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tion features encyclopedic descriptions of marine mammals alongside multimedia components that help students visualize the animals. The second section includes class readings and space for annotations and highlighting. The third part includes interactive audio and video components, as well as animations.

“It’s really nice to be able to rely on multimedia to really drive home those messages,” Johnston said. “Cachalot has animations of CT scans of the animals, so we can teach things like functional anatomy really

More than 1,000 members of the University community gathered in the Duke Chapel Monday morning to celebrate the life of Jo Rae Wright, former dean of the Graduate School.

Wright, who died in January after a long battle against breast cancer, was honored through remarks and anecdotes presented by eight of her colleagues, friends and family. President Richard Brodhead delivered the openJo Rae Wright ing and closing statements.

The service was very upbeat and focused on Wright’s positive personality, said David Bell, interim dean of the Graduate School who served as associate dean under Wright. “[The service] remembered the really good things about her, which were her great sense of humor, bright smile and just fundamental intelligence and good administrative sense,” Bell said.

The service included several anecdotes that reflected Wright’s humorous personality, said Scott Gibson, executive vice dean for administration at the Duke University School of Medicine. Gibson spoke at the ceremony and said he made sure to incorporate humor into his remarks.

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Duke came from behind to win in Koskinen Stadium over visiting Harvard, 11-8, Monday evening.

Duke adopts online learning tools

by Gloria Lloyd THE CHRONICLE

Students and professors are increasingly finding new ways to incorporate technology into the classroom.

The University has adopted several online tools, such as digital textbooks, applications and online courses, to aid students in their academic endeavors. One such Apple iPad app, Cachalot, was developed by University faculty, staff and students spanning several departments for marine biology classes taught by research scientist David Johnston.

The electronic textbook integrates text,

photos, videos and other digital material in a single app.

“It’s basically a scalable, open-access textbook to introduce students to marine science and conservation,” Johnston said.

“It uses examples from big, beautiful, compelling ocean creatures.”

Cachalot is available as a free download for anyone—not just Duke students–and is built on an open source platform that other professors can adapt to create their own apps for their classes.

The Cachalot app, which Johnston uses for Duke’s Marine Megafauna class, is split into three sections. The first sec-

Monday Life makes patients ‘feel more human’

by Ashley Mooney THE CHRONICLE

After more than one year of working with Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, The Monday Life plans to expand its fundraising efforts to five additional hospitals nationwide.

The Monday Life, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving hospital environments through non-medical activities and services, announced Monday Joey McMahon that it will coordinate with children’s hospitals in Colorado, Miami, Philadelphia, Seattle and North Carolina. Centered on the concept of people donating $1 each Monday, the initiative raised almost $50,000 in its first year at Duke.

“My vision would be to help as many

children’s hospitals as possible around the world,” said Joey McMahon, CEO and founder of The Monday Life. “A dollar each Monday is a simple way to do good. Even if people feel like a dollar is not enough, it is.”

The five partner hospitals were strategically chosen to expand The Monday Life’s presence in their respective regions and accelerate its growth, said Chris Mangum, head of public relations and social media.

Activities stimulate patients and help the healing process, Mangum said. The money raised by the organization has supported a summer camp, music and art therapy programs and the distribution of iPads to patients at Duke.

Mangum attributed the success of the organization to the dollar-a-day business model.

“The dollar every Monday, it’s really cool because when we were younger

and undergrads, we always thought about donations as higher sums of money…. We thought that we could never do anything like that,” he said. “[But] if you see that it’s a dollar [each week,] more people can think, ‘Oh, I can help.’”

Research shows that kids who go into medical procedures with an understanding of what will happen often have less anxiety and recuperate faster, said Carolyn Schneiders, a certified child life specialist at Duke Children’s Hospital. As the liaison between the child life specialist team and The Monday Life, Schneiders works with the organization to develop its programs.

Schneiders cited iPads as an example, which are used for both distraction therapy and teaching the children about their conditions or diseases.

“We have fun apps for kids to use during procedures like IV sticks or having

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their blood drawn for labs,” she said.

“We also have prep books… that show pictures of what the kids would see in the operating room or [what happens] during their procedure.”

The Monday Life caters to parents as well as children. The nonprofit offers free music therapy and massage therapy for those whose children are undergoing procedures.

“When we take care of the patients, we’re not just caring for that child, but their parents and siblings as well,” Schneiders said. “That’s a way that we can help the parents cope when their child is undergoing a procedure or is in an intense medical situation.”

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Afghan killings after Quran burning trigger discussion

BILOXI, Miss. — Rick Santorum, who criticized President Barack Obama for apologizing to the Afghan government over the burning of Qurans, suggested that an apology could be in order over the killing of 16 Afghan civilians, allegedly at the hands of a U.S. soldier. “We have to determine what’s happened.

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Duke grad McClendon looks to expand gas empire

by Joe Carroll BLOOMBERG NEWS

OKLAHOMA CITY — Chesapeake Energy Corp. Chief Executive Officer Aubrey McClendon is cultivating investors from Seoul to New Delhi eager to own natural gas that’s 85 percent cheaper than Middle East supplies because of a glut in the United States.

As head of the second-largest U.S. natural gas supplier, McClendon met executives of Asian power utilities and state-run energy companies on a 14-day trip last month. He said they’re unfazed by Chesapeake’s $10.3 billion debt load, more than twice Exxon Mobil’s burden, and gas trading near a 10-year low of $2.23 per million British thermal units — two factors that have helped send its stock down 27 percent in the past year.

“We are presently owned by a group of investors who don’t think gas prices will ever go above $4,” McClendon, 52, said in an interview in Oklahoma City, where Chesapeake is based.

“I want to be owned by investors who live in a part of the world that believes gas prices will never go below $10.”

Chesapeake’s up-front costs to amass leases in gas-rich rock formations from Appalachia to the Rocky Mountains will pay off as overseas buyers flock to the U.S. market, the world’s biggest, for cheap and plentiful supplies of the fuel, he said.

McClendon, who co-founded Chesapeake in 1989, is counting on energy companies building the U.S.’s first export capacity at ports in the lower 48 states, allowing his investors to ship U.S. gas to more expensive Asian markets. His assumption was seconded by Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, who told analysts four days ago he had “no doubt” North America will develop an export market, reversing Exxon’s previous skepticism.

Not all of Chesapeake’s partners are waiting on the future development of a North American gas-export market to profit.

Cnooc, China’s largest offshore energy producer, paid $1.08 billion in November 2010 for a one-third stake in Chesapeake’s holdings in an oil-rich section of the Eagle Ford shale in south Texas. The Hong Kong-listed company pledged another $1.08 billion to cover 75 percent of Chesapeake’s future drilling costs in the region.

With each acre of Chesapeake’s Eagle Ford property estimated by company geologists to hold 5,000 barrels of crude, Cnooc acquired about 1 billion barrels for $2.16 apiece. Expenses for things such as pipes and pumping stations are adding another $15 a barrel of development costs in the area, leaving Cnooc ample room to profit when Texas crude is selling for more than $100 a barrel, McClendon said. By the end of 2013, he plans to sell more than $17 billion in assets including oil fields to cover a cashflow gap aggravated by plunging gas prices.

McClendon, who said he held 52 meetings in Asia, didn’t comment on pledges of new investment in the interview.

This year, divesting holdings in the Permian Basin of west Texas and New Mexico will generate at least $5 billion, he said during the interview.

The Permian resource accounts for 5 percent of the company’s value, he said. By McClendon’s math, that means Chesapeake as a whole is worth $100 billion, more than six times its current $16 billion market value.

Chesapeake controls 15 million net acres of oil and gas formations, more than three times the area of New Jersey.

“We have the assets they want, and we need their money,” he said in the March 6 interview,

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referring to Asian investors. “They don’t say, ‘You’ve got $2 billion too much debt.’ They say ‘You’ve got what the world wants, and someday gas prices are going to be unlocked from the jail cell where they are today, and you’re going to be the biggest winner.’”

U.S. gas has tumbled 24 percent this year, following a 32 percent plunge in 2011. Soaring production from shale fields in Texas, Louisiana and Pennsylvania smashed open by high-pressure jets of water and sand inflated supplies at a time of mild winter weather that suppressed demand for the furnace fuel.

Return on assets last year dropped to 4 percent from 5 percent, compared with an average increase to 4.8 percent from 4 percent for the 16-member benchmark index, as Chesapeake was stung by the swelling glut of North American methane. The company is responding by cutting gas-drilling expenditures to the lowest since 2005.

Facing a cash shortfall that Raymond James & Associates Inc. said could reach $3.5 billion this year, McClendon is shifting rigs from fields that contain mostly gas to formations soaked with crude oil and so-called gas liquids such as propane, which command higher prices.

Chesapeake’s 6.775 percent bond due in 2019 has non- investment grade ratings.

Standard & Poor’s assigned a BB+, its top junk grade, and Moody’s Investors Service has it at Ba3, third to the top among noninvestment ratings.

Chesapeake last sought an infusion of cash from Asia and the Middle East in 2010, when sovereign wealth funds including Singapore’s Temasek Holdings bought $1.1 billion in convertible preferred stock.

McClendon said he was strapped for cash at the time as the company acquired leases in Texas’s Eagle Ford shale and the Marcellus

formation in Appalachia.

McClendon’s short-term goal is to boost oil and liquids production to as much as 214,000 barrels a day next year and 250,000 barrels a day in 2015. At the same time, Chesapeake is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on initiatives to lift natural-gas demand by making the fuel competitive with diesel and gasoline in the U.S. transportation sector.

McClendon met energy executives, government ministers and fund managers during his Feb. 4-18 tour through cities that included Seoul, Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong, New Delhi and Abu Dhabi. The meetings included existing investors in Chesapeake and potential future stakeholders, McClendon said.

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Texas voter ID law blocked Fed cautious over

by Justice Dept. as biased economic signals

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Obama administration Monday blocked Texas’s new law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification at the polls, escalating a partisan dispute over voting restrictions.

The Justice Department used its power under the Voting Rights Act to halt the Texas law, saying in a letter to the state Monday that the measure may disproportionately harm Hispanics. The department in December blocked a similar law in South Carolina.

Democrats have objected to the voter ID laws as impediments to minority voting while Republicans have said they protect the integrity of elections. Republican officials in Texas, one of eight states that passed voter identification laws last year, said the administration has

no valid reason to challenge the measure.

“Their denial is yet another example of the Obama administration’s continuing and pervasive federal overreach,” Gov. Rick Perry said in a statement.

The Justice Department's decision isn't final. Texas and South Carolina have filed suit in federal court in Washington seeking permission to enforce their photo ID requirements.

Before blocking South Carolina’s law, the last time the Justice Department challenged a state voter identification measure under the Voting Rights Act was in 1994.

Texas and South Carolina are among 16 states or portions of states that must obtain permission from the Justice Department or a federal court in Washington before

The Federal Reserve is likely to stand pat when it gathers for a policymaking meeting Tuesday as the central bank confronts confusing signals about where the economy is heading.

As Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has acknowledged, the unemployment rate has come down more swiftly than he and other economists had anticipated. The job market appears to be healing faster as well, as demonstrated by last week’s sterling jobs report.

On the other hand, other indicators of economic growth have been far less bullish. Measures of business investment, consumption, spending and trade—which together drive the nation's economic growth—do not appear to be increasing

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Afghan killings bring war to campaigns

by Dan Balz THE WASHINGTON POST

Three days before the Republican presidential primary in Ohio, Mitt Romney was campaigning in Dayton when a woman stood up to ask a question that pointed to one of the most important missing debates of Campaign 2012, and to a widening division in the GOP over a critical foreign policy issue.

Vicki Chura said her daughter was on her second tour in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division.

She said her daughter was increasingly frustrated by the lack of clarity of the U.S. mission there and desperately wanted to come home. What would Romney do as president to expedite the withdrawal of U.S. forces?

The economy is and probably will continue to be

the dominant issue in the campaign, but the shooting rampage Sunday by a U.S. soldier that killed 16 Afghan civilians could push the Afghan war into the political debate.

The killings may or may not be a shock to the political system. At a minimum, they are likely to raise uncomfortable questions, particularly for President Barack Obama, the architect of the current policy, but also for the Republican candidates. Even for those out of power, Afghanistan provides no easy answers.

Romney’s response to Chura's question underscored why. He began by criticizing the president. He said that Obama has not clearly defined the U.S. mission to the American people, and that a president should report regularly on the goals and progress of any such mis-

sion.

Romney described the U.S. objective as one of building an Afghan security force capable of protecting the country's sovereignty—which is not that different from Obama's stance. Hoping to show empathy with his questioner, he said he wants U.S. troops to come home “as soon as humanly possible.” But he offered a big, broad caveat—They can withdraw, he said, “as soon as that mission is complete.”

Chura’s question underscored the growing public weariness at home about the war. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll showed that more than half the country wants U.S. forces withdrawn even before SEE CAMPAIGNS ON PAGE 6

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WRIGHT from page 1 “I made a joke that [Wright]... would get joy out of the fact that I was nervous addressing all these people,” Gibson said. “That’s just the way she was. She would absolutely insist on humor being the focal point of the ceremony on her behalf.”

Wright, who died at age 56, arrived at Duke as an associate professor in 1993 and became dean of the Graduate School in 2006. In addition to the extensive research she conducted in the field of cell biology, for which she was awarded the American Physiological Society’s Walter B. Cannon Award for lifetime achievement, Wright was also the first Ph.D. to become president of the American Thoracic Society. Even after stepping down as dean in October due to her deteriorating health, she remained a professor and researcher at Duke. Beyond her many accomplishments, Wright was known for her reliability as a colleague, mentor and friend.

In addition to spoken tribute, the ceremony included photos and music, which reflected the positive impact Wright had on those around her.

“The pictures all showed a big smile because that’s the way everyone remembered her—as a person with a glowing smile who was basically a very happy person... and a person who added so much to everybody’s life,” Provost Peter Lange said.

Gibson said there were pictures of Wright’s dog, Horton, which he said was “the world’s ugliest dog.” Nonetheless, Wright developed an attachment to Horton.

Sally Kornbluth, vice dean for research at the School of Medicine and a longtime colleague of Wright’s, performed a song from the Broadway musical “Wicked” called “For Good,” which conveys the lasting influence a person can have on others. Kornbluth said she had thought of the song during the last month of Wright’s life. When Kornbluth mentioned her musical selection without naming the song to Wright’s good friend, Patsy Saylor, Kornbluth noted that Saylor had the same piece in mind. Saylor is married to Dan Kiehart, professor of biology and chair of the biology department.

“I just thought it was too big a coincidence to ignore,” Kornbluth said.

At the service, Gibson also noted that a cafe in the new School of Medicine Learning Center is going to be dedicated to Wright, and will be named the Jo Rae Cafe. When thinking about how he would want students to remember the woman after whom the cafe was named, Gibson said he hoped students would think of the humility, humor and persistence that marked all of Wright’s accomplishments.

“She had this personality that was so disarming and nonpretentious that people always wanted to work with her,” Gibson said. “Through all that she went through, she just kept this crazy sense of humor.”

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LEARNING from page 1 well because we can actually illustrate in 3-D space how all the bones and muscles and organs fit together.”

Sharon Chan, a junior, appeared in a video about Cachalot that was shown to the Board of Trustees and has now used it for two biology classes, Marine Mammals and Marine Megafauna. Chan said she appreciates the way the app incorporates technology that students are already using everyday into the classroom experience.

“If you’re reading something and have a question, you can tweet through the app about it and someone will answer it,” she said. “You’re constantly learning from different channels, which is a lot more interesting than having to read from a textbook. That’s the way we’re moving toward.”

When Apple debuted the revamped iTunesU app in January, Duke was one of the first universities—alongside Stanford University, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—to contribute content.

A digital trend Just as students not enrolled in the University can benefit from the content offered on iTunesU, Duke students and professors have benefited from electronically delivered textbooks—even when professors themselves have not written the content themselves.

Sharon Hawks, director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program and assistant clinical professor in the Duke School of Nursing, received a grant from the Center for Instructional Technology to provide iPads to first-year students pursuing a master’s degree in the Nurse Anesthesia program, through which they could receive two electronic textbooks donated

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by electronic publisher Kno Inc. The students will use their iPads in both classroom and clinical training over a 28-month period. The program will serve as a pilot in how students might use iPads and electronic textbooks to learn in either setting. The iPad textbooks the nursing students use will replace the two 20-pound textbooks that would otherwise have been used for the course.

“In this pilot study, we’ll also be looking at what apps the students themselves use,” Hawks said. “Are they using the YouTube app a lot? Suppose they haven’t done a procedure in a long time, will they use YouTube to pull up a video to refresh their memory?”

‘The way of the future’ The transition to electronic textbooks might be the most visible indicator of Duke’s transition toward online learning, but since the summer of 2010, Duke has also offered online classes for currently enrolled Duke students.

Kristen Stephens, assistant professor of the practice in the Program in Education and adjunct research professor and licensure officer, will teach an education course, Reform in American Classrooms, for the third consecutive summer this year.

The course is a hybrid of online education that also incorporates virtual class meeting times using interactive video conferencing and face-to-face meetings before and after the Summer so students can become acquainted with one another and Stephens.

“We have to move in this direction—it’s the way of the future,” Stephens said. “To just ignore that the technology exists and not incorporate it in some ways would be a disservice to students. There’s been some resistance among the faculty to having online courses, but I think they’re still thinking along the old paradigm of what online learning was 10 or 15 years ago.

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CAMPAIGNS from page 4 they can train the Afghan army to handle security on its own. The conflict has not become another Iraq war in terms of public division and emotion, but beneath the surface is a clearly growing pessimism.

As the past few days have shown, Republicans face a debate within the party over what to do about a conflict whose objectives are so difficult to define and whose costs have been enormous. Republican dissent over staying the course in Afghanistan is not pervasive, but there is hardly unanimity.

On Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.) said the mission “may not be doable” and suggested that military force may not be able to accomplish the goals set by two administrations.

Among other candidates, Rep. Ron Paul (Texas), an opponent of the U.S. intervention, has long called for winding down the war. Before quitting the race, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. called for a speedy end to the conflict and said the resources being spent on it should be used to rebuild the U.S. economy.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour raised doubts about the war when he was considering a 2012 candidacy. “What is our mission?” he asked last March.

He said the United States should not try to turn Afghanistan into “an Ireland or an Italy” or some other Western democracy.

These are questions first for the president, because the Afghan war is his now. As a candidate in 2008, he described Afghanistan as the central front in the fight against terrorism. During his first year in office, he approved a major increase in troop strength. With that troop surge, he took possession of a conflict started

by President George W. Bush after the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001.

But Obama was also always mindful of the opposition to escalation within his own party, as well as to concerns from some of his advisers that Afghanistan could become another quagmire like Vietnam. So he sought to set limits on the mission in terms of time and resources, establishing deadlines for starting to bring troops home. He made clear to the military and, he hoped, to the public, that the United States would not stay indefinitely.

Afghanistan will not be among the achievements Obama highlights during his re-election campaign. His supporters will cite the killing of Osama bin Laden as a bold decision that shows his toughness as commander in chief. He will point to the end of the Iraq war as a promise kept from his 2008 campaign.

Given the state of things in Afghanistan, the country could be one of his vulnerabilities. But will Republicans have a consistent and coherent line of criticism of the president's Afghan policy? The coming weeks may answer that question.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) highlighted one view Sunday while campaigning in Mississippi by saying that the president is making it “very, very difficult” to win the war because he had signaled when U.S. forces would leave. Santorum said that U.S. policy is unraveling because Obama has given the enemy hope that American troops will be out sooner rather than later.

He said the United States should reassess and either make a full commitment to the war—something he said Obama has not done—or speed up the NATOestablished timetable that calls for the handoff to Afghans to be completed in 2014.

Romney has tried to calm those who want U.S. forces out quickly, saying he does, too. But he has criticized Obama’s timetable for withdrawing the surge troops that were sent in the beginning of the year, and has vowed that he would listen to his military commanders, saying the president has not done that. He has said that Obama has not clearly articulated the goals of the mission, but Romney has not done so with any particular clarity himself.

Until now, the Republican candidates have been free to criticize the president when given the opportunity, but they otherwise keep Afghanistan in the background. The killings Sunday, which come at a time of deteriorating relations between the United States and Afghanistan, could force Obama and those who want to replace him to give the public a fuller explanation of what constitutes success, and the costs of achieving it.

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Monday Life firsthand. Her 15-yearold daughter Corey, who has cystic fibrosis, is a candidate for a double lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center and spends a significant amount of time in the hospital.

“The new entertainment that The Monday Life has been providing means a lot,” Goldwasser said. “Now that [McMahon] has put his vision into action, and he is reaching so many kids and their families in such tangible ways, I am thrilled.”

In addition to the various therapy options, The Monday Life provided Goldwasser and other parents with egg crate padding for their uncomfortable hospital beds.

Although Corey was moving from the children’s hospital to the Duke University Medical Center as an adult patient when The Monday Life got its start, she said the organization provided patients with wonderful benefits. “[Before Joey McMahon,] no one had asked me, ‘What can we do for you, as a patient but also as a person, to make you feel more human while here?’ He really understands that we are people first, not just sick kids, not just good deeds to be done,” she wrote in a text message Monday.

fast enough to justify the amount of hiring companies are doing, economists say. Nor are wages rising significantly.

The dynamic has left the Fed guessing whether its projections for the next few years—sluggish growth combined with a very gradual decline in un-employment— are excessively pessimistic.

Or, perhaps, the Fed’s assessment is correct and the recent bright spots will prove fleeting.

In the first few weeks of the year, Bernanke was a highly cautious voice, suggesting that the Fed may take new action to try to reduce unemployment even more.

Lately he has been more open to the possibility that the recovery might prove more durable.

Bernanke said in congressional testimony two weeks ago—“In light of the somewhat different signals received recently from the labor market than from indicators of final demand and production... it will be especially important to evaluate incoming information to assess the underlying pace of economic recovery.”

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the economy added 227,000 jobs in February while the unemployment rate remained at 8.3 percent—largely because more people started looking for work.

Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist at

J.P. Morgan Chase, said in a report that the job news shut the door to new action by the Fed on Tuesday and made any type of stimulus action less likely at the next meeting in April.

“While the growth and productivity slowdown is certainly a concern, Fed policymakers probably take some modest degree of comfort in seeing a rise in the employment-to-population ratio, a trend decline in unemployment, and reasonably steady job growth,” Feroli wrote.

In its last policy meeting, in January, the Fed took a significant step to support the markets when it announced it would keep interest rates ultra-low through the end of 2014, a year and a half longer than anticipated. That promise, Fed officials hope, will give businesses the confidence to borrow money, invest and hire.

The reason the Fed is not taking more dramatic action now—even though unemployment remains far above the 5.5 percent to 6 percent it deems normal—is the worry that flooding the economy with money during an economic recovery could create a swell of demand and, consequently, cause prices to rise too fast.

A number of Fed policymakers—and many Republicans in Congress—warn that this threat of inflation is a reason for the Fed to move with great caution in considering any additional steps.

But by no means is additional action off the table—especially if the recovery stalls, a risk that has increased with the spike in

gasoline prices.

If it does act, the Fed is likely to take one of three routes, according to analysts. The most dramatic would be outright purchases of Treasury bonds or, more likely, mortgage bonds—which could inject more life into the housing market by lowering mortgage rates even further.

This dramatic option raises the ire of those concerned about the threat of inflation, so the Fed may choose a second path that will have much of the same impact on the economy while perhaps protecting against inflation. The Wall Street Journal first reported the possibility of this option.

Known as “sterilization,” this option would involve the Fed purchasing Treasury bonds or mortgage bonds, which represent loans lasting up to 30 years. Those purchases, as is customary, would flood the financial system with more money.

But then the Fed would borrow that money back from banks in extremely shortterm transactions. That would serve to lock up the money so it couldn't be used to make new loans to businesses and consumers.

By buying long-term bonds, without increasing the overall amount of money available to be lent out, the Fed could put downward pressure on interest rates.

The third option would be to expand a policy currently in place known as the “twist.” That involves selling short-term Treasury bonds owed by the Fed and buying the same amount of long-term bonds, putting downward pressure on rates.

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VOTER ID from page 4 redrawing their district lines or changing election procedures because of a history of voting rights violations.

Hispanic registered voters in Texas are 47 percent to 120 percent more likely to lack the required identification than nonHispanic voters, the Justice Department said in its letter. Texas has 12.9 million registered voters of whom 2.81 million are Hispanic.

“Even using the data most favorable to the state, Hispanics disproportionately lack either a driver's license or a personal identification card,” Thomas Perez, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division, wrote in the letter to Keith Ingram, the director of elections for the Texas Secretary of State.

The Voting Rights Act puts the burden on Texas to prove its law wouldn't interfere with minorities’ ability to vote.

Rep. Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that the Justice Department’s action is an example of the administration's “abuse of executive authority.”

The American Civil Liberties Union supports the administration's efforts to block the laws.

“It’s a good sign that the Department of Justice is stepping into the jurisdictions where it can to stop these laws in their tracks,” said Nancy Abudu, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project in Atlanta, Under the Texas law signed last year by Perry, voters who arrive at the polls without one of seven acceptable forms of photo IDs issued by the state or federal government, including concealed carry handgun permits, would be given a provisional ballot,

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according to the Texas Secretary of State's website.

Those ballots would count only if voters bring an approved ID to the registrar's office within six days of the election.

The law exempts mail-in ballots and voters with significant disabilities or religious objections to being photographed.

The law’s requirements “entail minor inconveniences on exercising the right to vote,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in his court filing on Jan. 24.

The photo ID law would disproportionately affect poor and minority voters, who are least likely to have any of the required forms of identification or the documentation needed to obtain one, said Luis Figueroa, a San Antonio, Texas-based legislative staff attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. It also would hurt students because college or university IDs would not be accepted, Figueroa said.

The photo ID requirement could suppress minority turnout by three percent to five percent in Harris County, where Houston is located, and give Republicans an edge in local elections, said Carroll Robinson, a professor at Texas Southern University in Houston and a former city council member.

“We’re going to disenfranchise significant numbers of minority voters as they become more and more the majority in Texas,” Robinson said.

Patricia Harless, a Republican state representative, said concerns among constituents about “the integrity of elections” rather than possible partisan advantage explains why she sponsored the voter ID measure last year. The law reduces the possibility of fraud, she said.

Lawmakers excluded student IDs because “we wanted a form of identification that was easily recognized by the poll work-

ers at the election site,” Harless said.

Voters 65 and older automatically qualify to cast ballots by mail, which requires no ID, and the state will provide free voter identification cards.

“We worked really hard to make sure we met the constitutional requirements,” Harless said.

The Obama administration blocked South Carolina’s law in December after concluding minorities in the state are almost 20 percent more likely to lack stateissued identification than white registered voters.

The Justice Department asked for similar statistics from Texas, which said it doesn't collect the kind of racial data needed to accurately determine how many of the state's registered voters don't have a driver’s license or state ID card are black or Hispanic. Texas provided data based on Hispanic surnames and no data on the impact on black voters, according to the Justice Department.

Jasmine Price, a sophomore at Prairie View A&M University, a historically black college 30 miles from Houston, said the law would make it harder for her to vote in person in Texas, as she'd prefer, rather than by absentee ballot in her home state, Arkansas.

Price, 19, said if the law takes effect,

she’ll try to find the time in between a full course load and three shifts a week as a manager at a Houston sporting goods store to drive seven miles from campus to the nearest state Department of Public Safety office that issues IDs. “My forefathers had it even harder to vote—they had to pass literacy tests—but they made sure they did what they had to do so that their vote could count,” said Price, who is black. “So if they say I have to go to the DPS office, as much as an inconvenience as it is to go there, that's what I'm going to do.”

Alabama, where the voter ID law is not scheduled to go into effect until 2014, and Mississippi, where lawmakers haven’t adopted legislation to implement a citizen initiative approving a similar requirement, would also have to obtain Justice Department or federal court approval.

In Wisconsin, which doesn’t need to obtain the same kind of advance approval under federal law as Texas does, two state judges have temporarily blocked a voter ID requirement.

The latest ruling Monday in a challenge by the League of Women Voters came six days after a second judge ruled in a separate suit by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People against Gov. Scott Walker.

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For the first time in the past three seasons, Duke will play its opening round NCAA tournament game away from the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Securing a No. 2 seed in the Fresno Regional, the Blue Devils (24-5) will head to Nashville, Tenn. Sunday for a matchup against Southern Conference champion No. 15 seed Samford (20-12).

“Everyone in the country is back at zero now,” Duke head coach Joanne McCallie said. “We’re all starting from that point.

That’s good for our team.”

McCallie and her team enjoyed dinner together at the University Club while watching the hour-long ESPN special revealing this year’s tournament bracket.

Looking past their first round matchup against Samford, the Blue Devils biggest challenge in the Fresno region will likely come from top seeded Stanford, which has only lost one game all season. The region also includes a dangerous St. John’s team, which snapped Connecticut’s 99-game home win streak earlier this season.

Undefeated Baylor is the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed. The Cardinal, along with

the Huskies and Notre Dame, headline the other regions.

Duke’s potential second round matchup will come against either Vanderbilt or Middle Tennessee State, in what would amount to a true road game for the Blue Devils. The Commodores will enjoy the comforts of their home court for their opener against the Blue Raiders, whose campus is also just a short drive away from Nashville.

“I love it for our team,” McCallie said. “We are so young. The last thing you want is the comforts of home. That’s the absolute last thing you want if you are trying to develop a championship program and you’re trying to teach and grow as a unit. It’s great to be in Cameron, but not with this team. We need to be out there in a hostile environment.”

Coming off a disappointing first round ACC tournament loss to N.C. State, the Blue Devils took advantage of several extra days off to add some tough practices and regroup in preparation for the NCAA tournament.

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Mike Rock improved his save percentage to .595 with 12 stops against the Crimson Monday night.

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Duke gave head coach John Danowski the best birthday gift a team can give for three quarters, and then nearly gave it away as Harvard staged a furious fourthquarter rally.

The No. 14 Blue Devils (4-3) rode solid play from goalie Mike Rock and an offensive explosion in the third quarter to defeat the Crimson (2-3) Harv 8 11-8 and avoid a Duke 11 third straight loss.

Duke entered the game with one of the nation’s worst extra-man offenses but scored on two straight opportunities and finished 2-for-4 in the game, a marked improvement from its 2-for-23 start to the season. Four players came up with multi-point performances for the Blue Devils, who improved to 4-0 in games in which they score 10 or more goals. But the most important statistic against Harvard was ground balls.

Danowski has always stressed the importance of ground balls and Monday night was no exception. At halftime he wrote three keys to victory on the team’s whiteboard and listed “Ground Balls” for each one. The team collected 32 to Harvard’s 20, but Danowski was less concerned with the numbers than the effort behind them.

“We were very happy with our effort for three quarters,” Danowski said. “But we were very unhappy with our fourth quarter.... Fortunately we had a comfortable

enough lead, but that’s a formula for disaster somewhere down the road.... It has to be a four-quarter effort.”

Duke built its lead as the result of a seven-goal run in the third quarter after being tied 4-4 at halftime. Danowski and sophomore Jordan Wolf, who finished the game with two goals and two assists, both stressed the importance of keeping the offensive scheme simple and not trying to do too much. That happened in large part as a result of the confidence gained by having a lead and solid goaltending at the other end of the field.

Rock, who replaced Wigrizer in the second quarter of Saturday’s loss to Loyola, solidified his position as the team’s starting goalie with his performance Monday night. While he committed three turnovers to bring his total to four—more than Wigrizer and freshman Kyle Turri combined—Rock has been the most consistent shot-stopper. He came up with 12 saves against the Crimson to raise his save percentage to .595 for the year. In contrast, Wigrizer entered the contest with a .523 save percentage and a 1-2 record. He has saved fewer than half the shots he faced in two games, including giving up seven goals and saving just one shot against Loyola. Turri was one of the nation’s top recruits and has amassed a 2-1 record, but his wins belie a .444 save percentage.

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fromstaffreports Baseball looks to snap skid against Mountaineers The Blue Devils will look to end their six-game losing streak in an midweek matchup with Appalachian State. The game will be held at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park, with first pitch Appalachian scheduled for 3:15 p.m.

The Mountaineers (13State 2) have won 11 straight vs. games, highlighted by a series win over then-No. 7 Duke LSU. They also beat Duke (7-11) 6-4 in Boone, N.C. TUESDAY, 3:15 p.m. last Wednesday.

DBAP Grant McCabe and Jeff Kremer both went 2-for-3 at the plate in the earlier matchup to help Duke rally back from an early 5-0 deficit, but the Mountaineers added an insurance run in the eighth inning to preserve the win.

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Will Piwnica-Worms leads the Blue Devils with two home runs and three triples so far this season.

“Mike was good in the goal but disappointing clearing the ball,” Danowski said. “Kyle is great clearing the ball but right now stopping the ball we need a little more.

We’re just trying to go off what we see in practice and who the best player is.”

Duke continues its brutal stretch of four games in eight days with a battle against No. 12 North Carolina Friday and a matchup with Dartmouth, who also received votes in the most recent Inside Lacrosse poll, Sunday. Regardless of who is between the pipes, though, all of the Blue Devils came away from the win with a clear understanding of what they need to do going forward—play smartly and maintain their intensity from wire to wire.

“We’ve got a big game coming up this Friday against UNC,” Rock said. “If we want to win that game we’ve got to keep playing for 60 minutes. We can’t just play three quarters like we did tonight.”

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Kathleen Scheer and the Blue Devils celebrate their selection as a No. 2 seed in the Fresno Regional.

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Go forth and don’t multiply Several weeks ago Sandra ing. It is alarming that the benFluke, a law student at George- efits of oral contraception must town University, testified at a con- be repeatedly defended against gressional hearing in support of outdated associations with immandated private health insur- morality and promiscuity. To ance coverage of contraception. deny coverage of contraceptives Her testimony is to deny basic editorial explained the female sexual serious consehealth care. It is quences of religious institutions, not the role of any institution to like the Jesuit-affiliated George- make a judgment about why or town, choosing to not cover con- how women should have access traceptives under their health to contraception. insurance plans. Not long after We commend Duke for prothis hearing, Fluke was the tar- viding comprehensive womget of misogynistic and defama- en’s health coverage, includtory remarks from conservative ing contraceptives, in its health talk show host Rush Limbaugh. insurance plan for students Among the dozens of insults is- and employees. It is especially sued over three days, he called important for universities to Fluke a “slut” and “prostitute” provide young people with adon his radio show. equate access to sexual health The conservative backlash to resources. According to a 2010 the contraception mandate has report from the Center for Disbeen regressive and frighten- ease Control and Prevention,

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the 15 to 24 age group is at a greater risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases compared to older adults. Duke has done well to make condoms readily available through Student Health—yet another difference between Duke and many religiously affiliated universities such as Georgetown.

While Duke has sexual health resources available for its students, more can be done to increase accessibility. For instance, starting in 2010, students began paying up to $30 for sexually transmitted infection testing, which until then had been free of charge. Given the inflammatory anti-feminist rhetoric circulating in the political sphere, we encourage Duke to reaffirm its commitment to female sexual health and seek ways to bring down costs of STI testing.

Health care should be addressed as a secular issue, not a religious one. To that effect, religiously affiliated universities should include comprehensive women’s health care under their insurance plans.

Just as universities strive to provide adequate meal plans, housing accommodations and safety resources, so too should adequate health coverage be prioritized. While some facets of university life may inevitably be rooted in ideology, such as curriculum, this simply cannot be the case for health.

Conservatives have tried to frame President Barack Obama’s mandate as an issue of religious liberty, not birth control. In reality, it is both. Religiously affiliated colleges like Georgetown are attempting to impose their religious views

on thousands of students and staff that do not share them.

A study by the Guttmacher Institute shows that nearly all sexually active women use contraception, including 98 percent of Catholic women. And now, commentators like Limbaugh are lobbying for laws that would allow private organizations to opt out of covering basic health needs due to their religious reasons.

Contraception is an especially important issue for college-aged women and men. We condemn the regressive and misogynistic comments directed at activist Fluke. Furthermore, we urge Duke students to defend the University’s decision to offer contraception under its student health plan, a responsibility that all other universities—religious or not—share.

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he problem with chronic disease is that el to the closest free clinic 20 miles away. James’ there is no beginning or end. The story worsening condition has forced him to miss sevremains incomplete and, therefore, often eral days of work in the past few months. His untold. weight is the subject of mockery According to the World Health among his friends and cause for Organization, chronic, non-comdisapproving stares as he walks municable diseases are the greatdown the street. est causes of death worldwide, due What’s wrong with this scene? mainly to diabetes, cancer and Here we see chronic disease as an heart disease. More shocking still, issue of access—access to proper in all areas of the world except the care, medication and treatment.

African Region, NCD mortality Duke Partnership The issue of access is precisely surpasses deaths due to communiwhy the burden of disease is shiftfor Service cable, maternal, perinatal and nuing to low-income populations tritional conditions combined. in Durham. This intersection bethink globally, These “untold stories” aren’t tween obesity and social immobilact locally only found in the heart of Afriity is evidence that health is an isca, the slums of India or the vilsue of social justice, and James is lages of South America—they exist in our own facing the very injustices we should be fighting backyard: Durham. Can you guess the leading against. causes of death in Durham? Yes—cancer, heart Trends in improper care and treatment availdisease and diabetes. ability have trapped the poor in a state of debt, But there is another untold story behind social exclusion and inadequate health care. A these diseases: obesity. Obesity is one of the combination of incurring medical, travel and greatest risk factors for these chronic diseases. food costs, financial instability due to missed We are all aware that cancer, heart disease and work days, stigmatization by the community and diabetes are debilitating diseases, but do we discrimination by medical personnel highlights look at obesity in the same way? the unavoidable fact that obesity affects far more As residents of Durham County, we live in than health. a community that has remarkably high rates These are the very reasons we need to take of adult and childhood obesity. Roughly 65 action. percent of all adults are either obese or overSo, as Duke students, we challenge you to exweight. What’s more, Durham County children pand your definition of obesity from simply a now rank 97th out of 99 North Carolinian biological disease to a social pathology. counties in regards to the incidence of childWe challenge you to have the same shocked, hood obesity. visceral response that inspires action to combat We’ve all heard about how lifestyle changes diseases such as cancer. To fight against obesity and education can make a difference in these with the same vigor that we attack other funnumbers. So what’s new, right? We live in a cul- damental social injustices, such as the lack of ture that emphasizes our health choices. Wheth- rights for LGBT individuals or conflict minerals er it’s learning about the wellness centers on in the Congo. campus or participating in competitions like Fit We challenge you to act on an epidemic that Campus and our own Prospective Health Chal- was recently recognized by the World Health lenge, we are entrenched in an environment Organization as the number one threat to the where health is a focus. future health of our planet, to go beyond the Maybe that’s the problem—we think about walls of our campus into the Durham commuour wellness, but do we ever stop to think about nity and learn how to write an end to the untold why overweight and obese adults in Durham stories. don’t necessarily do the same?

Maybe they can’t.

Shiva Kothari is a Trinity senior, co-president of Consider this: A 40-year-old, self-employed the Prospective Health Care Club and co-chair of the man named James resides in southeastern Dur- Prospective Health Challenge and Sanjana Marpadham with his wife and five young children. He is ga is a Trinity junior and co-chair of the Prospective clinically obese and has developed high blood Health Challenge. This column is the eighth installpressure and diabetes. His health condition is ment in a semester-long series of weekly columns writmismanaged because he lacks the finances to ten by dPS members addressing civic service and enmake regular doctor appointments or even trav- gagement at Duke.

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Foreign policy: U.S. already has an industrial policy

Islamic Awareness Week at Duke

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believe that universities have a set of responsibilities and obligations to the societies that gave birth to them. One of the core responsibilities is to take on contemporary social challenges and offer knowledge, inspiration and even exemplary models for how to overcome those challenges. In most societies, social change and transformation are first cooked and tested on college campuses. If you want to predict the future of any given society, the demographics and landscape of that societies’ college campuses as well as the content of the conversations that take abdullah antepli place on those campuses will provide blue devil imam very helpful insights and tips.

The universities that take this core mission seriously, constantly examine national and global communities very carefully, identifying the challenges that those societies struggle with and trying to play a constructive role in the solutions. Unspeakable taboos, sensitive and divisive issues, elephants in the room that are not supposed to be addressed, often get their first honest attention and reflections in university classrooms and lecture halls. By all means, the universities do not always get it right, sometimes they become part of the problem while attempting to enact solutions. Societies, however, often find solutions and inspirations, at the end of the day, to their pressing issues by testing ideas and experiences at their intellectual hubs: universities.

There is no doubt that understanding and accepting Islam, with all its diversity and complexity, as an American religion and Muslims as American-as-apple-pie citizens of this country is one of the most pressing challenges that our American society faces today. I have a long list of things to be proud of about Duke University, but its ability to understand this dire challenge and its wise and quick attempts to provide meaningful and constructive responses are in my list’s top three. Duke has been one of the leading institutions to engage with Islam and the Muslim world. Duke has been and continues to be a very timely source of education for our society. Duke Islamic Studies Center houses dozens of outstanding faculty, who research, teach and produce knowledge about this world of 1.6 billion people through various disciplines. Duke was the nation’s second university to hire a full time Muslim Chaplain, the first and still the only campus that houses a Center for Muslim Life.

In a time when almost 20 percent of Americans believe that our president is an undercover Muslim, 23 percent of U.S. citizens live in fear that Muslims want to overthrow our secular democracy and establish Sharia-run primitive theocracy, where most opinion polls suggest that more than half of Americans hold, in different degrees of severity, negative views of Islam and Muslims as un-American, Duke’s aforementioned achievements are ground breaking and, to put it mildly, quite admirable.

I am also extremely proud that Blue Devil Muslims understand their unique role on this campus vis-a-vis this challenge and the University’s admirable efforts to fulfill its core mission and responsibility to deal with it. Duke’s Muslim community has been in the forefront of this endeavor and serves as a crucial source of education for the campus community and beyond through its presence and numerous events that it facilitates. One can only hope that many, if not all, members of the Duke family will take full advantage of these resources available for them to make sense of this crucial social challenge that I have been talking about.

One of the most important ways in which Duke’s Muslim community fulfills this needed role is through their annual Islamic Awareness Week: events and activities that always take place in the latter part of the Spring semester. Duke’s Muslim Students Association and Muslim Life at Duke work for months to put together various lectures, talks, movie screenings, entertainment sessions and more to share a spectrum of helpful ideas and experiences for those who would like to increase their awareness about Islam as religion and Muslims as people.

This year’s IAW events will take place from March 15 to March 23 and promise to be an intellectual and spiritual feast for participants. IAW2012 features the nation’s leading scholars and activists talking about organized Islamophobia and its effect on our civic society, the 2012 elections vis-a-vis Islam and Muslims, various manifestations of Islamic music and art, personal testimonies of American Muslim experience, gender dynamics in Muslim societies, terrorism, religious violence and more.

Duke’s campus is several steps ahead of American society at large in terms of its conversation with Islam and Muslims. We have set a high bar with the quality of our conversations about complex issues related to the Muslim world. Duke demonstrates to our nation constructive ways of dealing with the struggle with post 9/11 realities. I hope and pray that this breath of fresh Blue Devil reality reflects the future of our nation and that what is cooking here will play a role in our nation’s attempts to strengthen its commitments to pluralism, diversity, respect and appreciation for all. I am looking forward to Islamic Awareness Week this year!

n the wake of proposals by President Barack roads that have to maintain their own systems and Obama and the two leading Republican Presi- rights of way. dential candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Finally, there is the big enchilada, the financial Santorum, for tax breaks and other industry. Consider that its profits in measures to support manufactur- clyde prestowitz 1980 were 6 percent of all business ing, there has been an outcry from profits. By 1990 that number was 30 economic strategy percent and by 2005 it had soared economists against industrial policy. institute Former Council of Economic Advisto 40 percent. How did that come ers Chairwoman Christine Romer, to be? Abolition of regulatory rules for example, wrote in The New York Times that like the Glass-Steagll Act, “light touch” regulation of there are no good reasons to give special assistance banks by the Federal Reserve, the carried interest to manufacturing. tax rates noted above and loosening of the rules to But Harvard Business School professor Gary allow banks to expand their loan to net capital ratios Pisano now makes an excellent point in the latest are just some of the special supports provided to the Harvard Business Review that America has actually financial industry. Then, of course, when it all came long had an industrial policy, and it’s a policy that crashing down in 2008-09, Washington bailed Wall is essentially anti-manufacturing.

Street out and didn’t even fire anyone. So the guys Pisano notes that U.S. agriculture is and has long who gave us the crisis are still riding high . been heavily subsidized. The bill is about $50 billion It looks to me as if the only part of the economy annually and among other things provides about not getting special help, indeed, being neglected and $160,000 every year to each U.S. cotton farm despite even attacked by the government is manufacturing. the fact that American cotton farmers are much Of course, our tax system also subsidizes conhigher cost producers than those in Africa and the sumption and taxes saving and investment. So the Middle East. Universities are tax exempt and receive American industrial policy is to over-consume, prolarge government research grants. Health care also mote agriculture, military production, housing and receives an enormous tax break because employer construction, medical care, finance, and provision provided health care plans are paid for with pre-tax of a variety of services while moving manufacturing dollars. The home mortgage interest tax deduction and all but medical R&D off-shore. provides a huge subsidy to the housing industry and I don’t understand why economists can’t see also stimulates loans for the banking industry. Fi- that the issue is not whether we have an industrial nally, Pisano notes that the private equity industry policy. It’s only what kind of industrial policy we’re is heavily subsidized with an income tax rate called going to have. The fantasy of pristine free markets carried interest that is set at 15 percent. This is what is just that — a fantasy that exists only in the econoenabled Mitt Romney to pay taxes at a rate about mists’ models. In the real world, there is inevitably half that of the rest of you gentle readers. Just imag- massive government intervention in the economy. ine what U.S. manufacturing would look like if it It is not going to go away. At the moment, Ameripaid a 15 percent income tax rate. can industrial policy is a residual, what de facto Pisano could have added to his list the U.S. emerges from the arbitrage of special interests. It military-industrial complex. Without the military is incoherent, self-contradictory and counter-probusiness there would be no U.S. shipyards. Lock- ductive for U.S. economic performance. heed and a host of other major corporations would Rather than opposing industrial policy, econobe shadows of their present selves or not exist at mists should be promoting one that could provide all without the Pentagon business. Then there is a rational framework within which the trade-offs medical research. The National Institute of Health could be made in a way that would be positive for spends more on biotech research than the rest of long term wealth creation. Manufacturing would the world combined. That, of course, explains why then not be a despised orphan, but would be treatthe U.S. biotech industry is the world leader. Then ed at least as kindly as banking and finance. there are the subsidies for big oil and the support given the airline industry through public funding Clyde Prestowitz is the president of the Economic Stratof airports and of the Federal Aviation Adminis- egy Institute and writes on the global economy for Fortration that operates the radar and flight control eign Policy. This column originally appeared in Foreign systems across the country. Contrast that to the rail- Policy.

lettertotheeditor On behalf of Path of Hope’s Board of Directors, staff and clients, I would like to thank the Duke chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, a national coed service fraternity. We were fortunate enough to be on their list of places to volunteer. On Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, this group came out and really did some amazing hard work around our eight-acre campus.

We are a 28-day residential treatment facility in Lexington, N.C. for 12 men and six women suffering from the addiction of alcohol and drugs. We also have a women’s halfway house. Eleven women can stay for up to a year and positively re-enter society with a new-found life of recovery.

On Feb. 18 we had an awesome turn out for this event, over 50 students from the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity got busy working side by side with staff and clients at all three facilities. Many

projects were completed, including cleaning inside and out, landscaping, and painting. Fun and fellowship was had by all.

Each year Path of Hope continues to advance its mission of meeting the needs of all people suffering from the disease of alcoholism and other drug addiction by providing a safe, secure environment focused on recovery. Through our program we have seen many lives changed for the better. We would not be able to continue our mission without such wonderful support. To learn more about our agency, visit us online at www.apathofhope.org.

April Beck Executive Administrator, Path of Hope, Inc.

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Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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Exhibitions I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad: Memories of the Civil War. Thru April 8. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy. Thru June 17. Nasher Museum.

The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Photographs by Frank Espada. Thru July 8. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Events Mar 13 - Mar 19 March 13 12th and Delaware. A Rights! Camera! Action! film screening. 7pm. FHI Garage, Smith Warehouse. Free.

Duke Chorale. Rodney Wynkoop,dir. Spring Tour Concert, featuring works by Handel, Bach, Byrd, Mozart, Whitacre and others. 8pm. Duke Chapel. Free.

March 14 Immersed in Every Sense Lecture Series. Artist talk by visiting artist Ethan Jackson. 6pm. FHI, Smith Warehouse Bay 4, Rm C105-Garage. Free.

Duke Symphony Orchestra. Harry Davidson, dir. Hommage a Mozart, with Bo Newsome, oboist. Works by Ibert, Barlow, and Mozart, and featuring 2011-12 Student Concerto Competition winner Jameson Kuang performing Mendelsshon’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in g minor.

8pm. Reynolds Industries Theater. Free.

March 15 Annual Semans Lecture: Henry Petrowski. Duke University Alexander S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering, will deliver the Annual Semans Lecture on the work of the engineer-artist Alexander Calder. Reception and cash bar to follow. 7pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

March 16 Another March Madness: The American Civil War at 150. Prominent speakers from Duke, UNC, and NC State reflect on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. 9am-6pm. Rubenstein Library, Gothic Reading Rm. Free.

Collegium Musicum. Alexander Bonus, dir. The Air in Springtime: Airs and madrigals by John Dowland, Luca Marenzio, Thomas Morley, and other composers revered during the Elizabethan Age. Performed with instruments from the Duke University Musical Instrument Collection.

4:30pm. Biddle Music Bldg Lobby. Free.

Duke Players Lab. Lady in the Red Dress. By David Yee. Directed by Alyssa Wong. 8pm. Brody Theater, East Campus. Free. This show will also take place on March 17 and March 18 at 8pm.

March 17 Conversation with Garrick Ohlsson, moderated by Prof. R. Larry Todd. 12pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free.

March 18 Organ Recital Series Concert. Robert Parkins. This season’s recital program, Fantasies and Fugues, will include works by Bach, Franck, and Reger on the Flentrop and Aeolian organs. 5pm. Duke University Chapel. Free.

Family Fun Day. Gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. 12-4pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

Screen Society All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) =Smith Warehouse - Bay 4,C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

3/13 12th AND DELAWARE (SW) Rights! Camera! Action!

3/14 GOODBYE MUBARAK (Egypt, 2011) (7:30pm) AMES Presents: Reel Revolutions

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