Three turnovers and a non-existent defense does not a victory make.

Michigan State racked up over 500 yards of total offense and picked off sophomore quarterback Denard Robinson three times on its way to a dominant 34-17 win in front of a packed Michigan Stadium.

The much-hyped matchup between the undefeated in-state rivals turned out to be largely one-sided. Michigan’s first drive of the game lasted nine plays with Wolverine running backs picking up big yardage on the ground, only to end with Robinson throwing an interception in the end zone.

It was a sign of things to come. Michigan routinely put together good drives only to give the ball up in the red zone.

Michigan went into halftime down 17-10.

In the second half, the Spartans could do anything they wanted on offense. Michigan’s defense continued to struggle the way it has all year, only getting stops when it brought the blitz and put pressure on junior quarterback Kirk Cousins.

Michigan State scored on its first drive of the second half, and Michigan followed that with an interception in the red zone when Robinson looked for redshirt junior wideout Junior Hemingway coming across the middle of the end zone.

The Spartans scored on the ensuing drive on an eight-yard run by sophomore running back Larry Caper.

The Wolverines appeared to have one last chance in the fourth quarter, but Robinson’s deep pass was intercepted. Michigan State got the ball and kicked a field goal to seal the game.

The defense allowed three plays over 40 yards in the game, two of them were touchdowns.

Terrelle Pryor suffered a quadriceps strain last week against Illinois. His right arm is completely healthy, though.

Pryor threw for a career-high 334 yards before sitting out most of the second half as the No. 2 Buckeyes (6-0, 2-0) rolled over the Hoosiers (3-2, 0-2), 38-10, Saturday at Ohio Stadium.

It’s the 16th consecutive victory for OSU over Indiana. The Hoosiers last knocked off the Buckeyes in 1988.

It’s also the 100th victory for coach Jim Tressel at OSU. He’s the fastest coach in Buckeye history to the mark, needing just 121 games to capture his 100th win.

“This is a place that, if they let you stay long enough, you should win 100,” Tressel said.

Hoosiers quarterback Ben Chappell set school records in a 42-35 loss to Michigan last week, completing 45 passes for 480 yards. He managed just 106 yards against a stifling Buckeye defense.

OSU piled up 478 total yards of offense while limiting Indiana to just 210.

“It is a testament to our guys,” senior defensive lineman Dexter Larimore said. “They have a lot better offense than what we made them look like. The defense came to play today and we shut them down.”

Instead, Pryor looked like the gunslinger. The junior Heisman trophy candidate threw for 280 yards and all three of his touchdowns in the first half.

The injury that forced him to sit out seven snaps last Saturday didn’t appear to affect him against Indiana. Tressel didn’t call any designed runs for Pryor, who was sacked twice and also lost six yards on a carry when escaping a sack.

“We don’t do a whole bunch of designed, called quarterback runs,” Tressel said. “We always think he’s going to naturally get (those).”

Pryor’s 334 yards through the air were the most by a Buckeye quarterback since Troy Smith burned the Notre Dame defense for 342 yards in the 2005 Fiesta Bowl.

“We know that he can gain yards running,” Tressel said. “We want to keep being a threat in the passing game.”

It was the running game that got things started for OSU, however.

Dan Herron, who salvaged OSU’s narrow victory over Illinois last week with 95 rushing yards, scored from 39 yards out on the Buckeyes’ opening drive.

The run game took a backseat after that.

Pryor connected with Dane Sanzenbacher for a 22-yard touchdown on OSU’s third drive. The score was the sixth in three games for the senior receiver.

“I was a little surprised as how open I was,” Sanzenbacher said. “If we put them in a situation where the safety doesn’t know which way I’m going, you have a chance to get open like that. We just did our job to be able to confuse them where the receivers would be.”

In the second quarter, Pryor hooked up with running back Brandon Saine on a 60-yard strike to give OSU a 21-0 edge. Saine spent the majority of the afternoon at receiver, ceding carries to Herron and sophomore Jordan Hall.

“We said going into the game, we were going to try to figure out more ways to get him the ball,” Saine said. “I don’t know that we necessarily went into the game thinking he wouldn’t get any of them from a hand-off, but we didn’t have that many plays. … But we think he’s really dangerous as a receiver and as a runner and that long one was an important one.”

Later in the quarter, Pryor threw an 18-yard touchdown toss to receiver DeVier Posey, who finished with eight catches for 103 yards.

“I think (Pryor) wasn’t as worried about the injury all week as everybody else was,” Sanzenbacher said. “He just stayed focused and it got him prepared.”

The Buckeyes added a field goal at the end of the first half to claim a 31-0 lead.

Dan Herron tacked on the final Buckeye score, an 8-yard touchdown out of the Wildcat formation, on OSU’s opening drive of the third quarter.

The Buckeyes didn’t record a sack, but they pressured Chappell enough to force him into tightly contested throws.

Cornerback Devon Torrence picked off Chappell after miscommunication by the Indiana offense. No receiver was within 10 yards of Chappell’s pass.

In the second quarter, Brian Rolle nabbed an interception after fellow linebacker Ross Homan tipped and bobbled the pass.

“I looked up in the air and I saw a flash come across my face and I knew it was (Rolle),” Homan said. “So as long as someone came down with it, I didn’t care.”

OSU travels to Madison, Wis., to take on the Badgers at Camp Randall Stadium at 7 p.m. Oct. 16.

Cell phones and laptops are virtually everywhere. They are balanced next to books in cafes and flipped out to text all our friends. But these technologies, while beneficial to us, contain gold, tungsten, tantalum, and tin, elements that are very dangerous to millions of people in the Republic of Congo.

Because the Congo is rich with these metals, they are the main source for them. But the profit from mining and selling these metals is funding a bloody civil war between tribes. According to Enoughproject.org, these metals, called conflict metals, are strictly regulated and taxed illegally by the mafia like militias that control the Congo.

These militias control the mines that produce the conflict metals and the lives of the workers who live there. The wages they give to the workers are often minimal, and do not adequately compensate the worker for taking the immense risk of mining. Many of the miners are children who are forced into service by the militias. After taxing the mines, these militias also control smuggling routes and usually ask for very high prices to allow the metals out of the country. Enoughproject.org estimates that the militias make 183 million dollars each year off of conflict metals.

Where does this money go? Short answer: weapons. All of the money gained by exploiting the miners is used to purchase weapons needed to fuel the deadliest conflict since World War II. This war has claimed the lives of three million people since it started.

And killing isn’t the only crime these militias commit. Their preferred psychological weapon of choice against enemy tribes is rape. According to John Prendergast, a founder of Enoughproject.org, the Congo contains the worst rates of sexual violence in the world. “This is the most dangerous place to be a woman,” Prendergast said.

An interview posted on YouTube with some former militiamen reveals the extent to which these men have been brainwashed. They fidget on camera as they justify why they raped, all the while vowing to destroy any man who did the same to their wives and sisters. But perhaps the most chilling testimony was from a man who looked straight at the camera and insisted that being raped was a patriotic sacrifice necessary for the success of the cause.

The process by which these conflict metals end up in your cell phones starts in the mines of Congo. With little profit to the miners, the ore is then sent to trading houses in big cities where it is sorted. Next, the ore is smuggled out to neighboring countries. Here it is shipped to factories in India, China, Thailand and other countries to be mixed with other metals. Finally, the metal is processed into components which are put into our technology.

The companies who use these metals, such as Microsoft and Apple, claim that tracing the origin of the ore is very difficult. But conversations with some of the traders in the Congo show that each mine creates a different look in the ore, thus making it easy to trace back.

The good news is that this is a problem that can be solved. It starts with every user of these blood-soaked technologies. It starts with you.

You, the consumer, need to speak up and show interest in these conflict-free products. Show that there is a demand for conflict-free products, and that companies could profit by converting to them. In addition, there is a bill in Congress the S-891, which intends “to monitor and stop commercial activities involving the natural resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo that contribute to illegal armed groups and human rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Show interest in this bill by sending our senator an e-mail expressing your support for it.

This wouldn’t the first time a conflict-causing product was banned. In 2005, the Clean Diamond Trade Act banned the purchase of diamonds that fueled wars in Africa. The same needs to happen with these conflict metals. The change starts with us, one consumer at a time. The change starts with you.

UConn responded to the NCAA allegations made against its men’s basketball program, and admitted the team committed major recruiting violations.

Rather than wait for the NCAA ruling, UConn imposed self-sanctions, that include a loss of one scholarship over two seasons and two years’ probation. UConn also admitted in the report released by the school today, that the basketball staff did make impermissible phone calls and text messages. Those allegations were cited in the NCAA report released in May after a 15-month investigation.

UConn, however, defended coach Jim Calhoun, denying the NCAA allegation that said Calhoun failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance.

UConn also acknowledged improperly providing free game tickets to high school coaches. The hearing before the NCAA will take place October 15.

It’s been four years since their last movie but the Jackass boys are at it again for the third movie.

This time the stunts, pranks and private parts are going to be right in your face in Jackass 3-D, which opens Oct. 15.

Some of the stunts in the trailer for Jackass 3-D include bungeeing Steve-O into the air in a portable toilet, playing duck hunt by feathering a cast member and launching them into a lake while other cast members shoot paintballs at him, and playing tetherball with a bee hive full of 50,000 bees.

Actor Johnny Knoxville and director Jeff Tremaine sat down on a conference call Friday with college media.

Q: Do you have any rituals that you do previous to performing a stunt? And can you tell us what convincing it takes, if any, before you agree to film a potentially dangerous scene?

Johnny Knoxville: Before I’m doing a big stunt, about 20 minutes before it’s on, I’ll go sit and listen to my cousin’s music or other music. When it’s on, I’ll just have someone come pat me on the shoulder, and I’ll walk right in and do it (right then) because I want to just get it out of the way.

Q: What’s the process for shooting 3-D compared to what you’re normally accustomed to?

Jeff Tremaine: The 3-D cameras were a lot bigger and bulkier, but man, once we got all the guys together, it just felt like we were shooting a normal Jackass. The process – we had to be a little more prepared. You know they took a little more prep time to get everything ready so when the guys show up, we can just shoot.

They don’t have to wait for all the – you know the extra (bodies) to get set up. But for the most part, you know it felt the same.

JK: Yes, my request to Jeff was if we shoot 3-D, I don’t want to have to worry about the cameras one time during filming because we just need to be able to do what we do. And Jeff and (Demitri) absolutely set it up where we filmed it just like a regular Jackass. We did not think about the cameras once.

Q: What do you think the 3-D format will add to the movie experience?

JK: It feels like you’re right in the middle of a stunt or prank with us. It really elevated the movie to a whole other level. Like, this bit, “The Beehive Tetherball,” we’re playing tetherball with a beehive, and it feels like 50,000 bees are swarming around the theater or around your head. It really – it really works in 3-D.

JT: And it just makes a dumb idea even dumber.

Q: What made you guys want to shoot the movie in 3-D originally?

JK: Yeah. The studio suggested it and we resisted. But after we did some tests with the cameras, it didn’t slow up the way we shot, and that was our big concern.

It would shoot it like a regular “Jackass.” That took the pressure off, and we had a ball with the cameras.

JT: And also it gave us a good title for the movie right away. You know your third movie – got to be in 3-D. That’s just the rules.

Q: Other than the 3-D, is there’s anything that takes this movie above and beyond where the other two were?

JK: We – the relationships with the guys are just – you know we give each other hell, but you can really feel how close we are, and that just seems to be there. It was in there in the other films, but it was in this film bigger than ever. And really, the – we think that naturally elevates the stunts and pranks in each film, not super consciously, but just it takes a little more to make us laugh.

JT: There’s a – there’s a competitiveness that goes on when we shoot those. There’s a real natural one-up-man’s-ship that happens with the guys, so everybody wants to get the best footage, and then once you start getting really good stuff, they realize how hard it’s going to be to get in the new movie, so everyone steps up, you know?

Q: Is it hard coming up with ideas, since you guys have pretty much done like everything already?

JT: No. We were just bursting with them. This one happened more naturally than any of the ones before.

JK: Yes, it was easier coming up ideas for this movie than any of them. We had a stockpile of ideas that we never even got to because we ran out of time.

Q: Has there been any time at any point in Jackass history when you had to turn down a stunt because it was just too crazy, too off the wall for you?

JK: You know the only time that we won’t do a stunt or I won’t do a stunt is if there’s a negative vibe going around the set and it just kind of puts a dark blanket over everything and then I’ll just say, “Let’s not do it. Let’s not do it today. We were filming this stunt up in Tahoe on this huge ski slope and someone on that ski slope died that day. It wasn’t associated with the production, but there was a death on that ski slope the day we were there. It was on the same mountain, the Donner families cannibalized themselves on. We we’re getting ready to do a big stunt and it just felt weird. We called it off but that is super, super rare.

Q: How do you like producing compared to acting? Because you’ve done some work with the Dudesons and Nitro Circus, so how do you like being a producer as compared to being an actor?

JK: I enjoy every aspect of doing TV shows. If a person I think is interesting I’ll just kind of lend my services where needed. So I’m able to jump back and forth between the things pretty easily.

Q: Can you tell a story of like, the worst injury that happened or like, the – how someone got hurt the most badly during the making of this one?

JT: We had a fighter jet that we had parked on the end of a runway and we were using the big thruster at the back. We set a little mini-trampoline up and Loomis was jumping into the jet stream holding an umbrella, and that dude only weighs probably 63 pounds soaking wet, so he just …

JK: 68 with a hard on …

JT: and he comes to the ground pretty hard and he broke his collarbone and got his hand tore up.

JK: He had to have surgery on his hand. I think he might have surgery on his shoulder.

JT: The other guys got banged up pretty bad, but no one got too seriously hurt. I mean, there’s mental scars …

Q: What is your favorite stunt that you performed in the movie?

JK: Between Jeff and I, it’s kind of a tie between the high five where we built this 5-foot-tall hand and spring loaded it so whenever someone walked into the kitchen in the morning, they just got smoked by the palm coming around the corner and the port-a-potty bungee where we took Steve-O and put him in a full port-a-potty and shot it 100 feet in the air with a bungee cord and a crane.

I recently finished reading the Sept. 30 issue of Rolling Stone, and was able to force myself to read the feeble attempt at political commentary known as “National Affairs.” The article was about credit default swaps (CDSs) in relation to the potential bankruptcy of oil giant BP. Before discussing solutions to the United States banking system, a clear definition of a CDS is necessary. A CDS is, essentially, insurance a lender can buy to protect the lender from a potential default. American banks will grant otherwise ill-advised loans because they have a financial safety blanket created by CDSs.

The issue is that, in some cases, there is no seller able to actually back the loan. Instead they bet that the loan will not default. Banks are the cause of the problem thanks to their loaning money they do not have.

Most, if not all, financial crises can be linked to the fact that banks do not have enough money on reserve to back the loans they grant. The issue presents two solutions: regulate reserves, or allow banks to fail.

The first has been addressed, but only after a credit crisis preceded the reforms. One issue is that the main regulatory agency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), has little actual power in reforming policy.

For instance, the FDIC warned the federal government about the problems of predatory loans and easy credit. The government allowed banks to grant risky loans, and even encouraged it. Massive defaults followed, causing the housing bubble to burst. Long story short, the government listens to its regulatory agencies when it serves their interests. Easy credit makes people happy and politicians gain votes based on how happy people are with the economy. No wonder the government is so reluctant to listen to advice restricting access to credit.

If regulation is the option, then a non-governmental regulatory agency with actual power needs to exist, not a puppet organization with limited power in crafting policy. Politicians have too much interest in the credit market to make decisions based on what is best for the economy as a whole. The United States government clearly favors regulation, perhaps because government power is related to economic power in the sense that those in power typically have a great deal of control over financial agencies in relation to private individuals.

The second option is to not regulate the banking industry and allow banks to fail if they make unwise business decisions. Deregulation can have two possible results: more responsible lending practices or banking chaos. People are more financially responsible when they are spending their own money.

However, the government does not want banks to make decisions based solely on the safety of a loan. Why?

Because strict criteria for loans would limit access to money. Limited access to money curtails the opportunity for people to make large purchases or investments. Credit would not be cut off completely, but those with bad credit would have higher interest rates, much like how drivers with tickets or accidents pay higher rates for auto insurance. The government’s interventions in the economy in recent decades have been rooted in the desire to expand credit – for instance, to increase the number of homeowners in the United States. When banks realize they are at fault for any bad investments they chose to authorize, they most likely will choose to make more responsible loans in order to stay in business.

The true issue is that as long as there are safety nets for banks, they will continue to conduct business in an irresponsible manner. We cannot force banks to act responsibly when we simultaneously approve bailouts and manipulate interest rates through the Federal Reserve. What we can do is force banks to be independent and take responsibility for their actions.

There are many sports drinks on the market that claim to help exercisers recover from their aerobic workouts faster. Many of these also claim that they will improve performance.

Some of the most popular recovery drinks are Gatorade and Powerade, which contain plenty of carbohydrates and sodium, but no protein.

Recent studies have indicated that in addition to carbohydrates, a small amount of protein has multiple benefits for those participating in aerobic endurance exercise, such as jogging or cycling.

New drinks like Pacific Health Labs’ Endurox R4 include protein in their recovery drinks. According to Pacific Health Labs’ website, this inclusion of protein will improve the speed of recovery over carbohydrate-only sport drinks and increase endurance in aerobic activities. This would mean that not only would exercisers be able to be active for longer periods of time at the same intensity, but they would also be able to exercise more frequently without feeling fatigued.

While these benefits are wonderful, they are difficult for a college student to afford. A 2 lb container of Endurox R4 cost about $35. With only 14 servings per container, this works out to $2.50 per serving. This additional cost could easily add up to the price of a gym membership if used consistently.

Luckily, there is a cheaper alternative. In her 2009 study in Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, Dr. Kelly Pritchett and her colleagues found that chocolate milk provided the same post-exercise benefits as similar endurance recovery drinks.

Not only did chocolate milk have no difference in benefits from similar recovery drinks, but all of the participants preferred the chocolate milk. It was found to have a better taste and consistency, as well as cause less intestinal discomfort, than recovery drinks.

This study only helps build the case for using chocolate milk as a post-exercise drink rather than expensive supplements. Rather than spend $2.50 on a scoop of powder, you can go to your choice of grocery store and spend $2.50 on an entire gallon of chocolate milk.

While Endurox R4 and similar drinks may offer the same benefits, chocolate milk will keep your bank account from crying. If you are lactose intolerant, stick to sports drinks for your post-exercise recovery. Otherwise, give chocolate milk a chance and see if it helps in your workout.

In one earbud and out the other: Millennials hear but don’t listen.

Many argue that never before has the world been so accessible. With information and media available virtually anywhere in the world in the palms of their hands, today’s young adults have been called the iGeneration. In a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, “technology use” and “music/pop culture” were the top two ways Millennials said their age group is unique from previous generations.

“It’s not just their gadgets, it’s the way they’ve fused their social lives into them,” the Feb. 24 article reported.

Dr. Jean Boyd, division director for academic studies in the Baylor U. School of Music, studies popular music as a professor and researcher of American pop music. “I’m not as worried as I might be — because most of the music is so bad — but people don’t really seem to be listening to it. Not really. They are hearing it, but I don’t think they are paying that much attention,” Boyd said. “It is always in the background to everything that they do.”

Dove Award-winning worship leader and University Baptist Church music and arts pastor David Crowder agreed with Boyd in the omnipresence of music in everyday life.

“Music is there in spaces we walk in. It’s unavoidable,” Crowder said. “You used to have to go experience music together or you used to have to make music as a community of people. It was a very communal experience. Currently it is a very individual, selective experience, which makes our culture different.”

Dr. Gary Small, a University of California at Los Angeles professor and neuroscientist, said he requires his students to learn to listen by putting them “through a series of empathic listening exercises to help them rebuild the face-to-face skills that have fallen between the cracks of their smartphone keyboards,” according to an article in Insight Magazine, a publication of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Boyd said stress and technology overload is common for both her students and herself with e-mail reminders beeping and cell phones ringing.

“Young people are so busy multitasking that they don’t have time to devote to any one thing anyway, so ‘Please don’t bother me with anything that is going to draw me in,'” Boyd said. “That’s what all good music does. I don’t care whether it is classical or pop or jazz or church music, it draws you in. You can’t ignore it.”

Boyd said that this generation has the power to change the music industry but might not know what it is missing out on.

“The only thing I can say to this generation is that they are missing a great deal of pleasure and intellectual stimulation by not listening. Hearing but not listening,” Boyd said. “My guess would be that if they ever started listening, commercial music would have to change drastically because right now they are buying into a formula.”

Crowder said the influence of music is all the more important because of its omnipresence.

“I think it provides almost like a background as atmosphere for how you experience life,” Crowder said. “You inject it into pretty much every moment you experience.”

Boyd said she would advise members of the iGeneration to go deeper inside the music beyond turning it on as background noise.

“Find something that has the potential to be really meaningful,” Boyd said. “Music is a powerful medium unless it is misused as it is in pop music today and treated like a commodity. It’s such a waste. If you introduce young children or adults or anybody to good music, any genre, it will so enrich their lives. It will take them away to wondrous places and give more meaning to being human and being alive.”

After securing a dominating Internet presence, Google is now looking to change the way people watch television by bringing its Internet experience to living rooms.

After a press release announcing partnerships in May with Sony, Logitech, DirectTV and Adobe, Google released the final revision of Google TV this week. Based on the Android operating system, which is now installed on many mobile phones, Google has customized its own version of the operating system that can be integrated into televisions and other devices.

Its most notable features include the ability for users to browse the Internet, record content, download apps from the Android marketplace and watch television. Detailed information will be available for television programming that will allow users to find television programming catered to their likings and the ability to create playlists that will play recorded shows, YouTube videos and other media content.

Ambarish Kenghe, Google TV developer product manager, said in Google TV’s blog Monday that they hope to integrate television and Internet into a “single, seamless entertainment experience.”

Waco sophomore Alex McElroy, a computer science major, emphasizes how Google is attempting to revitalize the social experience television once brought for people and families.

“When the TV first came out, that was the centerpiece of the living room,” said McElroy.

McElory believes that Google TV will bring people together in the same room, as opposed to watching programming individually.

Following the announcement, Sony stated on that website it would soon release Sony Internet TV, a line of televisions with Google TV operating system pre-installed, giving users the ability to operate their televisions like a computer. They will also release a set-top Blu-ray disc player that has the Google TV operating system pre-installed. A set-top box is a device that accompanies a television, extending the ability to watch other sources and content.

Logitech announced in a press conference Wednesday the introduction of Revue, a $299 set-top box that allows anyone to use Google TV on their television for those unwilling or unable to purchase a television with it already installed.

McElory said that Google TV should appeal to several categories of people and influence other manufacturers in the industry to follow suit.

“It’s going to reinvent TV,” McElory said. “It’s a new concept, but it’s going to bring us back to what TV originally was.”

The sexual practices of Duke students are back in the spotlight, four years after lacrosse case coverage subjected campus culture to national examination.

Reporters from major news outlets descended on campus yesterday after a detailed list of a Duke alumna’s sexual encounters went viral. For some, the attention the list has attracted revives questions about Duke’s social norms and rekindles concerns over public perceptions of the University.

“People have this impression that Duke is this culture of these hypersexual people, and unfortunately events like this don’t help our case,” said Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior.

He said he was disappointed to see national media outlets like The New York Times and NBC’s Today Show on campus covering the situation. Lefevre said a New York Times reporter interviewed him Thursday about the sex list.

“This is not the kind of story that should be getting national attention,” Lefevre said. “It doesn’t reflect well on the University, on the student body, and it certainly doesn’t reflect well on the national media.”

The 42-slide PowerPoint that has drawn widespread attention was meant to be shared between friends. In it, Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, vividly describes the sexual performance of 13 current and former Duke students, all of them varsity athletes and many of them lacrosse players.

After Owen sent the PowerPoint to a few friends, it eventually made its way across listservs at Duke and then onto sites such as Jezebel, The Huffington Post and CNN. At one point Thursday night, “Karen Owen Powerpoint” was the second most-searched term in the United States on Google. “Duke Powerpoint” was 10th.

Deadspin, a sports blog, and Jezebel, a blog that covers women’s interests, first posted the PowerPoint last Thursday. The document has since been viewed more than 2 million times on the sites.

Deadspin initially posted the presentation complete with the names of the men, but later removed them. Jezebel interviewed Owen, but did not initially identify her.

“I regret it with all my heart,” Owen told Jezebel. “I would never intentionally hurt the people that are mentioned on that.”

Jezebel later posted e-mails suggesting that Owen might be offered a book deal related to her PowerPoint.

Owen did not respond to an e-mailed request for comment Thursday evening, and a message left on her home telephone was not returned. The men named in the PowerPoint could not be reached for comment or declined to speak with a Chronicle reporter.

Duke Sports Information Director Art Chase said, “Duke Athletics has no comment on this.”

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said his department has contacted the students mentioned in the PowerPoint to offer support.

“On a personal basis, I’m saddened by the behavior,” he said. “Many of the circumstances that are referenced in it continue to make me really concerned about some of the judgments and some of the norms that persist.”

But Moneta and several students pointed out that Duke is far from the only college where people have alcohol-fueled sexual encounters.

“I don’t find it that big of a deal,” said freshman Grace Benson. “A lot of college campuses are really promiscuous. I don’t think [Duke] should be singled out.”

Moneta said the PowerPoint should not be linked to past depictions of Duke’s social scene. But a Today Show segment broadcast Thursday drew parallels between Owen’s list and seamier elements of Duke culture highlighted during the lacrosse case.

The reporter, Jeff Rossen, mentioned the Duke lacrosse case—in which several players were accused of rape before being cleared—and called the list a “new sex scandal.”

“In 2007, the charges were dropped, but the damage was done,” he said on the show.

During the lacrosse case, the Duke social scene was commonly portrayed as an atmosphere that embraced a cavalier attitude toward sex. Publications such as Rolling Stone described Duke nightlife with images of drunken hookups, foam parties and casual sex.

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said he was concerned that coverage of the PowerPoint could revive those perceptions of Duke.

“What’s concerning about it is the potential for something like this to reinforce stereotypes,” Schoenfeld said. “Do I think this is going to long-term define Duke? The answer is no, of course not.”