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Students voice Law school applicants most likely to have Facebook checked support for Food Factory

by Tiffany Lieu THE CHRONICLE

Law school applicants ought to be careful about what they post on Facebook.

A survey conducted by Kaplan Test Prep found that law school admissions officers look at applicants’ Facebook pages and other social networking sites more often than do their undergraduate or business school counterparts.

In a process that is already very competitive, admissions officers are taking additional aspects into account when determining which students are accepted. The Duke School of Law accepts approximately 20 percent of applicants— a rate that is consistent with many top institutions, said Jeff Thomas, director of prelaw programs for Kaplan.

The trend is indicative of the legal profession itself, Thomas said.

“We want to make sure

that the people who are the gatekeepers of the law and the people who are creating the laws are ones that will follow the law,” Thomas said.

“Law schools are the gatekeepers to future attorneys, so it makes sense that they are more circumspect on the front end.”

The study, released Oct. 24, surveyed admissions officers at 359 different undergraduate, business and law schools to determine what factors the officers considered during the admissions process. Of those surveyed, 20 percent of the undergraduate admissions officers and 27 percent of the business school admissions officers said they used social networking sites to research applicants. In comparison, 37 percent of law school admissions officers said they took information found on SEE FACEBOOK ON PAGE 5

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Students are rallying in support of the Food Factory despite its unsuccessful start this year.

A group that includes members of Duke Student Government, Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee and the general student body have started a movement to save the Food Factory, which has had trouble attracting business since arriving to Central Campus this year. The student-created committee aims to counter the undue negative publicity the business has recently received by reaching out to the Duke community and improving advertising, said senior Manny Olojede, a DSG senator for student life.

“The food is great, but they aren’t getting as many students as they wanted,” Olojede said. “We want to change perceptions about the Food Factory.... They are still trying.”

The restaurant’s owner Jim Schmid said he appreciates the student effort to increase traffic to the eatery. Schmid, who has been working approximately 80 hours a week to keep the restaurant afloat, added that while it may be struggling now, the outlook for its future is improving.

“We’re happy that students are trying to keep us there, and we’re trying to fill their needs with food,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere. Last month just stunk.”

DUSDAC co-Chair Beth Gordon, a junior, said she believes that many students do not eat at the Food Factory because it is located on Central Campus—not because there is anything wrong with the restaurant itself. The newly established Food Factory committee will consider ways to

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University assists creation of public policy program in Vietnam

by Marianna Jordan THE CHRONICLE

The University is furthering its global expansion in Vietnam and this time in the realm of environmental policy.

Duke University is assisting the Vietnamese National University in Ho Chi Minh City with the development of a new master’s degree program in public policy for environmental protection, which is set to begin Fall 2012.

Francis Lethem, the director of the Duke Center for International Development and associate dean for executive education programs at the Sanford School of Public Policy, said Sanford and the Nicholas School of the Environment are collaborating to act as advisors to the nascent program in Vietnam.

“Part of the marvelous spirit of Duke is that collaboration occurs across the academic environment,” Lethem said. “This partnership with [VNU-HCM] would not have been conceivable had we gone about this alone.”

Vietnam is currently facing a number of environmental

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challenges, most importantly those posed by climate change, said Erika Weinthal, associate professor of environmental policy and coordinator of the Nicholas School’s involvement in the program. “[The Vietnamese] are fully cognizant that climate change will have tremendous impacts on their environment, economy and social well-being of their population,” she said.

Nicholas School faculty were initially asked through the General Electric Foundation to visit VNU-HCM, Weinthal said. The foundation is interested in helping the university create an environmental policy program.

“We were asked to go [to Vietnam] to meet with the faculty and administration and talk to them about what would be feasible in terms of getting a good grasp of what a potential [VNU master] program might look like,” Weinthal said.

A team from Sanford and the Nicholas School initially visited in January 2010, Lethem noted, adding that the team

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The Food Factory on Central Campus has experienced little success since opening this Fall, but students are working to save the eatery.

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US cuts off funding as UNESCO admits Palestine

NEW YORK — The board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) voted Monday to admit Palestine into the organization as its newest member, and the United States promptly responded by cutting off funding for the agency.

Acting under a legal requirement to cut U.S. funds to any U.N. agency that recognizes a Palestinian state, the State Department on Monday announced that the United States has stopped funding UNESCO because of the vote. Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters that the Obama administration would not make a planned $60 million payment to the agency due in November.

The UNESCO vote follows a stalled effort by the Palestinians to seek recognition as a U.N. member state. It signaled that the Palestinians intend to pursue membership in a number of U.N. specialized agencies.

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Obama steps up efforts NATO says Libya is ‘free,’ against drug shortages ends bombing campaign WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama ordered federal regulators Monday to step up efforts to prevent shortages and price fixing of life-saving prescription drugs, the latest White House initiative that does not require congressional approval.

TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO on Monday brought a formal end to its seven-month bombing campaign in Libya, with its secretary-general proclaiming that “Libya is finally free.” Libya’s transitional government had asked the alliance to extend its operations until the end of the year.

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Trinity offers first-ever University Course

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For the first time in its history, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer a University Course that will be open to all undergraduate, professional and graduate students and similarly taught by professors from across the University.

Titled “Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to How, Why, and What We Eat”, this pilot course will begin Spring 2012 and will be co-taught by faculty from different disciplines and institutes, including the Duke Divinity School and the Center for Documentary Studies. The objective of the course is to explore various interdisciplinary issues related to food, which is a topic relevant to all students.

“The course will focus on attitudes about food in America, the proponents and critics of the local food movement, food advertising, food consumption, environmental movements and food practices, food resources and engineering, among many other topics,” Dean of Arts and Sciences Laurie Patton, who initiated the course, wrote in an email Monday.

The topic will accommodate faculty and students with a variety of academic interests, said Charles Thompson, director of undergraduate studies at the Center for Documentary Studies, lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology and one of the co-lecturers of the course.

“Because everyone consumes food, everyone is part of the system and can get involved in this topic,” Thompson said. “To work on this topic, we really need a variety of skills and background.”

The course will feature lectures from professors from every school at Duke as well as small-group discussions.

Both the lectures and discussions will be held at the Refectory Cafe in the Divinity School. Food associated with the course content will be offered at times.

By bringing together faculty and students from different disciplines, the University Course aims to provide an opportunity for people with different academic backgrounds to learn from and challenge one another, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College.

“We seek to provide an integrative learning experience where students with different perspectives, experiences, and expertise can contribute to an environment of learning,” Baker wrote in an email Monday.

In addition to facilitating interdisciplinary conversations among faculty and students, the course will also generate a sense of solidarity between different Duke communities.

“This practice not only creates intellectual community but enacts a sense of common purpose across the diverse communities that convene under the Duke banner,” Patton said.

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Thompson said that though the course mainly focuses on the general introduction to different aspects of food studies, the course will keep a balance between generalism and specialism with emphasis on inquiry through conversation.

“The course will lay a foundation of food issues, but more importantly, it is all about conversation.” Thompson said. “You may be working on the politics related to food all the time, and it will be inspiring to listen to someone from Law School describing his work pertaining to the food studies.”

Korrine Terroso, a freshman who has already taken a class related to food studies, said the interdisciplinary approach taken by the University Course will be helpful to students.

“It can be a continuation of what I have learned from different perspectives,” Terroso said, adding that lecturers from different disciplines were a major attraction.

The course is cross-listed in three departments—Documentary Studies, Women’s Studies and Cultural Anthropology—and has a total capacity of 75 students. The course will be 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. every Tuesday.

“The vast majority will be undergraduates, and we are hoping that 20 percent will be a mix of grad and professional students,” Baker said. “Some of the classes will be open to the university community—like a public lecture.”

This type of course is unprecedented at Duke.

“Nothing has happened quite like this here at Duke,” Thompson said. “Everyone will learn something from it, whether faculty or students.”

If the course turns out to be a success, further steps will be taken to institutionalize it, Baker said.

Adrian Macias, a second-year graduate student at Sanford School of Public Policy, said this course offers a valuable opportunity to initiate academic conversation with scholars from all over the University. “[Through conversations] we can recognize that we share the same spirits and care about the same issues,” Macias said. “The course enables students from different units to interact in an atmosphere beyond sports events.”

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US revises strategy for Libya struggles to form a postwar army winding down Afghan War

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya has emerged from its civil war with more than 300 militias and no political consensus on forming a national army, raising concerns that irregular, gun-toting groups could become entrenched and pose a long-term challenge to the government, officials here said.

On Monday, Libyan leaders began to establish a new interim government with the authority to create the armed forces, choosing the technocratic Abdurrahim el-Keib as prime minister. But the militiamen who won the eight-month war have made it clear that they will not submit meekly to the new civilian authorities.

“Creating a new army is not going to be by an official statement or resolution. It has to come after a negotiation,” said Anis Sharif, a spokesman for Abdulhakim Belhadj, an Islamist seen as the dominant militia leader in Tripoli.

Reining in the militias is crucial to restoring order after the fighting between NATObacked revolutionaries and loyalists of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, diplomats say. NATO officially ended its operations in Libya on Monday night, giving the country full responsibility for its own security.

Although many of the fighters have been in a celebratory mood since the war ended, several confrontations between rival militias have threatened to escalate into bloodshed—including one at Tripoli’s airport Monday.

“The danger is that you have young men returning from battle, bored and with a newfound sense of regional identity and personal pride,” said a Western official in Tripoli, who was not authorized to comment on the record.

Militia and military leaders recognize the need to demobilize or integrate fighters into the security services, the official said.

“But the key will be agreeing and implementing a plan to do this.”

Efforts to relaunch the army have been hobbled by the central government’s weakness and rivalries among revolutionaries.

Sharif said that one of the main goals of the Transitional National Council was to avoid a political vacuum.

“On this point, they failed—and failed completely,” he said, recalling that many of the council’s members remained in the eastern city of Benghazi, the bastion of the revolution, after Gadhafi’s forces were driven from Tripoli in August. “They left the capital with a political vacuum,” he said, and militias from other areas have moved in and set up camp.

Islamist fighters have squabbled with revolutionaries who once belonged to the national army over who should lead Libya’s new armed forces, so the top post is vacant, officials said. The military's No. 2 officer— Deputy Chief of Staff Suleiman Mahmoud al-Obeidi—was stunned last month when a militia from the western Zintan region SEE LIBYA ON PAGE 8

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration has launched a revised strategy for Afghanistan that officials hope will lead to substantive negotiations with insurgents and regional support for a political end to the war.

The strategy is an attempt to fold disparate policy elements into a comprehensive package as the administration tries to fashion an exit that will not leave Afghanistan open to civil war or the reestablishment of terrorist bases.

Elements of the strategy already underway include escalation of military pressure on the Haqqani network of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, along with an open door for the network, and other Taliban groups, to hold direct talks with the United States.

Pakistan, where the groups are based, has been offered a principal role in the negotiations in exchange for curtailing its support for them and helping bring them to the table, where the Afghan government will also have a seat.

Until recently, the administration insisted that substantive talks must be between the Afghans and the insurgents, with U.S. facilitation and Pakistani support. The new strategy, officials said, recognizes that talks are more likely to succeed with the direct participation of the four parties with the biggest stake in the outcome.

A senior administration official said that initial negotiations would ideally result in

“measurable, demonstrable confidencebuilding measures,” including local ceasefires, “that will lead to conversations about the future of Afghanistan” among insurgents and other internal Afghan groups vying for control under a future political structure.

The strategy also includes more energetic efforts to persuade neighbors, many of which have conflicting interests in Afghanistan, to support a political resolution and contributing to sustainable economic development.

Marc Grossman, the administration's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, last month visited most of the other key players in the region, including India, China and the Central Asian republics north of the Afghan border. European interlocutors with embassies in Tehran have been enlisted to discuss the issue with Iran.

On Wednesday, officials from these governments and others, along with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, will attend a regional conference in Istanbul that the administration hopes will result in pledges of non-interference in Afghanistan and long-term economic and political support. The administration has already shepherded several preliminary meetings for an economic initiative it calls the New Silk Road, which would seek to reestablish Afghanistan's historic position as the Asian crossroads.

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‘M1’ found with second oldest case of prostate cancer

by Heather Pringle SCIENCENOW

Some 2,250 years ago in Egypt, a man known today only as M1 struggled with a long, painful, progressive illness. A dull pain throbbed in his lower back, then spread to other parts of his body, making most movements a misery. When M1 finally succumbed to the mysterious ailment between the ages of 51 and 60, his family paid for him to be mummified so that he could be reborn and relish the pleasures of the afterworld.

Now an international research team has diagnosed what ailed M1—the oldest known case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt and the second oldest case in the world. (The earliest diagnosis of prostate cancer came from the 2700-yearold skeleton of a Scythian king in Russia.) Moreover, the new study now in press in the International Journal of Paleopathology, suggests that earlier investigators may have underestimated the prevalence of cancer in ancient populations because high-resolution computerized tomography (CT) scanners capable of finding tumors measuring just 1 to 2 millimeters in diameter only became available in 2005. “I think earlier researchers probably missed a lot without this technology,” says team leader Carlos Prates, a radiologist in private practice at Imagens Medicas Integradas in Lisbon.

Prostate cancer begins in the walnut-sized prostate gland, an integral part of the male reproductive system. The gland produces a milky fluid that is part of semen and it sits underneath a man's bladder. In aggressive cases of the disease, prostate cancer cells can metastasize, or spread, entering the bloodstream and invading the bones. After performing high-resolution scans on three Egyptian mummies in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum in Lisbon, Prates and colleagues detected many small, round, dense tumors in M1’s pelvis and lumbar spine, as well as in his upper arm and leg bones.

FACEBOOK from page 1 social networking sites into account.

Thomas said he is unable to disclose information about which law schools participated, citing a confidentiality agreement.

Thomas noted that the moral aspects of law fall in line with the findings.

“The legal profession is not one that you get into simply by graduating from law school,” he said. “Rather, an individual’s moral and ethical character is put into question as well.”

Law school admissions officers may look at an applicant’s Facebook page, but content found on these social networking sites would not cause a candidate to be rejected, Thomas said. Having strong LSAT scores, a high GPA and powerful personal statements are more important, he said.

“It is really done as a spot check—it is important to note that content found on Facebook would never make or break a candidate’s application,” Thomas said. “While 37 percent is higher than other graduate schools, it is still not the majority of schools.”

Gerald Wilson, senior associate dean of Trinity College and pre-law advisor, said students should be cognizant about information they post on social networking sites.

“I always tell my students, ‘Only post something you would want your grandmother to see,’” he said. “It’s public, so it’s fair game.”

Senior Danni Lin, who is applying to law school, said she has always been very careful about what she posts on Facebook.

“I can understand where law school admissions officers are coming from,” Lin said. “Applicants should know that what you put on the Internet can be seen by anyone for good or for bad. I don’t think it’s wrong for admissions officers to look at your Facebook because you’ve decided that it’s public content.”

Lin added that the findings of the study do not affect her and that she would not change her social networking practices, “I don’t think officers would find anything on my Facebook page that I wouldn’t have put in my

application,” Lin said. “In fact, my application is a better reflection of me as a candidate than my Facebook page.”

Senior Stephanie Weiss, who also plans on applying to law school, said she was not aware that law school admissions officers check applicants’ Facebook pages, but added that she supports such practices.

“I know law schools hold their applicants to very high ethical standards,” Weiss said. “I am glad they are validating what candidates say on their application.”

Although Facebook can be used to learn more about an applicant, law school admissions officers do not have the resources or interest to check every single applicant, said Brooke Sandoval, associate director of admissions at American University. Facebook searches are typically conducted only when prompted by other incidents—for example, an angry phone call to the admissions office, she said.

“I don’t look at everyone’s Facebook page,” Sandoval said. “However, I may do research if a candidate is called into question because who knows whether they will act appropriately in law school and beyond.”

Sandoval added that admissions officers take many aspects of a candidate into consideration during the admissions process in addition to a candidate’s application.

“We have to be careful—we have to ask whether an applicant will be able to do well in classes, to have a strong job interview, to make ethical judgments,” Sandoval said. “As admissions officers, we need to make judgment calls. In our profession, your classmate or professor could very well be your opposing counsel or judge in the future. Everyone is connected.”

William Hoye, associate dean of admissions and student affairs at the Duke School of Law, could not be reached for comment Monday.

The use of social networking sites in the law school admissions process reflects the evolving relationship between applicants and admissions officers through technology, Thomas noted.

“The law school admissions process has always been one that is very traditional, very stoic,” he said. “It is becoming increasingly apparent that technology is becoming embedded in a process that is so historically defined.”

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this tactic has not worked at Duke.

“I don’t really know what I’m doing with advertising,” Schmid said, noting that he is just beginning to get acclimated with the University environment.

Additionally, there was no formal process for educating Food Factory management about Duke, which Schmid said would have been helpful. He said he has learned the most about his market by talking to students—but there are certain topics that students are not knowledgeable about, such as how to manage Merchants on Points deliveries.

“I need a booklet to tell me what I’m supposed to be doing,” he said. “I need to learn how Duke operates.”

Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for housing and dining, said he previously approached Schmid with various marketing plans that have been successful for other on-campus eateries—but Schmid was not interested.

“They’re trying to adjust to the student population— they’re coming along,” Johnson said. “[Universities are] a different market. You’ve got to get your name out there.”

The restaurant’s sales have improved in the past few weeks, after joining the Merchants on Points program and adding a weekend brunch, he said.

“Our message has always been the same,” Johnson said.

“Students need to work to make the Food Factory successful.

And when we say work, we mean simply dining there.”

Olojede said the student Food Factory committee plans to meet with the restaurant’s staff to exchange ideas about how to improve business in a student environment. He noted that students have expressed complaints about the restaurant because of its location and slow service. Some students are also unaware that the restaurant is no longer the Devil’s Bistro—the eatery that previously occupied the Central Campus location.

Still, people who visit the Food Factory on a regular basis seem to enjoy it, Gordon said. Although it is hard to ascertain what would attract students, creating a specialty dish or offering a good deal on a meal could go a long way, she added.

“The Food Factory is still in the start-up phase—they have to work some kinks out,” she said.

They will focus on attracting Central Campus residents who live near the restaurant, but they also hope to build up the Food Factory’s reputation so that people will take the time to go there, Olojede said.

He added that he believes business will improve next year when the house model goes into effect because many of the

publicize the restaurant, Gordon added, noting that the restaurant has not done enough publicity on its own.

Schmid said he agrees that Food Factory management is partially at fault. He added that he has not implemented an official marketing strategy. At the restaurant’s previous location in Cary, N.C., the Food Factory relied mainly on word of mouth for advertisement, but

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The Food Factory replaced the Devil’s Bistro, which occupied the same space last year.

VIETNAM from page 1 reflected on the goals of the master’s program—including the implementation of appropriate Vietnamese faculty.

Select Vietnamese faculty have visited the University for a period of six months, each with an academic advisor from Duke, Lethem said. She added they have taken advantage of classes at both Sanford and the Nicholas School.

Lori Bennear, assistant professor of environmental economics and policy at the Nicholas School, noted that preliminary conversations influenced the development of the program.

“There were discussions about how [those at the Nicholas School] might best help the [scholars] figure out how to educate the next generation of environmental policy folks in Vietnam,” she said.

The partnership between Sanford, the Nicholas School and VNU-HCM presents potential long-term research opportunities for Duke students and faculty, Weinthal said.

“If you think about global environmental problems— such as climate change or water quality—many of the solutions involve the developing world,” she said. “Part of the our responsibility as global citizens and global scholars is to try and train that next generation, wherever they are.”

Weinthal said she believes this project fits into what Duke should be doing as a global university.

“We should be putting knowledge into the service of society, which means engaging in global opportunities,” she said. selective living groups relocating to Central Campus will be able to hold their meetings or events there.

“Even now, before the house model happens, having events there would help business,” Olojede said. “That would be a great way to get more people on board with the Food Factory.”

In addition to SLGs, Schmid said he would like to reach out to niche communities on Central, such as the intramural sports teams that practice on the fields near the restaurant.

“I would love to take care of students,” he said. “That would make my day.”

New, Special Topics, and Service Learning Courses in Global Health Explore your opportunities to learn more about global health!

Below are new global health courses, global health-related service learning courses, and some exciting special topics courses offered Spring 2012. Contact gh-courses@duke.edu for more information.

Anthropology and Global Health GLHLTH 120S/ CulAnth 119S * Designed for upper-level undergraduates Instructor: Harris Solomon

Global Health Law and Ethics GLHLTH 180 * Counts as a GHC Ethics Course Instructor: Jason Cross

Population and Environmental Dynamics Influencing Health GLHLTH 237S/ Environ 237S Instructor: William Pan

Displacement and Global Health Ethics 180S/ GLHLTH 180S/ CulAnth 180S * Part of the DukeImmerse Program Instructor: Nadia El-Shaarawi

War in Africa: Focus on Public Health AAAS 199/ Pubpol 195/ CulAnth 180 Instructor: Stephen Smith

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Global Nutrition: Over & Undernutrition in Developing Countries GLHLTH 220S * Service Learning Course Instructor: Sara Benjamin Neelon

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Halloween’s for adults, too A photo essay by Melissa Yeo.

Employees in various Duke eateries celebrated Halloween yesterday by dressing up for the occasion. At Chick-fil-A, the Great Hall and Joe Van Gogh, workers donned costumes, and the Great Hall offered free Halloween ice cream for customers.

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LIBYA from page 4 seized control of his Tripoli base while he was out of town, his aides said.

In response, Obeidi summoned about 700 heavily armed revolutionaries and threatened to wrest back control of the base, an old army supply headquarters in western Tripoli, said his son and legal adviser, Haytham al-Obeidi.

“It could have been a real confrontation. We were very, very angry,” the younger Obeidi said. The crisis was defused only when President Mustafa Abdel Jalil intervened, he said.

Haytham al-Obeidi said there were tensions between fighters from eastern Libya, where army officers such as his father defected en masse, and those from the west, many of them irregulars who took on Gadhafi’s military, risking torture and death.

Another confrontation occurred Monday evening at Tripoli’s military airport, where revolutionaries from eastern Libya pulled their guns on the crew of a military aircraft to try to get it to fly them to Benghazi, said Tripoli militia members who guard the facility. The group from the east was arrested, they said.

The lack of a unified Libyan military and police force has alarmed human rights activists, who say militias are meting out justice on an ad hoc basis to the country’s roughly 7,000 political prisoners, sometimes resorting to torture. At least 100 militias are operating in the city of Misrata, which suffered a bloody siege during the war, and more than 150 are in Tripoli, Western officials said. There are dozens more in Benghazi.

The cities have established councils to oversee the armed groups, but the degree of organization is limited.

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Sadiq Turki, a revolutionary who is director of a military hospital in Tripoli, told a reporter that all of his militia members had ID cards and had to register their weapons.

“It's forbidden to fire in the streets,” said Turki, wearing a black T-shirt and camouflage pants. “Even my bullets, we do an inventory. Someone comes every few days and counts.”

But moments after he spoke, someone with a semiautomatic rifle let loose with a rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat in the hospital garden, apparently firing in the air for fun.

“Who's shooting? Who's shooting?” Turki demanded.

Militias possess not only rifles, but also antiaircraft guns, rocket launchers and other heavy weapons.

“In the future, we'll give them up to the military—when we have a military,” said Ashraf Jibril, 32, a jeans-clad revolutionary guarding the military airport. But the military can exert control only if the armed militias abandon their weapons, diplomats say.

Sharif said militia leaders are trying to form an umbrella group to negotiate with the government on the new military.

A chief demand, he said, is that longtime Gadhafi allies who changed sides during the revolution not get top jobs.

“We don't want, after all this sacrifice... to see the same old faces in charge again,” he said.

Diplomats say they expect Belhadj, who played a key role in the revolution, to seek senior Defense Ministry posts for his allies. That has caused some unease among Western officials, since Belhadj belonged to the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which was listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization. Belhadj has said he did not support al-Qaida, as some members of the group did.

WAR from page 4 The Istanbul conference is to be followed by a broader international gathering on Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany, on Dec. 5, and by a NATO summit meeting in Chicago in May that will add a political component to plans drawn up last year for the withdrawal of combat troops by the end of 2014.

In Chicago, the United States and its allies “hope to be able to say more about reconciliation” among Afghan combatants, “knock on wood,” said the official, who discussed the administration's plan on the condition of anonymity.

This official and others acknowledged that the success of the strategy, which Clinton has described as “fight, talk and build,” depends on a positive outcome for several variables that currently appear headed in the wrong direction.

On Saturday, insurgents staged a suicide bomb attack in Kabul that killed at least 12 Americans, a Canadian and four Afghans.

A similar truck bomb attack Monday left three United Nations employees dead in the southern city of Kandahar.

The attacks were the latest in a series of spectacular insurgent strikes that have made reconciliation seem remote. In September, the Pentagon blamed the Haqqani network for a truck bombing of a combat outpost west of Kabul that wounded 77 U.S. troops and for an assault by gunmen on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

A week after the embassy strike, a suicide bomber killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, the head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, which is in charge of reconciliation negotiations for the government.

U.S. officials have said they were unsure whether the attacks were a reflection of insurgent military weakness, a rejection of

talks or a burst of aggression designed to improve the militants' negotiating position, similar to the escalation of U.S. attacks on the Haqqani network.

“I don't think we could have any more of a robust military effort at this point,” said a second administration official of the U.S. combat effort, “given what's been done on the Afghan side of the border over the last few weeks, given the ongoing kind of other efforts to target (Haqqani) leadership,” including recent drone strikes on Haqqani sanctuaries in western Pakistan. “That will continue as aggressively and robustly as it has.”

But, the official said, “that does not mean... that it will necessarily foreclose opportunities on the talk side, recognizing that we have to keep an open mind.”

In recent months, U.S. officials have held preliminary talks with the umbrella Taliban organization, led by Mohammad Omar, and the Haqqani network. This effort, this official said, is to “make sure that we explore all opportunities that have the potential to bring this to a successful resolution.”

Another uncertainty is whether Pakistan is willing or able to support the U.S. plan.

The administration has concluded that Pakistan will never launch an all-out military offensive against Haqqani sanctuaries in the North Waziristan tribal region and has stopped exhorting it to do so.

Instead, after publicly accusing Pakistan's intelligence service of aiding and directing the insurgents, the administration has offered a new compact. The price of attaining its desired position of influence over Afghanistan’s future, Clinton and others in a high-powered delegation told Pakistan during a visit there last week, is intelligence and military assistance in U.S. strikes against the Haqqani leadership, along with pressure on the insurgents to negotiate.

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Saturday afternoon’s game at Wallace Wade Stadium proved one thing: Try as he might, Matt Daniels cannot win football games by himself.

For the second time in his career, Daniels had a career day against Virginia Tech. He finished the day with 13 total tackles, including five solo efforts, and two interceptions that he managed to return for a total of 43 yards. A third interception was overturned after the replay booth revealed that Daniels had rolled out-ofbounds while ripping the ball away from a Hokie receiver.

Three years ago, Daniels had an interception and a fumble Ryan recovery on a chilly November evening in Blacksburg—a game in which the Blue Devils trailed by four points for all but the final 90 seconds of the second half. Sound familiar?

Daniels has been Duke’s best player this season by a long shot. Anyone who has taken in a game at Wallace Wade this fall would probably tell you that the most common phrase uttered by the public address announcer is, “Tackle on the play made by number 40, Matt Daniels.”

And that person would be right. Through eight games, Daniels has registered a whopping 82 tackles—26 more than the team’s second-leading tackler Kelby Brown. In fact, Daniels has recorded more solo tackles, 42, than all but two of his teammates have recorded in total tackles.

The freedom granted to the senior safety in the Blue Devils’ new 4-2-5 scheme has paid dividends. After Duke’s average points allowed ballooned to 35.4 per game last season, the Daniels-led 4-2-5 has trimmed that number back down to a respectable 27.4 points this year—the Blue Devils’ lowest figure since allowing 23.4 points per game during the 2008 campaign.

In ACC play that figure is even better, down to 24.5 points per game, placing Duke at fourth in the conference despite having played the league’s secondand fourth-ranked scoring offenses in Florida State and Wake Forest.

Perhaps even more impressive is the unit’s effectiveness on third down in conference play. The Blue Devils lead the ACC in opponents’ third down conversion rate, allowing opponents to gain a first down on just one-third of their attempts.

Give the coaching staff credit for the change. Defensive coordinator Jim Knowles changed the scheme to fit the strengths of his personnel, allowing Daniels to put the “free” in the “free safety” position and play closer to the line of scrimmage against the run as Duke’s best open-field tackler. At the same time, Daniels has improved his skills in pass coverage, registering 13 pass break-ups on the year—second in the country and more than double the output of any of his teammates.

Daniels and the Blue Devil defense played their best half of the season Saturday afternoon, shutting out Virginia Tech in the second half while trailing by seven points or less throughout. The unit thoroughly dominated the Hokies’ offense in the final thirty minutes, forcing Virginia Tech to punt on six of its seven drives in the half. The seventh drive started with 55 seconds remaining in the game and ended as time expired after two kneel-downs.

The Hokies’ average starting position on those drives

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Chris Tweed-Kent was not recruited by a top collegiate soccer program, but the senior has become an MLS prospect.

One of the rarest sights in the sports world is an athlete who unintentionally stumbles upon the potential for a professional career. Instead, most players are usually bred for the big-time spotlight since their youth, and know little outside of a life revolving around their sport.

Chris Tweed-Kent, a senior midfielder with high hopes of hearing his name announced during the 2012 MLS SuperDraft next January, breaks away from this stereotype.

His story is very different than those of the names that surround his on the mock drafts.

Even though he always “dreamed of it as a little kid,” soccer was never part of his realistic 10-year plan. He was not heavily recruited by any Division-I programs, so the opportunity to play in the ACC—arguably the best collegiate conference—seemed out of the question.

“I didn’t even know what the path to going professional was [growing up],” Tweed-Kent said. “I knew the first step was to play on a good college team, and I didn’t think that was even a possibility.”

Instead, he was admitted to Duke based on his own academic merit. For this reason, he began his collegiate athletic career as a mere hobby, on the University’s very own club soccer team.

Quickly though, he began to desire higher athletic achievements. After communicating his interest with head coach John Kerr, he, along with his identical twin brother Daniel, was granted a spring-semester tryout for the varsity team. Kerr decided to offer both Tweed-Kents spots on the team after the initial trial period, citing their “work ethic” and “effort” as their biggest assets. The head coach resonates those claims even today.

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fromstaffreports Thomas leads USA to Pan-Am bronze Lance Thomas scored a team-high 14 points and successfully defended a potential game-winning 3-pointer in the United States’ 94-92 win Sunday over the Dominican Republic, earning the bronze medal at the Pan-American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Thomas, a starter on the Blue Devils’ 2010 national championship team, averaged 8.2 and 7.6 rebounds in the tournament. He went 5-for-10 from the field in the United States’ finale. His 38 total rebounds ranked fourth among all competitors, with 20 coming on the offensive glass.

The 6-foot-8 forward averaged 12.6 points and 5.5 rebounds in 46 games last season with the Austin Toros of the NBA D-League.

The medal is the Americans’ first since 1999 at the Games, and the team has now earned a top-3 finish in 13 of its 16 appearances.

Punter Alex King on Ray Guy Award list Senior Alex King is one of 54 punters who have been named to the Ray Guy Award list, the Augusta Sports Council announced Monday. The award is presented at the end of each season to the country’s best punter.

King landed two punts inside the Virginia Tech 5-yard line last Saturday and ranks second in the ACC with a 42.77 yard punt average, also good for 32nd nationally. In his career, King has had only 10 punts downed for touchbacks compared to 35 within the 20-yard line.

The list will be cut to the top-10 punters in the nation on Nov. 11, and three finalists will be named 10 days later.

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Lance Thomas, who has spent the last two seasons with the Austin Toros in the NBA D-League, led the United States in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Duke faces struggling Phoenix in Koskinen First of two nonconference games before ACC tournament play begins next week

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After defeating Virginia Tech to close out their ACC schedule, the Blue Devils take on the first of two non-conference opponents to finish their regular season.

Duke puts its sixgame home winning Elon streak on the line tonight against Elon vs. at 7 p.m., having not lost at Koskinen StaDuke dium since Sept. 9.

The Phoenix (6-10TUESDAY, 7 p.m.

1) have been inconsisKoskinen Stadium tent this season, with their play even varying from half-to-half.

Despite their middling record, they have outscored opponents in the first period of games this season 12-8. In the second half, however, they have been beaten 21-12.

The Blue Devils (9-6-1), who have shown the propensity to come out of the gate slowly in games this season, understand that the first half of play will be critical in avoiding an upset.

“We scored in the first six minutes of the game against Virginia Tech, which was good,” head coach John Kerr said. “And, we need to get off the mark strong [again]….

The key for us is to get off to a good start and get into the game early, and put the pressure on the other team right away.”

Duke and Elon have played five of the

same teams this season—Clemson, Davidson, Furman, UNC-Greensboro and Wake Forest. The Blue Devils won four of those five games by a combined margin of 11-3, with their only loss a 3-2 early-season effort against the Spartans.

The Phoenix also lost to the Spartans, falling 1-0 to them in their most recent game, as well as against the Wildcats and Paladins. They are, however, undefeated against ACC foes with wins over both the Demon Deacons and the Tigers.

This week, facing two out-of-conference foes in Elon and Mercer is Duke’s one ACC bye week. Each team gets one week in conference play in which they do not face a conference opponent, and the Blue Devils’ just happens to be the last of the year.

“I guess in some ways it’s kind of nice to go into the final week and have two different opponents that don’t know you as well,” Kerr said. “It kind of gives it that playoff feel.”

With that added layer of excitement, the Blue Devils certainly understand that this is not the time to become complacent. Even though they have a few players who have played nearly every minute of every game this season, like forward Andrew Wenger, rest is not a part of the game plan.

“No, no, no—we cannot afford that luxury at this present time,” Kerr said. “So we’re going to be playing our full group and taking it from there.”

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TWEED-KENT from page 9 hard and be intense,” he said. “That’s what really attracted me. At worst, they could have improved the level of practice. I would never have predicted the standing of both Chris and Dan at this stage of their careers. It’s remarkable how well each of them has done.”

Still, Chris was just a walk-on. The transition to simply making the team pales in comparison to that of becoming a professional prospect. Although he believes he was initially looked down upon, he viewed his situation as an opportunity to impress instead of adopting a “chip-on-my-shoulder” type of attitude.

“I think [being a walk-on] is nice because there’s no pressure, no expectations,” Tweed-Kent said. “I do the best that I can, and that’s more than what anybody expects. [Other recruits] have been playing at a higher level their entire lives, whereas I made a bit of a jump. I’m still raw.”

To be certain, Chris has proven his ability to compete on that “higher level.” Since joining the team as a sophomore, he has started in nearly every contest for the team.

He only realized that he wanted, or had the skill, to pursue professional soccer after his breakout junior year, however, when he tied for the ACC lead in total assists. His nine assists this season rank him atop the conference yet again, and Kerr says TweedKent now has “a future in professional soccer if he wants it.”

That junior summer, when his classmates were vying for pre-professional internships, he decided to pursue his dream and play for the Carolina Dynamo of the USL Professional Development League. This experience allowed him to measure his abilities against other MLS hopefuls and impress the frequenting professional recruiters.

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I wanted to seriously pursue,” Tweed-Kent said. “I decided to commit to it, and that’s why this summer I played soccer instead of going to Wall Street or a consulting firm.”

That is not to say he was unqualified for a Wall Street or consulting job. In fact, one could argue that Chris is more-than-qualified for a host of careers. Though playing soccer is a tremendous time commitment, he has allowed himself to expand his college experience past the soccer field and build strong relationships throughout the entire Duke community.

“Chris and Dan were two of the most friendly people in the entire hall,” senior Sonya Kothadia, who lived with the twins in Blackwell freshman year, said. “Their presence helped other people open up and get to know each other. They always seemed busy and going somewhere, but that never meant that they did not stop by to say hello.”

In person, he passionately describes his other commitments on campus, such as serving as the co-President of ChangeEducate, a non-profit start-up that aims to teach students about poverty and encourage them to lead social change. Or he will talk about his DukeEngage trip to Santiago, Chile, the summer after his sophomore year. He is more guarded about his successful academic career, though—he boasts a 3.84 GPA as a mechanical engineer in the Pratt School of Engineering.

“I’ve done well, but I think it’s because I’m interested in it,” Tweed-Kent said. “The reason I’ve been able to balance all these things is that I truly enjoy everything I do.

At times, I am definitely stressed and overworked, but at the same time, I’m doing all the things that I want to be doing.”

His hard work has paid off. In recent months, he has taken part in the more traditional job recruiting process, garnering offers from such prestigious consulting firms as Bain and Deloitte, in addition to being in the midst of interviewing with Ac-

centure. Instead of accepting an offer immediately after graduation, however, including the possibility to join Dan at Bain, his mentality is straightforward. Soccer comes first. He has even chosen to graduate early this December—a decision that requires him to take a required engineering capstone class at N.C. State during this soccer season just to be able to participate in spring preseason workouts for which-

ever MLS club drafts him.

“I have a lot of different [professional interests], and you can only play soccer for so many years,” Tweed-Kent said. “So my interest is to pursue soccer for as long as I can, and for as long as it’s worthwhile. After that, I look forward to a career in many other things. This won’t be my only career, but if I could make it a career, I would. Everything else can come later.”

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After tying for the ACC assists lead last season, Chris Tweed-Kent is first in the conference with nine this year.

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CLAXTON from page 9 was on their own 14-yard line—courtesy of the Blue Devils’ second-best player, punter Alex King. So what was Duke’s average starting position in the second half? A foot past its own 44-yard line. That’s a 30-yard advantage on which the Blue Devil offense failed to capitalize five times in the second half.

Duke punted twice in the second half, once pinning Virginia Tech on its own three-yard line and the other time pinning the Hokies on their own four-yard line. Virginia Tech went three-and-out both times.

But the Blue Devils also missed a field goal, got burned on an ill-advised naked bootleg that resulted in a turnover on downs, and tipped a pass into the hands of a Hokie defender for the second time on the day.

The only time Duke scored on a second-half drive was a field goal on its first possession—after starting on Virginia Tech’s 29-yard line and covering 22 yards on 11 plays.

The question for Blue Devil football is no longer its defense. Saturday afternoon, the Duke defense did its job. Matt Daniels solidified himself as not only the lead-

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Unfortunately, Daniels can’t win football games by himself. The Blue Devils have the defense and the special teams they need to compete, but they need an offense if they want to win.

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Slow start is a good start for DKU Last Wednesday, the Fuqua tious one—it sticks to what School of Business faculty did Duke already knows it can do the brick-and-mortar edifice well. But, in putting a tentaat Duke Kunshan University tive foot forward, Fuqua has one better: It proposed an perhaps put its best foot foractual curriculum to teach ward, too. there.

This The latest editorial proposal has proposal has long been in much more the wings; Fuqua has consid- flesh than it did when it was ered a Master of Management brought up for discussion Studies program at DKU for this summer, when faculty at least six months. Nonethe- never voted on it because of less, as buildings go up for the unease about the lack of stucampus’ Spring 2013 open- dent demand in China and ing, it is nice to see academic issues of academic freedom. plans on the table.

There was plenty of room This is especially true now for debate: Should the prothat business school’s plans gram, for instance, focus on appear less gung-ho and Chinese students or a cross more reassuring. The Fuqua continental audience? The faculty’s proposal, which cre- faculty could not counteates a MMS program that nance this uncertainty and, splits course time between when the program came Durham and China, is a cau- up for a vote last June, they

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Much happened in the interim. Two new deliberative bodies—the China Faculty Council and the Academic Council’s global priorities committee—have arrived on the scene, along with the well-credentialed China education expert William Kirby, the T.M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard, and a number of other players.

These councils draw membership from across the University’s schools.

It is unclear whether or not these councils have gotten down to the brass tacks of Duke’s China plans. For instance, in an Oct. 30 meeting with the editorial board, Provost Peter Lange cited the China Faculty Council’s dis-

cussion of whether or not an urban or suburban location for DKU would be best as an example of the committee’s deliberations—an issue of more theoretical than practical interest at this stage in DKU’s development. Nonetheless, we read the new MMS proposal as a sign of the faculty’s tempering influence on DKU’s development.

The actual proposal plays it safe by emulating both the Durham campus’ MMS program and the Fuqua Cross Continent Master of Business Administration program. Despite our reservations about the MMS program, now in its third year, 87 percent of its 2011 graduates seeking employment accepted job offers by mid-October. Likewise, the Cross Continent MBA

program, which launched in 2000, has proven financially viable and provides a model for shuffling students and faculty back and forth between hemispheres. These programs work well enough.

Emulation is sensible and measured. It will allow Duke to get a sense for student demand in the region without committing to a program run fully out of DKU, and will allow Duke to probe issues of curriculum quality and academic freedom.

Did we really need a shiny new campus to run a Cross Continent MMS program?

Certainly not, and, as it stands, we’re not getting the most bang for our ($37 million) bucks in DKU. But this is a responsible first step toward DKU’s future.

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he Occupation Force apparently has a need to ask is, how come we produce so many lot of messages for the Man, but one that people whose self-interest is that unbalanced? It’s keeps coming through loud and clear is not like we’re born caring only about bling. Chilits claim that Corporate Greed is dren acquire their understanding at the root of most of the economof their self-interest from watchic problems in our society. So I ing and interacting with the rest thought I’d do my bit to help fight of us. To use a Halloween analogy, the power by breaking down this children come to us and ask us to claim and helping the Occupants fill up their self-interest treat bags refine the message. with all kinds of different candies, The first thing to adjust is the but everyone keeps giving them Corporate part. Though it’s true connel fullenkamp the 100 Grand Bars. Sure, the 100 that legally, a corporation is seen Grand Bar is nice, but wouldn’t you leptokurtotic as a person, corporations rewant a few Pixy Stix to snort, too? ally aren’t people. But there are So we’re doing a pretty crappy lots of people who work for companies, lots of job of imparting a balanced sense of self-interest people who demand products from companies in our kids. How did it get this way, and how can and lots of people who own companies. Not sur- we fix it? Those are some of the questions that prisingly, there are lots of greedy people in all our Occupals should be asking. of these groups. So we have a little problem in Instead, they probably want to put the regupicking the greedy perp out of the lineup. Is the latory smackdown on banks and other corporacorporate behavior that we don’t like caused by tions. Now, I’m not necessarily opposed to using the greedy employees who want higher pay and our social institutions to create a counterbalance benefits, the greedy customers who want to buy to unrestrained self-interest. But if the people everything as cheaply as possible or the greedy running the institutions—regulators and lawshareholders who want high profits? Isn’t it all makers, pontiffs, pundits and professors—are of the above? hobbled by the same unbalanced self-interest And let’s move on to the Greed part. Saying as the people in these companies, do you really that greed causes economic problems is like say- think we’ll get anywhere using this approach? ing that gravity is the root of all plane crashes— And finally, the whole idea advanced by the it’s sort of right, but not exactly helpful. The Occupilers-on, that Greed is the only cause, or fact is that all of us are self-interested. That’s just even the main cause, of our economic problems part of our humanity—and it’s there, by the way, is just a tad oversimplified. It’s clear to me that for a good reason. If you aren’t self-interested, all of the Seven Deadlies are in on it. If you sift you don’t live very long. through the stories and public statements of But what being self-interested really means regulators, bankers and ordinary people during is that we’re motivated to do things that make the past decade, you’ll find them all. There’s us feel better—physically, mentally, emotionally, Pride in our belief that market discipline and heck, even spiritually (by the way, shout out to financial models were perfect, for example. And all the saints on All Saints’ Day, wooooooooo! there was plenty of Sloth on the part of everyYou rock). The source of the problem isn’t our one who couldn’t be bothered to understand self-interest; it’s the list of things we include in the contracts, do their due diligence or wonder the set of stuff that makes us happy. Turns out whether house prices really can only go up. I’m that, for many people, it’s a depressingly short sure that Gluttony and Lust played their parts, list. Again, the problem isn’t necessarily that too, but I just don’t want to imagine certain we care about Money, Mo’ Money, Powah and government officials and bankers getting their Bling—the problem is that there isn’t anything freak on—oops, too late. else on the list that comes close to balancing out I think it’s great that people are trying to these affections. In particular, we don’t seem to rattle the cages on Wall Street, downtowns and put much weight on other people’s well-being. college campuses around the world—as long as Or we simply don’t understand how our own it stays peaceful, of course. But the place we rewell-being depends on the efforts and well-be- ally need to occupy and take back is our own ing of other people. preferences.

Greed, to me, is self-interest that is unbalanced by concern for other people and which therefore Connel Fullenkamp is the director of undergradufaces no restraint—it’s simply self-interest that ate studies and professor of the practice of economics. is out of control. And the big question that we His column runs every other Tuesday.

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ast week, I was shaken by the news of the unexpected death of one of my high school classmates. There’s never really an appropriate time to talk about death—never the right words to say, or the right emotions to feel. It touches all of us in different ways at different times, but reaching peace and finding comfort can follow no standard formula.

As hard as it is for me to speak or write about death, I’ve found it harder to think amanda garfinkel about anything else in the the devil doesn’t days leading up to writing wear prada this column. The passions, questions and conversations that usually fuel my fire seemed to melt away as I was drawn, by the tragedy of this death, to step back and reflect.

It deeply unsettles me to try to rationalize some “silver lining” of death, and it pains me to recognize that it takes an event of this scale for me to remember that life is beautiful. I can only hope, though, that by being honest and open in my reflections, I can contribute my small part to see that my classmate’s life does not pass in vain.

While giving myself the time and the permission to engage in reflection, I found my way back to one of the most thought-provoking books I’ve ever read—“Have a Little Faith” by Mitch Albom, who also authored “The Five People You Meet in Heaven.” One of the quotes I rediscovered has been particularly inspiring in my own search for comfort and meaning: “If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business.”

What strikes me about this quote is the last piece, about the “aching throb of unfulfilled business.” I recognize that to some extent, my daily choices and interactions are driven by a self-timed race to meet as many people as possible, to “do my best” in absolutely everything and to “get the most” out of each and every day. I live in fear of missing out on something meaningful and in fear of failing to “make the most” of life, but I think I too often subscribe to the wrong idea of what “meaningful” actually means.

I tend to worry that my purpose in life will be “unfulfilled” if I don’t get the perfect internship next summer, if I don’t graduate Duke with a mapped-out career path or if I don’t give all the energy I can to fixing injustice in the world around me. It becomes easy for me to justify these worries when I can peg “meaning” onto the future, believing that the rush and the stress I create for myself now will be worthwhile when, someday, I’ll hopefully do something to make the world a better place.

But by moving so fast and thinking so far ahead, I think I am allowing my life to be too heavily ruled by that cursed, “aching throb.” When I consider whether I really “tend to things that are important in life,” if I am right with those who I love and behave in line with my faith, I can admit that my race to a future finish line causes me to lose sight of these real tenets of fulfillment.

The relationships and experiences that should take precedence in my life are those that exist unconditionally, but forming these relationships and experiences is not enough—I need to step back from my impulsive search for future fulfillment and make it a greater priority to “tend to” and reaffirm the incredibly meaningful elements of my life that are already there.

I know that living a life based completely in the present is impractical and unrealistic. Sometimes thinking ahead is crucial, and enduring stress to achieve a future goal isn’t always a bad thing. I really do hope, though, that this time of reflection will inspire me to strive for a better balance. I want to commit to calling my two brothers more often, to being more reliably and consistently in touch with my childhood friends. I want to take time to cultivate a better understanding of what “faith” means to me, and how it might play out in my daily life. I want to stop measuring my own fulfillment by some gold standard of future achievement and truly practice the often-preached directive to “live in the moment.”

Amanda Garfinkel is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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t Occupy Duke, I have engaged in conversations of study. Specific studies like string theory or Marxist unbound by traditional or conservative con- literary theory could exist as their own syndicates but straints. During this experience, I have constantly with new and necessary diversity from philosophy or challenged my conception of self and history. knowledge. Unfortunately, these anomaMost will complain that such a struclous experiences juxtapose Duke as a reture will allow free loaders. The current flection of the Academy, primarily due to structure leaves many students unenthe mechanisms currently and inapprogaged in their studies and encourages priately defining this space: departments, students—we all know a few—to search majors, faculty tenure and grades. for an “easy” or “guaranteed” A. The Before my faculty readership heads to prevalence of this cowardly failure dithe barracks, let’s be real—tenure’s days rectly mirrors the academic structure josh brewer are numbered. Free speech is protected and those working within that strucby law and public image. Sometimes the southern socialism ture. A horizontally modeled Academy existence of tenure even discourages would reunite studies and interests and free speech: Tenure, always hanging over the heads through this desire—as Alfred Whitehead describes— of junior faculty, discourages dissent in departmental return to the rigorous study that the current model igand University politics. Further, tenure creates an un- norantly defines as prerequisites. necessary pressure to publish quickly, and sometimes Some faculty claim that the influx of scientific reclumsily, before reaching that point where you could search funds would skew interest. This is part of the potentially relax. The Academy should never force problem: True scientists understand the potential falcapitalistically defined productivity onto intellectual- lacy of fact; they challenge everything. If you allow the ism. Given the extreme distaste for tenure outside of abstract academic divisions to interact with and teach the Academy and increasingly within its halls, it has be- one another, they will understand the necessity of a dicome clear that tenure will end—now, what can faculty verse Academy. This is not altruistic but selfishly and get in exchange? Give up tenure before it is demanded directly necessary for all involved. of you and, in doing so, recreate the space for yourself Instead of the organized validation service we now and the future. run at Duke—majors—this educational structure Faculty should demand empowerment, especially would embolden students to search for a faculty counon issues directly affecting the classroom and intellec- cil of five or six members from diverse backgrounds. tual pursuits. An empowered faculty collective—par- These faculty members, accumulated over the course tially obtainable through unionization—could replace of the education, could properly challenge, criticize the unnecessary bureaucracy found in deanships, the and recommend the students whom they work with. provost and possibly the University president. Without Faculty, unburdened by departmental procedure and the current power structures—which mainly derive constant interpretation of dean proclamations, would power through the allocation of money—faculty could find this advising structure rewarding both educationpredictively huddle into their outdated and confined ally and personally. Instead of a nebulous grading scale zones of intellectual decay: departments. For this rea- which, because of departmental inflation, reflects son, among others, true faculty empowerment and de- nothing, this model gives faculty the power to make partmental abolishment depend on one another; one real demands of students. Instead of jumping through without the other would fail miserably. If faculty mem- hoops—restricted on the top and bottom ends—we bers hear such calls from the triumvirate running this might high jump. show, they would rightfully reach for pitchforks. Let Duke must, for once, have confidence in itself. We them hear it from students on the basis of education. are not Yale or the other Ivies; admit that fact and stop The primary goal of this space is revolution; educa- waiting for them to do everything first. Duke’s age is tion is entirely revolutionary by challenging ontology its greatest asset. We can change everything if we wish. and epistemology. If this space continues to ignore Create an educational structure that fosters rather its commitments, Duke will be nothing more than a than suppresses intellectualism. Anticipate rather than job training institute. The Academy’s structure must react to the evolution of the Academy. Such a change force interaction between schools of thought and per- would properly appropriate funds to intellectual progsonal experience. One promising academic model ress rather than faculty and student babysitting. Duke mirrors an anarcho-syndicalist structure with emer- would attract more applicants and interest from the gent syndicates around proposed fields of study like academic community. Conservative hand-wringing food, hip-hop, American labor or—as Mark Taylor ar- will do nothing to reverse Duke’s slipping ranking and gued in The New York Times—water. These working reputation; it is time for something radical. Duke must groups would arise organically and suspend study as become an educational space where faculty and studetermined by the collective. Traditional studies like dents are empowered to shape their own internal and basic chemistry and mathematics could be found in external revolution. a variety of syndicates similar to the physics department’s current separation of general mechanics and Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior. His column runs every electricity and magnetism along the proposed fields other Tuesday.

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