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Uni starts Africa research initiative

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Duke’s new Africa Initiative is a network that brings together more than 100 University professors in mul-tiple departments doing research across the continent. The initiative has been awarded $100,000 so far.

by Margot TuchlerTHE CHRONICLE

Dozens of professors in disparate fields are joining together to coordi-nate Duke’s research in Africa.

The Africa Initiative, which has been in the works since Fall 2011, serves to consolidate the efforts of Duke professors who have research in-terests on the African continent. Thus far, $100,000 has been allotted to the initiative, said Charles Piot, professor of cultural anthropology, African and African American studies and women’s studies, who is co-chairing the initia-tive’s steering committee with global health professor Dr. John Bartlett, as-sociate director for research at Duke Global Health Institute.

Piot said the idea was born out of ca-sual conversations with his colleagues, who were discussing Duke’s global pri-orities and questioning why Africa was not visibly in the mix. Throughout the fall and winter, he sought out other faculty conducting Africa-related re-search and heralded Bartlett’s help to gather personnel from the School of Medicine. They sought out faculty from all schools and departments who were interested in Africa and came up with over 100 names, Piot said.

“I’ve been here 20 years. I teach about Africa, and I imagined there might have been 25 [faculty],” Piot said. “We walked away from every meeting with new names.”

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Palestine event disrupted by vandalism

by Leena El-SadekTHE CHRONICLE

A Duke Students for Justice in Pales-tine event recently faced backlash when some of its display was vandalized by a student.

DSJP hosted an event Thursday on the Bryan Center Plaza entitled “Tearing Down the Wall: Clearing Up Misconcep-tions,” in which the student group meant to raise awareness about a wall separating the West Bank region of Palestine from Israel. DSJP constructed a replica of the wall—known as the “separation fence” or “anti-terrorist fence” to most Israelis and the “racial segregation wall” to most Palestinians—and handed out flyers de-tailing the damaging effects.

The group planned to dismantle the wall “both symbolically and literally” at around 5 p.m. that day, said senior Sa-brina Rubakovic, a member of DSJP, in a Facebook event.

But about two hours into the day-long event, senior Zach Epstein, a member of the Jewish Student Union executive board and Duke Friends of Israel, de-stroyed part of the wall and flipped over a table of Palestinian food DSJP was giv-ing out to passersby.

“The incident was an act of intimidation

West Union architects to preview renovations

by Imani MoiseTHE CHRONICLE

The architects behind the upcoming West Union Building renovation are hosting an open house discussion Tuesday to pres-ent the new plans for the future image of West Campus.

David Cook and David Burke of Grimshaw Architects will be speaking to any interested stu-dents from 5 to 7 p.m. in Von Canon A. In addition to present-ing the early stages of the plans, the architects will be looking for feedback from students on the renovations.

“We believe that student lead-ership has been very informed, SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE

This rendering shows what the finished West Union Building renovations will look like. The project’s architects, Grimshaw, will be presenting preliminary designs tomorrow.

GoDuke changes photo policy after mishap

Duke athletics has changed its procedures for handling photos following a recent controversy that drew national media attention.

A sports information intern posted an entire set of photos from a Halloween party held by women’s lacrosse head coach Kerstin Kimel on the team’s official website, in-cluding one photo of junior team member Taylor Virden, dressed in blackface intending to portray Buck-wheat, a character in the film “Little Rascals.”

Photos will now be individually evaluated before being posted on GoDuke.com, vice president for public affairs and government rela-tions Mike Schoenfeld said.

The photo was removed from GoDuke.com, but screenshot of the photo made the rounds on

popular blogs such as Deadspin and BroBible.

In a statement, Kimel apologized for the insensitive nature of the costume and said the team did not mean to offend anyone.

“The Duke women’s lacrosse program celebrates Halloween with an annual gathering. This year, some of our costume choices were insensitive and entirely in-appropriate,” Kimel said. “No of-fense was intended, but that does not matter because we should have realized how these choices would be viewed by those outside of our program.”

Art Chase, head sports informa-tion director, declined to comment and noted that Virden did not have a comment at this time.

—from Staff Reports

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Despite European economy, Italy can grow, panel says

by Carleigh StiehmTHE CHRONICLE

Despite slow economic growth and poor government involve-ment, Italy’s economy still has a possibility for growth, a panel of financial experts said Monday af-ternoon.

The panel, headed by Provost Peter Lange, presented five dif-ferent perspectives on the out-look of Italy’s economy and the euro. Although their points of view differed, each conveyed an overall concern for the current state of Italy. The event—“Too Big to Fail? Too Big to Bail? Ita-ly, Europe and the Euro”—was sponsored by the Departments of Economics and Romance Studies and the Office of the Provost.

“For the scholarly community, Italy has been a kind of place that you have to look at as half full or half empty,” Lange said in refer-ence to Italy’s current economy. “I think, to some degree, this has become increasingly resolved to

the half empty.”Panelist Gianni Toniolo, re-

search professor of economics, was one of the few that still views Italy’s economy as being “half-full.” Toniolo noted that Italy’s current economic problems may not be caused by its sovereign debt. Instead, he credited “ex-tremely sluggish” gross domestic product growth with the coun-try’s financial decline.

“Italy is a historically high debt country,” Toniolo said.

He noted that despite many economic reforms made in the 1990’s, “old evils” such as corrup-tion and slow development in the south still slow GDP growth.

Toniolo insisted that Italy’s financial situation could still be saved with proper economic re-form.

“I leave you here with this glim-mer of hope,” he concluded.

Panelists Ronald Leven, a se-nior currency strategist at Mor-gan Stanley, and Luigi Zingales,

professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Busi-ness, criticized the Italian gov-ernment for its handling of the economy.

“This is a political problem, not an economic problem,” Leven said. “Europe has become a segmented marketplace with capital getting stuck at every bor-der.”

Though he emphasized that the long-term solution to the problem is not yet clear, he cited that a federalized bank with the power to support banks in ev-ery country that uses the euro would help unify capital markets throughout Europe.

“Italy’s problem cannot sole-ly be solved by Italy. Europe is going to have to start treating these as European problems,” Leven said. “Otherwise the euro is doomed.”

Zingales said that the prob-lems in Italy may continue to get worse as the current workforce reaches retirement age. He not-ed that the population is not in-creasing at a rate to replace work-ers as they leave the workforce, which will result in a “dramatic reduction in GDP.” Zingales add-ed that the government will try to use immigrants to fill the vacant jobs and this will prompt “social tension.”

This “social tension” will re-semble the current discontent that the Italian public feels re-garding corruption in the bank-ing system in Italy, which makes it very difficult to have large reli-able banks, Zingales said.

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A panel of financial experts and professors spoke about Europe’s economic future in a talk called “Europe: too big to fail, too big to bail” Monday afternoon. SEE EUROPE ON PAGE 5

A professor and former ambas-sador has received international recognition for his leadership.

James Joseph, leader in resi-dence for Duke’s Hart Leader-ship program and former U.S.

ambassador to South Africa, recently re-ceived the 2012 Distinguished L e a d e r s h i p Award from the Internat ional Leadership As-sociation, ac-cording to a

Duke news release. The award, given to individuals whose work on leadership has had a signifi-cant and international impact, is presented at the association’s annual conference in October.

Joseph is also the founder of the United States-Southern Af-rica Center for Leadership and Public Values—a collaboration between Duke and the Univer-sity of Capetown—and an emer-itus professor of the practice of public policy. He has served in senior positions under four former presidents, including Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Under Clinton, Joseph was the first and only U.S. ambassador to present credentials to South African activist and politician Nelson Mandela.

Joseph has shared his knowl-

edge of leadership with the Duke community through his position with the Hart Leader-ship Program, as well as teach-ing classes and presenting guest lectures. He has taught classes such as Leadership as Moral Ac-tivity and Leadership and Pub-lic Values.

At the International Lead-ership Association conference, Joseph gave a keynote speech to more than 1,000 participants from 35 countries. The associa-tion is a network organization that connects educators who fo-cus their teaching and practice around leadership.

In 1999, South Africa award-ed Joseph the highest honor that can be given to a non-citi-zen—the Order of Good Hope. Joseph also has 19 honorary degrees and was named “One of the most influential black Americans” by Ebony Maga-zine in 1979. In addition to his numerous accolades, the U.S. Peace Corps honored him for his lifetime of dedication to civ-il society. Joseph is also an or-dained minister and sits on the board for several organizations.

He has written three books—“The Charitable Impulse,” “Re-making America” and “Leader-ship as a Way of Being”—with a fourth to be published by Duke University Press in 2013.

—from Staff Reports

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A new course discussing maternal and child health issues will be offered Spring 2013.

GLHLTH 571: Introduction to Global Maternal and Child Health will focus on the current state of maternal health care, especially for mothers living in impover-ished countries where many women do not have access to medical care. The class will be taught by assistant adjunct profes-sor Eric Green, the recent winner of the Saving Lives at Birth Grand Challenge from the Gates Foundation for his proj-ect Baby Monitor.

Baby Monitor, a mobile application that Green developed for pregnant wom-en with limited access to medical care, uses voice response technology to provide instant medical assessments and dispatch health workers if necessary. Green plans to bring an emphasis on applied learning to the class.

“We haven’t had a course in [this] and a lot of institutions do,” Green said. “It’s a big topic for scholars in improving maternal and child health. So it [makes] sense for Duke to offer this course.”

The class is structured like a graduate seminar, with fewer lectures and more focus on outside readings and student discussion. Class discussions will cover five main topics: data and statistics, key interventions during birth, new innova-tions such as Baby Monitor, health system challenges and policies of medical prac-tices. The class will also include several

case studies. “[The class will] focus a lot on low

income countries, and new innovations that are popping up,” Green said. “We’ll do maternal health first, and child health second.”

The class is open for registration to sophomores and above, as well as for graduate students in the science and global health field. It will give students a general overview of maternal and child care that covers a wide variety of topics, Green noted, adding that the class will prepare students for future courses in similar topics.

The most important part of education is having students who are “engaged and working on ‘real’ things,” rather than only studying hypothetical situations, Green said.

“Where I want students to dig in is their applied work during the semester,” Green said. “[The class has a] goal of hav-ing something ready for publication.”

By the end of the class, each graduate student taking it will have completed a final research paper that is publishable, and the undergraduate students have the opportunity to do so as well. These proj-ects would be applicable to real-world problems, and students would have the option of submitting their work for pub-lication.

“It could be great for students with in-terest in maternal or child health,” Green said. “It’s great for practitioners, great for

Reasons diverge for rise in autism cases

by Anthony HagouelTHE CHRONICLE

The complex history and dramatic increase in autism diagnoses has fueled controversies in both the scientific com-munity and the public surrounding the disorder’s definition, causes and treat-ments, said medical history expert Dr. Jeffrey Baker.

The Duke chapter of Autism Speaks U hosted a discussion Monday titled

“The Perfect Storm: The History of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy,” led by Baker, director of the program in the history of medicine, in which a small group of students discussed the history of the disorder with Baker. The history of autism branched into two realms, Baker said—one within the scientif-ic community and one in the public

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WASHINGTON — Newly elected mem-bers of the U.S. House of Representatives come to Washington this week for their first lessons on parliamentary procedure, din-ners with party leaders, tours of the U.S. Capitol, a group photo and the start of the arduous process of hiring a staff, securing choice committee assignments and scoring office space.

None, however, are in the odd position that Ami Bera finds himself in. The Demo-crat has a slim lead over Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), who is chairman of the House Administration Committee and responsible for orienting new members. That means the

man Bera hopes to unseat will train him on how to do his job.

Officials still need to count about 70,000 outstanding absentee and provisional ballots before certifying the results, but Lungren plans to return to Washington and attend to his official duties this week regardless of the outcome, aides said. Bera’s slim lead means he is eligible to attend the orientation ses-sions, so he took an overnight flight from Sacramento and arrived in Washington on Monday morning.

“I think it will be interesting,” is all Bera would say about the prospect of sitting through orientation sessions led by his oppo-nent. “I’ve not talked to Lungren since the election, so it’ll be my first chance to shake

his hand.”The Bera-Lungren contest is one of six

House races that were undecided as of Mon-day afternoon. Four of the remaining races, in Arizona, California and Florida, include potential new members of Congress.

When a race is unresolved, the Adminis-tration Committee still invites candidates to attend orientation sessions, surmising that it is better for both candidates to receive the training even though one eventually loses.

“People in that respective district are owed a member of Congress who can hit the ground running on Day One, no matter who wins,” said Jamie Fleet, Democratic staff director for the Administration Committee. He said it was not uncommon for a candidate

to arrive in Washington for training only to be uninvited after officially being declared the loser.

If he wins, Bera in many ways will embody the makeup of this year’s freshman class and the continued diversification of House Dem-ocrats, which for the first time will be domi-nated by women and minorities. The son of Indian immigrants, Bera would be just the third Indian American elected to Congress, after Dalip Singh Saund (D-Calif.) in 1952 and Bobby Jindal, a Republican, who won a House seat in 2004 and is now governor of Louisiana. Bera would be one of two Demo-cratic physicians from California elected to

House orientation begins, even with races unresolved

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2M Americans could lose jobless benefitsby Michael Fletcher

THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — More than 2 million Americans stand to lose their jobless ben-efits unless Congress reauthorizes federal emergency unemployment help before the end of the year.

The people in danger of having their un-employment checks cut off are among those who have benefitted least from the slowly improving job market: Americans who have been out of work longer than six months.

These workers have exhausted their state unemployment insurance, leaving them re-liant on the federal program.

In addition to those at risk of abruptly los-ing their benefits in December, one million people would have their checks curtailed by

April if the program is not renewed, accord-ing to lawmakers and advocates pushing to have the program extended.

“We cannot forget the human cliff loom-ing for more than two million Americans scheduled to lose their economic lifeline during the upcoming holidays,” Rep. Sand-er Levin, Mich., the ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee, said in a statement.

The Emergency Unemployment Com-pensation program is just one component of the looming “fiscal cliff,” a number of programs and tax breaks set to expire at the end of the year unless Congress comes up with an alternative.

Conservative lawmakers have raised con-cerns that continually extending jobless

benefits is both an unmanageable burden on the federal budget and a disincentive for people to find work.

Many jobless Americans have come to depend on the benefits.

“I don’t know what I would do without them,” said Richard Crowe, 54, a Winters-ville, Ohio, millwright who has depended on a $764 biweekly unemployment check since May, when the steel company he worked for closed and filed for bankruptcy. “I will prob-ably have to try to sell my house just to stay above water.”

Crowe, who made $84,000 a year be-fore being laid off, said he has applied for around 100 jobs, but to no avail. “All I get back, if anything, are ‘Dear John’ letters,” he said.

His plight is not unusual.More than 5 million Americans have

been out of work longer than six months—the limit for most state-funded unemploy-ment insurance—though not all of them get jobless benefits. This group makes up 40 percent of the nation’s unemployed, a share that has dropped little even as the jobless rate has inched down.

Federal jobless-benefit extensions are intended to provide support, until the job market improves, to workers who have gone beyond state-funded unemployment insurance limits. The program has been in place since President George W. Bush signed it into law in June 2008, as the

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school, you might not even go to university, you get to know people. You spend some time in Rome and make connections,” Zingales said, adding that the

political system “prevents mobil-ity” within the Italian economy.

Toniolo rebutted the blame of corruption in Italy.

“Of course we are corrupt,” he said. “But we are not as cor-rupt as we are perceived to be.”

Panelist Marco Magnani,

head of the structural economic analysis department at Banca d’Italia, supported Zingales’ ideas about Italy’s economy being a political problem, al-though he noted that he views the situation as being “more op-timistic than pessimistic.”

economy was deteriorating as a result of the financial crisis.

At the time, fewer than one in five jobless workers had been out of work longer than six months.

As the unemployment crisis has persisted, the program has been extended on 10 occasions, according to the National Em-ployment Law Project (NELP), which advocates for low-wage workers and the jobless.

In February, Congress re-newed the program but cut the number of weeks of extended aid available. The change reduced benefits that once stretched to 99 weeks in the states with the high-

est unemployment rates.Supporters of the program

point to academic research showing that unemployed workers who receive benefits spend more time looking for jobs than those who do not.

Combined with the drop in the jobless rate, changes in the federal unemployment program have reduced the average time that jobless Americans can col-lect benefits by nearly one-third, according to the Congressional Research Service. Meanwhile, the proportion of jobless people re-ceiving unemployment benefits has dropped from 64 percent two years ago to 43 percent in Sep-tember, according to the NELP.

A coalition of more than 35

groups led by the NELP is launch-ing a campaign to press Congress to extend the program. In the coming days and weeks, the coali-tion is planning to visit lawmak-ers, buy ads and hold news events aimed at building pressure for its cause.

The groups want Congress to make reauthorizing unemploy-ment insurance a priority during the lame-duck session, which starts this week and is scheduled to go until the end of next month.

Beyond the pain that a cutoff would cause recipients, advocates say that ending the federal jobless benefits would harm the economy since those who get such checks tend to quickly spend the money on basic needs.

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but we also believe that perhaps students in general would like to know more about the project,” Rick Johnson, assistant vice presi-dent of Student Affairs for Hous-ing, Dining and Residence Life, wrote in an email Monday.

The renovation, funded by an $80 million gift from the Char-lotte-based Duke Endowment, will revamp the building with a student life space modelled af-ter the Link in Perkins and an expanded dining area inspired by Eataly, a city block of restau-rants in New York City run by chef Mario Batali. Construction has already begun on the Events Pavilion, which will house din-ing facilities while West Union undergoes renovation. Construc-tion on West Union itself will be-gin this summer.

Student representatives from Duke Student Government and Duke University Student Din-ing Advisory Committee have been involved in West Union planning for over a year, but some members of the student body feel disconnected from the renovation process. When asked what he knew about the West Union renovation, freshman Lo-gan Brundage admitted to not being in the loop.

“I know that Subway and Chik-fil-A won’t be part of the new Union, but I don’t know what is replacing them. Other than that, I know nothing,” Brundage said.

Despite not knowing much about the renovations and

only being on campus for a few months, Brundage said he is con-fident that tomorrow’s event will provide an important forum for students to give input and influ-ence the West Union renovations for the better. He also added that of all the classes currently on campus, the freshmen would be most affected by the renovations so it is important that their voic-es be represented at this open house.

“If students can take part in the planning now, it will be more likely that the finished result will better suit students in years to come,” he said.

Sophomore Drew Underwood, who also expressed unfamiliarity with the plans, said he was not as excited about the open house.

“At this point, the adminis-trative things have been done, and construction has already began,” Underwood said. “Re-gardless of our feedback, be it positive or negative, it’s going to happen.”

The Office of Student Affairs plans to continue relying mostly on small groups of student rep-resentatives to confer with about the renovations, but hopes to include some opinions from the larger student body using stu-dent groups like DSG and social media to spread the word.

“The project is large, complex and multi-year,” Johnson said. “The open house is a good way to supplement smaller discussions and I foresee more of that type of discussion to reach the gen-eral student population.”

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the House, along with Raul Ruiz, who defeated Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.).

The incoming class of House lawmakers also includes at least nine veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the first bi-sexual woman, Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat whose vic-

tory in a new Phoenix-area seat will make her one of seven gay, bi-sexual or transgender lawmakers in the House and Senate. There’s also the first Hindu elected to Congress, Democrat Tulsi Gab-bard, who succeeds Rep. Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii), who in turn won a Senate seat and will be that chamber’s first Buddhist member.

No matter how historic their

elections or the acclaim they enjoy back home, veterans of the orien-tation process said new members will need to quickly adjust to being in Washington.

“You may campaign with blus-ter and bravado, but once you get there, you’re one of 435, you’re one of 70 or 80 new members, so you have to get in line and learn the ropes,” said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.).

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researchers and great for people who are interested in policy.”

There has already been a large inter-est in Green’s course, especially among pre-med students interested in child health care.

“I want to be a neonatologist so that’s perfect for my field. There is no known cause of prematurity, so that class could look at how infrastructure plays a role in prematurity,” freshman Maurlia Up-church said.

Freshman Lorena Garcia, who hopes to become a pediatrician, said that the class would give her insight into her future career as well. Understanding the relationship between a mother and child will help her deal with the difficult circumstances she may face as a doctor, Garcia noted.

Students also liked the idea of writ-ing a research paper that could be pub-lished and reviewed for other research-ers to see.

“It gives a voice to the women and children who don’t have the resources,” Upchurch said.

sphere—which hold different perspec-tives about its development since its dis-covery in the 1940s. The past 70 years have led to a wide canon of theories that attempt to explain the cause of autism, most of which have been disproven, he noted.

Both the complicated history of au-tism and the unanswered question of causation, Baker explained, contribute to an incongruity in the public and sci-entific explanations of autism. Many in-fluential organizations such as Defeat Autism Now are championed by leaders who have been directly affected by the disorder, he said. This can create a less objective public interpretation, which allows false explanations, such as the use of mercury in vaccines administered to infants, to circulate within the com-munity.

“Do vaccines cause autism? It’s so easy to think that they do—some are given at one year of life—and most parents be-lieve that their child is normal at one year of life. But are they really normal at that point?” asked Baker, who said he is not at all convinced that mercury could be a cause. “You get a sense that it’s just a happy field that everyone gets togeth-er and agrees with everything, but there are quite a few controversies.”

The over 500 percent increase in au-tism prevalence since the 1970s in the United States has fueled the debate, he said, where the scientific community has argued that this increase is due to heightened awareness and a broader

definition of autism, whereas the pub-lic is convinced that there are external causes to blame.

“We like to talk about how diseases may be socially constructed,” he said. “There is a sense that diseases have to be defined, and autism isn’t based on specific laboratory tests, so it has to be restricted to a definition.”

The broad scope of autism’s defini-tion has lead to many opposing schools of thought concerning how it is treated, caused and whether or not it is an epi-demic, said freshman Brittany Klein, a member of Autism Speaks U.

“I agree with Dr. Baker that the broad-ening of the definition is the major cause of the rise, but I’m not opposed to the idea that there might be other environ-mental causes,” Klein said.

Senior Kaiti Dunlap, president of Duke’s chapter of Autism Speaks U, hopes to help the cause by broadening fundraising, awareness and general in-volvement within the Duke and Durham community.

“We wanted to get more people inter-ested in autism,” Dunlap said. “So we’re grateful to people who want to come speak.”

The answer to the autism problem is still unclear, and there is a lot of research that has to be done in order to solve what has become a growing epidemic in the modern world, Baker added.

“I’m not totally sure what I think,” he said. “I truly believe at least half is driv-en by expanded definition and surveil-lance, but I’m not sure that there hasn’t been a real reason for the serious rise in prevalence.”

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meant to silence our voices in calling for the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people,” said DSJP President Ahmad Jitan, a senior and columnist for The Chronicle.

Epstein declined to comment to The Chronicle, but he issued an apology to all those involved in hosting the event via the event page on Facebook.

“I would like to apologize deeply for what occurred,” he said in his apology, which was obtained by The Chronicle. “I acted overzealously, thinking at the time that I was making a sacrifice for the Jewish and Israeli students who feel targeted and harassed, the fickle Duke students whose minds are filled with polarizing material that bears false witness to the situation at hand and the security of the Israel state whose very existence—which I pray for often and intensely—is explicitly threatened by Iranian military leaders.... Again, I apologize for the harm that was done by my overzealous actions and hope that all sides can join together in a respect-ful, non-polarizing discussion of how to tangibly improve the situation in Israel and Palestine.”

Immediately after the incident, DSJP and some witnesses cleaned up the van-dalism, said freshman Sarey Hamarneh, a member of DSJP. Members of the stu-dent group rebuilt the part of the wall that was destroyed so they could contin-ue the event as planned.

Hamarneh said he does not think that Epstein’s actions are representative of any organization on campus. Rather, an emotional response was triggered that caused him to react in an unjust way.

“[DSJP was] not being anti-Semitic or anti-Israel in any way,” Hamerneh said. “[Epstein] just did not like what we were

doing, and his actions just got out of hand.”

Rabbi Jeremy Yoskowitz, assistant di-rector of Jewish life at Duke, was one of the first witnesses to help clean up after the incident ensued. Yoskowitz said that he is particularly proud of the unity the Duke community strives to achieve.

“I have more than enough respect for the intelligence and intellectual curios-ity of our students to believe that we are able to have conversations, even difficult ones, without resorting to either hateful rhetoric or physical violence,” Yoskowitz said. “This campus and this student body are better than that.”

Student criticism is not new to DSJP, Jitan added. He said the organization previously received criticism from The Chronicle’s independent editorial board and then-president of the Jewish Stu-dent Union, Kevin Lieberman, Pratt ’12, in response to DSJP’s hosting of “Israeli Apartheid Week,” a nationally recog-nized event that contends that Palestin-ians suffer under Israeli oppression.

Jitan said he thinks the criticism are just symptoms of a larger culture which silences and invalidates marginalized voices—not just of Palestinian solidarity activists, but women, students of color, the LGBT community, students with dis-abilities and others.

“It should be of concern to any stu-dent who is concerned with social justice and values a safe, healthy and produc-tive environment on our campus,” he added.

Civil discussion among student groups is essential to ensure a safe environment for Duke students, Hamerneh said.

“Hopefully this incident will not af-fect our relationship with any organiza-tions on campus negatively, but will in-stead provide an incentive to start some

communication between DSJP and DFI,” he said.

Throughout the academic year and even since the vandalism, DSJP has been in conversation with leaders in Duke’s Jewish community, hoping to promote opportunities for respectful, honest and open conversations with students who are concerned about Israel and Pales-tine, regardless of their personal posi-tions, Jitan added.

“As a sensitive issue, we understand the need to make sure that no one feels antagonized on campus all the while they are free to express their views,” Ji-tan said. “The events of last week, while troubling and reflective of a larger cul-ture that silences marginalized voices, shouldn’t be taken as a sign of animosity

between any groups on campus.”Muslim Chaplain Abdullah Antepli, a

columnist for The Chronicle, concluded the Thursday event by calling for imme-diate change from Duke students. Al-though Antepli was not originally sched-uled to speak at the event, members of DSJP called him, requesting that he speak about the vandalism that occurred earlier in the afternoon.

“The consequences would have been drastically different if the tables were turned,” Antepli said. “This is an at-tack on the entire Duke community that harms our culture of respect and civility. We can move forward if we stand togeth-er as a community. We are one Duke. Together we stand through the hardship and struggle.”

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in search of interested professors and students, Piot drafted a letter to Provost Peter Lange and President Richard Brodhead, presenting his and Bartlett’s find-ings in Dec. 2011. The letter made suggestions for how to move the initiative forward, outlining current facul-ty projects taking place in Africa, as well as student in-volvement in study abroad, DukeEngage programs in the continent and student groups like DukeAFRICA.

“John [Bartlett] and I have found overwhelming, indeed unanimous, support for a Duke Africa initia-tive,” the letter read.

The initiative will play an important role in elevat-ing Duke’s status among its peer institutions, Bartlett said.

“We have a critical mass of faculty and staff with partnerships in Africa, and providing a forum for their interaction and exchange of ideas will offer great new opportunities,” Bartlett wrote in an email Nov. 5. “To our knowledge, such a broad University and Medical Center-wide focus is unprecedented among U.S. uni-versities and holds the promise of distinguishing Duke and its partners from others.”

The initiative has been granted $100,000 to use as it sees fit, Lange said. The money will fund 10 fac-ulty projects from departments ranging from music to medicine, and the professors involved will present their projects at a salon to be held in the Gothic Read-ing Room Wednesday, Piot said.

Next semester, Piot expects to arrange several con-versations between two professors from separate de-partments that normally would not interact and allow them each to present on their research and provide a platform for potential collaboration. The project will ideally expand beyond faculty cooperation, he said.

“A big part will involve students,” he noted. “In the last two summers, over 100 DukeEngage [participants] have gone to Africa—almost 25 percent go to Africa.”

Piot noted that he personally takes a group of stu-dents to Togo every summer—his work has material-ized into a recurring DukeEngage program.

At its core, the initiative will serve as a means to coordinate all University efforts involving Africa. The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program, which will fund seven classes of five students from sub-Saharan Africa, will be incorporated into the initiative, al-though it is not directly a part of it. Additionally, a website is in the works that will list all courses being of-fered concerning Africa and “suggest curricular path-ways,” Piot said.

“[We want to] make the whole greater than the sum of its parts,” Piot noted.

He said he hopes the initiative will allow Duke to bring more scholars and professors from African countries to Duke. He specifically mentioned Stellen-bosch University’s African Doctoral Academy, which brought together students from all over the continent to study at the South African university. If Duke pur-sued a similar program, Piot said, the University could develop a network of Duke-affiliated scholars across the continent, furthering the inter-continental col-laboration.

Duke’s growing involvement with China—through Duke Kunshan University and other ventures—may also play a role in the Africa Initiative, Piot said.

“China is all over the continent,” he noted.The initiative will require additional fundraising,

which Piot hopes will add up to $1 million to $2 mil-lion. Not all funding can come from the University, however—the committee for the initiative will be re-sponsible for doing some fundraising itself, Lange said, adding that he has been pleased with how the project has unfolded.

“It’s been partly a process of discovery and partly a process of just generating a lot of activity and innova-tion, so I feel really good about that,” Lange said.

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A healthy Wildcat squad may have the depth to outwork the Blue Devils, but with Har-row and Mays injured, Cali-pari could go with a rotation as thin as six or seven deep.

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(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season)

Duke, Kentucky get early taste of MarchMEN’S BASKETBALL SCOUTING THE OPPONENT

by Brady BuckTHE CHRONICLE

It may only be November and the second game of the year, but Duke’s tilt with perennial college basketball powerhouse Kentucky prom-ises to be one of its stiffest tests of the year and will likely feel like a Final Four game.

The No. 8 Blue Devils and No. 3 Wildcats will play each other in the Champions Classic tonight at 9:30 p.m. at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.

“We want to be a team that’s able to go for-ward in the NCAA Tournament and you have to play outstanding teams on neutral sites,” Duke assistant coach Steve Wojciechowski said. “And if you’re fortunate enough to get that far you’re going to be playing in a dome.”

After losing four first-round NBA draft picks from last year’s national championship team, Kentucky head coach John Calipari has reloaded with another top recruiting class. Freshmen Ner-lens Noel, Archie Goodwin, Will Cauley-Stein and Alex Poythress join sophomore Kyle Wiltjer and N.C. State transfer Ryan Harrow to help the Wildcats defend their national title.

“We’re an attacking kind of team,” Calipari said. “There are so many things to work on be-cause we’re freshmen, so that makes it hard.”

Despite inexperience and a revamped ros-ter, Kentucky presents a daunting challenge with a roster filled with NBA-caliber talent, size and athleticism.

“Offensively they’re very dangerous in transi-tion. They turn turnovers into points as well as anyone we’ll play this year,” Wojciechowski said. “We have to do a really good job of taking care of the ball and getting back in transition defense,

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

Kentucky head coach John Calipari is coming off his first NCAA championship. Duke basketball head coach Mike Krzyzews-ki is coming off his second gold medal after leading the USA men’s basketball team at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

And the last time the pair coached against each other, Krzyzewski walked off the court with a 113-59 victory. But that was a pre-Olympic exhibition game with Krzyze-wski coaching Team USA and Calipari lead-ing the Dominican Republic national team, which did not qualify for the Games.

“It would be nice to have LeBron [James] and [Kevin] Durant join us Tuesday,” Duke as-sociate head coach Steve Wojciechowski said.

When No. 9 Duke faces No. 3 Kentucky at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta at 9:30 p.m. tonight, two of the most revered college coaches will square off in much different cir-cumstances than their previous encounter.

“[Team USA] beat us by 100. I hope that’s not the result of this game,” Calipari said. “I think we were down 38 at half, and I was kind of waiting for the game to end and get out of there.”

Krzyzewski and Calipari have coached

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Q&A: Laettner readies for Duke-Kentucky

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Christian Laettner cuts down the net following the 1992 Elite Eight win vs. Kentucky

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

Former Duke basketball player Chris-tian Laettner is best remembered for his game-winning shot in the 1992 Elite Eight against Kentucky, giving the Blue Devils a 104-103 win in overtime. Laett-ner is joining former Kentucky basketball player Jeff Sheppard prior to Tuesday’s Duke-Kentucky game to honor Dick Vitale’s work with the V Foundation. Named after and started by former N.C. State basketball coach Jimmy Valvano, the V Foundation awards grants for cancer research. The event, titled the “Big Blue Salute to Dickie V.” will include auctions of Duke and Kentucky basket-ball memorabilia, with the profits benefit-ing the fund.

The Chronicle: How did this event with you and Jeff Sheppard get started?

Christian Laettner: He and I decided to do something before the Duke-Kentucky game, to have a pep-rally party in honor of Dickie V., and we’re going to present Dick Vitale with a check. All the proceeds will go to the Jimmy V Foundation

because Dick has done a lot of work with the Jimmy V Foundation over the years and so have I. So, we’re throwing a party before the game and looking forward to having some fun, and then we’re going over to the game and see who wins and gets the bragging rights.

TC: It must be a pretty good cause to bring you and Jeff Shep-pard—a Duke player and a Ken-tucky player—together, right?

CL: Exactly, that’s what we’re thinking. All jokes aside, it’s two of the most historic, storied programs in all of college basketball—Ken-tucky basketball and Duke basket-ball…. It’s just a great cause and a great time and everything just kind of came together where we were able to put it together.

When I was in high school you dream of playing in the college level and when you’re at the college level you want to in the NBA. But while you’re working your way up to the college level, one of the things that inspires you is Dickie V. and the way that he broadcasts and commen-

tates the game and the amount of passion he has for the game. He was very inspirational when I was in high school, and even still today.

TC: Talking about that passion, does it get any better than a game like Duke-Kentucky Tuesday night?

CL: The only way it gets more in-tense is because Dickie V. is calling the game. The Duke-UK game is go-ing to be a great game—two top-ten teams, a lot of history there. I’ll be there, and I’m sure I’ll get booed a little bit. Calipari vs. Coach K, that’s two of the best coaches in the col-lege game.

TC: And there may not be more a memorable moment between the schools than “The Shot” in the 1992 NCAA Tournament?

CL: It just keeps getting bigger and bigger every year. It gets more historic and more legendary, and I just try to enjoy it as much as pos-sible. The really neat part is that my

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Quarterfinals the last stop for Mar in N.Y.

Cunha and Hemmeler win national title

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Henrique Cunha, pictured, and Raphael Hemmeler won the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships.

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After reaching the quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA National Indoor Champion-ship, Duke junior Hanna Mar lost to the eventual runner-up.

Mar, ranked No. 35 in the preseason, was one of 32 tennis players invited to compete in the prestigious tournament hosted by Columbia in New York. She was automatically entered into the tournament after winning the USTA/ITA Division I Re-gional Championship in October.

“I think she did really well,” assistant coach Marc Spicijaric said. “You can take a lot of positives from the matches that she won. I think you can even go back to two weeks ago at regionals when she really started to get confident from doing well there. We were really trying to build [her confidence] going into to this weekend.”

Mar began tournament play as the sixth seed. She faced No. 89 Aleksandra Josifos-ka of UNLV in the round of 32 and won 6-3, 6-1 before easily defeating No. 41 Ka-tie Le of Santa Clara 6-1, 6-1 in the round of 16. Mar, however, was unable to carry her strong performance into the round of eight, where she fell to No. 22 Anett Schut-ting of Berkeley, 6-2, 6-1. Schutting went on to place second in the tournament.

“Overall, I’m pleased with my results,” Mar said. “I had not made the tournament before, so I didn’t know what to expect. I knew there was going to be some tough competition and some of the top players, so going in there and winning two matches, I’m really happy with how it turned out.”

With her performance in the tourna-ment, Mar ends the 2012 fall season with

a 13-3 record, going 5-2 against ranked op-ponents.

“I’m happy with my season,” Mar said. “I think I improved over the course of the season, and I also gained more confidence in my playing, so that’s a really good place to be.”

At the Kitty Harrison Invitational in Chapel Hill, Mar’s teammates, senior Mary Clayton and junior Marianne Jodoin, won their respective brackets. Ranked No. 44, Clayton wrapped up the blue draw with a victory against No. 24 Lauren McHale of North Carolina, 5-7, 7-6 (2), 6-4, while No. 27 Jodoin crushed Marshall’s Ellie Ball in the finals of the white draw, 6-1, 6-0.

The doubles pair of Clayton and sopho-more Annie Mullholland lost in the semi-finals to Dominik Zapranzna and Maria Voscekova of Marshall but rebounded against Virginia’s Maria Fuscillo and Hana Tomlijanovic to claim third place.

Duke finishes the fall season with a 46-24 singles record and a 20-8 record in doubles play. The team looks forward to re-turning in January, with a focus on Mar as a key player for the spring season.

“Myself, [head coach Jamie Ashworth] and her teammates believe in Hanna… but sometimes she doesn’t necessarily believe how good she is compared to some girls in the country,” Spicijaric said. “She’s been working really hard and it’s really great for her to achieve her goals because she’s been putting in time off the court. I think she had a really good Fall, and I think she’ll have a lot of confidence going into the Spring semester. That will not only be good for herself, but it will do good for the team as well.”

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Capping off the fall season with a national championship, the Blue Devils hope to pick up where they left off in the spring.

Duke took home a national title in dou-bles from the USTA/ITA National Indoor Championships for just the second time in the program’s history, as senior Henrique Cunha and sophomore Raphael Hemmeler defeated Hernus Pieters and Ben Wagland of Georgia 6-4, 6-2.

The No. 16 ranked pair in the ITA pre-season doubles rankings did not drop a set in the tournament, with victories against teams from Texas A&M, Texas, Virginia and Georgia. The pair’s closest match came in the semifinal round against Jarmere Jen-

kins and Mac Styslinger of Virginia, which Cunha and Hemmeler took 7-5, 6-2. The pair then cruised to victory against the country’s No. 35 ranked doubles team in straight sets.

“They were pretty dominant from start to finish,” Duke head coach Ramsey Smith said. “They did a good job of playing really aggres-sive doubles and it paid off at the end. ”

Cunha, the No. 1 ranked singles player in the country, faced shoulder problems fol-lowing the six sets over two matches that he played in the singles bracket on Friday. This injury forced him to retire in the semifinal match the next day.

“My shoulder was hurting, so I

Duke football commit gaining national buzz

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Head coach David Cutcliffe could have even more to celebrate if he holds on to top recruit Evrett Edwards.

Evrett Edwards isn’t your typical Duke foot-ball recruit.

Most Blue Devil gridiron commits don’t draw attention, let alone praise, from Alabama head coach Nick Saban. Edwards—a 5-foot-11 lockdown cornerback—did though, while at-

tending a camp in Tus-caloosa this summer.

“[Alabama] had heard about me,” Ed-wards said. “But they had not seen me or paid any attention to me until I got down there. I shut down ev-erybody that lined up

against me for three days straight. And [Sa-ban] told me that I am the best high school corner he has seen this year.”

Usually, the gems of a Duke football re-cruiting class aren’t one of the first players to commit either.

“What makes Edwards so special is that he committed early to give them some [recruit-ing] momentum,” said Dave Hooker, an ESPN ACC football recruiting analyst.

Giving his pledge to head coach David Cut-cliffe in March, Edwards is a high-end three-star prospect and the No. 41-ranked corner-back overall in the class of 2013, according to ESPN.com. But those rankings do not reflect the increase in buzz surrounding Edwards since the beginning of the year.

The Woodbridge, Va. product is a speed-ster, with a 40-yard dash time of 4.42 seconds. Perhaps best of all, he is a diligent student to the game, watching hours of film each week to study his opponents’ tendencies.

“I study film for outrageous amounts of hours,” Edwards said. “I study tendencies and can tell which routes will be ran by certain wideouts. A lot of kids in high school just re-act, but I am very cerebral on the field.”

Given the difficulty of luring elite defensive linemen to Durham, it’s pivotal to have quality defensive backs in Duke’s 4-2-5 scheme, espe-cially when facing the perimeter athletes in Florida State’s and Clemson’s spread attacks, which torched the Blue Devils’ secondary for 678 total yards and eight touchdowns, collec-tively, through the air this year.

Potentially enrolling at Duke next semes-ter, the intelligent, loose-hipped and quick

Edwards promises to be an impact player who can help prevent explosive ACC offenses from connecting on aerial bombs in years to come.

“I think Edwards is a prime example of a guy that you need in that conference,” Hook-er said. “I really think he is an intriguing pros-pect for Duke. I do think it’s reasonable that Edwards could come in [as a freshman] and work his way into the rotation.”

His high school team’s season is now over after finishing 6-5 and losing in the quarter-finals of the state playoffs this past weekend. Committed recruits usually enjoy down time after the conclusion of their high school sea-sons. But Edwards does not have that luxury

as he is still being hotly pursued by a number of top programs, which are trying to sway him out of his commitment to Duke.

Cutcliffe and his assistants are experienc-ing, in a way, a good problem—fending off a host of high-major BCS programs. Edwards says he talks to the Blue Devil coaching staff at least twice a week.

Playing in an area that is a hotbed for prep football talent, Edwards has seen his recruiting process pick up during his senior campaign. Now, he has about 30 scholarship offers with a laundry list of schools still in hot pursuit of him, even though he has been committed to Duke for months now. North Carolina, Van-derbilt, Maryland and Arizona State are re-cruiting him now, Edwards said, while Penn State, Illinois and Pittsburgh, among others, have been doing so for a while.

“It doesn’t surprise me that other schools have continued to come calling,” Hooker said. “That’s one thing that is so impressive about Edwards is that from day one he com-mitted to Duke, and he has not wavered, to my knowledge.”

In today’s age, verbal commitments from football recruits carry little weight given the accessibility to players via social media. Many commits, especially those who have pledged to Duke, would decommit if traditionally rich football schools came calling.

“It’s easier to get in touch with kids, and I think [other schools recruiting committed players] is incredibly prominent,” Hooker said. “Frankly, a verbal commitment from a good portion of the guys doesn’t mean much

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against each other just once as college coaches, when then-No. 1 Duke beat No. 11 Memphis 70-67 in a Nov. 2005 non-confer-ence game.

But there have been many near misses over the years. When Kentucky lost to West Virginia in the Elite Eight of the 2010 NCAA Tournament, which the Blue Devils went on to win, Calipari’s top-seeded Wildcats fell one game short of a Final Four meeting with Duke.

“Do you know how badly we wanted to play Duke?” Calipari told the Birgmingham News in Sept. 2010. “I think that’s why we played so badly against West Virginia. We wanted Duke so badly we couldn’t see straight.”

The two teams were placed in the same region of last year’s NCAA Tourna-ment, but the Blue Devils did not get to face the eventual champions after getting up-set by 15-seed Lehigh in the round of 64. If the teams had met in the Elite Eight, it would have marked the 20-year anni-versary of Duke’s 104-103 over-time victory against the Wild-cats in the 1992 Elite Eight.

The final sequence of that game is now among the most memorable moments in col-lege basketball history, with Grant Hill throwing the ball three-quarters of the way down the court to Christian Laettner, who nailed a turn-around jumper as time expired to send the Blue Devils to the Final Four

trying to make them beat us with their half-court offense.”

According to Dick Vitale’s Twitter ac-count, Calipari will be without starting point guard Ryan Harrow, who has been battling an illness dating back to last week. Julius Mays—a 6-foot-2 reserve shooting guard—practiced with the team on Monday after suffering an eye injury against Maryland and is expected to play.

In Harrow’s absence, the Wildcats will turn to former walk-on Jarrod Polson to man the point guard position. With Harrow unable to play extended minutes last week, Polson made the most of his first opportunity on a big stage in the team’s opening game against Maryland. The 6-foot-2 junior made clutch plays down the stretch and finished with 10 points to help his team escape with a 72-69 win.

Kentucky’s other two go-to-guys on the offensive end against the Terrapins were Wiltjer and Goodwin, who finished with 19 and 16 points, respectively. Wiltjer is a skilled, face-up big man who can stretch defenses with his shooting ability. Goodwin is an ag-gressive 6-foot-4 guard who loves to attack the rim and possesses a competent stroke from 3-point range.

One of the interesting matchups of the night will be the small forward battle—Alex Murphy against former Blue Devil target Alex Poythress. With a sculpted 6-foot-8 physique, Poythress rebounds at a high level for a small forward and is more than capable of scoring in bunches. Even though he has not logged minutes in a real game yet in his career, Mur-phy will need to play and play well for Duke to counter the Wildcats’ size and versatility.

“We look at all of our guys as guys who can play,” Wojciechowski said. “Alex has done a good job in the last couple days of practice and I’m sure he’ll be ready to play Tuesday night.”

In the Wildcats’ contest against the Terra-pins, Kentucky’s youthful frontcourt was ex-posed against a physical stable of Maryland big men. Noel—a 6-foot-10 shot-blocking special-ist—and 7-foot Cauley-Stein struggled to slow down Maryland center Alex Len, who finished with 23 points and 12 rebounds.

“At times in the second half we looked like a freshman team, which is what we are,” Calipari said. “Maryland’s size hurt us, their physical play hurt us.”

Duke will likely follow Maryland’s lead by feeding its preseason first-team All-ACC selection Mason Plumlee in the post. The 6-foot-10 senior is coming off an impres-sive 19-point and 14-rebound performance against Georgia State.

“I think Plumlee has gotten so much bet-ter,” Calipari said. “He can run the floor, he fights the post, he guards the guy before he catches it.”

Shooting a woeful 3-for-19 from distance, the Terrapins would have likely knocked off the defending champs had they been able to

shoot a higher percentage from 3-point range. Calipari realizes that the Wildcats will likely not have that same fortune against a Duke team that has lethal shooters like senior Seth Curry and freshman Rasheed Sulaimon.

“Maryland did not make shots that Duke will make,” Calipari said. “If [the Blue Devils] come out and make 20-of-25 [3-pointers], we’re done. We’ll tap them on the butt and go home.”

Playing in what promises to be an electric atmosphere at the future site of the 2013 Final Four against top-flight talent this early should pay dividends down the road for Duke as it tries to establish its identity.

“They’re a great measuring stick,” Wojciechowski said. “Guys come to Duke to play in big games. These are the type of games that our players want to play in. From a practi-cal standpoint, in addition to that, it gives us a better feel of where we’re at as a team and what we need to do to continue to get better.”

SCOUTING from page 9 KENTUCKY from page 9 and eventually their second consecutive na-tional championship.

Although Kentucky leads 11-8 in its all-time series against Duke, Krzyzewski is 4-1 against the Wildcats.

Kentucky is coming off a season-opening 72-69 victory in which it was outrebounded 46-34 by Maryland, which held a 63-62 lead with less than six minutes to play. The Wildcats pulled

it out in the end, led by a 19-point performance from sophomore Kyle Wiltjer. The rest of their leading con-tributors are part of the team’s heralded recruiting class, with Calipari saying he expects four fresh-men to play at least 25 minutes each against Duke.

The team’s top recruit is a 6-foot-10

post player, Nerlens Noel, who scored

just four points but re-corded nine rebounds, three blocks and two steals

against the Terrapins. Deal-ing with the athleticism of Noel and Kentucky’s other top freshmen, Alex Poythress, Ar-

chie Goodwin and 7-foot center Willie Cauley-Stein, will be an adjustment for the Blue Devils after their season-opening victory

against Georgia State.“[Kentucky is] a very talented

and physically-gifted team that plays very hard. Offensively they’re

very dangerous in transition,” Wojciechowski said. “We have to do a

really good job of taking care of the ball and getting back in transition defense, trying to make them beat us with their half-court of-fense.”

Krzyzewski used just eight players in the team’s first game, excluding Alex Murphy from the floor after the redshirt freshman started both of the team’s preseason con-tests.

Murphy’s absence was called a coach’s decision, with no further specifics given.

“Alex has done a good job in the last couple days of practice and I’m sure he’ll be ready to play Tuesday night,” Wojciechowski said. “For us to be at our best, we’re going to need all of our players playing really well, certainly Alex has a lot of ability and can be a contributor to our team this year.”

Calipari said his young squad will have to contend with Duke’s ability to put pow-er forwards on the perimeter with Mason Plumlee manning the post. The Wildcats were exposed in their opener by sophomore center Alex Len, who scored 23 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, both career highs.

Both Calipari and Wojciechowski stressed the importance of this game as an early-sea-son test for measuring where their respec-tive teams are. They also noted the game’s location, the Georgia Dome, a neutral site where both teams will have fans. The Geor-gia Dome will host the 2013 Final Four.

Like last year’s Final Four, Calipari is stocked with a collection of the nation’s most-heralded talents. And after seeing Krzyzewski harness the abilities of some of the world’s best players this summer, the intrigue between the two coaches has never been higher.

“Having a team like that and getting ev-erybody to sacrifice—to know you’re sup-posed to win, and win anyway—what an achievement,” Calipari said. “What Mike has done for USA basketball and how he’s done it.... It was amazing.”

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couldn’t finish the semifinals, but over-all I think I did my best. I had a great tournament,” Cunha said. “After my sin-gles match [on Saturday], I spent hours in the training room, rested up and took care of myself. I left everything on the court [Sunday] because I knew it was go-ing to be the last match.”

Following Cunha and Hemmeler’s dou-bles title victory at the ITA Carolina Region-als, the No. 2-seeded team in the tournament carried high expectations to Flushing, N.Y. in search of a national championship. The pair did not disappoint.

“We came here to win,” Cunha said. “We knew we were playing well. We were re-ally confident before the tournament and we came here ready to win.”

Hemmeler attributed the team’s success to their strength in serving and returning throughout their matches, several adjust-ments made in the week prior and the execu-tion of set plays over the course of the tour-nament.

While Hemmeler did not enter the singles draw, Smith credited his up-tempo playing style as one of the team’s keys to success.

“Henrique obviously played a lot of sin-gles so he was pretty tired, especially at the end, but Rafa did a great job of bringing the energy to every match,” Smith said. “They have incredible chemistry with each other, I think that’s a really important part of a dou-bles team.”

The pair finishes the fall season with an impressive 12-1 record, and becomes the first Duke team to capture a doubles title at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Champi-onships since 2003. The first to accomplish this feat were Ludovic Walter and Jason Zimmerman.

Cuhna and Hemmeler will return to ac-tion in January when the Blue Devils begin their spring schedule.

kids are getting older and they’re starting to understand what it means and what it was for and what it’s about, so it’s very interesting to watch their reaction.

TC: Did you realize at the time it would be-come such a hallmark moment?

CL: I didn’t think it at the time. I didn’t even think it an hour later or a day later, but as time wore on, every day and every week I’m starting to realize how important it was.

TC: Do you have a prediction for the game?

CL: I think Duke’s going to win. They’re going to have so much more experience on the court with the three seniors. Kentucky has got a really, really young team. I expect Ken-tucky to be excellent by the season’s end and I don’t think they’re excellent quite yet. I think Duke will be able to sneak one out.

anymore.”Despite the increased interest from other

big-time football schools, Edwards is still firmly committed to the Blue Devils.

“I am committed to Duke, and Duke is committed to me,” Edwards said. “Like I said from the beginning, I am looking for a four-year school and Duke is the type of school that will prepare me for life after college.”

Edwards is clearly unique and exemplifies the impressive strides made by Duke football on and off the field.

And if you still don’t believe it, Edwards’ most staggering distinction is his reaction to Saban’s remarks this summer.

“It was just another compliment,” Edwards nonchalantly said.

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President Harry Truman kept a walnut-wood sign on his Oval Offi ce desk engraved with the words, “The buck stops here.” The

words referenced Truman’s belief that he was ul-timately responsible for managing the United States. Policy decisions, and the consequences of those de-cisions, were his burden. The sign was emblematic of his leadership, and Truman referenced the words in his 1953 farewell address: “The president—whoever he is—has to decide. He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the de-ciding for him. That’s his job.”

For most decisions at Duke, the buck stops at the Allen Building—the amorphous group of administrators who are clumped together when we point fi ngers. The administrators make the fi nal decisions on this campus, whether it’s regarding the house model, West Union renovations or tailgating policy. Duke Student Government doesn’t really make that many decisions—we do more lobbying than gov-ernance.

I’ve heard many students complain about the Allen Building’s hegemony over student life. The sentiment is unsurprising given the amount of cul-tural, programmatic and infrastructure changes the Allen Building has initiated over the past year. Duke Student Government knows the sentiment exists, and it’s why so many student candidates scapegoat the administration in their messages and platforms. Many think the strong candidate is the one who promises to wrench the administra-tion’s power from their hands, the one who will storm into the Allen Building and demand the old Tailgate back, the one who promises to let Duke be Duke again. It’s a message of power, conviction and force—who wouldn’t like that?

At the Duke Student Government president and executive vice president debate last year, all of the presidential candidates bashed the adminis-tration but didn’t go after each other. They prom-ised to turn back the decisions in motion, to take a stand against those nebulous administrators. It was a debate without substance, partly because the candidates didn’t have signifi cantly different platforms. In a race where candidates differed on leadership style, rather than ideological grounds, the candidates did surprisingly little to distinguish themselves from their opponents. Without any confl ict the debate lacked entertainment, for sure, but also substantive discourse. In some ways, a gov-ernment with members who are sensitive to par-tisan rancor will be a government with members who mutually respect and cooperate with each

other. But in this debate, every candidate made vague infl ated statements, and broadly lambasted the administration’s repression of student life.

I participated in the debate as well, and in my closing remarks, I castigated the presidential candidates for their lack of substance and their cheap shots at the administration. I thought it was bold; some saw it as brash. I didn’t intend to be sen-sational or controversial. Rather, I was just appalled by the blatant passing of the buck. Reprimand-ing administrators who don’t have the chance to defend themselves is unfair, weak and not construc-tive. It’s also hypocritical, because

at the end of the election, every candidate knows they’ll have to receive administrative approval to get anything done. They know that an amiable partnership with administrators is an effi cacious partnership, and they’ll eventually tread back on their criticism.

Yes, the Allen Building and our Board of Trust-ees almost always make the fi nal decision. Part of that is the structure of Duke’s bureaucracy. But an-other part comes from our campus leaders. The administration is always one step ahead of us and we are always trying to catch up. It doesn’t have to be this way—instead of responding to administra-tive decrees, what if we infl uenced them before they were ever initiated? What if we elected stu-dent government leaders with visions, goals and aspirations, rather than candidates who promised to fi ght back? We don’t need student leaders who point fi ngers—that’s what we have on Capitol Hill, and it’s abysmal. We do need student leaders who set the agenda, and move us forward with confi -dence.

When I spoke up at the debate I probably could have been less bombastic, but I was angry. I was frustrated that there was no one sitting on that stage that would take responsibility for the past and promise to move forward. Maybe my comment was a gaffe. But gaffes on the campaign trail, whether they’re about the inability to make decisions on Russia’s foreign policy, the unvetted approval of gay marriage, “legitimate” rape or the 47 percent, reveal the true, unfi ltered sentiments of candidates. My comment was unfi ltered, it was a raw demand for someone to take responsibil-ity. Because the buck shouldn’t stop at the Allen Building—that’s cheap leadership.

Patrick Oathout, DSG executive vice president, is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Patrick on Twitter @patrickoathout.

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The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment made the an-nouncement that it would give Davidson College $45 million, the largest single donation ever given to the school.

While we congratulate Davidson on this generous gift, we fi nd the Duke Endowment’s rationale for the gift puzzling. A Duke Endowment staff member, Su-san McConnell, explained that the money would be used to make “liberal arts relevant in the 21st century.” How so? Da-vidson plans to construct and renovate six academic build-ings to create “spaces that fos-ter interdisciplinary learning,” according to Davidson’s web-site. Faculty will be housed in the new buildings depending on the resources they need,

not traditional departmental divisions.

This plan sounds more like a standard facelift to us than “a 10-year plan to remake the model of liberal arts educa-

tion,” again a claim made on Davidson’s own

website. “We are being moti-vated by questions,” said Da-vidson president Carol Quil-len. “What does it mean to offer a liberal arts education now? Why is Davidson worth the tuition, given online op-tions?” While liberal arts uni-versities may feel like they are under siege, fancy news build-ings are not the answer. There are a few problems with David-son’s grand but ill-fated plan, from which Duke—another university with much staked on interdisciplinarity—should

learn a few lessons.First, while campus infra-

structure is important, it alone cannot advance the cause of interdisciplinarity. Flexible ar-chitectural spaces can foster all kinds of connective, fl uid thinking—but true interdis-ciplinarity willl require more important curricular, fi nan-cial and cultural changes. It remains to be seen how rig-orously the Duke Forward campaign and Duke generally commit itself to this task.

Second, Davidson’s new gift should not have been branded as an interdisciplinary initia-tive in the fi rst place. Like Duke, Davidson seems eager to brand. Interdisciplinarity is a big buzzword in higher edu-cation this year. We caution Da-vidson, Duke and other univer-sities to not overuse the term.

Haphazardly labeling all sorts of University initiatives—imag-ine “interdisciplinary new West Union” and “interdisciplinary LDOC”—can breed confusion, sloppiness and disingenuous-ness. If Davidson’s gift is mostly about physical improvements of Davidson’s campus—as we suspect—publicize it as such. Some things at universities are not going to lend themselves easily to interdisciplinarity, and that is fi ne. But if Davidson ac-tually wants to approach inter-disciplinarity, it should do so in a serious way.

Third, if online education truly poses a threat to the liber-al arts model, it will take deep thinking on the part of univer-sities to address the issue. A new allegedly interdisciplinary building project is not going to revolutionize much. Often,

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I believe in affi rmative action. I also believe that at some point, affi rmative action will need to end. It’s not a perfect system. Any time we have an idea for a system that treats dif-

ferent races differently, we need to be extremely skeptical—and that includes everything from poll taxes to school segregation to voter ID laws to affi rmative action. However, unlike the other three examples, affi rmative action’s value justifi es the use of ra-cial preference.

Race should matter in college admissions, because race mat-ters in real life. Racism is alive and well; it doesn’t just take the forms we’re used to. We rarely see businesses outright denying a customer service; today, we see people of color followed be-cause they look suspicious. Racism is almost never in the form of lynching a black teenager for whistling at a white woman—rest in peace, Emmett Till—but it still means pursuing, confronting and eventually shooting a black teenager for looking suspicious in a white neighborhood—rest in peace, Trayvon Martin.

One devastating form that racism takes is the criminaliza-tion of people of color. I don’t mean that the biggest threat to racial equality is the arrest of innocent people—though we defi nitely need to work on that—but rather, the image of black and Latino people as criminals. It’s an image that is implanted deeply within the American consciousness. Most people won’t display pride in racism. Most people will say that they’re not racist. Many people who fall into those two categories still harbor racist attitudes—an AP survey found that 51 percent of Americans express explicit anti-black attitudes. The “successful black man” meme is an insidious ex-ample: It claims to subvert existing stereotypes but instead pro-vides an avenue to say “just kidding!” after already having said what is otherwise taboo.

The image of the black or Latino criminal has real conse-quences. The most relevant one is that employers are less likely to hire and promote people of color. This isn’t something anti-discrimination laws are particularly good at fi xing, since this often comes in the form of implicit bias rather than explicit bias—someone with a black-sounding name is less likely to be called back than someone with a white-sounding name. The result is that black Americans are faced with an undue burden when entering and climbing the professional ladder.

This hints at the problem that affi rmative action seeks to correct, which is systematic racism. Systematic racism is so hard to beat because it’s baked so deeply into everyday life that we of-ten have trouble recognizing it. There’s a reason that TV shows, for example, like to have white leads to go with minority sup-porting characters: They can have the illusion of diversity while avoiding having to test whether white audiences can “identify” with non-white characters. Most people aren’t looking to inten-tionally exploit systematic racism, but it still presents an obvious and unfair advantage in the system that needs to be corrected.

There’s a reason we place a high value on affi rmative ac-tion in college admissions: Employers see something in a Duke degree that they don’t see in very many other degrees. Duke has great power, so it has the great responsibility of promoting fairness rather than sustaining systematic discrimination, and Duke has overwhelmingly chosen to promote fairness.

But affi rmative action cannot—and should not—last for-ever. It works only in a world where systematic discrimination is a factor. In an ideal world, we would be able to see race without making any judgments on it. More realistically, we’re moving toward a world where people of all races will have equal oppor-tunity. That’s the end goal of affi rmative action.

Yet we might see affi rmative action truncated before it’s due. The Supreme Court has heard the arguments for Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which will decide the future of affi rmative action, and based on the makeup of the Supreme Court, there’s a signifi cant chance affi rmative action will disap-pear or be severely altered for the Class of 2017 or 2018. If we lose one of our powerful tools of racial equality, are we ready to move on? Will we be able to expand outreach programs from elite universities into inner cities to give high school students the resources to clear the twin hurdles of gaining admission to and paying for an elite university? Are we prepared to build up our minority communities in other ways? If not, then regard-less of the Supreme Court’s decision, there’s no time like the present.

Jordan DeLoatch is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Jordan on Twitter @jstorm64.

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lettertotheeditorHow to fi x America in one simple step

The 2012 election season was dominated by polar-ized, hateful, theocratic and purely ignorant comments. There was no undertone of compromise, and if the last four years are any indication, compromise will remain absent for quite some time. So what do we as a country do? How do we moderate the factions of our govern-ment and foster compromise within the halls of Con-gress? America can do better, and needs to. But how?

What if there was a way to force candidates to stop mudslinging as a way to scare their party base into vot-ing and instead focus on having better policies than the opposition? What if there was a way to increase the importance of swing moderate voters and bring candi-dates away from dangerously extreme parties that are unable to compromise?

Mandatory voting might just be what we need.As Australia, Singapore, Argentina and other coun-

tries have shown us, even with a small fi ne—or tax, to get it past the Supreme Court—the voter turnout could increase from the paltry 57.5 percent of voters this year to upwards of 80 percent within one year. The problem is, most (not all) of the 42.5 percent of non-

voters didn’t abstain because they had no preferred candidate, but because they didn’t think their vote would matter, the polling station was too far away or out of sheer laziness.

So, if these 40 percent of people were required to vote, the focus of elections would shift signifi cantly—from getting a candidate’s own political party out to vote, to getting the vote of swing voters or even of moderates from the opposing party. This would not only reverse the increasing polarization of political parties, but would also lead to more moderate presi-dents, senators and congressmen being elected and to a system fostering compromise and bipartisanship.

America can once again be a nation of compro-mise, political effi ciency and of representation from all the people, not just the extreme groups passionate enough to consistently vote. The American political system needs to be improved, and mandatory voting is a large stepping stone on the way to an effi cient, representative and bipartisan government.

Chris DeePratt ’16

As a child, I used to wait impatiently for my grand-father to come home from work. Despite my par-ents’ displeasure, I would hang onto the rails of

the garden fence and stare across the pasture in anticipa-tion of his arrival. After hearing the sound of a taxi coming to a stop, I would jump over the fence and excitedly run across the fi eld. My grandfather would look up and smile as he saw me sprint through the grass. As I neared, he would set his suit-case aside, crouch down and extend his arms so that he could catch me and throw me up into the air repetitively. It was cus-tomary. My grandfather would put me down, tussle my hair and hold my hand as we walked back to the backyard.

Years later when I was in the fi fth grade, I realized my immaturity. After coming home from work one day, my grandfather sat down on the bench next to the fragrant lemon tree, kicked back and motioned for me to sit next to him. He put his arm around me and requested that I listen closely to what he was about to say. Unaccustomed to serious conversations at such a young age, I prevented myself from smiling and put my head onto my grandfa-ther’s shoulder.

“As you grow older, you will learn to be patient. De-spite the troubles you will endure, you must understand that not every solution is within your reach. During these times, you’ll realize that everything you need will be in your heart and your mind. Everything you need to re-main strong is right here.”

My grandfather tapped his right index fi nger on my chest and then on my head as a tear streamed down his face. I didn’t know why he was crying, but I assumed that it was because our plane was leaving the next day, and that the next time I would see him would probably be in another four years. I pondered his words for a while and looked up at my grandfather. He looked back at me and smiled at my confused expression. I hugged my grand-father as tight as my little arms could manage but wasn’t able to shed one tear in response. Perhaps it was because I was still pondering what he had just told me. Perhaps it was because I didn’t know what my grandfather was go-ing through. I was too young to understand.

I sat quietly during our eight-hour commute back home. Sometime during the fl ight, I wrote down a

rough translation of what my grandfather had told me on a napkin that was given to me by the fl ight attendant. I never told anyone of our discussion the day before, nor did I ask anyone what his words meant.

I never knew that a few days before we left, my grandfather had been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He refused to tell any-one, even my grandmother, until he started feeling very sick a few months later.

One year after we had left, my grandfa-ther passed away. The last time I saw him, the last time I ever spoke to him, was that day when we both sat on the bench. A few days after the funeral, I would understand what my grandfather had been trying to tell me. It all makes sense now. Despite

the diagnosis, my grandfather never let the illness affect his life. He remained strong and presided over family matters regardless of what would happen a year later. He laughed, told jokes and went about his life in a way no different than he had done so in the past, all the while refusing to let the cancer impact his attitude, personality or commitment to family. He remained faithful, blamed no one and taught many to remain thankful despite the incomparable diffi culty he was facing.

When I look back at that moment and remember what my grandfather had told me, I realize that I haven’t been living by his advice. I haven’t remained strong, nor have I been thankful for my blessings. Who the hell am I to complain about my life? I would never be able to compare the insubstantial worries that trouble me now to those that affected my grandfather.

My grandmother went on to tell me that my grandfa-ther would go to work, ride the taxi back, walk through the fi eld and sit on that same bench every day since I had left—something that he had never done before our conversation. In the midst of the incomparable struggles that I face, I strive to remember the wisdom that my grandfather aimed to instill in me.

On this day, I regret that I was not able to sit next to him on the days when he sat alone.

Happy birthday, Grandpa.

Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Tuesday. You can follow Mousa on Twitter @mousaalshanteer.

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