Students abroad in housing limbo

by Marianna JordanTHE CHRONICLE

About 60 juniors currently studying abroad do not yet have housing assignments for the Spring.

Housing, Dining and Residence Life is having trouble ac-commodating roommate and other housing requests for stu-dents returning to live on campus this Spring. This has left 59 students without assignments as of Monday morning, said MJ Williams, director of finance and administration for HDRL. This delay is unexpected given the Spring 2012 opening of Ke-ohane Quadrangle 4E that will add 150 beds to West Campus.

The students who did not receive housing assignments right away will have to wait as the office continues to process infor-mation from students leaving for the Spring, whether to gradu-ate early or move off campus, said Linda Moiseenko, manager for Duke community housing.

“There is a lot of change that occurs with students leaving and returning to campus between semesters-- our office tries to make assignments with the best outcome possible,” Moiseenko wrote in an email Monday. “This year we need more time to make that happen.

Junior Christopher Whittaker, currently studying abroad in Madrid, said he had hoped to live with two fraternity brothers who are also returning from abroad. There were no available triples on campus, so the two fraternity brothers will be living in K4, but Whittaker remains without housing.

“It’s just one of those situations where housing works out for nine out of 10 people, and the other one ends up in housing purgatory,” Whittaker wrote in an email Saturday.

HDRL emailed on-campus housing assignments to students Nov. 22—earlier than last year, when students were notified in December, Moiseenko said. HDRL did this in order to better align with billing students for the Spring.

Serving every student who requests on-campus housing in the Spring has historically been challenging for students and for HDRL, Moiseenko added.

Students who apply for on-campus housing are randomly as-signed numbers that HDRL processes in order, based on availabil-ity and preference. Students returning to campus for the Spring—including study abroad students and those returning from a leave of absence or withdrawal—applied for on-campus housing by Oct. 31. HDRL did not provide the total number of students who requested on-campus housing for the Spring.

Many students, such as junior Taylor Jones, said they hoped for a spot on West Campus even though they were unsure of what to expect.

“We know of so many people that applied to live off campus and weren’t let off, so we naturally assumed that on-campus housing had to be abundant,” wrote Jones, who is also studying abroad in Madrid, in an email Sunday. “We had no idea that not receiving a housing assignment was even an option. Since we’re all scattered all over the world right now, it’s been hard to figure out what’s going on at Duke, and we haven’t really got-ten many answers yet which has been pretty frustrating.”

Junior Brandon Locke said he believes that HDRL likely did not have many doubles on campus for juniors coming back from abroad. Locke and several of his friends received an email explaining that there were no more empty rooms for roommate pairs, so he will most likely live with someone that he does not know.

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University making progress toward carbon-neutral pledge

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Compared to 2007 baselines, Duke has reduced electricity usage by 5 percent and reduced carbon emissions by 9 percent.

by Vignesh KrishnaswamyTHE CHRONICLE

Duke has been working toward becoming more sustain-able, but the University has some steps to go before attain-ing its long-term goal.

Duke signed a pledge in 2007 to become carbon neutral by 2024 and has undertaken several initiatives to achieve this in the past several years, said Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects in Facilities Manage-ment. The University has also taken on initiatives to inte-grate sustainability into its overall curriculum.

“So far, becoming coal free has been Duke’s biggest ac-complishment,” Burdick said. “We eliminated coal use on

campus in May 2011, and we have achieved a 5 percent reduction in electricity usage in 2010 compared to a 2007 baseline.”

Based on a 2007 baseline for carbon emissions, Duke has achieved about a 9 percent reduction as of 2010. This reduction can be attributed to a reduction in coal use and energy conservation measures, Burdick said. In 2010, 46 percent of emissions came from electricity use, 29 per-cent for stationary fuel, 14 percent for air travel and 9 percent for commuting. The conversion of the East Cam-pus Steam Plant from a coal-burning to natural gas plant

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Duke Campus Farm has fruitful first year

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The Duke Campus Farm, which just celebrated its first full year of operation, has generated approximately 5,000 pounds of produce.

by Matt BarnettTHE CHRONICLE

A seed planted in the minds of several students has blos-somed into a full-fledged farm.

The Duke Campus Farm celebrated its one-year anniver-sary this month. During the past year, the DCF transformed an area in the Duke Forest that has been unused since 1996 into a productive plot of land. During the Fall semester, stu-dent volunteers have invested more than 650 hours into the project. In the past year, the farm has generated approxi-mately 5,000 pounds of produce.

Farm Manager Emily Sloss, Trinity ’10, has been with the Duke Forest-based farm since the beginning. Students developed the concept for the farm while enrolled in ENV 171: Food and Energy, a Spring 2010 class taught by Char-lotte Clark, lecturer in sustainability education and faculty director of sustainability for the Nicholas School of the En-vironment. The students spoke with clients on campus—from Duke Dining to the University architect—and drew up plans for a farm.

“We knew where the land would be; we knew we had

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59 returning juniors left without housing assignments this Spring

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Court challenges to the nation’s once-a-decade political redistricting plans reached the Supreme Court Monday, with Texas Attoreney Gen-eral Greg Abbot asking the justices to block implementation of a legislative map drawn by a panel of federal judges.

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A giant impression of famous physicist Albert Einstein greets visitors at Legoland in Winter Haven, Fla. The new theme park is only the second Legoland in the United States, with the other park near San Di-ego, Calif. Florida residents hope its presence will bring a much-needed boost to the state’s economy.

BEIRUT, Syria — The United Nations ratcheted up international pressure on the Syrian government Monday with the release of a report that documents the torture and killing of civilians by state se-curity forces in a step that could prompt action by the U.N. Security Council.

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DAVIS, California — Over the past two months, the Occupy movement has spawned endless footage of young pro-testers in tents in New York and Wash-ington. But what may be its most galva-nizing image emerged from an unlikely place—the University of California cam-pus in the fog-shrouded city of Davis.

It was here Nov. 18 that students shot video of a campus police officer aiming a can of pepper spray at a row of seated protesters. The video went viral. Now this public university outside Sacramento is a focal point of the Occupy universe.

Student organizers at Davis called a strike Monday, capitalizing on the na-tional spotlight and drawing hundreds of students from their classes on the eve of finals to picket a morning meet-ing of the university system’s regents. To-gether with alumni and outside activists, they hoisted signs that read “No tuition hikes” and “Bring back the master plan.”

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Bryan Center Plaza, 4:30-8:30p.m. Eat dinner at Panda Express to support Duke China Care! Proceeds will be donated to the

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Siberian snowfall may improve US weather

Housing lottery exemptions ignite student discontent

by Andrew FreedmanSPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST

Famous for its bone-chilling cold, Siberia typically starts building a snow pack during October, and the speed of its transition from tundra to snowscape helps to shape winter weather throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a new study by Judah Cohen, principal scientist at Atmo-spheric and Environmental Research, a firm based in Lexington, Mass.

The findings may help improve U.S. win-ter forecasts, which now are often of lim-ited value because meteorologists cannot reliably predict the behavior of a highly in-fluential and fickle weather pattern known as the Arctic Oscillation.

The oscillation helps determine the placement of Arctic air masses, and it influ-ences how they move. When the pattern is in a negative phase, cold air gets drawn down from the Arctic and into the United States. Most of the East’s snowiest winters have occurred during such a phase.

When the oscillation is in a positive phase, cold air tends to get bottled up in the far north, leaving the eastern United States milder and drier than average.

Improved seasonal forecasts would en-able weather-sensitive businesses as well as households to better prepare for upcoming swings in temperature and precipitation, thereby reducing economic losses. More-ac-curate seasonal outlooks would also permit cities and towns to set more realistic snow removal budgets and take other action to prepare for a particularly snowy winter.

The trouble is, despite sophisticated computer models and networks of air, land and sea observations, the oscillation still frustrates most forecasters’ attempts to an-ticipate its behavior.

Cohen thinks he knows how to change that. His study, recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, shows a statistically significant link between the rate of change in Siberian snow cover during October and the dominant phase of the Arctic Oscillation during the following winter. A rapid advance of Siberian snow cover, Cohen and his colleague Justin Jones found, is linked with the negative phase. A slow advance, by contrast, is linked with a positive oscillation, which brings milder winter weather.

Cohen claims that rapidly advancing snow cover in Siberia can set off a chain of events from Earth’s surface to the strato-sphere. The quick expansion can lead to a large dome of cold high pressure over Si-beria. That dome, in turn, perturbs the jet stream so it flows more north to south in addition to west to east, resulting in more intense cold-air outbreaks in eastern North America and western Europe, which often breed snowstorms.

“Siberia is kind of the refrigerator for the Northern Hemisphere,” Cohen said.

Cohen’s work has been greeted with interest in the forecasting community, al-though some researchers question whether he has come across a relationship that has real predictive value or has just gotten lucky during the past few years.

by Kelly ScurryTHE CHRONICLE

Some living groups bypassed the typical route in determining housing sections for next year.

Four University-sponsored selective living groups—Wellness Community, Substance-Free, Women’s Housing Option and Baldwin Scholars—will be housed on West Campus in the house model beginning Fall 2012. Some students have expressed concern about the exclusion of administrative living groups from participating in the October house model lottery. The lottery, which placed 45 sororities, fraternities and non-greek SLGs in new houses for next year, was marked by contention and drama. The University-spon-sored SLGs were assigned housing locations after the lottery took place.

The administration made the decision in order to account for particularly large groups and to maintain gender balance among West and Central campuses, said Joe Gonzalez, as-sociate dean for residential life.

Junior Elena Botella, executive chair of the Nexus and a Chronicle columnist, said this information should have been released before the lottery. Nexus, the only SLG to currently offer gender-neutral living situa-tions, will be housed on Central Campus next year. The administrative gender-neutral housing option will also be offered on Cen-tral Campus next year.

Gonzalez noted that administrative groups differ from other living groups on campus through their process of selecting

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Four University-sponsored selective living groups received housing on West Campus for Fall 2012.

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cut coal consumption by 70 percent.“This year, we hope to see a 4 to 5 per-

cent reduction in overall emissions through transportation changes and carbon offsets,” Duke Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Casey Roe said. “Duke has taken a holistic approach in reducing carbon emissions, and so far, it has paid off.”

The University reached a peak green-house gas emissions level of 448,754 metric tons in 2008, according to the Duke Sustain-ability website. Duke first measured its emis-sions in 1990, when the University emitted close to 240,000 metric tons of carbon diox-ide. In 2010, total emissions were at 406,109 metric tons.

To achieve carbon neutrality, Roe said the University will take both large and small steps.

“We have installed solar panels on the Bryan Center, and we are taking efforts in transportation to reduce the number of cars coming to campus every day,” she said.

Two new hybrid buses were added to Duke’s transportation fleet in November. Other major projects to offset carbon emis-sions are also underway.

“We are on the right path with regards to our projects,” Roe said. “We have seen an 8 to 10 percent reduction in emissions in the last couple of inventories, and we have a lot of projects lined up and ready to go.”

Duke will also be cooperating with Sie-mens AG, a global engineering and elec-tronics company, to evaluate older buildings to reduce energy consumption, Burdick said. The partnership is expected to reduce overall carbon emissions by less than 2 per-cent, which she noted is still an important reduction.

Sustainability at Duke goes much further than just the accumulation of large projects, added Charlotte Clark, lecturer in sustain-

ability education and faculty director of sus-tainability.

“Part of the [American College and Uni-versity Presidents’ Climate Commitment] that President [Richard] Brodhead signed includes a segment that says Duke will take action to make carbon neutrality a part of the curriculum with all students,” Clark said.

Clark noted the importance of increas-ing undergraduate and graduate student involvement to emphasize sustainability as a University-wide commitment

“We are finding ways to formulate syllabi to include more sustainability objectives,” she said. “We are not just thinking about protect-ing human health, we are thinking about a sustainable economic system.”

Several Duke professors have incorporat-ed sustainability into classroom exercise.

Melissa Simmermeyer, a lecturer in the Spanish language program, has her students translate passages relating to sustainability.

Linda Franzoni, associate dean of student affairs and professor at the Pratt School of En-gineering, has similarly incorporated the study of the life cycle of materials into her class.

“These are just small examples of faculty delivering courses in ways that increase sus-tainability literacy,” Clark said.

To improve performance in sustainable literacy, Duke has also founded the Trillium Fellows Project—a faculty workshop in which professors can learn how to better translate sustainability goals into a variety of courses and curriculums.

“While [Duke faculty and staff] are very good at educating students about sustainabil-ity, our end goal is to change behavior,” Clark said. “So far, we have not been able to de-velop an evaluation mechanism to measure these changes. However, we have significant reasons to be hopeful that the progress made in achieving both sustainable literacy and carbon neutrality will increase significantly over the coming years.”

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new members and receiving resources from the University.

“The students [in the administrative houses] are selected into the groups by the administrative sponsors for the community, not the student members,” he said.

Gonzalez said these administrative groups were not automatically given set sections on West or Central campuses—the intent was to maintain gender and size balance among liv-ing groups on the two campuses.

“We placed them after the lottery in Oc-tober,” he said. “It made more sense to place [large groups] such as Wellness and Sub-stance-Free because they have more than 200 beds to fill.”

He added that the Baldwin Schol-ars and the Women’s Housing Option, both of which are comprised entirely of females, were placed on West Campus after the nine Panhellenic Association

sororities were placed on Central. “It wasn’t a request on [the part of

Baldwin Scholars] to stay on West,” said Donna Lisker, associate dean of under-graduate education and co-director of the Baldwin Scholars program, as well as co-chair of the House Model Committee. “[The placement] was a domino effect from the [Panhel] sororities being placed on Central.”

Botella noted that she does not consider the notion of maintaining gender balance good rationale because there is no guaran-tee that genders will be equally distributed across campuses.

Panhel President Jenny Ngo, a senior, said she believes that the University’s dis-tinction between University-sponsored living groups and selective living groups is “complicated.” Panhel entertained the possibility of having all sororities living to-gether in a mixed house but could not gar-ner the status of an administrative group by the University.

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Locke, who is a member of Wayne Man-or, said many of the juniors in the selective living group also went abroad.

“A lot of my friends in [Wayne] already have their assignments, so it would have been much nicer to have been one of those lucky few so that I would not have had to think about this,” Locke said. “But, it’s just for one semester…. Obviously, I wish [HDRL] had gotten the informa-tion on who would be leaving or staying [sooner], so we all could have gotten our housing assignments at the same time. Now, people are left dangling.”

Some other students, though not waiting for an assignment, instead had their pre-

ferred living arrangement split. Junior An-drei Santalo, who is studying abroad in Bar-celona, said he was told by HDRL last Spring that attaining a 3-bedroom, gender-neutral apartment with his three other roommates on Central Campus after returning from abroad would not be a problem.

Santalo said, however, that he was noti-fied a few weeks ago that 3-bedroom apart-ments were no longer available.

“They put me and [my other roommate] together on Oregon and [the other two roommates in another Oregon apartment,” he said. “Now we’re in the same building on opposite sides, which ended up not being a terrible situation.”

Santalo is still exercising the gender-neu-tral option, though he noted his frustrations with the system.

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faculty support; we knew we had opportuni-ties for funding—the only thing was a need for someone who cared enough about the farm,” Sloss said. “I decided I wanted to be that person—it was something I really cared about.”

Once the project was approved by several top administrators, among them President Richard Brodhead, the planners broke ground on the farm last November. The farm reaped its first harvest in April and continues to harvest weekly or biweek-ly to support the needs of Duke’s dining halls, Sloss said.

Fresh from the farmThe Duke Sustainability Office manages

the farm and has hired interns for support. Sustainability Outreach Coordinator Casey Roe said the farm is not financially self-suf-ficient, or even close to it. Half of the farm’s funding comes from the Sustainability Office and the rest comes from Bon Appetit Manage-ment Company, Roe noted.

“Right now the setup is that all the produce goes to Bon Appetit eateries on campus,” Roe said. “We’re tracking everything, but we’re not selling it—because of their contributions, they basically own the produce.”

Roe noted that the farm does not follow a traditional business model.

Last year Bon Appetit, which runs on-campus venues such as the Marketplace and the Great Hall, agreed to buy all of the farm produce and will serve a partial amount in its eateries. Of the 5,000 pounds of organic food produced in the past year, Bon Appetit has served 4,000 pounds of it in on-campus eateries, Roe said, adding that the rest went to other buyers because Bon Appetit’s demand decreased in the summer.

A community effortManaging the farm requires labor from

multiple parties. The farm is entirely organic and only owns one piece of equipment—a rototiller. Roe said weeds are hand-pulled and insect pests are hand-squashed—methods which will eventually improve the farm’s soil.

The DCF invites volunteers to labor on the farm Sunday mornings, helping to plant, weed and harvest crops. More than 150 stu-dents have volunteered at the farm since its inception, Sloss said.

Sophomore Paige Arnold had never been to a farm before she volunteered. She spent a workday weeding and harvesting carrots in November.

“It’s so hard to know where your food comes from nowadays,” Arnold said. “[The Duke Campus Farm] is very grassroots, very small—but I think that’s good.”

Arnold said she has no intention of becom-ing a farmer but appreciated the opportunity to learn about food production.

Indeed, Sloss said the goal of the farm is not to produce agriculturists but to encourage students to reevaluate their eating habits.

“We’re not necessarily trying to create the next generation of sustainable farmers, but Duke does produce the next generation of policymakers and business leaders,” Sloss said. “It’s important to educate them about sustain-able farming.”

A bright, green futureThe DCF has its goal set on expansion. “The dining halls serve thousands of meals

a day—the amount [of food] we’re producing right now isn’t really enough to make a dent,” Sloss said. “Each year we’re adding more pro-duction space. Each year we’re contributing more and more to their demand.”

Although it is located on a 12-acre site, only one acre of the land is currently being used to grow crops, and only half of that acre is in pro-duction at a given time, in accordance with

crop-rotation practices.“In the future, we’re planning to expand,

to have an orchard, a vineyard possibly, some berry patches and some field crops,” said ju-nior Emily Mendenhall, who has been with the farm since the beginning. “We’d expand some things that are perennials, like rhubarbs, strawberries—perennials will continue to en-rich the soil over time.”

Mendenhall currently volunteers periodical-ly and works to promote the farm through Stu-dents for Sustainable Living, a student employ-ment program run by the Sustainability Office.

The farm recently held a fall festival, at which members of the Duke and Durham com-munities were invited to eat food, play games and tour the farm. Mendenhall said the farm

has also hosted sessions on sustainable eating and is being incorporated into the curriculum of an increasing number of courses.

“We’ve had fraternities come out [to volunteer] —we’ve had groups come out,” Mendenhall said. “In the future, we hope to have speakers from different walks of life come to the farm and hold education-al workshops.”

There are a million reasons to support lo-cal farms, Sloss said, including the satisfaction of growing one’s own food.

“It went from a garden project to an all-consuming farm,” Sloss said. “The first time any of us harvested something that we plant-ed from seed has been the most rewarding experience.”

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A trash can serves as a rainwater collector at the Duke Campus Farm.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Paulus adds limb to Krzyzewski coaching tree

Cutcliffe needs to show progress in win column

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Kelly and Plumlee have had strong showings early but will have their hands full on de-fense. Sullinger remains one of the nation’s best players, and combo forward Thomas hasn’t missed a beat in a larger role.Craft is a skilled point guard who can distribute and de-fend, and the veteran Buford can score in a variety of ways. The Buckeyes are one of the few teams that can match Duke’s backcourt talent.

Shannon Scott provides effec-tive relief for Craft, and fellow freshmen Sam Thompson and Amir Williams are talented reserves for Ohio State, but Duke is undoubtedly the deeper of the two teams.

The breakdownOhio State is dangerous in all facets, shoot-ing over 50 percent on offense and forcing plenty of turnovers on D. Duke’s edge lies in long-range shooting and depth, and effective substitution could wear down the Buckeye starters. Free throws could be a deciding fac-tor, as neither team shoots well from the line.

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DUKE vs. OHIO STATETuesday, November 29 • Value City Arena

9:30 p.m. No. 3 Blue Devils (7-0) No. 2 Buckeyes (6-0)

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by Jason PalmataryTHE CHRONICLE

When two of the nation’s top five teams take the court for tonight’s battle in Columbus, Ohio, the eyes of the college basketball world will be on Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger and William Buford. But the duo, which has combined to score 36.5 points per game for the Buckeyes this season, gets substantial assistance from a man work-ing in the shadows, the Ohio State video coordinator —former Duke point guard Greg Paulus.

Although he will not be a focal point after the game tips off, the former Blue Devil will have spent countless hours behind the scenes breaking down game tape in preparation for Tuesday’s much-anticipated matchup. This type of work is valuable experience for Paulus as he seeks to further his deeply rooted coaching ambitions.

Since his graduation from Duke in 2009, Paulus has taken a very circuitous route to his current role in Columbus. Tak-ing advantage of an NCAA rule that allows athletes a fifth year of eligibility in another sport if they pursue a graduate de-gree, the point guard transferred to Syracuse to revisit a once-promising football career. A highly-touted high school passer from Manlius, N.Y. who received scholarship offers from sev-eral schools including Miami and Notre Dame, Paulus threw for over 2,000 yards and 13 touchdowns in what he deemed a successful season despite his team’s 4-8 record.

“Syracuse was an unbelievable experience,” Paulus said last year. “If I had to make that decision, I would 100 times out of 100. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I was able to get my master’s degree in communications.”

He briefly pursued a professional football career after get-ting invited to the New Orleans Saints rookie minicamp for a tryout, but he did not receive a contract offer. So he moved to Annapolis, Md. to take a job as an assistant basketball coach at

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David Cutcliffe was not hired to lead Duke to a national championship, an ACC championship or even a bowl game in his first four years as head coach. He was hired to immediately do two things—change the

culture surrounding the program and return it to respectability.

Many will argue that the Blue Devils have made signif-icant progress on that road to respectability. They will cite the progress Cutcliffe has made in fundraising and

recruiting, plus the increased competitive-ness of the product he has put on the field.

Early returns were positive. After just two wins in three years prior to Cutcliffe’s hiring, the new coach won four games in 2008 and then five games in 2009. But Duke has won only three games in back-to-back seasons after winning a total of nine in the first two years of Cutcliffe’s tenure. Duke fans can cling to the positive that the team is no longer the worst BCS football program in America, but that does not change the fact that the win totals say that the program is backsliding.

And yet you do not hear much grum-bling from Duke fans because they still have not adjusted their expectations after

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Greg Paulus, formerly a point guard under Mike Krzyzewski and now video coordinator for Ohio State, has head coaching aspirations of his own.

decades of laughingstock status. Cut-cliffe’s hiring was supposed to change those expectations, especially after the coach showed in his first two seasons that the Blue Devils could be successful in the win column. So the question has to be asked: Who is to blame?

The only answer is the coaching staff.Cutcliffe’s hiring was supposed to bring a

renewed sense of football pride to Durham, a feeling that should have been cemented when he spurned former employer Tennes-see’s advances after the school offered him its head coaching position in 2010. He was an established and successful head coach who had been a part of a national title at Tennessee as an assistant and led Ole Miss to an SEC championship as a head coach.

So it is inexcusable that the recent downturn at Duke appears to have been tolerated by the fan base, if its silence on the matter is any indication. Cutc-liffe should be held to the standard that comes with his resume, not that of the previous two decades of Duke football. Expecting the Blue Devils to reach a bowl game four years into the Cutcliffe era might have been a pipe dream, but

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the U.S. Naval Academy. As the junior mem-ber of Billy Lange’s staff at the academy, Pau-lus gained exposure to a variety of different responsibilities. The Navy program lacked the resources to have a dedicated video co-ordinator, so Paulus handled many of the video responsibilities but was also involved in recruiting and on-floor coaching.

“Being at the Naval Academy, I had a lot of responsibility and got a chance to do a little bit of everything,” Paulus said. “From camps to workouts to recruiting to the vid-eo side.... That was such a great year for me to get to learn all the different aspects of running a basketball program.”

As last season came to an end, Navy head coach Billy Lange departed the program to return to his previous employer, Villanova, as an associate head coach. With his boss gone and uncertainty surrounding the pro-gram, Paulus was open to looking at other schools, and he did not have to wait long until a familiar voice reached out.

Thad Matta, who left Xavier to become the Ohio State head coach in 2004, had aggressively recruited Paulus out of high school while still at Xavier. The interest was mutual, as the two-sport athlete made the Musketeers one of his final five choices and took an unofficial visit there during his ju-

nior year of high school. Ever since that recruitment process, Paulus and Matta had remained in touch, making it easier for Matta to offer him a position on his staff, which he accepted this past May.

At Ohio State, Paulus’ role is not so di-verse. As a video coordinator, he is prohib-ited by NCAA rules from participating in on-floor coaching or recruiting. Although he helps out in any way that he can, the vast majority of his time is spent preparing vid-eo for scouting and game preparation. In some regards, he had to take a step back in order to get a chance to work at one of the premier programs in college basketball.

Paulus admires the way that his current mentor has sculpted the Ohio State program into one of the country’s finest, while also demonstrating the character and dignity he remembers from his high school days. An-other coach that he holds in very high regard is the one from his collegiate playing days.

“Having the opportunity to be Coach K’s point guard for four years, I don’t think there was a better way to learn the game,” Paulus said. “I’ve always wanted to coach ever since I was as little as I can re-member. Learning from the all-time win-ningest coach and all the great coaches that have come out of his program has been an unbelievable resource.”

At this point, Paulus is completely fo-cused on his coaching career, and could not help but chuckle when asked about the possibility of returning to the playing side of either basketball or football. De-spite occasional interest from professional basketball teams overseas, the video coor-dinator seems very content in his current capacity as he works toward his dream of one day running his own program.

“One hundred percent of my attention has been on coaching since I made the deci-sion to pursue coaching,” Paulus said. “I have certain goals and aspirations that I want to achieve, and I’m completely focused on bet-tering my craft and achieving those goals.”

Paulus admitted that Tuesday is going to be an emotional night for him with Coach Krzyzewski patrolling the opposing bench, but he will spare none of his focus for sentimentality.

“There will be a lot of emotions for me personally because of how much I love Duke,” Paulus said. “To see the coaching staff and the players, it’s exciting. It’s excit-ing to have two top-five teams playing each other. But it will be a great test for us to have a top program on our home floor.”

PAULUS from page 6

After bringing in a five-man recruiting class this season, Duke held just one com-mitment for any player after the class of 2011. That changed Monday evening, when class of 2013 shooting guard Matt Jones announced his verbal commitment to the Blue Devils on Twitter.

“After long consideration with my par-ents and people around me,” Jones wrote, “we felt it was best that I commit to DUKE UNIVERSITY!”

The 6-foot-4 guard from DeSoto High School in DeSoto, Tex. has a well-rounded skill set but is best known for his 3-point shooting ability, with range out to 20 feet.

Jones, who ranks 21st overall in the class of 2013 according to ESPNU, was also a standout on the Texas AAU circuit, where he got to know Rasheed Sulaimon, current-ly Duke’s only commit for the class of 2012. Jones visited Duke alongside Sulaimon in November for Countdown to Craziness.

Jones chose the Blue Devils over a slew of other schools, including North Carolina. His commitment came just hours after a re-port by Evan Daniels of Scout.com which said that the Tar Heels were “making up

Daniels joins Wake Forest’s Josh Bush as the safeties headlining the conference squad.

Three other Duke players were also rec-ognized by the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association. Punter Alex King and wide re-ceiver Conner Vernon were named to the All-ACC second team, while tight end Coo-per Helfet received an honorable mention.

Vernon led the Blue Devils receiving corps as a junior with team highs across the board, posting six touchdowns and 956 yards on 70 receptions. His 5.8 recep-tions per game ranked fourth best in the ACC. He also made conference history this year as the first player to catch 70 or more balls in multiple seasons.

King, a senior, averaged 42.1 yards per punt this year, ranking third in the confer-ence. He also displayed precision, cornering 17 kicks inside opponents’ 20-yard lines.

This was the second consecutive year that Helfet, a senior, earned an honorable mention. Grabbing 43 passes for 395 yards this season, he caught four of his six ca-reer touchdown passes in 2011.

Kelly, Rivers win weekly ACC awards

Last week, Ryan Kelly and Austin Rivers earned accolades, being named to the all-tournament team at the Maui Invitational last week, with Kelly also garnering the tournament’s Most Valuable Player award.

Now the conference is honoring their play by awarding Kelly player of the week honors and Rivers the rookie of the week award. The pair led the Blue Devils to wins over Tennessee, No. 14 Michigan and then No. 15 Kansas in the championship game of the tournament to secure the title.

Kelly consistently produced for Duke in

Jones commits as Blue Devils earn accolades

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Matt Daniels (right) led Duke in tackles and was rec-ognized as one of the ACC’s best players Monday.

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Greg Paulus hopes to use some of the knowledge he gained at Duke to carve out a coaching career.

ground” for Jones.Jones’ offensive profile should fit nicely

into head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s offense, which emphasizes the 3-pointer. Jones could also prove pivotal in the recruitment of class of 2013 power forward Julius Ran-dle, who ranks third overall in the ESPNU rankings and plays on the same AAU team as Jones in the Dallas area.

The Duke coaching staff continues to work hard on the recruiting trail, with several other class of 2013 candidates, plus power forward Tony Parker and small forward Shabazz Muhammad from the class of 2012.

Four Blue Devils earn conference honors

Matt Daniels wreaked havoc as a part of the Duke defense this season and is be-ing rewarded for his efforts as the lone Blue Devil selected to the all-ACC first team, announced yesterday.

The senior safety led ACC defensive backs with 10.5 tackles per game, while also notch-ing two interceptions and 14 pass break-ups on the season. A potential NFL prospect,

Maui, scoring 17 points in each game. He to-talled 11 boards and four steals in the three contests, while displaying pinpoint accuracy at the foul line, making 16-of-18 attempts.

Playing more than 30 minutes per game throughout the tournament, Rivers aver-aged 16 points over the three contests with a career-high 20 in the seven-point win over the Wolverines. Overall, the guard is tally-ing 14.4 points and over a steal per game so far in his freshman year.

—from staff reports

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consistent progress in the win column is not.And by those standards, Cutcliffe’s seat should be feel-

ing a bit warm. His recruiting classes have generally been given higher acclaim than his predecessor Ted Roof’s, yet Cutcliffe’s two most successful seasons came with Roof’s recruits. With four recruiting classes under his belt and a team that is significantly more talented and athletic than its previous incarnations, it is not unreasonable to have ex-pected more victories from Duke.

But many of Cutcliffe’s recruits have failed to develop as one would expect, a responsibility that falls solely on the coaching staff. Moreover, Cutcliffe’s in-game management cost the Blue Devils multiple victories this season. His poor clock manage-ment led to a season opening upset against Richmond, and his insistence on using running quarterbacks led to the red-zone failures that cost Duke possible program-defining victories against Virginia Tech and Wake Forest.

And while many look at those close calls as steps forward,

if the Blue Devils are to be respectable, they must be judged by the same standard as every other football program—vic-tories. Often cited is the statistic that four of the Blue Devils’ losses this season have come by a combined 14 points. But it isn’t an accomplishment that Duke “should have” beat teams like Richmond and Wake Forest. It’s an indication that this team still is not able to play with the big boys.

I am in no way advocating that Cutcliffe be fired. He de-serves the time to mold his program, just like Mike Krzyzewski did when he arrived in Durham. But Krzyzewski took his team to the NCAA tournament in his fourth season while Cutcliffe’s program has taken a step back in years three and four. Yet while Krzyzewski endured a firestorm of criticism during his early tenure, Cutcliffe has seemingly been given a free pass.

Still, there’s reason to believe—once again—that next year will be the year the Blue Devils take the long-awaited leap towards respectability. But if Duke spends another season mired in the ACC’s basement, especially with Cut-cliffe’s first full recruiting class in its senior season, it may be time to make some changes to ensure that his progress off the field translates to results on it.

RICHfrom page 6

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David Cutcliffe won nine games in two years, but has won just three each season since. He must be held accountable for that, Rich writes.

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Almost every American university purports a mission statement that, in some form or framework, vows to practice and teach

the highest of ethical standards. Turning our attention, then, to the types of headlines covering today’s front pages, it is hard to ignore the incongruity between this vision of what a university represents and the implications of recent univer-sity developments.

A university’s name should evoke notions of pride and prom-ise, but it disturbs me to acknowl-edge that those aren’t the fi rst words that come to mind when I hear the name “Penn State.” Even though I am aware of the school’s educational vigor and I know that the allegations have not yet been confi rmed, the name makes me think, fi rst and foremost, of the major ethical investigation currently rattling the school. The same is true of the name “Syracuse,” which I cannot dissociate from the alleged scandal that recently erupted there. This even applies, still, to “Duke,” as I can expect “Karen Owen” or “lacrosse scandal” to come up often when I tell people the name of my school.

This discussion is not meant to reduce these signifi cant events to one generalized category or to make some oversimplifi ed claim that these “fi rst word” associations are full and accurate por-trayals of these universities. However, I think it is appropriate to notice this pattern and to ask some questions about the role and the responsibility that comes with a university’s name.

One of the fi rst questions these events prompt me to consider is the following: Why do crimes and ethical violations that happen at universities incite such tremendous emotion and attention and so tarnish the universities’ names, while the same crimes can occur outside the university setting without nearly as vocal and as public a response?

This difference is a function of the differ-ent constituencies of a university versus a non-university enterprise—say, a corporate company. While individual stakeholders invest in a company through material assets, students, alumni, families and fans have a sentimental stake in their univer-sities that is targeted when their schools’ reputa-tions are jeopardized. The wide variety of individ-uals affi liated with a university, and familiar with that university’s mission statement, do not expect large-scale ethical controversies to emerge from the source of their loyalties, and thus the news of these events comes with a stronger sting.

I fi nd this fi rst question important to answer mostly because it raises another, more pressing set of questions. Noting that the university name carries

this set of loyalties and expectations, does a university have a right—or a responsibility—to handle crimes differently than does the nation at large? Does a university’s commit-ment to teaching high ethical stan-dards justify a harsher response to moral and ethical violations?

In a perfect future world, the same, superior ethical standards will be the norm for everyone every-where. However, at present, univer-sities do occupy a unique position of national and global leadership, as

they educate most of the individuals who will come into contact with the greatest amounts of power. In my opinion, this position and the associated responsibility does justify holding universities—including all of their departments, administrators, faculty and students—to a higher standard. If uni-versities really do aim to prepare students to lead by the highest ethical standards, those universities must lead by example; they must take the most ex-treme possible measures—no matter the reputa-tional risks—to speak out against ethical breaches within their own communities.

However, I realize this claim leads to another question: How does a university balance its dedi-cation to high ethical standards with its commit-ment to trusting and supporting the members of its community? To what extent is a university’s name the fi rst priority, and at what point do the names and reputations of the individuals involved come fi rst?

I’ll be honest—in this conversation, I have more questions than I have answers. I do believe, however, that something needs to be said. I hope, by asking these questions, to encourage our own university community to speak up and try to an-swer them.

We at Duke know fi rsthand the harmful impact of ethical controversy on a university community. But we also know that we, along with our peer institutions that are currently under scrutiny, are much more than the negative associations that may be attached to our names. We owe it, not just to ourselves as members of a university, but also to the broader notion of what a university repre-sents, to reevaluate current practices to ensure that the highest of ethical standards are upheld in the most ethical of ways.

Amanda Garfi nkel is a Trinity junior. This is her fi nal column of the semester.

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The Harvard-Yale foot-ball game is one of the most storied matchups of all time. Nicknamed “The Game,” it at-tracts students, administrators, alumni and a large number of spectators to the host school. Al-though Harvard University prevailed last week-end, this year’s edition of the game was marred by tragedy. A U-Haul, driven by a student, struck a group of spectators at the pregame tailgate, leaving one woman dead. Although the accident was reportedly due to a malfunctioning ac-celerator, the incident empha-sizes the risk inherent in any event involving vehicles, alco-hol and college students.

More than one year has passed since Duke canceled Tailgate, and the alternative—

Football Gameday—has yet to become a premier pregame experience. As students and administrators continue to work toward a safer form of tail-gating, they should learn from

last weekend’s catastrophe.

More so than other universities, Duke has the capacity to make big tailgate changes fast. Duke’s Tailgate tradition spans less than a de-cade, while alumni at Harvard and Yale have been a persistent obstacle to changing tailgating policies at those schools. In fact, Yale administrators even caved into demands by stu-dents to allow student-driven U-Haul trucks into their tail-gate, a concession which came back to haunt them following the recent accident.

As an event, a well ex-

ecuted tailgate sparks excite-ment before home football games and also provides a fun, community-building event for Duke students. Although Foot-ball Gameday festivities initially started off strong, the popular-ity of the initiative faded fast. While many complained that Gameday simply could not rep-licate the raucous atmosphere of Tailgate, it is probably time to concede that we will not revive it in its original form. There are several steps the University can take, however, to ensure that a new model works.

The University should fi rst fi gure out how to safely control alcohol consumption. Offer-ing free beer from University-administered kegs would likely boost attendance while control-ling underage drinking.

The University should also

aim to relocate the new Tail-gate to a more confi ned area closer to Wallace Wade Sta-dium. Combining the Wan-namaker fi re lane with Crow-ell Quadrangle would create a central location convenient to both residential areas and the athletics complex. Using K-ville or the parking lot on Whitford Drive also makes sense, as these locations do not advantage particular house locations. Security per-sonnel could also easily posi-tion themselves along the pe-rimeter of the new tailgating zone in order to ensure the safety of all students.

Although we believe all these efforts would help in popularizing the new Tailgate, we ultimately think that any proposed changes need more student input and involve-

ment. Combining administra-tive power with student input could help legitimize the new initiative, and organizations like Duke University Union and Duke Student Govern-ment could even create their own committees to operate the new Tailgate. The introduc-tion of the house model also comes at an opportune time, as each house could register for its own spot in the new Tailgate system. As seen by the genera-tion-spanning popularity of the Harvard-Yale tailgates, the Uni-versity might also want to con-sider how to better incorporate alumni into a new Tailgate.

These changes might seem minute, but we believe that each one addresses a key hurdle that Football Game-day must overcome in order to truly be successful.

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Last week, the so-called Supercom-mittee that Congress appointed this summer—when it couldn’t fi nd a

compromise on how to cut the budget defi cit and al-most sent the government into default—also failed to fi nd a compromise to cut the budget defi cit. So now we fall back to Plan B, which calls for automatic spending restrictions.

Interestingly, though, the spending restrictions don’t take effect until 2013. How convenient! Now Congress has plenty of time to fi nd a veto-proof coali-tion to override these spending restrictions and can even tuck them into its lame duck session this time next year.

Congress’ failure to suck it up and deal with the problem head on is alarming in and of itself, but what’s even more frighten-ing to me is that the same scenario is play-ing out in several areas of economic policy. For example, the Europeans can’t deal with their own fi scal problems head on, so they dither in the short run and propose all kinds of longer-term solutions that ei-ther don’t work out, like their bailout—uh, fi nancial stability fund—or that are even more complicated and impractical, like the current proposal for tighter fi scal union.

In fi nancial regulation, it’s the same thing. The Dodd-Frank Act was literally thousands of pages long, but it mostly gave instructions to the regulatory agencies to write new rules—a process that is into its second year with no end in sight. As the new rules get proposed, big banks are lean-ing hard on the regulators to grant exemp-tions to the rules or otherwise take it easy on them. Even internationally, nobody is willing to deal with the too-big-to-fail prob-lem head on, so we are stuck with lame pro-posals that are subsequently watered down in response to pushback from the banks.

In the language of economics, everyone seems to be searching, vainly, for a commit-ment technology—some perfect rule or mechanism that actually forces us to do the things we know we should but can’t bring ourselves to do.

Does that sound familiar? Yeah, proba-bly a little too familiar, like when you know you have to stop lobbing the angry birds at those naughty pigs and start looking over your notes for the exam. Hard deadlines and requirements imposed by someone else and real consequences—like the ones you face with exams—seem to play a big role in actually getting us to do things we don’t really want to do. Otherwise, it’s too easy to procrastinate—again.

So let’s think about what that means for our policymakers. If we want a workable commitment technology, we have to be

willing to submit to hard deadlines and re-quirements imposed by someone else. For example, I remember thumbing through

a book by Alvin Hansen, a famous Keynesian econo-mist and one of the creators of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, in which he proposed that we hand off part of fi scal policy to a Fiscal Authority. The Fiscal Authority would work like the Fed—it would be politically independent and staffed by professional econ-omists—but in this case, its

job would be to fi gure out how much mon-ey Congress could spend each year, given the state of the economy and the world. Congress was still in charge of divvying up the money, but the Fiscal Authority set the total size of the pie.

Are we willing to live with an arrange-ment like that? Given what we’ve been go-ing through, this could seem like a good idea. On the other hand, this may make you nervous—and rightly so—about giving up this much power to technocrats. There’s also a wee issue about the constitutional-ity of creating an authority like that, but remember that Congress delegates to the Federal Reserve its constitutional authority to coin money and regulate its value. This proposal for a Fiscal Authority may need work, but it gives an idea of what one mod-el of an effective commitment technology would have to look like.

If that seems a bit too strong for your taste, then we have to fall back on the other commitment technology—us. As I men-tioned above, the other factor that seems to get each of us to suck it up and do what we oughta is the credible threat of serious con-sequences if we don’t get our acts together. And for most of our policymakers, the only serious consequence they really face is los-ing an election.

Do we have the ability—and the will—to actually make our elections function as a commitment technology for our policy-makers? I’m skeptical that many Congres-sional districts are truly contested, in this age of data-driven gerrymandering. But even more important than that, we seem to lack the level of political engagement that it would take to make elections competitive and hold politicians accountable. Ugh—so like everything else, it falls back on each of us to suck it up and do what we know is good for us, but don’t necessarily want to. I’m sure you’ll get to it, right after you make it to the next level of Angry Birds.

Connel Fullenkamp is the director of under-graduate studies and professor of the practice of economics. This is his fi nal column of the semester.

Duke University’s endowment hold-ings invest in a future well beyond Duke’s campus.

The Duke endowment’s relationship to DUMAC, LLC—Duke’s privately run but institutionally directed investment wing—directly drives investment policy. Students, alumni, faculty and staff are represented in name and literal capital by the policy dictated to DU-MAC and onto its subsidiary corporations.

The pooled investments DUMAC and its subsidiaries make on be-half of the University, the Duke Endow-ment and clients’ charitable remainder trusts must become entirely transparent. Due to the Supreme Court case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, money is legally recognized as speech; ergo, our University has been speaking a lot and, most likely, in an embarrassingly less-than-ethical capacity. Only with trans-parency can DUMAC be expected to avoid the pitfalls of fi nancially lucrative, but ethi-cally unacceptable investments.

This fall, HEI Workers Rising—a na-tionwide student-Labor campaign—has brought workers’ voices onto those college campuses with known endowment funding of HEI. Focusing on hotel and resort com-mercial properties, HEI runs three funds founded in 2004, 2006 and 2008 with in-vestment from 8, 7 and an undisclosed number of “the country’s most prestigious university endowments.” Due to student activism, Brown University announced that it will not reinvest in HEI until the univer-sity is confi dent that HEI respects workers’ rights. University of Pennsylvania has stat-ed publicly that it had no current plans to make future investments in HEI-sponsored funds. Recently, Yale—a principal investor of at least $119 million—announced that it will not re-invest in HEI.

While university investments have done very well, HEI workers have suffered great-ly. One janitor spoke of the present “sweat-shop mentality” at his HEI-operated hotel, but was hopeful that if the spotlight was bright enough, HEI might begin to treat its workers as “human beings, not machines.” Divestment efforts are currently underway at Harvard, Princeton and Notre Dame—other principle investors. Duke must im-mediately make an explicit refusal to invest in HEI and its current Labor stances.It is also very likely that Duke’s endowment in-vests in mountaintop removal coal, hydro-fracking natural gas, confl ict zone miner-als (currently there is a petition circulating to end this particular investment strategy), sweatshop organizations and oppressive state industrial complexes including, but not limited to, the United States. With the last fi scal year’s endowment return of 24.5 percent—in this economy, no less—who knows what DUMAC is investing in. Don’t get me wrong—I understand it’s currently all about the capital procurement. But if we want money at any cost, invest in a drug cartel—assuming we have not indirectly done so. It is past time that Duke makes clear what it stands for. What types of cor-porations are we a billboard for?

DUMAC pools its capital investments, but Duke—being the principal investor—calls the shots. We must identify the parti-tions in this pooled investment strategy to understand exactly where DUMAC’s mon-ey might come from:

The legally recognized University en-dowment provides the much-talked-about $5.7 billion.

Next, Duke Health’s “reserves”—also a non-profi t holding—contain several

subsidiaries, including an interesting fund titled “The Durham Casualty Com-pany,” currently located in Bermuda, that

at least partially represents Duke’s medical malprac-tice insurance.

DUMAC also manages faculty and staff pension funds, including retirement deductions and employee contributions.

DUMAC primarily fo-cuses its investments into other hedge funds. It does this directly and through companies founded by DU-

MAC to act in its interest. A few of these were reported by Ed Rickards in The Her-ald Sun in 2010: the Gothic Corporation and Gothic London which, in turn, run Blackwell Corporation and Gretmar Cor-poration. Further, incorporated holdings are located in Johannesburg, London and India, while some stateside are as near as real estate investor DCE Lucky Strike. Yes; this sounds like the logic of shell corpora-tions to me too, but we seem to be displac-ing risk—fi nancial and public relations—rather than capital.

In 2006, Connel Fullenkamp praised DUMAC’s ability to remove funding from the hedge fund Amaranth, months be-fore its collapse; Fullenkamp explained, “It’s a lot about having relationships and connections to know people in the indus-try and to be privy to information that is just not really known”—perhaps a poor choice of words.

Duke’s capital holdings should support our educational and health systems, not the other way around. Duke must invest in an environmentally sustainable future with companies that respect human and work-ers’ rights. DUMAC and subsidiary invest-ed hedge funds must be equally transpar-ent and in line with the University’s ethical standards. Invest in Durham directly and through local credit unions focusing on social groups.

Full transparency; call it a confession—painful but necessary. Doubtless, there are embarrassing investments. What use is a carbon neutral pledge with invest-ment in tar-sand oil, fracking and Appa-lachian coal? To provide a living wage to employees while investing in anti-worker corporations betrays our greed and true Labor stance.

Duke must terminate confl ict invest-ments—in all forms—immediately and, beyond an ethically acceptable investment system, we might just construct a socially active one that we are unashamed to bring to light.

Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior. This is his fi nal column of the semester.

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