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Students Rate of violent crime rises in Durham Total crime down 1 percent in 2011 perceive low risk for HIV by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE
Know Your Status—a student organization at Duke that conducts free, rapid HIV tests—has found disparities between students’ perceived risk of acquiring HIV and their actual, objective risk. In an unpublished, three-year study conducted by KYS on 1,000 Duke students tested for HIV, researchers found that 55.4 percent of students exhibit “risky behavior.” Risky behavior is defined as students who reported having unprotected sex or sharing needles, had two or more sexual partners in the past year or were men having sex with men. This statistic draws concern because 90.7 percent of these students viewed themselves as having a “nonexistent” or “very low” risk for acquiring HIV, said Dr. Mehri McKellar, an author of the study and principle investigator for KYS . “The big issue is this mismatch,” McKellar said. “Once [students] leave Duke, they could potentially move into areas where there are higher prevalency rates [of HIV], and if they engage in these [risky] behaviors, that is obviously an issue.” Since the organization was established in 2005, KYS has only diagnosed one person with HIV at Duke, McKellar said. Although this indicates a low rate of HIV on campus, SEE HIV ON PAGE 5
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Violent crime rates spiked in the Bull City, despite a downward trend in the city’s total crime from 2010 to 2011. According to the Durham Police Department’s annual report, total crime diminished from 2010 to 2011 by more than 1 percent.
Property crime, which includes burglary, larceny and vehicle theft, dropped by 2 percent to 11,263 incidents, while violent crime, which consists of homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault, jumped by nearly 5 percent to 1,712 incidents. The total crime rate marks the lowest rate Durham has seen in a
decade, said DPD Chief Jose Lopez. Over the past decade, Durham’s violent crime rate per 100,000 people decreased by 25 percent, and the property crime rate dropped by 31 percent. Last year’s total crime figures are in line with this trajectory, Lopez added. SEE CRIME ON PAGE 10
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Duke professors are trending on Twitter. Members of the Duke community are increasingly relying on Twitter to communicate information about Duke and to promote and share their personal scholarship and research. Use of the site by Duke community members has risen noticeably in recent months, faculty and administrators said. Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African and African American studies, opened an account at the insistence of former students. His account now has more than 11,000 followers. He operates on Twitter in a professional context, often as an extension of his work
in the classroom, Neal said. “Twitter is not for everyone, but for those folk who are interested in making their work accessible to a broader audience and to catch the attention of the many news producers who are seeking newsworthy stories on Twitter, it is a great platform,” Neal wrote in an email Thursday. “Folk in the academy are catching up to our students and others, who are way ahead of the digital curve, particularly as users.” Karla Holloway, James B. Duke professor of English and professor of law, started using Twitter last May. Some of the first tweets she experienced as a user were those regarding Osama bin Laden’s SEE TWITTER ON PAGE 4
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To initiate meaningful reform, leaders must be willing to fundamentally change their approach to solving a problem, experts said this weekend. About 100 people attended the second annual TEDxDuke event held Saturday on East Campus. Twelve speakers, including four students, from a variety of disciplines offered insights related to the theme “Losing Your Way.” Jimmy Soni, Trinity ’07, managing editor at the Huffington Post and a former columnist for The Chronicle, returned to campus to argue for more innovative methods of understanding history. “How do you make history human again? How do you make it real for peo-
ple in their daily lives?” Soni said. “Start simple. How do you know your own history? Talk to your grandparents. ” TEDx is an offshoot of TED—Technology, Entertainment and Design—a program, which sponsors video lectures and performances to spread ideas and generate discussion. The independently organized TEDx events are designed on this model but instead draw from local experts, at universities or elsewhere. Junior Lekha Ragavendran, who coordinated the event, said the broadness of the “Losing Your Way” theme of TEDxDuke allowed speakers to relate their stories effectively. “Some people talked about losing your way as a good thing and relaxing SEE TEDX ON PAGE 5
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Stroman stars in weekend series, SW 5
“All great evil plots start small—hardly noticeable—then grow from there.” —The Devil in “The infestation.” See column page 8
Blue Devils power past Georgia Tech, SW 5
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SAN FRANCISCO — The smallest fish in the sea are more than twice as valuable when they’re eaten by bigger fish than when they’re caught by humans, according to a report released Sunday by a scientific task force. The 120-page analysis by the Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force—a group of 13 scientists specializing in everything from fish ecology to marine mammals and seabirds—underscores the growing concern researchers have about the fate of forage fish, including anchovies, mehaden, herring and sardines that serve as food for bigger fish, sea birds and marine mammals. Forage fish account for 37 percent of the world’s commercial fish catch, with an annual value of $5.6 billion. Only 10 percent of forage fish caught are eaten by humans; the remaining 90 percent are processed into fish meal and fish oil, which feed livestock and farmed fish.
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A defiant Santorum makes Muslim Brotherhood in promise to stay in race Egypt draws criticism MIDDLETON, Wis. — Rick Santorum insisted Sunday he would remain in the Republican presidential race for the long haul, defying mounting pressure from party elders to coalesce around frontrunner Mitt Romney and focus on the fall contest against President Barack Obama.
CAIRO — Egypt’s most influential Islamist organization faced a barrage of criticism from within and from outside its ranks Sunday after the surprise announcement of a Muslim Brotherhood candidate for president. The nomination of Khairat el Shater sparked much anger.
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State prepares reparations for eugenics victims by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE
North Carolina has begun carrying out a program of reparations for victims of its forced sterilization program that ran through 1970s. The North Carolina Eugenics Board approved the sterilization of approximately 7,600 people between 1929 and 1974, making it the last state to end the controversial practice. A task force on the issue appointed by Gov. Bev Perdue published a final report Jan. 27 that recommended compensation of $50,000, mental health services and other educational measures to surviving victims. The state legislature will likely consider the report’s suggestions in May. Eugenics is the term for the pseudo-science that aims to minimize the genetic presence of certain traits while favoring others. Historically justified as a method of ridding the population of social vice, modern critics claim it was in fact a form of racial purification. State officials noted that the main priority for the state at the moment is the search and confirmation of living victims, estimated to be almost 1,500 to 2,000 individuals. The North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation, a division of the state Department of Administration, announced March 19 that it had officially confirmed 111 cases of forced sterilization in the state. “You can’t write a check to erase this because you can’t write a check to the real victims—the never-born,” said Edwin Black, author of “War Against the Weak,” an in-depth analysis of the eugenics movement. “It is a down payment compared to what North Carolina must do—ensure this never happens again.” Steps for the future Many of the report’s provisions are already being addressed and carried out by the foundation, particularly as a support network for victims. Current funding for the organization, however, will be depleted June 30, and the foundation is still pushing for more funding and staffing.
The first task of the reparation process is to “identify, verify and certify victims,” according to the report. The process is complicated because victims hesitate to come forward due to fears about the social repercussions of being recorded in state records as mentally ill or criminals, said Charmaine Cooper, executive director of the North Carolina Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation. Due to the global relevance of the issue, the confirmation process must be transparent and the identities of victims must be made public, Black said. “By claiming to protect the identity of the victims, the perpetrators are protecting their own identities,” he said. “This was not the act of a few disgruntled racists. These were the upper echelon members of our education system, courts and governments.” The Department of Public Instruction has added eugenics history to the syllabus of schools across the state, another step proposed by Perdue’s task force. The report also recommended funding a traveling N.C. Eugenics Exhibit that was created in 2007 but had limited travel due to lack of funding. The state is working to secure consistent funding for the future. A blemish in state history Following the Holocaust, the United Nations defined a form of genocide as a government “imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group.” Most states disbanded their eugenics boards following this international proclamation. North Carolina, however, saw its single most active period of sterilization in history from 1950 to 1952. The last national case of sterilization was in North Carolina in 1974, and its laws were not officially repealed until 2003. Nonwhites comprised 40 percent of sterilizations— some victims were as young as 10 years old, according to the report. “This was a systematic genocidal attack by the North Carolina elite on the state’s weakest members,” Black said. Race was a compounding factor in the southern
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eugenics movement, said Robert Korstad, Kevin D. Gorter professor of public policy and history. Blacks in the state were more likely to be found in lower socioeconomic levels or arrested for crimes over their white neighbors. Rewriting the textbooks Despite the significance of these numbers and the far-reaching repercussions of the state’s action, the issue is not yet being taught in schools nor openly discussed at the local level, said Robert Clark, WinstonSalem City Council member. Winston-Salem played a role by housing the Human Betterment League, a nonprofit that rallied support for the eugenics movement before disbanding in the mid1980s. Since then, however, the public has remained silent about the issue, Clark said. “This is not a city issue,” he said. “Whatever needs to be done needs to be done by our representatives in Raleigh.” Korstad said he doubts the state will take action beyond the compensation due to its history of racism and the resulting lack of public awareness of the issue. “The legislature must mandate education on this odious matter even if districts don’t want to acknowledge their involvement in the crimes,” Black said. Black added that Duke is considered a world-class education institution, but it does not encourage open discussion about this issue in classes. The University contributed thousands of dollars to eugenics and founded Eugenics Quarterly, a journal that published academic support for forced sterilization.
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has Google Alerts set up for alumni class notes and uses a service called Buffer, which automatically sends his favorited alerts to Twitter periodically throughout the day. Walters said he also uses If This Then That, an application that synchronizes various media services in a way predetermined by the user, identifying triggers from certain media, which are translated into actions by other media. “Rather than me having to monitor Twitter throughout the day—we don’t have staff for that—we get news about what alumni are doing via news sources, and then we pull them all into a scheduling tool, rewrite them for Twitter, do the research to see if the people are on Twitter and then [the services] send them out throughout the day,� Walters said.
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death, and she said she was surprised to find out about the news before major news organizations could publish it. Holloway has since been a dedicated Twitter user and uses the tool for professional purposes, as Neal does. She tweets about bioethics, public policy, human rights and law and explores the intersection of those topics with race and gender. “Twitter gets my own work out in wider and more diverse communities than I could accomplish through traditional formats,� Holloway wrote in an email Thursday. “I have connected with authors, bioethicists, researchers, students and scholars who would have remained as names I know, but would not have had ‘conversations.’� Both Neal and Holloway noted the increase in Duke’s Twitter participation in the past year. In addition to distributing information, administrators are using Twitter to track what others are saying about Duke. Freshman Julia Durnan, who works in the Office of Public Affairs and Government Relations, uses Twitter’s advanced search feature to find tweets that mention the University. Using the data, Durnan aggregates a report for Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, so he can stay informed about how Duke is being discussed. “Duke isn’t in the news without [Schoenfeld’s] awareness of it,� she said. “He wants to be on top of everything, to make sure nothing is going unnoticed.� Twitter serves to link different sectors of the University community, said Cara Rousseau, social media manager for the Office of News and Communications. “[One of our goals] is to connect with audiences of prospective students, current students, alumni and faculty,� Rousseau said. “All different parts of the campus are trying to reach their audiences using the tool, so it’s become an integrated part of the University marketing plan.� Dozens of offices and departments have Twitter accounts, such as @Duke_ATHLETICS, @DukeGHI (Duke Global Health Institute), @DukeOSAF (Office of Student Activities and Facilities), @Duke_Medicine and @DukeAlumni. Rousseau said @DukeAlumni is a particularly effective account.
The account, which has about 1,500 followers, is run by Brett Walters, director of information technology and web services for the Duke Alumni Association. In addition to distributing information about current students, sports and the office itself to alumni, the account serves to recognize the recent accomplishments of alumni, Walters said. “The Duke Alumni [account] is celebrating professional accomplishments. It’s the alma mater calling out the alumni,� he said. “Typically, I’ll find their Twitter handle and name them in the tweet, and they’ll retweet it to their followers, so that’s one way to tell alumni what their classmates are up to.� Walters uses other tools to streamline the process of tracking and distributing information about alumni. He
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan), professor of African and African American studies, has more than 11,000 followers on Twitter.
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HIV from page 1 KYS’ presence is still necessary but noted that the program should be channeled in a different direction. “Duke should have more of a riskbased program,” she said. “If you look at the [Centers’ for Disease Control and Prevention] guidelines on who should have a routine screening program for HIV, [those that] are under 0.1 percent prevalence can probably be tested based on risk.” HIV is often found in low-income communities, McKellar said. The low prevalence of HIV at Duke is due to the fact that most students do not come from less privileged areas. Duke is also a private community, which contributes to the low rates of HIV, said Dr. Charles Hicks, associate professor
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According to a KYS study, 55.1 percent of students exhibit “risky behavior,” such as having unprotected sex.
of medicine in the division of infectious diseases and co-author in the KYS study. Hicks noted that at Durham Technical Community College, four out of the 408 people tested were diagnosed with HIV. The higher HIV rate at DTCC is because the school is a commuter college and the overall student population is older. “The more people you’ve had sex with, the more opportunities you’ve had to have sex with someone that’s HIV positive,” Hick said. “[The students at DTCC] are 5 years older ... and have interactions with people in different environments. It seems logical to me that there would have been additional opportunities to become HIV positive.” About 55 percent of Duke students reported using a condom during their last sexual encounter, which is a positive takeaway from the study, Hick said. “Having sex is not something that always lends itself to reasoned thoughts— you get yourself into a circumstance, passions arise and you end up doing things and later think ‘oh my gosh, what was I thinking,’” he added. “If 55 percent of people say they are using condoms pretty consistently, that’s pretty good. I tend to look at that like a glass half-full rather than a glass half-empty.” Despite the low HIV rate at Duke, it is important to reduce the risk of transmission, said senior Ijeoma Agu, the student director of KYS. “A lot of people dismiss [HIV] because of the [low] prevalence,” Agu said. “They think prevalence is more important than risk, but once you have it, there is no going back.”
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Architecture professor Caroline Bruzelius speaks in Richard White Lecture Hall Saturday.
TEDX from page 1 and stepping back,” Ragavendran said. “Some people talked more about losing your way and finding it again, through technology or investigating computer science or through different means.” The TEDxDuke organizing committee selected speakers from throughout the Triangle area based on nominations from members of the Duke community. David Needham, professor of mechanical engineering and associate professor of biomedical engineering, noted that professors believe students retain 20 percent of what they learn in class, but students believe they retain only 10 percent of what they learn. Needham’s presentation focused on ways to encourage students of all disciplines to conduct more individual, proactive research about a subject in a way that would be impossible in a classroom. Using his hands-on approach, Needham’s students have reverse-engineered everything from diesel engines to pharmaceutical drug delivery meth-
ods to the causes of World War I. “It’s a challenge to take a fairly large, robust subject that you’ve been dealing with for the last 10 years and condense it down to something where you can get a message across in 12 minutes,” he said. Tony Brown, professor of the practice in the Sanford School of Public Policy and co-director of the Hart Leadership Program, and Patty Kennedy, CEO of Kennedy Spencer—a values-based marketing and communications company— were two other notable speakers leading discussions, among others. Sophomore Jacob Tobia, speaking from his experience with Occupy Duke, noted that despite common misconceptions, on-campus protests can successfully make changes. “Duke students don’t understand Duke’s history and that Duke, at its heart, is an activist campus,” Tobia said. “I don’t have all the answers, but what I do know is that [to find them] it won’t take just 1 percent, it won’t take just 99 percent—it will take 100 percent of the Duke community.”
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Weeks after Peyton Manning put Duke in the national spotlight as he worked out for NFL teams on campus, quarterbacks were still the story at Duke’s Spring Game. Five different Blue Devils lined up under center Saturday afternoon as White beat Blue, 38-24. “Schematically, we don’t have everything in that we’ll do,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “But we’ve got players who can make plays, and that’s the key.” Sean Renfree, Brandon Connette and Anthony Boone led the Blue offense against the White defense in a matchup of probable starters and their backups. Sean Schroder led the White offense to the game’s first score, though, putting the team on the board with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Nick Hill. On Blue’s next possession, Jordon Byas jumped Blair Holliday’s out route and intercepted Renfree’s underthrown pass, returning it 32 yards for a touchdown. “It was a poor decision,” said Renfree, who completed 10-of-24 passes for 104 yards and two interceptions. “I was trying to throw it away, and I just didn’t throw it high enough.” Thomas Sirk, who split snaps with Schroeder, extended White’s lead to 21-0 early in the second quarter when he found Hill for a 15-yard score. Runs from redshirt freshman walk-on running back Eric Adams— who gained 107 yards on 31 rushes and caught three passes for 32 yards—set up the touchdown. “My offensive line was doing great today,
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Brandon Connette accounted for 137 total yards and a touchdown, completing 4-of-7 passes for 83 yards and rushing for 54 yards on six carries. and I got a lot of carries because of it,” Adams said. “When the run’s working, you’ve got to keep running to open up the pass.” Connette led Blue back into the game in the second quarter, scoring on a 30-yard run up the middle and helping set up a 25-
yard field goal on the team’s last possession of the half. After the break, Josh Snead, who missed all last season with a foot injury, nearly put Blue right back in the game. The redshirt sophomore broke off a run down the right
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Running back Eric Adams carried the White offense in Saturday’s Spring Game, rushing 31 times for 107 carries. He also caught three passes for 32 yards.
side of the field, initially beating the entire defense. About 15 yards from the end zone, though, Brandon Braxton dove and clipped his feet, slowing the running back just enough for Ross Cockrell—the most valuable defensive player—to knock the ball loose. Snead tried to dive on the ball as it bounced around the end zone, but it rolled out of bounds for a White touchback. “I looked in the jumbotron and didn’t see him,” Snead said. “Fundamentals and technique got me. It happens.” The White offense took advantage of the momentum swing, marching down the field in just over three minutes before Sirk found Brandon Watkins over the middle for a 28-yard score to take a 28-10 lead. Blue countered with a touchdown of its own on the ensuing possession, highlighted by a 36-yard gain on a screen pass from Boone to Connette, who found Jamison Crowder wide open down the field. The team would cut the deficit to just 31-24 when Connette hooked up with Snead on a 28-yard score with 6:45 left in the game. Blue’s faster-paced offense highlighted the final minutes, which has been a major focus of Cutcliffe and his staff throughout the spring. “We’re just trying to snap it three to four seconds faster, which you wouldn’t think is that much of a problem for a defense, but three or four seconds can mean a lot,” Renfree said. But Renfree and the Blue offense produced a fumble, a turnover-on-downs and an interception—which Kyler Brown returned 34 yards for a touchdown—on their final three possessions. “We just have to focus on our turnovers, because that’s been our Achilles’ heel,” Renfree said. “Otherwise, I thought it was a very good day.”
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The Blue Devils held North Carolina to just four goals, but they could not muster up enough of their own offense to pull off the upset. Playing in slippery conditions, No. 7 Duke (8-5, 2-2 in the ACC) shut down the nation’s leading scorer, Tar Heel sophomore Abbey Friend, but dropped the contest to fifth-ranked Duke 2 North Carolina (111, 3-0) 4-2 at Fetzer 4 UNC Field Friday. The Tar Heels came into the contest averaging 14.27 goals per game. After giving up a goal in the first minute, however, the Blue Devils held North Carolina to just one score in the first half. “Our defense was a huge positive,” Duke head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “Our Virginia loss [Mar. 24] was really motivating for us. I felt like it was an embarrassing loss…. We got beat all over the field, and that is not how we play. And I felt like that motivated us.” With four 20-goal scorers to mark, the Blue Devil defenders faced a tough challenge. Despite poor playing conditions, they managed to stifle their opponents for much of the game. In her first career start, Duke freshman Gabby Moise took on the assignment of guarding Friend—who has scored 37 goals this season—and held her to just one assist in the game.
For a freshman who has not played much this season, Moise did an awesome job defending against Friend, Kimel said. Despite all of its success on the defensive end, Duke struggled to find a goal of its own.
The Blue Devils had just four shots in the first half—all coming off of free-position opportunities—and did not convert one until the 4:00 mark, when junior Makenzie Hommel tied the game. “We prepared all week a certain way to
play them and I thought that would have worked, but I think the footing clearly was a major issue for both teams tonight, and it was not going to allow us to stop,” Kimel said. “We had practiced all week with the way they play defense one-onone to kind of stop and restart our dodge. And there was no way we were going to be able to do that.” The two squads ended the half tied at one. And over six minutes into the second period, it seemed that Duke had notched a second goal to take its first lead. Freshman Kerrin Maurer, the Blue Devils’ points leader, appeared to have scored on a crease roll. The goal, however, was disallowed following a stick check. The bad luck continued for Duke on the other end, as goalie Mollie Mackler intercepted a pass from Friend but lost control of the ball, letting it trickle over the line for an own goal. Down 2-1, the Blue Devils won the draw but failed to create any threatening opportunities. “We tried to change things up—probably a little too late—to more of a feeding offense and we got some looks, like we got some free positions and that kind of thing, and we didn’t capitalize enough of them,” Kimel said. “When things didn’t go the way we planned all week for them to go, from an offensive standpoint, we had to switch gears, and I don’t think we did a great job
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Gabby Moise helped hold the Tar Heels’ Abbey Friend, who has scored 37 goals this year, to just one assist.
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The Blue Devils’ top boat rode a wave of momentum Sunday to capture the their first race win since November. After winning the qualifier Saturday to advance to the finals, the varsity eight boat beat out second-place Oregon State to take the Women’s Collegiate Varsity Eight title in the 39th San Diego Crew Classic. The event, held on Mission Bay each spring, is considered one of the premier rowing regattas in the country and draws close to 100 teams and 3,600 athletes. “The women executed very well in the rough water conditions,” head coach Robyn Hormer said. “The final sprint with 300m to go was aggressive and decisive.” Duke had boats in three of the regatta’s events. In addition to the women’s varsity eight, the team had a boat in the second varsity and varsity four races. Only the Blue Devils’ top boat made it to Sunday though, as the varsity four squad placed fifth and the second varsity finished sixth in their respective qualifying heats Saturday. Seven teams competed in each of the three qualifying races, but only the top two teams from each
Duke’s recent struggles in the fourth quarter have been no secret. After holding No. 14 Syracuse (4-4) scoreless for the last 13:41 Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium, however, forcing four turnovers and holding the Orange to six shots, the No. 8 Blue Devils (9-3) helped put those concerns behind them. “I’m very proud of our group today,” head coach John Danowski said. “[The fourth quarter] has been an emphasis. On Wednesday and Thursday... we played quarters and we acted and responded and tried to coach the situations.” Duke rode a strong offensive performance led by senior Robert Rotanz, who scored four goals, and sophomore Jordan Wolf, who scored twice and added three assists, to its sixth straight victory. The win snaps the Blue Devils’ five game losing streak against Syracuse. The Orange started the game with confidence, fighting to a 3-1 lead in the first quarter, forcing seven turnovers and holding the Blue Devils to one goal on eight shots. Early in the second quarter, though, Duke came out playing aggressively and scored two quick goals. Syracuse responded with two of its own before the THANH HA NGUYEN/THE CHRONICLE
Robert Rotanz helped the Blue Devils past Syracuse with four goals.
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heat advanced to the finals. The remaining teams competed in one of two consolation races later that day based on their finishes. In their consolation races, the second varsity and varsity four boats finished fifth and third, respectively. Duke’s varsity eight boat sailed through their qualifier, completing it in 6:48.945 and beating out the next fastest boat in the heat by six seconds. The boat, powered by seniors Rory Erickson-Kulas and Kathy Smithwick; juniors Katie Burke, Laura Sciarrino and Emily Theys; sophomores Grace Cassidy and coxswain Caroline Kiritsy and freshmen Tara Dalton and Claire Vannelli, won the finals Sunday in 7:08.47 to capture the Seaworld Cal Cup. The Blue Devils finished less than two seconds ahead of the Beavers, who crossed the finish line in 7:10.01. The Oklahoma Sooners finished with a time of 7:15.86 to round out the top three. “We elevated the stroke rate with 500 meters to go,” Kathy Smithwick said. “Even though they were pressing, we knew they weren’t going to take it from us.” The varsity eight victory represented Duke’s first since the varsity four boat won at the Head of the Hooch Regatta last year.
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After 36 holes in about 10 hours of play Saturday, Duke overcame fatigue to clinch second place at the Irish Creek Collegiate Tournament as every Blue Devil climbed the leaderboard during the final round. Heading into the third and final round, Kent State held the lead with a 15-underpar score of 553, and Mercer was in second place with a 3-under-par 565. Duke, who won the tournament last year, was 14 strokes behind the leader in third place. The Blue Devils used a tournament-low round of 12-under-par to pass the Bears Sunday, but the Golden Flashes matched Duke’s score to take the win. “This is more of an endurance test than most people think,” head coach Jamie Green said. “These guys are carrying 40-plus pounds on their backs for the day and walking many miles. They have to stay psychologically sharp even when their legs get tired to keep making good decisions on the course.” Xavier’s Sebastian MacLean led all individuals after the first two rounds of play with an 8-under 134. Blue Devil junior Julian Suri trailed by just three shots going into Sunday, but as MacLean collapsed on
the final day, Suri climbed to second with a 6-under-par 65, finishing two strokes behind Mercer’s James Beale. Suri started the tournament off with six birdies and just one bogey in the opening round. In the second round, he shot five birdies but suffered one bogey and two double bogies. “Julian is one of the best in college golf right now.” Green said. “He wasn’t feeling all that well this weekend. Finishing [Saturday] with two birdies was great for him going into the last round of play.” Suri, who was named Golfweek player of the week after capturing the individual title at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate in Turtle Bay, Hawaii in February has quickly emerged as one of the nation’s top golfers. “He has played well all year, and today was just another example of that,” Green said. “He is putting the pedal down, and his level of focus and ability to hit the ball is spectacular.” Blue Devil sophomores Yaroslav Merkulov and Austin Cody finished the tournament tied for seventh and 12th place, respectively. “Austin had a very complete round today.” Green said. “He played really well, start to finish.”
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The Blue Devils captured a perfect 6-0 conference road record this weekend, with two wins against top 25 opponents. On Friday, No. 3 Duke (17-2, 6-0 ACC) travelled to Clemson, defeating the No. 23 Tigers (11-8, Duke 7 4-3 ACC) 6-1. The Blue Devils 0 GT then continued to Atlanta Duke 6 south where they overTigers 1 whelmed No. 24 Georgia Tech (9-9, 3-4 ACC) in a 7-0 blowout Sunday. “We have to be proud of how we performed on the road,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “In my 16 years, I don’t think we have every come down and beat Georgia Tech 7-0 and Clemson 6-1 in one weekend. [The team] needs to be proud of that and not be satisfied, but be proud of what they have accomplished.” The opening match of the weekend began on uneasy grounds, as rain moved the play to the indoor stadium. The atmosphere quickly intensified in doubles play, where the No. 17 tandem of Josipa Bek and Keri Wong beat freshman Ester Goldfeld and junior Mary Clayton 8-4. No. 2 Capra and sophomore Rachel Kahan then overtook Beatrice Gumulya and Romy Koelzer to tie up the contest for the doubles point. Sophomore Hanna Mar and freshman Annie Mulholland found themselves in a 6-6 standoff against Klara Vyskocilova and Monica Kochanova. After pushing the game into a tiebreaker, Kochanova’s double-fault gave Duke its toughly contested 1-0 lead. Clemson proved unwilling to back down as Gumulaya handed Kahan her first loss of the season to tie the match
at one-all. The Blue Devils responded, though, as Mar broke Vyskocilova’s six-match win streak in singles with a 6-4, 6-2 victory. Capra quickly followed suit, winning her match at the No. 1 spot and Goldfeld clinched the victory with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 win over Bek. Clayton and freshman Monica Turewicz finished strong for Duke, ending the match 6-1. “[Clemson] was a much more emotional match,” Ashworth said. “We talked before the match that our goal is to be the best team physically, mentally and emotionally and I felt that we were able to do that.” In their final of six straight ACC road matches, the Blue Devils showed little sign of fatigue against the historically tough Yellow Jackets. In doubles play, Goldfeld and Clayton upset the No. 10 duo of Jillian O’Neill and Alex Anghelescu 8-4. Mar and Mulholland matched their teammates with another 8-4 win to give Duke a 1-0 lead. Capra and Kahan were unable to capture the sweep, losing 9-7 to Lynn Blau and Elizabeth Kilborn. Having recently made adjustments with all three tandems, Ashworth noted that the two losses demonstrated that the team has not quite found its perfect lineup. “We are still looking for the best for the team,” Ashworth said. “We don’t want to be complacent with winning four doubles matches this weekend. We want to be able to win all of them.” Nonetheless, Duke’s strength and depth persevered, as the team went on to win all six singles matches, ending the match 7-0. Complementing the team’s accomplishments over the weekend, Capra earned her third ACC player of the week honor. While this can be viewed as a personal achievement, Ashworth stressed that it was also a team success. SEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 5
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At Duke’s second-to-last home match, the Blue Devils powered through long matches to gain two solid victories. Duke (16-3, 5-1 in the ACC) added two more conference wins to its collection this weekend by beating Clemson (8-9, 4-2) and Georgia Tech (8-9, 3-4) at home. “Winning our last three matches and only dropping one point in those matches is a great rebound,” said head coach Ramsey Smith. “I think we’re 1 GT playing really well. These matches aren’t easy, but we’re competing 6 Duke well and we’re coming through it matters.” Tigers 0 when On Friday, the Blue Devils Duke 7 swept the Tigers 7-0, winning all nine of their matches. Even though the doubles matches began neck-and-neck, all
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After entering as a defensive replacement, Anthony D’Alessandro threw a Yellow Jacket out at the plate to secure Duke’s 4-3 win. Duke took the final of its three games against No. 21 Georgia Tech (18-11, 6-6 in the ACC) to avoid a sweep against the Yellow Jackets this weekend. In the bottom of the ninth and the Blue Devils leading 4-3, Georgia Tech leftfielder Brandon Thomas began the inning with a double and later advanced to third on Sam Dove’s groundout. First baseman and cleanup hitter Jake Davies proDuke 4 ceeded to fly out to leftfield, giving Thomas the opportunity to 3 GT tag-up and score. Anthony D’Alessandro, a Duke 0 defensive replacement, nailed 8 GT Thomas at the plate, giving David Putman his third save of Duke 0 the season. Robert Huber and Andrew Hustler carried Duke 1 GT through the previous 8.1 innings, allowing a combined 11 hits over the course of their three-run effort. The Blue Devils (12-17, 5-7)fell in both games in Saturday’s doubleheader, getting shut out in both contests. In the 1-0 first game, Marcus Stroman struck out 12 Yellow Jackets in his 7.2 innings of duty, allowing just six hits and no walks. Duke registered just three hits, however, failing to support their ace, who fell to 3-3 on the season. The offense’s woes continued in the second game when the Blue Devils notched just two hits compared to 12 for Georgia Tech. Five pitchers combined to allow eight runs for Duke, only four of which were earned with catcher Reed Anthes committing two errors. The Blue Devils take a break from ACC play with a game against Campbell Tuesday. —from staff reports
W. TENNIS from page 4 “It’s a tribute to her, but her teammates too because they are the ones that push her everyday in practice,” Ashworth said. “Anytime someone on the team can win that I think it is a tribute to the entire team.” Such combined efforts by every player on the court have proved powerful for Duke, which has proved itself to be a top contender both at the conference and at the national level. Remaining proud, but not overconfident and complacent is something that Ashworth said he continues to preach to his team as they now enter a string of five home ACC matches.
three duos toughed out victories. The pairing of freshman Raphael Hemmeler and sophomore Cale Hammond moved up to the second spot after recording five consecutive wins at the third doubles position. They are now 7-0 as a team, and Duke has won the last seven doubles points against their opponents—an advantage that is key to their victories. In singles, all six courts notched first set wins. Hemmeler was the first to finish, quickly dispatching Hunter Harrington 6-1, 6-2 and moving to 8-1 in dual match play at the No. 5 position. A victory by senior Torsten Wiestoka and another by junior Henrique Cunha closed out the match for the Blue Devils. On Sunday, Duke faced more of a challenge against the Yellow Jackets. The third doubles tandem of Jason Tahir and Fred Saba were the first to finish with a quick 8-3 victory. Hammond and Hemmeler doubles held a lead in the start of the match before falling behind 4-7. The duo, however, regrouped and came back to win the match 9-8 in a tiebreaker and clinched the doubles point for the Blue Devils. Cunha and Mengel, the nation’s No. 26 pairing, had the opposite scenario, as they dominated the start of the match and broke away for a 7-4 lead before allowing Georgia Tech’s No. 7 team of Kevin King and Juan Spir to come back and win 9-7. “I felt like doubles clicked today,” Smith said. “It’s such a big point because we feel so good about our singles, and if we can get that doubles point, we know we’re in the driver’s seat.” The fight Duke faced in the doubles matches carried over into the singles round with a few close matches. Three courts went into first set tiebreakers and there JULIA MAY/THE CHRONICLE
Cale Hammond and Raphael Hemmeler have helped the Blue Devils win their last seven doubles points.
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M. LACROSSE from page 3 Blue Devils finished the quarter with a 4-1 run to take a one-point lead, 7-6. Rotanz led the rally with three goals in the second quarter alone. “I was put in a good position by the rest of my teammates,” Rotanz said. “Guys drew slides and moved the ball and put the ball in my stick. I was just in the right place at the right time.” With the momentum, the Blue Devils continued to press in the third quarter with a quick goal from senior Justin Turri, followed by another goal from Wolf, which opened up the largest lead of the game at 9-6. But Syracuse rallied to tie the game with three unanswered goals, including two from Tommy Palasek, which gave the senior a hat trick. Sophomore Josh Dionne gave Duke a one-point advantage heading
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into the fourth period with another goal. A quick score from Orange junior JoJo Marasco tied up the game for the fifth time. Rotanz responded with his fourth goal, and junior Jake Tripucka later solidified the lead with a diving shot. Crucial to the Blue Devils’ strong finish was the aggressive play of the defense and goalkeeper Dan Wigrizer. Wigrizer, who had struggled early in the game—saving just one shot in the entire first half—came up with four clutch saves in the fourth quarter. “There is never one person that wins or loses the game,” Danowski said. “It may have appeared that Danny Wigrizer was struggling a little bit, and maybe at times he was, but over the fourth quarter he made all the saves that the team needed.”
M. TENNIS from page 5 were five tiebreakers played out overall. Hemmeler was the first to finish with a 6-0, 6-3 victory, followed by Tahir at No. 6 with a 6-3, 7-5 win. Saba won 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 against Juan Melian and solidified the victory for the Blue Devils. Mengel was the only player to lose his singles match in two tiebreakers. Even after Duke had closed out its victory, courts one and three were still fighting. On the first court, No. 6 Cunha took on No. 11 King and the match was taken into a super tiebreaker. Cunha pulled out a 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 1-0 (10-6) victory over his opponent and capped the weekend with a
3-1 record overall. “Since I’m at No. 1, I’m playing good players every time,” Cunha said. “It doesn’t matter the other team’s ranking—they always have a good No. 1 player. I’m very proud I could win both matches this weekend.” Alongside him, Wiestoka battled back from a slow start in the match—saving four match points—and managed a comeback win of 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-0), not allowing Dusan Milijevic to score a point in the final tiebreaker. “We’re winning the big points at the end of matches and at the end of sets, and I think that shows that the guys have a lot of confidence and we’re competing well,” Smith said.
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Henrique Cunha defeated No. 11 Kevin King in a super tiebreaker 7-6 (7-1), 5-7, 1-0 (10-6).
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W. LACROSSE from page 3 adjusting to that.” Duke’s offensive woes continued through the rest of the game. Although the Blue Devils outshot their opponents 6-3 in the second half, North Carolina scored on each of its shots, taking a 4-1 lead with 6:10 to go. Duke got one back on redshirt senior Emma Hamm’s free-position tally at the
1:45 mark and drew a yellow card on Friend just seven seconds later, but a Blue Devil turnover following the restart sunk any chances of a comeback. “We had opportunities to control the ball offensively,” Kimel said. “We just didn’t do a particularly good job of taking care of the ball in the first 15 minutes of the game and then, again, I just don’t think we executed as well as we could have.”
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Transparency crucial to conflict-free Duke The time has come for the in which the University invests. University to elucidate its in- Conflict minerals are mined vestment process and establish from countries such as the its commitment to ethically re- Democratic Republic of Congo, sponsible investing. Since last a region that still has not reOctober’s debacle, when the Co- covered from civil war, and are alition for a Conused to directly flict-Free Duke finance warring editorial was barred from factions that bringing awareness to the issue commit egregious crimes. Beof investment responsibility dur- cause many technology compaing Countdown to Craziness, the nies do not exercise oversight CCFD has implemented a more regarding the sourcing of their savvy approach in prompting the materials, these minerals turn University toward this goal. up in consumer products. Their petition, which is curIn order for the Board of rently under deliberation in Trustees to approve any proposal the advisory committee of in- regarding control of investment vestment responsibility of the practices, it must pass through Academic Council, calls for the two committees: the president’s University to demand proxy special committee on investment voting rights for shareholder responsibility and ACIR. After resolutions encouraging move- passing the PSC unanimously ment away from the use of con- approved CCFD’s petition flict minerals within companies Jan.13, the request has yet to pass
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as something been bugging you lately? I’m winter, before most people even noticed them, sure you’ve noticed them around campus my army rocked the sacred bonding rituals of fraby now; there’s way more of them this ternities. They ate up all the kid-sized super-hero year than ever before. You probably costumes. They laid larvae in the thought they were innocuous at first: motors of buzzers purchased to just small, green, slow-moving angive euro-trash haircuts to sheepish noyances that could never amount freshmen searching for a common to anything. No, I’m not talking identity. The worms chewed through about the school’s recent deluge of everything, down to the smallest jigp-froshes…. This column is about saw pieces, preventing pledges from the treachery of the inchworm. even doing puzzles together. Ripped straight from the eighth As these ubiquitous inchworms the devil circle of hell, these mini-demons crawled over everything in their monday, monday (scientific name: Disgustus hideinydomain, they made it harder and ourhaira) can even seem cute the harder to relax or even breath at first time you see them. “Aww, look at the little this school. As a result, students now flee from our guy squeejin’ his way along that leafypoo!” your infested campus to enjoy themselves, even if that retarded girlfriend might say. But she’s wrong— means dealing with more dangerous creatures out dead wrong. Those little f***ers are 100 percent in the city, like poisonous spiders and Durhamites. evil. Dump her and find a girl who doesn’t fall for There’s a small chance you’ll be robbed or killed, such cheap ploys or require a helmet. but at least out there you can have a drink in peace I’ve been teaching the inchworms to do my bid- without worrying if one of those pests is creeping ding for ages, but it’s only this year that they’ve on your Solo cup. come out in full force. Now you’re probably thinkThe administration’s been trying to tell us ing, “Devil, why bother training a million tiny sol- that inchworms might make Duke a better place. diers of micro-evil when you can just drop a cou- “Sure they might be annoying now, but wait until ple more Konys in Africa or Lehman brothers on everyone’s had time to adjust to them and they Wall Street? Spawn a new Saddam and call it a day, transform into beautiful bright butterflies. Then dude.” But trust me, I know what I’m doing. The they’ll attract families choosing between here and big guy in the sky isn’t the only one who works in the Ivies!” Did all the bike shops in Durham close mysterious ways, and that’s the magic of real evil: or something? Because there are way too many You never see it coming. retards walking around this school without their All great evil plots start small—hardly notice- helmets. Inchworms never become butterflies. able—then grow from there. Inchworms wouldn’t They just get bigger and s*** all over everything. be half as big a problem today if the U.S. had Then, if they ever do metamorphasize, it’s not into switched to the metric system back in the ’70s, re- butterflies—it’s into moths. They become dull ducing the ruler’s base unit to a centimeter. But nocturnal moths that get in your hair and swarm much like the federal deficit or women’s contin- around any bright lights, dimming whatever semued insistence on participating in politics, this blance of fun remains on this campus at night. nuisance has grown from a tiny issue into a big So far my army has made great progress. They’ve problem. made campus way less appealing to pfroshes, and My worms were drawn to The Chronicle ad- they’ve run current students straight into the jaws vertising department’s delicious mountains of of off-campus apartments. They even ate through wasted paper, so they set up their headquarters in the police phone lines this weekend so all those the West Union building back in the fall. Then, kids getting mugged out in Durham had no one in true evil genius fashion, they first tested their to call for help. But if you thought the inchworms power on nearby vulnerable minority groups. made this year rough, just wait until you see what With tons of worming, plenty of inching and a bit they’ve got planned for the Class of 2016. The of biting paperwork, the territorial little buggers worst has yet to come. ran the LGBT and Mary Lou Williams centers out of their homes. The Devil is in the Details… the one that ran in Inspired by their success, my inchworms moved March. He wishes he’d been in GQ but whatever, anyon to divide and conquer bigger targets. This thing’s better than DMIX.
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letterstotheeditor More than minerals This Wednesday, the Duke Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility will hold a public forum before it votes on whether to pass a proxy voter resolution around conflict minerals—the first committee action on investment responsibility in five years. This vote is the culmination of months of advocacy that have put Duke in an “activism spotlight,” appearing in publications from The Huffington Post to Taiwanese news site Uonline. Because of this spotlight, the implications of Duke approving this resolution stretch far beyond our campus. However, this impact is largely symbolic; changing one university’s investment policy is not an end solution. The conflict in the Congo is far more complex and dynamic than a single catchphrase, and so this is— and must be—a humble first step. Frankly no one knows with 100 percent certainty what the effects of tracing conflict mineral supply chains will be. But by sitting and watching the Congo struggle, we allow violence to become background noise. We eliminate the possibility for growth because as we wait, the Congolese youth—potential engineers, doctors, policymakers, activists—grow up in a situation in which war is an everyday evil. Stopping the rampant human rights violations in the DRC is worth more than a “like” on Facebook. Help us think critically about how we students can, and must, address the challenging problems still awaiting. The ACIR public forum on Investment Responsibility will take place Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Von Canon A. All are encouraged to attend to share why they care about this issue or simply to learn more. Ellen Paddock, Trinity ’14 Response to “MMS: Making Mediocre Standard” I was surprised by the bleak outlook of the previous article on the MMS program. Therefore, I would like to share a much more positive experience of MMS, my own. I graduated from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2010, and coming from a public school I was thrilled to experience the level of personal attention and professionalism that the Career Center at Duke provides for each student. Prior to MMS, I was working on an account team for a financial management software developer in Los Angeles. When I decided to leave my job, it was to build on my experiences and undergraduate education at Fuqua, and hopefully launch myself into the industry I desired. While at Fuqua, I have had the opportunity to study under world-class faculty, work on exciting cases, make incredible connections and of course, become a lifelong Duke basketball fan. I am perfectly content with my “intellectual and moral caliber.” I knew no one was going to hand me a great job or a fat signing bonus. So like the rest of the current MMS class, I have been working diligently to land a job that is great by my own standards, and I am happy
to say that I have. My one year at Fuqua has equated to a huge bump in salary from my job prior to MMS. However, my experience means a whole lot more to me than just dollars and cents. Unlike the previous author, I am in no way saying this to publicly boast. Rather, I would like to thank my professors, career coaches, the administration and my classmates for making this an incredible year that has been as professional and rewarding as it has been fun. Greatest year of my life. Respectfully,
In defense of MMS I would like to whole-heartedly disagree with the sentiments expressed in the March 29 article “MMS: Making Mediocre Standard.” I am a proud member of the inaugural MMS class and I am even prouder to say that I defy every spurious assumption the author made. When I graduated from Fuqua, I had no job leads and, besides a desire to work in advertising, no sense of where I was going. I was not one of “America’s best” by your definition and had no plans of ending up on Wall St., K Street or Madison Ave. However, unlike you, I was never blinded by a sense of entitlement and I never expected my school to find a job for me. Instead, I decided to defy the logic of our unfortunate economic state and create opportunity for myself. I believe that is called “The American Dream.” Within months of leaving the hallowed halls of Fuqua, I helped create a health care alternative to emergency rooms and large health care systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. The aptly named After Hours Healthcare company now provides quality medical care to nearly 1,000 people a month and has created dozens of jobs. Furthermore—and just for fun—I created my own advertising company that now provides private practices the opportunity to promote themselves using online marketing. I credit my ability to think both creatively and analytically to the year I spent at Fuqua, in addition to the spectacular four years I spent as a Duke undergrad. I challenge the author and all those who have ever doubted this program to re-think their assumptions about what MMS strives to achieve. The Masters in Management Studies is not about creating cogs in the vast corporate system. It is about creating multi-faceted individuals whom I guarantee will lead this country forward. I am living proof of this statement and I am damn proud. May this program continue to prosper. Let’s go Duke! Best,
Reaction to recent MMS commentary I entered the UCLA School of Law, at 19, as the youngest person to have ever been admitted there. When I soon discovered that law was simply not for me, and that I wanted to do business instead, I did not have many options. As it turns out, the rumors about a JD are wrong: You can’t do anything you want with a law degree. These days, you can’t even get a job at Starbucks with a law degree. Applications to Bain, Accenture, Capital One, Deloitte, AT Kearney and so on.… I sent out over 75 applications in total, and all of them fell completely flat. I was nearing the end of my time in school, and I did not have a plan. An MBA requires at least two years of work experience for one to get anything out of it, and I had never worked a full-time job in my life. That’s where MMS came in. Similar to the many students who decide after college that they wish to become a doctor and pursue a Postbaccalaureate, I came to MMS to start over, to pursue the path that I knew was right for me. Where else could I have gone to do this? If the MMS program did not exist, I would currently be taking my $200,000 in debt and a steady flow of unemployment checks to my mom’s basement. Because of the MMS program, I finally got those interviews with Accenture, Capital One, Peter J. Solomon—somewhere on the order of 15 interviews, whereas my law degree could not get me even one interview. This program has provided me with an invaluable gift: the chance to start over. And I am not alone. The MMS program is full of stories of people who started a job, or picked a major, where they simply were not fulfilled, and have come away with the opportunity to do what they want to do. I should also add that the caliber of my classmates, both intellectually and morally, is truly unparalleled. Maybe my baseline is the cutthroat world of law school, but I can’t imagine another situation where everyone is graded on a curve but there are still 50 people ready to help me get through an assignment, or help me catch up on what I’ve missed. MMS does have its share of issues, but most of these are simply a function of how new the program is. For one thing, it is getting exponentially more competitive to gain entry; I may not have even been admitted had I applied this year, despite my past credentials. The number of placements in top three consulting firms is hardly an issue for this program; for the uninitiated, obtaining a job in BCG, Bain or McKinsey is extremely competitive, and the fact that even one person out of the 100 in our class could obtain a position would be remarkable—as it turns out, there have been several more than that. I came to MMS hoping for a fresh start, for the opportunity to begin a career that I love. I got much more than what I bargained for: the opportunity to learn with and learn from a supportive, talented community of men and women who are passionate about what they do.
Gregory Adrouny, Trinity ’09 MMS, Class of 2010
Karl Siganporia MMS Candidate, Class of 2012
Andy Kole MMS Candidate, Class of 2012
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CRIME from page 1 “Our department has followed a community policing philosophy for many years,” he said. “The partnerships established over the years have created positive change in our community.” Lopez said the increase in violent crime is tied to the way in which crimes are reported. Any instance in which victims could have been harmed is recorded as violent crime. He added that this may explain why the 2011 rate bucked the 10-year downward trend. “If a man shot a single bullet at a school bus, and there were 23 passengers, that would be recorded as 23 counts of aggravated assault,” Lopez said. “But if the same man were to commit a murder in cold blood, that would only be one count of a violent crime—homicide—even though the same number of shots were fired.” Doubts about safety In some ways, the University is isolated from broader Durham trends.
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Duke students are involved in very few violent crimes, said John Dailey, chief of the Duke University Police Department. “Violent crime on the Duke campus is very low,” Dailey noted. “DUPD works closely with University departments, students and DPD to understand and address students’ safety concerns.” An area approximately 3 miles east of East Campus has one of Durham’s highest concentrations of gun violence incidents, according to the DPD’s annual report. In response to this frequency, DPD initiated Operation Bull’s Eye, a project that works to crack down on gun violence in that two square mile area, in 2007. Violent gun crimes dropped by more than 51 percent in the target area from 2007 to 2011, according to the report. The ethnically diverse nature of Durham may give the city a reputation of high crime among students, said freshman Derek Rhodes, Duke Student Government senator for Durham and regional affairs. “I’ve never considered Durham to be an unsafe place,” said Rhodes, who has lived in Durham for his entire life.
“But no one area of town is similar to another, which contributes to some people feeling unsafe or out of place in certain areas. Students should feel safe interacting with Durham.” Students who live off campus are afforded the same safety measures as on-campus residents, Rhodes added. The University ensures that students living in popular offcampus locations have access to the same resources, such as DUPD, as those living on campus. “One of our most important tasks is ensuring that students feel safe, especially concerning off-campus housing,” he said. Some students reported mixed feelings about their safety while interacting with Durham. Freshman Harli Grant said she feels relatively safe, even when alone, while walking around East Campus. “I come from a very safe area, so potential dangers don’t really occur to me,” Grant said. “Perhaps it’s unfounded, but I feel safe in Durham.” But freshman Kelsey Sturman said she only feels comfortable traveling with large groups that include men, adding that she feels a general sense of paranoia and fear when walking near East Campus after sundown. “I rarely notice a police car stationed near East Campus at night, which makes me uncomfortable,” she said. “I would feel safer if I noticed more patrol cars in the area.” Community outreach The best way to continue mitigating violent crime is to encourage involvement and participation in law enforcement by Durham’s community members, said Lt. Patrice Vickers, executive officer to the DPD police chief. She added that DPD offers several programs to educate the general public on safety and safety awareness. In 2011, DPD launched the Residential Awareness Program—an initiative that seeks to cut down burglaries—and the Hispanic-Latino Outreach Campaign—a program that was created to enhance the relationships between Latino crime victims and DPD officers. “These are priceless practices that can be taken with you wherever you go,” Vickers said. “The community is one of the largest components to the crime reduction strategy. Our goal is to empower this community. We are making great strides in doing just that.” Duke Student Government is also taking measures to ensure safety on campus. The Durham and regional affairs committee actively evaluates safety measures for Duke students on and off campus, said junior Alexandra Swain, DSG vice president for Durham and regional affairs. She noted the Duke Vans Services, help phone stations and campus lighting as major projects that her committee seeks to improve. Swain added that she noticed Durham becoming safer as she grew up. “I would consider Durham to be the safest that it has been,” said Swain, a Durham native. “Duke students in particular need to take precautions when going off campus because our location is centralized. I don’t see Durham as much different than any other campus that has a city.”
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