from Scheyer 41 seconds into the game and finished the first half with 13 points and 11 boards. Mason Plumlee made

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Aycock evacuated as gunshots fired on East

Team dismisses Drew, Griswould and Putnam

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of at least seven suicide attackers laid siege to the very heart of the afghan capital monday morning, detonating explosives, hurling grenades and engaging in a fierce four-hour gun battle with security forces in one of the most brazen insurgent assaults on Kabul in at least a year.

The attack left two civilians and three members of the afghan security forces dead, and 71 people wounded, 35 of them civilians, senior afghan security officials said at an evening news confer-ence. The officials said most of the inju-ries were caused by grenades.

They said seven attackers were in-volved, and all died in the assault.

a six-story shopping center was gut-ted by fire during the siege, and one suicide attacker drove an ambulance to a busy traffic circle near the education

ministry, detonating a blast that blew some of the windows out of the ministry and left a large crater in the road.

a spokesperson for the Taliban, in e-mail messages to news outlets, claimed respon-sibility for the assault, saying government ministries, the central bank and the presi-dential palace were among the targets.

The attack began at 9:50 a.m. when the first attacker blew himself up at a traffic circle near the entrance to afghanistan’s central bank and close to the south gate of the heavily fortified presidential pal-ace, where President hamid Karzai was preparing to swear in 14 parliamentary-confirmed members of his cabinet.

about five minutes after that explo-sion, witnesses described how a band of three more attackers stormed into the shopping complex directly across a nar-row street from the Justice ministry.

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TODAY IN HISTORY1840: Antarctica is discovered.

WashinGTon, D.C. — as a massive in-ternational relief effort lurches into gear, U.s. officials are stepping up measures to prevent last week’s earthquake in haiti from triggering a Caribbean migration not seen in nearly two decades.

experts see no signs for now of a seaborne exodus, although history shows that such events are difficult to predict. That said, south Florida counties have readied contin-gency plans, immigration authorities have cleared space in a 600-bed detention center in miami and President barack obama’s ad-ministration officials have begun discourag-ing haitians from attempting the hazardous 600-mile sea crossing to Florida.

“Please, if any haitians are watching, there may be an impulse to leave the island and to come here,” homeland security secretary Ja-net napolitano said saturday at homestead air reserve base in homestead, Florida.

GAO urges budget changesWashinGTon, D.C. — The Government

accountability office has recommended that the U.s. government establish a cen-tral national security budget and then set aside money by responsibilities, breaking with the current arrangement of letting de-partments and agencies decide how best to arrange their budgets.

That setup has created “a patchwork of activities that waste scarce funds and limit the overall effectiveness of federal efforts,” said Gene Dodaro, the Gao’s director and acting U.s. comptroller general.

“Different organizational structures, planning processes and funding sources to plan for and conduct their national security activities...can hinder interagency collabo-ration,” Dodaro said, with the result being “budget requests and congressional ap-propriations that tend to reflect individual agency concerns.”

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Japan Airlines Corporation is expected to file for one of Japan’s largest ever bankruptcies Tuesday. JAL will continue operating under a state-backed restructuring plan as it tries to free itself from about $16 billion of debt by discontinuing unprofitable routes and cutting its workforce by one third. During the past year JAL’s stock has plunged from a peak of 200 yen in Jan. 2009 to close at five yen Monday.

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tHe DigitaL RevoLution in tHe Humanities: Does it create new knowledge or just make us work harder? Digitization, and especially the creation of searchable files, has transformed work in the humanities, making it possible to undertake tasks in a few seconds that might otherwise have consumed thousands of hours. Digitization has also dramatically changed teaching by making it possible to seamlessly incorporate illustrations, music, film, and video into lectures and assignments. But does its cost increase the divisions between rich and poor among the universities and even nations? And has it actually produced new knowledge and new learning?

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DUSDAC members review a draft of the menu for the new Central Campus eatery during the group’s meeting Mon-day night. DUSDAC co-Chair Jason Taylor said the restaurant is a cross between the Great Hall and Faculty Commons.

Students oppose direct choice, seek alternatives

by Sanette TanakaThe chronicle

The Duke University Student Dining Advisory committee announced at its meeting Monday that it will not support the University’s “directed choice” dining proposal and urged administrators to con-sider alternatives.

The proposal, announced last month, re-quires students to spend 500 to 700 of their food points at non-contracted venues ser-viced by Bon Appétit Management company,

such as Marketplace and The Great hall. DUSDAc maintained that the proposal

did little to solve the long-term cost issues in the Duke Dining system.

“The most important thing, as we’re wait-ing for administrators to deliver that final plan for our feedback, is that we continue to advocate for the student body’s wallets and taste buds,” said junior Alex Klein, DUSDAc co-chair and The chronicle’s online edi-

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In May 2009, the Board of Trustees ap-proved plans for the School of Medicine to construct a new Learning Center at the cen-ter of Duke’s medical campus. The Learning Center will be the first large-scale medical edu-cation building constructed at Duke since the Davison building in 1930. The facility will allow medical students to engage in the lat-

est hands-on training and medical education tech-niques, which tend to em-phasize simulated exercises more so than working on actual patients. The Duke Endowment pledged $35 million to fund the facil-ity in April 2008, and the medical school hopes to raise an additional $15

million through a capital campaign it began last Fall. Dr. Edward Buckley, vice dean for medical education, spoke with The chroni-cle’s Alejandro Bolívar about plans for the new facility and how it will improve medical education and training at Duke.

The chronicle: What is the purpose of the building?

edward Buckley: The building is still in planning stages but it’s coming along. Unlike an office building or a lab build-ing, it’s meeting a lot of different needs for a lot of different people. it’s an edu-cation space, serving student life [and an] advisory function for students and staff, office space, [and there will be] one whole floor for simulation and pa-tient encounter. A lot of different groups have a stake in what the building looks like. The planning stage is dealing with all this.

Tc: Give us an overview.eB: it is scheduled to have five floors.

The first floor will have a large multi-use media room that can be broken down like a hotel ballroom. When we do our inter-professional functions, we’ll have a facility that will allow us to do this; we do not have places for this now. The second story will house major lecture hall areas. The third floor is to have train-ing labs and small group rooms. The fourth floor will have the student life area and advisory folks to have synergy between students and sup-port staff. The fifth floor is simulation and patient interaction.

Tc: Where will the building be lo-cated?

eB: next to the [medical] school li-brary at the absolute epicenter for where the medical school will be 10 years from now, right smack in the center of the ac-tion, just like the Davison building was when the medical school was founded. The building will be contiguous with the library, which we anticipate utilizing as part of the student program with study space and access to materials.

Tc: how does this new project reflect changes in medical education?

eB: Medical curriculum will be mov-ing toward team-based learning, as op-posed to lecture-based. You may have a physician overseeing your care, but you’ll have others involved. We need to train individuals both as a leader of a team and as a member of the team. it’s a very

dynamic, very en-gaging type of edu-cational activity. We don’t really have a facility that allows us to do it. The [Duke University-national University of Sin-gapore Graduate Medical School] is already using this.

Tc: how does the building’s con-struction position Duke’s School of

Medicine in relation to other medical schools of the same caliber?

eB: it put us back in the race. if you look at the top ten medical schools in the country, we are the only one that doesn’t have a significant up-to-date medical building. harvard, Johns hopkins, Stan-ford and [Washington University in St. louis] all have very nice medical spaces. it’s something we desperately need. The Duke endowment recognized this need.

Tc: has the recession impacted the project in any way?

eB: The $35 million pledge from the endowment is still in place, though it is not going to cover the entire cost. i am not sure how much [this building] is going to cost, probably between $40 to $50 million.

tor. “Students will not accept a fate of directed choice, nor any other plan that seeks to treat vendors differently from one another.”

last month, Duke Student Government President Awa nur criticized the directed choice program proposal.

DUSDAc also introduced a draft of the menu for the new central campus eatery, which will be located in the space previously held by Uncle harry’s General Store. This venue will be serviced by Bon Appétit Manage-ment company.

The menu features a variety of breakfast dishes, soups, sandwiches, burgers and piz-zas, as well as late-night selections available until midnight during the week and 2 a.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

“My understanding is that [the restaurant] will be a cross between the Great hall and the Faculty commons,” said DUSDAc co-chair Jason Taylor, a senior. “i think it’ll be a fun destination that we’ll all be curious to check out. After the novelty wears off, i think central campus students will use it much more. it pro-vides good balance for central.”

The eatery is on schedule to open next month, administrators have previously said.

in other business:DUSDAc plans to suggest changes to the

Merchants on Points program, but plans to do further research until discussing with admin-istrators. The committee will evaluate which vendors should be subject to cuts and altera-tions, and hopes to give recommendations by the end of the academic year.

The committee also discussed details about its Berry Tripping” event, which will be held in the Bryan center next Thursday. Students will be able be able to sample food after their taste buds are altered by small red berries called miracle fruit.

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Edward Buckley

“If you look at the top ten medical schools in the coun-try, we are the only one that

doesn’t have a significant up-to-date medical building.”

— edward Buckley, vice dean for medical education

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MLK Weekend CelebrationPhotos by Nate Glencer, Maya Robinson and Melissa Yeoeconomic equality, central to huerta’s work, was

also integral in her speech.“[Martin luther King, Jr.] knew that at the bottom of

everything, we had to fight for economic justice,” huerta said to the filled chapel, adding that the way to redistrib-ute wealth in the United States is through labor unions.

huerta noted that other issues America faces in-clude “campaigns of terror” against immigrants and the persistence of racism. education was another key point in huerta’s speech.

“if we do not have an educated citizenry, we will have mob rule, and we’re pretty close to that right now,” huerta said, but adding that it is also important for youth to value “the people that work with their hands.”

Ben reese, vice president for institutional equity, said this is the first year a latina woman has given the commemoration address.

“This not only continues a history of presenting promi-nent social justice leaders, but the appearance of Dolores huerta is an opportunity to further engage the latino community in the community of Duke,” reese said.

The speech was generally well-received by the audi-ence, though some thought the message had a liberal slant, specifically when she labeled talk show hosts rush limbaugh and Glenn Beck as evil.

“i thought it was a tad bit political.... i wasn’t sure what her agenda was with that,” freshman ritza calixte said. “[But] i liked her speech. i thought it was very vibrant and educated.”

calvert Johnny, an audience member whose son danced in the processional and recessional for the event, enjoyed huerta’s speech.

“i think she was pretty profound yet simple,” Johnny said. “She was encouraging us to find our own ground, to think of ourselves as important people.”

huerta closed her speech with a call for greater politi-cal involvement in order to advance economic equality.

“The only way we can honor Dr. King’s legacy is to continue doing the work,” huerta said

The audience responded with chants of “si se puede,” a Spanish phrase that huerta and chavez coined, meaning “yes we can.”

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Obama to seek more funds to boost schools

by Michael FletcherThe WAShinGTon PoST

WAShinGTon, D.c. — President Barack obama is slated to visit a Virginia school Tuesday to announce plans to seek $1.35 billion in his next budget to expand his signature education initiative to im-prove schools.

obama plans to go to Graham road elementary School in Falls church, which the White house calls a low-income but high-achieving school, to signal his inten-tion to expand his race to the Top pro-gram. The federal initiative uses the lure of grants to encourage school districts to raise standards, make better use of data to track student achievement, and take more forceful steps to intervene in fail-ing schools.

The $4.35 billion effort was enacted last year as part of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan, marking one of the largest federal expenditures ever on the nation’s public schools.

even though money from the first year of funding is just now moving toward be-ing awarded to states, obama adminis-tration officials credit it with prompting education policy changes in many parts of the country.

States must compete for a slice of the federal money, and the first deadline for applications is Tuesday. But the promise of federal money has prodded 11 states to revamp their laws to allow for more char-ter schools, for new plans to remake failing schools, and to create more incentives to

attract better teachers.Also, 48 states and the District of co-

lumbia have joined in an effort to de-velop a common core of rigorous educa-tional standards to replace the current system in which states have wildly dif-ferent benchmarks for what should be taught in school.

“We want to challenge everyone—par-ents, teachers, school administrators—to raise standards, by having the best teachers and principals, by tying student achievement to assessments of teachers, by making sure there is a focus on low-performing schools,” obama said in a statement released by the White house on Monday.

education Secretary Arne Duncan said the program has attracted applications from 30 states. By extending the initiative, he said, “we have an opportunity to create incentives for far-reaching improvement in our nation’s schools.”

Under the planned expansion, school districts—not just states—would be eligible to compete for the increased federal aid.

it remains to be seen what kind of recep-tion obama’s plan will receive in congress and from states, which have the primary re-sponsibility for financing and running the nation’s schools.

While race to the Top has piqued the interest of many states and school districts, others have turned their back on the pros-pect of new federal money, calling the re-form agenda attached to it an intrusion on local educational prerogatives.

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Cutcliffe’s message hits home

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Before walking into the Laurinburg (N.C.) Chamber of Commerce’s annual membership meeting Tuesday night, David Cutcliffe left his phone in his truck. The next time Duke’s head coach picked it

up, he had about 80 text messages and 20 missed calls, and he was about to learn, in his words, “how many e-mails and texts a BlackBerry can take at one time.” Lane Kiffin had just announced he was leaving Knoxville

for the glitz of Los Angeles, of course, but Cutcliffe didn’t know that. “I said, ‘Holy smokes, World War III started, and every-body forgot to tell Scotland County,’” he told The Sporting News.

These past few weeks—and more local-ly, last six days—have been about as close to a turf war as a college football coaching search can get. By Friday morning, about 60 hours after the blitz began, Duke Foot-ball, improbably and somewhat shockingly, escaped battle as a winner.

That’s not something you hear every day.We’re also not used to seeing high-

lights of Duke’s football coach on loop on national television. ESPN’s star pundits aren’t accustomed to publicly

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Women’s basketball

UConn showdown turns into blowout

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kalana Greene and Jasmine thomas went back and forth monday, but the Huskies won easily in the end.

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by Sabreena MerchantTHE CHroNICLE

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie prefaced Monday night’s game against Connecticut by saying that the Huskies were the most unbeatable team ever.

Forty minutes later, after the No. 7 Blue Devils had played about as well as they have all season, they still found themselves on the losing end of a 33-point rout, falling 81-48 at Cameron Indoor Stadium for their first home loss in 24 contests.

Duke (15-3) has battled against six ranked teams this season and defeated three of them, including then-No. 3 ohio State in December, but McCallie admit-ted that No. 1 Connecticut (18-0) was on a different level than the rest of the teams in the country.

“They’re definitely on their own,” Mc-Callie said. “Their efficiency is what makes them different.”

That quality was most prominent on the offensive end. Connecticut was red-hot from the field, connecting on 53.6 percent of its shots, and benefited from crisp ball movement. The Huskies had 24 assists on 30 field goals and rarely forced up contest-ed looks. Many of those open shots came from beyond the arc, and Connecticut shot a sizzling 13-of-25 on 3-pointers.

It was difficult for the Blue Devils to key in on defense, as five Connecticut players scored in double figures and six players

had at least three assists. Preseason All-Americans Maya Moore and Tina Charles had quiet games by their own lofty stan-dards, but the Huskies’ backcourt carried the scoring load, led by Kalana greene

with 18 points on 8-of-12 shooting. guards Tiffany Hayes and Caroline Doty also chipped in 13 points apiece, making

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by Lucas NevolaTHE CHroNICLE

The Blue Devils had a sound game plan to limit the Connecti-cut offense: Mix up defenses, swarm on Husky forward Maya Moore and pound the glass.

Duke accomplished all three of these goals, and it still lost by 33. That’s how most of this sea-son has gone for Connecticut, who has not lost in its last 57

contests, win-ning all 57 by double digits.

In the first half, the Blue Devils pressed

the Huskies after most made bas-kets and seamlessly switched de-fenses from a trapping 3-2 zone to a pressure man-to-man.

“I thought it was not a bad defensive effort in the first half overall,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We did some good things, but we didn’t carry those through.”

Moore seemed off her game in the half, scoring only six points on two wide-open 3-pointers while avoiding most of the rough play inside.

Duke’s defense forced eight Connecticut turnovers and used a packed house in Cameron Indoor Stadium in an attempt to rattle the Huskies. on one specific occasion, the Crazies tricked Connecticut center Tina

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Women’s basketball

Effort not enough against composed Huskies

Game Analysis

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Connecticut forward maya moore scored a quiet 20 points, most of them from the perimeter, to help kill any Duke hopes monday.

Charles into chucking a 30 foot 3-pointer while there were still five seconds left on the shot

clock. Charles’s shot was more like a fastball and smashed into the shot clock, ironically reveal-

ing that she had been fooled.Nevertheless, Connecticut took

a double-digit lead into halftime

and ten minutes into the second half it was clear that the Huskies were simply too good.

“They’re an excellent team,” McCallie said. “They do a lot of things well. Defensively they’re aggressive, of course, but they’re the best transition team I’ve seen in a long while. They could probably run with the pros tran-sition-wise.”

Duke could not be faulted for lack of effort as it fought hard on the boards and actually outrebounded Connecticut for the game. However, with all the action going on inside, the Hus-kies simply switched their atten-tion to the 3-point line, hitting 13-for-25 on the night. guard Tiffany Hayes hit three 3-point-ers, including two from well be-yond the men’s arc. Moore hit six 3-pointers, although a few of those came after the result of the game was no longer in doubt.

Every time it seemed the mo-mentum may have switched to the Blue Devils, Connecticut re-sponded with a run of its own. Duke opened the second half with more pressure defense, and Jasmine Thomas stole the ball on the Huskies’ first possession. After her layup the Blue Devils only trailed by eight. But this was as close as they would get in the

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outstanding play a family affair, chip-ping in a few baskets himself, includ-ing a reverse slam in traffic off an of-fensive rebound.

Wake Forest stayed with Duke blow-for-blow, however, hanging close thanks to great efforts by forward Al-Farouq Aminu. The heralded sopho-more converted several acrobatic plays, including a thunderous dunk to give the Demon Deacons a 34-30 lead late in the first half.

“Those are statement plays,” Mason Plumlee said of all the above-the-rim action. “When you get that chance you have to take it.”

Duke made a statement of its own at the end of the first half, as a Jon Scheyer three capped a 16-4 run and gave the Blue Devils an eight-point advantage at the break. That shot was a lone bright spot for Duke’s perimeter, as Scheyer, Kyle Singler, and Nolan Smith com-bined to shoot just 5-for-28 from the floor in the first 20 minutes.

Cold shooting was not the only thing plaguing Duke’s offense. The Blue Dev-ils found themselves in serious foul trou-ble, struggling to avoid whistles when crashing the glass and being called for fouls 13 times in all.

“Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] said at halftime, ‘You guys in foul trouble, don’t play like you are [playing],’” Mason Plumlee said. “I think that’s why we came out so strong in the sec-ond half.”

Despite Krzyzewksi’s advice, Duke let Wake Forest claw its way back into the game, tying the score at 55 on an-other Aminu dunk six minutes into the half.

on the next possession, however, Singler shook off his struggles and hit the most important shot of the game, a 3-pointer from the top of the key to give the Blue Devils a three-point lead. Scheyer continued the trend on the next possession by making a layup through contact and tacking on the free throw.

“I know the whole team has confi-dence in our shooters,” Scheyer said. “That’s why it’s easy for us to just keep shooting even if they’re not falling.”

Thankfully for Duke, it appears

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Blue Devil bangers don’t shy away from physical playzachary tracer/the chrONIcLe

Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris found himself surrounded by three very tall blue Devils sunday evening, and so did many of his Demon Deacon teammates in a rough game that resulted in 47 foul calls and countless tussles under the basket.


Foward mason Plumlee’s reverse dunk in the second half gave Duke an emotional boost in a 90-70 victory sunday.


nolan smith joked after the game that the paint was too physical for him, but here he got to the rim against Wake Forest.

as though the Blue Devils have found a successful alternate option on off-nights from the outside. The Blue Dev-ils notched 46 points in the paint, and the Plumlees combined for 30 points and 21 rebounds.

The brothers also dominated the game on defense, forcing a bevy of air balls when driving Demon Deacons were forced to adjust their shots.

“The defense is the key for us,” Miles Plumlee said. “our defense can be some of the best in the country. When we lock down and really put our minds to it, it pays off.”

Duke showed how tough it can be on that end of the court in limiting Wake Forest to 15 points in the final 14 minutes of play. Singler also showed flashes of returning to his usual self, making several key shots down the stretch. The junior’s gutsy perfor-mance included hitting a free throw moments after injuring his wrist, a play that embodied the physical nature of the contest.

“I don’t think that’s the way games are always played,” Krzyzewski said. “Certain games are just played at a higher level…. Tonight was the most hard fought game all year.”

And thanks in large part to Miles Plum-lee’s best performance as a Blue Devil, Duke was able to rise to the occasion.

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N.C. State 70 — Clemson 73

FSU 63 — Virginia Tech 58

B.C. 57 — Maryland 73

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Following what head coach Mike Krzyzewski would call the hardest fought game of his team’s season, senior Brian Zoubek sat in the locker room with both arms cut up, still stinging from his matchup down low against Wake Forest’s own 7-footer, Chas McFarland. As a result of foul trouble, the center played just nine minutes, but if you’d seen him you’d never have believed it.

Forwards Lance Thomas, Miles Plumlee and Mason Plumlee recorded four fouls each in a game that never seemed to get into a rhythm, as contact led to whistle after whistle, especially in

the first half.Ultimately, the Blue Devils’

success came from adapting to that style of play. Duke enjoyed an eight-point lead at the break not by shooting the ball partic-

ularly well—Singler, Scheyer and Smith went 5-for-28 in the period—but rather by converting on free throws, pulling down more rebounds than their opponent and avoiding costly turnovers.

going into the game, both teams were 2-1 in the conference and desperately seeking a third win. Both teams—at least before the game—were well rested.

Miles Plumlee started the game with an alley-oop courtesy of Jon Scheyer, came back down the court on the next possession for a contested layup and then never slowed down. The sopho-more had the best game of his career and, along with his 19 points, grabbed 14 rebounds.

“Miles, I mean to sum it up in one sentence, Miles Plumlee was a beast,” Smith said. “You know, he was tremendous tonight. He did every-thing that we needed him to do.”

With 2-of-11 shooting, Singler’s stat line failed to capture his actual value in the first twenty min-utes of the contest, during which he had eight rebounds to go along with eight points. But as Singler began to find his shooting touch, Duke seemed to get into a rhythm. With 14 minutes left in the second half and the game tied 55-55, the junior hit a 3-pointer that kickstarted a 13-0 run for the Blue Devils.

But even though Duke did shoot 56 percent during the second half, closing the game hardly proved easy. Mason Plumlee—who missed six games earlier this season with a broken wrist—hit the floor after being flagrantly fouled by Wake Forest’s Ishmael Smith. And Singler, too, was punished by contact, briefly coming out of the game during the second half when it looked like he had injured his wrist.

By the time the action ended on the court,

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the Blue Devils and Demon Deacons had com-bined for 47 personal fouls, with the majority of the contact taking place just feet away from the basket. During the second half, Zoubek and McFarland were called for a double foul after getting tangled up and bringing each other to the ground. Just possessions later, McFarland fell to the floor as he got boxed out by Duke’s center—but this time the referee made no call, instead shaking his head in amused disbelief.

By the time the final buzzer sounded, the Blue

Devils had secured another 20-point victory in Cameron—all but one of the team’s home games have been by at least that much—but the box score surely didn’t capture the fact that each and every one of Duke’s 90 points came contested.

“It was just a fight in the paint,” Smith said. “I went in there a couple times and I was like, ‘Nah, let me get out of here.’ It was too physical down there for me…no, but it was definitely a war for 40 minutes. Those guys probably have to get in the ice bath right now, after a game like that.”


Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris found himself surrounded by three very tall blue Devils sunday evening, and so did many of his Demon Deacon teammates in a rough game that resulted in 47 foul calls and countless tussles under the basket.


nolan smith joked after the game that the paint was too physical for him, but here he got to the rim against Wake Forest.


Wake Forest forward al-Farouq aminu runs over Duke center brian Zoubek, a play that symbolized sunday’s bruising game.

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and constantly touting Duke’s football coach. And Duke’s football coach doesn’t regularly turn down overtures from other schools, let alone Tennessee—a real foot-ball school, one with a fan base whose passion rivals, if not exceeds, those who follow the goings-on in Cameron Indoor

Stadium. (Trust me on the Volunteer faithful’s zeal. I’ve read far too many Tennessee message boards in the last few days. My browser aches from refreshing.)

It’s true that when Cutcliffe released his statement announcing his return at a time most undergraduates were still sleeping on Friday, nothing had changed. At 9:09 a.m. Wednesday, Cutcliffe was Duke’s head coach. He was on Thursday at 9:09 a.m., and

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on Friday, he most certainly was. The assis-tants were the same. The workout schedule was the same. The players were the same.

As much as nothing had changed since Tuesday night, though—well, a lot had.

It was impossible to watch ESPN for an hour without hearing Cutcliffe’s name, without being inundated by analysts extolling Cutcliffe’s credentials and, on Friday, without learning that a certain football coach had turned down Tennessee to stay at Duke. Quick, send some thank-you notes to Lane Kiffin. He’s given Duke Football about as much publicity—and the right kind, too—as the program’s had in longer than any-one living on campus can remember.

“You couldn’t hire a New York P.r. firm to get what we’ve gotten on ESPN,” said Cutcliffe, sporting a leather jacket with Duke’s letters stitched over the heart. “This time of year? I’m sure people were glancing at it saying anything about Duke, thinking we’re No. 7 in the country.” So what does that change, exactly? “It puts Duke Football on the map more than we already were,” tight end Brett Huffman told me.

When the most-recognized college football analysts are going on air—or sending tweets to thousands of followers—to praise Cutcliffe, all press is good press, mostly because of its implications on the recruiting trail. National prospects don’t read midweek notebooks and game stories in the local paper. But presumably, they do watch “SportsCenter,” and they now know that the coach they might commit to just spurned Tennessee to stay at Duke. High school juniors in rural North Carolina will know it, and so will the sought-after talent in California, where, Cutcliffe said, he walks into high schools “in the middle of nowhere” and everyone knows who he is. And if they don’t? You can bet Duke’s staff will be telling anyone who will listen.

“We’re here to stay. We’re here to build a program,” said Cutcliffe, repeat-ing the mantra he established when he was introduced on a wintry December day in 2007. “We’re grown men—look at the decisions we make. It’s got to mean some-thing. I had no intentions of that, but it’s a byproduct of it.”

These first days of classes put Duke’s players on edge. on Thursday night, some players wandered around Yoh Football Center, trying to learn whether their coach would be back. Huffman told his mother—who called “like, every five minutes,” he said—Thursday night that he thought there was a 90 percent chance Cutcliffe was gone to Knoxville. “I’m just happy with that 10 percent,” he said. Chris rwabukamba paraded around his apartment at 8 a.m. Friday, when the text message from his team-mate—”Yes!”—landed in his inbox.

By Friday afternoon, there was closure. Cutcliffe talked about loyalty, and about what Duke meant to him, and he even cited a Bible verse. (Matthew 6:21: “For where your treasure is, there will be your heart also.”) Would Cutcliffe have left if he could have taken his assistants? At this point, it doesn’t matter. His underlying message on Friday was sufficiently clear: He intends to be at Duke for a long time. What recruit doesn’t want to hear that?

on Wednesday, Michael Wilbon, the co-host of ESPN’s “Pardon The Inter-ruption,” opened the show by spinning Kiffin’s departure into a disguised blessing for Tennessee. “Let me get the guy from Duke, David Cutcliffe, who used to coach here—who’s a real coach,” said Wilbon, donning the perspective of a Volunteers fan. “Let me get him back here and say, ‘Happy days are here again.’”

one weekend later, those happy days exist. They’re just at Duke, instead.

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Cutcliffe, a former Tennessee assistant, was reported to be in serious talks with the school throughout Thursday and was unavailable for comment at the time, but came out with a statement Friday indicating his intention to con-tinue building the Blue Devil program.

Cutcliffe said he addressed his players Friday morning and informed them of his intention to stay, and at a press conference that afternoon, Duke’s head coach elaborated on his reasons for staying. Some reports suggested that Cutcliffe turned down the Tennessee job because of his loy-alty to his assistants; Tennessee may have insisted he leave some of them behind in Durham, and Cutcliffe discussed his loyalty to his fellow coaches and to Duke in general.

“We’re a group,” Cutcliffe said of his relationship with his coaches, players and the Blue Devil program. “We’ve invested a lot in each others’ lives, so wherever we go, we go together.”

Cutcliffe, who arrived in Durham in December 2007, worked at Tennessee for nearly 20 years, giving him an unparalleled familiarity with the institution and football program. After former head coach Lane Kiffin bolted for USC, Texas defensive coordinator Will Muschamp and Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun both turned down the job, making Cutcliffe one of the leading candidates.

Had Cutcliffe left, Duke would have had to search for its second coach in three years. Instead, the University can rest easy.

“David Cutcliffe informed us this morning [Friday] that he intends to remain the Duke football coach for a long time,” Duke Vice President & Director of Athletics Kevin White said. “He is a tremendous football coach, and an even better person with a terrific family. Simply put, we could not be happier or more excited about the future of the Blue Devil football program.”

Cutcliffe has compiled a 9-15 record in two seasons at Duke—a record that would not have gone over well in Knoxville, but one that represents a marked improvement at Duke. Cutcliffe took over the Blue Devil program while it languished among the worst in the FBS and has made it competitive in the ACC in his time at the helm.

His decision to turn down Tennessee could also have a major impact on this year’s recruiting class. National Signing Day, the day by which football recruits need to choose which school they plan to attend, is Feb. 3, and had Cutcliffe left, it would have thrown Duke’s recruit-ing class into disarray. With him in Durham, the Blue Devils can expect to keep all currently committed re-cruits, although this weekend’s incident involving three freshman football players firing a gun on campus has put a damper on the excitement surrounding Cutcliffe’s decision to stay at Duke.

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Former tennessee assistant and Duke head coach David Cutcliffe rejected an offer to become the Volunteers’ top man late last week.

second half, as Hayes hit one of her long treys less than a minute later and the rout was on.

“I thought our IQ dropped for the second half,” Mc-Callie said. “We made some choices that hurt us greatly.”

In the second half, Connecticut used sharp passing to prove its superiority. They moved the ball all around the court and had assists on 80 percent of their field goals.

There were a few positives to take away from the game. McCallie pointed to the end of the first half, when the Blue Devils played even with Connecticut over the final seven and a half minutes. To Duke’s credit, its defensive pressure never let up even in the second half when it seemed the Huskies could not miss. And of course, the 33-point win actually reduced the Huskies’ average margin of victory this season, which was 39.7 before their trip to Durham.

“I’m very proud of our team’s effort in terms of play-ing hard,” said McCallie, “but very disappointed [in the end result] as you might imagine.”

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Duke’s defensive performance fell short of containing Connecticut monday.


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it tough for Duke to get stops even when Moore and Charles were not on the court.

“When I was in foul trouble on the bench in the first half, I was just cheesing like a little kid in a candy store because they were doing so well,” Moore said.

Connecticut’s offensive prowess stood in stark contrast to the Blue Devils’ woes.

Jasmine Thomas emerged as the only legitimate scoring threat against the Hus-kies. Her ability to work off screens and hit tough jumpers as well as drive into the lane kept Connecticut working on de-fense, particularly in the first half when Thomas scored 11 points and dished out two assists with no turnovers. However, she got little help from her teammates, al-lowing the Huskies to change their defen-sive strategy in the second half to cut off Thomas’s driving lanes.

“We couldn’t keep her in front of us most of the time—she’s just fast enough with the ball,” Connecticut head coach geno Auriemma said. “In the second half we did a much better job of whoever wasn’t guarding her getting to the spots where she was going so that there was earlier help so that she either had to pass the ball or pull it out. We didn’t give her a lot of lanes to slash through.”

Duke had difficulty as a whole in the halfcourt set, stagnating against the ag-gressive Connecticut defense. The Blue Devils couldn’t find open players to pass to, resulting in a lot of one-on-one action on the offensive end. As a result, Duke as-sisted on only seven baskets and turned the ball over 23 times, a number of those coming on travels.

With Thomas struggling, the Huskies broke open the game in the second half as the backcourt spearheaded a 14-4 run to

firmly take control of the contest. The Blue Devils couldn’t take care of the ball and had several one-shot possessions, allowing Connecticut to run out in the open floor and score at a frenetic pace.

“The biggest difference in the second half was rebounding on the defensive end,” greene said. “We got out in transition.”

The Huskies refused to let up, even as they sported a 20-point lead, and reserve Lorin Dixon put the exclamation point on another dominating team performance with a four-point play as the shot clock ex-pired with seven seconds left.

“You’re never used to playing that kind of team,” McCallie said. “I’m grateful for the experience and disappointed in the outcome.”

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Connecticut’s suffocating defense made offense all but impossible for Duke’s players, save for Jasmine thomas.


Duke outrebounded Connecticut monday night, 35-31, but failed to capitalize on many of those opportunities.

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Hall at around 3 a.m. Sunday heard shots fired from a car near Jarvis Residence Hall. Dailey said the alarm was unre-lated to the gunfire.

Police located the vehicle near Blackwell Residence Hall and traced it to one of the charged players. After further investigation, officers also believe the suspects discharged the weapon on Campus Drive, according to a Duke news release.

Dailey said he does not know how many shots were fired, but thinks the suspects were firing the weapon—a semi-automatic hand-gun—into the air.

“Clearly anyone who fires a weapon on campus is dangerous, at least at that time,” Dailey said. “We charged them with a pretty serious crime.”

Although Dailey said the suspects’ motives remain unclear, he said the in-cident does not pose a continuing threat to campus.

Head football coach David Cutcliffe released a statement Sunday about the incident.

“These types of offenses are going to be associated with dismissal from our team,” Cutcliffe said. “While these three young men did not meet the ex-pectations of those in our program, our prayers are with them and their families during this difficult time.”

Drew, a 315-pound defensive tackle, played in all 12 games his freshman sea-son and recorded 34 tackles. He was pro-jected to start during the 2010 season.

Griswould, a running back, and Put-nam, a defensive end, did not see play-ing time last Fall.

The three could face 13 to 16 months in prison if convicted, Dailey said.

For now, the investigation into the in-cident is ongoing.

DUPD is collaborating with multiple law enforcement agencies to investigate where the weapon came from, Dai-ley said. More charges could be filed as the investigation proceeds, but Dailey said he does not anticipate charges being filed against any additional students.

Dailey said DUPD is still investigating whether alcohol or drugs were involved in the incident. None of the stu-dents have been charged with substance violations.

The campus did not receive a DukeAlert notification following the incident.

“We felt like there was no ongoing threat and that we

had the situation under control,” Dailey said. “Our officers did a really good job and were able to locate the car very quickly and then identify the suspects.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said Monday that he does not plan to send an e-mail about the incident, citing the quick apprehension of the suspects. Al-though he said the three freshmen behaved in an “extraor-dinarily stupid and extraordinarily dangerous manner,” he said other students were not endangered.

“I limit the broadcast e-mails to situations where stu-dents need to know things for their own safety,” Moneta said. “I am confident [The Chronicle] will provide the re-porting students need to know.”

But several Aycock residents said they would have ap-preciated information from the University about what hap-pened early Sunday morning.

A fire alarm in Aycock forced all 90 residents to evacu-ate to the East Campus Quadrangle. As students stood out-side around 3 a.m., they heard gunshots and saw a DUPD officer with his weapon drawn, freshman Jordan Swearin-gen said. The students remained on the quad until resi-dent assistants suggested they move to the Jarvis common room, he said.

“I feel like it took police way too long to respond and because of that I feel a little unsafe,” Swearingen said, noting that students remained on the quad for five to 10 minutes after police left to pursue the suspects. “You can’t prevent things like this, but I felt their response time was too slow considering the fact that there were [about 90] people standing outside.... I guess it was just the RAs around, but still.”

Aycock residents were not told what events surrounded the gunshots or what actions were being taken to control

the situation, Swearingen said. Sunday’s events also took place on the first weekend of selective living group and greek recruitment, and several students estimated that more than half the students in the dorm were intoxicated when it was evacuated.

“It’s clearly concerning any time anyone fires a weapon on campus,” Dailey said. “Whether or not people are in-toxicated or not, it’s just not safe. As it turned out at this site, everything seemed to work well.”

By Monday night, students had not received any official information about the events. Swearingen said he feels the University is not acknowledging how much potential dan-ger the students were in.

“It’s our right to know that,” he said.

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Last Tuesday’s earthquake rocked poverty-stricken Haiti and shook hearts and minds across the globe. In the seven days since, harrowing images have flooded newspapers and televisions, telling the sto-ry of a country brought to its knees by na-ture’s wrath.

But amidst the story of Haiti’s unimaginable pain and loss is the tale of every-day citizens and their gov-ernments—from the United States to Japan, from Mex-ico to Iceland—banding together to help Haitian men, women and children in their time of need.

As we watch this crisis unfold from our little cor-ner of humanity at Duke University’s campus in Dur-

ham, North Carolina, it’s easy to succumb to help-lessness and detachment, to focus on the cultural differences and geographi-cal distances that separate

us from an impoverished island nation

in the Caribbean.At moments like these,

though, it’s more important than ever to reaffirm our common humanity.

The University, through its mission statement and strategic plan, has commit-ted itself to being a global institution, one that mobi-lizes its human capital and unparalleled resources to address our world’s most pressing challenges. In Haiti, we can practice what we preach.

The need for immediate aid in Haiti is great, and it is heartening to see students and administrators take bold and swift action to play their part. In the short term, medical supplies and mon-etary donations can go a long way in helping injured victims and survivors make it through what will inevitably be a difficult road ahead.

We encourage all mem-bers of the Duke commu-nity to participate in these efforts by donating whatev-er resources they can. Stu-dents, in particular, should take advantage of the DukeCard Web site set up to allow donations of food points and flex dollars to as-sist Haitian relief efforts.

Although dollars and cents do make a difference,

rebuilding a country so deeply scarred by colonial-ism and economic injustice will involve not only bricks and stones, but also the transformation of systems and policy.

To this end, the Duke community should continue to play an active role in sup-porting international hu-manitarian aid organizations and the Haitian government as the country climbs back onto its feet.

The University can orga-nize sustained volunteer ef-forts to enable students and staff to directly contribute to the rebuilding effort. The existing DukeEngage group program in Haiti should be continued, and collaboration with Board of Trustees mem-ber and Duke alumnus Paul

Farmer, Trinity ’82, and his Partners in Health organiza-tion should be expanded.

In addition, the Sanford School of Public Policy, the Nicholas School of the Envi-ronment, the Pratt School of Engineering and the Global Health Institute should make a special effort to educate the next generation of Hai-tian leaders, as these schools could send students and pro-fessors to Haiti to address its challenges first-hand.

While global inequity is not isolated to one small na-tion, this University—guided by its core belief in using knowledge in the service of society—can play an active role in rebuilding a society so desperately in need.

Now and in the future, we can make a difference.

“How much does your life weigh? Imag-ine for a second that you’re carrying a backpack. I want you to pack it with all

the stuff that you have in your life.”Thus begins a gimmicky yet re-

vealing speech Ryan Bingham has delivered countless times, standing in front of countless middle-aged Americans waiting to be inspired by his startling life philosophy. In case you don’t recognize his name, Ryan Bingham doesn’t actually exist—he’s the protagonist, played by a gracefully aging George Clooney, of “Up in the Air,” one of those other movies that came out this holiday break (no, really, “Avatar” wasn’t the only one).

Continuing with his speech, Bingham instructs listeners to fill their backpacks with the people in their lives: siblings, parents, significant others—the list continues. Then, in a move that we saw coming all along, he asks us to feel how heavily our backpacks lie on our shoulders. He insists that our relationships—“[a]ll those negotiations and arguments and secrets, the compromises”—weigh us down, make us move slower, live slower. Some beings, he admits, “are meant to carry each other, to live symbiotically over a lifetime.” Some are meant for this, like swans, like star-crossed lovers.

Then he delivers his punch line: “We are not swans. We are sharks.”

Bingham is a consistent man. He lives his life in accordance with the advice he gives others, de-lights in a sharkish career flying around and pro-fessionally firing the employees of various corpo-rations. He travels light, avoids obligation.

I don’t want to spoil the movie, but suffice it to say that if Bingham’s shark lifestyle were to proceed swimmingly without conflict, there wouldn’t be much of a movie. On the other hand, his mindset is one that has become increasingly pervasive in our modern/contemporary/“Bowling Alone” society.

He’s not the sole champion of independence either—Bingham’s message is distinctly Nietz-schean, distinctly Randian. After all, Ayn Rand’s morality of selfishness was the focus of a house course I took last semester. She’s a woman to whom the “objective” truth necessitated a rejec-tion of altruism, who once said that civilization was “the process of setting man free from men.” To Rand, the greatest threat to a human being was an infringement upon his freedom.

Few would go as far as buy Randian (and now Binghamian?) thought completely. We all aww at cheesy Hallmark cards, profess to love our siblings, collect friends on social networking sites. No one would call himself a shark, per se.

But a commitment to independence is a thread that runs through contemporary culture, the out-come of a societal education that has taught us the importance of individual rights and self-autonomy.

Our responsibility to each other as family members, as friends and as fellow human beings oftentimes rubs our belief in our existences as self-governing beings the wrong way.

We’ve all fallen victim to Ryan Bingham’s train of thought, espe-cially when we’re feeling invincible: the people in our lives temporar-ily seem like hassles—or, to adopt the metaphor, excess baggage. I’ve

complained about my stifling moth-er, friends who step on my toes with their expecta-tions, commitments I’d rather not have made. If we could be our own masters, indebted to no one, we think we’d be happy. No more messes, no more fights, no more compromises.

But it’s a fallacy to mistake these transient irrita-tions for a viable life philosophy. The symbiotic, mutu-alistic relationships Bingham pooh-poohs during his speech are essential precisely because they’re mutual, reciprocal alliances—because we exist in sinusoidal fashion, and no one can stay invincible forever.

At some point or another, we will all need some-one to carry us. Even though our weight will be a burden on the shoulders of those around us, we trust and hope that their compassion will overrule this momentary inconvenience. In “Up in the Air,” when an acquaintance tells Bingham that he’s just “a parenthesis” in her life, he can only blame his own philosophy of independence.

Likewise, some may say that Ayn Rand weak-ened in her later years: she fell in love—not the kind of self-glorifying love that she once espoused in “Atlas Shrugged,” but the kind that breaks hearts, ruins lives, incapacitates its victims. When her lover left her for another woman, she was dev-astated. Was it an artistic flourish when she eventu-ally died of heart failure?

Rand teaches us a lesson worth remembering. If she wasn’t able to maintain her stubborn misan-thropy, we can’t either. In a sense, we are all star-crossed lovers, swans in need of companionship. Human connections don’t constitute the nuisanc-es weighing us down—life itself is capricious and inconvenient. We all need more than fair-weather friends with whom to ride out the storm.

Forget this, and we may end up like Rand, trapped in the stingy seclusion of our selfish philosophy, a mere parenthesis in the lives of those around us.

Shining Li is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every Tuesday.

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Duke University prides itself on the diversity of its campus dining options. Any student who has vis-ited another university can appreciate

how privileged we are to have more than 30 eateries available to us on campus. Indeed, our unique dining program has drawn ap-plause from students and is seen as a com-petitive advantage in college admissions.

This choice comes with a cost. In order to maintain the broad selection of eateries, Duke effectively subsidizes the dining program to the tune of a few million dollars per year. Many departments—including Athletics—are subsidized by general University funds, and the recession has made it clear that Duke Dining (among other depart-ments) needs to become more solvent. While making this change will not be easy, we believe that it gives us all the chance to think critically about our dining program and make long-term changes that are ultimately more cost-effective and will bring the community closer together.

What does it mean to rethink the Duke Dining experi-ence? It means that first of all we consider what the pur-pose of food on campus is. Is dining an experience for the student, in an atmosphere and space that brings people together to engage each other? Consider the Market-place, where freshmen can share meals with their class-mates at all hours of the day. Alternatively, as many up-perclassmen believe, should dining be quick, convenient and inexpensive?

With some notion of what you think the dining experi-ence should be, consider the basics of Duke Dining. Does

having over 30 campus eateries—many of which are only open until lunch—suit our needs anymore? Should the Great Hall grow to become the focal point of West Campus dining, or should it be re-placed in favor of more popular, branded

concepts? At the risk of losing campus eateries, should we really maintain the Merchants-on-Points program?

Last semester, University administrators presented us with something called “directed choice,” which was their quick-fix solution that guided more dining dollars to Duke-run eateries like the Great Hall. We have made our position clear on this proposal: It fails to consider the im-pact of our dining model on student life and gives those it serves—including you—only false choices. It also ignores numerous issues with the same dining facilities it forces us to use. Clearly, this is not the solution.

But the $2.2 million gap remains this year, and we would be remiss if we did not take this opportunity to re-pair a broken system. We challenge the administration to move on from the tired idea of “directed choice,” and we hope you will join us in encouraging them to keep students in the picture. ”

Awa Nur and Mike Lefevre are president and chief of staff of Duke Student Government, respectively.

On Jan. 2, my twin brother and I set out from our home just north of Boston, Mass. Nine days and 3,500 miles later, we arrived at his new apartment

in Los Angeles, Calif.My brother has studied television pro-

duction for three and a half years at Em-erson College in Boston. He’s spending his senior spring “abroad” in LA with an internship in the industry, which is why we packed his life into the back of our car and hit the road.

Even though driving across country isn’t the most eco-friendly vacation plan out there, seeing the country by Honda Civic was a great experience. You might think that being stuck in a car with the same person for a week and a half would start to wear on you. You’re not going to believe me, but my brother and I didn’t really fight at all on the road trip. We got along great and made an excellent team driving and navigating. We don’t get to spend a lot of time together during the year since we go to different schools, so nine days in a car was surprisingly bearable, even fun.

Nine days did not give us a lot of time to visit the towns along the way, and after eight to 10 hours of driving each day, we were usually pretty exhausted by the time we reached a new city. Still, we did our best to experience what America had to offer.

One of my favorite things to do in each new city was to pick up the free weekly alternative newspaper. I love these papers for their coverage of the local arts and music scene and the glimpse they offer into local politics (which is never very flattering). I was already familiar with the Boston Phoenix, St. Louis’s River Front Times and, of course, the Independent Weekly here in Durham. By the time I got to the Memphis Flyer and the Oklahoma Ga-zette, I started to get a little jaded—why does every city’s “independent” newspaper look exactly the same, anyway? (But maybe that is just the sarcastic edginess of the local political commentary rubbing off on me.)

Sampling the local media was best done in the print format, because trying to listen to the radio down south is always a gamble. To be more specific, it is just as likely that any radio station you pick up will be country music or Christian rock as it is that it will be music to which the rest of the country listens.

Radio station roulette aside, the countless miles of emptiness between the major cities in the West do start to wear on you, leaving you a lot of time for contemplation. Most of my ponderings were decidedly anti-intellectual—ideas like “The Beach Boys were probably really disap-pointed once they started ‘Surfing USA’ and got outside of California” and “Daytona Beach would be the perfect

place to stage a version of Jersey Shore with southerners instead of ‘guidos.’”

But with the Winter Forum on climate change under-way on campus, I also got to thinking about the carbon footprint of my little adventure. We could have flown to Los Angeles, but then we would have shipped a lot of stuff from coast to coast. And with the urban sprawl and limited public transportation in West Coast cities like LA, you practically need a car to get around.

And while racking up frequent flyer miles is great, you would miss the local newspapers from 30,000 feet up in the air. If you want to see the states from the

ground level, a car is your best option. Some people would suggest train travel as an alterna-

tive to driving, but it’s not as attractive an alternative in this country. A map of Amtrak’s routes looks like a skel-eton compared to the comprehensive fleshed-out rail systems in European countries. Often, U.S. trains are outdated and freight trains dominating the rails lead to unreliable service on Amtrak routes through heavy ship-ping regions.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ap-propriated $80.9 billion to infrastructure improvements, including $1.3 billion for Amtrak, $100 million for other public transit agencies and $8 billion for intercity passen-ger rail projects and specifically high-speed rail develop-ment. Like many projects in the Act, it is unclear what level of support will be available once stimulus funds dry up.

The Acela line from Boston to Washington, D.C., via New York, currently Amtrak’s only high-speed line, has proven modestly successful in drawing passengers away from the airlines. Perhaps that success can be repeated with a Midwestern line from Chicago to St. Louis, or one between California’s major cities, but vast improvements in coast-to-coast rail travel do not appear likely in the near future, especially without continued support for Amtrak.

We are constantly surrounded by messages about glo-balization, but don’t forget that there are plenty of op-portunities to be a tourist in your own country. I would love to recommend a EuroRail-style voyage across North America, but we’re not there yet. Keep your mind open to the idea of riding the rails across the country, as that very well might be an option in the future. But don’t wait until Amtrak gets on track; so in the mean time, take to the roads and see your country. You would be surprised all there is to see over the 3,000 miles of I-40.

Bradford Colbert is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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Spring beats FallI’ve got an idea! For my first column I’ll prattle on

about all the exciting things I’ve done over break and how they all magically relate to whatever the heck my

theme is supposed to be! None of the other columnists will think of that! I shall be famous throughout the land! I’m betting on a book, a movie and possi-bly a merchandise line, all commemorating my origi-nality.

I’m kidding (except for the merchandise line). That sort of introduction would suggest purpose and coherence, which, despite being thoroughly ador-able ideas, aren’t really my style. Granted, I’m not sure what exactly my style is—but I know it’s not that. Instead, I think we should discuss why you all should be excited for the Spring semester!

Since I’m sure the linguistic gurus (all six of you) are seething at my usage of discuss, let me say this: I’ve been told, “We need to discuss what you did/said” plenty of times. What inevitably follows is way more one-sided than an actual dialogue, so it must be an accepted euphemism, Q.E.D. (kind of).

As long as we’re playing word games, let’s start the comparison with usages and connotations. Fall has some pretty bad vibes. You can fall on your face, fall from grace and even fall in love. Watch out for that last one, it leads to arrhythmia. Fall is also a mere letter away from fail, which can’t be coincidental. In contrast, spring is just rife with good feelings. You can have spring in your step, spring into action and spring a surprise (party). Spring is also an anagram of awesome. No, really. Would I lie to you?

Weather is also an important topic to cover, since it’s the preferred topic for seven out of 10 awkward conver-sations, according to a recent survey I conducted in my head. The Fall semester starts during August, which in Durham means the temperature is measured in terms of circles in Dante’s Inferno rather than degrees Fahren-heit. By December, though, everyone’s piling on extra layers to stay warm—except for the New Englanders and Chicagoans who take pleasure in the suffering of warm climate creatures, as they are gleeful sadists.

Spring is just the opposite; we start out freezing and get warmer. As this term progresses, you will observe that girls’ clothing gets skimpier and skimpier. It’s like the world’s slowest striptease! Sweet! That makes Fall a re-verse striptease, I guess? Apparently some things aren’t good in reverse.

Spring has some important things around here that Fall just doesn’t. For starters, there’s this tenting business. I wasn’t sure if that was noteworthy enough to include at first, but I heard a rumor that there’s a few basketball fans around here. That’s just a rumor, though. Remem-ber, you didn’t hear it from me. I’ll deny I ever said it.

This semester also has greek rushing, greek bidding, greek pledging and Greek salad. This will affect about a third of you freshmen, assuming your class trends with the current undergraduate composition. Personally, I just can’t understand why two-thirds will pass on the deli-cious salad. Caesar’s no Greek, guys! (I’ll deny making that joke too.)

Sometimes, though, what you don’t have is just as im-portant as what you do. Spring has but one break, as op-posed to Fall’s two. “But wait, Jeremy,” you say, “two breaks are clearly better than one!” Au contraire, mon ami! I’ve found that professors tend not to acknowledge the exis-tence of the short October break, blithely assigning work as if the days off were not there. Consolidating our vaca-tion into a weeklong spring break creates a scheduling ob-stacle that can’t be ignored. Plus we can go to the beach!

On another academic note, grades in the Spring tend to be higher than in the previous Fall. Note that this claim is based on a cursory inspection of the posted Dean’s List cut-offs and should not be considered scientific, repre-sentative, statistically valid or remotely accurate—but that’s not important! You’ll all do better this semester, I promise!

If I haven’t convinced you yet, good for you. I’ve just been rationalizing anyway. Here’s the real reason to be excited for Spring: carpe diem. That would’ve made for a boring column, though, now wouldn’t it?

Jeremy Walch is a Pratt junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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