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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTH YEAR, ISSUE 92

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Opening the Board

The student protest that led to access INSIDE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

PART 1 OF 3

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

Days before the Board of Trustees’ spring 1971 meeting, then-President Terry Sanford announced that the governing body would continue to meet behind closed doors.

This decision could

have been the end of a joint effort between the student government and The Chronicle to open the quarterly meetings that shape the University’s future. But two years after students demanded racial equality by entering Duke’s main administrative building, the student leaders were not so easily dismissed. Chronicle staff met to send Editor Clay Steinman, Trinity ’71, with the

student body president to protest at the meeting after the Board refused to put the students’ request as the first item on the agenda.

Then-Chronicle Managing Editor David Pace accompanied to report the sit-in.

“We didn’t go into this assuming that Sanford would break down,” Steinman said in a recent interview. “We had no idea what was going to happen. I mean, I was scared s—less.”

The Board has the ultimate authority to make major decisions for the University, ranging from hiring a president to setting tuition to approving new construction. At a private institution like Duke, Trustees are not required by law to meet in public or produce internal documents as they might at a public university.

The Trustees filed into the boardroom to start their meeting, but the three students refused to leave until Board members agreed to discuss media access and transparency.

“We did not come here

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In 1971 students staged a sit-in during a Board of Trustees meeting.

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Chelsea Gray tangles with No. 33 Laura Broomfield last night in Cameron Indoor Stadium.

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by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE

Rivalries by definition are two-sided affairs, but on this night Duke and North Carolina had no such relationship.

The No. 5 Blue Devils (19-3, 10-0 in the ACC) breezed past the No. 22 Tar Heels (17-6, 7-3) 96-56 Monday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The 40-point win was the second largest margin of victory by Duke in the teams’ 82 meetings. Tricia Liston led all scorers, tying her career-high with

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Danesh advocates merge of academics, culture

by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

Senior Kaveh Danesh emphasizes an interdisciplinary and international Duke as he campaigns for Young Trustee.

For the past two years, Danesh has served as Duke Student Government vice president for academic affairs and sat on the Academic Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees. Double majoring in English and philosophy, Danesh noted that he is passionate about the different avenues of learning that Duke has to offer. Through his positions and classes, Danesh has established connections with administrators all over the University.

“It’s going to take the eye of an undergraduate who understands the complex networks of the culture that exists on our campus and who knows how to relay that NATE GLENCER/THE CHRONICLE

Senior Kaveh Danesh is the current DSG vice president for academic affairs.

56 23 points on 7-for-10 shooting, including 4-for-6 from 3-point range. The Tar Heels were led by Chay Shegog’s 19 points.

“You could really tell that we felt the chemistry out there on the court,” Liston said. “Being out there felt good.”

The game started out sloppy and physical, as both teams struggled in their early offensive execution due to the frenzied pace of the game. North Carolina held a SEE W. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 7

Bell delivers State of the City address

by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

In his sixth term as mayor of the Bull City, Bill Bell aims to make Durham more safe and habitable for all citizens, he said at City Hall Plaza Monday night.

In the 10th annual State of the City address, Bell emphasized the importance of the continued revitalization of housing, law enforcement and jobs sectors in Durham. He said development in these areas will allow for the creation and sustainability of even more thriving and livable neighborhoods in Durham.

“Our goal must be to make sure all neighborhoods [in Durham] are attractive, livable and crime free,” Bell said. “We need to encourage and support developments that will bring quality, affordable housing to families at all income levels.”

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amy and Mark Denicore are headed to a full-blown trial to defend themselves against charges that they violated Virginia law by making their kids late to elementary school too o ften.

The Loudoun County, Va., couple was arraigned Monday morning in juvenile and domestic relations court.

Judge Pamela Brooks set a trial date of March 14.

The Denicores are each charged with three Class 3 misdemeanors, each of which carries a maximum fine of $500. Their three children, ages 6, 7 and 9, have been late to school almost 30 times since September. Most of their tardies were three minutes or less.

Their case has sparked debate about whether the school system is overreacting to a minor offense or rightly clamping down on a habit that’s disruptive to teachers and other students.

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Ninth Potti paper to date gets retracted The saga of former Duke cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti continues with his ninth paper retraction.

The paper, “An Integrated GenomicBased Approach to Individualized Treatment of Patients With Advanced-Stage Ovarian Cancer,” was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology in February 2007. The research studied ovarian cancer Anil Potti patient responses to platinum-based therapy. This marks the

latest in a series of about 13 expected Potti retractions, with another 13 expected partial retractions, The Chronicle previously reported.

“The majority of the authors wish to retract this article because they have identified several instances of misalignment of genomic and clinical outcome data,” the retraction noted. “The authors deeply regret the impact of this action on the work of other investigators.”

When the authors reanalyzed the correctly aligned data, they found the paper’s conclusions compromised by a decrease in the accuracy of the pre-

dictions—from 77.8 percent to 72.2 percent, according to the retraction.

Of the 17 authors, four disagreed with the retraction and one could not be reached for comment. Potti and his mentor and frequent senior author Joseph Nevins were among those in agreement.

The paper had been cited 114 times since its publication, Retraction Watch found.

Potti resigned from the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and the School of Medicine Nov. 19, 2010 after allegations that he had falsified

qualifications on his resume and other documents, including applications for federal funding. There are currently two lawsuits pending against Potti, Duke and others related to clinical trials conducted based on Potti’s genomic research.

The article was retracted Jan. 27 and first reported by The Cancer Letter.

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Egypt’s plan to charge 19 Americans highlights tense relationship with activists Ernesto Londono and Peter Finn THE WASHINGTON POST

CAIRO — Julie Hughes, a veteran prodemocracy worker, was crushed when she missed out on Egypt’s revolt last year. In a Facebook posting at the time, she said, “It’s like having your next door neighbor throw an incredibly joyous party and you don’t get an invitation.”

So when she got an offer from the National Democratic Institute to return to the field as Egypt country director, Hughes, 44, didn’t think twice. “Egypt is going to be interesting,” her new boss told her.

Nine months later, Hughes is one of 43 pro-democracy workers, including 19 Americans, who face criminal charges from the authorities in Cairo for operating without proper registration and receiving foreign money. She is banned from leaving Egypt and subject to arrest. Along with Hughes, five of the other Americans are still in the country, according to a list released by Egyptian state media.

The lives of Hughes and other prodemocracy workers have been upended in a drama that not only threatens U.S.Egyptian relations but highlights the uneasy relationship between American

democracy activists and some foreign governments.

The Egyptian ruling generals who are cracking down on the NDI and similar groups are the latest in a line of foreign leaders from Moscow to Addis Ababa who fear that they are targets of a regime-change playbook scripted in Washington and carried out under the guise of building civil society.

Heba Morayef, a Human Rights Watch researcher in Cairo, said nongovernmental organizations involved in political work have long been radioactive in the eyes of the Egyptian state. Analysts in

Cairo say the current crackdown could bolster the military’s portrayal of foreigners and international organizations as illicit agents attempting to shape the future of post-revolutionary Egypt to further Western—and in particular U.S.— interests. After almost every outbreak of violence or sustained protest over the past year, the generals have warned of “foreign hands.”

Charles Dunne, the Middle East director for Freedom House, one of the pro-democracy groups being investigated, said he found SEE EGYPT ON PAGE 6

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BOT from page 1 to disrupt your meeting,” said then-Student Body President Hutch Traver, Trinity ’71. “The Trustees are the governing body of the University, and, as members of the University community, we have a right to observe your meeting.”

In general, the Trustees were “very cordial” to the students, Pace, Pratt ’71, wrote in the next Monday’s Chronicle.

Some Board members voiced their opposition, however. One turned to Traver and reminded him, “The Trustees still run this University, boy.” Sanford grabbed Traver’s arm and told the three students to come to his office. Freeing himself, Traver told the reportedly shaken president, “You better watch out—you’re about to blow your liberal cool.”

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Sanford, who was governor of North Carolina from 1961 to 1965, restored order. After talking with the Trustees, Sanford allowed Pace to be the first reporter to ever cover a Board meeting, and the body passed a resolution to study the possibility of increasing transparency.

A few months later, the Trustees voted unanimously to open Board meetings to invited faculty, students and reporters.

“There were things happening [in those meetings] that were directly affecting the lives of students in the community,” Pace said. “We felt like we had a right to be there and observe the decision-making process that led to these things and report on it.”

An open era When Sanford began his presidency, the University was ready to incorporate more voices into its policymaking. Duke

had just completed a review of the school’s decision-making processes, and one of its recommendations was to increase student input, a reflection of campus concerns at the time. Sanford brought a willing attitude, said Allison Haltom, Woman’s College ’72, who served as university secretary under Sanford’s three successors. She credited the “very open atmosphere with respect to the press” to his experience with North Carolina’s open government laws.

In a December interview, current President Richard Brodhead said it is worth remembering the historical moment in which these events took place. Sanford was a true politician, he noted, familiar with the sort of conflicts that characterized the 1960s.

“What do you think Terry Sanford had seen in his day? Conflict and peacemaking,” Brodhead said.

For the remainder of Sanford’s presidency, Trustees made decisions with University representatives in the room. In the years since, administrators have gradually restricted how much of the process is open to the public. Today, no one without a binding confidentiality agreement is allowed in the room at all.

Despite Steinman’s trepidation, the sitin worked. Student reporters were present

to document the historic meeting in which the Board combined the separate colleges for men and women. Ralph Karpinos, who had succeeded Steinman as editor, covered the meeting with a photographer.

“That was pretty monumental,” Karpinos, Trinity ’72, said in a recent interview.

Although Board meetings were open, some continued to criticize lingering secrecy. The Trustees reserved the right to break into private sessions to discuss confidential matters, such as faculty salaries and honorary degree recipients. Pace said at the time that the Board only allowed the media to hear what the Trustees wanted to make public and continued to make important decisions in private.

The change under Sanford nonetheless allowed the Duke community to have conversations about major issues before the Trustees made their final decisions. Steinman, who has worked in higher education for 35 years, said he still considers Sanford to be a model for how an administrator should interact with the community.

“I can’t tell you how much the school changed from when I got there in ’67 to what it was like in ’71,” Steinman said. “The times were different.”

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BELL from page 1 Bell spoke to approximately 60 Durham City Council members, local officials and other Durham residents, first highlighting the strides the city made in infrastructure and transportation last year. Looking forward to the rest of 2012, Bell said he will pay special attention to four areas: violent crime, neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing and sustainable job development.

To accomplish this, Bell noted that he will tackle the issue of violent crime to promote safety for the residents of Durham.

He added that the bail bond minimum should be raised to $300,000 for people who illegally discharge firearms—four times the current bail bond maximum for this crime.

“If we are serious about reducing gun violence in our city, we have got to send a different message,” he said. “They are not to punish, but to ensure that, if a person is freed, there will be some assurance that they will appear at the appropriate time in court to face their charge.”

In addition to reducing violent crimes, Bell said he wants to revitalize struggling neighborhoods by constructing affordable housing and expanding the sustainable job market.

He used the current effort to rejuvenate the Southside neighborhood of the Hayti district, an area across from downtown Durham that is ridden with crime and poverty, as a model for how Durham will work to create thriving neighborhoods.

In support of the Southside project, Bell added that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently announced that it will approve an $8.8 million loan guarantee to the city.

Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden said in an interview with The Chronicle fol-

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lowing Bell’s address that improvement of Southside will greatly benefit Durham due to its central location.

“That area has been devastated for years and years,” she said. “It’s a gateway into downtown and into North Carolina Central University, so we’ve got to focus our attention there. In the next three to five years, you’re going to see a complete transformation of that area.”

Bell also emphasized higher education and job training as critical components to eradicating poverty and revitalizing struggling neighborhoods. The mayor noted that in 2011, in partnership with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce and Durham County Government, the city government assisted more than 70 companies that announced 4,400 additional jobs. Although Durham’s unemployment rate has recently increased from 7.4 to 7.5 percent, Bell said he is still encouraged that Durham is under the national level of 8.3 percent.

Education will help to lift neighborhoods and their peoples out of poverty, said NCCU Chancellor Charlie Nelms in an interview.

“Education is the centerpiece of that issue because we know that there is a direct, strong correlation between employment and education,” Nelms said. “We need to make sure we address educational issues in order to create the kinds of jobs that will employ our people in the long run.”

Bell concluded his address by asserting that the Bull City will stick to “conservative fiscal management” in order to thrive as the nation’s economy continues to slowly recover.

He noted that in 2011, Durham’s budget gap stands at $3 million—the smallest recorded budget gap in recent years.

“We have prioritized, partnered with other organizations and carefully planned to help us reach our goals of running the city as costefficiently as possible,” he said.

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Mayor Bill Bell speaks during the State of the City address Monday evening at City Hall Plaza.

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DANESH from page 1 undergraduate experience to the Board,” Danesh said.

But Danesh’s decision to run for Young Trustee began not with his major leadership roles but with less prominent experiences. Picking up trash as a line monitor at basketball games, serving on the First-Year Advisory Counselor board and playing pickup games of basketball— these moments challenged him to understand Duke in a deeper sense, he said.

“These ground-up experiences made me think about Duke’s identity, and at the same time, made me very passionate about the University as a whole,” he said. “They made me want to go further, get back to the University and pursue different leadership opportunities.”

While serving on DSG, Danesh created three committees that focus on bridging the gap between students and faculty. The best way for the University to move forward is by having students and faculty come together and bounce ideas off of each other, he said.

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“I don’t see the academic and cultural as disjointed,” Danesh said. “My vision is for them to be one in the same.”

While sitting on the Board of Trustees committee, Danesh stresses the need for students to connect all of their experiences at Duke—including experiences abroad—to create a coherent story. He presented to the Board his idea of merging the curricular and the co-curricular by further integrating programs, such as DukeEngage, into academics.

“We need to tie in our international and interdisciplinary ventures into our curriculum,” he said.

Danesh has worked with faculty and administrators to create innovative systems that foster an interdisciplinary learning environment. This past summer, he collaborated with Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, on developing online course evaluations that will be used starting this Fall.

“Kaveh really cares about education, and he really cares about Duke, and this [project] is a place where those two things that he really cares about have come together completely,” Nowicki said. “Kaveh is smart, goal

directed and a real collaborator.”

After working alongside administrators for projects both in and outside of DSG, Danesh has developed an understanding of how the University works and recognizes the subtle differences between all the roles that different administrators play, said Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs for Trinity College of Arts & Sciences and associate vice provost for undergraduate education.

“He is an experienced leader and has experience working with the leadership of Duke,” Baker said. “We know him, and we trust him.”

Danesh said he views the University as a place of teaching and learning, rather than a place where money is crucial to economic growth. To compensate for his selfproclaimed idealism, he added that he actively works to understand the fiscal aspects of Duke by seeking the help of administrators.

“I watch how they craft issues, think through things and frame them—and [watching them] has started to give me that same eye,” Danesh said. “It’s opened my eyes to how important money is to the management of the school.”

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out that he was on the list of those to be charged in an email from his office manager in Cairo.

“I had no idea I was a fugitive from justice,” said Dunne, who is based in Washington.

He spent the day coordinating with the group’s Cairo lawyer—hired in recent months—and trying to make sense of the seemingly haphazard list.

“I’m as puzzled as everyone else,” Dunne said.

“What it looks like is they took all the major international groups working in Egypt, fingered all the management-level employees and lumped in the people overseas who are running the programs.”

The charge that the United States trumpets democracy to destabilize certain regimes is a familiar one in some parts of the world. The allegations almost always focus on U.S.-funded groups that work with political parties or journalists to build professionalism and independence, creating twin threats to the existing order.

The fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia in 2000, followed by successful popular revolts in Georgia in 2003 and in Ukraine in 2004, led to deep suspicion in parts of the former Soviet bloc, particularly Russia, that the United States was funding revolution through the NDI, the International Republican Institute and other groups.

“People who are isolated fall into apathy—they feel they cannot change anything. But we can say, ‘Let me tell you what happened in Serbia,’” said Julija Belej Bakovic, IRI regional director for Asia and a former student activist in Serbia. “There is light at the end of the tunnel.”

That was not a welcome message in Moscow. In 2006, then-Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law placing tight controls on the activities of foreign and domestic pro-democracy groups because the Kremlin said they were interfering in the country’s domestic affairs and had been used as cover for foreign spies.

Registration became a bludgeon to harass and shutter pro-democracy groups in Russia. The law was replicated in various forms in neighboring countries such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

And it spread to Africa and South America, where the NDI and the IRI have also run afoul of various governments hostile to their work.

Bakovic said the Egyptian and other governments that have moved against the NDI and the IRI are afraid of their own people, not the intervention of foreigners.

“They target American organizations to scare their own people into submission,” she said.

The Egyptian decision to bring pro-democracy workers to trial—which threatens to affect U.S. military aid and diplomatic ties—is unprecedented, said NDI President Kenneth Wollack.

“We don’t go in and try to unseat anyone or push opposition to the authorities,” Wollack said. “We teach how elections are run. We teach political parties, without picking sides, how to engage the public. In Egypt, we’ve worked with virtually every party in their new parliament. The programs we’ve run in Egypt since the revolution, ironically, have been to support the very political process the country has defined for itself.”

After the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the work of prodemocracy groups exploded in Egypt. U.S. funding for the NDI, for example, grew from hundreds of thousands of dollars to $7 million a year. Its modest staff went from a small Cairo office with two international workers to three offices manned by 12 international workers and more than 50 Egyptians.

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We’ll be counting down to Duke vs. North Carolina from now until tipoff Wednesday night, starting with a look at each team’s strengths.

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Efficiency numbers telling for Blue Devils For the first time in years, Duke is reeling heading into its first matchup with North Carolina. Beginning with Wednesday’s rivalry game, the Blue Devils’ final eight conference contests will include two matchups with the Tar Heels and a road date with surging Florida State.

With the postseason looming now is the time to explore how Duke might improve and survive the upcoming slate.

To help make some judgments about this year’s Tom roster, we can chart a player’s contributions based on advanced offensive metrics developed by statistician Ken Pomeroy. On the horizontal axis of the adjacent graph is a statistic called “offensive rating” for each of the Blue Devils. The actual formula is quite complicated, but the interpretation is fairly simple. It gives a player credit for anything that produces points—field goals, free throws, assists and offensive rebounds—while docking him for things that help the other team score—missed field goals and free throws, and turnovers. A rating of 100 is considered to be pretty good, but since we expect Duke to be better than average offensively, I have bumped the baseline up to 110.

On the vertical axis is a metric called “usage rate.” Basically this measures how involved a player is in the offense. Strictly speaking, it tells how many possessions end with the ball in a given player’s hands,

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as a percentage of the possessions that he is on the floor. A player can “end” a possession in one of three ways—by making a shot, by missing a shot that ends up being rebounded by the defense and by turning the ball over. A usage rate of 20 percent is about average.

So the best players in the game are highusage and high-efficiency, and they appear in the top right quadrant of the chart—they have scoring ability, and they use it often.

The two Blue Devils who appear here are Ryan Kelly and Quinn Cook, who have not been consistent starters but should now be entrenched in the starting lineup. The offense cannot afford to be without Kelly’s inside-outside ability. He finishes at a nearly 50-percent clip inside the arc and drains a remarkable 45 percent of his 3-pointers. He does a great job getting to the line and converts at an 80-percent clip once he gets there, and he adds 5.4 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game to boot.

And Cook is the answer for a team that had lacked an obvious solution at point guard. He is a strong finisher in the lane despite his small size and an excellent passer—he dishes out nearly 3.5 assists for every turnover, and his assist rate would translate to 5.4 assists per game if he had played as many minutes as Austin Rivers. Throw in that he’s also an 80-percent free-throw shooter and a tenacious defender, and he ought to have earned himself the point-guard job.

On the opposite end of the value spectrum is the top left quadrant, where we find the players who are not particularly efficient scorers, but who nonetheless try to score often.

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Elizabeth Williams’ six blocks Monday night gave her 85 on the season, a single-season ACC freshman record.

10-9 advantage after the game’s first seven minutes, but Duke mounted a convincing response. The Blue Devils switched to a zone defense and stymied the Tar Heels offense, allowing Duke to relax and get into the flow of the game.

“I actually switched to that to settle us down,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said.

The Blue Devils were able to pull ahead thanks to Liston’s energy off the bench, seizing control of the game with a 22-6 run.

Superb 3-point shooting along with pressure defense put the game firmly in Duke’s grasp, as they took a 50-24 lead into halftime, hitting 15 of its last 21 shots. The Blue Devils went into the locker room shooting 8-of-10 from beyond the arc.

“The reason why we shot so well was because there were a lot of easy buckets,” McCallie said. “There were a lot of easy looks because of the way we were passing the ball.”

The second half was dominated by Duke. The Blue Devils continued to expand their margin thanks to their aggressive play and stout defense, forcing the Tar Heels into 22 turnovers in the game.

After being outrebounded in the first half, Duke dominated the boards after halftime en route to a 45-34 rebounding margin in the game. The second half was merely an exhibition for the Blue Devils, as they coasted to an easy win, their 28th

consecutive victory at home.

Chelsea Gray controlled the tempo throughout the game, adding 15 points, seven rebounds, seven assists, and four steals. Gray provided one of the highlights of the game during Duke’s large first half run, when she knocked down a 3-pointer from the letter “h” on “Coach K Court.”

“I thought Chelsea was just rock solid.

She was in control of the game,” McCallie said.

Elizabeth Williams filled up the stat sheet for the Blue Devils as well. With 13 points, 10 rebounds, six blocks, five assists, and four steals, Williams notched her fifth double-double of the season. With her six blocks she also set the ACC record for most blocks in a season by a freshman with 85, placing her 10th all-time in program history for a single season.

“She’s a great player,” Shegog said.

“Even though she’s just a freshman, she’s shown that she can hang with a lot of the older upperclassmen.”

This game marked the season-high in attendance for the women’s team this year, as 8,595 fans attended the rivalry game, including a loud and rowdy student section.

The team cited the students for creating the game’s atmosphere.

“We love the students. Duke is great that way,” McCallie said. “There are so many interesting students here from all over. To see people come out and act as they did and have so much fun, hopefully they’ll come back over and over again.”

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GIERYN from page 7 Perhaps the most surprising player to be found here is Rivers. He has certainly grown over the course of his freshman campaign and his scoring abilities now compare favorably with last year’s leading scorer Nolan Smith, and he is a better long-range shooter than Smith was. Smith distinguished himself as a star and a leader, though, with his other contributions. He added 4.5 rebounds and 5.1 assists per game, and Rivers falls short in those categories, with just 3.1 boards and 2.0 assists per contest, not to mention more turnovers than assists on the season. Rivers is already establishing himself as a top-notch scorer, but if he wants to ascend to star level for this year’s Duke team, he will need to do more than just fill up the highlight reel with dribble drives.

The quadrant with the most upside is the bottom right, where you find the high-efficiency, low-usage players. Players cannot always maintain their efficiency while looking to score more, but these players might benefit from a bigger role.

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of his brother’s playing time. There is no doubt that Mason has more upside than Miles, and indeed the younger Plumlee plays nearly twice as many minutes. But the junior’s production simply does not approach that of his older brother. You could argue that Miles would not be able to maintain his fantastic 65.2-percent performance from the field if he shot as much as Mason does—Mason has nearly twice as many attempts—but given that the elder brother shoots nearly 20 percent better from the free-throw line, he would be able to fall off a great deal from the floor and still be more efficient than Mason.

Although Mason is a better rebounder on the defensive glass, Miles holds his own in that area and is a far better offensive rebounder—one of the best in the nation, in fact. There is no denying Mason’s greater ability, but right now Miles is the more effective player, and their playing time ought to reflect that.

The talent is here for the Blue Devils to finish the year strong and make a deep postseason run, and perhaps a few minor adjustments can be made to maximize their potential and their chances.

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Sexual misconduct cases need watchdog Duke can do more to show especially faced criticism: OCR us that sexual misconduct cas- cited it twice for inadequate es get resolved and not swept response to sexual harassment under the rug. and, more seriously, once for Last week, Yale University alleged retaliation against a released a report delineating complainant who filed with sexual misconOCR. duct complaints The Yale editorial made between report, which July 2011 and December 2011. details 62 cases of sexual misThe report is a symbol of Yale’s conduct over a five-month effort to improve its response to period, provides a series of matters of sexual misconduct, telling narratives of sexual misand is the result of pressure ap- conduct on a college campus. plied by the Department of Ed- The incident descriptions take ucation’s Office of Civil Rights. a bird’s eye view, and do not Last Spring the OCR—which provide enough information seeks to resolve charges of dis- for the actors to be identified. crimination—found that Yale, But even this information is along with Duke, Princeton useful: It includes the number University, Harvard Law School of complaints made, how each and the University of Virginia, complaint progressed and had failed to adequately re- whether or not it was resolved. spond to complaints regard- This sort of storytelling is not ing violations of Title IX. Duke just useful for people looking

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to avoid sexual assault—it allows the University community to make sure that sexual misconduct complaints are not dismissed or ignored.

Duke has every reason to publish an identical report. The University—the target of more OCR complaints than Yale— needs to assure the community that it is following through on sexual misconduct complaints.

Good faith is not enough. The information could help us design more effective sexual misconduct policies but, more importantly, would gives the University community the power to make sure sexual misconduct cases are not ignored.

Universities are already required to report crime statistics in the annual Clery report.

This report lays out information in broad strokes, but does

not detail whether and how sexual misconduct cases are resolved. A more specialized statement, one that focuses on the frequency and classification of sexually motivated offenses, would represent a significant improvement.

Duke should also consider consolidating the resources available to victims of sexual violence. Yale has begun this very process, uniting the services provided by campus police, Title IX coordinators, sexual violence counselors and other assistance under a new effort titled the University-Wide Committee on Sexual Misconduct.

This committee has united resources under one office, making reporting and counseling easier for students. Duke should follow suit in streamlining the resources available to

students, possibly through the Office of Student Conduct.

All this said, the University has made progress on preempting sexual misconduct. Last year, the Women’s Center began the Bystander Intervention Training, or the Prevent Act Challenge Teach program, to educate students about how to act and intervene in cases conducive to sexual misconduct. In addition to these measures, the Office of Student Conduct has revised its handling of sexual misconduct cases by allowing the complainant to appeal the outcomes of hearings.

This is good. But it is not enough—the University needs to open up about sexual misconduct so we can ensure sexual misconduct cases get the attention they deserve.

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pproximately 10 percent of the student pass on papers, problem sets and presentations. population at Duke is misunderstood.

Our absences may be excused, but the homework They are foreign, not necessarily in ori- and tests aren’t. The research papers and memos gin, but in lifestyle. They are often hang over our heads, disappearin the spotlight, sometimes even on ing briefly at the opening whistle, a national scale. But no matter how but undeniably and unfortunately pervasive the stereotype of the simreappearing by the time we reload ple-minded jock is, these mythical the bus to roll back to Durham. beings are Duke student-athletes.

Unfortunately, bus rides are far I myself am a part of the aforemore conducive to spilt Gatorade, mentioned group. Although my naps induced by highway hypfield hockey teammates and I may ashley camano nosis and the occasional awfully not be as easily recognizable as some chorused, team-wide sing-a-long, going camando of our taller and bulkier fellow aththan the possibility of finding limletes, I can assure you that we posits and solving equations. For my sess all the same allegiances to our University. team, at least, it’s not uncommon to see 10 or It’s easy to write off athletes on any college cam- 12 girls, decked out in Duke apparel, diligently pus, especially in the classroom. Partially because working in a Hilton hotel lobby or the business we miss class frequently, partially because some- office of a Marriot. times our bodies can’t handle wearing anything As we lug our emblazoned backpacks from the more stunning than sweats and a pair of Nikes training room to the locker room to class and back to class. We can, however, assure you that we are to practice, the word that bounces off the walls held to the same level of academic accountability of our caffeine-drenched minds is the same as as the rest of the student body. At Duke, we inher- the primary preoccupation of any Duke student: ently believe and support the idea that our role as work. In order to get here, we’ve all spent counta student-athlete is just that: We have two full-time less hours honing our specific talent, whether it jobs. In fact, Duke Athletics prides itself on the be calculus, community service or cross country. academic success of the students who happen to As student-athletes, our work stretches beyond the have the nation’s highest shooting percentage or classroom and outside the walls of Perkins. are three-time members of the all-ACC squad.

We are non-profit employees of the University.

At the risk of seeming presumptuous, I would We work grueling hours. Our paycheck comes in argue that the stereotypical student-athlete at the form of post-game meals, protein shakes and many colleges enrolls in classes with flowery points on the scoreboard. We work for the athnames and descriptions, merely to fulfill their letics department and our coaches. We work for graduation requirements and remain eligible to our families, but more than anything, we work for compete. At Duke, however, this is far from the the students and faculty. We work for the neurostandard. Many teams have mandatory study hall science department, the engineering school, the hours in the Krzyzewski Center—that mysterious housekeeping branch. brick building next to Cameron Indoor Stadium.

This column was brought to you from a dimIn between a numbing ice bath and a 2:50 p.m. ly lit and strangely quiet locker room—a room class, we’re often grabbing a coffee from Alpine that, when filled with my teammates, trainers to hopefully jumpstart our minds after another and coaching staff, contains just as much creative week of 6:30 a.m. wake-ups. Forget the possibility thinking and strategy as any laboratory on camof the quintessential college “all-nighter” during pus. I’m at work. our competitive season—there’s nothing worse We get to work before Brodie Gym opens, bethan morning conditioning on a mere 30 min- fore the C-1 starts its daily route. Sometimes we utes of sleep. work twice a day. The work is sometimes painful, Regardless of which team our Nike apparel en- and always strenuous, but the reward of working dorses, we sometimes have to will ourselves up a overtime—in the NCAA tournament—is unparflight of stairs—after a long practice, this simple alleled. We work to represent this University in task feels like another back squat. Our bodies are the most effective, glorious and pompous fashion our weapons, and we must keep them intact. We our skills can manage. We play for Duke, we work eat more carbs, we drink less beer. After a night for Duke. spent sniffling, sneezing and coughing, we can’t And we love our job. send a short-term illness form to our coaches. If we’ve got a pulse, we’re well enough to play.

Ashley Camano is a Trinity sophomore. Her column Our travel time doesn’t translate into a free runs every other Tuesday.

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letterstotheeditor Panhel endorses Wilson for Young Trustee The Duke Panhellenic Association enthusiastically endorses candidate Olly Wilson for Young Trustee. All candidates running for Young Trustee are well versed in a variety of undergraduate experiences. However, we feel that Olly represents a unique breadth of experience that will accurately represent our organization, as well as Duke’s undergraduate student body.

Olly’s leadership experiences as an RA, as President of Blue Devils United (BDU) and as chair of the Council for Collaborative Action (CCA) make him well equipped to navigate challenges as Young Trustee. As an RA, Olly works with students in the most intimate aspect of their Duke experience, housing, and thus can be an informed voice during one of our campus’s most sensitive transition periods into the house model. In his leadership roles for BDU and CCA, Olly has demonstrated his competence at not only being a collaborative leader, but also a leader of leaders. This is crucial to representing the undergraduate experience at an institution where all students are leaders in his or her own right.

These diverse experiences have led Olly to share our organization’s vision for providing student voice that will impact effective social change on Duke’s campus. Olly has established a comprehensive plan for an “impactful way of giving back” through global strategy, innovation and diversity within the Duke community. We believe that Olly has the ability to intelligently and appropriately speak up as a member of the Board of Trustees.

As an Executive Board, we feel that Olly best represents the ideals of our organization and the experiences of the diverse women that comprise it.

Jenny Ngo, Trinity ’12 President, Duke Panhellenic Association Megan Riordan, Trinity ’12 Executive Vice-President, Duke Panhellenic Association BSA endorses Wilson for Young Trustee As Duke expands its reach internationally and embarks on new paths of opportunity domestically, it is important that we elect leaders with a critical eye toward the future, that can contribute useful critiques and suggestions when important decisions need to be made. We urge the student body to make an informed decision in electing this year’s Young Trustee, as this individual will be responsible for helping to ensure the future growth and success of our beloved University.

The Black Student Alliance is proud to announce its endorsement of Olly Wilson for the position of Young Trustee.

In addition to having meaningful leadership experiences, Olly Wilson has a sound understanding of the inner-workings of the University and has the ability to interact effectively in a boardroom setting. As the chair for the Council for Collaborative Action, past president of Blue Devils United, and student liaison of diversity programs for McKinsey &

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Company, Wilson has developed a comprehensive understanding of the Duke experience that transcends a singular, mainstream perspective. During his interview, Wilson articulated his commitment to “global strategy, innovation and social entrepreneurship and diversity in the fullest sense of the word.” Olly Wilson not only has the vision and knowledge necessary to be effective as a Young Trustee, he has demonstrated an unwavering commitment and dedication to the University.

We feel that each of the candidates have qualities that could add value to the Board of Trustees. When asked about how the Board should handle complex, controversial issues, such as race, Kaveh Danesh emphasized the importance of understanding the interplay “between the academic and cultural.” Michael Mandl’s corporate and entrepreneurial experience has provided him with the knowledge to make a substantial business impact on the Board of Trustees. While each of the candidates demonstrated competency and capability, Wilson’s vision stood above the rest. In the end, what distinguished Olly Wilson was his ability to articulate his capabilities within the vision and mission of the University.

Olly brings an optimistic and cooperative spirit, as well as pragmatic and commonsensical recommendations and solutions.

We urge the members of the Black Student Alliance and all other members of the Duke Community to vote Olly Wilson for Young Trustee.

Nana Asante, Trinity ’12 President, BSA The Baldwin Scholars endorse Wilson for Young Trustee The Baldwin Scholars enthusiastically endorse Olly Wilson for the position of undergraduate Young Trustee. After meeting with all three candidates, all of whom were very impressive, we felt that Olly’s values and priorities were most aligned to those of our organization. The Baldwin Scholars are committed to supporting agents of change on campus who work to create a more inclusive environment for all. Olly has shown himself to be an advocate for social causes on campus through his work leading the Blue Devils United and the Triangle Collaboration Initiative. Moreover his leadership with the Council for Collaborative Action indicates his ability to unite campus leaders on pertinent social culture issues.

Beyond his social activism and commitment to improving our school, Olly has a very unique background. As an international student, he will bring an unprecedented perspective to the Board and will be committed to keeping abreast of the issues surrounding Duke’s global ventures. Furthermore, his background in the arts as co-editor of Latent Image is an attribute that is uncommon on the Board. Olly has shown himself to be a passionate and articulate candidate, and one who the Baldwin Scholars confidently endorse for Young Trustee.

Rewa Choudhary, Pratt ’12 Chair, The Baldwin Scholars

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ccording to housekeepers, Linda Schlabach has been put on leave. According to union representatives, both Duke Human Resources and the Office of Institutional Equity are formally investigating the allegations that Schlabach humiliated and abused the Hispanic housekeepers she managed in the Edens Quadrangle. We applaud Duke’s clear commitment to justice in the workplace.

Schlabach’s removal, however, cannot be the end of action. The more people we talk to, the more we hear Duke Partnership of similar cases of mistreatment in the for Service hospital, on East Campus, on the buses.

Now more than ever, the demographic think globally, realities of North Carolina’s growing imact locally migrant workforce insist upon the necessity of muscular and nuanced union representation—by not having any Spanish-speaking representatives, Local 77 did not effectively protect the rights of its Hispanic members.

According to Michael Gibson, Local 77’s general manager, Schlabach exploited her workers’ limited English proficiency to systematically misrepresent the union’s purpose—portraying it not as a defender of workers, but instead as a menacing HR-like body that would punish disobedient employees. Union representatives Wade Cotton and William McKnight say that they were never approached directly by any of the Hispanic housekeepers in Schlabach’s zone. After receiving doctor’s instructions to stop working with asthma-aggravating cleaning solutions, housekeeper Sebastiana Flores claimed she was forced by Schlabach to continue using them, a case, which according to Cotton and McKnight, would have been immediately resolved if reported.

Schlabach’s case remains, however, a single visible instance of a historical struggle between labor and management at Duke.

“Pride, dignity and respect aren’t extraordinary problems,” said Gibson, who is representing the housekeepers in hearings with Human Resources. “They’re everyday problems. And even if you still plucked Linda from the face of the earth, we’d still be fighting the same fight for pride, dignity and respect. In 1967, we were fighting the same fight. Eating lunch in the basement, trying to get health insurance—we’ve been fighting for decades. The fight isn’t different.”

Duke, 1965. Oliver Harvey was fed up with poor working conditions, few benefits and low pay. Organizing with other non-academic staff on campus—the vast majority of whom were black—the nightshift janitor founded Local 77, a chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Duke had admitted its first black students just four years before, and then—just as today—the politics of race and class confounded the high egalitarian principles of the academy. President Douglas Knight made regular tee times at the all-white Hope Valley Country Club, and campus workers were still required to address the overwhelmingly white undergraduates as “mister” and “miss.”

Progress was short and hard-earned. It took two series of studentled protests—three demonstrations in 1967 and a 1,000-person occupation of Main Quad and the president’s lawn in 1968—for the University to agree to raise workers’ pay to the $1.60-an-hour federal minimum. It took another four years for Local 77 to be officially recognized. In each of these demonstrations, students organized and acted alongside workers: an acknowledgement of the essential relationship between labor and the University community.

The essential nature of this relationship hasn’t changed in 40 years.

But as primary consumers of the services provided by housing and dining workers, undergraduates now contribute to the problems that these same workers face. We do this when we drunkenly damage HDRL property and dispute the charges, when we complain about the quality of service at the Marketplace, when we angrily shoot off emails about getting left by a C-1. Each time, we allow the possibility of another supervisor to exploit the disunity of workers and students. Each time, we allow for the possibility of more abuse. Who will Human Resources choose to believe when called to arbitrate a dispute? Who holds the power of credibility?

Just as student action was critical to the recognition of Local 77 in 1972, students must now also stand in solidarity with workers. We must acknowledge—and not be intimidated by—the socioeconomic differences between students and workers. We must accept their generosity and reciprocate with our own.

We need to understand the systems that support us in terms of their constituent parts: individuals who are grandparents, immigrants, mothers, friends.

Get to know your dorm’s housekeeper. Meet the server of your meal.

Understand their challenges as complex and worthy.

To do so is to make our community strong.

Haley Millner, Trinity ’14, Julie Rivo, Trinity ’13 and Tong Xiang, Trinity ’13 are co-founders of Duke Student Action with Workers. This column is the fourth installment in a semester-long series of weekly columns written by dPS members addressing civic service and engagement at Duke.

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Exhibitions NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad: Memories of the Civil War. Thru April 8.

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The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Photographs

by Frank Espada. Thru July 8. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Events Feb 7 - Feb 13 February 7 Intimate Wars. Journalist, activist, and women’s health pioneer Merle Hoffman reads from her new memoir. 4pm. Rubenstein Library, Rare Book Rm. Free.

Artist Talk. Mendi + Keith Obadike, interdisciplinary artists and collaborators. 6pm.

Hanes Auditorium, UNC Chapel Hill. Free.

February 8 Michael Malone Reads Charles Dickens.

Award-winning Duke author Michael Malone performs dramatic readings of famous scenes from Charles Dickens’ best-loved novels, in honor of the author’s 200th birthday. 7pm.

Rubenstein Library, Rare Book Rm. Free.

February 10 Shades of Blue. A showcase of a cappella music featuring Duke’s own Out of the Blue, Rhythm & Blue and Deja Blue. 6pm. Biddle Music Bldg Lobby. Free.

ALEXANDER CALDER AND CONTEMPORARY ART FORM, BALANCE, JOY FEBRUARY 16-JUNE 17, 2012 EXHIBITION OPENING AND ARTIST TALK FEBRUARY 16, 2012, 7 PM Tickets are free to Duke students on same day of admission (1 per I.D.) Tickets are half price for Duke faculty and staff ($5, 2 per I.D.) Nasher Museum Members receive two free tickets per day. www.nasher.duke.edu

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7pm-12am. Durham Armory, 220 Foster St. $12 general; $10 Duke students.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. Led by the redoubtable choreographer Carlota Santana, the company performs traditional flamenco alongside original work. 8pm. Page Auditorium. $32/$26/$18 general/$10 youth (17 & under)/$5 Duke students.

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Reynolds Industries Theater. $15 general/$10 students & senior citizens.

Screen Society

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. The exhibition is sponsored by The Northern Trust Company. Lead foundation support is provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Chicago Community Trust. Major support for the exhibition is generously provided by The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by Margot and George Greig, Anne and Burt Kaplan, Ruth Horwich, The Broad Art Foundation, Gagosian Gallery, Lindy Bergman, Helyn Goldenberg, Sara Szold, and The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center.

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

At the Nasher Museum, major individual support for the exhibition is provided by Frances P. Rollins, Marilyn M. Arthur, Trent and Susan Carmichael, Drs. Victor and Lenore Behar, Kathi and Stephen Eason, and Mindy and Guy Solie. Additional generous support is provided by Deborah DeMott, Nancy Palmer Wardropper, The E. T. Rollins Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund, Jo and Peter Baer, Paula and Eugene Flood, Pepper and Donald Fluke, Kelly Braddy Van Winkle and Lance Van Winkle, Carolyn Aaronson, Diane Evia-Lanevi and Ingemar Lanevi, Caroline and Arthur Rogers, Angela O. Terry, and Richard Tigner. Major corporate and grant support for the exhibition is provided by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, NetApp, and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. Additional support is provided by Carolina Biological Supply Company, Duke‚s Pratt School of Engineering, The Research Triangle Park, Parker and Otis, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Clinical Ambassador, American Scientist magazine, and Tech Shop.

2/7 Experimental Short Films from the 49th Ann Arbor Film Festival

ABOVE: Alexander Calder, Blue Among Yellow and Red, 1963. Painted sheet metal and steel wire, 43 x 63 inches diameter. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Leonard and Ruth Horwich Family Loan (EL1995.12). © 2012 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo by Nathan Keay, © MCA Chicago.

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

2/8 ‘Sex & Revenge’ program: RAPE (JoAnn Elam, 1975)+ FOXY BROWN (1974, w/ Pam Grier) (8pm, W) Feature (and Shorts) of the Feminist 70s. Q&A to follow.

2/9 WHEN CHINA MET AFRICA (8pm, W) Cine-East:East Asian Cinema. Discussion to follow.

2/13 ALEXANDER NEVSKY Sergei Eisenstein Retrospective (rare 35mm screenings of classics by the master)