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Look inside and online at www.chronicleblogs.com for The Chronicle Blog’s Top 10 News Stories of the Decade, as well as the Top 10 Duke Sports Stories of the Decade. See DECADE IN REVIEW, PAGE 4.

2000-2009: A Decade in Review Students robbed on Central

Duke sees record-high applications

New section menu coming Thursday

Winter Forum adopts green outlook

by Zachary TracerThe chronicle

Two students were robbed at gunpoint Monday night in two separate incidents on central campus.

The students were not hurt in the attacks and two suspects were taken into custody by both Duke and Durham police officers.

The first student, 21, was robbed at ap-proximately 11 p.m. in a parking lot at 209 Al-exander Ave. The second student, also 21, was robbed soon after in a parking lot at 1901 er-win rd. The attackers took cash, cell phones and other property from the students.

Vice President for Student Affairs larry Moneta said his staff has been in contact with both students.

“We’ll surround them with whatever they need to help them,” he said.

Moneta attempted to send an e-mail about the robberies to all students at 6 a.m. Tuesday, but undergraduates did not re-ceive it until after 4 p.m. because of a tech-nical problem.

“We are fortunate that our crime rates are very low in this area and especially on campus, but i remind you to always be aware of your surroundings and don’t hesitate to contact Duke Police if you feel

by Carmen AugustineThe chronicle

As students start second semester, 24,682 regular decision applicants are waiting to hear whether they will be able to join them at Duke in the Fall.

Duke received applications from 26,694 high school students this year, 2,795 more than last year—an 11 percent increase, according to figures provided by Dean of Undergraduate Admissions christoph Guttentag.

The jump in the number of applicants is smaller than last year’s 17 percent in-crease, but the office of Undergraduate Admissions still saw substantial growth in both the early and regular application pools. The University also received 2,012 early applicants—about a 33 percent in-crease from last year.

“i can only have one theory—it reflects the perception that this is a great place to get an education,” President richard Brodhead said.

Administrators cite heightened interest in Duke’s unique programs like Dukeen-gage, better recruiting in some states and the University’s effort to be affordable as possible reasons for the increase.

by Nicole KyleThe chronicle

in the two days before classes began, the residential group assessment committee was hard at work.

rGAc members and a several campus leaders have cre-ated a new menu of sections for selective living groups to choose from. committee members also revised the rubric that will be used to evaluate selective living groups in the future. The new section menu will be released Thursday.

“You will see similarities but very substantive changes as well,” said campus council President Stephen Tem-ple, a junior.

leaders from campus council, the interfraternity council and Selective house council along with Jen Frank, assistant director of accommodations for resi-dence life and housing Services, holding a meeting

by Paul HorakThe chronicle

Junior Pauline lim asked for a $1.25 billion loan this week, but her peers at the Winter Forum rejected her proposal.

lim was representing india in a mock committee on climate change at this week’s Winter Forum, a new annual event sponsored by the office of Undergraduate educa-tion. This year’s forum, “Making the Green economy Work,” was hosted by the nicholas institute of environ-mental Policy Solutions.

Although students representing developed nations re-jected her loan, lim said the forum effectively taught her about implementing a green economy.

“i did not expect the group to get along so well,” lim wrote in an e-mail. “That was really the best part about it. everyone was very actively engaged in the different team exercises and that was what made this forum so fruitful and so much fun.”

An award ceremony at the hart house Wednesday night was the finale of three days of debate among 70 students at the Winter Forum. in addition to competing in a green start-up competition, students also participated in a simulation of the December 2009 copenhagen climate conference

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Seniors Shawheen James presents the winning project in a student compe-tition to come up with a green-tech business at the Winter Forum Tuesday.See forum on PAGe 9

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her comments, after a meeting with her Japanese counterpart, Katsuya oka-da, underscored a shift in tone for the administration, which had been press-ing the new Japanese government to drop its opposition to a proposed re-alignment of bases and move the Fu-tenma Marine base to another part of the island.

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i began 2010 in a pretty unique way—riding a camel in a Bedouin camp.

i was in israel for new Year’s, par-ticipating in a week-long journalism seminar hosted by Project interchange, an institute of the American Jewish committee. The program was aimed at providing a first-hand experience of israeli life and culture, israel’s role in contemporary politics and the differ-

ing viewpoints on the israeli-Palestinian conflict. For one amazing week, i trav-eled around israel as part of a group of 17 college journalists looking to do something different for winter break and learn a few things along the way.

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Remains of rockets fired from the Gaza strip can be found scattered throughout Israel. The Chroni-cle’s Sabrina Rubakovic saw the above remnants in Sderot, a town close to the border with Gaza.

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Retirement packages see high yield

by Christina PeñaThe chronicle

The final count is in for the second re-tirement incentive, and the yield was much larger than expected.

As of Dec. 15, 89 of 198 employees who were mailed individual retirement incentive packages in mid-october decided to retire.

only one employee who accepted the offer Dec. 8 decided to pull out during the seven-day withdrawal window.

executive Vice President Tallman Trask said in october that he “would be sur-prised” if 50 employees accepted the latest incentive, since the first incentive had an acceptance rate of about 35 percent.

The first round of retirement incentives were offered to all bi-weekly employees who have worked at Duke for at least 10 years and are at least 50 years old. Bi-weekly employees include housekeepers, custodians and police officers. The second round was offered to a hand-picked group of salaried employees.

The yield for this round was about 45 percent, which Vice President for human resources Kyle cavanaugh considers a “very positive return.”

Trask said with wages and benefits, the projected savings from the retirement of monthly salaried employees will total about $7.5 million.

This is the last large centralized cost-cutting

The Duke University Marine lab was evacuated Tuesday after explosives were ac-cidentally spilled at the nearby Morehead city port.

Dorm residents at the lab have been evacuated to homes in Beaufort, n.c., ac-cording to a Duke news release. Under-graduates were taken to Marine lab Direc-tor cindy Van Dover’s Beaufort home, and may have spent Tuesday night at the homes of faculty members. Graduate students were taken to other homes in Beaufort.

Following the early morning spill of the explosive chemical PeTn, officials closed the port and recommended that people living in the downtown area of Morehead city evacuate. The evacuation order was lifted Tuesday night.

no one was injured in the spill, which occurred when a forklift punctured some barrels containing the explosive as they were being put on a truck. The chemical was being shipped legally into the United States from Spain.

PeTn was one of the ingredients in an explosive device a nigerian man allegedly tried to detonate on a Detroit-bound flight christmas Day. it can also be used in many other types of explosives.

emergency responders have been clean-ing up the spill, and the port, one of the deepest on the east coast, is scheduled to reopen at 8 a.m. today.

—From staff reportsSee retirement on PAGe 9

The Chronicle’s Sabrina Rubakovic was part of a week-long trip to Israel with Project Interchange, an institute of the American Jewish Committee. She was one of many representatives from American campus newspapers visiting the Middle Eastern country to broaden perspectives of the region and explore Israeli-American relations. Rubakovic blogged daily about her experience.


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These are the issues and events that made headlines for weeks at a time over the last 10 years, those that sparked the most debate on campus and beyond, and the ones that we believe will continue to

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The Chronicle’s News Blog presents The Top 10 News Stories of the Decade on the following pages. For the unabridged version, check

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10. Jason Williams’ Crash—The All-American basketball player and No. 1 pick of the Chicago Bulls played just a single NBA season before a debilitating motorcycle accident ended his professional career.

9. Kevin White’s hire—Former Director of Athletics Joe Alleva hired David Cutcliffe, but White has made a name for himself as a well-respected teacher and administrator in under two years on the job.

8. The Allegations—In 2005, two former Duke baseball play-ers told The Chronicle that they had used steroids while playing for the Blue Devils, and the scandal sent shockwaves through the pro-gram, leading to head coach Bill Hillier’s firing.

7. The “Undefeated” Season—Under head coach Gail Goes-tenkors, the Blue Devils’ women’s basketball team rivaled its men’s squad in success. The team’s best year was 2006-2007, when Duke went undefeated in the regular season, only to be upset by Rutgers in the NCAA Tournament.

6. Football’s Losing Streak—The well-documented futility of Duke Football in the 1990s and 2000s culminated in a 22-game losing streak between 2005 and 2007 that ultimately led to Ted Roof’s firing.

5. Coach Cutcliffe—In Roof’s wake, the experienced David Cutcliffe was hired, and he has already turned the program around in two seasons at the helm.

4. The Redeeem Team—Coach K changed the culture of the Olympic team, transforming a group of exceedingly well-paid alpha males into a cohesive group of unselfish team-oriented players and brought the gold medal back to the U.S.

3. The Powerhouse—Duke women’s golf doesn’t get the atten-tion of some of the University’s other programs, but this Blue Devil team won four national titles this decade, more than any other.

2. The Win—2001 NCAA National Championship. Need we say more?1. The Case—The Duke Lacrosse case and its local and national

fallout was one of the biggest stories in the country, let alone on campus, in the last 10 years.

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no. 10 — north carolina swings blue in 2008in a state where former president George W. Bush

trounced Sen. John Kerry by 12 percentage points earlier in the decade, few predicted that north carolina would be transformed into an electoral toss-up in the 2008 elections. indeed, no Democratic presidential candidate had won the Tar heel State since former President Jimmy carter in 1976.

After then-illinois Senator Barack obama was able to wrest the north carolina democratic primary from then-new York Senator hillary clinton, speculation began that the changing demographic landscape of the state—driven by an influx of new minority and young voters—as well as dissatisfaction with the economy might give obama a fight-ing chance against republican Sen. John Mccain.

Both candidates, realizing the importance of the newly crowned swing state, crisscrossed north carolina until the 11th hour to persuade last-minute swing voters.

Dukies—as part of the much touted youth vote—can-vassed and phone-banked for their preferred candidates and were able to take advantage of the newly installed early voting station in the old Trinity room.

on election day, Democrats swept all of north carolina’s major races. obama easily crossed the 360 electoral vote threshold to clinch his historic bid for the White house. newcomer Kay hagan, D-n.c. stole the Senate race from seasoned vet elizabeth Dole, r-n.c. while then-lt. Gov. Bev Perdue became north carolina’s first woman governor.

north carolinians, however, had to wait to hear of the fate of their own state. As of nov. 5, election officials declared

the race too close to call. But with 13,000 votes separating obama from Mccain and not enough provisional ballots to make up the difference, the Associated Press called north carolina’s 15 electoral votes for obama nov. 6.

no. 9 — building, building, buildingA football center, an art museum, a dormitory and a sci-

ence center. And another science center, another dormi-tory, a plaza and a school of nursing.

in the past ten years, Duke has added more than $375 million worth of structures to every part of campus.

The largest, most expensive projects—intended to ac-commodate Duke’s scientists and engineers—were the $107 million Fitzpatrick center for interdisciplinary engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences in 2004 and the $115 million French Family Science center in 2006. Just down Science Drive, Duke doubled the size of the Sanford institute of Pub-lic Policy with the addition of rubenstein hall in 2005.

Duke also built new dormitories on east and West cam-puses, at a cost of $53 million. To give students a new place to hang out on campus, administrators constructed a $10 million, 40,000 square-foot plaza connecting the Bryan cen-ter to the Flowers building and Main West Quadrangle.

other hot hangout spots added in the 2000s include Von der heyden Pavilion and the link, both added as part of renovations to Perkins library.

But those looking for a locale a bit more upscale than the Plaza’s Panda express tend to frequent the upgraded Wash-ington Duke inn and Golf club or the nasher Museum of Art,

which opened in 2005 after years of planning and $23 million in spending.

Athletics, too, reaped its share of the building bounty. The $23 million Yoh Football center was completed in 2002 with an eye to drawing talented football recruits, while the coach K center for Academic excellence was built, in part, to keep Krzyzewski at Duke.

in the coming decade, look for Duke to build on central campus and abroad—that is, if it can shake the financial crisis.

no. 8 — the murders of abhijit mahato and eve carsonMurder hit close to home in 2008—1.6 miles from West

campus, to be exact. engineering graduate student Abhi-jit Mahato, 29, was found shot dead in his Anderson Street apartment Jan. 18. Several miles down the road, eve carson, 22 years old and student body president of the University of north carolina at chapel hill, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds less than two months later on March 5. Po-lice have charged Durham residents Stephen oates and lau-rence lovette with the murder of Mahato. lovette, along with Durham resident Demario Atwater, was charged in carson’s death. All three suspects had previous criminal records.

carson’s death received national media attention, though Mahato’s death was only covered locally before its possible connection with carson’s murder was reported. community response was also markedly greater in reaction to carson’s death than Mahato’s. local media, Duke students and fac-ulty discussed the disparity, many suspecting it to be in part a result of the victims’ race and sex. But more than discussion, the murders prompted statewide probation reform. Gov. Bev Perdue signed the reform into law July 30, 2009, allowing probation officers access to offenders’ juvenile records and providing for warrantless searches of probationers.

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Atwater, lovette and oates are awaiting trial. if found guilty, Atwater, who recently re-quested his trial be moved out of north car-olina, could face the death penalty. lovette could face life in prison if convicted.

no. 7 — problems for the duke university Health system

Duke University Medical center was ranked 10th on the U.S. news and World report’s 2009-2010 America’s Best hospi-tals. But it has not been immune to serious mistakes this decade.

Surgeons at Duke University hospital transplanted the heart and lungs of the wrong blood type into 17-year-old Jesica Santillan Feb. 7, 2003.

hospital officials took full responsibility for the error. Santillan’s body rejected the or-gans, and on Feb. 20, she received a rare and controversial second transplant. She suffered complications, however, and was pronounced brain dead Feb. 22.

Santillan’s situation received national media attention. Santillan’s family filed suit against the hospital and settled for an undis-closed amount in June 2004. The errors sur-rounding the mismatch prompted Duke and the United network for organ Sharing to change their transplant procedures, requir-ing more separate checks for compatibility.

Then in late 2004, DUhS was back in the media when Duke physicians used sur-gical instruments that had been mistakenly cleaned in elevator hydraulic fluid. The in-struments were used in november and De-cember 2004 during procedures on 3,648 patients at Durham regional hospital and Duke health raleigh hospital—both run by the Duke University health System.

During an elevator inspection at the DUhS raleigh hospital, a mechanic had

drained hydraulic fluid into empty deter-gent barrels and did not relabel them. The barrels were sent back to the detergent supplier, which shipped them to four lo-cal hospitals. only the barrels at Durham regional and the raleigh hospitals were used. The hydraulic fluid, found to contain several carcinogens, was used in one part of the multi-step cleaning process of the tools. Multiple studies indicated the steril-ization process was not compromised and exposed patients did not suffer resulting health problems. Still, at least two groups of patients filed suit against DUhS, one suit was settled out of court in June 2008 for an undisclosed sum.

Although DUhS is still considered a premier health care provider, these inci-dents greatly affected the hospital’s and the University’s image at the time.

no. 6 — september 11th and the Wars on terror

The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 shook Americans across the nation including those within the Gothic walls of Duke. To date, Duke has lost eight alumni to the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and iraq.

Students and faculty have responded in many ways to the 9/11 attacks and the sub-sequent conflict in Afghanistan, launched oct. 7, 2001, and the iraq War, which began March 20, 2003. After the 2001 terrorist at-tacks, professors adjusted courses to include current events and background on areas newly spotlighted by the attacks. in the last eight years, many speakers have come to Duke discussing the fight against terror in-cluding Brig. Gen. h.r. McMaster, Stephen hadley, who was national security adviser from 2005 to 2009, Meghan o’Sullivan, the former deputy national security adviser on iraq and Afghanistan and perhaps most controversially, Karl rove, the former dep-uty White house chief of staff.

in fact, Duke has seen its fair share of war-related protests. Before the War in iraq began, about 20 students camped on the chapel Quadrangle in protest. About 400 people protested the start of the iraq war with a walk-out, and in 2005 a protest march ended with a rally on east campus. in addi-tion, students and faculty have participated in multiple peace rallies and efforts to sup-port the troops as well as marked the 9/11 attacks with an annual memorial.

President Barack obama has announced new strategies for the Afghanistan and iraq wars. on campus, Duke continues to discuss the wars and their effects, and to remember those who have served in them. The Uni-versity rededicated its war memorial oct. 23, 2009 and added the names of 54 fallen

soldiers. U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs eric Shinseki, Grad ’76 and a retired four-star general who is a Vietnam War veteran, delivered the keynote address.

no. 5 — new rules for living and learning Duke students got a new curriculum

and a brand new housing model in the first years of the decade, altering academic and social life on campus.

curriculum 2000—introduced in 2000, of course—was implemented to add breadth to Duke students’ knowledge. it set up a complex matrix of graduation require-ments—more complicated than the current system—forcing all students in Trinity to

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“i think part of it is related to the idea that when the economy is not so great... a number of families are going to consider an education at a place like Duke an invest-ment in their child’s future and something that will pay off, not just economically, but in lots of ways,” Guttentag said. “it will pay off for their children down the line.”

The total number of applicants also reflects a larger international pool drawn by Duke’s growing visibility abroad, Gut-tentag said. There were 3,570 internation-al applicants this year, 25.3 percent more than last year. This marks the largest swell in international applicants since the class of 2009.

Because there are so many more appli-cants than in past years, admittances will

be more selective, Guttentag added. There are only 1,100 spots left in the class after a record-breaking 602 early-decision ap-plicants were admitted in December—50 more than last year.

“We just have to make very difficult decisions among many, many qualified and compelling candidates,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public af-fairs and government relations.

Whether this increase in applicants is a nationwide trend or something Duke-spe-cific is still unclear.

“When we saw what had happened at other schools, we knew that our [early decision] numbers were specifically higher,” Provost Peter lange said. “We’ll have to see if that’s true for regular deci-sion as well.”

Brown University and the University of chicago also experienced a dramatic in-

crease in early applicants, while other uni-versities saw smaller changes.

of Duke’s applicants, 18.2 percent ap-plied to the Pratt School of engineering—approximately a 16.7 percent increase in applicants to Pratt from last year, and the largest proportion of Pratt applicants in the past seven years.

Although an increased number of ap-plications is good news for Duke, deferred early applicants may feel otherwise.

in a pool of 2,012 early decision appli-cants, the 602 admits represent a 30 per-cent acceptance rate, which is 4 percent lower than last year. of the remaining 1,410 applicants, 713 were deferred and 609 were denied admission. it is unclear whether the deferred early applicants will be affected by

the large number of regular decision appli-cants, Guttentag said.

Typically, about 10 percent of deferred applicants are admitted regular decision.

“We always admit some students that we’ve deferred, and we like doing that,” Guttentag said. “i think that it’s not so much the size of the applicant pool as it is the quality of the regular decision appli-cant pool that may affect the students who were deferred.”

overall, Duke saw slightly more female applicants than male, a trend that has been consistent for a few years. The states most represented were california, north caro-lina, new York and Florida, and the top 11 most represented states have remained con-sistent for several years, Guttentag said.

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threatened in any way,” Moneta wrote.The attacks are the second and third armed robberies

on campus this academic year, but they do not appear to be connected to previous incidents.

The student who was robbed first called 911 at 11:03 p.m. Monday, and all seven Duke University Police Depart-ment officers on patrol responded, DUPD chief John Dai-ley said.

nine Durham Police Department officers also respond-ed to the robberies, said DPD Public information officer Kammie Michael. one of those officers, l.e. Mazziotto, spotted two men on Anderson Street who matched descrip-tions of the suspects provided by the victims. Mazziotto and two Duke officers arrested the men, Dantae Trequan Anderson, 17, and Keith Jennings, 21, at approximately 11:25 p.m., Dailey said.

“it’s good for the community,” Dailey said of the arrests. “And it’s great that the students had the presence of mind to call us quickly. if something like this has to happen, it’s great when the systems all work.”

he said police found a .32-caliber revolver in Ander-son’s possession and a knife on Jennings. They also found items that were stolen from the students.

Anderson and Jennings are both jailed on $500,000 bond. Both men are charged with armed robbery, and An-derson is also charged with possessing a weapon on educa-tional property.

Dailey said that on average, there are around three to six robberies throughout the entire campus each year.

he added that he hopes the two robberies do not con-tribute to the impression that central campus is unsafe.

“For some reason, there already seems to be a little bit of a perception that central campus is not safe,” he said. “People may not feel safe there, but it’s not because there is more crime there.”

Before Monday, there had been two robberies on cen-tral campus in the past five years, Dailey noted.

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Monday to revise the original rGAc menu. The decision to revise was the result of concern from iFc and Shc.

“our solution sticks to the thought process behind the original menu but also addresses concerns of specific groups,” said campus council Vice President Alex reese, a junior.

Some of these concerns included a lack of common rooms and the placement of SlGs on third and fourth floors.

Temple declined to release the new menu Tuesday, but members said the changes allow groups more flexibility and provide more options for groups.

“A group picking last shouldn’t be pigeonholed into the last available section,” said [Shc] President Kait nagi, a se-nior. “now, there are multiple options.”

contrary to students’ demands and administrators’ promises of more open rGAc forums, both Monday and Tuesday’s meetings were closed.

Tuesday’s meeting was closed “strictly for feasibility,” Temple said.

The new menu takes into account the concerns of in-dependents.

“We didn’t want to have pockets of isolated indepen-dents—also referred to as “orphan residents”— and we didn’t want to load quads with groups and skew the per-centages of affiliated versus unaffiliated,” reese said.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life was also at the Tuesday meeting, which produced a proposal that will eventually be evaluated by the greater Duke commu-nity, he said.

Before winter break, groups like iFc and Shc ex-pressed concerns about unclear expectations and incon-sistent scoring practices in the rGAc process.

revisions made Tuesday focused on the rubric, but scoring practices will be addressed at future meetings, reese said.

“Some things are similar, like damages and cleaning charges, but some things are different,” said campus council representative Alyssa Dack, a senior. “The new ru-bric will lay guidelines, reduce subjectivity, and students on the [rGAc] panel will know the standards.”

The new rubric will reduce limitations on groups and encourage more quality programming.

“The rubric has clear score ranges and really details what is expected. i don’t see how anyone could get con-fused,” nagi said.

To narrow the communication gap, rGAc plans to publish a handbook about the process.

Sororities were not represented at the Monday and Tuesday meetings. The prospect of sorority involvement will be on the agenda at upcoming campus council meetings, Temple said.

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and an interdisciplinary faculty panel that addressed the challenges facing an effective green economy.

“There were a lot of unknowns going into the confer-ence, and we were all surprised by how well things went,” said Tim Profeta, director of the nicholas institute for en-vironmental Policy Solutions and a senior associate dean.

Profeta opened the conference Sunday, setting the stage for a panel discussion with participants chad hol-liday, former chairman and chief executive officer of Du-Pont, Allen Joines, mayor of Winston Salem, n.c, and Davd orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of envi-ronmental Studies and Politics at oberlin college. The three discussed the necessity for collaboration among businesses, governments and academics in creating a suc-cessful green economy.

Students tried their hands at policymaking when they

simulated the copenhagen climate conference. Students sat on committees representing the world’s many nations in attempting to reach a compromise on climate change.

Brian Murray, director for economic analysis at the nicholas institute, who attended the copenhagen confer-ence last month with Profeta, noted how close the simula-tion was to the real thing. The rift between the developed and developing worlds proved too difficult to overcome in lim’s situation, as it was in europe weeks ago.

But the forum had real results, too. A student compe-tition pitted eight teams against each other with the task of drawing up a green-tech business that would see high capital returns without expelling greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And the forum ended with President richard Brodhead awarding $2,000 to the winning team.

“This is what Duke is about,” Brodhead said. “i think that this is an example of bringing intelligent people together, putting them in an environment where everyone becomes smarter and is encouraged to dream up great ideas.”

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measure the University will implement as it works to cut its budget by $125 million over three years. Administrators continue to say that there will be no large-scale layoffs.

“i think we’re past the need for a systemic institutional layoff—even though individual units may have to—there will not be a large-scale layoff program,” Trask said.

cavanaugh said the results of the retirement incen-tives place the University in an “optimistic place” in com-parison to six months ago.

“Duke has been systematic and thoughtful in how it has been navigating these increasingly unprecedented times in higher education,” cavanaugh said. “There are still challenges that we will face. We remain optimistic about how the University has managed this past year and how it will handle 2010 and beyond.”

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army soldiers and university students just like us about top-ics ranging from religious freedom in israel to the israeli-Palestinian conflict to nightlife in Tel Aviv. We met with conservatives, liberals, israelis and Palestinians.

And the consensus on the issues was? nada. Almost every individual provided us with different in-

formation and different perspectives than the last. But i think that hearing so many viewpoints about dif-

ferent issues gave me a broader perspective on Middle eastern affairs. i left home on el Al flight 001 feeling as if i had a better grasp of concepts that i had only faintly understood from reading newspaper articles.

The seminar used a “real-time” approach: we were able to talk about important issues such as the israeli-Palestin-ian conflict as they were going on.

We saw the remains of hundreds of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into israel that were salvaged by the security office in Sderot, a town close to the border with Gaza.

We had lunch at the home of Bob lang, an israeli set-tler living in the West Bank, a little more than a month after israeli Prime Minister Benjamin netanyahu called for a temporary freeze on some settlement construction. lang pointed out the hilltops across from his house that could not be developed because of this freeze. From the window of his dining room, we saw an Arab town across from the settlement, providing a visual of the conflict that has en-compassed israeli and Palestinian life.

Actually, i take that back. one of the points emphasized by many during the

seminar was the fact that the israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the huge part of life that it is often made out to be. A student at Tel Aviv University noted that many foreigners think that israel is a war-torn desert full of refugees and soldiers.

Whatever similar pictures we had of israel were quickly dismantled as we learned that israeli life was startlingly normal. Tel Aviv is known as the new York city of israel, a youth capital home to a bustling nightlife. one of israel’s most popular shows is “Survivor,” a speaker noted, and a hotel we stayed in featured MTV shows like “My Super Sweet 16” and “Made” on its TVs (hopefully israelis won’t see these as examples of normal American life).

on an academic level, Professor Yossi Shain of Tel Aviv University and Georgetown University told us that israelis are unique in seeking normality in the midst of abnormal-ity. Throughout an intense conflict, Shain said, israelis looked to the future and contemplated how they can live a normal life.

in fact, a lot of israel seemed just like any other country, aside from the subtle reminders of a deeply set conflict.

Driving through the town of Sderot, children played in a park that seemed like any other except that it contained a bomb shelter painted like a caterpillar. on the horizon, a bomb alert tower was visible.

The Tel Aviv University students seemed more passion-ate about their cause—finding peace—than activist col-lege students in America. The military service required for most men and women prior to attending university lent a greater sense of maturity to many college students.

Just outside the West Bank, a highway in the town of Tzur hadassah had a wall built into the side to shield pass-ing cars from incoming gunshots.

And among this evidence of conflict and violence, is-raelis carry a strong sense of national pride. This is largely embodied in israel’s enormous immigrant population that is still growing rapidly every year. People of Jewish heritage from all around the world file into israel to reconnect with their Jewish roots and make aliyah, or ascension upward, into their homeland.

That was certainly one of the many reasons young adults from all around the world came to Kvutzat Yavne, a kibbutz in central israel. in this socialist-style living com-munity, i met three teenagers from the United States, england and France. They were studying hebrew in-tensely through the “5-5-5 approach”—five months, five days a week, five hours a day.

As American college journalists, maybe we will never understand why those three teenagers left their lives back home to live in a kibbutz. or why people are drawn to settle in the West Bank even if such settlement is causing enormous violence and conflict. or even why so many civil-ians continue to live in Sderot even though it’s frequently subject to rocket fire from Gaza.

For how can a group of westernized foreigners compre-hend religious ties and territorial claims that have spanned millennia? What we can do is open our eyes to cultures and viewpoints different from ours and experience them firsthand.

Read more about Sabrina’s trip to Israel online at bigblog.dukechronicle.com.

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Duke needs to prove it can win on the road—and soon.

In losing to No. 20 Georgia Tech Satur-day, the Blue Devils dropped their second true road game of the season. Ordinarily, that would not be much cause for concern, especially with the other loss coming at the hands of Wisconsin in the hostile Kohl Center. But Duke’s four wins away from Cameron Indoor Stadium have all come at

neutral sites.There are many

possible explanations for the team’s road struggles, but I am going to advocate the simplest explanation: The Blue Devils’ stars

haven’t played well in the same game.Against the Badgers, Kyle Singler kept

Duke in the game but got little help until late in the second half. Jon Scheyer scored 25 points in Atlanta Saturday afternoon, but he was the only starter in double figures.

It hasn’t just been a problem on the road, either. There have only been a hand-ful of games all season in which Scheyer, Singler and Nolan Smith have played well. That may not matter in Cameron or Madi-son Square Garden, but it gets exposed in a hostile environment.

And in most games, the trio has not played to its full potential because Singler is not hav-ing the season he was expected to have.

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Kyle Singler has excelled at times this year, but his move to the perimeter has not always been a smooth one.

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Classes resume with ACC testsby Will Flaherty

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After a winter break where No. 7 Duke turned in a series of strong perfor-mances, an unexpected January slipup in Atlanta was a rude awakening to the Blue Devils that their vacation is over as ACC play gears up this month.

By and large, Duke’s peformance in its seven games over winter break

indicated that they are among the top handful of teams in the nation. Outscor-ing their oppo-nents by over 28 points per game en route to a 6-1 record over

break, the Blue Devils showed that they could win in a variety of ways, producing victories out of both of-fensive onslaughts—like they one they applied to a hapless Penn squad in a 59-point victory on New Year’s eve—and airtight defensive efforts.

With guards Nolan Smith and Jon Scheyer leading the way, Duke (13-2, 1-1 in the ACC) has surged to a lofty position in a wide variety of scoring rankings. The Blue Devils are currently ranked eighth nationally in points per game, and Scheyer’s individual play of late has drawn some analysts to advocate the 6-foot-5 point guard as a candidate for ACC and National Player of the Year honors. Scheyer started off the winter

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Jon Scheyer has emerged as Duke’s go-to scorer and best ballhandler, and the Chicago native exploded for 31 points last week against Iowa State at the United Center.

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Duke’s outstanding defensive effort limited Clemson to just 53 points in the Blue Devils’ 21-point win Jan. 3.

break slate of games Dec. 15 with a career-best 36 points against Gardner-Webb and turned in another 30-plus point perfor-mance in a Chicago homecoming game against Iowa State Jan. 6. heading into the Gardner-Webb game, Scheyer averaged 15.3 points per game, but over the seven winter break games the senior guard has posted a stout 25-point average. Scheyer’s scoring emergence has buoyed a squad that entered the season with a thin guard unit, and how he fares against tougher ACC de-fenses will significantly impact his team’s performance heading into March.

Defense has also has been a key attri-bute to Duke’s success over the past month. The team has been able to both neutral-ize top opposing scorers like Iowa State’s Craig Brackins (12 points) and Gonzaga’s floppy-haired sharpshooter Matt Bouldin (4 points), and also play effective team de-fense. Gonzaga was held to 1-of-10 shooting from three-point range and a woeful 28.7 percent field goal percentage in Duke’s 76-41 rout of the then-No. 15 Bulldogs Dec. 19 But an even more impressive feat was Duke’s early defensive effort against No. 21 Clemson Jan. 3 in the teams’ ACC opener at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Due to a double-overtime game between Wake Forest and Xavier, the FSN broadcast of the game was preempted for nearly the entire first half, depriving a national au-dience of one of the sharpest defensive halves played all year in college basketball. The visiting Tigers were held to a measly 12 first-half points on 5-of-30 shooting and turned the ball over nine times, providing

Duke with a comfortable 30-12 halftime lead that it mainained en route to a 74-53 win. Duke isn’t the first team this season to hold an opponent to 12 points or less—Florida State, Pitt, Texas A&M and Kansas are just a few of the teams this year to rep-licate or best that defensive feat—but none of those efforts came against ranked oppo-nents or in a conference game.

But the defensive blueprint that fu-eled those two wins didn’t translate to

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Although most Duke students took the last month off, Blue Devil athletes continued making news over the holidays, and The Chron-icle was there to keep up with their achievements. Below are a series of excerpts from the Sports Blog, www.dukechroniclesports.com, be-tween the end of final exams and the beginning of the new semester.

dec. 16: macIntyre named san diego state head coachDuke defensive coordinator Mike MacIntyre, the AF-

CA’s 2009 Assistant Coach of the Year, was announced as San Jose State’s head coach today. MacIntyre served two seasons under head coach David Cutcliffe, whom he also worked with at Ole Miss.

MacIntyre has an impressive resume. he began his career as the defensive coordinator at Tennessee-Martin before moving

on to coach the defensive backs at Temple. he went to Missis-sippi to serve as an assistant under Cutcliffe, then became an assistant under Bill Parcells for the Cowboys from 2003 until 2006 an an assistant for the Jets in 2007.

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dec. 20: Paulus to pursue NFl careerFormer Duke point guard Greg Paulus has exhausted

his football eligibility after a season playing for Syracuse, but the New York Daily News reports that the quarterback will make an attempt to play in the NFl.

Paulus is working out at Syracuse in preparation for the school’s March 4 pro day. Paulus, who had a workout with the Packers in April, said, “there has been some contact” regarding the NFl draft.

“I had a great time at Duke. I had a lot of fun there,” Paulus said. “But if there’s more time to play and I can keep playing this game, I would love to do that and keep learning and keep growing with it because I had so much fun this year and playing it again. There’s nothing like playing football.”

Paulus had one year of NCAA eligibility for football as a result of a rule that allows a fifth year of collegiate athletics for players who graduate from one school but play a sec-ond sport. his NCAA career ended Nov. 28, however, after a 56-31 loss to Connecticut.

On the season, Paulus completed 67.7 percent of his 285 pass attempts and threw for 2025 yards, 13 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. The Orange finished the season 4-8.

—by Taylor Doherty

dec. 30: Czyz considering Nevada, asUDuke sophomore Olek Czyz, who decided to transfer

nearly two weeks ago, is reportedly considering attending Nevada or Arizona State.

According to the reno Gazette-Journal, Czyz was pres-ent at Nevada’s 78-69 win over Portland Monday, Dec. 28. The forward is currently trying to schedule a visit at Ari-zona State. he will likely decide between the two schools in the next two weeks so that he can enroll in the spring and be eligible to play college hoops again during the second

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One of Olek Czyz’s potential destinations is his hometown school, nevada.

semester of the 2010-2011 season.Czyz cited a lack of playing time as a Blue Devil as

his chief reason for seeking a transfer. In his freshman campaign, the forward averaged just 3.9 minutes per game. That average picked up somewhat early this sea-son—especially in the absence of Nolan Smith for the team’s first two games—but Czyz still only saw just over ten minutes on the floor per game.

“If I look back I don’t regret it, what I’ve been through there,” Czyz said. “Obviously I am going to miss the program, but I just felt I’ve got to get out there on the floor.”


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drop across the board, including field goal percentage (41.0 percent), 3-point percentage (34.7 percent), points (15.4 per game) and rebounds (6.9 per game). It may be due to his move to the perimeter, the increased expectations coming into the season or the pressure of a possible NBA career next year. Or none of those. honestly, I have no idea. But I think it’s time to consider the once-unthinkable.

It’s time to bench Kyle Singler.Now, I’m not suggesting he sit out the

next several contests, nor am I saying he should come off the bench for the remain-der of the season. And this isn’t punish-ment for a poor performance against Geor-gia Tech—if that were the case, Singler would be joined on the bench by everyone but Scheyer and Mason Plumlee.

rather, it is an acknowledgement that something is wrong with Singler. he does not look comfortable, even though play-ing the perimeter should be more natu-ral for him than banging in the post. he seems to be forcing shots in an effort to spark his offense, but that has only led to a lower shooting percentage. Singler shot just 2-of-13 from the field against the Yellow Jackets, and while head coach Mike Krzyzewski did not blame Singler for the loss, he acknowledged that his star forward did not play up to his usual standards.

“We obviously didn’t have the game that we need from Singler. I thought he had some really open looks that were there, and some-times you don’t hit,” Krzyzewski said. “Kyle just didn’t have the game that we would like him to have. he had the game that Georgia Tech would like him to have.”

If the Blue Devils are going to make a deep NCAA Tournament run in March,

they will have to rely on Singler. For that rea-son, he should come off the bench tonight against Boston College, and maybe Sunday against Wake Forest as well. And I’m not talking about a change in name only—he should be limited to about 20 minutes.

I realize that tonight’s contest is fairly important, with Duke coming off a loss, the Cameron Crazies back in the stands and conference play about to begin in earnest. But that is precisely why Singler needs to spend half the game watching. he needs to see that his teammates are fine without him. (Obviously, this plan is contingent on his teammates actually be-ing OK without him, but they should be. If Maine can topple the eagles in Chest-nut hill, then Duke can certainly beat them in Cameron.) Singler must realize that he does not have to go out of his way to carry the team, but can simply take whatever defenses give him. If he does that, it’s only a matter of time before he starts to look like the Kyle Singler of old. he’s too good of a shooter to stay in a slump forever.

Benching Singler would also free up playing time for Mason Plumlee, who had his best game as a Blue Devil Saturday, and Andre Dawkins, who has logged less than 10 minutes in four of the past five contests after playing double-digit min-utes in every game before that.

Duke must get production from those freshmen as the season progresses. Plum-lee may be the Blue Devils’ best interior scoring threat, and Dawkins has the purest shot of anybody on the team. Duke needs him to stretch defenses and relieve some of the backcourt burden from Scheyer and Smith. This would be the perfect opportu-nity to ease him back up to 15 to 20 min-utes per game.

In the process, Singler could get some rest in a season in which he is playing the

most minutes of his Duke career.It would be a stark change for Singler,

who has started all but one game since coming to Durham, a 2008 contest against UNC-Asheville in which every starter watched the opening tip from the bench. In the month following that game, Singler averaged more points, more rebounds, a higher shooting percentage and a high-er 3-point percentage than he did in the

month before it. There is no guarantee that that would happen again, but it is en-couraging that it was successful once.

In all likelihood, we will not get to see if it will work again. When the starting line-ups are announced tonight, Kyle Singler will probably hear his name called for the 86th time in his Blue Devil career. In the long run, though, it might be better for him—and his team—if he doesn’t.

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Georgia tech’s post players controlled the glass against Duke in the Yellow Jackets’ big win Saturday.

the Blue Devils’ first foray on the road in conference, as Georgia Tech outworked Duke in the second half and sealed a stunning 71-67 upset in Atlanta Saturday. It didn’t help that Duke’s red-hot scoring trio of Smith, Scheyer and Kyle Singler turned colder than the ice that blanketed Atlanta’s streets last weekend, but none-theless the game remained within reach for Duke throughout all 40 minutes. The crucial failing for the Blue Devils was their inability to contain Georgia Tech’s

Gani lawal, who along with his team-mates dominated the glass and the paint in the second half. The Yellow Jackets effectively willed their way to a win over a Duke team that looked fatigued and played accordingly.

The challenge of shutting down skilled big men won’t let up this week, as Duke hosts Boston College’s Joe Trapani to-night and four days later Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq Aminu. The Blue Devils may have failed their first test of the spring semester Saturday, but they’ll have a pair of retakes this week.

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Jan. 5: two blue devils invited to CombineDuke quarterback Thaddeus lewis and

defensive tackle Vince Oghobaase are among the 300 college football players invited to attend the NFl Scouting Com-bine, which will be held between Feb. 24 and Mar. 2 at the Indianapolis Colts’ lu-cas Oil Stadium. The NFl calls the event an “intense, four-day job interview” and “a vital step” for players whose dream it is to play in the NFl.

An invitation to the event is a good indica-tor that a player is expected by the league to be drafted. In recent years, the NFl has invited between 14 and 25 quarterbacks to the event and between 42 and 61 defensive linemen.


Jan. 9: recruit smith selects UConnroscoe Smith,the No. 31 recruit in the

nation according to scout.com, has verbally committed to Connecticut. Over the past couple of weeks, Smith had been deciding between UConn, Georgetown and Duke.

The 6-foot-7 small forward visited Duke in October and was seriously con-sidering joining the Blue Devils’ 2010-2011 squad, but instead opted for Jim Calhoun’s huskies. Smith became a more serious target for Duke after har-rison Barnes, an Iowa native and the top recruit in the country, opted to sign with North Carolina.

Duke’s 2010 recruiting class is full of tal-ent and already includes Kyrie Irving, Tyler Thornton and Joshua hairston.

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take foreign language courses for the first time and creating Writing 20.

But the curriculum’s requirements were confusing and onerous and prevented students from double majoring.

In 2004, Duke changed things up again. It lightened the modes of inquiry and areas of knowledge requirements, but added a math requirement (under the original plan, students could replace the single required math course with a natural science).

Just as the class of 2004 was the guinea pig for Curricu-lum 2000, it also got to be the first to experience the de-cade’s new housing system, featuring the Quad Model.

With the arrival of Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Duke required all sophomores to live on West Campus and worked to create communities within the quads. Residence coordinators were hired to help, and in 2002 Duke started linking freshman dorms on East with quads on West, a system that was later dismantled.

Duke is still struggling to make the best of housing on campus, shuffling fraternities, considering a new dorm and dreaming of a far off New Campus while working to make Central a bit more appealing.

No. 4 — The Brodhead Era“Do I, Richard, take you, Duke, to be my chosen life?”

Richard Brodhead asked himself when he became Duke’s ninth University President in the summer of 2004. “I do.”

The former dean of Yale College and English professor was chosen after a months-long, nationwide search to suc-ceed popular former president Nan Keohane in Decem-ber 2003. At Yale, where Brodhead spent forty years as a student, professor and administrator, the 19th century lit-erature scholar built a legacy on his approach specifically to undergraduate education.

During his five years at Duke, Brodhead has prioritized fundraising for financial aid ($300 million to be exact) and integrating civic engagement and service into the academic experience, both with the University’s most recent strategic plan “Making a Difference” and the launch of DukeEngage.

Brodhead’s tenure at Duke, however, has been any-thing but smooth sailing. From the beginning, the Presi-dent has had to confront a series of crises. In 2004, head basketball coach Mike Kryzewski almost left the University to take over as head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. Just months later, Brodhead and the University drew fire for allowing the Palestinian Solidarity Movement to host its annual conference on campus. Then of course, there was lacrosse and the new financial reality created by the reces-sion, but that’s a whole other story.

No. 3 — Duke goes globalDurham has become too small for a Duke that increas-

ingly has its eyes set on the international horizon. This decade has been marked by Duke’s desire to expand its global reach and its growing presence abroad—but the University’s hunger for international footing is unlikely to be satisfied even in the next decade.

When President Richard Brodhead arrived at Duke in 2003, he had international goals in mind, which were re-flected in the University’s strategic plan, “Making a Differ-ence.” The central administration gave globalization efforts another big push in its Quality Enhancement Plan, part of the University’s reaccreditation process. Approved in 2009, the QEP, titled “Global Duke: Enhancing Students’ Capac-ity for World Citizenship,” introduced the Global Semester Abroad, the Winter Forum and the Global Advising Pro-gram.

The Fuqua School of Business has led the expansion ef-fort from the beginning, initiating a cross-continent MBA program in 1999 that was greatly scaled back in 2002 due to financial losses. But in 2008 the school launched a new Cross-Continent MBA program with partners in St. Petersburg, London, Shanghai, Dubai and New Delhi. Duke also part-nered to open the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School in July 2006, and its new home was officially in use Sept. 2009.

Several Duke programs may soon have a home in China. The Board of Trustees considered and approved the first phase of Duke’s involvement in China this past December. The first phase is a partnership between Fuqua, the gov-ernment of Kunshan and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which would include free land and construction that could break ground as early as Jan. 2010 and be ready for occu-pation in 2011.

In addition, in February 2007, Duke launched DukeEn-gage, an unprecedented civic engagement initiative that fully funds students on domestic and international service trips.

The world is coming home to Durham, too. In the last 10 years, Duke has brought more international students to campus. Although international students are not admitted on a need-blind basis, some additional aid was created by the $300 million financial aid initiative. The Class of 2012 is nearly 10 percent international and saw a record number of foreign applicants. International applications were up 33 percent in the early decision pool for the Class of 2013.

Duke even has a vice provost for international affairs and a senior advisor for international strategy--Gilbert Merkx.

It’s clear internationalization is far from over, so look out world—here comes Duke.

No. 2 — The Lacrosse CaseIt started with a Spring Break party hosted by the la-

crosse players at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. March 13, 2006 and burgeoned into one of the most difficult crises the University has ever had to confront.

Crystal Gail Mangum, one of two exotic dancers hired to perform at the lacrosse party, falsely accused three members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team of rape. Even as the team’s captains “unequivocally” denied the al-legations, their season was canceled, head lacrosse coach Mike Pressler was forced to resign and the case garnered national media attention.

Adding fuel to the fire, a group of 88 Duke professors printed an ad in The Chronicle in the midst of the allega-tions, asking, “What does a social disaster sound like?”—an act that continues to attract the ire of observers.

Meanwhile, state investigators found that no lacrosse team members’ DNA matched biological evidence taken from Mangum. Nevertheless, then-Durham district attor-ney Mike Nifong told the media he was “convinced that there was a rape” and proceeded with his investigation, charging sophomores Collin Finnerty and Reade Selig-mann with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual of-fense and first degree kidnapping April 18. A month later, David Evans, Trinity ’06, was also indicted.

Despite the continued lack of evidence and dubiousness of Mangum’s claims, Nifong pushed on with the charges, win-ning his bid for re-election in November 2006. It was not until Mangum said she could no longer confidently testify that she was penetrated that Nifong dropped the rape charges against

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Seligmann, Finnerty and Evans in late December. At the same time, the North Carolina State Bar launched an inquiry into possible ethics violations on Nifong’s part. The DA recused himself from the case days later, handing the investigation over to N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper.

on April 11, 2007, after a four-month review of the case, Cooper dropped the remaining charges at a nation-ally televised press conference and took the unusual step of proclaiming the three indicted players “innocent” as well as condemning Nifong’s conduct.

In June, Duke announced a settlement with Finnerty, Evans and Seligmann and their families for an undisclosed amount of money. Days later, Nifong resigned from the of-fice of Durham district attorney as the State Bar moved to disbar him. In late August, the already disgraced ex-pros-ecutor was convicted of criminal contempt for knowingly making false statements during the case and ordered to spend a single day in jail. In September, President Richard Brodhead, speaking at a Law School conference apolo-gized to the 2005-2006 lacrosse players and their families for the University’s lack of support “in this time of extraor-dinary peril.” Since then, the lacrosse scandal has spawned a campus culture report, numerous lawsuits, several books and even talks of a HBo movie. And several lessons learned about the imperfect nature of the justice system.

No. 1 — Making a smaller DukeNovember 10 was the day the economic turmoil of the past

year and a half hit home for many Duke undergraduates.That Tuesday, students found out that the University

was planning to lay off the director of the Multicultural Center and another well-liked staff member.

Nearly 300 employees—mostly secretaries, housekeep-ers and other lower-paid workers—had already accepted retirement packages, and another 200 were being offered incentives to leave. Departments—from academics to ath-letics—were cutting spending. The threat of further layoffs was in the air (and remains in the air: 57 percent of the University’s spending goes to salaries and benefits, after all), and the University was searching for still more ways to cut its budget, working to close a $125 million hole left by a falling endowment and empty-pocketed donors.

Until the last years, it had been a decade of growth on every front for Duke. Today, construction plans have been put on hold, professor hiring is down and athletic spend-ing stands to be scrutinized.

Blue Devils, from the top of the administration to job-hunting alumni and undergraduates, have been forced to dream smaller.

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It seems as though the first column one writes for the semester should have a bright, energet-ic, optimistic tone—especially when one is also

writing one of the first columns of the new year. Sounds like hokey bullshit, I know.

The goal might rather be to add a few steam-ing lumps to the garbage heap of self-important affected cynicism and gleeful pes-simism that we see all around us. Today, so-called “pessimism porn,” particularly of the economic variety, is commonplace not only in all forms of media, but around the kitchen table.

“Mark my words,” some grizzled relative might have snarled at you over your Christmas goose, “Things will get bad before they get worse. Reces-sion becomes depression. Nuclear war. Zombies. Unemployed zombies.”

So, it would be easy to write a column that, even if it didn’t predict an uprising by the dis-enfranchised undead, would still ring ominous. A column from a student at some other institu-tion, published somewhere online at the end of last spring, comes to mind. In the agitated little article, a graduating senior punctuated his piece by urging all of us students to learn Mandarin, and fast. Not for fun, but because it was absolutely frickin’ necessary to our future well being that we do so.

My memory is a little hazy on this point, but I think that he began by gently telling all of us young whippersnappers to give up on doing anything interesting during our time as stu-dents. We should instead focus on clawing after a job with all the intensity of feral badgers. Be-cause, you know, feral badgers land all the spots at Goldman.

But back to the Mandarin bit. Not that there’s anything wrong with learning or speak-ing Mandarin, but we’re all familiar with that sort of knowing, crackpot-globalist rhetoric. It’s the kind of discourse that goes something like: I know things, and one of the things I know is China, and I know that we will all become vassals of China very soon, in “the future.” In order to get a job, you will have to speak Chinese. I don’t mean that speak-ing Chinese will give you a slight edge. I mean that you will starve, slowly, if you do not speak Chinese. Don’t interrupt me! I know this because I am clever. And because I have read Thomas Friedman. Or, pos-

sibly, because I am Thomas Friedman.Wow, can you get a degree in thinking and talk-

ing like that? Because I am hooked!That stray column from last year was prob-

ably written with the best of intentions, and it was a harmless little piece. But it reflects a common impulse, and a pernicious one at that. That is to say, that depressingly narrow-minded advice-dis-pensing relies on a vision of “the future” in which lockstep pessimism in the here and now is the only way to prepare for the turgidly pessimistic future that so many prognosticators, both amateur and professional, are working to dream up.

In this imagined future, we will continue to pessimistically gird ourselves for a continuum of nasty things. After all, it would be naive to believe that anything less than our worst fears could come true. No matter how bright, hard-working or cre-ative we might be, we poor Duke students will soon be scrounging through the wreckage of major cit-ies, looking for employment as either Morlocks or Mad Max.

Be afraid.Actually, screw it. Don’t be afraid. Be happy!

It’s basketball season.Worry away—it’s a good way to remember that

one has left the stove on. But isn’t it a little silly to pass off every stray anxiety and worry as an intel-lectual thesis? Do you want your snarling, dyspep-tic relative to seize the tone of every conversation (and op-ed, news piece…) and run with it, radio-active zombies and all?

It’s a new year, it’s a new semester, the Coach K Experience featuring Jon Scheyer was ranked seventh last I checked and I have yet to see any zombies milling about West Campus. OK, so Perkins around 4 a.m. can be a little iffy, but let no flesh-eating Orgo student dissuade you from embracing your own brand of optimism. If you can’t reason yourself into a decent vision of the future, you might want to re-examine and re-work the slice of the world you inhabit at pres-ent.

Oh, and for those of you who think I’m be-ing stupidly cheery: you’re probably right. But on the radio today, a famous finance dude said that following the investment selections of “a monkey with a highlighter and a copy of the The Wall Street Journal” is as surefire a way as any to make quick money. In other words, think twice before you knock an eternal optimist, even if that optimist screeches a lot and smells questionable.

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

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A semester ago, Duke was in dire straits. The global fi-nancial crisis wreaked havoc on the University’s endow-ment, producing a $125 million budget shortfall that loomed as a constant chal-lenge on the horizon.

Although the University is by no means out of the woods yet, the budgetary initiatives implemented by administra-tors so far have enabled Duke to weather the financial storm without a significant impact on the student experience or the core academic mission of the University. Compared to other universities, life at Duke is surprisingly normal after a semester of cuts.

Undoubtedly, taking the University’s budget out of the red has required careful, cre-

ative thinking and a plethora of ideas. Through identifying inefficiencies, cutting depart-ment budgets, crafting early retirement schemes and re-sorting to layoffs, administra-

tors have cut nearly half of the $125 mil-

lion budget hole. These measures have had

significant consequences. Many administrative positions have been eliminated, leaving fewer bodies to perform more work and removing hard-working employees from the University’s payroll.

But by trimming excess and cutting bloat, the Uni-versity has managed to pre-serve Duke’s academic and student experience while emerging leaner and more efficient in the process.

Academic departments

have shouldered a signifi-cant burden in cutting costs. All Trinity departments cut 5 percent of non-salary costs in the Spring and another 10 percent of their total budget in the Fall. In addi-tion, professors making over $50,000 have had their sala-ries frozen.

Cuts have eliminated un-necessary perks such as ca-tered food at faculty meet-ings, but they have also reduced research budgets.

Still, professors continue to teach small classes of un-dergrads and enjoy relatively steady access to the resources they need to participate in the creation of knowledge. The re-search mission of the Univer-sity is alive and well.

Similarly, although the dip in the endowment indefinitely pushed back plans for New

Campus, cutbacks in areas of student life have left it relative-ly unchanged.

While there is talk about a “directed choice” dining plan in which students would be obliged to spend money at cer-tain vendors, such a change seems paltry in light of the removal of hot breakfast alto-gether at Harvard.

Housing, aside from the elimination—and eventual restoration—of Saturday cleaning, has not seen a ma-jor overhaul.

And in the realm of stu-dent activities, practically nothing has been changed. Even the merger of the In-ternational House and Mul-ticultural Center was delayed after the plan encountered significant opposition.

Aside from fewer free T-shirts, students would be hard

pressed to identify how the bud-get crisis is affecting their lives.

The University has made significant progress to rein in spending, and much work re-mains. Moving forward, how-ever, administrators should ensure that future planning efforts are characterized by a greater degree of transpar-ency and inclusivity. When making cuts that touch stu-dent life and before making layoffs that drastically affect the lives of employees, those directly affected should be brought into the conversa-tion.

Today, at the beginning of the Spring semester, the ad-ministration should be com-mended for preserving the core of the Duke experience in light of financial hardship. Come May, we hope we can say the same.

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In James Cameron’s “Avatar,” a force called Eywa runs through every liv-ing thing on Pangaea, the futuristic

planet home to the Na’vi, an advanced humanoid race that has learned how to tap into wisdom of their planet and lives in harmony with their surroundings.

Recently surpassing $1 billion in global ticket sales, the movie itself has spoken to how widely me-dia can be disseminated, how quickly information can travel and how the world at large can be won over by a single film in to-day’s society. By now, how many of us haven’t seen the winter blockbuster with the glow-in-the-dark forests, helicopter-sized dragons and slightly un-comfortable alien love scenes? To think that both you and some stranger in China have been exposed to the same cultural phenomenon attests to the fact that all of us can share something in common with someone whose life we may never understand.

Looking back on this past decade, it is incredible how quickly technology has advanced and how the populariza-tion of social media has transformed our lives. Instead of interacting only with our nuclear family and close circle of friends, Google, Facebook, Twitter and other networking tools have al-lowed us to communicate with anyone in the world, making us all much more interconnected than we would have thought 10 years ago.

In “Avatar,” military officers dis-missed the researchers, who saw vari-ous living organisms literally commu-nicating with each other through some mysterious network, as New Age nuts. Could it be that James Cameron an-ticipated that in the future, we would have scientific evidence to prove what we don’t yet understand? Is this all just some Hollywood hocus pocus, or are we all really connected?

Although social media has only recently made these connections ap-parent and accessible, this concept of connectedness among all living things, is not new but has been around for ages. In Buddhism, for example, like Eywa but without the anthropomor-phic characteristics, a fundamental law called dharma, a rhythm of life and the universe, pervades everything in the world. Particularly, Nichiren Buddhism emphasizes that you and your environ-ment are one. As a result, every cause you make has an effect in the world. This “butterfly effect” of every individu-al’s thought, speech and action has far reaching consequences.

Recent social science research has made the existence of this mysterious medium in which networks operate seem less far-fetched. For example, professor Nicholas Christakis at Harvard Univer-sity, co-author of “Connected,” said in a September interview on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation: “And in a way we think of networks as a kind of—as a kind of matrix in which we’re all embed-ded, or if you will, like the Force in ‘Star Wars,’ you know, it surrounds us, it af-fects us all, it’s there everywhere. And, you know, most people nowadays are accustomed to talking about networks and they think about online networks that they can see but what they may not realize is that they’re actually embedded in these living, breathing networks that surround us all, all the time, and have always done so.”

He and co-author James Fowler have found that we are not only linked by six degrees of separation, but our lives are impacted by three degrees of influ-ence. They found that a wide range of attitudes and feelings, such as political views and happiness, and behaviors, including smoking, drinking and over-eating, are influenced not only by one’s

direct circle of friends, but by one’s friends’ friends’ friends.

We see this phe-nomenon take place at Duke. From Friday night when West Cam-pus is bustling until 2 a.m. to Saturday at noon when the line for Alpine Bagels never ends to Sunday night

when the libraries are packed, ours is a community so closely knit that we seem to move in unison.

Are our failures to maintain our New Year’s resolutions to stop pro-crastinating, lose weight or get better grades a result of our lack of resolve or the power of collective habits? Rather than believing that we are powerless to the sway of our peers and the influence of external factors, we can instead, turn this concept on its head. Because we are inevitably tangled in these webs, we also have the power to fundamentally shape our environments, for better or for worse. Realizing that one’s decision to forego that 3 a.m. McDonald’s run could influence another’s life style, this sobering reality should activate our sense of accountability rather than release us from it.

So often we get caught up in even smaller spheres within the Duke bub-ble, factioning into greeks and non-greeks, selective living groups and cul-tural organizations, for example, that we forget we are all part of the greatest social network of all—humanity. The decisions we make regarding our aca-demics, social lives, personal lives and professional choices can have effects on Duke students, faculty, administra-tion, alumni and beyond that we may never even be aware of.

Sue Li is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

All together now

“Traditionalism signifies a tenden-cy to cling to vegetative patterns, to old ways of life…. Traditional-

ism is not therefore necessarily bound up, even today, with political or other sorts of conservatism. ‘Progressive’ people… may often act ‘traditionalisti-cally.’” —Karl Mannheim, “Conservative Thought”

The eminent sociologist Karl Mannheim’s assertion that traditionalism often transcends political bound-aries has remained a truism of 20th century politics. In-dividuals from all political persuasions, from Barack Obama to Michael Steele, continue to defend old ideas that years ago became tropes of American political discourse.

One sees such traditionalism in Presi-dent Obama’s abandonment of “progres-sive” principles with his repeated unwilling-ness to reform the morally and financially wasteful “War on Drugs.” This so-called “war” has led to the rise of a prison com-plex that protects no one and serves only to destroy communities. Traditionalism is also evident in Republican National Com-mittee Chairman Michael Steele’s deser-tion of “conservative,” anti-statist philoso-phy with his continued unwillingness to endorse gay marriage.

What often matters in American poli-tics is not what is logically beneficial to individuals or groups (although this may never have mattered), and not even what conforms to ideological principles. Rather, what counts is that politicians stick to par-ticular, traditional scripts hollowed by their longstanding existence.

It is the goal of my column to, at the very least, attempt to breach the tradition-alism that unfortunately informs so much of our public discourse. It is my firm be-lief that traditionalism in any guise is not only vacuous but also actively deleterious to the creation of a civil, intelligent and ultimately useful discourse through which our common society, in which we all have a stake, can address seemingly insurmount-able problems.

I believe this is the role that “intellectu-

als” (which I will define generously here as anyone at Duke) and the University as an institution must play in society. We must move away from traditional ideas, such as the ones described above, which continue to hold intellectual sway by virtue of their

hollowed associations.All traditional ideas

should not be rejected out of hand; this would be nothing but a reaction that likely would be worse than the rejected ideas themselves. Rather, we must attempt to abandon ideology that is powerful because it is ideology.

This may very well be an impossible task. As historians well know, academics have rejected the idea that an intellectual can be “socially unattached” since at least the 1968 student movements. But this rejection has contributed, in part, to the hyper-specialization—or what inter-national relations scholar Stephen Walt has referred to as the “cult of irrelevance”—that presently defines (or some might say plagues) parts of modern academia.

By correctly recognizing that intellectu-als themselves often represent particular segments of society, by speaking truth to power, scholars have abandoned unwittingly the constructive role intellectuals can play in society. One may see this in how the image of the “ivory tower” dominates the non-uni-versity public’s perception of academia. It is the (probably utopian) goal of this column to prod everyone here at Duke whom one may define as being in their “formative” in-tellectual years—from first-years to graduate students about to defend their Ph.D. the-ses—to reconsider the existential question of what it means to be intellectuals.

I want to stress that there is no goal to reach or end in mind, but that rather the discussion or process is the goal itself. For this reason, I hungrily anticipate your reac-tions, positive and negative, to my columns. So on that prosaic note—Happy New Year, and welcome back to Duke!

Daniel Bessner is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in European history. His column runs every other Wednesday

Traditionalism andits discontents

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