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Obama and Romney camps pledge to fight for NC votes

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Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have pledged to campaign heavily in North Carolina, well-known as a swing state, until Election Day.

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As the election countdown narrows to a mere 42 days, all engines are firing on both sides of the presidential contest in North Carolina—both campaigns have pledged to stay strongly rooted in North Carolina until Nov. 6.

The campaigns of President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney have news both cited North Carolina as a cru- analysis cial battleground state. Obama took the state by 0.3 percent in 2008, a feat he hopes

to repeat this year. But Romney will need to take in order to have a chance at winning the election, said sophomore Alex Gersovitz, recruitment outreach coordinator for North Carolina Young Americans for Romney.

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New details have surfaced regarding a UNC student murdered two weeks ago, unveiling information about the scene of the crime.

Faith Hedgepeth, a 19-year old junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was killed in her apartment Sept. 7. The Durham County Superior Court sealed the majority of the documents related to the investigation, keeping many of the details of the crime from the public. But publicly available recordings of the radio conversations among Durham’s fire department, police department and emergency management services reveal details about what authorities encountered when they arrived that morning at her apartment at 5639 Old Chapel Hill Road.

Chapel Hill police—who are investigating the murder, though Durham police were the initial responders—have yet to release a cause of death and a description of the crime scene due to the restrictions on the case. But according to the recordings, Durham authorities found Hedgepeth in her

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UNC junior Faith Hedgepeth was killed in her apartment Sept. 7. Police have sealed much of the case. bedroom, and there was blood.

Additionally, the recordings indicate that by the time medics arrived, her body was cold to the touch, and it was believed that someone had been in the apartment.

Chapel Hill dispatch recordings are currently unavailable due to a court order to redact all or part of the recordings, police spokesman Sgt. Joshua Mecimore wrote in an email Monday.

Friends found Hedgepeth SEE HEDGEPETH ON PAGE 4

Conservatives outline Airall: Offensive incidents goals for environment spurred admin response

by Kristie Kim and Margot Tuchler

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Multiple incidents of intolerance toward others have taken place on campus recently, said Zoila Airall, assistant vice president of student affairs for campus life.

Airall notified students of a number of incidents on campus targeting students based on their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexuality and religion in an email Monday. In an interview, Airall noted that the email was not sent in response to one specific incident. She said she has received four official reports and has had additional conversations with students regarding offensive acts that have occurred on all three campuses.

Airall said incidents—which have happened on East, West and Central campuses—have included offensive words written on doors, defamation of personal property

The free market should play more of a role in protecting the environment, conservative thinkers said at a conference Monday.

Noted economists, lawyers, politicians and environmentalists spoke to a crowded audience in Reynolds Industries Theater about conservative approaches to environmental policy, including discussion of government regulation and budgeting for environmental costs. David Roche—graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment and thirdyear law student—mediated the event.

Environmental debate too often devolves into bumper sticker arguments and two sides screaming at each other, SEE ENVIRONMENT ON PAGE 5

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Jeremy Carl of the Hoover Institute speaks about achieving green energy with a limited budget at a symposium Monday.

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“...It is obvious Romney either doesn’t know opportunity is unequal or doesn’t care.”

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and name calling or insensitive jokes. She noted that the incidents have not targeted a specific minority group, nor have they originated from one group of students.

“I’m not trying to alarm students— that’s definitely not my intent,” Airall said.

“I really wanted everyone to just become a little bit more sensitive and responsible to one another and to realize that we all have to live in this community.”

Airall noted that junior Stefani Jones, Duke Student Government vice president for equity and outreach, contacted her after the email was sent and said she was not aware of the incidents occurring. Airall said she hopes the email will serve to foster discussion among students about the Duke Community Standard and incidents like those she described.

—from Staff Reports

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The age of overshoot: a Q&A with John Seager THE CHRONICLE

TC: Sorry, I misspoke.

JS: No don’t worry. It’s a good word to bring up because it’s a good word to focus on. There was at one time a sentiment that this was about controlling people. Our sentiment is that this is about empowering people—never coercing anybody, but rather, creating opportunities for people.

The United States has been and remains the leading international funder of family planning programs. We put about $615 million per year into them. This program was begun by a Republican president, Richard Nixon, who also started the EPA. And 40 years ago, this issue had strong bipartisan support. Over the decades, it has become something of a political football. We’ve seen this dramatic shift in the political landscape.

As the global population continues to increase rapidly, the earth and its resources will struggle to sustain the entirety of the human race, said John Seager, the president and CEO of Population Connection. The nonprofit seeks to educate people about global population issues and advocate for family planning and the empowerment of women. The Chronicle’s Jack Mercola spoke with Seager about population growth and resource distribution as well as America’s role in helping to solve these issues.

The Chronicle: What’s the difference between the earth’s capacity and what the earth is able to support?

John Seager: Right now we’re in an age of overshoot. We want to use and are using resources up at a rate faster than they can be naturally replenished. It’s a little like those cartoons with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote where Wile E. Coyote runs out over the edge of the cliff.

As a cartoon, of course, he’s fine until he looks down and realizes he’s over the edge. We’re kind of out over the edge of the cliff in terms of the rate at which we are using certain natural resources and also the rate at which we are pumping certain pollutants into the air.

The best work on this in my view is done by a professor at Rockefeller University named Joel Cohen. He wrote a book called “How Many People Can the Earth Support?” The conclusion he came to was that there is no answer to that question. Or, more specifically, to answer that question requires asking two other questions: One, how do you want to live? And, two, how do you want everyone else to live— the other humans, the other critters and generations to come?

If everybody ate the typical American diet, two billion of the world’s seven billion would eat, and five billion would not. If everyone ate the typical diet of the Indian subcontinent—lots of rice, vegetables and a little bit of animal protein—there would be enough calories produced to feed all seven billion. If we all wanted to live like the very poorest people do in East Africa, with the resources we produce now, we could support 40

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John Seager, president and CEO of Population Connection, spoke with The Chronicle about America’s role in finding solutions to issues of overpopulation and resource distribution. billion people. It depends how we want to live and how we want other people to live.

TC: So is overpopulation more related to density of people or distribution of resources?

JS: Population density in a given location is not a bad thing.

In fact, it can be a great thing. You can make a pretty good case that the most sustainable human environment in the U.S. is the island of Manhattan—people tend to live in small units, they generally don’t have a car, they use public open spaces, they walk or take mass transit, stores they need tend to be within a few blocks.

So, when you think about sustainability, that prototypical farmhouse out in Vermont may be nice, but sustainability and density can go hand-in-hand.

Now, on the other hand, you could take all seven billion of us and fit us into Los Angeles County, if we wanted to stand shoulder-toshoulder. But heaven forbid one of us got thirsty, or had to use the bathroom, or got hungry? All of a

sudden, you have a problem.

TC: Are you saying that the relative distribution of resources plays a bigger role than the density of people?

JS: You can certainly make a case that what we have are distribution problems, but that’s like telling the miners trapped underground in Chile several years ago that there was plenty of oxygen to go around, but there was a distribution problem. Distribution problems are not small problems.

For example, there are areas of Africa where millions of people experience great water scarcity.

And we can tell them, “Hey, we’ve got plenty of water in the Great Lakes.” But moving fresh water from one continent to another is no small task.

TC: What role does the United States play in population control of the global population?

JS: I just want to be clear here.

From our perspective, we’re never looking at this in the context of population control.

TC: Now Population Connection and its goals lay on the left side of the American political theater?

JS: I don’t think we moved to the left so much as the landscape moved so that we sit there.

I would like nothing more than to see both political parties competing to show how much they can do for this issue. We’re a nonpartisan organization. But that’s not the case right now. There are a few Democrats who are on the other side of the fence and a few Republicans who are on our side of the fence, but for the most part, it is a political football.

I like the word “connection,” because people connect to this issue in many places. For some people, the primary concern is the environment. There are also people who understand this issue’s importance because they’re concerned about global security.

Seventeen of the 20 states that are generally described as “failed states” around the world are experiencing rapid population growth.

If you look at some of the hottest places in the Middle East, you have an enormous number of people competing for a limited number of resources. The issue is that, though some of those governments are strong and functioning, others are not so much, such as Syria at the moment.

One of the things [this overpopulation] means, is that [these failed states] have an enormous youth bulge. Often, there are enormous numbers of reasonably well-educated young men who cannot find jobs. It’s usually those young men on the streets rioting.

The rioting leads to upheaval.

A U.N. official once said that when you’re poor and you run out of food, you have three choices: One, you can starve. I think most of us, when given that choice will ask to hear the other two choices. Two is to migrate. There are all kinds of problems with that. Often, the only place to migrate to is another place in Africa where conditions are as bad as the original location. And you may be surrounded by people you don’t know. Three is to revolt or take some extralegal action.

There is no fourth option…. So there are people across the political spectrum who care about this.

TC: What programs does the U.S. implement exactly?

JS: About 10 percent of our money goes to the U.N. They, in turn, run programs around the world. The other 90 percent goes to what we call “bilateral assistance,” which is provided to a recognized organization that works in the field. They work all over the world, from Thailand to Ethiopia to Guatemala—specifically to educate women, men and couples.

And we provide them with contraception.

TC: How do the goals of Population Connection affect the education status of women, and viceversa?

JS: If I could do one thing to transform to world, beyond the obvious world peace and harmony forever, I would ask that every woman on earth had education so that she may function as an independent and successful woman in the world. The challenge there is that it’s not inexpensive. It costs roughly ten times as much to educate a woman for a year than it costs to provide a year’s worth of contraception. Sometimes, governments are placed in a position where they must decide between education for women and contraceptives.

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Population growth hurts UN split on solution to solve Syrian violence everyone, expert says

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Unbridled population growth can lead to numerous problems across the world, a leading researcher on the topic said.

John Seager, president and CEO of Population Connection, a nonprofit organization devoted to encouraging education on population growth, spoke to students Monday regarding the world’s increasing population. He noted that Population Connection’s goal is not to limit the population but to make people more aware of the challenges they are bound to face as the birth rate grows and the mortality rate decreases.

“Population growth is one of the preeminent challenges of our time,” Seager said.

“We’re all kind of in this together on this planet.”

Seager said he was inspired to take up this cause when he realized how drastically the United States’ own population had decreased in such a short time period and how the same could be done for other countries.

At the time former President John F. Kennedy was in-

augurated, American women had 3.4 children each, Seager noted. By the time former President Jimmy Carter was inaugurated, the average woman in the US had 1.7 children.

Seager said this 50 percent drop in 16 years occurred due to increased access to birth control and improved resources for women. With SEE POP. ON PAGE 6

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John Seager, president and CEO of Population Connection, gave a talk about the relationship between the growing population Monday afternoon in the Gross Chemistry Building.

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UNITED NATIONS — United Nations Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the Security Council Monday that reducing the violence in Syria isn’t possible unless the world body is united on a way to end the 18-month conflict.

Brahimi’s remarks underscored the U.N.’s paralysis in dealing with a civil war that has claimed more than 26,000 lives. He also was making clear that if he fails in his mission to help the country make the transition to new leadership, the responsibility won’t be his alone.

“You all say you support me individually, why don’t you support me collectively?” Brahimi told the gathered ambassadors when he briefed the Security Council, according to a diplomat in the room who wasn’t authorized to speak about the meeting.

“It shouldn’t be very difficult,” the envoy told them.

Brahimi, who just returned from a trip to Damascus, Cairo and Syrian refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon, spoke at the U.N. as world leaders gathered this week for the annual General Assembly. The Syrian conflict threatens to further destabilize a region already facing the possibility of an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. The veteran Algerian diplo-

mat warned of the consequences.

“There is no disagreement anywhere that the situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse, that it is a threat to the region and a threat to peace and security in the world,” Brahimi said, speaking to reporters outside the Security Council chamber.

Brahimi’s predecessor, Kofi Annan, also placed some blame on the Security Council when he resigned from the position after less than six months, telling reporters about the “clear lack of unity” in the council as well as the “finger-pointing and name-calling.”

Joshua Landis, who heads the Middle Eastern department at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, said Brahimi’s comments were meant to “underline the hypocrisy of the international community” that says it wants a solution to the violence yet will not compromise to reach one.

“He’s also providing himself with an alibi,” Landis said in a telephone interview.

The Security Council has been deadlocked for more than a year as Russia and China have protected President Bashar Assad from censure in resolutions brought by the U.S. and allies. Russia in particular has made clear that it won’t allow a U.N. resolution to become the basis for SEE SYRIA ON PAGE 6

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HEDGEPETH from page 1 in the apartment at 11 a.m. Sept.

7 and called 911, which alerted Durham dispatch. Chapel Hill police are investigating the case because the apartment complex, Hawthorne at the View, is in the part of Chapel Hill located in Durham County. Police have yet to publicly identify a suspect.

Police do not believe the homicide was a random act of violence, and there is no immediate threat to the UNC community. The UNC Board of Trustees is offering a $25,000 reward for information that could lead to an arrest. The Haliwa-Saponi American Indian tribe, of which Hedgepeth was a member, and Hawthorne on the View are each offering an additional $1,000.

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Authorities typically choose to seal information that only someone involved in the crime could know, Mecimore previously told The Chronicle. He noted that if details of the investigation are widely circulated, it would be difficult to discern whether a suspect had first-hand knowledge of the crime scene or if they learned about it on the news.

Releasing information about the manner of death, in particular, could harm the defendant’s ability to get a fair trial with an unbiased jury, in addition to disrupting the investigation.

Hedgepeth, who was from Warrenton, N.C., was a biology major and Gates Millennium Scholar at UNC. She also became actively involved in the UNC American Indian Center during

her freshman year. She worked at Red Robin restaurant in Durham, and friends say she wanted to become a pediatrician.

Hedgepeth’s apartment complex does not house a large number of students, and other residents have not expressed concerns of personal safety since the incident, a Hawthorne on the View employee said last week.

The Red Robin where Hedgepeth worked, located on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, is hosting a fundraiser Wednesday Sept. 26 to benefit the Faith Hedgepeth Scholarship Fund.

Between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m., 15 percent of dine-in customer proceeds will go to the fund, which family and friends started to support a high school student from Hedgepeth’s hometown.

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In New Delhi this month, these bangles made by children were seized in a police raid. An epidemic of child trafficking in India was largely ignored until recently.

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“North Carolina is crucial to the success of the Romney campaign,” Gersovitz said. “There are few pathways to winning without North Carolina.”

Gersovitz cited the economy as a key issue for North Carolina in the coming weeks, which is in line with the campaign’s national theme of highlighting economic issues.

There is a national strategy but not necessarily a local one, he said, noting the importance of local businesses and the recovery of the post-university job market as examples of economic priorities for Romney.

The economy will also be the focus of the Obama campaign over the next 42 days, an Obama campaign official said Monday. Obama volunteers will continue to campaign in the grassroots method that was successful in North Carolina in 2008, the official added.

The Obama campaign has 54 field offices throughout the state, whereas Romney’s campaign has 28.

During the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the Republican National Committee spent significant time and money running a “war room” to send out counter-messages via Facebook, tweets and other social media concurrent with convention events. The Republican National Committee also had daily press conferences during the DNC that featured key GOP members, such as Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina.

Democrats have also been inviting key party figures to make high-profile visits to North Carolina to maintain visibility in the state.

“Our strategy is to work hard for every single vote between now and Election Day,” said Walton Robinson, North Carolina Democratic Party communications director.

First lady Michelle Obama has taken 11 trips to North Carolina since 2009, including Wednesday’s turn through North Carolina Central University and East Carolina University. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla. and Democratic National Committee Chair, has also made appearances in North Carolina, speaking in Raleigh and WinstonSalem last week about the high stakes of the upcoming elections.

North Carolina’s status as a battleground state has encouraged some Duke students to change their voter registration from their home state to North Carolina.

There is a wider range of political opinions in North Carolina than in New York, said junior Noelle Ohanesian of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., noting that the outcome of the vote on Amendment One demonstrated to her the importance of registering to vote in North Carolina.

“Hopefully my vote will have more sway here,” added freshman Will Chang, of Santa Clara, Calif. “And obviously if I want my candidate to win, I’d vote in the state where my vote has more statistical significance.”

The close margin could be beneficial to the president because Romney must expend resources in a state that will only help him if he carries it, said Don Taylor, associate professor of public policy.

“In 2008, President Obama won by 14,000 votes out of 4.2 million cast— essentially a tie,” he wrote in an email Thursday. “Regression to the mean would suggest a close win for Romney in North Carolina this time. If President Obama wins North Carolina again, then that means the election has turned into a rout for the president.”

said Roche, a self-proclaimed liberal.

“If you can’t start with dialogue, a general place of agreement, then you’re never going to reach a solution,” he said.

“We start from very different points— our ideologies are very different—but the end point, our vision of the future, is similar. They want a healthy environment [and] a positive sustainable future just like we do.”

The event’s keynote speaker was Bob Inglis, president of the Energy and Enterprise Institute and former Republican congressman from South Carolina.

He delivered a speech titled “Putting Free Enterprise to Work.”

Many speakers focused on the role of business in environmentalism. The segment “Free-Market Environmentalism in the 21st Century” featured Jonathan Adler, professor of law at Case Western Reserve University and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation. Adler is widely published in the field of environmental law.

Adler noted that in the past there were generally two responses to environmental problems from conservatives. One option is to agree to a more cost-effective solution, while the other is reflexive opposition—countering any proposal merely because of the party spearheading it.

“The dominant problem within free market environmentalism is not market value, but generally the failure to have markets—failure to have those institutions upon which markets are based present and protected in the environmental context,” he said.

Additionally, Reed Watson, Nicholas School and Law ’08, referenced “enviro-preneurs”—people who have an entrepreneurial idea and want to apply it to improve environmental quality—as part of a potential solution.

In order to have success within the environmental context, Watson emphasized that both liberals and conservatives need to adopt the idea that people should pay full price for the resources they consume and be paid for the vital resources they produce.

Enviro-preneurs who assume the rest of the world shares their environ-

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Jeremy Carl of the Hoover Institute and Eugene Lehrer, president of the R Institute, talk about keeping the planet green on a low budget at the Conservative Vision of Our Environmental Future symposium Monday. mental value system should expect to fail, though, Watson said. These people expect corporations to forego financial returns for environmental or social returns.

“If you don’t know how to frame the problem, we will never find a viable solution,” Adler said.

Senior William Barlow, a member of the Duke College Republicans, noted in an email Monday that although many conservatives believe in climate change, they tend to tackle it the wrong way.

The combination of government aid in the research stage of alternative fuels and handing over obtained results to the free market in a subsidy-free environment will produce the best results for the future, both economically and environmentally, he said.

“Our responsibility as environmentally conscious Republicans is to help our fellow party members understand that you can be a conservative, believe in climate change and offer conservative solutions to climate change without losing your core values—in fact confirming your core values,” Barlow said.

Asher Spiller, a law student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an attendee of the conference, said he comes from a liberal background and was interested in gaining

exposure to environmental discourse from the conservative perspective. He thought the arguments were well-articulated and were consistent with what he knew of conservative values.

Ligia Schlittler, an environmental lawyer from Brazil and a third-year Duke Law student focusing on environmental law and energy, also attended.

“It was very informative because the debates were very clear… and their approach was very practical and economic-oriented,” she said.

Roche noted that the environment does not need to be as contentious an issue as it is typically portrayed.

“Recently conservatives haven’t confronted environmental issues as headon because it’s become so partisan, but the Republican Party was the party of Clean Air Act amendments and [Richard] Nixon began the [Environmental Protection Agency],” Roche said. “Environmental protection is, at its heart, a very conservative concept—you don’t want to ruin really good things.”

The event was hosted by the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum, the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, the Nicholas School, the Duke Federalist Society, DCR and the Energy and Enterprise Initiative.

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with her partner.

“Women have the luxury of saying ‘I don’t want to have kids’ because when they have birth control, they at least have the choice” Draper said.

On the other hand, Draper noted that birth control alleviates some of the responsibility from the man and allows young women to be blamed for their accidental pregnancies, which can occur despite the use of birth control.

“It allows the man to say ‘Oh, you know, it’s not my fault,’ and brings to mind the story of the

17-year-old getting pregnant and having nowhere to go,” Draper said.

The question Seager is looking to answer is whether or not the planet can survive with the population rates as they are now. Although Population Connection educates young Americans on the problems associated with the world’s population growth, it does not take a stance on a solution.

“How many people can the Earth support?” asked Seager.

“The answer is there is no answer.”

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Abu Ibrahim and 12 members of his family live under an olive tree on the Syrian side of the border, waiting for a place in a Turkish refugee camp to open up.

military intervention, as happened in Libya in 2011.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in New York for the General Assembly, told a gathering of senior editors and television network anchors Monday that outside involvement just complicates matters. Instead, Iran supports the formation of a “national dialogue group” of countries, including Saudi Arabia and Turkey, he said.

“We are hopeful we can have a stand-up contact group,” Ahmadinejad said. “All of the actors must be present. I believe Turkey should be a part of these negotiations. What will occur within Syria is what the people of Syria decide.”

The Obama administration has said Iran is supplying weapons and materiel to Syria as well as sending military and technological specialists

to help the Assad regime.

For the regime in Iran, the battle over Syria’s future is crucial. If Assad is forced from power, Shiite Iran would probably lose its most important regional ally and a linchpin in the so-called Shiite Crescent that runs through Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

Iran’s rivals, the Sunni Gulf nations, have long wanted a chance to curb its power and influence.

Brahimi’s assessment to the Security Council was grim, according to the diplomat who wasn’t authorized to comment publicly. He said the envoy described torture so routine that it’s not mentioned unless people are asked and the steady destruction of Syria’s cultural heritage.

One sign that doesn’t speak well for Brahimi’s efforts is the rigidity of Security Council members’ positions, said Aram Nerguizian, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

this, Seager suggested more educated women would prefer, when given the choice, to have smaller families.

Freshman Santiago Bejarano, said he believed that Seager’s opinions were too broad to encompass every cultural group.

“I know, especially with Latinos and [Catholics] in general, larger families are seen as healthier families, as a sign of prosperity,” Bejarano said.

Freshman Allison Draper noted that some women—even

when educated—have large families by choice.

“I have a friend who has eight kids in their family, and they’re not Catholic,” Draper said. “[Her mother] feels that God wants her to have all these kids in her life. She’s completely educated. She went to college.”

Seager also pushed the idea of birth control as one of the most successful and important innovations of the 20th century, citing its effects as giving women the right to choose what to do with their lives.

“For the first time, one half of the world is not dependent on the other half,” Seager said.

“Women have the ability to control where their lives are going to go to.”

The idea that the development of birth control was the defining moment for female independence, though controversial, resonates with some. Draper sees both sides of the issue.

For people in relationships, she says, birth control allows the woman to have a say in the size of her family without impacting the committed relationship

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In the 2011-12 NBA season, Duke basketball alumni played more minutes and scored more points than any university in the country. The Blue Devil women have also made their own mark on the professional level as well.

With the WNBA set to begin its playoffs Thursday, Blue Devil fans will see many familiar faces taking the court in three of the four conference semifinal series. With eight players on seven WNBA rosters, 2012 marked another successful season for the Blue Devils—the league’s third-most represented team behind Connecticut and Tennessee—in the pros.

Duke alumnae—including Lindsey Harding of the Atlanta Dream, Mistie Mims, formerly Mistie Williams, of the Connecticut Sun, Karima Christmas of the Indiana Fever, Monique Currie and Jasmine Thomas of the Washington Mystics, Alana Beard of the Los Angeles Sparks, Krystal Thomas of the Phoenix Mercury and Chante Black of the Tulsa Shock—have all made an impact for their respective teams this year.

Four former Blue Devils will begin playoff runs this week, as Beard’s Sparks are set to take on the San Antonio Silver Stars, Mims’ Sun will face the New York Liberty and Harding’s Dream square off with Christmas’ Fever. Professional players who once called Duke home view the Blue Devils’ presence in the WNBA as a testament to the program’s success in recent years.

“It says a lot of things certainly about the talent, of course, but I think it says a great deal about the intangibles, the work ethic and being reliable. Professional basketball is very different than college basketball,” said Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie. “I think it speaks very well for the maturation of our student-athletes over the course of the four years that they’re here.”

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After graduating from Duke in 2011, 6-foot-5 center Krystal Thomas is one of eight Blue Devils currently playing in the WNBA.

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Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw leads a defensive unit that has not yielded a goal in three consecutive games.

After a shaky start to the season, the Blue Devils have finally made it back to .500, and they stayed there with a 0-0 draw against No. 25 Wake Forest last weekend.

Duke But Tuesday’s match against UNC vs.

Wilmington will inUNC-W volve Duke (3-3-1) looking to achieve something that it has Tuesday, 7 p.m. yet to do all season— UNCW Soccer Stadium win on the road. The two teams will play at UNCW Soccer Stadium at 7 p.m. Tuesday.

This may be the team’s chance to improve on the road as two of the three teams Duke has already faced away from home were ranked opponents. After beginning the year 0-2, the Blue Devils are now 2-0-1 in their last three games.

Although Duke started this turnaround through an offense explosion behind the likes of junior Sebastien Ibeagha, the staple of the team lately has been its stellar defense.

Senior goalkeeper James Belshaw has logged three straight shutouts, and certainly has the opportunity to keep the streak alive against an average UNC Wilmington offense. In the Blue Devils’ tie against the Demon Deacons on the road Friday, Belshaw kept Wake Forest off the

board with an eight-save performance.

The defense has been thriving thanks to Belshaw’s performances and will look to continue its success as the offense hopes to regain the firepower it displayed in its 2-0 victory against Clemson.

The Seahawks enter the matchup aiming to rebound from a 2-0 loss to George Mason in which they could never find their offensive groove.

UNC Wilmington (2-5-1) comes into the contest looking for a signature win against an ACC team before diving into conference play. The Seahawks enter the match with a balanced attack, featuring three players having already scored at least two goals this season. UNC Wilmington has been particularly potent late in games, as they have scored six goals this season in the second half, compared to just three in the first half. This may present problems for the Blue Devils defensively—four of the five goals Duke has surrendered have come in the second half.

The Blue Devils’ success has also caught the attention of fans. The team nearly tripled their attendance between their games against Georgia State and Clemson, with the latter contest bringing in over 1,100 fans. This type of excitement—and the momentum of a win against a non-conference opponent—could be exactly what the team needs with a rival coming to town Friday when No. 8 North Carolina comes to Koskinen Stadium.

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Duke quarterback Sean Renfree rebounded from an early interception, finishing the game having completed 26-of-37 passes for four touchdowns. Two of those scores were to wide receiver Conner Vernon, who finished the game with eight catches for 120 yards. The offense earned B+ marks for its efforts.

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Despite the competitive nature of their occupation, Duke-blue blood runs thicker than water in the WNBA. Whether they face each other as opponents or relive their college days by playing on the same team, former Blue Devils in the WNBA share a strong bond that transcends the game of basketball.

“Playing against other Blue Devils is always fun. It’s always fun to see each other and you know each other’s games,” Harding said. “At one point we were young and we were playing together and I don’t think we ever thought we would have the opportunity to play together professionally.”

These bonds withstand the test of time as well. Although some attended Duke during different eras and never shared the court together at Cameron Indoor Stadium, former Blue Devils of different generations still regularly keep in touch while on the road and rehash their memories playing in front of the Cameron Crazies.

“It’s also cool to see the younger ones play, the ones I never had the opportunity to play with. Jasmine Thomas, Karima Christmas—I never played with them but I definitely watched them after I graduated.

And having the chance to play against them is great just to see how talented they really are,” Harding, who graduated in 2007, said.

“It’s a pride thing, it shows how much our coaches have done at Duke to prepare us for this level.”

Although Currie and Thomas are the only former Duke players who currently play as teammates, many combinations of former Blue Devils have had the opportunity to play together in the WNBA throughout the years. Playing together provides former Blue Devils with an on-court advantage due to the chemistry Duke players

have developed over the years, said Beard, who spent multiple seasons playing alongside Currie and Harding as members of the Washington Mystics.

“It was definitely an advantage. We were very familiar with each other’s games. It didn’t take us very long to develop the type of chemistry that we once had,” Beard said.

“At this level you come into training camp and have two or three weeks to get ready, so you don’t really develop the chemistry until midway through the season, but playing with players you were familiar with like Monique and Lindsey, we had it from the get-go.”

Many of the former Blue Devils still find time to connect with the current Duke players and coaching staff. Almost all of the former Duke players in the WNBA said they are able to visit campus at least once per season.

This both allows the former Blue Devils to reconnect with their roots and serve as role models to Duke’s current team, many of whom looked up to these current WNBA players while they played in college.

The former Blue Devils’ eagerness to stay connected with their university and basketball program demonstrates the strength of Duke’s network in the WNBA. Although some players graduated nearly a decade ago and may never have played a game for McCallie, Duke’s WNBA alumnae continue to give back to the program that guided them to realize their professional dreams.

“It’s an amazing thing and it’s a reflection of the kind of people they are.

They’re great people, tremendously loyal to Duke, and they’re willing to help out any way,” McCallie said. “I appreciate them very much and love to see them coming back. It’s been great to get to know them a little bit, and I look forward to getting to know more as our current players graduate onto professional careers in the coming years.”

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ne of the consistent messages of the holy leaders invited to the reception. The event began Quran to her followers is addressed in the and ended with prayers for our fallen diplomats, esfollowing verses: “The good deed and the pecially for Ambassador Stevens who was known by evil deed are not alike. Repel the evil deed with one, many in the audience. The reception also highlightwhich is better, then lo! He, between ed the many uplifting achievements whom and you there was enmity [will and contributions of the American become] as though he were a bosom Muslim community through various friend.” And: “The servants of the State Department programs here in Most Merciful are those who walk the U.S. and all over the world. The upon the earth humbly, and when speakers, including Secretary Clinthe ignorant address them [harshly], ton, articulated hope, wisdom and they respond with [words of] peace.” common sense.

In last few weeks, we witnessed so abdullah antepli This reception was one of the many Muslims fail miserably to upmost profound events I have ever atblue devil imam hold these central ideals in response tended in my life because of when to a worthless video produced by a and how it happened. There is a very bunch of insignificant provocateurs and charlatans. powerful and meaningful story here. The wisdom A small number of Muslims did not choose to repel and civility of this story needs to be told everywhere with something better, respond with words of peace but especially in the Muslim world. This reception or walk away with dignity, as the holy Quran teaches is one of the many instances where America has us. Instead, they protested in front of Western em- become what she claims to be. Though her embasbassies. A smaller number of them went even further sies were attacked, diplomats brutally killed and and acted violently, attacking and killing innocent anti-American sentiments increased in many Musdiplomats. So they responded to evil with something lim-majority societies, the U.S. Secretary of State even worse. honored an important Muslim day of observance Needless to say, these idiotic and senseless violent and highlighted the good work of the American reactions deserve condemnation with the strongest Muslim community. words possible. The primitive and barbaric actions I honestly ask those fellow Muslims who carry all of these violent protesters are not defensible or justi- sorts of grievances, with all due respect to some of fiable by any part of Islam. They are clear violations them, about America: If this is not repelling evil with of the core teachings of the Quran and of the very something better, then what it is? Can you in all honteachings of the prophet they claim to be defend- esty imagine any existing Muslim-majority society doing. No insult of any religious figure, including the ing the same? Imagine that violent Christians attack Prophet Muhammad, warrants violence. I think the Egyptian, Turkish, Saudi or Malaysian embassies. these angry and violent Muslims gave the makers of Imagine that violence gets out of control and sevthis worthless movie more than what they wanted. eral diplomats die. And imagine, as this chaos and Through their reprehensible reactions, the protes- terror rage on, that the foreign affairs ministers of tors proved all the main points of that disgusting those governments hold a Christmas party for the movie—not to mention the fact that their senseless minority-Christian communities in their country. rage, and its coverage in the global media, was an- In their statements they clearly say: “Those radical other blow to the already battered image and repu- and violent Christians do not represent all Christiantation of Muslims all around the world. ity and Christians. You are our citizens and we are However, there were many more Muslims and proud of your good work.” Is this possible or even non-Muslims who, rather than resorting to violence, conceivable in any Muslim-majority society? Let responded in a better manner. I hope all have seen me answer for you: Absolutely not! The civility and the tens of thousands of Libyans who came out and dignity of this reception and similar events should condemned the outrageous violence in Benghazi, humble you and invite you to be measured in your which cost the life of our ambassador and three oth- legitimate grievances. When Muslim-majority societer American officials. ies reach this level of maturity and health, most of To me, one of the most powerful and telling ex- the ugliness we face today will be left behind. Until amples of repelling evil with something better took then, as Americans let’s continue to repel evil with place at the State Department on Sept. 13. Only days something better. after we lost our ambassador, Secretary Clinton hosted a belated reception in celebration of Eid ul-Fitr, Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim Chaplain and an which is one of the most important Islamic celebra- adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies. His column runs evtions and marks the end of Ramadan. ery other Tuesday. You can follow Abdullah on Twitter @ I was one of a hundred or so American Muslim aantepli.

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ast week, a presidential nomi- to Romney’s unpopularity among the nee denigrated almost half the Hispanic electorate. In other words, he electorate. Much of the news was being playful about how to get more and analysis surrounding leaked foot- votes. If I give Romney this benefit of age from a private Mitt the doubt, then it seems Romney fundraiser has like he believes voters vote focused on what the vidbased on identity markeo means for the elecers more than on issues tion and whether his facts and policy. That could be were correct. But the fact true for some, but it isn’t that Romney stands by his true for most. Despite comments means that we Sarah Palin’s chance to need to look again at the history as the first rajlakshmi de make ideas behind his statefemale vice president, minority report ments. she did not sway enough In the video, Romney women voters to win. Just describes 47 percent of Americans as because we are the same race and share “dependent upon government, who be- similar ethnic heritages doesn’t mean lieve that they are victims, who believe I will vote for Bobby Jindal if he runs that government has a responsibility for president. It’s important to have to care for them, who believe that they minorities represented in government, are entitled to health care, to food, to but it’s even more important that they housing, to you name it.” Actually, 100 advocate for minorities at-large to acpercent of Americans are dependent count for uneven playing fields. Given on government. It’s how we coordinate Romney’s stances on immigration, reinfrastructure, national defense, legal productive rights and LGBT rights, it’s systems, an educated population and clear he doesn’t prioritize advocating some degree of cohesion. Romney’s for marginalized individuals, so any emphasis, of course, was on income connections to the Hispanic electorate support and health care programs, wouldn’t actually help. which are more contested. But that still The most frustrating aspect about would include groups like veterans and the comment on Mexican heritage was retired individuals who have contribut- that it was followed by a conversation ed towards Social Security. And did he about preferential admissions for miseriously include food on that list? Even norities. Affirmative action policies are someone who supports limited govern- important because of structural and ment should understand that calories societal discrimination and a system are hugely important to national pro- where having more resources increases ductivity. Low-income employees need one’s chance of success. Admission polenergy to work, and unemployed in- icy, though helpful, alone can’t correct dividuals need to be sustained so they for all the uneven playing fields already can put effort into the job search. underneath us. Because he donated his “Forty-seven percent of Americans inheritances, Romney said, “I had inherpay no income tax.” This effectively ited nothing. Everything that Ann and I shows not only that he wants tax cuts have we earned the old-fashioned way, for the wealthy but also that he doesn’t and that’s by hard work.” The reason think other people are taxed enough. Romney is out-of-touch is not because This came from the candidate who he’s rich; it’s because he credits only has refused to release most of his tax hard work and hasn’t acknowledged his returns. In continuing about this 47 opportunities and resources as a white, percent, he said, “And so my job is not straight man from a wealthy family. I to worry about those people—I’ll never don’t mean to say that these are the only convince them that they should take modes of opportunity or that Romney personal responsibility and care for hasn’t struggled. But it is obvious Romtheir lives.” He’s referring to winning ney either doesn’t know opportunity is voters at this point, so I won’t use this unequal or doesn’t care. to assume he doesn’t care about low- or The reason why much of the commiddle-income individuals. But if he’s mentary has not bothered to analyze sure that he can never convince almost his words is probably because the video half of the electorate to take personal was so obviously misguided. His disreresponsibility, then that’s a rejection of spect is clear, as is the choice that he social mobility. should not be the president of the In talking about his heritage, Rom- United States. ney said, “Had [my dad] been born of Mexican parents I’d have a better shot Rajlakshmi De is a Trinity senior. Her at winning this.” Some reactions have column runs every other Tuesday. You can discussed this statement as a reference follow Rajlakshmi on Twitter @RajDe4.

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o kick start our three-day weekThere is another case to be made end, some friends whom I’ve against hyper anxiety of the future. had the fortune of knowing since The future beckons through a foggy freshman year planned a hike through uncertainty. Exigencies ambush us. Our Eno River State Park. On a fetish for money partly Friday afternoon charmed stems from the ability of by a beaming sun that legal tender notes and had silenced the growling investment portfolios to thunders of previous days, store value. Eventually, we we bundled ourselves into hope to unleash this penttwo cars and travelled to up stash of cash before Bobbitt Hole Trail. our lives are spent. But Bobbitt Hole, to my consider the certitude jing song ng philistine and foreign of present moments and jingapore says ears, brought to mind a perhaps we will learn to location that could have savor them. been in “The Lord of the Rings.” And The carefree holler of “YOLO!” I wasn’t entirely wrong. Straight out of skims over the depth of moments. For the sanitary, prim and proper college the moments that stick, the “you” that compound, we were treated to a brook is the capital “Y” takes a backseat. The gurgling as it squeezed itself between individual melts into the collective, and rocks and boulders. It was quite magi- the shell of self-regard shatters. cal—the scent of damp soil, the sight of The three-pointer that snatched victurtles tanning on a tree trunk prostrat- tory from the grasp of our pasty blue ing across the river and the sound of us rivals in Chapel Hill emptied dorms, slapping salami onto our sandwiches. common rooms and libraries of stuWe recalled our first-year antics, dents. People congregated and chantplenty of which centered on the Mar- ed, “WE are Duke!” Men and women ketplace. Somebody took off with a who lay down their lives in combat live whole pecan pie. Another snagged a on in the stories that get told and retold pineapple that had been a piece of the by their comrades. Moments become cafeteria’s edible decorations. A sack of monuments. granola tided me over during ThanksEven a future-centric zealot should giving break, when eateries were closed hesitate before scorning inefficient and the shower faucets only begot pain- moments. In the long run, everyone is fully frigid water. dead. That is our shared future. The Our Bobbitt Hole chat hurtled moments we share with others now, through time, from bygone moments however, coalesce into a legacy that linto post-graduation plans. The latter in- gers like the defiant embers of a doused creasingly engraves itself on the campus campfire, refusing to go out. Apprecilandscape as career fairs and informa- ating the communal aspects of life retion sessions clutter our daily planners. quires an acute sensitivity that isn’t ridClad in spiffy suits and putting on clip- den rough shod over by the obsession pity-cloppity heels, our future-regarding with graduation plans. Such allows us to selves gaze toward haloed futures. Yet, live on in the stories and memories of let us not miss the moments for what other humans. they are worth.

All of us are hiking toward the Efficiency demands that a clear goal heights of a brilliant future. The mounbe in sight. Strutting toward a gilded fu- tainous trail twists and turns. Novel ture, we discard distractions and scorn and unexpected delights flit past us. idleness. This militant march, however, These are fleeting moments that light tramples on present moments that cra- up our fancy and wonderment. I’m still dle muted meaning. Conversations with learning how to marvel at them, besomeone who has toasted your smoked cause they’re eventually all that we’re salmon bagel, or the housekeeper scrub- left with. bing the tiles while you are scrubbing your teeth, are present indulgences. We Jing Song Ng is a Trinity senior. His collearn of and are inspired by the verbal umn runs every other Tuesday. You can folvignettes that define our human stories. low Jing on Twitter @jingapore.

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September 25-October 1 EXHIBITIONS Charlotte Caspers: Originals and Copies. Thru Sept 30.

East Duke Corridor Gallery. Free.

Coney Island 40 Years. Thru Oct 27. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Student Action with Farmworkers: 20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists. Thru Dec 9. Perkins Library Gallery.

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Documenting the Politics of Food: Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections. Thru December 10. Rubenstein Library Photography Gallery. Free.

Eat, Pray, Weave: Ancient Peruvian Art from the Permanent Collection. Nasher Museum of Art.

ONGOING Duke Arts Festival 2012. Now accepting work by student artists in all art forms and performance genres for the 2012 Duke Arts Festival, Oct 26-Nov 4. Deadline to submit October 12. arts.duke.edu/festival Across The Threshold. Now accepting proposals for papers, panels, workshops or lecture-demonstrations for the 2013 interdisciplinary conference. Deadline October 15. danceprogram.duke.edu/threshold

EVENTS September 25 Ciompi Quartet Lunchtime Classics. Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1, “Rasumovsky.” Noon.

Gothic Reading Rm., Perkins Lib. Free.

September 26 Wednesdays @ The Center. Dance professor Purnima Shah screens her documentary film “Dancing with the Goddess.”

Noon, 240 John Hope Franklin Center. Free.

September 27 Art+ Where Art & Math Intersect Lecture Series. Talk by Charlotte Caspers + Ingrid Daubechies. Mathematics Revealing Art. 5:30pm, Friedl Bldg. Free.

Reception and Talk/Book Signing. Editor Eric Muller discusses the new CDS/UNC Press book Colors of Confinement: Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in WWII. 7-9pm, CDS. Free.

‘80s to the M-M-M-Max. Free film series to complement Time Capsule: Basquiat (1996, Julian Schnabel, 108 minutes).

7pm, Nasher Museum Aud. Free.

September 28 Movies on the Lawn. Full Frame and American Tobacco present Under African Skies on the American Tobacco Campus lawn. 9pm. Free.

September 30 Faculty Recital. Susan Fancher, saxophone, Rachael Elliott, bassoon, & Jane Hawkins, piano. Works include Poulenc’s Trio for soprano saxophone, bassoon and piano. 3pm, Nelson Music Rm., East Duke Bldg. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (ED) = East Duke 108. (N) = Nasher Museum Auditorium. (SW) = Smith Warehouse - Bay 4, C105. (W) = Richard White Auditorium.

9/25

“Rethinking Nonfiction” by Prof. Devin Orgeron (6:30pm, W) AMI Showcase--Cinema Studies Lecture Series.

Note new time!

9/26

BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Italy/Algeria, 1966) (ED) Feminism & Freedom Film Series

9/27

BASQUIAT (Julian Schnabel, 1996) (N) ‘80s to the M-M-M-Max

10/1

CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (35mm) Tournées French Film Series ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.