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Far more resources must be deployed in the fight against human trafficking, said Siddharth Kara, Trinity ’96 and one of the world’s foremost experts on modern slavery and human trafficking.

In a keynote lecture Thursday evening titled “An Over-view of Human Trafficking and Contemporary Slavery,” Kara discussed the realities of an increasing human traf-ficking crisis around the world. The talk was the kickoff event for a three-day conference—“Human Traffic: Past and Present”—hosted by the Center for African and Afri-can American Research.

J. Lorand Matory, director of the Center for Afri-can and African American Research and Lawrence Richardson professor of cultural anthropology, said the conference’s program—including Kara’s keynote speech, an art exhibition and several expert panels—aims to cultivate the strengths, investigation and scholarship of the Duke community into solving the problem of human trafficking.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — When two of the best teams in the nation clash, the difference between winning and losing is often decided by the slimmest of mar-gins. One missed tackle, an unexpected bounce of the ball or a bobbled save can have a monumental impact on the final scoreline.

In a matchup of soccer giants that went down to the wire, the opportunistic Tar Heels scored the game-winning goal with

a little over two minutes left on the clock, when striker Kealia Ohai’s toe-poke from close range trickled across the line before Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell could scamper back and clear away the ball. The decisive goal—a scrappy finish after a cha-otic scrum in the penalty area—was alto-gether unworthy of what was a beautifully played game, but No. 10 North Carolina’s (10-2, 5-1 in the ACC) vital win extends its dominant record over the No. 3 Blue Devils (13-2-1, 5-1-1) and reopens the title race in the tightly-packed ACC.

“We had opportunities, and we have to stick in those opportunities,” head coach Robbie Church said. “It’s a very disap-pointing match because we could have had a better result than we did here to-night.”

Duke was without its leading scorer—freshman striker Kelly Cobb—who suf-fered an ankle injury in practice and is currently day-to-day. With Cobb absent, the Blue Devils lacked one of their biggest

Durham groups aid homeless

by Caroline FairchildTHE CHRONICLE

Durham local Bernard Brandon is on the verge of homelessness and needs the city of Durham’s help to avoid living on the streets.

Brandon was one of more than 455 homeless or underprivileged members of the Durham community seeking critical services at the fifth Annual Project Home-less Connect Thursday. Setting up booths inside the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, various organizations offered free medical screenings, dental exams and haircuts as well as job, social services and permanent housing counseling.

“If I don’t get help, I am going to be homeless,” Brandon said. “I have agencies paying for my rent right now, churches and places like that, but that is going to run out soon. I want to find permanent housing today while I wait on my disability [check]. Durham has done an excellent job with me, and I hope they can help me out today too.”

There are between 500 to 600 men, women and children homeless in Durham and Durham County, Mayor Bill Bell said. The U.S. Census Bureau found that 40,000 of Durham’s County’s 300,000 households are paying more than 30 percent of their paycheck on housing and are at risk of

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North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue is setting her eyes on a new road to state economic recovery—the Far East.

Perdue is scheduled to depart Oct. 15 for an eight-day excursion to China and Japan as part of a governors’ forum to further improve the trade partnership between the Unit-ed States and major industries in Asia. During her trip, Perdue will visit with Asian trade executives and make a stop at Duke Kunshan University, said Tim Crowley, assistant secretary for commu-nications and external affairs at the N.C. Department of Commerce.

“We are very excited to have [Gov.] Perdue visit Kunshan and the DKU campus,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs

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An archaeologist holds a quartzite grindstone coated with ancient red ochre paint. The abalone shell, pictured right, may have served as a mixing container and is one of the two pieces from the 100,000-year-old “paint toolkit” uncovered by researchers in a South African cave.

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As a result of stimulus spending and increased funding through the 2010 health care law, the number of clinicians participating in a federal program to expand access to care in underserved communities has nearly tripled in the past three years.

About 10,000 doctors, nurses and other providers now participate in the National Health Service Corps, the highest num-ber since the program was established in 1972, according to figures released by the Obama administration Thursday.

Officials estimated the corps is serv-ing 10.5 million patients.

Since fiscal year 2009, the program has awarded medical professionals nearly $900 million in scholarships, loan repayments and other financial incen-tives in exchange for a commitment to provide two or more years of service in both rural and urban locations where clinicians are scarce.

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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist dis-cussed his lifelong passion for microorgan-isms yesterday.

Sir Richard Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine and member of the Royal Society, spoke at an event titled “Why I Love Bacteria!” Thurs-day morning. Roberts, who helped dis-cover split genes, stressed the disconnect in communication that can occur between the public, scientists and politicians about bacteria.

“I think that we scientists need to do a better job in explaining the problems we face to the public and to politicians, so that action to fight these problems can be stead-fast and smarter,” Roberts said.

Jeffrey Spaeder, chief medical and sci-entific officer for Quintiles—the phar-maceutical company that sponsored the event—introduced Roberts and his work in discovering introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.

“We must understand the structure of the world in order to make scientific prog-ress,” Spaeder said. “Sir Richard Roberts has made a career using this fundamental principle.”

The ancestors of today’s bacteria were the first forms of life on Earth.

“Anabaena provided oxygen to Earth’s atmosphere but ironically ended up pol-luting the oceans, similar to how humans are detrimentally affecting their surround-ings,” Roberts said.

Roberts noted that there is a miscon-ception that most bacteria are harmful to humans.

“The majority of bacteria have no ef-fect on humans,” he said. “And the rest of the bacteria are fairly evenly split between good and bad bacteria.”

People often seem to be at odds with bacteria, Roberts said. In cases such as tu-berculosis, for example, bacteria constantly evolve despite people’s attempts to get vac-cinated against the disease, he added.

“When you defeat one bacteria, what you are doing is inviting along another one,” Roberts said.

Resistance to bacteria can be harmful to humans.

“We need to be more sensible with re-spect to antibiotic use because we use them indiscriminately in places like the food in-dustry, where they serve no genuine pur-pose other than to increase animal weight,” Roberts said.

He cited pharmaceutical companies as one industry that encourages unnec-essary antibiotic use, adding that some politicians neglect the environment to the point of compromising the future of the human race.

“What is more serious than any scientific problem is that we are polluting ourselves out of this Earth,” he said.

For the 1.7 million people in the U.S. who get an infection each year, 70 percent of the bacteria causing such infections are

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The Fuqua School of Business is strengthening its ties in the Middle East.

Fuqua announced last month that it is launching the Dubai Duke Leadership Workshop in the United Arab Emirates this December. The workshop is a non-degree executive education program modeled after Fuqua’s Duke Leadership Program currently offered in Durham. The program, which will take place Dec. 13 through 15, is building off of Fuqua’s already established presence in the re-gion, Sim Sitkin, Fuqua professor of man-agement and director of the workshop in Durham, wrote in an email Tuesday.

“The school has determined that the time is right to leverage our experi-ence base and networks in the region,” Sitkin said.

The school has been considering offer-ing executive leadership education in the region since Fuqua established its global strategy in 2008, Sitkin noted, who is also the founding faculty director of Fuqua’s Center on Leadership and Ethics and will also run the workshop in Dubai.

The new workshop will deviate slightly from the Durham program, he added. For example, the UAE workshop will ca-ter to executives from Dubai and the sur-rounding area, and it will only last three days instead of six. The curriculum will be very similar to the one in Durham, which is based on the “Six Domains” leadership model developed by Sitkin and Allan

Lind, James L. Vincent professor of lead-ership at Fuqua.

“[The workshop] is ideal for anyone with current or anticipated leadership responsibilities,” Patricia McCall, Fuqua regional director for the Middle East, wrote in an email Tuesday. “[Participants range] from high-level executives and managers... to those who are not in man-agement positions but are expected to lead and influence others in the course of their work.”

Last month, Fuqua Dean Bill Bould-ing proposed a Master’s of Management Studies in Finance also to be offered in Dubai. Faculty is expected to vote on the proposal at next week’s Academic Coun-cil meeting.

McCall said Fuqua is “deeply commit-ted” to the Middle East and North Africa because the area is important economi-cally, adding that Fuqua’s global strategy is to create bonds with these areas.

“This approach allows us to under-stand this region from a local perspective, while also providing a context for how the Middle East fits into the larger global business landscape,” McCall said.

Boulding could not be reached for comment.

Currently, Fuqua students in the Cross-Continent MBA program and the Global Executive MBA program have the oppor-tunity to study in Dubai.

Additionally, Fuqua has several formal

Fuqua creates Dubai leadership workshop

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Quantitative Studies restrictions might increase in the near future.

The Quantitative Studies Requirement Review Com-mittee of the Arts and Sciences Council presented a proposal to change and clarify QS requirements at the council’s meeting Thursday. Currently, students in Trin-ity College of Arts and Sciences need to take two QS courses of any level in order to graduate. The commit-tee recommended changing the requirements so that at least one of the two required courses originates in a quantitative studies department—computer science, mathematics or statistics.

The committee identified concerns with the large amount of flexibility in granting QS credit outside of the

three quantitative mathematical departments, said Jack Bookman, committee chair and associate professor of the practice of mathematics.

“Unlike any other of the Areas of Knowledge... there are students that have met [QS] requirements that are not taking courses in the three mathematical disciplines,” Bookman said.

This proposal was the first attempt to re-evaluate the Areas of Knowledge system since its overhaul in Curricu-lum 2000. The overhaul added the QS requirement to the Areas of Knowledge, which students in Trinity Col-lege must fulfill in order to graduate.

According to the April 27 QS Requirement Review Committee Report, QS courses are meant to teach mathematical modeling and quantitative problem-solv-ing skills. The committee gathered from its investiga-

tions that students are graduating without becoming proficient in quantitative analysis, as intended by the requirement.

“I think there is some value in terms of interdisciplin-arity in taking a course that is taught by someone whose primary research and teachings are about the methodol-ogy [of a mathematical science],” said Jerry Reiter, associ-ate professor of statistical science.

The committee has been evaluating the QS program for two years. It recommended that students take at least one course at the minimum level of MATH 25L: “Labo-ratory Calculus and Functions I,” STA 101: “Data Analysis and Statistical Inference” or COMPSCI 6L: “Introduction to Computer Science.”

“These courses cover the minimum set of topics useful for applying QS methods in genuine problems,” the report noted. “The requirement purposefully does not force stu-dents to take higher level courses that might not fit with their interests or future studies.”

Some faculty members expressed worry regarding the restriction of the requirement to specific departments.

“I’m worried that this path is essentially saying... that there is only a specific number of departments that could potentially satisfy [the requirement],” said Leslie Digby, director of undergraduate studies of evolutionary anthro-pology.

The council resolved to continue the QS requirement review discussion at its November meeting before voting on the proposal in December.

In other business:Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergrad-

uate education, presented two new academic options to the group, Duke Immerse and Duke INtense Global. Duke Immerse proposed a system in which students could elect to take a cross-disciplinary program that would replace the standard four-class semester work-load for a semester of full-time research with faculty members.

“[Duke Immerse] eliminates the artificial barriers that separate the students’ lives into little buckets of separate classes,” Nowicki said.

He specified that this program would be ideal for more advanced levels of courses, where in-depth dis-cussion about a focused topic could aid in a student’s specific studies. Duke Immerse will start in Spring 2012.

DIG began this semester, offering an academic pro-gram that focuses on creating immersion in a specific language and culture through studies at Duke and abroad. There is a DIG program in India and one in Russia.

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Banks demolish foreclosed properties in ClevelandBy Brady Dennis

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CLEVELAND — The sight of excavators tearing down vacant buildings has become common in this foreclosure-ravaged city, where the housing crisis hit early and hard. But the story behind the recent wave of demolitions is nov-el—and cities around the country are taking notice.

A handful of the nation’s largest banks have begun giv-ing away scores of properties that are abandoned or oth-erwise at risk of languishing indefinitely and further drag-ging down already depressed neighborhoods.

The banks have even been footing the bill for the de-molitions—as much as $7,500 a pop. Four years into the housing crisis, the ongoing expense of upkeep and taxes, along with costly code violations and the price of market-ing the properties, has saddled banks with a heavy burden. It often has become cheaper to knock down decaying homes no one wants.

The demolitions in some cases have paved the way for community gardens, church additions and parking lots. Even when the result is an empty lot, it can be one less pockmark. While some widespread demolitions could risk hollowing out the urban core of struggling cities such as Cleveland, advocates say that the homes being targeted are already unsalvageable and that the bulldozers are merely “burying the dead.”

The task of plowing under the homes rests with the Cuyahoga County Land Reutilization Corp., which grew out of a 2009 state law aimed at creating “land banks” with the power and money to acquire unwanted properties and put them to better use—or at least put them out of their misery.

The efforts have led other states to pursue similar laws to deal with their own foreclosure epidemics. New York passed a comparable measure this summer. Similar legis-lation is in the works in Georgia, Philadelphia and else-where.

Cleveland has found progress in the sliver of common ground between the land bank’s mission and the interest of financial firms, including some that helped fuel the housing crisis through risky loans and later botched pa-

perwork in carrying out foreclosures across the country.This collaboration was uncomfortable at first, said Gus

Frangos, the Cuyahoga land bank’s president and one of the people behind the state law.

“Two years ago, when we started... it was difficult,” he said. “Everybody was guarded.”

After countless meetings, however, land bank officials and banking representatives shed their initial wariness of one another. Frangos made a simple pitch: We’re not here to point fingers. We’ll take your worst properties, the ones not worth keeping. Pony up for the demolition, and you’ll still come out ahead. Just don’t walk away from them.

Bank of America and Wells Fargo announced plans this summer to donate more than 100 properties to the land bank. J.P. Morgan Chase also has made regular donations, and several other banks have given sporadically. Fannie Mae, the massive mortgage finance company seized by the federal government three years ago, began donating prop-erties early on and now hands over about 30 properties a month, Frangos said.

For those companies, the arrangement means good public relations. But it also makes economic sense.

“It feels great that we’re able to help nonprofits, help neighborhoods, help families,” said Tyler Smith, an as-sistant vice president at Wells Fargo, which donated 300 properties nationwide last year and is on track for about 1,000 this year. “But we certainly have to have the piece that shows it makes business sense.”

The bank, which often services mortgages on behalf of other investors, knows what it costs daily to hold each fore-closure—the upkeep, the taxes, the broker’s commission, the potential for costly code violations.

“We can make the financial case to the investor that ‘It’s in your best interest to donate this,’” Smith said.

Thanks in part to the steady stream of donations, Cuya-hoga land bank officials expect to complete roughly 700 demolitions by the end of the year.

On a recent Tuesday, the excavators roared to life. On tap: Four empty homes and one decaying apartment build-ing, some on foreclosure-riddled streets, others in leafy neighborhoods with tidy lawns.

“It’s been a long time comin’,” said Ronice Dunn, 58, as the rotting home two doors down from her on Agnes Court—and donated by Fannie Mae—finally surrendered to the heavy machinery. “I’m not sad to see it go.”

In East Cleveland, not far from the mansion where John D. Rockefeller once lived, workers were turning an abandoned apartment building on Hartshorn Road into rubble.

“It’s about... time,” said George Jester, 73, who has lived on the block for more than two decades. What had be-come a magnet for rodents, vandals and vagrants was now an empty lot, full of potential. “It’ll be for the better.”

Land banks have existed for decades, but only in re-cent years have their numbers surged. Their objective, said Emory University professor and land bank expert Frank Alexander, is to deal with “the discarded litter of a con-sumption society”—the homes nobody wants. Traditional-ly, they have been small and passive organizations, acquir-ing properties through tax foreclosures and able to handle only a few at a time.

The aim of land banks has been to take these proper-ties—which would otherwise be a drain on public services, magnets for crime and a drag on housing prices—and ren-ovate them or clear the land for potential redevelopment.

With the foreclosure crisis ravaging Cleveland neigh-borhoods, officials there envisioned a more nimble and autonomous version. The Ohio law allowed Cuyahoga’s land bank, a nonprofit corporation, to receive millions of dollars a year from interest and penalties on collected de-linquent real estate taxes and to spend that money as it sees fit, within its mandated mission.

Working with other nonprofits and benefiting from Cleveland’s assertive housing court, which has a reputa-tion for smacking huge fines on banks and servicers re-sponsible for crumbling properties, the land bank started gobbling up dozens of vacant and abandoned properties. Today, it has an inventory of about 1,000, with more than 100 flowing in every month from various sources.

“They have quickly gone from zero to being one of the

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homelessness, Bell noted. The main purpose of the event was to raise awareness

about homelessness in Durham and to prevent it in the future.

“The plan is to significantly reduce overall levels of homelessness and long-term chronic homelessness through effective engagement of Durham’s public, private and nonprofit sectors,” Bell said. “This Project Homeless Connect event is prepared to serve 500 or more people during this time of high economic uncertainty.”

More than 500 volunteers from about 40 organiza-tions such as the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Durham Department of Social Services, the Duke Divinity School and the Duke School of Nursing, came together to work individually with participants in the event to provide necessary services.

Brittany Schaefer, a first-year student at the Nursing School, said she volunteered in order to try to reduce homelessness in Durham given the volatility of the current economy.

“Homelessness, especially with the economic downturn, is kind of an epidemic and is increasing,” Schaefer said. “It is important to help people out and reduce it anyway that we can. If the person I am paired with finds shelter that would be excellent, and if I could help them get any other goal they require that would be great.”

The key to this event’s success is the personal connec-tions made between volunteers and the individuals being helped, said Lanea Foster, who coordinated the event. The union of people from different economic backgrounds is what really can make a difference in the end, Foster said.

“Over and over again, having a volunteer and having someone who is focused in need or in crisis is the best thing for the guest,” she said. “It is all about that person fighting for them.”

Despite optimism, Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-Mc-Fadden, who is also a city council member and member of the steering committee to end homelessness, said there is still work to be done to fully serve Durham’s underprivi-leged community. Citing problems such as discharging residents from mental health institutions without proper aftercare and leaving children who grow too old for the foster system on the streets, Cole-McFadden said Durham needs to be more accountable to its homeless residents.

“We don’t want people to stay in temporary housing,” she said. “We want them to move to their own house and apartment, so we need to pump resources into the city if we are going to turn it around.”

Paula Maxie has lived in temporary housing in Durham for 15 months. Overall, services in Durham have done a good job of providing her with the resources she needs, Maxie said, noting she attended Project Homeless Con-nect with the intention of finding a permanent housing option.

“They are plenty of opportunities here, and I am need of housing and employment,” she said. “Durham has been doing a good job, but I am looking to get a job in house-keeping and find a place to live.”

At least six people were set up with permanent housing by the end of the event—making the day a success, Foster said. Although Foster said she wants to see that number grow, she said she was pleased with the results and sees them as a step forward toward avoiding homelessness in Durham in the future.

“This is the only way that people are going to make a difference towards economic recovery,” Foster said. “It re-ally shows how people really want to try, and that’s a beauti-ful thing.”

resistant to at least one drug routinely used to treat those infections, according to the National Institutes of Health’s website. Roberts noted that the NIH has substantially cut its funding to some bacteria-related projects, but other sectors—such as synthetic biology—are thriving.

The Pratt School of Engineering has several programs that cater to synthetic biology research and hosts the an-nual Synthetic Biology Symposium.

Geoffrey Ginsburg, director of genomic medicine in the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, said he be-lieves Roberts’ speech had a lasting effect on the audience.

“I think that these are important events for Duke, par-ticularly for our students, trainees and young faculty,” Gins-burg said. “A moment with [the likes of] Sir Richard could have a profound impact on their career trajectories and their futures.”

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Kara began his speech by addressing the confusion surrounding what human traf-ficking actually encompasses.

“The early definitions of slavery focused on the exercise of power attached to a legal entity,” he said. “Definitions of slavery have shifted away from legal rights of ownership toward instead targeting the nature of the exploitation.”

The three basic steps of the industry, Kara said, are acquiring slaves, transporting them and then exploiting the individual. The transportation phase poses the great-est challenge to halting human trafficking.

“Movement is becoming increasingly difficult to disrupt, because national and international borders are porous,” he said. “Furthermore, while in transit, it is difficult to identify that someone is a victim of hu-man trafficking.”

Kara said he believes the growing per-vasiveness of “contemporary, slave-like, la-bor exploitation” is due to the capacity for traffickers to reap huge profits at almost no real risk.

“The absence of risk can be distilled to the shortcomings in the philosophical, legal, and law-enforcement approaches to human trafficking,” he said.

The most important factor in reducing

demand for human slaves will ultimately rest in attacking profitability, he said. Poli-cymakers and worldwide consumers need to be more protective and inclusive in leg-islating against human trafficking.

Cydney Justman, a graduate student at the Duke Global Health Institute, said she wished Kara had talked more about the bottom-up approach to combating human trafficking.

“I am interested in hearing [Kara’s] opinion on forming empowerment and educational programs for [human traffick-ing] victims and whether this sort of initia-tive would stand a chance in the face of the powers that are driving human trafficking today,” Justman said.

Suzanne Shanahan, associate director for the Kenan Institute for Ethics, said she respected Kara’s direct approach to com-bating this international crisis.

“I really appreciated the extraordinary range of [Kara’s] field experience and his ability to hone in on a specific set of driv-ers for contemporary slavery,” Shanahan said. “This led to really direct ways to in-tervene.”

Michaeline Crichlow, associate profes-sor of African and African American stud-ies, said she hopes the conference will help generate new dialogue among scholars and activists that will impact policy recommen-dations nationally and internationally.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — After 87 deadlocked minutes, in which the Duke defense successfully stopped a hungry North Carolina attack, goal-keeper Tara Campbell found herself

lying on the ground as the ball slowly rolled away from her grasp and into the net.

In the aftermath, even Campbell could not explain ex-actly how the game-winning goal had been scored.

“It’s kind of a blur,” she said. “I know a ball got crossed in and [de-fender Alex Straton] was there. I don’t know if she miscleared it or if [North Carolina’s Kealia Ohai] blocked the clear.”

With Straton and Ohai tangled on the ground fighting for the ball, it was the Tar Heel’s toe that managed to reach the ball first, weakly sending it into the net.

And though the loss may have been particularly demoralizing, it did pro-vide Duke with plenty of constructive takeaways. The Blue Devils should con-sider it one of their finest defensive performances this season. Through-out the majority of the first half, the Tar Heels dominated possession while Duke’s offensive movements could only be described as messy and unorga-nized, leading to a heightened burden on the defenders.

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After a rough start in conference play, Duke is looking to continue its climb back toward the top of the ACC.

The Blue Devils (10-6, 4-3 in the ACC) will take on Boston College (6-12, 2-5) Fri-

day at 4:30 p.m. and Maryland (9-10, 3-4) Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Cameron In-door Stadium.

H i s t o r i c a l l y , Duke has fared well against the Eagles, having beat them in their last 11 match-ups. The Blue Devils know the dangers of overcon-fidence, though, since the Terrapins beat them last sea-son for the first time in four years.

“Boston College has changed a lot in the past year,” junior Nailah Waterfield said. “They are not the same team that we have played in the past.... We want to make sure that we are as ready for them as they are for us.”

Head coach Jolene Nagel explained that the team has had a lot of late nights on the road over a very busy past two weeks, including trips to Virginia and

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“We have been working specifically on blocking and conditioning,” Nagel said. “We are going to need to be well-condi-tioned for this week’s schedule.”

Improved blocking will be especially im-portant against Maryland, considering the Terrapins hit at a .338 clip in their win over Duke last season, the highest hitting per-centage the Blue Devils allowed all last year.

“There is definitely a little fire there to get that win back from them,” Waterfield said.

Both Boston College and Maryland will be arriving to Durham having combined to lose five of their last six games. The Blue Devils, on the other hand, are looking to continue their recent success, including wins against both Virginia and Virginia Tech. Despite the struggles of its upcoming opponents, though, Duke cannot afford to lose any more ground in the conference standings, where it currently sits three games behind ACC leader Florida State and two games short of the rival Tar Heels.

“[Getting two wins] would definitely be good for our confidence going into the North Carolina match that is coming up [Oct. 19],” Waterfield said.

For a Blue Devil squad looking to re-capture its top spot in the conference, this weekend’s games provide an excel-lent opportunity to regain ground on the ACC frontrunners.

Former Duke stars arrive for Countdown

Gerald Henderson, J.J. Redick and Nolan Smith will be in Cameron Indoor Stadium Friday night for Countdown to Craziness, head men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said Wednesday.

A trio of recruits will also be in the stands during the third annual sea-son kickoff event. Rasheed Sulaimon, Duke’s lone commit in the class of 2012, along with guards Matt Jones and JaQuel Richmond of the class of 2013 and 2014, respectively, reportedly will be in attendance.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m., followed by player introductions an hour later. The intrasquad Blue-White scrimmage, comprising two 12-minute halves, will start at 8:55 p.m. before the night con-cludes with a dunk contest.

The festivities will be broadcast live in their entirety on ESPN3.com. Highlights can be seen on ESPNU as a part of the network’s Midnight Madness special.

Men’s soccer faces top ACC foe

Duke will put its seven game win streak on the line when they travel to College Park to face Maryland Friday night. The No. 22 Blue Devils (7-4-1, 3-1-1 in the ACC) come into the match tied atop the ACC standings with No. 2 North Carolina while the No. 3 Terrapins (12-1-1, 3-1-0) sit just one point behind, tied with No. 25 Virginia. Both Duke and Maryland’s lone ACC loss on the season came at the hands of the Cavaliers.

The Blue Devils fell 2-0 to Maryland in College Park last Oct., but the team has not lost a game this season since Sept. 9.

This game features the top two scor-ing offenses in the ACC. Duke is led by dynamic striker Andrew Wenger, whose 15 goals and 37 points are tops in the country. Maryland relies heavily on senior forward Casey Townshend, who ranks sec-ond in the ACC behind Wenger in goals and points, and junior midfielder John Stertzer, whose 9 goals on the season rank fourth in the conference.

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Natashi Anasi helped the Duke defense hold the ACC’s most potent attack scoreless until the 87th minute.

“I thought the game was lost in the first half. I thought we didn’t play well,” head coach Robbie Church said. “The first half we didn’t have an aggressive mentality. I thought we were quiet... we were scared.”

Church’s sentiments are reflected in the statistics. With two minutes remaining in the opening period, the Blue Devils had shot the ball a paltry four times, compared to their opponent’s seven attempts. In the first half alone, the Tar Heels enjoyed eight corner kicks to Duke’s one.

The game could have been much worse for Duke if its defenders had not stepped up. In particular, junior Libby Jandl, along with sophomores Natasha Anasi and Straton—who combined for a total of two minutes of rest—were responsible for hold-ing off the aggressive Tar Heels.

“We were sitting back a little bit... Caro-lina comes out hard, and we took the brunt of their initial wave,” Campbell said. “They defended great for us for the rest of the game. I think it’s really unlucky that they got one at the end of the game.”

Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the midfielders and forwards did not match the level of their defensive counterpart’s performance. Instead, their play was char-acterized by missed opportunities and reck-less errors.

In particular, Mollie Pathman, Chelsea Canepa and Kim DeCesare all had chanc-es to put the ball in the net that they were unable to capitalize on. And at the end of the night, these squandered chances were the reason Duke came away with its first conference loss.

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offensive threats and were forced to adapt their offensive scheme—a transition that took nearly an entire half to set in.

Duke started off slowly and was lucky not to concede an early goal to a high-powered North Carolina offense, which dominated possession through the first third of the game. Tar Heel sophomore Crystal Dunn routinely bullied her way past the Duke defenders and used her speed to pose a significant threat.

In the 18th minute, only the heroics of junior center back Libby Jandl kept Dunn from a breakaway chance. With Dunn heading toward the goal after an elevat-ed through-ball from midfielder Amber Brooks found its mark, Jandl made a last-ditch tackle in the open field to stall the attack for the Tar Heels.

Just a few moments later, Dunn again had North Carolina knocking on the door when she broke free down the left flank and cen-tered the ball for Ohai. From 25 yards out, the striker had time to pick a target and tried to curl a shot around Campbell at the far post, but blasted the chance over the crossbar.

Although the Tar Heels were able to break down the Duke defense on the flanks, center backs Natasha Anasi and Jandl did a master-ful job of keeping themselves between the ball and the goal, doing enough to disrupt Ohai and the rest of the North Carolina attackers.

“I think our backs played pretty well,” Campbell said. “We took the brunt of their initial wave [of possession] and then settled in and defended [well] the rest of the game.”

Chances were rare for the Blue Devils in the opening period, but substitutes Chelsea Canepa and Kim DeCesare helped even the run of play for Duke, and each easily could have scored. Canepa had a look at an open goal in the 30th minute after a handling error from North Carolina goalkeeper Ad-

elaide Gay, but the senior rushed the shot from a narrow angle and the ball rolled harmlessly across the face of goal.

Despite being thoroughly outplayed in the first 45 minutes, Church stuck with his starting lineup to begin the second half, and his players rewarded him with their ef-fort. Duke finally began to string together creative passing spells, but still was unable to convert in front of goal.

Employing a much wider attack than what was seen in the first half, the Blue Devils broke the Tar Heels defense down with long through passes, mostly distributed by midfielder Kait-lyn Kerr. In the 59th minute, Kerr’s incisive pass along the ground to an unmarked Laura Weinberg scrambled the defense, and allowed Mollie Pathman to find space at the top of the box. Weinberg passed to Pathman, giving her time to shoot, but the sophomore delivered a disappointing left-footed strike that flew straight to the goalkeeper.

Freshman Katie Trees, who played a career-high 21 minutes in Cobb’s absence, had Duke’s best opportunity of the game with just nine minutes left on the clock. Trees weaved through two defenders and had a clear shot on goal, but nicked the ball with her left plant foot, and could not connect cleanly with her right, blowing her shot wide of the near post.

The Blue Devils’ offensive inefficiency would be punished later, when a handball by DeCesare enabled one last chance for the Tar Heels. Courtney Jones lobbed a free kick into the penalty area, and the ball eventually fell to Ohai, just a few yards away from the goal line. Ohai and defender Alex Straton tangled and the North Carolina striker fell to the ground, but was able to flick the ball past Straton and Campbell, giving the Tar Heels a lead with just 2:45 remaining.

“They capitalized on their opportunity,” Kerr said. “In big games, big players have to step up and capitalize.”

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Katie Trees and the Blue Devils earned several scoring chances in the second half, but could not convert.

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Financial aid has im-mense importance at Duke. Currently, more than 40 per-cent of Duke undergradu-ates receive fi nancial aid in the form of grants, loans or work-study agreements, and Duke prides itself on its abil-ity to completely cover a stu-dent’s demonstrated fi nan-cial need.

Financial aid allows thou-sands of undergraduates to attend Duke without put-ting undue fi nancial stress on their families. But a July 1 change to the federal Pro-gram Integrity Regulations has generated ambiguity in Duke’s fi nancial aid poli-cies. According to the new federal guidelines, students’ continued receipt of fed-eral and state fi nancial aid

is contingent upon making “satisfactory academic prog-ress” as dictated by their uni-versity. Among other things, all University policies must “specif[y] the grade point average (GPA) that a student

must achieve at each evalu-

ation, or if a GPA is not an appropriate qualitative measure, a comparable as-sessment measured against a norm.” Furthermore, “if a student is enrolled in an edu-cational program of more than two academic years, the policy [must] specif[y] that at the end of the second aca-demic year, the student must have a GPA of at least a ‘C’ or its equivalent, or have an academic standing consistent with the institution’s require-ments for graduation.”

Failure to uphold these re-quirements could lead to the suspension or elimination of need-based aid—a serious re-percussion for students who rely on the grants to attend school.

Many of Duke’s peer insti-tutions have noted or codifi ed these changes. For instance, the Stanford Financial Aid Of-fi ce updated its website Sept. 26 to refl ect the fact that stu-dents must possess a 2.0 GPA to maintain fi nancial aid eli-gibility. The Stanford Daily re-ported Oct. 11 that the Finan-cial Aid Offi ce will follow up on this change by contacting affected students about their academic progress.

This sort of update has been conspicuously absent at Duke. The Duke Financial Aid website’s notices for the

month of July make no men-tion of the changes, despite the fact that other fi nancial aid developments, like the elimination of the Robert C. Byrd Scholarship Program, have been posted. What’s more, the 2011-2012 Finan-cial Aid Policies and Proce-dures Manual lists no mini-mum GPA requirement—2.0 or otherwise—for continu-ation of fi nancial aid under the section describing satis-factory academic progress.

We don’t claim that the University has not imple-mented this policy—federal standards allow universities to set their own standards, and the University may have set some other standard of which we are not aware. But the apparent dissonance be-tween federal and University

policies creates an ambigu-ity that should be resolved. When the new standards were released last October and put into practice in July, Duke Fi-nancial Aid missed a chance to publicly explicate the new policies. It should do so now. Although the number of stu-dents affected may be quite low, the news could cast un-certainty over their continued ability to receive federal and state fi nancial aid.

The University has a pleth-ora of distribution channels to convey these changes in an effective manner. What might seem like a pedantic ambiguity could have seri-ous consequences for some students, and fi nancial aid is important enough for the University to address this am-biguity head on.

Acts of kindness are contagious—we’ve all heard this adage, and from time to time we might even be lucky enough to wit-

ness one of these prophesied acts, whether it’s someone catching that piece of homework fl uttering away on the wind after you’ve just dropped all your earthly posses-sions, or if it’s a simple smile from a stranger on a bad day where nothing seems to be going right. These acts of kindness often spur other acts of kindness, and start a cycle of goodness in a world that often seems full of indifference. But I wish to tell a story of true generosity and hospitality, the kind that many of us no longer believe in.

It was our fi rst free day of the Duke in Greece program. We were on the island of Naxos, in the middle of the islands of Cyclades. The main town of Grotta was tiny, composed of alabaster buildings and a slew of churches, and enveloped in a distinct “Mama Mia” feel. My friend Morgan and I bought bus tickets, and we ventured into the heart of the island to the village of Aperan-thos. After an hour of winding through the mountains on a one-lane road, the coach bus arrived in the marble village.

As we attempted to walk to the top of the town along what we assumed was the main av-enue, we became utterly lost in the labyrinth of narrow, white marble paths. We followed the last chords of Tamikos music right into the snarls of two huge border collie-german shepherd mixes. Slightly terrifi ed, Morgan and I cowered as an imposing Greek man stepped out of his court-yard, dressed in all camo from head to toe. He yelled authoritatively at the dogs, who calmed down immediately, and gave us a toothy smile. Standing at about 6 feet 4 inches with broad shoulders and a grizzly salt-and-pepper beard, he insisted that we come inside. Going against everything my dad ever told me, I entered the one-room house with Morgan to join the friend-ly Greek giant, Petros, for a cup of coffee, with the two hunting dogs in pursuit.

Surrounded by pictures of generations of fam-ily members and a portrait of a past patriarch with a military uniform tucked in the glass, I ab-sorbed every detail in awe—I felt as though at least fi ve generations of history had hit me on the head, and I could tell by the look on Morgan’s

face that she felt the same way. As we sipped on coffee he recounted his family history in a slew of what was essentially sign language. His fam-

ily had lived in the marble village for hundreds (if not thousands) of years, and his mother was the vil-lage weaver. His love for her was obvious as he proudly showed us two examples of her handiwork. We could scarcely believe it when our generous host wrapped the in-tricate blankets in plastic bags and pushed them towards us. When I asked him where his mother was now he looked down and told me

she was long dead, but that it would be an honor if we would take her fabric as a gift. We gratefully accepted his present as he led us to the local tav-erna, which overlooked the beautiful mountain landscape. Morgan and I enjoyed the local cheese and a Greek salad as Petros sipped on the local liquor, or “fi re water.” He generously showed us the best of Aperanthos, and his story is one I will never forget.

Petros’ generosity and hospitality were some things I thought had perished long before the dawn of Western imperialism. To take in and host complete strangers were things I had read about Greek culture in the Odyssey, but defi -nitely not something I had expected during my summer trip to Greece to study philosophy. Nevertheless, it prompted me to think—if acts of kindness really are contagious, what could happen if we all employed this kind of generos-ity in our lives? As we are buried under moun-tains of work, we should take Petros’ actions as an example of how acts random kindness can truly improve our lives. Perhaps if we show this kind of generosity to the people that surround us everyday, we could start build a community of kindness, and relieve some of the burdens we all carry. If we could recover from our some-what jaded outlook on the morality of human-kind, and believe that our generosity would not be taken advantage of, but rather reciprocated, maybe we could more effectively help those in need. But who knows—perhaps my renewed faith in man is naive and only a result of the excessive amounts of Plato I’ve read over the course of the past couple of months.

Leilani Doktor is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

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I was surprised to fi nd out that 26 states in the Union allow fi rst cousins to marry, whereas only six recognize

same-sex marriages. We live in a society that is founded on the basis of individual freedom and the rights to pursue one’s happiness. If this country is indeed the land of the free, one should easily be allowed to express his or her love to whoever he or she desires. Gay mar-riage is accepted in 10 other countries, including Argentina, Canada, South Africa and Sweden.

People argue that gay marriage is a sin against God. I am defi nitely aware of the fact that the Bible does not condone ho-mosexuality. In fact, it is abominable for a man to sleep with a man according to the law in the Bible. What does strike me is the fact that those who base their argument on this fact are the same people that tend to judge others. The last time I picked up the Bible—which was yesterday, by the way—I recall reading that we are not supposed to judge one another and are supposed to love our neighbors as we love ourselves.

Most people argue that the institution of marriage is going to be corrupted if gays are allowed to marry. Wait a second! Isn’t the institution of marriage already corrupted? The Americans for Divorce Reform estimates 40 or 50 percent of marriages to end in divorce if the current trends remain like this. The number of divorces that straight couples get is unbe-lievable. I am a fi rm believer in the ex-tension of marriage to everyone because happiness should be inclusive to all. We shouldn’t dictate what others ought to do and not to do. There’s no characteristic or quality in this world that is uniform all across the board. When we look at race, socioeconomic status, gender and other traits, we see differences that make this world diverse. Diversity is what makes the world in which we live interesting and unique. I simply do not understand why we should limit ourselves to just one stan-dard defi nition of marriage.

If two people on this earth love one another, care for and better each other’s lives, the opinions of others should not

matter. They should be given the full priv-ileges and rights that they fi ght for. They should be able to live in a society that is

hate-free and in a society where they can freely ex-press themselves without having to be circumspect about secondary opinions.

Imagine if Duke had a requirement on how the campus had to be: that one needed not only to be white, but to also come from an up-per-class family. I can assure you that a lot of students—including myself—would not fi nd themselves at this

school. Instead of this alternate Duke, we reside in a place that embraces diversity. Unfortunately, this does not translate to the outer world.

Tyler Clementi, a former Rutgers stu-dent who committed suicide after being teased by classmates because of his homo-sexuality, shouldn’t have killed himself because of being who he naturally is. How people can be so hateful and judgmental because others choose to embrace who they are doesn’t really make sense.

Whoever I choose to sleep with is none of your business, and vice versa. You can’t just stereotype a person based on their sexuality. You’ve never been in the individual’s shoes. First impressions are not always the same. The differences we perceive that eventually create degrees of separation tend to be the indicators of the similarities that we as human beings have with one another!

We should really start uplifting those around us. We, as individual entities, need to begin to take the initiative in making sure that those who are afraid to be who they are become less frightened and start living a truthful life. Society should not obstruct happiness because somebody happens to be queer. Since when did be-ing yourself become a social problem?

It’s OK for you as an individual to be entitled to your opinion. One’s inability not to welcome change, however, should just not prevent others from seeking and pursuing their own happiness.

Tegan Joseph Mosugu is a Trinity sopho-more. His column runs every other Friday.

When I was a small and impres-sionable child, my parents (as statistics willed) divorced, leav-

ing me to travel between their homes. My father lived in the city, away from my friends, so when he had work to do I was left ne-glected with a Blockbuster card. The aisles at Block-buster became my new home and the employees my new friends. Just kid-ding, but I did see a whole lot of movies and think I know a few good ones that you may not have seen.

Movie suggestion one: Coming from Baltimore, I’m a big fan of “The Wire.” If you aren’t a fan of “The Wire,” then I just don’t get you. You also won’t be a fan of “City of God,” the former’s much shorter Brazilian cousin. “City of God” is a 2002 fi lm that illustrates the change and growth of organized crime in the Ci-dade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro. The movie builds to, and ends with, a war between two gang leaders that tears the slum apart. Like “The Wire,” however, the real story is about the vicious cycle of pov-erty and crime in the respective cities.

Movie suggestion two: Imagine your-self bringing someone home from that epic party last weekend. You’re getting down to business when, oh no! Her fi -ancé walks in with a loaded gun. In one of those kill-or-be-killed situations, you kill the man after he shoots you. You now have a bullet in your chest and three of the Wild West’s most highly trained hit-men on your tail. Surprise, that guy you killed was pretty important. Fortunately, you have an outcast Native American named “Nobody” to do peyote with. All this happens while Neil Young impro-vises the soundtrack. You are the “Dead Man,” who is coincidently played by Johnny Depp in a black and white exis-tential western released in 1995.

Movie suggestion three: “Drag Me to Hell” is a horror movie that makes fun of horror movies. It’s all very meta. In most horror movies, when the machete’s owner is about to go all “murderball” on some screaming teen, that same scream-ing teen wakes up in a cold sweat. The

ridiculous fi ght between the screaming girl and demon/killer/clown is never seen. Just as you don’t lie at the foot of

the cliff you fell of off in your dream, you just wake up. “Drag,” however, keeps the camera rolling for scenes that go from scary to ridiculous and funny. I could talk about the gypsy curse and the button but the plot really isn’t central to the movie. No, serious-ly. The director Sam Raimi buys into the “entertain,

don’t enlighten” school of movie mak-ing. His movie knows what it is, makes fun of what it is and entertains you every step of the way.

Movie suggestion four: If one of your best friends got into gambling debt with a crime boss, you’d have an obligation to do whatever it takes to help him, right? It’s a get-out-of-morality-free card. Guy Ritchie directed a movie in which said morality cards are cashed in by four blokes from London. They don’t really use them for anything besides looking like idiots when they store the money and marijuana they steal from their neighbors in their own fl at. If you want to see a well-shot, British crime thriller/comedy with an entertain-ing cast, then see “Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” If you want to see the aforementioned movie with a sweating, shirtless Brad Pitt, see “Snatch” as well.

Honorable Mention: Now although more of you have seen “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” than you have the previous fi lms, I included it because it’s the best date movie. You probably won’t smooch during it, though, so I don’t know if “best” is the word.

Those of you who liked “Black Swan” should know that Darren Aronofsky’s 2008 fi lm, “The Wrestler,” is just as good even though it grossed a fraction of his latest hit.

And to end this glorifi ed list of an arti-cle, I give one fi nal recommendation. See “Drive” while it is still in theaters. Then you can always say, “Oh yea that one, yea I saw that one in theaters.”

Travis Smith is a Trinity junior. His col-umn runs every other Friday.

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and government relations, wrote in an email Thurs-day. “She will be able to see firsthand the extent of the investment that the city is making in this project. And since Kunshan looks to the Research Triangle as a model for its own development, we expect the visit will stimulate further ideas for partnership with North Carolina.”

The trip—organized by the National Governor’s Association and the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries—will stop in. The trip is meant to help remedy the state’s 10.4 percent unemployment rate, the eighth largest in the nation. Perdue will be accompanied by the state Secretary of Commerce Keith Crisco and five other state and ter-ritorial governors representing Washington, Georgia, Hawaii, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

“The main purposes of this trip are economic devel-opment and jobs,” Crowley said. “We have 20 or more

meetings scheduled with high-powered industries in Asia that correspond with North Carolina industries. There are some companies that are actively seeking ex-pansion in the U.S., particularly in North Carolina.”

The Department of Commerce has budgeted $50,000 for the trip, Crowley said, noting that there will be stops Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Suzhou and Tokyo.

North Carolina’s economic partnerships with China and Japan are the second and fourth most profitable, respectively, Crowley said. China alone spends $2.2 bil-lion per year on North Carolina exports. He noted that these trade relationships are clearly successful but have the potential to grow and be cultivated further.

“Doing business is about personal relationships, es-pecially in Asia,” he added.

He hopes Perdue will be able to start building many long-term relationships with Asian industrial moguls and encourage them to trade with North Carolina’s companies. These measures would elevate the state’s exports and expand job opportunities.

There remains some doubt, however, whether Per-due’s mission will trigger these positive results. Mi-chelle Connolly, associate professor of the practice of economics, said she does not believe Perdue’s mission will significantly improve job growth.

“It is a waste of time and money,” Connolly said.There are also concerns whether an eight-day over-

seas trip can impact trade relations enough to spark new or prolong existing trade partnerships, Connolly said.

“Trade deals are determined nationally” she added. “I don’t see how this will change the conditions that lead to job creation. The environment in North Caro-lina is what she should be focusing on if her goal is to create jobs in North Carolina. If it is optimal for [Asian companies] to invest in North Carolina, they will. If it is not optimal, they won’t.”

Crowley said, however, that efforts are being made on the North Carolina home front to promote Asian investment.

North Carolina recently received a federal grant that will allow the Department of Commerce to edu-cate small and midsize businesses about Asian com-merce and help them begin to export their goods if they are not already, he added.

“We also work with Chinese and Japanese companies with subsidiaries in North Carolina in order to follow up with them, talk about their growth needs, talk about their expansion needs and talk about how the Department of Commerce can partner up with them,” Crowley noted.

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partnerships in the UAE—with groups such as the Dubai International Finance Centre, Young Arab Leaders and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Programme for Leadership De-velopment. The new leadership workshop is Fuqua’s first international executive education program, and it might lead to an even greater Fuqua presence in the region, said Valerie Hausman, assistant dean of global business devel-opment and executive education.

“We are treating this as a pilot,” Hausman said. “If it’s successful, we will evaluate wether we will expand our pro-grams in Dubai.”

The program framework, based on Sitkin and Lind’s leadership model, is a broad approach to leadership, draw-ing on many different fields to improve leaders’ skills and establish enduring behaviors in a supportive environment, Sitkin said.

“[The program] crosses industries and functions to pro-vide a framework for talking about and teaching leader-ship.” Sitkin said. “Our workshop will draw examples that are tailored to applying the ideas to participants’ specific environment.”

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most productive land banks in the country,” said Alexande.The challenge remains to put those parcels to

good use as quickly as possible. Some have been sold for pennies to churches or hospitals, such as the re-nowned Cleveland Clinic, that want to expand. Oth-ers are being redeveloped into rental properties or rehabbed for future sales or turned into community gardens. Even when there’s no immediate productive use, the razed lots are one less eyesore on the land-scape. Frangos said eliminating run-down and aban-doned buildings helps improve the value of neighbor-ing properties.

The donations keep coming, and not just in Cleveland.At the end of August, the nation’s banks, along

with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, had an inventory of more than 816,000 foreclosed properties on their books waiting for a buyer, according to RealtyTrac. An additional 800,000 are working their way through the foreclosure process.

At Wells Fargo, Smith said, about a dozen asset manag-ers “scrub these portfolios weekly” in cities such as Chicago and Milwaukee, looking for possible donations.

Rebecca Mairone, national mortgage outreach execu-tive for Bank of America, said the company is expanding its donation programs to nearly a dozen cities, including Detroit and Chicago.

“It does balance the bank’s best interest with the com-munity’s best interest,” she said.

In previous decades, Detroit, perhaps more than any other American city, saw such a vast swath of buildings torn down as the result of blight that some activists now urge that this land be returned to agriculture.

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