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Duke Endowment feels downturn Sharp drop in assets means University’s largest donor will fund fewer projects

by Lisa Du

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In December 1924, James B. Duke established the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment with a gift of $40 million. Of the original donation, $6 million went to Trinity College, which became Duke University, and the remaining money was invested, with its income awarded to educational, health care, religious and child care organizations in North

and South Carolina. Now, more than 80 years and $2 billion in grants later, the Duke Endowment has not been able to escape the turbulent economy unscathed.

The Duke Endowment pledged almost $57 million in 185 new grants to North and South Carolina institutions in 2009. Along with money allocated to continuing multi-year projects, the foundation distributed about $105 million last year.

The total amount awarded in 2009, including money donated for both new grants and ongoing projects, dropped about $57 million from the $162 million given in 2008, said Jeri Krentz, assistant director of communications for the Duke Endowment. In addition, the 2009 figure for new grants decreased approximately $148 million See Endowment on page 6

Flogging Molly, two more to join Jay Sean

by Ray Koh and Lindsey Rupp THE chronicle

Jay Sean and Flogging Molly will deliver some European flavor to the Last Day of Classes festivities this year.

LDOC committee co-chairs Liz Turner and Christie Falco, both seniors, announced Tuesday afternoon that R&B artist Jay Sean and Irish rock band Flogging Molly will co-headline this year’s LDOC concert, scheduled for April 28 at 6 p.m.

Pop-rock band Rooney and ska band Big D and the Kids Table will open the show.

LDOC is an annual free event sponsored by the LDOC committee and open to the entire Duke community, including undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.

The event is not open to the public and extra measures will be taken this year to ensure the safety of students and the campus, Turner said. For example, all Duke students must have their DukeCards with them throughout the entire event.

“We took those measures because we

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DSG PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE // Will Passo

Passo seeks to create a ‘new Duke’ for students

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

Duke has seen significant change in the last 20 years, but for Duke Student Government presidential candidate Will Passo, the “new Duke” has not yet come to fruition.

For Passo, that new Duke will include more civic engagement activities in Durham, an increased awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender michael naclerio/The Chronicle issues and continued Student Duke Student Government presidential Organization Finance Comcandidate Will Passo, a junior, is cammittee reform to make receivpaigning on the theme of a “new Duke.” ing funding easier for student

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“You can point to things like DukeEngage, the campus in China, the creation of the new Sanford School [of Public Policy] and you can really point to how Duke has asserted itself on the national stage and asserted itself on the international stage,” said Passo, a junior and current DSG vice president for Durham and regional affairs. “But I think until we make core changes with student life and the undergraduate experience, then elements of See Passo on page 8

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Pres. Obama signs landmark health bill

By Roger Runningen The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Marking a victory that appeared beyond reach two months ago, President Barack Obama signed into law Tuesday a sweeping rewrite of health-care policy that will touch every American and affect onesixth of the economy.

“Today, after almost a century of trying, today after over a year of debate, today after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America,” Obama said before putting his signature on the measure.

The East Room, the largest in the White House, was packed for the ceremony with Democratic lawmakers who supported the bill

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and advocates for the cause of revamping the health-care system.

They included Victoria Kennedy, the widow of Senator Edward Kennedy, who made enacting the legislation one of his central goals.

Obama spent a year and much of his political capital pushing the legislation through Congress.

That struggle, which some Democrats have compared to the fight for civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is likely to shape Obama’s presidency as well as the makeup of Congress next year. The law passed Congress without getting a single Republican vote, a partisan divide that promises to make health care the defining issue in November’s elections.

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Harding noncommittal on Groups to keep resisting bill collective bargaining rights WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interest groups that spent the past year fighting over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul are quickly transforming themselves for battle in a new arena, working to sway the law to their benefit while helping the lawmakers who supported them during the bruising legislative debate.

Industry groups and labor unions will focus on attempting to steer implementation of the legislation to their advantage, including the writing of federal rules to govern insurance coverage, requirements for employers and the insurance exchanges created under the law. Many conservative groups that failed in their bid to stop the legislation have shifted their focus to attacking Democrats who backed the overhaul and to supporting efforts by more than a dozen GOP governors to challenge the law in court.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama’s pick to lead the Transportation Security Administration would not say Tuesday whether he supports collective bargaining rights for airport security screeners. The issue ranks as a major concern of federal worker unions and has ensnared previous TSA administrators.

If workers did have collective bargaining, retired Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding told senators at the first of his two confirmation hearings, the TSA “would never bargain away security.”

TSA workers, some of the nation’s most high-profile government employees, can join unions but are legally blocked from negotiating with the government under collective bargaining rules unless the TSA administrator agrees to grant such rights.

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LONDON — Britain is expelling an Israeli diplomat and changing its advice on travel to Israel following the use of forged British passports in the killing of a senior Hamas official in Dubai earlier this year.

Britain “judges it is highly likely the forgeries were made by a state intelligence service,” British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in a statement in Parliament in London Tuesday, without naming the Israeli spy agency Mossad.“The government takes this matter extremely seriously. Such misuse of British passports is intolerable.”

The action was based on the findings of an investigation by Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency, Miliband said.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim has said he is 99 percent certain Mossad killed the Hamas official, Mahmoud

al- Mabhouh, a charge Israel has neither confirmed nor denied. The suspects, who used the passports of dual citizens, are now in Israel, according to Tamim.

The expulsion of the diplomat, who wasn’t named, may add to tensions between the European Union and Israel, just as European governments put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for concessions to pave the way for a Palestinian state.

Twelve suspects in the killing used fake British passports. Other members of the group used forged Irish, French, German and Australian documents. All those countries have called in Israel’s envoys to discuss the issue, and the EU has condemned the use of fraudulent identity papers.

It wasn’t immediately clear if the other European countries whose passports were copied will follow Britain’s move.

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Dan Dierker, left, and John Riggs, right, of Rock Hall, Md. are among many other Maryland watermen who have had their fishing licenses suspended by state officials. Due to the near depletion of the Eastern oyster in the Chesapeake Bay, officers with the Maryland Natural Resources Police have been cracking down on watermen who catch oysters at night or from protected sanctuaries.

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Nye argues Panel bullish on Durham economy for smart, soft power

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by Rohan Taneja THE CHRONICLE

Soft power may be Joseph Nye’s coinage, but smart power is America’s calling.

In a speech at the Sanford School of Public Policy Tuesday evening, Joseph Nye, former assistant secretary of defense for the Bill Clinton administration, spoke to dozens of students and faculty. Nye, who was also dean of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, developed the theory of soft power in the 1980s. He is considered among the most influential international relations scholars alive today.

Soft power uses tools including culture, values and policy in diplomacy.

President Barack Obama’s administration has made soft power a large part of American foreign policy. Nye said America, going forward, must use “smart power,” combining diplomatic and policy measures with the use of force and coercion in its strategy abroad.

Nye said he believes that the Obama administration has not yet articulated a grand strategy for foreign policy, but has taken steps toward renewing the use of soft power. In Afghanistan, for example, Nye said America’s military leaders are focused on a different approach.

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High-growth industries, innovation and talent were the featured buzzwords at the State of Durham’s Economy Breakfast Tuesday morning.

The event, held at the Durham Performing Arts Center, brought together entrepreneurs, public sector professionals and job seekers for a presentation and panel discussion focused on the future growth of Durham’s economy. After a catered breakfast, the discussion of Durham’s economic prospects centered on employment, tax-based growth and highgrowth industry activity.

Kevin Dick, workforce development administrator and executive director for Durham, led the presentation by focusing on the city’s past success in turning “trials into triumphs,” noting in particular the recent decrease in high school dropout rates from 3.88 percent in 2005-2006 to 2.97 percent in 2007-2008, as well as the fact that the city’s current unemployment rate of 8.6 percent is lower than both the state and national average.

Earlier this month, city officials announced efforts to close Durham’s $13 million budget deficit, largely by finding places to cut spending. City Manager Tom Bonfield noted earlier this month, however, the possibility of a 4 percent increase

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Dick noted at Tuesday’s breakfast that the next step in bolstering the local economy is to connect job seekers to high-growth industries like health care and pharmaceuticals.

“We really need to make sure the alumni systems and the career centers of the universities are well-connected to the companies,” Dick said. “We’d be remiss if we didn’t try to make sure that those linkages were smooth and that we’re effectively connecting businesses with job seekers who are the future graduates from our schools.”

The panel was composed of Madhu Beriwal, president and chief executive officer of Innovative Emergency Management; Mary Ann Black, Duke University Health System’s assistant vice president for community affairs; Ryan Allis, chief executive officer and co-founder of iContact; Charles Becker, associate chair of Duke’s economics department; and Antoine Freeman, a graduate of the city’s Brownfields Environmental Technology Job Training Program at Durham Technical Community College.

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GPSC reallocates funds to develop new Web site

by Carmen Augustine THE CHRONICLE

At the Graduate and Professional Student Council meeting Tuesday night, General Assembly members voted to reallocate $6,200 from a retreat that never took place last Fall to Web site development.

A complete redesign of the GPSC Web site—based on a template created by Duke Web Services—will cost between $3,500 and $6,000 and take about 11 weeks. Unused funds will be returned to GPSC. “The template-based development mitigates our expenses while providing fuller flexibility while designing the Web site,” said Vice President Adam Pechtel, a thirdyear law student.

GPSC’s Executive Board has drafted a new menu system and will decide on specific changes to the Web site to make it more user-friendly. The template, which is based on other Duke Web sites, will fit in with the “Duke Web site visual appeal,” Pechtel said.

“The key issue was that people complained that the Web site wasn’t intuitive; it wasn’t user friendly,” said Communications Coordinator Rolando Estrada, a graduate student in computer science.

Estrada said the Web site has almost been completely transferred to the Office of Information Technology servers. He added that GPSC leaders eventually hope to integrate more Duke server features, including classified advertisements and calendars.

Treasurer Emeline Aviki, a student in Fuqua and the School of Medicine, noted that it would be less expensive to hire a group of students to develop the Web site instead.

General Assembly members said they think that a group of students would not be as experienced as a professional service, and that it was worth the investment to have

the Web site professionally developed.

“Trust me, if I were my boss I would’ve rather hired a... team,” said Inderpreet Jalli, a second-year biology graduate student who has Web site developing experience.

The Web site will likely be updated again in five years and redeveloped in 10 years, Pechtel noted.

To ease the transition to new leadership, Estrada said he will be available to help the new communications coordinator become comfortable with the Web site at the beginning of next semester.

In other business: Last Thursday, the Basketball Committee elected new co-Chairs Rebecca Wilusz, a biomedical engineering graduate student, and Allison Schmitt, a graduate student in chemistry.

The General Assembly will approve Wilusz and Schmitt at its April 6 meeting, and the Basketball Committee policy meeting will take place April 1.

“This would be a great opportunity to reintegrate [the Basketball Committee and GPSC],” Pechtel said.

Students on the Basketball Committee have a better chance of obtaining a ticket to the game, said current co-Chair Felicia Hawthorne, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in genetics and genomics. A number of tickets are set aside as discretionary tickets, and committee members have the opportunity to usher games.

At the April 6 and April 13 GPSC meetings, the General Assembly will elect new Executive Board and Board of Trustees Representatives. General Assembly members will also vote on the new strategic plan, the 2010-2011 budget and bylaw amendments, and approve the Krzyzewskiville Campout policy.

Progress on the Strategic Plan can be monitored online.

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A Graduate and Professional Student Council member takes part in the General Assembly discussion Tuesday. The council decided to reallocate $6,200 of unused funds to the creation of a new Web site.

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Pakistani authorities ground popular tradition

By Nicolas Brulliard The Washington Post

LAHORE, Pakistan — Officials in this leafy cultural capital are struggling to contain a crescendo of terror attacks. But as spring dawns, they have at least eradicated one threat they deem perilous: kites.

This is the time of year when rooftop terraces normally are filled with crowds sending thousands of vibrant kites into the sky to welcome the season. But an unpopular new ban—zealously enforced through the arrests of scores of kite enthusiasts—has all but killed the centuries-old festival, called Basant.

And that has made kite-flying the latest lightning rod in Pakistan’s struggle to balance sometimes-eccentric customs with rising religious conservatism.

Local officials, who restricted kite-flying to a maximum of two weeks a year before banning it entirely now, say it is about safety. The kites—or more precisely their razor-sharp strings—have become public hazards. But critics say the ban is also a convenient way for Lahore’s powerful Islamic clerics and like-minded political leaders to do away with the parties, drinking and dancing associated with Basant.

“It is a step to prevent liberalism to go forward, and this is a very dangerous thing,” said Yusuf Sali, a former politician credited with developing Basant into an international tourist attraction. “It is these festivals that fight extremism.”

The kite debate comes as militant Islamists have again set their sights on Lahore.

This month, suicide bombers have killed more than 50 people in this heartland city.

Basant has offered a sense of normalcy, its backers say. Kite-flying Lahoris would draw cheers from friends and guests as they cut a

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Maqsood Ahmad, left, with Mohammed Munir, used to sell fireworks and kites at his shop in Lahore, Pakistan, during Basant. Both have been outlawed, so Ahmad now sells snacks and cigarettes. rival’s string through deft maneuvers. Others reveled in pleasures frowned upon by clerics.

“It’s the time when Lahoris let their hair down,” Sali said.

This year, only birds dot the skies above Lahore. Basant banners lining the wide boulevards point out the activities still open to residents, such as drumming.

The owners of paper-and-bamboo kites risk jail sentences for simply possessing them. “I was just thinking about destroying these things,” one former kite-flier, who

spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of arrest, said after nervously unearthing a dozen kites from under a pile of coats hidden in his armoire.

Proponents say Basant, more a large collection of private parties than an organized event, has been an economic boon. Over the years, extra flights and trains would be routed to Lahore to bring in thousands of tourists, hotels jacked up their prices, locals rented out their rooftops, and rickshaw drivers and street vendors registered record business.

But in recent years, officials say, the celebration turned dangerous.

Metal strings laced with chemicals and coated with shards of glass began replacing cotton thread. The new, pricier strings allowed less adroit kite-fliers to reign supreme over Lahore’s skies, but they also proved a threat to bystanders and motorcyclists, who risked being slashed by a discarded kite string.

Authorities said those hazards, along with occasional falls from rooftops and electrocutions from metal strings touching live electrical lines, made the case for government regulation.

In 2001, the government of the Punjab province enacted legislation to curb kite-flying, which Pakistan’s supreme court upheld in 2005. The law allows local authorities to suspend the ban for up to two weeks each year, which it had been doing before this year. Nonetheless, fatalities continued to pile up. Between 2006 and 2009, 18 people died and 24 were injured in kite-related incidents, according to a government report. So this year, the government banned the festival altogether — and even jailed the secretary of the local kite-flying association when he filed his official request to suspend the ban.

“We are not terrorists, we just want to celebrate Basant,” said Sheikh Saleem, who was released after spending two days in jail. He said about 1,200 kitemakers, sellers or fliers have been arrested in a crackdown orchestrated by government kite-monitoring units.

Senator Pervez Rashid, a government spokesman who describes himself as a kiteflying enthusiast, said the ban would be lifted “within just one minute” if kite-fliers could guarantee that only safe string would be used.

“As a government it is our duty to protect the lives of our people,” Rashid said.

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in previous years. Cochrane said a large drop in assets also caused Duke Endowment officials to be more selective when considering grant applicants.

Currently, the organization’s assets are worth around $2.5 billion, a slight increase from the low of $2.2 billion reported in March 2009, but nowhere close to its record high in November 2007 of $3.3 billion, Cochrane said.

“When you have that much of an asset drop, your giving has to drop,” he said.

The foundation’s investments are managed by the Duke University Management Company, which also handles the

crash and the resulting recession, Robinson explained.

But the recession of this century, unlike the last, has affected the Duke Endowment’s broader investments during the last few years. Robinson said that because a majority of the foundation’s investments are private, they lack readily available market value information.

The diminished assets will continue to affect giving in 2010, and likely into 2011, he added.

“It makes it difficult for us to take on new beneficiaries and difficult to take on new projects even from beneficiaries that we have traditionally supported,” Robinson said.

from 2008, when the Duke Endowment pledged about $204.5 million for 410 new commitments.

Although the Duke Endowment is the University’s single largest donor—about one-third of the Endowment’s yearly giving goes to Duke—the foundation is independent of the University.

The decreased giving in 2009 was due to a combination of the foundation’s investment losses and several large ongoing commitments from 2008, said Duke Endowment President Eugene Cochrane.

“The most important thing we did, I Giving to Duke “The most important thing we did, I think, was to think, was to honor the commitments we alAccording to the Duke Endowment’s ready had in place,” he said. “So if we had indenture, the foundation must donate 32 honor the commitments we already had in place. committed to an organization that we would percent of its yearly giving to Duke UniSo if we had committed to an organization that we pay them in 2009 and 2010, we honor those versity, 32 percent to health care organizacommitments before we take new requests. tions, 12 percent to support rural churches, would pay them in 2009 and 2010, we honor those That’s why you see the number of new grants 10 percent to child care organizations, 5 drop so much, is that we’re honoring previpercent to Davidson College, 5 percent to commitments before we take new requests. That’s ous commitments.”

Furman University in South Carolina and 4 In addition, certain program areas that why you see the number of new grants drop so much, percent to Johnson C. Smith University in had substantial new grants in 2008­—such Charlotte. These figures, however, are just is that we’re honoring previous commitments.” as child care and health care—were not al“target” donations and the Endowment does — Eugene Cochrane, not precisely meet the stated distributions lotted as much funding in 2009, Cochrane said. year, Cochrane said.

Duke Endowment President every Some of the continuing projects from The Duke Endowment, in addition to 2008 include a $50 million gift to Duke being Duke’s most generous benefactor, University Health System for the creation donates more to the University than its inof a pediatric inpatient facility and medical learning University’s endowment. denture indicates, said William Conescu, executive dicenter, $14 million to Furman University to sponsor a This is the first time the Duke Endowment has been rector of Alumni and Development Communications new scholarship program and $10 million to Duke in severely affected by a recession since its inception 86 for the University. support of Perkins Library. years ago.

Last year, the Duke Endowment pledged about $18 Funds for continuing projects are distributed over sevThe foundation’s investment strategy protected it from million in new grants to the University, down from the eral years, but the total amount is reported in the origi- previous economic slowdowns, said Duke Endowment foundation’s promise of almost $85 million in 2008. The nal year’s new grants total, said Charity Perkins, director Chair Russell Robinson, Trinity ’54 and Law ’56. figures were calculated based on data available on the of communications for the Duke Endowment. Thus, the Until a 1972 court order allowed other investments, Duke Endowment’s Web site. reported amount of new grants usually differs greatly from Robinson noted, the Duke Endowment could only inThe largest donations in 2009 include an almost the actual amount of money distributed by the Duke En- vest in the Duke Power Company, whose stock value was $2 million gift to the Center for Child & Family Policy dowment each year, she added. not affected significantly by the numerous financial tur- and $1 million to the Sanford School of Public Policy. moils of the last century. Even after 1972, the Duke En- The Duke Endowment has also awarded $12.5 million Diminished assets dowment did not begin investing substantially in other to the University for unrestricted operating costs every The reduction in new commitments, however, cannot companies until after 1993, allowing the foundation to year since at least 2007, according to the organization’s be completely attributed to the large projects undertaken remain relatively unharmed in the 1987 stock market Web site.

All applications for the SOFC Annual Budgeting Process are due Wednesday, March 24 at 5PM. Information about the 2010-2011 Annual Budgeting Process for Chartered Organizations is now online on the SOFC website: http://student.groups.duke.edu/ Student_Organization_Finance_Committee

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health care from page 1 The coming fight “will make last August look like a love fest,” said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H. said Monday, referring to town hall meetings that drew protests over Obama’s health-care package, the largest revamp in 45 years.

House Republican leader John Boehner, of Ohio, said in a statement that by signing the bill Obama “is abandoning our founding principle that government governs best when it governs closest to the people.” The law will have “devastating consequences,” he said.

The new law, phased in over several years, extends coverage to tens of millions uninsured Americans, imposes new taxes on the highest wages earners, calls for fees on health-care companies, provides hundreds of billions in Medicare savings and would cost almost $1 trillion.

As part of the bargain for passage in the House, the law must be accompanied by a series of legislative repairs now pending in the Senate, where Republicans vow to offer dozens of amendments to force changes and reduce its costs.

In an illustration of the event’s historic nature, some lawmakers and guests posed for pictures at the front of the room before Obama entered.

The crowd stood and applauded upon the arrival of Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., 83, who has been advocating for universal health-care coverage since coming to Congress in 1955. He thrust one of the crutches he was using into the air.

The law is the most extensive change to the health system in the United Statese since Medicare was enacted in 1965. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said her father served in Congress with Dingell when Medicare was passed.

“My Dad turned 89 yesterday, and Congressman Dingell is still here, working away,” Sebelius said after the ceremony. “I think it still hasn’t quite sunk in that the president just signed into law a bill that he’s been working on for five decades, and his father before him worked on.”

Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., the son of Edward Kennedy, showed attendees a copy of his father’s original bill calling for na-

economy from page 3 The event, which included short speeches by Mayor Bill Bell and Bonfield, was attended by numerous figures in the public sector. Ted Conner, vice president of economic development at the Durham Chamber of Commerce, helped plan the event.

He said he thought the panel, which was

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tional health insurance in 1970.

“My dad’s first national health insurance bill,” he said to reporters.

Vicki Kennedy said her late husband called it “the cause of his life.”

“I know how happy he would be today, not for himself but for the American people,” she said.

When the president and Vice President Joe Biden came into the East Room, the crowd broke into applause and began chanting an Obama campaign slogan, “Fired up, ready to go.”

“To state the obvious, this is a historic day,” Biden said in introducing Obama.

“You’ve done what generations, not just ordinary but great men and women have attempted to do.”

In his remarks, Obama cited the line of presidents and lawmakers who have championed expanded health care coverage for Americans from Teddy Roosevelt to Kennedy.

He also said he recognized that many Democratic members of Congress “took their lumps” during the debate. That prompted one lawmaker to shout from the audience “Yes, we did,” provoking laughter.

Obama used 22 pens to sign the legislation, 20 of which were then given to lawmakers who played key roles in passage. Two of the pens will go the National Archives.

The president is following up the signing by undertaking a campaign to sell the law to a still-skeptical public. A Bloomberg National Poll found that just four in 10 Americans favor the plan.

After the signing ceremony, Obama addressed about 600 lawmakers, cabinet members and people in the health-care industry, including doctors, nurses, advocates and consumers who face rising premiums or insurance-coverage problems.

“People who love this country can still change it,” Obama told the crowd at an auditorium at the Interior Department. “It’s a victory for the United States of America.”

Obama will travel March 25 to Iowa City, Iowa, to give a speech about how the health-care law will affect families and small businesses. The location is where Obama first outlined his ideas on healthcare in 2007 as he was starting his campaign for the presidency. the first of its kind for the annual breakfast, was a decided success.

Deputy City Manager Keith Chadwell echoed Conner’s sentiment.

“Not only was there an academic consideration, but the vast majority of it was shared from an experience base,” Chadwell said. “I thought [the members of the panel] were encouraging and exciting and really wanted us to push forward. I was very happy with it.”

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The U.S. still has far to go, however, because today’s public diplomacy budget is $2 billion, compared to a $700 billion budget for defense, he noted.

One of the major forces that will impact the expanding role of soft power in the future is the rise of an information age. When an audience member asked about the exit of Google from China, Nye said it was an intriguing situation.

“It was a case where foreign policy was made by a multinational corporation,” Nye said.

Nye added that today’s administration is taking the right steps to adapt, but noted in an interview after the event that the U.S. needs to improve its peer-to-peer communications.

Audience members asked several questions about the rise of China. Nye’s response was that China is certainly a growing force, but its soft power influence depends on whether it “loosens up” and becomes more open to outside media and information.

Russia was another country that Nye described as not using its soft power potential.

In contrast, he said other rising powers like India have gained a large amount of soft power because they are more open. Nye cited Bollywood, the Indian Hollywood, as an example of a cultural institution greatly increasing India’s influence abroad.

One audience member asked Nye if he thought domestic policy will have an impact on policy abroad. Nye responded with the example of Tuesday’s health care bill. He said that regardless of opinions on the bill’s content, just the fact that a bill was passed through the gridlock of Congress has a large impact on views of America abroad.

The packed Fleishman Commons were a testament to Nye’s reputation. Freshman Ishita Chordia, a policy debater throughout high school, attended the Tuesday event.

“It was amazing to be able to see someone you read about in books actually voice his opinions in real life,” she said.

Freshman Alessandro Recchia also said he was impressed by the speech.

“What was most striking was the importance he placed on the role of diplomacy and tact as opposed to military force,” he said.

In closing, Nye suggested that America should perhaps look toward a new foreign policy narrative. The U.S. should not just focus on making a world safe for democracy, but “making the world safe for diversity.”

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old Duke are still going to linger.”

He added that he will support needblind admissions for international students and re-evaluate curricular programs like Curriculum 2000.

“Duke as an institution can do a lot, but we are going to do a lot on the ground, in Durham, at the student level, to change how this institution functions,” Passo said.

Freshman Elena Botella, who chaired Durham Fights Hunger weekend and worked with Passo on the event, said the candidate would fight for issues that the administration has not addressed well.

“While he has a clear vision, he is a really selfless person,” Botella said. “He is really concerned about the future of Duke rather than being interested in his own politics. It is important that you have somebody who represents student interests and is articulate. He is a fighter and really willing to put himself out there on the line to make student life better.”

Passo cited his vice presidential position as an experience that will prepare him for presidency, noting that as vice president for Durham and regional affairs, he has been able to tackle policy issues while balancing the relationship between Duke students and Durham residents.

“I think I can bind that policy knowledge that you have to have with the personal skills,” he said.

Passo said he has been meeting with Trinity Heights residents since August to strengthen relationships between students and locals.

“We took a situation that basically exploded early in my Duke career and we didn’t fix off-campus relations forever, but I think that building relationships and really just grassroots efforts did change a lot,” Passo said.

Passo has also worked with the community by serving as an intern at the Nasher Museum of Art’s education department in Fall 2008.

Juline Chevalier, curator of education at the Nasher, said Passo’s passion and interest for government and getting students involved was apparent when she worked with him.

“He is extremely hard-working, extremely organized, extremely dedicated and creative,” Chevalier said. “He went the extra mile to further research something or work on a product a little more than necessary or expected.”

want to avoid property damages or any safety issues that have happened at past LDOCs,” Turner said.

This year’s LDOC features a wider range of music genres and international headliner artists. Turner noted the committee planned artists who would be appropriate for the event’s energetic atmosphere. Last year, students complained that Ben Folds’ music was too slow and a poor fit for LDOC even though Folds is a great artist, Turner said.

Jay Sean is a British singer-songwriter who made his 2004 debut with “Me

Against Myself.” His third overall and first American album “All or Nothing” was released November 2009. The album’s single, “Down”—featuring rapper Lil Wayne—reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

“More than anything, Jay is just really happy to get out to the colleges and meet his fans and see everyone up close,” his day-to-day manager Thara Natalie told The Chronicle in an interview last month.

“That’s why he’s really excited to do the colleges, to meet the older crowd, not just his teeny-bopper fans.”

Flogging Molly, which formed in Los Angeles in 1997, is an Irish rock band influenced by traditional Irish music, ac-

cording to the band’s Web site. The band combines traditional Celtic instruments such as violin, mandolin and accordion with modern electric guitars and drums.

“We’re not a traditional band,” Dave King, Flogging Molly’s Dublin-born singer and songwriter, wrote in the band’s biography on its Web site. “We are influenced by traditional music and inspired by it, and we put our own little twist on it.”

Rooney is a five-piece band from Los Angeles that formed in 1999. It is best known for its popular singles “I’m Shakin’” and “Blueside.”

Big D and the Kids Table, a Boston area ska band that formed in 1995, has released several albums in its 15-year history.

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by Archith Ramkumar THE CHRONICLE

There’s no “i” in team, but there is an “i” in obliterate.

And that’s exactly what No. 10 Duke did DART 3 (5-3) Tu e s d a y DUKE 15 night, using suffocating defense and a relentless attack to overwhelm Dartmouth (23) at Koskinen Stadium. Seven Blue Devils scored, highlighted by four goals apiece from Max Quinzani and Zach Howell.

“It was a team victory,” head coach John Danowski said. “We had good, solid offense and good team defense. We created tempo and chased ground balls all night, which is a very important statistic to us.”

Heading into the contest, there was concern that Duke would feel the effects of playing with little rest, as the Blue Devils had played another game just three days prior. Those doubts, however, were quickly put to rest in the first period.

Senior attackman Ned Crot-

ty notched the first point of the match, scoring on an assist from Howell just 1:24 into the opening stanza. After the two squads traded goals, Duke seized control, scoring three times in a row to take a 5-1 lead.

The advantage ballooned to a 7-1 halftime score, and any concern about the team not being prepared was erradicated.

“Everyone likes games more than practices,” Crotty said. “I know we love it. Instead of practicing all week and waiting, we were able to come out and play.”

In the third quarter, Quinzani, who had only one goal up to that point, stole the show.

Following another Blue Devil score early in the half, Quinzani took the ball behind the net. The senior knifed his way towards the goal, falling down as he froze the goalie and scored with ease.

Then, towards the end of the period, the attackman had another spectacular play. Quinzani caught the ball in traffic and flicked it behind his back to give Duke a 13-3 lead with 26 seconds See M. LAX on page 16

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As far as the regular season goes, they don’t get much bigger than this one.

And when top-ranked Northwestern visits Durham this afternoon, No. 1 No. 5 NU D u k e vs. should No. 5 feel good Duke about its chances WEDNESDAY, 3 p.m. of beatAmbler Tennis Stadium ing one of its top rivals in its quest for a repeat national championship. “[Northwestern] won the National Indoors, and I’m sure they know we knocked them off a year ago, and they are coming in with a lot to play for,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

“And we are, too. It’s our last nonconference match and we want to end that part of the season on a high note.”

The Wildcats (13-2) have already shown how good they can be this season with a win in February at National Team In-

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Sophomore Monica Gorny has made the No. 5 slot her own for the surging Blue Devils. doors, a tournament Duke bowed out of at the semifinal stage. The Blue Devils (12-2) were beaten by North Carolina, who Northwestern defeated in the final.

Despite the fact that Duke and Northwestern play in different conferences, the two teams have

some history. In a scheduling quirk, the Blue Devils and Wildcats met twice last season—once in Wisconsin at National Team Indoors, a match Northwestern eked out, and again two weeks See wildcats on page 16

Like a mid-major, or a boa constrictor Perhaps it took an outsider to really see this Duke team for what it is. In Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle, sportswriter Ray Ratto performed the autopsy on a year of California Basketball shut down decisively by Duke.

“Cal’s season ended because Duke made it end, comprehensively, firmly, slowly but surely,” Ratto wrote. “The final game of this remarkable team ended as Alex though a snake were devouring it—deliberately, and whole.”

The snake simile is a good one, but I’d take a different tack: This Duke team, comprehensively, firmly, slowly but surely, strangles the life out of its opponents like a boa constrictor. Here’s the scouting report on this year’s Blue Devils: They grind the game almost to a halt, execute their half-court offense and prevent you from executing yours. It’s so ugly that it’s beautiful.

In a lot of ways, this Duke team is

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Duke didn’t play a pretty game against California, yet the Blue Devils cruised in a complete performance.

like a mid-major on steroids. Like a mid-major team, the Blue Devils have no sure-fire NBA lottery picks, no AllAmericans, no phenomenal athletes in the starting lineup. Like a mid-major team, they buy into their coach’s message, leave their egos in the dorm room, seem to have fun playing with each other, have a roster dominated by juniors and seniors, know what they do best and stick with it. Put it this way: If this Duke team loses sometime in the next two weeks, it won’t be for lack of effort or attention to detail (unlike another royal blue-wearing top seed).

But unlike a traditional mid-major, this Duke team is made up of McDonald’s All-Americans and guys who will have successful professional careers. Jon Scheyer might not be John Wall, but Ali Farokhmanesh is not Jon Scheyer.

Of the teams with high-end talent, the Kentuckys and Kansases, it is said that they can win playing any style. But Duke isn’t one of those teams. The Blue Devils, like any good mid-major, are at their best See fanaroff on page 11

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Despite delay, Duke wins with timely hitting

by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE

Duke head coach Sean McNally isn’t a proponent of flashy baseball. He builds his teams on a tripod of fundamentals: pitching, defense and timely hitting. All three of those skills were on display Tuesday night, as McNally’s Blue Devils (13-7) defeated DUKE 6 Davidson (13-8) 6-2 on the road.

2 DAV Pitching? Check: The Duke pitching staff, led by 6-foot-6 freshman righthander Chase Bebout, held a highly regarded Wildcat offense to just four hits (though they did walk four batters and hit four more in the game). Defense? Check: After five errors in three games last weekend against Miami, the defense was airtight at Davidson, turning a key double play in the first inning and throwing out two runners trying to steal. The only error came in the ninth with two outs.

“It’s fun to watch our infield. We’ve got some of the best guys I’ve seen defensively in the infield,” sophomore centerfielder Will Piwnica-Worms said.

And timely hitting? Check: Led by Piwnica-Worms’s three doubles and three RBIs, the Blue Devils had five two-out RBIs and were 6-for-18 with runners on.

“We feel good about the way we put the game together,” McNally said.

The contest was delayed 25 minutes due to a broken water main in the infield, but the Blue Devils wasted no more time getting their bats going. After a leadoff walk and

a single in the first frame put two runners on base for Duke, Piwnica-Worms bashed the first of his three doubles to drive in two runs and give his team an early cushion.

“Will was frustrated with how he performed against Miami, but I knew it was just a matter of him finding some holes,” McNally said. “Today he got rewarded for taking good swings.”

With a lead out of the gate, the outcome passed into the hands of Bebout, who looked wild in the early going. He walked three and hit a batter in his first two innings, but struck out three in that stretch and got some help from his defense, which turned a double play and caught Davidson leadoff man Sam Payne stealing.

Piwnica-Worms helped Duke add to its lead in the third inning with another RBI double, putting the Blue Devils up 3-0. Davidson earned one of those runs back in its half of the third, but Bebout settled in and retired seven hitters in a row after the run scored to complete five innings of two-hit ball.

“He struggled a little bit early to get the ball down in the strike zone. That’s going to happen sometimes,” McNally said. “But very good composure [and] he attacked the zone better as the game went on. I thought he settled in nicely.”

Senior Jonathan Foreman and junior Michael Seander followed Bebout with a scoreless frame apiece, and a Mike Carroll RBI triple in the eighth extended the Duke advantage to 4-1.

The Wildcats threatened again in the

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Shortstop Jake Lemmerman homered in the top of the ninth to give Duke a four-run cushion against Davidson. eighth, when senior Jeremy Gould put two men on base before being relieved by sophomore Ben Grisz. Grisz allowed one of the runners to score but got himself out of the inning. Junior Jake Lemmerman then sealed the deal for Duke in the top of the ninth when he blasted his fifth home run of the

season, driving in Joe Pedevillano to give the Blue Devils a four-run lead. Grisz breezed through the ninth to finish off the Wildcats.

Take some pitching and defense, add a dash of situational hitting, and you’ve got a recipe for winning baseball games. No flash necessary.

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fanaroff from page 9 when they do it their way—by turning each game into their own particular brand of slugfest.

And recently, they’ve been doing just that. Since losing to Georgetown Jan. 30, Duke has played exactly two games faster than the national average of 67 possessions. One was the loss to Maryland in College Park; the other was a closer-than-it-should’ve-been win at Miami. In every other game, opponents have been forced to play Duke’s game.

But the obvious questions remain: Can the Blue Devils keep it up? Can they force Purdue and St. Mary’s/Baylor into a slugfest? Can they be beaten, like a mid-major, by a team that forces them into a faster-paced game than they’d prefer?

In a single-elimination tournament, anything can happen. Can Purdue (or more likely, Baylor) force Duke to play a faster game and beat them? Yes. Will they? Less likely.

As all those ads on the radio telling me to buy gold always say, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future success.” Still, past performance can be a predictor of future success (in college basketball, at least; I don’t know anything about the global market for precious metals), and Duke’s performance this season predicts a beautifully ugly future. Ken Pomeroy’s projections give the Blue Devils a 62 percent chance of reaching the Final Four and a 32 percent chance of winning the national championship. And it’s not because Duke is the prettiest team in the country, but because it has forced opponents to play its way, the ugly way.

All season long (but especially recently), the Blue Devils have forced their opponents to play their slowdown game by the very effectiveness with which they play it. Of the 16 teams remaining in the Tournament, Duke scores the most points per possession (1.21) and allows the fewest (0.85).

When the Blue Devils’ offense is clicking, it slows the game down by preventing opponents from scoring in transition. Duke’s players turn the ball over on just 16 percent of their possessions (fewer than any team remaining in the Tournament), preventing opponents from scoring quick points off those turnovers. Against California, somewhat famously, Duke turned the ball over just five times. The Blue Devils crash the offensive

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California’s Theo Robertson said he felt like Duke choked the life out of a typically dynamic Golden Bear offense Sunday in Jacksonville. glass, grabbing almost 40 percent of their missed shots, forcing opponents to stay in the backcourt rebounding and preventing quick baskets off of missed shots.

And when Duke does give them the ball back, opponents have to work for their shots against Duke’s halfcourt defense. Blue Devil opponents’ effective field goal percentage (the normal stat plus a bonus for made 3-pointers) for the season is just 43.8 percent, second-best among teams remaining in the Tournament, and they

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“There really was no turning point. It was a steady diet,” Cal forward Theo Robertson said after Duke’s second-round win. “They executed so well.”

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In our opinion, Major Speakers has veered too far in the direction of pop culture and needs to redirect itself toward acts that provide a healthy balance of entertainment and educational value.

It is also worth noting that Major Speakers’ events do not necessarily have to be large—spreading the equivalent funding for a single, bigname speaker over a handful of smaller, more niche speakers could yield equally beneficial outcomes.

DUU’s second proposed reform—dividing the Special Projects committee into an Annual Events committee and an Innovation committee—is also a good idea. Annual events build tradition, while Innovation events will allow students to exercise

their creativity.

Union-sponsored social events are well-attended and provide independent students with large, inclusive social experiences in contrast to events reserved for students who are members of fraternities, sororities or selective living groups. Furthermore, annual events, like Joe College Day or Duke Royale, provide all students with more social options.

In light of the University’s fiscal woes, canceling such large-scale functions offer easy cost-savings. But these events are critical to a nonGreek dominated campus culture, and they should still be held despite smaller budgets. The real value of the Union is not in its ability to fund events, but to organize them, year after year.

All in all, these proposed reforms are a good start.

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y corner of California is marked with guideposts that mislead.

When I describe my route home to my friends from Duke, the delayed flight into Ontario International Airport and the traffic jam in Perris (pronounced “Paris,” to heighten the imitation), it sounds as if I have embarked on a glamorous transcontinental tour of the world’s great cities—but really, it was just a long trek down the 15.

The towns of julia love Riverside County a love story orient themselves to the freeway, putting their best face forward with billboards and half-illuminated neon signs: La-Z-Boy recliners, Indian gaming and model homes, going fast!

The hope is that a small fraction of those bound for San Diego to the South or Los Angeles to the Northeast—and clearly in a hurry, barreling down the highway at 90 miles per hour in a 65 zone— will be enticed to pull over and stay awhile.

If you continue down the 15, as the dry wind blows, you will inevitably stumble upon our little piece of history. Ask anyone what there is to do in this town, and they will probably offer The Stampede, the wood-paneled restaurant-by-day, watering hole-by-night that most closely approximates a club.

As we are often reminded, it is the world’s largest country and Western music venue located on the West Coast. There is a mechanical bull; but unlike that of Shooters II fame, it is often ridden by people who have tamed the living, breathing creature.

When I finally turned 18, my friends beckoned me to join their ranks lining the edge of the dance floor in worn jeans and carelessly buttoned plaid shirts. The girls pretended to be absorbed in conversation so the inevitable invitation to dance could be received with surprise. But for me, it was more than an act. In the country music world, each song has its own complicated choreography—heel, toe, kick, spin—that everyone knows from the first beat, as if it were inscribed in the notes. I was usually only asked to dance once.

I used to scoff at the extent to which life for those under 30 revolved around The Stampede, but every city I have lived in since has taken similar pride in their dancing establishments. Shooters II is a blip on the radar of Durham itself, but the saloon is a staple of weekend life for a vocal percentage of Duke students and the punch line of most campus culture clichés.

Even across the ocean, in a country where bulls are fought rather than ridden, clubs (or discotecas, as they’re called) loom just as large.

When my Spanish host mom awoke one Saturday morning to the sound of me tiptoeing into the apartment at 6 a.m. with glitter trapped under my fingernails, she rejected my sheepish apology.

“Hija,” she said wistfully, her eyes drifting to a far-off place, “When I was your age it was Thursday, Kapital! Friday, Kapital! Saturday, Kapital! Sunday, for God. And then Monday, Kapital!”

In a city where my request for water has been met with the response, “White or red?”, perhaps I should not have been surprised.

On my first visit to Kapital, a seven-story club that is perhaps Madrid’s best known landmark in the United States, I experienced a sense of wonder I had not felt since riding on Disneyland’s “It’s a Small World” as a little girl. Representatives from all the countries I had hoped to visit before the reality of my travel budget set in had gathered in one cramped, muggy place.

As we looked down on the dance floor from the balcony, a friend who has been studying abroad in Madrid since the Fall showed me how to tell the different cultures apart: the Italians, rotating their arms in smooth geometry; the Spaniards, paired off to the navigate the dance floor in an intricate salsa step; and the Americans, also in pairs, whose dance my friend could only describe with the sound effect “bam, bam, bam!” (No comment.)

Many locals cringe at the sound of an American accent. But Madrid’s largest discotecas welcome study abroad students with open arms, ushering them into a pulsating, blindingly lit space that belongs to no culture.

For study abroad students, Spanish clubs are an indispensable part of the curriculum, attended just as earnestly and oftentimes more frequently than actual classes. But the sense of wonder does fade.

On a recent Friday night, my chatter with a friend was interrupted by a familiar tap on the shoulder.

“Bullfighters only,” I apologized in a language that was neither his nor mine. The look on his face told me he was asking himself the same question I would later: Who exactly do I think I am?

As one of my favorite writers, Joan Didion, observed in a city with taller buildings and brighter lights, there comes a time when you realize it is indeed possible to stay too long at the fair.

In what I can only explain as a symptom of homesickness, I find myself longing for a place where the moves seemed too complicated to ever really master.

Julia Love is a Trinity junior. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

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recently returned from volunteering at an el- president of the Children’s Defense Fund, two ementary school in San Pedro, Belize, called years ago. Truthfully, I don’t remember what Holy Cross Anglican School. HCAS opened most of her speech was about, but the way she in 2006 with 60 students, and today it has more concluded was extremely memorable. than 500. The founders of the “Lord I cannot preach school are an American coulike Martin Luther King, Jr. ple, Francis and Vernon Wilor turn a poetic phrase like son, who went to San Pedro for Maya Angelou...” a vacation in 2000. There they She proceeded to list a saw many school-age children large number of distinguished on the streets, and discovered people, and the characteristics that these children were unable they possessed that she did not to attend school because there (despite having been awarded daniel wong was no space for them. more than 65 honorary deloving life, Francis and Vernon felt grees and being the first black loving lives so compelled to meet this woman to be admitted to the need that they moved from Mississippi bar).

Virginia to Belize, bought some land in a “But I care and am willing to serve and mangrove swamp and started raising funds raise my voice with others for children.... But to build a school. They did all of this despite I care and am willing to serve and sacrifice to the fact that they knew nothing about con- build our children a better future.” struction or starting a school.

Edelman’s soul-stirring speech got me But they did know one thing: They really thinking about my life philosophy. Time after cared about helping the children of San Pe- time I’ve made important decisions because it dro get an education. was the “smart” thing to do, or because it would Six years and lots of hard work later, make my resume look better, or because I was HCAS opened. Today, the school is situated trying to live up to the expectations of others. next to a slum where there is trash literally I don’t deny that there are many practical everywhere, and there is no electricity or considerations if you want to be accepted into running water. Many of the students live in the grad school of your choice or if you want this slum, and their parents do not have the to secure that dream job. But I do think that means to provide them with enough food. if pragmatism is the guiding principle behind In response, Francis and Vernon started a your decisions, you risk shortchanging yourself food program at the school where they give the of a truly great life. children two meals and a snack every day—for How different would our lives—and the free! Because the Belizean government only world we live in—be if we consciously chose to pays the teachers’ salaries, everything else at the only put our heart and soul into things that we school runs on donations. That includes statio- are really passionate about? nery supplies, teaching materials, administrative My trip to Belize has been a reminder that staff salaries and of course the food program. the foundation of a remarkable life is a commitDuring the week that I was there, I wit- ment to a cause greater than yourself coupled nessed how much of a blessing HCAS has with character. We often seek comfort in our been to the San Pedro community. No one lives—comfortable homes, comfortable jobs, could have imagined that a piece of unwanted comfortable weather—but comfort rarely leads land in a mangrove swamp could turn into a to greatness. Francis and Vernon showed me that place where 500 young lives are molded and you can’t change the world just by being cominfused with hope every day. HCAS is a mi- fortable, smart, capable or prepared enough. raculous story that continues to be written, But you really can change the world if you and it’s a testament to the fact that amazing care enough. things do happen when you care enough.

The success of HCAS brings me back to a Daniel Wong is a Pratt junior. His column runs talk by Marian Wright Edelman, founder and every other Wednesday.

lettertotheeditor Pro-choice arguments overlook reality First, I am a supporter of Duke Students for Life. However, as much as I may agree and disagree with Nicole Nelson’s arguments in her March 22 letter, “Don’t coerce Duke women into choosing life,” I want to address a myth that affects not only abortion legislation but civic action in all realms.

From liberals I often hear something similar to Nelson’s argument: “Conservatives and liberals should agree on a right to make decisions without interference from the government. Yet pro-lifers use their influence to try to force legislation that reduces women’s options.” Instead, having heard (from both sides on different issues) that it is not the government’s place to interfere in “private” decisionmaking, I rarely have heard this from somebody who consistently believes it.

Often, self-identified pro-choice citizens do not think it’s a parent’s “choice” whether to abandon their female child or whether to educate their children. Many do not think it’s a parent’s “choice” to marry their children off to men twice their age or to put guns in their hands and ask them to fight. These examples beg other important ethical questions, such as the purpose of parenting, when life starts and cultural differences, but these are different questions than one about the government’s interference in private lives.

Moreover, our current governmental system does not abide by a “personal choice” ethos. Again, this is not directed at Nelson but to those who have not thought through the argument about “choice.” We take for granted that the government tells us we cannot marry close family members, that we cannot be homeless should we choose to be, that the government may commit us to psychiatric institutions, that the government can take our children away from us if we are unworthy parents. I hope those who defend any issue solely or primarily on a “personal choice” basis

will ask if the rest of their stances on public policy support that outlook, too.

Leigh Edwards Divnity School ’12 Week for Life offered depth and breadth to discussion During the Week for Life there were no pictures of aborted fetuses.

Rather, Duke Students for Life put on the most in-depth discussion of reproductive rights that I have seen since at this University.

We began our week last Monday with a cemetery of the innocence honoring the more than 4,000 human beings lost to abortion daily in the United States.

Monday evening we had a lively discussion on Christian feminism. On Tuesday, contrary to Nicole Nelson’s March 22 letter, we displayed images of fetal development from conception to birth.

On Wednesday we had a discussion with a woman who was gracious enough to share her experience leading to and after an abortion, which she chose to have as a result of a “crisis pregnancy.”

We met Thursday with an undergraduate mother in an intimate discussion that was aimed at undergraduate women, especially those who may find themselves pregnant. We learned more of her decision to choose life and the resources available at Duke and beyond for young mothers. Lastly, on Friday we offered a discussion board entitled “What does life mean to you?” on which anyone could write what they associate with life.

We began and ended our week with collaborative discussions and sounding boards that allowed members of the larger Duke community to share their opinions on an issue that matters to many people of varying political affiliations and walks of life—an issue that should not be trivialized along the dyads of liberal and conservative.

Chinwe Atkinson Trinity ’10

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ill we actually be “educated people”—whatever that’s supposed to mean—soon? How does any student know that he or she will be left holding more than a pretty piece of paper at the end of commencement?

There are a lot of narratives to choose from when that question is asked. For example, educated people are supposed to have “critical thinking” skills, they’re supposed to be able to “problem solve.” connor southard One might hope that they’ve dead poet mastered the basics of reading, writing and ’rithmetic.

University presidents, academics writing op-eds and other commentators who harp on the importance of a good education tend to perform some kind of refined song and dance that plays off those basic notions or one of a few others. Not that there’s anything wrong with that: I’m a big believer in critical thinking. Without serious critical thought, my bracket next year will end up as mournful as this year’s edition.

But here’s what I think a good education looks like, when you get right down to the nuts and bolts of it: A good education should make you dangerous.

Practical intelligence is always a matter of reacting well to the world around oneself. We live in a world that—we’re told, in so many clichéd terms—is so hyper-complex, technologically rich and overwhelming in every imaginable way that we’d all have to be thespian computer engineers with fluency in Igbo to even begin to be solidly prepared to handle every contingency, intellectual and otherwise, that might arise. It’s become an article of

faith that our generation will change not just jobs, but careers, with greater frequency and fluidity than has ever before been seen. There’s not a chance that four years at any given liberal arts college or engineering school—even ones as good as Trinity and Pratt—is going to be a magic salve that can equip you with everything you’ll need to “know” to do well for yourself.

You’re going to have to pick up a lot of things as you go along.

Here’s where being actually educated comes into play.

A truly well educated person should be confident in the most self-contained way. Whether you understand higher level mathematics or have spent hour upon hour reading Victorian novels (both would be fine), you’re going to have a certain refined level of insight into what’s going on around you, or at least several important aspects of it (comprehensive intellectual mastery of the world always was, and always will be, impossible).

If you achieve that, you’re not going to be half as scared of… anything. Consider: We fear the unknown. The “unknown” is often just a euphemism for things about which we are ignorant.

Ignorance is the absence of education. I could go on with this line of reasoning, but let’s just try to agree that more education equals less fear: If you’re more educated, you’ll be more confident, and therefore less reactionary and less confused. Belief clarifies, and confidence is nothing more than belief.

Big deal! Any douche can be arrogantly confident.

I say “self-contained” confidence because getting to this point is a careful dialog with the self, using outside references. It’s self-confidence that isn’t arrogant because it’s not just about the interior ego: it’s also about putting in some effort here in the real, tangible, exterior world.

Becoming educated is by definition a path one takes (you can’t be born educated) and it’s dotted by such things as classic trial and error, which I believe is a good way to describe the risks

in either setting up a chemical reaction or raising your hand under the stern gaze of a philosophy professor. In other words, to become educated, you have to put in some time and some work and you have to take some marginal risks. You can pick up the pace, but shortcuts don’t take you to the same place, cadged good grades aside. All you’re guaranteed to get out of all of this is a more refined you—it’s an interior, contained reward.

Wow, that was all rather bloody conservative. A.C. Grayling and Alan Bloom would be proud. But, how, exactly does any of that make you dangerous?

Simple: Anyone whose intellect is not only confident but has a reason for that confidence cannot be easily overwhelmed, taken advantage of, lied to, outfoxed or otherwise bullied by a world that deems itself “complex” and “difficult.” There will always be any number of pernicious things assailing the educated mind, but an educated mind is better at fighting back—and guiding the individual—than an uneducated one. It’s hard to imagine a future so scary that this will no longer be true. If you’re educated, in whatever way, you’ll pose a serious threat to everything and everyone that attempts to mess with your essential self-confidence.

The lucky among us were weaned on Bill Watterson’s “Calvin & Hobbes” comic strip. You might recall Calvin’s dyspeptic, retirement-desiring teacher, Miss Wormwood.

Miss Wormwood’s frustrations were once summarized by Watterson himself: “I think she seriously believes in the value of education, so needless to say, she’s an unhappy person.” Hmmm… no, she’s got it all wrong. Maybe what she really needed was another cup of coffee.

Connor Southard is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every Wednesday.

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wildcats from page 9 later in Evanston, Ill., where Duke upset the then-No. 1 Wildcats.

This season, Northwestern boasts two singles players in the nation’s top 50—No. 11 Maria Mosolova and No. 43 Samantha Murray—and a trio of quality doubles teams that could trouble the Blue Devils. But Duke comes into the match on the back of two straight wins. Since a disappointing 7-0 defeat to Florida nearly a month ago, the Blue Devils have taken down William and Mary, and more importantly, No. 3 Notre Dame, the squad that gave Northwestern its only loss of the season thus far.

One player the Wildcats won’t have to deal with is former Duke star Mallory Cecil, who turned pro after winning an individual NCAA championship last spring. Hers

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turned out to be the decisive match in both meetings with Northwestern last season: At Team Indoors, Cecil took the first set from Mosolova before dropping the next two, and the Wildcats won the dual match, 4-3.

But at the rematch in Evanston, Cecil pulled out a thrilling three-setter to give Duke the win. The Blue Devils lost just twice more all year en route to a national title.

In Cecil’s place, Duke will be forced to rely on a trio of youngsters who have already carved out roles for themselves on this year’s team—not as individual national title contenders like Cecil, but as solid contributors at the lower singles spots and in doubles play. Monica Gorny, Mary Clayton and Jessica Stiles have all been critical performers for the Blue Devils so far this year, and their play could be the difference Wednesday against the Wildcats.

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Former Blue Devil Mallory Cecil won’t be a factor in Duke’s matchup with No. 1 Northwestern this season.

M. LAX from page 9 left in the third. And he scored again just 21 seconds later off of the ensuing faceoff for good measure, deflating the surprisingly large contingent of Dartmouth supporters.

Quinzani downplayed the series of impressive moves, crediting his teammates more than anything.

“Right there, Ned was just feeding me and I was trying to get points,” Quinzani said. “If he keeps feeding me like that, I’ll keep getting opportunities.”

The blowout victory was even more impressive considering Dartmouth played a zone defense. In college lacrosse, the zone is extremely uncommon, and the Blue Devils had only one day to prepare for it. The oddity of the defensive alignment showed early in the contest as Quinzani particularly struggled to get on track.

As the game moved on, though, Duke was able to impose its tempo and completely shred the the Big Green’s zone.

“Zone is difficult because we don’t see it in practice or in games,” Danowski said. “But we’re always trying to create tempo, and our guys did a good job of playing fast. We were able to get some transition goals, and it allowed Max to relax.”

Overall, the Blue Devils attempted a whopping 44 shots, more than doubling Dartmouth’s 21 attempts. Goalies Dan Wigziner and Mike Rock picked up eight total saves on the day and helped anchor a stellar defensive effort that kept the Big Green quiet all evening long.

After a rocky start to the season, Duke hopes to build off the victory and keep momentum going when it faces a much stiffer challenge this weekend. The Blue Devils play eighth-ranked Georgetown in Washington, D.C Saturday.

But if Duke can continue to improve and continue to stifle opposing attacks, it has a chance to put together another stellar performance.

“Guys are getting better,” Danowski said. “A certain chemistry is being developed, and a certain focus, because there have been some days we haven’t liked. We gained another day of experience, and hopefully we’re going to play better next week.”

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Henrietta Lacks, descendant of slaves, died of cancer in 1951. Her cells, taken without her knowledge, became one of the most important tools of biomedical research, creating a multimillion dollar industry. Yet her children struggle with poverty and lack of access to health care.

Award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot will discuss the ethical issues raised by Henrietta’s story, such as informed consent, and access to profits from products derived from patient tissues.

Skloot’s New York Times bestselling book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, has been featured by NPR, the Colbert Report, ABC World News and many other media.

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