The Young Trustee Nominating Committee selected three finalists for the position Saturday night. The Young Trustee will be elected Feb. 15 by the undergraduate student body.

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NEW YORK — On the one-year an-niversary of Duke’s lopsided defeat to Georgetown at the Verizon Center, the No. 3 Blue Devils faced off against another Big East opponent Sunday, attempting to build off the momentum of four straight ACC victories.

But even in an arena that Duke fans re-fer to as home away from Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils (19-2) were domi-nated by start to finish by St. John’s. The Red Storm, losers of five of their last six, put together one of their most complete performances of the year to emerge with a 93-78 victory at Madison Square Garden in front of a sellout crowd.

“They were ready to compete and play,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said of St. John’s. “They had a great game plan. They have had outstanding games this season and this was one of them.”

Duke started the game with a 4-0 edge, but the Red Storm (12-8) took the Blue

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Duke University Union hosted a Mardi Gras celebration in the Bryan Center Saturday. The event featured free food, bead giveaways, activities like laser tag and performances from campus groups.

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The invalidation of a research paper pub-lished by The Lancet Oncology marks the third time in recent months that work by for-mer Duke cancer researcher Dr. Anil potti has been retracted by a scientific journal.

The paper, “Validation of gene signa-tures that predict the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy,” as-serted that treatment of breast cancer with chemotherapy is enhanced with the use of “gene signatures.” It was cited 108 times, according to Google Scholar.

The co-authors with connections to Duke listed in the paper are Dr. Joseph Nevins, Barbara Levine professor of Breast Cancer Genomics, Sayan Mukherjee, assis-tant professor for the Institute for Genome

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Coming off a brutal Big east stretch in which it lost five of six, St. John’s built a 21-point halftime lead into a dominant win over Duke at Madison Square Garden.

matthew Davis, seniorMajor: Biomedical EngineeringInvolvement: Student representative

to the Duke Student publishing Compa-ny Board of Directors; former president of Wayne Manor

Why do you wish to serve as Young Trustee? “I love Duke and appreciate all it has done for me, I want to give back to it. I want to serve Duke and to make a lasting impact on the institution that has made such a lasting impact on my own life.”

Editor’s note: Davis serves as a voting member of the Duke Student Publishing Company Board of Directors, which publishes The Chronicle. His two-year term on the Board ends in June 2011. He is not involved in the editorial processes of The Chronicle.

ben Getson, seniorMajor: Computer ScienceInvolvement: Senior policy adviser

of Duke Student Government; Ubuntu member

Why do you wish to serve as Young Trustee? “I want the opportunity to learn from those that have everything to teach, and I am loathe to leave a place where I am constantly searching for ways I can improve myself and give back to the community. As the Young Trustee, I will do everything I can to work toward a bigger and better Duke.”

Getson was a semi-finalist for the undergraduate Young Trustee position last year.

michelle sohn, seniorMajor: EnglishInvolvement: Former member of

The Chronicle’s Editorial Board; Board of Trustees Undergraduate Education Committee member; Duke Student Government liaison for gender issues

Why do you wish to serve as Young Trustee? “I did not arrive at Duke as a scholar, I had never served on any sort of student government and I... did not think I would apply for a trusteeship.... This is why I wish to serve as Young Trust-ee: for the community that has given me a home and my expectation that Duke continues to strive in its path toward im-proved leadership and innovation.”

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cairo — The muslim Brotherhood found its first martyr in egypt’s popu-lar uprising Friday, when a teenager named mustafa sawi was shot dead in front of the interior ministry. But the country’s oldest and best organized opposition group had to take a back seat at his public funeral the next day, as the muslim Brotherhood insists it is little more than a bit player in the out-pouring of resistance to the regime of president hosni mubarak.

“This is on purpose,” mohammed mah-di akef, who retired last year as leader of the group at the age of 82, said sunday. “we want to be part of the fabric of so-ciety.”

But as egyptian society begins to weave a whole new cloth, the muslim Brotherhood, alternately used and de-monized by mubarak over the years, has been slow to contribute.

miami — Florida gov. rick scott said he’ll cut taxes in his 2012 budget by more than $1 billion and close a $3.6 billion projected deficit in part with workforce reductions and prison-system savings.

The republican elected in november said in an interview saturday that his budget, due Feb. 7, will lower corporate and property taxes and include $300 mil-lion of savings from a 5 percent reduc-tion in state workers. programs to shrink the prison population will reduce costs $1 billion over seven years beginning in the next budget, he said.

“we’re going to start growing our economy aggressively,” he said in wash-ington, where he had meetings Friday with federal officials. “we’ll make up for any of these reductions through an in-crease in our sales-tax revenue over time as we start growing quickly again, which we will.”

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“Kyle singler and Jasmine Thomas were named finalists for the lowe’s senior class award today. according to the press release, the award rewards excellence off the court: ‘To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an ncaa Division i senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – com-munity, classroom, character and competition.’”

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Arab world riveted by Egyptian protests Lecture series to provoke dialogue on education

by Fei ChenTHE CHRONICLE

In part by hosting a new annual lecture series, Steve Nowicki hopes to improve the member in-teraction and involvement of a group of scholars whose presence as a group has been “relatively in-visible” on campus.

The Bass Society of Fellows—which honors fac-ulty members who have achieved excellence in research and undergraduate teaching while also increasing faculty-student interaction—will host a lecture series titled, “Re-imagining the Academy,” starting Feb. 2.

Five national experts will speak on campus to provide a critique of American higher education. Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, said he hopes the lecture series will cre-ate opportunity for Bass fellows to interact with each other and “participate broadly in elevating the discussion about advancing teaching and learning at Duke.”

“All of the speakers who are coming have an angle on higher education that essentially challenges the way we think about it,” Nowicki said. “This is explic-itly a group of speakers that are invited to provoke discussion.”

The Bass Society inducts new members each Spring and is named after philanthropists Anna and Robert Bass. Anne is a member of the Board of Trustees.

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BAGHDAD - In the middle of Sunday afternoon, most tele-vision screens across the Middle East suddenly went blank.

The Arabic service of the celebrated al-Jazeera network, whose live coverage of the upheaval in Egypt had transfixed the region for days, had been blocked by the teetering Egyp-tian regime, forcing viewers to switch to one of the multiple other channels covering the protests, albeit none with quite so much breadth, depth and passion as al-Jazeera.

And in any case, it may already be too late to stem the tide of revolutionary fervor unleashed by the scenes of tur-moil broadcast from Egypt across the one part of the world that had remained stubbornly immune to the surge of de-mocratization that swept Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa in the 1980s and ‘90s.

“This is going to be one big regional wave,” said Hilal Khashan, a professor of political science at American Uni-versity of Beirut. “After Egypt, wait a couple of days . . . and you will see that the trend is unstoppable.”

The toppling of Tunisia’s dictatorial regime three weeks earlier may have provided the inspiration, the hint of pos-sibility, to a region that has long yearned for change but seemed powerless to bring it about.

But this latest uprising is taking place in Cairo, the po-litical, cultural and intellectual capital of the Arab world. This is the city that gave the region belly dancing, soap operas, its most beloved singers, the Arab League and the most influential institute of Sunni Islamic learning in the world, al-Azhar University.

It has also endowed the region with its most potent revolutions.

The last time Egypt had a revolt was back in 1952, and it changed the course of history. The young army officer who led the coup that overthrew Egypt’s monarchy was Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose pan-Arab nationalist ideals inspired a generation of revolutionary leaders from Moammar Gadd-afi in Libya to Saddam Hussein in Iraq, along with a string of violently destabilizing coups and two Arab-Israeli wars.

This Egyptian revolution, though dramatically differ-ent, has the potential to be just as transformational.

Already, activists on Twitter are furiously tweeting the dates of the next putative uprisings: Sudan on Jan. 30, Ye-men on Feb. 3, Syria on Feb. 5, Algeria on Feb. 12. “Arab Revolution Timetable,” say the tweets hurtling among the region’s new generation of cyberspace revolutionaries.

Ascertaining the assertions’ credibility is impossible, and most of those countries have stricter controls on the Internet and social media than Egypt, where an impromp-tu network of mostly middle-class and secular agitators used Facebook and Twitter to first bring people out onto the streets of Egypt’s cities last Tuesday.

But there are already signs that the spark ignited by Tu-nisia and inflamed by Egypt is spreading. Hundreds of stu-dent protesters demonstrated in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, on Sunday to demand that the government resign, prompting a fierce response from armed riot police, who fired tear gas and beat and arrested demonstrators.

Analysts in the region are divided only in their predic-tions as to where trouble will surface next.

Most vulnerable, said Fares Braizat of the Qatar-based Arab Center for Research and policy Studies, are the re-gion’s republics, from Algeria to Yemen, Sudan, Syria and Libya, whose dictatorial regimes differ from the one in Egypt only in the degree to which they repress their people, and their allegiance or otherwise to the United States.

The traditional monarchies, such as Morocco, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, derive legitimacy from their tribal roots and hereditary religious ties, leaving them less susceptible to calls for outright regime change. But demands for po-litical reforms that would temper the power of kings and create constitutional monarchies along the lines of those that thrive in Europe are likely to escalate, Braizat said.

The oil-rich emirates of the Arabian peninsula, whose citizens enjoy some of the highest per capita incomes in the world, do not confront the same challenges as Tunisia and Egypt, where swelling populations and rising unem-ployment have clashed headlong with the corrupt exclusiv-ity and lavish lifestyles of a tiny ruling elite.

Iraq and Lebanon, with deep sectarian divides and fragile democratic systems, present yet another set of challenges, un-likely to be affected dramatically by the Egyptian turmoil.

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Duke-NUS partnership enters phase two ahead of schedule

by Michael ShammasTHE CHRONICLE

Although its first class will not graduate until May, the Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School has entered a new era in which it will partner with a company to improve research and healthcare delivery.

University officials met with representa-tives from the National University of Sin-gapore Nov. 30, 2010 and decided to enter the second phase of their collaboration. The transition—which is occurring nearly two years ahead of the scheduled end of the first phase—signals the substantial con-fidence that stakeholders have placed in the school’s success, said professor Ranga Krishnan, the dean of the school.

Since the start of construction in 2006, Duke-NUS has focused on developing its infrastructure, but it will now begin to focus primarily on working with the SingHealth company to further develop and improve its capabilities. The school’s second phase is expected to last five years.

The company, which is the largest healthcare organization in Singapore, will provide its expertise in the biomedical sci-ences industry to quicken scientific discov-eries, emphasize patient care and collabo-rate with other aspects of the University.

“Duke-NUS in phase 2 will leverage on the excellent infrastructure that is already in place to further expand and integrate education, research and clinical care,” Krishnan wrote in an e-mail.

Duke-NUS was established in 2005 as a

collaboration between Duke and the Na-tional University of Singapore. The part-nership reflects Duke’s desire to expand globally, as well as the National University of Singapore’s desire to offer medical train-ing based on an American model.

Currently, medical schools following the American model of education are rare in Southeast Asia.

“Students in Southeast Asia are more fa-miliar with the British system of medical edu-cation [than the American one],” said junior Ming Jiu Li, who is from Singapore. “This means that there is no pre-med option, and students immediately enter a school of medi-cine upon graduation from high school.”

Indeed, Duke-NUS represents an im-portant new milestone for medical educa-tion internationally—in many respects, it is the first school of its kind in Singapore, Krishnan said. The school’s graduates will receive a joint Doctor of Medicine degree from both Duke and NUS.

“[Duke-NUS] is the first medical school in Singapore to follow the American model of post-baccalaureate medical education,” Krishnan said.

The continued partnership is already yielding benefits for both Duke and the National University of Singapore that will extend long beyond the end of the new phase in growth.

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Fred saba and Jared Pinsky were responsible for the meet’s most exciting match—a back-and-forth 9-8 (10-8) tie-break win over Alex Llompart and Alfredo moreno.

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By the time singles play rolled around in Duke’s meet against Pepperdine Saturday, the main attraction was arguably over.

After Henrique Cunha and Reid Carleton easily dis-patched of their opponents 8-4, and

Dave Holland and Chris Mengel fell 8-6,

Duke’s doubles point was up to the pair-ing of freshman Fred Saba and senior Jared Pinsky.

They didn’t disappoint.Playing on court two, the collegiate new-

comer and seasoned veteran participated in a duel to the finish with Pepperdine’s Alex Llompart and Alfredo Moreno. Saba and Pinsky fell behind 8-7, but battled back with a series of timely shots and dramatic tiebreak-ers to take the match, 9-8 (10-8), amid the

exuberant cheers of a standing room only crowd in Sheffield Indoor Tennis Center.

Their win gave No. 14 Duke (5-0) a point that would prove to be the meet’s deciding factor, as the Blue Devils topped the No. 21 Waves 4-3 to advance to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships.

“It was an amazing doubles point,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “I’ve been around a lot of tight doubles points, and it was about as tight as they

get.... Fred and Jared, Fred in particu-lar, just willed them to that. I don’t know how they did it.... But it set the tone for the rest of the match.”

The doubles point—an hour-and-a-half in the making, easily Duke’s longest of the year—gave the Blue Devils the momentum they needed to defeat an aggressive Pep-perdine (3-1) squad in singles.

Pinsky was the first Blue Devil off the court, taking his match against Mousheg Hovhannisyan, 6-1, 6-3. The senior was soon followed by Saba, who defeated Jen-son Turner, 6-2, 6-4. Mengel fell to Llom-part on court three in quick fashion, 7-5, 6-2, while Carleton was upset by No. 112 Finn Tearney, 4-6, 6-3, 1-0 (16-14).

The Blue Devils had to deal with a strik-ingly vocal Waves squad during singles play. Smith was pleased that his team, which fell last season to Pepperdine, 6-1, wasn’t rat-tled this time by their opponent.

“They are probably the most vocal team in the country. That’s kind of their thing,” Smith said. “They beat us pretty bad last year in their place. We were coming off a loss and not ready for the emotional on-slaught.... I told the guys to be prepared for anything [this time], and we did a good job not letting it bother us.”

While he didn’t seem bothered by the Waves, Cunha did struggle early against his opponent, the country’s No. 14 player Sebastian Fanselow. He lost the first set 4-6, but battled back to easily take the next two sets, 6-2, 6-1.

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women’s tennis

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Momentum worked in the Blue Devils’ favor Sunday morning when they defeated Brown 6-1 in the first round of the ITA Kick-off Weekend. With early doubles success fuel-ing its winning effort against the Bears, Duke is one step closer to advancing to the final

rounds of the ITA Team Indoor Na-tionals at Virginia Feb. 18-21.

During practice last week, the No. 7 Blue Devils (3-0) made it a point of emphasis to win doubles play, with se-nior Reka Zsilinszka even saying that winning in doubles “demoralizes the opponent and gives us confidence.” Duke’s success Sunday in doubles allowed it to coast to an easy victory.

“We made a little switch with our doubles lineup, we did some different things in prac-tice this week,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “I thought we did a really good job in doubles in coming out and playing aggressive and taking control of the net, which is some-thing we’ve been talking to them about.”

These wins set the tone for the rest of the match, in which the team only lost one match. Standout performances from fresh-man Rachel Kahan and sophomore Mary Clayton were highlights for the Blue Devils.

“Anytime you get the doubles point, it’s great to get a quick win in singles,” Ash-worth said. “Rachel came out at four and just gave Brown nothing to feed off of. To get a

match really quick is a really good thing for our team. Then we were up 2-0, as Mary fol-lowed right after with another quick win.”

The Bears (0-2) didn’t go down without a fight, however. Elizabeth Plotkin struggled to top Misia Krasowski, 6-2, 5-7, 1-0 (10-8), and Monica gorny fell in the six-spot to Jes-sica Harrow, 2-6, 6-1, 0-1 (11-13).

“They’re one of the best-coached teams in the country,” Ashworth said. “We’re more talented than they are, but they com-peted really well, fighting back in some of the second sets.... This is the first match that we’ve had this year where we’ve really needed to compete all the time.”

Duke will face Texas A&M at 2 p.m. to-morrow. The team will expect more com-petitive matches, though, as the Aggies are nationally ranked.

“We have to do a better job of running through the finish line,” Ashworth said. “[Monday] we’ll learn that you can’t take any-thing for granted. We can’t assume that some-one else is going to win the match for us.”

Talent-wise, the Blue Devils feel they should be able to defeat either team, but their victory will depend on whether they maintain aggressive play for the entire match. Both Duke’s coaches and players are optimistic, though, that they have the ability to pull through against even their toughest opponents.

“Our team is doing really well,” Kahan said. “We just have to keep supporting each other and everything else should fall into place.”

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Devils’ short-lived lead away at the 15:45 mark of the first half and never looked back. Bolstered by repeated backdoor cuts and precise passing, St. John’s built its lead to 21 at halftime and was able to keep a double-digit advantage for the remainder of the game.

Seniors Dwight Hardy and Justin Brown-lee, who led the Red Storm with 26 and 20 points, respectively, found their way into the lane at will, overwhelming Duke with superior athleticism. As a team, St. John’s consistently penetrated inside and was able to find open men when the defense col-lapsed, leading to an astounding 50 points in the paint.

Even the Blue Devils’ pressure did little to frus-trate the home team. Although the Red Storm operated at a sig-nificant height disadvantage, they had multiple ef-fective ball-han-dlers on the court at all times to dissect the Duke defense. St. John’s finished the game with 21 assists on 32 field goals.

“We were crisp in our judgments,” St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin said. “We were prudent with our decision-making at the end of breaking their press, whether it was sitting down for a jump stop, making that extra pass, probing or investigating for the open man.”

Krzyzewski echoed that sentiment.“They passed the ball brilliantly,” he

said. “They really played beautifully as a team.”

Unfortunately, that type of precision was not present in the Blue Devils’ offense. From the beginning, St. John’s frustrated Duke with its 2-2-1 press and forced 17

turnovers. The Red Storm would finish the game with 28 points off of those miscues.

Even when the Blue Devils managed to hold onto the ball, the team struggled from the floor. After three games of having a consistent third scoring option, Duke’s attack once again devolved into the Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler show. The two se-nior captains put the team on their backs, particularly in the second half, and Smith even approached his career high with 32 points.

Beyond the pair, however, the Blue Dev-ils only had 26 points, many of which came in the final minutes when the game was ef-fectively out of reach. Sophomore Ryan Kel-ly had six points in the first half but scored

only one after the break. Seth Curry couldn’t hit any-thing from long range after light-ing up Cameron last Thursday, missing his first four threes before finally connecting with three min-utes left and Duke still trailing by 14.

The Blue Devils had perhaps their best chance to the mount a comeback in the sec-ond half when two skirmishes resulting in double technicals disrupted the Red Storm’s rhythm and brought the lead down to 17. But a traveling violation by sophomore Ma-son Plumlee killed Duke’s momentum and a senior-laden St. John’s team responded with a run of its own to regain control.

A series of last-ditch 3-pointers at the end of the game kept the Blue Devils’ margin of defeat closer than it might have been. The effort was too little too late, however, to make an impact on the final outcome.

“As a program today, we did not show up to compete until about the middle of the second half,” Krzyzewski said. “And that’s extremely disappointing.”

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NEW YORK — Coming into Sunday’s matchup against Duke, the Red Storm had played seven straight games against top-25

opponents, losing five of their last six. St. John’s head coach Steve Lavin said after the game that although his team was improving, it had been hard to see the improve-

ment the players were making given the quality of their opponents in the second-toughest schedule in the country.

But in its crushing upset of the third-ranked Blue Devils in Madison Square gar-den, the improvement of St. John’s was ob-vious. The Red Storm’s success started with guard Dwight Hardy and forward Justin Brownlee, who keyed their team to a suc-cessful first period and a halftime lead of 21 points.

“[St. John’s] kept poise and they made big shots…. [Hardy and Brownlee] are their best players, and they played like it to-day,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

The duo of Hardy and Brownlee led the veteran Red Storm team on an afternoon when St. John’s started off well and never took its foot off the gas. Hardy led his team

with 26 points and Brownlee contributed 20, ultimately outplaying the Blue Devils’ own duo of Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith.

Even though Singler and Smith com-bined for more points—52 in total—than Hardy and Brownlee, they got little offen-sive support from their teammates until late in the game.

On the defensive end, Duke was unable to stop St. John’s from getting to the bas-ket, to the point where the Red Storm did not attempt a trey after halftime.

They didn’t need to. The multitude of shots from around the rim helped St. John’s to a 58.2 field-goal percentage for the game, including 3-of-5 from 3-point range and 78 percent from the free-throw line.

“They got into the lane when we were in the zone in the first half,” Krzyzewski said. “They got into the lane when we pressed them. They got into the lane when we didn’t press them. They got into the lane when we played man.”

The Red Storm clicked on offense ear-ly, cutting, slashing and shooting its way to a 15-point lead after the game’s first 16 minutes. going into halftime, Brown-lee had a hand in seven of the points that pushed the St. John’s margin to 21 points,

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TIME FOR REVENGE?Veterans hope to avenge last year’s 33-point loss with win on road

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Head coach Joanne P. McCallie and her team would lead you to believe this is just another game, but the Blue Devils’ upcoming contest against No. 2 Connecticut is different. No. 3 Duke will travel to gampel Pavil-ion Monday night with the opportunity to extract revenge for last year’s 33-point loss in Cameron Indoor Stadium and make a statement against the premier team in women’s basketball.

The Blue Devils (20-0) are the country’s only undefeated team and have beaten two top-10 opponents already, yet they still remain ranked behind one-loss teams from Baylor and Connecticut. With a victory on the road, however, Duke would become the first team other than Stanford to beat the Huskies in three years while firmly asserting itself as one of the favorites for the title come March.

All-American candidate Jasmine Thomas, who is averaging 15.1 points per game, admits that while she’s excited about the upcoming tilt, the Blue Devils won’t be intimidated by the aura of Connecticut.

“Anything that brings attention to women’s basketball is great, but as a player and wanting the best for my team, we’re just going into it like an-other game,” Thomas said. “They’re a great team, but we’ve played great teams, and we’re excited about the challenge.”

While their record-setting 90-game winning streak may be over, Con-necticut (20-1) is still the two-time defending national champion, and boasts arguably the best player in the nation in senior Maya Moore. Moore, the 2009 John Wooden Award winner, is averaging 23.8 points per game. She is joined by scoring threats Tiffany Hayes and Bria Hartley, who both average double-digit points per game as well.

According to McCallie and Thomas, the key to overcoming Moore and the

rest of the Huskies’ offense is solid ball movement and limiting turnovers. “Obviously, trying to slow down Moore is a big part,” McCallie said.

“They’re attached to Hayes and Moore, and if you take a bunch of quick shots against Connecticut, that’s about the worst thing you can do. They’re a very good transition team.”

“UConn’s been a team that’s made people pay for their mistakes,” Thomas added.

Following last year’s devastating loss, McCallie called the Huskies the most unbeatable team in the country. Both teams have vastly different rosters, however, from last year’s contest. The Huskies lost center Tina Charles, the 2010 Wooden Award winner, to the WNBA. Freshman Ste-fanie Dolson has tried to fill her large shoes, and in McCallie’s opinion, has performed admirably so far.

“On paper you see a freshman starting, but Dolson has held her own, even with [Baylor’s Brittney] griner,” McCallie said. “Tina Charles was cer-tainly a very special player and there’s no one like that out there, but you have to give credit to Dolson.”

Nonetheless, Connecticut’s post players are inexperienced, and senior center Krystal Thomas, who is averaging 8.5 points and eight rebounds per game, can use that to her advantage.

“I’ve played a lot of great posts in the country, and this is another game, an-other opponent,” Thomas said. “I’ll be ready for whatever is thrown at me.”

Even though Duke has five freshmen who weren’t there for last year’s game, McCallie isn’t worried about their ability to adjust to the hostile environment that awaits the Blue Devils. Duke will most likely experience its largest crowd of the season. Connecticut averages nearly 10,000 attendees at home, whereas the Blue Devils’ biggest crowd this season was just over 6,000.

“It’s a focus game,” McCallie said. “It’s not something on age particu-larly, but who can keep their poise. It’s definitely a poise game.”

One of those freshmen, Chelsea gray, has already proven herself to be a vital piece of Duke’s offense, averaging 8.4 points, 3.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists. She says that Duke’s youth won’t be a factor, and they’ll rely on the leadership of their seniors, who have been there before.

“I’m looking forward to it, when we get there my team will tell me what I need to know,” gray said. “I trust my team in what they say.”

“As a player and wanting the best for my team, we’re just going into it like another

game. They’re a great team, but we’ve played great teams.”

— Jasmine Thomas

mayamoore>>23.8 Moore’s scoring aver-age this season, five points above her career average

>>13 The amount of games Moore has led her team in scor-ing this year

>>20 How many points Moore scored against Duke last time out

jasminethomas>>15.1 Thomas’s scoring av-erage this year, the only Blue Devil who is currently averaging double figures

>>2 Game-winning shots by Thomas this year, not including her seven points in the final two min-utes against Maryland or game-saving blocks versus Kentucky

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Beach tops 3 personal marks at Millrose Games

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Duke tops No. 4 Penn St., No. 7 PennMen, women post 4-1 records in Penn St. Duals

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on a day in which the Duke women upset no. 8 Penn, 16-11, junior Becca ward went 14-1. SEE track ON PAgE 8

by Sarah ElsakrTHE CHRONICLE

After testing his abilities against some of the world’s best athletes, sophomore Curtis Beach returned from New York with three new personal records.

For Beach, the meet was an unfor-gettable experience. He was able to compete against Olympic gold medalist Bryan Clay, defending heptathlon world record holder Ashton Eaton, NCAA re-cord holder in both the decathlon and heptathlon Trey Hardee and U.S. de-cathlon champion Jake Arnold. Before the Millrose games, Beach had stated that his dream of being a top competi-tor in the world of track and field had begun at an early age. Last Friday, part of that dream came true.

“Ever since I was in in middle or high school I looked up to these guys,” Beach said. “To actually be there with them was pretty remarkable.”

As a collegiate athlete, Beach’s pres-ence at the meet was impressive in itself, and expectations were not high. Despite finishing last overall, however, Beach was able to keep within a reasonable distance of these top athletes and even managed to beat a few in one of the events. He placed second in the high jump, earning the same number of points as the overall

winner Ashton Eaton, and setting a new indoor personal record. In other words, at least in one event, Beach was able to beat Hardee, Arnold and Clay.

“I knew where everyone stood going into the event, so I expected to perform well in the high jump,” Beach said. “But to do better in an event than the de-fending Olympic world champion was kind of cool—it was fun.”

And according to Beach, his ability to focus on just enjoying himself made the meet so memorable. Due to his relaxed mindset, and the motivating presence of his impressive competitors, Beach successfully pushed himself to a personal best in the 60-meter hurdles and the shot put, in addition to his in-door personal best in the high jump.

Looking back on the competition, Beach noted that one of the most valu-able things he takes away from the experi-ence was a new sense of perspective.

“I think the biggest thing is just making the first priority to enjoy the experience,” Beach said. “I think that helps you relax and compete very well just putting it in perspective…. If you don’t perform well that’s okay. The biggest reason I did well was because I made a point to have fun.”

Anumba breaks school’s shot put recordSaturday wasn’t a great day to be a

Pennsylvania fencing team facing the Blue Devils.

At the Penn State Duals in Univer-sity Park, Pa., Duke’s men’s and women’s teams each went 4-1, pulling off a signifi-cant upsets over ranked foes from the Key-stone State. The ninth-ranked men’s team upset No. 4 Penn State 16-11, while the women stunned No. 8 Penn 16-11.

“I am very, very proud of our team today,” head coach Alex Beguinet told goDuke.com. “They are growing quickly into a strong team, learning to depend on and support each other. This is a spe-cial group of kids.”

In addition to the upset of Penn State, the men (8-2) swept all three weapons against Drew, Johns Hopkins and North Carolina, but fell to the seventh-ranked Quakers. The foil and epee teams, led by senior Dorian Cohen and junior Tristan Jones, respectively, each pulled out four wins on the day, while seven of Duke’s nine participants racked up double-digit individual wins. Senior Charles Keilin, who has not seen competitive action since his freshman year, pulled off an incred-ible upset of last year’s defending men’s saber champion Aleksander Ochoki.

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THE GAME

1:46 left in gameSt. John’s 87, Duke 76

Four straight 3-pointers from Duke made the game seem closer than it was

8:02 left in 1st halfSt. John’s 24, Duke 14

A dunk by Sean Evans put St. John’s up 10, its first double-digit lead of the game

19:51 left in gameSt. John’s 48, Duke 25

Just 10 seconds into the second half, this Kennedy dunk put St. John’s up 23

including two jumpers, a free throw and a long outlet pass to Paris Horne for two

fast-break points.When Duke threatened to start a late-

game comeback, cutting the lead to 15 several times, Brownlee, Hardy and Justin Burrell sank free throws and found gaps in the Blue Devil defense that afforded them easy layups and dunks. And despite Smith, Andre Dawkins and Seth Curry combining for four straight 3-pointers in a 1:14 span, the Blue Devils never cut the St. John’s lead under 11 points in the fi-nal three minutes.

Both teams identified effort as a key factor in Sunday’s outcome. For the Red Storm, fighting through the second-tough-est schedule in the country finally paid off in the stunning upset over Duke. For the Blue Devils, the lack of effort contributed to a disappointing nonconference loss against a team that played outstanding basketball for 40 minutes.

“In order to beat [St. John’s] today, we would have had to show up and be ready to compete at the level we nor-mally compete at,” Krzyzewski said. “We may not have beat them anyway, because they played really well. Hardy, Brownlee, those kids were terrific.”

No. 3 Duke 78, St. John’s 93St. John’s (12-8) 46 47 93No. 8 Duke (19-2) 25 53 78ST. JoHN’S MiN fG 3-PT fT r A To S PTSPolee Jr. 10 0-2 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 0 0Kennedy 22 4-5 0-0 2-2 3 2 3 1 10Brownlee 36 7-13 0-0 6-8 9 6 3 1 20Hardy 40 9-13 2-3 6-6 3 3 1 0 26Horne 39 4-9 1-2 6-7 3 6 2 2 15Boothe 19 1-2 0-0 2-6 0 1 2 1 4Evans 11 5-5 0-0 0-0 3 1 0 0 10Burrell 23 2-6 0-0 4-4 5 0 1 0 8TEAM 5Totals 200 32-55 3-5 26-33 32 21 12 5 93Blocks — Burrell (1), Polee Jr. (1)FG % — 1st Half: 57.1, 2nd Half: 59.3, Game: 58.2

DUKE MiN fG 3-PT fT r A To S PTSMa. Plumlee 18 0-2 0-0 2-2 4 1 2 1 2Singler 38 7-17 1-7 5-6 2 0 2 1 20Kelly 31 2-4 0-1 3-4 9 0 3 0 7Smith 38 10-19 2-6 10-14 7 4 4 3 32Curry 23 1-5 1-5 0-0 1 0 2 1 3Thornton 9 1-2 0-1 1-1 1 0 1 0 3Hairston 7 0-2 0-0 0-0 2 2 2 0 0Dawkins 27 3-8 1-6 0-0 0 2 0 1 7Mi. Plumlee 9 2-3 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 0 4TEAM 4Totals 200 26-62 5-26 21-27 32 9 17 7 78Blocks — Smith (3); With one: Curry, Ma. Plumlee, Singler, Dawkins FG % — 1st Half: 29.6, 2nd Half: 51.4, Game: 41.9

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Competing in the 184-pound division, Diego Ben-como won his first tournament of the year saturday.

Other members of the Duke team spent the weekend competing in the Kent Taylor-UNC Run for the Kids Invitational in Cha-pel Hill. For them, it was another success-ful weekend as several athletes set personal and school records.

Sophomore Michelle Anumba was one such athlete as she managed to shat-ter the previous school record in the shot put by approximately three feet, while

senior David Piccirilli’s performance in the weight throw was the second best in Duke history.

“We did pretty well,” senior Amy Fryt said. “It was a pretty small meet, and we sent mainly just sprints and jumping, so I think we did well overall given the number of people.”

The Blue Devils were not present in full force however, as some athletes spent this weekend resting and training for their upcoming meet, the Armory Collegiate, in New York this weekend.

The Blue Devils sent 12 competitors to the Appalachian State Open in Boone, N.C. Saturday, and brought home six top-three finishes including two individual tournament championships.

Redshirt freshman Bret Klopp took his second title of the season with a victory in the 174-pound divi-sion, while redshirt sophomore Diego Bencomo won his first tournament of the year at 184 pounds.

Klopp needed a close 4-2 decision to defeat his first opponent before cruising through his next two match-es in under six minutes combined to raise his season record to 26-7. Ben-como’s road to the championship ran somewhat in reverse, as he won his first two matches handily before emerging from two closer decisions to hoist the trophy in his division.

Also notable was senior Willy Mel-lo’s third-place finish at 165 pounds, as he lost his first-round matchup be-fore facing the same opponent again in the consolation match for third place. After a narrow single-point de-feat the first time, Mello exacted re-venge on gardner-Webb’s Justin guth-rie with a 14-6 major decision to earn third-place honors. Freshman Bran-don gambucci wrestled unattached in his first collegiate competition and placed third in the 133-pound division. Also placing third in their

respective weight classes were senior captain Mike Bell (141 pounds) and freshman Brian Self (197 pounds).

Duke will return to ACC competition on Feb. 12 as they undertake a swing through Virginia to face Virginia and Virginia Tech.

— from staff reportsThe No. 9 women’s team (7-2) added

wins over Temple, Drew and North Carolina to its impressive victory over Penn, though second-ranked Penn State handed the Blue Devils their second defeat of the season. The upset of the Quakers was a sweep by all three weapons, but the highlight was the shutout by the saber team, which won in all nine of the team’s matches as its leader, junior Becca Ward, went 14-1 on the day. All of the women posted individual winning records, with seven of those fencers garnering ten wins or more.

The Duke fencers will compete next on Feb. 6 at the Eric Solle Invitiational at M.I.T.

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Spoiled of Cunha’s success or not, Smith will need his No. 1 player to come up big when Duke takes on the next stage of the ITA National Team Indoor Championships. The tourna-ment, featuring 16 of the top teams in the country, is set to be held Feb. 18-21 in Seattle, Wash.

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This month Provost Peter Lange met with Duke Tour Guides to discuss changes to the group’s manual that are aimed at promoting greater representation of academic endeavors in tours given to prospective stu-dents.

The changes were made in response to a variety of feedback showing that Duke’s reputation did not reflect new academic offerings and initia-tives such as DukeEngage.

Overall we commend these changes but emphasize the need to keep a proper per-spective on the role tours play in attracting students. First and foremost, campus tours are meant to be a showcase of the beautiful buildings and other facilities across campus.

Tour guides themselves of-fer prospective students the opportunity to meet a current student who embodies the zeal of learning in a given field or area of interest.

H o w e v e r, Duke must continue to

navigate the proper bal-ance between advocating for name-brand academic programs—such as DukeEn-gage or individual depart-ments—and emphasizing a tour guide’s individual and unique experiences.

Showing off buildings may speak to the relative signifi-cance of the programs they house, but it is also impor-tant to consciously emphasize academic offerings that are not necessarily represented by a single physical entity on

campus. It is worth discuss-ing underexposed parts of the campus too, especially if a particular tour guide has per-sonal experience with them.

Although it is helpful to speak broadly and advertise the programs of which Duke is most proud, prospective students are just as likely to respond to an anecdote about a favorite professor or class from a tour guide’s personal undergradu-ate experience. A tour guide who demonstrates passion for a particular niche on campus is more effective than one who chooses to adopt a tone that is artificially broad, even if it cov-ers all the programs administra-tors seek to emphasize through this new initiative.

It is worrisome that some of the feedback given to ad-missions officials reflected

unawareness of important aca-demic programs on the part of tour guides, but we cannot rea-sonably expect that every tour will cover every topic of inter-est to prospective students.

It is simply beyond the ability of a single guide giving a short tour to accurately encompass the full scope of the diversity of interests and offerings of the University. However, it is impor-tant that whatever aspects the guide does convey are done so thoroughly and with a passion that reflects what makes our University experience unique.

We commend admissions officers for continuing to make the connection between iden-tifying common themes from admissions essays and provid-ing those aspects heightened exposure on campus tours.

Overall, these changes seem

to make sense, yet ultimately it is important to remember that these tours are, by their nature, superficial views of campus. Any in-depth examination pro-spective students hope to ac-quire regarding our academic offerings will require additional avenues of research during the recruiting process.

For many prospective stu-dents, tours are their first im-pression of Duke. Given the University’s mission, it makes sense for tour guides to men-tion academic experiences during their presentation of campus.

For the most part, tours offer a chance to peruse the physical beauty of campus and interact with a current student. Any thorough review of Duke’s academic offerings requires a much deeper exercise.

Last December, Shanghai students debuted in an international standardized test—the Program for In-ternational Student Assessment—and outperformed the rest of the world in reading, math and science while the U.S. scored 15th place in read-ing, 23rd in science and 31st in math.

The American response to these re-sults was immediate. Secretary of Edu-cation Arne Duncan grimly called the PISA results a “wake-up call,” insisting that American students are being poorly prepared to compete internationally. In a globalizing environment, he asserted, we have been left in the dust and are now resting in a “mantle of mediocrity.”

Duncan is right to be concerned. News like this holds all sorts of real implications about our competitiveness and productivity in the face of a rising power like China that invests huge amounts of resources in education.

At the same time, there’s confusion about how the U.S. should interpret and respond to its grow-ing anxiety of being out-educated by countries like China. Should we transplant the Chinese culture of education into our own system? Not only is it difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of high aca-demic performance, but it’s also difficult to quali-tatively compare Chinese and American students because of the vastly different incentives built into our respective education systems.

I recently had dinner with a friend, Xiaochen, who is one of those high-performing Chinese stu-dents. Xiaochen has successfully navigated China’s college admission system and now attends Peking University, widely regarded as the most elite and premier university in the country and often called the “Harvard of China.”

Behind the reality of Chinese students’ extraor-dinary performance is a more complicated story of trade-offs. Chinese students go through a highly stressful, test-oriented academic environment be-cause admission to college is based on one exam administered in July called the gao kao.

Xiaochen described studying 16 hours a day for three years for the gao kao, even during school hours. He called his senior year of high school the worst in his life and said the gao kao is probably the single most important event in any Chinese student’s life. The exam enters into a Chinese stu-dent’s consciousness early on as the one event that will determine the university he attends and argu-ably the sort of life he can lead after that.

In Beijing, high school seniors must list their top three university choices before taking the gao kao, which turns college admissions into a huge gamble. Confident students might pick Peking University as their top choice, but if their gao kao

score doesn’t measure up, they could spend an-other year studying for the gao kao.

Gaining admission into an elite university such as Peking or Tsinghua is the ultimate prize, but

spots are limited at any college, es-pecially an elite one. Each year, 10 million students from around the country compete for roughly six million spots in universities.

The test-oriented culture is a product of Chinese sociopolitical history. During the Maoist era, education was used as an ideologi-cal tool where students had to go through their work-units in or-der to gain admission to colleges.

When Deng Xiaoping came into power after Mao’s death, he realized that in order to narrow the edu-cation gap between China and other countries like the U.S., achievement—and not politics—would be the basis of Chinese education, leading to the gao kao.

Now, Chinese students recognize the impractical-ity of the gao kao system but accept it as a reality they can’t escape until they get into the university of their choice. In America, though the college admissions system is inherently more arbitrary, students are judged based on not only SAT scores but also grades, recommendations and extracurricular involvement.

Xiaochen also mentioned the vast differences between student culture in China and America. He doesn’t attend parties, even in college, and he re-counted that in high school people rarely dated. If they did, a teacher might take them aside to ques-tion the effects of the relationship on the students’ academic performance, which would be unthink-ably awkward in an American high school.

Despite the fact that Chinese students are ex-tremely academically well-equipped, there is a lot about the American education system that Chi-nese students and professors envy. Many Chinese complain their system lacks creativity and produc-tive teacher-student discourse, stemming from the Confucian legacy of utmost deference to a teacher. Not surprisingly, the number of Chinese international students coming to the U.S. to study has increased dramatically in the last decade.

Although the PISA results show a real need for America to focus on its myriad educational prob-lems, the basic philosophy that an education should impart not only the ability to do well on tests but also allow students to pursue a more balanced set of ac-tivities is a good one. This balance is something that can’t be adequately reflected by a standardized test.

Jessica Kim is a Trinity junior studying abroad in Beijing, China. Her column runs every other Monday.

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In 1991, the now internationally recognized symbol of breast cancer, the pink ribbon, first appeared when the Su-san G. Komen Foundation handed them out at a charity run for breast cancer survivors. Just a year later, in 1992, the pink ribbon was adopted as the official symbol for Na-tional Breast Cancer Aware-ness Month. Today, a mere 20 years after its first appear-ance, the presence of the pink ribbon, and the color pink in general, has exploded in American culture as a symbol for breast cancer awareness. The color pink was chosen, because in many Western cul-tures, the color is clearly as-sociated with the feminine gender. So in this way, wearing the ribbon shows solidarity and goodwill to not only breast cancer survivors but also to the finer sex in general.

The undesired consequence of this choice of color pal-ate, however, has been the extreme feminization of an ill-ness shared by both women and men. While the figure for women is certainly much higher, there were 1,970 new di-agnosed cases of breast cancer in men in 2009. But the fem-inization of breast cancer has female victims as well. The aggressive breast cancer awareness campaigns, which often feature drawings and models of breasts or attractive women in barely-there clothing have essentially glamorized cancer. This glosses over the gruesome reality of cancer and the frustratingly slow progress of cancer research.

Sociologist Gayle Sulik examines the downsides of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in her book “Pink Ribbon Blues.” She argues that the pink pizzazz of Breast Cancer Awareness Month does nothing more than distract the public from the sorry state of breast cancer research. At the height of breast cancer awareness movements, in the years from 1990 to 2005, the risk of dying from the disease after diagnosis dropped by only 0.05 percent. The average woman will now spend much more on her breast cancer treatment and medications and have to endure more in-vasive treatments that a woman 50 years ago; yet the two women have almost the same risk of dying. With statistics like these, it would seem that the only profiteers of Nation-al Breast Cancer Awareness Month and the pink crusades are the pharmaceutical giants. But what disturbs me more is the effect of breast cancer’s “pinkification” on the place of cancer in American culture.

Our society now views breast cancer, and indeed oth-er types of cancer, through pink-tinted glasses. The pink movement’s unwavering focus on the optimistic, perky and womanly side of cancer neglects the truth of the dis-ease. Advanced cancer is an unmerciful illness that slowly erodes a person physically and emotionally. It is a death that creeps along, robbing its victims of far more than their hair. In the end, cancer patients, drugged nearly comatose, are cognizant of little besides pain. A person’s experience with cancer changes them uniquely in a way that can’t be swept under the big pink umbrella of breast cancer—The Brand. The Brand is more than hordes of spandex-wearing, pink-covered women power walking to the tune of “I Will Survive;” it is the huge number of companies and products that have capitalized on the pink logo.

You can buy Yoplait yogurt, chocolate-strawberry fla-vored Kit-Kats (never mind that eating too much sugar is a risk factor for cancer), IPhone covers, blenders, nail polish, hair straighteners, lipstick, purses, nail files, coffee mugs, digital cameras and much more, all the while feel-ing as though you are curing breast cancer and saving the world. This is the sad truth: Many modern awareness cam-paigns revolve on commodities. By combining some of our favorite pastimes – buying unnecessary items, feeling good about ourselves and doing as little actual work as possible – awareness campaigns have gained enormous popularity in wealthy countries, especially the United States.

We can get a little ego-boost, feel as though we are com-batting the influence of cancer and buy that Pepto-Bismol colored blender we’ve had our eye on, all in one fell swoop. And while big corporations reap the profits of our sympa-thy-driven consumerism, cancer’s victims are abandoned, left on their own to reconcile their fear and anxiety with a formidable world of pink.

Maggie LaFalce is a Trinity Sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

If only I had a walnut every time I heard the phrase “There is a time and a place for everything.”. I’ve heard this used an excuse to celebrate a rare occurrence, like Halley’s Comet, Mardi Gras or an A in Econ 51. I’ve heard it used as an excuse not to do something, such as “don’t do your homework on the kitchen table during dinner” or “no Shooters-style cage dancing on the kitchen table during dinner.” Even more commonly, this phrase is utilized to point out the stupidity of one’s actions. For example, it’s generally unadvis-able to talk about sex-capades during your wedding toast. There is, however, a time and a place that the implied regrets of this phrase lose their meaning: college.

College IS the time and the place to do ev-erything, and more than that, do it incorrectly. As Ms. Frizzle told all the kids on “The Magic School Bus,” “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy”. Other than perhaps preschool, college is the only place that this isn’t terrible advice. Let’s think about this. If you do something wrong on an exam, you get a few points taken off. If you mess up on your quarterly fiscal projections because you made a small calculation error, you lose your job. If you decide that you hate your field of interest in college, you change your major; in the real world, you lose your job. Even if you blink awkwardly at your boss, you can lose your job. College is the research lab where peo-ple are able to socially experiment while still having room for error (plus or minus two standard deviations).

The environment of college induces students to socially experiment endlessly. Most social endeavors I hear about range from interesting to explicit, even more explicit than the joke “My girlfriend left me for a squirrel with bigger nuts.” BTW, everybody kisses and tells, totes not a social faux-paw. One might even write a thesis on that… I’ve heard of people having nice college relationships, home-

town honeys and long-term friends with benefits (interest-ingly enough, socially acceptable between the ages of 20-35 and 65-136). I’ve heard of relationships failing at all stages: some last three hours, some end during engagement.

True to the experimental mindset, once people find that one method doesn’t work, they move onto another method. When you figure out gently stroking a girl’s coat is kind of creepy, a logical change-up would be to flirtatiously point out that she is looking “sweeter than tree sap.” Success-ful behaviors normally lead to some form of reciprocation, allowing flirters to figure out what gets the ladies. “Wow, that would have been great to know earlier” say most people when hearing these stories, but we

wise men can’t tell you everything about getting tail. So it takes some baseline level of knowledge to know that there are clearly some things that you shouldn’t do. Specifically, this includes actions that have long term (i.e., beyond col-lege) consequences. Getting your pup-cousin drunk in the parking lot is not a good idea because your aunt will hate you forever. Getting a tramp stamp right at the base of your tail is not a good idea either—these stay cute and fresh about as long as that Snooki person. These choices are always bad, regardless of time and place. If you ever find yourself on the verge of making one of these choices, not even the college safety net will catch you before you hit the ground (and reality) hard.

So enjoy your time here at college and make mistakes. Go listen to that Black Eyed Peas remix for the thousandth time. I have never felt this way before. Yes, I swear it’s the truth. And I owe it all to you

The Gothic Squirrel does not endorse the use of “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life” as a wedding song.

Rethinking cancer awareness

The time of our lives

lettertotheeditorLack of female Young Trustees disconcerting

The position of Young Trustee was instated in 1970 to incorporate Duke undergraduate community members into the governing board of their University. Forty-one years later, women have remained conspicuously absent from the ranks of this role. The last female Young Trust-ee to serve on the Board, Katie Laidlaw, concluded her term in 2006; she remains the sole woman to take this position in the first decade of the 21st century. Unfortu-nately, there have been only three women in this role in the past 17 years.

Today, our student body is divided nearly equitably between men and women, and the applicant pool re-viewed by the Young Trustee Nominating Committee this year mirrored this ratio: There were nine women out of 20 total applicants. Yet, just two women were selected in the group of eight semi-finalists. The basic criteria for the selection of a Young Trustee, as enumerated in the YTNC’s bylaws, are gender neutral, and it is doubtful that any one female candidate has ever been explicitly elimi-nated on account of her gender. However, for the past two decades the selection bias in favor of male students is undeniable. As individual applicants we respect the committee’s decisions, but as women we are concerned about gender discrimination in the vetting process. This is a significant problem, and it is one that must be met head-on in the following ways:

First, female students who are passionate about Duke and its future must continue to apply for Young Trustee. Women at Duke must not be complacent in allowing male students to be selected more frequently for the po-sition. If this year’s crop of applicants is indicative of the years to come, then female applications will not be few and far between.

Next, the YTNC must approach candidates with a modern lens of what makes a strong candidate for Young Trustee. In recent years, the YTNC has equated leadership in Duke Student Government with a strong potential to be fruitful on the Board. Christine Larson, chair of the nominating committee, told The Chronicle on Tuesday that a student with DSG experience makes a “more qualified” Young Trustee candidate. Yet, it is com-mon knowledge that DSG is a predominantly male orga-nization. Therefore, if the YTNC continues to prioritize DSG leadership, the committee is inherently biased to-ward putting male candidates through to future rounds of finalists. Furthermore, putting DSG on a pedestal as the ideal experience for an aspiring Young Trustee dis-

credits the dozens of other student organizations across campus that also offer incredible leadership opportuni-ties and represent the forever growing and changing Duke identity.

Most importantly, the problem of gender discrepan-cies in the Young Trustee selection process cannot re-main unaddressed. Leadership within the YTNC must take this fact into account and work toward new methods of candidate evaluation that will eliminate this annual bias in the future. Simply put, given the historically low number of female Young Trustees, this role is not fully representing the Duke undergraduate community.

Young Trustee ApplicantsBecki Feinglos, Trinity ‘11

Alyssa Granacki, Trinity ‘11Kate Schisler, Trinity ‘11

Announcing the President’s Forum on Campus LifeLast semester our student body was faced with a num-

ber of challenges to our way of life. Issues of gender, ac-cessibility, sexuality and our social culture became the topics of conversation not only on campus, but also in the national media. While the news stories have passed, a host of questions remain. We hope to give students the chance to ask those questions of Duke’s senior leader-ship this week in an event we are calling the President’s Forum on Campus Life.

On Thursday, Feb. 3, President Brodhead, along with Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek will engage the student body in a discussion of campus life centered on questions you submit.

Although there is no set list of topics for discussion, we have heard interest from students in the state of the social scene, gender issues, housing and the evolution of the role of independents at Duke. We hope you will help us make the event great by submitting questions you’d like the panelists to answer that night. Please e-mail duke-presidentsforum@gmail.com with your submissions.

We look forward to seeing you in Perkins 217 at 7 p.m. on Thursday.

Mike Lefevre, Trinity ’11DSG President

Chris Martin, Trinity ’11Honor Council Chair

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Sciences and Policy, and Chaitanya Acha-rya, a graduate student.

According to a release on The Lancet Oncology’s website, the journal chose to retract the work because the work was based on an approach reported in a paper published in the medical journal Nature Medicine that has since been retracted.

“Re-examination of the validation data-sets used for the Nature Medicine study has uncovered errors in the labeling of the clin-ical response in some of the datasets,” the release noted. “Reanalysis of the predictive accuracy with correctly labeled data has

shown that in two instances the reported signatures do not predict the response of the validation samples to chemotherapy.”

Potti resigned from his posts at Duke in November and has been accused of falsi-fying portions of his academic resume in addition to producing flawed research con-cerning biological markers and individual-ized chemotherapy treatments.

The first retraction of a paper co-au-thored by Potti and Nevins occurred in mid-November by the Journal of Clinical Oncol-ogy when Nevins—one of Potti’s mentors at the IGSP—found that the paper’s scientific methodology could not be reproduced. The 2006 Nature Medicine paper was then offi-cially retracted earlier this month.

only informally,” Emily Klein, a Bass fellow and senior associate dean for the Nicholas School of the Environ-ment, wrote in an e-mail Saturday. “I really applaud Dean Nowicki for reach-ing out to tap into the enthusiasm of this group.”

The first speaker of the series is Laura Palmer Noone, former president and chief academic officer of the Uni-versity of Phoenix, a for-profit univer-sity that offers online degrees. Nowicki said that although he, like many oth-ers, is critical of the “for-profit” model of higher education, he believes it can-not be ignored.

The second speaker of the series, Ed-uardo Ochoa, is the assistant secretary for postsecondary education under the Obama administration. Nowicki said that Ochoa is a fervent supporter of commu-nity college, a system of education that contrasts the elite, private four-year col-lege system Duke students and faculty are familiar with.

The other speakers include Ben Wil-davsky, senior fellow at the Kauffman Foundation, Louis Menand, a profes-sor at Harvard who won the 2002 Pu-litzer Prize in history, and Mark Taylor, chair of the religion department at Co-lumbia University.

Noah Pickus, Nannerl O. Keohane Director of the Kenan Institute for Eth-ics, noted that these three speakers have recently written widely-publicized books that critique the traditional way American academic institutions are organized.

The speakers are familiar with the challenges facing higher education that include globalization, new technologies and new forms of knowledge, Pickus said. Universities must find a way to prepare to adjust to these changes, he added.

“All of [the speakers] pay attention to the challenges, but also to analyzing what’s possible to change in a university and what the pitfalls are,” Pickus said.

Nowicki said he hopes the speakers will promote discourse but does not expect everyone to agree with their sentiments.

“The best thing that happens is to have a meaningful debate about the discussions that are being raised,” Nowicki said.

Klein said the idea for the theme of this year’s lecture series evolved from dis-cussions among Bass fellows and other faculty about novel and experimental teaching methods that were being tried at various institutions across the country.

“Dean Nowicki asked us for sugges-tions, and I think the wealth of sugges-tions led to an impetus to broaden the focus to more than teaching, and include a wider diversity of mini-revolutions that are taking place in higher education,” Klein wrote.

the schools,” Krishnan said. “Our programs have been complementary and have greatly enhanced the research in both locations.”

Ultimately, one of the greatest benefits that Duke receives from the partnership may be increased name recognition abroad.

“Duke didn’t have much name recogni-tion [in Singapore] before, at least when I ap-plied to Duke in December 2006,” Li said. “It’s definitely catching on, though, judging by the number of Singapore’s students who apply to and have enrolled at Duke in recent years.”

Starting the collaboration with SingHealth is not the only upcoming mile-stone for Duke-NUS. The first class, which was composed of just 26 students chosen from more than 300 applicants in August 2007, will graduate this May.

Krishnan said that students are excited to begin their careers.

“[The students] are definitely looking forward to being able to serve the public when they graduate,” he said.

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courtesy of the singapore ministry of health

administrators from duke university and national university of singapore sign an agreement for duke-nus, which is now entering phase two.

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