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by Lauren CarrollTHe CHRonICLe

Delta Sigma phi held the very first frater-nity progressive on Duke’s campus 20 years ago, and the rush tradition still stands today.

But as the fraternity rush season begins, many students have brought to light the notorious nature of the progressive parties, which are known for their female hosts. often, the women are invited to drink hours before the party and instructed to entertain freshmen boys, the potential new members. Their tasks vary in severity from fraternity to fraternity—anything from bar-tending to providing sexual favors.

a panel of greek leaders and Women’s Center administrators gathered Tuesday eve-ning to discuss the controversy surrounding progressives. The forum, entitled “perspec-tives on progressives,” was sponsored by the newly-formed greek Women’s Initiative, a group of sorority and fraternity leaders whose goal is to raise awareness of challenges faced by greek women. about 30 students—mostly women—attended the session.

“When you speak to [sorority] leadership, most of us are on the same page in that we believe progressives are negatively affecting women, but [that is] not to say that everyone feels that way,” senior Bogna Brzezinska, president of panhellenic association and

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Dr. Marvin Swartz on gun control, Page 4

onTherecord“There is a false idea that we are somehow at war

with Muslims.” —Special Rep. to Muslim Communities Farah Pandith. See story page 3

NCI raised concerns after Duke review

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Documents reveal that the NCI continued to have doubts over a paper authored by Dr. Anil Potti even after a Duke review restarted clinical trials based on the research.

by Zachary TracerTHe CHRonICLe

Recently released documents show that federal researchers had more concerns than previously reported about the now-discredited cancer genomics research conducted by Dr. anil potti.

according to the documents, the na-tional Cancer Institute continued to raise questions about the research and its use as justification for clinical trials at Duke even

after a Duke review concluded in late De-cember 2009 that the trials could continue. The information in the nCI documents is another indication of the growing doubts about potti’s research in the months lead-ing up to his suspension and resignation.

nCI scientists reported in early June that they could not reproduce the results of a key research paper co-authored by potti that was being used to justify clini-cal trials, the documents show. The paper,

published in the Journal of Clinical on-cology in 2007, purported to use a genom-ic test to predict whether a chemotherapy drug known as cisplatin would be useful in treating an individual’s cancer.

“We have been unable to reproduce any of the results reported for the cispla-tin chemosensitivity predictor as they were presented in the [JCo] paper, which has

Panel debates women’s role in progressives

Marketing Club to host ’60s-themed party in Perkins

by Joanna LichterTHe CHRonICLe

after a year-long delay, students looking to trade in their notebooks for champagne flutes can do so next month at perkins library.

as the von der Heyden pavillion is transformed into a 1960s jazz lounge, students, faculty and staff attend-ing “Mad Men and Mad Women” Feb. 25 will have the opportunity to network with advertising and marketing professionals.

The Duke Marketing Club, in collaboration with the Duke University Union, the John W. Hartman Center for

DukeALERT texts now mandatory

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All students will now receive DukeALERT messages by text message, a change from the previous policy, which made it optional.

by Ashley MooneyTHe CHRonICLe

With the increasing popularity of text messaging, the DukeaLeRT system has undergone a change in policy.

Students will now be required to receive emergency notifications via text message, replacing the previous opt-in policy.

“During the last several years, text messaging has be-come an increasingly effective way to reach many mem-bers of the Duke community because so many people are constantly connected via their cell phones,” said paul grantham, assistant vice president of communica-tion services.

Receiving alerts via text message was optional until Dec. 20, when all students were required to provide their phone numbers as a part of the stan-dard student data verification process. The approxi-mately 4,000 employees who use Duke-purchased cell phones for business are also required to join the system.

DukeaLeRT, which added its text messaging option

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tunis, tunisia — tunisia’s interim president and prime minister resigned from the former ruling party tuesday, al-though not their leadership posts, hours after at least three ministers pulled out of the north african country’s day-old unity government. the move appeared intended to offset the effect of the min-isters’ resignations, which threatened to undermine efforts to quell continuing unrest here and launch an era of demo-cratic reforms that many hope could in-spire the arab world.

as curfew approached in this tense capital, pressure mounted for prime Min-ister Mohammed ghannoushi to also re-sign entirely from the government.

Washington, d.C. — the arrival of Chinese president hu Jintao in the unit-ed states brings him face to face with an obama administration that has grown more hard-nosed about the course of what is arguably the most important re-lationship the united states maintains with a foreign power.

analysts say hu is eager to burnish his legacy as a competent steward of China’s ties with the united states. but although obama entered office expressing a sense that together the united states and China had an opportunity to solve many of the world’s problems, hu will find an administration that views his gov-ernment with significant misgivings.

Obama admin. takes a firmer stance against China

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Consumer sales at high-end stores like Tiffany & Co. saw an increase at the beginning of the year due to a slight rebound in the stock market. However, although recent consumer purchases at high-end stores reflect big gains among high-income households, the financial woes of the rest of the country continue. unemployment is staying constant at about 9.6 percent—the highest rate since 1983.

“as apple Chief executive officer steve Jobs took an unexpected leave of absence Monday, tim Cook, Fuqua ‘88, will step up to run one of the world’s biggest technol-ogy company. this is the third time that Cook, apple’s Chief operating officer, will take the reins,. the Chronicle previously profiled the duke alum, who received his master’s in business administration from Fuqua school of business..’”

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Program offering support to new parents expands

by Kelly ScurryTHe CHRonICLe

parents of newborns in Durham can count on some help this year.

Since July 2008, Durham Connects has visited 1,713 families to ensure newborn well-being in half of Durham County. now, just two years after its ini-tial phase of visits, the organization has expanded to cover all of the county—providing essential services to thou-sands of families.

“The goal of Durham Connects is to visit every Durham parent who has had a baby,” said Jeannine Sato, the program’s director of the office of community re-sources. “Hospitals discharge new parents only days after a birth so the medical prac-titioners do not have much time to answer many questions.”

In 2004, kenneth Dodge, director of the Center for Child and Family policy, formed Durham Connects after recog-nizing the efforts of three organizations in the county. In collaborating with the Durham County Health Department, the Durham Family Initiative and the network of Care, he created Durham Connects to improve and expand the existing home-visit models for child welfare.

Dodge said that creating Durham Con-nects has been a goal of the Center for Child and Family policy since 2000. at the time, Durham had the highest incident rate of child abuse and neglect in the state, and north Carolina had a higher rate of child abuse than in the United

States as a whole, he said. When Dodge was approached by the

Duke endowment, the benefactor of the Durham Family Initiative, he created a team to discover ways to decrease abuse in the county.

“The Duke endowment came to me in 2000 stating it knew of the early child abuse in [Durham] and wondered if I would be interested in researching the problem and finding a solution,” Dodge said.

When Durham Connects made its first home visits in 2008, the organiza-tion only visited families with children born on even-numbered days of the year to test the program’s effects against the efforts of other groups, Dodge and Sato said.

Durham Connects begins helping a family after representatives from the Center for Child and Family policy con-tact parents with newborns in Durham, Dodge said. nurses from the Durham County Health Department then visit the family and provide resources for the overall well-being of the home. When the child reaches a certain age, he said the child starts participating in the east Durham Children’s Initiative, a program that collaborates with Durham Connects to provide adequate services for children until age 21.

although it has already experienced tremendous growth, the organization hopes to reach families in neighboring counties in the future.

Obama envoy discusses American-Muslim relations

See connects on page 6

by Michael ShammasTHe CHRonICLe

The obama administration wants to engage with Muslims around the world by building and sustaining connections within Islamic communities, said Farah pandith, first special representative to Muslim com-munities for the State Department.

pandith, who reports directly to Secre-tary of State Hillary Clinton, gave a speech titled “Muslim engagement in the 21st Century” to a packed audience in the San-ford School of public policy last night to convey the “new, important” challenges facing the United States’ relationship with the world’s Muslim community. The gov-ernment especially wants to reach out to Muslims under the age of 30 in order to fulfill its long-term goal of improving rela-tions, she noted.

pandith explained that the way in which the obama administration engages with Muslims differs slightly from the way in which the Bush administration did. The current administration is looking to en-gage with Muslims at a closer level than its predecessor, she said.

“This is a unique spot in time,” pandith said. “Therefore, it is vital that we think creatively about what is happening at the grassroots level in Muslim countries. We especially need to understand that what is happening around the world differs from city to city.”

She also encouraged students to be in-volved in changing the social dynamic be-tween Muslims and other religious groups

for the better, stressing that since 9/11 many Muslims have felt stigmatized.

The State Department wants to interact with those who feel discriminated against and go beyond the counter-terrorism as-pect of foreign relations, pandith said. She said she is especially concerned about the

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Farah Pandith, first special representative to Muslim communities, encouraged students to help improve relations between them and other religious groups.

See pandith on page 6

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Dr. Marvin Swartz is the head of Social and Community Psy-chiatry at the Duke University Medical Center. He has served as a consultant for The Washington Post and other media outlets following the Jan. 8 shooting in Tucson, Ariz., in which six were killed and 14 were injured. The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kan-dimalla sat down with Swartz to discuss the circumstances sur-rounding the incident and the shooter, Jared Loughner.

the chronicle: How can inflammatory political rheto-ric affect a mentally or emotionally unstable person like Jared Loughner?

dr. Marvin swartz: The environment in which people live can really shape their thinking. With someone who has

a serious mental illness, his or her environment definitely has an effect. It’s an indirect relationship.

tc: Do you consider public figures that engage in such rhetoric in any way responsible for such behavior?

Ms: no, not for his behavior. There’s certainly been a lot of inflammatory rhetoric, but I couldn’t draw a one-to-one relationship between that kind of rhetoric and his behavior.

tc: How does this incident compare to school or of-fice shootings in terms of the circumstances involving the shooter and the victims?

Ms: This is certainly a much higher profile case with the federal judge and [Rep. gabrielle giffords, D-ariz.] being victims. It draws a lot more attention. Mass shootings tend to draw people’s attention and scare them. The political undertone of this incident has made it more notorious.

tc: How should Loughner’s case be handled within the legal system?

Ms: The judge in the case will likely order a psychiatric evaluation of Loughner. Based on those results, his attor-ney can determine whether or not [Loughner] is mentally capable of standing trial. Loughner and his attorneys can try an insanity defense. a successful insanity defense is extremely rare though, and it doesn’t relieve culpability. Those who win an insanity defense are committed to men-tal institutions. In general, folks who plead insanity spend more time in mental institutions than they would with a regular prison sentence.

tc: Many Duke students are politically active and have heated discussions with one another. Do you see any Duke students acting as Loughner did to make a political state-ment?

Ms: no, I do not. [Loughner] is a very sick young man and apparently untreated. I would hope anyone here who sees someone who is obviously sick would assist him. at a place like Duke, folks like the faculty or other students will try to step in and help. The community college [that Loughner had attended] assessed that he was disturbed. He was then expelled. a lot of community colleges have

very few resources to be able to treat cases such as [Lough-ner’s].

tc: going forward, do you see a shift in political rheto-ric based on this incident?

Ms: Well, president [Barack] obama gave a speech calling for civility. It does appear to have toned down the inflammatory language for now. president obama set the tone and many political pundits seemed to have followed that lead.

tc: Can you suggest any long-term solutions to prevent a similar incident in the future?

Ms: I think there are some remedies and they have to do mostly with access to guns. We have to try to limit avail-ability to certain kinds of guns and large cartridges and in general have better enforcement of existing gun laws. We also need to make sure communities have the resources to help those who are mentally ill.

tc: Do existing gun laws do enough to prevent men-tally ill individuals from having access to guns?

Ms: With the [Brady Handgun Violence prevention act, a federal law enacted in 1994 requiring background checks of people looking purchase firearms], states can report people that have been committed [to mental in-stitutions] to a national database. It helps restrict access to guns being purchased at retail outlets, although there are restrictions for purchasing them at gun shows. I think proper enforcement of the Brady act would somewhat limit access to guns.

speCial to the ChroniCle

Dr. Marvin swartz, who has acted as a consultant for media after the Tuc-son shooting, advocates for stricter enforcement of gun control laws.

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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice presi-dential nominee who won re-election to the Senate in 2006 as an independent, plans to announce Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term, according to an aide.

once a stalwart member of the Democratic caucus and a leader in the party’s centrist wing, Lieberman (Conn.) has spent most of the past four years in partial exile - vot-ing with Democrats on organizational matters and some domestic issues while siding with Republicans on key issues of national security.

His estrangement from his party reached its apex when he backed Sen. John McCain, R-ariz., over Democrat Ba-rack obama in the 2008 presidential campaign, siding with a close friend and political soulmate over the nominee of a party that had been his home since he entered politics four decades earlier.

Lieberman, 68, has scheduled an announcement for Wednesday in his home town of Stamford, Conn. There, an aide said, he will cast himself as a politician in the mold of former president John F. kennedy, who inspired him to enter politics and who, in Lieberman’s rendering, was strong on national security, a centrist on economic issues and a liberal on social issues.

“He believes he’s been consistent with that legacy since in public life,” said Marshall Wittmann, his communica-tions director.

Lieberman achieved an important item on the liberal agenda, the repeal of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” prohibition, which was approved last month.

But even that victory was not enough to win back the full affection of many Democrats, who could not forgive him for his unwavering support of Republican president george W. Bush’s Iraq war policies and for his decision to back McCain.

Lieberman faced the prospect of a potentially difficult re-election campaign, including a competitive primary if he sought the Democratic nomination.

Instead, he decided to retire in two years, with the in-

tention of remaining active in public life. after four terms in the Senate, he decided he wanted to open a new chap-ter in his life, an aide said.

Lieberman’s statement Wednesday will come one day after an announcement by Sen. kent Conrad, D-n.D. that he will retire rather than face what could be a difficult re-election campaign in two years. His seat will become a prime prospect for a Republican takeover.

Connecticut, a perennially Democratic state, may pose a more difficult challenge for Republicans. Last novem-ber, the gop was frustrated in its hopes of picking up the Senate seat of Christopher Dodd (D), who retired in the face of a potentially difficult re-election race.

on Tuesday, lawmakers were consuming the news of Lieberman’s decision even before it was made official. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., who is considering a 2012 Senate bid, noted that Lieberman had a career with “a lot of twists and turns” but still was “one of the giants” in his state’s political history.

“Joe is like a family member to the state,” he said.Lieberman’s involvement in progressive politics began

as a college student, when he was active in the civil rights movement and went to Mississippi to help with voter regis-tration drives for african americans.

He began his rise in politics by winning election to the Connecticut Senate, defeating the body’s majority leader.

He later served as the state’s attorney general. In 1988, he challenged then-Sen. Lowell Weicker, a maverick Repub-lican who was considered the strong favorite. In an upset, Lieberman narrowly won.

In Washington, he became a leader of the party’s centrist wing, eventually chairing the Democratic Lead-ership Council. on foreign policy, he voted for the first persian gulf War resolution, in 1991, when many Democrats opposed it, and he has been one of Israel’s staunchest supporters.

In 2000, al gore chose Lieberman to be his vice presi-dential running mate, making Lieberman the first Jewish american on a major-party ticket. after Bush became pres-ident, Lieberman made clear that he thought the gore political team focused too much on class warfare. He and gore later broke more significantly on Iraq.

after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Lieberman helped engineer passage of the legislation that created the De-partment of Homeland Security and embraced Bush’s war in Iraq. It was that support that prompted a primary challenge in the 2006 Senate race from millionaire ned Lamont and a campaign that pitted the emerging progres-sive net roots of the Democratic party against the party’s former vice presidential nominee.

Lieberman lost that primary but announced immediately that he would run in the general election as an independent. Most of the Democratic establishment abandoned him, but when Republicans declined to put their full resources be-hind their nominee, Lieberman won re-election.

He said later that his 2006 race had freed him from the “tribal partisanship” that has come to dominate Washington.

“Being elected as an independent has encouraged me to do more what is right, rather than worrying about what it means politically in two years or four years,” he told The Washington post in June 2008.

While many point to that 2006 race as Lieberman’s seminal break with Democrats, he rejoined the caucus in 2007 without much fanfare, openly breaking from the party only when it came to the war in Iraq.

Lieberman to retire at end of term, will not run in 2012

“Being elected as an independent has encouraged me to do more what is right, rather than worrying about

what it means politically in two years or four years”

— Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator

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in 2008, also uses e-mail, emergency lines and its website to inform students and em-ployees of emergency situations.

about 8,000 individuals are currently signed up for the DukeaLeRT texting ser-vice, which is designed to update students in a quick and efficient way. With the im-plementation of the new policy, the system has as many as 12,000 additional phones to be registered, grantham said.

Several other schools, such as north Carolina State University, have devel-oped similar emergency text messaging services since the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.

Information collected during the re-cent winter storm gives evidence of an increasing number of people accessing emergency information from their phones. Web metrics show that the DukeaLeRT emergency website received 22,400 vis-its from Sunday to Wednesday last week. Sixteen percent of this traffic was from smartphone devices such as iphones and Blackberries, said grantham.

There are several concerns about making participation in the texting ser-vice mandatory. one is the cost of text messaging. Several people either do not

have texting or are not willing to pay the charges.

Some students were also concerned with their privacy when giving out their numbers.

“I feel like a student should not have to give up their phone number if they don’t want to,” freshman alex kazandjian said. “They can encourage you to use it, but I don’t think that they should make it man-datory. although at the same time I see where they are coming from.”

In a Duke news press release, the Uni-versity assures that the numbers collected will not be included in Duke’s online di-rectory.

“I think it’s a good thing because who doesn’t want to be aware when there is a crime on campus? as long as they don’t take advantage of DukeaLeRT by sending an excessive amount of messages, I think it’s fine,” freshman Minshu Deng said.

Despite these concerns, the Duke-aLeRT system still allows the University to communicate almost instantly with the Duke community regarding dangerous situations, increasing the safety on campus, grantham noted.

“If we have the opportunity to get a mes-sage out to people about a potentially dan-gerous situation, it just made sense to do it,” grantham said.

“at this time, we don’t have an efficient way to include infants born in orange and Wake counties, but we hope to one day cover the entire [Research Triangle area],” Sato added.

Dodge and Sato said the Center is conducting research to determine the effectiveness of the program in reducing

the incidents of child abuse and neglect in the Durham area by studying north Carolina statistics, hospital emergency room and admittance records and anon-ymous surveys from families and profes-sionals.

“eighty-six percent of families invited have chosen to participate.” Dodge admit-ted. “Hopefully that is a sign that the Dur-ham community sees Durham Connects as having a beneficial impact.

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been repeatedly cited as providing valida-tion for the predictor,” nCI statistician Lisa McShane wrote in the June report, which was sent to the Duke researchers and Vice Dean for Research Sally korn-bluth. “The data, computer code, and in-structions provided to us by Dr. potti did not enable us to reproduce the results in the paper, and we do not know why or when the methods were changed.”

The nCI recently provided the docu-ments to the Institute of Medicine as part of the IoM’s review of potti’s research at Duke’s Institute for genome Science and policy and similar studies. The IoM then released them to The Cancer Letter.

Several weeks after the nCI found it could not reproduce potti’s research, Duke researchers traveled to Maryland to meet with the nCI to discuss the organi-zation’s concerns. after the June 29 meet-ing, attended by kornbluth, IgSp Direc-tor Huntington Willard, potti and other researchers, concerns about potti’s data became more apparent.

“These interactions highlighted fur-ther lapses in data handling and analysis, and raised additional questions about the provenance of the data,” kornbluth and Dr. Michael Cuffe, vice president for med-ical affairs, wrote in a summary of events for the IoM.

after the meeting, the nCI continued to harbor doubts about the Duke research, according to the prepared speech of Mc-Shane at the first meeting of the IoM re-view committee in December.

“The meeting concluded with nCI re-maining unconvinced of the validity of the Duke predictors,” McShane said, accord-ing to the prepared remarks.

The clinical trials—including one funded in part by the nCI—continued, but the nCI requested that Duke provide it with the original data and computer code that might validate the researchers’ conclusions.

In an interview, McShane said that af-ter the June 29 meeting the nCI gave the Duke researchers a final chance to estab-lish the source and accuracy of their data and prove that their predictor worked. But that inquiry was soon overshadowed by the events that led to potti’s suspension and eventual resignation.

“The scientific discourse with the nCI and Dr. nevins and Dr. potti clearly was not reaching a resolution, and so when the [re-sume] allegations came out only two weeks later, it was pretty clear we needed to pause these trials and figure out whether we were on sound footing,” Cuffe said.

The paper that provided the scientific justification for the predictor was retract-ed in november because Duke research-ers could not reproduce its findings.

McShane was not the only one point-ing out problems in cancer genomics re-search conducted by potti.

Two biostatisticians from the Universi-ty of Texas MD anderson Cancer Center, keith Baggerly and kevin Coombes, also examined research conducted by potti and others at Duke and encountered problems similar to those identified by the nCI. Their concerns that those prob-lems could lead to patient harm, echoed by the nCI, helped prompt the 2009 Duke review of clinical trials based on the research. But Duke officials did not pro-vide biostatistics reviewers with a report from Baggerly and Coombes containing evidence of additional research flaws, and the reviewers ultimately approved re-opening the clincal trials. Baggerly said

he is confident that had the reviewers been given the report, the data problems would have been spotted.

The administrators responsible for the review, including Institutional Review Board Chair Dr. John Harrelson, decided not to forward the report to the biostatisti-cians in order to preserve their objectivity, Harrelson said. He noted that the biostat-isticians were provided with the articles Baggerly and Coombes had published criticizing the research.

“our concern was to have an unbiased review of the data and to not have the ac-cuser try the defendant,” Harrelson said

But Baggerly said the november 2009 report contained information not avail-able elsewhere. He pointed out that the analysis was based on new information the Duke researchers posted online in early november.

He noted that even as Duke was inves-tigating the research of nevins and potti, the researchers continued to post incor-rect data online.

“What we have is documented proof that the data is wrong as the investigation is underway,” Baggerly said. “Indeed, it’s wrong for two drugs that they’re using in clinical trials for two years.”

Harrelson said that given what he and other administrators knew at the time, the decision not to give the report to the re-viewers was the right one. He said the rea-son the review failed to detect problems was that the researchers did not provide the biostatisticians with all of their raw data.

“our request to the investigators at Duke was that the reviewers be provided with all of the source data,” Harrelson said. “It turns out that they were not, and that’s what lead to the subsequent con-cern and the retraction of the papers by Dr. nevins.”

“us-versus-them” mentality that many be-lieve the United States has with Muslim countries and noted that the State Depart-ment hopes that by engaging with young Muslims it can serve as an outlet to hear their concerns.

“We understand that we are at war with al Qaeda, but at the same time that is not the only way we should engage with the Muslim community,” pandith said “There is a false idea that we are somehow at war with Muslims.”

pandith said that the way in which young Muslims develop will affect the United States. Indeed, Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and claims nearly a fourth of the world’s people.

“The narratives that are affecting young [Muslims] as they form their iden-tities should be of concern to us,” said pandith. “There are not enough voices to facilitate talk between different young people. We hope to encourage innova-tion and discussion to help young Mus-lims make a better world.”

after speaking for about 15 minutes, pandith spent 45 minutes taking questions from professors, students and faculty mem-bers within the audience.

Sophomore Chris Carroll said he at-tended the speech because the country’s relationship with Muslims is an important component of U.S. foreign policy.

“I liked the speech and thought Farah was a very impressive diplomat,” he said, “But she was very bureaucratic in her statements. I would have liked to have heard her talk more about how she cements the relationships that she forms with the people she meets around the world.”

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Mike Bell had lost a contact lens ear-lier in his match against North Carolina’s Danny Lopes, but he didn’t need 20-20

vision to score Duke’s best vic-tory of the night.

The 141-pound senior pinned

Lopes with 41 seconds remaining in the match, providing one of the lone bright spots for the Blue Devils (1-2, 0-1 in the ACC) in their 33-9 loss to the Tar Heels Tuesday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“I was completely surprised because I had lost my contacts and I couldn’t see so hot already, and when [the referee] called it I thought it was potentially dangerous because of the way we were scrambling,” Bell said. “It looked like a weird situation but we actually do practice that type of position.... So when he tried to roll under my leg I turned my toe up, and turning your toe up keeps him from going back and forth. He made the mistake of trying to roll and I just kind of caught him.”

Bell’s victory provided Duke with six of

The beginning of 2011 hasn’t been especially kind to Mike Krzyzewski and his team. The Blue Devils won a dog-fight against Maryland in Cameron, then lost to Florida State on the road,

and looked lost for nearly 30 minutes against Virginia.

But perhaps some simple New Year’s resolutions will help Duke get back to its former No. 1 ranking. Us-

ing some basic statistics, it’s not hard to identify some goals that might help the Blue Devils as the calendar moves toward March.

The first number we’ll use is “of-fensive rating.” It takes into account many different ways players contribute to scoring, from made field goals to offensive rebounds to turnovers—and

it spits out one number that expresses how much offense a player generates per possession.

Because it’s a per possession stat, though, offensive rating doesn’t mean much on its own. Instead, the key to offensive stardom in basketball is com-bining a high offensive rating with a high usage rate, which measures the percentage of a team’s possessions that end with the ball in the hands of a particular player, because that player shoots or turns the ball over. So the best players are the ones who not only have a high offensive rating, but who are involved often enough to have a high usage rate.

Here, then, is a chart to illustrate the relationship between these two sta-tistics—usage and offensive rating—for each Blue Devil player:

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N.C. State is never portrayed as Duke’s fiercest in-state rival, but nobody has both-ered to inform Tracy Smith of that.

He took down the Blue Devils last year with a dominating 23-point performance and hopes to inflict similar pain on his crosstown rivals when they meet at the RBC Center tonight at 7 p.m.

After defeating Jordan Williams of Maryland and more recently losing to Seminoles’ forward Chris Singleton, Duke will be playing another conference game against a powerful big man. These games have exposed the Blue Devils’ need to de-fend the post, and they have analyzed their performances to formulate a game plan against Smith.

“I would say [N.C. State is] closer to the style of Maryland with Tracy Smith,” asso-ciate head coach Chris Collins said. “They have some good young athletes, and they have a dominant big man who is the focal point of what they do.”

Although the Wolfpack (11-6, 1-2 in the ACC) have struggled as of late, losing two consecutive road games to ACC opponents Boston College and Florida State, the team is starting to find its rhythm. Smith missed 10 games earlier in the season and is only recently approaching the minutes that he averaged last year in his junior season.

In the paint, Smith is joined by fresh-man forward C.J. Leslie, who stepped up in Smith’s absence and is averaging 11.1

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its nine total team points, and he temporar-ily kept the Blue Devils in the match after they fell behind 12-0 due to forfeits at both the 125 and 133-pound weight classes.

Yet the Tar Heels (6-5, 1-1) quickly ral-lied and reeled off six consecutive victo-ries, the first three of which were major decisions that each added four points to North Carolina’s overall score. Red-shirt freshman Bret Klopp—ranked No. 32 in the nation at 174 pounds—tried to stop the bleeding against Thomas Ferguson. Klopp had registered a team-best 13 pins heading into the match, but he failed to mount an effective at-tack against Ferguson, and it was clear the match would go the distance.

Klopp trailed 8-4 heading into the fi-nal period and never managed to close the gap, ultimately dropping his first dual match of the season by a score of 9-4.

“We weren’t very aggressive,” Bell said of Duke’s performance on the night. “We went out and we wrestled Davidson [on the road] last week, and our guys were just machines, they were tearing people’s

heads off, and tonight UNC took the first shot on us every single match.”

The lack of aggression continued at 184 pounds, where redshirt sophomore Diego Bencomo narrowly lost to No. 28 Antonio giorgio 7-5. Bencomo owns 16 wins on the season, second-most on the team, yet giorgio gave him all he could handle. Bencomo trailed 6-3 in the third period and had yet to make a strong move against giorgio, but he finally took a shot with only 13 seconds left in the match. Bencomo could not put giorgio on his back, however, and only came away with a two-point take-down as time expired—not enough for the victory.

Redshirt sophomore Andrew Fulk gave the Blue Devils their second and final win of the night at the heavyweight spot, but the three-point decision over Ben Brooks was not nearly enough to close the overall 27-point gap in team scores.

“Overall they fought really hard,” Duke head coach Clar Anderson said. “Techni-cally we probably wrestled to what [North Carolina] anticipated, but it’s obviously dis-appointing.”

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points, eight rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game on the season. Despite the freshman’s recent success, Collins sin-gled out Smith as the player the Blue Devils need to stop.

“He’s an elite player in our confer-ence. He’s very hard to guard one-on-one,” Collins said. “Whenever he gets the ball down low he commands double teams, and he’s a good passer from the post, so those guys on the outside become difficult to defend.”

The perimeter player to watch for is sophomore forward Scott Wood, who benefits the most from the attention in-side. Wood is an elite 3-point shooter, having made 46 treys on the season—more than any Duke player. Also on the perimeter is freshman point guard Ryan Harrow, who has experienced growing

pains in his inaugural year and is not a threat from downtown like Wood.

How Duke (16-1, 3-1) will defend Smith to prevent N.C. State from capi-talizing from outside is the major ques-tion. Ryan Kelly, the plumlees and Kyle Singler, who saw minutes against Mary-land essentially playing the five, are all going to have to contribute to contain the powerful forward.

“It’s going to be more of a commit-tee. Obviously to start the game Mason will have that responsibility,” Collins said. “But obviously Ryan, Miles [will] too. We never want to have one guy stop one play-er, it’s a team effort.”

Ultimately, the type of lineup that Duke plays will not only decide the pace of the game, but also how they defend Smith.

“We don’t want to play Kyle at center, but if the game situation calls for a small-er lineup, we’ll do that,” Collins said.

So, what does this show us? The top-right quadrant shows the offen-

sive stars: high efficiency and high usage. These players are good scorers, and are very involved in the offense.

Move to the top left, and you’re looking at the players with the most to gain from re-solving to get more involved in the offense. These are the guys with the greatest poten-tial to become bigger cogs in the offensive machine.

In the bottom left, we find the team’s “role players,” who don’t score particular-ly efficiently, but who also aren’t playing outside themselves and aren’t using lots of possessions.

The final quadrant, on the bottom right, gives a testament to head coach Mike Krzyzewski, in that no players appear here, which is where the low-efficiency, high-us-age players would show up. These are play-ers who aren’t especially good scorers but who nonetheless use lots of the team’s pos-sessions. Krzyzewski’s players know their roles so well that no one is trying to score more than he’s able to.

This gives a picture of where things stand, but in making resolutions, it’s criti-cal to look at what could improve. Here are four players that could really benefit themselves and their team by improving a certain area of their game.

1. Mason Plumlee: Work on free throw shooting until blue in the face. It’s no surprise to see rookies Josh Hairston and Tyler Thornton in the “role player” quad-rant; nor is it odd that workmanlike junior Miles plumlee is down there. But Mason has started 12 of 17 games and has been counted on to fill a scoring role in the paint. Mason is a monster on the defen-sive glass, and a good offensive rebounder as well, but his efficiency is held down by his dismal 42.2 percent performance at the charity stripe. Better finishing inside and more made free throws would turn plumlee into a reliable offensive threat.

2. andre Dawkins: Keep looking for your shot. Dawkins’s offensive rating

currently ranks 13th in the country, as he’s absolutely shooting lights out: 47.7 percent from beyond the arc, 68.6 per-cent on two-point shots, and over 80 per-cent from the line. It’s icing on the cake that he rarely turns the ball over (just 15 turnovers in 441 minutes). But in spite of that productivity, his usage rate ranks second-to-last on the team, ahead of only Thornton. His role has increased since Kyrie Irving got hurt, and his per-formance on Saturday against Virginia showed that he’s ready to take more of a leadership role for his team. It’s impos-sible to expect Dawkins to keep making shots at such high rates, but if he can resolve to keep on shooting, he’ll be a massive asset on offense.

3. seth curry: get to the rim more and finish better. Curry’s making better than 40 percent of his shots from beyond the arc, and he’s an 85 percent marks-man from the free-throw line. He’s been effective bringing the ball up (30 assists to 16 turnovers) and he’s been a pesky defender, tied for the team lead with 24 steals. His Achilles’ heel, though, is two-point shooting: He’s made just 14 of his 43 two-point attempts (32.6 percent). If he can improve that number, he could earn his way into the starting lineup at point guard.

4. ryan Kelly: Fill the void Duke has as an inside scoring threat. Kelly is nowhere near the rebounder that fellow sophomore Mason plumlee is, but he’s blocked just four less shots despite playing 127 less minutes. On offense, though, he shoots better near the rim (56 percent from two-point range compared to Mason’s 55 percent) but adds a three-point threat (32 percent despite a recent shooting slump) and a good free-throw stroke at 86.7 percent. If plumlee doesn’t step up to become the inside scor-ing threat many have expected him to be, perhaps Kelly can inherit that role.

These four have shown serious poten-tial and could improve their games with a few of these adjustments. Duke will get a boost if they make good on its New Year’s resolutions.

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When it comes to Duke’s eLearning software, it looks like something new is on the menu.

The Arts and Sciences Council announced last week that Sakai Col-laboration and Learning Envi-ronment would replace Black-board Academic Suite Version 8 by the summer of 2012. More than 350 educational organiza-tions are using Sakai, according to the company’s website, and Duke is looking to join them.

This is good news for faculty and students who have felt that Blackboard—true to its antiquat-ed name—is clunky, aesthetically unappealing and confusing to use. The location of documents, such as syllabi, tends to be incon-sistent. The e-mailing capabilities of Blackboard are cumbersome,

and it takes some effort to e-mail specific groups of students. Most importantly, the discussion boards are defunct and do not provide an intuitive interface for class collaboration.

As such, Blackboard re-mains under-

utilized with many professors preferring to forego the system altogether.

Sakai, named for a famous “Iron Chef,” appears more promising in terms of encour-aging collaboration. Accord-ing to Learning Solutions Magazine, learning manage-ment systems like Blackboard tend to limit the amount of student involvement in the on-line environment. The profes-sor usually uploads documents and issues announcements. Students are left to simply re-

ceive information.Sakai, on the other hand, is a

collaborative learning environ-ment designed to increase stu-dent involvement by facilitating group discussions. It allows stu-dents to create their own groups and makes it easier for them to upload documents. Educators at the University of North Caro-lina at Chapel Hill have praised its cleaner look and more intui-tive functionality, according to The Daily Tar Heel.

Additionally, Sakai offers a portfolio tool that allows stu-dents and professors to cre-ate collections of their work, which would be helpful for seniors looking for post-grad-uation opportunities and stu-dents looking to gain a more in-depth understanding of their professors’ work.

As with all system overhauls,

there will be an added time cost as faculty and students learn how to use Sakai. Tracy Futhey, vice president for Information Technology and chief informa-tion officer, noted that there were some limitations to Sakai. The Daily Tar Heel reports that several UNC professors com-plained about not being able to separate notifications by class section.

Still, Sakai poses a great ben-efit because it is run on open source software. As Ed Gomes, senior associate dean of Trin-ity College Technology Services said, there is much potential for Duke to expand its eLearning system in order to accommo-date its international ambitions.

With campuses in Singa-pore and China, it will be vital for Duke to create a system that can support collaboration

among different locations. Other schools have been suc-cessful in the modification pro-cess. According to FutureGov Asia Pacific, Oxford University recently altered Sakai software to create virtual learning en-vironments in which students can access online lectures and manage their course materials.

Sakai will enable techni-cians to tailor the eLearning environment to Duke’s needs. The fact that faculty and staff will be able to access it on iPads and mobile phones is an added upgrade. Perhaps Sakai can ac-company an overhaul of ACES to create a more elegant course selection system as well.

Ultimately, Sakai’s flexibil-ity and potential for expansion should encourage broader and more efficient participation in Duke’s eLearning community.

“What is he doing lifting at my bench press?” “What is she doing running on my elliptical?” If you’ve visited the

gym since coming back from winter break, you’ve probably asked your-self the same types of questions that I have. You’ve probably wondered why it is that these other people think that they have a right to in-trude on your turf.

Why do we find so many at the gym at the start of a new semester? Is it to fulfill a New Years’ resolu-tion? Is it so that they can add an-other fro-yo to their daily intake? Or maybe they work out simply to ensure that all of us, their peers, can confirm that they have, in fact, committed their five days weekly to the gym, thereby fulfilling the standard requirements of a Duke student.

Unfortunately, I do not have definitive answers to any of these questions. But I do have something else to consider: 12 miles down the road at UNC Chapel Hill, there is not as noticeable a difference in the amount of people working out at the begin-ning of the semester than other times during the semester. Of course, with 18,000 Tar Heels compet-ing for recreation equipment, it is always challeng-ing to find a free piece of equipment, but the first couple weeks of the semester are not particularly frustrating. This is one of many differences I’ve learned about between Duke and UNC that I hope to convey during the duration of this column.

One thing that most Duke and UNC students share is an abundance of free time at the begin-ning of the semester—free time that many of us at Duke devote to stair climbers and stationary bikes. I believe we initially allocate our time to our physi-cal fitness because it doesn’t compete for our time with papers and tests that could affect our grades at other times of the semester.

Prioritizing goals makes sense, to an extent. But it is also important to manage our time stra-tegically so that we make time for what really mat-ters to us.

Visit UNC’s main quad any time of year, making sure not to sip from the Old Well fountain—they say it’s bad luck for Duke students—and you’re sure to see people tossing around a Frisbee, read-ing a novel, or tanning on warmer days. In the Student Center, there are always crowds chatting

around the big screen TVs featuring CNN and ESPN. And you often have to wait to play on the tennis and basketball courts when it gets warmer.

But how do they do it? Your first reaction was probably to assume that UNC students have less work than Duke students. From firsthand experience, however, I can tell you that this is not the case. Although individual classes may involve less work, a typical UNC student takes five to six courses in a semester, compared to a Duke student’s four, resulting in significantly more time spent in the classroom. Overall,

UNC students spend an equivalent amount of time to Duke students on readings, writings and problem sets.

Rather, it seems that UNC students choose to enjoy the simple pleasures in life while simul-taneously getting their work done because they have perspective on their college experience that many of us lack. For them, college is not just a place to earn a diploma that will advance you to the next stage; college is a place where you actu-ally live, in the fullest sense of the word, for four wholesome years. Instead of investing every free moment in a materially productive activity, they are willing to spend time on more personally meaningful pursuits.

We don’t live in a vacuum. Grades matter. In-ternships matter. Admission tests matter. We can’t do anything about that. But we have the ability to make time throughout our college experience for other experiences that are personally meaningful to us. Think about the ways that you might not be investing your time properly and how you might be able to squeeze in time for the wealth of other activities whose payoffs may be intangible but no less valuable. Here’s a hint: They’re probably the sorts of things you’re doing right now as you wait for classes to pick up.

So consider keeping up your daily visits to Wil-son and Brodie. If it’s something that’s important to you, I encourage you to do it, even if it means that I have to wait to get on my treadmill in front of my ESPN TV that nobody else would dare to use during my 10 a.m. time slot.

Chris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson Scholar. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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When I was an undergrad, I used to have this re-current dream.

I dreamt that I was graduating. It was graduation weekend, and my fam-

ily was there, and everyone was proud of me. I had good grades and a spot lined up in medical school. I should have been happy, but I wasn’t.

Every time I woke up from this dream, I was incredibly sad. Then I realized it was only a dream, and I felt much better.

Of course, my nightmare eventually be-came a reality: I graduated. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but it was still kind of de-pressing. You know how they say college is the best four years of your life? Hopefully that’s not true, but it’s certainly better than medical school.

As it turns out, what I missed most about college (aside from the dozens of hours per week I spent procrastinat-ing, watching Saved by the Bell reruns and playing video games) was living side by side with my closest friends (with whom I mostly procrastinated, watched Saved by the Bell reruns and played video games).

So you’ve got to believe I was thrilled by the chance to spend this weekend skiing with 16 of my closest friends from college.

And as it turns out, you can go home again.Aside from the fact that a couple of my old college

buddies could probably find the entire contents of my bank account in their couch cushions, nothing had changed. We made the same jokes, rehashed the same stupid stories and made fun of each other for the same old things. We even re-fought some of our old wrestling matches—only now we had two near-doctors to check on the losers and a few bankers to set odds. Those of us with work to do procrastinated like it was 2006. If TBS were still showing Saved by the Bell reruns, we would have watched; if the house we were staying in had a PS2, we would have played.

Each of us, no matter what we had done in the four intervening years, stepped right back into our old roles. Those who did best in college were still the smart ones; those who partied the most in college were still the crazy

ones, regardless of any lifestyle changes they had made.Of course there were some changes: Instead of taking

bets on who would be first to get engaged, we paid off those bets. We wagered on who would be the first to have a kid, then cringed as we imagined our irresponsible buddy as a parent.

I talked to my father about the week-end, and he nodded knowingly. “It’s the same way when my friends and I get to-gether,” he said, “and we’ve been out of college for 30 years.”

So hopefully I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

In all seriousness, Duke has given me a lot of gifts. An education, a ticket into a career as a doc-tor, some memories, a million free T-shirts. (And all it cost was nearly half a million dollars in tuition and fees plus a $20.07 senior gift!)

But mostly, Duke gave me friends, people to whom I intend to stay close for a long, long time. This is the great-est gift of all. I’m on campus all the time, and the Gothic Wonderland is nice. But a house in the Poconos filled with my friends really felt like home.

Because I’m not exactly the most outgoing person, I made my close friends through my fraternity, through random mornings spent watching TBS reruns and SportsCenter and impromptu hallway hockey games at night. Other people make friends in other ways— in class, at club meetings, in the cage in Shooters. It doesn’t matter how you do it.

But whether you have 18 weeks or three and a half years as an undergrad, make some friends. Work on the friendships you’ve already made. Share some common experiences because you’ll laugh at those memories in the future.

Your own graduation nightmare will come true all too soon, and those friendships will be the only link you’ll have to some of the best years of your life.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

Homecoming

I’d like to start out by making clear that I do not envy Pratt students for a second. As many peo-ple would tell you, students in the Pratt School

of Engineering have a very intense course load with little flexibil-ity for elective courses. But that doesn’t neces-sarily mean that every-thing is fine and dandy for the students in the Trinity College of Arts, Sciences and Unneces-sarily Complicated and Extensive General Edu-cation Requirements.

Academic Requirements for Trinity students are governed by a nifty thing called Curriculum 2000, which mandates us to take at least two classes in each of the five Areas of Knowledge and three Modes of Inquiry, not including Foreign Language, Writing and Research Modes of Inquiry requirements. Now, if this all sounds confusing, that’s because it is. Don’t worry though; there is a program on ACES under the “Future Plans” tab that helps you sort it all out! That’s right, they had to make a program to help kids with perfect SAT scores understand what they have to do to graduate. It seems to me that should be a pretty good indication that your GE require-ments are a bit too convoluted and confusing.

It’s not a secret that Curriculum 2000 is designed to force students into classes listed under majors that, quite frankly, no one cares about. It’s well known that teachers try to get their classes absurd listings just to fill seats. And everyone knows the primary goal of select-ing classes is to find the Holy Grail: a math class taught in Portuguese with a quote-unquote writing component that is also listed as an “Ethical Inquiry” class.

It’s a joke, and everyone knows it, thanks in large part to other columnists at The Chronicle who have been just as annoyed about this as I am. However, my issues with this system run far deeper than the well-documented flaws of Curriculum 2000. As annoyed as I am that I will probably end up spending a semester sitting through The History of Magic, it is the mental-ity behind this system that is far more irritating.

Duke’s main obligation should naturally be edu-cating the students, but Curriculum 2000 makes it seem as though the administration is far more con-cerned with pleasing professors in under-appreci-ated majors. Although alterations made to C2K in 2004 took important strides in reducing the burden on students, they did nothing to address the core problems. Curriculum 2000 does not ensure us a liberal arts education: It is all smoke and mirrors. C2K creates the illusion of producing students with a diverse educational background while still allow-ing academic freedom. In reality, all it means is that we spend the second semester of our senior year sleeping through four well-listed classes. Just because something looks good to parents in a bro-chure doesn’t mean it’s practical.

For example, take this half-baked idea: “Wouldn’t it be great if every graduate of Trinity, but not Pratt, had to achieve at least intermediate proficiency in a foreign language?” Oh, where to begin. For one, I was unaware that every region of the world served by Engineers Without Borders is native English-speak-ing. How silly of me. But naturally, an English major would need to be fluent in Turkish. And I haven’t even mentioned that most students would prefer to study a language about as useful as Pig Latin instead of deal-ing with the insufferable Spanish Department.

As much as I value the importance of a multi-faceted education, there are obvious ways to better ensure that Duke students receive one. As a biology major, I think it would be beneficial if my exposure to “Cross Cultural Inquiry” were even mildly rele-vant to medicine. Surely you would think there must be a professor at Duke willing and qualified to teach a class on the variations in medical practices among different cultures. Apparently not.

Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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member of the Greek Women’s Initiative, said before the event. “This is why we’re having these outlets. For some people, it’s a problem that needs to be addressed.”

The panelists—both for and against the parties—discussed several provocative issues surrounding progressives, including sexual assault, female empowerment and social hierarchy.

Amy Cleckler, the Women’s Center’s gender violence prevention program coordinator, conceded that an alco-hol-free progressive would be the only suitable alternative, despite how unattractive it may seem to fraternities.

“When you’ve had alcohol, you’re not legally able to give consent [to sex],” she added. “Is this alcohol-facilitat-ed sexual assault?”

Tuesday’s forum was not the first event where the progres-sive parties were discussed, and it will not be the last. The Pan-hellenic Association held a Grand Chapter meeting Dec. 6 at which a petition to end the “particularly coercive, negative type of progressive” was circulated. As of Tuesday night, 454 people signed the online petition, which was initially created by the Duke University Women’s Respect Campaign.

Interfraternity Council President Erskine Love, a senior, views the campaign as a “reminder” of the issues some pro-gressives present as opposed to a reason to cancel progres-sives entirely.

“To half the chapters it is irrelevant because they don’t have any parties like this, but for the other half it’s kind of a wake up call or reminder as to how the things that these groups do can be seen from another perspective, the women’s perspective,” Love said before the meeting.

Former Women’s Center Director Donna Lisker, who is the current associate dean of undergraduate education, said she thinks progressives should end. She added that fraternities should find a healthier alternative.

“Whether they’re good or bad progressives, the women are there as bait to join the fraternity. I don’t get that at a school like this where the men and women are so smart,” she said. “You could do so much better. There are many other ways to have fun.”

Senior Nihaal Karnik, IFC vice president of recruit-ment, identified the positive aspects of progressives, attrib-uting many of the negatives to “freshman naivete,” adding that only several of the fraternities “toe the line.”

“If you’re in a fraternity, it’s a great way to see how [po-tential new members] act with girls when they’re drunk,” Karnik said. “If we’re welcoming someone into a brother-hood, I don’t want to be a brother to someone who will hurt one of my good girl friends.”

Junior Isaac Mizrahi, member of Delta Sigma Phi, ex-pressed his concern that people should not engage in activities that make them uncomfortable but added that he was “proud” to see Duke students participating in “experimental” activities.

“That power is something [the participating women] could have never felt in another setting, and I think that’s a positive,” he noted.

Admitting that many women do feel empowered in the progressive setting, Brzezinska noted that it is often a false sense of control.

“Yes, there are women who are feeling empowered, but there is always someone telling her to do that,” she said of the tasks women perform at the parties.

Although the panelists did not reach a consensus by the end of the forum, fraternities and sororities agreed that they should educate both men and women about progres-sives and the rush process. The Greek Women’s Initiative also plans to hold more forums to discuss similar issues.

“Before, there was a lack of general knowledge. Now, a lot of women are being proactive about the issues they see affecting them,” Brzezinska said.

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Sales, Advertising and Marketing History and Duke Librar-ies will host the semiformal event. Members of the Market-ing Club said they are excited to showcase the advertising industry in a sophisticated atmosphere based on the popu-lar television show, “Mad Men.”

“We really want students to come, dress up, be re-sponsible and mingle with alumni and faculty,” said Erica Washington, a senior and member of the Marketing Club. “We’re really stressing that... it’s not just a party. We’re also going to have a series of lectures... showcasing 1960’s his-tory and pop culture.”

Marketing Club members secured $15,000 in funding from DUU at its meeting last night. Washington empha-sized the event’s networking aspect, adding that all mem-bers of the Board of Trustees will attend.

In addition to jazz music in von der Heyden, a Motown DJ will play in the first floor Link. Washington added that a senior champagne toast will be held in the Bostock Library basement.

Last year’s library party was cancelled after several fund-ing and planning failures. The 2010 party was supposed to be hosted by Duke Partnership for Service, but the organi-zation failed to raise enough money.

Marketing Club members are aiming for a budget of $56,000—$30,000 of which has been set aside for food. So far, the organization has raised $42,000, including DUU’s funding.

Senior Emma Donaho, a member of the Marketing Club, said the organization has secured funding from the Duke Annual Fund, Provost Peter Lange and the Student Organization Finance Committee. Donaho added that the club will solicit more funds from local advertising agencies.

In other business: Although DUU approved funding for the library party,

the group voted to table discussions for funding a Duke TEDx event. TED, which stands for Technology, Entertain-ment and Design is a nonprofit organization that holds multiple conferences worldwide to disseminate “ideas worth spreading,” according to the company’s website.

Junior Chelsea Ursaner, the event’s organizer, said she has booked a number of speakers for the event, in-cluding Dan Ariely, James B. Duke professor of behav-ioral economics.

Although the event’s financing is unclear, Ursaner ex-pects the budget to be about $6,400. She requested about $4,000 from DUU.

DUU declined to immediately provide funding, citing the event’s “unorganized” nature.

Senior Dustin Gamza, chair of the Innovations Com-mittee, said he was excited about the event but wor-ried about the event’s planning given it is nearly three months away.

“I actually love TEDx talks... that said this is frustrating to me because there’s a lot of money for things like food and catalogues for an event we have the purview to put on through [the Speakers and Stage Committee],” he said. “[Ursaner] was pretty forthcoming but she doesn’t have a clue.... Think about how hard it is [already] to get students to get to an event with a celebrity name.”

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