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DukeMail will transfer to the Microsoft Office 365 cloud system early 2013. The new system will have more storage space and better-connected email and calen-dars.

by Elizabeth DjinisTHE CHRONICLE

Duke is assuming an “out with the old, in with the new” philosophy concerning its email database.

The University has chosen to replace the current DukeMail system with Micro-soft 365 University—an offshoot of the cloud-based computer system designed specifically for academic institutions—be-ginning early 2013. The decision to switch was made after students and faculty ex-pressed increased difficulty using Duke’s

current email database, and because the cloud technology offers improved secu-rity, said Cara Bonnett, Office of Informa-tion Technology managing editor.

“The trend toward cloud-provided email began several years ago, but it’s only recently that the terms offered by one of the major cloud vendors con-tained the level of protections for Duke data that met our standards,” Bonnett wrote in an email Tuesday. “A move to the cloud will mean that time, money and effort previously spent running an

on-campus email system can be used to provide other IT services to our students, faculty and staff.”

Major benefits will include a more modern web interface, integration be-tween mail and calendar functionality, and fewer email outages, Bonnett add-ed. The system provides students access to Internet versions of common Win-dows productivity tools such as Word and Excel.

by Gloria LloydTHE CHRONICLE

When Dr. Robert Lefkowitz, James B. Duke professor of medicine and professor of biochemistry and immunology, became the first Duke faculty member to win a No-bel Prize two weeks ago, many students on campus were taken by surprise.

But those close to Lefkowitz were not surprised by the Nobel Prize because his research has had a significant impact on the development of pharmaceutical drugs. Lefkowitz discovered and characterized G protein-coupled receptors, which are embedded in cell membranes. About 30 to 50 percent of pharmaceutical drugs on the market attach onto these receptors in order to treat a patient’s condition.

Instead, some students and faculty were surprised that Duke, which is so com-mitted to scientific research, did not have previous faculty members receive a Nobel Prize.

“It’s surprising indeed,” Lefkowitz said. “Duke has risen to a point of prominence such that one might have anticipated they would have Nobel Prize winners, but for whatever reason, we haven’t.”

New Durham to Raleigh bus connects nightlife

by Jeffrey CicurelTHE CHRONICLE

The Bridge Bus, a locally owned bus company that runs between Raleigh and Durham, will begin running this weekend.

The bus, which was created by 32-year-old John Parks, will run Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday nights and is intended for people who want to access concerts and restaurants or commute to work. Parks is a Durham resident who said he was frustrated with the 30-mile trek to Raleigh, where he used to work and frequently attends concerts.

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This weekend, the Bridge Bus will run its first route between Durham and Raleigh, catering to passen-gers who want to see Triangle area nightlife.

Coal ash residue leaves toxins in some NC water

by Andrew LuoTHE CHRONICLE

Several North Carolina lakes and rivers contain high levels of toxic com-pounds, a recent Duke study shows.

Researchers at the Nicholas School discovered that coal ash residue from coal-fired power plants contributes to high arsenic and selenium concentra-tions, among other toxic chemicals, in lakes and rivers. Coal ash effluents flow downstream from the power plants’ settling ponds to affect water sources. Researchers gathered more than 300 water samples from 11 lakes and riv-ers over an 18-month span. The con-taminated sites include the Mountain

Island Lake, which is a primary water source for residents in Charlotte. Sev-eral other sites also contain high levels of chemicals that exceed the Environ-mental Protection Agency’s guidelines for safe drinking water.

The findings of the study may prompt greater regulation and monitoring of coal ash effluents, said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at the Nicholas School and co-author of the study.

“What we found in North Carolina is a case study of the effects of coal ash in the United States—we want to see if

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by Jeffrey CicurelTHE CHRONICLE

Duke Panhellenic Association an-nounced Tuesday that it will be looking to add a tenth chapter.

Panhel voted last Spring to create an exploratory committee to look into the possibility of expanding. The proposal for expansion comes in response to large re-cruitment numbers over the past five years. The committee has held weekly meetings

throughout the Fall se-mester in the hopes that a new sorority will be on campus by Spring 2014.

The committee is led by senior Hannah Hay-ward, vice president of recruitment and mem-bership for Panhel, and

consists of one member from each of the nine current Panhel sororities.

“Essentially we’re just really big right now,” said senior Kelsey Woodford, presi-dent of Panhel. “We can’t even fit into rooms anymore during recruitment.”

Woodford noted that Panhel was con-sidering expansion even before she be-came involved with the organization last year. The exploratory committee accessed the data from recruitment, which showed that several of the pledge classes were at their maximum capacity.

“I know a lot of girls that didn’t even make it into a sorority because they can only take 40 girls each,” said sophomore Cara Williams, who went through the rush process last Spring. “I think adding a new sorority is a great idea.”

Last Spring, 504 women participated in Panhel sorority recruitment, but only 373

received bids, The Chronicle previously reported.

Panhel is currently accepting applica-tions for review from various organizations throughout the country. They plan to se-lect three chapters to give presentations on campus in March and will vote to officially accept the new chapter to Duke this com-ing April, Woodford said. The new chapter will then begin recruiting members on an open basis by Spring 2014, with official re-cruitment with the other Panhel sororities starting in Spring 2015.

One national sorority specifically inter-ested in expanding is Kappa Delta, said Heidi Roy, director of communications at Kappa Delta national headquarters.

“We look for universities that share our values,” Roy said. “I’m assuming that Duke would be a place that we would want to have a chapter.”

Roy added that they look to add chap-ters in places within the vicinity of existing chapters, where there are alumni that can provide support. Kappa Delta recently in-stalled a new chapter at University of North Carolina at Charlotte in January.

Woodford cautions that no chapter will be given preference during the selection process.

“We have no idea which chapter this is going be,” Woodford said. “We don’t even know which chapters are going to send us packets at this point, let alone which ones we’re going to choose.”

Though there are still several logisti-cal points to work out, Woodford said that Panhel is optimistic about expanding.

“It’ll be really good for the communi-ty,” Woodford said. “We’re really excited about it.”

NC allocates $20M for pre-K programs

by Georgia ParkeTHE CHRONICLE

North Carolina is now able to of-fer pre-kindergarten education to thousands of additional four-year-olds across the state.

Gov. Bev Perdue issued an executive order allocating $20 million to the ex-pansion of the North Carolina Pre-Kin-dergarten Program last week, following a court decision mandating that the state cannot deny at-risk four-year-olds from enrolling in the program. The money will pay for 6,300 additional children to enroll in Pre-K through-out North Carolina by Jan. 1—though 1,000 of them should be able to en-roll immediately. The $20 million for the program comes from projected unspent funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, as op-posed to early education programs, according to a press release from the governor’s office.

“This is about making sure four-year-olds have access to preparation for their education. They’re only four years old once,” said Chris Mackey, deputy communications director for the governor’s office.

N.C. Pre-K, previously called More at Four, is a state-funded program dedi-cated to school readiness, with approx-imately 25,000 children currently en-rolled. The program runs 6 1/2 hours per day, 180 days out of the year.

Mackey noted an Aug. 21 order from the North Carolina Court of Appeals as a reason for the additional funding. The Court affirmed a lower court’s rul-ing that the state cannot deny at-risk four-year-olds access to the N.C. Pre-K program.

“Simply put, it is the duty of the State of North Carolina to protect each and every one of these at-risk and defense-less children and to provide them... a sound basic education as guaranteed by the North Carolina constitution,”

the ruling stated. Students who are members of low-in-

come families, receive free or reduced-cost lunches, have parents with low-lev-el education or live in a single-parent household, among other qualifications, are considered at-risk and may qualify for the program. Other four-year-olds who are not currently enrolled in a pre-school program may also be eligible to enroll.

“Through good economic times and bad, North Carolina’s enduring commitment has been to educate our children,” Perdue noted in the release. “Now more than ever, as we sit poised for an economic recovery, any delay in preparing our kids to be tomorrow’s workforce is simply unacceptable.”

The Durham Partnership for Chil-dren administers the N.C. Pre-K pro-gram in Durham County and operates about 20 classrooms for Pre-K stu-dents.

“It directs funding for children to attend high-quality preschool pro-grams, and they are also very helpful with teachers, assisting them in improv-ing nutrition, going back to school and training them to become better teach-ers,” said Barbara Jentleson, assistant professor of the practice of education. “It’s win-win for everyone.”

A member of the Durham Partner-ship for Children Allocations Commit-tee, Jentleson noted the frequent need to cut the budget, despite the need to provide support to successfully prepare students for kindergarten. She praised the state government for the recent $20 million increase in funding for Pre-K education—on top of a $9.3 million grant in February—and its commit-ment to further provide high quality education for low-income children.

“It is the best value for your dollar to invest in early education,” Jentleson said. “This will get us back on track for the funding we need.”

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Lefkowitz’s work has enjoyed such a strong reputation over the last few decades that many people probably already thought he had won the Nobel Prize, said Peter Agre, former vice chancellor of science and tech-nology who won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for his discovery of aquaporins—a type of pro-tein—while serving as a professor of biologi-cal chemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

“There are plenty of scientists at Duke do-ing work that are clearly worthy of a Nobel,” he added. “But it’s a very strong endorse-ment on the world level that Duke has major league science.”

Coming into its ownConsidering that few Nobel prizes are

awarded each year, and that they can be awarded to any researcher in the world, it actually is not that surprising that Duke had not yet won the prize, Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine, said. Duke is much younger than many other top East Coast universities it competes with in re-search, she added.

Agre noted that Stanford, the university of Brian Kobilka, Lefkowitz’s protege and co-prize winner, counts dozens of Nobel laureates among its faculty. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health Sys-tem, actually recruited Kobilka to Stanford from Duke in 1989 when Dzau was chair of the Department of Medicine at Stanford. Lefkowitz has spent his entire 40-year faculty career at Duke.

In contrast, the University has come into its own as a research institution for only the last few decades, a rise that paralleled Lefkowitz’s career trajectory from young faculty member to world-renowned scientist, said Dr. Mary Klotman, chair of the Depart-

ment of Medicine at Duke.The Nobel Prize enhances the reputation

of the University as a whole and will probably draw more people to look at the University as a place to do research, Klotman said. She not-ed she was recently at the medical school at Baylor University and people kept approach-ing her to congratulate her on Lefkowitz’s Nobel Prize, since she and Lefkowitz are in the same department.

Dzau said the University’s current long-term approach to research funding encourag-es an investment in the best, young research-ers and “unwavering support,” freedom and collaboration among other researchers. He added that this mission is validated by Duke’s first ever homegrown prize.

Klotman hires about 50 new internal medicine staffers every year and is excited about the possibility of more researchers showing interest in coming to work at Duke. In the past, researchers have been drawn to the University because of Lefkowitz’s re-search, and the attention he has received as a Nobel Prize winner will only increase that, she noted. Researchers who are drawn to working under Lefkowitz are serious about science and their careers, and as an expe-rienced scientific mentor, he knows how to guide them into a lifelong career in science, Klotman said.

“The fact is, when you have someone who has that level of scientific excellence, then people want to be associated with that type of scientific excellence,” said Dr. Howard Rock-man, professor of medicine and cell biology and Lefkowitz’s colleague.

A homegrown prizeMost top young scientists and research-

ers were probably already looking at the University prior to Lefkowitz winning the Nobel Prize, Agre said. But having a Nobel Prize winner walking among undergraduate students on campus will add something spe-

cial to the atmosphere at the University, he noted.

“Bob goes to basketball games, he goes to the campus diner,” Agre said. “He’s around. He’ll add a little special flavor.”

The University, especially the Medical Center, is already so committed to scientific research that it is already spending whatever dollars it can on research, Lefkowitz said.

Opinions differ among prize winners and campus leadership as to whether Lefkowitz’s Nobel Prize will impact the University’s ex-ternal research funding at all. Some thought it would have no effect, since the University is near the top in research funding already, whereas others thought the prestige of the Nobel Prize can only help Duke receive more grants to Lefkowitz, his lab’s collaborators and other researchers at Duke.

“It will be tremendously helpful in all ar-eas of funding,” Klotman said.

In the area of federal research dollars, the National Institutes of Health conducts a peer-reviewed process for its grants that probably will not be affected by the Nobel Prize, since the merit of his research was al-ready apparent to the NIH peer reviewers, said Lefkowitz. Duke already ranks in the top 10 universities in research funding and

nearly any scientific metric one could think of, Rockman said.

“I’d like to say it would [make a differ-ence],” Kobilka said. “But I don’t really think it’s going to make that much of a difference. [Lefkowitz is] very well-funded.”

The shine of the Nobel Prize could also help current investigators at the University, Rockman added. The buzz around the No-bel Prize at the University could lead other investigators to new collaborations with Lefkowitz’s laboratory or to new projects of their own.

“That buzz and electric feeling around the school is amazing and delightful,” Rock-man said.

Several faculty members agreed that the allure of the Nobel could attract more private research dollars to the University. The timing of the Nobel is great for the Duke Forward capital campaign, Klotman said.

“Maybe I’m being overly hopeful, but that there might be some philanthropic dol-lars that come to us by virtue of the promi-nence of a Nobel here at Duke,” Lefkowitz added.

Agre noted that, ultimately, the impact that Lefkowitz’s Nobel Prize will have on Duke is not as important as the impact it will have on future scientific research.

Lefkowitz said he is proud the Univer-sity’s first Nobel Prize is a true home-grown achievement—it is common at many uni-versities for professors to win the Nobel for work they accomplished at another univer-sity. That was the case with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Oliver Smithies, who won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his work on gel electrophoresis. Smithies actually developed the technique while working at the Univer-sity of Toronto.

“I have the greatest sense of personal pride that this is our Nobel,” Lefkowitz said. “I did all this work here at Duke. Every bit of it.”

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“Doing that commute everyday really drained me, and I think there’s a lot of people out there that feel the same way,” Parks said. “I’ve missed a lot of shows out of not wanting to get in my car and make that drive.”

Parks thought of the idea for the Bridge Bus when talking with friends who shared this frustration.

Two years later, his idea is reality. Parks left his job working in sales at Indy Week in order to create his company. He became officially licensed to drive the vehicle this summer, and he now runs the Bridge Bus with his wife, Molly. They conducted a trial run in Sep-tember and will begin weekly operation this weekend.

Now, Parks is looking to grow the company, and sees Duke as an integral part of making this happen.

“Duke is such a big part of the Triangle and the Dur-ham community,” Parks said. “I would love to have a symbiotic relationship where Duke gets as much out of the Bridge Bus as it can.”

Sophomore Ryan McCabe said he will be traveling to Raleigh this weekend for Bounce Music Festival and is planning on using a bus provided by the festival in order to get to the concert. He said he had not heard of the Bridge Bus, and the Bounce van service is easily accessible for him.

“[The van] was promoted by Bounce and it’s right on East Campus so it’s really convenient,” McCabe said.

McCabe added that, had he known about the Bridge Bus, he would have been interested in taking it.

Parks said he is open to partnering with festivals such as Bounce and making the Bridge Bus more con-venient for Duke students. Other than services provid-ed by festivals like Bounce, one competitor is Amtrak, which offers slightly cheaper round-trip tickets than the Bridge Bus, which charges $16.

The Bridge Bus, however, specializes in transporta-tion for night life in Durham and Raleigh. Amtrak does not run late at night, and on some days has no night trains, making it difficult for Duke students to use for concerts. Although the Bridge Bus will regularly leave from downtown Durham, Parks says he can offer stops at both East and West campuses, and get students to and from a concert in one night.

Parks said he is also exploring the option of par-ticipating in the Duke-Durham Discount Program, cre-ated in 2005 and recently revived by sophomore Derek Rhodes, Duke Student Government vice president of Durham and regional affairs. The program promotes local restaurants and shops and offers discounts to stu-dents.

“It would be a really cool venture to add more than just food vendors but also different service providers in Durham,” Rhodes said.

After Parks gets the word out about his company, he hopes Duke students will be excited to travel to Ra-leigh. Parks, who graduated from Kenyon College—a small liberal arts college Ohio—said he knows what it is like for students to stay within their comfort zones. Parks does not think Raleigh will replace normal des-tinations such as Shooters and 9th Street, but rather provide new and interesting options to explore.

As the company grows, Parks said he plans to estab-lish both student and group rates, and also add days, times and stops to The Bridge Bus. For now, this week-end is most important for his company, he said.

“It is going to be our real maiden voyage,” Parks said. “We couldn’t be more excited about it.”

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any regulation arises from this data,” Vengosh said.According to the study, approximately 600 U.S.

power plants generate 130 million tons of coal ash resi-due annually, making it one of the largest industrial waste products in the country. But there is still little monitoring on coal ash residue since most regulatory measures—such as the Clean Air Act—have focused on reducing power plants’ emissions into the air, Vengosh noted.

The Clean Air Act is a federal law designed to con-trol air pollution on a national level to protect the gen-eral public from exposure to airborne contaminants.

“The real issue is that there is no regulation of coal ash in the United States, and factories are not doing anything about it either,” Vengosh said. “We are saving the sky, but we are making the contamination in the water more severe.”

The breadth of the data allowed closer analysis of the effects of coal ash, said Heileen Hsu-Kim, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-author of the study. Samples were collected monthly from the Hyco and Mayo lakes for a year, which gave a sense of temporal variability in the chemical concen-trations in the water.

High contaminant levels pose more of an ecological health concern, rather than a human health concern, Kim said. There are certain physiological changes that can arise in various fish organisms, such as deforma-tion of the spine and effects on reproductive capabili-ties. The contaminants may cause subtle changes that change the makeup of the lake or river.

Vengosh has started working on a new project to find the source of the contaminants in the water.

“We are using isotope fingerprints to build the ‘smoking gun’ and to see the source of the contamina-tion.” Vengosh said. “For example, if there is someone who says the contamination is coming from a different source, we can confirm it.”

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Members of the Duke community tasted food from local farms at the Divinity Refectory’s Celebrate the Harvest event Tuesday.

Tastes of the harvest seasonThe University was encouraged to make the change

after observing successful cloud systems at other uni-versities, such as Dartmouth College and Cornell Uni-versity. OIT expects to officially notify students of these changes later this Fall or in early Spring after the con-crete schedule for implementation is put in place. Users of the University’s email database will have to make mi-nor configuration updates to their mail client in order to switch to the new system, Bonnett said.

Duke students have expressed mixed feelings on the current email system, fearing a dramatic transformation but noting the troubles they have had with DukeMail in the past.

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“I like being able to make folders,” McInerney said. “I’m an organization freak, so it’s very convenient that it’s easy for me to stay organized.”

Although she is concerned about the impending makeover, Tissue said that she has had issues accessing email on her phone, since the mobile screen cuts off the full interface.

McInerney, happy with the system herself, said she has heard peers express dissatisfaction.

“Most people don’t like our email system,” she said, adding that many of her classmates automatically for-ward Duke emails to their Gmail accounts.

Bonnett said that individuals who forward their Duke emails to a separate system, such as Gmail or Hotmail, will still have the ability to keep those settings.

Ultimately, McInerney said that she is willing to make the switch as long as she can maintain her Internet pri-vacy and keep some of the same utilities.

“As long as my functions remain the same, I don’t really care if there’s a difference,” McInerney said. “As long as my privacy is protected and I can still read my email, that would be great.”

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MEN’S SOCCER

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Duke defeated Davidson 2-0 Tuesday night at Koskinen Stadium, led by junior Will Donovan’s two tallies.

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Transforming a losing norm into a Gatorade storm

Six wins down, but how many to go?Last weekend in thrilling fashion, Duke

made it to the promised land of bowl eligibili-ty for the first time since 1994. And while that accomplishment created one of the greatest

football memories in school history, it also shifts expecta-tions moving forward.

All season long this team’s goal was to make it to six wins, and now that they’ve done that the real question is: can

they get more?The celebra-

tions following Saturday’s exhilarating win against North Carolina were more than well deserved—not only did this team gain bowl eligibility for the first time in 18 years, but Duke also overcame its history of struggles against the Tar Heels after losing 21 out of their last 22 matchups.

The Blue Devils defeated North Caro-lina at home for the first time since 1988, and did so in front of a sell-out crowd that included more than 3,500 students—twice the size of the student section at Cameron Indoor Stadium and a greater student at-tendance than LDOC last year.

Now that six wins are a thing of the past, we must realize that although this milestone means Duke gets to strap up its bowling shoes come December, it also would fail to meet the

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David Cutcliffe’s career at Duke began in a thunderstorm.

Eight months after he took the head coach-ing job, the Blue Devils were finally prepped to

take the field in their 2008 season opener against James Madison when the lightning started.

The game was my first as a student, and I waited out the nearly-90 minute delay as most of the Tail-gaters sobered up and

left—along with many of the paying fans.And who could blame them?It was an inauspicious start for a coach who

had spent most of the summer rebranding Blue Devil football around the Triangle, not only promoting a new level of competitiveness on the field, but solidifying that goal by guar-anteeing an ACC championship for the Blue Devils—quite the challenge for a team with just one win in its last two seasons.

Seniors had seen just one home victory in their first three years on campus: a 45-7 victory as freshmen against the Virginia Mili-tary Institute, an FCS team that hasn’t had a winning record since 1981. And they didn’t even know that Cutcliffe thought the team he’d inherited was the “softest, baddest foot-ball team” he’d ever seen, as he said earlier this season.

To put it in perspective, students threat-ened to storm the field after the eventual 31-7

victory against James Madison—highlighted by a frantic dismantling of the closest goal post by the grounds crew—but eventually didn’t because there were fewer than 100 people left in the section.

This was not a Stanford-esque turn-around that Cutcliffe, his staff, and his play-ers faced. The Cardinal had John Elway

and John Lynch, plus a history of gridiron success that spans nearly a century. Jim Har-baugh didn’t raise Stanford to new heights so much as return them to the level to which they felt they belonged.

Northwestern is perhaps a more fitting analogy, but even the Wildcats have never been as consistently bad as the Blue Devils.

Duke has not had a program in the mod-ern era that could sustain success between head coaches, and the decade before Cutcliffe was especially abysmal.

The program officially hit rock bottom a week after the 2008 opener. Earlier in the year, Louisville had filed suit against the Blue Devils for backing out of a pro-posed four-game series, but Duke lawyers argued that the school was only subject to the $150,000 termination fee per game if the Cardinals couldn’t find a team of “simi-lar stature” to Duke. This would mean the Blue Devils were as bad or worse than all other FBS and FCS teams and thus could serve as an apt substitute.

“Duke is probably the worst football team in Division I football,” Duke’s counsel said in the hearing. “Everybody knows that. That’s no secret. The longest losing streak, the inability to ever win games…. That’s well documented.”

The judge ruled in favor of the University, agreeing that any other team is of similar stat-ure to the Blue Devils because the “threshold could not be any lower.”

But somehow, some way, in less than five years, Cutcliffe has already rebuilt the Blue Devils—and Walt Disney could not have scripted Saturday’s bowl-clinching win any better.

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With just a handful of games left in the regular season, every match is important for the Blue Devils, who need to finish the season at .500 to be eligible for an NCAA tournament bid.

That certainly showed at Koskinen Sta-dium last night, as Duke knocked off Davidson 2-0, led by junior Will Don-ovan’s two tallies.

“We have three games left, and every one of them is impor-tant,” Donovan said.

Just seven minutes into the first half, a quick flick from sophomore Riley Wolfe found teammate Jack Coleman out wide. Coleman, a sophomore, sprinted up the sideline, crossing the ball into the 18-yard box after beating his defender. Donovan was waiting on the other end and volleyed the ball into the far corner of the net to put the Blue Devils up 1-0.

Duke (6-7-1) continued to look domi-nant for the next 20 minutes. Wolfe and oth-er Blue Devils controlled the tempo, passing the ball around confidently. This started to change later in the half, as the Wolfpack (6-9-1) found its feet on the offensive end. The ball swung back and forth, with a number of dangerous chances for both teams, but nei-ther squad could convert.

“The first part of the first half, we were playing like a playoff team,” head coach John Kerr said. “We knew that if we didn’t

win, we could be knocked out of the tour-nament. For much of the first half, we did a really good job. Davidson decided to step up their tempo and adjusted their lineup, putting more players into the midfield and attack. We went into a little bit of a lull there.”

The second half proved eerily similar to the first. A rejuvenated Duke squad came

out strong, again managing to score just seven minutes in. This time, the scoring play began with a low and slow cross from freshman Zack Mathers. In a bizarre se-quence of events, a ball that looked like it would be cleared with ease became a scor-ing opportunity, as two Davidson defenders

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standards set forth by other teams at this university.If the Blue Devils finished this season with six wins, they

would be nothing more than a .500 team. This is not meant to take anything away from the great strides the program has made this year—keep in mind the team head coach David Cutcliffe inherited had amassed just four wins in its last four seasons—but rather to remind us that Duke athletics does not typically settle for .500 teams. It strives to be champions.

Any other .500 team at this school would quickly drift into irrelevancy along with its struggles, which makes it per-plexing that many students would still consider this season a great victory if the Blue Devils did not have another victory for the rest of the year. If the men’s basketball team were to finish as a .500 team, Krzyzewskiville would likely go up in flames. But even if the Blue Devils did not win another game this season, six wins would still be considered a resounding success by most.

But it’s very possible Duke won’t be celebrating just a .500 campaign when this football season draws to a close. There is still a legitimate conversation to be had about this Duke team, but the nature of this conversa-tion has shifted drastically since the beginning of this magical season—gone is the argument of whether or not the Blue Devils can be a bowl team. Now we’re left wondering if this team is capable of competing for an ACC Championship.

With four games remaining on its schedule, Duke has tough challenges ahead, namely back-to-back games against Florida State and Clemson, the ACC’s top two teams, begin-ning this weekend in Tallahassee, Fla. But this team has prov-en that it is capable of competing with and beating anyone in this conference. Keep in mind that the Blue Devils’ lone ACC loss came by blowing a 20-point first-quarter lead on the road in Blacksburg, Va.—one of the toughest home environments in college football.

Duke closes its season with two very winnable games against an underachieving Georgia Tech squad and Miami. If the Blue Devils can defeat the Yellow Jackets in Atlanta, they will likely face the Hurricanes in the final week of the season with the ACC’s Coastal Division crown on the line. This matchup will take place at home, where the Blue Devils are a perfect 5-0 this season. Even if it loses its next two games,

Duke could still end its season with two victories and find itself in the ACC Championship game, competing for a BCS bowl berth.

Duke’s record is not the only reason why this is a different brand of football than we’re used to seeing in Durham—this team is finally playing with a winning mentality. Maybe you doubt the Blue Devils’ ability to even split their last four con-tests, but they sure don’t. This team’s newfound confidence is the key to its success.

“There’s a lot of swagger about a lot of guys. I’m seeing a lot of confidence in guys I didn’t see much confidence in before,” redshirt sophomore tackle Takoby Cofield said. “And even in myself, just knowing that we have the ability to win every single game we play. At the end of the day, I just see us taking it week by week and it’s very much a reality you could go 4-0 to end the season.”

This team has been competing the entire season with the immense pressure of ending nearly two decades of disap-pointing futility. Think about what Duke can do now that the pressure is off.

“We have that big old monkey off our back,” sophomore linebacker David Helton said. “But now we’ve created an idea in our mind that we have a four-game season, and this four-game season will determine what happens afterward.”

Who’d have thought we would ever see the day where six wins wasn’t enough for Duke football? It looks like we may have arrived.

as unlike a Duke football game as I’ve ever seen—the Blue Devils were unstoppable on the ground and the Tar Heels, who plain out-muscled Duke in their season-ending match-up less than a year ago, looked like they were out of answers.

Most surprising, though, were the more than 3,000 students still standing in Wallace Wade even as the Tar Heels began to mount a late rally—and it became late enough to think about getting ready for Shooters.

They even stayed in their seats after the most bizarre loose ball chase of the college football season. Ross Cockrell’s body shield-

ed the ball from the student section for just enough time for one collective, pre-celebra-tion inhale, but then it was loose again, and soon the Tar Heels had taken a four-point lead with just three minutes to play.

But the fans stayed, albeit with lots of muttering and eye-rolling for a minute, before Sean Renfree found Conner Ver-non over the middle on the same slant pat-tern that has become their staple over the last four years. Eleven plays later—and on fourth down, of course—Renfree fired a bullet off his back foot to Jamison Crowder, who held onto the ball as he flipped over a Tar Heel defender.

The Gatorade bath rained down on Cutc-liffe moments later—and it must’ve felt better than that August rainstorm five years ago.

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whiffed, and the ball was instead collected by Duke. With the keeper still out of his box, Donovan had little troubling notching his first two-goal game of the season.

“It’s great to get two goals when it really counts, in a set-ting like this,” Donovan said.

The rest of the half was closely contested, but a two-goal margin allowed the Blue Devils to relax slightly. Two late chances for the Wolfpack proved inconsequential, as Duke held on for the win.

Goalkeeper James Belshaw notched his fifth shutout of the season and the 18th of his career, notching six saves.

The Blue Devils will look to build on last night’s suc-cess as they return to conference action against Virginia Tech Saturday.

“If we want to play in the postseason, we have to get wins,” Kerr said. “Another ACC win on Saturday is a must. It won’t be easy going to Virginia Tech, but we showed to-night that we’re up for the challenge.”

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Let’s admit it: We’re all overachievers here. We worked hard to get here, and we work hard now that we are here. I would even

say that we work too hard. Rather than treat col-lege like they do in classic mov-ies like “Animal House” or “Van Wilder,” we schedule lunches like we’re already in the real world.

It all boils down to one ques-tion—a question that I’ve asked myself before writing every col-umn. Why so serious? As writer Brendan Gill tells us, “Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.”

Ask any alum about his or her Duke stories. Their experiences are nothing like ours: shooting fi reworks across the quad. Burn-ing furniture to celebrate a fraternity getting kicked off campus. Driving to UNC to pick up random girls to drive back to epic parties where nobody was yelling, “Get in rooms!” Tailgate with cars! Life just sounded more fun and less serious back then.

No, these days we’re so stressed out that we need a special branch of student health to deal with it, like The Oasis in Bell Tower, a room with massaging recliners and fi sh tanks in the bottom of a dorm. We’re so wound up we could really use a drink. Oh wait, that’s illegal for most of us.

Many blow off stress by going to the gym. But even in the gym people aren’t usually trying to en-joy themselves, they are just trying to reach some end of attractiveness. That’s not very relaxing.

Then we have student groups that take them-selves way too seriously. First are the service orga-nizations. I’m all about helping people, but your organization cannot save the world. Chill out and enjoy helping those people; you may learn some-thing from them. Second are the entertainment organizations. These organizations get anxious about putting on a show, causing tension and

arguments. Instead, these organizations should stop taking things too seriously and remember that they are putting on a show for students’ en-joyment. If the group is enjoying itself, the au-

dience will enjoy the show way more. Third are semi-competitive organizations, to which I have to say, working harder won’t make you win. It will only waste more of your precious college time, caus-ing you to lose out on way more than just a debate trophy or club sports championship. Learn the lessons the organization is trying to teach you without allowing it to take over your life.

Then there is politics. We drive each other crazy, shouting about the national hot-button issues (most of which will be embroiled in the status quo as a result of this passionate debate where both sides are so infl exible that they can’t come to a consensus). Oh, and the small fraction of the Duke population that actually cares about campus politics takes it way too seriously.

I am not against passion or hard work. We just need to realize that everything we do in college must be taken with a grain of salt; college is just one stage of our life, and an early one at that.

Duke is about preparing and learning to en-ter the global community and make an impact. Don’t be afraid to be young and stupid while we work towards graduation. Enjoy college, because life just might get real after we leave the Gothic Wonderland. Whatever you do, don’t ever, ever take life too seriously.

Drew Everson was a Chronicle columnist from Fall 2008 to Spring 2009. This column originally ran April 9, 2009 and was his fi nal column for The Chronicle. We have reprinted this column on the second anniver-sary of Drew’s tragic passing in loving memory of his contributions to this paper and our campus.

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Duke students talk about it informally all the time, but at the Career Center it has a special name. Wil-liam Wright-Swadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of career servic-es, and his staff call it “The Big Four”—lawyer, doctor, con-sultant and banker—the small set of careers that Duke students seem to deem ac-ceptable.

A whopping 24.6 percent of 2011 graduates from Duke pursued fi nance. Sub-tract similarly high numbers of pre-med, pre-law and, in-creasingly, pre-consulting stu-dents from the overall Duke student body, and there are not many students left.

The Big Four phenome-non is odd when you consider

the overwhelmingly array of interests, passions and talents exhibited by Duke students. Why would a collection of individuals seem so diverse upon entering a university,

but mostly fun-nel into only four narrow ca-

reers upon exiting? We must examine both

sides of the job search process: the desires of the individual student and the options pre-sented to him or her.

First, on the student side, the issue of prestige weighs heavily on our minds. As Wright-Swadel puts it, Duke students never met a contest they did not like. In other words, Duke students are inevitably attracted to jobs that, for whatever reason, are also attractive to other

people. “Duke students will enter a competition for a prize they don’t even want,” Wright-Swadel says. It is hard to walk away from the prizes awaiting students at the end of these arduous contests—for example, the long and intense interview process of management consult-ing, which is occurring this month. The combination of prestige and the “sunk cost” of having already competed for these jobs draws students away from careers not en-compassed by the Big Four.

Second, students looks to the Career Center’s career fairs for possible job oppor-tunities, but these career fairs give a limited and distorted impression of the diversity of jobs that exist in the real world. This is the result of a

coordination problem. Given the Big Four phenomenon, many non-Big Four employ-ers cannot successfully re-cruit Duke students. Take an engineering fi rm, for ex-ample, who might consider on-campus recruiting worth-while for 40 or so graduat-ing mechanical engineers—except half of them have defected to pursue fi nance and consulting. The remain-ing 20 mechanical engineers are not worth the company’s time and money to recruit. It is a vicious cycle: The Big Four phenomenon wards off alternative employers—en-gineering fi rms, advertising agencies, retail companies and other promising places to launch one’s professional life—from career fairs, which then fools students to think-

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How does a Duke student navigate the Big Four phe-nomenon? First, understand that career fairs cannot be your only paradigm to gauge the job landscape, which is large, diverse and constantly evolving. Second, do not let prestige, money or the thrill of winning accolades—none of which are shameful desires—prevent you from choosing an interesting ca-reer that encourages you to grow and arcs toward the life you want to lead de-cades from now. Third, be refl ective about your educa-tional and professional goals throughout college, not just in your last year. This last sug-gestion will be the focus of Thursday’s editorial.

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As the next presidential election draws closer and closer, those who are pas-sionate about voting will almost cer-

tainly intensify their efforts to promote the act of voting and increase voter turnout in general. As with any election year, I suppose, it will not be uncommon to hear advertise-ments for all variants of the vote—early, on-campus, absentee or otherwise—and es-pecially to witness an aggressive campaign against voter abstinence. Such abstinence will itself be elevated as an issue of central importance, and is likely to be surrounded with solutions involving everything from ed-ucation to identifi cation, fi duciary incentives to mandated participation, even registration to legislation.

These efforts, however, rest on a faulty premise. They rest on the premise that those who do not vote necessarily do so out of ei-ther apathy or ignorance, and, furthermore, that these citizens can be induced to vote if only they can be made aware of the issues at stake. Aside from the inherent arrogance of this position, though, its proponents also fail entirely to take into account any of the other possible motiva-tions a citizen might hold for abstaining from the vote.

In their rush to celebrate the vote, for example, cheer-leaders of American biparti-san democratic elections fail to consider that some non-voters might in fact also recognize the act of voting as a civic duty, and one that facilitates a crucial interaction between citi-zen and state. It could be the case, then, that some non-voters willfully spurn this duty as a means of communicating a highly aware and politically informed message of protest. It would thus be a mark of the most pro-found ignorance to hastily, universally and unquestioningly mischaracterize as a failure to vote an act that might explicitly have been intended as a refusal to do the same.

In a related scenario, a citizen might also refuse to vote based on a moral objection to any given element of the election itself. A citizen may feel, for example, that the scope of the election—which this year will impose consequences on all aspects of American life—is unjustifi ed in some way. A citizen may hesitate at the idea of invoking state power as a method by which to bend the behavior of the population to her own pref-erences. She may recognize that, despite the negligible weight her vote will hold against her fellow citizens, the sum weight of theirs will bear down on her a consider-able burden. She may be of a political per-suasion that eschews coercive measures of confl ict resolution for those that rely only on the voluntary individual express consent of all involved parties. She may be unwilling to cast a vote which, though it would be of no particular signifi cance to the outcome of the election, would in her own mind represent the concession of her consent to a political apparatus that she would rather

oppose, if only on an individual and philo-sophical basis. She may simply feel that the political considerations of the country rep-resent a burden in which she—having no substantial or identifi able part in their mak-ing—would prefer not to share, and she may choose instead to frame her approach to living in society around her own individu-al efforts, and not the other way around.

The last of these is, perhaps, the most in need of defense. (Most voters will admit, if reluctantly at fi rst, that the refusal to vote can serve as a heady weapon of protest and dis-content; they will be more hard pressed to concede, however, that no individual should be forcibly burdened with the dubious politi-cal dichotomy that constantly endeavors to wedge its way into her life). The fact that a citizen has the right to vote, however, logical-ly implies that she also has a right not to vote, thereby affi rming on the basis of natural rights a philosophically legitimate position

of non-voting on the part of the individual. It also comes down, simply, to the fact that she should have a pre-rogative to prioritize her own personal needs and interests above the fool’s errand of try-ing to delineate the meager difference between two men like Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

As if this were not enough, it also has to be noted that not all votes tallied in a given year should be counted as blanket victories for the American democracy qua democracy. I suspect that many voters exer-cise their right to vote not out of a sense of duty, but rather out of a sense of defensive necessity driven by the impulse to ward off societal predations on their property. In fact, as the American lawyer and political philoso-pher Lysander Spooner noted in the years after the Civil War, an election itself is some-thing like a battle: Just because a man who is dropped between two warring factions will take up arms in order to defend himself, it cannot rationally be said that the battle is one of his choosing. In other words, voting as an act of self-defense itself should not be misinterpreted as consenting to or approv-ing of any given democratic system.

Whether or not these voting behaviors are rational—i.e., whether they can be ex-pected to achieve their desired outcomes—is a separate issue. It should be plain, however, that not all non-voters simply need (or want) to be persuaded to vote, and that not all of those who vote do so out of a democratic im-pulse toward civic engagement. In the end, the “voter apathy” bogey is, at its best, a con-venient but intellectually bankrupt position to entertain—and that is to say nothing of the jubilant advertisement of it that is sure only to intensify in the coming weeks.

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 @HamsterdamEcon.

The voting fetish

A few days ago I went to UNC. Cue the booing, hissing and newfound pas-sion for football. I’ve never actually

had anything against Chapel Hill. I think baby blue is a perfectly palatable color, I don’t really understand the point of college rivalries, and I have a strange love for all things sheep-related. So, perhaps because I am disloyal and un-American, I went to an info session for UNC’s public health gradu-ate school. A panic attack and a change of pants later, I came to a gut-wrenching real-ization: I am having a quarter-life crisis.

So what is the quarter-life crisis? It’s best explained as exiting teenager-dom and crossing into a magical land where you have to know what you’re doing with your life. This leads to the terrifying realization that YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU’RE DOING WITH YOUR LIFE. It’s an alarming hyper-awareness that we are getting older, approaching a time when we have to make real, impactful decisions. Usu-ally, as a coping mecha-nism, this causes people to scramble for some tan-gible change to show that they’ve grownup. A new relationship, a breakup, a sudden interest in extracurricu-lars (I f***ing LOVE leadership!), getting a job, converting to Buddhism, tattooing a pterodactyl across your back … what have you. Whatever your big change is, it’s a sure sign that you’re in your quarter-life crisis.

For whatever reason, I thought I was immune from the typical challenges of a recent 20-something. I think it’s because I expect to never grow up. I take pride in being a small child in every way except size and age—although with nicknames such as “Dwarf,” “Hobbit” and “Stubby,” age may be the only feature distinguishing me from a 5-year-old. Half of the things that come out of my mouth are “Spongebob” quotes, I non-ironically call every animal “kitty,” and I have a turtle-shell backpack. A TURTLE-SHELL BACKPACK I SAY. Do I sound like a mature human being who has her life together, or a preschooler tryna harness some TURTLEPOWER?

However, recent events have shot me into pure, unadulterated quarter-life crisis mode. For example, the fact that bookbag-ging is happening right now cannot be real life. It’s not only a plague on all pro-ductivity that I hoped to have this week, but it’s also a constant reminder that I am almost done with college. Bookbagging is a grotsky little bee-yotch, making me realize that I’m now an old hag who should start crocheting and choosing my favorite fl avor of mothball. How is someone my age sup-posed to understand ACES? My brain has

crystallized by this point and I can take in no further information, like how to navi-gate new class numbers. More importantly, I CANNOT FIND THE BACK BUTTON. I have been stuck on the same page for 20 minutes, afraid that if I hit anything I’ll ac-cidentally withdraw myself from all of my classes. How am I expected to have time to fi gure this out when it’s bingo night at the YMCA?!

My social life isn’t exempt from my quarter-life crisis. Like some of my fellow elderly people, my life has been marked by sheer social ineptitude. I jumped past “cra-zy cat lady” and went straight to “crazy cat,” which I accomplish by meowing and purr-ing regularly. At the UNC game I dressed in Tailgate gear, only to discover that spandex

superhero is NOT the look the cool kids are going for these days. And, to top it all off, I have become one of THOSE people who sends unwanted SnapChats to ev-eryone they know whenev-er they get bored studying or order food that looks Instagram-able or just feel like demanding the atten-tion of all their friends for

three to 10 seconds. And now that I’m an upperclassman,

I’m expected to have some grasp on what I want to do with my life. But after looking into it, I think I’m more likely to spontane-ously become a unicorn than I am to get into a post-grad program. Did you know you need three letters of recommendation? THREE?! After spending my fi rst two years of college taking giant intro classes, I don’t think I remember three of my professors’ names. And even if they remember me, it’s likely not by my name but by some defi n-ing feature, like “Comically Unprepared Carmen” or “Didn’t Do the Reading Deb-bie” or “Obviously on Facebook Olivia.”

However, in the midst of my crisis, I real-ized something. I am still really young. May-be in the Middle Ages turning 20 was cause for a freak-out, but these days it is barely the beginning. A quarter-life crisis is just a new way of taking yourself too seriously. Trying to have ourselves and our lives completely settled by the end of our teenage years or even the end of college only causes undue stress. So instead of dissolving into a quar-ter-life crisis, I’d rather embrace the uncer-tainty ahead—and my new old lady status. I hope some of y’all will join me—preferably in time to catch the Sunday buffet at the Golden Corral. See you there!

Lillie Reed is a Trinity junior. Her instal-lation of the weekly Socialites column runs on alternate Wednesdays. You can follow Lillie on Twitter @LillieReed.

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Mariah Hukins is a Trinity senior. You can follow her on Twitter @thehukes.

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