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Bull City Co-working brings entrepreneurs together

Whitfield to be named vice provost of academic affiars

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

by Andrew Karim THE CHRONICLE

Space sharing in the Bull City may soon go beyond dorm rooms.

Co-working—the concept of independent professionals sharing a single corporatemodeled workspace—is a growing trend in Durham.

Bull City Co-working, a locally funded start-up, is scheduled to open Nov. 8 on Main Street, just a few blocks away from the city’s downtown dis-

trict. According to the group’s website, $3,021 out of the goal amount of $7,200 has been raised as of Wednesday night to launch the new space.

“We felt that Durham lacked a simple, affordable coworking space, where people from all sorts of professional backgrounds could come to work together,” said Brian Rascoe, co-founder of Bull City Co-working.

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Keith Whitfield, professor of psychology and neuroscience, has been named vice provost of academic affairs, the University announced Wednesday.

Whitfield, who is also co-director of Duke’s Center on BioBehavioral and Social Aspects of Health Disparities, succeeds John Simon, who became the executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia in October. Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for research at the Duke University School of Medicine, was announced as Simon’s successor Sept. 29, however, she recently decided not to take the position in order to continue her biomedical research.

Whitfield is currently an administrative fellow in the Office of the Provost. As a fellow, he has been shadowing Provost Peter Lange for about two months—an experience that has prepared him to take on his new administrative role, he said. He has been working closely with Lange’s team, which has col-

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lectively taken on Simon’s projects since his departure.

“It has kind of been a strange set of events,” Whitfield said, adding that he will officially assume his role as vice provost for academic affairs next week.

Kornbluth was expected to begin Nov. 1, but she informed Keith Whitfield Lange that she no longer wanted the role over the weekend, Lange said. He added that Whitfield was considered as a candidate for the position in the original search that was conducted earlier this Fall.

Although she was excited to be offered the position in the provost’s office, Kornbluth said she soon realized that she did not want to leave her research behind. Lange and the administration were understanding, she said, when she informed him that she would be returning to her original role in the Medical SEE WHITFIELD ON PAGE 4

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Occupy Duke one of few collegiate demonstrations

by Kotoe Oshima THE CHRONICLE

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Occupy Duke stands out as one of the only Occupy movements protesting directly on a college campus.

Similar protests at Duke’s peer institutions are working with their corresponding, local Occupy movements. Students of Occupy Duke, however, are distinct from Occupy Durham, a result of not just student independence but of a weakening local movement.

Until the Duke student body decides to rally around the Occupy movement more forcefully, there are no plans to collaborate with Occupy Durham, said Occupy Duke member Anastasia Karklina, a sophomore.

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SEE OCCUPY ON PAGE 12

Senior forward Miles Plumlee scored eight points as the Blue Devils defeated Shaw 80-66 in Duke’s final exhibition game of the year. SEE STORY PAGE 7.

Not only is Occupy Duke one of the few Occupy movements on a college campus, Occupy Duke does not associate with Occupy Durham.

Journalist Girardet speaks in Sanford, Page 3

ONTHERECORD

“...learning Chinese in the hyper-organization and structure of formal language pedagogy is exhausting.”

—Jessica Kim in “Becoming a ‘real’ person.” See column page 10

DSG votes against providing supplies to Occupy Duke, Page 3

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Pro-Obama group launches anti-Romney campaign

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A political action committee that backs President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is starting a social media advertising blitz against Mitt Romney one year before voters go to the polls to choose the next president.

Priorities USA Action, a so-called super committee that takes unlimited donation checks and is run by former Obama aides, is buying $100,000 in ads on the websites of Facebook , Google and Google’s YouTube.

The ad, titled “Mitt Romney’s America,” asserts that the former Massachusetts governor would favor investors rather than middle-income voters, would deregulate Wall Street and let struggling homeowners face foreclosure.

The Internet video offers a glimpse into how Democrats are trying to define the former private equity executive with attacks that will likely reappear in television ads if Romney wins the Republican nomination.

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“The Loving Story” Film Screening Carolina Theater, 10a.m.-12p.m.

This free screening of “The Loving Story” will offer a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the watershed civil rights case Loving v. Virginia.

Duke Collegium Perkins Library, 10:30-11:30a.m.

The Collegium Musicum will perform at the outdoor alcove. Its repertory includes Gregorian chants, Baroque sonatas and cantatas.

Ricin Plot based on online Zimbabwe sees diamond novel, court papers say sales as exports ban ends WASHINGTON, D.C. — Four Georgia men arrested this week in connection with a scheme to conduct an attack with explosives and a deadly toxin were partly inspired by an online novel, according to court documents. But their plans, experts said, may not have ever escaped the realm of fantasy.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe has the potential to produce about 25 percent of the world’s diamonds and could earn more than $2 billion a year from gem sales now that a ban on exports has been lifted, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said Wednesday.

Online ‘Office Hours’ on Life Lessons From Theater Webcast, 12-1p.m.

During the live and interactive webcast, theater professor Hemphill will answer questions about applying theatrical skills to life.

Modern Dance Great Hall, 1:30-2p.m.

As a part of the 2011 Duke Arts Festival, dance students will perform live during lunch in the Great Hall.

TODAY IN HISTORY 1964: D.C. residents cast first presidential votes.

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“For Halloween, some flock to Franklin Street, others go to class dressed as critters, some knock on doors for candy and the really adventurous stay home. The Chronicle‘s Raisa Chowdhury spoke to students about their thoughts on the holiday this year.”

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Girardet offers unique insight Senate votes to bar write-in into Afghanistan’s prospects candidates for YT election

by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE

After decades of turmoil, Afghanistan still has a long road to recovery, an experienced war correspondent said Wednesday.

Edward Girardet, a journalist who has spent more than 30 years covering conflict in Afghanistan, spoke about his work to a group of 30 graduate students and local residents in the Sanford School of Public Policy. He detailed his time in Afghanistan and gave insights on the nation’s present-day struggles.

Girardet, a Swiss-American now working for National Geographic and other media outlets, first went to Afghanistan in 1979 on the advice of a friend. One motivation for going was the isolation he felt when many of his friends began to cover other wars at the time, he said.

“I felt a bit, as a young reporter, a bit out of this,” Girardet said. “I actually was looking for a war, to put it bluntly.”

Girardet said he traveled mostly on foot, and frequently with anti-Soviet Mujahedeen forces. He often stayed in villages, and even after walking for hours would talk to his hosts late into the night.

“We had a very close connection to the Afghan people,” he said. “One of the ways we traveled was with French doctors—we were able to talk to women that way.... They had this close contact.”

Girardet’s presentation, co-sponsored by Sanford, the Duke Center for

International Development, the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy and the Duke-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rotary Peace Center, was titled “Afghanistan, The Great Pretend Game,” and drew from his recent book, “Killing the Cranes: A Reporter’s Journey Through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan.”

Catherine Admay, visiting professor of public policy, brought Girardet to the University. Admay said she hoped attendees would appreciate his realworld experience.

“So many think you can learn what you need to learn in the stacks,” Admay said. “But at some time you absolutely need to have people who have also hit the mountain—this is a man who’s trekked 16 hours to get stories we don’t have in the stacks.”

Among the many things Girardet did while moving with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, he encouraged the ethical treatment of prisoners. He carried comic books about the Geneva Convention with him in order to dissuade commanders from executing prisoners. He said he found it hard to convince people with the Geneva Convention argument alone and shared an argument he found more effective.

“I’d say look, Allah wants you to be magnanimous, to show mercy—just think of all the publicity you’ll get if you release your prisoners,” he said.

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Duke Student Government considered purchasing supplies for the Occupy Duke movement but ultimately voted against it at the DSG meeting Wednesday.

Sophomore Fedja Pavlovic, senator for residential life and dining, proposed providing basic necessities for student participants of the Occupy Duke movement. The participants intend to continue camping out in the Chapel Quadrangle until winter break, even as temperatures continue to drop.

“It’s important to accommodate students who are paying $50,000 a year,” Pavlovic said. “The least we can do is get them in sleeping bags.”

Students have the right to assemble on the quad, but since they are paying tuition, Duke has the obligation to provide them with basic necessities, Pavlovic said. Funds would cover sleeping bags, mattresses and heaters.

Pavlovic argued that DSG would not be taking a political stance by accommodating students because the Occupy movement is not affiliated with a political party.

“By doing this, we [would be] supporting the idea of political activism,” Pavlovic said. “They offer both political and civil activism, as well as dialogue.”

He noted that political activism is just as much a distinctive characteristic of

Duke as is the tenting tradition in Krzyzewskiville. This analogy raised a new concern in the Senate, questioning whether or not DSG should then provide funds to support tenting.

After much debate, five senators voted in favor of the legislation, but the vast majority voted against it.

In other business: Sophomore Patrick Oathout, senator for athletics, services and the environment, discussed recognizing the need for student government outreach to other academic institutions in the Research Triangle Area. After a successful dinner with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s student government, DSG will continue to collaborate with North Carolina Central University and North Carolina State University, as well as UNC. Members of the Senate also discussed amendments to the Young Trustee bylaws. They proposed combining the eight-person committee with the 10-person committee, eliminating an unnecessary and ineffective split. After issues with students resigning early from their position as Young Trustee, senators also proposed an amendment allowing DSG to replenish up to two-thirds of the 18 members of the committee with DSG senators. A final amendment bars writein candidates from the election, creating a legitimate election process through the nomination committee.

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Breast cancer drug likely to be disapproved by FDA Trial results stymie drug’s individual successes

by Michael Lee THE CHRONICLE

When clinical trials suggest an expensive cancer drug is ineffective but individual cases highlight its benefits, the methods for evaluating clinical research come into question.

Avastin, a drug for use against metastatic breast cancer—an advanced stage of the news disease—is currently analysis pending final approval by the Food and Drug Administration. Recent clinical trials do not show overall improvements in survival rates, casting doubts on the drug’s practical effectiveness. But some oncologists are saying that if ways to see which patients would respond positively to Avastin are developed, it could be a very effective treatment for metastatic breast cancer. “Some patients do benefit from Avastin,� said Dr. Gary Lyman, medical oncologist and professor of medicine. “The problem is that most don’t.�

Lyman was part of the FDA’s Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee, which in 2007 placed Avastin on an accelerated track for use against breast cancer. Accelerated approval is uncommon, and it was granted partially due to promising results of a clinical trial and Avastin’s previous success as a treatment for colorectal cancer, Lyman said. Avastin, though potentially

beneficial, is also toxic, like most cancer drugs. It was approved with the provision that the drug be assessed again when two other clinical trials concluded.

When the trials ended in 2010, they showed unexpected results. “The [new] data reviewed this past year was not as encouraging as we had hoped based on the initial, accelerated approval decision,� Lyman said. “None of the [new] trials have shown an overall survival improvement indication.�

Compared to the first trial, the new trials indicated a shorter period of progression-free survival, the time during or after medication in which the cancer ceases to worsen. They did not demonstrate a survival advantage or an improved quality of life on average, Lyman said. He and other oncologists noted, however, that there are certain patients for whom Avastin works very well, a phenomenon that might not be reflected in a large clinical study. “In individual patients, we have seen remarkable responses to Avastin, but we have not yet learned to tell who will be one of those people with the remarkable response,� Dr. Gretchen Kimmick, associate professor of oncology, wrote in an email Monday. “Here, further research needs to be done.�

The FDA, however, required the advisory

WHITFIELD from page 1 School. She expects to continue working with the provost’s office on various interdisciplinary initiatives in the future. “Basic research issues—that’s where my heart is,� Kornbluth said. “I started to get more deeply involved in the provost’s office. Though I really feel that [Lange] and his team are fabulous, the issues aren’t as exciting to me as the research issues.�

Kornbluth said there was no pressure from the Medical School to come back as a vice dean for research, adding that they were supportive of her decision either way.

In his new position, Whitfield will work with faculty members and deans to develop infrastructure for science and engineering research, as well as manage the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation process. Whitfield currently serves as the chair of the curriculum committee for the Arts and Sciences Council, which has helped him develop useful knowledge about designing and developing degree programs, he said. “This [position as vice provost] focuses on faculty affairs, and I have committed

the better part of my career to faculty and faculty issues,� Whitfield said.

Additionally, as a fellow in the provost’s office, Whitfield has worked on various projects—including developing faculty leadership workshops and researching innovative teaching methods.

Lange said the position involves interdisciplinary program development, and Whitfield has significant experience in this type of work. “[Whitfield] has a very strong commitment for interdisciplinary research,�

Lange said. “He’s already well-versed in our programs in our office and the values we’re trying to promote.�

This semester, Whitfield took a sabbatical in order to do the fellowship in the provost’s office. Although he does not have any teaching appointments to finish before assuming his new role, Whitfield said he will have to scale back on his work at the Center on BioBehavioral and Social Aspects of Health Disparities. He will continue to supervise and assist research at the center but not to the same extent that he currently does. “I have a strong commitment to continuing my research,� Whitfield said. “This is a structure that allows me to do both [research and administrative work].�

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CO-WORKING from page 1 A traditional co-working space incorporates all the aesthetic norms of a standard office environment while catering to the needs of the self-employed. Those who partake in the program often choose to have a desk, a booth or even an office within the larger communal space. Co-working spaces already exist in more than 50 countries.

Although venues such as Bull City Forward and the Exchange provide mutual business spaces for local innovators, Bull City Co-working is one of the first projects dedicated specifically to co-working.

The benefits of co-working can be seen specifically in Durham, Rascoe noted.

Rather than simply sell space to anyone who is willing to pay and let each business run its course, Bull City Co-working plans to group freelancers with similar interests together in the same space, Rascoe said. Doing so will foster a sense of community and facilitate collaboration through mutual business interests, he added.

A monthly membership costs $133 and includes complimentary coffee, parking and Wi-Fi. For $327 per month, workers can have their own desk, file cabinet and shelf space, according to Bull City Co-working’s website.

This kind of setup has the potential to strengthen relationships among peer businesses in Durham.

“You never know who you’ll meet and how a mutual benefit could be established,” Rascoe said.

Co-working proponents maintain that being part of a workplace environment can increase worker satisfaction and productivity, which in turn, can increase profits.

Chrisopher Gergen, director of the Duke Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative, said he supports the Bull City Co-working project in Durham because it can potentially stimu-

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late start-up activity and strengthen the city’s economy.

“This is a good thing for Durham, in that it will continue to stimulate Durham’s entrepreneurial culture and attract people who will contribute to our economic growth as a city and will continue to enrich our creative class of people in our community who are trying to drive new innovations,” Gergen said.

Although the Bull City Co-working project is still in its beginning stages, it is set to be a future key player in Durham’s local business scene, Gergen said, adding that this movement’s success could lift Durham’s economic tide.

“The more we have of this, the better,” he said.

Students interested in entrepreneurship noted the importance of such spaces in the world of start-up ventures.

Junior Fabio Berger, co-founder of InCube, Duke’s entrepreneurship-themed selective living group, said co-working could improve workspace environments.

“I think that co-working spaces are a great solution for any entrepreneur,” Berger said.

“As most entrepreneurial ventures begin as two-person teams, being in a buzzing working environment can help create an energetic workspace.”

Berger added that co-working can better facilitate collaboration needed in an ideal workspace.

“Ideas sometimes come from the most unexpected places and bouncing concepts off of other coworkers not involved in the project can vastly improve it for the better,” he said.

Senior Chong Ni, president of Duke Venture Forward, noted that co-working can be more cost-effective for many entrepreneurs.

“In a world where cost management is so important, this a way to control costs while having access to a lot of resources that are necessary for entrepreneurial growth and development,” Ni said.

DRUG from page 4 board to either unconditionally approve the drug—which would have exempted Avastin’s developer from providing more clinical data—or deny it. The board ultimately rescinded its approval. Lyman and 10 others voted against Avastin, and one member voted for it.

“If we had been given the opportunity to extend approval, I think several panel members including myself would have voted for that,” Lyman said.

The FDA has yet to make the final decision, though historically it has rarely deviated from the advisory board’s decision, he said. If it rescinds Avastin’s approval, then it is likely that insurance companies will cut off funding for the drug for breast cancer use.

“To me, [the end of insurance coverage] would almost be the worst case scenario,” Lyman said. “It’s very likely that those with means would be able to pay for the drug and many patients would not, or they would end up mortgaging their homes or end up going into great debt in order to get the treatment they or their doctor thinks they need.”

Dr. Neil Spector, associate professor of medicine and associate professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, said there is financial need to develop an identify-

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ing method.

“If we prescribe expensive drugs to 100 people in order to get two responders, our health care system will not be sustainable,” Spector wrote in an email Tuesday. “That is not being harsh, it’s being realistic.... We need to develop effective therapies, understand who is most likely to benefit and make them available to likely responders at costs that patients can afford.”

Economics may limit developers’ ability to tailor a drug to specific individuals, added Dr. Erich Huang, a surgical oncologist and the director of cancer research at Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, Wash.

“The question then is, are we incentivizing people to figure out which drug works for which patient?” Huang said.

“It’s the kind of question that needs economic analysis because it is more profitable for [pharmaceutical companies] to market an agent to a larger, un-selected group of patients.”

Lyman said he is confident that Avastin’s usefulness as a drug will emerge as ways of finding which patients would respond well to it are developed.

“I sincerely believe in the near future there will be a marker, a gene, gene pattern or protein that will tell us which patient is most likely to respond,” he said.

“To me, that’s the holy grail for Avastin because of [its toxicity].”

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GIRARDET from page 3 Girardet first met Osama bin Laden in 1989 and the two had an interesting but tense conversation, he said. He said bin Laden was taken aback at least once during the 45-minute conversation, and as they parted ways, bin Laden threatened to kill Girardet if he ever saw him again.

Also in his remarks, Girardet analyzed the current state of affairs in

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Edward Girardet, a journalist with extensive experience in Afghanistan, speaks Wednesday.

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Afghanistan and offered suggestions for the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development, noting that the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past will complicate recovery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want to understand Afghanistan today, you have to understand what happened in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Girardet also critiqued military action against the nation and said that the Talibanâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Islamic fundamentalist group that ruled large parts of Afghanistan since 1996â&#x20AC;&#x201D;was already imploding when the nation was invaded by U.S. forces in 2001. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Taliban was another faction in a civil war,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The moment you take sides in a civil war, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking for trouble.â&#x20AC;?

Girardet also noted significant corruption and a lack of educational opportunities for youth but did express some optimism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The situation has become disastrous, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think all is lost,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Refocus the military lens to the recovery lens.â&#x20AC;?

Ivy Blackmore, a second-year Master of Public Policy student, said she appreciated Girardetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s emphasis on the need for open communication. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m studying international development policy, and a lack of communication and transparency of information is something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a common theme where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s any development going on,â&#x20AC;? Blackmore said.

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SHAW 66 Thornton and freshman Quinn Cook saw extended action at the point throughout the game, though, moving Curry to his alternate role off the ball. While Curry transitioned smoothly between the two positions, both he and Krzyzewski emphasized his primary task this season will be running the point.

“Seth’s got to be our point guard,” Krzyzewski said. “I want Seth bringing it up most of the time. Seth can do that. He’ll be more effective doing that.”

Indeed, neither Thornton nor Cook was particularly impressive on the offensive end, as neither scored a basket in a combined 29 minutes of play.

With Curry set to play most of the minutes at point guard, Duke’s preferences elsewhere also became clearer Wednesday. Freshmen Alex Murphy and Michael Gbinije saw their exposure shrink significantly from the contest against Bellarmine.

After starting Saturday, Murphy played only the last three minutes of the game, in which he made an open 3-pointer from the corner. Gbinije saw early action after

Mason Plumlee has not missed a shot since the Friendship Games, now 14-of-14 in the two exhibitions.

Just nine days from the start of the 2011 season, Duke’s rotation is finally starting to come into focus, after the team’s last exhibition game against Bellarmine showed little continuity.

Head coach Mike Krzyzewski used his final exhibition contest, an 80-66 victory over Division-II opponent Shaw, to showcase a substitution pattern more indicative of what Duke fans will see in the regular season.

And while it didn’t necessarily show up on the scoreboard, Krzyzewski seemed encouraged by what he saw from his young team.

“We left a lot of points on the floor with our free-throw shooting and inside play,” Krzyzewski said. “I thought we played better than the score.”

As he did Saturday night, junior Seth Curry spearheaded Duke’s offensive attack, scoring 12 points on 5-for-9 shooting in 26 minutes of play. But somewhat surprisingly, it was Tyler Thornton who started at the point for the Blue Devils, a move which, according to Krzyzewski, was intended to instill a renewed defensive intensity.

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After back-to-back losing seasons and fifteen straight losses to conference opponents, it might have been difficult to find reasons to be optimistic about Duke’s 2011 season. Fortunately, change came on the sideline, and that has instantly vaulted the Blue Devils back into the national conversation.

First-year head coach Pam Bustin Virginia has breathed new life into the program, vs. leading her team to No. 8 an 11-6 this season, Duke and the No. 8 national ranking entering THURSDAY, 3:30 p.m. this week’s ACC tourCollege Park, Md. nament. The team will face off against Virginia tomorrow at 3 p.m. in College Park, Md., in the quarterfinals of the conference championship. “[Bustin] has done some amazing things transforming this program,” senior Stephanie Fee said. “We’ve all jumped on board with her awesome leadership.... She’s brought a lot of fun to the game.”

Following that disappointing 2010 campaign, former Blue Devil head coach Beth Bozman unexpectedly announced her resignation after eight years at Duke, in which

she compiled a 115-56 record. In her first four seasons, Bozman led the Blue Devils to four consecutive NCAA Final Four appearances, but the program finished at the bottom of the ACC in two of her final three years.

“We know that everyone here is hugely passionate about what they’re doing,” sophomore Emmie Le Marchand said.

“And especially coming from [Bozman] into this year everyone is perhaps even more into it than they were last season.”

Bustin has built close relationships with her players on and off the field, treating them both as Division-I athletes and also as regular college students.

“I couldn’t ask for a better coach and better relationship,” senior Tara Jennings said. “I think her passion shows through even off the field in how much she cares about us with our personal relationships.

She treats everyone like her own kid.”

To go along with her supportive nature, Bustin also brought a wealth of experience to Duke, having spent the past 13 years at the helm of Louisville. After taking over as head coach in 1998, Bustin took a Cardinal squad stuck in a 34-game losing streak and transformed it into a perennial top-25 team. She won two coach SEE BUSTIN ON PAGE 8

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After losing a highly productive group of seniors since last season, the eighth-ranked Blue Devils will open a new-look chapter on Thursday night in their first exhibition against Pfeiffer at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Duke head coach Pfeiffer Joanne P. McCallie is optimistic about what vs. her squad’s capabiNo. 8 lites, refusing to dwell Duke on the loss of her graduated players.

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“It’s a brand new Cameron Indoor Stadium year, and we’re an evolving team,” McCallie said. “We respect what our players from last year’s team accomplished, but this is an evolutionary kind of deal. What last year’s team accomplished is in the past.”

For Pfeiffer, the exhibition is an opportunity for a smaller, Division-II program to compete in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

“We’re treating it like any other game, but at the same time, it’s a special experience,” Pfeiffer head coach Jill Thomas said. “We’re excited about it. We’re ready to live the dream, because everyone’s heard of Duke basketball.”

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Rebounding ability was obvious on last year’s team, with Krystal Thomas and Karima Christmas combining to average nearly 15 rebounds per game.

This year, a young frontcourt group will have to prove its mettle on the boards. The matchup with

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The ITA National Indoor Championship is described as the hardest collegiate tournament to qualify for, but four Blue Devils defied the odds and earned the right to travel to Flushing, N.Y. Thursday for the first round of play.

In order to be eligible for the nation’s most important fall tournament, athletes must either be ranked in the nation’s top five, have won an ITA Regional, or have made it to the quarterfinals of the ITA All-American Championships in early October in Tulsa, Okla. Duke’s ability to send four players to New York is a sign of the program’s strength.

Junior Henrique Cunha and sophomore Chris Mengel will be representing Duke in the men’s tournament. Both players qualified individually for the singles draw—Mengel won the ITA Carolinas Regional tournament while Cunha’s No. 4 ranking earned him his slot—and they will also play together as a doubles team after winning the regional. Mengel and Cunha have had a stellar season thus far and are headed into the tournament eager for the chance to take on their competition.

“I’m really looking forward to playing in this tournament,” Cunha said. “All of the 32 players here…won their regionals so they must be good players, but I also did well in my region…. There won’t be any easy matches.”

Cunha is heading into this year’s tournament with the experience he gained from his trip to New York last season. He was stopped in the second round, but the junior says he has gained confidence and expects to be able to advance deeper into this

BUSTIN from page 8 of the year awards, first in the MAC in 2001 and then in the Big East in 2008, just three years after Louisville switched conferences. Bustin’s coaching tenure also includes a year as the Hofstra head coach and nearly a decade in assistant coaching positions at Temple and Michigan State.

“Pam knows the game better than any coach I’ve ever worked with,” senior Samantha Nelson said. “She has not only a fundamental understanding of the game, but she is actually able to communicate that to the players, which is a challenge with some coaches.”

Her technical knowledge has helped bring the team back to third in the conference, behind two of the nation’s top three teams, No. 1 North Carolina and No. 3 Maryland.

Duke was tripped up last weekend by the Cavaliers, though, so the squad will have to be on top of its game to have a shot at dethroning one of those top-ranked teams later in the

year’s bracket. Mengel, who paired with Cunha earlier this year in doubles, has also shown rapid improvement over the course of the season. He will need to be in top form Thursday as he faces the nation’s No. 1 player, Virginia’s Alex Domijan.

“A couple weeks before regionals, I told [Mengel] that I thought he could qualify for singles and for doubles,” men’s head coach Ramsey Smith said. “I wasn’t sure if he really believed that…but he did exactly that. He’s only lost four tennis matches since March 1st.”

On the women’s side, freshmen Beatrice Capra and Ester Goldfeld will represent the Blue Devils at the Billy Jean King National Tennis Center. Capra will compete in singles after advancing to the quarterfinals at the AllAmerican championships, where she fell to No. 2 seed Allie Will of Florida. Capra and Goldfeld will compete in doubles after receiving a wild-card bid into the tournament despite losing in their regional tournament. Although the freshmen lack the experience that many of the older duos competing have, head coach Jamie Ashworth is hopeful that their ability to communicate will outweigh their lack of time together on the court.

“They know that they have the ability to be one of the best teams in the country,” Ashworth said. “They both know that they’re really good players and they have a really good partner in each other.”

The high level of competition that they will see at one of the nation’s most prestigious tournaments will give them a chance to prove just that. bracket. If the players can match Bustin’s contagious enthusiasm for the game, they have the ability to compete with the best teams in the country, as they did when they took down then-No. 2 Old Dominion.

“We love Pam,” redshirt freshman Lauren Blazing said.

“Every day on the field the attitude that she brings makes us bring our best as well because she’s so excited to play.”

And Bustin is just as excited about her players as they are about her. A little more than halfway through the season, the coach gave her thoughts on her first year with the Blue Devils.

“I’m loving every day,” Bustin said. “To be able to work with these kids who are pushing so hard to be the greatest in the country is something that means a lot to me. I want to give them everything they need to be successful.”

It would appear that Bustin has done just that in her short time with the Blue Devils, who have ranked as high as fifth nationally this season—their highest placement since 2008.

And if the miraculous turnaround is any indication, Duke’s future looks brighter, and more enjoyable, than ever.

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“There’s not going to be a person in the gym who doesn’t realize how tiny we are [compared to Duke].”

— Pfeiffer head coach Jill Thomas

Pfeiffer, a team with just one player taller than 5-foot-11, may not provide a realistic portrayal of how the Blue Devils will fare on the glass against ACC opponents to come.

“There’s not going to be a person in the gym who doesn’t realize how tiny we are [compared to Duke],” said Pfeiffer head coach Jill Thomas. “If anything is going to stand out to everyone in the gym, it’s that.”

Duke will also need to evolve to fill the scoring void left by their graduated seniors, who, led by Jasmine Thomas’ 15.3 points per game, combined for over 40 percent of the team’s points last season. Much of the scoring load is likely to fall on the shoulders of sophomore Chelsea Gray, the team’s leading returning scorer, who averaged 8.7 points per game during her freshman campaign.

McCallie believes Thursday’s contest could provide insight into how the revamped Blue Devils, with just three upperclassmen on their roster, will shape up this season. But she emphasized that the inaugural exhibition is just one step in the process of forging a new identity.

“It’s hard to assess where we’re at right now,” she said.

“We’re excited to find out what we can do on Thursday, and down the line. But you can’t expedite the process.

We have to wait and see and do that slowly.”

M. BASKETBALL from page 7 Krzyzewski made a wholesale substitution at the first media timeout, but failed to score in his nine total minutes of action. The 6-foot-6 wing, though, did show off his athleticism with a highlight-caliber block on a Shaw fast break late in the second half.

In the team’s anticipated three-guard lineup, Austin Rivers and Andre Dawkins took most of the playing time vacated by Murphy and Gbinije, seeing a majority of the minutes at the off-guard positions. Rivers played the most of any Blue Devil, scoring 12 points on an efficient 5-for-8 shooting in 30 minutes, and Dawkins provided a spark in the first half with three 3-point baskets in a span of just over two minutes. Both also displayed a renewed commitment on defense, which they had not consistently showed for much of the preseason.

Rivers in particular stepped up his defensive game in the second half—after Bears guard Antonio Smith had 10 points in the first half, he was limited to just three in the second thanks largely to Rivers’ on-ball pressure.

“Austin, for a freshman, wanting to play defense when he’s supposed to be this great scorer—I thought it was a really big half for Austin,” Krzyzewski said of Rivers’ second-half performance.

Unlike on the perimeter, though, Duke’s rotation in the frontcourt had already appeared set after the Bellarmine game, and appeared even more consistent against the Bears. Mason Plumlee, Miles Plumlee and Ryan Kelly saw a majority of the minutes in the paint, with Josh Hairston providing an occasional energy boost off the bench.

And for the second straight exhibition contest, the Blue Devils were successful inside, with Mason Plumlee scoring 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting and Kelly adding 15 points of his own. Miles Plumlee showed off an improved array of post moves, though his touch failed him, as he finished 4-for-10 from the field.

But for Duke, this game was more about finding an identity than it was about the statline.

“With a new team with new roles, that’s what guys have to figure out,” Kelly said. “It’s getting better every day. It got better today. If we keep making steps forward, that’s all we can ask.”

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ast spring, I landed in Beijing knowing lit- Duke instructors catch the slightest mistake and tle more than “ni hao” (hi) and “zai jian” enforce a level of language precision not as at(bye). The six non-Chinese speakers in the tainable when speaking with random strangers. group were placed into a four-day At the same time, learning Chiintensive survival Chinese class. nese in the hyper-organization Each class ran about three hours and structure of formal language and purely focused on teaching us pedagogy is exhausting. In a few just enough spoken Chinese to get cases, it’s even discouraging, such around the city: how to grab a taxi, as when a few points are taken how to bargain down prices, how to off for a piece of homework that say sorry and thank you, etc. After required a great deal of effort or four quick classes ended, we were when I find myself worrying about jessica kim at a juncture point where we could my quiz scores rather than Chiout of the fishbowl nese characters I got wrong. High either try to supplement our noteven-skeletal grasp of Chinese with levels of structure can come at clumsy real-life interactions, or drop it altogether the expense of certain things that also help us and resort to our natural patterns of speech. to learn a language, such as creativity or riskBut I was surprised at how fun it was to attempt taking. to communicate with others in a new language.

I suppose this is, to some extent, a reflection We were capable of only the simplest interac- of how learning happens in the real world versus tions—giving taxi drivers directions, ordering in the classroom. Up to now, I’ve always relied on food by pointing at pictures, saying no I’m not syllabi, a steady schedule of quizzes and tests and Chinese I’m blank—but even these helped inte- final exams, professors’ office hours. As a senior grate us into the foreign arteries of Beijing. Be- who only has one more semester to take Chinese ing Korean, I didn’t stand out as much in Beijing 2, I wonder about the future of my rendezvous as I did when I went to Bangladesh two summers with this language. After I graduate, there won’t ago, and I found this ability to be anonymous be any Duke professors to plot out and assist my strangely alluring. It became an interesting game slow acquisition of Chinese. No more quantifito try to discern at what point a shopkeeper or able markers of progress, no matter how inscrutaxi driver sensed that I was not actually Chinese table (last quiz grade 13.75/15, for example). No (usually as soon as I said something). I found that more office hours to work on my inability to prowhen abroad, learning a language intermingles nounce the single syllabus Chinese word for “to the aspiration to be linguistically proficient and go” which involves holding up a mirror to my lips the desire to fit in more and stop sticking out as to see the exact moment I slacken them (which a foreigner. is wrong).

Taking Chinese 1 at Duke after returning Education, up to now, has felt like advanced from a study abroad in Beijing where most of my stages of kindergarten with incrementally deChinese acquisition was ad hoc has provided me creasing levels of handholding. All of this graduwith a lot of insight into the different reasons one ally prepares us to become “real people,” as my could want to learn a language. high school English teacher said once. Though I returned to Duke in the fall and signed up for up to now we’ve been weaned on the numbersChinese 1, a five-days-a-week immersive experience based incentive structure present in academic that quickly sucks one into a nexus of lectures in environments, after graduation what we continLanguages, Chinese dinners at Grace’s and extra ue to learn will be completely up to us. I realized drill sessions in Trent. Students are incentivized to that although the structure of my Chinese class learn through constant numerical feedback (quiz definitely incentivizes me to study on a constant grades, homework grades, test grades, oral session basis, I don’t need it in order to want to learn grades, participation). We simultaneously learn Chinese. Even without the structure, there are to speak, read and write Chinese in an elaborate things we find inherent pleasure in learning, and series of lesson plans. Our progress is immediate, it is this impulse that will guide us after gradustandardized and ongoing. ation. Hopefully, we all have certain things that Compared to being in China, I am learning a spark our curiosities and, to some extent, we will lot faster in this environment. I am impressed by start to or continue to pursue these when we bethe extent of organization possible in language come “real people” out in the real world. pedagogy, compared to the messy experience of trying to learn Chinese through interactions in Jessica Kim is a Trinity senior. Her column runs taxis, shops and the streets. Also, here, attentive every other Thursday.

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One-stop voting, where you can register and vote at the same time, runs Thursday and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. this week. The Board of Elections Office (706 W. Corporation St. in Durham) is the closest site. The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. during the Nov, 8 election day.

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Friday, Nov. 4, 2011 (one-stop voting) Vans at the West Campus bus stop and the Yearby Street bus stop on Central Campus will provide transportation to the Durham County Board of Elections Office (706 W. Corporation St. in Durham) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011 (election day) Vans at the West Campus bus stop and the Yearby Street bus stop on Central Campus will provide transportation to Watts Elementary School (700 Watts Street in Durham) or the W. I. Patterson Center (2614 Crest Street), based on your voting address.

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For polling site locations and more information, go to: http://sites.duke.edu/dukethevote http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/VoterLookup. aspx?Feature=voterinfo The ballot will include the mayoral race, the city council at-large race and two tax items for referendum. The first item will increase sales tax by onequarter cent for public schools. The second item will increase sales tax by one-half cent for transit improvements.

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’m quite proud of my familial roots. My grandpa and ones to take. Forgetting your roots discounts the sacrigrandma on my father’s side legally emigrated to fices made to bring you to where you are—to the privithe U.S. from Germany. They sacrificed a great deal leges of the Gothic Wonderland you enjoy on a daily and worked a great deal harder so that my basis. Feeling ashamed of your roots or father and his siblings could go to college. hiding them from your peers is denying They attended night classes to learn Engpart of your identity, whether you like lish and worked manual labor jobs. One it or not. And feeling guilt or shaming of the most expensive purchases they ever others about privilege is just wrong. Privmade was a set of encyclopedias for their ilege, in and of itself, is not a bad thing. children.

Just as no one should feel shame or enMy mother’s side of the family presents dure shaming for experiencing honest a similar story. Both of her parents lived poverty, no one should feel shame or daniel strunk through the Great Depression. My grandpa endure shaming for experiencing hona fly on the wall served in the military. They embody what est fortune.

I would hold to be several classic Midwest But there is something wrong with and American ideals—hard work, thriftiness and a stead- failing to live up to your roots, and the privilege one’s fast belief in a brighter future for their children. roots might have garnered. And this is something I strugBoth my parents built upon the solid foundation gle with everyday as a Duke student. Am I fully living up garnered for them by the hopes and dreams of their to the sacrifices made by my father’s parents in immigratparents. Each more than delivered upon the invest- ing to the U.S.? Am I truly embracing the Midwestern ment made in them. I, like many other Duke students, American values of my mother’s parents? Will I return now face the burden of delivering upon the investment upon the investment made in me by my own parents? made in me.

As Duke students going about our college lives, it’s the We each face the decision of whether to embrace easiest thing in the world to take privilege for granted, our roots or forget them. Many of us face this decision completely forgetting the roots that came before. at Duke. Indeed, it seems like a fittingly crucial time to So as I walk in the shadow of the Chapel, it would do so. As college students, we are shaping the world- be exceedingly easy for me to shrug off the sacrifices views and values that we will carry with us into the fu- of my parents and grandparents. The investment made ture. We are forming identities that will stick with us for by them in me, if truly embraced, is a great burden to years to come. We each can choose to make our roots bear. The choice to ignore it is tempting. It would be part of our identities. Or we can choose to forget them, exceedingly easy to deem myself lucky and fortunate to and act as though our lives from college forward are attend Duke, have such opportunity, and then simply completely independent of what happened before. go about my business, not giving the sacrifice made by And some Duke students do this. Some forget com- others to bring me here another fleeting thought. Let pletely about their past. With blinders on geared to- the past be the past. I am fortunate in the present—let’s wards the future, they forget their roots entirely. Others forget about what happened before me. are ashamed of their roots. They might find their hisBut that is not the path I choose. If we truly have tory nothing of which to be proud—nothing of which pride in our roots, that pride must manifest itself not to reveal to their Duke peers, let alone embrace. Still only as an internal feeling, but as a loving acceptance others are not ashamed of their roots but ashamed of a way of life that our roots have garnered for us, of their privilege—they might even intimate to fellow and seek everyday to live up to it. Truly taking pride Duke students they should be ashamed of their privi- in our roots requires more. Respecting the actions of lege too. Why should anyone be proud of privilege they our ancestors requires more. Fully embracing privilege had no part in attaining, they argue. Shouldn’t a rich requires more. So that is the path I have chosen, and I Duke student with a fortunate upbringing feel at least will do my utmost to walk it with great humility, bearing a modicum of guilt for experiencing the Duke lifestyle, the burden of privilege as I go forward. when so many others in the world, including their ancestors, were or aren’t as fortunate?

Daniel Strunk is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs Nonetheless, all three of these paths are the wrong every other Thursday.

Illumin-us

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hat America needs most is more light bulbs.

Not the typical 60-watt bulb, nor the kind that flickers endlessly before turning on. Instead, America needs sources of energy, of light, of ideas that, once illuminated, forever change the landscape of the way we move, think or communicate. What we need is creativity.

Back in high school, creativity was my mantra. The sony rao typical math and science student, I decided to go a little that’s what she said crazy and take photography during my junior year, and it completely altered my conceptions of what it takes to make it in the real world.

“Human computers can be imported from India and China,” my photo teacher once told us, “but to prove to your employer that you have a skill that can’t be outsourced, you must learn to think creatively.”

So I adopted this as my life motto: Think outside the box or you will find eventually yourself living in one. Coming to Duke, though, I started to feel the need to revise my life motto: If you find connections or land the job, you can forget about the box.

Or so I thought—until I read a column in the New York Times by Walter Isaacson on the genius behind Steve Jobs.

His genius wasn’t the logical or analytical genius of Einstein. Instead, it was intuitive, impulsive and simply daring. It was a genius fit for the 21st century. He bridged the gap between analytical thinking, traditionally considered to be intelligence, and the innovative spirit that ventures beyond what can be useful to the world, to what can be revolutionary.

Yes, some people are simply more prone to think creatively than others—but these are not just the artists and inventors you scoff at on your way to your next consulting interview. These are the individuals that, while they may be experts in a particular fields, seek to learn as much as they can about pretty much everything else. They ask themselves how music can be scientific, how language can be studied in a lab and how computers can become works of art.

Believe it or not, school can help with this type of thinking—you don’t have to be a college dropout to be the next great innovator. A liberal arts education is designed to help an individual broaden their knowledge in both the humanities and sciences, not as separate entities but as spheres of knowledge that overlap.

This fusion is supposed to represent the goals of those T-Reqs our advisors are always bugging us about. But much too often, I see English majors looking for the QS class offered as a joke or hear engineers asking if you really have to do any writing for this ALP. And this attitude puzzles me because in high school, not so long ago, there were no such thing as majors, and everyone had to take a class in almost every field, whether we wanted to or not.

We have really only one chance to make the most out of a liberal arts education, to delve into areas that we would seldom come across after college. So why are we so scared of being true “Renaissance men?”

Well, we shouldn’t be. We have the rest of our lives to focus on our chosen field of knowledge; we have graduate school, medical school and jobs for that.

The situation in our country right now does not look too bright. In addition to being in an economic slump, we seem to be in a psychological one, as well. Paralyzed by the fear of incompetence, or the scars of failure, we have brushed aside the stories of those who have risen out of failure and hardship to become great, viewing them as mere fairy tales.

Our generation faces the difficult task of creating something out of almost nothing. We must take up the legacy of the innovator that is no longer among us, and create our own Jobs.

It’s a daunting task. But at times like these, the child in me remembers the words of one of my favorite characters of all time, who was once in a similar situation: “Think of it this way—every great wizard in history has started out as nothing more than we are right now, students. If they can do it, why not us?”

Realistically, the greatest of ideas don’t always begin as light bulbs. Behind every great idea is a creative process that requires time and energy. And once the light bulb shines, it has great and far-reaching possibilities.

Lucky for us, imagination is a renewable resource.

Sony Rao is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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OCCUPY from page 1 “Social activism should come from young people, those in universities and other educational institutions, but these young people on campus [Duke students] are not as involved as they should be,” Karklina said.

The weak connection between the two movements could also be due to problems within Occupy Durham, said sophomore Casey Williams, a member of Occupy Duke. Occupy Durham’s encampment at the CCB Plaza on Corcoran Street was shut down and electricity was withdrawn by Durham officials last month.

“Occupy Durham is having a lot of problems and we have become less connected with them and sort of focused more on the University,” Williams said.

Occupy Durham has pulled back the movement to reflect and resolve conflicts that have come up with meeting individual needs, movement participant Vanessa Hernandez said.

“No one has the intention of quitting or stopping Oc-

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cupy Durham, but we’re regrouping [to] what best fits our model and not trying to imitate any other cities,” she said.

The tents and the tables on the plaza were taken down this weekend due to the weather, and encampment logistics are to be discussed Thursday’s general assembly meeting Hernandez added.

Ultimately, Karklina hopes that Occupy Duke will grow and be able to affiliate officially with the Occupy Durham movement. When she went to the Durham general assembly to announce the beginning of the Occupy Duke movement, Karklina said the crowd cheered in approval, signaling that Occupy Durham is open to further collaboration with the University movement.

“There’s an inevitable connection between Duke and issues raised by Occupy Wall Street, and we can’t deny our presence in the Durham community,” Karklina said.

Different from its peers Students at universities such as Brown University and Yale University have shown their solidarity in the Occupy movement by joining local protests near—but not on—

their campuses.

Occupy Duke does not see their campout on Duke’s campus as anything other than a way to create a platform for discussion, Karklina said.

“A lot of students here are from different economic backgrounds, and this is a self expression, a way to protest and express the way your discontents with the way things are, so I don’t see it as occupying yourself or occupying a privileged institution,” Karklina said.

Julie Pittman, a senior at Brown and a participant in the Occupy Providence and Occupy College Hill movements, stressed the importance of college Occupy movements getting involved with the local community. Although it would have been easier to stage a protest on campus, discussing issues of economic justice and participatory democracy within the student body is not as powerful as engaging with community members about the issues, Pittman said. Staging a one-night campout Oct. 20 as part of Occupy Providence, students at Brown have made an effort in affiliating with local Occupy movements.

“There is a real difference between a very privileged university having a mini-occupation and us raising awareness, starting dialogue and encouraging people to be more involved with Occupy Providence,” Pittman said.

Columbia University has students who participate in the larger Occupy Wall Street movement as well as hold a general assembly on campus, inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movements but unaffiliated from it. Sophomore Karla Jimenez said she only goes down to protest with the larger Occupy movement, but notes that some students use the student-run general assembly to discuss issues specific to Columbia, such as students being pushed into money making professions and how that culture is fostered on campus.

“As Columbia students, we are in a privileged spot, but I think that because the that we do have to speak out against [the problems]” Jimenez said.

At Yale University, students have not only joined local protests but also have created groups in protest of the Occupy movement. Yale junior Alec Torres, a participant of Occupy Occupy New Haven, a counter movement against Occupy New Haven, agreed with some issues brought by Occupy New Haven such as economic inequality and close relationship between corporations and politics, but did not want to be seen as part of the occupy movements.

“I don’t think their methods for solving—if they have any—are any good and in fact they are just a misdirected force of anger that is detrimental to the political system that we have,” Torres said.

‘Faculty in solidarity’ Duke administrators have permitted students to campout in front of the Duke Chapel indefinitely. Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said when she met with the students from the movement they showed a high level of commitment to the issues and that the administration has not, so far, had any issues with the movement.

Calling themselves the “Faculty in Solidarity,” various staff members and professors have showed their support for the student-led movement on campus.

Sophomore Maria Arias said having faculty members present has helped students understand the complexities of the arguments surrounding the Occupy movement and has helped educate students passing by the encampment about the major issues. Currently, Occupy Duke tries to have one faculty or staff member present at the movement at all times.

“It’s a good cause, well worth supporting,” Professor of Literature Kenneth Surin said.

Other universities, however, have faced opposition from administrators and faculty in creating a student-run Occupy movement. At The New School, a liberal arts institution in New York City, administrators have kept close vigilance on movements related to Occupy on campus.

This has forced students devoted to the cause to use their personal emails, rather than New School emails, to organize events, freshman Wayne Trotman said. A participant at Occupy Wall Street, Trotman said he advocates for more discussion and awareness on The New School campus.

“They school makes a commitment to socially active ideas, but they don’t want too many things to happen,” he said.

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