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Duke Vans to support weekend trips to pharmacy Alex Griffith The Chronicle Students are now able to utilize Duke Vans for trips to the pharmacy during some weekend hours. A new service—supported by Duke Student Government—will drive students to the CVS Pharmacy on Hillsborough Road each Saturday for the remainder of the semester from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The service will help those who need to access a pharmacy when the Student Health Center is not open. The service was a project of junior Billy Silk, DSG vice president for services, and sophomore Priyanka Venkannagari, senator for services. “Because the Duke pharmacy is closed on weekends, it’s pretty much impossible for someone without a car or resources to get a cab to get medication, particularly for women who have had an unwanted sexual experience and See Vans on Page 4

Brianna Siracuse | The Chronicle No. 2 Duke received a No. 1 seed in the South region of the 2015 NCAA tournament when the bracket was unveiled Sunday. (See story on Page 6.)

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Eight months after the Duke Institute for Genomic Sciences and Policy was dismantled, the study of genomics is at an all-time high for the University. After its dismantling in July 2014, IGSP separated into three units—the Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, the Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine and the Duke Science and Society initiative. Although all three are deeply rooted in IGSP’s 12 years of work, each new division tackles a specific area of rapidly evolving genomics study. Transitioning between IGSP’s dissolution and the launch of new centers has had its challenges, but the collaborative research and educational environment of the three units has fared well, multiple administrators said. See Genomics on Page 5

The Chronicle Memorial services for Jerry Sun—an undergraduate who lost his battle with cancer earlier this month—were held in Durham Saturday. Remembered for his love of biology and intellectual curiosity, Sun entered Duke as a member of the Class of 2016. During his sophomore year, Sun received the diagnosis that he had a rare and Jerry Sun aggressive form of cancer. Although he passed away March 4, Sun stayed optimistic for the hope of new and effective treatments—with his GoFundMe See Sun on Page 5

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After UNC poverty center closure, some question rationale Jenna Zhang Local and National Editor In the weeks since the University of North Carolina Board of Governors’ voted to close an academic center for poverty research, many have speculated that the move was politically motivated. The Board of Governors opted last month to shut down the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, after concluding that the center was financially unsustainable and did not significantly contribute to solving the poverty issue. Among faculty and students at UNC, the deciGene Nichol sion has drawn considerable criticism. Critics have accused the Board of closing the center to silence its controversial director, who was often critical of Republican legislators and Governor Pat McCrory. “The university’s governing board moved to abolish an academic center in order to punish its director for publishing articles that displease the board and its political benefactors,” wrote Gene Nichol, the director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity, in an email. “Were I to have praised the legislature’s war on poor people rather than decry it, the board would have placed laurels on my head instead of boots on my neck.” John Fennebresque, chairman of the Board of Governors, responded to criticisms that the decision was partisan in a column for the Charlotte Observer last week. Fennebresque noted that the center did not enhance the educational mission of the university and did not have the financial support to sustain it. “After careful review of the Center on Poverty—including an opportunity for the center director to fully describe its work—the board concluded the center was unable to demonstrate any appreciable impact on the issue of poverty,” Fennebresque wrote. Fennebresque could not be reached by The Chronicle after multiple attempts for comment. Critics of the decision have described the

closure as political interference. The closure of the UNC Center was a way of “going after” its director, said Ted Shaw, director of the Center for Civil Rights at UNC—which has also come under the scrutiny of the Board. “Gene Nichol is not someone who are on good terms with the folks in political power right now,” Shaw said. “Now, his center gets closed in a process that was very questionable.” Shaw noted that many people are disturbed by what they perceive to be a political effort to reshape public higher education. The Board’s decision has also incited concerns over academic freedom and freedom of speech. “I’m terrified for what this means for academic freedom,” Adrienne Harreveld, Trinity ‘14 and a research coordinator at the DukeUNC Initiative on Poverty and Inequality, wrote in an email. “It seems to me that the state is sending a message that academic freedom is only meant for the private sphere. This is entirely contradictory to the purpose of higher education.” Duke’s research on poverty is done in collaboration with UNC-Chapel Hill and other public universities, Harreveld said—adding that her research was directly impacted by the center’s work. In his column, Fennebresque said criticisms of the Board’s view on academic freedom were unfounded. “Some have argued our action chilled academic freedom. That is simply not true,” he wrote. “We encourage an open exchange of ideas—the very heart of UNC’s mission—and have no objection to the Center’s commentary on the issue of poverty, its primary activity. But we do not believe it needed the structure of a UNC center for this limited role.” Private foundations and donors have stepped forward assure that the work of the center, if not the center itself, will continue, Nichol said. Grants and donations, he added, will allow for the creation of a North Carolina poverty research fund at the law school. Two other academic centers—the Center for Biodiversity at East Carolina University and the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at North Carolina Central University—were also shut down. Although the Board voted to discontinue the Center for Biodiversity, the center’s ac-

Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Board of Governors recently voted to close the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill, thereby drawing the ire of its director, faculty members and students.

tivities will continue under a different name, said David Chalcraft, director of the Center for Biodiversity. He noted that the Board was very “complimentary and favorable” toward the center’s work but was unsure whether its designation as a UNC Center was necessary. “There’s a specific connotation of centers, and we did not fit that specific definition of centers,” Chalcraft said. The decision to close down the centers is a violation of the Board’s own policies, said Jarvis Hall, director of the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change. Hall cited the UNC Policy Manual 400.5[R], which invests each individual campus with the authority to “authorize establishment and discontinuation of institutional centers and institutes.” “This is an unprecedented micromanagement move,” Hall said. “You should rely on the individuals you’ve hired.” Both the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity at UNC-Chapel Hill and the Institute for Civic Engagement and Social Change at North Carolina Central University operate almost entirely on private funding. According to the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Law, the Center for Poverty, Work and Opportunity’s $107,000 budget comes from foundation and corporate grants, as well as private gifts. Aside from minor costs related to using UNC utilities and space, the Institute for

Civic Engagement and Social Change runs entirely on private contributions, Hall noted. “This whole exercise cost more than that could be saved by closing down the institute,” Hall said. “We do not receive any direct state funding. We do not directly cost the state of North Carolina anything.” The decision to close down three academic centers came one month after the ousting of UNC-Chapel Hill president Tom Ross by the Board of Governors—a move that has also been criticized as politically-motivated, with some speculating that Ross was too liberal-leaning for the Board. Fennebresque deflected these claims in his column, saying that the Board’s choice “had nothing to do with his performance, but simply reflects our belief that all great institutions can benefit from a change in leadership from time to time.” For a number of people within the UNC system, however, the Board’s recent actions are cause for concern. “An ill wind blows across the UNC system. Its chill does not go unnoticed, as faculty members alter their research agendas and temper their investigations,” Nichols wrote. “The members of the Board of Governors have demonstrated unfitness for their high office. Their actions represent a profound, partisan, and breathtakingly shortsighted abuse of power.”

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it’s a contracted driver and a Duke service, so there’s an extra layer of safety that is always ensured.” CVS was not the first choice for the service, however. The Duke Children’s Hospital pharmacy was initially considered, but their hours did not match up with the Duke Vans’ schedule. CVS was chosen as a second option because it is both the closest and largest pharmacy near campus, Silk said. The pharmacy van service will begin to run at 3 p.m. on Saturdays, two hours before the Duke Vans service usually starts. The service will be able to pick up students from anywhere on campus and will wait at the pharmacy as long as it takes the subscription to be filled. Vans can be called using the Duke RideCell website, which allows students to type in any location where a van will pick them up.

Moneta will cover half of the funding for the rest of the semester—on top of the $720 dollars allocated by the DSG Senate in a budgetary statute earlier this month. The money provided by DSG will come from the surplus fund. “If this meets students’ needs, it’s worthwhile. Health care is critical, especially for students who may not be well, and if this enables students’ health improvements and ability to avoid missing academic work, its a good thing,” Moneta said. Alison Carpenter, transit planner

and transportation demand manager for Duke Parking and Transportation, helped organize the logistics of the project. She explained that these kinds of student government projects are things that Parking is ready and willing to work with. “Since [current DSG President] Lavanya Sunder has been in the role of President, we’ve worked with the Duke Student Government on a number of projects,” she said. “We’re always happy to work with student government as needs arise.”

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“I think there’s a lot more flow across the three units,” said Geoffrey Ginsburg, professor of medicine and pathology and director of the new Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine Center. “I’ve also seen a lot more collaborative activities between the University and the medical center side than I saw under the IGSP umbrella.” The IGSP underwent an external review in 2013 as part of Duke’s strategic plan to regularly review all of its signature institutes. Although the feedback was positive, university administrators, including former provost Peter Lange, current provost Sally Kornbluth and vice provost for interdisciplinary studies Susan Roth, ultimately decided that the institute had run its course. “When we first set up these [signature] institutes, it was never intended they would be permanent,” said Roth about the review process. “In the case of IGSP, its purpose was to stimulate educational and research opportunities for students, and to form a community of students and faculty in the field. They had been so successful in doing that, it didn’t seem like the purpose was clear anymore.” Gregory Wray, director of the Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, compared IGSP’s dismantlement to the process of natural evolution, with steps leading up to the final decision last year. A shortage of IGSP faculty studying genomics policy led to the creation of the Science and Society Initiative, focused on the broader policies of many fields, he explained. The Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine came about as an amalgamation of two previously existing centers—one from the IGSP and one from the medical center. Merging the programs under one roof made strategic and logistical sense, Ginsburg said. “Its focus is on the integration of genomics into medicine and developing tools to enhance clinical care,” he said. “We can build models and predict whether patients will respond to certain treatments. Precision medicine is bringing those tools to patients, implementing them into clinical environments and teaching clinicians how to use them.” Ginsburg added that the use of genomic information could help patients and their physicians understand the risk of developing diseases and what drugs to use. With the change in the structure of the programs came a change in the mindset of the staff. The faculty there have reinvented themselves, Wray said, adding that they are no longer consumers, but developers of genomic technologies. “As these technologies become more prevalent, we see ourselves as enablers for other people to use them on campus,” he said. These three units are designed to sustain the necessary work of the IGSP without requiring its infrastructure, Roth said. Undergraduate involvement in the IGSP, through outlets such as the undergraduate certificate in genome science and policy, have also been maintained through this transition period. “They could decide that the certificate requires some changes to reflect the field,” Roth explained. “But we have no intention of shortcutting the students in terms of educational opportunities.” Another concern during this transition has been in regards to accommodating the faculty, especially those who made a career decision to work specifically at the IGSP. “I think pretty quickly they figured out this is just a name change,” Wray said. “I’ve met with them to understand their concerns—the morale is strong and people seem happy. We have a new sense of identity.” Although the IGSP has been physically split, the units have maintained a collaborative atmosphere in their research and overlapping missions of education and training. “I’ve seen an uptick in collaborations between faculty and other groups on campus, like working with investigators in social sciences and in other areas of the medical center that we hadn’t worked with before,” Ginsburg said. Although every one of Duke’s institutes will undergo a review like IGSP, Roth said that no decision about dismantling any other institute has been made at this point. She also stressed that the very nature of the genomics field is largely why the IGSP was taken down. “This is a rapidly changing field, so the questions that come up now are much more complex than they were 10 years ago when this started, and we want to be responsive to these changes,” she said.

raising more than $16,000 for treatment costs in the month before his passing. “Jerry came to us as a talented student with a deep interest in science. He was curious and bright, and learned complex materials quickly,” Jun Chen, associate professor of orthopedic surgery, said in Sun’s obituary for Duke News. “Jerry worked and thought creatively, and his contributions were equivalent to those of a junior graduate student.” Jerry first came to Duke to do research as a high school student at the North Carolina School of Science and Math in Durham. In honor of his passing, the University lowered their flags to half staff last week. “Jerry was the type of guy that you could trust your deepest secrets with and he would never tell a soul,” Lucy Ma, a close friend of Sun, said to Duke News. “We talked about classes, friends, lab work, relationships. He was great at giving advice

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and maintaining an objective perspective. He was dedicated to his friends, academics and family. I miss him dearly.” To honor his memory, Sun’s family requested donations to the Duke Cancer Institute in his name. The family noted their appreciation to the community for the support Sun received during his battle. Before his passing, Sun expressed his gratitude toward the kindness he felt from his family and friends. “You guys... I don’t know even know where to begin,” he wrote in a January Facebook post. “I left my inbox alone for a day and it completely exploded. Thank you for the overwhelming support. Thank you for sharing my story. Thank you for your kind words. I’ve been humbled every step of the way by the kindness and support of the community around me.”

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Despite Jahlil Okafor’s best efforts, the Blue Devils fell in the ACC semifinals Nick Martin Sports Editor GREENSBORO, N.C.—Despite a furious second-half comeback effort, the Blue Devils’ luck ran out against the Fighting Irish. No. 2 Duke fell 74-64 to No. 11 Notre Dame in the ACC tournament semifinals, as freshman Jahlil DUKE 64 Okafor’s 28-point 74 effort would go ND unrewarded. The Blue Devils could not hold back the Fighting Irish despite a furious comeback led by Justise Winslow’s 11 second-half points. Bonzie Colson paced Notre Dame with 17 points. The Fighting Irish built a 15-point halftime lead and Steve Vasturia scored seven points after the break to keep the Blue Devils at bay for the entirety of the second half. Vasturia and teammate Pat Connaughton came up with the answers consistently as Duke threatened to cut into the lead. “By the time we got the energy, got the intensity, it was too late,” Winslow said. “We had our chances down the stretch, but we’ve got to put together a better 40

Jack White | The Chronicle Freshman Jahlil Okafor scored 28 points and grabbed eight rebounds but shot just 2-of-8 from the charity stripe in the Blue Devils’ 10-point semifinal loss.

minutes as a whole if we want to win these types of games.” As big as the Fighting Irish guards were in the second half, it was their post presence and sheer aggressiveness that created separation in the opening 20 minutes. Notre Dame’s defensive effort in the first half was one of the more impressive of

the tournament, as Duke had been held to less than 30 points in a half just two times this season entering the game. After the Blue Devils (29-4) went for 44 points in the paint against N.C. State, Notre Dame (28-5) decided to take a page out of Duke’s playbook, as the Fighting Irish went for 30 points in the paint in the opening 20 minutes.

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Colson and point guard Demetrius Jackson led the way, as the two combined for 25 points in the first half. Colson was a zone buster for Notre Dame, as the 6-foot5 forward led his squad with 14 first-half points, the majority coming off jumpers from the middle of the paint in the heart of the Duke zone. See M. Basketball on Page 12

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Blue Devils secure No. 1 seed in South Region Amrith Ramkumar Beat Writer After going 28-3 in the regular season and notching two double-digit winning streaks, the Blue Devils finally know their road to a 12th Final Four and fifth national title. No. 2 Duke received a No. 1 seed in the South region of the 2015 NCAA tournament when the bracket was unveiled Sunday evening. Despite losing 74-64 to No. 11 Notre Dame Friday night in the semifinals of the ACC tournament, the Blue Devils still received a top seed thanks to their impressive regular season resume. Duke (29-4) notched road wins against topfive seeds Wisconsin, Virginia, Louisville and North Carolina, in addition to accumulating three more wins against top-20 teams. The Blue Devils will open NCAA tournament play against the winner of Wednesday’s First-Four matchup between North Florida and Robert Morris in Charlotte, N.C., at Time Warner Cable Arena at 7:10 p.m.

Elysia Su | Chronicle File Photo Duke compiled a 29-4 record en route to being named a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament Sunday.

Friday. Duke will be looking to avoid its third Round of 64 exit in the last four years and advance to take on the winner of the contest between eighth-seeded San Diego State and No. 9 seed St. John’s. The Blue Devils beat St. John’s Jan. 25 in New York to record head

coach Mike Krzyzewski’s 1,000th win. One of the reasons Duke received a strong seed despite having more losses than Gonzaga and Arizona is that the ACC received the respect many thought it would, with all six of its teams that received bids earning top-eight seeds.

Regular season champion Virginia received a No. 2 seed in the East region—in which Villanova is the top seed—and tournament champion Notre Dame received a No. 3 seed in the Midwest region, headlined by Kentucky. North Carolina received a No. 4 seed in the West region, Louisville garnered a No. 4 seed in the same region as Virginia—the East—and N.C. State became the third ACC team in the East region by earning a No. 8 seed. Only the Big Ten and Big 12 placed more teams in the 68-team field, with seven. No. 1 overall seed Kentucky—which is undefeated at 34-0 after dominating the SEC all season—is the overwhelming favorite to cut down the nets in Indianapolis April 6, but the Wildcats will likely have to face a level of competition they haven’t since nonconference play on their path to the title. Keep up with The Chronicle’s coverage of the NCAA tournament in the coming weeks at @dukebasketball on Twitter and www. dukechronicle.com and look out for our NCAA tournament supplement content later this week.

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Blue Devils edge out Cardinals, improve to 9-0 Jesús Hidalgo Staff Writer Two road wins and two records. Spring break couldn’t have ended better for the Blue Devils. No. 4 Duke took down No. 12 Louisville 10-8 Saturday at the UofL Lacrosse Stadium. DUKE 10 With the narrow LOUISVILLE 8 victory against the Cardinals, the team matches the program’s best start to a season since 2006. “Both teams really battled from start to finish,” head coach Kerstin Kimel told GoDuke.com. “We’re both probably accustomed to scoring more goals, but I thought the effort from both teams was fantastic.” It was a tough matchup for the Blue Devils (9-0, 4-0 in the ACC), who average 14.4 goals per game, but the veterans stepped up again. Senior midfielder Taylor Trimble, who delivered a season-high four goals, broke the deadlock as she found the back of the net 80 seconds after the opening faceoff. The Cardinals (5-2, 0-2) tied the contest six minutes later thanks to an unassisted score by Kaylin Morrissette. Duke took a 3-1 lead in a five-minute span as senior attacker Kerrin Maurer and Trimble notched one goal apiece. But Louisville was up to give Duke a

Jesús Hidalgo | Chronicle File Photo Senior Taylor Trimble has tallied 17 goals this season, including four in Saturday’s win at No. 12 Louisville.

fight and turned the game around with 9:11 to play. The Blue Devils contested with a 2-0 run in two minutes and went to the locker room with a 5-4 lead. Four seniors—Maurer, Trimble, Katie Trees and Brigid Smith—led Duke’s offense in the opening 30 minutes, combining for

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four goals and two assists. The Blue Devils stretched their lead as Maurer netted her second goal of the day—and her 20th this season—two minutes into the second half. But once again, the Cardinals were not going to surrender and put together out another

3-0 run in three and a half minutes to take the lead, 7-6. In the final 19 minutes, Duke secured the win outscoring Louisville 4-1. Although the Cardinals made things interesting when they tied the game for the sixth time with 10:03 to play, Trimble added two goals— boosting her season total to 17—and senior midfielder Erin Tenneson and freshman attacker Kyra Harney netted one score apiece to give the program its 250th win. If Duke’s offensive performance was crucial to capture their ninth-straight victory, defense was not less determining. The Blue Devils, who are only allowing 6.22 goals per contest, kept a team that entered averaging 16.0 goals in single figures. Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Duryea delivered seven saves against Louisville, four in the first half and three in the last 30 minutes. With Duke was leading 9-8 with 5:13 to play, the Beverly, Mass., native made a decisive save blocking a Louisville shot attempt. “I’m really happy with our defensive effort,” Kimel said. “To limit this team to single digits is a nice little notch in our belt. At the same time, they made us really work for the opportunities that we got today.” The Blue Devils will hit the road again this weekend for their third conference game as they will travel to Charlottesville, Va., to battle No. 8 Virginia (4-4, 0-2). Faceoff is set for 1 p.m. Saturday.

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“[The problem] wasn’t missing shots tonight, it was our defense and our intensity,” Winslow said. “We’re not worried about the offense. We know that’s going to be there. It’s just all about the defense.” Okafor was the lone silver lining for the Blue Devils in the first half. One day removed from scoring just 10 points in 19 minutes of play against N.C. State, the Chicago big man exploded in the first half. Okafor led the team with 15 points, taking advantage of a favorable matchup against Colson and Zach Auguste, backing down his defender in single coverage to contribute 13 of Duke’s 18 points in the paint before intermission. “Me and [head coach Mike Krzyzewski] talked before the game and he told me I wasn’t playing as well as I

needed to,” Okafor said. “So just trying to play better for my teammates. The past couple of weeks they’ve been really playing well and that’s why we’ve been winning.” Even Okafor’s big half was not enough to salvage the half, though. By the time the first 20 minutes had passed, the Blue Devils trailed 41-26 and seemed to have no answers. “We came out just not aggressive, not hungry,” freshman point guard Tyus Jones said. “And then they came out and attacked us first. That was the difference in the game. The way we played in the second half was a total 180 of the first half. We can’t come out and play like that and expect to win games.” But in the second half, the Blue Devils—along with a loud backing from their fans in Greensboro—came alive. After trailing by at least 12 in the early part of the half, Winslow—who had been held scoreless through the first 26 minutes—slashed past his defender and flushed down a two-handed dunk and cut the lead to 10 on the ensuing

The Chronicle free throw. Okafor would cut the lead to single digits on the following possession, forcing Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey to call a timeout. Coming out of the break, Brey had the Fighting Irish switch to a 2-3 zone, as the Blue Devils were just 1-for-9 from beyond the arc up to that point in the contest. The move took away Okafor’s easy path to the basket through Auguste and was an effort to force Duke to connect from downtown. But Winslow would continue his hot streak, converting a jumper, flushing down a dunk off a rebound and later taking the ball the length of the court for a right-handed lay-in to cut the lead to 66-59 with 4:42 remaining in the contest. “I just tried to win the game,” Winslow said. “If that means I’m not scoring much or scoring later, it doesn’t matter to me. The more important thing is just winning.” Twenty-one seconds later, it was Matt Jones’ turn to make an impact. Guarding Grant, Jones went to fight around a screen from Auguste, but the Fighting Irish big man was not set and picked up his fifth foul, putting him on the bench with 4:21 remaining. This forced the undersized Colson to guard Okafor for the remainder of the game. And the Blue Devils would take advantage. After an easy layup from Okfaor, all Fighting Irish eyes were on the paint. With extra help coming to the lane, the ball was swung around to Tyus Jones, who stood three feet back from the arc, and the freshman drained a 3-pointer to cut the lead to four. But just as the momentum seemed to be in the Blue Devils’ favor, Connaughton nailed a fade-away jump shot with 1:11 remaining and the shot clock expiring to put the Fighting Irish back up by six. Duke’s desperate 3-pointers in the closing minute would all miss the mark to send the squad back to Durham both disappointed and ready for the coming NCAA tournament. “Hopefully we’re still at a point in time where we can learn from this,” Krzyzewski said. “Next game we play, there is no learning. You’ve got to do it.”

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amilies are asked to fork over even more in tuition as cost of attendance was hiked yet again in the wake of a recent Board of Trustees meeting. The increase of 4 percent in undergraduate tuition—a difference of nearly $2,000—brings the total price tag for a Duke diploma to $63,273, the highest in the University’s history. Though we appreciate that the University requires resources to function, we

Editorial find a number of problems with the incessant upward trend in tuition. In recent years, the cost of college has spiraled toward exorbitant new heights. At the turn of the century, the total cost of attendance was $31,839, just over half of Duke’s current price. Though tuition increased at a slightly faster rate in the 2000s—between 2002 and 2012 the average increase was 4.46 percent— the current rate will result in a six figure annual cost in just 12 years. Assuming the current trajectory, it will take only 18 years for Duke’s tuition to double. In the past 30 years, college

prices have increased 1,200 percent. The U.S. inflation rate, by contrast, is -0.1 percent. The spiraling trajectory of tuition will continue to make college unaffordable to students, especially in the current climate of rising student debt. The total student loan debt in the U.S. exceeds $1.2 trillion, a troubling number for people struggling more to pay off their loans than their homes. Even though tuition hikes are often accompanied by promises of more generous financial aid packages, they may not be commensurate, and rising costs pinch those on the fringes of qualifying for aid. If the pattern of rising costs is problematic, Duke’s justifications for it are both weak and vague. The University’s rationale that the hikes are what our peer institutions do and what has been done in the past are inadequate claims that ignore the reality of the situation and problem. If Duke hopes to be a leader, rather than a follower, in the sphere of higher education, serious self-reflection on how to address an otherwise unsustainable increase in cost is necessary. An accompanying claim that rising costs enhance the broader Duke experience

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he first time I watched Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” I remember feeling shivers down my spine. It was the only time I felt such a visceral reaction to a documentary. I remember watching projected ocean waters flood over my birthplace in China and over some of the most densely populated cities in Asia. I remember the off-the-charts projections of global warming and polar ice cap disintegration. I remember being shocked at the fact that so little of what was necessary was being done—and even more shocked that the classmates I was supposedly watching all of this with were texting and chatting nonchalantly amongst themselves.

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is also insufficient. Current students bearing the brunt of the University’s ambitious future plans are rightfully skeptical of administrative claims of caring about the student experience. After all, campus construction projects seem to crop up with no communication of plans, updates on progress or any amount of student input or concern about quality of student life. The main entrance to the Bryan Center, for example, will be closed for the remainder of the year—the latest major hindrance to the flow of daily student life. Albeit, the opportunities afforded to students are immense: The recent growth and expansion of programs like DukeEngage, Bass Connections and research grants, for example, are laudable perks to being a Duke student. Yet, due to a lack of transparency and communication, students are left in the dark as to where their additional tuition dollars are being spent—and, indeed, if the hikes are necessary. Until students are shown how their increased tuition dollars directly enhance their Duke experience, as the administration claims, the hikes will continue to be problematic and unjustified.

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When I first heard about Chai Jing’s “Under the Dome”—the recently viral “Inconvenient Truth-like” documentary about pollution in China—I was almost afraid to watch it. I feared that most of the issues Gore outlined almost a decade earlier were still unresolved, and that I would be told so, yet again. I wasn’t wrong. While it was much less ambitious in scope than Gore’s piece—understandable given the political environment under which it was to be released and its primarily domestic Chinese audience—it hammered home the same message: our current economic system is unsustainable, and we need to make drastic changes to mitigate potentially disastrous consequences. Chai did an excellent job of bringing the issues close to home, of making cold, incomprehensible statistics into tangible realities. For me, what made her message so digestible and powerful was that she came into this not as an environmentalist, but as a concerned mother. Pollution and climate change are no longer issues solely for the environmental activist. They are for the common man. For those within the circle of Chinese internationals and ardent China watchers at Duke and beyond, Chai’s film was highly significant. Finally, a Chinese citizen has brought into the mainstream consciousness a somewhat CCPapproved message of what environmentalists have been saying for decades. China, the world’s biggest polluter, had spoken. While we wait for the ultimate impact of the

film and its related efforts to unfold, it seems that for now we are faced with the same inconvenient truth. The harsh reality that we were first made aware of not by Gore, but by the nascent environmental awakening of the 50s. The inconvenient truth is that deep down we do care—as Chai said, “everyone wants clean air”—but that as individuals we don’t think we can do anything about it. We are often thrown environmental statistics that sound something like “if everyone did this, we would save x tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere”. As anyone who has ever taken an intro economics or public policy class would know, everyone—or even a critical mass—doing something like that hardly ever happens, we will almost always fall to collective action failure, etcetera, etcetera. At the end of the day, it’s much easier to just go on with our every day lives hoping things will resolve themselves. Frankly there really is little point of making that extra trip to the recycling bin when the garbage can is readily available. I felt that way when Chai began outlining the small steps for her audience to take to help the cause, and even she openly admitted to the fact that none of those steps will make any difference in the large scale of things. Yet at the same time, she reminded me of why I do make that extra trip to the recycling bin despite knowing that it does absolutely nothing. I do it because it’s the moral thing to do and because it is the only thing I can do to bring into life that sleeping social consensus that we need to take immediate action. Every time we take that little, insignificant step, we influence the perception of those around us, and send a message to those in charge that we need to stop acting with impunity. The success of the civil rights movement can’t be attributed solely to MLK and his generation. It was the accumulation of centuries of activism that acculturated Americans to the idea that equality was for all. History was shaped by the few revolutionaries who emboldened the general populace—but only if it was ready. So let’s be ready—ready to accept the inconvenient truths that we’ve been so eloquently told. It’s the least we can do, and the least of what we owe to future generations. Bochen Han is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Monday.

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rom their final resting place, you can see the waves of the English Channel softly break onto the shores. There, over 70 years ago the invasion of Normandy and the decisive campaign to liberate Europe began. There, men many as old as we are defined a generation of Americans and forged a new world order. There, this past week I stood and looked out upon those hallowed shores struggling to figure out where in this great lineage we will come to be remembered. When I got back to our hotel that night, I called my grandpa, Anthony Liberto, back in Connecticut. He’s 91 now, but back on D-Day he was my age serving in the Pacific Theater aboard a Motor Torpedo boat (PT boat for short). After the war, grandpa became a crane operator in Connecticut working multiple jobs to keep his family in the two-family house that he still calls home. He never says much—that’s part of his nature—but as his only grandson and one who shares both a birthday and part

Jay Sullivan THE TIME WE ARE GIVEN of my actual first name, we have a unique relationship. Back in high school, I was the first family member that he spoke to about his service in World War II. Sharing the lighter stories mixed with the loss of comrades and the intensity of battle, I glimpsed for a moment how those experiences shaped him into the person he would become, how that resilience would give me the opportunity to be where I am now. Today, around the same age as he was then, I spend my days writing papers and pursuing a variety of scholastic endeavors. When I think about the sacrifice he and countless others made, I wonder what these days spent at Duke will mean for me if God grants me the same number of years as him. When we take a second to reflect, Duke’s environment prompts a level of selfishness and self-gratified achievement that is distressing juxtaposed with his generation of women and men. While the worries of an individual exam carry a real level of stress and pressure, we can easily get far too caught up in their minutia losing the perspective that can guide our lives to the future. Living with purpose requires a calling or a direction, the kind of thing

that reminds me what I work for and where I’m going even when the road gets bumpy and diversions delay or change my path. I’ve spent much of this semester wondering where I am headed seeking a clear direction that has yet to reveal itself. That moment in 1944 seemed to possess a clarity of spirit and direction that we have scarcely been able to capture since. Yet when I talked to grandpa, I remembered. That clarity is just a façade of hindsight for many who lived through it. The reason the war and subsequent years came to define his generation is because they faced a moment with an uncertain future and persevered through it. This feeling of ambiguity that many of us share right now facing a rapidly changing world then doesn’t seem so bad. In fact, it feels necessary for our development into the kind of people who can and will redefine this nation and this world again. The memories of the greatest generation have been etched into the fabric of the American identity. As time continues to pass, however, that memory is becoming just that, a thing of the past no longer alive for us to experience. America was not perfect then, nor is it now. We only need to connect the dots of overt state force from mass incarceration to Jim Crow and Japanese internment camps. But there is something to be said about the sacrifices individual people made around the world to contribute to a war effort that defined our identity as a nation on the global stage. If all that I can say in the future is that I sought the most prestigious job, then perhaps I’ve failed that history, what has become my history. But if I can say that I sought to do what I thought was right when I was presented with an opportunity or a decision, then perhaps just maybe I can rekindle the spirit I still see in grandpa today. I’ve felt an obligation returning to school this week to live up to the example set before us. As I looked over the American cemetery at Omaha Beach and wandered past the final resting place of thousands of Americans, I thought about the torch we are beginning to carry. When grandpa picked up the phone, those thoughts whirled in my head. “God bless you, buddy” he said as we finished the call. I struggled at that moment for the right words to say. I know now. God bless you, Grandpa. And thank you.

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The article quotes an anonymous former affiliate of the men’s basketball program to the effect that highranking officials in the Athletics Department and the University Administration knew about the allegations against Sulaimon “for months and months,” yet “nothing happened.” Is this an assertion that University officials took no action upon learning of the allegations? If true, it would mean that the University failed to comply with Title IX of the federal Civil Rights Act. The article offers no evidence to support such a claim. The article continues that “on Jan. 29—six days after [former secretary in the Duke Basketball office and Senior Lincoln] Wensley had his conversation with [Deputy Director of Athletics/Operations Mike] Cragg [about the allegations]—it was announced via press release that Sulaimon had been dismissed from the Duke basketball program.” What, if anything, does this chronological presentation imply? A reasonable reader might infer that Krzyzewski dismissed Sulaimon only because he had reason to fear that the allegations would become public. No evidence is offered for this incendiary implication. Instead of providing evidence for particular conclusions, The Chronicle offers only the opinion of its anonymous source that Krzyzewski should have dismissed Sulaimon “a long time ago” and “really didn’t want to do it.” The Chronicle offers no evidence to support this character indictment that Krzyzewski has lost his moral compass. The Chronicle may have determined that the benefits from publication of the article outweighed the harms that it has caused to the alleged victims, to Rasheed Sulaimon and to Duke. Unlike the harms, however, it is far from obvious what those benefits are. Neil S. Siegel David W. Ichel Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science T‘94

Ishmael is currently suffering hangover as long as a seven day war. He would like to inform Duke faculty that he will not be able to do his scheduled guest lectures this week.

Jay Sullivan is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Monday.

Letter to the Editor The most important questions implicated by the sexual assault allegations surrounding Rasheed Sulaimon include how to create a community in which two things are true. The first is that victims of sexual assault feel safe and respected regardless of the status of the perpetrator. The second is that individuals are not convicted of serious crimes in the court of public opinion without being afforded due process of law. As a Duke graduate and professor who teaches in the Law School and Trinity College, I am concerned that The Chronicle’s March 2 article undermines both objectives. First, the article has harmed two alleged victims of sexual assault. They were reported to have shared their experiences in the intimate setting of the Common Ground retreat, and they subsequently appeared to exhibit a strong preference for privacy. To my knowledge, this is the first time that The Chronicle has publicized what allegedly occurred at the retreat. Second, the article has harmed Sulaimon. He has no way to defend himself against life-altering allegations that he committed horrific crimes. In my experience, it is not The Chronicle’s standard practice to publicize allegations of sexual assault against students, particularly when no complaint has been filed. Perhaps The Chronicle views Sulaimon as a public figure whose status justifies publication notwithstanding the harms to the alleged victims and to him. I view him as a Duke student who deserves the same fair treatment as all other Duke students. In addition, the way in which The Chronicle crafted the article has harmed Duke. The article repeatedly leaves the impression—without offering evidence—that University officials failed to comply with their legal or ethical obligations. Rather than identify every such instance in the article, I will note a few.

Monday Monday most incredible source of excitement in this car as well as every other situation ever. It is very loud, has simple melodies, and it seems that one can shout along to it like mute Zemblian toddler throwing temper tantrum. We have now stopped for petroleum in what my brothers have told me is autonomous US territory of Alabama. They buy snacks but lock me in car with windows closed for security reasons. Day one,19:30: We have arrived in the parking lot U-Shaped fortress hotel known as Holiday Inn. If this hotel is anything like the official music video, I am eager like beaver to see many mammary glands jiggle. But as I get out of car, I am hit with wave of dismay and anxiety. I cannot see the sea. I cannot see lithe, beaded bodies of fawn and ochre like shown in brochure. Instead I just see spectral city that, in this twilight, looks like aftermath of cruel and illegal NATO incursion. Hooded men ride in herds of scooters like they are cannibals scavenging for Zemblian livestock. At once, I am filled with desire to return to simplicity of my homeland, but my fraternity brothers are more excited than a Mongolian stabbed with EpiPen. Day two, 9:15: I am aroused by strange sound of war chants. Where am I? Dobroslav, my dear friend and translator is asleep on floor in small pool of gory plasma. What happened last night, I ask myself, and where are the women? Fortunately, my legs still work so I go to patio of my celllike residence to investigate the chanting. What I see is extraordinary. An army of tanned men with colossal pecs wave flags on every hotel deck and shout nonsense. They have menacing tattoos and look like they eat protein-enriched cats between workouts. Day two, 10:45: Unlike under the oppressive Duke administration, Panama City Beach provides true democracy promised by the late and great Reagan. Here, no man is afraid to exercise the American freedom of speech and no woman is too scared to exercise freedom of expression. Everywhere I see groups of free men living life as they dreamed, chanting gracefully for ladies to “Show your tits! Show your tits! Show your tits!” For a moment, I am excited to bring this pickup line back to Duke, before I realize that the Brodhead administration is too focused on creating luxury vacation programs under the guise of international engagement to allow for true progressivism. Day two, 15:00: Luke Bryan is God on Earth. His voice is like soulful hybrid of Frank Sinatra, Larry the Cable Guy and my late grandmother Marija Mikutavicius, the famous Zemblian opera singer famously assassinated by the Bolsheviks. Luke Bryan is American dream. When he performs on beach, he sings elegies that encompass every single human emotion. His concert is ninety minutes of wet bliss. I am in love. Day two, 23:30: I am standing in the shadow of the famous Club Vela. Unlike Shooters, which has low, communistic $5 fee to allow everybody and anybody in, Club Vela’s $30 filters the riffraff. It is monstrous nightclub with many different kinds of EDM and many fine varieties of beautiful tattooed women who like to wear cowboy hats and talk about state school trivialities. My frat brothers and I engage with a group of ladies, but they like to play puritan American game of hard to get. In my country, no such antics exist. After several minutes, we decide that these girls are not pretty enough and so we just dance with each other. That is more fun. Day three, 7:00: I feel sand itching my scalp. Two limp warm bodies beside me pin my arms to the beach. Where am I? What happened last night? Dobroslav is floating moribund in the ocean and Luke Bryan is walking to the sunrise of the horizon shirtless, and with his guitar slung over his back. The bodies in my arms start to stir. They are my frat brothers. Apparently the women must have woken up earlier than us because they are no longer there. We spend the rest of our morning laughing about how fun it is to black out. There you have it. Should you ever find yourself in need of both relaxation and flirtation, I cannot recommend PCB amply enough!

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t has long been belief of mine that what Duke Chronicle is missing most is column dedicated to worldly travels. I have spent a great many hours alone hunched over my computer late at night scrolling through mouth-watering websites like “The Travel Channel,” “National Geographic” and “Girls Gone Wild”. Well, I will write my own travel column this week. It is about exotic hideaway in the Southeastern region of the United States, known by locals as Panama City Beach. Endowed with many luxury resorts and beautiful shores of fine golden sand, PCB has long been well-kept secret of state school students and confused families from Texas. In this column, you will find travel log of my stay in PCB as well as great guidance on how to spend time in the beaches of Panama City should you ever find yourselves within the area’s hospitable grasp. Day 1, 15:30: The autoroute known as i85 S is one of sprawling beauty. We have been driving at high velocities in my frat brother’s Honda Civique for seven hours now. I find that electronic dance music provides

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Barbara Ehrenreich

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Author of “Nickel and Dimed” and “Living With a Wild God” 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24 Richard White Lecture Hall East Campus 5:30 p.m. Reception Book signing to follow Registration: tinyurl.com/dissectinginequality

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