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‘SmartHat’ may prevent construction-related deaths, Page 3

Off-campus housing lottery system may

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onTherecord“I’m not sure I see politics and religion as such separate

spheres where you either invest in one or invest in another,” —Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells on faith. See story page 4

Execs discuss incentives for new energy

by Carmen AugustineTHE CHRONICLE

After Fuqua student Willem Fadrhon wrote a prize-winning essay on the future of energy, three energy executives gathered at the University Thursday evening to discuss the future of their industry.

Much of the discussion revolved around finding economic incentives to promote sustainable energy. Michael Elliott, the event’s moderator and an editor for Time and Fortune, began the discussion by ask-ing how the industry could encourage con-sumers to “play the game” by being more energy efficient and taking advantage of new technologies.

Chairman and Chief Executive Offi-cer of Cree Charles Swoboda said people would have more incentive to develop energy-efficient habits if they could see a direct and immediate benefit in doing so. He added that although people un-derstand the rationale behind investing today in more expensive light bulbs that will last longer and save them money in the long run, many will still often choose the cheaper option.

“We don’t do it because today I think we’ve wasted too much time making it an

Kiser estate donates historic sum to pediatrics dept.by Ashley Mooney

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The School of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics has received $17.2 million as a gift through the Kiser estate—the largest donation in the department’s history.

Dr. Glenn Kiser and his late wife, Muriel, were long-time benefactors of Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Cen-ter. The gift will fund the Kiser-Arena Endowed Professor-ship in Pediatrics and two Glenn A. Kiser and Eltha Muriel Kiser Endowed Professorships in addition to establishing the Kiser Scholars Program.

The named professorships are for leaders in pediatric education and research, while the Kiser Scholars Program will provide an endowment to retain and provide resourc-es for researchers and educational initiatives.

The Kisers’ gift will affect countless lives, Dr. Joseph St. Geme III, chair of the Department of Pediatrics, wrote in an e-mail.

“This gift will position the Department of Pediatrics to expand research programs and train future physicians in a wide range of complex children’s health problems,” he wrote. “We are excited about the opportunity it presents to recruit new faculty, fuel research funding and to continue our training programs for future specialists in children’s health.”

Glenn Kiser, who passed away in 2009, was a pediatrician in several locations, including the Children’s Hospital, and his wife was an elementary school teacher. As dedicated members of the Duke community, it came as no surprise that Duke’s pediatrics department would be remembered in the Kisers’ will, said Susan Glenn, executive director of development at Duke Children’s Hospital.

“We had no idea of the magnitude of the gift,” she said.Kiser’s dedication to Duke began when he graduated

from the School of Medicine in 1941, and he then com-pleted his residency training in pediatrics at Duke in 1947. He spent a major part of his career as a pediatrician for the Children’s Hospital.

Throughout his career, Kiser helped conceptualize and advocate for childproof safety caps for containers, prevent-ing children from being poisoned by lye and other house-hold chemicals.

In addition to working at Duke Children’s Hospital, Kiser opened and operated a pediatrics practice in Salis-bury, N.C. and later served as chief of pediatrics and chief of staff at Rowan Regional Medical Center.

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A $17.2 million donation will allow Duke’s Department of Pediatrics to expand research and training programs for future physicians.

Highly rated recruit Cook picks Duke

by Taylor DohertyTHE CHRONICLE

A top recruit who calls senior guard Nolan Smith his “big brother” will join the

Blue Devils next year.Five-star recruit Quinn

Cook will join the Duke Basketball program next year, he announced on ESPNU Thursday after-noon. Cook is the No. 20 recruit and the fourth-ranked point guard in the Class of 2011, accord-ing to Scout.com. He will

graduate from Oak Hill Academy in the Spring and chose Duke after narrowing his search down to the Blue Devils and UCLA.

Cook is a long-time friend of Smith, whom he met at a basketball tourna-ment more than 10 years ago, said Cook’s mother, Janet. Cook and Smith were both competing in tournaments for their respective age groups when some of the parents on Cook’s team began to complain that he received more play-ing time. When Cook got upset, Smith supported him, and the two have been friends since that day.

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The Blue Devils’ regular season begins Nov. 14. They hope their postseason will end in Houston, the site of 2011’s Final Four. See more in the ACC Preview inside this issue of The Chronicle.

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Turki, though out of government, is considered a candidate to succeed his ailing brother, saud al-Faisal, as foreign minister.

a pair of house Democrats publicly called on speaker nancy Pelosi to step down from the leadership Thursday and others suggested the same privately, as the California Democrat hunkered down in the Capitol to mull over her future.

Pelosi made no public appearances as speculation swirled as to whether she would run for minority leader following the largest midterm rout in more than 70 years.

rep. heath shuler, D-n.C., said Tues-day’s election results were so bad that Democrats need a new leader who can recruit top-notch candidates in the con-servative-leaning districts where the par-ty suffered its steepest losses.

“we weren’t successful with me as quarterback, so i lost my job,” said shuler, a former washington redskins quarter-back whose team won four games and lost nine with him as a starter.

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Engineers devise ‘SmartHat’ to prevent construction accidents

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The SmartHat is equipped with a silicon microprocessor that can pick up signals from wireless transmitters in nearby construction equip-ment. As workers approach, the hat beeps with increasing frequency, but is dormant around equipment workers are using.

by Amanda YoungTHE CHRONICLE

A technology developed by Duke engineers aims to prevent accidents involving construction parts and equipment, which caused more than 800 deaths in 2009, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Matt Reynolds, a researcher in electrical and comput-er engineering, has worked for three years with several other engineers on developing a silicon microprocessor

that uses radio frequency identification technology to pick up signals from wireless transmitters in heavy equip-ment used on construction sites.

This microprocessor is fastened to the top of a hard hat and is dubbed SmartHat. The device beeps with in-creasing frequency as workers get closer to nearby equip-ment. The SmartHat can also distinguish between the

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

After only 66 out of 220 juniors were granted off-cam-pus housing last week, Campus Council discussed ways to improve the housing lottery Thursday night.

The council voted with one abstention to pass a resolu-tion asking Residence Life and Housing Services to assign lottery numbers in the Spring before students go abroad. Students who wish to live off campus for the second half of their junior year are currently required to enter the off-campus housing lottery midway through Fall.

Most students who request to enter the off-campus hous-ing lottery are juniors studying abroad, said M.J. Williams, director of housing accommodations, administration and finance for RLHS.

“The problem is, many students have already placed down payments on off-campus apartments by the time they find out they have not been granted an exemption,” said sopho-more Cristy de Obaldia, an at-large member of the council who gave the presentation on the off-campus housing lottery. “[And] students end up losing these down payments.”

RLHS determines who can live off campus through a series of calculations, de Obaldia said, adding that RLHS must ensure that all campus beds are filled before grant-ing students off-campus privileges. Although RLHS cannot grant everyone housing exemptions, de Obaldia said this resolution will try to make the lottery process more conve-nient for students living abroad.

The resolution recommends that RLHS begin these cal-culations earlier, so it can give students an earlier and more

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Study examines interplay of faith in religion, politics

by Tong XiangTHE CHRONICLE

Duke students disheartened by the mid-term election results may soon renew their religious faith.

During times of uncertainty, people seek structure and become increasingly dedicated to religion or politics, according to a November study co-authored by Aaron Kay, an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business.

“We showed that when your faith in an in-terventionist god gets shaken, you place more faith in government, [and] when your faith in government is shaken either by experimental manipulation or by an election, you’re more likely to put your faith in a controlling deity,” said co-author Adam Galinsky, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at North-western University.

In their paper titled “For God (or) Country: The Hydraulic Relation Between Government Instability and Belief in Reli-gious Sources of Control,” the authors use the physical metaphor of a hydraulic sys-tem—in which force at one point is trans-ferred to another by a fluid—to conceptu-alize the way people transfer beliefs from one institution to another.

Methodologically, researchers influ-enced the faith of Canadian and Malaysian subjects by having them read essays advo-cating for or against an interventionist god based on support from physicists. Re-searchers used a similar method to affect confidence in government, timing their studies to elections.

Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, the article builds upon a body of research into general human agency.

“One of the central animating forces governing psychology is having a sense of agency over the predictable world,” Gal-insky said. “When that sense of control is somehow violated or taken away, people go to a great level of mental gymnastics to try and preserve it, establishing patterns with things like conspiracy theories.”

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the overlap in people’s perceptions of the two in-stitutions. Religion and politics are not mutually exclusive, said Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells.

“I’m not sure I see politics and religion as such separate spheres where you either invest in one or invest in another,” Wells said. “Both involve the discernment of the best use of re-sources for the common good—either tax dol-lars or the Holy Spirit.”

One of the study’s implications is that re-ligious extremism may be more prevalent in states perceived to have weak governments.

“Although there are undoubtedly multiple causes of religious belief, one cause may be that when people perceive their government as unstable, they turn to God or other religious

by Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson

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Can the administration fight cli-mate change without stressing climate change?

The new Congress will usher in an unprecedented number of lawmakers who question the link between human activity and global warming. As a result, the Obama administration is abandon-ing its two-year quest to convince the public and lawmakers that global warm-ing is a matter of scientific urgency. Instead, the president is talking about nuclear power use, natural gas exploita-tion and sales of electric cars.

In his news conference Wednesday, President Barack Obama said the cap-

and-trade approach to limiting green-house gas emissions that his administra-tion had advocated “was just one way of skinning the cat; it was not the only way. It was a means, not an end.”

A White House official said energy would remain a top priority for the ad-ministration but would be packaged differently.

“I think you’ll see in the next few weeks the administration say, ‘Okay, you may not necessarily agree with the science on climate change, you may not see tackling greenhouse gases as a real priority, but what we can all agree on is creating jobs and investing in a clean-energy economy that’s going to leave

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equipment a worker is operating and other equipment on site, warning workers accordingly.

“If the hat belongs to the driver of the bulldozer, the hat won’t beep when the driver nears the equipment,” said Stewart Thomas, a graduate researcher at Duke who has worked with Reynolds to develop prototypes of the SmartHat since 2008. “However, if [another] worker gets close to a bulldozer, his hat will beep.”

The device can also be set to only beep when equip-ment is traveling in the direction of the worker wear-ing the hat and does not require a battery for use.

“Many construction workers, such as miners, work in places of cold temperature,” Reynolds said. “Batteries go dead in cold temperature. Since the [SmartHat] de-vice does not use a battery, the device can run forever.”

The project started in 2007, when Reynolds visited the Georgia Institute of Technology and met with Jochen Teizer, a researcher at the university’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Teizer was interested in construction safety, and Reynolds mentioned his interest in wireless power transferring technology. They decided to combine their efforts and developed a proposal for the SmartHat project, which was approved for funding by the National Science Foundation in 2008. Since then, they have continued working to improve the technology.

Recently, Teizer conducted a trial with 149 construc-tion workers and said that they expressed enthusiasm for the project.

“The device still needs to become a bit smaller,” Teizer said. “Ultimately, it should be integrated into the hard hat, and then it could be the perfect solution.”

Reynolds and Teizer plan to continue improving the device and conduct a bigger field trial. The project has already attracted the interest of several construction companies, and Reynolds and Teizer hope that with more improvements interest will continue to increase.

“Big companies have an interest in this technology because they have a lot of different problems with ac-cidents,” Teizer said. “The incentive of this product is that it can warn workers, save lives, prevent injuries and save the costs associated with the accidents.”

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for the construction of the McGovern-Davison Building.“He and his wife both felt a strong responsibility to the

community and were leading philanthropists in North Car-olina,” St. Geme said.

Many of the people who currently work in the pediatrics department never had the opportunity to meet the distin-guished pediatrician.

“I wish that I had known Dr. Kiser as he was obviously a remarkable man who was very talented and very generous,”

Associate Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Dr. Thom-as Kinney, Trinity ’66 and Med ’70, wrote in an e-mail. “He truly had a deep affection for Duke and Duke Pediatrics.”

According to a Duke release, the Kisers gained their wealth by early investment in Food Lion, Inc., when it was still a local grocery store. It was through the company’s suc-cess that the Kisers were able to fund their philanthropic activities.

“He was a wonderful community member, but he was very unassuming. He lived very modestly,” Glenn said. “You would have met him and never would have realized that he was a multimillionaire. He was a true philanthropist.”

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deities to fulfill a need for order and control in their lives,” Kay said in an Oct. 27 press release.

This follows, said Dean Wells, because the implicit objectives of both politics and religion are the same.

“In some ways the political approaches that domi-nate American political life are rife with theologies, because theologies wrestle with what is fundamentally wrong with the world and what fundamentally makes it better.”

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by Paul KaneTHE WASHINGTON POST

A pair of House Democrats publicly called on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to step down from the leadership Thursday and others suggested the same privately, as the California Demo-crat hunkered down in the Capitol to mull over her future.

Pelosi made no public appearances as speculation swirled as to whether she would run for minority lead-er following the largest midterm rout in more than 70 years.

Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., said Tuesday’s election re-sults were so bad that Democrats need a new leader who can recruit top-notch candidates in the conservative-lean-ing districts where the party suffered its steepest losses.

“We weren’t successful with me as quarterback, so I lost my job,” said Shuler, a former Washington Redskins quar-terback whose team won four games and lost nine with him as a starter.

“She’s so smart she recognizes that it will be difficult to re-cruit the candidates she needs to win back the House,” added Shuler, a member of the conservative Blue Dog Coalition that was decimated by more than two dozen losses Tuesday.

Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, another moderate, also called for a new direction. “We need to shake things up,” he said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

Some liberals who consider themselves Pelosi backers also think she needs to step aside, given the thousands of campaign commercials that helped turn her into one of the nation’s most unpopular politicians. The most com-mon ad feature that Republicans used against Democratic incumbents highlighted how often the lawmaker voted with Pelosi, who was almost always shown in grainy images.

“She’s been demonized unfairly, this wasn’t her agenda, it was an agenda supported by lots of people, including my-self,” said one liberal House Democrat, who spoke on the

condition of anonymity to criticize Pelosi, whom he consid-ers a friend. “It wouldn’t be good for her or the party [to remain in the leadership], and this is from someone who loves her.”

Pelosi on Thursday made comments only to progressive media outlets.

“I’ve gotten a positive response, but I haven’t gone to a place where I’ve made a decision about that. Only to-day have I even looked at messages or anything that relate to me,” she told the Huffington Post, suggesting that she would begin talking in earnest Thursday night to lawmak-ers about what she should do with her future.

On Wednesday, she met with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Md., her likely successor, and other members of her leadership team. Sources familiar with the talks said she gave no hint of her intentions.

As Republicans laid out a conservative agenda for next year, congressional Democrats were left to wonder when a decision would come from Pelosi, creating a sense of pa-ralysis about which direction the caucus was headed.

Some liberals are reluctant to support Hoyer, who has served as Pelosi’s deputy for eight years, because he is more closely aligned with moderates.

There is no consensus alternative to Hoyer, however, as most of the other liberal Democrats either do not have enough seniority or played a role in the party’s unsuccess-ful campaign.

In the Senate, Democrats prepared for a scaled-down vision of what they can accomplish with a leadership team that will remain almost exactly the same, following Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s re-election in Nevada. Pin-ning most of the blame on the economy, some Democrats also faulted President Barack Obama’s political operation.

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accurate estimation of whether they will be able to live off campus, de Obaldia added.

“The biggest thing here is Campus Council’s responsibility to improve the resi-dential experience of its constituents, [and] to make it easier for students to plan,” said Campus Council President Stephen Tem-ple, a senior. “It doesn’t hurt RLHS for stu-dents to know more in advance if they have a better shot of being released from their on-campus requirement. This will give a little more notice.”

Temple noted that RLHS’s prediction is not a guarantee, but he hopes that this strategy will give students more time to plan properly and limit the number of surprises.

in other business:Facilities and Services Chair Doug-

las Hanna, a sophomore, gave an update

about the committee’s upcoming projects, which include a laundry-monitoring sys-tem, residence hall maps and improved lighting around West and Central campus-es, Hanna said. He added that Dyson air-blade hand-dryers will be installed in Black-well Dormitory as part of a pilot program to reduce the University’s consumption of paper towels.

Hanna added that a reverse vending machine is expected to be installed in Wannamaker Dormitory by the end of the month, and a photo machine is expected to be installed on the ground floor of Mc-Clendon Tower soon.

Hanna also announced that an Oasis-like space will be created on the third floor of McClendon Tower below Bella Union. The Facilities and Services Committee has already looked into ordering massage chairs and ap-proved art work and paint for the space.

“All the ducks are kind of already in a row for this, so this will be done soon,” he said.

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Campus Council met Thursday to discuss changing the current off-campus housing lottery system. Campus Council hopes to make the lottery system more convenient for students studying abroad.

“I met him when I was five years old at an AAU tournament,” Cook said. “We definitely became close, and it’s like we’ve lived the same life. We’ve lost our fathers, we’re with our moms and sisters our whole life, [then] Oak Hill and we’re going to Duke.”

Smith will graduate this spring, so the pair will not get the chance to play with each other. However, Smith played a major role in Quinn’s recruitment, Janet Cook said.

“What Nolan was and is is a confidant and an adviser,” Janet Cook said. “[Quinn] saw Nolan as he went through the good times, but he was there when Nolan was going through the bad times—he saw the whole metamorphosis.... I can’t explain the friendship slash brotherhood but it’s unbelievable.”

Initially, Janet said she thought that there were too many guards in the Duke program and that UCLA was “a better fit for him.” In fact, Cook likely would have been the Bruins’ starting point guard from the outset. During his visit to Duke, however, Cook was not promised a start-ing slot or a certain number of minutes, but Janet said head coach Mike Krzyze-wski told Cook he will have a major role on the team.

“He used the term that Quinn is a great ‘floor general,’ a great leader,” Janet Cook said. “[Krzyzewski] said he is one of the best point guards he has ever seen.”

Cook will have to battle for every min-ute he plays as a freshman considering the crowded backcourt. But, the depth at his position will provide exceptional competition on a day-to-day basis on the practice court.

“I love competition,” Cook said. “Now I know I can go somewhere where every day in practice I’m going against a top player.”

During his official visit that coincid-ed with Countdown to Craziness, a sec-ond-year event that kicks off the Blue Devils’ season, Cook spent time with other 2011 commits, including Austin Rivers, the nation’s top recruit. Cook said the event helped him understand what it is like to be a basketball player at Duke.

“It definitely shows the fan sup-port,” Cook said. “It shows how the city of Durham loves Duke basketball. If it’s a recruiting tool, it definitely worked on me.”

Quinn is the fourth player in re-cent years to join the Blue Devil pro-gram after playing AAU basketball for DC Assault, an elite high school team based in the nation’s capital coached by Smith’s stepfather, Curtis Malone. In addition to Smith, freshmen Tyler Thornton and Josh Hairston played for the program. Janet said when Smith leaves the program, her son hopes to carry on his legacy.

“Nolan is a winner, Josh and Tyler are winners and I think I’m a winner as well,” Quinn said. “We work hard as well, and Coach K sees that —winners and workers.”

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champion Cal Poly Pomona.

Despite pos-sessing supe-rior size, the Plumlee broth-

ers were being outplayed in the paint by the Broncos’ lone post threat, 6-foot-9 Tobias Jahn. And Jahn had just made the younger Plumlee look unprepared defensively on back-to-back possessions.

James certainly wasn’t going to let Mason get away with it.

“Stand tall!” James screamed at the sophomore forward.

It might have taken longer than ex-pected, but Mason and the Blue Devils finally did just that, using a second-half run to defeat Cal Poly Pomona 81-60.

“You have to play tougher. We weren’t being strong, and we weren’t playing good defense,” head coach Mike Krzyze-wski said.

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Duke will look to honor its seven depart-ing seniors by accumulating a home win for each one, as they possess six home victories entering tonight’s contest against Wake Forest (8-7-2, 4-2-1 in the ACC). The Blue

Devils’ regular sea-son finale —tonight at 7 p.m. in Koski-nen Stadium —will also serve as Senior Night, saying farewell to seven outstanding leaders who have ac-cumulated a 43-27-7 record over the past four years.

Redshirt-senior Matt Thomas said the game will be important and getting a win will not be easy.

“Wake has had our number, taking wins in the last three matchups,” Thomas said.

Duke’s most recent win over Wake came in a 1-0 overtime victory in the 2006 ACC Tournament.

The team has worked hard on the train-ing pitch all year, especially as the season has progressed. Thomas explained that possession has been the key factor in the Blue Devils’ recent winning performances.

“Possession has been huge. We have worked a lot with team shape helping the forwards to make runs,” he said.

The No. 21 Blue Devils (8-4-4, 2-3-2) head into tonight’s game with a solid re-cord in preparation for the ACC and NCAA Tournaments; however, the Blue Devils know they cannot be complacent.

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Quarterback Sean Renfree’s perfor-mance against Navy last week was remark-able for several reasons. His passing game was nearly perfect, finishing 28-of-30 and completing 93 percent of his throws to set a new Duke single-game record for pass completion percentage.

He also ran for more touchdowns than he threw for the first time in his life, he said. And one more thing—his coaches and teammates actually saw him smile.

“Sean doesn’t show a lot of emotion at all,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “And I saw two or three times about as big a grin on his face during the game as I’ve seen. I went over and told him, ‘That’s something you need to remember.’ It’s OK to smile during a football game. I want him to have fun, relax a little bit and play the game.”

If Renfree can continue to make smart throws and protect the football in the re-cently-simplified passing attack, he and the rest of the Blue Devils (2-6, 0-4 in the ACC) will have plenty to smile about as they take on Virginia (4-4, 1-3) Saturday at noon at Wallace Wade Stadium.

Renfree said that his recent struggles had him feeling more nervous before last week’s game. Thanks to a pared-down pass-ing game designed to reduce pressure on the quarterback by allowing him to make short, quick throws, he was able to make better decisions and avoid interceptions. Renfree said he learned during the past few weeks that he cannot make throws based on what he thinks—he has to make decisions based on what he sees.

The shift in focus for the passing game to quicker short-yardage throws forces both Renfree and his receivers to know where the ball is going before the snap. This also takes the pressure off of Renfree to force plays by making “spectacular” throws.

Those short screen throws, while not as highlight reel-worthy as longer comple-tions, are the most crucial throws that a quarterback can make, Cutcliffe said.

“The most important throw—from an accuracy standpoint—you make is laying the ball off,” he said. “If you’re accurate with the football on layoffs, you’re going to gain 3 or 4 more yards on every one of those plays.”

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Duke found itself up only six points at halftime after Jahn scored 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the first 20 min-utes. But the Blue Devils did what they’re likely to do many times this season when they’re struggling —they turned to their star, Kyle Singler.

Despite scoring only two points in the first half, Singler was fed the ball early in the second half. The senior hit a face-up jumper right out of the locker room and drew a foul behind the 3-point arc on Duke’s next posses-sion. After hitting all three free throws, the Blue Devils quickly had regained a double-digit lead.

And it was also Singler who fueled the decisive run of the game midway through the final period. Soon after scoring a fastbreak putback to put Duke up by 17, Singler stole the ball, main-tained possession with an impressive behind-the-back dribble and hit fellow senior Nolan Smith with a pass upcourt, who then found a streaking Ryan Kelly for a thunderous alley-oop.

The very next possession, Singler again single-handedly stopped the Broncos, this time with a block that led to another fastbreak and alley-oop

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from Irving to Smith.Singler finished with 12 points in just

nine minutes of second-half action, and Duke was on its way to a victory.

“He’s the best man on our team, so we definitely had to give him the ball,” Irving said. “Two points in the first half is unacceptable.... I mean, he’s Kyle Singler.”

While Singler broke out in the second half, Irving was the one Blue Devil who consistently impressed throughout the contest. He finished with 13 points, five as-sists, only two turnovers and a plethora of highlight-reel plays.

On one play, Irving split two defend-ers, sidestepped another and wrapped a pass to Josh Hairston around a final one for an easy layup.

“I never really think about plays like that,” Irving said. “I play on instinct.”

But despite the victory and the positive performances from the Blue Devils’ stars,

there were still signs of concern, particu-larly in the post. Duke was outrebounded by the undersized Broncos 23-17 in the first half, as Cal Poly Pomona pulled down 11 offensive boards.

“We just weren’t being aggressive going after balls, and when we had our hands on balls we weren’t bringing it in,” Mason said. “That just can’t happen. We’ve got to be stronger.”

Still, Krzyzewski knew that there would be bumps in the road as his team developed this season, despite the cas-cade of preseason hype raining down on the Blue Devils.

He made it quite clear: this team isn’t perfect.

“We’re going to be a developing team. We’re not going to hold anyone scoreless, we’re going to be down in games, we’re go-ing to look bad, and overall we’re going to try to get better,” Krzyzewski said. “I’ve got a team that has to develop. This was a very good game for us.... This game will help us become better.”

by Danny NolanTHE CHRONICLE

The ACC Tournament started and end-ed for Duke Thurs-day afternoon, as the Blue Devils lost their first round game 2-1 to the Virginia Cavaliers.

Third-seeded Virginia (16-2) defeated sixth-seeded Duke for the second time in six days after the Blue Devils fell in a down-to-the-wire contest at Jack Katz Stadium Sat-urday. Thursday’s win proved no easier for the Cavaliers. Virginia’s Elly Buckley scored in the 19th minute, and the Cavaliers held their 1-0 lead into halftime. Tara Puffen-berger notched another goal for Virginia in the 42nd minute to establish a two-goal edge in the second half.

Down the stretch, though, Duke (8-11) showed the tenacity it has demonstrated all season, closing the gap to one goal when Su-san Ferger tipped in an errant shot with less than two minutes remaining in the game. Head coach Beth Bozman was impressed with the team’s effort down the stretch.

“We had multiple freshmen in the line-up and a young squad overall,” Bozman said. “We could have rolled over and given up, but we fought and fought and fought, and it really shows the desire of this team.”

As it has been much of the year for Duke, defense was the theme in the game, with very few offensive opportunities present-ing themselves to either team. The statistics reflected the closeness of the game, as the Cavaliers outshot the Blue Devils just 9-7 overall, while Duke led the way 5-4 in shots on goal. This was the eighth game this sea-son that the Blue Devils lost by one goal.

Duke was an underdog going into the con-test, as No. 3 Virginia proved to be one of the best teams in the country this season. Playing a highly-ranked opponent was not new territory for the Blue Devils; Duke played the NCAA’s most difficult schedule this year.

“This is a team that played the toughest schedule in the country, with probably the youngest team in the country, and the team never quit,” Bozman said.

With the season coming to a close, the team will lose key seniors Sarah Schoffstall and Susan Ferger.

“They were the most unselfish and team-committed athletes I’ve ever coached,” Boz-man said. “They gave effort to do anything for the team.”

Bozman praised the play of her team throughout the season and encouraged others to do the same.

“Anyone who’s a Duke fan should be proud of the effort this team gave this sea-son,” she said.

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Those throws may not be as available against Virginia. Navy dropped eight de-fenders back in coverage, leaving only three men up front to protect against the screen passes. Renfree expects a different look from the Cavaliers’ de-fense, including more blitz packages. His game plan, though, largely will re-main the same.

“I imagine Virginia will try to beat me up a little bit,” Renfree said. “Try and make me force throws, but, like I said, it’s making smarter decisions when it’s not clearly there, throw it away, run, do something else with it instead of forcing throws and forcing interceptions.”

By protecting the football and not committing any turnovers—a statistic Renfree said he was more proud of than his final completion percentage—he was able to build confidence head-ing into this week’s matchup. As the natural leader of the squad, Renfree saw his improvement reflected in the entire team’s performance.

“When he’s on, I wouldn’t rather have any other quarterback in the nation,”

said Cooper Helfet, who was named the ACC’s offensive lineman of the week after catching a season-high seven passes against the Midshipmen. “We just have to get him a couple easy, nice completions early, get him rolling, and take it from there.”

The Blue Devils have had success against Virginia during Cutcliffe’s tenure, beating the Cavaliers in each of their past two meet-ings. If Renfree and company can make it three in a row, it will be the first win in No-vember for Duke since Cutcliffe took over before the 2008 season.

The timing of Virginia’s visit, though, is less than ideal. Just as the Blue Devils faced Navy after a big win at Notre Dame, Virgin-ia comes into the matchup after knocking off then-No. 22 Miami.

Additionally, Duke’s offense is ”pretty beat up,” Cutcliffe said, with running back Josh Snead and tight end Brett Huffman out with injuries and wide re-ceiver Austin Kelly doubtful with a head injury. Helfet said that while the team is aware of its untimely scheduling, all that matters is that the Blue Devils execute their game.

“We’re coming off a big win, too,” he said. “If we play as well as we can play, we are a strong force to contend with.”

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“We know [Wake Forest is] com-ing to play,” head coach John Kerr said. Kerr went on to explain that the team knows the attitude it needs to win this game.

“We have put ourselves out there all season. We have to keep each other mo-tivated and be brave,” Kerr said.

Duke has shown its bravery all sea-son with one of the toughest schedules in the country. The Blue Devils’ second straight win came in a 6-1 road victory over Virginia Tech last Saturday, as soph-omore forward Ryan Finley netted a hat trick. On the other hand, the Demon Deacons are sporting a three-game win streak, most recently defeating David-son 2-0 Tuesday.

Finley leads the Blue Devils’ attacking front along with senior Cole grossman and junior Christopher Tweed-Kent. The Finley-grossman striking pair have combined for 24 goals, supplemented by Tweed-Kent’s 11 assists. On the defensive end, sophomore keeper James Belshaw has been outstand-ing at Koskinen Stadium this season, helping Duke maintain a home record of 6-1-2.

The red-hot Demon Deacons are bat-tling to finish the season over .500 to so-lidify their eligibility for the NCAA Tour-nament. Andy Lubahn and Luca gimenez have been superb for Wake Forest, scoring a combined 12 goals.

Tonight’s game promises to be a battle of wills between a Duke squad eager to send its seniors off with one last home vic-tory and a Wake Forest team scrapping to ensure a bid in the College Cup.

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E-mail invitations to Hal-loween-themed fraternity parties were found printed out and posted on fliers across campus Sunday morn-ing, sparking a debate about gender issues and Duke’s so-cial scene.

Fraternities typically uti-lize blast e-mails or “social listservs” to invite women to their parties. Invites are intended to be satirical but they often include sexist jokes that refer to women as “sluts” or worse. The two e-mails plastered across cam-pus were invitations to late-night after-parties hosted by Sigma Nu fraternity and the off-campus, unrecognized Al-pha Delta Phi fraternity.

Women who receive invita-tions like these on a regular

basis—generally members of sororities—recognize their mi-sogynistic and offensive tone as commonplace, driven by frater-nities’ attempts to continually push the envelope and one-up

each other. Per-haps the largest campus cultural

problem at stake is the fact that so many women say they have become desensitized to this type of unacceptable dialogue.

“This is the kind of thing I’ve come to expect from fra-ternities. In my heart, I know it’s a problem but I’ve really gotten used to it,” senior Em-ily Fausch, secretary of Delta Delta Delta sorority told The Chronicle this week.

We commend the anony-mous individuals who posted these fliers across campus for their bold action in exposing

an offensive practice that has become all too familiar to greek women.

It is reasonable that indi-vidual students should wish to remain anonymous when speaking out against such a social status quo. They could risk isolating members of their friend groups by un-dertaking a solitary effort. Organizations themselves, however, are obligated to act in a way that shatters this col-lective action failure.

Specifically, the Interfra-ternity Council should pun-ish its member groups when they act in a misogynistic or derogatory way toward women. The Panhellenic As-sociation, the largest wom-en’s membership group on campus, should make every effort to ensure that its so-

rorities maintain a unified front against invitations and actions that are degrading.

E-mail invitations such as those posted across campus last weekend are nearly impos-sible to regulate, and thus we believe a direct response from the University administration to be unnecessary at this point. But greeks should recognize that this problem transcends their own community.

Due to its housing and or-ganizational advantages, the greek community occupies a position of social dominance on campus that amplifies the impact of an event like this. All Duke women have a right to be outraged by these e-mails. IFC and Panhel must employ a strong, visible response to re-assure every student who par-ticipates in the undergraduate

social scene that offensive and sexist language is not part of the Duke culture.

Fraternities’ crude custom of e-mailing sexist invitations to women on campus has ex-isted for far too long. Given this fact, the bold action of anonymous individuals to bring these e-mails to light during Halloween weekend is a positive development for Duke’s campus culture and gender relations problems.

Panhel, IFC, individual chapters and all social groups on campus should carry this momentum forward by ac-tively fostering a social en-vironment in which sexism and male dominance are not part of the equation. Individ-uals exposed this problem, now social groups must work toward its solution.

Fuqua Student (FS), you know who you are. You stood at the edge of the parking lot during graduate and professional student Campout

with the bottom half of the hamburg-er bun in your hand and asked me, “Which one does it go in?”

Since this column isn’t actually about being wasted, which you may have been, and since this wasn’t your first time through the waste-free lunch sorting station, I challenged you to figure it out. You paused, look-ing down at the barrels and the signs, and claimed you didn’t know.

“Go with your gut,” I told you, as-suming too much.

You threw that little scrap of bread in the trash. “Wrong!” I told you. “Try the compost.” FS, you embody a simple truth: Without me

standing there waving my hands at the appropri-ate barrel, most people get equally flustered when confronted with this seemingly simple choice, or ignore it altogether.

Despite incidents like the one I experienced with FS, the waste-free lunch event, and events like it, are usually considered a success. At the end, a peek into the barrels reveals the compost to be nearly full, while the trash has almost nothing in it, and the recycling bins... well, they work over-time throughout an event like Campout.

But a huge amount of manpower is generally required to man the sorting stations. That’s in ad-dition to the added planning and cost required to coordinate pick-up logistics, additional barrels and signage. This is not to say that composting, especially industrial composting, does not have vi-able economic value—it does. Duke participates daily, but behind the scenes in the prep kitchens, where there is less threat of contamination by the FS-character. There are, however, a few scattered post-consumer composting locations on campus.

I challenge you to find and use one. German Graduate Student (GGS), you came

up to the Sustainability table at the graduate stu-dent activities fair at the beginning of the semes-ter. You asked about recycling, lamenting that you were having a hard time getting your new room-mates to sort their trash. You listed glass, plastic, metal, paper, compost, trash. Five bins? Six?!

Haha, silly GGS, we have co-mingled recycling here in the good ol’ USA, you don’t have to sort all that stuff out separately! It all goes in the same bin. OK... well, some of it goes in the same bin... actu-ally plastic, glass and metal can all be co-mingled. Then paper, and cardboard, that’s separate, while newspaper and glossies can usually go together. Compost... you have a pile out back? OK, so we’re

back at like four buckets....Yikes. We could extrapolate conclusions that Europe-

ans seem more adept at taking so-cially responsible action, or wander down the halls of the dysfunctional Duke waste collection system, but those feel obvious and previously digested. So let’s settle and say we are operating somewhere in the middle of a continuum.

Now here’s a story of a plastic bot-tle (PB). They’ve been getting a lot of press lately. I hear they’re bad.

To help tell the tale, in an emp-tying warehouse across the road from Smith Ware-house, I found Arwen Buchholz, Duke’s recycling and waste reduction coordinator.

The beginning is fairly easy: I’ve consumed the contents of my PB, and since I’m standing in Twin-nie’s Café, I have deposited it in the centralized collection area to my left. (To combat the problem of the elusive collection stations around campus, Buchholz told me that by the end of the semester, her audit of locations should be available on the web to help with the search.)

Now my PB is sitting at the bottom of the bin, and one of Buchholz’s five recycling collection staff is picking it up. They’ll visit this site once a week. From the building, a truck will carry my bottle to the back of the parking lot, next to the warehouse where it will join its friends in a large roll-off (large dumpster) filled with other PBs and GBs (glass bottles) and ACs (aluminum cans).

From here, it will be hauled to the Sonoco Re-cycling transfer location in Durham. Sonoco bails it, then moves it to Raleigh where it’s sorted and shipped to mills. For beverage containers, those mills might be at Coca-Cola or Anheuser-Busch (Par-tay!), which produce their own containers on site. Usually, the recycled material will be mixed with vir-gin material. Economics plays into the picture here periodically. For instance, lower numbered plastics are worth actual money. They are more versatile.

But back to that decision, just after I swigged the last slug, what about the PB that doesn’t make it, that lands in the trash (FS, I’m looking at you!)? Since Oct. 1 here in North Carolina, that bottle is starting an illegal ride to the landfill. FS, aiding and abetting? I would not have guessed! GGS, are you surprised? This trip is not only illegal, it’s generally more expen-sive for Duke, but you’re unlikely to know that.

So on a scale of FS to GGS, how wasted is your PB (or hamburger bun, for that matter)?

Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate student in me-chanical engineering. Her column runs every other Friday.

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letterstotheeditorThe importance of communication

The Greek Women’s Initiative is a proactive group of men and women who intend to empower greek women, initiate dialogue and propose solutions to the dilemmas men and women face at Duke University.

We would like to address the e-mails that were posted around campus this weekend. We believe that this is an is-sue not of a single fraternity or of fraternities in general, but rather a problem with campus culture. This problem cannot and will not be addressed without open communica-tion among the greek community and a sincere effort by all members to confront the issues in the gender culture.

Therefore, the Greek Women’s Initiative has recruit-ed and received volunteers from almost every chapter in each of the four greek governing councils on campus to

serve as facilitators for conversations about gender issues within their chapters. These facilitators, after having been trained by the Center for Race Relations, will report the issues discussed in their individual chapters back to the Greek Women’s Initiative. We represent all chapters and councils because we believe that only through numerous and varied opinions across the entire Greek community can we find a workable solutions to the issues this com-munity faces.

We recognize that these recent e-mails are a symptom of a greater problem. The Greek Women’s Initiative intends to use the response to these e-mails as an opportunity to start dialogue about gender issues at Duke. Our efforts are about conversations, not accusations.

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Pathologists, and surgical patholo-gists in particular, are in the busi-ness of frequently giving bad news

to their clinician counter-parts, and by extension to the patients they serve. Cancer remains a big deal, tissue diagnosis the gold standard needed to commence treatment and that’s where the patholo-gist comes in. The news that I often bring from the microscope is often bad; it’s cancer, or worse, it’s an especially aggressive form of can-cer, or that the cancer has spread and is incurable.

And here at Duke, and in my own practice, it’s usually about lung cancer.

Clinicians aren’t usually surprised at the pathologist’s finding; lung cancer is not a subtle disease, nor is it uncommon. We see a ton of it at the Medical Cen-ter, involving folks from all walks of life, most of whom share the common bond of being smokers or ex-smokers. And if you follow this sort of thing, November is National Lung Cancer Awareness Month. No, there’s no Race for the Cure, no ce-lebrity spokesman to put a face on lung cancer and you don’t get a bracelet. Lung cancer and its victims lack social currency, and it remains the poor relation among malignancies, its research underfunded in proportion to the magnitude and se-verity of the problems it causes.

It’s hard to frame a discussion of lung cancer without mentioning smoking, its principal cause. Back in the day, cigarettes were once touted as healthful reducers of stress, and a sign of glamour and suave sophistication. One could pretty much smoke where one pleased. The smokers among my grade school teachers were relegated to the noisome recesses of the teachers’ lounge, but a number of my college professors stalked about the class-room, cigarette in hand, as did a number of attending physicians during rounds in the hospital when I was a medical student. There were dedicated smoking rows in aircraft, and when the lights came on at the end of the show in movie theaters or in concert halls and sports arenas, it was usually to illuminate a dense and acrid fog of cigarette smoke.

Non-smoking areas of bars and res-taurants were unheard of. The Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee 1964 re-port on smoking and health, concluding that cigarette smoking causes cancers of the lung and larynx in men and women, added scientific validity to the fledgling public health crusade against tobacco, beginning with health warnings on ciga-rette packages and the banning of ciga-

rette advertising in the broadcast media. The tobacco industry fought this

strenuously and was quick to pounce on cigarette smoking as a means of rebellious em-powerment for women and exercising one’s civil liberties. The Women’s Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s saw the targeting of young women as a vast market for to-bacco products by the in-dustry, and with this came the creation of cigarette

brands intended solely for women. And therein lies tragedy.Previously responsible for a miniscule

amount of cancer deaths in women, the creation of the contemporary young woman smoker has resulted in lung can-cer’s emergence as the leading cause of cancer deaths in both sexes, more than breast, colon, prostate and all the re-maining cancers of other solid organs combined. This remains true today. The lack of outrage and silence on this from groups advocating women’s rights has al-ways puzzled and bothered me.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently estimates 46 million Americans, nearly 21 percent of the population older than 18, currently smoke cigarettes, with the highest rates among those who live below the poverty level. Nothing seems to spark a debate like plans to ban cigarette smoking in res-taurants, bars and other public establish-ments. Cigarettes are legal products for adults to use—who’s the government to say where we can smoke? No one is forced to pass time in a smoky bar, argue some civil libertarians. Second-hand smoke is noxious and carcinogenic, and there is no absolute right to smoke anywhere you please and the cost of caring for tobacco-related disease as smoking slowly kills you is bankrupting us to boot, argue public health officials.

Regardless, workplace and public area smoking bans have been associated with greatly reduced prevalence in smoking: California’s aggressive anti-smoking cam-paigns and bans on smoking have been accompanied by a fall in smoking preva-lence from 22.7 percent in 1988 to 13.8 percent in 2007. I don’t ever see a prohi-bition on tobacco and given the history of problems spawned by former prohibition on alcohol and the current disastrous prohibition on illicit drugs, this is prob-ably a good thing. Lung cancer awareness can be distilled down to just a few points. If you choose to smoke, you stand a good chance of getting lung cancer. If you get lung cancer, there’s a good chance of it killing you. Public tobacco consumption abatement programs reduce the preva-lence of smoking, and the most highly lethal form of cancer is paradoxically among the most preventable. Lung can-cer lacks its Lance Armstrong, but it’s not exactly an unknown malady in Holly-wood or in the sports and entertainment world, claiming the lives of John Wayne, Paul Newman, Walt Disney, Joe DiMag-gio and Ayn Rand, with many others dy-ing of tobacco-associated aerodigestive tract cancers. Should there be even more draconian measures to curb tobacco con-sumption? You decide.

In the meantime I have a stack of slides here by my microscope that’s about two feet thick. Inside there is bound to be bad news.

Dr. Thomas Sporn is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology. His column runs every other Friday.

Public Enemy #1As registration rolls around and the

process of schedule crafting begins again, it’s easy to be reminded of the

advice that many of us may have received from teach-ers, parents and speakers upon graduation from high school. At that time, when it seemed that everyone fan-cied themselves experts on the matter, it was not at all rare to encounter the sort of sidewalk philosopher who cautioned against any sort of pre-professionalism, and recommended instead a course load conceived with an open mind, and with plenty of time left for meeting people and “getting involved around campus,” what-ever that may mean.

This type of ill-conceived dogma is not confined merely to casual conver-sation, however, but works its way into slightly more institutional interactions as well. By the end of the college tour process, the anecdote on the part of the ever-original tour guide concerning the arbitrary choice of a class outside of their area of interest as a result of limited op-tions which then inspired a change of their major became just about as tired as the one about how their professors had them over for dinner on multiple occa-sions.

Last year, at a local high school grad-uation, author, historian and current president of the University of Richmond Edward L. Ayers, an intelligent and ac-complished man by any measure, spout-ed the same sort of rhetoric, urging the young college-going crowd to make time for things other than their studies. It seems that individuals at all levels of the collegiate experience are heavily favor-ing this approach, which must be at least a little unsettling to some.

For one thing, imagine (if you must, as perhaps you are too familiar already with the scenario) the predicament of the student who has been chiefly advised by people in professional educational capacities to focus on open-mindedness and free time in choosing classes, and who now finds himself several years into his college education and at a severe dis-advantage as it applies to curriculum, ma-jor and graduate school requirements. Now, this isn’t really the strongest argu-ment against the kind of advice in ques-tion, as any individual student should be responsible enough to educate himself on his requirements even without the help of those around him. Still, though, that student must feel some dissonance arising from the messages he’s been giv-en. Certainly the time spent languishing in experimental coursework was nice,

but the stress foregone is now knocking at the door and demanding to be paid in full. It’s that sort of inevitable retribu-

tion, conveniently left out of all those early conversa-tions, for something that was too good to be true in the first place.

And it makes it tougher to get the job done in more ways than one. Even when a student decides that it’s time to leave behind his extraneous pursuits and hone in his focus on a cho-

sen area of study, there’s no guarantee that he’ll find himself in the position to take the classes that he needs. The reg-istration system at Duke does not nec-essarily ensure a preferential allocation of classes in a specific discipline toward students of that discipline. This, in con-junction with the wide swath of students dipping their toes into classes from de-partment to department, makes it even more difficult to fulfill the requirements set upon the student.

In the end, though, these are not the real issues. Students can see for themselves when they need time to dabble and when instead it’s time to hit the grind. If they’re forward thinking enough, and if they can establish a conversation with a profes-sor before registration, they can probably make their way into the classes they need as well. The problem with all of this chatter is the conceit at the bottom of it.

By reassuring students that neither plans nor paths are essential early on in their college experience, adults in positions of discipline are promoting a period of early indulgence that is anti-thetical to the principles that typically lead one to be successful in any serious endeavor. It is not aimless wandering and introspective revelation that bring a person to the genre of accomplishment that he seeks, but rather an ethic for sus-tained work. And this is no profundity; in fact, it is instilled in us from the time that we are young, when we are taught first to finish our homework and then to play, and not to take our dessert until after we’ve eaten dinner.

Is there a time for wandering without, as the saying goes, being lost? Certainly, and it is not in dispute that valuable personal growth lies in stepping outside of the comfort zone. But let that be the delayed gratification, the reward for ful-filling requirements and reaching goals, and the motivation for doing now what others will put off until tomorrow.

Happy bookbagging, everyone.

Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His col-umn runs every Friday.

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argument that’s social and environmental,” he said. “The only thing that matters on a consistent basis is economics.”

He explained that a successful energy efficiency initiative could pay for itself if in-novators are given proper economic incen-tives. Selecting which sorts of technologies to develop is an important decision, howev-er, because some alternative energies may not ultimately pay off.

President of the Alliance to Save Energy Kateri Callahan said one of the industry’s major problems is inadequate consumer awareness.

“We’ve got work to do [on] educating consumers, educating businesses, educat-ing policy makers,” she said.

Callahan cited the recent implementa-tion of energy efficient practices in Salina, Kansas, a traditionally conservative town, as an example of successful consumer educa-tion. The town is participating in a compe-tition sponsored by the Climate and Energy Project.

“They were [saving energy] for thrift reasons, for patriotic reasons... [and] be-cause it was a competition with other ar-eas,” she said.

But in most instances, there is currently little economic benefit to adopting energy-efficient habits, Callahan, Swoboda and President of Shell WindEnergy Richard Williams agreed.

“The price of electricity in your home is so cheap... you’ve got no incentive to change,” Callahan said.

But beyond raising consumer aware-ness, the panelists disagreed about how best to go about encouraging and enforc-ing energy-efficient practices. Williams said the current industry is built on regulated money and that increased capital would be

required to incentivize investing in alterna-tive energy.

“Let’s create goals that drive people to go solve them and find the entrepreneurs who solve them,” Swoboda said. “Trad-ing things is nice, but if you really want to move the game forward let’s solve the base problem—force the fundamental change.”

He added that ineffective public policy was also a root of the problem.

“We need a policy that drives market behavior to solve problems,” he said. “We could simply raise those standards and we’ll see... businesses pop up to solve those problems.”

Callahan said a combination of better policies and innovative technologies would be an ideal solution and added that keep-ing old and inefficient products on the market risked confusing consumers.

The panelists also discussed the ben-efits of outreach programs that encour-age younger students to consider careers in science and engineering. Swoboda and Williams said they both work with middle school children and Callahan said many of her company’s interns went on to take jobs in the energy sector.

Throughout the discussion, audience members were asked to answer multiple choice questions about the status and fu-ture of the industry on an electronic poll-ing device. One question asked the audi-ence to predict the price of gas in 15 years, and 46 percent responded “six dollars or more.” The panelists were divided on this matter.

“This is only 15 years,” Williams said. “It’s hard to make a change that fast.”

Swoboda disagreed, citing the unex-pected success of technologies such as the iPod as evidence that rapid techno-logical change renders such predictions unreliable.

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the U.S. more competitive,’” said Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate-change policy.

Obama suggested that the agreement forged with the auto industry and unions to boost the fuel efficiency of cars and trucks could be a model for talks with utilities over reducing the carbon dioxide emissions of power plants. Other admin-istration officials said they were already exploring this. Such a deal would not re-quire congressional action.

James Connaughton, who chaired the White House Council on Environmental Quality under President George W. Bush and now serves as executive vice president for corporate affairs at Constellation En-ergy—said he can envision a compromise akin to the one Bush struck with the new Democratic congressional majority in the 2007 energy bill.

“It can be done, but it takes very pointed presidential leadership,” said Connaughton, who identified electric-vehicle infrastructure and carbon se-questration and storage as possible areas for cooperation. “You have to focus like a laser beam and move quick, because before you know it you’re in a presiden-tial election.”

What remains unclear is whether GOP leaders, and the new members bolstering their ranks, will embrace any of the ideas that Obama is offering as a compromise.

Five of the six new GOP senators and 35 of the 85 incoming Repub-lican freshmen in the House have questioned whether greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity contribute to climate change, accord-ing to Daily Kos blogger R.L. Miller and ThinkProgress, an arm of the Cen-ter for American Progress. And some of the Democrats who won seats this year made opposition to climate legislation central to their campaign—incoming Sen. Joe Manchin, W.Va., aired an ad in which he shot up the House-passed climate bill.

Many of the winning candidates cam-paigned on a message of fiscal austerity and smaller government, and even the more modest proposals the president has

mentioned—such as vehicle electrifica-tion and a renewable-energy standard —entail either additional federal funding or new government mandates.

A spokesperson for Sen.-elect Rand Paul, R-Ky., a tea party favorite, said Paul would not comment until he had seen specific proposals. But his campaign web-site made it clear where Paul stood on us-ing government funding and regulation to alter the U.S. energy supply.

“Any energy source that really meets the needs of the American consumer would not need the government to subsidize it,” the site said, arguing that such subsidies distort the free market for energy and encourage companies to advance their interests through lob-bying instead of innovation. “Just as we don’t subsidize laptops and iPods, we should not be subsidizing solar and wind power.”

Senate Republican Conference Chair-man Lamar Alexander, Tenn., who has consistently supported the expansion of nuclear power and electric cars, said in a statement that many of his colleagues sup-port those two proposals “as good ways to produce low-cost clean energy” but that “any government support should not add to the federal deficit.”

Many in the business community are looking for opportunities to challenge assertive rulemaking by the Environ-mental Protection Agency and Energy Department.

John Engler, president of the Na-tional Association of Manufacturers, told reporters in a phone call that he expected the GOP House majority to scrutinize “regulatory and, in some cir-cumstances, legislative overkill” by the administration.

In a news conference Wednesday, na-tional environmental leaders said they would resist efforts to roll back the EPA’s authority and would seek to make prog-ress in states such as California and Mas-sachusetts, which will be led by Demo-cratic governors committed to renewable energy.

“We have no intention of ceding Amer-ica’s future to Big Oil and Big Coal,” said Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club.

Staff writer David A. Fahrenthold contrib-uted to this report.

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“It’s pretty widely agreed at this point that the White House messaging was sub-op-timal,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, R.I., citing the decision to blame the poor econ-omy on former President George W. Bush when Democrats controlled every lever of power. “That’s a little tough to believe.”

Whitehouse said the agenda will have to be less ambitious than the comprehen-sive efforts on health-care reform and cli-mate change legislation of the past two years, suggesting that although liberal ac-tivists would be disappointed, they would be energized by watching what Republi-cans do. “The realities of the terrain are ones that our progressive base voters will understand,” he said.

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