T H E I N D E P E N D E N T D A I LY AT D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y
The Chronicle
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2012
FSU gives Duke a 48-7 âwhippingâ by Steven Slywka THE CHRONICLE
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.âThe Blue Devils may be bowl eligible, but Florida State showed just how wide a gap there is between Duke and the ACCâs best. Senior quarterback EJ Manuel threw two touchdown passes, and sophomore Devonta Freeman
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added two scores on the ground as No. 11 Florida State routed the Blue Devils 48-7 Saturday in Tallahassee. The loss was painful not only on the scoreboard but also in terms of personnelâquarterback Sean Renfree and running back Juwan Thompson both left the game with apparently serious injuries. âToday, you saw a whipping. We
got whipped. Thereâs no recipe that could have changed it,â Cutcliffe said. âYou never have a chance to be great in anything if you donât learn how to get your butt kicked.â In a matchup between the leaders of the conferenceâs Coastal and Atlantic Divisions, the Seminoles (8-1, 5-1 in the ACC) dominated in all aspects of the game from the start. Just three minutes into the game, Manuel found Rashad Greene deep down the middle for a 71-yard touchdown catch for an early 7-0 lead, and Florida State never looked back.
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Lee Butler and the Duke defensive backs could not contain Florida Stateâs passing attack, which picked up 299 yards on just nine completions.
Duke and peers back affirmative action by William Rooney THE CHRONICLE
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Mason Plumlee led the Blue Devils with 22 points and 11 rebounds in their exhibition win against reigning Division II national champions Western Washington. See story on Sportswrap page 2.
In 2003, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day OâConnor said affirmative action in college admissions would be a necessary equalizer for another 25 years. Nine years later, the issue is back in the hands of the Supreme Court, and Duke, which has a vested interest in considering race as a factor in admissions, filed a legal statement in support of affirmative action. Affirmative action can be broadly defined as any policy that takes personal traits such as race, gender, skin color, sexual orientation or nationality into consideration to benefit an
underrepresented groupâs chance in gaining employment or acceptance to a university. During the last 50 years, such policies have been contested in the Supreme Court on numerous accountsâmost recently in 2003, where the justices voted five to four to uphold the use of race as a factor in college admissions. The issue has resurfaced in the Supreme Court in a case filed by a 22-year-old woman, Abigail Fisher, in which Fisher claims that despite being a qualified applicant, she was denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because she is white. SEE ACTION ON PAGE 7
Duke adds study abroad âMonkâ of science studies in Paris and Barcelona cancer through yeast by Kelly Scurry THE CHRONICLE
Administrators approved three new study abroad programs based in Europe, but eventually pulled the plug on one of them. The programs slated to be offered to Duke students starting in summer 2013 include a new Paris program and a partnership program in Barcelona. The council also approved a new program in Tuscany, Italy, which has since been canceled. Duke Neurohumanities in Parisâthe product of collaboration between faculty in the Franklin Humanities Institute and the neuroscience departmentâwill be a six-week program focusing on the intersection of neuroscience and the humanities. It will specifically look at the history of cognitive analysis through both disci-
plines. The program will run alongside the existing Duke in Paris, which focuses on French literature and culture. âWe wanted a curricular dimension to form an undergraduate cohort able to investigate neuroscience using humanistic questions and methodologies and vice versa,â said Deborah Jenson, director of the Neurohumanities in Paris program and a co-director of the Neurohumanities Research Group. Neurohumanities in Paris will bring together four neuroscience professors and two Romance studies professors. The program is the brainchild of the Neurohumanities Research Group, which has been developing an interdisciplinary research community over the past two SEE ABROAD ON PAGE 9
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Professor Thomas Petes recently won a lifetime achievement award for his work in genetics.
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Duke geneticist Thomas Petes explores the mechanisms of cancer cells by examining a less menacing subjectâyeast. The Genetics Society of America recently named Petes the 2013 recipient of the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime achievement in genetics. Petes, Minnie Geller professor of molecular genetics and microbiology at the School of Medicine, has dedicated his career to genetics studies in yeast. His research has shed light on possible cancer treatments by making the connection between properties of yeast cells and the development of cancer. âIt was a big surprise and it was also a great pleasure,â Petes said of the award. âItâs really gratifying to get this award because Iâve SEE YEAST ON PAGE 12
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