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BOT elects Gates encourages graduates to connect Rubenstein as chair by Raisa Chowdhury THE CHRONICLE
Trustees discuss 2U and Duke Kunshan Uni by Danielle Muoio THE CHRONICLE
The Board of Trustees elected David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, as Board chair in its meeting this weekend. Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of private equity firm The Carlyle Group, is well known for his philanthropic support of the University, having donated over $50 million to the University. His most recent contribution to Duke was a $10 million donation to the Sanford School of Public Policy, announced Apr. 30. He has been on the board for eight years, and has spent the last two years serving as co-vice chair with Jack Bovender, Trinity ’67 and Graduate School ’69. Rubenstein’s term as chair is effective July 1. He will succeed Richard Wagoner, Trinity ’75, who has served as board chair since 2011. Wagoner’s term on the Board concludes at the end of the fiscal year. “I’ve been very impressed by his commitment to the University,” Wagoner said. “He’s a very open guy. I look forward to a great period for the Board of Trustees under his leadership.” Bovender and Susan Stalnecker, Trinity ’73, will serve as vice chairs of the board. Stalnecker is the first female to fill the role of vice chair, Rubenstein said. Neither Bovender nor Stalnecker could be reached for comment in time for publication. In addition to the election, the Board received updates on several University initiatives, including online education, Duke Kunshan University and DukeOpen. Under new leadership Rubenstein, who also serves as co-chair of the Duke Forward campaign, noted that his continuous dedication to serving the University both philanthropically and as a member of the Board stems from a desire to give back. Growing up in a household with parents that did not graduate from high school or college, Rubenstein needed considerable financial compensation to attend college. He noted that of all the universities he applied to, SEE BOT ON PAGE 7
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President Brodhead introduced the speakers, Barnhill and Gates, at Wallace Wade Sunday.
Caps flew as undergraduate, graduate and professional students celebrated their new degrees in Wallace Wade Stadium Sunday morning. Commencement speaker Melinda Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, an entrepreneur, former trustee and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, discussed the importance of connection for this year’s graduating class. She encouraged students to take advantage of new technologies to maintain connections with people and, in turn, take inspiration from those people to make a difference in the world. “Love is a part of healing, born out of a big idea, and that is the dignity of all people,” she said. “Of course not all of you are going to dedicate your whole life to eradicating poverty. That doesn’t mean you can’t form deep human connections or that your connections can’t make a difference in the world if you make the moral choice to connect deeply with others.” Although abstract conceptions of humanity and poverty are not enough to SEE COMMENCEMENT ON PAGE 16
Mobility limited by construction by Emma Baccellieri THE CHRONICLE
Widespread construction on roadways around campus is complicating transportation routes. As part of separate construction projects, portions of Campus Drive and West Main Street were closed following the end of the Spring semester. On May 13, the section of West Main Street along East Campus closed in order to accommodate the restoration of the Main Street bridge. Meanwhile, much of Campus Drive has been narrowed to one lane in order to allow for the replacement of water pipes. The construction does not currently affect bus routes. “Something like this never runs perfectly,” said Floyd Williams, project manager of the facilities management department, referring to the West Main Street construction. West Main Street is currently blocked off from Buchanan Boulevard to Swift Avenue, and vehicles are being diverted to
Duke University Bicyclist Appreciation Event May M 17, 8-10AM @ the Bryan Center plaza Duke Parking & Transportation Services and Sustainable Duke will be co-sponsoring a bicyclist appreciation event on Bike to Work Day to thank our bike commuters for helping to make Duke a more sustainable campus. Bike over to the Bryan Center on May 17 to meet other cyclists, learn more about Duke Bicycle Commuter Benefits, and enjoy breakfast and prize giveaways while they last.
alternate routes. “We’re watching the barricades we put up Monday—not everything’s been exactly what we were anticipating, we’re working daily to try to improve the barricade situation,” Williams said. The construction is a North Carolina Department of Transportation project rather than a Duke project, Williams noted. The only part of the construction funded by the University was the rebuilding of the stone wall surrounding East Campus. The West Main Street construction is scheduled to be completed in October and will result in an entirely new bridge— slightly longer and taller than the current one, which was built in 1950. “It’s aging out—not to a dangerous point—but we want to go ahead and replace it,” Williams said. The demolition of the bridge will take place from May 27 to June 14 and will SEE ROAD WORKS ON PAGE 7
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Several roads around campus are currently being worked on which could complicate the bus routes.
Duke University Bicycle Commuter Course May 18, 1-4PM @ 123 Old Chemistry Building Duke Parking & Transportation Services will be hosting a bicycle commuter course on Saturday, May 18 to equip bicyclists with the information you need to become a regular bike commuter. The course will cover basic bike maintenance and repair, NC bike laws, safe biking tips and techniques, how to carry gear and equipment, and an on-bike campus tour. Please bring a bike and helmet. To register, email alison.carpenter@duke.edu.
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What’s going on at Duke and in Durham? Events calendar Summer at Duke poses certain challenges: it’s hot and we have a lot of free time, but what is there to do? For those of you interested in venturing forth from campus into Durham and the Triangle, there are cultural riches just waiting to be discovered. To help jumpstart this process of discovery, The Chronicle’s Julian Spector has compiled a selection of enticing local events to explore this weekend.
mer heat. Screenings begin Friday and continue throughout the week. See http://www. carolinatheatre.org/films for showtimes.
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Titus Andronicus, a New Jersey rock band famous for its Civil War-inflected punk, will be letting loose at Motorco at 9 p.m. The price is right at $10, in advance. Having seen this band in a packed church basement in Washington, D.C., I can vouch for their intense and infectious live energy. Motorco’s intimate setting promises to be a good fit for the band.
Thursday: For those of you reveling in our long-awaited warm weather, why not celebrate with a centennial performance of Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring? Well, you’re in luck, because the North Carolina Symphony is doing just that Thursday at 8 p.m. at Memorial Hall over at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. When the piece debuted in Paris in May 1913, its jarring dissonance and pagan rituals led to a violent uproar in the packed audience. It remains to be seen whether the Chapel Hill crowd gets as rowdy.
Saturday: The 44th annual Bimbé Cultural Arts Festival is returning to downtown Durham’s CCB Plaza from noon to 8 p.m. The celebration of African and African American culture will include, food, crafts and musical headliner Naughty By Nature, a Grammywinning old-school hip hop group.
Friday: Artsplosure Art Festival in Raleigh: If you’re looking for a post-industrial vehicular opera, life-sized chess games or a master sand-sculptor at work, then this is the event for you. The festival will take over downtown Raleigh this weekend with its eponymous “explosion” of arts “exposure,” including craft fairs, plenty of live music and other special events, like the Squonk Opera’s
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GO Roadshow, which presents a musical show atop an artfully decorated monster truck. See artsplosure.org for more details on events and times. A retrospective series of the films of Alfred Hitchcock will be screening at the Carolina
Theater starting Friday. Just head down Main Street to our home-town cinema to catch such classics of suspense as Vertigo, North By Northwest, Psycho and some lesser known titles. Notably, the Carolina Theater serves draft beer along with popcorn and candy, making for a refreshing refuge from the sum-
Sunday: If you missed it on the preceding two days, catch the Zoppé Italian Family Circus at the Duke Energy Center in downtown Raleigh. They have a noon and 3pm show Sunday, so enjoy a matinee full of old-world fun with performing dogs, equestrian feats, and the acrobatic comedy of Nino, the Clown Prince of Italy.
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Q&A with Melinda Gates Melinda Gates, Trinity ’86 and Fuqua ’87, visited campus last weekend to deliver the commencement speech and receive an honorary degree. A former member of the Board of Trustees, Gates is an entrepreneur and cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which aims to improve health outcomes and eliminate poverty in developing countries. Through the years, Gates has helped fund University initiatives such as DukeEngage, University Scholars and the construction of the French Family Science Center. The Chronicle’s Raisa Chowdhury talked to Gates before commencement to discuss her relationship with Duke, her philanthropy and her daily life.
woman, philanthropist and activist, along with being a mother, how do you balance it all? MG: For any woman balancing those things it is difficult, so it’s a day-byday decision and also a week-by-week, month-by-month decision…. I’m super passionate about my family but I’m also passionate about global health. My children are a little bit older now. They’re in elementary, middle and high school
now. I’m also lucky that I have great care at home so I can be gone like this and know that they’ll be ok and that’s a nice situation to be in. TC: How have you found your interests and navigated your path? MG: Well, Bill and I took our first trip in the fall of 1993 into Africa and we went to see the animals and the savannah, but what really captured us—I
The Chronicle: What are your thoughts so far on being back at Duke this weekend? Melinda Gates: It’s really fun to see so many students and parents excited about their journey through Duke and so it’s really fun to be back at Duke again. TC: Why have you maintained a relationship with your alma mater over the year? MG: Duke is an incredible institution and I was lucky to go here. I got a great education here. For any university to stay on the cutting edge, it requires alums to remain involved with the University. I was on the Board of Trustees and I was also involved through the University Scholars program and DukeEngage. TC: As an accomplished business-
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Former Duke student Melinda Gates, Trinity ‘86 and Fuqua ‘87, speaks to students about the importance of communication at Commencement Sunday.
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Wangechi Mutu A Fantastic Journey On view through July 21, 2013 The Nasher Museum presents the most comprehensive and innovative exhibition yet for this internationally renowned, multidisciplinary artist. nasher.duke.edu/mutu 2001 Campus Drive | Durham, NC 27705 | 919-684-5135 | nasher.duke.edu ABOVE: Wangechi Mutu, Family Tree (detail), 2012. Suite of 13, mixed-media collage on paper, 16.25 x 12.25 inches (41.28 x 31.12 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Trent Carmichael (T’88, P’17), Blake Byrne (T’57), Marjorie and Michael Levine (T’84, P’16), Stefanie and Douglas Kahn (P’11, P’13), and Christen and Derek Wilson (T’86, B’90, P’15). Image courtesy of Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. © Wangechi Mutu.
mean it was beautiful—but what really captured us were the people. I mean, what’s really going on here? We were in what now is the [Democratic Republic of the Congo], it was Zaire then and there were street blocks...[where] the men would be wearing shoes and the women wouldn’t, and the men would be smoking and the women wouldn’t, and women would have a baby in their belly or on their back and so [I got started] asking questions [about] that. It just led us on a learning journey. How do you create a catalytic change that really affects people’s lives? I’ve made many, many trips around the world sitting down with women and learning what women might need to lift themselves up and their families. TC: Some students have said that having you here to speak to students, is a “step forward for women at Duke.” Any thoughts on that? MG: As I travel around the world and I see gender inequity and I see things that women need around the world, it’s really made me ask myself the question—how far have women come in the United States? For me, the answer is not far enough. We need to see more companies headed by women and more philanthropies headed by women. So, part of what I do as a woman is show that Bill and I are equal co-chairs and show that when I think about my daughters in the SEE GATES ON PAGE 16
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Safety board suggests lower Light rail may improve Duke-Durham connections drunken-driving limit by Elizabeth Djinis THE CHRONICLE
A light rail connecting Durham and Orange counties is scheduled to be completed over the next 12 years. The track— proposed by Triangle Transit—will contain three stops bordering the University’s campus. The stops will cater to various campus hubs, with one stop located on Erwin Road serving Duke Hospital, one on LaSalle St close to Science Drive, and one on Ninth Street near East Campus. The train track will begin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical Campus and end at North Carolina Central University. The idea came about through a joint effort between the metropolitan training organization of Durham, Chapel Hill, and Carrboro, and Triangle Transit, an organization devoted to facilitating transportation within the region. Notifying the public this early may lead to increased growth in anticipation of the light rail, said David King, general manager and CEO of Triangle Transit. “Everybody who lives around here knows this service won’t be in place for another dozen years,” King said. “All of the development that will transpire over the next 10 or 15 years will at least have the benefit [for Durham residents] of knowing that this technology is coming.” Although plans have not been finalized, Sam Veraldi, director of Duke Parking, Housekeeping and Transportation, said he has been in conversations with officials to
determine the University’s role in the light rail’s progression. He noted that the light rail has the potential to pave the way for increased student exploration of nearby Durham locations that many students have not been exposed to in the past. “Today it’s a little bit more difficult to navigate getting there, but if [the light rail] gives people the opportunity to... go all the way up from Durham to Wake Forest, [students can] do things outside of the Duke community and it gives them flexible and easy access,” Veraldi said. Currently, there are several transportation options affiliated with the University that students can use for travel to off-campus destinations, Veraldi said. He cited the Bull City connector and chartered buses used by student groups as examples. Sophomore Eleanor Mehlenbacher, a native of Wake County, said that students could use the light rail as an opportunity to enjoy other university campuses, as well. “If [students] ride it with friends, it becomes a fun kind of group experience and not just casually taking a train to another city,” Mehlenbacher said. “For example, [you could] go party at UNC Wilmington and then take the train back.” She said that the light rail would be more convenient than the Robertson Bus, which runs between Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, if the rail had more flexible operating hours. SEE RAIL ON PAGE 6
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States should lower the definition of drunken driving to a blood-alcohol reading of no more than .05 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday, saying the United States is too tolerant of impairment behind the wheel. The safety board at a hearing in Washington said the U.S. is behind other countries, including most of Europe, in having a threshold for drunken driving of .08 in all 50 U.S. states. The risk of a crash at a .05 reading is half what it is at .08, the board said. “It’s frustrating that with the education and advocacy, with laws and enforcement and with the many processes set up to deal with the problem of drinking and driving, that we are still seeing so many lives lost,” NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said at the hearing. About one-third of U.S. traffic deaths are related to alcohol, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. The safety board is an advisory body with no authority to make laws or regulations. It issues recommendations to states and U.S. agencies. Each state sets its own driving laws, including defining drunken driving, though Congress has given past safety-board recommendations teeth by tying their adoption to federal highway funds. The difference between .08 and .05 is
one to two mixed drinks, glasses of wine or 12-ounce beers over three hours, depending on gender and body size. A 180-pound man could consume four drinks in three hours before reaching .05, and a 140-pound woman could have three drinks over the same time period, according to charts prepared by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Education and Wellness. The number of people killed on U.S. roads rose in 2012 following six consecutive years of declines. Crash fatalities rose 5.3 percent to 34,080 from a year earlier, NHTSA reported May 3 using preliminary numbers. Lowering the limits for what defines drunken driving drew opposition from an alcoholic-beverage and restaurant industry group, which had spoken out against an earlier NTSB recommendation that states require ignition interlocks for people convicted even once of drunken driving. The American Beverage Institute argued the U.S. previously decided .08 would be a safe limit for driving, and said lawmakers and regulators would be better off focusing on highly intoxicated drivers and repeat offenders. “This recommendation is ludicrous,” Sarah Longwell, the group’s managing director, said in an emailed statement. “Moving from .08 to .05 would criminalize perfectly responsible behavior. Further restricting the moderate consumption of alcohol by responsible adults prior to driving SEE DRIVING ON PAGE 6
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Missed graduation? Check out the photos! ....................................................................................................................................................................................................a photo essay by Victoria Powers, Elysia Su
An undergraduate student walks along the track during Sunday morning’s commencement ceremony in Wallace Wade Stadium (1). A Pratt School of Engineering student stands as his school is called during commencement (2). Graduating students and professors attend Baccalaureate Services, held in the Duke Chapel. The services were highlighted by a sermon by Luke Powery, Dean of the Chapel, and the President’s Charge by Richard Brodhead (3 & 4).
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DRIVING from page 4 does nothing to stop hardcore drunken drivers from getting behind the wheel.” The Washington-based group doesn’t disclose the names of its 8,000 members. The NTSB also doesn’t have the support of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, which supports developing technology to prevent cars from starting when a driver is intoxicated, requiring ignition interlocks for first-time drunken driving offenders and using sobriety checkpoints to enforce existing laws. “This is one approach,” J.T. Griffin, senior vice president of public policy for the group, said in an interview. “We feel our approach has the opportunity to save more lives.” Safety board recommendations have led to changes in driving laws across the U.S. In 1982, it recommended raising states’ drinking ages to 21 and later supported a push to get states to lower the drunken-driving limit from .10 to .08. Lawmakers first enticed states to make both changes with financial incentives and later, for those that hadn’t done so already, penalties. Utah in 1983 became the first state to lower its limit to .08, with the last states not falling in line until 2004. The percentage of highway deaths attributed to alcohol impairment fell from 48 percent in 1982 to 31 percent in 2011, according to NTSB data. The board also recommended that law enforcement increase the use of passive alcohol-sensing devices during traffic stops to detect drunken drivers who might pass field sobriety tests. The devices cost about $600, according to the NTSB, and can detect alcohol in a person’s breath without requiring blowing into a machine. They’re made by PAS
Systems International, based in Fredericksburg, Va. The NTSB called for increasing administrative seizures of licenses for drivers found to be drunk behind the wheel or who refuse a field sobriety test. Such seizures, already legal in most states, allow law enforcement to take a license in a way that’s easier for a driver to re-obtain it than when it’s suspended through a criminal proceeding. The safety board has previously recommended accelerating development of technology installed in vehicles that can passively detect alcohol through touch on the steering wheel or through breath inside a vehicle. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, whose members include General Motors and Toyota, is working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop the technology, which the NTSB has said should be offered as an option in cars
RAIL from page 4 “Usually I’m hesitant to go over to Chapel Hill without a car because the Robertson bus only goes over until midnight,” Mehlenbacher said. “Maybe I would party at Chapel Hill if I knew there was a reliable way of transporting myself back and forth [later at night].” Veraldi noted that in the future, the light rail may expand its track further to include Wake County. However, before being added to the official plans, Wake County must vote on a half-cent sales tax increase intended to fund the construction of the Wake County portion of the rail. In 2011 and 2012, respectively, Durham and Orange counties voted to approve equivalent taxes.
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BOT from page 1 Duke was the most financially generous, giving him a full-ride through financial aid, loans and work study. “I’ve always been indebted to Duke,” he said. “It’s my general view that if you get fortunate in life with material resources you should give back…. Since Duke was very good for me, it’s one of the places I like to help out when I can.” A person can serve on the Board for a total of 12 years in any capacity. Rubenstein has served on the Board for eight years, giving him a total of four years to serve as chair. He noted that the Board has diversified since he first joined. “The Board used to consist of all white males,” he said. “Today, it’s pretty much split evenly by gender and it has a fair amount of diversity in other ways as well. It’s good for the University to get many different types of input from different backgrounds.” In his time as chairman, Rubenstein hopes to continue seeing the Trustees work together “in unison.” He added that since he’s been on the Board, he has never seen the members vote— decisions are always made by consensus. “The Board is not divided as some university boards that have big splits,” he said. “This Board works very collegially. It’s a pleasure to sit through the board meetings.” Rubenstein added that he also hopes to see the men’s and women’s basketball teams win NCAA tournaments during his time as Board chair. University updates Provost Peter Lange discussed online education with the Board in the aftermath of the Arts and Sciences Council voting down forcredit online courses.
The Arts and Sciences Council vote broke a pre-existing contract with internet education company 2U, which entered the University as a partner in the company’s Semester Online consortium of schools. Prior to the vote, neither the decision to pursue online courses for credit nor the decision to sign with 2U was voted on by any faculty body or committee. Lange said the discussion with the Board was brief. They discussed why the issue was voted down and how administrators will follow-up on the matter in the Fall. He said the outcome of the faculty vote was in large part a result of timing. “The intense opposition came up very late and we had to get a vote by the end of the semester if we were going to start in the Fall, so things got kind of squeezed,” Lange said. “As a result we weren’t really able to talk through all the issues with people who were so intensely opposed and the vote went against us. It was really low key.” He added that administrators still plan on moving forward with Semester Online, but did not specify in what capacity. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said the Board also had a “wide-ranging” conversation with Mary Bullock, executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, about the status of DKU. “The application for establishment approval, which is the second part of the two-step process, has been submitted to the Ministry of Education,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email Sunday. “We expect the approval will be forthcoming in time to meet the planned opening of the University in 2014.” DKU’s opening has been delayed five times, and now is set to open in Fall 2014. The Board is confident that the campus will open at that time, Wagoner said. He added that the Board also discussed DukeOpen, a new student coalition advocat-
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ing for greater endowment transparency. DukeOpen created a proposal in early April asking the Board to make periodic reports to the Duke community about how the University’s money is being directed. The coalition intended for the proposal to be presented at this weekend’s Board meeting, but it was directed to the President’s Special Committee on Investment Responsibility. President Richard Brodhead discussed DukeOpen with the Board, Wagoner said, adding that the Board should hear back from the Committee during its next meeting in September. “People are aware of the topic and are awaiting input from this committee,” Wagoner said. Brodhead could not be reached for comment in time for publication. In other business The Trustees also approved the capital budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, which anticipates a 4.6 percent increase in undergraduate financial aid to $132 million. This follows the Board’s announcement in February that the cost of undergraduate tuition will increase 3.9 percent. “Frankly, because of the economic downturn, we’ve had more financial aid costs,” Wagoner said. Schoenfeld noted that financial aid is always increasing at a higher rate than tuition because the number of students applying and qualifying for financial aid has increased. Executive Vice President and Treasurer Tallman Trask noted that the rate of financial aid increase is less than it was a few years ago. He does not foresee it leveling off any time soon, he said. The Trustees also approved the University’s operating budget for the 2013-2014 fiscal year, totaling $2.1 billion—the same as last year.
ROAD WORKS from page 1 result in the closure of Campus Drive under the bridge, Williams noted. This closure will require the C-2 bus routes to be diverted. The current roadwork on Campus Drive is a result of crews installing new chilled water pipes underground. Much of the sidewalk has been closed, and scores of orange traffic cones line the street, punctuated by bulldozers and construction workers. In order to transition from a two-lane road to a one-way street, four temporary stoplights have been added. The change in traffic flow has resulted in several near-accidents, said construction worker Rochelle Murchison—an employee of Mid-Atlantic Construction, the company conducting the project. A particularly problematic situation arose on Tuesday, when vehicular flow around the traffic circle was reversed, Murchison said.
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Grayson Allen is “almost over-competitive.” “My parents were worried about me being too competitive as a kid,” said Allen, Duke’s first commit in the class of 2014. Even getting an offer from the Blue Devil coaching staff was a competition of sorts—battling against expectations. As a freshman, he told his head coach Jim Martin at the Providence School in Jacksonville, Fla. that Duke was his dream school. Back then, though, Allen was still relatively unknown and only receiving offers from nearby mid-majors such as South Florida and Georgia Southern. “He was not at that time a Duke player,” Martin said. A 6-foot-4, 185-pound guard, Allen has always had the athleticism to excel in a backcourt. The aspect of his game that needed work—shooting. And Allen worked on his game and slowly began to receive attention from larger programs. After Allen’s sophomore season, with Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski along with assistants Chris Collins and Steve Wojciechowski at the Olympics, Martin cold called then-special assistant Nate James. Martin told James that he had to take a look at him, which he agreed to do
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Duke commit Grayson Allen is the Blue Devils second commit from Florida since 1999. at that summer’s Boo Williams event. “That guy’s good,” James told Martin. “He can play.” Allen has continued that improvement throughout his junior season, developing into a dangerous combo guard who sits at No. 36 in ESPN’s class of 2014 rankings.
Although a number of top schools had made offers to Allen in his junior year, and Krzyzewski had yet to, “Duke was always the school to beat,” Martin said. “Growing up Duke became my favorite team to watch,” Allen said. “I don’t know SEE ALLEN ON PAGE 11
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Duke needs a good deal of help to secure the ACC Tournament’s eighth and final spot—but first, the team needs to close the regular season with three wins against a dangerous N.C. State squad. The Blue Devils (26-26, 9-18 in the No. 5 ACC) would need to NCST sweep the No. 5 Wolfvs. pack (39-13, 16-10) this weekend at the Duke Durham Bulls Athletic Park to keep their THURSDAY, 6 p.m. postseason hopes DBAP alive. For Duke to secure the last spot in the ACC Tournament field, Miami must also be swept by Georgia Tech, Wake Forest must lose at least one game to Virginia Tech and Maryland must lose at least one game to a cellar-dwelling Boston College squad that boasts a 3-23 ACC record. Duke’s three tilts with N.C. State are scheduled for 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday. “Each game is an elimination game,” Duke head coach Chris Pollard said. “If we lose, we are not going to make the tournament. Therefore, we have to look at each game as a must-win and we’re going to do what we have to do to get to the next game.” The Blue Devils are fresh off a 12-2
Duke forward Josh Hairston underwent successful surgery to repair ligament damage in his right thumb Tuesday. The rising senior is expected to be sidelined for six to eight weeks, but the injury should not impact his availability for the beginning of the 2013-14 season. Hairston suffered the injury in a February practice before Duke’s 83-81 road loss to Maryland Feb. 16. He did not miss any of the Blue Devils’ games, playing with tape on his injured thumb. In his first game since the injury, Hairston scored 11 points. The 6-foot-7, 240-pound forward averaged 2.6 points and 2.1 rebounds per game, making six starts last season. He also led the Blue Devils in charges taken with 21. Hairston, a Fredricksburg, Va. native, is expected to compete for the final spot in Duke’s starting lineup for next season. Point guard Quinn Cook, shooting guard Rasheed Sulaimon and forwards Rodney Hood and Jabari Parker are likely to be four of the Blue Devils’ five starters, and with the team in need of another presence down low, Hairston is likely to compete with Amile Jefferson and Marshall Plumlee for the final starting spot. Plumlee also recently had offseason surgery to repair a stress fracture in his left foot and will be out of action for another 8-12 weeks. The decision of Memphis transfer Tarik Black, who visited Duke earlier this week, could also impact Hairston’s role on the team next season. Hairston was the fourth member of the Blue Devils’ 2012-13 squad to have surgery this offseason. In addition to Plumlee, Ryan Kelly and Seth Curry both underwent surgeries in April to repair injuries that nagged them throughout Duke’s 30-6 campaign.
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Lefty Trent Swart will square off with N.C. State’s Carlos Rodon Friday in a battle of the teams’ aces. victory against UNC-Greensboro Tuesday in which the team pounded out 17 hits. Pollard said his team has solved some of its issues at the plate, and Duke’s ability to put runs on the board will be crucial in a must-win series. “We did a very, very good job with our situational offense against UNC-Greens-
boro,” Pollard said. “I feel good about the way we swung the bat the last four games.” But the Wolfpack have one of the deepest pitching staffs in the ACC. It is headlined by sophomore lefty Carlos Rodon, SEE BASEBALL ON PAGE 11
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Duke forward Josh Hairston will miss six to eight weeks after having surgery on his right thumb.
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what in particular made me gravitate towards them as a kid. I think it’s just the winning nature of it. I’m so competitive.” There was never a guarantee Allen would get an offer. The Blue Devils rarely recruit out of Florida— Austin Rivers was the first Blue Devil to come from the Sunshine State since 1999. Allen never paid attention to that, though. When local news anchors told Allen he was Krzyzewski’s first commit out of Jacksonville, he thought it was “pretty crazy.” So when Krzyzewski, Wojciechowski and assistant Jeff Capel came for their in-home visit in mid-April, he was prepared for their offer. In a recruiting scene filled with drawn-out decisions and speculation-propelled rumors mills, it took Allen nine days to accept and become the first member of Duke’s 2014 recruiting class. “Having that [meeting] solidified that Coach K is a great guy, normal guy, funny guy and he’s cool to talk with. Having all that sums it up for me,” Allen said. “In that meeting, the big thing was me being comfortable with the coaches.” Allen competed at the Nike EYBL session in Dallas last weekend-—his first time on the AAU circuit since he committed to Duke—-and showed why he is such an up-and-comer. The shooting guard showed off his efficiency from all over the floor against some of the top high school talent in the nation. Despite coming off the bench, Allen averaged 18.3 points per game while leading his team Each 1 Teach 1 to a 4-0 record. That included a 28-point victory against Howard Pulley, led by Tyus Jones—a Duke target and the No. 1 guard in the class of 2014. During the course of the weekend, Allen made 68 percent of his shots and 73 percent of his 3-pointers. Maybe such savvy shooting is why Allen said he feels most comfortable playing off the ball, even though he can play both guard positions. The improvement in Allen’s shot has made him a once-in-a-score player in Martin’s eyes. “In my 20 years of coaching, I’ve seen great athletes who are really good basketball players, but their shot is just okay. And I’ve seen the guys who can fill it up but aren’t great athletes,” Martin said. “Grayson is the first guy I’ve seen in 20 years now that can absolutely do both.” Allen’s competitive character also demonstrates itself off the court, where he had his most recent contest. After finishing up in Dallas, he returned home for a more democratic showdown—student government elections. With a 4.4 GPA, Allen places a strong emphasis on academics. He noted that every school that extended him a scholarship offer has an elite basketball program, but the Duke education stood out. Like he worked and earned his offer from the Blue Devil staff, Allen won in his race for vice president. “He wants to be the best, wants to take on the best,” Martin said. “He has a purpose behind everything he does.”
who is 7-2 with a 3.84 ERA on the season and leads Division I with 13.39 strikeouts per nine innings. N.C. State has a number of weapons out of the bullpen as well, including senior Chris Overman, who has not allowed an earned run in 16 appearances this season, and fifth-year senior Grant Sasser, who is 3-0 with a 1.29 ERA in 27 games. “Their bullpen has compensated for the fact that they’ve gotten some short starts over the last few weeks, and they’ve been able to hold the games close and give their offense a chance to get back in it,” Pollard said. “They’ve got several relievers that are tough to score on, so I think it’s important to score early.” The Wolfpack also pack some pop at the plate. Shortstop Trea Turner ranks in the top 15 in the country with a .400 batting average and has driven in 36 runs this season. First baseman Tarran Senay leads N.C. State with 48 RBIs on the year. Pollard said Robert Huber will take the mound Thursday for the Blue Devils to open the series. Hu-
ber started Duke’s game against Virginia last Sunday, but allowed five runs in 1.1 innings and threw just 40 pitches. Starting Huber Thursday night will allow staff ace Trent Swart to pitch in his usual Friday night slot. Swart allowed just two earned runs in eight innings of work against the Cavaliers in his last start and will have the task of dueling Rodon. Freshman Michael Matuella will wrap up the series Saturday for Duke, though Pollard alluded to the fact that Matuella could be utilized in relief Thursday or Friday if the Blue Devils are in a tight spot. In addition to an outside shot at the ACC Tournament, this weekend presents the Blue Devils with an opportunity to clinch a winning record in Pollard’s first season at the helm. If Duke takes at least two of three games from N.C. State, it will finish with a winning record for the first time since 2010. “We all feel like this program has taken a huge step in the right direction this year, and I think a winning record would help validate that,” Pollard said. “But if we win the games we need to win this weekend, our record will take care of itself.”
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The unpredictable nature of NCAA Tournament play teaches a team to be prepared for just about anything. Except unexpected childbirths. On Monday, the ninth-seeded Blue Devils (24-5) boarded a plane to Champaign, Ill. where they will take on No. 8 Kentucky (22-11) in the Round of 16 of the NCAA Tournament. But they did so without head coach Ramsey Smith. While the team was on its way to the airport, Smith was on his way to the No. 8 Duke Birthing Center where he and his UK wife, Kathleen Smith, welcomed a newvs. born baby girl into the world. No. 9 “It’s not the most ideal timing Duke in the middle of NCAAs, but it is what it is,” Smith said. “Now [assisTHURSDAY, 8 p.m. Kahn Tennis Center tant coach Jonathan] Stokke is in charge.” With Stokke at the helm, the Blue Devils and Wildcats will square off Thursday at 8 p.m. at Kahn Outdoor Tennis Center. Following back-to-back 4-0 sweeps against Coastal Carolina and UNC-Wilmington last weekend, Smith said he is confident the team will be prepared for a tight match against Kentucky. He feels that his squad has made some important strides in their games since the ACC Tournament and are more motivated than ever to compete at a high level against the top teams in the country. “Losing to Wake Forest in the semifinals was a bit of a wakeup call for us,” Smith said. “Right now we’re underdogs, but I
think we’re on track.” Playing in the SEC, a conference that is stocked with tennis talent, the Wildcats have a lot of experience competing against top-25 teams this season. Smith noted that if the Blue Devils play like they have nothing to lose, they will fare well against higher-ranked teams. Senior Henrique Cunha will put his undefeated singles record on the line once again against Kentucky, when the No. 9 singles player in the country takes on fifth-ranked Anthony Rossi. No. 23 Tom Jomby will play in the second singles spot for the Wildcats, and should pose a challenge for 43rd-ranked Fred Saba. Since the ACC Tournament, Duke has started to implement what Smith calls “small group practices” in an effort to give the players more for individualized attention in preparation for NCAA competition. The tactic appeared to pay off in the Blue Devils’ first- and second-round matches, in which their singles and doubles players defeated their opponents with relative ease. “Our practices have been more efficient, which seems to have made the biggest difference” Smith said. “We’ve been focusing a lot more on doubles as well and I think that’s going to be important for the rest of the tournament.” If the Blue Devils advance past Kentucky, they could move on to face No. 1 UCLA in the quarterfinals. But Smith says that in the past, the team has succeeded when playing the role of the underdog. “It takes a little bit of pressure off the guys,” Smith said. “After winning those two matches to make it to the Round of 16, the guys can play a bit littler looser and just go after it and whatever happens, happens.”
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Blue Devils hope to claim Tempe Regional by Michael Schreiner THE CHRONICLE
With four regular season wins and a league title already under its belt, Duke needs to stay hot this week in the desert to keep its season alive. The No. 7 Blue Devils will tee it up in Tempe, Ariz. Thursday through Saturday for the NCAA Tempe Regional at the par-70 ASU Karsten Golf Course. Duke, seeded behind only UCLA in the 14-team regional tournament, needs a top-five finish to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships in Atlanta later this month. “Expectations are very high,” Duke head coach Jamie Green said. “We are tied for first at the National Championship, and that is the way we want to approach [this week].” At the ACC Tournament last month, Green’s Blue Devils set a school record with a 25-under-par 839 that gave Duke its first ACC title since 2005. Individually, senior Adam Sumrall earned a fifth-place finish, fellow seniors Brinson Paolini and Julian Suri ended the tournament tied for seventh, and junior Austin Cody and freshman Mads Soegaard finished in a tie for 17th. That lineup was also responsible for one of the team’s four
regular season victories when it took home the Hootie at Bulls Bay Intercollegiate title in March. Green has brought the same five players to Arizona for the Regional. “I’m not saying I would never mix up a winning lineup, but in this case we had everyone contributing,” Green said. “Everybody is playing well, and [we are] going into this week with a lot of confidence.” Since completing final exams shortly after the ACC Tournament, the Blue Devil squad has been somewhat scattered, with some players staying in Durham for golf and graduation, others heading home to practice or compete in regional qualifiers for the U.S. Open and a few doing a combination of the two. While only Paolini made it through the first round of U.S. Open Qualifiers, Green noted that simply competing in the qualifiers will help prepare his team for this week. “[Playing in a qualifier] kind of helps their planning and their preparation, and I think they are coming in here sharp,” Green said. “It’s not as if they haven’t played any competitive golf or they haven’t worked on their game—they’ve definitely
stayed on top of it.” With the exception of Cody, the team also enters this week with experience on the Karsten course that will host the Tempe Regional, as four out of the five Blue Devils competing this week played in Duke’s match against Grand Canyon University on the course in March. While the course played as a par-72 for that match and will likely feature longer rough and quicker greens this week, Green says the familiarity with the layout will help his team score. “It’s there for the taking,” Green said. “It’s not a golf course that is going to overwhelm you…. Other than a few shots that include some water hazards, it’s definitely a golf course that’s scorable.” Duke’s five victories this season set a program record and will be facing three other ranked teams—No. 4 UCLA, No. 15 Georgia and No. 22 Texas A&M—in a field that features four conference champions.
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ast week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) three main considerations—the short duration added to her reputation as a populist her- of these loans, their collateral requirements and oine when she brought her first piece of the perceived credit-worthiness of the banks—the stand-alone legislation to the Senate floor. The Fed can consider these agreements to be relatively bill, which she calls the “Bank on risk-free. Students Loan Fairness Act,” aims To put it simply, the Federal Reto drastically reduce the interest rate serve’s discount window interest attached to federal student loans. It rates remain relatively low due in would force the government to lend part to a high level of confidence to students at the same low rate it that the loans will be repaid. But sometimes offers to major investare there really any similar lowment banking institutions, appealing risk indications when it comes to to supporters of federal student loans the case of the federal student Chris Bassil and skeptics of the financial industry loan program? Is there anything at alike. all to suggest that federal student human action The BSLFA appears just weeks beloans are equally likely to be refore the interest rate on federal stupaid in full and on time? Student dent loans was set to double from its current rate loans, after all, differ from the discount window of 3.4 percent to the former rate of 6.8 percent. loans in essentially all of the most important ways. Warren’s bill, however, would reduce that rate First of all, they are not mere 24-hour, overnight to a mere 0.75 percent, the rate the Federal Re- commitments, but instead typically take a full ten serve currently charges banks through a program years to mature. This fact alone substantially inknown as “discount window lending.” creases the risk associated with student loans, since “The federal government,” Warren claims, “is it leaves a longer period of opportunity for borrowgoing to charge students interest rates that are ers to unexpectedly default on their loans. On top nine times higher than the rates for the biggest of this, there are no collateral requirements associbanks.” Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel lau- ated with federal student loans—meaning that the reate known for his popular writings on income lender does not have immediate access to anything inequality, called Warren’s bill a “step in the right else of value in the event of a default. Lastly, a studirection” and echoed her pointed rhetoric. dent seeking a loan in order to pursue a college edWarren and Stiglitz must be aware, though, ucation will generally have little in the way of wealth that not all borrowers are necessarily alike. The and assets, which in turn undermines their creditdiscrepancy in interest rates between the federal worthiness as borrowers. In fact, student loans have student loan program and the Federal Reserve’s overtaken credit card debt as the leading source of discount window lending policy actually has much 90-day delinquency, which attests to the level of risk less to do with morality and societal values than it that is associated with them. does with maturity, collateral and the credit- worIn the end, this debate really comes down to thiness of specific borrowers. Further investiga- a case of comparing apples to oranges. The sigtion of these two types of loans should lay clear nificant differences in structure between federal why students pay higher rates of interest than big student loans and the Fed’s discount window investment banks do—and might begin to suggest loans provide little reason to think that the interthat Sen. Warren’s BSLFA is less insightful than it est rates associated with these programs should initially appears. track together in any meaningful way. Of course, When Warren explains that “banks pay inter- as many have already noted, Warren’s BSLFA has est that is one-ninth of the amount that students little hope to pass a vote in any case and is most will be asked to pay,” she is not making a state- likely intended to be a symbolic statement rather ment regarding the overall borrowing practices of than a serious policy proposal. investment banks. Banks, quite obviously, take on “It’s a populist values statement,” said one joura variety of debts subject to a wide range of inter- nalist. “We like students, we don’t like banks.” If est rates, and many of these rates may in fact be Sen. Warren wishes to make a meaningful impact commensurate with or even higher than the rates on the cost of higher education, however, she paid on student loans. Warren is instead referring might consider bringing more to the table than a to one very specific type of loan program offered symbolic statement of progressive values. by the Federal Reserve—generally known as the Fed’s discount window. Banks with strong finanChris Bassil, Trinity ’12, is currently working in Boscial foundations can borrow cash overnight from ton, Mass. His second summer column will run on June the Fed at a rate of 0.75 percent. As a result of 6. You can follow Chris on Twitter @HamsterdamEcon.
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hree days into my summer internship, I found myself with only a glass wall separating me from our defendant. I sat down and picked up the phone to start the conversation. After blankly staring at me for well over a minute, the defendant wearily rubbed his eyes, picked up the phone and solemnly stated:
important evidence was deemed inadmissible several times throughout the trial. Angered, I began to question the system of criminal justice—a system in which it is almost impossible for lawyers and jurors to understand what occurs throughout a defendant’s life and the resulting consequences. “All I know is that it is better for me to sit Such lack of understandin here than it is for me to be back on the ing lends itself to rather disstreets.” turbing trends in the crimiI was perplexed by the introduction ofnal justice system. fered by the defendant, who had been More black defendants charged with aiding and abetting another Mousa Alshanteer are incarcerated than white person in an armed robbery. defendants, despite comyou don’t say? “Don’t say that. Do you have any place to mitting equivalent crimes. stay other than your mother’s residence?” I Almost 48 percent of the 2.3 asked rather superficially. million people currently incarcerated in the United “No,” the defendant plainly responded. States are black, despite the fact that they comprise Considering his multiple prior convictions and only 13 percent of the U.S. population and 15 pernumerous aggravating factors, the defendant could cent of drug addicts nationwide. One-third of all serve an active prison sentence anywhere between black males between the ages of 18 and 30 are ei70 and 90 years if convicted of a Class D felony. ther in prison, on probation or on parole. In urban Though numerous potential witnesses had indicat- cities, such as Washington D.C. and Los Angeles, ed that he did not actively commit the robbery, the this number increases to 50 or 60 percent. district attorneys charged the defendant with being Though I am a strong advocate of law and order, a principal to the commission of the crime. Since I am an equally strong advocate of accounting for the defendant had entered a plea of not guilty, he is defendants’ personal circumstances. The fact that required by law to be offered a trial by jury. the lawyers defending and the jurors sitting in judg“Look—I’m innocent. I know the way the system ment of defendants are not likely to understand works, and because of these other mistakes I made their life experiences manifests itself in the dispariin the past—because I am black—they’re going to ties of the criminal justice system. punish me.” Our criminal justice system not only results in a After listening to the defendant’s statement, I sat greater chance of incarceration for black people, quietly, dropped my head and closed my eyes. He but for impoverished civilians as well. Bryan Stevenswiftly set the phone on the desk in front of him, son, famed founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, covered his face with his hands and began weep- summarized this best when he said, “We have a sysing. tem of justice in this country that treats you much “Everything’s going to be alright; I promise,” was better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor all that I could say to encourage this presumably- and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outinnocent man. comes.” “Don’t tell me that,” he interrupted. “Don’t give This is not to say that defendants ought to be me false hope. You sit there with your suit and your released from all sentences if they are of a racial tie, and you tell me that everything is going to be minority or impoverished. Yet, we ought to actively alright? I grew up poor. My father was killed and my implement a system in which such disparities do mother was in and out of prison for selling drugs. not exist—for justice should not result in greater You haven’t experienced that. You don’t know what incarceration rates for blacks than whites and for that’s like. There’s no way for your lawyers to de- the poor than the rich. fend me because they don’t understand what that’s Justice ought not to result in ultimate judgment like.” implicitly and explicitly based not on the defenThe tears continued to pour down his face. At dant’s race or financial status, but on his or her that point, the sheriff walked up to where I had definitive responsibility for the crime and a thorbeen sitting, tapped my shoulder and told me that ough consideration of his or her life circumstances the defendant’s family had arrived. I placed the as well. phone back onto the wall and left the visitation An understanding of the defendant’s life cirroom—never realizing that this would be the last cumstances would not only reduce disparities in time I spoke to the defendant before he was con- the criminal justice system, but would ensure that victed of all charges and sentenced to 73 years in justice is fairly applied regardless of whether the deprison. fendant is guilty or innocent. On Monday, after the jury had returned the verdict, I began to sob uncontrollably and had to Mousa Alshanteer is a Trinity sophomore and the ediexcuse myself from the court for fear that I would torial page managing editor. His second summer column disrupt the proceedings. The defense council had will run on June 6. You can follow Mousa on Twitter @ less than half of their potential witnesses testify, and mousaalshanteer.
lettertotheeditor Reached the end After two runs at going for the Olympics, 3 Suspensions and after being .5 a credit short of my diploma for a year for not taken a half class my last enrolled semester, I am now set to be graduating after 9 years of being an undergraduate student at Duke. During my time here I’ve witnessed, Brodhead’s inauguration, 3 presidential elections, 6 national team championship titles, Lacrosse scandal, Kevin White becoming the Athletic Director, tailgates go from unrestricted to shut down, the Bell tower, Ciemas building, the Bryan Center walkway, French Family Science center, Bostock Library, Krzyzewski Center for Athletic Excellence, and Keohane expansion be built . My total time of enrollment was 3423 days.
I would like to now wish farewell to all of you, the last students that I can still refer to as my classmates may you, and I, find the dreams we seek out there. Konrad Dudziak Trinity ‘13
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en years later and I’m already “the old guy.” As my Facebook newsfeed flooded this past weekend with photos from Duke University’s 161st Commencement (as well as those from other universities), I couldn’t help but feel a mix of pride and envy for the Class of 2013. Behind the graduates’ smiles, sunglasses and tassels were young ambition, excitement for the unknown and the promise of tomorrow. Everything was fresh and everything a new opportunity. I miss that. Having already finished my doctorate and post-graduate training, I’m now several hurdles down the track, remembering with nostalgia how it felt to be just starting out. It was a frustratingly grey day in Chapel Hill. We had all hoped for Benjamin Silverberg warm, Carolina blue, spring skies to gringo loco anoint our heads as we moved in procession through our own football stadium. Bill Cosby was the graduation speaker. George “Dubya” Bush was in his first term as president. Harry Potter was just about to begin his fifth year at Hogwarts. Facebook didn’t yet exist. Rasheed Sulaimon had barely turned nine years old. As I looked through the seating, I realized I barely recognized anyone. This struck me as sad, because despite being just one member in a class of around 6,000, I had always needed about ten extra minutes to cross campus for when I’d inevitably run into a classmate who wanted to chat. There were still so many people to meet and stories to hear. We were emerging from the cocoon of Kenan Memorial Stadium as a heterogeneous set of alumni, but certainly the majority of us had never met one another. My next step was certain—graduate school (the best choice, of course, for a freshly-minted college graduate who didn’t quite know how to get where he was going yet)—and I was working toward medical school. For some programs, my GPA wasn’t high enough; for others, it was my MCAT score. The answers were never consistent, and it was never both numbers that were culpable. Despite much rejection, I never gave up. Thinking back, it wasn’t my pursuit of another degree that gave my career focus—it was thinking pragmatically for a moment, deciding what I would gain the most from and doing that. In my case, it meant learning Spanish. Through a quick Google search, I found WorldTeach, an NGO based in Cambridge, Mass. that places volunteer teachers around the world by working with various foreign Ministries of Education. And so I packed up and took a job as an English teacher for a year in a small Latin American country I had previously been unable to locate on a map. Serendipity takes many forms. As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, “all that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” While reaching for the proverbial brass ring, I urge you neither to lose sight of your goals nor to overlook other opportunities en route to them. Your most valuable experiences may not present themselves as thick red crosses on your treasure map. Nonetheless, you will be all the richer for investing in the unexpected. Things won’t always turn out the way you thought they would, and you won’t always see the good things coming. The same goes for the bad. I never would have guessed on that overcast day in May 2003 that I would find myself in Guayaquil, Ecuador a few years later. But my time there inspired a passion for all things Latino. It became my raison d’être. The flavor of life became instilled in my blood which, in turn, blossomed into an interest in immigrant and refugee healthcare. This thread continued throughout medical school and residency, and it led me back to my adoptive home in the Raleigh-Durham area. Fine, I’m not a movie star, recording artist or Olympic athlete, but I couldn’t be happier with how it all turned out. Now I’m in your classes, working toward another degree that aligns with my career objectives, trying to follow the idle chatter about Instagram, LDOC or how to score a fake ID to get a wristband at Shooters. I feel like a big brother of sorts, trying to guide you around the mistakes I made and taking pride in your accomplishments. But it’s also incredibly hard not to recognize that I keep aging while the freshmen stay the same age. Might as well wrap a pack of cigarettes in my left sleeve, let me grow an un-ironic hipster mustache, and cast Matthew McConaughey to play me in the story of my life. But I’m also content in a way—who would want to stay in the same position his whole life? This is my path. I am experienced. I shouldn’t look back with regret; my mistakes and missteps brought me to today, probably just as much as or more so than my successes. More are bound to come. Each experience I have and each person I meet punctuate the story, and it’s hard to predict which will stay with me for the long-term and which are supporting players. Take it for what it’s worth. It’s commencement. It’s just the beginning. Benjamin Silverberg is a second-year graduate student. His second summer column will run on June 6. You can follow Ben on Twitter @hobogeneous.
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GATES from page 3 United States, I want them to be accomplished women. So if I can be a good role model for students I’d like to do that‌but that’s not why I took on the speech. TC: How did you decide how to concentrate your various interests? MG: One thing you have to understand about the foundation is you have to look at where the most disease and poverty is around the world and where you can be the greatest wedge to affect changes. I go to two northern states in India because that’s where there’s the most poverty and disease [in India] and the foundation is also making progress in Nigeria and Ethiopia. We go where there’s the most need. We also call on governments as well, so when I go to India I also go to Delhi.‌ I go to Senegal because I really believe in family planning and I’m leading a push for birth control in Africa and they can affect other places in West Africa.
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TC: Do you have any advice for students? MG: My advice is to find what really fires you up. You end up in places that you sometimes never expected you would be and it’s the people you meet. If you stay curious and keep learning, you kind of never know where your passions will take you. For your generation, I hope you really think about how do you make the world equal for all people. Not all students have a chance to go to a place like Duke and if you grow up in a place like India or Bangladesh, your chances are really slim. So how do we make the world more equal so everyone has a chance at equal education? If students really think about all these amazing tools of technology you have to connect with people around the world, if you meet someone in another place in the world, you can stay connected to them‌. If you meet a woman and give her a microloan, you can stay connected with her with things like Kiva and Catapult where people, including me, post great projects that need help.
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COMMENCEMENT from page 1 motivate people to be civically engaged, she noted that truly seeing and understanding all people as three-dimensional individuals will elicit commitment to working towards an equitable world. She related how much technology has changed since she was a student at Duke, which was before students had their own personal computers. As a computer science major, she recollected spending time in the basements of “creepyâ€? buildings on campus, working on coding assignments because it was difficult to find an open computer to use with the high demand. Despite the importance of technological changes, it is important to realize that technology is only a tool, she said. “Technology is just a tool, it’s a powerful tool, but it’s just a tool,â€? Gates said. “Human connection is very different. It’s not a tool, it’s not a means to the end, it is the end. It’s the purpose of a meaningful life and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity and humanity.â€? The increasing volume of scientific and technological creations are the means for “lighting upâ€? a worldwide network of seven billion people with long lasting and highly motivating connections, she added. Belle Sukniam graduated from the school of nursing in December, but came back to participate in the ceremonies Sunday in order to hear Gates speak. Knowing Gates was also once a new graduate is inspiring, Sukniam said. “She didn’t know she would be Melinda Gates, that she would be able to help so many people,â€? Sukniam said. “Hopefully, one day we’ll follow and be able to give back to our communities and make Duke proud.â€? Student commencement speaker Andrew Barnhill, Divinity ’13, spoke before Gates in the commencement ceremony. He emphasized the importance of the individual moments that compose a meaningful Duke experience and how they feed into one’s “outrageous ambitionsâ€? for the future. “For some that moment may be on a spring night, screaming for Smash Mouth‌and sometimes the moments are more weighty, like today, the relief to your mom and dad’s checkbook,â€? Barnhill said. “Through each of them, we are challenged to find our voices and our places in Duke’s identity.â€? Barnhill added that there is a “deeply Dukeâ€? culture of continuously improving the way things are customarily done that has prepared students to go forth and contribute innovatively to society. “We know that before us lie new epiphanies, adding layers to the moments that have come before,â€? Barnhill said. “It looked like outrageous ambitions, but today, it looks like sacred moments.â€? The University awarded over 3,800 degrees to undergraduate, graduate and professional students who completed their programs of study this Spring. Over 1200 students who graduated in September or December 2012 were also invited back to participate in the commencement ceremony. During the ceremony, Gates received an honorary degree for her philanthropic work in the United States and around the world. Honorary degrees were also presented to human rights activist Marguerite Barankitse; immunologist Max Cooper; national archivist and librarian, David Ferriero; Henry Louis Gates Jr, a literary critic and scholar of AfricanAmerican literature; William Hunt Gross, founder and managing director of one of the world’s largest investment firms; and Judith Jamison, the artistic director of a New York based dance company. Sara Ali, a rising sophomore in high school and the younger sister of Hamid Ali, who graduated from the Pratt School of Engineering today, said she enjoyed the commencement ceremonies as a whole, particularly the concise nature of each portion of the morning. She plans to apply to the University. “It makes me excited for college and kind of overwhelmed for the future,â€? Sara Ali said. Gates concluded by asking the graduates what they see themselves accomplishing post-graduation. “I can’t wait to see what you do,â€? she said.