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The Refectory in the Divinity School may be absent from West Campus next year. After several meetings with Refectory owner Laura Hall, Duke Dining has not yet renewed its contract with the eatery’s original Divinity School location. Dining administrators have asked Hall to pay a higher commission to the University starting next year and to make changes to her business model in order to afford the higher commission, she said. The Refectory opened in the Divinity School in 2005 as the University’s first green café, offering sustainable, healthy food options from local farms and living wages for its workers. “I’m the David and [administrators] are the Goliath,” Hall said. “If [they] are trying to make me more like a cookie-cutter fast food place, then [their] priority is not what my priority is. I would think [they] would be trying to make the other places more like the Refectory.” Paying a higher commission would require Hall to make sacrifices that she is not willing to make, Hall said. These would include raising prices, demoting full-time workers to part time, buying fewer fresh
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Inspired by his father’s work in investment banking, senior Garrett Lustig came to the University already attuned to finance. During his junior year, he participated in Duke’s orchestrated rounds of recruitment—donned suits, shook hands and submitted resumes. By the summer, he was clocking up to 100 hours per week at investment banking advisory firm Peter J. Solomon Company in New York City. By October, he signed a three-year contract with Centerview Partners, an investment banking and private equity firm. After he finishes his commitment, Lustig said he might go back to graduate school, stay with the company or even switch fields entirely. “The door’s wide open,” Lustig said. “It’s hard work, but after those years, you can literally do anything.” Events since the financial crisis ranging from Occupy Wall Street rallies to battles in Congress have led many Americans to question the level of influence that Wall Street wields in the economy. Despite the controversy, Duke students are still flocking to the finance industry in massive
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Nutritionists advise herbal Seven VP positions remedies at Duke IM by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE
Hardly a day goes by when Beth Reardon does not recommend at least a few herbal supplements to patients. Reardon, an integrative nutritionist at Duke Integrative Medicine, has a pedigree out-of-step with what one might expect from a medicinal herb enthusiast, with a bachelor’s degree in nutritional biochemistry and a master’s degree in kinesiology. In her approach, Reardon and the rest of the staff at Duke IM approach health in a way not typical of some of Duke’s more traditional medical and research programs. Considering natural foods and diet management, Reardon laments what she believes to be a prevalent overreliance on cheaply
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available pain relievers and overprescribed medication. “Too many people make meals of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories for chronic pain, arthritis-type conditions,” Reardon wrote in an email Saturday. “We know longterm use of these pharmaceuticals is harmful, so I take a plant-based approach with the addition of whole foods and herbals such as turmeric, ginger and green tea.” Part of what brings people to Duke IM is the desire for a broader outlook on treatment not focused solely on pharmaceuticals, she added. The facility offers patients a holistic blend of conventional and alternative medicine. “Many of the people I see would fall SEE HERBAL ON PAGE 4
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Undergraduates elected the 20122013 Duke Student Government committee vice presidents Monday. Of the seven vice president posts, only the positions for Durham and regional affairs and equity and outreach were contested. Freshman Derek Rhodes was elected vice president of Durham and regional affairs, and sophomore Stefani Jones was elected vice president of equity and outreach, Attorney General James Lee, a senior, wrote in an email Monday. Lee is also the managing editor for online at The Chronicle. Additionally, freshman Tre’ Scott
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will serve as vice president for services, sophomore Neil Kondamuri will serve as vice president for social culture and junior George Carotenuto will serve as vice president for facilities and environment. Freshman Jacob Zionce will serve as vice president for residential life, and freshman Nikolai Doytchinov will serve as vice president for academic affairs. “I’m really excited to work with all of the candidates,” said President-elect Alex Swain, a junior. “Most of the positions were unopposed, but all of the people elected are worthy of the position, and they are all hard workers.” SEE DSG ON PAGE 6
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At a time when morale among public school teachers has dropped to a 20-year low and many feel unfairly blamed for failing schools, Rebecca Mieliwocki has a message for the nation’s educators: Stand tall. “You will never meet a more hardworking American than a teacher, it’s the best value your tax dollars can get,” said Mieliwocki, a seventh grade English teacher from Burbank, Calif., who will be honored Tuesday at the White House by President Barack Obama as the 2012 Teacher of the Year. “I want them to stand up a little taller, be a little prouder and be very passionate about getting better.” Mieliwocki said social and economic pressures have made her job increasingly more challenging since she began teaching in public schools 14 years ago. “We face so many barriers to student success that I didn’t create and are beyond my control,” she said.
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JOBS from page 1 numbers. For the past five years, roughly one-quarter of Duke students who are employed by graduation reported that they have financial services jobs, which include investment banking, sales and trading, equity research and asset management. Finance, insurance and real estate represent the largest sector of the U.S. economy, outpacing even manufacturing, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Although student interest has fluctuated year by year, interest in finance at Duke has grown since the early 2000s, said Emma Rasiel, director of the Financial Education Partnership and assistant professor of the practice in economics. Duke is not alone among the nation’s top institutions. The financial services industry tops the list at Columbia University, attracting 26.9 percent of students who found jobs in 2011. At Harvard University, the field has been the most popular among graduates for five years in a row. At Princeton University, 30.4 percent of working graduates went into finance last year. The appeal of finance Many students interviewed said part of the draw to finance is the lucrative compensation. Although the jobs can be intense and the hours long, some first-year analysts at investment banks can make well above $100,000 their first year, depending on year-end bonuses. “You can make more money in Wall Street coming out of college than you can in almost any other sector,� said Kellan Dickens, Pratt ’07, who will graduate from business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this year. “And you can enjoy that lifestyle in New York that you can’t in any other field.� Phil Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University, said he believes many students at elite institutions are naturally attracted to high-paying jobs as a result of their more affluent backgrounds. Almost a quarter of Duke students come from families that make more than $300,000 a year, according to self-reported senior survey data compiled by the Office of Institutional Research from 2007 to 2009. “You’ve got a socioeconomic group at Duke that comes from the 1 percent,� Gardner said. “This group thinks, ‘We
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should have the freedom to make money.’ And you’re going to have a heavy dose of that mindset at Duke. It’s the nature of the beast.� But reducing interest in finance to simply a monetary pursuit overlooks other factors, such as gaining technical and marketable skills. Rasiel said that a few years in banking gives Duke graduates access to opportunities in other industries and sets them up well for later ventures. “The typical stereotype is to do it for money, but it’s more than that,� Lustig said. “You get to do something that’s wellregarded. You work with important people and important companies. It’s interesting. You learn something new every day.� Prestige and competition Another notable factor that draws students to the industry is its competitive and high-profile nature. Financial companies that recruit on campus and pose challenging application processes carry prestige that naturally appeals to high-achieving students, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “Students at places like Duke are highly competitive, and it is very competitive to get those jobs,� Schoenfeld said. “It makes sense that people who have been striving their entire lives decided to focus on competing for something that very few people can have.� Senior Daniel Benzecry said he was drawn to the types of opportunities that financial jobs present. “Being in New York in finance, you can’t go higher,� said Benzecry, who plans to work in sales and trading at Nomura Group in New York after graduation. “It’s the top of the world.� This draw is not limited to finance. Schoenfeld cited the increasing popularity of Teach for America—a nonprofit organization that sends graduates into underperforming K-12 schools—as a direct result of this mindset. Since its founding in 1990, Teach for America has earned itself the reputation of an elite brand, receiving 48,000 applications last year with an acceptance rate of 11 percent. As more people apply, the process becomes more competitive and thus more appealing to certain students. “TFA has become one of the most competitive recruiters nationally, so the chance to compete at a high level is... in line with the culture of our students,� said William WrightSwadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Duke Ca-
reer Center, adding that both Teach for America and financial firms attract the same type of students. The cycle continues Loyal alumni who recruit at Duke create opportunities for current students to begin their careers. Because many Duke graduates work in finance, many of the available opportunities for seniors are in this industry, which in turn perpetuates a cycle. “When you have more people in an industry, you build relations with that industry very quickly,� Wright-Swadel said. “And we have very strong champions—alumni who are in the industry—on Wall Street.� John Caccavale, who previously served as captain of the Duke recruiting teams at J.P. Morgan and Barclays Capital, estimated that nearly all finance recruiting teams that come to campus include Duke alumni. Caccavale, Trinity ’81, has since returned to the University and now serves as executive director of the Duke University Financial Economics Center. “We have such strong alumni connections,� Caccavale said. “[As a recruiter] I wanted to hire Duke students.� Building a presence at a company can happen quickly. Four years ago, for example, the Citi transaction services department of Citigroup established Duke as one of the 10 core schools from which it recruits, said John Ladany, managing director in Citi Transaction Services, co-head of the Duke recruiting team and Trinity ’79. Since then, more than a dozen Duke students have been recruited to work in the department. Some of Duke’s institutional tools may also play a role in urging students toward finance. For his honors thesis, senior Ryan Genkin analyzed more than 1,200 full-time job listings in Duke eRecruiting, a breakdown that is not made publicly available by the University. Genkin found that 25.6 percent of the job postings in the University’s premier job database were in the finance and insurance industry. Whether or not Duke students will continue to pursue finance in the long term is unclear. New legislation, such as Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, may impact the industry and cause banks to hire fewer students, Rasiel noted. But in the short term, Rasiel said that interest in finance is here to stay. “As long as the banks are hiring, the students will want to go there,� she said.
Request for Input in the Regular Review of Kyle Cavanaugh, Vice President for Administration University ofďŹ cers are subject to administrative reviews at various intervals during their tenure by a broadly based committee of colleagues. Members of the review committee are: Julie Britton, Fuqua School of Business Ann Elsner, Perkins Library Warren Grill, Pratt School of Engineering David Jarmul, News and Communications Lloyd Michener, Community and Family Medicine Kevin Sowers, Duke Hospital Stan Wilcox, Athletics Phail Wynn, Jr., Durham and Regional Affairs (chair) This will be Kyle’s ďŹ rst review since being appointed Vice President for Human Resources in February 2009. His title was later changed to Vice President for Administration after he assumed management responsibility for Duke Police, Disability Management and Parking and Transportation. The review will focus on the effectiveness of Kyle’s leadership, particularly in regard to the opportunities and challenges these areas will face in the future. The committee is interested in several areas including:
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properties. Sophomore Abby Glackin has been taking supplemental melatonin, an herbal compound often used as a sleep aid, since last summer. “It helps me fall asleep and not wake up in the middle of the night,” Glackin said. “It works pretty well.” Jeanine Davis, associate professor of horticultural science at North Carolina State University, said several medicinal herbs can be found growing wild in the Triangle area. But one would be more likely to find useful species—including black cohosh, wild ginger and bloodroot—in cooler, more mountainous regions of North Carolina. “A lot of the plants are woodland botanicals, and they would be found in the forests in the western part of the state,” Davis said. Alphin noted an increasing body of scientific research regarding supplements, but emphasized the distinction between herbal supplements and pharmaceuticals. “They’re not drugs, and they’re not intended to be drugs, so just to be on the safe side always familiarize yourself with what you’re taking before you take it,” she said. Reardon warned that individuals taking prescription medications should be very cautious when adding herbal supplements to their diet and should always consult their physician. Despite the concerns, Davis is optimistic about the future of medicinal herbs. She said she is pleased with the increase in herbal research and the steps the herb industry has taken to improve quality. “It’s a growing movement in North Carolina and throughout the nation,” Davis said. “In many cases, I feel [herbs] are safer than some of the pharmaceuticals or over-the-counter drugs available.”
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REFECTORY from page 1 ingredients and not keeping up the Refectory’s sanitation score. The County Health Department awarded both Refectory locations a score of 102 last year, the highest of any Durham restaurant. Dining will make its final decision in the next week or two in advance of the contract running out on June 30, Hall said. Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of housing and dining, said he and other administrators will meet with Hall Friday to further discuss these issues. He noted the University’s support for local food options. “We recently replaced a national organization in Devil’s Bistro with a local company, Food Factory,” Johnson wrote in an email Monday. “We also hired a local company Pitchfork Provisions for the dining in McClendon, so that is two changes in the same year and both are local.” Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta referred all questions to Johnson. Johnson declined to comment specifically about the Refectory before the meeting Friday. Director of Duke Dining Robert Coffey did not respond to questions in time for publication. The Refectory’s second outlet, which opened at the School of Law in 2008, still has two years left in its contract with the University and is not part of the current contract negotiations. The restaurants make a profit for the University, Hall said, helped by subsidies from her business, Bon Vivant Catering. Without any advertising besides social media and word of mouth, about 600 to 800 people eat lunch in the Divinity School location every day, Hall said. The Refectory has won five gold plates in Duke’s Performance Assessment for Culinary Excellence evaluation, four more than any other eatery on campus. Hall said administrators approached her a year ago concerning contract changes. “What is happening is that there is a deficit and they need to raise funds,” she said. Hall was not aware of details of any other vendor contracts or whether national chains such as McDonald’s pay the same commission as more local options. Greek Devil owner Gus Megaloudis said his commission to the University rose 50 percent for the 2011-12 school year from 10 percent to 15 percent, which meant prices rose to make up the difference. “This year was a very difficult year for us because of that 50 percent jump,” he said. “That’s a lot of money. The bad thing is it will be passed on to the students.” If administrators decline to renew the Refectory’s contract, Hall said she is looking into off-campus locations and a food truck that could be in Durham if not at Duke. A few admitted students on campus for Blue Devil Days told Hall that they will attend Duke because the presence of the Refectory indicates that the University shares the students’ ideals for a more local, sustainable food system. “I meet so many new students coming in because their parents asked, ‘Where’s the best food on campus?’ and they get sent to us,” Hall said. Sophomore Sarah Berman eats breakfast and lunch at the Refectory every day because, she said, the workers are friendlier and the food is better than at other campus eateries. “It has a focus on giving students food that’s good for them and that tastes good, so it’s not your typical get-foodand-head-to-the-library type of place,” she said. “The line is always out the door at lunchtime.... I’ll be sad to see it go.”
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Rhodes, a senator for Durham and regional affairs, garnered 65 percent of the vote in a race against freshman Miranda Goodwin-Raab and sophomore Kelly Scurry, both Durham and regional affairs senators. Scurry and GoodwinRaab received 20.5 and 13.2 percent of the Stefani Jones votes, respectively. “I’m overwhelmed by all of the support I received from the student body, and I will not let them down,” Rhodes said. “All of the candidates were great.... I hope they will still choose to be a part of Derek Rhodes the committee.” Jones, a senator for athletics, services and the environment, won the position of vice president of equity and outreach against junior Ayan Salah, a senator for student life. Jones won 71.4 percent of the votes, and Salah received 27.1 percent. “I’m really humbled,” Jones said. “This position specifically is all about student interest and representing student groups on campus, so it means a lot to know that people think I am the kind of person they want representing them on campus.” In addition to deciding vice presidential races, students also elected DSG senators and class presidents and vice president. Sophomore Marcus Benning and freshman Crystal Chukawurah will serve as senators for Durham and regional affairs. Freshman Max Ramseyer will serve as senator for equity and outreach, and
freshmen Josh Izzard and Laurel Koch will serve as senators for academic affairs. Additionally, freshman Cameron Tripp will serve as senator for facilities and environment, freshman Yue Dai will serve as senator for residential life and freshmen Michael Washington and Tiffany Kearse will serve as senators for services. Elysia Pan was elected president of the Class of 2013, but a vice president was not elected for the rising senior class because no one ran for the position. Swetha Iruku and Samantha Koh were elected president and vice president, respectively, of the Class of 2014. Bret Lesavoy and Ray Li were elected president and vice president, respectively, of the Class of 2015.
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A page by McCallie’s road to Durham Paige guide to journalism This is it—my final installment. It’s been quite a run. My journalism career began with a riveting game story of the women’s soccer team’s trip to Ohio State, and from there I progressed slowly but surely and dabbled in just about every sport Duke has to offer. But all the while there was one goal in mind. I never set out to become a journalist—I wanted to be a columnist. In the end I became both. Four years later, it’s time to hang ‘em up and go pro in something other than journalism. This is my Face Time. Those of you who know me or have read my column regularly know that I have a strong affinity for all things Colorado. There’s no particular reason, other than the fact that Colorado is home and when I came to Duke my high school principal told me to never forget where Ryan I came from. Don’t worry Mr. Peterson, I flaunt it. One of the great things about growing up in Colorado as a budding sports fan was having the privilege to read the work of Woody Paige before any of you East Coasters had ever heard of him. Before Around the Horn, before Cold Pizza, before 1st and 10, Woody was just a columnist for the Denver Post. As long as I can remember, I have read every one of his columns while I eat breakfast. He never walks the line, just says what needs to be said. And most of the time it’s the way he says it that makes reading Woody enjoyable. Whether satirical, sarcastic, or scathing, every one of his columns is distinctly Woody. I never tried to be Woody—except for my final project for AP English five years ago, in which I attempted to imitate the Colorado icon—but I hope you got to know me a little bit this year through this column. From field hockey to men’s basketball and everything in between, I really enjoyed the privilege of writing in this space every two weeks. I like to think that I developed a small following—I was pleasantly surprised at where some of the emails and facebook messages came from—and I hope that I was able to both inform and entertain. Regardless, writing this column was something that I wanted to do for me, and sometimes that’s all that counts. The football coach at my high school once proudly told our strength class, “I don’t tell jokes to make other people laugh, I tell ‘em so I can laugh,” after one of his many attempts at humor was met with crickets. I don’t know if that line was an Ed Stevens original, but coach also declared me to be the world record holder in the one-mile run so there is no doubt he is a reliable source. My athletic abilities aside, Duke was undoubtedly the best environment for me to scratch this journalistic itch. Why? Duke is synonymous with winning. I’ll be real honest with you, I was one of those kids who listed ‘basketball’ as the main reason why I applied to school here. I haven’t played organized basketball since third grade, but if it wasn’t for basketball I probably would not have considered Duke at all.
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Head coach Joanne P. McCallie tells stories from her coaching career at Maine, Michigan State and Duke in her book “Choice Not Chance.” by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
On a shelf in Joanne P. McCallie’s office sits a photo of her standing and smiling next to Cindy Blodgett. Holding the photo now, McCallie can see past the forced grin she feigned that day just by looking at her squinted, bloodshot eyes, which unbeknownst to the people in the room had been “crying up a storm” only hours earlier. McCallie, who coached Blodgett for four years at Maine, was attending her star player’s press conference after she was selected sixth overall in the 1998 WNBA Draft. The tears, though, were not drops of joy—her doctor had just informed her that she had miscarried her second child. Blodgett did not learn of that day’s events until years later. The experience is just one of many that McCallie details in her book “Choice Not Chance,” which was published Feb. 28, writing that the miscarraige was “the best day of her life and the worst day of mine.” “It was very healing to write about it,” McCallie said. “I had such naivety to think there would never be a problem. I just couldn’t believe I was in that circumstance.” McCallie said the book, which spans her time at Maine, where she became head coach in 1992, through her days at Duke, is a “blend of stories” that allowed her to share personal experiences and struggles. Writing the book was an emotional experience for McCallie, who finished it in a cottage overlooking the ocean in Maine, the state her family moved to while she was growing up. But after initial struggles to get it published, she received the help of ghostwriter Rob Rains and finally got John Wiley & Sons, which has published other Duke-related books, to put it into print.
“When you’re trying to write there are times it bleeds out of you,” McCallie said. “It’s always cathartic.” McCallie first developed the “Choice Not Chance” philosophy while at Maine in what she described as an “aha! moment” when she heard the quote “Choice, not chance, determines destiny. Choose to become a champion in life.” She subsequently plastered it on the wall outside her office and has taken it with her ever since. “I just thought, ‘That’s perfect, that’s who I am,’” McCallie said. “You can’t leave your philosophy behind.” The mantra has been one McCallie uses while teaching kids at camps. It became most popular during her time at Michigan State after she took the Spartans to the 2005 national championship game. Leaving her first big program for Duke was difficult for both McCallie and her family, so she began writing detailed notes on her laptop every night to chronicle her experiences—ones that would eventually become the basis for the book. The introduction is a letter to her daughter Maddie, who she describes as being “devastated” by the move from East Lansing, Mich. to Durham. But McCallie has always felt a personal connection to Duke, which recruited her as a player, saying she was first inspired to write a book after reading men’s basketball head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s first book, “A Season Is a Lifetime.” McCallie continued to read Krzyzewski’s writing as her career continued. She was reading another one of his books while in her office at Michigan State, only to have Spartan men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo walk in and jokingly flip SEE MCCALLIE ON PAGE 8
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Skidding Blue Devils try to rebound against Charlotte In the midst of a 2-9 skid, Duke will face Charlotte in a nonconference matchup Tuesday night at Robert and Mariam Hayes StaDuke dium. First vs. pitch is Charlotte scheduled for 6 p.m. T h e TUESDAY, 6 p.m. 49ers (17Robert and Mariam 21) lost to Hayes Stadium the Blue Devils (15-26) 4-1 last season, the first matchup between the teams
since 1987. Duke freshman right-hander Andrew Istler will make his first collegiate start on the mound against Charlotte right-hander Tyler Barnette. Istler has made 17 appearances for the Blue Devils out of the bullpen this season and sports a 2-3 record with a 4.81 ERA. He has also started 25 games for the Blue Devils in the outfield, hitting .284 with two doubles and eight RBI. Barnette has a 1-2 record in his seven starts and holds an ERA of
4.32. In his last start, Barnette was roughed up by Dayton, giving up four earned runs in just two innings of work. Charlotte has relied on its bats all season, boasting a lineup with five starters hitting over .300. Outfielder Shane Brown leads the team with an on-base percentage of .435, and first baseman Corbin Shive has a .318 batting average with 13 extra-base hits.
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during my four years here—not that I had anything to do with it. After this weekend, Duke teams have won 12 ACC titles and three national championships during my time here. That’s pretty good, I guess. Yet, I covered zero of those, for the same reason why my one year stint in Woody’s shoes isn’t going to last any longer—I have more fun as a fan. I loved having the opportunity to get to know all the teams here, and getting enhanced access that the average fan doesn’t. But my most memorable experiences at Duke
weren’t on press row. They were driving to Winston-Salem or Chapel Hill to watch a women’s soccer game, pleading our case to the mysterious yellow box from the front row at Wallace Wade, and jumping from the upper level of Cameron to celebrate a national championship. The Chronicle gave me a special connection to those teams that I will be eternally grateful for. Though my time as a columnist is over, rest assured that as a fan I’m just entering my prime.
Now, I didn’t come here just because of basketball. But Coach K grabbed my attention, and the campus pulled me in. This place breeds winners, in basketball, lacrosse, tennis, soccer, biology, chemistry, mechanical engineering, psychology, economics, civil engineering and just about any other field. I just wanted to be a part of it. It’s no coincidence that the Blue Devils did a lot of winning on the field and on the court
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his rival head coach’s work over. McCallie’s development of a personal relationship with Krzyzewski became critical in her first season with the Blue Devils. In a grueling week the women’s basketball team traveled from the Virgin Islands to Nashville, Tenn. to University Park, Pa., losing three consecutive games to Connecticut, Vanderbilt and an unranked Penn State squad, respectively. “It was probably the most miserable week of my existence here, and I’m sure it was for Duke fans, too,” McCallie said. In the book, McCallie details how she then holed herself in her office with the team preparing to face then-No. 4 Rutgers at home. “I was questioning my decision to come to Duke, and I was a physical and emotional wreck,” she writes. But the man whose books inspired her to come to Durham and write her own told her, “Screw them, screw all of them,” referencing those doubting her in her first season with Duke. The Blue Devils began the game against Rutgers trailing 9-2, seemingly sending the team to a fourth straight loss. But McCallie called a timeout and Duke held the Scarlet Knights to just 35 points for the rest of the game, leading to a 49-44 upset. “[Krzyzewski] throttled me. He was the only person who
could speak to me,” McCallie said. “Sometimes he is the only one that can make any sense and I needed a coach.... It probably changed my whole outlook and future at Duke.” And as McCallie has settled into her role and grown closer to Krzyzewski, she has had the opportunity to speak with the person she describes as “a legend in all the right senses.” As a women’s basketball head coach, McCallie faces different challenges than Krzyzewski, but says his advice has nonetheless been invaluable. “I’m a bit worried about the state of the [college men’s basketball] game right now. When you say you have five freshmen leaving Kentucky to go be in the pros, I’m just not sure how I feel about it,” she said. “Is that what college athletics is? The guys have some much more serious issues, to me, than the women’s side because they just don’t vacate teams. But I’ve really appreciated Mike in a big way.” Looking back on this last season, she said the story of the 2011-2012 Blue Devils— who made the Elite Eight with only eight players—will be the start to her next work, which she plans to write after leading Duke to an NCAA tournament championship one day. “[Choice Not Chance is] the book before that, which explains the coming together,” McCallie said. “I have lots of ideas for another book. I hope I get the chance to write it.”
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Spread the merit scholarship love Of the nation’s elite uni- pand and carve an established versities, Duke is among the niche for itself in the landscape very few that offer merit-based of higher education, merit scholarships to outstanding scholarships play a useful role incoming students. Most no- in bettering the University. But, tably, none of the Ivy League as with any major expenditure, schools—which it is imperative editorial are often cited that we critically as Duke’s peer examine these institutions—publicly offer awards, especially given that merit-based aid. the Office of Undergraduate What then makes Duke dif- Scholars and Fellows spends ferent? In terms of both prestige thousands of dollars each year and resources, Duke currently to benefit only a small percentoccupies the territory between age of undergraduates. excellent public universities like The pertinent questions, the University of North Caro- then, are twofold. Does the preslina at Chapel Hill, which offer ence of merit scholarships at highly prestigious merit scholar- Duke result in inequity among ships, and those places like Har- undergraduates? We believe vard University and Princeton the answer is yes, though less so University that are often consid- than is often assumed. Second, ered the best institutions in the with this inequity in mind, do country and even the world. merit scholarships harm the As Duke continues to ex- Duke community more than
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I do think that the best talent is at these schools - it just takes some prodding to ‘entrepreneurialize’ (I know that’s not a word) students who have gotten used to not being innovative. —“Jeremy” commenting on the story “Duke establishes startup programs in Silicon Valley.” See more at www.dukechronicle.com.
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they help? We believe the answer is no, for the time being. The $200,000 or more over four years received by merit scholars is a lot of money. But tuition coverage is largely upfront costs; much of the real value of being on a merit scholarship, at least in principle, derives from the special resources one gets for the four years after matriculation—resources that advantage their Duke educational experience. It is widely assumed that there exists a wall of privilege in terms of on-campus resources that divide the scholar community from the rest. This is only somewhat accurate. It is true that summer programming and funding are major advantages, but virtually all other programs that scholars participate in are open to
all Duke students in various forms. For example, small dinners with faculty members has been replicated by the FLUNCH program. Eric Mlyn, former director of the Robertson Scholars Program, helped create DukeEngage, which bears close resemblance in principle and structure to the Robertson Program’s summer opportunities. Likewise, DukeImmerse, Duke INtense Global and new programs such as Duke in Silicon Valley and Duke in D.C. are indicative of a University-wide effort to bring the resources typically associated with merit scholarships—such as international travel and alumni networks— to the whole undergraduate community. Another perceived division is one of access to information.
Scholars are, for example, automatically registered for certain OUSF listservs that can point them to relevant information sessions, grant applications and other opportunities. However, the same information is listed for public use on OUSF’s website and can be accessed by any undergraduate student. Continuing this trend, it is conceivable to think of a day when Duke can do away with merit scholarships altogether, thereby increasing the equity of the undergraduate experience. But until the University has cemented itself alongside the world’s best institutions—a goal toward which programs like DukeEngage are instrumental— merit scholarships will continue to prove useful for drawing the best students and producing distinguished graduates.
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bout two weeks ago, I needed to get the cial success, become a never-ending to-do list that heck out of Dodge, or Durham rather. The is somehow supposed to all come together to depressure of graduation was too great. The fine our college careers. thought of my time at Duke slipBut despite all the pressure ping away was too overpowering. placed on these prefabricated exRather than committing myself to periences, I have derived very little the stereotypical string of Saturday meaning from any of them. I have night events that have inundated done all of these activities countmy college career—moving from an less times in my four years, but apartment pregame to Main Street instead of reinforcing my sense of to Shooters—I got in the car with a Duke identity, I have been disaptwo of my best friends and we hit by the irrelevance of these caroline fairchild pointed the road. Our destination? Didn’t events. I don’t have any profound senior column really matter. Our goal? Hold on memories of the countless nights I to the moment for as long as we spent waiting in line for Shooters. could. My recollections of fraternity parties have all We ventured to Saxapahaw. Yes, I said Saxapa- blurred together into one inconceivable haze. haw—a town covering five miles of North Carolina And my many nights stuck in the library needthat only about 1,000 people call home. We went lessly worrying about X test or Y paper have all for dinner and a concert, musing about the next melted away. few weeks as well as where we’d be five years after. What do I remember from my four years at A mere 40 minutes away from the Gothic Won- Duke? I remember the experiences that weren’t derland, Saxapahaw might as well have been on spoon-fed to me by the University—the memories the other side of the world. Traveling down gravel I forged for myself. I remember walking around roads surrounded by open pastures, we quickly re- campus for hours with my first great friend at alized no semblance of Duke’s pressure-driven cul- Duke, sipping on Loop milkshakes and seeing myture would survive our trip down 15-501. Instead, self in someone else for the first time in my life. I this seemingly dead-end town ironically offered an remember my time alone reporting in Durham, enduring feeling of possibility to calm our anxious leaving the security of Duke to see the Bull City yet excited nerves. from a different perspective. I remember crashing In Saxapahaw, no one cares about the exotic a party I wasn’t invited to and falling in love with career you are going off to next year or how many the man who makes me a better version of myself. fraternity listservs you happen to find yourself on. And I remember that night in Saxapahaw, N.C., There is no way to signal to this community of crying and laughing with the fellow Dukies who backyard hipsters your place in the social hierar- have become my family. chy by the brands you wear or the greek symbols These moments may seem distant from the you display on your chest. In this community, Duke we saw through the window of the C-1 on the locals value meaningful connections with real our first tour of campus, but they have come topeople over how many Facebook tags you can ac- gether to represent my Duke. I look back on my crue over any given weekend. time in Durham and realize I spent too much time It was there—as I enjoyed a gourmet meal at our University worrying about what I would miss and listened to North Carolina music against the out on if I replaced a typical Duke experience with backdrop of the country landscape—that I real- an adventure of my own. It took me too long to ized something surprising. Despite the distance realize, but it turns out none of my worries ever my friends and I had traveled from campus, I felt came to fruition. Nothing will happen if you miss closer to Duke in that moment than I had felt in that one party. Overstressing about any given test months. or paper is pointless. And ultimately, everyone is At some point between orientation week and too consumed with themselves to care at all about our last Marketplace meal freshman year, Duke what you’re doing. somehow convinced us all that the success of our I urge you to start searching for your Saxapacollege career rested upon how many stereotypi- haw moments at Duke before it is too late. And cal Duke experiences we could collect in four I guarantee, you won’t find them in the places years. Did you dance on a truck bed at Tailgate? where everyone else is looking. Did you pull an all-nighter in the stacks? Did you sleep out for a basketball game? Did you save the Caroline Fairchild is a Trinity senior. She is local/ world this summer? These memories, which serve national editor and former associate sports editor of The as graduation requirements as well as signals of so- Chronicle.
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entered Duke four years ago with the until it’s over. But it has been a radically Class of 2012, never stopping to think unique experience in ways I never could that our expiration date was stamped have predicted, as has each of my four years over the very celebration of at Duke. our arrival. Well, it’s 2012. Now, with time slipping I’d like to say I welcome away more quickly than I change, but I don’t. There’s can process it, I’m left to rethe momentary excitement flect on the somewhat cruel at the prospect of something impermanence of college new and different, and the life. To my change-resistant possibilities that come with self, it is inexplicably ironic it. But ultimately, I tend to to hand a 17-year-old an entoni wei like things the way they are. vironment tailor-made for senior column There’s a little bit of laziness forging relationships and in there—sometimes I can’t shared experiences, only to be bothered to fix something that’s not bro- kick her out four years later, maybe not wiser ken. A tiny bit of ego—surely the way I had but a little less vulnerable. been doing things was the best way. And some But when I think a little harder, slipping fear—that things will never be the same. past the nostalgia, I find that the change My habitual sameness extends to every hasn’t been so bad. I’ve never longed for part of my life. I take the same kinds of class- the days of accepting whatever cheap vodka es, talk to the same people and order the I could get a senior to buy for me. I don’t same thing at favorite restaurants. In high miss hearing the birds chirp while trudging school, Sunday was always dumpling night. across an empty quad at 4 a.m. after putting The variety in my wardrobe consisted of dif- the paper to bed—knowing that I’ll do it ferent colors of polo shirts, and different again tomorrow, and the next day. And as washes of jeans. I didn’t consider myself 16 wistfully as I stare up at my old dorm winuntil I turned 17. dows, I wouldn’t trade my big apartment for You can imagine how college, well, a shared 200-square foot box. changed me. I can describe my freshman Life moves quickly, in retrospect. But year self in some ways—100 pounds, awk- my routine has been ripped up and rewritward, insecure. ten so many times, I’ve come to dismiss any OK, so I haven’t changed so much. semblance of consistency or predictability. The old and the wise tell me that college Change has become habitual. And when you is the best time of your life. I say, which part? put it like that, I’m OK with it. It seems preposterous to define four transOf course, some things don’t change. My formative years as one experience. freshman year roommate and I still call the Was it freshman year, taking advantage same place home, although we have upgradof independence for the first time? My new- ed from Hotel Bell Tower to a suite at the found freedom carried me to Italy, China, Belmont. I still can’t cook, but I sure can eat. Holland and Germany. I got my first B—and I am no less incapable of making decisions as my first C—but at least Shooters wasn’t strict I was four years ago, but at least now I know enough yet to care that I was 17. to pawn those off on someone else. Maybe it was sophomore year. I had a car Some weekends I go home to my paron campus, and I no longer had to wake up ents in Chapel Hill for a night, or even just an extra half hour early to account for the C-1 a dinner, and it feels like I never left. My wait. I was disdainful toward the freshmen, mother watches trashy TV with me, and my more than half of whom were older than me. father explains concepts from my economI threw up in the snow once (or twice) behind ics classes that I don’t understand. My dog a frat house, and I started to explore Durham whines for our table scraps. Those nights, beyond Mt. Fuji and Torero’s. I am 16 again. My junior year will always be defined by I appreciate more than ever those in301 Flowers, and the thin bundle of print creasingly rare opportunities to bask in my you’re holding (or screen you’re reading) parents’ limitless love and hide from my imnow. My fellow editors and I assigned the pending graduation. I recognize that despite utmost importance to obscure decisions that the tumult of college, the next change will be no one else noticed or cared about. I lived the biggest, scariest and most exciting yet. and died by journalism. I decided I didn’t want to go into journalism. A best friend beToni Wei is a Trinity senior. She is a senior edicame a boyfriend, and then an old friend. A tor and former managing editor of The Chronicle. lot can happen in a year. She knows you hate it when she corrects your gramAnd my senior year—well, it’s not over mar, but it’s for your own good.
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itting at the baby grand for my kin- The ‘Duke’ Suit dergarten piano recital, I fell in love. There is more than one Duke suit. DurI don’t remember what I played that ing my college career, these have included day, but I can vividly recall the banana suit I wore as the simple, black, threeone part of a Bananas in Pabutton suit that my mom jamas ensemble, the trash paired with a bold, red, bag I wore to Tailgate ’09 clip-on tie. and my Duke jersey (#30, Since then for me, suits Scheyer) with too much have always signified a moacrylic paint. These suits mentous occasion, but as represent all the unique graduation approaches I Duke traditions that I have james lee fear that my suits will take partaken in, have loved and senior column on a new function: a uniwill sorely miss. form stripped of the lusFor me, the cap and gown ter they now hold—a replacement of my I will wear two weeks from now is the pinnasweatshirts and pastel shorts. That three- cle of a college suit: playful and absurd but button piece has since been handed somehow distinguished, a bold statement down, but with every new suit I’ve created that is simultaneously simple. It’s a blend new memories, new bonds and new expe- of the necessity and power suits; a culminariences. It’s fitting then, that this is how I tion of all the memories and achievements remember my Duke experience. that I have acquired at Duke. The Power Suit We’re all born in our birthday suits and My power suit is navy blue with subtle quickly graduate to that first three-piece stripes and excessive shoulder pads that I with the shameless clip-on. Soon, growth bought junior year as I planned to sell my spurts result in a bevy of short-lived, undersoul to the corporate world. I like to think worn, discount suits. At college, we choose that this is my superman cape, but in real- to revert this progression. We don a power ity all I’ve done is sweat through this bad suit for a Superday interview on Friday, boy during my less-than-ideal number of regressing to a special suit for Tailgate or interviews—in one of which I said the a date function Saturday and sometimes wrong company name—and a presenta- hoping to end up in our birthday suit posttion on a thesis I had barely begun. Shooters that same evening. It’s the one I should have worn when For me, my suits encapsulate my Duke I went to photograph President Obama experience—they’ve been to the Belmont, but didn’t because I was told to dress “ca- the now defunct George’s, the WaDuke sually” (side note: I wore shorts to this, and even to Oxford. They embody all big fail). Throughout time, the suit has those whom I have brushed shoulders become a sign of something exciting to with at information sessions, danced with come, a personal armor for uncertainty. at date functions and lost voices with at The loosely cut jacket allows for com- Cameron. Although my experiences in fort and stress eating but moreover, the these suits remain set in stone, what resleeves fall easily and pants flatteringly as mains uncertain is if I’ll ever be able to a testament to the growing I’ll have to do wear and experience this again, as somethis August, when a suit like this becomes thing so special and memorable becomes the norm. monotonous and banal in the real world. The Necessity Suit Once I begin wearing a suit everyday, how This suit is black-grey, light enough to will I demarcate the important experiencdance in and neutral enough to match es in my life? my date’s dress. It’s the suit all over my I may continue to wear suits, but I never Facebook wall, the one that’s been vom- plan to become the proverbial “Suit” and med on (by more than one person) and neither should you. I might outgrow my the one that travelled abroad with me as suits, but I will never outgrow the memoI quickly learned that the Shooters dress ries; my friends will always fit, and my suits code does not apply across the pond will always be there, whether I bought (“You can’t wear shorts in here, mate”). them at PartyCity or Brooks Brothers. It’s the one I was wearing as I met some of my best friends freshman year James Lee is a Trinity senior. He is the at Dick’s Ball. It’s the one I was wearing managing editor for online and a photograsophomore year at Sclafani (The Chron- pher for The Chronicle and enjoys slim fit, twoicle’s formal) when I drunkenly greeted button suits with thin lapels. He would like to Coach K, to his disapproval, by announc- thank his friends at The Chronicle. He would ing at the top of my lungs: “OMG, IT’S also like you to know that he hates your aniCOACH K Y’ALL!” to everyone in the mal ties and would really appreciate it if you men’s bathroom. could raise his klout score by following him @ It’s the one that reminds me of some jaemslee. Special thanks to: @andrewlbeaton, of the greatest evenings I’ve had with my @123mjb, @toniwei, @nicolekyle, @myeo3, @ best friends. It’s the suit I will always strive cfair1, @classyjane, @addyakc, @chris_dall, to live up to in the real world, beyond the @seuct, @chriscusack1, @yeshrk, @samlachshadow of the Chapel. man, @nick_schwartz and @mtru23.
Mariah Hukins, Trinity ‘13
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