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Junior Nolan Smith scored 21 points Saturday as Duke narrowly left Chestnut Hill, Mass. with an ACC road win against Boston College. Jon Scheyer also poured in 21 for the Blue Devils. SEE STORY PAGE 8

Blue Devils escape from Eagles’ nest

Central eatery pushed back until March 1

Duke teams with Indian company

by Kelly McKissonTHE CHRONICLE

The opening of Mill Village has been delayed again, leaving Central Campus residents with few nearby food options for another month.

Last weekend’s snowfall halted work at the site for several days, pushing the finish date back to “somewhere around March 1,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. When it opens, Mill Village will offer Central residents a restaurant and an enlarged Uncle Harry’s General Store, as well as social space.

Students said the temporary grocery store on Central lacks many food items they need to prepare meals.

“I understand fully that the temporary Uncle Harry’s is less than desirable,” Now-icki said. “But it really is just a matter of a few weeks before Mill Village and the new Uncle Harry’s opens up.”

Some students said they are unhappy with the lack of meal options on Central.

“It’s been rough on us,” said Central resi-dent Nutishia Blake, a junior. “We have low-er food points anyway and then they took away Uncle Harry’s. It puts us in a bind.”

Although there is a temporary replace-ment for Uncle Harry’s, Blake said it does not offer much variety.

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by Sonia HaveleTHE CHRONICLE

Duke is making another move to strength-en global relations—this time, with the pros-pect of medical advancement in mind.

The University will collaborate on two initiatives with an India-based drug company to develop new drugs and to fund Duke re-search of disease in the Indian population.

The company will pro-vide the necessary fund-ing for these projects that has become more difficult to attain in the United States.

Duke will be working with Jubilant Biosys Limited and Jubilant First Trust Healthcare Limited, a subsidiary of the Indian company Jubilant Organosys Limited, which is the largest integrated cus-tom research and manufacturing services and leading drug discovery and develop-ment services company in India. Jubilant Biosys Limited, specifically, is a drug devel-opment company that provides solutions to the global pharmaceutical industry.

Last November, Duke signed two letters of intent with the Indian company in New Delhi. The collaborators have been in dis-cussion for more than a year as to how they

IFC nabs 234 recruits from pool of 499

by Samantha BrooksTHE CHRONICLE

Let the pledging begin. As the three weeks of rush came to an end, brothers

from the campus’ 15 Interfraternity Council fraternities gathered to distribute bids on East Campus to 297 students who received them throughout the past week.

As of Friday night, a total of 234 recruits had accepted bids given by fraternities, which marked the deadline for acceptances, said IFC president Eric Kaufman, a senior. The number of acceptances this year indicates an increase of 21 accepted bids from last year’s class of 213.

This year’s rush also showed an increase in participants, rising to 499 from last year’s 470. Junior Louis Hellman, IFC vice president for recruitment and pledging, said the members of the IFC executive board were satisfied with the

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by Ben JosephTHE CHRONICLE

For Duke University Health System, cleaning up may help keep costs down for patients.

Last month, several Consumer Reports National Re-search Center surveys showed that 4 percent of patients and 28 percent of nurses saw problems with hospital cleanliness. DUHS infectious disease specialist Dr. Dever-ick Anderson recently published a study showing a lack of cleanliness can be costly for patients.

Data from seven Triangle-area hospitals found that patients who contracted post-surgical infections faced al-most $60,000 in additional charges from readmission and an increased length of stay. The Duke University Health System is working to improve cleanliness.

“Until recently, there weren’t many ways to ob-jectively determine how well hospitals were cleaned, with most inspections consisting of a cursory glance as employees did rounds or other tasks,” Anderson said. “Duke recognized it as an issue and implement-ed a number of methods to assess the cleanliness of its clinics and operating rooms.”

Duke already had a program through which hospital staff would leave invisible liquid dots on surfaces and re-turn with an ultra-violet light to check whether the sur-faces were adequately cleaned, Anderson noted.

He added that like the six other hospitals he studied, Duke is successful at preventing surgical site infections, as only 1 to 2 percent of patients develop them. Still, problems with hospital cleanliness revealed a seven-fold increase in mortality rates and a total cost of $19 million dollars for the seven hospitals examined, so Anderson said he believes an intervention would be cost-effective.

“Duke does pretty well in preventing surgical site in-fections,” Anderson said. “That was somewhat the point of my article, that even at these well performing hospitals you add it all up and it’s $19 million dollars.”

According to HealthGrades, a health care ratings company, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Duke is rated average among the national stan-dard for lack of infections acquired at hospitals.

Associate Chief Nursing Officer Yvonne Spurney said

In improving cleanliness, DUHS cuts costs, fatalities

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nal justice system was brought to a stand-still by last month’s earthquake, which leveled the capital city’s courthouse. but crime did not stop, and that has left police commanders with jail cells full of frustrated inmates who have not been given a chance to go before a judge.

at the main police station, which was damaged by the quake, more than half of the 81 prisoners are being housed in a makeshift cell set up in a small courtyard. it

is a pit of anger and squalor. With 46 people crowded inside, there is no room to lie down and no reason to think that would be safe.

“it’s hell. h-e-l-l,” bouzy archange Jr. said from behind bars. “i’m in hell.”

a few steps behind him, two younger inmates began to swing at each other. “they are fighting all the time,” archange said. “You have to watch yourself.”

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could work together best. Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, assistant pro-

fessor of medicine at the Duke Translation-al Medicine Institute, was an active player in developing business relations with Jubilant.

“Now that the letters of intent have been signed, we can finalize the agreements in the next several months and kick-start relations in the near future,” Udayakumar said.

Robert Taber, vice chancellor for corpo-rate and venture development at Duke Uni-versity Medical Center, noted that Jubilant possesses certain assets including funding, resources and expertise that Duke needs to further its drug development projects.

“It’s a natural partnership,” Taber said. “Jubliant is willing to invest in an earlier stage.... They have the resources of pre-clinical development that we could never develop ourselves.”

The first step of the partnership will fo-cus on four to five research projects each year, applying funding from Jubilant, and co-developing these research projects with some of the work being done at Duke and some being done at Jubilant.

For the last few years, it has become more difficult to attain venture capital to invest in early stage development of drugs and re-search because investors have become more conservative, Taber noted. Because of these setbacks, Duke has been trying to develop partnerships outside the United States, like its collaboration with Jubilant.

The other aspect of the partnership will be run through the Duke Global Health In-stitute, which will develop a population-based cohort study. A group of Indian patients will be studied through a Jubilant-owned hospi-tal chain in Kolkata. Blood and urine sam-ples will be collected in order to better un-derstand the history of both infectious and chronic diseases in the Indian population.

“The interesting twist to this is that we’re not just interested in the clinical aspects of the study, but understanding the biology that underlies the development of these diseases particularly in populations as they transition from rural to urban geographies,” said Dr. Svati Shah, assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology and principle investigator of the study.

Shah added that Kolkata was chosen as the primary location for this study be-cause it represents a wide variety of Indian populations and is the third largest city in India for transitional populations moving from rural to urban settings.

As in its other collaboration with Duke, Jubilant will also fund the study and in-crease its role in the project by developing biobanking facilities to store the collected

blood samples. Because Jubilant is fund-ing the study, the majority of the process will take place in Kolkata.

“In the kind of work that we’re trying to do, there is no single entity that can do this. It has to be collaborative and multi-disciplinary as well,” Shah said. “There is something to be said in understanding the epidemiology of disease, but by un-derstanding the biology of disease there can be so much that can be done to pre-vent disease development in populations outside of the United States.”

As Duke expands its involvement across the globe, the collaborators hope the part-nership with Jubilant will improve health re-lations between the United States and India.

“I think this [collaboration] fits very nicely in Duke’s new global perspective,” Taber said.

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DUHS CEO and President Dr. Victor Dzau (center) signed two letters of intent with Jubilant Biosys Limited and Jubilant First Trust Healthcare Limited last November to form a partnership on two initiatives.

McWastedDuke and Durham Emergency Med-

ical Services responded to a student who was unresponsive at McDonald’s in the Bryan Center from underage consumption early Saturday morning. The student later regained conscious-ness, refused further treatment and was escorted back to her room.

UnclothedA student reported Friday after-

noon that clothing was taken from an unsecured laundry room in Bassett Residence Hall.

Weed-outA graduate student was cited last

Wednesday morning in Central Cam-pus apartments for possession of mari-juana.

catch me if you canA woman received a suspicious

check last Tuesday on Blackwell Street from a third party that identifies Duke University as the financial source. The check was deemed forged.

student discountA witness reported last Tuesday af-

ternoon that a student took items from the Bryan Center Book Store without paying for them.

Making the cutA stun gun and box cutter were

removed from a student’s room in Giles Residence Hall last Monday af-ternoon because of the prohibition of weapons on campus.

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turnout. “We were very pleased. We were able

to substantially increase numbers in rush from last year as well as the number of bids given out and the number of kids who ac-cepted bids,” Hellman said. “Rush went a lot smoother than last year. This year we were able to finish everything very quick-ly and eliminate dirty rush techniques as much as possible.”

Dirty rushing, a term that refers to the violation of recruitment rules by fraterni-ties, was not a large problem this year, Kauf-man said.

“Every recruitment process has its share of violations,” he said. “This year was noth-ing more, nothing less.”

As of Monday night, the deadline for

official bid acceptances, Delta Sigma phi had the most accepted bids at 27, Hellman said. The two fraternities with the fewest ac-ceptances were phi Delta Theta and Delta Kappa Epsilon, each with one. These totals do not include snap bids, or late acceptanc-es, which were not complete until Friday. Kaufman declined to comment on final numbers for individual chapters, deferring to the chapter presidents.

This year was the first year of rush for a new fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. SAE president Brad Larson, a junior, wrote in an e-mail that SAE’s first IFC rush was a “learning process.”

“It is true that we are a new fraternity, but that did not put any pressure on us to give out a lot of bids as a way to get a lot of pledges,” Larson said. “We think the best way to create a quality fraternity is to focus on the quality of guys, not the number of

guys.... Certainly being new made it diffi-cult in terms of rush, because we had never conducted an IFC rush before.”

Hellman said one of the most significant changes that affected rush this year was the new panhellenic rush schedule, which was held over the course of two weekends instead of the usual five-day period begin-ning before the start of the semester.

“It changed the dynamic of when [fra-ternities] held certain events, particularly because [they] couldn’t pull any official events with sororities until the whole thing

was over,” Hellman said. “You couldn’t hold any events the first two weekends and bank on a lot of girls showing up. It definitely wasn’t ideal, but I think we were able to work around it. [IFC rush] definitely had a different feel.”

Chapter presidents—excluding Lar-son, Delta Kappa Epsilon president Tuck-er Howard, a sophomore, and Sigma Chi president Andrew Bevan, a senior—did not respond to requests for comment Sunday. pi Kappa Alpha president Zach prager, a sophomore, declined to comment.

IFC from page 1

IFC rush by the numbers

Sigma Nu22

Delta Tau Delta19

Pi Kappa Alpha19

Alpha Tau Omega19

Sigma Phi Epsilon

Delta Sigma Phi27

16

Kappa Alpha22

Sigma Chi16

Psi Upsilon Sigma Alpha Epsilon7 6

Delta Kappa Epsilon1

Pi Kappa Phi22

Chi Psi4

Phi Delta Theta1

Alpha Epsilon Pi19

The 15 IFC fraternities gained 234 pledges this year. The Chronicle breaks down the number of new brothers headed to each fraternity, as of last Monday night’s bid card deadline.

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FOOTBALL: CUTCLIFFE’S PRIDE AS MANNING REACHES SUPER BOWL WOMEN’S TENNIS: DUKE STAYS PERFECT • WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: TAR HEELS VISIT MONDAY

TENSE TIMES,BUT DUKE PREVAILS

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by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

Despite sweeping the No. 1 doubles and Nos. 1 and 2 singles spots, No. 21 Duke (4-2) fell to No. 12 Illinois 5-2 Friday at Sheffield Tennis Center.

Coming off an early 8-2 win from senior Reid Carleton and freshman Henrique Cunha in doubles, the Blue Devils failed to gain a lead as their Nos. 2 and No. 3 spots suffered

8-3 and 8-5 defeats to the Fighting Il-lini. That same trend continued, as Cunha and Carleton both won their singles matches but the rest of the team lost all four contests.

“Overall we competed really well, but obviously it was a disappointing loss to a really good team,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Early on we had chances in singles to set the tone, and if we can win at No. 1 and No. 2 we should be able to win the match.”

In front of a sizable crowd, Duke seemed simultaneously energized and tense with the in-creased fan support. At the beginning of the singles round, Duke led in three of the six matches before losing its momen-tum. The players also had minor problems with cramping in their matches, something the coach attributed to nerves.

“We had an amazing crowd, which is awesome, but a couple of the guys seemed tighter than usual and didn’t play as loosely as they usually do,” Smith said. “Illinois out-played us, but there were some chances we had that we didn’t fully capitalize on.”

Cunha and Carleton were the only Blue Devils to come

football

Cutcliffe revels in Manning family’s Super Bowl exploits

men’s tennis

Duke responds to Illini defeat with 2 victories

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Reid Carleton won every match he played this weekend as the blue Devils lost to illinois but defeated notre Dame and n.C. Central.

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David Cutcliffe’s star pupil, Peyton manning, started at quarterback for the indianapolis Colts in last night’s super bowl XliV in miami, fla.

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by Harrison ComfortTHE CHRONICLE

Quarterback peyton Manning led the Indianapolis Colts into Super Bowl XLIV yesterday to take on the New Orleans Saints.

Although Manning threw for 333 yards on 31-of-45 pass-ing and a touchdown, the Saints defeated the Colts 31-17 to win their first Super Bowl in team history. Despite not being able to win his second championship, Manning had at least one person in his corner: Duke head coach David Cutcliffe.

“I am going to pull for the Indianapolis Colts,” Cutc-liffe said last week. “I did have the pleasure of coaching their quarterback peyton Manning in college... and I’m pulling all the way for my man peyton.”

Before Manning started his Hall-of-Fame-caliber career in the NFL, the four-time NFL MVp played at Tennessee where Cutcliffe served as the Volunteers’ offensive coordi-nator. Manning blossomed in Cutcliffe’s offense and took

over under center early in his first season. Over the course of his career, Manning shattered the school’s records, be-coming Tennessee’s all-time leading passer with 11,201 yards and 89 touchdowns. He amassed a 39-6 record at quarterback, earning the most wins in SEC history.

One of the streets surrounding the Volunteers’ foot-ball stadium was even named “peyton Manning pass”.

And yet over a decade after Manning and Cutcliffe took the Volunteers to the 1998 Orange Bowl, the two remain close friends. Manning even had his former coach’s ear the night before National Signing Day.

“I had a couple kids I was trying to get on the phone I couldn’t get on the phone,” Cutcliffe said. “You know the world has caller ID now, so I’m at the point where I’m really mad. Then my phone rings, and I didn’t really want to talk to anybody and I said ‘goddangit, who is this?’ I looked down and it was peyton.”

Cutcliffe has a unique connection to the Manning family. In addition to reaching the national spotlight with peyton, Cutcliffe also coached peyton’s younger brother, Eli, at Ole Miss. The younger Manning went on to win the Maxwell Award as the nation’s top all-around player and threw for 10,286 yards and 84 touchdowns. Eli Manning has gone on to achieve considerable suc-cess in the NFL, also winning a Super Bowl MVp award with the New York giants in 2008.

And last Wednesday, when peyton Manning spent the day talking to reporters on Super Bowl Media Day, the 12-year veteran still made time to call Cutcliffe to discuss the sport they both love.

“We ended up having about a 50-minute talk, and it put me in a good mood,” Cutcliffe said. “I got to talk some Xs and Os, got to hear about his work week and the circumstances surrounding the ballgame. We got into details of pass protection and routes.... I had fun.”

Even though Super Bowl XLIV did not fare well for Manning, the future Hall of Fame quarterback is still in the prime of his career. His passion for the game developed during his time at Tennessee, and Manning believes Cutcliffe is on his way to creating a similar win-ning tradition in Durham.

“peyton loves it here [at Duke], he really does,” Cutc-liffe said. “He loves this staff, he loves the persona of the place, and he enjoyed his time here when he came and stayed with me for about three days and he understood exactly what we are trying to do here.”

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Joy Cheek stressed that monday’s game against north Carolina is no more important than any other aCC contest. Duke lost its last conference matchup to boston College.

by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

It’s the game all the fans have been waiting for—the showdown between two teams whose rivalry goes way back in history. It’s the battle between light blue and dark blue, North Carolina and Duke.

But for the players, it is noth-ing more than another game against an ACC team.

“When you try to hype it up and make it something more than what it is, that’s when you mess up,” senior forward Joy Cheek said. “It’s been going on for years and years—it’s a big game because the schools are strong, the rivalries are strong, but you can’t think that. You have to play them like you play Clemson, Miami, whoever else you play.”

And although the No. 9 Tar Heels (16-5, 4-3 in the ACC) and No. 6 Duke (18-4, 6-1) face some rivalries in recruiting—both Cheek and junior Jasmine Thomas were pursued by the Tar Heels—head coach Joanne p. McCallie dismisses the game as having any significant meaning, other than a historic one.

“I think that it’s something [to talk about] after the season,” McCallie said. “In the season,

it’s like dominoes and they’re all lined up and you try to knock the dominoes down, but out of season, season’s over, and you’ve been successful against the rival and there’s talk about that, and that’s where rival games take on life—in the past tense, like, ‘Oh I remember that game.’”

Fan support should play a significant role in giving more energy to Duke’s players and in-creasing the amount of enthu-siasm—Cameron Indoor Stadi-um is typically close to sold out when these two teams meet—though the main focus of the players is still playing Duke’s brand of basketball.

“It’s a fun game for fans be-cause it’s a very historic game, and it’s great having the fan support and the tickets sold out, but that’s

outside our arena,” McCallie said. “For our situation and our cause, which is playing our basketball and the way we want to command and dictate those kinds of things, it’s more [irrelevant].”

This is the first time since Feb. 21, 1997 that the two teams meet coming off of losses, as Duke lost to Boston College Feb. 4 and the Tar Heels to Miami the same day.

Duke, however, is looking to turn the tide and execute better defense against a team which has strong post players, like the ones the Blue Devils saw in Chestnut Hill, Mass. During that game, the Eagles shot 32 percent whereas Duke shot 38 percent, but Boston College still managed to come through 61-57 by taking more shots.

“I think it’s great that we have another team that has excellent post players. It’s going to be a team defensive effort,” McCal-lie said. “You get back at practice and you demand more. You have an awareness of what we did not accomplish last game out, and it will be definitely be a focus point against Carolina.”

“Teams are always growing and gaining experience, and we’re

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“When you try to hype it up and

make it more than what it is, that’s

when you mess up.” — Senior Joy Cheek

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by Joe DrewsTHE CHRONICLE

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Last year, the low point of Duke’s season was a six-point loss at Boston College, its fourth defeat in six games.

The Blue Devils weren’t going to let that happen again.

playing less than 48 hours after an 86-67 win over georgia Tech, No. 10 Duke used a late first-half run to push its halftime lead to 10 points, and then it fought off a second-half Eagle rally to earn its second road win of the season Saturday in Conte Forum.

“We knew coming in that this was go-ing to be a big game for us,” junior for-ward Kyle Singler said. “Thinking back on last year, we knew that this was a turn-ing point in our season. So it’s kind of ironic, at this point in the year, winning [at Boston College]. Hopefully it turns our season around again.”

But this time, the team’s improvement won’t have to wait until after the Boston College game. After getting blown out at georgetown Jan. 30, Duke responded this week by disposing of No. 21 georgia Tech Thursday and then toppling the Eagles (12-11, 3-6 in the ACC) Saturday.

“Coming up here, we had to make a lot of changes after this game [last year],” guard Nolan Smith said. “This year, we made changes before this game. It worked, but now we’re [still] not satisfied.”

Singler, Smith and Jon Scheyer led the way for the Blue Devils, playing 119 of a possible 120 minutes and scoring a com-bined 54 points. But it was senior center Brian Zoubek who ensured that Duke (19-4, 7-2) wouldn’t have another nightmare in Boston, where its season ended in the NCAA Tournament last year.

Moments after draining a rainbow 3-pointer to pull his team within a point of the Blue Devils, Boston College guard Reg-gie Jackson brought the ball up the court with the Eagles one long ball away from forc-ing overtime. Jackson was swarmed by the Duke defense and swung the ball to the top of the key to Joe Trapani. Trapani, Boston College’s second-best 3-point shooter, mo-mentarily had an open look, but the 7-foot-1

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Zoubek quickly closed out on him. Trapani was forced to hoist a contested 3-pointer that clanged off the front of the iron, clinching Duke’s 66-63 victory over the Eagles.

“Zoubek made the play of the game,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We have a close-out drill, where it doesn’t make any difference who you are—perimeter or big guy. If you see a shooter, you have to have a sense of urgency, and he had the sense of urgency of a senior.”

That play capped a whirlwind trip for the Blue Devils, who had just one day off between games and got as much as they could handle from Boston College. The Blue Devils also made their own lives more difficult by not capitalizing on of-fensive opportunities.

Before Smith and Scheyer made four clutch free throws in the final 30 seconds, Duke shot just 11-for-22 from the char-ity stripe. The Blue Devils also misfired on a number of easy looks inside all afternoon, highlighted by Mason plumlee’s missed dunk with just more than four minutes remaining.

But Duke converted when it mattered most. The Blue Devils made 6-of-8 free throws in the final minute, including splits by fresh-men Ryan Kelly and Andre Dawkins. Dawkins had not seen any game action before that—he also didn’t register action against georgia Tech—and he made his first free throw to give Duke a two-possession lead.

“For people who don’t play basket-ball, that’s a really tough thing to do, [to] come in the end and hit a free throw cold like that,” Scheyer said. “I can’t say enough about him.”

That free throw proved important with Jackson’s proficiency from beyond the arc. And when the Eagles’ sophomore guard was forced to give up the ball on the final possession and Trapani’s desperation heave missed, Duke avoided any 2009 flashbacks and simultaneously built on the momen-tum of the georgia Tech victory.

“We needed to win this game,” Krzyze-wski said. “Missing layups, free throws against a really good [team]—we needed to win this game. It’s a big, big win for our basketball team based on how things have gone for us.”

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senior lance thomas looked intensely toward the basketball on this occasion, and he may have done so too frequently saturday against boston College: the forward fouled out after playing only 22 minutes in Conte forum.

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senior Jon scheyer is typically an excellent foul shooter, and that skill came into play late in Duke’s win over boston College. scheyer went 6-of-6 from the line on the day and made two clutch free throws to help seal the victory. faith robertson/the ChroniCLe

Junior Kyle singler rarely found an easy look against the eagles and shot 4-for-14 from the field.

aroundtheaccMaryland 92 — North Carolina 71

ga Tech 73 — N.C. State 71Virginia Tech 70 — Clemson 59Wake Forest 64 — Virginia 61Florida State 71 — Miami 65

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by Sabreena MerchantTHE CHRONICLE

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — It’s no secret the Blue Devils have struggled on the road this season.

part of the problem has been the team’s difficulty generating a rhythm on offense. Lack of ball move-ment and player movement has led to stagnant pos-sessions and contested shots, and consequently, a lot of low scores for Duke away from home.

To counter that, head coach Mike Krzyzewski started working on the team’s motion offense this week in practice, the idea being that a balanced attack would better serve No. 10 Duke against a Boston College team that has had its fair share of success against the Blue Devils, particularly at

home. It worked, as a solid of-fensive showing—especially in the first half—balanced Duke’s stringent defensive effort in a 66-63 win over the Eagles.

“What we wanted to do this week is we wanted to have more

guys touch the ball,” Krzyzewski said. “And so mo-tion is not just to get unpredictable movement, but it’s to make everyone think that we’re scoring, that not one guy is scoring.”

In the first half, the Blue Devils were incredibly smooth on the offensive end, converting on 15-of-25 shots for a 60 percent clip. The efficiency on offense re-sulted from good spacing and movement, both on and off the ball, and Duke had seven assists on 15 scores.

Junior Nolan Smith led the way in the open-ing session with 13 points on 6-of-9 shooting and three assists. Smith scored in a variety of ways, in-cluding coming off of curls, pulling up from mid-range and driving directly to the basket, giving the Eagles fits as to how to defend him.

“Every shot that I was taking, I had confidence,” Smith said. “My teammates, they know where I like the ball and they do a great job of getting me the ball where I like—off curls and getting those good midrange looks.”

Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer chipped in seven and nine points in the first half, respectively, on a

63BC Motion offense brings successcombined 7-of-13 shooting, including seven straight by Scheyer to close the period and give the Blue Devils a 10-point lead entering halftime.

“Sometimes in our losses, we didn’t move the ball as well,” Scheyer said. “For whatever reason on the road, we haven’t done that. So that’s something we talked about and I thought we did a really good job of that today.”

Duke barely managed to hang onto its first-half ad-vantage in the closing stretch. With the Blue Devils playing their second game in 43 hours, tired legs left

the team unable to move as effectively in the second half. The wear showed on the stat sheet, as Duke shot only 8-of-23 in the second period and struggled from the free throw line throughout the game, making just 15-of-26 free throws.

With the motion coming to a halt, Duke turned to its most important strength: its veteran leadership.

After Rakim Sanders blocked Smith on a potential fast-break layup and Corey Raji converted for the Ea-gles on the other end, Scheyer calmly sank a 3-pointer on the ensuing possession to maintain the Blue Dev-ils’ double-digit lead. And when Boston College pulled to within four with under two mintues to play, Smith found an opening in the lane for a lay-in to keep Duke comfortably in front.

“Today we showed a lot of poise, and we played to-gether,” Smith said. “The guys that we have on the court are definitely ready for anything.”

Even though the Blue Devils’ offensive plan fal-tered in the second half, Krzyzewski maintained that the team will continue to work on its movement with the ball as ACC play progresses. And even if the ball stops moving, Duke knows that it has experienced leaders to make the correct plays, as the veteran pe-rimeter came through once more Saturday in a tough road environment.

Game Analysis

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senior lance thomas looked intensely toward the basketball on this occasion, and he may have done so too frequently saturday against boston College: the forward fouled out after playing only 22 minutes in Conte forum.

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Junior Kyle singler rarely found an easy look against the eagles and shot 4-for-14 from the field.faith robertson/the ChroniCLe

Guard nolan smith slaps five with graduate assistant Chris Carrawell late in the blue Devils’ road win in Chestnut Hill, mass. saturday.

“Every shot that I was taking, I had confidence.”

— Junior Nolan Smith

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by Kyle LambrechtTHE CHRONICLE

As the reigning NCAA champion, No. 1 Duke extended its winning streak and re-mained unbeaten on the season this week-end, sweeping Indiana 7-0 Saturday at Shef-field Tennis Center. The Blue Devils (5-0)

have lost just two points all season, blanking three oppo-nents along the way.

The Blue Devils extended their doubles winning streak to 15 against the Hoosiers (7-1). The No. 1 doubles team of senior Amanda granson and junior Ellah Nze defeated Indiana’s Leslie Hureau and Myriam Sopel soundly with a victory of 8-3 in only 44 minutes. At the No. 2 doubles spot, senior Elizabeth plotkin and junior Reka Zsilinszka dominated Lindsey Stuckey and Evgeniya Vertesheva, 8-4. Rounding out the doubles matches, sophomore Monica gorny and freshman Jessica Stiles overpowered Ma-ria guerreiro and Katya Zapadalov at the No. 3 spot to help the Blue Devils grab the doubles point and take an early lead in the match.

“[Doubles has] really been a focus for the coaches since the season started,” Zsilinszka said. “It’s really starting to show now. It’s good timing because we’re about to go to the [In-tercollegiate Tennis Association’s] Indoors.”

The Blue Devils may have been spend-ing time focusing on doubles, but their dominance in singles has shown fans that Duke is a contender for yet another nation-al title. Zsilinszka, ranked 20th in the na-tion, swept Vertesheva 6-0, 6-0 at the No. 1

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the Duke men earned a marquee victory by defeating defending national champion and no. 1 Penn state.

by Jacob LevittTHE CHRONICLE

Duke’s fencing program is probably best known for Becca Ward, the sopho-more sensation who won a silver medal for the United Sates in women’s saber at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She contin-ues to star for the Blue Devils, finishing a perfect 12-0 Sunday, including 3-0 in her matches against No. 1 penn State. Ward, however, is not the only young fencer contributing to Duke’s emergence.

Despite an inauspicious upset loss in the opener to Air Force on the men’s side, the Blue Devils rebounded in a big way, going on to defeat defend-ing national champion and perennial powerhouse penn State, also No. 1 on the men’s side, for the first time in 25 years. Duke earned the victory by win-ning 15 out of 27 bouts.

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singles spot. Losing only one point to guer-reiro at the No. 6 spot, Stiles showed the future potential of the program and moved to a perfect 3-0 on the season.

Nze was the only Duke player that faced a challenge from an opponent. After winning the first set 7-5 over Hureau at the No. 2 sin-gles spot, Nze charged back and swept the second set, 6-0, to finish the match. plotkin defeated Sopel 6-2, 6-1, and Clayton beat Stuckey 6-2, 6-1 at the Nos. 3 and 5 positions, respectively, and gorny topped Zapadalova 6-4, 6-2 at No. 4 to finish the sweep.

The Blue Devils travel to Madison, Wisc. Feb. 12-15 for the ITA National Indoors.

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not a tremendously experienced team, and the team’s still coming together and growing, and I don’t want to lose to learn, but I guess we had to. You learn that if people aren’t going to be consistent, you have to do different things and you have to move things around. We really want to go after our game and we have found ways to make our presses ef-fective against quick teams or not-as-quick teams.”

The Blue Devils always aim for playing an all-around game but know that when it comes down to it, they must focus on what’s necessary against particular op-ponents, whether it be rebounding, shooting from the field or pressing. And in North Carolina’s case, Duke will be facing a strong post offense combined with quick, athletic guards.

“We want a complete game and we want to play our of-fensive game, but it’s what it takes to win,” Cheek said. “So if defense is what it takes to win that night, then that’s what we have to do.”

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Head coach Joanne P. mcCallie is just 1-4 against north Carolina in her two-plus seasons at Duke, but her squad is favored tonight at home.

away with wins against Illinois, with Cunha narrowly de-feating Dennis Nevolo, 6-4, 7-6, and Carleton gaining a victory over Johnny Hamui, 6-4, 6-1.

“I think personally I played well, but unfortunately we didn’t win the game,” Cunha said. “Overall, every-body competed well, and we have the team to win this, but we weren’t playing as well as we should have.”

Sunday, though, Duke responded in the best way pos-sible to its disappointing loss against the Fighting Illini. The Blue Devils hosted Notre Dame and N.C. Central and won both matches easily, as Duke recorded 7-0 sweeps against the Fighting Irish (3-3) and the Eagles (0-3).

Against the Irish Sunday afternoon, Duke won the doubles point when Dylan Arnould and David Holland won a tight 9-8 match, and the Blue Devils never looked back in the sweep.

Sunday evening’s matchup with the Eagles proceeded in similar fashion, and Duke hardly struggled despite its busy weekend in getting its second win of the day against overmatched N.C. Central.

illini from page 6

went 3-1 on the weekend, with the 10th-ranked Duke men’s lone loss coming to Air Force. The women fell against penn State despite Ward’s undefeated mark. Both squads managed to defeat crosstown ri-val North Carolina.

“The team is very young—we have a lot of fresh-men on the men’s team and the women’s team... and we have good support with the seniors,” head coach Alex Beguinet said.

Of Duke’s 15 victories on the men’s side against penn State, freshmen and sophomores combined for 10. Anthony Lin stood out among the freshmen, go-ing 8-4 in his bouts.

“He is going to be a very strong fencer—he is al-ready,” Beguinet said. “As a freshman, he is leading the saber squad.”

Beguinet also hailed freshman Emily D’Agostino as a leader on the women’s team based on her per-formance. She nearly matched Ward’s outstanding record, going 11-1 in her bouts. Fellow freshmen Lily Shepard (8-2) and Keara Mageras (6-2) also provided a boost to the women’s team.

Duke finished both days of the tournament with its strongest effort, showing the improving nature of this young team. Both squads won easily against Brandeis in their final matches of the day.

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Duke did well on both the men’s and women’s sides at its home meet this weekend, as both teams went 3-1 in the tournament.

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“There’s barely anything in there,” she said. Blake added that the lack of a restaurant on Central

pushes her to dine frequently on West Campus. “I don’t have the time to cook whenever I need a meal,”

she said.Senior Brandy Austin said she used to cook when she

could purchase the ingredients she needed at Uncle Har-ry’s. She said that now, she often orders food, even though delivery can be expensive.

Students on Central said they have become used to looking elsewhere for meals.

“It’s not unexpected,” sophomore Yue Jiang said of the delay. “I think it’s great that the University is taking the initiative to put in a restaurant.”

Jiang, who lives on Central, said finding a place eat his next meal is not usually difficult.

“Duke is really good with Merchants on Points,” he said. “Central’s really nice because you have your own kitchen.”

Jiang is also a member of Ubuntu, a new selective living group housed on Central. He said finding food is not an issue for the social group.

“Either we’ll go off-campus or we’ll order in,” he said. Jiang said he did not think that the absence of a main

Central eatery affected Ubuntu’s recruitment process this semester.

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hand-washing is an issue in hospitals. Unlike procedures that are trained, such as sterilizing medical equipment, she said hand-washing is sometimes forgotten because it is so common.

According to the Consumer Reports survey, 26 percent of nurses reported that hospital staff would sometimes not wash their hands.

Director of Nursing Practices Judy Prewitt said hand-washing is affected by unpredictable patient interactions.

“You have that patient with partial hypertension who’s a little woozy and needs to be helped,” Prewitt said.

These unexpected interactions are sometimes forgot-ten and hands are not washed, she added.

Hospitals are utilizing a number of basic methods to reduce incidents of contamination. They are also employ-ing new technologies to keep vulnerable patients in a safe, pathogen-free environment.

“We are using a UV-light emitting device that we can wheel into rooms and we can turn on and [use to] disin-

fect the room after initial cleaning,” Anderson said, add-ing that the device will be used after hours in areas with high traffic.

Prewitt said places like children’s play rooms should re-ceive special attention because they are filled with germs that can cause infections.

Other ideas that are currently being considered include Radio Frequency Identification wristbands that alert the wearer when he forgets to wash his hands after interacting with a patient.

“Although technology can definitely help by acting as a memory aid, we can’t entirely rely on technology,” Spurney said. “Sometimes working together and keeping an eye out for each other works just as well.”

Prewitt said she believes that assessing past incidents and working on ways to improve procedures could be more beneficial and cost-effective.

“We’ve done a huge amount of work on catheter-associ-ated infections and we’ve cut that down substantially,” she said. “When you start looking at how that translates, that’s money. It’s also patient lives.”

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When the University an-nounced last month that it would be voluntarily partici-pating in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program next Fall, it did so partly to stay ahead of the curve. At the time, it ap-peared as if the federal gov-ernment would enact legisla-tion to disburse Stafford and PLUS loans directly to stu-dents instead of using private lenders to do so.

But now, the future of this federal plan—once consid-ered a legislative shoo-in—is in jeopardy. The Democrats’ loss of a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate coupled with increased lobbying from private loan companies have transformed the political landscape, making any effort

to change the student loan system an uphill battle.

Higher education is a public good, and all Ameri-cans should have access to it. That’s why it is particularly

disconcerting that Congress is hesitating to

put students’ interests first and switch to direct lending.

As President Barack Obama and Secretary of Ed-ucation Arne Duncan have noted, the current federally-funded student loan system is broken. Private companies offer loans to students, but if a student defaults, it is the government that pays the cost. Uncle Sam absorbs all of the risk, providing the pri-vate loan industry with what amounts to a subsidy of bil-lions of dollars per year.

Right now, we have an inefficient system in which private lenders profit off the backs of taxpayers and stu-dents. This is unacceptable.

Recent attempts by the stu-dent loan industry to defend itself pose a formidable obsta-cle to proponents of change, but the arguments posed by these private companies are hollow and myopic.

Loan companies like Sallie Mae have argued that a switch to direct lending is an unwar-ranted government takeover of private industry that would cut back on customer service for students and eliminate thousands of jobs.

But government is already deeply involved in the stu-dent loan industry, and a fed-eral takeover would only cut out the inefficient middle-

man and ensure a taxpayer savings of around $80 billion over the next ten years, ac-cording to the Congressional Budget Office.

Moreover, portraying stu-dent loan reform as a job-kill-ing government intervention in a private industry obfus-cates the real issue at play: the federal loan system exists to increase access to higher education and develop the skills of the American peo-ple, not to provide jobs.

The bottom line is that a short-term job loss is a small price to pay in order to secure the long-term eco-nomic benefit of a better-ed-ucated work force. With sav-ings from switching to direct lending, the government can expand the Pell Grant program and increase tax

credits to families with stu-dent loans—both of which will help extend the oppor-tunity for higher education to low-income Americans.

What we are seeing now in Washington is a classic case of lobbyists and pri-vate companies putting self-interest before the good of the American people. In response, presidents from major research universi-ties like Duke as well as the leaders of community and state colleges—whose stu-dents stand to benefit most from direct lending and an expansion in Pell Grants—should fight back.

Congress must hear that when it comes to financing higher education for our coun-try’s neediest, there should be no room for politics.

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10:08 a.m.-11:20 a.m.: Mindlessly take notes. Avoid making eye contact with the professor at all costs.

11:21 A.M.: Cancel lunch plans. I’m sorry, Sharon, I’m busy. Didn’t finish my readings for my 4:25 and I have class before that at 2:50, and I have to send emails to Mary, Harry and Larry…and Jerry. I’m real sorry bud, but I’m busy, ya know? I’m busy. We’ll reschedule.

11:30 a.m. – 2:35 p.m.: Pick up a triple club sand-wich with no tomatoes and a large coffee from Alpine bagels before the lunch rush. Run to table in the li-brary and spread out your stuff like a bird molting feathers. Read, email, eat, read, eat, email, eat, eat, re-read due to lack of focus, respond to new email, read, eat, read, read, read.

2:36 p.m.: Miss bus, too full. Curse C-1 gods, and the entire South in general for failing to notice every-one but them is in a hurry. Desperately try to resist the urge to punch the freshman babbling next to you.

2:41 p.m.: Finally get on bus. Contemplate im-pending lateness. Initiate weak, forced conversation with that girl you kind of know. “What are you do-ing?” “Going to class.” “Me too!”

2:54 p.m.: Arrive at Yoga (four minutes late).2:55 – 4:07 p.m.: “Clear mind”and “let go” of

stress. Forget to breathe while stretching and try not

to pass out and give into the tunnel feeling and vis-ible spots.

4:07 p.m.: Get out late and miss the C-3 at 4:08! Dejectedly wait for C-1. Resign yourself to the fact that you will be late for your 4:25 in Sanford.

4:10 p.m.: Notice missed call from Mom. Quickly return it. “Hi Mom, yeah I’m good, very busy. In fact, can’t really talk now, I’ll call you back…soon. Love you, too.” It’s one of those days.

4:something, but after 4:25 p.m.: Arrive at your once-a-week, two-and-a-half hour class. Try to settle in and mentally relax.

6:55 p.m.: Time for meetings and more email! YAY!7:05 p.m.: Alpine. Wheat bagel, toasted, low fat

cream cheese. Fro yo as a reward for another day (al-most) done. Another large coffee – sixth cup of the day. One more nutritionally worthless meal (Which reminds me, you didn’t make it to the gym today…).

9:00 p.m.: Meetings done. All emails answered that, if unanswered, could lead to a nuclear melt-down. Library or home? Hey Caitlin, wait are you in Blue Zone?!? Drive me to my car?!?!?

9:20 p.m.: Arrive at home. Sit on couch. Breathe.9:21 – 10:05 p.m.: Mindlessly stare at computer

screen.10:06 p.m.: Snap to! To-do list: 50 pages for Eng-

lish due tomorrow and 17 questions spread out over 30 pages for Spanish due tomorrow. Not going to be collected, so make maximum minimal effort.

11:00 p.m.: Más Café.11:05-2:20 a.m.: Switch between reading, Gchat

and facebook.Rachel: Are you going out Wednesday? You: Gah-

hhhh I wish! There is no way though Rachel: Aww that sucks! End of conversation.

2:20 – 2:23 a.m.: Self-reflection and soul search-ing. Was I always this busy? Was it like this last semes-ter, last spring?

2:30 a.m.: Bedtime.2:33 a.m.: Remember questions due Wednesday.2:40 a.m:. Remember you promised to help out

Jennie Thursday after class. Jfdsjlkafj… no basketball game for you!

2:43 a.m.: Remember to tell your group that they now need a replacement for the walk-up line.

2:50 a.m.: SLEEP! SLEEP QUICKER!Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday. 9:15 a.m.…And it starts all over again. Eat, work, email, show-

er (maybe), class, read, write, work out (hopefully), eat, more class, more emails, more reading… less sleeping. This lifestyle is what 26, 694 high school se-niors dream about, and what 602 have already bound themselves to for the next four years of their lives.

This is a day in the life of a Duke student.

Laura Keeley is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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In the wake of another weekend, the commons room is a mess. Mustard and ketchup, swirled across the carpet and linoleum, has lionized a crass four-letter slur about

a female body part. The culprits? Footloose scofflaws, likely inebriated, who committed the task under the auspices of cowardice and anonymity. We may safely assume that they were Dukies.

Visitors often ask about the ethical climate at Duke. Measuring the degree of honor proves to be an ongo-ing struggle, so many refer to ethics-related campus organs. The Kenan Institute, an ethics certificate, Encompass Magazine, a Mode of Inquiry require-ment and more than a dozen Spring 2010 course offerings that believe “ethics” is important enough to include in the title—reveal a comforting candy shop of academic ethical chitchat.

But our common spaces show that although we may be in-terested in ethics, we aren’t living the creed. Indeed, if we use the condition of our common rooms as a measurement of our campus-held integrity—well, we look like a crowd of shirkers and hooligans.

Stolen furniture is by now a near ubiquitous whodunit across West Campus. Food items and clothing are taken from public refrigerators and laundry rooms. Enter an unlocked public toilet over the weekends, and by the luck of the dice, one too likely encounters objectionable odors, litter and evi-dence of disgraces that should be reserved to the presence of

their owners.If you believe anonymity in common spaces makes you

impervious to sanction, makes you invincible, unaccountable and thereby license to nincompoop-ery—well, you’re prob-ably right. You’re the reason I’m disappointed. What’s worse, I’m ashamed. I’m embarrassed to call myself a Duke student when the state of our commons only affirms what others have accused. Let’s toast to GQ: We really are douchebags. And it’s not just Schmitty!

The critic may be thinking, dear girl, let college be a lesson to you about the real world. Human nature is self-advantage, not the hugging-hand-holding-sharing hocus pocus that only fools can stomach.

He may call upon Plato’s “Republic,” and Gyges, the poor shepherd who takes advantage of a ring that makes him in-visible to seduce the queen, murder the king and rule Lydia himself.

So writes Plato, through Glaucon, “If you could imagine any one obtaining this power... and never doing any wrong or touching what was another’s, he would be thought by the lookers-on to be a most wretched idiot.”

So, too, might he raise Garrett Hardin’s critical 1968 Science contribution on the tragedy of the commons for a theoretical group of cow-herders. Multiple individuals who act indepen-dently with self-interests, will deplete a shared resource despite existing knowledge of its communal long-term benefits.

Although our commons are suffering from over-abuse or under-use like Hardin suggests will occur, I’m still of the habit to look down upon the advice of those who tell us to carry with us the smelling salts of cynicism. They say that when our eyes are temporarily blinded by too rosy a hue, cynicism helps us

to see the real world.But that’s just it: Undergraduates aren’t in the real world,

and we aren’t fully formed rationalists yet. If academia has given us anything, it is the opportunity to temporarily suspend the real-world needs of people like Plato’s shepherd and Har-din’s cow-herders. College life is communal, and should delay rather than accelerate ethical deterioration.

The real tragedy is that the few who read this column are likely to already respect commons spaces. The defectors to which this rant is addressed are likely not reading at all.

In the event that this does reach a defector, what I ask is this: Remember that we, and future Duke students, pay for our commons rooms. Wipe a used counter and leave alone that which is not yours. Know the names of the people who live around you, and ignore the rationalization that left be-hind messes give cleaning staff jobs. Going around campus and breaking windows also employs people, so that’s not a valid excuse.

When the few who do try grow tired of being suckers, one wonders if common spaces should be eliminated and replaced with lockers or rooms.

While we are here, we should want to and try to uphold the integrity behind our castle walls. If we don’t, as we don’t now, we will remain hypocrites and sloths. The incongruity between our intent and our actions smacks of a distressing dis-play of moral turpitude.

Our downfall comes by a tragedy of the commons and an even sadder tragic irony.

Courtney Han is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.”

You look stressed. Really, take a deep breath. We’ll get this all worked out. I’ve got some things you need to hear.

The good news about this absurd world is that your perspective is pretty much the only thing that should matter to you, and if that won’t cheer you up, try listen-ing to George Carlin do stand up. That is one twisted son of a woman. I guess it would be more twisted if a man birthed him, but we don’t get a lot of those these days. Maybe there’s too little BPA in our water bottles.

Back to perspective. Did you know that in studies, a little more than 80 percent of those polled say they have above aver-age looks? And only 30 percent had below average taste in music? Thank God only 10 percent of them were atheists. On the other hand, thank Satan only 2 percent of them go to worship every week.

Now, I’m here to give you a little advice into your future, specifically about be-ing successful in interviews. As someone who must hire a new staff for every “job” I undertake (unfortunate events occur to my employees during our “work”), I have become quite the perceptive interviewer. I also have an uncanny knack at mak-ing people think I’m insane. It comes in handy.

When I was first entering the work-force, I had some trouble with companies. You see, no one at any company thought I was qualified for their new opening. At lower-paying jobs, they just wouldn’t take a kid straight out of college, no matter how under-achieving or perfectly qualified he may be to work for minimum wage. On the other hand, prestigious employers would look at my resume and ask how I managed to graduate with straight Ds and

no major. These reasons are why I’ve come up

with some interview techniques that, even if they don’t get you the job, they will damn sure get you noticed. But don’t worry, they’ll get you the job. If they don’t, you al-

ways know where to look for some easy, high-paying work. Your role will be to knock off the guy who cracks the safe. Bigger cut for everybody.

First, dress for the job you want, not the job you have/are qualified for. If you’re not stuck-up, you immedi-ately should have gotten excited, because you real-ized that you must wear your

Darth Vader costume to your next inter-view. At least that’s the job I want: Master of the Dark Side of the Force.

Second, be positive. I’m no scientist, but I’ve been told this relates to having as many protons as possible, and to get rid of electrons whenever you can. You may want to shuffle your feet along any thick carpet, to build up electricity and remove elec-trons. The person interviewing you will no doubt credit you with having a shocking personality and as someone who is posi-tively electrifying.

Third, don’t show up on time. It’s tacky. No one likes a snob. Don’t you want them to think you would be dedicated to your job? You need them to firmly believe you have no life. That’s why you need to show up early. I’m not talking about being there 15 minutes before the interview. I’m talk-ing K-ville early. Live in a tent outside the company’s building for at least a month before your interview. Head Line Moni-tor Zach White knows this is how you show true commitment. At worst, you can say that’s the most useful thing you learned in college. You probably won’t be lying, either.

The Joker sang for the king and queen, in a coat he borrowed from James Dean.

Tragedy of our commons spaces

Playing yourcards right

courtney hanon the other hand

monday, mondaythe joker

Vote Goldstein for YTAs the executive members of Duke’s

chapter of National Organization for Women, we would like to endorse Chel-sea Goldstein for the position of Young Trustee.

Sensitivity to gender issues aside, we felt Goldstein best articulated and dem-onstrated the qualities necessary in an ef-fective Young Trustee. Goldstein displayed a well-honed ability to communicate with confidence and clarity, aptly exemplifying her ability to think quickly on her feet. Perhaps most importantly, she conveyed the importance of maximizing her oppor-tunity to speak, a quality that is essential in a Young Trustee. Finally, we were extreme-ly impressed with Goldstein’s high level of experience. Her former position as Duke Student Government’s vice president for academic affairs instilled her with unpar-alleled experience in dealing with admin-istrators on a personal level—leaving be-hind a legacy of tangible results.

Yet what fully solidifies our endorse-ment of Goldstein is her high sensitivity to the subtle workings of gender on Duke’s campus. It is worth reiterating: Her ac-knowledgement of Duke’s gender-based problems is in addition to her already substantial qualifications. Goldstein is set apart from other candidates by her track record of working with a nuanced under-standing of gender disparity while adher-ing to her personal convictions.

The other candidates also displayed impressive qualities. Zach Perret showed a comfort and competency with leadership, backed up by his past role as president of the Duke University Union. This experi-ence, coupled with his awareness of diverse student needs, qualifies him as an adequate representative of student interests.

John Harpham’s strong record as an academic and as a written communicator offsets his lack of face-to-face interactions with student and administrators. Like the other candidates, he conveyed the req-uisite assurance in his qualifications. Yet Goldstein’s unparalleled communication skills, her record of not only acknowl-

edging problems in campus culture, but actually affecting visible change and her unique adaptability makes her our candi-date of choice.

Claire FinchVice president, Duke chapter of National

Organization for WomenTrinity ’10

Vote Goldstein for YTBlue Devils United is pleased to en-

dorse Chelsea Goldstein for the position of Young Trustee.

While Goldstein demonstrates an ex-cellent grasp of many issues and problems facing the University, we are particularly impressed by her specific knowledge of the underpinnings of Duke’s administra-tion.

Goldstein is an expressive and orga-nized speaker--an essential skill that will ensure a strong student voice on the Board of Trustees. Additionally, Goldstein is exceptionally aware of and sensitive to LGBTQ issues that arise out of both University life and the Board itself. Her proposals to support gender-neutral fa-cilities and bathrooms in any new housing construction were well reasoned. We feel that she will reliably speak on behalf of Duke’s LGBTQ community to the Board when necessary, a critical role after the de-parture of Tom Clarke, a former LGBTQ Trustee.

We also commend Chelsea for her understanding of the difficulties faced by other underrepresented groups on cam-pus. We have the utmost confidence that in a boardroom setting she will be fully capable of conveying the value and cen-tral importance of identity centers to the Duke experience.

Ultimately, we feel strongly that Chel-sea Goldstein is the most capable and best-suited individual for the position of Young Trustee.

Viviana SantiagoPresident, Blue Devils United

Trinity ’10

Young TrusTee endorsemenTs

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