january 12, 2011 issue

Winter storm blankets Duke, DurhamRecord 29K apply to join Class of 2015

by Alejandro BolivarTHE CHRONICLE

For the fourth year in a row, a record number of prospective Blue Devils world-wide submitted applications to Duke.

Duke received a total of 29,526 applica-tions from high school students this year, 2,806 more than last year—about a 10.5 percent increase, according to statistics re-leased by Dean of Undergraduate Admis-sions Christoph Guttentag.

The number of applications rose in both the early and regular decision appli-cation pools. In November, Duke received 2,287 early decision applications, a 14 per-cent increase from last year, according to a Duke news release.

“[The record is] a strong affirmation of attractiveness and appeal of Duke’s institu-tions,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice presi-dent for public affairs and government relations.

In an e-mail, Guttentag attributed the in-crease in applications to a variety of factors, including greater efforts from the Office of Financial Aid and a growing number of inter-national applicants. He also cited Duke Ath-letics and DukeEngage as having bolstered Duke’s popularity and visibility worldwide.

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Forum brings together diverse group to discuss health crises Report shows review

of Potti research was based on flawed data

potti investigation

by Chinmayi SharmaTHE CHRONICLE

What should be done if the world faces the crisis of a pandemic?

Duke students tackled this question at the second an-nual Winter Forum: “pandemic 2011: Are You Ready?”

The two and a half day forum, hosted by the Duke Global Health Institute, began Jan. 9 and was held at the Fuqua School of Business.

The event was a simulation of a pandemic complete with fake news broadcasts updating Duke students on the progress of a disease called “The Chinese Flu.” Stu-dents were asked to role-play policy makers, and in vari-ous panel discussions and activities they answered tough questions such as how to reduce medical costs, which members of the population deserved priority in vaccine administration and what jurisdiction the government had in its efforts to contain the disease.

“At the end of the day, we all know that after this forum, when a pandemic strikes next, we will be more

from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

A report obtained under the U.S. Freedom of Informa-tion Act by the academic journal Nature provides new in-sight into a panel that reviewed the findings of Duke can-cer researchers.

The document details a review completed in Decem-ber 2009 of work by Drs. Anil potti, William Barry and Joseph Nevins. The University had suspended trials based on their research and asked Duke’s Institutional Review Board to review the work after two biostatisticians chal-lenged its ability to be reproduced. The IRB was able to replicate potti’s results and Duke therefore resumed clin-ical trials, but the report released by Nature reveals that katie ni/the ChroniCle

this year’s Winter Forum, hosted by the Duke global Health institute, focused on medical and media policy issues of a simulated pandemic. SEE forum ON pAGE 5 SEE potti ON pAGE 8

by Maggie LoveTHE CHRONICLE

Tenters in K-ville are sleeping on snow-covered ground, but as some delayed travelers may be think-ing, at least they’re at Duke.

In response to the snow—not quite enough to merit grace for Krzyzewskiville Monday or Tuesday night—the University canceled graduate classes Tuesday. Staff still reported to work Tuesday.

“What’s most important right now is that you take all precautions to be safe and not take any unnecessary risks,” Vice president for Student Af-fairs Larry Moneta wrote in a Tuesday e-mail to

students. “Your safety is your priority!” Throughout the past few days, Moneta and the

DukeAlert system updated the campus community via e-mail and text messages. DukeAlert discon-tinued its severe weather policy Tuesday at 7 p.m. and all bus routes resumed normal activity Tuesday amid lingering concerns over icy conditions. But several students may still miss the first day of class because of travel delays.

Although both runways remained open, many flights arriving at Raleigh-Durham International

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Dangerous conditions delay many students’ travel arrangements

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The ChronicleThe indePendenT daily aT duke univeRsiTy

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2011 ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, ISSUE 74www.dukechronicle.com

Makoni discusses her work as a gender activist, Page 4

onTherecord“Just as a funeral ought to be a celebration of life, senior

year ought to be a celebration of your four years at Duke.” —Senior David Wong. See column page 22

Take That BackResearchers retract another paper, published in 2006, authored by Dr. Anil Potti, PAGe 4

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BrisBane — Brisbane faced its worst floods since 1893 as rivers swollen with heavy rain raced tues-day toward australia’s third-largest city.

Flash floods overnight left 10 dead and 79 missing in the northeastern state of Queensland, the state’s pre-mier, anna Bligh, said tuesday at a news conference. she said the death toll may more than double and urged Brisbane residents to be prepared for enormous disruptions.

Queensland has been lashed for more than two weeks as downpours hammered the coal- and sugar-pro-ducing state. Brisbane’s airport tues-day bustled with people fleeing the coastal city, home to more than 1 mil-lion people. some of those staying to ride out the waters cleared store shelves to hoard food.

WashinGton, D.C. — Gun-control advocates tuesday called for reforms of the federal background check sys-tem that permitted tucson, arizona shooting suspect Jared lee loughner to purchase two firearms in the past two years.

loughner, who faces federal charg-es in connection with a shooting rampage saturday that killed six and wounded 14, purchased a Glock 19 semiautomatic pistol nov. 30 from the sportsman’s Warehouse. a year earlier, he bought a single-shot harrington & richardson shotgun from the same store.

in recent years, loughner has had run-ins with the police and military over alleged drug use, and gun-control activists said that the federal govern-ment isn’t doing enough to prevent drug abusers from getting firearms.

Arizona shooting exposes flaws in gun-control laws

Afghanistan will get US aid until 2014

We live, as we dream-alone. — Joseph Conrad

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Row upon row of identical looking shelters are being built in Cabaret, Haiti. this tranquil valley is providing temporary relief to those affected by last year’s devastating earthquake. exactly a year later, housing still remains one of the biggest problems facing affected Haitians. samaritan’s purse, an international Christian relief and evangelism organization, is funding the Cabaret project.

“Duke law school received a $5 million gift from stanley, law ‘61, and elizabeth star aimed to encourage other alumni and friends of Duke law to make contributions, according to Duke law news. the gift is not the first from the star Family who have also donated in support of faculty and student scholarships in addition to school programs and infrastructure.”

— From The Chronicle’s News Blogbigblog.dukechronicle.com/news

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louis Budd, James B. Duke professor emeritus of english

Louis Budd, James B. Duke professor emeritus of English, passed away Dec. 20 in Arizona. He was 89 years old.

Budd, a leading Mark Twain scholar, taught at Duke for 44 years and served as chair of the Afro-American Studies program from 1968 to 1970. He also chaired the Eng-lish department from 1973 to 1979.

Budd was born in 1921 in St. Louis, Mo. and was the last of three children in his family. He graduated from high school at age 15 and attended the University of Mis-souri, where he studied English.

In 1949, Budd earned his doctorate in American literature from the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of Kentucky at Lexington from 1949 to 1952 before relocating to Duke, where he re-mained until his retirement.

During his time at Duke, Budd had an illustrious career as a professor, writer and editor of various publications.

He published his first book, “Mark Twain: Social philosopher,” in 1962 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship three years later.

In 1979, Budd became managing edi-tor of the journal American Literature and also served as an editor for Duke Uni-versity press.

Budd received numerous awards for his work, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellowship in 1979-1980 and the Mark Twain Circle Award in 1991. He published and revised various books about Twain, including “A Compan-ion to Mark Twain,” which he co-edited with peter Messent in 2005.

Budd officially retired from Duke in 1991 but continued to teach for five more years.

anne schroder, curator and academic pro-gram coordinator of the nasher

Anne Schroder, curator and academic program coordinator at the Nasher Muse-um of Art, passed away Dec. 23 in Chapel

Hill. She was 56 years old. Schroder worked at

Duke for more than a de-cade, beginning in 1999 at the former Duke Uni-versity Museum of Art. Since the Nasher opened in 2005, she oversaw mu-seum exhibitions, worked with faculty to compile exhibitions and super-

vised the museum’s internship program. She was also an adjunct assistant professor of art history.

Family and friends remember Schroder for her passion for art, warmth and intellect.

Schroder graduated from Smith College with a bachelor’s degree in art history. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Before coming to Duke, Schroder served as curator at the Samuel p. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield. She also taught art history at the University of Flori-da and the University of Minnesota.

During her time at Duke, Schroder dis-covered that an anonymous work at the Nasher was painted by Francois Gerard, a famous French artist. Schroder and conser-vator Ruth Cox presented their findings to the American Society for Eighteenth Cen-tury Studies.

“It’s a curator’s dream,” Schroder said at the time.

tianjian shi, professor of political sciencepolitical Science professor Tianjian Shi

passed away Dec. 25 at age 59.Shi, who went by “TJ” in the United

States, joined Duke’s faculty in 1993. He worked closely with the Asian and pacific Stud-ies Center and found-ed the China Election Study Group.

Shi was known for the three loves of his life: family, China and democratic policy.

He was part of the first wave of Chinese stu-

dents who pursued advanced studies in the United States following the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

After graduating from peking Univer-sity in China, Shi earned his doctorate in political science from Columbia Uni-versity.

Shi conducted the majority of his research on Chinese political participa-tion, and he published his first book “political participation in Beijing,” in 1997. It was the first of five books and monographs.

Throughout his career, Shi’s research was published in numerous publications including World politics, Daedalus and Asian Survey. His most recent project, funded by the National Science Foun-dation and Henry Luce Foundation, fo-cused on political culture and participa-tion in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

He was passionate about elections in China and conducted several scholarly in-vestigations on the subject.

harry owen, pratt professor emerituspratt School of Engineering professor

Emeritus Harry Owen passed away Jan. 5 at age 91.

Owen is remembered for his wide array of interests, ranging from electronics and photography to religion and fishing.

After serving as a U.S. Navy radar in-structor in World War II, Owen received degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida and a doctorate from North Carolina State University.

In 1951, he joined Duke’s electrical en-gineering department as a teacher and re-searcher, a post he held for 40 years. During his sabbaticals from Duke, Owen worked for NASA and the European Space Agency.

Owen served as a mentor to many Asian graduate students and became fascinated with Chinese culture, learning to cook na-tive dishes.

In Durham, Owen attended the Ep-worth United Methodist Church where his contributions included serving as a Sunday school teacher and administrative board member.

During his retirement at the Forest at Duke community, Owen served on the board of directors of the Residents Asso-ciation, as chair of the Safety and Security Committee and as a member of two plan-ning committees.

Owen also enjoyed traveling, making visits to Asia, Africa, South America and Europe with his wife.

Owen is survived by his wife phyllis, brother Mitchell and sisters Emily and Carolyn, daughter Marcia and son David, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

—from staff reports

Uni mourns death of Duke community members

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potti investigation

Withdrawal of 2006 paper marks second retraction

by Zachary TracerTHE CHRONICLE

Duke researchers have withdrawn a second paper authored by former cancer researcher Dr. Anil potti.

The article, published in the journal Nature Medi-cine in 2006, purported to demonstrate a method of se-lecting cancer treatments based on a patient’s genomic information. It was titled “Genomic signatures to guide the use of chemotherapeutics” and has been cited 344 times, according to Google Scholar.

However, Duke scientists reviewing potti’s work found that some of the paper’s results could not be replicated.

“We wish to retract this article because we have been unable to reproduce certain crucial experiments show-ing validation of signatures for predicting response to chemotherapies,” the paper’s authors wrote in a retrac-tion notice posted on Nature Medicine’s website Friday.

Dr. Joseph Nevins, a co-author of the paper and potti’s mentor at the Institute for Genome Sciences and policy, requested the retraction in November. He reviewed the research along with William Barry, an assistant professor in the department of biostatistics and bioinformatics.

In mid-November, the Journal of Clinical Oncology retracted a paper based on potti’s research after Nev-ins found that the results could not be reproduced.

potti resigned from IGSp and the School of Medicine Nov. 19. At the time, he was under investigation for research misconduct. He also faced University sanctions for providing false information on several resumes.

Makoni fights to empower womenby Matt Barnett

THE CHRONICLE

Betty Makoni was raped at age six, a tragedy not uncom-mon in her native Zimbabwe. As an adult, she has worked against such injustices and has rescued more than 35,000 girls and women since 1999.

About 150 Duke Medicine employees braved the snow Tuesday afternoon to see Makoni speak as part of the 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration hosted by Duke Medi-cine. Makoni, who founded the Girl Child Network Worldwide and four girls empowerment villages in Zimbabwe, is a gender activist and has committed her life to supporting women.

president of the Duke University Hospital Kevin Sow-ers said that Makoni—who was named one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2009—was brought to campus because, like King, she demonstrates commitment to making a dif-ference in her community.

“She truly exemplifies the beliefs of Dr. King,” said Sow-ers, who joined Makoni on the stage for the conversation.

Makoni agreed their goals are similar, noting that, like King, she uses nonviolent means to combat inequality.

“He fought against inequality of race, we fight against the wall of gender,” she said. “In every part of the world, the basic unit is a family—if the father is raping the daugh-ter, there is no way the world can move forward.”

Makoni’s struggle against gender inequality began af-ter she started teaching in Zimbabwe. She quickly noticed that most of her female students were dropping out and that the cause was the widespread rape of the young girls. The majority of these rapes was a consequence of the “vir-gin myth,” a widespread legend in Zimbabwe according to which the rape of a virgin will cure a man’s HIV. The myth has led to the rape of thousands of women, young girls and infants throughout Zimbabwe.

“The classroom became too small for me,” she said. “I found myself an activist.”

Makoni went on to found all-female girls empowerment villages to help rehabilitate and educate raped girls. She said part of the process is teaching girls to differentiate “between good men and bad men.”

She also fights patriarchy psychologically, reclaiming sym-bols traditionally exclusive to boys and men. To demonstrate this, Makoni showed the audience a photo of the girls in one of her empowerment camps —they were all dressed in blue.

“We took the boys’ color by force,” Makoni said, making the audience laugh.

To students of both genders, Makoni recommended forming girls clubs to empower women around the world.

“You don’t have to be in Africa, it’s about all of you mo-bilizing,” Makoni said in an interview before her speech. “Let’s see men coming to Facebook to say look, Betty, you are not alone.”

Celestine Buie, an administrative assistant at Duke Medicine, described Makoni’s conversation with Sowers as life-changing.

“You never know what people have gone through,” Buie said. “It’s unbelievable that she is a survivor after all she’s gone through and that she’s trying to pull others out of it. I wish more people could have come to know who she is, to know that Duke saw the need to bring her here.”

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Betty Makoni, a gender activist who was raped when she was six years old, spoke about her work to Duke Medicine employees tuesday.SEE retraction ON pAGE 8

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prepared,” said forum participant Braveen Ragunanthan, a junior.

The opening night of the forum featured keynote speaker Dr. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general and director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Schuchat discussed the challenges presented by influenza epidemics and the steps necessary to contain them.

The 110 undergraduates who attended came from backgrounds ranging from pre-medical to photography, and the goal was to ensure that all participants played a role in the simulation, said David Boyd, associate professor of the practice of global health, who was also the faculty director of the event.

“[The event] aggregated groups of vari-ous interests to talk about how individual academic pursuits could aid in the contain-ment of a pandemic,” Boyd said.

Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, called the event an “effort to apply what students learn in their classes.”

The forum also hosted speakers from across the globe, including a video confer-ence with Dr. Rutao Wang from China who provided the Chinese perspective on the surveillance and control of epidemics.

Nowicki noted that this year’s event was larger than the Winter Forum held last year. About 70 students attended “Mak-ing the Green Economy Work,” which was hosted by the Nicholas Institute for Envi-ronmental policy Solutions.

Boyd said the key ideas speakers rein-forced were the constant presence of po-tential health threats and the fact that not every disease is preventable.

“We selected this year’s topic because we wanted to look at a global health topic [which was] both relevant and would show

the world that they needed to be prepared for a crisis,” he said.

During the forum, students partici-pated continually and were encouraged to defend their opinions and ask the speak-ers questions.

The forum served as a microcosm for the decision making group that has to re-spond in the case of a pandemic said par-ticipant Helen Cai, a freshman.

“All the participants were given the same background readings and the same lectures, but depending on personal val-ues and what roles we had to assume, [par-ticipants] tended to disagree severely on the best policy implemented,” she said. “I learned that influenza outbreaks are ex-tremely unpredictable and that policy mak-ing cannot merely be decided on health considerations.”

Along with these pragmatic lessons, stu-dents also came to conclusion that “patient zero” in their simulation, the one responsi-ble for spreading the pandemic, was Duke’s very own president Richard Brodhead.

Several students also seemed to appre-ciate the heightened use of technology throughout the forum. All of the required reading for the event was online along with summaries of each day’s panel discussions, activities and student interviews. The site was created to be user friendly, so that even those students who were unable to attend the conference could benefit from it, said DGHI Assistant Director for Communica-tions Geelea Seaford.

Ragunanthan said the expert panels used real-life examples, like the H1N1 panic, to show how susceptible the world’s population is to these kinds of global medi-cal scares.

“The different speakers... raised ques-tions for students to contemplate from all angles,” he said. “No stone [was] left unturned.”

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PUBPOL 150S.01 Democracy: Pass/Fail T 4:25-6:55, Mickiewicz This course analyzes errors, strengths, and results of rating and polling comparing degree of democracy in countries worldwide. These widely used shortcuts or branding instruments are important for responsible and accurate reporting. Not only that, they inform policy makers. Surveys are anoth er component of what the media and the policy makers use to become informed about the unknown. But how solid are they? Students in this course do not themselves do polling and rating, but the wo rk in the seminar proceeds in workshop mode by taking apart and evaluating assumptions and execution of these highly publicized judgments. How do you know a poll represents the opinions of many people, and a bandwagon is building? What should be done with polling results? Should they be passed on to the public as is?

This is not a technical course on how to design a survey and do quantitative analysis. Rather, it f ocuses on the other side of the coin. It is a significant responsibility for journalists to convey the pic ture of an electoral race, performance of a product, or the mood of the country. This course addresses these dilemmas, and, in addition to the reading, asks the class to think hard about what decision they wou ld make if they had the responsibility to decide what to do when survey results and country ratings la nd on their desks.

PUBPOL 196S.03 Community Development Paths TTH 11:40-12:55, Daniel The course seeks wisdom and understanding of the field of community development and different approaches to community needs and aspirations. We will first examine the word community, with particular attention toward the neighborhoods that make up South West Central Durham (SWCD). Analyzing the Duke Durham Partnership initiative, the neighborhood landscape, leadership, and aspects of disadvantage that impact (often inhibit) individuals and their community from enjoying it s assets and thriving.

PUBPOL 196S.23 Can Poverty be Eradicated? M 2:50-5:20, Pilzer Many policy scholars and practitioners are concerned with mitigating the ill-effects of poverty. Too frequently though, little time is spent discussing the nature of poverty itself. Therefore, this cou rse will focus on several of the factors that create and maintain poverty. We will begin with sociologic al theories of inequality. Next, we discuss the methods, choices, politics, and implications of poverty measurement and definitions. We will distinguish between the near poor, the chronically poor, and the transient poor as well as the “deserving” and “undeserving” poor. As the effects of poverty manifest in many segments of life, we will cover the role of poverty in residential segregation, employment, incarceration, and education. We will spend a very limited time on specific social polic ies (EITC, TANF, WIC, etc) and health issues since those topics are covered in other departmental course s.

212S.01 Economics of the Family TTH 1:15-2:30, Hamoudi At least as much as any other institution, families can distribute resources among their members acr oss time and space, spread risk, and foster cooperation. In this seminar, we will examine some of the wa ys that extended families function as economic institutions. We will take a primarily empirical approac h, reading original research from academic journals into the types of economic relationships that have been observed within families in contexts all over the world. Where relevant, we will also look at microeconomic theory. Students with a solid grounding in microeconomics and econometrics/statistics will be able to tackle the material.

PUBPOL 243.01 Media in Post-Communist Societies TH 2:50-5:20, Mickiewicz Television was the instrument Mikhail Gorbachev chose first to reform the Soviet Union. Before long , the reform process was out of control; Gorbachev had been overthrown and the Soviet Union was no more. This analysis of that stunning, swift change and the television revolution that pushed it is the study of a huge institution, kept close to the top leaders, reaching practically the entire populati on, and literally under siege by armed mobs. There were journalists and management who risked their lives and doctrinaire journalists and the old leaders who opposed them. Through all this, during th e decade of the `90s, publics overnight saw the world change.

This course incorporates the conceptual frameworks of political communication and political psychology and the inside story and multiple visual aspects of an unparalleled change. The primary, but not exclusive, focus will be on Russia.

PUBPOL 264S.29 Global Cold War History M 2:50-5:20, Brands The past 20 years have witnessed a profusion of archival sources on the Cold War, many of them emanating from the Soviet bloc and Third World countries. These sources have allowed historians to delve into previously obscure aspects of the Cold War, and to better understand its origins, course, outcome, and legacies. This seminar examines recent scholarship as well as some older works on international affairs during the Cold War. We will pay particular attention to how the Cold War shaped the international system (and vice-versa), the effectiveness of the grand strategies pursued by various protagonists, the role of nuclear weapons, the impact of Cold War competition on the Third World, and the ways that the superpower conflict continues to shape global politics.

PUBPOL 264S.30 Strategic Behavior TTH 2:50-4:05, Hamoudi Reviews tools for the analysis of decision-making with imperfect or asymmetric information, and applies them to public policy problems. Tools include: probability trees, expected utility, repeated games, “cheap talk” and signaling, Nash and Bayesian Nash equilibrium concepts, the principal/agent model, moral hazard & adverse selection, information rents, incentive compatibility, participation constraints, and the revelation principle. Applications include: insurance markets, and problems of hidden action and hidden information in regulated sectors and other markets of public policy interes t. Requires previous exposure to intermediate microeconomics.

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With temperatures projected to fall into the 20’s Tuesday night, ice on roads may refreeze. As of Tuesday night, classes on Wednesday were on schedule.

In Conyers, Ga., second-year Divinity School student Jonathan Andersen said three to four inches of snow, icy roads and closed interstates prevented him from leaving for Duke Tuesday as he had planned.

“I did get warnings, but I assumed that

after a day or two it would be clear, but it stayed around a lot longer than expect-ed,” he said.

Andersen planned to drive back Wednes-day morning.

To prevent further travel delays, other students improvised a new kind of trans-portation mid-trip. Sophomore Alice Rand from Los Angeles was stuck in Charlotte Monday night. Fortunately, her friend, sophomore Elizabeth Tijerina, was in the airport, she said. The two stayed in a hotel overnight.

“We tried [to book a flight] again this morning and it was just terrible, everything was canceled,” Rand said.

Ultimately, the two decided to take a train to Durham—without their luggage,

which is somewhere in the Charlotte air-port.

Jason Meer, a senior from Maryland, was planning to drive back Tuesday after-noon until he received Moneta’s e-mail and checked the weather reports for the coming hours. He also called friends from Duke before deciding to delay his travels for a day.

“My roommate from North Carolina [said it might be risky], but my friend from pennsylvania said to come. There was a very regional disparity there,” Meer said.

In the end, only one person’s opinion mattered.

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the review panel validated the doctors’ research using data provided by potti that did not match original raw data.

Keith Baggerly, one of the biostatisti-cians from the University of Texas’ MD Anderson Cancer Center, sent a document to Duke administrators warning them that the data potti had released online did not match raw data available in public databas-es. But the Duke officials never forwarded the information to the panel, therefore jeopardizing the quality of its review.

“We think the outside experts would have had a better chance of detecting the error if they’d been told that we’d already found it,” Baggerly told Nature.

In a joint statement to Nature, Vice Dean for Research Dr. Sally Kornbluth and Vice president for Medical Affairs Dr.

Michael Cuffe said they received the docu-ment but decided not to pass the informa-tion on to the panel because they feared it might bias the review.

“It was determined that it would be best to let the data, publications, etc., speak for them-selves and not bias the independent investi-gation for or against any party. In retrospect, we did not realize that the data provided by our investigators were flawed (as the public record now shows), rendering an outside review addressing the methodology flawed as well. In hindsight, we would have ensured that the IRB provided all communication with Dr. Baggerly, recognizing the risk of bias. We’ve learned considerably from this process and are introducing key changes in the way we deal with research that will be translated to the clinical arena as a result.”

Cuffe told Nature that if a similar situation were to ever occur again, he would forward “every shred” of evidence to the review panel.

“Our motivation was not to protect [potti], it was to give him complete fair-ness,” Kornbluth said.

The University has decided to con-sider a stronger review process follow-ing the incident. Cuffe and Kornbluth noted Duke has set up a committee to determine what criteria should be re-quired and checked before any clinical trials can begin.

The research concerned the potential for personalized chemotherapy treatments for specific patients based on biological markers and genomics. The three clinical trials have since been terminated and the research is being further reviewed by the Institutes of Medicine, which is expected to complete a report by 2012.

potti, one of the researchers, resigned Nov. 19 months after The Cancer Letter revealed inconsistencies in his resume. Two papers he co-authored have also been retracted.

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When potti stepped down, he took respon-sibility for the problems with his research.

“[potti] accepted full responsibility for a series of anomalies in data handling, analy-sis and management that have come under scrutiny in the past months,” IGSp Director Huntington Willard wrote in a Nov. 19 e-mail to IGSp staff announcing potti’s resignation.

problems in potti’s research may also lead to the retraction of a third paper based on his research.

In a Tuesday interview, Willard said IGSp researchers are currently reviewing a 2006 article potti co-authored in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “A genomic strategy to refine prognosis in early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer.” He said it is too soon to say whether that paper will also need to be withdrawn.

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Of the applicants, 24,307 applied to Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and 5,219 applied to the pratt School of Engi-neering, representing 10.8 and 7.7 percent increases, respectively.

Duke’s applicant pool is split roughly evenly between males and females. Among non-white students, Latino and Asian high school students represent the great-est increase in applicants. The majority of applicants are from California, followed closely by New York and North Carolina. Guttentag said the growing number of ap-plicants from California has also helped to bolster University recognition.

“As we have attracted more students from the West Coast and from overseas,

that alone tends to generate greater visibil-ity and further interest in those parts of the world,” Guttentag wrote.

paula Friedman, Trinity ’83, interviews prospective Dukies in the Los Angeles area. She attributes the rise in California appli-cants to state budget cuts in the public uni-versity system that have made it difficult for some students to pursue their studies and graduate on time.

“[public university students] have more im-pacted majors—[there are] more underclass-men not being able to register for the classes they need for their major, [so it is] taking more than four years for a number of students to graduate,” Friedman wrote in an e-mail.

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The Blue Devils’ coaching staff will have a different look next year.

Defensive coordinator Marion Hobby has left the school to take an assistant’s job at Clemson, a school he previously coached for in 2005.

Hobby had been the defensive coor-dinator at Duke since January of 2008.

“We hate to see Mar-ion leave, but certainly wish him well in his return to Clemson,” head coach David Cut-cliffe said in a state-ment. “We appreciate his contributions to the Duke football pro-

gram over the past three years as he was a very strong part of our family here.”

Hobby spent nine seasons total coach-ing alongside Cutcliffe, including six years at Ole Miss while Cutcliffe was head coach.

Hobby’s defense found unprecedented success with the Blue Devils in his first season

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Nolan Smith scored 18 points against Maryland Sun-day and will look to continue his hot hand tonight.

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After a short winter respite, Duke’s men’s and women’s tennis teams opened their spring seasons last Saturday. Both sets of Blue Devils traveled to Hawai’i to take on the Rainbow Warriors.

And the first matches of 2011 were very successful, with the two Duke teams combin-ing to sweep all six doubles matches played and win 11 of the 12 singles matches.

The No. 14 Duke men’s team won all but two sets on its way to a dominant vic-tory over No. 37 Hawai’i.

“This was the perfect way to start the season,” men’s head coach Ramsey Smith told the team’s website. “We have been practicing hard all week, and played well today. The freshmen were particularly im-pressive in their dual match debut. [Assis-tant coach] Jonathan (Stokke) and I are very excited about this spring season.”

The men’s team was led by strong ef-forts from No. 9 Henrique Cunha, a soph-omore, and No. 5 Reid Carleton, whose strong performance in the fall earned him a spot on the USA team for the Master ‘U

by Andrew BeatonTHE CHRONICLE

Five years ago, Florida State shocked No. 1 Duke in a thrilling one point game at the Donald L. Tucker Center. With five consecutive wins against the Seminoles under their belt, the Blue Devils hope to avoid a similarly shocking upset when

they return as the nation’s top team to play the Seminoles at 9 p.m. tonight.

A l t h o u g h Florida State (11-5, 1-1 in the ACC) has strug-gled in early-season play and lost three of its last four, the Seminoles re-

main dangerous because of their tenacity on the defensive end, particularly down low. They rank first in the ACC in both rebounds and blocks per game, which poses a threat to a Duke squad that has lately benefited from its small lineups.

“It’s going to be a very tough game,” senior guard Nolan Smith said. “Flori-da State, defensively, is one of the best teams in the league. They get steals and block shots.”

Leading the Seminoles down low is 6-foot-9 forward Chis Singleton, who

is first on the team with over 15 points and eight rebounds per game. Unlike Maryland forward Jordan Williams, who owned the paint to the tune of 23 points and 13 rebounds in Sunday’s game against the Blue Devils, Singleton is an inside and outside threat.

“Chris Singleton is a big man, but he likes to play outside,” Smith said. “We’re just going to try and hold him down.”

Much of the onus for fighting Single-ton below the hoop will fall on the Plum-lee brothers. Both have struggled in ACC play, however, with Mason Plumlee’s 10 rebound effort against Miami being the only time either player reached double digits in points or rebounds against Mi-ami or Maryland. In the Maryland con-test, however, Mason Plumlee fouled out with zero points and five turnovers.

Defensively, senior forward Kyle Sin-gler may also be forced to match up against Singleton, especially if he contin-ues to play center as he did against Mary-land, when he played in a lineup with Smith, Seth Curry, Andre Dawkins and Tyler Thornton. Whether or not head coach Mike Krzyzewski will implement that lineup to combat Singleton’s size, the way he did with Jordan Williams, re-mains to be seen.

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by Jason PalmataryTHE CHRONICLE

In its ACC opener Jan. 2 against Miami, Duke managed a 74-63 victory against a Hurricanes team that staged a strong sec-ond half performance. Although the Blue Devils were a more talented team, they

struggled to put away Miami in the game’s lat-ter stages. Some thought that head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s use of only a seven-man rotation might be to blame.

Just a week later, Maryland came to town looking to make a statement in the two teams’ heated rivalry series. Not only did the Blue Devils pull out a 71-64 win over the Terrapins, they also took advantage of an opportunity to expand their rotation to eight men in a tightly contested contest, when rotations typically become tighter.

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Since Maryland topped Duke March 3rd, the Blue Devils had reeled off 24 straight wins.

And well into the second half Sunday night, it looked like the unranked Terrapins might pull off the upset again. Thanks to the efforts of a couple of unexpected contributors off the bench and a late game effort from Duke’s cap-tains, however, the No. 1 Blue Devils survived Maryland with a 71-64 victory.

“It was a huge win for us because we played against as well-coached a team as we have played against all year,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “gary [Williams]… is a great coach and his game plan against us was magnificent. They did everything possible to take Nolan [Smith] out of the game. They re-ally crowded the paint…. They just played a really strong aggressive, physical, game.

“They were very good, I mean really good. We haven’t been in a game like that.”

At the half, the Blue Devils led by a slim margin, 32-31. Locker room talks didn’t seem to have their intended effect, as Duke came out flat to open the second half. The Ter-

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cessful in shaking off the winter rust, win-ning five of its six singles matches. But even though the Blue Devils scored well, head coach Jamie Ashworth thought there was still room for improvement.

“I thought we competed well and I thought we didn’t hit the ball well con-sidering this was the first matches for some of the girls in eight weeks,” Ash-worth told the team’s website. “We are glad to grab the first win of the season. It was good for everyone to get the first matches out of the way and it gives us some things to work on.”

— from staff reports

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at the helm, with Duke giving up only 23.4 points per game, a 20-year low for the pro-gram. He also began mentoring Vince Og-hobaase, a 2009 All-American.

The Blue Devils’ defense began slip-ping after 2008, though. In 2009, Duke gave up 28.3 points per game, and last season the team allowed 35.4 a game, good for 109th in the nation. Lowlights included the Wake Forest game, in which the Blue Devils gave up 54 points, and the Alabama contest, when they allowed 62. Duke also allowed 450 yards per game, just 108th best in the country.

Cutcliffe has not announced a succes-sor to Hobby.

— from staff reports

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in the 174-pound division, freshman bret Klopp pulled off an upset against No. 25 J.C. oddo.

The Blue Devils competed in their first dual match of the season Tuesday night but could not come away with a victory against The Citadel.

Duke (0-1) lost at seven of the 10 weight classes, including a forfeit at 125 pounds, and fell to the Bulldogs by an overall score of 31-9.

The Citadel (4-5) boasted ranked wres-tlers at the 165 and 174-pound slots, but only one of them defeated his opponent. No. 9 Turtogtokh Luvsandorj picked up a 12-4 ma-jor decision over senior Willy Mello at 165 pounds. Redshirt freshman Bret Klopp, how-ever, scored an upset over No. 25 J.C. Oddo at 174 pounds. Klopp, who owns a team-best 20-6 record, built up a 7-2 lead after the sec-ond period and never looked back, pulling off the 10-4 decision over Oddo.

Klopp’s victory snapped a streak of five straight losses for Duke, but the damage was already done—The Citadel led 25-3 with only three bouts remaining.

Any chance of closing the gap in scor-ing evaporated at 184 pounds, as redshirt sophomore Diego Bencomo could not build off the momentum from Klopp’s win. Bencomo was coming off an appear-ance in the quarterfinals of the Southern Scuffle tournament and had won six of his last nine matches. Yet, the Bulldogs’ Justin Sparrow pinned him in one minute and 49 seconds, icing the victory for The Citadel.

After Bencomo’s loss, the Blue Devils acquitted themselves well at the heavier weight classes and won their two remaining

matches. Freshman Brian Self secured a hard-fought 2-1 decision over Kelby Smith, and redshirt sophomore Andrew Fulk grabbed a 10-4 decision against Luke John-son. Fulk only led 4-2 after two periods but ran away with the match in the final frame as a result of two takedowns.

Duke will look to get back on track be-fore ACC competition begins when it meets Davidson on the road Thursday.

—from staff reports


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tution, putting Tyler Thornton and Seth Curry into the game alongside Kyle Sin-gler, Mason Plumlee and Smith. The move to a smaller lineup spurred offensive and defensive plays that turned the momen-tum in Duke’s favor. Thornton and Curry led the Blue Devils in an 11-0 run that put Duke up 43-38.

But that lead would not stay comfortable. Using plays by Dino gregory and Cliff Tucker, the Terrapins whittled away at the lead, knot-ting the game at 46 with 9:53 remaining.

Now, at this crucial point in the game, the newcomers’ turn was over. Duke turned to its seniors.

Singler and Smith contributed 19 of the next 24 points. And with less than two min-utes left on the clock, Smith charged to the left, blowing past sophomore Jordan Wil-liams through a gap the Maryland player had left open on the baseline.

Williams reciprocated with a bucket of his own on the other end of the court, but Singler answered on the next possession with a long 3-pointer from right in front of the Duke coaching staff. His trey propelled

the Blue Devils to an eight-point edge.“Kyle was Kyle tonight,” Smith said.

“He can score the ball. He hits shots and attacks the rim.”

From the beginning, this contest was tighter than many expected. Second-chance points kept the Blue Devils in the game ear-ly, with four players pitching in with offen-sive rebounds in the first half alone.

Defensively, Duke had trouble contain-ing Williams, who was too much for the Blue Devil frontcourt to handle. Despite disap-pearing for parts of the second half, Williams still managed 23 points and 13 rebounds.

Singler led Duke with 25 points and 10 rebounds on 10-of-19 shooting. After start-ing slow, Smith finished with 18 points, 11 of them in the second half, and seven rebounds. His 18 points came at a cost, though, with the senior connecting only five of his 18 shots.

Still, he and the rest of the Blue Devils exhibited their trademark intensity, accord-ing to Maryland head coach gary Williams.

“The one thing that Duke, you can count on, regardless of how they shoot, they will play with a certain level of intensity every time,” he said. “To their credit, they were able to take a pretty good hit tonight and come back and win the game.”

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as well. As a “bubble” team, a win against Duke (15-0, 2-0) could have a major impact on their chance at an NCAA tournament bid.

“When you think about your NCAA bid that we possibly could have, I mean this would be a big win on our resume,” Singleton said. “We need everyone we can get right now.”

Similarly, Duke will need everybody they can get as head coach Mike Krzyzewski looks to potentially expand a rotation that has occasionally included only seven play-

ers. Tyler Thornton benefited from this ex-pansion against Maryland, snatching four steals in his 12 minutes of play.

“We have guys that are ready to step up,” Smith said. “Tyler was huge [versus Mary-land] and he brings energy. He plays hard.”

For now, this game serves as the first conference road game of the season for the Blue Devils. They will look to prove they can grind out games even without the support of the home crowd.

“going down there is going to be a huge test for us,” Smith said. “It’s going to be a good win if we can take care of business.”

“I don’t go into the game expecting any-one to play a certain amount of minutes, except Nolan and Kyle,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I’m more instinctive about subbing and [being] reactionary. At that moment, I felt like we needed a spark.”

The moment that Krzyzewski re-ferred to came early in the second half when Maryland took a 38-32 lead after a Sean Mosley tip-in. That was when Krzyzewski reacted to the Maryland run and went small, inserting both Thorn-ton and Seth Curry into the game, giv-ing Duke a three-guard lineup.

The lineup alteration worked wonders. Over the next five-and-a-half minutes, Duke went on an 11-0 run. Thornton was a defensive catalyst during that stretch, swip-ing several of his team-high four steals. And Curry took over for the Blue Devils on the offensive end, as he poured in six of those 11 points and Thornton added two.

“We had a little lull there, and Maryland made a nice little run,” Curry said. “Then Coach decided to get the energy back and made some subs. Tyler and I provided some energy, I was able to knock down some shots and the crowd was back into it.”

As Duke pulled away down the stretch, both Curry and Thornton continued to see time, even subbing in for each other as Krzyzewski incorporated an offense-for-defense strategy. And the team’s stars were quick to point out the impact that the guards made off the bench.

“Those guys came in and made some big plays,” Smith said. “Tyler’s defense was the difference tonight.”

While Thornton’s defense may have helped the game’s outcome, Curry dem-onstrated a previously unseen offensive game. Having spent much of his time this year toeing the 3-point line, Curry showed a new willingness to put the ball on the floor and get into the midrange.

“On the scouting report, I’m known as a shooter,” Curry said. “Coach is always tell-ing me to use the shot fake. I was able to do that, get free and get some good looks.”

As important as a consistent scoring punch from Curry off the bench would be for this team, the impact that Thorn-ton could have as the eighth man in the rotation is much deeper than meets the eye, especially as Kyrie Irving continues to sit out with his toe injury.

“Coach has told me time and time again that my defense is going to be im-portant for this team,” Thornton said. “It’s going to relieve pressure for Nolan so he doesn’t have to bring the ball up against pressure and then pick up the ball coming back on defense.”

But before the eight-man rotation becomes the expectation, the backcourt duo will have to prove that their perfor-mance against Maryland was more than just an aberration, something that Thorn-ton and anyone associated with Duke bas-ketball certainly hope is the case.

“This is not the end: I’m going to keep moving and keep improving,” Thornton said.

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The “Quad Dues” entry that shows up on under-graduates’ bursar statements every semester will likely be eliminated by Fall 2012, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta told The Chronicle last month. The decision to repeal this student fee is in line with the University’s broader residential shift from the quad model to the house model.

Funds from the current quad dues, which have been $27 per semester for the past three years, are funneled into the budgets of quad councils, resident assistants and residence coordinators. Students usu-ally reap the benefits of this fee in the form of program-

ming events, which may of-fer items like free food or quad-themed T-shirts. Un-der the quad model these expenses were meant to pro-mote student bonding and

quad unity. As The

C h r o n i c l e ’ s editorial board has previ-ously outlined, the quad model has done a poor job of promoting residential communities on West Cam-pus. Therefore this fee will become superfluous by the time the new house model is implemented in Fall 2012.

Activities previously fund-ed by the quad dues will be rolled into the Residence Life and Housing Services operating budget once this fee is eliminated. This makes sense provided students still

have significant discretion over how their residential programming dollars are spent. It is not yet clear how programming efforts will be coordinated under the house model, but if houses are governed by councils similar to the existing quad councils then these would seem to be the best decision-makers in this process.

The elimination of the quad dues marks the repeal of an unnecessary student fee, and while we are gener-ally supportive of keeping the student fee burden to a minimum it remains unclear how this change will affect the overall cost undergradu-ates face.

Certainly the end of the quad fee does nothing to ease the pain of under-

graduates who will pay an increased dining contract fee of about $90 until at least the 2013 fiscal year. It is also possible that the ad-vent of the house model will be associated with the introduction of a new fee, similar to the current quad dues, to fund programming events and other expenses. Although we are hesitant to advocate for a new student fee, we recognize that this could become a feasible op-tion if it helps to place resi-dential funding decisions in the hands of students.

Duke Student Govern-ment President Mike Lefe-vre, a senior, told The Chronicle he is “sure that there are other opportuni-ties to reduce fees,” and we agree that the elimination

of the quad dues charge should prompt DSG and the University administration to undertake greater scrutiny of student fees.

For now the repeal of the quad fee is simply a common sense measure. The Board of Trustees should formally ap-prove this change at its Feb-ruary or May meetings.

We hope that the arrival of Rick Johnson, who will be-gin serving as assistant vice president of housing and dining this month, will help to generate a prudent next step. As Johnson takes the lead to transition the Uni-versity from the quad model to the house model, we hope he will examine how the cur-rent student fee structure supports housing and din-ing on campus.

My mom’s health is doing fine but she’s al-ready started planning her funeral. That may sound morbid, strange or even sad, but

bear with me, and I think you’ll see that she’s really a very wise woman.

She envisions her funeral as a celebration of her life—her favorite things, her dreams, her experienc-es, her wishes for others.

Here’s the plan she’s come up with so far:

1) Color theme: lavender. Guests will be asked to wear her favorite color and put on some lavender fra-grance too.

2) Music: Her favorite hymns and pop, folk and country western songs.

3) Decor: Her favorite things will be displayed throughout the room: books she’s read, pictures of people who have influenced her, objects that have special significance to her.

4) Cards: Mourners might not have had the op-portunity to bid farewell to my mom, so there will be cards that they can write on and place inside the coffin. My mom feels troubled whenever fam-ily and close friends live with regret for not having had some parting words with the deceased. Allow-ing mourners to write a goodbye card will give them closure on my mom’s passing.

5) Quiz: There will be a fun quiz to see if guests really knew my mom as well as they thought they did. What were her dreams and fears? What made her laugh and cry?

My mom believes that life is all about preparation. We prepare for exams and for our careers, to buy a car and to have kids, to go on vacation and to retire. Shouldn’t we also prepare for death, especially given that it’s truly inevitable? Death isn’t something we should be obsessed about or preoccupied with, but I believe that a heightened awareness of death leads to a heightened awareness of life.

I was more struck, however, by the fact that my mom wants her funeral to be a joyous event. Fu-nerals are almost always occasions of mourning, eulogization and commemoration—not of rejoic-ing. But if death is viewed as the culmination of a life well lived, that’s surely reason to celebrate.

All this interesting but slightly depressing talk got me thinking about this semester, my final one at Duke. Graduation is fast approaching, and there’s a sense of finality that accompanies all of my senior year experiences.

It’s easy to get caught up mourning the end of

your Duke career. College is where you make friends, discover your passions, revel in your new-found inde-pendence and have tons of fun. Entering the “real

world” after graduation can seem scary and perhaps boring, so receiv-ing your Duke degree signals the end of your carefree days.

A more common approach is to eulogize senior year. “I can’t believe this is the last home Duke basketball game I might ever at-tend,” “It’s so sad that I might nev-er see him or her again” and “It’s crazy that I never need to bookbag again” are some thoughts that will definitely cross my mind over the

course of this semester. Eulogization focuses on the past, the “good old days,” which are now gone forever.

It might be tempting, instead, to commemorate senior year, to recall fondly the wonderful experi-ences you’ve had without entertaining the thought that life after college only goes downhill. This is a healthier mindset to have than the previous two, be-cause commemoration is an expression of gratitude for the amazing journey you’ve been on at Duke. Yet commemoration is always accompanied by a tinge of reluctance to let go of the past—hence it prevents you from completely embracing the present.

I believe the best approach is the one my mom has adopted toward death. Just as a funeral ought to be a celebration of life, senior year ought to be a celebration of your four years at Duke. At the heart of it, celebration is about living fully in the present. It’s about seeing the Duke experience as a vital part of your life but not allowing its mesmer-izing beauty to stun you into stagnation.

As writer G. K. Chesterton said, “The fatal meta-phor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.” When we celebrate, we focus on how we’ve changed and grown instead of what we’re leaving behind. In many ways, it’s the only philosophy that allows us to be cognizant of life’s abundance, regardless of our circumstances.

Mourning, eulogizing and commemorating the Duke experience are enticing options, and I’ve done my fair share of each of them. But whether you’re a freshman or a senior, let’s start celebrating today. Our time at Duke is too short to do it any other way.

Daniel Wong is a Pratt senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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Over winter break, I was listening to a radio broad-cast of the Outback Bowl between Florida and Penn State.

During a lull in the action, the announc-ers discussed 46-year-old Florida head coach Urban Meyer, who was planning to retire af-ter the game to spend more time with his family. The radio announcers mentioned that Meyer was a particularly driven coach who believed that “self-reflection is a sign of weakness,” adding that he never returned phone calls from his former players during the season.

Whether Meyer actually believes in the Neanderthal ethos that self-reflection is a sign of weakness, I don’t know. My own Internet searches didn’t turn up any quotes on the subject from Meyer. It’s entirely possible that the radio hosts were exaggerating and/or just plain wrong.

Either way, the idea that self-reflection is something to be discouraged was striking. And it made me think of Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski.

Meyer and Krzyzewski are similar in a number of ways. Each is (arguably in Meyer’s case, unquestionably in Krzyze-wski’s case) the best coach in his respective sport. Each has demonstrated an ability to adapt his team’s style of play to best suit the players on his roster.

But they’re also very different. Meyer had to retire to spend time with his family; Krzyzewski has incorporated his into his basketball program. And while at least one ra-dio announcer believes that Meyer chooses to abstain from self-reflection, Krzyzewski seems to take every opportunity to reflect.

After surpassing former UNC coach Dean Smith to win his 880th career game, Krzyzewski said, “When I walked out

and saw it was a full house, and so many Duke fans, I did take a moment to reflect back to when I first got to North Carolina and there weren’t very many Duke shirts.”

And after Duke arrived in Indianapolis prior to last year’s Final Four, Krzyzewski mentioned that he and his wife, Mickie, pointed out the hotel that they stayed in dur-ing the 1991 Final Four as they drove from the airport into the city.

Although Krzyzewski’s broader reflec-tion and Meyer’s narrow-mindedness mark the men as opposites, the fact that each has achieved extraordinary success suggests that one can rise to the top of a profession with either approach.

But Meyer’s success appears to have come at a greater cost than that of Krzyzewski. Krzyzewski is still going strong at age 63, 36 years into his coaching career; Meyer, mean-while, is retiring young. If Meyer’s career has been a comet, blazing across the sky, Krzyzewski’s has been a star—a little less bright, but with greater staying power.

Perhaps the lesson here is that self-reflection is important. All of us, by virtue of attending one of the world’s most

elite and selective universities, are high achievers. Many of us will continue to be high achievers in the future. Like Meyer and Krzyzewski, we’ll excel in highly demanding jobs.

The question we’ll have to answer is whether we want to be like Krzyzewski or Meyer. Whether we want to be a comet or a star. Whether we’re willing to give up a small measure of success to be more enduring. Whether we choose to live a life of reflection or of single-minded focus.

As for me, I’d rather be Coach K. But of course, I’m biased.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

On comets and stars

When I discovered that my first column for The Chronicle was scheduled to appear on the First Day of Classes of the Spring

Semester, or FDO-COSS, I was initially ecstatic. What bet-ter time for me to emphatically an-nounce my arrival into the world of editorial writing than on a day that is associated with new beginnings? I imag-ined the glitz and the glamour, the bright lights, the screaming fans, the red carpet. People would climb all over each other just to catch a glimpse of “the guy who writes that column for The Chronicle.” I was going to be on the cover of Forbes magazine, standing next to Oprah and the Queen!

I would deliver my opinions in a witty and in-cisive manner, providing a satirical and sarcastic commentary on current issues. I would be unapolo-getic, stir up passionate debate among my readers and generally incite riot with my words. I was going to finally wield the enormous power of language and use it to smite the walls of misperception and shock the truth into the ignorant masses with my thunderbolts of brilliance. I couldn’t wait.

The only thing I needed was a topic.The initial feelings of triumph were replaced

with panic—what was I going to write about? The trouble with writing my first column on the first day of the semester, I decided, was nothing notable had happened yet. I was trying to see something in nothing, to find a masterpiece on a blank can-vas. Of course, I could do research about current events at Duke, find some boring research project and comment on it, but that would be so... blah.

Last semester was filled with juicy scandals and controversies that gave writers plenty of fodder. This semester is just beginning. As of now, the Mon-day, Monday heir apparent must live in the shadow of Gossip Bro, the next Duke scandal has yet to un-fold and we have not had any other student privi-leges discontinued (yet). The majority of news last semester, while undoubtedly salacious and intrigu-ing, is, in hindsight, soooo 2010.

We have a lot to look forward to this semester. Our basketball team is the best in the country. That’s the only thing I can think of right now to look forward to, but I’m sure there is more. Any-way, this is 2011, people. A new year. It’s time for new drama, for the new theatrics of Duke life to play out—to create something positively real and exciting, be it insightful or incite-ful.

Editorial writing is necessarily a product of its environment, and without rich, nourishing and ultimately polarizing conditions, it will wither and fade away. So I ask Duke—not as a cop-out or as an excuse for lack of imagination—for the right conditions. I’m not suggesting that you go out and get really hammered and wreak havoc. I just don’t want to have to resort to the mundane to fill my biweekly Wednesday column. I want my work to be a critique of the activities of the Duke community, to flow organically from the comings and goings of the student body.

Don’t be afraid to speak out if you believe in something. Ask questions. If you have a dream, then go for it. Start that club. Ask that girl out. Live your life and stop hiding behind a shield of anonymity. Your true value lies not in your ability to work with-in the boundaries of a system, but in your ability to break loose, to express what it is about yourself that is truly and truthfully unique. Don’t be afraid. After all, this is 2011: a new year, and a time for new beginnings. You probably have doubts, and I un-derstand if you do. But if you feel that you can’t do it for yourself, then do it for me—because I need something to write about.

Milap Mehta is a Trinity senior. His column runs ev-ery other Wednesday.

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