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by Elizabeth DjinisThe ChroniCle

Just how much Americans ought to know about their government’s national security programs was up for debate Monday night.

At “leakers or Whistleblowers? national Security reporting in the Digital Age,” two leading experts on the subject battled it out—Gen. Michael hayden, former director

of the national Security Agency and Central intelligence Agency, and Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has broken many national security stories with information and documents from his source, former defense contractor edward Snowden. hayden and Gellman faced off on issues ranging from the exact definition of the term “whistleblower” to the actual risks to citizens’

privacy in national security operations.Gellman discussed the difficulties of re-

porting national security issues when cer-tain information has to be kept secret from the public. There is a delicate balance be-tween revealing details that are helpful to American citizens but not harmful to the

Hayden and Gellman debate whistleblowers

by Emma BaccellieriThe ChroniCle

Donna lisker, currently the associ-ate vice provost for undergraduate edu-cation, will be taking on the responsi-bilities of nora Bynum, vice provost for Duke Kunshan University and China initiatives, while Bynum takes a person-al leave of absence until February.

Bynum took on her current role in Fall 2012, after previously serving as as-sociate vice provost for global strategy and programs.

“We all look forward to Dr. Bynum returning in February,” lisker wrote in an email Monday. “She’s done a fantas-tic job and we will keep things moving along in her absence.”

lisker has worked with the Global education office for the past two years, first as director of their strategic plan-ning process and then as vice-chair of the search committee that led to the hiring of executive Director Amanda Kelso.

DKU vice provost steps down

See debate, page 9See dKU, page 8

High-profile showdown with Kansas looms for Dukeby Daniel Carp

The ChroniCle

With a 111-77 season-opening victory squarely in the rearview mirror, the Blue Devils do not have the benefit of any more tune-up games.

no. 4 Duke will battle no. 5 Kansas Tuesday at 10 p.m. at the United Center in Chicago in a matchup that features two of the nation’s top freshmen. The Jayhawks’ Andrew Wiggins and the Blue Devils’ Jabari Parker—who were ranked as the top two players in their recruiting

class—will square off in both teams’ sec-ond contest of the season.

Despite facing a preseason first team All-American, it is not Wiggins that Duke is worried about.

“The type of athlete that they have on the floor this year is probably a notch above anything that they’ve had,” Duke associate head coach Jeff Capel said. “They have a lot of post depth and are an outstanding offensive rebounding team.”

With an undersized lineup, the Blue

Devils (1-0) sought to utilize their ath-leticism and length on the wings to quicken the pace against Davidson. Duke accomplished this when it posted 111 points against the Wildcats Friday night, but was punished down low by a Davidson team without a player taller than 6-foot-7 in its starting lineup.

Despite starting 6-foot-8 Parker and rodney hood and 6-foot-9 Amile Jeffer-son, the Blue Devils were outrebounded 31-27 by the Wildcats. Although Parker and Wiggins will be billed as the game’s

featured matchup, Wiggins will likely be guarded by hood, and the game could come down to the Blue Devils’ ability to play inside.

“We have to rebound. We have to have physical block outs and pursue rebounds,” Capel said. “That’s the one thing we probably did not do as well in our opener against Davidson and re-ally in the exhibition games. Tomorrow we’ll be tested greatly by that, because

See m. basKetball, page 13

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The “Leakers or Whistleblowers?” event Monday allowed for experts to debate the merits and faults of the NSA, CIA and whistleblowers.

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Durham municipal election voter turnout remains low

by Ray LiThe ChroniCle

Although a number of students have reported registration issues with the ACeS/STorM system, administrators said they had not heard of a problem.

Some undergraduates have reported being frustrated by network delays and slowdowns while registering for classes. Many seniors, who registered for classes last Thursday, recounted tales of sched-uling troubles for students fighting over limited spots in popular classes and ex-pressed exasperation with the system.

“it’s exasperating to not get into ei-ther the classes you need to graduate or the classes you’ve wanted to take since freshman year due to some silly crash,” senior Jenny hu said. “ACeS just really needs to be able to accommodate more users at any given time.”

All seniors sign up for courses in the same registration window, meaning that ACeS must be able to process more than 1,500 registration requests at the same time. each of the other class years are split into three registration windows.

representatives of both the office of information Technology and the Uni-versity said that they were not aware of problems with this year’s registration.

“We have received no indications of any system problems during any of the enrollment windows thus far,” Univer-sity registrar Bruce Cunningham wrote in an email Monday. “oiT has seen no indications of service reductions or in-terruptions.”

Some seniors said they received er-ror messages while others had to restart the process because the initial registra-tion request took a long time to be pro-cessed.

hu said she found that while one browser tab was stuck loading, opening a separate tab and restarting the pro-cess allowed her to enroll successfully even while the original window was still processing.

Cunningham noted that students

should be careful not to do anything with the system while their requests are being processed. if anything interrupts the enrollment process, it is stopped and the student is placed at the bottom of the queue when their request is re-submitted.

Some students said that they used unconventional measures to avoid the bandwidth bottleneck that results from over a thousand simultaneous clicks on the enrollment button.

Senior Wenjia Xu said he used the public visitor’s wireless network in an attempt to ease the strain, but still ex-perienced issues.

“i’m not sure it made a difference,” he said. “The problem seemed to be with ACeS/STorM.”

Students also noted various inconve-niences within the system, such as not being able to use the back button or be-ing logged out and supported an over-haul of the system.

ACeS is continuously updated throughout the year, Cunningham wrote.

“next Spring, for the Fall 2014 reg-istration cycle, we’ll be introducing a Schedule Planner function,” he wrote. “it is similar in function to the Sched-ulator web site that was written by stu-dents several years ago and is used by many students now.”

Unlike Schedulator, however, this function will allow students to find ideal schedules and download them directly into their bookbags. it will be fully in-tegrated with ACeS/STorM, allowing course data to be more accurate than what is provided by Schedulator, Cun-ningham wrote.

in the meantime, however, a number of students are trying to find solutions for their scheduling issues.

“i have friends who are majorly stressing out because they didn’t get into their T-req classes,” hu said. “i think it really frustrates everyone and causes unnecessary stress.”

Students call for ACES/STORMrevamp after slow registration

SpeCial To The ChroniCle

The voter report card, pictured above, is an attempt to increase voter turnout.

by Georgia ParkeThe ChroniCle

Durham voter turnout for this year’s mu-nicipal elections was nearly as low as Duke’s acceptance rate.

The Durham municipal elections last week saw a 10.49 percent turnout among 174,361 registered voters in the county. Michael Perry, director of the Durham County Board of elec-tions, attributed this number to a lack of inter-est in elections that are not in a presidential year nor a midterm election. he noted that this year’s turnout is actually an increase from the last time a noncontroversial election oc-curred.

“Voting and elections have been in the news a lot more recently,” Perry said. “People are more aware of the elections.”

There were 18,299 votes cast this year, as opposed to 10,204 in 2009 and 22,575 in 2011. A number of issues on the 2011 ballot, Perry said, accounted for the jump in the turnout between 2009 and 2011. in 2011 there were proposed increases in county sales, transit and education taxes on the ballot. These issues were widely publicized and contributed to the relatively higher turnout.

According to data released by the Durham County Board of elections, the municipal

election primaries had a 6.1 percent voter turnout—or 10,535 out of 172,568 people who are registered to vote.

Perry said that he has been speaking to or-ganizations and at events to encourage voting, as well as placing ads in local newspapers, but that is the extent of the Board’s initiatives.

“We can do better,” he said.The statewide voter turnout has not yet

been released by the north Carolina State Board of election. Chris Ketchie, policy ana-lyst for the Southern Coalition for Southern Justice, estimated it to be about 14 percent statewide.

The SCSJ, a nonprofit located in Durham aimed at advocating for minorities and the economically disadvantaged, sent out over 50,000 mailers throughout the state that graded people as either “fair,” “good” or “ex-cellent” in their voting history. The fliers also compared residents’ voting histories to aver-ages in their area.

Ketchie called the initiative a “straight-up get-out-the-vote” movement that had been modified from its initial incarnation last year. This year’s mailer featured more friendly and positive language, after SCSJ received negative responses last year from those who received

See voter, page 8

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Barton Gellman discusses journalism ethics, Snowden

Pullitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Barton Gellman was invited to be a part of the “ Leakers or Whistleblowers? National Security Reporting in the Digital Age” event organized at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday evening. He sat down with The Chronicle’s Georgia Parke to discuss the ethics of journalism and his recent in-volvement with Snowden’s leaked documents.

The Chronicle: What do you think journal-ists, in this particular case with Snowden or in the broad sense, are obligated to disclose? is there some sort of invisible oath they take? Where do you personally draw the line?

Barton Gellman: it’s not as though we’re a profession bound by gilled rules or years of training. it’s more like a craft that you learn by doing it, by apprenticing yourself and you

absorb the values. i think fundamentally we’re obliged to tell the truth and we’re obliged to tell it in context and shed light on things rather than obfuscate. if something has a big impact on the public, if something raises a big question about the kind of thing ordinarily we debate among ourselves and decide collectively how we want to organize ourselves, then there’s a pretty strong reason to publish.

TC: Do you think he did the right thing by releasing what he did to journalists? Do you think he did ultimately benefit the public and the world by making the releases that he did?

BG: let me give you a caveat. i don’t think it’s my job to sort of judge the conduct of my sources so i don’t want to be in that position. But i think it’s self-evident that what he did enabled a very important national and interna-tional debate about what our policy should be, about what the boundary should be of secret intelligence in a democratic society... There was no debate possible without this information today.

TC: And was he the first one to let that hap-pen?

BG: Yeah, this was the first time. The num-ber of very important big issues and stories that he put out there for the first time is substantial.

TC: Do you think that because of Snowden’s actions, other people will be encouraged to come forward with things that they know? A lot of precautions have been taken now that he has come out. Do you think something like this is ever going to happen again or soon?

BG: This is a crystal ball thing. i don’t know what’s going to happen. i do think that it was his intention to inspire other people to follow him. And he wanted to show that it could be

done, that you could have a big impact on public debate. There would be reverberations and consequences and that he also wanted to show that you could do it and not have your life destroyed. And so far, you know, i guess everybody has to judge for themselves, but he is not behind bars as Chelsea Manning is and looking to spend the rest of his natural days in solitary confinement. he’s trying to say, ‘You can do this.’ if it’s the right thing to do, do it, you’ll have an impact and you can still live a life. That’s his message.

TC: how would you characterize the change in the way you go about your life and your work now that this has happened?

BG: i’ve been cautious for a long time and have learned how to use sort of precautions, technologies that make my work relatively more secure. But i haven’t been especially paranoid and i have to acknowledge that there is a decent chance that i am under more scru-tiny than i used to be, that i am a little more interesting than i used to be to people who are good at surveillance. So it’s an uncomfort-able feeling. i need to be able to give people assurances that we can speak in confidence. it’s harder and harder to do that. i have to take pre-cautions that are a big tax on my time.

TC: Do you think that the publicity of ‘where in the world is edward Snowden,’ over-shadowed the kinds of things that you pub-lished and what the real story was about?

BG: i really don’t think so. i think there has been legitimate interest in who is this guy and where is this guy and its kind of a dramatic story. he’s running around between countries and the U.S. is trying to get him back and people

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Barton Gellman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, shared his thoughts on Snowden.

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The nicolelis lab is turning science fic-tion into reality, making it possible for a machine to be controlled entirely by sig-nals from the human brain.

lab director Miguel nicolelis is the sci-entist who developed the first brain-ma-chine interface, a device that facilitates the recording and transferring of neural activ-ity. This technology is what has allowed the researchers at the nicolelis lab to translate the brain activity to control the movement of robotic devices.

More recently, the nicolelis lab has been building exoskeletal suits that can be controlled by paralyzed patients using the brain-machine interface technology. A study released from the lab last Wednesday showcased the ability of monkeys to con-trol two virtual arms, the first evidence of bimanual movement. This study gave fur-ther support to the theory that large neuro-nal ensembles, not single neurons, control motor functions.

The existing technology had to be inno-vated in order to record a larger number of signals required for controlling bimanual movements in monkeys, said Peter ifft, a biomedical engineering graduate student in the lab and lead author of this recent study.

“We wrote an algorithm that can handle large numbers of channels of up to 500 cells,” ifft said. “it can decode the signal in real time with 100 millisecond resolution.”

ifft recorded nearly 500 cells simultane-ously, which is the highest number record-ed to date.

When nicolelis, co-director of the Cen-ter of neuroengineering, founded the lab in 1994 to understand how large popula-

tions of brain cells interact in behaving animals, experiments in this field were conducted on rats and researchers were studying groups of about 50 neurons, he said. Two years later they began working with monkeys and developed their technol-ogy to record much larger populations of neurons.

Back then, it was believed that single neurons were the key functional units of the brain, explained nicolelis. Using the brain-imaging interface technology, he was able to demonstrate that a large network of neurons, not a single neuronal pathway, compose functional units in the brain.

in 2004, the lab recorded the brain ac-tivity of Parkinson’s patients during a surgi-cal procedure, and the activity of multiple neurons were recorded simultaneously. This was the first study involving the use of brain-machine interface technology on humans ever published, and the reaction was immense.

“The whole field exploded,” he said. “You can claim honestly that the field was built here at Duke in the 20 years that i have been here.”

Although this high profile lab is well-respected as the leader in the field, there was originally some scrutiny of nicolelis’ ground-breaking ideas.

“When we first proposed this, some of our colleagues and funding agencies said this would never work,” nicolelis said. “[The nih] was very skeptical 20 years ago and we had to fight pretty hard and go all over the world to defend the idea.”

Mikhail lebedev, a senior research sci-entist in the group, said he certainly no-ticed some of these challenges when he joined the lab.

“Groundbreaking ideas are the hardest

Nicolelis lab develops exoskeletal suits for the paralyzedto implement,” he said. “Scrutiny is one of the key components of scientific research. one must scrutinize, troubleshoot and se-lect from options.”

now, however, there is no longer doubt about the validity of the group’s work.

“no one is questioning that what we did is real,” ifft said.

he explained that existing controversy about the research regards the best way to apply the research to humans. The lab con-tinues to work on ways to begin develop-ing their neuroprosthetics for clinical use, including a transition to wireless control, power efficiency and cost effectiveness, ifft said.

The lab currently consists of approxi-mately 50 people including staff, under-graduates, graduate students and PhD can-didates, nicolelis said.

lebedev noted that projects are team-based, with at least three people per proj-ect.

in addition to inner-lab collaboration, the group has collaborators world-wide in-cluding some in europe and throughout the Americas.

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“[The institute] is devoted to neurosci-ence and to using science for social trans-formation,” nicolelis said.

Along with research, the institute fea-tures a middle school and high school where students can learn science through a hands on approach, he explained. There is also a women’s healthcare clinic that does research on high risk pregnancies and provides free prenatal care to over 12,000 women each year.

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A talk by a Yale Law scholar, Logan Beirne, focusing on Edward Snowden and how he would be perceived by the Founding Fathers was held at Duke Law Monday afternoon.

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George Washington would not have been an edward Snowden fan, a legal his-torian speculated at the School of law on Monday.

logan Beirne, the olin Searle Smith Scholar at Yale law School, lectured on whether edward Snowden is a patriot or a traitor and whether the eavesdropping activities of the national Security Agency are constitutional at an event hosted by the Duke law Federalist Society. Beirne con-cluded that George Washington and other Founding Fathers would not have approved of the way Snowden chose to express his concern.

“The founders would see the nSA and edward Snowden with mixed feelings,” Beirne said. “They would be skeptical of the nSA but would not appreciate the way Snowden revealed it.”

When the framers of the Constitution vested the president with the role of com-mander in chief, they were thinking of the mold George Washington filled during the American revolution, Beirne said.

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Chris Brown’s Young Trustee email ad-dress may have been a signature part of his campaign platform, but it has only received three messages so far.

Brown, Trinity ‘13, was elected in Febru-ary as the University’s newest undergradu-ate Young Trustee, a position that allows a student to sit on the Board of Trustees for three years. Brown proposed in his cam-paign platform to set up an email address that would allow Duke community mem-bers to send comments, suggestions and messages to the Young Trustee. Although the email address, [email protected], has been operating for months, the account has received only three messages, all following the october board meeting.

“new things don’t get immediate trac-tion overnight, and i’m not necessarily concerned about the low numbers,” Brown said. “obviously we’d want to hear from students as much as possible but that’s just one channel that’s supposed to be open to everybody.”

Brown noted the original intention of the email address was both to allow students to contact their Young Trustees as well as to enable a conversation between the Board and the Duke community at large.

“it’s an outlet for students to share what it’s like to be a Duke student with the lead-ership of the University,” Brown said.

Brown added that the email address was intended to be an unfiltered channel of communication to the Board.

“The thought behind it is that Duke stu-dents’ main avenues of communications

are often times through student govern-ment and the DSG president and through Chronicle articles,” Brown said. “But that’s not necessarily completely representative of every student’s experience... [The email address is] meant to be a channel that has no restrictions.”

Undergraduate Young Trustee Michelle Sohn, Trinity ’11, added that the address seemed like a good way for the Board to hear how Duke programs are affecting stu-dents.

“Duke has these great initiatives like DukeForward and Duke financial aid initia-tives,” Sohn said. “But it’d be great to hear from students who actually benefit from those initiatives and see how it’s actually playing out on the ground.”

The email address was publicized through the Duke Student Government blast in September before the Board’s oct. 4-5 meeting, Brown said. in addition, the address received significant publicity dur-ing Brown’s Young Trustee campaign.

Senior Jacob Tobia, DSG vice president for equity and outreach, said he has not used the email address and does not know anyone who has. he added that direct con-tact to the Young Trustees was generally the favored method of communication for him and other senior leaders, especially when they know the Young Trustees personally.

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DUSDAC considers new food trucks and lunch locationsby Tim Bai

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Duke University Student Dining Advisory Commit-tee met Monday evening to discuss updates on Duke’s dining services, covering topics from Merchants-on-Points to the next semester’s tax surcharge.

DUSDAC President Chris Taylor, a senior, began the meeting by asking for updates on food trucks. Mem-bers reported that more local vendors were interested in opening food trucks, with Chai’s Asian Bistro want-ing to start a food truck rotation on campus. For most vendors, however, time and location for lunchtime business remain a problem. With the low amount of business, vendors are seeking incentives, such as re-duced commission rates or better locations, in order to maintain lunchtime service hours.

Barbara Stokes, assistant director of dining services, said she administrators have discussed a possible new lunchtime area for food trucks.

“The athletes are looking for a lunch food truck,” Stokes said. “Maybe the trucks could park in front of Cameron indoor Stadium.”

Although Taylor said he was not sure there would be much student traffic near Cameron around lunchtime, he was interested in researching the idea further. Tay-lor told DUSDAC members to remain in contact with vendors and continue brainstorming new food truck locations as well as ways to maintain interest in food trucks during lunchtime.

individual members reported various issues with campus eateries. Freshman nicole Kozlak said the Free-man Center for Jewish life wanted more students to know they accept food points. Kozlak also mentioned the Freeman Center’s interest in serving dairy one more night per week based on student interest, although oth-er members raised concerns about how the additional night would affect the eating schedules of students who keep kosher. The committee agreed on promoting the Freeman Center, especially to freshmen, who are able to use their meal swipes there on Thursdays.

The Sitar stall in the Penn Pavilion has requested a fridge for mango lassis and red Mango has expressed interested in promoting catering services.

DUSDAC members reported that students were un-happy with dining costs and explored ways to address the concerns.

“We can be trying to promote those lower price meals so that someone can go to different places every day and try new meals at a low cost,” Taylor said.

Taylor also mentioned the use of social media to spread awareness of daily deals at different dining ven-ues as well as looking into implementing stamp card systems to reward returning customers. Taylor told DUSDAC members to reach out to campus vendors and learn more about various deals offered.

DUSDAC is also planning an event for the day after Thanksgiving Break, in response to the closing of the West Union arches. Free food will be offered, and em-ployees will show students the new ways to access the Bryan Center plaza. Coupons to the Penn Pavilion will also be handed out to students.

Finally, robert Coffey, director of dining services, addressed the issue of the upcoming 7.5 percent tax surcharge for the Spring. As a result of north Caroli-na’s recently revised tax laws, university meal plans will be taxed as of January 1, 2014.

“The plan itself won’t change,” Coffey said. “But there will be a separate tax surcharge on the bills.”

Coffey explained that students will have to pay addi-tional taxes on food every time they go to the register, but unused transactions from the tax surcharge will be refunded to students’ FleX spending accounts. De-spite the tax surcharge, students will still be unable to use food points off-campus due to regulations regard-ing the University’s nonprofit status.

Taylor closed the meeting by mentioning the pos-sible creation of an online student opinion survey in the near future. The survey would gauge students’ knowledge of and interest in the available Merchants-on-Points and campus vendors, as well as allow students to make suggestions for new Merchants-on-Points ven-dors.

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“Donna lisker is a skilled, experienced manager who knows how to get things done at Duke,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and gov-ernment relations wrote in an email Monday. “She will continue Dr. Bynum’s excellent work and ensure that we do not lose any momentum.”

Among DKU’s current priorities are recruiting stu-dents and faculty and preparing for the start of aca-demic programs in Fall 2014, lisker noted.

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Beirne added that constitutionally, the framers gave the commander in chief broad authority over foreign and mili-tary matters—which Washington enjoyed during the revo-lution—but limited authority over civilian affairs. he noted that the founders would have an “interesting” view of the nSA’s spying.

“The founders would have no problem with phonetap-ping German Chancellor Angela Merkel or Brazil because the president is doing what he sees fit to defend the Ameri-can people,” Beirne said. “But they would see wiretapping and spying as dangerous or possibly unconstitutional when we turn it on the people at home.”

Beirne refrained from labeling Snowden as either a traitor or a patriot, but he said Washington and the other founders would not have appreciated the way Snowden re-vealed his information. Beirne compared Snowden’s actions to Benedict Arnold, the revoluationary-era general who attempted to surrender the American fort at West Point to the British Army. rather than work with the U.S. system and reform it, which Arnold had the ability to do, he lobbied for a strategic military location with the intention of giving it up to British forces before retiring in wealth, Beirne said.

“Washington saw it as one thing to rebel against an unjust government where you have no representation,” Beirne said. “But to rebel against your government was wrong.”

The appropriate action in the founders’ eyes would have been for Snowden to speak up and expose govern-ment shortcomings, instead of exposing information and leaving the country, Beirne said. Snowden could have tak-en his information to elected officials at the state or federal level rather than going directly to journalists.

Beirne said that following Snowden’s revelations, al-Qa-ida operatives have changed their modes of communica-tions and the number of U.S. informants has plummeted because they fear the United States cannot control the outflow of information. Additionally, agencies are growing averse to inter-agency sharing of information, which had increased following the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Third-year law student Autumn hamit, co-president of the Duke law Federalist Society, said that the group invit-ed Beirne to speak about the topic because they believed that his legal background and expertise on the American revolution would provide an interesting prospective with a historical background. The fact that the event was the same day as another event discussing the nSA leaks was coincidental.

“We did not intentionally plan to host our event on the same day as the Sanford school event,” she said. “We origi-nally reached out to Beirne in July and solidified the date in early August.”

lauren Vickers, a first-year law student, said Beirne pro-vided an interesting perspective on the case by comparing Snowden and Arnold.

“We need to think about the constitutionality of the ac-tions of the nSA and whether what they are doing is right, but i do not believe that to correct these problems is to broadcast [intelligence] to the world,” Vickers said.

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of SCSJ personalizing the cards with people’s specific voter his-tories over the past few years. Ketchie said that although whom or what people voted for is private, whether they voted at all is public record and accessible to anyone.

Despite this, Ketchie said that research has shown that this type of nonpartisan mailer that employs peer-pressure to en-courage people to perform better than their neighbors is more effective than a partisan or impersonal one.

Ketchie said the mailers targeted minorities, such as people of color, single unmarried women and young people ages 18 to 25, all of whom are underrepresented in the voter demograph-ic. Durham County was not one of the counties mailed to, but 15 total counties were targeted in both metropolitan and rural areas, dictated by the prevalence of underrepresented voters.

“[Those voters] are underrepresented more than your typi-cal high-turnout, middle-aged white voter,” he said of the mi-nority groups.

Until more concrete numbers are released, Ketchie said it will be difficult to evaluate if this year’s adjusted mailers had an impact. he, like Perry, emphasized the difficulty of attracting voters in the off years when many do not even know that local elections are taking place.

“local government has a more direct impact [on people’s lives] sometimes than presidential elections,” he said. “it would be better, but it’s just hard to get people out for municipal elec-tions.”

between Board members and members of the Duke com-munity,” said Tobia, who helped lead protests for endow-ment transparency earlier this Fall.

Both Sohn and Brown said that the email address is part of a continuing effort to enable communication between Board members and students. These efforts have included dinners with students and conversations with house presidents.

Graduate students have a means of reaching out to their Young Trustees as well. Katherine Duch, Ph.D. candidate in public policy and one of three graduate Young Trustees, said that she will be holding office hours for students with questions on the inner work-ings of the University when she comes to campus in December.

Brown said the efforts to promote the email address will continue, adding that he will ask DSG president Stefani Jones, a senior, to put another notice in the DSG blast before the Board’s December meeting and try spreading the word through targeted emails.


are going to be curious about that and people are always going to be curious about people. But i can’t see any way that you can say that the issues have not been getting a good airing.

TC: Another crystal ball question. Do you see it getting worse that people will have to be more protective because the government is surveilling more, or was this kind of a real-ity check for them that they need to back off a little bit on nSA surveillance and be more open about what they’re conducting?

BG: look, there are all kinds of reactions happening now and they’re evolving quickly. There are technology companies that are tak-ing advantage of the fact that there is now for the first time really a substantial market that looks like it’s developing for privacy. People

American government, he added.“The time comes when we have mate-

rial we are prepared to write about,” Gellman said. “We consult the government, we try to understand in some depth what the national security interests are and the things that do more harm than good.”

Although the panel did not focus only on information revealed by Snowden, both Gellman and hayden mentioned the issue to further their arguments, particularly arguing over the motives of Snowden’s actions.

Snowden went through national secu-rity files looking for documents to expose, hayden said, calling him a “hunter” rather than a “gatherer.” hayden defined a whistle-blower as someone working within the gov-ernment who is given information they are not comfortable keeping classified and so confronts fellow government officials with their discomfort. he added that Snowden did not fit this description.

Gellman, however, refuted hayden’s point, noting that motive is unimportant in evaluating the content of the documents Snowden leaked.

“My goal is to maximize information avail-able to the public for self-government,” Gell-man said. “There is no evidence to doubt [Snowden] believed the government and the nSA have accumulated a dangerous amount of power.”

hayden likened the government’s jurisdic-tion to the lines of a “box” and said each presi-dent he had served under—George W. Bush and Barack obama, respectively—had estab-lished those lines specifically with him. he said the system is not without its own checks and balances, citing the United States Foreign intelligence Surveillance Court and house of representatives committees as examples of oversight.

he noted that the American public would

not necessarily be able to handle an entirely public government.

“if you want to do this publicly, we’ll do it publicly and if we fail to defend you, let me show you the new box you’re going to draw in 72 hours,” hayden said, drawing the lines of an exaggeratedly large box in the air.

These sorts of analogies came as no sur-prise to Gellman, who said that he had heard them before from hayden and current nSA director Keith Alexander. Gellman noted that Alexander has said he wishes he could have a “huddle” with the American public to speak openly about sensitive issues, and hayden said he wished he could “whisper in the ears of 315 million countrymen,” but that if they did this, the information would eventually reach enemies of the United States.

Gellman, however, said leaking national secrets is not the only harm to the govern-ment. officials also fear public scrutiny and criticism of their actions.

hayden outlined the specifics of how metadata search operates, describing the “three hop system.” often, a phone number of a supposed threat is traced to their con-tacts, which will are then searched for another round of contacts, effectively hitting three de-grees of separation.

Although hayden said the nature of this system only looks for contact number rather than content, Gellman noted that the system can still put innocent Americans at risk for surveillance, a phenomenon called “inciden-tal collection.”

The debate brought out a passionate crowd, who occupied not just the Fleishman Commons, where the event was held, but also two separate classrooms with live webcasts of the event.

Some audience members said they were unsure how they felt after the event ended. Chapel hill resident Maggie hanes, a for-mer journalist, said she was surprised by the degree of common ground between the two

speakers.“i’m blown away. i was impressed with how

thoughtful their answers were,” hanes said. “They’re both coming from the same inten-tion of protecting Americans…. it doesn’t seem as competing sides.”

Sophomore Daniel Woldorff said hayden’s actions did not necessarily worry him but the general scope of power they of-fered to hayden did.

“i don’t know how differently i would have acted in hayden’s shoes,” Woldorff said. “Ac-cording to him, he followed rules set for him to do his job. if that’s true, what worries me is not the violation of rules, but that they’re still too expansive.”

hayden closed the event by emphasizing that the U.S. government is not the only one with surveillance programs, and that the prac-tice reduces risk.

“i’m wondering what it is i’m supposed to justify.... We are not the only ones doing this and we are not the only ones doing it for ad-vantage,” hayden said.

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going out wanting to seek services, to choose service providers based on privacy whether they pay for it or not. There is legislation, there is pos-sibility of new legal challenges being heard on the merits in court. There is no one magic bullet solution.

if more people are using privacy protecting technology, then they’re going to have more control over their own lives. if the government really wants to come after you and find out what you’re saying, doing, how you’re communicat-ing, it’s going to succeed. it’s very good at that. But in terms of protecting yourself from broad-ranging snooping—and that could be from your hotmail account because Microsoft is interest-ed in selling you ads. or it could be from your employer because what most people just click though every time.

TC: So on that note, if this is a big moment for that debate to come up, are people con-cerned enough about what’s going on with the government? especially people of my age who have grown up almost entirely in this age of the internet—are we as concerned as we need to be?

BG: i don’t know. i kind of can’t wait to find out what happens.... People are starting to real-ize that even if they feel like they’ve got nothing to hide, my life’s an open book, i don’t have any secrets that i really care about—first of all, that’s never true. it depends on your audience. You don’t tell your parents everything, you tell your best friend. You can make a list of pairings, you don’t tell your this the things that you tell your that. You want control over who gets to know what and when. But also even if you want to pre-tend that you’ve got no secrets...which would be very rare, you’ve got other people’s secrets. Your email is full of other people’s secrets. They’re going to break up with their boyfriend, they’re flunking out, they’re you know, whatever. it’s not up to you to say, ‘Sure, read all my emails’ be-cause they’re not just yours.

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Duke doesn’t play in chicago—like it will tuesday night against no. 5 Kansas—as often as it does in new York, but the pro-gram’s connections to the Second city are stronger than they are with any other.

head coach Mike Krzyzewski hails from chicago, as do current special assistant Jon Scheyer and freshman Jabari Parker. Scheyer was recruited to Duke by Krzyze-wski and chris collins, who went to the same high school as Scheyer and returned to his home area this year to become the head coach at northwestern.

the list doesn’t end there, and it’s no coincidence.

“it’s a way for coach K to kind of be humanized,” said collins, who won his first game as a head coach this weekend against eastern illinois. “When he’d call me in recruiting he’d talk about things in chicago: where he grew up, places he liked to go, sports teams he followed. it made the transition to humanizing him in the relationship a lot better, knowing he’s a normal guy who grew up in chicago just like me, and he just happens to be the best coach who has ever done it.”

collins played one game at the United center as a Blue Devil, his first game back junior year after beginning the season in-jured. he scored five points in 12 minutes, a homecoming that was outdone by his

protégé, Scheyer.Scheyer, who said he maintains a close

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scored 31 points at the United center during in his senior year. Scheyer didn’t get the chance to go back to chicago for most of last year while he played profes-sionally in Spain, so his return visits now

have added meaning.now Krzyzewski and Scheyer get to

bond over their shared roots with Parker, who collins described as a chicago leg-end. Whereas Scheyer had to wait until his senior year to play in chicago—something collins said the staff promised him during recruiting—Parker’s return home comes in just his second collegiate game.

Parker is looking forward to it, even the cold temperatures. Flurries started falling in chicago after the team arrived Monday afternoon.

“the weather, it’ll feel like home be-ing there, get on my ground. it’s going to be a blessing,” he said. “it was something we always talk about, me and coach. he doesn’t forget where he comes from. We’ll get a chance to be around our family, get a chance to be on our home grounds for once and hopefully bring out a win.”

there are tough parts to homecom-ings, too. Parker said he only gets four tickets for family and friends, and it’s ex-pensive to get more. the average ticket on the secondary market for tuesday’s cham-pions classic costs $366, said Will Flaherty, director of communications for SeatGeek.com. Parker also lamented that he prob-ably won’t get a chance to see the South Side on the trip.

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For the second half of the season, Duke has been fighting for its postsea-son life. But as the team rides an eight-game unbeaten streak into tuesday’s game against notre Dame, the intensity will only increase.

the seventh-seeded Blue Devils will take on the sec-ond-seeded Fight-ing irish—ranked the no. 1 team in the nation—in the quarterfinal round of the Acc tourna-ment tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Alumni

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“We’re trying to present our case to the ncAA with regards to our appear-ance in the [ncAA] tournament,” Duke head coach John Kerr said. “if we go in and knock off notre Dame, we’ll defi-nitely be in the tournament.”

When these two teams previously met Sept. 27, notre Dame (11-1-5, 7-1-3 in the Acc) emerged unscathed with a 3-1 win. Duke (8-4-6, 3-3-5) was tied deep into the second half behind a Jack coleman goal, but notre Dame stormed back with two late second-half goals to emerge victorious in a game where the Fighting irish outshot Duke 17-6.

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Duke tournament-boundby Ryan Hoerger

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When the ncAA tournament field was announced Monday afternoon, the Blue Devils heard their names called, as they have for the past 11 seasons. But Duke will not have the luxury of opening postseason play in Durham for the first time in three years.

the Blue Devils will travel to colorado Springs, colo., for their first-round match-up Saturday against colorado college. the tigers earned conference USA’s au-tomatic tournament bid by winning the conference tournament.

“Making the tournament, obviously we’re really excited,” Duke head coach robbie church said. “When we stepped in this room Aug. 5, our goal was to play for a national championship and now it’s here.”

With just a few weeks remaining in the season, it didn’t seem like that goal would

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even have an opportunity to be realized. the Blue Devils (8-8-4, 5-5-3 in the Acc) had to fight back into contention in the Acc, and clinched a winning regular-sea-son record with just one game remaining.

“We’ve had kind of a rocky season, but at this point it doesn’t matter,” senior for-ward laura Weinberg said. “everyone’s going into this tournament 0-0. it’s a clean slate, fresh start for us, and we’ve histori-cally done really well.”

Duke dealt with one of the nation’s most challenging schedules this year. All four top seeds in the ncAA tournament hail from the Acc, and the conference earned seven bids to the field overall.

colorado college (15-4-2, 8-1-1 in con-ference USA) is making its 11th appear-ance in the ncAA tournament. the ti-gers are not entirely unknown to church,


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Duke’s frontcourt is one of the most athletic in the nation, but the Jahyawks’ Black and Joel Embiid pack some serious punch in the post and could give the Blue Devils issues down low.Tharpe is seen as a potential X factor and Selden and Wiggins are dangerous on the wings. The Blue Devils can defend the perimeter, but Kansas could struggle to keep up with the speed of Duke’s guards.

Having Embiid off the bench is huge for Kansas. Frank Mason will make his mark as well, but the Blue Devils’ depth—par-ticularly in the backcourt—is undeniable with Rasheed Su-laimon and Matt Jones.

The breakdownDuke posted some gaudy offensive numbers in its blowout win against Davidson and should knock down plenty of 3-pointers in transition, but Kansas holds a significant edge on the offensive glass. The Jayhawks struggled with turnovers, which could be a differ-ence-maker if Duke takes care of the ball.

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 81-77

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Krzyzewski said that these tough realities are important lessons for postseason play.

“As far as Jabari going back, I think he’ll handle everything well,” Krzyzewski said. “I think one of the main things is tickets—friends calling, stuff like that. I think it’s amazing preparation for post-season on Nov. 12. People are going to call you. You have new friends, you have old friends, you have cousins, and how do you handle all of that?”

And that pressure doesn’t even touch on the highly anticipated showdown be-tween the nation’s top two recruits: Park-er and Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins.

“It’s just team for team—my guys ver-sus their guys. I’m not looking for any in-dividual matchup,” Parker said. “I don’t want to get distracted.”

Keeping that focus will be key for Parker, as the hyped showdown against Wiggins only adds to the potential dis-tractions that coming home brings.

“People want to come into the ho-tel and see you, talk to you, and a lot of times it’s your close friends and fam-ily, but you have to be disciplined and say, ‘Look, I want to see everyone too but I’m here to win a game,’” Collins said. “You have to get your rest, and you can’t use up too much emotion before the game so that you’re just exhausted once it starts.”

Other than getting to see the Bulls play the Cleveland Cavaliers in a game that featured four former Blue Devils Monday night, Parker said the trip will just be “basketball, sleeping and eating.”

maintains itself into the game on Tues-day,” Kerr said. “We played very well at Notre Dame…. We were strong right down to the very end, and then we had a lapse…. We got a lot of confidence from [our performance].”

Things have been looking up for the Blue Devils recently, as they haven’t lost since Oct. 1 to UNC-Wilmington. During the unbeaten streak, the defense has been remarkably stout, allowing only three goals in eight games.

Notre Dame has been even better defensively, allowing only 0.65 goals per game over the season. Senior Patrick Wall has notched eight shutouts for the Irish in goal.

Offensively, Harrison Shipp leads the offensive attack for the Fighting Irish with eight goals and seven assists on the year. Shipp found the back of the net against Duke in the previous matchup. Patrick Hodan also threatens the de-fense, as he’s tallied four goals and four assists.

“They’re a very good team, and they’ve proven themselves all season long [as to] what a good team they are,” Kerr said. “We have nothing to lose—we’re the underdog, they’re at home, and they’ve earned that right. We’re on a little bit of a run right now, and we have an opportunity to knock off one of the big guns.”

Putting more strain on Duke will be the absence of centerback Zach Mathers. Mathers earned a red card in the season finale against Clemson and will have to sit out this contest per NCAA rules. Kerr will have to shuffle his lineup to adjust for Mathers’ absence.

“We haven’t decided yet totally, but logically we’d probably drop [defensive midfielder Nat] Eggleston there and then reassess the midfield,” Kerr said.

Regardless of Kerr’s strategy, goal-keeper Alex Long will likely be heavily tested Tuesday. Long had to make three saves in the previous matchup against Notre Dame, and he has accumulated eight shutouts this season. The Duke de-fense has held opponents scoreless in its

but he’ll be doing a lot more digging be-tween now and Saturday.

“They’ve had a fantastic year. I’ve been following them a little bit, I voted for them a few times in the last two or three weeks in the Top 25 in the NCAA poll because of so many wins they’ve had,” Church said. “Now we’ll go and look at them a lot closer.”

Conference USA isn’t as strong as the ACC, but still boasts stiff competition in Old Dominion, East Carolina and Char-lotte. Colorado College will enter the match riding a wave of momentum, hav-ing posted a 4-1-1 record in its last six games.

By contrast, the Blue Devils were oust-ed 2-0 in the first round of the ACC tour-nament by Florida State, and have spent the past week training hard and getting healthy.

Weinberg said opening the tourna-ment on the road could be a blessing in disguise for the Blue Devils.

“We are traveling, but it’s a good op-portunity for us to play someone who we haven’t played before and focus, get in the zone and not get distracted by some of the things we could be distracted by if we were playing at home,” she said.

Carlos Boozer, Luol Deng and Mike Dunleavy are three of many Blue Devils to play for the Bulls, a list that also in-cludes Elton Brand, Chris Duhon and Jay Williams in recent memory. Scheyer said it’s no surprise Blue Devils in the pros have flocked to Chicago because of the way the organization values defense and intelligence on the court.

In terms of eating, Chicago is most famous for its deep-dish style pizza. Scheyer recommended famous chains Lou Malnati’s and Giordano’s. Collins said, “it’s all in the crust” with what you prefer, and that’s what makes Gino’s East Parker’s favorite.

“The cornbread crust,” he said.

last 194 minutes of play.The Blue Devils’ best opportunities

to score will likely come off of set piec-es, which have generated 52 percent of Duke’s goals on the season. Midfielder and captain Sean Davis has six of those goals—three coming from penalty kicks and three from free kicks.

Despite the tough task ahead of the squad, Duke could feel like it’s playing with house money at the moment, hav-ing not been guaranteed of its postsea-son status before Friday night’s 1-0 victo-ry against Clemson.

Still, it’s safe to say the Blue Devils are far from satisfied.

“No one wants to play a team on a roll,” Kerr said. “We’re on a roll, and we want to continue this as long as we can.”

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that’s a great strength of Kansas.”The Jayhawks (1-0) boast one of the

nation’s top frontcourts, headlined by sophomore Perry Ellis and graduate student Tarik Black, who played his first three years of eligibility at Memphis and chose to attend Kansas instead of Duke last summer.

But the man Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he will be watching out for is 7-foot center Joel Embiid. The freshman from Cameroon came off the

bench in Kansas’ season-opening 80-63 win against Louisiana Monroe and scored nine points, attempting 10 free throws in just 11 minutes of action.

“A lot of people feel that their big kid who comes off the bench is the top pros-pect in the country for the pros,” Krzyze-wski said after his team’s season-opening win. “We’re going to play against a lot of guys who are NBA talent.”

To compete with Kansas’ sizable front line, the Blue Devils will have to keep their forwards out of foul trouble early. Sophomore Amile Jefferson played just four minutes in the first half against Da-vidson before picking up his second foul and forcing Duke to go with a smaller lineup.

Guards Quinn Cook and Rasheed Su-laimon thrived in the Blue Devils’ new up-tempo offensive style, each topping 20 points on the evening. But Duke’s guards will have to put up with a speedy Kansas backcourt headlined by Wayne Selden, Jr. and point guard Naadir Tharpe, who will make his season debut after serving a one-game suspension.

“I think they’re actually one of the best transition teams I’ve seen in a really long time,” Capel said.

Duke will enter Tuesday night’s con-test as the only school that has yet to lose a game in the Champions Classic. The third installment of the series—which recently had its contract extend through the 2016-17 season—will represent an-other key matchup for the Blue Devils.

Two season ago, Duke faced Michigan State in the first Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden, where Krzyze-wski passed Bob Knight by earning the

903rd win of his career. Last season, the Blue Devils squared off with Kentucky in Atlanta in a matchup of top-five teams that featured Duke’s experience against the Wildcats’ vaunted freshman class, headlined by Nerlens Noel.

Although March is still months away,

Tuesday’s matchup between the Blue Devils and Jayhawks takes on a different energy, Capel said.

“I’m sure tomorrow will feel proba-bly a lot like a Final Four,” Capel said. “There is so much attention on both of these teams.”


Duke’s Rodney Hood will have the toughest defensive matchup of the evening against Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins.


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Duke’s frontcourt is one of the most athletic in the nation, but the Jahyawks’ Black and Joel Embiid pack some serious punch in the post and could give the Blue Devils issues down low.Tharpe is seen as a potential X factor and Selden and Wiggins are dangerous on the wings. The Blue Devils can defend the perimeter, but Kansas could struggle to keep up with the speed of Duke’s guards.

Having Embiid off the bench is huge for Kansas. Frank Mason will make his mark as well, but the Blue Devils’ depth—par-ticularly in the backcourt—is undeniable with Rasheed Su-laimon and Matt Jones.

The breakdownDuke posted some gaudy offensive numbers in its blowout win against Davidson and should knock down plenty of 3-pointers in transition, but Kansas holds a significant edge on the offensive glass. The Jayhawks struggled with turnovers, which could be a differ-ence-maker if Duke takes care of the ball.

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 81-77

DUKE KANPPG: 111.0 80.0PPG DEF: 77.0 63.0FG%: 70.4 53.53PT%: 61.9 38.9FT%: 68.8 62.8RPG: 27.0 36.0APG: 16.0 17.0BPG: 6.0 5.0SPG: 7.0 9.0

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Krzyzewski said that these tough realities are important lessons for postseason play.

“As far as Jabari going back, I think he’ll handle everything well,” Krzyzewski said. “I think one of the main things is tickets—friends calling, stuff like that. I think it’s amazing preparation for post-season on Nov. 12. People are going to call you. You have new friends, you have old friends, you have cousins, and how do you handle all of that?”

And that pressure doesn’t even touch on the highly anticipated showdown be-tween the nation’s top two recruits: Park-er and Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins.

“It’s just team for team—my guys ver-sus their guys. I’m not looking for any in-dividual matchup,” Parker said. “I don’t want to get distracted.”

Keeping that focus will be key for Parker, as the hyped showdown against Wiggins only adds to the potential dis-tractions that coming home brings.

“People want to come into the ho-tel and see you, talk to you, and a lot of times it’s your close friends and fam-ily, but you have to be disciplined and say, ‘Look, I want to see everyone too but I’m here to win a game,’” Collins said. “You have to get your rest, and you can’t use up too much emotion before the game so that you’re just exhausted once it starts.”

Other than getting to see the Bulls play the Cleveland Cavaliers in a game that featured four former Blue Devils Monday night, Parker said the trip will just be “basketball, sleeping and eating.”

maintains itself into the game on Tues-day,” Kerr said. “We played very well at Notre Dame…. We were strong right down to the very end, and then we had a lapse…. We got a lot of confidence from [our performance].”

Things have been looking up for the Blue Devils recently, as they haven’t lost since Oct. 1 to UNC-Wilmington. During the unbeaten streak, the defense has been remarkably stout, allowing only three goals in eight games.

Notre Dame has been even better defensively, allowing only 0.65 goals per game over the season. Senior Patrick Wall has notched eight shutouts for the Irish in goal.

Offensively, Harrison Shipp leads the offensive attack for the Fighting Irish with eight goals and seven assists on the year. Shipp found the back of the net against Duke in the previous matchup. Patrick Hodan also threatens the de-fense, as he’s tallied four goals and four assists.

“They’re a very good team, and they’ve proven themselves all season long [as to] what a good team they are,” Kerr said. “We have nothing to lose—we’re the underdog, they’re at home, and they’ve earned that right. We’re on a little bit of a run right now, and we have an opportunity to knock off one of the big guns.”

Putting more strain on Duke will be the absence of centerback Zach Mathers. Mathers earned a red card in the season finale against Clemson and will have to sit out this contest per NCAA rules. Kerr will have to shuffle his lineup to adjust for Mathers’ absence.

“We haven’t decided yet totally, but logically we’d probably drop [defensive midfielder Nat] Eggleston there and then reassess the midfield,” Kerr said.

Regardless of Kerr’s strategy, goal-keeper Alex Long will likely be heavily tested Tuesday. Long had to make three saves in the previous matchup against Notre Dame, and he has accumulated eight shutouts this season. The Duke de-fense has held opponents scoreless in its

but he’ll be doing a lot more digging be-tween now and Saturday.

“They’ve had a fantastic year. I’ve been following them a little bit, I voted for them a few times in the last two or three weeks in the Top 25 in the NCAA poll because of so many wins they’ve had,” Church said. “Now we’ll go and look at them a lot closer.”

Conference USA isn’t as strong as the ACC, but still boasts stiff competition in Old Dominion, East Carolina and Char-lotte. Colorado College will enter the match riding a wave of momentum, hav-ing posted a 4-1-1 record in its last six games.

By contrast, the Blue Devils were oust-ed 2-0 in the first round of the ACC tour-nament by Florida State, and have spent the past week training hard and getting healthy.

Weinberg said opening the tourna-ment on the road could be a blessing in disguise for the Blue Devils.

“We are traveling, but it’s a good op-portunity for us to play someone who we haven’t played before and focus, get in the zone and not get distracted by some of the things we could be distracted by if we were playing at home,” she said.

Carlos Boozer, Luol Deng and Mike Dunleavy are three of many Blue Devils to play for the Bulls, a list that also in-cludes Elton Brand, Chris Duhon and Jay Williams in recent memory. Scheyer said it’s no surprise Blue Devils in the pros have flocked to Chicago because of the way the organization values defense and intelligence on the court.

In terms of eating, Chicago is most famous for its deep-dish style pizza. Scheyer recommended famous chains Lou Malnati’s and Giordano’s. Collins said, “it’s all in the crust” with what you prefer, and that’s what makes Gino’s East Parker’s favorite.

“The cornbread crust,” he said.

last 194 minutes of play.The Blue Devils’ best opportunities

to score will likely come off of set piec-es, which have generated 52 percent of Duke’s goals on the season. Midfielder and captain Sean Davis has six of those goals—three coming from penalty kicks and three from free kicks.

Despite the tough task ahead of the squad, Duke could feel like it’s playing with house money at the moment, hav-ing not been guaranteed of its postsea-son status before Friday night’s 1-0 victo-ry against Clemson.

Still, it’s safe to say the Blue Devils are far from satisfied.

“No one wants to play a team on a roll,” Kerr said. “We’re on a roll, and we want to continue this as long as we can.”


Jabari Parker will make the trip home to Chicago for the second game of his colle-giate career.

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that’s a great strength of Kansas.”The Jayhawks (1-0) boast one of the

nation’s top frontcourts, headlined by sophomore Perry Ellis and graduate student Tarik Black, who played his first three years of eligibility at Memphis and chose to attend Kansas instead of Duke last summer.

But the man Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said he will be watching out for is 7-foot center Joel Embiid. The freshman from Cameroon came off the

bench in Kansas’ season-opening 80-63 win against Louisiana Monroe and scored nine points, attempting 10 free throws in just 11 minutes of action.

“A lot of people feel that their big kid who comes off the bench is the top pros-pect in the country for the pros,” Krzyze-wski said after his team’s season-opening win. “We’re going to play against a lot of guys who are NBA talent.”

To compete with Kansas’ sizable front line, the Blue Devils will have to keep their forwards out of foul trouble early. Sophomore Amile Jefferson played just four minutes in the first half against Da-vidson before picking up his second foul and forcing Duke to go with a smaller lineup.

Guards Quinn Cook and Rasheed Su-laimon thrived in the Blue Devils’ new up-tempo offensive style, each topping 20 points on the evening. But Duke’s guards will have to put up with a speedy Kansas backcourt headlined by Wayne Selden, Jr. and point guard Naadir Tharpe, who will make his season debut after serving a one-game suspension.

“I think they’re actually one of the best transition teams I’ve seen in a really long time,” Capel said.

Duke will enter Tuesday night’s con-test as the only school that has yet to lose a game in the Champions Classic. The third installment of the series—which recently had its contract extend through the 2016-17 season—will represent an-other key matchup for the Blue Devils.

Two season ago, Duke faced Michigan State in the first Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden, where Krzyze-wski passed Bob Knight by earning the

903rd win of his career. Last season, the Blue Devils squared off with Kentucky in Atlanta in a matchup of top-five teams that featured Duke’s experience against the Wildcats’ vaunted freshman class, headlined by Nerlens Noel.

Although March is still months away,

Tuesday’s matchup between the Blue Devils and Jayhawks takes on a different energy, Capel said.

“I’m sure tomorrow will feel proba-bly a lot like a Final Four,” Capel said. “There is so much attention on both of these teams.”


Duke’s Rodney Hood will have the toughest defensive matchup of the evening against Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins.


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Duke has a culture overflowing with bountiful intellect and contagious influence. It is a community of established

professionals and students on their way to a life of abundant success themselves. We are scientists and writers and engineers. Future doctors and lawyers. And, apparently, we are sports fans. I would be hard-pressed to find a Duke student that didn’t root for Duke basketball—with good reason, of course. Coach K and the basketball team are not successful merely by chance. The determination Coach K instills in this University as a whole is thrilling and inspiring. It is contagious, and it without a doubt reverberates for athletes and non-athletes alike. Coach K inspires a reputation of respect and responsibility and resolve, and it resonates—as it should—with Durham and beyond. He certainly inspires other student-athletes, and right now, rightfully so, the rest of Duke Athletics demand your attention, too. The atmosphere surrounding Blue Devil athletics right now is electric, and if you’re not responsive to that, you’re not paying attention. Between being a student-athlete and a student journalist, I spend a great deal of time reading articles written about Duke and Duke teams. I hear people talk. In my reading, I have seen an overwhelming number of people say we talk about sports too much. I hear that athletes are given too much credit. I hear that athletes “have it made.” I hear “we should stop talking about sports and start talking about academics.” I understand and believe that college is for academics first. There is no salient argument to say otherwise, but calling student-athletes irresponsible jocks is an assertion so naïve that it makes me question how the people who talk like this can possibly be at an institution like Duke. I am baffled at how they can endure a life of such sheltered arrogance. These people exist. Perhaps you’re one of them. If you are, put down the sports section. Stop reading this article. Maybe even transfer. Go to Princeton or MIT. This University is about prestige and perpetuating excellence. And so is Duke Athletics. Duke’s about competing and winning. And so is Duke Athletics. You’d be senseless to say Duke isn’t about sports. Much of this University is so strikingly socially white collar. It is often dangerously pretentious and nauseatingly overflowing with privilege and connection. But in the classroom, students here are blue collar. And so are the student-athletes. Duke is about competitive, hard-hitting, blue collar athletes challenging teams in competitive, hard-hitting, blue collar games. This is the kind of Coach K-inspired dedication and diligence that will help student-athletes leverage their experiences in job interviews and the greater picture of life. We know about teamwork. We know about things being out of our control. We know about taking control of things. And we know how to get things done in time, on time and in overtime. Student-athletes aren’t naïve. We understand that few of us will go pro in our sport. We

get it. We still get on the field everyday and sweat and bruise and get after a tough morning in biting cold air or rain or hot, balmy sunlight. And then we go to class.

For all those who scowl at sociology or anthropology or psychology majors—go find the student-athletes who study these subjects and tell me they don’t work hard. Go find them and tell them they’ve simply got it made. Go tell them how you feel about them getting a free education—but know that not everyone gets a free education. In fact, very few do. Many of us aren’t given a penny, and we don’t care. We do it for the game. It’s about the intrinsic value of accomplishing things other people can’t do. We do it because we don’t want to stop playing. My team is one of engineers and biologists and evolutionary anthropologists. The athletic department is filled with future doctors, lawyers and politicians—not to mention the individuals who do go pro. But right now, we’re kids. Just kids. We’re 18 to 22-year-old kids putting in the work—amateurs for now, going professional in something else sooner or later. There’s no way I’m going pro in my sport. No chance. We’re amateurs, and we know it. We do it because we love the game. We do it because we love Duke. Embrace the role of athletics at a top-level institution. Understand that athletics and teams build character and community. The number of student-athletes who commit violations across this country are a fractionally small subset of individuals who get weeded out by their thinly veiled desire for individual benefit. The rest of us are blue collar kids. Diligent and dedicated and realistic 18 to 22-year-old kids who deserve more respect than saying this University isn’t about sports. We deserve more credit than a sparsely-filled set of bleachers. More respect than a tailgate where student priorities ignore actually attending the game. Our football team is 7-2 and has been on a tear this season that demands your attention. Pay attention. Our soccer teams and wrestlers and field hockey players are grinding through seasons. Few of us will go pro. We just love the game. Pay attention. Wear that Cameron Crazies shirt you got from the bookstore after receiving your acceptance letter. Wear it to a game—any game. Pay attention to those kids on the field. They might be your boss one day. But for now, we’re just kids—just students like you who are chasing down our dreams. We’re just running pretty damn fast while we do it.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @camanyooo.

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In March of 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. A month later, he stood in front of citizens and journalists in the East

Room of the White House and addressed the effects that the ACA was going to have on the health insurance mar-ket. “Starting in September, some of the worst abuses will be banned forever,” the President announced. “No more discriminating against children with pre-existing condi-tions. No more retroactively dropping somebody’s policy when they get sick … those days are over.”

The President wasn’t alone in celebrating this development. It’s probably pretty unobjectionable to say that his words generally reflected the left’s conversation on the ACA in the months that led up to and followed its passage. Paul Krugman, a decorated economist, editorialist for the New York Times and vocal supporter of the ACA over the status quo ante, had also spoken out against health insurers’ rescission practices just a month earlier. “Saying that people do terrible things isn’t demonization if they do, in fact, do terrible things,” he explained pithily in a blog post. “And health insurers do, because they have huge financial incentives to act in an inhumane way.”

President Obama and Paul Krugman’s concerns over rescissions, which are of course shared by many Americans, reflect an anxiety over the possibility that at the end of the day decisions between life and death will be made not by the patients who face the consequences, but rather by a big and impersonal health insurance bureaucracy. What is interesting about this concern is how similar it is to the right’s concerns over alleged ACA “death panels,” and how little pundits on either side seem to recognize this.

On at least six separate occasions, Krugman mocked conservatives for their exaggerated claims that the ACA’s provisions for end-of-life hospice counseling or Independent Payment Advisory Board convened “death panels” that would wield power to decide on an individual basis which citizens would be granted life-saving medical treatment and which would be denied. Despite his uncivil tone, he was right to point out that, no matter what your political orientation, these were gross misinterpretations of hospice counseling or the IPAB’s role. On a couple of occasions, in fact, Krugman has expressed his support for the IPAB and other top-down approaches to cutting spending in government care programs. “Health care costs will have to be controlled, which will surely require having Medicare and Medicaid decide what they’re willing to pay for,” he explained in a blog post in 2010. “Not really death panels, of course, but consideration of medical effectiveness and, at some point, how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care.” Although he is right to condemn the “death panel” myth, Krugman’s support for a bureaucratic approach to controlling health spending ignores the legitimate concerns conservatives have advanced concerning the IPAB and the powers granted to it under the ACA.

In June of 2012, for instance, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute expressed serious reservations over

the IPAB’s power, scope and independence. “When the unelected government officials on this board submit a legislative proposal to Congress, it automatically becomes law,” Cannon wrote in a policy analysis of the IPAB. “Blocking an IPAB ‘proposal’ requires at a minimum that the House and the Senate and the President agree on a substitute.” The 24-page report details IPAB’s powers, its lack of checks and balances and the difficulty Congress may have in altering or deconstructing the Board should it do so in the future. All of this leads

Cannon to conclude, in a tone that is heavily dissimilar to Krugman’s cool approval, that the IPAB is a “milestone on the road to serfdom.” At the end of the day, Cannon’s concern that too much decision-making authority is being bestowed in a bloated bureaucracy shares some of the flavor of rescission hysteria.

In his 1992 book “Patient Power: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis,” libertarian health policy analyst John Goodman frames an approach to solving the health care crisis around increasing the patient’s opportunities to choose between spending money on health care or saving it. “The choices must be made either by the patients themselves or by a health care bureaucracy that is ultimately answerable to Washington,” Goodman writes. (It is irrelevant here that Goodman’s perspective is a libertarian one; the point is that the current system does not do enough to empower patients to make their own decisions, and that this problem is in part what spawns the mirror-image fears of rescissions on the left and death panels on the right.) “When Medicare patients interact with the health care system, what procedures are performed—and whether a procedure is performed—is determined more by reimbursement rules than by patient preferences,” Goodman explains. As if to lend credence to the idea that conservatives and liberals fear the same thing, he adds that this is a practice that is prevalent not only in government but in the insurance industry as well. “Although this phenomenon is more evident in government health care programs … private insurers and large companies are increasingly copying the methods of government.”

None of this is to say that rescissions and the IPAB are analogous in any other meaningful way, or that some ideas in the health care debate do not hold more water than others. But it is worth considering that, beneath the vitriol and appeals to emotion, many of those involved in these conversations are actually seeking to avoid the same things.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working in Boston, Mass. His column runs every other Tuesday. Send Chris a mes-sage on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

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Sometimes my job requires me to receive documents via email, in PDF format. The last time this happened, instead of a nice 70-page PDF, I received an extremely

long email made up of a mass of English letters all crammed together in no coherent order. A very competent human being in IT fixed it in a matter of minutes. To my question as to what had caused the problem—was it something I did?—she answered: “No, sometimes they just do that.”

A wave of nostalgia washed over me, took me back to the distant past, when I was tending toddlers. Take the kid to

quality activities, feed it healthy food, protect it from junk food and TV, read to it, provide it with gender-neutral, non-violent toys, volunteer at the pre-school … and then at some wildly unpredictable moment, for no logical reason, in the worst possible place—usually in the checkout line—it throws itself screaming onto its stomach. The sippy cup clatters to the floor; its plastic top ricochets across the tiles, and there’s a splashing noise and a sudden sticky wetness down the side of your jeans. Through the din, there comes from behind a shuffling sound, a polite cough and the subtle aroma of freshly-laundered clothing; without turning around you know what is there: the perfect mom, calm, posh and functional all wrapped up in one, with a barely detectable admixture of judgmental. Dangling its chubby feet through the leg-holes in her cart, on its seat above the neat pile of fresh fruit and vegetables, sits the perfect child, clean, happy, polite, adorable, patient. The 100 percent organic all-fruit sorbet in her cart is going to melt, I think. As I fight the impulse to just cave in and buy the damn gummy bears, I think, trying to persuade myself: yes, sometimes they just do that.

The internet is like your toddler. Love it, play with it, share it with others, watch it grow. But don’t trash your backup plan. Last week, Duke employees were given the opportunity to enroll in benefits for 2014. The process entails logging on to a website and clicking on little circles before each benefit, with the goal of producing a black dot at the center of each circle. When I tried to do this, the dots appeared instantaneously each time, then just as instantaneously vanished. Looked like no benefits in 2014. So I called HR. Astoundingly, a human being answered the phone and was kind enough to enroll me, manually. I asked him what the problem had been—what had I done wrong? He answered, as I knew he would: “The system has been doing that.”

This fall, high school seniors attempting to submit Early Decision applications using the Common Application discovered that the text box was eating their essays. The last I heard, the deadline had to be moved back for tens of thousands of college applicants. If the next new crop of Dukies has a traumatized, dazed look about them, my guess is that this could be the cause. So now do we need to talk about the Affordable Care Act’s online technology snafu? Not really. We can leap straight ahead to the solution. With local pride I note a recent News and Observer report that North Carolina experts on the sign-up procedures for health insurance have come up with “a creative way to bypass digital technology: paper, pen and envelope.” As someone who spends a lot of times with books—the paper kind—I endorse this solution to this and many other life problems. If they don’t LET you log on, then how can they MAKE you? Grab a cup of coffee, a chocolate bar, and, say, a copy of “Uncle Vanya.” Curl up in a corner and read until everything settles down, until they work out their issues, and you can coast in, log on and take care of whatever it is you need to get done. Remember, if you’re late doing it, it is THEIR fault.

Earlier this semester we reported the true story of the rat that shut down the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Vermin sabotage is a worldwide trend. A few weeks ago, a gigantic swarm of jellyfish washed into the cooling water intake pipes at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden, shutting down one of its units. The scientific term for this apparently common occurrence is “jellyfish clogs.” The theme of this column has been the power of individual units of biology, from rodents to the crown of creation—homo sapiens—over the tools and systems we create. This can be a creative force or a destructive one. As Duke wheels into the homestretch in the race to put our courses online, it may be worth remembering the small but mighty human being—Tolstoy, say—in the background, listening, writing, thinking, always ready to help.

Carol Apollonio is a professor of the practice in Slavic and Eurasian studies. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Professor Apollonio a message on Twitter @flath3.

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By next Spring, the Provost Search Committee hopes to have selected three finalists for the provost position. When the President chooses one of these finalists to succeed Provost Peter Lange, his decision will inevitably send a signal about the direction the University will take in the following years. The precise influence that the new provost will have over Duke’s future is yet to be seen. There are, however, several areas of the University that the new provost should come in well-equipped to address.

The new provost will inherit a Duke brand increasingly defined by interdisciplinarity and global education. During his fifteen-year tenure as the Provost, Lange has overseen Duke’s expansion into several different interdisciplinary and global programs, each of which reflects his ambitious administrative goals. While these programs differ in their successes and shortfalls, it is clear that Duke’s transformation into a globalized, modernized university is underway.

A change in leadership presents an opportunity to think broadly about this transformation. Although Duke has sought to develop hallmark interdisciplinary programs that help it stand out from its peer schools, the new provost will have to conduct an honest cost-benefit analysis of these

programs to determine which are worth preserving as we move forward with limited funds and changing priorities. The new provost must be aware of changes at Duke and bring new ideas to the table. But he or she must also understand that, with each addition to the University’s ever-expanding empire

of interdisciplinary institutes and programs, there must also be a concerted effort to link these projects with the core academic experience at Duke.

In a meeting with the Editorial Board, George Truskey noted that the Provost Search Committee is placing particular importance on the communicative aspect of the provost’s duties, emphasizing the need for candidates to approach issues in a collaborative way. These sentiments may reflect discontent with the approach taken by Lange, whose advocacy of Duke Kunshan University and online course provider 2U has proven contentious among faculty. By stressing communication skills in its search, the committee suggests that the new provost will have to be committed to weighing the concerns of the faculty

and staff when making decisions.This is crucial. While administrative planning

can provide valuable foresight for future investment, faculty, staff and students remain the beating heart of the University. Their insight into administrative matters is valuable if the administration hopes to enrich existing programs.

Finally, it will be important for the next provost to adeptly navigate Duke’s politics and to honestly evaluate the University’s strengths and weaknesses. For that reason, an external hire might be a wise decision, as he or she may feel less constrained by established interpersonal and professional ties and more willing to judge the value added by academic assets. Someone from within Duke, however, would be more aware of the recent changes to the University and more familiar with the politics that govern Duke’s administrative processes.

Regardless of where the next provost comes from, he or she should be ready and willing to evaluate the progress that the University has made under Provost Lange and adopt a strategy that involves reflecting on past successes, strengthening existing programs before launching new ones and communicating clearly and openly with the Duke community.

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Duke has a culture overflowing with bountiful intellect and contagious influence. It is a community of established

professionals and students on their way to a life of abundant success themselves. We are scientists and writers and engineers. Future doctors and lawyers. And, apparently, we are sports fans. I would be hard-pressed to find a Duke student that didn’t root for Duke basketball—with good reason, of course. Coach K and the basketball team are not successful merely by chance. The determination Coach K instills in this University as a whole is thrilling and inspiring. It is contagious, and it without a doubt reverberates for athletes and non-athletes alike. Coach K inspires a reputation of respect and responsibility and resolve, and it resonates—as it should—with Durham and beyond. He certainly inspires other student-athletes, and right now, rightfully so, the rest of Duke Athletics demand your attention, too. The atmosphere surrounding Blue Devil athletics right now is electric, and if you’re not responsive to that, you’re not paying attention. Between being a student-athlete and a student journalist, I spend a great deal of time reading articles written about Duke and Duke teams. I hear people talk. In my reading, I have seen an overwhelming number of people say we talk about sports too much. I hear that athletes are given too much credit. I hear that athletes “have it made.” I hear “we should stop talking about sports and start talking about academics.” I understand and believe that college is for academics first. There is no salient argument to say otherwise, but calling student-athletes irresponsible jocks is an assertion so naïve that it makes me question how the people who talk like this can possibly be at an institution like Duke. I am baffled at how they can endure a life of such sheltered arrogance. These people exist. Perhaps you’re one of them. If you are, put down the sports section. Stop reading this article. Maybe even transfer. Go to Princeton or MIT. This University is about prestige and perpetuating excellence. And so is Duke Athletics. Duke’s about competing and winning. And so is Duke Athletics. You’d be senseless to say Duke isn’t about sports. Much of this University is so strikingly socially white collar. It is often dangerously pretentious and nauseatingly overflowing with privilege and connection. But in the classroom, students here are blue collar. And so are the student-athletes. Duke is about competitive, hard-hitting, blue collar athletes challenging teams in competitive, hard-hitting, blue collar games. This is the kind of Coach K-inspired dedication and diligence that will help student-athletes leverage their experiences in job interviews and the greater picture of life. We know about teamwork. We know about things being out of our control. We know about taking control of things. And we know how to get things done in time, on time and in overtime. Student-athletes aren’t naïve. We understand that few of us will go pro in our sport. We

get it. We still get on the field everyday and sweat and bruise and get after a tough morning in biting cold air or rain or hot, balmy sunlight. And then we go to class.

For all those who scowl at sociology or anthropology or psychology majors—go find the student-athletes who study these subjects and tell me they don’t work hard. Go find them and tell them they’ve simply got it made. Go tell them how you feel about them getting a free education—but know that not everyone gets a free education. In fact, very few do. Many of us aren’t given a penny, and we don’t care. We do it for the game. It’s about the intrinsic value of accomplishing things other people can’t do. We do it because we don’t want to stop playing. My team is one of engineers and biologists and evolutionary anthropologists. The athletic department is filled with future doctors, lawyers and politicians—not to mention the individuals who do go pro. But right now, we’re kids. Just kids. We’re 18 to 22-year-old kids putting in the work—amateurs for now, going professional in something else sooner or later. There’s no way I’m going pro in my sport. No chance. We’re amateurs, and we know it. We do it because we love the game. We do it because we love Duke. Embrace the role of athletics at a top-level institution. Understand that athletics and teams build character and community. The number of student-athletes who commit violations across this country are a fractionally small subset of individuals who get weeded out by their thinly veiled desire for individual benefit. The rest of us are blue collar kids. Diligent and dedicated and realistic 18 to 22-year-old kids who deserve more respect than saying this University isn’t about sports. We deserve more credit than a sparsely-filled set of bleachers. More respect than a tailgate where student priorities ignore actually attending the game. Our football team is 7-2 and has been on a tear this season that demands your attention. Pay attention. Our soccer teams and wrestlers and field hockey players are grinding through seasons. Few of us will go pro. We just love the game. Pay attention. Wear that Cameron Crazies shirt you got from the bookstore after receiving your acceptance letter. Wear it to a game—any game. Pay attention to those kids on the field. They might be your boss one day. But for now, we’re just kids—just students like you who are chasing down our dreams. We’re just running pretty damn fast while we do it.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Ashley a message on Twitter @camanyooo.

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In March of 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. A month later, he stood in front of citizens and journalists in the East

Room of the White House and addressed the effects that the ACA was going to have on the health insurance mar-ket. “Starting in September, some of the worst abuses will be banned forever,” the President announced. “No more discriminating against children with pre-existing condi-tions. No more retroactively dropping somebody’s policy when they get sick … those days are over.”

The President wasn’t alone in celebrating this development. It’s probably pretty unobjectionable to say that his words generally reflected the left’s conversation on the ACA in the months that led up to and followed its passage. Paul Krugman, a decorated economist, editorialist for the New York Times and vocal supporter of the ACA over the status quo ante, had also spoken out against health insurers’ rescission practices just a month earlier. “Saying that people do terrible things isn’t demonization if they do, in fact, do terrible things,” he explained pithily in a blog post. “And health insurers do, because they have huge financial incentives to act in an inhumane way.”

President Obama and Paul Krugman’s concerns over rescissions, which are of course shared by many Americans, reflect an anxiety over the possibility that at the end of the day decisions between life and death will be made not by the patients who face the consequences, but rather by a big and impersonal health insurance bureaucracy. What is interesting about this concern is how similar it is to the right’s concerns over alleged ACA “death panels,” and how little pundits on either side seem to recognize this.

On at least six separate occasions, Krugman mocked conservatives for their exaggerated claims that the ACA’s provisions for end-of-life hospice counseling or Independent Payment Advisory Board convened “death panels” that would wield power to decide on an individual basis which citizens would be granted life-saving medical treatment and which would be denied. Despite his uncivil tone, he was right to point out that, no matter what your political orientation, these were gross misinterpretations of hospice counseling or the IPAB’s role. On a couple of occasions, in fact, Krugman has expressed his support for the IPAB and other top-down approaches to cutting spending in government care programs. “Health care costs will have to be controlled, which will surely require having Medicare and Medicaid decide what they’re willing to pay for,” he explained in a blog post in 2010. “Not really death panels, of course, but consideration of medical effectiveness and, at some point, how much we’re willing to spend for extreme care.” Although he is right to condemn the “death panel” myth, Krugman’s support for a bureaucratic approach to controlling health spending ignores the legitimate concerns conservatives have advanced concerning the IPAB and the powers granted to it under the ACA.

In June of 2012, for instance, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute expressed serious reservations over

the IPAB’s power, scope and independence. “When the unelected government officials on this board submit a legislative proposal to Congress, it automatically becomes law,” Cannon wrote in a policy analysis of the IPAB. “Blocking an IPAB ‘proposal’ requires at a minimum that the House and the Senate and the President agree on a substitute.” The 24-page report details IPAB’s powers, its lack of checks and balances and the difficulty Congress may have in altering or deconstructing the Board should it do so in the future. All of this leads

Cannon to conclude, in a tone that is heavily dissimilar to Krugman’s cool approval, that the IPAB is a “milestone on the road to serfdom.” At the end of the day, Cannon’s concern that too much decision-making authority is being bestowed in a bloated bureaucracy shares some of the flavor of rescission hysteria.

In his 1992 book “Patient Power: Solving America’s Health Care Crisis,” libertarian health policy analyst John Goodman frames an approach to solving the health care crisis around increasing the patient’s opportunities to choose between spending money on health care or saving it. “The choices must be made either by the patients themselves or by a health care bureaucracy that is ultimately answerable to Washington,” Goodman writes. (It is irrelevant here that Goodman’s perspective is a libertarian one; the point is that the current system does not do enough to empower patients to make their own decisions, and that this problem is in part what spawns the mirror-image fears of rescissions on the left and death panels on the right.) “When Medicare patients interact with the health care system, what procedures are performed—and whether a procedure is performed—is determined more by reimbursement rules than by patient preferences,” Goodman explains. As if to lend credence to the idea that conservatives and liberals fear the same thing, he adds that this is a practice that is prevalent not only in government but in the insurance industry as well. “Although this phenomenon is more evident in government health care programs … private insurers and large companies are increasingly copying the methods of government.”

None of this is to say that rescissions and the IPAB are analogous in any other meaningful way, or that some ideas in the health care debate do not hold more water than others. But it is worth considering that, beneath the vitriol and appeals to emotion, many of those involved in these conversations are actually seeking to avoid the same things.

Chris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working in Boston, Mass. His column runs every other Tuesday. Send Chris a mes-sage on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.

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Sometimes my job requires me to receive documents via email, in PDF format. The last time this happened, instead of a nice 70-page PDF, I received an extremely

long email made up of a mass of English letters all crammed together in no coherent order. A very competent human being in IT fixed it in a matter of minutes. To my question as to what had caused the problem—was it something I did?—she answered: “No, sometimes they just do that.”

A wave of nostalgia washed over me, took me back to the distant past, when I was tending toddlers. Take the kid to

quality activities, feed it healthy food, protect it from junk food and TV, read to it, provide it with gender-neutral, non-violent toys, volunteer at the pre-school … and then at some wildly unpredictable moment, for no logical reason, in the worst possible place—usually in the checkout line—it throws itself screaming onto its stomach. The sippy cup clatters to the floor; its plastic top ricochets across the tiles, and there’s a splashing noise and a sudden sticky wetness down the side of your jeans. Through the din, there comes from behind a shuffling sound, a polite cough and the subtle aroma of freshly-laundered clothing; without turning around you know what is there: the perfect mom, calm, posh and functional all wrapped up in one, with a barely detectable admixture of judgmental. Dangling its chubby feet through the leg-holes in her cart, on its seat above the neat pile of fresh fruit and vegetables, sits the perfect child, clean, happy, polite, adorable, patient. The 100 percent organic all-fruit sorbet in her cart is going to melt, I think. As I fight the impulse to just cave in and buy the damn gummy bears, I think, trying to persuade myself: yes, sometimes they just do that.

The internet is like your toddler. Love it, play with it, share it with others, watch it grow. But don’t trash your backup plan. Last week, Duke employees were given the opportunity to enroll in benefits for 2014. The process entails logging on to a website and clicking on little circles before each benefit, with the goal of producing a black dot at the center of each circle. When I tried to do this, the dots appeared instantaneously each time, then just as instantaneously vanished. Looked like no benefits in 2014. So I called HR. Astoundingly, a human being answered the phone and was kind enough to enroll me, manually. I asked him what the problem had been—what had I done wrong? He answered, as I knew he would: “The system has been doing that.”

This fall, high school seniors attempting to submit Early Decision applications using the Common Application discovered that the text box was eating their essays. The last I heard, the deadline had to be moved back for tens of thousands of college applicants. If the next new crop of Dukies has a traumatized, dazed look about them, my guess is that this could be the cause. So now do we need to talk about the Affordable Care Act’s online technology snafu? Not really. We can leap straight ahead to the solution. With local pride I note a recent News and Observer report that North Carolina experts on the sign-up procedures for health insurance have come up with “a creative way to bypass digital technology: paper, pen and envelope.” As someone who spends a lot of times with books—the paper kind—I endorse this solution to this and many other life problems. If they don’t LET you log on, then how can they MAKE you? Grab a cup of coffee, a chocolate bar, and, say, a copy of “Uncle Vanya.” Curl up in a corner and read until everything settles down, until they work out their issues, and you can coast in, log on and take care of whatever it is you need to get done. Remember, if you’re late doing it, it is THEIR fault.

Earlier this semester we reported the true story of the rat that shut down the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Vermin sabotage is a worldwide trend. A few weeks ago, a gigantic swarm of jellyfish washed into the cooling water intake pipes at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in Sweden, shutting down one of its units. The scientific term for this apparently common occurrence is “jellyfish clogs.” The theme of this column has been the power of individual units of biology, from rodents to the crown of creation—homo sapiens—over the tools and systems we create. This can be a creative force or a destructive one. As Duke wheels into the homestretch in the race to put our courses online, it may be worth remembering the small but mighty human being—Tolstoy, say—in the background, listening, writing, thinking, always ready to help.

Carol Apollonio is a professor of the practice in Slavic and Eurasian studies. Her column runs every other Tuesday. Send Professor Apollonio a message on Twitter @flath3.

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By next Spring, the Provost Search Committee hopes to have selected three finalists for the provost position. When the President chooses one of these finalists to succeed Provost Peter Lange, his decision will inevitably send a signal about the direction the University will take in the following years. The precise influence that the new provost will have over Duke’s future is yet to be seen. There are, however, several areas of the University that the new provost should come in well-equipped to address.

The new provost will inherit a Duke brand increasingly defined by interdisciplinarity and global education. During his fifteen-year tenure as the Provost, Lange has overseen Duke’s expansion into several different interdisciplinary and global programs, each of which reflects his ambitious administrative goals. While these programs differ in their successes and shortfalls, it is clear that Duke’s transformation into a globalized, modernized university is underway.

A change in leadership presents an opportunity to think broadly about this transformation. Although Duke has sought to develop hallmark interdisciplinary programs that help it stand out from its peer schools, the new provost will have to conduct an honest cost-benefit analysis of these

programs to determine which are worth preserving as we move forward with limited funds and changing priorities. The new provost must be aware of changes at Duke and bring new ideas to the table. But he or she must also understand that, with each addition to the University’s ever-expanding empire

of interdisciplinary institutes and programs, there must also be a concerted effort to link these projects with the core academic experience at Duke.

In a meeting with the Editorial Board, George Truskey noted that the Provost Search Committee is placing particular importance on the communicative aspect of the provost’s duties, emphasizing the need for candidates to approach issues in a collaborative way. These sentiments may reflect discontent with the approach taken by Lange, whose advocacy of Duke Kunshan University and online course provider 2U has proven contentious among faculty. By stressing communication skills in its search, the committee suggests that the new provost will have to be committed to weighing the concerns of the faculty

and staff when making decisions.This is crucial. While administrative planning

can provide valuable foresight for future investment, faculty, staff and students remain the beating heart of the University. Their insight into administrative matters is valuable if the administration hopes to enrich existing programs.

Finally, it will be important for the next provost to adeptly navigate Duke’s politics and to honestly evaluate the University’s strengths and weaknesses. For that reason, an external hire might be a wise decision, as he or she may feel less constrained by established interpersonal and professional ties and more willing to judge the value added by academic assets. Someone from within Duke, however, would be more aware of the recent changes to the University and more familiar with the politics that govern Duke’s administrative processes.

Regardless of where the next provost comes from, he or she should be ready and willing to evaluate the progress that the University has made under Provost Lange and adopt a strategy that involves reflecting on past successes, strengthening existing programs before launching new ones and communicating clearly and openly with the Duke community.

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ExhibitionsThe Very Loud Chamber Orchestra of Endangered Species. Thru Nov 22, 9am-5pm, M-F, Brown Gallery, Bryan Center.

In Practice: Work by Duke Arts Faculty. Work in a wide range of media by 17 Duke faculty members and instructors. Thru December 13. Power Plant Gallery, American Tobacco Campus. Free.

Soul and Service. A multi-panel exhibit celebrating the 100-year-plus history of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company. Thru December 20. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art. Thru December 29. Nasher Museum of Art.

Tiksi. An acclaimed series of photographs by Duke Visiting Artist Evgenia. Thru January 11. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Outrageous Ambitions: How a One-Room Schoolhouse Became a Research University. Celebrating 175 years of Duke history. Thru January 26. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space. Exploring the creation and maintenance of borders. Thru February 2. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

EventsNovember 12French flutist Nicholas Duchamp & pianist Barbara McKenzie. This is a preview concert of the French Music Institute Inaugural Concert at Merkin Hall in NY on November 19th. The program presents an overview of 20th century French compositions for flute and piano including music of Franck, Debussy, Poulenc and Gaubert. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

November 14Talk. Visiting artist Shahzia Sikander will be in residence for three days as a part of Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art, a traveling exhibition organized by The Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, on view at the Nasher Museum thru December 29. 7pm, Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Uncle Vanya. By Anton Chekhov. Directed by Jeff Storer, TS faculty. A story of characters caught between tradition and transformation, between personal isolation and communal action, between the lure of love and the security of duty, 8pm. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus. $10 Gen.; $5 Students/Sr. Citizens.

Talk. Reception and talk by Duke artist-in-residence, Evgenia Ar-bugaeva, whose photos from the Tiksi series are on view at CDS. 6-9pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

November 15Djembe & Afro-Cuban Ensembles. Directed by Bradley Simmons with guest artist Chembo Corniel. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Full Frame Third Friday. Screening of Medora. 7pm. Full Frame Theater, American Tobacco Campus. Free.

Uncle Vanya. (See Nov. 14) 8pm. (with post-show discussion)

November 16Uncle Vanya. (See Nov. 14) 8pm.

November 17Uncle Vanya. (See Nov. 14) 2pm.

Screen/SocietyAll events are free and open to the general public. Screenings are at 7pm in the Richard White Auditorium on East Campus. All events subject to change.

11/14 Infiltrators (docu) w/ Nick Denes, Palestine Film Foundation

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11/18 From Up on Poppy Hill (Japan-anime) (7pm, W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema

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