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Curry flourishes in role off the

bench, Page 9

Problems with ePrint frustrate students, Page 3

onTherecord“Any self-respecting university would encourage students

to explore new ways of thinking and living....” —Second-year grad student Ken Ilgunas. See column page 15

Kenan-Biddle partnership nets 91 apps

from Staff ReportsTHE CHRONICLE

A new collaborative effort providing funding to students at Duke and UNC re-ceived more than 91 applications, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta confirmed in an e-mail yesterday.

The Kenan-Biddle Partnership is a $150,000 initiative that will distribute up to $50,000 annually over three years to proj-ects at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that encourage interaction between the two campuses. Grants will be distributed in grants of about $5,000. The initiative’s deadline was extended to Nov. 22 after no applications had been submitted as the original Nov. 15 deadline approached and several students requested extensions.

“It’s huge, especially given that the mission of this grant, which is to create cross-university partnerships,” said Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior who will serve on the committee that will select which proposals to fund. “There are a lot of grant partnerships at Duke and UNC separately, but this is the first entrepreneurial initiative that actually challenges applicants to deal

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Kristiansen details ESPN’s evolution

by Alex ZempolichTHE CHRONICLE

Risk and innovation, underscored by a devotion to supportive teamwork—these are ESPN’s keys to success, noted one of its chief executives.

Speaking at the Fuqua School of Busi-ness Monday night, Larry Kristiansen, ES-PN’s vice president of event production, discussed the evolution of the sports me-

dia giant since its creation in 1979.Ever since the network acquired NFL

television rights in the early 1990s, Kris-tiansen said, it has continued to diversify and innovate on a large scale.

“The yellow projection of the first-and-10 line in football... the K-Zone vi-sual in baseball, all of these were projects we invested in earlier.... Now we have ESPN3.com and ESPN 3D,” he said. “But

we don’t want to rest on our laurels. We started out in trailers, and now we have to take shuttles around. We are constantly changing.”

As the keynote speaker at “Business in the Wide World of Sports,” Kristiansen continually stressed the importance of risk-taking in business, even summoning

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Larry Kristiansen, ESPN’s vice president of event production, spoke as the keynote speaker at “Business in the Wide World of Sports,” at the Fuqua School of Business Monday. He discussed the rise of ESPN in sports media, dating back to its founding in 1979.

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Brian Hare is the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, which studies dogs to better understand their cognitive abilities.

Brian Hare, an assistant professor of evolutionary anthropol-ogy, is the director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, which tests dogs brought in voluntarily by their owners in order to under-stand more about the cognitive abilities of dogs. The Chronicle’s Maggie Spini spoke with Hare about the center, which has been open since last Fall and hopes to come up with ways to train dogs to become even better at helping people.

The Chronicle: What are your long-term hopes for the Duke Canine Cognition Center?

brian Hare: What we’d really, really love to see is some of the things that we learn here at the Duke Canine Cogni-tion Center be applicable to real-world problems. Either helping people teach dogs to be better at finding bombs, or to be better companion animals to, say, children with autism or helping people with disabilities. The medical community is also getting more and more excited about using dogs in different ways to help people. There’s a huge supply problem—there are not many dogs available, and it’s very labor-intensive to train these dogs to help people. So, if we could understand dog psychology, we might make the whole process easier and there would be more dogs that are better at helping people.

TC: Can you tell me more about what you were studying around the time the center opened?

bH: We were studying trust. For example, how is it that dogs form a trusting bond with a new person? It’s very interesting to know how social creatures form bonds with one another because that’s a very important thing that social animals do. A lot of developmental disorders in people may be related to problems in forming bonds with people. From a scientific perspective, dogs are a really interesting model of social bonding. Specifically, social bonding is important with dogs because if you’re a dog, one of the big challenges you have, particularly if you’re a shelter dog or a working dog, is having to learn to trust new people, because you’re going to have a new handler or a new owner.... Further, if they form a trust-ing relationship with a stranger, does that trust general-ize to lots of contexts, or is it when they form a trusting relationship in one context, is it only in that context that they trust someone?

TC: Have you started any new tests on the dogs since the opening?

bH: We’re also very interested in how dogs navi-gate.... There hasn’t been much research on how dogs navigate.... What are the predictable errors that dogs

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seoul, s. Korea—with its brazen day-time artillery barrage of a civilian-inhabit-ed island, north Korea’s reclusive leaders may have achieved something that had previously eluded south Korea’s presi-dent, lee myung-bak: uniting the south Korean public around a more aggressive policy toward the north.

lee took office in 2008 vowing to end the decade-long “sunshine policy” of his two predecessors, which increased political and economic ties with north Korea as a way of reducing military tension on the Korean pen-insula. But lee found the Korean public deeply divided, with little appetite among many for a return to a more confrontational approach.

lee nae-Young, a political scientist at Ko-rea university, said, “the recent Yeonpyeong attack clearly has narrowed the gap between the old and new generations’ perceptions on north Korea and how south Korea should re-spond to north Korean provocations.”

washington D.C.—Federal customs agents have seized 82 websites accused of trafficking in handbags and other counter-feit goods, escalating a crackdown against knockoffs that increasingly have moved on-line, the Justice Department said monday.

the seizures, announced on the “Cyber monday” online shopping day, targeted sites selling an array of products, includ-ing fake Coach purses, counterfeit sports equipment and a Disney DVD set with minnie mouse’s name misspelled.

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by Matt BarnettTHE CHRONICLE

Members of Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee met to pres-ent end-of-semester vendor evaluations for several campus dining venues Monday evening.

DUSDAC reviewed feedback as well as recent and upcoming changes for The Perk, Bella Union, Devil’s Bistro, Joe Van Gogh and Armadillo Grill. Each member of DUSDAC serves as a repre-sentative to the committee for at least one on-campus eatery.

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ePrint system suffers from malfunctions

by Yeshwanth KandimallaTHE CHRONICLE

Receiving an error message instead of a printout has annoyed more than a few ePrint users.

The program, which printed nearly 30 million pages for members of the Duke community between July 2009 and July 2010, is noted for its convenience, but mal-functions frustrate some users that have come to rely on the service.

“It is pretty annoying when you really need to print and it doesn’t work,” said freshman Hannah Ward.

Despite these problems, Duke’s Office of Information Technology, which moni-tors the entire ePrint system, insists that these problems are inevitable given the large printing demand. Since its inception in 2003, the system has grown to include 145 printers, said Steve O’Donnell, senior communications strategist at OIT.

“At any given time, there are going to be a few printers off line,” said Carl McMil-lon, director of computer operations at OIT. “That’s the nature of maintaining such a dis-tributed system in an environment where the customers are printing around the clock.”

responding to concernsAs of last Fall, the OIT website provides

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by Paul FarhiTHE WASHINGTON POST

This time, the New York Times didn’t get the goods from WikiLeaks. Instead, on Sunday, the newspaper began reporting a bombshell - the contents of thousands of private State Department cables - as a re-sult of a leak of a leak.

The Times was the only American news organization to receive a massive cache of government documents that were re-leased by WikiLeaks, the “stateless” Inter-net organization that specializes in expos-ing government secrets through leaked information.

But the Times wasn’t on WikiLeaks’ list of original recipients. The news-paper got its hands on the collection of about 250,000 cables thanks to the Guardian newspaper in Britain, which quietly passed the Times the raw ma-terial that it had received as one of five news organizations favored by WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks had worked with the Times this summer in releasing about 90,000 documents prepared by U.S. military sources about the wars in Iraq and Af-ghanistan.

But the group pointedly snubbed the Times this time around, offering the State Department cables to two other American news outlets, CNN and the Wall Street Journal. Both turned WikiLeaks down, de-ciding that its terms - including a demand for financial compensation under certain circumstances - were unacceptable.

Bill Keller, the Times’ editor, wasn’t certain why WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, chose not to work with his newspaper on the latest leaks. But he suggested it might be related to a hard-hitting profile of Assange that the Times published in October. The story, which described Assange as “a hunted man,” said that “some of his own comrades are abandoning him for what they see as er-ratic and imperious behavior.”

The Times was also tough on Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who is suspected of stealing the classified mili-tary and State Department documents and passing them to WikiLeaks. In Au-gust, the newspaper reported Manning’s relationship with “a self-described drag queen” and said that as a teen-ager “class-mates made fun of him for being a geek . . . [and] for being gay.”

Keller described the Guardian’s re-leaking of the documents to the Times as an act of both friendship and jour-nalistic necessity. The two newspapers, along with the German newsweekly Der Spiegel, were the original recipients of the Afghan and Iraq war logs, and all the news organizations “had an under-standing that we would be colleagues throughout this whole series of data drops.”

The Guardian initially requested that the Times keep the source of the mate-rial secret - apparently to remain in As-sange’s good graces - but the request was lifted Sunday evening as the stories began to break. “Clearly, there was a bumpy relationship between the Times and WikiLeaks,” said a person at the Guardian, who asked not to be named because he wasn’t authorized to speak for the newspaper. “Mr. Assange made his views clear [about the Times]. But I don’t think it was terminal; it was just a bad patch.”

At the same time, the Times offered “expertise and perspective” on Ameri-can diplomacy for the British newspaper, Keller said. The Times also vetted the most sensitive material with the U.S. State Department and redacted information that might have compromised the secu-rity of American personnel.

The Times agreed to coordinate the release of its stories about the cables with the Guardian and three other news organizations that received WikiLeaks’ blessing: the French newspaper Le Monde, the Spanish paper El Pais and

Der Spiegel. The release was moved up a few hours on Sunday when early cop-ies of Der Spiegel were spotted by a man in Switzerland, who began tweeting its revelations.

WikiLeaks asked CNN and the Wall Street Journal to sign confidential-ity agreements that would have entitled WikiLeaks to a payment of around $100,000 if the partner broke the em-bargo, according to people briefed on the agreement who asked not to be named because they weren’t autho-rized to disclose the information pub-licly. The agreement also stipulated that WikiLeaks could enforce the terms of the agreement in a court of WikiLeaks’ choosing.

A spokeswoman for the Journal, Ash-ley Huston, said her newspaper turned down WikiLeaks because “we didn’t want to agree to a set of preconditions . . . without even being given a broad understanding of what these documents contained.”

A spokesman for CNN declined to comment on specifics of what the network deemed unacceptable. The Guardian source said CNN and the Journal would have gained access to the WikiLeaks material only after the other news organizations had enjoyed a pe-riod of exclusivity, in effect making the two American news outlets junior part-ners in the international news-media coalition.

The Times’ Keller said his news-paper never signed agreements with WikiLeaks when it first worked with the organization.

The Washington Post wasn’t offered access to the State Department cables, said Marcus Brauchli, the newspaper’s top editor. Brauchli said The Post contacted the Guardian to explore a cooperative ar-rangement, “but they declined to share [documents] with us.” Representatives for the Guardian could not be reached for comment.

Assange, in an interview with Forbes magazine in July, was critical of a Post profile in May that compared WikiLeaks to “Baghdad Bob,” Saddam Hussein’s former information minis-ter. People note that Assange also had criticized The Post for supposedly sup-pressing leaked video footage of a U.S. military helicopter attack on civilians in Iraq. But the newspaper never had the footage.


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the status of 52 OIT-maintained printers that are publicly available on the system. Those printing stations are polled every five minutes, according to the website.

At around 8 p.m. Monday, seven of the printers listed on the site were deemed “inoperable,” including a printer in the Perkins Library lobby and a printer in the Link. Another 23 printers were marked as “running low on paper or [having] other non-critical issues.”

The 93 other printers not listed on the OIT website are assigned to specific depart-ments. Each department commissions OIT to provide the printers and support for the ePrint system, but the status of those print-ers are not listed on the website because those devices are not publicly accessible.

Even though OIT publishes informa-tion about inoperable printers, some stu-dents have indicated that ePrint’s technical problems outweigh its convenience.

“I’ve had problems with the software itself,” said freshman Anand Kornepati. “I think it’s better to have your own printer.”

O’Donnell noted that OIT has received an average of five help requests per week during this semester, an amount he called “typical” when students are on campus.

Ben Clark, manager of computer opera-tions at OIT, said most issues are detected through routine system monitoring and fixed before users submit requests.

With individual printer outages, OIT will respond in one to four hours or as long as a day, “depending on the nature of the problem,” Clark added.

“A low-priority issue, such as one printer in a bank of printers being out of paper or toner, may take us 24 hours to address,” Clark said, adding that staff respond to high-er priority issues in a more timely manner.

Although OIT staff maintain many printers on campus, most printers located within the library system are serviced by Duke Libraries staff. Students printing in the libraries may need to direct their con-cerns to the circulation desk, Clark said.

Up until “complete mechanical failure” of the printer, Duke Libraries is responsi-ble for fixing the problems with nearly all ePrint stations in the libraries, said George Ward, an information technology analyst for Duke Libraries.

OIT also replaces a large portion of the public access printers every year based on a planned refresh cycle, O’Donnell said. But as the University has been forced to make cuts, the replacement now takes place ev-ery four years as opposed to every three years, O’Donnell added.

Duke Administrative Reform Team cuts, which targeted inefficiencies in an effort to reduce expenses in the University’s operat-ing budget, began in 2009.

a growing systemDespite complaints about ePrint, McMil-

lon pointed out that more departments are converting their printers to the ePrint system.

Implementation of ePrint in different parts of the University has been student-driven, Ward said.

“Students got to be familiar with it and wanted it—we got requests from more de-partments,” he said.

Some programs have opted out, how-ever. The Fuqua School of Business, for ex-ample, has not joined the ePrint system.

“We just haven’t had the paper usage,” said Kevin Smith, director of technical support at Fuqua, adding that the start-up cost—about $1,500 per ePrint-enabled printer—discouraged the school from im-plementing the system.

Smith noted, however, that potential technical problems were not a deterrent to implementing ePrint at Fuqua. Should pa-per usage increase at the school, Smith said “we would definitely look at ePrint.”

“an enterprise printing solution”The printing system was originally im-

plemented as a pilot program in 2003. Pri-or to that, Duke Libraries and OIT made free printing available in the computer labs and libraries, McMillon said.

Although ePrint has been touted for its convenience, a major reason it was ini-tially implemented was actually to reduce the quantity of paper used in printing, said

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The Office of Information Technology responded to students’ concerns over malfunctioning printers around campus. OIT says the sheer size of the system, which incldues more than 145 printers, makes occasional errors impossible to mitigate. Most errors are recognized and fixed immediately through routine screening.

Molly Tamarkin, associate librarian for in-formation technology at Duke Libraries.

“As an enterprise printing solution, we thought that ePrint could reduce the rate of increase in printing,” Tamarkin said.

Implementing ePrint allows the creation of a quota system that would encourage students to print as needed and discourage waste, she added.

Similar printing programs have been in-stalled at peer institutions, such as the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

UNC has used this sort of technology

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UNC students also encounter similar print-er malfunctions as those witnessed at Duke.

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Still, ePrint users at Duke admit that ePrint as a whole is very convenient.

“ePrint does a lot of good things,” said junior Esther Showalter. “Usually you can fix the printer problems yourself.”


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TC: What has been the most exciting aspect of this re-search?

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TC: About how many dogs have participated in the study?

bH: We have over 1,000 people signed up to volunteer their dogs in the local area. Many of them are in the Duke community—we’re very thankful because these people are volunteering their time. So far, I think we’re approaching something like 500 or 600 dogs.

TC: You have said previously that you thought your big-gest challenge would be dealing with dogs’ anxious own-ers. Has that, in fact, been a problem?

bH: [Laughs] Well, it is true that people become very emotionally involved in their dog’s performance. People have been wonderful, and we just try to help them understand that when we have a dog come and play a game in our little center, it’s just a game. Just be-cause you’re bad at playing baseball doesn’t mean that you’re not a wonderful football player. We just try to explain to people that your dog may not have done well in this, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to do well in other things.

TC: Can those in the Duke community get involved?bH: Undergraduates who are interested should con-

tact the Duke Canine Cognition Center. We always need more help. The center is here for undergraduates—this is a place where we want people who are interested in be-havior or dogs to have the opportunity to get their hands involved in some real research.... Dog lovers—and cat lov-ers, too—are allowed.

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menu for the Spring. One of the main problems identi-fied by DUSDAC was that because employees cannot ad-just temperature settings, doors and windows are often propped open, which can let in insects.

Brittany Brady, a sophomore representative for DUSDAC, presented the end-of-semester vendor evalu-ation for Joe Van Gogh. According to Brady, sales have been robust this semester despite the fact that the venue is restricted by its limited space. Although the coffee and pastry shop has contacted the University about expand-ing is presence on campus, there has been no definitive response. The venue is also considering adding bubble tea, donuts and crepes to its menu.

The Devil’s Bistro was also evaluated. The Central Campus eatery, which opened in April, is still seeking to establish its niche on campus. The bistro is seeking to cre-ate more of a dine-in environment, as opposed to the cur-rent situation, in which many students order their meals to go. To encourage this, the venue plans to host cooking demonstrations next semester, as well as concert events and more student events, such as Pi Kappa Phi fraternity’s “Trivial Wings.”

Sophomore Ari Ruffer, DUSDAC representative for Ar-madillo Grill, criticized the vegetarian offerings at the pop-ular Bryan Center eatery. When nutritious and flavorful vegetarian offerings are limited to begin with, “charging for tomatoes is silly,” Ruffer said. He noted, however, that the venue is limited in terms of menu changes because it is a chain.

Like the Devil’s Bistro, Armadillo Grill is seeking to ex-pand its entertainment offerings and may soon begin host-ing spoken word events.

Although DUSDAC commended Plate & Pitchfork’s vegan and vegetarian meals, high food quality and variety, there was some criticism of the inexperienced and some-times unprofessional student wait staff. DUSDAC members were also split over portion sizes for the eatery’s desserts. Some members supported the large portions currently served because they encourage sharing, while others sug-gested that a decrease in portion size would be accompa-nied by a decrease in price.

“The portions are mammoth,” said Franca Alphin, di-rector of nutrition services at Student Health. “Most peo-ple can’t eat one dessert.”

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with both campuses. Having 90 [applicants] far exceeds my expectations.”

The selection committee will meet in Chapel Hill Dec. 6. Among the administrators that will represent Duke are Moneta and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Ed-ucation Donna Lisker, Lefevre said. Senior Hogan Medlin, student body president at UNC, will be among his school’s representatives on the committee.

“I don’t want to go in with any preconceived notions of what I want. On the other hand, it’d be good to see applica-tions that go beyond programming—that is pretty easy and there are already ways to have programming,” Lefevre said.

Moneta wrote in an e-mail that he could not share in-formation about specific proposals but will announce the winners when they are selected.

The partnership is funded by the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust and the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, according to a Duke news release.

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one student to the podium, only to hand him 50 dollars as thanks for being a “risk-taker.”

“There certainly are failures when risk is involved,” he said, noting the network’s unsuccessful ESPN mobile phone as an example. “But without risk, we won’t get anywhere.... [At ESPN,] you’re encouraged not to be afraid to fail.”

ESPN derives revenue from both advertising and its subscription services, like ESPN The Magazine. Such diver-sification, Kristiansen said, allowed the network to weather the recent economic downturn when advertisers were less willing to do business. Although they constituted a risk when initially implemented, subscription services now pro-tect the network’s revenue flow, he added.

ESPN also strives to add new dimensions to American sports culture. Kristiansen said the network was particular-ly devoted to thoroughly covering the World Cup this past summer in order to fully bring “the world’s game” to the American audience.

“We threw everything we had into the World Cup. We took it upon ourselves to make this a cultural happening,” he said.

Kristiansen also emphasized ESPN’s foray into the 3D market as evidence of its willingness to experiment.

“We decided to get into 3D with both feet,” he said. “It is very costly, but we are airing a full season of program-ming. We plan on doing football, NBA and the X-Games. If you have 3D, buy yourself some glasses.”

But at the same, he said, ESPN measures its risks care-fully. He noted that the network usually tests innovations on a small scale before implementing them more widely.

“[It can be] a quagmire,” he said. “But it is a lot of fun to figure out.”

ESPN is currently testing the degree to which its 3D technology causes headaches in some individuals.

Kristiansen also stressed that the network has extended its brand on the global stage, recently adding ESPN Amer-ica in the United Kingdom and purchasing the London-based North American Sports Network in 2006, as well as similar companies that serve international markets.

“We have arms all around the world who understand the local niches,” he said. “I was on a cruise in the Caribbean, and I could watch the Superbowl on ESPN—pretty cool.”

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Let’s get this out of the way now: I hate Michigan State.It may be illogical, irrational, and even immoral, but

nothing anyone says can change that. It’s a hatred that stems from a childhood spent in Michigan Stadium, idolizing great Wolverines like Mike Hart, who famously called the Spartans “little brother.” It’s a hatred that has allotted me years of brag-ging rights over my neighbors, as well as the occasional year

of shame after one of Michigan’s rare football losses to its in-state rival.

I’m guessing all of you have a sim-ilar hatred. It may be a unique one stemming from an allegiance you had before you were a Blue Devil. Or, most likely, it is toward the hated Tar Heels, eight miles down the road.

All of these feelings stem from one of the most unique elements of

sport—the rivalry. And rivalry, in turn, is what differenti-ates college sports from their professional counterparts.

True, there are some great rivalries in professional sports, like Yankees-Red Sox, Lakers-Celtics, or Red Wings-Avalanche (that last one might be confusing to the hock-ey-illiterate, but trust me, it’s brutal). One’s allegiance to a professional team is tenuous at best, however. It’s defined strongest by geographical location or even by something even more arbitrary like a favorite player. And all these teams play multiple times a year, diluting the impact of the rivalry unless the sports gods bless fans with a playoff matchup.

In college, though, you are your school. You take pride not only in the name of the university on your diploma, but everywhere else you see that name. And while some schools find their names on a famous research paper or in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, the real sports fan cares most about what happens with the school’s name on ESPN.

And when it comes to pride, nothing is more important than bragging rights. You don’t take pride in your accom-plishments if they aren’t compared to a rival’s failures. And that’s where sport offers its unique benefit.

In no other venue are two rivals matched up, head-to-

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Curry makes most of Duke opportunity

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growing up in North Carolina, Seth Curry knew the significance of being a Duke basketball player. He understood the spotlight that accompanied be-ing a member of Coach K’s squad. He knew the benefits of being tutored by one of basketball’s preeminent coaching minds.

“Being from North Carolina, I always thought about coming to Duke,” he said.

Unfortunately, Duke did not feel the same way about Curry, at first. While he had a successful high school tenure at Charlotte Christian School, his basketball skills were not impressive enough to attract the attention of many prominent programs. Many scouts considered him too small and assumed he would have difficulty transitioning to the more physical style of play at the high-major level. That’s why Curry’s first taste of college action was for head coach Dale Layer at Liberty University, a private Christian school in Lynchburg, Virginia in the Big South Conference.

Although the Big South sits as one of the NCAA’s lesser-known con-ferences, Curry saw opportunity in his situation. He tried to prove that his agility and long-range jumper placed him among the nation’s best.

He did not disappoint. In his first year at Liberty, Curry led all freshmen in the country in scoring, deservingly picking up Big South Freshman of the Year honors.

Point proven. “When I went [to Liberty], I figured that I’d be there for four years,”

Curry said. “But at the end of the year, I had to make a different deci-sion. I had to do what was best for me.”

So he opened up his recruitment again. This time, however, he enter-tained many more attractive suitors. He even received a call from Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, whose Blue Devils had recently suffered a disappointing Sweet 16 loss to Villanova.

“Anytime you hear from Coach K, that’s a big thing,” Curry said.As Curry recalls, Krzyzewski wanted somebody who could “make

plays and score,” a need made particularly evident after that loss to the Wildcats.

Merely a few months later, Curry found himself at practice in a Duke jersey, a year-and-a-half after graduating from high school

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The Blue Devils travel to Harrisonburg, Va., tonight with two goals in mind: Extend their unbeaten start to a 7-0 mark and demonstrate improvement from their last outing against Charlotte.

The matchup with James Madison (3-2), the third of a four-game road swing, will pose a significant challenge, especially if Duke doesn’t learn from its latest win.

“It’s always exciting to play teams that are this good,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “Every team we play is looking to win their conference. And it’s always excit-ing to play Duke.”

The No. 5 Blue Devils are fresh off a victory over Char-

lotte, a game that was an early indicator of some of the team’s weaknesses. The squad was held to a season-low 61 points, shooting only 29.7 percent from the field. Strug-gling to establish consistent ball movement and rhythm on offense, Duke assisted on only nine of its baskets.

On the bright side, the game did put the team to 6-0, however, marking the best start for McCallie in her 19 years of coaching. And while the offense may not have been solid, Duke did record a season-high 55 rebounds and 10 blocks.

“We’re taking a lot from our game against Charlotte be-cause we weren’t as focused and poised as we need to be,” McCallie said. “Charlotte is incredible in shooting, and we

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Duke’s season ended on a sour note Saturday, but that didn’t stop the ACC from rewarding four Blue Devils Monday.

Will Snyderwine, Conner Vernon, Cooper Helfet and Abraham Kromah were all named All-ACC by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association.

Snyderwine, a redshirt-junior who walked on to the football team after a successful rugby career, was named second team All-ACC after converting 21-of-24 field goals and all of his PAT attempts this season. The Po-tomoc, Md. native finally earned a scholarship over the offseason, survived a threat to his starting job from Nick Maggio and wound up ranking sixth nationally in field goals per game. Widely praised by the coaching staff for improving his kickoffs this season, Snyderwine also was named first team All-America by the American Football Coaches Association Monday.

Vernon, who currently leads the ACC in pass recep-tions, also earned second team All-ACC. The Miami native caught 73 passes for 973 yards this year.

Junior tight end Helfet, a juco transfer from Redwood & Santa Rosa Junior College, picked up honorable men-tion honors. Helfet did not have eye-popping numbers for the season, with 34 receptions for 380 yards. However, he found his groove at the end of the year and hauled in 28 receptions for 339 yards in Duke’s last five games.

Senior Kromah also won honorable mention All-ACC. Ranking second in the ACC with 129 tackles, Kromah had a career-high 20 tackles against North Carolina Saturday.

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Four Blue Devils given All-ACC honorsWill Snyderwine also named an All-American by American Football Coaches Association

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will Snyderwine was named second team all-aCC by the conference and first team all-america by the american football Coaches association Monday.

and ready to restart his career in his home state. Unfor-tunately, NCAA transfer rules forced him to the bench for the 2009-2010 season. He reluctantly watched from his courtside seat as his teammates put together win after win, on their way to winning the school’s fourth national championship.

And during that time, the Cameron Crazies eagerly awaited his presence on the basketball court. Rumors had begun to fly. Some began to claim that he was even better than older brother Stephen, then a rookie sensa-tion for the golden State Warriors. To exacerbate this curiosity, coaches and players alike also raved about his performances during closed-door practices. The Duke faithful could only imagine what Curry had in store for this season.

What they saw was a self-described “aggressive scorer.” At Liberty, Curry averaged an impressive 20.2 points per game, in addition to 2.3 assists and 1.4 steals. He drained 41.7 percent of his field goal attempts, including 34.7 per-cent of his attempts from long-range.

He hopes to have a similar effect on this year’s Duke squad. While he may not break into the starting lineup like he did at Liberty, he does have the potential to be the Blue Devils’ X-factor. With the strength he gained during the NCAA-sanctioned sabbatical and his sharp-shooting abilities from downtown, Curry is exactly the type of player that can step into a game and “make plays and score,” to borrow Krzyzewski’s words.

Thus far, he’s done exactly that. Curry currently aver-ages nine points per game, shooting an impressive 47.6 percent from beyond the arc. In a game against Miami of Ohio, he exploded off the bench to lead the team in scor-ing, putting up 17 points on a 3-of-4 three-point shooting performance.

going forward in the season, Curry hopes to play a prominent role in arguably the best backcourt in col-lege basketball—one that includes veteran Nolan Smith, highly touted freshman Kyrie Irving, sophomore Andre Dawkins and Tyler Thornton. Next year, Duke will add Austin Rivers and Quinn Cook to its ranks. Some might wonder if he regrets his decision to come to Duke con-sidering such fierce competition for playing time.

His response: To be the best, he must play the best. Curry expects to thrive in an atmosphere that commands excellence.

“Anytime you come to Duke, you know that great play-ers are coming with you,” he said. “That’s what makes prac-tice so fun—you’re playing against the best players in the nation. I did my research before committing.”

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head, like they are in sport. When Duke and North Carolina play there is a winner and a loser. There’s no debate. On that night, one team is superior and one is inferior.

The skittish among us, however, might find this profound hatred and egoism that sport engenders disheartening. They shouldn’t. Because as much as we all may “hate” the Tar Heels, the sane among us would never actually try to harm a North Carolina fan. In fact, we’d probably banter good-heartedly with one of our Tar Heel friends, and have them take us out for a drink after Duke beats them yet again.

But in reality, loyalty overshadows hatred. College sport is unique for the community it creates among fans, a com-munity that is strengthened by a common hatred for one’s rival. Say what you may about Duke’s academic prowess, but it’s the basketball team that differentiates this insti-tution from any other of similar academic standing. The overwhelming sense of school spirit that permeates this place wouldn’t be possible without sport, nor without a shared hatred for North Carolina.

And how strong is that hatred, that rivalry? Well, it sticks with you even when you’re hundreds of miles from home. It sticks with you when you’ve spurned your childhood dream school for a new opportunity. It sticks with you even if your team can’t

seem to win a game when you’re in the stadium, when it’s in the worst three-year period of its football history and when it hasn’t beaten its rival in three years. This is the situation I’m struggling through along with my beloved Wolverines.

And it’ll certainly stick with me when Duke plays Michi-gan State Wednesday night in Cameron. That game will mean more to me than any other non-conference matchup because of my prior allegiances, allowing me to feel con-nected by that hatred for two hours with friends currently in Ann Arbor. To be honest, though, it may just help allevi-ate the pain of the Wolverines’ recent failures.

So I’ll reiterate: I hate Michigan State. But I’m not against grabbing a drink with a Spartan after the game—as long as it means I get to rub a victory in their face for a few more hours.

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“I hate Michigan State. But I’m not against grabbing a drink with a Spartan after the game—as long as it means I get to rub a victory in

their face for a few more hours.” — Scott Rich

weren’t doing as well as we could on the defensive end.” In tonight’s matchup with the Dukes, the Blue Devils

will again need to slow down dangerous offensive players. Senior guard Dawn Evans, who poured in 31 points in her team’s loss at Cameron Indoor Stadium last year, has con-tinued her strong play this year, averaging a team-high 26.6 points per game.

Providing Evans support in the James Madison back-court are sophomore Tarik Hislop and senior Courtney Hamner. Hislop was a preseason all-conference honoree, and Hamner is a sharpshooter off the bench. given this trio’s ability shooting the ball, the Duke coaching staff is emphasizing the importance of not giving them space.

“Coming from that [Charlotte] game, this will give us the opportunity to challenge James Madison’s shooters, 22 [Hislop], 23 [Evans] and 10 [Hamner],” McCallie said. “So there’s a lot of carry over, the idea of really being focused on what we need to do, having some good team defense. We also need to do a good job offensively, having more patience with the ball.”

The leading senior trio for the Blue Devils has been hot away from home this year. Karima Christmas, Jasmine Thomas and Krystal Thomas are averaging double-figures in their past three games on the road. Jasmine Thomas will also have a homecoming of sorts in Harrisonburg—the 5-foot-9 senior’s hometown of Fairfax is just two hours away from Bridgeforth Stadium.

After playing the Dukes, the Blue Devils will move onto the fourth leg of their road trip against Wisconsin in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Dec. 2.

“The idea is to focus on the process of getting better,” McCallie said. “It’s November; we have a long way to go to be the best team in March and April. It’s the matter of improvement and challenging our team.”

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Agenda setting has been the purview of outside forces so far this year, much to the chagrin of student leaders.

In the most overarching sense, our student leadership is still reacting to the University’s continued fiscal chal-lenges. Throwing money at problems is not an option this year—the University doesn’t really even have a pot to pee in. In any year when budgets become cen-tral to the wider agenda, student lead-ers become less central because of the very limited space they occupy in the University’s budgeting processes.

Added to the financial challenges have been other, unwanted interventions: first the DCR-Robinette et al. discrimination/harassment dis-cussion, then we all read Ms. Owen’s funny Power-Point, after which the fraternity party invitations and subsequently the teenage Tailgate incident, leading, ultimately, to Tailgate’s cancellation. These incidents led to a missive from President Brodhead and a Sum-mit on Gender Relations. These incidents have been setting the agenda, but they are dogs that don’t hunt.

Precisely because budgeting and campus culture are central to life at Duke, it’s really unfortunate that student leadership has had to be so reactive.

Compounding these problems, your current DSG leaders don’t have that much time left in office. It’s not that they only have a semester left. It’s that they have much less than a semester in which to deliver. In practice, the current government really has about eight weeks left. (Two weeks are left this semester and six between our return to campus in January and the beginning of campaign season and attendant lame duck-ness in March and April).

I suggest that student government move forward with four initiatives which will help set the University agenda for the remainder of this year and which could set the agenda for some time to come. These four ini-tiatives are: a five-year strategic plan for DSG, a strate-gic plan for dining at Duke, a review of Curriculum 2000 and a revised statement of the economic impact of Duke on Durham and North Carolina. The Univer-sity simply does not operate on the one- (or even four-) year schedule of student government. To muscle our way into a seat at the grown-ups’ table, we’ve got to start acting like mature University stakeholders.

DSG President Mike Lefevre should convene and chair a student commission to write a five-year DSG strategic plan. It is time that students enjoy a level of consistency in their student government from year to year. Such a plan will allow the effective completion of multi-year initiatives, strengthening our government’s ability to participate in the budgeting process and in academic policy formation. The process should also reduce overlapping positions in student government,

define areas of responsibility and increase collabora-tion among student groups, all of which will reduce waste in both time and resources. This process entails

the expenditure of almost no political capital on anyone’s part and so should not be severely disrupted by the Spring elections and transition period.

Dining offers another opportunity for students to take the initiative. Giv-en the Nov. 15 announcement by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta that students should expect fairly significant changes to Dining by 2012, the fact that Dining still faces a deficit despite a rather authoritarian

“emergency” fee levied on students, and the fact that in Lefevre students have a DSG president with unpar-alleled experience in Dining policy, the time is ripe for student government to work with students and admin-istrators to author a long-term plan for dining at Duke. Where should Duke Dining be in 2020? Is the food worth what we pay for it? How can we use Dining to solve issues of campus culture? What is the daily place of food in student life? These questions must be an-swered. A good plan might remedy not only the fiscal deficit but also long-standing cultural problems.

The world has changed since 2000. So has Duke. Without a review soon, our curriculum risks commit-ting serious sins of intellectual omission because it will be out of harmony with the University’s 2006 strate-gic plan and the post-9/11 and post-Great Recession challenges facing our world. With this review, student leaders should work to strengthen student representa-tion in academic governance. Current DSG Chief of Staff Andrew Schreiber is already making headway in this endeavor, but a one-man effort is simply a tilting at windmills. Student leaders should solicit and encour-age the meaningful involvement of faculty and the provost’s office.

Finally, DSG should request a new economic im-pact statement of Duke on Durham. The last available EIS of Duke on Durham is from 2006-2007, before the recession. At that time, Duke employed 19,755 Dur-ham residents and had a total impact in the communi-ty of $3.4 billion. We need a new report to assess the ef-fects of the recession on the Duke-Durham economic relationship. A revised report would be a meaningful, factual contribution to the ongoing conversation in student government about how to improve town-gown relations.

These four initiatives —a DSG strategic plan, a plan for Duke Dining, an evaluation of Curriculum 2000 and a revised EIS—set agendas.

These dogs will hunt.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior and former Duke Stu-dent Government EVP. His column runs every Tuesday

DukeEngage has added four new international oppor-tunities for summer 2011, three of which will be run by outside organizations that specialize in coordinating volunteer work.

A l t h o u g h more students will be able to participate in DukeEngage as a result of these additions, we believe faculty should gener-ally lead expansion of the pro-gram. Moreover, major deci-sions regarding DukeEngage should be made in close coor-dination with the DukeEngage student advisory committee.

Given the growing popular-ity of DukeEngage, we under-stand that there is pressure for it to expand. The administra-tion of President Richard Brod-head has been fully supportive of DukeEngage, even provid-ing funds to keep the program

running while its endowment recovers from the recession.

From a publicity stand-point, the University can point to DukeEngage as a way to set itself apart from peer institu-

tions. The pro-gram has reso-nated well with

prospective students, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag told The Chronicle in 2009, and Du-keEngage is likely one of the factors behind the increases in undergraduate applications in recent years.

Nevertheless, we are wary that this expansion overlooks the program’s distinctive ed-ucational value.

A unique feature among DukeEngage projects is the leadership offered by profes-sors. Having faculty on site bolsters the educational com-

ponent of the experience and offers students an opportuni-ty to foster relationships with academic mentors that they can maintain when back at Duke. Students can expand on what they learned over the summer by enrolling in a course or working on a thesis relating to their DukeEngage project under the guidance of a faculty leader.

“Post-experience reflection and sharing with others in the Duke community is a cen-tral tenet of the DukeEngage philosophy,” according to the program’s website. We doubt third-party organizations will be able to foster continuing engagement with students to the same extent as professors.

In an ideal scenario, Duke faculty would lead all Duke-Engage group projects. But in the short run, it may make

some sense to expand via out-side partnerships. The Univer-sity has previously collaborated with the Foundation for Sus-tainable Development and the Social Entrepreneur Corps, two of the organizations that will be running new interna-tional opportunities, and both groups have established mod-els to offer.

FSD, which will offer new programs in Argentina and India, connects students with home-stay families and small, grassroots community organi-zations. SEC is offering a new program in Nicaragua that will revolve around microfi-nance initiatives. Both organi-zations have expertise in the regions they operate and can help ensure that students are placed in meaningful intern-ship settings. Third-party or-ganizations could help lay the

groundwork for new projects that will ultimately be faculty-driven.

We would have more faith in the idea of partnering with outside organizations had the DukeEngage student advi-sory committee expressed in-terest in following this path. We find it troubling that the committee was not asked to weigh in on this expansion at all. A decision of such magni-tude deserves student input from the beginning.

Ultimately, more students will be able to enjoy Duke-Engage funding as a result of this expansion, and those who want a faculty-led placement can still indicate that on their applications. Going forward however, we hope administra-tors do more to coordinate with the student advisory com-mittee on key decisions.

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Last week, I saw something very moving.As I made my way up the final hill of the trail

that circles the Washington Duke Inn, I saw two men running toward me.

Right away, I knew they were the “real deal” as far as runners go. I might have been able to deduce this from the speed at which they flew down the hill, but the real give-away was those really, really short shorts.

You know the ones I’m talking about. Only real runners put those things

on. But other than that, the two were only distinguishable from 100 yards away because one man wore red shorts and the other wore black.

But, as we made our way toward each other, I realized something seemed a little off about this pair. Black Shorts had a firm grip on his running partner, Red Shorts, and spat off directions between breaths.

“Downhill coming up!”“Trail curves a bit to the left.”“Some uneven turf here.”We were almost face to face when I realized that Red

Shorts was blind and Black Shorts was guiding him—at breakneck speed, mind you—around the trail.

Totally astounded by what I had just seen, I stopped running and decided to walk up that hill. And while I walked, I pondered.

Who impressed me more? The blind man in the red shorts or the seeing man in the black shorts?

Why was I so taken aback by their athletic synergy. Be-cause the blind man trusted another man to guide him on the run? Or because a seeing man willingly guided his sightless friend for an entire run’s worth of time? I’m still not sure.

But I am sure about this. Seeing the blind man made me realize something.

Readers, strangers, family, friends, I must confess. I have been selfish.

In the midst of an “oh-so-stressful” semester spent wor-rying only about myself—my future, my grades, my soccer, hell, even my column—I have forgotten how privileged I am and how lucky we (Dukies, Americans, the seeing, the healthy, the able) are.

I’ll take you back 49 years to a Joint Convention of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1961. Then president-elect John F. Kennedy delivered an address acknowledging the incredible responsibility he was about to assume in his new role. It was here that JFK said, “For of those to whom much is given, much is required.”

And he had a good point. In my life I have wanted for nothing, save better

grades, more expensive clothes and a new puppy af-ter my old dog died. Seeing Black Shorts guide Red Shorts around the trail made me realize that there are so many simple and seemingly uncommon ways to de-vote my time and energy to others who may need that “guidance.”

Consider the countless opportunities to give back: tutoring, mentoring, Meals on Wheels, Humane Society, park cleanups, hospital visits. You could even do some-thing more simple and non-committal. Help a sopho-more pick his major, encourage a freshman to join an IM team or recommend a junior for an internship.

This column is in no way a call to arms . I know that plenty of Duke students are already involved in commu-nity outreach and civic engagement. But I also know that some of us—including me—don’t do enough, I’m just sharing something that I plan to work on as we find our-selves in the thick of the holiday season.

I am certainly someone of whom “much is required.” I plan make a conscious effort to reach out over the next couple of weeks. Do you?

Molly Lester is a Trinity senior. This is her last column of the semester.

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Duke students will soon be banned from living in their vehicles. Yes, you heard me right. While this newly pro-posed parking regulation may be of no consequence

to you, it is to me. That’s because I’ve been living in my van at Duke for almost two years now.

Before I go on, let me make a frank ad-mission: I have a nasty man-crush on Henry David Thoreau, the 19th century ascetic and author of “Walden”—his book about his two years spent in a tiny, rustic, woodland shack. I loved Tho-reau because he helped me realize that—when it came to my student debt—the more money I’d borrowed, the more freedom I’d surrendered. He also made me feel like I wasn’t alone.

But I was never really alone. Everyone I’ve met at Duke—students, professors and administrators alike—have “gotten” my van experiment, even if it’s something that they’d never want to do.

Everyone hates debt, but it turns out that not everyone is enchanted with the idea of living next to someone dwelling in his large, creepy van. This became clear when I got an e-mail informing me that a tenant in the Erwin apartments next to the Mill Lot, where I was parked, was “uncomfortable” with my van. Soon after, I was ordered to leave.

I decided to take a stand. If it came down to it, I’d stand erect in front of the tow truck, Tiananmen Square-style. But it didn’t work out this way. I won’t bore you with the details, but it turns out that Duke doesn’t even own the Mill Lot. When the real owner learned that I was living there, a dean was con-tacted and lawyers got involved. Everyone wanted me out.

Duke decided to give me a new lot so long as I signed a contract stating that I wouldn’t sue, and that I wouldn’t live in the lot after my graduation. Fair enough, I thought.

All good? For me—yes. For all other would-be vandwell-ers—no. The issue provoked Duke to reconsider its parking policy, and administrators are now, I’ve been told, in the mid-dle of creating a rule that will outlaw all students from living in their vehicles.

Believe me: I realize that this new rule will affect almost no one, but I decided to write this column because this decision is reflective of many of Duke’s policies.

It’s a fact of life that universities today are run like busi-nesses. And Duke is no exception. Universities have Mr. Po-tato-Headed themselves with the bodies of bureaucracies and the souls of corporations. And when one of these grotesquely misshapen reconfigurations looks at itself in the mirror—if

it still can—it can’t help but realize that it hardly resembles what it once was.

Any self-respecting university would encourage students to explore new ways of thinking and living; it would promote ac-

tivities that challenged the status quo; and it would support those who wished to stay out of debt.

This May, countrywide, 67 percent of college graduates will leave with an average

debt of $23,000. Graduate and professional students will walk off commencement stages shouldering heavy, six-digit debts that many will carry for the rest of their lives.

Sometimes I feel as if I’ve been born into some bizarro parallel universe—one where people spend $75 on a new pair of pants with holes in it; where universities are for-profit factories; and where bright, imaginative and ambitious young people are turned into cubicle-encased, lifelong loan drones.

Although there are countless factors that contribute to our nation’s debt culture, one of them is the university. The “university experience” teaches us that debt is not something to be avoided, but that it’s normal, expected and “how things are done.” To buy something, it teaches us to swipe our card and worry about the bill later. Policies like compulsory hous-ing and ridiculously priced dining plans force students to go deeply into debt. And—most tragically—the university expe-rience will influence how we think about and handle mon-ey for the rest of our lives. Duke does not teach us to save, live frugally or work our way through college—lessons that we could benefit from for the rest of our lives. Duke, rather, teaches us how to be debtors.

I can say this after two years of living in my van: There’s an-other way. While living in a vehicle isn’t for everybody, there are cheaper alternatives, and ways to leave school—maybe not debt-free—but with a lighter load.

Duke, thankfully, has made me an exception to their new rule, and—barring a tornado—I will graduate free of debt. But others, unfortunately, will no longer have the option to live as frugally as I have.

However, for those who wish to, let me say that there’s no better teacher than Thoreau. While I found inspiration in his “Walden,” I think future vandwellers might find more useful advice in his other famous work, “Civil Disobedience.”

Ken Ilgunas is a second-year graduate student. This is the final part of a two part series on the author’s experiences living in his van and attempting to graduate debt-free.

The debt discipline

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This Black Friday, as I was mobbed by overzealous crowds outside of Manhattan’s Herald Square Macy’s, one par-ticular scene stood out. Standing outside the store were

several Salvation Army volunteers with their signature red donation buckets, singing carols and giving out miniature candy canes.

Out of the crowd, a young woman stepped forward, grabbed a few candy canes and turned away to leave. One of the volunteers then moved to confront her and plainly pointed towards the bucket. Grudgingly, the woman pulled out a few pieces of change, maybe a dime and several pennies, threw it in the bucket and marched away.

In observing this scene, two things popped into my head. First, I was reminded of the Friends episode where Phoebe, an eager volunteer for the Salvation Army during Christmas, is rudely awakened to the miserly ways of her fellow New Yorkers. All sorts of things get tossed in her donation bucket—just nothing of monetary value. No doubt the scriptwriter who thought up that episode had witnessed a similar scene.

While shaking my head at the apparent selfishness of fren-zied Black Friday shoppers, I then thought about the Plaza and remembered all the times I’ve walked away from dona-tion buckets. Anyone who has walked down the Plaza on a sunny day when tablers are out in full knows all the tricks be-hind avoiding said tablers: whip out a cell phone, speed up your walking pace, walk in squiggly lines to deter enthusiastic volunteers from cornering you at the Pauly Dogs stand, etc.

Granted, at least half the student body has probably also experienced tabling personally, for their IM sports teams, so-rority, fraternity or pretty much every other student group.

In a message to alumni about “the ethical imperative” of Duke, Nan Keohane once wrote that one of the most valuable ethical lessons that universities like Duke provide are “multi-ple opportunities for transcending one’s own selfish horizons to help those in need,” that “the traditional idealism of young

people is alive and well on campus.”There is no doubt that idealism is very much present at

Duke. In fact, part of the problem is that it can be difficult to contribute all the time when everyone has their own cause to promote and there are a hundred different opportunities to give back to the community.

At a university like Duke where civic en-gagement is expected, where programs like DukeEngage are not only embraced but representative of the student mindset, it is an odd feeling to turn away from our classmates’ causes, to shut down and walk faster when someone is asking you for a few bucks for educating schoolchildren in China or cholera

victims in Haiti. But I will admit that I walk away more often than I stop to donate. And I am not alone in that.

Sometimes, it’s this well-documented dilemma that occurs when you give human beings too much choice, whether in the supermarket aisle or in a mid-term election. When faced with too many options, people just can’t decide and often give up rather than make the wrong choice. More often, it’s simply impossible to say yes to everything.

If you do decide to contribute, however, try to make a decision based on something more than which group was more aggressive in stalking you on the Plaza. Whatever your reason, at least know where your contributions are going (or, in some cases, not going). Because it does matter. Or else organizations like the Gates Foundation wouldn’t spend so much effort choosing where their money ends up.

I don’t know what the woman outside of Macy’s was think-ing when she initially chose to walk away, but in some cases, a little hesitation and a lot of deliberation might actually go a long way.

If you’re going to go for fistfuls of free candy canes though, maybe think about giving more than a few pennies in return.

Doris Jwo is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Monday.

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11/30 CHICKEN POETS (China, 2002) (W)Cine-East: East Asian Cinema. Intro + Q&A w/ Prof. Claire Conceison (Theater Studies)

12/5 SAVAGE MES-SIAH (UK, 1972) + EZRA POUND: AMERICAN ODYSSEY (USA) (N, 2pm) Vorticism film se-ries. Intro by Prof. Mark Antliff (Art, Art History & Visual Studies)

12/6 DEEN TIGHT (USA, 2009). Muslim Cultures Film Series

12/9 Duke Student Film Showcase, Part 1 (W, 6pm) Best student films produced at Duke this semester. See web site for details.

12/10 Duke Student Film Showcase, Part 2 (W, 6pm).

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ART. Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964. Stryker’s black-and-white photographs of revolutionary Cuba open a window into an unsettled time in that country’s history. Thru Dec. 12. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.

ART. Literacy Through Photography–Arusha, Tanzania. Work from a Center for Documentary Studies project with DukeEngage students in Africa. Thru January 8, 2011. CDS Gallery. Free.

ART. Cinema Play House. Photographs by Nandita Raman & Daylight/CDS Photo Awards: Photographs by Elizabeth Moreno, and work by eight other winners. Thru Dec. 23. 6-9pm. CDS Gal-lery. Free.

November 30MUSIC. Student Chamber Music Recital. Works by Brahms, Beethoven, Grieg and others. 7:30pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Free.

December 2MUSIC. Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, director. Notes From Home, highlighting regional musicians, with guest artist Scott Sawyer, guitar. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general/$5 students & senior citizens.

TALK. First Thursday. Talk by Mark Antliff, co-curator of The Vorticists. 6:30pm, Cash bar. 7pm, Talk. Nasher Museum. Free.

THEATER. Duke Players Lab. Poof by Lynn Nottage and The Test by Utrophia Robinson (T’11). 8pm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. Shows will also take place on December 3 and 4 at 8pm and December 5 at 2pm.

December 3MUSIC. Rare Music: Historical Interactions Between Rooms and Music. Dewey Lawson, Adjunct Professor of Physics. 4pm. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free.

MUSIC. Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop, director. Christmas Concert with seasonal music on the carillon and for organ beginning at 6:30pm. 7pm. Duke Chapel. Admission: one non-perishable food item for needy families in Durham.

December 8MUSIC. Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, direc-tor. “Samuel Barber (1910-1981): A Centennial Celebration” with guest artists Jung Oh, soprano and Eric Pritchard, violinist. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

December 10TALK. Final Project Presentations. Certificate in Documentary Arts from the Center for Documentary Studies students. 7pm. Richard White Aud. Free.

December 11MUSIC. Duke Collegium Musicum. Karen Cook, director. “A New World Holiday,” featuring music by Franco, Morales, Bre-beauf, Fernandes, and Sweelinck. 8 pm. Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. Free.

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Hostage Nation, published in August 2010 by Alfred A. Knopf, is the story of three American contractors and Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt held hostage by the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) for over five years before their rescue in 2008. The book draws on Botero’s exclusive interviews of the American contractors and extensive research on the FARC and the Colombian drug trade to illustrate the impact of Colombia’s war and the US war on drugs in Colombia.

Victoria Bruce, Karin Hayes and Jorge Enrique Botero discuss their blistering journalistic exposé, which won the 2010 WOLA/Duke Book Award. 5pm. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free.

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