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2U’s Semester “Americanah” brings diversity to summer books Online discontinued

by Emma Baccellieri The chronicle

Internet education consortium Semester Online has been disbanded less than a year after the Arts and Sciences Council voted to block Duke’s membership in the program.

Semester Online’s parent company, 2U, announced last week that the entire consortium would come to an end following the upcoming summer session. The program offers Internet classes for course credit to students at 10 member schools. It launched last Fall after some tumult regarding its member universities—Duke withdrew from its agreement to enter the consortium last April, two other schools also backed out.

“Semester Online was always an experiment,” Chance Patterson, senior vice president of communications for 2U, wrote in an email Monday. “The pilot program experienced significant challenges related to the complexities of a consortium structure.”

The University entered into an agreement with Semester Online in November 2012, when Provost Peter Lange signed a contract with 2U to introduce Duke as one of 10 member schools in the consortium, which would offer online courses for credit. At the time, however, the Arts and Sciences Council had not yet voted on how online courses could be included in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences curriculum and graduation requirements.

A proposal to grant credit for online classes was put to a vote during the Council’s April meeting last year and did not pass, with 14 votes for the policy change and 16 against.

“As council chair, I’m pleased in hindsight with how we handled the proposal,” said Tom Robisheaux, chairman of the council and Fred W. Schaffer professor of history.

Although the proposal dealt only with generic policy on online courses for credit and not with the Semester Online partnership specifically, an affirmative vote would have meant automatic participation in the consortium because Duke had already signed the contract with 2U. At the vote, a number of faculty members who spoke against the proposal noted that they took issue not with online education as a whole, but instead with the Semester Online consortium.

“It’s a disaster,” physics professor Steffan Bass, a member of the Executive Committee of Arts and Sciences Council, told The Chronicle after the vote. “It was not voted down because online education is a bad thing. It was voted down on the basis of very political arguments.”

Professors who took issue with Semester Online presented a number of arguments— See online, page 5

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The selection of “Americanah” as the Class of 2018’s summer reading book marks the first time that Duke has recommended for its students to read a book written by a woman of color.

by Aleena Karediya The Chronicle

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Americanah” has been chosen as the summer reading book for the Class of 2018— the first time that Duke has chosen a book written by a woman of color.

A 19 member committee of students, faculty and staff selected the book. Focusing on the dual stories of a woman who flees Nigeria to attend college in the United States and her high school love interest, who illegally emigrates to England, “Ameri-

canah” has been critically praised since its release last year.

“Diversity is not a specific factor in the selection process,” Simon Partner, co-chair of the selection committee and professor of Japanese history, wrote in an email Monday. “But we are delighted that this book features a brilliant young voice representing the perspective of a young African immigrant woman who happens to speak to some of the most vital issues in our society.”

The book was chosen from a pool of five finalists after plentiful discussion among

committee members, Partner said. Guidelines included whether or not the book would prompt stimulating debate, resonate with incoming students and enrich the intellectual lives of the readers, he noted.

The other finalists were “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” by Ben Fountain, “The Dinner” by Herman Koch, “The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards” by Kristopher Jansma and “The Yellow Birds” by Kevin Powers.

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Dzau replacement search committee formed

By Gautam Hathi The Chronicle

A committee tasked with finding a replacement for Victor Dzau, the outgoing Chancellor for Health Affairs and Duke University Health System CEO, has been formed, according to an announcement

by President Richard Brodhead.

In an email to Duke Medicine employees that was published on Duke Today Monday, Brodhead said the search committee will be chaired by G. Richard Wagoner Jr., the immediate past chair of the Board of Trustees and former CEO of General Motors. Dr. Barton F. Haynes, the Frederic M. Hanes Professor of Medicine and Immunology and Global Health Director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Duke Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology, will

serve as vice chair.

The committee will be composed of University administrators, Duke Medicine administrators, medical school professors and one medical student.

“The search committee will be charged with identifying candidates who are devoted to the research and teaching missions of a world-class academic medical center and who deeply understand the business of health care, and who can ensure that these potentially rival activities serve and support each other in complementary fashion,” Brodhead wrote.

During the search, Dr. William J. Fulkerson Jr., executive vice president of Duke University Health System, and Dr. See dzau, page 6

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DSG Judiciary will not hear president’s motion

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The DSG Judiciary decided not to hear President Jones’ motion to overturn its decision to decharter 83 inactive student organizations.

by Carleigh Stiehm The chronicle

The Judiciary will not hear a case from Duke Student Government to overturn the Judiciary’s decision to reallocate $40,000 worth of recovered funds to campus projects.

DSG and the Student Organization Funding Committee dechartered 83 inactive student groups, recovering $40,000 worth of funds, at a March 5 meeting. DSG President Stefani Jones, a senior, submitted the request to undo the process to the Judiciary Monday morning. DSG and SOFC had touted this recovery as a sign of SOFC improving transparency and efficiency, but in a written request to the Judiciary, Jones cited that several members of the DSG executive board noticed “a number of major errors” with the dechartering procedure upon review. These errors, she asserted, prevented student groups from sufficiently understanding how to avoid being dechartered. The Judiciary cited that the motion did not have standing in court.

“The court has interpreted the motion as an appeal to our decision regarding the Motion to Decharter, and we do not recognize appeals to the judiciary,” read the official decision.

Jones, however, maintained that her motion should have been heard.

“My motion was not an appeal,” Jones said. “Nowhere did it say it was an appeal.

That claim is baseless.”

It is impossible that she filed an appeal, Jones noted, because she was never given a formal opinion which she could have appealed.

Unlike an appeal—which attacks a decision that was made—Jones said her motion was to correct problems and inconsistencies with the procedure that was implemented in the dechartering process. These issues were brought to her attention by students outside of DSG. Although the Judiciary will not hear Jones’ case, sophomore Max Schreiber, chief justice of the Judiciary, noted that if a dechartered student group were to come forward with a case, the body

would hear it.

“Her case doesn’t have standing because she is appealing to the Judiciary,” Schrieber said. “We act as DSG’s Supreme Court. Our decision is final.”

Because the motion was to overturn a decision already made, the Judiciary determined that there was no way they could pursue a case in which they were essentially their own defendant.

“If she is suing us, how on Earth do we defend that?” justice Dana Raphael, a freshman, asked rhetorically.

By denying that her case be heard, Jones asserted that her right to due process was violated.

Schreiber said he believed the motives for Jones to file this motion were not ethical.

“We are doing something very effective with the money, and I don’t think they are very happy that we are the ones doing it, and they are not,” Schreiber said.

Raphael suggested that DSG may have filed this motion in order to regain control of the $40,000.

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each of the inactive groups have already been deactivated, in order to recharter the groups their accounts would have to be recreated, Schreiber said.

Jones said that the Judiciary’s decision on how to allocate the funding was “highly problematic,” as it was beyond the scope of their decision making power.

“I am definitely very disappointed with their decision to act outside of their powers and legislate from the bench,” she said. “They have been acting in a means that is very much outside of their purview and power.”

She added that she was disappointed in the outcome.

The Judiciary is meeting with David Pittman, student activities director at the University Center for Activities and Events, Wednesday to iron out the details of implementing their plan.

UCAE will use the money to fund campus improvement projects that students deem to be the most important.

Schreiber described a process by which students submit ideas for improvements to be approved by UCAE based on their feasibility. The projects would be put to a student-wide vote to determine which ones are most broadly supported, and the surplus $40,000 will then be allocated based on ordered student preference. Schreiber is optimistic that the details of the plan will be finalized and implemented for later this month or early in the Fall.

In an email obtained by The Chronicle prior to the Judiciary’s meeting, Schreiber encouraged other justices to stand against the executive board’s motion.

“I don’t care what your philosophy is in regard to how we ruled on the dissolution [and] finance of group— it should be very clear that DSG exec doesn’t get a special ‘redo’ when they mess up. We need, as a court, to take a stand here,” Schreiber wrote in the email.

“I’m breaking precedent here and asking you all to say this has no standing and we will not hear their case. I’m tired of being pushed around and disrespected by the exec board.”

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Studying psychological principles improves class performance

by Tim Bai

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Simple changes to homework assignments based on psychological behaviors can increase students’ class performance, according to a study conducted by researchers at Duke and Rice University.

The paper—published based on a study conducted at Rice—tested the effects of implementing new homework policies on college students’ overall performances in a core engineering course. Students switched every week between traditional assignments and “intervention” assignments—those using the psychological principles—and they received higher exam grades on material taught by the intervention method.

“One major goal was to try to see whether these powerful principles that we know from laboratory research improve long-term retention of information...[and] whether that then could be applied to the classroom,” said Andrew Butler, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research scholar in psychology and neuroscience.

Through the use of a homework resource website called OpenStax Tutor that the team developed, researchers were able to apply three basic psychological principles of longterm memory—repeated retrieval practice, spacing and feedback—to the process of completing homework. These principles were implemented in intervention homework through follow-up homework questions, problem sets spaced out over three weeks and immediate online feedback for submitted assignments. Attempting followup questions and viewing online feedback counted towards the course participation grade.

Butler explained that the structure of classes can affect how well students study for exams. Because students tend to cram all of their learning on nights before tests and do not receive or look at feedback on prior assignments, much of the learning is lost. Butler added that simply retrieving information from memory is an important process for long-term memory and deeper understanding of the material.

“Think of a time you were in a study group and you were studying for an upcoming exam and you’re going back and forth and explaining concepts to each other,” Butler said. “Through the process of studying and retrieving and using your knowledge, you’re actually learning that material better.”

Co-author Richard Baraniuk, professor of the engineering course at Rice, said that the study has been a positive first step towards integrating cognitive science and technology into the process of student learning.

“A next step is exploring how ideas from machine learning can be used to make these basic principles even more powerful,” Baraniuk wrote in an email Friday.

Butler stated that one issue in the average class is how much time instructors can devote to individuals, given that students within a class have different amounts of starting knowledge and learn the material at different speeds. He said by developing technology as an implementation of these principles based on their study, instructors could personalize and improve the learning experience for individual students.

“In the future, we hope to be then furSee homework, page 5

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DUSDAC reviews results of recent food truck survey

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DUSDAC met Monday to discuss the results of the food truck survey and to sample a potential new vendor.

by Sasha Zients The chronicle

The Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee met Monday to deliberate on the results of the recent food truck survey and to sample a potential new vendor for the Merchants-On-Points program.

The survey—which DUSDAC and Duke Student Government invited the student body to participate in on Mar. 27—closed Sunday. Members of DUSDAC discussed the results of the survey and the next steps in their process of determining which food trucks will be on campus next year. The committee also sampled from Serrano Delicafe, a local

delicatessen.

“Over 10 percent of undergraduates responded,” said co-chair of DUSDAC Chris Taylor, a senior. “It is what I was hoping for optimistically.”

Taylor reported that through the end of the survey, the food trucks with the highest number of votes were ParlezVous Crepe and Foster’s on the Fly. The trucks with the lowest number of votes were Captain Poncho’s and Baguetteaboutit. As potential trucks for next year, Mac-Ur-Roni and Deli-icious had the most votes, while CJ’s Street Food and Bang Bang Banh Mi were among the See dusdac, page 6

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Duke scientists have engineered skeletal muscle more advanced than any previously synthesized tissue.

By Ray Li

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Duke University scientists have engineered lab-grown muscle that acts, looks and heals like the real thing.

A team of biomedical engineers at Duke’s Bursac laboratory have made a recent breakthrough which allows them to grow and implant skeletal muscle in mice more advanced than any previously synthesized tissue. researchers found that muscle tissue grown from specific types of stem cells isolated from the muscles of newborn mice could even repair itself after extensive injury.

The findings have significant implications for the medical industry. The artificially-synthesized tissue could be used to test different drugs, gene therapies and other therapies in vitro as alternatives to trials that would normally

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require the use of live animals.

“When we measured the muscle contraction strength, we found that it was 10 times higher than anybody else had previously recorded,” said principal investigator nenac Bursac, an associate professor of biomedical engineering.

To synthesize the tissue, Bursac and his colleagues took the isolated stem cells—called satellite cells—and suspended them in hydrogel, a gel-like substance similar to blood clots. After about two weeks, the cells formed new muscle fibers.

The team conducted a variety of tests to determine the effectiveness of the new tissue and measured contractile strength by administering a series of electrical pulses, forcing the muscles

JUDiCiARY from page 2 Jones said it is inappropriate that the Judiciary jumped to a conclusion without even intending to give the motion the full consideration that it deserved. in the meeting, he reiterated his position and requested the support of the other justices. “i have spent this entire year ensuring that DSG knows that the court acts as a check, not a stamp, on its power,” Schreiber added. “While DSG has reacted to this with aggressive vigor— including the attempted impeachment of my associate, [junior] Will Giles when he ran for president—i do not regret that i have taken a stand against their self-interested bullying.”

Jones said these claims were completely untrue.

“We never attempted to impeach Will Giles,” Jones said.

There are two seemingly contradictory bylaws under Title X of the Student organization Finance Committee Bylaw.

Section 21 suggests that the Judiciary is responsible for re-allocating funds from dissolved groups, whereas Section 22 suggests that the power lies with SoFC. Section 21 states: “every group dissolved under this Title shall lose its chartered or recognized status and its fund code. The disposition of its assets shall be at the discretion of the Judiciary

in consultation with UCAe.” immediately following, Section 22 says: “Money recovered pursuant to this Title shall be returned to the account from which it was allocated, except that money allocated from the Annual Budget shall be returned to the Programming Fund or to the Surplus Fund at the discretion of SoFC. if a group has insufficient funds to comply with a repossession, it shall be prosecuted under Title Xi, Section 20.”

Former chief justice Daniel Strunk, a senior, referred to Jones’ motion as unusual. “in this motion, President Jones has publicly and officially proclaimed that she violated the rights of Duke students.

More than that, she’s attempting to utilize DSG’s incompetence as grounds to get the 40k back,” Strunk wrote in an email Monday. “everything about this is just unusual. i don’t think a DSG President has ever done this before.” if DSG wishes to push forward with their motion, they have three options, Schreiber said. They can impeach all justices, introduce a constitutional amendment or wait for a similar case and sue again. “it is very problematic that the Judiciary would come to a decision without having a hearing or writing a formal decision,” Jones said. “Students should be very concerned about this.”

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ONLiNe from page 1 a perceived lack of transparency from the administration regarding the contract, the prestige of other partner schools and whether the deal would devalue a Duke education.

“Semester online was very ambitious because it put together so many complicated issues into one,” robisheaux noted. “i wasn’t too surprised that they ended the program.” robisheaux added that he had heard of logistical issues with Semester online from faculty at member institutions—mainly dealing with how to assign credit and handle registration, even though faculty seemed to like the platform itself. “in the end, it was too much to disentangle,” he said.

Duke faculty’s debate on the consortium received considerable media attention. Covered by media outlets such as the new York Times, the Washington Post and the Chronicle of higher education, Duke’s withdrawal was called a “huge disappointment” by 2U Ceo Chip Paucek in an interview with inside

higher ed.

After the Council’s vote forced Duke to back out of the consortium, Vanderbilt University and the University of rochester also withdrew from Semester online.

“At Vanderbilt, we were concerned that the decision to charge full tuition for the 2U courses was at odds with our own commitment to meet demonstrated financial need in full for all of our undergraduate students,” Cynthia Cyrus, Vanderbilt’s associate vice provost for undergraduate education, told The Chronicle in June 2013.

She added that Vanderbilt officials were also uncomfortable with 2U’s focus on general courses with large potential enrollment over “niche courses” that would broaden Vanderbilt students’ access to curricular content.

The final edition of the consortium included Boston College, Brandeis University, emory University, northwestern University, The University of north Carolina at Chapel hill, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Melbourne, University of notre Dame, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St. louis.

Patterson said that the decision to end Semester online was mutual between 2U and the partner universities.

Discussion on online education has continued at Duke throughout the school year. The Arts and Sciences Council has hosted several forums for faculty and students to examine the possible merits and drawbacks on internet courses for credit, and the council presented a new proposal on online course credit at their January meeting. The new policy would allow students to take one internet class for credit each semester—whether from Duke or another accredited university—as long as it is approved by the director of undergraduate studies for the department. it has not yet been decided when the council will vote on the proposal, robisheaux said, and he emphasized that the conversation is ongoing. “innovation is always going to be by a minority—always going to be a small, bold group of individuals,” robisheaux said. “Some things are going to work and some things are not, so how do we find a place for that while holding ourselves to the high standards of a Duke liberal arts education?”

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ther differentiating, saying ‘this student would benefit from some more practice and retrieving and using their knowledge on this concept,” Butler said, “whereas this other student might benefit doing some more practice on this other concept because they haven’t yet mastered that.’”

Although the research has provided evidence for the three psychological principles, further research will look at expanding the principles of learning to include a wider spectrum of real-world contexts, noted coauthor elizabeth Marsh, a professor of psychology and neuroscience.

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ReADiNG from page 1 The committee received more than 600 recommendations and considered more than 400 books, according to a Duke news press release.

Since the Summer reading Program began in 2002, the selected authors have included two women and two men of color, but Adichie—who is nigerian—is the first woman of color.

During orientation week, freshmen will discuss the book in small groups—the first shared intellectual experience they will have as Duke students. Plans are being finalized to have Adichie speak at Duke early in the Fall, the press release stated.

“Americanah” was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by The new York Times Book review and won the 2013 national Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

“We hope that Duke freshmen will engage with the important issues raised by the book,” Partner wrote. “i really can’t say what lessons they will learn - i think that the book is sophisticated enough not to convey any simple take-home messages.“ “We are excited to have successfully translated the basic science into the classroom, demonstrating that the techniques have great potential for improving student learning,” Marsh said.

Butler said their research does not predict how well the intervention method would fare in different classes or at different education levels, but any student could benefit from implementing these same cognitive principles regardless of whether special technology is used or instructors change their homework policies.

“The idea of practicing retrieval, the idea of spacing out your study—that’s an effective recipe for learning as an individual,” Butler said.

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Dzau from page 1 Nancy Andrews, Dean of the School of Medicine, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Nanaline H. Duke Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, will report directly to Brodhead. The new Dean of the School of Nursing will also report directly to Brodhead when that position is filled.

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To test the healing capabilities of the tissue, the team then injected the engineered muscle with a toxin derived from snake venom, damaging and corroding most of the muscle fibers. The satellite cells within the muscles regenerated the fibers over a period of 10 days, proving their self-healing capabilities.

With the help of Greg Palmer, assistant professor of radiation oncology, the muscle was then implanted into the backs of live mice in special chambers.

For two weeks, the team observed how the muscle integrated with the bodies of living organisms.

“Through a glass panel in the chamber, we observed in real time how the tissue matured and how blood vessels grew into the implanted muscle fibers,” Palmer wrote in an email Monday.

In naturally-occurring muscles, these satellite cells are always prepared to repair injured muscles after accidental

trauma or heavy exercise. But special circumstances in the artificial muscle meant that specific microenvironments had to be created to house the cells.

“Simply implanting satellite cells doesn’t work as well,” said lead author Mark Juhas, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in biomedical engineering. “The well-developed muscle we made provides niches for satellite cells to live in, and when needed, to restore the robust musculature and its function.”

For Bursac’s team, successfully synthesizing and implanting muscle tissue in mice is only a stepping stone toward future applications for humans. Bursac and his associates are working with other biomedical engineers on a long-term project called “body on a chip,” which involves the synthesis of various types of human tissue. Successful synthesis of human muscle would have significant implications for drug testing and gene therapy, which yield more accurate results when conducted on human rather than the animal tissue typically used.

In addition, the development of synthetic muscle could be critical in treating traumatic injuries. Implanting synthesized tissue into patients with severe injuries can aid faster recovery. Bursac noted, however, that this would take some time to develop. The creation of large, human-sized muscles requires vascularizing the tissue so it can receive nutrients—a challenge worthy of a Nobel Prize, he said.

Bursac’s team is moving quickly. It will soon publish a report detailing their research on artificially grown human skeletal muscle.

“We have had success in making synthetic human muscle,” Bursac said. “We are working on improving the strength [of the muscle].”

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trucks with the fewest votes.

Taylor said that the exact numbers for current vendors on campus were confidential.

DSG president-elect Lavanya Sunder, a sophomore, asked if the number of trucks on campus next year could be increased from seven to eight.

Taylor responded that the number of trucks is purposefully limited to seven, though he added that there could be an alternate truck on the list in case a truck needs to be replaced.

“Our highest commitment is to our vendors on campus because they have made the biggest financial sacrifice to be here on campus,” Taylor said. “We owe them a certain amount of business.”

The committee resolved that they would vote on next year’s seven food trucks and list for Merchants-On-Points at next week’s meeting.

The student survey results will be taken into account for the vote, but will not be the only determining factor.

Victor Serrano, owner of Serrano Delicafe—which opened in Brightleaf Square in August 2013—presented his food as a potential option to add to the merchants on points list for next year.

“Our menu is limited only by your imagination,” Serrano said. “We are a fully functioning deli.”

The deli has fresh bread on a daily basis, serves Boar’s Head meats and features fresh produce. Serrano’s is working to develop more gluten-free options, the owner said.

“I’ll also add that we have the best coffee in town,” Serrano noted.

Although Serrano’s currently offers delivery through Durham Takeout, Serrano said that students could directly call him for delivery at any time the deli is open with no surcharge. He added that the deli offers a 10 percent discount to people affiliated with Duke, which he referred to as the “family discount.”

“We can handle a lot more than we are getting,” Serrano said. “We’re small, but we’re working to expand.”

Serrano added that he had served members of the men’s basketball team before games several times last season— and the team won each of the games.

Many DUSDAC members said that they enjoyed the food, but expressed concern that the deli was similar to Jimmy John’s—among the most popular Merchants-On-Points—as its primary products are sandwiches.

“There are many people who already do not like Jimmy John’s and then once people try this and realize it’s a lot better, they’ll [order] from here,” said junior Gregory LaHood. “I really like this guy and think he’d be fantastic.”

Co-chair of DUSDAC Caity Slattery, a senior, noted the reasonable prices, with most sandwiches ranging between seven and eight dollars.

During Serrano’s visit, Taylor asked Serrano if he would be interested in the possibility of a fair to raise awareness for Merchants-On-Points at the beginning of the fall semester.

“We would consider that an honor, you kidding?” Serrano said.

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Did your mother ever tell you to not climb fences?

Unfortunately for Duke redshirt junior Cale hammond, that was one piece of advice he had to learn the hard way. hammond was playing what seemed to be a routine point in a March 13 match against San Diego State when he made a play that would lead to one of the most bizarre and serious injuries to ever happen during a tennis match.

With his doubles match tied at 1-1, hammond’s opponent hit an overhead that looked like it was going to go over the back fence. hammond, refusing to give up on the play, ran back and tried to climb the fence to make a play on the ball.

That’s where things went horribly wrong. “i jumped up to get it and i put my hand on the gate to brace myself,” hammond said. “When my body hit the fence, it swung open and my finger was in the wrong place and it got smashed off.”

When he hit the ground, hammond had lost the tip of his left index finger.

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After a run-in with a fence during a tennis match in San Diego, redshirt junior Cale Hammond did not need an X-ray to see he lost the top joint of his left index finger.

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>> San Francisco 49ers safety Ronnie Lott had a portion of his left pinky amputated so he would be ready in time for the 1986 season. He led the league with 10 inteceptions that year. >> Arizona Cardinals safety Rashad Jennings lost the tip of his left middle finger during a game in September 2013. He didn’t realize until he took his glove off afterward. >> Former Blue Devil Martynas Pocius lost his left middle finger when he was 13. He currently plays basketball for the Lithuanian national team. >> Phoenix Suns guard Gerald Green lost the ring finger on his shooting hand when he was in sixth grade. >> Mordecai ‘Three Finger’ Brown lost two fingers on his pitching hand in a farming accident. He is now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. >> Former Major League pitcher Antonio Alfonseca was born with polydactly and has six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot.

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Boutier captures second Blue Devils look to snap straight individual title 4-game losing skid

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Just one week after breaking through with the first individual win of her career, sophomore Celine Boutier once again stood on the 18th green Sunday with a putt to win.

Tied for the lead after dealing with stomach pains for most of the day, Boutier drained the five-footer for birdie to notch a one-stroke victory in the PinG/ASU invitational on the par-72 Karsten Golf Course. led by Boutier’s three-day total of 208, no. 3 Duke finished tied for second as a team against a field that drew seven top-10 teams to Tempe, Ariz. The Blue Devils’ final tally of 859 left them six shots off South Carolina’s winning total. leading for most of the weekend, Boutier put up rounds of 69, 69, and 70 to top Arizona State’s noemi Jimenez, who stormed into contention with a final round 66. Grouped with Jimenez in Sunday morning’s final pairing, Boutier was able to watch as the Sun Devil put up six birdies over the course of the day, including one on the 17th hole that

knotted the two atop the leaderboard. But Boutier’s birdie on the subsequent hole gave the Montrouge, France, native her second victory in as many weeks.

Boutier outlasted both the field and inclement weather last week to take home the Bryan national Collegiate in Summit, n.C. “She won where everyone in the field was struggling to shoot par and then she won where she went considerably under par,” head coach Dan Brooks said. “it shows she can play and win in any condition.”

Senior Blue Devil laetitia Beck also contested for the individual title this weekend, finishing three shots back of Boutier with a five-under-par total of 211. “i saw some frustration from laetitia in this tournament, and i think that’s a positive,” Brooks said. “She’s realizing that she is right on the cusp of playing really great golf. A couple of little things kept her from winning this time. She’s really close.”

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Durham has been a lot kinder than the road to the Blue Devils this season.

After sweeping north Carolina at home, Duke dropped all four games in its road trip against liberty and ACC rival Georgia Tech. now the Blue Devils will return home to N.C. face n.C. Central at Central Jack Coombs Field vs.

Tuesday at 6 p.m. This Duke game marks the start of a five-game home TUESDAY, 6 p.m. stand for Duke, which Jack Coombs Field will start a three-game series against n.C. State this weekend at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park before returning to campus to face Davidson next week.

With less than 48 hours between a 1-0 loss in the series finale against the Yellow Jackets and Duke’s next game, head coach Chris Pollard said the quick turnaround allows his team to have a short memory in

regards to its recent struggles.

“That’s the beauty of baseball—that you don’t have to sit around and feel sorry for yourself for very long,” Pollard said. “You get to get right back on the horse so to speak. over the years i’ve always wondered how they do it in football. When you have a tough loss you have to wait around a full week. For us we don’t have to sit around but 24 hours and we’re playing again.” one of the bright spots for Duke (17-16) against Georgia Tech was the return of senior third baseman Jordan Betts after missing two weeks of action with a back injury. Betts did not miss a beat in his first games back, going 3-for-4 in Sunday’s loss. Pollard said he believes having Betts’s experience back in the lineup will be key down the stretch for the Blue Devils.

The eagles are 0-12 against Duke all-time, but n.C. Central (14-17-1) has been hot of late and is currently riding a five-game win streak.

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“One of the bummers about it was that he was actually playing probably some of the best doubles of his career at Duke right when it happened,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “He was serving well, he was playing aggressively, and he was really clicking on all cylinders.”

Luckily, the amputation occurred on the only part of the hand not completely essential for a tennis player. This silver lining not only saves him from having to deal with nicknames like “the four-fingered forehand,” but also means that his playing career is not over.

Less than four weeks after the injury occurred, Hammond is back practicing with the Blue Devils.

Hammond’s road to recovery began with intensive physical therapy, where physical therapists take materials like cloth and gauze and rub it along his finger to activate the damaged nerves in his hand. They then move his finger back and forth to try to get its range of motion back.

As one might imagine, pain has been the biggest hurdle for Hammond in the rehab process.

“I’m pretty good with pain, but this is ridiculous,” Hammond said. “It’s just been crazy how much its been hurting.”

On the court, Hammond’s stroke won’t be largely affected, as the left index finger is not heavily utilized by a righty in a two-handed backhand. As he prepared to make his return to competition, Hammond is more concerned with just getting back in shape.

“The biggest thing is fitness,” he said.

“Sitting on a couch for three weeks and eating and taking pain pills isn’t the best way to train.”

In the midst of his recovery, Hammond has set a lofty goal for himself—to return to competition for the ACC tournament, which is set to begin April 24. Hammond has suffered no major setbacks thus far and has the added motivation of playing the first postseason match of his career after watching each of the past two years

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my finger but that’s all I knew immediately,” Hammond said. “Then I looked at it when I landed and I saw the bone and the fingertip was gone and then blood started flowing so I called for a doctor.”

Hammond was rushed to the emergency room by his parents, along with the remaining portion of his finger on ice.

Upon examination, the doctors realized that there would be no way to reattach the finger without nerve damage, so they opted to amputate, cutting down the bone so that skin could be wrapped over.

Amazingly, Hammond isn’t the first athlete to ever lose part of a finger in a fence-related injury.

Professional Swiss soccer player Paulo Diogo suffered a similar injury in 2004.

After setting up a goal for Servette F.C. teammate Jean Beausejor, Diogo jumped up on a fence separating the fans from the

pitch to celebrate. The newlywed did not notice that his wedding ring got caught in a barrier, and as he jumped down, part of his finger tore off with the ring.

What separates Hammond’s injury from Diogo’s is that Hammond’s didn’t come from a foolish celebration, but rather from giving maximum effort to try to keep the point alive.

“If I cut my finger off doing something stupid or dangerous it would be a lot more depressing,” Hammond said. “The fact that I did it going for a ball, doing what I love—playing tennis—makes it feel like it was supposed to happen.”

It is this heart and hustle that Duke will miss in his absence, as Hammond was beginning to play some of the best tennis of his career. Playing primarily in the third doubles slot with sophomore Daniel McCall, Hammond took the court for the Blue Devils in seven of the team’s first 12 matches of the season and posted a 5-2 doubles record along with a

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Duke dropped a tight 4-3 decision to Oklahoma in its first match after Hammond’s injury. But as the redshirt junior has recovered, so have the Blue Devils.

Smith said that watching Hammond battle through adversity has had a positive impact on his team, which just won its fourth consecutive match.

“I think Cale’s handled it as well as he could have,” Smith said. “He’s remained pretty darn positive. I think that that’s helped the team.”

For a team that has been dealing with injuries all year and the loss of top player Michael Redlicki, Hammond’s return could be the boost Duke needs heading into postseason play.

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Sophomore Celine Boutier captured the individual title at the ASU/PING Invitational for her second consecutive individual win.

Duke dropped three straight contests to Georgia Tech last weekend, but third baseman Jordan Betts showed he does not have lingering effects of a back injury.

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Despite falling short as a team this weekend, Duke will plenty of momentum into the ACC championship later this month, where the squad will be the heavy favorite.

standard of excellence we set for ourselves,” Pollard said. “Ideally we don’t want to see anyThe Eagles are led by senior third baseman more than 36 batters come to the plate in any Tyson Simpson, who has started all 32 games one ballgame, and we don’t want to give away this season and is batting a team-leading .381 more than five free bases in a ballgame. We’ve on the year. Simpson also leads his team in hits done a good job with that over the course of this year, and we’ll try to stay with the same forwith 43 and is second in RBIs with 28.

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The thesis writing experience varies wildly across disciplines. Some departments expect students to conjure up their own questions, assemble their methods and dive into their research with very little structure or guidance.

In other departments, students receive too much structure, and many wind up slipping formulaic projects into generic thesis templates. Due dates, expectations, advisor involvement and grading schemes also differ from department to department, creating inconsistencies in the amount and type of work students perform.

Each discipline employs its own methods and

standards, making total procedural uniformity in thesis writing impossible and unwise. But some features of the undergraduate thesis experience—like the scope of one’s project and the schedule for completing it—ought to be consistent across most departments. In particular,

Editorial standardizing the thesis writing schedule would turn what is often an isolated research process into a collective endeavor. Undergraduates from across the University would be able to help each other, trade ideas and develop a community grounded in a shared experience. Moreover, establishing a set of university-wide standards for thesis projects would ensure that each thesis meets a certain minimum level of quality.

Students dedicate incredible amounts of time and effort to their theses, but few have a chance to share their work. Some departments—like economics and chemistry—hold poster sessions so that students in the department can present their work and learn about the work of others.

Events like these ensure that months or years

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Not only should more departments hold these kinds of sessions, but Duke should also create opportunities for students to share their work with students and professors in other disciplines. A miniature conference or crossdiscipline poster session would allow students to swap ideas, meet others working on similar issues and discover opportunities for future collaboration. Perhaps Duke could use the infrastructure that Bass Connections already has in place to facilitate this kind of cross-discipline thesis sharing.

Despite some shortcomings, Duke’s senior thesis process has proven to be extremely valuable for most students who participate.

Even though many students who choose not to write theses would benefit from doing so, giving students an option means that most people who pursue a thesis do so out of genuine interest in the subject matter. This is, of course, not always the case, and departments that encourage every senior to write a thesis regardless of their preparedness or the department’s capacity to support them do their students a disservice.

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We’re proposing that undergraduate students continue to receive a $32 semester allotment with an additional refill of $8. To better align the cost per sheet with the true cost of printing, we also suggest that the cost per sheet be changed from $0.02 to $0.04.

Four cents is a number OIT identifies as a closer estimate of the cost of printing, although the real cost is likely higher. This means that, per semester, students can print up to one thousand sheets for free, which is two thousand pages if you print double-sided. Additional printing would be charged directly to FLEX accounts, which is the current policy if students exceed their quotas without refilling them first.

Even with the new cost of $0.04 per sheet, Duke would not recoup the total costs of student printing. Bringing the cost per sheet closer in line with the true costs could, in the long run, free up funding for other green printing initiatives like recycled paper and energyefficient technologies.

This simple change could have big environmental impacts, without affecting the majority of students. Only 20 percent of undergraduates printed over this new cap last year, and the median overage was only 300 sheets per semester, a nominal cost of $12.

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Our goal is to encourage students to be active in the environmental sustainability movement, through simple behavioral changes like printing less. The change is not meant to be a burden for anyone, so we are working with OIT to develop an exemption for students with demonstrated financial or medical need.

We presented the proposal on April 2 at the Duke Student Government general body meeting. On Wednesday, April 9, DSG will be voting on a resolution of our proposal. The meeting starts at 8 p.m. in Schiciano Auditorium A in CIEMAS. Please come listen if you’re interested in the specifics of the proposal and its potential impacts.

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Today I share some of my favorite quotes, borrowing another columnist’s idea. I hope one of these quotes offers you insight of some sort—about yourself, about your future, about the meaning of life.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Gospel of Mark, Chapter 12 Lead by listening; others will follow the wisdom of their collective thought. Lead by doing; others will follow the pathway you create together. Lead through ethical means; others will follow the light

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. – G.K. Chesterton It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default. – J.K. Rowling, in a commencement speech at Harvard It’s not how fast you run, but how long you run fast. – Wes Unseld, Coach of the Washington Bullets Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under selfselected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. – Karl Marx There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more. – Lord Byron, 19th century poet Rich people spend a lot more money on their own problems, like baldness, than they do to fight malaria. – Bill Gates in 2009, after Italy halved its foreign aid under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who supposedly got hair transplants Nature draws us because it is in some way attuned to our feelings, so that it can reflect and intensify those we already feel or else awaken those which are dormant. Nature is like a great keyboard on which our highest sentiments are played out. We turn to it, as we might turn to music, to evoke and strengthen the best in us. – Philosopher Charles Taylor, quoted in “The Social Animal” The public life of every political figure is a continual struggle to rescue an element of choice from the pressure of circumstance. – Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State to President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him, “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “The first is, ‘Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with

you shine on their efforts. Lead by sharing; give and expect what you would hope others would share with you. – Bill Wright-Swadel, Director of the Duke Career Center You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand. – Woodrow Wilson Every day is a new beginning, every morn is the world made anew. – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey I am willing to tinker and borrow and steal ideas from just about anybody if I think they might work.

– Barack Obama One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

– Lewis Carroll I don’t do maintenance... If I am going to do something, I am going to bring change. – Bob Gates, Defense Secretary to Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama Being a pariah is a small price to pay for speaking the truth. – Evan Charney, professor of ethics at Duke There is a period near the beginning of every man’s life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place. – E.B. White A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side. – Joseph Addison All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardent hearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. – Cormac McCarthy, from “All the Pretty Horses” Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor; act as if you do. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets: When you are behaving as if you loved someone you will presently come to love him. – C. S. Lewis

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

enough.”

That, in summary, accounts for about half of my thought process at any given time of day. Whether I’m studying for a physics midterm or trying to enjoy my usual mid-day comfort cupcake at ABP, some portion of my mind is fixated on the fear of what comes after Duke.

Will I cram fast enough to take the old MCAT? Or will I do poorly and find myself needing to take the new one anyway?

Will I find myself sitting in front of pre-health deans advising me to take the oh-so-ominous gap year—in other words, implying that I simply don’t have what it takes to get into a med school?

It didn’t seem like sophomore year was supposed to be much more than a transition to life off of East. But somewhere between Beyoncé’s secret album release and a second-semester snowpocalypse, I found myself entering into a constant state of panic.

If we’re studying for a bio test, the conversation veers back into average acceptance statistics. If we fail a quiz, suddenly it’s a sign that the gates to the heavenly medical school of our dreams are being slammed shut. If we’re deviating from the pre-med path, we’re deviating from the end goal. (So, in case you were wondering, take that English seminar because it fulfills a T-req and NOT because you might like something other than organic chemistry.)

When I explain this panic to most of my family and friends, it turns into a discussion of whether or not I actually want to be pre-med. Is all of the stress and concern actually going to get me where I want in life?

It wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago that I finally had an answer to their qualms. I was at volunteer training for Duke Hospice and Home Care, a volunteer program that is not only recommended by pre-health deans, but is also a great way to start logging all of those hours I need (I think it’s around 1,000?).

When I walked into training, I was caught off guard to see both Duke students and people who were non-pre-med, non-college kids just looking to lend a helping hand to someone in need.

I didn’t want to admit that I was caught off guard, because I didn’t want to ask myself if I would actually be giving up time to catch up on work and volunteer if it didn’t mean checking off another box on the list of the perfect pre-med candidate.

A few hours into the training, I found myself discussing issues of empathy, how to approach the holistic needs of patients at end-of-life care and all of the possible emotional and physical issues that arise with caring for patients in hospice. In a nutshell, it was the first time since I’ve become pre-med that I was reminded of the end goal of four years of constant self-doubt, panic and a rather unhealthy addiction to 5-Hour Energy. Hopefully, at the end of the day, I will be equipped with the comforting voice and knowledge of a doctor. The person who can administer the medication or advice that puts people at ease when they can’t turn to anyone else. The person who will be able to help the helpless. Idealistic, yes. Optimistic? Oh, for sure. But that end-goal is how I get myself through the series of things that seem unrelated to becoming a good doctor.

The pre-med path is inherently structured to force us into a cycle of testing ourselves, both academically and emotionally. Should I have picked a school I knew I would excel in? Should I have waited to take calculus? Is trying to study over the semester as opposed to the summer going to hurt my MCAT score?

But I can honestly say the reason I’m sticking this out is because I’m finally starting to appreciate my struggles. Yes, I did poorly on my first organic chemistry midterm. Very poorly. But it taught me to seek help when needed (thank you Tessia, you are an amazing tutor), understand that studying meant more than just half-heartedly reading my textbook and that ultimately I don’t hate the classes I’m taking…I just hate it when I don’t know what’s going on. I didn’t have to struggle to learn in high school, and, now that I do, I am a harder worker and hopefully a more humble student. Working in a lab has taught me to appreciate how far I still have to go to become truly detail-oriented and patient. My peers have taught me to be supportive of each other and doubt myself a little less. My parents have taught me to never quit.

And so if you ask me whether or not I actually want to be pre-med, the answer is no.

But if you ask me if I want to be a doctor, I’ll have a different answer.

Nandita Singh is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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April 1 - 7 EXHIBITIONS

Media Arts + Sciences Lab Posters. Panels describing the 9 new MA+S labs with words and images. Thru April 30, 2014. Corridor Gallery, East Duke. Free.

Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Remarkable paintings by American artist Archibald Motley, master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Thru May 11, 2014. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

My White Friends. “Racial-identity portraits” by photographer Myra Greene. Thru May 17, 2014. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Night in the City of Light: Paris’ Cabaret 1881-1914. Academic Focus Gallery, Thru June 29. Nasher Museum of Art + Cheap Thrills: The Highs and Lows of Cabaret Culture in Paris, 1881-1939. Thru May 31, Perkins Gallery, Duke University Library. Free.

EVENTS

April 9 Visiting Artist Talk. Visual artist Michael Krueger, University of Kansas/Lawrence, will discuss his work in a variety of media. 6pm. Smith Warehouse, Bay 12, Room 200. Free.

Sounding the Passion. Encounters in Poetry, Theology, and Music. A series of events from April 9 – 13, to celebrate the U.S. premiere of Scottish composer James MacMillan’s beautiful and fervent St. Luke Passion in Duke Chapel, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop with the Duke Chapel Choir. MacMillan will participate in a visiting artist residency as part of Sounding the Passion, which will culminate on Palm Sunday, April 13, with the U.S. premiere of the new work

by MacMillan. This residency is supported with a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University. (See ad on this page.)

April 10 Sounds of Passion. A panel discussion with Scottish composer James MacMillan. (See April 9) 12:30pm, Duke Divinity School. Free.

Parade. By Alfred Uhry, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, directed by Drew Klingner (T’14) (Sr. Distinction Project). Parade tells the tragic, true story of the trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank, who was wrongly accused of murdering a young girl in 1913 Georgia. 8pm, Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center. $8 General Public; $7 Groups (10+).

Machinal. By Sophie Treadwell. Machinal depicts the struggle for personal fulfillment in a world where alienation, commodification, and automation reign supreme—a world that is past, present, and future. 8pm, Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 General Public; $5 Students/Sr. Citizens.

April 11 Composition Master Class with visiting artist James MacMillan. (See April 9) 2pm, Bone Hall, Biddle Music Bldg. Free.

Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir., with guest artist Diane Schuur, vocalist/ pianist. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. $10 General Public; $5 Sr. Citizens; Students free.

Parade. (See April 10) Machinal. (See April 10) April 12 Chamber Music. Master Class with the Pavel Haas String Quartet. 11am, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

Parade. (See April 10) 2pm & 8pm.

Machinal. (See April 10) April 13 Parade. (See April 10) 2pm.

Machinal. (See April 10) 2pm.

St. Luke Passion. The U.S. premiere of Scottish composer James MacMillan’s beautiful and fervent St. Luke Passion in Duke Chapel, conducted by Rodney Wynkoop with the Duke Chapel Choir. (See April 9) 4pm, Duke Chapel. $35 Preferred; $20 General Public. $18 Duke Faculty & Staff; $5 Students.

Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. Jamie Keesecker, dir. Cabaret Songs: 21st century reinterpretations of late 19th & early 20th century Parisian cabaret music. 8pm, Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

SCREEN/SOCIETY

All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. (N) = Nasher Museum of Art. (W) = Richard White Auditorium. All events subject to change.

4/10

Victimas del Pecado + Fireman of the Folies Bergeres (N) Archibald Motley Exhibition Film Series

4/14

Beasts of the Southern Wild [35mm] 2014 Ethics Film Series. Discussion to follow. ami.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule

e n c o u n t e r s i n p o et ry, m u s i c , a n d t h e o l o gy Poetry and Passion april 9 | 7 pm | duke divinity school

“the future of theoLoGy” april 11 | 12:30 pm | duke divinity school

Celebrated Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail will offer a reading of his work in an intimate evening performance.

David Ford, Sarah Coakley, and Alan Torrance will each speak about their vision for theology’s future.

An audience Q&A session will follow.

“sounds of Passion” april 10 | 12:30 pm | duke divinity school The Duke-Cambridge Consultation will gather to reflect on the St. Luke Passion project. Panel includes Ray Barfield, Jeremy Begbie, Ellen Davis, David Ford, Richard Hays, James MacMillan, Micheal O’Siadhail, Kavin Rowe, and Alan Torrance.

keynote Lecture by James macmiLLan april 10 | 5 pm | Goodson chapel Scottish composer James MacMillan will give a public lecture on the St. Luke Passion. The lecture will frame and introduce Sunday’s concert premiere, providing insight into MacMillan’s composition, style, and theological process. Sarah Coakley will provide a response.

comPosers’ WorkshoP april 11 | 2 pm | bone hall The Music Department will host a graduate student composers’ workshop with James MacMillan.

The workshop is open to the public and will include a performance of MacMillan’s Kiss on Wood, for violin and piano.

st. Luke Passion u.s. Premiere april 13 | 4 pm | duke university chapel For full information and concert tickets: divinity.duke.edu/passion The visiting artist residency by James MacMillan is supported with a Visiting Artist Grant from the Council for the Arts, Office of the Provost, Duke University.

ART: Night (from the series Golgotha) ©Bruce Herman 1991, mixed media on handmade Dutch cotton paper, 60 x 46”, collection of The Stonybrook School, www.bruceherman.com

This message is brought to you by the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Center for Documentary Studies, Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Music Department, Duke Performances, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Libraries, Screen/Society, Department of Theater Studies with support from the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.