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Two sides of life for EMTs
ONE ONE HUNDRED HUNDRED AND AND EIGHTH ninthYEAR, YEAR,Issue Issuexxx 36
Defense keys comeback in Virginia
Social life unaffected by nature of calls by Tony Shan The Chronicle
Student emergency medical technicians in Duke Emergency Medical Services handle serious cases of binge drinking while balancing their social and professional lives. Despite responding to numerous alcoholrelated calls, members of the EMS squad said that their personal opinions on Duke’s drinking scene have not changed. Approximately 17 percent of the calls that Duke EMS receives are related to alcohol, mostly occurring at the end of the week, said Krishan Sivaraj, operations officer of Duke EMS. Squad members, however, must maintain professional behavior when providing care. “Honestly, it is what it is, it’s Duke culture—we drink,” Sivaraj, a junior, said. T.J. Breshears, a second year graduate student in the Divinity School and equipment officer for Duke EMS, noted that although experiences with certain patients have shed light on the dangers of binge drinking, squad members are still normal students that make their own decisions. “It’s a cautionary tale to us, but it doesn’t mean that Duke EMS has sworn off alcohol,” Breshears said. For Sivaraj, the fact that EMS provides only medical attention and is uninvolved in repercussions from law enforcement helps him keep his work experiences from encroaching on his social life too much. “People shouldn’t be afraid of us,” he said. “We’re not the cops, we’re here to help.” See ems, page 8
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Duke’s defense clamped down in the second half as the Blue Devils picked up their first ACC victory. by Danielle Lazarus The Chronicle
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.—Duke’s 35-22 comeback win against Virginia was a tale of two defenses. In five of their seven games so far this season, the Blue DUKE 35 Devils have surmore UVA 22 rendered points in the first half than the second half. Duke fared no
differently against Virginia, allowing the Cavaliers to score 22 in the first before shutting them out in the second. “Some guys, you could see their heads were going down a little bit,” redshirt senior defensive end Kenny Anunike said. “But then you had senior leaders… walking around and saying, ‘You know who we are and you know what we do.’ We’ve practiced, we are Duke and we finish games and that’s exactly what we decided
[to do].” Virginia ran all over the Blue Devils during the first 30 minutes, accumulating 280 yards of offense, including 187 passing yards. Quarterback David Watford went 13-for-23 in the air, continuously finding holes in Duke’s defense—most notably, his 13-yard completion to a wideopen Kevin Parks for a touchdown. The See football, sportwrap page 4
North Carolina cities among poorest in America, survey finds by Aleena Karediya The Chronicle
On a new list of the country’s top-ten poorest cities, three are in North Carolina. The three cities on this list are Lumberton, Roanoke Rapids and Forest City, which have average incomes of $28,293, $29,930 and $32,836, respectively, according to a Yahoo! Homes analysis of the 2012 American Community Survey. Economics professor Thomas Nechyba said these values may seem significant and of concern, but they only represent small, rural areas of North Carolina, not the state as a whole. “I don’t think you can extrapolate much from three tiny cities in North Carolina,” he said.
The ACS releases yearly statistics on the population of the United States such as age, race, location and income. These statistics, when sorted between different metropolitan and micropolitan areas, give insight into the wealth distribution of the country. Representatives of the ACS, which is part of the U.S. Census Bureau, were not available for comment in time for publication due to the government shutdown. According to the data, the median U.S. household income in 2012 was $51,371. The 10 poorest cities are all considerably under this value and do not exceed an average income of $33,000. In addition, the low-income areas show similar geographical makeup. Nine out of 10 of the cities, for
example, are from the South—the outlier being Gallup, N.M.—and six out of 10 have populations of fewer than 100,000. People of Lumberton—the first poorest city—do not feel like they are in one of the poorest cities in the country, said Susan Walker, owner of Candy Sue’s Downtown and member of the Lumberton Chamber of Commerce board of directors. “The business that I run is doing just as well as it’s always been doing,” Walker said. “In a location such as ours, excessive money isn’t really necessary. There are no signs of extreme poverty like the report would have you believe. Comfortable lifestyles are very prevalent in our small rural town.” Nechyba questioned the methods used
to compile this list, saying that some important factors were left out of the process. “All of these cities, for instance, are in low cost-of-living areas – but no adjustment is made to account for that,” he noted. “[Fifty-thousand dollars] means a lot more in rural North Carolina than it does in New York City – but these kinds of lists completely ignore that.” Josh Ellis, deputy secretary for communications and external affairs at the North Carolina Department of Commerce, also noted that several factors need to be considered when comparing incomes of different areas. See poor cities, page 8