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Table of Contents 3....IFC creates new sexual assault task force 4....Class of 2019 has potentially historic yield 6....Trinity Dean Laurie Patton reflects on tenure 7....Slew of new admins take over at critical time 8....Uni. continues investments in downtown Durham 9....Q&A with Nancy Andrews, dean of School of Medicine 10...DKU celebrates inaugural graduating class 12...Summer Remodeling: Construction update 15...AC being implemented in all East dormitories 16...David Jarmul leaving Duke News after 14 years 17...Independent housing model continues growth 18...ProgramIIofferspersonalizedacademicexperience SendHomeAd - Sustainability:Layout 1 5/23/12 9:34 AM Page 1 The Office of the University Registrar would like to welcome all incoming and returning students. We are here to support you as you pursue your academic goals.

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IFC creates sexual assault task force surprised him. He noted that IFC tried to attain representation from a wide The Chronicle range of fraternities, and that they were especially interested in underclassmen The Interfraternity Council has willing to think outside the box. created a student-led task force that will The team will meet each week of investigate the role Greek life plays in the next academic year and will have sexual assault on campus. discussions with guests such as Director Composed of 12 IFC members—10 of Title IX Compliance Howard Kallem regular members along with two and representatives from the Office from the executive board—the team of Student Conduct, he said. The will examine the social culture at members will then consider and start Duke during the crafting solutions to 2015-16 academic the problem of sexual e’re the only year and make assault. recommendations to school in the “We know that we prevent and address can’t stop [fraternities] country to have somethe issue of sexual from throwing parties, assault. The project thing like this. but we can make them was spearheaded safer,” Baldridge said.

— Max Schreiber, IFC by outgoing IFC “The question is: how president E.J. president can we combat this Baldridge, Trinity ‘15, without shutting down who interviewed and how [fraternities] operate?” selected applicants along with current This is not the first time students IFC president and senior Max Schreiber have studied sexual assault in Greek life and staff members from the Office of on campus. In 2013, the Greek Culture Fraternity and Sorority Life.

Initiative—a student-run organization “We’re the only school in the country that aimed to effect change in Greek to have something like this,” Schreiber culture—released its report on gender said. “It’s going to be a very Duke- and Greek life, which stated that 38 specific exam.” percent of Greek women reported After participating in several experiencing unwanted sexual contact. discussions about sexual assault last year, Additionally, Greek women in the study Baldridge said he realized IFC needed reported feeling less respected by men to become part of the conversation. than women in selective living group The application process included a and independent housing. statement of interest, along with early In a 2014 survey by the student morning meetings to see who was truly organization Duke Inquiries in Social passionate about the issue, Baldridge Relations, 46 percent of respondents said. Nearly 40 students applied to be who reported being sexually assaulted on the team—a number that greatly

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reported that their assailant was Greekaffiliated.

Schreiber noted the importance of acknowledging the issue of sexual assault on college campuses both across the nation and at Duke— especially considering the recent sexual assault claim against Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The investigation of ADPhi by the Durham Police Department is ongoing, and the fraternity is currently suspended.

Junior Landon Walls, president of Kappa Alpha fraternity, said sexual assault is the biggest issue Greek life on campus is facing, and that the

problem may be rooted in a lack of respect for women.

“The IFC is taking steps to make it less of a problem,” he said. “I don’t know what we need to do, but we need to do something.”

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Class of 2019 potentially largest ever Rachel Chason The Chronicle Duke’s Class of 2019 may be the largest in the University’s history.

Due largely to an exceptionally high regular decision yield, the University will enroll between 1,745 and 1,755 freshmen this Fall—overshooting its target of 1,705, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag wrote in an email.

He anticipated that current yield— including early and regular decision applicants—will be between 49 and 50 percent, up from last year’s yield of 47.7 percent, which was Duke’s highest since 1979.

The unusual size of the Class of 2019— only twice in Duke’s history, in 1990 and 2010, has the University enrolled between 1,745 and 1,750 students— meant that “almost no one� was admitted from the waiting list this year, Guttentag explained. “Normally we like to admit about 50 to 70 students a year from the waiting list. It was a fraction of that this year,� he wrote.

Predicting the decisions of prospective students always comes with uncertainty, Guttentag noted—explaining that although it is too early to pinpoint which specific factors contributed to Duke’s high yield, it was “predominately a Trinity College phenomenon.�

This year, 2,650 of more than 28,000 regular decision applicants were accepted—50 fewer students than last year, 260 fewer than two years ago and more than 500 fewer than three years ago, Guttentag wrote. The 9.4 percent acceptance rate

Izzi Clark | Chronicle File Photo Duke Admissions accepted 815 students through its early decision process and had an exceptionally high regular decision yield, meaning the Class of 2019 could be the largest in University history.

for the Class of 2019 marked the third consecutive year that the regular decision rate was less than 10 percent.

A record 48 percent of the class was filled by the 815 students admitted through the early decision process—up from 47 percent of the Class of 2018. Guttentag wrote that this is a figure unlikely to change dramatically in future years. “I’m pretty comfortable with the number of students we’re admitting in December,� he wrote. “That may change

in the coming years slightly, depending on the number and quality of early decision applicants, but overall I think what we’ve done in the last couple of years—admitting between 45 and 48 percent of the class— has served Duke well.�

Historically, Duke’s yield falls in the middle of the pack compared to its peer institutions. On the higher end, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania and Yale University reported yields of 81 percent, 63.2

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Guttentag said encouraging students to visit campus in April— whether for Blue Devil Days, Black Student Alliance Invitational, Latino Student Recruitment Weekend or other programs—provides the greatest difference in helping students decide to come to Duke.

He noted that admissions also helps connect prospective students with Duke faculty and current undergraduates, who he said are “best in helping students understand all of the opportunities available to them at [Duke].�

Despite the large class size, all members of the Class of 2019 will be comfortably housed on East Campus, wrote MJ Williams, director of housing assignments and planning for Housing, Dining and Residence Life, in an email.

She explained that when fewer students are enrolled, student rooms may be converted into studies or HDRL staff offices. “If we need the space, we transition them back into student rooms,�

Williams wrote. We try not to expand rooms—change a single to double or double to triple—but there are designated expandable rooms that we will use when necessary.�

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Interdisciplinarity, diversity highlight Patton’s tenure Rachel Chason The Chronicle Ongoing efforts to improve interdisciplinarity and diversity mark Laurie Patton’s four-year tenure as dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences.

Patton—who leaves Duke to become president of Middlebury College, effective July 1—emphasized the importance of interdisciplinary efforts within Trinity and oversaw the school during a period of increasing connectivity for the University as a whole. Within Trinity, she approved the creation of three new interdisciplinary certificates, including Civic Engagement and Social Change, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Decision Science, as well as an interdisciplinary co-major in global health.

The University also received a $50 million grant to create the interdisciplinary Bass Connections program during

Patton’s tenure. This initiative, which launched in Fall 2013, allows teams of faculty and students across different schools to tackle complex global challenges.

“No question about it—interdisciplinarity has been and will continue to be a large focus,” said Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education. “Laurie Patton played a very important role in facilitating a broader university picture as opposed to having individual schools be silos.”

Nowicki said interdisciplinarity—which was first pushed by former Provost Peter Lange 10 years ago—has become a poorly understood buzzword that often fails to capture the essence of its underlying concept.

“The BASS Connections program captures the broader idea best—it’s not just about crossing two disciplines, but also about applying knowledge to questions that can’t be studied any other way and integrating knowledge vertically across students and faculty,” Nowicki said.

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Addressing how to integrate programs such as Bass Connections in an interdisciplinary education will be one focus of the ongoing, faculty-led review of Trinity’s curriculum.

The review of Curriculum 2000—which was created in 2000 and last modified in 2004—started in Fall 2014 and is scheduled to last three years. In an email, Patton wrote that she was “thrilled” with the review committee’s progress thus far—noting that the faculty has focused on “self-authorship in education and students becoming more intentional and responsible for their own pathways.”

“I think they will come up with some great proposals that move beyond a ‘credentializing culture’ and encourage student creativity,” she wrote. “We need to make sure our curriculum really makes students think, and allows them more ownership in and reflection about their own education.”

Nowicki also spoke on the “credentializing culture” Patton referenced—noting that he has seen many students more concerned with collecting degree elements than they should or need to be.

“Students should be driving course choice by what they’re really interested in, not what they feel like they should have to take,” he said.

Efforts to improve diversity and inclusivity Another point Patton has emphasized since her first year at Duke—when a controversial Duke study suggested disproportionate numbers of black students switched into stereotypically easy majors—is the importance of fostering sustained dialogue on diversity and inclusion.

She said strides have been made in terms of increasing diversity in the sciences—noting that “key hires of women and minorities” have been made in mathematics, statistics, biology, computer science, physics and most dramatically, chemistry.

She wrote that conversations must be intergenerational, noting that we are seeing “real generational differences in our midst about what the right approaches are to inclusivity.”

With the Office for Institutional Equity, Trinity has created a faculty training series for inclusivity in the classroom that focuses on unconscious bias and micro-aggression, Patton wrote. She explained that the program has been used in three departments, and that she hopes it will expand to all departments in coming years.

Nowicki, too, said faculty training must be a priority—describing “a remarkable inertia” in some faculty members who have been at Duke for more than a decade and have failed to recognize the University’s changing student demographics.

“The University is the most diverse that it’s been, and professors need to recognize that, to understand hidden bias,” Nowicki said.

He also emphasized the necessity of inclusion—pointing out that although Duke is more diverse than most of its peer institutions, diversity is virtually meaningless without inclusion.

“Inclusion cannot just mean conformity—people need to feel comfortable expressing who they are,” he said.

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Duke ‘in a pretty stable place’ as new admins arrive Ryan Zhang The Chronicle Valerie Ashby’s appointment as the new dean of the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences this July will cap off a year of significant administrative turnover.

Following a nationwide search, Ashby was selected in May six months after previous dean Laurie Patton was named the next president of Middlebury College. When Ashby officially takes over July 1, it will mark exactly one year since Provost Sally Kornbluth replaced Peter Lange, who had served for 15 years. Other key administrators introduced this past year include Dr. A. Eugene Washington, the new chancellor for health affairs and president and CEO of Duke University Health System, and James Dobbins, the associate vice provost and director of the Duke Kunshan University Program Office.

Despite these changes, administrators emphasized continuity during a time of transition.

“The University is a pretty stable place,” Kornbluth said. “One of the hallmarks of a really good place is that when new people take jobs, they honor the commitments of their predecessors, and they try to sustain all of the good things that their predecessors started.”

Changes in leadership do shift the direction of certain policies and strategies, but that typically takes a few years to develop, Joshua Socolar, chair of the Academic Council, wrote in an email. He added that new administrators tend to spend the transition period learning about the school and formulating their longterm plans.

“There is no immediate, major shift,” Socolar wrote. “Faculty are, however, aware that for long-range planning purposes we need to re-articulate our own ideas about priorities for hiring, research and teaching, as well as our thoughts about the broader academic

environment at Duke.”

For Ashby, the transition period is unusually short—when she becomes dean of Trinity July 1, it will have been seven weeks since the announcement of her selection. But Kornbluth said she feels confident that Ashby has the tools to succeed in the face of a “steep learning curve.”

“She has a deep knowledge of issues in academia, she has had great administrative experience and she is an excellent scholar,” Kornbluth said of Ashby. “There was a great rapport and a clear vision.”

Ashby is in a particular position to succeed, Kornbluth noted, because she is coming from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and can avoid many of the distractions that normally accompany relocation.

Instead of needing to move across the country, Ashby will only need to move down Tobacco Road.

The appointments of Kornbluth, the James B. Duke professor of pharmacology and cancer biology, and Ashby, the outgoing chair of the UNC chemistry department, are indicative of the continued growth of women in science.

Last year, Kornbluth became the first woman in Duke history to serve as provost. Ashby is the third woman to serve as dean of arts and sciences, following Patton and Ernestine Friedl. They are also joined by the two newly elected chairs of the Academic Council and the Arts and Sciences Council—Nan Jokerst, J.A. Jones professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Anita Layton, Robert R. and Katherine B. Penn associate professor of mathematics, respectively.

“There’s been a kind of cohort phenomenon across the disciplines,” O’Rand said. “Women who are arriving in these positions, they haven’t been in before are the women Graphic by Rita Lo | The Chronicle who got their degrees in the 70s and early 80s. That’s when the numbers began to grow in any serious way.”

The selection process O’Rand noted that the pool of Ashby was selected from a pool of candidates that at one point candidates from which Ashby was numbered more than 200. Three selected was balanced between men finalists were eventually nominated and women and between different by a search committee led by Angela disciplines.

O’Rand, professor of sociology. The finalists were then interviewed by Curricular update One of the most important Kornbluth and President Richard Brodhead, who made the final initiatives started during Patton’s tenure was the ongoing curricular decision.

Duke’s status as a desirable review. The current curriculum has destination for leaders at other been in place since 2000, although universities led to the large number there have been changes made along of candidates for the position, the way.

In 2014, Patton proposed a O’Rand said.

“It’s a young university that has three-year review of the existing been very upwardly mobile by taking curriculum that would ultimately chances and by creating new ways update it to match the growing of teaching and doing research,” diversity of educational experiences she said. “It’s got a nimbleness that offered at Duke. It would also seems appealing to a lot of people reflect the increased role of digital who may be in a more stodgy place, learning. The review—which is the or in a place where disciplines don’t first since 1999—will likely be the interact as much as they do at Duke.”

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I&E Initiative move highlights Duke-Durham partnership Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Duke’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative is expected to move into its new home in Durham’s Innovation District by early August—a move that highlights the University’s expansion into downtown Durham.

The University has made significant investments in the area to expand its outreach networks and respond to increasing space demands on campus— Duke now has more than 2,700 employees downtown and occupies more than one million square feet of space in downtown Durham, including

laboratories and research space for studying the life sciences in the Carmichael Building. The I&E initiative will add to that figure when it moves into its new 12,000 square-foot space in the Imperial Building, located in the heart of Durham’s Innovation District.

“Duke’s presence in downtown Durham is growing, and growing rapidly,” Eric Toone, vice provost and director of the I&E initiative, said.

The program chose to make the move from its current location in Gross Hall to the Imperial Building mainly due to space constraints and proximity to the Innovation District, Toone explained.

Duke’s I&E initiative has experienced

significant growth in recent years, expanding from four staff members in 2013 to its current size of 23. The program also serves more than 100 students through its new certificate program.

“Everything’s growing, everything’s expanding and there’s no way there’s enough space in Gross,” Toone said.

In addition to providing a more accommodating space, downtown Durham is compatible with the I&E Initiative because of its proximity to other existing researchers in the field, Toone explained. A number of Duke researchers currently work downtown in both the Carmichael and American Underground buildings, which is something Toone said

the I&E initiative will try to take advantage of when it moves to its new space.

But the University’s influence downtown extends well beyond the Innovation District.

The Imperial, Carmichael and American Underground buildings are just a few of many spaces Duke occupies and has renovated, explained Phail Wynn, vice president for Durham and regional affairs. The University has collaborated with city and county officials on several other renovation and investment projects because Duke’s well-being is interconnected with the city’s, he said.

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Andrews reflects on election to NAS Amrith Ramkumar The Chronicle Dr. Nancy Andrews, dean of the School of Medicine and vice chancellor of academic affairs, has been awarded national recognition for outstanding achievement and contributions to research. Andrews was elected in April to the National Academy of Sciences—a non-profit advisory organization to the president and Congress consisting of 84 of the country’s most prominent scientists and researchers.

Members of the NAS nominate other scientists annually based on their original research and contributions to the scientific community. The Chronicle’s Amrith Ramkumar spoke with Andrews via email about the NAS recognition, her own research on iron homeostasis using mouse models and how the School of Medicine has changed throughout the past year:

interactions with him and what challenges do you think he will face early on?

NA: I think Dr. Washington will bring important expertise in health policy that complements what we already had. He is going to be a wonderful external face for Duke Medicine, with the community, potential donors and others. In my view his biggest challenge will be helping to shape the business strategy of the health system. He has experience with this from his previous work at [the University of California at Los Angeles].

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The Chronicle: Could you describe being elected to the National Academy of Sciences and what it means to you given that you have to be recognized by your peers for outstanding contributions to research?

Nancy Andrews: Quite a few NAS members called me as the election results were announced at the annual meeting to let me know that I’d been elected. It means a lot to me—it’s a great honor. I have many good friends in the NAS, and I’m both grateful to them for electing me and looking forward to seeing them more often.

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TC: Can you explain what you will have to do as a member of the NAS? NA: Membership in the NAS is primarily honorific. I will help elect new members and act as an editor for papers submitted to the NAS journal (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) when they are in or near my field. I may also serve on National Academy committees if my expertise is useful.

TC: Related to your election to the NAS, can you describe any recent progress with your research or other relevant information?

NA: I think I was elected for my role in working out how mice and humans handle iron, an essential nutrient. My lab contributed by identifying a number of proteins important in iron handling, by working out the molecular basis of several ironrelated human diseases and by using mouse genetics in novel ways to understand iron physiology. It was particularly gratifying that we figured out the causes, previously unknown, of iron disorders that affected several of my own patients.

TC: Switching gears a bit to talk about the School of Medicine more broadly…there have obviously been great successes recently with research, especially with the polio virus being used for cancer treatment.

Could you update us on the largest projects like that one and look ahead to other projects you’re looking forward to in the upcoming year?

NA: With a faculty of about 2,000 people, most of whom are involved in research (to varying extents), there are exciting research successes every day. Some of the largest projects include the effort to develop an HIV vaccine, led by Dr. Bart Haynes; our Clinical and Translational Science Award, led by Dr. Ebony Boulware; and the multi-site clinical trials overseen

by Dr. Eric Peterson as director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute. Also this year, Duke investigators were among the first funded for President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative, and the first surgical implant of bionic eye in North Carolina was performed at Duke.

But those are just a small sampling of particularly big projects—our faculty makes high impact, important research findings pretty much every day. We have more than $700 million in external grant support for research. That’s a lot of research firepower.

TC: Dr. [A. Eugene] Washington took over as the chancellor [of Duke University Health System] in April—what have you taken away from your

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DKU graduation caps eventful inaugural year Ryan Zhang The Chronicle After an inaugural year marked by changes in leadership and continuing construction, Duke Kunshan University celebrated its first-ever graduating class May 20.

The 32 students in the Master of Management Studies: Duke Kunshan University program, a degree hosted jointly

by DKU and the Fuqua School of Business, became the first graduates from DKU. The students, who came from eight different countries, spent six months at Fuqua and four months at DKU. “This is certainly a great milestone in the life of Duke University,” Bill Boulding, dean of Fuqua and J.B. Fuqua professor of business administration, wrote in an email.

“These graduates have made history by being the first to

complete this program, and…we are excited to see what the future holds for these graduates.”

Boulding noted that students enjoyed the split nature of the program, as it allowed them to gain insight into how business works on opposite sides of the world.

“It was a rewarding and exciting year,” Class President Shichao Weng said at the graduation ceremony. “The challenges and achievements bound us tightly with love and with the spirit of Team Fuqua.”

Many of the students will move on to jobs in both the U.S. and China, Boulding explained. They will be leaving behind a campus that prepares to enter its second year this Fall.

“unfinished” due to ongoing construction. At the time, student dormitories and a faculty residence hall were yet to be completed, and parts of the academic center were still under construction.

Since then, the dormitories and faculty housing have been completed. The academic center’s main cafeteria and auditorium have also opened, wrote James Dobbins, associate vice provost and director of the DKU Program Office, in an email. With the completion of these buildings, the second year’s iteration of the campus promises to be closer to an experience that the first year at times struggled to provide.

Despite the construction delays, Dobbins noted that the general responses from students and professors were very A finished campus? positive.

Last Fall, The Chronicle reported on a campus that felt One of the strengths that was apparent from the start was the strong community formed by DKU students and faculty, said William Johnson, professor of classical studies.

Johnson taught a course on Greek civilization at DKU and said he will return to teach again in Spring 2017.

“Your community isn’t made by the buildings around you, it’s made by the people around you,” Johnson said.

“The emotional involvement between faculty and students was mirrored by an intense attachment among the students themselves. There was this enormously supportive, selfnurturing community. I’ve never seen anything like that.”

An issue that had many worried prior to the campus opening was the prospect of limitations on academic freedom. But those concerns may be unfounded— partly because the campus uses a virtual private network, bypassing the “Great Firewall” systems that the Chinese government uses to monitor and censor its citizens’ Internet use.

“When you’re on campus, it’s a safe zone and you can say what you think,” Johnson said. “Obviously when you get off campus—when you take field trips and so forth—you need to be a little more careful.”

Johnson noted that he suspected students from China would sometimes self-censor, possibly out of habit.

Otherwise, censorship did not seem to pose any major problems.

“I didn’t feel that it altered anything that happened in the classroom, and it certainly didn’t affect my research in any respect,” Johnson said.

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Future growth Although the first year was generally a success, there is still much work to be done before DKU can put its turbulent beginnings behind it.

Currently, DKU hosts a semester-long undergraduate program and a collection of master’s programs. But the ultimate goal is to transform DKU into a full four-year university. With the logistical questions mostly settled after the first year, administrators and faculty are free to focus on creating the curriculum that will eventually become the foundation of the school’s academic offerings.

“One of our priorities is to enhance DKU’s curriculum in response to student and faculty interest,” Dobbins wrote.

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Air-conditioning coming to all dorms on East Alice Marson The Chronicle The Class of 2019 now has one less reason to sweat about its first day at Duke.

The University is installing airconditioning in dorms that previously did not have it, as Alspaugh, Brown, East House, Epworth, Gilbert-Addoms, Jarvis, Pegram, Southgate and Wilson will receive new window and floor air-conditioning units this summer.

Housing, Dining and Residence Life made the decision to go forward with the project in part due to student requests, said Andy Beville, director of facilities planning and operations.

“This is in response to many complaints that we received from students,” Beville said. “We needed to explore how we could make the freshman experience more comfortable during the August, September and even October months.”

Installation began in early June and is expected to end Aug. 15, in time for freshman move-in, Sarah Burdick, director of administration and special projects, wrote in an email.

HDRL wanted to improve indoor air quality and make the residence halls safer and more comfortable for residents, capitalizing on the opportunity to do so using air-conditioning floor-unit technology, Beville explained in an email.

“The issue was how do we find a solution?

What was the pathway that would satisfy the student experience and satisfy what the

Georgia Parke | The Chronicle Temporary air-conditioning units are being installed all over East Campus as the next step in the University’s plan to have centralized air-conditioning in every freshman dormitory.

facilities could handle?” Beville said.

Floor units differ from window units, which are bulky and can damage a building’s infrastructure over time, he noted. The floor-unit technology also allows the units to burn off condensation when transforming warm air into cool air, which allows them to respond to the medical and air temperature needs of Duke students without causing long-term damage to

conditioning to East Campus has been in the works for quite some time, as last summer crews finished Campus Drive renovations that included installing pipes capable of bringing more chilled water to East Campus. The project began in 2012 and continued during the Winter and Summer breaks that followed to allow East campus-wide air conditioning to become more of a realistic possibility.

Natalia Espinosa, an incoming freshman from Dallas, said she was happy to hear that every dormitory will have some form of air-conditioning come Fall 2015.

“I know Durham can get pretty hot, especially in August when we move in,” she said. “I’m glad I’ll be able to start off not having to worry about the heat too much.”

Some students expressed concern, however, that the renovation will eliminate the bonding experience dormitories without air-conditioning fostered by encouraging students to socialize in airconditioned common rooms.

Julia Medine, a sophomore who lived in Gilbert-Addoms as a freshman, said that although the lack of air conditioning made it difficult to sleep at night, it did create a community in the common room.

“It definitely made us spend less time in our rooms, and in that sense, we probably bonded more than we would have with AC,” she said.

the building, Beville added.

Ultimately, Duke plans to install a centralized air system for all East Campus dormitories, but that project is several years away from completion, Beville explained. In the meantime, more temporary solutions—like the floor units being implemented—will be used until central air can be installed in all of the dormitories.

Editor’s note: The Chronicle spoke to Beville on The plan to bring centralized air- the phone and via email.

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David Jarmul leaving Duke News after 14 years Neelesh Moorthy The Chronicle After 14 years at Duke’s Office of News and Communications, David Jarmul is stepping down and looking to explore the world.

First recruited to Duke in 2001, Jarmul, associate vice president for news and communications, has left his mark on campus. He is responsible for pioneering many of Duke’s online initiatives—such as Duke Today—as well as for much of the news material the University has put out on a daily basis during his tenure.

“I’m going to miss the people,” Jarmul said. “To do this job with a group of like-minded and talented people is a gift.”

Jarmul had spent more than 20 years doing science writing—first at the National Academy of Sciences and later as the deputy director of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s communications department before coming to Duke. Although he enjoyed science writing, he was also intrigued by the opportunity to work in an eclectic university environment, he said.

“Part of the fun of being at a university is that it’s American history one minute and biochemistry the next, a sports story one minute and a student story an hour after that,” Jarmul said. “There’s always something different going on, and I find that really interesting.”

John Burness, former senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, said he recruited Jarmul in large part due to the skills he demonstrated as a science writer, especially his ability

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to take complicated material and make it accessible to a general audience.

Jarmul added that working both as a science writer and at Duke has informed his conception of how a news organization ought to serve a higher purpose, embodying knowledge in the service of society by sharing expertise with people around the world. Working at Duke has provided him the exhilirating work environment he works best in, he said.

“Some people compare our office to a fire house,” Jarmul said. “Sometimes it’s quiet, and sometimes it’s just nuts. If you don’t thrive on that type of fast action, you’re probably in the wrong job, but I really enjoy it.”

Jarmul was responsible for overseeing the Central Communications Office, establishing Duke Today and coordinating Duke’s crisis communications, Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said.

President Richard Brodhead noted that most of what students see published by Duke has in some way been affected or changed by Jarmul, even if he doesn’t get public recognition for it.

“Everybody at Duke has read hundreds of things written by David Jarmul or that have his editorial touch,” Brodhead said. “If you ever read something that was clear and at the end you thought you understood it, there’s a good chance David Jarmul helped produce that.”

Perhaps one of Jarmul’s greatest achievements at Duke has been his work transitioning Duke into the digital age of news.

The University’s increased use of online video and social media and the Week at Duke in 60 Seconds segment are among the initiatives that have all stemmed from Jarmul’s efforts, Schoenfeld explained.

“David is always encouraging of trying something new and seeing if it works,” said Cara Rousseau, manager of social and digital media strategy. “He’s very experimental, and working under a boss like that, it is very easy to create new campaigns and ideas.”

Schoenfeld said that what he will miss the most when Jarmul leaves is his mentorship and guidance.

“If you look at the list of people David has over the years brought to Duke and then gone on to great things at Duke or elsewhere, it’s enormous, and that will certainly be one of David’s greatest legacies,” Schoenfeld said.

Keith Lawrence, executive director of news and communications, said that in addition to providing mentorship, Jarmul strove to made the work environment lively and exciting, recalling the creative holiday parties, cooking classes, murder mysteries and scavenger hunts Jarmul was always organizing for the office.

Schoenfeld said the University hopes to find Jarmul’s replacement by the end of the summer and that a nationwide search is underway.

After he leaves Duke, Jarmul and his wife are taking an extended trip around the United States before going to Nepal, where he previously served as a Peace Corps officer and where his wife is from. After his trip to Nepal, Jarmul said he is consciously trying to keep all doors open and avoid planning ahead.

“I’m putting myself in the path of serendipity,” he said.

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30-percent rule latest step in housing model Grace Wang The Chronicle Duke administrators are working to narrow the gap between the housing experience of independent and affiliated students.

The 2012 transition from the quadrangle model to the house model has led to efforts aimed at enriching the residential and social life of unaffiliated undergraduate students on campus.

Although the most recent changes in housing policy—the 30 percent mandatory quota for upperclassmen presence— posed a challenge to some selective living groups, the independent housing model is continuing its development.

“The first three years the independent housing has been trending in positive directions, but there is still a gap between the experience of independent students and students in selective living groups, and we want that gap to narrow,” Dean for Residential Life Joe Gonzalez said.

Independent housing model Four years ago, students who did not belong to SLGs—which officially encompass greek and selective housing groups—had to enter the housing lottery every year. Only affiliated students could exercise right of return from year to year.

“They were treated like hermits and nomads, because they would just be stuck wherever without any chance to build community,” Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, said of independent students under the quadrangle model.

In addition to giving independent students right of return, the new house model for independent students managed to downsize each housing community from 500 students to a range generally between 60 and 90.

“The smaller communities offer a much stronger opportunity for stronger connections to happen, and for a stronger sense of identity,” Gonzalez said.

Nowicki also emphasized that the sense of affiliation with a house cannot be imposed on students, but should be allowed to arise organically.

“I don’t think there will be a one size fits all approach to help independent houses build community, and the houses do in fact have different personalities,” Nowicki said.

Independent students are able to run for leadership positions within their houses such as president and officer roles on the house council—opportunities unavailable in the previous model. The number of house councils for independent students increased from seven to 30 due to the transition. Gonzalez estimated that leadership positions have increased six-fold since the shift as a result.

After the first year of implementation of the independent housing model, 57 percent of independent students exercised their right of return, Gonzalez said. After the second year, that figure rose to 77 percent and further to 82 percent this year.

“Each year, more students are taking advantage of their right to remain in their residential house, and we think that’s a good indication,” Gonzalez said.

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Program II offers alternative academic path Alex Griffith and Samantha Neal The Chronicle Although most students choose traditional majors like economics, public policy or biology, there is a lesser-known option for those who desire a more personalized area of study—Program II. Program II is essentially Duke’s designyour-own major and has been in place since 1968. The 12 to 18 undergraduates per year who follow this path must submit an extensive application outlining an independent, theme-based course of study, including a senior capstone project. Instead of being based in a single

discipline—as most Program I majors are— Program II uses themes to focus study, said Norman Keul, associate dean and director of Program II. “Once you have a clearly defined theme you want to explore as an undergraduate, you cherry-pick courses that allow you to get at and explore that theme most effectively,” Keul said.

Students generally participate in Program II when they cannot study what they want to study under the standard Program I majors, explained Keul.

“The most fundamental question asked by the Program II committee when reviewing an application to Program II is whether a student can do an effective study

of what he or she is interested in under Program I,” Keul said. “If the answer is yes, then we will turn the application down.”

Elle Wilson, a junior in Program II who is studying consumer markets and behavioral decision theory, initially did not anticipate pursuing a Program II major.

“I was confident that after taking a few introductory classes in a broad range, one area of study was bound to stand out from the rest,” Wilson said. “Interestingly, the opposite happened.”

A tiny portion of undergraduates participate in the program each year— about one to two percent of students. Last year, 21 students graduated from Program II majors, one of the largest groups in

a long time, Keul said. But the number fluctuates from year to year depending on various trends.

“The big trend that just ended is global health,” Keul said.

Although the growth of interest in global health brought a large group of students to Program II, it also influenced the creation of a new major—the global health co-major that began Fall 2013.

“One of the features that is very interesting about Program II is that it is a crucible, a place where new trends and ideas are explored,” Keul said. “If they prove to See PROGRAM II on Page 22

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same way. This leads to less sexual tension, he explained.

In the survey conducted by the GCI, 29 percent of women in SLGs reported experiencing unwanted sexual contact, compared to 38 percent of Greek women.

Most of the problems created

by Greek organizations stem from their members’ irresponsibility and lack of respect for others, said Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students.

She noted, however, that Greek organizations could help lower the number of sexual assaults if members hold each other accountable for their behavior.

The formation of the task force may prove particularly important because many students believe the University’s social scene revolves around Greek life.

“I think Greek life plays a huge role in social life on campus, partially because there aren’t a lot of other outlets at Duke and in Durham for social life,” Walls said.

Schreiber also said he believes Greek life dominates the social culture at Duke, but noted that more Greek social events have moved off campus in recent years.

A newly-enforced mandate from Housing, Dining and Residential Life requires that 30 percent of residents in SLG and Greek housing be upperclassmen—a policy Wasiolek said was designed to increase senior leadership within housing sections.

Some students, however, believe the mandate to be the administration’s

way of reducing the number of offcampus social events.

Because off-campus apartments and houses owned by seniors are frequent locations for Greek social events, requiring more upperclassmen to live on campus has the potential to keep more of their events on campus and reduce the dominance of Greek life in Duke’s social scene.

“I have a hard time believing the justification given by HDRL about senior leadership,” Walls said. “I think the housing quotas are the first step in reeling the off-campus party scene back in.”

Although Wasiolek acknowledged that studies suggest that the presence of Greek organizations and varsity athletics increase the risk of sexual misconduct on college campuses, she said she does not believe the Greek system is inherently problematic.

“There are many opportunities for creating a sense of community on campus, and the Greek system provides one type of option for this,” she said.

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Students will transform an inaccessible audio archive of historic North Carolina folk and popular music into a vital, publicly-accessible digital archive and museum exhibition. We seek students with interests in music, folklore, cultural history, computer science, information studies, multimedia production, museum exhibitions, documentary arts and the North Carolina experience to join us. This course welcomes firstyear students, digital neophytes as well as students with strong technology backgrounds. This course is part of the Archives Alive Initiative and Bass Connections Information, Society and Culture theme. For more information see: https://bassconnections.duke.edu/ project-teams/nc-jukebox.

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“In order for the University to thrive and to continue to attract the best students, faculty and staff, we have to take a more active role in ensuring that the city that the University resides in is really an exciting and dynamic place to live,” Wynn said.

Duke has taken a more active role by helping to finance renovations for spaces in downtown Durham in recent years—taking initiative in renovating the Carmichael and Power House buildings, as well as partnering with the city to invest in initiatives like the Durham Performing Arts Center, the American Tobacco Campus and the Bull City Connector—a free shuttle service which connects downtown Durham to Duke Hospital and the University.

Downtown Durham is part of a widelyrecognized entrepreneurship hub in the Triangle region. The Raleigh area was recently named the number one city for job seekers by Glassdoor—a site through which job seekers can look for openings and rate employers—and Business Insider ranked the Durham-Chapel Hill area as the seventh-best city for new college graduates in May 2014.

The University aims to help Durham continue building on its existing capital and social entrepreneurship primarily through its investments in downtown, Wynn said.

At the most recent Board of Trustees meeting May 9, the Trustees met downtown and had a lengthy discussion about Duke’s role in the revitalization of the area. Durham Mayor Bill Bell, Bob Geolas, president and CEO of the Research Triangle Foundation

of North Carolina, and Adam Klein, chief strategist of the startup incubator American Underground, took part in the conversation and Wynn presented on several projects.

Among the topics Wynn addressed were the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership, collaboration efforts with Durham Public Schools and a longstanding alliance with Self Help Credit to help low-income individuals purchase homes and businesses.

Regardless of how much the University continues its expansion downtown, access to transportation will likely be a long-term issue. Administrators are looking into ways to modify the Bull City Connector route to go further into campus and better reach employees, Wynn said.

Another new project Wynn is working on is determining how Duke and the city will collaborate on renovation of the Chester building, which is currently vacant. One of the main points of discussion is whether or not the University and Durham will partner to undertake a parking deck with 600 to 700 parking spaces to accompany the building. If the parking challenge is resolved, renovations will continue and Duke will commit to take additional space in the building, Wynn said.

Although the Chester building may be the latest example of the DukeDurham partnership, Wynn said he and the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs will continue to work with local leaders on other projects as more needs arise.

“We’re just sort of waiting in the wings to see what are the things the city and the county feels are important projects that would require Duke as a partner,” Wynn said.

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AMES 205 Understanding the Middle East–Wed 3:05 -5:35

The course aims at introducing the students to the politics, cultures, and socio-economic concerns of the contemporary Middle East. What are the ideological, political, and cultural trajectories of future American and European relations with Turkey, Israel, and the Arab countries, will be exposed to a wide variety of texts and films, from Morocco to Iraq and the Gulf States. Professor Abdul Sattar Jawad

(*NEW) AMES 219S Civil Society and Civic Engage in the Arab World TH 1:40-4:10

Why does civil society matter in the Arab world? What type of civil society is good for good governance? Explore civil society and civic engagement in the Arabic speaking word through documentary films, case studies of Arab NGOs, meeting with experts, Duke Engage Cairo, Beirut and Lebanon. This is a writing course with Service Learning component. Professor Mbaye Lo

(*NEW) AMES 236 Graphic Asia: Visual Storytelling & Global Asian/American Networks W 3:05 5:35 explores the particular status of the graphic novel (encompassing all manners of earlier word-image texts; mainstream, alternative, and web-based comics; Asian traditions of manga, manhwa, manhua) and the role of the graphic artist in the changing epistemologies, histories, and formations of Global Asian/Pacific/American networks. X-listed AMI 236, ICS 264 Professor Eileen Chow

AMES 261 Japanese Cinema MW 3:05-4:20

This course examines Japanese cinema from its prehistory to its contemporary developments. The focus will be on the rise of Japanese subculture/popular culture in the 1980s and onward, and its long-term implications.

The course is organized roughly chronologically, tracing major historical developments of Japanese film, popular culture,and literature from the early modern (17-19th century) to the modern (20-21st century) period. Topics include Japanese pure film movement, genbun-itchi (unification of written spoken language), benshi (orators), Ozu, Kurosawa, anime (Japanese animation), “the end of modern literature” discourse, Japanese nouvelle-vague, experimental theater, and street activism. All the required readings are in English. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or Japanese film history is assumed. X-listed AMI 255, LIT 213, VMS 232 Professor Takushi Odagiri

(*NEW) AMES 319S Andalusia: Muslim, Jewish, Christian Spain

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A course on the cultural flourishing from the contact—and sometimes clash—of Islamic, Jewish, Christian, European, Arab, and African civilizations in southern Spain.

Poetry, music, philosophy, architecture, mysticism, literature, language, and religion at a crossroads of civilization. A consciousness that continues to permeate life in contemporary Spain, in the Arab world, and in the Jewish diaspora and beyond. X-listed REL 214S, JEWISHST 319S, AMES 519S Professors Ellen McLarney and Laura Lieber

(*NEW) AMES 325 Islamic Awakening: Revival and Reform T 3:05-5:35

The revival of Islamic commitments—both spiritual and political—across the Muslim world, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Europe, and beyond.

Religious revolutions, political parties, social movements, media, and cultural production (literature, film, art, graffiti, poetry, music, and rap).

Textual and technological dimensions of the revival, in its theological, intellectual, literary, visual, auditory, and digital aspects. Salafism, Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia, Ennahda in Tunisia, Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hamas in Palestine, Hizbullah in Lebanon, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, as well as ISIS and al-Qaeda. X-listed REL 372, AMES 625 Professor Ellen McLarney

AMES 382 Orhan Pamuk and World Literature WF 11:45-1:00 This seminar examines the Istanbul novels of Nobel Laureate

Orhan Pamuk as an introduction into the culture and politics of the Middle East. We will be analyzing themes of identity and subjectivity, secularism and Islam, the Ottoman past and Turkey’s present as well as aesthetic relations between writing and objects. We will also be comparing Pamuk to authors of world literature from Borges and Kafka to Eco and Rushdie.

Pamuk’s forthcoming novel of Istanbul, A Strangeness in My Mind, will be published in Oct. and students will have a chance to meet the author when he visits in Nov. 2015. Professor Erdag Goknar

(*NEW) AMES 390S.02 Special Topics: Bioethics Environmental Ethics WF 1:25-2:40

The course examines bioethics, ecology, and environmental thought in East Asian contexts, both in theory and through literature, film, and popular culture. In particular, we discuss the Fukushima incident (spring 2011), and its significance in environmental literature, film, and thought of the past and present centuries. Topics include post-3/11 film, literature, popular culture, socioeconomic conditions, deep ecology and its problems, Japanese religious views, animality, bioethics of abortion, Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Minamata disease and history of environmental pollution in modern Japan. All the required readings are in English. No prior knowledge of Japanese language or Japanese film history is assumed. Professor Takushi Odagiri

(*NEW) AMES 423S Sex & Violence in Mod Arabic Literature Anti-colonial struggles of the mid-20th century

brought Arabs independence from European rule, but at a high price. Since then, the region has endured dictatorships and civil wars and most recently the revolutions of the Arab spring. This course will trace the ways in which Palestinian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Algerian and Iraqi writers have responded to their people’s experiences of trauma. Professor miriam cooke

AMES 620S Critical Genealogies of the Middle East: An examination of the canon of Middle East Scholarship M 1:40 – 4:25 The course will offer in-depth investigation into the theoretical traditions that inform interdisciplinary Middle

East studies (specific foci include literary and cultural theory, Islamic feminism, postcolonial theory, visual studies, and deconstruction, among others).

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Residence Life intends to help students have a sense of affiliation with their houses, regardless of whether they are independent or affiliated.

“I feel like there’s too much value being placed on being in a selective living group,” Gonzalez said.

Each year, HDRL surveys students to evaluate the independent housing experiences compared to the housing experiences of those belonging to SLGs. The numbers show that the gap between affiliated and unaffiliated students is narrowing.

Some independent students, however, notice the lack of community in independent housing experiences.

“For freshman year, people make friends easily and often within their housing community,” senior Eric Lakey said.

“Once you are no longer new to campus, become established and have a regular friend circle, it is really hard to branch out. I think that’s why there’s a strong sense of community on East, but not on West.”

In the future, HDRL intends to work on increasing awareness of the positive experiences independent housing can bring.

“A challenge we face is how to help students have a better understanding that independent housing experiences could be great as well, that there are good things happening in independent houses that people don’t realize,” Gonzalez said.

Efforts have been also made to renovate certain locations that are traditionally considered undesirable by students, including the summer renovations to Edens Quadrangle.

Gonzalez also noted that Central Campus is an example of a housing option that used to have the same reputation as Edens, but is now one of the most popular student choices on campus.

“Another of our challenges is how do we make sure that all independent houses are good places? In a word, investing a lot to renovations at Edens this summer,” Gonzalez said. “Edens had the reputation of being an unpopular place to live on West Campus, and we are trying to change that image.”

Upperclassmen presence Last semester, an official housing rule made it mandatory for SLGs to have a minimum of 30 percent upperclassmen living in their section. The policy met controversy among student groups whose seniors may have desired to move off-campus.

“I don’t consider this a big change because the majority of the selective living groups already met those expectations,” Nowicki said. “It’s been communicated since Duke houses were in development four years ago that this would be the expectation, and groups were told that they should start adjusting their pattern of populations [living in section].”

Gonzalez noted that sophomore-dominated populations often do not result in the best living environment in section in terms of discipline and damage control.

For the independent houses, the upperclassmen quota comes from the assignment process.

“We have the target distribution of 50 percent sophomore, 30 percent junior and 20 percent senior,” Gonzalez said. “The independent houses somehow always achieve these targets because the process in some ways makes it happen.”

A more stable structure?

Since the implementation of the independent housing model, student-led initiatives that serve to facilitate student and faculty interaction were started.

Gonzalez noted that through programs like FINVite, which allows students in a housing community to invite a faculty member to engage in bonding activities, independent students receive meaningful mentorship and valuable living experience.

Independent students have higher rates of participation in these programs than students in SLGs, he noted.

“FINvite is a mechanism to help houses to build community, and we will keep it going for a year or two,” Nowicki said. “Our job is to help student ideas flourish.”

The Women’s Housing Option as well as the substancefree houses currently available on campus are likely to remain as the only alternative housing options, Nowicki explained, meaning that following implementation of the 30-percent rule, there might not be many more changes made to the independent housing model.

“WHO, Baldwin Scholars and the wellness houses are hybrid models that are administratively controlled,” Nowicki said. “[Students apply] with the notion that they will be dictated by a certain level of rules and regulations. I don’t anticipate more of those coming along, I think the ones we have are the natural ones to have.”

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focus of multiple meetings of the Arts and Sciences Council this year, in addition to revising the DKU curriculum and the DukeImmerse programs, Layton said.

“The direction of the curriculum review is to find ways to encourage Duke students to explore more,” Layton said. “We have a liberal arts education and want to make sure when students graduate they are well-educated, well-rounded citizens of society.”

Patton’s departure comes after the first year of the review, but faculty and administrators expect it will continue to be a central issue for the next few years.

“The curriculum really belongs to the faculty,” O’Rand said. “It comes from the people who teach in the classroom.”

The collaborative, faculty-driven nature of the review suggests that the change in deanship will not cause any drastic changes in Trinity’s curricular vision. In fact, because the review is still in its early stages, the timing of Ashby’s arrival is actually quite good, O’Rand said.

“We’re going to have a number of meetings with the full council where people can voice their opinions,” Layton said. “We’ll get a lot of feedback and then see what about the proposed curriculum needs to be changed, reflect on what the faculty want, and improve it very iteratively.

Hopefully the third year we can converge on something that will be really wonderful for undergraduate education.”

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what are some of the other changes you foresee in the future?

NA: The most obvious changes are in our physical plant—the School of Medicine built the Trent Semans Center for Health Education several years back, and we are just about to open a new eye center (the Hudson Building). But we have also launched many new programs (e.g., the Primary Care Leadership Track for medical students interested in community health; the Master of Biomedical Sciences program for college graduates interested in health careers; the Masters and Ph.D. programs in Biostatistics; the Master of Management in Clinical Informatics; the Office for Biomedical Graduate Diversity/ BioCORE, and others).

And we’ve created a number of new research initiatives including the Center for Genomics of Microbial Systems, the Center for Human Disease Modeling, the Duke Molecular Physiology Institute and others. We’ve enriched our faculty through our interdisciplinary Partnership Hires program. We’ve raised almost $900 million to support our various activities.

We remained stable and vibrant through the worst financial time the School of Medicine has ever experienced. We’ve added four new departments (going from 18 to 22 total), and I’ve appointed 18 new department chairs. We’ve made diversity and inclusion a major priority, and we’re starting to see its benefits.

We’re initiating a new, more formal relationship with the Pratt School of Engineering to enhance research and education relationships. These are just a few highlights—we’ve been very busy!

PROGRAM II

in order to have her academic program approved. Although the requirements are rigorous, students passionate about pursuing be of sustained interest, then the faculty a Program II degree are not deterred.

“I love that Program II gives me the departments will recognize this and decide if they want to incorporate it into their regular option to deeply study what I’m truly offerings and make it a major.” interested in,” said sophomore Evan Bell, Previous examples of common Program who is considering a Program II major.

II areas of study include neuroscience and “Although the application process is a bit architecture. Like global health, both of daunting, I’d rather undergo it than settle these were turned into something students on a major that I’m not passionate about, could study more easily under Program I: simply because it’s there.” a major in the case of neuroscience and a concentration under the art history major in the case of architecture.

Due to the personal nature of the from page 10 program, close relationships with faculty are almost inevitable for students who complete Program II. most in demand by DKU’s international “There’s a kind of intimacy with faculty,” student body.”

Keul said. “There’s no way you could put Along with curricular matters, together a Program II without having expanding the research program will be interaction and conversation with faculty, another priority. A special focus will be and that’s a great thing.” placed on collaboration with scholars Wilson works closely with her Program from partner school Wuhan University other institutions, Dobbins II advisor Dr. Peter Ubel, a professor with and appointments in business, public policy and explained. medicine. She said she hopes to participate In the more immediate future, in research alongside Ph.D. students under DKU will search for a new executive his supervision. vice chancellor to replace outgoing Students who participate in Program II executive vice chancellor Mary Brown must have a high level of motivation and Bullock. The search committee will be intellectual drive to complete the extensive headed by Randall Kramer, professor of application process, which includes a environmental economics and global personal statement and an idea for a senior health and deputy director of the Duke project as well as a list of 15 to 18 courses Global Health Institute. which pertain to a student’s plan of study.

This is the school’s second major “Once it’s done, students are studying administrative change in 2015, as Dobbins what they’ve created for themselves,” Keul replaced Nora Bynum, former vice provost explained. “The intellectual commitment to for DKU and China initiatives, in February. what you’re studying is very profound, and I “We have strong leadership teams in think students really invest because they’re place in Durham and Kunshan, and are working to ensure a smooth transition investing in themselves.”

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Parking rates continue to rise with construction Gautam Hathi The Chronicle The prices of parking permits at Duke have increased recently to support the costs of construction and environmental concerns.

Since the 2010-11 academic year, the price of an annual Blue Zone parking permit has increased by more than 33 percent from $240 to $321, after a period from 2008 to 2012 when prices remained relatively constant. The price of a Blue Zone permit is expected to increase again to $354 during the upcoming year.

This increase has come partially as a result of multi-million dollar projects to renovate parking spaces in the Medical Center and to construct a new parking garage on the corner of Cameron Boulevard and Science Drive, Vice President of Administration Kyle Cavanaugh said. Concerns about the environmental impact of cars have also contributed to the price hikes.

“Increasingly, we’re taking a very comprehensive and strategic view of parking,” Cavanaugh said. “[We’re] balancing a number of different issues, not only the financial aspects of parking, but dealing with issues of accessibility for mobility impaired individuals and also looking at how it fits into our sustainability efforts as well.”

The parking system is financially selfsustaining and does not seek to make a profit, Cavanaugh explained. As a result, all costs for renovations and for construction of new parking garages are paid through permit fees.

Georgia Parke | The Chronicle A high demand for parking spots on campus combined with construction and environmental concerns have caused rates to rise rapidly since 2010-11 after four years of relatively constant permit prices.

“In developing an economic model for parking you have to develop a revenue stream that’s going to cover the expenses,” he said. “If there’s deferred maintenance or potential expansion, all of those costs go into the expense side.”

Some of those expenses include major projects to improve existing parking garages and build new ones. The renovation of Parking Garage II on Erwin Road, which included significant maintenance work and the installation of LED lighting, cost about $9 million, Cavanagh noted. In addition, the

new parking garage being built on Science Drive near the Fuqua School of Business will likely cost more than $50 million.

Cavanaugh said that these costs, along with other maintenance and expansion costs incurred due to rising demand for parking spaces, will be built into permit fees.

But Duke is also considering the environmental impact of having more cars on campus.

The University has been working to reduce the number of cars on campus and has a goal of achieving a five

percent reduction in the number of non-carpool vehicles on campus by 2018, Environmental Sustainability Director Tavey Capps wrote in an email.

“With transportation [greenhouse gas] emissions at 32 percent of our overall carbon footprint, it will take innovative efforts…to influence behavior and drive change on campus,” Capps wrote.

One way the University is hoping to do this is by expanding alternative transportation options both around campus and in Durham. The University is working with the City of Durham to modify the Bull City Connector route so that it is more useful for students and University employees, Cavanaugh said. He added that modifications to campus bus routes and expansions of ride sharing and biking programs could also help to provide transportation options.

The University is also taking environmental concerns into account as it determines prices for parking permits.

Although environmental concerns are not a major driver of permit costs, Cavanaugh noted that Duke does use them as a factor when determining the cost of parking.

“There are those that want us to be more aggressive in our pricing, because there’s at least some thought that pricing is one of the determinants to get people to seriously consider alternative options,” Cavanaugh said.

Rises in parking permit prices have generally not been well received by students, although parking rates at Duke are much lower than at other peer institutions located in more urban settings.

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Social Justice Fellowship set to launch Alex Griffith The Chronicle After a year marked by high-profile racially-charged incidents, the Duke Student Government is planning to collaborate with the Black Student Alliance on several projects during the 2015-16 academic year.

In April, BSA—together with DSG— created a list of demands intended to reduce racism at Duke, including a revamped orientation curriculum, a pre-orientation program for black students and the publication of community safety and bias incident reports, all of which are in the process of being negotiated with administration

through student-led efforts.

After the discovery of a noose on the Bryan Center Plaza, DSG passed a resolution and statute funding a Social Justice Fellowship, which is designed to fund student projects that create spaces for discussion and community engagement.

“The next step is to bring [the committee] together in the Fall to determine where the money will go,” said DSG President Keizra Mecklai, a senior.

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New vendors flock to Ninth Street Adam Beyer The Chronicle Durham’s Ninth Street district will be abuzz with new activity in the coming year.

Several new restaurants and businesses have already opened or will open in the coming months, including a new burger restaurant, a coffee shop and two new Venezuelan eateries. The area will also host a new mixed-use residential and retail development on the north end of the street.

New restaurant Burger Bach—a gastropub serving burgers made from grass-fed beef and lamb imported from New Zealand—opened on Ninth Street in March, making Durham its first North Carolina location.

“Burgers and beer aren’t the best for you, but if you’re going to indulge you might as well have the type we have,” said James Foley, managing director for Burger Bach.

Foley explained that the concept behind the restaurant was to be a getaway—a “bach” is a term for a shack on a beach in New Zealand. This bach, however, is in the Shops at Erwin Mill, next to Panera Bread.

Another new opening is Ninth Street Coffee House and Juice Bar. Located in the space formerly occupied by Bean Traders Coffee and more recently

by Market Street Coffee, the new coffeehouse is the brainchild of New York-based chef Lindsey Williams. It features a renovated interior space with a warm décor and a wide offering of

Georgia Parke | The Chronicle Among the new venues that will open on Ninth Street in the upcoming year include a burger restaurant, coffee shop and two new Venezuelan eateries.

locally-sourced beverages and pastries.

Williams said the store is still in the process of growing its selection of juices. It also sells products from Duke junior Pooja Mehta’s Cupcake Remake business.

Epa Chamo, one of two Venezuelan restaurants new to the area, opened May 30 in the space that previously housed Mitch’s Bar and Grille. The restaurant serves a mix of arepas—a corn-based flatbread filled with meat and vegetables—along with burgers and beverages.

Slated to open this September, the other Venezuelan restaurant is Guasaca. It will be the second location of the popular Raleigh eatery. With a space in the Erwin Square Plaza shopping center, the restaurant will serve customers using a walk-up line that operates similar to that of Chipotle and Moe’s Southwest Grill. Owner Heliangel Mendez explained that the name Guasaca comes from the word for a Venezuelan avocado-based sauce that is a popular item on the menu.

The affordability of the menu has

made the restaurant a particularly sought-after option among students at North Carolina State University, Mendez said. He added that most people are unfamiliar with Venezuelan cuisine, and that it tastes very different from other Latin American styles.

“The best way to describe it is like Thai food and Japanese food,” Mendez said. “Some of the flavors are familiar.”

Student reactions to the new openings have been positive.

“It’s fascinating to see how Ninth Street develops with restaurants coming and going,” sophomore Jun Jun Feng said. “We’re lucky that we get to walk along a street and choose from a diverse spectrum of culinary styles.”

She said she especially enjoyed Burger Bach, which has already become one of her favorite restaurants in the area.

Also coming to Ninth Street is a new apartment complex occupying the property next to Elmo’s Diner.

The Solis Ninth Street apartments are expected to be completed by January 2016, said Elizabeth Alley, regional property manager for Greystar—the real estate management firm also responsible for the Crescent Main Street Apartments and the 300 Swift Apartments in the vicinity.

The 229-unit apartment community will include studios and one and two-bedroom arrangements with access to a pool, game room, conference center, coffee bar and on-site parking deck. Alley noted that the space’s retail tenants would be announced in the coming months.

DUKE – UVA – VANDERBILT PARTNERSHIP FOR LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES Fall 2015 Courses Duke University, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt University are partnering to offer courses in languages not often taught in the Western academic curriculum. Classes are taught to students on all three campuses through telepresence classrooms, and the courses will also count towards the foreign language requirement at the respective universities.

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Tibetan is the language of a vast region at the heart of Asia and is used in China, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, India, Russia, and Mongolia. In addition, Tibet is home to Tibetan Buddhism, which is itself the source of one of the world’s richest contemplative traditions. Learning Tibetan gives students the ability to explore this uniquely rich and diverse culture in today’s Asia, as well as learn about Buddhist philosophy, contemplation, and other forms of knowledge. Tibetan 101 and 203 offered every fall; Tibetan 102 and 204 offered every spring.

K’iche’ is a Mayan language spoken by about a million

Haitian Creole, often called simply Creole or KreyȬl, is a language based largely on 18th Century French, some African languages, as well as languages, such as Arawak, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish, and Taino.

It is spoken in Haiti, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Ivory Coast, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, parts of the United States, and Venezuela.

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people in the western Highlands of Guatemala; it is one of the major indigenous languages in the Americas. The K’iche’ language has played a central role in the Mayan cultural revitalization movement and has a long literary tradition including such works as the Popol Wuuj (Popol Vuh) and Rabinal Achi.

K’iche 101 will be offered every fall; K’iche 102 every spring, with intermediate level courses beginning in 2016.

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Summer study abroad increasingly popular among students Sarah Kerman The Chronicle Summer study abroad programs sponsored by the Global Education Office for Undergraduates are increasingly becoming a part of Duke studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; summer experiences.

The Global Education Office has added new programs in recent yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the newest, which will begin this Summer, is a neuroeconomics program at Duke Kunshan University in China.

The programs have also grown in the number of participating students, having expanded from serving 280 students in 2010 to 383 students in 2014. They vary greatly in their size, focus and goals, Amanda Kelso, GEO executive director and assistant vice provost for undergraduate education, wrote in an email. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each summer has a unique set of programs and world

circumstances, but there appears to be an overall trend of growth,â&#x20AC;? she wrote.

The number of domestic study away programs Duke offers has also increased in recent years, Kelso added. For a long time, Duke in New York was the only domestic program the GEO offered in the summer, but now the offerings have expanded to include Duke in Chicago and Duke in Silicon Valley. In the future, a Duke in Alaska program affiliated with the biology department may be offered.

Although the smaller programs may have 10 to 20 students, Duke in Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of the largestâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;typically has more than 40. Kelso explained that determining which programs are most popular can sometimes be difficult. Smaller programs may attract as much student interest as larger programs, but are simply limited by size constraints.

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Sarah Russell, director of academic engagement in global and civic opportunities, said she helps students think through some of the options they have when selecting summer programs and decide how they can integrate their experience into their other coursework at Duke. â&#x20AC;&#x153;While we encourage [studying abroad], we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily say everybody has to do it,â&#x20AC;? Russell said.

Summer study away options can be great alternatives for students who cannot fit in a semester abroad due to a heavy courseload, Russell explained. Other reasons students are attracted to the summer programs include the opportunity to complete a Trinity requirement, an opportunity to travel without missing an entire semester at Duke and short-term language immersion, she said. Russell also noted that summer study abroad programs can be a great option for underclassmen who have not yet declared their majors. When students study abroad during the school year, they usually must take at least one or two courses for their major.

Carina Arellano, a junior who participated in Duke in Oxford in Summer 2014, said the classes she took through the program fulfilled some graduation requirements, and although they were not for her major, the classes were still valuable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being able to discuss hot-button issues like drones, a just war or the ethics of eating meat with my professor and classmates made it easier to defend a position and more difficult to not see the devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advocateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s position,â&#x20AC;? she wrote in an email.

Several students who participated in summer study abroad programs in 2014 noted that although they were taking classes in a different university with different professors, the majority of their time abroad was still spent with Duke students. This has contributed to a somewhat negative perception of the programs, students admitted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes study abroad becomes groups of Americans partying in other countries,â&#x20AC;? said Zach Heater, a junior who participated in Duke in Oxford in Summer 2014.

Heater said that although his courseload in Oxford was fairly demanding, he would describe it as equal parts academic and fun.

Elizabeth George, a junior who participated in Duke in Turkey in Summer 2014, said she chose the program because it was outside her comfort zone.

Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;who said she had little experience with Turkish before the programâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;explained that although the students attended frequent â&#x20AC;&#x153;survival Turkishâ&#x20AC;? language lessons, cultural immersion and communication still proved difficult. In addition to the language barrier, Duke students in the program only took classes made up of other Duke students and stayed in international wings of the dormitories together.

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TOGETHER, WE CAN STOP SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AT DUKE. Jane, Christine, and Marisa go out to a party together after pre-gaming at Christine’s place. Jane had about 3 shots on an empty stomach and is interested in Brian, who has also shown signs he likes her. At the party, Brian offers Jane a few drinks, which she readily accepts, and they head to the dance floor together.

Christine and Marisa are making their own drinks and lose track of Jane. When they finally catch up with Jane, they notice she’s fairly intoxicated and Brian is making out with her. She seems uncomfortable with where his hands are on her body.

Christine distracts Jane by telling her their friend who’s abroad is FaceTiming with her and wants to see Jane. Christine uses this as an excuse to pull Jane away from Brian and ask how she feels about what’s going on. Jane tells Christine and Marisa that while she likes Brian, she doesn’t want to be going that far and asks them to take her home.

Sandi and Aimee have been dating for two years and have been open on campus about their relationship.

They live in different apartments on Central Campus but are both Biology majors, so they often meet up at the bus stop to get to class. When Sandi gets to the bus stop one day, she kisses Aimee and gives her a hug.

Colin, who doesn’t know either of them, mutters under his breath “Disgusting!” Aimee hears Colin but doesn’t say anything. When the bus comes, Aimee and Sandi find seats together and hold hands during the ride.

Colin laughs to himself and says loudly to his friend Brad, who is standing next to him, “Lesbians make me sick. Why waste a perfectly hot body like that one on another girl? Hey sweetie, you’ve probably never had a good experience with a guy. Let me show you what you’re missing!” Brad turns to Colin and says, “Colin, that’s enough. Your language is inappropriate and unwelcome here. Keep your thoughts to yourself.”

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‘Open door’ alcohol policy unlikely at Duke that he hopes will facilitate the safer use of alcohol on campus. consumption and create an atmosphere of trust among “When I talk to alumni, they tell me Duke is not the same students and residential staff. But the University has not been campus as it was five years ago,” he said. “We don’t have an receptive to such a change despite input given by students.

The Chronicle open drinking culture as a campus, and that’s not healthy.”

“If you know that people are going to drink anyway, there’s really no benefit from asking them to conceal it,” sophomore Duke administrators stand by the University’s alcohol The “open door” Ismail Aijazuddin said. “I think if anything that could lead to policies even as students suggest they have created a less open Duke’s stated alcohol policy diverges from that of its peer more risks, like if someone is incapacitated but [doesn’t] want environment on campus. institutions. Washington University in St. Louis, for example, to show people they’re not feeling well, so it’s probably safer Duke’s alcohol policy explicitly prohibits students under states in its policy that it “places its highest enforcement to have an open door policy.”

21 from purchasing, possessing or otherwise consuming priority on enforcing violations that are disruptive, dangerous Although Dinner noted that an open-door policy is ideal, alcohol, as is consistent with North Carolina law. Serving hard and/or flagrant,” phrasing not found in Duke’s policy. he indicated that next year DSG is going to change its tact alcohol is also not permitted at student events. In recent years, Similarly, Stanford University uses an “open-door policy,” given that the administration has not been receptive to students have expressed concern that these policies push wherein students won’t face disciplinary action for drinking officially adopting such a policy. parties and alcohol off campus—potentially leading to unsafe in their rooms with their doors open to residential staff that Although Duke’s written policies are unlikely to change, environments and high-risk behavior. can intervene if safety becomes an issue. they are in fact very similar to those used by Stanford Senior Bryan Dinner, Duke Student Government vice Dinner said DSG has consistently advocated for policies and Washington University, said Sue Wasiolek, associate president for social culture, said he plans to work with the like Stanford’s—which he believes has the potential to defeat vice president for student affairs and dean of students. administration this year to create a more open atmosphere unrealistic drinking expectations, discourage hard alcohol Wasiolek explained that the similarities are due to the fact that Duke also places more of an emphasis on high-risk alcohol consumption.

She added, however, that changing Duke’s written alcohol policy would be dangerous for the students.

“Students would believe there would be no engagement with them unless it was a serious abuse,” Wasiolek said. “We would feel irresponsible if we didn’t address every violation because we want staff to have the opportunity to talk with students about alcohol consumption and any concerns they might have.”

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Ariel Dorfman “Let’s resurrect the on-campus party instead of closed off-campus parties that have forced Duke to backtrack on years of progress with our Durham neighbors,” Dinner wrote in an email.

Wasiolek cautioned against assuming students will flock off-campus in response to Duke’s alcohol policy or UCAE rules.

“If students choose to go off campus, the law follows them,” she said.

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Student engagement a top priority for Mecklai, Guarco Alex Griffith The Chronicle Incoming Duke Student Government President Keizra Mecklai and Executive Vice President John Guarco are looking forward to engaging the general student body in campus projects this Fall.

Mecklai, a senior, and Guarco, a junior, take the seats of outgoing President Lavanya Sunder and Executive Vice President Abhi Sanka, both seniors. Mecklai ran on a platform founded on her previous role as vice president of equity and outreach, but also plans to focus on general student body involvement with DSG. “I’m really excited to use my role as president and to help my executive board make their committees as well-functioning as possible,” Mecklai said. “We also want to make sure we keep transparency of student interests in mind.”

The lack of interest in DSG among the general student body is a challenge faced by the new Senate, both Mecklai and Guarco noted.

The voter turnout was much lower this March compared to recent years.

In 2014, 58 percent of the student body voted in the presidential election, but only about 30 percent of the student body did in 2015. The vice presidential election saw a 36 percent voter turnout, and class officer elections drew only 23 percent. Outside of DSG, only 38 percent of students submitted ballots in February’s Young Trustee election, a large decrease from the 53 percent that did so last year.

Guarco and Mecklai have several ideas to increase interaction between DSG and students.

“One idea that we have to connect the executive board with senators is creating DSG representatives to go to residential houses and connect to first-years,” Guarco said. “This is an idea Keizra and I discussed during a meeting with the Duke Political Union to increase transparency.”

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Guarco—who presides over DSG Senate meetings and serves as a resource for senators—also noted that DSG will try to reach out to students directly even before asking for their input on which projects they want to see prioritized.

“We’re also considering creating an idea board outside of the DSG office and Marketplace so students can input their ideas for what they want DSG to do,” Guarco said. “Hopefully those ideas can be transferred to senators so we can have a more efficient environment for creating policy.”

Other issues brought up frequently in last year’s Senate included poor attendance by some senators.

Attendance was also a key issue in a recent DSG vote to restructure and reduce the size of the Senate, though the proposal did not pass.

“I plan on reintroducing some bylaw changes which include some stricter attendance rules to make sure Graphic by Gautam Hathi | The Chronicle senators are kept accountable for their attendance and their service to campaign, Mecklai added that she plans students,” Guarco said. to engage students in ranking various Guarco also mentioned an idea which DSG projects in order of importance. would further increase collaboration “The biggest difference will just between DSG and the study body—a be making sure that everything is program he called “pitch-a-proposal.” grounded in student interests, so “The basic idea is that we’re creating spending a lot of our time thinking a fund for innovative projects that will about what students’ priorities are,” act as a social entrepreneurship fund Mecklai said. “I’m excited about for students who have ideas to improve trying to bring together house council campus through whatever means, and presidents in the Fall to get them to we’ll subsidize whichever ideas we think about and maybe rank potential think are the best,” he explained.

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Fall 2015 Move-In Schedule Upperclass Students Residence Hall and Apartment check-in is decentralized. You will check in and pick up keys in your Quad or at the Central office. Keys will be issued ONLY to the assigned resident. Please have your DukeCard or valid state ID ready.

No early arrivals will be permitted unless prior approval is granted.

Check-in Times: West Campus (Friday, August 21 - Sunday, August 23)

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CAPS looks to address challenges in 2015-16 Aleena Karediya The Chronicle With mental health an increasing focus on college campuses nationwide, the University aims to augment overall support in the coming year and address Duke-specific challenges.

In the year leading up to a Spring 2013 survey by the the American College Health Association, more than half of college students nationally said they have experienced “overwhelming anxiety,” and 31 percent reported that they had felt “so depressed it was difficult to function.” Approximately seven percent reported that they had seriously considered suicide.

At Duke, a number of traumatic events in the past year—including the deaths of two students on the same day, the shootings of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill and, most recently, the hanging of a noose in the Bryan Center—highlighted the importance of paying attention to mental health.

Counseling and Psychological Services at Duke aims to improve students’ access to their services in the upcoming year, and to decrease stigmas against seeking help, said Gary Glass, CAPS associate director for outreach and developmental programming. He noted that CAPS is actively working in conjunction with student groups to mitigate issues as effectively as possible for the 2015-16 academic year.

“Some of the challenges that CAPS faced this past year were also great opportunities,” Glass said. “In all this, CAPS recognized the importance of accountability, as we offered support and pledged ongoing commitment to supporting all of our students.”

Sophie Turner | Chronicle File Photo After providing support for students following some of the traumatic events of the 2014-15 academic year, CAPS is looking to reach students even more effectively in 2015-16.

Reaching out to the community Some of last year’s greatest challenges for CAPS included issues of racism on campus and across the country, violent conflicts around the world and natural disasters and tragedies, such as the recent earthquake in Nepal, Glass said.

The first step in the event of any communal issue is to describe to students the various CAPS services available to them, he noted.

“We will continue taking steps to describe the wide range of services we provide, from counseling sessions, group therapy and medication management to various workshops, programs and training sessions,” he said.

Of these steps, Glass highlighted the importance of discussion sessions to help students explore cultural and racial identities.

Last year saw several of these sessions in the wake of the Chapel Hill shootings and the reversal of the decision to broadcast the Muslim call-to-prayer from the Chapel.

In keeping with the spirit of group support, group counseling opportunities were promoted by CAPS in the past year and were tremendously successful, Glass said.

These type of services were less specific to any individual event, but more geared toward the overall well-being and safe environment for students on campus.

Ongoing concerns Glass noted that ease of access to CAPS services—particular one-on-one appointments—is an ongoing issue.

The number of students seen by CAPS staff has increased by more than 50 percent in the last 10 years—with a rise of more than 10 percent in the last four academic years, The Chronicle reported in 2014.

This increase in the number of students using CAPS services might contribute to a delay between a student’s first call to CAPS and their first appointment. For several years, there was an average wait of about nine days, but that wait time dropped to four days this past year, Glass said. He noted that improvements in this area can still be made.

Additionally, Glass acknowledged the need for CAPS to refer students to offcampus facilities if their problems need more immediate attention. The Student Blue insurance plan offered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina offers mental health coverage, but students often perceive a referral to an off-campus provider as too inconvenient, Glass said. In coming years, CAPS will aim to bridge the gap between on-campus resources and resources across Durham.

Aside from administrative changes, both faculty and student group leaders agree that more subtle changes need to be made in the culture and attitude surrounding mental health around campus.

“The biggest challenge is still to normalize the idea of struggling,” said senior Isabella Kwai, co-president of Peer for You. “We still haven’t reached a point where people are comfortable talking about the ways we truly See CAPS on Page 17

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James B. Duke Professor posts controversial comment on New York Times editorial Jerry Hough, James B. Duke professor of political science, made a controversial comment on a New York Times editorial about the isolation of the black community in Baltimore causing the riots sparked by Freddie Gray’s death May 10. Hough, who has been a professor at the University since 1963, cited his experiences as a professor in claiming that Asians have been more successful at integrating into American society because “the blacks...feel sorry for themselves” as the result of similar editorials and have a “lack of desire for integration.”

“Every Asian student has a very simple old American first name that symbolizes their desire for integration. Virtually every black has a strange new name that symbolizes their lack of desire for integration,” one portion of Hough’s comment read.

Hough’s post sparked dialogue across the student body and made national headlines. Many media outlets incorrectly reported that Hough was placed on leave following the comment when in fact he voluntarily took academic leave before the 2014-15 academic year. In addition to starting discussions about the words he chose to use, Hough also prompted discussion among faculty about how faculty Chronicle File Photo should cite student experiences when student Bradford Perez—who worked crafting an argument. in Potti’s lab and raised concerns about University settles lawsuit related to possible misconduct involving the data used in Potti’s research in 2008. discredited Potti cancer research Following the settlement, a scientific Retraction Watch—a blog that covers scientific misconduct and retractions—first misconduct expert spoke with The Cancer reported May 1 that Duke had settled a Letter about why the University still owes lawsuit involving the families of eight patients information to “patients, the research who were treated in clinical trials based on community and to its medical professionals, the discredited cancer researcher’s work, students and faculty.” A former patient meaning that there are no further claims involved with the trials spoke with The related to the fraudulent trials that treated Cancer Letter about her experience.

“They were going to look at the DNA hundreds of patients. Potti’s research was based on a finding that he claimed allowed of my tumor, and from that Duke and Dr. him to link a patient’s specific cancer to the Potti would be able to tell which chemo most effective chemotherapy drug using was correct for my type of cancer. They were saying that with this treatment, these gene-based models.

The Institute of Medicine documented tumors—they used the words—‘would just several issues with Duke’s handling of melt away,’” the patient, Joyce Shoffner, the complicated case in a 2012 report, said. and the national cancer publication The Cancer Letter reported in January that UNC chemistry department chair Valerie Duke professors and deans allegedly tried Ashby named next Trinity Dean to quiet a whistleblower—former medical President Richard Brodhead and

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Ashby—a national consultant and advisor to the National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health diversity programs—is known for her passion for increasing diversity in higher education.

“Valerie Ashby is a star, and we are fortunate to get her to Duke,” Michael Schoenfeld, vice presdent for public affairs and government relations said. “I am very excited for the future of Trinity.”

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Ariely, James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics, has dedicated his life’s work to the study of rational and irrational decisionmaking. His research group, the Center for Advanced Hindsight, conducts retrospective research in fields such as health marketing, dating behavior and incentive systems. Ariely uses his research to help companies and nonprofits incorporate the insights of behavioral

economics into their business models. In the film, he documents his recent systematic study of how people deceive both themselves and others.

“In standard economics, people are depicted as being all capable—they know what they want and they can compute everything,” Ariely said. “In behavioral economics, we find that people don’t always behave in a perfectly rational way, so we need to start describing people in different ways.”

Ariely was motivated to study the kinds of deception he discusses in the film after observing fallacies in his own life. While taking an intelligence test in a magazine, he realized that when he looked at the key for the answer to one question, he was glancing at other answers, which made the rest of the test easier.

“I came out as an unbelievable genius, but I began to wonder how much I was deluding myself,” he said.

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After running multiple experiments related to this idea, Ariely observed that different “fudge factors”—such as a lack of supervision, the idea of lying for others, believing that cheating is socially acceptable and other conflicts of interest—can lead normally honest people to rationalize improper and deceptive behavior.

In the film, he documents these experiments along with candid interviews of normal people, ranging from former NBA referee Tim Donaghy—who was arrested for gambling on games he officiated—to Kelley Williams-Bolar, who lied about her home address so her kids could go to a better school and eventually went to jail for it.

The anecdotes and experiments in the film are critical to Ariely’s message that lying is not a hallmark of “bad people” but rather a natural part of being human.

“It’s easy to point at a few bad people and say that these people are the ones causing all of the problems,” he said. “In my experiments, this was not the case.

Instead of having some big cheaters, we had lots and lots of little cheaters.”

In addition to numerous examples of how otherwise honest people can be dishonest, the film depicts experiments that show it is possible to change incentives to prevent cheating.

In one experiment, Ariely had students sign an honor code before taking a test and found that simply reminding them of their own morality curbed cheating, whereas signing the honor code weeks or months prior to the test had no effect.

Ariely’s fascination with irrational behavior stems from his experiences being treated for burns from a magnesium fire explosion at age 18. While in the hospital, he often sparred with his nurses on how best to remove his numerous bandages—Ariely thought that a slow removal was less painful, but his nurses were trained to remove the bandages quickly.

He went on to test this hypothesis by taking off bandages slowly as a part-time student at Tel Aviv University, eventually proving that he had been right.

“It made me think of how people with good intentions sometimes act on their intuition and as a result don’t act in the absolutely ideal way,” Ariely said.

Since then, he has published numerous bestsellers such as “Predictably Irrational” and “The Upside of Irrationality,” in which he explores behavioral anomalies such as how financial bonuses lessen performance and how people will purchase “free” items despite not actually wanting them in the first place.

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The leaky pipeline Women earn 41 percent of Ph.D.’s in STEM fields, but make up only 28 percent of tenure-track faculty in those fields, according to a 2013 report by the White House, which has made increasing the representation of women and girls in STEM fields a priority.

This decreasing presence of women in higher levels of academia—often called “the leaky pipeline”—makes recruiting women in STEM a challenge, said Lindsey Glickfeld, assistant professor of neurobiology in the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.

Glickfeld said that having been on several search committees, she knows that recruiting women is a “high priority.” But she noted that of the applications the committees typically received, as few as 30 percent were from women.

The question of how to maintain women’s presence in STEM fields is not a new one, Alberts said, also noting that the problem does not have a simple solution.

“The question is where and why is the pipeline leaking,” Alberts said. “It’s the million dollar question here.”

Social constructs Childbearing, maternity leave and family commitments are among the top concerns women have when considering whether they want to pursue a tenured faculty position in science, Alberts said.

She noted that such a position limits one’s ability to take care of parents and grandparents or spend time with children.

“There is just isn’t enough flexibility in academia to be a stay-home parent for a couple of years,” she said.

Alberts said, though, that some of these limitations and restrictions come from societal expectations for women—noting that society still expects women to be the primary person focused on domestic duties.

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Female professors in the natural science and engineering departments at Duke represent 15 and 21 percent of faculty—figures on par with peer institutions. The most recent reports available indicate that women in the engineering schools at Harvard and Stanford, for example, make up 20.8 and 15 percent of tenure-track faculty, respectively.

Partially as a result of their underrepresentation in science, engineering and business departments— which tend to pay more—the average female tenure track professor at Duke is paid $34,532 less than the average male tenure track professor over the course of a nine-month contract, The Chronicle reported last month. This gender gap can be explained in part by social constructs and public conceptions of the academic world, Duke professors say.

“I remember when I first started my faculty position at Duke,” biology professor Susan Alberts said.

“There were so many female young graduate students knocking on my door, and the question that they had was; ‘Is it possible to have a top academic position at a top research institution, and have a family?’

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For future improvement Faculty gender diversity has improved markedly in the past 15 years, Alberts noted, but improvements can still be made. Instead of having parental leave and tenure clock relief being optional, for example, she suggested that Duke should make them mandatory.

Currently, Duke grants all faculty one semester of paternal and maternal leave with pay. For female faculty on the tenure track, the tenure clock relief allows a temporary delay of the research process. “[These optional policies] give some people the chance to say, ‘Oh well, she chose to stop or quit,’” Alberts said. “These structural things place female faculty in a dilemma.”

Alberts and Glickfeld both emphasized the importance of role-models in encouraging more females to go into academia.

“This is the critical mass problem,” Alberts said.

“You have to have enough people who are taking on the role you are taking on, doing it, for you to say for yourself: ‘Oh, I can do that!’”

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feel stressed, anxious and inadequate.”

Kwai emphasized that problems of campus culture were better handled by peer groups instead of services offered by campus, since peer groups have an inside view into less tangible problems.

“Student groups will always have an edge that University groups don’t, because they begin organically,” Kwai said. “Their very existence is to address a need that administrators may not always be aware of, simply because they don’t have to undergo what Duke students do everyday.”

Students’ unwillingness to seek help and the stigmatization of mental health problems are not unique to Duke. Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, said such problems seem to be a common denominator among peer institutions, and the solution to these problems is a work in progress.

“We will continue to encourage students to take care of themselves and each other and one of the best ways they can do this is to take advantage of all the resources available to them,” she said.

Wasiolek mentioned Duke’s solidarity with colleges such as Tulane University, the College of William & Mary and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have dealt with spikes in suicide rates over the past school year. She said that students at these schools are not alone in their struggles, and stressed that Duke’s community was in and of itself a valuable resource.

“Whether it’s talking to a friend, an RA, a faculty advisor or a CAPS counselor, students should recognize that they are not alone but are instead part of a caring community with vast resources,” Wasiolek said.

Joel Luther, Trinity ‘15, expressed frustration that undergraduate students parking on campus are often asked to move their cars or park further away even though they are paying more for a permit each year.

“If there’s something that happens and someone needs to be displaced, undergraduates are the first to go,” he said.

A number of students also expressed concerns that increases in parking prices may disproportionately impact students on financial aid, which does not cover the cost of a parking permit.

Senior Luke Maier noted that not being able to park can cut lower income students off from opportunities that having a car provides.

“Last semester, I would not have been able to work at my lab (located offcampus) without a car,” Maier wrote in an email. “Raising parking prices closes these opportunities to students who are already at the edge of their financial envelope.”

Luther noted that working off campus became increasingly difficult for him as parking prices rose.

“For students like me who come from less privileged backgrounds who want to have that opportunity to work, it’s becoming increasingly difficult because parking prices continue to rise,” he said.

Cavanaugh argued that the concerns of financial aid students are not all that different from those of other students when it comes to parking costs.

“I think it’s no different than the general uncomfortableness of anyone paying for parking,” he said.

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Unsettled in wake of Potti settlement It was announced early last month that the 2011 lawsuit regarding former University cancer researcher Anil Potti had been settled with undisclosed terms. Between 2006 and 2010, 127 cancer patients participated in Potti’s three clinical trials based on invalid medical research, some receiving inappropriate chemotherapy treatments. The Editorial Board called five years ago for greater transparency from Duke’s administration, and today even more questions remain unanswered, raised by news of a whistleblower quieted early in the case as well as the Institute of Medicine’s external review about how other challenges to Potti’s work were badly mishandled by School of Medicine professors and administrators.

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headed off exposure of Perez’s reservations in 2010 in since released emails and stated oddly that researchers from Potti’s lab came forward only after the University’s investigation, though Perez had come forward in 2008.

Though Duke made moves in 2011 towards a culture of “dissent and discussion” to increase faith in the whistleblowing system, that was before the Institute of Medicine’s 2012 report and well before this year’s news of Perez and his treatment.

The move needed now is an explanation of how those party to these ethical breaches and cover-up were held accountable by the University, if at all, for allowing these oversight and integrity failures.

Rather reasonably, scientific misconduct expert C.K. Gunsalus asserts that “Duke owes information and actions to its patients, the research community and to its medical professionals, students and faculty.”

The administration’s silence began in 2011 because it would not comment on pending litigation. Now, that silence continues for the terms of the suit settlement per those same terms and also unfortunately extends to silence on the whole issue, including Perez’s whistleblowing. We believe the reputation of Duke’s School of Medicine demands public statements from administration to clear the haze around their handling of Potti’s case, but commentary has yet to be given for students, professors and researchers to understand how the lessons from this case are being applied to prevent such individual and systemic oversight failures in the future.

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rect treatment. After an internal University investigation and a report from The Cancer Letter—a national cancer research publication—that Potti’s resume contained false credentials, the clinical trials were terminated in 2010. Potti also retracted more than 10 papers and resigned from positions in the School of Medicine and now disbanded Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

Though the lawsuit has been settled for the families of several patients, the 2012 Institute of Medicine’s investigation of the case badly indicts Duke’s handling of Potti’s research. Their report explains how several levels of oversight like the Institutional Review Board were ineffective or purposefully weakened and ignored by professors and administrators in processing concerns about Potti’s research. For example, former vice dean for research at the School of Medicine and current provost Sally Kornbluth was not made aware of the conflicts of interests of researchers with conspicuous patents and financial investments in the lab’s research. Additionally, Potti’s research mentor Joseph Nevins was allowed by University leadership to withhold the Baggerly and Coombes report that highlighted problems with the lab’s research from external reviewers in addition to other meddling.

But more alarming than these failures is the alleged cover-up where Duke administrators and professors quieted whistleblower Bradford Perez—a third-year medical student in Potti’s lab— who came forward in early 2008 with grave and quantified doubts about the lab’s work. Perez had prepared a document titled “Research Concerns” but was told by Nevins that moving forward could make future funding difficult and prompt a difficult internal investigation. Further, Kornbluth

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Lily Coad EDITOR’S NOTE There were boxes and garbage bags and, finally, an empty dorm room. I knew that leaving campus for the summer would be bittersweet.

There was so much to look forward to, but also so much to say goodbye to. As I buckled my seatbelt and exited the gates of East Campus, I reflected on my freshman year—experiences I’d had, people I’d met, and places I’d seen.

Thoughts of The Chronicle inevitably filled my mind. More than any dorm room, group study, or booth at Vine, The Chronicle became my home away from home. My friends knew that if I wasn’t sleeping or studying, I was most likely at The Chronicle office.

I thought about weekly meetings, the graduating seniors I would miss, hanging out at the office just for fun, and the photos I had taken over the course of the year. Nostalgia followed the realization that I would be leaving my “home away from home” until the end of August.

My commitment to The Chronicle began even before I stepped foot on campus for OWeek. In my innocent, pfrosh days when I still read every Facebook post in every Duke group that exists, I came across one that inspired me to join The Chronicle staff. As soon as possible, I began attending info sessions and volunteering for assignments, excited to truly feel like I was part of something so soon.

Throughout the year, my work for The

sitting in on interesting panel discussions and being close enough to touch Coach K. The events I attended opened my mind to affairs on campus and in Durham, all while indulging my love of photography. Working for the paper all year seemed like a privilege and the best possible way to be a Duke student in a way that felt meaningful.

I strongly encourage anyone who has any interest in photography, writing, or campus in general to join The Chronicle family. Immediately, I found the photo department to be welcoming, supportive, and an incredible learning experience. I have worked alongside fellow students who became mentors and friends, some with an impressive photography background and some with no experience at all.

The Chronicle has taught me the importance of true commitment, even on late nights spent refilling ABP iced coffee too many times while editing photos for the next day’s paper. I have always welcomed responsibility as a way to deepen my connection to The Chronicle and to show my appreciation for everything that I feel I have gained through my involvement.

I am grateful to have found a home away from home at The Chronicle and eagerly await the next three years.

Lily Coad is a Trinity sophomore and Sports Photography Editor for The Chronicle.

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ear Readers, In August 2013, The Chronicle started one of the most important transition periods in its 110-year history when it cut a day of print and committed to more of a digitally-focused model. Almost two years later, we find ourselves still making adjustments to our production process, including not printing each week this summer and working on the latest redesign of our website.

But despite the numerous changes in media that have caused the number of followers on our main Twitter account to exceed the number of papers we print four times each week, our purpose in 301 Flowers is still the same—to serve as the University’s independent watchdog and add to the conversations happening on campus.

which most Cameron Crazies will remember as the time Duke basketball won its fifth national title. Our various departments worked together to produce two special print editions, 30 stories online and countless photos and social media posts in less than 48 hours.

We told the stories you would expect, and some you wouldn’t, including a columnist reminding readers about the noose incident that sent shockwaves through campus just days earlier, a blog post detailing the Twitter war between the official Duke and Wisconsin Twitter accounts before tipoff and a historical look into the national title game even the most die-hard college basketball fans could appreciate.

Rather than being on opposite ends of the spectrum, our print and digital products complemented each other like Tyus Jones and Jahlil Okafor on the pick-and-roll—I

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The editorial page within any newspaper has always been a peculiar creature. Ultimately, of course, the mission of the editorial page, like the rest the paper, is to inform readers, but the editorial page carries the additional, unique task of putting forth forceful arguments intended to persuade and provoke discussion. While the rest of The Chronicle seeks to be as objective and impartial as possible in its delivery of information, the editorial page is unabashedly opinionated. Consequently, in order to distinguish the editorial page from the rest of the paper and to symbolically note its special status as an influencer in addition to an informer, the editorial page runs in the back page of the newspaper.

However, despite its location, the editorial page is frequently the first place a reader turns to when picking up a copy of The

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Although many people think that the shift away from traditional print journalism has hurt college newspapers like The Chronicle, the change is also the reason now is as exciting a time as ever to be a part of our conversations. With the proliferation of digital forms of media, we now have more ways to start conversations that extend well beyond the boundaries set by the cranes transforming each edge of campus.

In addition to delivering content to our audience through our regular print editions and special supplements throughout the academic year, the number of people that access our content on mobile devices, Twitter and Facebook continues to grow. And rather than letting the preferences of our audience lead to a decline in popularity, we want to embrace these changes and turn them into a new formula for long-term success— but we need your help.

Just like it is our job to hold the various actors on campus accountable, you have the opportunity to give us your feedback and impact the narratives we tell in the upcoming year. So as you digest our latest content on our website, email newsletter, @DukeChronicle, @chroniclesports, @dukebasketball, and our Duke Chronicle Facebook page, send us your feedback and hold us accountable. For those who prefer keeping up with the news with our print products, use Issuu to keep track of our latest work before or after you pick them up on stands Monday through Thursday.

Feel free to ask us questions and pick the brains of our reporters using features like #AskChron—odds are one of our beat writers will be able to help you understand whatever you’re curious about. When you have more thoughts on our work or the pressing issues on campus, submit guest columns or Letters to the Editor.

Perhaps most importantly, help us craft the stories you want told by pitching us your ideas about the latest storylines and people impacting Duke you think are important.

But if you really want to leave your mark on campus dialogue, join our ever-evolving staff and see for yourself why in addition to presenting more challenges, being a journalist in this day and age also gives you much more freedom and can be much more fun as a result.

Take the two days April 6 and April 7, for example,

was a sports reporter for two years, I couldn’t help myself—showing why now more than ever we really can offer everyone an opportunity through The Chronicle.

Our News and Sports departments have been the staples of our organization and likely will be for years to come, with reporters scouring campus each day to bring you the latest activity inside the Allen Building and Cameron Indoor Stadium. But these departments are still growing and can offer even more with lighter content like stories about David Rubenstein—chair of the Board of Trustees—rapping and Okafor playing basketball with a dog.

The Opinion section gives columnists across campus the chance to express their thoughts in print and online—even through less traditional outlets like videos— and houses our independent Editorial Board, which consists of a small cross-section of the student body and writes on its latest discussions.

A growing staff of contributing photographers continues to improve, telling stories without uttering a single word and highlighting the most dynamic parts of our print and online products.

Our Recess section provides a unique look into the arts, exploring the local arts scene in Durham and on campus while utilizing new content like film, music and TV show reviews to appeal to its audience.

Towerview, our monthly magazine, uses long-form pieces to analyze Duke using a different lens—the result is in-depth story-telling on topics like the University’s favorite drug dealer that gives writers more words to work with than some Writing 101 classes.

Haven’t heard anything that appeals to you yet?

That’s okay, because we have expanding graphic design, layout, social media and video teams that are also ready for some new faces—no experience necessary.

So whether you’re an incoming freshman looking to find a passion or a confused upperclassman wondering why all this construction is happening at the same time, consider becoming part of our team—you might find a conversation that makes you stick around.

Amrith Ramkumar is a Trinity junior and Editor-in-Chief of The Chronicle. You can reach him at ar299@duke.edu or more than likely in The Chronicle office—301 Flowers.

Chronicle, and for good reason, too. The editorial page is the nexus of campus dialogue both as an originator of heated, passionate debate and as an open forum for the continuation of conversation through Letters to the Editor or guest columns.

Under my editorship this coming year, I wish to see the editorial page be a lively marketplace for the exchange of ideas, with daily contributions from a diverse swath of student viewpoints. Hopefully, the editorial page will expose the student body and the Duke community at large to a multitude of opinions, compelling every reader to reflect on his or her own ideas, values and convictions. In service to that mission and as the word “newspaper” suggests, I will encourage editorial page authors to engage with the news—new things happening at Duke, the United States, the world—whether that be politics, social initiatives, race relations or whatever else. I will endeavor for every single editorial page published under my leadership to be a study in the art of persuasion, the force of argument and the skillful exercise of rhetoric.

Every day, the editorial page features columns, an editorial and any Letters to the Editor or guest columns that we may receive. Columns are written by student authors and solely reflect each author’s own views. I, as the Editorial Page Editor, play no role in the substantive formation of columns—the content, message, argument, internal logic or otherwise. I serve only to provide guidance when called upon and to edit. My restrained role is self-imposed and by design. In order to promote an editorial page where all speech and viewpoints are welcome and, in fact, encouraged, I act only as an umpire, not a pitcher or batter. In addition to columns, the daily editorial offers readers the considered, collective opinion of the independent Editorial Board of The Chronicle, of which I am a non-voting member.

This upcoming fall semester will feature a lineup of 29 excellent columnists. Our writers range from Trinity to Pratt, undergraduate to graduate, President of IFC to President of Divest Duke, livelong North Carolinians to international students and across almost every other conceivable demographic categorization. It is my absolute pleasure and humble privilege to oversee such a brilliant selection of writers, and I hope that you, our valued reader, will enjoy perusing the editorial page this year.

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“90 percent of our time was spent with each other,” George said.

Arellano said she appreciated the opportunity to interact with Duke students whom she normally would not have crossed paths with.

Junior Cassie Yuan, who participated in Duke in Singapore in Summer 2014, said she felt the fact that most interactions were with other Duke students was one of the program’s downsides.

“Our class was half-Duke, half-[National University of Singapore], but it was a pity that all the NUS students lived far from the campus so most of them went home as soon as the day was over,” Yuan said. “I really wish that we had had spent more time together. The division of my time was expected, but again, I wish I had given more effort to get to know the Singaporean students better.”

Kelso noted that not every summer program has cultural immersion as a goal, but if students are looking for that aspect of an experience, they must be prepared to personally put forth effort to get it.

“If cultural immersion is a goal, students should keep that in mind when choosing a program, and should constantly seek out immersive experiences once abroad,” Kelso wrote. “A study abroad program can only do so much to immerse you in culture and language—you have to be willing to engage your surroundings if you want maximum benefit.”

The University strives to ensure that students’ desires to study abroad during the Summer are not limited by cost.

“Students may receive institutional financial aid for up to two summer terms, including summer Duke-In Global Education programs,” according to the Duke Financial Aid website.

center. Rebecca Kelley, another research associate, provided a recent example in which the center worked with a nonprofit to improve nutrition in Uganda by introducing new nutrient-enriched food into African diets.

“The necessary conditions for really clean academic study can’t be met by many organizations looking for our help,” Beasley said. “That doesn’t mean they can’t benefit from the insights of behavioral economics.”

Ariely said he is hopeful that his research can help behavioral economists like himself design a more honest world.

“If we understand how people fall prey to these fudge factors, then we can try and eliminate them as much as possible,” Ariely said.

Chronicle File Photo Dan Ariely’s research group, the Center for Advanced Hindsight, conducts research in fields such as health marketing, dating behavior and incentive systems.

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In addition to the Social Justice Fellowship, BSA’s other demands have moved forward as well.

Mecklai explained that in order for the pre-orientation program to come to fruition, progress would have to be student-initiated rather than administration-driven.

“The next step with the preorientation program is not a yay or nay from the administration,” she said. “The next step is to get students from BSA and other interested parties to put together a proposal and present it to the Office of New Student Programs.”

That process—as well as a plan to revamp the orientation curriculum— are already underway, said BSA President Henry Washington, a junior.

“I’ve had several meetings with Jordan Hale, the director of [new student programs], and he has committed himself to making orientation a space where cultural competency can be facilitated,” Washington said. “He has invited me to be a part of that conversation.”

Washington noted, however, that BSA will not be solely responsible for the creation of the curriculum.

“There’s a lot of responsibility which is going to be placed on groups like the BSA, but we’re students and

an independent organization which has its own agenda,” Washington said.

“I don’t envision a BSA which has to plan all the orientation programming around cultural competency.”

Neither of the two programs will be in place for the Class of 2019’s orientation, Mecklai said.

The request to publicize incident reports related to bias and community safety met a different response from administration. Although BSA asked for the release of campus incident reports in order to increase transparency, administrators said this already occurs to the greatest extent possible.

“We share information regularly with semesterly reports on incidents published on the Student Conduct site,” said Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs. “We’re bound by [the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act] from ever releasing details and identifying students who may be involved in circumstances that may be subject to conduct review.”

FERPA requires student consent prior to the disclosure of any education-related records, which include conduct reports.

Mecklai outlined several other DSG initiatives still under development that she hopes will ensure that the voices of groups like BSA are heard, including assigning senators as liaisons to cultural groups on campus and inviting them to Senate meetings to give updates.

She also noted that DSG and BSA are planning to work together to create a “cultural competency” class which would be required for all students, inspired by a similar program at the

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Washington said he saw opportunities for collaboration as positive steps toward enacting change on campus.

“I was very pleased with the extent to which the executive board of the DSG worked with vigor and haste to help us establish the Social Justice Fellowship,” Washington said. “I’m absolutely willing to work with DSG or other organizations in the future who’d like to collaborate with the BSA to create a more inclusive and diverse campus space.”

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and concerts, explained Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, in an email.

Another question for incoming freshmen revolves around the effectiveness of AlcoholEdu, a program criticized for its fading effectiveness during the course of freshman year.

Wasiolek indicated that although AlcoholEdu seems to impact students’ thinking early on, its benefits fade as the semester goes on.

“When we resurvey students later in the fall semester, there are often more students than indicated on AlcoholEdu who have engaged in the consumption of alcohol or a less responsible level of alcohol consumption,” Wasiolek said.

In response to those concerns, Szigethy advocated for a more collaborative campus community in which upperclassmen help freshmen make safer decisions regarding their alcohol use.

“Each year during the spring semester we have a couple of seniors coming in saying they want to change Duke culture, but it’s always a month before graduation so they don’t have time to actually do it,” he said.

Duke is moving in the right direction, Szigethy noted, citing an increase in the number of students being brought in to DUWELL to be tested for alcohol poisoning and a decrease in the number of students being transported to the hospital during the past semester as evidence that trust is increasing among the student body.

Ultimately, he said he wants more upperclassmen to step into the role of mentor for incoming freshman so they can learn from upperclassmen’s experiences.

“We watch out for each other and we shape our community,” Szigethy said.

Freshmen and alcohol Incoming freshman are especially at risk for high-risk alcohol consumption during their first semester at Duke, explained Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center.

“For the last two years, in the month of September, out of all the transported students to the hospital, 68 percent of them are freshmen,” he said. “They don’t know how to drink safely right away, so that puts them at risk.”

He identified pregaming as a mistake that freshmen commonly make when they first arrive.

“A lot of first years come to campus and think, ‘Well, we’re underage and on a dry campus,’ and they decide to drink alcohol in their dorm,” Szigethy said. “What they don’t realize is that this exponentially increases their likelihood that they’re going to end up in the hospital.”

Duke is looking to address pregaming Editor’s Note: The Chronicle spoke with Dinner and to promote safer alternatives to alcohol on the phone and via email. Amrith Ramkumar on campus, such as on campus dance clubs contributed reporting.

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