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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014
ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH YEAR, ISSUE 44
‘Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!’
After decades in small space, Eye Center to expand Grace Li The Chronicle
Emma Loewe | The Chronicle Members of the Duke community celebrated the 25th anniversary of the reunification of East and West Berlin with a reenactment of the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall in front of the Duke Chapel, beginning with its construction Nov. 2 and its destruction Sunday afternoon.
The Hudson Center, a new home for the Duke Eye Center, is expected to finish construction by July 2015. The new facility, which started construction in 2012, is being built in the parking lot next to the current Wadsworth Eye Center. It will replace the current clinic building that was built in 1970. The Duke ophthalmology department is ranked among the top 10 departments in the country, and the clinic gets referrals form across the country. The number of patients seen by doctors at the center has grown rapidly over the past few decades. “We are excited about this new space which will enable us to expand our clinical care, education program, and eye research,” Chair of Ophthalmology Dr. Edward Buckley said. The new four-story building is planned to be more than 116,000 square-feet and will have upgraded equipment. It will also feature the signature Duke Stone that lines the exteriors of many campus buildings. The center is currently on track to be completed slightly ahead of schedule and under budget, Buckely said. Durham-based LC Industries, the largest employer of visually impaired people in the United States, has contribSee Eye on Page 4
Student-run Over Easy brings ‘My passions were what drove breakfast directly to campus me’: Senior on chess success “We wanted to control the product from kitchen to consumer—develop more of a brand,” says founder Sydney Sarachek The Chronicle A new gourmet breakfast delivery service has arrived on campus—the latest of a number of additions to Duke’s food scene. With renovations causing a number of campus favorites to close, students are increasingly turning to food trucks and merchants on points vendors. Over Easy—a new student-run startup that launched
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Oct. 27—delivers breakfast straight to students’ doors. The service, founded by seniors Ben Richter, Ethan Gottlieb and John Shoemaker, offers healthy, gourmet options available to order Monday through Friday. “Over Easy combines the luxury of room service with the convenience of a wake up call,” Richter said. “With just three clicks, we are waking you up with a great breakfast.” Students can place their breakfast orders at overeasyapp.com before going to bed at night. They select a 20-minute window for the delivery—ranging from 7:30 a.m. to 10:10 a.m.
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Senior Kassa Korley is one of the top chess players in the country— and wants to get even better Claire Ballentine The Chronicle Playing chess comes so naturally to senior Kassa Korley that he cannot even remember how he first learned the game. “That’s actually a mystery,” he said, “I must have learned somewhere but no one really knows.” Korley has loved the game since he was a child and has experienced success
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in tournaments around the world. The US Chess Federation currently rates him as among the top 70 active players in the country—or in the top 0.2 percent. Growing up in New York City, Korley balanced his love for chess with his schoolwork and other activities, always seeking opportunities to play the game. He recounts his experiences as a kid playing chess with Sonny Gibbs—a flower salesman in Harlem who would teach chess to passersby who has become something of neighborhood legend and has been profiled by the New York Times. “It was a place where I could come
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