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WISER Resume reveals inconsistencies volunteers reassigned potti investigation

by Tullia Rushton THE CHRONICLE

For almost a year, accusations have slowly mounted against Duke cancer researcher Dr. Anil Potti. First, questions were raised about his scientific discoveries. Then, a cancer research newsletter pointed out problems with his resume, drawing new scrutiny to his work.

Now, a Duke investigation led by Provost Peter Lange has found “issues of substantial concern” in Potti’s resume and biographical sketches, and both internal and external investigations into Potti’s research are being planned, according to a Duke News release issued Friday.

“A final decision about Dr. Potti’s future status as a Duke employee and faculty member will also be informed by the results of the research misconduct inquiry and the independent external evaluation of the science,” the release said.

“Until such time, he will remain on administrative leave from his research, teaching and clinical responsibilities.”

The provost later confirmed that the administrative leave is paid.

Lange and Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, declined to describe the “issues of substantial concern” in information Potti provided in resumes and biographical sketches.

However, The Chronicle has confirmed several

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

To the dismay of Kenyan campers and DukeEngage students who planned to attend CampWISER in Muhuru Bay, Kenya, this summer marked the second time since 2007 that camp was not in session.

The DukeEngage program was shut down for the summer after a dispute occurred between the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research school and its contractor, said Sherryl Broverman, associate professor of the practice of biology and co-founder of WISER. CampWISER is a summer program committed to promoting gender equality among male and female Kenyan high school students.

After being fired for not completing his responsibilities, the contractor tried to obtain a judge’s order to shut down the school until he was paid the remainder of his stipulated salary. Although the Kenyan magistrate eventually ruled in the school’s favor, Broverman could not immediately guarantee that DukeEngage students would have a place to work and stay.

Students instead partnered with a different organization in two different locations in Kenya.

See potti on page 22 Photo illustration by courtney douglas

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DSG Judiciary The Tower replaces Tommy’s declines to hear with more healthy options Robinette case

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

In a three-hour session Sunday, the Duke Student Government Judiciary decided not to review a second case of discrimination brought against the Duke College Republicans.

The suit was filed by senior Justin Robinette, former DCR chair, who claimed last Spring he was impeached from his position because he is gay.

The Judiciary ruled that Robinette, who filed the Aug. 20 suit along with eight anonymous plaintiffs, did not provide the court with any new material except for records of “student-on-student harassment,” which falls outside of the court’s purview. The plaintiffs claimed they were repeatedly harassed and received multiple death threats, but the

Construction of the K4 residence hall may be far from complete, but another tower has already moved in nearby.

The Tower, a grill-based eatery that replaces barbecue joint Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs, opened Sunday night.

The restaurant features a revamped menu of local farmraised meats and locally-grown produce. The new concept is still in the hands of Tommy’s owner Tom Meyer, Trinity ’91.

The Tower menu is lighter and generally healthier than that of its predecessor, featuring small plates, salads, sandwiches and “stix”—meats and vegetables marinated and grilled on skewers. Sandwich options range from a local burger made with all-natural Black Angus beef to chacareros—South American street sandwiches.

Although the restaurant targets a dinner audience, it also features some “pub favorites,” including housemade nachos and jumbo chicken wings. The Tower

See judiciary on page 20

Duke falls to No. 2 Stanford, Page 3

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Presidential Pardon Davidson College president will lead UNC system, PAGE 3

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New eatery The Tower, located in Tommy’s Rubs and Grubs’s old location in McLendon Tower, will serve fresh, local foods this year.

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“To be honest, I would probably be dead without it. It saved me from a childhood fraught with unhappiness.”

­—Author Ron Currie Jr. on writing. See story page 4

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“Students need to be very careful when they are handling these claims. The kind of ruling last time (barring the dissenting opinion, which adequately reflects how these kinds of cases work in the real world, at the employment level) doesn’t cut it.”

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WASHINGTON — Five months after the adoption of the sweeping new health-care law, momentum is building to modify and possibly repeal one of its funding sources. The sums in question are small in comparison with the total trillion-dollar tab for the healthcare overhaul, but some see the move as an opening for further changes to a law Democrats had been determined to leave untouched.

The provision, which takes effect next year, will require businesses to file 1099 tax forms reporting any purchases they make of goods or services above $600 from any individual or business, including corporations. Currently, businesses only need to file 1099s when they buy services—and only when the vendor is an unincorporated person or business.

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Angelou encourages Ross tapped to take over UNC system presidency courage, humility

by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE

Several minutes into her speech, Maya Angelou abruptly requested that her microphone stand be moved closer to the edge of the stage so that she could have a better view of the audience.

“I want to see people, I want them to see me. I have something to say.”

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Poet Maya Angelou speaks to freshmen in the Duke Chapel Sunday, an annual event during the University’s orientation week.

As part of a Duke tradition stretching back to 1989, Angelou, a civil rights icon known best for her 1969 biography “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings,” addressed freshmen in the Chapel Sunday.

Angelou, Reyonlds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University, urged the Class of 2014 to remember their common humanity and to abandon feelings of superiority and inferiority, emphasizing the idea that “we are more alike than unalike.”

Angelou, who is fluent in several languages as well as a successful writer, also spoke of the importance of language and began her address with a multilingual spiritual. Angelou described language as a means of exploration of the self as well as others, suggesting that “language is a key so you can understand who you are.”

Although Angelou is now 82 and was escorted to and from the speaking platform, the tone of her address was engaging and dynamic. She caught many students off guard with her frequent inclusion of humor, at one point attributing her fame to the fact that she looks “just like Maya Angelou.”

Several times throughout the speech, the Chapel echoed with the laughter of students. But Angelou discussed a number of serious matters as well, including courage, leadership and race relations.

See angelou on page 16

Thomas Ross, president of Davidson College, will lead North Carolina’s public university system starting next year.

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted unanimously Thursday to appoint Ross as its new chief executive and announced he will take the reins of the 17-campus system Jan. 1.

As president, Ross will be tasked with confronting a variety of challenges intensified by a slumping economy.

Ross is to take over an institution reeling from $575 million in cuts over the last three years and the loss of nearly 900 administrative positions, The Daily Tar Heel reported. He is likely to play a major role in shaping tuition policy, which is expected to involve hikes.

Ross will succeed Erskine Bowles, who was tapped by President Barack Obama in February to co-chair the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

“To be asked to follow in their footsteps is daunting and, frankly, a little scary,” the president-elect said of his predecessors at a press conference, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Although he has not yet outlined a specific agenda, Ross stressed that he is committed to excellence in higher education and that “excellence will be a part of the mission of this university.”

Hannah Gage, chairwoman of the board and head of the search committee, said the committee first considered between 55 to 65 candidates and then narrowed the list to nine individuals, according to The Daily Tar Heel.

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Davidson College President Thomas Ross was unanimously selected to lead the University of North Carolina system by its Board of Governors. ent from many different professional backgrounds and from every part of the country, but in the end, that long road led us back to North Carolina, to one of our own,” Gage said in a statement.

Ross has been at the helm of Davidson College, his Alma mater, since 2007. Prior to that post, he served as a North Carolina superior court judge for 17 years and as executive director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, a grant-giving institution devoted to promoting social, economic and environmental justice.

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Currie relates novel to own experiences

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

When many members of the Class of 2014 read Ron Currie Jr.’s book “Everything Matters!” this summer, they may not have realized that the “very very strange life” of the novel’s protagonist is based in part on the author’s own experiences.

Currie, whose book “Everything Matters!” was required summer reading for incoming freshmen, spoke at Baldwin Auditorium Saturday about his past experiences and how they related to his book. A strange series of events in his life inspired the apocalyptic novel that was ultimately selected out of the more than 70 nominations submitted to the University.

Currie grew up as a “blue collar lunch pail kid” in central Maine and became interested in writing at a young age. Reading and writing served as an escape from difficult financial circumstances, Currie told a crowd of a few hundred students.

But despite heading to Clemson University, Currie dropped out in 1993 and worked as a short-order cook, writing whenever he had spare time. Several years later, Currie said he worried that he might have made the wrong choice.

“I realized pretty early on that I didn’t need to go to college to accomplish what I wanted to do, but after [a few years] I realized that I made the wrong decision,” Currie said. “I had a... life crisis at 25 and decided that if I didn’t sell my first story by 26, I would stop writing. Two weeks before [then], I sold my first story.”

Currie said he began working on “Everything Matters!” even before he started his first published book, a collection of short stories titled “God is Dead.”

Currie said much of his inspiration for the fictional See book on page 16

Q&A with Ron Currie Jr. Author Ron Currie Jr. spoke to students in two sessions Saturday afternoon in Baldwin Auditorium about his novel “Everything Matters!” , which served as the summer reading selection for the Class of 2014. The novel, published in 2009, follows the life of a young man burdened with foreknowledge of an apocalypse. The Chronicle’s Yeshwanth Kandimalla spoke with Currie after one of the talks about both his work and his personal life.

The Chronicle: What was your reaction to Duke’s selection of “Everything Matters!” as the book that all freshmen would be required to read?

Ron Currie Jr.: I was definitely surprised. It was in-

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Ron Currie Jr., author of freshman reading selection “Everything Matters!,” spoke with the Class of 2014 Saturday about his novel.

teresting because I had found out that it was named a finalist at [another university] for their freshman reading selection. It didn’t end up getting chosen, though.

When I found out that Duke had chosen it as the book to read, it was tremendously gratifying. I find that younger readers often respond well to my work, even better than older readers sometimes.

TC: Of the forums where you have presented and discussed the novel, what made Duke different?

RC: The size of the audience, definitely. I think the next closest I ever had was around 500 people total, and here it’s around 800 in each group. I’ve also been very impressed with the level of engagement and curiosity about the book among students. Students weren’t afraid to take me head on with some of their issues with the book. Some authors may have a problem with it, but I think it’s part of the exchange.

TC: What are the major aspects of your creative process?

RC: Writing a novel can definitely be difficult, but you can become more apt at it. I like to use an analogy. Think of a surgeon and a really basic surgical procedure, like maybe an appendectomy. The anatomy of each patient is different, so finding the appendix is the difficult part. Removing it is relatively simpler. For me, the novel, in a sense, is the patient, and I’m sort of performing an appendectomy. For me, it’s ultimately about the end product.

TC: And how do you develop each character’s voice in the alternating narrative perspective of the novel?

RC: I think it’s the same as other elements. You start writing and see what works. Certain consistencies start to pop up, which definitely leads to a good end product.

TC: What has writing as a form of personal expression meant for you in your life?

RC: To be honest, I would probably be dead withSee currie on page 21

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Livestock losses add to Pakistan catastrophe

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MOHIB BANDA, Pakistan — Many of the people in this northwestern village are back at their mud-caked plots.

Many of their strapping black buffaloes are not, having been washed away by the floods still displacing millions of people in the country’s south.

The deaths of those animals is a local calamity - measured in milk shortages and scores of lost jobs - that is magnifying the threat of epidemics among hungry and weak survivors here. At the national level, the loss of livestock is part of a widescale drowning of the agricultural economy that feeds Pakistan, employs half its population and sustains its crucial textile export industry.

A month after monsoon rains caused flooding in the northern mountains, relief efforts were still in emergency mode. On Sunday, the Indus River, surging at 40 times its normal volume,

breached levees near the southern city of Sujawal. Evidence is growing that the river’s path of destruction has stunted, if not annihilated, social and economic systems across Pakistan.

The effects, from increased hunger to obliterated schools, are likely to force Pakistan and the United States—which last fall earmarked billions of dollars in aid to build up Pakistan’s civilian government—to retool their development plans. The crisis could ignite unrest and imperil the army’s fight against Islamist insurgents, who carried out three deadly bombings and threatened foreign aid workers this week.

Unlike the deadly jolt of the 2005 earthquake that previously ranked as Pakistan’s gravest natural disaster, the flooding metastasized like a cancer, submerging an area nearly as large as Florida. With much of the south still underwater, assessing the damage remains guesswork.

But there is little doubt the losses are colossal. The government says 1.2 million houses, 10,000 schools, 35 bridges

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and 9 percent of the national highway systems have been damaged or destroyed. Even as emergency workers in the northern mountains build temporary bridges, landslides smother more roads.

Particularly unique to this disaster is the extensive agricultural ruin. With as much as 20 percent of farmland inundated, a lot of sugarcane was probably lost to root damage, and a quarter of this year’s cottonis destroyed, agricultural experts said. Some textile plants have closed and laid off workers.

The northern areas that are drying out may be able to manage the October wheat planting, but only if the soil proves resilient and only if families do not first use all their seed as food, said Luigi Daimani of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. The wheat season in the flooded fields of southern Sindh province is in jeopardy, he said, meaning there might be no harvest until summer 2012.

“If you lose this season, it would be dramatic, dramatic,” Daimani said.

The floods killed about 1,600 people. More than 17 million have been affected, nearly 5 million of whom lack shelter, officials said. At least 800,000 were still stranded in isolated areas this week, the U.N. reported.

Many of the displaced might never be able to return home, given the ruined landscapes, relief officials said.

“In a quick onset disaster, you bury the dead, and then you start working with the living,” said Bill Berger, the disaster assistance response team leader for the U.S. Agency for International Development. In Pakistan, he said, the living amount to millions of victims who will need support for the foreseeable future.

Some who moved tugged along a lone cow or buffalo, the life savings for many in Pakistan’s largely poor population of 170 million. This week, cattle shared space with humans at makeshift camps on roadsides in northwest and along rushing canals in the south. Refugees scavenged for grasses to feed the animals, some bony and afflicted with bacterial diseases.

The U.N.’s agricultural agency said the flooding has killed at least 200,000 livestock, but that is likely a drop in the bucket. In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province alone, the government says nearly that many large animals were wiped out, and those that remain have lost half their “production capacity” to illness and stress. Feed was destroyed, milking equipment was damaged and barns collapsed.

“I’ll have to cut down some 60 percent of jobs... there will be less raw material this year,” said Khawaja Usman, owner of a leather factory and vice president of the chamber of commerce and industry in the Punjab Province city of Multan.

In Mohib Banda, 300 cattle at a military-run dairy farm drowned, and some of their putrid carcasses lie covered in flies in the mud. In a nearby village, dairy farmer Arshed See pakistan on page 17

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Climate failures may stroke record coal trading by matthew carr bloomberg news

Coal trading is poised to rise to an all-time high this year as prices at less than half their 2008 peak stoke demand, defying government efforts to phase out the mostpolluting fossil fuel.

The volume of coal derivatives bought and sold around the world may jump as much as 46 percent this year to 2.3 billion metric tons, based on data from exchanges and brokers, according to Guillaume Perret, founder of Perret Associates Ltd. and a former trader at RWE AG, Germany’s second-biggest utility. That would exceed the record 2.2 billion tons traded in 2007.

“It’s looking pretty good for coal,” Kris Voorspools, director of 70Watt Capital Management, a Luxembourg-based hedge fund that specializes in trading spreads in energy and carbon markets, said in an Aug. 24 interview. “It’s the fuel for the developing world. China and India are using it to grow.”

The increase in coal trading underscores how fuel demand in Asia is hampering government measures to tackle global warming. United Nations Climate Chief Christiana Figueres said on June 9 negotiations to extend Kyoto Protocol limits on greenhouse-gas emissions are unlikely to succeed this year. Global coal demand held near a record in 2009, while oil consumption dropped 1.7 percent and natural-gas use fell 2.1 percent, according to BP Plc’s June 2010 Statistical Review.

Prices have fallen 56 percent since trading at a record $217.75 a ton on July 1, 2008.

The world’s biggest energy exchanges are seeking to encourage trading. Intercontinental Exchange Inc.’s ICE Futures Europe on Aug. 6 began allowing investors to trade coal derivatives with a minimum of 1,000 tons, 20 percent the size of its previous requirement, to attract hedge funds and smaller banks. CME Group Inc. said this week it will start offering four new contracts settled against coal prices.

LCH.Clearnet Group Ltd. plans to offer Richards Bay and Rotterdam coal swaps “soon,” according to Jason LaBrooy, a spokesman in London.

European governments set the world’s most ambitious targets to cut greenhouse gases and wean themselves off coal, which emits about twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas. The European Commission, the regulator for the 27-nation European Union, set up a cap-and-trade system in 2005 to make polluters pay for carbon emissions. In the U.S., where coal accounts for about 25 percent of energy consumption, lawmakers plan to revive climate-protection legislation after being defeated in Congress last month.

Coal-price declines and the growing use of alternative energy still pose risks for traders.

Some banks and hedge funds “threw in the towel” in 2008 and 2009, Perret, of London-based Perret Associates, a coal, freight and iron-ore adviser, said in an Aug. 25 e-mail.

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Fin. aid office teaches students money management

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Amid the free food, activities and prizes of Orientation Week, some freshmen took the time to learn about financial challenges they could face in the next four years.

The Undergraduate Financial Aid Office held financial literacy sessions Saturday in response to the federal Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. The two afternoon sessions included information, advice and demonstrative skits to teach freshmen about budgeting, building credit and avoiding debt.

Freshman Marina Goll, who attended the second session, said she appreciated the information.

“I’m 18, it’s time for me to learn how to be financially responsible. I don’t want to graduate with a bunch of debt,” Goll said.

“I think [my parents] will be more willing to help if I do my part and if I’m conscious of how much I’m spending.”

The sessions, held by Assistant Director of Financial Aid Jill Cordell and Financial Aid Officer Ryan Sparrow, taught students about budgeting as well as credit. Sparrow, who spoke mainly about budgeting, suggested that students discuss their budgets with their families, participate in research experiments for extra cash and keep track of their expenses each month.

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Q&A with Anirudh Krishna After nearly a decade of studying poverty by reviewing more than 35,000 households on four continents, Anirudh Krishna, associate professor of public policy and political science, has published a new book “One Illness Away: Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty.” In the book, Krishna argues that instead of focusing primarily on how to lift people out of poverty, policy makers should be trying to prevent poverty from occurring in the first place. The Chronicle’s Sonia Havele spoke with Krishna on poverty, policy and his new book.

The Chronicle: You have been working on the research that has been described in your book for nearly a decade. Can you tell me a little about your book and this research?

Anirudh Krishna: I found that over the space of the last 25 years, almost as many people have come out of poverty as have fallen into poverty. The difference between those two numbers was just 2 percent. There is simultaneously a flow out of poverty and a flow into poverty. This flow into poverty is something that’s off the radar screens of policy makers. I also found that the factors that were taking people out of poverty were very different from the factors that were bringing people into poverty. People were falling into poverty as a result of a number of different kinds of adverse events—but bad health and high health care costs were common to a vast majority of stories of falling into poverty. Coming out of poverty was basically through developing additional income sources.

So the story of coming out of poverty was about income, the story of falling

into poverty was about expenditure.

Sudden large expenditures, primarily health care but also things like death feasts, marriages, droughts—these were the factors that were leading people into poverty, so you need one set of policies for that. To take people out of poverty, you need things like education, irrigation and better jobs.

TC: Why did you decide to write a book?

of poverty and managing programs to deal with it. [Later I] did my Ph.D. and went back to looking at the same things as a researcher. A lot of the thinking about poverty at that time was driven by the top down, macro-national view that when countries grow, everybody’s lot improves and poverty goes down. But, as I was doing my research in communities in India, I realized that this wasn’t always

“I found that over the space of the last 25 years, almost as many people have come out of poverty as have fallen into poverty. The difference between those two numbers was just 2 percent. There is simultaneously a flow out of poverty and a flow into poverty.”

— Anirudh Krishna, associate professor of public policy and political science AK: I did a lot of research articles earlier—each location had a separate research article. One day I thought, you know, these research articles are read by academics, but this is important knowledge about poverty to put out to the world.

TC: How did you originally become interested in studying the individuals and communities affected by world poverty?

AK: I have, from the very beginning, worked on issues of poverty and development. For the first half of my working life, I was a practitioner. I worked for the government in parts of rural and urban India dealing with various kinds of issues

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true. I saw lots of people in poor communities, some of whom were as poor or poorer than before, some of whom had moved up and out of poverty. Now what was the difference between the two of them? It wasn’t national economic growth, it wasn’t the difference in national programs or even [non-governmental organizations], because all of them were living under the same umbrella of policies, programs, growth rates and so on.

So it seemed important to investigate what people were doing by themselves to break out of poverty. What were their circumstances? What were the setbacks

and liabilities they were suffering from?

There is a lot that goes on in terms of the effects of policy, but there is also a lot that’s going on in terms of people’s own efforts and people’s own experiences. And it’s the second part of this knowledge, the micro-level knowledge, that’s really missing, which is where I thought I would make a contribution.

TC: How have your views changed since you began your research of poverty around the world?

AK: They’ve changed radically. My view earlier, as the view of a lot of people is, is that you should help people in poverty.

And I think that is still true, but what I think is more true is that you should prevent poverty first. You should have things, policies, interventions in place that assist people before they become poor....

Among them, I would rank affordable, high-quality health care as number one, which is the title of the book—“One Illness Away.” There are millions of people all over the world including in rich countries, like the United States, who are one illness away from acute poverty, and it’s only countries and communities which have made available affordable, high-quality health care to all their citizens that have the lowest poverty rates, not the countries with the highest [gross domestic product] per capita. The second thing that changed was I used to believe that large masses of people in a country could be raised out of poverty by doing the one right thing. The search was for the perfect program, the magic See krishna on page 21

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Administators said that though orientation weekend is high-risk, this year there were no more incidents than a typical long weekend.

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As students welcomed in the new school year, Duke Police officials spent their orientation week working to ensure student safety during one of the most high-risk periods of the academic year.

Chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police Department said that during the weekend of orientation his force was busier than usual, adding that DUPD had additional staffing and established several drunken driving check points near campus.

“We do specifically prepare for these first couple of weekends of school. They tend to be dangerous weekends, especially for new students,” Dailey said. “I think [the checkpoints] act as a deterrent and get people who are drinking off the road.”

Despite a number alcohol citations, though, Dailey said no students were victims or perpetrators of serious crimes. In addition, no students were arrested at the checkpoints, he added.

Although DUPD paid significant attention paid to alcohol-related misconduct, Dailey said his greatest concern was student safety.

“I think the concerning thing about orientation week is that a couple times during the week we received calls about students that were unattended and passed out,” Dailey said. “That’s what worries us.”

Although the heightened security increased the likelihood that students would be apprehended, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said the amount of student misconduct during orientation weekend this year was no higher than that of an average weekend at Duke.

“I don’t think that this week and weekend were necessarily worse than other weekends,” she said, explaining that during orientation week officials work especially hard to make certain that students and student leaders know the University’s expectations.

Indeed, for all their added preparation, Duke administrators said the number of citations during orientation week reflected that of any extended weekend. “[Orientation week] is typically like any other big weekend.” Dailey said. “We probably had an alcoholrelated incident every night.”

For some students, the increased security presence was a noticeable, and unexpected, addition to the night.

“I’ve never seen so many police officials in one night,” said sophomore Lauren Martin. “It’s good that they’re enforcing people’s safety, but it was a little overwhelming.”

Sophomore Issy Chammah said that while she was waiting in a line of cars pulled over at a driving checkpoint, she watched the police make all the passengers in a taxi in front of her exit the car and take sobriety tests.

“It was a little over-the-top to take the kids out of their cabs,” she said. “Obviously there was drinking going on, but if [the students] are taking cabs they’re being responsible.”

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Night at the Museum A photo essay by Indu Ramesh

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U.N. report cites Rwandan troops in war crimes by colum lynch

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An exhaustive U.N. investigation into the history of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo has concluded that the Rwandan military and its allies carried out hundreds of large-scale killings of ethnic Hutu refugees during the 1990s that amounted to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly genocide, according to a confidential copy of the report.

The report - which runs 545 pages long and details crimes committed in Congo from March 1993 to June 2003 -- represents the harshest U.N. account to date of the conduct of the ethnic Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government, which has largely been credited with liberating the country from the perpetrators of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Its release represents a political blow to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who was re-elected president of his

country this month in a landslide election victory that was marred by allegations of political repression against political opponents. His government denounced the U.N. findings as “immoral and unacceptable,” and Rwanda has sought to block the report’s release, according to U.N. sources.

The U.N. inquiry, which was conducted by a team from the U.N.’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, alleges that Rwanda and its military allies carried out systematic waves of well-planned, highly organized reprisal killings against Hutu refugees in the years after they fled across the border into eastern Zaire, now known as Congo, along with remnants of the former Rwandan military. It also notes that Rwanda’s ethnic Tutsi allies inside eastern Congo were also the target of mass killings and persecution.

The report documents more than 600 incidents of large-scale killings in Congo from March 1993 through

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June 2003, which it claims constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. It notes that the “systematic and widespread attacks described in this report reveal a number of damning elements that, if proven, could be classified as crimes of genocide.”

“The period covered by this report is probably one of the most tragic in the recent history” of Congo, the report stated. “Indeed, this decade was marked by a string of major political crises, wars and multiple ethnic and regional conflicts that brought about the deaths of thousands, if not millions of people.”

The Rwandan government issued a statement Thursday challenging the findings, asserting that the U.N. investigators employed a “questionable methodology, sourcing and shockingly low standard of proof” in reaching their conclusions.

“The report is a dangerous and irresponsible document that under the guise of human rights can only achieve instability in the Great Lakes (of Africa) region and undermine ongoing efforts to stabilize the region,” the Rwandan statement said. The Great Lakes region encompasses Burundi, Congo, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda.

The U.N. findings were reported Wednesday by the French daily Le Monde and the New York Times on Saturday.

Rwanda’s former Hutu-dominated government, backed by ethnic Hutu militias, killed more than 800,000 Rwandans, primarily ethnic Tutsis, during the 1994 genocide.

A Rwandan rebel movement, headed by Kagame, seized control of Kigali, the Rwandan capital, while many of those responsible for the mass killings, along with hundreds of thousands of Hutu civilians, fled across the border into eastern Zaire, where they continued to mount raids against the new Rwandan government.

Kagame is credited with having transformed Rwanda into a dynamic economic upstart and with providing women with unprecedented rights to pursue entrepreneurial and political pursuits. But his government has been dogged by allegations, stemming from the years following the genocide, that his own forces engaged in massive human rights abuses, though on a far smaller scale than the government it ousted.

Kagame maintains that his country’s army has engaged in military operations in eastern Congo targeted solely at combatants responsible for perpetrating genocide in Rwanda and for subsequently mounting attacks against the country from bases inside Congo. The report acknowledges that the Kagame’s government continued to face armed attacks from Rwandan rebels in Congo, and that it welcomed back a massive number of Hutu refugees to Rwanda - a gesture, the report noted, that may complicate efforts to prosecute government officials for engaging in genocide.

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Somali militants seize key road as pressure grows

by Sudarsan Raghavan the washington post

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali militants linked to al-Qaida briefly asserted control over Mogadishu’s most strategic road Saturday, escalating their efforts to overthrow the U.S.backed transitional government in a region where Islamic radicalism is gaining strength.

Never have the radical al-Shabab militiamen attacked so near Somalia’s halls of power as they have last week, bringing them closer to their desire to create a Taliban-like Islamic emirate from which to export jihad abroad.

Saturday’s attack triggered an intense gun battle on the Muka al-Mukarama, a vital artery that connects key government ministries and the presidential palace to the airport. The fighting sent hundreds fleeing their homes and trapped men like Mohammed Ali in the crosshairs of war.

The 22-year-old policeman fired a volley of bullets at al-Shabab fighters crouching in an alley connecting to the road. Bullets cracked back like thunderclaps. A mix of surprise and pain spread across Ali’s boyish face, as blood oozed from his shattered foot, turning the road a dark crimson.

“We warned you not to fire your rifle,” yelled a comrade, as others risked a similar fate to drag Ali to safety.

Next to them, soldiers and policemen stood against a wall of shuttered houses and stores that shielded them from the bullets whistling overhead. Scores of civilians who fled homes around the Dubka intersection huddled with them.

No one dared to go to the intersection, where al-Shabab fighters were firing on anyone attempting to cross the street.

“We are getting weaker and weaker every

day,” lamented Col. Ahmed Mohammed, a burly commander dressed in camouflage fatigues.

Many of the soldiers had received only one month’s salary in the past eight months.

For this, they would not risk their lives.

Over the past week, during Islam’s holiest month of Ramadan, al-Shabab fighters have pressed on this oceanside capital. The militia has grown increasingly ambitious since orchestrating last month’s twin bombings in the Ugandan capital of Kampala that killed more than 70 World Cup fans.

The militants have overtaken neighborhoods once controlled by the government.

On Monday, they vowed an all-out war to eradicate the government and drive out a contingent of 6,000 African Union peacekeepers that protects it.

The next day, two al-Shabab suicide bombers attacked the Hotel Muna near the presidential palace, killing 31 people, including members of parliament and civil servants.

The Muka al-Mukarama was a logical target. There was only one African Union outpost on the long thoroughfare between Mogadishu’s commercial center and the Dubka intersection.

Lined with cafes, travel agencies and money transfer shops, the road is indispensable for Mogadishu residents. The militants have attacked the road before, but never with the intensity seen Saturday.

The assault began in the morning, as the militants took over buildings near the intersection and started to fire at passing vehicles.

By 10 a.m, they controlled the Dubka intersection, effectively dividing the capital.

Most residents stayed home, but the few who ventured out were forced to take detours

over tiny, mud-filled roads to cross the city.

The road was deserted, save for the lone souls fleeing from their homes or running from the bullets that punctuated the eerie silence of what was once the capital’s busiest street.

More than 10 bullets pounded the pink wall of Hassan Abdulqadir Farah’s house.

He gathered his five small daughters and whatever belongings they could pack into a small white minibus. His neighbor Hassan Ahmed and his five children crowded into the minibus as well.

“I can’t live with my children here,” said Farah, a tall man who nervously glanced at the intersection. “The war has reached our

front door.”

By 1 p.m., African Union peacekeepers arrived in white trucks and armored personnel carriers, affixed with large machine guns. They promptly began to pound the militants with a thunderous, jackhammer rhythm. At the end of each volley, the militants fired back with their AK-47s.

None of the civilians huddled against walls appeared to mind that Somalia’s soldiers and policemen watched from the sidelines.

“When you ask the soldiers why they are not fighting, they reply, ‘We have no bullets, we have no salaries,’ “ said Said Yusef Abdullah, 22, who fled his home and was searching for a place to sleep. “I don’t blame them.”

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“I am the master of my fate, the captain of my soul,” said Angelou, quoting British poet William Ernest Henley. Angelou emphasized the use of poetry as a means of introspection, saying that through poetry, “in the worst of times you can see the possibility of seeing light.”

Angelou urged the audience to search within themselves for excellence, and followed by outlining the need for leaders of tomorrow. She called for racial harmony and told students to “lay the burden of ignorance down.”

Students began arriving to the Chapel more than 45 minutes prior to her appearance Sunday afternoon, eager to hear the words of a renowned speaker.

Audrey Adu-Appiah, a freshman who managed to get a seat near the front, admired Angelou’s style as well as her message.

Everything she said was really poetic,” Adu-Appiah said after the speech, “and the idea of poetry as an emblem made me feel more connected and grounded.”

For the past 16 years, Angelou’s address has been presented by Delta Gamma sorority. Angelou’s appearance is a part of the Dorothy Garrett Martin Lectureship in Values and Ethics.

“This is a huge honor. Her words tie in with the goals of Duke,” said Delta Gamma President Becki Feinglos.

“She promotes diversity, tolerance and friendship.”

After Angelou’s speech, freshman were encouraged to sign the Duke Community Standard outside the Chapel, confirming their promises to live up to the rules of their new home.

“It was a perfect end to orientation week,” said freshman Jill Prier.

“Everything Matters!” came from the real world.

“There’s certainly a good deal of my life in this book,” Currie said. “Every character is analogous to somebody in my life.”

Currie added that while his father had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, he was getting home and transcribing his days into the book. Even now, he sometimes has a difficult time reading those passages, he said.

One character in particular was drawn from a man Currie met while working as a cook in a children’s circus. While with his cousin at a Hampton Inn, Currie said a man revealed his plan to strap a bomb to his wheelchair and roll into a Social Security building. Currie said he used that experience verbatim in his novel.

Although Currie said “Everything Matters!” was the most autobiographical work he’s ever written, he added that “fiction is fiction.” He drew on his experiences, but much of the novel is centered around hypothetical apocalypse. For example, John “Junior” Thibodeau, the novel’s protagonist, is a hyper intelligent boy who is born knowing that the world will end in 36 years.

“Part of the reason why Junior is as smart as he is is because he has the advantage of this foreknowledge and voices in his head,” Currie said.

To some students, hearing Currie’s stories made “Everything Matters!” more enjoyable.

“It was interesting to hear his story behind the book because it was so eccentric,” freshman Samantha Sebastian said.

But some students liked their understanding of the book without knowledge of its conception. Freshman Nick Prey said he disagreed with the way that Currie encouraged students to think about the book, but added that it was interesting how relevant all the people in his life were to its plot.

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tower from page 1 will be open from 5 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Wednesday, and until 2 a.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, Meyer said.

“We really are serving the 2,600 students that are living in our 100-yard radius,” Meyer said. “People could feel like if you are eating light, a little more healthfully, this would be a fun, engaging place to come.”

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst asked for a change in restaurant concept in mid-July, and Meyer supported the change. The restaurant then went through a conceptual renovation in five weeks.

As part of the conceptual changes, the restaurant received a new look that

features signs with facts about North Carolina agriculture and a fresh coat of green paint.

“They weren’t hitting the kind of revenue that they were hoping for,” Wulforst said. “Maybe barbecue was the wrong thing to do. The menu we have now is incredibly different.”

The restaurant should be successful because of its revamped menu and emphasis on customer service, Wulforst said, adding that the Tommy’s menu was “a little too heavy for folks.”

About half of The Tower staff is newly hired, including the general manager.

Service should be quick, as well, due to a more efficient workflow, Meyer said.

“From a cashier’s point of view, there are four buttons you have to push and it’s done,” Meyer said, adding that guests should only wait two to four min-

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utes for their food. “The cashier will then just have the job of being nice to the guest.”

Several students at the restaurant’s opening were satisfied with the new concept.

“It’s a lot healthier [than Tommy’s], which is good,” said sophomore Kristen Lee. “It reminds me of one of those new chic restaurants. It looks really cute.”

Many of the changes stem from suggestions by a focus group of students, Wulforst and Residence Life and Housing Services representatives, Meyer said, adding that he consulted dining surveys in making the changes. Results showed that students were displeased with several aspects of the barbecue joint, including its slow service and low inventory. The new restaurant will be committed to keeping items on the menu in stock, he said.

pakistan from page 6 Ali lost 100 cattle to the Indus River. He managed to recover 20 stragglers.

“Our business is at a standstill,” Ali, 38, said. “We have been brought to zero.”

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wiser from page 1 “It was a frustrating thing for most of the Duke students,” Broverman said. “This was the last week when students were about to go into the DukeEngage orientation program... so we decided to send them to other partners in Kenya. Sadly, when 10 days later everything started up again, DukeEngage students were already reassigned.”

The three-year-old residential camp is open to male and female Kenyan high school students and is primarily run by DukeEngage members, Broverman said.

DukeEngage Director Eric Mlyn said students were relocated to Mombasa and Kakamega through the Foundation for Sustainable Development, an American volunteer organization that fosters international development. The FSD programs, however, were different from the one at Muhuru Bay. “The students worked for different organizations in the community, doing developmental work for [many] organizations [including] an organization for developmental disabilities, an orphanage, an HIV education center and things like that,” Mlyn said. “So it was a very different project than Muhuru Bay, but one that was successful and important for Duke.”

Sophomore Sadhna Gupta, who expected to attend CampWISER this summer, said she was extremely disheartened by the camp’s cancellation. Students were told the program was shut down for “safety reasons,” and either had the option of relocating to a different city in Kenya or applying for DukeEngage next year, she added.

Mlyn said all students chose to work with the FSD programs. “[DukeEngage] didn’t even explore the possibility of

“[DukeEngage] didn’t even explore the possibility of going to WISER... and the whole issue got fixed in two weeks.”

— Sadhna Gupta, sophomore going to WISER... and the whole issue got fixed in two weeks,” Gupta said. “We were supposed to be 13 kids going to school in a rural area, living all together, and I ended up in an urban city.”

Gupta, however, said she ended up “loving” her program and is planning to return to Kenya next summer, hopefully to CampWISER. The previous time Dukies were barred from attending CampWISER occurred in 2008, when ethnic violence erupted throughout the country. Kenya was put on Duke’s Restricted Regions List by the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs and Development in January 2008, and Duke students were subsequently prohibited from traveling there.

In previous years, Duke students at CampWISER led sessions on adolescent health, gender, leadership and team building, Broverman said.

Duke students who received funding outside of DukEngage were still able to go to Muhuru Bay, Broverman said, although they did not work at CampWISER. Senior Edwin Coleman was one of those students.

Coleman, who worked at CampWISER in 2009, returned to Muhuru Bay this summer on a research grant secured with Broverman’s help from the Duke Global Health Institute.

Last year, Coleman developed a poetry workshop for elementary and middle school students. He said his workshop was extremely successful this summer, as he was able to reach 10 out of 14 primary schools in Muhuru Bay. And despite this summer’s events, Broverman said she hopes Duke students will continue to work at CampWISER. “I hope as long as DukeEngage exists, kids will be coming to WISER,” Broverman said. “Usually I have about 12 to 13 DukeEngagers and two to five kids from other funding agencies, and I’ve already told DukeEngage I want to renew [the program] for next year.”

Mlyn, however, said because of this summer’s events, the final decision on the program is still indefinite.

“We’re going to look at the WISER program and make a decision [for next year],” he said. “I really need to find out what the situation is on the ground but we’ll certainly look at continuing the program based on what we learn.”

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Due to conflicts with the camp’s contractor, this summer’s CampWISER in Muhuru Bay was temporarily shut down. Though the problem was quickly resolved in favor of the camp, DukeEngage volunteers had already been placed in other parts of Africa.

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judiciary from page 1 Judiciary did not find sufficient evidence that the allegations stemmed from general club business or leadership.

“The jurisdiction of the Duke Student Government Judiciary does not include criminal offenses such as death threats or allegations of criminal behavior by individual students that are unrelated to their capacities as leaders of student organizations,” the Judiciary’s press release stated.

In April, the Judiciary ruled there was not substantial evidence to convict the DCR of discrimination. Robinette said, however, that he did not have adequate time to prepare his argument given the limited time frame of events, and thus decided to submit a new petition.

In the second suit, Robinette attached about 30 pages of e-mails, comments and other forms of evidence that indicate club members discriminated against him and the other plaintiffs.

finance from page 8 Financial literacy is discussed with students receiving financial aid at the University’s mandatory financial aid orientation sessions, but the financial aid staff decided to offer sessions to all students for the first time this year, Cordell said.

The Orientation Welcome Week Advisory Committee decided in March to offer the 50-minute sessions partly in response to the CARD act, which took effect in February. The legislation, intended to protect college-aged credit card users from inadvertent debt and aggressive credit card

Senior Travis Rapp, senior representative of the DCR, said the club is looking forward to moving beyond the incident and starting afresh.

“I support that decision because I guess the U.S. Constitution wouldn’t try the case twice,” Rapp said. “As far as I know, right now we’re planning to go forward with business as usual.”

Robinette said he plans to plead his case at the open forum of the first Duke Student Government meeting Wednesday.

“There is no easy path to resolution unless [DCR members] reach out to us on a personal level,” he said.

Mediation and University involvement Although the student-run Judiciary will not further investigate the case, the University has been involved with the incident to varying degrees since April.

In May, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta suggested an informal mediation between current and former club members, Moneta confirmed in a Sunday e-mail.

Former DCR members included senior Cliff Satell, former club vice chair, and Robin-

ette, who were “unable to attend” the meeting for personal reasons, Robinette said.

Shortly after, Satell said he received an e-mail from the Office of Student Conduct suggesting a formal mediation between the two parties. Although the mediation did not take place in the Spring, the Office of Student Conduct and Satell continued to discuss the option throughout the summer, according to Satell.

In an e-mail to the Office of Student Conduct July 22, Satell insisted on having a list of demands met by the DCR before coming to the table—an option not viable in formal mediation.

Satell’s requisitions include a written apology from Club Chief of Staff Rachel Provost, a senior, to various club members and to the gay community at large; a written apology signed by the DCR Executive Board for creating a hostile environment; a written commitment by the DCR not to spread hateful information about former club members; the opportunity to ask Provost a series of questions on the record and a commitment by DCR members to undergo sensitivity treatment in matters related to the gay

community, according to the e-mail.

Although Satell said the Office of Student Conduct repeatedly asked him to be open minded, he refused to drop his demands, according to an e-mail sent by the Office of Student Conduct. For this reason, the Office of Student Conduct could not proceed with his case.

“I trusted that [the Office of Student Conduct] would not succumb to the institutional deafness that permeates every corner of the Administration,” Satell wrote in an Aug. 4 email to the Office of Student Conduct. “Maybe if I were a Durham prostitute at some frat party you might take me more seriously.”

Early Monday morning, Robinette said he received a meeting request from a dean of the Undergraduate Conduct Board, adding that he plans to attend.

Depending on the administration’s actions within the next few weeks, however, Satell said he and Robinette may consider suing the University.

“All of the options are on the table,” he said. “We’ll find out over the ensuing days how hard we have to look at that option based on the administration.”

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Although the mandatory financial aid session packed Page Auditorium, only about 20 freshmen attended each of the two financial literacy sessions on East Campus, many of whom had also been to the mandatory aid seminar. Sparrow and Cordell said that one reason the turnout was low was that both sessions ran during the question and answer session with Ron Currie, Jr., author of the summer reading book “Everything Matters.”

Still, Sparrow and Cordell reminded the students who attended that by being aware and responsible with their budgeting, they

had an advantage over other students regardless of actual wealth.

Cordell encouraged students to avoid building credit until they know how to be financially responsible and how to ask themselves if something is a necessity or simply an impulse buy. She also told students that if and when they decide to start building credit, they should get an annual credit report, but to avoid over-advertised credit report agencies.

“Freecreditreport.com will take your information and charge you if you’re not vigilant about canceling it immediately,” Cordell said.

Sparrow said that when he was a freshman at Duke in 2003, banks had tables set

up in the basement of the Bryan Center offering students free T-shirts for taking out credit cards, which the new legislation prohibits. The CARD act also requires individuals under age 21 to have a cosigner or sufficient income in order to get a credit card.

The CARD act also attempts to protect students by instituting more requirements and limitations regarding bank statements and overdraft fees. Some additional provisions of the CARD act took effect Aug. 22, requiring banks to be clearer in their statements and prohibit them from charging overdraft fees larger than the amount overdrafted, capping them at $25.

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out it. It saved me from a childhood fraught with unhappiness. It saved me from bad financial circumstances.

As far as expressing myself, it can be pretty difficult, but getting it right makes up for it. Those moments are the ones that really sustain me.

TC: Literary critics sometimes compare you as an author to other writers, including Kurt Vonnegut. What do you think of such comparisons?

RC: I consider them inaccurate at best and hyperbolic at worst. Vonnegut has always been a literary hero of mine, so I really don’t want to compare myself [to him]. There are people who also talk about me with Raymond Carver, another literary godfather of mine, which I also don’t believe. I mean, it’s really flattering, but as a book geek, I don’t see myself on that level.

TC: Your book deals with apocalypse—what do you think about the public’s interest in the end of the world?

RC: I think we’ve always been speculating. I personally have always been fixated on it. If there’s a TV special on the History Channel or something, I’ll watch it. I think, as humans, it appeals to a very dark and primal side of our nature, the idea of total destruction. I mean, we’re onto the third generation living in a world of nuclear capability, and that’s a relatively short period to grow accustomed to this new form of destruction. Of course, growing up in the later part of the Cold War, like many people, I was around with all the saber rattling in [President Ronald] Reagan’s time. Then, people definitely became hyper-aware of the potential for the world to end.

bullet so to speak, and now I realize that that’s like the Holy Grail. You’re not going to find it because the factors that take people out of poverty or that put people in to poverty—the threats and the opportunities—vary considerably not just across countries, but also within countries. The third thing I learned was the most painful thing, which was that people who are breaking out of poverty aren’t becoming rich. Even the smartest and most hardworking among them are rising just a tad above the poverty cutoff.

TC: In which country did you feel most affected by the poverty and devastation you were witnessing?

AK: Frankly, the United States. To put it bluntly, finding poor people in a poor country where lots of people are poor is not a surprise. Finding poor and hopeless people in a country that has so much was unnerving. That was one factor. The second factor was... people who are poor in these other countries are not deemed to be poor for their own faults.

People are more forgiving, people are more aware of the real reasons for poverty. But in the United States, along with poverty comes this acute sense of personal failure and stigma. As a result, even talking about poverty in the U.S. is very difficult. [Talking about poverty] is not as stigmatized in the other places I studied partly because this cant about poverty being a result of personal failure is less prolific and less subscribed to in those other domains. The vast majority of people don’t become poor or remain poor for faults of their own. It’s a product of experiences rather than personal qualities.

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potti from page 1 inaccuracies in Potti’s resume, some of which were first reported in The Cancer Letter.

Potti did not respond to repeated requests for comment from The Chronicle.

Examining the resume Of all the pieces of Potti’s resume, the line that has received the most attention is his claim to have been a Rhodes Scholar “Australia” or “Australian Board” in 1995 or 1996, depending on the resume. Potti was also identified as a Rhodes Scholar in a profile in the January/February 2007 issue of GenomeLIFE, published by Duke’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy.

But Potti was never a Rhodes Scholar, a spokesperson for the Rhodes Trust wrote in an e-mail.

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A Lymphoma Research Foundation spokeswoman said the organization’s records do not show that Potti received an award from either organization. In 2001, the Cure For Lymphoma Foundation and the Lymphoma Research Foundation of America joined together and became the Lymphoma Research Foundation.

Potti also claimed to have received an award from the American Society of Hematology in 1999, but an organization spokesman said there was no record of Potti receiving an award. However, the spokesman added that record keeping for awards was not as accurate during that time.

There are also inconsistencies with an award Potti said he received from the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 1998. In two of his biographical sketches, he refers to it as a “Merit Award” and in another, as a “Travel Award.”

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Missing mentor?

Potti also states in one of his biographical sketches that Dr. Gordon McLaren was his “mentor” during a research fellowship at Queensland Research Institute in Australia.

The “Queensland Research Institute” does not exist— only the Queensland Institute for Medical Research, which told The Cancer Letter that Potti had never been employed there.

McLaren, who is now an adjunct professor in the medical school at University of California, Irvine, told The Chronicle he did not work with Potti during McLaren’s time at Queensland from 1994 to 1995.

McLaren added that he met Potti in the late 1990’s when both were employed at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. McLaren said he helped Potti with several of his scientific abstracts in 1998.

“It’s not unreasonable to say that I had been a mentor, it might be a little bit more than I really was, but it would not be unreasonable,” McLaren said.

He said he does not feel any ill will toward Potti for incorrectly referencing him in his resume.

“My main concern is the damaging effect these inaccuracies in his resume will have on his career,” he said.

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If Potti lied, Duke should come clean The University has severeAn investigation led by Proly mishandled its response vost Peter Lange confirmed to allegations leveled against last week that Potti’s resumes cancer researcher and asso- and biographical sketches ciate professor Dr. Anil Potti. contained “issues of substanDuke must provide more in- tial concern.” Potti’s fate with formation about the Univerthe Potti investisity will uleditorial gation going fortimately be ward to reassure the public determined by the results of that it is working toward an two reviews of his scientific efficient resolution in this research—one is a Duke retroubling case. search misconduct inquiry It’s been more than a and the other is an indepenmonth since we learned of alle- dent, external investigation gations against the renowned that will reportedly be led by oncologist, which include The Institute of Medicine. falsely claiming to have been Potti deserves the right to a Rhodes Scholar and falsely a thorough and fair review. claiming to have received sev- But we hope the University eral awards. Resume discrep- will proceed with a sense of ancies have led other scientists greater urgency than is has so to question Potti’s research on far, especially given the fact the use of genomic technol- that three clinical trials that ogy in cancer treatment. rely on Potti’s work have been

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put on hold pending the results of investigative findings.

Human resource issues such as these are best handled internally, but Potti’s situation has drawn unavoidable public interest. It doesn’t take more than a month to check a resume, and the medical community deserves clarity on whether Potti made false claims about himself.

It is unacceptable for Duke to acknowledge only that issues of concern are present.

This wording makes Provost Lange’s review hopelessly inconclusive. Professors and star researchers are often afforded special status within the University setting, but if Potti lied on his resume he should be fired now.

Admittedly, it is important for the University to ensure

that it will have the full cooperation of Potti himself as investigators begin to probe his scientific claims. Replicating and verifying medical research is obviously a longterm process, but the public should know more about the timetable for the two reviews and the University needs to determine how it will integrate their separate findings.

The internal inquiry, although mandated by University policy and federal law according to a Duke News release, raises particular concerns. An independent external review offers a professionalized avenue for investigation that is free from University politics and bureaucratic gridlock. For example, an internal inquiry into the research of Homme Hellinga, James B. Duke professor

of biochemistry, has dragged on for more than three years now. The University needs to do more to convince the public that Potti’s case will not be allowed to disappear into the bureaucracy of the Medical Center. Duke should not use its internal investigation to “hedge” its response to The Institute of Medicine’s independent findings.

Duke’s response to the allegations against Anil Potti has been inefficient and not fully explained. If the claims against Potti are true then Duke needs to take swift action to fire him and begin a substantial reevaluation of the University’s hiring practices. For now, all we can do is continue to reserve judgment in the case against Potti and call on Duke to exhibit greater transparency.

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he New York Times reported Aug. 20 that of Texas at Austin, commented on the uncooralthough the surface of the Gulf of Mexico dinated nature of the response: “It’s a very comis clear, underwater oil plumes lurk in the plex operation in which the human element has ocean depths, including a benot been aligned with the comhemoth 20 miles in length, 600 plexity of the system.” If only, feet thick and a mile wide. Tiny Russian writers will note, such organisms nibble away at its edgan alignment were possible. es, thinking with their deluded, Fyodor Dostoevsky (whose doomed little brains that it is dad wanted him to be an enfood. gineer, and who graduated The media has mostly from the Russian equivalent of packed up and left—what is Pratt 167 years ago) has a lot carol apollonio there to report about calm surto say on such matters. Even what would face waters?—but there’s still a as he works his way diligently dostoevsky do? lot of scurrying going on down through all those homework asthere. Engineers, legal people, signments, all those equations policymakers, economists, environmentalists and and diagrams and plans and designs, he admits scientists are doing their arduous, meticulous in a letter to his brother that the really important work: What exactly happened? Who is to blame? things, God, the soul and love, are not accessible How can such a thing be prevented from ever oc- to the rational mind; that what he really wants curring again? It is possible that your course of to do is study “man,” to learn those things that study at Duke—to cite our top majors: biology, only reveal themselves to the heart. He fought economics, chemistry, political science—is train- the impulse, started his career as an army engiing you for this very line of work. Believe me, I neer and pressed on miserably for a whole year. wish you well.

Then, finally, he heeded that voice howling withBut I am not a scientist. I read Russian litera- in, quit his job and holed up in a dingy apartture. And there are times when you really need ment with nothing but a pile of blank paper and a good Russian writer—one who cares less about some pens. Like that baby sea turtle, he did what micro-data and more about things like evil and nature told him to do: wrote and wrote and wrote suffering and the mysterious forces that govern and wrote—and kept on writing (with a four-year our lives like an ominous plume of toxic oil invis- break for hard-labor prison) until his death, Jan. ibly poisoning the food chain, bit by microscopic 28, 1881. bit. There is the surface: that clean thing others The point of the best of that flood of writsee, the explanations we give things, the cool ing is that our rational systems—law, science, comforting rationality of it all, the “all clear” that mathematics—are the thinnest veneer over the we’ve been hearing recently. And there is the mass of passions that actually govern our lives: incomprehensible horror of what happened to not just greed, envy, lust and all the rest of them just one teensy baby sea turtle: he poked his way that columnist David Brooks calls the Big Shagout of the egg and began waddling cutely over gy, but good and inexplicable things like charity the sand to the sea, and the next thing he knew and love. In “Winter Notes on Summer Impreshe was coated in a stinking, disgusting black goo sions,” Dostoevsky writes: “There is one little hair that clogged his delicate new nostrils and sucked here, a tiny, miniscule one, but if it gets into the the breath out of him, forever. machine, everything will crack and shatter all at Oil wells are well designed, of course, to do once.” That hair would be the human being ittheir job. The math works just fine. It is the self, bumbling through the day, making mistakes, squishy human stuff that messes everything up. pressing the wrong button at the wrong time (as Someone forgot to check on an alarm or some- in “Chernobyl, April 26, 1986”). Math (Duke thing, or pushed the wrong button. I don’t know; major #8, squeaking in right after Public Policy) I didn’t do Markets and Management. And af- says that 2 x 2 makes 4. “So it does,” cackles Dosterwards, no one—or everyone—knew exactly toevsky’s Underground Man, “but 2 x 2 = 5 is a what to do, and everyone was working at cross- jolly little thing, too, let’s play!” and pushes the purposes, bumping comically into one another button. as the rig burned and spewed toxic effluent up, down and sideways across the TV screen behind Carol Apollonio is an associate professor of the practhe babbling newscasters and experts. Tad W. tice in Slavic and Eurasian studies. Her column will Patzek, chairman of the Petroleum and Geosys- run every other Friday. tems Engineering Department at the University

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h hey, didn’t see ya there. Gossip Bro here, and it is my distinct pleasure to make your acquaintance. I’ll be occupying this column every Monday for the rest of the semester, telling you what’s what and who’s who from the comfort of my anonymity. I monday, monday hope to see you around. gossip bro First, a little bit about myself. Many people will say I’m judgmental and that I discriminate based on weight or appearance or socioeconomic status. I’d like to dispel these rumors early on by paraphrasing a great philosopher: I am not primarily an advocate of sizeism but of lookism; and I am not primarily an advocate of lookism but of elitism. If one recognizes the supremacy of elitism and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

But enough about me. Since anybody who’s anybody is going to read this column, you’re probably anxiously awaiting my opinion on the latest goings on of the day. So what’s happening today?

It’s Monday – the first Monday – so let’s talk about what’s on everyone’s mind: Back to School!

Remember high school, when these words use to mean books, pens, binders and disappointment?

Disappointment borne from the conclusion of our careless summers and the sad return of our tortured quest to gain entry into some prestigious university that we could brag about to the end of our days.

Well guess what? We did it! We’re here, and everything is awesome. Now, “back to school” is the most welcome phrase we can hope for. It means we can leave our finance internships and senators’ offices where we spent our summers actually doing stuff and return to the heaven on earth that is Duke University.

To anyone who is still complaining about having to go back to school, I have but a few things to point out.

You get to live in gigantic gothic castles on pristine grounds, surrounded by all of your friends. Everyone around you is your age and down to drink you under the table at a moment’s notice. You can be drunk at all times in every sort of public place you can imagine. You don’t have to go to class if you don’t feel like it. Almost everyone you have to interact with scored higher than 2,200 on the SAT, and if they didn’t then they can run really fast or play the English horn or some other cool thing.

Oh yeah, and everything is FREE. You can get any type of food you could dream of on your fake money card, whenever you want and however much you want. You can go to the WaDuke and get poached tiger shrimp cocktail, filet mignon and a $300 bottle of wine—all for free, with your food points! Not food dollars or food money—they’re points! You can get everything from cigarettes to solo cups, from cigars to condoms, for free. But careful, you can’t use food points for these—you’ll have to use FLEX points!

Now I know what you’re thinking: “What if I run out of points?” Oh no! Time to get out your Internet phone and add however many points you want, no matter where you are, by clicking a button that says, “Add Points.”

And that’s not all. There’s a free state-of-the-art gym for you to use, a free 24-hour McDonald’s, free high-speed wireless internet, sprawling botanical gardens, free transportation (including a party bus that takes you to Shooters)—there’s even free psychological counseling, for God’s sake.

And the best part? When the four-year, all-youcan-eat-and-drink playtime is over, you get a job in New York City making $100K with all your friends and do it all over again.

I still hear some of you saying, “But Gossip Bro, I’m not into spending my parents’ money and getting effed up on weekends!” Well it’s never too late to start, so loosen up and start enjoying the prime of your life at the all-inclusive playground for successful people that you worked so hard to get to.

Gossip Bro wishes you a heady new year.

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ew Jersey has had an amazing public school sys- tions on being paid much more than you are worth). tem over the past decade, and placed seventh in So the clash between Christie, who wants to get rid of some Education Week’s “Quality Counts.” The maga- of these exorbitant salaries, and the teaching union, which is zine spends (way too much) time gradpaid to protect and maintain those salaing each state on student performance, ries, came to a climax when the union did graduation rates and statewide accountnot provide enough support for the “Race ability and standards, among other facto the Top” application, and possibly (defitors, and then ranks them based on what nitely) cost the state $400 million. it sees. Despite all the success, however, The world is in a sad state, my friends. the state failed to earn a grant from the If $400 million is not worth getting peoFederal “Race to the Top” program, pople to work together, I don’t know what tentially costing the school system $400 is anymore. Yes, it sucks that teachers antonio segalini million in federal grants. have to look over their shoulders at evmusings Grants have been awarded to the 12 ery turn to make sure they are not doapplicants based on “implementing coherent, compel- ing things that can get them fired. Yes, it sucks that many ling, and comprehensive education reform,” using qual- extracurricular activities are being cut. But it sucks even ity of teachers, state-wide assessments and data systems more that no one could work together in order to put in a (which supposedly are used to graph all these scores and strong effort and get a sizeable chunk of cash. use them to find areas where teachers need to improve).

The complete (idiocy) lack of unity that was on disHowever, New Jersey lost out on the money for two rea- gusting display by the state of New Jersey is simply a misons unrelated to educational performance. First, accord- crocosm of everyday life. The world around us constanting to the The Star-Ledger, they failed to realize that they ly comes down to the word “or,” which really tends to were using school data from 2010 and 2011 rather than damper the mood a bit. We tend to focus a lot on differthe necessary data from 2008 and 2009. OK, that was re- ences here (political affiliation, religious denomination, ally stupid. etc.). However, when it comes down to it, many times it But much more importantly, a grant that was giving is easiest to simply put the bullshit to the side and work money to schools caused conflict with the teacher’s union. together.

New Jersey Education Association spokesman Steven BakAnd yes, at our University, too, many people will have er stated bluntly before the announcement of the grants, problems and baggage that they will come in with. Yet, “We think it’s a bad application and doesn’t really provide unlike in New Jersey, conflict resolution is very much a what the Department of Education is looking for and we real and occurring phenomenon at Duke. Student organidon’t think the reforms it proposes will be beneficial to zations, administrations and academic departments coneducation.” I kid you not. The teaching association came sistently compromise at universities to offer their memout and said that the application their state was sending bers opportunities. These opportunities are what brought was not good, basically shooting down the chances at the many of us to Duke. money before it ever reached the hands of the people that Because honestly, when you come in to this school you made the decisions. can either keep to yourself and try and grind it out at evWait, what? When is $400 million dollars a bad idea? ery single step, or you can work with the people around It is naïve of me to proceed without stating that there is you and let them push and help you. That economics a long-standing feud between the teaching unions and the class may be rough, but it is much easier when you and legislative body of New Jersey, more or less controlled by a bunch of friends are making fun of the professor’s tie republican Gov. Chris Christie. In order to cut spending while studying for the test. That external stuff may be reand save the state much-needed money, Christie is trying ally, really rough, but it can be much more relaxing to to cut teaching jobs. Now, I loved my librarian, but I peed know that you have a bunch of people there to help and a little when I saw that she made $101,782 (public teach- talk along the way. Remember, Duke blue comes in many ers salaries are public information in some states, includ- different shades. ing New Jersey). I mean the library has a couple hundred books in it, and is closed most of the day. That don’t make Antonio Segalini is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs no sense (Ms. Gruber, if you are reading this, congratula- every Monday.

lettertotheeditor Don’t forget G&P students The school year has not yet started and The Chronicle seems to have already forgotten that the largest number of students on campus are the graduate and professional students. I have spent the past few weeks welcoming the largest class of G&P students yet to Duke, a vibrant and diverse group of students who will define this University for years to come—not just in our research and teaching, but also through our involvement in campus life events (and not just from September to April). I was dismayed to see that this largest group of Cameron Crazies is practically invisible in the first two issues of The Chronicle this year.

While a full page spread announces the DSG student leadership for orientation (Aug. 23), not a single mention of the Graduate & Professional Student Council, let alone the other large professional student governments, can be found in the entire issue. While in the same issue we hear that the a “record class will strain East dorms,” we don’t hear that this class has pushed incoming international graduate students off campus entirely; we learn that the University moved

up in U.S. News ratings and that “Duke is tied for ninth place in the updated list of national universities offering doctoral degrees,” but there is no mention of those programs that define the category. And, though we hear President “Brodhead welcome[d] the largest class ever” (Aug. 26) on Wednesday morning, The Chronicle completely neglects the fact that he and Dean Jo Rae Wright, vice provost and dean of the graduate school, also welcomed graduate and professional students that same afternoon with moving and exciting speeches. G&P students are here on campus, participating in student activities, using your housing guide and writing excellent columns in your student daily (Liz Bloomhardt’s “Green Devil,” for example). In sum, I would like to present a friendly reminder from the G&P population to the Chronicle staff and undergraduate student population: Don’t forget about us! We are bigger than you, and many of us grade your papers.

Daniel Griffin Graduate and Professional Student Council President

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All undergraduates are invited to our open house, Tuesday, August 31, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm at Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus.

Meet the Theater Studies Faculty and the Duke Players Council and reconnect with friends. Information about courses, auditions, backstage opportunities, and other news will be available. FREE FOOD!

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Duke undergraduates can earn credit for participation in some Theater Studies’ productions and workshops as the lab component of academic coursework!

Duke University Department of Theater Studies On Stage 2010-2011 The Underpants

Duke Players Orientation Show

a wild and crazy play by Steve Martin Directed by Ben Bergmann (T’11) Brody Theater, East Campus September 3 at 8 pm and 4 at 11pm

Learn more about Duke Players when we present a rollicking night of theater…

The Beatification of Area Boy

The Underpants

A play by funny man Steve Martin that will leave your head spinning from the twists and turns of his “wardrobe malfunction” comedy.

Brody Theater, Branson Building, East Campus September 3 at 8 pm* & 4 at 11 pm * free pre-show pizza on the Brody porch at 7 pm!

Visit Duke Players at the Student Activities Fair!

Duke Players is the student organization in the Department of Theater Studies. Its members support the Department’s productions by running auditions, working on production crews, promoting participation in theater by all Duke students, and representing the interests of students involved in Theater Studies. All undergraduates are eligible for membership.

Auditions for The Beatification of Area Boy and The Laramie Project All Duke undergrads are invited to audition for the Theater Studies fall and spring mainstage plays, The Beatification of Area Boy and The Laramie Project on September 1 & 2 with callbacks on September 3, from 5 to 8 pm each day. Auditions will be held in the Bryan Center. Location TBA. Prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue. Sign up in advance for your audition time in the Duke Players notebook at the Info Desk in the Bryan Center. Copies of both plays are on reserve in Lilly and Perkins Libraries. For more info, email ashley.d.jones@duke.edu.

By Wole Soyinka Directed by Jody McAuliffe, Theater Studies faculty Reynolds Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus October 21-31

Duke Players Lab Theater Brody Theater, East Campus December 2-5

Proof

By David Auburn (Sr. Distinction Project) Featuring Heather Wiese (T’11) Brody Theater, East Campus February 3-5

An Evening of Hemingway

(Sr. Distinction Project) Adapted and directed by Will Sutherland (T’11) Brody Theater, East Campus February 17-19

Duke Players Lab Theater Brody Theater, East Campus March 24-26

The Laramie Project

By Moisés Kaufman & company Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center, West Campus April 7-17

2011 New Plays Festival (Sr. Distinction Project) new works by Alex Young & Ben Bergmann (T’11) Brody Theater, East Campus April 20-23

Check http://theaterstudies.duke.edu for times and/or changes and for exciting Theater Studies co-productions happening off campus!

Off Stage

If you are interested in working backstage on any of our productions listed, contact Kay Webb, Costume Shop Supervisor at kay.webb@duke.edu, or Doug Martelon, Theater Operations Manager, at douglas.martelon@duke.edu.

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FRI. & SAT., SEPT. 17 & 18, 8PM SUN., SEPT 19, 5PM HAYTI HERITAGE CENTER HIGH WIDE & HANDSOME TRIBUTE TO NC’S CHARLIE POOLE

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III & FRIENDS FRI., SEPT. 24, 8PM REYNOLDS THEATER The Music of horace silver

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THE BOOKS FRI., OCT. 1 TWO SETS: 8PM & 10PM SCHEAFER LAB THEATER HOW CAN YOU STAY IN A HOUSE ALL DAY & NOT GO ANYWHERE?

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& THE CAIRO GANG

SAT., DEC. 4, 8PM REYNOLDS THEATER

Carolina ChoColate Drops & Joe henry ★ till Fellner ★ anDrÁs sChiFF ★ ameriCan Beauty proJeCt ★ emerson string Quartet ★ Del mCCoury + preservation hall Jazz BanD ★ viJay iyer ★ tiFt merritt & simone Dinnerstein ★ merCe Cunningham DanCe Company ★ Wayne shorter ★ thomas hampson ★ aBBey theatre oF irelanD ★ lee Breuer ★ BraD mehlDau & anne soFie von otter ★ marty stuart ★ Kronos Quartet ★ steve reiCh ★ the BaD plus ★ guillermo Klein ★ plus many more

five dollars $5 duke student tickets

get tickets 919-684-4444

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ten percent 10% duke employee discount

every show, all season. take advantage.

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