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onTherecord“Being Duke, we have that target on our back.”

—Senior Ned Crotty on getting opponents’ best shots every game. See story page 5

Law prof vies for NC teens’ rights in court

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen will speak today

by Ciaran O’ConnorThe chronicle

More than two years after her clients were suspended for fighting after school, Duke law professor Jane Wettach was in north carolina Supreme court Monday arguing that the two high school girls were stripped of their constitutional right to an education.

in January 2008, six teenage students in Beaufort, n.c. were suspended for the re-mainder of the school year from Southside high School for participating in a fistfight that subsequently made it onto YouTube. After also being denied access to Beaufort county’s alternative school for troubled youth, two of the suspended students—Viktoria King and Jessica hardy—sued the school district in hopes of being allowed back to the classroom.

Although King and hardy were not al-lowed to return to school until the fol-lowing year, their case has now made it to the highest court in the state. Wettach is asking the n.c. Supreme court to set a standard barring fights that do not in-clude weapons or injuries from causing students to sit idle for months. of the six suspended students, only King plans to attend college next year, The new York Times reported last week.

Wettach, who directs the children’s law clinic at the law School, said she based her argument on a 1997 school funding case, leandro v. State. in that case, the state Su-preme court interpreted the State consti-tution’s right to a public education to mean that the state must put forth a “compelling interest” in order to deprive a student of his or her right to attend school.

“That was really the crux of our case,” Wettach said. “They didn’t provide a rea-son at all [for the suspensions].”

The school district is arguing that the

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nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen will speak Friday at 4 p.m. in the Goodson chapel on “The Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith.”

Sen, Thomas W. lamont University professor and professor of economics and philosophy at harvard University, is the key-note speaker for a two-day series of events honoring crauford Goodwin, James B. Duke professor of economics, for his 40 years at the helm of history of Political economy—the scholar-ly journal was the first to be devoted to the history of econom-

ics. Goodwin has been its only editor since its inception.Sen won the 1998 nobel Memorial Prize in economic Sci-

ences for his work in welfare economics—the study of how economic policies affect the well-being of communities.

Born in present-day Bangladesh, Sen is known as the “Mother Teresa of economics” for his work on the underly-ing economic principles of poverty, famine and gender in-equality. his book “collective choice and Social Welfare” criticized the mainstream economic principles of the time that valued efficiency over economic equality and justice.

he has spent most of his adult life in academia, with

professorships at calcutta, Jadavpur University, Delhi School of economics as well as renowned American uni-versities like cornell, Stanford, Berkeley and the Massa-chusetts institute of Technology.

Today’s event is sponsored by the center for the history of Political economy, Department of economics, office of the President, office of the Provost, Duke University Press, the Trent Foundation, Divinity School, office of interna-tional Affairs and the Johnson lecture Fund.

nobel prize-winning economist Vernon Smith will also deliver a speech Saturday as part of the conference.

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A chAnce to be elite

Unheralded Aztecs look to topple heavily favored Duke

Blue Devils face shorthanded Boilermakers in ’08 rematch

by Jeff SchollThe chronicle

San Diego State may be the only double-digit seed in the Sweet 16, but the Blue Devils know better

than to take the Aztecs lightly after they cruised to their first ncAA regional appearance since the tournament ex-panded in 1994.

no. 2 Duke (29-5) could have its hands full with a San Diego State squad rid-

ing an eight-game winning streak when it meets the no. 11 Aztecs in Memphis Saturday at 2 p.m.

An ncAA Tournament berth was far from a given for San Di-ego State (23-10) after the team finished third in the Mountain West conference during the regular season. But the Az-

tecs locked up an automatic bid by winning their con-ference tournament and picked the perfect time to play their best basketball of the season—becom-ing this year’s cinderella story in the process.

“The seedings mean just about nothing,” senior co-captain Joy cheek said. “You can see a lot of par-ity in the games. [The Aztecs] could have done the same things they’re do-ing throughout the

season had they played in the Acc or Sec.”

by Matt LevenbergThe chronicle

Duke entered this year’s ncAA Tourna-ment with high hopes, and after surviving a wild opening weekend which saw the no. 1 overall seed Kansas lose a shocker to no. 9 northern iowa, the Blue Devils are fly-ing high. of the 16 teams re-maining, only Duke, Kentucky and Syracuse won their first two games by at least 15 points each, and the orange have since been eliminated as well. The Blue Devils (31-5) will look to extend that scor-ing streak and avoid the upset bug Friday night in houston when they take on no. 4 Purdue (29-5).

The teams last met Dec. 2, 2008 in West lafayette for the Acc/Big Ten challenge—a game that the Blue Devils won, 76-60. Duke’s victory was characterized by stellar de-fense, as the Boilermakers were limited to just 37.3 percent from the field. robbie hummel, a key contributor for Purdue, had a team-high 15 points and eight rebounds in that match-up. hummel tore his Acl in February, though, and is side-lined for the rest of the year.

The Boilermakers’ coaching staff looks back to these teams’ last matchup as a turning point for its program.

“The game really helped us because our guys felt like they played hard before that, but after that game they know what playing hard really means,” head coach Matt Painter said.

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rene preval will join U.s. and United Na-tions leaders next week in seeking $3.9 billion to rebuild the nation’s infrastruc-ture following the earthquake in January that killed more than 200,000 people.

the U.N., World Bank and inter-amer-ican Development Bank will present a 250-page reconstruction plan at a donors’ conference in New york on march 31, ac-cording to Jordan ryan, director of the U.N. Development program’s crisis prevention and recovery unit. ryan said as many as 60 nations may pledge new funds.

ryan said preval also will submit a 50-page haitian government “Vision and plan” for his nation’s long-term economic development.

“the government decided very early on that they didn’t want just to focus on the earthquake and the damage of the

earthquake,” ryan said in an interview. “they wanted to seize the opportunity of the earthquake to, in a sense, relaunch a development path for haiti.”

secretary of state hillary Clinton and U.N. secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will join preval in opening the daylong con-ference at the U.N. former president Bill Clinton, the U.N.’s special envoy for haiti, also will speak at the conference, which foreign ministers of france and Japan are expected to attend, ryan said.

ryan was one of the leaders of a month-long mission to haiti that produced the post Disaster Needs assessment report focusing on rebuilding schools, hospitals, government ministries, roads, airports and ports. it will propose the creation of what he called a “multidonor trust fund,” to be overseen by the World Bank and to chan-nel pledges to reconstruction needs.

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ioWa City — a jubilant president Ba-rack obama dared his republican critics thursday to run on a platform of repealing the health-care overhaul he signed into law earlier this week, urging them to “go for it” as he staunchly defended the measure.

returning to the place where he prom-ised health care reform three years ago as he was beginning his presidential bid, obama made iowa City his first stop out-side the Beltway in an incipient campaign to explain the benefits of the overhaul to the american people and rebut what he called “misinformation,” “fear-mongering” and “overheated rhetoric” about it.

from now on, “all of the cynics and the naysayers will have to finally confront the reality of what this reform is and what it isn’t,” obama told a crowd of sev-eral thousand people at the University of iowa field house.

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Nancy pelosi called on republican lead-ers thursday to join Democrats in con-demning threats and racial epithets di-rected at lawmakers who voted to pass health-care legislation.

republican leaders, while criticizing threats against lawmakers and racist taunts, accused Democrats of trying to capitalize politically on the episodes. pelosi said politi-cal leaders of both parties should be united in their condemnation of such behavior.

“it’s very important that across the board we all reject what has been said in the course of this debate, however it was provoked,” pelosi said at her weekly news conference thursday in Washington. asked whether republicans had done enough to discourage such rhetoric, she said, “it would be important for us to have a bipartisan statement to that effect.”

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New committee would evaluate, assign residential spaceby Maggie Love

The chronicle

Students may soon have a say in the ad-dition or removal of residential groups.

At its meeting Thursday night, cam-pus council proposed the establishment of the Addition and removal committee. if instituted, Arc will have three main functions: granting residential spaces, removing those spaces and considering sanctions, as well as allowing residential groups to expand, said Vice President Alex reese, a junior. This committee would serve as an umbrella group over campus council and the residential Group Assessment committee’s living space decisions. Under this structure, campus council and rGAc could pres-ent proposals and suggestions to Arc.

“This brings students into the process, so it’s students holding students accountable, which is in line with the [rGAc process] as well—students holding peers accountable,” said President Stephen Temple, a junior.

Temple added that this is not a new con-cept—the Annual review Process, a previ-ous committee serving a similar purpose, was ended around 2002.

The proposal notes that Arc will be made up of eight student members and eight administrators. of the students, two would be affiliated and six would be inde-pendent, a proportion representative of the student body, reese said.

one of the eight student members would be the campus council president, and all undergraduate students, includ-ing campus council members, would be eligible for the other seven positions. The executive director of residence life

and housing Services, the rlhS deans for West and central campuses and the dean of undergraduate education would number among the eight administrators on the committee, reese added. The ex-ecutive director of rlhS position, held by eddie hull until July 2009, is current-ly vacant.

When determining whether to grant space or revoke residential privileges from a group, the Arc will consider the group’s

positive or negative influences on members as well as surrounding residents.

Through a group’s rGAc scores, for example, the Arc would also be able to provide rewards for residential groups who demonstrate exemplary behavior.

“Groups that rocked rGAc really saw very little [in rewards] last time. And that should not happen,” said Facilities and Ser-vices chair John Pryor, a junior who also served as rGAc co-chair.

in other business: The grand opening of The Devil’s Bis-

tro on central campus will take place April 9, Temple said. The opening is set to have jazz performers, a DJ and a menu tasting. This opening date marks yet another delay from the previously pushed back opening of April 2.

Additionally, the council allocated $1,960 to the native American Student Al-liance’s third annual Powwow.

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students temporarily forfeited their right to an education through their misconduct, and furthermore, that the state is only obligated to justify the initial suspension according to its disciplinary policy. The school system’s lawyer, Trey Allen, said such

disciplinary decisions should not be scruti-nized by the courts.

“if the court were to adopt [Wettach’s] position... it would lead to courts becoming student discipline policy makers,” he said. “We think the courts should defer to the expertise of the legislature in education matters... and to local school boards since they’re the ones who have to make the on-

the-ground decisions.”erwin Byrd, staff attorney for the legal

Aid of north carolina’s Advocates for chil-dren’s Services project, said the 1997 case proves there is a constitutional issue at play, and thus, courts ought to apply strict scru-tiny to such cases.

“These days, there’s all kinds of al-ternatives to being in your regular class-

room,” said Byrd, who originally brought the case to Wettach and served as her co-counsel. “if the school district says, ‘We’re just not going to offer a student any of these things,’ they need to show a compelling reason why not.”

The State Supreme court will likely re-lease its decision this year, though Allen said it will probably take several months.

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Freshman Desmond Scott is one of the most exciting players on the Duke roster heading into the Blue Devils’ spring game Saturday at 1 p.m. at Wallace Wade Stadium. Head coach David Cutcliffe will address the crowd at halftime of the event.

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BC beckons in key ACC series

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FRIDAY-SUNDAYBoston, Mass.

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by Alex KrinskyTHE CHRONICLE

After a strong win over Davidson, Duke (13-7, 2-4 in the ACC) continues its second road stretch of the season with a three-game series against ACC opponent Boston College.

Despite the Blue Devils’ solid overall record, a series against the relatively weak Eagles (7-12, 1-5 in the ACC) is a chance for Duke to improve its stand-ing within the ultra-competitive ACC.

However, Eagles ace Pat Dean stands in the Blue Devils’ way. Dean is 3-0 with a 2.79 ERA on the season. He leads the Boston College pitching staff in almost every statistical catego-ry, including wins, ERA, opponents’

batting average and innings. Dean lifted Boston College to a shutout win over then-No. 13 Miami, a team that swept the Blue Devils in Durham, March 12.

Duke will need to continue to rely on its defense and smart base running to win ballgames. The Blue Devils are third in the ACC with a .977 fielding percentage and have been caught stealing only seven times in 38 attempts.

On the offensive side of the ball, sophomore Will Pi-wnica-Worms must continue to generate runs, especially with such a dominant force on the mound expected for the third game. Piwnica-Worms leads the team with 22 RBI and 20 runs scored.

Fortunately for the Blue Devils, the pitching matchups

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Duke faces triple-headerby Tim Visutipol

THE CHRONICLE

By beating then-No.3 Southern California last week, the Blue Devils recorded their first win over a team in the top five in three years. This weekend, Duke has a chance to capi-talize on its momentum and begin the ACC season strongly. In fact, the Blue Devils have three opportunities to do so.

Duke takes on Harvard at 10 a.m. today and plays its first conference opponent in Boston College at 4 p.m, with both matches taking place at Harvard’s Murr Center in Cambridge, Mass. To round off the weekend, the Blue Devils travel to College Park, Md. for a high noon show-down Sunday against Maryland.

While Duke (6-5) will be attempting to keep up the top form it showed in its win over the Trojans, its three op-ponents will all be looking to bounce back from losses. To make matters more challenging for the Blue Devils, they will have to take on all three without star freshman and ACC Player of the Week Henrique Cunha, who is out in-jured with a slight ankle sprain.

“It’s not that bad,” head coach Ramsey Smith said of Cunha’s injury. “It’ll keep him out of the Friday match-es, but he’s going to be fine. It’s nothing that’ll take real long to recover.”

Smith is looking at this injury blow positively, viewing Cunha’s absence as a test for the other players to step up and challenge themselves.

“This will give our guys a chance to play higher [seeds],” Smith said. “In the long run, it’ll make us a stronger team if we can get through these matches without him.”

The three matches over the weekend also represent a good chance for the Blue Devils to simulate tournament nathan pham/chronicle file photo

With Henrique Cunha out Friday, senior Dylan arnould will take on much of the responsibility near the top of Duke’s rotation of players.SEE M. tennis ON PAgE 7

by Jason PalmataryTHE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils travel north to our nation’s capital this week-end to face No. 10 georgetown

in an intrigu-ing non-conference matchup that will serve as an indicator of how far this team has come after enduring a

tough start to the season.No. 7 Duke (5-3) is riding a

three-game winning streak dur-ing which the team is begin-ning to click on both the offen-sive and defensive ends of the field. One of those wins was an impressive grind-it-out perfor-mance against a top-10 Loyola team, while the other two wins were blowouts against lesser op-ponents in Penn State and Dart-mouth in which the attack unit readily got the chance to get out and make plays in transition.

However, the Blue Devils have not always had this sweet a taste in their mouths. After entering the season among the nation’s top-ranked teams, Duke suffered a couple of unexpected losses, al-beit to perennial lacrosse powers Maryland and North Carolina and an up-and-coming program in Notre Dame. The Tar Heels and Terrapins are currently ranked third and fourth in the country, respectively.

“Coming into the season, a lot of people assumed things would happen because of our experi-ence,” senior captain Ned Crotty said. “Once it didn’t, we took positives from the negatives and learned what we had to do better and are now executing.”

The Blue Devils are especial-ly experienced on the offensive end, as the four leading scorers from the previous year’s Final Four team all returned to Dur-ham for another campaign. Yet Crotty noted that even with all of the experience among the offense’s top performers, it still

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by Patricia LeeTHE CHRONICLE

On the heels of five consecutive victo-ries, No. 3 Duke will entertain ACC foe Virginia at Koskinen Stadium Saturday at 1 p.m.

The Blue Devils (9-1, 1-1 in the ACC) are hoping to continue their winning streak as they carry over into the latter half of the season and prepare for the conference tournament.

“I think we’ve done a great job, and I’m really happy with where we are,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “With a younger team, you have to an-ticipate that you’re going to have a little bit of a rollercoaster at times, and you have to have patience

not just among the coaching staff, but also among the players.”

Despite the team’s nearly perfect record, Kimel noted that many of the victories were closely contested.

“The players have to understand that there are some good days and some not so good days, and they have to not let themselves get so emotionally caught up in that,” Kimel said. “You realize that there are some days of frustration and that we’re not always going to play pretty lacrosse, but with the amount of work we put in, you’re going to get better.”

Kimel’s squad has done an admirable job responding to adversity. After losing just less than a month ago to No. 2 Mary-land in its fifth game of the season, Duke has earned five straight victories, includ-ing two against top-10 teams.

The ACC is composed of five top-10 teams, adding to Duke’s already difficult schedule, which also includes a contest against No. 1 Northwestern next month. Tomorrow, the Blue Devils will be facing the No. 5 Cavaliers (6-3, 1-1)—and Duke

will have to be at the top of its game to ex-tend the win streak to six.

“Virginia is a great team, and from our standpoint, we’ve prepared ourselves as best we could to get better this week,” Kimel said. “What we know to expect is that it’s going to be a good game, a close game. We have to be ready to battle for 60 minutes in all aspects of our game.”

The team’s motto all season has been to focus on each game individually rath-er than look at the schedule as a whole, something the team is emphasizing be-fore the clash with the Cavaliers.

“In these ACC games, if you allow yourselves to get too high or low emo-tionally, those things can come back to bite you,” Kimel said. “For us, we take it one play at a time, one day at a time, one game at a time, and that take on ev-erything has served us well throughout the season.”

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Duke desperately needs an aCC win against Vir-ginia after losing to maryland earlier in the season.

are less daunting for the first and second games of the series. The Eagles will start sophomores Taylor Lasko and Mike Den-nhardt Friday and Saturday. Dennhardt has not been successful on the bump thus far, going 1-4 with a 9.00 ERA.

Duke will start junior Dennis O’grady against Dean, while senior Christopher Manno and sophomore Eric Pfisterer will take on Lasko and Dennhardt. Man-no has been dominant out of the bull-

pen so far this season with a 0.66 ERA, and he will be making his first start of the season.

Thus far, Duke has found more suc-cess at home than on the road, going 11-4 in the Durham area. At the beginning of the season, the Blue Devils struggled on a road trip to Texas, splitting two games with georgia and losing two to Baylor.

This upcoming series is a chance for the Blue Devils to not only pick up much-need-ed ACC wins, but to prove to themselves that they can be consistent away from the friendly confines of Durham Bulls Athletic Park.

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Will Piwnica-Worms’ play in the field and at the plate was key in Duke’s win over Davidson in midweek.

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play. Situations like this one will come up if Duke makes a deep run into either the ACC or NCAA tournaments, where the Blue Devils would play three or four match-es in a row with little rest.

Although the Crimson (8-6), the Ea-gles (8-8) and the Terrapins (13-4) are all ranked below the Blue Devils nationally, Smith stressed the importance of having the right mentality, citing this as the key to his team’s victory over the Trojans.

“I think what we did really well in that last match was that everyone went out there and played to win,” Smith said. “Even though these teams are ranked below us, we need to go out there and assert ourselves early, play aggressive and play to win.”

This is only the beginning of a busy ACC calendar—the Blue Devils play three matches a week until the regular season ends April 18.

took game action for the group to fully develop its chemistry.

The 15-goal outburst against Dart-mouth in which seven different Blue Devils found the back of the net is a per-fect example of the depth and offensive potential that this squad possesses. Mak-ing the offensive barrage particularly im-pressive was the fact that the Big green stayed in a zone for entire game, forcing Duke into its more methodical zone of-fense, a style that it prefers not to play.

“The Penn Sate game is the style people would expect when they think of Duke la-crosse,” Crotty said. “It was all about transi-tion and getting up and down the field. We like to play fast.”

In the Hoyas (4-2), the Blue Devils face a team that likes to play the uptempo game just as much as they do. georgetown fea-tures some of the country’s more prolific offensive talents in Andrew Brancaccio, Travis Comeau and Rickey Mirabito,.

“They have the ability to score lots of goals,” Duke head coach John Danowski said. “They have some guys that can re-ally shoot it from the top—lots of fire-power.”

Another facet of the game in which the coaching staff has observed consid-erable improvements is on the defensive side. Over the past three games, Duke’s opponent was held to five or fewer goals twice, and Penn State’s 11 goals were

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more of a byproduct of the fast pace. This defensive success was not always the case, despite the fact that the unit contains several talented individuals, including All-American Parker McKee.

“Defensively, we were disappointed that the sum wasn’t greater than the parts early on,” Danowski said. “We have some great parts, and they’ve been coming to-gether as of late.”

But, if the Blue Devils can have any success in limiting the explosive Hoyas and continue their fast play on the of-fensive end, they have the chance to build on their recent momentum with a signature win.

“Being Duke, we have that target on our back,” Crotty said. “If we can get this one, it would prove to us that we really have made a big step in our season.”

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Purdue also had lofty expectations for this season and rose as high as No. 3 in the country Feb. 22. After losing Hum-mel, however, Painter’s squad has strug-gled to score, averaging just 61.1 points per game. A strong defense and clutch play late, though, have kept the Boiler-makers competitive and led them to two straight Tournament wins over No. 13 Siena and No. 5 Texas A&M.

“I thought [JaJuan Johnson] did a good job for us. He played good post defense,” Painter said. “He was beating the bigs down the court and getting in good position.”

Johnson, a 6-foot-10 center, is averaging 17 points and nine rebounds per game in the Tournament. He was the team’s lead-ing scorer in its first-round game against Siena, and he is the best big man the Blue Devils have seen in the Tournament thus far. But without Hummel, the Boilermak-ers lack the overall size to match up with Duke inside. Johnson is the only Purdue

player over 6-foot-6 who has averaged more than eight minutes per game this season. The Blue Devils—aware of the Boilermakers’ shortcomings—hope to ex-ploit Purdue in the lane.

“Lance [Thomas] and I are definitely going to have to step up this game,” senior center Brian Zoubek said. “We have to at-tack the paint and grab rebounds.”

In its last game against No. 8 Califor-nia, Duke’s big men won the battle on the glass thanks in large part to Zoubek’s 13 rebounds and Thomas’s nine. Purdue was outrebounded by 10 against Texas A&M and by five in its opening round matchup. Both coaches understand the importance of the battle under the boards.

“We have to be able to take care of the basketball, rebound and play at a high lev-el,” Painter said. “We have to worry about what we can control. Those elements of the game are going to be very important.”

Luckily for the Blue Devils, they take care of the ball quite well. Senior guard Jon Schey-er holds the highest assist-to-turnover ratio of any player left in the Tournament, and against the golden Bears, Duke turned the ball over a season-low five times. If the Blue Devils can protect the ball as well as they did in their last game, they will be very difficult to beat.

The Blue Devils know that it has been six years since they have reached the Elite Eight, and they are ready for their chance to extend this Tournament run.

“[Purdue] might have some incentive from last year’s game, but we know we lost in this round last year,” junior guard Nolan Smith said. “We want to go further. We’re a hungry team.”

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“[Purdue] might have some incentive from last year’s game, but

we know we lost in this round last year.”

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Of the three candidates for the office of executive vice president, Pete Schork is the most qualified to bring effec-tive leadership and direction to the difficult task of manag-ing the Duke Student Gov-ernment Sen-ate. He is our choice for EVP.

The office of EVP—unlike the DSG president or other vice presidents—is internally focused. But by running effi-cient Senate meetings, assist-ing senators in drafting legis-lation and skillfully managing the legislative process, the EVP can play a crucial role in pushing the Senate toward productivity and furthering DSG’s external advocacy.

Schork has the experi-ence and the ideas to make this happen.

A sophomore and the cur-rent vice president for athletics and campus services, Schork has spent the past year manag-ing and mentoring a commit-tee of senators and interacting

with adminis-trators during negot iat ions

over Duke Dining’s deficit.This first-hand knowl-

edge gives him a leg up on the other candidates, and it uniquely positions him to hit the ground running as soon as he assumes office.

Although he is the most experienced candidate, Schork has not rested on his laurels. He has adopted a comprehensive platform with concrete plans to fully address the responsibilities of the EVP and the shortcom-ings of the Senate.

As EVP, Schork would re-instate policy statements to keep track of each senator’s progress and monitor repre-sentatives who are slacking in their duties. He would also post voting records on the DSG Web site, a crucial step toward improving DSG’s waning accountability and transparency.

More than that, Schork’s proposal to create an ad-hoc Executive Council is insight-ful and creative. In the wake of the disbanding of the In-ter-Community Council, the DSG Senate lacks an effec-tive external sounding board for its policy decisions. If he learns from the weaknesses of the ICC, Schork’s idea for an Executive Council composed of student leaders could fill an important role.

The other two candidates for EVP, sophomores Jane Moore and Price Davidson, correctly identify that there is a widening rift between DSG and the student body.

Moore has workable ideas to address this important problem. She wants to in-crease the visibility of DSG through office hours, up-date the DSG Web site and reintroduce legislative intent forms to monitor legislation in the Senate.

Although Moore has prov-en herself to be an articulate and keen observer of DSG during her two years as a senator, we are not confident that she is fully prepared for a major leadership role. She does have the potential for a bright future within the or-ganization, and with another

year of experience, she could make a strong EVP.

Davidson, in contrast to Schork and Moore, talks only in abstracts. When asked how he would motivate senators to pass legislation, Davidson responded that he would re-mind his peers of their duty to effectively represent the student body. This is naïve at best and neglects the root of the problem: intrinsic moti-vation in and of itself is not enough to ensure an effec-tive Senate.

The EVP must actively take charge, innovate and lead with vision. For this role, Schork fits the bill.

The Chronicle’s inde-pendent Editorial Board formally endorses Pete Schork for DSG executive vice president.

Ah, spring! You’ve come late this year, but no matter, we all graciously welcome your re-turn. The Durham sky seems

bluer, the sun shines brighter and the grass on Main Quad is gree-…. Well, it’s being replanted.

With warmer weather upon us, student attire has changed dra-matically. Just this past week, we’ve all seemed to rearrange our clos-ets, tossing the Ugg boots and the North Face jackets to the back and dusting off our tank tops and flip-flops. The girly girls among us have delved into their summer dress collection, while the frat dudes have happily shed tops altogether, preferring the “shirts-off” look.

We runners, forced to run on the treadmill for the duration of what feels like North Carolina’s longest winter, have made a glorious return to the world of outdoor exercise. We’ve lost the long spandex and replaced them with what I believe is perhaps Nike’s most lucrative women’s clothing item: the Tempo running shorts.

You know the shorts I’m talking about—we’ve all got them. Simple, casual, comfortable and practical, Nike shorts epitomize America’s ath-letic female youth. With color combinations such as black/white/perfect pink or sea green/white/Baltic blue, who can resist?

Well, I couldn’t. Even after receiving an explicit warning that women in Paris do not wear shorts, I still packed my Tempos in my suitcase. Could I really spend my entire six-week summer stay abroad run-ning in pants? I’d said non, but wished I’d said oui.

At 27 degrees Celsius (that’s more than 80 de-grees Fahrenheit for you metric-system-haters), I dubbed it simply too hot to run in pants. The streets of Paris would just have to deal with Molly Lester and her American running shorts. So, one afternoon, I changed out of my jeans, proudly slipped into my Nike shorts and headed to the nearest park.

With my first steps onto the streets of Paris, I knew the shorts had been a mistake. Nevertheless, I walked as confidently as an American girl who had just committed the greatest fashion faux pas could walk. What felt like a million pairs of Pari-sian eyes glared at my bare legs. Their stares were quick, as if to say, “Mais oui, she’s just a silly fille américaine,” but with their stares, all of my previ-ous efforts to immerse myself into Parisian culture were squandered.

The metro could not have come fast enough. I hoped I could sit in an empty seat and cover my legs with my jacket, but no, the French fashion gods were punishing me. The metro car was by no

means crowded, but there was standing room only and as fate would have it, I was the only one stand-

ing. All eyes stared at my bare legs as I stood alone, exposed, in the middle of the metro car.

After what felt like an eternity, we reached my stop. Head hung low, I darted off the metro and into the street. I ran to the park as fast as my bare legs would carry me, avoiding eye contact with anyone and everyone. My running locale of choice was a quiet park in the northwest corner of Paris. It was away from the Seine, away from the crowds and away from the tourists.

While its isolation from the hectic summer tour-ism appealed to me at the time, in retrospect, I re-alize that it meant these park-goers were primarily Parisian locals, none of whom would accompany me in my decision to sport running shorts.

The sunshine and the fresh air bettered my mood. I put on my iPod and temporarily forgot about my previous embarrassment. Sure, no one else in the park wore shorts, but my iPod blocked their whistles and my fast pace forbade me from acknowledging their stares. I could tune out the heavy-breathers on the treadmills in Wilson, why couldn’t I do the same in Paris?

This temporary bliss suddenly came to an end. Having almost completed my second lap around the park, I was startled by a man, clearly French, running next to me, laughing, pointing at my legs, and asking me in between breaths if I would race him. “Non!” I shouted, and stopped abruptly. The man continued running along, laughing to himself and wearing… you guessed it, pants.

I was defeated. I was a naive American girl who underestimated the power of French culture. I de-cided to just relish in my indescribable mortifica-tion because it couldn’t get any worse, right?

Wrong. As I approached my apartment build-ing, I felt the stare of a 14-year-old French boy. He giggled, like the others, but then stopped me. “Putain!” he screamed as he pointed at my legs. “Putain! putain! putain!”

While there is no tasteful way to translate putain, it is how I would describe Britney Spears in her “I’m a Slave 4 U” video or any of Hugh Hefner’s girls next door. And so, as I reflect on my hard les-son learned, I warn my fellow Francophiles. When in Paris, do as the Parisians do. Leave the Tempos at home. Wear pants.

Molly Lester is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Friday.

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Synsepalum dulcificum is a powerful drug. Vastly under-rated, too.

“Miracle fruit” registers as a solitary blip on the hu-man-chemistry-altering-and-culturally-significant-but-illegal radar, lacking the intellectual firepower of marijuana, the socioeconomic symbolism of cocaine or even the lowest-common-denominator qual-ity of alcohol.

For one reason or anoth-er, s. dulicificum never really went mainstream. It passed through Duke on Wednes-day without much fanfare. The Duke University Stu-dent Dining Advisory Committee this week sold somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 tablets of “miracle berry” at roughly market value ($5). As someone who has ingested one, allow me to suggest that the market has horribly undervalued this commodity.

S. dulcificum essentially renders sour tasting foods sweet and thereby acts as a sugar substitute (without the caloric intake of Equal or Sugar in the Raw). The drug—actually a berry, but falling under that ever-growing umbrella of substances that modify chemical processes within the human body—achieves a sweetening effect via a glycoprotein called miraculin. This chemical binds to sweetness receptors in human taste buds, and, by a process thus far unknown to modern science, increas-es responsiveness to acids.

Minutes after consuming my tablet of Fruit S.D. (I re-main in the process of copyrighting the term and its ab-breviated version, FSD), I found myself able to accomplish feats that no doubt would have won me an episode of “Fear Factor” or at least a stint on “Man vs. Food.” For 45 minutes, I could take down shots of vinegar and hot sauce faster than John Daly during happy hour. I weathered slices of lemons, limes and citrus sans the Amy Winehouse whiskey face. The entire experience was enough to constitute withdrawal symptoms that would put Ron Washington to shame, and merit two embattled celebrity references (I’m excepting Washington until the Rangers can string together two con-secutive seasons with a team ERA south of 4.5).

Predictably, the FDA has laid down the law on mass pro-duction of FSD, although not for the reasons one might think. Miracle fruit has no known significant health consequences. The threat it poses is mainly a commercial one: If properly packaged and advertised, it’s highly possible—perhaps even probable—that the drug could wipe out Big Sugar. Some the-orize that this is the chief reason the FDA moved in the 1970s to quash efforts to commercialize FSD. Robert Harvey and Don Emery, co-founders of a miracle berry start-up called Miralin, maintain that the FDA effectively sabotaged their company. In 1974, the FDA cut the chord on Miralin’s prod-ucts only weeks after the Miralin offices were raided by bur-glars: “Somebody influenced somebody in the FDA to cause the regulatory action that was taken against us,” Emery told the BBC according to a 2008 article. Little organizations like DUSDAC can have “Berry Tripping” parties, but, as of now, requesting coffee served black with a tablet of FSD doesn’t

register as a legitimate order at the Alpine counter. Miracle berries are still very much an underground phenomenon.

If the drug ever does go above ground, every institutional investor in the nation should be prepared to corner this mar-ket. Miracle berry is a prime candidate to be wildly popular among diabetics, the overweight and the great majority of the college-aged population that enjoys lemons and beer. Basically, any industry that could benefit from making ran-cid-tasting substances taste sweeter would necessarily gener-ate a heavy demand for FSD. Think big pharma. Consumer staples. Adult film.

The very existence of FSD opens the door to a number of other intriguing possibilities. Miracle berry, after all, initially entered the sphere of public awareness in 1725, when Cheva-lier des Marchais, a French explorer, chronicled its gustatory effects. It’s possible—once again, maybe even probable—that plant species with similarly chemistry-altering berries have yet to be discovered. There is no biological principal affirming that only taste can be manipulated from ingesting yet unknown fruits: Who is to say there’s not a berry that has glycoproteins that bind to olfactory or tactile or auditory or visual sensors? Add in advances in genetic engineering, and it would seem that any of these berries’ offspring could be fine-tuned to enhance or nullify any of the five senses. FSD might just be the beginning of an infinite expansion of the scope of human consciousness.

Unless, of course, a heavy-handed FDA gets in the way. Then America will lose out on a conscious-richer and, more importantly, sweeter planet.

Ben Brostoff is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Friday.

Change. Yes we can. All those chanters supporting President Barack Obama’s campaign proved they re-ally could make some changes, at least with respect to

health care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed

into law by Obama this past Tuesday. The administration was so excited it entirely for-got to strap on Vice President Joe Biden’s muzzle, and the result was an expletive-laced congratulations unbecom-ing of a sitting vice president (unless your name happens to be Dick Cheney).

Whether the law stands or falls will be determined in the next few months in our courthouses, but until then, what can we expect from such a monumental bill?

The first and perhaps most significant impact will be wit-nessed by millions on cable television. The text of the act is full of ways to assess how the various new programs are working, but the most immediate test will be broadcast pre-recorded for us all to see. Starting July 1, a 10 percent excise tax will be lev-ied on indoor tanning services. And MTV must be salivating, because this tax just added a whole new ripple to the second season of the “Jersey Shore.”

What will DJ Pauly D and Mike “The Situation” do now that their GTL (gym, tan, laundry) regimen is under fire? Will the

men have to work harder at their day jobs to make up the costs and spend less time partying? Will the stress carry over into the home, with even more drama this season than before?

According to extensive Twitter research, shooting for this upcoming season is only in its earliest stages. Will MTV try to squeeze in a whole summer of fun before the doomsday date of July 1, or will we all play witness to the utter chaos the Pa-tient Protection and Affordable Care Act will unleash onto the beaches of Miami?

MTV played this game well by hedging their bets. Not only will the “Jersey Shore” cast be challenged, but the act opens new possibilities for the cast of “16 and Pregnant.” Sec-tions 10211-10213 of the act provide new services for preg-nant women and teenagers. Will the president save the day for a budding prom queen needing to find affordable day-care for her newborn daughter? Could this be the moment when the show transforms from a teen pregnancy deterrent into its unwitting advocate? This could translate into a cul-tural sea change: Did Congress just provide incentives for high school and college women to have babies? Only time, and MTV, will tell.

But certainly not all college students will admit to watching such shows. Still, this act has quite a bit in store for them too. For computer scientists, the act encourages greater use of elec-tronic health records and other data storage. Congress and the Obama administration have almost unequivocally decided that the future of the doctor’s office lies in digitization.

For medical and health scientists, the bill offers grants ga-lore to study human ailments and assess current treatment

mechanisms. Section 4305, for example, encourages further research into the pain treatment. For economists and public policy analysts, sections 3013-3015 and 4301-4302 offer grants to analyze national data on medical assessments and health dis-parities, and then formulate policy proposals to better the new system. Look no further for a thesis topic!

The greatest benefits, however, accrue to future medi-cal professionals. Section 5101 creates the National Health Care Workforce Commission, charged with helping medi-cal, nursing and medical ancillary staff students finance their professional education. The same section also propos-es a loan repayment program to encourage greater medical access in low-income and high minority population areas. Sections 5202-5210 offer further loan repayment programs and workforce retention mechanisms. Sections 5301-5315 establish greater incentives to lure doctors into specific medical fields.

The last of these sections includes a national plan to train more doctors through direct programming at qualified institu-tions. By the time all of the act’s programs go into effect, we may become a nation of healers.

No matter what seat you hold in the academic world, be it the nice study chair in the library or the couch in front of the television, this act has just rocked your world. And to think that the test for health care policy’s efficacy, for the guiding vision of our nation’s moral and fiscal future, might just lie in the hands of the one they call Snooki.

Elad Gross is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Friday.

Who really votesAre first-years more likely to vote in campus elections?

Do men participate more than women? There is much speculation on such questions during election season.

Our goal is to provide a clear picture of who really votes in Duke Student Gov-ernment elections. In order to do so, we analyzed voter information (stripped of identifying features) from two recent DSG elections. In each of the claims we make, we control for all other variables.

First we looked at the Spring election of March 31, 2009, which included races for DSG president, executive vice presi-dent, vice presidents, senators and class officers. Turnout for the election was 38 percent of the student body.

Although the differences in participation across class years were small, juniors were more likely to vote than first-years, and sophomores less likely to vote than first-years. Voter in-formation for last year’s seniors is not available.

Students were equally likely to vote in Trinity and Pratt (again, controlling for all other variables). Among students with declared majors, Trinity science majors appear to have

been less likely to vote than others, although the effect is not statistically significant. Among those with large majors, public policy students were 45 percent more likely to vote than av-erage, while political science students were 33 percent more likely to vote than average.

Women were 17 percent more likely than men to vote.White students were 17 percent more likely to vote than

average, and Asian students were 21 percent less likely to vote than average. Black and Hispanic students both voted at roughly average rates.

Next we looked at the Fall election of September 14, 2009, the vote in which students elected a special secretary for the young trustee selection process, along with first-year sena-tors and a handful of senators representing other class years (whose races were largely uncompetitive). Voter turnout was 27 percent of the student body.

As most of the competitive Senate races were for the class of 2013, first-years were twice as likely to vote as any other class. Rates for sophomores, juniors and seniors were about equal.

Trinity and Pratt students were equally likely to vote. Women were 27 percent more likely than men to vote.

Black students and white students were each 10 to 15 per-cent more likely than average to vote, and 40 to 50 percent more likely to do so than were Asian students. Hispanic stu-dents voted at below average rates.

First-years’ majors were mostly undeclared, and not enough upperclassmen voted in the election, to allow for any useful conclusions about voting among majors.

Across both elections, our analysis suggests that women are significantly more likely to vote, and Asian students are significantly less likely to do so. It also suggests that Pratt vot-ers are as active as Trinity voters, and that students vote at similar rates regardless of their class years (with the under-standable exception of first-years in Fall elections, when first-year Senate races are more numerous and more competitive than other races).

Analysis of data from future elections (such as next week’s election for DSG president and executive vice president) will perhaps allow for more broadly supported conclusions.

Matthew Rognlie is President of the Duke Math Union. Var Shankar is Attorney General of Duke Student Government. They are both Trinity seniors.

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San Diego State rolled over No. 6 Texas 74-63 in the first round, leading by as many as 19 on the Longhorns’ home floor. The Aztecs’ next upset, a 64-55 win over No. 3 West Virginia Tuesday, put an end to one of the Mountaineers’ best seasons in school history.

In order for Duke to have success against San Diego State, the Blue Devils will need to shut down the Aztecs’ stand-out senior guards. Jené Morris is averag-ing 29.5 points per game in the Tourna-

ment and shooting a torrid 60 percent from 3-point range. She and her back-court partner Quenese Davis combined to score 46 of the team’s 64 points against West Virginia, and the pair feels like it has nothing to lose against Duke.

“At this point there is no pressure on us,” Morris said. “We can just go [to Mem-phis] and play our hardest and give it all we got, so I think there is no ceiling for us. The sky is the limit.”

But the Blue Devils already have experi-ence shutting down explosive guards in the Tournament, and they will look to bring

the same defensive intensity that keyed their second-round victory over Louisiana State into Saturday’s game.

Duke frustrated the Tigers’ leading scorer Allison Hightower with its matchup zone Monday, holding her to 1-of-9 shoot-ing in the second half, and used its full-court press to force 22 turnovers.

Head coach Joanne P. McCallie said San Diego State’s style of play closely re-sembles that of Louisiana State, and she emphasized the importance of getting one-on-one stops since the Aztecs fre-quently run isolation plays for Morris and

Davis to take advantage of their athleti-cism and quickness.

The Blue Devils have also come to rel-ish the chance to use tough defense in order to create scoring opportunities on the other end.

“I feel like our team likes to play defense,” Cheek said. “I think we have fun playing de-fense, and we have fun pressing and mak-ing teams turn the ball over, and then we get rewarded because we’re back on offense where most of us like to score.”

If the Blue Devils can contain San Diego State’s formidable guard tandem, the Az-tecs may have trouble mustering another reliable offensive option—the team’s high-est Tournament scorer after Morris and Da-vis is averaging only 7.5 points per game.

Duke, on the other hand, has four players averaging nine points or more through the first two rounds. Junior guard Jasmine Thomas, one of 12 final-ists for the Wade Trophy, given annually to the nation’s best player, remains the focal point of the offense.

But McCallie knows that she can call upon multiple players when the Blue Dev-ils need a basket down the stretch.

“To me, balance is necessary on great teams,” McCallie said. “I know there can be great players on great teams, but scor-ing balance and the fact that you have five people on the floor that are willing to at-tack makes for a great team.”

And Duke hopes that balance can de-rail an opponent that would love nothing more than to knock off another elite pro-gram on the way to the Final Four.

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