november 23, 2009 issue

by Will HyungThe chronicle

The Grand challenge Scholars program has been endowed with a $1 million dona-tion from the family of a late Board of Visi-tors chair.

Susie Simon announced her family’s $1 million donation in early november at a Pratt Board of Visitors meeting, in honor of her husband J. Stephen Simon, engineering ’65, who passed away unexpectedly in July. J. Stephen Simon was chair of the Pratt Board of Visitors and a former director and senior vice president of exxon Mobil corporation. The Gc Scholars program asks Pratt School of engineering students to address societal is-sues such as access to clean water.

At the Pratt Board of Visitors meeting nov. 14, Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas and President richard Brodhead announced the naming of room 115 in the Teer building as the “J. Ste-phen Simon instructional classroom”

“My husband went to Duke and one of his primary causes in life was to work with Duke and Pratt,” Susie Simon said. “he thought very highly of education and always wanted to work for further education for young men and women. i thought of no better way to honor him than to give this to the school.”

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by Maggie LoveThe chronicle

Success can be defined in many ways. Terry Alle-baugh, executive director of housing for new hope, defines it as having your name on a lease.

Allebaugh and others celebrated the success of three formerly homeless Durham residents yesterday at the chapel. William hawkins, Brian Mclendon and Trico newton all completed one-year residencies in the transitional housing programs run by hous-ing for new hope, a non-profit organization that works to end homelessness in Durham. hawkins and Mclendon graduated from the program’s Phoenix house, and newton from Dove house. All three are now living independently.

Attendees of the close-knit gathering included housing for new hope board members and staff, current members of the Phoenix and Dove houses,

Ceremony honors former homeless locals

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Jay Hollingsworth had some success against Miami’s defense Saturday, but Duke’s inability to cash in on red-zone opportunities gave the win to the ’Canes.

by Stephen AllanThe chronicle

MiAMi — Duke seemingly had it all going for three quarters—a quick-strike offense, a defense that forced mistakes and a significant coaching ad-vantage.

But there were warning signs that trouble could brew in the fourth quarter. Miami running back Damien Berry, who had just one rush for one yard at halftime, ran for 47 yards on just six carries in the third quarter.

And as effective as the Blue Devils had been in getting down the field, they were just as inefficient in finding the end zone with only one touchdown to show for five trips into hurricanes’ territory.

Those two problems, combined with two ques-tionable officiating decisions that proved to be mo-mentum-changing, undid Duke’s upset chances and bowl hopes as no. 19 Miami scored 21 unanswered points in the final period of a 34-16 victory Saturday

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Pratt receives $1M gift from former chair

CDC finds 4 resistant flu cases at Duke

by Staff ReportsThe chronicle

Testing conducted last week by the centers for Disease control and Preven-tion confirmed four drug-resistant cases of h1n1 influenza at the Duke University Medical center.

cDc tests, requested by infectious dis-ease specialists at the Medical center, found that four patients in an isolated unit of the hospital had cases of the virus that were resistant to the drug Tamiflu.

According to a Medical center news release Friday, the cDc is working with officials from the north carolina Di-vision of Public health, the Durham county health Department and the Duke Division of infectious Diseases to research these cases.

“our extensive investigation thus far has revealed that appropriate infection control procedures have been diligent-ly practiced on this isolated unit, and throughout the hospital,” Dr. Daniel Sexton, professor of medicine and direc-tor of the Duke infection control out-reach network, said in Friday’s release. “We have experienced no illness among employees taking care of these patients

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Students performed at Awaaz, the annual South Asian cultural show at Duke, Friday and Saturday nights. The event was sponsored by Duke Diya and filled Page Auditorium both nights.

A packed Page performance

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WashinGTon, D.c. — The senate voted along party lines saturday night to overcome a republican filibuster and bring to the floor a bill that would over-haul the nation’s health-care system.

after days of indecision, the two final Democratic holdouts — sens. Blanche lincoln of arkansas and mary landrieu of louisiana — joined the rest of their cau-cus in supporting a procedural motion to begin debate. The 60 to 39 vote marks a milestone in the decades-old quest for health-care reform that was reignited by President Barack obama’s election.

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A dancer poses during the annual November Dances, which consisted of three shows in Reynolds Theater Sunday afternoon. The program is a display of Modern, ballet and African dances performed by Duke Dance faculty, students and guests.

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Smart Home celebration hopes to spark new interests

by Chun Chit LaiThe chronicle

As residents switched the light-ing mode of the home Depot Smart home from “all-on” to “partay,” par-tygoers hit the dance floor Friday to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the building’s completion.

The party’s main objective was for people to enjoy themselves, said junior Kelvin Gu, president of Smart home, but residents also hoped the party would draw peo-ple who are not in the Smart home Program to learn more about the live-in research laboratory. The house’s pre-programmed custom-ized lighting system was just one of the many attractions that non-residents were able to observe.

“We want to show people what Smart home has to offer, and that it is not just a place for engi-neers,” said senior Andrew First, vice president of Smart home.

First said the party helped Smart home achieve that goal.

John Kear, a Trinity freshman who plans to major in history, said he was impressed by how the house was able to act as a test bed for in-novative technology projects, while still retaining a “homey” feeling.

Smart home residents can take a shower heated by its solar hot wa-ter system and enjoy its media room replete with three lcD televisions and walls that are highly acoustic

for enhanced sound effects.“i am seriously considering ap-

plying to live in it,” Kear said. recruiting non-engineering

students like Kear into the Smart home Program has been one of Director Jim Gaston’s main goals. he said it is very important that the projects Smart home under-takes are addressed from interdis-ciplinary perspectives.

As Smart home turns two, Gu said that this interdisciplinary sense of community is one of the program’s greatest achievements.

Some of the projects underway at Smart home include a wireless

power service system, which will automatically charges iPods, cell phones and laptops on a single platform. Additionally, the radio Frequency identification project is able to detect the whereabouts of Smart home residents. The rFiD sensor can adjust media settings by playing playlists of the residents’ favorite songs when they are in the shower.

As music blasted Friday, Gu said the Smart home is on its way to becoming an incubator for stu-dent-based research projects and a home for green and hi-tech in-ventors and entrepreneurs.

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Students enjoy music and snacks under a pre-programmed lighting system at the Home Depot Smart Home Friday night to celebrate the house’s second anniversary.

The endowment will guaran-tee funding for Pratt students who are accepted into the Gc Scholars program to pursue in-novative and creative projects related to a list of 14 challenges identified by the national Acad-emy of engineering, said Mar-tha Absher, Pratt assistant dean for education and outreach pro-grams. Pratt will graduate its first group of Gc Scholars this year.

“Personally, this is so exciting for the Pratt School to have a gift of this magnitude for this education-al program,” Katsouleas said. “To be able to launch Pratt into such a lead role is terribly exciting.”

The Gc Scholars program is a new initiative spearheaded by Pratt, the Franklin W. olin col-lege of engineering, and the Uni-versity of Southern california’s Viterbi School of engineering. The program encourages students to address the national Academy of engineering’s 14 Grand chal-lenges for engineering. The chal-lenges include preventing nuclear terror, producing energy from fu-sion and securing cyberspace.

Previously, the Simons demon-strated their support for the pro-gram by making donations to start the Gc Scholars program and pro-vide funding for 10 students per year for the coming three years.

Katsouleas said the Simons were “very passionate supporters” of the Grand challenges Summit that Duke hosted last March, attending every talk in the two-day-meeting.

Simon said she and her hus-band were very impressed with the summit and that she made the donation in order to let people know how important the Grand challenges program was for her husband.

“After going to the summit and watching the educators talk about the things that could be done, we realized that this was the way we want to put our money to inspire students to achieve these higher goals,” Susie Simon said.

Absher said the long-term goal for the program is for Pratt students to become involved in Grand challenge activities beginning their freshman year and to build a list of Grand chal-lenges accomplishments before formally joining the program their junior year.

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Students wrap up holiday gifts Saturday afternoon for children in local schools to support the Toys and Tales charity in the Bryan Center.

Wrapping for local childrenalumni of housing for hope and family members of the new graduates. Allebaugh said housing for new hope was invited to hold the ceremony in the cha-pel by Pastor nancy Ferree-clark and Gaston War-ner, director of university and community relations.

Allebaugh said it is important to honor the achieve-ments of hawkins, Mclendon and newton because the structured program can be very challenging, and completion of the program demonstrates that the graduates have made “very important steps.”

The difficulty of the program was made clear in stories shared by the honorees.

hawkins, who left the Phoenix house after six months, returned after being imprisoned. he had a hard time getting a job, particularly struggling with passing the computer component of one of his applications. Although Mclendon was praised for keeping his focus on completing the program, his case manager, Wayne eaton, said he was at times re-sistant to having rules imposed on him.

newton said when she joined the Dove house, she was “a broken, homeless, and drug-addicted woman, and [she] also felt lonely.”

Today, all three graduates have jobs and have their names on a lease. They have also been reunit-ed with their families—specifically, newton with her children and Mclendon with his nephew.

Symbols of these achievements, a plaque and a check for $500, were presented to the honorees by their case managers, resident managers and relief staff.

The ceremony also “offers inspiration back to [current members],” Allebaugh said.

current members of the two transitional living programs were asked to stand, state their names and the date they will graduate.

“[The ceremony] meant a lot because i’m trying to change myself,” said Fred roberson, a current member of the Phoenix house and hawkins’ former roommate,

roberson, who has been at the Phoenix house for four months, moved in after being imprisoned for selling drugs. his goals are to become a part of society again and to get his children back. he said Phoenix house has allowed him to realize that his actions affect others.

But current members of housing for new hope are not the only ones who need encouragement.

“We in the community also need this,” Allebaugh said. “We are just overwhelmed by bad news every day... [at this ceremony] we get to feel a sense of gratitude.”

in the affected unit over this period of time.”These cases are considered the largest “cluster” of

drug-resistant swine flu found in the United States so far, indicating that the virus has mutated, the (Durham) herald-Sun reported Saturday. The drug-resistant cases are rare but are not more severe than other h1n1 cas-es, the cDc reported. Two women and an adult man died at the hospital after their samples showed that they were drug-resistant cases.

“All of them had pretty serious underlying medi-cal conditions, including some immunosuppression, and so we are unable to say that their deaths were caused by influenza,’’ Dr. Megan Davies, an cDc epidemiologist for north carolina, said at a press conference Saturday.

More than 50 drug-resistant cases of swine flu have been reported in the world since last spring, the Associated Press reported Friday, including an-other cluster of five cases last week in the United Kingdom.

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“We in the community also need this. We are just overwhelmed by bad news every day... [at this cer-emony] we get to feel a sense of

gratitude.” — Terry Allebaugh,

exec. director of Housing for New Hope

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by Dan AhrensThe chronicle

For the second straight game, Duke raced out of the gates in the first half for a 2-0 lead. And, once again, the Blue Dev-ils were able to make that lead hold up in the second period to upset 14th-seeded Michigan State 2-1 Sunday in east lansing

and advance to the round of 16 in the ncAA tournament.

“i think we got nervous at halftime

with the lead,” head coach John Kerr said. “it’s a dangerous lead, a 2-0 lead, and we knew if they scored they would be back in the game. Mentally it would be in their favor. luckily for us we defended well to-wards the end.”

Duke (14-6) held possession for most of the first 45 minutes en route to its first-half advantage. right off the bat, junior cole Grossman ripped a shot from 20 yards out that flew over the crossbar. Following an exciting first two minutes in which Michi-gan State (11-8-2) also generated a scoring chance, the game slowed down, with nei-ther team creating much offensively.

As the match wore on, the Blue Devils’ offense warmed up. A ball served in by Grossman led to a christian ibeagha head-er that barely missed the post.

Duke kept the pressure on, and finally broke through in the 29th minute. Gross-man flighted a corner into the box, where Andrew Wenger headed the ball down to Temi Molinar. The sophomore midfielder

then passed it across to ibeagha who hit the post with his first attempt but was there to finish the rebound.

only 14 minutes later, the Blue Devils struck again from yet another corner. The Michigan State goalie failed to clear the ball, and Wenger won a battle in the box and finished.

“We’ve been working on some set pieces all week,” Kerr said. “We’re a threat on the corner kick—we’ve been a threat all sea-son. [Grossman] plays a good ball in and we’ve got some good headers and guys who want to be on the end of things so that’s exciting for us.”

in the second half, however, the Duke offense slowed down and Blue Devil goalie James Belshaw was forced to step up.

Ten minutes into the period, the Spar-tans’ rubin Bega fired a shot on target from 12 yards out, and Belshaw made a spectacular save to parry it away. only mo-ments later the Duke keeper made another reaction stop to block a header off a Michi-gan State corner.

As time wore on, desperation began to set in for the Spartans, and they re-doubled their efforts to get back into the match. After a couple more near misses, Michigan State finally broke through with 13:37 remaining. Following a foul just outside the penalty area, Bega ripped the free kick past the wall and into the left corner of the net.

only one goal behind, the Spartans kept attacking. The Duke defense buckled down, however, and with the exception of

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Freshman Andrew Wenger continued his stellar season with a game-winning goal at Michigan state sunday.

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one more great save by Belshaw, limited Michigan State’s opportunities.

“When you’re playing away from home the home team’s going to have some kind of flurry,” Kerr said. “They got back in the game with a free kick and caused us some pain down the stretch, but we held in and

did what we had to do to get the victory.”The win puts Duke into the round of

16, a stage it has not reached since 2006. “This team wasn’t really sure what to ex-

pect when we started,” Grossman said. “To represent Duke and put Duke back on the national scene has been an honor.”

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Freshman Andre Dawkins scored all but two of his career-high 20 points from the outside in the blue Devils’ 37-point win saturday.

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nolan smith’s four 3-pointers, including two early on, helped Duke get past a slow start and rout radford at cameron Indoor stadium.

Game Analysis

by Sabreena MerchantThe chronicle

There’s an old adage in basketball: live by the three, die by the three.

Against no. 9 Duke Saturday, radford played a zone for the majority of the contest, forcing the Blue Devils’ hand and hoping that they would die by the three. Un-fortunately for the highlanders, Duke’s hot shooting allowed the team to coast to an easy victory.

“We wanted to try and protect [our] two big guys [Joey lynch-Flohr and Art Parakhouski] by playing zone, but obviously, it wasn’t very effective,” radford head coach Brad Greenberg said. “With any team, when that ball starts going in, that basket gets big-

ger and bigger for them. i think they saw a huge bas-ket. They know they’ve got to be able to make some shots to match up against the zone, and they’re not afraid to shoot.”

The Blue Devils had quick triggers from the get-go, attempting from long range on six of their first nine shots. Sophomore nolan Smith was the only player to connect from beyond the arc in that opening stretch, however, and it appeared that the highlanders’ zone defense might frustrate Duke after all as radford

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by Ryan ClaxtonThe chronicle

Duke faced perhaps the toughest test of its young sea-son Saturday, taking on what head coach Mike Krzyzewski called a “really, really good” radford team. The highland-ers were a force inside, led by dominant center Art Parak-houski, but they made one critical mistake.

They forgot about ‘Dre.Freshman Andre Dawkins came off the bench and

made his first five shots, all from beyond the arc, to lead the Blue Devils in scoring with 20 points. Dawkins made his presence felt on the defensive end as well, contributing three steals and one block as no. 9 Duke (4-0) cruised to a 104-67 victory over radford (2-1) Saturday afternoon at cameron indoor Stadium.

“Whenever i put it up, i thought it was going in,” Dawk-ins said. “i had a lot of confidence in my shot. i’ve been working really hard and it’s just nice to see that pay off.”

The Blue Devils spread the ball around all afternoon against a highlander squad that stayed in a zone defense for the majority of the game. The zone allowed Duke to make safe, easy passes, and the team had 25 assists against only eight turnovers. nolan Smith, Jon Scheyer and Kyle Singler had seven assists each, and Scheyer was his usual self, taking care of the ball without committing a turnover.

“[radford] seemed pretty comfortable in the zone re-gardless [of the situation],” Scheyer said. “We just wanted to keep attacking it.”

The ball movement from the Blue Devils against the zone meant more opportunities from outside, and Duke tied a school record with 18 three-point field goals on the day. Along with Dawkins’ six total treys, Smith and Scheyer poured in four apiece to finish with 20 and 18 points, respectively.

After the first five minutes, the Blue Devils found themselves down three as the teams traded baskets at a rapid pace. As the pace slowed, however, Duke went on a 33-9 run spanning just less than ten minutes to break the game open. The run featured seven 3-pointers, in-cluding three from Scheyer.

Krzyzewski stressed after the game that even with the high volume of three-point attempts, his players were con-sistently making good decisions with the ball.

“We have taken pretty good shots all year,” Krzyzewski said. “i think that is a big emphasis for us. We are not going to force as many turnovers as we have in the past. We don’t want to take a bad shot and have that be a turnover.”

The Blue Devils saw continued progression from their big men as well, as they out-rebounded a strong radford front line, 45-38. Sophomore Miles Plumlee registered a double-double on the day, totaling 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Despite posting solid statistics, the tandem of Plumlee and Brian Zoubek could not stop Parakhouski.

The highlanders’ big man dominated the lane with 23 points and 14 rebounds—seven of which came on the of-fensive glass. Parakhouski drew fouls all afternoon, taking a game-high 12 free throws and putting several Blue Devils in foul trouble. Zoubek fouled out with just over five min-utes remaining in the game, while Plumlee and ryan Kelly were each whistled four times.

Parakhouski did not receive much scoring support, though, as radford was held to 37 percent from the field. Duke was able to slow the big man at times by de-nying him the ball in the post, forcing him into con-tested mid-range shots outside of the lane as he finished 8-for-19 on the day.

other highlanders fared far worse, as Joey lynch-Flohr managed only 8 points on 3-for-13 shooting after scoring 21 points in each of radford’s first two contests this season. Starting point guard Amir Johnson struggled mightily, go-ing 1-for-10 from the field in his first game of the year.

Duke will look to match this defensive intensity as it heads to new York for the Thanksgiving holiday and the final rounds of the Preseason niT. The Blue Devils take on former center eric Boateng and Arizona State Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. in Madison Square Garden, with the winner advancing to the niT championship game Friday night.

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by Archith RamkumarThe chronicle

MiAMi — For the second straight week, Duke lost a lead against a ranked team. But unlike last week, when the Blue Devils were simply manhandled by Geor-gia Tech in the last three quarters, factors outside of Duke’s control played a part in the hurricanes’ eventual victory.

Trailing 20-16 early in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils were marching down the field. Quarterback Thaddeus lewis had completed four passes

on the drive, and running back Desmond Scott had picked up 20 yards of his own to put Duke at the Miami 10-yard line. on first down, Jay hollingsworth gained four

yards and it looked like the Blue Devils were in prime position to retake the lead.

But on second down, the screen pass that was called was well-covered by the hurricane defense.

With nowhere to go, lewis threw the ball at the ground, seemingly near a re-ceiver. Then a yellow flag appeared for intentional grounding, and the Duke sideline looked on in absolute disbelief.

“Their guy came and tackled our back,” head coach David cutcliffe said. “everybody in America teaches their quarterback to throw the ball at the feet of the back when he gets knocked down and that’s what we did.”

The questionable call put Duke in a tough spot on third down from the 13-yard line, and lewis’ pass over the middle was batted down in traffic. The Blue Devils

Key series, penalty send Duke spiraling downbrought kicker Will Snyderwine on for a 31-yard field goal attempt, hoping to get within a point of the hurricanes and at least get something out of the possession.

But the normally accurate Snyderwine, who was 3-for-3 on the day prior to this attempt, pushed the field goal wide right. Miami prompt-ly took over, and hurricanes’ quarterback Jaco-ry harris quickly shredded the Duke secondary. After completing a couple of medium-length passes, harris lobbed up a throw to 6-foot-3 leonard hankerson. The wideout, who had a huge size advantage on 5-foot-10 cornerback chris rwabukamba, easily hauled in the pass, bulling his way into the end zone and putting the Blue Devils in an 11-point hole.

Any hopes of a miraculous Duke comeback were dashed when, on the next Blue Devil of-fensive series, lewis’ pass over the middle was picked off by Darryl Sharpton. The linebacker raced down the left sideline for 73 yards, put-ting an exclamation point on a disastrous fourth quarter for the Blue Devils.

“it took the wind out of our sails,” cutcliffe said. “our defense had been on the field a great deal, and when we go down and miss a field goal, it was difficult for our defense to charge up again.”

in a span of seven minutes, the game was transformed from nail biter to disappoint-ment. And the sequence overshadowed a great effort by Duke for the first three quarters. The

Game Analysis


Miami quarterback Jacory Harris stares down pressure from Duke linebacker Abraham kromah while getting a block from teammate Graig cooper in Duke’s 34-16 loss saturday.


Miami’s Aldarius Johnson reaches forthe falling football (top), while Vaughn telemaque crushes Duke wide reciever Donovan Varner (bottom) on a hitch-and-go rout during saturday’s game at land shark stadium.

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no. 14 Va tech 38 - 10 n.c. state

ryan Williams’s four touchdowns made Senior Day a happy occasion at lane Sta-dium as Virginia Tech continued the Wolf-pack’s miserable season with a big win in Blacksburg. The hokies led by just three at the end of the first quarter, but scored 28 of the next 31 points.

no. 15 clemson 34 - 21 Virginia

clemson officially recovered from a slow start to the season and clinched the Acc Atlantic Division title with a home victory over Virginia Saturday. running back c.J. Spiller set the Acc’s single-season all-purpose yardage re-cord, and the Tigers pulled away from the cavaliers with a 10-0 third quarter.

boston college 13 - 31 no. 23 Unc

The Tar heels continued their resur-gence and extinguished any hopes Bos-ton college had of reaching the Acc title game with another defensive show. This week, cam Thomas and Kendric Burney each returned eagle turnovers for touch-downs, and north carolina returned an-other interception to the 1-yard line.

Florida state 29- 26 Maryland

The Seminoles became bowl-eligible Saturday with a closer-than-expected victory over Acc-worst Maryland. it took a three-yard rushing touchdown by lonnie Pryor—preceded by a long punt return from Greg reid—to send Florida State into the postseason.

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afternoon at land Shark Stadium. With the loss to the hurricanes (8-3, 5-3

in the Acc), the Blue Devils (5-6, 3-4) will not play in a bowl game and will have only pride and the program’s first non-losing season since 1994 to play for next Saturday against Wake Forest.

“We had nine seniors on this team try-ing to get an experience they’ve never had before, so it hurts,” quarterback Thaddeus lewis said. “it’s frustrating to let a win slip away. That’s more frustrating than [losing to Miami].”

Making the loss all the more frustrating was how effective the gameplan for attack-ing Miami turned out to be. Duke’s receiv-ers, covered man-to-man for the majority of the game, had no problems getting past the hurricanes’ cornerbacks and linebackers for big gains between the 20-yard lines.

But once the Blue Devils’ offense reached the red zone, it stalled out severe-ly, as Duke’s biggest advantage—using the field to spread out Miami—dissipated and the game became a battle of whose athletes would perform better, head coach David cutcliffe said.

As it was, cutcliffe didn’t even know if his offense would have lewis to lead the unit. Already without backup Sean ren-free due to an Acl tear, Duke did not have the senior quarterback available for practice all week because of a bad ankle, and even Friday cutcliffe wasn’t sure if he would play.

“i was real thrilled after Tuesday or Wednesday when i asked how he was and he said, ‘Well, i can get in my car now,’” cutcliffe said. “he is the toughest guy you’d ever want to find in a football game.”

lewis said while his mobility wasn’t fully there, he was able to do what he needed to do to keep offensive drives alive.

Aside from running back Desmond Scott, who had a handful of nice returns and decent runs, and Donovan Varner, who had eight catches for 165 yards and a touchdown, he didn’t get a whole lot of help on the offensive end.

But if it weren’t for a defensive melt-down in the second half, the offense’s output may have done the job. The hur-ricanes only had 10 points at halftime—

points Miami was lucky to have, given that leon Wright muffed a punt deep in Duke territory and charlie hatcher deflected a pass that wound up in the hands of Terva-ris Johnson for a touchdown.

After the break, though, Berry became the focus of the hurricanes’ offense. The junior picked up the tough yards on the ground, and when Miami needed a third-down conversion, quarterback Jacory har-ris looked in the direction of tight end Jim-my Graham, whose five catches all led to a first down. The hurricanes scored on every offensive possession in the second half ex-cept for the final drive, when they simply killed the clock.

The biggest momentum swing—and all of the problems that had been kept under wraps up to that point—came mid-way through the fourth quarter when what could easily have been a three-point Duke lead quickly became an 18-point advantage for Miami. Facing 2nd-and-goal from Mi-ami’s 7-yard line, lewis looked to hit run-ning back Jay hollingsworth for a screen pass. hollingsworth, though, was knocked down, so lewis threw the ball at his feet, which cutcliffe said every quarterback is trained to do.

The referees called intentional ground-ing on lewis, moving Duke outside the 10-yard line. on the ensuing play, Varner drew a lot of contact from a hurricane line-backer on a slant pass, but did not draw a pass interference call. The normally stoic cutcliffe went irate on the sideline, throw-ing his headset to the ground and yelling at the referees.

Kicker Will Snyderwine then missed a chip shot 31-yard field goal, and Miami scored five plays later to make it a two-possession game. When linebacker Darryl Sharpton returned a lewis interception for a 73-yard touchdown barely a minute later, any chance at the win disappeared.

But as he has the entire season, cutcliffe kept his head high through disappoint-ment and defeat, and refused to declare the season over.

“The score had nothing to do with the ball game,” he said. “These seniors, they’d been 1-23. i don’t know that anyone anywhere can appreciate what they’ve done. They’ve set a precedent for a whole lot of people. That’s why i’m so hurt for them today.”

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Key series, penalty send Duke spiraling downbrought kicker Will Snyderwine on for a 31-yard field goal attempt, hoping to get within a point of the hurricanes and at least get something out of the possession.

But the normally accurate Snyderwine, who was 3-for-3 on the day prior to this attempt, pushed the field goal wide right. Miami prompt-ly took over, and hurricanes’ quarterback Jaco-ry harris quickly shredded the Duke secondary. After completing a couple of medium-length passes, harris lobbed up a throw to 6-foot-3 leonard hankerson. The wideout, who had a huge size advantage on 5-foot-10 cornerback chris rwabukamba, easily hauled in the pass, bulling his way into the end zone and putting the Blue Devils in an 11-point hole.

Any hopes of a miraculous Duke comeback were dashed when, on the next Blue Devil of-fensive series, lewis’ pass over the middle was picked off by Darryl Sharpton. The linebacker raced down the left sideline for 73 yards, put-ting an exclamation point on a disastrous fourth quarter for the Blue Devils.

“it took the wind out of our sails,” cutcliffe said. “our defense had been on the field a great deal, and when we go down and miss a field goal, it was difficult for our defense to charge up again.”

in a span of seven minutes, the game was transformed from nail biter to disappoint-ment. And the sequence overshadowed a great effort by Duke for the first three quarters. The

Blue Devils had kept Jacory harris and the two-headed monster of Javarris James and Graig cooper in check. on offense, Duke was able to move the ball with relative ease. in particular, Donovan Varner was repeatedly open over the middle of the field, as he finished with eight catches for 165 yards.

But the Blue Devils struggled again in the red zone, as they have all season. And this time, a dubious call was just another reason Duke failed to score a touchdown, as opposed to at-tempting a field goal.

“Momentum is all part of the game,” quar-terback Thaddeus lewis said. “When you don’t get it, it swings the other way.”

The loss means that the Blue Devils are eliminated from bowl contention, and the nine Duke seniors will be playing their last game next Saturday against Wake Forest.

Although neither cutcliffe nor lewis would come out and say it, they both pointed at the inten-tional grounding penalty as a turning point in the game. lewis wouldn’t call the penalty bogus—the senior just mentioned that “maybe there’s some rule in the rulebook that i don’t know about.”

The end result was that Miami, which had been sluggish all game long, was able to escape the Blue Devils and turn the home crowd’s boos into cheers. But the final score does not


Miami quarterback Jacory Harris stares down pressure from Duke linebacker Abraham kromah while getting a block from teammate Graig cooper in Duke’s 34-16 loss saturday.


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With a trip to cancun for the caribbean chal-lenge looming, the no. 11 Blue Devils (2-1) will first look to take care of business at home against charlotte (1-2) tonight at 7 p.m.

off the heels of a poor

shooting performance against Georgia South-ern, in which Duke went 4-for-21 from behind the arc, the Blue Devils will need a more bal-anced offensive attack against the 49ers, some-thing head coach Joanne P. Mccallie has em-phasized as critical to Duke’s success.

“We’re quite capable offensively. We just need to take better shots,” Mccallie said.

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sophomore middle blocker Amanda robertson (3, left) had 13 kills as Duke avenged an early-season loss to north carolina saturday.

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A strong sense of urgency to win coupled with standout perfor-mances from libero claire Smalz-er and middle blocker Amanda robertson allowed Duke to sweep

in-state ri-vals n.c. State and north car-olina this weekend in c a m e r o n indoor Sta-dium.

After losing to north carolina (15-15, 11-8 in the Acc) earlier in the season by a score of 3-1, the Blue Devils (26-5, 16-3) went into Saturday’s match with a lot to prove. The Tar heels entered their first contest against Duke in second place in the Acc. howev-er, as the season has progressed, north carolina has dropped to fifth behind Florida State, Duke, Georgia Tech and clemson.

head coach Jolene nagel saw the previous loss against north car-olina in chapel hill as an anomaly in her team’s history and some-thing that she was anxious to come back from in Duke’s second meet-ing with the Tar heels this season.

“i think we played very unlike ourselves last time we played car-olina,” nagel said. “We learned a lot from our first outing be-

cause we talked a lot about how we wanted to be identified as a team.... We knew we wanted to come out confident the next time we faced them.”

Duke demonstrated that desired level of confidence by coming out strong in the first set, keeping the Tar heels to a .062 hitting percentage and dominating them with 25-18 win. After a close second game win of 27-25, Duke knew that north carolina would be eager for a win in game three. Sopho-more Amanda robertson was focused on eliminating the Tar heels’ opportunity for a come-back right away.

“We just took the momentum from game two and used it for game three,” robertson said. “We beat them because we knew that they were going to come back fiery. We jumped on them early and took them out quick.”

With this mentality, Duke squashed the Tar heels in a 25-16 win. robertson had a team-high 13 kills and a .407 hitting percentage and was a main con-tributor to Duke’s overall success throughout the match. With four blocks and just two attack errors for the night, the middle blocker hit a season peak that she attri-butes to her deep desire to beat

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do justice to the way the game was actu-ally played, and Duke can take comfort in how hard it fought against an oppo-nent with much better athletes.

“it’s frustrating to have a lead in the fourth and not keep it, but i could not be more proud of the football team,” cutcliffe said. “our seniors now real-ize that their bowl dreams have slipped away, but what they’ve built over the past two years will not ever slip away.”

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jumped out to a 13-10 lead.But good shooters keep shooting. The

Blue Devils did just that.Midway through the first half, Duke

connected on three consecutive 3-pointers from Smith, Kyle Singler and Andre Dawk-ins to open up a double-digit advantage,

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kyle singler was one of several blue Devils to make radford pay for its zone defense by hitting three 3-pointers.

26-15. The Blue Devils—especially Dawk-ins—were just getting started.

Duke attempted a whopping 22 3-pointers in the first period and drained 13 to tie a school record for threes in a half, and Dawkins was responsible for four of those. The rookie took four shots in the opening period and connected on all four from beyond the arc, including three in a span of 1:28 as the Blue Devils’

lead ballooned to 24 near the end of the half. Most of those shots were wide open looks as Duke passed effectively around the perimeter to combat the zone.

“We made passes, we found open people and we took good shots,” Singler said.

“We connected on passes. We were connecting shots,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “There was rhythm, a re-ally good rhythm.”

Dawkins, in particular, had no dif-ficulty finding his shooting stroke. he made his first five 3-pointers and fin-ished 7-of-9 shooting for 20 points. his six 3-pointers tied a school record for threes by a freshman. More important-ly, all of Dawkins’ scores were assisted on, as the Blue Devil starting backcourt made an effort to find the freshman for open shots.

The trio of Singler, Smith and Jon Scheyer passed well all game and the three finished with seven assists apiece compared to five total turnovers.

They all had their hand in scoring as well. Smith started the Duke onslaught with two 3-pointers in the first three min-utes and finished with four. Scheyer also chipped in four scores from long range and Singler added three of his own, and all three scored in double figures.

Despite the team’s success facing the zone, Singler said he expected to see similar defensive looks as the season progresses.

“A lot of teams have been playing zones against us,” he said. “i would imag-ine teams would want to man us and put pressure on us.... But we’re playing well against the zone. We’re shooting the ball well. We just have to keep taking good shots.”

Which means that, in spite of the Blue Devils’ litany of big men, Duke may very well continue to live and die by the three.


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backcourt with fifth-year senior Keturah Jackson’s return from a rotator cuff injury, giving the Blue Devils more chances to spread the floor. Jackson’s speedy recovery, after suffering an injury playing a pick-up game over the summer, provides a much-needed energy boost and an an-chor on the defensive end for the Blue Devils. After giving up 95 points to Texas A&M last week, Mccallie has stressed defense in practice.

The 49ers, led offensively by senior guards Aysha Jones and Shannon Mccallum, who average 18.3 and 17 points a game, respectively, will prove a legitimate test to Duke’s pe-rimeter defense. Jones has shown she can be a dangerous scoring threat on the road this season, and is coming off a 27-point effort against Appalachian State last Friday.

experience and balance will be the calling cards for Duke this season, and each Blue Devil can expect to get her fair share of chances against the 49ers. According to junior guard Jasmine Thomas, winning is simply a matter of execution.

“everybody on this team is capable of putting numbers on the board,” Thomas said. “it’s not something we em-phasize, it’s something we expect.”

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north carolina the second time around.“i knew we had to win because we were seeking a lit-

tle bit of revenge,” robertson said. “There was just this sense of urgency to finish them off quick[ly] and i just wanted to have a good game and have fun. My brother goes to carolina so there is a little bit of a rivalry there. We had a lot of fans supporting us and it was just fun and the chemistry came together and everyone had a really good night.”

on the defensive end, senior rachael Moss had an im-pressive 18 digs for the match while junior Becci Burling posted five blocks. The two players who are constantly pil-lars of support and consistency for the Blue Devils added in seven kills each.

The Blue Devils faced the Wolfpack (7-27, 0-19) Friday and breezed through the match without dropping a single game or allowing n.c. State to take the lead at any point during the match. executing a high .381 hitting percent-age with 42 kills and a mere five errors, Duke controlled

the tempo of the game from the start. The Wolfpack is cur-rently ranked last in the Acc and could only kill 26 hits compared to its 19 attacks errors throughout the match.

Smalzer, Duke’s defensive specialist, was responsible for n.c. State’s low success rate on offense as she picked up 23 digs in the match. Smalzer ascribes this success to her team’s ability to maintain a high level of play, even against opponents with inferior skill sets.

“We were really focused on being aware,” Smalzer said. “We were on our toes no matter where the ball went because their can always be an awkward touch that you have to pursue.”

As the Blue Devils look towards the rest of their sea-son, they know that this weekend of wins will help them later down the road as they aspire toward major success in postseason play.

“i think the one thing these wins do is give us more confi-dence as we get ready to hopefully go as deep as we can in the ncAA tournament,” nagel said. “This team has wanted to make history and i really think we can do that this season.”

Duke faces Wake Forest tomorrow at 7 p.m. in its last home game of the year.

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libero claire smalzer’s defensive efforts—the junior tallied 23 digs Friday against n.c. state—pushed Duke to two wins this weekend.

fromstaffreportsduke wins ic4As for 2nd straight yearDuke defended its men’s title in the ic4A champion-

ships over the weekend, taking first place out of 13 teams at Van cortlandt Park in Bronx, nY. The Blue Devils to-taled 41 points, far ahead of second place William & Mary which totaled 67 points.

Sophomore Andrew Brodeur led the way, finishing the 8K course in 25 minutes, 28 seconds to take third place overall. Senior captain Ken Sullivan was right behind Bro-deur, taking fourth place in 25:29. Junior ryan McDermott was the third Blue Devil in the top ten, finishing eighth with a time of 25:35.

Duke’s attention now turns to Terre haute, ind. and the ncAA championships. The men’s squad will start its 10K race at 12:08 p.m. and the women will start a 6K race at 12:58 p.m. This will be the Blue Devil men’s first ncAA appearance since 2001, although junior Bo Wag-goner qualified as an individual last year, finishing with a time of 31:09.

duke swims to success at Gamecock invitationalThe Blue Devil women’s swimming & diving team

finished second in a nine-team field over the weekend, while the men’s team finished third at the Gamecock invitational, hosted by South carolina.

Junior Ashley Twichell defended her meet title in the 1650 freestyle, winning the event by 32 seconds. Twichell fell about five seconds short of her own meet record for the event, set last year in 16:06.76.

Freshman cara Vogel also swam to first place honors in the 200 backstroke, finishing in 2:01.84.

The women found the most success in the 200 butterfly, as elizabeth Bellew, Shannon Beall and Steffi niessl fin-ished second, fifth and sixth, respectively.

Duke will not return to competition until January 2 at the Key largo classic.

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There once was a structure, in a land before time, called the Bryan Center walkway. It was a simple bridge, constructed to convey

weary wanderers from the main quadrangle to the Center of Bryan.

Over time, the powers that be decided this simple connective passage failed to exploit the opportunity to create social spaces and cooling misters that mysteriously only acti-vate during rainstorms, or when you have your laptop open and need it to stay dry. The walkway grew into the West Campus Plaza, where good things happen.

This is but the stuff of lore, as all the students to have seen the walk-way of legend have since passed into the great beyond known as the Real World. There remains not one of us who can speak of the grandeur of the walkway of yore. The Plaza is all we know.

Yet just this week, a young graduate student named Charlotte journeyed through the Plaza to find its great vision corrupted. Instead of “the bricks-and-mortar expression of Duke’s ongoing commit-ment to cultivate and celebrate community,” as Chris Roby called it at its inception, the Plaza was a bastion of heckling activists. Filled half with stu-dent groups tabling for their causes, and half with BC-bound students trying to avoid the first half, the Plaza seemed more a graveyard of broken dreams.

Join me on a tell-all trek from the Gothic archway connecting the West Union building and Kilgo Quad-rangle all the way to the Bryan Center. I warn you: The following paragraphs are not for the faint of heart.

No more than three seconds after crossing the threshold to the Plaza this bright afternoon, I am accosted by a pamphlet-wielding ruffian hoping to secure my donation to some BS hippie cause. “Do you have a minute for the environment,” he asks, his scruff and Birkenstocks belying his sinister purpose. Beware, ye of good faith, for if you do tell him you have a minute for the environment, he will speak to you for eight minutes, and demand money at the end of his monologue. And lest you imagine the molestation complete when you dismiss him with a simple, “Sounds interesting, I’ll think about it,” re-member that he will preach to you again when you walk back, forgetting the first encounter entirely.

Having survived that ordeal, I look to either side, to find flights of stairs down to the locations so offensive to the University, they lie in the sub-Plazanean depths, ’twixt the dumpsters. Included among them is the LGBT Center, an institution only less unfortunately positioned than the Cen-ter for Race Relations (wedged between the men’s and women’s bathrooms across the Von Canon

rooms, I kid you not). Three cheers for pluralism, says whoever allocates space to these groups!

Moving past the stairs, the DiDA boards hang on the silver rail, quietly and ineffectively announc-ing grand events. No one has or will ever look at these. To the right is what some might call “foodie heaven.” Inside is Duke’s flaghsip food haven: Sub-

way, ingeniously designed to require eight minutes in line, regardless of how long the line. The Great Hall and The Loop are legit, I have no joke about them.

Continuing along the path, Pauly Dogs tickles the olfactory senses, and… tickles… the digestive tract. In the enclave behind that famed food stand, a Republican and a Democrat chow down on a Yankee and a Veggie Delight, respectively, arguing loudly about union contracts in Duke Din-

ing Services. Their quarrel is stopped short as a swarm of bees attacks the Republican’s Mountain Dew.

Bravely into the breach we go, for ahead lies the gauntlet of tables. “Buy tickets to my show! Come hear NAMBLA’s associate vice president for uninteresting talks this Tuesday! Donate to children with no left in-dex finger!” Herein lies the one moment you want to have no friends. If you hold so much as a tangential acquaintance with the heckler behind the table, you will be forced to stop and discuss whatever it that per-son wants you to discuss. “I don’t have any FLEX right now,” you might say. “Oh, I’d love to, let me go see who else is going and decide when to come.” These tactics are not enough. “I have a computer! You can add to your FLEX right now! Plus, I have the schedule of everyone you know and love, let me work out the best performance for you to attend right here!”

The gruesome nature of this segment of the Plaza is amplified by the beauty of the opposite side. To your right are those comfy swinging, covered love seats that someone seems to claim every morning at 5:30 and never relinquishes. Seriously, have you ever seen any one of them available? What’s more, the sweet nectar of the misters are sporadically on, creating an ethe-real atmosphere as tantalizing as the Siren’s song.

Finally, having traversed the gauntlet, you are now close enough to fall under the watchful eye of that perverse panopticon that is the Plaza cam. Any Peep-ing Tom who would fill his voyeuristic fix may do so with the click of a mouse. Somewhere, somehow, Lar-ry Moneta is watching you this very instant.

Is the Plaza a realm of dreams, or a nightmare landscape of terror? Discover the truth at your own peril.

Charlotte Simmons is also watching you on the Plaza cam.

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Fraternities and other selective living groups upset about the Residential Group Assessment Committee eval-uation have managed to stop the process, albeit temporar-ily. Last Thurs-day, Associate Dean for Resi-dential Life Joe Gonzalez announced that the housing lottery for living groups has been postponed.

Hitting the pause button on the shuffling of housing sections is a wise decision that will hopefully give riled-up selective living groups and fraternities time to cool down and come to terms with the process. Addition-ally, the extra time should allow these groups to enter into a constructive conver-sation with RLHS and Cam-pus Council about how the

RGAC should proceed in the coming weeks.

Both residential groups and the administrators of RGAC share some blame for the current deadlock. In

the past, fra-ternities and selective living

groups seem to have taken the RGAC review process too lightly and are only now com-ing to terms with its huge po-tential impact. To their fault, many groups are frustrated about consequences they should have forseen during the past three years.

That said, RLHS, Campus Council and the RGAC com-mittee in particular could have done a much better job communicating to the Interfraternity Council and Selective House Council the process for evaluation. Resi-

dential groups should have recieved much more infor-mation about the assessment criteria, and they should have been made fully aware that the sections made available after the review process were subject to change from their current configuration.

Moving forward, though, both groups should acknowl-edge their mutual fault and pursue a compromise solu-tion.

Although the scoring sys-tem employed by RGAC is arbitrary and inconsistent, we cannot throw away the results of a three-year review process just because stakeholders are now beginning to raise their voice in opposition to it. The only way to move the process forward is to accept the cur-rent scores, as imperfect as they may be.

That does not mean, how-ever, that the section shuffle should proceed as planned. Specifically, RLHS and Cam-pus Council should alter the menu of sections available to residential groups. Many of these sections are on the third and fourth floors of dormitory buildings, far re-moved from any common room in which groups can host events.

Moving groups away from common spaces goes against the principles of the RGAC process. Groups are evaluated not only on their contribution to their indi-vidual members but also on their value added to the larger Duke community. If the goal of RGAC is to en-courage residential groups to participate more fully in the University’s social life,

it is counterproductive to stymie their ability to host functions by placing them on upper floors away from commons rooms.

Fraternities and selec-tive living groups do not need to “own” their own common rooms, but such a space should be within a reasonable distance of their sections. This would allow group members to make use of the room when nec-essary without shutting out independents.

While the RGAC process is on hold, all stakeholders involved should work with RLHS and Campus Coun-cil to create a section menu that both empowers groups to make positive contribu-tions to the community and upholds the rights of inde-pendent students.

Activists abound!

Section menu needs shuffle of its own

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commentariesthE chRONiclE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009 | 15

lettertotheeditorDuke police notably absent from

site of robberyI am writing regarding the robbery

that occurred on West Markham Av-enue last Monday night. This corner, as many Duke students know, is the loca-tion of a certain “blue house.”

If you ask any resident of the “blue house,” or Duke student who has at-tended a social gathering there, they will tell you that every weekend night that corner is overflowing with law en-forcement. You can’t walk half a block without seeing a Duke police officer drive by, and I’ve personally seen four police cars pull up to the house for a “noise complaint” on a Friday night.

However, last Monday night, when a

Duke student actually needed a police officer for protection, there were none to be found.

This is an unfortunate message that the University is sending to its students: When you party too loud, we’ll be the first to lay down the law. However, when you actually need us the most, we’ll be nowhere to be found, and leave you to fend for yourself against Durham crime.

I have no problem with the Univer-sity cracking down on noise complaints or trying to eliminate underage alco-hol consumption. However, it has to work both ways. The University can’t be there to punish us on the weekends and not there on weeknights when we’re

the most vulnerable. If Duke is going to expect us to uphold the Duke Com-munity Standard, then it needs to up-hold its end of the bargain and give us a safe community of which to be a part. And until I see four cops surrounding my neighborhood on a Monday night, I’m not buying any of the DukeAlert e-mails assuring me that effective safety measures are in place.

Whether or not you’ve been to the “blue house” before, we can all agree that Duke has a responsibility to protect its students—not just when they’re hav-ing a party, but every night of the week.

Zach GraumannTrinity ’10

I’ll admit that I had a hard time get-ting worked up about what one of my classmates jokingly called the “merger

and acquisitions activity on campus”—the much discussed (and now apparently de-layed) merger of the International House and the Multicultural Center. Mostly, that’s just because I’ve had little to no interaction with either organization in my time at this University.

But if I were to wake up one morning, pick up The Chronicle and dis-cover that some element of University life much more near and dear to my own heart had been al-tered, I might have some-thing to say about it. For instance, let’s say Duke suddenly decided to become a more patronizing place. Case in point: a dear friend’s time abroad at the London School of Economics.

Sadly, my friend’s experiences have led her to believe that her eminent and important LSE professors don’t respect undergraduates. Her professors have one “office hour” per week, and they can only be bothered to lecture for an hour each week—oh, and after the lecture, they re-fuse to take questions. She’s even seen professors yell before lectures that “you all need to be quiet now! I have better things to be doing!” Charming, I’m sure.

Although we’ve got arrogance over here as well, most American professors seem to take questions, and I’ve never heard of such snotty preemptive yelling. To shed some light on the roots of this sort of thing in English academic culture, my friend linked me to an op-ed piece that had recently run in London’s The Guardian. The column was by British phi-losopher A.C. Grayling, and was entitled “Universities are not there to spoon-feed.” Here’s a tidbit:

“The assumption that lies behind the con-tact hours issue is a deeply mistaken one. It is that universities are a simple extension of school, and that as at school, students should be given as much attention as possible…. To wish to increase contact hours is to demon-strate a complete lack of understanding of what a university should be.”

By “contact hours,” Grayling means any time students actually spend interacting with faculty, whether in the office, classroom or whatever you call the site of a British “tuto-rial.” Grayling essentially argues that univer-sities should facilitate student-faculty avoid-ance instead of encouraging interaction. If Grayling speaks with any credibility—he’s got multiple degrees from Oxford, and re-

fers concretely to the traditions of his alma mater to support his austere ideals—he speaks for a system wherein comparatively little is expected of universities.

I won’t bore you by giving Grayling more space than he’s due: If you want to read the article, Google “grayling spoon-

feed.” I promise you some chuckles before you re-turn to the hard work of being spoon-fed by your University at 2 a.m. of a dreary night in Perkins.

I’m not writing this col-umn to point and laugh at English universities: Duke in Oxford was a great time. But I do owe Grayling and some of the LSE faculty a

“thanks” for reminding us of what is valu-able about the uproar over the merger, whether or not one is invested in that par-ticular controversy.

As much conflict as it might create, we American students expect a lot from our col-leges. Our expectations can be seen in the strident (and occasionally far from realistic) advocacy of our editorials and columns and in our refusal to let an administrative deci-sion pass without a fight. We believe that our University should not just educate us (and that’s all that the vast majority of universi-ties around the world even attempt to do), but that it should also provide us with the chance to do service in Namibia and attend basketball games in Cameron.

And if someone tried to tell us that we weren’t entitled even to talk at length to our professors, we’d call him by the name he deserved: nitwit.

For a University like Duke to continue to do all of the many things it does well—including the pernicious practice of en-couraging student-faculty interaction—there must always be a lofty sense of expectations among students. Someone has to take up arms and say, “we must do [insert good cause] better.” I don’t have an opinion on the merger, but I’m happy that someone does. Even when our objec-tions become overly idealistic, we’re infi-nitely better off as hard-fighting idealists than we would be as icy cynics.

So, cynicism be damned. If we don’t complain when we think a merger unjust, and if we don’t occasionally write overly self-indulgent columns (who would do such a thing?), then it won’t be long be-fore we start to hear a decisive response to our thoughts about our University:

“You all need to be quiet, now!”

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Monday.

Great expectations

For college students, Thanksgiving is an opportunity to take a “break” for a few days before the semester

races to a close. “Break” is in quotation marks because you’ll be so overloaded with final papers, exam prepara-tion, football, parades and shopping that the only thing you might ac-tually get a break from is laundry.

It’s also an opportu-nity for us to field the questions we love about what we’re doing with our lives after college from every rela-tive imaginable, from your parents on down to the aunts, uncles and cousins.

I’m kidding. Thanksgiving is hands down my favorite holiday, and one that I often feel forced to defend. Increas-ingly, a day once known for handprint-turkeys and big hats with buckles on them has been recast as a reminder of our nation’s long history of mistreat-ment of Native Americans.

The United American Indians of New England annually stage a protest on the fourth Thursday in November, which they call “National Day of Mourn-ing” for fallen natives. The first UAINE protest in 1970 included burying Plym-outh Rock and boarding the Mayflower to remove the flag flying from its mast. The flyers for this year’s demonstration contain a depiction of a native asking, “Who’s the illegal alien, PILGRIM?”

Many elements of the story of the first Thanksgiving aren’t true. The buckles, for instance, were not actually a popular fashion until later in the 17th century. And the 1621 Plymouth feast wasn’t re-ally the first Thanksgiving, as colonists in Virginia had celebrated a Thanksgiv-ing in December 1619, before the May-flower had even set sail.

But accounts of the Pilgrims as white invaders are overblown. Keep in mind that the term “Pilgrims” refers to the members of the separatist Leiden church aboard the Mayflower—not the other Mayflower passengers, not their descendents, not the later settlers in the Plymouth Colony and not settlers in the then-separate Massachusetts Bay Colony.

There were no Pilgrims fighting in King Philips’ War in 1675, 55 years after their arrival in Plymouth. And the smallpox epidemic that wiped out

much of the native population of the northeast preceded the Pilgrims’ ar-rival by two years. By all surviving ac-counts, the Pilgrims themselves had

good relations with their native neighbors. Maybe I’m nitpicking—what’s in a name?—but calling all white settlers “Pilgrims” as the UAINE do is akin to calling all the natives in the area “Nasset” or “Patuxet,” a mistake the Pilgrims would not have made.

Before you write off Thanksgiving, consider this chapter of its history. In 1863, with the nation em-broiled in Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of the widely popular Godey’s Lady Book, saw the New England tra-dition as one that could provide sanity for an insane country. Her letters and editorials about Thanksgiving caught the attention of President Abraham Lincoln, who issued a Proclamation of Thanksgiving to recognize the nation’s successes and commonalities “with one heart and voice by the whole American people.” The holiday has been celebrat-ed every year since.

American Indians have faced dis-crimination for hundreds of years. But the problem is not Thanksgiving or its symbols. If you want to protest a holi-day, Columbus Day seems the more fit-ting choice: a celebration of the man who brought smallpox and slavery to the “New” World. Thanksgiving’s histo-ry, like most of American history, is not squeaky-clean, but its underlying mes-sage is one that should transcend race. The spirit of the day is to appreciate and share what you do have, however much or little.

Of course, there’s another group of people that consider the day’s feast a symbol of the gluttony of our increas-ingly-obese nation, a perfect prelude to the Christmas shopping season that epitomizes the American obsession with consumerism. That’s a tough charge, too, but again, the point of Thanksgiv-ing is neither the food nor the Black Friday sales. Thanksgiving is a time for reflecting on all the things in our lives for which we ought to be thankful.

I’m thankful for this University and all the things I like about it—starting with the fine members of the faculty, staff and administration who put stu-dents first. I’m thankful for ePrint, Cheerwine, the C-6 and the commit-ment to free speech that allowed cre-ationism advocates to distribute pro-paganda disguised as Charles Darwin’s “Origins of the Species” on the Plaza last week. Although I don’t necessarily respect the presentation here (much as I don’t respect burying Plymouth Rock on Thanksgiving), I respect the right to share controversial views and challenge people’s thinking.

I’m thankful for the start of basket-ball season and for the most successful football season in my four years here.

I’m thankful for the men and women serving our nation in the armed forces overseas.

And I’m thankful for my friends and family, our health and our optimism.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

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

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