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Mary Lou Williams’ legacy extends far beyond Duke’s Wednesday night jazz concerts and Center for Black Culture that bear her name.

Anthony Kelley, associate professor of the practice of music, spoke about Williams—who served as Duke’s artist-in-residence from 1977-1981—in the larger context of jazz music during the 20th century in a talk titled “Mary Lou Wil-liams and Expressive Choice: Crossing of the Sacred/Secular Divide in Music.” Part of the Chautauqua Lecture Series, which are hosted by the Office of Under-graduate Education, Kelley’s talk focused on the spiritual influence on Williams’ music and that of her contemporaries.

“You usually don’t go into a church or cathedral and think, ‘Hey, it’s time for some jazz,’” Kelley said, referring to Wil-liams’ “Music for Peace,” which was later choreographed and performed as “Mary Lou’s Mass.” “In the 1960s, trust me, this is a challenge to everything that is holy to some people.”

The decade marked an “explosion of sacred works,” Kelley said, noting that prominent jazz musicians such as John Coltrane and Duke Ellington composed

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School Days brings eighth graders to Duke

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by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

After a drawn-out 18-month appeals process, Chris Tweed-Kent received the final word on his collegiate playing career. The NCAA had again denied him the op-portunity to play a fourth season for the Blue Devils.

Having already postponed his pursuit of being selected in the MLS SuperDraft, the 5-foot-9 midfielder learned in June that he would not be able to play in the

2012 campaign for Duke on account of a bylaw that counted club sport participa-tion toward a year of eligibility. Without a team to play for, the two-time ACC assists leader decided to return to Durham this fall, taking a spot with the team as a coach instead.

“After the initial shock of the decision, we were all terribly disappointed,” head coach John Kerr said. “We felt terribly for him because his dream was taken out [from] underneath him and from then

on, he’s been real professional and con-tinued to say, ‘you know, sometimes in life things don’t go your way, but let’s make the best of the next possibility that you have.’”

The NCAA had rejected two prior ap-peals from Chris and his twin brother Dan, who also walked-on after playing club. And the Tweed-Kents were not the only walk-ons denied a fourth year due to the club sports rule. Virginia midfielder Ari Dimas was barred from playing this September due to the same law.

ESPN analyst Jay Bilas has been an outspoken critic of the NCAA’s stringent rules, even tweeting about the strife of these soccer players.

“They’re outstanding students,” said Jay Bilas, a former Duke basketball player and Duke Law graduate. “They’re every-thing that college sports says it’s supposed to be… but because most people don’t pay attention to this, and it’s not affecting the public consumption of the sport, most people don’t care. But if they did know, they would laugh at the ridiculousness of the NCAA and the rigidity and lack of common sense being used here.”

Four years ago, it seemed as if Chris and his twin brother Dan might not even get an opportunity to play for Duke’s var-sity soccer team. Coming from the small town of Pittsfield, Mass., neither was re-cruited by the University, and after failing to get a fall tryout with the varsity squad, the brothers decided to play club soccer.

“It’s just that’s all I had,” Chris said. That spring, however, the two made

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After a long appeal process with the NCAA, Former Duke men’s soccer player Chris Tweed-Kent was un-able to gain back a year of eligibility.

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The Duke University Schools of Medi-cine and Nursing are launching a leader-ship training program for nurses across the country in collaboration with pharma-ceutical and consumer health company Johnson & Johnson.

Known as Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program, the purpose of the joint program is to develop leader-ship and management skills that can be applicable in small clinical environments. Applications for the inaugural class will become available early December, and the classes are set to begin May 2013. Nurses enrolled in the one-year program will learn from University faculty and in-dustry leaders to develop effective leader-

ship skills in varied health care settings.“We are excited to introduce a new

training program that will strengthen pri-mary care services in community settings, and are grateful to Johnson & Johnson for their support of nursing leadership,” said Anh Tran, director of the Duke-Johnson & Johnson Nurse Leadership Program, in a press release.

Duke is the only institution in the coun-try chosen by Johnson & Johnson to start the joint program. The program, which will be funded through a grant, will also provide participants with access to John-son & Johnson’s resources and expertise.

The curriculum of the program will focus on four core subjects—effective

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Local middle school students received a taste of college life on Tuesday.

The Duke-Durham School Days pro-gram is an annual event that allows eighth grade students to explore Duke’s cam-pus in order to get excited about higher education. Started in 1999, the program selects students from Durham public schools who come from families with no prior college experience. The day is in-tended to encourage 300 local students to aim for a college education, said David Stein, senior educational partnership co-ordinator of the Duke-Durham Neighbor-hood Partnership.SELIAT DAIRO/THE CHRONICLE

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Cathy Davidson, John Hope Franklin Hu-manities Institute professor of interdisciplinary studies and Ruth F. Devarney professor of Eng-lish, was recently awarded Educator of the Year by the World Technology Network. The award

recognizes her contribu-tions in education as a co-founder of Humanities, Arts, Science and Tech-

nology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC), a peer-produced virtual network that has its central administrative offices at Duke, and co-director of the annual Digital Media and Learning Compe-tition, run by the MacArthur Foundation, which awards money to projects that explore how digital media affect the lives of young people. Davidson is also the co-founder of the Information Science and Information Studies certificate at Duke. The Chronicle’s Danielle Muoio sat down with Da-vidson to discuss receiving the award, her work with HASTAC and her views on the intersection between science and the humanities.

The Chronicle: You were recently named Educator of the Year. Can you tell me more about the award?

Cathy Davidson: It’s a little bit like the Academy Awards for technology. The de-signer of the Mars landing won in one category and the CEO of Pinterest won in another category. There were probably 30 categories. What I am most honored by is it is awarded by peers—people in the world of technology nominate peers and then a judge makes the final selection. It was quite an honor and a very big surprise. I’m a huge fan of the person who won last year, so it’s a bit like winning the year after Meryl Streep won. I can try and act above it all and impartial, but it was really an honor.

TC: I know you are the co-founder of HASTAC. Can you tell me more about HASTAC?

CD: In 2002, David Theo Goldberg and I were at a national meeting of education right after we started the Franklin Center at Duke. We were at the meeting to discuss technology in the Franklin Center and its motto: The purpose of knowledge is to be shared. We stepped out [of the meeting] and saw that we knew all of these people

in the sciences, arts and humanities who were thinking about the way we can use the World Wide Web to increase the possi-bilities for lifelong learning, so we thought “Why don’t we start our own organiza-tion?”

The reason we have this horrible acro-nym is because no one wanted to be left out of this. We’ve been working in different ways since it started, and it’s up to about 9,800 network members. Our basic princi-ple was to take the spirit of the open source web and apply it to education, by that we mean you don’t have to force people to learn because people want to share their knowledge. Like Wikipedia, who knew it would be as huge as it is and that people would contribute their knowledge for free? As educators, we should be taking advan-tage of the fact that people like to learn from one another.

TC: Were there any challenges you faced in creating HASTAC?

CD: At first no one had a clue about what we were talking about. People would look at us like we were talking Martian. I would say now the problem is the oppo-site—because we [did this] before every-one did in education, we are treated like gurus and are called upon to help people in higher education think about the future of learning.

It wasn’t that long ago that I was called the most hated educator in America because I said I didn’t want to require traditional term papers. I wanted students to write pa-pers that would be a public contribution to knowledge—any paper wasn’t just for me, they had to find a place to put and make a contribution to public knowledge. I didn’t think that was that radical—I thought it was an uncynical view of learning.

Part of that was I was involved in the iPod experiment in 2002—Apple approached us about taking technology and using it on our campus for learning purposes so we de-cided to use one with no educational use and challenged students to come up with an educational use to it. We gave out free iPods as an educational experiment.

Everything from telemedicine—stu-

dents figured out ways you could listen to heart arrhythmias through your iPod that could help rural doctors evaluate heart ar-rhythmias—to conventional learning tech-niques—like listening to a Shakespeare play instead of reading it. The first academ-ic podcasting conference was held at Duke, and it was all student-run and came out of this experiment.

We got a lot of flack, and people had to swallow their words when it worked because people didn’t want to believe stu-dents would want to do anything but have fun with them. They didn’t see that if you respect students’ intelligence, they will far exceed anything you have on a syllabus. If I don’t treat students like they’re babies every step of the way, but instead respect them and collaborate with them, students always exceed my expectations.

TC: You’re also the co-director of the annual Digital Media and Learning Com-petitions, can you tell me more about how you got involved with the competition and your role in the competition in particular?

CD: In 2006, the MacArthur Foundation asked us to start running the Digital Media Competitions and [the award] has grown

from $2 million to $4 million per year. We partnered with Mozilla and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, as well, and have 89 programs in 20 countries. We’re in our fourth competition this year, and we give awards each year to grantee. For their first full year as grantee, we have weekly we-binars on every possible topic from man-agement to assessment to implementation to better collaboration.

We really work with the winners of the annual competitions, so you win money to make your product work. You also have an entire team that makes sure that what you want to do to improve education and learn-ing really works. It’s astonishing to work with dedicated people all over the world from different [socioeconomic] levels—some are elitist and some are incredibly poor in small villages in Africa and Asia. It’s a really diverse range of programs.

TC: It seems you are both a part of the humanities world but also the technologi-cal world. Can you talk about how you’ve been able to successfully meld these seem-ingly separate spheres together?

CD: I don’t think there is a difference between them. For the last 100 years, we’ve tried to convince people that there is a dif-ference. But what people get wrong is they think our era is about computing when it’s about everyday life, values, history and how we interact as humans. Those are deep, profound subjects in humanities and so-cial sciences. In the information age, we’ve gone through such a paradigm shift that if you just leave things to people in technol-ogy and science, we will miss the implica-tions it will have on humanity.

I don’t think every English teacher needs to learn Python, and I don’t think every computer programer needs to know Shakespeare, but we have to learn better ways of communicating with each other and sharing our expertise to get the best out of this world that we live in. To do that, we need to think across the boundaries and silos of education. That’s why I’ve given 79 talks in the past 14 years—I’m an evangeli-cal on the need to have a new way of learn-ing together.

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English professor Cathy Davidson was just awarded Educator of the Year by the world technol-ogy network.

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Tianna Spears, a junior at North Carolina State University, started the Beautiful Pain Movement—a support group for women who have had abortions, as well as for their friends

and family—in Septem-ber. After running the support group for five weeks, Spears is angling

to make the program into a club in order to con-tinue open dialogue about abortions on campus. The Chronicle’s Danielle Muoio sat down with Spears to discuss the Beautiful Pain Move-ment, what influenced her to create the support group and how it was received on campus.

The Chronicle: To begin, can you talk generally about what the Beautiful Pain Movement is and what you hope to achieve?

Tianna Spears: It’s a support group that started in September and we are looking to expand. The group is for post-abortion—either for people who have been through it or know a friend or rela-tive who has. The main thing about our group, which I love, is that we have no opinions on political background or re-ligion and do not make a pro-choice or pro-life stance. The group really is about who you are and not about what you be-lieve in. What I hope to accomplish is to touch the lives of many people. I know this is a huge issue for women and men and I just want to be able to help people though this tough time or be able to help their friends and family.

TC: How many times have you met as a support group and how many people have attended?

TS: We started meeting September 22 and finished the program on Octo-ber 20—it was just a five-week program. We had a couple of people show up, but we are still looking to increase the word about the support group. We also under-stand, however, that it’s a sensitive topic so it’s going to take time. Even though we only had a couple of people show, I still feel it’s successful because people know the group is here if they need help or as-sistance.

TC: Were members typically people who had received abortions or people who knew someone who had received an abortion?

TS: It was a pretty even mix of both people who have either had an abortion or knew someone who did.

TC: What were some of the general topics discussed?

TS: Each week we focused on a differ-ent topic. The first week we just tried to establish a trusted environment. I want people to know that they can trust me and that everything in our group is con-fidential. So we just tried to bring people closer together and then from there, we

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The band Celebrity Jeopardy performs in the Coffeehouse on East Campus Tuesday evening.

Celebrity Jeopardymusic with religious themes. Williams herself, who converted to Roman Cathol-icism in 1956, released an album in 1963 entitled “Black Christ of the Andes,” which referred to St. Martin de Porres, the patron saint of interracial harmony.

“There are some pretty amazing jewels of sacred music on there,” Kelley noted.

The assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of which happened in the 1960s, likely contribut-ed to this prominent trend, Kelley said.

“These are secular jazz artists,” he said. “Suddenly, mid-career sometimes, they shifted to the kind of things that are explicitly sacred.”

Kelley also referenced Wynton Marsa-lis, a contemporary jazz musician who has been composing since the 1980s. Kelley said Marsalis created a large reper-toire of music that was secular and even occasionally “profane.” One of his 1991 albums, “Uptown Ruler (Soul Gestures in Southern Blue Vol. 2),” however, includ-ed a track entitled “Prayer” in the middle of it, and opened and closed with a track called “Psalm 26.”

Williams and other artists of the era introduced musical themes and styles that informed music across genres in lat-er decades and persist in hip-hop music today. Even music on “Mary Lou’s Mass” was reminiscent of today’s hip-hop, Kel-ley noted.

Kelley began and ended his lecture by noting how pervasive dominant trends can be, commending jazz artists like Wil-liams for their innovation and influence.

“The meta-message to you, outside of music and outside of art, is no matter what your field is, there will be driving

trends that [attempt] to determine what you’re doing,” Kelley said. “But if your conscience calls you to go in a particu-lar direction, you follow it with all your might.”

The lecture was delivered to students across departments, some of whom were pursuing music majors or minors and some whom were not. Freshman Christy McDaniel, who lives in Brown dormitory where, Kelley is the faculty-in-residence, said the lecture addressed topics she had not considered before.

“It was interesting to see how any ac-tion can cause a reaction, how we influ-ence each other as human beings con-sciously and unconsciously,” McDaniel said, referencing the rise and spread of religious jazz music.

Julius Jones, administrative fellow for the Office of Undergraduate Education and Trinity ’12, organizes the Chautau-qua lectures. He said that Kelley was a clear choice for a speaker.

“Professor Kelley is someone who is very highly thought of by students,” Jones said. “He has shown a commitment to en-gaging students outside the classroom.”

Kelley has previously taken groups of students to jazz clubs, Jones noted, add-ing that the engaging and accessible na-ture of Kelley’s lecturing style make him an ideal speaker.

More can be done at Duke to appreci-ate Williams’ influence and contributions to jazz music, Kelley said.

“This is a woman who was important to Duke Ellington, she was important to Dizzy Gillespie, she was important to Th-elonius Monk and she’s still important to a lot of people who are there to listen,” Kelley said. “We’re in a society that keeps moving forward and we sometimes forget to reflect on important notes.”

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“We know that if a young student spends any time on a college campus, then they are more likely to want to apply to college,” Stein said.

Students participating in the program were able to sit in on classes and look at dorm rooms. They also went on campus tours to become familiar with a college campus.

Stein noted that the goal of the pro-gram is to make college life seem “as real as possible” to the kids, adding that many of them feel that college is out of their reach, but, with proper planning, it does not have to be.

“These students are at a critical junc-tion,” Stein said. “In the Spring of their eighth grade year, they choose a course of study for high school. If they do not choose a path toward college now, it can be very hard to change their minds later.”

Duke undergraduates and staff ran the program and each person was responsible for a group of ten students.

The day began with an obstacle course that symbolized the various challenges that the students would face while aiming for higher education throughout high school. At the end of the course, students tossed graduation caps into hula-hoops with the names of popular universities in-side to show the end goal of choosing a path to college.

“The goal of the hula-hoops was for students to understand that aiming for college begins today,” said Sabrina La-mar, a Duke-Durham School Days coor-dinator.

Freshman Emma Welch was one of the undergraduates who participated in the program. She noted that the students in her group were enthusiastic throughout

the entire program and that their parents and chaperons were encouraging.

Eric Dupont, a student from Car-rington Middle School who was in Welch’s group, added that although the program was fun, he had already known he wanted to attend college.

“My favorite school is Virginia Tech, and that is where I want to go,” Dupont said.

The day concluded with a presentation from President Richard Brodhead about financial aid. Many of the students said that they felt that college tuition was too expensive for their families. After hearing Brodhead’s presentation on financial aid, many students felt more secure that they could afford college.

Sophomore Derek Rhodes, Duke Student Government vice president for Durham and regional affairs, and Senior Ashley Copeland helped get students in-volved with the program for the twelfth consecutive year.

“We have great success with this pro-gram,” Stein said. “And the support from the students, staff and faculty is amazing.”

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Church members and friends of New Journey Community Church remove a large tree, which fell dur-ing Hurricane Sandy, off the pastor’s quarters in Harwood, Md. Oct. 30.

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Local middle schoolers visited campus Tuesday to learn about higher education and Duke.

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discussed what happened—the stories that brought them here. From there, we went over healing and recovery steps and things they can do later—where they hope to go from here and looking forward to the fu-ture.

TC: Why did you set up just as a five-week program?

TS: We just wanted to make it available for people and then based on our feedback we would build from there. I’m looking to start a club—[the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] actually beat us in doing so, but we are looking to grow from here on out by starting a club at N.C. State next semester. I’m really just trying to get the word out because I really think this is needed in our community.

TC: What encouraged you to start the

Beautiful Pain Movement at your university?TS: One of my friends had an abortion

about a year ago and I saw how difficult it was for her and how she didn’t have any-one to turn to, so I helped her get through that. Well, actually, I don’t know if anyone ever gets through it, but I helped her over-come the situation. I thought it would be good to have a support group for people who need help. It’s a sensitive issue so there isn’t a lot of support out there and people don’t really know where to go.

TC: You mentioned politics and religion can make discussion about abortion diffi-cult. Can you talk a bit about your thoughts on these factors and how they played a role in you creating the group?

TS: When you watch the news, you see politicians argue about if they are pro-life or pro-choice and what women should do with their bodies. My organization aims to step back and help people—not put people in a category based on what they believe or want to do, but just try to accept people for who they are so we can move forward with helping them.

TC: Has there been any opposition to the movement?

TS: I haven’t received any negative feed-back yet… I have received a couple of com-ments about how I need to choose a side regarding the pro-life and pro-choice move-ments but I don’t think I’m going to. I think the way to help people is to just accept them for who they are and eliminate any barriers that would prevent me from doing so. I want people to come in and be accepted for who they are. I don’t want to have the whole con-versation on what they believe in—it’s better to just talk to them as a person.

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leadership, communication and rela-tionship building, business acumen and health care environment, according to the program website.

“Nurses have made tremendous strides gaining leadership roles in hospital and business settings, and Johnson & Johnson wants to help foster similar opportunities in nurse-led clinics and practices in the community,” said Sharon D’Agostino, vice president of corporate citizenship at John-son & Johnson in the press release. “Duke has a history of excellence in clinical lead-

ership training for nurses, especially those practicing in community settings. We are pleased to be working together to provide nurses transformational leadership devel-opment.”

Applicants to the program must have post-graduate education in nursing, be cur-rently leading a nurse-managed practice and have two or more years of experience in a community-based practice. The pro-gram will cost $1,035, which covers hous-ing, food, study supplies and other training costs.

Applications for the initial class of 20 nurses will be available early December. The first program year will begin May 2013.

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Tricia Liston led Duke’s dominance against Shaw with 36 points and 12 rebounds on 13-of-15 shooting.

Shaw rocked like a HurricaneWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Duke still calls DBAP its home

Mar marks her birthday with success on the courtWOMEN’S TENNIS

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Hannah Mar, ranked No. 35 nationally, won the ITA Regional Singles title this month.

by Olivia BanksTHE CHRONICLE

Between an ITA Regional sin-gles title, doubles title and quali-fying status for the ITA National Indoors, sophomore Hanna Mar couldn’t ask for a better early birthday present.

After a full week of hard-fought matches, Mar eked out a relatively easy win against North Carolina rival Zoe DeBruycker 6-1, 6-3, to claim the ITA Region-al Singles title Oct. 22. Shortly af-terward, Mar joined partner Ester Goldfeld to capture a relaxed 8-2 victory against top-seeded USC pair Jaklin Alawi and Dominika Kanakova.

“Both wins meant a lot to me,” Mar said. “I’m really happy with the confidence that I’ve gotten from it, and I’m proud of the results.”

Despite an impressive No. 35 preseason singles ranking by the ITA, Mar remains a team-orient-ed player and is always looking to build morale with important individual wins.

“Everything I do individually just helps the team,” Mar said. “If I do the best that I can per-sonally, I know that it will ben-efit the team.”

Head coach Jamie Ashworth is confident in Mar’s dedication to the sport, knowing she will put in the time to continue im-proving.

Less concerned with Mar’s performance on the court, Ash-worth looks for her to continue to improve herself off the court.

“I hope that she keeps open-

ing up as a person and keeps emerging as a leader of our team,” Ashworth said.

Since Mar’s technique has not been an issue, her main focus has been her mental improvement.

“She is a very physically tough player,” Ashworth said. “The mental side is something that she’s just got to keep getting bet-

by Jeffrey CicurelTHE CHRONICLE

Formerly the head coach of Appala-chian State, Chris Pollard had the chance to coach against Duke at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. Now with Pollard leading the Blue Devils, the athletic department has ensured he will get to coach there more than once a season.

Duke has signed a two-year renewal deal with DBAP, home of the Triple-A af-filiate of the Tampa Bay Rays.

DBAP, located in downtown Durham, opened in 1995 and has a capacity of 10,000. It is known as one of the nicest minor league parks in the nation. The Blue Devils will play ACC home games at the DBAP, with the remaining home games taking place at Jack Coombs Field. Duke is the only university that calls DBAP home.

This past spring, Pollard coached the Ap-palachian State Mountaineers to a 6-3 win against Duke at DBAP. Pollard was hired as the Blue Devil’s head coach in June.

ter at—believing in herself and knowing that everyone else be-lieves in her.”

Her commitment to getting better has not stifled her love for the game.

Reflecting on her time at Duke, Mar said that she finds it impossible to pick a favorite aspect of Duke tennis.

“I’m just having the time of my life,” Mar said. “Tennis has added so much to my college experience.”

Because teammates Beatrice Capra, Rachel Kahan and Moni-ca Turewicz are currently battling injuries, Mar’s role on the team has been even bigger this fall.

Despite the shorthanded team, the Blue Devils have ad-justed accordingly and pulled out some surprising victories.

“The first couple of matches were a little bit rough, but I’m happy to say that, with every match, we got better,” Mar said.

Mar and Goldfeld were initial-ly paired this fall because Mar’s usual partner, Capra, was nursing a hurt left knee at the time.

Although the duo worked well together in practice, expectations were not exceedingly high.

“I knew that they had a chance

to be pretty good but I didn’t know going in that this was going to be the team to win the tour-nament,” Ashworth said. “They know what they do well, and they make people play.”

Although Mar’s consistency and tenacity have proven suc-cessful thus far, there are certain challenges that she will have to face on the court.

Mar’s ability to stay in points makes her difficult to beat, but she may face a challenge against an opponent who rallies just as well.

“The type of player who is mentally strong enough to pay the price of being on the court will probably be Hanna’s tough-est competition,” Ashworth said. “She just has to understand how good she can be.”

As a result of her performance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Mar will travel to New York along-side Goldfeld to compete in the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships slated to begin Nov. 8, one day after Mar’s 21st birthday.

“I love New York, so I’m re-ally excited to spend my birthday there,” Mar said. “It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

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by Tom GierynTHE CHRONICLE

If you’re the head coach of a Division II team, even one that won the national cham-pionship last season, it’s difficult preparing for No. 3 Duke at Cameron Indoor Stadium. If your championship squad lost eight play-

ers and returns just one starter, it’s nearly impossible. If four of your five current start-ers are sidelined and

you have just seven players available to play, you might resort to meteorology.

“My first thing was I kept looking at the weather,” Shaw head coach Jacques Curtis said. “I was hoping that storm was going to swing around.”

Unfortunately for Curtis, Hurricane Sandy stayed well north of Durham, so his Lady Bears were indeed forced to take the court Tuesday night against the Blue Devils in the exhibition opener for both teams. Duke ran out to a 30-0 advantage in the first nine minutes and built a lead that surpassed the century mark by the end of the 138-32 rout.

Shaw was obviously outmanned from the opening tip, with only one player in uniform—a freshman—over six feet tall and three play-ers 5-foot-6 or shorter.

Unsurprisingly given their size advantages, the Blue Devils dominated the game on the boards, pulling down 72 rebounds, including 30 off the offensive glass. Shaw managed just 26 total rebounds on the night.

DUKE 138

SHAW 32

Duke posted this outstanding rebound-ing performance without its star center Eliz-abeth Williams, who sat out the contest with stress fracture issues that have lingered since the end of last season. Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said that Williams will be sidelined indefinitely to allow the fracture to heal completely.

“The soreness has come back. I won’t be able to even comment on Elizabeth day-to-day,” McCallie said. “She’s going to be out for a while, and we’re going to try to heal her....

It’s healing, but it’s not healing enough. And I can’t stand dragging her through this two days on, three days off. We’re not going to get into that kind of cycle with a player like Elizabeth.”

Even without Williams, the Lady Bears focused their defense in the paint to stop the much bigger Duke squad, and the Blue Devil perimeter shooters had a field day. The team shot 11-for-19 from beyond the arc, led by Tricia Liston’s 7-for-8 performance. Liston

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Wallace Wade becomes Duke’s Pride RockIf home is where your fans are, Duke football hasn’t had a

home in a long time.Wallace Wade Stadium, the Blue Devils’ home site for foot-

ball games since 1929, has seen both the best and the worst of Duke football—from the glory days of the 1930s and 1940s and hosting the 1942 Rose Bowl to an 18-year bowl drought

that was snapped two weeks ago. In recent memory, the place that a casual observer could only call “that football stadium next to Cameron,” has hardly provided Duke with home-field advantage. This season, however, Wallace Wade Stadium has played an inte-

gral role in the Blue Devils’ first bowl berth in nearly two decades.

It doesn’t take very long to analyze Duke football’s atten-dance patterns since its last bowl

game in 1994. Each season, with brimming enthusiasm that it could finally be the season the Blue Devils could break the streak, home openers always drew a decent crowd. But as the losses piled up and the seasons’ bowl hopes began to slip away, so would Duke’s fans. Last season’s home finale against Georgia Tech, which drew just 18,747 fans, was the least at-tended game in David Cutcliffe’s tenure as head coach and the Blue Devils’ smallest home crowd since 2006—a season in which they finished 0-12.

Duke has seen the opposite phenomenon this season. As usual, the team drew an inflated crowd of 31,117 for its home opener—which was actually the smallest such crowd in the Cutcliffe era—for a 46-26 win against Florida International. Although the team experienced a similar second-game drop as it has in recent years, its home crowds continued to grow with each Blue Devil victory. On the precipice of its first bowl eligibility in nearly two decades, Duke’s game against North Carolina was attended by 33,941 fans, the team’s second-largest home attendance since the 2001 season.

The Blue Devils’ last-second victory against the Tar Heels was a telling sign of what the atmosphere in Wallace Wade Stadium can be every single week. Walking into the stadium, there was an undeniable electricity in the air, an excitement that probably hasn’t been present for at least 18 years. They fed off its home crowd’s energy, and the result was the most thrill-ing finish Wallace Wade Stadium has ever seen.

Entering Saturday’s contest against No. 10 Clemson, Duke is a perfect 5-0 at home this season. A team that once played each home game trying its hardest not to lose now steps onto its home field with the mentality that it can beat any opponent that it faces. A part of this new mentality can be attributed to defensive coordinator Jim Knowles, who definitely knew where to find the right inspiration.

The week before the Blue Devils’ first game of the 2012 season against Florida International, Knowles and his de-fense resorted to unconventional training methods—with Duke’s first test of the season looming just days away, the unit put away their game film and watched The Lion King. Anybody who grew up in the 1990s knows that The Lion King contains more worldly wisdom than a parent, teacher and football coach combined. Sure enough, Knowles’ plan to inspire his defense worked. By the time the classic movie was over, the team referred to Wallace Wade Stadium as Pride Rock. Five grueling contests later, the Blue Devils con-tinue to protect their home turf.

“I think it just stuck,” defensive tackle Sydney Sarmiento

said. “We understand that this is our home. Don’t let some-body come into your house and steal all your stuff. You want to fight for everything you have.”

The rubber meets the road this weekend as the Tigers at-tempt to take Pride Rock for Duke’s first home loss of the sea-son. Duke has not defeated a ranked opponent since 1994, a season in which they suffered just one home loss. Although Clemson poses a major challenge, the Blue Devils have played its best football at home this season, scoring at least 33 points in each of their five home games t and defeating opponents by an average margin of 21.8 points.

Following a crushing 48-7 loss to Florida State last weekend, Duke is reeling and in need of a return home. The Blue Dev-ils have rebounded from each of their first two road losses of the year against Stanford and Virginia Tech with home wins against N.C. Central and North Carolina, and hope to accom-plish a similar feat this weekend as they continue to push for the ACC Coastal Division crown.

If there’s a time this team needs some home-field advantage, it’s now.

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Unlike past seasons, the Blue Devils have developed a home field advantage at Wallace Wade Stadium this season, Carp writes.

Duke takes second place in Pebble Beach

Blue Devils contain top scorer, draw Elon

by Jackie KlaubergTHE CHRONICLE

Duke, ranked 13th in the most recent Golfstat rankings, travelled 2,500 miles to golf paradise to take on six teams ranked in the top 20 at the Stanford Classic played at Cypress Point Club in Pebble Beach, Ca..

The Blue Devils finished in second place at Cypress Point, ranked No. 2 in Golf Magazine’s 2011 list of Best Courses in America.

“[The Club] is pristine,” head coach Jamie Green said. “It is an extremely pri-vate and exclusive club. It’s not even easy for the players to get on the golf course at all…. It was a huge treat for us to have this hosted there. Just to be able to say you played the course and competed on it, that’s pretty special.”

Duke made it to the championship round Tuesday after beating out USC and Stanford in four-ball and alternate-shot play, respectively, in two sessions Monday.

Senior Tim Gornik and freshman Mads Soegaard teamed up for a decisive 4-0 victory against USC’s Sam Smith and Stewart Hagestad. The senior tandem of Julian Suri and Brinson Paolini won their match by 3.5-0.5 and senior Adam Sumrall and junior Austin Cody drew their match 2-2.

“I think all of our pairings were all re-ally strong,” Green said. “Mads and Tim

got things going at the beginning of the day. They played well all day long. They had control of each of their matches and they helped motivate the rest of the team [hitting the course later that morn-ing].”

Duke finished match play Monday beating USC and Stanford 9.5-2.5 and 7.5-4.5, respectively.

With a dominating performance on day one of play, the Blue Devils headed into day two one round away from yet another first place finish on the season. Duke has earned first place in two of its competitions this fall.

The Blue Devils were not on target on day two of the tournament, falling 18-6 to UCLA in Tuesday’s final round for-mat consisting of six individual matches with four possible points on the line in each. One point could be won on the front nine holes, one on the back and two points for a combined score.

Paolini, who has been playing consis-tently well and poised all season long, was the only Blue Devil to rack up all four points in his matchup.

“Brinson played very well,” Green said. “We just didn’t help him out with enough points from the other guys.”

The Classic marks Duke’s last event until the spring. Although Green knows his players would have loved to finish off

by Lopa RahmanTHE CHRONICLE

For the third year in a row, Duke and Elon tied in what has become an annual intrastate matchup. The two teams battled

to a 0-0 stalemate Tuesday night in Elon, N.C..

The Phoenix’s high-scoring of-

fense, which ranks 12th in the nation, entered the contest averaging 13.4 shots per game. Tuesday night, the Blue Dev-il’s sturdy defensive unit limited Elon just seven.

“Our game plan worked to perfec-tion,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “We limited their looks at the goal, and we didn’t allow them any clear-cut op-portunities, so I’m really proud of the way we played.”

Quality chances to score were few and far between for both teams. Duke (7-7-2) and Elon (12-4-2) fired just two and three shots on goal, respectively. The Blue Devils won the corner kick battle 4-0, but failed to convert on these oppor-tunities.

“We got some good crosses in the cor-ner kicks,” Kerr said. “We just didn’t get on the end of them. Elon defended well. They knew that was one of our strengths, just as we know that Chris Thomas is one of their strengths. We kind of negated

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Entering last night’s matchup, Thom-as, the leading scorer in Division I, aver-aged 4.24 shots per game. Duke limited him to one on the evening.

Phoenix senior Jordan Smith took two headers in the first 23 minutes, but Blue Devil senior goalkeeper James Belshaw came up with saves to keep Elon off the scoreboard. During that span, Duke sophomore Riley Wolfe shot the ball wide of the goal, in the first of his three shots. In the last 22 minutes of the open-ing half, there was little action near the goals, as neither squad took a shot.

Blue Devil freshman Zach Mathers, who scored his first career goal against Virginia Tech Saturday, had the best scor-ing opportunity of the night in the 54th minute. His goalbound strike was saved as sophomore goalkeeper Nathan Dean tipped it onto the crossbar. Two seconds before the second half drew to a close, Duke sophomore Matt Slotnick took the final shot of the game, missing the mark and sending the game into overtime.

The overtime periods lacked much action. The first period featured one shot by each team, with no shots in the second.

“We executed well until the final third, and that’s what we’ve been strug-gling with all year,” Kerr said.

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“I think that DBAP gives us a great platform to market our product,” Pol-lard said. “It’s hard to believe it’s 15 years old because it looks brand new.”

Pollard also believes DBAP is a “tre-mendous” marketing asset because of its prime location in Durham, near a num-ber of Duke graduates as well as the Uni-versity’s campus. Kevin White, Director of Athletics and Vice President, feels the same way.

“This continuing partnership is terrif-ic for both Duke University and the Dur-ham community,” White said in a press release. “Duke and Durham have been together as one for a long time, and this contract extension only enhances that existing relationship.”

Pollard also said that it will be a big help in the recruiting process.

“Great high school players are really intrigued by the idea of playing in nice stadiums,” Pollard said. “They also like playing in front of big crowds and in good atmospheres.”

Nick Hendrix, a freshman pitcher from Arlington, Texas, knows what it is like to play in a minor league stadium. Back at Martin High School, his team went to the state championships and played at Dell Diamond, home of the Round Rock Express, the Triple-A af-filiate of the Texas Rangers. When the Duke recruiting staff told him about the partnership with DBAP, he said it peaked his interest.

“I thought it was pretty cool,” Hen-drix said. “Most college fields are nice, but Durham Bulls Athletic Park is legiti-mate.”

Other than the marketing values, Pol-lard said DBAP plays much differently

than Coombs Field. In his four months at Duke, Pollard has seen Coombs as a “pitcher’s park,” whereas he sees DBAP as “a little bit more hitter-friendly.” His gameplan will change depending on where his team is playing, he said.

“At Coombs, you have to be willing to play more small-ball. You have to be will-ing to bunt, scratch runs and understand that because you’re not going to give up a lot of home runs, that there are going to be more low scoring ball games,” Pol-lard said. “Downtown, there are going to be times where you wait and play for a big inning because there are going to be more balls leaving the ballpark.”

Pollard says the renewed contract has the opportunity to be a win-win for both sides. Durham Bulls general manager Mike Birling agrees.

“It is good for the Bulls because it brings in fans that may not necessarily come out to Bulls games,” Birling said in an Oct. 30 email to The Chronicle. “We feel once they come and experience our ballpark they will want to come back to watch the Bulls. Also, for the Duke stu-dents they can see how easy it is for them to get to the ballpark and hopefully at-tend Bulls games.”

Both Birling and Pollard appreciate the positive relationship between the Blue Devils and the Durham Bulls staff.

“They’re such a recognized commod-ity in Durham that when we partner with those guys it helps increase our visibil-ity. We’re glad to have the relationship. We’re looking forward to playing there for the next couple of years,” Pollard said. “We feel like it’s an opportunity for us to grow Duke baseball.”

missed just two of her 15 field goal attempts, scoring 36 points and adding 12 rebounds to post one of four Duke double-doubles. Haley Peters notched 18 points and 15 rebounds, Allison Vernerey chipped in 15 points and 11 boards, and Chelsea Gray added 10 assists to her 20-point scoring effort to round out the quartet. All eight Blue Devils who played scored, and seven of those ended up with 15 or more tallies. The eighth player drew perhaps the biggest applause, as walk-on sophomore Jenna Frush—who played just 26 minutes last season—drained a 3-pointer in the game’s fi-nal minute.

“By God, she was going to keep shooting until she hit one,” McCallie said.

Despite Duke’s dominance, neither team dropped its intensity level throughout the 40 minutes of play. Curtis kept his team from be-ing discouraged even as it failed to score for nearly nine minutes by breaking the game down into 10 “segments” between the auto-matic television timeouts.

“We couldn’t get caught up in what the score was,” Curtis said. “When we came here, we weren’t saying, ‘Hey, we need to win this game.’ We had our mini-goals. So after we lost that first segment, it’s ‘We’re going to the next segment.’ That’s the only way you can keep kids focused on what’s happening.”

As the end of the first half approached, Curtis’ squad even forced an angry McCallie to call timeout after Shaw converted back-to-back baskets bookending a Duke turnover. Al-though Duke’s lead remained comfortable at 63-18, McCallie was unhappy with a perceived loss of concentration.

“Something happened that was just look-ing mysteriously casual,” McCallie said. “I think you’ve got to catch a team being casual. There’s just no space for it. The level that we’re trying to play is really hard and it takes a lot of

DBAP from page 9 W. BASKETBALL from page 9 energy and effort.”Despite the momentary lapse, McCallie was

also pleased with the versatility her players ex-hibited.

“One of the things we’re really trying to be is a versatile team, and not locked in by posi-tion,” she said. “I think we’ve got a lot of differ-ent people that can go different places.”

She mentioned specifically that Peters can play both in the post and on the perim-eter, that Liston can handle any position on the floor besides center, and emphasized that moving Gray between the two guard spots will simultaneously make her more difficult to guard and give talented freshman point guard Alexis Jones a chance to contribute.

Although Jones made a few “freshman mistakes” in the exhibition contest, she also showed flashes of stardom leading the offense in transition.

The lopsided outcome did not prevent both teams from coming away pleased with their efforts.

“We did some good things, and we did some bad things, but I don’t think anyone just gave up,” senior Shaw guard Crystal Wilson said.

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the varsity squad as walk-ons, and in the fall, quickly made an impact on the field, playing all 21 matches for Duke.

After finishing seventh nationally in as-sists his junior year, Chris said he began to consider the possibility of pursuing profes-sional soccer after his senior year, but that offseason another opportunity opened up for the brothers. The coaching staff asked Dan and Chris about playing two more sea-sons with the team, since they had not played with the varsity team their freshman year.

“The answer of course was yes because who wouldn’t want to stay around at Duke for another year?” Chris said.

But in order to return to school for a fifth year and play for the Blue Devils the Tweed-Kents had to appeal for their extra year of eligibility.

According to a June 24, 2009 NCAA bylaw, participation in any club sport in which the institution also has an NCAA program counts as a year of eligibility.

“From my understanding, they had is-sues with some club sports, with coaches recruiting several kids, putting them into club programs as farm programs and then having them come up,” Chris said.

Still, the Duke coaching staff and the Tweed-Kents felt they had good case at ap-pealing for an exception, Chris said, and submitted their first appeal in January 2011.

“We appealed originally… on the grounds that a year of club soccer should not count as a year of varsity, especially in the case where the individual was not re-cruited by the university,” Dan said. “In addition, the rule was not actually in the rulebook as an official rule until after.”

That March, the players heard back, learning that the NCAA had lost their ap-peal and needed them to resubmit, accord-ing to Chris.

Then, in June 2011, they received the initial denial of their appeal. In response to the Tweed-Kents’ argument that the 2009 rule had been applied ex-post facto, the NCAA pointed to an interpretation of a 1987 rule—which the players had no way of knowing about—as the basis for denying eligibility.

The Tweed-Kents re-appealed, but with eligibility looking unlikely, Chris worked on an alternative plan. With hopes of par-ticipating in the MLS combine and getting drafted in January, the senior loaded up on his Fall courses.

While finishing third in the nation in as-

sists on the pitch, Chris took five classes—including three labs and an engineering capstone at N.C. State.

“Pratt was absolutely phenomenal with working to allow me to speed up the re-quirements,” Chris said. “Typically engi-neers are pretty stressed for time and it’s difficult to fit things in… but they were more than willing to do everything possible to make it work.”

Although they received another denial that October, Duke chose to reopen the case with additional information on the suggestion of NCAA Vice President

of Academic and Membership Af-fairs Kevin Lennon, according

to Chris. Additionally, the players were informed

that the bylaw might change in a spring

2012 overhaul of the rulebook.

With the pos-sibility of gaining

the year of eligibility back on the table, Chris met with his family and coaches to reconsider his professional plans.

Even though Dan had ruled out returning to Duke

due to an ACL injury, Chris made the deci-sion to forego the MLS SuperDraft and return

to the Blue Devils.“Because I had already

developed so much over these last three years... we decided it was best for me to stay, and I wanted to stay, and at that point it seemed that there was a very good chance that we were going to get eligibility,” Chris said.

Six months later, after not hearing any updates about the rulebook overhaul, Chris was again denied eligibility.

“In the case of non-recruited student-athletes, there is not an exception to this rule because of the possibility of a feeder system,” said Kayci Woodley, an NCAA me-dia relations intern, in an Oct. 26 email to The Chronicle. “Coaches could tell non-recruits [or] would-be walk-ons to partici-pate on the club team until they are asked to play varsity, which the membership has not been willing to allow.”

Despite the hope for a change in the rule, the NCAA had not amended the by-law for non-recruited athletes. And when bringing up the argument that Chris could have played eight non-regular season varsi-ty games—as well as trained with the varsity team for the entire fall—and still not lost eligibility, he was told by Lennon that they were “apples and oranges.”

“There are mixed messages sent all the time,” Bilas said. “You can call the NCAA five different times and get five different

answers on the same question, so that’s not shocking to me. It just adds another layer to how laughable this whole matter is.”

Having foregone the MLS draft, Chris was now entirely without a team.

With the help of Kerr, Chris attempted to earn a roster spot during the MLS trans-fer window immediately after receiving the news, but was not signed in the more com-petitive summer period.

“He wasn’t really sure what he was going to do,” Dan said. “He was thinking about training abroad. He was offered to train at a few different places—some professional teams just to train.”

In limbo after the NCAA ruling, Chris received an offer from the Blue Devil coaching staff to return to the team as an undergraduate assistant coach for the up-coming season.

Chris accepted the opportunity and returned to campus. Taking classes and training with the varsity squad, the fifth-year senior, now a coach, has taken on a film analysis role that may help him in his soccer future.

“When you watch other players do the same thing and how they progress, you un-derstand the concept a lot better,” Chris said. “There are things that I maybe took for granted as a player that I maybe don’t take for granted anymore. I see the game in a more holistic sense.”

As the season draws to a close, Chris will look to utilize his coaching experi-ence in the next stage of his soccer career. Although the NCAA effectively ended his amateur career, Chris said he hopes to par-ticipate in the MLS combine in January with the goal of getting drafted or signed during the preseason.

“[His] future’s bright,” Kerr said. “He’s

a dedicated, determined young man in so many facets of his life, and I feel that he has a big future in the game of professional soc-cer if he wants it. But luckily for him he has other options going forward, and I know he’s going to make a major contribution to anything he does on or off the field.”

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struggles in the final third as they close out their regular season Friday against SIU Edwardsville and begin ACC tourna-ment play next week. The pressure is on for the Blue Devils, who are still in the running for an NCAA tournament berth with a .500 record.

“Our upcoming games are must-win games, no question about it,” Kerr said. “Friday night is huge for us— [SIU Ed-wardsville] is 28th in the RPI. They’re a very good team. We have our work cut out for us.”

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The best mechanism for motivation is simple: terror. Even the most distin-guished and civilized of individuals can

be reduced to primal behavior in the face of fear. Even Duke stu-dents with their meticulous four-year plans and those calming pastel color combinations they love so much can be reduced to panicky messes in the face of a deadline. And there is no short-age of opportunities for fear in our society. Beyond midnight pa-per deadlines or early morning midterms there’s the real world with a whole host of real problems that pres-ent themselves furiously and simultaneously: global jihadism, pandemics, budding nuclear weapons programs, market fluctuations—the list is unending.

As such, each email news alert and every page of the paper is branded by fear. We’re bombarded with catastrophic projections of cli-mate change, of rising sea levels consuming cit-ies. Missteps in American foreign policy in the Middle East very visibly cause tangible threat to American lives. For God’s sake, bird flu almost wiped out the globe’s population 10 years ago! (At least that’s what Newsweek told me.)

Issues have to compete with each other; the scarier a concern, the more likely it is to receive attention and the more likely it is that someone will dream up a solution, or at least a scenario of relative safety. And in this fear-driven man-ner the world has managed to keep up with the curveballs it has been thrown thus far. Human ingenuity: 1.

So that’s great! We’re not extinct yet. But as I get older and older and spend more time at Duke, I’ve realized something. I’m terrified not just by modern threats, by the manner in which we’re prepared to deal with the next bar-rage of crises.

Kurt Vonnegut described my fear perfectly: “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” University of Delaware alums, re-member that kid who was more interested in girls than studying? The one who has been vice president for the past four years? Or Duke stu-dents of the ’70s, remember Paul Martin New-by? Will you vote for his re-election to the N.C. Supreme Court in a few weeks? He did get his JD at UNC, after all.

To me, collegiate impressions of people seem indelible. Some of you will always be the 20-year-old who is perpetually late to meet-

ings, or who has an inner ear perfectly suited for the Shooters bull, or who can’t seem to fig-ure out how to turn the showers in Crowell all

the way off. I don’t want to see the girl who can’t make it to an 8:30 class to save her life respon-sible for U.S.–China relations. Ideally, the inability to function normally and the possession of great responsibility would be mu-tually exclusive, but chances are, our classmates here at Duke will end up being actually important someday.

Saying this I run the extreme risk of pretention. And yes, I am terrified that some of you will be the ones responsible for the economy, for the function of American govern-ment, for the future of medicine and law and all those other things Duke students aspire to work in. But I am even more terrified that it might be me who adopts some responsibility in the world. Vonnegut was right, in that it is terrifying to look around and realize that you are the responsible adult. I never want to look around myself and realize that the future gen-erations, that my children and theirs, will reap the benefits or feel the shortcomings of my ac-tions. I don’t want to have to realize that I am a part of the population supporting the older generations and raising the younger ones. It’s terrifying.

Lucky for me I look like I’m 12. I’ve got at least 10 more years of “Can I help you honey?”s in airports and “Are you just waiting for your parents to finish voting?”s at the polls. I’m still clinging to the safety net. But it’s coming. There will be a time when people will stop dis-cussing the problems pushed on our genera-tion, the faltering economy, social security, en-vironmental distress, and will start discussing what we have off-loaded on our successors.

Remember when Halloween meant the fear your parents would find out you ate twice as much candy as they said you could? We’re at the point where that is no longer our privi-lege. It’s time to brace ourselves for some tru-ly terrifying apparitions. So come, metaphori-cal witches and goblins and ghouls (oh my!). I don’t know if I’m at all ready for my high school class to run this country, but it’s Hal-loween, and who doesn’t appreciate the thrill of a good scare?

Lydia Thurman is a Trinity sophomore. Her col-umn runs every other Wednesday. You can follow Lydia on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.

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Responding to a proposal forwarded by Duke Students for Gender-Neutrality, Duke’s administration committed last year to accommodating gen-der-neutral housing on cam-pus for the 2013-2014 academic year. Duke Stu-dent Government has recently crafted an updated proposal that fl eshes out the details for implementing gender-neutral housing and calls for the ad-ministration to make as much of Duke’s campus able to ac-commodate gender-neutral housing as possible. We sup-port DSG’s proposal and agree with its underlying contention that expanding gender-neutral housing remains incredibly important in promoting equity on campus.

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to become gender-neutral in the fi rst year. Once houses have established themselves as open to gender-neutral liv-ing arrangements, students who plan to enter unaffi liated houses can opt into or out of gender-neutral housing for the next academic year. Request-ing gender-neutral housing will override all other housing preferences, providing a disin-centive for students to opt into gender-neutral housing simply to increase their chances of living in a more desirable loca-

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Hey, so big news since we last spoke—I puked on a table at Waffl e House. If you follow me on Twitter or if I have your phone number, you were probably already aware of this in-

cident. Because when I do anything at all edgy, albeit revolting, I like to shout it from the cellular towers.

I live a relatively tame lifestyle, but on this unholy day of Hallow-een, I embrace my rare radical mo-ments. I take a break from bowing to Priorities and Responsibilities, the recurrent rulers of my waking hours, and I do one thing—SLUT IT UP!

Just kidding. I’m not a big en-dorser of the skanky costume the-ory made popular by “Mean Girls” and subsequently supported by scantily clad disciples every Oct. 31. Yeah … Newsfl ash! The girl who wore a tankini to her graduation party does not wear fi shnets on Halloween. This is not to say that I wouldn’t dole out high fi ves to all you brave, yet chilly bods rocking said fi shnets—it’s just not for me. It must be cat-ear envy; I cannot rock those animal accesso-ries as well as the girl in head-to-toe, black spandex. So when I talk about letting loose on All Hallow’s Eve, it’s a bit more multi-faceted than encouraging you to go pantsless or braless or wear less of any-thing in particular. I merely mean to suggest we could all inject a few more factors into our masked merriments this year.

With Halloween confusedly located smack dab in the middle of the workweek, time is preciously allocated for socially acceptable zombie make-up. You can’t just go to class in your banana costume and enjoy the impact of that statement all day—no, because pledg-ing isn’t for months. Without this extended weekend opportunity for 48-hour fun in a lackadaisical costume, we must resort to well-articulated attire that packs a punch in our truncated Halloween celebrations.

I encourage you to put thoughtful consideration into a cos-tume that allows you to let loose while also communicating your complicated and underappreciated layers. You can’t be a librarian last night and a cheerleader tomorrow—THIS ISN’T SATURDAY. You need to fi nd something that encapsulates both your id and your superego.

So let me return to my rant against simple slutty versions of non-slutty beings. For my fellow Cameron Crazettes, I encourage you to direct that effortless perfection toward something with a little more attitude than “provocative preschooler.” Duke girls aren’t just horny. They are horny AND smart. Find a costume that ac-complishes both, ladies! Be a slutty maid, fi ne. But at least be clever about it. Be beloved childhood book character Amelia Bedelia! She clumsily putzed about her list of chores in an utterly literal way. It’s a costume that says “Hey I’m sexy, but I also have an appreciation for children’s literature.” So now you can be semi-nude while also educating the revelers around you on irony and idioms. And when the creep dressed as Hurricane Sandy comes up and says “Looks like I’m not the only one blowing everyone on the East Coast,” you can naively respond, “Yeah, wind can be so pesky.”

And for you multidimensional boy toys out there, you too can appear more interesting on this desecrated day. For instance, I re-cently met a man who was wearing an intricately-constructed jel-lyfi sh costume. I went up to him and shouted “Ow! You stung me!” (Flirting 101). Through the conversation that followed, I learned he was an engineer slash graphic designer—and I understood. He was a beautiful feat of mechanics—a masterpiece all pink and decked out in pipe cleaners. I saw him. And I liked what I saw. Lay-ers, people!!

When I yakked hummus all over the poor man’s IHOP, I be-came enlightened. I’m not just that girl with nary a leopard print bra. I have some trashy streaks up in these bangs. The only one im-posing the classy cookie cutter on myself is me, and on the Devil’s Birthday, I can unfasten the top button of my chambray and get a little uninhibited.

Halloween is a time for masks, but those masks can be surpris-ingly exposing. They give a little insight on the freak you keep on a leash. Reveal more than your tatas or your knack for making overalls out of beer boxes this year—additionally reveal that inner sociopath that only gets to come out during exam time.

Lindsay Tomson, Trinity ’12, is currently applying her Duke-developed skills of sarcasm and awkwardness in the real world. Her installation of the weekly Socialites column runs on alternate Wednesdays. You can follow Lindsay on Twitter @elle4tee.

Clothes off, masks onDuring the most recent presidential debate,

President Barack Obama congratulated him-self on a continuation of the United States’

policy of economic sanctions against Iran. “We … organized the strongest coalition and the strongest sanctions against Iran in history, and it is crippling their economy,” he said. “Their currency has dropped 80 percent. Their oil production has plunged to the lowest level since they were fi ghting a war with Iraq 20 years ago. So their economy is in a shambles [sic].” Republican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney, for his part, enthu-siastically joined the president in his analysis. “It’s also essential for us … to dissuade Iran from having a nuclear weapon through peaceful and dip-lomatic means,” Romney said. “And crippling sanctions are something I’d called for fi ve years ago. … It’s absolutely the right thing to do to have crippling sanctions. … I would tighten those sanctions further.”

It is obvious from the tone of such statements that both President Obama and Gov. Romney pride themselves on the American policy of trade sanc-tions against Iran. This is perhaps because they mis-understand the basic nature of economic sanctions, thinking them a devastating blow to the Iranian state when, in reality, they are a devastating blow to an innocent civilian population.

It is important to begin by understanding that, when one government initiates sanctions against another, it is actually doing little more than initiat-ing force against its own people. Since the idea of a nation is itself an (admittedly useful) abstraction, and since all economic action takes place only at the level of the individual, it is helpful to view economic sanctions as a phenomenon in which a nation’s rul-ing or political class forcibly prevents its productive class from trading with the productive class of an-other nation. Although it should be obvious already that a description of sanctions as “peaceful,” “diplo-matic,” and “the right thing to do” is utterly absurd, there are even greater realizations to be had here.

A basic law of economics tells us that any trade takes place because both parties feel that it is to their benefi t. If I desire your sunglasses, for example, and you desire my wristwatch, then a trade will occur in which we both give up an item of lesser personal subjective value in order to gain one of higher val-ue. If we apply this axiomatic truth to trade between the citizens of the United States and those of Iran, of course, we can draw the exact same conclusion: Americans trade with Iranians because they feel that it is to their benefi t, and vice versa.

This may seem like a simple statement, but its implications are profound. In fact, it leads us to the realization that a moratorium on trade between Americans and Iranians—forcibly imposed by the unilateral fi at of the relatively small American po-litical class—will necessarily decrease the standard of living for both populations, by forcing them to forego desirable trades and thus resort to less op-timal alternatives. An Iranian population that im-ports substantial foodstuffs from the United States, for example, will subsequently be forced to search for alternatives that most likely are characterized by inferior quality or higher prices, or both. And their American counterparts, of course, will be forced to sell to a less desirable consumer base.

In fact, one does not have to look far for evi-dence of the economic illiteracy behind the poli-cies of men like Obama and Romney. U.S. sanctions against Iran have, for example, prevented Iranian airlines from importing replacement parts for com-mercial planes. As the commercial fl eet has aged without repairs, there has been an acceleration in

the rate of plane failures and civilian deaths as a direct result of this policy. On a less morbid—but still critical—level, all Iranian businesses that relied on imports of American raw materials have been crippled, if not toppled, by these trade policies. This, along with the 80 percent drop in currency of which President Obama seems so proud, has the effect of further impoverishing an already op-pressed population, and of pushing

it, needy, directly into the hands of the same totali-tarian government that the sanctions were intended to weaken in the fi rst place.

On top of these considerations, there is also the basic reality that economic sanctions have tended to serve in the past as preludes to armed confl ict. In the case of World War I, for example, it has been suggest-ed that the British starvation blockade of Germany—which was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and continued for a full fi ve months after the end of hostilities in Novem-ber of 1918—established an enduring psychological trauma on the part of German youth that was later exploited as part of the Nazi rise to power. Later, af-ter the outbreak of World War II, the United States pursued a policy of trade sanctions against Japan, which had the calculated effect of starving the Japa-nese industrial war machine into its infamous attack on Pearl Harbor. “The question,” as then Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson confessed to his personal diary, “was how we should maneuver [the Japanese] into the position of fi ring the fi rst shot.” The answer, of course, was the same policy of economic sanctions, used in both cases as tools of suffering in the interim and gateways to rampant armed confl ict and death in the long run. It was this very nature of economic sanctions that caused Frederic Bastiat to point out, as far back as the 19th century, “If goods don’t cross borders, armies will.”

If President Obama and Gov. Romney were truly interested in liberating people like the Iranians, they would abandon the current strategy—which bizarrely endeavors to foster peace by forcibly pre-venting peaceful exchange—for one of unrestricted free trade. A free trade policy would create wealth and enrich the Iranian population, thereby render-ing the citizens less dependent on their oppressive government and strengthening a business class that would contest state predations on private property and individual freedoms. And it could only be ad-vantageous to an American economy that continues to struggle through a slow and dubious recovery.

I suspect, however, that such basic economic analysis and historical awareness will fall on deaf ears. History, it seems, may once again be doomed to repeat itself.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working for Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Mass. His column runs every Wednesday. You can follow Chris on Twitter @Ham-sterdamEcon.

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Documenting the Politics of Food: Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections. Thru December 10. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Exhibition Opens November 4. Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore. 10am-5pm. Free to Duke students (1 per day with I.D.) Tickets: 919-684-4444 or tickets.duke.edu.

EVENTSOctober 312012 Duke Arts Festival. Celebrate the arts with duARTS, Noon; The Plaza; dupe, Duke University Percussion Ensemble, 12:20pm, The Plaza; Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, chamber music ensemble, 12:30pm, Perkins Library alcove; Duke Lasya, cultural dance. Noon, The Plaza. Free. arts.duke.edu/festival.

‘Lasya Kavya’ documentary film. Followed by Q&A with dancer Alarmel Valli. Griffith Film Theater, 7:00pm.Free.

November 12012 Duke Arts Festival. Celebrate the arts with duARTS, Noon; The Plaza; Rowena Gan, piano, classical music. Noon, Bryan Center; Betsy Boxberger, solo dance, 12:20pm, Bryan Center; Indu Ramesh, solo violin, 1:30pm, Perkins alcove; Something Borrowed, Something Blue, a cappella, 6:pm, von der Heyden, Perkins Library; Salon: an evening of poetry with The Archive, 6pm, von der Heyden, Perkins Library; Def Mo (Defining Movement), dance, 6:30pm, Marketplace. Free. arts.duke.edu/festival.

Free Film. Midnight in Paris. Get in the mood for Collecting Matisse, which opens Nov. 4, with Woody Allen’s poem to Paris (2011, Woody Allen, 94 minutes). 7pm, Nasher Museum Aud. Free.

November 22012 Duke Arts Festival. Celebrate the arts with duARTS, Noon; The Plaza; DEMAN (Duke Entertainment Media and the Arts Network) weekend begins, 11am - 8:30pm, Arts Venues on East & West Campus; Perichoresis, performance art, 12:20pm, Bryan Center; Opera Workshop, vocal music, 4:40pm, Bryan Center; Stop Motion Crew, dance, 5pm, The Plaza; Anne Talkington, solo dance, 5:15p, Bryan Center; Swing Dance, 5:20pm, The Plaza; United in Praise, Gospel music, 5:40pm, Bryan Center. Free. arts.duke.edu/festival.

Jimmy Soni: Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato. Soni reads from his new book. 6pm, Rare Book Rm., Rubenstein Library. Free.

Theater Previews New Works Lab. A Brave Woman in Mexico, the first in the 3-play cycle So Go the Ghosts of Mexico. By guest playwright Matthew Paul Olmos. Directed by Jonathan Cullen. A staged reading. 8pm, East Duke 209, East Campus. Free.

November 32012 Duke Arts Festival. DEMAN Career Workshops, 10:30am - 11:30am, Perkins Library; Send-off Lunch, & Art Awards, 11:45am-1:30pm, Bryan Center; Duke Chamber Players, Noon, Bryan Center; DEMAN Music Studio Session, Small Town Records, 1:30pm Bryan Center basement. Free. arts.duke.edu/festival.

Violin and Viola Master Class. Anton Miller and Rita Porfiris. 2pm, Nelson Music Rm., East Duke Bldg. Free.

Recital. Anton Miller, violin and Rita Porfiris, viola, with Eric Pritchard, violin. Works by Errolyn Wallen, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Kodály, Dvorák. 8pm, Nelson Music Rm., East Duke Bldg. Free.

Theater Previews New Works Lab. A Brave Woman in Mexico, the first in the 3-play cycle. So Go the Ghosts of Mexico. Pre-show panel discussion at 6:30 pm in 115 Friedl. (See Nov. 2) 8pm. November 4Duke Arts Festival Exhibition Closes. Student visual arts exhibit featured works by Duke student artists. Schaefer Mall, Bryan Center and Louise Jones Brown Gallery (upper level of the Bryan Center). Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETYAll events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (ED) = East Duke 108. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

10/31 Documentary: LASYA KAVYA: THE WORLD OF ALARMEL VALLIQ&A w/ acclaimed Indian dancer and choreographerAlarmel Valli in person!

11/1 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen, 2011) (N) Prelude to Nasher’s ‘Collecting Matisse’ exhibit.6pm: live French accordion music+cash bar. 7pm: film.

11/5 Japan Foundation Film Series: DOG IN A SIDECARCine-East: East Asian Cinema