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Annual Clery Report shows Kornbluth named decrease in campus crime vice provost of academic affairs

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

“For the number of people we have on campus with the amount of activity and the openness, the reported crime rate indicates that Duke is a safe campus,” DUPD Chief John Dailey said, noting that the numbers fluctuate each year.

The Clery Act mandates that universities publish annual safety reports by Oct. 1, reporting crimes committed on campus and public property adjacent to it. As required by the Higher Education Opportunity Act, DUPD also released information regarding Duke’s fire safety procedures and statistics.

Referrals to the Office of Student Conduct for alcohol violations have declined to 344 in 2010 from 363 in 2009, according to the report. The number of arrests for such

Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for research at the Duke University School of Medicine, will now serve as vice provost of academic affairs, the University announced Wednesday.

Kornbluth, who is also the James B. Duke professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, will assume her new role officially in November, succeeding John Simon who left Duke in August to become the provost at the University of Virginia.

“I look forward to getting to Sally Kornbluth know all of my colleagues on the [non-medical] campus side and to have opportunities to work with the provost,” Kornbluth said.

“I’ve had great interactions with them outside of the Medical School, and that is part of what really motivates me to take this job.”

As vice provost for academic affairs, Kornbluth will work closely with the Provost Peter Lange on a number of initiatives.

Lange said she will be his right-hand person, in regards to academic and research-related projects.

He noted that she will also mediate Duke’s discussions with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools—an organization that provides college accreditation.

Everyone who works in the Office of the Provost has a personal academic focus beyond their office

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University crime is on a small decline, according to a report issued by Duke University Police Department Tuesday.

According to the Clery Security Report, which is published annually per federal law, Duke’s campus and adjacent areas saw fewer reported crimes in 2010 as compared to previous years.

A total of 439 crimes were reported on campus in 2010, compared to 516 in 2009 and 444 in 2008. The number of crimes reported in the last year decreased in every major category since 2009—including alcohol violations, burglaries, sexual offenses and drug violations—except for motor vehicle thefts, which increased from 14 in 2009 to 15 in 2010 on campus and in immediate vicinity.

Johnson issues a ‘call Student loan default rates on to action’ to students the rise for recent graduates

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Journalist and social activist Jeff Johnson sought to empower the black community at Duke Wednesday night.

Johnson spoke about the ways students can enact change in the world in the Duke chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual “Back-to-School Engagement” event.

Johnson, who previously served as the national director of NAACP’s Youth and College Division, is an MSNBC contributor and the White House correspondent for The Grio, a video news organization that focuses on important issues to the black community.

Johnson discussed several strategies that college students can employ in their

daily lives, especially in their student organizations. These strategies focus on creating a strong-bodied group that has a clear “call to action.”

“As you lay out a call to action, it’s challenging because it implies that people aren’t there [already],” Johnson said.

Johnson stressed the need for all leaders to have a vision. He explained that if a movement lacks a vision, then “no one will join.”

He also emphasized a group’s need to prioritize quality over quantity. He stated that some organizations need to stop trying to recruit people who are unlikely to join and start working with the people that they have. He suggested that leaders

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Last May, David Piccirilli graduated from Duke with a diploma in hand and $170,000 in loans in the back of his mind. He must now enlist help from his parents to help repay his loans or face default.

“My job doesn’t pay very much compared to the jobs of other students,” said Piccirilli, a market control assistant at a inter-dealer brokerage firm in New York City. “With rent and daily expenses, I would barely be able to make minimum payments on my loans on my own.”

Piccirilli is part of an increasing number of borrowers who default on their student loans. At Duke, one-third undergraduates take out loans during their college career, said Irene Jasper,

director of Duke’s Office of Student Loans in the Financial Aid Office.

Duke’s default rate rose from 0.5 percent in fiscal year 2008 to 0.7 percent in fiscal year 2009, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Education. Nationally, the default rate increased from 7 percent to 8.8 percent across the same years. Duke’s rate is slightly lower than the 4.6 percent default rate for private institutions in fiscal year 2009.

Although Duke’s default rate increased, Jasper said it is still considered “extremely low.” She added that she is not too concerned about students defaulting on their loans.

In 2010, Duke students graduated SEE LOANS ON PAGE 10

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s capital is known for explosive situations. But the one in the General Services Administration headquarters Monday was a doozy: toilets literally blew up into tiny shards of porcelain, seriously injuring two federal employees. One was taken to the hospital.

The toilet explosions became irresistible Web fodder for snickering and bad potty humor. And just as irresistible for many was the symbolism it provided for those highly frustrated with Washington these days.

The rare accident, which started in a water tank on the roof of the agency’s capital region headquarters Monday morning, quickly became representative of Washington’s ills, from the bureaucratic response to the venom it released against the government and its employees.

Another toilet on the first floor had exploded within minutes of the first one, injuring another employee using the bathroom at the same time.

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The exhibition, “The Deconstructive Impulse”, will show the roles of women artists and the feminist contribution to the development of deconstructivism in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Obama urges students to Egyptian military could discover new passions stay in power after votes WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a 20-minute address to Banneker High School’s 415 students, streamed live to schools across the country by the White House, Obama urged students to take their work seriously but also to experiment. “That’s what school’s for.

Discovering new passions,” Obama said.

CAIRO — Under a timetable that sets Egypt’s first post-revolution parliamentary election for next spring, Egypt’s interim military rulers could remain in power for at least another year. While parliamentary elections are set to end in mid-March, it not yet clear when a presidential election will be held.

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Lessons Learned: A Retrospective of the 2008 Financial Crisis

Timothy G. Massad Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Oct. 3, 2011 5:15–6:15 p.m.

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Timothy G. Massad, who is in charge of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), will speak about the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis on the three-year anniversary of the law that created TARP. Massad will discuss how close America came to a second Great Depression, where TARP stands today and what actions the Obama Administration is taking to address the underlying causes of the crisis. He also will discuss current challenges in restoring economic growth and the Administration’s actions to promote economic recovery.

Co-sponsored by Sanford School of Public Policy, Fuqua School of Business, Duke Law School and the Economics Department.

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Scientists link neurological ‘Her Campus Duke’ diseases to zinc levels applies for recognition

by Arden Kreeger THE CHRONICLE

Zinc should be part of any balanced diet, but it also regulates signals in your brain.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center published the results of a collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemists that examined the role of zinc in neuron communication—the process that facilitates the brain’s functions.

The study found that zinc plays a key role in signal transmission between neurons in the hippocampus—the part of the brain responsible for learning and memory, said senior author James McNamara, Carl R. Deane professor of neuroscience and director at the Duke Center for Translational Neuroscience. He added that investigating zinc’s role in affecting the interaction between neurons in the brain could further scientists’ understanding of neurological diseases such as epilepsy and Alzheimer’s . “What [zinc] did [in the brain] has remained controversial for 60 years,� McNamara said. “What we discovered and reported last week was that zinc is controlling the efficiency of communication between neurons.�

Chemists at MIT developed a new highly efficient chelate—a chemical that has the ability to bond to ions such as zinc—in order to monitor zinc’s path in the brain and its effect on learning and memory, said Steve Lippard, professor of chemistry at MIT and a contributor to the study published in the journal Neuron Sept. 21. The new chemical is called ZX1.

“[ZX1] works much faster than the [chemical] that had been used by people in the past,� Lippard said. “So we know in molecular detail the chemistry that’s going on between our chelating agent ZX1 and zinc once it’s released.�

McNamara added that individuals with neurological diseases do not process zinc in the same way that healthy individuals do.

In Alzheimer’s patients, this leads to zinc buildups in the spaces between neurons in the hippocampus. It is not clear, however, how this specifically affects disease. “To even begin to think about how [zinc buildup] might occur, you really have to understand what the heck zinc is doing,�

McNamara said. “That’s what we were talking about in this paper.�

Lippard said, however, that much work remains before this information can be used in clinical applications. “The brain is very complicated, and it’s going to take a while before fundamental discoveries can be translated, but it’s important to work toward that goal,� he said.

Though the findings may not have immediate clinical implications, they are nonetheless significant, said Enhui Pan, co-author and assistant research professor in McNamara’s laboratory. “The connection is a very fundamental finding from a clinical treatment point of view,� Pan said. “The finding could make some people think—now they’ll really have a direct application for epilepsy treatment.�

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by Raisa Chowdhury THE CHRONICLE

Duke Student Government discussed the approval of a new student group and requests for funding at its meeting Wednesday.

Juniors Betty Liu and Sabrina Hamilton-Payne, campus correspondents for the web magazine Her Campus, represented Her Campus Duke in an effort to gain recognition as an official student group. They said they wanted status as an official group in order to reserve meeting rooms, recruit and publicize, adding that they are not primarily interested in funding options.

Her Campus is a national online magazine for college women specialized to each college. It addresses a variety of topics including on-campus news, style, relationships and anything else that might be of interest to college women. “Her Campus is to instill confidence and inspire the population of Duke women,� Liu said.

Some DSG members raised concerns about whether some of the aspects of the website were appropriate for an official student group.

Junior Brandon Putnam, senator for athletics, services and the environment, said further research needs to be done on the presence of third-party advertising on the site.

Executive Vice President Gurdane Bhu-

tani, a junior, said DSG usually does not instruct a group to change what it does.

The Senate approved Her Campus Duke by a vote of 18 to 5, overturning the Student Organization Finance Committee’s decision to not recognize the online magazine.

In other business: Senior Jordan Regenie, president of the Recreation and Physical Education Leadership Council, requested that DSG financially support the council’s installment of new $19,000 fluid-resistant furniture in Wilson Recreation Center.

Regenie did not ask for a specific amount of money but rather said he would accept whatever amount DSG would be willing to provide. The money from DSG would replenish the council’s funds for other projects such as a potential revamping of spaces in Brodie Recreation Center. “We’d like to make recreation a part of your lives and not just something you do to stay in shape,� Regenie said. “Work smart, play well and help us out.�

Once the council sends DSG its budget, the Senate will allocate appropriate funds at a future date.

A rough draft of the Approval/Removal Committee bylaw was read for the first time as a formality. The bylaw addresses how student groups maintain residential privileges on campus.

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CRIME from page 1 violations dropped from nine to two.

The report did not contain information about the number of citations for driving under the influence.

“I would think that it is all of the different prevention attempts—the conversation has not died down,” said Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center. “The fact that the numbers are dropping is a direct reflection that the behavior is getting better.”

In general, approximately 75 percent of alcohol violations occur on East Campus, Szigethy said.

Fewer alcohol violations may have lead to fewer reports of other types of incidents, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said.

“We know that with many student conduct issues, alcohol is involved,” Wasiolek said. “Any indication that students are consuming alcohol more responsibly is a positive sign.”

Intoxicated students who act belligerent or physically attack others are more likely to be arrested or receive citations, Dailey said.

The number of burglaries and forcible sexual offenses in residential facilities also declined in 2010 from 2009, the report indicated.

Staff in residence halls—including resident assistants and graduate residents— have continued to work closely with DUPD on security matters, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life. Gonzalez noted that policy regarding residential security has not changed significantly in recent years.

The number of drug arrests also declined, though most drug violations were referred to the Office of Student Conduct, according to the report.

“We see a number of students for [mari-

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juana] use—they face a similar [disciplinary] process to alcohol violations,” Szigethy noted. “It is very rare to see other types of drugs. There’s definitely an availability component with these cases.”

Although DUPD does not directly handle investigations for crimes committed in off-campus residential areas such as the Belmont Apartments, DUPD coordinates with Duke administrators and Durham Police Department to assist students living off campus.

“We do an incredible job in the LaSalle Street and Campus Walk area—we’ve done everything from programs in the apartment complexes with property owners to coordinating with the city police,” Dailey said.

“There is no obligation to do this, but we send emails to residents either from [DUPD] or through the property owners so residents can be somewhat aware of the issue.”

Effective as of last year, Clery reports are required to include information about the University’s emergency response system, said Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh, who also works as the emergency coordinator for the University.

The report noted the different methods the DukeALERT system uses to notify the community, including newer technology.

“These tools continue to get better, even compared to several years ago,” Cavanaugh said. “Earlier, we may have been limited to email, but now we have text messaging as an option and a more sophisticated web presence.”

Dailey believes this year’s Clery report reflects a more concerted effort from the Duke community to prevent crime on campus.

“It is really a team effort between the Duke community and police department to make sure people are not taking unnecessary risks and are also reporting suspicious activity,” he said.

JOHNSON from page 1 focus on those who express a desire to help achieve a vision, rather than focus on those who do not share the same end goal.

Speaking specifically to black affinity groups, Johnson cautioned against a desire to overly define what blackness is—especially if such a definition excludes other students.

“The challenge is that when we say someone is not black enough, we lose an opportunity for the person to participate in a social experience,” he added.

Johnson’s call to action also extends to the political sphere, as he drew a parallel to the 2008 presidential election. He said that some voters in 2008 who voted for President Barack Obama had a vision for a country that was a “pipe-dream” because these voters did not have a strategy for ensuring that the new political establishment in Washington listened to their views.

“What is your vote worth if you don’t ask

ZINC from page 3 McNamara noted that altering zinc levels in an individual’s diet is unlikely to effectively combat neurological illness.

“The diets of the vast majority of Americans are likely to contain reasonable amounts of zinc,” McNamara said.

“But I think it’s possible that the way the brain handles zinc may somehow be defective even if you got normal amounts in your diet.”

Carl Cho, a director of risk management at Citigroup who has experienced seizures in the past, said he was hesitant

for something?” Johnson said, adding that such an action is equivalent to “giving away your vote.”

People themselves create the hope and change for accomplishing goals on campus and in their hometowns, he added.

“It does not make sense that [much of the country] looks the same now as it did four years ago,” he said.

Senior Imara-Safi Hoyte, president of Duke NAACP, said Duke’s chapter leadership wanted Johnson to come to campus because he is young and experienced. “[Johnson] really has an amazing history of speaking to young people and inspiring change,” she said.

Freshman Ba’Carri Johnson said the journalist’s presentation had a positive impact on her.

“I feel that the way he presented himself was the way he felt—he didn’t filter himself,” Johnson said. “He has definitely given me ideas about how I might work with my freshman class.”

to express too much excitement over the study.

“Is this going to lead to another fad?”

Cho said. “But if there is some real science behind it… then my view is, why not? Why shouldn’t something like that be looked into more?”

McNamara said his lab will continue to collaborate with Lippard and his colleagues at MIT. “We want to drill down further and understand the various molecular events by which zinc enhances the efficiency of communication between neurons,” he said. “We want to understand exactly how zinc does this.”

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Kappa Alpha Theta’s Rock the Casa concert, held on the Bryan Center plaza Wednesday afternoon, featured performances from seven student groups.The event raised money for CASA, court appointed special services.

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theSANDBOX. There are lots of things to miss about the ’60s—Elvis, the Beatles and a young Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music, to name a few—but there’s plenty to leave in the past. And yet this fall, new shows “Pan Am” and “The Playboy Club” are attempting to mimic the success of “Mad Men,” taking us back to those not-so-good old ways of the ’60s era.

Claiming to tackle issues such as sexism, homophobia, and racism, both shows fall well short of historical accuracy. The general impression is more that of melodramas set in the period-du-jour for the sole purpose of keeping the costume and music departments in vogue (and Emmy worthy).

“The Playboy Club” barely made it to air this year due to criticism from The Parents Television Council. What’s more concerning, though, isn’t the show’s explicit content (have you seen “True Blood”?), but its passively misogynistic portrayal of gender relations. “Mad Men,” a superior television program in almost every regard,

has faced a similar struggle to strike a reasonable balance of accurate period detail and preservation of political correctness.

By contrast, the more conservatively dressed characters of “Pan Am” strive to expose the beginnings of the feminist movement of the ’60s. In this regard, the show may be too successful: the message of female empowerment is conveyed to the point of exhaustion.

Unlike “The Club,” some historically accurate elements surface in an espionage plot—but only in lieu of any mention of race and LGBT issues.

Perhaps it’s too much to ask for a show both to provide an accurate period portrayal and to capture our intrigue.

At the very least, the almost fetishistic wave of ’60s-set television allows us to contemplate the way sexism and a lopsided gender balance of power shaped the careers of women of that decade— and to what extent those conditions still apply today.

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I got nothing this week. So: an apropos-of-nothing, a RapGeniuss style breakdown of Drake’s guest verse v on the Weeknd’s “The Zone.”

Whoa…All these broken hearts on that th pole/ Man, if pole dancin’s an art, y know how many f****n’ artists I you k know?

A pretty “meh” start. No one e said pole dancing was an art; ever s stripped of that conceit, he’s saying h knows a lot of strippers, nothing he more. m And the choice of modifier is just weak syllabic place-holding.

Drake in a strip club is a funny imD age; a you can imagine him trying to convince a dancer that she deserves c b better, while Rick Ross throws dollar la bills at her like bread crumbs at a pigeon.

Got some new bills in the mail, got some big favors I owe/ Got some good things ahead of me when these bad b*****s let go/ Girl let’s go.

For a guy with such a contrived career path, he’s got an amazingly natural cadence as a rapper. But keep that “big favors” line in mind.

Walk your broken heart through that door/ Sit your sexy a** on that couch/ Wipe that lipstick off of your mouth/ I take it slow.

Our second “broken heart” reference.

They do call him Heartbreak Drake, after all. (NB: In case he ever gets chubby, lots of foods rhyme with Drake—clambake Drake, birthday cake Drake, etc.)

She in love with my crew/ She said make enough so I can try some, I thought takin’ drugs just ain’t you, be you/ Yeah girl, just be you.

Here he’s referring to “sizzurp,” a promethazine-codeine/Sprite concoction and well-known Southern rap signifier. Drake’s taunting his girl for seeking his approval; she’s

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indicated she doesn’t like to take drugs, but succumbed to implicit peer pressure the moment Drizzy started to lean. Drake seems like kind of an a**hole.

And I do this s**t for my hometown, it been goin’ down, it ain’t new/ That’s that north-north, that up top, that OVO and that XO. Canadian swag! Drizzy is from Toronto, which isn’t known as a hip-hop hotbed (though the Weeknd also hails from, ahem, that north-north), and was born in October (hence OVO, or October’s Very Own). Neither of these things are particularly cool, in and of themselves, but then again, neither is Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Your girlfriend at our next show, but it’s all good, don’t stress though/ First night f**k, never really planned it/ Take a deep breath, no one need to panic/ Lips so French, a** so Spanish/ You don’t really like attention? I don’t know if she gon’ manage out here.

This is Drake in a nutshell. The first three lines are confused and contradictory, and whether he fucked your girlfriend remains subject to some debate. But the last pair hit on all cylinders—an effortless double-time flow, alternating conversation and meta-conversation (notice the change in subject from second to third person), taking his own stardom as a given. Which, after all, is both the principal criticism and compliment to be made of Drake.

But she got me all up in my zone, said she like the view I got in this place/ S**t, I did all of that on my own, aw yeah.

So, maybe he doesn’t have big favors he owes. Maybe he does. At this point, it doesn’t matter: dude’s remarkably fresh, living in a glass house but somehow impervious to thrown stones, even when spitting a mouthful of non-sequiturs.

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Page Auditorium Film fest doc shows hosts Zakir Hussain Trappist monks’ faith by dan fishman THE CHRONICLE

Zakir Hussain is India’s equivalent of a rock star.

OnFriday, Duke Performances will showcase the country’s most acclaimed tabla player, Zakir Hussain. The son of reknowned tabla player Alla Rakha—who played with Ravi Shankar—Hussain has achieved celebrity on par with his father.

“He’s loved by everyone in India” said Duke Professor Srivinas Aravamudan.

“He’s not quite Michael Jackson, but no one is.”

To describe Zakir Hussain as a flawless instrumentalist is to do him disservice.

Hussain mastered the technical aspects of the tabla at a young age and quickly began to explore new ways of expression.

Over the years, he has collaborated with artists as various and esteemed as George Harrison, YoYo Ma and John McLaughlin, bringing tabla to unexpected settings. His collaborative album, Global Drum Project, won a Grammy Award in 2009. Throughout, Hussain never abandoned his love for Indian tradition, and it is this music which will take center stage on Friday.

Hussain returns to Duke after an outstanding performance two years ago in Page Auditorium. Friday’s sold-out concert introduces to Durham Rakesh Chaurasia, the man Zakir Hussain calls the greatest flautist of our time.

“I try to introduce onto the American and world stages a new crop of master musicians emerging in India,” said Zakir Hussain. “I took it upon myself to showcase Rakesh Chaurasia.”

Rakesh, the nephew of Hariprasad Chaurasia, the most famous bansari flute-player in India, has become famous among musicians around the world. He is also one of the most sought after musicians in the Bollywood film industry.

“Rakesh is an up-and-coming star,” said Professor Aravamudan.

Duke Performances has shown commitment to bringing Indian classical musi-

cians to Durham. Besides Friday’s concert, sitarist Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, will perform in April. These shows offer Duke the opportunity to appreciate a musical tradition often unnoticed in America.

Listeners unaccustomed to Indian music should not expect a canned performance. Indian classical music, unlike most of Western classical music, is inherently improvisational.

“Nothing is written in stone,” Zakir Hussain said. “If we start a song and a new melody emerges, we will explore that.”

Indian performers also expect a different mindset from their audience.

“With Indian music, a good audience member is someone who is present,” explains Duke Professor Satti Khanna. “In the general academic environment we are rational and analytic first. Listening to Zakir and Rakesh, the audience should notice what awakens in them.”

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In the fifth installment of Duke’s 2011 French Film Festival, the Center for French and Francophone Studies will be hosting a screening of Of Gods and Men, a 2010 French-language film directed

by Xavier Beauvois. Winner of the 2010 Grand Prix prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the movie has enjoyed commercial and critical success in its domestic market as well as abroad, despite its limited release outside of French theaters.

The film follows the lives of eight Trappist monks who have settled in a near-barren village in the Algerian mountains. The monks have managed to peacefully coexist with their Muslim neighbors for years, providing medical assistance to the villagers and earning their confidence. As the villagers grow dependent on the peaceful monks, the lives of both groups are suddenly disrupted by Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian military, who threaten to violently expel the monks if they do not leave peacefully. Faced with the choice of abandoning the community, which has become reliant on their aid, or risking their lives with the looming threat of violent upheaval, the monks must decide whether to stay or leave.

Based on a true story of the kidnapping and murder of seven Trappist

monks in Algeria in 1996, Of Gods and Men explores the tension in Algeria during the time of post-independence. Miriam Cooke, a professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies who will be leading the post-screening discussion, believes that the film accurately addresses the multitude of issues that emerged from the violent killings.

“The film is actually based on a book about what happened called The Monks of Tibhirine and the subtitle to the book is ‘Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria,’” Cooke said. “The film does a fantastic job of bringing these elements together.”

The movie also serves as a platform to discuss the political unrest that has plagued Algeria throughout its history on a smaller scale. “I think it’s important to provide a place where we Americans in a post-9/11 world can begin to see a background to some of the problems in the Arab world,” she said.

Of Gods and Men has been widely praised for being subtly powerful in its depiction of the unwavering faith of the monks in the face of peril.

“What the film does is really allow us into the lives of these Trappist monks, whom otherwise we would never get access to,” Cooke said. “We see them in moments of enormous tenderness and fear, and an outpouring of love to the Algerian villagers.”

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A RTS ON ARTS O Lilly features irreverent zines

by Clare Fisher THE CHRONICLE

Sandwiched between the red-brick Georgian buildings of East Campus and the studious atmosphere of Lilly Library is a glass case housing brightly colored zines inviting students to stray from homework and soak in their creative offerings. Each tiny booklet in this exhibit is an issue of Future Fantasteek!, a bi-annual zine created by U.K. artist Jackie Batey.

Disgruntled by her five-hour work commute, Batey devised a way to remedy her traveling woes: doodling. She later observed trends in these sketchbook drawings and compiled many of her original works into the independent publication that is now five years old. The exhibition in Lilly offers an opportunity to view raw sketches side-by-side with their reproduced counterparts.

The publication featured in this exhibition exemplifies the format of zines, which are independently published magazines that generally focus on a specific subject and have a very small circulation. Batey prints only 50 copies of each issue of Future Fantasteek!, which was first published in July 2006.

The stereotypical zine is a piece of copy paper folded in two and covered with penand-ink doodles and artsy text. They are usually sold in independent bookstores or other “underground” establishments.

While Future Fantasteek! now resides in a library, an environment far removed from the grungy buildings and street corners where one would typically find a zine, it still manages to connect strongly with passersby. The zines’ vibrant covers shine through the glass case, entreating viewers to peek inside and

examine the intricate sketches and witty humor.

The monsters and block letters scribbled on the covers of Future Fantasteek! are provocative promises of each issue. It almost seems unfair that each issue is encased in protective plastic. They demanded to be handled and loved, treated as companions during frustrating business meetings and commutes— whether via train or C-1 bus.

The opportunity to examine raw sketches alongside the published pages of the zines gives the viewer deeper insight into Batey’s real-world inspiration. One page features lime green lettering complaining about the artist’s upcoming “boring meeting.”

Batey’s work also draws inspiration from hot topics such as the environment, politics and business. Past issues have held titles like “The Carbon Footprint Issue” and “Deepwater Horizon Issue.” In general, this element of activism has become intertwined with the definition of a zine.

Future Fantasteek! celebrates nonsense and disorder while simultaneously offering commentary on current events. Zines such as Batey’s approach consequential topics in an unusual, cartoonish, grassroots manner, expanding discussion beyond the circuits of academia or mass media. As Future Fantasteek! demonstrates, even the form of the zine—creative, messy and nonsensical pieces of mixed media condensed into a portable booklet—holds relevance to the convoluted nature of everyday life.

Future Fantasteek! zines by Jackie Batey will be on display in the foyer of Lilly Library on East Campus until Oct. 7.

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This Friday, East Campus Quad will provide the backdrop for an outdoor screening of international dance films from New York City’s Dance Films Association and Duke dance students. Sponsored by the Dance Program and the Program in Arts of the Moving Image, “Dance for the Camera-Out-Doors” aims to create a relaxed atmosphere for the Duke and Durham community to explore the intersection of choreography and film editing.

The interdisciplinary event will present four feature works from the Dance Films Association: “Flying Lesson,” “Ebony Goddess,” “The Mysteries of Nature” and “The Cost of Living.” It will also showcase three two- to threeminute dance films created by Duke students in Dance for the Camera, a course in the Dance Program that was offered for the first time this past spring.

For their final project, students, who were required to have dance experience, choreographed their own dances and used film editing techniques to create a visual work expressing topics of their own interests.

“I want to present an eclectic idea of what Dance for the Camera is, and that no singular voice and vision are necessary,” said Andrea Woods Valdes, an assistant professor of the practice of Dance who teaches Dance for the Camera and coordinated the event.

She added that the selection of feature films complements the Duke student works and connects their projects to the art world beyond Duke.

“The thing that constitutes dance is a body in motion, and people interpret that in very different ways,” said junior Sarah McCaffery, whose short film, “The Unheard,” will be featured at the event.

In “The Unheard,” which was filmed underneath the chapel, McCaffery seeks, through dance, to express voices that usually go unheard at Duke and raise awareness about human rights and social justice issues.

Woods Valdes hopes that the dance films not only introduce the audience to new content expressed by the dancers, but help them to reconsider the role of movement in film and the practice of dance.

“Our background as dance-oriented people is the stuff

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of which film is made,” she said. “When you’re watching sports on television, you’re looking at the body from a similar perspective, that sense of physicality and what the body is doing.”

She expressed hopes that watching dance through film will help viewers see dance as a serious discipline rather than a form of distraction or entertainment.

“Many students don’t know you can study dance at Duke as rigorously as you can the sciences, when in fact most artists are as intense with their arts as with their scholarship,” she said.

For McCaffery, the interplay of dance and film opened up a realm of creative possibilities that she says pushed her farther as a dancer.

“Being able to take a camera and get new angles, closeups on count eight, switch to the overview and zoom in and out quickly—those aesthetic visuals are not possible when you’re watching a performance on stage,” she said.

One of the primary goals of the event, however, is much more basic: to spread awareness of and foster the arts community at Duke.

“We’re doing the festival to create a spontaneous community between the freshmen in the dorms, the dance and art audience at Duke, as well as the larger Durham dance community,” Woods Valdés said. “The dance studio is right on East Campus, so we wanted to bring the presence of dance out onto the quad and make it more available for the people who live there.”

Overall, the works in “Dance for the Camera-OutDoors” aim to present dance in an accessible light, but with greater sophistication than popular television programs like So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing with the Stars.

“The selection of works challenge questions like who dances, why they dance and where dance happens,” Woods Valdés said. “I hope the evening is thought-provoking and heart-provoking and a deeper step into dance than what we see on television.”

“Dance for the Camera-Out-Doors” will be held tomorrow, Sept. 30, at 7:30pm on the East Campus Quad. The event is free and open to the public.

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AN ARGUMENT WITH MYSELF SECRETLY CANADIAN

Moneyball, as penned by Michael Lewis, is about the ability of statistics to contradict what the naked eye interprets, especially as it applies to Major League Baseball. If advanced quantitative analysis actually did improve decision-making processes for the Oakland Athletics, as Lewis claims in the book, then the film Moneyball is more a celebration of this fact than an explanation of it.

Indeed, A’s General Manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and newly minted assistant-tothe-GM Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) hardly ever discuss sabermetrics in Moneyball, save for a few sparse allusions to on-base percentage. More often than not, the two are pictured bonding over some shared distaste for established baseball practices: two rebels in an old-timey scout empire. Jonah Hill provides his usual clown-like theatrics as a geeky Yale economics graduate for baseball hire, more or less playing the same role he did in Get Him to the Greek, with Pitt in place of Russell Brand. Like Brand did in Greek, Pitt portrays an eccentric but talented former star (Beane was an acclaimed baseball prospect who ultimately didn’t shake out) who forges an unlikely friendship in order to succeed.

The partnership here provides some predictable comedy, but not much else.

Beane scraps his old advisors and buys into Brand’s complex computer models because he supposedly believes the power of hard data will manifest itself on the field given a large enough sample size.

Yet, Beane is throwing baseball bats, slamming down phones and giving impassioned speeches to his players before the season is even half over. When the team surges from

last to first, it seems more on account of Beane’s old hat baseball theatrics than any of Brand’s statistical premises. The team’s 20-game win streak, culminating in a walkoff victory that doubles as the film’s climax, is told in a drawn out, clichéd montage that seems wholly unrelated to the Pythagorean equations Brand presents in the opening minutes. Then, a subplot focusing on the relationship between Beane and his daughter attempts to add a personal flavor to the oft-told sports redemption story, and Red Sox owner John Henry endeavors to bring Beane and his baseball science to Boston, as the film slowly deteriorates into the Brad Pitt show.

All of this would be well and good were it not for the frequent references to statistical analysis. Moneyball purports to be about stat heads when it really just uses numbers as a convenient excuse to glorify one man’s personal struggle against the baseball establishment.

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The first, eponymous track is a spacey conversation between drunk Jens and drunker Jens with profane interjections and musings on tourists, failed relationships and self-loathing. The next song, “Waiting for Kirsten,” serves as a charming ditty about Jens trying to track down (stalk, really) Kirsten Dunst while she films Melancholia in Jens’ native Gothenberg, Sweden; it also delivers criticism on the increasing Swedish class separation along the way. These two are the strongest tracks on the album, buoyed by infectious hooks and interesting stories. In the third (and third-best) track, “A Promise,” Lekman croons more and tells a story of mildly homoerotic oenophilia, but the instrumentals are a little too soft-jazzy, and Lekman’s voice lacks the resonance needed to pull off the swoon he’s going for. And the following song, “New Directions,” comes off a bit like Glee, actually— a forced conglomeration of OK Go bass, Beatles horns and generic female backup vocals, with a baffling saxophone solo.

The closing track, “So This Guy At My Office,” is Lekman’s stab at reggae, and

it turns out about as well as you’d expect.

It ends the album with a whimper, not a bang.

This is Lekman’s ninth widely released EP, and by this point, most artists have picked a style or two and settled in.

Lekman hasn’t, and it produces mixed results. He resists the allure of the mainstream, or even of a single stylistic identity, but sacrifices consistency by doing so.

He shines when he’s aping Talking Heads, and if he’d just stick to that, he’d produce a number of solid, interesting albums— instead of this promising but scattered rollercoaster.

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The problem Lewis makes first NFL roster with the NCAA

by Scott Rich THE CHRONICLE

The drumbeat has gotten louder and louder and louder. It echoed when a rash of unnecessary suspensions and penalties befell players like A.J. Green and Michael Crabtree. It reverberated when North Carolina, Miami and Ohio State, three of the best-known football programs in the country, were exposed as “cheaters.”

Now, with the publication of historian Taylor Branch’s missive “The Shame of College Sports,” that drumbeat has reached its crescendo.

The NCAA is broken.

Whether the organization is doling out punishments for accidental offenses, or further denying college athletes—who can be individuAndy ally responsible for over a million dollars in revenue to their school— their due payment, the NCAA is an organization with a shoddy moral foundation (which Branch makes clear in exacting detail) that fails in its claim to protect amateurs.

The examples of their failings boggle the mind—and there are far too many to include here. It is important to note, though, that the organization’s secrecy and Byzantine rulebook have masked its failures, making it a relatively new phenomenon to advocate that the organization make serious changes. Branch, for instance, said he went into writing his article as an “idealistic reformer” but the “scales fell from [his] eyes.”

Likewise, another big name in college athletics also saw the light when discussing the NCAA. This thenreformer also grew disillusioned with the organization, and actually wrote in his memoir that it should be broken up: “Prosecutors and the courts, with the support of the public, should use antitrust laws to break up the collegiate cartel—not just in athletics but possibly in other

Moore

Editor’s note: This is Part 2 of a three-part series looking at former Duke football players in the NFL. Yesterday, Matt Levenberg wrote about Eron Riley. Today, Scott Rich looks at Thad Lewis, and Alex Young covers Vincent Rey Friday.

Thad Lewis is not used to sitting on the bench.

The former Duke quarterback started all but two games in his career in Durham and amassed 48 school records, including most career yards, passing touchdowns and completions. Under new head coach David Cutcliffe, Lewis took the Blue Devils to nine victories in his final two seasons, a marked improvement for a program that had won just eight games in the previous five years.

Still, though, he found himself without a home after his senior season, in the football purgatory known as “undrafted free agency.”

But a year and a half later, Lewis has carved out a role in the NFL, now a backup quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. And while he’s still adjusting to not starting every week, he’s thankful to have a job doing what he loves.

“I have to stay prepared because at any given time my number can be called, so I have to approach the game like I’m a starter,” Lewis said. “I try not to step on anybody’s toes. I try not to be more than what I am, but at the same time I need to prepare like a starter because you never know when you’ll have to step in and play.”

After going undrafted in 2009, Lewis was initially signed by the St. Louis Rams. He quickly established that he was more than the typical undrafted rookie, going completing 5-of-6 passes for 46 yards in his first preseason action. He proceeded to be one of the more surprising quarterback prospects in the entire preseason, finishing 22-for-28 for 255 yards in limited action.

Lewis knew that he had to take advantage of early opportunities, especially given the minimal media attention he received

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Former Duke quarterback Thad Lewis cracked the Cleveland Browns roster after a strong performance in his second NFL training camp.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Another ranked opponent for tested Duke team

by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE

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Duke goalie Tara Campbell has registered seven shutouts this season, and allowed just five goals in 12 games.

Duke has posted several quality wins over strong opponents so far this season, but they are not out of the woods yet. They have taken on numerous top teams, but more ranked opposition looms ahead.

The No. 4 Blue Devils (11-1-0, 3-0 in the ACC) will put their current seven-game winning streak on the line when they host No. 13 Virginia (8-2-1, 2-1) No. 13 Thursday at 8 p.m.

Virginia Duke has struggled against the vs.

Cavaliers of late, registering just one win against them in seven matchups No. 4 since the 2005 season.

Duke “I think they’re one of the most THURSDAY, 8 p.m. talented teams we face all year,” Koskinen Stadium Church said.

Virginia is also coming into this game having won two of their last three games, most notably a 1-0 double overtime decision on the road over then-No. 5 North Carolina last Sunday.

“Their midfielders are really mobile and really good.

I think that’s going to be one of the key battles,” Church said. “I think as always when two high-level ACC teams play each other, it’s going to come down to who’s going to score on their opportunities.”

Although the midfield battle will be crucial, possibly the most important matchup will be the Blue Devils’ defense against a high-powered Virginia offense.

In Duke’s 2-0 victory over Clemson last Sunday, the Tigers managed only one shot on goal the entire game.

The anchor of Duke’s defense, junior goalkeeper Tara Campbell, currently ranks second in the ACC with a 0.44 goals against average, having allowed only five goals in 12 games.

“It’s not just what our backs have been doing, it’s our forwards as well.” Campbell said. “We’ve applied high pressure [on defense] all year and it’s really worked out for us.”

The Blue Devils’ defensive unit will have its hands full with the Cavaliers’ midfielders and forwards. Virginia sports the highest-scoring offense in the ACC, averaging 3.0 goals per game, headlined by junior forward Caroline Miller, whose 10 goals on the season are the second-most in the conference. Despite Miller’s scoring abilities, Campbell was adamant that the focus of the Blue Devils be team defense.

“You can’t focus so much on one player, especially with a team like Virginia,” Campbell said. “If you waste your time with one player, you’re going to lose sight of all the other talent.”

Church contends that this team philosophy applies not only to defense, but on offense as well.

“If we’re going to win this, we’re going to win this as a whole team. One individual is not going to win it for us,” he said. “We’re going to have to connect on the offensive side of the ball, be aggressive in the final third, and then defensively we’re going to have to be fearless.”

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despite his accomplishments at Duke.

“If I had gone to any other school I would’ve been drafted because of the things I did at Duke,” Lewis said. “Honestly it makes me work that much harder because I worked hard in college to get drafted, but a lot of people didn’t evaluate me because I went to Duke. But there are other people from Division-II schools, NAIA schools that got drafted, so I can’t use that as an excuse. I just have to try to make a name for myself every day.”

Lewis’ preseason performance earned him a spot on the Rams’ roster entering the season, though it was short-lived. Lewis suited up in Week 1, but due to early injuries at cornerback, the Rams cut him to free up room for an extra defensive back.

Relegated to the St. Louis practice squad, Lewis would have to wait another year for a chance to make his mark. He posted impressive numbers once again in the 2011 preseason, finishing 23-for-32 for 266 yards and threw no interceptions in four games.

His performance incited increased speculation that the former Blue Devil would earn the Rams’ reserve quarterback role behind former No. 1 overall draft pick Sam Bradford. In a move that surprised many, though, St. Louis instead chose veteran A.J. Feeley to back up Bradford and waived Lewis to free up a roster spot.

But Lewis’ impressive performances had finally caught the league’s eye, and Cleveland quickly scooped him up and signed him to be their third quarterback.

Finally, it seemed, Lewis had made a name for himself.

“It’s been crazy. At the end of the day you can’t worry about things you can’t control, and I couldn’t control that decision,” Lewis said of being waived. “It came as a shock, but it happened so fast, because the next day the Cleveland Browns called and I had to pack up and get on a flight to Cleveland.”

Lewis remains on the Browns’ active roster and is quietly waiting for his chance behind prized young quarterback Colt McCoy and veteran backup Seneca Wallace. And while adjusting to his new role has been a challenge, both Lewis and his coaches foresee a bright future for the former Blue Devil.

“Coaches have told me that they feel like I can be a starter in this league,” Lewis said.

“It’s kind of hard because as an undrafted free agent you have to wait a couple years to get your opportunity. It may take me a little longer than a guy who got drafted because there’s not as much invested in me.

They feel like they can just let me develop.

Until I get my opportunity I have to continue to grind and stay hungry.”

Pat Shurmur, now Cleveland’s head coach and formerly St. Louis’ offensive coordinator, has seen Lewis develop for the past two seasons and likes what he sees.

“He came to St. Louis as an undrafted free agent and then he actually did a terrific job.... I worked with him a year ago and then I watched him in the preseason. He executed and played well,” Shurmur told The Cleveland Plain Dealer one day after Lewis was acquired. “He is a guy that we will try to develop and get him ready to play.”

Despite his success breaking into the professional ranks, Lewis maintains his close relationship with the program that gave him his start. He said that he talks to Cutcliffe and former teammates every week and keeps up with as many Duke games as possible on ESPN3.com.

And even though playing in the relative obscurity of Wallace Wade Stadium might have cost him a spot in the NFL Draft, Lewis looks back fondly on the nurturing environment the Blue Devils fostered—especially compared with the more businesslike atmosphere of the professional ranks.

“At Duke we’re very family-oriented,” Lewis said. “Once a Dukie, always a Dukie.”

aspects of collegiate life as well.”

That was Walter Byers, who headed the NCAA for 37 years. His words should stir any fan of college athletics.

But this is a column in a Duke paper after all. Why should a Duke fan care about the problems of this organization?

First of all, let’s not be so naïve as to think the NCAA’s rules have not affected Duke lately. Over the summer, men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski offered the class of 2012’s Alex Poythress a scholarship while the star forward was enjoying an off-day between two tournaments with his AAU team.

This technically could have been a violation. An NCAA rule prohibits coaches from contacting recruits before they finish playing in amateur tournaments; so, in other words, Krzyzewski, who has never had even a whiff of impropriety, offered a scholarship a few days too early, and could be punished for it—all because of a little-known, obscure rule tucked somewhere in the rule book’s hundreds of pages. There has been no public resolution to the violation, so it may technically still be pending, even though Poythress doesn’t list Duke among his top four schools anymore. Even a Duke hater would see a problem with this.

There is a much more egregious example of the NCAA’s feelers hurting a Blue Devil, though. In Nov. 2009, Nolan Smith was suspended two games for playing in an unsanctioned summer league. Luckily for Duke, this suspension fell when the team played UNC-Greensboro and Coastal Carolina, but can one really, with a straight face, make the case that Smith deserved a punishment for playing in games in which

he received no financial gain, or that gave him any sort of competitive advantage?

I wrote that last sentence, by the way, in my room, while wearing a Duke blue No. 2 jersey that I purchased around the same time as Smith’s suspension. The then-junior received no compensation for that jersey, a jersey that I didn’t buy just because I am a big fan of the number “two.” Smith also received no compensation when he played, two years later, in an NCAA tournament that made $771 million in TV rights alone.

But he did suffer questions and media glare for that two-game suspension, which was handed down by an organization purportedly designed with his best interests at heart.

Smith was a victim of a controlling mentality, one that has been a fact of life at the NCAA from its very beginning. Branch writes that the personnel book under the first head of the NCAA, Byers, included instructions on how to draw drapes at the NCAA headquarters. Byers’ rule book for athletes and coaches was, and is, many hundreds of pages long.

“The NCAA’s rules for external behavior, governing the athletes, have grown ever more complex,” Branch wrote me in an email. “Because the NCAA can’t dream of banning a big football school from TV appearances, for fear of revolt by the school or its conference, it has to focus on minutiae like A.J. Green’s jersey. This asserts a pose of detailed control at the risk of ridicule.”

That pose of detailed control could be made manifest at Duke in the future. It could mean a suspension of a football or basketball player at a critical time for some silly reason. It definitely means that we, as fans, have to feel morally queasy watching our fellow students win, lose and be injured for our entertainment, without any com-

pensation other than a full ride at Duke.

Duke’s Charles T. Clotfelter, Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy, as well as the author of “Big Time Sports in American Universities,” agreed that there is an economic problem in all of this.

“What is happening now gives everyone the benefit from the market except the athletes,” he told me. “They’re kept out because the universities have made a deal not to pay them. In economics, we call that a cartel.”

He warned, though, that recognizing there is a problem does not mean there is a perfect solution.

I agree. But still, something must be done.

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Dishonesty runs deeper than phony illnesses Academic dishonesty tion at the University of North takes many forms, which Carolina at Chapel Hill imrange from convenient white plicated several high-profile lies to thickly plotted decep- football players in widespread tions. Academic Affairs has academic fraud. The allegadrawn attention to the for- tions—which North Caromer variety by lina detailed tweaking the in an 111-page editorial short-term illreport last ness notification form to week—goes back as far as more fully confront students 2008 and purports that a tuwith their own guilt. This tor provided improper acachange falls within the pale demic assistance—which is of reason, even if students to say, cheated— to several had an inadequate chance members of the football team. to affect the shape of the The ramifications of the case new policy. But it may only prompted North Carolina to scratch the surface of aca- take swift action against those demic dishonesty at Duke. in charge, including Butch These problems can ex- Davis, the school’s former tend far beyond the class- head football coach. The loss room: Recent high-profile of their head football coach, controversies highlight just coupled with the multitude how deep academic dishones- of sanctions levied against the ty can run. A recent investiga- school’s football program,

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brings attention to the dire harvest that academic dishonesty can reap.

As we analyze the repercussions of such an incident, it is important to note the potential vulnerabilities of existing policies at institutions across the country.

Academic dishonesty has a broad scope, and most undergraduates probably know of friends who have gamed systems like the short-term illness form in the past. The bigger problem at hand is not just that students are manipulating a policy for an unfair advantage—it’s that this creates a fundamental inequity in undergraduate academic environments.

This past week, the University administration nudged Duke’s own flawed academic

environment forward by updating the short-term illness notification form. The new changes, which encompass only a portion of a broader student conduct overhaul, now require students to contact their professors after submitting the form. This policy ought to bring students face-to-face with their crimes and stands to take the edge off of some forms of cheating.

The administration deigned to consult only one student about the policy change, leaving yet another troubling—if not surprising—black spot on its record of student consultation. Recent administrative rhetoric has laid bold claim to an ability to change student policy without regard for student

desires. This rhetoric raises our hackles, especially because we see no reason not to have consulted students in this case. But short-term illness forms are a policy trinket at best; if the administration is not going to consult us about something, this might as well be it.

These changes constitute a positive step toward promoting fairness in an important aspect of academic policy. Just as several major sporting leagues continue to crack down on the unfair advantages brought on by performance-enhancing drugs, academic institutions have a duty to their students, faculty and alumni bases to work toward a fair academic environment for all students.

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he city of Buenos Aires lies on a grid. account for virtually all future population growth.

Herds of loud, colorful buses navigate nar- Furthermore, the vast majority of this growth will row streets that intersect frequently and pre- occur in the cities of developing countries, a trend dictably at right angles. Gazing upon that has produced (and will certainly an aerial view of its streets, you can’t continue to produce) megacities like help but be reminded of one of those Mumbai, projected to attain a populabeehive exhibits at the Natural Histotion of 33 million by 2030, though, as ry Museum; the hive is cut open and Davis admits, “no one knows whether displayed against a glass front, allowsuch gigantic concentrations of poving visitors to gaze at its grid of small, erty are biologically or ecologically ordered blocks. sustainable.”

The grid of this city can be traced The problem with rapid urbanizamaggie lafalce to the era of colonization. During tion in the developing world is that this time, the city was not left to grow southern highlander many cities often do not have the ecoon its own, streets weaving organicalnomic infrastructure to incorporate ly from its center as its population swelled over time. the growing levels of surplus labor. For many of the Instead, the rigidity of its grid design indicates that world’s fastest growing cities, increases in population structure preceded population for Buenos Aires; have no relationship to the size of the city’s economy. the city was founded, planned and preconceived The result, as Davis notes most succinctly in his title, of as part of some greater design. For Buenos Ai- is an overurbanized planet—a planet of slums. res, and indeed for most of colonial Latin America, And a world of slums, as described by Davis, is this greater design was the imposition of civilization not a pretty one. He paints a dystopian picture of on a land that was largely seen as a desert—not in mass urban poverty that makes Sinclair’s industrial the geographical sense, but as in the absence of an jungle look almost cozy. Chemical waste, mudslides, identifiable culture or civil society. slum fires, anarchic traffic, water contaminated with By superimposing a grid on the land, the col- sewage and all the infections and diseases caused by onizers indicated their desire to dominate the this deadly repertoire of urban living are just part physical space of the continent and manipulate the of the landscape. The more you read about conchaos of nature. The structuring of a city’s physi- temporary slum life, the more you begin to feel as cal space symbolized the desire not only to impose though the city has undergone some surreal disinorder over chaos and civilization over savagery, but tegration. to separate the dichotomies entirely. The city was In Nairobi, the Laini Saba slum was once reportenvisioned as a sanctuary of civilization, detached ed to have 10 working latrines for 40,000 people in from the “campo,” or countryside, the apparent 1998, a situation that led to a particularly haunting breeding ground of barbarism. phenomenon in which slum residents turn to “flying The urban history of Buenos Aires, and of other toilets,” collecting their waste in a bag and throwing colonial cities in Latin America, is evidence of the it onto the nearest roof. If human feces raining from long-standing idealization of the “city.” the sky do not indicate the decline of order and the The familiar idea of a “city upon a hill,” which triumph of chaos, then I do not know what does. can be traced to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, enIt seems the very meaning of a city is changing. tered American’s lexical mainstream when the Puri- If modern urbanization is merely the reproduction tan John Winthrop used it in a sermon. Since then, of poverty, then the modern city is better reprethe phrase has been used in discussions of American sented by the aggregation of chaos, rather than the exceptionalism and has even appeared in political absence. speeches by Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy.

What does this hold for the future? Likely the Although the “city upon a hill” is clearly based in rich will flee to the suburbs, as has been the pattern Christian ideology, the idea of the city as a carefully for American cities like Detroit, where the striking designed haven for some rational or moral goal is image of weeds growing over dilapidated factories compatible with historical representations of a city says something about the permanence of order. And as a symbol for guided civilization. once the wealthy of the world abandon their cities, Today, however, the exponential growth of urban and the symbol of the shining city crumbles around poverty is dismantling this fundamental definition us, what happens then? Perhaps, we turn to the next of a city. best thing: a suburb upon a hill.

In “Planet of Slums,” Mike Davis describes the unprecedented rate of global urbanization. Since 1950, Maggie LaFalce is a Trinity junior and is currently nearly two-thirds of world population growth has oc- studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her column curred in cities—and urban areas are expected to runs every other Thursday.

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oogle added Duke. Duke is in the Google circle.

Since Duke is a socially connected campus, that may not have surprised you, but would you have guessed the connection was made over hog waste?

In early September, Google announced it had partnered with the Duke Carbon Offsets Initiative (DCOI) to invest in and purchase offsets from the recently operational Loyd Ray Farms Swine Waste-toEnergy Project developed in liz bloomhardt partnership between DCOI green devil and Duke Energy.

Before I go any further, let me remind you that an offset is a reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Under proposed cap and trade programs, for example, offsets would come from reductions that take place in a sector of the economy that is not regulated under the cap. In the currently unregulated market, offsets are essentially one person saying to another “I will pay you to reduce your emissions because I can’t reduce mine, but I’m going to take the credit for that reduction.”

This is exactly the case for Google. In 2007, Google decided that it would become carbon neutral. According to the Google Green Blog, it has pursued neutrality on three fronts: increasing its energy efficiency, purchasing and driving the market for renewable energy sources and purchasing offsets for the remainder of their emissions. According to company literature Google has been carbon neutral since 2007.

Duke is not a mint like Google with its ad revenue.

Google’s role in the offsets market is primarily to drive demand for high quality offsets; the mission of the University and the DCOI is slightly different. Instead of simply purchasing existing offsets in an underdeveloped market, DCOI was established in June 2009 with a dual objective. The first objective is to develop a portfolio of offsets for Duke to purchase in 2024, the target date for carbon neutrality. The second objective of the DCOI is to act as a catalyst for innovation and standards development within the burgeoning North Carolina offsets market in particular, and in so doing, share that learning with the broader community.

To fulfill this mission, DCOI is developing projects, banking offsets and brokering offsets to develop more offsets. DCOI is engaging the University research community, students, funding agencies and Duke Energy to develop the knowledge base for future offsets models in an open and transparent way.

In the brief history of the DCOI, the Loyd Ray Farms Swine Waste-to-Energy Project is an excellent first.

It took about three years to develop and construct the open source system from off the shelf technology. In addition to destroying the methane produced by the hogs, the system powers a 65-kW microturbine that feeds electricity back onto the farm and also powers the waste water treatment process which treats odors, ammonia emissions, nitrogen, phosphorus and heavy metals. The system, which came online in May, 2011, also controls releases to surface and groundwater.

Before full success can be declared, reliability of the system must be confirmed, other co-benefits must be measured and verified and the cost of the system needs to come down so the benefits are a net positive for the farmers.

Google, it turns out, has high standards for its offsets.

Their involvement on the project not only lends a high level of production value, it is also an endorsement of the DCOI and Duke Energy project in particular.

So is all of this a green-washing hogwash?

As Google’s Green Team will tell you, capturing and converting methane into carbon dioxide may seem counterintuitive. But, methane, the target pollutant of agricultural and landfill gas collection systems is a potent greenhouse gas, 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. So the conversion works out to a significant reduction.

On the other hand, the offsets generated by this project and enabled through a cap and trade scheme are an end-of-pipe solution. They achieve a marginal improvement. Plus, both of these sources of methane—agriculture and landfills—don’t just exist naturally, society creates them through supply and demand for meat and a disposable lifestyle.

Now with the support of Google, DCOI is doing more than just putting lipstick on a pig. But we need to remember that the DCOI is just one initiative under the Climate Action Plan and Duke’s journey toward being carbon neutral.

Liz Bloomhardt is a fifth-year graduate student in mechanical engineering. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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ast March, there was some controversy on the under the same occupation and subjugation as everyone DSG Senate floor when a new student group, else. There is a significant cultural divide within Israel Duke Students for Justice in Palestine (DSJP), between Orthodox Jews and those who are more secuwas seeking recognition from the Stularly minded and between Jews of differdent Organization Finance Committee ent national backgrounds. The ill effects (SOFC). Apparently some senators took of framing the conversation in terms of issue with the word “Palestine” in the religion can be seen when legitimate critiname of the organization seeing as how cisms of Israel are confused for actual antithe United Nations does not officially Semitism. Or when the conflict is used to recognize such a state. reinforce the ridiculous notion of a global Fortunately, the DSG Senate recogIslamic threat. nized this as the utter nonsense that it Let’s consider the implications of ahmad jitan was, and the group was approved by a our own president’s insistence upon the wide margin (33-3). In light of the cur- indecent family man recognition of Israel as a “Jewish state.” rent push for U.N. recognition by MahAlmost 25 percent of citizens within the moud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, the SOFC state of Israel are non-Jewish. How would these citizens debate does bring to light one of the many ways that be guaranteed equal representation under the law in a conversations regarding Israel and Palestine often end Jewish state? Religion creates an interesting dynamic in up being unproductive. I would like to take some time the conflict but to continue to discuss this political conto focus on several of these impasses and what we can flict primarily in terms of religion is counterproductive. possibly do to avoid them.

It is best that people recognize the political, sociological 1. A nation-state is just a means to an end. and historical realities of the conflict before reducing it With all this talk of states and international recogni- to one of Jews versus Muslims. tion, it’s easy to forget what the point of a nation-state 3. Put an end to “Hummus Diplomacy.” actually is. The topic, of course, is one that is beyond the I don’t care that you enjoy hummus and falafels. Chickscope of a single column, but one way to understand it is peas may be a good source of protein, but they’re much through the concept of self-determination. That is to say, more effective at generating a bunch of hot air than they a nation-state is only significant insofar as it is allows the are at generating productive conversations towards conpeople of that nation to decide their individual fates and flict resolution and reconciliation. Realizing the etymoestablish their sovereignty without external compulsion logical similarities between Arabic and Hebrew (Shalom! or interference.

Salam!) may be interesting at first, but it becomes tireAn insistence on a particular nation-state should not some once one gains any semblance of an understanding trump concerns of self-determination and human rights. of the ethno-linguistic history of the region.

For instance, even if Palestine does gain UN recognition, Hummus diplomacy is what I call the kinds of converit’s not entirely clear what effect it will have in terms of sations that focus on similarities to try and reconcile the legitimate political representation, dismantling of settle- supposedly irreconcilable. It’s not just useless, but actuments, ending of the occupation, lifting of the siege on ally harmful in the way it frames the conversation. If you Gaza or the return of refugees—all essential parts in en- need a legume to realize that someone else is a human suring Palestinian self-determination. And this is saying being deserving of respect, then there are much more nothing of sorting out the mess of territorial disputes. important things to be discussing. We can have mature In fact, it’s messy enough that it’s becoming increasingly conversations about political disagreements without reclear that the traditional way of thinking about a nation sorting to tired talks based on cheap comparisons. Havstate, i.e. a geopolitical entity organized around a com- ing productive conversations first requires people to acmon cultural or ethnic identity, will not work in the dis- tually be able to articulate their positions and listen to pute between Israeli and Palestinian. At the very least, the positions of others. If you’re afraid of disagreement, however, the U.N. bid will reveal just how committed the the least you could do is not bring the level of discourse United States and the rest of the international communi- down to the gastronomic. ty is to the self-determination of the Palestinian people.

Because of the influence of the United States in the 2. Forget the religion talk. international community, we should realize that our Of course, religion plays a role in the conflict, but voices and our conversations about Israel and Palestine that role is often over-emphasized or misunderstood. matter. To devise creative solutions to one of the longest Some facts to clear the air: Jews and Muslims have not ongoing conflicts of our time, we need new and more efbeen fighting since time immemorial; this conflict has fective ways of thinking and talking about the issue. roots from the very recent history of post-World War II and post-colonial realities. Around 8 percent of the Ahmad Jitan is a Trinity junior. His column runs every population in the West Bank is Christian, and they live other Thursday.

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KORNBLUTH from page 1 functions, Lange added. Kornbluth will have the opportunity to work across many fields, but she will be able to focus on science-related disciplines—continuing Simon’s previous work.

Since Kornbluth became the vice dean of research at the Medical School in 2009, she said she has worked particularly hard to connect the medical school with the rest of the Duke community.

Kornbluth has participated in interdisciplinary projects with various schools and institutes across the University—including the Duke Global Health Institute and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy.

She has also been a Duke Medicine representative on various academic committees and has acted as a liaison between the Medical School and the basic sciences.

“All of these interactions have been fun and productive,” she said. “The closer the Medical School gets with the rest of the campus, the better.”

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Susan Roth, vice provost for interdisciplinary studies, said Kornbluth has been a valuable Medical School point person. Roth and Simon have worked with Kornbluth on various initiatives of strategic priority to the Medical School. “[Simon] will be sorely missed,” Roth said. “But if there’s anyone who can fill those shoes, it’s Sally Kornbluth.”

Although she has no further teaching appointments, Kornbluth said she hopes to maintain her research lab, which focuses on the regulation of cellular processes, going strong even as she takes on new responsibilities as a vice provost. “[Kornbluth is] superbly well prepared to take on this job,” Lange said. “She brings great energy and experience and will be a wonderful addition to our team.”

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LOANS from page 1 with an average debt of $21,884—a decrease from $23,093 in 2009, The Chronicle reported April 22. Last year, average student loan debt nationally was $24,000, which is slightly greater than Duke’s average.

Even so, Jasper acknowledged the challenges that students face while repaying their loans.

“Just because students are not defaulting does not mean that they aren’t struggling,” Jasper said.

Duke’s Financial Aid Initiative, a fundraising effort that began in 2005, raised $308 million over five years and enhanced its need-based financial aid programs.

At this time, Duke also provided more counseling and workshops to educate students about their loans.

“We realized that there was a big need for general financial education, and we hope to increase awareness on how to plan financially for the future,” Jasper said.

Jasper noted that it is important for people to distinguish among default rates at for-profit, public and private institutions.

Public schools in North Carolina varied in their default rates. At North Carolina Central University, a historically black public university in Durham, the default rate rose from 10.1 to 10.9 percent from 2008 to 2009.

In contrast, the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill’s default rate decreased from 0.7 percent to 0.5 percent. The default rate for public institutions across the nation increased from 6 percent to 7.2 percent.

The default rate at for-profit institutions increased the most substantially—from 11.6 percent to 15 percent.

Jacob Vigdor, professor of public policy and economics at the Sanford School of Public Policy, said default rates at for-profit institutions are higher than at not-forprofit schools largely because private universities are more selective and attract students of high caliber.

“The typical student who comes to Duke shows great promise and a great degree of employability, whereas for-profit institutions and community colleges will take any type of student,” Vigdor said.

Although Duke has a relatively low loan default rate, Vigdor noted, the nationally high default rate may have possible ramifications for all college students in the future.

Schools with high default rates are at risk of losing eligibility in their federal student aid programs. Some students, like Piccirilli, need to start paying back their loans as early as six months after graduation—though it can be earlier or later depending on the specific requirements of the lender.

“When default rates increase, it means that lending is riskier,” Vigdor said. “If lending is riskier, it may be tougher for anybody trying to get a loan to pay for college, or students may find that they can’t borrow as much.”

Zach Fuller, Trinity ’11, borrowed money during all four years at Duke and must start paying back his loans next month. Even so, Fuller said his debt is manageable, adding that he is not overly concerned with his ability to repay his loans in the future.

“As long as I have a job, it’s fairly [doable] to pay off my loans,” Fuller said. “I think that the debt I incurred at Duke was pretty fair for the education I received, and I think it was worth it.”

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