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Hispanics Record pledge remains unsettled work to build $72M Nicholas family gift largely outstanding after Dec. 2008 deadline a community

by Taylor Doherty THE CHRONICLE

by Alejandro Bolívar THE CHRONICLE

As Durham County’s Hispanic population grows, it faces both new challenges and opportunities.

The county was an estimated 2.2 percent Hispanic or Latino in 2009, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, compared to an estimated 7.7 percent of the total population of North Carolina. But in the difficult economic climate, Latinos face significant problems, Colleen Blue, program director at El Centro Hispano, wrote in an e-mail.

“Latinos are being hit hardest in terms of unemployment, home foreclosure and lack of health insurance,” Blue said. “We are also facing some of the most urgent public policy issues directly impacting the greater Latino community; not just in North Carolina, but across the United States.”

Based in Durham, ECH is a grassroots community organization that has served more than 11,000 people and has more than 600 dues-paying members. The organization seeks to provide information about issues affecting Latino families, Blue said.

In addition to providing language lessons and tutoring, ECH helped to open

Much of the $72 million donation that former Duke President Nan Keohane called “a fitting capstone” to the Campaign for Duke has not been paid.

William Schlesinger, former dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, said the school had not received any of its $70 million portion of the donation when he left the University June 1, 2007. The pledge

was made by Peter and Ginny Nicholas in December 2003, when the pair were cochairs of the Campaign for Duke and Peter was chair of the Board of Trustees. Top administrators, including Provost Peter Lange and Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides, declined to comment on the donation. Keohane, who stepped down as president in 2004, also declined to comment.

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Retirees find opportunities through Duke institute

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Garry Crites, program director for continued education, said the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute gives retirees a chance to learn new things.

After a career’s work is done, the learning continues for Bull City retirees.

At the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Duke, students—who are mostly local retirees—are taking advantage of the program’s full array of educational experiences. Opportunities range from classes like “Exploring Cinema” and “Chinese Brush Painting” to social activities, such as ballroom dancing and poetry reading.

The courses are not for Duke credit but are linked to Duke facilities, such as the libraries and dining halls. Currently, OLLI is centered in The Bishop’s House on East Campus and has over 1,500 members.

“I like that there is such a good assortment of classes to choose from,” said Jon Edland, on OLLI student and retiree of four years. “For my career, I was involved with business, but it is such a great feeling to take classes in everything but business. I’m just having fun.”

CNN Money recently ranked Durham no. 1 in its “Top 25 Places to Retire,” praising OLLI at Duke and calling the University’s lifelong-learning program “stellar.” The piece cited Durham’s dual artistic and athletic flairs and called the city a “Mecca” of retirement; one

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could stroll through grassy golf courses by day and frequent the Nasher Museum of Art or Durham Performing Arts Center by night.

Garry Crites, program director for continued education, said much of the program’s success depends on peer instruction. Although some instructors also teach undergraduates at the University, volunteers—who are often also members of OLLI—can teach as well. It fosters a cooperative and versatile learning experience in which, for example, former doctors can now teach history, he added.

“I have friends here who retired who have been busier in retirement than they were when they were working,” Judy Stafford, a statistical programmer for the Duke Clinical Research Institute who teaches folk dance at OLLI, wrote in an e-mail.

Faye Gregory, facilitator for OLLI’s Single Women’s Social Group, noted that the program provides retirees with a “warm and friendly place” to make friends. A retiree herself, she has seen her group’s membership approximately double in the last four years, with 55 members currently involved, she said.

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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine checked 124 kids (median age 13.6 years) for the presence of antibodies to a virus known as AD36, an adenovirus that can cause upper respiratory tract or gastrointestinal illness and that has been associated in earlier studies with obesity. Sixtyseven of the kids were obese, and 57 were not.

They found evidence of such antibodies in 19 children altogether. Of those children, 15—or 78 percent—were obese. Moreover, AD36 antibodies were more common among the obese children (15 out of 67) than in those who were not obese (4 of 57). Finally, the children who had AD36 antibodies were, on average, nearly 50 pounds heavier than those without the antibody.

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On the surface, the argument is over custody of the Chinese boat captain, who is under arrest in Japan. But fueling the angry posturing is a struggle between China and Japan for regional dominance, along with long-standing disputes over territory.

The angry rhetoric, which has come more from Beijing than Tokyo, is the latest indication that a newly assertive China is looking to flex its muscles internationally.

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NEH Chairman Leach encourages courtesy

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After spending the tail end of the Food Networks’s “The Great Food Trucks Race” contest at the top of the leaderboard, Durham’s OnlyBurger was not announced the winner Sunday night.

OnlyBurger loses close food truck competition After a close battle with Oklahoma Citybased Big Truck Tacos, OnlyBurger fell short of winning the Food Network’s food truck contest, the network announced Sunday night.

The competition, which began Aug. 28, allowed followers to vote online and via text message for their favorite food trucks to appear on the Food Network’s next season of “The Great Food Trucks Race.”

Although OnlyBurger appeared to be in first place on the leaderboard when voting closed Sept. 10, Big Truck Tacos ended up winning the $10,000 cash prize and the chance to appear on the show for a grand prize of $50,000.

Before the results were announced, OnlyBurger co-owner Brian Bottger said his food truck had been highly ranked from the contest’s beginning—it began its run in

the contest at fifth place and later moved to third and eventually first place on the contest’s leaderboard. Although OnlyBurger employees were confident that their place on the scoreboard indicated a win, Food Network public relations representatives had said the leaderboard did not necessarily represent all the votes that each truck had received.

The final tally was calculated after the leaderboard was last seen by consumers, wrote Lauren Mueller, the Food Network’s public relations manager, in an e-mail.

Bottger said OnlyBurger was nominated by numerous customers to take part in the contest. The food truck used Twitter, Facebook and promotional handouts and posters to encourage customers to vote in the contest.

—from staff reports

In a speech on civility in discourse, Jim Leach reminded the crowd that Thomas Hobbes had once called the life of man “nasty, brutish and short.”

Leach, the ninth chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, spoke Monday at the Nasher Museum of Art. The lecture comes as part of Leach’s “Civility Tour,” a 50-state tour that started in November 2009 that addresses the need for humanity in what Leach called a “Hobbesian world.”

“I’ve embarked on a tour of the country talking about the subject of civility, and in some ways there’s no subject that could be duller,” Leach said.

“But if you take the context of history, change was wrought not only with concern about rights but also the nature of man.”

Leach’s lecture drew not only students and faculty but also those involved in art programs.

Leach previously spent 30 years in Congress representing southeastern Iowa and then taught at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, until beginning his four-year term in August 2009.

With experiences in academia and politics, he made references to both classical philosophers and modern figures that ranged from Montesquieu and Thomas Jefferson to Newt Gingrich and Tip O’Neil.

Leach also emphasized the importance of respect in a what he believes is an increasingly polarized political atmosphere.

“If you develop a society based upon precepts of the rights of man, that includes the quality of man, which implies that people should respect what other people are thinking,” Leach said.

He added that although incivility in politics is nothing new, making reference to the 1804 duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the current political climate is still troubling.

To demonstrate his point, Leach called the “You lie!” outburst by U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., during a 2009 Obama speech “unfortunate.”

“Words matter­—they reflect emotion,” he said. “They can clarify thought, cloud thoughts and bring out better angels in our nature or baser instincts.

Conversely, healing words can do the reverse.”

Leach concluded with a light-hearted example of the incivility he has witnessed in politics: The difference between former Vice President Dick Cheney and Obama, he said, is that Cheney was called a fascist, but Obama has been called both a fascist and a communist “often at the same time and by the same person.”

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Classof2014senators Duke Student Government added six freshman senators last night after polls closed at 10 p.m.

Daniel Pellegrino and Rachel Barry will serve on the Academic Affairs Committee; Isabella Dreyfuss and Philip Srebrev will serve on the Student Affairs Committee; and Frank Lee and Ben Shantz will serve on the Athletics and Campus Services Committee.

The two Durham and Regional Affairs senators had not been finalized by 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning due to a potential campaign violation by one of the candidates, said DSG Attorney General Ryan Clark, a junior.

Voter turnout increased in this year’s election to 32 percent, Clark said. Last year, 27 percent of eligible voters participated in the election.

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The Bishop’s house hosts many of the classes offered by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Crites and Gregory had no real complaints.

The main area of need is finding more spacious rooms, necessitated by OLLI’s growing popularity.

Duke undergraduates can interact with OLLI students through the “Intergenerational Ethics” house course held on Sundays.

“At college, you just rarely get the opportunity to interact on a personal scale with other generations,” senior Samuel Heroy, the house course’s co-instructor, wrote in an e-mail. “We can learn a lot from people with more experience and try to come to terms with different views across different generations.”

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latinos from page 1 North Carolina’s first Latino Community Credit Union in 2000 and created Local Access to Coordinated Healthcare in partnership with Duke to educate those who do not have health insurance.

“For many Latinos, the combined stresses of challenging economic times and geographic separation from families, friends and communities are exacerbated by lack of residency documentation and anti-immigrant policies and attitudes,” Blue said. “For example, many community members we serve tell us that they are scared to trust our public institutions, such as 911 services and police officers, and these fears can jeopardize the safety of our community in general.”

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Jim Leach, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, speaks on the importance of civility at the Nasher Museum of Art Friday.

Leach from page 3 commended Leach’s humanistic efforts.

“What he’s talking about is relevant in a time when the temperature has risen so much in politics with people screaming at each other,” Aravmudan said. “And the humanities disciplines are where we can learn more about history, culture [and] literature and get a sense of perspective so we don’t forget about the historical background to these issues.”

Sarah Schroth, senior curator for the Nasher, said she was curious to listen to Leach’s opinions because the museum applies to NEH for humanities grants.

“This is the new chairman of the NEH and as a curator, I am always interested to hear the direction of a new chairman.”

A common bond Hoping to eliminate those fears is Durham Police Chief Jose Lopez, who said his bilingualism helps him reach the Latino community.

Lopez was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. to parents from Caguas, Puerto Rico and has worked in cities with large Hispanic populations for much of his life. Before coming to Durham, Lopez worked for the police department in Hartford, Conn. In both places, Spanish has been a useful asset.

“Because I’m fluent in Spanish, that cuts through a lot of barriers,” Lopez said. “Every culture has its own uniqueness to it, [but] being Puerto Rican gives me a better understanding of the Latino [and] Hispanic culture.”

Lopez added that it is important for the police department to be representative of the society it serves. Such diversity allows officers to understand why people act and think in different ways.

“A diverse young community becoming closer” One Duke organization seeks to serve Durham’s Latino population by providing support to students at Sherwood Githens Middle School and encouraging them to branch out to other students.

“Guia is a great way for Latinos to feel comfortable but also bridge racial and ethnic gaps in the schools,” said senior Becky Agostino, who founded the volunteer organization in 2009. “We unite the students through

service learning and fitness. Kids bond over sports, community service.”

A Robertson scholar, Agostino said she was inspired to help the local Latino community after taking a class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that focused on Latino issues in the United States.

“We see a strong Latino community in Guia, but we also see a diverse young community becoming closer,” she said.

A culinary bridge Bridging that gap between the communities has proven to be a successful business model for one Durham restaurant.

The vision behind Chubby’s Tacos—which has a location on Ninth Street right off East Campus—was to take the concept of the taquería and present it to the general population.

The menu is in English and the workers are bilingual or English-speaking, noted Antonio Sustaita, the restaurant’s owner.

Sustaita attributes his business’ success to adapting to meet the unique needs of his clients. For example, because of the large population of vegetarians at Duke, the Ninth Street location sells tofu and “portobello mushroom” tacos—combinations not found at traditional taquerías.

“I decided to bring the traditional taquería with a little bit of a twist to the general American public,” said the San Antonio, Texas native, who will soon open his business’ fifth location in Raleigh.

Moving forward Even with community-building efforts, some members of Durham’s Hispanic population remain aloof, said Alex Muñoz, a member of the maintenance staff at the University who moved to the United States from Mexico when he was 12 years old. Muñoz said for some Latinos there is discomfort adjusting to living in a country they do not consider to be their own.

The Hispanic community, however, has left its mark on the state.

“The immigrant has made North Carolina grow into one of the states with one of the best and most stable economies,” Muñoz said. “We have made it great. We have made it move forward just like it’s helped us move forward.”

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nicholas from page 1 has given the $70 million dollar gift to Duke University,” Schlesinger said. “You know, somebody needs to start telling the truth about some of this stuff.”

Peter Nicholas said in a Chronicle interview that his family has paid “a significant portion” of the pledge, but not all of it. Nicholas, co-founder of Boston Scientific and Trinity ’64, declined to disclose the amount paid but added that his family plans to fulfill the remainder of the pledge in “due course.”

“At the end of [our] conversation, you asked the most important question—did my family and I intend to fulfill these pledge commitments?” he wrote in an e-mail. “I would like to repeat once again that the answer remains, ‘Yes.’” The capstone The pledge marked the official end of the Campaign for Duke in 2003, a fundraising effort that garnered $2.36 billion in pledges and donations for the University.

The Nicholas pledge—the largest in the University’s history when it was made—directed $2 million to Perkins Library and $70 million to the Nicholas School. The school had been named after the Nicholas family following a previous $20 million donation.

Duke was supposed to receive the 2003 gift by Dec. 2008, Schlesinger said. He added that Chameides told him in June that little to none of the donation had been received. Chameides declined to comment on the gift.

“I come back and see old friends periodically and ask them about this, and numerous people have told me that none of it has been paid up to now,” said Schlesinger, who is now president of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. Things fall apart Few of the Nicholas School’s announced plans for the pledge have been realized as originally conceived.

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Executive Vice President Tallman Trask confirmed that the building’s construction was “largely” put on hold due to problems with the Nicholas donation, but declined to comment about further details of the pledge.

The school described the building and other plans for the pledge in the cover story of the Spring 2004 edition of “Duke Environment,” a Nicholas School publication. The piece was titled “Investing in the Future of the Environment” and featured a portrait of Peter and Ginny Nicholas.

The piece also included plans for the creation of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, a new arm of the University intended to provide “high-quality and timely data” to address environmental problems.

Although the institute was created, it was not endowed by the Nicholas donation, Schlesinger said. Instead the institute gets additional funding from the provost’s office, he added.

Lange declined to comment on how the Nicholas Institute is funded. Nicholas Institute Director Tim Profeta wrote in an e-mail that the Office of the Provost does contribute to the institute’s budget, but declined to specify the amount. In addition to provost funds, the institute is supported by external grants and donations, Profeta noted.

Scottee Cantrell, author of the “Duke Environment” article and assistant dean for marketing and communications at the Nicholas School, referred all comment to Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. Schoenfeld declined to comment and said it is University policy not to comment on pledge payments for specific gifts.

After the campaign Although Schoenfeld said he could not discuss the Nicholas donation, he noted in an e-mail that a high rate of pledges from the Campaign for Duke have been paid.

Of the $2.36 billion in pledges made during the campaign, more than $2.2 billion have been received, he said.

The University has commitments from donors to fulfill most of the outstanding pledges.

The $70 million pledge from Nicholas represented a significant portion of the funds raised by the Nicholas School, however.

The Nicholas School received a total of $137 million in pledges, or more than twice its goal of $60 million, according to the campaign’s final report.

According to “Duke Environment,” including the $70 million pledge, the Nicholas family committed almost $100 million to the Nicholas School—or nearly 75 percent of the school’s pledges from the campaign.

Schlesinger said not receiving the gift constrained the school and cited his frustrations with the unpaid pledge as a major reason he chose to leave the University in 2007.

“The plans that we had for the school just weren’t going to happen, and there was no indication that they were likely to happen in a few years,” he said.

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Wallace Wade Beatdown leaves fans low Saturday’s matchup between Duke and Alabama was billed as the biggest game in Blue Devil history. Seats were added to Wallace Wade Stadium—which Alabama fans haughtily dubbed “tiny”— to fit the overwhelming amount of people who wanted to see the defending national champions. Duke rented out a closed Durham supermarket’s parking lot to fit the RVs of visiting Crimson Tide fans.

T-shirts were Scott also sold for weeks beforehand and given out at the game, hyping it as the “Wallace Wade Showdown.”

But once the ball was snapped, the game turned into the “Wallace Wade Beat-down.”

In what was supposed to be a chance for the Duke football program to show it was back on the road to respectability, the Blue Devils instead ended up with egg all over their faces. And instead of re-energizing Duke, this game depressed its fans.

Now, if we were to judge the Crimson Tide’s visit to Durham solely on the

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While Duke fans were hyped for the game, the blowout loss quickly dampered their spirits, Rich writes.

hype and pregame atmosphere, then the experience could be considered a rousing success. Wallace Wade was truly full for the first time since I’ve been on campus—including the student section, which for once was filled more than five minutes before game time and actually had to turn many prospective fans away.

For the first time in recent memory, students and Duke fans alike were legitimately excited for a football game.

David Cutcliffe and his team said all the right things, too—they were going to give it their all and compete with the defending national champions. Alabama coach Nick Saban even sounded mildly concerned about the Blue Devil offense, giving Duke fans some hope they could keep this game competitive.

After the opening kickoff, though, that abundant optimism quickly transformed into overwhelming discouragement. After all the hoopla and energy—much of which can probably be accounted for by the fancy pom-poms distributed to students—the Crimson Tide’s first snap was a 48-yard run by Heisman-winner Mark Ingram.

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Following a heartbreaking loss to North Carolina Friday night, Duke will look to bounce back as it faces UNC-Wilmington today at 7 p.m.

Traveling for the first time this season, the No. 11 Blue Devils (2-1-2) hope to continue their dominance in road openUNC-W ers. For four consecutive years, Duke vs. has won its first away No. 11 game of the season, Duke and head coach John Kerr is excited to TUESDAY, 7 p.m. once again play away Wilmington, N.C. from the friendly confines of Koskinen Stadium.

“We’ve put in five games already at home so we’re excited to get on the road and test our mental [ability],” Kerr said.

“We’re excited about the opportunity.”

The opportunity available for the Blue Devils is to not only get back on the winning track, but to prove themselves against a strong defensive team. The Seahawks (4-1-0) boast one of the best goalkeepers in the country in Brock Duckworth. The senior was ranked second in save percentage nationally and recorded eight shutouts last year. He has already

led UNC-W to three shutouts this season, and has not given up a goal at home.

Needless to say, Duke’s offense has its work cut out for it. The Blue Devils will need to overcome both Duckworth and their lack of scoring diversity. While they have scored 10 goals on the season, seven have come by way of sophomore Ryan Finley. The Lumberton, N.J., native has managed two hat tricks already, but none of his teammates have more than one goal. In order for Duke to be successful, Kerr thinks others will need to step up.

“We need to be more dynamic in our movements and not rely on Ryan Finley to score all of our goals,” Kerr said. “I think we have to be a little bit more creative.”

In addition, the offense will need to focus on both creating opportunities and capitalizing on scoring chances. Friday was marked by a huge disadvantage in shots, 188, and shots on goal, 7-2, against the rival Tar Heels. While chances were presented in the second half, strikes were just not on target. Against an equally strong defense that will create even fewer opportunities today, the Blue Devils will need to finish when given the chance.

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rich from page 7 in the next 10 minutes, put up 45 in the first half alone, and average more than a first down each play during the game.

That shouldn’t happen to any ACC school, no matter who the opponent is.

“It was pretty simple. We had a better matchup than anybody thought,” Cutcliffe said Sunday. “I thought we overreacted to the reputation.”

The blowout was so jarring that almost half the student section had left even before halftime. During the second half of the game, ABC’s shots from its blimp showed a stadium that was sparsely populated, with a large majority of the remaining fans in Crimson rather

than Royal Blue.

So what, you may say—Duke fans should’ve expected this outcome. And yes, they should have. But they didn’t expect 62-13.

Losing by almost 50 points in front of your home crowd, in a game that was supposed to reintroduce your program to the nation, can be thoroughly debilitating for any football team, let alone one with Duke’s rather depressing recent football history.

Contrast that with the Blue Devils’ relative success in their first two contests this season—a solid victory over Elon and very nearly beating ACC rival Wake Forest on the road—and Duke’s complete failure Saturday becomes even more jarring.

And forget how the players and coaches must feel—

imagine how the student body is feeling now. A fan base that could be generally described as apathetic towards its football program—and that’s at the best of times— had to witness Duke’s worst loss in 10 years Saturday, just as support for the football team was its strongest in years.

For Blue Devil fans, this weekend was analogous to a weekend of hard partying—full of anticipation, fun while it lasted, but ultimately greeted with a massive hangover of depression and regret Sunday morning.

It remains to be seen whether Duke will be able to recover from its hangover during the rest of this season, starting Saturday against Army. But if it can’t, the Wallace Wade Beat-down could prove to be a huge hurdle for this program to overcome.

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Cutcliffe had to deal with, among other things, a sea of red in Wallace Wade Saturday and a team that “overreacted to [Alabama’s] reputation.”

m. soccer from page 7 ranked opponents in their first five games, the Blue Devils have only surrendered four goals. Led by the play of sophomore goalkeeper James Belshaw—who has only given up three goals and currently sports a save percentage of 90 percent— and senior captain Christian Ibeagha, the Duke defense has maintained a high level of play and has consistently performed when called upon.

Yet despite its strong play, the defense will face an ag-

gressive and vengeful group of Seahawks. Having had nearly a week to rest and looking to avenge last season’s overtime loss against Duke, UNC-W will be ready to come out of the gates fast. Additionally, five of the seven Seahawk starters at the midfield and forward positions are seniors, possibly making the battle even greater than expected.

“It’s going to be a tough match,” Kerr said. “They gave us a tough game last year… and we know what they are capable of. Their coaching has done a great job with the program, so we know we have our hands full [tonight].”

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After a double-double against Wake Forest Friday, junior Amanda Robertson was named ACC Volleyball Player of the Week yesterday.

Robertson named ACC Volleyball Player of the Week The ACC released the name of its volleyball player of the week yesterday, and for the second consecutive week, it was a Blue Devil.

Junior Amanda Robertson earned the honor by leading Duke to a 3-0 win over Wake Forest last Friday.

Robertson attained 15 kills on 22 attempts against the Demon Deacons and hit .591 with two errors. She also totaled 12 digs on the match.

Robertson has improved significantly during her third season at Duke, and currently sports a .349 hitting percentage, 86 kills, 88 digs and 26 blocks, among the top Blue Devils at each statistic. She and the rest of the Duke squad play again this weekend against Georgia Tech and Clemson Sept. 24-25.

Beck on Israel’s World Amateur Team Highly touted freshman women’s golfer Laetitia Beck was named yesterday to the Israeli team in the World Amateur Team Championship. The tournament is scheduled to begin Oct. 16 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The 2009 Israel Lady and Junior Golfer, who is a native of Caesarea, Israel, and was a gold medalist at the 18th Maccabiah, will be joined on the team by Hadas Libman and Petra Bogoslavski. According to Duke Sports Information, this will be the first time ever that three golfers compete for Israel.

Beck finished tied for 37th in her first collegiate tournament, the NCAA Fall Preview, played last week.

She improved each day of the tournament, firing a 78 on day one, then following it up with rounds of 72 and 71. Duke will miss her at the Landfall Tradition tournament, though, as it tees off at the same time as the World Amateur Team Championship in October.

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Faculty downsizing an ominous sign Duke currently has 645 regu- prioritize assistant professor lar rank Trinity faculty members, searches over senior searches, but administrators are working Crumbliss said. to ensure that number soon beWhile we commend the gins to shrink. The advent of a administration for its commitreduced faculty is concerning, ment to continued hiring, we as it may affect the student ex- are still concerned that the perience. student expeIn an effort rience could editorial to combat its diminish amid deficit, University administra- the saving strategies. One of tors have adopted a variety of the hallmarks of a Duke eduapproaches to decreasing the cation is the engaging experisize of the faculty. For the next ence that many students share few years the University will add with their professors. The relfewer new professors than the atively low student-faculty ranumber who depart, accord- tio is undoubtedly one of the ing to Alvin Crumbliss, dean of major attractors for students the faculty of Arts and Sciences who choose Duke. With every and dean of Trinity College. incoming class increasing in The administration has also size and a reduction in faculty begun to hire younger faculty, numbers, this student-faculty preferably those who are rising relationship may suffer. in their respective fields or are Typically, it is in the smallqualified to teach across mul- er, more intensive classes in tiple disciplines. Duke will also which students tend to be the

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Further, faculty members are of utmost importance in maintaining the quality of academic departments. They anchor programs and provide continuity for the courses of study upon which students embark. Relatively large faculty numbers also provide program diversity, ensuring that a wide and interesting variety of scholars represent the true scope of a field to their students.

Duke’s regular rank faculty membership is larger now than at any time in the school’s history, Crumbliss noted at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting last week. The Class of 2014 is also the largest ever enrolled. Clearly the University is

on an unsustainable track.

This is not to say that all cuts are to be discouraged.

Certainly the administration should discontinue programs or positions that are not pertinent to the strength of the departments, and the 10 percent cut in budgets should allow departments to identify those areas. It is praiseworthy that initiatives that broaden the student experience are being continued, such as the humanities laboratories.

However, many questions still remain unanswered. The administration has, unfortunately, not fully disclosed its criteria for hiring and letting go of faculty.

Since last October, when Provost Peter Lange announced the faculty retirement incentive, the Duke administration has not revealed what the

packages look like or who has agreed to accept the deal.

Duke media releases and public statements continue to promote the fact that the school is still hiring new professors. But it seems unlikely that natural attrition alone will be sufficient to reduce the size of the faculty. University stakeholders deserve to know more about what Crumbliss means by a strategy of “encouraging retirement of faculty who may have retirement in mind.”

The faculty reduction is undoubtedly necessary, however the University must sustain its academic excellence and commitment to undergraduate scholarship in the process.

The best way to preserve and improve the undergraduate experience is to maintain quality faculty and ensure engagement with professors.

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his past Wednesday, I was one of the many eRecruiting website). If this is the case, then, why eager Duke students milling around the are Duke students still obsessed with finding that Bryan Center in business attire, chatting perfect summer internship/on-campus job that up recruiters in hopes of finding a job. Three days is closely related to the specific industry that they later I returned to the BC, again for hope to get a job in? Do we not a career-related purpose, except this realize that unconventional jobs, time I was clad in a T-shirt that read such as waitressing and bartend“Armadillo Staff” for my first day as a ing, strengthen your “interperbartender at the Dillo. sonal” skills and are just as valuI’ll be honest: I wasn’t planning able in today’s job market? on adding my latest on-campus job Well, it does sound ridiculous to my resume under “work experito say, “I worked at a bar this ence” for the firms that I’d planned summer which really prepared metty fisseha on applying to several days prior, and qualified me for this consimply because I didn’t see it as besulting job.” But, according to i’m just sayin ing relevant. My primary objective a particular recruiter for a wellin pursuing a job at the Dillo was to known banking firm, “I interned make some cash in a fun environment (I mean, for (insert name here) this past summer, which how many seniors do you know that bartend on makes me more prepared and qualified for this campus?). But after eight hours of scrambling be- full-time position” is not much of a motivator hind the bar, multitasking making drinks while for that recruiter’s firm to hire you. While both punching in tabs and holding conversations with are valuable in their own right, it seems recruitcustomers, I realized that this job was to be more ers are conveying that there is extra value added than just “fun”—it was demanding, extremely ex- to the candidate who can boast a diversity of hausting and challenging. work experience both inside and outside of a Those are the same words I anticipate I’ll use particular industry. Which means that bartendafter my first few days working at the career I ing for the Dillo is not only relevant to my long hope to have in the near future. The recruiters term career aspirations, but could also very well on Wednesday, despite specific industry delin- help me to achieve them. eations, all seemed to emphasize their desire to Matt Hinson, a UNC Chapel Hill alum who find a candidate who is able to learn fast, connect majored in Political Science and Peace, War and interpersonally with clients and coworkers and Defense studies and who currently bartends at contribute to a lively work-place environment. the Dillo, cites his experience in the food serThe corresponding eRecruiting listings for some vices industry as instilling in him skills that will of those positions seemed to reiterate the same help him down the line: “I decided to take a message, and even used a lot of the same adjec- year off between undergrad and law school, to tives to describe their ideal candidate. work and make some money... I chose to barTake Goldman Sachs—their eRecruiting list- tend because it teaches me how to interact with ing for a full-time Investment Management Ana- different types of people and how to multi-task.” lyst position asks for applicants to have “strong Hinson knows these traits will benefit him in leleadership, communication, and interpersonal gal career. He told me, “As a lawyer, I will be skills,” and possess the ability to “work in a fast- serving the public one day which means that the paced environment and think clearly under way I interact with clients in the courtroom will pressure.” Compare that to an eRecruiting list- be built on the way I learn to deal with customing for a physical therapist position with the ers at the Dillo.”

High Point Regional Health System that says, So the next time that I’m struggling to re“The successful candidate will... possess excel- member the last name on a person’s tab, whethlent verbal, written and communication skills” er they asked for salt on the margarita glass, or and “excellent interpersonal skills.” In other what goes in a South Padre Island, I’ll remind words, being a nerd who is no fun but can get myself that, somewhere down the line, my expethe work done no longer guarantees you a job in riences at Dillo will make me a more competent today’s market (sorry, guys). and competitive candidate for any position I go Seriously, though, young people entering the for. Turns out it’s time for me to update my rework force these days need to be dynamic and sume after all. possess skills that exceed their job-specific responsibilities (I’m pretty sure the word “interMetty Fisseha is a Trinity senior. Her column runs personal” was used in every other listing on the every Tuesday.

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uke should be the premier non- face between the Durham community and Julliard school for the arts. And per- the campus community.” Music department forming and visual arts should be a concerts attract more than 12,000 audience central piece of the undergradmembers each year. uate experience.

At the Nasher Musuem Of the six major priorities of Art for free and through outlined in the University 2006 Aaron Greenwald’s Duke strategic plan, “Making a DifferPerformances for only $5, ence,” we as a community have students can have access made the least progress on the to world-class programfifth, which articulates a bold viming, from pianist Mursion for the arts at Duke. gregory morrison ray Perahia to the 2008 The plan recognizes the critNasher exhibit “El Greco finish the thought to Velázquez: Art during ical role the arts have in “giving intellectual and emotional texthe Reign of Phillip III,” ture to daily experiences” and prioritizes the curated by our own Dr. Sarah Schroth. transformation of the arts on campus. This The expanded Duke Arts Festival is a transformation is to be achieved through a step in the right direction to make the arts five-part agenda by 1) enriching the student relevant to the wider undergraduate populaexperience in the arts, 2) increasing faculty tion. Not only will students have exposure to strength in the arts, 3) building national and the U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin and the international arts programming, 4) creating work of Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, but “magnificent arts facilities on all three cam- they will also have the opportunity to showpuses” and 5) strengthening arts leadership. case their own works and meet alums who Despite good progress in many of these have pursued a career in the arts. areas, I don’t think we’ve yet seen the transAll of this work, and the eventual conformation demanded in the strategic plan. struction of New Campus (however many Make no mistake, the transformation years away that may be), is “part of a long of the arts will not occur until they have process to show that the arts are a living enassumed a vastly more prominent place tity here, to show that students have a way to in the undergraduate experience. Those participate in the arts,” Lindroth said. who are involved with the project to transYes, the process is long. The adminform the arts at Duke are aware of the gap istration is working diligently and there between the cultural salience of the arts is certainly an opening for students to outlined in the strategic plan versus the provide leadership on campus. The arts reality on campus today. aren’t transformed yet.

Senior Will Passo, a DSG senator and But we’re getting there. a member of the Provost’s Council for the Arts, wrote in an e-mail to me that “the arts Greg Morrison, a Trinity senior, is former Duke [are] still not a mainstream part of a Duke Student Government EVP. His column runs every student’s life... Duke is not really viewed as Tuesday. This is the first of a three-part series. an arts school.”

Dr. Scott Lindroth, former chair of the music department and now the Vice Provost for the Arts noted that “[t]raditionally the arts have been somewhat marginalized on DREAM Act caption lacked clarity campus, so trying to bring the arts more into While we were happy to see a picture the center of campus culture has been one of the die-in that took place last week of the biggest challenges I’ve faced in my on the Plaza in support of the DREAM role as Vice Provost.”

Act, we were disappointed that it was not But why should we even care about the accompanied by an article explaining arts on campus? what the Act entails. Additionally, the Folks love to identify deficiencies in campicture’s caption, which claimed that pus culture. The vast majority of the prothe DREAM Act “would allow undocuposed solutions, though, rely too heavily on mented young people who grew up in capital construction. the U.S. to become legal citizens,” gave We’ll fix dining on campus by remodelinsufficient and misleading information ing West Union. We’ll fix residential isolaabout the Act. The DREAM Act might tion by building new dorms and returning finally hit the Senate floor next week as to the “house model.” We’ll expand the role an amendment to the Defense Authoriof the arts by placing new performance and zation Bill. Given the importance of this study spaces at the center of plans for the proposed federal legislation, we believe construction of New Campus. clarification on it is necessary.

I hardly have to tell you that we are not This Act is not about amnesty, which is going to build our way to better campus life. suggested by the wording of the caption.

Not in this economy.

While the Act does provide Conditional A vibrant creative community offers us Permanent Residency, there are specific a way beyond construction to profoundly guidelines as to who qualifies. First, the alter the Duke experience. Great art— individual must have entered the country expression of human genius—brings peobefore his or her 16th birthday. He or she ple together. It lifts the whole community. must have also been in the country for I can enjoy a painting or a musical perat least five consecutive years prior to the formance or a play and it doesn’t matter enactment of the bill. At the time of apwhat state I’m from, how much my parplication, the individual must be between ents make, what my skin color is or what I 12 and 35 years old. The applicant must want to do with my life after Duke. have a “good moral character,” which is The administration gets this. And they judged on an individual basis. aren’t sitting idly until the construction of Finally, and most crucially, the applinew campus finally gives Duke the premier cant must have graduated from a U.S. arts facilities an institution of our rank and high school or obtained a GED and have ambition ought to possess. Of the five-part been accepted into an institution of highagenda above, we’re not doing half bad. er education to qualify for conditional We have a top-tier faculty in the arts. We permanent residency. This status would are bringing online innovative academic grant them a six year period to obtain a programs in the arts, like the Visual Studies bachelor’s degree, complete two years of Initiative, which Lindroth calls an “imaginahigher education, or serve for two years tive integration of research and practice” in the military. Upon completion, they and the Center for Documentary Studies, a “fantastically successful program at the inter-

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t’s that time of year again. Men, dust have nothing to do with the position for off your suits. Ladies, pull out those which you’re being interviewed. conservative blouses and hey, button Who cares if I’m from Atlanta? Probably up all the buttons. It’s not any of the head recruiters time to put on your netwho attended the Career Fair working shoes and print last week. Correct me if I’m off some extra resumes wrong, but they probably won’t because, that’s right, it’s assume that all Atlantiens (that’s job-hunting time! how Outkast spelled it, so I’m Ok, so maybe it isn’t going with it) have excellent job-hunting time for evanalytical abilities, outstanding eryone. Maybe you’re communication skills and emmolly lester looking for an internbody the essence of teamwork. more taste, ship? Or a fellowship?

The answer is, of course, no less filling Or a way to survive your one cares. But, this I found infirst semester as a college teresting: women, in general, student? do not interview as well as men. Notice my Whatever your case may be, I guarantee word choice. I found this interesting, but not you, sooner or later, you will face the inevi- surprising. Before you stop reading and distable. Whether you’re a senior interviewing miss me as the ultimate anti-feminist, hear for a job, a junior searching for an intern- me out. ship or a freshman faced with a prying proAccording to Clay Shirky, an NYU professor, mark my words. You will eventually fessor turned professional blogger, women encounter the unavoidable request: Tell me tend to lack the risk-taking behaviors that about yourself. help men get ahead in the business world.

Sounds easy, doesn’t it? Sure, it does. Women aren’t as bold as men and are less I’ll start. willing to take chances when it comes to selfHi, my name is Molly Lester. I’m from At- promotion. Me, bold? Nope. lanta, and I play soccer at Duke. Um, I’m a Even in my poorly articulated, 10 second Trinity senior set to graduate in May of 2011. elevator speech, I, an educated and motivatI’m a history major. I speak French. I, um, ed woman, rambled to a hypothetical interlike to read in my spare time. I’m a good viewer about useless Molly Lester facts. runner, I, uh…

Why did I do that? I know better! I And this is where the interviewer stops should be promoting myself, talking up my listening. This supposedly easy question, leadership skills and my communications the one we all know we’ll have to answer in experience, but for some reason or anevery interview, can be a big fat trap. And other, “bragging” about myself makes me if you’re not careful, you’ll do what I just uncomfortable. And I mean really uncomdid—ramble. And not ramble about po- fortable. Even imagining this scenario from tentially relevant information, but ramble the safety of my apartment couch leaves me about pointless facts that more than likely feeling a little queasy.

Without explaining my recent find, I asked a male friend, completely out of the blue, what he would say in an elevator speech to an interviewer. How would he introduce himself? What points would he would be eligible to file for permanent make sure to get across? And what he told residency. me (well, texted back to me) fell right in With so much attention on the immiline with Shirky’s claim. gration debate, it is extremely important “Hi, my name is [you can fill in the to clarify that the DREAM Act is not about blank, I promised him anonymity.]. I am amnesty, but rather about education. an extremely motivated and competitive person. I’ve been playing team sports all Michelle Lozano Villegas, Trinity ’12 my life and enjoy working in groups with Lizzeth Alarcon, Trinity ’12 diverse people. I know that to succeed, I need to constantly strive to improve my Proper historical context for the skill set everyday.” house model I’ve been playing competitive team Congratulations to Dean Nowicki and sports my whole life, too! Why didn’t I say the other members of Student Affairs for something like this? Why did I ramble about making a difficult, yet necessary choice. my hobbies and my academic interests? Why While current students may find this trandid I leave it up to the interviewer to infer sition sudden and unjust, this decision is from my meaningless intro what sort of valactually a reaction to a previous failed ues and skills I have or how motivated and housing decision: the quad model. purpose-driven I am? Apparently, I am a The quad model was the predomitypical female, in this regard anyway. nant form of sophomore-junior housI’ll reference Shirky once more. In his ing from 2000-2011, an administrationblog, he acknowledges the reality of social effort to close the divide between etal limits that specify just how bold and fraternities, SLGs and the “indepenself-promoting a woman can be without godent” population. However, in 2006, ing “too far.” the Campus Culture Initiative, the largWhat is that fine line between “going too est review of Duke student life in Unifar” and “confident self-promotion?” Unforversity history, revealed the quad model tunately, there is no exact formula for the actually exacerbated circumstances, perfect first impression. Balancing audacity leading to more “independent” migraand humility in an elevator speech is a chaltion onto central campus and off-camlenging endeavor and will vary from interpus and simultaneous takeover of West view to interview.

Campus by fraternities and SLGs. In the future, however, I will try my best While some students may view this to lead my elevator speech with “Molly Leschange as University censure of student ter accomplishments” and feel confident life, it is actually quite the opposite. In about myself. I will leave the meaningless reality, this is one enormous, administraMolly Lester information in the rear view tional apology. Duke is doing something mirror, and so should you. students rarely think ever happens: admitAnd, ladies, don’t be afraid to tell me ting fault. about yourself. Really.

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Vivek Upadhyay, Trinity ’10

Molly Lester is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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FILM/SCREENING. After Innocence.

Rights! Camera! Action! series. The dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated -- innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. After Innocence shows that the human toll of wrongful imprisonment can last far longer than the sentences served.

Winner of the 2005 Boston Independent Film Festival Audience Award and the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize.

Discussion to follow with director Jessica Sanders. recent exonoree Shawn Massey, and Theresa Newman, co-chair of Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions clinic. Thursday, September 23. 7pm. Perkins Rare Book Room. Free.

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Play House: Photographs by Nandita Raman & Daylight/CDS Photo Awards: Photographs

by Elizabeth Moreno, and work by eight other winners. Thru Dec. 23. 6-9pm. CDS Gallery. Free.

Saturday, September 25 MUSIC. Encounters: with the music of our time. The Intermedium

is the Message: Recent Multimedia Works by Bill Seaman & Fang Man / Kasumi. An artist salon featuring the work of video/sound artist Bill Seaman, composer Fang Man and her collaborator, video artist Kasumi. Post-salon discussion moderated by Scott Lindroth & John Supko. 8pm. Nelson Music Rm. Free.

COMEDY. Whose Live Anyway?

Do you remember watching your favorite improv comedy show Whose Line is it Anyway? Come watch them perform live in Page, brought to you by DUU Speakers and Stage! Bring your suggestions for the show and you might be asked to join the cast on stage. 8pm. Page Aud. $20/$17 Gen., $15 Duke Alumni, $13 Duke Employee, $10 Duke student.

Bluebeard All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 8pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. White = Richard White Aud., Nasher = Nasher Museum Aud. 9/23 After Innocence (Perkins Rare Book Room) Discussion to follow with recent exonoree Shawn Massey, and Theresa Newman, co-chair of Duke Law School’s Wrongful Convictions clinic.

Rights! Camera! Action! series (7pm) 9/27 Bluebeard (Barbe bleue) French Film Series 9/28 Mother (S. Korea, 2009) A mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for their murder Cine-East: East Asian Cinema ami.trinity.duke.edu/screensociety/schedule.php

duke performances 2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1 S E A S O N MERCE CUNNINGHAM DANCE COMPANY A NORTH CAROLINA HOMECOMING EVENT FRI. & SAT., FEB. 4 & 5, 8PM

DURHAM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Presented by Duke Performances

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