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Preliminary West Union plans span four floors, increase student space

Piot praises scope of DGHI after five years

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West Union is going to look very different come 2015, but students will have a role in its evolution.

Detailed renovation plans of the West Union Building include a completely revamped student life center as well as the creation of an events pavilion, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. The plans—which are not yet publicly released—are preliminary, Moneta said, adding that finalized details and architectural blueprints do not yet exist.

According to a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Chronicle, West Union construction will begin July 2013 and will be completed July 2015.

“It’s a very ambitious project,” said Duke Student Government President Pete Schork, a senior. “The core of the project is to provide a venue for undergraduates to congregate and build community.”

The project is entirely funded by a $80 million gift by the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment announced March 7. The gift was the single largest philanthropic gift in the University’s history.

The union expands The renovation project involves tearing out the core of West Union and constructing a glass four-level center, Moneta said, adding that the structure will be similar to the von der Heyden Pavilion in Perkins Library. The traditional architecture of the historic three legs of West Union—where the Great Hall, Alpine Bagels and the Alumni Lounge are currently housed—will remain untouched.

The new West Union will feature SEE PLANS ON PAGE 6

Five years after its founding, the Duke Global Health Institute is celebrating its work in addressing medical concerns worldwide.

Created in 2006 with a mission to reduce the global health disparity, DGHI celebrated its fifth anniversary in a symposium Monday. DGHI, a joint initiative

by Duke and the Duke University Health System, serves as an umbrella institute for faculty and students interested in global health. In addition to its current work in countries like China and Tanzania, DGHI is currently pursuing other collaborative partnerships abroad in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Russia, among others, according to the DGHI website. The symposium also highlighted DGHI’s collaboration with Duke’s other schools and departments. The event included three panel discussions on chronic diseases, the environment’s effects on health and ways to strengthen health systems.

Keynote speaker Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a member of DGHI’s Board of Advisers, noted the growth of global health as a discipline and its role in addressing major health concerns.

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New China leadership, councils promote faculty involvement

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As Duke Kunshan University takes a more tangible form, recent developments are increasing faculty members’ involvement and interaction with the project.

Duke’s new campus in Kunshan, China— scheduled to open Spring 2013—has been a point of contention for some University faculty members who have expressed concerns that their voices have gone unheard. But the addition of new faculty advisory groups and appointments of new DKU leaders are two measures abating that tension.

“There is definitely a knowledge gap, but William Kirby faculty are engaging and administrators are inviting that engagement,” Academic Council Chair Susan Lozier, professor of physical oceanography, said. “We are sort of pulling together all of these concerns.... We’re getting to where we want to be.”

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The China Faculty Council and the Academic’s Council’s global priorities committee are two recently created initiatives promoting faculty input, as members will be able to review DKU from an advisory role.

The executive committee of Academic Council, the global priorities committee and the China Faculty Council each met Friday to discuss China initiatives and to hear presentations from William Kirby, T. M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard University.

Kirby, whose research focuses on higher education in contemporary China, was named Duke’s senior adviser on China Sept. 15. He has been involved with DKU since he pre- Nora Bynum sented to the administration last December.

Although DKU originated in the offices of Duke administrators, Kirby said faculty will eventually decide the fate of SEE DKU ON PAGE 5

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The Duke community gathers at the Doris Duke Center to celebrate the fifth anniversary of DGHI.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A full bladder can be maddening, especially if you’ve got to go in the middle of a complex psychological experiment. But that’s just what a team of researchers was counting on when it measured the impact of urination urgency on human decision-making. The study hasn’t changed the world, but it was one of several honored here Sunday night at Harvard University as part of the 2011 Ig Nobel Awards. The annual honors are meant to make people “laugh and then think,” says Marc Abrahams, the Ig Nobel master of ceremonies and editor of the Annals of Improbable Research.

Other winners discovered that yawning among tortoises, unlike in humans and other social mammals, is not contagious; invented a wasabi-based fire alarm that can rouse deaf people from sleep; and made (incorrect) predictions that the world would end every few decades for the past century.

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Massad stresses need for Ravitch questions effects bipartisan collaboration of ‘No Child Left Behind’

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Recovering the national economy may be as simple as ensuring bipartisan collaboration.

Timothy Massad, assistant secretary for financial stability for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, spoke on Monday to an audience of 200 in the Geneen Auditorium at the Fuqua School of Business about the importance of political parties coming together to reach viable solutions to economic problems. In a speech entitled “Lessons Learned: A Retrospective of the 2008 Financial Crisis,� Massad discussed lessons from the 2008 crisis that can help the U.S. recover from its current financial situation. “It is important to remember that we can come together, we have come togeth-

er before and we need to do it again to address extraordinary challenges,� he said.

Understanding that it must be difficult for younger generations to fully comprehend the severity of the financial situation during former President George W. Bush’s time in office, Massad explained to the audience the country’s past economic situation. “It’s hard to imagine a financial system as something that could collapse but think of it as a power cord,� he explained. “There are lines connecting cities and states much like our transmission lines. [In the economy] credit and financial services flow through those lines and that’s where the power comes from. When the system becomes overburdened in one place it will SEE CRISIS ON PAGE 4

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Timothy Massad praised the decisive actions made by the government in 2008 during the financial crisis.

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Bad test scores do not necessarily translate into bad schools, said internationally recognized educator Diane Ravitch.

In a talk Monday evening titled “Will School ‘Reform’ Improve the Schools?�, Ravitch, author, activist and research scholar at New York University, focused on what she believes to be the most important challenges facing educational reform today. She said there is a large group of people—including politicians, lobbyists and hedge fund managers—who want to privatize education so that it operates like a free market. She equated high test scores to profit and teachers to employees with no rights or job security. “Reformers want to transform public education as we know it,� Ravitch said. “They want it to change from communitybased institutions serving democratic purposes into privately managed ones, whose primary goal is test scores.�

Ravitch discussed her change in political mindset regarding educational policy.

Ten years ago, when No Child Left Behind— the largest federal legislation concerning education in the past decade— was originally under discussion, she considered herself to be conservative. She supported the ideas that teacher accountability and school choice were the most important aspects of educational reform.

After seeing the results of this legislation, Ravitch changed her mind. “The most pressing problem facing ed-

ucational reform is the obsession with test scores, which leads to firing teachers and closing schools,� Ravitch said. “[These factors] are destabilizing public education.�

She also challenged the assumption that low performing students are a result of poor teachers. She said educators should address poverty rather than low test scores when evaluating a school’s performance. If students have low test SEE RAVITCH ON PAGE 6

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Author and activist Diane Ravitch speaks Monday about challenges facing the educational system.

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Filmmaker discusses impact of corn on the American diet

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A single acre of corn can have a far-reaching effect on people’s health.

Brooklyn-based filmmaker Ian Cheney’s 2007 documentary “King Corn” highlights the prevalence of corn in the American diet and the adverse consequences of consuming the product. “King Corn” was shown at a screening Monday in the Levine Science Research Center’s Love Auditorium as part of Duke University’s second annual Food Week. The event was sponsored by Farmhand—a Nicholas School of the Environment initiative that supports local farms in the Triangle area—to promote awareness about how a cornbased diet has contributed to the current obesity epidemic.

“A large part of our nation’s food system is fueled by corn products... consequently having many negative impacts on the health and welfare of many Americans,” Sarah Parsons,

a second-year graduate student at the Nicholas School and co-president of Farmhand, wrote in an email Sunday.

The film, a 2008 Peabody Award winner—often called the most selective prize in electronic media—follows Cheney and his friend, Curt Ellis, as they grow an acre of corn in Greene, Iowa, to observe how the produce enters the food system. They question the industrialized farming process and its social ramifications.

The film focuses primarily on how corn agriculture has affected the way Americans eat and, consequently, the effect corn has on people’s health. “King Corn” claims that—for the first time in U.S. history—the life expectancy of the current generation may be less than that of the generation before it because of the primarily corn-based American diet.

Farmhand selected the movie because it deals with important health issues, Parsons said.

“People who grew up the way we did are basically made

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of corn,” Cheney says in the film.

After the screening, Cheney answered questions from the audience about his work—from the filming and editing process to the genesis of the idea for the project.

Cheney said he had always been curious about the origins of food but was unable to learn much about the subject in his university studies.

“I started out being disturbed about what we were eating but knowing nothing about it,” he said. “Food is the tip of the iceberg of what we don’t know about what we consume.”

Senior Lauren Bledsoe, who saw the film as part of a biology class, said she enjoyed the movie and the ideas it presented about corn’s role in the American food system.

“High-fructose corn syrup, I’m sure, was in everything I ate today and everything I buy at the grocery store,” she said. “[The movie] definitely makes you think about the way you eat.”

Abigail Furnish, a first-year student at the Nicholas School and a member of Farmhand, said she appreciated the way the film presented the information.

“Sometimes [movies] go in all different directions— compared to some other movies I’ve seen about food, it was very well-organized and specific to the topic,” Furnish said.

After the question-and-answer session, Parsons said she believed the event successfully informed students and faculty about this issue.

“It went really well,” she said. “I think [“King Corn”] helped spread the message, which is what we always want to do.”

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crash leading to failure in other parts and that’s what the fall of 2008 was.”

In 2008, the financial system was on the brink of collapse due to underlying forces that built up over many year and the government placing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, Massad said. Then the collapse of Lehman Brothers caused the stock market to plummet and additional pressure to be put on money market bonds.

Massad stressed that without strong government intervention, the country would have experienced its second Great Depression.

“If the government had not acted in the fall of 2008, the nation would have plunged into a depression with 16 percent unemployment,” he said.

Massad is also the leader of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, a program implemented by the Bush administration to strengthen the financial sector. Recognizing the third anniversary of the TARP program, Massad credited TARP’s actions to avoiding a complete collapse of the financial system.

“The government demonstrated unequivocal and clear commitment, through TARP we did that,” he said. “The financial system today is much stronger as a result, and the weakest part of the financial system no longer exist. Capital is higher, leverage lower, more credit is available.”

Despite the public losing confidence in the government during the downturn in 2008, Massad said he was optimistic about the future of the economy noting that reopened markets as well as lower borrowing costs are signs of the government moving in the right direction towards economic growth. Although today’s political atmosphere is very tense, Massad added that for the most part, both parties are under the agreement that compromises must be made for the greater good of the country.

Jonathan Nester, a bank analyst working in Durham, said he enjoyed Massad’s insider’s perspective into the government’s response to the crisis in 2008.

“It was nice to hear someone who is qualified to speak on the topic and who has been involved and has in depth experience,” Nester said.

Senior Will Eastman said that Massad provided a good reminder to the Duke student body that it wasn’t just the Obama Administration and the Democratic party that helped pull the country out of the brink of collapse.

“I think people often forget the facts,” Eastman said.

“They often attribute TARP to the Obama Administration, but Massad was good at explaining that it was in fact started by the Bush Administration and was a bipartisan effort.”

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DKU from page 1 the campus since they are designing and developing academic and degree programs.

“I have confidence that DKU will be successful because I have confidence in the Duke faculty,” Kirby said in an interview, noting that his role is not to design but to advise.

Lozier, who attended all three meetings Friday, said Kirby presented DKU in the broader context of Chinese higher education. Kirby addressed many of the faculty’s concerns, such as academic freedom and DKU’s potential popularity among Chinese students. Lozier added that Kirby will be a positive resource to the faculty.

Paul Haagen Other appointments are providing faculty members with resources in the development of DKU. Nora Bynum has been named associate vice provost and managing director for DKU and other initiatives in China.

Administrators are reaching out to faculty in order to increase transparency, Bynum said, noting that there will always be information administrators are not able to share publicly.

Mingzheng Shi, who currently serves as the director of New York University-Shanghai, will become the executive director of DKU this Spring when he finishes his teaching appointment at NYU. Even though he does not know Shi and Kirby personally, China Faculty Council Chair Paul Haagen, professor of law and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Law, said he believes such leadership is essential for DKU’s success because they have an extensive knowledge of China.

Shi could not be reached for comment.

‘A collective process’ Groups like the China Faculty Council are creating necessary platforms for discussion.

“There are risks and rewards [to DKU], but I think that [faculty members] don’t feel they’re being shut out of the picture anymore,” Haagen said.

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Kirby joined 24 faculty members at the first-ever meeting of the China Faculty Council, which has representation from almost every Duke school and institute, Haagen said. The council focused largely on their charge to discuss and offer advice about various China initiatives—not just DKU. “We’re trying to engage creative thinking about the approach to China, ranging from courses to research projects,” Haagen said, noting that some parts of the University will focus on DKU more than others.

The council has $100,000 to provide seed money for potential China initiatives, ranging from additional study abroad programs to faculty research projects, during the academic year, he said. The money, which comes from University central funds, could fund various projects even if the council did not exist. The council’s purpose is to facilitate the distribution of these funds for China-specific ventures.

Haagen added that council members engaged in a candid discussion about DKU with Kirby. The council will probably not be able to solve many of the questions that faculty members still have, such as those about financial matters or degree program approval, he said, noting that he is not yet sure if he supports DKU. “I certainly understand the attraction—I don’t entirely understand the ways in which it will work out,” Haagen said. “But I don’t believe I actually have reached firm conclusions on it, and if I did, I should suppress them because this is a collective process. My role is to facilitate.”

Lozier said that as faculty gain more information and more opportunities to participate in the project, their support for DKU is becoming tangible.

‘A very large opportunity’ Last Spring, faculty members were waiting for someone to step forward and express their confidence in the project. Lozier said these faculty members are starting to emerge, particularly those involved in the Fuqua School of Business and the Duke Global Health Institute—schools on target to offer the first DKU degree programs.

“I would not name any one person, but I’ve met individuals who are very enthusiastic,” Lozier said. “As they learn more about [academic and research] opportuni-

ties, they will be engaged. Before, people didn’t understand completely about the initiative.”

DGHI faculty are expected to vote on their potential programs later this month. Fuqua faculty have not set a date for a vote on its DKU academic programs.

Thomas Metzloff, a professor of law who serves on the global priorities committee, said he still does not have enough information to form an opinion on the project, though he hopes it performs well. He said many faculty members—particularly those who will not be academically involved with DKU—are more concerned about their own work, though they ultimately hope DKU is successful on the University’s behalf.

“I have no doubt that the administrators appreciate and understand our concerns,” Metzloff said. “It may be another year before we know which parts of Duke are excited and committed... But there’s no reason to assume [DKU] is automatically going to fail.”

Kirby said it is natural to have skepticism about a project of this scale, but faculty should not let those reservations prevent Duke from moving forward. He added that DKU would be the first international institution of its kind and a great asset to the Durham campus—faculty members will be proud of what they create.

“If you’re too afraid to make mistakes then you’re not ambitious enough,” Kirby said. “Duke has an opportunity at the moment to build the most important international university in China.... This is a very large opportunity that certainly will not be there in 10 or 20 years.”

Although some faculty remain undecided about DKU, Lozier said she is pleased to see more professors getting involved in the process. More professors who are not members of the Academic Council, for example, are attending meetings in order to learn about DKU. “We haven’t played a major role to date, but now we’re set up to play a role,” she said.

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PLANS from page 1 a greater amount of dining and student meeting space. Currently there is space for about 600 students to dine and 100 students to meet and interact in West Union.

After construction is completed, there will be dining space for 900 students and meeting space for more than 700 students.

Along with housing the Faculty Commons and Plate and Pitchfork eatery, the renovated second floor will also feature private dining rooms—ideal for houses to dine together after the house model is implemented in Fall 2012, Moneta said. The top floor will also include a demonstration kitchen where cooking lessons can take place.

The first floor will continue to house most of the Union’s dining options—including the Great Hall.

The basement will feature more than 10,000 square feet of space for students to meet in what administrators envision as a “Link-like space” for student life.

A newly excavated sub-basement will include a pub and activity area with table tennis and pool tables, as well as student group storage space. The pub and student areas will be situated near Union Service Drive, alongside Kilgo residence hall.

A new pavilion Administrators knew they needed a replacement dining facility during West Union construction but were unsure about where or what it would be.

Moneta said administrators initially considered a tent but decided to create a more permanent structure—currently referred to as an events pavilion—adjacent to the Bryan Center.

The construction of the pavilion will begin June 2012, according to the PowerPoint titled “West Campus Precinct Planning.” The pavilion will be completed July 2013.

The Board of Trustees approved the events pavilion and the selection of an architect in its September meeting, Moneta said. The approximately 8,000 sq.-foot pavilion will house displaced eateries for two years during construction and will be repurposed later into an event space where 400 students will be able to meet at once.

Collecting input Four working groups will collect input for relevant student interests pertaining to the West Union renovation, Moneta said.

The four groups include one for the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life, one for the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture, one for dining and one for student activities and events.

Moneta said he is eager to work with students who frequent the LGBT Center and Mary Lou Center to create a vision for the spaces moving forward, given that both centers will be displaced after West Union

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construction begins.

“This is bigger than ‘where do we stick something?’” Moneta said. “This is really a fantastic opportunity to review all of our successes and think about what else would propel [the LGBT Center and the Mary Lou Center] to the next level.”

He said work with the LGBT and black student working groups will last about six months. During this time, the working groups will discuss their visions for the future and work with an architect to figure out what type of square footage and location would best accommodate the new centers.

Senior Ari Bar-Mashiah, president of Blue Devils United and a student employee of the LGBT Center, said he discussed the importance of LGBT student involvement with Moneta, adding that he is optimistic that the administration is so open to working together with students.

“I’m really happy that the administration is taking a bottom-up approach as opposed to them dictating, ‘Oh, this is what you will need,’” Bar-Mashiah said. “It’s so important to get student input into the process. Only current LGBT students understand how the center has been operating so far and the needs of our community.”

One of the major goals for the LGBT community will be to find a space that allows growth, Bar-Mashiah said. He noted that one of the center’s events—Fabulous Fridays—had at most 10 students in attendance in 2008, but this year he said it is not uncommon for 50 to 70 students to come.

“I’m confident that the new center will be better than this one if [the planning process] includes student input,” BarMashiah said.

Senior Nana Asante, president of Black Student Alliance, a group that often meets in the Mary Lou Center, said she has not yet met with Moneta and declined to comment further.

Schork said he and other DSG officials are pleased that the administration is allowing direct student input, especially since the LGBT and black community centers were not consulted regarding their removal from the West Union Building.

“This is both an opportunity and also a necessity for the affected communities to have ownership over their future spaces so [the spaces] are something they’re satisfied with,” Schork said. “It’s something we all have to be mindful about throughout this process since [student input] has been constricted so far.”

Moneta said the dining working group will begin meeting soon, due to the short amount of time before events pavilion construction starts. He added that the student activities working group is less urgent than the other working groups because it is the least time-sensitive.

DSG and Moneta will host a West Union information session in the Von Canon meeting rooms in the Bryan Center Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

DGHI from page 1 “The term ‘global health’ didn’t exist when I was a medical student, or even 10 years ago,” Piot said.

Piot added that interest in global health peaked with the rise of AIDS. Unlike other infectious diseases, AIDS affects every country in the world, Piot noted. The prevalence of AIDS is alarming, but the at-risk demographic is more concerning, he said. “[AIDS is] affecting people who are normally dying the least—young adults,” Piot said. “We have babies and older people who die, [and] that’s been the pattern historically [with other diseases].”

In addition to an increased focus on AIDS and other communicable diseases, Piot noted that the field of global health is shifting toward the treatment of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. According to the World Health Organization, chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide, representing 63 percent of all deaths.

Although communicable and noncommunicable chronic diseases are at the forefront of global health, Piot emphasized that social issues such as maternal mortality, child health, reproductive health and family planning, malnutrition and access to primary health care are all major concerns.

An interdisciplinary approach is key for a strong global health program, Piot said.

“What makes [DGHI] unique, why I am committed to come here, is that Duke Global Health is looking beyond the traditional boundaries of global health... by involving the University as a whole,” he said. “It’s a truly global institute.... It’s what the world needs for the future and what the University needs

RAVITCH from page 3 scores, many assume that the teachers are the problem—but it is often because of a child’s home situation, she added.

“Focusing solely on teacher quality relieves us of any obligation to come up with constructive ways to reduce poverty,” Ravitch said in an interview before her speech.

Ravitch explained that No Child Left Behind has not produced expected changes. The legislation was intended to reward high performing schools and cut funding to low performing schools, providing incentives for institutions to improve test scores.

Excellent teachers are often found in bad schools, she said, explaining that low performing schools are many times overloaded with low performing kids in the first place. Teachers are often unable to expect success from kids who were recently let out of jail or do not speak English at home, Ravitch noted. “[No Child Left Behind] has created a disaster of epic proportions,” she said.

“It has put everyone in the frame of mind that testing is the answer to all problems when it’s not.”

Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, said the underlying motivation of No Child Left Behind—the idea that all children have the ability to succeed—was a relatively new concept, but the legislation was

for the future.”

During the past five years, the institute has grown to reach other areas on campus. DGHI faculty members are involved in various departments such as economics and public policy, said DGHI Director Michael Merson.

“We’ve involved more and more faculty from around the campus,” said Merson, who also serves as the interim vice president and vice provost for the Office of Global Strategy and Programs.

“People who are doing work in their particular area of expertise [have] decided they would work in a different country or team up with another school to examine a particular health issue.”

With a record number of students involved in the global health certificate program, DGHI is examining ways to increase the institute’s involvement in undergraduate education, Merson said.

“We have the Focus program; we have the undergraduate certificate program; and we have many students doing DukeEngage programs abroad in global health,” he said. “But we’re trying to see what else we can do for undergraduates.”

Provost Peter Lange credited DGHI’s success to its commitment to emphasize interdisciplinary studies, become a global institute and use knowledge to serve society.

Duke’s interdisciplinary studies are unique, Lange noted, because they bring together different graduate schools and the medical center in addition to bridging the arts and sciences.

“We’ve had fabulous leadership; we’ve had faculty rise to the opportunity; we’ve had students rise to the opportunity—and in doing so, we’re actually changing the culture itself,” Lange said.

“All of the benefits that we provide to the world feed back to us as a University and make us a better University.” not executed properly. “[This idea] is not a bad one, although the implementation in terms of the focus on teachers and test scores has not moved in the right direction,” Baker said.

Ravitch added that since No Child Left Behind was enacted, schools have been losing programs that do not require standardized testing, noting that arts programs, physical education and social studies have been eliminated in many districts.

“The purpose of public schools from the earliest days of our nation was to sustain our democracy, not to maintain test scores,” Ravitch said. “Schools are about character, citizenship and ethical behavior.”

Senior Chris Gierl said huge strides are being made in terms of teacher ability—what to teach and how to teach it.

“It’s unfortunate that more focus is on schools failing in general, instead of what can be done to improve them right now,” Gierl said. “We’re on the wrong path in terms of directing our efforts [in school reform].”

Ravitch concluded by noting that every child is entitled to quality public education that is not driven solely by test scores.

“Good public education should be a basic human right, not a consumer good whose availability is determined by market forces,” she said. “Children need to be looked at in terms of individuals that need to be educated toward reaching their fullest possible development.”

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The first thing you notice in Chris Kennedy’s office are the books. Even the windowsill has been repurposed as a bookshelf. As a former Duke English professor, that may not seem surprising, but even in his current role as deputy directory of athletics, overseeing the NCAA compliance of Duke’s athletic programs, he has to keep up with a lot of literature. He oversees a compliance staff that includes four full-time employees, including two that hold law degrees.

Compliance hardly required a four-man staff when Kennedy first took his position in 1986.

“The NCAA manual in 1986 looked like this,” Kennedy said, picking up a paperback of a few hundred pages off his desk. “Except not so thick…. If I had a compliance question, I called the ACC and talked to the commissioner. The compliance guy at Virginia was the baseball coach.”

Following NCAA rules is no small matter in today’s world, though. The list of programs sullied by NCAA sanctions or infractions reads like a who’s who of college football’s top 25, and two of the biggest scandals of the past decade have emerged from Duke’s own conference. In August, former

booster Nevin Shapiro turned the college sports world upside down when he said he had engaged in providing illegal benefits to athletes over the course of eight years.

But what really hit home for Kennedy and his colleagues at Duke was the scandal at North Carolina that led to the suspension of six players for the entire season and the dismissal of then-head coach Butch Davis in July.

“When the North Carolina thing first came out late last summer, we went up to [President Brodhead],” Kennedy said. “And [Brodhead] was nervous, of course, because he was thinking, ‘Could this happen here?’”

Kennedy and the rest of the athletic department are doing everything they can to prevent such a scandal from cropping up at Duke, but the contemporary landscape has made that all the more difficult. Some experts point to the astronomical growth in popularity and revenue-generating capability of college sports as the culprit.

“A football Saturday in college sports sure looks a heck of a lot like a football Sunday in the NFL,” Charles Robinson of Yahoo! Sports, who broke the story about Shapiro and Miami, said, “and it sells like a football Sunday in the NFL.... It’s a landscape that almost has impropriety built into [it].”

Others believe that such problems have always existed.

Tom Luginbill, national recruiting director for ESPN’s college football recruiting service Scout Inc., believes that growing media attention has caused the hypersensitivity to compliance issues.

“I’m not so sure there’s all that much more going on

than there ever was before,” Luginbill said. “There are just more ways for it to come out.”

Regardless of the overall causes, compliance has become increasingly difficult and extremely important, and the Duke athletic department has taken that to heart.

“It’s part of a larger sense that we want to do intercollegiate athletics the right way,” Kennedy said.

But coordinating intercollegiate athletics, especially football, the right way is hardly a simple thing. The attraction of money and fame draws all sorts of people into the college football envelope, many of whom are not at all directly affiliated with the programs themselves. The scene has become rife with agents, handlers and attention-hungry boosters, who are not afraid to entice players and prospects with money and gifts, irrespective of NCAA regulations.

“The issue is how do you police something you have no control over,” Luginbill said. “College coaches want to do it right. But the environment is a very difficult one to do that…. The problem is, in relationship to boosters or friends of the program or third parties or runners or agents, right now there is no policing model that provides any deterrent for those people.”

In many ways, the NCAA itself does not make the situation any easier.

“The damn rulebook is 500 pages long,” Kennedy said, “and it’s always changing, and it’s contradictory, and SEE COMPLIANCE ON PAGE 8

ACC football not defined by struggles at top In the world of FBS football, two teams can make a conference.

Just about every year, you can make a safe bet that Texas or Oklahoma will win the Big 12 and that Michigan or Ohio State will win the Big 10.

And in the past, these headline rivalries have served to overshadow years when conference depth faltered beyond Scott those top-two programs, helping both conferences avoid the ridicule often faced by the ACC. Miami and Florida State were supposed to provide that type of definingrivalry for the ACC when the Hurricanes joined the conference in 2004. And because it hasn’t materialized, the Big 10 and Big 12 have thumbed their noses at ACC football for years.

It’s about time the ACC fought that attitude.

Many writers, this one included, thought that Florida State’s national championship potential could put the ACC back on the national stage this year. Instead, the Seminoles’ title hopes were dashed in Tallahassee by the visiting Sooners, and after falling to Clemson their contention for an ACC title is even in doubt.

And the Hurricanes, the program that was supposed to reinvigorate ACC football, has failed to win a conference title in seven years in the league.

They’ve stumbled to a 2-2 record under the specter of serious NCAA sanctions,

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highlighted only by a victory over a thenNo. 17 Ohio State team that has since fallen off the national radar.

The struggles of the ACC’s premier programs have been reflected in the national rankings, as the conference didn’t have a single representative in the AP top-10 for two weeks after Florida State’s first loss. Even now, only an undefeated Clemson team has cracked that top-tier at No. 8, and the conference’s other undefeated team, Georgia Tech, is the third-lowest ranked undefeated team in the poll at No. 13.

And the only reason these teams are faltering in the polls is the nation’s general disrespect for the ACC. Clemson has already defeated the Seminoles and perennial ACC contender Virginia Tech, the latter on the road, and also took down an Auburn team that just last week beat then-undefeated South Carolina. Yet the Tigers are ranked behind Andrew Luck—excuse me, Stanford—despite the Cardinal’s best nonconference victory being a drubbing of Duke. Oklahoma State is also two slots higher than Clemson, though its marquee victory required a 17-point secondhalf comeback against Texas A&M, who now barely finds itself ranked.

Meanwhile, Georgia Tech walloped Big-12 foe Kansas 66-24 in its main nonconference test and has handed North Carolina its only loss this season. But one-loss Oregon and Arkansas still find SEE RICH ON PAGE 8

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Unbeaten in its previous five games, Duke is looking to continue a recent streak of success in its promising season.

The Blue Devils (5-4-1) will travel to Davidson (4-4-1) tonight for a 7 p.m. match. Although Duke may have been overlooked as a serious ACC contender after starting the season 1-4, its improved Duke play, including a 2-2 tie against No. 5 North Carolina, has changed that. vs.

“To get a result like we did against Wildcats UNC raised our confidence and confirmed what we have been doing in practice and in previous games,” TUESDAY, 7 p.m. head coach John Kerr said. “We go Alumni Stadium in a little more self-assured.”

Nonetheless, the Blue Devils are careful not to be overconfident, remembering a 4-1 loss to the Wildcats two seasons ago.

“We are not taking Davidson for granted,” Kerr said.

“They play very well together as a team. They are hard to break down and are very organized. We know they have a lot of strength. We are anticipating a really tough match.”

Duke is looking to tighten up its defense in hopes of stopping a team known for its quick counterattacks. On offense, the Blue Devils will be relying on junior Andrew Wenger and freshman Nick Palodichuk, both of whom have received national attention this past week. Palodichuk is currently tied for first nationally among freshman in goals and points.

Duke would also like to see more help from the midfielders, looking to get Johnny Aguirre and Andrew Morales more involved in the attack.

Davidson, after having lost a rough match to Wake Forest, is counting on its senior experience. Despite a solid start to the season, the Wildcats have been unable to capture a string of wins recently. Junior Brian Mcgue leads Davidson’s attack, with both three goals and three assists.

Defensively, the Wildcats have a stronghold of seniors, including goalkeeper Chip Sanders, that were able to keep Wake Forest scoreless for the entire first half of their previous game.

For the Blue Devils, another win on the road is exactly what they need as they prepare for their four remaining conference games. And after such a poor start, they cannot afford to take any steps backward, even in a nonconference matchup.

it’s confusing. Nobody’s mastered that whole thing.”

Schools are hardly defenseless, though, in their efforts to prevent impropriety within their programs. Hiring the right personnel and choosing student-athletes carefully are crucial steps toward steering a program clear of potential issues with the NCAA. “We do a good job, I think, of educating,” Kennedy said. “[Say the] basketball team goes to Chicago and they bump into a guy that we’ve never heard of, that has never given us a dime, never has any connection with the university, who wants to give them $100.... [Our players know to go], ‘Sorry, I can’t take that.’ Then again, if the kid looks around and takes the $100…it isn’t because we didn’t educate him.”

Athletic departments across the nation are engaged in a losing battle, trying to keep hundreds of student-athletes in compliance with a seemingly endless rulebook. All it takes is a few people, be they coaches, players or auxiliary personnel, to bring an entire program to its knees.

“It’s taken us 30 years to build a very trusting relationship with the provost’s office and the faculty and the deans, but it can all be destroyed overnight,” Kennedy said. “So you don’t say, ‘We’ve earned everybody’s trust, now we’re good.’ You earn it every day.”

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Pollsters justify those rankings with jabs at the quality of ACC competition, ignoring the overall depth of the conference and quality of lesser-known teams while emphasizing Florida State and Miami’s struggles as definitive of the whole ACC. The same situation arose over the past three years in the Big 10, when Michigan’s struggles under Rich Rodriguez suspiciously coincided with renewed criticism of the conference’s strength, even though Big 10 teams won BCS bowl games in each of the past two seasons.

The ACC has still had its struggles against non-conference opponents, especially in bowl games, but not any more than the Big 12 and Big 10 had in periods where their defining rivalries allowed them to avoid the scathing criticism prevalent in the ACC. But teams like Clemson and Georgia Tech, and to a lesser extent Virginia Tech, should be recognized for their success in a conference that is not now, nor has ever been, defined solely by its Florida rivalry.

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House model discussion questions Residential life at Duke has ident for Student Affairs Larry always been marked by piv- Moneta said Sunday. Smaller otal changes—from the cre- houses may enable groups of ation of the all-freshman East students to benefit from tightCampus to the new Keohane ly knit communities, but the Quadrangle 4E dormitory. differences in size raise a couThe Fall 2012 ple of concerns. editorial shift to the Will houses with house model more students will give students the chance have social leverage over housto play a role in just such a piv- es with fewer students? Will otal shift. Yesterday, we chal- smaller houses have a diluted lenged students to make sub- experience due to interactions stantive arguments about the with fewer students? Since details of the house model. houses will get funding from Today, we will elaborate ques- the University to hold events, tions that deserve further dis- will the money be evenly discussion from both administra- tributed to groups or distribtors and students. uted proportionally to size?

House size has major impliLikewise, there is some cations for the success of the uncertainty with how commodel. The houses aim to hold munities that develop on East between 30 to 70 students, but Campus will transition to West will range in size from 13 to Campus and Central Campus. more than 100 beds, Vice Pres- Between 2002 and 2006, the

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administration experimented with linking East Campus dorms to West Campus residential quadrangles but ended the program in an effort to create a stronger residential community. The freshman experience on East already establishes random smaller communities, similar to the communities the house model hopes to create. Why not leverage these already formed groups to enhance community on West and Central?

The house assignment process demands discussion.

As it stands, house assignment resembles a modified Room Picks process, where students with high lottery numbers will get the first pick of houses.

Can this process preserve unique identities among houses over time? Should

more qualitative criteria determine who lives in which house? And will students who have a poor living experience their first year be able to easily switch houses the next year?

Will they be able to bring their close friends with them?

The house model aims to create equity in residential living among all students. With affiliated groups constituting a significant percentage of the student body, the model aims to give community to students who choose not to affiliate themselves. But, in this new process, students will only be able to block with up to five other students—down from 12 total in the current system.

Unaffiliated students will face constraints that affiliated students, who can live with large groups, can still avoid. Can

changes to the model better accommodate unaffiliated communities?

The house model plans to allow students the right of return and hopes to create a residential experience that encourages seniors to stay on campus. The model aims to create cross-class communities by requiring houses to have 50 percent sophomores, 25 percent juniors and 25 percent seniors. Currently 17 percent of undergraduates live off campus, but this could change with the successful implementation of the house model. Should the three-year housing contract change in response to this?

Focused debate can only lead to a better house model.

It is time for students to take up this challenge.

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llen Building, Feb. 1969: Between 50 and 75 the contemporary relevance of this historical students stage a takeover of Duke’s adminis- framework is inescapable. Though the content of trative nucleus. Promoting a list of specific the issues we now face may be different, the nature demands concerning racial inequalof the discontent expressed by stuities on campus, these students ocdents toward administrators reveals cupy the building until the universtriking similarities. Furthermore, sity administrators threaten legal the approaches taken by Duke’s past intervention. The protest prompts a student activists offer guidelines as to string of conversations that compel how we might go about making the administrators to take ownership changes we hope to see and reassertof the protesters’ concerns. “The ing our voice in the administration’s Takeover” marked a turning point discussions on campus culture. To for the strength of student voice in amanda garfinkel explore this claim in more depth, I administrative discussions on camwould like to draw attention to two the devil doesn’t pus culture. specific lessons from the past. wear prada It can be easy to attribute this To start, the most effective student hallmark moment of Duke’s history movements maintained rational, feato the simple fact that “it was the ’60s.” Students sible and clearly articulated goals. Developing such had power, protest was trendy and the attitude to- goals required organizers to step back from broadwards authority was to “stick it to the man.” But a casting impassioned battle cries in order to define a closer look at Duke’s later record of student activ- strategic and united vision to present to administraism reveals a rich history of student mobilization tors. Dramatic calls to action may do much in the on important campus issues. Without going into way of riling sentiment, but when realistic change extensive detail for each case, I find it critical to is the end goal, making our voices louder doesn’t highlight a couple of these occasions. make our words more powerful if we’re not sure Feb. 1995: Roughly a dozen students hold a what we’re really saying and who is behind us. peaceful protest outside President Keohane’s office Next, it is essential to note that student activists in response to her decision to eliminate a top-rank of the past lacked a key component we have today: administrative position. The dean of students praises Facebook. Though social media undeniably has the students’ method of demonstrating, which cen- the power to accelerate social movements, we must ters on explaining their position to reporters. The remain wary of complete reliance on our virtual Board of Trustees hosts an open meeting on the is- voices. Although passionate Facebook posts and sue two weeks later and makes administrative adjust- online opinion forums have some impact in proments in accordance with students’ concerns. moting ideas and building solidarity, we must heed April 1995: Eight tents housing 20 students set the example of past activists by raising our literal up overnight camp outside the Allen Building, pro- voices and avoiding the use of technology as a subtesting proposed changes for residential life and stitute for our real presence. dining options on campus. The organizers also In recent conversations, a frequent concern write a petition that garners over 1,200 student sig- that I have heard and voiced myself relates to adnatures and includes a call for improved communi- ministrative notions of a short-term “institutional cation between students and administrators. lifetime,” meaning that the sentiments and opinApril 2002: 25 students participate in a 13-hour ions we have now will be washed out of Duke by lock-in at the Allen Building to commemorate the the time the current generation of students graduspirit of the 1969 Takeover and to vocalize a desire ates. We can immediately and effectively challenge for further efforts to build a more united commu- this notion by resuscitating and nurturing the innity. This staged event, which features speakers stitutional memories created in 2002, in 1995 and from the Takeover, includes students, faculty and in 1969. administrators in its attempt to increase interacIn dissecting all this history of Duke student actions between these groups. As quoted in The tivism and attempting to keep it alive, am I actually Chronicle’s April 5, 2002 issue, Vice President for claiming that we should stage a student protest?

Student Affairs Larry Moneta calls this lock-in “an Not necessarily. What I’m challenging us to do is to opportunity for enlightenment, and for students to stop and consider the legacy left by students before understand that the current condition didn’t come us and determine how we want our legacy to conwithout work, and that future conditions will only tribute to this history. come with work.”

Turning our attention now to the current conAmanda Garfinkel is a Trinity junior. Her column ditions of student-administrative relations at Duke, runs every other Tuesday.

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ell, the German Bundestag approved tough stuff! I thought you were the perfect comthe next phase of the European bailout bination of Margaret Thatcher and Angela Lanslate last week, so now the future of Eu- bury during the “Murder She Wrote” years. I’m rope is assured—of more bailouts, really disappointed. of course. And this one is gonna be And I’m not the only one. I a doozy. As it stands now, the ante think the euro is disappointed, has been upped to about 440 biltoo. In fact, for days now, I keep lion euros, roughly the price of a thinking about the euro actually fondue party for 12 in Lucerne. singing the Rolling Stones’ “AnBut policymakers were already tipgie” to Angela Merkel. Of course, ping their hands this week by disin my mind the little 1 euro coin cussing the possibility of “leverag- connel fullenkamp has stick-figure arms and legs, with ing” this amount to provide up to those cartoon glove hands and cute leptokurtotic 2 trillion euros of assistance to the little shoes. I envision the obverse heavily indebted “CYRYFS” counof the coin as the “face” of the euro, tries (I don’t like the “PIIGS” acronym so I made which features the outline of Europe and the big up my own just now. It stands for “Can’t You Re- “ 1 euro”on it, but if you prefer you can flip the strain Your * Spending?”) My money—still held coin over and have the reverse also be the face of in glory-orange, Alex Hammy $10 bills, thank the euro. For example, the Austrian euro coin has you—is on an escalation of the bailout to at least Mozart on it (rock me, Amadeus!) and the Italian a few trillion euros. one has the Vitruvian Man on it, which might give And it won’t help—it’ll just make the inevitable you that extra little bit of ironic enjoyment. defaults bigger, so that more countries and banks At any rate, even though “Angie” is a great allwill get pulled down by it. The Europeans are run- purpose “we should break up now” song, it seems ning scared—they’re so frightened by the conse- to me that it was actually penned for exactly this sitquences of stopping now that they’re not thinking uation. I don’t know what Mick and Keith were up about what comes after the next round of bailouts. to, back in late 1972, but it’s entirely possible that The answer, for now, is more and bigger bailouts. they foresaw the introduction of the euro, the enBut that can’t last. The debt markets are larger suing sovereign debt crisis and the decision power than the economy, so eventually the problem will resting in Angela Merkel’s hands at this point. The get so large that even the whole European Union crushing sadness stemming from knowing that the won’t be able to afford more bailouts. Ireland, for blossoming euro would be cut down prematurely example, is in trouble precisely for this reason. It by reckless government spending, combined with learned the hard way, trying to bail out its banks, political dithering and pandering, certainly would that the banks’ bad loan problems were larger inspire some great music, at least in my mind. And than Irish GDP. the depression caused by having this terrible foreSomebody should have stopped the madness, knowledge would also help explain the abysmal and I blame Angela Merkel, the German chan- drop off in the quality of the Stones’ recordings cellor. Earlier in the crisis, she was talking tough after “Some Girls.” about pushing countries out of the eurozone who So just imagine with me, for a moment, our sad can’t live up to the fiscal policy demands of a cur- euro serenading Ms. Merkel, giving her the bad rency union. And she was promising not to turn news. “No loving in our souls and no money in our the European Union into a “transfer union.” Since coats,” check. “Can’t say we’re satisfied,” that’s for Germany is in the driver’s seat in the eurozone, sure. “Dreams going up in smoke,” uh-huh. “Can’t thanks to its dominant economy and hard-learned say we never tried,” well, okay, benefit of the doubt tradition of fiscal and monetary restraint, Merkel on that one, but if you had really enforced the was in the position to take a firm stance and at Maastricht criteria, we wouldn’t be in this mess. least force a serious consideration of non-bailout And then the kicker: “Angie, ain’t it time we options. Clearly, it would have been extremely dif- said goodbye?” I think it’ll come to that, if Europe ficult to balance a commitment to preserving the keeps rushing headlong down the bailout path.

European Union with the need to take unpleasant actions that could end up with some countries Connel Fullenkamp is the director of undergraduate leaving the eurozone. studies and professor of the practice of economics. His But Angie—I thought you were made of that column runs every other Tuesday.

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wo overwhelmingly segregated traditions exist at Duke.

First, Duke feels the need to bring racially identified students onto our campus at different times as if differences in the human condition fell upon these imaginary lines. Some students attend both weekends; others, like me, attended neither. There was a time when it was necessary to show students of color that Duke was a safe place—an institution that celebrates its diversity. That time has passed. Today, the LGBTQ community needs that protection and support. josh brewer I wholly support the end of racially segregated recruitment weekends. Instead, southern socialism a singular, multi-cultural recruitment weekend would showcase our campus’ pride in the mosaic we form. Events like Awaaz and the Native American Students Association’s Powwow show the best of Duke; imagine an entire weekend of such events for recruited students! President Brodhead has voiced his opinion on segregated recruitment and presided over the end of such events while at Yale. He should do the same during his tenure here.

Secondly, the vast majority of greek organizations at Duke officially segregate by gender. Predictably, male restrictive organizations dominate the social scene due to a lack of equal opportunity. I will not go as far to charge these organizations with racial segregation, but I don’t have to—look around. The existence of such organizations directly fuels the misogynistic culture on our campus. Greek organizations are structured to reproduce the classed and raced divisions from which students come. Valiantly, greek women have used their organizations to rally behind long overdue campus corrections, but damage control will be the best they can do—separate but equal never works.

Biologically, race does not exist; race is nothing more than a social construct. Homo sapiens’ DNA is 99.9 percent identical; the minimal genetic variation that exists in humans is less within a self-identified racial classification than between two different groups. As a species, we notice phenotypic variation, mainly the presence of melanin. This trait is directly tied to an individual’s melanocyte activity, which is genetically influenced. Beyond such scientific facts, race is purely a social construct, yet racism is prevalent and intrusive. Despite our best efforts, we are racist from birth—that moment where they checked the box identifying the “race” we were to become. When we see a human being, we see race; our minds jump from skin tone or facial features to stereotypes we have either been programmed to expect or to perpetuate with our very bodies and culture. The only way to fight these racist tendencies begins with admittance. Our country was founded upon racism and slavery. It took the fissure and near destruction of America—one that we Southerners have never fully recovered from—for institutional and overt slavery to be abolished. Slowly, communities of color have gained voting rights and equal employment protections. We are still fighting for the end of programs that criminalize blackness and poverty. Duke, the seemingly unabashed school for—as Walter Benn Michaels put it— “rich kids of all colors” should be seeing green, right?

On the flip side of the fantastical coin, gender exists only in its derivative form as biological fact. Beyond this strict biological sense, gender has been inflated by misogynistic social constructs. Like my “race box,” from birth I was thrown into this world as a male—cue up the sports, guns and jacked up trucks I know too well. With the expectations of my own masculinity came the deeply homophobic rejection of anything non-masculine—including the sensible components of everyday life. The hegemonically constructed constantly shoulders the lesser forms of life. This is America, this is capitalism—must this be Duke?

The proposed house model provides Duke with a choice: Stanford or Yale. Stanford has racially segregated houses—“ethnic/cross cultural” they say—while Yale has large houses where students identify with “entryways.” The Yale model reminds me of my freshman dorm: I was a freshman, I lived in Blackwell and I lived on the second floor. My community ties got stronger as distance from my room decreased. I had an incredible group of friends freshman year, and this was the last year where diversity came naturally and without effort to me. Why must we look to Stanford—whose segregated houses sour and deter many prospective students—when we have our own Duke model on East Campus? My East group broke apart during greek rush. Some of my friends joined traditionally black sororities and some joined Pan-Hellenic groups, athletes—myself included—turned from our non-athlete friends back toward our teams, men and women became status hookups—a tier-blah blah girl with a fratstar guy—and the East Campus dream dissolved before my eyes. Is this what we want the house model to bring to campus?

The housing model provides a chance for campus change: NO organization should be allowed to segregate by gender, race or sexuality. Organizations failing to integrate voluntarily require force-integration. The housing model provides a perfect opportunity to end the existence—and, more importantly, University support—of segregated groups on campus. It is past time for an integrated Duke, now we must desegregate our campus.

Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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THE CHRONICLE

Ongoing Exhibitions

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FULL FRAME

A weekend matinee marathon featuring favorites from the 2011 Festival and newer titles which have yet to reach North Carolina Get your FIX October 15 and 16 at the Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Drive, Durham / 919.684.5135 FREE and open to the public, first-come-first-served

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10/15 1pm

Directed by Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, and Carlo Mirabella-Davis

10/15 3pm

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THE SWELL SEASON

2011 / US / 90 minutes

The world fell in love with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová when their collaboration in the film ONCE culminated in a jubilant Oscar win. But behind the scenes, where Glen and Markéta’s on-screen romance became reality, a grueling two-year world tour threatens to fracture their fated bond. This music-filled documentary is an intimate look at the exhilaration and turmoil created by both love and fame.

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES A classic whodunit adventure following three men determined to solve the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, whose cryptic message is embedded in cities around the world.

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 - Oct. 4 - Oct. 17 October 4 Exhibition Reception. A solo show featuring Daylight/CDS Photo Awards Project Prize winner Tamas Dezso and a group exhibition featuring Work-in-Process Prize winner David Pace along with Jurors’ Pick winners in both categories. Thru Dec. 22. 6-8pm. Free.

October 5 Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, dir. A Beethovenian ‘Triple’ Play, with Hsiao-Mei Ku, violinist, Darrett Adkins, cellist, and Cicilia Yudha, pianist. 8pm.

Reynolds Theater. Free.

Ariel Dorfman: Feeding on Dreams. Dorfman reads from his new memoir. 4pm. Gothic Reading Rm, Perkins Library.

Free.

October 6 Panel Discussion: The Life of Memorials. Student members of Team Kenan talk about the exhibit. 5pm. Rare Book Room, Perkins Library. Free.

Duke Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, dir.

Of Seas and Storms: works by Grainger, Sousa, McBeth, R. Williams, Whitacre, and others. 8pm. Reynolds Theater.

Free.

First Thursday. Gallery talk by Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks, Senior Curator, on Land and Sky in the Nineteenth Century.

5:30pm, cash bar, 6pm, gallery talk. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

October 8 Duke University String School. Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3pm: Beginning Ensembles & Intermediate I. 7pm: Intermediate II & DUSS Youth Symphony Orchestra. Reynolds Theater. Free.

Directed by Jon Foy 2011 / US / 90 minutes

10/16 1pm

IL CAPO This stunning cinematic short follows an Italian machinery conductor as he deftly directs his crew to carve marble out of the mountain. (plays with A MATTER OF TASTE)

A MATTER OF TASTE After several failed ventures, the youngest chef ever to earn three stars from the New York Times tries to re-establish himself in the competitive world of fine dining.

October 16 Organ Recital Series Concert. Organist Wilma Jensen will perform a program on the Aeolian organ featuring music

by French, English, and American composers. 5pm. Duke University Chapel. Free.

(plays with IL CAPO) Directed by Sally Rowe 2010 / US / 68 minutes

10/16 3pm

GIVE UP TOMORROW Set amidst old world vestiges of colonialism, classicism and backdoor politics in the Philippines, GIVE UP TOMORROW rivetingly exposes a Kafkaesque contemporary world of corruption and injustice. In a murder case that ends a nation’s use of capital punishment, but fails to free an innocent man, two grieving mothers personify the chasms – both nightmarish in scope – that divide two families and, by extension, a nation.

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.

10/3 Of GODS AND MEN (8pm) French Film Series: ‘Global France’ 10/4 TODAY’S SPECIAL (G) (8pm, W) Muslim Diaspora Film Series 10/5 I AM SOMEBODY + WANDA (8pm, W) Future of the Feminist 70s http://ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

Arts

Presented by Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and the Center for Documentary Studies.

This message is brought to you by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Performances, Duke Music Department, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Department of Theater Studies, and William R. Perkins Library with support from Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.

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Directed by Michael Collins 2011 / US / 90 minutes

October 13 Barbara and Andrew Rothschild Lecture. Meet the Guerrilla Girls in “full jungle drag,” in a performance revealing the thinking and process behind their posters, books, billboards and actions. Their work is part of The Deconstructive Impulse. 7pm. Nasher Aud. Free.

October 14 Author Event. Siddhartha Deb on his new book, The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India. Part of the Documentary Writing Series at the Center for Documentary Studies. 7pm. Free.

Directed by Yuri Ancarani 2011 / ITALY / 15 minutes

10/16 1pm

October 12 Encounters: with the music of our time presents Ensemble U. Estonian new music group performs world premiere of Duke graduate composer Bryan Christian’s Walk.

8pm. Free.

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