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Council picks Duch to join BoardGRADUATE YOUNG TRUSTEE

by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE

The Graduate and Professional Student Council elected Katherine Duch as the next graduate Young Trustee Tuesday.

Duch, a fourth-year candidate for a Ph.D in public policy, won against Andrew Barnhill, a third-year stu-dent in religion and law and Christopher Marsicano, a second-year master’s candidate in public policy.

“I am thrilled to have been selected,” Duch said. “I look forward to bringing graduate and professional stu-dent perspectives to the Board of Trustees.”

She currently serves on the Board’s Institutional Ad-vancement Committee as a representative for GPSC, and she has additional experience from her under-graduate career at Cornell University, during which she was a student representative for its board of trustees.

“My two-year term at Cornell provided a firsthand learning experience, which shaped my understanding of the challenges that confront higher education insti-tutions and my approach to improving postsecondary education for students,” Duch noted.

She also cited her knowledge of higher education

Joe Van Gogh to close for Plaza construction

by Maggie SpiniTHE CHRONICLE

Fans of Joe Van Gogh coffee will soon need to look elsewhere for their dose of caffeine.

The University notified the coffee shop chain last week that it will have to temporarily close starting March 1 due to ongoing renovations to the Bryan Center, said Dave Jernigan, Joe Van Gogh’s director of sales and mar-keting. The cafe plans to reopen in early June at its same location.

“Anytime you work as an outside vendor on campus, it’s part of the reality that sometimes construction will impact your business,” Jernigan said. “At some point, we imagined it would impact us.”

Realizing construction would likely affect the busi-ness, Jernigan called the notification “hasty,” as it will impact Joe Van Gogh’s employees in addition to the

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The Graduate and Professional Student Council elected Katherine Duch, a public policy Ph.D. candidate, to Young Trustee Tuesday.

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Rivals Duke and North Carolina will face off this evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium at 9 p.m.

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Mike Krzyzewski said the Blue Devils don’t care about their ranking—only their op-ponents do.

“They get a chance to get a huge win, a resume win. We are a resume win,” the Duke head coach said. “It’s not only their best shot, it’s a hungry shot.”

North Carolina enters to-night’s 9 p.m. game at Cameron Indoor Stadium as one of those foes starving for a season-alter-ing victory—the Tar Heels (16-7, 6-4 in the ACC) have just one win against a top-25 opponent, a UNLV team that has since tumbled from the rankings. They are sitting on the bubble of this year’s NCAA Tourna-ment and play two of those final games against the Blue Devils (21-2, 8-2), with others against Virginia and N.C. State, teams

that they have already lost to this season.

So when Krzyzewski talks about a “hungry shot,” he means the type of one that North Car-olina will take tonight.

“They can beat the heck out of us,” Krzyzewski said. “We could play well and lose to them.”

And playing on the road has not stopped either of these teams from bringing the neces-sary energy to win. Since 2006, the road team has won nine of the 14 games between the two squads.

But the Blue Devils are not worried about matching the vigor of the high-octane Tar Heels, even if their resume needs more beefing up than Duke’s does.

“I would like to think other

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Two local siblings, aged nine and 12, are using the Duke-UNC rivalry to fuel donations for water filtration in Indian villages.

Aidan Hunter and his older brother Zach, students at the Durham Academy Lower School, began working on the project in India during a year-long “sab-batical” from school.

With guidance and support from their parents, the brothers started the nonprofit Aztech Labs to collect dona-tions to provide small villages in India with biosand water filters, which remove pathogens and residue from water. They are partnering with local Indian con-tractors to install 1,000 filters in 1,000 households in 2013. So far, they have raised about $5,000 of their $30,000

goal, Aidan said. Originally from Chapel Hill, the boys

have added a twist to the nonprofit by turning sibling rivalry into a competition to help others: Their biggest fundraising initiative pits Duke against the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“We thought of this idea because I like Duke, and Zach likes UNC,” Aidan said. “The rivalry is heating up now as the ACC basketball season is wrapping up, and we realized that the rivalry could be a fun way for people to get involved in helping poor families stay healthy.”

Donors can give up to $25 as fans of either school. If Duke fans contribute the most money, Zach agreed to bow down and kiss the ground in front of the James B. Duke statue on campus while wearing a UNC shirt. If UNC wins, how-ever, Aidan will put on a Duke shirt and

eat a burrito at a Qdoba on Franklin Street, near the UNC campus.

The filters installed with the money from the competition will be painted the winning school’s colors. Donations are limited to $25 per person, so no “Iron Duke or some other rich guy” can pay to win the contest, Zach said.

As of Tuesday, Duke and UNC fans were tied in the contest. The competi-tion ends March 9.

“The rivalry between UNC and Duke is the biggest in the world,” Zach said. “We hope people use it as a challenge to donate money.”

The duo first began thinking about the universal need for clean water about two and a half years ago, following a fam-ily trip to India.

“We were sitting at a nice restaurant, when we realized that we get to have

nice things, but other people don’t even have water,” Aidan said.

He added that, in India, he saw peo-ple drinking water with potentially dead-ly parasites and bacteria.

When the family decided they would be returning on a business trip to India, the children began a year long “sabbati-cal” from the Durham Academy Lower School. Aidan said he and Zach began making plans to help people in India as soon as he found out the plans to re-turn.

So far, the boys have helped install fil-ters in one small village outside of Banga-lore. Part of the funding that they raise also goes toward educating owners about their filters. They are currently less than $1,000 away from providing filters to a

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by Scott WilsonTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama challenged Congress Tuesday night to assist an American middle class squeezed by ris-ing costs and stagnant wages, making clear that he will devote much of his second term to clos-ing the income gap between rich and poor.

In his first State of the Union address since re-election, Obama called restoring the coun-try’s middle-class promise “our generation’s task,” casting the ability to work and prosper as a basic American principle in jeopardy now because of a changing economy and partisan dysfunction in Washington.

Arguing for an active government role to tackle inequality, Obama proposed a series of ways—some old, some new—to improve ac-cess to education and expand job training pro-grams. He would raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour—nearly a 25 percent bump—over the next three years.

Many of his previous economic plans have stalled in a divided Congress. But speaking from a position of political strength—and fac-ing a deficit under $1 trillion for the first time in his administration—Obama suggested the

American public supports many of his goals, even if many in the chamber do not.

In an hour-long address focused tightly on domestic issues, Obama also announced that he will bring home 34,000 American troops from Afghanistan over the next year, cutting the U.S. force level there by almost half.

The U.S. military mission in Afghanistan concludes at the end 2014, and Obama intends to keep only a small force there for training and counter-terrorism missions beyond that date. “After a decade of grinding war,” the president said, “our men and women in uniform are coming home.”

The speech, interrupted repeatedly with raucous and sometimes strictly partisan ap-plause, was Obama’s fourth State of the Union address. He used the annual ritualto attempt to turn the page on a first term preoccupied with winding down two wars and working to repair a badly damaged economy.

“We have cleared away the rubble of crisis,” he said, “and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.”

Throughout the speech, however, was a warning that the nation’s progress, which he repeatedly called “unfinished,” is in peril unless

Obama and Congress can work together on the economy’s behalf.

“We gather here knowing that that there are millions of Americans whose hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded,” he said. “It is our generation’s task, then, to re-ignite the true engine of America’s economic growth—a rising, thriving middle class.”

Economic progress has been halting since he took office, and he spoke Tuesday with the looming threat to the economy of automatic spending cuts, known as sequestration, just a little over two weeks away.

Obama and Congressional leaders have been unable to reach agreement on how to avert the cuts, which the president warned Tuesday would fall hardest on those who can least afford them.

He called for “bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform,” and emphasized that his proposals would not add to the $854 billion deficit, only re-allocate money already in the budget to fi-nance them.

“But let’s be clear: Deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan,” Obama said. “A

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Perdue to serve as Sanford Fellow starting Fall 2013

by Jack MercolaTHE CHRONICLE

Former Gov. Bev Perdue, who was re-cently appointed to a distinguished fel-lowship at the Sanford School of Public Policy, visited campus Tuesday to discuss education and policymaking with a small group of students.

Sanford Dean Bruce Kuniholm an-nounced Friday that Perdue—the first female governor of North Carolina—will begin a distinguished fellowship at the University Fall 2013. Perdue will have an office at Sanford, allowing her to both serve as a resource for the Duke commu-nity and effectively utilize the University to continue her policy and education

work.“[Perdue’s fellowship] will be a sym-

biotic process between the needs and interests of students and faculty and the needs and interest of the distinguished fellow,” Kuniholm said. “A fellowship is, to a great extent, open-ended and non-restrictive. [Perdue] will be able to en-gage in any number of initiatives.”

Perdue, a longtime Democrat, served as North Carolina’s 73rd governor from 2009 to 2013. Before holding the gover-norship, she served for a decade as the state’s lieutenant governor, a decade as a state senator and four years in the

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Uni to reschedule 50th anniversary celebration

by Imani MoiseTHE CHRONICLE

Organizers are rescheduling the kick-off celebration for the 50th anniversary of Duke’s integration after an ice storm caused the can-celation of the original event.

The freezing rain storm that hit Durham Jan. 25 caused the majority of campus activities to be cancelled, including the official kick-off re-ception for the commemoration, which would have hosted students, faculty, administration, community members and alumni. More than 600 ticket holders were planning to attend the sold-out event at the Nasher Museum of Art.

The office is seeking to plan an alterna-tive event this Spring that will bring together various members of the Duke community in the same way as the reception planned for last month. The new reception will have to take on a new theme, as it can no longer be a kick off now that the celebration is underway. It will still bring together a wide cross-section of the community to celebrate the 50th anniversary milestone, Benjamin Reese, vice president of the office of institutional equity and director of the 50th anniversary committee, wrote in an email Monday.

“Cancelling the kick-off has not at all damp-ened the enthusiasm or importance of this commemoration,” Reese said. “Our biggest disappointment was that we couldn’t have a for-mal kick-off with a large number of Duke and Durham community members together for an evening of reflection and forward-looking con-versations.”

All other 50th anniversary events, includ-ing a civil rights lecture scheduled to be held at the law school Thursday, are going forward

as planned.Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for pub-

lic affairs and government relations, noted that rescheduling the event as it was originally in-tended will not be an easy task.

“It took almost a year of planning to coor-dinate all the schedules, since we had a num-ber of people who were coming in from out of town, so trying to replicate that event will be difficult, if not impossible,” he wrote in an email Tuesday.

Among others who came to town for the Jan. 25 event were the surviving members of the first class of black students at Duke, who held a discussion about their experiences Jan. 24.

Reese confirmed that the committee has begun discussions about possibly holding the Duke and Durham event during Duke Re-unions weekend, scheduled for April 12 to 14.

“We’re trying to find a date and venue that is accessible to the widest cross-section of our community, including alums,” Reese said.

Schoenfeld declined to comment on the amount of money spent on the canceled event, but he noted that “some costs” were incurred as a result. The committee, however, made a contribution to Urban Ministries of Durham, comprised of the food that would have other-wise gone to waste. Urban Ministries provides food and shelter to the hungry and homeless in Durham.

Junior Marcus Benning, president of the Black Student Alliance, was a ticket holder of the original celebration.

“I regret that we were never able to formally kick off the commemoration,” he said. “I really hope that we can have an event in lieu of the event that was planned.”

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second village.“The villagers looked very happy with

their filters. They were taking great care of the filters and told us the filters were keeping them from getting sick,” Aidan said. “[At another village] there was a crowd of over 100 people waiting for us there when we arrived. I talked to them, and now I can’t wait to help them.”

Aztech Labs receives money through donations online and works with South Asia Pure Water Initiative, Inc. to distrib-ute the filters.

“We chose biosand filters because this type of filter is cheap, effective and long-lasting,” Aidan said. “For the price of

$32—or about two pizzas—you can sup-ply a household with a water filter that will help keep them healthy for about 25 to 30 years.”

The filters remove 99.99 percent of parasites and 80 to 99 percent of bacte-ria from water and make it safe to drink, he said. The biosand filters that Aztech Labs use do not require electricity, and they are easy for villagers to maintain.

The boys’ mother, Lenora, called this an “ambitious” goal. Although she and her husband are helping the boys, she said, it is their sons’ enthusiasm that drives the project.

“I’d rather fail at trying to help 1,000 families than to play it safe and succeed at reaching a much lower goal,” Aidan said.

in an academic context—Duch’s disser-tation focuses on legislative support for the funding of colleges and universities.

Duch noted that Duke is one of a few universities to offer designated po-sitions on a governing board to recent graduates. She aims to increase interac-tion with current graduate students as a Young Trustee by regularly updating GPSC, convening meetings with GPSC representatives and graduate Young Trustees and holding office hours for any graduate students to share their thoughts.

The graduate Young Trustee serves for three years, just as its undergradu-ate counterpart does. Although the un-dergraduate position is elected by the student body, the graduate position is determined through an election among

representatives of the GPSC general as-sembly. Of the 105 representatives, only 45 were eligible to vote this year—voting privileges are revoked if representatives have not attended at least three general assembly meetings this school year, said Christopher Rowland, communications chair of the GPSC executive board.

Shannon O’Connor, GPSC executive board vice president, noted in an email that each candidate gave a five-minute presentation, followed by a three-min-ute question and answer session before GPSC deliberated.

“I was obviously disappointed with the result, but I’m confident that Kate’s experience will make her a very effective Trustee,” Barnhill said.

Marsicano added that Duch will be an advocate for the interests of graduate and professional students, noting that her experience at Cornell would help prepare her for the role.

Vandendriessche to serve as DUU pres.

by Elizabeth DjinisTHE CHRONICLE

Junior Lynn Vandendriessche—select-ed Sunday as new president of the Duke University Union—wants the group to branch out more to collaborate with oth-er students groups during her tenure.

Vandendriessche’s talent for orga-nization and efficiency set her apart in the applicant pool, said outgoing DUU President Nathan Nye, a senior. Vanden-driessche has worked on DUU for the past three years, serving as a member of the Speakers and Stage committee for her freshman year, chair of the commit-tee her sophomore year and currently as executive vice president of DUU. She will now oversee the union, which spans 15 student programming and activities com-mittees, including LDOC, JAZZ@ and the Coffeehouse.

“Something that makes her stand out is her ability to navigate the structure of an organization in a way that reduces inefficiency,” Nye said. “She is an experi-enced leader in the organization and has a proven track record being there for the people she’s working with.”

As president, Vandendriessche said she hopes to emphasize collaborations with student groups outside of DUU, cit-ing a revision to the organization’s col-laboration policy that should make this process easier.

“The job of our vice president [of ex-ternal affairs] next year is to show student groups that we are open to collabora-tions,” Vandendriessche said. “We are not

a funding group, but we do like to work with other student groups to bring pro-gramming.”

Past DUU collaborations included working with the Black Students Alliance to bring performer John Legend to cam-pus and teaming up with Duke Student Government on DukeStarter, a program that assisted students in funding and ex-ecuting their event ideas.

The decision was made through an ap-plication process culminating in an hour-long interview conducted by the entire

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The Great Hall was decked out in Mardi Gras decor for the holiday Tuesday.

Mardi Great Hallgrowing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs—that must be the North Star that guides our efforts.”

Republican lawmakers reacted coolly to Obama’s message, characterizing the program he outlined as a defense of big gov-ernment at a time when they believe over-regulation and high taxes are keeping the economy down.

“But his favorite attack of all is that those who don’t agree with him—they only care about rich people,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who delivered the GOP response. “Mr. President, I don’t oppose your plans because I want to protect the rich. I oppose your plans because I want to protect my neigh-bors. Hard-working middle-class Americans who don’t need us to come up with a plan to grow the government. They want a plan to grow the middle class.”

Unlike his second inaugural address last month, when liberal social issues defined much of his message, Obama spoke directly Tuesday to a prime-time television audience about what he believes must be done to improve the econo-my and prepare the next generation of workers for the jobs it is creating.

He will take his message on the road over the next few days, visiting North Carolina, Georgia, and Illinois to discuss various economic proposals.

The proposals range from spending $40 billion to upgrade bridges to starting a fund, known as the Energy Security Trust, responsible for researching ways for more American cars and trucks to run on cleaner fuels.

When Obama spoke Tuesday about immigration legislation, gun control, and climate change—issues that rank high on his domestic agenda—he did so by connecting them directly to the American economy.

He called on Americans to cut in half the energy wasted by homes and businesses in the next two decades, something that would benefit the environment as well as the economy. Green jobs, he argued,will be the ones helping drive future employ-ment growth.

In perhaps his most passionate moments, Obama also de-manded action against gun violence as part of what he called “building new ladders of opportunity” for low-income commu-nities aspiring to rise into the middle class

He is scheduled to speak about the economic challenges facing cities at a Friday event in Chicago, his hometown, where advisers say he will also discuss gun violence.

Obama has endorsed tighter restrictions on gun owner-ship—including a ban on assault rifles and the adoption of uni-versal background checks for anyone buying a firearm - in the af-termath of the December shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six staff members were killed.

On Tuesday, several Democratic lawmakers brought victims of gun violence to the speech and, most notably, first lady Mi-chelle Obama’s guest list included a teacher from Sandy Hook Elementary.

The first lady also sat with a police officer, Brian Murphy, who responded to the massacre at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and the parents of a girl killed by gunfire in Chicago earlier this month. The 15-year-old girl, Hadiya Pendleton, performed with her high school’s majorette team in the president’s second inau-gural parade. Michelle Obama attended her funeral in Chicago last weekend.

“The families of Newtown deserve a vote,” Obama contin-ued, much of the chamber coming to its feet. “The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence—they deserve a simple vote.”

Obama’s proposal to raise the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 an hour over the next three years was among several new pro-posals his advisers said were designed to close the income gap.

As part of his job training initiatives, Obama proposed spend-ing what advisers estimated to be $1 billion to build a series of “manufacturing institutes,” where private and public-sector agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Energy, collaborate to prepare workers for the challenges of the new economy.

Obama also reiterated his desire to address problems in the U.S. voting system, typified in the last election by the hours-long wait some voters endured to cast ballots in crowded polling sta-tions, many within urban areas.

He mentioned the issue in his victory speech last November, and on Tuesday announced a commission to study ways of mak-ing voting simpler. It will be chaired by the lead attorney from Obama’s past campaign, Bob Bauer, and his counterpart from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s, Benjamin Ginsberg.

Obama spent less time on foreign policy, emphasizing the continuing fight against al Qaeda and the impending conclu-sion to America’s longest war in Afghanistan at the end of next year. He also warned the leaders of Iran that “now is the time for a diplomatic solution” to avert a military confrontation over its uranium-enrichment program.

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business itself. Before meeting with Director of Dining Robert Coffey last week, Jernigan said he was unsure that the business would be forced to close during Bryan Center construction.

Vice President for Student Affairs Lar-ry Moneta said he has known for a few weeks that Joe Van Gogh will be forced to close, attributing the short time frame of notifying the coffee shop to the occas-sionally unpredictable schedule that re-sults from construction projects.

“It was inevitable that [Joe Van Gogh] would be affected, but we did not know the scope or time,” he said. “[Timing] is related to a very complicated con-structions project that has many moving parts.”

Coffey could not be reached for com-ment in time for publication.

Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of student affairs for housing, dining and residence life, wrote in an email Tuesday that he was meeting with individuals from Joe Van Gogh Tuesday afternoon but declined to comment further. He noted that there will be a follow-up meet-ing between University officials and Joe Van Gogh, and the two parties have yet to “come to a resolution.”

“We are doing our best to really mitigate the impact on our employees,” Jernigan said. “I think a lot of them are reflecting on what they want to do…. Some people may stay and others may move on.”

Employees working in the shop Tues-day deferred comment to Jernigan and Stephanie Kelley, the company’s mar-keting, communications and merchan-dising manager.

Some students said they were upset to hear that Joe Van Gogh will be ab-sent from campus for the second half of the semester, citing the establish-ment’s high quality coffee and relaxed study environment as unique draws to the café.

“I come here probably like a couple times a week,” said junior Katie Clark. “Especially if I don’t have class until later, I come and study here.”

Although the cafe will be absent from the University for a few months, Kelley

noted that its products will still be avail-able on campus. Several on-campus cof-feehouses, such as Bella Union, serve Joe Van Gogh’s coffee, she said. The company also has a location on Broad Street close to East Campus.

But freshman Laurie Hwang said Joe Van Gogh will be missed.

“Joe Van Gogh has the best coffee, at least on campus,” she said. “We have some alternative choices like The Perk or Twinnie’s, but they’re not my priority compared to Joe Van Gogh.”

Jernigan said that although closing will be problematic, the company is try-ing to look at the construction as a posi-tive. Renovations to the Bryan Center will improve Joe Van Gogh’s customer experience and work environment in the long run, he said.

“It’s a very popular store and a huge part of the Duke community,” he added. “We’re all doing our best to get through it and looking forward to reopening in June. We’ll be back in time for summer school.”

DUU Executive Board. This year, the board had two applicants for the position—Nye declined to name the other applicant. After each applicant was interviewed, the board met to reach a decision. Nye noted that the application process is open and requires no prior experience.

“What tends to happen is that not that many people apply and it ends up being a self-selective process,” Nye said.

Senior Alex Shapanka, chair of DUU’s Major Attractions Committee, said Van-dendriessche is always a source of support for the people with whom she works.

“She’s very cognizant of every commit-tee and keeps in touch with every single committee,” Shapanka said. “She was a great person to lean on this past year if any-

one needed anything at all.” Vandendriessche said that one of her

best experiences of bringing students to-gether with DUU happened last year when the organization brought Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi to campus. Eba-di, an Iranian lawyer and human rights ac-tivist, spoke in Farsi with a translator.

“Half the audience would laugh when she spoke in her native language and the other half would laugh with the translator,” said Vandendriessce. “It was great how many peo-ple we brought together with that event.”

Aside from her involvement with the Union, Vandendriessche is a peer tutor for economics and a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority.

Vandendriessche has the capacity to unite a variety of people, Nye added.

“She really has an eye for students, which is ultimately what matters,” he said.

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Joe Van Gogh coffee shop will close temporarily starting March 1 due to ongoing Bryan Center Plaza renovations. Duke notified the cafe’s employees last week.

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The UNC frontcourt will be shorthanded without burly bigman Joel James, leaving much of the dirty work to James Michael McAdoo, who is a talented scorer but may struggle to contain Plumlee. At 6-foot-7, Reggie Bullock has a major size advantage over all of the Duke guards, but Quinn Cook outclasses their distributors and Seth Curry is the best pure scorer in the bunch.

The North Carolina bench is thin with James’ injury, but P.J. Hairston is the best re-serve on either team and has the potential to make a major impact on this game, unlike Duke’s bench players.

The breakdownWith four conference losses already, UNC has struggled to fi nd its groove despite a bevy of talent. Although anything can happen in this Tobacco Road rivalry, Duke should be able to take care of business against this Tar Heel squad that is still searching for an identity and sense of consistency.

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9:00 p.m. No. 2 Blue Devils (20-2) Tar Heels (16-7)

(Projected lineups, statistics from 2012-13 season)

by Brady BuckTHE CHRONICLE

The first of two editions of the Tobacco Road showdown this year pits two teams against each other in vastly different positions.

No. 2 Duke (21-2, 8-2 in the ACC)—a team trying to keep pace with ACC-leading Miami and earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament—will tangle with its nemesis North Carolina, which desperately needs a signature conference win to help secure its ticket to the Big Dance.

“I think it’s a must-win for our confi-dence, seeing our potential and how we can play against good teams,” said senior Tar Heel combo guard Dexter Strickland, who is the only senior in the rotation. “I think if we can beat the No. 2 team it shows a lot about our team.”

Four starters from last year’s Elite Eight squad—Kendall Mar-shall, Harrison Barnes, John Hen-son and Tyler Zeller—left for the NBA after last season, leav-ing the cupboard bare for head coach Roy Williams in Chapel Hill. Consequently, the young Tar Heels (16-7, 6-4 in the ACC) have been wildly in-consistent—and largely underwhelming—this season.

North Carolina’s 2012-13 campaign—characterized by several low points, in-cluding lopsided losses to Butler, Indiana, N.C. State and Miami—could take a drastic turn for the better with a win Wednesday

night. The Tar Heels have enough sheer talent—highlighted by five McDonald’s All-Americans—and firepower on their roster to defeat anybody. The offensive end is where they thrive, averaging 78.3 points per outing—the ninth highest output in the nation.

“They can beat the hell out of us tomor-row night,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyze-wski said.

North Carolina’s players know they have it in them to pull out a road victory against their hated rival.

“I think we have the guys to get the job done,” Strickland said. “We just have to play with a sense of urgency.”

Thus far this season, the problem is that Williams’ roster is comprised of piec-es that have not fit together yet in his up-tempo system. Changes in the starting

lineup and rotation have been ongo-ing, leading to lapses in continuity.

With seven underclassmen averag-ing more than 10 minutes on the court, the inexperience and lack of leadership plaguing the team has put the Tar Heels on what looks to be the wrong side of the NCCA bubble at the moment.

Williams realizes that a veteran Duke team presents a consider-

able challenge for his bunch.“Well, not very good on

paper…” said Williams in re-gards to how his team match-es up with Duke. “We have a

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Four days after the one year an-niversary of Austin Rivers’ buzzer-beating 3-pointer to defeat North Carolina in Chapel Hill, Duke fans were treated to another fantastic finish in a tradition unique to the Tobacco Road rivalry.

The night before the 235th matchup between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels, the teams’ respec-tive managers took the floor at Cameron Indoor Stadium—an an-nual showcase of their skills on the hardwood.

With the score tied at 52-52 and 7.5 seconds remaining in the con-test, sophomore head coach Mike Sotsky called a timeout and drew up Duke’s final play. Sophomore Ian McKiernan beat his man off the dribble and found his colleague and classmate Graham Vehovec wide open in the opposite corner.

Vehovec hoisted a 3-pointer that splashed into the net to give Duke a 55-52 victory as time expired. The

Cameron Crazies on hand stormed the court in celebration for the first time since Sean Dockery hit a 45-foot buzzer-beater against Virginia Tech in Dec. 2005.

“You talk about it, and you say, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if?’ But you nev-er expect anything to go like that,” Sotsky said. “An unbelievable play at the end by Ian. At the beginning of the game Ian was taking a lot of contact and was thrown off, but to make that play at the end, that’s the kind of player Ian is. He’s a com-petitor. Everyone on this team is a competitor, and they’re fighters.”

Sotsky’s coaching prowess was on display throughout the game, calling his team’s plays and exud-ing confidence in the huddle. His poise along with many of his man-nerisms were eerily reminiscent of the man he works for, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski.

“I like to think that he would be proud of the way we played tonight,”

Duke managers beat UNC managers on buzzer-beating 3-pointer

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No sneaking into Cameron Indoor this yearby Jackie Klauberg

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Duke students thinking of trying to sneak in to to-night’s Duke-North Carolina game should think again. This year, blending in with the sea of Cameron Crazies won’t be so easy.

After a number of students snuck into line for last year’s tilt between the two teams by cutting the line or buying imitation wristbands, the line monitors—students who oversee undergraduate entry to the men’s basketball games—have tightened security measures with numbered wristbands.

“We had seen, especially last year with the walkup line, there really wasn’t a fair system for entry, and that there were a bunch of people jumping the line and people were writing numbers on their wristbands,” head line monitor Bradley Baird said. “We sat down and tried to devise a system where it would be much harder for students to replicate wristbands that we had. So, starting a couple of months ago, we put together this numbering system and this design with this type of plastic wristband as opposed to the old paper ones.”

The wristbands required to get into tonight’s were handed out Sunday and stray from the generic colored ones in years past. Not only are they Duke blue plastic with “Duke vs. UNC” and “2/13/13” written on them, but the tenters’ tent number and lineup number amongst their tent is engraved into the royal blue, not simply just drawn on.

“Game operations is bringing extra security to the point that it is going to be significantly harder [to get in this year] than in years past,” Baird said. “Cameron is go-ing to be on lockdown.”

In the past, some students have gone to great lengths to create a wristband indistinguishable from the real thing and simply waltz right into the game.

Mike,* a 2012 Duke graduate, drove around Durham for a few hours with a friend in search of bright yellow wristbands similar to the ones used at the Spring 2011 home game. The duo had missed the cut for white tenting

and did not want to do the walkup line, which requires one member from a two-person team being in line at all times. After checking out party stores and convenience stores, the pair found a few passable replicas. The bands they found were only sold in packs of 500, so, paying $25 each, the duo attempted the risky manuever of sneaking into the game.

But the wristbands were only the backup plan. Mike had gotten hold of an old press pass, and Mike’s friend knew a member of the pep band who gave him an extra blue and white striped uniform shirt.

But after scoping out the secured scene outside of Cameron Indoor Stadium on game day, the two hopped into a tent in Krzyzewskiville to re-evaluate the plan they now deemed questionable.

They aborted and went to plan wristband, and with a sharpie, made up a random tent number and lineup

number and hopped right in line, wearing masks to seal their identity from the line monitors and other tenters. The men were aware that 12 people were in each tent and any stray members would be looked at skeptically.

“Our plan was to go there and ambush them and run up and cheer as part of the crowd,” Mike said. “Other groups were wondering why we were with their tent so we had to keep shuffling around the line.”

It was not so effortless to make that 40-yard dash from outside Card Gymnasium to the doors of Cam-eron Indoor Stadium, however. The two men were stopped by a line monitor asking them where the rest of their tent was.

“[When he asked where the rest of our group was,] we said we had been at interviews, and [the line monitor] clearly didn’t believe us so he went and talked to the head line monitor,” Powers said. “Then we got stopped by the head line monitor and we told him that our tent was in there. We still had our masks on…. So he looked at us and kind of just let us through.”

For Mike and his sidekick, the benefit of getting into the game clearly outweighed the cost. For $25 apiece, the two boys not only copped the hottest ticket of the year, but also claimed prime front and center spots in the stu-dent section.

“We were fifth row and literally dead center at half court,” Mike said. “I was never happier. I was so pumped.”

Despite the other Cameron Crazies surrounding him who had fared the cold weather, rainy nights and sleep deprivation due to tent checks during the night, Mike said he did not feel too bad because no one ended up being denied entrance into the game from the walkup line that year.

The ultimate goal of the changes this year is to prevent stories just like Mike’s.

“We really want to respect the time that tenters have put into this and what the walkup line has put into this. That’s really what it’s all about,” Baird said.

*Name has been changed for the source’s protection.

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Before the match, Duke head coach Glen Lanham removed his shoes and socks with the slow, calm precision of Mr. Rogers. He and his staff coached barefoot to bene-fit Samaritan’s Feet, a charity that provides shoes for impoverished people worldwide. But at the end of the match, it might have been Lanham who needed new footwear as he took his displeasure out on the laces while retying his shoes.

Following a 24-13 defeat at the hands of visiting North Carolina that kept his team winless in the conference and dropped it back to .500 overall, Lanham’s frustration was clear after his team spent the majority of the match within striking distance of the Tar Heels.

North Carolina ran out to a 7-0 lead with a pair of early victories, including a landslide 14-2 major decision by Tar Heel sophomore Alex Utley against Blue Devil redshirt freshman Dylan Ryan, but redshirt senior Diego Bencomo, the winningest wrestler on the Duke roster, turned the tide in the third match.

Bencomo—one of three seniors hon-ored on senior night in Card Gymnasi-um—opened his match aggressively against Frank Abbondanza, earning a quick two points with a takedown fewer than 20 sec-onds into the contest.

“He came out like gangbusters... and the guys continued to feed off that,” Lanham said.

Abbondanza hung with him early, though, keeping Bencomo’s lead to just one point before Bencomo reeled off a 6-1 run that lasted until the final minute

of the second period. Abbondanza made a late surge, but Bencomo held him off for a commanding 21-12 victory, the 78th win of his career.

It looked as though the Tar Heels might easily take back the momentum in the next match, however, as Duke heavyweight Brian Self matched up against North Caro-lina’s Jake Barnhart, who outweighed Self by nearly 20 pounds.

“Self weighs—soaking wet—probably like 208, and I think that guy weighed like 230,” Lanham said. “Self is savvy. He knows how to use his speed.”

Self took a patient approach against the bulkier Barnhart, keeping the match score-less until an escape from the second-period restart gave him a 1-0 lead. Barnhart an-swered with an escape of his own to tie the match at 1-1, but a late point for Self as the third-period clock ran down gave the Duke junior a 2-1 win to bring the Blue Devils back into a 7-7 tie.

Peter Terrezza, another senior night honoree, took the mat in the 125-pound weight class with a chance to put Duke ahead for the first time in a conference match this season. Terrezza and North Car-olina freshman Nathan Kraisser wrestled a close match early before Kraisser capital-ized a narrow Terrezza miscue to earn a sudden pin early in the second period.

“Petey got caught over the top with a scramble,” Lanham said. “Petey was wres-tling a real solid match, and everybody was excited. The team was excited about it, and he just got caught in a position that he shouldn’t have been in. I told him, Petey,

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teams have to match our intensity,” senior forward Mason Plumlee said. “Needing a win—we need every win…. I would say we need it as much as anybody.”

Matching the energy of the Tar Heels, though, is difficult, as they play at one of the fastest paces in Division I. With 78.3 points, 41.7 rebounds and 18.0 re-bounds per game, North Carolina ranks in the top-10 nationally in all three cat-egories.

Averaging 14.9 points and 8.2 re-bounds per contest, sophomore James Michael McAdoo paces the Tar Heels in both categories but guards Dexter Strick-land and Marcus Paige, who combine for 8.5 assists per game, are the ones who set the offense’s quick tempo.

“They’re one of the best teams in the country in transition,” Duke point guard Quinn Cook said. “We just want to play our game. We’re good in transition as well.”

Cook, averaging 6.0 assists per game, ranks behind only Strickland in the ACC in assist-to-turnover ratio.

In the Tar Heels’ 26-point loss at Mi-ami last Saturday—reminiscent of the 27-point beating the Blue Devils took in Coral Gables, Fla.—Strickland scored just two points, however, adding just three as-sists. Dealing with a torn ACL, Strickland didn’t play in either of the two meetings between the two teams last season.

“We just have to play with a sense of urgency,” Strickland said.

Sometimes being the hungry and less-hyped team pays off, as was the case in the first game between the two teams last year. The Blue Devils had lost their last two ACC home games and at No. 10 in the rankings, were just one loss away from falling out of the top 10 for the first

time since Nov. 19, 2007, a still-standing and now-108-week long streak.

Then-No. 5 North Carolina fell to that hungry Duke team on the heels of Austin Rivers’ game-winning shot that capped a 10-point comeback in the game’s final two minutes.

“I was crushed,” Tar Heel head coach

Roy Williams said.Then again, it was only the first of two

meetings between the two teams. North Carolina got its revenge with an 18-point rout at Cameron Indoor Stadium and watched the Blue Devils lose in the NCAA Tournament’s round of 64.

“Five weeks later, that game was imma-

terial,” Williams said.What’s not immaterial: The mean-

ing of the long-lasting rivalry in an ever-changing conference landscape.

“This game is so good for college bas-ketball with all the conference realign-ment,” Krzyzewski said. “Duke and Caro-lina will be there forever.”

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chance, but we have to play great.”As the only player in the inexperi-

enced Tar Heel frontcourt averaging double figures, sophomore forward James Michael McAdoo has to be ex-ceptional against Mason Plumlee and Duke’s stable of big men. Despite aver-aging a team-high 14.9 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, the athletic 6-foot-9 forward—who spurned the chance to be a likely top-10 NBA draft pick last sum-mer to return to Chapel Hill—has still been unable to live up to the lofty expec-tations of being the go-to-guy this year due to his sporadic performances.

But the point guard matchup may play-the key role in Wednesday night’s show-down. Averaging 7.1 points and 4.5 assists per contest, freshman Marcus Paige—a

frail 6-foot floor general—has shown both promise and disappointment, while being thrust into the starting lead guard role from the get go. The Iowan has struggled at times with the rigors of a more physical college game. And Paige has a very difficult cover assignment in Duke’s Quinn Cook.

“I’ve always wanted to play in this game ever since I’ve been a kid growing up a Tar Heel fan,” Paige said. “So, I’m really excit-ed to go in there and hopefully we can play really well and get a win.”

If North Carolina hopes to play well and steal a win in Durham, it will need ar-guably its best pure scorer—junior wing Reggie Bullock—to deliver. And if any Tar Heel player has an edge in his one-on-one matchup against the Blue Devils, it is the 6-foot-7 junior, who could easily take advantage of Duke’s smaller perim-eter that does not feature a player taller than 6-foot-4. Playing better as the year

you’ve got to learn how to bail out of that position, give up the two and then live to fight, but I think for him it was all or nothing. And unfortunately it was nothing, because the guy ended up coming on top of him and pinning him.”

Those six points gave the Tar Heels a 13-7 lead in the match, and the Kraisser pin kicked off a three-match win-ning streak for North Carolina before redshirt freshman 149-pounder Marcus Cain held off a late charge from Christian Barber to secure a 9-7 win and three more points for Duke.

Immanuel Kerr-Brown followed Cain’s win with a low-scoring effort against North Carolina’s Christopher Mears, who Mears tied the match at two with an escape to open the third period. But a crucial late takedown put Kerr-Brown back up 4-2. Mears was not to be denied, and he earned last-second tallies to send the match to sudden-death overtime.

“I thought I was actually ahead in the match, so I was a little confused when we went into overtime,” Kerr-Brown said of his fifth straight win after he was the only Blue Dev-il to emerge victorious from Saturday’s rout at Maryland. “He took a bad shot, and I was able to capitalize and get on his leg, and I knew it was over then.”

An aggressive Kerr-Brown needed 45 seconds of the minute-long overtime period to take Mears down near the edge of the circle and bring Duke back within striking distance for 165-pounder Randy Roden. But Tar Heel red-shirt freshman John Staudenmayer dominated the final match to secure North Carolina’s victory at 24-13.

“We have to wrestle with more of an urgency,” Lanham said. “We’ve got to put two shots together and we have to close a little better.... I tell these guys, ‘Right now, you’re either winning or learning. You’re not losing.’”

has progressed, Bullock is a dangerous scorer—connecting on 43.9 percent of his 3-pointers—and averages 14 points per game.

Bullock’s sidekick on the wing, sopho-more P.J. Hairston, is a lethal offensive weapon coming off the bench for the Tar Heels. The powerful 6-foot-5, 220-pound swingman is the third highest scorer on the team at 12.3 points per game.

Given the intensity, familiarity and utter distaste between the two teams, it’s safe to assume a struggling North Carolina squad will be ready for another chapter of the most fierce rivalry in col-lege basketball.

“It is North Carolina playing Duke,” Williams said. “If my team is not fired up tomorrow, I’m going to send them all over to the morgue and see if they have enough boxes ready for them, my gosh. We’ll find out.”

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Sotsky said. “He’s an unbelievable coach, and you learn so much just from being at practice. Everything that we did out here to-night, we learned from him.”

Although the managers normally take on similar jobs for their respective teams, there was no love lost on the hardwood—the rivalry between Duke and North Caro-lina knows no boundaries. Trash talking, physicality and even a little floor slapping were on display throughout the contest, which can only be expected of a matchup between the Blue Devils and Tar Heels.

At one point during the game after a near altercation between the teams, sopho-more point guard Quinn Cook ran from the baseline to the bench, wrapping up one of his managers in an embrace and complimenting him on his intensity.

The game’s second half swung back and forth, with both teams executing in their halfcourt offenses. The Blue Devils execut-ed halfcourt sets straight out of Krzyzews-ki’s playbook, the result of nearly a week of practices prior to the game. Junior Jamie Stark controlled the paint for the Blue Dev-ils, fighting through contact from defend-ers to convert inside buckets.

The game seemed to be securely in Duke’s hands when it took a 50-42 lead with less than three minutes to play. But an 8-0 North Carolina run kept the Blue Dev-ils fighting until the bitter end.

“Someone’s got to send that to ESPN. That has got to be on ESPN tomorrow,” sophomore Sean Kelly said. “We had a legit-imate court-storming victory here tonight, I’ve never been a part of anything like that. That was comparable to rushing the field against North Carolina in football. And it was all the fans that made it happen.”

In addition to knocking down a number of timely 3-pointers in the second half, Kel-

ly’s play was also the only time that Duke fans will get to see a No. 34 on the court for the Blue Devils this week. Kelly, who is the younger brother of senior forward Ryan Kelly, works alongside his brother as a bas-ketball manager and showcased bits and pieces of his older brother’s game on the court Tuesday night.

“That was a little shoutout for him,” Sean Kelly said. “I didn’t play much basket-ball in high school, but when I heard we were going to get uniforms, I got dibs on 34 pretty fast.”

Ryan Kelly was on hand to watch his younger brother along with a number of his Blue Devil teammates, including Alex Murphy, Josh Hairston, Rasheed Sulaimon, Todd Zafirovski and Tyler Thornton as well as Chelsea Gray and Tricia Liston of the Duke women’s basketball team. The group was particular supportive of the team’s three senior managers, Kyle Mumma, Kate Wheelock and John McGinty, who all start-ed the game for the Blue Devils.

When Vehovec’s final shot ripped through the nets, it was a role reversal for some of the most recognizable figures on Duke’s campus, who stormed their own home court to celebrate a victory by the managers who wipe up their sweat off that very floor.

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Don’t those people who take their jobs way too seriously bother you? I’m talk-ing about those disillusioned souls who

find themselves in a position of minimal authority, whose job is to ruin your day if you marginally violate code of conduct. Case in point, the guy who gives you park-ing tickets. If I park in the wrong spot for five minutes while rushing inside Rite Aid to pick up a friend’s strep throat medication and we cross paths right before you throw a ticket on my windshield, please just give me a break. I was doing a buddy a favor, there were no other spots available and there were five people in front of me. Come on, guy.

I’m intrigued by the type of person who would give me a parking ticket in the aforemen-tioned situation. These people insist on stick-ing so closely to the rules that they are willing to forgo small moments of genuine decency in order to abuse their itty-bitty forms of power. Call me crazy, but I’d rather make someone happy than upset them. Last semester, after my car was towed, I got into a conversation with the owner of a local towing company. He was complaining about his job because he never meets anyone under friendly pretenses. Be-cause I was polite in the way I inquired about Partners Place towing policies, he gave me a very generous discount for my minor violation. This Durham man running a for-profit business was compassionate enough to hook it up for a fortunate Duke student who had parked ille-gally in a rush. That’s what I’m talking about.

I would assume that our University would have more people similar to the homie towing man and not the angry parking ticket guy. How-ever, this Tuesday I was appalled by the level of self-righteousness exhibited by the line moni-

tors in not letting a technicality slide. Here’s what happened: A friend of mine had to leave the line to study for a midterm, and his line

partner went to run to The Loop to pick up his food. He had been waiting for 12 hours already, and this was the one moment he had to grab something to put in his

body. As the line monitors approached our group, we called our friend who then sprinted from The Loop back to our spot in the walk-up line before he had even received his food. He was 30 seconds late, and the group behind us had not yet been checked. Still, the line moni-tors refused to give us a break. We pleaded with them, explained in detail the nature of the situation and tried to appeal to their human compassion to absolutely no avail.

The justification that the line monitors gave me was that their decision was made out of principle and to protect the integrity of the process. But when you consider the situation, that justification is paradoxical. The integrity of the process is manifested in the sacrifice that all students in the walk-up line make in the days before the game. If a student misses a line check by seconds for a bathroom break or to pick up a Loop dinner, does that negate the commitment he or she has made to Duke bas-ketball and the Duke community at-large?

Rules are only as strict as those who enforce them. The fan who is resolute enough to waive his right to a 30-second bathroom break in or-der to maintain a spot in the walk-up line is not a more committed Duke basketball fan than you or me. He’s just a little more uncomfortable. The bottom line: We are all Duke students, and we’re all rooting for the same team. GTHC.

Steve Kane is a Trinity senior.

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In search of a problemBy 2016, out-of-state

Duke students and some na-tive North Carolinians may be unable to vote in the state due to new voter identifi ca-tion laws currently taking shape. While specifi c legisla-tion has yet to be proposed, up to 9 percent of the state’s voting popula-tion could be affected.

A previous voter ID bill, which passed the state leg-islature in 2011 but was ultimately vetoed by Gov. Bev Perdue, would have re-quired all voters to present either a driver’s license or state ID from North Caro-lina. Although the new bill may be more lenient, some suggest that DukeCards might not be accepted be-cause the University is a pri-

vate institution. This is a se-rious problem for students at Duke and other private universities, who may not only be prohibited from voting in-state, but may also

face disincen-tives to cast absentee bal-

lots and vote at home.Given the stakes for stu-

dents—90 percent of the class of 2016 is from out of state—and more general concerns about voter sup-pression, it is important that we fully analyze the costs and benefi ts of any new legislation. As it stands, we believe that current sugges-tions neither live up to their stated justifi cations nor of-fer a suffi cient upside.

Republicans, who cur-rently control the state legis-

lature and the governorship, cite the reduction of voter fraud as a primary justifi ca-tion for requiring IDs. One study shows that North Car-olina has experienced 22 cases of alleged voter fraud since 2000, indicating no signifi cant problem in the state. While allegations have garnered more attention in other states, many argue that fraud via mailed votes is the more signifi cant problem. It is not clear that a problem in North Carolina even exists and, if it does, that photo ID requirements are the correct way to solve it.

Justifi cations aside, it seems clear that new legisla-tion would most heavily bur-den groups that are already disenfranchised and would increase the state’s political

homogeneity. State offi cials estimate that more than 600,000 registered North Carolina voters do not have any kind of state ID, mean-ing they are already cannot engaging in other activities, like opening a bank ac-count. Fifty-three percent of potentially affected vot-ers are Democrats, 25 per-cent are senior citizens, and 30 percent are black. While voter fraud and voter disenfranchisement both represent infringements on democratic rights, rela-tive magnitudes indicate that more stringent require-ments would do far more harm than good.

But our criticism does not justify the status quo, which may be too lax. Nevada has proposed a voter ID law that

promises to avoid the pitfalls present in the North Caro-lina discussion. Its plan, out-lined last November, would operate through an online photo database. Data from driver’s licenses and state ID cards would automatically be pooled into the database. Voters not in the system would simply have to sign a form verifying their eligi-bility and have their photo taken on site. This solution could serve to curb the in-cidence of in-person fraud, would not require a new ID and would likely cost less than issuing free IDs.

Given the availability of alternative schemes and the obvious drawbacks to cur-rent ideas, North Carolina stakeholders should search for a better solution.

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Earlier this week a paper in the U.K. reported that the target for the first drone attack on U.S. soil had been chosen. He was a bad, bad man. He was on the run.

He was a danger.Other news outlets picked

up on it. Soon it was trending on my newsfeed. Most people were scared. Some wanted to see him “get what he de-served.” Some were curious in spite of themselves. It’s natural to wonder about it, the drone. A frightening word, even. An ominous sound or a brainless, deadly automaton.

I was relieved to find the story quickly repudiated. No, there was not to be a drone attack on U.S. soil. Someone was reporting on a “thought experiment.” But the people in Yemen, Pakistan and Somalia don’t have the luxury of that relief. For them, the fear is real and it is every day.

I kept reading about this undeclared war. Couldn’t stop myself. There is a kind of visceral horror that accompanies the understanding that these are machines, unmanned, to kill people. Many of the victims are civilians. A Feb. 5 New York Times article reported the words of a friend of two civilian victims of a drone strike in Yemen: “We found eyes, but there were no faces left.”

I try to tell myself this is not different from a bombing (also abhorrent, by the way). The government has asked for our help. But why is this our responsibility? And who, then, is responsible for massive civilian casualties of a war we won’t admit we’re fighting? Perhaps this is the true ter-ror of the drone attack; it removes the agency not just from the victim, but from the assassin as well.

If the stories of the attacks are chilling, even more so is how very believable that “thought experiment” was, espe-cially in light of recently released government documents. On Feb. 4, NBC obtained a Department of Justice “white paper” on the legality of drone strikes against U.S. citizens who are on foreign soil at the time. This 16-page memo ulti-mately concludes, “The condition that an operational lead-er present an ‘imminent’ threat of violent attack against the United States does not require the United States to have clear evidence that a specific attack on U.S. persons and interests will take place in the immediate future.”

No due process. Citizen or no, there is no Bill of Rights if the government believes you are a terrorist. And it doesn’t even need “clear evidence” to do so.

I’m not trying to be inflammatory. I don’t like para-noia. But I’ve read all 16 pages of that document and, frankly, I’m terrified. Because these assassinations (let’s call them what they are) are not particularly good at sepa-rating the Bad Guy from the Innocent Bystanders. Any-one in the wrong place at the wrong time could be killed. And if these start to occur on U.S. soil, any of us could be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and we would not know until it is too late.

The worst part about this, for me, is the deep and abid-ing sense of betrayal that I feel as a staunch liberal (head-ing into Green territory) who voted for Obama because I was in a swing state and I felt it was the right thing to do. Now, after drone strikes in undeclared wars and the con-tinuation of Bush-era erosion of due process and privacy laws, I am no longer so sanguine. I have been duped. If these policies happened under George Bush, there would be outrage. But we’re so relieved to have someone who pays even basic lip-service to the rights of marginalized groups that we are choosing to ignore the erosion of the rights of everyone.

I’m not saying that any “other guy” would have been any better. I’m lamenting that I must either choose between a candidate who does not think that I am a human being and a candidate who at least acknowledges that I am a human being, knowing that neither is above ordering the deaths of civilians in other countries.

The day of the Sandy Hook shooting, I called my mother, who is an elementary school principal, and we cried on the phone for two hours. I believe very strongly in gun control, and data support it. I spent a lot of time being outraged by the people who believed they needed to protect themselves from the government. I still find it preposterous; a single man with a gun can do a lot of damage to an elementary school, but will not put a dent in the U.S. military.

But for the first time, I understand some piece of their fear. And that is the scariest thing of all.

Mia Lehrer, Trinity ’12, is currently a graduate student in ge-ology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

BetrayalLess than a month ago, Bloomberg BNA published

a man named David Michaels as saying that “em-ployers recognize that managing safety is useful

not only to prevent injuries and fatali-ties, but in fact leads to a more profi table company.” Although all of this is true, the implication behind the statement of Mr. Michaels, the head of the Labor Depart-ment’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)—that such safety is best brought about by state action—is a bit more problematic.

If it’s true that state intervention is a nec-essary precondition for workplace safety, then there are a couple of things we would expect to see. In fact, the fi rst thing we would probably want to do would be to look at the number of workplace injuries before and after organizations such as the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) came into ex-istence. In the pre-OSHA period for which National Safety Council data is available (1928-1970), workplace fatalities fell from 15 for every 100,000 workers to 6.8 per 100,000, a drop of 55 percent. Since OSHA came into existence, workplace fatalities have continued to drop at almost the exact same rate, down as low as 3.5 per 100,000 in 1993 (a drop of 49 percent from the 1970 benchmark). These data suggest OSHA has had little impact on safety in the work-place, and that it cannot reasonably be given credit for the improvements that have been made during its tenure.

Even if OSHA is not responsible for the dramatic de-cline in workplace fatalities in America over the course of the 20th century, it may have been superior to voluntary market arrangements in a number of other ways. It’s pos-sible, for instance, that OSHA has helped to advocate for workers laboring under dangerous conditions in a way that is not refl ected by fatality, injury and illness statistics (the lat-ter two of which have stagnated for the duration of OSHA’s existence). Perhaps OSHA has provided an otherwise non-existent check on dangerous employer practices?

Again, say the data, not likely. Although OSHA did man-age to exact $149 million in penalties for safety violations in 2002, workers’ compensation premiums from just a year earlier absolutely shatter that fi gure by more than two or-ders of magnitude, at $26 billion. In fact, 2004 estimates of risk-based wage premiums—the extra bump in wages that employers have to provide in order to get laborers to take on riskier jobs, and the “purest” market solution to the problem of danger in the workplace—obliterate even that fi gure by an order of magnitude, at an astonishing $245 billion. It seems that, at least in fi scal terms, OSHA lands fi rmly and by a large margin in second place again.

Okay, but what about awareness? A lot of market solu-tions work in theory, but they assume that workers (or wom-en, or consumers, and on and on) are fully rational and have full information, don’t they? And, since that’s not the case, they must fall apart when applied to the real world.

Aside from the sheer and utter absurdity of the claim that markets require such unrealistic and meaningless conditions in order to fully function, it also turns out that

laborers are smarter than supporters of organizations such as OSHA tend to give them credit for. According to one study of 496 workers, the proportion of workers

in any given industry who identifi ed their environment as dangerous was correlated with risk of injury in said industry. In high-risk industries like meat production and logging, in which 40 or more disabling injuries occur for every million hours, a to-tal of 100 percent of employees identifi ed their environment as dangerous. And, “of all workers who quit manufacturing jobs, more than one-third do so when they dis-cover that the hazards are greater than they initially believed.”

If all of this is true—and it is—then why is it that the voluntary employment behaviors of both employers and employees alike get such a bad rep? Why is it that em-ployers—experts, after all, on employing people—can’t be trusted to employ people, and employees—also ex-perts, on their own employment—can’t be trusted to be employed? Why is it that the relationship between two people can only be allowed to exist insofar as it is ap-proved by a third party?

A small part of the reason is that market detractors are, well, correct: Markets are sub-optimal, employees aren’t always totally informed and workplace injuries do occur. A larger part of the reason, however, is that detractors often wind up comparing these truths to an ideal situation, in which all needs are always met, all employees are totally taken care of, and no one is ever hurt on the job, rather than the reality of middling non-factors such as OSHA. This is known as the “Nirvana fallacy,” and it tends to come up a lot—admittedly, in both directions—in discus-sions of markets and state intervention.

Even if Nirvana levels of safety were available in the workplace, would it really be in our best interest to pursue them? What would we have to give up in exchange? Safety, in the end, is less a dichotomy than a continuum, and ac-tions are not simply “safe” or “unsafe,” so much as they are characterized by varying degrees of risk. It is up to us, as individuals, to assess those risks in accordance with our own personal, subjective scales of value, and to proceed to either act or not on the basis of a distinctive cost-benefi t analysis. We could all drive down the risks we take on every day by refusing to cross the street, or by boycotting the construction of bridges and tall buildings, or by abandon-ing air travel as a means of shipping and transportation. But I suspect that most of us would end up counting these as net costs, rather than benefi ts.

The question, at the end of the day, is not how to elimi-nate risk, but how best to afford each and every individual the opportunity to deal with it on his or her own terms. The answer, if institutions like OSHA offer us any indica-tion in the opposite direction, is all around us.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working in Boston, Mass. His column runs every Wednesday. You can follow Chris on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

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state’s house of representatives. She holds a Ph.D in education administration and is known to be a cham-pion of education across all levels—but particularly in early childhood education—in North Carolina. As the 2012 general elections approached, Perdue’s approval ratings sharply decreased, and she decided not to seek re-election, effectively marking her retirement from North Carolina politics.

Perdue said she is looking to spend the next phase of her life on a college campus where she can impart her wisdom and experience upon students. She is currently serving in a similar fellowship at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government for the Spring 2013 semester, but she will return to North Carolina for her fellowship at Duke in the Fall. Although her Duke fellowship is currently slated for one semester, Perdue said she does not have solidified plans past that.

“I really love the academic and innovative atmo-sphere, and I love working with students, so I’ve got to figure out how to best satisfy that,” she said. “I want a relationship and involvement with the next genera-tion of leaders—I want to be part of passing it on. At my age, that’s one of the biggest things you can do. We want to make sure there are many Duke grads who will be governors, presidents or school board members.”

As a fellow, Perdue will have the opportunity to serve as a mentor to students who are interested in politics. She said she will also hold daily office hours and will stay late once per week to host a dinner for students in-terested in working further with her. At Harvard, Per-due is currently auditing courses in religion and eco-nomics. Similarly, Perdue said she will attend classes at Duke, not only to provide her own unique input, but also to learn material she did not have the opportunity to learn as a young woman.

In that vein, the former governor visited professor Ken Dodge’s class—Children in Contemporary Society 495S: “Multidisciplinary Approaches to Contemporary Children’s Issues”—Tuesday. The capstone seminar is comprised of seven female seniors and focuses on discussing policy and ethics surrounding issues which pertain to American children. After Dodge, director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, introduced Perdue, she led an open discussion policymaking strat-egy, education and women in politics.

At the end of the discussion, Perdue opened up the floor to suggestions as to how she can best serve as a fellow at Duke. Senior Katherine Morrow, a member of Dodge’s class, said Perdue should be a role model for students interested in politics at Duke, especially women.

“You can speak to your path and experience as a politician in an informal advising format,” Morrow said to Perdue.

More than half of public policy majors at Duke are women, Kuniholm noted.

In addition to being a resource for students, Per-due said she will work together with faculty to advance research and policy advising from the University. Al-though Perdue is most well known for her work in the field of education, she dealt with economic, environ-mental and criminal justice policy in her tenure as gov-ernor.

“We’re creating a context within which anything is possible,” Kuniholm noted. “Without overly defining what that role would be, she will be in residence, and she will a member of our intellectual community.”

Upon Perdue’s retirement from her field, North Carolina politics made a drastic shift to the right. For the first time in decades, the governor, lieutenant gov-ernor and state legislature are solidly Republican. In her time in academia, however, Perdue said she will not be loudly vocal in her opposition of some of the new state government’s policies to abide by what she called a “golden rule” of politics—that an outgoing politician remain relatively quiet in criticism of the incoming politician.

“I do not want to bring partisan politics to Duke,” she said.

After getting her taste of the Duke community in Dodge’s class, Perdue said she is very excited about her fellowship.

“Your generation can change the world,” Perdue said. “That’s why I’m at Duke—that’s why I want to come next Fall.”

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