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Even after receiving the largest donation in Duke’s history, the University is struggling to carry out a major renovation project.

In March 2011, the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment announced the single biggest gift that the University has ever received—an $80 million contribution designed to be paid over several years, which would fund renovations for Baldwin Auditorium, West Union Building and Page Auditorium. But as the planning process advanced, technical and budgetary concerns have forced Duke to re-evaluate its project. Although the renovations to Baldwin are nearly complete, the Board of Trustees recently rejected the plan for the West Union remodel, prompting a redesign, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Furthermore, it is unknown when the full $80 million will be delivered to Duke, and Page will be too expensive to fully renovate with the available funds.

“I never did think it would make the $80 million [budget],” Trask said. “We knew we were going to have to provide something else somewhere.”

But the Endowment—a private foundation, independent of the University—thought the donation would cover “at least almost all” of the costs of the renovations, said Susan McConnell, director of higher education for the Endowment.

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Several Duke professors have been arrested for acts of civil disobedience.

Duke professors who teach civil rights and civil disobedience have chosen to lead by example.

On April 29, professors hailing from different fields joined members of the NAACP and other activists to protest policies put forth by the Republican-controlled General Assembly. That day, the movement ended in thirty arrests, but the acts of civil disobedience have only grown as students and local residents joined the movement to protest legislation that will have major effects for North Carolina residents. Referred to as “Moral Mondays,” the civil disobedience campaigns will continue throughout the month of June.

Among the original crop of protestors was William Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of history, who served as dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences and vice provost for undergraduate education from 1995 to 2004. Chafe was arrested for his participation in the campaign on Apr. 29 at 5:30 pm and was not released until 2 am.

“We saw ourselves as really speaking as people who have worked hard on both documenting and creating the history of North Carolina that this legislature is now trying to dismantle,” he said. “We wanted to set an example of how people with established reputations were willing SEE ARRESTS ON PAGE 4

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Back to the drawing board West Union renovations were scheduled to begin this summer and finish in the summer of 2015. Outlines of the renovations had been made public since 2011, and organizations based in West Union began to move their offices out of the building earlier this month. But when the Board of Trustees saw the final plan in early May, they did not approve it, leaving the specifics of West Union’s fate temporarily unresolved.

“We’re going back to redo it, starting [Thursday],” Trask said. “Right now, I don’t have a plan and I don’t have a price.”

The Board took issue with “a lot of little things,” Trask said, including financial aspects of the plan and features of the renovations themselves, but did not specify exactly what those issues were.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate to go

Turns out USA Basketball won’t need to search for a new head coach after all.

In a press conference with USA Basketball Chairman Jerry Colangelo Thursday morning, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski will announce that he is returning as the National Team’s head coach for the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Krzyzewski, who led Team USA to back-to-back gold medals at the 2008 Games in Beijing and the 2012 Olympics in London, has compiled a 62-1 record at the helm of USA Basketball since taking the reins in 2006.

Although the head coach had previously announced that he would not return to coach the team following the 2012 Games, Krzyzewski left the door open when he said “there’s a chance” he would return in an interview with Sports Illustrated’s Pete Thamel Saturday.

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After saying the 2012 Olympics would be his last, Mike Krzyzewski will coach Team USA again in 2016.

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Woodpeckers, brown creepers, warblers, cedar waxwings and hummingbirds are among those which died after colliding with Duke windows.

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As Duke’s architecture moves from gothic stone to sleek glass structures, the University must look at the environmental threat such a design move poses.

When birds pass through Duke on their annual migrations—heading north for the summer and south for the winter—some of them never make it past the glossy new architecture of the Gothic Wonderland. Birds crash into the windows when they either fail to notice the glass altogether or are misled by the

reflection of the environment in the windows and fly into the glass. Doing so causes the birds to crash and often die, a fate that has encouraged bird specialist and doctoral student Natalia OcampoPeñuela to address the issue.

“A bird that has flown 18,000 km, surviving hawks and the weather and exhaustion, can just hit a window and die,” Ocampo-Peñuela said. “Think about if you sailed around the world and passed all these obstacles and you get to the

Duke University Press will begin publishing a transgender studies journal in 2014.

The journal—TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly— will be edited by Susan Stryker, associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Arizona, and Paisley Currah, professor of political science at the Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

“We’re really excited to be working with Duke University Press—they were our first choice of publishers because Duke publishes so many other exciting interdisciplinary journals that we hope to emulate, like the feminist journal ‘differences,’ the cultural studies journals Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, the queer theory journal GLQ, and the film studies journal Camera Obscura,” Stryker wrote in an email Wednesday. “Paisley and I were thrilled that Duke saw the same potential in our project that we did.”

This is the first nonmedical journal dedicated to transgender studies, said Jocelyn Dawson, assistant manager of journals marketing at Duke University Press.

“TSQ will be instrumental in developing this growing and vibrant field and will advance the editorial mission of changing the way the world thinks about transgender issues,” Duke University Press said in a press release.

Dawson said that Duke University Press already has a large dedication to gender studies journals.

“The publication of the Transgender Studies Quarterly will do an incredible amount to increase the visibility of transgender and gender non-conforming people within the Academy,” said senior Jacob Tobia, former president of Blue Devils United. “Personally, I couldn’t be

more proud that Duke is playing such an integral role in its publication.”

The press release said that TSQ will explore the diversity of gender, sex, sexuality, embodiment and identity. The journal will focus on publishing interdisciplinary work from fields including cultural studies, political economy, art, health and sexuality studies.

A total of five issues are slated to be printed, each highlighting a different aspect of the transgender community.

Topics of the first issues will include the cultural production of trans communities, transgender population studies, transgender biopolitics and problems of translating gender concepts and practices across linguistic communities.

The journal is being financed through fundraising from the Kickstarter Campaign, which allows anyone to donate electronically. In order to publish the journal, a total of $20,000 needs to be raised by June 13. A total of $15,242 has been pledged by 239 backers since May 14.

“Transgender Studies has far-reaching implications across many academic disciplines, including not only gender and women’s studies, sexuality studies and LGBT Studies, but also social sciences, health, art, cultural studies and many other broadly defined fields,” Stryker wrote on the fundraising page.

“The development of transgender studies also makes a politically significant intervention into the lives of trans community members with tremendous unmet needs, by changing what and how we know about transgender issues.”

The financing page noted that Stryker and Currah were inspired to start the journal in 2008, when they were invited to co-edit an edition of Women’s Studies Quarterly that focused on special transgender studies.

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Scholarship yields reflect competition

Duke cuts 40 percent of DCCE budget

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Of the 22 Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarships offered this year to incoming freshmen, eight were accepted.

This yield is a decrease from the 15 students who accepted the 23 scholarships offered in 2012, said Alex Rosenberg, director of the A.B. Duke Scholarship Program.

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A.B.scholarships accepted Compared to 15 accepted last year.

Duke Office of News and Communications reported that A.B. scholars are also offered up to $5,000 for research or other educational enrichment programs. An A.B. Duke scholarship is worth more than $200,000 per student during their four-year career at Duke.

“The number of A.B. Duke scholars has fluctuated between eight and 16 over the past decade,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “This year the students who chose not to accept our offer all enrolled in either Harvard, Stanford, Princeton or MIT, whose financial aid programs in recent years have matched, or in some cases exceeded, even those of the A.B. Duke program.”

Rosenberg said that the program’s leaders are not concerned with the decline in scholarship yield. He said fewer students who were offered the scholarship required financial aid than in past years. Many did not need the merit scholarship to pay for college.

“Basically, the A.B. Duke Scholarship is competing for the first time with other universities, not on financial value but on the value of the program,” Rosenberg said.

He added that one of the students who was offered an A.B. scholarship wanted to take a gap year, and Princeton University offered to finance SEE SCHOLARSHIPS ON PAGE 6

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Budget cuts to the Duke Center for Civic Engagement have raised questions about the direction of “knowledge in the service of society” at the University.

The DCCE will receive only 40 percent of its initial budget request, said Bob Korstad, interim director of the DCCE and co-director of the program on history, public policy and social change. The future of the DCCE remains uncertain, as administrators decide how to reorganize the center.

“We have from the provost that DCCE is not going to go out of existence,” Korstad said. “[The center is] going to retain its mission [though] it may be a little bit more limited because of the budget restrictions.”

The cuts are likely a part of general budget cuts made across campus, but also may stem from concerns about the size of the center’s staff relative to the amount of programming and work done by the center, Korstad said. He noted that he does not know what the intentions of those managing the budget are in cutting funds for the DCCE. Created in 2007, the DCCE is dedicated to furthering collaborative civic participation in order to make the world better as a part of the University’s core mission of pursuing “knowledge in the service of society,” as elaborated in its strategic plan.

The DCCE staff is now working in conjunction with Provost Peter Lange and Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki to investigate the best way for the center to proceed with reorganizing operations,

Korstad said. The entity is considering reassigning some of its current tasks and duties to other groups under the Provost’s office, such as DukeEngage. Lange and Nowicki could not be reached for comment.

Eric Mlyn, executive director of DukeEngage could not be reached for comment.

“At this point we haven’t worked all of that out,” Korstad said. “I don’t know what’s going to [happen]…we’re pretty wide open.”

Korstad noted that there have been some speculations that these budget cuts may be a step towards ultimately eliminating the DCCE, but that currently there has been no word from the Provost’s office about complete elimination.

“From what I understand, that’s not something that’s being considered at this point,” Korstad said.

Some students are concerned about the long-term fate of the DCCE. In an email April 28 addressed to student leaders on campus, rising senior Sonam Aidasani asked students to mobilize to “save the DCCE” if they felt it was an important entity and referred them to rising junior Adrienne Harreveld, the administrative intern at the DCCE and a writer for Recess.

Harreveld said it has been difficult to mobilize students because the enter was notified the day before the Last Day of Classes when many had already left campus or were stressed about exams and also because the decision about the cuts had already been made.

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ARRESTS from page 1 to demonstrate their conviction that the legislature is pursuing a totally wrong direction.”

Lawmakers in the General Assembly have proposed cutting unemployment benefits, money for pre-school education and Medicaid funding, among other wideranging policy changes, all of which have served as the impetus for the civil disobedience campaigns, Chafe said.

“This was all cruel and malicious,” he said. “It was designed to hurt people.... We are protecting against this determination to hurt people and destroy the common good.”

Far-reaching policy changes The civil disobedience campaigns were born out of a need to protest harmful legislation that undercuts economic and social progress, said Bob Korstad, professor of public policy and history, who was arrested at the May 6 protest.

“The primary policy that the Republicans are putting in place is a policy of austerity—that the government should be as small as possible, taxes as low as possible and that a disengaged government is one that provides the most freedom for citizens and, in their view, the best opportunity for economic growth and development,” he said. “From a historical viewpoint, I think that is an inaccurate understanding of how economic growth and development take place in a complicated capitalistic society such as ours.”

In April, North Carolina’s Republicanled legislature rejected expanding Medicaid to cover 500,000 uninsured people in the state, Chafe said, adding that the cut endangers many people when it would not cost the state a penny for the first two years it went into effect.

“There was no logical reason for them to do that,” Bruce Orenstein, a professor at the Center for Documentary Studies who was arrested Monday for protesting, said of the Medicaid cuts. “That is something that really violates my values.”

Chafe added that denying benefits to the unemployed punishes those who may have gotten laid off for reasons outside of their control. The cut reduced unemployment insurance benefits from $535 per week to $350 in late March.

In addition to health care cuts and restrictions to unemployment benefits, legislators are also looking to make radical changes to education, Orenstein said. He emphasized the issues with a voucher program—House Bill 944—that would spend $90 million of taxpayer money to subsidize private school tuition. The bill will take money away from the public school systems that need it more than private

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schools, he said.

“Every legitimate independent study that has been done on whether vouchers work show that they do not make a difference and yet the General Assembly is moving forward with a plan that will hurt funding for public schools,” he said.

The House of Representatives also gave preliminary approval to new income limits for the preschool program in early May. Chafe referred to such cuts as “insane.”

“If you’ve ever learned anything about cognitive development, the first five years of a child’s life is more important for being successful,” Chafe said.

Korstad also raised particular concern with a bill that could require voters to show photo identification before going to the polls. He noted that such a bill, along with potential restrictions that could limit the length of time people can vote, are “mean spirited” and heavily impact lowincome North Carolina residents.

The array of changes encouraged the professors to take a role in the Monday civil disobedience campaigns, and many more have either participated already or plan on doing so.

“They are going in the totally wrong direction,” Korstad said of the General Assembly. “It will take them a long time to get the ship going back in the right direction.”

Under arrest All of the professors who have participated in Moral Mondays have been arrested for second degree trespass and failure to disperse on command.

Chafe referred to his short incarceration as a “great time” that allowed the protestors to make new friendships and have wide-ranging conversations. Additionally, the protestors all sang together throughout their eight to 10-hour stays in prison.

Korstad, however, did not recall the experience as fondly.

“It was not fun,” he said. “I spent two hours with these plastic bracelets that they use to tie your hands behind your back, and they were tightened up so badly I have bruises around my wrists.”

The protestors were very diverse across race, sex, age and socioeconomic status, Korstad said. He noted that such diversity is indicative of the wide array of support behind the cause.

Police officers treated the protestors with respect and were very friendly, Orenstein noted. Orenstein recalled one black officer thanking him because he “would not be here” if it weren’t for civil disobedience. Another female police officer then chimed in and said the same.

“I’m not one to go out and get arrested, nor are many of the people who did,” Orenstein said. “But that’s the only path forward that seems to be left.”

RENOVATION from page 1 into details,” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said when asked about the Board’s decision.

A new plan should be completed within two or three months, Trask said, but the Trustees will not vote on the renovations until they reconvene in October.

Moneta noted that this does not necessarily mean that all construction is delayed until the Fall. The Executive Committee of the Board will meet over the summer and can approve certain parts of the renovations in order to allow work on the building to begin in some capacity. He added that the basic plan for the renovations is still intact and the project still has the opportunity to operate on schedule.

“I hope to get most of this resolved over the summer,” Moneta said.

Still waiting on the money Duke initially requested $100 million for the renovations, Trask said. But discussions with the Endowment took place as the foundation was beginning to suffer from the economic downturn, and the University settled for $80 million instead.

Although the gift was always intended to be paid over several years, no fixed schedule of payments was ever established, Trask said.

To date, the University has received $17 million—an initial 2011 payment of $10 million and $7 million given later, McConnell noted. Another payment is expected before the end of the year, this one between $6 and $8 million.

“It’s kind of being played by ear,” McConnell said. “The market fluctuates, so our ability to make a payment varies year by year.”

She added that the Endowment anticipates that the money will be paid over eight to 10 years.

Trask, however, spoke of a shorter time frame—four or five years.

When this disparity in timelines was brought to his attention, Trask noted that the economic downturn had likely affected the payment schedule.

“We will get it when we get it,” he wrote in an email Wednesday. “Duke can handle the cash flow issues in the interim.”

He added that since the announcement of the $80 million gift, Duke has been working to procure additional funds for the renovations. The University has thus far been successful in securing nearly $20 million through various gifts, Trask said, though he could not specify donors or figures.

Page left unturned The University began the remodel project in Fall 2011 with Baldwin renovations, which are scheduled to be ready for the 2013-14 school year.

The renovations costed $15 million of the $17 million that the University has received from the Endowment, Trask said. Despite the progress with Baldwin, Duke cannot begin to plan for Page until a definite price is fixed to the West Union project, he added.

A number of possibilities have been discussed as potential renovations for Page, which was built in 1930.

“Part of the problem now is that it’s just ugly,” said Trask. “The other problem is that Page was designed before codes existed, but it was designed to violate every code known to anyone.”

Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, noted several issues with the auditorium—poor stage visibility, an uncomfortable balcony, the steep pitch of the seats and the outdated sound and lighting.

“The principle problem is the audience experience,” Lindroth said.

Regardless of West Union’s price, the University will be unable to do a complete renovation of Page—Trask estimated that a total overhaul would cost $75 million.

“That was never really in the cards,” he said. “Now it’s just trying to figure out what version of the lesser improvements needs to happen.”

Trask added that the renovations would likely not be particularly extensive, but he said that some degree of repair would be done.

Despite the financial obstacles, it is imperative that steps be taken to improve Page, Lindroth said.

“It’s the largest venue on campus aside from the Chapel,” Lindroth said.

“It’s an important venue for us, an opportunity for us to put our best foot forward.”

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BIRDS from page 2 port and someone shoots you.”

Birds, for Ocampo-Peñuela, constitute both a personal and professional fixation. She wears puffin earrings and has a patch of the colorful cotinga bird sewn onto her backpack. She published two papers on birds as an undergraduate based on her birding club experience.

For her thesis, she studies the conservation of threatened birds in her native Colombia, the nation with the most bird species.

Building-related bird deaths are a mostly unquantified phenomenon, but it is estimated that as many as 1 billion birds die every year from crashing into windows, according to the National Audubon Society, a natural conservation group that focuses on birds.

Fewer birds means fewer creatures helping to pollinate, disperse seeds and eat pests, among other ecologically important activities, Ocampo-Peñuela said.

Ocampo-Peñuela tackles the issue at Duke by gathering evidence of bird collisions and working with administrators to make the University’s windows safe for Duke’s feathered friends.

In order to document the frequency of bird-window collisions on campus, Ocampo-Peñuela and her colleagues have begun collecting the bird carcasses that they and their friends encounter.

“We have about 40 birds in the freezer that we know are from bird-window collisions, but that’s without making an effort to find them all,” she said.

Efforts to document the full number of bird deaths are complicated by the presence of feral cats on campus, Ocampo-Peñuela said. Collisions frequently

happen in the early morning, and the cats eat the birds before anyone notices they are there.

The Events Pavilion, a glass-walled structure that will house food vendors during the West Union Building renovation, could pose a threat to birds migrating through campus. Ocampo-Peñuela contacted Stephen Carrow, who is in the Events Pavilion planning group, and was told that some windows will be “fritted”— a technique that embeds a pattern in the glass so birds can see it. Still, much of the glass will remain clear.

“Even though this is better than no fritting, I do not think this will be enough to avoid collisions,” she said.

From there she went to Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, who is involved in planning the West Union renovation project.

By that time, the windows had been installed in the Events Pavilion, Moneta said.

“I passed on what seems to be an important and reasonable concern to the construction teams,” he noted. “They assured me that much of what was raised has been taken care of in the Pavilion designs.”

She also met with Nicholas School of the Environment leaders regarding the new Environment Hall, which is scheduled to open next March with a wall of windows extending out of the existing Levine Science Research Building.

The new building had the potential to be “a pretty significant issue” for birds, said Prasad Kasibhatla, senior associate dean for academics of the Nicholas School, who has worked with Dean of the Nicholas School Bill Chameides on finalizing the building design. The issue resolved itself, though, because of the environmentally sustainable win-

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dow design selected for the structure.

The fritted glass chosen to reduce direct sunlight —and therefore thermal heat— from entering the building, also makes the windows visible to birds.

The design was inspired by a leaf pattern found in a grille in Duke Chapel, Kasibhatla said.

“It’s bird safe, it’s energy efficient,” he said. “The dean and I were working with the architects to find what pattern best exemplified what our school was about, but also our connection to Duke and our history.”

For new glass buildings, it is possible to order windows with a UV coating on one of the glass layers that makes patterns visible to birds without obstructing human vision, Ocampo-Peñuela said.

These windows could be installed in the glass component of the remodeled West Union.

Moneta noted that the glass for the West Union has not been chosen yet, as the design team is still working on the base architecture. He added that he conveyed the information on bird safety to “everyone involved in the West Union project.”

A different procedure, however, is needed to convert previously installed windows to bird-safe windows.

“You can put a pattern on it, but it has to be no more than 10 cm apart or it won’t work,” Ocampo-Peñuela said.

“People that work with buildings and the ones that donate the money want the building to look pretty, and if you put dots on all the windows it might not look as pretty.”

UV paints exist that can be applied to windows to deter birds, but they are not commercially available. Ocampo-Peñuela sees this as an opportunity for interdisciplinary invention. Teams from the

environmental school could work with engineering students to design a substance that would warn birds away from windows without obstructing the view.

“I see it as an opportunity for Duke to pioneer in something that hasn’t been taken care of in a lot of universities, or even a lot of places,” she said.

What to do if you find a bird?

If the bird is alive, it may be stunned from hitting the window. If so, its wings may have frozen from the shock. You can keep them safe from predators in a cloth or paper bag until they are able to fly again.

If the bird is dead, put it in a plastic bag and take it to Ocampo-Peñuela’s office in LSRC A-322. Note the date and location, and deliver it as soon as possible, so the bird may be frozen before rotting.

The birds will be donated to the N.C. Museum of Natural Science.

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DCCE from page 3 “In the fall when we get back, a more concerted effort will start and the plans for the DCCE will be cleaner,” Harreveld said.

A letter to administration has been drafted with support from several student groups, but the concerned students are waiting for more detailed information about the future of the DCCE before proceeding.

“Many feel their efforts are unsustainable and difficult to integrate into their lives once their participation in a program ends,” a letter draft from the center included in Aidasani’s email read. “As Duke plans to expand ‘knowledge in the service in society,’ it keeps not only failing to address this issue, but also compounding the problem….

Organizations like the DCCE aim to merge scholarship, the arts, service and engagement to produce long-lasting, sustainable….

What message is Duke sending when it decides to cut a Center created with the same mission it is trying to promote?”

The center, which formerly oversaw DukeEngage, underwent a major restructuring in 2010, separating the two organizations and repurposing the DCCE to coordinate civic engagement opportunities across campus.

In the future, Korstad wants to focus on bringing civic engagement opportunities to students earlier in their college careers and identifying and working with more student groups across campus involved with civic engagement that are not already working with the DCCE such as selective living groups, sororities, fraternities and Duke Student Government. He hopes to encourage students to continue in civically engaged activities after graduating by more thoroughly defining it during their college experiences.

Thus far, he said that the DCCE has mostly focused on coordinating staff and faculty

engagement programs.

Current programming by the center includes Civic Thursdays, a series of lunch discussions, funding Studios—year-long interdisciplinary projects in which participants can collaborate on new approaches to creating positive social change— and overseeing the Clinton Global Initiative University, a program that brings together university students from around the world to work together on innovative solutions to world problems.

Korstad is hopeful about the future of the DCCE. “Even though this is going to be a hardship and it’s a difficult thing for us to figure out what to do, we’re going to do it and we’re going to do it in a way that doesn’t diminish the work that the Duke Center for Civic Engagement does,” Korstad said. “This doesn’t represent any kind of diminution of the energy and the work we’re going to do.”

TRANSGENDER from page 2 They received more than 200 submissions for publication, but they were only able to publish 12 of them.

The two professors saw a need for a venue where the transgender community can publish its concerns.

“Five years later, there is still no place to accommodate the kind of conversation we want to foster on transgender issues,” the Kickstarter page reads.

Stryker wrote that they chose to collaborate with Duke University Press because of its well-respected reputation.

“We are determined to produce a journal that demands to be taken seriously— Duke gives transgender studies a lot of credibility,” she wrote on the website.

SCHOLARSHIPS from page 4 his activities during that year but Duke could not.

Rosenberg said that potential students could have been deterred from choosing Duke because the weather on campus was “horrible” during Blue Devil Days. He added that the bombings at the Boston marathon could have resulted in an increase in students choosing to go to Harvard. Harvard was forced to cancel its accepted students weekend following the bombings.

“Students who would have otherwise spent the weekend at Harvard and seen how the reality was different from the ideal image of Harvard, were unable to visit, and made their choice based on an image in their head,” Rosenberg said.

He said that often smaller classes of A.B. scholars perform better in gaining international recognition than larger classes.

The classes of 2011 and 2012 each had nine A.B. scholars, and included one Rhodes Scholar, three Marshall Scholars, three Faculty Scholars, three Goldwater winners and three Fulbright winners, said Melissa Malouf, director of the office of undergraduate scholars and fellows.

In total, the scholarship’s alumni include 18 Rhodes Scholars and 13 Marshall Scholars, including the renowned writer and Duke English professor Reynolds Price, who passed away last year; Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler; NASA project scientist Hal Weaver; and Dr. Lynt Johnson, chief of transplant surgery at Georgetown University Medical Center.

She added that the program generally tries to attract 15 scholars, but they are

“thrilled” with the eight that they have.

“We have no reason not to expect great things from the class of 2017,” Malouf said. “In other words, quantity is not the same as quality.”

Schoenfeld said he is happy with the selection of students that have accepted their scholarship offers.

“The students who will be attending are exemplary additions to Duke University and the A.B. Duke tradition, and we look forward to welcoming them to campus,” he said.

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With a mile-wide tornado bearing down on her home, Anastasia Hunt climbed into her family’s above-ground storm shelter. Seven terrifying minutes later, her house was gone.

After the rushing winds of the EF5 twister that struck Moore, Okla. Monday afternoon had subsided, Hunt climbed through the rubble to view what was left of her home.

It wasn’t much. The room where the junior defender for Duke’s women’s soccer team hid out with her mother, Doreen, was the only piece of her house still intact.

“When it was over, I just grabbed my mom and told her how much I loved her,” Hunt said. “I was crying and she was praying. I just held onto her as tight as I could. I didn’t think we were going to make it, but we did.”

Hunt’s home was one of 2,400 that were leveled by the tornado’s winds, which exceeded 200 mph.

But although Hunt lost the majority of her personal belongings in the storm, she said it was the encouragement that she received from her Blue Devil teammates that helped her to survive the ordeal.

“The outpouring of support I received has been absolutely amazing,” Hunt said. “I know that we could go anywhere, and any of my teammates would open their doors for me and my family.... It’s really

Richa Jackson is one of Duke women’s basketball’s more physical players—the rising senior rarely shies away from a challenge, and she often tussles in the paint against much larger defenders.

But even one of the Blue Devils’ strongest players was not prepared to be tossed around by the EF5 tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla. Monday afternoon.

Jackson, a Midwest City, Okla. native, was visiting her cousin in Moore when the tornado—with winds as high as 210 mph—touched down and barreled through her cousin’s home.

“It sounded like we were on the train tracks and the train was coming straight at us,” Jackson said.

“You could feel the heavy wind coming.... I could hear everything collapsing and falling. It was so loud.”

When she heard the house’s alarm system signal that the front door had been ripped open, Jackson said she knew the tornado had struck the house.

After nearly a half hour seeking shelter in a closet with her cousin’s fiancé, Marcus Dockings, and the couple’s two children, the Blue Devil forward emerged from the wreckage of her cousin’s house unscathed.

“We looked at the house we had just come out of and we were just so thankful,” Jackson said. “We were so grateful that we got out because you would not

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Blue Devils set to compete in NCAA Preliminaries

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For some, this weekend’s meet could mark the final races of their Duke career. For others, it could be a stepping stone to the NCAA Championships.

The Blue Devils will send 27 competitors to the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Greensboro, N.C. this weekend with the hope of qualifying for the NCAA Championship in Eugene, Ore. Qualifying athletes had to hold one of the top 48 individual marks or one of the top 24 relay marks in the East Region. Following this weekend’s competition, the top 12 athletes from each event will be chosen to compete in the national championship June 5.

“Everybody at this level believes they can go [to the NCAA Championship],” Duke head coach Norm Ogilvie said.

“They are all very good and they are not separated by a lot. It’s going to be a great competition and the people best prepared will get to move on.”

Redshirt junior Curtis Beach is ranked third in the nation in the decathalon, automatically qualifying him for the NCAA Championship in Oregon. Beach—who competed at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials last summer—will use this weekend as what Ogilvie calls a “tune-up” before

the NCAA Championship, and could possibly qualify in another event as well.

Not every Blue Devil competitor has a guaranteed spot to compete for a national championship. Others will fight over a matter of inches to make it to the final meet of the season.

Junior Erica Brand is the No. 4 seed in the women’s discus, and senior Austin Gamble is the No. 9 seed on the men’s side. Ogilvie said that despite their high rankings, Brand and Gamble still have a tough challenge ahead of them if they hope to qualify for the championship.

“They must compete still—there’s not a lot of difference between the No. 1 guy and the 48th guy,” Ogilvie said. “They are separated by inches here or there.”

Gamble, who is also a linebacker for Duke’s football team, took time off from the discus last year to focus on his other sport. He last attended the national championship in Oregon as a freshman.

All-American honoree Cydney Ross, a senior, has the greatest chance of advancing to the national championship in the 800 meters, Ogilvie said. James Kostelnik, a fifth-year senior, also could qualify in the 5,000 meters.

Ogilvie noted that the meet this weekend is exciting because the Blue Devils will be represented in a wide array of

events.

“What’s great about this years Duke track and field team is that they are

so well spread out over a number of events,” he said. “I’m really excited for this weekend.”

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Twenty-seven Blue Devil athletes will compete for spots in the NCAA Championship this weekend.

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JACKSON from page 7 have thought that someone could have made it out of that house.”

Jackson said the closet in which they sought shelter was one of the only rooms in the house left standing.

“We looked up, and we were almost outside,” Jackson said. “Some of the roof had come down and could have crushed us.”

With the storm bearing down on her cousin’s home, Jackson said she didn’t even think to bring shoes with her into the closet.

After the heavy winds had subsided, the rising senior walked through the rubble of her cousin’s house barefoot, in what she could only describe as a state of shock.

“I never thought that it would ever actually really happen to me,” Jackson said.

“You look outside and the whole neighborhood was just gone.... I couldn’t believe what had just happened.”

Forced to wander on foot in an effort to find cell phone service, Jackson finally found that she had missed a call from head coach Joanne P. McCallie. Jackson then made an effort to contact her parents, but the area’s cell tower had been damaged in the storm.

When she had finally been picked up and transported from the devastation hours later, Jackson said her phone was

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The first message she responded to was that of her classmate and point guard, Chelsea Gray. When Jackson regained service, more messages followed.

“All of a sudden my phone kept blowing up,” Jackson said. “I called my mom and my father first and then I started responding to all my teammates and everyone on the staff.”

Jackson said her teammates’ wellwishes helped her initial shock subside.

“At that point it made me feel so much better,” Jackson said. “Afterwards I was in complete disbelief and was really shaken up. But then they started calling me and texting me, and it made me feel so relieved to know that they are really there for me—not just with basketball but with anything in life experiences.”

Now staying with her father, Jackson continues to assist her family in their recovery efforts and said she will continue to lean on her teammates and coaches for support. She also said her tornado experience has helped to change her outlook on life.

“You can’t take life for granted,” Jackson said. “It was such an eye-opener for me to experience that because you never think you’re going to be the one in that situation.”

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Senior forward Richa Jackson was in her cousin’s home when it was leveled by the tornado in Moore, Okla.

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Junior defender Anastasia Hunt’s home in Moore, Okla. was destroyed by Monday’s tornado.

HUNT from page 7 touching to know that we’re not alone.”

As soon as the storm had passed, Hunt reached out to her father, who works at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. She also texted her roommate, fellow defender Tabria Williford, to let her know that she and her mother were unharmed.

Moments later, cell phone reception in Moore went down when the area’s cell towers became overloaded with activity. When Hunt was finally able to use her phone again, it had been inundated with an outpouring of support from her Duke teammates.

“Every single person on my team has reached out to me some way or another,” Hunt said. “I’ve talked to many of them.

I’ve gotten at least one text from every single one of them.”

In addition to the support she has received from her coaches and teammates, a number of Duke administrators have reached out to the Hunt family in the aftermath of the tornado, including Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White.

In a stroke of luck, the Hunt family did not have to search for a place to stay. Anastasia’s father, Alvin, manages a number of rental properties, one of which was vacated last Sunday and was unharmed by the tornado.

Wednesday was the first day Hunt and her family had been to her house to view the devastation the tornado had left in its path. Police and other first responders had cordoned off Hunt’s neighborhood for search and rescue efforts. Hunt said that her family has yet to decide whether to purchase another house or attempt to rebuild on their land.

“It’s a weird feeling, to know that you are technically homeless right now,” Hunt said. “I don’t know how to describe it.”

Hunt’s teammates have already begun to reach out and offer to send the family supplies and provisions for the coming weeks, and the athletic department is preparing to organize fundraising efforts.

“I’m just very proud of our players.

They were all very concerned for the safety of the Hunt family and they were all very relieved to hear that they were unharmed,” Duke head coach Robbie Church said. “We’re a big family, and when somebody goes down like this everybody really steps forward to help

each other.

Dealing with natural disasters has been difficult for collegiate athletes in the past due to NCAA rules that prevent them from accepting impermissible benefits. But Wednesday night, Church said that the athletic department’s fundraising efforts have been approved by Duke’s compliance department and are ready to proceed.

“The NCAA in the past 10 years has been much more flexible about finding ways to help student-athletes in emergency situations,” said Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy. “It’s very early, so we have people brainstorming and trying out ideas about ways we might go.”

Planning to remain in Oklahoma with her family for the remainder of the summer, Hunt said thanks to the efforts made by the Duke community, the process of rebuilding now appears much less formidable.

“It’s just things—they can always be replaced,” Hunt said. “You can always have a place to live but it’s the people you’re with that make your home a home. Your home is where your heart is.”

KRZYZEWSKI from page 1 Athough Krzyzewski will likely return as Team USA’s head coach, it appears the squad will still undergo some changes before it begins preparation for the 2014 World Cup. Krzyzewski’s staff previously included Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach Mike D’Antoni, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Nate McMillan and Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim.

In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Boeheim said it was “probable” that he would be brought back as a part of the staff for Team USA. A report from the New York Post Wednesday said that D’Antoni would not return as one of Krzyzewski’s assistant coaches.

The U.S. Men’s National Team is set to hold its first mini-camp July 22-25 in Las Vegas. The squad will have more than a year to prepare before the FIBA World Cup, where the team’s stiffest competition will likely be the host nation of Spain. Krzyzewski’s only loss at the helm of USA Basketball came in this tournament—formerly known as the FIBA World Championship—in 2006 when Team USA fell to Greece.

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Uni should openly discuss renovations With Baldwin Auditorium the plans will be completed in reconstruction nearing com- two to three months, the fact pletion, Duke’s three-part ren- that the Trustees will not touch ovation plan is well underway. the subject or vote on the matHowever, financial and admin- ter until they reconvene in Ocistrative complications have tober seriously delays progress. hindered some This uneccesariplans and left ly bureaucratic editorial others severely system hinders underfunded. These issues are progress for a very important indicative of a broader issue of University project that affects gaps in communication. students and faculty.

As today’s Chronicle reThat the University deports, West Union renovations clined to comment on the have been slowed as adminis- Board’s basis for rejection demtrators go back to the drawing onstrates another problematic board after the Board of Trust- gap in communication, this ees rejected the initial proposal time between administrators in May. The Board’s rejection and students. From the student of the proposal illustrates a con- perspective, such large-scale cerning gap in communication renovation projects may not within the upper echelons of seem as pressing to the student the University’s decision-mak- experience as installing air coners. Although Executive Vice ditioning systems for all dorm President Tallman Trask said rooms or improving living

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The Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, which is compeltely independent of the University, gifted the $80 million for the renovations.

Although we recognize that the Endowment played a role in deciding how the funds would be spent, we question the University’s planned sequence of renovations— starting with Baldwin Auditorium, then moving to West Union and lastly to Page Auditorium. Given the financial constraints surrounding the projects—the estimated total cost for the renovations were projected at $100 million, of which the University received only $80 million—prioritization should have fallen to projects that stand to have the greatest impact on the

most students, namely Page Auditorium.

As the largest venue on campus aside from the Chapel, Page Auditorium is an important venue for the Duke and greater Durham community for a variety of events, from cultural showcases like Awaaz to invited speakers.

These events foster community awareness and celebration that greatly enhances the student experience on campus.

Yet the venue is riddled with problems—Scott Lindroth, vice provost for the arts, pointed to uncomfortable seating, poor stage visibility and the outdated sound and lighting system as just some issues facing the auditorium.

Improvements to the facility could greatly improve the experiences of those students

and community members who utilize the space.

Certainly, taking Page Auditorium offline for renovations would hamper student activity—one of the original considerations when first undertaking Baldwin construction. However, this is the lesser of two evils, as the present situation leaves insufficient funds to make the necessary improvements.

Ultimately, renovations to all three venues are important for current students and for attracting prospective students.

We urge the University, however, to maintain open communication with the Board and students as it continues forth, and in doing so, to take into consideration the student experience. The first step is open communication.

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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they I now live “within and without” this world of monsmashed up things and creatures and then re- ey and privilege, but I can remember a time when my treated back to their money or their vast careless- part could only be described as intimately within. I ness, or whatever it was that kept them together …” was often allured by the gatherings thrown by faceless How did they manage? I wondered. hosts; I took part in the peacocking How could Daisy leave with Tom as and pomp whirled inside the youth Gatsby lay dead in the mansion built and privilege. for her? How could she make him wait I can remember Homecoming, so long for her call? How could Tom when some of our Calculus classmates say he never knew his mistress as she drew with paint pens on their more laid torn open on a dirty table, tears modest cars in the school parking lot. still streaming down her cheeks?

Alongside “Go Team,” “#6” and “Beat They were careless people.

County” were drawings of me and Gracie Willert other insiders as a form of strange I’ve often wondered what makes a classic like “The Great Gatsby.” I’m decoration. My sketch, denoted “G,” read me maybe beginning to suspect it has something was a faceless girl with a high-waisted to do with a timeless story whose relskirt and headband. We giggled, sang evance leaps with urgency from the pages, seeping a song, deeming any critiques to be some shade of into our own dialogues and stories even as they un- jealous. fold before us.

We were within that rich, charmed world, so vastly “The Great Gatsby” has it all. There is the always- unaware of how all others might perceive it. relevant theme of love¬¬—crazy, all-consuming love.

We were careless people.

We see a deepening tension between beauty and I can remember discussing whether one misstep goodness. Lana Del Rey’s whimsical melody whirls in of a friend was grounds for cutting all ties and banthe background as Gatsby and Daisy sneak away from ishment from the inner circle. I can remember wanthis party to neighbor Nick Carraway’s yard: Will you ing so desperately to be within this small, elite group still love me when I’m no longer young and beauti- and more secretly, more desperately, to be without. ful?

Like Nick Carraway, I felt trapped in limbo, within Much like Gatsby’s phony accent—a North Dakota and without, a third wheel to my own story. I was too man trying to fit the Northeastern part—the sound- young, too within, too drawn in and too consumed to track seems misguided at first. Beyonce and Florence break away. I confused greatness with goodness time + the Machine playing in a 1920s scene is somehow after time after regrettable time. anachronistic, we think. The blend of the much-beTime away from this beautiful place allows us to loved storyline coupled with pop music disorients us. see it as others once did. It has taken a true break for But as song after song tumble to our ears, Gatsby’s me to disentangle the warm fondness for this place as accent and the songs all fit. They all fit, drawing us in, the site of my childhood with the ugly truth of who I disorienting us, but this time with our permission. was in adolescence here.

The imagined characters of F. Scott Fitzgerald With each return, I cannot help but remember bask in the opulence of a stranger’s extravagant party. whom I once wronged with my carelessness and who Cars of the 1920s roar up the gravel drive, passengers had wronged me with their own. I cannot help but swaying and dangling from the topless Model Js. The realize how my circumstances clouded my self-awarealcohol is bottomless. Confetti and music fill the air. ness, making everything feel distant, expendable.

Gatbsy’s world reminds me of a place I always Those were some of my more formative and conwanted to write about. It is a place of money—mysteri- fused years, but I come here now only for summer ously begotten and explained in whispers. “Mr. Smith and time off. With each visit, I gaze out to the whiteworks in investments” or “manages stocks,” when, in speckled blue of the inlet. And in these moments, I actuality, he is the heir to some oil company or the share with Gatsby a conviction of hope that Nick Carorchestrator of Wall Street conquests past. raway so admired. I feel the promise of a life lived Tucked into the eastern shoreline of South Florida more carefully, and I question the problems of such is this place, the little town of Sewall’s Point. It owes a semi-charmed place. I hope that others may tread its history to the failed fruition of corporate plans. more carefully, understanding sooner than I the imIn years past, it was hoped to be a port, a stretch of plications and pitfalls of privilege. I hope that others Flagler’s railroad, even a pineapple plantation. All might see the danger in carelessness and be drawn these efforts fell through. None bore any fruit. But it back home, but never again consumed. and its neighboring Sailfish Point now serve as winter homes to corporate greats like the Kiplingers, BloomGracie Willert is a Trinity senior. Her second summer colingdales, Carnegies and Walgreens. umn will run on June 13.

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turned 21 last month. Not gonna lie: experience, I think that more parents It’s great to be legal. I love a cold can sow the seeds for a healthier relaYuengling or a drink at the on-cam- tionship with alcohol. pus bar (farewell, fair Dillo). I know alWhy let high school students drink? cohol can be a healthy part of social life. Abstinence from alcohol is undeniably But when you look around the safest option. But if campus on a weekend 63.9 percent of college stuor Wednesday night, you dents drink, then they must see way too many people have learned how to drink stumbling off the C-1 and from someone. Would you chundering (a.k.a. vomitrather they learn from a ing in the bushes). We all swaggering upperclassman know about the unbearat an off-campus party durably high costs of heavy Andrew Kragie ing orientation week or drinking: car crashes that from their parents? I think elevator pitch have killed our classmates, parents can teach their situations where sexual aschildren to enjoy alcohol sault is more likely, the EMS calls that in moderation the same way they teach are routine on Duke’s campus. A friend them to enjoy desserts in moderation. once said something revealing at a party: Of course, I respect every family’s very “If I wasn’t in college, they’d call me al- personal decision. A history of alcoholcoholic. Man, I love college.” He wasn’t ism in the family completely changes the making an ironic reference to the Asher discussion. If parents themselves don’t Roth song. How does our drinking cul- drink—one of every three drinking-age ture get this messed up?

Americans abstains from alcohol—then I would argue that heavy drinking is of course they won’t teach their kids to not unique to Duke, as much as we like to drink. But if mom and dad have a Budthink that Duke is elite and has its own, weiser while watching the game or sip elite problems. It’s a widespread problem merlot with dinner, I think they can for college students and young people pour a glass for their college-bound high not in college. According to the National school seniors.

Survey of Drug Use and Health, almost Worried about the law? Yes, the drinkexactly half of people 18 to 20 years old ing age is 21 in every state. But accorddrink, and a full 20 percent were “heavy ing to the federal Alcohol Policy Infordrinkers,” meaning they had five or more mation System, 31 states allow parents to drinks on five or more different occa- serve their underage children in private sions in the 30 days preceding the survey. residences. These states range across the Full-time college students are more likely country and the political spectrum from to drink than other 18- to 22-year-olds Texas to Connecticut to my home state of (63.9 percent vs. 53.5 percent). So we Maryland. (Unfortunately, North Carolican’t simply blame the Duke administra- na has yet to see the light.) And for the tion for the drinking culture—although 19 states and the District of Columbia I do question the harsher enforcement that technically do not allow any underthat is driving parties off campus and age drinking, I doubt any police officer away from any supervision. Heavy drink- would barge into a private residence and ing is a broader problem that especially cart parents to jail for putting an extra affects college students. wine glass on the table.

Teenagers need to know how to conWondering what the academics have sume alcohol responsibly before they to say? Major studies provide some supget to college. But how can they learn? I port for family drinking. In 2009, Robthink our parents can teach us. ert Turrisi, a professor of biobehavioral Moms and dads take almost two de- health at Pennsylvania State University’s cades to teach their kids how to eat College of Health and Human Develophealthy. My mom tirelessly preached the ment, found that “the only significant gospel of “everything in moderation” predictors of teen drinking behaviors in when it comes to desserts. My parents let college were gender and parental limit me have cake and pie for special occa- setting.” There was a highly significant sions, but they taught me to have a slice correlation between “the number of rather than gobble the entire thing. By drinks parents set as a limit during high the last semester of high school, I knew school” and the quantity and frequency how much was safe to have and why it of their teens’ college drinking. When was bad to have too much. I had experi- their parents set low limits, college stumented a little bit and learned from it: dents were more likely to drink responChocolate pie for breakfast tastes great sibly. I think parents can set those limits but feels awful later. As high school by letting their children drink modestly graduation approached, I more or less at family events. knew how to handle desserts. But not Turrisi also conducted a randomalcohol. ized experiment with 1,900 rising colSo I convinced my parents to let me lege freshmen and their parents. Some have a glass of wine with them at dinner. families were assigned to talk about alAnd then I convinced them to let me cohol consumption, why students drink have a beer when we grilled on the back and alternatives to drinking before the porch. And then I convinced my grand- students left for college. The teens who mother to pour me a gin and tonic. My spoke with their parents were significantparents didn’t want to encourage me to ly less likely to drink dangerously once start drinking, but we all knew that col- they got to campus. lege loomed ahead along with its abunSo, if you’re a parent whose child is dant opportunities for consumption. starting college this Fall: If you teach This was the logic: If they treated me as your kids to drink while they’re at home, an adult, maybe I would drink like an they might drink more responsibly in adult after leaving home. I learned that college. Drink with them at the dinner a single Heineken tastes great without table. Set low limits. Talk about your exbeing followed by another six beers and pectations. If you’re a student headed to that a mixed drink can be an accompani- college, ask your parents how they deal ment to a conversation rather than the with alcohol. If they’re enjoying a beer, focus of attention. And even if someone ask them to open one for you. is drinking to get drunk, they would be better off knowing their limits and stopAndrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His secping before going too far. Based on my ond summer column will run on June 13.

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he tiny, yellow pills were spilled probably going to be taking this medicaall over the big pouch of my book tion to attain an unfair advantage, and bag.

I was in a situation where all I could do At first, I thought I forgot to close was accept what had happened. the pill bottle correctly the last time I’d While reflecting on the incident, a taken my medication. As I close friend suggested that continued to look through the desperation of somemy backpack, I realized one who steals medicine that half of my prescripnot prescribed to him is tion for Ritalin, a stimulant probably more concerning drug, was gone. I poured than that person’s thievery. the contents of my book Once the initial anger had bag onto the floor of my passed, I became worried room, frantically looking about the emotions of that for the pills and the other Nourhan Elsayed someone who is willing to bottle of medicine. I tried take such drastic measures a world unveiled to convince myself that the to reach potential success. medicine hadn’t been stoAdderall and Ritalin are len, but there was no other explanation. dangerous drugs that can have deadly I considered calling the Duke Police, but side effects when used improperly. If stuthe embarrassment of admitting I had dents are consciously willing to take these Ritalin prevented me from doing so. drugs because they are ashamed of their Ritalin helps me focus and offers me abilities, and if they have self-efficacy that aid with the working memory issues that dangerously low, then there is more than are caused by my ADHD. The effects the issue of drug abuse at hand. On more of the medicine are clear: Without it, than one occasion, I have overheard inI need a pen and paper to solve basic furiating conversations about Adderall arithmetic, and I cannot complete mun- on campus. This time, I came to realize dane tasks like writing a logical para- that there has to be a bigger issue at play. graph.

There is something in society or in this The anger I felt toward the person school that makes perfectly capable stuwho stole my medicine consumed me dents feel as though they need external for a few days. I was upset with the thief. and arguably unethical methods of assisI was upset with myself for needing the tance. medication. And I was upset with the As a Duke student, I realize that the people who abuse prescription drugs on pressure to succeed is overwhelming. a regular basis.

Each one of us feels insecure about our As my anger grew, I became horri- intelligence at times, and the average fied that someone would do something workload can sometimes feel unmanageso shamelessly. I myself am ashamed of able. It’s easy to forget that, just to get my ADHD. I was disgusted that someone into Duke, we all demonstrated some who likely did not have ADHD would quality that made admissions officers not feel ashamed enough to stop his or believe we were capable of succeeding herself from taking the pills. here. It’s important to doubt ourselves Admitting that I need to fill a pre- so that we don’t become complacent, but scription in order to achieve my full po- it’s equally important to stay grounded tential is at times as exhausting as the in the strengths that allowed to us to get ADHD itself. Even when I am taking the to Duke in the first place. . medication, I am not able to process inI came to realize that the shame that formation as quickly as the majority of sometimes made me abstain from taking my peers and often struggle with work- my medication is the same shame that ing memory issues. It’s a detriment to my would motivate someone to steal those pride when I have to admit that, without yellow pills in the first place. these stimulants, I probably would not I hope that the student who stole the be as stable as I believe myself to be. medication from my book bag, and anyThere has been more than one occasion one else who’s ever felt the need to enwhen I’ve stopped taking my medica- hance him or herself in a way that could tion in an attempt to rid myself of my become harmful, recognize that insecuriunjustifiable shame of ADHD. Despite ties are common to many of us. If feela clinical diagnosis, it’s difficult not to ings of shame and guilt are enough that feel like I’m cheating or giving myself an they become hurtful and blinding, then unfair advantage. The embarrassment I maybe it’s time to reflect more consciousfeel when I need to ask for extra help ly on how to lead our lives in ways that alor tell my group members to slow down low us to see our strengths more clearly. in class is terrifying. All these emotions consumed me as I began to think about Nourhan Elsayed is a Trinity sophomore. the person who stole those tiny, yellow Her second summer column will run on June pills. I was devastated that someone was 13.

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