Feb. 23, 2012 issue

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CANCER CENTER

Cancer Center opens this week Duke celebrates Patients, families express appreciation for groundbreaking center

40 years of coed campus, Title IX

by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE

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The Duke Cancer Center hosted open houses Tuesday and Wednesday to celebrate its grand opening.

by Julian Spector THE CHRONICLE

The Duke Cancer Center opened its doors this week to cancer patients, medical professionals and the Duke community, offering the first glimpses of the long-awaited multidisciplinary facility.

Open houses Tuesday and Wednesday presented the building to the public. They began with opening remarks from medical leaders, tours of the facility and refreshments served in the

new cafe. These events preceded the ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday afternoon. With the Cancer Center opening for medical service Feb. 27, the mood of many patients was one of appreciation for the improvements in patient services achieved by the new Center.

“It’s a night and day difference,” said Randy Askew, Cancer Center volunteer and former cancer patient. “The standard [of cancer facilities] now is good— it’s not horrible—but compared

to [the new Center] it puts it 20 years behind.”

Askew, who works in the Duke University Store during the day, has spent regular nights pushing a hospitality cart of snacks and sweets through the cancer ward for the last seven years, earning him the nickname Randy the Candyman. Askew visited the Morris Cancer Clinic for a different reason last summer, however, when he was diagnosed with SEE CANCER CENTER ON PAGE 6

This weekend’s biennial Women’s Weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the historic merger of the Woman’s College and Trinity College, as well as the establishment of women’s varsity athletics.

The weekend festivities, titled “Winning Women: Advocates, Educators and Athletes,” kicks off with a welcome reception hosted

by Cynthia Brodhead Thursday, wrapping up with a Chapel service Sunday. Events include networking sessions, a women’s gala and a luncheon on the lasting legacy of Title IX for women’s education and athletics, featuring Nancy Hogshead-Makar, Trinity ’86 and three-time Olympic gold medalist, and Eleanor Smeal, Woman’s College ’61.

Former President Nan Keohane—Duke’s only female president—and current President Richard Brodhead will also host a panel discussion Saturday. “[The reunion] is a celebration of Duke’s great women athletes and the accomplishments of the female scholars during the transitional period of the merger

and years since then,” said Donna Lisker, director of the Women’s Center and associate vice provost of undergraduate education. “It will be a wonderful opportunity for current students and athletes to learn more about the pioneers who changed women’s history here at Duke.”

The 1972 merger was a response to the national trend of gender integration in higher education, said Trustee Ann Pelham, Trinity ’74 and former Chronicle editor. The merger led to a University where women could take classes alongside men, while still able to live in the all-female East Campus. Pelham, who plans to attend Women’s Weekend, said that she viewed the upcoming event as a much needed commemoration of women athletes. Alumnae will be able to gather in honor of the accomplishments of women students and athletes at Duke—who, by the time of the merger, had already been fully integrated in the academic arena.

Program participants will be able to meet with former women SEE WOMEN ON PAGE 5

YOUNG TRUSTEE

Potti fired after Burnett named graduate YT 60 Minutes piece

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

Coastal Cancer Center announced Wednesday that it has cut ties with the former Duke oncologist following the airing of a 60 Minutes investigation regarding his work.

Potti began working at the South Carolinabased practice a Anil Potti few months after resigning from Duke in November 2010. Dr. Lawrence Holt, president of Coastal Cancer Center, declined to answer The Chronicle’s questions

regarding the decision to fire Potti.

He referred all comment to a public relations firm the organization hired. “[The 60 Minutes story] prompted many concerned people to contact Coastal Cancer Center with comments and questions,” Holt said in a statement released by LHWH Advertising and Public Relations. “It has become obvious that this issue is going to take precious focus away from patient care.”

The 60 Minutes segment, called “Deception at Duke, ”drew national attention to a scandal that has played out publicly for SEE POTTI ON PAGE 12

The Graduate and Professional Student Council elected Malik Burnett, a fourth-year student in a joint medical doctorate and MBA program at the School of Medicine and the Fuqua School of Business, to the position of graduate Young Trustee at its meeting Monday.

In the race to represent the graduate and professional student body on the Board of Trustees, Burnett beat two other candidates—Will Evans, a second-year Slavic and Eurasian studies masters candidate, and Felicia Hawthorne, GPSC president and a fifth-year genetics and genomics doctoral candidate. The candidates were voted on by members of the GPSC General Assembly in a secret ballot with no complica-

tions, said GPSC Executive Vice President Bill Hunt, a fourth-year doctoral candidate in English.

Burnett, who graduated from Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, is currently in his ninth year at Duke. After graduation this Spring, he will begin his first year in general surgery.

“I’m completely honored that the Graduate and Professional Student Council decided to pick me,” Burnett said. “Both of the other candidates were extremely qualified.... I’m very fortunate to be in the position.”

The initial vote did not yield a simple majority, so Burnett was chosen in a subsequent run-off vote, Hunt said. He was unable to provide a numerical breakdown of

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Malik Burnett was elected graduate Young Trustee Monday.

The numbers behind Title IX,

“Like envy, pride and lust, gossip has always been an integral part of our lives.”

—Roshni Jain on gossip. See column page 10

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worldandnation

Arsenic in baby formula prompt calls for limits

When Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of having “some phony theology” last weekend, it was neither an isolated event nor an offhand remark.

Instead, Santorum’s comments were a new twist on a steady theme of his candidacy: that Obama and other Democrats have a secular worldview not based on the Bible, one they are intent on imposing on believers.

Campaigning in Iowa in December, Santorum said Obama and his allies have “secular values that are antithetical to the basic principles of our country.” In Des Moines a few days later, he said the same people adhere to a “religion of self” rather than one based on the Bible. Speaking to a group of ministers in Plano, Texas, earlier this month, Santorum argued that the left is “taking faith and crushing it.”

In a nominating process heavy on Christian themes, Santorum, who is Catholic, stands out for his comfort in embracing religion.

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Teaching Opportunity for Postdocs & Graduate Students LSRC B238, 9 a.m.

Summer Science Sleuths at Duke looks for postdocs and graduate students to lead hands-on science activities as instructors.

Green Building Tour of French Family Science French Science Atrium, 4-6:30 p.m.

Duke organizations and professionals in the Triangle host a Walk-n-Talk tour, which is followed by a “Green Drinks” reception.

New astronomy study sees Underground palace roils planets as alien invaders Hong Kong before election A new study says billions of stars in our galaxy likely grabbed planets from the depths of space. The finding may explain the puzzling presence of worlds located far from their suns and even suggests that our solar system could harbor a planet that lurks unseen well beyond Pluto.

HONG KONG — Just a month before Hong Kong selects a new leader, Hong Kong has produced a raucous political brawl featuring an illegal “underground palace” stocked with fine wines, a humiliated wife standing by her man and a flood of front-page headlines screaming of lies, cowardice and betrayal.

10 Keys to Interview Success International House, 5-6:30 p.m.

The CLG series goes over what employers are looking for in recruits when they are conducting interview.

The Past, Present and Future of Guantanamo Bay Bryan Center Von Canon Room C, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

Scott Silliman (Duke Law) moderates discussion about the past, present, and future of Guantanamo Bay. —from calendar.duke.edu

TODAY IN HISTORY 1945: U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima.

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DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Provost presents DKU to Senate

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

Provost Peter Lange delivered the University’s first presentation to Duke Student Government that addressed Duke Kunshan University at the group’s meeting Wednesday.

Lange discussed details about DKU’s campus, academic programs and possibilities for student involvement. He said DKU is a pertinent project for the University as Duke prioritizes it global pres-

ence and especially since so many talented students are international. “If we want to draw the best students in the world, we are going to have to be present,� Lange said.

Lange explained how DKU’s board makes decisions for the University. The board—composed of three Duke representatives, two representatives from the city of Kunshan and two representatives SEE DKU ON PAGE 6

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Provost Peter Lange spoke to Duke Student Government Wednesday about Duke Kunshan University.

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Dining contract fee likely to be reduced

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

The Board of Trustees will vote on a $30 annual decrease in the dining plan contract fee for the 2012-2013 academic year at their meeting this Friday.

The dining fee is proposed to drop from $90 to $75 per semester, thanks to a collaboration between Duke Student Government and the Office of Student Affairs. DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said he is pleased with the collaboration and the fee decrease. “Given what student interests are and given what financial realities are, we feel confident in the relationship and collaboration that transpired [between DSG and Student Affairs],� Schork said. “Ultimately, this will reduce the dining fee to a more palatable level while simultaneously giving dining capital in the short term.

If you look in five years, you will see a marked improvement of dining on campus, expansion of student choice and a lower dining fee.�

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the process toward reducing the dining fee was strictly budgetary.

DSG and Student Affairs collaborated to cut aspects of the dining budget to find ways to increase revenue while reducing the dining fee, Schork added. “It was always our goal to reduce the fee so we worked hard to develop a budget that would permit some reduction,�

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Moneta wrote in an email Wednesday. “Last year was the first budget developed

by Student Affairs and we need a baseline year for clarity and full understanding of the budget.�

Student Affairs and DSG will continue to work together to further decrease the dining fee, according to a joint statement signed by Moneta, Schork and Rick Johnson, assistant vice president for residential life and dining. Schork said he projects that the University will lower the dining fee in 2015, when the West Union construction project is complete and there are improved dining venues. “People in dining at Duke and [Moneta] admit that dining is not what it can be, especially the venues and spaces themselves,� Schork said. “When those venues are created, I expect significant uptick in revenue, which will lead to a higher percentage of money to Duke Dining.�

The dining fee was increased during the 2009-2010 academic year to reduce Duke Dining’s $2.2 million deficit, which accrued since 2007. Kemel Dawkins, former vice president for campus services, agreed to increase the dining fee from $19.50 to $90 to combat the defecit.

It was planned that the dining fee would be re-evaluated during the 20102011 academic year, but Schork said there was a lapse when Student Affairs SEE DINING ON PAGE 4

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Virginia Republicans back off mandatory invasive ultrasounds

by Anita Kumar and Laura Vozzella THE WASHINGTON POST

RICHMOND, Va. — A controversial bill that would require women to get an ultrasound before an abortion is now in jeopardy after Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on Wednesday diluted the measure by making it optional in many cases.

The legislation initially sought to require the ultrasounds, which prompted opponents early last week to raise concerns over the procedures’ potentially invasive nature. In many cases, the ultrasounds would require a vaginal probe to establish gestational age.

On Wednesday, citing concerns over that intrusiveness, McDonnell, a Republican and an abortion opponent who had repeatedly said he would sign the bill, asked state lawmakers to amend the measure. House members approved the governor’s amendments, but the bill’s Republican sponsor in the Senate said she would try to pull the measure for the session, leaving it in doubt.

“Mandating an invasive procedure in order to give informed consent is not a proper role for the state,” McDonnell said in a statement. “No person should be directed to undergo an invasive procedure by the state, without their consent, as a precondition to another medical procedure.” He did not comment further.

Confusion over the legislation and ultrasounds — and considerable national media attention — preceded the unraveling of the bill. The original measure stated, simply, that a woman needed an ultrasound be-

fore an abortion. Many lawmakers did not understand that at the young fetal age that abortions usually occur, the invasive vaginal ultrasound would be needed to establish gestational age, as required by the bill.

McDonnell, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential running mate, tried to strike a balance between supporting his conservative base and supporting a bill that immediately drew opposition as a severe endrun against abortion rights.

“Bob McDonnell’s political future is not enhanced by vaginal ultrasound legislation,” said Stephen Farnsworth, a professor of political science at the University of Mary Washington. “But make no mistake about it: Governor McDonnell was painted into this corner by his own Republican legislature.

This is an example of that old adage, ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ ‘’ Republican lawmakers on Wednesday in essence said that an abdominal — or “jellyon-the-belly” — ultrasound before an abortion would still be required but that vaginal ultrasounds would be voluntarily.

The decision was a rare — and small — victory for Democrats and abortion supporters after Republicans took control of both chambers of the General Assembly last month.

Democrats tried to kill the bill, saying the amendments only made the legislation worse, but Republicans cut off debate.

“Remember how we got into the mess to begin with,” said state Del. Jennifer McClellan, a Democrat. “Because when legisla-

tors wrote a bill, they didn’t understand the medicine.”

The measure now heads to the Senate, which had passed the unamended version once. State Sen. Jill Holtzman Vogel, a Republican who introduced the measure, said she did not realize that the ultrasound would not be external, and she said she still was not certain that would be required under the legislation. But she said she would move to strike her bill because of that uncertainty.

That would require a Senate vote. Another version of the bill has been passed by the House and awaits Senate action.

“I had no concept about this other issue,’’ she said. “It didn’t come up in the committee, it didn’t come up in the subcommittee.

I’m still not sure if it’s right or not right.”

It wasn’t until opponents of the bill recently began to graphically detail the invasive nature of ultrasounds in early pregnancies that McDonnell took a second look.

Tarina Keene, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, said that after years of lobbying legislators on similar bills, she didn’t know the ultrasound would be a vaginal one until a colleague at the National Women’s Law Center informed her the first week of session.

Keene said she encouraged state Sen. Ralph Northam, a doctor who was asked to oppose the bill in the Senate on behalf of Democrats, to talk about how women would need a vaginal probe Until then, she said, “We had a hard time messaging why it was bad.”

DINING from page 3 took control of dining from Campus Services.

“There was a lost-in-translation moment when dining was transferred from Campus Services’ to Student Affairs’ purview,” Schork said. “Promises were alluded to in original discussions about how long the fee would have to be in place that were either naively believed by DSG officials or never actually made as thoroughly as they were interpreted.”

Schork presented a joint statement on behalf of Student Affairs and DSG to the Senate Wednesday. Sophomore Marcus Benning, senator for Durham and regional affairs, asked if the decreased dining fee would lead to a decrease in revenue. Schork said revenue would not decrease, as he and administrators cut various internal costs.

If Merchants on Points had been eliminated before 7 p.m.—a policy planned to be put in place in the Fall but never came to fruition because students largely opposed the policy—Student Affairs and DSG could have decreased the dining fee even more, Schork said.

DSG and Student Affairs have more opportunities to work together to improve the student dining experience, Schork said, adding that he is confident in the collaboration after the two organizations began communicating openly and honestly about the dining budget.

“Although we’re pleased that the fee has been reduced, our work is far from over,” Schork said in the DSG press release.

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the votes.

The vote followed a five-minute presentation from each of the candidates, with an additional five-minute question and answer session. Some non-voting members of the graduate and professional student body were present at the presentations, Hunt noted.

Afterward, the general assembly went into closed session to discuss the candidates.

Burnett will officially become a nonvoting member of the Board in the Fall. He will serve in that capacity for one year and then spend one year as a voting member.

As the Board representative of the graduate and professional student body, Burnett said he would like to like to address the needs of his peers, which he believes have been largely ignored in the past, especially compared to undergraduates.

“I want [the Board] to take a look at graduate student issues in a more intentional way,” he said.

In addition to his heavy course load, Burnett currently serves as the graduate student representative on the Board’s annual fund executive committee and sits on the Student Health Advisory Council. He previously sat on the Graduate and Professional Student Council and was class president in his first year of medical school. As an undergraduate, he was president of the Black Student Alliance.

Despite the outcome, Evans said he does not regret running for the position.

He added that Burnett’s experience and personality will help him to be an excellent Young Trustee.

“It was an amazing experience—I got to meet some incredible people on the way, and it was an honor to be considered for the position at all,” he said. “[Burnett’s] experience is so broad, and I think that’s an important trait to take to the Board of Trustees.”

Hawthorne added that through working with Burnett during her time at Duke, she has noticed his ability to express thoughts well. He will represent their peers well, she wrote in an email Wednesday.

Burnett said he is grateful for all the support he has received from the Duke community.

“Everybody has been very congratulatory,” he said. “My inbox has been pretty full today.”

athletes Friday, followed by the women’s basketball game against Miami. Other events include the women’s lacrosse game and tennis match Saturday and special workout sessions designed specially for women.

‘A close-knit community’ The Woman’s College—initiated in 1930 with a $100,000 donation given by Washington B. Duke to Trinity College—provided women with an avenue to higher education at a time when many educational opportunities were closed off to women.

The merger provided benefits to both women and men, giving female students equal footing as men and placing them in direct competition with one another, Lisker said.

The unification of the institutions, however, did not occur without some friction.

“We lost a set of deans who were wonderful advocates for women at Duke,” Pelham said. “Women benefited from that support structure, although many probably did not appreciate it at the time.”

A graduate of the second co-educational class of Trinity College, Pamela Stone Schearer, Trinity ’73, noted that combining the schools proved to be more complex than her peers at the Woman’s College had anticipated. Stone added that although her class had been transitional, women at Duke had already moved beyond the organizational confines of the Woman’s College.

The transition was mediated by the implementation of measures that allowed women to maintain a single-sex community in some respect on East Campus. Stone added that she and her peers enjoyed being a part of the coed curriculum offered on West Campus while still maintaining the support system of a single-sex community.

“I treasured the experience of having a separate residential community from Trinity, especially the comfort that comes with having a close-knit community of women,” Stone said.

She added that many women had hoped to remain on East even after the merger.

Eventually, Duke took steps to make East Campus coed as well. Pelham noted that this new residential system, in some ways, lost the

sense of community that had been created over many decades at the Woman’s College, where nearly every dorm included older female students who served as role models for the younger women.

Take the lead In addition to residential changes, women had to reconfigure leadership roles within a coed campus. Forty years later, women are still markedly absent in some leadership roles on campus, Lisker noted.

She added that although there has been much progress since the two colleges merged, women still face many hurdles in higher education. Lisker said executive leadership positions—including those in Duke Student Government—are still disproportionately filled by male students.

“When I first came to Duke, I had been pleasantly surprised that the current president of DSG was a female, but little did I know that it was a rare accomplishment,” Lisker said.

She added that many women are intimidated by the election process—integral to acquiring many high power positions on campus—and some women equated certain leadership positions with being too assertive.

When the two campuses merged, there was a need for women to assume

greater leadership roles in the community—not only for gender equality but also to strengthen the position of students against the administration, said Mary Earle Chase, Woman’s College ’67 and former president of the Women’s Student Government. Chase played a large role in advocating for a unified student body by merging the student governments of the Woman’s College and Trinity College.

“Looking back, I think that my determination for the unification of the two student bodies was a product of the place and time,” Chase said.

She noted that even though women were subject to a number of regulations that did not apply to male students—such as mandating strict weeknight and weekend curfews and setting certain clothing requirements— the restrictions were seen as a struggle between the students and the administrators, as opposed to one between genders.

Looking forward, Lisker noted that achieving more opportunities for women is an ongoing goal.

“We understand that this is challenging [for women] in the kind of environment Duke may cultivate, but this is exactly what women at Duke must be doing in order to further their accomplishments, ” Lisker said.

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The Woman’s College and Trinity College merged in 1972 to create a coed educational experience.

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CANCER CENTER from page 1 cancer in his tonsils and lymph nodes. He finished 30 radiation treatments in November and credits his Duke Cancer “family” with his return to health.

“Everybody is equal with cancer... cancer knows no race or creed or anything,” he said. “It treats everybody the same way—like hell. But here, you know when people treat you with compassion. You can see it in their eyes, you can see it in their touch. ‘We’re gonna make you better.’”

At the grand opening ceremony of the Duke Cancer Center Tuesday, visitors heard speeches delivered in the five-story open atrium by Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System and Dr. Michael Kastan, executive director of the Duke Cancer Institute. Kevin Sowers, president of the Duke University Hospital, and Mary Ann Fuchs, vice president of patient care and system senior nurse executive for DUHS spoke as well.

“Our values as a health system are very important to me, and the creation of this building is consistent with our core values of caring for our patients, our loved ones and each other,” Dzau said. “I have never been more proud about [our] cancer enterprise and more optimistic about our future.”

Wednesday’s open house was aimed at showing cancer patients the new facility. Free makeovers were provided to female cancer patients and survivors in the new, expanded boutique named after the Belk retail

company, which donated $1 million dollars to the center. The boutique offers a selection of wigs, scarves and hats to each patient for free. The event also featured live piano jazz, healthy refreshments and free massage stations. A team of top Duke health leaders again spoke to a crowd filling the ground floor and spilling out into multiple levels of the atrium.

Sowers noted the effort to design the Center based on patients’ wants and needs. To cultivate a welcoming and homey environment, the entranceway greets visitors with a fireplace and all the amenities are located on the ground floor. He described a recent conversation with one of the construction workers who worked on the construction of the center. “[He told me,] ‘I want you to know I built this building for my dad. He’s going to be a patient here next Monday,’” Sowers recalled.

Breast cancer survivor Jamie Valvano Howard closed the selection of speeches Wednesday. Her father, Jim Valvano—the former N.C. State men’s basketball coach—came to Duke for treatment in his battle with terminal bone cancer in 1992. Valvano, who coached his team to victory in the 1983 NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball tournament, co-founded the V Foundation for Cancer Research before his death in 1993 at 47 years old. The Foundation has distributed $90 million in cancer research grants to date, according to its website.

Howard came to Duke for treatment at the age of 33, she said. Surgery and chemotherapy left her ready to give up, but members of the Duke Cancer team convinced her to keep going.

“They were the true visionaries, the doctors and nurses

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that made me believe there was life after a cancer diagnosis,” Howard said. “They refused to let me give up.... When I am walking to the parking deck [after a visit], I feel like a warrior. I feel like a survivor.”

The audience included many current cancer patients and survivors, some wearing head scarves, others sporting bright pink garments—symbolic of the fight against breast cancer. After the speeches, visitors dispersed to the cafe and ongoing tours of the facility.

Sandra Ladd attended the open house with her husband Roger and his sister Pam. They had more to celebrate Wednesday than the sunny weather and the opening ceremonies— Sandra underwent surgery for breast cancer Feb. 13 and returned to Duke Wednesday for a follow-up.

“We got very good news that it was not in my lymph nodes,” she said. “So today’s been a really good day anyway and then we just happened to be here at the same time [as the open house]. It was like it was meant to be, to hear the speeches of the Cancer Center opening. It’s just so beautiful and calming.”

After viewing the fourth floor chemotherapy rooms, Roger Ladd noted the improvement from the previous infusion facility within the Morris Cancer Clinic, in a “depressing” basement with patients packed in at close quarters and with minimal privacy. The new center, which can accommodate roughly twice as many patients than the Morris Clinic, lets in ample natural light and provides the option of taking the treatments outside on the porch under certain circumstances.

“This building here gives you hope,” he said.

Danielle Muoio contributed reporting.

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from Wuhan University—requires five members of the board to approve a proposed policy in order for it to pass.

“It protects us so that legislation can’t be passed against our will,” Lange said.

Junyang Wang, Trinity ’11 and student liaison at the Office of Global Strategy and Programs, said his office is working to ensure that Duke students are involved in DKU’s development and will create a student interest group concerned with Kunshan and student life on the new campus. A town hall meeting and a DKU general information session will be held for students in March, Wang added.

Sophomore Gracie Lynne, senator of athletics, services and the environment, asked if there is a significant opportunity cost to the University investing in DKU. Lange said that although the University will be spending between $36 million and $40 million over the next six years on DKU, a portion of that money was endowed specifically for the China campus and cannot be dedicated to other projects.

Lange compared the cost of the DKU project to other University expenditures, such as more than $50 million put toward the Pratt School of Engineering over the past 10 years and the $5 million to $6 million that started the Duke Global Health Institute.

“Is it worth the strategic initiative to spend that amount of money based on what we are hoping we are getting and the strategic advantage we hope to get?” Lange asked. “I don’t think there’s any question that the opportunity costs are relatively minor compared to other things.”

In other business: Sophomore Stefani Jones, senator of athletics, services and the environment, presented a resolution to the Senate outlining progress made by the Coalition for a Conflict-Free Duke, including its work to have the Board of Trustees pass a proxy voting resolution on conflict minerals. Stanford University is the only other university to have made a statement on this level about conflict minerals, Jones added.

“It’s a really powerful action,” Jones said.

Junior Alexandra Swain, vice president of Durham and regional affairs, announced that Duke will have an oncampus voting site for the spring primaries and election after a petition circulated through campus. The voting site will be on campus between April 19 and May 5. DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, will be speaking to National Public Radio about the site Thursday.

Central Campus will soon be home to two new ePrint machines and two new study rooms, for which Housing, Dining and Residence Life will fund $50,000, said junior Ayan Salah, senator for student life.

The Senate voted by unanimous consent to grant a charter to the student group Youth for Debate.

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the dream of the ’90s is alive in Recess

Reign of

Terror

Sleigh Bells’ sophomore album strays from the success of their debut.

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grimes

claire boucher’s project debut is delightfully weird

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random dance

Duke Performance bring techfocused dance company

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sinead o’connor Irish singer’s new album a clever, human journey

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The last time I wrote this c column, you might remember, b I described an LMFAOheadlined LDOC lineup as h m nightmare. Naturally, my the th LDOC committee went ahead a and made that a rea ality by booking Redfoo.

O course, he cancelled a Of c couple days ago and saved th committee from themthe selves; s with a handful of exceptions, c nearly anyone they could book will be preferc a able to a LMFAO-associated act. Thankfully, the old line about our best laid plans applies as well to our worst-laid plans.

Crisis averted (or at least delayed).

But as easy as it is to scapegoat the LDOC committee as unduly influential and out of touch with the tastes of the student body, that’s probably not a fair description. A cursory glance at Facebook makes it pretty clear that at least a

recess good portion of us were genuinely excited when Redfoo was announced as the headliner, and genuinely disappointed when he cancelled. So the vexing question remains: Why do we want LMFAO at LDOC, anyway?

The simplest answer: “Because they’re on pop radio.” That explanation is true as far as it goes, and there’s certainly substance to the notion that, no matter who you are, your anticipation of a given concert is positively correlated with how many times you’ve heard the artist’s music. But that argument talks past what really bothers me, and presumably some other people, about booking LMFAO as Duke’s LDOC headliner.

LMFAO make music that exists solely to be popular. This is a group who, aptly, titled their first album Party Rock and their second Sorry for Party Rocking. This is music that, as Nitsuh Abebe observed, isn’t just made to be played in the club— as is the best of mainstream pop music— it’s actually about the club, too. Perhaps

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this is a product of self-awareness or of a lack of imagination, but the depressing part here isn’t so much how this music is motivated as how it is received—enthusiastically and by lots and lots of people, who see no need for an impetus to party beyond the existence of a party itself.

That might sound bitter or condescending, but I don’t mean it that way. The problem I see here isn’t one of hedonism—to my knowledge, people don’t party any more or less in a post-LMFAO world than they did before. But the success of LMFAO—and the Black Eyed Peas, and plenty of others of their ilk; read “LMFAO” synecdochically from here on out—implies that there is no longer a need for music to resonate on an individual level in order to be popular.

An example: Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” is a kiss-off to a bad boyfriend. Sure, it also sounds like pop music, and you could derive some enjoyment from listening to the song without ever having been in a disappointing relationship (or ever speaking English, for that matter). But any number of scorned women (or men) empathize with Adele’s position, and that’s really why “Rolling in the Deep” is popular: because it encapsulates something that is universally experienced but individually felt. You could make a similar claim about a song like “N****s in Paris”: most people can’t relate to actually owning the New Jersey Nets, but their enjoyment of the song comes from experiencing that fantasy.

These songs go on people’s party playlists because they’ve been dumped before, or imagined going gorillas in Paris, and because they recognize those experiences as relatively common. Those songs establish a basis for partying beyond the existence

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of the party itself By contrast, “Party Rock Anthem” (and the whole LMFAO catalog, really) dispenses with that intermediary step. It’s not on your party playlist (or pop-radio rotation) because you enjoy it and you want to listen to it with others who enjoy it. It’s on there because it has the word “Party” in the title, and if it weren’t on your party playlist, where would it be?

There’s no reason to listen to the song in any other context—here, I’ll reassert that if it weren’t being played in front of large groups of people, if it weren’t popular, it wouldn’t exist.

What LMFAO do, then, is aim squarely for the lowest common denominator. You needn’t have share in any popular experience or belief to party to their music—you just need to be at the party. Given the way this stuff has evolved—into Euro dance music so comically derivative it almost seems aware of its own artifice—I would argue that the enjoyment people feel when they hear “Party Rock Anthem” is entirely the result of association. It’s not a good song, but it was playing at that party that I enjoyed attending.

Why do we want LMFAO at LDOC? I’m still not sure. They’re the sort of act that you’d want to book for a party if no one at the party knew each other or had anything in common, and if everyone in attendance was very vapid and easily amused. At risk of sounding like a complete douche, the Duke student body is not typically synonymous with the lowest common denominator—relative to your average voter, they’re savvier consumers of food and news media and financial services and most everything else. So why not music?

—Ross Green

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sleigh bells REIGN OF TERROR MOM & POP

I really hate to be a curmudgeon about Sleigh Bells.

They’ve only ever been about making fun, catchy, loud-as-f*** pop music; it’s not like they’ve tried to make any John Maus-esque pretense about how their neo-hair-metal stylings are a reaction to a passive culture of irony. I want to write good things about Sleigh Bells, because doing the opposite implies some really unsavory, misdirected, holier-than-thou cultural snobbery— “Sleigh Bells? Yeah, they’re OK. Not much in the way of subtlety, though. Have you heard that new Sandro Perri record?”

The problem with Reign of Terror isn’t that it lacks thematic depth or compositional nuance. Sleigh Bells’ 2010 debut Treats was an awesome party record, and it possessed neither of those qualities. It’s not the faux-live intro “True Shred Guitar,” either; it’s not a pleasant track, but I was totally willing to forgive Treats its own too-heavyon-the-heavy-metal misstep, “Straight A’s.” Where Reign of Terror falls down is pretty well encapsulated by the album-concluding four-track run from “Road to Hell” to “D.O.A.” Here’s how it goes: Derek Miller plays a single guitar riff, without interruption, for the entirety of each song.

As with much of the rest of the album, he uses a lot of delay and chorus on all four of these riffs. Alexis Krauss sporadically contributes those familiarly breathless vocals,

In a week that was supposed to be all about Sleigh Bells’ new release, Claire Boucher has stolen the public spotlight. The spunky, Montreal-based synth-pop artist (a.k.a. Grimes) has been featured as artist-of-the-week in Vogue Magazine and been glorified in The New York Times. Her failed attempt to recreate Huckleberry Finn— she and a friend filled a small boat with chickens and potatoes in hopes of navigating down the Mississippi River—has sparked internet fanfare. And her off-beat hairdos and guiltless admiration for Korean pop music have made her into a sort of hipster’s hipster.

Grimes’ debut full-length, Visions, is worthy of the attention. Grimes is the anima to Oneohtrix Point Never’s animus—the yin to his yang. Whereas OPN makes morbid and disembodied ambient music, Grimes takes that same morbidity and brings it to bubblegum pop.

The result is surprisingly addictive. “Circumambient” sounds like a subtler, more artistic rendition of Sleigh Bells’ melodic, sometimes abrasive hard rock. Lead sin-

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gle “Genesis” takes cloudy Aphex Twin beats and punctures through them with her hyper-feminine falsetto.

As an album, it wears its heart on its hennaed kimono sleeves.

The progression of Visions resembles a late-night joyride: initially fast and dopamine-pumping, the album finds a steady groove, mellows and seeks rest. Like Flying Lotus, Grimes has mastered the full spectrum between hyperactive pop and slow ambient music. The bleary-eyed, penultimate track “Skin” is every bit as stunning as the album’s dense, break-beat opener. Despite varying tempos, her voice never sounds out of place, and her beats never lose vitality.

Visions is a few miscues away from greatness. There are moments—especially during “Colour of Moonlight” and “Eight”—when her voice is too ethereal and lacks substance. Grimes could build greater depth if she grounded her voice with meaningful lyrics. At times, her vocals are too indebted to commercial and K-pop.

But there’s no question that Grimes has laid the groundwork and sown high expectations for a potentially gamechanging sophomore album.

with varying degrees of decipherability, that do very little to interrupt the tedium. Every single one of these tracks is asking, pleading, praying for a bridge, and Miller, the unmerciful creator, summarily denies each of them. It’s a painful, inexplicable sequence that lasts either 16 minutes or an eternity, depending on how closely you’re paying attention.

There is other, better material on this album. “Crush” and “Comeback Kid,” and to a lesser extent, “Born To Lose,” all recapture the incongruous exuberance that characterized Treats: Krauss’ brash girl-group punk over top of some adrenalized “We Will Rock You” guitars. “End of the Line” is another enjoyable bit of misdirection, a run-of-themill Pains of Being Pure at Heart track that suddenly kicks into double-time and layers some chugging Ratatat guitars during the verses.

These are some of the highlights, but they do little to interrupt the monotony of Reign of Terror. That’s a problem for Sleigh Bells because the sound that they’re known for, while it’s awfully good fun, is more than a little abrasive.

On Treats, they had the advantage of novelty working for them; they also broke up the more bracing material with timely changes of pace: the Crystal Castles-biting “Rachel,” the straightforward summery pop of “Rill Rill.” An album of nothing but “Infinity Guitars” would not only have been a rather painful listen, it would have made “Infinity Guitars” less of a delirious sugar high in context. But that’s basically what Sleigh Bells have done on Reign of Terror. It’s a regression, one with such a single-minded focus on the central heavy-metal gimmick that it proves the value of their debut by contrast.

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London company explores frontiers of dance, technology in production of Flesh

by Caitlin Moyles THE CHRONICLE

This weekend, Random Dance, the London-based dance company and brainchild of award winning choreographer Wayne McGregor, brings its latest production, FAR, to Duke as part of an extended residency.

Inspired by Roy Porter’s book, Flesh in the Age of Reason, FAR explores the role of our cognitive faculties in the creative process, incorporating idiosyncratic choreography and modern technology such as a computerized pin board of 3,200 LED lights and electronic sounds to expand audiences’ notions of modern dance.

Sponsored by Duke Performances, the residency has included class visits and a conversation about Wayne McGregor’s creative process with Antoine Vereecken, rehearsal director for Random Dance, preceding their performances of FAR on February 24 and 25.

Even if you haven’t heard of Wayne McGregor, you’ve probably seen his work. The choreographer behind Radiohead’s music video for “Lotus Flower” and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, McGregor is also the creator of large-scale public dances such as the upcoming Big Dance Trafalgar Square, which will celebrate the London 2012 Olympics in July. McGregor is also Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet and a committed educator, conducting workshops and residencies at schools and community centers in the UK and abroad.

“Wayne always says that when he created his company, he didn’t want to be put in a pigeon hole. ‘Random’ meant that he would be able to work on a variety of projects,” said Vereecken, who is managing the tour.

McGregor’s Random Dance productions are heavily influenced by his fellowship with the Experimental Psychology department of Cambridge University, where he studied the cognitive aspects of dance-making. To create FAR, McGregor and a team of neuroscientists asked the dancers to improvise choreography based on prompts such as photographs of medical instruments, imaginary limbs or trios of planets orbiting in space. The scientists would then stop the dancers mid-movement and ask them to write down the last image they were working with, whether visual, auditory or kinesthetic, Vereecken said.

The process helped the dancers understand how they build creative ideas and more effectively channel them into a physical interpretation, said company member Jessica Wright. She added that the personal collaborative process incorporates the dancers’ signature styles and produces an intense physical language.

“Wayne works so closely with the dancers in generating the movement that it’s individual to each one of us,” Wright said. “It’s not something where you sit back and eat your popcorn and enjoy the ride. People are usually quite astonished by the physicality of it.

When you see the body moving in a way that’s not recognizable, it’s disturbing somehow, but that’s what makes it fascinating.”

Random Dance’s commitment to education is manifested in its Creative Learning department, which allows children with little or no dance experience to participate in the company’s residency at their school or local community center. The main goal is for children to experience creativity through the medium of dance, but the skill set they learn is much broader, Vereecken said, from making decisions about their own choreography in task-based exercises to working with each other as a group when they make a trio or a quartet.

“We’ll have residencies, and we’ll come in the first day and they’ll say, can we do hip hop?,” Vereecken said. “But over the next couple of days they immerse themselves, and at the end they create a piece that is performed in front of an audience. You can see that they feel that they own the stuff because they co-authored it. It just gives them an amazing feeling. Hopefully it will change something in their perception of life, I suppose.”

The residency is particularly significant for the dance community in the Triangle area, which encompasses dance programs at Duke as well as the American Dance Festival, which Duke hosts during the summer, said Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald.

“There is a sophisticated and experienced dance community in Durham, and we feel like it’s entertaining and serves our campus and community well to be a presenter of forward-looking art, whether that’s theater or dance or music, and to connect those performances with the community in which we live and the campus on which we work,” Greenwald said.

Tyler Walters, associate professor of the practice of dance, agrees that Random Dance’s conversation and class visits are a valuable experience for his dance students.

“We get these opportunities occasionally and they almost always bring a lot of energy to the students,” Walters said. “This is the kind of thing students talk about for weeks and months afterward.”

Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and Duke Performances will present FAR this Friday and Saturday at 8p.m. in Reynolds Industries Theater.

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Year-long Hospitality Project culminates with Stranger Festival performance event

by Michaela Dwyer THE CHRONICLE

Last Thursday, a group of Duke undergraduates, Theater Studies faculty, a Durham community member and a Skyped-in California Institute of the Arts professor hunkered down around a large table in the Bryan Center design studio.

Laptops, notepads and small buttons emblazoned with the word “stranger” dominated the table space. Group members sounded off with an eclectic range of comments and questions: “Michael’s got a great round of people for the event downtown at 9:00,” “The notion from Derrida that hospitality is this untotalizable sum of several acts,” “What about the stranger cakes?”

This Friday, the Hospitality Project, a year-long investigation of relationships between Duke and Durham, culminates with a day-long performance-based festival appropriately titled “Stranger: A Festival In Search of Hospitable Acts.” Made possible through a partnership between Duke Theater Studies and the Duke Center for Civic Engagement, the Festival is a collaboration between Duke students, faculty members, Durham residents and community leaders and the Portland, OR-based Sojourn Theatre company.

Last year at this time, conversations about the project began between students in Assistant Professor Nina Prieur’s Performing Social Justice class, as well as with Torry Bend, set designer and assistant professor of Theater Studies, and Shannon Scrofano, Sojourn Theatre artist and faculty at CalArts.

“The first meetings were, ‘Let’s talk about the obvious—that Duke and Durham don’t converse at all,’” Bend said.

But those involved quickly realized that the relationship wasn’t so easy to categorize, and neither were the terms most used to describe it—such as ‘engage’ and ‘engagement,’ two buzzwords thrown around gratuitously within the Duke community. “‘Engagement’ is an incredibly potent word; we have a tendency to overdetermine [its usage] now,” said Jules Odendahl-James, Theater Studies instructor and dramaturge. “We say ‘engagement’ and we all have our own little idea of what it means, but we think we have the same idea.”

From there the discussion shifted toward the notion of ‘hospitality,’ and, more generally, hospitable acts both large and small. ‘Hospitality’ brought a more pointed focus to the project, but still presented a challenge.

“Because we’re rooted in the South we [have a notion of] hospitality that has to do with business. Also there’s a notion that hospitality is ingrained in us in the South in a particular way and yet commodified in a particular way. And it’s almost an impossible theoretical position,” Odendahl-James said.

The group opened their discussion into the Durham community through dinner conversations this past fall. They began with fundamental terms of hospitality: a home, or an equivalent welcoming space. Then they pondered hospitable relationships: what it means to receive an offer and to reciprocate it. The group recalled how varied the responses were. Some participants supported an optimistic notion of hospitality while others found it oppressive, in alignment with their personal traditions and values. Odendahl-James identified a specific tension at which the group arrived: hospitality as the ultimate act of generosity or an artificial performance of it. “‘Southern hospitality’ [brings about] notions of inequity and performative behavior as cover-up for a truth,” Scrofano said.

At this point, Sojourn Theatre provided their unique community-based theater experience to help the group flesh out a satisfying artistic response to their conversations about Duke, Durham, ‘strange(r)ness’ and hospitality. Formed 12 years ago and made up of 12 core artists, Sojourn describes their work as “a rigorous practice that blends metaphor with public reality to bring strangers together amidst experiences where the ethical possibilities of imagination are placed alongside the communal muscle of responsibility.”

Sojourn’s work was attractive to the group in its unique approach to both performance and community interaction. The company’s method involves long-term community residencies, or, as Odendahl-James said, “encounters,” during which artistic or theatrical practice enters into a dialogue with the social, cultural and political trajectory of the community itself.

“Communities are big things; there’s constant development and you never know what’s

going to happen,” Odendahl-James said. “To be able to extend over a long period [during which] you might have crisis and recovery and development and transition, and to see all of those things writ large, is ethnographic fieldwork. I think Sojourn is really trying to model performance on democratic participation, and in that sense the theater’s going to look really different and the practice of the community meeting the artist is also going to be very different.”

Much of the Hospitality Project’s work has centered around discussing these experimental approaches and conceptualizing how they might manifest in a community performance event. Emphasizing the desire for open-endedness, the group—and especially the Duke students—formulated possible community partnerships that would contribute to an interactive creative work, stressing the importance of honest dialogue. For the students, the project also presented an opportunity to experiment with theatrical form.

“In a way, the project departs from very spatial, temporal performances that will only live on in the mind,” sophomore Michael Oliver said. “[This project] is important because of its emphasis on creating situations where you have dialogue and interaction.

When you sit down and just watch a performance, there are little opportunities for dialogue. You’re there to watch what someone has to offer. Not a single event in this project has that. There’s no audience; there are just participants.”

Within the last few months, the group decided on the event-based form their project would take—a day-long festival split into ten ‘Hospitable Acts.’ On Friday, students will work with their community partners to enact each of these events. Oliver will direct a ‘mural truck’ through Durham that invites visual and textual contributions. Junior Kim Welch will ride the Bull City Connector throughout the day, hosting a conversation about her observational findings during the ‘Epilogue’ of the Festival. On the CCB plaza downtown, sophomore Jenny Sherman and freshman Mao Hu will present photographic works by students of the English Language Learners program at the Kenan Institute for Ethics as well as stage a ‘Naturalization Interview.’

Working out of established community relationships, the students experienced a great deal of autonomy in the process of piecing together the Stranger Festival.

“By thinking of themselves as co-artists creating something…there can be collaboration on a number of different levels,” Odendahl-James said. “It’s been impressive to see students not only say, ‘these are the communities I want to work with’ but ‘this is a new experience I want to have intellectually.’”

The interactive nature of the project has led students to increasingly map their own involvement in Duke-Durham community networks. “[The project has allowed us to] see how open and easy the network is,” Scrofano said.

“Once you’re willing to go into public space—Durham is a great public space; it’s very alive. On the day [of the festival], it’s about making that literal, letting [participants] be in all those places and spaces.”

This idea of inhabiting various spaces throughout Durham echoes the fundamentally open nature of the project itself. So far, the group has only been able to rehearse for the conditions under which the festival will exist, which leaves a lot to Friday’s particular social (and meteorological) temperament.

“I’m so interested in the accidents,” Scrofano said. “A [successful] encounter shifts the top layer of your sands and puts a new question inside of your day.”

As Oliver said, the Stranger Festival is the result of a “performative process that allows us to bring different circles and spheres of interaction together that don’t usually intersect.” With a premise so steeped in adaptability, the project has been, more than anything, an exploration of social and artistic imagination.

“It’s a profoundly different way of approaching work—it can feel less goal-driven and therefore perhaps less of ‘what’s the impact,’” Odendahl-James said. “And it’s scary, being the ethnographer and producer and performer. It’s a challenge but also a possibility, one that’s worthwhile in a different way than focusing on a text that’s already written.”

“Stranger: A Festival in Search of Hospitable Acts” will take place Friday from 8:30a.m. to 9p.m. throughout Durham. A schedule of events and their locations can be found online at www.thestrangerfestival.org.

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HOW ABOUT I BE ME (AND YOU BE YOU)?

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To listen to Sinead O’Connor’s ninth and latest album is to delve into a bundle of biographies, to flip through a photo album and catch brief glimpses into the multifarious lives of 10 different people. The 10 songs on How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? thrum with the joy and the sorrow of creation itself.

O’Connor writes without artifice in a good way, conjuring stories that range from the rosy aspirations of a bride-to-be to the quandary of a mother dealing with the guilt of conceiving a child from a one night stand. She speaks throughout in direct, unassuming language that bolsters her ethos as an honest storyteller. “Reason With Me,” the breathy, piano-driven story of a not-yet-recovering junkie, begins with some characteristic straight shooting: “Hello, you don’t know me/ But I stole your laptop/ And I took your TV.” Some of her best writing comes through in “Queen of Denmark,” which offers about as many one-liners as there are pubs in Dublin. The character admits she does not know what to want from the world. Evidently she responds to the uncertainty with cleverness. “I casually mention that I pissed in your

coffee/ I hope you know that all I want from you is sex/ To be with someone who looks smashing in athletic wear…”

O’Connor’s voice drives home her writing with teeming energy. She masters the transition from more subdued, even conversational delivery to soaring vocal leaps and roars that exemplify the best of the Irish balladeer tradition. When she really lets loose, she commands your attention. The orchestration backs her up with bouncing layers of guitar buzz and efficient drumming.

O’Connor has made a name for herself as a critic of Catholic sexual abuse scandals, famously tearing up a picture the Pope on Saturday Night Live, but her music not angrily but thoughtfully explores Christological virtues.

She closes the album with a searing track of her singing alone over a muted bed of strings, describing Jesus as the ultimate V.I.P., in stark contrast with the alluring materialist detritus of celebrity worship: “There’ll be no makeup and there’ll be no film crews/ No Vuitton bags or Manolo shoes/ When He’s presiding over you/ Asking you did you love only you?”

O’Connor guides her listeners through a bustling garden of human endeavor, at times ecstatic, at others tragic, ultimately challenging us to reconsider what sort of life we want to live.

—Julian Spector

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Damien Jurado’s “Maraqopa” put me to sleep, but at first I wasn’t sure if I could attribute this to the album’s monotony. It had been a long Sunday, and I had taken a hefty dose of cold medicine without reading the “suggested use” part of the directions—they were in French and I barely made it through 63.

“Maraqopa” feels like coming home: it’s what you would listen to just before falling asleep in the passenger seat after a party you knew would disappoint, but nonetheless attended. In fact, there’s a strange air of disappointment in each song; Jurado is longing for something, but he never tells us what it is.

Most cuts start with bare guitar and progress nicely with the incorporation of bluesy riffs and Jurado’s raw, gentle

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vocals. It’s obvious that he wanted to adhere to a consistent theme in this record; it’s homogenous in that none of the tracks jump out at you, but this undeviating progression makes for a tight, focused album.

“Nothing Is The News” kicks off with a structure that continues throughout the record. Jurado parallels Jose Gonzalez with watered-down rhythm guitar, but quickly thickens the sound with jazzy plucking and smoky vocals.

The title track also begins with simple guitar, but maintains composure with a background rain sample throughout its entirety. Jurado juxtaposes moments of distant vocals with sharp piano, creating a distinctive pseudostructure.

The record continues as such, providing lullaby-like tunes for your lazy ride home. Jurado has produced a consistent album that hones his signature sound, albeit one best reserved for pre-bedtime rituals, and never while operating heavy machinery.

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Review: Oscar-nominated short films confuse, delight

by Jake Stanley THE CHRONICLE

Short films don’t have much purchase in the contemporary entertainment landscape. The typical length of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts, about 11 minutes, resides in an awkward space between the 30 or 60 second TV commercial, the hour-ish episode and the 90 minute feature film. Lined up consecutively and without breaks, each short film ends roughly when I would start thinking about nachos in a normal cinema setting.

For those with some idea of the animated short genre, Disney Pixar’s string of adorable films is the bedrock in American culture. “Geri’s Game,” the tale of an old man playing his wily alter ego in chess, won the Academy Award in 1997. A companion piece to greatestthing-ever Toy Story, the delightful short helped ignite Pixar’s run of blockbusters toward the $7.4 billion buyout by Disney in 2006 (Steve Jobsians rejoice!).

In 2012, Disney Pixar once again has skin in the game with “La Luna.” In this undeniably cute and colorful tale, a boy accompanies his father and grandfather (I hope that’s who the two old men are, anyway) on a journey to do what I will term “creative maintenance” on the surface of the moon. Did you know that the moon was actually covered by a million little glowing stars? “La Luna” reveals that and more in its cherubic glory.

Beyond the fodder of the OshKosh B’Gosh set, this year’s nominees contain some thoughtful material for adults. “A Morning Stroll” is a hyper-bizarre meditation on how three generations of New Yorkers—1950s businessman, modern iPhone addict and postapocalyptic zombie—react when they see a chicken strolling on the sidewalk. I’m sure

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there’s a message in there somewhere.

More successfully, two Canadian films engage with emotionally weighty motifs typical of the genre. “Dimanche” is about a Quebecois boy experiencing a particularly strange Sunday; the film expresses how the adult world is eternally puzzling to children (“Why do we go to church only for Dad to fall asleep?”). In “Wildlife,” set in 1909, a pink-palmed English remittance man buys a ranch in rural Alberta only to struggle when he fails to prepare for the brutal winter. Wes Anderson-esque idiosyncrasies and compelling handdrawn animation make this the most “serious film” of the lot.

But William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg’s “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” reminds of the traditional purpose of animate shorts: indulgence in the magical. A storm sweeps a book collector from his perch at a New Orleans hotel to a fantastic library where books come alive to celebrate reading—for instance, an ailing book is resuscitated when Mr. Lessmore follows the lines with his index finger.

When the man grows old, a young girl appears to take his place; like the caretakers before her, she is imbued with color to symbolize an escape from the drab black-andwhite world.

“The Fantastic Flying Books,” along with several of the other nominees, conveys its message with time-honored and comforting tropes. But the joy of recapturing them via a medium that is now less Beauty and the Beast and more Family Guy is worth the brief slip into childhood daydreaming.

The Carolina Theatre in Downtown Durham is screening the nominees for the last time tonight, Thursday February 23, at 7:15 PM.

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Our men’s basketball beat writers answer your Twitter questions from @dukebasketball before Duke plays Florida State at 7 p.m. in Tallahassee.

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How Duke complies with Title IX today The following is the second story in a two-part series that examines the relationship between Duke athletics and Title IX since 1972. Part one reflected on the history of the University’s compliance with Title IX, and part two analyzes how Title IX currently affects the athletic department.

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

Last year, Duke female freshmen received an email from Julia Domina, then an assistant coach with the rowing program, gauging interest in joining the team.

The rowing team, which was started in 1999 as a part of Duke’s effort to comply with Title IX, boasted 62 female athletes from Oct. 16, 2010-Oct. 15, 2011, the period of the most recently available public data. It is the largest of any female sport, second among all Duke programs only to football and its 109 student-athletes.

Title IX, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, aims to create gender equality on the playing field among its goals.

Duke athletics’ financial statements are submitted annually by the University’s compliance coordinator, Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy, to the Office of Postsecondary Education of the Department of Education. According to the University’s 2010-11 data, the athletic depart-

ment spent $35,533,685 on men’s teams and $13,305,078 on women’s teams. Over that period, there were 378 male athletes and 281 female athletes.

But, a look at the financial data does not properly reveal the legislation’s influence because a holistic assessment of gender-equality is considered more important than a numbers-based one. “[We ask] what is it like to be a women’s lacrosse player,” Kennedy said. “Not only compared to men’s lacrosse players, but all other student athletes. And is that experience comparable quantitatively and qualitatively?”

These are financial decisions but also comprehensive examinations of equipment, field time, travel expenses and quality of life for the student-athletes.

Of Duke’s 26 sports, only men’s basketball and football are profitable, earning $15,097,800 and $3,405,764, respectively, in 2010-11. Football and men’s basketball are two of the three “revenue” sports, which according to OPE’s website are ones “in which market forces play a major role in determining compensation levels [for coaches].”

The third “revenue” sport is women’s basketball, which lost $1,071,050 in that span.

According to Duke’s reported numbers— SEE TITLE IX ON PAGE 8

CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY CHRIS DALL AND MELISSA YEO

MEN’S BASKETBALL

DUKE vs. FLORIDA STATE Thursday, February 23 • Donald L. Tucker Center 7 p.m. • ESPN No. 15 Florida State (19-7)

TYLER THORNTON 3.5 ppg, 2.0 apg SETH CURRY 13.6 ppg, 39.8 3PT% AUSTIN RIVERS 15.0 ppg, 39.8 3PT% MASON PLUMLEE 11.2 ppg, 9.7 rpg MILES PLUMLEE 6.5 ppg, 6.6 rpg

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Bernard James and Xavier Gibson torched the Blue Devils with a combined 28 points on 9-of-15 shooting. They made their mark on the defensive end as well, blocking five shots.

Outside of Snaer’s buzzerbeater at Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils’ trio of guards was the better unit in the two teams’ earlier matchup. Austin Rivers, Andre Dawkins and Seth Curry totaled 45 points.

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Ryan Kelly will spell the Plumlee brothers in what should be a physical lowpost matchup. Okaro White will likely get minutes off the bench for Florida State in a similar role, but he is less polished offensely than Kelly.

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LUKE LOUCKS 6.7 ppg, 4.0 apg MICHAEL SNAER 13.5 ppg, 37.8 3PT% DEIVIDAS DULKYS 7.2 ppg, 39.4 3PT% BERNARD JAMES 10.4 ppg, 8.2 rpg XAVIER GIBSON 7.2 ppg, 4.7 rpg

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The Breakdown The biggest difference between the Duke team that lost its first game at Cameron in over two seasons and the squad that will show up in Tallahassee tomorrow is the play of Seth Curry.

The redshirt junior has scored 78 points in the last four games playing alongside Austin Rivers and Tyler Thornton in the backcourt. With Curry on, the Blue Devils won’t lose another game to the Seminoles.

OUR CALL: Duke wins, 66-63

Conference lead on the line in Tallahassee

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

A month ago, Duke was on the verge of tying its school-record with 46 consecutive home wins. Florida State, however, shocked the Blue Devils on Michael Snaer’s buzzerbeating 3-pointer to win at Cameron Indoor Stadium in January. Tonight No. 5 Duke (23-4, 10-2 in the ACC) hopes to avenge that loss to the No. 15 Seminoles (19-7, 10-2) at the Donald L. Tucker Center in Tallahassee, Fl. at 7 p.m.

“That was a loss on our home court that we’re not proud of,” Duke forward Ryan Kelly said. “As a player you have to learn from your mistakes, but you can’t forget what happened. I know our team hasn’t forgotten what it felt like when they hit that shot against us this year.”

The game is critical in the ACC title race, as the winner of this game will keep pace with North Carolina atop the conference standings with only three regularseason games left. The Blue Devils are also seeking their first win over Florida State since 2010 after losing last year’s matchup in Tallahassee.

Thursday’s game will pit the team with the best field goal percentage in the conference against the team with the best field goal percentage defense. Duke makes 46.9 percent of its shots while Florida State holds its opponents to a conference-best

37-percent shooting, the fourth straight season the Seminoles have led this category. Florida State also leads the conference in blocks and steals per game, with 6.2 and 8.4, respectively.

“They have the great combination that you can’t teach of length and quickness,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“You can’t simulate that in practice.”

The Seminoles have surprised many with their performance in the ACC this season, and it was the win over the Blue Devils after blowing out the Tar Heels that cemented their place at the top of the ACC standings.

“We’re finding ways to win when maybe we’re not as skilled, or as talented,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said.

“We’re just using what we have and finding ways to win with who we are.”

In the previous meeting in Durham, Duke was bothered by the length of Xavier Gibson and Bernard James, who both scored in double figures in the second half alone. The Blue Devils were outscored in the paint 24-16.

Although Duke came out strong in the team’s last meeting and took a lead in the first half, its performance dropped in the second period. Sophomore guard Tyler Thornton believes the team let up late SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8

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TITLE IX from page 7 which list the average salary of all womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coaches at $150,971 and the average salary of womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s head coaches excluding womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball at $93,069â&#x20AC;&#x201D;head coach Joanne P. McCallie earned $729,991 in the last reported year.

The increased financial commitment and competition in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball was shown when Gail Goestenkors left Duke after the 2007 season, after Texas tempted the coach who had been with the Blue Devils since 1992 with a reported $800,000 annual offer.

Since then, Duke has made strides to retain McCallie, signing her to an extension through the 2016-17 season in Fall 2010.

The athletic department, though, primarily pays attention to the bottom line across all 26 sports. Kennedy, who has been at Duke since 1977, has seen the dramatic effect of the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s increased investment in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you could bring back the 1980 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team, as they were then, and put them on the court with our team now, they wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be able to get the ball across halfcourt,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea that a womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball coach would be making close to a million dollars would have seemed just as likely as flying to Mars by flapping your arms.â&#x20AC;?

Mitch Moser, the athletic departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chief financial officer, said that the decision on how to spend money across programs is broadly a consideration of how to best benefit every student-athlete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What I try to do from a financial standpoint, and what we as an institution try to do, is to allocate the resources to each and every program so they can be as absolutely successful as they can be,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Losing money in womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball is not atypicalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at least eight ACC schools lose more than Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;with Virginia hemorrhaging $4,326,443 in their most recent reporting year.

But, reporting methodology is not consistent across every school, or even within an institution. Even at Duke, calculating the data is part of an evolving process that seeks to most accurately pinpoint revenue streams that are non-sport specific.

Income from concessions, sponsorships, merchandise and donations were not previously assigned to specific sportsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; revenue calculations, leaving even the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team in the red in previous years. But, many Iron Duke donations are used to gain entry to menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball games at Cameron Indoor Stadium, a factor now included in the math.

A major element of the balance sheet is the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subsidy of the athletic department, approximately $14.6 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year. That money, according to Kennedy, is specifically earmarked for scholarships to the student-athletes.

In the OPE numbers, $8,761,913 was given

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to the male athletes in scholarship money while $5,789,419 was given to women, 60.2 percent and 39.8 percent, respectively. Although that is out of proportion with the 57.4 percent and 42.3 percent of male and female athletes at Duke, it fights a difficult balance between NCAA scholarship allotments and how many scholarships a coach chooses to allocate.

Football is given the most scholarships of any sport with 85, and there have been instances in the past, such as with Goestenkors, where a coach does not use all of those available to her. In those cases, the department must find other areas in which gender-equality can be achieved as a part of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-inclusive vision of complying with Title IX. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every sport is unique,â&#x20AC;? Moser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different in scope, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different in number of student athletes, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different in where they travel, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different in how many contests [and] theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re different in the type of equipment they get.â&#x20AC;?

Other financial decisions weigh the monetary factors and the lifestyle of being a student-athlete. The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team often flies to games, as they did for last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest in College Park, Md. Those expenses are balanced with missing class time and the quick turnaround between games.

Despite the fiscal losses that come with these investments in female athletics, such commitments have transformed the gender landscape. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a societal stigma with women participating in athletics, which has dissipated,â&#x20AC;? Kennedy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t deny one of the driving forces has been complying with Title IX and the allocation of resources to the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s side that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t there before.â&#x20AC;?

As the athletic department moves forward, it must continue juggling its financial decisions and Title IX compliance with always-changing NCAA regulations.

A recent proposal to give scholarship student-athletes an additional $2,500 stipend would factor into that, with Kennedy saying that type of additional expense would be the equivalent to adding another nonrevenue sports program.

For now, though, Kennedy and the other financial officers must remain vigilant to always examine how genderequality in athletics can be improved. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the things that makes me nervous all the time, mostly because I think that what we do is part of the larger mission of the university,â&#x20AC;? Kennedy said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our job is to educate, and different departments use different tools for that education. And, our job is to make that educational experience as rich and fulfilling as we can possibly make it, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fortunate that it helps you in terms of Title IX.â&#x20AC;?

M. BASKETBALL from page 7 and took the game for granted, recognizing that the team needs to tighten up on defense to challenge Florida State. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They attack the boards very well,â&#x20AC;?

Thornton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They thrive on the defensive end and in transition. So our focal point is that we need to take away their transition and keep them from getting a lot of points in the paint.â&#x20AC;?

While the Seminole threats lie near the basket, the Blue Devils can stretch the floor with their perimeter play. Seth Curry and Austin Rivers, Dukeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two leading scorers with 13.6 and 15 points per game, respectively, both have higher scoring averages than that of Snaer, Florida Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading scorer. Kelly, the

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Baldwin should extend reach Women’s Weekend begins aimed to create a “seed group” Thursday, providing an appro- of female students who, after priate time to reflect upon the benefiting from a concentratstatus of women at the Univer- ed, programmatic experience, sity. At this weekend’s events, could make positive contribuone of the Duke’s most impres- tions to women’s issues on camsive females, forpus. By now, mer President these issues are editorial Nan Keohane, well known, will discuss her perspective namely the pressure to achieve on the progress that has been without trying—“effortless permade for Duke women. While fection” being the most famous president, Keohane led the among them. If the Baldwin committee that carried out the program sought to address milestone Women’s Initiative these issues systematically, it in 2002 and 2003. After col- still has a long way to go. lecting and compiling informaThe creation of the Baldwin tion, the Women’s Initiative re- Scholars program affirmed the vealed that much more needed University’s commitment to its to be done for women. female students but, so far, has One of the most visible re- not made the crucial next step sults of the Women’s Initiative in investing in Duke’s female was the Baldwin Scholars pro- population writ large. The inigram, now in its eighth year. tiative has shown how effective At conception, the program investing in women can be. Af-

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ter its first five years, the Baldwin program was reviewed with positive results. According to a give-person review committee convened by President Richard Brodhead, the program proved very effective for its own scholars.

But the same review raised questions about how many women were impacted outside of the program. Many individual scholars have made impactful marks on campus, but it is unclear that their participation in the program lead to this; these driven students would likely achieve much on their own.

In the meantime, the program has not done much to extend benefits beyond 18 students per year. Currently, many services and opportunities for development are of-

fered to the small group of women who are selected for this scholarship. This program requires financial resources for its closed opportunities, such as retreats, special workshops and networking receptions. While the scholars benefit from taking advantage of these enrichment opportunities, we believe that this program could extend its impact on the campus community beyond one-off events, like their annual sponsored speaker.

Creating a “seed group” suggests that the group would give back to the greater Duke community. In fact, one of the Baldwin Scholars program’s objectives is to “positively influence the culture for women at Duke.” Baldwin has proven that programs can make things better and has become a great ve-

hicle for extending these benefits. At this point, there is no reason not to extend specific programmatic benefits—like a workshop on public speaking, currently available to Baldwin scholars—to all of Duke’s women students.

The Baldwin Scholars program should continue to evolve and explore its role on campus. We encourage the program to prioritize its goal of giving back to the community of Duke women by placing a new focus on open workshops and events that could benefit everyone.

If Women’s Weekend 2012 has something to teach us, it is that there are problems left to solve. Concentrating on the whole Duke community would make Baldwin a bigger part of the solution.

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f you can’t say something nice about a person said?” From there on in, the conversation just bethen don’t say anything at all. comes a tell-all, exploiting and most likely exagWe’ve all heard this adage at some point gerating some poor innocent (who might not be in our lives. In fact, the teaching so innocent if most stories are to be never goes away. It’s present in evbelieved). erything we do and everywhere we What is it about gossip that we go, usually in the form of our guilty just can’t let go? There’s obviously conscience. Yet, we still gossip. We something about scandals and ruignore the scoldings and the timmors that is deeply intertwined with eouts we received when we spoke ill humanity. Earlier I provided Ausof our classmates as children, and ten’s “Pride and Prejudice” as an we rebelliously partake in the forexample, but we know that gossip roshni jain bidden act. dates back much farther than the muddled and Although humans have evolved 19th century. Gossip is timeless and befuddled in many ways—altering our beknows no borders. No people, no haviors to fit ever-changing social culture, no nation is immune to it. norms—one thing we haven’t changed is our inThe philosopher Soren Kierkegaard believed herent penchant for gossiping. Like envy, pride that people turned to gossip when they had nothand lust, gossip has always been an integral part ing meaningful left in their own lives. Gossip opof our lives. Consider Jane Austen’s “Pride and poses “real talk” in that it concerns only the “suPrejudice” and the popular CW teen drama “Gos- perficial and external.” The writer Patricia Meyer sip Girl.” From an overarching analytical vantage Spacks, however, approaches gossip in a different point, there aren’t many differences between the way. She sees it as a mode of healing. In her article two when it comes to gossip. Despite the differ- “In Praise of Gossip,” she writes, “By talking about ences in technology, setting and plot, the main the concerns of other people’s lives, the talkers function of gossip remains the same. grow to understand their own more fully.”

In Austen’s world of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. I don’t believe that Spacks’ understanding of Darcy, many of the characters’ actions are driven healing gossip can be applied to all forms of gosprimarily by gossip. We see this point exemplified sip, but I do see her point. As human beings, we in Elizabeth’s unfounded prejudice against Darcy best understand our own plights when we view and her curious partiality for Wickham. Elizabeth them in light of others’. And this form of healing creates false images of these two men based on the gossip often provides that for us. We hear about exaggerated tales she hears through the gossip other people’s situations and choices, and it makes mill. She then allows these prejudices and biases us feel like we’re not alone. to affect the way she views and interacts with each The gossip in “Pride and Prejudice” and “Gosman when she meets him in person. Similarly, in sip Girl” fails to fall under the umbrella of healing the televised realm of Blair Waldorf and Serena gossip. I think they find a better classification unvan der Woodsen, we watch the privileged char- der Kierkegaard’s definition. Campus gossip, howacters make foolish and/or rash decisions based ever, is not as clearly delineated. Yes, a majority of entirely upon falsified “blasts” about “Manhat- it is malicious and not meant to benefit anyone, tan’s elite.” Unfailingly, these blasts lead to weekly but I believe that some of it functions as healing showdowns and heartbreaks amongst the show’s gossip. At a campus like Duke, where the gossip main characters. mill never stops running, it makes sense that some Although our lives as mere mortals may not be of the gossip people hear—say about themed paras glitzy and glamorous as Elizabeth Bennett’s or ties and wild nights out on the town—help other Serena van der Woodsen’s, we share their penchant people set things straight in their own lives. Who for gossip. Consider, for example, any normal day knows if gossip has served a healing purpose at Duke. We are always surrounded by people— throughout history? Maybe that’s what has kept it on the bus, walking to class, eating lunch, relax- alive for so long. Or maybe it’s just the pure, twisting on the quad. And I don’t know about you, but ed enjoyment we humans get from exploiting the when I’m caught up in a crowd of people, I can’t lives of our friends and family. Either way, gossip help but catch snippets of conversations going on isn’t going anywhere. It’s here to stay. Now it’s just around me. Sometimes I hear about classes and up to us to decide how we want to use it. research, but most of the time I hear people talking about other people. These conversations usuRoshni Jain is a Trinity freshman. Her column runs ally begin, very enthusiastically, with the phrase, every other Thursday. Follow Roshni on Twitter at @oh“OMG, did you hear what (fill in the blank) did/ somuddled

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ow you talk about Israel (or as others would say, If the week were called “Palestinian Solidarity Week” Palestine) depends on where you come from, or “Defeat Netanyahu’s Government Week,” then maywhere you have been, who you know and what be I would have dropped by a couple of events. I mainyou have been exposed to. We are prodtain that loving Israel doesn’t mean I ucts of our pasts. have to approve of every policy of Prime At Cornell University’s debate tournaMinister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coaliment two weekends ago, I had to open tion. But I don’t condone the South Afa debate on the topic “This House suprica comparison. ports the use of the word ‘Apartheid’ to Words are powerful when they are apdescribe Israel’s treatment of Palestinplied to singular circumstances. Apartians.” As a Jew who studied abroad in Jeheid is not an adjective but a noun. It rusalem last semester, I found debating describes a systematic use of racial opsamantha against my own personal opinions to be a pression and segregation by the white lachman healthy exercise. At debate tournaments, minority over the black majority in I am often faced with motions with which what’s our age again? South Africa. Even if you see similarities I disagree, but with only 15 minutes of in Israel, it’s important to take into acpreparation time, I had to throw myself count context and timing. into the arguments.

Alshareef said in our interview that the goal of DSJP The debate ended up being about the ramifica- is “justice in Palestine, whether that’s social, political, tions of the word “Apartheid,” beyond the intentions humanitarian, whether that’s one state or two states, of those who use it. it’s not specific.” By using the word Apartheid, however, To backtrack, when I returned to Duke this past Jan- they alienate large constituencies. uary, I thought I had escaped Israel’s clutches. In Israel, Let me tell you why. Apartheid implies racial segregaI had what’s called “Jerusalem syndrome,” character- tion. But that’s not what I saw consistently in Israel. The ized by symptoms including dizziness, confusion, anxi- West Bank and Gaza are a totally different story, which I ety and intense yearning. With Jerusalem syndrome, would need a whole other column to address. But within every day is new, every experience exceptional—the the borders of pre-1967 Israel, I had Palestinian students whole land is saturated with historical and cultural in my Hebrew language-intensive classes and frequently significance. It didn’t matter where I was. I could be saw them around The Hebrew University, where I studexploring the Old City, eating in East Jerusalem, cel- ied. I bought food from Palestinian vendors at the marebrating the “Festival of Festivals” in Haifa or hanging ket and learned about Palestinian political parties. Palout on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem. I felt a deep sense estinians living in Israel can vote, and do. Every day on of magic, everywhere. my way to school, I walked past the Hadassah Medical People feel a deep connection to the land and that’s Center, which I saw Palestinians frequently enter. why discussions about the direction of the country and What I am trying to convey is that there’s much more the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are characterized by so integration in Israel than “Apartheid” implies. Its use both much passion. There’s deep-seeded resentment on all devalues what happened in South Africa and mischaracsides, stemming from past injustices and current attach- terizes what the real problems in Israel actually are. ments. It’s not just about territory, but also demographThe REAL problem in Israel isn’t whether Israelis ics, the economy, religion and politics. Every sphere is want justice for Palestinians. Rather, it is the fractures intrinsically linked. and fault-lines within each coalition. As Alshareef and I Next week, Duke Students for Justice in Palestine both agree, “extremists” are on both sides. Whether it’s (DSJP) will be holding their “Israeli Apartheid Week.” Hamas, which refuses to recognize the State of Israel They received $1,940 from DSG for the week, which and has sent suicide terrorists and missiles into Israel, will feature a visit by Bekah Wolf, co-founder of the or ultra-Orthodox Jews, who alter the balance of power Palestine Solidarity Project. I spoke with sophomore between the Left and Right, it is the internal divisions Ahmed Alshareef, president of DSJP, who explained that cause potential compromises to collapse and recthat the group’s goal is to “explore the concept of Is- onciliation to falter. rael as an Apartheid system.” He added a sub-goal: to I, too, want acceptance and opportunity for the Pal“slowly introduce the political and humanitarian sides estinians in Israel, the territories and other Arab states. of the conflict.”

But I’m not going to join your coalition if you alienI found the exploration part confusing: The group ate me with your terminology, which represents much is using the word “Apartheid,” having already assumed more than a gambit for attention. The conflict’s most that racial segregation is the reality on the ground. Re- pressing, complex problems will never be resolved if we gardless of one’s conception of that reality, I think it’s can’t come to terms with each other’s language. important to assess how using the word achieves or detracts from the group’s goals. Alshareef admitted, “CallSamantha Lachman is a Trinity junior. Her column runs ing it [Apartheid] would honestly bring more attention every other Thursday. You can follow her on Twitter at @Samto the week.”

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ne of the things I have learned about working in a failing school district is that when things go wrong, there is always someone to blame. Students blame their teachers, other students and the administration. Teachers blame their administrators, security officers, parents and their students. Administrators, in turn, blame their staff, students and the superintendent.

The superintendent then blames administrators and the priya bhat school staff. Eventually and life as ms. b. inevitably, the parents blame their school district.

At the end of the day, everyone is pointing a finger at someone else, and the school building itself becomes a pressure cooker for its tenants’ escalating frustration. Students become increasingly antsy in school, perhaps from frustration with their low grades, teachers’ seemingly unreasonable expectations or maybe even the difficulty of the work put in front of them. They skip or come to class extremely late, use hall transitions as recess and become defiant toward school staff.

Teachers get frustrated with students, realizing that, even this far into the year and who-knows-how-many phone calls home later, Johnny still walks into class every day without paper or a pencil. Administrators, in turn, get frustrated realizing that no matter how many solutions staff, parents, support personnel and the district have put together to address student misbehavior, the four, fully operational, in-school suspension rooms have run out of chairs, as they are filled to capacity.

I have been told the school morale sinks lowest at various other points in the year (October and November come to mind), but I believe it is actually during this month that staff and students alike feel like they have hit rock bottom. Perhaps it is the thought of a lone three-day weekend to hold them over until Spring break, or perhaps it is the looming season of state testing in March and April that puts everyone on edge.

Whatever the case may be, in that seemingly endless stretch of school before Spring break, the pot of mounting frustration finally boils over. For some, it serves as their breaking point. I have had at least 15 students transfer this semester alone. My weekly math department meetings have become a forum for discontented discourse on the state of the school, and at least one teacher frequently advertises job openings for math teachers in other districts. Another teacher at my school had his doctor write a note for a 10-day medical leave, citing the severe psychological toll of working in my school. With over three months left to go in the school year, the principal of a similar school in another part of the city has already submitted a request to get references to find a new job next year, only to be told that she would be waiting in line behind eight other principals in similar situations of frustration.

I do not find myself at the same breaking point as some of my colleagues, but I understand that, not only for my school, but also for schools across the country, maintaining a dedicated and competent staff in a low-achieving environment is not a sustainable goal for the long-term. A 2007 study from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future found that the teacher turnover rate for urban public school educators was over 20 percent. Three years earlier the organization reported that one-third of new teachers leave in their first three years of teaching and half leave after five years. The same study indicates that even those who want to stay in the profession often move to administrative positions or higher-performing schools.

To paraphrase one of my favorite teacher blogs, supteach: In many schools like mine, the combination of dealing with dissatisfied administrators, parents and staff day in and day out, on top of the hours we work in an extremely high-stress environment (most often coupled with inadequate pay), does not entice even great teachers to stay in the profession long-term. As a young teacher, I count myself lucky, because I don’t have a family to support. This gives me the time and energy to keep up with my classroom of very rambunctious 11 to 14-year-olds—a luxury many teachers in urban schools do not enjoy. Still, even I find it hard to always avoid dealing with some of the emotional toll of working with students who live in conditions of extreme poverty.

So, what solutions, if any, are there for the burnout problem? I do not think that I have the experience to come up with any enduring prescriptions. I can say that for the first time all year, one of my students, “J,” told me that he actually understood something in my class ... “them parallel lines.” So at least I will be back tomorrow.

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lettertotheeditor A celebration of Duke women I am a feminist. And if you know me well, you know that I’m not afraid of those words. For me, the passion that those words invoke is reminiscent of women’s long journey for equal opportunities, a journey to which I owe an enormous debt of gratitude.

This weekend, Duke will celebrate Winning Women’s Weekend, a commemoration of academics, athletics and advocacy. This event is an excellent opportunity for students, both male and female, to consider what it means to be a feminist at Duke, and to honor the heroic efforts of the feminists and activists who have come before us.

Despite my confusion with her need to include the “I am not a feminist” disclaimer, I sincerely enjoyed reading Ashley Camano’s column, “This one’s for the girls,” in Tuesday’s Chronicle that discusses the feats of our female athletes and encourages undergraduate support in Duke’s celebration of women in athletics. As we honor 40 years of high achieving women’s athletics teams, let’s not forget the other significant impacts that Title IX has had on our campus, and the most significant benefit that we as women have enjoyed because of it:

the fact that we can study at Duke University. Exactly 40 years ago this year, the Woman’s College was integrated with Trinity College, allowing women to become equal participants in the University. With Title IX came equality in the classroom as well as on the athletic field.

Even as we celebrate this important piece of history, we should also make a commitment to the future of women at Duke. We cannot overlook the inequalities that continue to persist between genders in academics, athletics and the working world. We are the feminists who will be remembered 40 years from now.

I encourage everyone to do some research into what “feminism” truly means. These accomplishments, the athletic and academic progress, and the achievements that are being celebrated this weekend, are exactly what a Duke Feminist would support.

Sincerely, Catherine Joseph, Pratt ’12 Vice-Chair, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Rewa Choudhary, Pratt ’12 Chair, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars

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Priya Bhat, Trinity ’11, is currently teaching sixth grade math with Teach for America in St. Louis, Mo. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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POTTI from page 1 more than two years. The Cancer Letter, a trade publication, first published reports in the summer of 2010 that Potti had exaggerated his credentials, including a Rhodes Scholarship.

Potti has also been accused of manipulating data used in academic papers and is the subject of a research misconduct review at Duke.

Dr. Joseph Nevins, Barbara Levine professor of breast cancer genomics and Potti’s mentor, broke the silence regarding that investigation during the 60 Minutes segment.

Nevins said it is “abundantly clear” that Potti manipulated the data he used for research published in major academic journals. This week, the journal Clinical Cancer Research retracted one of Potti’s articles, making it the 10th of his works to receive such treatment.

Potti has declined to comment publicly on the allegations and told 60 Minutes that it would be inappropriate for him to comment.

In an interview with local CBS affiliate WBTW earlier this week, Holt said that Coastal Cancer Center had no knowledge of the 60 Minutes investigation prior to its airing and said the segment caught the staff out of the blue. When The Chronicle asked Holt whether or not this comment meant that Coastal Cancer Center was unaware of the allegations against Potti, he refused to comment, said “thank you,” and abruptly hung up the phone.

Lei Gainer, public relations director for LHWH, said Coastal Cancer Center was aware of the allegations against Potti. It was the airing of the segment, and not the allegations, that caught the staff off guard. Gainer said she could not comment further.

Holt defended Potti’s hiring in the statement by citing the recommendations written on Potti’s behalf by Duke doctors, including Dr. Jeffrey Crawford, chief of the division of medical oncol-

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ogy at Duke. Holt did not acknowledge in yesterday’s statement that in December, Crawford told both The Cancer Letter and The Chronicle that since writing the letter, he learned more about the controversy that made him realize the recommendation was a mistake.

“While I was certainly aware of the controversy that was growing, I didn’t have first-hand knowledge regarding the extent of the issues involved,” Crawford wrote in an email to The Chronicle Dec. 28. “Without that understanding, it was premature for me to write the letter of recommendation that I did.”

Dr. David Rizzieri, associate professor of medicine, wrote in an email to The Chronicle Wednesday that he stands by his recommendation referring to Potti’s clinical abilities. In his letter Jan. 21, 2011, he called Potti an outstanding teacher and said that if a member of his own family contracted cancer he would feel comfortable with Potti treating them.

Rizzieri added that he did highlight concerns about Potti’s research on a form submitted to the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners that has not been released to the public. It is unclear why this document was not included in the copy of the application that The Chronicle obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. Assistant professors of medicine Dr. David Hsu and Dr. Arati Rao also recommended Potti for a medical license in South Carolina. Hsu and Rao could not be reached for comment.

Although the North Carolina Medical Board formally reprimanded Potti in November for unprofessional conduct while at Duke, Potti’s South Carolina licence is in good standing. Lesia Kudelka, a spokesman for the South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, said the state’s medical board does not list disciplinary actions taken against doctors in other states, according to The Sun News, a daily newspaper in Myrtle Beach.

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The Duke Chapel celebrates Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent with a service and brief homily.