April 30, 2012

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Negotiations Early voters turn out in record numbers unresolved Percentage of Durham County votes cast at the Duke one-stop voting site in the first nine days of early voting

Fight for the Refectory pits students against admins

NC counties with the most early votes cast from April 18 - 26

by Gloria Lloyd THE CHRONICLE

Student outcry over the potential closure of the Refectory on West Campus may not be enough to keep the eatery open in its current configuration.

A meeting Friday between Refectory owner Laura Hall and Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of housing and dining, did not finalize the ongoing contract negotiations between the eatery and Duke Dining, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta wrote in an email Sunday. Further discussions will take place in the coming weeks and will include input from Dean of the Divinity School Richard Hays.

Duke is asking the Refectory to raise its commission from an average of 10 percent to 15 percent, but Hall has said this would require cutting services that she is not willing to cut.

Since The Chronicle reported April 24 that Duke Dining may not renew its contract with the Refectory in its original Divinity School location, which is currently operated by Hall’s Bon Vivant Catering company, students have voiced support for the sustainable, healthy food provider through a Facebook protest page and participation in a Duke Student Government survey.

DSG President Pete Schork, a senior, said students have overwhelmingly spoken against the possible closure of the Refectory.

“Despite all that, Student Affairs seems

As of April 26, 121,545 votes have been cast in North Carolina, including 9,007 in Durham County and 2,102 on the Duke campus.

DATA FROM THE DURHAM COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND THE CIVITAS INSTITUTE

by Jack Mercola THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s one-stop on-campus early voting site has attracted more than 2,000 voters, helping Durham County cast more votes so far than any other county in North Carolina in this year’s primary election.

Since the April 19 opening of the site, 2,398 students, faculty, staff and N.C. residents have utilized the University’s early voting site as of Sunday, which is located in the Old Trinity Room in the West Union Building. Due to the waning

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attention to the Republican presidential primary, voter participation has focused on Amendment One—a proposed state constitutional amendment that would define marriage between a man and a woman as the only legally recognized domestic union, banning civil unions and domestic partnerships.

N.C. residents have cast 121,545 votes at one-stop sites and with mail-in ballots since early voting began April 19, according to data from the Carolina Transparency project of the Civitas Institute, a conservative political advocacy group.

This figure outnumbers the first-week turnout in the 2008 primary—when the Democratic presidential candidacy was still up for grabs—by more than 10,000 votes. By Sunday, almost 12,500 Durhamites have cast their votes thus far, the highest number of any county in the state.

“The surge in Durham voting shows that Durham is a progressive community that cares deeply about the issues on the ballot,” said freshman David Winegar, SEE VOTERS ON PAGE 6

SEE REFECTORY ON PAGE 7

Daniels to play for the St. Louis Rams

Policy prohibits gifts from students to housekeepers

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For the 12th consecutive year, no Blue Devil was selected in the seven rounds of the NFL Draft.

But that was just fine by Duke safety Matt Daniels, a senior, who signed with the St. Louis Rams immediately after the draft concluded Saturday. Having been in touch with teams throughout the draft, he said around 10 teams called him following its conclusion looking to sign him as a priority undrafted free agent.

“My cellphone was blowing up, my house phone was blowing up and my mom’s cellphone was blowing up,” he said. “It all seems so surreal to me. I haven’t had

Duke housekeepers are no longer allowed to accept gifts from students.

Housing, Dining and Residence Life instituted a new policy this Spring that bars housekeeping staff from removing any items left behind in student dormitories during or after move-out.

The former policy allowed housekeepers to take items that students had designated for them—either by giving goods in person or leaving a note.

This policy change addresses some concerns brought up by both students and housekeepers, said Rick Johnson, assistant vice president of housing and dining.

“It’s too hard to figure out who owns

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After not being selected in this year’s NFL draft, Matt Daniels joins the St. Louis Rams.

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what,” Johnson said. “The University doesn’t want to be in a position to have to question everybody who’s carrying something away.”

In the past, housekeepers have obtained items such as alarm clocks, laptops, iPods, televisions, Xbox systems and games, Finley said. Sometimes students gave these items to housekeepers in person, but often staff members would take them from dormitory garbage receptacles.

Housekeeping staff members were informed of the change earlier this month, said James Finley, a housekeeper in Craven Quadrangle. Several housekeepers are unhappy with the SEE HOUSEKEEPERS ON PAGE 5

New LDOC policies result in fewer EMS calls, Page 3

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Comments by John Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, were the closest the administration has come to confirming the whereabouts of dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng and the difficulty the situation poses for U.S. policymakers.

The president tries to “balance our commitment to human rights� with continuing “to carry out our relationships with key countries overseas,� Brennan said on “Fox News Sunday.� “We’re going to make sure that we do this in the appropriate way and that appropriate balance is struck.�

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The exhibition is a selection of turn-of-the20th-century portraits from the Hugh Mangum Collection.

Mary Lou Day Mary Lou Williams Center, Tuesday 3-5 p.m.

The center honors its namesake with an assortment of delightful treats and jazz music.

Boehner criticizes Obama Tensions rise over lack of for student loan politicking Egyptian civilian cabinet WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Speaker John Boehner scolded President Barack Obama on Sunday for politicizing issues upon which Democrats and Republicans agree, including the need to prevent a hike in interest rates on federal student loans.

CAIRO — Egyptian lawmakers announced Sunday that they would suspend parliament sessions for a week to protest the military rulers’ failure to allow the elected body to appoint a new civilian cabinet. The step marked a sharp escalation of tension.

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Duke Med to enhance patient LDOC sees fewer EMS care with new eye center calls but more transports

by Andrew Luo THE CHRONICLE

Administrators have begun planning for the construction of a new Duke Eye Center.

The new 127,000-square-foot facility, which will be built in the parking lot next to the current Wadsworth Eye Center on Erwin Road, will increase the number of examination rooms available and improve patient care and workflow. The building will also feature state-of-the-art optical imaging technologies to assist in patient diagnosis. Construction is planned to begin this summer and is projected to be completed by early 2015.

“The new building will allow the Duke Health system to provide the best care for its patients,” said Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of the Duke University Health System. “Eye disease is becoming increasingly prevalent, especially as the population gets older. Our facilities must keep up with the patients’ needs.”

Dzau noted that the new eye center will improve patient flow in the hospital and may even have an impact on the Durham community. The expansion of Duke Medicine will create more jobs that can contribute to the economy in Durham.

The new facility will address patient needs better than the 35-year-old Wadsworth building, which is not designed to host a large number of patient visits, said Dr. David Epstein, John A.C. Wadsworth clinical professor, chair and director of ophthalmology at the School of Medicine and director of the Duke Eye Center. Cur-

rently, patients have to travel from one end of the building to the other to get treatment.

“Originally, the Wadsworth building was designed for 12 doctors and 15,000 patient visits, but we currently have 50 doctors and nearly 80,000 patient visits annually.” Epstein said. “In the new facility, the instrumentation will be patient-centered, and the extra space will allow us to train medical students, as well.”

When planning for the facility began in 2010, Durham-based LC Industries, the largest employer of visually impaired people in the United States, contributed $12 million for the construction of the new building.

“This is a vision that has come true,” said William Hudson, president of LC Industries and chair of the Eye Center Advisory Board, in a Duke Medicine press release.

“We developed a relationship with the eye center early on, because it is a perfect partnership. We provide jobs for the visually impaired, we provide educational opportunities, but we can’t conduct research on eye diseases or offer vision care. The Eye Center takes over where we left off. This new facility is a win-win for everyone.”

Epstein noted that the completion of the new facility may have a positive effect on the Duke Eye Center’s reputation, currently ranked seventh nationally, according to U.S. News and World Report.

“We have the oldest clinical facility of any top-20 eye program in the country,” Epstein said. “After the new building opens, we may be ranked first in the country.”

by Margot Tuchler THE CHRONICLE

A changed approach to the Last Day of Classes resulted in an overall safer event, administrators said.

The LDOC committee planned this year’s event with the goal of making the whole day—not just the concert —filled with activities, with the hope of improving student safety, said LDOC committee co-Chair Jacob Robinson, a sophomore. The number of medical emergency calls decreased compared to last year, and there were no major conduct issues.

“Our goal this year was to transform the quad and to transform LDOC into a daytime festival—a full-day festival—rather than just a drunken concert, and through the hard work of our committee, we were able to do that,” Robinson said.

But Deb LoBiondo, assistant dean for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, said more damage than usual was caused to residence halls on West.

“I have not finished calculating all the damage and excessive cleaning charges, SEE LDOC ON PAGE 6

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Performer B.o.B. headlines the LDOC concert on the Main Quadrangle Wednesday.

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Social stress may affect genetics

by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE

Social stress may affect people not just emotionally but also at the genetic level, a recent Duke study suggests.

Jenny Tung, visiting assistant professor of evolutionary anthropology, studied 49 female rhesus macaques to investigate the effect of social ranking on health. She found a link between social rank and immune system gene expression such that she could predict social status based on gene expression data with 80 percent accuracy.

These findings, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may be useful in analyzing the effects social stress has on the human immune system, Tung noted.

Low-ranking macaques had higher levels of stress, resulting in greater gene expression in genes associated with the immune system. The greater gene expression—the transfer of information from an organism’s genes to its physical appearance—resulted in higher levels of inflammation in the immune system, which can make low-ranking macaques more susceptible to becoming sick.

“We found that genes that tended to be turned up higher in low-ranking individuals were related to the immune system about twice as often as one would expect just by chance,” Tung said.

“This dovetails with some evidence that people have been recording for some time that social stress tends to be associated with high rates of inflammation.”

These low-ranked macaques can face long-term harassment, Tung said. Other macaques may steal their food or make faces at them. The stability of the social hierarchies means this harassment causes chronic stress, which led to the elevated levels of immune system gene expression.

The study was developed for female macaques

only because their social ranking depends on when they are introduced to a new environment, whereas males’ social ranking is determined by competition, Tung said. It is easier to manipulate the social status of female macaques because their introduction to a new environment can be controlled.

Anne Pusey, chair and James B. Duke professor of evolutionary anthropology, noted that a controlled study on the effects of social status on human health is not possible.

“Tung’s monkey studies provide very promising model systems for continued investigation of the physiological mechanisms involved [in humans] and how they may be altered,” Pusey wrote in an email Sunday.

The process by which social standing influences primate physiology is still not well understood, Tung noted.

“If social environment influences risk of disease or even mortality rates, well, there is a bit of a black box between social exposure and its effect on our physiology,” she said. “Some people have posed this question as how the social environment gets under the skin. A lot of progress has been made in that vein over the past couple of decades, but we still don’t have a complete answer.”

Susan Alberts, professor of biology, said although a controlled study on how social interconnectedness affects the human immune system is not possible, Tung’s study is still applicable to humans.

“We are primates, and it’s almost impossible to imagine that if we find broad general principles that affect gene expression and physiology in one primate, there isn’t going to be something useful about that information when thinking about another species,” Alberts said. “So does [the study] provide us with an understanding of the evolutionary roots of these kinds of relationships? Yes.”

Women increasingly filling defense roles

by Marjorie Censer THE WASHINGTON POST

More female executives are rising to the top levels of the largest defense companies, setting a standard that industry officials say may help encourage more women to enter the field.

This week, Phebe Novakovic is set to become president and chief operating officer at Virginia-based General Dynamics after serving as executive vice president of the company’s marine systems group.

The move puts Novakovic in line to replace Jay Johnson, General Dynamics’s chairman and chief executive, though the company has not made any formal decision.

“That’s the start of a very disciplined succession rhythm here,” Johnson said of Novakovic’s new role during a call with investors last week. “We’ll continue to work very closely together.”

Novakovic’s ascension comes as Maryland-based Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest defense contractor, named Marillyn Hewson its new president and chief operating officer, beginning Jan. 1. Hewson heads the company’s electronic systems business.

Linda Hudson, president and chief executive of BAE Systems’

Virginia-based U.S. business, said the rise of female executives could influence young women interested in aerospace and defense, potentially broadening the hiring pool.

“With Marillyn’s promotion at Lockheed Martin following on the heels of Phebe’s promotion at GD, I think it’s harder and harder to say these are just individual events,” Hudson said.

“Trend might be too strong a word, but [we have] certainly a pattern of women moving up at aerospace and defense companies.”

The arrival of female executives at some of the most prominent contractors may also influence smaller companies, said Marion Blakey, president and chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association.

“Is it a tidal wave? No, but it is a surge,” Blakey said. “I really do feel these [promotions] are an important bellwether for tapping the best talent in our industry.”

Hewson, who has spent 29 years at Lockheed, downplayed the role gender played in her success. She has worked in three of the company’s four business units, held 18 different leadership roles and moved to eight different Lockheed locations.

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HOUSEKEEPERS from page 1 change but are hesitant to speak up to University officials, he added.

“It’s taking away students’ rights to do what they want with their items,” he said. “[Sometimes students] want to say thank you for a service, for taking care of my dorm or keeping my bathroom clean.”

HDRL gave employees a document detailing the changes, which they were asked to sign to indicate they understood the new policy, Johnson said.

The policy, outlined in a document obtained by The Chronicle, was revised March 2012. It states that employees are not authorized to remove any items from campus, nor may they ask for or accept gifts of student property. Those who do not abide by the policy may be charged with theft and may face disciplinary action.

Items left in public spaces in residence halls will be donated to Duke Recycles to be given to the Move Out for Charity program or the Free Store, according to the policy document. HDRL staff will collect items left in student rooms and hold them for 30 days, pending inquiry from the resident, before donating them to Duke Recycles.

Michael Gibson, general manager of Local 77—the union that represents employees in housekeeping and facilities management—confirmed that the union is talking with management but declined to comment further.

Johnson said he was unable to comment on negotiations between the union and the University.

Over the past 10 years, University administrators have tried to create poli-

cies to clarify the process of housekeeping staff taking property left behind by students after move-out, Johnson said. A few years ago, students were asked to fill out consent notes at the Residence Life and Housing Services office that authorized housekeepers to take items.

But frequently students would forego this process and instead write housekeepers’ names on items they no longer wanted. This practice caused some housekeepers to question whether they were entitled to these items, Johnson noted.

These changes will protect housekeepers’ rights by preventing misunderstandings between students and housekeepers about the property, Johnson said. In the past, there have been student allegations that housekeepers were responsible for missing items from dorms.

“You don’t want to put the housekeeper in a position of [their character] being questioned, especially their honesty,” Johnson said.

The new policy also bars housekeepers from accepting any gifts from students, including small tokens of appreciation, Johnson said, to discourage employees from asking students for items or money.

Johnson noted that these new rules align with policies at most other American colleges and universities.

Housekeepers, however, remain unsure of the reasons behind the change.

Roosevelt Lovely, a housekeeper in Crowell Quadrangle, said that he thought the new move-out policy lacked transparency.

“They didn’t really tell us why they changed it,” Lovely said. “They just changed it.”

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LDOC from page 3 however I will share that in comparison to last year, costs are higher,” LoBiondo wrote in an email Sunday.

She added that Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, is in the process of acquiring data about East Campus and Central Campus damages but said she suspects excessive cleaning issues or damages on those campuses, as well.

Four students were sent to the hospital in comparison to last year’s two transports, said junior Sasha McEwan, director of operations for Duke Emergency Medical Services, wrote in an email Sunday. Despite this increase, the overall number of EMS calls decreased from 22 in 2011 to 15 this year.

Robinson said the extensive daytime programming, including the silent disco and lineup of student performers, helped to keep students occupied throughout the day leading up to the concert.

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said the organization of the day was wellexecuted and well-received.

“We made another step in the right direction in terms of issues related to the health and safety of LDOC,” Wasiolek said. “A number of students approached me during LDOC and said they really felt it had improved significantly since their freshman year.... It was still a fun, festive, great celebration, but they felt it was a safer, overall better environment for the day.”

This year, wristbands for quadrangle access were issued strictly undergraduate and graduate students, as opposed to previous years when staff and others were granted wristbands.

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“The effort to really focus it as a student event made the overall environment more conducive to a healthy and safe event,” Wasiolek said.

Wasiolek noted that the barbecue in Krzyzewskiville was a useful measure taken to combat alcohol-induced illness and provided an opportunity for students to get a meal that may otherwise have been neglected. The barbecue took place during the afternoon when access to the main quad was barred and students were encouraged to move to K-ville.

Security measures and planning were undertaken by both the committee and administrators, Robinson said.

The day’s events relied on a collaboration between many student groups.

“We’re thankful for the fact that the administration works with us... and that with a day that means so much to the student body, student representatives and leaders can work to maintain [an atmosphere] that the students like,” Robinson said.

Robinson added that the committee was able to make a sizeable charitable contribution due to LDOC shirt sales. The Duke Student Wellness Center sponsored the cost of the shirts, all of which were sold. All proceeds from shirt sales, which he estimates will be a few thousand dollars, will be donated to the Walltown Children’s Theatre in Durham.

Wasiolek credited the LDOC committee for their careful planning which helped to create a successful event.

“I have to applaud the committee for working all year in a very thoughtful way, particularly in the area of prevention,” she said. “They used great forethought in the scheduling and programming to try to work towards really preventing or reducing risk.”

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VOTERS from page 1 Winegar, incoming co-president of Duke Democrats.

North Carolina precincts 5 and 2, which are comprised almost entirely of Duke students, received the first and second highest turnout by precinct in the state respectively, according to the data from Civitas. Duke’s voting site has accounted for about one-fifth of Durham County’s votes.

The success of the on-campus voting site has allowed the University to secure a similar site for the 2012 general election, Winegar said.

“Duke is a campus that overwhelmingly stands against Amendment One, and that’s definitely what’s drawing students to the polls,” said sophomore Jacob Tobia, chair of Duke Together Against Constitutional Discrimination. “North Carolinians should know that young people in our state energetically oppose Amendment One.” About 85 percent of Duke voters said they would “commit to vote against” or “possibly vote against” the amendment in a poll of more than 30 percent of the Class of 2015 conducted April 5 by Duke Democrats, the Duke chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Duke OutLaw. Only 3 percent of students surveyed said they would not vote against the amendment, and the remaining 12 percent said they were ineligible to vote in North Carolina.

Student opposition to Amendment One reflects the administration’s and student political groups’ stance on it. The University and Duke Medicine released a joint statement Feb. 17 declaring their support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in response to the proposed amendment. Blue Devils United, Duke College Republicans and Duke Democrats jointly outlined their opposition to the amendment and urged the Duke community to vote against it in a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle April 16.

“Our great turnout shows that Duke is not the university it has been often portrayed as in the media—elitist and apathetic to local issues,” Winegar added.

“Duke students care about the future of our state and are being responsible citizens by making their voices heard.”

Anyone who has been a N.C. resident for at least 30 days can both register and vote on the same visit to the on-campus early voting site. The voting site will remain open until May 5, and the official election day is May 8.

In the 2008 primary election, 70 percent of early votes were cast in the final six days of the early voting window, suggesting that there may be a surge of early voters in coming weeks.

“So far, only [a third] of students have cast ballots, and we can do a lot better than that,” Tobia noted. “We’re hoping to see another surge of early voting when exams wrap up.”

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REFECTORY from page 1 unmoved, and they maintain their position that they can recreate the Refectory without Bon Vivant Catering as the manager. And so that is what students are up against,” Schork said. “If [students] are passionate about this, they should continue to let the decision makers know how they feel.”

A Facebook group—“KEEP the Refectory”—gained 1,000 fans within 12

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hours April 24. The group urged students to email President Richard Brodhead, Director of Duke Dining Robert Coffey and Johnson in support of the Refectory.

Additionally, more than 1,709 students responded to a DSG survey asking whether they would support a rate exemption for the Refectory to keep it on campus, even with the possibility that this would increase undergraduate dining fee. Eighty percent said that they would. Following the results of the survey, DSG unanimously resolved that un-

dergraduates would rather pay a higher fee than lose the Bon Vivant Catering operation in the Divinity School.

DSG and the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee have initiated discussions with University administrators about how the negotiations can been resolved. Student leaders cite the popularity of the eatery as the primary reason student input should be taken into account.

“The response has been, ‘We love the food, we love the space, it’s my favorite place to eat,’” Schork said.

DUSDAC co-chairs—senior Jane Moore and junior Beth Gordon—met with Johnson, Coffey and Assistant Director of Dining Barbara Stokes April 26 as part of a group of student leaders, and Schork had two additional meetings with dining administrators.

The social commitments of the Refectory should exempt it from the higher commission, Moore said.

“The actual cost that would be derived from the 50 percent increase is so miniscule in the grand scheme of things that it really feels like there’s something else at work here,” Moore said. “It’s upsetting to myself and other DUSDAC members because it can’t all be for an economic concern.”

Despite these efforts, the student outcry did not seem to change the tenor of negotiations at all, both Hall and Schork noted.

Moneta said, however, community preferences “will certainly help guide our plans.”

Coffey and Johnson were unavailable for

comment Sunday.

In a letter to the editor published in The Chronicle April 25, Moneta noted that the University is committed to a locally sourced, “green cafe,” with or without Hall as the operator.

The Refectory means more to students than its name, however, Moore said. “[Administrators] want the concept of the Refectory, and they don’t want Laura Hall,” Moore said. “You can’t have one without the other. The Refectory and Laura Hall go together.”

She added that the Refectory employees would be loyal to Hall and not want to work in a Refectory replacement.

Neither Moore nor Schork are optimistic about the fate of the Refectory.

They noted that both DUSDAC and DSG had been unaware of the state of the negotiations before last week.

“To not be informed about something like this, it’s upsetting,” Moore said. “It feels really calculated, and it’s really reminiscent of what happened with [former Director of Dining Services] Jim [Wulforst’s resignation] last summer, had this gone unnoticed.”

Schork noted that the loss of the eatery would have large implications on the student dining scene.

“It’s the one place on campus where you’ve really seen a successful food culture,” he said. “It’s a real dining culture that we should be trying to emulate across campus.”

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Students respond to the potential closing of the Refectory with widespread support for the vendor, shown through Duke Student Government measures and social media organization.

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Last year, the Blue Devils turned in a historic performance at the Penn Relays, collecting two championships and six school records at one of the season’s biggest meets. This year the athletes earned four second-place finishes before leaving Franklin Field in Philadelphia.

As the competition began Thursday, Shannon Sullivan stepped up to earn the first of Duke’s second-place finishes with her throw of 47.11m in the Championship of America Javelin.

Just an hour after Sullivan competed, senior Amy Fryt took fourth in the pole vault in her final Penn Relays appearance with a vault of 4.10m. Later in the day, freshmen Lauren Hansson, Elizabeth Kerpon and Alexis Roper joined senior Brittany Whitehead to continue the success on the women’s side with a time of 3:42.45 in the 4x400m relay. That time earned them a spot in the ECAC final on the following day, during which they collectively ran 3:41.18 to earn another second-place finish for the Blue Devils.

The men mirrored the women’s success, taking home two second-place finishes of their own. The first came during Duke’s opening day of the relays when junior Dominick Robinson ran 9:05.57 in the College Men’s 3000m Steeplechase. Despite taking the lead in the last lap, he was passed by Texas A&M’s Isaac Spencer just before crossing the finish line.

Duke’s last silver medal came from the field, where senior Michael Barbas threw 17.37m in the shotput. Although his throw was good enough to take second place in the event, for Barbas it was not enough.

“The competition is so great. Basically, a lot of the best throwers in the country are in the

No. 19 N.C. State swept Duke this weekend in a three-game set at Doak Field in Cary, N.C, scoring eight runs in each of the last two games. The Blue Devils (16-29, 7-17 in the ACC) have now lost 12 of their last 15 games DUKE 0 and have the wins NCST 4 fewest in the conference.

DUKE 3 The WolfNCST 8 pack began the series with DUKE 7 a 4-0 shutout as Anthony NCST 8 T z a m t z i s yielded just two hits in 7.2 innings, striking out nine Duke batters. Blue Devil ace Marcus Stroman allowed three runs in the first two innings, going the distance in a 10-strikeout effort. Stroman is now 4-4 for the year and leads Division I with 112 strikeouts.

In the second game, N.C. State lefthander Carlos Rodon improved to 8-0 on the season with his second complete game, leading the Wolfpack to an 8-3 win. Rodon yielded just five hits and one walk over the course of his nine-inning effort, whiffing

I still remember the conversation like it was yesterday.

“Mom, I don’t think I can do this. It just isn’t working.”

There was silence on the other end of the phone. My feet crunched the fallen leaves between Bell Tower and Southgate.

I kept talking, outlining the details of a problem generally familiar to my entire family. We had been bouncing beChris tween neurologists for almost two years by that day in the fall of 2008, and not one had been willing to diagnose my frequent headaches, dizziness and short-term memory loss as anything but adult-onset migraines. They prescribed a veritable arsenal of medication that should have made it all better, and I came to Duke under the impression that it would all work itself out. But it hadn’t.

During Fall Break I was officially diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome, the lasting effect of too many years of water polo.

The doctor told me I wouldn’t get better until I spent time away from school, likening the brain’s recovery process to that of a torn ACL. At first, I would need to not use it at all, and after a few months I might be able to slowly start flexing it again.

I went home on medical leave the next week with strict instructions to avoid reading, writing, exercising or watching television for a month. So I stared at the wall and waited to get better.

Gradually my condition improved, and by the middle of the next spring I was working two part-time jobs. The challenges of scooping ice cream are relatively minor compared to a full course load, though, and the deadline to submit my Duke return paperwork came too soon. I filled out the forms halfheartedly, not really believing I was ready, but certain I needed to leave the house.

I came back determined to be involved on campus, though I only went to a Chronicle information session because it was in Carr and I lived next-door in Giles. I had no real love for journalism and no experience to speak of, but two months later I was sitting in Coach K’s preseason press conference inside Cameron. I stared at his moving lips while he spoke, a technique that under normal circumstances would prevent even my rehabilitating brain from wandering too far away.

But soon I found myself staring over his right shoulder, only realizing my mistake when I realized he was looking directly at me.

Thankfully, K didn’t publicly acknowledge my lack of attention, and I learned better ways to keep my mind sharp while on the job (the best being to always bring a tape recorder). I never managed to develop the love for reporting and writing that many of my colleagues had, though. Over the next two years I moved from beat writer to columnist, staying involved because of

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Senior Michael Barbas threw 17.37m in the shotput at the Penn Relays, earning one of Duke’s four silvers. meet,” Barbas said. “I didn’t feel sharp…. It just made me hungry to get through finals and get ready for regionals in about a month.”

Barbas was not the only athlete on the men’s side to experience a let down at the relays. Both the distance medley relay and the 4xMile, events for which Duke had high expectations, were unable to achieve their goals of medaling. The distance medley relay team of Stephen Clark, Ben Raskin, Curtis Beach

and Domenick DeMatteo got off to a slow start in the first leg and was unable to catch up, finishing 13th overall.

On the other hand, the 4xMile team of Nate McClafferty, Andrew Brodeur, DeMatteo and Morgan Pearson got off to a good start and after a 4:06.9 second leg from Brodeur appeared in good shape.

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fromstaffreports No. 3 Duke (13-4) fell to No. 16 Denver (8-5) 15-9 Friday at Mile High Stadium, snapping a 10-game winning streak, the team’s second longest under the head coach John Danowski.

The Pioneers controlled the game from the start, leaving the first period with a 3-0 lead. Although the Blue Devils narrowed the deficit to 6-5 DUKE 9 at halftime, Denver exploded in 15 DEN the third with four consecutive goals.

Three Duke goals in the fourth quarter, including David Lawson’s team-high third of the game, made it 11-9, butt the Pioneers finished the game on another ther fourgoal run, ending all hopes of a comeback.

Senior Mark Matthews led Denver, tallying five goals and two assists and on the other end freshman man Ryan LaPlante notched a carrer-high 166 saves in just his seventh career start.

The Blue Devil starting lineup was comprised of some unfamiliar faces, ass none of Duke’s regular starters received thee nod in favor of many freshmen and seniors rs who had received limited playing timee during the season. Fifth-year senior Casey asey Shannon started his first career game, me,

allowing two goals in his 3:16 on the field.

Duke found its stride in the second period, tallying five goals by five different players, including two within six seconds of each other from Jake Tripucka and C.J. Costabile.

After Lawson’s first goal tied it at five, Alex Demopoulos gave the Pioneers the lead for good with the first of his two goals.

But after Blue Devils had outscored their opponents 43-18 in the third quarter coming into the contest, the Pioneers supplied the offense after the break, scoring four unanswered goals to extend its lead to 10-5.

Duke was able to make a run as the fourth quarter began, but Denver’s Chase Car Carraro stifled the rally when he scored off a faceoff to bring the Pioneer advantage back to th three.

The loss was Duke’s first since March 10 against Loyola. The Blue Devils have no n games remaining on their regular-season schedule and r will w await the selection for this year’s yea NCAA tournament May 6.

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Duke scored its three runs in the sixth inning, capped off by a two-run home run from third baseman Jordan Betts, his third of the season. Blue Devil starter Trent Swart and relievers Sarkis Ohanian and Andrew Istler combined to allow the eight runs in their combined eight innings of duty before Nick Piscotty tossed a scoreless final frame.

Duke forfeited an early lead in the final game of the series, allowing N.C. State to score the final five runs of the game to win 8-7. In 5.2 innings, Robert Huber allowed seven runs, five of which were earned, with the Wolfpack sending four batters home in the sixth to tie the game.

But second baseman Logan Ratledge notched an RBI double in the 8th inning, sealing the game for N.C. State.

The Blue Devils have the next week off for final exams and return to action against Longwood next Sunday.

During the third leg though, a chance collision caused DeMatteo to fall, costing the Duke team precious time. And although DeMatteo was able to recover and pass the baton to Pearson, they had lost too much ground and finished in ninth place.

“The baton hit the rail and skipped into the infield. It was a slow motion nightmare to watch.” director of track and field Norm Ogilvie said.

Regardless of this misfortune, Ogilvie is satisfied with the way his athletes performed in perhaps the highest-profile meet of the year.

“Everyone wants to look good at the Penn Relays but very few people actually do,” Ogilvie said. “It’s very competitive, so to come away with four silver medals is solid.”

the people I met—people who could debate the National League High-A affiliates without batting an eye and argue for hours over the point spread in the BBVA Compass Bowl.

Those same people made this year better than I ever imagined, though my reason for taking on this responsibility was far more selfish. This was the final test, the last stage in my recovery process. Overseeing the production of a daily sports section would require a nightly commitment that I hadn’t let myself make since the diagnosis, and moving forward with my planned semester in Buenos Aires had begun to feel like running away.

But journalism is not a job built for selfevaluation, nor is it as solitary an enterprise

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home to Fayetteville, Ga. for the three-day draft, the All-ACC safety consulted with his family and agent on where that should be.

Although a number of teams, including the defending Super Bowl champion New York Giants, attempted to sign the 6-foot-1 defensive back, he believed the Rams provided him with the best opportunity to earn playing time and showcase his talents.

“It was kind of like college recruiting all over again—every team had their pitch. Everyone was trying to offer a certain amount of money to get me to come to their team or trying to tell me the opportunity I would have going to their team,” Daniels said. “It’s a great opportunity for me to go to a team with a new coaching staff.”

Daniels is excited to work with new St. Louis head coach Jeff Fisher, who spent more than 16 seasons as the head coach of the Houston Oilers-Tennessee Titans franchise after serving as a defensive coach in the league beginning in 1985. Fisher took

Michael Gbinije has decided to transfer to Syracuse next season, after previously announcing earlier in the month he would leave the Blue Devils.

Rated the No. 29 basketball recruit in the nation according to ESPN.com, Gbinije struggled to break head coach Mike Krzyzewski’s rotation, playing in just 19 of Duke’s 33 games.

According to NCAA rules, Gbinije will have to sit out next season but will still have three years of eligibility after that. Syrcause will be a part of the ACC in 2013 when Gbinije returns to action, meaning the Blue Devils will see him at least once per season.

For the 12th consecutive year, no Blue Devil was selected in the seven rounds of the NFL Draft.

But that was just fine by Duke safety Matt Daniels, a senior, who signed with the St. Louis Rams immediately after the draft concluded Saturday. Having been in touch with teams throughout the draft, he said around 10 teams called him following its conclusion looking to sign him as a priority undrafted free agent.

“My cellphone was blowing up, my house phone was blowing up and my mom’s cellphone was blowing up,” he said. “It all seems so surreal to me. I haven’t had the opportunity to sit down and actually think about it.”

Daniels acknowledged that there are positives to being drafted, most importantly the signing bonus, but going undrafted gave him the opportunity to choose where he would begin his professional career. After returning

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as I expected it to be. This is a job that drives even the sanest people through a perpetual spin cycle of the seven stages of grief, and there were days readers would have seen an incomplete section were it not for the help I received from the rest of the staff. Even with a tightly woven safety net, though, I have redeveloped confidence in the functionality of my own mind to a degree I never thought I would reach again.

I owe more than I can express to the sportswriters and editors who put up with my self-indulgent, year-long quest for a new mind—especially the five that cornered me in a conference room as I hedged over taking the job last March and wouldn’t take no for an answer. Their belief in me was inspiring, and that conversation is another I will remember forever—though this time because it changed my life for the better. the Titans to the Super Bowl in 1999 and because it is his first year with the Rams, Daniels believes he will have a strong opportunity to prove his worth without any incumbent favorites.

Additionally, the Rams did not select any safeties in the draft, giving him a chance to work his way up the depth chart.

“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to work with [Fisher],” Daniels said. “I think I’ll be given a great chance to go out there and show my talents and abilities and make the active roster.”

Daniels’ skill set will not only be valuable as a defensive back, but also on special teams.

At Duke’s pro timing day, in which Blue Devil players entering the draft had the opportunity to showcase their talents for scouts, the secondteam All-American ran the 40-yard dash in less than 4.50 seconds, making speed his speed a clear asset entering the League.

While Daniels quickly received a contract from the Rams, other Duke players have been

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ing top-level LGBT students and faculty, who may opt for careers in states where their rights are secured.

This should matter students whether or not they reside permanently in the state, or whether or not they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

Duke students are largely recognizing the danger that Amendment One poses.

Last month, Duke Student Government unanimously approved a resolution denouncing the amendment.

Moreover, sophomore Jacob Tobia, director of LGBTQ affairs and policy for Duke Student Government, has brought his activist savvy to start Duke Together Against Constitutional Discrimination coalition. The impres-

sive mobilization efforts of Tobia and other student leaders have already yielded powerful results: an on-campus voting site and recordsetting early voting numbers thus far. Durham County has produced 9,000 early voters, the most by far of any county in the state. Thanks to the efforts of student activists, more than 2,000 of those votes were cast in the Old Trinity Room.

Join the growing movement that recognizes the importance of local politics in the daily lives of Duke students. In deciding to attend this university, Duke students signed up to live in Durham for eight months of the year.

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house. For those who think of Duke as their home, North Carolina is home, too. Our peers and professors also call this university and this state home, and we have an obligation to promote the safest and most inclusive environment for them, no matter their sexual orientation.

In the midst of papers and tests, take a few minutes, walk to Old Trinity Room and cast a ballot against Amendment One. Let us defy accusations that Duke is a politically apathetic campus. Let us continue to ride this wave of student activism and mobilization into the presidential election. And let us show current and future Blue Devils that North Carolina is a state that is proud and grateful to have them.

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’m a grown up in almost every way but one: When could go home, hug my mom and pretend I wasn’t I leave Durham in a month, it may be the hardest growing up. thing I’ve ever had to do. But I won’t know until But New York is about as different from Durham as June. I’ve never left home before. you can get. Here, strangers call me “sweetie” and give That isn’t to say I’ve never lived away from mom’s me home-brewed beer samples while they cut my hair. place, my “sick apartment” isn’t seThe city is tall and loud and I don’t recretly my old room at home. I’ve ally know my way around. I hate feellived on campus, in 301 Flowers, at ing lost, but that’s what I’m going to the Belmont and even in New York be. Away from my mom, most of my City for a summer. I’ve upgraded to a friends and my hometown, I’ll have big-girl bed and a five-foot-tall teddy to follow my dreams alone for a little bear (you think I’m joking). But this bit—without my training wheels. summer, I’ll move to New York City Having a visceral, panicked reacfor real, and to be honest, I’m pretty tion to moving to New York and purlindsey rupp much terrified. suing my dream of becoming the ladyI don’t want to grow up, and it’s superman of journalism is incredibly senior column embarrassing that my Peter Pan modisappointing. It’s taught me that life ment should come now, about four is decidedly unlike a box of chocoyears after most of my peers left home. I made the lates, which is, no matter what, still chocolate. It’s like move to strike out on my own once. I tried really hard picking a direction at random when getting off the to get away in high school when I decided that be- subway and trying to walk confidently down the block ing born in Boston basically made me a Northerner, while desperately checking Google Maps and street and the South just wasn’t for me. So I applied to eight signs for something familiar. I’ll have to step out into schools out of state, and I ended up at Duke. the street and fake it until I make it.

Trapped.

I don’t like admitting this to you all, but it’s true.

But now I’m clawing to hold onto my roots. Dur- I’m a mommy’s girl, a Durhamite, a life-long Dukie; ham is great—what was I thinking? I love the food and I’m starting to worry there is a real possibility I and the beer and the people, and I recommend ex- might not be able to have that “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”ploring beyond Main Street. But then, that’s just the esque experience I’ve always dreamed about. It problem: I’ve spent more than 90 percent of my life should be so easy, shouldn’t it? Moving to a new, glamhere, and it’s easy to take a place for granted. And orous place and building a new, glamorous life. But now that I’m leaving, the biggest gift Durham gave that takes maturity, and it’s the one kind of growing me, one that I never noticed, is staring me in the up I haven’t gotten around to yet. face—control. For the last four years, Durham has It’s time to learn more about the part of me that is lent me a competitive advantage. When friends want bigger than Durham, and there are parts of that eduto go places, I can give directions. When I need a cation I can’t control anymore. It’s OK to be afraid to quiet place to study, I know the best coffee shops. It’s take the post-college plunge into a fast-paced concrete been awesome. And safe. jungle where there may not be a safety net to fall into.

Change can really take a toll on that feeling of au- I only have one thing left for me to say to Durham. thority I’ve enjoyed for so long. Every major change Goodbye. so far has been cushioned just a little bit because I’m still in a familiar place, and my old life isn’t very far Lindsey Rupp is a Trinity senior. She is the social meaway when I need it. This was a huge comfort when dia editor and the former editor and university editor of The I took on my biggest challenge—becoming edi- Chronicle. She thanks the staffs of volumes 104-107 for their tor of The Chronicle’s 106th volume. An awesome hard work and support. She thanks her mom and her friends, and overwhelming experience that changed my especially Meredith, Joline and Taylor, for making these last life, made just a little easier because now and then I four years so wonderful.

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’m a grown up in almost every way but one: When could go home, hug my mom and pretend I wasn’t I leave Durham in a month, it may be the hardest growing up. thing I’ve ever had to do. But I won’t know until But New York is about as different from Durham as June. I’ve never left home before. you can get. Here, strangers call me “sweetie” and give That isn’t to say I’ve never lived away from mom’s me home-brewed beer samples while they cut my hair. place, my “sick apartment” isn’t seThe city is tall and loud and I don’t recretly my old room at home. I’ve ally know my way around. I hate feellived on campus, in 301 Flowers, at ing lost, but that’s what I’m going to the Belmont and even in New York be. Away from my mom, most of my City for a summer. I’ve upgraded to a friends and my hometown, I’ll have big-girl bed and a five-foot-tall teddy to follow my dreams alone for a little bear (you think I’m joking). But this bit—without my training wheels. summer, I’ll move to New York City Having a visceral, panicked reacfor real, and to be honest, I’m pretty tion to moving to New York and purlindsey rupp much terrified. suing my dream of becoming the ladyI don’t want to grow up, and it’s superman of journalism is incredibly senior column embarrassing that my Peter Pan modisappointing. It’s taught me that life ment should come now, about four is decidedly unlike a box of chocoyears after most of my peers left home. I made the lates, which is, no matter what, still chocolate. It’s like move to strike out on my own once. I tried really hard picking a direction at random when getting off the to get away in high school when I decided that be- subway and trying to walk confidently down the block ing born in Boston basically made me a Northerner, while desperately checking Google Maps and street and the South just wasn’t for me. So I applied to eight signs for something familiar. I’ll have to step out into schools out of state, and I ended up at Duke. the street and fake it until I make it.

Trapped.

I don’t like admitting this to you all, but it’s true.

But now I’m clawing to hold onto my roots. Dur- I’m a mommy’s girl, a Durhamite, a life-long Dukie; ham is great—what was I thinking? I love the food and I’m starting to worry there is a real possibility I and the beer and the people, and I recommend ex- might not be able to have that “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”ploring beyond Main Street. But then, that’s just the esque experience I’ve always dreamed about. It problem: I’ve spent more than 90 percent of my life should be so easy, shouldn’t it? Moving to a new, glamhere, and it’s easy to take a place for granted. And orous place and building a new, glamorous life. But now that I’m leaving, the biggest gift Durham gave that takes maturity, and it’s the one kind of growing me, one that I never noticed, is staring me in the up I haven’t gotten around to yet. face—control. For the last four years, Durham has It’s time to learn more about the part of me that is lent me a competitive advantage. When friends want bigger than Durham, and there are parts of that eduto go places, I can give directions. When I need a cation I can’t control anymore. It’s OK to be afraid to quiet place to study, I know the best coffee shops. It’s take the post-college plunge into a fast-paced concrete been awesome. And safe. jungle where there may not be a safety net to fall into.

Change can really take a toll on that feeling of au- I only have one thing left for me to say to Durham. thority I’ve enjoyed for so long. Every major change Goodbye. so far has been cushioned just a little bit because I’m still in a familiar place, and my old life isn’t very far Lindsey Rupp is a Trinity senior. She is the social meaway when I need it. This was a huge comfort when dia editor and the former editor and university editor of The I took on my biggest challenge—becoming edi- Chronicle. She thanks the staffs of volumes 104-107 for their tor of The Chronicle’s 106th volume. An awesome hard work and support. She thanks her mom and her friends, and overwhelming experience that changed my especially Meredith, Joline and Taylor, for making these last life, made just a little easier because now and then I four years so wonderful.

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aving spent several hours a day, five days a reminder of all the writers and editors who commitweek sitting in this office for the past year, ted their time and energy to make my job possible.

I often struggle to locate and label my con- It will also remind me that The Chronicle has given tribution to The Chronicle. I have never written me more than I could ever return. and reported a story. I have never written a column.

This is going to sound cheesy, but I am sure any I have never even written a letter to the editor or of you who have devoted your time to a campus orcommented on the website. With no ganization can understand. Having tangible product to point to, no physithe opportunity to be held accountcal evidence that I was here, it someable for getting something done every times feels like I have done nothing. day, to manage a staff and to coordiThis year, The Chronicle has ennate a complicated project, has taught joyed a phenomenal opinion section. me my most valuable college skills.

From Concerned Global Citizen to the Also, surprisingly enough, having Socialites, from guest pieces about the your email address be the one that alMMS program to personal accounts of meredith jewitt most every piece of criticism—online gender violence, it has served as not comment, letter to the editor or just senior column only a source of entertainment for stuangry email—goes to, has toughened dents, but also as a center for campus my skin. dialogue and debate. We published essentially every In September, an angry email saying I should be guest piece The Chronicle received, something I am fired or calling me a racist/bigot/misogynist for letproud to be able to say. I might not have agreed with ting Monday, Monday make a joke about ... there everything that was said in these pages, but I strongly were a lot of these so I can’t remember a specific believe that all of it was said for the good of Duke. one, would have made my heart beat a little faster.

Even the most ludicrous and controversial state- The email would have stayed in the back of my mind ments remind us that as a community we are not of all day, making me throw up my hands and gripe one opinion, that we still have a lot to talk about. about how readers don’t understand anything. But The opinion section diversified the type of con- by December, a threat to sue the paper for libel betent it offered to readers and increased community cause an online commentor had called a columnist access to print and online space. I also hope some misinformed (yes this is a true story), merely made of the columnists learned more about writing—this me raise my eyebrows. Now, these kind of things just is a teaching institution after all, something I think mostly make me laugh. readers often forget.

For this, I thank The Chronicle and the people Somewhere between 97 and 99 percent of the that volunteer their time to make it wonderful. All section’s success (I have never been skilled enough of you have made me a better editor and a stronger at math to give an exact figure) comes from the stu- person. (I do still try to avoid Larry Moneta though. dents who committed themselves to writing and ed- Ever since Monday, Monday wrote that CGC had iting and the community members who chose The sex fantasies about him, I really just can’t see him Chronicle as the outlet for their opinions. I like to on the stairs in Flowers without feeling uncomfortthink the other 1 to 3 percent is because of the time able.) I hope my time here, in some small way, made I devoted, but even this might be too high an esti- this section or this paper better, even though I don’t mate. Yes, I have managed this section of the pa- think I’m ever going to be able to point to anything per. I selected all of the writers and made schedules and say, “Yes, this is it. This is what I have contriband rules and read every piece of writing that ran in uted.” But that’s OK. I will just be able to read the these pages. I checked facts and changed commas. edit pages and feel proud to know that for a short I arranged content when writers balked at the last time, I had something to do with them. minute. But this was a functionary position.

In a few weeks, The Chronicle is going to give Meredith Jewitt is a Trinity senior. She is the editorial me two giant books that contain every edition of pages editor of The Chronicle. She would like to send inthe paper that was published in the 107th volume. finite thanks to her parents for their unfaltering support About 140 of them. More than 500 columns, guest for her decision to go 3,000 miles away from home. Also pieces and letters to the editor. Maybe this aggregat- to a phenomenal human being, Carol Apollonio, for helped mass of pages and words will fulfill my hunt for ing a scared 18-year-old feel at home at Duke and an even physicality, but I doubt it. More likely, the tomes will more terrified 22-year-old apply to law school. Finally to sit on my bookcase, reminders of the time I spent Lindsey and Joline (and Taylor, too) for making these four sitting in 301 Flowers. Even more so, they will be a years the most enjoyable of her life.

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hen I think of Duke, more than anything I will think of The Chronicle and 301 Flowers. Once you get beyond the general mess of the office—it has, after all, been passed down from generation to generation of college students—you realize that it is one of the most extraordinary places on campus.

In less than two weeks, I will graduate. If that does not make me feel old enough, I only need to think about how different the person who walked into this office in the fall of 2008 was from who I am today. That was dozens and dozens of articles ago. That was before I met many of my closest Duke friends.

That was before—with all due respect to the economics department—I learned most of what I have learned in college, all from people more or less my age. (I never quite learned how to spell, though. Lindsey and Toni, you both know this all too well.)

If you are not very familiar with the way that The Chronicle works, it is worth taking a second to understand the way that the paper that arrives on stands each morning is created.

Take, for instance, the editing process. Once the writer has reported and constructed the story just right, he sits down with a copy editor, who runs through the story line by line and who, more or less, has the responsibility of figuring out everything the reporter did wrong. “Did you push President Brodhead about how this decision was made? Why not? This is a bit wordy. How can we fix it?”

The writer, once his story is thoroughly vetted, goes home.

Then, one of the paper’s top editors takes over the piece, reconsidering the article’s structure and checking the story for factual accuracy. More often than not, the reporter will get taylor doherty a call from this editor late that night to clarify a couple of desenior column tails. From there, the article is placed into the layout of the next day’s edition. Then, an associate editor who has not yet seen the story reads it a final time on a printed mock-up. This happens with every story, five nights a week. It takes time, so most nights the PDF of the paper does not get sent to the publisher until 2 or 3 a.m.

It was going through this process so many times that taught me so much. You learn to write clean copy because if you don’t, an editor will sit there and stare at you until you rewrite the sentences so that they make sense. You become careful with the facts because you feel like a moron when an editor corrects your mistakes. You learn to tell stories because if you can’t keep the reader’s attention, there’s no point in writing in the first place.

This brings me to the other part of my Chronicle experience that I will not forget. This work is only possible because of you, the reader, who cares enough about Duke to pick up the paper in the first place. I know that sometimes you open the paper for the crossword, not my stories, and from the online comments I know some of you are absolutely crazy. At the same time, I can tell you that there are few things as satisfying for a writer as arriving to your 10:05 a.m. class, exhausted from the previous night’s production, only to see the person sitting in front of you reading a story you worked on.

Journalism has changed since I entered college. The revenue model is different—and for some papers, unfortunately, it has more or less disappeared.

The Chronicle’s watchdog role will perhaps be more important moving forward than it has been in the past because of the changes in the field. Smaller staffs at local papers mean fewer in-depth stories about Duke. Meanwhile, the University is telling more and more of its own story through Duke News, which is more an extension of the school’s public relations department than it is a watchdog. There remains a desperate need for a paper that is willing to ask the uncomfortable questions, and I hope that will always be The Chronicle. The staff must continue to facilitate campus discussion and insist on transparency.

Some of my friends still ask about my experience “studying abroad at The Chronicle” junior year, when I served as the news editor. I sometimes describe it as the perfect year-long experience, but a fun thing I would only do once. But that’s not entirely true. I miss the paper already, and as excited as I am for the next stage of my life, I’m not sure that I’m quite ready to leave.

Taylor Doherty is a Trinity senior. He is the special projects editor and the former news editor of The Chronicle. He would like to thank his family for their support throughout Duke and the members of The Chronicle staff for a great four years.

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t is hard to believe that this four-year journey is coming to an end. I’ve been in denial for the last couple of weeks, not quite sure what to say or do when people ask me how I feel about graduation. I usually just smile and say that I am excited, but I actually feel a lot like I did four years ago—anxious.

I almost did not come to Duke. My parents were very adamant about their desire to keep me close to home.

With 1,224 miles between Durham and Houston, Duke is hardly around the corner ... and being the eldest daughter didn’t help either.

I had my own hesitations as well. I remember walking into my high school mentor’s classroom one afternoon after reading the infamous Rolling Stone article. Panicked, I doubted whether Duke was really the place for me. To this day I still remember the look Mr. Warren gave me. There behind his computer, sitting next to his inflatable palm tree with his thick white eyebrows furrowed, he gave me his what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about face.

With his usual patient yet blunt demeanor, he soothed my worries by wisely telling me that the next four years would not be easy, but that they would definitely be worth it. Shortly after, I took the leap and embarked on this unforgettable experience.

When I arrived, I was mesmerized by the Gothic architecture, the trees (yes, the trees) and, most of all, the amazing people that make up this university. But, I quickly realized that Mr. Warren was right—it wasn’t going to be easy.

I looked back several times during my freshman year, second-guessing my decision. Overwhelmed by classes, homesickness and this foreign environment, I almost transferred. It was not until I became a part of The Chronicle that I really found my niche at Duke.

I would have never found my way in this strange

place without you, Julius. Thank you for pushing me to pick up my first story. Because of you, I dove in head first, learned everything that I could and rediscovered my passion for writing; I even found a few new interests.

I never could have imagined that first article on the impending smoking ban in North Carolina would lead to so much more.

There was that hectic and panicked thrilling trip to D.C. when I somehow got assigned to shoot the men’s basketball team at the White House the summer after they won the national championship. My friend and I had a huge panic attack when we got lost (the GPS took us to the wrong 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.), but by some miracle we made it. We parked in the first place we could find and sprinted toward the White House. We watched as our co-reporters turned the corner and ran toward us in sync. It was like a scene straight out of a movie that will forever play in my head in slow motion.

We met in the middle of the street, panting, trying to catch our breath and then composed ourselves. We watched Obama give his speech, Coach K hand him a Duke jersey with his name, and Kyle Singler turn bright red and smile ear-toear as he shook his hand. As if that day couldn’t get any better, we then took off for Baltimore to witness the men’s lacrosse team clinch the national title with CJ Costabile’s unforgettable game-ending goal.

That was only the start. Junior year, huge bags became tattooed under my eyes, as I stayed up until each paper was put to bed. I made the eerie yet serene trek to my room at 3 a.m. a hundred or so times. There were many arguments about the smallest details and many laughs. And a year and a half later, you all saw the product in the launch

of our brand new website, Chron 2.0.

This year I was able to return to reporting and experience that rush that first drew me to the paper. An older and more confident version of myself, I spent over a month reporting a Towerview magazine article about North Carolina agricultural workers and their advocates. With each new interview, whether it was with a poultry worker, children who worked in the fields or dedicated activists, I gained a new appreciation for the privileges I was afforded growing up and the role I could and should be playing in the food industry.

I owe so much to The Chronicle and the people that stay up late into the night (or early christina peña in the morning) in 301 senior column Flowers. Not only did it challenge me to think and work harder than anything else at Duke, but The Chronicle and the people who dedicate four years of their life to the organization pushed me to make some of my favorite memories.

These memories have truly made the last four years more than worth it, and as graduation looms over my head, I am anxious. Anxious to have new stories to tell.

Christina Peña is a Trinity senior. She is co-editor of Towerview magazine and former managing editor for online of The Chronicle. She wants to thank Chron V. 107 and Towerview V. 13 for the rollercoaster ride of a lifetime, and Emily and V for being there when she returned to the ground.

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his is the last column I write for this fine paper, so screw it. I’m going to write about something I really like, and, if you know me at all, something you probably really like, too.

I’m going to write about drinking.

Personally, I believe the maturation of my alcohol choices provides as (whiskey) neat a metaphor for my senior column as anything else. As I’ve grown up and matured, as my personality has been molded by life experiences and classroom seminars and stories I’ve reported and written, my drink orders have likeandy moore wise grown up. Learning senior column how to drink like a man has been an important life skill—it’s been something I’ve had to learn from observation, internal and external, and it’s something I’ve learned by broadening my horizons, treating others with respect and listening to the advice and suggestions of those more informed than me.

Knowing what I know now, how could I responsibly go out in the world with what I drank freshman year?

Freshman year was warm Busch Light, handed out by bleary-eyed guys at section parties. It was handles of Crat, bought with fake IDs and smuggled into Randolph through Jansport backpacks, to be surreptitiously sipped with OJ while playing beer pong as quietly as possible on dressers shoved together in the middle of our cell-like rooms. Drinking then was still adventurous. It was a sign of maturity, a break from the parents for the first time. It made us feel like grown-ups.

Of course, we didn’t know what the hell we were doing with our lives, with the fears about where we were going that we harbored inwardly—fears that were outwardly shown by how we poorly handled our booze. This was the time when you could shotgun two beers, throw your arm around your hallway neighbor of three weeks and say with a straight face, “For real, though, bro—you’re my best friend here.” This was when you actually thought section parties were fun. Cluelessness reigned. No one knew anything.

How could I go out knowing what I knew sophomore year? We thought it was so clutch that the Busch Light at the section parties was cold, because we got to drink it first. It was when Tailgate was at its peak—when the older fraternity guys designated us to set it up, and told us when we were upperclassmen the sophomores would do it for us (haha!), and so we needed a shot of something strong to rise out of bed at 9 in the a.m. for our temporary duties.

They may have been fun, but they didn’t teach us anything about how to drink in the real world. We were still idiots. Our destruction was a form of widespread cumulative disrespect.

I surely couldn’t graduate with junior year’s knowledge. I turned 21, and I thought this meant Durham was truly open to me—at least, the Durham that I thought was Durham. This Durham was Shooters on Wednesdays, with pong balls that hit the grimy floors way too often. It was Devine’s on Thursday, with its wonderfully economical four-dollar tall boys. It was repeating the same things week after week after week. It was also fun. But it wasn’t experiencing anything new.

And then came senior year, when I began to really get it.

I started checking out the Pinhook, and by extension, the rest of downtown Durham. After my

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Friday classes, I occasionally would have a cocktail at 604, and I got to know the staff there. I drank wine at West End with my parents, I sampled most of the beers on tap at the Fed and the Joyce, I had a brunch Bloody Mary or two at Alivia’s. I began to listen to the old-timers at Sam’s, and to buy the beers at the front rather than just instinctively going for the cases in the back. I began to learn how to treat bartenders right, to know their names, to know how to tip them and to not yell at them for a drink like that typical Duke douchebag when they couldn’t hear me. I went to Duke events in the Gardens and at the library and on the quad, first for the promise of booze on food points, but then because I genuinely liked seeing my whole school coming together in a single community.

And during senior year, everything I learned at Duke really came together, all over a single nightcap. Before the last night of finals week, with an Islamic history final coming on the last possible exam block, my friend Ben and I were marooned at Duke, seemingly the last two guys left on campus studying at Lilly. We left the library late the final night and began to trek home, mentally drained and in need of a stress-reliever. We took a detour at Devine’s before heading home, and ordered two Jameson’s on the rocks.

And as we sat there at the bar in its final 15 minutes open, I pondered the route I had taken, from wide-eyed clueless freshman to a 22-year-old man, with a degree on the horizon, the knowledge to enter the real world confidently and a group of friends I care for deeply and would die for if need be.

That drink tasted perfect.

Andy Moore is a Trinity senior. He is an associate editor of Towerview and former sports editor of The Chronicle. He promises he did a lot more in college than drink.

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That’s a rap

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or the past four years, I have lived a double life.

When I arrived on campus as a wide-eyed freshman, I was simply known as Jeff—a quiet, reserved inhabitant of the notoriously rambunctious Aycock residence hall. But as the year progressed, I came into my comfort zone and started showing more and more people my hidden talent: rapping.

My rap coming-out party came during the Mr. East Campus pageant/talent show at the end of freshman year. If you attended that event and remember a white kid in a pink dress shirt rapping over Dr. Dre’s “Still D.R.E.� instrumental, you saw me in action. I came in second place, although looking back on the night, I’m not sure how momentous that achievement was—one of my competitors tried to win over the audience by lip-syncing “I’m on a Boat� and throwing McDonald’s cheeseburgers into the crowd.

When I rap I take on the identity of Dr. Scholl. No, not because having an imaginary Ph.D. enhances my street cred. Rather, I adopted the name of America’s favorite podiatrist because I stomp on emcees. Dr. Scholl goes out more than Jeff, has more money than Jeff and attracts many more women than Jeff. I try to unleash my alter ego sparingly, but sometimes the two personas blend together. The champagne-soaked, hedonistic universe that Dr. Scholl inhabits has served as my escape from the stresses of Duke life. I draw comfort from pulling seemingly unconnected rhyming words out of thin air and crafting them into a coherent verse.

My love of rap no doubt stems from my broader love of writing. Take into account Dr. Scholl’s penchant for referencing obscure professional athletes—Edson Buddle, anyone?—and it probably comes as little surprise that I jeffrey scholl have worked for the sports section of The Chronicle since senior column the fall of 2008. There is no greater challenge than telling a captivating story without images.

As both a rapper and a sportswriter, I must constantly find ways to represent sights, sounds and moods using only the 26 letters of the alphabet. Rappers often accomplish the task through simile and metaphor; sportswriters usually don’t have this luxury in a field where clear and concise prose reigns supreme. Page inches in a print section come at a premium, so why write a sentence with 25 words when the same thing can be said in 10?

I’ve spent the past four years trying to master the art of writing descriptively and succinctly at the same time. Sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of robotically rehashing the events of a game, but my former editors Ben Cohen and Gabe Starosta held me to a higher standard.

Once I began covering basketball games, I always cringed when my fellow reporters on press row would start their stories well before the final buzzer sounded. The act of hammering away at a keyboard during the action, and potentially missing important details from the game, seemed blasphemous. After being the last person in the pressroom on multiple occasions, however, I eventually understood why they took these shortcuts.

Working for The Chronicle allowed me to lead a double life in another sense. I was a college kid by day and entered the world of professional journalism by night. Based on my four years of part-time experience, I imagine that the grind of sitting in drab media rooms and listening to a tape recorder full of coach-speak night after night would make even the most zealous reporter somewhat cynical. Yet, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that free food contributes immensely to the allure of a career in sports writing.

Many media members were more than a little disappointed when the athletic department stopped serving cookies during halftime at Duke men’s basketball games.

Perhaps I decided against working as a journalist after leaving this bubble of Gothic splendor because I don’t want to risk losing the mental spark I get from writing. Although every job comes equipped with its own monotonous tasks, I would never want something so joyful to feel like a burden.

The Chronicle’s sports section gave me a rare opportunity to both cultivate a passion and form valuable relationships along the way. For this I’m extremely grateful. The world will always need storytellers, people with a talent for making newsprint jump off a page. But like any rap artist truly dedicated to the craft, I’m staying underground.

Jeff Scholl is a Trinity senior. He formerly served as sports managing editor of The Chronicle and remains the best DJ on staff. He thanks his classmates who stuck with the sports section all these years.

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Town and gown

Looking back

urham is not a college town. I grew up in a college Durham Bike Co-op I met authors, entrepreneurs, biologists town, one where the campus blends into the city and and directors of non-profits. After volunteering to repair every Saturday, 112,000 residents pack into a football bikes for five hours, I got to choose one of my own for free. stadium built just large enough to accommodate a few out- After fixing the brakes, spokes and alignment of a 21-inch teal of-town guests. Together, 114,000 students and locals share bicycle, I rode it back to campus through the city. the same set of bleachers and cheer for the same team. Duke Senior year I moved into a blue house just off East where separates itself from Durham with a wall, but across those low Richard Nixon once lived for a month while attending Duke stones is a pretty great city.

Law. Living in a neighborhood offered relative quiet in contrast to the dorms, and I ended up Freshman year, Durham is far away. Like nathan glencer spending more time off campus than on. I found most freshmen, I only saw the city during senior column new running routes in the neighborhood. The evening walks to Shooters or out the winSouth Ellerbe Creek Trail passes the North Carodow of a C-2 I mistakenly boarded on West.

Duke gave me enough to do: meet friends, go to class, tent, lina Museum of Life and Science, and in the woods are scale rush and, when in doubt, work on another problem set. I can reproductions of dinosaurs peering through the trees. The count the number of times I left campus by my ticket stubs American Tobacco Trail straddles Durham’s divide between affluent and working class neighborhoods and offers a view from RDU. But something happened sophomore year. I went to din- into politics outside Duke.

My final undergraduate paper was written about a local ner with a friend at La Vaquita, a Mexican restaurant that is essentially a straight shot down Anderson from campus. Their entrepreneur who has been a partner or full owner in five fish tacos hinted that Durham might have something more Durham bars, including the Federal, Surf Club and Whiskey. to offer than a bar with a cage and a bull. The restaurant was Writing my last story for college I learned about a guy who only about a mile from West, so the next day I ran there and found himself in Durham and fell in love with the city after kept on going, down Chapel Hill Boulevard, onto Chapel Hill walking. He lived in Durham without a car for several years and got to know every corner and side street.

Street and into Durham.

Taking photos for my assignment, I followed his lead and I continued eating off campus. Downtown, I skeptically tried Dame’s Chicken and Waffles and immediately ordered a walked from my house off East to Five Points intersection second breast on a blueberry waffle to go. Nearby, I ate burg- downtown, to the Central Park District, then back through ers and fries with a strawberry shake at King’s, a 1950s open- Old North Durham. Along the way I realized that though air diner close enough to the old Durham ballpark to hear Durham is not a college town, it doesn’t need to be. It has the chink of an aluminum bat at a little league game (King’s enough character to be its own place, but that doesn’t mean reopened my junior year, in 2010, but it’s one of my favorite it is not a place for Duke students. Getting to know Durham spots in Durham). Before a formal, our party went to Fish- is part of getting to know Duke. Duke and Durham might be different places, but they coexist in a shared space. It’s an immonger’s and ordered scallops we ate off butcher’s paper.

With a car on campus my sophomore year, Durham was portant part of the undergraduate experience to make it over wide open. In the fall, there were corn mazes and fresh-picked the wall. Step out of the Gothic Wonderland and into the real apples, and in the spring I attended the annual strawberry fes- world every now and then. tival and ate ice cream on the porch at Mapleview Farms. On the rolling hills, you could see the dairy and hear cows mooNathan Glencer is a Trinity senior. He is the Towerview photograing while the sun set. phy editor and former Recess photography editor of The Chronicle. He My junior year I started taking classes at the Center for would like to thank everyone at The Chronicle for a great four years Documentary Studies. Each one required fieldwork and I and encourage next year’s Towerview staff to continue the magazine’s started to get to know more people around Durham. At the in-depth coverage of libraries.

’m writing my final words in The Chronicle in a hotel outside Richmond, Va., on the cusp of the real world and a career in journalism. As I drove down the long, tree-lined stretches of I-85 that connect Durham to Virginia’s capital, I racked my brain to try and come up with a suitable idea for a senior column, but my mind wandered instead to impending deadlines. I’m in town to cover a NASCAR race for an online publication, and I’m expected to submit 800 words by midnight, and another thousand or so the next day. Deadlines, of course, must be met, so my brainstorming session was cut short.

As the managing editor of The Chronicle, I was charged with ensuring that Duke students, faculty and staff had a newspaper to pick up each day. Our top editors meet at 4 p.m. each day and work until the newspaper is done, then meet the next day to do it all again. It’s a colossal job for passionate volunteers, and the daily grind often leaves us without respite to digest our own work—a problem most undergraduates share.

My first story was a relatively simple assignment, doled out by then-sports editor Gabe Starosta at a sports section meeting. He asked if I liked women’s soccer, and I didn’t know what to say; I had never watched women’s soccer before. Regardless, I found myself trudging off to Koskinen Stadium, a place I nicholas schwartz would find myself senior column trudging off to often in the coming three years, to interview a senior striker trying to make one last memorable run in the NCAA Tournament. I asked leading questions and scribbled down some notes, pieced together a mediocre story over the next couple days and got my first byline in the print edition—I saved three or four copies of the paper and stowed them away safely in my dorm room, not necessarily thinking there would be 87 bylines yet to come. Starosta told me he liked the story and I found sportswriting to be a fun challenge, so I came back to another sports meeting the next week.

I remember that first story well, but the rest was a blur. I couldn’t tell you which of the stories I’ve written is my favorite, all the interviews and copy-editing sessions sort of blend together. After spending more time at the newspaper and rising through the ranks a bit, I was often juggling two or three stories at the same time. Instead of watching a game with a small reporter’s notebook—as I tended to do for my first few stories—I began tweeting and blogging from the stands, as any journalist worth his salt does these days.

The hours piled on and journalism became a full-time job for me and my fellow editors of The Chronicle, but ironically, as we spent more and more time writing and editing, we spent less time looking back on past work. Amid the shuffle of our busy lives, we as Duke students—whether we’re student journalists, student athletes or just plain old students—have collectively lost the time to reflect.

Last week, I paged through some yellowed copies of The Chronicle I’d stuffed into my desk, filled with articles I’d written in press rooms all over the country. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses—paragraphs I’d rewrite given the chance, or quotes I’d lend more reverence—but I never learned from those errors until I took the time now, at the end of road.

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Hot child in the mini

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t turns out, I’ve been driving on two flat tires since last semester.

I’m not entirely sure how long it’s been, but I realized there might be a problem when my tire pressure indicator lit up sometime last October. It’s been something of a nuisance rummaging for quarters to toss in the air machine, pumping air in the left rear tire every two weeks and having to drive my Mini Cooper convertible with the windows up so as not to hear the wheeze in each rotation. More troubling is that it probably hasn’t been that safe to drive around like this for months. But when my friends started pointing out that my car was vibrating and the tire appeared to be falling off the rim last week, I finally caved and took it in to Durham Tire.

I’m not going to submit and say that this was one of my stupid college moments. Here are some of those: breaking in to the Liggett & Meyers building in booties (I slipped in excrement), showing up to a theme party two weeks early because I got my dates wrong, nearly convincing myself that being a “Real World” roommate is worth taking a semester off from school, finishing the entire third season of “Breaking Bad” in one sitting, leaving my computer unattended in a foreign country (I never saw it again), never realizing that I’m probably feeling itchy because I’m allergic to that cat and finally going to the Duke-Carolina game this year, only to watch us lose spectacularly.

I can actually pinpoint exactly why I’d chosen to drive on flats for so long. For one, I did not know that the right front tire was also gone. And like many philosophical things in life, deciding you need to replace tires is not black and white. When you have tires that can drive 50 miles while flat (they’re called run-flat tires), things fall into the grey, and you can hang on to them for a

little longer before letting them go.

I love process. I love working toward the end without ever reaching the end. It’s why I chose to study art history at Duke. Trying to deduce meaning and motive and that hidden story behind splotches of paint is more fun than staring at the painting itself. I’ve loved every second driving around on my two-wheeler, but I can’t lie and say it’s been purely about the journey. In a small way, it’s about fear of reaching the end. As it got closer and closer toward May, I still hadn’t changed my tires. I was hanging out in that grey area not ready for any sudden changes to my lifestyle.

I haven’t had the easiest time accepting that my life as I know it is going to change. And I’d much rather pretend I still have Duke experiences ahead of me, at least ones that don’t involve me fake smiling while being handed my diploma. But my mind has changed just a little bit, this past week. Now that I have four working wheels, I can drive again with the top down, the only noise being the wind blowing through my hair.

I’m still not ready to look forward to the future. I’m definitely not looking forward to reporting for New York grand jury duty in June. But I’m finally ready to look back on college and feel proud for where I am now.

Four years ago, I stepped into The Chronicle office as a photographer. And it’s a rather boring story from there. But what most people don’t know is that five years ago I was horribly “misquoted” in a Chronicle article, when I came here as a prospective student. My freshmen hosts decided to take me to the Nasher party. (I now help plan these same parties.) While observing the careful silhouettes of a Kara Walker, I was approached by reporter Eddie Zhang who asked for my impressions: “It’s just very shocking to see an event and setting like

this in North Carolina!”

What a typical, rude, New-York response. I was even dumb enough to give him my full name. After reading the article on Sept. 28, 2007, I immediately went to see my college guidance counselor in a panic, asking, “Does Christoph Guttentag have room to admit another arrogant New Yorker?”

That wasn’t exactly what I said, but I’m here at Duke now, somehow more humble and more proud. I am humbled by those engineers I studied with junior year, who bragged about how they could make pacemakers work better than they exist now. I am proud that the first work of art I ever collected was painted by lemurs. Most of all, I’m lucky to have met so many inspiring people and done so many inspiring things myself. Four years ago, I never could have imagined knowing how to pump air madeline into a tire, let alone drive lieberberg without adult supervision.

Living in the grey area, senior column figuring out what I want to do, has been incredible. But you only appreciate that process when you’ve reached the end.

Now, the most important thing about having two new tires is that I can safely drive back home.

Madeline Lieberberg is a Trinity senior and creative director of Towerview magazine. She would like to thank her editor Toni Wei for driving her home from Durham Tire last week.

Valuing the totally obvious

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his is a tough one. I’m writing my last column in The Chronicle, so these words will almost certainly be more significant to me than to you.

There’s a very strong tendency here to devolve into autobiography, or into banal platitudes: Make every moment count, you only live once, &c &c &c, the sort that sound stylish and impactful when delivered by effete Canadian rappers, less so when printed in newspaper columns.

I spent my sophomore year at a boarding school in central Connecticut, one of the ones where 15-year-olds play video games and chew tobacco in their dorms ross green wearing wax cotton jackets senior column and tassel loafers. I did not enjoy myself there. Fifteen is a tough age: your 15-year-old self is both the most insecure and the most self-centered version of you, and without taking too many words to consider whether these traits are correlated, I’ll posit that anywhere both traits are in abundance, positive social interaction is going to be a nearly Sisyphean struggle. I didn’t make many friends, and the ones I did make weren’t very kind, and I called my mother literally every single day because on any given day that was the most rewarding conversation I was going to be a part of.

I stayed through the end of exams, and not one day more. I went home, I got older, I drove 90 minutes to Duke; now, I’m about to graduate. Certainly, there is uncertainty ahead. But I’m happier now, by orders of magnitude. At this particular juncture, not only have I got precious little to complain about, I’m fulfilled enough to recognize that this is the case.

I’m loathe to take this occasion to deliver advice— in part because it’s unsolicited and in part because it’s clichéd, but mostly because I have no business sincerely giving any kind of advice to anyone. As much more assured as I feel right now than I did at this time six years ago, heading south on I-95 with my proverbial tail between my proverbial legs, I’d be a special kind of narcissist not to see that I’m fundamentally the same person now as I was then. I’ve got more hair on my chest and I can solve more complex math problems, but emotional maturity does not a college degree confer (e.g., before I wrote what you’re reading now, I considered using this column to air my various grievances with Duke, exactly the sort of crass, impulsive idea my 15-year-old self would find hilarious).

But look: For all we talk and write and wring our hands about our school’s intellectual and social en-

vironment—buzzwords abound, “work hard, play hard” and “achievement culture” are among the more commonly used—self-centeredness is not a creation of Duke University. I (and you, probably), who have spent the last four years measuring our happiness as a running tally of our successes and failures, will not magically transform our perspective when we leave this place. More convincingly, we‘ve met and will continue to meet people in the course of our adult life who do the same thing. We think this way because it’s easy, easy to consider what’s in front of our own face as the most important thing in the world, to feel satisfied when good things happen in that space and feel deprived when that space gets boring or disappointing. It’s the easiest way for us to find purpose, but it’s reductive and misguided.

I have exactly zero claim to the moral high ground here. I’d estimate that 95 percent of my actions are performed in pursuit of justifying my own conceitedness. The big ironic reveal, of course, would be that I derive the most happiness from the other 5 percent.

Here’s a more meaningful formulation: I derive most of my happiness from others (this is also a con-

venient way to thank the people whom I owe thanks).

From professors that have exerted a greater influence on the course of my life than they could ever realize.

From a group of close friends, who over the last four years have managed to convince me that I really am cool, despite all boarding school-related evidence to the contrary. From a family who has supported me in every conceivable way, through all of my many missteps.

These people, the ones who care about me, have done more for my benefit than I myself ever could have.

This was a tough one. I’ve written my last column in The Chronicle, and these words are almost certainly more significant to me than to you. I’ve succumbed to the tendency to devolve into both autobiography and now, banal platitudes: Think about other people.

Spend time meeting them, invest in them, help them when you can. Still, I’ll ask you, as a supremely talented writer once did, to bracket for just a few minutes your skepticism about the value of the totally obvious.

Ross Green is a Trinity senior and editor of Recess. He wishes Stephen Bryan the best of luck in fixing the problem that is Duke’s student body.

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Five years of DukeEngage

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s DukeEngage celebrates its fifth year this summer, the University’s community deserves to rejoice. In my five years of courting DukeEngage, I have witnessed the program’s systematic expansion and successful growth from about 80 students in 2007 to more than 400 this year, from four categories of civic engagement opportunities available to applicants to a lengthy list of a variety of categories, from less than a handful of domestic programs to 11 programs and mbaye lo from five international guest column programs to 30. On the national level, few other universities appear to be able to duplicate the Duke brand of DukeEngage. Behind these accomplishments, however, lurk some potential problems. As with any successful program, there is the desire to quantify its impact, but engaging in such an activity would have an adverse effect on the program’s commitment to volunteer service and civic engagement. A relevant and timely question is” “What are the challenges ahead regarding DukeEngage?”

DukeEngage’s mission is to empower students to “address critical human needs through immersive service, in the process transforming students, advancing the University’s educational mission and providing meaningful assistance to communities in the U.S. and abroad.” In assessing, as well as appraising, this triangular impact—students, community partners and Duke—one finds that the challenge facing DukeEngage is that the three are not directly related and their objectives do not necessarily correlate with one another.

For Duke students, DukeEngage encourages students to challenge themselves, and change their world.

But through experience we know that humans do not challenge themselves voluntarily. There are often ulterior motives and reasons for their behavior, and Duke students are no exception to this rule. Whether stated or not, most students choose a DukeEngage program for reasons related to their future professional careers, such as enriching their CVs, for personal reasons, such

as revisiting their home ancestries, or simply to provide an exciting diversion for the summer. Although these motives are both intellectually understandable and politically acceptable, none of them should be the driving force behind participating in DukeEngage. As I conceptualize it, DukeEngage should draw students based on its stated mission and the moral imperative of volunteerism. To remedy this defect, there is a need to advise DukeEngagers on the intellectual and moral dimensions of engagement—the advantages of expanding oneself beyond one’s comfort zones of race and place and the morality that all should strive to improve the lives of their less fortunate fellows whenever the opportunity presents itself.

For community partners abroad, the Americanization of NGOs (as it is called by civil society experts) may be problematic for those engaging internationally. There’s always the uninvited, implicit answer: “You think you know our problems better and here you are coming to help us.” Another informative mode of discourse related to community partners poses the following questions: What values can a Duke freshman bring to displaced women and their families in Colombia?

Or how much can DukeEngagers do in eight weeks to advance the conditions of migrant children from rural China living in Beijing? A DukeEngager told me in 2010 in Cairo that his personal expenses to come to this country could have hired five Egyptian teachers for 12 months to do his work.

A related reality is that addressing global problems is conceptually uncertain and operationally difficult.

Most community-based problems are mere manifestations of socio-politically rooted causes. A short and superficial tackling of the “symptoms” of such a problem is often more beneficial to the DukeEngager than it is for the community itself. On one level, the common saying among DukeEngagers—that DukeEngage is an investment for Duke students more so than for local community partners—is true. Furthermore, if DukeEngage’s mission includes addressing real-world problems and attending to human needs, what happens when that world is no longer a friendly settlement, as

is the case in Haiti, or if that world reprioritizes its human needs in a different political context, as is the case in Egypt? To what extent should DukeEngage reconcile the volatile community partners’ needs in a risk-laden world with Duke’s legal responsibilities in our own litigious society?

For Duke University there are layers of challenges for the future of DukeEngage that go beyond maintaining operational costs through a stream of funding. For example, how does the University identify the unit of DukeEngage? Is it an academic unit? Or is it a component that helps brand the name of the University? If it is an academic unit, then questioning its scholarship and academic excellence is warranted. If it is designed to ensure the branding of Duke, then we must acknowledge that it is neither cost effective nor sustainable in the long run.

In my view, DukeEngage is no ivory tower project, and it is certainly not a Peace Corps modulus for options in volunteer work outside the United States. The identity of DukeEngage should not be located solely in either the private realm of Duke or the public sphere.

It is high time that institutions of higher education look beyond the bottom-line and serve as examples in philanthropic investment, locally and internationally.

There need be no other reason but a belief in the virtue of connections and engagement. Obviously Duke cannot be only an institution of civic engagement, but any institution in which there are members who are engaged in public service is an engaged institution.

Duke’s responsibility to DukeEngage includes providing the means and mechanisms that forge a deep emotional investment in its mission for the students who choose to participate. In celebrating the fifth year of DukeEngage, I ask not at once for a different DukeEngage, but at once for Duke to be more engaged in the ideals and moral necessities of DukeEngage.

Mbaye Lo is a professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Duke Islamic Studies Center. He is the Program Director of DukeEngage Cairo and the recipient of the 2011 DukeEngage Program Director Award.

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