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ytnC selects Obama announces innovation hub at N.C. State 10 semifinalists

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The Young Trustee nominating committee has selected 10 semifinalists.

The semifinalists are Alikiah Barclay, Marcus Benning, Steven Blaser, Valentine esposito, neil Kondamuri, Marc osian, Jacob Tobia, Katherine Zhang, hong Zhu and Jacob Zionce, said YTnc chair Katya Prosvirkina, a senior. eight of the 10 are seniors, with the exceptions being Barclay—who graduated in Winter 2013—and Zionce, who is a junior.

Barclay was also a semifinalist for the position last year.

The Young Trustee serves one year on the Board of Trustees as a nonvoting member and two years as a voting member. chris Brown, Trinity ‘13, was elected Young Trustee in last year’s election.

All of the applicants for the position were named semifinalists, Prosvirkina said, a situation which also occurred in last year’s selection process. Duke Student Government bylaws require a minimum of eight semifinalists with no maximum.

The nominating committee will name two to five finalists by next Wednesday,

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President Barack obama is aiming for energy manufacturing to be the future of the U.S. economy, with raleigh, n.c. at the center of development. obama gave a 20-minute speech Wednesday to a crowd at the J.W. isenhour Tennis center at north carolina State University, focusing mainly on ways to induce economic growth in the energy sector. he announced his plan to create the next Generation Power electronics innovation institute, a $140 million measure to be housed at n.c.

State’s centennial campus and include academic, government and industry partners. The institute, obama said, will work on developing new energy solutions See OBAmA, page 5

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North Carolina ranked No. 2 state for solar capacity

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Duke’s Smart Home uses solar panels.

According to a report from a leading market analyst, the future of solar energy in north carolina is looking bright. nPD Solarbuzz, a solar energy market research and analysis firm, recently ranked north carolina the second-highest state in terms of solar capacity in the country, losing only to california. The 2013 report marked an improvement from the previous year, when north carolina ranked fifth nationally in solar energy capacity. larry Shirley, the director of operations

and planning at the nicholas institute for environmental Policy Solutions, attributes north carolina’s ascension to solar-friendly policies. he noted specifically the 2007 renewable portfolio standard law that mandates that 12.5 percent of utilities come from renewable energy sources.

“That seemed to ignite solar within the state,” Shirley said, also noting the 35 percent state solar tax credit as a juicy business incentive.

Blair Schooff, a spokesperson for Strata Solar, a leading producer of solar panels in the state, attributes the rise of solar to a combina-

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tion of favorable policy and efforts at north carolina’s universities.

“The [north carolina State] Solar center’s Database of State incentives for renewable energy is recognized internationally as the resource for renewable energy information,” Schooff wrote in an email Wednesday. “All the major universities have played an active role in raising awareness.”

Shirley, a founder and former director of the Solar center, said he was excited about the solar industry’s prospects in north carolina, citing the influx of solar companies to the See SOLAr POWer, page 6

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DSG debates new plan for College presidents gear up student activities fee allocation for White House event

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A heated debate ensued Wednesday night at the first Duke Student Government meeting of the semester as senior Daniel Strunk, DSG chief justice, proposed a new plan for student activities fee allocation.

Termed The 40% Plan—formerly known as the $100 plan—Strunk proposed that students should be allowed to allocate 40 percent of their student activities fee to student groups of their choosing during the first week of each semester. The remaining 60 percent of the fee would go to the Student Organization Finance Committee’s pool of money, as would any money not allocated by students.

“One of the most common objections I hear is that students just don’t know enough to allocate their own money,” Strunk said.

“The ethical response is that this is the students’ money to begin with, they should be able to decide where it goes.”

Students would not be able to allocate their funds to student living groups under this plan, Strunk said, as these tend to be selective and would therefore not host events open to all undergraduate students.

Strunk’s argument focused on the prediction that this plan would incentivize groups to be more efficient with their allocated funds and would increase student interest and involvement in student organizations.

“What it boils down to the most is, do you trust students?” Strunk said. “I trust students, I think students would be empow-

ered by this.”

DSG President Stefani Jones, a senior, said SOFC is concerned with allocating funds equally to all student organizations on campus and that The 40% Plan would ultimately harm student groups with few members.

Jones said visible and popular student groups such as Duke University Improv would likely garner the greatest amount of funding, even though their group operates on a very limited budget. She added that students would likely not research individual student groups’ funding needs in the same way that SOFC does before granting funds.

“This isn’t the kind of thing that a student could do on their own,” Jones said.

“I really don’t think students are going to research all 400 student groups on campus prior to allocating their money.”

Strunk is currently collecting signatures to put The 40% plan on a referendum.

In response to the recent DSG judiciary case, Daniel Strunk v. DSG—formerly known as the $100 plan v. DSG—Executive Vice President Nikolai Doytchinov, a junior, informed the senate of resultant changes to voting protocol. Doytchinov said students will continue to use their Net ID and password to log in to vote, but that electronic signatures are now accepted with corresponding Net ID and unique ID. In other business: Student email will be migrating to Office See DSG, page 6

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Gene Spurling, director of the National Economic Council, held a press call Wednesday evening previewing a White House event on expanding college opportunity to be held Thursday.

College and university presidents were invited to the White House event, as well as leaders from nonprofits, foundations and state governments. President Richard Brodhead was invited to the summit, however he is unable to attend because he is returning from a long-planned trip to China Wednesday night, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

“The focus of the meeting is college access and affordability for low-income students, two issues that have been priorities for Duke for many years and will continue to be in the future,” Schoenfeld wrote in an email Wednesday.

Spurling noted the importance of targeting education for low-income youth, adding that the concept of “economic mobility” is a very American one. She added that by enabling youth to receive the education their intellect requires, the entire economy will benefit.

“It is a critical measure for us, being true to our values of economic mobility but also to have the type of opportunity that will allow us to have stronger economic growth,” Spurling said. “We had no desire to have a one-day event. This was about action and increasing the things that people were going to do to help low-income kids move up Now registering registering Now campers for campers for summer 2014! summer 2013!

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Spurling said those born in a family whose income is in the bottom quartile only have a 9 percent chance of graduating from college, whereas those in the top quartile have a 54 percent chance.

The conference’s goal is to try and find methods to expand college access and affordability for lower income students, Spurling said. College and university presidents who attend the summit must pledge to pursue an initiative dedicated to meeting this goal.

Schoenfeld noted that expanding college opportunity for lower income students has been a priority for Duke for many years. “[Duke has] a longstanding commitment to need-blind admissions and meeting the full demonstrated need of all students, reducing student debt, expanding recruiting to underserved areas and developing partnerships with organizations like KIPP and Say Yes to Education, which focus on creating college opportunities for low-income students,” he said.

The event is also intended to educate college leaders on a phenomenon where lower-income students attend universities far below their achievement level due to cost, Spurling said. He added that such a trend can harm low-income students’ ability to thrive professionally later in life.

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Students battle stress in search for post-grad jobs

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President Barack Obama announced his plan to open the Electronics Innovation Institute at North Carolina State University Wednesday.

The beginning of Spring semester kicks off the summer internship and post-graduation job search, and the stress can take quite a toll on the student body.

The fear of not finding a job, coupled with baseline academic and extracurricular commitments, can make it easy for students to burn out. Stress can be exacerbated when one starts comparing their own job prospects to that of others, said Gary Glass, associate director for outreach and developmental programming at Counseling and Psychological Services. These comparisons often delude students away from their own job ambitions and focus instead on the priorities of other students.

Additionally, stress from searching for jobs could reflect deeper feelings of failure and can cause students to focus on the negatives rather than the positives.

“When you are pessimistic, you are not going to be as sharp, and that will create a self-fulfilling prophecy,” he added.

The search can be particularly stressful for finance students, said senior Lauren McGuiggan, an economics major.

“Given that having a summer banking internship is crucial to eventually receiving a full-time offer, there can be a lot of pressure on students as they interview for such internships,” she said.

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pecially coming back from a semester abroad.”

Although recruiting will always be somewhat stressful, there are ways to balance your schedule so one does not completely fall of the rails, said Emma Rasiel, professor of economics and academic director of financial education partnership.

With regard to on-campus interviews, Rasiel noted the importance of signing up early to avoid claiming slots that conflict with class time. Additionally, during the heavy recruitment period beginning on January 27 and ending in mid to late February, students should consider minimizing their extra-curricular activities.

“Don’t commit yourself to a committee that requires you to be in two meetings a week in that time,” Rasiel said.

“You are going to be incredibly busy, and it’s going to be enough trouble just to keep up with course work.”

For finance, early involvement in extracurricular activities, however, is a good way to prepare future applicants for the professional world, noted senior Katya Prosvirkina.

“I think students who are in groups like Consulting Club, Investment Club, [Duke Association for Business Oriented Women] have it much easier because they get a very structured exposure to career possibilities early on,” she said.

“That definitely made my process easier and allowed me to network much earlier.”

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Cancer researcher chosen to head Hutchinson Institute Dr. Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, a researcher and former professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, has been chosen to head the Hutchinson Institute for Cancer Outcomes Research based at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The institution evaluates different cancer treatment strategies along with their economic implications and presents the information to both doctors and patients in order to aid them in choosing an ideal treatment plan. Lyman, who began his position as co-director on Jan. 2, spoke with The chronicle’s Aleena Karediya to discuss the institution and his vision for the future.

TC: This added dimension of cost analysis seems like a novel way to change an old model of health analysis. Do you see this model being rolled out to analyzing treatments for other diseases such as diabetes or heart disease?

GL: Absolutely. in fact, many of the members of the institute come from medical backgrounds that focus on things completely unrelated to cancer. our model can be applied to any realm of medicine where expensive diagnostic tests or treatments are available that can improve patient outcomes. everybody is The Chronicle: how is the hutchin- looking for that balance between cost son institute for cancer outcomes re- and effective treatment, and our syssearch different from other cancer insti- tematic, analytic approach is definitely tutes across the United States? something that can be rolled out to othGary Lyman: This institute, headed er diseases. it’s not unique to cancer, but by my fellow co-chair [Dr. Scott ramsey] is applicable to everything from orthoand i, will be looking at patterns of pedics to kidney disease. health care dealing with cancer, cancer treatments, side effects and outcomes TC: What is the reach of this model so such as quality of life and survival rates. far, in terms of geography?

The dimension we add that’s wholly GL: Because our institute is based in unique to our program is that of cost. Seattle, we’ve chosen to roll out the proWe’ll be looking at the holistic effect gram gradually, starting with the northof cancer on the lives of these patients, east and working our way down. The ranot only in terms of the disease, but also leigh-Durham area in particular seems in terms of cost. essentially, we evaluate like a great place to implement our and compile raw data showing which model, especially because of the high [treatment] options have the greatest concentration of research and health invalue economically and medically, and stitutes in the area. present this information to patients in order to help them make informed deciTC: What sort of feedback have you sions about their battle through cancer. received so far from the people targeted it’s a very useful approach for improving by your model? existing health care, specifically cancer GL: Keep in mind that we’re still in care and alleviating the heavy economic the beginning stages of implementation. burden that families face when dealing however, we have seen intense interest with the costs of treatment. from the community, everyone from

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physicians and patients to insurance payers and policy makers. i think this tells us that we’re on the right track. in the short term, about six to twelve months from now, we’ll definitely see more tangible results in the form of personal anecdotes and decreased patient debt, but for now, we can only work further to wrap up the final details of our program.

TC: how does this link to the research that you’ve done here at Duke?

GL: My research at Duke is pretty consistent with the principles of the institution that i’m heading now. i was formerly part of the comparative effectiveness and outcomes research Program in oncology, which also conducts cost vs. benefit analysis on dozens of different cancer treatment options. i actually plan on moving the research program closer to where i am now, because there’s such a strong correlation between my work now and my work at Duke.

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using wide bandgap semiconductors.

“American workers will be able to come right here, to north carolina, to learn the skills that companies are looking for,” obama said. “The next generation of manufacturing will be an American revolution.” he explained that wide bandgap semiconductor research can be used to create technology, such as cell phones and electric cars, in a less expensive and more electrically efficient way than normal semiconductors.

The manufacturing hub, as obama called it, will take steps to advance wide bandgap semiconductors from their current developmental state toward being useful for the industry and consumers.

Before his speech, obama toured the raleigh facility of Vacon, inc., a manufacturer that designs Ac drives for electric motors. he spoke of the company as an example of how companies developing more efficient energy sources will ultimately save customers money and have a positive environmental impact. in addition, such companies promote economic growth and assist with regaining jobs that were offshored during the 2009 recession, he said.

The electronics innovation institute in raleigh will not be the first of its kind, as another was launched over a year ago in Youngstown, ohio. Two more manufacturing hubs will be proposed in the coming weeks, he said. obama noted that bills attempting to legislate the creation of 45 hubs remain in progress in congress, but for now the administration is taking executive steps independently to keep advancing the project until the bills pass.

The Department of energy commissioned $70 million for the raleigh project and was matched by another $70 million in non-federal cost sharing from 25 companies, universities and governmental organizations, according to a White house fact sheet. The funding will act as a five-year investment in the manufacturing hub. “i’m here to act, to help make raleigh-Durham— and America—a magnet for the good, high-tech manufacturing jobs that a growing middle class requires and that are going to continue to keep this country on the cutting edge,” obama said. “The pieces are all there to start bringing back more of the jobs that we’ve lost over the past decade.” he specifically referenced n.c. State’s large undergraduate engineering program as a resource for companies such as cisco and iBM looking for skilled engineers to hire, which—along with the technological resources and facilities of the centennial campus— makes the university an ideal place to form the new institute.

“We’re getting this honor to have this institution here,” said Kane Gooden, a sophomore engineering student at ncSU. “it’s great to know that we have all these new resources coming in and good companies coming in and it’s going to help grow the economy here.” obama was introduced by ncSU chancellor randy Woodson, who emphasized the historicity of the university’s involvement in innovation preceding obama’s personal announcement about the electronics institute.

“The tradition of educating the workforce for the future is sparking economic development,” Woodson said. “no one in the world knows this emerging technology better than n.c. State.” edye Morris-Bryant, principal of the centennial campus Magnet Middle School on ncSU’s campus, said she was inspired by the president’s speech and plan for the university to be involved in the new project.

“Being a leader of a middle school and having the influence over the future workers, i love that he said we don’t give up—we innovate, we adapt,” she said. “That’s what a teacher does every day.” in addition to several hundred n.c. State community members and students, the audience included Secretary of energy ernie Moniz, n.c. Governor Pat Mccrory, Durham Mayor Bill Bell, chapel hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and raleigh Mayor nancy McFarlane.

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Additionally, conversations with Duke alumni and seniors can also help make the process more accessible, McGuiggan said.

“They really helped me learn how to tell my story in an interview, meaning explain why i was interested in finance and why i felt like i would make a good investment banking analyst,” she said.

For non-finance jobs, a lack of concrete structure may prove to be another challenge facing some seniors.

There often is not a designated time period when all applications are due, said senior Danielle nelson, a women’s studies and spanish double major.

“Most of the jobs i’m applying for have deadlines around late February or early March, but i’m not sure when they will get back to me,” she said.

Additionally, some employers don’t post available positions until later in the semester or until they need someone, leading to anxiety.

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“it makes me feel a little uncertain because there’s no guarantee that...an organization will be hiring when i’m actively looking for post-grad job opportunities,” nelson said.

Glass noted that students often blow their job search out of proportion, and should instead look at the bigger picture.

“Think of it as just a very tiny first step in a life long process and be able to put that in perspective,” he said.

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Prosvirkina noted. The undergraduate student body will then vote to determine the winner.

The YTNC altered its classifications for conflicts of interest between committee members and applicants—now including a category for moderate conflicts of interest, in addition to minor and major ones as before.

According to a document obtained by The Chronicle, the 14 members of the YTNC declared 26 minor conflicts of interest, 13 moderate conflicts of interest and 14 major conflicts of interest with the 10 semifinalists.

“So far it’s been working very well, because everyone’s very honest,” Prosvirkina said. “It’s quite detailed in terms of defining affiliation.”

Last year, the YTNC declared 13 minor and eight major conflicts of interest with the eight semifinalists.

“This year, we took a very extensive meeting to define the different types of conflict,” Prosvirkina said. “In detail, we checked each other’s level of conflict.”

Zhang and Kondamuri are members of The Chronicle’s independent editorial board. Zhang served as chair of the editorial board last year.

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state.

“This is a homegrown, state-generated resource,” he said. “It requires business and workers to design, plan and install [the panels].”

Lowell Sachs, the director of communications at the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association, also said that he was optimistic, but noted that the industry faces some political obstacles. “[There is] an ongoing debate being waged in the state legislature over whether the productive clean energy policies we have had in place should continue,” he said. “The uncertainty that that debate has created, to some extent, has had a chilling effect on further development.”

Schooff said that Strata Solar has been deeply involved in the politics around solar energy.

“The industry, and our collective bodies such as the NCSEA have done an excellent job of bringing the story of the modern solar industry to the legislature,” he wrote.

Shirley said Strata Solar was important to the success of solar in North Carolina, noting that the firm employs hundreds of people and has turned large tracts of land into solar farms. He added that the main challenge the industry faced was providing a more efficient and less costly form of energy than lessclean alternatives. He noted that even the most efficient solar panels are only operating at 20 to 22 percent efficiency, and that though the price of solar energy is decreasing, it is still more expensive than other energy sources.

Sachs said that North Carolinians need to continue to encourage the growth of the solar industry.

“If you look at the numbers and the benefits that have flowed into the state, they would point toward the fact that [solar-friendly] policies should be continued and welcomed,” he said.

Schooff said that Strata was optimistic that politicians would continue to encourage development.

“When members from both sides of the aisle hear the facts about job growth, investment, the opportunities it provides landowners...mostly everybody becomes a staunch supporter of the industry,” he said.

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365 in February. Douglas Drum, senior information technology manager, addressed the senate about the change, noting that email in the new program will be integrated with calendaring, tasks and Duke contacts. The migration to the new system will begin February 3 and will conclude February 14.

The senate granted $3,695 through SOFC to Delta Sigma Theta for their upcoming charity ball on January 25, which will be open to all students and held at the Washington Duke Inn. The senate also granted $2,812 to Duke Cru to bring a speaker to campus for the annual Veritas Forum on January 29, $4,629.22 to the Jewish Student Union for B’lue Mitzvah on February 8, and $35,571.33 to the Duke Marketing Club for the annual Duke Library Party on February 21.

Duke Atlas, a mentorship and service group with the goal of helping adolescents with chronic illnesses, was granted recognized status by the senate. The 3D Printing Club was granted chartered status.

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Gray-less Duke welcomes Cavaliers

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With All-American point guard chelsea Gray out for the season, the Blue Devils find themselves in a familiar situation. this marks the second consecutive season that Gray’s year has ended prematurely because of injuries. As no. 3 Duke prepares to host Virginia at 6:30 p.m. thursday at camerVirginia on indoor Stadium, it will be relying on vs. a combination of No. 3 Alexis Jones, richa Duke Jackson and chloe Wells to pick up the THURSDAY, 6:30 p.m. slack at the point Cameron indoor Stadium guard position.

“We’ve enjoyed the development of all of our guards,” head coach Joanne P. Mccallie said. “they’re all very, very capable of playing the point, running the point and doing different things.”

When Gray went down with a knee injury last year, Jones led the team to the elite eight and earned the Acc tournament MVP Award. now in her sophomore year, Jones has been a much more consistent scoring threat—her 12.2 points per game are third on the team and up almost three points per game from last year—and has benefitted from playing alongside Gray.

She appears ready to take the next step and assume the role of floor general that Gray played so well.

“You want your guards to be versatile and to take charge,” Mccallie said. “that’s the big key.”

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Alexis Jones, along with Chloe Wells and Richa Jackson, will have to take on larger responsibilites at the point guard position with senior Chelsea Gray out for the year. the Blue Devils (16-1, 3-0 in the Acc) will be transitioning into life without Gray against a dangerous opponent in the cavaliers (8-8, 1-2). Virginia overcame a 17-point deficit to defeat in-state rival Virginia tech. the following game, the cavaliers nearly pulled off a shocking upset of no. 2 notre Dame—one of Duke’s main competitors for a no. 1 seed in the ncAA tournament—in a 79-72 loss. the strong showing could give Virginia the needed confidence to successfully pull off an upset. “they’re a very good team. they’ve played well,” Mccallie said. “they gave

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Virginia’s four-guard offense will challenge a Duke defense that has been stifling opponents since conference play began, though the dynamics may change without Gray, their savvy senior leader. the Blue Devils have held Acc opponents to just 29 percent shooting from the field and 52.3 points per game. their perimeter defense will be put to the test against a quick cavalier lineup that likes to create mismatches off the dribble. “the defining characteristic of their entire team is that they all dribble and put it on the floor,” Mccallie said. “i’m

excited about it because it will really challenge our man-to-man defense in terms of our help-side defense and our ball pressure.”

Virginia’s biggest threat from the outside is Faith randolph, who head coach Joanne Boyle—who enjoyed a prolific career playing for Duke in the 1980s—uses as a dynamic weapon off the bench. the sophomore guard has started only four games this year, but still ranks second on the team with an average of 12.1 points per game. She erupted for a career-high 23 points in the upset bid against notre Dame, and certainly has the potential to have another big game thursday.

Down in the post, 6-foot-2 Sarah imovbioh presents a stiff test for Duke junior elizabeth Williams. imovbioh is shooting an impressive 54 percent from the field to go along with her average of 8.3 rebounds per game. Williams has been playing extremely well of late, pulling down double-digit rebounds in each of her last four contests, so the cavaliers will likely place a defensive emphasis on slowing her down. “they’ll double down on elizabeth—sometimes triple down—when she catches the ball,” Mccallie said. “it’s really important that our other players move and are active if elizabeth’s been double-or-triple teamed. it won’t be as easy as just throwing it down there to elizabeth for an easy score, simply because there will be so many people in the paint. But we’ve faced that before, it’s what we face a lot.”

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Sophomore Michael Redlicki returns as Duke’s top-ranked singles player.

After being knocked out of last year’s ncAA tournament in the quarterfinals and suffering a number of injuries this fall, Duke is ready for a fresh start in 2014. the no. 7 Blue Devils open the spring season with a trio of home matches this weekend at the Sheffield tennis center.

Sandwiched between contests against elon and n.c. central, Duke will host no. 9 Kentucky, the team it defeated in last year’s ncAA tournament round of 16.

Despite a quarterfinal run in the ncAA tournament last season, the team insists that the goals for this season have been set See M. tennis, page 13

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After more than a month of away meets, Duke takes to the home mats against two top-25 opponents. the Blue Devils face no. 12 Virginia Friday in an Acc matchup before welcoming no. 24 Stanford to Durham for the first time on Saturday. Virginia enters Friday fresh off an undefeated bout in the Virginia Dual tournament, and Stanford hopes to bounce back from a loss against no. 20 oregon State.

Duke (3-5, 0-1 in the Acc) will look to continue its two-match win streak, established Jan. 12 at the Pittsburgh Dual tournament. After starting the day with two losses, the Blue Devils notched blowout wins against clarion and Buffalo to gain momentum in the new year.

“We haven’t had any head-to-heads with [Virginia or Stanford] yet, so i’m excited to see what we’ve got,” head coach Glen lanham said. “We’ve got some young guys, but they’re competitive, so i’m looking forward to them getting out there and competing.”

the dual meet against Virginia will be the Blue Devils’ second Acc matchup after losing the opener to no. 2 Pittsburgh on Saturday. the cavaliers currently have a ranked wrestler in every class from 141 to 184 pounds and finished second in the conference last year.

Duke has not registered a team win against Virginia (11-2, 1-0) since 2005. Although the last three encounters between these two teams took place in charlottesville, Va., the Blue Devils will claim homemat advantage Friday. the squad has not had a chance to wrestle in Durham since taking on then-no. 9 ohio State on nov. 23.

“Any time you can wrestle at home, it’s definitely an advantage for your guys, just the comfort level about not being in a hotel, [being] able to eat the meals they’re used to eating,” lanham said. “i think if our guys wrestle well, we can definitely be competitive in that dual [against Virginia].”

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Duke milled about its usual practice routine Wednesday in preparation for an ACC matchup with Virginia, but the mood inside Cameron Indoor Stadium was a somber one.

Senior point guard Chelsea Gray pulls aside her protege, sophomore Alexis Jones, to give pointers after Jones rotated out of a drill. This scene has become the norm for the Blue Devils during the past two seasons as the two-time All-American has mentored her up-and-coming backcourt mate.

But Gray and Jones will never play together again at Duke. Gray fractured her right kneecap in the Blue Devils’ win against Boston College Sunday, bringing her senior season to a premature end.

She is set to undergo surgery Friday and faces a four-month rehabilitation process.

“She’ll go down as one of the best passing guards in Duke history,” said Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie as she fought back her emotions. “A creator, and someone who really understands the game. Immensely talented, and also a person who really has enor-

mous character to deal with her incredible misfortune.”

Losing Gray early is nothing new for the Blue Devils. She injured that same knee last February, sidelining her for the entire NCAA tournament and forcing Duke to reinvent itself just before postseason play. That injury did not stop Gray from being named Co-ACC Player of the Year after averaging 12.6 points, 5.4 assists, 5.3 rebounds and 3.6 steals per game on the season.

Gray rehabbed the entire summer to be ready to play in the Blue Devils’ season-opener in 2013. Her scoring production dipped when she returned to the court, but Gray averaged a career-high 7.2 assists per game during her senior season.

She dreamed of being a part of Duke’s NCAA tournament run this season, hoping to guide her team to its first Final Four in McCallie’s tenure as coach and break the streak of four consecutive Elite Eight losses. Instead, Gray will once again watch from the sidelines—but this time there will be no next year as a Blue Devil.

“I felt like I was cheated out of something I worked so hard to get back to,” Gray said. “It was really painful for me to deal with for a while. It still hurts, and it will continue to hurt for a long time until I can get back out on the court.”

Senior forward Haley Peters is the next player to rotate out of drills at practice.

She walks up to Gray and puts her right arm around her injured point guard. Peters and classmate Tricia Liston held Gray as she cried in the locker room upon hearing the news of her injury. The trio has been through it all together in their four years at Duke, but Gray’s injury has brought an abrupt ending to their time as teammates.

“As a basketball player, she’s one of the best people who ever played here,” Peters said. “She hasn’t had the chance to finish off her last two years the way she’s wanted to. A lot of it is on us now to leave a legacy for us as a team because Chelsea is the ultimate team-first kind of person.”

Now sidelined, Gray will serve as a fulltime mentor to her Duke teammates.

McCallie even went as far to say that she really feels like she has added an extra member to her coaching staff.

“She can see things people can’t see when she’s on the court,” Peters said of Gray. “She’s one of the few people that is always in my ear, helping me see things on the court and giving me confidence.

It’s going to be a good thing for us to have her.”

It does not take long to notice that Gray’s upbeat personality is contagious.

She is still the loudest one in the team huddle, and still the first person on the court to crack a smile.

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Head coach Joanne P. McCallie ranked Chelsea Gray among the most prolific passers in Duke’s history. through the most adversity it has faced this season. Gray’s Duke career may be over, but her teammates now have something new to play for.

“She’s had such a great career, and two injuries to cut short both of her last two seasons—it doesn’t seem fair,” Peters said. “The best way we can honor the fact that she doesn’t get to be on the court with us is to be the best team we can possible be.”

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positions. I don’t see a whole lot of difference between our one and four spots.”

Adding to the graduation of Cunha, Duke was hit hard by injuries during the fall season. Tahir sat out three months, and senior Chris Mengel will be redshirting this year due to injury. Mengel posted a 74-36 doubles record during his last three seasons.

“We learned how quickly sometimes tennis can be taken away,” Tahir said. “I was out for three months and those were tough times for me. We are definitely enjoying the sport a lot and having fun.”

The good news: The Blue Devils return two All-ACC players from last season’s squad, senior Fred Saba and sophomore Michael Redlicki. At No. 29, Redlicki is the team’s highest rated player. Saba is unranked, and Tahir ranks No. 52.

Additionally, sophomore Bruno Semenzato is coming off an exceptional fall season in which he went 3-1 against ranked opponents, earning him a No. 95 singles ranking going into the spring season.

“Bruno really did well in the fall,” Smith said. “He came back in incredible shape. A different mentality—he had some experience on what to deal with in a college atmosphere. He had arguably the best fall on the team in terms of beating top players.”

No matter who is on the court this spring, Tahir said that it will take a team effort to push the Blue Devils past the NCAA quarterfinals and into the national semifinal for the first time in program history.

“Every match this year is going to be a battle, but if we can come together that is going to help our chances,” he said.

Matt Pun contributed in reporting.

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higher. But the pressure is on.

“The returning team was really excited and hungry for this year,” junior Jason Tahir said. “Everyone felt that [the NCAA tournament loss to UCLA] last year left a bad taste in our mouth and it was really disappointing. I know the guys here are ready to prove themselves this season.”

Elon is no stranger to Duke, as they fell 9-0 to the Blue Devils last season. But Cameron Silverman, an explosive player ranked No. 25 nationally, will ensure the Blue Devils do not overlook Phoenix in the opening match of the season.

Kentucky hopes to avenge last year’s 4-2 loss to Duke in Sunday’s match and will look to a pair of nationally-ranked seniors, Tom Jomby and Kevin Lai, to lead the team this season.

“It is a good challenge,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “Elon is not a bad team.

That is a tough opening match. Kentucky after that was our best win last year. We are challenging ourselves early and we are getting into the season right away. I feel like the guys are prepared and ready to go.”

Although the Blue Devils are looking to get off to a hot start, the loss of Henrique Cunha, who was the all-time leader in singles and doubles wins, has left a crucial void to be filled.

Smith insists that each of his players has the ability to step up this season and play each of the team’s top four spots.

“We have a lot parity with this team,” Smith said. “The last four years Cunha has been by far our best player. This year it is more wide open.kakuro_408E.txt Guys are jostling for

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Despite their first ACC loss, the Blue Devils registered two match wins with redshirt junior Immanuel Kerr-Brown at the 149-pound class and redshirt sophomore Conner Hartmann at the 197-pound weight class. This week, Hartmann was named the Ronald McDonald House Athlete of the Week and moved to No. 18 in his class with an overall record of 11-4.

“I’m really excited about this weekend, I’m sure it’s going to go really well, we’re going to give it everything we have,” Hartmann said. “We just need to trust that our training’s going to work, that what our coaches tell us is what we need to do.”

After Virginia, Duke will turn around to face Stanford for the first time in school history. The meet will feature a ranked match-

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Frat-mentation Few underclassmen can imagine the bacchanal that West Campus used to be. It seems unthinkable that fraternities would advertise parties in the Marketplace or that freshmen would board the C-1 in droves, directed to the nearest rager by Duke Police officers. Those days are over. Admissions tours are no longer threatened by students shotgunning Busch in the middle of the day. Studying takes place in dorms, even on Saturday nights.

Though gone from West, much of the revelry has migrated to Central Campus and off-campus houses. With many fraternities and all nine Panhellenic sororities on Central, the formerly undesirable apartment blocks have become social hubs. Greek life has lost some visibility, but not much cultural clout.

Other changes have also taken root. Selective Living Groups have grown in popularity, and several new SLGs have sprung up in the past few years. All fraternity and sorority members will now receive PACT training, a sign that the Greek councils are taking sexual assault and other issues outlined in the 2013 Greek Culture Initiative seriously. If nothing else, these shifts reveal that social life at Duke is not as static as many believed; culture can change, gradually and in small ways.

We should admit students from disparate backgrounds because we admire their perspective not because we need to fill some arbitrary quotas. It doesn’t matter if someone is young or old, black or white, affluent or impoverished. All that should matter is an individual’s ability to contribute to discourse.

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They have also made Greek organizations more risk-averse, as g are more likely to throw parties off campus and adhere to guest lists to improve accountability and control.

The transformation of social life at Duke reflects, in many ways, a perceived trade-off between safety and university-wide socializing.

Tailgate, which emphasized the latter at the expense of the former, was rightly shut down, and fraternity parties that once overtook entire quadrangles have shifted to invisible corners of campus. It is difficult to say whether safety has actually improved (sexual assault rates remain disturbingly high), but we commend both the administration and Greek organizations for

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But, as a result of these shifts, inclusive forms of socializing have suffered. The House Model isolates sorority women from the rest of the student body, adding to age-old complaints that independents lose touch with their affiliated friends after their first year. Although it is still in Beta, the House Model has not built the sense of residential community it promised to deliver, and has, instead, stripped independents of one of the saving graces of independent life: living with large blocks of friends. This year’s high number of sophomore rushees suggests that many are unsatisfied with independent social life. For many independents, milk and cookies with the R.A. cannot replace the large-scale social events that college students often desire.

Independents can be grateful for a quieter West Campus and more non-Greek affiliation options. And we commend IFC and Panhel for placing the appropriate emphasis on health and safety. But perhaps the pendulum has swung too far from inclusive, campus-wide fun; maybe policies meant to benefit independents have actually hurt them. A nervous, purely risk-averse approach to social culture will not do.

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Then the first day of classes rolled around, and this happened: I overslept for my 11:45 a.m., missing all five strategically set alarms, and so had significantly less time to look societally presentable than I’m used to. I left my dorm looking like a disheveled rodent and hopped on the first C1 I saw, which proceeded to linger at the bus stop for about five minutes, presumably to shatter my hopes and dreams. I made it to West exactly at 11:46 a.m. and managed to be in class within five minutes. The thing about small classes, though, is that you can’t really walk in late without anyone noticing, so there’s always that one person that stumbles in awkwardly and apologetically when class has already begun. That person was me. Already uncomfortable, I scurried to the back of the room and started getting out the usual pen, notebook and other miscellaneous class materials. As I was rummaging through my backpack, I started listening to what the professor was saying and realized with sudden horror that the subject matter had absolutely nothing to do with the class I was supposed to be in.

Holy s---. I was in the wrong class.

Instantly, an immense amount of shame filled my soul. I should have just left, but I was so incredibly ashamed that I just couldn’t will myself to leave. So I stayed.

It probably would have been fine if it were a lecture of a 100 people, where my existence was insignificant and not easily noticed. But this was a class of 20 people, and as I found out, a class that required active participation and engagement.

After the teacher finished a basic introduction of the course (although I would like to point out that she never actually specified what the course was which would have been super helpful), she had each student explain his or her interest in the class.

Considering I still had no idea what class I was in, only that it had something to do with psychology, this was problematic. So I did what any other seasoned college student would do: I listened intently to every person’s answer, combined their answers together,

social emotional development and the neurocognitive capacity of adolescent youth. Mostly, I just threw out the term cognitive a lot because I felt like it made me sound smarter.

The professor told me to speak to her after class about getting off the waitlist. So naturally, when class ended I gathered my things, waited for her back to be turned and ran the hell out of there as fast as I possibly could.

Needless to say, my first day did not go as planned, but it’s a wonder I believed it would in the first place. I’m somewhat of a control freak, and I’ve always struggled with the notion that life doesn’t always turn out the way I want it to despite the best of intentions and planning.

That doesn’t mean I should just f--- it, YOLO it and not plan anything ever. Rather, there are forces beyond my control and so when life takes an unexpected turn, all I can do it just deal with it and laugh when necessary. I am especially reminded of this here at school.

We’ve been here for a little over a week, and in that time I have already managed to panic on an assignment, submit my column late, fall in love with a professor, hurt someone’s feelings, feel unimportant, cry on the phone, watch the sunrise and send inebriated texts I regret the next morning. I’ve come to realize, without a doubt, that my life is a mess the majority of the time I exist.

But I love it that way. It never ceases to amaze me how horribly absurd and wonderfully ridiculous life can be sometimes, but I also know that if it wasn’t that way, then it would just be boring. And if there’s one thing I never want my life to be, it’s boring.

So to the teacher who’s class I accidentally sat in on: I’m sorry I deceived you. I really have no interest in psychology. I do, however, have an immense amount of personal shame, which I guess kind of relates.

Michelle Menchaca is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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s you read these lines, more than 1.5 billion Muslims will be celebrating the birthday of their beloved prophet—or as we know it, Milad an-Nabi or Mawlid—all around the globe. Muslim love and admiration to Prophet Muhammad manifests itself beautifully through these various kinds of religious celebrations blended by local cultures and traditions in these birthday celebrations.

suggestion automatically undermines many of the foundational theological claims of both of these religions.

In order to get along, in our sincere attempts to build bridges between our faith communities, I don’t think we need to blur our differences or undermine them. We do not need to indigenize or kosher-ize the dividing factors—Muhammad in this case— by stretching our theologies or even

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s a Duke student, each year you pay over $116 to the Duke Student Government in student activities fees. Yet you have close to no control over where your own money goes after it leaves your bank account. Other students and I are launching a campaign, called The 40% Plan, to rectify this situation. The plan gives financial power back to Duke students, allowing each student to allocate 40% of his or her student activities

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This very special occasion where we remember and honor the life, teachings and legacy of the prophet of Islam is in some ways the Muslim version of Christmas, which supposedly, or at least historically, is centered around Christ’s birthday. I say supposedly because Christmas, although it is still all about Christ’s birth and legacy for so many practicing Christians, has become a Christ-free cultural phenomenon for many Western societies, including the U.S. None doubt Muhammad’s unique place and role for Muslims as the seal of the prophetic line. The only and final prophet who came after Jesus, who is also considered a noble prophet by Muslims, makes the prophet of Islam one of the most important differentiating characteristics between Islam and the two previous Abrahamic siblings, namely Judaism and Christianity, in the context of prophetic tradition. There is no Islam without Muhammad, and believing in his final Messengerhood is actually what makes someone Muslim.

Muhammad’s sayings (Hadith) and his example (Sunnah) constitute the second most important foundational and canonical texts of Islam after the Qur’an. Qur’an describes Muhammad as “mercy to all worlds,” and Muhammad symbolizes that mercy for Muslims. His legacy continues to shape and inform the daily life of more than a billion people from all possible backgrounds.

Then, who is Muhammad for nonMuslims? Or who can he potentially be for a faithful Christian, Jew or anyone else who would like to embrace Islam as a divinely inspired religion? For someone who can learn from Islam and Muslims without the need for conversion, or more importantly, without compromising their own religious identity? It may be easy to give answers from the heart to this question, but it is not that easy to come up with quick, theological answers.

Let me start with how not to honor Muhammad as a non-Muslim. I believe Muslims’ recognition of Biblical prophets, in their own Muslim way, including Jesus and Moses as revered apostles of God, cannot be theologically reciprocated by Christians and Jews about Muhammad. In my opinion, some recent Christian and Jewish efforts in discussing the possibility of accepting Muhammad as a prophet, like other biblical prophets who happen to historically come after Moses or Jesus theologically fall short and shallow. These no doubt wellintentioned modern scholars provide very little explanation in terms of how to reconcile such a revolutionary idea with the overall big picture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, as their

compromising core elements of our own faith traditions. For example, I find certain Muslim attempts to “Islamosize” the Christian doctrine of trinity through the 99 names of Allah similarly counterproductive and potentially harmful to both Christianity and Islam.

Despite this theological reservation and warning, I still believe very strongly that humanity at large still has a lot to learn from Muhammad and his teachings. There are very few people who have been as successful in transforming his or her community both in secular and religious terms and impact history the way Muhammad was able to do. I think famous European historian Lamartine summarizes this point beautifully saying: “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with Muhammad.”

It was again Muhammad’s amazing accomplishments that allow him to remain number one in Michael Heart’s list of the most influential persons in history. What fascinated these two non-Muslims, and many others, was Muhammad’s ability to bring change in such a short period of time, through very simple and inexpensive means and in such a sustainable way. For example, compare Muhammad’s ability to prevent the consumption of alcohol in his community with Soviet and U.S. attempts to ban alcohol in the mid-20th century.

Compare the time, methods, deterrents and investments that Muhammad utilized with the ones that these giant superpowers did. One cannot help but join Lamartine and Michael Heart in awe and admiration of Muhammad.

On his birthday, I invite all my nonMuslim friends, without the need to accept him as a prophet, to pay attention to the many teachings and legacies of the Prophet of Islam. The fact that he is a uniquely and exclusively “Made in Islam” product should not stop anyone from learning from him as a teacher and welcoming his legacy into your life as a potential inspiration.

Happy Birthday, Muhammad.

Greetings and blessings to you and all prophets who came before you, and many happy and blessed returns to all humanity.

P.S. For those looking for a good summary of Muhammad’s life, the PBS documentary “Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet” is an outstanding one.

fee each year to groups of his or her choosing. This will give about $270,000 of students’ money back to student control.

We need 1,000 petition signatures to get a referendum on the ballot to make this policy a reality. I encourage you to sign.

Under the current system, the Student Organization Funding Committee, made up of 14 unelected undergraduate students, exercises control over all student activities fee money. Anytime a student group wants funding for an event or activity, it has to fill out monotonous paperwork, appear before the SOFC for questioning, and justify its need for money under the wary eyes of the committee. Even after this beleaguered process, the SOFC can still unilaterally deny any request. With numbers going back to 2007, the SOFC has controlled an average of $667,000 of students’ money each year. That’s over $47,000 per unelected SOFC member.

This system is not only unethical—it is inefficient. A prime example is The Chanticleer, one student organization of no more than 30 students that has sucked away an average of 21% of Student Activities Fee Dollars ($103,000 total) each year since 2007.

A lot of us like yearbooks, but a yearbook is like a class ring—you shouldn’t be forced to buy one. By subsidizing The Chanticleer, DSG shelters it from price shopping or quality competition—leading ironically to a more expensive yet worse quality yearbook.

Chronicle articles dating back to 2004 discuss a need to change funding– yet the system, 10 years later, remains the same.

Put simply, it is beyond the ability of fourteen undergraduate students— fourteen Ph.D. economists even—to properly sift through all the necessary information to efficiently allocate $667,000 to hundreds of student groups and thousands of students. In effect, SOFC is a system whereby unelected and almost completely unaccountable students play centralized planners with our Student Activities Fees—forcing us to jump through countless hoops to get our own money back. What’s needed is student action.

The 40% Plan has a host of benefits.

Rather than go to the SOFC, hat in hand, students would have the power, as smart conscientious individuals, to decide what groups to give money to. This will incentivize students to be more invested in the groups they contribute to, and to pay greater attention to how groups use the money students donate. Additionally, student groups are incentivized to be more efficient and effective with the funds they receive from students, and are encouraged to be more efficacious and involved in reaching out to students for funding. This also benefits SOFC— it gives it a better metric from which to gauge student interest in different groups, something they currently lack,

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Abdullah Antepli is the Muslim chaplain and an adjunct faculty of Islamic Studies.

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and it provides them with a better sense of which groups are active. Most importantly, it sends a great message—The 40% Plan proclaims that Duke has faith and confidence in its own students.

Now it is worth addressing the arguments against The 40% Plan. I certainly won’t hide them from you. People involved in DSG or SOFC tend to make these arguments— as with many government officials, these individuals don’t like the idea of having

their power curbed. Their objections typically boil down to one of two refrains.

The first refrain is that The 40% Plan would force DSG to sort through logistical and mechanical issues. This is true. For example, it would require DSG to create a website for students to allocate money to groups. But when you hear this argument, remember this: the logistical and mechanical work is 100% doable. DSG cannot truthfully argue that it can’t create a website. Rather, it just doesn’t want to. It matters not a modicum to me if elected representatives have to spend more time working on or figuring out something that benefits students—that’s their job. We elected them to serve our interests.

The second refrain is that students cannot be trusted to allocate money. It will lead to bad results, the objection goes.

Students don’t “know enough” to allocate money to groups. There are a lot of responses to this. First, the website should easily list information for students, such as a real-time update of how much money each group requests and has already received. Secondly, the SOFC is still getting 60% of student activities fees—around $400,000 a year. That’s a large enough sum to keep groups afloat that otherwise wouldn’t survive off of student donations alone, yet small enough to force SOFC to act efficiently (i.e. Chanticleer probably won’t get $100,000 a year anymore).

Lastly, it’s simply not true that giving more freedom to students will lead to bad results. Consider course selection. The idea that students don’t “know enough” to give money to student groups is similar to arguing students don’t “know enough” to choose what classes to take. Choosing courses is incredibly important—more important even than choosing group membership. Yet we need no centralized authority to tell us what courses to take each semester. Yes, we have some regulations—we are required to select a major and meet T-Reqs. But The 40% Plan still has some regulations too— SOFC still receives 60% of the money.

The key point is that we have a great deal of freedom in choosing courses, yet we don’t suffer endemic educational failure—instead most of us intellectually thrive with this freedom. The same would be analogously true with The 40% Plan.

Today at 6pm in Allen 103 we will be holding an information session on The 40% Plan. Please come if you want to learn more. Additionally, visit our website to sign the petition, or read our FAQs. Reach out to me anytime too. And share this column on Facebook and Twitter. Together, let’s give students more say in where their money goes.

Daniel Strunk is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Thursday. Send Daniel a message on Twitter @DanielFStrunk.

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Keynote Address MLK Sunday Service January 19, 2014 3:00 PM Duke Chapel Duke University

Annual MLK Film Screening “Mighty Times – The Children’s March” Winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject Documentary about the Birmingham Civil Rights March Co-produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center and HBO 6:30 – 7:30 PM, Friday, January 17, 2014 Sanford School for Public Policy, Room 04 Duke University

Duke MLK Million Meals Event

Sponsored by the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs and the MLK Commemoration Committee Monday, January 21, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm (meal packaging shifts from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon and 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm) Volunteers from Duke, NCCU and the Durham Community will gather to package thousands of meals which will be distributed worldwide through the Stop Hunger Now organization. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/ltb69dr

All events are free and open to the public For more information (919) 684-8353 or visit mlk.duke.edu