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ONTHERECORD“What if I suggested, however, that the true cost of raising that turkey is, in fact, greater than the price you pay?... ”

—Jennifer Imm in ‘Let’s talk turkey.’ See letter page 6

Early decision apps fall slightly

The number of early deci-sion applications for the Class of 2017 has dipped slightly from last year.

The University received 2,586 applications compared to 2,656 received last year, said Dean of Admissions Christoph Guttentag. This decrease—less than 3 percent—comes after a 100 percent increase in early decision applications over the last five years, Guttentag said.

“I’m not concerned—we have almost as many appli-cants as we had last year,” Gut-tentag said. “I think this is just a little bit of leveling.”

Although the number of early applications decreased overall, the number of inter-national applicants jumped more than 25 percent, from 210 to nearly 270, Guttentag noted.

“When the change from one year to the next is so small, generally we don’t see anything in any subgroup that’s noticeable,” he said.

Based on what he has seen of the applications so far, this year’s pool of applicants strongly resembles the Class of 2016’s early decision pool in terms of the caliber and

distribution, apart from the international sub-group, Gut-tentag noted.

The early decision dead-line was extended to Nov. 4 after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast. Guttentag said he believes it is unlikely that the hurricane had an effect on ap-plication numbers.

“We’ve seen a little de-crease in applications from New York and New Jersey... but at the same time we’ve seen a decrease in Texas, so it’s hard to tie it to any one particular thing,” he said.

—from Staff Reports

Stress drives alcohol abuse

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According to a study by Duke researchers, the way students cope with stress may be linked to their alcohol habits. Undergradu-ates who seek high reward without regard for the consequences reported more likely to consume higher amounts of alcohol.

by Raisa ChowdhuryTHE CHRONICLE

Alcohol abuse may be linked to how college students cope with stress, a recent study shows.

Duke researchers at the labo-ratory of NeuroGenetics showed that alcohol abuse may be directly linked to an individual’s brain func-

tion. According to the study, a de-sire for reward and low regard for risk are two contributing factors to alcohol abuse. Undegraduates handle stressful situations by seek-ing high reward regardless of con-sequences were more likely to con-sume increased levels of alcohol than those who did not. The study

was published in the Nov. 14 issue of Biology of Mood and Anxiety Disorders.

“We wanted to have the two sys-tems [reward and risk] and life stress to predict behavior because it is ac-tually quite common among college

The Blue Devils’ own Nate Silver

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2,586applicantsfor the class of 2017 who applied early decision

3percentdecrease in applicants from last year, but there has been a 100 percent overall increase in the past five years.

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by Sarah ElsakrTHE CHRONICLE

In 2009, the Duke men’s cross country team placed fourth in the Southeast Regional meet, and for the first time in eight years, it seemed like an at-large bid to the NCAA Championship meet might be in the cards. Long before any running websites post-ed results or the NCAA made its anxiously-awaited announce-ment, one runner on the Duke team predicted the result.

While the rest of his team-mates waited, then-sophomore Bo Waggoner entered results from all the regions into a com-puter program he had written and revealed not only whether or not the Blue Devils would get the

chance to run on the champion-ship course, but also the entire list of 31 teams that had made it, including predictions for all 13 of the at-large bids.

He did not make a single mis-take.

“It first started… because we really wanted to know as soon as we could whether we would get in or not. I was learning com-puter science so it seemed like a good chance to try that out,” Waggoner said. “From there I just started collecting results of the meets over the course of the year and testing it to make sure it worked, and then the day of regionals I was able to use it to

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NC nonprofit wants to use kudzu-like plant for biofuel

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A local nonprofit is considering using a species of giant cane to reduce reliance on oil, but some are concerned that the plant will be as invasive as kudzu.

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An environmental nonprofit wants to reduce the amount of oil North Carolina imports by using gi-ant cane-derived biofuel, but critics are concerned the foreign plant will turn into another kudzu.

The Biofuels Center of North Carolina is working with farmers and manufacturers to replace 10 percent of imported petroleum with biofuels by 2017. Reaching that goal will re-quire utilizing untapped resources, including Arundo donax, a biomass-producing species of giant cane, said Bo Harrison, a project manager at the center.

“Of the different possible plants

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by Jeffrey CicurelTHE CHRONICLE

A new local startup is making waves in e-commerce by letting consumers name the price.

BUYSTAND, a Durham based startup, is an e-commerce com-pany that allows buyers to choose how much they are willing to pay for name-brand products. After a price is named, the website con-nects the user with retailers will-ing to sell at that price. The firm, which was co-founded by Bill Brown, professor of the practice of law and founder of local startup firm 8 Rivers Capital, is looking for ways to get Duke students involved with the company.

“BUYSTAND is the first com-pany in the world to empower people to buy the products they want at their own price,” said BUY-STAND CEO Joe Davey, who has been involved with firm since its inception. “Traditionally, online shoppers have had no ability to in-fluence the price of the goods they

want to buy.”Students could benefit in many

ways from the startup, said Julia Hawkins, Trinity ’12, who previ-ously interned for 8 Rivers Capital and now works at BUYSTAND. As an example, she explained that she went on a three-week road trip with her best friend selling grilled cheese sandwiches at music festivals between graduation and before joining BUYSTAND. Hawkins not-ed that she and her friend would have appreciated a way to find better prices for the supplies they needed—a tent, a sleeping bag and a lamp, among other items.

“If there was BUYSTAND and I could make an offer as low as I wanted, I would have been much happier,” Hawkins said. “Instead I asked for these things as gradua-tion presents.”

She also pointed to the tenting traditions during basketball season, adding that students need cheap tenting equipment and gear more than anybody.

Looking forward to assembling a team, Brown said he is interested in not only having Duke students as potential buyers for his firm’s start-ups, but also as employees.

“We are very interested in work-ing with Duke students,” Brown said. “As you can see, not only do we have them as interns, we hire a lot of them.”

Co-founder Ted Kraus, principal at 8 Rivers Capital, developed the model for allowing consumers to

deal with a seller driven retail mar-ket in the summer of 2011. Brown said Kraus’ idea was left “on the shelf” for some time. Then, 8 Riv-ers matched Kraus with Davy. After the two met for a cup of coffee, the company was on its way.

“When those two guys got togeth-er, we had the critical mass to take this thing forward,” Brown said.

Brown also said the location of his firm and BUYSTAND in Dur-ham is beneficial for growth. Al-

though most startups are in Silicon Valley, Brown said being in Durham allows for less competition for capi-tal. He said his team at 8 Rivers is the smartest and brightest group of people he has ever worked with—including at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.

“Here, we’re able to get some of the best talent in the world from people who like the environment, the cost of living and the University community,” Brown said.

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Environmental activist and journalist Bill McKibben spoke about climate change in Page Auditorium Monday night.

Do the mathStudent mugged on La SalleAn unnamed graduate stu-

dent was allegedly assaulted then robbed near campus Monday evening.

The student was leaving his apartment on Campus Walk Drive near LaSalle Street at around 6:20 p.m. when the two men hit him and took his cell phone and wal-let. The University informed stu-dents of the robbery through a Duke Alert email blast sent to the student body Monday evening.

The suspects were reported as two black men of average height, according to the email. The Dur-ham Police Department is ac-tively investigating the crime and working to identify the robbers.

Duke Police Chief John Dai-ley could not be reached for comment.

In 2011, there were three reported robberies on or near campus, down from seven in 2009, according to the annual

Clery Report. Duke is required to submit this report detailing on-campus crime to the federal government each year.

There have been four cases of robbery—theft with intimida-tion—on or immediately near LaSalle Street since the school year began, according to data from SpotCrime.com, a website that compiles and reports local crime statistics.

—from Staff Reports

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that you can grow, [Arundo] is the one with the highest biomass per acre with the lowest establishment cost,” Harrison said. “In terms of economics, it makes a whole lot of sense.”

Arundo requires little land and fertilizer to grow, and it can toler-ate extreme weather conditions. Most importantly, Harrison said that the plant can produce up to 20 pounds per acre of biomass, more than twice the amount of biomass that switchgrass, another biofuel source, can yield. The amount of biomass that can come from Ar-undo renders it a commercially viable alternative to other biomass-producing plants.

The center is exploring the po-tential downsides of using Arundo as a biofuel source. The plant has a history of invasiveness in Cali-fornia and Texas, where it caused erosion, flooding and damage to native habitats.

But Arundo has come under fire because many people believe the plant will grow rampantly throughout the South, similar to kudzu in the 20th century. Kudzu is an invasive climbing vine that has killed numerous trees and shrubs in the South.

In October, more than 200 sci-entists discouraged the use of the plant in a letter to the Environmen-tal Protection Agency and other federal agencies.

“It is imperative that we learn from our past mistakes by prevent-ing intentional introduction of

energy crops that may create the next invasive species catastrophe, particularly when introductions are funded by taxpayer dollars,” the let-ter read.

The center, in conjunction with state agriculture officials, has not overlooked these concerns. Its best management practices for energy crops in North Carolina include keeping a reasonable dis-tance from streams and irrigation canals and setting buffer zones of at least 20 feet around production fields. But critics feel that planting Arundo in a hurricane-prone state such as North Carolina could still be a dangerous move. To them, the potential environmental costs of in-troducing the plant at a large-scale are not worth the benefits.

When the center began its push for biofuels in North Carolina in 2007, it ruled out the use of corn ethanol because it might take away from the food supply, Harrison noted. Instead, the center looked to cellulosic ethanol, a biofuel pro-duced from wood, grasses or the inedible parts of plants. The use of Arundo would continue to pro-mote cellulosic ethanol.

“Biofuels can be really good,” said William Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of Environ-ment. “Cellulosic processes are much better and really push the technology in the right direction.”

Supplanting 10 percent of pe-troleum-based fuels with biofuels will be a boon to the North Caro-lina economy, said sophomore Phoenica Zhang, an environmen-tal science and policy major, noting that a more prominent biofuels sys-

tem would lead to stronger ties with the forestry and agriculture sectors and create employment opportuni-ties in the rural community.

“Part of our goal is to uplift North Carolina’s rural economy, give farmers a chance to plant and grow a new crop that will make them money as well,” Harrison said. “Also, other jobs will spurn— [such as] people driving trucks to take materials from place to place, loggers cutting down trees. We certainly hope to be an economy-booster.”

Developing a biofuels industry sector has not been a process with-out significant challenges, Harrison said. Developing biofuels requires building different sectors to work in tandem with each other.

“They say in business that it’s hard enough to achieve one ve-hicle at a time, but when you have to achieve two or more vehicles at a time, it becomes exponentially hard,” Harrison said. “We’re try-ing to create a market for biofuels, we’re trying to create production for biofuels, we’re trying to create other things for biofuels, and all this stuff kind of has to happen at the same time.”

The center has welcomed these challenges, however, and accepted that overcoming obstacles comes with the territory of effecting major change.

“We’re excited about the returns so far and the potential in the next five years of existence to really bring large capacities for alternative fuels to North Carolina,” said Wil Glenn, director of communications and public affairs at the center.

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students,” said Yuliya Nikolova, doctoral student in psychology and neuroscience and primary au-thor of the study.

It is unclear what the exact implications of the study are for Duke students, Nikolova added. For example, though the study in-vestigates the role of stress in prob-lem drinking, it mostly asks about stress related to personal life such as moving away from home. This does not necessarily account for the affect of academic stress which Nikolova acknowledged may play a larger role than average for the decisions of Duke and other uni-versity students.

“My guess is problem drinking is a nationwide phenomenon… but I have no reason to believe Duke students are expressing much, much more of [academic] stress on the basis of this study,” Nikolova said.

Past research has investigated the relationship between neural mechanisms of drug abuse risk and dysfunction in neural circuits for reward, but not many studies have been conducted on the rela-tion with neural circuits of threat, according to the paper.

Ahmad Hariri, professor of psychology and neuroscience and co-author of the study, runs a lab that looks at neurological realities as well as genes and other factors. Hariri was unavailable for com-ment.

The goal is to link them to types of behavior in an effort to predict

behavioral and psychopathology risks, Nikolova explained.

During a three-month period, researchers used neuroimaging and self-reported data of 200 undergraduates—mostly Duke students—who participated in the ongoing Duke Neurogenet-ics Study, the published report stated.

Nikolova added that this partic-ular publication is only a small part of the large neurogenetics project which began three years ago. The recent report uses only a sample size of 200 and the overall study is aiming to eventually have 2,100 subjects. It currently has around 600, she said.

“It’s necessary to track people over a longer period of time [than three months] to see if these fac-tors actually make clinical predic-tions over longer periods of time,” Nikolova said. “This could lead to us being able to identify individu-als who are vulnerable to these kinds of problems, so we could intervene before these kinds of problems happen.”

In the future, Nikolova said she hopes this study will prompt fur-ther research at other institutions doing similar research.

Despite the finding of the study, some students noted that common sense is the most important factor in preventing alcohol abuse.

“I don’t binge drink because I like to stay in control of myself—I don’t want to end up in a danger-ous or negative situation,” sopho-more Catherine Henry said. “My stress levels would increase if I was perpetually hung over.”

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Last month I received a news release listing 10 gift ideas for college students. Three of the top ideas: “Anything Apple,” gift cards for “the essentials” like Starbucks and gift cards for “the luxuries” like Pottery Barn Dorm. The last item listed is cash.

Sigh. Really? Seriously?

In the spirit of giving gifts from the heart — which sometimes means being practical instead of extravagant — I have compiled a list of seven ideas:

1) Professional clothing: Every summer I hear interns whine about how they can only afford fl ip-fl ops and clothing that doubles as club-wear. Please help these interns out now.

Save them the misery of being ridiculed by every person in the office and random people on Twitter. That means, instead of buying your nephew an iPod, take him out to buy his first suit. (And, yes, it can be dangerous to guess clothing sizes, so make sure to ask ahead of time and include a gift receipt. Or go with a one-size-fits-all item like a tie or scarf.)

2) Professional stationery: The application process for internships, jobs, fellowships and

graduate programs often requires following up with a thank-you note on grown-up stationery. Look for simple, heavy-weight cards at your local office supply store or order a personalized set online from American Stationery or the Paper Source. It also wouldn’t hurt to include some snail-mail stamps.

3) Family recipes: One of my most treasured gifts is a binder of favorite family recipes that my mom compiled for me a few years ago. If you would rather purchase an already compiled cookbook, I would suggest “College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends” or “Serve Yourself: Nightly Adventures in Cooking for One” by the Post’s food editor Joe Yonan. This is a gift that pairs well with one or two practical kitchen accessories, like colorful plastic mixing bowls or a blender.

4) A Sunday newspaper subscription: No, seriously, I think it’s a good idea for 20-somethings to subscribe to their local paper at least one day a week. In addition to insightful reading, they will also get a pack of coupons to help cut down on their grocery bills.

5) Subscription to a trade publication or industry magazine: These magazines can

be expensive on a college budget, but just as educational as a college textbook. (And many of them offer digital subscriptions.) For architects, there’s Architectural Digest, Architectural Review and DETAIL. For business majors, check out the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune or Forbes. For writers and journalists, splurge on The New Yorker.

6) A gourmet care package: Most college students are heading into finals right now — and are in dire need of a care package. While most college students are craving chocolate, energy drinks and comfort food, make sure to also include some healthy items like herbal tea, almonds and granola.

7) Gift certificates that truly mean something: If you have to go the gift certificate route, give a gift with some meaning. Before my grandmother passed away, she would send me gift certificates to D.C. restaurants where she liked to go in the 1940s and 50s, along with a note of what she used to order. Some of my friends have asked for gift certificates for classes that will enrich their lives, like yoga, ballet, piano or cooking.

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Recycled bike chain bottle opener key chain

This bottle opener key chain, made from discarded bicycle chains, is perfect for the beer aficionado or bicyclist. Available in blue, orange, red and silver, this practical key chain is handmade by artists at Resource Revival, an Oregon company that turns greasy used bike parts into new products.

Price: $8

Reusable sandwich bagHelp your family ditch the

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lined with food-safe polyurethane that is free of lead, BPA and phthalates and meets the European Union’s requirements for food contact.

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Organic, fair trade candy barIndulge your family’s sweet tooth,

without contributing to their “green guilt,” by adding Angell Bars to their Christmas stockings. Certified as both organic and fair trade, Angell’s line of candy bars is available in gluten-free, crispy milk chocolate, white chocolate and coconut, and vegan dark chocolate and almond.

Price: About $2.24 a bar, but price varies, depending on the retailer.

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Seed bombsAnyone can practice random acts

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Choose from a variety of seed mixtures including herbs, pet- or wildlife-friendly plants and wildflowers native to your specific region in the U.S.

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Recycled notebookIdeal for jotting down grocery

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Starry-Eyed Christmas CookiesIngredients:1 bag waffle or star-shaped pretzels1 bag holiday M&M’s plain or peanut butter chocolate candies (red &

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Ingredients:1 3/4 cups plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour2 teaspoons ground ginger3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/2 teaspoon baking powder1/4 teaspoon baking soda1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg1/4 teaspoon ground cloves6 tablespoons (packed) golden brown sugar1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature3 tablespoons mild-flavored (light) molasses1 large egg6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped2 teaspoons vegetable oilCinnamon decorating candies or chopped crystallized ginger

Directions:Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325°F. Line 2 large bak-

ing sheets with parchment paper. Whisk first 7 ingredients in large bowl to blend. Stir brown sugar, butter, and molasses in medium saucepan over low heat until melted. Increase heat to medium-high and bring to boil, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Let cool 10 minutes. Whisk egg in medium bowl to blend. Gradually whisk molasses mixture into egg. Using electric mixer, gradually beat molasses mixture into flour mixture until just blend-ed.

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Holiday Painting PartyLaugh, paint, sip and nibble! Make a memory with friends and take home a piece of hand painted art you’ll be proud to display. Wine, cheese and chocolates are provided along with art supplies, aprons and simple instructions from a local artist. Reservations required at [email protected]. Cost $30.7-9pm.Golden Belt, 807 East Main Street, Durham.

November 30, 2012 Handel’s MessiahA holiday tradition at Duke, the Chapel Choir presents Handel’s masterwork with full orchestra and professional soloists. $15 Gen.; $5 Non-Duke students; Duke students free.7:30pm.Duke Chapel

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Grammy Award winner Chip Davis has created a show that features Mannheim Steamroller’s beloved Christmas music along with dazzling multimedia effects performed in an intimate setting. The spirit of the season comes alive with the signature sound of Mannheim Steamroller. Tickets $48-$78.8-11pm.Durham Performing Arts Center.

December 1, 2012 Holiday Open HouseTake a break from the crowds and spend some time planning your new rose garden for the upcoming spring; then stroll through the Christmas tree lot to find the perfect tree for the holidays. Many items on sale, including.unique gifts. Enjoy hot cider and holiday treats. FREE admission.9am-4pm.Witherspoon Rose Culture, 3312 Watkins Rd.

Handel’s Messiah(See Friday, November 30, 2012)2pm.Duke Chapel

Christmas in the Big House,Christmas in the QuartersHoliday festivities recreated to depict both the planter family and the enslaved community; vendors, crafts, games, music, food. FREE, but donations accepted.11am-4pm.Historic Stagville, 5828 Old Oxford Hwy, Durham.

Holiday Breakfast with St. NickIncludes sumptuous breakfast buffet, a photo with the original St. Nick himself, crafts, face painting, story telling and more. Your ticket will be your entry into drawings for door prizes every 15 minutes. Pick up all your holiday goodies from the youth bake sale. Admission $5; family $20.8-11am.Mt. Bethel Presbyterian Church, 3541 Rose of Sharon Road, Durham.

November 20, 2012 Durham Farmers’ Market -Pre-Thanksgiving MarketSpecial day for Thanksgiving preparation.2-5pm.Durham Central Park, 501 Foster St.

South Durham Farmers’ Market -Holiday MarketSpecial pre-Thanksgiving market with fall produce, turkeys, pies, crafts, and all of your holiday needs.3-6:30pm.South Durham Farmers’ Market, 5410 Hwy 55.

November 23, 2012 NC Black Friday Cask Festival Fight crowds at the bar, not the mall! Tickets include unlimited samples with one special sample glass per ticket to taste cask conditioned ales from 20+ NC breweries. Tickets $32 in advance.3-8pm.Triangle Brewing Company, 918 Pearl St.

SMASHFESTThe Scrap Exchange offers a fun and unique way to celebrate Black Friday by selling ceramics and breakables, and allowing participants to throw them, all while listening to heavy metal bands. FUN for the whole family!6-9pm.The Scrap Exchange, 923 Franklin St, Durham.

November 24, 2012 Holiday Painting PartyLaugh, paint, sip and nibble! Make a memory with friends and take home a piece of hand painted art you’ll be proud to display. Wine, cheese and chocolates are provided along with art supplies, aprons and simple instructions from a local artist. Reservations required at [email protected]. Cost $30.7-9pm.Golden Belt, 807 East Main Street, Durham.

November 27, 2012Holiday Concert: Duke Brass12-1pm.Duke Hospital - Atrium Cafeteria.

Holiday Gift Shopping SpreeFeaturing vendors and craft makers, with food, a raffle, and a Holiday Shop for children to buy inexpensive items for family and friends.4-8pm.Hillandale Elementary, 2730 Hillandale Rd.

November 29, 2012Holiday Concert: Thomas Erdmann12-1pm.Duke Hospital - Atrium Cafeteria.

Clay Aiken Clay Aiken’s Christmas special, the Joyful Noise Tour, featuring Clay performing holiday classics.7:30-10pm.Durham Performing Arts Center.

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City of Durham Holiday Fun FestFestivities include Peppermint Plunge Snow Sledding (sleds will be provided); Petting Zoo, Trackless Train Ride, Community Care Corner (write messages to soldiers in the U.S. military), meet-and-greet with Santa, campfire and s’mores, and Holiday Eats & Treats (food vendor lane). FREE.December 1, 20121-5pm.Durham Central Park, 502 Foster St.

Art Market at Vega MetalsOutdoor market featuring pottery, photography, painting, metal sculpture by Vega Metals, jewelry, folk art, home decor, knitted hats and scarves, and lots more.9am-2pm.The Art Market at Vega Metals, 214 Hunt St.

December 2, 2012 West Point on the Eno Christmas Open HouseFeaturing refreshments, traditional decorations, and live holiday music by the group “Little Windows” in the Mangum House; demonstrations of crafts including wool-spinning and old-time tools in the Museum of Photography; grinding demonstrations at the Mill; display of heritage breed animals in front of the Mangum House. FREE admission.1-5pm.West Point on the Eno City Park, 5101 N Roxboro Rd.

Handel’s Messiah(See Friday, November 30, 2012)3pm.Duke Chapel

Paws & ClausGet your cat or dog’s picture taken with Santa. Annual fundraising event to benefit APS (Animal Protection Society).1-6pm.Northgate Mall, 1058 W. Club Blvd.

Eno River Association Calendar Party and Holiday CelebrationCelebrate with friends of the Eno and enjoy some music, buy some calendars, drink and eat, talk and meet in downtown Durham. Music by local legend and Festival for the Eno favorite Lightnin’ Wells. Bring a potluck dish to share and enjoy the cash bar for an evening with Eno friends. FREE admission.5-7pm.Casbah, 1007 W Main St, Durham.

December 4, 2012Duke Chorale Christmas Concert7-9pmDuke Chapel.

December 6, 2012Holiday Concert: Major Groove12-1pm.HAND Holiday Concert SeriesDurham.

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December 7, 2012 Duke Homestead Christmas by CandlelightCelebrate an 1870 Christmas during the evening candlelight tours of the Homestead. The Homestead tour features period decorations, caroling, hot apple cider, and other goodies. Additional entertainment will be available in the visitor center. FREE admission.7-9pm.Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum, 2828 Duke Homestead Rd.


Holiday HappeningsTheatre In The Park’s original musical comedy, based on the book by Charles Dickens and adapted for the stage by Ira David Wood III, has been called ‘one of the most successful shows in North Carolina theatre history’ and voted one of the top 20 events in the Southeast by the Southeast Tourism Society. Tickets $37+.Sa-Su 2pm-5pm; Sa 7-9pm.Durham Performing Arts Center.

December 18, 2012Holiday Concert: Sarah Klein12-1pm.HAND Holiday Concert SeriesDurham.

December 20, 2012Duke Chapel by Candlelight - Open House12-2pm.Duke Chapel.

Holiday Concert: The Magic ofAfrican Rhythm12-1pm.HAND Holiday Concert SeriesDurham.

CELEBRATE MATISSE: Live French Music6-8pm.Nasher Museum of Art.

December 29 - 30, 2012 Carolina Ballet’s The Nutcracker After the opening of Carolina Ballet’s new Nutcracker, The News & Observer wrote that the “gasps after each eye-popping illusion, the applause for the handsome new sets and the rapt attention from all the children confirmed the changes were worth it.” Sa 7-9:30pm, Su 2-3:30pm.Durham Performing Arts Center.

“Nutcracker: The Musical” Play A modern update to the classic “The Nutcracker” set in the 1980’s, infusing ballet with salsa, Capoeira, Hip Hop, Bollywood, Arabian, and African drumming. Tickets $15, $10 kids ($20 reserved).F 12/7 2pm & 6pm; Su 12/9 3pm; Th 12/13 10:15am & 1:30pm; F 12/14: 6pm.Durham Arts Council Bldg, 120 Moris St.

December 9, 2012 Cookies Are Not Just For SantaWrite a Letter to Santa; Story Telling; Cookie Decorating; A Visit with Santa. Cost $10 per child, $5 per adult, including snacks & beverages. 12:30-1:30pm.Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club.

December 11, 2012Holiday Concert: Natalie Gilbert12-1pm.HAND Holiday Concert SeriesDurham N.C.

Nasher Museum of Art Member Holiday Open House6-8pm.Nasher Museum of Art.

December 13, 2012Duke Medicine Chorus Winter Concert12-1pm.HAND Holiday Concert SeriesDurham.

December 13 - 23, 2012 “A Trailer Park Christmas” Play Set in West Durham, A Trailer Park Christmas follows the Dodson/ Hussey family as they grapple with crazy neighbors, ghosts, fruitcakes and a holiday tornado. Tickets $17, $15 students & seniors.Th-Sa, 7:30pm-9:30pm; Su, 2pm-4pm.Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd.

December 14, 2012 Duke Homestead Christmas by CandlelightCelebrate an 1870 Christmas during the evening candlelight tours of the Homestead. The Homestead tour features period decorations, caroling, hot apple cider, and other goodies. Additional entertainment will be available in the visitor center. FREE admission.7-9pm.Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum, 2828 Duke Homestead Rd.

Holiday Painting Party(See Thursday, November 29, 2012)7-9pm.Golden Belt, 807 East Main Street, Durham.

December 15, 2012 Bahama Ruritan Christmas ParadeAn old-fashioned Christmas parade with bands, firetrucks, and floats by community organizations.10am.Bahama Rd.

Holiday Painting Party(See Thursday, November 29, 2012)7-9pm.Golden Belt, 807 East Main Street, Durham.

December 15 - 16, 2012 Christmas in the Carolinas During the Civil WarWitness how Christmas was celebrated in the Piedmont Carolinas. The farm will be decorated in a typical Christmas fashion. Music, caroling, and refreshments. FREE admission, but donations gratefully accepted.10-4pm Sa, 10am-3pm Su.Bennett Place State Historic Site, 4409 Bennett Memorial Rd.

A Christmas Carol One of the Triangle’s most beloved Christmas traditions will once again be featured at the DPAC. December 31, 2012 - January 1,

2013 New Year’s Jazzin’ Eve with Art of CoolEntertainment including headliner The Foreign Exchange (Phonte+Nicolay with live band). Other all-star live performances by the Al Strong Quintet, Marcus Anderson and Yolanda Rabun. Guest DJ Apple Juice Kid, and MCs Toon and The Real Laww. Tickets $50, $75 with 5-drink wristband.8pm-1:30am.The Cotton Room at Golden Belt, 807 E Main St, Downtown Durham.

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The Blue Devils could face No. 2 Louisville if both teams reach the finals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament.

by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

When the Duke basketball team headed to Hawaii last November for the Maui Invita-tional, it was hard to imagine a more exotic place for a basketball tournament. The squad may have outdone itself this year, though, as it heads south to the Bahamas for the second annual Battle 4 Atlantis, which will take place at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort in Nassau Thursday through Saturday.

But it was not the 171-acre resort with more than 3,000 rooms that attracted the No. 5 Blue Devils to the tournament. Nor was it the famed Bridge Suite, a 10-room abode billed as one of the most expensive hotel rooms in the world at $25,000 per night.

Instead, it was the field that the organizers had assembled, including four teams ranked in the AP’s top 20 and the leading vote-getter outside of the top 25.

“They were very aggressive in wanting us to come down and be a part of the field this year,” Duke associate head coach Chris Collins said. “When you look at the field, that was the first draw. To have the collection of eight teams that are going to be down there, all three of the games that we’re going to play are going to be against high-quality opponents, and there’s really no substitute for that experience early in the season in a neutral setting.”

The setting Collins referred to will be as stunning as it is neutral, with games taking place in a 3,900-seat temporary arena that At-lantis constructs within its 60,000-square-foot conference center. Another likely attraction for Duke is the reported $2 million payment

Bowl-ineligible Miami comes to Duke

The Cameron Crazies have made the “not our rivals” chant a staple of Duke-Maryland basketball games. And beginning in the 2014-2015 season, that statement will be fact.

The Terrapins announced they have ac-cepted an invitation to join the leave the ACC and join the Big Ten, which will become a 14-team conference with the addition of Rutgers, which, at press time, is expected to depart from the Big East Tuesday.

Maryland will be required to pay a $50 million buyout to leave the ACC. The exit fee was raised to $50 million after the addition of Notre Dame for all sports except football, and Maryland and Florida State were the only schools to vote against the increase.

“Our best wishes are extended to all of the people associated with the University of Mary-land. Since our inception, they have been an outstanding member of our conference, and we are sorry to see them exit,” ACC Com-missioner John Swofford said in a statement released by the conference. Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski and Kevin White, di-rector of athletics, both declined comment via Jon Jackson, associate athletic director for media relations and public affairs.

Pittsburgh and Syracuse are set to join the ACC next year after announcing last year they reached an agreement to leave the Big East.

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Penn State awaits in the quarterfinals

to each participant school, which makes the Battle 4 Atlantis one of the richest tourna-ments in the sport.

Last season, the inaugural eight-team field featured two ranked teams, but neither reached the championship game. Connecti-cut, then ranked No. 4 in the nation, lost a stunner to Central Florida in the semifinals, and then-No. 22 Florida State dropped its semifinal to Harvard.

The Blue Devils will face an even greater challenge than last year’s favorites. On the other side of this year’s bracket wait No. 2 Lou-isville and No. 13 Missouri, and No. 19 Mem-

phis is the favorite to face Duke in the semifi-nals. Even before that, though, Duke will have to take on Minnesota and head coach Tubby Smith, who is five wins from reaching 500 for his career.

“When you talk about coach Smith’s teams at Minnesota, the very first thing you think of is great defense, and this year has been no dif-ferent,” Collins said. “They’ve been dominant defensively, they’re athletic, they’re physical, and they make their identity on stopping people.”

FOOTBALL WOMEN’S SOCCER

by Daniel CarpTHE CHRONICLE

Last week Duke’s matchup with Miami had the potential to decide the ACC Coastal Divi-sion title. But now, both the Blue Devils and Hurricanes are out of that race for entirely dif-ferent reasons.

Falling to Georgia Tech 42-24 in Atlanta last Saturday, Duke’s run at an appearance in the

ACC Championship game met its demise. Miami gained bowl eligibility with a 40-9 victory against South Florida last weekend but did not hold on to it for long. With the NCAA set to announce its findings of its inves-

tigation into impermissable benefits provided by Miami booster Nevin Shapiro, the Hurri-canes turned around and self-imposed bowl ineligibility for the second-straight season, joining North Carolina as the second ACC team ineligible for postseason play.

“A determination was made that volun-tarily withholding the football team from a second postseason was not only a prudent step for the university to take but will also allow for the football program and university to move forward in the most expedited manner pos-sible,” said the university’s statement.

With the ACC Championship’s matchup now set between Florida State and Georgia

Tech, Saturday’s contest between Duke and Miami has no impact on conference stand-ings. With no additional practices for a bowl game to follow, the Hurricanes (6-5, 4-3 in the ACC) have four quarters to go through the motions before their season draws to a close.

But do not tell Duke head coach David Cutcliffe that Saturday’s game is meaningless. Although the Blue Devils (6-5, 3-4) are no longer in contention for the division crown, they can clinch their first winning season since 1994 with a win against the Hurricanes.

“We’re in the midst of a significant season,” Cutcliffe said. “I’m not down. I’m not frustrat-ed. Sometimes the best efforts you have in life just don’t pay off like you expect them to.... It’s too significant a year to not prepare and play great against Miami.”

Miami head coach Al Golden is echoed this sentiment. Many will question the Hurri-canes focus entering the final week of the sea-son, having nothing to play for. Self-imposing bowl ineligibility at the same point last season, Miami lost their final game 24-17 at home to a weaker Boston College squad. With the pros-pect of self-imposed bowl ineligibility hang-ing over his team’s head all season, Golden said the Hurricanes are determined to finish strong—bowl game or not.

“It’s business as usual. It’s been like this all year,” Golden said. “They know what’s at stake this week against Duke, and every-body is taking care of the things they need to take care of.”

In a matchup that features two dynamic of-fenses, the Blue Devils’ top priority Saturday will likely be stopping the Hurricanes’ star running back, Duke Johnson. As a freshman, Johnson ranks third in the ACC with 781 yards on the ground this season—averaging 6.3 yards per carry—and has scored seven rush-ing touchdowns. After allowing 330 yards to Georgia Tech’s ground-and-pound rushing at-tack last Saturday, the Blue Devils will hope to contain Miami’s explosive freshman tailback.

The Hurricanes have struggled to stop opposing offenses this season, allowing a con-ference-worst 477.6 yards per game in 2012, including 224.0 per game on the ground. Hoping to capitalize on Miami’s defensive in-efficiencies and recover from a rough second half offensively against Georgia Tech, Duke could be in for yet another high-scoring affair this weekend. Seven of the Hurricanes’ 11 op-ponents this season have topped 30 points.

Saturday’s game also marks Duke’s Senior Day. The Blue Devils will honor their 14 se-niors, including quarterback Sean Renfree, wide receivers Conner Vernon and Desmond Scott and safety Walt Canty.

“Our seniors are 5-1 in Wallace Wade Sta-dium on the 2012 season—that’s significant. I’m telling you that is hugely significant.... They know that,” Cutcliffe said. “The dream wasn’t just a Coastal Division championship. It’s a winning season—a significant winning season. These seniors have talked about that a lot every day we go to work.”

by Tim VisutipolTHE CHRONICLE

Duke has beaten three conference cham-pions on its road to the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals.

The third-seeded Blue Devils (15-5-2) will face yet another conference champion, Big Ten conference title-holders and top-seeded Penn State (19-3-1) Friday at Jef-frey Field in University Park, Pa. at 7 p.m.

“We know they’re good,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We’re looking forward to playing them, the number one seed in our bracket. They deserve that. They had a great run in the regular season, and it’s going to be a tough game. It’s going to be a great chal-lenge going to the environment up there.”

The Blue Devils have won with flair dur-ing their tournament run, starting off with a 6-0 thrashing of Loyola Maryland, before

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Today is the sixth day of the Muslim New Year, and in two days we will celebrate the long-awaited Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S.

This is a providential overlap created by Islam’s lunar calendar crossing paths with the West-ern Gregorian calendar. This overlap seemingly invites me and many others to take part in many layers of joy and festive celebrations. But the mood in the Antepli household is far from joy and celebration, mainly because of the recent outbreak of violence in Gaza. I think many households in the U.S. and around the world share this bitter and resentful mood of ours and join the Antepli family in our grief and mourning over what has been going on in Israel and Palestine in the last couple of days.

Everything you hear and watch about the confl ict is such a fatal strike to your hope that you wonder whether there will ever be peace in that part of the world and whether there will ever be peace between Jews and Muslims in general. As all violent confl icts, this recent one gives rise to some of the most destruc-tive and ugliest voices on all sides. Since the Gaza operation started, with no time wasted, prominent politicians, journalists and religious leaders in Israeli society have been calling for the total extermination of Gaza by leveling all the neighborhoods and killing its citizens. Simultaneously, their Arab and Muslim counterparts have been calling for the total destruc-tion of Israel and wiping her off the world map.

These regretful voices are no doubt the voices of fringe and marginal groups and do not represent the majority of either side in this confl ict. However, during these trying times they gain too much un-derserved legitimacy, recognition and support. To me the real danger is that these violent and shame-ful fringe voices are shaping the image of their en-tire society for the rest of the world. Muslims and pro-Palestinian groups all over the world have been feeding on so many Israeli voices calling for a “Pal-estinian Holocaust.” Unfortunately, these marginal voices continue to shape the image of Jews, Judaism and Israel for many around the world, especially in Muslim societies. Meanwhile, the picture among Israelis and pro-Israeli groups around the world is equally destructive and troubling—for many, all they hear is the regretful Muslim and or Arab voices calling for the total destruction of Israel and even Jews in general.

I believe that those who desire peace for all Is-raelis and all Palestinians are in the majority—but they have to speak up. They can no longer remain a silent and ineffective majority and continue to let their crazies dominate the conversation and run the show. Unless these moderate and sane, but

seemingly frozen, majorities are mobilized and en-ergized to claim a voice in their respective societies, we will never see peace in Israel and Palestine.

Thus, the important question is: How? How can we breath life into the will of si-lent and confused majorities? What does it take for these people to fi -nally say: “Enough is enough!” and “ It is time for sanity and civility?” History has shown over and over that crowds are mobilized mainly through prophetic voices and movements within their commu-nities. People or groups that have credibility and the respect of their communities should be ready to

risk that credibility, respect and, sometimes, their own safety to fearlessly speak up for justice, peace and reconciliation.

Prophetic Muslim and Arab voices are needed—voices that will unequivocally condemn any forms of terrorism and violence, dismiss any justifi cation for hurting innocent civilians in any given condi-tion, and shun any voices calling for the destruc-tion of Israel. Prophetic Israeli and Jewish voices are needed—voices that will call out Israel for the state’s unjustifi ed and excessive violence against Palestinians, compassionately condemn the inhu-man living conditions of Palestinians in occupied territories and refugee camps, and unequivocally condemn human rights violations against Pales-tinians both in the occupied territories and within Israel as unethical and immoral, and therefore un-Jewish and not Kosher. More Prophetic American voices are needed—voices that will challenge Uncle Sam for his unhelpful and counter productive role in this bloody confl ict since its beginning, fearlessly question how American tax dollars are being used and spent over this issue, and demand for a bet-ter way of dealing with this bleeding wound in the heart of humanity.

Dear members of silent moderate majorities, praying and wishing for peace is simply not enough. Talking the talk and expecting others to do some-thing about it is wrong and adds insult to injury. Marginalizing and distancing yourself from your own crazies, just because you are not one of them, is self-delusion and fatal. Thinking that somehow over time an invisible hand will fi x this problem is a sin and a gross ethical and moral failure. Please, for the sake of whatever you believe, wake up from your troubling sleep and start walking the talk and doing something about this 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. You can follow Abdullah on Twitter @aantepli.

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There is one damaging way the recent election made his-tory. It was the fi rst time since 1984 that climate change was not even mentioned during any of the presidential

or vice-presidential debates. The general discourse surround-ing the election lacked acknowl-edgement of the severity of cli-mate change as well as potential problem-solving tactics to be sup-ported in the future.

In reference to this void, Can-dy Crowley, who moderated the second presidential debate, said during post-debate coverage, “I had that question for all of you climate change people. We just, you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing so you knew you kind of wanted to go with the economy.”

Not only am I disappointed to see the economy dwarf the im-portance of climate change within political discourse, but I’m appalled by how the issue can be marginalized into an inter-est only for “you climate change people.” If anything, the past month has been a rude awakening for everyone to the expan-sive and encompassing effects of climate change. As Hurricane Sandy blasted through New England, it took more than 100 lives and left eight million without power. Economic losses are estimated to be as high as $50 billion. It’s obvious that storms aren’t singly caused by climate change, but climate change is defi nitely worsening their size and scale. Eric Pooley, senior vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund offered an illumi-nating baseball analogy: “We can’t say that steroids caused any one home run by Barry Bonds, but steroids sure helped him hit more and hit them farther. Now we have weather on steroids.” Because oceans are now warmer, there is more energy available for gathering storms, and the warmer atmosphere holds more moisture, exacerbating the intensity of natural disasters.

In addition to worsening natural disasters, another deleteri-ous effect of climate change is rising ocean levels, which pose a global threat. In Bangladesh, a particularly vulnerable area, ris-ing sea-levels are predicted to directly affect more than 3 million people by 2050. In a worst-case scenario, Bangladesh is predicted to lose nearly 25 percent of its land area within this century.

The presidential candidates didn’t mention climate change in the debates, but they did discuss energy independence, spar-ring over who would best be able to oversee increases in energy sources, including coal, oil and natural gas. “We have increased oil production to the highest levels in 16 years,” said President Obama. Of course it’s benefi cial for our economy that we’re be-coming less dependent on the Middle East, but if the impact of climate change was properly acknowledged, then we would shift more to alternative energy innovation, not just energy indepen-dence that still relies on fossil fuels. The discussion of energy within the debates revolved around job creation, not the solven-cy of our environment. In addition, foreign policy discussions would necessarily refl ect on the impact of climate change, given the magnitude of its effect in places like Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines.

Personally I don’t invest my time and energy into solving cli-mate change. I’m defi nitely more likely to discuss the effect of poverty or fi scal policy—or economic welfare, more generally—on people’s utility and livelihood. But I need to see these issues as hugely dependent on our global environmental situation. Mi-crofi nance in Bangladesh can only alleviate poverty so long as the country is not facing a massive destabilization due to climate change. New York City can only be one of the fi nancial capitals of the world if it does not have to continually deal with disas-ters like Hurricane Sandy. These statements are so obvious, yet our current political problem-solving has not given appropriate weightage to the seriousness and severity of climate change.

It’s much easier to discuss the problems than the solutions here. Climate change still lacks a breakthrough technology. Health and medicine underwent massive improvements in sanitation and pharmaceutical technology. Computer technol-ogy has been dramatically changed in recent decades by the introduction of the Internet and information technology. The world is infi nitely more connected through the explosion of cell phones and social media. But climate change is still seek-ing some sort of transformative breakthrough, and it is possible there isn’t going to be one. Either way, though, the issue needs more research, more political movement and more attention from all of us. It’s not a ballooned national debt that I’m afraid of leaving for my posterity, but rather a beaten environment.

Rajlakshmi De is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tues-day. You can follow Rajlakshmi on Twitter @RajDe4.

Weathering the future

lettertotheeditorLet’s talk turkey

Thanksgiving is by far my favorite holiday. Each year I look forward to the break from everyday life, the chance to spend time with family and friends and, of course, the delicious food. In the current economy, setting up the Thanksgiving Day spread may be more diffi cult for some families than ever before, but certain foods, it seems, are a must-have on the big day. The most treasured part of any Thanksgiving dinner is surely a plump, delicious turkey.

On this one day of the year, millions of turkeys are eaten across the country—more than 45 mil-lion according the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Industrial agriculture has made it possible for most American families to have a turkey on their table, and that is certainly something to be grateful for.

But what is the real cost of that iconic Thanksgiv-ing turkey? Some people would argue that the cost of raising that turkey is less than the price you pay at the grocery store. After all, the companies rais-ing and selling the turkeys must be making a profi t. What if I suggested, however, that the true cost of raising that turkey is, in fact, greater than the price you pay? It sounds absurd, to be sure, but though

the money you pay for that turkey covers the costs to the company producing the turkey, it does nothing to mitigate the costs to the environment.

Factory farming of turkeys contributes to nu-merous environmental problems. Industrial agri-culture releases more greenhouse gases than all forms of transportation combined. Runoff from in-dustrial agricultural fi elds contains nutrients that can destroy the balance of aquatic ecosystems and bacteria that can cause serious health problems for both humans and animals.

You can think of this Thanksgiving purchase as the down payment on a turkey mortgage. You pay a relatively small price for that turkey now, and in the years to come, your children and grandchil-dren will pay off the rest in the form of environ-mental clean up. Do we really want to bestow that burden upon future generations?

Perhaps the question to ask yourself this Thanks-giving is not whether you can afford a turkey, but whether your children and grandchildren can af-ford it.

Jennifer ImmTrinity ’16

For the past two years over Thanksgiving break, I have enjoyed the hospitality of a friend who lives in Chapel Hill. My friends, who were also

marooned at Duke, affectionately call this the “Mar-iakakis Dinner.”

Merely mentioning this dinner conjures a sybarit-ic portrait: dainty cocktail shrimps, succulent turkey drizzled with chunky cranberry sauce, bread stuffi ng made aromatic by mild spices, choco-late chip pumpkin baklava. Last year we, the young guests of the magnifi cent Mariakakis Dinner, contributed a dish. We presented an aluminum tray of mac-n-cheese sporting a bacon weave.

Combing Twitter for “#Thanksgiv-ing,” I came across a copious number of references to food. In a vain bid to halt the massacre of turkeys, PETA preached, “#Thanksgiving is no ex-cuse for animal abuse! Make your fave holiday dishes #crueltyfree w/ these mouthwatering recipes.” Indeed, some non-meat recipes got me salivating. Slate tweeted about a meringue-topped sweet-potato casserole. A pumpkin and goat-cheese risotto’s rich fragrance wafted into my mind.

As our gastric juices gurgle, we receive a counsel from Shape Magazine: “Letting our #Thanksgiving calorie-saving secret out: Greek yogurt mashed po-tatoes. NO butter, NO cream!” Yet, as we shave off the calories from our festive feast, we encounter re-minders that food does not exist in abundance for plenty of people.

As one self-described “local foodie,” “happy wife” and “eternal optimist” tweeted: “So many food drives this year. Makes me a) happy people care and b) concerned there is so much need. Give if you can. #thanksgiving.”

In a warped way, we give thanks because we are aware of the harsh (and perhaps hushed) reality of scarcity. We wallow in abundance because of the penury constricting other families. If all humans across the globe were to devour a pound of turkey, the turkey would go the way of its other fl ightless forebears: such as the dodo and the great auk. Every Thanksgiving, most of us reading this are blessed by the natural lottery.

Among us lucky winners, scarcity continues to animate our giving of thanks. The tiny distinctions that we seek to engrave in our lives—the mono-grammed “LV” from French haute couture, the Ralph Lauren equestrian brandishing a polo mal-let on his stallion—are differences that make us feel proud. Such badges of distinction mark out one’s individuality while still being enshrined in our col-lective reverence to certain symbols.

Perhaps Thanksgiving becomes a festival for breaking this zero-sum tussle. Few would be galled by a Thanksgiving feast in another house also rep-

licating a meringue-topped sweet-potato casserole, or Greek yogurt mashed potatoes. Forget the dis-tinguished individual, whose self-esteem is buoyed by the have-nots. Suppressing the zero-sum malaise, we revel in cozy pockets of family and friends and respond to Thanksgiving’s mandate to be grateful.

But why should this annual mandate be confi ned to the fourth Thursday of November? Again, we

might locate the answer in scarcity.Campaigns, memorials, birthdays

and Thanksgiving celebrations come in spurts—once a semester, once a year or once in four years. Fresh from the oven, the turkey is delicious in part because we are not stuffed with this roasted poultry every week. And it can be exhausting to constantly rub against each branch, leaf and twig of the family tree. In other words, ab-sence makes the heart grow fonder.

For a few times each year, we slacken our grip on assignments, open our ears to the stories told by our friends and families, and loosen our belts in antici-pation of the decadent spread. We zoom out before zooming back in. Thanksgiving reminds us of scarce moments that we adore and cradle.

Over the past few days, I decided to collect Thanksgiving hashtags from people at Duke. Keith Jones, a housekeeper at Kilgo, is thankful to see his mum and daughter: “It’s, you know, the vibe of all of us being together in the same house!” Laura Shack-leford, Keith’s colleague, beamed as she counted her blessings: “There are so many things! I’m glad I have a job, my family, food on the table. …”

Gus, the boss of the Greek Devil cart, gave an un-wavering response: “I thank God for getting me up each morning to work here and meet people!”

Most of us harbor the hope of tearing down the wall between work and leisure. Come Thanksgiv-ing, we might be tempted to romanticize the rosy, familial get-togethers and vilify the alienating mar-ketplace of wages and prices.

Let us, however, not forget that the turkey had a price affi xed to its 11-pound carcass. Furthermore, Black Friday promises to deliver a fl urry of sales and breathe life into the markets. Malls will be choked with shoppers.

Still, tucked in this tsunami of consumerism are clumps of friends and family who are laughing, jos-tling and exclaiming. Yours truly will be spending his last American Thanksgiving in the Big Apple rev-eling in communal consumerism.

Here’s wishing everyone a hearty and heartwarm-ing Thanksgiving!

Jing Song Ng is a Trinity senior. His column runs ev-ery other Tuesday. You can follow Jing on Twitter @jin-gapore.

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The Golden Gopher defense has allowed opponents to make just 28.6 percent of their shots, the second-lowest mark in the nation. Minnesota defenders have racked up an astounding 35 blocks in four games, with five players averaging more than a block per game. The team’s athleticism has shown up on the offensive glass as well, where they rank third in the nation with 16.3 offensive boards per game. Collins emphasized Duke’s need to

match Minnesota’s physicality. The Golden Gophers have yet to face much tough competition, though.

“They haven’t really been tested in their four games, and they’re go-ing to come in with a lot of confi-dence,” Collins said.

In addition to the four ranked teams and Minnesota—which was five voting points away from being the No. 25 team in the nation this week—the field features three po-tential spoilers as well.

Familiar face Johnny Dawkins, who played for Duke in the 1980s and later served as a Blue Devil as-

sistant coach, will bring his Stanford squad to the Bahamas to face Mis-souri in the first round, and Virginia Commonwealth head coach Shaka Smart, one of the rising stars of col-lege coaching, will face off against Memphis’ Josh Pastner in a battle of the two youngest head coaches in Division I who have taken a team to the NCAA tournament.

Louisville will take on North-ern Iowa, which figures to threaten Creighton for the Missouri Valley Conference title.

Preparing for such a frenetic slate of three games in three days

with so many difficult potential op-ponents on the menu has already kept Collins and fellow assistants Steve Wojciechowski and Nate James occupied with scouting.

“All three of us split all the teams, so we all have responsibilities,” Col-lins said. “We’re all studying a couple teams as of now, and we’re all kind of putting game plans together. So once we figure out who we’re going to play after the first day, one of the assistants... will already have a full scouting report.”

And because Duke plays three games regardless of the outcomes—

losers play consolation games rather than being eliminated—there will be no rest for the weary once the staff gets down to one of the most luxurious resorts on Earth.

“You’re up all night, you’re trying to put a simple good game scouting report ready for our guys because there’s little turnaround. You don’t have practice time. You really have to go that next morning and watch film and walk through in the ball-room some of the things you want to do,” Collins said. “Fun will be for the families….We’ll be in bunker mentality.”

defeating Miami of Ohio 4-1 and avenging a 1-0 loss to Vir-ginia during the regular season with a 3-1 win Sunday.

Penn State has clung on to get to this stage, winning a pen-alty shootout 3-2 against Big Ten rivals Michigan. The game finished 1-1, a low scoring game by the Nittany Lions’ standard, as they average more than three goals per game.

“We need to have an attacking mentality, and we’ll still con-tinue to go at them,” Church said. “It’ll probably come down to: We’ll have some chances, and they’ll have some chances. They’re a very high-scoring team too. So we’re both going to have some chances, but who finishes their chances?”

The Blue Devils’ high-powered offense, two goals away from the single-season school record, has scored 65 goals in 22 matches. Passing has keyed the offense, with the team record-ing a school-record 77 assists this season.

Freshman Cassie Pecht leads the nation with 15 assists. “We knew Cassie, all along, would be a great player,”

Church said. “I knew she was going to be an offensive talent, but she’s faster and quicker and stronger than we thought she’d be. She’s also done a really good job from a defensive

standpoint…. We’ve moved her all over the place. She’s just re-sponded wherever she’s gone and she’s a great team player.”

Forward Kim DeCesare, who moved from her previous po-sition in midfield this season, credited Pecht for many of her 16 goals this season. With two goals in each game this past week-end, DeCesare now holds the school-record for multi-goal games in a season.

“It’s just unbelievable. A lot of her assists have been finished by one-time finishes,” DeCesare said. “It means the assist was that good.”

Both DeCesare and junior Laura Weinberg, the highest-scoring duo in the country, have 16 goals.

“We’d have been happy if [DeCesare] finished at five, we didn’t know she’d go on to get 16,” Church said. “I don’t think she’s done yet, and we don’t need her to be done yet.”

On the other side Penn State is led in scoring by three play-ers, senior Christine Nairn and forward Maya Hayes, with 15 goals each, and freshman Mallory Weber with 13. Nairn adds 10 assists from her position in midfield.

The Nittany Lions will also have the added advantage of playing at home where they have suffered only one loss, a 3-2 defeat to defending champions Stanford. This is Duke’s fourth

trip to the quarterfinals, but its only victory at this stage came at home during last season’s run to the final.

Church said the team surprised many by recording their first victory against Virginia since 2008, a sign that it is peaking at the right time.

“This year it took a little bit longer for us to click, but right now we’re on fire and on our way up,” DeCesare said. “We’re finally working together both offensively and defensively. We saw bits and pieces of it throughout the year but now we’re do-ing it more consistently.”

For the Blue Devils to advance to the semifinals for a sec-ond consecutive season, they will need to continue their goal-scoring exploits and new-found defensive consistency to knock off another high-seed on the road.

But with the trip to San Diego, Calif. for the College Cup within reach, the players will have to remain focused on the immediate task at hand.

“This is the one you really have to focus on because you’re right there,” Church said. “You can see it, you can taste it, but you’ve got 90 minutes up on the number one seed. It’s going to be as tough a game as we’ve played all year. We’ve got to at-tack, we’ve got to be ready to go. And we will be.”

figure out that we were going to be in.”When the 2009 cross country season be-

gan, Waggoner thought of finding a way to more quickly determine the teams that would be competing in the national meet—something that would be useful for a team like Duke, which had a history of placing outside the top two at its regional meet. Because only teams that finish in the top-two in their region receive automatic bids, any team that does not accomplish this must depend on previous performances in hopes of collecting enough points for an at-large bid. Once the 18 total teams from the nine regional meets are in, an NCAA subcommittee begins reviewing the remaining programs, beginning a long and complicated process of awarding points to po-tential at-large teams by measuring the their success at different meets during the season.

“His algorithm… saves a lot of time,” Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie said. “We did it in the past on a yellow legal pad on a hotel bed once all the results came in. But what Bo has done… is put together a computer program that… spits it out. It’s all about the speed.”

When Waggoner first decided to under-take the task of writing this code, he was an interdepartmental math and computer sci-ence major at Duke, and it seemed like a fun challenge. He began his task by taking out the NCAA rulebook and trying to make sense of it all, referring to previous years’ re-

sults for guidance. Waggoner was not the first to come up with

the idea of constructing an algorithm to help slog through the rules and determine the 13 at-large bids. A popular running website, Flotrack.org, had created their own program for determining the qualification results about a year prior. Shortly after Waggoner had run his program for the first time, determining that Duke would be present at the national meet, Flotrack posted contradicting results.

“I trusted [Bo] completely,” teammate James Kostelnik said. “I still remember, we were at a layover in the Charlotte airport and Flotrack announced who they calculated to make the meet and we weren’t in there.”

It turned out that Flotrack had miscalcu-lated a tie, something that would make all the difference for the Duke team. Waggoner immediately understood what had happened and told his teammates, whose faith in him proved well-justified.

Although his program was a large success, the Duke team qualified for an automatic bid the following season and was not close to con-tention in 2011. So for the Blue Devils, Wag-goner’s program faded into the background as he graduated and went off to Harvard for his Ph.D in computer science. That is, until the Blue Devils finished in fifth at this year’s regional meet.

Even before this year’s runners got off the course, they were worrying about their chanc-es of making the national meet. Going into the contest, both they and Ogilvie had stated

that a top-four finish would mean a trip to the Championships, so when they finished in fifth it did not take long before they started calling Waggoner.

As for Waggoner, he was already snap-ping up regional results and entering them into his code as soon as they came out. Be-cause his program spit out the results before anybody else’s had, the runners knew they would earn a berth to the 2012 National Championships before they had even made it back to campus.

Waggoner did not keep the good news to himself though, and quickly posted his list on running website LetsRun.com, along with de-tailed reasoning for his decisions, under the username ‘devils advocate.’ Although he and his algorithm had thus far gone unnoticed by LetsRun founders Robert and Weldon John-son, this time Waggoner caught their eye.

“I had gone to the message boards, and he had gotten the teams right and the explana-tions seemed logical to me,” Robert said. “I’ve seen people do it manually… it’s just incred-ibly time-intensive to do it, so I’ve never been that concerned, I always wait for someone else to figure it out.”

This time, however, the Johnson brothers did not have to wait. Once Waggoner’s results were on their site, the brothers publicized the post by the person they described as a former-ly unknown poster. Shortly afterwards, an in-terested party emailed Robert to inform him that Waggoner had actually been doing this for years, prompting further interest.

“I’ve always thought that if I had [a pro-gram like Bo’s] and could predict [the quali-fying teams] people would like that,” Robert said. “I realized I could put it up within min-utes, and I just thought that would be a service to the coaches.”

Robert soon posted a reply to ‘devils advo-cate’ on the message board, stating his interest in purchasing the program and providing his email.

“As LetsRun has turned more and more into a business, I realized that everything in life is a negotiation,” Robert said. “People have said, ‘Well why don’t you get interns?’ I think it’s kind of wrong for people to do stuff for free. I feel like people deserve to be paid.”

Despite Robert’s offer to buy the program from him, Waggoner felt that the coding had been so simple there was no reason to charge for it and posted a link to the code as a re-sponse in the thread.

Although the entire code can now be found online, Waggoner is still hoping to stay as involved with the Duke team as before.

“I’m definitely going to still be following results closely [in the future], and I’m defi-nitely going to go to the national cross coun-try championships every year that I possibly can because its such an awesome experience,” Waggoner said. “As for keeping in touch, I hope so, I hope to keep meeting the new guys on the team…. Probably I’ll get old someday and just be the weird has-been who shows up and cheers them on, but that’ll be fun too, so no worries either way.”

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