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The Board of Trustees will consider the future of higher education—and Duke’s role within it—during a retreat-style meeting this weekend. After a Board meeting concluding midafternoon Friday, the Trustees will begin a retreat portion where they will hear presentations from higher education experts and discuss the changing aspects and trends of higher education. The Board, members of the administration and guest speakers will contemplate a number of developing issues in education, such as the changing role of technology, sustainable business practices for universities and the scheme of global education in the next 10 to 20 years. Board Chair Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, noted questions about the quality of education and state of university funding sources—strained due to pressure on state and federal governments—as two relevant areas of discussion in higher education. “It seems like a time when a number of forces affecting the direction of higher ed are playing out,” Wagoner said. “There is a lot more conversation around the effectiveness of education and making sure students are getting a good return on their
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When No. 5 Duke met No. 15 Florida State for the first time this season, the Seminoles’ timely 3-point shooting ended the Blue Devils’ 45-game home win streak. This time around, Andre Dawkins returned the favor with six 3-pointers of his own as Duke registered a 74-66 victory at the Donald L. Tucker Center. “We know they like to converge a lot on drives,” Dawkins said. “So we wanted to be ready for kicks, be ready to shoot. And we did a good job of that today.” The Blue Devils (24-4, 11-2 in the ACC) took advantage early and often, making 13-of-28 attempts from 3-point territory on the night. The game was not all long-range sharpshooting though, as the two squads traded blows from the tip and exchanged a series of runs throughout the contest. Duke struck first, with an 11-4 run to start the game that was bookended by an Austin Rivers 3-pointer and a Miles Plumlee put-back dunk. The Seminoles (19-8, 10-3) came right back with a 9-1 run resulting in their only lead of the game at 13-12 near the midway point of the first half. Then Dawkins took over. The junior guard scored 12 of the Blue Devils’ next 14 points, nailing three shots from long range plus three foul shots. Just four minutes after Florida State had taken the lead, SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 8 ADDISON CORRIHER/THE CHRONICLE
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The hope for change that mobilized young voters in support of President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign is waning. news Anthony Sanderson, Trinity ’11, was a analysis passionate supporter of Obama in his first pursuit of the presidency. But four years later, Sanderson is so frustrated by the president’s first term that he is voting Republican in the upcoming race—no matter which candidate secures the Republican nomination. In 2008, Obama electrified the youth demographic with grand aspirations of post-partisanship fueled by the soaring
To many of the people who contributed to the construction of the Duke Cancer Center, their return on investment has already been paid in full. Prostate cancer survivor Walter Wilkinson said Duke’s compassionate and first-class medical staff helped give him his life back. As a patient, he realized the importance of treating patients but also of making them comfortable, which is why when he heard about the plans for the patient-centric Duke Cancer Center he immediately decided to pay it forward. “You have to be proud of this building where a lot of stuff in here is made to make people feel comfortable,” Wilkinson said. “The money I [donated] here helped pay for this, and I’m glad they used it to make it for the people.” Donors like Wilkinson were thanked in a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, which featured Gov. Bev Perdue, President Richard Brodhead, Dr. Michael Kastan, executive director of the Duke Cancer Institute and breast cancer survivor
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Members of the Duke community, cancer survivors and Gov. Bev Perdue cut the ceremonial ribbon in the Duke Cancer Center Thursday.
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Three in 10 Americans have bachelor’s degrees
Representing a historic high, three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor’s degrees in 2011, census officials reported Thursday. College attainment has crept upward, slowly but steadily. In 1947, just 5 percent of Americans 25 and older held degrees from four-year colleges. As recently as 1998, fewer than one-quarter of the adult population held college degrees. “We believe this is a notable milestone,” said Kurt Bauman, chief of the Census Bureau’s Education and Social Stratification Branch, during a telephone news conference to announce the data. The Washington, D.C. region remains the nation’s best-educated metropolis. As of 2010, 46.8 percent of adults in the area held at least a bachelor’s degree, the highest rate among the 50 largest metro areas. California’s Silicon Valley ranked second, with 45.3 percent college attainment.
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Academic Council to review new DKU programs by Kristie Kim THE CHRONICLE
Faculty may be ready to explore new possibilities for academic programming at Duke Kunshan University. Council Chair Susan Lozier, professor of physical oceanography, asked faculty members to consider additional academic programs in DKU that lead to Duke degrees or Duke credit at the Academic Council meeting Thursday. According to the proposal, programs must be reviewed within a two or threeyear window with metrics of success approved by the Academic Programs Committee, an advisory board to Provost Peter Lange on University-wide academic issues. This is a deviation from the council’s decision in its December 2011 meeting, in which the council noted that it was not prepared to endorse future plans of the program until faculty had more time to fully understand the financial context and impact of the decision. This came after the council’s approval of the Fuqua School of Business’ Master of Management Studies in Finance, which will be the first degree program at DKU. “[The faculty] are now in a position to make a step after many months of learning about and immersing ourselves in the facts of [DKU],” Lozier said. “We are at a point where a step further is not a possible step toward a precipitous fall of irreversible steps, but just a step further.” The Academic Council is not expected to vote on the proposal until its March meeting. James Roberts, executive vice provost for finance and administration and DKU board member, presented updates on the financial planning of DKU. The first phase of the project is expected to cost Duke $38.4 million over seven years or an average of about $5.5 million per year, Roberts said. This is a slight change in the number presented to the council last March, when Duke’s subsidy commitment was estimated to be $37 million over six years. “Any risk analysis is just a snapshot at any given time and will need to be followed by detailed updates as uncertainties unfold,” said John Payne, Joseph R. Ruvane Jr. professor at Fuqua. Roberts said that according to the most current risk analysis, it is likely that the subsidy will be between $31.9 million and
$49.7 million, with a small chance that the subsidy requirement will exceed $48.7 million. Roberts added that the risk analysis does not reflect management actions that may address potential problems and mitigate risks. The financial update report noted that tuition will fund the campus operating budget as much as possible. Thomas Pfau, Eads Family professor of English and professor of German, said he was concerned about the delayed approval from the Chinese Ministry of Education, which would allow the DKU tuition costs to be finalized. Pfau noted that tuition costs greatly depend on the number of students who are projected to apply and the selectivity of the programs. President Richard Brodhead said the council must be patient in awaiting a response from the Chinese Ministry of Education, noting that the bureaucracy of the Chinese government complicates the approval process. The council also heard a presentation from William Kirby, T. M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard University and Duke’s senior adviser on China, who fielded questions from the council about the status of higher education in China. Kirby also named some problems in the current Chinese higher education system that DKU can address—including the limitations imposed on research universities, the lack of investments in these institutions and the uneven distribution of excellent research institutions, despite the great demand for high caliber education. Kirby also addressed some faculty members’ concern about the risks associated with such a complex collaboration with China. He noted that it would be a greater risk for the University to not take the initiative to work with a country whose higher education system is quickly expanding. “[The University,] in some sense, has been given a blank sheet of paper, and it is up to you to fill it,” Kirby said. “It’s something that one should enter into—not without anxiety but with ambition.” In other business: Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for research at the Duke University School of Medicine and James B. Duke professor of
pharmacology and cancer biology, addressed concerns of the council on the prevention of academic fraud similar to the affair involving former Duke cancer researcher Anil Potti. Kornbluth noted that no system would be able to eliminate the level of fraud seen in the Potti case. Potti is being investigated for research misconduct, and so far 10 articles incorporating his research have been retracted. “If there is any silver lining in this odyssey, you can put into place measures to increase the probability of catching someone engaged in academic fraud, to put in safeguards for honest researchers who are either just sloppy or make an honest mistake,” Kornbluth said. She added that there have already been steps taken to prevent academic fraud in the research arena—including the embedment of biostatistical expertise for all research including clinical trials and the institution of information technology systems with lock boxes, which will record and track changes made to raw data.
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William Kirby, T. M. Chang professor of China studies at Harvard University, speaks about education systems in China Thursday.
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Duke has seen more reports of hazing activities this semester than any time in recent memory. Hazing occurs in many of our communities at Duke, but we are writing to address the violations that have occurred in the Greek community. In the past weeks, several instances of hazing have come to our attention, with one incident resulting in the transport of a student to the hospital for a dangerously high blood-alcohol level. We as the four council presidents are alarmed by these events, and we plan to take action to ameliorate the hazing problem in the Greek community. To the credit of the students and leaders who have come before us, hazing has not historically been a problem at Duke. However, hazing does happen at this school, and any activity in our community that causes harm to students is unacceptable. We believe that our community needs to reassess and recommit to the goals and values of new member education. New member education is the period of time after a student receives a bid from an organization but before that student commits full initiation and membership into the organization. This period is meant to foster the bonds of sisterhood and brotherhood among the new members, educate them about the rich histories of the organizations they are joining, and cultivate a relationship between the new members and the values of the organization. It promotes community, but it also serves to develop a valuesoriented approach to membership, with those values ranging from moral courage to loyalty to scholarship. New member education should be a time when the new members learn to respect, honor, and appreciate their organization and its values. It is not a time to abuse new members or threaten their emotional, psychological, or physical well-being. With these goals in mind, we plan to implement measures that will promote a safe, values-based approach to new member education across all four councils. We are researching and discussing a community-wide New Member Education manual that will explicitly outline what are healthy and positive methods of education and what are destructive and unacceptable methods. We plan to promote new requirements for the New Member Education officers of each chapter in the councils to improve communication, collaboration, and accountability among the organizations. Furthermore, we as the council presidents will be reviewing the Duke hazing policy in preparation for a more effective approach to eliminating hazing in our community. Our Duke community ascribes to standards of excellence and integrity, and each of our four Greek councils is comprised of organizations founded upon ideals of brotherhood and sisterhood as well as adherence to our principles. We cannot and will not tolerate activities that degrade not only our Greek community, but also our Duke community. Inter-Greek Council President Xiao Zhu, Trinity ‘12 (Outgoing) Sunny Sun, Pratt ‘13 (Incoming)
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Panhellenic Association President Jenny Ngo, Trinity ’12 (Outgoing) Kelsey Woodford, Trinity ’13 (Incoming)
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BOT from page 1 investment for college.” President Richard Brodhead called the Board’s retreat, which will conclude midday Saturday, an intellectual exercise for the Trustees, noting that the Trustees have been assigned advanced reading to prepare for the discussions. “[Duke’s] day-to-day is in good shape,” Brodhead said. “But it’s important we know what we’re going to do in the [future].” Every few years, the Board converts part of its February meeting into a retreat in order to reflect on bigger-picture trends in the context of the University or higher education, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. As the fiduciaries of the University, it is important that the Trustees gain an understanding of the forces shaping higher education. Wagoner also noted the benefits of a meeting with a broader scope, when the Board can deviate from its usual shorter term focuses. “It’s a good chance for us to make sure we’re educated and up to date on this,” Wagoner said. “[The Board wants to] step back and say, ‘What does this mean for the University going forward?’” The Board will hear two presentations from guest speakers about the changing face of education and the potential challenges for Duke, Wagoner said. Wayne Clough, former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and current secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, will deliver a presentation on the evolution of universities and the state of education. Clough began his teaching career at Duke as an associate professor of civil engineering.
The second speaker is business strategy and innovation expert Clayton Christensen, Kim B. Clark professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School. Christensen has studied education extensively and recently published a book on the disruptions in education. Wagoner said the Board thought Christensen would put forth an interesting and provocative view on how the future of education may change. The retreat will also feature panels of professors working in pedagogy at Duke, who will address questions about the growing role of technology in education, Wagoner said. There will also be a number of breakout sessions where Trustees will discuss the business model of universities with the help of experts within the administration. “We’re going to hit a lot of interesting topics and... get down the learning curve,” Wagoner said. “Hopefully, we’re able to help the administration and think about how all this stuff looks out—not just in three to five years but also how it might impact the future 10 to 20 years.” During its session Friday, the Board is expected to approve the tuition rate for the 2012-2013 academic year, Schoenfeld said. Tuition saw a 4.3 percent increase last year, when it was approved at $40,665 for the 2011-2012 year. The total cost of attendance at Duke—$53,905 this year—typically increases by 3 to 5 percent each year. In other action items, the Board will vote to authorize the construction of the Environmental Hall, a 70,000 sq.-ft. addition to the Levine Science Research Center, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. The five-story facility will unite the faculty, administration and some classrooms of the Nicholas School
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of the Environment, as it will be connected to the Nicholas School’s current location in the “A” wing of the LSRC. The Environmental Hall will cost roughly $35 million funded by central administrative funds. The exact cost of the construction will be determined after the University selects a contractor for the project in the Spring, Trask added. Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides declined to comment on the Environment Hall construction until after the Board’s vote. The Board will also vote on additions to Duke’s water reclamation project and the completed chilled water plant, Trask said. The proposal will place two new chillers inside the plant in order to provide capacity in output to the new medical buildings, including the Duke Cancer Center and other upcoming fa-
cilities. The chilled water plant is funded by utility charges to units in facilities that use chilled water, he added. There will also be a series of routine updates delivered to the Board, Schoenfeld said, including presentations on Duke Kunshan University and the Cancer Center—which opens to patients Monday. The architect selected to conduct the West Union Building renovations will also be presented for approval to the Board.
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globe that is the difference maker.� Brodhead added that cancer is one of the primary health concerns of the 20th and 21st Claire Weinberg, who is also a member of the centuries and that the many factors involved Duke Cancer Patient Support Advisory Coun- in fighting this complicated disease are cencil. They were joined by members of the medi- tralized within one facility. cal community in cutting the purple ribbon “Today we can take a new kind of pride wrapped around the atrium’s main staircase. because today is the day where you pull it all Kastan said in an interview Feb. 16 that the together,� he said. “Today is the day where the Duke Cancer Center is modeled after other free- very same university where cutting edge restanding cancer institutes but that Duke is the first search and discoveries are made has devised a medical center to physicalstructake its vision of ture so that “The countless examples of interdisciplinary the discovcare and place it eries in labs humanity given to me... make in one physical come Duke shine as a cancer center can structure. right into the “[Duke] is therapy for that really cares.� unique in putpatients.� — Claire Weinberg, ting that kind Weinof structure in berg, who Breast cancer survivor was treated an academic medical center,� for breast Kastan said. “There are a number of other in- cancer at Duke after a misdiagnosis from anstitutions around the country that have various other facility, offered a patient’s perspective versions of this but none exactly the way it is set on the role every medical professional plays in up at Duke. My guess is that if we are successful, giving the best kind of care. Her focus on the which I am confident that we will be, [the struc- kindness she received from staff members not ture] will be a paradigm that others follow.� directly involved in her treatment testified to Whereas previous open houses this week Duke’s patient-centric approach to treatment. had specifically focused on the building’s con“The countless examples of humanity tribution to Duke’s medical future and its role given to me... make Duke shine as a cancer in centralizing care around patients’ needs, center that really cares,� she said. “I can honThursday’s ceremony focused on the center’s estly say that, Duke, you do both the small and role in the state of North Carolina and the great extraordinarily well.� world. Perdue noted that Duke’s presence extends beyond the University’s walls in a way Funding a new kind of center that some may not realize. Kastan, who came to Duke less than a year “It’s easy for people to think of Duke just as ago when the project was already well una terrific university... or a fantastic brand-name derway, said that his role will be fulfilling the basketball team that wins game after game,� promise DCI has made to centralize cancer Perdue said. “But actually it’s the role that treatment around the patient. Duke has played for decades in this city in carFunding for the $230 million building was an ing for the health and welfare of our people investment from both Duke Medicine and philin North Carolina and for people around the anthropic sources, Kastan noted. He declined
to comment on the specific sources of funding from Duke Medicine or the exact amount of donations received for the building. “The development office set fundraising goals—they were a small fraction of what the building costs,� he said. “Hopefully, there will be people who see the beauty and impact of the building and will want to contribute.� Philanthropic dollars may have covered a small fraction of the costs of the building but most people who contributed felt a personal obligation to give back after having experiences with cancer. Myles Wittenstein, Trinity ’59 and a 15-year member of the DCI Board of Overseers, donated $100,000 to the center due to a close affiliation with Duke and experiences with cancer. Wittenstein’s sister died of cancer four years ago and his wife is a breast cancer survivor. “I was a student at Duke, and I always felt I got more than I gave, and I was always trying to get even after that,� Wittenstein said. “It’s hard to live in this country and not have some connection to cancer.... [The center] let me give back a little bit.�
The Board of Overseers also paid for the inscribed stone healing pad on the lower floor, which contains inspirational quotes selected by cancer patients, he said. “When you’re diagnosed with [cancer] it just blows you away—you have this helpless feeling,� Wilkinson said. “But it feels peaceful in here—they are making the best of a bad situation. It’s a lot better being in a building like this than a dark, cold building, because [with cancer] you feel dark anyway.� Donors explored different methods for raising funds for the project. Fayetteville resident Jennifer Sullivan founded an endowment for cancer research after her husband, who was treated at Duke for melanoma, died in November. The Todd M. Sullivan Endowment has raised $27,000 to date. Sullivan noted how Duke’s patient-centric treatment encouraged her to support research at DCI. “You get this diagnosis, and you think your world is going to end,� Sullivan said. “It’s nice that you can come here, and [the treatment] is as good as it gets. The center is making it a better experience.�
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Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System, speaks at the opening ceremony of the Duke Cancer Center.
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Duke is just one win away from claiming at least a share of the ACC regular season title for the third straight year, a feat they look to accomplish Friday in Cameron Indoor Stadium. They just have to beat the best Miami team in history first. The No. 5 Hurricanes (24-3, 13-1 in the ACC) hold the highest ranking in program history and boast one of the best backcourts in the nation. Senior guards Shenise Johnson, Stefanie Yderstrom and Riquna Williams are all averaging in double figures for points this season. “We don’t have great matchups,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. No. 5 “You’ve got WNBA players in [JohnMiami son] and [Williams], and you’ve got vs. an ACC person that has really stuck No. 7 out in [Yderstrom]. They all can shoot Duke the three, they all can penetrate and they all can create their own shots.” FRIDAY, 7 p.m. The No. 7 Blue Devils (22-4, 13Cameron Indoor Stadium 1) will take on the talented trio of guards without three players of their own. Having already lost freshman Amber Henson to knee surgery and sophomore Chloe Wells to an academic-related suspension, Duke suffered another blow last Wednesday when sophomore Richa Jackson tore her ACL, sidelining her for the season and leaving Duke with just eight scholarship players. Jackson had been averaging 9.4 points and 4.6 rebounds in 24.5 minutes of play per game before her injury, but it is SEE W. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 10
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Austin Rivers picked up the Duke offense in the second half, drawing open looks for teammates on the perimeter with drives to the basket. by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
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Point guard Chelsea Gray leads a balanced Blue Devil offense that features five players averaging 10 or more points per game.
In a battle between two ACC heavyweights vying for first place, Duke’s prolific 3-point perimeter attack lifted the Blue Devils over Florida State, avenging their January loss to the Seminoles. Playing in a raucous environment, No. 5 Duke (24-4, 11-2 in the ACC) was poised from the opening tip. Taking the court in his home state for the first time in his college career, Austin Rivers got off to a hot start. The dynamic freshman, who played point guard much of the night, was connecting on 3-pointers and also getting to the rim at will. “Our 3-point shooting is probably Game the difference in the game,” Duke Analysis head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. As No. 15 Florida State (19-8, 10-3) began to help on Rivers’ penetration, Duke was able to get quality looks on the perimeter for Andre Dawkins, who made the Seminoles pay. The junior sharpshooter was 5-for-8 from 3-point range, totaling 18 points in the first half, to take the crowd out of the game. In the second half, the Blue Devils continued to shoot the ball well from distance, connecting on 13-of28 long-range attempts on the night. After quiet first halves, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry stepped up down the stretch, combining for 16 points in the second half. The two juniors each hit timely 3-pointers to help prevent Florida State from sustaining any kind of momentum. Rivers continued his stellar play in the second half, finishing with 20 points, his 24th double-figure output of the season. “They have a good basketball team, and I think they compliment each other very well,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “[Rivers’] strength is shooting threes and getting to the basket, and when
you can spot up three or four guys who are capable of knocking down threes, their offensive system was difficult for us to defend.” And unlike the teams’ first meeting in Durham, the Blue Devils never lost their composure, even when Florida State made several runs in the second half. “We were able to get stops where we needed them and guys knocked down huge shots,” Dawkins said. “Last game in the second half is where we faltered defensively a little bit, and we didn’t do that tonight.” The Blue Devils defensive ball pressure prevented the Seminoles from getting into any kind of rhythm or consistent quality shots. The Seminoles two leading scorers, Michael Snaer and Ian Miller, shot just 10-for-24 from the field and were visibly frustrated much of the contest. Hamilton’s squad also had a few disciplinary lapses throughout the night that ended up costing the Seminoles in the end. Florida State fouled Duke on four 3-point shots, giving the Blue Devils an easy eight points, four of which came on a crucial four-point play by Kelly. The Duke frontcourt may have been the unsung heroes of the night, though. Despite being outrebounded 41-36 by a physical Seminoles frontcourt and battling foul trouble for much of the game, Mason and Miles Plumlee, along with Kelly, did just enough to neutralize the physical trio of Okaro White, Xavier Gibson and Bernard James and seal a pivotal ACC road victory. “You can’t let fouls affect how you play,” Miles Plumlee said. “We really brought it defensively tonight.” And the timing of what is becoming a more and more balanced Blue Devil attack could not be better. Duke is now riding a five-game winning streak and appears to be clicking on all cylinders with three regular season games remaining. “People want to nitpick on our team,” Krzyzewski said. “This team has done an unbelievable job and we are getting better.”
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another part of her game that the team will miss the most. “Everyone has to step up relative to the hustle plays,” McCallie said. “It can’t be a specialty item. That was one of Richa’s specialties…. But if you’re going to be a very good team, then you are all going to specialize in hustle plays.” The Blue Devils will take the court Friday night for the first time since being upset at Maryland—the team’s first loss in ACC play. In addition to missing the spark that Jackson provided, weak rebounding plagued Duke in the loss, and McCallie addressed that with the team in practice this week. She focused on aggressive play on the boards and looks to limit the Hurricanes’ second chance opportunities. “You can make people miss shots, but you have to get the ball,” McCallie said of Sunday’s loss. “That pretty much sums up that game.” The matchup will be Duke’s third of the season against a top-five team. The Blue Devils lost against both then-No. 4 Notre Dame and then-No. 3 Connecticut. Duke has never lost to Miami, but it enters Friday’s matchup as the lower-ranked team. The Blue Devils will have the advantage of playing in Cameron—where they have won 29 straight ACC contests—but the two teams are equal in terms of statistics. The programs rank side-by-side in 10 different conference statistical categories this season, including scoring margin and rebounding. While known for their youth, the Blue Devils will graduate Shay Shelby and Kathleen Scheer this year and will honor the two seniors before the game, the team’s penultimate contest of the regular season and their last at home.
Dawkins’ third 3-pointer gave Duke a 2617 advantage with 8:25 remaining in the half—a lead the Blue Devils would not relinquish. The sharpshooter finished with a game-high 22 points behind a 5-for-7 performance from beyond the arc in the first half. Although Dawkins set the tone for Duke in the first period and gave the squad a seven-point lead at the break, it was Rivers who made sure to finish the job in the second frame. The freshman opened the half with back-to-back 3-pointers on the Blue Devils’ first two possessions, but it was his dribble penetration that made the difference for Duke. When the Seminoles fought their way back to a six-point deficit, Rivers took the ball at the top of the arc and drove to the right, pulling defenders in from the perimeter and leaving Ryan Kelly wide open in front of the Blue Devils’ bench. Rivers immediately kicked the ball out to the 6-foot-11 forward, who knocked down the 3-pointer and drew a foul that led to a four-point play. “Rivers is a handful for anyone,” Florida State head coach Leonard Hamilton said. “It’s important to know that they executed their system…. They set excellent ball screens and they have guys who set screens and roll. So you have to worry about containing the dribble and then getting back to a great player, and then keep them out of the lane and not allow them to get clean looks from three.” Rivers sealed the game for Duke with two key plays in the closing minutes. With the Blue Devils up five with about a minute and a half remaining,
Rivers drew out two defenders trying to stop his drive and managed to find Miles Plumlee under the basket for a layup. At the other end—after Plumlee fouled out—Florida State looked to inbound the ball from the baseline on its offensive end, down six points with just over a minute to play. Rivers picked off the ensuing lob near half court and dished the ball to Kelly, who knocked down two free throws to seal the win for Duke.
Rivers finished 6-for-16 from the field, but added four rebounds and four assists in addition to his 20 points in what may have been his most complete game of the year. “Where Austin is at is a completely different place than where he was a month ago,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Austin played a great basketball game tonight. He looked like a senior out there, and that’s the way he’s been playing. He just keeps getting better.”
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An agenda for Women’s Weekend Women’s Weekend offers term and extending through us a chance to reflect on the the Richard Brodhead years. progress Duke has made in Increased resources for women’s issues, in the last Counseling and Psychologicentury and in this one. But cal Services, the prominence this weekend also offers the of the Women’s Center and University an updated maopportunity to ternity policies editorial evaluate its sucfor faculty and cess in empowering and sup- staff all attest to Duke’s comporting women on campus mitment to providing fundright now. This weekend’s ing and support for positive bevy of panelists, speakers change. and visitors should celebrate Still, underlying cultural the past, but we all need to issues continue to plague cast a critical eye to the prob- Duke’s gender relations. lems that remain—and what There has been no real must be done about them. change in the way women The 2003 report on cam- experience Duke since the pus gender issues, known as 2003 initiative. We have kept the Women’s Initiative report, up the changes from a decade catalyzed a sustained institu- ago—now we need to make tional response to women’s is- new ones. sues, starting at the end of forWe offer a brief assessment mer President Nan Keohane’s of where the University needs
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to focus its energy. Although many of these gender issues stem from broader societal patterns, Duke must continue looking for innovative ways to address these problems. On campus today, the continued prevalence of sexual assault is disturbing. Although subtle shifts like the introduction of the mandatory reporting policy are encouraging, Duke needs to work to ensure that the University is free from sexual violence. Headline grabbers like sexist party themes and emails are probably not the most serious drivers of gender issues on campus. Still, the prevalence of these issues is a manifestation of a deeper set of attitudes that characterize social interactions. Deepseated biases that uphold,
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uke’s sexual misconduct policy was officially Duke’s policy hinges on different factors bemodified last month, with changes for sex- cause it addresses student disciplinary measures, ual assault victims that have both positive rather than the criminal or civil processes described and negative implications. The good above. But that does not explain why news is that the standard for finding the University policy should reduce responsibility has been reduced from the time frame for reporting to one “clear and convincing” to a “preponyear. It very well could take over a derance of evidence,” which is more year for an individual to overcome accommodating to victims. the emotional and mental trauma The revised standard is positive of being taken advantage of and asprogress, but it is widely known that saulted by a fellow student at Duke. one of the huge obstacles for sexual an individual violates the rajlakshmi de When assault crimes is vast underreporting. Duke community, he or she should minority report It is obvious that these crimes tend to not be able to escape cleanly simply be devastating for many reasons that because one year has passed, espeare highly personal and complicated in nature. cially if the victim may still be coming to terms with Therefore, it is not surprising that many students consequences that the perpetrator will never have would rather not accuse their perpetrator or en- to face. dure the judicial process. Sexual assault festers and So why was this change implemented? Associate persists as a crime that, compared to others, lacks Dean of Students and Director of the Student Conserious repercussions; victims often don’t receive duct Office Stephen Bryan, wrote in an email that the justice they are due. the U.S. Department of Education noted that Duke’s Duke should find ways to encourage reporting. harassment policies and sexual misconduct policies Abolishing the “statute of limitations” for sexual “needed to have a consistent time frame for reportassault reporting, which refers to the time frame ing.” To achieve consistency, the timeframe was refor reporting a punishable incident, is a necessary duced for sexual misconduct reporting, instead of but insufficient step toward encouraging reports. increased for other harassment cases. Dean Bryan For crimes that are life altering, which includes also wrote that his evidence over the past 10 academcertain sexual assault cases, it should not matter ic years has shown 96 percent of sexual misconduct how much time has passed. The second change to cases were reported less than a year after the incident. Duke’s sexual assault policy, however, is exactly the The average reporting time was within 60 days of the opposite—it reduces the statute of limitations for date of the incident, and 40 percent were reported sexual assault, from two years to one year. within one week of the date of occurrence. This change seems especially bizarre when comThe data is important to include in any discuspared to state laws regarding sexual assault. In some sion of the policy, but it is not compelling enough states, the statute of limitations for this category of to warrant limiting time for sexual assault reportcrime is being increased. Delaware, for example, elimi- ing, when it is already so underreported. Like I nated the civil statute of limitations on sexual abuse in said earlier, increasing or getting rid of the statute a 2007 law. A few weeks ago in Wisconsin, a man could of limitations is not going to be a silver bullet, but not be charged with sexual assault even though he ad- at least it would be a step in the right direction. mitted guilt, because the six-year statute of limitations Ebonie Simpson, DSG vice president of student had passed; last week, however, a state representative life, has written a resolution urging the administraintroduced a bill that would eliminate the statute of tion to increase the statute of limitations in order limitations for first-degree sexual assault. to accommodate the length of a student’s tenure, The primary reason that states are reexamin- and DSG has passed the resolution. In addition, ing the time frame for reporting crimes is because during the month of March, Develle Dish is launchof technology related to DNA evidence. DNA evi- ing a sexual assault awareness campaign. With the dence from a sexual assault can be stored and sub- help of other Duke students, these actions should sequently used to trace a suspect many years after inspire dialogue about Duke’s policies. The adminthe crime, necessitating a reevaluation of the pur- istration should pay close attention to these student pose of having a statute of limitations. In a recent reactions, given the deleterious and influential role case in Texas, DNA evidence identified a perpetra- of sexual assault on the student experience. tor from 19 years ago, when he sexually assaulted an 8-year-old girl, slit her throat and left her to die. Rajlakshmi De is a Trinity junior and is studying Many states still have a statute of limitations for sex- abroad at the London School of Economics. Her column ual assault cases, but will waive it completely if there runs every other Friday. Follow Rajlakshmi on Twitter is any DNA evidence from the perpetrator. @RajDe4
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here’s nothing quite like a moth- lifestyles affecting our day-to-day. er’s wisdom. My mother said it was the little things, So even though we had been and I see that, too. We don’t hold doors fighting, even though I for each other, focusing planned on ignoring her instead on an incoming ellie schaak when she came into my text. We ignore that guy guest column room and sat on the edge we “met” at Shooters last of my bed, I listened when night in the hopes that we I recognized the tone she uses to pass might forget. We talk to our professors down those precious pearls. She said: about our grades and nothing else, seeing “Ellie, college is the most selfish time of them as a means to an A. We haphazardly our lives. And it’s also when we’re supposed break parking gates and litter, forgetting to become the people we’re going to be. that $60 and an hour of someone’s time Don’t you see a possible problem there?” were used to clean up our mess. We swipe I couldn’t pretend like I didn’t. leftover pizza from the dorm fridge and I had just come home from Duke don’t ask our friends to leave the room again, and I didn’t think I had really when our roommate drops hints about changed. I had experienced the stereo- an 8:30 a.m. class. typical barrage of college firsts, yes, but Our ability to make grand gestures will I was still me. But my mother, always fade as our ties become more numerous. observant, noticed the small differenc- We won’t always be able to spend a sumes—hence the fighting. It was the little mer of our lives volunteering or starting things, she said: leaving my stuff around, initiatives to help problems we see in the not unloading the dishwasher when community. Heck, for many of us, liberalit needed to be unloaded, feeling no ism will give wake to conservatism as we particular obligation to respond to old climb up the tax brackets. But we will take acquaintances who had contacted me the character and personal habits we dewanting to hang out. velop here with us for the rest of our lives. Selfish, she suggested. I reacted strong- We’ll be considerate and think regularly ly, negatively, defensively. of others, or we won’t. But—as she had intended—she got This past week, the Honor Council me thinking. launched a campaign titled YBTT. If we At school, we live to better ourselves were successful, you saw the slogan popand we live to enjoy ourselves. We focus ping up all over campus: YBTT flyers playon self-improvement: getting smarter ing off the Duke meme craze, foil YBTTs and fitter and better at public speaking. hanging from campus fixtures and even We focus on personal achievements: mak- a “mural” on the East Campus bridge. ing the A and getting the internship and Hopefully the ubiquity of the message getting our work published. We focus on prompted you to ask yourself what those having fun. letters actually mean. YBTT: You’re better College is the time to take advantage of than that. the fact that we have the fewest personal My mother’s wisdom made that cauties we’ll ever have. It’s the beautiful break tionary voice in me louder. When I’m between the days when other people are about to do something, however small, responsible for us and we’re responsible that I know doesn’t fit with the person I’d for other people. In these four years, we like to be, I now find it more difficult to celebrate the fact that the strings tying us ignore the voice deterring me. Come on, down are as loose as they’ll ever be. Ellie, I’ll hear. YBTT. You’re better than These are the days when we’re allowed that. to be—we’re expected to be—selfish. The goal of this campaign is to make I think it bothers us, even though we that voice in all of our heads louder, enjoy it enormously. We compensate with too. It is too easy to find the words grand gestures: we spend summers and drowned out by the mental to-do list or breaks volunteering our time; we over- the pumping bass. But ultimately, we whelmingly support more generous fed- are all in the process of becoming who eral programs; we start initiatives about we will be. problems we see in the world. We make So turn back and hold the door. Ask conscious efforts to give something of your professor about his day. Move out of ourselves, since so little is being taken in your room to continue the conversation. our day-to-day life. Listen to the voice that tells you You’re I’m not criticizing any of this. But Better Than That. while we are very giving of ourselves on a grand scale, I sometimes see our selfish Ellie Schaack, Trinity ’15
Mariah Hukins, Trinity ‘13
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OBAMA from page 1 rhetoric of “Yes we can.” But as an incumbent presiding over a deeply divided country and an economy just now beginning to emerge from a protracted recession, the president can no longer rely on securing two-thirds of the youth vote, as he did when he was elected. Although students said they would still consider voting for Obama again, many expressed disappointment with his first term. Sunny Kantha, Trinity ’09 and a 2009 Young Trustee who worked on the Obama campaign in 2008 in the financial operations wing, said that though he still supports the president, he is less passionate about his candidacy. “He disappointed a lot of people and a lot of young voters,” Kantha said. “He tried way too long to make everyone happy. That clearly didn’t work out. He alienated a lot of supporters. It has become such a polarized political climate.” Kantha and Sanderson are part of a large group of disillusioned young voters who are reconsidering where to place their support in the upcoming presidential election. The Pew Research Center reported that immediately after his inauguration, Obama’s approval rating among 18 to 29 year olds stood at 73 percent. Today, only 12 percent of youth voters believe the country is “headed in the right direction,” according to a December 2011 poll conducted by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. ‘Losing the magic’ Senior Arthur Leopold became the youngest elected delegate in New York while working on the Obama campaign in 2008. Still a fervent supporter of the president, Leopold attributed Obama’s ability to generate excitement in the last election to a transformational political agenda that gave young voters a voice. “He offered the youth a different type of politics,” Leopold said. “He was inspirational and all
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about change in an era when everyone wanted change.... It was the cool thing to be a part of.” But Leopold acknowledged that Obama will not be able to generate the same kind of enthusiasm in this election. “Has it fizzled? Sure, it absolutely has,” he said. “But it has more to do with Obama serving time in office versus the momentum of a full-fledged campaign.” Former president of the Duke Democrats Ben Bergmann, Trinity ’11, recounted waking up at 4 a.m. on Election Day in 2008 and campaigning door-to-door in the pouring rain. Although he vividly remembers Obama’s inspirational speech, Bergmann said Obama has now “lost his luster” and will have to adopt a new strategy moving forward if he wants to secure the youth vote. “People are upset that he didn’t get to environmental and immigration problems as well and that he only passed health care,” Bergmann said. “And I am too, but with more time he can do that. The campaign has to figure out how to communicate that without losing the magic of the Obama image.” GOP seizes ‘disillusioned’ students As younger voters question their allegiance to the president, the Republican Party is experiencing a surge in college student involvement. The 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual gathering of key leaders and party followers, saw a 233 percent increase in student participation since 2007. Although only 1,500 students participated in the conference the year before Obama was elected, 5,000 attended the conference this year. Junior Chloe Rockow, chair of the Duke College Republicans and a participant in CPAC for the past three years, said she has felt the momentum shift away from Obama among her fellow students. “Obama had a lot of enthusiasm that people were looking for, especially students who
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are entering the job market, but then when we don’t see the change that we wanted, people tend to get disillusioned,” she said. Several students noted that the president had not done enough to improve the struggling economy. Sanderson said he ultimately stopped supporting Obama when he felt the president’s policy priorities became unaligned with his own. “I thought that he was going to help the economy,” Sanderson said. “I look at the last three years, we run a trillion dollar deficit every year. Three years ago when I voted for Obama, I did not think he would add so much to the debt. I have been very disappointed.” ‘Halftime in America’ Obama’s lofty notions of hope and change have given way to an emphasis on economic fairness. After the Occupy Wall Street protests forced the issue of income disparity into the public consciousness, the president will seek to strike a more populist tone, arguing that
his positions—curbing the power of special interests and eliminating tax loopholes—are more effective ways of fighting inequality than Republican plans of slashing government. Likening Obama’s future campaign to the famous Chrysler Super Bowl XLVI advertisement—“It’s halftime in America”—Leopold noted the importance of allowing the president to finish what he started. “We got ourselves out of a big hole, and we need to continue to push forward. Obama is the president to help us do that,” Leopold said. “He is getting us out of the hole, and he needs to stay in office, or we are going to take 10 steps back.” Kantha said he felt strongly that in the end, the youth vote will still go to Obama— even as the excitement has dwindled. “People won’t be quitting their jobs to go work on his campaign like they did last time, but once they realize that the Republicans promote polices that favor such a small group of people, they will rally together,” he said.
POLL DATA FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY CHRONICLE GRAPHIC BY MELISSA YEO
Although 62 percent of youth voters supported President Barack Obama in 2008, just 12 percent of the same demographic believes America is going in the right direction currently.
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