September 10 2013

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Duke climbs U.S. News Rankings

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Protesters rally against intervention

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Duke has climbed one spot in the U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of national universities.

The University is now tied with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania for seventh place on the list of national university rankings, which includes schools that offer a full range of undergraduate majors as well as master’s and doctorate programs. Last year, Duke was tied with the University of Pennsylvania for eighth.

“As we say every year, these rankings are both fleeting and incomplete,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president of public affairs and government relations. “But if there is going to be some sort of national ranking like this, it’s nice to see Duke near the top—as we know it should be.”

The University was also singled out by U.S. News and World Report in four categories in See RANKINGS, page 6

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The Durham and Duke community gathered to voice their concerns on U.S. intervention in Syria.

University professors and Durham residents took to the streets Monday to protest possible United States military intervention in Syria.

A group of Duke graduate students sought to unite the Durham community against proposed U.S. airstrikes in Syria, as Congress reconvened to debate the issue Monday. The students also enlisted professors with relevant research interests to speak at the event, making it a “teach-in” to educate protesters about the gravity of the issues at hand.

Protesters gathered with signs reading “F-k the police,” “Bombs won’t make peace” and “No War With Syria” and the crowd mingled cheerfully. Located in CCB Plaza of downtown Durham, the rally had an attendance of about 50 people, mostly in their twenties.

Some families came out to celebrate the event, with young children perched on their father’s shoulders to witness the speeches from above.

Professor of literature Michael Hardt was the first to speak and criticized the country’s desire to pursue an imperialistic foreign policy when the time for that has long passed.

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Divinity School Refectory converts into evening eatery

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The Refectory opened for dinner for the first time.

The Divinity School Refectory opened its doors for dinner for the first time Monday evening.

For The Refectory’s first night, customers enjoyed burritos, sandwiches and tomato basil soup, among other choices. Although the popular dining spot did not draw a large crowd for its first night, Patricia Eder—the owner of Core Catering, Inc., which operates The Refectory—said the eatery has plans to offer more dining options to its customers.

“The students are here for the education and the college experience, and if we can

provide a positive memorable part of that through their dining, then we’re doing what we’re supposed to do,” Eder said.

Eder said she will institute theme nights to provide more options to customers. Current themes include a Southern night—which would offer “comfort foods” such as macaroni and cheese and collard greens—as well as a Mexican night and possibly a Mediterranean night.

The Refectory will try to serve food based on customer feedback, Eder said. There are bookmarks on each table that allow customers to rate the service, quality of their meals and their favorite foods. Eder said if a certain

food appears to be popular based on customer responses, The Refectory will offer that food more frequently.

Many students noted that The Refectory’s decision to open for dinner will help give students more options now that the West Union has closed.

“I feel like we have limited options, but I’m glad that they’re making accommodations for solving it,” sophomore Annie Apple said.

Although The Refectory provides the Duke community with another dining venue, See REFECTORY, page 6

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Neuroscientists link visual stimulus with tactile sensation machine interfaces, such neuroprostheses could eventually be accepted by the brain as a natural extension of the body, said Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, professor of neurobiology, biomedical engineering and psychology and neuroscience.

“If we start using a tool, it is essentially assimilated into the brain as an extension of your body schema,” Nicolelis said.

Thus, like tools, cortically-driven limb prostheses could also be fully incorporated into the brain’s motor and sensory circuitry.

Although thought-controlled, touchsensitive robotic limbs may seem like science fiction, they may not be so far off. In fact, Nicolelis and his associates are already working on a functioning prototype of the technology. Through a partnership with the Walk Again Project, they plan to create a full-body exoskeleton, powered by a brain-machine interface, capable of restoring a paralyzed individual’s ability to walk.

Unprecedented in its scale, the neuroprosthesis is planned to debut during the opening ceremony of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. It will likely use electrical stimulation of sensory areas of the brain, called the neural stimulation approach, to produce sensation in the user, said Joseph O’Doherty, postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Francisco.

“These are just the general principles,” O’Doherty wrote in an email Sunday. “You will have to wait until the World Cup to see how they are specifically implemented.”

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Turns out what monkeys see can affect what they do—or at least what they feel.

A new study conducted by neuroscientists at Duke’s Nicolelis Lab shows that the part of the brain responsible for the sensation of touch may react to visual stimuli alone. In the study, while monkeys were being touched on the arm, they viewed a video simulation of that same action. When the researchers stopped the physical stimulation, the areas of the monkeys’ brains responsible for tactile sensation still continued to respond to the virtual simulation.

These results support a previous hypothesis from the Nicolelis Lab, which suggests that functions of the cortex are not as rigidly segregated as once believed.

“After our results, neuroscience textbooks will definitely have to be updated,” Mikhail Lebedev, senior research scientist at the lab, wrote in an email Friday. “They teach that the motor cortex is for moving limbs, the somatosensory cortex is for feeling touch and the visual cortex is for seeing. Our results show a much more distributed representation of information in the brain.”

Untrained monkeys were implanted with up to 384 electrodes to analyze how stimulus was encoded by the monkey brain.

The monkeys were then shown a virtual simulation of their arm being touched, while simultaneously having their own arm touched. After a few minutes of synchronized stimulation, the physical component was removed.

The areas of the monkeys’ brains responsible for tactile sensations, however, continued to respond to the virtual simulation, indicating that they felt physical sensation simply through visual association.

The monkeys’ neuronal responses to the virtual stimulation came later than the responses to the physical stimulation. This suggests that the sensation was mediated by a longer pathway involving

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Researchers in Duke’s Nicolelis lab discover novel definition of cognitive dissonance.

the visual system.

Instead of previously-imagined single neuronal pathways, seemingly unrelated cortices apparently use a highly-dynamic, cross-functional process to form more of a continuously interacting grid or network. They also appear to cooperate quite closely in shaping the body schema, or the brain’s internal representation of the body.

Researchers in the Nicolelis Lab are already using these concepts to develop neuroprosthetics for amputees and individuals with paralysis, or even in treating phantom limb pain. By becoming fully integrated into the brain’s body schema, artificial appendages could return motor function and tactile sensation to victims of paralysis or lost limbs.

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Local assembly raises Visiting professor talks constitutional controversy democratic concerns

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Throughout history there has been much heated debate about the role of slavery in the Constitution, but one Constitution Day lecturer argued that the answer is not so cut and dry.

Michael Zuckert, professor of political science at The University of Notre Dame, presented his theory that slavery was neither legitimized nor marginalized by the Constitution—but rather left as an issue for the states —at a lecture on Monday.

“In surveying the Constitutional provisions relating to slavery, what is striking…is how much they share this one characteristic—they are the places where it was unavoidable that the Constitution take some stand on slavery,” Zuckert said.

During the lecture—which was presented over lunch by the Gerst Program in American Values and Institutions—Zuckert pushed back on theories that the Constitution was either written as an endorsement of slavery or an attempt to kill off the institution. Rather, he argued that many modern views of the interplay between slavery and the Constitution are colored by the history of events leading up to the Civil War, when slavery became a real problem for the Union.

During the writing of the Constitution, Zuckert said, slavery was treated as an important but not critical issue and as a result was left in the purview of the states whenever possible.

Zuckert also questioned the tendency to read issues of race or slavery into certain often-cited clauses of the Constitution. He highlighted the three-fifths clause—which decreed that slaves should be counted as threefifths of a person for purposes of taxation and Congressional representation. He argued that the clause was not a statement on the value of people of

different races. Instead, it was a simple political and economic compromise which came from earlier precedents.

“This is probably the clause in the entire Constitution that has had more nonsense spoken about it than any other,” Zuckert said. “This was not a racial matter.”

During the question and answer portion of the lecture, several members of the audience pushed back against Zuckert’s claim that the Constitution does not legitimize slavery.

He argued that the lack of explicit references to race or slavery in the Constitution implied that many of the founders believed the institution was illegitimate.

Connor Phillips, a freshman, said that he felt the lecture raised many interesting points regarding the complex treatment of slavery in the Constitution.

Alex Oprea, a second-year public policy graduate student, found the lecture informative, saying that she wasn’t familiar with the debates among historians regarding the role of slavery in the Constitution.

“I always saw the issue through the eyes of the Civil War,” she said.

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State representatives discuss the Republican take-over of the General Assembly.

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The Black Caucus of North Carolina held a town hall meeting Wednesday outlining issues facing the state, including health care and voting rights.

Held in Durham’s First Calvary Baptist Church, the event featured several state representatives and senators—as well as leaders of the Black Caucus, officials of North Carolina Central University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and members of North Carolina Justice, an advocacy organization. These leaders addressed controversial moves that North Carolina has made since the Republican takeover of the General Assembly in 2012.

The event began with Democratic Sen. Floyd McKissick’s denunciation of the recently passed Voter Information and Verification Act—referred to as the Voter Intimidation and Vilification Act by Rep. Mickey Michaux, DN.C.. The bill made waves across North Carolina college campuses due to a clause denying the use of student IDs for voter registration.

“It’s more than just voter IDs. It’s about voter suppression,” McKissick said. “The voters more

likely to vote Democratic are suppressed.”

In addition to the student ID clause, the bill also eliminates same-day voter registration and reduces the early voting period. It also tightens the restrictions on what types of identification will be allowed to register to vote. Approximately 300,000 North Carolina residents without a government-issued ID will not be allowed to register under VIVA. “Controlling 300,000 votes with this legislation can have a profound and devastating effect,” McKissick said.

Rep. Valerie Foushee, D-N.C., addressed women’s issues next, focusing on the state abortion bill.

“Sooner or later, it will close every center in North Carolina that provides abortion services,” Foushee said. “But these clinics also provide cancer screenings, and the elimination of these services also denies affordable access to healthcare for women in North Carolina.”

Rep. Deb McManus, D-N.C., spoke about the impact of the legislature’s decision not to pass the Medicaid Expansion Act—the Act, voted down by Republicans, would have provided care for about 600,000 people in North Carolina. Care will still be provided for pregnant women, children and the disabled.

Adam Linker, policy analyst at the North Carolina Justice Center, continued the discussion on health care, noting that Durham was the only city in North Carolina to pass a resolution to expand Medicaid.

North Carolina received $74 million from the federal government to enroll more moderate-income people in the North Carolina health insurance exchange.

“But the state legislature rejected the money and sent it back to the federal government,” Linker said.

Rep. Garland Pierce, D-N.C., chairman of the North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus, closed the event with an ambitious message to his party and supporters.

“People ask me, ‘Where do we go from here?’ And the way I see it, in 2016, we have to take back all three houses—well, two houses and one mansion,” said Pierce, referring to the House, the Senate and the Governor’s Mansion.

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Graduate programs revise loans stipulations

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As of this academic year, graduate students have a new means of securing loans in advance of their stipends.

The Duke Credit Union has partnered with the Graduate School in order to provide graduate students with short-term loans. The two new packages are the Graduate Student Assistance Program and the Helen & Gordon McKinney Emergency Loan Fund.

Graduate students are paid monthly stipends, the first of which they receive in September after Duke has confirmed that they are on campus and ready to start classes. In the past, however, this has proven an inconvenience for incoming students who want to put down payments on a house but need the stipend money in order to do so.

Amol Yadav, president of the Graduate & Professional Student Council said, “The new loan wasn’t on the GPSC agenda for last year, but the GPSC President Bill Hunt initiated a dialogue with Graduate School Dean Paula McClain about students not getting their stipends until the end of September and having trouble financially, since they already move in early August.”

The Duke University Credit Union decided to partner with the Graduate School this year to assist graduate students.

“We knew that students were arriving in August short on cash and so we partnered with the graduate program to offer a loan product,” said Scottie Dowdy, a financial counselor at the credit union.

GSAP offers students loans of up to $2,500 for up to one year at a competitive interest rate. Students can use this money to settle into a new home or purchase a new computer.

In order to qualify for a GSAP loan, graduate students who receive a stipend from the University must first become a member of the Duke University Federal Credit Union with a minimum deposit of $25 in a savings account. These students can then apply and upon approval, loan payments can be made via mail, electronic payment, payroll deduction or in-person.

The interest rate is 8.75 percent during

the course of 12 months, which some graduate students consider to be steep.

“Something that I’ve heard from students is that the interest rate seems to be higher than expected,” Yadav said.

Because the GSAP loan is an unsecured loan as opposed to a student loan, it necessitates an interest rate.

“Students may be used to no interest rates on student loans but this rate is pretty good for an unsecured loan,” Dowdy said, “It’s less than what you’d pay for a credit card.”

Another loan available to graduate students came into existence this year. The Helen & Gordon McKinney Emergency Loan was created by the graduate school with funds from the Helen McKinney trust.

“Based on the guidelines in terms of the trust, we were able to utilize available resources and turn it into student funding,” said Shanna Fitzpatrick, director of budgets and finance at the Graduate School.

The emergency loan was advertised at orientation during multiple financial seminars in which the loan was introduced.

Five applications for the emergency loan have been submitted so far, and all five were approved.

The graduate school expects additional applicants for the emergency loan throughout the year.

“People are thrilled to have loans approved, based on the brief interaction that our office has had, students seem very appreciative of having emergency funds available,” Fitzpatrick said.

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Protest for peace

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Protesters gathered at Durham’s CCB Plaza to argue against U.S. intervention in Syria.

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PROTEST from page 1 “U.S. imperialism is dead in the sense that it can’t create stable territories,” Hardt said. “In fact, the failures of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are demonstrations of how dead U.S. imperialism is. The problem with dead U.S. imperialism is that it won’t stay buried.”

Frances Hasso, director of international comparative studies, noted that her academic focus on the Middle East informed her understanding of the situation in Syria. In her speech she dismissed the United States’ motivation for entering the war as ill-intentioned.

“The motives for this war are, quote-unquote, U.S. national security interests—not peace, justice or democracy for Syrians,” Hasso said. “There shouldn’t be a war because we’re okay with U.S. regimes, deadly violence and degradation of people and environment.”

Hasso noted the implicit contradiction in the United States’ hope to aid a country where its prisoners of terror were once sent to be tortured.

The students also held another protest Aug. 31 in honor of

the National Day of Action Against War with Syria.

“Our little coalition created the first event, but this is really the reach-out event,” said Mitali Routh, a Ph.D. student in art history. “We’ve had a hard time reaching out to the [Durham activist community.]”

The protest organizers are looking to move past the regional forum and affect change on Capitol Hill in addition to the Triangle. Rania Masri, School of the Environment ‘95 and one of the organizers of the event, called for rally participants to contact their Congressional representatives and urge them to vote against involvement in Syria.

“There have been 3,000 phone calls [to Congress] demanding constituents say no [to intervention in Syria,]” Masri said.

“Only three people from North Carolina have called in support of the issue.”

Masri passed around an open letter that participants could sign to show their support for the cause. She said the letter would be sent to members of Congress to show the outpouring of public outcry.

Masri noted the possible negative effects that could come from United States military involvement in Syria. She cited an increased death toll and an increase in number of refugees

that could result from U.S. intervention. She suggested a political solution would solve the crisis rather than a military attempt.

But Carl Kenney, a former columnist for The Durham Herald-Sun, appealed to spectators’ emotions. He referenced Sept.

11, with its anniversary fast approaching, and simplified it and the Syrian conflict to their base qualities—the loss of innocent lives.

“One thing we continue not to learn is that when we launch bombs in a land not our own, we risk taking the lives of innocent people,” Kenney said. “I’m standing today as one who says... beyond race, beyond gender, beyond orientation, beyond religion, this is wrong. Because any time we take life, that’s one life too many.”

RANKINGS

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“Programs to Look for”—undergraduate research and creative projects, writing in the disciplines, service learning and the senior capstone project.

Last week, the publication announced via a blog post that it had changed its ranking methodology. Peer assessment is not weighed as much as it previously was, and graduation and retention rates are considered more heavily. Additionally, the high school rank of a university’s students is weighed less than in years past with greater emphasis given to the average SAT and ACT scores of newly enrolled students, among other changes.

The reason behind Duke’s climb will require analysis, Schoenfeld said.

“When you’re bunched among the top 10—the 11 colleges in the top 10—even very small, almost imperceptible differences and changes in any factor can result in a big change,” he noted.

Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University and Columbia University are first, second, third and fourth on the list, respectively. Stanford University and the University of Chicago are tied for fifth. The top 10 is rounded out by the California Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College, which are tied for 10th.

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students noted there is still a lack of diversity in the food offered across campus.

Andre Aganbi, a junior, said most of the food served on campus is either soup or sandwiches and was disappointed that The Refectory was offering a similar selection.

Senior Jonathan Hafferkamp echoed this sentiment.

“I didn’t know what to expect at dinner,” he said. “I thought that there would be more options.”

Although The Refectory will provide another dining option for students at dinnertime, the extension of hours was not actually intended to compensate for the removal of old dining venues, Eder said.

“If we can alleviate that [problem], then we’re happy to do that,” she said.

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Sexual assault guideline should be codified In July, the Office of Student Conduct took a bold leap towards securing justice for victims of sexual assault when it agreed to increase the recommended sanction for sexual assault from suspension to expulsion. Duke students would be hard-pressed, however, to find evidence of this new guideline for it is not codified in any official documents.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said the Office of Student Conduct does not have strict rules for sentencing practices because “every case is different and merits thoughtful and distinctive consideration.” But failing to put the new sexual assault guidelines in writing calls into question the practical effect of the new guideline.

Additionally, the panel can choose not to apply the guideline if there are “compelling and mitigating factors” that justify variance, though there are no examples of what qualifies as compelling and mitigating factors.

It is not clear why the Office of Student Conduct has failed to codify the new rule.

Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of Office of Student Conduct, has refused to discuss the issue with the

Chronicle, and other administrators have also been reluctant to comment. Although Bryan’s silence is troubling, we suspect that any panel reviewing a sexual assault case would be aware of the guideline change.

By not codifying this guideline, however, the

Editorial Office of Student Conduct risks treating the new sanction as an informal rule rather than an official standard. If the guideline only applies when a panel decides to use it, the guideline could easily fall into disuse, and the ill-defined standard of “mitigating circumstances” almost begs circumvention.

Duke Student Government and the Office of Student Conduct have taken credit for the guideline change, but the rule’s weak implementation suggests that those groups do not want to be held accountable for giving the sanction teeth.

In general, Duke students deserve access to legitimate and detailed information about the University’s policy on sexual assault. It is

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unacceptable if students only learn of a major change through a DSG e-mail blast.

The absence of a written standard also raises practical concerns—how can a victim of sexual assault weigh his or her options without access to the University’s official sanctions? Although campus resources like the Women’s Center offer counseling, students should have a chance to gather information on their own. Moreover, though this change generated much buzz over the summer, how will future generations of students learn about the guideline if it is not recorded in any official documents?

The administration should accompany more severe consequences for sexual assault with better procedures. Refusing to codify the new guideline undermines its effectiveness and weakens the force of the victory.

If this policy is the triumph DSG claims it is, then it should be written down. Also, if the Office of Student Conduct refuses to produce a written standard, then it should explain its reasoning behind the decision. Serious rules should be codified and enforced, not implemented with a flippant, decide-as-you-go attitude.

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ndividuals who want to impact the public sector should turn their efforts to municipal government.

Cities are generally free from the brinkmanship of national and state politics, and by the year 2030, 60 percent of the people in the world will live in cities.

Whether the issue seeking impact is environmental or technological, small improvements in cities will yield big returns across the world.

Increasingly, cities are also becoming hubs for innovation. Municipal officials have different motivations than their national counterparts. While the local congressperson will ideally be elected because of his or her stances on political issues, most municipal politicians are elected by how efficiently they allocate city services. Your councilperson’s stance on universal health care matters little if he or she can deliver faster garbage pick-up, reduce crime and charge cheaper water bills. Different incentives foster a system that is collaborative and more open to change. Look at examples of innovation in cities across the country.

Boston used food trucks as inspiration to solve the complaint from citizens that traveling downtown for city services was difficult. They implemented “City Hall To Go,” a truck that travels and provides city services in different neighborhoods (think of a food truck that lets you pay your parking ticket or get a library card instead of buying tacos). In San Francisco, the “SFGov” mobile application allows citizens to quickly gather information on city services and connect with city officials. My favorite example is in Bogotá, where mimes were placed at traffic intersections to mock bad drivers. Immediately after the introductions of these public performers, traffic fatalities were down by more than 50 percent. Most innovation on college campuses is directed at international and humanitarian dilemmas. We have solar-powered cookers, portable medicine kits and mobile applications for refugees.

While these projects have tremendous potential, they are also—as I know from personal experience— difficult to scale. They may be too expensive to implement, too complicated to adopt or catered to an international organization that is resistant to change. They miss their opportunity for impact and forever remain just a good idea. The bureaucracy that limits innovation in large-scale institutions is not nearly as stifling in cities. While city budgets constrain the capital available for investment, the willingness to adapt is commonplace in municipalities and that will motivates officials to risk trying a new idea.

Duke students could potentially have significant impact if they directed their next innovation at cities, and if projects are successful at the city level, bigger institutions will likely also consider those ideas.This past summer, I interned at Houston City Hall, where I developed a mobile application called Support Local Grow Together. SLGT advertises local, small businesses to Houstonians, thereby increasing the businesses’ revenues and hopefully ensuring their

sustainability. Mobile searches are increasingly driving retail purchases, so businesses that are not online are quickly losing customers to establishments that

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are successfully leveraging mobile marketing. This is a problem that SLGT hopes to rectify. SLGT was a partnership between the City of Houston and the already existing SLGT movement in Houston. This partnership, in combination with open source code and inspiration from other examples of city innovation, facilitated the development of a product that would have otherwise required a significant financial investment. Other cities have more institutionalized methods of fostering innovation. There now exist offices devoted to improving city services through change and adaptation and offices that hire students with big ideas or host competitions that bring student innovators together. These competitions rapidly provide implementable solutions while also fostering a more entrepreneurial climate by taking problem solving to the crowd of diverse thought. On campus, our own form of municipal innovation has appeared in the form of campus enterprises and new services provided by old organizations. We now have budding food and grocery delivery services, mobile applications to track buses, a DukeMobile application that hastens the search for campus information and Fix My Campus—a platform that pipelines student complaints to student legislators. These ideas could see implementation at the municipal level, and we could similarly use projects that have worked in cities on our campus. Imagine if we had a more efficient waste collection system that reduces the trash overflow we see on weekends or a neighborhood watch program that reduces on-campus robberies. These ideas do not have to come from administrators. They can, like many of our best campus enterprises, germinate from students who take initiative to innovate at the local level. My internship at Houston City Hall showed me how dynamic, exciting and fulfilling municipal politics can be. Local government is rarely mired in the same partisan battles we see in Washington and in our state capitals. Cities are eager for good ideas. If we devoted more of our problem solving and advocacy to municipalities, we might see less crime, illiteracy, pollution and inequity. Small marginal changes, in the aggregate, can have tremendous impact.

Patrick Oathout is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Tuesday. Send Patrick a message on Twitter @ PatrickOathout.

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t’s easy to think that all Duke students would be happy to march in the annual Gay Pride Parade that passes by East Campus. The student body’s social liberalism means that we wait in line for hours to attend the Me Too Monologues and eagerly pick up our “Love=Love” t-shirts on Coming Out Day. My campus Christian group, for example, is having a fellowship outing this week—to the Fab Friday party at the renamed Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity. A Chronicle survey in 2011 found that 85 percent of Duke undergraduates want gay marriage legalized. But what about that 15 percent?

Today, I want to share what I heard from two people in that 15 percent. Two kind, smart Duke students who think homosexuality is sinful.

Both of these students oppose homosexuality based on their understanding of Christianity. One, who I’ll call Jeff, sees homosexuality as a “sexual sin just like fornication and adultery” that Paul condemns in the New Testament. (In Romans 1, for example, Paul talks about idolaters who rejected God and says that, “God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another.” Also refer to 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Timothy 1.) He thinks same-sex attraction “can be a completely natural tendency” but feels that it should be resisted, just like a married man must remain loyal to his wife despite temptations. He refers to Ephesians 5 as the basis for his belief that marriage “is symbolic of the union of Christ and the Church—man as Christ and woman as the Church.”

Jeff’s conservative views on sexuality cover other topics, too; homosexuality is far from the only sexual practice he considers sinful. He thinks sex “should wait until marriage [since] it’s something God created for marriage.” He rejects absolutist views and favors pragmatic solutions when it comes to sex education, though. He volunteered this summer in Central America and was asked to help with sex education classes. He demonstrated proper condom use for students, while encouraging them to stay faithful to their partners in sexual relationships. Even though he prefers the wait-till-marriage approach, he thinks “sexual education should be comprehensive [because] we know that abstinence-only education does not work.”

Samantha (also a pseudonym) offered a similar rationale. She thinks, “Homosexuality is not natural and is sinful behavior.” When she heard that Jeff called it a natural tendency, she disagreed and emphasized that she believes homosexuality is unnatural. She opposes legalizing gay marriage because she considers marriage a “sacred union that was first mentioned in the Bible.” Samantha was quick to note that she treats gay people equally; for example, “If a homosexual person needed a blood

donation, and I had the same blood type as [them], I would totally donate my blood.”

As a social liberal on a socially liberal campus, I was curious about one other thing: What does it feel like to hold an unpopular opinion on campus? Jeff talked about one class where the professor wanted to survey his students’ ideological diversity. The professor asked students to raise their hands if they opposed gay marriage. Jeff was the only person in the room to raise a hand. He “wanted to be honest” rather

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t doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect nations to consider foreign policy decisions in the context of the wishes of their allies abroad. However, globalization and ever-increasing cash flow have brought international oversight to all aspects of domestic policy in countries that receive large sums of aid. In Uganda, foreign aid accounted for 50 percent of the government budget in 2012, and these contributions are evident when you look at correlations between things such as the U.S. presidency and policy decisions in this small East African nation 8,500 miles away. Uganda’s recent history reveals no impressive effort against corruption or poverty. In

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than let his classmates assume that silence meant agreement. He said the situation “was intimidating because the entire class could have passed judgment” and “branded” him. The next class, another student sparked a discussion about homosexuality and religion. Jeff articulately explained his views, and the class seemed to listen openly without attacking him.

But there were definitely some pointed questions directed at the student who first raised the issue.

Samantha made a similar statement, which I’ll quote in full so she can speak for herself: “It is difficult to be a minority on campus when it comes to homosexuality. I feel that people immediately judge me as homophobic or as someone [who] detests homosexual people, and that is a wrong perception of who I am. Whenever people want to discuss why I think the way I do about homosexuality, and I tell them it’s because of my Christian and Latino background, people immediately dismiss my reasoning because they see it as backwards and close-minded. But to me, their dismissal seems just the same.”

For those of us who support gay marriage, it can be hard to remember that there are people who don’t agree with us. And it can be much, much harder to remember that these people are usually intelligent and caring individuals like Jeff and Samantha.

We also need to remember that there are many other intelligent, caring Americans out there who share their views. 42 percent of Americans oppose gay marriage, according to a May 2013 poll by the Pew Research Center. And North Carolinians passed Amendment One this spring by a 22-point margin, amending the state constitution so that “marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State.” Jeff and Samantha are in the minority on this campus, but we can’t simply dismiss their views—at Duke or in the nation.

Andrew Kragie is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

spite of this, the nation emerged as a leader amongst African nations in the early 1990s with an incredibly successful campaign against AIDS. Championing the cause, the Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni, promoted an ABC plan: abstinence, being faithful and condom use. Approximately 30 percent of the nation tested HIV positive in the 1980s, but by the mid-90s that number was brought down to 5 percent. Policy that promotes condom use—and not just to high-risk groups like sex workers and truck drivers—is striking in a country that is 42 percent Roman Catholic and, in fact, 84 percent Christian, but the efforts of Museveni and the support of traditional leaders were enough to overcome circumstances that would normally be barriers to pro-condom campaigns. Uganda saw progress where other African nations struggled to keep rates from rising further. This success story drew donors from left and right.

Countries and organizations flocked to support the glowing example in Africa, and, under George W. Bush’s presidency, millions more in U.S. dollars were earmarked for investment in Uganda, only this time supporting an abstinence and fidelity campaign. The first lady, Janet Museveni, rose to the occasion: Parades were held celebrating virgins and abstinence, a census sought to ascertain the number of virgins in Uganda and billboards that displayed colorful packets of condoms and read “don’t get it, don’t spread it,” were replaced by billboards showing the crested crane, Uganda’s national bird and a species that mates for life. Looking at the research, it’s hard to argue for abstinence-only sex education anywhere. The relative rates of unwanted pregnancy and STD transmission between individuals who were in abstinence-only curricula and those who were in programs that taught FDA-approved methods of contraception speak strongly in favor of the latter. Teenagers in abstinence-only programs wait no longer than individuals in more comprehensive programs to begin having sex, but they are 50 percent more likely than their counterparts to become pregnant as teenagers.

Despite this fact, however, federal funding for abstinence only programs was the norm during the 20th century in the U.S. It was only in the past couple years that North Carolina passed the Healthy Youth Act, requiring schools to teach FDA-approved methods of contraception. My middle school and high school health classes occurred before its passage and were limited to absurd and uninformative role-playing, practicing turning down the scripted propositions of other eighth graders. The consequences of these practices are even more damaging in Uganda, where HIV prevalence rates are so high. Even considering married couples, lack of awareness and availability of condoms is a serious public health threat; 65 percent of new HIV transmissions are between husband and wife. These discordant couples—couples who enter marriage with one HIV positive and one HIV negative partner—fall into the category of individuals who are allowed by all social and religious standards to have sex, but are unlikely to have access to condoms or educational material on methods of birth control based on newer anti-contraception momentum. Nobody is telling these individuals they should be abstinent, nor are they hearing that they should be using contraception. The result is often transmission.

A year ago, Uganda was one of two African nations where infection rates for HIV were rising, as evangelical ministers burned condoms on university campuses and AIDs education was removed from some schools curricula. The impetus for this about-face, after years of success, is programs like those funded by the Bush administration.

There are a lot of problems with aid and development work, but often they take the form of indirect damage, such as inefficiency or negligence. Yet when foreign aid dollars lead to the imposition of a donor’s value system, they can not only stagnate progress, but actually undo successes and advances previously achieved. International aid is tricky and can be a useful tool in accomplishing human rights ends when domestic governments fail to respect their people. But the enforcement of American norms and American standards abroad is incredibly hard to justify when there are basic health facts that determine these standards to be harmful. When it comes down to it, aid programs must be constantly examined and critiqued to ensure that money is spent wisely.

Lydia Thurman is a Trinity junior. Her biweekly column will run every other Tuesday. Send Lydia a message on Twitter @ThurmanLydia.

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Memphis brought a cornerback blitz on third-and-5. Anthony Boone pulled the ball away from his running back on a zone-read and tried to take it to the sticks himself.

When Boone was hit by Tiger cornerback Bobby McCain and fell to the turf, the entire trajectory of Duke’s season appeared to hang in the balance.

Boone was diagnosed with a broken right collarbone after the game. The injury will not require surgery, but Duke’s starting signal-caller will be out indefinitely.

In stepped backup quarterback Brandon Connette, who has done just about everything for his team during his collegiate career—except line up at the position he was recruited to play. Used situationally during his first three seasons, Connette dropped back just 45 times before Saturday’s game but led his team with the poise of a savvy veteran in a 28-14 victory to keep the Blue Devils undefeated in 2013.

“We’re very fortunate to have a young man like Brandon Connette,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “There’s a lot of programs that when you lose your starter in the second game in the first half, people struggle getting signals and operating their offense....

Brandon is a pretty special young man. He went in there and did a tremendous job running our offense.”

Connette was not listed on the Blue Devils’ two-deep depth chart before each game last season because he could not be labeled under a single position. This earned the redshirt junior the title of “the phantom”—opponents never knew where he would show up.

Appearing all over the field for Duke in 2012, Connette lined up as a short-yardage quarterback, a running back, tight end and wide receiver. He racked up 12 touchdowns last season—throwing three short touchdown passes to tight end David Reeves, run-

phantom last season, but his lone condition was that he remain in position meetings with the quarterbacks.

“Staying in the quarterback meeting room really helped me out a lot,” Connette said. “You learn how to be a quarterback, but at the same time you have to know what everyone else is doing, so I had to know all the other positions too.”

After a successful campaign as the Blue Devils’ phantom, Connette was poised to take on a bigger role this season after Renfree graduated, and Boone’s insertion as the starter gave Duke a bigger emphasis on the zone-read running scheme. But when redshirt freshman Thomas Sirk was sidelined with a ruptured Achilles during spring practice, Connette found himself the No. 2 quarterback on the depth chart.

Now with Boone out of the picture for the near future, it appears Duke’s hopes of a second consecutive bowl trip for the first time in program history will rest on Connette’s ability to play under center full-time.

Connette has seen the other side of this story. Duke’s new starter missed the 2011 season after suffering a season-ending shoulder injury in the Blue Devils’ third game. It was his freshman roommate, Boone, who helped him cope with his injury and rehabilitation process.

With Boone relegated to the sidelines, Connette will use that experience to help the injured Boone through his own injury struggles.

“He was one of the people that really helped me through that season—keeping me motivated, keeping me on top of

This past weekend marked the start of the 2013 NFL season.

Usually, I can’t wait for the boys of fall to take the field. I should’ve been at least as excited for this year as I’ve been for seasons past, seeing how many interesting story lines there were going into Sunday: the ramifications of the Aaron Hernandez indictment, the Jets’ joke of a quarterback situation (that butt-fumble never gets old) and Sean Payton returning to New Orleans, among others.

Being from Philadelphia, I’m especially optimistic about my hometown Eagles’ situation, as Andy Reid is (finally) gone, and the Chip Kelly era has begun.

But, honestly, I couldn’t tell you how the Patriots did Sunday. I don’t know who started for the Jets at quarterback.

Did Sean Payton lead the Saints to victory? I have no idea.

In terms of the NFL, I am just so out of it.

Instead, I’ve been spending a lot of time learning about and covering Duke sports. I may not be able to name my own Eagles’ offensive line, but, the thing is, I can name every single player on the Blue Devil field hockey team.

I know the squad’s record, its leading goal scorer and the goals against average of its goalkeeper.

I wish I had a strong opinion on Joe Flacco’s new contract, but I don’t. I do opine, though, that the Duke men’s soccer team is grossly underrated. I think that its influx of young offensive talent combined with its new goalkeeper will make the Blue Devils a serious contender in the ACC. I know that the men’s golf team will be the defending ACC champions when they open up their fall season next week. I know that the women’s soccer team enters ACC play with a struggling offense, but a dominant defense. I know that the volleyball team has swept every foe it has faced so far, except for the two ranked opponents who swept it.

Usually, I pride myself on the fact that I can talk about sports with anyone, specifically professional sports. To me, sports are the great connector. Give me my roommate, who once asked me how many touchdowns Mason Plumlee scored; put me in a room with all my guy friends, who each have ESPN as their homepages and are currently wholeheartedly dedicated to winning their fantasy football leagues; let me

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With junior Anthony Boone sidelined indefinitely, redshirt junior Brandon Connette has been handed the reigns to the Blue Devil offense. ning for eight and catching a touchdown pass from Sean Renfree.

It all started as an experiment during spring practice before the 2012 season.

Duke’s coaches had drawn up a trick play where Connette would line up at tight end and throw a pass on a reverse—the only problem was, the defense would be sure to see it coming if a quarterback lined up at tight end.

“Jokingly in the meeting room, they said ‘let’s just make it more permanent, then,’” Connette said. “So on the practice field, we started doing other stuff with it—having me run routes and block a little bit.”

Connette said he was glad to play Duke’s

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Junior Sean Davis entered the 2013 season with just one goal to his name but has already scored two through three games this year.

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Sophomore Zach Mathers has also tallied two goals this year, but the Blue Devils have found the back of the net on just four of their 47 shots.

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Although they have had no shortage of scoring opportunities this fall, the Blue Devils will need to be more efficient.

Duke returns home to play Georgia Southern at Koskinen Stadium 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Blue Devils Georgia (1-1-1) led 1-0 against Southern No. 14 Maryland last vs. weekend until three Duke Terrapin goals in just 12 minutes put the upset out of reach.

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“We took a lot of Koskinen Stadium good things from the Maryland game, because we did a lot of things well,” Blue Devil head coach John Kerr said. “We scored the first goal and then we had three chances to go up 2-0 before they scored. Unfortunately we couldn’t convert.”

Duke faces a Georgia Southern team that is coming off a spirited 2-1 comeback win over Gardner-Webb. The Eagles (1-1) fell behind early but fought back to win and finish second in the SoCon/Big South challenge.

The Blue Devils will have to watch out for Georgia Southern’s veteran Witt Carlisle, who has the potential to be a serious difference maker. Entering the 2013 campaign as the Eagles’ leading goal scorer, the redshirt senior forward had a hat trick during a preseason contest against Central Florida and has already scored once this season.

“They have two or three very good players,” Kerr said. “But at the same time, I’m really concerned with what we’re doing and how we approach the game. I feel that if we go about the game properly, I think you’ll see some good soccer, and we’ll put some balls in the back of the net.”

The Blue Devils will hope that their

defense, which struggled in the second half against the Terrapins, focuses and returns to its 2012 form. That unit allowed just 13 goals in its 18 matches last season, but has already given up four goals in three contests this year.

“It’s a good opportunity tomorrow night against Georgia Southern to get a lot of things right,” Kerr said. “We’re not taking anything for granted…and we have to be on our toes.”

One of the members of that defensive unit, newcomer goalkeeper Alex Long, has impressed despite the number of goals Duke has relinquished.

“He’s done a really good job in transition from his old team to here at Duke,” Kerr said.

“He’s got a lot of good qualities, and Friday night against Maryland was not his best game.

Hopefully he can bounce back and give a solid performance, and get a shutout and move forward.”

To compensate for its weaker defensive showing so far, Duke will need to improve its shooting. The Blue Devils have taken 47 shots, including putting 17 on goal, but they have only found the net four times, one of which was a Sean Davis penalty kick.

The Blue Devils will need a few more of those shots to cross the line against an Eagles defense that has conceded 1.5 goals per game so far. Duke currently has a surprising goal-scoring co-leader in Davis, whose two goals so far have doubled his career goal output. Zach Mathers, the Blue Devils’ other leading goal scorer, will look to regain the form that saw him win the MVP award in the John Rennie Nike Invitational two weeks ago.

Another Blue Devil who has started strong is freshman Brody Huitema. He already has an assist on the year and his 11 shots on goal this season are third in the ACC just ahead of teammate Davis’ 10.

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interview an athlete, and I’ll show each of them how much we can bond over our mutual knowledge and enjoyment of the game.

It’s sad, because I love professional sports. But this fall so far, between school, my friends, my extracurricular commitments, trying to maintain a semblance of a social life and an on-campus job, I don’t have much time to dedicate to them. Plus, with my commitment to The Chronicle, I need to scan NCAA. com looking for the statistics on assist leaders in college soccer, not check the football scoreboard like I’ve done in the past.

So have I been a bad sports fan this fall? Is the fact that I can’t name one Patriots wide receiver anymore negated

by the fact that I have extensive knowledge on the Duke cross country team?

Is my lack of caring about Tim Tebow’s future in the NFL balanced out by my attendance at multiple Duke field hockey games?

My friends certainly don’t seem to think that I have been a loyal sports fan this fall. I understand that, until it’s basketball season, they don’t exactly prioritize Blue Devil sports. Even though football, our most “relevant” fall sport, reached a bowl game last year, it’s going to take a while until the team can compete with primetime Alabama games, Johnny Manziel or darties for my friend’s attention on the weekends.

No, until the winter, Duke sports are an afterthought to most of them.

But this year, I have eaten, breathed and lived the Blue Devils, and I think

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that it has made me a better sports fan than ever before.

To me, sports fandom is about the appreciation and discussion of the game, and I have had the opportunity to do that extensively during my time at Duke with a variety of sports. No matter what team I get to see—whether it was witnessing the men’s lacrosse team’s national championship this summer, or sitting in the freezing cold watching a nearly four-hour long extra-inning Duke baseball game—I have felt honored to be watching Division I athletics.

My articles with The Chronicle then give me a forum to review and comment on what I just witnessed and to find a story buried beneath the performances and statistics.

And I love it.

So I’m sorry if I had to finish my field hockey game story Sunday night instead of watching the first football Sunday of the year. I appreciate the Blue Devils’ double-overtime victory against Rutgers just as much as I appreciate Peyton Manning’s record-breaking performance in Denver. I may be out of the loop on sports that most people think matter, but I don’t have time to think about that—the soccer team is playing tonight.

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things, making sure I didn’t become depressed being out for the whole season.”

Connette said. “Seeing the way he helped me through that has really helped me know how to approach him when he’s going through this.”

Despite the loss of its starting quarterback, Duke’s offense responded well with Connette under center against Memphis. The redshirt junior finished 14-for-21 on the afternoon, throwing for 198 yards and two touchdown passes. He said that as the Blue Devils head into their ACC opener against Georgia Tech this weekend, it will be business as usual for the offensive unit.

Part of that usual approach will be Connette’s hard-nosed running style. Connette may be Duke’s phantom no more, but that’s one element of his game that he said will not disappear. Goal-line quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers and tight ends don’t usually slide at the end of a run. Even as Duke’s new full-time starter, Connette said he will not be taking extra measures to preserve his health.

“I don’t think I’ve ever slid in my football career, and I don’t really see that happening in the near future unless Coach Cutcliffe forces me to,” Connette said. “Even then, it’ll be pretty hard to do it.”

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Although has focused less on professional sports, columnist Danielle Lazarus has remained a diehard sports fan thanks to the wealth of Division I teams at Duke.

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8 Notable watchmakers 13 Abbr. in two state names 14 Mattress giant 15 Ship of 1492 16 It makes gray go away 17 Make off with some raffle tickets?

19 Loosen, as a knot 21 “Give ___ whirl” 22 Lake creators 23 Make off with some kitchenware?

27 “Great blue” wader 28 Washes away 32 Italian exile island 34 Shredded 37 Scene of gladiatorial combat 38 “That stinks!”

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55 Attraction for a butterfly 58 Big guns in D.C. lobbying?

59 Open, as a jacket 60 Make off with some gym equipment?

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47 One of two of Henry VIII’s six

39 Woman’s sleeveless undergarment, informally 40 Actress Russo

49 Not idle 51 Form tight curls in

43 Type who wears 52 “Horrible” Viking, tight-fitting jeans in the comics and thick-rimmed glasses, maybe 53 Downy duck

54 Sudden outpouring 55 Woes 56 Mob gone wild 57 “Assuming that’s true …”

61 Ironically humorous 62 Payer of many dr. bills 63 Helpful hint

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