Blue Devils’ cold shooting leads to loss

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As Connecticut center Stephanie Dolson returned to the bench with her third foul, Duke had cut the Hus-kies’ 14-point lead to just five with over 17 minutes to go in the game. The Connecticut defense, led by reserve Kiah Stokes, stepped up though, forcing the Blue Devils into 19 consecutive missed shots as the Huskies coasted

to victory.With a 61-45 win, No. 3 Con-

necticut (20-2) handed No. 5 Duke (17-3) its first loss at Cameron In-

door Stadium since Jan. 18, 2010, when the Huskies won by a 81-48 margin.

The Blue Devils opened the game on a strong note. Duke center Elizabeth Williams turned Connecticut forward Kelly Faris away with an emphatic block on the opening possession, and less than four minutes into the contest, Dolson was already on the bench after commit-ting two early fouls.

Without Dolson in the game, the Blue Devils re-mained close through the eight minute mark.

Duke had a chance to pull within two when guard Tricia Liston left her defender, guard Caroline Doty, at the perimeter with a swift offensive move. Doty, how-ever, snuck back into the play to block Liston from be-hind, sparking the Huskies’ fast break and capping off the play by knocking down a 3-pointer in transition. The hustle play sparked a 12-2 run for Connecticut.

“We really pride ourselves in our defense,” Doty said. “I got beat [but] you never want to give up. You can

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Haley Peters struggled against Connecticut with just nine points on 10 shots from the field as Duke fell 61-45.

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Biomedical engineering prof to receive Clemson Award

by Connie CaiTHE CHRONICLE

Consistently ranked as one of the top biomedical en-gineering programs in the nation, Duke’s biomedical en-

gineering department—and its faculty—has added another award to a growing list of accolades.

This year, Kam Leong, James B. Duke professor of biomedical engineering, will receive the Clemson Award for Applied Research, given by the Society of Bio-materials. This is the third consecutive year in which a faculty member from the Pratt School of Engineering has won the

award. In 2011, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Theo Pilkington pro-fessor of biomedical engineering and director of graduate studies, won the Clemson Award for Contributions to the Literature, and in 2010, William Reichert, professor and associate dean for diversity and Ph.D. education, won the Clemson Award for Basic Research in Biomaterials.

“This is a three-peat for Pratt, which I think is quite remark-able,” Dean of Pratt Tom Katsouleas said. “This is a reflection that the BME department in Pratt is one of the finest in the nation, and in particular, this award given in the area of biomaterials re-ally indicates that we have unmatched strength in biomaterials—one of, if not the best, biomaterials programs in the country.”

Leong is being recognized for his work on developing novel materials for controlled drug delivery, said Craig Henriquez, chair of the BME department and co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering. One of Leong’s in-ventions is Gliadel: a biodegradable wafer for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs for brain cancer therapy that is used in the treatment of thousands of patients worldwide.

“This is the culmination of a lot of effort from my lab members, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and collaborators,” Leong said. “It is a team effort—I was just lucky to have a number of good students to work with to be able do this research.”

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Semans honored at Duke ChapelSemans honored at Duke Chapel

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Almost two thousand attendees poured into the Duke Chapel Monday to bid fare-well to beloved philanthropist Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans.

The funeral service for the great-grand-daughter of Washington Duke, the Universi-ty’s namesake, included remarks from some of the University’s and local communities’ most prominent figures including President

Richard Brodhead, Durham Mayor Bill Bell and former North Carolina governor James Hunt, who worked with Semans throughout his political career. The turnout, which left some in standing-room only space, was a testament to the countless connections Se-mans forged in her lifetime and her talent for befriending nearly anyone she met.

“This would thrill Mary, and to tell the

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The two political parties are test-mar-keting their strategies for the presidential campaign and congressional races in a special election in Oregon.

Republican candidate Rob Cornilles, in ads, is accusing Democrat Suzanne Bonamici of seeking to cut Medicare ben-efits for seniors because she supports President Barack Obama’s 2010 health law. The Democratic campaign arm has linked Cornilles with a plan by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to create Medicare vouchers that passed the House last April.

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Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s alma mater is not the only thing he has in common with some Duke students.

While he may be lagging in the nation-al polls for the Republi-can nomina-tion, Paul, Duke Medical School ’61, has secured a noticeable fol-lowing among

young people who are drawn to his libertarian ideology. He surged ahead in votes among young people in the Iowa cau-cus and New Hampshire pri-mary, as nearly half of voters under age 30 chose Paul. Addi-tionally, the most recent week-ly Gallup poll of Republican voters ages 18 to 34 reported that 31 percent—the most of all GOP candidates—support Paul. While not represented by an official campus political group, several Duke students have voiced their support of Paul.

“I haven’t quite figured it out,” Paul said in an interview with The Chronicle. “I think

young people are more prin-cipled. They like the Constitu-tion. They look at my voting record, and even if I vote by myself, they like me.”

Paul’s philosophy, which supports individual liberties, small government and limited military activity overseas, is appealing to college students who may not identify with an established political group, said freshman Ryan Gaylord, who is an active political sup-porter and donor to Paul’s campaign.

“There is significant sup-port for Dr. Paul here at Duke,” Gaylord said. “The problem, I think, is that… libertarians here don’t have as strong of a distinct campus-wide pres-ence as do the [Duke] College Republicans or Duke Demo-crats.”

Similarly, sophomore Mi-chael Elgart noted that Paul seems to recognize the issues that concern young people.

“Paul [taps] into young people’s frustration with the current political system, which will ultimately leave them with problems of debt and a decay-ing entitlement system,” Elgart said. “His libertarian-leaning ideas provide an excellent al-

ternative to many conservative positions, as it dissociates the popular economic ideas of free markets and property rights from religiously influenced, socially conservative positions, such as opposition to gay mar-riage—which many young Re-publicans find to be outdated artifacts of a previous genera-tion of conservatives.”

Paul noted that his policy stance against war tends to res-onate with college students.

“[Young people] are much more interested in changing our foreign policy, and they think these wars we are fight-ing are contributing to our bankruptcy,” Paul said.

According to a 2011 Chron-icle survey, 26 percent of Duke students identify as Republi-cans, compared to 56 percent who consider themselves to be Democrats. Elgart said, howev-er, that he believes Paul is the most popular Republican on campus.

“My generation does not want... to settle for less—to set-tle for liars,” said junior Lewis Purcell, another Paul support-er. “They want statesmen with a clear vision for our country,

European Union adopts treaty on debt

by Edward CodyTHE WASHINGTON POST

BRUSSELS — European lead-ers adopted a groundbreaking treaty Monday that binds them to imposing caps on deficits and government debts to combat the painful financial crisis that has sabotaged prosperity across the continent and left it slipping to-ward recession.

The treaty, endorsed by 25 of the 27 European Union govern-ments, was intended as a gesture to show skeptical financial mar-kets that European governments are at last committed to gaining control over lax borrowing habits that over the past four decades have helped create dangerously high debts.

But the effort is just the latest in a series of efforts over many months to contain the crisis, and it was unclear whether Mon-day’s action would be enough. Europe’s mounting debts have already led to bankruptcy in Greece and raised the specter of default in several other coun-tries, leading to fears of cascad-ing financial turmoil that could disrupt once-booming econo-mies not only across Europe but also in the United States and as far away as Asia.

European leaders are deter-mined to prevent that from hap-

pening, said Herman Van Rom-puy, the E.U. president. “The treaty is all about more respon-sibility and more surveillance,” he said.

The effort was undermined, however, by Britain’s reluctance to go along, citing its determina-tion not to relinquish national sovereignty to the treaty’s pro-visions for automatic sanctions against governments that exceed the new debt limits. In addition, the Czech Republic also declined to sign up, with the government saying it was not sure it could get such a treaty approved in its par-liament and courts.

Moreover, a chorus of Europe-an officials and economists have questioned the wisdom of the treaty in the first place. The pact was unnecessary, they contend, because European rules—merrily ignored over the years—already forbid excessive government defi-cits and because the emphasis should be on economic growth rather than fiscal discipline.

Martin Schulz, president of the European Parliament, lec-tured the gathered presidents and prime ministers on the need to stimulate growth and provide more jobs for the unemployed.

“The aim of the fiscal pact is to

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in May, some students are already trying to drum up support on campus, such as by distributing flyers, Purcell noted. Still, Elgart, Purcell and Gaylord all said they do not believe that Paul will win the Repub-lican nomination, as he consistently falls behind the other candidates in national polls.

While Paul may have drawn the attention of young-er voters, junior William Reach, former chair of Duke College Republicans, noted that the majority of Re-publicans do not relate with Paul.

“In the U.S., where the president typically becomes the face of his party, the Republican establishment has had trouble reconciling some of Paul’s asymmet-ric positions with the party platform,” Reach wrote in an email Monday.

Yeshwanth Kandimalla contributed reporting.

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win back the confidence of the markets, and we certainly need that,” Shulz, a leader of Germany’s opposition Social Democratic Party, said in a brief speech. “At the same time, however, we must take care not to lose the confidence of ordinary people.”

With that in mind, the European leaders also an-nounced measures designed to foster employment and provide financing for small and medium-size businesses.

“Governments are undertaking strong efforts to correct budgetary imbalances on a sustainable basis, but further efforts are needed to promote growth and employment,” they declared. “There are no quick fixes. Our action must be determined, persistent and broad-based. We must do more to get Europe out of the crisis.”

Van Rompuy also recognized that fiscal discipline is not enough to restore prosperity. “We recognize that financial stability is not enough in itself to get out of the crisis,” he said at a news conference. “We must do more, particularly

in the areas of growth and employment.”The E.U.’s economic growth declaration was replete

with plans to help train young people and ease their entry into the job market, along with pledges to find new ways to get money to small-business owners in a credit-scare eco-nomic environment. In fact, however, most such economic efforts are decided by national governments, which for months have been wrestling to find ways to solve the same problems discussed in Brussels.

Monday’s deficit-capping treaty—the outlines of which were agreed upon late last year—was viewed as a testa-ment to Germany’s growing influence in European affairs. German clout has been increasing since the continent was struck in 2008 by the economic crisis that began on Wall Street, and then since last summer by the realization that European government debt had spun out of control. In large measure, this has happened because Germany’s export-oriented economy is booming and its government debt is under control, but also because the legacy of World War II is fading.

The conservative German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has insisted that fellow European governments must disci-pline themselves to limit their budget deficits and the bor-rowing that finances them. This has been a controversial point in German politics because, with its cash on hand, Germany often has been the source of funds used to bail out Greece and other fiscally wayward governments in Southern Europe.

Merkel has been adamant, for example, that until it en-acts more budget cutbacks Greece cannot receive the next installment of a rescue package managed by the E.U., the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank. Greek officials have been reluctant to go any fur-ther in austerity measures, saying the Greek people already have been squeezed to the limit and such services as health care are starting to falter.

Against that background, a suggestion surfaced in Germany last week that the E.U. should send a com-missioner to Athens to supervise Greek budgets to make sure the savings imposed by the E.U. are actually carried out. That was quickly dropped, however, after Greek officials complained that their national dignity was at stake, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy pre-dicted an early accord.

Talks on the rescue package have been under way simul-taneously with negotiations on a Greek debt swap under which lending banks and financial institutions would be asked to take at least a 50 percent loss. Those discussions were said last week to be near completion but appeared to snag again over the weekend. Officials said Monday that they still hope to wrap up the deal by March 14, when Greece has a large debt repayment coming due.

The E.U treaty’s provisions on deficit and debt limits, according to European economists, have been drawn up as a formula reflecting the relationship between debt and deficit—the smaller the debt, the larger the deficit allowed.

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Leong’s recognition is the latest develop-ment for a department that is emerging as a leader in BME research, said George Trus-key, senior associate dean for research and R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson professor of biomedical engineering.

“All of the faculty members [who won the award] are in biomedical engineering, and it’s highly unusual for faculty of one school to win this on a regular basis, year after year,” Truskey said. “It’s quite an achievement and a testament to the quality of their work.”

In order to receive the award, a member of the Society of Biomaterials must nominate an individual through a letter of recommen-dation. Sun Wong Kim, Ph.D., University of Utah, nominated Leong. An additional three letters of recommendation and the curricu-lum vitae of the candidate are also submitted, according to the society’s website.

“Research in biomaterials has grown, and now we’re at the point where we are receiv-ing a high level of recognition,” Reichert said. “[This] is a demonstration of the growth and the depth that the department has achieved.”

Leong’s research has been published more than 240 times, according a Society of Biomaterials press release from December.

“He’s been a pioneer in this area,” Re-ichert said. “He’s had a long track record in degradable biomaterials for broad appli-cations involved in tissue engineering and drug delivery.”

According to the release, recipients are selected by the Society for Biomaterials Awards, Ceremonies and Nominations Com-mittee and then confirmed by the president of Clemson University. Leong will also re-ceive $1,000 award from Clemson University and additional travel stipends for attending the Society for Biomaterials Fall Symposium in New Orleans this October.

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truth, she’d probably blush a little bit,” said Thomas Kenan, trustee of the Char-lotte-based Duke Endowment and board member for the University of North Caro-lina School of the Arts. Kenan had known Semans for about 40 years.

Semans, who died Wednesday at the age of 91 at Duke Hospital, was a promi-nent force within the University and pub-lic service, serving on the Board of Trust-ees from 1961 to 1981 and on the Durham City Council beginning in 1951. Semans, the first woman elected to the city council, also served as Durham’s first female mayor pro tempore from 1953 to 1955. She also served as chair of the Duke Endowment, founded by her great-uncle James Buch-anan Duke, from 1982 to 2001.

The service was particularly fitting for Semans, said Rev. Dennis Campbell, former dean of the Divinity School and fellow trustee of the Duke Endowment. The service was a true reflection of her immense passion for the arts—Semans helped found the UNC School of the Arts and the Nasher Museum of Art—as it fea-tured a number of musical performances, including one by the a cappella group Durham Carolers and an arrangement of “The Impossible Dream” by Greg Walter of the School of the Arts.

Campbell, Trinity ’67, had known Se-mans since his days as an undergraduate.

“There was nobody who loved Duke University more or was more committed to its growth and its well being and its improvement,” Campbell said in an inter-view Sunday. “What was always remarkable about Mrs. Semans was that she was always pushing all of us to improve and to think in new ways.”

In his greeting, Dean of the Cha-

pel Sam Wells described Semans as the “twinkle” of the eye of Duke, Durham and North Carolina.

“She pierced our souls with love,” he said.

Brodhead noted Semans’ ability to make even outsiders feel welcome, recall-ing the first time he met Semans as a new-ly appointed president in 2003. Semans, with her unique skill developing personal relationships, was able to make anyone feel at home. He noted Semans’ unfail-ing thoughtfulness that manifested in the customary thank you notes she was known for sending.

“If you knew Mary, then you mattered,” he said.

Hunt’s remarks spoke to Semans’ pub-lic spirit, noting that her role on the board of the governor’s Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee meant that North Caro-lina governors were always considering Se-mans’ thoughts, which often encouraged setting big goals for the state.

“When you needed someone to validate a progressive idea, there was no better way than to call on Mary Semans,” Hunt said.

Hunt noted how Semans ignited “a re-

solve to do more” in the state’s leaders and he said that those in the audience should adopt a similar can-do spirit in order to make North Carolina all that it can be.

“That’s exactly what Mary would want,” he said.

Long-time friend of Semans, Joel Fleish-man, also remarked on Semans’ strength and sincere perseverance, though this time in the context of her philanthropy and role as a devoted mother and grand-mother. Invariably kind and compassion-ate, Semans lived to serve others.

“Magnanimity, thy name is Mary Se-mans,” said Fleishman, former legal assis-tant to former University President Terry Sanford and professor of law and public policy sciences.

Kenan said he never learned as much from anyone—besides his own father—as he did from Semans. He noted Semans’ work at the School of the Arts, adding that she knew each student individually and followed them closely throughout their careers, sending flowers or cards when the occasion called.

“The opportunity to help was never in short supply with Mary,” he said.

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Connecticut defense stymies Blue Devilsby Jackie Klauberg

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Winning a basketball game while shooting less than 25 percent from the floor would be a difficult feat in any game. Doing so against a behemoth in the world of college basketball was too much to ask Monday night for Duke.

The difference between the Blue Devils and Connect-icut was obvious from one look at the stat sheet—Duke making just 17-of-69 shots from the floor while the Hus-kies shot 45.1 percent. The Blue Devil offense struggled to

push the ball up the court against Con-necticut’s relentless full-court press. This often led to primarily individual efforts and forced jumpers to beat the shot clock.

“Our shots were often off-balance and rushed,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “And our shot selection was completely random.”

The lone bright spot for the Blue Devils was sopho-more guard Chelsea Gray, who totaled a team-high 13 points—albeit on just 5-of-17 shooting—plus six assists and seven rebounds. Haley Peters and Richa Jackson both helped on the glass, combining for 18 rebounds, but the pair combined to make just 8-of-28 attempts from the floor.

In contrast, the Huskies’ top three scorers, Caroline Doty, Bria Hartley and Stefanie Dolson, combined to score

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Sophomore guard Chelsea Gray scored a team-high 13 points on 5-for-17 shooting, but missed several layups in the lane.

always make something happen.... If you can get defensive stops, offense will come, and transition points are pretty much what wins games.”

Throughout the period, the Blue Devils struggled to attain any offensive rhythm compared to their op-ponents. At the break, the Huskies owned a 10-3 ad-vantage in assists.

“You’ve got to penetrate, kick, [and] get the ball to the other side of the floor,” Blue Devil head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “I’m not sure I can find a ball reversal in the entire film.”

As the half drew to a close, however, Duke scored three consecutive baskets to cut the deficit to eight.

The Blue Devils carried their momentum into the second half, drawing a third foul on Dolson within three minutes and bringing the Connecticut lead down to five. Despite its promising run, Duke proceeded to play the next 11 minutes without registering a single field goal.

“It’s just focus,” forward Haley Peters said. “If you want to beat a team like that, you just have to lock into every-thing that you do for 40 minutes and you just can’t stop. You can’t get tired.”

The series of 19 consecutive missed field goals contributed to an altogether abysmal shooting per-

formance for the Blue Devils, who made just 17-of-69 field-goal attempts.

The Connecticut defense proved suffocating through-out the night, forcing poor shot selection from nearly every Duke player. Only Richa Jackson managed to shoot over 30 percent from the floor, and Williams and Chelsea Gray missed more than 10 shots apiece.

The Huskies’ perimeter defenders proved especially stifling, as they were able to deny penetration throughout the night. The majority of Gray’s misses came on well-con-tested layup attempts from the edges of the paint.

“We have four interchangeable players,” Connecti-cut head coach Geno Auriemna said. “We switch a lot of screens. It’s difficult for teams to get comfortable against us because you might have a different kid guarding you every time down the court.”

On top of the lockdown defense from Connecticut’s guards and forwards, the Huskies benefited greatly from freshman center Kiah Stokes’ contributions off the bench. Stepping into the void left by Dolson due to foul trouble, Stokes grabbed 12 rebounds and registered five blocks, outworking Williams in the paint for most of the second half.

“I’m really bothered by the hustle plays,” McCallie said. “It’s important for our team to recognize that these are the intangibles. These are the things that allow a team to have a history like Connecticut…. These are the things that sep-arate banners and not.”

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agitated McCallie after the game, as evi-denced by her frank demeanor.

“I was ex-tremely dis-turbed by the eight assists,” McCallie said. “We were too one-on-one ori-ented today.”

Although Dolson, the Huskies’ sopho-more center, was sent to the bench early in the second half with three fouls, Duke continued to have trouble penetrating the pesky Connecticut defense and fin-

ishing its shots at the rim. The team was forced instead to take outside looks due to the Huskies’ relentless on-ball pres-sure, and for the first time all season, did not earn a trip to the charity stripe in the first half.

“This was a great defensive game for us tonight,” Connecticut head coach Geno Au-riema said. “Our goal was to make them a jump-shooting team, and we did that.”

The loss marks the fifth straight time that the Huskies have held Duke to under 50 points in a game.

“This was a great lesson for our team on what not to do offensively,” McCallie said.

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to do offensively.” — head coach Joanne P. McCallie

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The Young Trustee Nomi-nating Committee, tasked with handpicking three fi nal-ists for the sought-after posi-tion of Young Trustee on the Board of Trustees, blundered twice last week.

According to a Duke Stu-dent Government Judiciary ruling this past Thursday, the YTNC violated the Young Trustee selection bylaw that explicitly calls for the con-vening of a public informa-tion session for Young Trust-ee applicants. Such a session would no doubt have allowed applicants to better gauge and understand the views of their competitors, thereby helping them to sharpen their platforms. But more im-portantly, it would have lent an extra layer of transparency

to a process that is perenni-ally criticized as opaque. The unnecessary, and putatively repeated, violation was avoid-able and refl ects poorly on the YTNC’s ability to adhere

to its own codi-fi ed standards.

Regretfully, the lack of an information ses-sion was the lesser of the two committed offenses. One of the primary conditions to be met as specifi ed by the bylaw was the inclusion of at least eight candidates in the ap-plication pool. This require-ment went unmet for the sec-ond time in three years.

The YTNC may have dodged a bullet in this nomi-nation cycle—fortuitously, the shrunken applicant fi eld still offered three suitably qualifi ed applicants. But

what if we are not so lucky in the future? Indeed, if next year’s applicant fi eld has four candidates, with two of them ill suited for the position, the YTNC has no contingency plan with which to select its fi nalists. We view both the by-law’s infraction and the lack of forethought to account for small applicant pools as further indication of the YT-NC’s irresponsibility.

The YTNC bylaw should have been updated two years ago to provide a backup plan. If fewer than eight qualifi ed applicants apply to the posi-tion, the YTNC should have the option to forge ahead or solicit more applications. The YTNC bylaw will always be provisional; this change should be made now.

We wish now to consider

an even more serious issue: Why did so few students ap-ply for Young Trustee in the fi rst place? The position cer-tainly does not lack in either prestige or power, values that Duke students certainly covet. Perhaps a portion of the de-cline in applicants can be attributed to the shortened timetable of the application process—students were giv-en only a week to produce multiple essays and personal statements. We see no issue in granting prospective appli-cants more time to put their veritable best feet forward, and we advise the commit-tee to publicly release Young Trustee applications prior to winter break—a full three weeks before the current re-lease date.

But more troubling, the

most signifi cant obstacle to a larger applicant fi eld might be the nature of the Young Trustee election pro-cess itself. Finalists’ election campaigns are too often heavily politicized, as they must pander to the interests of particular groups to gar-ner votes—even though the Young Trustee, by defi nition, serves no constituency or set of interests. This pressures would-be Young Trustees to make a deal with the devil, trading empty campaign promises for ballots.

This process seems better suited to tease out the supe-rior campaigner rather than the best Young Trustee. As we argued in December, one solution is to allow the Board itself to choose the Young Trustee.

I often wonder how Coach Cutcliffe—the foot-ball coach, for all you ignoramuses—sees the debate over Duke basketball attendance. I

then remember Cutcliffe’s start-ing salary was $1.5 million in 2007, and it most likely hasn’t decreased. That’s $500,000 for each win this year, for those of you less-hirable arts and humanities majors.

But, alas, supporting the Duke football team and putting out a “respectable” team is essentially a requirement for being a member of a major conference. Outside of the Big East, which houses approxi-mately 285 non-football members including the local YMCA and even DePaul, being a member of a big conference means large investments.

Duke has lived up to that expectation, spend-ing millions on building up an athletics depart-ment that goes well beyond its basketball team. In the 2010-2011 fi scal year, Duke’s athletics’ budget was approximately $61 million. Athletics brought in $45 million in revenues, including $20 million from the athletics’ endowment and gifts from alumni. Duke’s athletics is in a hole and constantly needs to be bailed out—receiving a $15 million subsidy each year.

And you thought Duke Kunshan University (DKU) was bad (or maybe that’s just me).

Attempting to take emotion out of this, Duke has an identity crisis. During a 2009 discussion about the size and reach of Duke athletics, Rich-ard Hain, a professor of mathematics at Duke, asked “Do we want to be known for the exploits of our athletes or for the exploits of our students and faculty, or for some sort of balance?” This confl ict is easily seen through scholarships at this univer-sity: Duke has 109 football players on scholarship and only 58 A.B. Duke Scholars. Want to go to this school and not pay a dime? Run a 4.6 second 40-yard dash and have a decent wingspan. You’ll have no problem.

At a time when money is tight and Duke is fi nd-ing ways to stretch dollars, we need to question how athletics fi ts into the University’s overall mission. A serious attempt to be competitive in football has seen us win three games in a very mediocre Atlantic Coast Conference (did you see the Orange Bowl?). With all due respect to our other teams, the full or partial scholarships given to those players could help us attract and maintain top faculty, bolster our domestic and international fi nancial aid or even give more academic scholarships.

With serious re-alignment—defi ned by televi-sion revenue rather than history—affecting the ACC, Duke needs to question its stance in the

conference. Beyond our valuable rivalry with North Carolina and tradition, which we cling to like there’s no tomorrow come re-alignment talks,

we add no serious revenues to the conference. Football defi nes big-time athletics, and we drag the ACC down—big time. Considering the ACC just took a founding member of the Big East, tradition doesn’t seem to be a top priority.

Those who state Duke basketball is essential to Duke’s brand, to our rankings and to application numbers need to look at Cameron’s atten-dance numbers. Simply put, it is very

hard to maintain both high academic standards and sustained success in a major sport (sorry Stanford).

Despite the negative trends, Duke basketball is the University’s biggest asset. And therefore, it’s time we considered becoming an independent basketball school. Getting into the NCAA tourna-ment is more competition-dependent than con-ference-dependent, and it makes perfect sense considering where our team is today.

Syracuse and Pittsburgh coming is a lifesaver to the sinking Titanic that is the ACC. The confer-ence has seen losses to schools like Holy Cross and Southern Conference powerhouse Wofford. Cur-rent projections have the ACC getting four teams into the NCAA tournament, a number less than the projected total for the Atlantic 10 (and this is not your father’s Atlantic 10). The lifesaver is much too little much too late, and we need to stay ahead.

Duke basketball is a national brand being forced to play sub-par competition due to conference con-straints. In this day and age, when college players are saying they love the idea of a platinum home jersey instead of traditional home whites (Coming to Cameron Feb. 11) and salivate over Oregon foot-ball’s updated uniforms, it’s time we stopped keep-ing terrible teams afl oat at our own expense. Go-ing independent in basketball and moving other sports to a less-competitive conference would not only cut costs, but would also increase national ex-posure of our team, players and brand. Leveraging our coach, team and the vitriol surrounding both, we could easily fi nd competition despite NCAA constraints on out-of-conference games. Doing so would add competitive games to the schedule and bolster our student attendance numbers. Duke is a national brand in collegiate basketball, and it’s time we utilize that asset.

Antonio Segalini is a Trinity junior. His column usu-ally runs every other Monday, however this week is run-ning Tuesday because of the memorial for Mary D.B.T. Semans. Follow Antonio on Twitter @Segalini21

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When we think of community service or civic engage-ment, we often think of serving someone else’s com-munity. Even thinking about our University strategic

plan which refers to “knowledge in the service of society,” I fi nd myself thinking of society as some-thing outside of Duke—maybe it’s greater Durham, or a developing country.... It’s not my own com-munity, selective living group or friends. But in many ways, our own communities are ones we’re especially well-equipped to serve, and furthermore, they need us just as much as we need them.

As an intern at the Women’s Center, I consider myself part of the ongoing struggle for gender justice at Duke. And by gender justice at Duke, I mean that people of all genders should be able to take full advantage of what the Duke community has to offer and that the Duke community should offer them the same things (like safety, support, leadership opportuni-ties, respect and housing, to name a few). I am one of 10 under-graduate student interns at the Center who focus on different areas from gender violence to gender justice in general, and I am one of a much larger (and growing!) number of students who participate in the wide variety of opportunities the Center provides.

Duke’s Women’s Center truly has opportunities relevant to every student. And I actually mean every student. I actually mean you.

Hey men! You may be surprised to hear that the Women’s Center is home to an all male discussion and activism group. Ev-ery week, a group of men gather to discuss our place in the fi ght for gender justice with a group called “Men Acting for Change,” or MAC for short. We meet every Thursday at 7 p.m. The group is open to newcomers throughout the year, so come to a meet-ing and learn what we’re up to.

Hey women! If you are interested in great discussion and developing community among female peers, come to the Wom-en’s Collective (dukewomenscollective@gmail.com) on Fridays at 5 p.m., and if you are interested in discussing the intersection of your experience with race and gender as a woman of color, check out EMBRACE events.

Also, the Women’s Center is once again offering the highly successful “Elect-Her” program on Feb. 4, which teaches female students valuable skills needed to run for elected offi ces—and win. The program aims to address the great disparities in gender representation in elected offi ces at all levels of government in the United States by helping women gain experience in offi ce. If interested, register online before the end of tomorrow, Feb. 1.

Hey everyone! You may have already heard about the Develle Dish blog or maybe even posted comments. If not, go to http://dukegroups.duke.edu/develledish/ and see what other Duke students are saying about a variety of topics, including dating versus hookup culture, porn women like, moving personal sto-ries and interesting points of view.

When it comes to trying to make our community a more just place, there may be no more urgent place to start than in confronting sexual assault and intimate partner violence. The Women’s Center is working on two fronts to reduce sexual vio-lence. Not only does the Center provide confi dential counseling and crisis services for gender violence survivors of all genders, but it also works to prevent future gender violence.

Here’s where you, the community member, comes in. A prob-lem as widespread as gender violence requires that Duke students get involved and no longer take the back seat on this issue. One way you can get involved is by attending one of the four bystander in-tervention training sessions the Women’s Center is sponsoring this semester for all interested Duke students. The training sessions—called PACT (Prevent. Act. Challenge. Teach)—give participants concrete skills in identifying gender violence, risk and intervention in order to make our community safer for everyone. For more in-formation on these sessions, email PACT.duke@gmail.com.

Finally, to fi nd out more about all upcoming programming and events, join the Women’s Center listserv by emailing wom-enctr@duke.edu.

So when you’re considering how to get more involved and maybe do some community work, I might suggest to you a com-munity that could really use your involvement, and that you might already know a lot about: the Duke community.

Ian Harwood is a Trinity junior and intern at the Women’s Center. This column is the third installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written by dPS members addressing civic service and engage-ment at Duke. Follow dPS on Twitter @dukePS

America becoming Europe

lettertotheeditorGet your government hands off my rush

As presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney seeks to equate President Obama’s pol-icies with the profl igate spending of now-bankrupt Western European states, the intellectual debate be-tween free-market capitalism and statism has once again emerged as a frequent discussion point on the campaign trail. Mr. Obama has resorted to a popu-list message that seeks to paint the GOP as the party of the 1 percent, while Mr. Romney assails the presi-dent’s vision of America as an “entitlement society” instead of an “opportunity society.” The two parties offer wildly contrasting visions of moderated redistri-bution/interventionist policies (Democrats) versus the wild jungle of unadulterated free-market capital-ism (Republicans).

It has come to my attention that Duke’s greek sys-tem has much to learn from this debate. With its as-surance that each girl receives precisely one bid, Pan-hel rush is emblematic of an economic system based upon centralized planning and equality of outcome. It is very left-wing in its assurance of egalitarianism for all rushees, regardless of the utility they may provide to chapters. On the contrary, Interfraternity Council

(IFC) rush is emblematic of laissez-faire capitalism—of what F.A. Hayek described as “men on the spot” making their own decisions to seek to maximize their own welfare. IFC seeks to ensure equality of oppor-tunity, as opposed to equality of results. As such, IFC rush is brutally capitalistic—where some receive mul-tiple bids and some receive none at all—and Panhel’s is more socialized.

Personal politics aside, I endorse IFC’s “opportu-nity society” and decry Panhel’s “entitlement society.” There is a reason, beyond historically entrenched on-campus sections, that fraternities at Duke have always been intrinsically tighter-knit communities than their sorority counterparts. The free-market system ensures that fraternal utility is maximized during the IFC rush process. Fraternities only extend bids to freshmen with whom they feel a connection; bids are not merely ex-tended as handouts. IFC rush puts power in the hands of the individual, whereas Panhel engages in crony capitalism by picking winners and losers. If Panhel re-ally wants its “best damn pledge classes,” it needs to get its government hands off sorority rush.

Josh Hammer, Trinity ‘11

No, I am not talking about the debt crisis or add-ing public transportation in the U.S. or increasing the number of smokers… etc. There is a troubling trend that American society is increas-ingly becoming like Europe vis-à-vis her attitude toward Islam and Muslims.

Islamophobia, defi ned as unfounded and irrational fear of Islam as a religion and Muslims as a people, has been on the rise both in Europe and the U.S. for vari-ous reasons. The types of Islamophobia seen on either side of the Atlantic were signifi cantly different from each other in terms of their manifestations and im-pacts, up until two or three years ago. If I have to summarize this in simple terms, the European Islamophobia has always been somewhat systemic and more mainstream. There are laws passed to protect “enlightened” European civilization against “primitive” Muslim cultures or to prevent the general “Islamiza-tion of Europe.” The faces and voices of Islamophobia in Europe that call for action against this “imminent threat” often had no diffi culty fi nding tremendous sup-port from their fellow Europeans. Several radical po-litical parties that use this anti-Muslim message as their central mission have gained signifi cant representation in various European parliaments. Many academics who beat the “Muslims out!” drum have been promoted in various European universities. Whenever we American Muslims used to complain about instances of Islamo-phobia to our European Muslim brothers and sisters, they would immediately ask us to count our blessings because what they go through is a lot harder to deal with and much more diffi cult to overcome.

The American Islamphobia on the other hand, thankfully so, has been mostly episodic until recent years. It was almost always isolated individuals, fringe radical organizations or a few professional Islamphobes who chose fear-mongering as their life’s calling and made millions of dollars out of it. For example: A crazy pastor of no signifi cance in Florida deciding to burn copies of the Koran, creating a scandal. Some individu-al protests here and there and so on. It was not systemic and mainstream for the most part. However, there is a scary trend that our Islamophobia is increasingly be-coming a European type; a type that is potentially very destructive to our civic culture, social harmony and foundational values. And the turning point in this scary trend was the 2010 midterm election.

There has been an important paradigm shift in the way we Americans discuss and debate issues related to Islam and Muslims in this country since 2010. Here are some of the main examples of this claim: Hundreds of old and newly aspiring members of Congress in 2010 made anti-Muslim sentiments a central part of their election campaigns … and they got elected into the highest decision making mechanism in our country. There are 25 states, including our own beloved North

Carolina, that have been trying to introduce laws to “ban Sharia.” Some of these suggested bills were so contradictory to our constitutional standards and

common sense that they were imme-diately undone by federal courts. The most infamous one was in Oklahoma and suggested criminalizing ALL prac-tices of Sharia. So according to this bill, selling or ordering a halal chicken wrap could mean several years in jail. Americans also witnessed a disturbing resurrection of McCarthyian congres-sional hearings about American Mus-lims that shamefully tried to cast clouds of suspicion and doubt on millions of

upstanding American citizens.As we are now in the season of our next presidential

election, anti-Muslim sentiments uttered by our politi-cal, religious and civic leaders are becoming more and more mainstream and systemic. I can imagine presi-dential hopefuls saying things like: “I will never ap-point a Muslim person to my cabinet, we have right to ban mosques in the U.S., Palestinians are invented people, there is a war against Islam” or comparing Muslims with Nazis and getting away with it. Imagine anyone saying: “I will never appoint a black person or Jewish person to my cabinet.” This thankfully won’t fl y and will not go unpunished. Why is it OK when it comes to Muslims?

My fellow Americans, the reasons of my sounding the alarm of Islamophobia in our society, as an immi-nent danger, is not a cheap self-defense tactic. I hope you don’t hear me saying: “Oh please don’t hurt us we are not bad people!” Far from it. My cry comes from my love and admiration for our diverse and pluralistic civic society and our foundational ideals and commitments. This cancer of Islamphobia, if it is not treated early on, will spread and destroy many other parts of our society. History has shown over and over how dehumanization of one part of a society ultimately harms society at large. I remind myself and all Americans of the famous quote of German pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller af-ter WWII:

“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.”

If we are not shocked, and not motivated for action, that means we are not paying enough attention. Atten-tion and action please! Before it is too late…

Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an ad-junct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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