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Latino faculty numbers remain low

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Although the Faculty Diversity Initiative has increased the numbers of black faculty and female faculty in the past 10 years, the percentage of Latino faculty remains low.

The Faculty Diversity Initiative was launched in 2003 to increase the number of black faculty, the number of women faculty in areas where they are underrepresented and to enhance the climate for all faculty members. Although strides have been made towards these goals, there remain areas in which diversity can be improved—including the number of Latino faculty members, administrators said. While the number of regular rank black faculty has more than tripled from 1993 to 2012, the number of Latino faculty has been stagnant.

“It has been understood since 2003 that Latino/Latina faculty is an important category that we pay attention to in addition to black, women and more

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Duke Press launches e-book site

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Duke University Press has teamed up with HighWire Press to launch a new ebook platform that consolidates its journals and more than 1,600 e-book titles.

The publisher decided to switch from the previously used Ebrary platform to its own website in order to allow for greater control as well as better search tools and cohesion between journals and books. Users can now see all journal articles and books created by a specific author and also compare book chapters to journal articles simultaneously.

“We publish books and journals around the same topics, and we publish authors as book authors and journal authors,”said Allison Belan, associate director for digital publishing at Duke University Press. “[The new platform] really brings all of the material we publish in one place.” samantha schafrank/The chronicle file photo

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Chem professors teach students to merge arts and sciences

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A new class, “The Molecular, Physical, and Artistic Bases of Color” will fuse arts with science.

The pigments of imagination are coming to life in a new course taught by the chemistry department.

“The Molecular, Physical, and Artistic Bases of Color” is being taught by three chemistry professors—Warren Warren, Martin Fischer and Adele De Cruz—who all focus on a different aspect of color. The three professors had previously worked together to utilize a laser system, originally used for biomedical imaging, to harmlessly analyze ancient works of art for their molecular compositions. Now, they are each teaching from their respective fields

of expertise in an effort to impart an appreciation for the unity between arts and sciences.

De Cruz wants students of the class to see color beyond its chemical basis and how its usage has affected the course of human development.

“It forms a deeper understanding of how color influences our lives, not only on a daily basis but in the evolution of art,” De Cruz said.

“Humanity always celebrated the use of color, and it’s documenting itself.”

In an email Jan. 24, Warren wrote that he will explain the concept of color at a microscopic level, Fischer will elaborate on the physical aspects of light detection, and DeCruz will

describe art conservation and color from a humanistic standpoint.

“In other words, Warren will answer ‘Why?’, Fischer will answer ‘How?’, and De Cruz will answer ‘Who cares?’” Warren wrote.

The class was inspired by the multiple research groups at Duke that are studying artwork imaging across the science and engineering departments, Warren said. He added that finding people genuinely interested in both art conservation and laboratory-based work is a difficult task.

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Div and med schools ask tough questions with TMC initiative

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Duke’s Theology, Medicine and Culture initiative pursues previously ignored questions—linking the divinity and medical schools.

The TMC initiative—founded in 2013

by Ray Barfield, its director and associate professor of pediatrics and Christian philosophy; Dr. Warren Kinghorn, assistant professor of psychiatry and pastoral and moral theology; and Dr. Richard Payne, Esther Colliflower professor of medicine and divinity—serves as an umbrella organization for interdisciplinary programs between the Divinity School and School of Medicine.

“Medicine is failing, and one of the main reasons is because the only language it has access to is the incredibly efficient and devastatingly limited language of biology,” Barfield said. “Duke has committed itself to addressing these issues which can only be solved at the intersection of disciplines.”

An academic component of the initiative includes a new TMC certificate program in the Divinity School beginning this semester and a dual degree program for medical school students. Both academic programs are jointly funded by the divinity and medical schools.

“We have sought out medical students who are committed to our program and helped them rediscover their vocation and reinvent what it means to be a physician,” Barfield said.

Philip Choi, a second year pulmonary, allergy and critical care fellow, plans to pursue interdisciplinary research with the Divinity School during the second and third years of his fellowship.

“We find that a lot of patients who choose very aggressive care at the end of life despite limited medical options tend to be more religious,” Choi said. “Patients tend to be more religious than their doctors, and if we as doctors ignore parts of who a person is, we are not holistically healing them.”

Choi is taking classes at the Divinity School for an additional degree to help him enrich his training at Duke, he added.

During their third year at the School of Medicine, students can pursue a dualdegree to broaden their background in biomedicine. Amy Ehman, a third year medical student, chose to seek a master’s of theology in order to better recognize the way Christians interpret medical is-

sues, she said.

“There is historical tension between doctors and Christians or religious individuals because sometimes they do not understand each other,” Ehman said. “I am interested in bridging that gap.”

Ehman added that Duke’s cutting edge research on this issue influenced her decision to attend its medical school.

“It behooves anyone to think about how the medical treatments they’re offering will relate to their patients, and Duke is at the forefront of that,” Ehman said. “I do not know of any other school that has such a program.”

As a part of the TMC initiative, the Divinity School will co-sponsor a conference titled, “Walking Together: Christian Com-

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The Theology, Medicine and Culture initiative will bring together faculty and students from the Divinity and Medical Schools.

munities and Faithful Responses to Mental Illness” in Houston, Texas next week.

“We are bringing together people to talk about mental illness across Christian history,” Kinghorn said. “We are examining when Christianity has helped people deal with mental illness and developing new ways of imagining how to walk alongside people with mental illness.”

By Summer 2015, TMC aims to launch “Reimagining Medicine,” a two-year collaboration with local congregations. The program would begin with a summer institute for these congregations with periodic check-in meetings over the course of the two years.

“We want to pioneer new ways of practice in local communities that would marry medicine and theology and give congregations a new way of talking about churches’ role in medicine, death and dying, supporting clinicians in their midst, and collaborating with healthcare systems in the community,” Kinghorn said. “It would be an invitation for congregations as we would tailor to their local needs and serve as an incubator of ideas and practices.”

This program remains in the planning stages due to a lack of funding, but TMC leaders will meet in February to discuss possibilities for “Reimagining Medicine.”

“If we’re going to do anything about addressing the existential crisis in American medicine, it’s going to have to be done at this interdisciplinary boundary,” Barfield said. “I do not know an institution that has the resources that Duke has to go after some of these questions in the way that we can do it, and the possibilities are unique at Duke.”

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This ability to consolidate all of the Press’s material under one platform should prove valuable for users, said Ken Wissoker, editorial director of Duke University Press.

“We’ve had our humanities and social science journals hosted on their platform for quite a while, and we’ve been really happy with the partnership we’ve had with HighWire,” said Kimberly Steinle, Duke Universtiy Press library relations manager. “It will be nice to have the books and journals cross-searchable.”

Although the Press is expanding its ebook options, the staff doesn’t see printed books being replaced anytime soon.

“Printed journals won’t be around all that much longer, but I think people love reading books in printed forms,” said Director of Duke University Press Steve Cohn. “That is likely to continue for as long as I can envision.”

The consolidation of e-books and journals puts Duke University Press ahead of most of its competition. As one of the few university presses that publishes e-books and the only university press which has a larger journal program than book program, Duke University Press now has a top-of-the-line platform that is intended to attract authors.

“We compete a lot with other major university presses for authors,” Wissoker said. “Certainly having a cutting edge platform that people are excited about makes it easier to track the authors. This feels like the next step.”

In addition to putting the Press ahead of much of its competition, this new platform allows for a better relationship with libraries, which account for a large percentage of sales.

“In general, the move to digital publishing with both books and journals has led to much closer, better working relationships with libraries,” said Michael McCullough, associate marketing and sales manager for Duke University Press.

He added that having closer relationships with libraries allows for the press to make better publishing decisions. By knowing what the libraries want, the publisher can tailor its collection and sales strategies.

The new platform may be expanded in the future. Cohn said there may eventually be a Netflix-style model for reading books that would take advantage of e-commerce, pay-to-access options.

“These days, getting stuck in a certain model is not a smart thing. The world is just moving too fast,” Cohn said.

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recently, LGBT groups,”said Academic Council Chair Joshua Socolar, a physics professor. “But the total number [of Latino faculty] right now is not great.”

Among the 1,768 tenured faculty members, 2 percent are Hispanic compared to 80.3 percent white, 13.6 percent Asian and 3.9 percent black, based on data from the Faculty Diversity Initiative Biannual Report in 2013. No other categories were included. “[The low percentage of Latinos] is not for lack of awareness of the issue or lack of interest in hiring them to improve our faculty. Attention is being paid, though we have not been very successful,” Socolar said. “One thing we see as a way to make our faculty better is to make it more diverse and representative of all the groups, and there have been efforts.”

Multiple factors contribute to the underrepresentation of Latino faculty at the University, including historical reasons and the location of the University,

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wrote Nancy Allen, vice provost of faculty diversity and faculty development, in an email Friday. She also noted that more focus has been placed on the hiring and retention of black and female faculty, as opposed to Latino faculty.

Allen said that a North Carolina location is a likely reason why the University has fewer Latino professors compared to research institutions in California, Texas, and Florida.

Inderdeep Chatrath, director of affirmative action and equal opportunity at the Office of Institutional Equity, noted that the low percentage of Latino faculty is tied to the availability of Latino candidates both in the area and across the nation.

“It is not uncommon among other peer institutions that there are fewer Latino professors,” Chatrath said. “That is not an excuse, but generally the availability of faculty who identify themselves as Hispanic or Latino is lower than that of other ethnic minority groups.”

A number of peer universities identify similarly low proportions of Hispanic and Latino faculty—recent reports list the University of Pennsylvania with 1.8 percent Hispanic/Latino faculty, Cornell University with 3.2 percent and Stanford University with 4 percent.

Chatrath added that representation of Latino faculty on campus also varies across disciplines.

“Some areas don’t have any faculty who identify themselves as Latino, and we have made progress in some areas more than others,” she said.

According to the Faculty Diversity Initiative Biannual Report in 2013, 75 percent of the regular rank Latino faculty in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences are employed in humanities departments.

“We don’t want to say we are doing fine if all our Latino faculty are doing Latino studies,” Socolar said.

Laurie Patton, dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, wrote in an email Tuesday that in a slowed-down hiring environment, the college is not hiring as many professors as they would like.

Trinity has hired four professors who self-reported their ethnicity as Hispanic/ Latino in the last four years.

“This self-reported number likely slightly under represents the true number of Hispanic/Latino faculty we have hired. Regardless, we would like to hire even more,” Patton wrote. “The key will be both active recruitment and active retention. We see continued opportunity for growth in this area, and we need to be pro-active to the extent that we can, given our current overall hiring constraints.”

Luis Rosa, a Latino lecturer in the Thompson Writing Program, has been teaching at the University for three years. After his contract ends in May, he will have to apply for another job. Pulling from his experience working in a diversity office at Princeton University and on various committees at Duke, he noted that cultural idiosyncrasies are a significant reason behind the underrepresentation of minority faculty groups such as Latino faculty.

“The criteria some professors are using [when hiring new faculty] are not objective. They might think that this one candidate is too arrogant or that students would not like that candidate, but those are idiosyncratic arguments,” Rosa said. “If you are a male, white, upper middle-class bourgeois, your idiosyncrasies will make you like more somebody who is male, white, upper middle–class bourgeois.”

He added that affirmative action must be part of the criteria, and the University needs people with different worldviews.

“All objective values are tied to who we are,” Rosa said. “If we don’t include the concrete criteria that we have to choose people who are different from us, people are going to keep choosing themselves.”

Now that the 10-year diversity initiative is over, a new conversation in the Academic Council is under way to discuss what the next step should be to increase the presence of underrepresented minorities in faculty, Socolar said.

A pipeline program called the Provost’s Postdoctoral program was initiated in 2007 to enhance faculty diversity, and three of the 13 Provost’s postdoctoral researchers so far have been Latino, Allen said. The program provides opportunities for scholars with potential to become tenure track faculty, particularly in fields where there are fewer women and underrepresented minorities.

“The fact that there are meetings to talk about diversity and that the provost has many initiatives in place is a strong indication that diversity is a value that Duke is committed to,” Chatrath said. “It is not something that we can take care of in one year or even five years, but I am encouraged by the fact that we are doing something.”

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he wants to teach students with the class is that the great artwork in history runs deep in both physical and emotional perception, with “many aspects that are still not completely understood.”

Fischer also noted that by merging the fields of art and science, he hopes to get more people interested in the emerging interdepartmental field. He clarified, however, that he has not had any formal art background, and the class will become a continuation of learning to

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think outside of his traditional training.

“It’s always interesting to get into a new field and learn a language,” Fischer said. “Being able to communicate with people outside your field takes some practice and it’s a very interesting thing to do…. They have to learn our language. We have to learn their language.”

Fischer, a trained physicist who worked in the engineering department prior to the chemistry department, said the traditional boundaries between different disciplines seem to no longer apply. He hopes to encourage students to try and enjoy areas of interest that may not necessarily be in their own fields of study.

Fischer noted that there are currently few people signed up for the class after the end of drop/add and that they are unsure of how well the class will function for the students.

Although there are not currently any plans to teach Bases of Color every semester, Fischer and the other professors hope to garner enough interest to continue teaching it in the future to more students interested in the frontier between the arts and the sciences.

In collaboration with the North Carolina Museum of Art, De Cruz and the other professors will be taking the students in the class to the museum to examine pigments in medieval paintings and how they change over the centuries in comparison to recreations. De Cruz said that, with the increasing intersection of arts and sciences, a greater amount of depth can be found in analyses of art.

Warren stated that scientists and artists are mutually appreciative of each other’s fields.

He believes that, with the increased societal importance of biomedical research, these technologies can also function in applications for cultural heritage to offer a new and refreshing viewpoint to researchers.

“Every good scientist and physician understands that groundbreaking work usually requires the kind of broad perspective and ‘thinking outside the box’ that is the basic hallmark of art,” Warren said.

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Krzyzewski and Boeheim: A rare glimpse of greatness Plenty of times, I’ve heard people have a conversation that goes something like this: “When do you think Coach K will retire?

Five years? Ten years?”

“After Boeheim retires.”

The point is that Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim has 939 career wins and Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski has 974—if Krzyzewski retired first, it would take less than two years for Boeheim to overtake Krzyzewski and become the sport’s all-time winningest coach.

Krzyzewski is 66. Boeheim is 69. At this point, there’s annual speculation about when Boeheim will retire. In an ACC Digital Network video filmed just before Syracuse joined the ACC last summer, the two joked about their age and why people don’t ask Krzyzewski about it.

“He’s way younger than me,” Boeheim teased. “Plus, he’s not even thinking about retiring.”

Nobody knows how long this will last. It could be one, three, five, 10 years or more. But this weekend begins an exciting era for college basketball when Syracuse and Duke tip off at the Carrier Dome, with two of the game’s greatest coaches going against one another as ACC foes for the first time.

“I’m not looking forward to it,” Krzyzewski told The Chronicle in June.

“We’re real close friends, so you don’t like to play against close friends.”

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Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim have won two gold medals together with USA Basketball and will square off for the first time since 1998 Saturday at the Carrier Dome. er just twice. The Blue Devils prevailed 80-67 in the 1998 NCAA tournament, and the Orange won 78-76 at a neutral site in 1989, so they have never visited each other’s home courts.

More often, the pair has coached together: Krzyzewski made Boeheim one of his assistants when he took the reins

as the head coach of the U.S. Men’s National Team. Together, they won gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games in Beijing and London.

“Your style changes given your personnel,” Krzyzewski said. “I don’t run the same system every year, so it’s more you’re coaching against his kids, he’s

coaching against mine. The thing we know about when we’re together with USA Basketball is that we can depend on one another for instant truth and a good understanding of what’s going on.”

Krzyzewski and Boeheim have found success with different coaching styles.

Boeheim’s Orange teams are always noted for their stingy 2-3 zone defense.

Krzyzewski rarely plays anything other than man-to-man.

In their video, Boeheim and Krzyzewski had a laugh over whether Boeheim ever suggested that Team USA implement the zone.

“Once and it won a game,” Krzyzewski said. “It was a good call though. It was Spain in Madrid.”

“I mean, they had scored 10 straight times so it couldn’t have been any worse,” Boeheim added.

This week Boeheim spoke to their relationship, saying they first met a long time ago at a celebrity golf tournament.

They have grown closer coaching together, he said, and their families—wives, kids and grandkids—all get along well.

They have learned from each other, too.

“He’s got so many strengths in coaching,” Boeheim said. “He’s got unbelievable organization and motivational skills.”

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Could this be the birth of a Duke-Syracuse rivalry?

I have been at Duke for almost a year and a half now, and it has snowed one time. I remember exactly where I was when the first flake fell last January—in The Loop eating dinner with a friend. When I walked outside, there was maybe a half-of-an-inch of snow on the ground at most, but the entire campus was a ghost town. The bus schedule was a mess, all parties that night had been cancelled already and—my most vivid memory—there was a sign adorning the six stairs leading up to the chapel announcing “STAIRS CLOSED” in big, black letters. My friend and I felt rebellious and walked up them anyway.

The 2014 edition of the Annual Durham Snow Storm, however, has been hyped up much more than last year’s. No matter where you went around Duke yesterday, I guarantee that someone was talking about the snow. Whether eating at the Penn Pavilion or braving the 19-degree weather stepping outside, the freezing cold had captivated conversa-

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tions across campus.

The winter storm has also made its way to Krzyzewskiville, where Black Tenters have been living for 10 days now. The official K-ville policy is to call grace when temperatures reach below 25 degrees. Grace has already been called five times this tenting season, with the most recent being at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday afternoon in preparation for the impending snowpocalypse.

In Syracuse, N.Y., however, the low temperature was -4 degrees last night—and Boeheimburg was in full swing.

Boeheimburg is a miniature Orange-clad version of Krzyzewskiville, and has been re-established for the first time since last February’s game against Georgetown. In anticipation for the Blue Devils’ visit to the Orange Saturday, the first camper arrived at Gate E of Syracuse’s Carrier Dome on Jan. 19, the same day Black Tenting began in Durham.

Similarly to the line monitor system employed at Duke, Boheimburg is run by members of Otto’s Army— Syracuse’s student section named after its mascot, Otto the Orange. As of See RIVALRY, page 5

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Tenting has long been a tradition associated with Duke basketball. But with a matchup with the Blue Devils looming, Syracuse students are following suit.

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yesterday, 26 groups of four people were in line to witness the first Blue Devil-Orange matchup with both teams as members of the ACC. K-ville is only used to house tenters lined up for Duke-North Carolina and potentially one or two other big games each season. Similarly, Boheimburg is only operational during marquee matchups.

When Syracuse was a member of the Big East, Georgetown and Villanova were the biggest attractions. The Blue Devils, however, are the first team this season for which Otto’s Army has braved the weather.

The fact that a legion of Orange fans is waiting in freezing weather to greet Duke when it travels to New York this weekend is not to be ignored. Which teams fans camp out for is a great indicator of who they consider their rivals—not necessarily their permanent rivals, but their rivals given the context at the time.

Even if they’re having a terrible season, the Blue Devils will always camp out for North Carolina, because of the proximity, tradition and enthusiasm inherent in the Tobacco Road rivalry. From Otto’s Army’s perspective, this weekend is as big of a deal as a Duke-North Carolina game. The Syracuse bookstore has gone as far as to sell three different “Beat Duke” T-shirts since the beginning of the school year.

The Blue Devils are not only perpetual contenders, one of the most hated teams in the NCAA and loaded with offensive weapons—they’re also now conference rivals with Syracuse. Duke and the Orange will meet again later in the season, again kakuro_410F.txt

next year and again every single season for the foreseeable future.

But do arguably the two most consistent teams in the realigned ACC have enough to make them true rivals? Both squads have played well this season, as they do almost every year. After a 1-2 start in conference play, the Blue Devils have won five straight games, including a dominant 80-65 win against No. 18 Pittsburgh that showcased both their offensive power and depth. The Orange, meanwhile, are a perfect 19-0 and, other than two scary four-point wins against Miami and Pittsburgh, have won every ACC game by double digits.

Both Duke and Syracuse typically find themselves on brackets come March and are the fourth- and fifth-winningest Division I men’s basketball programs, respectively. Each has a legendary head coach—Mike Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in Division I men’s history with 974 wins, but is followed hot on his coattails by Jim Boeheim with 939.

What makes Duke and Syracuse’s potential rivalry unique, however, are the fans camping out in inclement weather to watch their basketball teams play. No, Boheimburg doesn’t have its own Wikipedia article yet, and the citizens of K-ville may not be sleeping in below-zero temperatures right now. But perhaps the Crazies and Otto’s Army will get to witness the Blue Devils and the Orange lay the foundation of a new ACC rivalry come this weekend.

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There’s already Krzyzewski and Boeheim, Roy Williams and Jim Larranaga, not to mention younger ones in Tony Bennett and Jamie Dixon. Next year, Louisville’s Rick Pitino only adds to the cachet.

“You have four Hall of Fame coaches,” Krzyzewski said of the ACC when Pitino’s Cardinals join the conference July 1.

“You have four coaches who have won national championships. No conference has that.”

Who knows what Saturday’s game will look like with such contrasting styles.

With 81.5 points per game, Duke’s offense is ranked as the second most efficient in the nation by basketball stats

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guru Ken Pomeroy. The stingy Syracuse defense gives up only 57.8 points per game, sixth fewest nationally. The Orange’s 2-3 zone forces 15.0 turnovers per game. The Blue Devils rarely cough it up, turning the ball over only 9.6 times per game. Even if Duke doesn’t run the floor at a blazing place, the offense can push the ball. Syracuse ranks in the bottom 10—in all of Division I—in adjusted tempo. It’s zone versus man. Man versus zone. Something’s gotta give.

The only guarantee is that it will be an absolute pleasure watching two of the game’s greatest go at it. The last time that comes to mind when two of the game’s greatest competed in conference play is when Krzyzewski and Dean Smith shared Tobacco Road.

Enjoy it, no matter how long it lasts.

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Ambivalence about Dempsey Selecting a speaker for commencement is a difficult and weighty task. This year, President Richard Brodhead chose Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and President Barack Obama’s chief military advisor, to serve as the Class of 2014’s commencement speaker. Along with his numerous Distinguished Service medals, Dempsey holds the title of the highest-ranking military officer in the United States.

The announcement of this year’s commencement speaker offers an opportunity to reflect on the qualities that make an exceptional speaker and the responsibilities he or she has when addressing the graduating class.

Having received a master’s degree in English in 1984, Dempsey has a connection to Duke—an important characteristic of a high quality commencement speaker. He salutes Duke for being his “intellectual oasis” where he was able to broaden his scope of knowledge beyond military life. As he ruminates on his time here, Dempsey will give the graduates occasion to reflect on their experiences and how Duke has prepared them for their future endeavors.

A commencement speaker should be an advocate for life-long learning and exemplify the values of the University, particularly knowledge in

the service of society. Dempsey has dedicated his life to serving his country and prides himself on what he calls a “personal campaign of learning.”

The speaker should, of course, also demonstrate admirable public speaking skills and offer a thoughtful speech. On his visit to Duke in January

Editorial of 2012, Dempsey demonstrated his impressive ability to engage with an audience, as he will surely do so again in May. Not all reactions to Dempsey have been positive, however. Many students have found this choice controversial because of Dempsey’s senior role in military operations that many find morally deplorable—drone strikes that kill civilians, cruelty and a lack of due process at Guantanamo Bay and the War in Afghanistan. By inviting Dempsey to speak at commencement, we are claiming that he is someone that exemplifies the values of the institution. But, despite his apparent love of knowledge, he has overseen operations that many find horrendous.

Can we divorce these actions from the inspiration he promises to offer many graduates?

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We share with some current seniors an ambivalence about Dempsey. We are, however, left with more questions than answers. Does Dempsey really exemplify knowledge in the service of society? What kind of courage and impact should a commencement speaker represent?

We agree that Dempsey meets the criteria for a good, conventional commencement speaker.

But speakers that truly reflect our institutional values should offer more than a Duke connection and skillful oration. We would like to see commencement speakers that defy conventional success. These speakers would challenge the way we think about success and give us new models of courage and personal fulfillment.

We should also note that, Brodhead unilaterally chose a commencement speaker for the Class of 2014 and Class of 2013, even though Duke has a student selection committee tasked with suggesting possible speakers. Dempsey was not on the list of speakers the committee complied, and it is not clear what role the student selection committee serves. If the committee does not have a meaningful say in selecting a commencement speaker, the University should disband the committee and break the illusion of student input.

’m not a fan of student government. As someone who has always been interested in politics, I’ve looked into participating at various times since elementary school. I served on my third grade class council and really can’t recall doing much of anything.

While there is certainly a large degree of difference between that and Duke Student Government, I

Our peer institutions like Harvard, Yale and Stanford allow their students to waive the activities fee if they find it offensive. The progressive policy proposed by The 40 Percent Plan would allow students to drive the amount of funding received by university clubs while still providing a cushion that is larger than Harvard’s entire budget for student affairs.

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the view from carr don’t think much has changed. The idea of student government is nice but equates to nothing more than pats on the back in practice. Far from being representative of the interests of the students, DSG is a bastion of a select group of individuals that is able to convince a very small segment of the undergraduate population to vote for them. Sometimes they don’t even need to be elected. Appointed candidates are a common occurrence because not enough people even care to run. Last year, our big presidential DSG election had a paltry turnout of 33 percent.

Not much of a mandate there. That’s even worse than the turnout for the 2012 presidential election, which sat at a meager 58 percent. I can excuse those figures, though. It’s hard to get excited about student government when what they do has so little of an impact on our lives. The tagline for The Chronicle’s DSG Series column is “we’re relevant, we promise.”

Most likely, if you’re trying to convince somebody that you are relevant, you probably aren’t.

One major way, though, in which DSG does exercise some power and relevancy is through the allocation of funding for student events. That’s why I find it particularly disturbing that attempts have been made by our “elected” officials to silence and misrepresent policy that actually deserves some attention on this campus. I’m speaking of The 40 Percent Plan, which proposes giving students a greater share of the choice for where their money goes. Under their plan, students would determine where 40 percent of their activities fee is allocated. While the exact percentage may need some work, it’s a sound starting point.

Currently, students have zero say in how a mandatory student activities fee is utilized, unless they are one of the unelected members of the Students Organization Finance Committee—in which case they get to decide which groups do and do not receive funding in a series of deliberations that occur obscured from public view. An unelected committee of students is currently in charge of a budget of over $667,000 in nearly complete secrecy. This is beyond ridiculous.

Complaints have been raised about the impact that this may have on minority groups, yet these claims do not stand up to close scrutiny. In fact, it is far more conceivable that The 40 Percent Plan would benefit small and new groups who lack the established connections and means to connect with the finance committee. The SOFC is a bureaucracy that has to be navigated, and, while it’s smaller than many, it still poses a disadvantage to groups without institutional connection. By allowing their members to designate a proportion of their activities fee to the organization, each group would be guaranteed a steady stream of income regardless of the whims of various committees. The 40 Percent Plan would allow groups to prove their own viability rather than having their survival dictated by a random and unelected committee. Smalls clubs would benefit from The 40 Percent Plan as it would give them greater control over their financial resources and ensure them a basic operational budget. Furthermore The 40 Percent Plan website has a very persuasive response to the small group objection, and I encourage anyone not satisfied with this response to read it.

DSG might not like The 40 Percent Plan because it places limits on their ability to control student funding, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good idea. The student body deserves to have a say in where money that is spent in our name goes. There are instances in which more choice is a bad thing, but this isn’t one of those times. We pay the fee, and we should have a role in deciding how it is spent. It’s a powerful but simple concept that will positively impact student life on this campus. We shouldn’t shirk away from the chance to allow Duke students to make decisions for themselves.

We are a community of incredibly bright and talented people whose individual intuition of our own needs is, I suspect, more accurate than a bloated bureaucracy’s.

I urge everyone reading to sign the petition.

Colin Scott is a Trinity senior. His column runs every other Wednesday.

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n Dec. 14, 2013, Duke University lost one of the greatest, most inspirational teachers it has ever known. After a four-year struggle with colon cancer, Benjamin F. Ward passed away at the young age of 65.

Many of us knew and loved Ben—a professor and dean who insisted that we not call him “Professor” or “Dean”—during our years at Duke. To this day, I remember vividly our weekly conversations—many lasted into the evening—to discuss my senior thesis.

I served with Ben on a presidential task force that

were already inside us. In this way, Ben was the most benevolent guide and teacher one could ask for.

To those full of anxiety about the future, we learned through our dialogue with Ben that we could little foresee what our respective paths would be. But this was good news—not bad— because Ben illuminated the possibility of innumerable paths and, in the process, helped us discover who we might become.

Ben knew and admitted that this exploration— this search to live a true and genuine life—required

Joseph Landau guest column made many recommendations to the University administration, including one, of which Ben deservedly took great pride, that all first-year students be relocated to East Campus. I once accompanied Ben to Renaissance Weekend in Hilton Head, S.C., where Ben regaled hundreds of participants of the time he performed with the great composer Rostropovich. Most importantly, I remember countless conversations with Ben and his tremendous capacity for empathy. To young Duke students coming of age, Ben often provided a source of support that could not have come from anywhere else.

After I graduated from Duke in 1995, Ben continued to offer his wise and helpful advice, which deeply influenced my decision to pursue law and, later, the teaching of law. If not for Ben’s sage input, my professional and academic career would likely have turned out quite differently. Ben taught me many things, but what I remember most from my time with him was how he approached life. Ben wanted all of us to inhabit a world in which each of us would be the master of his own destiny. Ben exhorted us to buck convention and to make our own decisions based on intellects and instincts that were truly ours—and ours alone.

Ben taught me how to teach, and he taught me—he taught all of us—how to live a life worth living. In the class he devoted to existentialism and the teachings of Sartre, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Heidegger, Ben’s paramount interest wasn’t that we understand a particular philosophical tradition but, rather, that we seriously attempt to understand our lives and our respective relationships to the world. Ben addressed his inquiries to our habits of mind, instilling the importance of transcending the common routines and well-worn tracks many of us were following.

How did Ben teach us these things? One answer, perhaps, is found in Plato’s description of the teacher in the Theaetetus. There, Plato writes that, as students, we are pregnant with knowledge and that the teacher is a midwife who delivers that knowledge out of us. I think this image helps us understand Ben, for he lived and embodied this role every day. Ben taught us that the answers to life’s hardest questions

heavy intellectual lifting and moral inquiry. No sentimentalist, Ben also told us that engaging in this inquiry was a luxury. As students, we had a privileged opportunity to inform ourselves about our world, engage it and find people who inspired us. But, ultimately, we would have to become our own sources of inspiration—so that we, in turn, could inspire others.

This was a luxury, but—at the risk of reading too much into Ben’s teaching—it was also a responsibility.

In the words of Sartre, we were “condemned to be free.” We were, in the end, “nothing other than [our] own project[s],” and we existed only to the extent that we performed those projects.

Ben imparted all of this without moral judgment or criticism of anyone’s choices.

He shared his knowledge easily, without condescension, with encouragement, with authority, with gentleness and with wisdom.

Ben was also deeply private, in some respects unknown and unknowable—but he also made himself public, and what was manifest in all his dealings was his enormous generosity of spirit— not in an amorphous, general way, but tied to those things he cherished, valued and committed his life to: philosophy, music, aesthetics, sport, his commitment to engaging students in a lifelong love of learning and fostering the development not of a singular vision of what life should be, but rather helping launch young people to discover the life they could make that was theirs alone.

I have spent a good deal of time thinking about Ben since his recent death—what he stood for, what he meant to me and how much he shaped my experience as an undergraduate at Duke in the 1990s. While I mourn deeply the loss of this tremendous man, I feel comforted by my memories of him—many still so very vivid—and the strong belief that he would want me to do nothing more than pass on his teachings to my own students, to my friends and to loved ones.

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was sitting outside of a cafe in Los Angeles when I saw him out of the corner of my eye. Every step seemed so labored, and the wheels of his walker scuffed against the sidewalk before he plopped down into a seat a few feet away from me with a resounding thud.

He pulled a battered, five-star spiral notebook from his laptop case, but it just lay there unopened in front of him.

I could feel him staring at me. Or at least at the book I was writing in—seeping in purple pen with asterisks, arrows and little notes crammed in the margins here and there. It was all part of my productive summer plan to take a stab at my thesis reading list at night after working at my internship all day. But every attempt to focus on elaborate academic jargon tucked into long-winded

Danielle Nelson such is life sentences ultimately devolved into shameless people-watching and too many hours spilling ink into a journal.

The minute I stopped scribbling, took my earphones out and looked up from my book, he started talking to me as if on cue—asking me about what I was reading (feminist literary criticism), why I was writing in it so much (because I was pretending to actually understand it), why I was even reading it (senior thesis), what my project was about (long story) and where I was working (at a feminist magazine down the street).

But then his voice suddenly shifted in tone, as if to mark a clear departure from our previous small-talk-cum-pseudo-interview or, rather, two strangers who will doubtfully ever meet again telling each other about their lives in a coffee shop.

And he asked me, “Do you write?”

It was the sort of question that has two alternate meanings: Do you write or do you write? What he meant was, what kinds of things do you write, while also giving off the ever-slight sense of mutual understanding.

As it turns out, the old man was in fact a writer, having published a few mystery/crime novels under a pen name. I quickly copied down his “name” and the titles of his novels on a blank page in the book I was reading while he described in great detail how he came to choose his pseudonym and how it related to his life. We talked for a while more about writing, creativity and finding the “story”—why writers write and what makes the struggle of translating experiences, people and lived moments into words so remarkably all consuming and, for lack of a better word, addicting.

Then he headed right. I turned left and walked back home.

Later that night, I looked up his books and scrolled down to the section about the author. But, as I read his bio, I realized that I didn’t know his full name. I only knew his pen name, and, as real as it seemed there in that moment on the screen, his biography was nothing more than an assumed identity. I felt cheated somehow.

Cheated and intrigued.

In full disclosure, identity is one of those questions that never fails to send my head spinning or keep me up at night. The inability to pin down the notion of who a person is or even the impossibility of knowing ourselves seems so pressing to me like a riddle to be solved with one lurking, distinctive truth.

But if I’m being honest, maybe my preoccupation with the “I” of identity is more about trying to reject who I’ve been in order to arrive at some sort of idea about who I am.

I’ve always kept journals, and with that also comes the terrifying reminder of each distinct stage of my life—stages that can be split up in “pre” this and “post” that. I think of the person I was when I was writing each version of myself and how that same genuine realness now in retrospect feels so false, each one like a borrowed identity to bide my time until I find the truer one.

As a freshman, I approached college with the intention to “recreate” myself. I wanted to be more social, outgoing and confident, and, as unfortunate as it is to admit, I wanted to just “fit in.” Now, it’s safe to say that I no longer want those same things.

And it’s also safe to say that not wanting to “fit in” made me start writing again, to write a new “I” literally and, well, also figuratively.

It’s not that I needed to abandon or cast off parts of myself, but, rather, rewrite and revise who I thought I knew I was. Even as I write this now, “I” am shifting under my own feet. I don’t know if I can ever be quite sure who exactly I am or which version of myself is more authentic, more “true” or more real than the last.

The fact is we are never done becoming ourselves. We have so many lives—plural—to live, unmistakably different and compliant in their own way. And, in an odd sense, thinking about the old man with the pen name reminds me of just that: how utterly fragile the line is between who we are and who we are capable of molding ourselves into becoming.

Danielle Nelson is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Wednesday. Send Elle a message on Twitter @elleeenel.

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