Blue Devils battle Wake in College Cup

by Matt PunTHE CHRONICLE

Less than a month ago, Duke fell to Wake Forest 2-1 in the ACC tournament semifinals. Now, just a win away from their sec-ond-ever NCAA finals appearance, the Blue Devils have a chance to settle the score against their con-ference foe.

In the regular season, Duke sopho-more forward Laura Weinberg scored two second-half goals to hand the De-mon Deacons, who were missing lead-

ing scorer Katie Stengel, a 2-0 loss in Winston-Salem.In the ACC tournament, however, Wake Forest

notched the first two goals, and though sophomore midfielder Kim DeCesare scored in the second half, the Blue Devils’ comeback fell short in a 2-1 loss.

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Duke President Richard Brodhead presents a Duke Kunshan University degree program Thursday to the Academic Council. SEE COUNCIL ON PAGE 5

Board to discuss strategies for capital projects

by Nicole KyleTHE CHRONICLE

Administrators and the Board of Trustees will consid-er the financial feasibility of future capital projects at its meeting this weekend.

At its final meeting of 2011, the Board will look toward Duke’s future, hearing presentations that range from Duke’s competitive edge in higher education to the future of Duke Medicine. The Board will also discuss strategies to imple-ment and fund ambitious and long-term capital projects. This meeting builds on a sense of growing optimism, follow-ing several years of Board meetings that addressed cost-cut-ting measures necessary after the 2008 financial downturn.

A presentation on strategic planning will address how to prioritize Duke’s capital projects and also examine po-tential sources of funding, said Board of Trustees Chair Richard Wagoner, former president and CEO of General Motors Corp. and Trinity ’75.

“With the creativity and leadership of each of the schools, there’s almost always a longer list of projects than currently available resources,” Wagoner said. “[We will be considering] what’s the priority for the resources we have, and just as importantly, how we can go about get-ting more resources to support these great ideas.”

Capital projects to be discussed at the Board meet-ing will include those already underway, projects that will break ground in the near future and lastly those on the University’s wish list, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. Trask, who is delivering the pre-sentation, will compare funds currently available to the

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Vaguely Reminiscent is one of many small independent shops located on Ninth Street in Durham participating in the Sustain-a-Bull organization.

by Chinmayi SharmaTHE CHRONICLE

Black Friday may be over, but the sales continue in Dur-ham.

The third Shop Independent Durham Week, which runs Nov. 26 through Dec. 4, features specials and discounts by lo-cal stores and restaurants. The event is organized by Sustain-a-Bull, Durham’s local independent business alliance, and aims to promote the city’s small businesses. With more than 35 participating businesses, this year’s week-long sale is the largest yet.

“We as small businesses have things to offer that big chain stores don’t and even more so than that, we help create the culture of Durham,” said Tom Campbell, founder of Sustain-

a-Bull and co-owner of the Regulator Bookshop on Ninth Street. “[Small businesses] are unique and add something to the shopping climate.”

The city has changed over the years, developing an identi-ty based on its independent merchants, Campbell said. Duke students, however, have not seemed to come out as much as permanent residents, he added.

“The one population we haven’t seen shopping much are college students, but we hope to change that,” Campbell said.

Shop Independent Durham Week aims to keep money within Durham. For every $100 spent with an independent

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by Kristie KimTHE CHRONICLE

The Fuqua School of Business will soon offer a Master of Management Studies degree program at Duke Kunshan Uni-versity, pending Board of Trustees approval this weekend.

The Academic Council approved the MMS degree pro-gram during its final meeting of the Fall semester Thursday. Of the 56 ballots tallied, 44 faculty members voted in favor of implementing the program, but eight voted against it and four chose not to vote. The program is the first to be approved for DKU’s three-year pilot program, which will be reviewed after its initial launch. The Fuqua School of Business first proposed the degree program to the council during its Nov. 17 meeting. The program mimics the current Durham-based MMS Foundations of Business degree. Students will spend their Summer and Fall terms in Durham and head to DKU in the Spring. They expect to enroll students in the program in 2012.

“This is an exciting opportunity to extend Duke in the glob-al direction and offer our students and faculty [the opportuni-ty] to learn more extensively about a part of the world that will

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Republican Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s out-spoken attorney general who has drawn na-tional support from the tea party movement, confirmed that he would run for governor in 2013. Cuccinelli’s candidacy sets up a po-tentially contentious and expensive primary fight against Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a presump-tive Republican gubernatorial candidate.

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First lady Michelle Obama, amid the festive sparkle of 37 Christmas trees and a 400-pound ginger-bread, unveils the 2011 holiday decor at the White House. The “Shine, Give, Share” theme was reflected in the East Room’s shimmering quartz ornaments and silvered pinecones in the Entrance Hall.

BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaking at a joint ceremony outside Baghdad to commemorate the imminent end of the Iraq war, urged Iran and other neighboring countries not to attempt to exploit the departure of U.S. troops to ex-pand their own influence here.

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Minnesota is now projecting a $876 million surplus over the next two years, a stunning turnaround after a bruising partisan battle that shut down the gov-ernment for 20 days over the summer.

The saga drew in national political figures as the state’s dilemma ignited a broader debate over how the country should approach government spend-ing. Minnesota’s shutdown, the longest in recent history, locked Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and the Republican-controlled legislature in an impasse over how to reduce the state’s projected $5 billion deficit.

GOP presidential candidates and gov-ernors urged state Republicans to dig in to push through deep cuts. State parks, libraries and the zoo were closed, along with the office that tallied how much the government was losing in revenue. Ultimately, Dayton conceded to their de-mands, and the shutdown ended when he signed a $35 billion budget that re-lied on deferred payments to schools.

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“Duke never really got its running game going this season. On 365 carries, the Blue Devils managed just 1129 yards, good for only a 3.1 yards per carry aver-age. That figure is down from the 3.4 the team averaged last year, but the 3.4 is also the highest yards per carry since 2004.”

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‘Gameday’ replacement in the works

by Marianna JordanTHE CHRONICLE

Tailgate’s replacement may soon be replaced.

Official discussions between students and administrators to craft a new working model for Football Gameday activities will take place within the next several weeks, said junior Chris Brown, Duke Student Government ex-ternal chief of staff. Football Gameday, which replaced Tailgate this Fall, is being reconsid-ered after criticism for its low participation and lack of centrality. The latest complaint: It did not fulfill its goal of increasing football attendance throughout the season.

“Other schools have bad football teams, and people still go to the tailgate,” junior George Carotenuto said.

About 2,198 undergraduates attended the first home game of the season when Duke played the University of Richmond, ac-cording to data obtained from the DukeCard Office. For the last home game of the season versus Georgia Tech, 1,012 undergraduates attended. Only 428 undergraduates attended the Wake Forest game Oct. 22. The total un-dergraduate student body is approximately 6,400 students, according to Office of Under-graduate Admissions website.

Duke Athletics and the DukeCard Office were unable to provide the numbers for stu-dent attendance during the 2010-2011 football

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Author Touré discusses post-blacknessby Joel Luther

THE CHRONICLE

People have the right to form their own identities, free of pressure from oth-ers, a social critic told students.

Touré, a journalist, television person-ality and author of “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” addressed a crowd of stu-dents in the Divinity School’s Goodson Chapel Thursday. He spoke on a panel of black scholars about the topic of racial identity.

“Why would I allow you to define who and how I should be?” Touré said. “I want the individual to define who they are.”

Touré developed the idea of post-blackness, which notes that being black is not limited by specific criteria or boxed into a certain set of standards.

“I don’t see why blackness cannot be infinite and still a thing.” Touré said. “I don’t want to erase blackness—I love be-ing black.”

“Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?” was released in September. Touré said that he wrote the book to communicate the encompassing notions of black culture and to relate to readers on an emotional level.

“What I wanted to do was make sure that everyone who picked it up was like, ‘Wow, you really got to my heart’—and how I did that was really get to my own heart.” Touré said. “This book was writ-ten talking to black people, not for black people.”

The development of Touré’s book took place over two stages, beginning soon after President Barack Obama won the 2008 Iowa caucuses.

“The most intelligent black people

—open-minded, optimistic —would have said, ‘America isn’t ready for a black president,’” Touré said. “When Iowa hap-pened, America said, ‘Maybe this could happen.’”

In the second stage of development, Touré drew from an experience he had while living in a black house as a student at Emory University.

“There was a party at the black house, and there was some ridiculous argument about who’s going to clean up after the party,” Touré said. “Somebody said, ‘Shut up, Touré, you ain’t black.’ You’re in ac-tive identity formation mode when you’re in college, so that mattered very much to me when he said that.”

Panelist Blair Kelley, assistant profes-sor of history at North Carolina State University, said repeated reassessments of black culture have occurred many times throughout American history.

“I’d argue that blackness has always been a moving target; I would also like to say that the renaming practice always seems to happen with shifts in citizen-ship,” Kelley said. “As much as I know Obama’s victory is not necessarily a black victory, it has called up this thing within black people to think about who we are in this particular moment.”

Social circumstances make it more dif-ficult for some Americans to reimagine themselves and develop a new sense of identity.

“We are bound by the limitations of a nation that doesn’t always care how we reimagine ourselves,” Kelley said. “Not everyone has equal access to the way in which they can make these imaginings possible.”

Sherika Campbell, a junior at the

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business, $45 remains in the city—compared to $13 when shopping at a national chain and essentially zero dollars when shopping online, according to Sustain-a-Bull’s website.

“This was a movement that has nothing to do with city government,” said John White, director of public policy at the Greater Dur-ham Chamber of Commerce. “This was an initiative taken by independent small busi-nesses themselves to keep money consumers spend in Durham, in Durham.”

After Campbell founded Sustain-a-Bull last year, he enlisted the participation of fellow in-dependent business owners in Durham.

“I have been here for years and years and have come to know this place,” Campbell said. “I know a lot of people, and so I pulled out my contacts and called them up and it just spread.”

Campbell said Durham’s first sale in No-vember 2010 was small with few participating businesses. Over the past year, the movement attracted more and more businesses.

“They have to be independent, in Dur-ham and locally owned,” Campbell noted. “Other than that, however, we want as many additions as we can get.”

Sustain-a-Bull requires annual member-ship dues of $75 but the group hopes to garner sponsorship from larger businesses in the area, Campbell said. The grassroots ini-tiative has more than 75 member organiza-

tions, including Only Burger, Elmo’s Diner, Locopops and Local Yogurt.

“These local merchants and restaurateurs are putting [the sale] on for the holiday sea-son and have done so quite successfully on their own,” White said. “Without city help, they have grown considerably since their modest start last year.”

The group advertised the event by putting up posters, talking to customers and utilizing social media, such as Facebook and Twitter.

The movement has seen the largest response from people who have lived in Durham for an extended period of time and feel loyalty to their fellow neighbors, he said. Wendy Woods, co-owner of par-ticipating restaurant Nosh, grew up in Durham and returned to the city in 1999 to start her restaurant. She said that over the past 12 years, the city has developed a culture of small independently owned businesses that draws support from the city and its residents.

“We do small things like offer dessert samples with our entrees for dinner.... Be-cause a lot of people did not know we had a baker and offer fresh-baked goods... this movement provides organized publicity,” Woods said. “This year, partially due to the help of Shop Independent Durham, we saw our number of Wednesday night pre-pack-aged Thanksgiving dinners double. We, along with some other participating ven-dors, stayed open on Thanksgiving—and Durham was very appreciative.”

SHOPS from page 1Europeans stiffen sanctions on Iran after embassy attackby Edward Cody and Thomas Erdbrink

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PARIS — European nations, aroused by a mob attack on the British Embassy in Teh-ran, stiffened their sanctions against Iran on Thursday but stopped short of halting oil purchases from the increasingly isolated Islamic government.

The new sanctions targeted additional members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and businesses controlled by its members, according to an announcement after a European Union foreign ministers' meeting in Brussels, Belgium. In addition, the E.U. banned doing business with the Is-lamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line.

The Revolutionary Guard, a military force controlled by Iran’s Shiite Muslim supreme leader, has been targeted before by U.S. and European sanctions. The deci-sion Thursday added to the number of its members who are banned from doing busi-ness with E.U. countries or receiving visas to visit them.

As a result, it fell short of the tough new measures predicted by some diplomats Wednesday after young Iranian hard-liners ransacked two British diplomatic com-pounds in Iran. Some officials had predict-ed that the trashing of Britain’s embassy would be a turning point in efforts to rein-force Iran’s isolation and increase pressure on its government to abandon what West-ern nations and Israel say is a program to develop nuclear weapons.

Nonetheless, British Foreign Secretary William Hague expressed satisfaction with the decision, saying that the 180 Iranian

people and organizations named in the new sanctions include some “directly asso-ciated with the nuclear program.”

“The E.U. made very clear that it will not bow to Iran's intimidation and bullying tactics,” he added in a statement. “We will not back down and agreed today to work on further sanctions, including in the areas of finance and energy.”

In Washington, senators from both po-litical parties chided the Obama adminis-tration Thursday for not moving faster to tighten the economic screws on Iran. One Republican lawmaker decried what he called an “enthusiasm gap” between the White House and Congress over a need to get tough with Iran.

After Tuesday’s attacks, Britain closed its embassy in Tehran and ordered the Irani-ans to close their embassy in London, say-ing the mob had been allowed to destroy embassy property as Iranian police looked on. In sympathy, France, Italy and the Neth-erlands recalled their ambassadors for con-sultations, a diplomatic gesture that shows displeasure but allows their embassies to continue functioning with lower-ranking diplomats.

Several European countries had sought to include in Thursday’s retaliatory mea-sures a ban on oil purchases from Iran, which would have been a strong blow against the Islamic Republic’s main indus-try and foreign-exchange earner. But they failed to win enough support to approve the measure.

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University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill, said that she did not think a post-black society was achievable in the near future.

“I think we are becoming more toler-

ant; and we are becoming more enlight-ened; and we are having conversations like this about it—but I don’t know if conceptually, we can move to a post-black society,” Campbell said. “Would I say that we are a post-black society? I don’t think so. Do I think we’ll get there? I don’t think so—well not in my lifetime.”

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enrich their studies,” President Richard Brodhead said. “There is [a] general agreement that Duke has only one motive, and that is to provide education and quench the thirst of both fac-ulty and students to teach and learn.”

Susan Lozier, council chair and professor of physical ocean-ography, emphasized that the institution of the MMS degree would be in line with the philosophies of DKU.

Some faculty members noted that cultural immersion will benefit the students but expressed concern that the social dif-ferences between the United States and China would affect the program adversely.

In response, Brodhead said even though students will have to work in a different climate than they may be accustomed to, the University will ensure that its core values will not be com-promised.

“The pursuit of truth flourishes when contrary ideas are presented. The spirit of Duke has been at the heart of taking well-calculated risks, but this will not be at the cost of giving up the values of free speech,” Brodhead said.

Measures have been put in place to prevent and detect signs

of any lack of intellectual freedom, said Jennifer Francis, senior associate dean for programs and Douglas and Josie Breeden professor at Fuqua.

“Students will be inculcated into the Duke in Durham expe-rience, where every right to intellectual freedom will be prac-ticed,” Francis said.

Francis added that student life at DKU will have similar stipulations as Duke’s Durham campus.

“Key administrators will be on campus and will live in dor-mitories with the students so that students will be able to ap-proach the necessary people [if they encounter any trouble],” Francis said.

Thomas Pfau, Eads Family professor of English and profes-sor of German, said he is concerned about Duke’s expansion into China, which contradicts decisions made by Stanford University and Columbia University not to open separate cam-puses in China.

“They have held reservations on the basis [of] concerns over the Chinese government,” Pfau said.

Provost Peter Lange said that although financial viability is a large component of the planning and development of DKU, more concrete data must be accumulated during its trial phase.

In other business:Lange presented updates on other DKU and China-related

initiatives currently underway.After Duke Global Health Institute faculty approved the

Master of Science in Global Health and undergraduate Global Health study abroad courses in November, the Arts and Sci-ences Council will assess the proposals. Lange said he expects the council will vote on additional undergraduate non-degree DKU programs—including American studies, economics and theater and film studies—in the near future.

Lange also noted that considerable progress has been made on the construction of DKU, which presently constitutes five buildings with the sixth building to start construction in early 2012.

New initiatives, such the student exchange program with Shandong University, were also discussed. This program would allow high-ranking third-year physics students from Shandong University to study in Durham with funds covered by the Chi-nese government, Lange said.

The next six months will prove crucial in the continued development of DKU, he said, adding that the University will search for and hire a DKU dean and vice chancellor for aca-demic oversight of campus development.

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season.Even administrators are concerned about the still-minimal

support for Duke football. “Unfortunately, the way most people frame the Gameday

is thinking in terms of the party before the game,” Mon-eta said. “The dilemma with Gameday being in [Main West Quadrangle] or residences is that it is completely separated from the [game] taking place on the athletic campus.”

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said that for the last home football game of the season, only two groups regis-tered for Gameday festivities—Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Sophomore Class Council—a significant decrease from the 18 groups who registered for the first Gameday. No fraternities participated in the last Gameday—a mark-edly large decrease from the 13 that participated during the first Gameday.

“Following the first [Gameday], there were fewer and few-

er student groups registering for a Gameday site, so it basi-cally petered out,” Moneta said.

The drop-off in student group registration can be explained by dissatisfaction with the Gameday model, Brown said.

“We were hoping we would have flexibility to make chang-es to the structure that we started with,” Brown said. “Stu-dents were excited for those, but progress was too slow, and I think students eventually became frustrated and decided to do other things with their time.”

Administrators and student leaders agreed that this year’s Football Gameday location was not optimal, and that they hope to move the event closer to the athletic campus.

“We need to be in an area near the football stadium and have something that we are all excited about and invested in,” Interfraternity Council President Zach Prager, a senior, said.

Prager also noted that not everyone in the Duke commu-nity was satisfied with Football Gameday.

“Most people don’t know that this was a discussion that started last year and went into the summer.... We couldn’t

get something down that everyone wanted,” Prager said, adding that this was a transition year. “It was a sort of quick fix because it was a way to make sure that the old Tailgate was no longer alive, which is understandable after the events that occurred.”

Schork said he believes a new student governance group—composed of DSG and other interested students—is key in forming a new tailgating model with student input.

“I hope that next year we can have a normal tailgate that doesn’t involve tutus and beer everywhere but where we can still be in a central location, wearing Duke blue and having a good time before the game, like we do in K-ville—without the complete ridiculousness,” Carotenuto said.

Despite a general lack of student interest this year to at-tend Football Gameday activities, Wasiolek said she believes there were some bright spots in this year’s transition.

“There were a number of new groups who [participated in this year’s activities] that hadn’t really been visible in the past.... Several of them [such as Campus Crusade for Christ] were involved almost every weekend,” Wasiolek said.

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Lady Vols win in Knoxville

Duke freezes Boilermakers

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“I think the difference was [that in the first match]… I barely played and I think Katie was out for the whole game,” De-mon Deacon defender Jackie Logue said. “I think we know that since we beat them once, that if we can play our game to the fullest and do everything that we can do, that we can win tomorrow.”

Now the two teams meet as No. 1 seeds from their respective regions, and Duke will have the opportunity to prove it can beat a full-strength Wake Forest squad.

“We’re looking to kind of get what we lost back because we did have a loss to them,” DeCesare said. “It’s about revenge.”

While the conference rivalry adds to each team’s motivation, it may also provide them with an easier transition into playing in the national spotlight. The Blue Devils are making just their first College Cup ap-pearance since 1992, and the Demon Dea-cons are in their first in program history.

“I think it maybe takes a little bit of the edge off in that we’ve already faced each other on a big stage like this,” Wake Forest head coach Tony da Luz said. “It may take away a little bit of the nervousness, know-ing your opponent pretty well. It’s the third game and we have to break the tie.”

For their part, the Demon Deacons, led by Stengel and midfielder Rachel Nuzzo-lese, will face the challenge of cracking a Blue Devil defense that has allowed just 11 goals all season. If any team has the answer to the Duke back line’s stymying play this season, however, it is Wake Forest—one of only two teams to score twice in a game

against the Blue Devils. Although she did not score in the last matchup, Stengel, who owns 19 goals on the season, will pose the biggest threat for the Demon Deacons.

“She is a sniper in the box,” Church said. “What amazes me is... sometimes for-wards need a high number of opportuni-ties to score goals. She doesn’t need that. She needs one or two chances, and she’s going to bury her chances.”

In addition to her efficient finishes, Stengel possesses an instinct for scoring in any situation.

“She’s a type of forward that’s always going to go at the goal,” Duke junior goal-keeper Tara Campbell said. “Some for-wards like to get an assist every now and then. I don’t see that in her. Even if she’s in the corner, on the endline, she’s going to try to go at the goal and score.”

On the other side, the Blue Devils will look to an array of scoring options, including soph-omore midfielder Kaitlyn Kerr and freshman forward Kelly Cobb, who have both amassed double-digit goal totals this season.

“[Cobb’s] extremely physical, but also she’s like a finesse player,” Kerr said. “So having three people in the midfield, we just try to play off her. If she makes a run inside, I’m going out. If she comes down, I’m go-ing up. She’s just an awesome player.”

Still, Wake Forest possesses an extreme-ly stingy defense of its own, which has al-lowed only 16 goals all year and will pose the biggest challenge to Duke’s offense in the tournament so far.

“There’s not going to be a lot of chances with Wake,” Church said. “It’s just a matter of when your chances come. You’ve got to be ready, and you’ve got to finish them.”

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Katie Stengel has not scored against Duke this sea-son, but leads Wake Forest with 19 goals this year.

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Freshman Kelly Cobb has a team high 30 points this season, 11 goals and eight assists.

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Sophomore Haley Peters led the Blue Devils with 14 points Thurs-day night against the No. 13 Boilermakers.

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Coming off its first loss of the season last week against then-No. 4 Notre Dame, Duke dominated Purdue on the boards by a margin of 50-32 to give the Blue Devils a hard-fought 64-53 victory Thursday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“I just liked how we played,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We played very aggressive, we pursued the ball, got ourselves second shot opportunities and got our-

selves some great paint looks.”Despite the disparity on the glass,

the No. 13 Boilermakers (6-1) gave the No. 7 Blue Devils (5-1) all they

could handle, especially in the first half. A potent backcourt, led by Brittany Rayburn and Courtney Moses, who finished with 16 and 17 points respectively, kept Purdue in the game.

Purdue also scouted Duke’s offensive tendencies effec-tively, placing an emphasis on slowing down Duke’s lead-ing scorer, Elizabeth Williams. Smothering post defense and frequent double teaming frustrated Williams, forcing her to a meager 2-of-17 shooting performance from the field, 0-for-5 in the first half.

“I thought for about 30 minutes we played pretty well,” Purdue head coach Sharon Versyp said. “Then [Duke] just dominated on the boards, and that pretty much turned the tide.”

The Blue Devils’ aggressiveness on the glass, tenacious perimeter defense and physicality in the second half al-lowed them to regain momentum. For Purdue, a lack of productivity from its post players and a one-dimensional jump-shooting offense in the second half prevented the

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Duke entered the first round of the NCAA Tournament last night with high hopes and looked to come away with a hard-fought victory against Tennessee. Instead, the Blue Devils saw a difficult season-ending match.

Duke fell to the 14th-seeded Lady Volunteers 3-1 Thursday night at Thompson-Boling Arena in Knox-

ville, Tenn.“We’re very disappointed that

we weren’t able to execute just a little bit better tonight in order to

come out on top,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We’re disappointed that we weren’t able to pull it off, but... they executed tonight better than we did.”

Thursday’s event was a rematch of the 2006 and 2009 NCAA first rounds, where the Blue Devils made up for the 2006 3-1 loss with a 3-1 victory in the meeting two years ago.

Duke’s performance last night was disappointing, with its highest attack rate just 26.1 percent in the second set—which it won—and its lowest 2.2 percent in the fourth set. While Duke came out on top in number of digs, 75 to 68, Tennessee out-blocked its opponents 12 to four.

Despite the upsetting result that saw a couple of close sets—25-15, 23-25, 25-19, 25-16—a few Blue Devil upper-classmen helped keep the team in the match.

In her last appearance in a Duke jersey, Amanda Rob-ertson notched a double-double with 13 digs and 11 kills,

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Boilermakers from picking up a marquee road win.

“I really liked how we came out in the second half, our tenacity, our physical play and how we dictated that for 20 minutes,” McCallie said.

Coming off her ACC rookie of the week accolade, Williams broke the Duke freshman single-game rebounding record with 17, 10 of which came on the offensive end. The 6-foot-3 center also finished with nine points, eight of which came in the second half.

“I haven’t seen [17 rebounds] since I have been at Duke,” McCallie said.

Purdue’s double teaming of Williams al-lowed for sophomore Haley Peters to get open looks in the high post. Peters finished with a team high 14 points on 7-of-11 shoot-ing. Chloe Wells was equally effective at point guard, with 13 points and six steals.

“I thought Haley’s game was very efficient,” McCallie said. “With Chloe, her relentless leadership and [attack mode was pivotal].”

In the absence of starting guard Shay Selby, Duke’s depth was instrumental in securing the Blue Devils’ first win over a ranked opponent this season. Allison Vernerey and Richa Jack-son came off the bench to score a combined 11 points, all in the second half, to help the Blue Devils pull away. Starting in place of Sel-by, Tricia Liston grabbed six boards.

“We’ve always had more than five start-ers,” McCallie said. “Tricia and Richa have always been starters in my mind.”

Even after leading a young Duke team to its biggest win to date, McCallie stressed that the Blue Devils are still a work-in-prog-ress and need to improve offensively. Duke finished with just 13 assists and was only 26-of-70 from the field.

“We underachieved offensively in some areas, and that just comes with time,” Mc-Callie said. “I see our offense really grow-ing once we mature, once we settle down.”

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contributing 12 points overall. Veterans Kellie Catanach and Christiana Gray also proved instrumental, with Catanach notching 42 assists and Gray leading the team with 13 points.

“It was my last shot, my last chance, and going into it, I wanted to enjoy every mo-ment of it,” said Catanach, a reigning All-American setter. “I think that’s something that me and the other seniors in my class really did, and we really wanted to leave a legacy for Duke volleyball and to really leave an impact for the other players.”

The senior—along with other veter-ans on the team—served as inspiration for sophomore libero Ali McCurdy, who highlighted the upperclassmen’s guid-ance throughout the season.

McCurdy had a standout night against Tennessee as she broke the school’s single-season digs record, with 26 for the game and 653 on the year. Despite breaking a Duke record, the sophomore could not help but focus on the team’s loss, especially after a deep run in last year’s tournament.

“I feel like last season, there was this huge push, and we got really far in the tournament and made it to the Elite Eight, and this year that was what we strived to do, to go further,” McCurdy said. “It was a new team, and I think that throughout the sea-son, we had big wins, and it stinks to come out on this side of it, but Tennessee was a great team, and as coach said in the locker room, they are going to go far.”

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I have done a lot of things in my time here at Duke. I have tried my hand as a DJ for WXDU, become an advocate for Real Food, helped

to plan Global Health Week and celebrated a national champion-ship for our men’s basketball team. I have met numerous people and developed some close friends that I hope to have for the rest of my life. The list of positive experiences goes on and on, so, at risk of making you gag with my sentimental recollec-tions, I’ll stop here.

There have also been many not-so-positive occurrences that have ex-posed some of the dark underbelly of the Gothic Wonderland. Last year in particular was a time of bad publicity for Duke. From sexist emails to scandalous PowerPoint presentations, many events sparked discussion concerning gen-der dynamics among the student body. For many, the worst part was when John Henson passed out in a port-a-potty and ruined Tailgate. Wait, not John Henson, I mean an actual 14 year old. My mistake.

Some things have remained predictable. There will be a hundred tents sloshing around the grass outside Wilson Gym in mid-February. The oppor-tunities to contribute and grow at Duke will con-tinue to be nearly endless. Our faculty will remain exemplary and the quality of our institution will only get better. Also, it will still kind of suck to live in Edens.

Yet, in my best Obama impersonation: Change has come to Duke. The Duke I know now will hardly be the Duke of the future. The spectacle that was Tailgate is, and will be, no more ... forever to remain a relic of a bygone era. The housing system is being changed to more closely resemble that of a Yale or Harvard, and to be honest no one really knows for sure how this new housing “experiment” will play out. It could end up mak-ing student life much better than it is now or it could end up failing miserably. Time will tell. It is certain, however, that the living experience of the typical Duke student will be fundamentally differ-ent in the coming years.

The future at Duke for the undergraduate is rapidly changing and is different from what it was when I came here. Yet for several reasons, I fi nd myself ready to say goodbye.

Student debt is rising in an economy where

jobs are scarce. That means that the average stu-dent will owe more money while having less op-portunity to pay back the money they borrowed.

Though this is not a problem for wealthier Dukies, the fi nancial straits that many undoubtedly face will continue to get worse, especial-ly if the unemployment rate does not drop and private colleges con-tinue to outpace infl ation with their tuition hikes. Most Duke students think that they are relatively shel-tered from unemployment because of the reputation of this University, but even today nothing is guaran-teed. The best decision therefore

may be to graduate sooner rather than later.The outcome of the new housing model could

be successful or unsuccessful. Regardless, the ad-ministration decided to implement changes with what feels like little to no input from the student body, further exacerbating tensions between the two sides. It has become the norm rather than the exception around here that the administration acts in the best interests of the administration fi rst and in the best interests of the students second. Skepticism and powerlessness should not prevail in a talented and dynamic student body, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, at the current rate, they eventually did.

True, some (if any) of you might say, but at least we still have the great tradition that is Duke Bas-ketball. I hate to say this, but the glory days may be close to an end. Coach K is already the winningest coach in Division I history, with win number 903 this season. Though he looks to be in fi ne health and spirit, who knows how much longer he will go before he calls it quits? It is possible (and I am cer-tainly hoping this is not true) that our title from 2010 will be Coach K’s last.

Regardless of basketball, however, the Duke culture is shifting in a way that will alter the stu-dent experience for years. On a larger scale, life will only get more challenging for the graduating college student. At this point, therefore, I feel that I am a product of an era that is ending, a type of Duke student that will be different from those in the future. My time is almost up—one more se-mester to go. We’ll see what changes it brings.

Milap Mehta is a Trinity senior. This is his fi nal col-umn of the semester.

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milap mehtawhat i think, i think

At the end of the 2008-2009 academic year, Presi-dent Richard Brodhead gave a baccalaureate address aimed to calm the spirits of a graduating class entering the worst job market in re-cent history. His address focused on a Duke student—a one-time biology major and swanky Bay Area biotech employ-ee—who had struck upon hard times. Brodhead did not care so much about the hard times as the student’s wonderfully idiosyncratic re-sponse to them. In the ulti-mate exercise of enterprise, the student began selling, of all things, jellyfi sh aquari-ums. More than two years later, the company Jellyfi sh Art is still going strong.

Brodhead’s point was that our inventive energies can only fi nd full realization when we turn our backs on safety. This message has not lost any valence as the econ-

omy has recov-ered. Part of the challenge

of living well will always be striving after the novel and the peculiar, like an artist standing at the easel.

In our editorial yesterday, we addressed the trend of Duke undergraduate stu-dents pursuing careers in fi nance and consulting and questioned whether these careers allow students to ful-ly realize their social utility. To further this discussion, we question whether person-al fulfi llment, too, gets short shrift in these career paths.

We understand what makes this sector enticing. Other careers paths are risky and ill-defi ned: Threats look even blacker in the dark light of student debt. Mean-while, the road to the fi nan-cial sector is clearly paved: On-campus recruiters and a long tradition of Duke stu-dents heading to the indus-try make it easy to fi gure out where the fi nance jobs are and how to get them.

Duke students dispro-portionately come from well-off backgrounds, and lucrative jobs promise the continuation of this sort of lifestyle. The sector’s allure is enhanced by its prestige. This is, after all, just the sort of job for a graduate from a top university—one that opens doors without closing

any, pays well, looks good and allows us to enact ev-ery stereotype of early ’20s lifestyle. Deviating from this trajectory—working out of a garage in Los Altos instead of a Manhattan high-rise—sometimes seems unaccept-able, a failure to realize the potential that all students admitted to Duke are sup-posed to have.

These anxieties—fear of risk and fear of failure—are good reasons to take a job. But they just are anxieties, and they should not stop anyone from carrying out their own new and original experiments in living. We can live good lives without novelty but all great lives—Steve Jobs, Mother There-sa—are unprecedented.

We do not rule out that

the fi nancial sector has room for novelty. But stu-dents who secure jobs in this sector should use them for something bigger—to ben-efi t others, to change society or to become a certain kind of person.

We are frequent im-provisors in our academic careers—trying one type of course, then another. We do this in our education, so why do we approach our career any differently? We ought to be passionate enough to bear the risks if it means do-ing something exciting and meaningful. There is some-thing valuable about putting some cause ahead of your-self, prestige and achieve-ment.

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Él Hopsital Bernardino Rivadavia—Hospital Rivada-via for short—is Argentina’s oldest hospital still in full operation. Located on Avenida Las Heras, in

the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires, the hospital serves not only as a treasured land-mark, but also as the startling image of pub-lic health care in Argentina today.

Rivadavia, which occupies an area of around fi ve blocks, has managed to retain the neoclassical fl avor from which its struc-tures—strong pillars, extensive gardens, stone pavilions—were inspired. Although founded in 1774, the hospital was not re-located to its current address until 1887. The design, based both on modern archi-tectural concepts and convictions of European health care, emphasized greater integration between health and nature—an approach that supposedly lent itself to safer attention and swifter recoveries.

Despite its honored and entrenched history, exem-plifi ed by its own museum of medicine, Rivadavia is not merely a monument. Its structural deterioration and fi nancial neglect demonstrate—if only part of the rea-son—why, for me, this hospital functions as the face of Argentinean public health.

The Argentinean health care system can be broken down into three main providers: the private sector, which covers about 5 percent of the population; mutuals or so-cial plans, which cover approximately 45 percent; and the public sector, which covers roughly 50 percent.

Private health care in Argentina is much like that of the United States—patients must meet their own individ-ual health care costs, primarily through private insurance schemes. The social security sector, characterized by “mutu-als” and social plans, is funded and operated by “Las Obras Sociales,” or the trade unions. Employers and employees each pay a fi xed rate from which the mutual covers part of the cost of care and medicines. Patients then pay the differ-ence between the actual treatment cost and fi xed rate.

The public sector, however, is fi nanced through taxes and utilized by thousands each day, and is the most ex-hausted branch of the health care system. This is fi rstly because in Argentina, health care is a universal human right granted to everyone regardless of income, nation-ality or status. Both citizens and non-citizens (legal and illegal) are able to make use of the nation’s public system. Yet, an increase in immigration alongside a sharp rise in unemployment over the last 10 years has led to system overuse and new structural challenges.

Argentina was a relatively rich nation when its current health care system was fi rst instituted. During these initial years, buses full of patients from neighboring countries and poor outskirts would arrive at public hospitals ready to receive treatment. Today, however, many believe that Argentina can no longer afford to subsidize the treat-

ment of foreigners because care for its own citizens has also begun to suffer.

Having spent the last four months in rotations at Hos-pital Rivadavia, I can only begin to elu-cidate the complexity of this health care reality—a reality that doctors, nurses, pa-tients and fellow interns collectively and openly recognize. Many of the patients I have seen have been poor foreigners or immigrants, mostly from the neighboring countries of Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay. Although doctors and nurses try their best to deliver exceptional care, their tools, technology and machines are, in every case, extraordinarily outdated.

Despite these realities, everyone simply shrugs their shoulders. “Well,” they say, “Rivadavia is a public hos-pital,” as if that categorization suffi ciently justifi es the deep-seated problems of the Argentinean public health system—and there are more.

One of the fi rst issues to draw my attention was the ob-vious lack of supplies, from the complete nonexistence of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms to the sparing use of cotton balls and alcohol. The majority of hospital beds are not covered with any kind of sanitary paper, and if they are, the sheets are rarely replaced. Broken chairs and squeaky doors line the hospital hallways, concealed by the crowds of patients who wait hours each day for treatment.

Most Argentines will blame the government for the state of its public hospitals. Simply put, growth in public health care capacity has not been met with an analogous increase in funding. Government attention to spending has be-gun to focus on other areas of health—specifi cally, drugs and pharmaceuticals. This sort of redirected spending in conjunction with competition from the private sector has largely contributed to the dwindling amount of resources available to the nation’s public health facilities.

Systemic glitches aside, however, most patients appear thankful and satisfi ed with the public health care they re-ceive. Hospital employees, too, rarely complain about the supply shortages or sub-par conditions. Like any hospital, physicians and nurses participate in weekly seminars and talks, and as a teaching institution, Rivadavia offers hun-dreds of medical students opportunities to learn about both medicine and the realities of public health in Buenos Aires.

Being an American, the image of public health care in Buenos Aires certainly took me by surprise, forcing me to think deeper for answers to our own ongoing debate. Yet, for the people of Argentina, the gift of universal health care is a cherished and unchallenged right of which they are proud and have no shame in sharing with the rest of the world.

Sonia Havele is a Trinity junior and is currently studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This is her fi nal column of the semester.

I usually don’t cry, even when I probably should. I gaze upon funerals, weddings and chopped onions with dry eyes. About a month ago, years of unshed

tears fi nally caught up with me and I wept like a child. I wept for the hap-piness of discovery, but also for the realization of lies and ignorance; I wept because I saw all that life has to offer, but also all that which it has kept from me. Hot tears streaming down my face, obscuring the “Z” and “X” on my tray’s placemat. I wept because I had just tasted perfection: a Zaxby’s Nibbler sandwich.

Zaxby’s, for the unconverted, is a “fast casual” (like my Friday night, ladies) restaurant whose claim is sell-ing “Real Chicken.” Founded in Athens, Ga., it quickly spread to over 500 locations (scattered throughout the southern states) in just 20 years. The restaurant serves chicken in multiple forms: as a fi nger, a wing or between two pieces of heavenly Texas toast. Just think of this place as a much better Chick-fi l-a.

But why am I writing about chicken? Most of my friends hadn’t even heard about Zaxby’s until I bad-gered them into going. As soon as we arrived and exited the car, the smell of fried birds hit us and the experience had begun. We spent Saturday mornings sitting on the Zaxby’s patio, recounting the number of sodas we had the night before and really enjoy-ing our meals. As I write this I see students reviewing notes, their eyes focusing on a point miles past their laptop screens, trying to shove an insipid Subway sandwich into their cheek. Considering all the time we spend being unproductive in a day, don’t sacrifi ce your meals as well.

Instead of mindlessly chewing while checking your Facebook (so as to not appear to be just eating alone), have a thoughtful conversation over a meal at a new place. When I was in Europe, the meals would take hours (the last half of the meal mostly spent playing “catch the eye of the server” with the other guests at your table). Whenever I sit down to eat dinner with my mother and her French boyfriend, he doesn’t un-derstand the rush Americans seem to be in. For him, a meal isn’t something you do to stop being hungry; it’s something you do to share time and experiences with those around you.

I said before that I usually have to pester fi rst-time customers into going to Zaxby’s. The interest in their eyes changes to hesitation when I mention that it is a 10 to 15 minute drive, depending on traffi c. That small time barrier is enough to dissuade some from trying something new, even if they’ve heard it serves the fi let mignon of chicken sandwiches in a world mostly serving rump roast.

In today’s age, most of what you could think of do-ing in your life has already been done. High schoolers spend weeks perusing through what the Princeton Re-view says about where they should go to school, formu-lating lists based on other people’s thoughts and opin-ions. The same goes for deciding to see a new movie, choosing a new book to read or fi guring out a Spring break destination. Where is the exploration and dis-covery? A wise chief once said, “Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.” We research and review to earn our happiness, instead of taking a gamble. Stick-ing to eating on campus or on Ninth Street because it’s easy, carefully reading reviews to select the best product—it’s like letting society predigest your food.

So in my fi nal article I’d like to ask everyone to go to Zaxby’s. Not in the literal sense (unless, of course, you enjoy things that are good), but take this small, silly example as a plea for you to push your limits and explore. Enjoy experiencing something new with your friends, like chicken, and then take the time to sit around for hours talking about life, love and Zax sauce. Sure, one day all of this studying and stress-ing is going to probably give you what you thought you wanted in life, but college is also about slowing down and smelling the fryers while you still can. In the timeless words of Doug Stanhope, “Don’t just eat a mushroom stem and see colors; eat the whole bag and see God.”

Travis Smith is a Trinity junior. This is his fi nal column of the semester.

A portrait of health care

lettertotheeditorA response to the series on Durham’s homeless

I am saddened that the three-part series about home-lessness in Durham that ran Nov. 18 to Nov. 21. leaned so heavily upon the voices of some of our leadership—but more saddened that some of our leadership do not know more. A couple observations:

Since January 2010 through October 2011, the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Pro-gram in Durham has assisted 146 households to avoid homelessness through the provision of $297,659.52 in direct support for rent and utilities. In addition, 133 households, representing 308 people—including 159 children—have been assisted to move from homeless-ness into housing. These individuals and families have been assisted with $461,923.77 in direct support. Of those assisted, 83 percent of the individuals and 93 percent of the families have remained in housing. This is 279 households over the last 22 months assisted to avoid and move out of homelessness. At a time when the forces of foreclosure, unemployment and overall recession have been at their highest, this is no small feat. This does not square with “little hope for those mired in a fl awed system.” This work was refl ected in the point in time count which showed a 14 percent re-duction in the number of homeless families from Janu-ary 2010 to January 2011 during a most diffi cult time. This is a result of many nonprofi ts and public agencies collaborating Urban Ministries of Durham, Genesis

Home, Interfaith Hospitality Network, Department of Social Services, City of Durham and Durham Housing Authority, just to name a few. Information about these outcomes was presented at the Point-in-Time Press Conference, and in the collaborative proposal to fund the work in this round of Continuum of Care. It is also reported into the Carolina Homeless Information Net-work, which is accessed by city staff. The project has had on-site monitoring reviews by the City of Durham, the County of Durham, the State of North Carolina and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

From January 2008 through June 2008, 26 people with mental illness were discharged into homelessness in Durham from what was then John Umstead Hospital. With interventions and other protocol including hospi-tal liaisons, expanded outreach and engagement staff and increased permanent supportive housing options done by The Durham Center, the hospital, Housing for New Hope, Urban Ministries of Durham, the Durham Police and Sheriff’s Department, to name a few of the collaborative partners, the number of discharges into homelessness in Durham from Central Regional from January 2008 through June 2008, was four, an 85 per-cent reduction! This fi gure is cited on home page of Durham’s Opening Doors website.

Terry Allebaugh Executive Director, Housing for New Hope

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University to the predicted costs of all the capital proj-ects being considered.

“I’m going to point out that they don’t match up and discuss what we’re going to do about that,” Trask said.

Wagoner noted the Trustees’ responsibility to support the administration in securing resources for projects that further the administration and faculty’s goals for Duke.

Assessing the UniversityAdditionally, the Board will hear a series of extensive

University updates, including a presentation on the fu-ture of Duke Medicine in the context of new health care regulations. Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health af-fairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, will lead the presentation that will focus on how health care reform and cuts to federal funding will affect the hospital system, research and education.

“Dollars that come to the health system are going to

shrink, which means academic enterprise—especially in the School of Medicine—and nursing will be more con-strained,” Dzau said. “We will have to think about how we will continue to be as wildly successful as we are today with a smaller pot.”

Dzau will next create a planning group of faculty and administrators that will begin the planning process to adapt to federal health care changes and reduced fund-ing for Duke Medicine—a $3 billion business.

“[We’ll discuss] how we can make sure we spend with-in the means but spend in such a way that we can be suc-cessful,” Dzau said.

The Board will also hear a presentation on Duke’s competitive position compared to peer institutions that will largely focus on national rankings systems, said Mi-chael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

The Board is interested in learning more about how university rankings, such as those published annually by the U.S. News and World Report, are determined—a sentiment that manifests itself every few years, said Pro-

vost Peter Lange, who will deliver the presentation with Schoenfeld.

Lange added that he will explain that rankings are largely determined by factors out of the University’s con-trol, such as peer review. Other factors that can be con-trolled by the administration, such as SAT scores, should not be given more weight than other values in the admis-sions process simply to raise Duke’s ranking, he noted.

Wagoner said that in this presentation, the Board will more broadly discuss the strategies of other universities and how Duke compares. The Board will also evaluate Duke’s efforts relative to its strategic priorities, as the Trustees are always interested in how Duke can continue to be competitive, he added.

“The bigger discussion is to understand with clarity the strategic initiatives of the University and how we’re going to fund those,” Wagoner said.

Lange will also deliver an update on Duke Kunshan University. The Board will vote to approve the Masters of Management Studies degree program for DKU, which was approved by the Academic Council Thursday. This vote is one of two action items on the Board’s agenda this week-end, including the final approval of renovations to the first and second floors of the Gross Chemistry Building.

William Kirby, T. M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard University and Duke’s senior adviser on China, will also be in attendance. Kirby will address the potential benefits and risks for Duke in assuming the leadership of American higher education in China and give an assess-ment of DKU’s progress to date, according to a summary provided by Nora Bynum, associate vice provost for the Office of Global Strategy and Programs and managing director for DKU and other initiatives in China.

A look at student lifeVice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and

Steve Nowicki, vice provost and dean for undergraduate education, will lead a presentation on the undergradu-ate experience, giving an update on the house model. Moneta said there will also be discussions about student programming and the subsequent growing space needs for Duke’s more than 500 student organizations that the new West Union Building will help to address.

“The core aspect of Duke is the undergraduate experi-ence,” Wagoner said. “This is a continuation of a theme that we’ll be revisiting at virtually every meeting—what are the key issues surrounding the undergraduate experience.”

Nowicki could not be reached for comment Wednes-day and Thursday.

Trask will deliver an update on West Union renovations, which remain in conceptual design, Schoenfeld said. The Board will also discuss preliminary ideas about an addition to the School of Nursing, and it will revisit New Campus, which was originally proposed in 2005 but postponed in-definitely with the onset of the financial crisis.

The Board is also spending time with students this weekend. Trustees had dinner with a group of under-graduates Thursday night, and the Trustee lunch Friday is being hosted by graduate and professional students, Wagoner said.

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French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe told reporters in Brussels, Belgium, that Greece in particular objected to the proposal since it buys much of its petroleum from Iran. France and other governments will seek to identify other sources for Greece that would make the ban possible later, he suggested.

“Greece put forward a number of reservations,” Juppe said, according to the Associated Press. “We have to take that into account. We have to see with our partners that the cuts can be compensated by production increases in other countries. It is very possible.”

A group of European ambassadors in Iran, accompa-nied by the heads of mission from Russia, Canada and Australia, visited the embassy grounds and a diplomatic residential compound Thursday to inspect the damage and expressed shock at what they saw. They described the youths’ actions Wednesday as a “rampage.”

Windows were broken, doors were forced open and ob-jects had been tossed out of windows, they said. Paintings had been cut up, computers were smashed, and slogans were sprayed on the wall saying “Down with England” and “Hezbollahis are Victorious,” they added.

“This is awful,” said one diplomat who asked not to be named for fear of souring his country's relations with Iran. “The inside of the building has been completely demol-ished.”

Iranian police prevented foreign journalists from ac-companying the diplomats.

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