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Duke grads bolster TFA program

Law School rekindles China ties

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so they can furnish the rooms and bring in housekeeping.”

When K4 opens for residents January 2012, it will exclusively house juniors returning from studying abroad, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, adding that this might mean fewer returning juniors will be released from their housing contracts this year.

“It’s certainly a possibility, though it

As the University expands its relationship with China, the Duke School of Law has launched its own bid for improved Chinese relations.

Last month, Duke Law announced a new scholarship program designed to attract top applicants from China. The Global Leader Scholarship will cover full tuition and will initially be offered to a single candidate.

The scholarship—funded by the Law School’s central budget—is expected to renew the Duke Law-China relationship developed as a result of foreign policy advancements made by Richard Nixon, Law ’37, said Paul Haagen, professor of law and senior associate dean for academic affairs.

“When I was first going to China a decade ago, Nixon was a name that resonated strongly, but I’m not finding it now,” Haagen said.

“The relationship to the U.S. now seems far more natural to them.... We think [this scholarship] is a useful way to raise our profile and engage our Chinese alumni.”

Haagen noted that Duke was the first law school to attract Chinese students after the Cultural Revolution, which took place from 1966 to 1976, largely due to the improvements in Sino-American relations during Nixon’s presidency. In the 1980s and 1990s, the Richard M. Nixon Scholarship program brought many distinguished Chinese scholars to study

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And so the student becomes the teacher.

Fifty-three Duke graduates joined the 2011 Teach for America Corps, making Duke the fourth-largest contributor among schools its size, wrote Duke’s TFA Recruitment Manager Marion Kennedy, Trinity ’09, in an email Thursday. Last year, 16 percent of the Duke senior class applied to TFA, the nonprofit organization that selects and trains promising college graduates to teach at low-income schools around the country.

Forty-nine members of the Class of 2011 started teaching with the program this fall.

Taylor Hausburg, Trinity ’11, teaches math at Dejean Middle School, an underprivileged school in Richmond, Calif., through TFA, Her students live in one of the most dangerous areas in the country— the neighborhood has the second-highest homicide rate in the nation—and many are behind in school.

“I have learned what the achievement gap really looks like, and it’s terrifying,” Hausburg wrote in an email Sunday. “I have students who are in middle school and are still struggling with addition and subtraction—I still get answers like ‘one plus two equals 12.’”

Hausburg’s students contend with the sounds of gunshots nightly, among their nearly unanimous wish for less gang violence, she said, adding that her work at Dejean has taught her the meaning of responsibility.

Kennedy said part of TFA’s appeal is the ability to make an immediate, positive impact right after college. He also acknowledged its selectivity—of 48,000 applicants nationwide, only 11 percent were selected in 2011.

“We’re looking for candidates who have demonstrated high levels of achievement and leadership and have that entrepreneurial spirit that is so common on Duke’s campus,” Kennedy said. “We see these candidates become corps members who are extremely dedicated to their students and truly drive toward high level of student achievement in their classrooms.”

Hausburg decided to apply to TFA to work toward educational access for all.

“When all of my friends started applying to investment banking and consulting positions our senior year, I realized that what I really cared about was social justice,” she said.

Senior Sean Dillard said he is applying to TFA because he wants to help students overcome educational inequality. Dillard, who was raised in an underfunded school district in Arkansas, Kan., said without the

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Keohane 4E construction is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 15, in preparation to allow juniors returning from study abroad to live there in the Spring.

Keohane 4E nears winter completion

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As the house model takes a more tangible shape, so does the model’s physical counterpart—Keohane 4E. Keohane Quadrangle 4E construction will be completed Dec. 15, said Dominic Wood, an assistant superintendant for SKANSKA—the construction company managing the project.

“We’re going to get it done,” Wood said. “Duke has to have it ready by then,

LGBT vigil protests NC bill in Senate

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community lit candles at the foot of the Duke Chapel Monday in symbolic protest.

The North Carolina General Assembly voted Monday on the Republican-sponsored N.C. Defense of Marriage Act, which would amend the state constitution to define marriage as strictly a union between a man and a woman. A state statute already prohibits gay marriage, but this legislation would propose a referendum to officially amend the constitution, making it more difficult for lawmakers to change the legislation in the future.

The act to amend the constitution passed 75-42 in the state House and will be debated on the state Senate floor Tuesday. If it passes in the Senate, the amendment will then go to referendum in time for elections in November.

“Our representatives no longer represent our interests in state government,” said Janie Long, director of Duke’s Center for LGBT Life. “Duke and Durham do not support putting discrimination into our constitution.”

The Duke LGBT community hosted a candlelight vigil Monday night in order to spread awareness about the bill and motivate opponents to

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The LGBT community held a candlelight vigil in front of the Duke Chapel Monday night to raise awareness of the Defense of Marriage Act.

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‘SpongeBob’ may harm child performance levels

NEW YORK — Children who watch fast-paced cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants perform worse when asked to follow rules or delay gratification than kids who spend time drawing or watching slower, educational programs, a study found.

The four-year-old children who watched nine minutes of SpongeBob on Viacom’s Nickelodeon channel performed only half as well on tasks as those who spent the same amount of time drawing or watching Caillou, a Public Broadcasting Service educational program about a 4-year-old boy, said Angeline Lillard, lead author of Monday’s study in the journal Pediatrics.

Programs that are fast paced and feature unrealistic events may over-stimulate the brain, making it harder to trigger executive function, a process used to complete tasks, Lillard said. Children may also mimic the characters after the show ends and not concentrate.

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Flu study may help increase resistance to illness

by Ann Danello THE CHRONICLE

Researchers may soon be able to predict whether a person will contract the flu virus before they exhibit any symptoms.

Duke specialists collaborated with researchers across the country in a study published in late August that highlighted differences in the immune system responses of seventeen paid volunteers who were exposed to a nonlethal strain of the flu, H3N2 Wisconsin. Scientists collected blood samples from the subjects and regularly monitored their response to the virus before and after exposure.

They recorded two kinds of responses, with two distinct gene expressions: nine subjects were symptomatic—those who showed symptoms and got sick after exposure to the virus–and eight asymptomatic– those who showed no symptoms at all after exposure. As a result of the research, scientists are searching for ways to tweak genes in order to strengthen resistance to the flu.

“We are the first people ever to look at which genes are actually being turned on and turned off in a timed course manner from the time of first exposure to the vi-

rus to time of getting sick,” said Dr. Micah of a mouse, which is then exposed to the McClain, assistant professor of medicine in virus in order to determine that “knockedthe Department of Infectious Diseases. out” gene’s effect, or lack thereof, on the Researchers were surprised by the high immune system’s response. level of immune response in subjects who Many first-year students have already bewere asymptomatic. gun participating in a related flu study on “If you get sick, it’s not that your body the Marketplace’s second floor that looks just flushed it into gene out or that the expression virus didn’t “Far and away, the most important responses benotice you. It’s and afthing people can do to avoid the flu fore that the body ter a natural is to get vaccinated.” really mounts exposure— a very active — Dr. Micah McClain, aided by the host response,” near conAssistant Professor of Medicine in the stant contact said Dr. Alfred Hero, R. college Department of Infectious Diseases of Jamison and students with Betty Williams each other— Professor of to the influEngineering at the University of Michi- enza virus. The researchers will compare gan. “This inflammatory response of genes the results of the students’ natural expostuck out like a sore thumb. We could see sure to the virus to that of the participants it just like a big stain on the image of the in the August study. gene expression response in the blood.”

“We ask students if they would like to be Hero said he believes there is a future for involved, they tell us when they start feelgene manipulation research—specifically ing sick, and then we go in and do a test,” “knock-out” experiments—in which spe- McClain said. “At the same time we’re docific genes are knocked out from the DNA ing that, we ask their... close contacts if they

would like to be in the study, because they are at a higher risk for getting sick, in the hopes that we pick up someone who gets sick naturally. It’s called an index cluster methodology. We identify the index case and then we sample people around them so that we can catch anyone who may get sick.”

Freshman Griffin Cooper, who is participating in the study, was tempted to participate due to the financial incentive as well as the opportunity to further the study.

“Well, as a college student, you’re very restricted on funds, so an opportunity to gain a few quick bucks is always good,” Cooper said. “But also it’s to help sick people out and fellow researchers out, especially at Duke, [being] the huge research facility that it is.”

McClain said people can use research on the flu in order to protect themselves from the virus.

“What people don’t understand is how common it is for people to be shedding the virus without ever showing symptoms. Half of the people in our study were asymptomatic,” he said. “Far and away, the most important thing people can do to avoid the flu is to get vaccinated.”

Transfers between Trinity and Pratt remain stable

by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

Some students really do not know what they want to do when they apply to Duke.

Transfers between the Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts and Sciences occur every year. Between 70 and 90 students transfer from Pratt to Trinity and roughly 25 students transfer from Trinity to Pratt annually, Pratt Dean

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Tom Katsouleas said.

Fifteen percent of each Pratt class transfers to Trinity at some point, Katsouleas said. He added that the transfer figures are typical for any given year.

Pratt has a more structured curriculum than Trinity, requiring courses such as the introductory engineering class, four natural science classes and five semesters of mathematics courses. Although Trinity students must complete a number of classes from different Modes of Inquiry and Areas of Knowledge in order to satisfy their graduation requirements, they can choose from a larger selection of classes.

Sophomore Connor Cotton transferred from Trinity to Pratt this semester because he prefers Pratt’s rigidity.

“In a lot of my classes, the teachers would say ‘There is no one right answer,’ and I found that frustrating,” Cotton said. “If I were to build a bridge, and the assignment was for it to hold 10 pounds, and it held 10 pounds, nobody could say I didn’t do the assignment correctly.”

Michael Gustafson, associate professor of the practice of electrical and computer

engineering, wrote in a Sept. 7 email that although Pratt students may experience more limitations in scheduling their classes than Trinity students do, liberal arts students do not have significantly more flexibility as the student population assumes.

“Certainly, there are requirements in Trinity once you have chosen a major,” Gustafson said. “In Pratt, there is flexibility—just different levels and at different times.”

Some students may transfer from Pratt to Trinity due to involvement outside of the classroom. Many engineering, science and math courses require additional time in the lab—interfering with time for extracurricular activities, senior Doug Dellinger said.

“When I was in Pratt, I was working in the lab three to four hours per day,” junior Elena Botella said.

Botella said she applied to Pratt because she is interested in mathematics and her parents are engineers.

“My concept of what engineering was like was not necessarily what it actually is like,” Botella added. “Lab science... wasn’t for me.”

Engineering labs occupy at least 75

minutes weekly, and science labs can last up to three and half hours.

“Pratt is a much bigger time requirement,” Dellinger said, who began his Duke career in Pratt and transferred to Trinity because of the college’s flexibility.

“I wanted to have some more time outside of class for getting involved in student groups and activities.”

Trinity and Pratt overlap in courses, and many students study in both schools.

This semester a record number of Trinity students enrolled in the introductory engineering course, Engineering 53L: Computational Methods in Engineering, Katsouleas noted.

Sophomore Lucas Spangher said there should not be such a strong distinction between the two schools. He noted the large overlap in job opportunities for engineering majors and science majors.

Spangher switched from mechanical engineering to a double major in physics and computer science.

“I do intend on taking a couple more engineering classes,” he said. “I wouldn’t say I’m fully switched. Both schools have their merits.”

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Progressing quickly through puberty may cause long-term problems

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New research suggests that kids may experience less anxiety if they progress slowly through their awkward teenage years.

Children who go through puberty at a faster rate are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior and suffer from depression and anxiety, according to a study published in the September issue of the Developmental Psychology journal. The 21-page study, which looked at data from 364 white males and 373 white females for six years, was led by a team of researchers from Duke University, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Davis.

Previous studies examined the timing of puberty and its effects on behavior, but this study also takes tempo into account, measuring how fast or slow children go through puberty, said Renate Houts, postdoctoral associate in Duke’s psychology and neuroscience department.

“There haven’t been nearly as many [studies] that examine how quickly adolescents go through puberty,” Houts said. “This is one of the first.”

Kristine Marceau, primary author of the study and a graduate student in developmental psychology at Penn State, noted that the study’s focus on the duration of puberty is especially intriguing.

“Tempo really hasn’t been looked at in the past, in part because it’s hard to measure,” she said. “You have to get multiple measurements over a long period of time.”

The prevalence of “internalizing” problems, such as anxiety or depression, and “externalizing” problems, such as acting out or violent behavior, were gauged along with the rate of risky sexual behavior, Marceau said. The study found that all three factors are associated with faster puberty rates.

Houts noted, however, the results of the study do not establish causation between faster puberty rates and behavioral problems.

“This wasn’t an experiment,” she said. “It was a correlational study. We can’t say going through puberty slower or faster causes these behavioral problems.”

The researchers analyzed data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development.

They incorporated psychological examinations, personal interviews and physical examinations of the 737 children.

Marceau said only white children were used because the study was trying out a “novel methodology” and different ethnicities go through puberty in different ways.

“We weren’t sure that findings for the white kids would hold up for the smaller minority sample,” Houts said. “To get our study published and to [limit variables], we had to use only white children.”

Both Houts and Marceau said future studies would investigate behavioral changes in children of other ethnicities.

Kelly Crace, executive director of Duke Counseling and Psychological Services, wrote in an email Sept. 7 that the findings resonated with his observations as a counselor.

“It is a profound challenge to develop a corresponding emotional maturity when managing accelerated physical maturity,” he said.

Crace suggested accelerated passage through puberty resulted in a gap between one’s emotional health and physical age.

“While this gap can have many consequences, the most salient consequence is the lack of sophisticated methods of managing the important emotions associated with adulthood, such as fear, loss, disappointment, ambiguity and ambivalence,” he said.

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TFA from page 1 support of a passionate math teacher, he would not have been able to overcome a culture of low expectations.

“I would love to be that teacher for another child,” he wrote in an email Monday. “I would love to be with some of the brightest minds and committed individuals of our generation, inspiring kids to be more than what society tells them they can be.”

TFA Corps member Catalina Hidalgo, Trinity ’11, said she joined because she sees educational inequality as America’s most upsetting civil rights issue.

“Although TFA isn’t the one solution to fixing this problem, I saw it as a great opportunity to serve my country and understand the issue,” Hidalgo, who is teaching in Miami, Fla., wrote in an email Thursday. “I’m loving my students and my new colleagues—minus the long hours and skimpy pay, life is good.”

Hausburg said though teaching is difficult, she has already learned more in the past few months than she did during her Duke career.

“Teaching is exhausting work, and I am not sure that I could devote a lifetime to this career,” she said. “At the same time, I can’t think of another job I would want to do more or find more fulfilling.”

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K4 from page 1 depends on how many beds available we have on the rest of campus,” he said. “It is a logical conclusion that fewer would be released though, given that we are adding 150 beds to campus.”

Starting Fall 2012, K4 will house independent students as part of the house model.

The project is costing the University between $20 million and $22 million, Gonzalez said. The majority of the funding is provided by Housing, Dining and Residence Life, though the remainder comes from other University funds.

The residence hall introduces a new style of student living, offering townhouse suite-style accommodations and more single rooms compared with other structures on campus. This architectural decision was made to encourage upperclassmen to stay on campus as part of the class progression principle of the house model, Gonzalez said Monday, during a tour of K4.

“I had an opportunity to be a part of this project in the very beginning, before there was even a single drawing,” said Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, who was on the tour.

“To see it now is just really exciting—it’s a fabulous residence hall.”

Upon seeing K4, one of the most striking differences is not only the shift in livingstructure but the increase in open space.

The average size of a double room in the hall is 225 square feet, Wood wrote in an email Monday. The average single room measures at 125 square feet.

“I was really taken by the size of the rooms, the size of the windows and the view from every angle,” Wasiolek said. “Every room has a view.”

A new student hub The new residence hall is doing more than providing additional beds, as it furthers the McClendon Tower, Keohane and Edens quadrangles area as hubs for campus activity, Wasiolek said.

“That area will be critical during the renovation period of West Union, as well as after,” she said, adding that she believes the K4 area will become the new center of student activity on West Campus.

The inclusion of a University space within K4 is one of the most significant contributions to this goal.

A separate, student space is located on the lower part of K4 facing McClendon. The large, stained-concrete floored space features ceiling-to-floor, garage-style windows.

These windows will be able to open, creating an outdoor atmosphere and spanning a significant amount of space, and able to seat 125 people for a classroom-style event, Gonzalez said.

The space will be available for University and student groups to reserve the rooms for

various events and other uses, though it will more informally cater to students looking to study, socialize or watch the large, flat-screen television that will be installed on the venue’s back wall, he said. The administration will also discuss the possibility of having a vendor inside or on the spacious outdoor patio, furnished with gliders and other seating.

The grand patio area is one of two exterior projects associated with K4 construction. An outdoor Edens stairwell is also being constructed as part of the McClendon Tower Project, which provides new furniture and other improvements to McClendon’s first and third floors.

The Edens stairwell and the K4 patio will both be completed in January, Wood said.

A multi-class community K4, which was built with the house model in mind, will encompass two unaffiliated houses starting Fall 2012. House One will have 60 students and is comprised of the first and second floors, and the larger House Two will accommodate 90 students, spanning the third, fourth and fifth floors.

And with suite-style living, students— especially upperclassmen—can enjoy their own space and privacy, Gonzalez added.

Up to four students can live in a suite, which architecturally mimics the concept of an independent section, with three single rooms and an accompanying private lounge area, he said. The seven suites in House Two span the fourth and fifth floors, featuring a single room and living area connected to three single rooms via a private staircase.

The fifth floor is only accessible through the individual suite staircases.

Four singles will share a lounge area in House One, which will only offer three suites restricted to the second floor.

“The building is first-class and fits into what we would hope the Duke experience can be for undergraduate students,” Wasiolek said. “The building emphasizes community, while it also supports individual comfort and privacy.”

Ideally, juniors and seniors would opt for single rooms and suite-style living, Gonzalez said, adding that the sophomores would live in the double rooms offered within each house.

Double rooms make up the majority of the rooms in K4, spanning the first through fourth floors. No closets will be in the rooms—only wardrobes as seen in some other residence halls such as Bell Tower on East Campus.

And despite the architecture’s commitment to privacy, bathrooms will be shared among halls.

“We feel that bathrooms are important in contributing to community,” Gonzalez said, noting that administrators realize private bathrooms are a trend in other schools’ residential models.

Halls will also remain co-ed, though the

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question of whether males and females can live in the same suite—a possible extension of gender-neutral housing policies—is still under discussion, Gonzalez said.

The houses also have their own distinct entrances, a feature necessary for a house’s identity, Gonzalez said.

House Two’s entrance connects via bridge to McClendon Tower, and House One can be accessed from ground level.

The houses’ common areas will open up to grassy, courtyard-like areas with a small brick patio space. Other respective amenities include a large lounge, kitchen and various study spaces, with laundry areas in the basement. The common areas connect to the houses’ upper floors by a grand staircase.

There will be no faculty-in-residence in K4, Gonzalez noted, adding that there will be one graduate resident living in an apartment on the first floor.

The first of what’s to come The broader consequence of K4’s completion is its role as a model for future construction projects and changes to the University’s residential model, Gonzalez said.

“It shows what we anticipate housing will look like in the future—that it’s being designed for the house model and what it should look like,” he said.

With plans for New Campus long put on the back-burner due to financial struggles, Gonzalez noted that the University does have the incentive to build more housing.

“We still need to add those beds at some point in the future and as we implement the house model and K4, we hope it is going to serve as a very strong template when the University is ready to do so,” he said. “Even if you look at the towers in Keohane, there is a significant difference in the buildings that we have under the quad model versus the house model.”

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SCHOLARSHIP from page 1 at Duke Law—including Board of Trustees member Gao Xiqing, Law ’86 and vice chairman, president and chief investment officer of the China Investment Corporation, China’s sovereign investment fund. The scholarship dwindled in the mid-1990s, however, because of a complicated financial arrangement, Haagen said.

Although Law School administrators decided that this is an opportune time to engage with China, the fact that the University as a whole is making the country a priority added extra encouragement for the Law School to pursue the scholarship, Haagen noted.

Haagen was appointed Aug. 25 to serve as the chair on a recently-developed Universitywide faculty committee on China. The committee is expected to hold its first official meeting later this month, Haagen said. The group is charged with overseeing Duke’s ongoing and potential initiatives in China as well as addressing academic concerns.

“Our very strong interest in China predates the University’s,” wrote Judy Horowitz, associate dean for international studies at the Law School, in an email Thursday. “We are very glad to help the University in its efforts to seek a strong relationship with China.”

Xiqing will serve on the scholarship selection committee, alongside two other Richard M. Nixon Scholarship recipients—Li Xiaoming, Law ’90, and Yan Xuan, Law ’87. Haagen said they—among others—started a trend of Chinese nationals coming to the U.S. to study law, then returning to China interested in building business, political and educational relationships between the two countries.

Duke Law attracts more Chinese applicants than its peer institutions, Horowitz added. The school received 191 applications from China this year, and it currently has 17 Chinese students out of approximately 640

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students total.

And though historically some Chinese students were attracted to Duke because of Nixon, Horowitz believes many applicants are now interested in the school because of notable alumni who are powerful in China— including those on the scholarship selection committee. She noted that some applicants attend Duke Law’s Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law—a summer program at the University of Hong Kong—before applying.

Haagen said he believes China is wellrepresented in the Duke Law community but added that it is time to take advantage of a strong alumni base in a way that could be more effective than the Richard M. Nixon Scholarship program at its height.

“We want these [students] to come here and enrich our culture and provide us with effective connections and the ability to engage with China,” he said. “This is actually a chance to do something that could be substantially better. Given how successful [the Nixon scholarships] were, it’s hard to imagine how much better we could do it.”

In the future, Haagen said he hopes that this scholarship will open up to students from around the Pacific Rim, including South Korea and Japan. It could also potentially serve as a model for other parts of the University seeking to foster global bonds.

Provost Peter Lange said the Global Leader Scholarship program is an effective way for Duke Law to connect its past relationship with China with the current goals of the University.

He noted that as more of the University chooses to partner with China on various projects, other schools and institutes within Duke will recognize the potential benefits.

“It’s all part of [Duke Law’s] way of contributing to the University’s strategy in a way that benefits them as well,” Lange said.

“Other departments, they’ll see the opportunities and pursue them, if it’s in the interest of the faculty.”

LGBT from page 1 vocalize protest against it, Long said. Duke joined nine other candlelight vigils hosted around North Carolina by Equality North Carolina, a gay rights advocacy group.

North Carolina is the last state in the South to vote to incorporate a ban on same-sex marriage into its constitution. Approximately 30 other states have approved amendments similar to this one to date.

Long noted, however, that Durham supports same-sex partners, and the Duke Chapel honors same-sex unions.

Currently, North Carolina prohibits same-sex marriage, but passing this bill would incorporate it within the state’s constitution, making it more difficult to overturn. It could also prevent private institutions, such as Duke, from recognizing same-sex unions by providing equal benefits, she said.

“They do not speak for us,” Long added. “There have been recent studies to show that North Carolina does not support this kind of hate.”

But a state-wide poll released by Public Policy Polling—a non-partisan, national polling center—Wednesday revealed that though 61 percent of the poll’s respondents oppose gay marriage, 55 percent would vote against the state amendment if it was put on the ballot.

The issue is also polarizing among age groups in the population. According to the poll, 78 percent of respondents under the age of 30 would reject this GOPbacked bill.

State representative Dale Folwell, R-Forsyth, speaker pro-tempore for the House, co-sponsored the bill and said he believes that to draw conclusions from these kinds of polls would be to tread murky waters.

“I don’t believe that poll,” Folwell said. “I don’t believe it is correct but if it is, I will accept the outcome.”

He added that the same discussion occurred in 1996 when the bill banning same-sex marriage was proposed to the

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“I don’t care how people live their lives. It’s none of my business but that is why we are putting it to the people,” he said. “Sometimes decisions are bigger than us and when that is the case, we must defer to the people.”

Long noted, however, that some state legislators do not seem to be acting in support of their words, as they have banned public debate on the issue. To have their voices heard, the LGBT community and its supporters will be rallying on the steps of Halifax Mall in Raleigh Tuesday.

Some students at Duke’s vigil shed tears following personal statements by senior Megan Weinand and sophomore Ryan Nini about their experiences living in North Carolina after publicly identifying themselves as homosexual.

“This will simply marginalize LGBTidentified people who are already second class citizens [here],” Nini said. “It says that my home, North Carolina, no longer welcomes me.”

Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells gave a speech at the vigil professing his opposition to the state legislation and criticizing the bill for infringing on what he called self-evident, inalienable rights.

“It denies freedom to many and benefits no one,” Wells said.

Renowned blogger and active supporter of LGBT rights, Pam Spaulding compared the current debate to the contention that occurred decades ago over inter-racial marriage.

“Race relations were a much bigger problem when I was little,” Spaulding said. “Once upon a time, people thought inter-racial marriage was immoral and would tarnish the institution of marriage.”

She urged opponents of the bill to follow its progress and—should it make it to the ballot Nov. 6, 2012—to come out and vote against it.

“This is no time to sit at home,” Spaulding said.

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For 30 minutes Saturday afternoon, Duke played arguably its finest football in a decade.

Juwan Thompson was right when he said the Blue Devils should have beat Stanford. Unfortunately, there is a significant difference between “should have” and “could have,” and Ryan missed opportunities in Cardinal territory prevented Duke from achieving the latter.

The real issue against Stanford was the sporadic quarterback substitution pattern. The coaching staff insists on trotting Brandon Connette into the game in key situations to fake a handoff and run between the tackles. Guess what? The Cardinal defense was not surprised. Not once. Not ever.

“When you put him in, there are

Recruits will come to campus in late Oct. Top prospects Tony Parker and Alex Poythress are teammates on the AAU circuit, and in late October, they’ll explore the possibility of sticking together as they head into college.

John Watson of Scout.com reported Sunday that Poythress, 6-foot-7, and Parker, 6-foot-9, will take their official recruiting visits to Duke together on the weekend of Oct. 29-30.

The duo plays together for the Georgia Stars on the club circuit, and both rank in the top 50 on ESPN’s national recruiting rankings for the class of 2012. Poythress, a small forward from Northeast High School in Clarksville, Tenn., checks in at No. 17, and Parker, a 270-pound power forward from Lithonia, Ga.’s Miller Grove High School, ranks 31st.

Poythress’ athleticism gives him considerable upside, and he could become a skilled, versatile combo forward to augment the Blue Devil attack.

Poythress has trimmed his list to Duke and four other schools—Florida, Kentucky, Memphis and Vanderbilt.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski may have committed a secondary recruiting violation in contacting Poythress between tournaments in July to offer him a scholarship, but that seems not to have affected the forward’s interest in the Blue Devils. After the team returned from its trip to China and Dubai, Krzyzewski said that the situation had not yet been resolved.

Despite Poythress’ obvious talent, Duke may need Parker more desperately. With Miles Plumlee entering his final season, and Mason Plumlee a candidate to depart for the NBA after his junior year, the Blue Devils could end up extremely short on the interior.

Parker’s wide frame would go a long way toward solving those issues, and he has supplemented his good hands with an improved defensive game. Parker is still reportedly considering five schools aside from Duke—Georgetown, Kentucky, Ohio State, Memphis and UCLA—and has expressed a desire to matriculate alongside fellow top recruit Kyle Anderson, whom the Blue Devils are not believed to be recruiting.

Still, the visit will serve as a crucial step in the recruitment of both players, and the Blue Devils can certainly benefit from following up this year’s strong recruiting class with another talented group.

—from staff reports

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Brandon Connette is a capable goal line option, Claxton writes, but he should not split snaps with Renfree.

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Rush:

Juwan Thompson accumulated 43 yards on just nine carries, but the Blue Devils amassed only 30 yards total on the ground on 0.9 yards per carry. Cutcliffe’s attempts to run with Connette out of the shotgun were snuffed out by a stiff Stanford front line that combined for eight tackles for a loss.

Pass:

Sean Renfree threw for just 179 yards and no touchdowns, though he avoided a costly mistake. An overmatched O-line hampered both Renfree and Brandon Connette, who were sacked a combined six times. One bright spot for Duke fans was redshirt freshman Anthony Boone, who racked up 70 passing yards on an impressive late-game touchdown drive.

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Duke’s playcalling was far more aggressive than it was against Richmond. Renfree took multi-

X’s&O’s: ple shots deep downfield, and Alex King executed a fake punt to perfection. Switching between Renfree and Connette under center seemed to take both players out of a rhythm, though.

DEFENSE

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Duke’s front line could not contain a potent Stanford rushing attack, which averaged 6.8 yards per carry. Matt Daniels, both in the secondary and around the line of scrimmage, provided what little rush defense Duke could manage, racking up 13 tackles.

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Heisman candidate Andrew Luck operated efficiently out of the pocket, throwing for 290 yards on just 28 attempts. The Blue Devils’ defensive line was unable to general consistent pressure in the backfield, giving Luck’s talented wideouts too much time to get open. Lee Butler provided one of the few bright spots for Duke’s defense when he took a second-quarter interception 76 yards for the score.

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The Blue Devil defensive set wore down against a physically-superior Stanford offensive line

X’s&O’s: as the game progressed. As Stepfan Taylor forced the Duke secondary to stack the box, Luck had more openings to find his receivers downfield.

Highest marks: S Lee Butler

Hit the books: Special teams

Senior Johnny Williams deflected a Luck pass into his classmate Lee Butler’s hands, and the senior returned it 76 yards for the Blue Devils’ first touchdown of the afternoon.

Three missed field goals and a shanked punt effectively negated any positive side of the special teams play. The Blue Devils were hard pressed to cap off long drives with points, scoring on just one of their three red-zone chances.

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Winning one game takes focus, but winning after multiple losses requires a whole new level of mental toughness.

After losing to then-No. 19 San Diego in Cameron Indoor StaFighting dium last week, No. 23 Duke (4-3) preCamels pares to face Campvs. bell (4-7) tonight at 7 No. 23 p.m. in its final home Duke match before ACC play. The Blue Devils’ TUESDAY, 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor Stadium loss to the Toreros was the squad’s third consecutive defeat, marking the team’s longest losing streak in eight years. But Duke is not worried about those numbers.

“As a team, we don’t look at [our season] like that,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “We don’t know what our win streak is, and I rarely know what our record is. We’re just looking to get better each and every day that we come to practice, and each and every day that we compete.”

The Blue Devils will face a tough opponent in the Fighting Camels. Although Campbell is unranked and has amassed a losing record this season, it possesses a standout offensive threat in junior outside hitter Jordan Reaves. With 100 kills and 93 digs tallied this season, Reaves has already recorded four double-doubles and received all-tournament accolades at the Charlotte University and RTP/NCCU tournaments.

In response to the Fighting Camels’ offensive potential as well as some mistakes in last week’s match, Duke has focused on making small tweaks in practice this week.

“Since last Thursday’s game, we’ve had some great practices and I’ve been very pleased with our effort,” Nagel said. “I think what I’m looking for as we go into this is [if] we are going to be able to see some of the things we’ve been working on improved. I know our team is capable of doing a more disciplined job, especially on the defensive end of things, so I know I’ll be watching for that.”

As they approach conference play, the Blue Devils will continue to rely on individual contributors, especially dominant freshman Jeme Obeime and senior Sophia Dunworth. The pair leads Duke’s offense with 74 and 70 kills respectively, and while the squad will undoubtedly look to them for leadership in tonight’s match, Nagel hopes to better spread the offensive duties.

“We’re definitely trying to get our offense a little bit more broad so that there are more people getting [set] during a contest,” Nagel said. “We don’t want [our strategy] to focus on just a few [players]—we want to get more hitters involved.”

The matchup against Campbell will be the Blue Devils’ final chance to make any last-minute adjustments before Friday’s ACC opener against Wake Forest.

“The tough [out-of-conference] schedule was to get us ready for ACC conference play and to get us some representation all over the country,” Nagel said. “We’re excited to be home and to get back at it.”

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a lot of throws we can make,” head coach David Cutcliffe said after his team’s loss to the Cardinal. “We call a number of throws, I can’t remember the number, it’s situational. If it’s first-and-10, we throw as much as we’re going to run it. The problem wasn’t schematic at that point as much as not getting it done. We throw the football a lot out of that set.”

In fact, when the game was still within ten points, Connette touched the ball a total of four times—and threw one pass, an incompletion, from his own 24-yard line.

In all, Connette took five snaps in Stanford territory Saturday afternoon for a total loss of 16 yards.

So why send him in on second or third down for a single play in these critical situations? Everyone in the stadium knows he’s going to run, despite what Cutcliffe said after Saturday’s game.

Connette’s first three plays in Stanford’s half marred three solid drives that resulted in zero points after the coaching staff killed the momentum by removing the steady Sean Renfree just as he was getting into his rhythm.

On the opening drive of the game, Duke started on its own 21-yard line trailing by seven. Renfree came out throwing, completing four passes for 46 yards and three first downs mixed in with Thompson’s 19-yard run. That series got the Blue Devils down to the Stanford 14-yard line and it looked like Duke was going to trade blows with the Cardinal.

On first-and-10 we had our first sighting of Connette, who promptly ran up the middle for no gain. Renfree came back in, completed a short pass for five yards on second down, then threw incomplete on third down. After the missed field goal, the Blue Devils were left with a 70-yard drive and nothing to show for it.

After an incompletion in his second appearance, Connette next came in after a Stanford field goal, with the Blue Devils facing second-and-two at the Cardinal 35-yard line. Duke got to this point via two Renfree completions,

two Thompson runs and a beautifully-executed fake punt. Connette was then inserted—and on his only play got planted in the turf for a loss of three. Renfree ended up saving the drive with a pass to Donovan Varner on fourth down, but the Blue Devils were forced to gain ten yards on that extra down after wasting a golden opportunity on second-and-two. Again, the drive ended in a missed field goal.

After Lee Butler’s 76-yard interception return for a touchdown and a successfully-recovered onside kick, Duke was energized entering the second half—despite the Cardinal’s touchdown at the end of the second quarter.

The Blue Devils started the half on their own 40-yard line, and Renfree went 5-of-7 for 39 yards and got 10 yards of assistance via Juwan Thompson on the ground. That left Duke with thirdand-three on the Cardinal 11-yard line, certainly in scoring range. Yet again, Renfree was sent to the bench while Connette went in to run it up the middle, a play which was stuffed by the Stanford defensive line for a loss of three. The momentum was tangibly sucked out of Wallace Wade Stadium.

Renfree would come back in and throw incomplete to Donovan Varner on fourth down, again leaving the Blue Devils with a drive deep in Stanford territory and no points to show for it. The Cardinal scored on its next two drives and left behind an inflated final score that does not show how competitive Duke truly was with the sixth-ranked team in the nation. Perhaps if three critical downs had not been wasted, the Blue Devils could have been trailing by a mere three points midway through the third quarter.

Don’t get me wrong, Connette can be a valuable player, and has shown the ability to be effective at the goal line.

But he has yet to be productive on spot duty in the open field.

Obviously it’s impossible to say that the outcome would have been any different had any of these three drives ended with a touchdown, but it’s clear that Renfree gives the team its best chance to move the ball. If Connette merits playing time, give him his own drive once a half and let him get into the rhythm of the game.

Duke just can’t afford to waste opportunities.

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Accountability policy unambiguously ambiguous In a well-intentioned but ing alcohol—students must disappointingly ambiguous “be in accordance with... state policy memo from the Office laws”—the current policy fails of Student Conduct, the Uni- to provide clear and rigid criversity has stated that it will teria for evaluating the responhold leaders of student groups sibility of student leaders. As it accountable for the misdeeds stands, accountability rests on of group memnebulous and editorial bers during ill-defined stangroup activities. Although the dards such as student leaders’ new measure may encourage “reasonable opportunity for student leaders to promote prevention” of the misbehavhealthier and more respon- ior in question and “level of sible behavior, the vagueness engagement” in the organizaof the official policy statement tion. The statement also fails leaves students with little idea to define “group activity” and of what to expect from the “student leader”—leaving it administration. Exemplifying unclear how far down the the lack of clarity characteris- chain of command responsitic of recent University state- bility extends—and omits conments, the policy explication siderations of student leaders’ primarily serves to confuse financial responsibility. and frighten.

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Releasing the statement in its current form defies reason and illustrates the administration’s failure to communicate effectively with students.

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9/11 this last weekend. It was a period of “However, we cannot allow the actions of viomourning, reflection and remembrance lent extremists to breed more prejudice in our for all Americans. It was very clear society. Discrimination against that our wounds, as a nation, are Muslims and other religious and still sore and bleeding. The hurt ethnic minorities—like other forms that these barbaric attacks caused of bigotry—are unacceptable and will not disappear that easily. I was tear at the fabric of our nation. We trying (as I was praying constantly lament the fact that such behavior for the immediate victims of 9/11) continues to surface in our country my very best to feel the pain of a decade after 9/11. the children on that Sept. 11 day abdullah antepli “As representatives of America’s 10 years ago in New Jersey, New diverse religious traditions, we are York, Connecticut, Maryland and the land of delights committed to working together to and wonders Virginia, waiting for a mother and achieve the enduring vision of ‘a father who will never come home. more perfect union.’

Men and women trying to find out “To fulfill this dream, we must about their spouses, sons and daughters, brothers invest in relationships with people who are difand sisters were in panic and shock as the horrif- ferent than we are, humbly sharing our wisdom ic news reached them. One can only imagine the and personal stories, listening to the insights and horror and devastation in the hearts and minds questions of others and offering respectful criof those people on that day and since then. tique when necessary. We do not seek uniformity, I think the 10th anniversary events all went but dignity for all people. well in general. Most of them gave encouraging “In making this commitment, we are well and strong signals of healing and recovery from aware of the fact that religion has too often been our post-9/11 trauma. Almost all who spoke in- used to oppress, to degrade and to injure—9/11 vited us to unite, reflect and be resilient. Many being but one painful example. We also know were very honest and constructive in their reflec- that religion can be a powerful force for healing tion of our nation’s response to 9/11. I found and transformation in the world. It is incumbent the general atmosphere of the 10th anniversary upon us to promote visions of our respective of 9/11 events a breath of fresh air, a break from traditions that honor difference and call for the our increasingly bitter and divided state of our well-being of all existence. nation. I cannot help but ask myself and others: “In this spirit, we also recommit ourselves to Can we sustain this atmosphere of healing and work together across religious and secular lines reconciliation? Or is this a temporary break be- to address other issues of injustice in our country fore we go back to our old habits of stereotyping and throughout the world. Even though we hold and polarization? I really hope that it will not be different religious beliefs, we share in the convicthe latter. tion that we must all participate actively in caring In the spirit of sustaining and even increas- for the needy and mending the wounds of our ing the healing and unifying energy of the 10th shared planet. anniversary of 9/11, and in terms of where we “Finally, we call on the leaders of our country go from here, the day after the 9/11 anniversa- to join us in working to strengthen bonds among ry, I joined a group of American religious and diverse groups of people at home and abroad, uscivic leaders and penned the following appeal ing our nation’s vast resources to help reduce vioto fellow Americans: “On this 12th day of Sept. lence and corruption and to promote peace and 2011, we call on religious and secular people prosperity for all. We urge our elected officials alike to join together to rededicate ourselves to exercise our political, economic and military to a vision of peace and justice for our country power with wisdom and care, remembering the and for the world. inestimable value of every single human life.

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he American democratic experi- foundly undemocratic. Black adults are ment permeated our nation’s roughly three times more likely to lack culture much earlier than did government-issued photo identification the photograph. The than white adults, and first U.S. presidential almost one out of every election predated the three women lack any first camera by about type of proof of citizenthree decades, and it ship with their current lehas only been in the very gal name (as opposed to recent past that photo their maiden name). The identification as a means homeless and the elderly of preventing voter fraud are also less likely to have elena botella has even been a option.

ID that shows both their Relying on a slightly address and their picture, head-to-head souped-up version of the requirements under the democrat honor system has worked N.C. Voter ID Bill. Voter well for most states for ID laws distort democcenturies; if tightening voting laws by racy by creating hurdles that burden requiring photo ID discourages turn- some segments of the population much out, it should only be done when voter more than they do other segments of fraud has been shown to be a problem. the population. Even though it’s a good This year, 14 states considered legisla- thing that the proposed N.C. voter ID tion that would newly implement some law would provide free IDs to low-inkind of photo ID requirements for vot- come Americans, if we believe that this ing. In this process Tennessee, South move to give more Americans photo IDs Carolina and Texas decided to newly to be a substantially important goal, we require strict photo ID from prospec- should offer photo identifications free tive voters (joining Indiana, Kansas, of charge without tying them to voting Wisconsin and Georgia). If Gov. Bev eligibility. If a law stops one U.S. citizen Perdue hadn’t vetoed the N.C. Voter from voting, we should deeply consider ID Bill this past summer, North Caro- whether or not that law improves the lina might have joined these states, and democratic process. if her veto gets overturned during this Duke students particularly stand to legislative session, it may still happen. A lose out. By federal election law, college North Carolina voter ID law would be students residing on campus full-time bad for Duke students and an assault are eligible to vote where their college on the democratic process. is located. From the perspective of a Any statistics majors should be fa- Duke student, voting in Durham makes miliar with type I and type II errors— perfect sense—we pay sales taxes, use put alternately, false positives and false Durham roads and public transportanegatives, or, in the context of vot- tion, work jobs in Durham and hopeing, people who cast ballots that they fully avoid doing things that would inshould not have been cast, and people volve us getting tried in Durham courts. who want to be able to vote but can- Because the proposed N.C. voter ID not. Voter fraud is a type I error, and law would require the address listed on according to the North Carolina Board identification to match the address of of Elections, only 0.0055 percent of registration, basically each and every ballots cast in 2008 were believed to be Duke student would have to go to the fraudulent. Some assume that the State Board of Elections to get a new photo Board of Elections must not be catching ID issued. Duke University shamefully all cases, but their system is fairly com- didn’t provide Duke students transporplex and rigorous—voter registrations tation to early voting in 2010 (although and ballots cast are checked against the Duke Democrats did). It would be even year’s death certificates, against ballots more obviously the moral imperative of cast in other counties and against reg- Duke University to provide transportaistrations in other states—with or with- tion to the thousands of Duke-affiliated out an ID, committing voter fraud (and registered voters in Durham County to not getting caught) in North Carolina the Board of Elections to get photo ID would not be a simple matter. if this legislation was passed. This proThe type II errors caused by the im- cess would be a hassle for the adminisplementation of voter ID laws, though, tration and a hassle for the students. are enormous. A 2006 study by the The riots in London this summer Brennan Center for Justice estimated should have shown us the profound that about 11 percent of voting-age dangers associated with not all memcitizens lacked photo identification of bers of a society feeling invested in any type. The N.C. bill has provisions to that society’s outcomes. Already, many provide IDs to eligible voters at Board Americans feel like the government of Elections offices, but already mar- fundamentally doesn’t represent them, ginalized segments of the voting popu- and isn’t interested in what they have lation are less likely to learn about the to say. I still have faith that these Amerivoter ID law and less likely to have the cans are mistaken—that our democrameans to access the Board of Elections cy is structured to represent the interto receive photo ID—nor should they ests of all citizens. If the N.C. Voter ID have to. Every American has a right, not Bill passes, though, I won’t blame those a privilege, to vote. Creating additional citizens who don’t have photo ID for hurdles to cast ballots should only be wondering who in government cares done when confronted with serious evi- about them. dence that voter fraud is a problem.

Passing voter ID bills makes the votElena Botella is a Trinity junior and the ing populace less representative of the co-president of Duke Democrats. Her column population as a whole, which is pro- runs every other Tuesday.

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he right to vote is one of the of preventing the fraud in the first most sacred rights granted us by place. our democratic republic. The In July of this year, a majority of United States can boast the N.C. legislature apto the entire world that proved House Bill 351, we have one of the faira bill designed to reduce est electoral processes voter fraud by mandating yet achieved amongst that voters produce phomodern governments. to ID at polling places.

On Election Day, every By requiring valid govAmerican doctor and deernment photo ID, the liveryman, lawyer and lawilliam reach legislation would make borer can come together it harder for individuals head-to-head as equals to participate to vote in multiple prerepublican in selecting our civic cincts or mislead poll leadership. workers. Unfortunately, Yet every election Gov. Bev Perdue vetoed year, the fairness of our system is chal- HB 351 a week later. While explaining lenged by dishonest individuals who at- why she vetoed HB 351, Perdue said tempt to cheat our political system by “this bill, as written, will unnecessarily committing voter fraud, lessening the and unfairly disenfranchise many elipolitical impact of those votes that are gible and legitimate voters.” Her statecast legally. Of the many forms of fraud, ment echoed the sentiments of many “ballot stuffing” is one of the most com- of the bill’s detractors, who opposed mon and most difficult to detect. When its passage on the grounds that requiran individual casts multiple votes in dif- ing voter ID would turn away potential ferent precincts, he unfairly increases voters who did not possess valid governhis own representation in government ment photo IDs. while diminishing the impact of his felIt’s a shame such an important piece low citizen’s vote. of legislation was vetoed, especially since North Carolina is uniquely prone to the accusations against it were patently voter fraud because its same-day voter false. HB 351 not only requires photo registration law allows individuals to IDs be shown at polling places, but also instantly register and vote during an mandates that local governments proearly voting period (beginning 19 days vide free voter ID cards to citizens who prior to an election and ending three request them ahead of election season. days before Election Day) in a process HB 351 does not disenfranchise voters, referred to as One-Stop Voting. North rather, it empowers North Carolinians Carolinians may enter a specified poll- by providing them with a free form of ing place, register and vote in a mat- government identification. ter of minutes. Though this system And the benefit of providing free eliminates an extra trip for many in government IDs is invaluable. The law the electorate, it also sharply reduces requires that proper photo identificathe amount of time polling employees tion must be presented on trains, to have to verify that each voter’s informa- apply for jobs and even to buy spray tion is correct. paint, fishing licenses and lighters.

Of the 100 counties in N.C., each Therefore, it puts no undue burden on individual county is broken down into the voter by asking them to act ahead voter precincts (for reference, there of time and acquire a valid ID. are 55 precincts in Durham County Perdue’s stance on the issue not alone). But precincts themselves can be only obfuscated the bill’s intended divided into subsections, increasing the purpose but also countermanded the complexity of vote-collection methods. wishes of her recipients: A large majorWhen hundreds of precincts across the ity of Carolinians stood in support of state submit their polling results, state the bill. In a Civitas Institute poll pubofficials are hard pressed to cross refer- lished in July of this year, 60 percent ence voter lists to eliminate duplicates of respondents reported that they opby the end of Election Day. The end re- posed Purdue’s veto. sult is that ballot stuffing presents a real The right to vote is a sacred tenant threat to our democratic process. of our representative democracy. It gives The August arrest of three Wake a voice to those without representation, County residents who voted multiple and provides a safeguard against opprestimes in the 2008 presidential election sion. If we fail to protect this fundamenconfirms the dangers that ballot stuff- tal freedom from those who would usurp ing poses. It took state officials almost it, we risk undermining the foundation three years to catch these criminals of our democracy. HB 351 protects the who had no specific skills or exper- right to vote by adding a reasoned and tise, a frightening testament to the measured precaution. The electorate difficulty of tracking down cases of has nothing to lose but the proverbial voter fraud. The difficulties in detect- chains of voter fraud and gains a free ing voter fraud prohibit development government ID card to boot. of an adequate metric of its effect on elections. Had proper voter ID laws William Reach is a Trinity junior and been in place, law enforcement offi- the president of Duke College Republicans. cials would have stood a better chance His column runs every other Tuesday.

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The Paper Hat Game Can you fit an entire city in a theater?

How about inside a paper hat?

Created and directed by Torry Bend Video design by Raquel Salvatella de Prada

THE CHRONICLE

Ongoing Exhibitions The Life of Memorials. Thru Oct. 16. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Flesh and Metal, Bodies and Buildings: Works from Jonathan Hyman’s Archive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials. Thru Oct. 16. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.

O’ Say Can You See. Thru Oct. 22. CDS Gallery. Free.

The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power. Thru Dec. 31. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection.

Thru Jan. 8, 2012. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Events - Sept. 13-27 September 15 The Deconstructive Impulse. Exhibition opening and talk by co-curators Helaine Posner and Nancy Princenthal.

Reception and cash bar to follow. 7pm. Nasher Aud. Free September 20 Reception and Artist’s Talk. Filmmaker Laura Poitras on her installation O’ Say Can You See, a meditation on loss and revenge in the aftermath of 9/11. 6-9pm; talk, 7pm.

Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

September 22 FILM. Women Art Revolution. (Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2010, 83 minutes) to accompany The Deconstructive Impulse. 7pm. Nasher Aud. Free.

September 23 TALK. Out in the South: Writers in Conversation. With Dorothy Allison, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Jim Grimsley, Shirlette Ammons. 7pm. White Lecture Hall, East Campus. Free.

MUSIC. Organ Recital Series Concert. David Arcus, Divinity School Organist and Associate University Organist and Chapel Organist at Duke. Music by south and central German composers, including Schlick, Hassler, Erbach, Muffat, Kerll, Froberger, Poglietti, Pachelbel, and Bach.

2:30pm and 5pm. Duke University Chapel. Free.

September 25 ART. Free Family Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. Noon-4pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

MUSIC. Concert honoring Professor Benjamin Ward.

Featuring the Ciompi Quartet, The Pitchforks, and Benjamin Ward, piano. 4pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

September 27 TALK. Becoming. Curator talk with Dr. Kenneth Montague of Wedge Curatorial Projects, Toronto, and Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art. Reception and cash bar to follow. 7pm. Nasher Aud. Free.

With dreamlike video, a gritty soundscape and live puppetry, Duke Theater Studies Professor Torry Bend offers a voyage into the psychological and physical workings of a large city. Bend tells the story of notorious Chicago prankster, Scotty Iseri, aka The Paper Hat Guy, through the language of toy theater and projection.

Screen Society All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium.

(SW) =Smith Warehouse - Bay 4,C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

9/13 THE BETRAYAL: NERAKHOON (SW) Rights! Camera! Action!

Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus September 15-17 at 8 pm September 18 at 2 pm

9/14 NOBODY KNOWS (JAPAN) (8pm, W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema 9/15 SALT OF THIS SEA (8pm, W) Muslim Diaspora Film Series 9/19 A SCREAMING MAN (8pm) French Film Series: ‘Global France’ 9/21 STALKER (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

tickets.duke.edu; 919-684-4444 $10 general admission; $5 students and sr. citizens not recommended for children under 13

9/22 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION (N) 9/23 WHAT LOVE IS: THE DUKE PATHFINDERS 50 (6pm, N). Panel discussion + reception with director Theodore Bogosian to follow.

9/26 POTICHE (8pm) French Film Series: ‘Global France’ 9/27 AFTERSHOCK (CHINA) (7:30pm) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema. Discussion to follow http://ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

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