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Housing policy up for review

LGBT, Mary Lou centers obtain space

Beauty is only skin deep

by Lauren Carroll

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The administration will consider a final draft of a proposal to expand gender-neutral housing starting Fall 2013.

Duke Students for Gender Neutrality presented a proposal to the House Model Working Group Feb. 16 that suggests all coed houses on West and Central campuses operate as gender-neutral in the 2013-2014 academic year. DSGN had their most recent meeting with the working group March 15, but there has not yet been a resolution from the working group or administrators.

The proposal alters the gender-neutral definition to allow men and women to be roommates under any living arrangement. Currently, a gender-neutral option is available on Central Campus, but it mandates that such apartments have separate bedrooms for the roommates.

“I cannot tell you if the next phase of implementation is to adopt this proposal or adopt something completely different,” Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “I do not know what the next step will be until we see that report, review it with others and determine what is the next level of genderneutral housing that we can support.”

The Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life have officially secured permanent locations in anticipation of their eventual move out of the West Union Building.

When renovations begin summer 2013, the two student centers currently housed in the West Union building will relocate to other West Campus spaces, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. Administrators decided this past weekend that the Mary Lou Williams Center will move to the bottom two floors of the Flowers Building—currently occupied by the Office of Student Affairs—and the Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Life will reside in the Bryan Center, in half of the space currently occupied by the University Center for Activities and Events. Both moves are expected to take place during summer 2013, so the spaces are ready for students in the Fall.

“It will be a better space than we have now, as long as we work well with the administration,” said Blue Devils United President Ari Bar-Mashiah, a senior.

Both student centers expect to see a modest increase in the size of their space, but Moneta said he was unable to provide

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Artist Gina Kohler performed her work “Skin” Tuesday at the Dance Laboratory as part of SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a series of guest artists invited by the Duke Dance Program.

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Romney continues Pratt School expands to surge in primaries faculty with new hires BYTHENUMBERS

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People who support President Barack Obama, according to a Monday USA Today/Gallup poll.

People who support GOP candidate Mitt Romney, according to a Monday USA Today/Gallup poll.

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Mitt Romney continued to forge ahead in the race for the Republican nomination Tuesday.

Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, swept the Maryland, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C. news primaries, maintainanalysis ing his frontrunner status for the Republican nomination against rival Rick Santorum, former Pennsylvania senator. This pushed Romney ahead, bolstering his delegate total to 655—more than half of the delegates

The Pratt School of Engineering is expanding its faculty in the hope of offering more to its students.

Pratt intends to appoint seven new faculty hires for the Fall, Pratt Dean Tom Katsouleas said. Vetting around 14 engineering candidates from all over the country, Pratt is looking for new hires in all four of its departments.

The majority of the candidates are still in the application process, though some candidates have already been hired.

“We’re just trying to hire the very best people, independent of their particular area,” said Lawrence Carin, chair of the electrical and computer engineering department and William H. Younger professor of engineering.

“It’s not like we’re picking areas per se. We’re

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Johns Hopkins professor discusses Iran and Israel, Page 3

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“You know what? I’m unemployed. Oh well. I’m not discouraged. I embrace it!”

—Lindsay Tomson in “Unemployed 4 life.” See column page 15

trying to get the very best people we can.”

The department of biomedical engineering recently hired Jennifer West as a joint professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering and materials science, said Craig Henriquez, chair and professor of biomedical engineering and professor of computer science. West previously held the title of Isabel C. Cameron professor of bioengineering at Rice University.

The BME department is still searching for two more hires, Henriquez added—one to specialize in medical imaging and the other to partner with the Duke Global Health Institute.

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A late rally leads Duke over Campbell, Page 10

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Justice Dept. threatens to sue high-profile Ariz. sheriff

The standoff between the federal government and a high-profile Arizona sheriff accused of discriminating against Hispanics escalated Tuesday when settlement negotiations fell through and the Justice Department threatened to sue the sheriff.

Justice officials have accused Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s department of illegally detaining Hispanic residents and denying them critical services in jail. A day before settlement negotiations were to begin, Arpaio refused to agree to a court-appointed monitor to oversee changes in his department, one of the Justice Department’s requirements.

“We believe that you are wasting time and not negotiating in good faith,” wrote Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy L. Austin Jr. in a letter to Arpaio’s attorney. “Your tactics have required DOJ to squander valuable time and resources.”

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George Liebmann, executive director of the Calvert Institute in Baltimore, will explore multiple perspectives on drug trade.

GSA scandal sheds light on Japan’s strongest storm spending mismanagement since 1959 slams Tokyo WASHINGTON, D.C. — Buried in the list of misconduct claims against the General Services Administration is evidence of a critical problem for small employers: improper contracting that diverts government spending to large corporations instead of small businesses.

TOKYO, Japan — Japanese airlines canceled hundreds of flights, some train services were halted and thousands of workers went home early as some of the strongest winds in more than 50 years hit Tokyo. As many as 11,500 households have lost power because of the storm.

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TODAY IN HISTORY 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.

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“Duke head coach David Cutcliffe and his coaching staff are rolling on the recruiting trail.Just days after securing a commitment from 2013 safety Jake Kite, Duke added another defensive back from the Class of 2013 Monday night when Dequavais Mann,a 5-foot-9 185 pound cornerback, committed to the Blue Devil coaching staff.”

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CORRECTION The April 2 article,“State prepares reparations for eugenics victims,” included an inaccurate paraphrase of Charmaine Cooper’s quote from August 2011. The Chronicle regrets the error.

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ENN Chairman Wang Yusuo signs an agreement at the U.S.-China Strategic Forum on Clean Energy Cooperation. Wang, one of China’s richest men, has joined with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to build a solar plant even as officials accuse China of driving energy companies out of business.

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David highlights risks of military action against Iran

by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE

Although Iran’s nuclear capability may pose threats, war is not the answer, said Steven David, vice dean for undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University.

David spoke to a group of more than 80 people about tensions between Israel and Iran given Iran’s nuclear ambitions at the Old Trinity Room Tuesday night. The talk, titled “Israel and Iran: Countdown to War?” was organized by the Duke chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society, a nonpartisan group that organizes debates on topics including foreign policy and national security.

Based on Iran’s geographical position within the Middle East—surrounded by enemy states and situated near U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq—it is rational for the state to develop nuclear weapons against the wishes of both the United States and Israel, he said. David argued, however, that economic sanctions, and not preemptive strikes, are the best solution to the conflict, adding that he does not think Israel will ultimately attack Iran—despite the seemingly poor forecast.

“You put all of this together, and it looks like [Iran] is hell-bent on developing nuclear weapons,” he said. “I know no one who doubts that.”

The vast majority of Muslims worldwide are Sunni Muslim. Most of the Middle East sees Iran—a Shiite state—as a threat, David said, adding that countries like Saudi Arabia with significant Shiite populations are unnerved by Iranian expansionist im-

pulses. If Iran obtained weapons of mass destruction, it would have destabilizing effects on the region, David noted.

Iran’s nuclear program would still pose risks even if it was not used to target other countries, David said. There is a possibility, for instance, that unintentional conflict could arise from an unauthorized nuclear launch.

Israeli leaders are worried about Iran’s nuclear armament and have considered preemptive strikes against the country’s nuclear facilities. Even if Israel is 90 percent certain that Iran will not bomb its territory, it still does not want to take a 10 percent chance, David noted. Fifty percent of the country’s population lives in three cities, making Israel even more vulnerable to attack.

“The Jewish people have been down that road before, and it didn’t work out so well,” he said.

Allusions to the Holocaust have played a role in rhetoric toward Iran, David said.

During World War II, when one-third of the world’s Jews were killed, the world did not care, he explained. As a result, many Jews have come to see the existence of the Israel as a means to defend themselves.

To prevent a nuclear Iran, in the past few years Israel has allegedly employed covert tactics against Iran like assassinations of at least four Iranian nuclear scientists and computer virus attacks on the country’s nuclear facilities. These strategies have had a limited effect, David argued,

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Joan Scott, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, discussed “The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality” at the John Hope Franklin Center Tuesday.

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Exciting new Language courses for Fall 2012 For more information please contact 668-2603 Sanskrit 101/Religion 102 — Beginning Sanskrit Professor: Rich Freeman

Meet your FL requirement with the “Language of the Gods”

Sanskrit 101 - begins the sequence this Fall 2012 of three semesters (101, 102 & 203, meeting the FL requirement) which teaches students to read and appreciate the language and literature of Sanskrit, for more than two millennia the medium of India’s sacred scriptures, traditional philosophy, intellectual history, arts and sciences.

(Graduate credit and Religion cross-lists approved throughout). jrf15@duke.edu Persian 101, 102 and 203 Instructor: Fataneh Naeymi-Rad Persian is the ancient and modern language of Persia, Iran, and Afghanistan, the language of the Epic of Kings, the Robâiyât of Omar Khayyâm, and the mystical and spiritual verse of the great poet Rumi. Persian is an Indo-European language, related to English and French, but written in an Arabic script. Farsi is the dialect of Iran, Dari that of Afghanistan, Tajiki that of Tajikistan. The Duke Persian Program provides a foundation in the four skills of the language through a task-based, learner-centered, communicational and interactive method enriched with authentic culture.

Persian 101 – begins the sequence this Fall 2012 of three semesters (101, 102 & 203, meeting the FL requirement) Introduction to spoken and written Persian, focusing on the dialect of Iran. All four skills are learned: listening comprehension, oral proficiency, reading, and writing in the Perso-Arabic script. Emphasis on oral proficiency and culture and on acquisition of a solid base in the sound system and writing system. Multimedia online resources with audio, video, photos, from Iran.

PRESIDENT RICHARD BRODHEAD INVITES MEMBERS OF THE DUKE COMMUNITY TO THE HERTHA SPONER PRESIDENTIAL LECTURESHIP

SUGAR COATED CELLS: THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS Carolyn R. Bertozzi, PhD The T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology University of California, Berkeley

Thursday, April 5, 2012 Love Auditorium, Levine Science Research Center 2:30 PM–Unveiling the translation of Hertha Sponer’s biography, sponsored by the Physics Department and Arts and Sciences 3:45 PM–Reception outside Love Auditorium 4:30 PM–Hertha Sponer Presidential Lectureship

Hertha Sponer was the first woman full professor in the natural sciences at Duke University, invited to join the faculty in 1936. Seventy years later, a group of women faculty in the sciences recommended this lectureship to President Brodhead to highlight the research of prominent women in science, engineering, mathematics, and medicine. phy.duke.edu/history/DistinguishedFaculty/HerthaSponer

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Obama blasts Republican policies as ‘radical vision’ for the nation

by David Nakamura THE WASHINGTON POST

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama delivered a stern and stinging rebuke of the Republican vision for the country Tuesday, castigating the GOP as a “radical� party that has strayed so far from the political middle that its policies represent an affront to core American values.

Singling out GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for the first time, Obama sought to lump all Republicans under an ideological umbrella that, he argued, has shifted far from the days of the party’s more moderate icons such as Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. Reagan, he said, would be unelectable in the modern Republican Party.

Obama said the House Republican budget plan, which has been endorsed by Romney and would slash entitlements and agency spending, is “so far to the right� on the political spectrum that it makes the Republicans’ 1994 Contract With America “look like the New Deal.� “This isn’t a budget supported by some small rump group in the Republican Party,� Obama said. “This is now the party’s governing platform. This is what they’re running on.�

Mocking Romney for calling the House budget “marvelous,� the president added that the plan, which aims to trim $5.3 trillion from federal spending over the next decade, would create a form of “social Darwinism� pitting the poor against the wealthy.

“It’s a Trojan horse,� he declared in an address to newspaper editors in Washington. “Disguised as a deficit-reduction plan, it’s really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country.... It’s a prescription for decline.�

The speech was the third and by far the most aggressively partisan that Obama has given since late last year on what he describes as the country’s drift from its principles—most particularly a sense of economic fairness—that he contends has damaged the middle class. He did not attack Republicans on Tuesday simply on their policies but also on their idea of what it means to be an American, calling their vision “antithetical to our entire history.�

The president’s blunt assessment opened a new front in the 2012 campaign in a week when Romney moved closer to securing the Republican nomination. Obama’s tone marked a sharp departure from his more nuanced approach of last summer, when he distinguished between the moderate and conservative wings of the GOP while trying to win bipartisan agreement on a “grand bargain� to reduce the budget deficit.

By veering from his 2008 campaign pledge to instill a spirit of bipartisanship in Washington, Obama is gambling that he can convince voters, especially the decisive bloc of independents, that his opponents are the ones to blame.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Business groups counting on Republican gains in Congress to deliver their legislative agenda are voicing frustration over obstacles within a party usually allied with their interests.

At least two measures are hitting snags—long-term highway construction funding and authority to keep the Export- Import Bank in business beyond May 31. Many of the Republicans elected in 2010 lean too heavily toward the demands of the tea party and other anti-spending groups, business leaders say. “There are a number of Republican members, particularly new members, who are against the federal government having a large role in transportation issues,� said Pete Ruane, president of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. “I don’t understand that,� Ruane said. “Their larger idea of cutting off federal spending trumps their support for transportation.�

Bruce Josten, top lobbyist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said tea party-backed lawmakers have focused the congressional agenda on the deficit and debt. “It’s entirely appropriate if you look at the numbers,� he added.

Still, Josten criticized the anti-spending Club for Growth, which rates lawmakers in part on whether they join it in opposing the highway and bank bills. “Just saying no to everything is not a contribution to the debate,� Josten said.

Business groups will probably see a resolution of both issues this year, some lawmakers say. “Ex-Im is likely to be reauthorized,� said Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., “and if a final highway bill can be paid for appropriately and doesn’t add to the deficit, I think it will pass.�

Other Republicans maintain that the party won control of the House in 2010 and gained Senate seats because voters wanted restraint on government spending, not an agenda aligned entirely with business. New House members react to that and pull the debate their way, they say. “This is actually a very free-market-oriented majority,� said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla. “It’s focused more on the deficit, the long-term tax structure, than things individual industries might like. But it’s getting really big issues taken care of.�

The business lobby, he said, should take heart in last year’s passage of three free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea and other gains. “Nobody gets everything they want every day,� Cole said. “Welcome to the world of politics.�

A stymied debate on the highway-funding and ExportImport Bank bills is replaying a scenario familiar in Washington: carrying government operations important to companies close to a shutdown. Businesses, including Boeing and Caterpillar, count on the bank to provide loans, loan guarantees and insurance to foreign companies to buy U.S.made products. Companies like Clark Construction Group seek to win contracts underwritten by highway funds.

Congress voted Thursday to extend highway funds through June 30, the ninth short-term extension since 2009.

President Obama signed the measure, which will keep construction projects going and 3,500 federal workers on the job.

House leaders’ effort to create a long-term bill stalled amid disputes among Republicans over how to pay for projects and whether mass transit should keep getting gas-tax money.

The Senate passed a two-year, $109 billion highway spending plan March 14 on a 74-22 vote. Yet the struggle to agree on a multi-year bill has dragged on so long that the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for highway and mass transit projects, is almost insolvent.

The Export-Import measure also is hitting roadblocks.

Senate Republicans refused to advance a measure March 20 to reauthorize the bank for four years and boost its lending limit by 40 percent to $140 billion. Republicans said they didn’t want to debate it as part of a bill on Securities and Exchange Commission rules. House Republicans proposed a one-year renewal lifting the bank’s lending cap by 13 percent.

Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg said last month that a one-year extension would signal the bank can’t be relied on for steady funding. It probably will reach its $100 billion lending limit before the charter expires May 31, he said.

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Mitt Romney won more than 655 delegates thus far. Data from The New York Times.

PRIMARIES from page 1 necessary to solidify the nomination.

Santorum’s showing at these primaries left him trailing with 278 delegates. But many are concerned that the drawn-out primaries could ultimately hurt Romney’s chances against President Barack Obama, said Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer of public policy studies.

“It’s another big step for Romney to be framed as the inevitable nominee in this battle,” McCorkle said. “But it’s getting

dicey for Romney.”

The extended time frame of the primaries is causing the GOP candidates to dedicate resources and time to fighting among one another rather than uniting against Obama, McCorkle said.

“There has been some unnecessary damage to the Republican brand and Romney, and that may prove to be the difference for Obama,” McCorkle said.

Even so, the nomination process could prove to be beneficial for Romney if he secures the nomination, as it pushes him to solidify his position on tough issues, said

junior Will Reach, former chair of Duke College Republicans.

“He is refining his positions on a lot of issues so that he works out the kinks in his campaign,” Reach said.

Despite Romney’s recent victories, Santorum will not rescind his candidacy in the near future, McCorkle said, adding that Santorum’s home state, Pennsylvania, could earn him important delegates.

A loss in the Pennsylvania primary, which takes place April 24, will be a major setback for Santorum, McCorkle said.

“Santorum isn’t really doing the math as much as he is holding onto the notion that as long as Romney doesn’t have the working majority, he is not the nominee,” McCorkle said.

A poll released Monday by USA Today and Gallup showed Obama beating Romney in national support. When asked to choose between the two candidates, 49 percent favored Obama, while 45 percent showed support for Romney. One month ago, voters were split evenly between Obama and Romney, as each received 47 percent of the respondents’ support.

The most recent poll reflects optimism about the economy, McCorkle noted. He added that there is also a trend in which women are moving their support away from Romney and Republicans toward Obama and Democrats.

Nearing the general election, Romney should continue sending a positive message about the nation’s economy, an issue at the forefront of voters’ minds, said sophomore Taylor Imperiale, chair of DCR. “When voters go to make their choice, they will look at Romney’s [economic] record and see that it is by far better than Obama’s,” Imperiale noted. “Romney has a very detailed plan that, when put in place, could help boost the economy.”

PRATT from page 1 become the leading place in the county for biomedical engineering in global health,” Katsouleas added.

Henriquez called the recent search for faculty both an expansion and a measure of anticipating the retirement of some professors.

“Our department is looking to expand, we’re a good sized department and we’re a big program with a lot of undergraduate students and lot of graduate students,” he said. “We want our faculty to be in the low 30s and we’re at 29. There are also some faculty members who will be retiring over the next couple of years so we hope that we can maintain our size as they retire.”

The department of mechanical engineering and materials science is still searching for new faculty members, but the department did add other engineers to its faculty earlier this year, said Chair Earl Dowell, William Holland Hall professor. Omar Knio, professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, was recently appointed to lead an initiative involving risk and uncertainty in complex engineering systems.

The recent hires are just one part of Pratt’s current effort to improve the overall quality of the school, Katsouleas said. Several faculty members have already joined Pratt this academic year, such as Wilkins Aquino, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, who previously taught at Cornell University. Aquino, whose focus is inverse modeling, has worked with BME faculty in areas such as predicating stress in airplane wings and ultrasound imaging coordination.

John Albertson, chair of civil and environmental engineering, is currently on sabbatical and was not reachable for comment.

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IRAN from page 3 adding that economic sanctions against Iran have been more effective.

Iran, an active member of the global market, depends on oil for about 60 percent of its government spending. If the country’s economy suffers, however, Iranian support for the nuclear weapons program will decrease, David said.

David added that waging war against Iran would be a more difficult undertaking than previous operations Israel has undertaken against nuclear reactors in Syria and Iraq because many reactors are built underground. Additionally, Iranian retaliation could involve risks like potential attacks against America, retaliation from Hamas and Hezbollah and the clo-

sure of the Strait of Hormuz. David expects Israel to wait until sanctions against Iran are fully in place before considering further action, at which point he believes Israel will no longer consider striking Iran.

Sophomore Daniel Strunk, vice president for programming for the AHS, said David’s insight was particularly relevant. “[The event was AHS’s] best of the year so far. [It had] fantastic attendance and an even better discussion on an issue that hits home with lots of Duke students,” he said.

Senior Alex Young noted that David’s speech was particularly informative.

“I didn’t know a lot going into it, but I feel I have a better [understanding of] the situation with Iran’s nuclear arsenal,” Young said.

CENTERS from page 1 specific figures.

The decision was made based on reports provided by directors of both centers, detailing their ideal new locations, Moneta said. Throughout the academic year, the directors have convened focus groups involving students, faculty and alumni to discuss the changes. Moneta and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, received the reports in early March, and Moneta added that he has met with the directors and some students since receiving the reports.

The new location of the Mary Lou Williams Center will provide the opportunity to explore new types of student programming because it is multi-leveled and located so close to the Chapel Quadrangle, said sophomore Marcus Benning, executive vice president of the Black Student Alliance.

But many of the details regarding this move remain unresolved, Moneta noted. In order for the student centers to relocate, the Office of Student Affairs and UCAE will have to transfer out of their respective locations in Flowers and the Bryan Center. Because the LGBT Center will not completely fill the area currently occupied by UCAE, another student group or office might be able to take that portion.

“We may shuffle the whole deck,” Moneta said. “We’re going to use this

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as an opportunity to look for an ideal outcome for everyone who is involved .... We want to bring some logic and organizational clarity to the locations.”

The Office of Student Affairs and UCAE will possibly relocate to another area in the Bryan Center, Moneta noted. Additional space in the current UCAE location, the Von Canon rooms and the post office mailbox lobby are up for consideration. UCAE administrative offices are currently spread throughout the Bryan Center, and this will be a good opportunity for them to reside in one central location.

Benning added that he has been involved in discussions with various concerned parties throughout the decision process and has also met with Moneta regularly. “[The process] allowed for the perfect balance of allowing the director to have input and having students weigh in, too,” he said.

Bar-Mashiah noted that although LGBT Center Director Janie Long met with Moneta since submitting the center’s report, it would have been useful for those involved in the focus groups to have met with him as well.

Long informed members of the Duke LGBT community of the decision Monday, but there was no other communication about the space since the group submitted the report, he said.

“We did get what we wanted, but we weren’t so happy with the process,” BarMashiah said.

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Steven David, vice dean for undergraduate education and professor at Johns Hopkins University, spoke about the relationship between Israel and Iran in the Old Trinity Room Tuesday.

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VISION from page 4 His attack also marked the second time in two days that the president attempted to paint conservative leaders in Washington as out of step with the majority of the public.

On Monday, he warned the conservative wing of the Supreme Court to refrain from judicial activism in determining the fate of his health-care law.

The author of the House budget, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., quickly blasted Obama for choosing to “duck and run” instead of dealing with the burgeoning national debt, which Republicans have cited as a drag on economic growth and consumer confidence.

“Like his reckless budgets, today’s speech

by President Obama is as revealing as it is disappointing: While others lead by offering real solutions, he has chosen to distort the truth and divide Americans in order to distract from his failed record,” Ryan said in a statement.

Appearing on conservative talk-radio host Sean Hannity’s show, Romney charged that Obama had misrepresented his policies and those of the Republican Party. Furthermore, he said, the president “fails to acknowledge the mistakes and the errors in his own record. It’s just astonishing to listen to him.”

White House aides billed the speech before the American Society of News Editors as the third in a series of major addresses Obama has used to lay out a populist agenda that calls for government to play an active role in helping build a more equitable society. Ina speech at a high school in Osawatomie, Kan., in December, he invoked the progressive populism of Theodore Roosevelt, and in his State of the Union address before Congress in January, he called for an “economy built to last.”

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By choosing to give Tuesday’s speech to a room full of newspaper editors, the president sought to ensure that his argument will remain vivid in the minds of those overseeing campaign coverage in the crucial months ahead.

Though the House budget plan faces likely defeat in the Democrat-controlled Senate, Republicans have sought to use the legislation as a marker to frame the parties’ election-year debate on fiscal issues. On Tuesday, Obama aimed to further accentuate the differences between the parties, using the Ryan plan as a metaphor for a GOP vision that he said counters the nation’s traditional promise of a path for upward mobility for the middle class.

Obama blamed the growing deficit primarily on what happened under his predecessor, George W. Bush: “two wars, two massive tax cuts and an unprecedented financial crisis.” And he faulted Republican policies, including tax cuts for the wealthy and lax financial regulation, for leading the country into the Great Recession in 2008.

“You would think that after the results of this experiment in trickle-down economics, after the results were made painfully clear, that the proponents of this theory might show some humility, might moderate their views a bit,” Obama said. “But that’s exactly the opposite of what they’ve done. Instead of moderating their views even slightly, the Republicans running Congress right now have doubled down.”

Listing the implications if the Ryan budget were implemented — 10 million college students with higher loan payments, 200,000 children denied earlyeducation programs, 4,500 fewer federal grants to fight crime — Obama cast the election as a fundamental choice for the public on what kind of future the country should have.

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HOUSING from page 1 A DSGN proposal to expand genderneutral policies by Fall 2012 was found not to be feasible in late February because of the timeline for housing registration.

DSGN has yet to receive a response from the House Model Working Group about the status of their proposal, though the working group submitted a list of its concerns about the proposal to the administration Monday, said DSGN co-President Jacob Tobia, a sophomore.

Moneta and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, will have the ultimate authority in approving or rejecting the proposal after receiving an evaluation from the House Model Working Group, Moneta said.

Without administrative commitment by the end of the Spring, current students may never have the opportunity for expanded gender-neutral options during their time at Duke, Tobia said.

“We’re really not willing to wait much longer,” Tobia said. “We need to start working on the implementation of it now, not later.”

Tobia also noted that DSGN felt disconnected from the administration throughout this process. Tobia said the group feels it had been misled by administrators in regard to whether the working group or the administration were deciding on the policy, further drawing out the process.

Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life, noted that such a significant change takes time.

“We’re taking due diligence in considering the matter,” Gonzalez said. “It’s incumbent upon us to really review [the proposal] and ask questions in a sort of ongoing manner, and that may mean that it takes longer than other people prefer.”

Moneta added that this change requires careful consideration and involves many concerned parties, so it will prob-

ably take a significant amount of time to move the proposal forward.

But DSGN wants more immediate action on the part of the administration, Tobia said. DSGN sent an email March 21 to Gonzalez, Donna Lisker, associate vice provost for undergraduate education and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek requesting a public commitment to the proposal. DSGN representatives will meet with Moneta and Nowicki Thursday to discuss the proposal.

In a survey sent out by Duke Student Government about the new housing model in December, 79 percent of students polled reported that they would be open to an inclusive gender-neutral housing program.

In the proposal, DSGN notes that several of Duke’s peer institutions have already implemented gender-neutral programs. The University of Pennsylvania offered gender-neutral housing in 2005.

Dartmouth College followed in 2007, Stanford University and Brown University in 2008, as well as Columbia University in 2011.

“We are lagging behind our peer institutions, and our student body deserves better,” said senior Esosa Osa, DSG vice president for residential life and dining.

Moneta noted that when compared to most colleges an universities, not just its peers, Duke is not behind the curve.

“We need to do what’s right for Duke,” he said. “This is not an issue of philosophy or principle, it’s just the appropriate way that we make that transition and make sure it fits what’s distinctive about Duke.”

Tobia noted that the proposal, however, may not be the most effective way of sparking administrative response. “[It is] not as effective for the administration as 20 students marching into the Allen Building with a one-page document saying what they want,” he said.

“If that’s what the administration wants, that’s what the administration will get.”

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A late barrage of runs carried the baseball team past Campbell. PAGE 10 Check out photos from last night’s spring soccer game against N.C. State.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Spring games give Blue Devils time to adjust

by Paul Pisani THE CHRONICLE

With junior goalkeeper James Belshaw barking orders at the backline and a number of fresh faces continuing to acclimate to their new roles, the Blue Devils managed to pull out a 2-1 win against N.C. State Tuesday.

Watching Belshaw call out to his teammates, the sizable crowd witnessed an exciting game, though it was only an exhibition contest.

“We’re trying to get a lot of philosophical ideas across the players in preparation for preseason next summer,” head coach John Kerr said. “We’re doing a really good job of attacking those principles and communicating them to the players. They’re making a lot of progress.”

Coming off a 2-0 win against Virginia just three days prior, Duke wasted little time in their third exhibition match of the spring season. With a dangerous free kick into the box, sophomore defender Sebastien Ibeagha came up with the ball and was able to slide it into the back of the net to give the team an early lead.

Despite their quick start, the Blue Devils looked sloppy midway through the first half, missing six injured players in the midst of the spring season. A number of passes lacked clear recipients and defensive blunders allowed N.C. State to control the ball for long periods of time. Duke had difficulty transitioning from defense to offense, due in large part to poor communication —something head coach John Kerr said the team needs to improve on in these contests.

The Wolfpack capitalized on these flaws with 15 minutes remaining in the half. A ball fed into the 18-yard box found striker Nadar Jaibat, who had little trouble putting the ball away to tie the game up at 1-1.

The young Duke team showed resilience. Just moments after losing their lead, the Blue Devils responded with a goal of their own. It was almost identical to the team’s first, coming off a free kick just outside the box. Ibeagha headed the ball directly into the goalkeeper, setting up a rebound that gave Duke a 2-1 lead heading into the break.

The team came out sluggishly in the second half when for a stretch of twenty minutes, N.C. State kept the ball in the Blue Devils’ defensive third. Despite surrendering six Wolfpack corner kicks, Duke maintained its lead. On one particularly dangerous play, freshman defender Nat Eggleston attempted to clear a cross, only to have the ball bounce off the cross bar.

Quickly moving past these spring-season errors, though, the Blue Devils played with more confidence down the stretch. While not their strongest performance by any means, Kerr was happy to see his team hold strong and eke out a 2-1 win.

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Sebastien Ibeagha contributed to both of Duke’s goals against N.C. State, a part of the team’s spring exhibition games used to prepare for the fall season.

“Tonight, I thought we did a great job hustling and then keeping the ball towards the end of the match,” he said.

“We had to ride our luck at the end to make sure we didn’t give up any cheap free kicks or let them have an easy corner kick goal. We did that and got a good result.”

The spring season has offered Duke an opportunity to adjust to the absence of standout Andrew Wenger, reigning ACC offensive player of the year and first overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft. With three matches down and two to go, the team has shown that it is moving forward, learning to play without its star and last year’s crop of seniors.

“Wenger was a fabulous player for us and was a big influence on all of our team concepts, but we have to move on,” Kerr said. “We’ve inputted a philosophy that we’re looking towards for next fall, with new players coming in SEE M. SOCCER ON PAGE 12

FOOTBALL

Cutcliffe adds pair of recruits to 2013 class Duke head coach David Cutcliffe and his coaching staff are rolling on the recruiting trail.

Just days after securing a commitment from 2013 safety Jake Kite, Duke added another defensive back from the class of 2013 when Dequavais Mann, a 5-foot-9, 185-pound cornerback, committed to the Blue Devils.

Mann received a scholarship offer from the coaching staff while on his unofficial visit to Duke over the weekend for the Spring Game. Kite also committed over the weekend following a campus visit for the Spring Game, though he also unofficially visited campus for the Duke-North Carolina men’s basketball game Mar. 3.

“It’s an awesome place,” Kite said in an interview with The Chronicle last

week. “You couldn’t ask for anything better.”

Mann, a Rocky Mount, N.C. product, is a dynamic athlete that runs the 40-yard dash in 4.41 seconds according to rivals. com. Mann also has the ability to return punts and kicks.

Prior to his commitment to the Blue Devils, Mann was drawing interest from Clemson, Ohio State, Vanderbilt and Virginia Tech, among others.

Kite chose Duke over Ohio in addition to ACC rivals N.C. State, Virginia and Virginia Tech.

Along with Evrett Edwards, the Blue Devils now have two cornerbacks in the recruiting class and five verbal commitments total.

—from staff reports

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BASEBALL

Eighth inning explosion carries Duke to victory

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For seven innings, Duke and Campbell were locked up in a pitchers’ duel. Two innings and 11 total runs later, the Blue Devils escaped shaky pitching in the bottom of the ninth to secure a 9-7 victory.

9 Duke “We’re excited,” Camels 7 head coach Sean McNally said. “I thought we played very well. Campbell is having a great season. I thought it was big for our club to score nine [runs] on a Tuesday. That was really the key tonight.”

Duke (13-17), which has relied on its pitching to win ballgames this season, had scored more than one run in only four of its past nine games. From the start, the Blue Devils ensured that this would not be the case Tuesday night. Mike Rosenfeld connected on an RBI single and Will Piwnica-Worms hit a line drive into the left-centerfield gap to score two more in the third inning, giving Duke an early 3-0 lead. Following the successful half-inning, however, the Blue Devils’ offense went cold, failing to score in the following three frames.

The bats came alive again in the eighth inning.

With one out, Piwnica-Worms secured a single and Mark Lumpa followed suit in the next at bat. Jeff Kremer was then intentionally walked after a wild pitch to load the

bases. Following the Kremer walk, a total of six runs were scored, five of which were a result of three RBI singles.

The offensive explosion ballooned the Blue Devil advantage to seven runs. According to McNally, the offensive barrage was the difference maker in the contest.

“We scored three runs early and then [Campbell] kind of chipped away at us,” McNally said. “Piwnica-Worms had a base hit that kind of got us going. After that, we used timely hitting, drew a couple walks, and it just all kind of snowballed. That was important for us to break it open late.”

Duke started Nick Piscotty on the mound against the potent Campbell (25-5) offense. Piscotty pitched 4.2 innings, allowing two earned runs while notching four strikeouts on the night. Following the starting effort, reliever Dillon Haviland, who has had to fight off injuries this season, had one of his best efforts of the season.

Haviland (1-0) gave up just two hits in 3.1 innings of work to earn his first victory of the season.

“Piscotty gave us another solid spark [today],” McNally said. “But really Dillon was the story. He pitched on the weekends for us last year. He’ll be a key piece going forward and we’re really excited he allowed us to stretch [the game] out in the 8th.”

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Drew Van Orden allowed five runs on five hits in his relief appearance, but the Blue Devils hung on to win.

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April 13-15

A look ahead to Duke’s upcoming games, including two sets against ACC opponents.

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The Blue Devils continue ACC play this weekend with a three-game home set against the Tigers, who are 15-13 and face Western Carolina Wednesday.

Facing the Spartans, Duke will finish its four-game homestand against a team that has gone 1-1 against ACC foes this season.

The Blue Devils will look to steal a few conference wins from the Terrapins, who are 18-12 overall but just 3-9 in the ACC.

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BASEBALL from page 10 Although Haviland excelled in relief, Drew Van Orden struggled to find his comfort zone coming out of the bullpen. With a comfortable seven run lead, Van Orden allowed five runs on five hits against only six batters faced, including a Jake Kirkland three-run home run that ended the reliever’s night.

Senior David Putnam was then brought in to try to stop the bleeding. Putnam

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worked quickly, forcing a groundout and then a strike out to stop the rally and secure his team-leading fourth save of the season.

“They got the hits,” McNally said.

“They’ve got a good club, a good lineup.

That left an opportunity for [David] Putnam to come in and solidify that closer spot and get [the final] strikeout.”

Duke will try to keep its offensive production up this Friday when the team plays the first game of a three-game series against Clemson.

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M. SOCCER from page 9 and some guys that will hopefully come off the injured reserve to give us some depth and some real continuity going forward.”

Ibeagha’s large presence was particularly important as one of few returning starters to play Tuesday. Due to youth and the six injuries, new players have had to step up and assume different roles.

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These fields, often maligned All of this is reason to be opas lacking rigor or as vocational timistic about the Humanities dead ends, have seen declin- Writ Large Initiative, a five-year ing enrollments effort funded editorial as scientific and by a $6 million technological grant from the knowledge are increasingly Andrew W. Mellon Foundarecognized as key to economic tion, to redefine the humanisuccess. According to the most ties at Duke. The initiative, anrecent data, no strict humani- nounced in July 2011, has only ties departments rank in the begun to reassert the importop five most popular majors tance of humanistic thought at Duke—the top five fall into at Duke. With more publicity, the social and natural science it stands to correct structural categories. deficits in the humanities at This is not good because Duke that stand in the way of the humanities possess a pow- humanities enrollment and erful and distinct rigor all their humanities research in the unown. More importantly, these dergraduate population. fields of study have, and will The structure of undergradalways be, essential to the edu- uate research in the sciences cation of citizens who are able provides a good foil. Under-

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graduates interested in scientific research have available a host of well-publicized and accessible opportunities to work in labs, enroll in summer programs and enter prestigious fellowships and mentoring programs—like Pratt’s flagship Pratt Research Fellows Program. These pathways allow students to turn themselves into proficient and effective scholars.

No analogous structures exist in the humanities. Enthusiastic humanities students can easily grow tired of searching for channels and mentors to develop their talents or, worse, fail to engage with humanities scholarship in the first place. What humanities enthusiasts need at Duke is a way to ratchet enthusiasm into expertise and proficiency.

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aking it easier to pay for a Duke edu- economic status. Duke students are a fairly dication would help shoo away Duke’s verse bunch on paper. But our neurotic desire cult of money. That would be good for a high income unites us, and not for the for all of us. better. When we lack imagination It’s hard to argue that a soor confidence, the way we look at cioeconomically diverse student money usually lurks nearby. If the body isn’t a good thing. But why, anecdotal evidence I’ve gathered exactly? We’ve been raised to beover the past four years proves lieve that “diversity” is in general anything, it’s that worrying about something we want around us on staying in the same high tax campus and elsewhere, which is bracket as your parents can feel not a bad thing to have absorbed, connor southard just as imprisoning as badly wantas far as unconscious beliefs go. If ing to be richer than you were dead poet a Duke student would rather be atgrowing up. The kids who fear tending Oxford during the reign a life that doesn’t include a car of George V, he/she probably knows to keep service have a lot to learn from the kids who his/her mouth shut. Despite what I’ve been don’t. hearing in my classes, talking like a “Downton So, we need to work to build a campus that Abbey” character isn’t actually socially accept- isn’t just socioeconomically diverse, but is also able. I hope. a place where students of all levels of wealth But where socioeconomic diversity is con- don’t feel like their post-grad opportunities are cerned, Duke has something more at stake shackled by economic anxieties. That’s the best than self-satisfaction. case for making Duke’s financial aid system Full disclosure: Like over 50 percent of more navigable (a need discussed in detail in Duke students, I receive financial aid. I went the recently released Socioeconomic Diversity to a high school in Wyoming that didn’t have Initiative report) and for replacing loans with such a thing as rich kids. At Duke, there’s a grants in aid packages, something pioneered widespread belief that any job that doesn’t re- by Princeton and since adopted by a few other quire you to pay close attention to what kind of schools. The average loan debt for a member tie you wear is a radically subversive life choice. of the Class of 2010 was $21,884, and anything Back on the ranch, no one told us you could we can do to drive that number down helps. make $150,000 your first year out of college And while it (sadly) comes across as naive to for nothing more than, in the words of a for- suggest that Duke consider lowering tuition, mer private equity guy I know, “making math- we could try not raising it every year—a Duke ematical models that confirm the unfounded education already costs nearly a quarter of a assumptions of my superiors.” OK, so I didn’t million dollars. grow up on a ranch, but admit that I had you A Duke that did a better job easing students’ for a second. money anxieties would not just be a more genThat’s why I’ve always been taken aback by erous University; it would also be a University some of the neuroses I’ve seen here. “I need to whose students obsessed less about making as do [lucrative kind of work shilled by the Career much money as possible as quickly as possible.

Center] because I have to pay off my loans” is Who knows? Maybe we could dust off that old hard to argue with—the United States’ student language about “following your passions.” But loan system is a scandal. More on that later. let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

But if you’re not saddled with serious debt, and What we first need to do is break down barriyou’re not really that into finance or consulting ers, like loan debt, that prevent those of us who or Excel, why do you want to do those things didn’t grow up especially wealthy from acting for 80 hours per week? You tell me. When jobs in a way that runs counter to all of the kinds of come up in conversation here, I feel like I’m class-consciousness that thrive on this campus. from a different planet where we don’t believe Everyone will benefit from a campus that’s melthat the poverty line begins just below $65,000 lower about paper-chasing. This is a good place per year. to point out, once again, that not everyone who There’s no ghostly Obi-wan Kenobi hover- doesn’t work for Goldman is poor and misering around me telling me to shy away from jobs able. We knew that much on the ranch. that I don’t want to do—I’m just the victim of an upbringing in which not everyone around Connor Southard is a Trinity senior. His column me was—or strived to be—of the same socio- runs every other Wednesday.

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enerally speaking, I’m not someone whose mood changes with the season. Unless, of course, we happen to be talking about college acceptance season, which is the one month of the year when the graduating seniors from my high school alma mater find me to be the most annoying.

You see, I’m not from Virginia or North Carolina or New Jersey. I didn’t go to a high school with students whose lifelong dream was to be a Blue Devil.

I went to an all-male, Catholic high school in San Diego, where ‘TJ’ didn’t stand for Thomas Jefscott briggs ferson High School, but rather as i see it Tijuana, the Mexican city located less than 20 miles south of our seven-acre campus. And even though California is the most represented state in the Class of 2015, you wouldn’t know it by looking at my alma mater.

When I chose to come to Duke two years ago, I was the first person from my school to earn acceptance to the university in over five years, and the first to attend in well over ten years. And we’re talking about a school that regularly sends its graduates to the best colleges in the country. The sad fact of the matter is, unless you’re talking about college basketball, the students at my high school don’t think twice about Duke.

Naturally, that means it’s my responsibility to tell each and every worthy applicant from my school why I chose Duke over the other “higher-ranked” colleges. First, I have to face the uphill battle of convincing them to even apply to some school in Durham, N.C. You can’t even imagine how many blank stares I’ve seen while explaining Duke’s geographic location. To a teenager from “America’s Finest City,” I might as well be telling them it’s in Bumf***, Nowhere. Then, once I’ve convinced a handful of them that applying is even worth the $75 fee, I have to sway the admitted students into coming here and rejecting offers from Cornell, Stanford, Harvard and Yale. I tell them about the great social scene (I might still living in the past with that one), the pride of Duke athletics and our unique array of respected academic programs. Despite my best efforts, I’ve had approximately a 0 percent success rate so far.

It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. Especially since Duke doesn’t seem to be doing enough of it.

For a school that was once tied with Yale for third place in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, our name recognition among students outside of the East Coast is borderline dismal.

Every time I talk to a student who chose to apply to Northwestern, Georgetown or NYU instead of even considering Duke, I feel like I’m going insane. And when the director of college counseling from my high school tells me that the regional admissions officer from Duke denied her request to visit the campus and talk to prospective students (like every other school in the U.S. News top 10 does on a yearly basis), I feel like giving up.

Clearly, the admissions department at Duke does understand, at least to some degree, that name recognition is important. Last year, while being asked about the rise in applicants from California, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote, “as we have attracted more students from the West Coast and from overseas, that alone tends to generate greater visibility and further interest in those parts of the world.” I couldn’t agree more with the sentiment, but just because our visibility as a top-tier academic institution has increased, that doesn’t mean there isn’t still vast room for improvement. Until every student in America considers Duke to be synonymous with its fellow mainstays at the top of the rankings, more work needs to be done.

At a time when millions of dollars are being spent to build campuses overseas in an attempt to increase international visibility for the University, the same effort should be put into augmenting our reputation at home. We cannot expect to improve as an academic institution if we aren’t winning our fair share of the best students from every corner of the United States.

Of course, this feat is easier said than done, but an appropriate first step might be to increase the size of the already strained admissions office. Last week, The Chronicle reported that the University has adopted a more streamlined admissions process in order to face the challenge of reviewing over 30,000 applications using a procedure that was designed to handle just 12,000 applicants. In addition to altering the application reading process, the University might be better served if it chose to increase the size of the admissions office as well, giving regional officers more time to visit high schools like mine with qualified applicants but insufficient interest.

Here’s how I see it: A top-tier school deserves top-tier recognition.

Scott Briggs is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Wednesday. Follow Scott on Twitter @SBriggsChron

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h the incessant inquiries passing themselves I should have shut up and taken notes during the off as genuine interest: “Are you ready for chapter on getting your MRS degree—then this whole graduation? What are you doing next year? occupation thing wouldn’t be so daunting. But hey, if So … do you have a job?” any cuties are headed toward six-figure paychecks and NO, okay?! I do not. I, Lindsay Tomson, do not looking for a mediocre life-partner, I’d love to leach have a job. I’m graduating from a fairly elite, very off you baby. expensive university in a month and still I remain unLet me re-evaluate that, because it got a little sexuemployed. al. Maybe I’ll take this leach thing in a different more Now, is that something I need to be so ashamed adventurous direction—by stealing from the rich and of? I don’t think so. Because I look back at my four giving to the poor! Ooh I like this … the Robin Hood years here and I feel accomplished. The portfolio of pension plan (tights not included). Beware of my bow my Duke experience includes a decent GPA, leader- and arrow; I am a desperate woman. ship experience and some other miscellaneous moMy apologies to my employed readers. I want ments of achievement. For all intents and purposes, you to know that though this may seem like an atI’m not the bottom of the barrel among job appli- tack, it is not. The fact of the matter is, I’m not only cants. And neither are you. You! There! You’re un- proud of you, I’m envious of you. Which is a way bigemployed, too! I know that’s true because if you DID ger compliment. Duke kids live their lives collecting have a job, you wouldn’t be reading the jealous glares of those around us.

The Chronicle. You’d be too busy takIt is our greatest satisfaction. It’s why ing selfies with your paycheck and anwe party—not to have fun, but to look nouncing your brand new profession like we’re having more fun that you. via Facebook. No, if you’re reading It’s also, unfortunately, why myself this you must be looking for someone and the other jobless folks retreat into to commiserate with. rants against the future. It’s why I’ve What if I told you that your pool had this cloud of insecurity preventof commiserators is a lot bigger than ing me from living in the moment. I lindsay tomson should be conscious about the future you may think? We, the unemployed masses of Duke University, are a quiet but not obsessive. middle child yet talented majority of this populaSelf-assurance. Trust. Faith. These syndrome tion. We may have grown wearisome should be the hallmarks of a job-seekfrom an unsuccessful job search, but ing student. Sometimes we forget that we remain determined and passionate about the per- we are not only worthwhile but also incredibly gifted. fect internship/job/grad school from which we will We grew up with this awareness, but lost it upon setlaunch our careers and our adult lives. And sure, our ting foot on a campus of equally impressive individupassionate determination can get a little mistranslat- als. There’s this false logic that if the person next to ed.… Perhaps it even occasionally reads as cynicism. you is extraordinary, it makes you ordinary. That’s Like that time I responded to the future job question wrong. My worth is self-determined. It does not wane with “Screw it, we’re all gonna die in the Apocalypse and wax with the successes of others. If you’re lookanyways.” ing to the left for some self-validation, you’re not That was a misstep on my part. I need to approach going to find it, my friend. Look down. Look at the these questions with a little more levity. The next time ground you stand on and draw that security from a future i-banker of America asks how I intend to sup- your own ability. port myself next year, I will wink and say, “Hoping to You know what? I’m unemployed. Oh well. I’m get knocked up by a rich guy, wanna hit this?” not discouraged. I embrace it! So when someone asks It’s a shame I’m not mother material or marriage if I have a job next year, I will valiantly cry out to the material, otherwise this plan would be infallible. My night: NEVERRRR! debutante days failed me in this realm.… Yes, yes I was My time will come. And if it hasn’t already, yours a debutante. And what a colossal waste of time! In- will, too. stead of learning how to navigate LinkedIn, I learned table manners and curtsying technique. But in truth, Lindsay Tomson is a Trinity senior. Her installation of this societal sweetheart learned nothing at all because the weekly Socialites column runs on alternate Wednesdays. she sat in the back making sarcastic remarks. I guess Follow Lindsey on Twitter @elle4tee

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Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

%XCITING COURSES FOR &ALL For more information please contact 668-2603 AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East W 3:05-5:35 The course aims at introducing the students to the politics, cultures, and socio-economic concerns of the contemporary Middle East. What are the ideological, political, and cultural trajectories of future American and European relations with Turkey, Israel, and the Arab countries, will be exposed to a wide variety of texts and films, from Morocco to Iraq and the Gulf States. The course will develop an understanding of the socio-political life of this volatile region: a region where the United States is a crucial player and broker of strategic agreements. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad

AMES 220S Al-Qaeda’s Terrorism TH 1:40-4:40 Focus on Al-Qaeda, its roots, ideology, and its terrorism. Examination of Al-Qaeda’s ideology, political culture, and development by exploring the narrative discourse of modern Islamic organizations, expanding from the Salfi Movement of the nineteenth century to the current uprising in the Middle East. Presentation of the patterns and ramifications of AlQaeda’s terrorist activities. Use critical thinking in order to differentiate Muslim proper narrative discourse from that of Al-Qaeda and its affiliated groups. Professor Mbaye Lo

AMES 251/AMI 253 /LIT 211/VMS 231 Indian Cinema TTH 3:05-4:20 75 years of Indian cinema -- from Sant Tukaram (1936) to Dhobi Ghat (2011) -- viewed from the perspective of Indian aesthetics, including films by Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mani Kaul. Professor Satti Khanna

AMES 272/ LIT 250 - Korean Literature in Translation TU 3:05-5:35 This course takes a transnational perspective on Korean society through literary and cinematic texts. We will explore major and minor texts from the long twentieth century, considering past and present politics in local, regional, and global contexts. Topics include representations of self/other, gender and sexuality, hypermodernization, globalization, (post)coloniality, nation and narration, war/occupation, the “Korea Wave” in Asia and beyond, division of North and South Korean literatures. Professor Nayoung Aimee Kwon

AMES 341/AMI 263/JEWISHST 266

Screening the Holocaust TTH 11:45-1:00

Ever since the end of World War II, but even more so in recent years, filmmakers were fascinated with the fate of Jews during that war and wrestled with the task of visually depicting the atrocities of the Jewish Holocaust. In this class, we will watch a variety of documentary and fictional films about the Holocaust produced in a variety of cultural contexts: the US, Israel, France, Germany, Italy, the USSR and more. We will consider the strategies that filmmakers employ to represent what is commonly termed “unrepresentable” and what is the relationship between these strategies and the place of the Jewish Holocaust in the popular imagination. Ultimately, we will ask what are the implications of these strategies for a politics of memory.

Professor Shai Ginsburg

AMES 361 Anime : Origins, Forms, Mutations W 3:05-5:35 This course examines both the historical origins of Japanese anime, as well as its status as art, narrative, and genre. We will also look at the ways in which anime ‘mutates’: formally (in its relationship to literature, manga, live action film), culturally (via fashion, otaku, and fan communities), geographically (in the way it borrows, resonates, and influences animation and live action cinema around the world). No prior knowledge of subject matter of Japanese language required. Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow

AMES 390S.01/LIT 390S /CULANTH 290S The Chinese Middle Class and its Culture TH 3:05-5:05 Focusing on the relationship between political economy, social formation, and aesthetic form, this course introduces to students the Chinese middle class and its culture. What are the different economic, political, social, and cultural forces that contribute to the making of the new Chinese middle class subject within the context of globalization? How do they work? Equally importantly, how can we answer these important questions through a careful study of contemporary Chinese visual culture, such as cinema, documentary and fashion, and popular fiction and ethnography? Instructor Calvin Hui (kh42@duke.edu)

AMES 390S.02/LIT 390S/AMI 290S Cinemas of the Middle East: Sense of Home TTH 1:25-2:40 “What do new Iranian, Turkish, Kurdish, Palestinian, and Israeli cinemas have to tell us about “home”: their homes, and our homes? How does the “sense” of home differ for the immigrant, the displaced, the homeless, and those whose lands are divided or occupied? How about homes-in-crisis? When does home become “unhomely”? Can filmmaking be an act of home-building?” Instructor Navid Naderi (navid.naderi@duke.edu)

AMES 431/LIT 214/AMI 250 /VMS 235 Modern Chinese Cinema W 3:05-5:35 & TU 7:30-9:30 This course introduces to the students the three major Chinese-language cinemas of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China. The focus is on the emergence of new cinemas in all three regions since the early 1980s and then expanded to contemporary filmmaking in the global context. A special series of Classics of Taiwan Cinema begins the inquiries into the questions of “national cinema.” Masterpieces and master filmmakers, from Hou Hsiao-Hsien to Zhang Yimou and from John Woo to Ang Li, are introduced by raising questions about nationalism, realism, and the transnational impact of globalization in the 21st century. Professor Guo-Juin Hong

AMES 475S North Korea MW 3:05-4:20 Critical examination of the political and economic with social, cultural, and religious dimensions of North Korea. Topics includes North Korea’s leadership, religious aspects of the North Korean Juche ideology, the daily lives of its citizens, the Korean War, nuclear development and missiles, North Korean defectors and refugees in other Asian countries, human rights, international relationships, and unification. Professor Cheehyung Kim

AMES 482 The Arabian Nights in the West TUTH 3:05- 4:20 The course aims at introducing the student to the most popular world literature in the West, The One Thousand and One Nights . This collection presents in both classical Arabic and vernacular- fairy tales, romances, fables, legends, parables, anecdotes, erotica, debates, and adventures in which the main narrative is embedded within a preliminary narrative. This is the structure of The Decameron written by Giovanni Boccaccio and The Canterbury Tales where the tales of the various pilgrims are embedded within the frame story of the journey. The Night’s narrative techniques have appeared in the works of other English and European writers in a steady stream up to the modern times. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad

AMES 511/AMI 641/DOCST 511 Documentary and East Asian Cultures and Societies M 3:05-5:35 This course focuses on East Asia as seen in the documentary mode of representation. Different and yet interconnected cultures and histories are examined and questioned. Documentary films are treated not merely as documents, as facts that inform and impart knowledge; they are first and foremost representation, a significant mode of cultural production that forms distinct sets of discourses and is formed and informed by the filmmakers, the subjects, and the larger context. Particular frameworks are the lasting legacy of Japanese imperialism, Cold War politics, and the growing impact of globalization. Special attention is paid to not only the content of documentary representation but also its formal construction and ethical implications. There will be a series of events with visiting filmmakers from China, providing invaluable opportunities to engage with and learn from documentary practitioners. Professor GuoJuin Hong