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New policies aim to foster tent community Grad student robbed on LaSalle St.

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

tenting will begin Jan. 8, blue tenting Jan. 15 and white tenting Jan. 29.

In a survey sent to the K-ville listserv last year, some students said that the shorter tenting period meant they did not get the chance to get to know students in other tents, Reynolds said. Some fans hope the new policies will increase bonding.

“I think that this can change the atmosphere in K-ville and make it more of a community,” said sophomore Laura Gregorio, a former blue tenter. “It seemed like last year we just sat in our tent and talked with people we knew, but

A male graduate student was robbed near LaSalle Street at approximately 10 p.m. Thursday night “very close” to the location of the robbery Wednesday, said Duke Police Chief John Dailey.

Including the attempted robbery near Jarvis Dormitory on East Campus Oct. 9, this is the third similar incident in the last week.

The student was not seriously hurt and only his cell phone was taken. Dailey said he believes there was no weapon involved.

“We’re taking this very seriously,” Dailey said. “We’ve already got a group of administrators coming together tomorrow... to see if there is anything that we might be able to do to assist students that live in that area.”

The meeting will include the International House, Parking and Transportation Services and Student Affairs. The Duke University Police Department will also request a coordination meeting with the Durham Police Department, he added. DPD responded to the scene and is investigating the robbery.

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After some students complained that last year’s tenting season had too much grace, line monitors this year are looking to revive K-ville’s social atmosphere.

by Melissa Dalis THE CHRONICLE

New tenting policies will separate the Cameron Crazies from the fairweather fans.

Under the direction of Head Line Monitor John Reynolds, a senior, K-ville will undergo a number of changes aimed at improving its sense of community.

Some rules will increase the tenting community’s rigor. Last year, grace was automatically awarded when temperatures fell below 25 degrees, largely to combat the spread of swine flu. But colder than expected weather conditions forced line monitors to give grace for most of the first

two weeks of blue tenting, Reynolds wrote in an e-mail Wednesday.

“We talked to many tenters in K-ville last year, and due to the scheduling of their tent shifts, they only slept in K-ville two or three times during the three week period of blue tenting,” Reynolds said.

“This is not what we want K-ville to be about.... We want students to have fun, meet other tenters, make friends and live in a social ‘tent city’ that revolves around the spirit of Duke Basketball.”

Pre-tenting, the first opportunity for fans to set up in K-ville, will begin Jan. 3.

The top tenting spots will be determined on a first-come, first-serve basis. Black

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Duke preps for federal research audit

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

Historian and activist Tim Tyson, senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies, is an outspoken critic of Wake County School Board’s “neighborhood schools” concept, which keeps students closer to home but eliminates the nationally recognized busing policy that promoted diversity in the school system. Discontinuing the busing saves the county money, but critics like Tyson argue the measure will effectively resegregate the schools. Tyson protested against the measure in June at a Wake County School Board meeting and was arrested after refusing to turn over the podium to board members. The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla sat down with Tyson to discuss the implications of the policy and his activism efforts.

The Chronicle: You are a strong believer in the value of socioeconomic diversity in schools. Why are you advocating for it so passionately?

Timothy Tyson: Studies have shown that poor children in middle-class majority schools learn twice as much and achieve more. It doesn’t hurt middle-class kids, and [middle-class students] get a broader experience. The most important resource for any school is the other children....

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Charter schools take legal action against DPS, Page 5

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

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Author Tim Tyson has protested against the elimination of Wake County’s highly praised busing system, which promoted diversity in schools.

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“This doesn’t get at health and safety unless you have a psychiatrist and a doctor looking at each individual case.”

­—ACLU of NC policy director Sarah Preston. See story page 4

With increased government efforts to monitor federal research projects, the University has been enforcing federal standards more strictly, Arts and Sciences Council members heard Thursday.

James Siedow, vice provost for research and professor of biology, emphasized the importance of Duke affiliates’ compliance with federal research standards to avoid University liability. If Duke is found noncompliant with certain regulations, it could be fined millions of dollars, Seidow said.

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Pentagon supports “don’t ask don’t tell injunction, Page 7

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“Whereas last year we knew we needed to play defense to win, when you have a lot offense, sometimes a kid can rationalize. We need to make sure we don’t become a rationalizing defensive team.’”

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Dancers perform in “Ovo,” a Cirque du Soleil production. “Ovo” is the first production in the Cirque du Soleil’s 25-year history to be entirely created by a woman, Deborah Colker, a Brazilian writer, dancer and choreographer. For Colker, freedom despite confinement is a creative strategy and a metaphor for the human condition. Colker’s other ceation, “Mix,” will soon be performed at the Kennedy Center.

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FDA cracks down on Japan considers relaxing Chelation therapy drugs ban on weapons exports WASHINGTON — Federal health officials on Thursday announced a crackdown on a controversial therapy widely hawked on the Internet and elsewhere as an alternative treatment for conditions such as autism, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease by “cleansing” the body.

The Food and Drug Administration said it has sent warning letters to several companies notifying them that the substances they sell without a prescription for a procedure known as “chelation” are “unapproved drugs and devices,” which makes them illegal.

The agency became alarmed about the growing promotion and easy availability of the products because the substances may cause serious health complications, including dehydration and kidney failure, and are possibly deadly, officials said.

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TOKYO — Japan will consider relaxing its long-standing ban on weapons exports as the country explores ways to bolster its military capabilities, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said in an interview Thursday.

The move reflects concern among some Japanese leaders that Japan is falling behind in security and weapons technology, even amid potential threats from China and North Korea.

A proposed change in the arms exports ban would cause widespread debate within Japan’s government, probably drawing opposition from Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Many members of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan view the weapons policy as a pillar in the nation’s pacifist defense posture.

But there are growing signs that Maehara and others in Japan might be seeking a more muscular approach, even as Tokyo tightens its alliance with the United States.

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Foreclosure halts come as rate in Durham goes up

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

An industry-wide halting of foreclosures will have uncertain implications for Durham’s increasing rate of housing foreclosures.

In North Carolina, Attorney General Roy Cooper asked 13 large mortgage lenders to respond by Tuesday to his request for them to temporarily halt foreclosures until the lenders can provide sufficient evidence that they use legal documentation techniques.

Cooper’s move to request foreclosure halting comes on the heels of a larger industry trend. Last week, Bank of America announced they were halting foreclosure sales across the United States.

Other major mortgage lenders have followed suit, with lenders like JPMorgan Chase & Co. deciding to begin stopping foreclosures in some states, including North Carolina.

Lenders have been accused of using “robo signers,” untrained employees who sign hundreds of housing foreclosure documents daily without carefully reviewing the information on the documents.

Many experts believe “robo signing” and other illegitimate procedures have led to improper foreclosures.

The announcement of foreclosure halting comes at a time when foreclosures have reached a new high, especially in Durham County.

According to the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts, there have been 1,425 foreclosures in Durham County this year, as of September. In fact, foreclo-

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The rate of foreclosures in Durham County has gone up in 2010 as compared to 2009, according to the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts. It is unknown how recent halts on foreclosures will affect Durham. sures in Durham County have increased 12 percent compared to the same period in 2009. In the state of North Carolina, there have been 52,857 foreclosures so far this year.

But as Durham experiences a significant increase in housing foreclosures,

Peter Skillern, executive director of the Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina, says foreclosure halting will not necessarily help Durham’s foreclosure problem.

“It’s really unclear how it’s going to impact Durham,” Skillern said. “There

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are competing forces that are under way here.”

Skillern said Bank of America is only planning to halt foreclosures for 30 days to review documents, so it is unknown if the halting will affect Durham. A spokesman for Bank of America has said that during those 30 days, it is estimated that tens of thousands of foreclosures will be reviewed.

Skillern said the documentation review process has also not been fully explained.

“Will there be third parties involved or will Bank of America just review documents at a later time to reevaluate?” Skillern said.

“It hasn’t been made clear.”

Larry Jarvis, Durham’s assistant director of community development, said the rapidly escalating amount of foreclosures in Durham County have prompted the creation of foreclosure workshops and counseling services. Durham has also been awarded money from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program to alleviate problems associated with foreclosures.

“If foreclosures decrease, Durham is better off,” Jarvis said.

While foreclosure halting may help borrowers, many experts say it is uncertain how the halting will affect the housing market. In a statement Monday, Tim Ryan, chief executive of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, said it would be “catastrophic” to the housing market if nation-wide foreclosure halting occurs.

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Proposal would allow denial of risky applicants

by Alex Zempolich THE CHRONICLE

Safety concerns at North Carolina’s community colleges have recently driven a new education proposal that could limit open admission.

The policy, drafted by the N.C. State Board of Community Colleges, would allow colleges to deny admission to applicants who pose a substantial health or safety risk to the schools.

College officials said there is no specific incident that triggered the proposal, but added that with a higher number of students enrolling each year, safety issues are always a concern.

If approved, the proposal will be enacted by February 2011, and will give colleges power to “refuse admission to an applicant when there is an articulable, imminent and significant threat to the applicant or other individuals,” according to the proposal.

“This provides the tools to colleges to balance the concept of safety with open admissions,” said Megen Hoenk, director of marketing and external affairs for the North Carolina Community College System.

Under the current proposal, college officials would not have to tell students why they are denied admission. The proposal also does not specify if there is an appeal process.

Before it is approved, however, the proposal will be discussed at a public hearing Nov. 15 during which commu-

nity members can suggest changes, Hoenk said.

“Given that the policy will be enacted so quickly, it seems as though they are trying to rush it through and they don’t plan to take the public comment seriously and make amendments,” said Sarah Preston, policy director for the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. “We are planning to submit comments during the public comment period and we will talk to community colleges.”

The proposal also does not specify whether officials need to consult with health experts before denying students admission.

“Because there are no clear definitions and because

it is written so vaguely it doesn’t lay out clear standards,” Preston said. “It could be used in a very arbitrary way. This doesn’t get at health and safety unless you have a psychiatrist and a doctor looking at each individual case.”

On a national scale, the proposal generally differs from recent conversations on higher education. At the Oct. 5 White House Summit on Community Colleges, President Barack Obama emphasized “an education system that harnesses the talent and hard work of every single American.”

“If it’s a rule used to target specific groups, that’s discrimination,” Preston said. “The vagueness could lead to violation of due process.”

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A proposed policy would give community colleges the right to reject applicants if they were deemed to pose a health or safety risk to themselves or other students. Some have criticized the proposal as being too vague and easily manipulated.

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Charter schools sue DPS for more funding

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

Five local charter schools claim they are owed more than $1.2 million in funding.

Last year, a court ruled in Charlotte that charter schools should be funded using the same formula as traditional public schools when Sugar Creek Charter School sued the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system.

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Campus Council members voted to allocate $15,000 to help fund LDOC at their meeting Thursday. After last year’s LDOC committee erased its debt from 2009, this year they will look for new revenue streams.

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Committee looks for ways to improve Last Day of Classes

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

After it received less-than-stellar reviews last year, the committee responsible for managing the LDOC celebration announced Thursday that it is committed to pursuing new strategies for improvement.

Senior Will Benesh, co-chair of the Last Day Of Classes Committee, and sophomore Alex Shapanka, LDOC chief financial officer, presented a budget proposal to Campus Council and requested a $20,000 contribution.

“This is one thing students look forward to every year,” Benesh said. “We’re trying to get everything done beforehand—security, grounds and safety costs are fixed. Only artists costs are fluid.”

As it did last year, Campus Council voted to allocate $15,000 to the LDOC committee.

Benesh attributed the increased request for funding to the costs of additional security and the “ballooning of artist’s costs.”

Jay Sean, Rooney and Flogging Molly cost the committee approximately $68,000 last year, but Shapanka said LDOC’s artist costs were $90,000 and $100,000 in 2008 and 2009, respectively.

Banesh said the committee hopes to increase the quality of artists this year and called 2011 a “transition year” for LDOC.

Two years ago, LDOC went $13,000 over budget and received a no-interest loan from Duke University Union to cover the costs.

The LDOC Committee repaid the loan last year from its annual LDOC fee allocation, but accepted an optional $5,000 loan from DUU to somewhat lessen the burden of a reduced budget. Banesh said the committee was able to pay back its loans in part through revenue generated through T-shirt sales.

This year’s committee is debt-free and looking to improve the quality of its artists and explore new sources of revenue, Banesh noted.

Shapanka said the administration is unable to give LDOC funding this year but is considering changing bylaws to allow for contributions in the future.

“Charter schools admit students just like any public school. In that sense, we’re taking a child off the hands of a local public school and receiving less funding.”

— Liz Morey, executive director of Healthy Start Academy Charter schools are now making similar cases against Durham Public Schools. The plaintiffs are Carter Community Charter School, Central Park School for Children, Healthy Start Academy, Kestrel Heights School and

Maureen Joy Charter School.

“We believe that the school district has placed money in an account that has been made inaccessible to us,” said Liz Morey, executive director of Healthy Start Academy. “It’s as if we’ve had one of three years’ worth of funding lopped off.”

Morey said that as a charter school administrator, the situation has been frustrating. Despite the state-mandated equity in funding, charter schools— unlike traditional public schools—do not have a legal claim to state lottery earnings or funding for school buses and other transportation, making the inadequate funding even more problematic, she added.

“Charter schools admit students just like any public school,” Morey said. “In that sense, we’re taking a child off the hands of a local public school and receiving less funding.”

The mistakes of DPS are very clear from a legal standpoint, said Richard Vinroot, an attorney representing three of the five charter schools.

“They are failing to comply with a now very clear law,” Vinroot said. “In reaction to the court’s decision, they tried to move funds and deny proper review to the charter schools.”

The suit was filed in the Durham County Superior Court last month and will See dps on page 9

In other business: The Pets on Central program is to be continued for another year. The council heard suggestions to extend the program to include dogs as well as to move it to other apartments on Central Campus. Currently, Pets on Central is restricted to 12 apartments at 205 Oregon Street. Only four students have chosen to house their animal companions.

“The program hasn’t been evaluated yet because we’re only two months in,” said See council on page 9

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Poor students perform better in rich schools, study says THE Washington Post

Low-income students performed better when they attended affluent elementary schools instead of ones with higher concentrations of poverty, according to a new study that suggests economic integration is a powerful but neglected school-reform tool.

The debate over reforming public education has focused mostly on improving individual schools through better teaching and expanded accountability efforts. But the new study, to be released Friday, addresses the potential impact of policies that mix income levels across several schools or an entire district. And it suggests that such policies could be more effective than directing extra resources at higher-poverty schools.

The idea is easier to apply in areas with substantial middle-class populations and more difficult in communi-

ties with large concentrations of poverty. Yet it lends fresh support to an idea as old as the Supreme Court’s Brown v.

Board of Education ruling in 1954: Segregated schools— in this case, separated by economics, not law—are rarely as good as diverse ones at educating low-income students.

“Today 95 percent of education reform is about trying to make high-poverty schools work,” said Richard Kahlenberg, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a progressive think tank based in New York that published the report. “This research suggests there is a much more effective way to help close the achievement gap. And that is to give low-income students a chance to attend middle-class schools.”

The study tracked the performance of 858 elementary students in public housing scattered across Montgomery County, Md., from 2001 to 2007. About half the students ended up in schools where less than 20 percent of students

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qualified for subsidized meals. Most others went to schools where up to 60 percent of the students were poor, where the county had poured in extra money.

After seven years, the children in the lower-poverty schools performed 8 percentage points higher on standardized math tests than their peers attending the higher-poverty schools even though the county had targeted them with extra resources. Students in these schools scored modestly higher on reading tests, but those results were not statistically significant.

“The conventional wisdom—and I don’t want to knock the foundation of it—is that we really need to infuse the poorest schools with lots of resources,” said Stefanie DeLuca, associate professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University, who has studied the issue and read an advance copy of the report.

“This study turns that wisdom on its head to some extent. It says actually, it’s who you are going to school with.”

Independent researchers call the report a step forward in studying the benefits of economic integration, which has been difficult to measure because it is hard to find large numbers of poor kids in wealthy areas. But Montgomery provided an ideal laboratory because of a long-standing policy of requiring developers to set aside housing for lowincome families, who win spots through a lottery.

That randomness strengthens the study, researchers say. It mitigates a problem that hampered previous studies in which parents actively chose to place their children in better schools, making it difficult to separate the effect of the schools from the effect of having motivated parents.

Researchers see the results as especially significant because Montgomery, one of the nation’s best and largest public school districts with 144,000 students, has been uncommonly aggressive in seeking to improve the performance of students in schools with higher poverty.

It has divided the county into a high-performing, moreaffluent green zone and a high-needs red zone, where schools receive about $2,000 more in per-pupil funding.

And yet, the low-income students in the study performed better in the green-zone schools.

Montgomery School Superintendent Jerry Weast said that the report’s findings were no surprise, but that his policies are designed to counteract the ill effects of housing patterns that concentrate poverty in certain areas.

“We chose to do the art of the possible,” Weast said. “Housing policy is a far stretch for a school superintendent.”

Education researcher Heather Schwartz wrote the study while working toward a Ph.D. in education at Columbia University. She now works for the Rand Corp., which had no role in the study.

Researchers say that poor schools often struggle because they tend to attract rotating staffs of less-experienced teachers and administrators, among other problems. Schools with lower levels of poverty have a range of benefits that include more stable staffs, fewer discipline problems and more support from volunteers. Parents who have one job instead of three also have an easier time being involved.

And expectations are usually higher.

“This is not about poor kids can’t learn,” DeLuca said.

“It’s about the fact that we’ve had a legacy in this country of segregated neighborhoods and socioeconomic isolation from opportunities and the mainstream of life.”

The U.S. Education Department’s $4 billion “Race to the Top” program encourages states to adopt policies that increase the role of student performance in teacher evaluations, expand charter school offerings, make it easier to fire bad teachers and adopt national standards for reading and math.

But questions about integrating school systems have not been front and center since the 1970s, and scars from school busing battles have made policymakers leery of raising such issues again. Most districts nationwide now assign students to schools based only on where they live.

Parents with the means to live close to top-performing schools often have resisted efforts that would send their children to schools with larger numbers of students from low-income families.

“There is still this kind of fear, a fear that is not easily overcome when you have a government that is highly parochial,” said David Rusk, the former mayor of Albuquerque, N.M., who has written extensively on the subject. “Public officials in the United States with rare exceptions do not want to deal with the underlying economic and racial segregation of our neighborhoods.”

A growing number of school districts—at least 60 so far—has in recent years been experimenting with strategies that promote economic diversity. These include magnet schools, student assignment policies that take into account economic status and agreements that give poor kids a chance to attend schools in wealthier suburbs.

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Pentagon to comply with order to end ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

by Sandhya Somashekhar The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Pentagon announced Thursday that it will comply with a court order to stop enforcing its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy barring gays from serving openly in the military, even as the Obama administration asked a federal judge to delay implementation of the ruling.

Officials say they need time to institute new policies to ensure that the change will not affect combat readiness or morale.

The administration has said it will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

In the meantime, “the Department of Defense will of course obey the law,” Col. Dave Lapan, a department spokesman, said in an e-mail to reporters. The Pentagon

will cease investigations and discharges of service members found to be in violation of the policy, officials said.

Despite the Pentagon’s announcement, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Fund, a group that supports ending the ban, has encouraged gay military members not to disclose their sexual orientation.

“It is clear there is confusion, and this interim period is dangerous for service members,” Executive Director Aubrey Sarvis said in a statement. “Our service members need finality.”

In September, District Judge Virginia Phillips ruled that the 17-year-old policy violates due process and First Amendment rights of gay service members. Rather than being necessary for military readiness, she said, the policy has a “direct and deleterious

effect” on the armed forces. On Tuesday, she ordered the military to comply immediately with her ruling.

The case was brought by the Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000-member gay advocacy group that includes current and former military members. The group argued during a two-week trial in July that the policy is unconstitutional and should be struck down.

Lawyers for the group plan to respond to the government’s application for a stay within 24 hours, a spokeswoman said.

The case is one of two related to “don’t ask, don’t tell” that have been deliberated this year in federal court. Last month, a judge in Washington state ordered the reinstatement of a decorated Air Force officer who was dismissed for revealing that she is a lesbian.

The administration’s decision Thursday

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to ask for a stay of Phillips’s court order was criticized by gay rights groups, which have been frustrated by government inaction on the policy. While running for president, Barack Obama said he would repeal the law. But in September, Senate Democrats were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to begin debate.

“Today’s appeal by President Obama’s Department of Justice is not only indefensible —it is yet another shocking lack of leadership from the White House on issues of equality for the LGBT community,” said Robin McGehee, director of GetEqual, an advocacy group.

Groups also criticized the administration for appealing a decision by a federal judge in Massachusetts that invalidated the See don’t ask on page 8

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arts & sciences from page 1 “The federal government that frankly was relatively benign about overseeing all of this in the past has gotten much tougher,” Siedow said. “The reason the [Duke] administration is much more concerned is basically because the feds are breathing down the University’s neck and looking a lot more closely at what we do.”

This year will be especially important because Duke has been “singled out” for auditing by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provides federal funding, Siedow said.

Council Chair Ruth Day stressed that although the University is being audited, it

is not because there is a “bad signal,” but rather because it was one of the major university recipients of funding.

Duke has received more than $200 million in stimulus funds for research and construction from seven federal agencies as of September. Siedow said 84 percent of research funding received by the University comes from federal sources.

Siedow added that there were “minimal” reviews of the University’s research before fiscal year 2005, but there have been 10 reviews, audits and reports of the University since then.

Programs conducting research will also have to comply with new regulations, Siedow said. For instance, undergraduates who are paid through federal grants to

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Susan Roth, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, gave a presentation at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday, describing how institutes sometimes compete with academic departments for faculty

conduct research will have to undergo “responsible conduct of research” training.

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In other business: Susan Roth, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, presented the council with an update of interdisciplinary efforts at the University’s institutes and centers, such as the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

Roth said that establishing some educational programs at the school’s institutes is challenging because institutes often compete with academic departments for faculty. Institutes sometimes require specific faculty members from academic departments to teach certain courses, which sometimes conflicts with departmental needs.

Dr. Margaret Humphreys, professor of history and associate clinical professor of medicine, said this issue may become harder to address as departments in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences lose faculty members that will not be replaced due to budget cuts. Humphreys added that some members of her department have been “pushed” not to work with institutes because faculty members are needed within the department.

As programs within certain institutes increase in popularity, Roth said this issue becomes more widespread.

“Filling faculty rosters is a real challenge, and I am hoping we can make some progress there,” she said.

Institutes are also disadvantaged because they have no controllable revenue sources and because there are limited resources available for faculty appointments, Roth added.

Roth also announced that the Health Policy certificate will end June 2011 because it will be integrated with the Global Health certificate. The Health Policy certificate predated the establishment of the Global Health Institute and the Global Health certificate, and the two programs have “overlapping missions,” Roth said.

we never really went around and met other people or hung out with them outside their tents.”

Duke Student Government and line monitors are hoping to improve event programming in K-ville. A snowstorm hampered last year’s planned kickoff party and concert in Cameron Indoor Stadium, said Chris Brown, DSG vice president for athletic and campus services.

“The biggest unknown and concern that I have about the community is not the policy—the tenters are going to be passionate regardless. It’s the weather,” Brown said.

don’t ask from page 7 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing legal same-sex marriages.

According to recent Washington Post polls, 75 percent of respondents said they think gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military, and nearly half think they should be allowed to legally wed.

Obama has said that he opposes “don’t ask, don’t tell,” but that he prefers that it be repealed by Congress.

“The Justice Department is defending the statute, as it traditionally does when acts of Congress are challenged,” spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said in a statement.

“The president believes and has repeatedly affirmed that ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is a bad policy that harms our national security and undermines our military effectiveness....

The president and his administration are working with the military leadership and Congress to repeal this law.”

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focus on depositions from both sides in the upcoming months, Vinroot said. It could take nearly a year before a final verdict or an out-of-court settlement is reached, he added.

Deborah Stagner, an attorney representing DPS, could not be reached for comment.

“Durham Public Schools has tried to be fair and have a good working relationship with the charter schools,” said Carolyn Olivarez, executive director for financial services for DPS. She declined to comment further, citing the pending litigation.

The situation has drawn attention to the nature of the relationship between local charter schools and DPS. “There is some anxiety between the two,” said Sid Reynolds, a public relations representative for Healthy Start and several other charter schools. “It probably comes with the fact that there is some blurring in the realm of public education.”

From the charter school perspective, it is a question of board stewardship, Reynolds said. The leadership must look after the financial interests of the schools.

“Many of these individuals [who direct charter schools] have very clear objectives,” Reynolds said. “When they interact with bureaucracy, people start talking in more nebulous terms, and this creates tension.”

Socioeconomic diversity is not a magical answer, but it is an important step.... It’s no coincidence that the 20 most depressed urban areas are also home to the 20 most racially segregated school districts....

It’s not some radical fringe that supports socioeconomic diversity. It’s the radical fringe that has captured the Wake Board of Education.

TC: What are the beliefs of the proponents of neighborhood schools?

TT: At first, none of these people expressed any concern about poor and minority schoolchildren. Now they say [poor, minority students] don’t perform as well as they should, that the achievement gap is too high and the diversity policy is a failure. First, it’s a lot of phony arithmetic.... Second, the inadequacy of their logic is obvious... Resegregation cannot be presented as a solution to [the achievement gap]. The fact is [that] Wake County, with fairly modest expenditures, has created one of the best urban school systems in the country.

TC: What role does politics play in all of this? Is there a partisan element to this opposition?

TT: Yes. This movement is frankly the product of conservative Republican hacks.

National conservative money has poured into Wake County.

We’re talking about Americans for Prosperity, the group that funds the Tea Party. They are just pushing this for partisan political advantage. Obama punched a great big hole in the South when he won North Carolina [in 2008]... and they want their state back. The largest donor to the neighborhood schools movement is Robert Luddy [a businessman and founder of Thales Academy in Wake County]. He is literally invested in the failure of the public schools. At its core it’s an ideological issue, and many in the opposition believe that public education is fundamentally a mistake.

TC: Protest has played a major role in your activism. What role does protest play in your ideas about civic engagement?

TT: Public discussion is at the heart of a democratic culture, and we’re part of a public discussion about public education. I was born in Raleigh in 1959. My father was a minister, and my mother taught at York Elementary School. My commitment reflects the extent to which my parents fought for integration. Schoolteachers like my mother, both black and white, were where the rubber hit the road when it came to integration. In my first historical research as a scholar, I interviewed dozens of older African-Americans in Raleigh.

They had grown up under the bitter oppression of Jim Crow.

Thinking about what they had

lived through and what they worked for really drives my commitment.

TC: What do you think about the status of Durham Public Schools?

TT: Durham’s schools are a mixed bag of a cautionary tale and a tribute to persistence. The county resisted integration longer and began the game at a disadvantage.

By the time Durham merged city and county schools, the city schools were 91 percent black. Durham isn’t a disaster though—[socioeconomic diversity policy] just wasn’t done as effectively as in Raleigh.

Durham has had generations of passionate activists and the civic engagement could hardly be higher.

TC: What is basis of the legal challenge mounted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

TT: The North Carolina NAACP filed a Title VI complaint with the [U.S. Department of Justice] for racial discrimination. [Our opponents] claim they haven’t done reassignment based on race.

That’s just a lie. They changed the schools of 411 students.

Four hundred of them were African-American. The new segregationists are attacking in Charlotte, Wilmington [and] all across the state. I’ll be damned if I stand idly and watch the destruction of what generations of North Carolinians sacrificed to achieve.

council from page 5 sophomore and Campus Council ad-hoc member, Rohan Taneja, who introduced the policy suggestions. Taneja is also a contributing writer for The Chronicle.

The council decided to delay any changes until there is more information available about the program’s success and its physical effect on apartments.

Additionally, Devil’s Eve, Campus Council’s annual Halloween celebration, will take place Oct. 30 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m on the Main Quadrangle, said programming chair Betsy Klein, a junior.

robbery from page 1 Despite the similar location, Dailey said it is unlikely the two LaSalle robberies are related. The perpetrator was described as a black, 5-foot-8 male in his 20s with a medium complexion. At the time of the crime, he was wearing a red and white hoodie, Dailey said.

The attacker on LaSalle earlier this week was described as a black female wearing a gray hoodie with a pink vertical stripe who allegedly pushed a female student to the ground before stealing her backpack.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta notified the student body of the robbery in an email sent at approximately 11 p.m.

DUPD and DPD are currently in discussion about patrol coverage for that area, the e-mail noted.

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Blue Devils eye longawaited Hurricane win History of close games characterize rivalry

by Matt Levenberg THE CHRONICLE

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Duke’s season unofficially kicks off tonight with the second annual edition of “Countdown 2 Craziness.”The Blue-White intra-squad scrimmage will begin at 8:30 p.m. Read Coach K’s thoughts on the game on PAGE 14.

Two years ago, Duke held a 17-14 halftime lead against Miami, only to be outscored by 21 in the second half of the loss.

Last year, the Blue Devils held a 13-10 halftime lead and were again outscored by 21 in the game’s third and fourth quarter.

Both contests saw Duke (1-4, 0-2 in the ACC) play the more talented Hurricanes (3-2, 1-1) tight—and in both, the Blue Devils were unable to clinch the victories.

Head coach David Cutcliffe knows that his team will have to play all four quarters this time if it wants to have a chance to win.

“It’s kind of been two frustrating games with Miami in my first two years here,” Cutcliffe said. “Our guys have played well, we’ve had leads into the fourth quarter in both of them. To their credit, they’ve won the fourth quarter in a big way.”

In 2008’s contest, Miami quarterback Jacory Harris had perhaps his career’s

breakout performance. He accounted for all three of his team’s third quarter touchdowns and had a total of five during the game. This season he has fallen from his early Heisman hype after throwing nine picks in the Hurricanes’ five games, but the secondary is aware of the dual-threat challenge it still faces in containing Harris Saturday.

“Jacory Harris two years ago had some big runs against us,” senior cornerback Chris Rwabawkumba said. “We have some things in our practice to help contain him, but we have to watch out for him running.”

Although Harris’ interception tendencies have been extensively noted, the Blue Devils will have to do a much better job pressuring the quarterback in order to force him to make errant throws. Duke currently ranks last in the ACC and 117th in the whole FBS in sacks, with just four through its five games. In last year’s matchup, Duke See football on page 15

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by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

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Ryan Finley, who is tied for second in Division I goals scored, will look to kickstart Duke’s offense tonight.

For some Blue Devils, a Countdown to Craziness will not take place at Cameron Indoor Stadium, but the sunny valleys of California.

When Duke plays its nationally televised match at California-Santa USCB Barbara tonight, attendance may vs. top 5,000, and the No. 19 crowd will be as Duke intense as any the team faces all year.

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“We’re excited Santa Barbara, Calif. to be on a big stage,” said head coach John Kerr, who predicted large, hostile crowds reminiscent of Oct. 3’s Maryland contest.

Following an unsatisfactory scoreless tie against ACC rival N.C. State last Friday, the No. 19 Blue Devils (5-2-4) now look to pick up a key non-conference win against the Gauchos (6-3-2) tonight at 11 p.m.

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Duke’s defense, which held Maryland to 294 total yards its last time out, will have its hands full Saturday.

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by Nicholas Schwartz THE CHRONICLE

Stuck in the ACC cellar after a tough start to the conference schedule, Duke entered yet another away matchup Thursday night desperately needing points in the standings to qualify for the ACC tournament.

The Blue Devils’ road struggles continued, however, against No. 9 Virginia as Duke again allowed two goals late in the second half, falling 2-0 in Charlottesville, Va. 0 DUKE “I’m very proud of the girls and 2 UVa how we started and played the first half,” head coach Robbie Church said. “[But] we’re struggling to get the goals that make us believe [in ourselves].”

The Blue Devils (7-5-3, 1-4-1 in the ACC) came out strong, earning quick consecutive corners before freshman striker Laura Weinberg forced Cavalier goalkeeper Chantel Jones to make the first save of the game in the 19th minute.

Just a moment later, Duke missed its closest chance of the game. After gathering possession, freshman Kaitlyn Kerr’s dipping shot from range threatened the goal but just grazed the top of the crossbar and went out of play.

Despite dominating possession in the first half, the Blue Devils simply weren’t able to cash in.

“The first half we played well… and we got no goals. We got nothing that could give us a little energy,” Church said.

A solid defensive performance against a potent Virginia (9-3-1, 3-2-0) attack kept Duke in a deadlock through the first 45 minutes, and though the Cavaliers began to turn the pressure up in the second period, the scoreline

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Goalkeeper Tara Campbell tallied five saves against Virginia Thursday night, but Cavalier Meghan Lenczyk got two scores past the sophomore. would hold until late in the game.

Unable to keep possession away from Virginia, the Blue Devils mustered only a single shot in the second half and were forced to deal with a barrage of shots from the Cavaliers. Duke goalkeeper Tara Campbell managed five saves on the night, but Virginia’s Meghan Lenczyk would not be denied, scoring her 10th and 11th goals of the season over a period of 2:04 in the last 10 minutes of the game.

“We just didn’t keep the ball in the second half. We turned the ball over, and we didn’t make good decisions [in possession],” Church said.

With the loss, the Blue Devils remain at the bottom of the ACC pile with only four conference games remaining. To qualify for ACC postseason play, Duke must be in the top eight of the standings, meaning the Blue Devils will likely need at least eight points from their last contests if they hope to make the cut. Duke next plays Virginia Tech Sunday in Blacksburg, Va., in what will surely be a must-win scenario.

“We’ve got four games left, and they’re all huge games,” Church said. “We’ve got to be able to execute some things, and we’ve got to find the last piece to the puzzle.”

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by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

Duke went into last night’s match against Virginia Tech ranked No. 1 defensively in the ACC. Unfortunately for the Blue Devils, they didn’t play like a top team.

Duke was unable to stop the Hokies’ offensive attack at Cassell Coliseum, losing 3-1 after the home team posted a .322 hitting percentage.

The loss— DUKE 3 spurred by two Vir1 VT ginia Tech (12-6, 3-5 in the ACC) players who turned in errorless performances and a combined 33 kills—marks the first conference match Duke (15-3, 7-1) has dropped this season.

“I feel like they were way more aggressive than we were in serving, playing better defense and going after it a lot more than we were,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

The Blue Devils lost the first set 25-18

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but managed to pull away with a win in the second frame before falling in the third and fourth sets, 21-25 and 17-25, respectively.

“I thought we really touched it up in game two and were serving better and passing better, and it felt good to see our focus be where it needed to be,” Nagel said. “In game three, we just let them come after us and we didn’t really fight back, and by the time we started to get better blocks and play defense, they already had the momentum going on their side.”

Duke fell short in both its defensive and offensive games, allowing the Hokies to come away with six aces and 15 blocks and holding the Blue Devils to a .209 hitting percentage.

Despite solid performances from four players with double-digit kills, Duke hit just .124 over the final two frames and posted its lowest hitting clip since Sept. 11 in the second set.

“We learned a hard lesson [yesterday] that we’ve got to go after it if we want to win,” Nagel said. “It just goes to show how competitive everyone in the ACC is, and that on any given night, it’s really anybody’s game.”

The Blue Devils still hold the top spot in the ACC and face Virginia tonight in an away contest at 7 p.m.

Highlights from Coach K’s press conference “We can’t play for the national championship every practice or every game…. We need to give them a chance to grow in the system and by the time you are in that position, be ready for it.”

“Everyone’s in good health—that’s a huge thing.... We only have the 10 scholarship players... [so] as we start our practices, the use of 10 players in practice [is critical]... especially since we’re going to try to play more up tempo.”

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m. soccer from page 12 inconsistent play all season. Notably, the Gauchos have been competitive with other top teams, even beating No. 13 UCLA 2-0 on Sept. 24. Kerr has made the team aware of this, ensuring that they do not overlook their unranked foe.

“Even if it doesn’t show in the polls, they’re a real top team,” Kerr said. “They are awesomely talented, and are very much in the same mold as Maryland with their pressuring and talent level.”

For Duke to come out victorious, the main improvement from their last game will have to come on offense, which despite numerous opportunities failed to score against NC State. Much of that offensive firepower lies within the foot of sophomore forward Ryan Finley, who as of the beginning of the week was tied for second in Division I goals scored with 10.

“I think NC State played tentatively so it was pretty hard to break them down, but things don’t go your way every

game,” Finley said. “We’re still confident going into tomorrow that we’ll be able to develop chances and score.”

Indeed, much of the match will come down to offensive execution—especially since the two teams are so similar defensively. While the Gauchos rank 25th in the country defensively with an average of 0.68 goals against per game, the Blue Devils post a slightly better average at 0.67 goals.

“Well, I think we’ve worked a lot on positioning, we’re more compact, and the guys––as far as communication goes––we’re doing that really well,” sophomore goalie James Belshaw, who has not allowed a goal in his last two games, said. “If we don’t concede goals, then we can’t lose.”

Duke looks to stay on top of its game tonight, as a key stretch soon awaits. After this match, three of the team’s final five matches are against ACC teams.

Still, the Blue Devils know they would be making a mistake to look past the Gauchos.

“I’m not worrying about out the next few games,” Kerr said. “I’m just worried about what we’re doing tomorrow night against Santa Barbara.”

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Chris Rwabukamba (16) may have a good chance at picking off Miami’s Jacory Harris Saturday—the quarterback has nine interceptions this year. recorded only one sack, allowing Harris to make unhurried plays with the game hanging in the balance.

“We’ve got to attack the gaps more violently and tackle even better,” Cutcliffe said. “We’re playing a great team this week. We’ve got to find some way to pressure a great quarterback, and we have to take the ball away somehow.”

Cutcliffe realizes that a lack of execution in the fourth quarter led to the Blue Devils’ loss last year.

In that game, Duke led 16-13 after three quarters before starting a drive in good field position. It took over on offense at its own 40-yard line after its defense conceded a field goal, needing to respond to Miami’s score. The Blue Devils instead dropped two passes, went three-and-out and caused what Cutcliffe called a momentum shift in the game.

Following Duke’s punt, Harris led Miami on a 15-play, 90-yard drive which drained the Blue Devils’ defense, gave Miami the lead and shifted the MORE momentum.

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The dropped passes certainly have not helped quarterback Sean Renfree’s production and development. After completing 71 percent of his passes and throwing six touchdowns with three interceptions in his first two games, the first-year starter has since completed under 50 percent of his passes while throwing just four touchdowns compared with six interceptions.

In his defense, though, one poor performance came against the then-No. 1 ranked team in the country, and another came against Army’s unique bear flex defensive scheme. This week, a relatively standard defense will await him.

“Miami’s base normal defense will help us,” Renfree said. “To finally get a defense that’s pretty base and you can understand what they’re doing is something I like to see.”

The Blue Devils will look to improve Saturday on their previous three offensive performances, a span during which they averaged just under 17 points per game after coming out of the gates with 89 points in their first two games. They will also look to protect their quarterback from the Hurricanes’ fierce pass rush, which ranks eighth in the FBS in sacks with 17 through its first five games.

Duke is eager to get out on the field and avenge their recent losses.

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Drinking policy should prioritize safety Two years ago the Uni- combats alcohol issues with versity hired a new associate a “harm-reduction” model dean whose role was to consist rather than a “strict-enforcelargely of curbing the culture ment” model. This means the of alcohol abuse that exists University focuses more on at Duke. Since that hire, the preventing harmful substancenumber of alcorelated behavhol-related calls iors than on the editorial to emergency prosecution of services has increased—but we those who drink underage. Inbelieve that is not necessarily a corporated into this model are bad development. measures such as amnesty for This week’s two-part series those who seek medical attenin The Chronicle has taken tion as a result of alcohol poian in-depth look at the ine- soning and educational probriating substance that per- grams about substance abuse. meates many facets of life at We see the harm-reducDuke. Alcohol use plays a sig- tion model as a positive nificant role in shaping the means of addressing student social scene on campus. Ad- use of alcohol on campus. ministrative policy, in turn, Although adherence to has its own important place state and federal law is cerin influencing how this cul- tainly important, Duke’s main ture of alcohol use evolves. priority when it comes to its Duke’s alcohol policy students drinking should be

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their health and welfare. In this way, the harm-reduction model gives students agency and choice in their alcoholrelated behaviors while keeping them safe as they do so.

The issues that arise from student alcohol consumption are rooted not in the mere fact that students are drinking, but rather from the unsafe consequences that drinking can induce. These problems are often individual, as when binge drinking leads to medical emergencies, but they can also affect the entire community— in cases of belligerent drunkenness, property damage and physical and sexual abuse.

Harm reduction addresses these issues directly while still giving students an adequate level of personal choice. The policy grants students the

freedom to determine their own drinking behaviors while encouraging them to make such decisions with their own interests and those of others in mind. Additionally, by allowing students to drink more or less freely on campus, Duke retains relative control over alcohol consumption, and off-campus drinking concerns such as driving under the influence are limited.

Tom Szigethy, associate dean and Director of the Duke Student Wellness Center and the man who was the University’s new hire in 2008, is the key to the success of the harm-reduction model at Duke. Because alcohol is such a pervasive part of Duke’s social scene, it is important that the administration arm students with the knowledge they

need to make safe choices.

Szigethy’s efforts through the party monitor program and other educational initiatives, including AlcoholEdu, offer students information on how alcohol can harm both themselves and others. The recent spike in the number of alcohol-related incidents may well be a result of that educational approach.

If students have become more comfortable calling 911 when their intoxicated friends need help, then Szigethy’s presence has already had a significant positive impact.

We believe the harm-reduction approach to alcohol consumption will succeed at Duke as long as students are willing to be receptive to this kind of a non-patronizing and educational administrative policy.

Allusions to lacrosse case tired

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uring last week’s MSNBC coverage of the damningly unfortunate part of his report is that he now-infamous Karen Owen PowerPoint mentions the lacrosse case at all. In fact, a number presentation, The Today Show sent repre- of media outlets who reported on Owen almost sentatives to East Campus to interview students on invariably linked the story with lacrosse, including the subject. The footage, which aired the venerable New York Times. on the show and can be found easThough the instances share cerily on Google, clocks in at just over tain features and as a result might seven minutes long. Most of the segbring one another to mind, it’s not ment is spent rehashing what is by enough to warrant a retelling of an now old news concerning Owen, but already tired story just for the sake a 20-second clip toward the beginof it. By tying the lacrosse case to ning is devoted to a retelling of the any sex or lacrosse related story at Duke lacrosse scandal.

Duke, the media keeps that story chris bassil If this portion of the NBC report alive and, in some backwards way, just a minute feels out of place, it’s because it is. Jeff fresh. It’s the news organizations Rossen, who narrates the piece, brings that continue to stimulate any rehimself to the subject of the lacrosse case by a fee- sidual sensitivity that exists and then cyclically go ble segue from the fact that many of Owen’s lov- on to underline that same sensitivity by highlighters were lacrosse players. “Most of them were Duke ing it in tangentially related reports. lacrosse players,” he says, “a sensitive issue around And it’s not just the recent NBC and New here since the Duke lacrosse scandal of 2006.” The York Times reports either. Those who follow the only intellectual stimulation Rossen provides with a school’s lacrosse team will recall the national semicomment like this one is the inherent difficulty in final game last year, in which the Blue Devils played attempting to identify its most troubling aspect. the top-ranked Virginia Cavaliers. The game took Honestly, it could be the poor English; was place only weeks after Virginia midfielder George Rossen trying to say that the Duke lacrosse play- Huguely was accused of brutally murdering his exers themselves have been issues since 2006? That girlfriend Yeardley Love, inspiring lengthy discusdoesn’t make any sense. Or, equally nonsensically, sions between game commentators on the simimight he be suggesting that their relations with larities between the Duke and Virginia scandals.

Owen have been issues for the past four years? Never mind that one case involved the isolated Also ridiculous. In fact, there may not be a single and individual death of a young woman, and the insightful (or comprehensible) way to read that other false allegations of rape that grew to unfairly sentence. Let’s infer though, for the sake of the incriminate an entire team; evidently, the fact that discussion, that he was explaining that the subject both involved lacrosse teams and some area of law of the Duke lacrosse case has been a sensitive one were enough. And after Duke’s national chamon campus since 2006. This actually reads cor- pionship victory two days later? Discussion after rectly, but appears to be equally misguided for a discussion of vindication for the class of superseparate set of reasons. seniors, finally successful after having been put to It’s reasonable to suggest that most people on the test all those years ago. campus, given the information we have now as None of this is to say that the team, as has been well as the passage of time requisite for healing, explained on countless occasions, was entirely inprobably come to similar conclusions regarding nocent in its conduct on the night of the alleged the Duke lacrosse case. If they don’t, well, at least incident, and it’s easy from a rational (not to menyou’d never know it, as no one seems to be at any- tion cynical) standpoint to see why the case lingers one else’s throat over it anymore. Furthermore, around in the media. However, to continually bring Rossen’s rebranding of the case as one that’s still it up in semi-related circumstances cheapens the isacting to create dissonance within the student body sues that the case did raise, in addition to visiting an is contradictory to the initial media framing of the unfair stain upon a team that is at this point in time case as a Duke vs. Durham issue that, in its heat to completely disassociated with the incident. It’s best sell a story, presented two united factions ready to to remember things like the Duke lacrosse case for go to war. The notion, then, that the Duke lacrosse their lessons without constantly revitalizing them case is still divisive within the University, as well as for their cheap entertainment value. student body, seems to be coming from a place that Perhaps we never will hear the end of that story at best is more than slightly out of touch. but, if we do, it cannot come soon enough.

Although Jeff Rossen’s sentence construction and mischaracterization of major former UniverChris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs sity issues are both highly off-putting, the most every Friday.

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Chemistry cuts in context

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he Oct. 14 Chronicle editorial, “Chemistry cuts unacceptable,” and an Oct. 8 article, “Budget cuts force chemistry dept. to hold some labs online,” focus on our recent decision to cut the number of “wet labs” in our introductory courses, replacing Warren Warren some labs with other activities such guest column as online work on experimental design, scientific writing and computational chemistry. The change was made in response to significant reductions in departmental funding, and as chair, I appreciate The Chronicle’s call for more chemistry funding to reverse this change.

However, I do not share the editorial board’s concerns, and I thank The Chronicle for giving me space to explain my reasoning.

It is my privilege to chair an outstanding chemistry department. It is modern in its research outlook, with internationally recognized, well-funded faculty publishing in the world’s best journals. At many universities, those would be the only important metrics. At Duke, I can tell you I am just as proud of our dedication to teaching and service. All of us teach undergraduates (even as chair, I teach Chemistry 32 in the Spring). However, undergraduate teaching efforts are largely led by Professors Dick MacPhail and James Bonk (with 79 years’ experience at Duke between them) and by a dedicated professional teaching staff. Over the last decade, we have introduced 10 new courses, enhanced our Graduation with Distinction program and sponsored many undergraduates for summer research. We also have a vigorous program of chemistry demonstrations, which is coupled to an outreach program with active student participation (about 300 people were here two weeks ago for our Evening of Chemistry). All of these initiatives cost money as well as faculty time, and the University has been generous in its support.

Recently this department (and all others across Arts and Sciences) took significant budget cuts, including a 10 percent cut last year, which included most staff salaries in the baseline. This is hardly unique to Duke; my colleagues at other institutions view us as fortunate that our cuts were so minor compared to theirs.

Still, unlike the claims you hear in political ads, budgets do not have a “waste, fraud and abuse” line item to delete without any real consequences. Cuts had to be made in many areas (including personnel), and the teaching budget could not be spared.

The ultimate decision was mine, but I commend my teaching colleagues for their carefully considered and innovative suggestion. We currently have labs in all four semesters of the introductory courses (many universities do not), as well as a much more rigorous and modern junior-senior level lab course than I was used to in my 23 years at Princeton. We could have simply wiped out labs from some courses, and we would not have ended up much different than many institutions. We could have made a large number of little cuts (increasing lab section size dramatically, for example) and The Chronicle would not have noticed.

Instead, we took this opportunity to revamp the laboratory curriculum in a way that allows us to place more emphasis on “soft skills” that may be more valuable to students in the long run. Some activities and assignments are designed to enhance students’ preparation for the “wet labs.” Others aim to provide expanded and earlier exposure to literature research and writing, which will better prepare our majors for our advanced laboratory courses and independent research where there is a heavy emphasis on writing and reading. For non-majors, introduction to these skills lays the foundation for them to conduct their own experiments (in any field); review the experiments, results and conclusions of others; learn about science in and out of their field; and distinguish between real science and poorly conducted or “pseudo”-science.

The lab change is an experiment—forced on us by the financial situation, but an experiment nonetheless. It was certainly the least disruptive choice we had, but if we conclude it does not work, we will somehow find another solution. But I believe it will work, and we will know if it works. We can readily evaluate the lab skills our students acquire because we have five levels of lab courses.

I might be the only chemistry chair in history to see a campus newspaper editorial calling for more money for his department.

Frankly, though, the administration has been as helpful as they can be given their constraints. For example, we thought we would have to stop staffing one of our most important undergraduate initiatives; they helped us find other methods to support it. And if The Chronicle’s editorial were to cause a large bag of money to be deposited on my desk, instead of reinstituting the deleted wet labs, we would seriously consider using it for other educational initiatives, such as giving more undergraduates a summer research experience, improving teaching software for the offweek labs or further enhancing graduation with distinction.

Warren S. Warren is the James B. Duke Professor and chair of the Chemistry Department, professor in Radiology and Biomedical Engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Imaging.

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ntil 1861 the Russian economy depended on Even in this hemisphere, swindles abound. And the labor of serfs who farmed the land. These some of the gravest injustices begin as victimless people were considered property and could crimes. In the world of “Dead Souls,” everyone gets be bought and sold just like any other something for nothing. The landgood. So it was not implausible that in owners get pocket change and a tax the summer of 1842 a gentleman by break. The bureaucrats get some the name of Pavel Chichikov could be hefty bribe money. Chichikov gets the traveling around rural Russia, buying collateral he needs for his get-richup serfs for cold hard cash. quick scheme. Only the government His business proposition was loses: Chichikov’s project depends on unusual, though: He only wanted the easy availability of public funds— dead ones. From the seller’s point of carol apollonio it is taxes, after all, that will provide view, it was a good deal. Since serfs him with the cash he will be borrowwhat would who had died before the regular ing from the government, and he has dostoevsky do? census—so-called “dead souls”— no intention of paying that money were still taxable property, their back, ever. For the longest time, sale represented a tax break. As for the purchaser, there were no losers in our credit-default swaps of Chichikov, his ultimate purpose was to mortgage the mid-2000s either. Everything was on paper. But them to the government, take out big loans using all that the funny accounting, mortgage fraud, inthe serfs as collateral and then skip town with the competent oversight and complicated loan-layering cash. Everyone stood to gain. Even the serfs, being landed us in a fearsome economic mess. At some dead, had nothing to lose. point you have to bring your accounts into order, Now there’s a big black hole here into which we or before you know it there will be a lot of people could plunge with meditations upon the immortality living in cardboard boxes, or on the couch at your of the soul, the elusiveness of good and the banality parents’. of evil, social oppression and injustice, hellfire and I’m not too good at economics, and just so you know, damnation, respect for the dead, human dignity, I had to drop it in college. So this really isn’t about ecoethics, Russian culture and the devil’s wily ways, but nomics. It’s actually been a sales pitch to get you to take from a purely economic point of view, the deal made courses in arts and literature. Systems come and go, a great deal of sense. careers and fortunes are built and lost, the deadly sins Chichikov never actually existed, except on the lurk at the gate and speaking as an amateur, I’m not pages of a famous novel by Nikolai Gogol titled sure that learning a few more formulas and paradigms “Dead Souls.” So why read it? Gogol is dead, Russia is going to change that. is on the other side of the world, the novel’s action Your soul, though, that’s still up for grabs. took place 168 years ago and it never happened anyA truck could run over you tomorrow; a mine could way. And reading it won’t get you a job (maybe). cave in and trap you underground; lethal chemicals Well, for starters, the book teems with weird charac- leaking from an aluminum plant in Hungary could ters who will keep you company and entertain you on seep in under your door. AIDS, global warming, a tera long lonely night. The plot is bizarre and brilliant. rorist, your homicidal ex-boyfriend, a teenager in a “Dead Souls” is one of the funniest things you’ll ever speeding SUV, the North Koreans, your refusal to wear read. Entering Gogol’s wacky, unforgettable world will a bicycle helmet, Krzyzewskiville germs, a flock of birds bring on a feeling of sheer unadulterated joy that is its rising off the surface of a runway and being sucked into own reward. a jetliner NOT piloted by Chesley “Sully” SullenbergBut if you must, you can always come up with a social- er—any of this could have your name on it. ly relevant reason for reading, one that allows you to use As for me, if some big and incendiary thing is gothe book as a guide for understanding current events. ing to come flying through my ceiling tomorrow, I’d For example, Gogol’s swindler protagonist has real-life rather be doing at that moment what I really want to descendents, the semi-criminal “New Russian” business be doing rather than what I think I should be doing. bosses who peeled the post-Soviet economy like a grape And reading a long, juicy Russian novel, maybe with in the 1990s. And what with all the bribes and carrying some company, is at the top of my list. on, the novel is as vicious a satire as you will ever read of government bureaucracy and human failings like greed, Carol Apollonio is an associate professor of the practice sloth and the other lower-grade sins. in Slavic and Eurasian studies and a faculty in residence Much as we’d like to deny it, these failings know in Wilson Residence Hall on East Campus. Her column no national borders. runs every other Friday.

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