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Cooking with chemistry

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Duke is upping the amount of money it is spending on DKU construction oversight to a yet-to-be-determined amount.

Following several construction-related delays to the campus’ opening, Duke will spend more than the $8 million it previously committed to Duke Kunshan University for monitoring construction, but administrators have not settled on a specific number.

The additional funding is needed to pay for the lengthened construction schedule and additional product testing and commissioning, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. The campus will open in Fall 2014.

The most recent increase in oversight funding was noted in a slideshow presented to the Arts and Sciences Council last Thursday. Provost Peter Lange did not elaborate on the increase in his remarks to the council.

All funding for DKU construction oversight comes from Duke’s general capital funds, Lange said. This source is used to pay for various University projects and cannot fund academic programs.

Construction oversight funding increased from $5.5 to $8 million in early

Sen. William “Mo” Cowan, D--Mass., will be the keynote speaker for the rescheduled celebration of Duke’s 50th anniversary of integration.

Cowan, Trinity ‘91, was appointed interim senator from Massachussetts Jan. 30, after Sen. John Kerry was tapped to be the new Secretary of State. He was invited

by Duke to speak at the “Commemorating 50 Years of Black Students at Duke” event April 13 in Page Auditorium. The original celebration, slated for Jan. 25, was canceled due to an ice storm.

Cowanstood out as a “wonderful inspiration” to present and future students of color, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“He has a long standing commitment to service and to mentorship—really one of the highest ideals of the University,” Schoenfeld said. “Now he is able to demonstrate that on a national stage.”

After attending Duke, Cowan received his law degree from Northeastern University School of Law. Despite having lived and practiced law in Boston for many years,

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Crystal Mangum was bonded out Wednesday from Durham County Jail, according to city records.

The bond posted for Mangum was set at $200,000, but it is not clear, as of Wednesday, who posted her bond.

Mangum, who is notorious for falsely accusing three Duke lacrosse players of kidnapping and raping her in 2006, was arrested in April 2011 for first-degree murder, assault and larceny charges. She claims she attacked the victim, Reginald Daye, in an act of self-defense. Daye died at Duke Hospital 10 days after being stabbed by Mangum Mangum has had at least five bond hearings during which she has pleaded to have her bond

value reduced, her charges dismissed or to be released from prison under electronic monitoring.

She has said and reiterated Crystal Mangum in these hearings her own account of the incident—that she was acting in self defense and that the stabbing may not have been the direct cause of Daye’s death.

None of her requests were granted by Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson.

Mangum will be representing herself when she appears in court July 8 for the start of her trial, more than two years after her initial arrest .

by Carleigh Stiehm THE CHRONICLE

Thursday marks the start of campaigning for Duke Student Government president and executive vice president.

Two students are running for each of the positions. Juniors Patrick Oathout, executive vice president, and Stefani Jones, vice president for equity and outreach, are running to succeed senior Alex Swain as DSG president. Sophomores Tre’ Scott, vice president for services, and Nikolai Doytchinov, vice president for academic affairs, are running to succeed Oathout as executive vice president. The election will be held March 7.

“I can’t wait for the campaigning to begin,” Swain said. “I always get excited around election

time for the healthy exchange of knowledge and ideas to better DSG and the Duke community.”

She added that she thought each of the candidates are qualified for the positions that they are pursuing.

Jones said her ability to advocate on behalf of the student body makes her a good fit for the presidential position.

Stefani Jones “In DSG, I have had the opportunity to speak on behalf of the student body, and really become an advocate for their needs,” she said. “That is my strength and that [is] what I am good at. That is why I think that I would make a good president.”

She said she demonstrated her ability to advocate for students in SEE DSG ON PAGE 4

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Chem seminar blends Duke med students learn science with cooking bedside manner with art

by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE

A chemistry professor took the concept of applied science to make chocolate lava cakes, parmesan noodles and ice cream.

In the lab portion of Chemistry 89S: “Science of Cooking,” taught by Patrick Charbonneau, students handle cooking ingredients and thermal baths, rather than chemicals and test tubes, to learn basic science. Charbonneau, assistant professor of chemistry, physics and computational biology and bioinformatics, teamed up with chef Justine de Valicourt, visiting artist at Duke, to create the interdisciplinary course, a freshman seminar which uses cooking to explain fundamental chemistry concepts.

“The class is about breaking down barriers,” Charbonneau said. “A lot of chemistry classes like to say that they do, but we really do.”

In the introductory course, students learn basic scientific principles in lecture and then break into labs where they apply the new information by making gourmet food. On Tuesday, students gained a greater understanding of heat diffusion by making chocolate lava cakes. Prior to cooking, students did problem sets to figure out the temperature and length of time needed to make a cake with a hard outside and molten inside.

Creativity is encouraged, as students are allowed to add extra ingredients, such as chili pepper, to their cakes. Teaching fellows used liquid nitrogen to make ice cream outside of class as a complement to the lava cakes.

“I got really lucky being in the first registration window,” freshman Allen Shi said. “The concepts aren’t hard, and it’s interesting to see how science applies to food, which you don’t get to see in high school.”

Filling up within six seconds at the start of class registration, Chemistry 89S will not exist next year as a result of de Valicourt’s departure at the end of this se-

mester. Because the course was so successful, however, there is a possibility that the course may exist later on if another chef were interested in taking the position.

Some students taking the course noted that, with science tending not to be their strongest subject, the course broke concepts down in a fun and interesting way.

Freshman Antoinette Hayford said the course allows for a good balance between free time and academics. Not only was she able to fulfill a natural science requirement, but the course allowed her to continue her hobby of cooking.

Teaching fellows who are assisting with the course added that, despite having an deep understanding of chemistry, the course allowed them to see the intersection between science and everyday life in a way they did not before.

“It’s changed the way I think about restaurants because the class offers an explanation to the cooking process,” Mary Jane Simpson, a fourth-year graduate student in chemistry, said. “When I go to a restaurant and see green in my eggs, I know that’s a sulfur compound that formed from overcooking, and I judge the restaurant.”

Keely Glass, also a fourth year graduate student in chemistry, added that she cooks more as a result of co-lecturing the course because seeing the intersection between science and food makes the process more enjoyable.

The class itself was created on the foundation of two friends. Charbonneau and de Valicourt, both originally from Quebec, Canada, have known each other since college, but their friendship goes back even farther. Both Charbonneau and de Valicourt attended the same high school before going to Cégep Garneau, an academic institution that offers a two or three year study program.

De Valicourt was was planning for a career in medicine as an undergraduate, but realized after graduating that she missed

by Patton Callaway THE CHRONICLE

Duke medical school students trade in stethoscopes for stencils with an interdisciplinary program aimed to improve communication with patients.

First-year Duke medical school students attend a 90-minute program at the Nasher Museum of Art, led by Juline Chevalier, curator of education at the Nasher. The program, which began in 2006, kickstarts their week of learning about physical examination practices, and students complete several observation and description exercises to develop skills for interacting with patients.

“Our primary goal is to increase careful looking and increase communication skills between medical students and each other, and helping them put that in perspective in being better communicators in their future professional lives,” Chevalier said.

The Nasher’s program begins with slides of images in the lecture hall. Chevalier shows students an image of artwork, people, or patients, for 20 seconds and then asks them to write a description of that image. The students compare their descriptions with those of their peers, recognizing what they noticed and how they were looking at the image versus how other students interpreted the image.

“We try to touch on the fact that we all have lenses, and everything about who we are influences how we see things in the world, how we see patients and how we see artwork,” Chevalier said.

For the second activity, students venture into the galleries for “back-to-back” drawing, when one student describes an artwork to another student facing away from the painting, and the second student draws the image based on the peer’s description. This exercise in the museum highlights issues with patient communication that occur in hospitals and creates an awareness about potential strengths and weaknesses for students.

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“[This exercise] really points out the importance of observation and the fact that people will pick up on things differently and observe differently, and their communication can be easily misunderstood,” said Dr. Barbara Sheline, assistant dean for primary care at Duke University Health System.

Because first-year students do not take care of actual patients, the immediate impact of the program cannot be measured directly, but Chevalier said she believes the program has been a success thus far.

“Students experience communication outside their comfort zones and observe images besides X-rays and cell cultures which can improve their visual acuity,” she said. “Even if we don’t have measureable results, just the fact that we’ve gotten all the medical students to the museum at once is a success.”

Marianne Wardle, Andrew W. Mellon coordinator of academic programs at the Nasher, is beginning to develop an elective course as an extension of the existing Nasher program. The class will meet for eight two-hour sessions, elaborating on observation and communication as well as beginning drawing practices and other exercises.

“Trying to draw something creates another pathway in your brain for you to understand [the image],” Wardle said.

“We would also possibly explore issues of the assumptions we make when we first see something, breaking those bounds, whether its bias, racial or gender-based— instead we would focus on what we actually see instead of what we think we see.”

The course will be modeled after similar programs offered at the University of Chicago, Harvard University and New York University and will be offered to nursing and physical therapy students as well as medical students.

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A junior is developing an app to enhance a night out with live updates of friends’ planned destinations.

During the summer of 2011, junior Julian Tigler enrolled in a free online course on iOS development at Stanford University.

The class taught him how to use the basic computer science foundation he learned at Duke as a computer science major to create mobile applications for the iPhone and Android. Now, he is trying to change the way people make nightly plans with his new app, Shindig Mobile.

Owen Astrachan, director of undergraduate studies for computer science, said the world of coding is moving fast, but outside sources can help students become experts.

Duke courses teach the fundamentals, but do not necessarily provide up-to-date real world experience.

“Our courses get you ready to go and figure something out,” Astrachan said. “We give you the tools so that you can say, ‘Oh, I want to go and make an iPhone or an Android app.’”

That is what Tigler chose to do. After finishing the Stanford course, he created the app Cipher Sender, which sends password-protected, coded text messages. It reached the top 100 free apps in Apple’s iTunes Store, Tigler said.

Last July, Tigler received an email from Alex Sloan, Pratt ’12. Sloan was part of a team that wanted to create Shindig Mobile, which allows users to see the nightly schedules of their friends who use the app

and to post their own plans. Sloan and cofounders Hailey Friedman and James Rubinowitz needed a software engineer who could write the code.

Tigler, who is now named as a co-founder, said he was skeptical at first.

“People often have ideas for great apps but almost 100 percent of the time they’re already on the app store,” Tigler said. “But that was why I was so excited about Shindig.

It was a great idea and, at the same time, nobody else had thought of it.”

He started working on the project in late July and since has spent more than 600 hours writing the code.

Shindig’s prospective niche among social networking apps is that it helps users decide on their nightly destinations. Users can view a news feed showing them where each friend plans to go. They can also see a ranking of what venues are most popular on any given evening.

“I went to Devine’s [Restaurant and Sports Bar] last night and there was no one there,” said junior Glenn Rivkees, chief of infrastructure development for Shindig. “If I had known, I wouldn’t have gone.”

Rivkees also works as a project manager in The Chronicle’s online operations department.

Astrachan said Tigler is not the first Duke student to create apps while enrolled, and that some students have had lots of success in the field.

Cody Kolodziejzyk, Trinity ’12, developed an app called “I’d Cap That” that at

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one point was the top ranked free app in the iTunes Store. “I’d Cap That” generates humorous captions for photos in the iPhone library.

Tigler said the launch date for Shindig has been pushed back multiple times, but he and Rivkees continue to put in coding time each day in order to get Shindig prepared. They said it will be ready in the next few weeks.

“We want to make sure that when we launch it, we launch it right,” Rivkees said.

her leadership on the DSG initiative to repeal the one-year statute of limitations on student sexual misconduct. Seeing this goal come to fruition when the administration overturned the statute in October was her proudest moment in DSG, she added.

“What a great leader does is empower others to come together and work together for a common cause,” she said. “Not only should the president focus on internal matters and internal efficiency, but also truly work to improve student life on campus.”

Oathout said his experience is what separates himself from other candidates, adding that the only DSG member with the same six semesters of experience

CHEMISTRY from page 2 having art in her life.

“I thought cooking was the best art that also went into science,” she said. “It was easier to become a chef then, say, a painter.”

For the past three years, de Valicourt has worked as a provincial chef throughout Europe in countries such as France, Denmark and Spain.

Every year, a department is given the opportunity to have a visiting artist to help teach a course. Although the visiting artist typically does not work in a science department, Charbonneau decided to reach out to de Valicourt and see if the two of them could form a partnership to teach Duke’s very first chemistry and cooking class.

After a year of bouncing ideas

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Glen Rivkees and Julian Tigler have developed a social planning app. back and forth, Charbonneau and de Valicourt were given the green light.

“I really like to be in a higher education environment,” de Valicourt said. “I love cooking and kitchens, but I get bored of talking about sports and cars all of the time. I missed having intellectual stimulation.”

De Valicourt’s connections as a chef made it easier to get equipment necessary for the course, all of which are donated, the most expensive being a vacuum sealer donated by Minipack America, which takes the air out of bags of foods.

Still, the course is a learning process for the professors and students alike, as Charbonneau and de Valicourt have worked to improve the class week by week.

“We like to argue with each other,” de Valicourt said.

as him is Swain.

“I am the candidate with most experience, and experience counts,” Oathout said. “I have the most variety of perspectives, no other candidate has seen as many different aspects of DSG and the student body as I have.”

Oathout added that his term as executive vice president prepared him to know what needs to be done in DSG. In that role, he ran the weekly DSG meetings.

“As EVP, I have successfully managed the most effective and biggest senate ever,” he said.

One of the reasons that the senate was larger this year than in the past was due to an expansion from five internal committees to seven. Doytchinov said that he helped lead the change in the Senate’s structure as a freshman.

“As a senator for academic affairs, and now the vice president, I have been involved with a lot of internal DSG issues, and have worked to improve them,” he said. “I have seen a lot of important issues that were previously swept under the rug, but we have really improved the internal side of DSG in the past two years.”

If elected, Scott wants to change the role of the executive vice president. He said the role should have a greater connection with the student body.

“I want to change the position of EVP a bit,” he said. “Right now it is a mostly internal position, and that is an important role.

It makes sure the senate operates effectively, but I want to step it up and make it more in tune with the student body.”

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At the Nasher Museum of Art, students from the School of Medicine study art as part of an interdisciplinary effort to enhance communication with patients.

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“We are not interested in whether medical students can use the proper art history terms,” she added. “Instead, we are interested in whether they can use vivid language to describe what they see, so others, especially their patients, can understand.”

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royalties. In the hip-hop community, the de facto rule is that you don’t need clearance for samples used on mixtapes because a) mixtapes are usually released for free and thus fall under the “nonprofit” clause of the fair use balancing test, and b) your mixtape probably won’t reach 50 Cent-levels of fame anyway, so ast week I bought tickets to see James Blake perform the chances of getting caught are slim. The framework is shaky, at Cat’s Cradle the day after graduation. I celebrated and there are definitely instances of lawsuits that fall outside by revisiting Blake’s entire discography in what I later of this general rule, but it’s a step in at least acknowledging noticed was reverse chronological order. It took me a week that derivative work isn’t antagonistic to useful, inspiring art. to arrive where his back catalog began because I took a six- Rather, it isn’t really antagonistic toward anything. day siesta with “CMYK,” the title track from one of Blake’s Part of the problem lies in the current usage of the word 2010 EPs and my new favorite song of his. In his dizzying “derivative.” It’s one of those pointy barbs that each music yet seamless arrangement of sounds, Blake samples a track critic reserves for a truly devastating below-the-belt hit when that once overworked my iPod in much the same way— describing an album, because the last thing any artist wants “Are You That Somebody?” by Aaliyah. Without a doubt, to have their work called is “derivative.” What used to be a it’s this sample and previous attachment with Aaliyah’s mu- neutral term to describe anything that’s based off an alreadysic that makes “CMYK” so appealing, at least to me. And existing work is now conflated with being unintelligent, uninin a revelation that came soon afterward, I realized that spired, boring. These adjectives are antagonistic to what every some of my favorite songs also incorporate Aaliyah’s mu- artist wants to be, which is original and creative. Of course, sic to varying degrees: Kendrick Lamar’s “Blow My High” this isn’t a zero-sum game, as the many detractors of “derivaexplicitly pays tribute to the late R&B singer and features tive bullsh*t” would have you think. Music harbors many testaan extended, computerized sample of her “4 Page Letter”; ments of creation through appropriation; a popular example less noticeable is The Weeknd’s use of “Rock the Boat” to is the late hip-hop producer J. Dilla, whose album Donuts is introduce his bare, seductive track “What You Need.” All of reminiscent of an intricate, sprawling watercolor, where each this is to say that art does not exist in a vacuum; every piece color is a different looped sample, each brushstroke a careful of artwork is inevitably derivative. But out of all of the artis- manipulation of the original track. What’s more, many other tic mediums—film, dance, visual art, literature—it’s music artists have re-used J. Dilla’s beats, burying the samples’ origithat has become the least obstructive to creative develop- nal context even further into abstraction. If we can accept ment via appropriation. A dubious honor, to say the least. that recontextualizing music “artifacts” through sampling is Both hip-hop and electronica are sample-heavy genres, and indeed a skill, why are we so reluctant to transfer the same unapologetically so. Clearing a sample is a multi-step process, line of thinking to other mediums? one entangled in copyright law, ownership agreements and We are especially resistant when it comes to literature, where the curse of the two-dimensional medium is to think in terms of binaries of artistic creation. Lifting someone else’s sick ‘n’ tired of paragraph to include in your novel conMichaela Dwyer...............................................................being sick ‘n’ tired sequently means not writing your own in Holly Hilliard......................................................................acute bronchitis that space. And more importantly, lifting someone else’s paragraph would be called Ted Phillips..........................................................................phlegmboyance plagiarism. As if that’s a bad thing. ThankKatie Zaborsky....................................................................a cute bronchitis fully, authors like Johnathan Lethem and Dan Fishman....................................................................... ..... .... ... .. . David Shields are speaking up to address literary community’s skittishness Sophia Durand.....................................................................................ennui the with the p-word. In a 2007 essay entitled Emma Loewe...............................................................................Emma Low “The Ecstasy of Influence,” Lethem discusses how art functions both in a market

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economy and a gift economy, both of which treat plagiarism in markedly different ways. The kicker? Lethem plagiarized the entire article, ending with a list of sources from which he “stole, warped, and cobbled together” his essay. Is it wrong to call Lethem’s piece brilliantly “written”? I’d argue not, and I’d also argue that today, a writer’s foremost goal doesn’t need to be originality. Both Lethem and Shields proved their ability for more traditional creative success before taking on a more experimental form. Shields’ self-described manifesto Reality Hunger takes issue with this idea, saying, “People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will?” Preach.

True originality—at least, originality as we have come to believe in it and praise it—is also becoming increasingly unattainable in the digital age. How do we lay claim to entirely new territory in an artistic world that’s being populated at an exponential rate? Maybe originality or creativity shouldn’t be endgame after all. Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, teaches a class called “Uncreative Writing,” where assignments include retyping five pages of any existing work, transcribing an audio piece or planting an already-existing slogan in a new space. The emphasis is not on creating the “new,” but managing the “old.” In this way, plagiarism is just as much an art itself than a detraction from art. Obviously, there’s a difference between Lethem’s article and dude’s Paradise Lost English paper that he “cobbled together” with his ass. And everyone is so wary of unintentionally plagiarizing because the idea of ownership both empowers us and terrifies us. Ownership is a responsibility, but it too does not exist in a vacuum, and is itself an illusion of control.

When The Weeknd re-released his three mixtapes as a compilation album the following year, the Aaliyah sample at the beginning of “What You Need” was noticeably missing. He probably removed it to avoid the trouble of clearing the sample, but now the song lacks both the subtle intertextuality and the whispery foreword to what is easily The Weekend’s most seductive track. The original track is so clearly his, even if it’s not all his. If I could have plagiarized this Editor’s Note from other sources to prove a point, I would have, but I’ve always imagined my swan song at The Chronicle to be a Recess-wide rendition of Beyonce’s “Countdown” instead of being unceremoniously fired.

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Recess profiles: student filmmaker Alex Lark

by Kathy Zhou THE CHRONICLE

Sophomore Alex Lark has the sort of quiet enthusiasm and understated passion that’s encouraging for an interviewer and lends credibility to what he says. When I asked him to tell me about himself, he answered both concretely and abstractly: “I’m from Melbourne, Australia, born and raised on a really beautiful ELYSIA SU/THE CHRONICLE coastal suburb there. I’ve always had a huge appreciation for moving bodies of water. I know I want to live by the ocean.”

Alex continually surprised me throughout our conversation. He likes to weave himself through several genres – film, music, drawing, photography, graphic design and so on. Halfserious and half-tongue-in-cheek, he explains, “I’ve been shifting across and tasting snippets. Like tiny hor d’oeuvres in this banquet that is art, and I’m sitting in each seat and getting a taste of it because I want to have that breadth of experience. I want to know where other artists come from.”

That same craving for experience led Alex to Duke, in the hopes of balancing “academic pursuit as well as life pursuit.” I asked him, a visual arts, English and Arts of the Moving Image student, what he was thinking career-wise. “Art has to be in

some aspect of my life and career,” he said. “I want to produce art and work as a creative director, in any industry. Potentially I could grow my own company. That would be great if I could find people that have similar tastes in aesthetics and grow into a team.”

When I asked Alex whether he had any sort of team or was involved with any organizations on campus, he offhandedly—but appreciatively—mentioned DiDA and Freewater. For his personal projects, however, he has yet to find a collaborative fit on campus.

“I see things very distinctly in my head before I shoot. I didn’t realize that not everyone sees things this way, so I’m trying to convey this unique perspective. It means you have to be behind the camera.” He continues, “It’s so strange sometimes, how others see it. I’m sure there’s a team out there that would be perfect for me. I just haven’t found that group of people.”

Until then, Alex works alone. He directed, wrote, produced and edited “Underpass,” a final project in a film production class. “I had that class at night, in Smith Warehouse,” he explained. “Every time I walked back to East I would walk below the underpass, the graffitied wall area. After a couple weeks I realized that there was a distinct feeling someone gets in that space. I wanted to make a film about, primarily, this feeling, but also incorporate other aspects of a narrative and little chunks of my life, which you can’t help when you create a piece of art.”

The film earned Alex the 2012 Hal Kammerer Memorial Prize for Film and Video Production. Although there’s often something trite about amateur shorts with serious topics, “Underpass” comes across as subtle and thought-provoking.

Each element feels intentional, and with only one location,

three actors and a soundperson, Alex was able to craft the short he had envisioned.

After Alex’s first year, he traveled “with some friends on a road trip along the west coast of the U.S., up to Yosemite, and back,” before setting off on a brief stint across Europe. “15 Hundred Miles” is a nostalgic West Coast montage, interposing those on the journey with vibrant and scenic time-lapses.

“I love capturing beauty. We saw so many incredible things on this trip. We ended up with all this footage and some photography that I had done while we were in the backcountry of Yosemite, so I put together this first-person, feel-good film.”

Both films are featured on Alex’s simple but sophisticated website, Alex Lark Studios touts work done for previous clients, as well as charming animations, piano compositions, 2D art and design.

I decided to close with a question that I could have started with. “Why art?”

Alex rubbed his hands together and laughed, continuing in a way that made me feel like he’d often been asked, “Why are you studying art?” versus my “What is art to you?”

“It’s easy to pop the ‘why’ question. Why are you doing this at Duke? It’s the notion of these different types of intelligences. There’s an emotional, creative intelligence in art, and in this environment, it’s sometimes stifled. But I’ve been forceful enough to push back, to open people’s eyes to it. It’s just what I love doing. It’s what I found myself doing in my spare time. My spare time became the same as my time on-task.”

Alex’s works can be found at http://www.alexlarkstudios.com.

Storytelling series invigorates Triangle area

by Thomas Kavanagh THE CHRONICLE

Having rehearsed the story of my “first time” for a couple of hours this past weekend, I was confident I’d be one of the more stage-ready contestants at Tuesday night’s StorySLAM at Motorco Music Hall. I was so wrong. That has to be the only open mic night I’ve been to where there hasn’t been a single painfully awkward, long performance. The level of professionalism and effort put forth by predominately amateur storytellers was humbling, to say the least.

The event owes its popularity to The Monti, a fast-growing North Carolina nonprofit that showcases short, unscripted, nonfiction narratives onstage. This week, The Monti put on its monthly five-minute narrative showdown, in which eight randomly chosen storytellers competed for audience approval.

This month’s theme was “First Times.” Believe it or not, only a couple of contestants took the prompt in the euphemistic sense.

The tone of the stories was overwhelmingly comedic, but all narratives revealed vulnerabilities on behalf of the storyteller.

This month’s winning narrator described the struggle of identity while buying and wearing her first dress ever, the one that she would wear to her high school prom.

Motorco was sold out, but that was no first for The Monti.

The quantity of submissions, however, was at an all-time high.

Not everyone who submits their name at StorySLAMs gets chosen, but never has the number of submissions more than doubled the number of performers. Jeff Polish, founder of The Monti, hopes to host a Part Two to “First Times” due to its popularity.

“The first time we had a StorySLAM, it was a nightmare.

We had a sold out crowd, but only two storytellers,” noted Polish. “Now, four years later, we’ve successfully cultivated a storytelling community. People know to bring their A-game.”

“This week’s StorySLAM was The Monti’s best I’ve seen,” commented Clare Fieseler (’10), a graduate of the Nicholas School of the Environment and last month’s Sto-

mark kozelek LIKE RATS CALDO VERDE

Over a twenty-year career, Mark Kozelek has established himself as one of the definitive singer-songwriters of his generation. As front man of legendary sad sacks Red House Painters, he was the lynchpin of the slowcore movement in alternative rock. Marrying slow, intense, dissonant and bleak instrumentation with harrowingly personal lyrics, Kozelek created music that really spoke to the experience of feeling pain and despair. Although he’s maintained his honest songwriting approach, Kozelek has diversified his music over time, experimenting with folk, classical and Spanish guitar under the moniker Sun Kil Moon, and he’s even covered songs from bands far removed from slow, introspective music. In 2001,

rySLAM champion. When asked what drew her to get up on stage and tell a story, Fieseler described the unique opportunity to make the personal public.

“I saw the awards show last year and was so inspired. It’s the most raw form of narrative—it’s just you and a microphone,” said Fieseler. “I had written my story out once, and practiced twice. I didn’t know a soul in the audience.”

Between acts, Polish kept the night alive with his own prepared anecdotes. None of his tales spared any dirty details: Polish admitted to sharing an unintentionally lewd set of stories. I won’t spoil the surprises, but I’ll just say that his topics included his first time at a nude beach, the gross details of college fraternity life and the peculiarities of his son’s bris.

StorySLAM depends almost entirely on audience content, but The Monti also puts on their own fully rehearsed shows. Polish gathers local and national celebrities, activists and artists to voice their struggles. Among the many veterans of The Monti is Emmy award-winning screenwriter, novelist and English professor Michael Malone, who teaches two classes at Duke. Malone spoke to the generational appeal of The Monti’s storytelling format.

“The form and the medium that follows the demand of the culture is most successful,” said Malone, who performed alongside Elizabeth Edwards for The Monti at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. “The success of The Monti is tied to the return of the short story, in a generation raised on shorter segments of media.”

Another storytelling mode had a cameo appearance at the SLAM. CJ Suitt, youth outreach director for the Chapel Hill-based spoken word organization Sacrificial Poets, contributed a guest performance. Suitt communicated the story of his own “first time” through impassioned rhythmic poetry, providing powerful stylistic contrast.

Suitt’s appearance was partly promotional as well; Polish pitched the upcoming performance collaboration between Sacrificial Poets and The Monti later this year. Suitt described how The Monti and “SacPoe” identified plenty

of common ground between their organizations’ visions.

“Spoken word and performance poetry is an art highly based in storytelling,” noted Suitt. “Story-sharing can connect us, in a world and a time where we learn about our neighbors from television, neighborhoods that we could drive to, walk to, meet folks in.”

Suitt identified some of the explicit thematic differences between the two storytelling communities. He said that while stories presented at The Monti often touched upon important societal trends, SacPoe tends to approach political and social issues directly.

“Sacrificial Poet’s vision is to break silence,” said Suitt.

“Especially around things people are voting on, interacting with in their daily lives. For us, the personal is political.”

Both organization leaders believed that storytelling has universal relevance. Polish said he looks forward to expanding The Monti’s audience base beyond the Triangle, especially through the continued production of story podcasts of live performances.

“I think that The Monti has the ability to go outside of the triangle and leave North Carolina,” noted Polish. “When I say I intend for the podcasts to be the most popular podcasts out there, I know I sound ridiculous. But I believe in it.”

Polish admitted that he never saw himself as the founder of a professional arts company when he was growing up.

Polish received his Ph.D. in Biology from Washington University, but left teaching in April 2008 to form The Monti.

His group takes its name from a close friend with whom he’d shared stories for hours at a time.

“Stories unite, connect and reduce the distance between strangers to zero,” said Polish. “When you see somebody you’ve never met before, all you notice are the differences. When you hear somebody tell a story, all you notice are the similarities.”

he created an all AC/DC acoustic cover album, and in 2005 he released a Modest Mouse cover record, Tiny Cities. For an artist committed to trying new musical approaches, releasing another album of covers would be somewhat repetitive.

Like Rats, however, is different. Its collection of thirteen tracks is his most adventurous release in a while.

The god of sadcore takes a host of metal, punk, classicrock and pop songs and reinvents them into hypnotically melancholy folk ballads. Bruno Mars, Godflesh, Dayglo Abortions and Cher will never share the same track-list ever again. Not only does Kozelek bring these songs into the same sonic universe, his stark acoustic playing uncovers an emotional resonance and bleakness the originals lacked.

He opens with a chilling rendition of the Bad Brains classic “I.” The quick flamenco flourishes create all sorts of tension, and could fit seamlessly into his 2010 master-

piece Admiral Fell Promises. Godflesh’s “Like Rats” sees Kozelek at his angriest. The ferocity of the original is still there but now there’s an uneasy sense of impending doom, too. Bruno Mars’ “Young Girls” is stripped of its vapidity and given a quiet tenderness. But Kozelek saves the most impressive transformation for Dayglo Abortions’ “I Killed Mommy.” Stripped of its punk-metal veneer, we hear the song for what it is: sad, vulnerable and sinister.

Aside from these songs, the album unfortunately sounds monotonous after a couple of listens. There are no standout covers in the mold of previous albums’ “I’ll Be There” or “New Partner” and the emphasis on variety dilutes the album to a kind of grab bag. “13” and “Green Hell” fall just outside Kozelek’s individual reach: they require an expansive, full-band arrangement. Nevertheless, Kozelek is

The Monti’s next rehearsed show, with the theme of “Deadlines,” will be performed tonight at The Pour House in Raleigh.

The show begins at 7:30 p.m. and tickets are $15.

SEE KOZELEK ON PAGE 6

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Recess Interviews: Heather McEntire of Mount Moriah

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Next Tuesday, Feb. 26, Durham-based band Mount Moriah will release their highly anticipated second album, Miracle Temple, and perform a free show at Bull City Records. Heading the group as lead singer and lyricist is all-around Triangle music veteran Heather McEntire, known outside Mount Moriah as a member of Bellafea, Un Deux Trois, creative director of Girls Rock NC and co-founder, along with bandmate Jenks Miller, of the independent record label Holidays for Quince. Recess Editor and longtime Mount Moriah enthusiast Michaela Dwyer spoke with McEntire about the best and worst ways Mount Moriah’s music has been described, McEntire’s creative writing background and the artistic magnetism of the American South.

Recess: I’ve been listening to the new album almost exclusively since I got a press copy in December, and I just feel totally subsumed in it when I’m listening to it. I had the same reaction to the first album, but I think Miracle Temple plays quite differently, and I’d like to know how your approach to this album was different from the previous one—musically, lyrically, conceptually.

Heather McEntire: The first record [Mount Moriah] was immediate; it was raw. I think that [Miracle Temple] is a more confident record in a lot of ways. I think it just took some time for us to trust each other, and [in that way] how we approached this new record is different. We wrote collectively; that creative process was different. Vocally, I have matured a lot since the last record. I think a lot had to do with really becoming familiar with my voice as an instrument, but also in a little deeper way, and who I am and what I feel empowered to share about my personal life experience. So, in those ways, Miracle Temple feels like a more confident record. Even the arrangements are more thought-out. We went into the recording process knowing exactly what we wanted.

R: I’m interested in what you were saying about how you’ve changed and what you feel more empowered to write about or share now compared to a few years ago.

HM: Well, [on] the first record…for me, the song “Reckoning” [a song in which a daughter speaks to her mother about a female lover] was pretty intense for me to put out there. And I’ve come out to my family over the last year, and put myself in some vulnerable and strong places. I feel like if [“Reckoning”] is my coming-out song, it frees me up to expand and explore more. The experience of an artist living in the South isn’t just about my experience, about my struggle with my sexuality; it’s not about my struggle with identity. It’s much larger than that, and much more complex. There’s a lot of forgiveness in [Miracle Temple], so I guess this record has felt like a rebirth of sorts for me—but I’m still searching.

R: You studied creative writing in college [at UNC-

Wilmington]—poetry, specifically. How did that inform your lyrical writing, which to me retains more of a proselike quality? I’m curious about how you translated that background to the music you make now.

HM: [In college] I had excess prose and poetry pieces.

I wanted to do something with them, so I put melodies over them and learned how to play the guitar. I’ve been thinking about this recently, because I collaborated on a song on this record, “Union Street Bridge,” with my writing mentor and undergrad professor, Sarah Messer.

I’m someone who’s very inspired by poets and storytellers. I definitely wouldn’t be involved in music if I hadn’t first fallen in love with writing. And I know I wouldn’t be able to do that If I hadn’t been under the wings of really skilled poets who really did see something in me— a really curious young woman who was just so green but who wanted to understand her life and her family and how it all fit together.

R: I was walking a few weeks ago and I was listening to “Plane,” from your first record, and I had this moment when you’re singing about the “the red, red clay,” and I looked down and was standing on clay. I think your songs have a way of really attuning us to physical place on a micro, personal level—but also, and especially on the new record, you’re singing a lot about actual locations, many in North Carolina—“Connecticut to Carolina,” “Swannanoa,” etc.

HM: That’s totally true. There’s a lot of geography. I wrote a lot of these songs or at least started writing them when I was on tour all over the country. I’m very inspired by landscapes that are not very familiar to me, like the West Coast. That element of being far away from home and then returning and having this wealth of experience.

When you’re out on tour and spend two and a half weeks in the desert, it brings up a lot of stuff. I do find that I’m really moved by place. I associate a lot of my memories with place. I’ve always had a fondness for maps, and I love travel; it’s not something I did a lot growing up.

R: That’s also related to this question of you all being Southern musicians, or if [Mount Moriah] is the new Southern music. The “New South” is one phrase that often gets attached to your music. And that relates to your singing about nontraditional sexuality. At this point, how do you feel those labels define you? Do you want to totally reject them?

HM: I think people are gonna define it how they will, and interpret songs as they will. I wouldn’t say Mount Moriah has this mission to spearhead this “New South” movement. But we are definitely a band who asks a lot of questions. As the person who’s writing the lyrics…my intentions are not to be super-political. [We’re] kind of opening up that discussion of what does it mean to make art and music in the South, what are we up against and what do we have that’s valuable that other areas don’t.

I know people like to talk about sexuality and like to talk about these confrontational themes. They’re there, and I’m aware of it: I write it and I live it. It would be great [if] there was a time when it was just about the music, but I think I’m engaged with this band because of those things, too. So I understand their power, understand their importance. If we are unique in those ways, in this sea of country Americana folk bands, I’m proud to be unique in those ways.

R: I’m wondering if you all have ever felt a pressure or a need to go elsewhere to promote yourselves in more

national way. The music scene here, in the Triangle, is obviously so thriving and the creative community itself is so amazing. This is something I’m feeling a lot, being from here and about to graduate. What is it about here that makes you all want to stay, and what is it that sustains artists here?

HM: I’ve witnessed a lot of friends and seen a lot of fellow musicians make that exit. I personally haven’t done that. I’ve been in the area ten years, almost. I think it’s important for me to be a part of a community, and really create in the space that is rich with people who are passionate about music, and who are really devoted to that creative process. For me, I haven’t desired going to those big cities. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but it can be a very cliché thing. It can also be exactly what someone needs. Maybe sometime down the line I’ll feel that pull.

For now, and especially with Mount Moriah, I’m just starting to understand really how loaded it is, creating here and living here. I think if I were to remove myself from this region right now, I would be a little lost. Part of my quest to understand the South is I feel like I have to put myself in the middle of it. And [I want to] see if I was really loyal to a community, and let it mentor me, how I could grow.

If you’re gonna choose to be a musician or artist…in this country, you’re up against a lot. I guess for me I would rather not struggle over my rent. I’d rather be inspired by different kinds of struggle, you know what I mean?

R: What’s the best and worst way you’ve heard your music described?

HM: You know, when someone asks me, I don’t really know what to say. If I’m back home and one of my dad’s friends is like, “Well, whaddya sound like?” I think about what other people might have for their frame of reference. So sometimes I’ll be, like, “Oh, it’s country.” But offhand I don’t like the word “alt-country.” I don’t know what that means, and, honestly, I don’t really know what “Americana” means, but I’ve said it.

When [Mount Moriah] first started I said we were secular gospel. I have since felt very weird about that, so I’ve kind of taken that off, because I’m trying to get in touch with my spiritual side. And that’s part of [this question of] how do I intersect with this world that I grew up in? I was bitter for a long time about religion; I didn’t let anything in. Now I feel like my heart is really open and my mind is open, and I think gospel is gospel. And if I’m feeling the spirit, that can mean a lot of different things. So I stopped saying we were secular. It felt kind of pretentious.

R: I know you’re involved with Girls Rock NC. Could you talk a little bit about that and what you’re doing there now?

HM: In 2008 I came and played for one of the summer camps, and I had such a powerful experience. I’m now the creative director there. It’s another reason I want to stay here and keep maintaining that nonprofit. Now I work with really great women, and [the mission] is dear to my heart. And it’s not just about music. It’s really just a brilliant front for empowering girls and letting them have this artistic freedom and kind of instilling these feminist ideals into them, and it’s great. I remember the first time I volunteered, thinking, wow, if this had been around for me...I would’ve gotten involved in music so much earlier. With these girls, there’s so much creativity, there’s so much confidence, and I can’t wait to see what happens to them in ten years.

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Kotche, Megafaun, On Fillmore play Reynolds

by Harry Liberman THE CHRONICLE

The history of rock music tells us that if a band is in need of a breakthrough album, their best move might be to find a new drummer. Nirvana didn’t become a flannel-clad international phenomenon until they got Dave Grohl to play drums for Nevermind. Beatlemania only caught on after Richard Starkie (stage name: Ringo Starr) took over the kit from Pete Best. And although Wilco may not have had the international reach of the former bands, their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot has become an indie music touchstone and is widely considered one of the young century’s best albums. Its success was due, in no small part, to the addition of percussionist Glenn Kotche, who brought a more richly layered sound to the band.

This Friday, Feb. 22, Glenn Kotche comes to Duke without Jeff Tweedy and the rest of Wilco for a show of his own in Reynolds Industrial Theater. Those in attendance will actually witness two separate performances. First, Kotche will play a new piece by noted American composer John Luther Adams entitled “Ilimaq,” using his percussionist skills to illuminate Adams’ naturalist, rhythmic piece. For the second half, Kotche and bassist Darin Gray, collectively known as On Fillmore, team up with Durham-based folk impressionists Megafaun.

At first glance, these two performances are not what most people would expect from a famous rock musician, but Duke Performances Executive Director Aaron Greenwald notes that although the works are experimental, that ought not make them intimidating. Adams may now be a composer, but he is not alien to contemporary tastes: he himself first got into music through drumming in a rock ‘n’ roll band.

“The John Luther Adams piece is exciting,” said Greenwald, “in that it’s the third or fourth time it’ll be played…Kotche actually commissioned the piece himself.” Adams, Greenwald said, composed the piece specifically with Kotche’s skillset and background in mind, and was enthused by the opportunity to see “Ilimaq” performed as it was originally intended.

Greenwald is not the only one looking forward to the performance.

Samantha Lachman, a senior, Chronicle columnist and a self-described

“Wilco devotee” bought tickets to the Friday’s performance and is excited because she feels Kotche’s drumming abilities extend far beyond the average percussionist. “[Kotche] uses drumming to create texture, not just rhythm. The cascading tom fills on “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” [the opening track of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot] are simply transcendent,” Lachman said.

Adams’ piece is heavily invested in recreating a naturalistic sound that evokes the Alaskan landscape he has lived around for the last 30 years.

In an interview with Duke Performances, Adams noted that Kotche paid “exquisite attention to touch and color,” an important attribute for a piece Adams himself called “highly rhythmic.”

After the audience leaves the woodsy fields of Adams’ composition, the show moves on to a five-piece ensemble collaboration between On Fillmore and Megafaun. Both bands have a decided interest in Southern music, which Greenwald thinks will make for an exciting collaboration.

“I’m always curious about the thread between traditional American music and experimental music,” said Greenwald. “On Fillmore’s music is atmospheric and leans towards Americana, and Megafaun’s is Americana and leans towards experimental. So, hopefully, the musical terrain that they’ll explore…should be very interesting.”

Kotche and Gray’s On Fillmore pieces are oddly playful and even their darker pieces make unexpected light-hearted detours. It’s an inclination Megafaun can appreciate. Their last, self-titled album is littered with sudden bursts of sound that both unsettle and excite.

Of course, a live collaboration between two groups often yields surprising results, and On Fillmore and Megafaun’s should be no exception. Although this may make some nervous, Aaron Greenwald was optimistic that, to borrow a turn of phrase from a Wilco song, the audience would fall in love with a drummer.

“More than most things we do, I have no idea what it is going to be like,” said Greenwald of Friday’s performance. “But I still feel like we’re in relatively good hands.”

Glenn Kotche, Megafaun and On Fillmore will perform tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Reynolds Industries Theater.

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safe haven

February 21, 2013

DIR. LASSE HALLSTROM NICHOLAS SPARKS PRODUCTIONS

Last week for Valentine’s Day my friends invited me to see Safe Haven, yet another adaptation of a novel by Nicholas Sparks, the acclaimed author of romantic fiction novels such as The Notebook and A Walk to Remember. My initial response: no. But I reconsidered and decided sure, okay, I could use some loving and some time well spent with friends.

This film is built on the solid foundation that supports every Nicholas Sparks movie: a hot couple. Katie (Julianne Hough) is a young woman running away from a dark past, and Alex (Josh Duhamel) is the widowed general store manager who struggles to be a good father following the death of his wife. They fall in love, naturally, and the rest is an anagram of the first four letters of “history.”

Safe Haven’s storytelling is schizophrenic. It’s like a twohour long prescription drug commercial. Hough rides a bike along Spanish moss-lined dirt roads and frolics with beautiful children on beaches, but every now and then you’ll get whiplashed to the alcoholic husband who’s been stabbed and, realistically speaking, should have died at various points during the narrative. But he still manages to make the audience (fangirls, that one old couple and obnoxious commentators like me) scream when he somehow appears out of nowhere (exactly when we expect him to).

Safe Haven is not even relevant without the unofficial tagline “the new Nicholas Sparks film.” I have never picked up a Sparks book, but I will say that all Sparks-based films are not created equal. The Notebook was pretty enjoyable, if not necessarily good.

Remember that cute boating scene in The Notebook that was interrupted by a torrential, passionate downpour? Well, guess what. That happens in Safe Haven too! (No makeout, though.

Way to change it up, Nick.) It’s like loving Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code and being disappointed with every book he’s written since then because they follow the same plot structure. There are a few “twists” thrown in for good measure, but they are somehow more clichéd than the rest of the film.

Many of us are familiar with Valentine’s Day’s other name: Single’s Awareness Day. Retrospective conclusions after watching Safe Haven: loving is painful and tedious, and this film is definitely not time well spent.

—Minshu Deng

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are not always on top of the music world, but they’re always up to speed. Through their long career—they released their first album in 1983 and have released 15 subsequent albums—Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds know how to adapt their style to the sounds of the times. In the 90s they released rock ballads like those of R.E.M. and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and in 2009 when bands like Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire were making it big, they imitated the popular multi-faceted chamber orchestrations. Now the band has ventured into the dream pop, dream rock and even the slightly avant-garde as popularized by artists like Sharon Van Etten and continued by other old-timers Tom Waits and John Cale.

While Cave’s vocals are constant throughout, there are two separate instrumental strains. Half of the album reminds of Beach House instrumentals displaced by croons of an old raspy vocalist. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ comfortable, contemporary-sounding dream pop doesn’t overcome genre tropes. Backdrops are characterized by repeated ambient melodies, regular shifts between major and

minor keys and dreamy arpeggios, all performed by distant guitars and synth keyboards. “Wide Lovely Eyes” most epitomizes Cave’s move to modern pop styles: its minimalist rhythms, plucking chords and soft overlain flute would fit seamlessly on a playlist of Real Estate, Woods and The National. Likewise, opener “We Know Who U R” hypnotizes with its hushed harmonies. Both songs are comfortable and easy to listen to with a modern ear.

When he’s not writing contemporary pop tunes, Cave tends toward the avant-garde. These tracks are often less successful. “Water’s Edge” lacks a distinctive melody for the first half of the song and seems more like spoken word than anything else. The song has no arc. Whereas some songs use ABA structure or ABABC, “Water’s Edge” is just X. “Jubilee Street” is another ostracized track. He’s speaking more than he’s singing—sounding even more than usually does like Johnny Cash—and its bluesy rock is pretty nondescript.

Judging by other recent albums from artists popular in the 80s, it is safe to say that by and large, they have trouble connecting with the music of our generation. When they do it’s quite thrilling. There is something very satisfying about connecting a classic artist I learned about from my parents to my own Pitchfork-raised generation. With some older artists, I feel as if I’m reaching a hand out to a straggler who just can’t keep up. Sometimes it’s just a trainwreck. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ new album rests somewhere in a happy medium territory. Push the Sky Away is a mature album that chills and surprises while showcasing the versatility of a band whose sound has successfully transfigured to fit the ambiguous molds of alternative music throughout the past three decades.

—Adrienne Harreveld

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Two teams coming off very close, heartbreaking losses will tip off against each other Thursday night.

Maryland upset No. 6 Duke (22-3, 9-3 in the ACC) Saturday as the Blue Devils saw their comeback bid fall short when sophomore Quinn Cook’s desperaNo. 6 tion shot bounced Duke off the rim and out vs. time expired.

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Cassell Coliseum time against N.C. State but suffered an eighth consecutive loss. “[We are] coming off a tough heartbreaking loss down at N.C. State, where we went into overtime with a very good basketball team on the road,” Virginia Tech head coach James Johnson said. “Saw some bright spots out of it, but again, were not able to finish the game off. Got the Blue Devils coming in here coming off a tough loss at Maryland. As far as the team is concerned, we took a day off and we’ve got to get back to work, get ready for Duke.”

It could get tough for Virginia Tech, however, against a Duke team that has won eight of the past nine contests between these two teams. They will rely heavily on senior guard Erik Green who leads the ACC in scoring this season with 25 points per game.

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Senior Mason Plumlee will face another ACC Player of the Year contender, Erik Green, Thursday night. man,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said in the weekly ACC teleconference.

“He’s a scoring machine. As a result of his ability to score, he creates opportunities for his teammates to score because he draws so much attention. And to draw that attention and still score the way he does is remarkable. He can break you down, hit open—he can knock down the three, but he can also get to the foul line. He’s just a

terrific player. He’s one of the best players in the country.”

Thursday’s game may well be a matchup between Green and Duke senior Mason Plumlee as they showcase their ACC Player of the Year credentials.

“Well, he’s been a great leader for us, and the fact [is] that he can play so many minutes,” SEE M. BASKETBALL ON PAGE 12

WOMEN’S SOCCER

From the field to the court

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For the women’s soccer team, the Spring semester is usually a time for training, announcing the incoming freshman class and a few exhibition matches.

But this year, the schedule also included one of the biggest games of the year—an intramural basketball game pitting the team’s most senior players against some of its underclassmen.

Playing a regular season game in the women’s division of Duke’s intramural league, Shooters 3, featuring primarily seniors and redshirt juniors, defeated All Gold Everything 31-14 in Wilson Recreation Center Sunday night. Even soccer team head coach Robbie Church watched from the sidelines in the first half.

“We have been looking forward to this game,” Shooters 3 captain Libby Jandl, a senior, said. “It was exciting to play our teammates and you could tell that we’re all on the same team—really competitive against each other…. It was just a great fun game.”

From tip-off, the two teams were in each others’ faces, with stingy defense that tested the referees’ limits on foul calls.

“You kind of just let them play,” referee Ro Yadama said. “You know that they know each other. They’re going to get a little chippy. Because if you start calling

every nit-picky foul, every person’s going to foul out, so you just let it go.”

The physical play, however, proved costly for All Gold Everything. With just five healthy players to start the contest, All Gold Everything’s players had no rest.

An injury to sophomore Anastasia Hunt early in the game further tested All Gold Everything. “[They] had no subs,” Yadama said. “They got tired. They got beaten up a little bit. Anna took one to the face. After a little bit they couldn’t handle it.”

Shooters 3, on the other hand, benefited from a two-person bench and received assistance from the help of a fellow varsity athlete.

“Alex Murphy’s our basketball coach, and he’s tried to give us a little bit of advice, but I think we could use some more,” Jandl said.

Murphy, a 6-foot-8 wingman for the men’s basketball team, helped Shooters 3’s players work on their fundamentals and provided shooting tips, Jandl said.

She added that he also taught them the basics of the pick-and-roll to implement in their offense.

Murphy’s contributions showed as Shooters 3 jumped out to an early double-digit lead, paced by former high school basketball standout and redshirt junior Callie Simpkins.

“The girl’s out there like Chris Paul, throwing behind the backs, with the head fakes,” Yadama said. “She’s out there driv-

ing the paint, taking contact, at one point [had a] behind-the-back whipped out of nowhere.”

In contrast, All Gold Everything struggled to get their offense going, failing to reach double digits by halftime.

“Just some of their shots weren’t dropping,” Yadama said. “They went like 0-25 on threes.”

Although All Gold Everything struggled with shooting in the beginning, players from both teams made sure to talk trash to the less accurate shooters.

All Gold Everything players egged on redshirt junior Kim DeCesare every time she touched the ball on the perimeter, Yadama said.

“After Kim scored her first, I think it was [junior All Gold Everything guard Natasha Anasi] that said, ‘that was the ugliest shot I’ve ever seen,’” Yadama said, adding, “no one expected her to make it. Every time Kim got it, it was just ‘Shoot it!’”

Despite a late run, the younger All Gold Everything squad never cut the deficit to single digits, dropping to 0-3 on the year.

Shooters 3 improved to 3-0 and has a share of first place in the league with four games left on the slate.

“We’re on the road to the championship,” Simpkins said. “We’re going to Cameron. Come at us in March. We’ll be in Cameron.”

Coming off seven straight wins, No. 5 Duke entered last Sunday’s contest against a mediocre Wake Forest team looking to add to their perfect ACC record. Although the Blue Devils notched the win, it now seems like a loss would have been preferable to what the team has now lost for the season.

With 8:01 left in the first half, junior guard Chelsea Gray hit the floor clutching her knee with a dislocated kneecap.

With this injury, Gray will miss the remainder of the season and leave Duke with a large hole to fill on the team.

Gray led the ACC in assists and steals, as well as leading Duke in minutes played, proving herself to be the ultimate team player for a talented Blue Devil squad.

She had already totaled 136 assists on the season, which made up 40.8 percent among starters.

Life without Gray will be difficult, as the Blue Devils have not spent a lot of time without her on the floor. She has started the past 60 games for Duke and has played 75.8 percent of the possible game minutes this season, which will make the next few weeks a test of the Blue Devils’ depth.

Unlike when sophomore Elizabeth Williams missed time early on in the season, the Blue Devils are now playing the top teams in the ACC and in the nation.

Their upcoming four games include contests against No. 19 Florida State, No. 7 Maryland and No. 16 North Carolina.

Although Gray will be missed for her ability to take over games. The team will now look to find a new leader, as Gray had largely taken on the role at the beginning of the season. “[Head coach Joanne P. McCallie] has talked to all of us actually. She’s told us all that we need to step up our roles,” junior guard Chloe Wells said. “As far as maturity, we can’t be putting our heads down or waiting on someone else to do it, it has to come from us now.”

The Blue Devils will look to three of Gray’s teammates to step up and share the load when it comes to replacing the star point guard. Junior forward Richa Jackson, freshman guard Alexis Jones and Wells will all see their roles dramatically increase as they try to fill Gray’s shoes.

Ever since mid-January, Wells has seen her playing time increase from 14.3 to 23.2 minutes per game, allowing her to flourish at times, particularly in the Blue Devils’ February contest against then-No.11 North Carolina when she notched season-highs of 18 points and 31 minutes.

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W. BASKETBALL from page 11 she is more than equipped to do so, turning it over only 19 times in 20 games. The biggest concern facing Wells will be her consistency, as she has played six games this year in which she failed to score.

“I have to be able to come out nightby-night and play a full game,” she said.

“I can’t keep coming out some games having a good game, some games falling off, I have to be there every night.”

Wells has started the past eight games, which will make the transition much easier for her as the team moves on without Gray. With this increase in playing time, Wells will have to step up as a veteran leader with the team’s championship hopes hanging in the balance.

Jackson will look to be the Blue Devils’ new sixth man, as it is likely that junior shooting guard Tricia Liston will

M. BASKETBALL from page 11 Krzyzewski said. “A lot of times, big guys get worn out and they don’t have the conditioning. Mason has made a commitment to being in the ballgame for every play. He’s played heavy minutes.”

Virginia Tech’s wildcard may be freshman Marshall Wood. Having just returned from injury, Wood got his first meaningful action against N.C. State.

“He had a 14-point, 16 rebound performance and he was out-rebounding... pre-season player of the year C.J. Leslie and Richard Howell,” Johnson said. “For a young man to do that after being out for six weeks—to play the way he played, shooting in a hostile environment on the road, in my mind says a lot about that kid.”

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regain her spot as a starter with Gray out of the lineup now.

Jackson has been the most consistent player in her output, failing to score only twice in the 16 games she has played. Although she is not Duke’s most gifted scorer, Jackson will have to step up her production on the offensive end in order for the Blue Devils to remain effective. “[Gray] was a great offensive player. [I will] try to score, but I don’t think I could ever pass like her,” Jackson said. “She’s a terrific passer, but I’ll try to get assists because that’s what we need to win.”

The player who will be faced with the most daunting task is freshman Alexis Jones. She will have to take over as the Blue Devils’ new point guard. She is second in assists with 77, but has struggled with turning the ball over. She leads the team with 79 turnovers. former Blue Devil Phil Henderson behind it. Henderson was found dead Sunday from an apparent heart attack at the age of 44.

“Well, as a real gentle person, Phil, we’re so sad about his passing,” Krzyzewski said.

“He passed away in the Philippines over the weekend.... He’s a good guy, very talented player. But a gentle person, real gentle person and had a lot of talent.”

In this emotional backdrop, it will all boil down to how Duke can recover from its loss to the Terrapins and the grueling fourgame-stretch in 10 days.

“The story for my team is the fact that we are competing and we are doing a good job, in fact, a terrific job, and we have continued to win at a very high level without Ryan [Kelly],” Krzyzewski said. “The story isn’t that we lost. The story is how much we’ve won. My guys have done a terrific job in doing that.”

It will be a much more immersive role than what Jones said she originally imagined she would undertake as a freshman, as she will have to become the main distributor and court commander for the Blue Devils.

“This is a learning experience for me,” Jones said. “It’s more like an early start for me.”

Although losing Gray will hurt the Blue Devils, the team believes they can benefit from seeing certain roles increased. Jones, Wells and Jackson will focus on maturing quickly and learning on the fly.

“We’re definitely going to miss her on and off the court, but now I think that just means that everybody has to come into their own a little faster,” Wells said. “We have to grow up. We can’t keep relying on Chelsea and everyone just has to step up.”

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“I went to go see her, just to see how she’s doing. She looks like she’s holding up pretty well,” Jackson said. “I just told her, ‘I’m sorry, it’s the same thing that happened to me. Just keep your head up.’ It seems like she’s handling it pretty well.”

With Gray gone, many are predicting that the Blue Devils lack the ability to get past any of the top-caliber teams due the lack of court leadership and vision that Gray brought to the team. But Duke players are not even close to throwing in the towel on this season.

“Our season is a new beginning from now, so we’ll see where it goes from here,” Wells said.

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health more structure and institutional support as they navigate the field. The major’s capstone requirement, similar to the Bass Connections senior project, reflects the importance of applying knowledge without undervaluing its acquisition and interrogation.

Although we support the major’s creation, the Arts and Sciences Council should clearly state its criteria for determining whether global health should become a major. Duke’s pre-eminence in the field ensures that students will receive an excellent education in global health, but it is not a sufficient justification for the shift from certificate to major. If administrators rely on Duke’s success in a particular discipline as the

primary justification for establishing a major in that field, we fear that they will set a dangerous precedent, inviting the University to turn highly specialized fields into major areas of study. In the long run, the proliferation of niche majors may undermine Duke’s commitment to providing undergraduates with a comprehensive liberal arts education.

Some may consider global health to represent a niche field, but the structure of the proposed major limits overspecialization and promotes deep thinking. Although the study of global health may emphasize the practical use of knowledge over its disinterested pursuit, the field has developed a sizeable battery of questions and methodolo-

gies that has transformed it from a limited collection of practical concerns into an expansive discipline. Furthermore, the major integrates methods and approaches from a number of disciplines and, because students can only pursue global health as a second major, it forces students to take courses outside of the field.

Although its status as a comajor helps prevent overspecialization, we see no reason why global health should not become a standalone major after its three-year trial period. Several major programs at Duke, such as international comparative studies, draw from a variety of disciplines and methods with success, and we expect global health will do the same.

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e tell ourselves two important things about as given, why would N.C. and every other state in the education. country not offer in-state tuition to students of all The first thing we tell ourselves is that immigration statuses who meet other qualifications? education is a right. The great American myth is Twelve states—including red states like Texas and that we live in a meritocracy, where Kansas—do allow undocumented imall have an equal chance of success migrants who meet certain academic and our lot in life is determined by and residency requirements to get how hard we work. There is enorin-state tuition. In North Carolina, mous reason to doubt said myth, but undocumented high school students challenging the myth is nevertheless are in practice locked out by price difficult. For the well-off, challenging from receiving higher education. the myth would require admitting Out-of-state tuition is significantly that they are not, as they are prone to higher than in-state tuition. elena botella believe, morally superior to the poor.

We realize that it’s a good thing The worse-off have less power to chal- a rebirth of wonder for everyone in North Carolina if lenge the myth—but even when they a poor citizen can go to college— can, they may prefer to believe that if they just work that the expense to the state in the short run is a little bit harder, wealth awaits around the corner. outweighed many times over by the benefit in the Equal opportunity—which meaningfully translates long run. Those very same benefits accrue if a child into a right to education—is necessary to justify a so- wasn’t born in the United States but wants to live ciety in which some have a lot, and many have very and work in N.C. By failing to help the prospective little. In order for the myth of meritocracy to stay student to further his or her education, our state viable, rich and poor children must have the same deprives not only that student of opportunity but opportunities on paper, even if in practice their real also deprives itself of opportunity. If educating our choice set is quite different. A guidance counselor state’s residents has a positive return on investment, might actively approach a middle class student with it’s not especially meaningful to say our state can’t help on how to apply to colleges. If the same sort “afford” to do so, because if we take a long-term of information—albeit, cluttered by a lot of false or view, how can we afford not to make investments? useless information—is available on the Internet, Some fear that offering in-state tuition to unwe rest easy, saying that both students had “access.” documented students will make North Carolina a Often though, quantitative differences in access can “magnet” for the nation’s undocumented immibecome qualitative differences. grants. It would be more accurate to say that unThe second important thing we tell ourselves documented immigrants who place a high value on is that education is an investment. We know that the possibility on their children becoming upwardeducation generally increases a person’s earning ly mobile, well-educated and well-integrated mempower, which is good for that individual, but is also bers of the community might be drawn to North good for the state. North Carolina is relatively gen- Carolina should we pass such a policy. erous in its taxpayer subsidy per student enrolled in Many North Carolinian high-schoolers don’t the UNC and community college system—at $9,463 even realize until trying to apply to college that they per student per year, it ranks third nationally. De- were brought into the country unlawfully by their spite its comparative generosity, North Carolina parents. Almost everyone reading this newspaper can make its investment back through higher tax is lucky enough to have the opportunity of college. revenue if the student ends up working and living Think deeply and ask yourself: Is there a moral reafull-time in the state. Tax receipts are a concrete son why you deserve that opportunity when so many example of return on investment, but making it are denied it? Federal immigration reform may be possible for a student to go to college is likely to on the horizon—but tuition equality is an immedibenefit the state in other ways. More educational ate step North Carolina can take to create opportuopportunities should make that student physically nity and improve outcomes for all those in our state. healthier, more likely to raise children out of pov- All students deserve a chance to succeed. erty, more likely to fuel the state’s economic growth and more self-sufficient.

Elena Botella is a Trinity senior. Her column runs If we take these two things—one, that education every Thursday. You can follow Elena on Twitter @elis a right and two, that education is an investment— enabotella.

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n response to the Feb. 19 column, life with respect to my sexuality.

“I rise in flame,” let me first say: I And then something happened: I am sorry, Patrick. I was saddened came out at Duke. First, I was asked if and disheartened to hear of your ex- I was gay by a couple of my best friends perience as a gay man at in my fraternity. Scared, Duke. Institutions of highsweaty-palmed and afraid david rak er learning, and especially of rejection, I looked guest column a place like Duke, should them in the eyes and told offer the opportunity to them, “Yes.” I was immediexpress yourself and come of age with ately met with hugs and gratitude and excitement, freedom and dignity. The true friendship. Later, my “big brother” harassment you faced and the humilia- in my fraternity made it a point to tell a tion you endured will likely make you group of our brothers that it’s “no big a stronger person, but these are still deal” (in his special way). My coming obstacles alumni from my generation out engendered dialogue and an intihoped to eradicate. Obviously, even macy with my brothers and best friends with the passage of greater rights and that I never even knew was possible. increased relevance in pop culture, the Since college, many of us are still very work is far from over. close—I have been in their weddings, However, I think your article—while shared professional successes and sorpoignant—paints but one of the many rows, and watched their kids grow up. different experiences a student may As far as I can recall, I was only one have, and works against our ultimate of two out gay men in fraternities durgoal of making Duke a better place. ing my tenure at Duke. At some point Highlighting only homophobia can dis- I decided I owed it to myself, to others courage talented high school students around me and to the broader Duke from applying and current students community to be out and to help edufrom living openly. I offer a very differ- cate other students about what it is like ent picture of coming out at Duke. to be gay. I felt empowered by these I am a Duke alumnus from 2002. Dur- discussions, by the opportunity to view ing my time at Duke, Princeton Review firsthand the shifts in perceptions and labeled Duke as one of the most ho- attitudes—that homosexuality is not a mophobic schools, as you point out in choice and that I am very much like your article. However, my experience— them with respect to personal and prowhile mixed at times—was overwhelm- fessional goals, upbringing and a deingly positive and helped shaped the sire for love. person I became.

Now don’t get me wrong. I heard Unlike you, I was not out in high “f*g” plenty. A pledge once apologized school. I grew up in a moderately liberal, to me (very sincerely) for calling somemiddle- and upper-middle-class commu- thing “so gay.” Fraternity culture did not nity in New Jersey (insert jokes here), then generally foster the inclusion of just outside of New York City. I had a same-sex relationships. It was not until boyfriend (of sorts) my senior year, but years later that two of my pledge brothwe were not out and he was pretty much ers would come out after Duke. Playful the only gay person I knew well. (or sometimes less so) name-calling and I quickly retreated further into the being targeted as effeminate at times did closet my freshman year at Duke. Dur- hurt, although my heterosexual brothers ing that year, while I may have battled were not spared these attacks either. with my sexuality at times, I had withBut I did keep talking about it. I did out question the best experiences up to stand up for myself. I did have a signifithat point in my young life. I learned cant impact on so many whom I came new things every day in my academics, into contact with at Duke, and whom I but most of all I learned from my fel- have come to know since graduating. low students. I made best friends that And as a result, my fraternity did welwere unlike any I had before. I joined come a fellow male student as my date a fraternity. I went on Spring Break in to events. And I had the support netMexico with my new best friends. I was work and the comfort to be able to exon a constant high. perience something I had not yet known By my sophomore year, I realized before Duke—I fell in love with a man. this gay thing wasn’t going to go away.

In short, Duke proved to be the perAnd through the grace of God or fate fect place for me and a fertile ground or sheer luck, I made some wonderful to express myself and grow into a confriends outside of my fraternity who fident, proud and enriched, openly gay exposed me to the then-small popula- man. It began with a paper I wrote on tion of out, gay students at Duke. They the nature versus nurture debate on didn’t seem exactly like me then, but homosexuality for a freshman psycholthat was okay, and they were warm and ogy class. And it culminated my senior welcoming. Many are some of my best year with a professor asking me to speak friends to this day. with her son as he struggled with his While my experience was overwhelm- sexual identity. So, Patrick, Duke can be ingly positive, I can recall vividly my in- a nurturing, positive environment for ternal strife of wondering where I fit in. a gay man. I urge you (and all current I was an academic, leader and aspiring and prospective students) to keep talklawyer on the one hand, an Abercrom- ing and keep living with courage. You bie- and Lacoste-clad, fist-pumping, will have risen up from the flames just beer-bonging fraternity [insert exple- by doing so. tive here] on the other hand, and a be-tank-topped, gym-going, club kid on David Rak, Trinity ’02, is corporate yet another. My identity crisis was in full counsel for Apple Inc. and lives in San swing. And I did not enjoy living a dual Francisco.

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hen politics runs roughshod over to $9.00; however, for the large number of economics, we have a problem. In workers on the margin, the ones with less the Feb. 12 State of the Union ad- than $9.00 of marginal revenue productivdress, President Barack Obama announced ity, they now make $0. That is a far greater his intention to raise the loss than the $1.75 gained minimum wage. Anyone by the few. What is truly with a rudimentary underamusing is that the people standing of microeconomics with the most to lose from knows that minimum wage this policy advocate for it only works to deprive people with such blind fervor. But, of jobs that they otherwise I’ll save public choice theory would have had. This policy, for a future column. in effect, hurts the citizens Another pernicious and jonathan zhao who need a job the most— prevalent belief is that ecofree markets, and who also happen to be nomic protectionism somefree people the people pushing the most how serves our rational infor increased minimum terests. The general public wage. But that is only the beginning of many (and probably most Duke students) thinks economic fallacies that run pervasive among that by enacting legislation restricting forthe general population. People still cling to eign competition, we’re doing ourselves an archaic conception of protectionism or a favor. We’re not. Foreign competition, mercantilism. There is a belief that we must whether it is in goods or services, prevents safeguard American jobs or restrict foreign domestic monopolies and lowers prices for competition so as not to out-compete our consumers. Many opponents of free trade domestic industries. The very charge of argue that by protecting American busioffshoring when levied against a business nesses, we generate more American jobs. is anathematic kryptonite. These ideas are Those workers then pay back into the econwell intentioned but, as is usual with well- omy by consuming things. It is true that we intentioned things, lead to counterproduc- generate more jobs, but at a disproportiontive policies. As Adam Smith said, “I have ate loss of consumer welfare. Furthermore, never known much good done by those who these opponents are misguided in believing affected to trade for the public good.” Do- that buying things equates to greater ecogooders do no good. nomic welfare. Economic welfare is prediThe minimum wage laws in this country cated upon production, not consumption. work to disadvantage the most impoverished That’s why we measure the might of a counmembers of our society. From a theoretical try by gross domestic product, not gross dostandpoint, in any Econ 101 class in the na- mestic consumption. If we are importing a tion, students learn that any market with good, it means that some other nation has a constraining price floor leads to a short- a comparative advantage in production. age of the good in question. Rhetorically, it Instead of restricting cheaper goods, we may be nice and self-gratifying to proclaim should encourage them so that the general that we are bringing financial salvation to consumer pays lower prices. The workers the poor by raising the minimum wage. It’s who are laid off by domestic businesses that such a pity that facts and reason get in the lose out to cheaper, foreign competition way of rah-rah political banter. The reality should transfer to a line of work in which is that minimum wage laws increase unem- we have an advantage (i.e., producing airployment, particularly among young and planes). Likewise, businesses offshoring unskilled workers, who are largely the re- aspects of their production are simply trimcipients of minimum wages. In his speech, ming costs. These savings are then passed Obama states, “A full-time worker making on to consumers in a competitive market. the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Speaking of competitive markets, the best Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, way to prevent monopolies is to welcome a family with two kids that earns the mini- foreign competition. In practice, almost evmum wage still lives below the poverty line. ery monopoly is a result of government legThat’s wrong.” Great job using an appeal islation. Allow markets to be free, and they to emotion, Obama. As noted by The Wall will be competitive and efficient. Free trade Street Journal, the fact is that “the average doesn’t make sure everyone is a winner, in family income of a household with a mini- fact there will assuredly be losers, but the mum-wage worker is about $47,023—which average Joe is better off. is far above the poverty line of $23,550 for Public ignorance of economic reality a family of four.” In other words, minimum- translates to self-defeating policy through wage workers are generally a secondary or our democratic political process. The only tertiary source of household income. Eco- real solution is better public economic nomic analyses show that the losses of the education. Otherwise, we are eternally losers outweigh the gains of the winners damned to shooting ourselves in the foot in a market constrained by the minimum and enjoying it. wage, generating a net loss of economic welfare. It’s great that a small portion of Jonathan Zhao is a Trinity freshman. His workers have their wages raised from $7.25 column runs every other Thursday.

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KUNSHAN from page 1 2012. The increase was noted in a slideshow presented to Academic Council in February 2012. There was no mention of this increase to $8 million in the transcript of the council meeting.

Academic planning is a significant part of DKU’s operating costs, which Duke began funding in fiscal year 2012. Duke will pay about $38 million in operating costs over seven years, from fiscal year 2012 through DKU’s first few years in operation.

In fiscal year 2011-2012, Duke budgeted $2.7 million in operating costs, but it spent only $275,000 due to slowed progress on the project, Lange said. Some of these costs included hiring of administrative staff and advisors for DKU’s academic programming.

In fiscal year 2013, Duke expects to spend $2 million toward operations, though it budgeted $3.9 million. This money comes from a variety of sources, including the Office of Global Strategy and Programs’ strategic initiatives and programs fund.

Contributions are another source of funding for DKU’s operating costs. Jim Roberts, executive vice provost for finance and

COWAN from page 1 Cowan continues to be actively involved in Duke’s alumni affairs, serving as a mentor to dozens of students. “Of all the people I have known since graduation, Mo is one of the more active mentors I’ve ever met,� said Winston Henderson, Engineering ’90, Law ’96 and an at-large director of the Duke Alumni Association. “In Boston in particular, he has been involved with alums of color and people in general. There are not many minorities who

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administration and member of the future DKU board of directors, declined to comment on how much Duke has raised in gifts and donations dedicated to DKU to date. “There is some money in the bank, and foundations are being laid,� he said.

In the last year, faculty had been planning academic programs to debut Spring 2014, but when it became clear that only the conference center and a maintenance facility will be completed by then, the programs were pushed back. By the campus’ opening, administrators anticipate that the academic building as well as student and faculty residences will be ready for occupation. But it is unclear when the last building—the research center—will open.

Administrators and faculty leaders briefly considered hosting academic programs in the conference building in Spring 2014, said Global Priorities Committee Chair Jeff Vincent, Clarence F. Korstian professor of forest economics and management. Duke plans to host events in the conference center starting 2014.

Despite the construction delay, courses for DKU’s first semester will be approved by an Arts and Sciences Council commit-

tee on its original timeline. The committee will convene in March and make recommendations for programming approval soon after, said Council Chair Thomas Robisheaux, Fred W. Schaffer professor of history.

Robisheaux said he has encountered faculty with a wide array of responses to the latest delay and construction issues, but most faculty members are primarily concerned with transparency.

If the campus had opened in Spring 2014, the academic programming would have offered approximately six courses as part of a pilot program. DKU will offer a fuller course selection of about 12 courses in Fall 2014, Lange said.

Faculty can now choose whether to push back programming to Fall 2014 or Spring 2015, or they can rescind their projects.

Academic Council Chair Susan Lozier and Robisheaux said they had not yet heard of faculty looking to step back from their projects due to the delay. “To me, delays are inevitable,� Lozier said. “Lack of enthusiasm or lack of commitment is more worrisome.�

Duke still needs final establishment approval from the Chinese Ministry of Edu-

cation in order for DKU to offer independent degree programs and recruit students.

Duke received preliminary approval from the MOE in August 2012, after submitting its initial application in June 2011.

Administrators plan to submit the establishment approval packet by April, but there is no definitive timeline for a response from the MOE. Without MOE approval, Duke will only be able to offer non-degree programs conducted in partnership with any Chinese university. Many of the programs that faculty were hoping to launch in Spring 2014 could be carried out in conjunction with another university, like undergraduate study abroad, meaning they do not require final MOE approval.

Lange will speak to Academic Council Thursday regarding DKU. Lozier said she hopes Thursday’s meeting will provide a forum for administrators to be transparent with faculty members, noting that she believes that they have been transparent so far. “I want time for [faculty] to ask as many questions as they can,� said Lozier, RonieRichele Garcia-Johnson professor of physical oceanography. “For some people, it’s very abstract.�

have not been sent to Mo.�

Henderson explained that Cowan provided a source of connection, advice and grounding to those he builds relationships with. Henderson has been friends with Sen. Cowan since their undergraduate years at Duke. He said they have remained close both personally and professionally. “He is at the very least smart, passionate and a great communicator,� Henderson said. “Mo has a special way of fixing issues. People trust his analysis, ethics and judgement.�

Although former Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank lobbied publicly for Kerry’s

Senate seat, Gov. Deval Patrick appointed Sen. Cowan because of his experience as the governor’s chief of staff and chief legal counsel.

Cowan has worked in the Patrick administration since 2009. “Mo’s service on the front lines in our efforts to manage through the worst economy in 80 years and build a better, stronger Commonwealth for the next generation has earned him the respect and admiration of people throughout government,� Patrick said at a Jan. 30 press conference. “The people of the Commonwealth have benefited from his wisdom and good judgment during his time

in our office, and will again in the Senate.�

Sen. Cowan is the second black senator to serve from Massachussetts and is one of two currently active black senators. His appointment marked the first instance in Senate history of two black senators serving at one time.

Massachusetts will hold a special election June 25 to formally elect a senator to Kerry’s seat. Sen. Cowan has announced that he is not interested in pursuing the position and will not seek re-election in the April 30 primaries.

He currently lives in Stoughton, Massachusetts with his wife Stacy and their two sons.

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