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Obama to speak on Iraq risks,

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Volleyball comes home to Cameron , Page 9

onTherecord“[The government] is acting now to remedy this

pattern or practice of discrimination.” —Thomas Perez asst. att. gen. for Just. Dept. Civil Rights div. See story page 3

GHI to host ‘Pandemic 2011’ Forum

by Itzy SantillanTHE CHRONICLE

As part of an advertising campaign for the Winter Forum, Duke students may find themselves amid a group outfitted in Hazmat suits on the quad.

The Duke Global Health Institute will host this year’s conference from Jan. 9 to Jan. 11. “Pandemic 2011” will provide 100 students with the opportunity to learn about disease outbreaks and their ramifications for society. Applications are available online and must be completed by 5 p.m. Sept. 17.

“Pandemic 2011” is the University’s sec-ond Winter Forum. Last year, the Nicholas School of the Environment hosted “Mak-ing the Green Economy Work.” This year, about 20 more students will be able to par-ticipate, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education.

“For better or worse, pandemics will be a part of our future,” said David Boyd, as-sociate professor of the practice of global health and a key organizer of this year’s fo-rum. “As global citizens, we have a respon-sibility to learn how to prevent and control pandemic outbreaks.”

Universities are like incubators for dis-eases, particularly because students tend to

IOM solicited as external review body

by Sonia HaveleTHE CHRONICLE

A representative for the Institute of Medicine confirmed Monday that the or-ganization has been approached about

conducting an external scientific review of can-cer researcher Dr. Anil Potti’s work.

Although Duke Medi-cine officials said Aug. 16 that an agreement with an external review organization was near finalization, at the time Dr. Victor Dzau declined

to name the organization being hired, cit-ing a confidentiality agreement between Duke and the agency. Dzau is chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer for the Duke University Health System.

“All studies conducted by branches of the National Academy of Sciences, in-cluding the IOM, have to be approved by [NAS’s] governing board, and the re-quest for this [review] is going through

Group looks to improve student dining on and off campus

Anil Potti

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DUSDAC members discuss their goals at the group’s first meeting of the academic year.

by Sanette TanakaTHE CHRONICLE

This year, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee plans to im-prove on-campus eateries and raise aware-ness about the Durham food scene.

Co-Chairs Alex Klein and Andrew Schreiber, both seniors, outlined their goals at the DUSDAC meeting Monday night.

After the resolution of policy changes in Duke Dining in March, DUSDAC will now have more time to talk about food, Schreiber said. The restructuring of Dining, which is now overseen by Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, will also result in more discretionary funds for the group to pursue larger projects.

DUSDAC members will foster relation-ships with managers of on-campus eateries to gain a better understanding of food qual-ity and service, Schreiber added. Each mem-ber will be paired with at least one eatery in the next few weeks.

On the other hand, the committee will also concentrate on making information about

off-campus eateries available to students. Though a significant number of students

live off campus, DUSDAC has not catered to that sector of students in the past, said Klein, former online editor for The Chronicle.

“We haven’t done enough to evange-lize the Durham food scene,” he said. “I would love to make some sort of database of knowledge. That is a huge resource we can provide.”

Healthy options will continue to be a pri-ority as well.

“When we talk ‘healthy,’ it is not always low calorie,” said Franca Alphin, director of nutrition services at Student Health. “It’s all about the big picture.”

Changes such as the conversion of barbe-cue joint Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs into The Tower, a healthier grill-based restaurant, are a start, she added.

“Over the next three to five years, we are going to cut high-fructose options,” Alphin said. “Also, we have more and more students

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Students, faculty and alumni gathered for free food, drinks and gifts on Chapel Drive Monday for the Forever Duke Block Party, held annually on the first day of classes. SEE SOUNDOFF, PAGE 4

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BaGhdad — Vice President Joe Biden arrived here monday, planning to meet with senior politicians as iraq-is worry about the impact of the offi-cial end of u.s. combat operations in the country Tuesday.

Biden’s visit, his fifth since becoming vice president, comes as the u.s. mili-tary fulfills an obama administration pledge to drop to 50,000 troops in iraq by sept. 1. already, troop levels have declined to just under 50,000, though starting from more than 140,000 at the beginning of 2009.

many iraqis say they are concerned that the u.s. drawdown comes in the midst of a political impasse that has continued for nearly six months since national parliamentary elections and an increase in violence and distur-bances across the country.

WashinGTon — The american Civil liberties union and the Center for Consti-tutional rights filed a federal lawsuit mon-day challenging the u.s. government’s authority to target and kill u.s. citizens outside of war zones when they are sus-pected of involvement in terrorism.

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“The united states cannot simply execute people, including its own citizens, anywhere in the world based on its own say-so,” said Vince Warren, executive director of the Cen-ter for Constitutional rights.

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Capt. Casey thoreen converses with Iraqi soldiers in tal Afar in 2008. U.S. and Iraqi soldiers will gather in Baghdad Monday to mark the official end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq. thoreen, who spent the past nine years deployed, is now finishing a doctorate at Harvard and teaching at West Point.

“[new york Times’ Pete] Thamel, a predominately college sports writer, found more than a few connections to duke and the fiBa Championships, including an observa-tion that the heavily pro-slovenia crowd in instanbul’s abdi ipekçi arena was like a ‘chanting, green version of the one at Cameron indoor stadium.’ Thamel also saw head coach mike Krzyzewski to be a calm within the storm, even though, in his younger years, he would have thrown a chair after the u.s.’s listless first half.”

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The Justice Department filed another law-suit against immigration practices by Arizona authorities, saying Monday that a network of community colleges acted illegally in requir-ing noncitizens to provide their green cards before they could be hired for jobs.

The suit against the Phoenix area Mari-copa Community Colleges was filed less than two months after the Justice Department sued Arizona and Gov. Jan Brewer, R, over the state’s new immigration law. It also comes as the department is investigating Joe Arpaio, the sheriff in Maricopa County, who is known for tough immigration enforcement.

In Monday’s lawsuit, Justice officials said the colleges discriminated against nearly 250 noncitizen job applicants by mandating that they fill out more documents than required by law to prove their eligibility to work. That violated the federal Immigration and Nation-ality Act, the department said.

The law’s anti-discrimination provision “makes it unlawful to treat authorized work-ers differently during the hiring process based on their citizenship status,” said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for Justice’s Civil Rights Division. He said the government “is acting now to remedy this pattern or prac-tice of discrimination.”

Tom Gariepy, a spokesman for Maricopa Community Colleges—which operates 10 col-leges and two vocational training centers in and around Phoenix—declined to comment.

Justice Department officials said the law-suit is unrelated to the case against Brewer

and the probe of Arpaio and stems from a different investigation that began in Janu-ary 2009—the month the Obama adminis-tration took office.

It is the latest example of stepped-up en-forcement by the department’s Civil Rights Division, which has been reshaping itself after an exodus of lawyers during the Bush administration. It filed a similar lawsuit in April against John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

The lawsuit was filed Tuesday before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a Justice Department unit that adjudicates immigration cases. It was filed on behalf of Zainul Singaporewalla, a U.S. permanent resident who applied for a math teaching position at Glendale Community College, part of the Maricopa network.

After filling out a federal form attesting to his immigration status and producing a driver’s license and Social Security card, he was told to complete another form with more immigration-related information, the lawsuit said.

That form required other documents and his green card. When he couldn’t pres-ent his green card, the lawsuit said, the col-lege would not process his paperwork and declined to hire him.

The government is asking a judge with-in the Justice Department unit to order the Maricopa colleges to pay a civil penalty of $1,100 for each of the 247 non-U.S. -citizen job applicants it says were required to pro-duce the additional documents. It says the colleges ended the practice in January.

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Past, present and even future blue devils gathered yesterday in the middle of Chapel Drive to attend the Forever Duke Block Party, which was hosted by the Duke Alumni Association. Af-ter students recovered from the bittersweet shock of the first day of classes, Dukies of all ages were excited for a celebration on the wooded lawn of the Forlines House full of free food and drinks, class directories and free T-shirts—all with a backdrop of live music. The Chronicle’s Matt Gordon asked some of the attendees to comment on their favorite aspects of Forever Duke and their experiences with the Duke Alumni Association and the University in general.

“It’s time to, you know, spend time and meet with alumni and spend time as a school. It’s a good start to the year.”—Erica Kim, freshman

“I’ve seen different groups of people in differ-ent places, but I figured there would be friends here who I haven’t seen the last few days since I’ve gotten here.”—Emily Gall, sophomore

“We’re trying to revitalize [Black Student Alli-ance] this year and its presence on campus. That really means we’re trying to become more visible in more aspects of the University. This is an event that unites people from these various communities at Duke. Pretty much, we thought it would be impor-tant and effective to connect with people at such an event.”—Nana Asante, junior, BSA president

“I have the opportunity to create the things that I wish I had seen as a student.... We wanted to create an event that is a University-wide celebration to kick off the year because the freshmen have a lot of their own

orientation programs.... It’s a very family-friendly, fun environment.”—Kim Hanauer ’02, director of young alumni and student pro-grams for the DAA

“Before moving back to the area, I was living in Germany and then London. That’s what you get with a Duke degree.”—David Hoffman, Law ’93

“Free food.” —Cindy Choi, freshman

“Free food.”—Katie Baker, freshman

“Free food, but the free food was not as good as I expected.”—Max Jin, freshman

“Trying to come out, show our face, say, ‘Hi,’ show people that we’re friendly people, regular students, so we want to be amongst our peers.”—Nolan Smith, senior

“Today was the first day of class, and this is a fun event to come to. Some food, some drinks, some con-versation.”—Tyler Thornton, freshman

“I got the e-mail invitation and I wanted to catch up with [freshman Eason Abbott], my son, and his friends, both new and some of his former classmates.”—Mike Abbott, Fuqua ’83

“It wasn’t the beer; it was the beer steins. Something to remember Duke by.”—Loie Davis, senior

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History Department Feature CoursesHISTORY 105E – Native American History through AutobiographyMW 10:05 – 11:20 AM | CCI ~ R ~ W ~ CZ ~ SSProfessor Sarah DeutschThis summer, the Iroquois Nationals were prevented from participating in the Lacrosse World Championship because they traveled under passports of the Iroquois Confederacy, which crosses the U.S.-Canadian border. Nearly a century earlier, Dakota physician Charles Eastman wrote of his time as the Dartmouth College football captain, “It was here that I had most of my savage gentleness and native refinement knocked out of me.” Such Native American experiences defy conventional conceptions of race and nation. What does North American history look like from the vantage of more than 500 peoples who have viewed history from this space between tradition and adaptation, materiality and mythology, belonging and estrangement?

HISTORY 106S.01 – Indian CivilizationMW 10:05-11:20 | CCI ~ EI ~ W ~ CZ ~ SSProfessor J.R. FreemanA survey of the rise of civilization and successive kingdoms on the Indian subcontinent from the first urban centers of the Indus Valley, through the major classical and medieval kingdoms, down to the advent of Islamic cultures. Highlights the flows and interactions of peoples, technologies and ideas both within the Indic cultural sphere, and between this sphere and wider world of Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

HISTORY 103.05 – Asymmetric Warfare: Antiquity to AfghanistanWF 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM | Paul JohstonoThe U.S. military is currently engaged in two insurgencies which have presented significant challenges to the American war of war. This course will help students gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of insurgencies and the challenges of counter-insurgency. Insurgency represents the most common type of asymmetrical warfare; that is, armed conflict waged between significantly unequal sides. This course seeks to build a richer context for and more complete understanding of the dynamics of modern insurgency and asymmetrical warfare.

Social ClassesA photo essay by David Chou and Indu Ramesh

Blue devils of all ages congregated to spend time with each other mon-

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Spanish 149S.01 Literature & Film of the Caribbean Professor Francisco Adrian TTH 2:50-4:05 Lang 207 Freshman seminar explores texts and films from and about the Hispanic Caribbean, as a complex “region” at the crossroads of American, European and African history and politics, as well as an insular “space” of fantasy, economic inequalities and cultural diversity where global, transnational, and local narratives express some of the central predicaments of our present world.

Spanish 181S.01 Theorizing Latinidad Professor Claudia Milian TTH 4:25-5:40 Perkins 2-079 Examines theories and approaches to a “collective” U.S. Latina and Latino identity: the aims and ends of a “unifying” and singular concept of “Latinidad;” what creates Latinidad; how do Latinas and Latinos encounter one another when the assumption is that “they” are working towards “similar” interests and agendas? AAAS 199S/ LIT 162ZS/LSGS181S/ICS 131GS

Spanish 200S.03 Conceptual/Performative Methodologies of Visual Studies in the Americas Professor Esther Gabara T: 6:00-8:30 Perkins 2-085 Academic research in visual studies, or what are called “research-based practices” in contemporary art. This seminar seeks to go beyond artists’ writings and “interdisciplinarity” it explores methods of research outside the university, and forms of practice based in that research beyond the article, essay or book. AMI 298S.01, ArtHist 200S.03, LIT 255S.02

French 193.01 Creole/Kreyòl II Professor Deborah Jenson & Jacques Pierre TTH 2:50-4:05 119 Nasher Museum Ann pale Kreyòl will be supplemented by cultural units on the lyrics of Wyclef Jean’s “Welcome to Haiti Creole 101,” the Creole-dubbed version of the Jonathan Demme film “The Agronomist;” the “Marassa” or twins in vodou; a speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in Creole translation; and the child domestic worker/foster child or “Restavek” in Haiti. AAAS 193 ICS 182C

French 200S.04 Readings in Post-War French Theory: Sade, Bataille, Klossowski & Blanchot Professor Achille Mbembe TH 6:00-8:30 Languages 305 Seminar explores the enduring affinities between philosophy, psychoanalysis and literature in 20th C French thought. Post-war French philosophy in particular evinced a profound interest in the relationship between the creation of forms (non-figurative painting, new music, theatre, jazz, cinema) and the constitution of the human subject (sexuality, desire, writing and language). CULANTH 280S

ITALIAN Italian 113.01 Italian Lit III Jessica Otey WF 11:40-12:55 Perkins 2-065 Major writers of the Italian modern literary tradition (19th, 20th & 21st C). Poetry, fiction, theater, and essay. Taught in Italian.

Italian 131.01 The Italian American Experience Professor Luciana Fellin TTH 11:40-12:55 Perkins 2-088 What does Spike Lee have in common with Lady Gaga and the Sopranos? All three, in one way or another, as so many of the text and films in this course, deal with the representation of Italian Americans. Issues of identity, immigration, assimilation and stereotyping as they attempt to determine the place of Italian Americans in American and Italian societies.

FRENCH French 111S.01 Chinese in Paris: a “French” Identity in the Making Dana Chirila TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 211 In a sarcastic 1974 French comedy about the imaginary invasion of Paris by the Chinese army, there is a memorable scene of an adaptation of Bizet’s Carmen: Carmen is recast as a young Chinese communist, and Maoist fighters replace Spanish soldiers. But what really happens to French culture when it is “reinvented” by authors of Chinese origin?

French 141S.03 Upcast Eyes: Visuality & Approaches to the Real Professor Anne Gaëlle Saliot MW 2:50-4:05 Languages 207 In his 1993 ground-breaking work, Downcast Eyes. The Denigration of Vision in 20th C French Thought, Martin Jay examines what he identifies as a discourse of suspicion of vision and its role in the modern era. This ‘anti-vision’ tendency in French intellectual life paradoxically coexists with an obsession with visual phenomena and objects. How can we make sense of this paradox? C-L: French 200S.03

French 141S.04 Intro to Post-Colonial France Professor Achille Mbembe TTH 2:50-4:05 Perkins 2-059 This seminar examines the different ways in which postcolonial debates are addressed in contemporary France and analyzes some of the most vibrant cultural forms and practices now being forged by France’s postcolonial minorities, from literature and music to film, television, sports, visual arts and fashion. CA 180S.07

Italian 145S.01 Body, Anatomy & Gender Early Modern Period Professor Valeria Finucci TTH 2:50-4:05 Languages 305 Focuses on early modern conceptions of the human body and study of the period’s attitudes toward anatomy, sex, and gender-- and the discoveries and experimentations that a newly authorized practice of dissection brought about. MEDREN 161S, LIT146S

PORTUGUESE Ptg 113S.01 Intro to Brazilian Literature Aaron Lorenz WF 11:40-12:55 LSRC B105 Examines the major literary and performance traditions of 19th and 20th century Brazil. Topics include slavery, abolition, contemporary race relations, gender, sexuality, geography, class conflict and conciliation, authoritarianism and the struggle for democracy.

SPANISH Spanish 142S.02 Revolution in the Novel/ The Novel of Revolution Professor José María Rodríguez-García TTH 11:40-12:55 Lang 207 Between 1962 & 1987 many of the finest novels written in the history of Spain’s plurinational literatures were published. This dazzling display of literary pyrotechnics amounted to a “revolution in the novel.” SP 200S.02

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Obama’s speech focuses on risks in Iraqby Anne KornblutTHE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is promoting the decision to end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq Tuesday as a fulfillment of his campaign promise to draw the war to a close. But some of the president’s detractors are using the same moment to question the wisdom of doing so—noting that Iraq is still afflicted with vi-olence and has yet to form a government.

Obama will mark the occasion by flying to Fort Bliss, Texas, to meet with veterans. He will also deliver a prime-time Oval Of-fice speech—only his second since taking office. On Monday, the president visited Walter Reed hospital and awarded 11 Pur-

ple Hearts to combat veterans. Vice Presi-dent Joe Biden traveled to Iraq to amplify the message.

“Maybe he’s entitled to the partial victo-ry lap, but this is not the right moment for it,” said analyst Michael O’Hanlon of the Brookings Institution, who has been criti-cal of both Democratic and Republican ap-proaches to the war. “If I were him, I’d wait until we have an Iraqi government, and do it with the Iraqis together.”

O’Hanlon said he was “confused about the planned Oval Office speech.” It could raise unrealistic expectations among the public about the chances for calm in Iraq, he said. And the timing of the pullout may be seen as having more to do with the pres-

ident’s political needs than with real signs of progress on the ground.

White House officials said the speech, scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. and last 15 to 20 minutes, would acknowledge this week’s deadline as a “milestone” and pay tribute to the 1.5 million Americans who have served in Iraq since 2003. Obama will address shifting U.S. options now that the country is no longer technically at war in Iraq, including a greater empha-sis on Afghanistan and Pakistan—and the domestic economy.

Obama will say that “it’s time for Iraq to step up and take responsibility for security in the country,” one senior administration official said, and that “it’s time to rebalance

our resources when it comes to national se-curity and our economy.”

Obama will call former President George W. Bush before the speech, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said. He did not say whether Obama will give his predecessor credit for the surge as Repub-licans have demanded.

House Minority Leader John Boehner, in an opinion piece last week, assailed Obama for taking credit for the withdrawal. “While the administration continues seeking credit for ‘ending the combat mission’ in Iraq, it is important to remember that this transition was made possible by the very surge that President Obama and Vice President Biden opposed,” Boehner wrote.


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do a significant amount of traveling, Boyd said, adding that “viruses don’t need pass-ports, they just need airplanes.”

The conference’s first day will feature an opening ceremony and keynote speakers, including Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. Schuchat had a major role in preventing a widespread outbreak of the H1N1 virus last year, Boyd said.

Other speakers for “Pandemic 2011” will vary from Duke faculty to government officials and physicians, Boyd added. The agenda includes presentations about the impact of pandemics, group work among students and debates.

“This is going to be a very interactive conference,” said Geelea Seaford, assistant director for the DGHI communication de-partment.

DGHI began planning “Pandemic 2011” in February, creating an agenda they hope will appeal to a large portion of the student body, Boyd said. Part of that preparation was selecting required background read-ings for students, but Seaford noted that

the amount of work before the conference would not be unreasonable.

The Winter Forum concept is a collab-orative effort between the Office of Under-graduate Education and the University’s var-ious schools and institutes as part of Duke’s Quality Enhancement Plan. Each year, a dif-ferent school leads the forum. Its goal is to provide a venue to connect Duke students’ education with real life issues, Nowicki said.

Organizers are willing to expand the pro-gram in future years if more student interest is demonstrated, but they hope to maintain the intimate dynamic that was characteristic of last year’s forum, he added.

The Office of Undergraduate Education is currently discussing the idea of creating a committee of students and faculty to re-view proposals for future forums. Nowicki said he hopes that future proposals from the University’s individual schools will help broaden the topics available to students.

“I can see the Winter Forum becoming a valued and treasured Duke experience, so feedback from the students is important,” Nowicki said.

Next year’s forum will be hosted by the Kenan Institute for Ethics and will explore refugee issues, Nowicki added.

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coming in with gluten sensitivities. There are already gluten-free options on the [Stu-dent Health] website, so we are just going to expand on that.”

in other business:This past summer marked the transfor-

mation of the Faculty Commons’ former nighttime restaurant Upstairs at the Com-mons into Plate & Pitchfork —complete with new management and chefs.

The full-service eatery will also focus on healthier menu items. DUSDAC’s meet-ing concluded with members tasting sam-ples from Plate & Pitchfork’s soft opening menu, which debuted Monday.

“I’ve never been more excited in my four years at Duke about a new restaurant concept on campus,” Klein said. “I think they have the passion and skills to make that location not only a place for Duke stu-dents to enjoy food but for local Durham residents as well.”

Plate & Pitchfork will be open for din-ner Monday through Friday.

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that process and hasn’t yet been final-ized,” Christine Stencel, media relations officer for the IOM, wrote in an e-mail Monday. “But what this would entail if it’s approved is an examination of the scientific validity of the Potti predictive models and suggestions of criteria for determining when predictive tests based on genomic expression profiles have sufficient validity to provide a basis for clinical trials.”

Stencel added, however, that the man-ner in which the charge is addressed will be determined by the IOM’s appointed review committee.

The IOM, the “health arm” of the National Academy of Sciences, is an in-dependent, non-profit organization of scientists and researchers who provide advice on issues of health to policy and decision makers, according to the IOM website. The organization works outside of the government and takes on projects mandated by Congress as well as those re-quested by federal agencies and indepen-dent organizations such as Duke.

Duke commissioned an outside review of Potti’s work in late 2009 in response to questions about the safety of clinical trials based on Potti’s research. Although the clinical trials were reinstated on the com-pletion of the first investigation, recent con-cerns raised by scientists and allegations re-garding falsifications and embellishments in Potti’s resume have led to the second external review. According to a Duke News release Friday, an internal investigation of Potti’s resume did, in fact, find “issues of substantial concern.”

“That puts everything in a whole new light for me and for [Vice Dean for Re-

search] Dr. [Sally] Kornbluth and for Duke University,” said Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for medical affairs. Cuffe and Kornbluth signed the statement re-instating the clinical trials after the 2009 investigation.

Cuffe added that he still has faith in the review conducted last winter, but due to Potti’s resume allegations he has reason to question the manner in which the com-

munications between the outside reviewers and Potti occurred.

“I think in the end it has to be an un-biased third party that really looks at all this in a way that will provide an answer to everybody’s satisfaction—not what’s posted on a website, or put in a paper or anywhere in the public domain,” Cuffe said. “It’s really work of Ph.D.-level stat-isticians from an unimpeachable third party that will really give us the right an-swer here.”

Potti’s research was first called into question when biostatistician Keith Bag-gerly, associate professor of bioinformat-ics and computational biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Can-cer Center, published concerns in 2007, Baggerly said.

Cuffe said a “back and forth in the aca-

demic literature” regarding Potti’s work had been going on for a while, consistent with how new, ground-breaking research is often debated.

The situation changed in 2009, how-ever, when Baggerly and fellow biostatisti-cian Kevin Coombes published another article in the fourth issue of the 2009 vol-ume of Annals of Applied Statistics, which raised additional concerns suggesting

that Duke was putting the patients taking part in Potti’s clinical trials at risk, Cuffe added. Potti and his collaborator Joseph Nevins, director for the Center for Ap-plied Genomics and Technology, claimed to be able to use genomic technology to predict responses to chemotherapy for cancer patients.

“[Duke then] collaborated with the Na-tional Cancer Institute and with others to try and figure out how to best address this issue of patient safety, so we identified, to-gether with the NCI, a set of outside review-ers who could independently look at this work,” Cuffe said.

Cuffe declined to identify the outside reviewers, but according to The Cancer Letter, Duke’s Institutional Review Board for this matter turned to three directors of other cancer centers and an independent

panel of biostatisticians. In addition to temporarily suspend-

ing the three cancer clinical trials under Potti and Nevins, the reviewers were as-signed two specific tasks—to make sure that Potti and Nevins had addressed all of the published concerns by Baggerly and Coombes and to evaluate the issue of pa-tient safety and validity of their research, Cuffe said. The reviewers, who Cuffe said could communicate freely with Potti and Nevins and had complete access to their lab, concluded that although Potti and Nevins could have been more forth-coming and descriptive in the public lit-erature about their methods, they had adequately addressed all concerns that Baggerly and Coombes had brought for-ward. Moreover, the reviewers concluded that it was “very likely” that Potti and Nev-ins’s work would be a productive line of research, Cuffe added.

“In doing so, [Duke’s] Institutional Re-view Board reviewed [the findings] and [in January 2010] endorsed restarting the tri-als,” Cuffe said.

However, since then, additional issues have been brought forward, including more concerns raised by Baggerly and Coombes expressed through The Can-cer Letter, as well as a July 19 letter of concern signed by 33 other statisticians. The statisticians expressed their concern for the cancer patients taking part in the three reinstated clinical trials that were being funded by the Department of De-fense and Duke University. According to the letter, because of “the inability of independent experts to substantiate [claims made by Potti and Nevins] using the researchers’ own data,” it was “abso-lutely premature to use [their] predic-tion models to influence the therapeutic options open to cancer patients.”

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With blue-chip recruits like Sean Renfree, Chris Cusack feels that Duke is quickly becoming the new Stanford.

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after a weekend swing in Colorado, the blue Devils open their home campaign against Campbell tonight.

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Duke opens its home schedule today against Campbell after splitting a pair of matches against Colorado State and Colo-rado in the Coors Rocky Mountain Chal-lenge last weekend.

and after trav-eling hundreds of miles back and forth from the Rocky Mountains, Duke is glad to be back on familiar ground. The Blue Devils will continue their non-conference schedule against a Fighting

Camels squad that got swept in straight sets in each of their first three games.

after playing no. 17 Colorado State and facing more than 6,300 hostile fans Friday, squaring off against Campbell (0-3) at 7:00 p.m. in the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium might not seem like much of a challenge. Like Duke (1-1), the Fighting Camels have gone out of their way this season to face top-notch competition. They faced Vil-lanova, north Carolina and defending

national champion no. 1 penn State in the Carolina Classic august 27-28 in Chapel Hill.

additionally, Campbell won’t have to contend with the fatigue from traveling cross country. The Blue Devils didn’t get back from Colorado until 6:30 p.m. Sunday after traveling for the better part of a day. The Camels will have none of that jetlag.

Head coach Jolene nagel thinks the en-ergy of the home fans will counteract the travel fatigue. additionally, nagel said a favorable, and likely smaller, home crowd might also make Duke more consistent by removing the nerves that come from play-ing in front of the huge crowds at the Col-orado schools, where the volleyball games have large, boisterous student sections.

“When the home team begins to get momentum, the crowd really gets excited,” nagel said. “That can make a really big dif-ference. The Cameron Crazies can help us score points—they can get the other team intimidated.”

after an offensively inconsistent week-end in Colorado, the Blue Devils—who hit .346 in winning games compared to .080 in those they lost—will need to be more con-

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by Chris CusackTHe CHRonICLe

It’s been long established that the South—from Texas to the east—is home to the best football in the country, from pop Warner all the way through college.

The pedigree of the Southeastern Con-ference speaks for itself: SeC teams have won the last four BCS national titles and produced two of the last three Heisman Trophy winners. The aCC, not to be complete-

ly outdone, has storied programs such as Virginia Tech and Miami, which both made appearances in BCS title games in the last decade.

But despite all of this hardware, I’d like to believe I grew up in the purest of college football havens: Southern Califor-nia.

Contrary to popular belief, Los ange-les and the surrounding area turn out in huge numbers to see USC, albeit when the team is projected to win more than 10 games. Calling these people fair weather

fans would be an understatement, but who cares—people in Southern Califor-nia are fair weather about everything. Un-like any other major market, Los angeles has no nFL franchise—though many still cling to the Raiders.

That gap is what forces thousands to pack into high school stadiums all over the valley, or, as is the case with most foot-ball-seeking fans, pile into the L.a. Coli-seum for USC games.

But after high school, while many of my classmates loaded down their cars and headed down the road to become Tro-jans, I took the road less traveled—east to count down the days until Midnight Madness. Before I came, I hadn’t heard of the new football coach at Duke, the third of the decade, an offensive coordinator from Tennessee whose claim to fame was having both Manning brothers on speed dial. and while I was planning my trek to Durham, USC was fresh off a 32-point vic-tory over Illinois in the Rose Bowl. The cultures couldn’t have been any more dis-tinct. My friends were already buying tick-ets for the next Rose Bowl, while my new school had four wins in as many years.

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CuSaCk from page 9Behind Durant, Team USA survives Brazil scare

oh, how times have changed.While USC faces numerous allegations of agent tamper-

ing and is not the national power that it used to be, Duke has a bright future in which a bowl berth is more than the joke it would have been when I was in high school. I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have.

over the past three years, just a few hours north of the Coliseum, head coach Jim Harbaugh has taken Stanford from a one-win team that finished dead last in the pac-10 and turned it into a legitimate conference title contender. The 2009 second-place conference finish for the Cardinal would have been viewed as a flash in the pan in the recent past, but Harbaugh and Co. seem to be just beginning to tap into their potential.

How did Harbaugh turn a sunken program around so quickly?

He built the program through extensive in-state scout-ing and finding underrated recruits.

With academic standards higher than any in the Foot-ball Bowl Subdivision, building a winner is made all the more difficult. But Stanford has begun to steal recruits from in-state powers—like USC, simply from expanding their recruiting network in California. The Cardinal’s senior class was ranked no. 51 on Rivals.com, but the freshman class today is ranked 26th. The Blue Devils have not made quite as much progress —their first-year class is ranked six slots higher than its counterpart in 2007.

Duke’s strategy is similar. Cutcliffe and his coaches have begun to make in-roads into north Carolina terri-tory previously dominated by the Tar Heels and Wolfpack. plus, Cutcliffe’s quarterback coaching pedigree led Duke to steal Sean Renfree, the first blue-chipper of the new coach’s era.

Duke may still be a few years behind Stanford, but, if the similar strategies are any indicator, it’s clear the Blue Devils are heading in the right direction.

Still, as a high schooler, I never expected Duke to be bowl competitive while USC watched from home. But then again, it won’t really matter because even if the Trojans decline, those fair weather fans won’t care anyway.

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Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski survived yet anoth-er last-second shot attempt.

With 3.5 seconds remaining, Brazil’s Marcelo Huertas stood at the free throw line needing to sink both shots to take the game to overtime. after his second miss, Huertas collected the rebound and fired underneath to teammate Leandro Barbosa, who lift-ed a prayer over Kevin Love. and, just like Butler’s gordon Hayward’s last-second attempt four months ago, Barbosa’s shot barely missed, bouncing off the front and back of the rim as the United States held on to win its group B match of the FIBa World Champi-onship in Istanbul 70-68.

With the victory, Team USa improved to 3-0 and is all but assured to win its group, needing only a victory over Iran or Tunisia, the bottom two teams in group B, or another Brazil loss to earn the top seed. Kevin Durant paced the red, white and blue with 27 points and 10 re-bounds as the squad attempts to end its 16-year drought in the tournament and bring home the second champi-onship for Krzyzewski this year.

The win, needless to say, did not come easy.

“I said that I thought they had the character to win because it was not easy to win tonight,” Krzyzewski said. “They had to do it doing tough things.”

The U.S. trailed for the entire first half and took a 64-62 lead on Lamar odom’s dunk with 7:14 left in the third quarter. The team failed to build on its lead as the game wound down, with Billups knocking down the only basket in the last 6:50 in the game. Brazil had two chances to tie the game up in the last five seconds.

“I thought it was going to in, but it’s oK,” Barbosa said of his last-second shot. “I think we did a great job, it was a great game. I don’t think the USa knew that we could cause problems for them, and we did it.”

Krzyzewski, after making frequent use of his re-serves in Team USa’s first two wins over Croatia and Slovenia, played his starters for longer stretches after the backups were ineffective at shutting down Barbosa and teammates Marcus Vinicius and Tiago Splitter. Barbosa finished the game with 14 points, including two three-pointers to open the game. Vinicius added 16 and Splitter 13 with 10 rebounds in the losing effort for Brazil.

sistent in order to have a chance to win. Duke feels that shouldn’t be a problem, now that the team has had a chance to shake off some of the rust from the offseason.

Several Blue Devils have seemingly already found their peak form, most prominently senior middle blocker Becci Burling. In the Blue Devils’ last match, Burling matched her career-high with 18 kills and leads the team with 30 through

two games. Middle blockers amanda Robertson, a junior, and sophomore Christiana gray lead the team in hitting percentage after big games against Colorado. Some in the back line have also performed well so far, including fresh-man ali McCurdy, who has played like a veteran and made her mark early by contributing 29 digs. McCurdy has even outpaced preseason all-aCC libero senior Claire Smalzer, who has 23. Junior setter Kellie Catanach—another pre-season all-aCC pick—has done a solid job setting up the team’s offense and has 97 assists in nine sets this season.

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The court ruled Aug. 17 that charges against Davidson College student Julie Yencer, who was arrested by the school’s police force for driv-ing while impaired, should be thrown out. The case cit-ed Davidson’s historic ties to the Presbyterian Church and stated that its police depart-ment’s arrest power violated the separation of church and state mandated by the Con-stitution.

Since 1994, three private North Carolina schools—Davidson, Campbell Uni-versity and Pfeiffer Univer-sity—have had their police forces stripped of the abil-ity to make arrests by three

separate court rulings. All three cases

cited the schools’ religious affiliations.

A group of Durham law-yers is poised to launch a similar suit against Duke. The University maintains historic ties to the Methodist church that are largely symbolic. But even today, 24 of the 36 elect-ed members of the Board of Trustees are elected by Meth-odist Conferences and Duke’s current bylaws still include a significant emphasis on devel-oping Christian faith in union with knowledge. This makes

Duke especially vulnerable to the same legal challenge en-countered by Davidson.

In a purely practical sense, Yencer’s suit is wrongheaded—the University’s Methodist ties do not seem to affect the poli-cies of the DUPD. But there is no reason for Duke to use its resources fighting against Constitutional principle and established precedent. The University should immediately explore waysπ to bring Duke into line with the new ruling.

An empowered security force is vital to campus safety. DUPD presently acts as a neces-sary check to a sometimes rau-cous student body, but more importantly it works to protect the entire University com-munity from external threats. And DUPD’s perceived leni-ency is in fact based around the realization that it must

prioritize students’ safety. The Medical Center also requires a significant security presence because the broad population of patients it serves and visitors it attracts makes the hospital and clinic areas more vulner-able to crime.

Simply striking a deal with the Durham Police Depart-ment to take over the arrest duties of DUPD, like Camp-bell and Pfeiffer Universities have done, is not a sufficient solution. Durham is a much larger and more dangerous city than Buies Creek or Mis-enheimer, North Carolina. DPD lacks sufficient man-power to police both Duke and Durham, and Duke may find itself left behind as the DPD patrols more troubled hotspots in the Bull City.

Similarly, hiring more pri-vate security forces, like those

from AlliedBarton, with whom Duke currently contracts, will not cut it. Private security forc-es cannot make arrests and thus cannot address Duke’s security problems.

We don’t know what a so-lution would look like, but Duke should begin seeking an innovative solution right away. Perhaps existing DUPD resources can be reallocated under DPD in a way to ensure compliance with the ruling, or maybe Duke’s lawyers can exploit a loophole to remedy a problem that we view as largely semantic.

In tomorrow’s editorial we will examine Duke’s connec-tion to the Methodist Church from a broader perspective. But, for now, the University and its legal team need to get to work to maintain the secu-rity status quo.

I came to Duke expecting to emerge trium-phant. I would be the unstoppable heroine of my own fairytale, vanquishing the demons and

conquering the kingdom in four short years.

Although my college career has involved elements of the sur-real, reality has inevitably taken hold. I more often play the role of the wicked witch than the enchanted princess. And dur-ing this final chapter, instead of wrapping up all the loose ends into one big happy ending, I feel like I’m back at the beginning.

This first week of classes feels disappointingly like any other. Once again, unfamiliar faces sur-round me—only now, they’re younger rather than older. I am even less sure of my future plans than I was as a freshman. And I possess neither the aura of confidence nor the self-assured spring of step readily apparent in members of the senior class in years past and present.

I’d like to believe I was not living alone in this fantasy world when I first arrived at Duke.

For many undergraduates, regardless of year, the linear narrative of college doesn’t progress as anticipated. We don’t mature en masse from im-pressionable freshmen to self-possessed seniors. We don’t all glow with a collective sense of pur-pose, magically unearthed somewhere between East Campus and West Campus.

What I once considered the indisputable advan-tages of age on campus—a well-established group of friends, an academic specialization, an evolving sense of self—somehow make college more over-whelming than ever. Now that I have earned them, I recognize they each come with their respective liabilities.

Staking out a comfort zone on campus some-times makes the social landscape at Duke more complex, not less so. At first, you freely wander the uncharted territory. But gradually you start to walk the same familiar pathways, carefully navigat-ing around the bridges you have burned and the fences you have built.

In academics, we all expect our chosen majors and other areas of study to guide us toward spe-cific graduate schools or lucrative careers. But as

you gain in-depth knowledge of one subject, you often want to learn just as much about others. In attempting to narrow your fo-cus, you might instead find your-self looking out from a wider vantage point on the possibilities for life After Graduation. Rather than finding out exactly what you want, you find out what you don’t.

And all the while, you change who you think you are and how you want others to see you. Each time you realize you have misjudged another person, you will be prompted to wonder whether you have also misjudged yourself.

These self-realizations sting with a sudden slap or creep up in a slowly sinking feeling. You may start out as the hero of your own fairytale, but at some point you will see yourself as the vil-lain. Or even worse, you could fall somewhere in between.

This is the part where you start at the begin-ning again, stuck in a state of perpetual déjà vu. You work hard enough to become a decent ap-proximation of the person you think you want to be. You own up to your newly acknowledged fears and shortcomings, and you convey your newfound values and interests to your supporting cast of characters.

I haven’t written off the possibility of a fairytale ending just yet (sometimes self-delusion really is the best available coping mechanism). By all means, brace yourself for the exciting conclusion of “From Convocation to Commencement: Eliza French’s Path to Fame and Fortune.” But I re-alize now that to have a chance at Happily Ever After, you have to be willing to start from Once Upon a Time.

Eliza French is a Trinity senior. Her column runs ev-ery other Tuesday.

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Tomorrow night, the 17th Duke Student Govern-ment Senate convenes for the first time.

And you should care.That meeting is the closest thing Duke has to a start-

ing gun marking another round of student efforts to shape the rhythms and decisions of the University estab-lishment.

Wednesday’s Senate meeting is the coming out party of a new DSG admin-istration, led by President Mike Lefe-vre, and Thursday’s Campus Council meeting will be similarly symbolic for returning Campus Council President Stephen Temple as he begins his sec-ond term in office.

So what should we expect from our two most promi-nent student leaders this year?

The president of Campus Council is squarely fo-cused on making the students key players in the design and implementation of Duke’s return to the “house” residential model. The current “quad model” is based on large neighborhoods of dorms, as opposed to au-tonomous dorms with multi-year residents.

So far, Temple has approached this complex issue with a healthy dose of both realism and innovation. He is willing to move slowly into the new model, making sure we get it right the first time and don’t have to con-tinually tweak it for the next several years.

Any overhaul of a newly implemented system would no doubt be a disorderly process that would cause chronic uncertainty among students (What size limi-tations will houses observe? How will members be se-lected? What privileges over the space will they have?) and would allow ample opportunity for administrative rule changes to be made without meaningful student input.

Temple also knows that the transition to the house model transcends the traditional Campus Council com-mittee baronies, and so he said he created a Campus Council-wide working group of students to parallel the work of the administrative committee tackling the tran-sition. This innovative structure broadens the number of students participating in transition planning and gives Temple, and the administration, a necessary feed-back loop.

While the transition process seems well underway and students seem adequately represented in it, I have yet to hear a clearly articulated reason for why we need to move to the house model. And I haven’t heard why we expect this go around with it to be any more suc-cessful than the last round, which, remember, was aban-doned as a failure in favor of the quad model in 2002, soon after Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta arrived at Duke.

The absence of clear answers to these questions un-dermines the legitimacy of the transition.

Temple’s commitment to student input and his close involvement as a student leader with the planning process are exactly what we need from a Campus Coun-cil president. But he should find answers to those fun-

damental questions. And he should share them with the rest of us.

On the DSG side of things, Presi-dent Lefevre is also full of good ideas.

He knows that he will be judged in large measure by whether or not the increased dining fee levied last year and grudgingly accepted by students as an emergency tax actually is a one-year, one-time only fee increase.

We expect that fee to return to $20. If it does not, one of Lefevre’s major campaign

pledges will be proven empty. Lefevre, correctly, smells the huge potential of the

Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative to be a clarion call to action for student leaders and University administra-tors and a virtual super-incubator for important policy reforms. The new DSG president told me that as a stu-dent on financial aid, he wants to make the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid more of a resource to stu-dents, transforming what he perceives as a regulatory culture into one of support.

He also intends to wade boldly into the morass that is judicial affairs at Duke. Too often, administrators will seek student input only to disregard it during the final drafting of policy. The right way to negotiate with stu-dent conduct is not to pick individual policies and quib-ble with them, but rather to work with administrators to design a lasting process for writing and changing poli-cies that involves full student participation and consent.

Student government has been working to improve judicial affairs at Duke at least since 2006. Progress has been irregular and desultory. Students need this issue at the top of the DSG president’s agenda.

Fortunately for us, it is.This year will probably be one of retrenchment and

evaluation. We are unlikely to see any multimillion-dol-lar initiatives announced or big new capital construc-tion planned. This will be the year of the policy wonk.

Our leaders will need to revel in minutia to effective-ly tackle the large and policy-laden topics which domi-nate their agendas this year: the residential transition, socioeconomic diversity and student rights.

We require active student leaders with clear visions and realistic expectations. Lefevre and Temple are both experienced in the ways of campus politics and both bring a wealth of leadership and negotiating ex-perience to their respective presidencies.

Have high expectations for the year ahead.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior. His column runs every Tuesday.

While the official Tea Party estimates of Saturday’s rally attendance may range between a gajillion and the fafillion, the company CBS hired to

give an estimate placed the turnout at a respectably large 87,000, larger than the official estimates of turnout at last year’s 9/12 rally but no where near the estimated 1.8 mil-lion that attended Obama’s inauguration.

The number of people who showed up for Beck’s rally was also consider-ably smaller than the 1963 March for Jobs and Freedom, at which Mar-tin Luther King Jr. gave

his “I Have A Dream” speech and which Beck self-consciously styled his “restoring honor” event after, to the irritation of many liberals. The 1963 march drew around 200,000 people, according to contemporary estimates. The crowd then was considerably more diverse, had a leftist economic agenda and was orga-nized by admitted socialists who palled around with a number of other lefty types who likely would have ended up on Glenn Beck’s chalkboard back in the day. That crowd also was produced without the kind of financial support provided by Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity, and at a time when long-dis-tance communication tools were considerably more limited.

In fact, given the money and technology available to Beck, it feels like there should be a way to adjust for inflation when it comes to historical comparisons of crowd sizes. Imagine what King, the black church and labor movement could have done if they’d had access to the Internet and a television network.

The Million Man March in 1995, the last big event that similarly mixed a sort of vague spirituality with political criticism of the then-Republican majority’s congressional agenda, drew around 450,000 people, according to the lowest estimates. Louis Farrakhan’s relative obscurity other than as a right-wing bogey-man may also be instructive for liberals looking for some historical perspective. Ten years after position-ing himself as the de facto leader of black America, he was pretty much a non-factor politically.

All of which invites the question of why liberals wrung their hands so publicly over Beck’s spectacle, as though this even might actually dwarf the 1963 March on Washington in terms of historical and political sig-nificance. At this point, it’s obvious that Beck’s stunts have a self-conscious hint of irony to them. His in-creasingly messianic self-conception and his outsize comparisons between himself and important Ameri-can historical figures seem deliberately designed to make liberals issue angry public denunciations, which only increase his profile and solidify his stature in the conservative movement, where Pissing Off Liberals is actually more important than anything else. He’s figured out how this hustle works. What I don’t un-derstand is why liberals keep indulging him with their outrage.

Beck’s inversion of history, by which a people de-manding more supply-side tax cuts and a conservative takeover of Congress become the civil rights activists of their time, is too patently absurd to take seriously. The historical context of the 1963 march, the size of the crowd and MLK’s avowedly leftist social and eco-nomic politics make an enduring association between that event and this one impossible. The only people who should be genuinely angry about Beck’s event are the conservatives who have apparently decided to take the comparison to heart.

Democrats are going to get shellacked in Novem-ber because of the unemployment rate, not because Glenn Beck is leading a new civil rights movement for white people who don’t want to see the margin-al tax rate for people making more than $250,000 a year go any higher. Given the economic misery most Americans are feeling, it’s probably a testament to the enduring mistrust people have for Republicans that Beck, even with the help of the conservative move-ment’s biggest star, couldn’t draw a bigger crowd.

Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at The American Pros-pect. This column originally ran in the Washington Post on Monday.

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