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A new cancer therapy is currently under clinical trials at Duke’s Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center.

This new approach involves injecting a brain tumor with modified poliovirus, which invades and kills cancerous brain cells while being harmless to normal brain cells. Nine patients have been successfully treated so far in phase one of the trial, which aims to determine a safe and effective dosage at which to treat patients, said Dr. Annick Desjardins, associate professor of neurology and principal investigator of the study.

Dr. Matthias Gromeier, associate professor in the department of neurosurgery, began preclinical development of the modified poliovirus in 2002.

More than 15 years of research went into the poliovirus therapy prior to starting clinical trials, which is not unusual, Gromeier said.

“The absolutely essential prerequisite on the research side was a large monkey neurovirulence study,” he said, which tested the treatment on monkeys to establish the safety of the approach.

Additional research was also done to determine how the poliovirus interacted with cancer cells.

Another vital component before trials could begin was a modified poliovirus that infected cancer cells while having no effect on normal cells, which was developed by the National Institute of Health, Gromeier said.

The first patient, Stephanie Lipscomb, found out she had stage four gioblastoma, the most lethal and common form of brain cancer, as a nursing student at age 20. Although chemotherapy was unsuccessful in eradicating the tumor entirely, the experimental poliovirus therapy was able to reduce the tumor to the size of a pea, Desjardins said.

“She has a normal life as a nursing student,” Desjardins said of Lipscomb.

“Looking at her, no one could imagine that she had been diagnosed with a terminal brain cancer. We cannot say that she is cured, but she is in remission for sure.”

Currently, side effects of the poliovirus therapy are minimal, Gromeier said.

“Thus far, the main side effects we have observed are due to the infusion of fluid into the brain of the patients See therapy, page 12

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Clinic and several hospitals, including the Duke Regional Hospital and Duke Raleigh Hospital.

“Our main motive is to keep our patients safe—we don’t want a healthcare worker to be carrying the flu virus and accidentally infect a patient,” said Gail Shulby, chief of staff and clinical affairs for DUHS. The influenza vaccine is free for all students and staff with the presentation of legitimate Duke card, said Shelby Hill-McCray, a senior nurse for Employee Occupational Health and Wellness.

Student Health, which operates under DUHS policies, has immunized over 2,800

A new social media app aims to bridge the gap between online and offline social interactions.

The Bevii mobile application uses locational technologies to track the social life of its users and construct virtual social networks. It launched Monday and is now available exclusively for students at Duke, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University through iOS and Android platforms.

“The idea came from being a social media user and being frustrated with the current options out there,” said Bevii founder Taylor Robinette, a sophomore at UNC. Networking sites such as Facebook create a secondary social sphere that separates social media from actual social life.

Bevii connects the two worlds by including face-to-face and online social interaction.

Robinette said.

The Bevii app detects its users in close proximity and automatically adds them to each other’s base network. From there, Bevii organizes friendship into five levels—with one being close friends and five being the base level where people can only see each other’s names and profile pictures. These levels constantly adjust to correspond to the amount of interaction between individuals.

Users have the option of moving their contacts along the scale without affecting where they are placed on that contact’s relationship list, Robinette said.

“There is a significant amount of ‘Facebook fatigue’ out there, particularly on-campus, and I believe the window has cracked open for a new and relevant social media solution,” wrote Jim Kitchen, a lecturer in entrepreneurship at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and an investor in Bevii, in an email Sunday.

As of Sunday, Bevii had received $300,000 of funding from investors. Robinette said the start-up aims to raise another 10 to 15 million dollars of venture capital by the first quarter of 2014.

“The idea behind the Bevii app makes sense to me, but more importantly, I am investing in it because I am confident that Taylor is going to be successful,” said Merrill Mason, an investor and lawyer for Bevii. “It’s like what people say—you bet on the jockey and not the horse.”

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Vaccinations spike due to new DUHS requirements

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The Duke University Health System has experienced a dramatic increase in flu vaccinations this year following a major policy change in April.

All DUHS employees must be vaccinated for the flu or have a legitimate medical or religious excuse by Dec. 6. This change may account for the 14,060 vaccines given out on Sept. 18th—a “blitz” vaccine day where thousands of employees tried to vaccinate as many healthcare employees as possible­. Last year’s blitz resulted in 12,487 vaccinations.

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Prior to their first year, students are assigned an academic advisor who guides them through their first two years until they declare their major. The system of assigning academic advisors to students was updated this year to allow for better matches based on shared interests and advisor preferences. The Chronicle’s Ryan Zhang spoke with students about their experiences with the advising system under its previous and current formats.

“Generally it’s been pretty good. Occasionally, they’re busy people, so they “There were times when unique interests came up, so I had to do some research to don’t really have time to ask you what you truly want. There are some flaws, but I learn about new fields. But even these fall within the Duke academic framework, so the guess I’m pretty happy with it.” basic guidelines still apply.”

—junior Jimmy Zhang —Tim Bounds, senior director of student affairs strategic operations and technology “I feel like some freshmen come in with an idea of what they want to do—pre“I have about the same number of pre-health students [this year], but those who aren’t med, pre-business—but that doesn’t always work out…. [In the new system] if you pre-health seem to be considering majors that more closely match my background and insuddenly decide to change your mind, your advisor isn’t as helpful.” terests. I think all advisors end up with pre-health students among their advisees because —sophomore Diana Lam there aren’t enough with backgrounds in the sciences and math to advise all the pre-health students.”

“It’d be better to have an advisor that has some sort of clue in the field of study —Deb Johnson, assistant vice provost for undergraduate education and director of adthat you’re interested in.” ministrative and community support services —senior Jacqueline Jast “Over the years I have been assigned pre-Med students with an interest in Biology. This “My advisor was really helpful in broadening my perspective on which courses is because my past educational experience includes a Masters in Biology. However this I could take over the next few years at Duke. Even though my advisor right now year, I was assigned students whose main interests were Math, Physics, and Computer Scidoesn’t focus on the same specialty that I want to major in, he pointed me in the ence. Since many of the pre-requisite courses for these interests are similar to pre-Med, the right direction and gave me some new ideas on courses that I could take if I was change was not that problematic. However it certainly was out of my comfort zone.” interested in his specialty.”

—John Campbell, senior associate director of Student Information Services and Sys—first-year Sai Nimmagadda tems

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“I think that the pre-advisor program is helpful, because when I came here I didn’t know what classes to take to go towards the major I wanted to go to…. He still helped me determine who I should talk to about the major I wanted to take.

He also helped me choose classes and gave me a lot of advice about what past students said about certain classes.”

—junior Kirstie James “Academically we had no overlap but I still really liked [my advisor]. Academics-wise she wasn’t super helpful…but she was really helpful in talking about DukeEngage and summer programs, and she directed me towards who would help me.”

—sophomore Julia Bellantoni “I met with her at the required times to get approved for enrollment…she was helpful, but I think helpful in just the general sense that she gave all of her advisees attention because she had a small number. In terms of more specific questions, I’d go to the department.”

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“As I am in the chemistry department it is not surprising that many of my advisees are interested in the sciences. This has traditionally been true, though I do have a selection of advisees who come in with, and maintain, other interests. I see that again this year it is also true…. I have been a pre-major advisor for a while now. I do it because I see it as an important service to the Duke community. I think that the pre-major advising center does an outstanding job of organizing and running the advising process and providing us with Great Hall valuable help,The support and critical information throughout the academic year.”

—Todd Woerner, senior lecturing of chemistry Trent Semans Centerfellow for Health Education 10 Searle Drive, Durham, North Carolina “When I was asked what kind of advisees I would like to have, I said I’d love to work with international students and also minority students and students from underprivileged families. So I got six [advisees] this year and three are from China (or Chinese background), one African-American student from North Carolina. So far, I definitely see the change this year, whereas in the previous years I had a combination of everybody. It has been really effective—students from China tend to overload in terms of their work and classes. In that sense I can really help them to calm down and provide more helpful advice. In that sense I’m quite satisfied with my students and my role as their advisor.”

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Trent Semans Center Health Education “He actually saved my schedule. I had signed up for an econ class that I really “As a pre-major Trinity advisor, I’mfor very pleased with the great number of improve10 Searle Durham, North didn’t need to take, so I’m really glad I have my academic advisor.” ments I’ve witnessed in Drive, just a few years. Beth Fox,Carolina the director of the Academic Advising —first-year Cameron Valadez Center, has more than doubled the number of faculty and staff advisors for freshmen and sophomores. That translates to more personal attention for students. There’s a peer advi“I really like my advisor. He’s been good so far. I’ve never had to ask him any sor network of exceptional and diverse undergrads that I can call on at any hour of the tough I’ve alwaysLecture kind of known what classes or night to help me or my advisees answer questions or get advice from students who Thequestions, Chancellor’s Series and I was going to take and day what I wanted to do with my life.” speak from experience.”

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by Emma Baccellieri The Chronicle

Students are now being matched to academic advisors through a more accurate and efficient system.

After years of matching by hand, the Academic Advising Center implemented an algorithm this year that selected keywords from a database of information drawn from the academic profiles of students and advisors. The goal of the new matching system is to implement a “meaningful but technologically intact way to do it—not just turn people into a number, but actually do something that has meaning,” said Elizabeth Fox, director of the Academic Advising Center.

“We went through multiple iterations of the match before we ultimately did it for the incoming class,” said Edward Gomes, senior associate dean for Trinity Technology Services, which developed the database and algorithm. “That was part of the development process—did it work, what did it look like… Now let’s move it into production and see how it works.”

When Fox took her position three years ago, the matching process was markedly different—each summer, she sat down with two Excel spreadsheets containing information about students’ and advisors’ interests and matched them one by one.

“It was a very daunting task,” she said.

“I didn’t think at the end of the day that I served students or advisors well.”

The spreadsheet system proved in-

efficient and time-consuming, Gomes noted.

“Spreadsheets aren’t designed to work that way,” he said. “It requires a lot of physical resources on the computer to make it work. Putting it in a database structure, which is optimized for these types of needs, seemed to be the best logical step forward.”

During her first year as director, Fox began the process of changing the matching system. As it was, the system made it difficult for high-quality advisors to perform their jobs well—not only were they often put with students who did not necessarily match their skill sets, there were too many students per advisor.

“We decided to more than double the number of academic advisors, so that each advisor could advise fewer students to create a real space in which advising could take place,” Fox said.

Previously, advisors took 12 students each year. With a new total of approximately 250 advisors, each one can now choose to take three, six, nine or 12.

In recruiting new advisors, Fox and her staff targeted not only Trinity professors, but also faculty members from the School of Law and Fuqua School of Business who could be able to address different student concerns.

Even with the more advanced system, not every match will be perfect, Fox said. But she noted that dedicated, welltrained advisors will be able to bridge See advising, page 12

by Aubrey Temple The Chronicle

The Durham Primary Election forum was held at City Hall this Tuesday.

Mayoral candidates Sylvester Williams, a minister and financial advisor, and Bill Bell, who has served as mayor since 2001, discussed a variety of topics ranging from Durham crime to education. The four city council candidates for Ward 2 and Ward 3 also vocalized their visions for Durham at the forum.

Bail bondsman Omar Beasley and former educator Eddie Davis are city council candidates for Ward 2. Pam Karriker, a former county commissioner, and Don Moffitt, a business development consultant, are in the race to become the city councilman of Ward 3. The forum was conducted in a manner similar to a panel discussion where the moderator, Past InterNeighborhood Council President John Martin, asked a series of questions to the candidates giving them each one minute to respond.

Near the end, the candidates where asked a set of questions that came from the audience followed by their closing statements. The event was sponsored by the League of Women Voters and The Durham Interneighborhood Council, two nonpartisan local political organizations.

“We want to make sure that the people of Durham know who they are voting to represent them and to express what they believe in,” said Bessie Carrington, a member of the League of Women Voters who helped organize the event. “The local government has a huge responsibility to the

citizens of Durham.”

Bell and Williams were asked to discuss their take on recent gentrification in Durham.

Bell said he did not see gentrification as a problem, but rather as a chance to revitalize some of Durham’s neighborhoods.

“Durham is moving in the right direction. My focus is going to be on increasing affordable housing and making Durham more neighborhood friendly,” Bell said.

Williams, on the other hand, noted that gentrification in Durham is a problem because it raises the local property value, making it unaffordable to some residents and forcing them to move elsewhere.

Williams also discussed recent criticism that the Durham police department has participated in racial profiling. He called for sensitivity training for all police staff.

Beasley and Davis discussed lowering crime rates in Durham.

Beasley said Durham should focus on keeping adolescents out of gangs. He particularly emphasized the lack of city-funded children activities and how instrumental the addition of such programs can be in decreasing the rate of children who drop out of high school early.

“We need to keep our kids busy,” Beasley said. “Through athletic [activities], academics and activism…we need to identify kids early on who are going to drop out early.”

He also suggested putting vocational and trade programs in school in order to give students marketable skills if they See mayoral forum, page 12

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DukeMobile application integrates contestants’ codes

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Submissions from the Duke innovation Co-lab’s DukeMobile Challenge will be integrated into the official DukeMobile application this Spring.

The three winning apps of the competition—which asked students to code new aspects for the main application—were announced Friday. in the ioS native category, sophomore Davis Gossage took first with Tranzip—an app that displays bus schedules and locations. Juniors Jason oettinger and robert Ansel won in the Best hTMl5/mobilefriendly category with Food App, which displays all of the open dining venues on campus. And the Best Android-native app went to sophomore Mack Yi for Duke Directions—which determines directions and travel times to travel between places on campus.

Although three apps were selected as winners, the innovation Co-lab plans to integrate all eight submissions into the DukeMobile App. “Students gain unique hands-on experience in the development field and have the opportunity to work closely with each other and experienced professionals to polish and perfect their ideas,” wrote evan levine, assistant director of academic services at the office of information Technology, in an email oct. 9.

Submissions were reviewed by a group of oiT and other University staff. They looked for apps of value to the Duke community with clear and elegant user interfaces and

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that display Duke data or information in a useful or new way, Michael Faber, iT innovation manager at the Co-lab, wrote in an email oct. 9. oettinger said he and Ansel discussed what they wanted to fix and how they wanted their new app to look, and added that the whole process consisted of many corrections, fixings and code rewritings. “every time you work on a team it’s really a great experience because you get to learn ways that other programmers work,” oettinger said. “And it really helps you in your work, [learning] these styles of doing things through ways you may not have thought about before.”

The ability to integrate student applications was a primary factor in oiT’s decision to build the next generation of DukeMobile themselves rather than purchasing an existing product from a vendor as they had in the past, levine said.

“Duke students are doing fascinating things, and the upcoming mobile.duke.edu dashboard and DukeMobile application provide great ways to share top-notch student creations with the Duke community,” levine wrote.

Faber said the Challenge provides a great opportunity for students to put classroom learning to use in real-world projects.

“Many students come to the Co-lab with a drive to learn more but without all of the knowledge required to build something from start to finish,” Faber wrote. “having a project to work on forces them to confront those problems as they come and leaves them better equipped for the next project.”

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An alumni of the Divinity School presented her memoir on marrying a former hindu Monk on Tuesday.

J. Dana Trent, Divinity ‘06 ordained in the Southern Baptist Tradition, read from her memoir “Saffron Cross: The Unlikely Story of how a Christian Minister Married a hindu Monk,” which details the struggles and joys of her relationship and marriage with Fred eaker, a devout hindu. From meeting on eharmony.com to spending weeks in india together, Trent discussed how her relationship with eaker shaped her understanding of God. “it’s an east-meets-West, boy-meets-girl love story with a theological twist,” Trent said.

The event was held at The regulator Bookshop on ninth Street. There were 11 people in attendance, many of whom stayed after the event to purchase a copy of the book and discuss the author’s ideas with her.

Trent met eaker in 2008 on the online dating site, eharmony.com, where her profile listed her as willing to date someone from a non-Abrahamic tradition.

“The possibility that i’d get matched with anyone who wasn’t a Christian is minute, anyway, right? right, God giggled,” Trent read.

She went on to describe the couple’s first date at the Blue Corn Café on ninth Street. The regulator Bookshop, the venue for the presentation, was special to Trent, since she and eaker spent many subsequent dates there.

Deciding how the two would worship was a question the couple had to deal with.

While eaker insisted that they worship together, both wanted to ensure that they maintained each of their own traditions.

“We’re talking about solving a complex puzzle that has, according to most religious circles, diametrically opposing theological tenants,” Trent read. “There was no meeting in the middle with Moses, or Abraham, or the Trinity.”

Both Trent and eaker, who was also present at the event, expressed their happiness that their families and faith communities were accepting of their union.

“We are very fortunate to belong to two faith communities that are extremely progressive,” Trent said. “My church has wel-

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The couple also described the spiritual growth they have experienced as a result of learning about the other’s faith.

“Prayer in the two traditions are very different: extemporaneous vs. chanting,” Trent said. “i’ve adopted chanting and found that it’s very helpful for me.” eaker described how having a Christian wife has changed his relationship with God. “The philosophy in hinduism is that one’s nature is to serve God, and that asking God for things to maintain our mundane existence is not ideal,” eaker said. “in my relationship with Dana and her extemporaneous prayer, i’ve become much more softened to asking God for help.”

The couple also detailed some of the challenges they faced in building their interfaith relationship and home. Trent, who was raised in an evangelical tradition, talked about her difficulties resisting the urge to proselytize her husband. “i did sort of brainstorm ways early on in our courtship for how to get him baptized,” Trent exclaimed. “This is the first misstep in interfaith communication—us trying to convert one another instead of trying to understand one another.”

Audience questions for Trent and eaker ranged from basic—“Do hindus read the Bible?”—to personal—“how have your families reacted to your union?”—to theological—“What do you each see as the most valuable parts of the other’s faith tradition?”

Kimberly Caulfeild, another audience member, spoke highly of Trent and eaker. “i found it remarkable that she was willing to say things that could be embarrassing to some people, but she was open and honest about it,” Caulfeild said.

According to an op-ed in the new York Times,“interfaith Unions: A Mixed Blessing” by naiome Schaefer riley, interfaith marriages are becoming more common, but result in divorce more often than those between members of the same religion. Before the 1960’s, only 20 percent of marriages were interfaith, but since 2000, approximately 45 percent of marriages in America See regulator, page 12

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WAShinGTon — in a long-awaited breakthrough, Senate leaders closed in on a deal Monday to raise the federal debt ceiling and end a two-week-old government shutdown as Washington scrambled to avoid the nation’s first default on its debt.

With leaders of both parties optimistic that they will soon come together to end the political crisis that has paralyzed Washington, details of the possible agreement began to emerge. it would raise the debt limit until Feb. 15 and fund federal agencies until Jan. 15, with the two sides holding budget talks before a new round of sequestration budget cuts take effect in January, according to people in the Senate familiar with the talks.

The deal would also make minor tweaks to the new health-care law, though nothing along the lines of what some conservative republicans have been demanding. it would require additional safeguards to ensure that people who receive federal subsidies to purchase health insurance under the law are eligible to receive them, the people said. in exchange for meeting that republican condition, Democrats are seeking a delay of the law’s so-called “belly button tax” — a tax on existing policies that is set to add roughly $63 per covered person — including spouses and dependents — to the cost of health insurance next year. Under the emerging agreement, the tax would be delayed until 2015, sparing organized labor as well as major employers, the people said. negotiators, meanwhile, rejected a republican proposal to delay a controversial 2.3 percent tax on medical devices that is also part of the Affordable Care Act. With the talks continuing, Senate Major-

ity leader harry reid, D-nev., recessed the Senate for the day, and said that he and Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, r-Ky., had made “tremendous progress ... but we are not there yet.’’

McConnell echoed reid’s remarks.

“We’ve had a good day,’’ he said. “... i think it’s safe to say we’ve made substantial progress and we look forward to making more progress in the near future.” earlier, the Senate talks had been far enough along that the White house postponed a 3 p.m. meeting with Democratic and republican leaders of the house and Senate to allow the negotiations to proceed. no new time or date for the meeting was immediately announced.

As the Senate convened for the day, reid had said on the floor that he was “very optimistic” about what he called the “constructive, good-faith negotiations” aimed at avoiding the nation’s first debt default. McConnell said he expected that “we’re going to get a result that will be acceptable to both sides.” it was not immediately clear if any agreement would be able to win support in the republican-led house, though a bipartisan deal would put immediate pressure on house Speaker John Boehner, r-ohio. Asked if the emerging reid-McConnell framework was something Boehner could accept, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told reporters: “one thing at a time.’’

Boehner huddled with McConnell in McConnell’s office Monday afternoon. Michael Steel, a spokesman for Boehner, declined to weigh in on specifics, saying only that the Speaker “went to get an update on the discussions.”

As talks intensified, the president warned that if the standoff is not resolved by Thursday’s deadline to raise the debt ceiling, “we

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by Sen. Susan Collins, r-Maine, also met for two hours Monday morning. After briefing McConnell, Collins said the group was making progress but that the higher-level talks between reid and McConnell were more significant in finding a way to resolve the standoff.

U.S. financial markets fell slightly in morning trading but then seemed to stabilize. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index and the Dow Jones industrial average each dropped about 0.5 percent in the first 90 minutes of trading, then regained about half that amount. in a more telling sign of market sentiment, the ViX, a measure of expected future volatility in stock markets, soared 12.4 percent, but the increase then declined to eight percent.

Bond markets were closed for the Columbus Day holiday. But in recent days investors have sold off short-term Treasury bills maturing later in october, fearful that there could be disruptions that prevent the government from making good on its obligations.

The entrenched dispute over government spending began with a battle over whether to link funding for the basic operations to changes in President Barack obama’s signature Affordable Care Act. it morphed last week into a fight over extending the debt ceiling, which is the government’s ability to borrow money to pay for bills it has incurred.

Two weeks into the federal government shutdown, with the possibility of an U.S. default looming, the disagreement has expanded to include the issue of broader cuts in existing programs and changes to the mandatory curbs in spending known as the sequester. “i’m ashamed, and i want to apologize to the American people,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told Cnn’s “new Day,” describ-

ing Congress’s seeming inability to forge an agreement. “This is not what i signed up for.”

The plan being cobbled together by Collins’s group focused on ending the shutdown and raising the $16.7 trillion debt limit. But Senate Democrats, emboldened by deep divisions among house republicans and poll data showing the GoP bearing the brunt of the blame for the impasse, rejected the initial proposal because it would allow a new round of sequester cuts to take effect in January. reid instead is seeking a quicker deadline on a temporary measure to fund federal agencies and reopen the government, and a longer deadline for raising the debt limit.

“The plan would be, open up the government immediately for a period of time before the sequester hits [on Jan. 15] and then have serious discussions where we might be able to undo the sequester,” Sen. Charles Schumer, n.Y., the no. 3 Democrat in the Senate, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the nation.”

Schumer noted that house republicans had already offered to roll back the sequester cuts in a proposal that the White house rejected Friday. That plan would have immediately suspended enforcement of the debt limit and reopened the government in exchange for a plan to replace sequester savings in 2014 (and perhaps longer) with reductions to Social Security and Medicare proposed in obama’s budget.

“That was one place where the house republicans and the president were not, you know, at total loggerheads,” Schumer said, suggesting that a deal could be cut if republicans would consider new revenue along with cuts to entitlement programs.

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THERAPY from page 1 when we administer the poliovirus,” he said.

“Because of that, they have increased brain swelling, which can trigger short-lived spells of brain dysfunction, like seizures, weakness, speech difficulties.”

Gromeier noted that the side effects, including brain swelling, normally resolve very rapidly with the utilization of steroids.

Dr. henry Friedman, deputy director at the Brain Tumor Center, said he is optimistic about the potential of the poliovirus therapy for other types of cancers, such as prostate cancer, melanoma and breast cancer.

Although the new therapy is not a cure, it will drastically improve the life expectancy and quality of life of these patients, he noted.

FLU SHOTS from page 1 students since Aug. 1, Director of Student health John Vaughn said.

“Student health goes way above and beyond to try to vaccinate all students on campus,” Shulby said. “it’s so important that students get vaccinated—the living situation alone makes them so prone to disease.” recipients of the flu shot have expressed differing opinions, ranging from begrudging acceptance to support. “i really didn’t want it,” said Arianne leslie, who only received a flu shot as a requirement for the DUhS nursing training program she is in. “i don’t think it’s healthy to get one, i think it’s better for your body to fight it on its own.” other staff members, including irish Turrentine, a human resources associate at the library of human resources, view the vaccines as an effective way of staying protected from the flu, “it’s a preventative measure for me—it

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Shulby attributed this year’s higher vaccination turnout to thousands of dedicated from page 3 healthcare professionals.

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After its initial launch, Bevii will become from page 11 accessible to students at other U.S. colleges through invitations and contracts with ed in the Budget Control Act, the measure schools. Membership will be limited to col- that raised the debt limit in 2011. initially, relege students in the near future, robinette publicans, too, wanted to replace the sequessaid. ter, particularly the portion that falls on the “Facebook is now too cluttered, and we Pentagon. But since obama won tax hikes want our own social network again,” he on the wealthy as part of a year-end fight over said. the “fiscal cliff,” McConnell has taken to casting the sequester as a significant GoP victory from which the party cannot retreat. from page 5 Treasury Secretary Jack lew has said that were between members of different faiths, if Congress fails to lift the debt limit, he will Schaefer reported from her research on exhaust his borrowing authority Thursday. At religion. that point, he will have to rely on a cash bal“our prayer has been from the begin- ance of about $30 billion and incoming revning that Saffron Cross will be a manual not enue to pay the nation’s bills. just for interfaith marriages or interfaith independent analysts say lew will not becouples, but for interfaith friends,” Trent gin missing payments immediately but will said. “everyone’s theological perspective begin to run short of funds no later than

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Karriker said the police department should use more resources to enhance traffic laws and encourage safer streets in Durham. She noted that there is a major lack of sidewalks in Durham for pedestrian use, as well as a need to ensure people do not ride their bikes without reflectors.

Karriker also discussed how there is a deficit of affordable housing for Durham residents. “i want to make sure everyone in the Durham community has safe and affordable housing,” she said.

Moffitt commented on Durham’s criminal activity. “i’m seeing more crime in some parts of the city but less crime overall,” he said.

Brenda rogers, north Carolina president of the league of Women Voters, said the forum gave voters the opportunity to ask questions and evaluate candidates through an objective process.

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For a player that didn’t know he was going to start with 10 minutes until kickoff, quarterback NAVY 7 Anthony Boone reDUKE 35 turned with a bang for Duke in Saturday’s 35-7 victory against navy.

After Boone fractured his collarbone in week two against Memphis, redshirt junior Brandon Connette adopted the starting role and led Duke to a 2-2 record. Connette was slated to start the game as late as 10 minutes before kickoff—the decision to go with Boone even surprised several of his teammates. “[i found out Boone was starting] right before the game,” wide receiver Jamison Crowder said. “We had a little part in the pregame warmup that we go against the defense, and i saw Boone was starting. So i was surprised but i think when Boone came in, a lot of the guys kind of had a little chip on their shoulder, a little edge and we were able to go out there and play well.”

Connette, it turns out, rolled his ankle while jogging to practice early in the week. After practicing Friday, Connette tested it out again during pregame warmups but deemed himself unfit to play,

head coach David Cutcliffe said. But even with the late notice, Boone was ready to go.

“The trainers and our [physical therapy] staff have done a real good job taking care of me,” Boone said. “The [offensive line] did a great job of protecting me and the scheme got me a chance to get the ball out quick and got my confidence building.”

Boone’s poise throughout the game was the most impressive facet of his return, as he was able to evade defenders and follow through on his passes with confidence. But Boone made sure when he scrambled—unlike the Boone of old who would take on defenders shoulder first—to get out of bounds or slide to limit his hits. “i’ve got to play a little bit smarter for a while,” Boone said. “Make sure i’m not taking on too many unnecessary hits.”

This poise allowed Boone to be efficient, which would be the best way to describe his impressive comeback performance. he threw for 295 yards and three scores while managing to complete 82 percent of his passes in a 31of-38 performance. Boone’s yardage and completion numbers were both career highs, but Cutcliffe was quick to praise the quarterback who stepped in during his four-week absence from the lineup. “i’m proud of Brandon Connette being honest with me,” Cutcliffe said.

“And then Anthony just slipped in like See BOONE, page 16

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Jason Williams enshrined

by Daniel Carp The ChroniCle

For three years, Jason Williams was used to center court at Cameron indoor Stadium being his stage. But as the national champion and two-time national Player of the Year stood on a literal stage at the center of college basketball’s most hallowed ground to be inducted into the Duke Athletics hall of Fame, he said that the chills never seem to stay away.

Standing under his no. 22 hanging in the rafters, it was only fitting that one of the seven newest Duke hall of Famers opened his speech by recounting how he made his decision to be a Blue Devil.

“The first time i set foot in here i was 16 years old, and unfortunately there was somebody who happened to win national Player of the Year who had worn my favorite number in high school. My favorite number was 32,” said Williams, referring to Christian laettner’s no. 32 that hangs beside his. “My father and i were in the gym, and my father asked me a question, and this is by no means a disrespect to the other school. he asked me, ‘Would you rather be a king among the poor, or would you rather be a king among kings?’ And he looked up at the rafters, and he saw that 11, 33 and 44 were all retired, and he said ‘You know what son? The missing link is no. 22.’ And every time i come into this room and i see that number hanging from

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For Williams, enshrinement in his school’s hall of Fame was less of a coronation, and more of an affirmation that the 32-year-old continues to be deeply woven See williams, page 17

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Penn State: A look back and a step forward “It’s a great win for Penn State,” head coach Bill O’Brien said just minutes after his team’s four-overtime victory against rival Michigan.

The Nittany Lions battled back from a 10-point fourth quarter deficit, tying the game on true freshman quarterback Christian Hackenberg’s 1-yard run with just 27 seconds left to play. Michigan’s Brendan Gibbons, a fifth-year senior, missed a 52-yard field goal with two seconds left to play in regulation, sending the game to its first overtime and foreshadowing his team’s eventual downfall.

The Wolverines should have won the game. Penn State kicker Sam Ficken pushed a 40-yard field goal wide right in the first overtime period, essentially ensuring Michigan’s victory.

But on the ensuing drive, the Nittany Lions blocked Gibbons’ attempt, sending the game to a second overtime.

Both teams traded field goals before once again, the Wolverines seemed on their way to victory after Penn State lost a fumble on its first play of the third overtime period. But Gibbons, who holds the Michigan record with 16 consecutive made field goals from 2012 to early 2013, missed a 33-yarder wide left.

Gibbons would nail a 40-yarder to start the fourth overtime period, but it would not be enough for the Wolverines. It took the Nittany Lions eight plays to move the ball 25 yards for the game-winning touchdown, a 2-yard run

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The Penn State faithful at Beaver Stadium had a lot to cheer about in a four-overtime victory against Michigan. ing in one of Happy Valley’s famed white-outs. The entire Nittany Lion football team sprints towards Belton in the end zone, and Penn State moves to 4-2 on the year and garners it first victory against a ranked opponent in the O’Brien era.

But Saturday’s victory was much more than that for O’Brien, the Penn State football program and the university as a whole.

One of the most historic football programs in the nation, the Nittany Lions also fell harder than any other program in football history in 2011.

The Jerry Sandusky scandal shocked the nation, tarnished the program and forced the winningest coach in college football history out of his job.

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That’s Joe Paterno. Before the NCAA forced him to vacate 111 of his career wins as head coach, Paterno had racked up 409 victories, all at the helm of the Nittany Lions. JoePa died just months after his dismissal, after 62 years on the Penn State coaching staff.

Sandusky’s arrest and Paterno’s death left the program in turmoil.

Thanks to the NCAA’s decree that Penn State transfers would not have to sit out a year if they left Happy Valley, which as you can imagine, wasn’t so happy anymore. Fifteen players bolted from the crumbling program. A slew of recruits also decommited. After all, no one wants to spend four years playing for a team banned from postseason play. If not for O’Brien and the strong

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Despite the program’s epic fall from the legendary Paterno era to the shameful Sandusky scandal and the brutal NCAA sanctions, O’Brien managed to lead his team to an 8-4 campaign in 2012. Capping the season with a 24-21 overtime victory at home against Wisconsin, the Nittany Lions finished the year on a high note, despite the postseason ban.

This season brings renewed hope to Penn State, and the NCAA has even reduced its scholarship sanctions. The Nittany Lions will be allowed five additional scholarship players each year, until they reach the normal allotment of 85 by the 2016 season.

Despite this small concession, the program still remains in the shadow of perhaps the NCAA’s most infamous scandal. But O’Brien’s team is slowly making its way back into a positive light, and Saturday’s victory was one of their biggest steps thus far.

I am not really a Penn State fan. Nor do I dislike Michigan. But I was rooting for the Nittany Lions on Saturday. And who wouldn’t be?

Yes, what Sandusky did at Penn State was atrocious—unforgivable even. That Paterno probably knew something was wrong and did nothing to stop it is also terrible. And yes, the Nittany Lions probably did deserve sanctions from the NCAA, although no punishment could truly compensate for what Sandusky did to his victims over the years.

O’Brien, who also served as Duke’s offensive coordinator in 2005 and 2006, left the New England Patriots to See ON FOOTBALL, page 16

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VOLLEYBALL

Blue Devils’ 10-match winning streak snapped

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Reynolds Coliseum has not been a friendly place to play for Duke during the past few years. The Blue Devils traveled to Raleigh Sunday eyeing their 11th DUKE 1 straight win and their NCST 3 first victory at N.C. State since 2010, but the Wolfpack had other ideas.

Duke won the first set 25-22, but the Wolfpack responded by winning the next three, 25-15, 25-21 and 25-21 to hand the Blue Devils their first conference defeat of the season.

“We weren’t on top of our game all day,” Duke head coach Jolene Nagel said. “I don’t think we looked past them. We know they’re an aggressive team and a scrappy team.”

Although Duke (14-3, 5-1 in the ACC) won a hard-fought first set, Nagel said the team was unable to find a rhythm, and as a result could not generate any momentum heading into the second set.

That second set proved to be Duke’s undoing as errors helped N.C. State (14-4, 5-1) build a commanding lead to even the match at one set apiece. The Blue Devils had 10 attack errors in the set, compared to just nine kills, on 31 attempts.

“We made way too many errors in the second set,” Nagel said. “[In addition], we were not stopping their attack. We didn’t block as well as we did Friday night [in a three-set victory at previously unbeaten North Carolina] and our defense wasn’t as good as it needed to be.”

The miscue-filled second set gave N.C. State momentum heading into the third frame, and although Duke minimized its mistakes—three attack errors and 12 kills— the Wolfpack attack was just as potent. N.C. State recorded 18 kills in the third set.

Junior Dariyan Hopper found lots of open space in the Duke defense, putting down a match-high 18 kills to lead the Wolfpack, but got plenty of help from her teammates. Senior Meredith Richardson and junior Nikki Glass each recorded 11 kills, and senior Brie Merriwether added 10.

“Usually defense is a strength of ours, but we were a little off today,” Nagel said. “You’re going to have nights like this, but you’ve still got to figure out a way to win.”

Duke battled back in the fourth set, but the Wolfpack attack proved too much to overcome. Sophomore Emily Sklar led the way again for the Blue Devils, notching 17 kills to extend her streak of matches with double-dig-

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Sophomore Emily Sklar notched 17 kills as the Blue Devils fell 3-1 to N.C. State, snapping the team’s 10-game winning streak. it kills to nine. Junior Jeme Obeime added 13 kills, and sophomore Elizabeth Campbell followed up a nine-kill, 10-dig performance against North Carolina with 10 kills and 10 digs against the Wolfpack.

Nagel said that the team will use Duke’s fall break to rest and recover, but will also look to video from Sunday’s loss to tweak some things.

The Blue Devils will look to start a fresh winning streak with another road trip next weekend, as they travel to Georgia Tech Friday night before facing off with Clemson Sunday afternoon.

“We’re going to learn a lot from this, and we’ll be better because of it,” Nagel said. “But it’s no fun having to experience it.”

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Duke downs Maryland to end month-long skid

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For much of the season Duke has been unable to turn a multitude of good looks into DUKE 2 goals. But Sunday, with scoring opportuMD 1 nities at a premium, the Blue Devils were able to capitalize.

Freshman Toni Payne gave the Blue Devils a 1-0 lead in the 34th minute, and junior Kelly Cobb tacked on a second goal in the 55th minute, as Duke came away with a 2-1 victory against Maryland (7-7, 3-5 in the ACC) at Ludwig Field in College Park, Md. The victory snapped a six-match winless skid for Duke (5-6-3, 2-4-2), which hadn’t won since defeating Miami 3-0 in its ACC opener Sept. 12.

“This was almost a do-or-die game for us,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “You have to be .500 to be in the NCAA tournament. Our RPI is really high, which is good,

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but this [win] got us closer to that .500 mark.

It was a must-win—the kids knew it, and they responded.”

Duke was able to generate just nine shots, well below its season average of 16.8 shots per match entering Sunday’s contest. Church said the team switched to a defensive-oriented scheme, attacking on offense with four players and defending with six to give a young Blue Devil back line some help. But the Blue Devils made the most of their offensive opportunities.

The first goal came on an individual stroke of brilliance of from Payne, who attacked down the right side and buried a shot past Maryland goalie Rachelle Beanlands.

“Nobody on our bench even knew that the ball went in, she struck from such a difficult angle,” Church said. “That was a huge spark for us.”

Duke added to its lead when it earned a corner kick and Cobb came up with possession after a flurry of action, depositing the

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ball into the net to give the Blue Devils a 2-0 advantage.

“You could see the second goal coming,” Church said. “We were attacking well in their territory, we were pressuring them, we got a corner kick, so we had some good things going for us.”

The breakthrough came when senior Mollie Pathman served a cross into the box, where it was headed by senior defender Natasha Anasi. The ball careened to Cobb, who snuck it through the Terrapin defense into the back of the net for her fourth goal of the season.

Redshirt junior goalie Meghan Thomas recorded nine saves for the Blue Devils in her return to the starting lineup. Thomas had not started a game since Aug. 30 against Kennesaw State.

“Meghan worked hard to get back from her injury like she has her entire career,” Church said. “We felt it was time for her to get an opportunity, and she played very well. She

was confident that she could play, and she did a great job.”

Terrapin midfielder Cory Ryan slipped a shot past Thomas in the 69th minute to cut the Duke lead in half, but the Blue Devil defense clamped down in the final 20 minutes to preserve the lead.

Church said Duke reaped the benefits of not having a mid-week game in the ACC. Coming off a 4-1 defeat at Boston College, he gave his team Monday and Tuesday off to rest and recover.

“Everybody was pretty down after that game, because it was a lot closer than the score showed,” Church said. “It was good to have [Monday and Tuesday] off before four days of practice, especially with midterms and everything academically.”

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he hadn’t missed a beat….I mean 31-of-38, that’s just ridiculous.”

Even in the scoreless first quarter, Boone was efficient. He completed 8-of-10 passing attempts. The only negative was the fact that Boone was sacked twice in the first quarter. This was something that would not happen for the rest of the contest, as the offensive line’s play improved along with Boone’s pocket presence.

“After the first quarter I felt very comfortable,” Boone said. “The first couple downs, the first couple series were kind of like flying bullets and I was kind of getting used to it, things flying around and the speed of the game.”

One of the most telling numbers from the game was how Boone led the team in the red zone. While Navy struggled, going 1-for-3, Duke managed to con-

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Boone and the offense were also effective in third down situations. Punter Will Monday was held to a season-low two punts throughout the contest, as the offensive unit converted 10-of-16 third-down opportunities.

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resurrect a program that had sunk as far as a college football program can go. I am a Bill O’Brien fan. And the man was voted ESPN Coach of the Year in 2012, so apparently I am not alone.

Hackenberg, the true freshman who led the Nittany Lions on their improbable fourth quarter comeback drive, signed knowing that he would not have the chance to play in the postseason until his senior year. One of the top quarterback prospects in the nation, he could have accepted scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida or Miami, to name a few. But instead, Hackenberg chose O’Brien and the project that is Penn State football. I am a Christian Hackenberg fan.

The Nittany Lions’ victory against No. 18 Michigan means more to the program than just another tally in the win column. It shows signs of overcoming the worst of circumstances. It is another step in the rebuilding process that will take years. But Bill O’Brien and Christian Hackenberg certainly have Penn State on the right track.

Moving forward, the Nittany Lions still have a long way to go to overcome the atrocities of Sandusky’s deplorable transgressions and Paterno’s fall from grace. But they are headed in the right direction, and beating Michigan was a sign of promise for a program trying to find its way back into the light.

Long after the game’s end, Happy Valley rang out with Penn State’s trademark cheer. Some people, like me, might have even joined in from home.

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into the fabric of one of college basketball’s most storied programs.

Williams received a similar honor 11 years ago when he had his number retired just before his final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, capping off a career in which the Plainfield, N.J., native averaged 19.3 points per game in three seasons, twice being named a first team All-American.

Just months later, Williams graduated with a sociology degree from Duke after three years of school. Six weeks after graduation, he was selected with the second overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls.

And one year after his NBA career began, it came to an abrupt and untimely end.

A motorcycle accident June 19, 2003 nearly cost Williams the use of his left leg and required nearly a year of extensive rehabilitation. As Williams lay in a hospital bed, he considered—and later attempted—suicide.

More than a decade later, the Duke Hall of Famer said it was the support from his parents that ultimately led him through his darkest days.

“Getting hurt said a lot about some of the people I had around me when it happened,” Williams said. “Look, we all go through dark moments, right? My dark moment came when I was a 21-year old kid and I got hurt, spent months in a hospital, spent almost a year in bed in North Carolina. I thought about... suicide, and those were the two constants in my life who were always there to tell me to keep fighting.”

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“Now seeing all of my teammates, Dunleavy, Boozer play for Chicago, seeing Shane accomplish what he’s been able to accomplish down in Miami—we had a really special team, and there is no way I am in this position without those guys,” Williams said. “They continue to prove that more and more each day.”

Since recovering from his injury, Williams has found a new role off the hardwood— working as a college basketball analyst for ESPN alongside many of the pundits who once touted him as the nation’s top player.

Among Williams’ new colleagues is former Blue Devil Jay Bilas, who served as master of ceremonies for the Hall of Fame Induction and Williams refers to as one of his closest friends and mentors.

Williams said there is not a day that goes by where he does not think about his time with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who instilled in him the confidence to succeeded in a career off the basketball court.

“Each and every day of my life that I am removed away from this program, it continues to show me how impressive of a coach he is,” Williams said. “A lot of the values that we learned on the court are life lessons that we continue to use every single day. And it continues to reflect and show you not only why he’s successful on the court, but if you’re able to take these values and actually install them in your everyday life you can be successful off the court.”

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speaking of china Clear and open communication about Duke Kunshan University will become increasingly important as the campus in Kunshan inches closer to completion. Last week, Nora Bynum—vice provost for DKU and China initiatives—updated the Arts and Sciences Council on DKU’s progress, confronting concerns about academic freedom and assuring faculty of DKU’s commitment to academic integrity.

We thank Bynum for addressing faculty members’ concerns. Her comments reflect the administration’s willingness to include community members in conversations about DKU, and we hope this marks the first in a series of open discussions about our Chinese venture.

Although we appreciate more candid dialogue, the administration’s assurances have neither completely assuaged our concerns nor addressed questions from all of DKU’s stakeholders. In response to inquiries about academic freedom, Bynum noted that a collection of Chinese and American universities, including Duke, have signed a document stating that the priorities of a research university include, among other things, the “responsible exercise of academic freedom” and the “tolerance … of competing views.”

Statements do not always translate into practice, however, and we would like to know, in as much detail

as possible, how Duke plans to protect academic freedom at DKU. Bynum also noted that Mary Bullock—executive vice chancellor for DKU—plans to issue regular reports on academic freedom to the Provost, who will report to the Academic Council. In order to

Editorial ensure that this oversight mechanism actually holds DKU accountable for its academic programs, the administration should articulate specific standards for academic freedom at DKU and outline the actions it will take if DKU fails to meet those standards. Given the Chinese government’s involvement in the project, the University may have difficulty setting enforceable standards for intellectual freedom. Attempting to do so would be valuable nonetheless. Moreover, if DKU finds itself unable to meet Duke’s standards of academic freedom, the University should commit to releasing detailed public statements explaining why DKU has failed to meet those standards.

Duke should also seek to include more students in discussions about DKU. The University can do this in a number of ways, but perhaps the most effective

It sounds like it still needs plenty of refinement, a push to make sure that the students’ time demands are well-managed, and a focus on giving adequate face-to-face instructor contact.

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ast Spring, I was assaulted while walking from Erwin Terrace. It was early in the evening, and I was on Circuit Drive. Four men approached me from behind. One punched me in the head as the others shouted, “Get that n*gger.” I’ve never run faster in my life as I yelled for help.

Six months later, and I’m still a little shaken by what could have happened that night. Luckily, I was able to outrun the group and take refuge behind the walls of the French Family Science Center without serious bodily harm. As a 6’2” male, it’s rare that I feel unsafe in any given environment. In fact, at times I’ve possessed a naïve assumption about my safety. Growing up in suburbia gives one certain illusions about the intelligence of walking outside at any given hour.

I’ve never been afraid for my safety because it’s always been something I’ve taken for granted.

That thinking was shattered last April. I’m now hyperaware of my surroundings, even on campus.

The senseless violence of it is something I still think about today. Four men, who I had never seen before in my life, tried to hurt me for no discernible reason. This was no mugging, and there was no apparent motivation. They didn’t ask me for anything before one of them decided to punch me in the head. The racial slur ironically hurled my way made little sense as I am quite obviously white, though I guess this could have played some role in the decision to target me. A mugging I could have understood and rationalized, but the randomness of the attack still bothers me.

The recent spate of on-campus burglaries and robberies has reminded me of what I went through last April. I’d like to say that I feel safe on campus again but that wouldn’t be true. The Clery Act is a federal law that requires universities participating in federal financial aid programs to record and alert students about crimes committed on and near campus. It’s the reason we get texts about certain incidents involving Duke students.

My attack was classified by the Duke Police Department as simple assault. Simple Assault is an offense that does not need to be reported under the federally mandated Clery Act, which focuses on graver offenses such as robbery and homicide.

This makes me question the number and frequency of other incidents such as mine that occur on campus. I don’t believe that other Duke students are routinely being attacked in such a manner or that the police department is routinely misrepresenting statistics by not including simple assault in its alerts, but I am astonished that no warning was sent via text following my attack.

Crime is a thorny issue for the university.

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approach would be to host a series of forums in which students have opportunities to ask direct questions about the project. An open forum would replace unilateral communication with a two-way exchange of ideas and force administrators to trade meticulously crafted public relations statements for more thoughtful and organic responses to student concerns.

Although we welcome more information about DKU, we continue to have questions about the longterm sustainability of the project, the mechanisms in place to ensure that students are receiving an education worthy of a Duke degree, the campus culture and the possibility of complete academic freedom. It also remains unclear to what extent DKU will function as an independent entity. DKU is a partnership between Duke, Kunshan University and Wuhan, and Duke has “shared responsibility” for DKU’s operating costs for the first six years. But how much of DKU’s operating budget and discretionary funds come from Duke? To what degree is Duke responsible for what happens at DKU? Although questions about the project remain, we are hopeful that the administration will continue working to communicate more substantively with community members.

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privilege that characterize Duke’s place in Durham. While Duke produces innumerable economic and social opportunities for the city,

Colin Scott the view from carr it also provokes anger and loathing from some segments of the population. I don’t have the answers to the problems facing student safety on campus but I think considering them is a good place to start. That begins with understanding that there is a problem and that, unless Durham or Duke moves, that’s going to continue to be the case. A dialogue with students, the city and the police about safety and environmental awareness should be a continuing part of campus life and not a onetime event during orientation week.

Students need to be reminded that while Duke is very safe, it does not exist in a bubble. Safety to a large degree is an individual responsibility that requires an understanding of one’s environment and the risks that accompany it. Furthermore, the Duke Police Department should also hold itself to a higher standard than the Clery Act mandates. There were other students walking on Circuit Drive that night, and they should have been alerted. The semantic distinction between simple and aggravated assault doesn’t constitute a significant enough difference in student safety to exclude it from the alerts. Statistics on simple assault should be kept by the University, and students should be notified when incidents occur near or on campus.

Crime happens. It’s an unfortunate reality of life, and I don’t blame Duke for what happened last Spring. While I should be able to walk on campus without fear in the early evening, the University can’t realistically be expected to prevent all random acts of violence from occurring. What Duke can do, however, is alert us when these abnormal events occur and encourage students to consider more frequently how they relate to their environment. Personal safety is for the most part an individual responsibility, but part of the university’s role in safeguarding its students must include a discussion of crime. It’s not possible to think about preventing events one is unaware of. This continuing series of discussions, not the closure of Towerview Drive, is what will truly make students safer on campus.

Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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ola mis amigos! I’m writing to y’all from Santiago, Chile, and I’m ashamed to admit that that is basically the extent of my Spanish. I’m in Chile as part of Duke Immerse, otherwise known as my third trip abroad that’s been heavily subsidized by good ol’ Daddy Duke. While my past two Indian summers and current South American adventure don’t exactly make up for

Chelsea Sawicki Namaste y’all the absurd tuition (or my frighteningly expensive eating habits during my Parisian semester), Dukesponsored travel has certainly been enlightening.

In reflecting upon my newly-declared identity as an engaged, immersed, global citizen, I’ve compiled a list of the most valuable travel tips I’ve picked up along the way.

1. How to dress.

Black is your best friend. My theory is that the French wear tons of black because it makes you look cool and you can spill pretty much anything on it without anyone noticing. For me, international travel cultivates an intense urge to eat sloppy foods (hello, Nutella crepes and suspicious meats on a stick) and drink staining beverages (ahem, red wine). After an unfortunate incident involving my favorite white dress and some heavenly coq au vin, I vowed to never again pack anything I couldn’t wear two days in a row without looking like a Tide commercial.

2. How to eat.

“I’ll have the cheeseburger, only without the meat and the cheese and the taste. And could you do a side of organic quinoa instead of the bun?” Be this person only if you want to stick out as the sucky nerd with a death wish! The best way to eat delicious food that won’t kill you (because the waiter hasn’t spit in it) is to eat what the locals eat. I once got food poisoning from pepperoni pizza in Paris but was somehow unaffected by three months of gorging myself on Indian street food. Lesson learned.

3. How to go out.

What’s the easiest way to spot a Dukie abroad?

Look for a pack of six or more obnoxious 20 year olds roaming any touristy nightlife district. You’ll likely hear comments such as: “OK guys, so which bar should we go to?” “Wait there are only 200 bars on this street and, like, none of them look good.” “No, we’re not going in there that looks sketchy!” and “Ew, I hate karaoke, no.” I understand that adjusting to nightlife in the absence of Shooter’s, Devine’s and the Alpha Theta Eta Pi Manor Compound can be

difficult, but seriously guys, just pick a bar. You can leave if it’s bad! You didn’t go abroad to spend your nights b*tching and wandering in the cold because you finally realized you look like a doofus in those Ugg boots and foreign bouncers are intimidating.

Just chug some cheap wine beforehand because it tastes better than you think and them fancy drinks are pricey.

4. How to be sassy.

Being confident and assertive while traveling is crucial, especially when it comes to confronting the creepers. When the drunk dude peeing on someone’s car whistles at you, you can either maturely ignore it or cruelly humiliate him. If you choose the latter, I suggest you be cautious and then, in the appropriate language, do what I’ve found most affective: Insult his mother. There are several reasons why insulting someone’s mother works: It’s about as personal as you can get, and it makes a good comeback more difficult.

As in, screaming “f*ck you” can elicit responses like, “OK, why don’t you!” I suggest phrases like “niques ta mere,” “hijo de puta” and “f*ck your mother” to more effectively insult the perpetrator.

5. How to have a cultural experience.

Uh this is why you travel! If you’re abroad to learn a language, you should, like, actually speak it. You didn’t go to Madrid or Rio or Shanghai or wherever to spend all of your time gossiping with Dukies in English. This can be terrifying, so I suggest baby steps. Order your coffee (it better not be from Starbucks), chat up the taxi driver and bitch out that crazy lady who cut you in line at the train station. There are few things more gratifying then having a successful conversation with a local in their language. This one time in Paris, I gave directions to a French person and spent the rest of my life high-fiving myself.

Second in terms of sense of accomplishment is mastering public transportation. Yes, you will be the least stylish person on any European metro, but if you expect to take taxis everywhere, you will be broke in two weeks. The rickshaws in certain Asian countries may seem horrifying, but they’re super fun and cheap and really make you feel alive.

I’ve almost died only like 12 times riding these in India, so statistically speaking that’s not so bad, right?

So there you have it, Dukies. I hope y’all get to have some sweet (and free) travel experiences while you’re here. Just remember, the best way to embrace any culture is to do as you wouldn’t do in Durham.

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Chelsea Sawicki is a Trinity senior. Her column is part of the weekly Socialites feature and runs every other Wednesday. Send Chelsea a message on Twitter @ ChelsTweetzz.

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The spirit of eid

n the Muslim household I grew up in, Eid meant getting up at 6:00 a.m. to put on your very best clothing for the morning prayers two hours later. While my siblings always seemed way too eager for the celebration of the holiday, I was always the last child to slug out of bed. It was only out of fear of admonishment that I’d get up and put on whatever way-too-girly outfit I was told to wear.

On Tuesday, Muslims around the world celebrated Eid alAdha. Eid al-Adha, roughly translated as the “celebration of sacrifice,” is one of two major Muslim holidays each year. It is the larger of the two, and it’s a time of year during which

Nourhan Elsayed a world uNveiled Muslims all around the world come together to celebrate Prophet Abraham’s willingness to submit to God’s will. It also celebrates the end of Hajj, a pilgrimage Muslims make at least once in their life to Mecca as an opportunity to rid themselves of any past sins.

Each Eid, my family would get in the car and make the 25-minute drive to the local recreation center where Muslims from around my county would come together to pray. For much of my childhood, Eid seemed categorically pointless. I was not knowledgeable enough to understand the meaning of the celebration, and the formalities and festivities seemed like a debauched excuse to miss a day of school. I knew that once we’d get to the prayers, I’d be pressured into talking with the other girls in my age group from the community. I dreaded the fact that I’d have to act interested as they conversed about the outfits they were wearing and the amount of makeup they were allowed to wear for the occasion.

As I got older, I began to educate myself more on the history of Eid as well as the rituals and traditions that seemed pointless to me as a child. By the time I was 14 or 15 years old, I glued myself to the TV when images of the pilgrims popped up on AlArabiya television. I was looking forward to the days preceding Eid, because I knew those days to be a time during which God would answer my many prayers.

Two days before Eid, during my sophomore year of high school, my father fell ill, and a trip to the physicians turned into the realization that his kidneys were failing. He had to make the quick decision to start dialysis and was going to be admitted to the hospital.

On the morning of Eid, I woke my siblings. We all got dressed and my older brother scooted us out the door to the prayers.

I’d decided that, since we’d only attended the Eid prayers to maintain a sense of normalcy for my younger siblings, I wasn’t going to dress up. When we arrived at the prayers, we were late enough that we had missed much of the pre-prayer chitchat. My younger sisters and I sat together and listened as the khatib— the lecturer for that particular prayer—told the story of Prophet Abraham. The khatib’s broken English echoed of an Egyptian background, and his accent made it necessary to listen very closely so as to understand the points he was conveying. He was lecturing what seemed to be the same Eid sermon we’d heard every year. As I listened closer, however, I became interested in what he had to say. He emphasized that Prophet Abraham’s trust in God was the model we should learn from, and he emphasized that God knew all along that he wasn’t going to make Prophet Abraham sacrifice his son, Ishmael. As I paid attention to the word of the khatib, I stopped thinking about the state of my father. When the khatib started the call for prayer, I’d forgotten that my dad wasn’t there.

When we arrived back home, my younger sister’s distress about the state of my dad meant that my older brother and I would plan an impromptu cookie-decorating contest.

After six hours of cookie decorating, talking about Prophet Abraham and squirting whipped cream in my her mouth to keep her from crying, my sister fell asleep, and my older brother and I were left to clean up the disaster we’d made in the kitchen.

My brother and I laughed at my then 6-year-old sister’s drawings on the cookies. We laughed even harder at how burnt I’d let the cookie dough get while it was baking. Each year since then, the arrival of Eid has brought overwhelming feelings of thankfulness and hope.

This year’s Eid will be the second that I don’t get to spend at home with my siblings. Like last year, I’ll spend Eid reminiscing about cookie decorating and whipped cream and about how my brother and I argued why Prophet Abraham was so accepting of God’s will. This Eid, I will once again thank God for giving me a memory that will always embody the spirit of Eid. Nourhan Elsayed is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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