Duke falls to No. 1 Florida St.

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Failing to find the offensive firepower that had propelled them to a 6-1 start, the No. 2 Blue Devils fell in their conference opener to the top-ranked team in the nation Thursday night.

No. 1 Florida State (7-0, 1-0 in the ACC) recorded its fifth shutout in seven games as it defeated Duke (6-2, 0-1) 1-0 at the Seminole Soccer Complex in Tallahassee, Fla. before a capacity crowd of 2,300—the second-largest in Florida State women’s soccer history.

“It was a great college soccer game, a great showcase for women’s soccer,” head coach Rob-bie Church said. “Two very good teams—unfor-tunately, we came out on the losing end.”

The Blue Devils entered the match scoring 4.14 goals per game, the most in the nation en-tering the week. They could not find the answer against the Seminole defense, however.

Despite racking up nine shots in the first pe-riod, Duke struggled to execute a final ball to challenge Florida State goalkeeper Kelsey Wys.

“We’re an older, veteran team, and I thought we could have handled the opening half better,” Church said.

For the Blue Devils, forward Kim DeCesare and midfielder Nicole Lipp started the game on the bench due to injuries sustained last week.

Furthermore, after returning from the U-20 FIFA women’s World Cup in Japan earlier this week, midfielder Mollie Pathman rejoined her teammates on the pitch just half an hour prior to kickoff.

“It’s not an ideal situation of course, but that’s part of it,” Church said. “Mollie had to go to class. She’s missed a lot of class, and I thought she played very well.”

Although Pathman and DeCesare both en-tered the game around the 20-minute mark, they were unable to provide Duke with the in-stant offense to break the scoreless draw.

And following a Blue Devil turnover, the Seminoles seized the first goal of the game and jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute as Jamia Fields ran onto a short Duke clearance and volleyed it into the top-left netting past goal-keeper Tara Campbell.

“We didn’t get out well, and the girl finished it—did a great job of finishing it,” Church said. “She took it really well. There was nothing Tara could do with it at that point.”

The Blue Devils could not find an answer to Fields’ goal before the end of the half and en-tered the break with a deficit for the first time this season.

Looking for a comeback, Duke appeared to be the better team in the second period, Church said.

In spite of the greater level of play and higher

Robisheaux assumes role as Council chairby Kristie Kim

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Faculty leadership and engagement are critical in times of economic volatility, said Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton.

Patton and Thomas Robisheaux, Fred E. Schaffer professor of history, convened the first meeting of Arts and Sciences council for the academic year Tuesday. They shared their visions for the year with council members and reflected on the challenges the University fac-es as it enters a new era of higher education. Patton also discussed Duke’s fiscal standing, presenting both optimistic and cautionary notes on the University’s current state.

“We need to adapt our governance to meet the rapid changes upon [the University] and upon us,” said Robisheaux, who was instated as the council chair in May. “Landscape of high-er education is changing across the country. It’s a time of challenges of funding, it’s a time where students and their families are anxious

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Arts and Sciences Council Chair Thomas Robisheaux spoke to the body about his goals for the year and the challenges facing the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences as well as the University at large at the council’s first meeting of the year Thursday.

Pathman and Cobb return with goldsby Tim Visutipol

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While most Duke students were get-ting settled into the Fall semester here in Durham, junior Mollie Pathman and sophomore Kelly Cobb were in Japan representing the United States at the U-20 Women’s World Cup.

The two returned to Duke with gold medals after the United States defeated Germany in the final 1-0 last Sunday.

“They couldn’t get us off the field,” Cobb said. “We were celebrating, singing.”

Cobb shared that “Don’t Wake Me Up” by Chris Brown was the team’s theme song during their experience and was played prominently in the post-victory celebrations.

“Every time I hear that song it kind of gets me a bit teary eyed, because in the locker room after the game when we were getting our medals, that song played,” Cobb said. “Every time I hear that song I’ll remember that trip and those girls.”

During the tournament, the United States scraped through the group stage on goal difference, before advancing past North Korea after extra time in the quarterfinals. The nervy start changed and the United States stepped up a gear and moved past Nigeria 2-0 in the semi-finals.

Cobb said the U.S. women’s national team’s recent success at the Summer Olympics was something the team tried to emulate.

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Two Duke soccer players—junior Mollie Pathman and sophomore Kelly Cobb—won first place in the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Japan Sunday as part of the United States team. The team beat Germany for the gold.

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With a convention speech that generated up to 28,003 tweets-per-minute, Michelle Obama proved she is not simply a wife, but the fi rst lady.

Born in the South Side of Chicago, Obama attended public school before going to Princeton Univer-

sity and then Harvard Law School. She then worked in a Chicago law fi rm before joining the University of Chicago as an

associate dean.Obama has actively reached

out to college students across the nation, encouraging them to become engaged in the important issues of today.

“We know this election hangs in the balance,” she said in a phone conference with college students. “This is going to be the country that you all inherit, so we want you to be invested in it, and it starts now.”

On the campaign trail, she highlights the president’s successes, like his work on Pell Grants and col-lege affordability, health reform and rebuilding the economy.

Obama appeals to a broader range of voters than Ann Rom-ney, said Mac McCorkle, former Democratic political consultant and associate professor of public policy. Obama connects espe-cially with younger and multicultural voters, he said, whereas Romney appeals to older voters.

“Michelle acts and seems more hip and cool and young,” he said.

In her speech, she reached out to the average American, pointing to the Obamas’ economically modest backgrounds. This resonated with many Americans, McCorkle said.

“Michelle’s speech was success-ful in reviving what people remem-bered about Obama and what they liked so much about him,” he said.

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—Sept. 24: Obama will visit the United Nations in New York City.

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The wives: Michelle Obama v. Ann RomneyOn the campaign trail, Ann

Romney puts a humanizing face on her presidential nominee husband of 43 years.

A graduate of Brigham Young University, Romney is a stay-at-home mom who devotes much

of her time to charitable organizations that aid disadvantaged and troubled children.

Some, such as Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen, have claimed Romney’s affl uent economic background and career as a stay-at-home mom isolate her from most American women.

“[She’s] never worked a day in her life,” Rosen said in April. “She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of women in this country are facing.”

Romney responded with her first official tweet: “I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work.” Rosen apologized for her remarks.

The Romney family’s estimated worth is between $85 million and

$264 million, with Mitt Rom-ney as one of the 3,140

wealthiest individuals in the country. But Rom-ney’s lack of economic challenges is tempered in the electorate’s mind by

the medical challenges she has faced, McCorkle said. In

1998, Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

Romney may seem more distant than Michelle Obama to young vot-ers, but she conforms to the more traditional image of a dignifi ed fi rst lady, McCorkle said. Although her convention speech was not as powerful as Obama’s, she suc-cessfully humanized her husband in the eyes of voters.

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Using experiments designed by Duke engi-neers, a team of scientists from University Col-lege London and Imperial College London has explored the limits of transforming light waves into smaller electrical ones.

Light can carry more information than electricity, but is impractical to use on a small scale. Because fiber optic cables are expensive and optical sensors are bulky, electrical signals are often preferable. A field called plasmon-ics allows light to be transmitted in the same way electrical signals are sent—for example, through a thin wire.

“Photons are about 1,000 times the size of atoms – getting them to interact with atoms on a one-to-one basis is very impressive,” said Sir John Pendry, chair in theoretical solid state physics at Imperial College. “If you want to compress something that much, the engineer-ing has to be pretty impressive.”

Plasmonic systems are employed in new forms of small scale optical communication—such as lasers—and may have applications in some medical technologies, such as bioassays, which are experiments to determine the effect of particular substances on living organisms.

In plasmonic systems, the clouds of elec-trons surrounding metal atoms behave like very small pockets of gas or plasma. The sur-faces of the clouds are capable of carrying waves of energy like ripples across the surface of a pond.

“When you hit an electron cloud with a photon, you create a surface wave called a plasmon, that you can focus with the right technology,” Pendry explained. “A plasmon is a sort of wobbling at the surface of an atom.”

Similarly, it is far easier to transmit sound energy to the human brain by striking a drum to create pressure waves in the air, than to smash a drumstick directly into someone’s eardrum.

Because the light energy is merely trans-ferred into a sort of plasma wave, the electron clouds vibrate in the visible spectrum and car-ry the same information that photons would

have. Until now, however, it was not known how far such signals could be compressed.

Although Pendry’s team was responsible for much of the theoretical work behind the project, Cristian Ciraci, a postdoctoral fellow at Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering, led a team of designers to create an especially accu-rate testbed for plasmonic systems that could be used to test the limits of photon-electron interactions.

“When you work with systems on the scale of a few fractions of a nanometer, it’s very hard to get precise control,” he said.

His team designed a system that uses vari-ous lengths of carbon chains to suspend single gold atoms a certain distance above extremely thin gold foil. Compounds of differing length were reacted with the gold to control the spac-ing between the metal atoms. Photons could then be directed between these two gold sur-faces to create a plasmonic wave. Their results were revealing, Ciraci said.

“The response of your material is basically proportional to the strength of its electric field,” he said. “When you use a plasmonic system to squeeze the light into this tiny area, you have to keep the electrons from repelling each other.”

If the two metallic atoms are too close to-gether, their electron clouds push with such force on one another that they overlap and block the wave.

“We now have a means of assessing the limitations of plasmonics, since the more advanced response of the electrons in the metal is ultimately what will define the field enhancement obtainable from a nanoparticle system,” David R. Smith, director of the lab in which Ciraci conducted his research, wrote in an email Thursday.

But despite this discovery of a limit on plas-monic systems, Smith remains optimistic.

“There may be much more in these systems to exploit. We are looking forward to seeing if we can unlock more phenomena from this new understanding,” Smith, William Bevan professor of electical and computer enging-eering, said.

Duke acquires John Hope Franklin papers

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Duke has obtained more than 300 boxes of documents and other materials belong-ing to respected historian, civil rights leader and professor John Hope Franklin, the University announced Thursday.

This contribution follows a donation by Franklin of his personal papers in 2003. John and Karen Franklin, the late histo-rian’s son and daughter-in law, donated these documents to the University, which will complete the library archive of the es-teemed public scholar.

Franklin is celebrated as a founder in the field of African and African American studies and as a passionate professor at the University, while playing a critical role in civil rights movement. He is known best for his groundbreaking book “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans” and for his guidance in race relations as chair of President Bill Clinton’s Advisory Board on Race. A recipient of more than 100 honorary degrees, Franklin participat-ed in the legendary march led by Martin Luther King, Jr. in addition to working with Thurgood Marshall on the Brown v. Board of Education case.

“John Hope Franklin always wanted his papers to have an academic home where they would get into the hands of students and scholars quickly,” his son John W. Franklin said in a press release. “He wanted to make sure that they would be used. We found such a home for his papers in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manu-script Library of the Duke Libraries, with a dedicated staff to care for the collection.”

The papers, comprised of diaries, cor-respondence, manuscripts of writings and speeches, awards and honors, extensive re-search files, photographs and videographs, will be available for research after conser-vation review and archival processing are complete. The collection also includes ma-terials that outline the Franklin’s family per-sonal story, which includes their personal involvement with the civil rights struggle in

Tulsa, Okla.The large addition will be housed in the

John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture. Part of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the center opened its doors in 1995 in honor of the prominent scholar.

Franklin died in 2009 in Durham of con-gestive heart failure. He was 94.

Deborah Jakubs, Rita DiGiallonardo Holloway University librarian and vice pro-vost for library affairs, noted in the release that the papers will serve as a significant re-source for a variety of interests.

“John Hope Franklin was the epitome of the public intellectual—deeply engaged with the issues of his time and yet personally down-to-earth,” she noted. “ We are grateful to the Franklin family for placing his papers here at Duke, his intellectual home for so long.”

The University libraries will commemo-rate the papers with a reception on Sept. 14. The event will be open to the public.

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of the cost of education and perhaps an uncertainty of the future once they leave the University.”

He noted that universities, such as Duke, have a global imperative to pro-mote innovative teaching, adding that new technologies such as online learning introduce new opportunities as wells as pitfalls.

“Is the council prepared to meet these challenges? Not as well as we would like,” Robisheaux noted.

The council meetings, he said, are not merely places for the mundane work, but should become a forum for robust discus-sion of new initiatives—a place where fac-ulty members can frankly assess new and existing programs and ideas.

“Our goal is to make the council and the arts and sciences committees better positioned to take up new ideas, improve upon them and really make them hap-pen,” he said.

Although the University is still “in the woods” financially, Patton noted that the University balanced its budget in April, determining a method to finance all of the institution’s programs and faculty.

Four main challenges have offset the University’s financial standing in the past few months: the underperforming en-dowment, the less-than-expected amount of grants for some departments, the in-creasing demand for financial aid and fewer retirements among faculty, Patton added. Although numbers are continual-ly shifting, she noted that the demand for financial aid is growing at almost twice the rate that tuition is increasing.

“We will always spend more than we are comfortable with in order to hire dynami-cally as we want and need to hire. But in this environment, we need to be both stra-tegic and visionary,” Patton wrote in an email following the meeting.

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It was not all about the soccer, though, as the team had chances to travel to five different cities and enjoy the Japanese culture. The pair is in agreement over one thing—the polite-ness and the welcoming hospitality of the Japanese people.

The US team visited the Hiroshima Memorial and paid respects there. They were also able to interact with fans off the field by signing autographs and playing soccer with local children.

“They have a great passion for wom-en’s soccer, which is fantastic,” Cobb said. “They’re very supportive for the Japan [U]-20 national team.”

While attendance was low at the start of the tournament, the team played in front of much larger crowds as it reached the later rounds. The at-tendance was over 30,000 during the final against Germany.

The Americans also had a chance to

get to know each other during friendly times before the battle to the national championship begins.

“My team is like my best friends, we’ve gone through so much. This experience is really stressful on all of us,” Pathman said. “It really bonds us, we called our-selves a family. These are really my sis-ters and I’d do anything for them. It was sad saying goodbye to everyone.”

As the conference schedule ap-proaches, the lasting bonds will now be tested on the field. The U.S. team includes seven other players who com-pete for an ACC school.

“There’s a lot of them in the ACC and we’re excited to see each other,” Pathman said. “On the field we’re go-ing to be competitors but as soon as we step off the field, we’ll be back to that same sister mentality.”

Cobb said the friendship will make her prepare differently—it might “throw her off a little bit.”

In their absence, the Blue Devils have raced to a 6-2 season start, scor-ing 34 goals in the process. Cobb and Pathman have tried to keep in touch with the team, having many Skype calls and texts to wish their teammates good luck before games.

Now that the two are back they are busy catching up with class and their teammates, but with the 13-hour time difference between Durham and Japan, Cobb has admitted that it is sometimes difficult to stay awake in class.

“Thank god for coffee,” Cobb said.

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The men’s and women’s tennis teams will kick off their preseason with the third annual Fab Four Invitational in Cary, N.C., hoping to set the tone for the coming season.

This fall tournament hosts schools from various conferences, who come with their top four players to win six possible titles in both doubles and singles. This tournament gives Duke the chance to see competitive teams and individuals that they may not face in the regular season.

“We play these tournaments... to get back in match shape and work on individual rank-ings, which affect what they do all year [and] work on some doubles stuff, trying some new teams and different teams,” women’s head coach Jaime Ashworth said. “But the number one thing is getting on the court and getting matches in a competitive situation.”

This year’s men’s squad has added four freshmen to its roster, including the No. 1 ITA newcomer, Michael Redlicki and No. 2 Bruno Semenzato. Semenzato, however, is not eligible to compete until the spring. The other two freshmen, Josh Levine and Daniel McCall, will both play singles as well as pair up as a doubles team this weekend. The lone senior on the team, Henrique Cunha, sits at No. 1 in the preseason rankings, and is fol-lowed by No. 19 Chris Mengel.

“It does not affect how I am going to play my game,” Cunha said. “Number one is more responsibility. Obviously everyone wants to beat the number one guy, and I am the fa-vorite in pretty much every match, and it’s a nice pressure to have. But, I want to keep improving, and I think I have a lot of room for improvement.”

For doubles, this tournament will be a test for future matches.

“We are trying new combinations with this tournament to see how they gel together

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One week after losing big across the coun-try in California, the Blue Devils (1-1) will have a great opportunity to bounce back this week-end when they welcome N.C. Central (1-1) to Wallace Wade Stadium.

A 15-point underdog heading into last week’s 50-13 loss to then-No. 25 Stanford (2-0), Duke is the favorite in Saturday’s game against the Eagles, an FCS opponent coming off a 34-14 loss to Elon. Despite the loss, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe believes the Eagles have continued to improve so far this season.

“I thought their pass rush improved a great deal from one week to the next—their cover-age, the same thing,” Cutcliffe said. “ I think they made a big jump in the kicking game…and they shored things up well as a staff from game one to game two.”

Located in Durham, just a few miles from Duke’s campus, N.C. Central has faced the Blue Devils on the football field just once be-fore—the Eagles made the 10-minute drive to Wallace Wade for the first “Bull City Classic”

in 2009. Duke won that contest in command-ing fashion, scoring 49 unanswered points en route to a 49-14 win, though that does not nec-essarily interest Cutcliffe.

“I’m interested in making a statement about how well Duke can play,” Cutcliffe said. “I want to see a big difference in our team in every area from week two to week three.”

Duke won its first home game in style, beating Florida International 46-26. But the momentum that the Blue Devils gained from their opening win all but evaporated as they watched Stanford take a 20-point lead in the first half by suffocating Duke’s offense then moving the ball freely between the twenties against their defense.

Desmond Scott was a bright spot in last Saturday’s loss, catching 11 passes for 83 yards after recording just two catches in the season opener.

“He is amazingly skilled,” Cutcliffe said of Scott. “Desmond [Scott] and Conner [Vernon] compliment each other well, and

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Following a weekend in which Duke fell in two close games to ranked opponents, the Blue Devils will look to rebound against two ranked Virginian foes at home this weekend.

The No. 17 Blue Devils (2-3) can propel themselves above .500 for the first time this season against No. 25 Richmond (3-2) Friday and No. 8 Old Dominion (3-2) Sunday at Jack Katz Stadium.

“After Sunday’s [overtime loss against Wake Forest], the team couldn’t wait to get back to practice in preparation for this game,” Duke head coach Pam Bustin said. “We are definitely ready to get back at it.”

Richmond is the defending Atlantic 10 champion, with its only two losses of the 2012 season coming at the hands of ranked op-ponents. The Spiders travel to Durham after having lost to No. 2 Princeton in the last three minutes of the second half last Sunday. The Blue Devils fell to the Tigers 5-2 at home ear-lier in the season.

Old Dominion, meanwhile, is coming to Duke after having crushed Radford 5-1 last Sunday. Five different Monarchs scored, including freshman Sarah Breen, who was recently named the Colonial Athletic Associa-tion Rookie of the Week.

The Blue Devils are still down six players due to the U-21 Pan-American games—Lau-ren Blazing, Hannah Barreca, Aileen Johnson and Abby Beltrani are representing the Unit-ed States, while Kendra Perrin and Jessica Buttinger are playing for Canada. Buttinger is

right off the bat,” men’s head coach Ramsey Smith said.

Sophomore Jason Tahir and Redlicki will team up after winning a tournament in the summer together. Also matched up are the lefty duo Cunha and Hemmeler, ranked at No. 16, as well as the No. 15 pairing of juniors Fred Saba and Mengel.

Unlike the men, the women enter this season with only one new addition—Mari-

anne Jodoin, a junior transfer from Fresno State. The Blue Devils only graduated one senior from the team that made a run to the national semifinals last season. Seven Duke players also earned pre-season rankings. Bea-trice Capra leads the pack at No. 2, giving the team confidence and a baseline from which to build.

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To get to their meet this weekend, the Blue Devils will not have to go far. In fact, all they will have to do is take a short walk down the steps of Wallace Wade to the start-ing line in front of what will possibly be the largest turnout a Duke cross country meet has ever seen. Saturday, just fifteen minutes before they meet on the football field, Duke will take on N.C. Central on the track.

According to head coach Norm Ogilvie, who had the idea for the joint start after he saw the similarities between the two teams’ schedules, the runners will loop around the track in front of their fans and then head to

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In Duke’s win against Georgia State Tues-day, it accomplished exactly what it set out to

do—bring excitement to the offense and tighten up the defense. Sebastien Ibeagha was the offensive spark the Blue Devils needed, scoring two second-half goals and igniting an offense that had scored three goals in its first four games.

Friday Duke will try to keep its offense roll-ing as the Blue Devils take on the Clemson Ti-gers at 7 p.m. at Koskinen Stadium.

Clemson (1-3-2, 0-0-1 in the ACC) comes into the game hoping to turn its season around, having failed to earn a victory in its past five matches. The Tigers were the victims of tough scheduling with their early season games. Their last four games have all come

against top 25 teams. They most recently dropped their match against No. 24 Alabama Birmingham 2-0.

Although the Blue Devils (2-3, 0-1) are coming off an exciting victory and are enter-ing heavier ACC play, the attendance at games has been steeply declining, with each of their three home games garnering 300 fewer fans than the last. Head coach John Kerr is looking to increase enthusiasm about the up and com-ing Blue Devils, who he believes can surprise some people.

“The support our fans could give us would be huge, if they come out in numbers and be loud and support their team,” Kerr said. “I think it would give us a huge boost in ACC play. And ACC play, they’re one-offs in terms of anyone can beat anyone.”

Two of Duke’s next five games will be at home against ACC opponents, including on September 28th. Friday’s game will be the Blue Devils’ chance to get back to .500 and show their fans and the rest of the ACC that they are a force to be reckoned with.

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Junior Sebastien Ibeagha ignited Duke’s offense this week, scoring two goals against Georgia State.

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Jamison Crowder—who was really good a year ago—may be one of the more im-proved football players [on the team].”

The emergence of Scott as a receiver after playing running back last year should help open up the field for senior Conner Vernon and sophomore Jamison Crowder, allowing senior quarterback Sean Renfree to spread the ball around on offense.

Defensively, the Blue Devils should be able to contain an Eagles offense that gained 115 yards on 55 plays last week against Elon. Start-ing quarterback Junior Matt Goggans com-

pleted just one of his twelve pass attempts and was intercepted twice before being benched.

Overmatched by the speed and skill of the Duke defense, the Eagles hope to keep the game close by exploiting the Blue Devils’ habit of allowing big plays to opposing offens-es. That weakness has already proved to be a thorn in the side of a speedy and experienced Duke secondary as the Blue Devils have al-lowed seven plays of 30 or more yards through their first two games.

“There are going to be opportunities for our receivers to make big plays.” Eagle head coach Henry Frazier III said. “If the momen-tum switches on our side, then little brother might have a chance at big brother.”

After struggling in doubles last season, especially in the NCAA tournament, the women hope to improve starting this week-end. In the preseason the Blue Devils have three strong tandems ranked nationally in the top 60. Capra and Hannah Mar are

slated at No. 19, Mary Clayton and Jodoin at No. 27 and Annie Mulholland and Ester Goldfeld at No. 43.

“My goals are to take advantage of the first tournament of the fall, and place myself in position for All-Americans, which is coming up shortly,” senior Mary Clayton said. “I want to do the best I can for the team, and obvi-ously individually as well.”

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the old location of the dual meet, the Sally Meyerhoff Fitness Loop. Though those in the stadium will be unable to see the teams as they finish, the team scores will be an-nounced in Wallace Wade, and during the third quarter of the football game winners of both the men’s and women’s races will be shown on the video scoreboard.

“Cross country is looking forward to the opportunity to allow its runners to compete in an awesome and exciting setting,” Ogil-vie said. “Naturally, it’s easier to get fired up when you’re running in front of 30,000 peo-ple rather than 300.”

For the men though, there is more than just the incentive of making their fans proud. While Duke’s top ten finishers from its pre-vious meet, the Virginia Tech Invitational, have already earned a trip to next weekend’s Panorama Farms Invitational in Virginia, the rest of the team will be competing Saturday for the Blue Devils’ last empty spot. The In-vitational will host several nationally ranked teams and provide the Duke runners with an opportunity to boost their chances of qualify-ing for the NCAA championship meet.

Though only six of the Blue Devil women are participating, they are also excited for the

opportunity to compete in front of a large home crowd. Unlike the men, the women have no additional stakes in the meet and are simply excited for the chance to compete on such a large stage.

“I think it will be a fun a event,” wom-en’s head coach Kevin Jermyn said. “Hope-fully it will add something to the fan expe-rience for the people getting ready for the football game.”

As athletes competing in a sport that is not known to be spectator-friendly, cross country runners rarely get a chance to showcase their abilities and feel the support of their fan base. According to some of the Blue Devils, a lot of their excitement for this meet stems from the fact that it will present a chance for them to finally show people what they do.

“It’s the first time a cross country team has tried to do an event that coexists with such a large event, like the football game,” fresh-man Blake Udland said, “I think that if this could be a trend, whether it’s at our school or across the country, it would be a really cool direction for our sport to go. I think it’s good recognition for what we do.”

Despite all the attention that the venue is getting, the runners are making sure not to lose sight of the fact that the meet is a com-petition. In the words of junior Phil Farleigh, “there can only be one king of the Bull City.”

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Duke’s leading scorer on the season and Blaz-ing is the starting goalie, who was replaced by Ashley Camano in the team’s 4-2 loss to North-western Sunday.

Bustin, however, is still confident they can overpower both the Spiders and the Monarchs.

“We have everything here we need to suc-ceed and win, and that’s what we’re focus-ing on,” Bustin said. “As long as we keep up our positive attitudes, and keep our mental strength where it needs to be, we won’t have a problem.”

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percentage of possession, the team still did not manage to put together a scoring sequence.

Totalling 19 shots—just below its season av-erage of 20.4 per game—Duke put just five on frame, a number that fell nearly 4.5 short of the squad’s season average.

“We didn’t do a job of being sharp around the 18-[yard box]—[getting] the fi-nal balls,” Church said. “[We] were getting a little impatient.”

In the final three minutes, DeCesare and forward Laura Weinberg—who had a game-high five shots—both put balls on target.

Wys, however, rose to the challenge of the final wave of Blue Devil attacks, recording her third and fourth saves to preserve the vic-tory, marking the sixth consecutive time that a Duke loss has been decided by just one goal.

“It’s early in the ACC season, but we’ve got to be able to put [good] halves back to back to get out of this league,” Church said. “If you have any where you’re not playing the top of your game, people are going to punish you for it.”

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“We don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet,” said Mitt Romney almost a year ago in New Hampshire. “The

idea of spending trillions and tril-lions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”

Each and every one of us should be acutely afraid of the possibility of a Republican presidency. I say this to you as a hard-working stu-dent. But moreover, I say this to you as someone who has seen the results of and who has great faith in our academic system. And my belief is that the Republican philosophy does not undervalue but actively devalues scientifi c product.

Although there are some ludicrous examples of this, I care most about the position generally held among Republicans that climate change is false. According to the Pew Research Center, only 16 percent of GOP politicians believe that humans are causing global warming. A stagger-ing 53 percent do not think there is solid evi-dence that the earth is warming. This is, simply put, abysmal. I think that the phenomenon of climate change is one of most pressing chal-lenges humanity is facing and has ever faced. And I also believe that climate change is a good case study of a phenomenon that is supported extremely well by science.

Unlike politicians, the trend among scien-tists seems to be an increasing acceptance of cli-mate change. Nearly 98 percent of researchers publishing in the fi eld believe that humans are causing warming activity, and numerous studies from the world’s best universities support this position. Ironically, many American politicians have graduated from institutions that acknowl-edge human-caused global warming.

And so, as students, we are left to conclude that Republican politicians have turned away from science in great numbers. Well that’s that: Those of us who are science majors should be concerned. But it’s more than that. Academic science is derived from academic principals that guide every course of study at institutions like Duke. All fi elds share science’s quest to drive at some deeper truth, meaning or beauty. The con-cept of building upon the knowledge derived by those before us is fundamental. And all fi elds grow from the symbiosis of sharing concurrent knowledge.

Do not confuse the dismissal of climate change by some politicians with an extension of science’s tenets of self-evaluation and self-ques-

tioning. Rather than questioning the methods of scientifi c studies, many Republican politicians are advancing political biases. Broadly speak-

ing, I think this is representative of some politicians’ stances on cli-mate change; by selectively choos-ing what not to believe, Republi-can politicians have rejected the worth of all the fi elds we study.

Every student passionate about his or her fi eld should be con-cerned. I do understand—and oc-casionally sympathize with—those that see their degree as a voca-tional path to higher status. But

these people are not out of the water so long as they live in the United States: Some of our own government agencies have acknowledged climate change. The EPA regulates emissions of greenhouse gases, following the landmark case Massachusetts v. EPA in 2007. The National Academy of Science has authored many papers regarding climate change. The CIA recognizes climate change as a threat to national security. Twelve villages in Alaska have explored reloca-tion to avoid rising sea levels. So though the evi-dence abounds, Republican politicians contin-ue to dismiss it. They have reached the point at which they devalue and even dismiss branches of the U.S. government.

So it doesn’t matter what you study—every-one should be worried, as the consequences of this dismissal are far-reaching. I’ve person-ally felt pain when a cap-and-trade bill failed in Congress. As I’ve said in previous columns, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called for a reduction in emissions in order to curb global warming. If emissions are not reduced, the world’s positive feedback systems may spin climate change out of our control. We’re already seeing major effects.

That is, unless the U.N.’s warnings that 150,000 people die each year as a result of envi-ronmental changes linked to global warming is a liberal statistic.

I urge you, fellow students, to consider just how serious the Republican dismissal of evi-dence on climate change really is. It’s the kind of thing that would be sort of funny if it were coming from the football jock in your high school physics class. But it’s not. These are real people, holding scary amounts of power. And when they uncompromisingly reject science, we all suffer.

Lucas Spangher is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Friday.

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The Intellectual Climate Committee report, released Tuesday, should be the starting point for a serious ongoing dis-cussion about undergraduate intellectual life. Wednesday, we discussed the thorny struc-tural problems that prevent students from pursuing credentialism and intellectualism simultaneously at Duke. Today, we focus on several smaller areas identifi ed by the ICC: faculty involvement and sophomore and junior malaise—that indicate a lack of resources and can be helped through more concrete and immediate action.

First, only half of under-graduates surveyed believe faculty catalyze extracurricular conversations at least moder-ately. Close relationships with

passionate faculty can vault a student into the intellectual stratosphere. That’s why pro-grams like FOCUS, DukeIm-merse, DukeIntense or Winter Forum exist—to break down

classroom walls, making learn-ing a round-

the-clock adventure.Duke should continue

creating and enhancing in-novative University academic programs. At the same time, individual departments must also create opportunities to deepen student-faculty rela-tionships. For example, the psychology department imple-mented advice from a student focus group, initiating “brown bag” lunches that brought students and faculty closer to-gether. Where FLUNCH and Faculty Outings stop, depart-

ments should start by offering tailored programming. Each department knows its own strengths and weaknesses, en-abling them to best cater to the intellectual needs of their students. The ICC suggests that professors lack incentives to foster relationships with students, mostly due to tenure track and publishing pressure. These claims should certainly be investigated further, per-haps even warranting a study of their own.

Sophomores and juniors also reported markedly less sat-isfaction with their intellectual experiences outside of class. While this extended “sopho-more slump” could be partly caused by the high expecta-tions of freshmen year and the nostalgia of senior year, it is undeniable that academic

and social support drops off signifi cantly one’s sophomore year. Without Faculty in Resi-dence and programs like FO-CUS, FroshLife and Writing 20—compounded by the frac-turing of East Campus com-munities—sophomores can feel discouraged from build-ing more intellectual relation-ships. The problem continues junior year with many students choosing to study abroad. Fur-thermore, the house model means that most sophomores no longer share a year living together on West Campus.

The obstacles to buoying the sophomore and junior in-tellectual experience are for-midable. But a good start are class councils, which should continue to imagine more am-bitious agendas—merging the academic and the social—to

drum up greater opportuni-ties for intellectual exchange. The house model can also be harnessed to connect sopho-mores to juniors and juniors to seniors. The University should not underestimate the house model’s potential to enhance intellectual climate.

The issue of intellectual climate is a complicated one involving entrenched policies and systems, like the curricu-lum or grade point average, which should certainly be scrutinized. However, a stu-dent’s intellectual experience at Duke is also shaped by the smallest of acts, like a dinner with the members of her semi-nar course. It will take both types of problem solving, big and small, to foster intellectu-alism at Duke, and the time to start brainstorming is now.

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Here’s a game for Sporcle fans: What do the following locations have in common? Ban-gladesh, Barbados, the Maldives, Papua New

Guinea, Miami and Vancouver. Besides being unlike-ly locations for a Duke student to study abroad, these are areas that could be at least partially under the sea by the year 2100. There will be no dramatic “Day After Tomorrow” scenario. The gradual inundation will take many forms: coastal erosion, violent storms and nagging tides that creep higher each year.

Due to the positive feedback loop of climate change, global sea levels are expected to increase by an average of one meter in the next 90 years. The numbers are higher still in “hot spots” caused by variations in ocean currents and other factors. The East Coast of the United States is one of those hot spots, according to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey. The study found that New York City, for example, will likely see an additional 8 to 11 inches of water on top of the predicted meter. Of course, the effects we’re seeing right now are just the tip of the iceberg—one of hun-dreds of icebergs that will melt away in the next few decades.

I’d like to believe that such imminent, large-scale fl ooding could be an issue unmarred by politics. Of course, this is not the case. In a recent interview with NBC, Mitt Romney proudly explained, “I’m not in this race to slow the rise of the oceans or to heal the planet. I’m in this race to help the American people.” No surprises there; no one expects climate change mitigation to be a major focus of Romney’s campaign. What is truly disturbing about this state-ment is the cheeky juxtaposition of slowing the rise of the oceans and helping the American people, as if these were mutually exclusive goals.

Apparently, Mitt Romney has never heard of New-tok, Ala. In 2006, this indigenous coastal commu-nity became one of the fi rst to begin planning for climate-induced relocation. Erosion, melting per-mafrost and frequent fl ooding rendered the land unlivable. And it’s not just the Arctic; places in the lower 48 are threatened as well. A recent study pub-lished in Environmental Research Letters found that 3.7 million Americans inhabit areas at high risk for more frequent coastal fl ooding in the coming cen-tury. The states of Louisiana, New York, New Jersey and Florida will be particularly vulnerable to climate-related fl ooding. Why, then, do so many Americans remain unconvinced that climate change poses risks to our society?

Unfortunately, decision-makers in coastal states like our own have also contributed to this dilution of reality. In another attempt to be on the wrong side of history, the North Carolina legislature recently

placed a moratorium on the use of current sea level rise projections in considering coastal development policies. As of August, when Gov. Bev Perdue failed to veto the bill, N.C.’s Coastal Commission may not “defi ne rates of sea-level change for regulatory pur-poses prior to July 1, 2016”. In other words, North Carolinian lawmakers and developers have an offi cial mandate to ignore scientifi c studies on sea level rise

for another four years. Their guess is as good as anyone’s, I suppose?

While North Carolinians fret over their beach houses, the people of the Arctic region and many Small Island Developing States (SIDS) will struggle to ensure the survival of their cultural identities. SIDS in the Caribbean, Pa-cifi c, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean share similar challenges related to their limited resources, vulnerability to natu-ral disasters and fragile environments. One example is Papua New Guinea,

where international dialogues are already taking place to share information and build local capacity for climate-induced relocation.

The leaders of these island nations face extremely complex practical and ethical questions. What op-tions are available to fortify islands against the ris-ing waves? Will people relocate proactively, or wait out the storms while saltwater surges gradually ruin homes and croplands? If a community initiates relo-cation, where will they go? What status do they re-ceive under international law—climate refugees or simply migrants? What happens to the sovereignty of a nation whose territory no longer exists? Who will fi nance the relocation of hundreds or thousands of people? Perhaps most importantly, who gets to make these decisions?

My head and heart ache to consider how these questions will be resolved. If sea levels continue to rise at current rates or faster, some island nations will lose everything. Entire cultural foundations will be swallowed by the sea. It’s time that national and global leaders take these issues more seriously. It is petty and counterproductive to continue to question whether these changes are real, or to try to assign blame.

Sea level rise and climate-induced relocation are already occurring. However, there is a range of pos-sible futures available to us—some drier, some sog-gier. The outcome depends on actions we take now. The fi rst step is to stop scoffi ng at peer-reviewed sci-entifi c research. Once we face the facts at home and in the global context, we can begin to work toward mitigation.

Hannah Colton is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Friday. You can follow Hannah on Twitter @ColtonHannah.

“Duke is for Yale rejects.” Those were the fi rst words little, early-decision Gracie heard when she ventured through the doors of Southgate dorm for Blue Devil Days. Yup, it

seems we Dukies just can’t stop making such sexy compari-sons, even for the most virgin of ears.

And why would we? All our lives we’ve been cream-of-the-crop, all-star, mathlete, 4.0-earning, grant-earning, ba-by-saving, novel-writing freaks. We could take an AP test with our eyes closed and all but for-get what fresh air smells like.

Comparison intrigues us. It puts us on a pedestal above the rest. It gives us something to strive for. And, more often not, we have come out on top.

U.S. News and World Report released its 2013 list of best colleges earlier this week. Duke jumped up from the number 10 spot to eighth. My fi rst instinct? Share the article on Face-book with an obligatory “GO DUKE!” label. Huzzah!

But then, I read the article.Half, ladies and gentlemen, half of our blurb was uncere-

moniously allocated to the UNC-Duke basketball rivalry. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as hot for Curry as the next Crazie, but seri-ously?! How is this informing people’s college decisions? How is this a fair depiction of all Duke has to offer? Oh right, it’s not. Which is why I fi nd the list’s alleged purpose highly amus-ing: “The editors of U.S. News believe that students and their families should have as much information as possible.” Really now? This is comparison gone too far.

Already, the list is receiving backlash from the Los Angeles Times. California, per usual, knows what’s up.

The report is largely a compilation of data and surveys generated by the universities themselves—a method that may lend itself to data manipulation. But even apart from the fi shy methodology and the often-extraneous factors considered, my question remains, why ranking? Why numbers? Why Har-vard and Yale?

Crimson is just peachy. And I guess John Harvard is kinda cool. The crest is neat. But what hard and fast data makes U.S. News and World Report so convinced that a Yalie’s education is superior to our own?

So I did my homework. The “widely accepted indicators” include but are not limited to graduation rate, SAT/ACT scores, fi nancial aid packages and surveys of academics. Let me sum it up for you. Numbers are based on numbers. The rankings are based on reputation and data points. The alumni donations rate makes up 5 percent of the equation, allegedly an indirect measure of overall student satisfaction. Daddy 1% sends fat check to alma mater: nostalgia or nepotistic nudge? Bogus criterion alert.

I get that money matters and statistics are nice tools but if you’re going to tell me this list ranks the “best” colleges, I’m not buying it.

This is not to say there isn’t a spectrum of quality among universities. Of course there is. But until you put third party data collectors into the classrooms, it doesn’t take a Prattstar to tell that something doesn’t quite add up.

And yet, until today I bought it. I bought it because Duke is ranked eighth in the country. I bought it because it was in U.S. News and World Report.

It’s so easy when things are going well to forget to refl ect. Smooth sailing obscures careful evaluation. Doesn’t a $32 bil-lion endowment and kick ass reputation completely secure Harvard’s VIP status when evaluated by these criteria? Such a rubric is misleading and hurts the incentive to improve, an invitation to rest on your laurels and lean on your legacy.

This list raises important questions. About colleges, sure. But even more than that, about academia and the way in which we are evaluated inside and out of it.

One element of the rubric factors in high school counsel-ors’ ratings of the colleges. Why do guidance counselors get a say? My guidance counselor didn’t know her honors from her APs.

I just don’t get it. Why the obsession with numbers? Okay, I’m biased. Math 31 was far and beyond my lowest grade at Duke. I cringe at the sight of a TI-80 anything, and logarithms make me nauseous. But still, how can our college experiences—our professors, our classes, our knowledge, our beloved campus be ranked on numbers alone? Number eight. I reject it.

Gracie Willert is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Soggy logic

lettertotheeditorResponse to “Hunting for the middle”

Samantha Lachman, the author of the Sept. 13 column, “Hunting for the middle,” and I both admire Gov. Jon Huntsman for his diplomatic ap-proach to politics. However, I think her account of his political views is a drastic mischaracteriza-tion.

Arguing that Huntsman could run as a Demo-crat if he just “tweaked some of his reproductive rights views” reflects a major misunderstanding of his political beliefs. As Ross Douthat of The New York Times (among others) has noted, as gover-nor of Utah, Huntsman lowered taxes and simpli-fied the tax code in an effort to attract businesses to the state. The Cato Institute ranked Utah first in tax policy in the U.S. after Huntsman’s reforms. The man is a true conservative, not a pro-life lib-eral hiding in a Republican’s body.

I also believe that Lachman’s argument reflects a fundamental, albeit common, misunderstand-ing of the nature of bipartisanship. The two major American parties are frequently at odds because they have fundamentally different worldviews and philosophies.

Politicians who are occasionally willing to reach across the aisle in order to get things done should be applauded for putting country ahead of ideology. But while a true leader may occasion-ally compromise in a specific situation, he or she never compromises his or her beliefs themselves.

The most famous recent iteration of the Lach-man’s argument was then-State Sen. Obama’s ar-gument in 2004 that we aren’t red states of Ameri-ca or blue states of America, but the United States of America.

I hope that the author discovers, as President Obama has, that political polarization is not a phenomenon that can be eliminated simply by calls for “cooperation” and “bipartisanship.”

We should all strive to create a civil and diplo-matic political arena. But we should also address the issues on their merits. Calls for bipartisanship are frequently nothing more than cynical politi-cal gambits designed to distract from the real is-sues at hand.

Isaac WeitzhandlerPhD student, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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