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Blue Devils take ACC Championships Feminism campaign Lindy Duncan wins individual title by six strokes sparks widespread dialogue, backlash by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE
by Jackie Klauberg THE CHRONICLE
Duke was the only team not swept off the course during windy conditions at the ACC championships this weekend in Greensboro, N.C. The Blue Devils recorded a 23-over-par 875 to claim their first conference title since 2008, 10
strokes in front of second-place North Carolina. The team was led by junior Lindy Duncan, who took home the conference individual title with a three-round total of 210 at the par-71, 6,163-yard Sedgefield Country Club. “[Lindy] was just great through the whole event—the whole team
was,” Duke head coach Dan Brooks said. “They accepted what we had in front of us—the difficult golf course, fast greens and gusty, change-wind conditions.” Despite the less than ideal conditions, the Blue Devils were able SEE W. GOLF ON SW 8
A campaign to expose the diverse faces of feminism has attracted a mixed response from the Duke community as well as starting a dialogue on the subject. Sixteen female students launched the “Who Needs Feminism?” campaign Wednesday in order to fight back against popular misconceptions surrounding the feminist movement. The students created this project to show how feminism crosses all demographics, as the posters show students of different genders, races, sexual orientations and backgrounds sharing statements on why they need feminism. The campaign has sparked a campus-wide and national dialogue, though it has not escaped its share of backlash. “The goal of equality is not yet achieved, and these posters recognize that this is not merely a woman’s movement, but a human movement,” said senior Rose Sheela, a founder of the campaign. “There are many different shades to feminism.” Since its launch, more than 7,000 people have “liked” the “Who Needs Feminism?” Facebook page, and 274 people have started following “Who Needs Feminism?” on Twitter. More than 27,000 different people from around the world have viewed the Tumblr page, which has been accessed from more than 120 different countries. The campaign also earned mentions by Yahoo! News and Mashable.com, an online news site dedicated to covering digital culture. “Right now, we’re aware of the power of social media and the Internet, so we focused our energy on those sources,” Sheela said. “None of us were expecting it to
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Duke hit by duARTS unites student artists four major phishing scams by Margot Tuchler THE CHRONICLE
by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE
The Duke community should be wary of email links from unfamiliar addresses—even if they seem to be from Duke-affiliated groups. A phishing attack last week marked the latest of four major cases since December that have sought to garner Duke NetIDs and passwords to send spam messages from the compromised email accounts, said Cara Bonnett, Office of Information Technology managing editor. Phishing is a form of online fraud designed to convince recipients to divulge personal data such as Social Security numbers and bank account information. Between 10 and 50 accounts of Duke staff, faculty, students and alumni were compromised SEE PHISHING ON PAGE 7
See the results of our DSG exit poll, Page 3
A new student group is continuing efforts to streamline communication and management between student arts organizations. duARTS, an umbrella organization for students arts groups, received a charter from the Student Organization Finance Committee last month and will officially begin operating this Fall. The group will strive to improve communications between different student arts organizations and foster collaborative ventures, in addition to helping groups promote each other, sophomore Andy Chu said. The duARTS executive board, comprised of six students, was elected Sunday night. “The real goal of duARTS is to create a community of artists and to help foster that community [as well as] collaboration and communication between the groups and strengthen Duke’s artistic community as a whole,” said senior Kim Solow, director of arts advancement for Duke Student Government who was instrumental in creating duARTS. Solow and Chu came up with the idea for an umbrella arts organization last Spring and approached Vice
Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth, Chu said. Solow and Chu then organized a series of meetings throughout last Fall with various faculty members, administrators and student representatives including Caitlin Shaw, coordinator in the University Center for Activities and Events, and George Grody, visiting associate professor of markets and management studies. The meetings focused on creating a basic outline of how the group would operate, as Chu and Solow worked to write the constitution around that time. “I attended the initial meetings, but the heavy lifting was carried out by Kim and Andy about getting people around the table and working out logistics, bylaws, goals and participation of groups on campus,” Lindroth said. Chu added that he and Solow have contacted all the arts groups on campus—theater, a cappella, instrumental music, choral music, dance, visual arts groups and publications—to get them involved. Some groups have been harder to reach than others, but Chu hopes to get those groups involved next year. “The most ironic thing is that the network that would SEE DUARTS ON PAGE 12
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“...experts will continue to learn more and more about less and less until they end up knowing everything about nothing.” —Darren Beattie in “Alienation 2.0.” See column page 11
Blue Devils secure ACC title, SW 4
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Clemens to go to trial for second time for perjury
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former pitching powerhouse Roger Clemens returns to federal Monday to be tried for a second time on charges that he lied to Congress about using performance-enhancing drugs. The baseball legend’s first trial ended after just two days last summer when the judge declared a mistrial because of a prosecutorial error. Now the Justice Department will have another chance to try Clemens, an 11time all-star accused of perjury, obstruction of Congress and making false statements. Clemens could face 30 years in prison if convicted on all charges. The high-stakes trial begins Monday with jury selection, a process expected to include lengthy questioning of the backgrounds and biases of more than 80 Washingtonians. Some legal observers familiar with the case said the government has an advantage in the retrial.
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Secret Service places agents Tensions elevated in Syria on leave during controversy as peacemakers arrive WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Secret Service placed 11 agents on administrative leave as the agency investigates allegations that the men brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Cartagena, Colombia, Wednesday night during a 30-member pan-American leadership summit.
BEIRUT — The first members of a U.N. monitoring mission are set to arrive in Syria, amid hopes from the international community that they could alleviate bloodshed as violence continued to simmer. Five civilians had been killed Sunday with another five being injured.
Italy: Love It or Leave It White 107, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Gustavo Hofer’s award-winning documentary follows the travels of two men and depicts the plight of young Italians.
Being a Woman in Science Nasher Museum, 12-3 p.m. Dr. Hazel Sive, professor of biology at MIT School of Science, will discuss the results from MIT’s landmark 1999 report on the treatment of male versus female faculty. —from calendar.duke.edu
TODAY IN HISTORY 2007: 32 people killed and 23 injured at Virginia Tech.
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“The growing trend in books has shown that the future of reading lies with ebooks. However, there are classics that have yet to make it into their electronic form, and until that transition happens, we can be sure that the complete takeover of e-books will not be complete.” — From The Chronicle’s News Blog bigblog.dukechronicle.com
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Wangari Gardens, a new community garden in Washington, D.C., is named after environmental activist Wangari Maathai. “Guerrilla gardens,” which are gardens grown on land that gardeners do not have the legal right to use, are emerging in cities across the country.
Thompson Writing Program Speaker Series Presents: “How to Knit Blogs, Write Classrooms and Paint Books” Charlotte Frost East Duke Parlor 4:30pm Friday, April 20, 2012 Charlotte Frost is the keynote speaker for Critical Ink 2012. Critical Ink is an annual multidisciplinary conference that features the best student writing and undergraduate research produced in Duke’s Thompson Writing Program. Charlotte Frost’s work in the digital arts and humanities challenges accepted ideas about disciplinary boundaries and the culture of scholarship. She founded PhD2Published, the first online academic publishing resource for early-career academics. As editor of the experimental academic series Arts Future Book she has remodeled the art history book, while her innovative multi-modal critical practice problematizes traditional methods of academic writing and teaching.
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Chronicle exit survey shows DSG voter breakdown Last Thursday, the student body elected junior Alex Swain as next year’s president of Duke Student Government. The Chronicle conducted an independent exit survey that ran Thursday through Sunday, garnering more than 400 responses, about 15.7 percent of the 2,542 students who voted in the DSG election as of 7 p.m. Sunday evening. The self-reported survey asked students who they voted for, gender, race, living group affiliation and other characteristics. According to the official results reported by DSG, Swain, current vice president for Durham and regional affairs, won 57.7 percent of the votes overall. Juniors Chris Brown, external chief of staff, and Strat Waldt, senator for residential life and dining, won 30.9 percent and 10.1 percent, respectively. Approximately 39 percent of the student body participated in Thursday’s election, compared to 49 percent last year. Of those who voted for Swain, 57.2 percent were male, and 41.3 percent were female, according to The Chronicle’s survey. Additionally, 56.4 percent were white, 14.8 percent were black and 17.8 percent were Asian. Although Brown won about 31 percent of the overall vote, The Chronicle survey found that he won 37.7 percent of the greek vote. The survey also reported the overall voter turnout as 44.5 percent male and 53 percent female. Brown’s voter base was almost the reverse—50.5 percent male and 46.8 percent female. The survey showed that Waldt’s voter base had a strong turnout from international students, who made up 35.3 percent of all students who voted for him. Of Waldt voters, only 40.9 percent were white, but 22.7 percent were Asian. The poll was hosted by Survey Monkey, and the results were reviewed by Sunshine Hillygus, associate professor of political science. There is a 4.5 percent margin of error. —from Staff Reports
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Students compete in first annual Duke DataFest by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE
While crowds of students flocked to Old Duke Friday afternoon, 23 students gathered in the Old Chemistry Building for a 48-hour statistical science competition. DataFest, a team competition where students analyze a complex data set in a limited period of time, was hosted at Duke for the first time this weekend. The participants used real data from Kiva Systems— a nonprofit organization that connects lenders with people looking for microloans around the world—to make recommendations that would be relevant to a Kiva client. “They learned so much about analyzing data, which as a statistician is important to me,” said Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, the organizer of the event and assistant professor of the practice of statistical science. “But more importantly, they also learned so much about context and how to come to useful conclusions.” Prior to the competition, students met their client Noah Balmer, a software engineer at Kiva, via a Skype call. He said Kiva’s goal is to give a lender clear insight into how their money is spent. “Unlike a lot of charities that do not give insight into how the money they receive is used, we like a lot of insight into how the money is used,” Balmer said. “To do this, a couple of years ago, we made a public database of our information that can be accessed by anyone.” Students utilized this public information, which provided data on 50,000 lenders and their loans, Cetinkaya-Rundel said. Teams faced similar issues when analyzing these data sets, such as how to maximize each group member’s contribution. “The way they decided to resolve their problems is to have each person on a team work with whatever they are most comfortable with,” she said. “They needed to parse their problem into pieces so that everyone did what they were best at.” The teams took different approaches to analyzing the data. The DataCrunchers chose to look at how important social impact and overall risk is on a lender’s
loan. Team Dendenwins created a naive Bayes classifier to identify words a person should include in their profile when seeking a loan to increase their probability of receiving one. Dennis Zhan, a freshman on team Ducks, said it was difficult working with data that did not necessarily contain certain results. “We are using this data where you don’t know if there are any correlations,” he said. “Most of the time you are looking for something, but since we defined the question, we don’t even know what we would find.” There were three categories in which students could place first—best recommendations or insight, best visualization and best use of outside data. The Statistonots won best use of outside data, team Icepack won best visualization and team DataCrunchers won best
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insight. Only five of the initial 10 registered teams showed up to compete, Cetinkaya-Rundel said, adding that some teams dropped out due to a demanding workload. Niel Lebeck, a sophomore on team DataCrunchers, found the opportunity to work with real data rewarding. “This competition lines up with the stuff that I am interested in,” he said. Cetinkaya-Rundel said she was pleased with the overall turnout of the competition, but added that she may change the date to the Fall to attract more students. “This happens to be a busy weekend for students,” she said. “Still, I was really surprised by the amount of effort they put into everything. If we had five awards, I would have given them all out.”
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ith Nancy Andrews Q&A with The Duke School of Medicine is in the process of building a new medical education Learning Center slated for completion late 2012. The $55 million facility, which is funded in part by a $50 million donation from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, hopes to provide clinical simulation training for medical students. Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine, hopes that the state-of-the-art facility will advance the school’s clinical training and student life. The Chronicle’s Andrew Luo spoke with Andrews about the features of the new Learning Center and the latest round of medical school admissions. The Chronicle: Over this past year, what are some projects that you have been working on at the medical school? Nancy Andrews: One of our most exciting projects is the new Learning Center building. It is set to open in November, and it will be the first time in 80 years that we have a new building dedicated to medical education. It will have classrooms for medical students and public spaces for all of our learners. TC: What are some of the new technologies that will be placed in the Learning Center? NA: One of the floors of the Learning Center will be dedicated to simulation in medical health education. This includes three general areas. One is simulation in which an actor portrays a patient and tries to be examined as a patient. The second kind is when there are highly sophisticated mannequins that have physiological responses, which is helpful for learning about emergency situations and procedures, so when a student encounters an actual emergency situation, they would have had some kind of training beforehand. The third kind of simulation is a video game simulation in which learners can interact or collaborate on a difficult medical scenario. These simulations train our students about practical side of medicine. Since most of our students’ education is geared toward clinical care training starting their second year of medical school, the Learning Center gives students training without having a real patient there. Students can practice and get a preview of clinical care without the pressure of someone else’s health on the line. TC: What are some of the other features in the Learning Center? NA: Well, on the bottom floor of the center, there will be an open room in which we can hold large meetings. Currently, we do not have a large space that can hold 400 or 500 people on the medical school campus. On the next floor up, there will be a cafÊ and some classroom space for medical school students. Throughout the building, there will be spaces for faculty to sit
and talk to students, as well as for students to study. The hope is that the new Learning Center will give medical students a “home base.� Right now, medical students take classes across various buildings on campus. Though the Learning Center will not have a research or clinical space, it will be located at the center of the various medical buildings on campus. TC: In terms of the medical school’s admissions, what has the application process been like over this past year? NA: Admissions are ongoing right now, and we have just sent out our acceptances. This year, we changed SEE ANDREWS ON PAGE 12
Obama wraps up Summit of the Americas by Scott Wilson THE WASHINGTON POST
CARTAGENA, Colombia — President Barack Obama concluded a contentious hemispheric summit on the defensive Sunday as it ended without agreement on whether Cuba's Communist leaders should be invited to the next meeting, which the United States firmly opposes. The standoff meant that the sixth Summit of the Americas ended without an official declaration—a negotiated statement of shared principles from the hemisphere's heads of state—and left open the question of whether there would be a seventh such meeting. The ambiguous conclusion underscored the fact that Obama, while pledging a new relationship with the leery southern neighbors, has had little success in bridging significant policy differences that have divided the region for decades. With the scandal involving a number of Secret Service agents and prostitution coloring the weekend meeting, Obama departed here with the U.S. image mildly blemished and the enduring political differences between the hemisphere’s wealthy north and rising south firmly intact. “I’m not somebody who brings to the table here a lot of baggage from the past, and I want to look at these issues in a new and fresh way,� Obama said during a Sunday news conference with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos. “I am sometimes puzzled by the degree to which countries that themselves have undergone enormous transformations, that have known the oppression of dictatorships or have found themselves on the wrong side of the ruling elite, and have suffered for it, why we would ignore that same principle here.� Cuba and the decades-old U.S. embargo against it, which Latin American and Caribbean leaders derisively call a “blockade,� has been a traditional bone of contention between the United States and much of the rest of the region. But it emerged here as only one of several issues, including U.S. anti-drug and monetary policy, that together illustrated how far the United States remains outside the hemisphere's political consensus. The summit was more buttoned up than the last
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Dr. Nancy Andrews is the dean of the School of Medicine.
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Bruce Jackson & Diane Christian Talk and Book Signing: April 19, 6–9 p.m., talk at 7 p.m. With a reception for the Center for Documentary Studies exhibit Full Color Depression: First Kodachromes from America’s Heartland, curated by Bruce Jackson
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Some of the “Who Needs Feminism” signs were defaced hours after they were posted around campus.
be this big.” Several hours after the campaign began, however, the posters were vandalized. The vandals added their own signs reading, “I need feminism because sandwiches can’t make themselves,” or “I need feminism because it’s funny watching them try to play sports.” Junior Kate Gadsden said she was not surprised by this reaction, adding that the campaign participants expected backlash because people are uncomfortable with notion of publicized feminism. “To me, it validated the project,” said Gadsden, another founder of the project. “We’re getting people talking about feminism in any way possible.” This reaction also points to the larger need and some of the motivations behind such a campaign at Duke. There have been a number of anti-feminism comments on the campaign’s Facebook page, which is also receiving international attention.
“The gender climate here is very unwelcoming for women,” Sheela said. “A lot of people needed this campaign to restore their faith in gender relations here.” “Who Needs Feminism?” is a final project for the class WOMENST185S: “Women in the Public Sphere,” taught by Rachel Seidman, associate director of the Duke Center for History, Public Policy and Social Change. One of the main aims of the course is to change preconceived notions about feminism through conversations. All 16 students in the class were involved in creating this project. Seidman noted that through the project, her students want to share what they have learned this semester—that the feminist movement is not only comprised of “radical, bra-burning women.” “My students began to understand the wide range of issues, concerns and tactics that women had brought to activism,” Seidman said. “They didn’t understand that [feminism] incorporated black women and poor women and women of all different religions and classes.” Seidman also noted how social media has propelled the students’ project, adding that their strategy is one unavailable to previous generations of feminists. Seidman’s class will meet today for the first time since the campaign launched. After watching the campaign spread beyond campus, Sheela said the students decided to create a how-to guide for those interested in starting a campaign at their own school. “We’re not going to let this just die—we’re going to keep going with it,” she said.
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ounder of the prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance, and a distinguished intellectual and author, Dr. Angela Davis will address the ways in which the knowledge produced by black scholars may affect social change in communities across the nation and the world. Reggie Day 2012 will highlight the historical and evolving meaning of public black intellectualism. Please join us for a great keynote address and lively discussion, presented by the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholars and the Duke University Union.
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Cris Cab and Shaggy perform at Old Duke Friday evening.
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in each of the four attacks. “If you provide your account information to a nefarious website that is linked in a phishing message, your Duke account could be compromised—including your email,” Bonnett said. “The attacker could use these credentials to attempt to log into other services like Facebook or Gmail.” People who followed the links from the messages and entered their Duke account information granted phishers access to their accounts, Bonnett noted. Phishers used the accounts to send thousands of spam emails to their contacts. At one point, 300,000 such spam messages were in the mail system. The attack last week took form in two phony emails, according to a release from the Information Technology Security Office. One was sent from an account claiming to be the OIT help desk and attempted to trick Duke community members into submitting their NetID and password in order to validate their identity. The other phishing message was sent from a non-existent social media organization called Duke Collaborative Networks, which advertised a new form of social networking that would allow patrons to share professional resources. Bonnett added that some phishing messages can install malware—malicious software that can steal financial information and gain access to bank accounts. Freshman Dan Sykora, whose email account was compromised in the most recent phishing attack, said that all of his most recently messaged contacts—including his academic adviser, friends and people outside of the Duke community—received spam messages from his account. “There were two emails sent out from my account when it was hijacked—one to the people I most recently emailed and one to those who most recently emailed me,” he said. “The second email sent out contained a link to a sex dating website, and one of the recipients was a Pratt [School of Engineering] dean, so that was very embarrassing.” Sykora said he cleared out his entire inbox and outbox and changed his password in order to protect against any other unwanted tampering of his account, adding that he issued an apology email to the affected contacts.
OIT is actively implementing cutting-edge measures to combat phishing attacks in the Duke community, Bonnett said. But phishers change their tactics and messages often, which could result in some emails getting through the University’s security measures. “For the most part, the mail system blocks or eliminates a significant amount of such messages,” she noted. Bonnett added that if a Duke faculty, staff or student account is compromised, Duke locks the account until the affected person can be contacted and assisted in resetting his or her account password. To avoid the issue of phishing in the first place, people should be very careful when deal-
ing with emails from unknown senders. “Remember that Duke—and all valid companies or organizations—will never ask for your password or account information in an email,” she said. As OIT is addressing phishing, they are also working on improving Duke’s Wi-Fi network, she added. Last Wednesday, major renovations were done to the network to improve its performance. “OIT was responding to network alarms... that suggested issues with the Wi-Fi network,” she noted. “We took corrective measures to both block potentially harmful traffic and add resources.”
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Members of the Duke community enjoy food and festivities during Springternational Friday afternoon.
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OBAMA from page 5 one three years ago, largely because several of the region's most anti-American leaders did not attend. The cultural programming around the meetings showcased this lovely seaside city and the progress Colombia, where an array of drug-funded armed groups have faded in recent years, has made. Santos attributed Colombia’s success in part to the billions of dollars in U.S. aid over the past decade. But the open criticism directed toward the U.S approach to several issues also underscored the new confidence felt by Latin American leaders as they guide a region that is improving economically while the United States struggles to find its financial footing. Although Obama has presented the United States as a more equal partner in hemispheric affairs and has spoken forcefully on issues such as inequality that have defined Latin American politics for years, some of his policies fall outside the region's mainstream. He defended them staunchly, nonetheless. Many leaders here pushed for a new strategy to combat the illicit drug trade, fueled by U.S. demand. Some proposed legalization—for possession and by regulating the trade—but Obama made clear here that he does not believe it would prove more effective than the law-enforcement approach funded by the United States. “I think it is wholly appropriate for us to discuss this issue,” Obama said, adding that while Colombia is emerging from a “wrenching period,” several “smaller countries” in Central America are “starting to feel overwhelmed” by drug violence. “It wouldn’t make sense for us not to examine what works and what doesn’t.” As the Castro brothers in Cuba grow old, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez battles cancer and other important regional leaders leave office, Latin America is determining
which new leaders will emerge. A tacit competition has shaped up between Brazil and Colombia, both growing economically and benefitting from a skilled business class. The summit showcased their leaders, who were sometimes at odds with Obama. Santos and Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff, who visited the White House last week, publicly criticized U.S. monetary policy for devaluing the currencies of developing countries. And Santos worried aloud whether America is “exporting unemployment” to Latin American countries that have weathered the global economic downturn better than the United States. “We all have the feeling of the enormous opportunities we have to work together,” Santos said at his news conference with Obama, putting the best light on their differences. There were moments of agreement, too. Obama announced here Sunday that Colombia has complied with a key condition of the free-trade agreement passed last year that is designed to better protect labor activists from political violence. The labor certification allows the deal to take effect May 15. U.S. exports to Colombia last year totaled $14.8 billion, and the agreement will eliminate tariffs on 80 percent of U.S. consumer and industrial goods bound for the country and phase the rest out over the next decade. But the election-year decision has angered U.S. labor leaders, who say Colombia has not made enough progress in protecting union activists in Colombia and in punishing those who commit crimes against them. In a letter to Obama last week, AFLCIO President Richard Trumka wrote that “less than 10 percent of the nearly 3,000 cases of trade unionists murders since 1986 have reached a conviction,” and that “none of the 29 labor activists killed in 2011 had their cases resolved by a successful prosecution.” The labor group endorsed Obama for president last month.
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Staff and community members brought dogs to campus Friday afternoon.
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Amid reports Sunday that Michael Gbinije may transfer, he was the same place as usual—at work. As he continues to play basketball and train for next season, wherever that might be, Gbinije spends his weekends working at the East Campus Store. With rumors that Gbinije may leave Duke spreading on Twitter shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, the 6-foot-7 wing player was pulling his usual shift at the store beneath the Marketplace from 4-8 p.m., brushing off discussion of his athletic future. “Since the offseason I’ve had a lot of time to reflect with how things were during the regular season,” Gbinije said in an interview Wednesday. “So I figured why not just get a job, get some pocket money.” During basketball season, Gbinije did not have enough time to take up a job. But the rigors of being a student-athlete with regular practices, workouts, study halls and games taught him how to manage his time, making a part-time job down the road realistic. In season, Gbinije said he would typically wake up at 9 a.m. but not return to his dorm from West Campus until 8-10 p.m. Now saddled with a less demanding offseason schedule, he gets back a few hours earlier but keeps the time-management skills he honed during more hectic times. “We’re on such a busy schedule during the season, it’s really helped me to fit my job into my schedule and learn how to plan JULIA MAY/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO
Freshman forward Michael Gbinije works weekends at the East Campus Store under the Marketplace during the offseason when he has more free time.
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Sulaimon takes on future First varsity eight wins Knecht Cup ACC foes in Charlotte Duke commit racks up 13 points and seven boards by Brady Buck THE CHRONICLE
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Rasheed Sulaimon may be Duke’s only signee for next season, but he showed Saturday night that his play is multidimensional. Sulaimon, a shooting guard, got the opportunity to develop his point guard skills with North Carolina-bound point guard Marcus Paige out with an injury at the Jordan Brand Classic in Charlotte, N.C. Running the show offensively for much of the night, Sulaimon helped the West defeat the East 99-95. “[The Duke coaching staff] told me I’m going to be playing a lot of both positions next year, so I’ve been working on my point guard skills,” Sulaimon said. “Coming here it kind of helped me play the point against great competition.” The East dominated the West in the early going, leading 22-8 with 11:49 remaining, led by eight points from J.P. Tokoto, who signed with North Carolina last fall.
Sulaimon started off slowly, and the West looked out of sync in the half-court offense, but with about nine minutes remaining in the first half the future Blue Devil guard and Shabazz Muhammad, who committed to UCLA over Duke and Kentucky last week, started to find their grooves to help reduce the deficit. Muhammad scored a quick four points and Sulaimon had a stretch where he scored seven consecutive points to bring the West team within five at halftime. “In the beginning of the game we didn’t start off so well, and we didn’t have a lot of energy,” Muhammad said. “We had to step it up.” Defensively, Sulaimon had an especially difficult assignment guarding Rodney Purvis, who will play at N.C. State next year. The future ACC rivals battled throughout the night, and Purvis proved to be extremely difficult to keep out of the lane. Doing most of his damage in transition, the 6-foot3 combo guard scored a gamehigh 22 points for the East team
en route to winning the MVP award for the East. “Rodney is a great player, very strong and drives hard to the basket,” Sulaimon said. “In transition he’s very deadly.” Muhammad, the secondranked player in the class of 2012, was key in the second half. He scored 20 points on the night, most of which came on thunderous dunks in the open court, to earn the MVP award for the West and help them take the lead early in the second half. The West’s Alex Poythress— a 6-foot-8 wing who will play for Kentucky—showed off his versatility and efficiency, scoring 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting from the field. He and his future teammate, shooting guard Archie Goodwin, helped ensure that the East did not regain the lead by netting 14 points on the night. Despite playing out of position, Sulaimon showed why SEE SULAIMON ON PAGE 7
boat finished over 14 seconds after the Blue Devils. After a disappointing sixth “When you’re in a three-race place performance at last year’s format... sometimes teams just Knecht Cup, Duke’s first varsity do the bare minimum to just eight boat had a little extra mo- get through,” Duke head coach tivation heading to the Cooper Robyn Horner said. “Because River last weekend. we’re trying to get ready for With a 1.29-second win over ACCs next weekend, we tried to Bucknell in the varsity eight cham- approach the races as the actual pionship heat, the Blue Devils ACC race and just go as hard as sealed their most successful week- we could even though there was end in Cama heat and a den, N.J., in semifinal.” “It was kind of a the last three Not only did redemption race for the Blue Devyears. “At 500m ils’ top boat us. We wanted to we had a lead take first place, on them, but the second come in here and and then in varsity eight show people what the sprint we grabbed second opened it up place in its own we are made of.” a little more,” championship — Katie Burke heat, losing to junior Katie Burke said. Bucknell’s sec“It was kind ond boat by less of a redemption race for us. We than a second. wanted to come in here and show “The [second varsity] has people what we are made of.” been struggling a little bit since The top varsity eight boat the beginning of the season, so paved the way for its final run by it was really pleasing to put tobreezing through the first heat gether three solid races,” senior and then dominating the semifinal run—where the second place SEE ROWING ON PAGE 7 by Zac Elder THE CHRONICLE
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As the clock struck zero, the Blue Devils stepped off the field having toppled the nation’s top team. No. 7 Duke (11-3, 2-1 in the ACC) defeated the No. 1 Cavaliers (10-2, 2-1) 13-5 at Klockner Stadium Friday night. The win was the Blue Devils’ eighth consecutive victory, pushing Duke into a tie atop the ACC standings. Sophomore Jordan Wolf registered a team-high six points on the evening with two goals and four assists. Josh Dionne and Christian Walsh also added four and three goals, respectively. Between the pipes, Dan Wigrizer proved he has moved past his early season injuries, allowing just five goals while recording 14 saves. “It was a huge victory for our program,” head coach John Danowski said. “A hard week of practice paid off in a big way.” The Blue Devils drew first blood when Wolf scored Duke’s first goal fewer than four minutes into the game. The rest of the first period, however, remained a defensive struggle, with neither team able to tally a goal. Virginia drew even early in the second quarter when Matt White beat Wigrizer, but the Blue Devils won the ensuing faceoff and took back the lead when Christian Walsh broke the deadlock. Duke recorded the next two scores from Wolf and Robert Rotanz before Virginia’s Chris Bocklet found the back of the net with 12 seconds remaining in the first half, sending the Blue Devils to the locker room ahead 4-2. “Usually at halftime we talk about the same things each week,” Danowski said. “We talk about faceoffs, about offense
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Sophomore Jordan Wolf led the Duke offense with six points in the team’s 13-5 upset of the No. 1 Cavaliers. and defense, and we let the players talk. We let them say what they see out there, because sometimes they can see things that we can’t.” Duke’s defensive tenacity allowed it to take control in the third period, holding Virginia scoreless for 16:30 from the end of the second quarter until the beginning
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Dan Wigrizer and the Duke defense held the high-powered Virginia attack scoreless during the third period.
of the fourth. The Blue Devils were able to notch five goals of their own in the frame, including four from Dionne, who has now scored 28 times this season. Even Duke’s defensive unit took part in the offensive surge, with defender Michael Manley scoring his second goal of the year with 31 seconds remaining in the frame. Sophomore defender Luke Duprey kicked off the fourth-quarter scoring with a goal, putting the Blue Devils up 10-2. Duke and Virginia split the game’s final six goals, with Walsh tallying the game’s last two scores, giving him 21 on the season. Virginia’s five-goal performance was its lowest scoring output all season. Entering the contest, the Cavaliers averaged 13.1 goals per game, the third highest-scoring offense in the nation. Not a single Virginia player scored more than one goal Friday night, though, as The Blue Devils’ young defensive unit stepped up and allowed the fewest goals it has surrendered all year. Duke has beaten Virginia in 12 of the teams’ previous 13 meetings and has not lost a game since March 10, when its record stood at 3-3. Since dropping their first three road contests, the Blue Devils have now won their last three games away from Koskinen Stadium. Danowski said the difference from a .500 Duke team to a squad riding an eight-game winning streak is simple. “Just experience. Everybody needs experience,” Danowski said. “Whether you’re taking a class or moving on in your major, experience is the greatest teacher. Not only for individuals, but for groups.” Duke moves on to begin postseason play when it will compete in the ACC tournament next weekend before playing one final road contest against Denver. The Blue Devils will face No. 10 Maryland in the opening-round semifinal. Duke lost to Maryland 10-7 on March 3.
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Saba, Tahir s Duke dropped its last home match of the season Wednesday, so it will hope that a pair of road wins will restore some confidence heading into the postseason. The Blue Devils won both of their matches last weekend to finish the season a perfect 9-0 Duke 7 in conference road matches 0 BC and clinch the No. 3 seed en5 Duke tering the ACC 2 MD tournament, which will take place this weekend in Cary, N.C. No. 5 Duke (20-4, 9-2 in the ACC) traveled first to Maryland (7-14, 4-7), where it dropped the doubles point before recovering in singles for a 5-2 victory. Sunday’s trip farther north to Boston College saw the Blue Devils emerge with a 7-0 sweep of the Eagles (5-14, 1-10). The doubles duo of junior Henrique Cunha and sophomore Chris Mengel won both of its weekend matches, but the other doubles teams were not so successful, as the No. 2 and No. 3 pairings both fell to the Terrapins Friday before recovering against cellar-dwelling Boston College. Duke was led in singles play by Fred
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ore victories over ranked opponents, giving her three in four days.
This weekend, Duke’s goal of finishing the regular season perfect in ACC play came to fruition. The No. 3 Blue Devils (22-2, 11-0 in the ACC) captured the conference regular season title, shutting out Boston College (1012, 3-8) 7-0 Saturday and defeating Maryland (7-14, 1-10) 6-1 Sunday. “We set a goal 1 MD at the beginning our conference Duke 6 of season of being 110, and this was the 0 BC final step in that,” Duke 7 Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth said. “We talked about finishing what we started six weeks ago.” After winning all three doubles matches against the Eagles, the Blue Devils took a 1-0 lead. “We came out and dominated the doubles really quickly,” Ashworth said. “We were worried after the UNC match on Thursday what kind of effort and attitude we would have on the court. But we came out fired up in the doubles, played with a lot of emotion and were able to win the matches quickly.” Duke carried the momentum from its doubles sweep into singles play, where junior Mary Clayton, ranked No. 71 nationally, notched her team-leading 29th victory of the season in a 6-1, 6-3 win over senior Katarina Gajic in the No. 3 spot. Blue Devil freshman Annie Mulholland upended Boston College junior Ina Kauppila 6-1, 6-3 in the No. 6 spot before freshman Monica Turewicz clinched the match for Duke with a 6-4, 6-1 win over Kelly Barry in the No. 5 spot. Second-ranked freshman Beatrice Capra, 91st-ranked freshman Ester Goldfeld and 51st-ranked sophomore Hanna
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Mary Clayton notched her team-leading 29th and 30th victories in wins against the Terrapins and Eagles. Mar took down senior Erina Kikuchi, freshman Jessica Wacnik and junior Olga Khmylev to complete the shutout. Exactly 24 hours later, the Blue Devils were back on the court to take on the Terrapins. Clayton and senior Monica Gorny kicked off doubles play with an 8-1 victory
over Jordan Hansbrough and Mikele Irazusta in the No. 3 spot. The 28th-ranked duo of Capra and sophomore Rachel Kahan quickly followed suit, upsetting the 26th-ranked tandem of Welma Luus and Ana Belzunce 8-1 in the No. 1 spot to seSEE W. TENNIS ON PAGE 6
send Blue Devils through final ACC road weekend Saba at No. 4, and freshman Jason Tahir, who played No. 6 against Maryland and No. 5 against Boston College as his classmate Raphael Hemmeler sat out the second match of the weekend. Saba registered the first singles victory Friday to tie the match at 1-1, defeating Jesse Kiuru 6-0, 6-3. He provided the clinching point Sunday, putting Duke ahead 4-0 with a 6-4, 6-1 dispatching of the Eagles’ Jonathan Raude. Saba’s win Sunday was his 10th consecutive singles victory and made him just the third Duke tennis player in school history—alongside Mengel and senior Luke Marchese—to record 10 singles victories in a single season of conference play. Tahir was the second singles player off the court Sunday after Saba, taking down Klaus Puestow by a 6-3, 6-0 score, but his Friday match was a more critical win for the Blue Devils. After Saba tied the match up at 1-1, Mengel was upset by Maryland’s Vlad Stefan to put Maryland in the lead once again. But the freshman duo of Hemmeler and Tahir finished off their straight-set victories at No. 5 and No. 6, respectively, to put Duke ahead 4-2 and earn it the win. The pair of victories earned the Blue Devils a second-place tie with North Carolina in the conference standings after Maryland upset the Tar Heels Sunday. Both Duke and North Carolina finish at
9-2, but the Tar Heels’ hard-fought 4-3 victory over Duke last week gives the Chapel Hill squad the head-to-head advantage and the No. 2 seed in the ACC tourna-
ment. Virginia, undefeated in ACC play, will be the top seed. Duke will receive a first-round bye in the conference tournament and will face the winner of sixth-
seeded N.C. State and 11th-seeded Boston College Friday. —from staff reports
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Fred Saba became the third player in program history to reach 10 singles wins in one ACC season with a pair of victories over the weekend.
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Duke takes one from Maryland The Blue Devils received two excellent performances from starting pitchers in their three-game series against Maryland, but emerged with just one victory. Marcus Stroman lasted eight innings in Friday’s loss, and Robert Huber gave Duke (14-23, 6-12 in the ACC) a complete game win Sunday to bookend a 21-2 drubbing by the Terrapins (24-14, 7-11). Stroman tallied eight strikeouts in his eight frames, surrendering just four hits and two runs, only one of which was earned. Duke played small ball on offense in the third inning, using a sacrifice bunt, a fielder’s choice and an intentional rundown to stake Stroman to a 2-0 lead. But an RBI single in the sixth by Maryland first baseman Tomo Delp and a seventh-inning passed ball by Blue Devil catcher Mike Rosenfeld allowed the Terrapins to tie the game. The 2-2 score held until the bottom of the tenth inning, when Maryland left fielder Michael Montville sent a David Putman fastball over the left-field fence to earn his team a walk-off 4-2 victory. Montville kicked off a hit parade that lasted into Saturday as the Terrapins chased Duke starter Trent
Swart after he gave up six hits and seven earned runs while recording just four outs. Maryland went on to pound out 21 hits in total, with seven players recording multi-hit days. The Terrapins scored in every inning— highlighted by a seven-run eighth—off five different Duke relievers. Sophomore righthander Robert Huber went the distance Sunday, striking out six while allowing three runs and five hits. Duke and Maryland traded runs through the middle innings to a 2-2 tie in the fifth that lasted until Terrapin sophomore Jake Stinnett delivered a pinchhit double with two outs in the bottom of the seventh. But Maryland starter David Carroll and reliever Charlie Haslup loaded the bases with one out in the next frame. Catcher Mike Rosenfeld delivered a sacrifice fly to tie the game at three, and Will Piwnica-Worms followed with a pinch-hit single to send the remaining two runners home and give Huber a two-run lead that he would hold for his fourth win of the season. —from staff reports
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Freshman Monica Turewicz’s win Sunday gave her a 24-3 record this season, including a 10-1 performance in the ACC.
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Robert Huber threw a complete game Sunday in the Blue Devils’ win against the Terrapins, striking out six while allowing three runs on five hits.
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cure the doubles point for Duke. The Blue Devils could not complete the sweep, as Mulholland and Mar fell to Cristina Stancu and Vroni Van Berlo 8-4. In singles play, Turewicz was the first off the court with a 6-0, 2-1 win over Irazusta, who retired in the second set in the No. 5 spot. Kahan and Clayton followed with victories over Van Berlo and Luus in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots, respectively, to win the match for Duke. Capra outlasted 28th-ranked Stancu 7-6 in a hotly contested first set in the No. 1 spot before dominating 6-2 in the second. The Terrapins picked up their only point of the day when Belzunce beat Goldfeld in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3. “Today was just a culmination of the effort [the team] put in practice and in the matches, and we wanted to end the season with an exclamation point,” Ashworth said. “Obviously it’s been a great regular season for us, but now we’ve got to put that behind us. The next step is the [ACC] tournament.” The Blue Devils will enter the ACC tournament as the No. 1 seed and will face the winner of No. 8 seed Boston College and No. 9 seed N.C. State in the second round next weekend in Cary, N.C.
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GBINIJE from page 2 around things,” he said. “It’s taught me a lot.” But the job is part of a larger maturation process for Gbinije, who has noticed stark differences between his high school and collegiate days both on and off the court. Once the No. 29 recruit in the nation coming out of high school according to ESPN.com, Gbinije played in just 18 of Duke’s 33 games, logging an average of 5.8 minutes in those contests, often as a defensive specialist. He finished the season with a total of 33 points, 16 rebounds and three assists. As a senior at Benedectine High School he averaged 25 points, 10 boards and five assists per game. “I think overall everything this year has been humbling, especially coming out of high school where you’re the man and everything is given to you,” Gbinije said. “[In college] it’s kind of the complete opposite, and I’m trying to adjust to it and make the best of it.” That transition has been off the court too, where the social lives of student-athletes are often removed from the rest of the student body. Having a job, especially one that forces him away from his busy life on West Campus, has further thrust Gbinije into the general population of Duke’s Class of 2015. “I usually don’t walk around putting myself on a higher pedestal—I try to be as humble as I can,” he said. “And I think getting a job at the Marketplace allows me to do [that and] make some money, but more importantly I get to interact with the people on East Campus because usually I’m never there.” The decision is already paying dividends as Gbinije gets to know his classmates. Once, a surprised student asked him why he was working there when he is on full scholarship. “Just trying to be a regular student,” Gbinije recalled answering. Gbinije is a unique sight within the store—when he works the register, the checkout counter barely reaches his knees. Working there Sunday, he towers over his two female co-workers, both of whom are over a foot shorter than him. The experience has been a financially and socially rewarding one for him, regardless of whether or not he remains a part of the Duke Class of 2015. “Now I get the chance to meet my freshman class for once,” Gbinije said. “It is kind of weird that [freshman year] is almost over, but it’s better to meet them now than never.”
SULAIMON from page 3 he is considered one of the best guards in the class of 2012. The Houston product finished with 13 points, seven rebounds and two assists in just 19 minutes to help hold off a late rally by the East. Shooting 3-of-6 from 3-point range, Sulaimon was the most productive shooter on the floor, as the only player to hit more than one 3-pointer in the game. Although he did commit four turnovers on the night, the experience playing point guard should help Sulaimon before he arrives in Durham in July. “I felt comfortable with [playing point guard],” Sulaimon said. “I thought I should’ve did some things better, but at the end of the day we got the win and I played well enough for us to get the win.” Along with Sulaimon, Duke fans were also keeping tabs on Blue Devil target Tony Parker, who finished with eight points and 12 rebounds for the East. Parker will announce his long-awaited college decision Friday at Miller Grove High School in Lithonia, Ga. The Blue Devils are thought to be a long shot at this point to land the big man, who is expected to commit to UCLA, though he said after the game he is still considering Duke, Kansas, Ohio State and Georgia. The Duke coaching staff is also awaiting a decision from Amile Jefferson, a 6-foot-9 combo forward from Philadelphia. Jefferson is the third-ranked power forward in the class of 2012 and will decide soon between Duke, N.C. State, Kentucky and Villanova. And Sulaimon is working hard to ensure that he will not be the only member of the Blue Devils’ 2012 recruiting class. “I talk to Amile Jefferson. I’m going to try my hardest to try and get him to come to Durham,” Sulaimon said. “I’m still talking to Parker too. It’s not over yet according to him.”
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Gbinije says the decision to work at the East Campus Store was partly made because he was “just trying to be a regular student.”
ROWING from page 3 Breanna Briede said. “Today was exciting because we rowed the fastest race we ever have, and it was an exciting comeback from being down at the start to losing by less than one second.” The second varsity eight advanced to the championship heat after coasting through its first two heats. The boat recorded its fastest time of the weekend in the final, but could not catch up to the Bison down the stretch, finishing .97 seconds behind. “For our program that was a highlight,” Horner said.
“That’s the best finish the second varsity has ever had at the Knecht Cup. When it comes down to that close of a race obviously you want to be on the other end of it. We felt really good about the race and felt like it was strong, but just couldn’t get them right at the end.” Duke’s varsity four boat finished second in the petite final—eighth place overall. The Blue Devils’ freshman boat also finished sixth in the petite final. “This was probably our best team performance for sure [in the Knecht Cup],” Horner said. “Last year our varsity four did a little bit better than they did this year, but overall having the one and the two boats up in the top was a highlight for us.”
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W. GOLF from news page 1 to clinch their 17th ACC championship and their first since 2008, when thensophomore, Amanda Blumenhurst claimed her second consecutive individual conference championship while leading Duke to a team title. At 3-under-par, Duncan was the only golfer to break even for the weekend. She finished six strokes ahead of a three-way tie for second place at 3-over-par. The junior pulled away from the rest of the field on the second day when windy conditions prevailed, shooting a 2-under-par 69 while Wake Forest’s Olafia Kristinsdottir and Blue Devil sophomore Alejandra Cangrejo, two eventual runners-up, shot a 78 and 75, respectively. The win marks Duncan’s fourth tournament title and her eighth top-10 finish this season. “The middle day was especially tough,” Brooks said. “The players had to be prepared to stand behind the ball with two clubs and hang onto the club that they thought at that moment
would work.” Duncan finished the last round of play with an even-par 71, maintaining her lead over Kristinsdottir, Cangrejo and Florida State’s Maria Salinas. Duke sophomore Laetitia Beck earned ninth place with a 9-over-par 222, followed by junior Stacey Kim, who tied for 19th place six strokes behind. Junior Courtney Ellenbogen rounded out the Blue Devil lineup tied for 36th place after shooting a 24-over-par 237. “This [championship] means a lot, particularly because the conditions this weekend were so tough,” Brooks said. “We won on a really hard golf course, which is exciting. The harder the conditions, the most likely it is that the best team is going to win that tournament. The fluke factor is less likely to happen when playing on a really good course.” The Blue Devils have 25 days until the NCAA regional championship, which begins May 10. Despite the long layoff, the team will look to carry the momentum through NCAA play. “A win is always good for that kind of thing,” Brooks said. “We’ve got our sights set on big things.”
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Lindy Duncan was the only golfer to finish under par at the ACC championships in Greensboro, N.C.
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Alejandra Cangrejo overcame a second-round 75 to finish in a three-way tie for third at 3-over-par.
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duARTS gives student artists their due The recent approval of du- streamlined for groups and ARTS, by the Student Organi- mitigate scheduling conflicts, zation Finance Committee will ensuring that large events do hopefully usher in a welcome not coincide. Moreover, arts and much needed overhaul of groups will be able to create the arts in the Duke commu- more collaborative and thenity. The body matic events seeks to serve an over the course editorial umbrella organiof the entire zation for all student arts orga- school year. On the audience nizations on campus by bring- side, the Duke community ing together undergraduate will gain from having a single theater, dance, visual arts, in- source, the duARTS calendar, strumental music, vocal music for one-stop information on and publication groups. Their arts programming. proposed structure include six duARTS’ efforts have prosilos for the six mediums as well duced tangible results. Recentas an executive board. ly, the administration agreed The potential benefits to to renovate a new arts space the student art community are for meetings and rehearsals on numerous. duARTS can be ef- Campus Drive. It is heartening fective in networking groups in to see that the University underorder to create more cohesive stands the importance of proevent planning. A unified body viding student artists adequate will make event planning more resources to properly work.
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However, three major obstacles still prevent Duke from reaching its full artistic potential. The first is space. While Smith Warehouse and the new Campus Drive arts space furnish much needed studio and rehearsal space, they remain very removed from the most populated and trafficked areas, unlikely to attract the regular passersby. duARTS should advocate for more central locations, such as the Bryan Center, to showcase student talent, which is deserving of a true spotlight and more. duARTS could also assume an advisory role as the West Union Building renovations unfold next year. Students especially need a strong collective voice to negotiate strong artistic considerations in the building’s architectural
design. The second issue is the lack of visibility among smaller groups who lack the publicity and buzz of well-known arts groups. For example, the most prominent dance and a cappella groups advertise and recruit heavily during orientation week, establishing their dominance early and permanently. Consequently, freshmen are aware of a handful of singular organizations, but not the greater Duke arts landscape as a whole. duARTS could provide a marketing and networking platform to smaller, more obscure arts groups. This could diversify the student perception of arts offerings on campus, as well as provide smaller groups with more participants and larger audiences.
Furthermore, an umbrella arts organization can have the influence to reach out to artistic communities outside of Duke, in those in Durham, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other universities nearby. There exists much untapped potential for duARTS, but consolidating and streamlining arts organizations is only half the battle. The main impetus to get involved with the arts must come from students. Through more cohesive programming, better advertising on a single and powerful duARTS platform and increased awareness of all arts opportunities on and off campus, Duke can take its art community to the next level. Duke has the talent—now it needs the organizational and structural backing.
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ome people in the United States think fetus- have coronary artery disease. I recognize that this is es have rights. medically unnecessary, but, laws, including in North I believe animals have rights. Why? Carolina and at least 19 other states, require women Scientists guess that somewhere seeking abortions to receive medically between 18 and 30 weeks, fetuses unnecessary ultrasounds—which add feel pain—we certainly know that substantially to the cost of the proceanimals feel pain. dure. Does the Pork Eater’s Right to Some people speculate that huKnow Act make buying bacon unnecmans are differentiated from other essarily cumbersome? Well, maybe, animals by their capabilities. We do but I think we can all agree that if we know that some animals—like birds can prevent some people from eating and pigs—are capable of cognitive pork, that’s a good thing. elena botella tasks that toddlers are not capable Pork Law II: The Oscar Mayer of. Can animals love and can they duke’s biggest party Amendment, modeled off the Hyde grieve? Are they self-aware? These Amendment, which prohibits cerquestions are surprisingly difficult tain federal funds from being spent to answer. on abortion. It is obvious that no citizen’s tax dolPerhaps the biggest difference between ani- lars should be spent in ways that violate his conmals and fetuses is that only fetuses can turn into science. That is why all the pacifists got a big tax human children—as Judith Thompson famously rebate after the wars in Iraq and Vietnam, right? remarked though, while an acorn will turn into Most conservative Christians might have skipped an oak tree, an acorn is not the same thing as an over their holy book’s prohibition on pork, but oak tree. many Muslims and kosher Jews take the matter If you ask around the Duke philosophy depart- quite seriously. No more federal funding for pork! ment, I’m sure you’ll find plenty of faculty who If we have the gall to tell women in the military would assert that adult cows, pigs and birds de- who have been raped while serving their country serve to be treated at least as well as fetuses. that we’ll have to discharge them if they want an And what does religion tell us? Let’s winnow abortion, then I see no problem forbidding federthings down to just pigs for a second. On pork, al tax dollars from being spent on pork. No pork the Christian Bible is clear: “They who eat swine’s for soldiers! No pork in schools! flesh, loathsome things and mice, shall all perPork Law III: Pig Trap Laws. “Trap” laws, or tarish with their deeds and their thoughts, says the geted regulation of abortion providers, put into Lord.” Eat bacon and your soul will be damned— place hyper-specific regulations for abortion proon this point, the Bible leaves no room for doubt, viders that don’t exist for other health care faciliprohibiting pork on at least three occasions. ties—rules about the placement of janitor’s closets Now that famous biblical literalist Rick Santo- or even rules dictating lawn care maintenance for rum is off the campaign trail, I hope he’ll partner grassy areas. The original “trap” laws are pretty with me in helping to implement my proposed creative—and they’re on the books in at least 34 “Pork Laws,”—together, Rick Santorum and I states, including North Carolina. Any room that might be successful in protecting the lives of our serves pork must have vents at least six feet off the porcine friends. ground! Water fountains in pork-serving facilities Pork Law I: The Pork Eater’s Right to Know Act. must have designs preapproved by the state! For some reason, people keep eating pork, despite I’m going to take a step back and say that, in the fact that it is obviously an abomination to do so. case this wasn’t obvious, I’m not in favor of Pork Some people have noted that abortion carries medi- Laws I-III. And although this article has been sarcal risks—albeit, medical risks on par with the medi- donic, I certainly don’t think abortion—or restrictcal risks of carrying a child to term. But do pork eat- ing abortion access for women—is funny. ers know all of the medical risks associated with an Bacon might taste good, but most people could animal-based diet? Eating bacon has been known to probably give it up easily. For those who agree with be associated with a higher risk of prostate cancer. I the Supreme Court that abortion is a legal right, propose that, 24 hours before a person be allowed to but don’t see the problem with laws that severely purchase pork, they should have to receive counsel- restrict its access, I hope you’ll consider the ways ing about their decision. First, they will watch a video in which these restrictions can threaten the health of cute baby piglets. Second, they will watch a video and well-being of vulnerable women. of pigs being brutally tortured and slaughtered—no averting your eyes, pork eaters! Third, they will reElena Botella is a Trinity junior. This is her final ceive an ECG scan to make sure they don’t already column of the semester.
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ood evening, I’m Dr. Brainchops. I’m the Tree of Life”? Whether you said yes or no, knowing head psychological counselor and overseer enough about the movie to have an opinion means of patient confidentiality at CAPS. Saturday, a you’re definitely a weirdo. You might be a good candifreshman named Devin came into our date for a lobo. office behaving like a total weirdo. He “I want a cat but don’t want to have spewed out a constant stream of horto live in the cat-zone on Central.”— rid puns and misogynistic comments. Matilda Westingswurth, Trinity ’13 He was even making rape jokes, which, Who’s stopping you? It’s not like as we all know, haven’t been funny for Duke has room inspectors going over a week now. I haven’t gotten his around searching for kittens. Hell, get test results back yet, but all his sympa cat and a dog. See if you can breed toms lead me to believe that Devin is I’ve always imagined they’d birth dr. brainchops them. possessed by the Devil: red eyes, excesa superpet if someone could just conmonday, monday sive cursing, 80 percent name-spelling vince them to overcome their pride and congruity, being in Pi Kapp, etc... finally give this thing a shot. Our staff is still waiting on the lab reports, so I’ve “I think I’ve been drinking a lot lately.”—Aubrey got Devin held in one of our cages out back for the Graham, Trinity ’13 time being. Rest assured, all of our counselors and Are you drunk right now? I’m just saying you could receptionists are toiling day and night to give Devin do better. the treatment he needs, especially if that means pok“My roommate always gets in the way of me ing him with a stick until we arbitrarily decide it’s time masturbating.”—Rick Thrillson, Pratt ’15 to put him down. Since I’m occupied with overseeing First off, you sound like a pirate. Next time, try the treatment of this special patient, I have to cancel swapping out that gerund and saying “my masturbatall my appointments. I’ve written this memo to all my ing” to speak English more like a landlubber. To be scheduled patients. It outlines the problems you’ve more of a handlubber, try your dorm’s guest bathconfessed to me during our last session, followed by rooms. They lock. recommendations I would’ve given you had we met in “The weather is so nice, I just can’t find the motiperson today. I’ve chosen to have it published in The vation to stay in and work right now!”—Becky TrobbleChronicle as that seemed much easier than emailing scotch, Trinity ’15 you all individually. Yes, I’ve seen this one before. No cure for it. Nope. “I’ve got too much work!”—Justin Dustax, Pratt ’14 Always a chronic condition. Come into our office next Students here harp on this one all the time, but week and we’ll fix you up with a lobo or two. (cough) don’t feel helpless; the good news is you have plenty of Weirdo. options. Have you considered getting worse grades? It “I think I’m addicted to the gif caption blog #Whatworks remarkably well for many students here. If that shouldwecallme … or whatever has replaced it by the seems unacceptable, then I’d recommend you just time you need to quote me in The Chronicle.”—Shathrow in the towel and let me give you a lobotomy. ron Toumuch Onyawall, Trinity ’12 They make life much simpler, and thanks to some reWhenever I hear people claim they’re “addicted” cent breakthroughs at the Duke Neuroscience Cen- to something stupid: ter, lobos are now safer than ever. <IMG=“PsyduckGrabbingHisHeadAndYellingPsyY “I’m overstimulated. There are too many things to YyYY!.gif”> do here!”—Kenny Duitál, Trinity ’15 “I find most things I encounter wildly offensive.”— Take a deep breath. Now close your eyes. Acknowl- Virginia Prollygesdit, Trinity ’13 edge that you can’t do everything at once. You’re goAhh, this affliction is even more common at Duke ing to have to miss out on some of the things you want than awareness posters with shallow depths of field. to do in college. But that’s okay, establishing priorities I’d recommend venting on the Internet or writing a is part of growing up. Now open your eyes, get on Fa- letter to The Chronicle. This will make you feel betcebook and click around aimlessly for a couple hours. ter and actually accomplish something (like you’ll get You can fullscreen pictures now, so you don’t have to laughed at on Buzzfeed). As an absolute last resort, worry about getting distracted any more. you might consider chilling the f**k out. “College flew by. I just can’t believe it. Where did I’ll see you all next week. the last four years go?”—Tori Memberztuffstuff, Pratt ’12 —Dr. Brainchops No one else seems to share this sentiment. People generally agree college seems like it takes forever. Dr. Brainchops raps: “Now she taking photos, they alYou should look into the possibility that you may be ready know though. Who needs their brain’s front? That’s the a weirdo. We can run some tests: Did you like “The motto, get a LOBO.”
lettertotheeditor Duke organizations united against Amendment One This past week, Duke College Republicans, Duke Democrats and Blue Devils United sat down for a dialogue about Amendment One facilitated by the Center for Multicultural Affairs. After an hour of discourse, we came to realize that we are all in agreement on some important aspects of this discussion. We believe it is the responsibility of North Carolina’s government to afford the current legal privileges of state-sponsored marriage to all committed couples, regardless of gender. We believe that these privileges are best conferred on all couples through civil unions that are legal in nature. Furthermore, because marriage is a deeply personal and spiritual commitment, conferring marriage should be the responsibility of faith communities, families and free organizations of private citizens, not the responsibility of the government. In an ideal world, the government would not be involved in marriage, but would recognize all couples through civil unions. As organizations, we are committed to working for a state where all families are treated equally, regardless of
their status in a religious marriage. Of course, we must also work to preserve the religious freedoms of all faith traditions. No faith community should ever be required to marry a couple in violation of their conscience. In accordance with these beliefs, we oppose North Carolina Amendment One. It limits both same-sex and opposite-sex couples’ legal recognition through civil unions and it interferes with religious freedom by further entangling the government with religious marriage. As organizations, we hope members of the Duke community will vote against NC Amendment One during oncampus early voting from April 19 until May 5 in the West Union building. Taylor Imperiale, Trinity ’14, Chair of Duke College Republicans Jacob Tobia, Trinity ’14, Blue Devils United Elena Botella, Trinity ’13, President of Duke Democrats
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n accordance with the inexorable momentum of specialization in the sciences, experts will continue to learn more and more about less and less until they end up knowing everything about nothing. This astonishing possibility, reduced by now to the sort of PowerPoint profundity that bedazzles at “TED talks,” remains to be adequately interpreted. The most important implication of scientific specialization is that it essentially forces science to become technological. This is not simply to state the obvious fact that science increasingly darren beattie relies on technology to carry out its oy weber purpose, and that its purpose is often understood to be “practical.” Rather, the claim at issue here is that, however pure its intentions (or pretensions), hyper-specialized scientific knowledge can only make sense of itself within a technological context. To fully make this case (I demure) would reach just a bit beyond the scope of a typical Chronicle column. It is possible, however, to provide a very general intuitive sketch of what I have in mind. Most scientific projects, broadly conceived, might be thought of as being motivated by the desire to piece together a big puzzle. If a “piece” of the puzzle is defined as the largest partition of the puzzle that can be effectively studied and managed by one person, the pieces will increase in number and complexity as more knowledge is acquired. At a certain point, the pieces become so small and remote that each researcher loses sight of exactly how his piece relates to and facilitates the understanding of the whole. As specialization progresses indefinitely, each individual piece of the puzzle shrinks in size and grows in complexity to the point that it becomes an infinitesimally small yet maximally dense point—a black hole of sorts in which any sense of its larger contextual significance collapses under the weight of its specificity. This rupture of means from ends is an especially dramatic instance of what Marx called “alienation.” Technology functions as a partial means of coping with the alienation the scientific researcher experiences on account of hyper-specialization. Specifically, technology is able to present the “big picture” of the puzzle back to the researcher by providing a reified, tangible expression of the functioning whole that includes his successful contribution to it. If a project is too complex for any one person to comprehend theoretically how each piece fits together, technology at least provides a simulacrum of that coherence; the fact that the technology “works” is perhaps the only satisfactory indication the researchers could have that they were on the right track with respect to the larger picture. Consider a hypothetical “iPhone 2,000,000,” which consists of 2,000,000 separate programs, each of which is the product of the entire research career of a Ph.D. level expert. Clearly the final product would be beyond the comprehension of any single person. Although most projects of this complexity would develop organically, this inaccessibility to individual comprehension would remain the case even in a situation of more centralized planning. Indeed, the sheer vastness of the undertaking would ensure that the “planners” were just as removed from holistic understanding by virtue of hollow generality as the expert researchers were by virtue of narrow specificity. At any rate, having all of the pieces come together in the form of a tangible, functioning final product confirms indisputably the coherence of a project which is impossible to grasp merely conceptually. While the easy functionality and objectification of the product saves its producers from the otherwise unbearable alienation of hyper-specialization, one wonders about the effect on the consumers of such a product. Keeping with our earlier example, the iPod 2,000,000 would prove extremely user-friendly, and, of course, fit comfortably into the palm of one’s hand. Far from being overwhelmed by the alienating influence of specialized complexity, the everyday user of technology must face the seemingly opposite danger connected with the deceptive temptations of false simplicity. Indeed, a peculiar feature of the technology that is becoming ever more enmeshed in our daily lives is that the complexity of its inner workings is more than overcome by the simplicity of its use. In a certain sense, the more complicated our technological society becomes, the simpler it appears. The false confidence this might engender presents rather obvious dangers that need not be elaborated upon here. While the above description is true as far as it goes, it suffers itself from a simplification that masks a deeper, more complicated problem. When actually pressed to think about it, most people are in some sense aware of how impossibly labyrinthine their technology is. It is not so much that people are unaware of their increasing ignorance in the technological world as that they don’t care that they are ignorant. They don’t care precisely because technology, having already been created by man, is “in principle” intelligible to man. Unlike the original Socratic ignorance that cultivated wonder, ignorance in the technological world is largely met with indifference. The result is a grotesque situation of ignorance without mystery or, as I call it, alienation 2.0. Darren Beattie is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in political science. This is his final column of the semester.
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actually be useful to get these people in this one place is exactly what we’re trying to create and exactly what didn’t exist,” Chu said. “It should never be that hard to contact people in the arts again.” One of the main goals of duARTS is to improve groups’ marketing strategies, which also prompted the involvement of Grody in early discussions. “With regard to marketing, we’re learning to market together in bigger ways,” Chu said. “It’s going to be impossible not to have schedules that overlap, but at least [we’ll work on] scheduling with a mind toward everything that’s going on, consolidating information about what’s happening so there’s one master student arts calendar that everyone can reference.” Lindroth hopes duARTS will create opportunities for collaborative arts ventures not only between student groups but also with the theatre studies, dance and music departments. He noted the recent production of “Ragtime”—a joint effort between student theater group Hoof’n’Horn and those three departments—as an example of potential collaborations. duARTS’ charter is timely given the upcoming opening of a new arts warehouse, which will open on Campus Drive next year. “We now have an organization and administrative entity to coordinate student arts planning, and now we also have a venue for rehearsing and collaborating and meeting to develop these plans,” Lindroth said. Starting next year, duARTS will be able to streamline and simplify operations between different groups, Solow said. “Each individual group isn’t doing anything different,” she noted. “[duARTS] is there to help artists. If there’s something like space being needed or other things on campus, they’ll be able to do that, rather than a lot of people just talking about it and complaining about things.” Freshman Tre’ Scott, incoming duARTS vice president, said he hopes that the organization will make arts more prominent on campus, potentially putting the Duke arts scene on as prominent a footing as athletics. duARTS President Sarah McCaffery, a junior, could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
the interview process. In the past, we had the traditional interviews in which applicants met with an interviewer for about half an hour or more and had a conversation. Now, we have a multiple mini-interviews at different stations in which applicants have a short amount of time to interact with interviewers or other applicants. The applicants are scored separately and a composite score is made. TC: What is the reason for this change? NA: Many interviewers make their decisions very early on in the interview, and they have already got an impression. Although this might change throughout the interview, it is quite common for interviewers to have a strong impression of the applicant very early on in the process. One of the advantages of the new system is that more people will be able to give opinions on the applicant in the same amount of time. There are also some planned questions and activities that everyone goes through, so reviewers at each station will be able to judge how each applicant responds to the same set of questions. Essentially, this standardizes the interview process and makes it fairer than it was in the past by giving us more ways to evaluate each applicant. This has been used by several other schools, but this is the first year that we have used it at Duke. TC: Has this change of the interview format affected the application process? Do you think the addition
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of the new MCAT will affect the application process at all? NA: No, not really. Every year we get between 4,500 to 5,000 applicants for a class size of roughly 100 students. The application process is not too different from applying to college. For example, it includes your grades, letters of recommendation, test scores. However, not every college offers interviews for its applicants applying out of high school, but for medical school, the interview is a very important part of the process. As for the MCAT, the new version will not be instituted until 2015, so it is still hard to predict what its impact will be. I believe that for the first couple years after the new MCAT is instituted, medical schools will have to slightly adjust their evaluation system to include the new information that the MCAT will cover. TC: What are some of your goals for the coming year? NA: Well, the main focus right now is opening the Learning Center, which is a very important goal. The building is set to finish by November, and medical students start having classes in this new building by January of next year. We also have several other ongoing initiatives in areas across the full spectrum of biomedical research. One of our strategies is to encourage and provide funding for research that brings together faculty members and students who have very different perspectives. We feel like this puts us in a better position to solve difficult problems.
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