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Duke big men key victory in

exhibition, Page 6

onTherecord“We are entering a new paradigm, analogous to the

industrial revolution.” —USDA Director Richard Swenson on ecosystem services. See story page 3

Women’s Golf: It’s in the hole!Blue Devils come from behind to win NCAA

Preview in Wilmington, PAGe 7

Gen. Shinseki rededicates

war memorialby Fontasha Powell

The chronicle

Family, friends and those wishing to honor the memories of Duke’s fallen soldiers gath-ered with white roses and fond memories for the University’s rededication of its war memo-rial Friday morning beside the chapel.

After two Duke alumni, Matthew lynch, Trinity ’01 and James regan, Trinity ’02, were killed in iraq in 2004, the University decided to update the memorial by adding the names of 54 fallen soldiers. This included all former students killed in combat since World War ii.

U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs eric Shin-seki, Grad ’76 and a re-tired four-star general who is a Vietnam War veteran, delivered the keynote address.

“each name is a profound statement of love, patriotism and loyalty,” Shinseki said in his speech. “May Duke University find

a way to make this memorial central and im-portant for future generations of students and faculty. May the University remind all that our freedom was purchased by scholars like these who gave their tomorrows for our todays.”

President richard Brodhead said in an in-terview that the deaths of two former students in iraq raised the question of updating the memorial. But he added that the rededication took some time to organize because the Uni-versity had to make sure the list of the fallen was as comprehensive as possible.

“We felt that this was a good time to make clear that the memorial from World War ii ex-tends forward through time,” Brodhead said.

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Evan Bick, an Iraq War veteran who recently returned from active duty, pays respects to his uncle, Charles Bick, Trinity ‘80, at the war memorial rededication ceremony Friday.

NC State Fair ends on high noteby Julia Love and Rachna Reddy

The chronicle

Toddlers in wagon-beds with powdered sugar on their lips, boyfriends with stuffed pink tigers won for their dates, snow cones, cotton candy, rubber-duck-yellow corn-on-the-cob, pig races, wallabies, machines zipping, rotating, lighting-up as rid-ers shriek with terror and delight.

The place is so crowded that parents have to hoist their chil-dren on their shoulders so they can take it all in.

it is the scene at the annual north carolina State Fair on its final night Sunday. More than 800,000 visitors attended the raleigh fairgrounds during its 10-day run, starting oct. 15.

At “cowgirl heaven,” a popular family attraction, six ponies, their bridles linked to steel poles, walked in circles with children on their backs. Sarah Barnes, a blond five-year-old with pink socks and a rainbow headband, waited her turn, her hand in her mother’s.

“She’s been here every year of her life, since she was in my tummy,” said Karen Stevens, Sarah’s mother. “She looks for-ward to it every year.”

Sarah, too shy to speak aloud, puts her head on her moth-er’s shoulder and whispers that she likes the ponies because they are cute, and she hopes to ride the brown and white one.

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The annual North Carolina State Fair, which started Oct. 15, attracted many attendees to the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. The event, featuring amuse-ment park rides and fried Southern cuisine, ended Sunday night. See State Fair on PAGe 3

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by Harrison ComfortThe chronicle

nasty weather usually forces teams to revert to a more run-oriented offense due to the difficulty of throwing and catching a wet ball in strong winds.

But even flood warnings and heavy rain were not enough to ground the Duke of-fense Saturday against Maryland at Wallace Wade Stadium.

This weekend, the Blue Devils (4-3, 2-1 in the Acc) narrowly defeated the confer-ence rival Terrapins, 17-13, in a cascade of rain as Duke won consecutive conference games for the first time since 1994. That same year was also the last time that Duke defeated the Terrapins (2-6, 1-3), and iron-ically enough, the last season that the Blue Devils reached a bowl game.

And despite the rain, Duke did not shift away from its strengths in the pass-ing game. in fact, the Blue Devils pre-pared throughout the week to deal with the harsh conditions.

“i love to throw the ball when it’s wet,” Blue Devil head coach David cutc-liffe said. “i like it when we know where we are going and they don’t. i think cov-erage gets difficult. We work a wet ball drill every week and make sure we get wet weather work.”

luckily for cutcliffe’s squad, that ex-tra work paid dividends Saturday. Senior quarterback Thaddeus lewis continued

Soak it in: Duke takes 2nd ACC win

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Quarterback Thaddeus Lewis played efficiently despite the weather to bolster the Blue Devils’ bowl hopes.

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Learn more about the Children in Contemporary Society (CCS) certificate

Students currently working on the certificate and those interested in learning more about the certificate program are invited to join CCS faculty for pizza and salad:

Tuesday, October 27, 7:30 pm Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford Building

The Center is working to solve problems facing children in contemporary society by bringing together scholars from various disciplines with policymakers and practitioners in an effort to improve the lives of children and families. Students also interested in becoming involved in the many activities of the Center for Child and Family Policy are invited to join us too!

Please RSVP to Shannon Smith (shannon.smith@duke.edu) or 613-9303.

To learn more about the certificate and Center activities, please visit our website: www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/teaching/ccscertprogram.php

On newsstandsWednesday, Oct. 28

worldandnationkaBul, afghanistan — the challenger

to President hamid karzai is considering boycotting the upcoming runoff if his de-mands are not met to remove the lead-ers of afghanistan’s election commission who he believes are biased against him, campaign officials said sunday.

despite his public promises that he will participate in the nov. 7 runoff, abdullah abdullah has been discussing the pos-sibility of pulling out of the election, an outcome that could create a new political

crisis and throw the legitimacy of any new government into question. his aides argue that it would be dangerous to enter an election that might reproduce the massive fraud that discredited the vote in august.

abdullah’s main running mate, homay-oun shah assefy, said it was clear that the united states and the international com-munity would resist such a boycott but that it might be necessary if the indepen-dent election Commission is not purged of its prominent karzai supporters.

MONDAYProvost’s Lecture Series

love auditorium, 5 - 6:30 p.m. Diana Taylor, university professor and professor of performance studies and Spanish at NYU, will be speaking on

“The Digital As Anti-Archive.”

washington — President Barack obama declared saturdy the h1n1 flu outbreak a national emergency, a proce-dural step designed to allow health care providers to speed treatment and slow the spread of the disease.

the action gives u.s. secretary of health and human services kathleen sebelius temporary authority to grant waivers that would expedite steps such as setting up off-site emergency rooms to treat potential flu victims apart from other patients.

administration officials said the move was not made as a result of any particular development, but as a pre-emptive mea-sure to ensure that the tools for a quick response were in place.

Natives protest UraniumaCoMa, n.M. — uranium from the

grants Mineral Belt running under rugged peaks and indian pueblos of new Mexico was a source of electric power and mili-tary might in decades past, providing fuel for reactors and atomic bombs.

now, interest in carbon-free nuclear power is fueling a potential resurgence of uranium mining. But indian people gathered in acoma, n.M., for the indig-enous uranium Forum over the weekend decried future uranium extraction, espe-cially from nearby Mount taylor, consid-ered sacred by many tribes. native people from alaska, Canada, the western united states and south america discussed the severe health problems uranium mining has caused their communities.

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A student smashes a pink car to raise awareness for breast cancer as part of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority’s “Smash Bash” Friday. The fundraiser, which also featured a yogurt-eating contest, was held on Main West.

TUESDAY FRIDAYTHURSDAYWEDNESDAYUganda Field Ed. Placement

westbrook 030, 12:25 - 1:25 p.m. Father Joseph Kakooza, a Catholic priest from Katikamu, Uganda, will attend this brown bag lunch event to discuss sum-

mer international Field Ed placement.

”Absurdistan”griffith theater, 8 - 9:30 p.m.

Russian with English subtitles, color. Veit Helmer’s inventive, allegorical comedy introduces Absurdistan, a once-beauti-

ful, now-utterly desolate, land.

Pumpkin carving adventure series215 alexander apt. B, 5 - 7:30 p.m.

Come out with the Duke Outpost and the Hub to Ganyard Farms to carve pumpkins, go through a corn maze and

hayride.

DDM Halloween ShowcasePage auditorium, 7 - 9 p.m.

Duke Dance Marathon will host a Halloween Showcase to raise aware-ness about their mission to fundraise for

Duke Children’s Hospital.

This week at Duke . . . .

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THE FUTURE OF THE PAST, THE FUTURE OF THE PRESENT:

The Historical Record in the Digital Age

PROVOST’S LECTURE SERIES 2009/2010provost.duke.edu/speaker_series

MONDAy, OCTObER 26

5:00 pm

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RESEARCH CENTER

Diana TaylorUniversity Professor, Performance Studies and SpanishFounding Director, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and PoliticsTisch School of the Arts, New York University

The DigiTal as anTi-archive? The repertoire and the archive are two of several coterminous systems of creating, storing, and transmitting knowledge. Digital technologies constitute another system of transmission that is rapidly altering our frames of knowledge. Rather than assume that expansive digital capabilities usher in the

“era of archive” in which everyone can be his or her own archivist, perhaps we need to consider that the shift to the digital might actually prove profoundly anti-archival. What then might be the politics of this new digital era?

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Panel considers ‘new energy paradigm’by Dennis Ochei

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Government and private experts deliberated how to create a market for the natural processes performed by the ecosystem in a forum at the School of law Friday.

The next Generation conservation Symposium was an opportunity for environmental and legal experts to discuss with government officials emerging trends in the manage-ment of natural resources. The forum was presented by the Duke environmental law and Policy Forum and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s office of ecosystem Ser-vices and Markets.

“We are entering a new paradigm, analogous to the in-dustrial revolution,” said richard Swenson, director of the Animal husbandry and clean Water Division of the USDA natural resources conservation Service. “We are entering a new energy paradigm, a new global concern about the quality of our environment.”

The concept of creating a market for natural resources evolved out of the Millennium ecosystem Assessment, a $24 million research project launched by the United na-tions in 2001 to assess the state of the planet.

The symposium addressed the government’s role in the preservation of the environment, such as the creation of an ecosystem services market.

ecosystem services is a name for the services rendered by the environment. it includes the obvious, such as fossil fuels and land for infrastructure, and also the subtle, such as the pollination of crops and the breakdown of animal wastes, said Adam Davis, president of Solano Partners, a consulting firm that specializes in conservation.

The main obstacle to a regulated market is the inability to place a monetary value on ecosystem services, said lydia olander, senior associate director for ecosystem services at the nicholas institute for environmental Policy Solutions.

“We cannot manage what we cannot measure, and if we do not have a coherent way of measuring these impacts across... specific ecosystems and specific services, then we will fail to manage them appropriately,” olander said.

The problem is that scientific and statistical inquires to define a quantitative value for clean air and other ecosys-tem services have not been done, Davis said.

he noted that determining these values would allow private property owners to earn profits not only by har-vesting resources to the detriment of the environment, but also by protecting and properly stewarding the land.

“i think that ecosystem services are really about the cre-ation of new forms of wealth, new forms of property rights created by policy,” Davis said.

he added that the creation of an ecosystem services market is similar to early efforts to define property rights.

“in 1775 began 100 years of policy making, where over 500 laws were passed by the U.S. congress that completely reformed the property system and created clear title to land,” Davis said. “now what were we doing? We were us-ing scientific tools, measurement tools like surveying and appraisal, to turn an abstraction of owning land into tan-gible assets.”

nathan hudson, 17, of Benson, and David Baum, 16, of Smittsville, make their way through the crowd brandishing inflatable swords. After earning a prize for guessing their own weight correctly, the boys chose the swords from a dazzling array of technicolor stuffed ani-mals because they “looked cool,” hudson said.

“We’ll probably beat each other with them at school tomorrow,” he added with a laugh.

Kids of all ages have their fun at the fair. Veteran rodeo clowns logan Teachey and rick richardson—or “Me Too” and “Paka,” as they are known by the children—hawk hot dogs on the loudspeaker at Amran Shiners restaurant.

richardson said the fair never feels quite right when he is without his curly mop and oversized shoes. But his employer insisted that he work in his street clothes be-cause it takes him an hour to undergo the transforma-tion. So Paka will have to go by plain old rick for now.

“Besides, i’m sure the FDA would say, ‘You can’t have them clowns back there in the kitchen,’” he reasoned.

returning to work, he switched his microphone back on, and his voice echoed throughout the fairground.

“here they come, step right up! Barbecued chicken. Fried fish, fried fish. $5, $5. Footlongs, footlongs!”

Further down the winding dirt path, four pigs prepared to race by circling their cramped pen and squeezing their snouts through the wiring to get a better view of the outside world. Their caretaker, Dennis cook, watched on outside the trailer-turned-barn. Soon, cook will have to send them to another farm to “finish them off,” he said.

“i have some animals that i retire—i keep them because they were my buddies,” he said. “But pigs grow too quick.”

When the trailers leave the lot and the north caroli-na State Fair settles to dust, cook will be on to another festival in another state.

cook and his family work 50 fairs a year, starting in Florida in February and circling the country to finish in Alabama. he has lived this life for 27 years. But at 58, he is “just a baby,” he noted. he has years of bright lights, fried food and whirring rides ahead of him.

“i hope i go ’til i fall over, ’cause i love what i do,” he said. “i love my animals. And putting smiles on peo-ple’s faces—that’s a special thing.”

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Parents and students mix and mingle at the Parents’ and Family Evening Social (left) and Trinity Reception (top right) during annual Parents’ Weekend. Students participate in Make a Difference Day (bottom right) by planting seeds of hope for children receiving long-term care at the Medical Center on Main West Quadrangle Saturday.

Weekend RoundupA photo essay by Olly Wilson and Sony Rao“When we walk by the plaques, sometimes it seems that all the

names are alike. But sometimes you stop and realize that each of these names was a living person, living on this campus the same way you and i are now.”

Brodhead was also a featured speaker at the ceremony.Members of the Duke and north carolina central Uni-

versity reserve officers’ Training corps, current military of-ficers, veterans and their families attended the event. The men’s lacrosse team was also in attendance to honor regan, a former Duke lacrosse player killed in iraq in 2004. Several attendees were surprised that it has taken the University so long to rededicate the memorial.

rick lieb, Trinity ’69, fought in the Vietnam War as a commissioner in the Marine corps and came to the service to honor Maj. cornelius ram, his battalion executive officer who was killed in 1971 in Vietnam.

Although lieb returned to Vietnam in 2000 as part of a delegation of veterans tasked with the goal of facilitating Vietnam’s economic growth, he said the ceremony gave him a sense of closure.

“i want to honor [ram’s] memory and all the Vets that died in Vietnam,” lieb said. “We were treated as scum, but that’s changed. Today marks the day the University finally honors graduates who died and Vietnam veterans.”

Katherine Bick, mother of charles Bick, Trinity ’80, who was killed in active duty, tearfully said the ceremony was beautiful.

“This is very emotional for me for to be at his alma mater, but it was a wonderful ceremony,” Katherine Bick said. “i’m grateful to Duke for this doing this. i was surprised that it had been such a long time [since the memorial was updated].”

Katherine’s grandson, evan Bick, who just returned from active duty in iraq, was also in attendance to honor his uncle.

“i never knew my uncle because he was killed when i was still in the womb, but it was nice to see my connection to Duke, even though i didn’t go here,” evan Bick said. “i’m glad to see Duke recognizing the people that deserve to be recognized.”

Sophomore Will Beckman, a member of Duke roTc said he was moved by the emotional tone of the ceremony.

“i felt honored to be in the presence of everyone assembled,” Beckman said. “every day we walk past the wall and we don’t real-ly realize what the names mean. But today, it was nice to see what the names mean and the people to whom it means the most.”

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WOMEN’S GOLF: DUKE CAPTURES TITLE • WOMEN’S SOCCER: BLUE DEVILS WIN ON SENIOR DAY

RAIN MENBlue Devils pile on Maryland misery

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Big men power Blue Devils over Pfeiffer

by Jeff SchollThe chronicle

When sophomore Miles Plumlee forced a steal at half court, took the ball the other way and finished at the rim with an emphatic one-handed slam—getting fouled in the process—he gave fans a glimpse of the versatility that Duke’s crop of big men hope to display throughout the season.

All of the Blue Devils’ big bodies made their presence felt, particularly on the offensive end, helping Duke defeat Di-vision-ii Pfeiffer 128-70 Saturday at cam-eron indoor Stadium.

The Falcons had no answer for Duke’s size down low—their tallest player on the floor stood 6-foot-6. Freshman Mason Plumlee, his brother Miles and senior Bri-an Zoubek capitalized on the mismatches, as all three posted double-doubles.

“We’ve been working on our high-low action,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We haven’t gone into the post for a few years, since Shelden [Williams], and so i thought that was a good thing for us—even though they’re so small—just the fact that we got balance and we made good passes in there.”

Zoubek especially benefited from hav-ing other big men setting up at the high post, and he scored several easy lay-ups from the low blocks after receiving feeds from the Plumlee brothers and freshman ryan Kelly at the top of the key.

“We can really work on that with the four

big guys that we’ve got—me, ryan, Mason and Miles—flashing, playing off of each other,” Zoubek said. “Most of the time, we’re going to be the biggest guys on the court, even in the Acc. So if we can learn to play like that, it’s going to be great.”

Pfeiffer employed a full-court press for almost the entire first half and much of the second, forcing the Blue Devils to play at a frenetic pace. even though Krzyzewski said his team ran in a chaotic way that was different from the fast-paced but better-organized offense they have been practicing, he wanted Duke to expe-rience the Falcons’ brand of basketball.

“Playing against that style is one of the reasons we wanted to play against them—especially for the first 20 minutes—be-cause they push the ball down the court so much, and they can hit threes and they can dribble penetrate,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s something that’s good for us to practice against.”

The Blue Devils didn’t have much trou-ble adjusting to the run-and-gun style in the first half. Duke jumped out to a 14-0 lead behind back-to-back 3-pointers from junior Kyle Singler. The 6-foot-8 forward thrived in his new role as a perimeter player, scoring a team-high 21 points on 6-of-7 shooting.

Senior guard Jon Scheyer ran the point and handled the pressure well, fin-ishing the game with a team-high eight assists compared to only two turnovers.

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Sophomore Miles Plumlee brought the house down with back-to-back fast break slams in the second half of Duke’s 128-70 win over Pfeiffer Saturday. Plumlee scored 11 points and led the team with 14 rebounds.

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WOMEN’S GOLF

Duke beats practice squad in Blue-White

Blue Devils win NCAA PreviewWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

by Vignesh NathanThe chronicle

After a disappointing end to the 2009 campaign, Duke started with a new slate Sunday at cameron indoor Sta-dium with the Blue-White Scrimmage.

The Blue Devils scrimmaged against the practice squad instead of forming two Duke teams because three players are currently injured.

even after losing three of five starters from last year’s team, the Blue Devils maintained the solid level of play that epitomized their play last season, beating the male practice team 110-43. Duke had five players score in double digits, including sophomore Kathleen Scheer, who only averaged 6.1 minutes and 2.5 points per game during her freshman year, but chipped in 14 points on 5-of-8 shooting.

“i think that’s the thrill of our team. We don’t depend on any one person. everybody has the confidence to score and attack,” senior Bridgette Mitchell said.

Defensively, Duke forced 32 turnovers, including 24 steals. The Blue Devils frustrated the practice squad with their relentlessness and rarely allowed their opponents to take an open shot, holding the practice squad to 30.2 per-cent shooting.

led by returning starters Jasmine Thomas and Mitch-ell, Duke was able to shoot effectively from beyond the arc, hitting 12-of-25 attempts, including 4-of-7 3-point shooting from Sheer. in addition, the Blue Devils were able to out-rebound their opponent by a 47-29 margin.

Mitchell led Duke with four steals and 24 points on 10-of-16 shooting. But more importantly, she was aggressive

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Senior Alison Whitaker’s excellent final round helped Duke best some of the top teams in the nation to win the NCAA Preview.

No. 15 Duke makes up 10-stroke deficit on final dayby Chris Cusack

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After a fall season defined by inconsistency, as three freshmen adjusted into starting roles, Duke found its rhythm over the weekend, winning the ncAA Fall Pre-view in Wilmington, n.c. The no. 15 Blue Devils shot a 17-over 881, one stroke better than no. 7 UclA and no. 3 Auburn.

The Blue Devils sat tied for fourth entering Sunday’s round, two strokes out of second place but ten strokes behind the leading Bruins. Paced by senior Alison Whitaker’s 3-under 69, Duke carded an even-par 288 to stun UclA. in victory, the Blue Devils also earned three top-20 individual finishes, and all five members placed in the top 50.

The win came at the country club of landfall, the site of the 2010 ncAA championships in May.

Whitaker tied for fifth place with a 1-over 217, fol-lowed by freshmen Stacey Kim and lindy Duncan in ties for 12th and 20th, respectively. Fellow freshman courtney ellenbogen finished in a tie for 36th, and Kim Donovan tied for 50th.

“We got great leadership from Alison Whitaker,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “i thought everybody was poised; they seemed to have just a little more patience today.”

Duncan and Kim pushed the Blue Devils toward the front of the pack on Day one, shooting rounds of 1-un-der and even par, respectively. UclA made a hard charge Saturday morning with a 2-over 290, taking an eight-stroke lead. however, the Blue Devils took advantage of the win-dow of opportunity left by the Bruins’ 11-over score on the tournament’s final day, earning an important morale boost heading into the offseason.

“My hope is that people aren’t undaunted by a ten-stroke deficit, and they believe in the possibilities and believe in

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FOOTBALL

Terps tripped up by Duke defense

by Scott RichThe chronicle

on a day when torrential down-pours made what was expected to be an Acc shootout look more like a Big Ten defensive struggle, Duke’s defense adapted to the conditions as if it was used to the miserable Midwestern weather instead of the normally temperate Durham sun.

in a game in which the Blue Devils held a solid Maryland of-fense to 249 total yards—67 of which came on a single blown play—it wasn’t Duke’s stars, but rather some unsung heroes that stepped up to deny the Terrapins.

Yes, star linebacker Vincent rey’s interception with under five minutes to go all but sealed the 17-13 win for the Blue Devils at Wallace Wade Sta-dium. But it was sophomore Matt Daniels who led the team with nine total tackles and junior Damian Thornton who led the Blue Devils with 2.5 tackles for loss.

indeed, as yet another sign of the improved attitude of this Duke team under head coach David cutcliffe, players like Daniels and Thornton made up for quiet days from defen-sive stars Vince oghobaase and leon Wright, who combined for only four tackles.

“[The defense] tackled well, rallied to the ball well, coverage was outstanding,” cutcliffe said. “[Maryland] never established a run game.”

Thornton’s big play ability set the tone early in the second quar-

ter. After timing the snap count perfectly on second down to stuff Maryland running back caleb Por-zel for a five-yard loss, Thornton chased down a scrambling chris Turner to force fourth down.

The linebacker wasn’t done yet, though, as he concluded the first half by driving Turner back on an option to preserve Duke’s four-point lead at the break.

cutcliffe recognized the develop-ment of Thornton, who played spar-ingly in his first two seasons at Duke.

“Damian came up with some big plays. he’s got a lot of fire to him. he’s gaining experience,” cutcliffe said. “What i love most about Damian is he’s a very physi-cal football player.”

Both Thornton and Dan-iels were key to the Blue Devils’ “bend but don’t break” defensive strategy, as Duke seemed content throughout the game to give up short passes to the outside in order to prevent big plays. com-bined with limiting the Terrapins to only 67 yards rushing, the strat-egy ensured Maryland would be forced to settle for field goals deep in Duke territory rather than reaching the end zone.

And while the Blue Devil offense failed to convert on many of its own opportunities, thanks to three turn-overs—including a Thaddeus lewis fumble on the 1-yard line—Duke’s strong team effort on defense proved to be the difference in such a sloppy game.

“You like to know that the de-fense has your back,” lewis said.

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Senior quarterback Thaddeus Lewis (top) threw for 371 yards despite the massive rainstorm that hit Wallace Wade Stadium Saturday, and Chris Rwabukama (bottom) and the defense helped Duke hold onto its slim advantage.

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The Blue Devil defense limited Maryland to 249 yards of total offense and stopped the Terrapins on all three of their fourth-quarter drives to preserve a 17-13 victory.

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The Blue Devil defense limited Maryland to 249 yards of total offense and stopped the Terrapins on all three of their fourth-quarter drives to preserve a 17-13 victory.

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No. 10 Miami 37 - 40 Clemson (OT)

Miami lost its grasp on the Acc’s coastal Division with an overtime loss to c.J. Spiller and the Tigers in land Shark Stadium. After the hurricanes recorded a field goal in the extra session, the back-and-forth contest ended when clemson quarterback Kyle Parker found Jacoby Ford for the game-winning score.

Virginia 9 - No. 12 Ga Tech 34

The Yellow Jackets’ patented rushing game worked its magic Saturday in char-lottesville, as Josh nesbitt and georgia Tech racked up over 350 yards on the ground for the program’s first win at Scott Stadium since 1990. georgia Tech controls its own destiny in the Acc coastal.

Navy 13 - 10 Wake Forest

Wake Forest kept this one closer than its 35-point loss to clemson the previ-ous week, but navy’s triple option did just enough to earn the Midshipmen the three-point win. navy never put the ball in the air Saturday, instead choos-ing to call 64 running plays without a single pass.

Notre Dame 20 - 16 BC

notre Dame’s season of gut-wrenching performances continued Saturday when the Fighting irish notched their first win over Boston college in seven tries. Quar-terback Jimmy clausen threw for nearly 250 yards and no interceptions, while charlie Weis’s defense picked off the ea-gles’ Dave Shinskie with 1:38 left on the clock to seal the victory.

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his spectacular play of late and threw for 371 yards and two touchdowns on 30-of-43 passing, marking the third straight week that lewis had over 350 yards in the air.

The Blue Devils started off slug-gishly, mustering a lackluster three-and-out on their first possession. The defense, as it did all game, picked up the slack and generated some mo-mentum early on when senior line-backer Vincent rey stopped Terrapin running back caleb Porzel in the backfield on a fourth-and-one in the first quarter.

lewis and the rest of the offense cap-italized on the turnover and proceeded to orchestrate a 69-yard drive on nine plays capped off by a touchdown pass to sophomore receiver Donovan Varner. Varner, who caught a season-high eight passes for 120 yards and a touchdown, has been a large part of the Blue Devils’ receiving corps, which has emerged as a lethal unit this season.

“The [receiving corps wants] to be the best,” Varner said. “We definitely feed off each other. We are an explo-sive corps, but we are going to con-tinue to keep working hard and stay humble and just continue to make big plays when we can.”

Maryland tacked on two field goals before halftime, the second after a lewis interception which ended his streak of 130 consecutive passing at-tempts without being picked off. But

Blue Devil kicker Will Snyderwine nailed a 35-yard field goal at the end of the first half to give Duke a 10-6 lead at the break.

The Blue Devils built on that en-ergy and continued their strong aerial attack in the second half. on its first possession of the third quarter, Duke managed to march the ball down to the Terrapins’ 1-yard line and scored on a playaction pass from lewis to

tight end Danny Parker, who made an unbelievable one-handed grab to put the Blue Devils ahead 17-6.

The Terrapins did not wait long to re-spond, scoring on a 67-yard screen pass from quarterback chris Turner to running back Devin Meggett, making the score 17-13. Duke’s strong defensive presence and aerial assault, though, proved too much for the Maryland offensive unit.

The rain was coming down so hard that most of the fans poured out of Wallace Wade stadium early on, but based on the Blue Devils’ perfor-mance in the passing game, the wet-ness had virtually no effect. This was particularly the case on an incredible catch by sophomore receiver Johnny

Williams slanting across the middle. “You’ve got to understand what

kind of focus that takes to do what he did and to keep his eye on that ball when you’re in the middle of the defense,” cutcliffe said. “Did you see the size of their safeties? To en-sure that catch like he did and pull it down and take care of it, that was huge in that circumstance.”

including that spectacular grab, Williams had four catches for 47 yards in the game. in addition to Williams and Varner, the Blue Devils’ other two receivers had exceptional perfor-mances with junior Austin Kelly fin-ishing with a game-high nine recep-tions and freshman conner Vernon reeling in five catches for 102 yards. For Vernon, his effort made him the first freshman to record two 100-yard receiving games in school history.

late in the fourth quarter, the Blue Devils forced two turnovers to ice the victory, an interception by rey and fum-ble recovery by tight end Brandon King on a punt.

And while lewis’s spirals were not the only objects falling through the sky Saturday, the senior quarterback knows that it was ultimately a team effort that enabled Duke to get the historic win.

“i can’t go out there and throw for 350 yards by myself,” lewis said. “The line has to block, the backs have to block and the receivers have to catch the football.”

even in the rain, Duke managed all of the above in a critical victory.

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Before Sunday’s game against Virginia Tech, senior KayAnne gummersall was honored for be-ing the fourth-leading scorer in Duke’s history and leading the Blue Devils to countless memorable vic-tories in her four-year career. And by the end of the game, she had

r e c o r d e d a hat trick, jumped up to third on the scoring

list and added one more impres-sive victory to her resume.

gummersall and the Blue Devils (7-6-4, 3-3-2 in the Acc) defeatd Virginia Tech 4-1 as they riddled the no. 15 hokies with shots and dominated the ball on their way to an impressive victory at Koskinen Stadium Sunday.

Senior elisabeth redmond, who is second on the all-time list for Duke in assists, added another one to her total as she assisted on one of gummersall’s goals and also slotted a perfect pass to sophomore cody newman in the box which led to a penalty kick and goal by fellow se-nior Jane Alukonis.

And after four years play-ing together, it has become the norm for redmond and gum-mersall to combine for scores.

“When they come together they’re just really, really special,” head coach robbie church said.

“Both of them have been two of the best players that we’ve ever had in this program. it’s been an unbelieveable privelege to coach these young ladies.”

Virginia Tech (12-5-0, 5-3-0) came out looking to ruin Senior Day for the Blue Devils, scoring first on a goal by Brittany Mi-chels. on a corner kick in the 22nd minute, Michels kicked the ball home in the midst of a scrum in front of the net.

But gummersall would not be denied.

Just five minutes later, the se-nior captain left-footed a shot past hokie goalie Kristin carden, and four minutes later, she scored an-other off a brilliant pass by red-mond. gummersall’s third goal of the game came in the waning minutes as she chipped the ball into the net to an ovation from the crowd. even with the hat trick, gummersall was quick to give credit elsewhere.

“obviously scoring three goals is great, but i couldn’t have done it without any of [my team-mates],” gummersall said. “it’s the team, not me. i just happen to be a forward.”

This Blue Devils campaign has certainly had its ups and downs. in the final home game of her career, however, the senior redmond was able to go out on a high note.

“We obviously had some tough games [this year],” redmond

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Seniors KayAnne Gummersall and Elisabeth Redmond made the difference Sun-day for Duke as the Blue Devils earned a key 4-1 win over No. 15 Virginia Tech.

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said. “But we’re obvoiusly peak-ing at the right time.”

coming off of a 1-0 loss against conference rival Virginia last Thursday, the win was an impor-tant one for Duke, which was desperately searching for a way to improve its chances for the ncAA tournament. church said the need for a marquee win moti-vated Duke on this day, but added that more wins of similar quality

could be needed to ensure a bid.And if gummersall and red-

mond can continue their excep-tion play, as they have for their en-tire careers, those wins will come.

“[This game] was really spe-cial because its been four years of playing together,” redmond said of her relationship with gummer-sall, “and i know that our team-work has meant a lot to each other and to the rest of the team.”

themselves,” Brooks said. “That seemed to be what we did.”

This victory leaves Duke hope-ful that it has emerged from its transition period. however, Brooks remains wary of the dan-gers of overconfidence.

“An awful lot of things are good and then the things that aren’t so good really stand out,” Brooks said. “A win can really show you how to be even better.”

The Blue Devils now have a four-month break before their spring season begins in February, allowing them to work out some of the issues that arose this weekend.

however, Whitaker believes that her team’s most important adjustments may not be related to physical skills.

“We’ve let ourselves down over the last couple of tourna-ments,” Whitaker said. “We got a little overemotional and didn’t use our anger to our advantage. Today, we really just went out there and stayed calm and kept believing in ourselves.”

This weekend will serve as an enormous confidence builder for Duke throughout winter practice, helping ease the memory of its uncharacteristic performances in the early season.

“it’s the best tournament you can possibly win going into nationals,” Whitaker said. “it’s good to make some good mem-ories out on the golf course that you’re going to be playing later next May.”

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on a cold and rainy night in Koskinen Stadium, the skies cleared for the Blue Devils in the twilight of their tilt with the Tigers.

After squandering several opportunities, Duke found it-self trailing clemson 1-0. But with the clock running down in the second half, lightning finally struck for the Blue Devils—twice.

The winds of change began with senior Matt Thomas, who soared above the pack to head the ball straight into the net on a corner kick, evening the score at 1-1 in the 75th minute. Soon after, ju-nior cole grossman calmly sunk a

penalty kick to score the game-winning goal. coasting on a two-game winning streak, the no. 19 Blue

Devils (10-4-0, 3-3-0 in the Acc) were expected to handily defeat the Tigers (2-10-1, 1-5-0). But head coach John Kerr said he knew his team would have to earn the victory.

“We kept telling our players they’re like a wounded ani-mal, clemson right now, because they’re having a tough season and they’ve got nothing to lose and they want to just see what they can do,” he said. “We understood going in it was never going to be an easy game.... They suffered a tough result, but i thought they played quite well.”

The Tigers dominated possession for much of the first half, capitalizing on holes in the Blue Devils’ defense to cre-ate several scoring opportunities.

After a clemson shot off a direct free kick thundered off the goal post in the 15th minute, senior Josh Bienenfeld stole the ball at midfield and quickly fired it to grossman. The mid-fielder’s shot, however, sailed over the net.

The Tigers’ possession came to fruition when nathan Thornton beat goalie James Belshaw, a freshman, to a loose ball outside the penalty box for a clean shot in the 22nd minute, tallying the first goal of the game.

Duke’s troubles blew over in the second half as the Blue Devils stormed onto the field with renewed vigor, heeding the coaching staff’s advice to “get the ball and just go for it,” Kerr said.

Thomas and freshman Andrew Wenger sharpened the Blue Devils’ defense, stifling the Tigers’ advances and then sprinting to the other side of the field to make offensive at-tacks of their own.

Although the strategy could have allowed the Tigers to counterattack and catch the Blue Devil defenders on the break, Wenger said he decided it was worth the risk.

“it’s always a concern, but you’re down 1-0,” Wenger said. “You really have nothing to lose. You’ve got to take chances.”

The risk paid off. Duke was the clear victor of the sec-ond half, outshooting the Tigers 11-3 in the period.

The win brightens the Blue Devils’ forecast for the rest of the season considerably. Duke is now .500 in conference play and well-positioned for the Acc tournament, which begins nov. 10. But Kerr said the Blue Devils won’t be savoring this victory for too long—the team faces Presbyterian Tuesday.

“We’re taking nothing for granted and trying to keep our composure,” he said. “We’ve got to make sure that we don’t overlook [Presbyterian]. We’ll just take it one game at a time and take care of business.”

Gabe Starosta contributed reporting to this story.

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Scheyer had help from junior guard nolan Smith in bringing the ball up the floor, and the big men got involved in the transition game as well, dribbling in the open court.

“They’re so athletic that they can get up and down the court and finish, and even handle the ball, so they’re very talented,” Singler said about the post players.

Mason Plumlee testified to that ath-leticism on numerous occasions, crash-ing the boards and leading the team with eight offensive rebounds. not to be outdone by his brother, he showed off his own aerial acrobatics five min-utes into the second half, dribbling through traffic and elevating over two defenders to throw down a one-handed tomahawk dunk.

But the Blue Devils weren’t the

only team that found lanes to the bas-ket in the second half. Pfeiffer began to spread out the Duke defense and found it much easier to penetrate the lane later in the game. The Falcons scored 24 points in the paint after in-termission, compared to only 20 total points in the first half.

Although Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils were a little sloppy in the second session, he was pleased with the team’s overall performance.

eight out of 12 Duke players scored in double figures, and the Plumlees, Zoubek and Kelly combined for 61 points. The Blue Devils will need their big men to continue to run the floor, get to the basket and dominate the glass to reduce the need for the perim-eter offense Duke relied on so heavily last season.

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on the boards, grabbing eight rebounds. “[Bridgette] had some excellent lead-

ership, especially in her rebounding, and also in her attack,” head coach Joanne P. Mccallie said.

“it’s my last year, and i need to show my team that i have confidence in myself so that they have confidence in me when i go out on the floor,” Mitchell said.

one of the Blue Devils’ main chal-lenges this year will be dealing with the loss of chante Black, who led last year’s squad in points and rebounds. Black was drafted by the connecticut Sun earlier this year.

however, during the scrimmage, junior center Krystal Thomas and freshman Al-lison Vernerey proved capable filling the

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Vernerey, who lives in France, served as the captain of the French U16 and U18 na-tional Teams and was added to the French national Team’s roster earlier in 2009.

“Allison is a tough competitor,” Mc-callie said. “i think her best attribute is her pursuit of the ball. She hustles, plays extremely hard and is always very effec-tive in the paint.”

Duke wants all of its players to display that type of aggression on the court this season, especially after being outhustled by Michigan State to end its ncAA tourna-ment run a year ago.

“Toughness has always been an empha-sis of this program,” Thomas said. “i think now everything is coming together for us, and we understand that we have to be the tougher team.”

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If you don’t have time to read books of your choosing anymore, I’m willing to believe that there’s prob-

ably a damn good reason.

Forgive me for not listing all of the familiar causes of any given Blue Dev-il’s free time defi-cit. We talk about our responsibilities and pet distrac-tions plenty as it is, whether or not I add my two cents to an already overflowing jar.

So I’ll leave the “why” alone: I don’t know exact-ly why you believe that you don’t have time to read for pleasure, but I’m sympathetic. Anyway, why ex-actly is reading on your own terms and for your own reasons important enough for you to carve time out for it in your day, week, semester?

Let me start by saying that few things are as bullshitted about as literature (which is admittedly just one kind of worthwhile reading, but work with me). Half-baked phrases like “elucidate deeper truths” and “touch the human soul” are common-place in discussions about the “importance of lit-erature in society.”

To be completely honest with you, I don’t think literature is necessarily all that important.

It’s true that I enjoy a good read, particularly the fictional, literary kind. It’s partly an affectation, partly how I was raised and partly just me. And though I’m an English major, part of me wishes that I had been born an engineer.

That latent insecurity—wishing I were an engi-neer but knowing that my heart is with books—has to do with what I’ll call the “Dark Knight problem.”

You may remember when Commissioner Gor-don tells his little son that Batman is not the hero Gotham “needs,” but the one it “deserves.” It’s the same way with literature: the world doesn’t need novels, it deserves them.

Good literature wouldn’t be created in a perfect world. A story needs conflict—things like disagree-ment, violence, anguish, lost left socks. To be really good, a story must somehow capture (this is the tricky, mysterious bit) the spirit of a few of the mil-lion conflicts we witness and deal with here in the real, imperfect world.

Not all stories are tragedies, just as not all of our conflicts are tragic; they can be heroic, comic, ab-surd. But conflict exists, and we’ve always felt the need to tell real and imagined stories about it—some of it earns the fairly arbitrary honorific “lit-erature.”

Writing or reading literature isn’t “inherently” important in my eyes because I can’t make the same kind of case for its existence as I can for the exis-tence of such activities as farming, building bridg-es or practicing medicine: utopia or no, these are fundamental things that “sustain life.” All of that business keeps us alive in such a way that we can all at least think about leading uncomplicated—and happily literature-free (no more Crime and [you better believe it] Punishment)—lives, even if we inevitably end up not doing so.

Ideally, there would be no literature for me to care about and study. I would just go on with my sedate life and learn how to build bridges. It’d be like “Brave New World” without the mind control drugs, and I’d be all happy and sexed-up.

But we live here in the real, Gothic world. True, there aren’t quite as many psychopaths running amok on this campus as there were in Batman’s Gotham. Which is good; as long as we can avoid murderous rococo clowns, we’ve got a shot at get-ting some good reading done.

Why read on your own in college? I’d like to suggest that you take a few moments

away from wrestling with real conflicts—existential angst, too much work and not enough time to read, anarchist clowns. Consider giving a good read the chance to do what books do best: capture conflict. Capture conflict, make it momentarily hypotheti-cal even if it’s no less poignant, call it by name and in so doing steal some of its thunder.

You should read because you think you shouldn’t and say you can’t. Literature doesn’t just depict the struggle of real life: the stimulating peace of reading is a shelter from real conflict. When life is poisonous (or maybe just busy), literature is the antidote.

You probably have a damn good reason that it’s a bother to go read. But, if you have gotten or ever hope to get something beautiful and sheltering from a book, a good read is not only the indulgence you need, but the small rebellion you deserve.

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

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This week, Special Secre-tary for the Young Trustee Pro-cess Amanda Turner will hold her final open forum, and on Nov. 4, she will submit her recommendations for reform to Duke Student Government.

The previous YT process funneled applicants through a three-tiered selec-tion in which a committee of 10 DSG and 10 Inter-Community Council members would cull an initial pool of applicants to eight semi-finalists and, after conducting interviews, select three finalists. The DSG Senate and ICC then voted to select the Young Trustee from these finalists. More often than not, a DSG or ICC insider was selected as Young Trustee.

Regardless of the form it takes, the YT selection process will be subject to biases and dis-

appointments—no process cre-ated by students and run by stu-dents to select a fellow student can ever please all involved par-ties. That said, there is definite room for improvement.

A reformed process, unlike the previous

one, would help to facilitate the democratic election of a Young Trustee who possesses a comprehensive knowledge of the University, a strong ethi-cal standard and the ability to make important, thoughtful contributions while serving on a complicated and intimidating Board of Trustees. In the end, the best person for the job is one with intellect and energy, not status or titles.

DSG is a democratically elect-ed organization, and to a certain degree, it must play some role in choosing the Young Trustee to

legitimize the selection process. Its influence, however, should be mitigated to prevent unfair conficts of interest.

To this end, a student select-ed in the Spring DSG elections should manage the YT pro-cess. This director would work independently from DSG and be ineligible for running for Young Trustee in the future.

With the director at the helm, the selection process should still begin with a nomi-nating committee to narrow the list of applicants to eight and then three. But the compo-sition of this committee should be changed to include six DSG members, six ICC members and six at-large members se-lected from the student body by the director of the YT Pro-cess. Such a committee, with the inclusion of at-large stu-dents, would represent a wider

range of perspectives than cur-rently is the case.

And instead of DSG and ICC controlling the selection of the YT from these three finalists, the decision should be put up to students. Ju-niors and seniors—those who know the candidates the best and have the most familiarity with the University and the YT position—should select the Young Trustee from the pool of finalists in a general election held in February.

To prevent the election from devolving into a popu-larity contest, finalists should be prohibited from cam-paigning and their initial ap-plications ought to be made public, allowing the students eligible to vote to make an in-formed electoral decision.

Moving forward, we sug-gest that, if she is willing,

Amanda Turner should head up the YT process this year since she has already been democratically elected, has publicly stated that she will not run for the YT position in the future and possesses a considerable knowledge about YT selection.

This Spring, a new direc-tor would then be selected to manage the process for the 2010-2011 academic year.

In reality, there will never be a perfect Young Trustee selec-tion process. But by increasing transparency and broadening the stakeholders involved, we can craft a fair, accountable and inclusive process that com-mands as much respect as the position it selects.

Will Robinson and Chelsea Goldstein recused themselves due to ties to ICC and DSG, respectively.

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commentariesThE ChRONiClE MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009 | 15

I like tradition as much as the next guy, but not all tra-ditions are created equal. There is one peculiar tradi-tion that precedes Duke athletic contests that toes the

line between distasteful and embarrassing.No, I’m not talking about Tailgate again.I’m talking about the

tradition of shouting “O!” during the national an-them. This shout occurs before every Duke game (most noticeably men’s basketball and football, but increasingly at other sports) when the singers or the band reach “O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave,” the pen-ultimate line of the national anthem.

This tradition is not unique to Duke—in fact, it didn’t even start here. The first “O” is credited to a Baltimore Orioles fan in the 1970s named “Wild” Bill Hagy. The practice spread to other Baltimore-area teams and is now a mainstay at Washington Capitals, Washington Redskins and Baltimore Ravens games. If you check the tapes and listen closely, you can even hear a faint “O” during the an-them at Barack Obama’s inauguration. Somewhere along the line, the tradition traveled down to Durham with some Baltimore-area students, and spread from the Cameron Crazies into the upper bowl of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

And the “O” isn’t the only anthem interruption you’ll hear at sporting events in this country. If a team’s nickname is mentioned in the song, you can be sure that word will be emphasized by the crowd mid-anthem. At the University of Virginia, it’s “HOOS broad stripes and bright stars” in sup-port of their unofficial mascot, the Wahoos. For hockey fans in Dallas, it’s “broad stripes and bright STARS.” Dozens of teams across the country latch on to “the rockets’ RED glare,” and Atlanta, of course, is the “home of the BRAVES.”

Perhaps Baltimore is the city most entitled to reinvigo-rate the anthem. It’s their song, anyway—Francis Scott Key wrote “Defence of Fort McHenry,” the poem whose words would become the lyrics to the anthem, about the Battle of Baltimore. Also, the “O” at least fits the pattern above when applied to the Orioles.

You might not think this practice is all that offensive, and I’m pretty sure that no one intends malice towards the U.S. when they belt out the “O.” If you really wanted to, you could even make a case that the anthem itself needs to be changed to something less militaristic and easier to sing.

But I know I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the “O.” The debate over the shout’s place in Cameron Indoor Stadium has graced The Chronicle’s edit pages before.

On Jan. 20 of this year, James Tager, Trinity ’09, said that “even our national anthem, which is supposed to tran-scend the daily realities of one university, is turned into yet another call-sign for Dukie pride... when we’re in Camer-on, we become Crazies first, and everything else second.”

Gregory Beaton, Trinity ’08, wrote a Duke Athletics wish-list Dec. 4, 2007, which included a “policy banning the ‘O’ during the national anthem,” arguing that “it has nothing to do with Duke and is at least somewhat disrespectful to the spirit of the moment. We’d all be better off without it.”

And my personal favorite comes from a Letter to the Editor way back on Jan. 21, 1997. Glen Godwin, Divinity ’98, writes, “The anthem is not just a song like ‘Yankee Doodle’ or ‘99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall.’ The anthem pays hom-age to the flag that represents the courageous efforts of our ancestors to grant us rights like freedom of speech.”

Still need a little convincing before you drop the “O?” The next time you’re at a Men’s Basketball game in Camer-on, I want you to watch Coach K during the anthem. Watch how he stands—eyes fixated on the flag, right hand strongly over his heart, perfectly still. It’s a testament to his U.S. Army background and his respect for this nation and its symbols.

To my knowledge, Coach K has never asked the Crazies to stop yelling “O,” but I believe his actions speak louder than words. If the “O” isn’t good enough for Coach K, then it isn’t good enough for me either.

A new basketball season is upon us, and with it comes the opportunity for a fresh start. Consider whether or not this tradition is one worth upholding.

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

Just say noto the ‘O’

My big fat greek game

letterstotheeditor

Stop being a basketball fan. Stop it. Right now.Nobody wants

you.We want greeks. Big,

fat greeks. I’m not talk-ing trouble-with-the-Cy-priots kind of Greeks. I’m talking trouble-with-the-Women’s-Cen-ter greeks.

Give me your tired, your poor, your hud-dled masses yearning to breathe free, and we will politely explain to them that devotion and perseverance are no longer priori-ties in Krzyzewskiville. We prefer the greeks.

Coach K, the athletic powers that be, the line monitors and their DSG overlords have collectively decided that the way to solve our attendance prob-lem is to beg Duke’s frattiest to rowdily over-repre-sent themselves in athletic life as they do in social life.

Hence, three changes: First, groups of 30 or more can enter walk-up lines. Guess who’s going to be orga-nized into groups of 30 or more? Here’s a hint. It starts with an “f” and rhymes with “maternity.”

Second, the Nov. 13 home game against UNC-Greensboro will likely be Greek Night in Cameron. Greek Night, like Senior Night, is designed to give preferential access to one group over everyone out-side of that group. Unlike Senior Night, it will re-ward people who seem not to normally come to the games.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from Intro to Mar-keting, it’s that customer loyalty should be discouraged, and you should devote your attention to the people who don’t support your product.

Third, blue tenting may be reduced to one month maximum. It’s obvious why we want the most enthusias-tic fans to spend less time around the basketball team. I don’t need to explain that one.

The idea is threefold: First, fraternities are big and organized, and big, organized groups are more likely to get lots of people to do the same thing. Case in point—pledge tasks. Second, frat boys are louder and more creative than independents. Case in point—pledge tasks. Third, groups of crazy Crazies who wait in the cold for friggin’ forever are scaring off casual fans who

think they can’t get into games. Case in point—I make a point every year to avoid tent one, as they are almost universally off their rockers. You look one of them the wrong way, they will rip off your flesh with their gnarled teeth.

There are a number of problems with the new poli-cies and attitudes behind them. First and foremost, as I’ve told you before, the way of dealing with low enthusiasm about an athletic activity is to get every-one together in Halloween garb the morning before-hand to drink themselves into a stupor. That way, even though they’re still not attending the game, at least they’re smashed. That works well.

But let’s pretend we’ve forgotten the practical lessons learned from Tailgate and look at the impli-cations of giving greeks yet another venue to think that they’re better than everyone else. As someone who dated a basketball player (Jojo Johanssen—a strange mix between J.J. Redick and Josh McRob-erts) and lost my virginity to a brother at a frat for-mal, I have a very tepid response to mixing the two groups.

If you think the devoted fans who wait in line for months are scaring off your average Joe Shmoe who thinks he can’t get into games against lesser opponents, wait until groups of 30 or more broskis are chilling in line with grills and brewskis.

The difference between rabid tenters scaring off Joe Shmoes and huge pools of dudes scaring off Joe Shmoes is that, in addition to not helping the Joe Shmoes, you’re losing your most rabid fans. And no-body cheers louder and more creatively than victims of rabies.

I mean, seriously. Let me pose an analogous prob-lem and solution to you: I’m hosting a weekly meet-ing but not enough people are coming. I’m going to poop right outside the doorway to make it more exciting so that more people come. That way, it’s go-ing to shake things up and make a ton more people come.

Okay, okay, I may be exaggerating the problems a bit. It’s just a bummer when independents get thrown under the bus, especially when those independents are contracting rabies just to support the team. It’s hard to live with rabies.

Charlotte Simmons is always here to remind you where the term “rabid fan” comes from.

monday, mondayi am

charlotte simmons

bradford colbertthe other side

Students, show more support for footballDuke students should be ashamed and embar-

rassed. Very few bothered to show up for the football matchup with Maryland Saturday afternoon. This seems to be the norm rather than the exception. The weather this past Saturday should also be no excuse considering many brave the elements during basketball season to maintain their line position.

Coach Cutcliffe, his staff and especially this 2009 squad deserve much better than the student body has offered so far this year. It is an absolute embarrassment for Duke students not to give com-plete support to this team. Is it too difficult to show up to Wallace Wade six times a year for a few hours and give this team support?

Students have two chances left this year to sup-port this team. If I can drive to games from Rich-mond, Va., students should be able to get there from East, Central and West campuses. See you all Nov. 14 for the game against Georgia Tech, or in Charlottesville, Va. this Saturday for those willing to make the road trip.

Jeffrey BassettEngineering ’89

Cable 13 apologizes for lack of basketball coverageAs the presidents of Cable 13, we would like to

address and apologize for our coverage (or lack thereof) of the men’s basketball exhibition game

this past Saturday. In the Oct. 21 Chronicle article “Cable 13 to televise Pfeiffer game,” it was noted that Cable 13 would air the game live. However, as many of you know, the game was not televised. And, unfortunately, it cannot be aired at all for several reasons.

We were given a last minute notice the day be-fore the game that we would not be able to broad-cast live from Cameron Indoor Stadium. We made this decision because the video operations team did not have the time or capability to let us set up a live feed since the basketball game occurred so soon after the football game. We were, however, filming at the game and ready to air it immedi-ately afterwards. Unfortunately, due to oversight in the Cameron control room, the game was not filmed to tape. As a result, neither Cable 13 nor GoDuke has a recording of the game to broadcast or to archive.

We apologize to everyone who meant to watch the game on our channel. We regret the turn of events, but the situation was truly out of our control. We have, in the past, delivered live games when we said we would and we will continue to hold ourselves to that standard. Thank you for watching Cable 13. We hope you will continue to tune in.

Stephanie ShyuMerideth Bajana

Co-presidents, Cable 13

16 | MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2009 ThE ChRONiClE

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Coming up at the Franklin Humanities Institute

Wednesday, October 28Wednesdays at the Center: Political Cartoons and Urban Disasters: Recent Graduate Research in Canadian StudiesTamara Extian-Babiuk and Jacob Remes, Duke Presented with Canadian Studies12:00 PM, 240 Franklin Center

Thursday, October 29Soccer Politics Series: Africa in the Global Economy of SportPanel with Gerard Akindes, Peter Alegi,and Paul DarbySeries arranged by the Center for French & Francophone Studies*1:30 PM, Nelson Music Room

Monday, November 2Screening: Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen, 2008)Panel with Jody McAuliffe, Fred Moten, and Richard PowellPresented by the 2009-10 FHI Annual Seminar, Innovating Forms

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Wednesday, November 4

WATC: The Struggle to Picture Evolution:

Darwin and Visual Media

Iain McCalman, University of Sydney

12:00 PM, 240 Franklin Center

Wednesday, November 4

Beckett’s Thing: Bram Van Velde and the

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David Lloyd, University of Southern California

Presented by the 2009-10 FHI Annual Seminar, Innovating Forms

4:30 PM, 240 Franklin Center

Thursday & Friday, November 5 & 6

Darwin Across the Disciplines

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