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President urges low student loan interest rates in speech

by Caroline Fairchild and Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

President Barack Obama urged Congress to keep college affordable for the seven million students currently burdened by student loans in an address Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Obama told a crowd of more than 8,000 students, professors and Chapel Hill residents that student loan interest rates will double overnight July 1 if Congress does not take action. Shortly after assuming office, the Obama administration reduced rates for student loan programs to 3.4 percent from 6.8 percent. Without an extension, the rate will revert back to 2008 levels. The White House is currently in negotiations with Congress to find funding for the $5.9 billion measure, but the president has taken the discussion public with the hopes of garnering youth support.

“We have to make college more affordable for our young people—that’s the bottom line,” Obama said. “Since most of you were born, tuition and fees at America’s colleges have more than doubled. And that forces students like you to take out a lot more loans.”

For each year that Congress does not act, the president said the average student with loans will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt. Student loan debt is not only stifling young Americans’ access to higher education, but it is curbing the economy’s growth,

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by Sanette Tanaka THE CHRONICLE

With graduation looming in less than three weeks, some seniors are feeling the pressure to finalize their postgraduate plans.

In recent years, at least 15 percent of Duke seniors have graduated while still seeking employment. But for many students, simply getting a job is not the end goal. Duke students often hold out for positions that further their education and advance their career interests.

In doing so, some take temporary jobs and join the growing number of American college graduates who do not fully utilize their degrees.

Students who fall under this trend are still categorized as employed in national reports.

Jennifer Wolff, Trinity ’10, considers herself employed but works in short two- to threemonth long increments and lives at home. At graduation, Wolff knew she was pursuing a challenging field—costume design and technology—but did not expect to struggle getting even a minimum wage job.

“I applied to work at bookstores, at bridal shops, at restaurants as a waitress—it’s impossible,” she said. “Sometimes I feel like, I graduated from Duke. I should be more useful to society.”

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President Barack Obama addresses a large crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tuesday.

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Admins plan LDOC now a full-day festival to renovate dormitories

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Duke’s oldest dormitories are in store for a facelift in the coming years.

After recently surveying many of Duke’s oldest buildings, administrators have laid out a tentative long-term plan for renovating several University residence halls. Although project completion should not be expected sooner than 10 to 15 years from now, both East and West campuses will eventually see new dormitory buildings and the decommissioning of others and students may stop living on Central Campus.

“It’s very important to the University that the conditions of the residence halls are top priority, and the University

B.o.B will bring the magic to campus as the headlining act in today’s Last Day of Classes celebration.

Joining hip-hop artist B.o.B. at tonight’s concert will be mashup artist 3LAU, Eurodance singer DJ Basshunter and rappers Macklemore x Ryan Lewis.

The LDOC committee has also expanded festivities to including a number of daytime activities such as free massages, a Hunger Games-themed breakfast and more.

The day-long LDOC activities were primarily developed

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“I like the idea of investing my entire being into something important—and The Chronicle fills that need for me.”

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PHOENIX, Arizona — Arizona business and political leaders say the Supreme Court’s consideration of the state’s illegal-immigration crackdown should prompt more sweeping change: a federal overhaul of how the government polices the border and handles undocumented residents.

The justices on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether a measure known as Senate Bill 1070 goes too far by requiring law officers to check the status of those they suspect are in the U.S. illegally, and to arrest those they believe eligible to be deported.

During the last four decades, 12 million immigrants came to the U.S. from Mexico, most illegally, according to a report released today by the Pew Hispanic Center in Washington, a nonpartisan research group. Net Mexican migration to the U.S. has now stopped and may have reversed, the report found.

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USDA confirms case of mad Sudan ‘declared war’ on cow disease in California South Sudan, Kiir says WASHINGTON, D.C. — The first U.S. case of mad cow disease in six years has been found in a dairy cow in central California, John Clifford, the Department of Agriculture’s chief veterinarian, told reporters.

California officials are holding the carcass at the rendering facility, the USDA said.

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said Sudan “declared war” on the newly independent nation, as his government reported new overnight bombing raids by the Sudanese authorities. A Sudanese Foreign Ministry official denied the two countries were at war.

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Student insurance plan Senate voices support for to cover STI testing costs Divinity School Refectory DUKE STUDENT GOVERNMENT

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Duke Student Government addressed the strong student response to the potential change in the Divinity School Refectory ownership at their final meeting of the academic year Tuesday.

The body unanimously approved a resolution to include student input on the decision regarding the Refectory’s ownership following the University’s decision to postpone renewing the eatery’s contract. The resolution states that students would rather pay higher prices for food at the Refectory and have it

remain under its current ownership, by Bon Vivant Catering, than have Duke Dining take over the restaurant. The student body will vote to approve the resolution. “The feedback that I have been getting is that students would rather have the refectory managed by local ownership and have higher fees than not have local ownership and have lower fees,� said President Pete Schork, a senior.

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DSG President-elect Alex Swain, a junior, and President Pete Schork, a senior, speak Tuesday.

Duke has expanded its student medical insurance plan to cover testing for sexually transmitted infections.

Coverage for STI testing only applies to students under the Duke Student Health Insurance Plan, underwritten by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina—a plan that students can waive if they show proof of alternate insurance. The Student Health Insurance Advisory Committee and Duke Student Government worked together to implement the change in expanded coverage.

Outgoing DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said DSG originally hoped that STI testing would be provided for all students, but noted that the change still has positive effects on the student body.

Two years ago, STI testing was made available to all students through the student health fee, which all undergraduates are required to pay each year. In 2010, Student Health began charging students for the results of their STI tests because of a change in contract with the Duke University Medical Center lab that previously interpreted the tests at a steep discount. “We never thought that [STI testing] shouldn’t be available as readily as possible to students,� Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said. “We wanted to make sure there were no obstacles in front of students to prevent them from getting the testing they needed.�

Wasiolek added that the number of

students who went to Student Health for STI testing decreased during the past two years when tests were not covered by the student health fee. This trend was concerning to administrators in Student Health, as well as DSG representatives, she added. “I got in touch with [Student Health Executive Director Dr. Bill] Purdy, and we worked closely with him and a lot of people in student affairs responsible for student health,� said junior Gurdane Bhutani, outgoing DSG executive vice president. “We’ve been working with them for two years, and fortunately, we were able to come to a pretty good solution that everyone was pretty happy with.�

Bhutani said charging students out-ofpocket for STI testing has negative effects on Duke students as a whole. “If you have the entire student body not getting tested—with many being sexually active—then the risk of diseases spreading is higher,� Bhutani said.

There will be a 3 percent increase in the insurance plan premium cost to cover the added benefits. Purdy added that he was pleased with this result since universities across the nation typically see an 8 to 10 percent premium increase when STI testing is added to health plans. “Nobody likes to increase the premiums, but if you look at health care nationwide, it’s going up year by year, faster than regular inflation... so having a 3 percent increase—we were thrilled with that,� Purdy said.

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ith Patrick Bayer Q&A with Patrick Bayer, department chair and professor of economics at Duke, is known for his research in areas such as racial inequality, segregation, social interactions, housing markets, education and crime. Last week, Bayer, along with a team of Dukeled researchers, published a study examining more than 700 non-capital felony cases in two Florida counties from 2000 to 2010. The study found that juries with no blacks convicted blacks 81 percent of the time, and whites were convicted 66 percent of the time. This gap was almost entirely eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black.

The Chronicle’s Arden Kreeger spoke with Bayer about the study, citizens’ right to a fair trial and possible policy solutions to address the inequalities.

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Patrick Bayer: This is a severely understudied question, so getting data from the courts and from various jurisdictions on the composition of juries and on trial outcomes and especially what we needed for this study... is really hard to come by. We had essentially very limited evidence to date on how the racial composition of juries affects trials, and, despite the fact that a Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial is one of the fundamental bedrocks of our criminal justice system, there’s been kind of longstanding anecdotal evidence and concerns about representation on juries.

TC: Can you clarify why you chose to study jury pools?

PB: We look at the jury pools in this case because the variation in who happens to be called for jury duty... is effectively random.

That means the set of trials that occur when it’s an all-white jury pool versus a jury pool that includes some black members look a lot alike. We’re able to isolate that impact in just that random change in who happens to be called for jury duty that day. It’s a lot like trying to approximate a clinical trial in medicine, for example, where the two groups are randomly assigned to either the drug in question or a placebo, and you can assess the impact of that drug by comparing the outcomes in those two groups because the membership in those two groups was completely random.

If you actually tried to look at the seated jury, depending on who the defendant is, the attorneys may select jury members systemati-

cally in a way that shows some correlation, but it may not be causal.

TC: Are these the results you anticipated?

PB: The results are larger than I anticipated. The results are actually very large, when you think about the comparison we’re making. The population of the area that we’re studying is two counties, about 5 percent black. A lot of the time, there’s not a black member of the seated jury, so a lot of times there are a couple black members in the pool, but they don’t get seated, but we’re getting a change of about 17 percentage points in going from no black members of the pool to at least one or two. It’s that big, despite the fact that in many of these trials you’re still getting an all-white seated jury. That was the most surprising thing to me—the magnitude of the effects are really large. We wanted to approximate as close to an experimental design as we could, so what’s random here is the composition of the pool. As soon as you start looking at who is selected to be on the jury, that’s not at all random: Each attorney is systematically is trying to figure out who’s going to be best for their case. We focus on making comparisons across the set of cases where there are no black members of the pool.

TC: What are the implications of the study? What do you feel should be done to address this inequality?

PB: The main implication is that racial composition on the jury matters a lot. This is something that we need to look into a lot more. Our study is really the first to use data from real trials to look at this question, and it finds a big impact. On one level, our analysis argues for a lot more transparency on the part of local jurisdictions in terms of these types of data and what the outcomes are. There’s a broader range of policy or institutional changes that you can imagine considering.

[One] way you can increase representation is by increasing the size of juries.... [In the United States] over the last several decades, in order to save money, these local jurisdictions are going to smaller juries, so, in our analysis, we’re looking at counties... where the size of the juries is six people instead of 12.... The chances of representation by any minority member of a community on the SEE Q&A ON PAGE 7

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Iranian star Shajarian to sing at DPAC

by Dan Fishman THE CHRONICLE

This Saturday, Iranian singer and composer Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, widely recognized as the greatest living master of Persian music, will perform at the Durham Performing Arts Center.

A legend in Iran for his impassioned voice, his extraordinary knowledge of Persian music and poetry and his steadfast commitment to independent thinking under repressive governments, Shajarian has established himself as the outward voice for the Iranian people.

His various accolades—two Grammy nominations, a United Nations Picasso Award, inclusion in NPR’s “50 Great Voices” and a UNESCO Mozart Medal—help point to why Saturday’s concert is being touted as one of the most high-profile shows in the history of Duke Performances.

“It’s very exciting that such a worldclass musician is coming to the Triangle,” said Carl Ernst, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “He is universally regarded as the greatest Iranian singer in the past 30 to 40 years.”

Saturday’s performance offers an opportunity for exposure to a branch of music very different from the classical European tradition.

“Be prepared for intense, rhythmically complex, and melodically intricate music,” Ernst said.

Persian music, like classical Indian ragas, improvises around pre-estab-

lished scales. According to tradition, vocalists have a double role as both performers and composers. They must choose the dastgah—melody type— that the musicians will play and the poetry that will be sung, often from the two great Ancient Persian poets Rumi and Hafez.

“Iranians have a passionate relationship with poetry and music, often seeing Persian poetry as the key to Persian culture and their most important contribution to world humanities,” wrote Omid Safi, professor of religious studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, in an email yesterday. “Iranians begin to learn their classic poetry from a thousand years ago in second grade, and to this day classical poetry is the very basis of Iranian education. Think of the Greek attachment to philosophy, and you have a good comparison for the place of poetry in Persian culture.”

When presented with the opportunity, Shajarian chooses poems and music with political undertones. In Berlin in 1979, after hearing news of a massacre of Iranians by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shajarian performed a concert that has become famous for its extraordinary emotional intensity. In 2003, he put on a benefit concert immediately following the catastrophic Bam earthquake in Iran. He still refuses to allow the Iranian government to use his music.

“Iranians convey their highest aspirations through music and poetry, not just mystical and erotic, but also political,” Safi said.

Shajarian often closes his concerts with the song “Morgh-e Sahar”—“The Dawn Time Bird.” This song has come to symbolize the Green Movement for democratic reform in Iran, Safi added.

Shajarian is also renowned as an innovator of Persian classical music. He has invented upwards of eight musical instruments because he felt that the current ones were not sufficient. On Saturday, some of the musicians from the 17-piece Shahnaz Ensemble will play instruments of Shajarian’s inventions.

“Shajarian established himself on the strength of his voice,” said Amir Rezvani, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “But in his maturity he has improvised and shown wonderful creativity.”

Though Shajarian sings in Farsi, the emotion of his music needs no translation.

“Music is an international language,” Rezvani said. “Prepare to be mesmerized, to feel ecstasy.”

Duke Performances will present Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and the Shahnaz Ensemble this Saturday at DPAC at 8 p.m.

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deficit, Schork said. Refectory owner Laura Hall has yet to approve a contract that would include the higher commission because it would require her to make sacrifices she is unwilling to make, such as buying fewer fresh ingredients, he said.

Junior Alex Swain, DSG president-elect and current vice president of Durham and regional affairs, noted a problem with this resolution because it asks students to support one eatery that is affected by the commission change and none of the others. The popularity of the Refectory among the student body, however, encouraged DSG to seek student input.

“If you look at the resolution and are in favor of an exception [to the increased commission] you have to make an argument about the Refectory being environmentally sustainable,” Schork said. “This argument could be applied to the Loop, but they are not going through the same kind of cost-effective expenses as the Refectory.”

In other business: The Senate unanimously approved a budgetary stature that would provide DSG with $4,000 for supplies that could be used for future tailgating alternatives.

“It would be necessary to secure some funds in case we need to purchase stuff for the first tailgate on Sept. 1,” Swain said. “This is just paying for capital expenditures that would be used for every tailgate.”

The Senate also swore in its new leadership, including members of the Senate, cabinet and vice presidents.

Schork also delivered his end-of-year speech to the Senate.

“I feel we’ve come a very long way,” he said.

“At the end of the day, I really believe in this organization... and I encourage [the Senate] to continue carrying the torch and make that impact.”

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FIT from page 1 In 2011, approximately 53.6 percent of bachelor’s degree-holders under age 25 were jobless or underemployed, the highest share in at least 11 years, according to an analysis of government data conducted by the Associated Press released Monday.

About half of those young graduates were underemployed, an increase from 2010.

It is unclear how many Duke graduates like Wolff believe they are underutilizing their degrees because neither the Career Center nor the Alumni Association surveys alumni regarding this question.

The Career Center, which coordinates on-campus recruiting and maintains the eRecruiting database, encourages students to focus on finding a job that fits their career aspirations, said William WrightSwadel, Fannie Mitchell executive director of the Career Center. Doing so may mean that students will spend two to three months jobless after graduation before finding the right opportunity.

“I worry more about students finding ‘the’ job rather than ‘a’ job,” WrightSwadel said.

But in waiting for “the” job, some students may find themselves postponing their entry into the labor market.

College graduates’ first job out of school can be a strong indicator of their future career paths and starting out in less-than-ideal work can set back students’ careers, said Phil Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University. Therefore, some of those students find it harder to get back on track, “We can’t afford to have people who are misaligned in the labor market for very long,” Gardner said.

Feeling the pressure Although some Duke students struggle to find the right job, graduates from smaller, lesser-known institutions feel greater effects of economic downturns and are more likely to be underemployed, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“Coming out, the cliches of the barista with an expensive college degree are not untrue,” Schoenfeld said.

Some experts noted that the opportunities available to Duke students shield them somewhat from this trend, as well as from the harshest effects of the financial crisis.

The stronger the brand of a university, the less affected its graduates will be by poor economic conditions, said Edwin Koc, director of strategic and foundation research at the National Association of Colleges and Employers. Places like Duke remain prime places for recruiters even when hiring rates fall nationally, he added.

Research shows that institutional differences wane after graduation, and often, the advantages several students experience over others based on their schooling level out. But at least initially, some employers place more value on degrees from institutions like Duke over other schools, said Kevin Rask, an expert in student choice and higher education and an economics professor at Colorado College.

“The top selective schools have become more selective and competition has increased, where everyone else has faced a downward trend in selectivity,” said Rask, Economics ’91. “It should be bothersome that college graduates, which is already a ‘haves’ group, is seeing this widening stratification.”

At Elon University, a top regional university in North Carolina, about 10 percent of students are in work six months after graduation that is misaligned with their

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long-term career interests, said Tom Vecchione, executive director of career services at Elon. This means that some graduates are not reaching their potential, he added.

“There are a lot of gems out there—diamonds in the rough—who have not been tapped into,” Vecchione said.

Some Duke students also choose to categorize themselves as “still seeking” at graduation rather than take a job that is misaligned with their interests.

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Q&A from page 1 jury is much smaller as a result, so, in this case, you get all white juries way more often than you would if it was a 12-person jury.

TC: What about other minority groups?

Would you expect to see similar results in the case of Latino defendants, or even female defendants?

PB: Women are not a minority in this sense, the jury is about 50 percent male [and] 50 percent female. That’s an important point here. If both attorneys have an equal number of jurors... there’s not that much room for the two sides to distort things. We really worry about situations where there’s a group in question, whether it’s on the basis of race or religion, that is a small minority. Then it’s possible for one attorney to completely exclude that group from their representation. We have looked at the effects of age and gender in the same data set. Gender is a protected category, and the attorneys are not supposed to use gender as sole basis of excluding a potential juror. We do see that men and women are seated in roughly the right proportion. The attorneys are allowed to use age, and they do discriminate on the basis of age. The prosecutors tend to pre-

Olympian Becca Ward would rather stay the course than take a less desirable job. Ward, who won a 2008 Olympic bronze medal in fencing and is a three-time NCAA champion in the sport, has been actively applying for jobs in environmental policy since September but has yet to secure employment.

“If I don’t have anything by the time I graduate, I’m going to go to D.C. and just pound the pavement,” Ward said. “That stresses me out, but I’m not going to take a job that I don’t want to do.” fer an older jury, so they strike relatively young jurors. Defense attorneys do the opposite, and this does seem to have an impact. When the jury pool is older, conviction rates are higher.... It’s constitutionally legal at this point to use age as a basis for selecting jurors.

TC: A recent New York Times article discussed a North Carolina case in which an inmate was taken off death row after it was determined that racial bias played a significant factor in his death sentence. Can you see your research being used in cases like this?

PB: I’m not 100 percent sure, in terms of my particular study. If attorneys use race to strike jurors, it’s pretty easy to keep black jurors from ever being on the jury, if the local population has a small enough fraction of blacks. In our data set, each attorney typically has six strikes that they can use, and there’s never that many black members of the jury pool. It would be possible to exclude all black members of the jury. As people look at the evidence in different jurisdictions, in our analysis our attorneys selected [jurors] in the right proportion, and there was no direct evidence of attorneys striking black defendants too much. There does appear to be that kind of evidence in other places.

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RENOVATIONS from page 1 is looking very seriously about how to renovate them and how to develop that housing master plan of renovations because it is a concern,� said Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of housing and dining.

Dudley Willis, project manager for facilities management, recently led a survey of all residence halls that involved the work of architecture and engineering firm Clark Nexsen and Vanderweil Engineers. The survey involved an overall assessment of the dormitories based on current North Carolina building codes. The two firms made recommendations on what could be done to improve the buildings, many of which date back to the 1930s. “The primary goal was to make the buildings functional,� Willis said. “The focus is not the cosmetic changes but to make sure that the buildings work. [We are] trying to make them convenient for the students and people who use the buildings.�

The survey showed that Epworth and Aycock residence halls are the two facilities that need the most renovation on East Campus, with Jarvis residence hall also in need of significant work, Trask said.

The administration plans to completely renovate Aycock and Jarvis residence halls, and Epworth will be decommissioned. Epworth, which is more than 118 years old, has a wood frame and is no longer fit to be used as a residence hall, Trask noted.

The administration expects that a new residence hall will be built on East Campus, either in space behind Carr Building or behind Bell Tower residence hall. The new

LDOC from page 1 by students. The Office of Student Affairs and student organizers have collaborated to place less of an emphasis on drinking in recent years, Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said. “Students have shaped LDOC to be about music, camaraderie, [and a] celebration of a year’s worth of hard work and more music,� Moneta wrote in an email Tuesday. “Students have also shaped the event to be less about drinking, more about enjoying each other’s company and the development of a safe, responsible and joyous occasion.�

B.o.B. signed on as the LDOC headliner after LMFAO’s Redfoo dropped out from his previous agreement to headline.

LDOC organizers had less time to focus on the logistics of the event after they scrambled to find a new main musical act, but despite the difficulties it all worked out for the best, said LDOC committee co-Chair Nate French, a senior. “From what I’ve been hearing, people are actually more excited about B.o.B. than they were about Redfoo,� French noted.

Winners of a student performance competition will perform on the Bryan Center plaza between the acts on the main stage, with other student acts performing all day on the West Campus plaza, Robinson said.

LDOC is now a full-day festival, Robinson said, noting the increase to a full 20 events over the course of the day. Food, clothing and arts vendors will set up near the Chapel Quadrangle alongside 10 food trucks and a water truck.

Wristbands granting entry to the main quad for the concert will be passed out from a tent in front of West Union Building from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., when Main Quadrangle will be locked down to anyone from outside the University. The concert runs from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.

In a change from previous years, only current Duke undergraduate and graduate students will be given wristbands, not faculty members or staffers. That decision was made by the LDOC committee in an effort to keep the event as a Duke student celebration, French said.

According to the LDOC policies, students cannot share alcohol with one another or leave it unattended. Each student can carry a maximum of six 12 oz. cans with them at any given time. Only beer is permitted—not wine, hard alcohol or other beverages. No glass containers are permitted. Cups, water bottles and other containers cannot exceed 24 oz. No drinking games will be permitted. Students who appear intoxicated or make poor decisions will be asked to pour out their alcohol and leave the event, with possible disciplinary action taken.

Last year’s LDOC was widely seen as the safest event yet, with few incidents aside from vandalism of stained glass windows at the Chapel and a pepper spray assault incident, Robinson said.

Security measures this year will essentially remain the same, French said.

Students can see the full schedule on the LDOC website and follow the events of the day through a Facebook app and page and a Twitter account.

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dormitory will be built in the same style as Bell Tower but without the tower, Trask said.

On West Campus, administrators will focus on Crowell and Craven quadrangles, where air conditioning and other utilities such as fire alarms, plumbing and electrical systems will be updated. Renovations will also be made to Edens Quadrangle. The building plans will be extend beyond cosmetic and utility concerns but will not be a complete renovation, Trask said.

Additionally, the University is trying to raise money for new residence halls on West so that students may eventually be phased out of housing on Central Campus, said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education. “The success of K4 has led me and others to understand that we need K5 and K6 because in the long run, we’re going to take students off of Central and put them in new space,� Nowicki said.

Funding for these projects will rely primarily on donors, Nowicki said, and some have already contributed to the fund for new residence halls. He said acquiring money for the renovations, however, has proven more difficult.

Johnson noted that funding needs to be acquired before these aspects of the project can be pursued. He said minor cosmetic renovations made to Jarvis last summer were costly, and these future plans are much more expensive. “We improved the bathrooms, the kitchens and the lounges and even that was expensive,� Johnson said. “That [cost] a couple million to do that work. Once you start replacing the entire electrical system, plumbing system and perhaps add [air conditioning] to the building—that’s

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Trask said added that there is a possibility to get funds from students’ housing fees.

Nowicki noted that the University has other items on its laundry list of building projects that may be addressed first—including renovations to the West Union Building and Physics Building, as well as construction of the Duke Environment Hall—but residential concerns are not to be overlooked. “Everyone from the Board of Trustees to [President Richard Brodhead] to [Provost Peter Lange] to me understand that we really need to invest in our residential infrastructure,� Nowicki said.

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“In America, higher education cannot be a luxury,” said Tom Harkin D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions in a press conference call Monday.

“The clock is ticking for seven million students.”

Student loan debt is a familiar issue for the president. Referring to the “mountain of debt” he and his wife, Michelle Obama, faced after graduating from college and law school, Obama said he is committed to making sure the middle class continues to gain access to higher education. The president also took a jab at presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s elite background as a detriment to understanding the needs of students who pay back loans.

“I didn’t just get a policy briefing on this,” Obama said. “Michelle and I, we’ve been in your shoes.”

Monday, Romney also came out in support of extending the current student loan interest rate. This move may diminish Obama’s efforts to challenge Romney’s stance on federal university funding.

“With the number of college graduates who can’t find work or who can only find work well beneath their skill level, I fully support the effort to extend the lowinterest rate on student loans,”

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Romney said before a campaign event in Astor, Penn. Monday.

In his address, Obama said issues of student interest are not partisan issues, and Romney’s endorsement of the rate extension supports the president’s desire for this policy to cross party lines.

But Romney’s critics, including the president, said his backing of Congress’ extension is inconsistent with his previous stance on federal funding for college education. The Ryan budget, proposed

by Rep. Paul Ryan R-Wis., will cut funding for Pell Grants by up to 25 percent, reducing the average grant for North Carolina students by $830. This plan would also compromise research funding and work-study programs. Romney is an active supporter of the Ryan budget which was passed by House Republicans March 29.

Romney’s statement on student loans has struck commentators as a political ploy, said Pope McCorkle, visiting lecturer of public policy studies.

“He’s making the move to the center,” McCorkle said. “It looks ugly. It looks awkward. This may be low-level enough that it doesn’t get too much public attack, but this is Romney trying to change his colors once again.”

Obama directly addressed Romney’s attitudes toward university funding in his speech, arguing that a vote for the rate extension and a vote for the Ryan budget are counterproductive to college affordability.

“Some have hinted that they’d only [vote for the rate extension]

if we cut things like aid for lowincome students instead,” Obama said. “That doesn’t make sense.”

Federal student loan policy is a particularly pertinent issue to students at UNC-Chapel Hill, Chancellor Holden Thorp said in his introduction to Obama’s speech.

Although only one-third of UNCChapel Hill students use federal loans to pay for college—lower than the national average—the university recently faced a state budget cut of $100 million this academic year. Since 2008, UNCChapel Hill has been hit with more than $231 million in total state cuts, leading to a nearly 10 percent hike in tuition and fees.

Kayla Kennedy, a senior at UNCChapel Hill, was drawn to Tuesday’s event because she will soon have to start paying off student loan debt she has accumulated. A first-generation college graduate, Kennedy said she is fearful of the increased debt she will owe if Congress does not extend the interest rate.

“The closer that you get to graduation, the more you realize that the debt you’re in is not Monopoly money,” she said. “It’s real numbers you’ll have to deal with when you leave school.”

The president’s two-day campaign tour will also make appearances at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Iowa. The three universities are in states Obama narrowly won in the 2008 election and which are expected swing states in the upcoming election.

Yeshwanth Kandimalla contributed reporting.

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My growth Daniels readies for NFL Draft on press row

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

I will always remember the afternoon when I decided to make sports journalism a pillar of my college experience.

It was early evening, the summer before I left for Duke, and my mom had me grab the mail right before we piled into the Suburban to make the half-hour drive up to my grandparents’ house.

Jason As I tossed a stack of bills and advertisements on the kitchen table, I noticed The Chronicle’s summer issue slide free, and I grabbed it to read on the road.

As an athlete (at the time) and avid sports junkie, I naturally gravitated toward the sports section, where my eyes landed on a column by Meredith Shiner. I later discovered that Shiner, a former sports editor, was a big deal. But, all that mattered to me at the time was that her prose was full of passion and very free. I was hooked and declared to my parents that I would soon be a Chronicle sports writer as well.

And, despite my initial confidence, let me confess, it wasn’t as easy as I expected.

The first year was full of blunders. Ironically enough, when I showed up at the office to have my first story, a preview of a men’s soccer match against Virginia Tech, edited, I realized that the roles were reversed—Shiner’s eyes would now be dissecting my piece.

Probably an hour and hundreds of changes later, I left 301 Flowers with my head down wondering if the sports section was the place for me. As a guy who learned to read by looking at box scores and standings when I was three years old, I knew I had the knowledge. Still, something seemed off, and my confidence was shaken. (Note: Looking back at the lede for that first story…“The Blue Devils’ season has been characterized by its ups and downs,” I now concede every drop of criticism to be justified.)

The next time I came around, the then-sports editor Ben Cohen, who had witnessed Shiner undressing my preview, gave me a pep talk, encouraging me to keep contributing. At the time, I assumed he was keeping me around as the 12th or 13th man, nothing more than a practice banger.

Turns out, he wasn’t just looking out for his own self-interest. Three and a half years later writing this piece, I consulted Cohen, who now writes about sports professionally, but is more significantly a genuine friend and mentor.

Still, it took me a full year to acclimate to the transition from the playing field to the press box (or actually the chain-link fence next to the field hockey turf). I accidentally cheered for Duke and then had to bite my tongue. I forgot my recorder and scrambled to shorthand interviews. I awkwardly interviewed obscure athletes who were as new to being interviewed as I was to interviewing.

Sophomore year I came into my own as a writer, but more importantly I had my first realization that my role with The Chronicle was meant to teach me a life lesson. Friends from back home

Like other Duke students, Matt Daniels is looking forward to the Last Day of Classes celebration as a distraction.

Instead of needing to take the stress off impending finals, though, Daniels is anxiously anticipating the NFL Draft, a threeday event beginning Thursday. He is projected to be a potential late-round pick.

“I’ve got LDOC, that will help get my mind off [the Draft],” Daniels said. “It’s my last collegiate experience, so I’m not only dealing with college finishing but taking the next step.”

Daniels has the potential to be the first Blue Devil selected since 2000, when defensive tackle Chris Combs was selected in the sixth round. Looking past the LDOC festivities, the senior defensive back will head to his hometown of Fayetteville, Ga. to watch the Draft with his family.

He said he plans on enjoying crabs, shrimp and burgers while at home, though he will have to potentially calm his nerves with time skeet shooting or fishing.

“I’m getting pretty excited, but it hasn’t really hit me yet that it’s just about two days away, and my life is about to change,” Daniels said.

Daniels’ professional stock has been on the rise throughout his final year at Duke, in which he earned first team All-ACC honors after making 126 tackles at the

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Senior defensive back Matt Daniels may be the first Blue Devil taken in the NFL Draft since 2000.

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Two uniforms fit Duke’s Shannon

by Daniel Carp THE CHRONICLE

Christopher “Casey” Shannon’s career as a Duke athlete was meant to end six months ago. Yet Shannon, a firm believer that he would end his career as a Duke athlete on his own terms, gave up his primary sport, football, to play with the Duke lacrosse team—a sport in which he had virtually no experience.

A native of Andover, Ma., Shannon began playing Pop Warner football, a national youth football program, at the age of 10. Now standing at 6-foot-5 and 285 lbs., Shannon found his home on the offensive line at a young age because of his size. After a couple of years on the gridiron, Shannon searched for a way to spend his time after football and basketball seasons ended, experimenting with lacrosse when he was in sixth grade. He played goalie each spring for four years before making the choice to cut ties with all sports other than football, transferring to Phillips Academy Andover in hopes of earning a scholarship. After three years there, he received offers from Maryland, Duke and Connecticut.

After redshirting his freshman season, Shannon appeared in all 12 games for Duke football in 2008, serving as the team’s long snapper. But he did not see any action during the 2009 season.

Failing to crack the rotation on the offensive line during those first three years, Shannon reconsidered the path he had taken in college athletics. He had many friends on the lacrosse team, and watched as the program won its first ever national championship.

“In the spring of 2010 when the team won the national championship, I was following them pretty closely,” Shannon said. “I didn’t know if I was going to use my fifth year for football or something else.”

After long and careful consideration, Shannon gave lacrosse another chance.

But first he had to make the team.

“I bumped into coach Danowski that spring... over at White Lecture Hall when he sat in front of me at Catholic mass,” Shannon said. “After mass I jogged out to him and told him I was interested in trying out.”

Danowski was receptive and told Shannon he could try out in the fall. The rest of that year, Shannon said he made frequent trips to the wall of the visiting locker room by Wallace Wade Stadium to knock off the rust.

“I’d sneak in there and throw the ball off the wall to get a stick in my hand and to get my coordination back,” Shannon said.

Following his return to the football

team for his senior season, Shannon’s time had come. The Monday before the final football game of the season against North Carolina, Shannon met Danowski and assistant coach Ron Caputo on the practice field. Caputo put Shannon through about 30 minutes of shooting drills and various other conditioning tests.

“I guess they thought they could work with what they saw,” Shannon said.

“That week we played [North] Carolina and the week after that I was playing Duke lacrosse.”

Shannon’s skills in goal were not polished, but he had the size and athleticism to become the team’s newest project as the third goaltender. Danowski noted Shannon’s physical strengths and added his drive and willingness to learn set him apart.

“I think in football you gain a tremendous amount of confidence,” Danowski said. “You also understand the work ethic that’s involved every day.

You learn about hard work, you learn about commitment, you learn about working through adversity.”

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After losing nine of their last 11 games, the Blue Devils were looking to regain their confidence against Charlotte before returning to conference play.

A strong offenDUKE 12 sive output did just propelling CHAR 5 that, Duke (16-26) to a 12-5 victory over the 49ers.

Freshman Andrew Istler made his first career start on the mound against Charlotte (17-22), recording five consecutive shutout innings before he was relieved by left-handed pitcher Dillon Haviland.

“Andrew was terrific tonight,” head coach Sean McNally said. “He gave us exactly what we needed. We needed him to get through five innings and throw strikes.

He commanded the ball really well and certainly gave us a lift.”

On the offensive end, sophomore Mike Rosenfeld carried the Blue Devils, going 4-of-6 at bat and hitting the first two home runs of his career.

“It was a big day for Mike Rosenfeld,” McNally said. “Mike has gotten better and better as the season has gone on, and I’ve been really excited to see him develop into a terrific all-around player. A lot of guys swung the bats well tonight, but he was certainly the highlight.”

Duke jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning when after freshman Grant McCabe was issued a walk, Rosenfeld notched his first career home run.

Istler protected the lead, breezing through the Charlotte lineup, allowing only three bat-

ters to reach base in the next four innings.

After the first inning, both teams went scoreless until the fifth, when the Blue Devils exploded with a three-run inning.

Rosenfeld kicked off the rally by homering to center field. Sophomore Mark Lumpa walked, stole second and advanced to third on a throwing error, scoring an unearned run after junior Jeff Kremer flew out to center field. A single by sophomore Angelo LaBruna to center credited him with an RBI, as sophomore David Perkins, who walked and stole second, crossed home to cap Duke’s rally.

“We swung the bats really well,” McNally said. “It’s been tough for us to generate offense on Tuesdays, but today, up and down our lineup we had quality at-bats.”

The Blue Devils continued their offensive dominance in the sixth, with freshman Reed Anthes scoring on a wild pitch and senior Will Piwnica-Worms scoring on a passed ball.

The 49ers responded in the bottom half of the inning, scoring one run on two hits— junior Shane Basen singled through the left side, sending senior Shane Brown to home.

In the seventh, Charlotte continued to chip away at its deficit, as freshman Patrick Raley scored on a wild pitch. Duke did not let the 49ers get too close, however, scoring two runs in the eighth, including a home run by Piwnica-Worms that drove McCabe home. Charlotte matched them in the bottom of the eighth with two runs of its own, but it was too little too late, as the Blue Devils held a 9-4 lead with only one inning left to play.

La Bruna, McCabe, and freshman Sarkis Ohanian scored in the final inning to put the game out of reach from the 49ers, who

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Duke has three ACC series left that will determine whether or not they make the cut for the conference tournament. They currently sit two games out of eighth-

place as they prepare to travel to N.C. State this weekend. “[This win] generates some momentum for us,” McNally said. “It’s great to get some good results.”

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Going 4-for-6, sophomore Mike Rosenfeld hit his first two career home runs in the win against Charlotte.

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Track and field squad heads to Penn Relays

Former Duke guard Abby Waner is returning to the college ranks, but this time as a coach. Following a four-year stint with ESPN as a college basketball analyst, Waner will work as an assistant coach for Kerry Cremeans at Denver, the Pioneer head coach announced yesterday.

Waner, a Colo. native, was a preseason National Player of the Year candidate in 2008 and 2009 and a three-time All-ACC selection.

She currently holds the Blue Devil record for 3-pointers in a career with 222.

Selected with the 21st overall pick in the 2009 WNBA Draft by the New York Liberty, Waner was waived later that season and subsequently moved into broadcasting.

Duke’s top athletes will gather Thursday in Philadelphia with the world’s best track and field athletes for the Penn Relays at Franklin Field. As one of the most-watched events in all of the sport, the Penn Relays represents the most prestigious event on Duke’s schedule.

The Blue Devils made history last year with their success at the Relays and left with a total of two championships and six new school records. Additionally, the 4x800m team that Duke sent to Penn earned the program’s first ever college division win, and as a result of one of those championships.

This year, the Blue Devils will be competing in multiple events, including the distance medley relay, in front of a national audience.

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younger yet more experienced goalies Dan Wigrizer and Mike Rock, Shannon said he progressed quickly under their guidance.

He first had to adjust to the speed of the game with the average Division I lacrosse ball traveling somewhere between 70 and 95 miles per hour, Danowski said. Normally goalies begin facing these shots from a young age and are able to adjust to the speed as they become older and more skilled. Wigrizer, who first stepped into the cage when he was nine years old, said he was in awe of Shannon’s transition back to lacrosse.

“It’s tremendously difficult to do what he did,” Wigrizer said. “Just to step in at this level, I was shocked. It’s a big transition to move from middle school to Division I.” After Shannon caught up to speed, he only needed to refine his coordination and footwork in order to play. After months of preparation, the coaching staff deemed Shannon ready for game action. He played in the team’s first game of the season—a blowout win over Siena—where he notched his first career save. Shannon saw action in three more contests during the 2011 season, playing a total of 49:37. He made seven saves and allowed six goals, with a team-low 7.26 goals against average.

As his lacrosse season drew to a close, Shannon graduated with a degree in sociology. Just two weeks after his graduation, he traveled with the Blue Devils to Baltimore, where they fell in the national semifinals to Maryland.

Shannon made the decision to return to Duke and play out his fifth year of eligibility, but chose to do so playing lacrosse, not football.

“It was up to me. I had gotten to the point where I had made the transition away from football,” Shannon said. “I’d spent my time playing football and I’d moved on. It was a tough four years but I definitely learned a lot about myself.”

Shannon enrolled that Fall in the Master of Management Studies program at The Fuqua School of Business.

He practiced with the lacrosse team all summer, continuing to hone his skills for the following season. Unfortunately for Shannon, he was bumped to fourth on the depth chart when freshman Kyle Turri joined the team.

Shannon has only appeared in one game during the 2012 campaign, getting his chance with 5:51 remaining in Duke’s blowout victory over Dartmouth. Holding a doubledigit lead in the fourth quarter, Danowski called on Shannon to relieve Turri, who had just allowed three goals in nine minutes of action. Shannon, in what may have been the final performance of his Duke lacrosse career, made three saves on five shots, allowing no goals.

Five years after joining the football team, Shannon said he has no doubt in his mind that he made the most out of his Duke experience. He is a letterwinner in two sports and the proud owner of two degrees.

Danowski said he was privileged to have coached Shannon, who has just completed a journey that Danowski considers “just about impossible.”

“It’s a great story because it takes a tremendous amount of courage to do what he did and it takes a really special individual that is willing to accept that challenge,” Danowski said. “You want to surround yourself with people who want to get the most out of their time here. I think Casey will never regret a day on this campus.... The lessons he learned on the football and the lacrosse field will last him the rest of his life.”

safety position. At Duke’s pro timing day last month, in which Daniels and other Blue Devils had the opportunity to showcase their skills for approximately 25 professional scouts and other team representatives, he impressed with a sub-4.50 time in the 40-yard dash.

Since then, he has been meeting with the staffs of NFL teams, visiting head coaches, general managers, defensive coordinators and defensive back coaches.

“It’s kind of like you’re back in high school going on official visits,” Daniels said. “They’re just trying to see what kind of player I am, what kind of knowledge I have and if I fit into their system.”

The 6-foot-1 safety was just one of 10 Blue Devils who performed at pro timing day but is the prospect with the greatest chance of hearing his name called during the Draft.

Tight end Cooper Helfet, who had the opportunity to catch balls from Peyton Manning as the veteran NFL quarterback rehabbed from his neck surgery at Duke with head coach David Cutcliffe, also has an outside shot of being drafted. Helfet, along with the other Blue Devils at pro timing day, may aim to catch on with a professional team even though they likely will not be selected.

Daniels realizes that because so few Duke players are drafted, his potential selection has larger implications for the program.

“I think it would definitely be a big step for me and Duke,” Daniels said. “Getting drafted will open up the doors for people underneath me, letting the people in the NFL know there are people here who can play.”

But as he eagerly awaits the draft, Daniels understands the process can be a crapshoot. Regardless of whether or not he hears his name called, however, his professional aspirations remain strong.

“A lot of teams say they’re interested here or there, but when draft day rolls around things completely change. I really don’t know what to expect at all,” Daniels said. “I’m confident in my skill level. I have a place in the NFL.”

and other writers I would bump into in press rooms would inquire as to whether my “job” was paying. And, I would always just laugh. Despite the occasional 2:30 a.m. night at the office giving the paper one last look and the 6 a.m. flights, never once did I feel like I was working.

Sure, I’ll always have the memories. I got to enjoy the silence in the Dean Dome after Rivers stunned the Heels at the Buzzer. I saw the Midshipmen march in formation in Annapolis before kickoff and then crashed a wedding party afterwards with my good friend Andy Moore. I almost missed a 3 p.m. kickoff in Miami, after a night on South Beach, again thanks to Andy. I watched more games than I can remember from press row in the nation’s most sacred college basketball venue and attended an NCAA tournament.

And, to be honest, I wish I would have forged more of these lasting memories. I passed up opportunities to travel to other games, sit down and interview coaches and athletes and call up other interesting sports personalities. Now, the tests and parties have conglomerated into one big smudge, but everywhere I traveled and everyone I interviewed stands out as a valued, personalized experience.

I’ll take the memories with me to my cubicle in New York next year. Sometimes, I feel weak and wish I would have pursued sports journalism. But, let’s be honest, who wants to cover high school football in Montana? Four years covering sports at one of the country’s strongest athletic and academic institutions spoiled me, and the allure of a career in finance was too much. It’s time to make the switch from spending my time in the shadows, glorifying other people’s exploits to pursuing my own personal success—however that may come to be defined— but not forgetting the most important lesson I learned.

I am at peace with the knowledge that I know what it feels like to discover a passion for something, making work feel like something you’re destined and privileged to do. I can rest assured that I’ll explore life’s countless options until I rediscover that feeling—that sense of perfect I became so accustomed to feeling when I was perched above a playing surface, straining to get my recorder in front of player in a crowded locker room, or silently pecking away on a computer late into the night.

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This is the story behind The Chronicle’s former website, There was no one to bounce ideas off of and progress which has since been replaced in January 2012. was inconsistent. Certain complex features were well I joined The Chronicle as a photographer four years supported within Drupal while other seemingly simple ago. My second assignment—a picture modifications required deep archiof the Link’s front desk—was given a full tectural changes. I read all the Drupal color spread in the news section. I kept books on the market cover-to-cover— a copy of the issue, thinking it was going more than 12—by the end of freshman to be the biggest contribution I would year. Sean would patiently listen to me make to The Chronicle. And then I met ramble on about technicalities, painstakSean, the former managing editor, when ingly test every little feature and manage I was at the Chronicle office one day. the expectations of the board and staff.

He was leading the effort to revamp During our last month working on the dean chen The Chronicle’s aging website and insite, Sean woke up early every morning senior column vited me to the first online meeting. to post that day’s content to our test I soon became a member of The site, an hour-long process.

Chronicle’s first development team. There was only one On Jan. 30, 2008, the entire project almost fell other developer involved—Alex, a very talented comput- apart. That day, a Friday, I had planned to move er science sophomore. Sean gave us two tasks: Launch the development site from my hard drive—which the sports blog and evaluate the quotes we received from contained the only copy of the site—to our new test firms competing to develop and design our site. server. But then my computer science assignment Alex and I moved fast. Although the sports blog spiraled out of control and permanently erased evwas launched in a week, I found the task unfulfilling erything on my hard drive. This happened to be the and soon focused on the quotes. As a naive develop- day that we promised to deliver a fully working demo er who only had experience with simple sites, I was to our editor and general manager. I emailed Sean floored by the six-figure quotes. I had a bit of experi- immediately, and he told me that the board already ence with Drupal—a web framework that supported had a lot of doubt about the site and this incident many of the quoted features, albeit in a unrefined would probably push them over the edge. We were form. I hesitantly suggested that I might be able to both distressed but neither of us showed it. I told build the site in house with Alex’s help, but my sug- him that I would have the site back up by Monday, gestion was shut down by Alex immediately. He told and Sean offered to try and buy me two more days. me that I did not know what I was getting myself into. I spent two sleepless nights re-implementing almost Sean, however, gave me a chance, and I spent the next three months of work. Miraculously, we managed to two days mocking up a Drupal-based site for Recess. pull together a demonstration by Monday, and the The mockup worked well enough to persuade The project was allowed to continue. This was a secret Chronicle’s board of directors to approve the prototyp- that Sean and I kept for the past four years. ing of the full site, with the understanding that Alex, Unfortunately, we were unable to launch the site beSean and I would continue to evaluate the commercial fore Sean graduated. I tied up the loose ends during my options while developing the prototype on the side. I summer internship in China after freshman year. And soon realized that Alex was right—I did not know what then one month into my sophomore year, we successfully I was getting myself into. The design process started in launched the site. That site has since been replaced by November 2008, and we were still working on revisions what you see today, a state-of-the-art custom platform built

by April. We wanted to launch over Spring break but by a large team of much more talented student developblew past that deadline, the first of many. ers—but all of it was built on these humble beginnings.

Developing the website would have been a very Dean Chen is a Trinity senior and managing director of lonely process without Sean. Alex focused on the blogs online operations. He would like to express his upmost gratiand dropped off completely by March (though I was tude to Sean, Chelsea, Will, Lindsey and Sanette, The Chronable to convince him to join the online department icle’s board of directors and the Chronicle staff for believing in two years later as my director of online development). him and giving him chance after chance to succeed.

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n the past four years, I have been certain of my death you. You smile and speak softly. I went from arriving in on two occasions. The second involves being lost for an unfamiliar space at 17, to feeling unfamiliar in it at 21. five hours in the dark in a Ugandan jungle while fol- Towerview put me back in touch with stories, with talentlowing chimpanzees. I’ve repressed most of that memory. ed writers, with the people I missed who hadn’t graduated The first I can elaborate on: One afternoon in Kruger Na- yet. And, at the end, it introduced me to a younger gentional Park in South Africa, I walked around a bend on a eration of promising writers. dirt path. Protruding from savanna brush were the gray As an editor-in-chief of the magazine I could decide legs and trunk of a bull elephant. Yes, he was the size of which stories went to print, but some of my best work rea building. Yes, he moved to the center of the road, yes, mains unfinished and forgotten: he faced me and yes, he trumpeted. He charged, sound 1. My unedited Flipcam footage of the 2010 men’s basand pain left the universe, and I found myself behind the ketball team meeting President Obama in the Rose Garfence of the research camp. I had run, with my three com- den. It’s earthquake-like—I had to convince the sports panions, and the elephant had veered off. I can tell you editor at the time to take me on the assignment that sumnow (maybe) how it feels before you die. mer. You would have said you could hold a Your life doesn’t flash before your eyes.

Flipcam steady in order to go to the White Instead, you think of no one and nothing House too. except the ground, your feet and where you (Of course, I wound up having to help covcan move them. er the men’s lacrosse national championship, It is at times like graduation, not the which we won, in Baltimore before returnend of my life but the end of part of it, that ing to Durham. I’d never watched lacrosse memories flash through my mind. I arrived before, but I live-tweeted the game from @ at Duke knowing I wanted to write for chroniclesports in the press box, thinking I rachna reddy the paper, but not that I wanted to study would have become a sports writer if I had senior column primates. I wrote my first Chronicle story known about the snacks. I’ve never told you about a lemur. I started working with lethis, Andy, but I mixed up the names of the murs a few weeks later and could no longer cover them goalies in those first tweets of my life. I didn’t realize until objectively. I became health and science editor and after the first half.) pitched lemur stories to staff writers. I grew a soft spot for 2. For four years I immersed myself so deeply in the blue-eyed lemurs and blue-eyed writers. world of feral cats, stray dogs and wild horses that I neFriendships are the best part of a newsroom, of course. glected to write a feature on campus squirrel life. The In 301 Flowers mine have started with perfume (always sidewalk standoffs with pedestrians, the dumpster diving, smell good, copy editors—this may be the only time the perils of hawk predation. The angles are endless. It someone will lean for so long over your shoulder), drugs could be a series perhaps. I am certain my sensible news (though not in the way you think), a feral cat feature editor, Emmeline, would have agreed. pitch and a Pekingese with an unfortunate underbite and (Squirrels also feature in my unwritten television script: breathing problem.

Last year, while discussing Monday, Monday columnists, I left this paper to study abroad my junior year. It is my friends and I became tongue-tied. We spoke of Gothic an abandonment we have never quite overcome. In many Bro and Gossip Squirrel. Then we entertained the thought ways, I returned as an ashamed parent, detached from of a TV drama featuring squirrels in monogrammed cashstorylines, from sources and from my former coworkers. mere collars. “Careful where you bury your acorns, A. You They had remained, devoted and sacrificing, and I had never know who might go digging them up.”) taken a trip to a place across an ocean and seen magnifi3. A feature on the history of the Duke Lemur Center. cent things. I have never regretted this. I feel guilt at that This one is serious. admission.

Senior year, I took on an editor position again, but the Rachna Reddy is a Trinity senior. She is the co-editor of Towdistance remained. Freshmen in the office, you don’t real- erview and the former health and science editor of The Chronicle. ize that you’ll feel invisible as a senior too. You return to She thanks the editors who ensured that “feral squirrels” never your old desk and find you don’t know anyone around made it to print and the young writers who may try to write it yet.

lettertotheeditor Moneta responds to outcry over Refectory contract I’ve been reading with great concern the proliferation of misinformation concerning the alleged closure of the Refectory in the Divinity School. I thought it might be useful to share more accurate information with you.

First, what’s at stake is not the closure of the dining unit in the Divinity School, nor of any change to the principles that govern the kind of food we feature there. We remain committed to featuring a highly “green” operation offering locally-sourced food with menus of great appeal to the diverse array of diners who eat there. What is at stake, then, is who the operator will be, and whether the diverse menu will be affordable to all students.

There are two issues we are working through with the current operator, Laura Hall. They are the commission amount due to Duke and the relationship with the Divinity School.

First, for several years we have been quite public with our operators that we intend, when contracts are renewed, to move the commission percentage from an average of 10 percent to 15 percent, which is standard for the industry. Even at that level, Duke continues to subsidize private vendors because we think it is important to have a wide array of dining choices on campus. Indeed, all the new restaurants on campus have agreed to this commission. The owner of the Refectory is certainly aware of that obligation, and experience shows that our campus dining outlets have been able to operate successfully and profitably while still providing a high quality menu and a fair workplace for employees.

Second, it is important to remember that the Refectory resides in the Divinity School, which has

shared with both Duke Dining and the owner longstanding concerns about the restaurant’s operation that conflict with student and faculty needs. We have made it clear that changes are necessary in order to continue what should be a mutually respectful relationship with Duke.

I’m saddened that the Refectory operators have chosen to wage a misinformation campaign that undermines the changes that are necessary, appropriate and transparent in order to sustain this important part of Duke Dining’s offerings. We have worked openly with students, through DUSDAC and DSG, to address very real concerns about fees, selection and quality across campus, but we think it is unfair to every member of the Duke community to provide a disproportionate subsidy to an eatery that is already at the upper end of cost, and unfortunately not affordable to many Duke students.

To be clear, we share a desire to retain the Refectory, and the community it has created at Duke, and are scheduled to meet with the operators on Friday to continue our good faith negotiations, and I hope and expect that we will be able to resolve our differences.

This is not about “closing the Refectory” as was incorrectly reported by The Chronicle. This is about who will operate the location, at what price, under what conditions and with what relationship with the Divinity School and the University. I will assure anyone who asks that the overall quality, menu and pricing that is currently enjoyed at the Refectory will continue.

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stood in the back at my first Chronicle meeting and put my name on the listserv. At the time, that was the only commitment I thought I would be willing to make.

And then the Recess editor at the time spotted me and asked me a question I would hear (and say) many, many times in the next few years: “Want to pick up this story?”

The story required me to wake up at 9 a.m. and join a group of senior citizens in a three-hour bus tour to view 14 freshly painted murals scattered around Durham. On a Saturday.

On my birthday.

Being the freshman I was, I agreed. And as I boarded that sanette tanaka paint-splattered bus and made editor’s note small talk with Durham’s strongest art aficionados, I remember thinking at the time—now that’s dedication. My understanding of that concept has since changed.

I enjoyed writing the piece and seeing my name in print even more. But back then, I couldn’t see myself as any more of a part of this paper than a peripheral member who attends Recess meetings and writes arts pieces from time to time.

But throughout the subsequent three and a half years, my investment in the newspaper continued to grow. I joined the news staff sophomore year and then juggled two positions junior year as the wire editor for news and arts editor for Recess.

And in February 2011, I was elected to serve as editor during my senior year, breaking a seven-year streak of junior editors.

Many people have asked me this year why I chose to take on this job in the first place, let alone as a senior. Why I would want to work 60 hours a week editing and fact-checking and spend the majority of my waking hours within the confines of a 2,000 sq.-ft. office, without compensation and without a byline except for a 7 pt. line of text tucked away in the back pages?

My reasons are, for the most part, unremarkable. I can say the usual editor’s response—it’s the best year, the worst year, the kind of year you-have-to-live-to-understand, descriptions that only apply to a handful of people and essentially only matter to that same handful.

To be blunt, what sparked my initial interest and what keeps me coming back is selfish. At this point, my happiness and self-worth is intertwined with the success of this organization. I like the idea of investing my entire being into something important—and The Chronicle fills that need for me.

Whether I’m in class or walking around campus, I click through emails every 10 minutes looking for breaking news and responding to sources. And right at 4:15 when daily production begins, lasting for the next nine to 10 hours, I am fact-checking, editing, discussing, planning. Sometimes my precious sleeping hours are interrupted, too, like when we have a last-minute posting crisis or a certain terrorist is killed (on our first night of production last year. We put the paper to bed at 6 a.m.).

Summing up all that goes into producing The Chronicle is no easy task. It is comprised of more than 10 departments and 200 staff members, two special pullout sections, one magazine, social media handles, a brand-new website and so much more. But the many moving parts are what make it so intriguing.

I have never invested in anything as fully as I have in The Chronicle. Without compensation or outright credit, those of us who work here find motivation through the people, the mission, the larger ideals that drive this institution.

This summer, I’m excited to go back to being a reporter, which is where my passion truly lies. But it saddens me to think that I will probably never feel as invested in an organization as I do in The Chronicle.

Although I’m ready to get back to what I deem my normal life, even if only for a few more weeks, I will miss feeling the weight of the paper. I’ll miss caring about something to such a degree and deriving so much joy and pain from a single institution. But for that, I’m still being selfish. When I pass the torch in our ceremonial whiskey shot, I will be happy knowing that the next volume is in good hands.

To wrap it up, I’d especially like to thank Nick and Nicole for putting up with everything from Chron at the Rock to my music choices; to Jamay, Danie and Manderz for our readalouds at Blue Express sophomore year; and to Alex for somehow managing to simultaneously calm me down (“Don’t worry, no one reads The Chronicle.”) and build me up (“Don’t worry, people read The Chronicle.”) Thank you for making senior year unforgettable.

Sanette Tanaka is a Trinity senior and editor-in-chief of The Chronicle. Like her predecessors, she aches with the knowledge that she will never be either again.

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