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Fuqua MMS adds term in second year

Trustees to prioritize environment

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by Taylor Doherty

The Fuqua School of Business’s Master of Management Studies program has added an extra term after an initial year that exceeded Duke’s expectations and saw more than half of graduates receive a full-time job offer by July.

The program, which targets recent graduates with a limited business background, made the changes so that students with any undergraduate major could come to Fuqua and be successful, said Kathie Amato, associate dean for the program.

“The students that we had were absolutely phenomenal and incredibly helpful in terms of helping us frame this new program,” Amato said. “And in terms of the jobs they have gone on to post-graduation, I’ve been very pleased there as well.”

Of the 92 graduates searching for employment, 49, or 53 percent, received at least one job offer and 7, or 8 percent, were offered an internship as of July 1, according to a Sept. 14 Fuqua news release.

Fuqua is one of the few schools in the U.S. to offer a one-year, pre-experience masters, which is designed to prepare students for an entry level finance, marketing or consulting job. The model is better established in Europe, where the top four programs in the United Kingdom reported employment rates three months after graduation of at least 86 percent, according to data compiled by the Financial Times. Final job numbers

The Board of Trustees will pay special attention to environmental issues at Duke during its first meeting of the academic year.

The University’s governing body will set aside a full hour for the Nicholas School of the Environment and another hour for discussing sustainability at the University, said Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides. The dean will present an update on the Nicholas School that will include information about how the school is identifying its strengths, challenges and solutions.

“It’s a great opportunity for me to have a conversation with the Board about the Nicholas School, to bring them up to date about all the really exciting things we’re doing,” Chameides said. “Part of it is to let them know what we’re doing in the school, what our mission is, what our aspirations are, some of the metrics on what we’re doing well and what we need to do better.”

Board Chair and Democratic state Sen. Dan Blue, Law ’73, said the review will be important in order to see how the school is fulfilling its strategic plan and to

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Back from war, GIs Top recruit Rivers adjust to campus life commits to Duke

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Junior Paul Salem is an average Duke student­—he buys meals from the Great Hall and does homework in Perkins Library. But unlike most of his peers, Salem is a 24-year-old trained sniper who has instructed urban sniping while serving as a Marine in Iraq and the Horn of Africa.

Since President Barack Obama’s recent deployment of troops from Iraq— approximately 90,000 in the past 18 months as of August—the University has seen an increase in veteran applications at its undergraduate and graduate schools, University Registrar Bruce Cunningham wrote in an e-mail.

But the University is not expecting veteran enrollment to increase significantly in the immediate future, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations.

Lieutenant Valerie VanHo, president of the Student Veterans Association at Duke and Grad ’10, said the application process is particularly difficult for active duty servicemen who want to go to college because many fill out applications and take their SATs while deployed in Iraq or on naval ships.

Basketball season is still two weeks away, but Duke fans had a reason to rejoice on Thursday.

Austin Rivers, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2011, verbally committed to Duke yesterday.

As the 6-foot-4 guard described it, the sudden decision came naturally.

“It was just like a feeling,” Rivers told The Chronicle. “I woke up [Wednesday] morning and was like ‘What is more perfect for me to do?’

Austin Rivers I didn’t even talk to anybody. I was just thinking about it and thought about what is most perfect for me. And that’s why I decided to just go ahead and commit.”

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After an opening year that exceeded expectations, the Fuqua Master of Management Studies program has added an additional term to the curriculum.

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Dropout rate is 57 percent China releases three out at 16 for-profit colleges of four Japanese citizens WASHINGTON — About 57 percent of students at 16 for-profit colleges who started classes in the 2008-2009 academic year have dropped out, Senator Tom Harkin said Thursday.

During the three years, an estimated 1.9 million students left the institutions, most with nothing to show for their time except debt, Harkin said today at a hearing in Washington, quoting from a report by his office. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing Thursday into whether the schools misled students on employment prospects after graduation.

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The decision follows Japan’s move last week to release the Chinese captain of a fishing trawler that rammed two coast guard patrol boats near disputed islands in the East China Sea. That Sept. 7 incident spawned several weeks of acrimony between the Asian neighbors, with China imposing trade restrictions on exports and high-level leaders cutting off contacts.

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Robert Steel, former chair of the Board of Trustees, spoke to Founder’s Day celebrants Thursday afternoon about Duke’s “tension between tradition and tomorrow.”

Students, faculty and alumni gathered in Duke Chapel to celebrate Founder’s Day, which began as Benefactors’ Day in 1901 with the goal of honoring the Duke family.

After stating that his goal was “not to criticize, but to challenge as we move forward,” Steel, Trinity ’73 and New York City deputy mayor for economic development, suggested several ways in which the University can advance its interests. Among his top recommendations were that Duke increase networking with local universities, bring teachers’ technological standards up to date and remain committed to offering access to the best applicants regardless of their ability to pay.

Steel also advocated transparency in the administration, suggesting that the free distribution of information is “the best antidote to misconceptions.”

After Steel’s address, President Richard Brodhead honored the recipients of various Duke-sponsored scholarships and recognized several individuals for special awards.

Ellen Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, received the University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award for her contribution to Duke’s academics.

Davis, who teaches a popular course on the Old Testament, is also well known for

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hug with the president as he received his award. Known for his enthusiastic teaching style, Ferraro is also a prominent scholar on the subject of ethnicity.

Harold Yoh, for whom the Yoh Football Center and Yoh Family Professorship are named, received the Distinguished Alumni Award. Yoh, Pratt ’58, has been an active volunteer in the Duke community and has served as a member of both the

Campus Council took the first steps in beginning the new Collaborative Housing Process with Residential Group Assessment Committee and the Approval Removal Committee elections at its meeting Thursday night.

The council elected the RGAC chair, vice chair and five at-large members. However, the council did not elect an ARC chair and just filled four of the five at-large positions on the committee.

The RGAC is responsible for annually evaluating residential living groups using a set rubric. The ARC will use RGAC’s scores to determine whether or not certain groups should be put on probation or gain or lose housing privileges. RGAC and ARC are part of the CHP, the new housing assessment process developed last Spring.

The decision to hold off on filling ARC positions “is in the interest of building the largest possible candidate pool,” according to a press release from the council, As a result, the council is reopening the application process for the ARC chair.

According to the CHP handbook, the ARC chair will have the right to appoint

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Faculty, students and alumni gathered in Duke Chapel Thursday to celebrate the 109th annual Founder’s Day by honoring the University’s heritage, scholars, faculty and alumni. supporting interfaith dialogue and sustainable agriculture.

Eager to be recognized, English professor Thomas Ferraro stood up before Brodhead called him to the podium to accept his Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award, for which he was selected by a panel of undergraduates.

“He stood up and he ruined my surprise,” Brodhead said. “Sit down a minute.”

Ferraro, who was a student of Brodhead’s at Yale University, shared a warm

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Applications to medical school increase among Duke students

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An increase in the number of Duke students applying to medical school this year continues a notable trend of this decade.

Associate Dean Daniel Scheirer, director of the Office of Health Professions Advising, said the number of Duke students applying to medical schools has increased around 5 to 10 percent this Fall. HPA counts only first-time applicants but includes both alumni and current seniors. Duke has seen a continuing, gradual increase in first-time applicants over the last decade, up 24 percent from 2002 to 2009, according to the HPA’s 2009-2010 annual report.

Despite the recent financial downturn, Scheirer said she does not attribute the increase in applications to the gloomy job market, noting that the pre-med track requires multiple years of planning. Premed students, typically starting freshmen year, must take a long list of science class-

es and prepare for the MCATs while conducting research work at labs and volunteering in clinical settings. This prevents Duke students from considering medical school later in their college careers.

Last year, 13 percent of the graduating class applied to medical schools. Of those students, 83 percent were accepted, compared to the national acceptance rate of 46 percent.

Although the pre-med track is competitive and rigorous at Duke, some seniors noted it was a worthwhile investment considering the job security it generally provides.

Joanna Zhou, a pre-med senior who has applied to medical schools, said that in the current economy, going to medical school is a safer alternative.

“You go to school for another four years and you come out with a job. People always get sick, and everyone goes to See med school on page 6

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Officials said the number of Duke students who are applying to medical school this year has increased around 5 to 10 percent from last year, a pattern in line with the trend of the decade.

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Vivek Wadhwa, director of research for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, is currently researching the “Global Education Race” phenomenon among the world’s universities.

Business veteran studies ‘Global Education Race’ Named a “Leader of Tomorrow” by Forbes. com and the founder of a company that Fortune Magazine lauded as one of the top 25 “coolest” companies in the world, Vivek Wadhwa is a wellrespected veteran in the business world. Wadhwa now researches the “Global Education Race” phenomenon and is an executive in residence and director of research for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke and a senior research associate at Harvard Law School. Wadhwa studies America’s competitive advantages, especially entrepreneurship, skilled immigration and university research commercialization. The Chronicle’s Anne Yeung spoke with Wadhwa about his thoughts on the “Global Education Race.”

The Chronicle: What do you mean by the “Global Education Race?”

Vivek Wadhwa: Over the last 10 to 20 years, the rest of the world has learned what makes America what it is, which is its superior education system, its entrepreneurship, the culture of openness, bringing immigrants in and so on... A lot of countries

are investing massively in upgrading the education systems. China... [has] invested tens of billions of dollars in improving their universities in the past decade or decade and a half. India’s catching up, even Saudi Arabia is investing heavily in it. So, the U.S. is no longer the only destination for the world’s best and brightest.

TC: Some of your research mentions the “brain drain” as a phenomenon relating to the “Global Education Race.” What is the “brain drain?”

VW: [The United States] brought so many [workers] in on temporary visas and we didn’t have enough increase in the number of green cards that now we have more than... a million foreigners working in American companies waiting for green cards. If one of my students here at the [Master of Engineering Management] program in Pratt graduates and [wants] to stay here permanently, they have almost no See WADHWA on page 7

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for the 2010 MMS class will be reported in the middle of this month, Amato said.

Of Duke’s undergraduate Class of 2010, 45 percent left with a job, and another 6 percent with an internship or fellowship, according to the Career Center website. Those numbers do not include students who went to graduate school.

The MMS program, which was approved on a three-year pilot basis last year, has been expanded to 15 courses over five six-week terms. In its first year, the MMS program consisted of 12 courses taken over four six-week terms. The curriculum, which is designed to compete with top programs in Europe, is focused on applied casework instead of theory, said Angela Eberts, associate program director of career services, who previously worked in product management and marketing for JPMorgan Chase & Co. The program’s cost is tied to the University’s undergraduate tuition, which is currently $43,653. There was not an increase for this year’s added term, Amato said. The program costs at least $10,000 more than the two top U.K.-based programs. The London School of Economics and Political Science’s offering, which has a 90 percent employment rate for its 2010 class, costs approximately $30,000. City University London’s Cass Business School charges approximately $27,000 for its Masters in Management program, which has an employment rate of 86 percent for its 2010 class.

Graduating from Fuqua’s MMS program is a way for students to differentiate themselves in a crowded job market, said Geoff Robinson, the head of investment banking for 7city Learning, a financial services training company whose clients include Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. Additionally, the Fuqua brand draws the attention of selective companies, he

a candidate to the remaining at-large position since the general body did not.

“This [decision] is less of a comment on the candidates themselves than it is the fact that we want to see more applications and make sure we’re doing this right,” said sophomore Jeremy Ruch, Campus Council public relations director.

Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior, said the decision to not vote on an ARC chair will give the council more flexibility. He added that the council wants to ensure the ARC is best prepared to deal with the housing petitions it will face this year.

“This is incredibly important, as this is the ARC’s inaugural year,” Temple said. “We want to make sure we optimize the ARC also because it will help determine which groups will have sections as we transition to the house model.”

Sophomores Nazanin Amini, Brittany Coleman and Kaya Massey as well as senior Wesley Brown will serve as the four at-large members of the ARC. Ashley Jordan, a junior, will serve as RGAC chair and Allison LeCavalier, a sophomore, was elected vice-chair. Atlarge members will be juniors Kevin Thurman, Ashley Baker and Prithviraj Singha Roy, and senior Yujin Chun.

Interfraternity Council and Selective House Council representatives, who are elected internally, should be finalized by the end of the week, Temple said.

“Once the RGAC is up and running, it will be hosting info sessions [about the CHP] with liaisons from residential living groups,” he said. He noted that dates for these sessions have not yet been set.

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Of the graduates of the Fuqua School of Business’s new Master of Management Studies program looking for a job, 53 percent received at least one offer, compared to 86 and 90 percent for comparable programs in the U.K. said. Last year’s graduates received offers from both of those banks and from companies such as Accenture, American Express and Apple.

“One of the hardest things for guys coming into finance at the moment is differentiating themselves,” he said. “There seems to be so much high-quality talent floating around anything anyone can do to differ is worth thinking about.”

Since one-year pre-experience masters programs are not common in the U.S., Fuqua had to educate prospective employers about the program through a direct mail and e-mail campaign, Amato said. Additionally, members of last year’s class said more recruiting events should be offered for the MMS program.

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This year, in addition to a Spring career fair organized by the MMS program and open to all Duke students, career services have been further integrated into the MMS curriculum, Eberts said. The revamped business communication course offered in the first term prepares students for the Fall career search, and students now have mandatory appointments with the program’s three career coaches.

The makeup of the program has changed along with the curriculum. Last year, 60 of the 98 students did their undergraduate work at Duke. This year, the ratio is 21 out of 101 students, with more of the class coming from overseas, Amato said.

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“Lifelong learning isn’t a thrill or a slogan, but the deepest human imperative,” Brodhead said before he gave professor emeritus of education Jean O’Barr her award as University Medalist for Distinguished Meritorious Service, which Steel also received.

O’Barr, who has been teaching at Duke since 1969, played a significant role in developing Duke’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. She was also the founding director of the Women’s Studies Program, a position she held until 2001.

After the ceremony, Brodhead continued to speak highly of the honorees outside the Chapel.

“They’re all incredibly special people,” he said.

Event attendee Priya Bhat, a senior, said she thought Ferraro and Brodhead’s embrace was endearing.

“I got choked up,” senior Julia Duzon added. “I hope to have that one day with my professors.”

Duke has made some strides to improve its accessibility to veterans, but undergraduates who have served in the military are still a minority group among students on campus, Salem said.

med school from page 4 a doctor,” Zhou said. “Compared to being unemployed and moving back home after college, going to school for another four years and then being able to save lives afterwards doesn’t seem as bad anymore.”

But not every student chooses to go directly to medical school after Duke. Kirsten Nicholas, assistant director for the Career Center, said she tries to present the multiple options to pre-med students, explaining to them the advantages and disadvantages of taking a gap year. Ultimately, though, students must make the decision of when to apply and attend medical school themselves, she added.

Alex Zhang, another pre-med senior who has applied to medical school this year, noted that most of his own premed friends have actually not applied this fall, opting instead to take gap years. HPA often advises students to take a year off, Zhang noted from his personal experience, but he added that the fact that applications to medical schools are still increasing shows “maybe there’s just a ton of really stubborn or really smart kids in the senior class.”

For many pre-med seniors graduating from a school like Duke, a gap year is not for aimless experimentation, said Sarah Hochendoner, a pre-med senior who will wait a year to go to medical school. Although she is taking a gap year, Hochendoner is certain that she wants to ultimately be a doctor. She said she plans on doing health-related activities at least for a part of her gap year to increase her chances of being accepted to medical school and said she expects that many of her peers taking gap years will be doing similarly.

The Yellow Ribbon effect The veterans who do attend Duke, however, are eligible to receive financial support from the University.

Last year, Duke began providing funding for veteran students by joining the Department of Veterans Affairs Yellow Ribbon Program. The program allows institutions of higher learning to enter into an agreement with the government to provide funding for veterans which the VA then matches.

Since the University’s pledge, the number of students receiving veteran’s benefits has seen a “dramatic increase,” Cunningham said.

“Our veterans-benefit-receiving population has almost tripled in the last two years due to these new benefits....

Based on the number of inquiries we continue to receive I would expect that we will continue to see an increase in students using veteran’s benefits here at Duke,” he said.

“Duke has made a very strong commitment to the Yellow Ribbon program and I don’t see any reason why that would diminish in the future.”

Funding school by school Graduate and professional schools at the University provide more funding to students than Duke’s undergraduate schools under the Yellow Ribbon program.

For example, this year the Fuqua School of Business pledged $540,000—enough for 30 business students to receive $18,000 each, Cunningham said. The Sanford School of Public Policy offered $280,000 for 20 students to receive $14,000 each. At the undergraduate level, the Trinity School of Arts and Sciences and the Pratt School of Engineering offered $5,000 for 10 veterans—for a combined total of $50,000, Cunningham said.

The funds for veterans represent a significantly smaller sum than the scholarship money set aside for other scholarship purposes—including on a per-scholarship basis. In comparison, the University provided about $11.2 million in non-need-based athletic scholarships to 353 athletes, and $11.5 million to 220 merit award recipients last year,

Alison Rabil, assistant vice provost and director for Financial Aid, wrote in an e-mail. Athletic-based scholarships make up 5 percent of student scholarship funding and merit-based scholarships make up 3 percent.

Schoenfeld said there are more graduate veteran students at Duke than undergraduates because the skills developed in the military are much more applicable at the graduate level.

“The Fuqua School of Business is a very popular destination for veterans,” Schoenfeld said. “We have a number of veterans who are enrolled at Fuqua and are in many cases among the top students because they have a tremendous amount of experience at a very young age, and they are used to the discipline and the rigor of being in very challenging circumstances.”

VanHo said sometimes the veterans’ work ethics and experiences are not as easy to reflect at the undergraduate admissions office as the graduate schools’ admissions offices.

University support for veterans The University also provides other services to veterans beyond financial support. VanHo said Duke has a variety of programming that caters to the veteran community such as hosting speakers and holding campus appreciation days. Last year, U.S. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Eric Shinseki, Grad ’76, came to re-dedicate Duke’s war memorial and speak to student veterans.

Although Salem does not receive funding under the Yellow Ribbon Program, he said the University was extremely helpful after he received his acceptance. In one instance, Duke sent a request to the Marine Corps asking to allow Salem to return earlier to the U.S. so that he could be home for a month before moving onto East Campus.

Salem said that unlike many of his fellow Marines at other universities, he has found his peers to be “unbelievably respectful” of the fact that he has served in Iraq.

He added that although some do not agree with the war in Iraq, he has not experience any ill will toward him as a result.

“My generation [of Marines] is lucky to have benefited from previous generations,” Salem said. “Even people who might be against the war in principle will always express an appreciation for the troops. I never sense any animosity towards me, even if there is a political disagreement with the war itself.”

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wadhwa from page 4 chance of getting a visa or green card for 10 or 20 years—or even longer... It’s a disaster for American competitiveness because the people who could be fueling the next generation of start-ups are now going all over the world and starting companies over there.

TC: What are the implications of these phenomena for U.S. technology advancements and the U.S. job market?

VW: Fewer jobs... We’re exporting economic growth. In the next five years or so, you’ll start seeing world-class companies coming out of India and China, you’ll see Google-class companies being founded in Bangalore and Beijing, and... our graduates are going to be tempted to join those companies versus joining Silicon Valley companies.... America’s going to be left behind, the way things are going.

TC: Often cited as a reason for leaving the U.S. is that there is a lack of opportunities. Other than the visa issue, what else makes the U.S. less appealing to foreigners?

VW: Graduate students can get a better job in India or China right now than they can get here.... And your career progression is much faster in India.

TC: What do you suggest President Barack Obama’s administration do to address the problem?

VW: I’m very disappointed in the Obama administration. They haven’t focused at all on the immigration problem... things have gotten worse under the Obama administration than they were under the Bush administration. Get rid of the 7 percent [per country] cap and increase [the] 120,000 [yearly quota] to maybe 250,000... any graduate from a top university in America should automatically get a

green card. Once they start working here, they end up falling in love—not only with a partner, but with the country itself—so it becomes very difficult for them to go back once they’re here.

TC: What are the forces working against these reforms?

VW: When people lose their jobs, they start blaming immigrants. Xenophobia is building in America, senators are going crazy... trying to attack foreigners, foreign companies, outsourcing and so on—never mind that American companies get most of their revenue from abroad. They’re just acting in a populist way... trying to appease

“Once they start working here, they end up falling in love — not only with a partner, but with the country itself.”

— Vivek Wadhwa,

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the most radical elements of their electorate, which is sad.

TC: Is Duke responding appropriately to the “Global Education Race”? If not, what would be an appropriate response?

VW: Duke thinks it’s doing a lot. It’s not.

I’m not satisfied with the progress I’m seeing here at globalizing—the world is changing faster than universities. The majority of [Duke international students] are going back home now soon after they graduate.

I’d like to see [Duke] setting up foreign campuses more aggressively. I’d like to see them changing the curriculum to add more globalization courses.

trustees from page 1 understand what its leadership’s plans are for upcoming years.

The Trustees will also discuss ongoing plans to reduce the carbon footprint of the campus’s two steam plants, a measure that Chameides called a very important part of the University’s Climate Action Plan. The Board approved the Climate Action Plan at its meeting last October to achieve a Dan Blue carbon neutral campus in the next 50 years.

Gregory Jones, vice president and vice provost for global strategy and programs, will present ways in which Duke is building its infrastructure locally to expand its international presence and give an update on the Kunshan, China campus.

The Kunshan campus is now expected to be completed in summer 2012, ExecBill Chameides utive Vice President Tallman Trask said.

The Trustees will also discuss a number of campus construction projects this weekend.

The governing body will vote on the design of the School of Medicine Learning Center, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The $53 million building will be funded by

a $35 million contribution from the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment, philanthropy reserves and debt proceeds, he added.

Trask said the Trustees will also discuss the construction of two small vivariums—one for the School of Medicine and one for the Pratt School of Engineering. Both will be paid for using a portion of the $202 million in stimulus funds the government has awarded the University, Schoenfeld said.

As part of a discussion of New Campus, the Trustees will consider plans to move part of Campus Drive. The move would cost between $3 million and $5 million and aid long-term plans to construct a new arts building, Trask said.

The Trustees’ meetings will be closed to the media and public this year and have been closed since 2008.

Blue and President Richard Brodhead declined this week to change the policy that prevents the media from attending meetings, after The Chronicle formally requested more access.

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Generally, Duke governance “remains unusually open to students and faculty,” Brodhead said, noting the high proportion of the two groups at Board committee meetings. Brodhead added that like last year, he and Blue will be available for comment after the proceedings to discuss the meetings.

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Heart of Sliding Duke travels to Maryland ACC slate to begin College Park, Md.• SATURDAY• 6:00 p.m.

by Jacob Levitt THE CHRONICLE

When Duke and Maryland met at Wallace Wade Stadium last year, their seasons were headed in opposite directions. The same is true this year—but the situation is opposite.

In 2009 the Blue Devils escaped the Terrapins on a rain-soaked afternoon by a score of 17-13, bringing the Blue Devils to 4-3 and 2-1 in the ACC—the first time in more than a decade that Duke had a winning conference record. Meanwhile, the Terrapins dropped to 2-6 and Ralph Friedgen started hearing calls for his firing.

This year, Maryland is surging, while Duke lags behind.

The Terrapins have opened this season 3-1, including a win over Navy in Baltimore in which they shut down Midshipman quarterback Ricky Dobbs, a dark-horse preseason Heisman candidate. Maryland then went on to post a 62-3 win over Morgan State, staged a near-comeback at then-No. 21 West Virginia and bounced back with a 42-28 win over Florida International.

“My hat’s off to Maryland. they had a tough year a year ago, and they worked themselves right out of it,” head coach David Cutcliffe said. “They have a lot of weapons on both sides of the ball.... We will have to play far and away our best football of the year in order to

by Jay Vitha THE CHRONICLE

With a 1-1 tie against then-No. 8 Maryland Sunday, Duke proved it could compete with the ACC’s best.

And at a good time—Sunday’s No. 14 Fl. State match against No. 14 Florida State vs. is the second of No. 19 eight consecutive Duke conference games prior to the ACC SUNDAY, 1 p.m.

Tournament.

Tallahassee, Fl. “The Maryland game was a turning point for us with a tie and a good chance to win,” head coach Robbie Church said. “We aren’t giving up many goals and our midfielders, defenders and goalkeeper have done a great job.

We’re a good defensive team.”

Against Maryland, Duke controlled the ball for most of the game, only allowing one goal in the 75th minute of play.

The team did well on the attack, tallying 14 shots against the Terrapins, and created chances with its good ball movement. lawson kurtz/Chronicle file photo

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Last year, in a rain-soaked battle, Duke topped Maryland 17-13. Saturday, the Blue Devils travel to College Park.

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women’s tennis

Sun, country’s hardest competition await Duke

by Maureen Dolan THE CHRONICLE

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Mary Clayton qualified this summer to be one of the five Blue Devils competing next week in the ITA/Rivera All-American Championships.

Seven days. 32 of the toughest tennis players in America. Beautiful Pacific Palisades, California. These are some things that five of Duke’s athletes have to look forward to this week in the ITA/Riviera All-American Championships.

Seniors Nadine Fahoum, ElRiviera lah Nze, Reka Zsilinszka and ElizaAllbeth Plotkin—all of whom earned American rankings in the ITA preseason top Oct. 4-10 50—and sophomore Mary Clayton Riviera Tennis Club will represent the Blue Devils at this Pacific Palisades, Calif. highly competitive tournament hosted for the 26th year by the Riviera Tennis Club October 4-10.

“Historically it’s one of the toughest tournaments because it’s the hardest to get into,” head coach Jamie Ashworth said.

In order to qualify, competitors either have to be a returning All-American or win one of several exclusive summer tournaments.

“It’s tougher to get into...the main draw than it is to get into the NCAA tournament just because of the size of the draw,” Ashworth said. “Everyone has basically earned their way in.”

Clayton was the only Blue Devil who needed to qualify individually, as her four teammates garnered All-American statuses last season. The sophomore won the ITA National Collegiate Summer Championship this August in order to cement her spot in the All-American Championships this

year.

“I think that winning the summer tournament gave me a little bit of a boost coming into this, considering it’s the last singles tournament that I’ve played,” Clayton said. “And I feel like we’ve been preparing really well for it, singles and doubles, so I feel ready to play, ready to compete.”

No. 25-ranked Zsilinszka, who emerged victorious from the Fab Four Invite two weeks ago, looks forward to the tournament and its high intensity and new competition.

“Being a senior I feel like I used to know everybody, and now, even this last tournament, I felt like I just knew a couple people,” Zsilinszka said. “I think most of the people that I might be playing will be freshmen, sophomores. I want to see what the new crop looks like. All-American is an amazing tournament. Every single year, it’s the best competition in the country so regardless of who I play it’s going to be a really tough match, so I’m just hoping to get some good wins in to start the season.”

Junior Monica Gorny and freshman Hanna Mar will also be competing this weekend at the San Diego State University Fall Classic at the Aztec Tennis Center in San Diego. With their tournament concluding Sunday, Gorny and Mar will be able to cheer on their teammates in Pacific Palisades. The Blue Devils are ready for their West Coast challengers.

“They’ll do fine, we’ve done a good job preparing,” Ashworth said. “The level of our team, they’re going to get good competition everyday in practice. They’ve done a good job preparing in that way.”

This will be Duke’s last tournament before the ITA Regionals, which will be held in Chapel Hill October 21-26.

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Rolling Blue Devils host Terps, Eagles

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

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Sophomore Andrew Wenger and the rest of the backline will face a loud crowd and a potent Maryland team.

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The Blue Devils are set to play in front of a frenzied crowd tonight at No. 8 Maryland—and they even thought of using the music of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne to simulate the crowd noise.

“I was thinking about bringing a stereo system out, [with] loud music like Ozzy Osbourne to get them used to the surroundNo. 8 ings,” head coach UMD John Kerr said. vs.

After a disappointing tie against No. 9 Elon Wednesday, No. Duke 9 Duke heads into FRIDAY, 8 p.m. one of its toughest College Park, Md. matchups of the year tonight at 8 p.m. in College Park, Md. The Blue Devils (4-1-3, 1-1-1 in the ACC) and the Terrapins (4-2-1, 1-1-1) enter the match with exactly even conference records and are jockeying for position in this year’s highly competitive ACC, where any win or loss is crucial.

“It’s an ACC game, and ACC wins are hard to come by, and especially away at Maryland,” Kerr said. “We understand the task at hand is

going to be very difficult, but we’re optimistic and excited to go into that environment.”

Duke faces a formidable opponent in Maryland that has only lost one of its last six, with that sole loss being on the road against No. 2 North Carolina. In addition, the usually fervent Terrapin crowd will be extra robust—during the game the school will celebrate the university’s 1000th soccer match, with extra fans and alumni expected to be in attendance.

Aside from handling the surroundings, the Blue Devils know they need to improve from the Elon tie to come out victorious against Maryland. One area of improvement involves countering opponents’ focus on sophomore forward Ryan Finley, who has scored eight of Duke’s 13 goals this season. The extra attention he has faced perhaps accounts for his current two-game goal drought.

“We have some other really good players on the team,” Finley said. “If I can try and get them the ball, I think there should be some open guys with all their guys trying to commit on me.”

One of those players is senior midfielder Cole Grossman, who scored Duke’s lone goal against Elon and understands the challenges the Terrapins will present.

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Amassing a three-game winning streak and sharing the top spot in the ACC with No. 14 Florida State and North Carolina, Duke returns home after two difficult road matches to host conference opponents Maryland and Boston College this UMD weekend in Cameron Indoor Stadium. vs.

The Blue Devils (11-2, 3-0 in the Duke ACC) first play the Terrapins (11-4, 2-1) FRIDAY, 7 p.m. tonight at 7 p.m.

Cameron Indoor and must look for ways to counter the best serving team in Boston College the conference, one that holds a leaguevs. high 87 aces in only 54 games and five Duke players with at least 11 aces.

SATURDAY, 7 p.m.

“I think we just Cameron Indoor need to focus on playing our own game,” junior middle blocker Sophia Dunworth said. “We just need to stay focused on our side of the court and on controlling what we can.”

A day after the standoff against Maryland, Duke faces Boston College (8-8, 0-3), a team that has dropped three straight conference matches, including 3-0 sweeps to Duke’s fellow conference foes, the Tar

Heels and N.C. State. However, the Blue Devils can’t let down their guard against the Eagles’ service game, since it ranks second only to Maryland in the conference with 81 aces.

“This week we’ve been working a lot on our own personal defense,” senior Claire Smalzer said. “Practice has been

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cross country

Great American Festival kicks off

by Sarah Elsakr THE CHRONICLE

The Duke cross country teams will head in different directions this weekend as the men race in the Great American Cross Country Festival Friday and the women head to Greensboro to race in the Hagan Stone Cross Country Classic.

The runners that placed in the bottom ten for the Duke men at Wake Forest Dual on September 11 did not compete last weekend at the Roy Griak Invitational. This Friday in Cary, they will get their chance to run. The Blue Devils look to repeat their victorious performance from last year’s festival.

Sophomore Dominick Robinson believes he has a chance to capture first place in the meet.

“I want to go out with the leaders and try to win it,” Robinson said. “It’s definitely possible.”

Robinson hopes to regain his confidence coming off a recent injury.

“I’m still a little bit out of shape,” he said, “but [head coach Norm Ogilvie] thinks I can break through.”

The men have a good idea what the course will be like, as they competed in the ACC Championships at the same location in 2009.

“I [set a personal record] there last year,” Robinson said. “I figured out it was a pretty fast course, but you have to be conservative because the first mile comes out fast.”

His teammate Phil Fairleigh will compete in the meet as an individual because he is redshirting his freshman year.

Still, he looks to be in the top five finishers on Friday when he participates in his first major college cross-country meet.

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miles and in college it’s a five-mile race, so it’s a different kind of thing,” Fairleigh said. “My goal is just to go out and run a good race.”

The women’s team will run at the Hagan Stone Cross Country Classic in Greensboro Saturday. Only three runners will represent Duke this weekend, while several other Blue Devils will be running as individuals, unattached to their teammates. The unattached runners will hope to improve their standing on the team by competing.

Unattached runner freshman Gabby Levac, who hopes to overcome an illness in time to race Saturday, is expected to finish in a top spot at this meet after her second-place finish at the William & Mary Invitational last weekend.

The three women officially representing the Blue Devils are seniors Katie Apibunyopas, Devotia Moore and freshman Ashley Berry.

“Our biggest goal is to keep on getting better,” Jermyn said. “We want to give each athlete a fair chance to earn a position on the ACC roster.... We can only take 10 people, so we try to set up each athlete so that by the end of October, we know if they’ve earned a spot.”

field hockey

‘Championshiplevel’ Duke takes on B.C.

by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE

Last weekend saw No.13 Duke perform at a standard which head coach Beth Bozman described as “championship level.” Even at this level, then-No.1 North Carolina managed to squeeze out a narrow win, leaving the Blue Devils (5-5, 0-2 in the ACC) without an ACC victory.

This weekend, Duke hopes to finally get that first conference win.

Two teams from Boston visit Durham this weekend— ACC rival No. 12 Boston College (6-4, 0-2) Saturday, and No.11 Boston University (6-3) Sunday, with each game starting at 1 p.m.

Bozman said that the team has been No. 12 working on its finishing. It has been a B.C. struggle for the Blue Devils throughout vs. the season and they aim to get the comNo. 13 plete package needed to succeed.

Duke “We played the best hockey that Duke Field Hockey has ever had in a SATURDAY, 1 p.m.

Jack Katz Stadium long time [against North Carolina],” Bozman said. “We had possession time, shots … everything right exNo. 11 cept the finish.”

B.U. The first game of the weekend vs. against the Eagles pits two closelyranked ACC opponents, with both No. 13 aiming to record their first conferDuke ence win. Bozman acknowledged SUNDAY, 1 p.m.

Boston College as a strong oppoJack Katz Stadium nent, but feels that Duke’s stronger schedule, in which the Blue Devils have played against seven ranked opponents, will be a major factor during the game.

The non-conference game against Boston University may not be as significant, but Bozman will not be taking the Terriers lightly. The coach has said that she will focus on her team, and not the competition, whoever that may be.

The Blue Devils will again look to freshman Emmie Le Marchand and senior Susan Ferger for their goals.

They share the team lead with three goals apiece.

With nice weather being forecasted over the weekend, Bozman is looking forward to seeing her team in action in their penultimate weekend at home. Duke plays on the road until it returns for the last game of the regular season October 30 against Virginia.

“This should be a good way to end the home run,” she said. “But we’d play them anywhere … the most important thing is to come out on top come Sunday.”

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Church did, however, state his concern about the Blue Devils’ play in front of the net, as well as the offense’s inability to finish at the goal.

“We need to be more composed in front of goals and have a better final ball,” he said.

The crucial match versus Maryland woke the team up to how rigorous ACC play is. Many of the young Blue Devils (6-2-3, 0-1-1 in the ACC) are getting used to the adjustment of MORE the tougher competition.

ONLINE “We go into each [ACC] game with the mindset that every game is going to be a battle,” freshman What song does Laura Weinberg, who leads the freshman Mollie Pathman listen to as team with five goals, said. “The season is short and therefore we a pump-up song? cannot take any game for grantdukechroniclesports.com ed or waste our opportunities.”

The freshmen have been able to have an immediate impact on the team. Mollie Pathman, Kaitlynn Kerr and redshirtfreshman Callie Simpkins have each contributed three goals this season. Along with Weinberg, the newcomers have quickly become leaders on the team.

“The freshmen are good players and have a good mentality with a lot thrown at them both in training and in competition,” Church said. “They have been able to hold their own and add a lot to the team. I am very impressed with them.”

Looking forward to the match against the Seminoles (7-2-0, 1-0-0), Church is expecting his team to be focused and play a full 90 minutes, noting that many of the ACC matches this season have been determined by one goal.

“The tactics of each game are different but if you take five minutes off you can get beat,” he said. “We have to be plugged in and have a strong mentality.”

be in this game and win this football game.”

The Blue Devils will face a tough challenge from a confident team backed by a hostile crowd Saturday. Though Maryland’s attendance was low last week, Terrapin fans are well known for disliking Duke, as evidenced by the riot that broke out after a regular season victory over the Blue Devils in basketball.

The combination of a raucous crowd and Duke’s recent lack of success could have had Cutcliffe worried about his team. The coach, though, doesn’t see past demons as present obstacles.

“It doesn’t concern me at all because everything we do, we do it like winners,” Cutcliffe said. “You’re only a loser if you let yourself be a loser.... If we continue to carry ourselves like winners and work like winners, that’s how you work your way out of it. I know we will not give into being a loser. We will not have losers in our program.”

The Blue Devils have demonstrated a capability of playing well at times this year, but have rarely seen all

aspects of their team click together. With the offense putting up significant numbers against Elon and Wake Forest and scoring the first touchdown Alabama has allowed all year, Duke’s defense had faced the brunt of the criticism. But against Army, it was the offense that came up short, maintaining possession for only 20 minutes.

Sophomore Conner Vernon said that a possible solution to the team’s inconsistency might be to snatch momentum early.

“At the beginning of the game, [the Black Knights] got the momentum in their favor, and we weren’t able to get it in our favor until late in the game,” Vernon said. “This game is all about momentum. The team that has momentum and is able to keep it is usually going to win the game.”

There’s no doubt that Maryland has thrived this year, while the Blue Devils are sliding. Cutcliffe, however, believes that situations like this are opportunities for Duke to prove itself.

“If you’re the right kind of guy, you like being an underdog, you like being on the road,” Cutcliffe said. “I love to beat people in their stadium, I do. I just think that’s one of the most fun things about my job.”

m. soccer from page 9 “It’s going to be a different kind of pressure than we’ve seen all season, and for the young guys than they’ve seen in their careers,” Grossman said.

Under this pressure, the Blue Devils will certainly have to improve on executing their opportunities. While they outshot Elon 22-to-eight, and were able to control much of the possession, they had difficulty putting the final ball away.

“I think we’re attacking with good numbers and we’re getting guys in the box and now it’s time to execute and finish off that last pass,” Kerr said.

Much of the challenge for Duke, however, will be the mental aspect, which will be exacerbated by the rowdy Maryland crowd. The seasoned Grossman is looking forward to it, though, with a veteran attitude.

“I’ve played there before so I think I’m ready for it,” Grossman said. “[I’m] just going to try and cherish it because it’s my last opportunity to play in one of the coolest venues in college sports.”

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Sophomore Conner Vernon, who had a breakout game against Maryland last year, leads the ACC in receptions and receiving yards.

volleyball from page 9 really tough this week, because one of our policies on our team is to not take [any opponent] lightly, regardless of their record. We treat every team like it’s going to be a great opponent.”

The Blue Devils carry strong momentum after winning two tough five-game road matches last weekend, and they have another positive going for them: Their return to Cawmeron will be their first time back since the team’s season opener Sept. 17 against Wake Forest.

“I’m hoping our team feels good about what it accomplished last weekend but that they are ready to

compete this weekend,” head coach Jolene Nagel said.

“In the ACC, there are no easy matches, and you’ve got to come to compete if you want to win. We have the opportunity to be at home, and you’ve got to get them when you’re at home.”

Collecting wins at home will be critical to the Blue Devils’ long-term goals—which include a possible ACC championship—but for now, they insist on focusing solely on the next opponent.

“Coming into preseason, we set our team goals, and like every other team in the ACC, you want to finish first, but we don’t dwell on rankings. It is what it is, and you take it one game at a time,” Smalzer said.

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“I’ve been waiting for this moment all my life and it’s going to be here pretty soon,” he said. “I’m ready to come in and live up to the high standards.”

Rivers, a senior at Winter Park High School (Winter Park, Fla.), originally announced he would take official visits to his top three choices—North Carolina, Kansas and Duke—before making a commitment. He had scheduled a trip to Chapel Hill for today and planned to visit Kansas Oct. 22.

Yesterday morning, however, he informed Bill Self and Roy Williams that he would not be attending their schools. At 2:00 p.m., he announced to the world, via Twitter, that he would be attending Duke.

“World i have decided to go to duke! Let’s go blue devils ha,” he wrote.

NCAA rules prohibited the Duke sports information department to comment on the verbal commitment.

The team, though, went to Twitter like Rivers did, and expressed their happiness.

“Welcome to the family @AustinRivers25!!!” Nolan Smith tweeted.

“Congrats to @AustinRivers25 for committing to the duke blue devils,” Kyrie Irving wrote.

Rivers’s decision capped a long recruitment that began after the five-star playmaker verbally committed to Florida at the end of his freshman season in 2008, but then decommitted and reopened his recruitment during his junior year. He said that Duke soon caught his attention.

“When rumors started that I was decommiting from

Florida, Duke started recruiting me,” Rivers said. “I fell in love with the school and program and the people there. I’ve liked Duke for a while now.”

Dave Telep, Scout.com’s national recruiting director, said that Duke had been the favorite to land the bluechipper for some time.

“Behind the scenes, Duke has been the clubhouse leader,” Telep said. “The timing of it was surprising. But there comes a time when you know what you want and you don’t want to waste anyone’s time anymore.”

Rivers, the first No. 1 player to commit to Duke since 2005, posseses a well-rounded offensive game, and he is known for his deep range and physical drives to the hoop.

“He’s a unique kid,” Scout.com’s Dave Telep told The Chronicle. “You don’t always see this mature a scoring package in a college player, let alone a high school player.”

Rivers averaged 23.9 points per game during his junior season and led Winter Park to its first state championship in school history. He also led his Each 1 Teach 1 AAU squad to the Junior Boys Super Showcase national championship in July, scoring a game-high 24 points in the finals. This summer, he played alongside college freshmen, including Irving, who could be his backcourt mate next year on the USA Basketball U-18 team. This winter, he is considered a favorite to win Florida’s Mr. Basketball honor.

Rivers said he is excited to show off his talents on the hardwood of Cameron Indoor Stadium. He plans to visit Duke again for Countdown to Craziness on Oct. 15, a year before he puts on the Blue Devil jersey for the first time.

“I’m going to be psyched. I’ve never been to a Duke atmosphere like that so I’m excited to see what it’s like,” he said. “I’ve never seen the fans—only on TV—so I hope they like me.”

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Setting the Trustees agenda This weekend marks the ing process of faculty and first Board of Trustees meeting departmental downsizing is of the academic year, and the the most critical area in this University’s governing body has regard, as the maintenance some serious issues to confront. of an innovative, engaged The Chronicle’s Edito- faculty is central to Duke’s rial Board feels that the fol- continued excellence. lowing topics Allegations editorial should rank of academic near the top of dishonesty levthe Board’s agenda when it eled against Duke cancer reconvenes Friday. searcher Anil Potti should spur Undoubtedly, the ongo- a re-examination of the faculty ing financial challenges will review processes. This is espebe the predominant topic cially significant as the Univerof conversation. Although sity reviews its hiring and attriDuke’s financial situation tion practices in response to seems more stable com- economic constraints. pared to last year, the TrustThe Board should also ees should continue looking engage in a meaningful confor strategies to close the re- versation about what constimaining $40 million budget tutes a Duke education. For deficit without jeopardizing 10 years the University has the University’s central edu- pursued the vision outlined cational mission. The ongo- in Curriculum 2000—the last

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As a corollary to academic and financial considerations, the impact of the athletics department should be scrutinized. While we recognize the benefits a high-profile athletics program brings in terms of publicity and school solidarity, the subsidy the athletics department continues to receive from Trinity College, even as the faculty is cut, necessitates discussion.

Focusing in on the student body, the University has clearly made strides in attracting increasingly diverse

classes of accomplished and unique students. But there is still work to be done. The University’s lack of socioeconomic diversity is troubling.

The Trustees should take an active role in responding to the findings of Duke’s Socioeconomic Diversity Initiative.

Administrative diversity should also be examined.

In light of the recent departures of prominent black administrators Kemel Dawkins and Aaron Graves, the Trustees should frankly assess whether there are substantial institutional reasons for the homogeneity among the top administrators.

Even as a balanced budget remains our top priority, the promotion of a dynamic, welcoming community for students on campus should

not be neglected. Topics of consideration should include the potential impact of proposed changes to the quad housing model, space for minority and women’s groups and the University’s sexual harassment and assault policies. Additionally, the specter of a challenge to the legality of the Duke University Police Department should prompt a thorough review of the University’s Methodist ties.

Altogether, the Board of Trustees has a busy year ahead. We hope the Trustees will lay the groundwork for navigating future challenges.

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alk long enough to classroomfuls of people est, where he lives to this day. The scritching stopped. who write down everything you say, and And in the seven years since, there has been no noise eventually you’ll start to think you know it in the dorm that comes close. all. It can be bracing to find yourself in an environYou will see much, though, that you don’t unment where things don’t always make derstand. You will be walking quisense. When I told my family and etly down the stairs, and five young friends that I was planning to move men with a Pratt look about them into a first-year residence hall, they might gallop past snickering, their told me I was insane. They are anibodies draped in bubble wrap. A mals! They are messy! You’ll trip over gigantic tree might fall and shattheir garbage! They are dangerous ter the beautiful, freshly painted and violent! You’ll get hurt! They’ll dorm bench—the best one on hate you! You’ll lose your hearing! carol apollonio East Campus—to smithereens. A I’m still trying to figure out who exrandom resident might befoul his what would actly is crazy, myself or everyone else, own nest, or its door, or a neighdostoevsky do? but one thing is for sure: every day I bor’s door, or the kitchen, or even see things I don’t understand. And a the common room. In an era little bit of mystery is the best medicine for a head- when a single piece of paper represents the life of ful of verifiable facts. an entire baby penguin, a bulletin board might be My friends were wrong about one thing—when plastered with multiple versions of the same flyer.

I moved into Wilson Dormitory in Fall 2003 the A plastic bottle or a newspaper might wind up in halls were peaceful. Way quieter than back in the the trash instead of the recycling bin. The hallway suburb. Not a peep. Just a gentle scritching sound may serve as a soccer field. Seventy people might above my ceiling, in the back corner—nothing cram into the common room in blue t-shirts, or worth noticing. This is a gig I can stand, I thought. even blue faces, and scream incoherently for two And then one sweltering Tuesday afternoon a horde hours at the TV. of humanity thundered through the doors: dazed, On balance, though, it’s best not to judge. car-lagged eighteen-year-olds, dangerous-looking You might burn a batch of cookies and set off the middle-aged men wielding hammers, dripping, smoke alarm. Your cat might stalk friendly guests purple-T-shirted young adults hauling gigantic in your apartment and bite them, drawing blood, boxes, wide-eyed children cringing in the corners or worse: you might get a call from an excruciatof their big sisters’ new bedrooms. More sweat than ingly polite resident assistant at 5 a.m. on a SaturI’ve ever seen in one place, including Brodie Gym. day morning, and learn that “a cat that looks kind Moms weeping. Grandmothers fainting. Straight of like yours” has gotten out and has somehow out of Dante. Or Dostoevsky. climbed up the outside walls of the dorm to the Amazingly, everything quieted down. I figured, it’s third story, where it has entered through an open a one-time thing, it’s over. But that first Friday night, window and jumped onto the stomach of a sleepit started up again: bangs, thumps, shrieks, howls, ing resident. At a certain point you might start to footsteps stampeding up and down the hall. Didn’t wonder who is in more danger: you, who’ve been sound like party noise, but hey, I’m a different gen- around the course more than once and know eration. I herded the cat and the child into the back a thing or two, or think you do, or the trustful room, where we closed the door, cowered, clutched neighbor who stops in to visit and reaches down pillows over our heads and tried to sleep the noise impulsively to pat the homicidal feline. away. Time passed. We had enough food for a few One thing about professors, especially at a days. But eventually you have to venture forth. And smart place like Duke. We know a whole lot about when we did, we noticed a small wire-net cage under a few things, and more than most people in the the fire escape. Inside, a trembling, white-furred little world about one or two things. Ask me anything creature with twitching whiskers, a scrawny, wormlike about Anton Chekhov. But there’s a whole lot tail, frightened black eyes and a pleading look. The more that we know nothing about. And there’s a explanation came in a mass e-mail from Residence lot to be said for just settling in and letting that Life and Housing Services: a “juvenile opossum” great mysterious space, full of brilliant, forgiving who had taken up residence under the dorm roof people, work its magic. had recklessly ventured into the hall. In their zeal to capture him, the residents had neglected to use their Carol Apollonio is an associate professor of the pracindoor voices. Somehow the plucky little fellow had tice in Slavic and Eurasian studies and a faculty in resieluded them all. Animal control was called in—hence dence in Wilson Residence Hall on East Campus. Her the cage. Possum Wilson was released into Duke For- column runs every other Friday.

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Will Duke twice become a leader in renewable energy?

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n Energy Program Statement that and sustainable energy development. The outlines Duke University’s future en- University has participated with other colergy plans for campus heating is rap- leges and worked to improve its efficiency idly heading for approval at the University’s of energy use. The Duke Endowment has Board of Trustees meeting. supported and encouraged The statement recommends daniel richter the University to develop a near 100 percent reliance renewable energy portfolio. chris beauvais The Facilities Management on natural gas for University heating needs. Guided by has taken sigbrent fitzgerald Department the Campus Sustainability nificant steps to pulling the guest column Committee and written by campus back from coal and the Facilities Management to make improvements to Department, the statement will commit the Duke’s district thermal energy system. StuUniversity to almost wholly heat with fos- dents, faculty and staff have worked hard sil natural gas and develop no significant with FMD on a series of Campus Sustainrenewable thermal energy systems in the ability Initiatives to promote alternative foreseeable future. transportation, improve energy efficiency Energy planning is highly complex and in existing buildings and plan future enDuke is engaged in a remarkably open pro- ergy use. One of the newest and fastestcess. Even still, while the Energy Statement growing educational programs in the Unirightly emphasizes that natural gas is clean- versity is the graduate-level Energy and er burning than coal, the statement does Environment program, a Nicholas School not mention that natural gas is a fossil fuel, program that has grown to nearly 100 stuis not renewable and has important environ- dents in only a few years. Many more stumental costs. To evaluate the Energy State- dents in Fuqua, Pratt, Law, Sanford and ment, we ask the University Trustees to use various departments in Arts and Sciences the Duke University Sustainability Pledge, have keen interests and expertise in ena pledge originated by campus leadership ergy issues. These University developments and one that is now signed by over 6,000 stand in contrast with the Energy Program members of the Duke community. The Statement which will make the University pledge states simply that as individuals, we nearly 100 percent reliant on fossil natural will consider the environmental, social and gas for heating for the foreseeable future. economic impact of our actions.

At a time when government agencies, inThree consequences of the Energy Pro- dustries and many other institutions are gram Statement seem significant. hesitating in their support for renewable 1. Leadership. Duke stands poised to energies, Duke should lead by systematicalbecome a university leader in renewable ly exploring and potentially expanding its

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production of renewable and sustainable thermal energy.

2. Duke and Durham. The decision to increase natural gas on campus means that the University will miss opportunities to work with and benefit the city of Durham. For example, a survey released this summer indicates that the city generates at least 20,000 to 35,000 tons of waste-wood per year, much of which is landfilled at not a small cost to the community. Durham’s Parks and Recreation Department, currently squeezed by the city’s financial crisis, continues to pay to landfill the city’s hazardous dead and dying trees, simply because the Durham community does not value clean waste wood. The recent waste-wood survey indicates that the energy and financial value of this biomass is substantial and needs estimation. Advanced wood-energy facilities make contributions to many communities throughout Europe, and in American cities like St. Paul, Minn., and towns like Burlington, Vt. Middlebury College, Colgate University and the University of South Carolina all have constructed biomass energy facilities that generate clean thermal energy with high efficiency. While start-up capital costs are higher than those for natural gas, the recurring economic, social and environmental benefits can be substantial, especially as such waste-wood options are near carbon neutral and because energy dollars recirculate rather than leave local economies.

When such wood-energy facilities are lo-

cally scaled, communities are benefited including the quality of urban forests.

3. Carbon Neutrality. A third consequence of the Energy Statement is that greater dependence on natural gas makes it more difficult for the University to achieve President Brodhead’s commitment for Duke to become carbon neutral in the decades ahead. Rather than directly reducing our own fossil carbon emissions with on-campus renewable energy systems, the University will depend more heavily on generating off-campus carbon offsets to achieve neutrality. The costs of these added carbon offsets will not be inexpensive and will likely increase in the future. These costs do not appear to be included in the financial analysis described in the Energy Program Statement.

Little known is that James B. Duke was a national leader in developing hydro-electricity in the Carolina Piedmont, and he would no doubt be proud of today’s growing interest in energy issues on campus.

Surely now is precisely the time for Duke to aggressively grow, not contract, its leadership in sustainable and renewable energy.

Daniel Richter, professor for the Nicholas School of the Environment, is director of graduate studies for the program in ecology and co-director for the Southern Center for Sustainable Forests. Chris Beauvais and Brent Fitzgerald are forestry and energy masters students in the Nicholas School, respectively, and take an independent study with Professor Richter in biomass energy.

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ne of the most basic divisions within the Duke A liberal education, according to the Association of undergraduate community is between the Pratt American Colleges and Universities, provides “students School of Engineering and Trinity College of Arts with a broad knowledge of the wider world as well as inand Sciences. We perpetuate stereotypes and assumptions depth study in a specific area of interest.” It is also the priabout each group. Pratt students are often mary objective in Duke’s mission statement: associated with intense late nights over “the mission of Duke University is to provide problem sets, and those in Trinity with 80a superior liberal education to undergradupage theses that are the culmination of ate students.” reading half the library.

Many of the great scientists of the past Like all sweeping generalizations, these were educated through liberal curriculums assumptions aren’t true for every student. that included both liberal arts and the sciencThey certainly aren’t for me. es. Werner Heisenberg first mastered Latin What is true, however, is that both and Greek at the Maximilians-Gymnasium, rui dai groups are under the Duke name. Both are before venturing into the depths of matha picture’s worth Duke students. And after four years, when ematics and physics. Albert Einstein had to we venture out into the wide wild world, we complete and pass his liberal arts education will all represent Duke University. before he was able to move on to the Swiss Federal InstiBut that doesn’t necessarily mean we all receive similar tute of Technology. Newton, Kepler, Bohr, Fermi, Planck educations. and numerous other great scientific minds were the prodEvery single student at Duke will have a unique experi- ucts of a liberal education. They learned philosophy, logic ence; very rarely do two students take the same set of courses and history in addition to math and physics. throughout their entire Duke careers. Even then, it is highly Engineers readily recognize subtle differences within unlikely that the two students will be involved with the same their own areas of study. A biomedical engineer would set of friends, organizations or professors. As Duke students, insist that bioinformatics and materials science are imwe are known for our diverse interests and talents. mensely different from each other. The separate sciences In addition to these individual differences, there also and mathematics are emphasized as distinctly different exists a wider and more troubling disparity between Trinity fields of study in the Pratt curriculum. and Pratt students.

Yet, philosophy, public policy, English literature, ecoAccording to Lee Baker, Trinity dean of academic af- nomics, linguistics, psychology, cultural anthropology, sofairs, “Pratt is a professional school.” It is not a college in ciology, visual studies, etc. are all lumped into one categothe traditional sense. ry—social science and humanities (SSH).

Pratt trains students specifically in a career. Just as a It would be ridiculous to expect Pratt students to take medical school trains students to become doctors, Pratt classes in every department in Trinity. The majority of Trinprepares students to become engineers. Just as some medi- ity students don’t even do that. Still, it is detrimental to cal students sometimes pursue fields other than medicine a Pratt student’s education and counter to Duke’s stated after graduation, many Pratt students will choose fields educational objective to assume that economics and Engoutside of engineering. lish literature use the same set of skills.

By leaping directly into a professional school, Pratt students Pratt has such a structured course program because it might also miss out on a large majority of what Duke has to of- seeks the certification of the Accreditation Board of Enfer. They will lose out on the liberal educational experience. gineering and Technology (ABET). ABET certifies that

Pratt graduates can receive a degree entitled Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE), as opposed to Bachelor of Science or Arts (BS or BA).

Does it matter if a student’s graduation certificate has a BSE, BS or BA next to his or her name? As long as you have demonstrated yourself academically, you would hope that companies and graduate schools would look closer than a few simple letters.

Engineering jobs are not exclusive to those with a BSE. Even engineering professor Michael Gustafson notes, “Math and science majors can also apply for many engineering jobs.”

A liberal education develops thinkers and leaders.

Without this broad-based education, students run the risk of becoming technicians equipped only with a specialized set of skills. Of course, not every Pratt student will become that. I personally know several engineers who I am positive will never run that risk.

I obviously can’t speculate about every student in Pratt.

But when anyone becomes too enclosed within one field, tunnel vision develops and stagnation often sets in.

It is part of human nature.

This is one of the reasons why Ph.D. programs encourage candidates to move onto a different laboratory or field after graduation for their post-doctorate occupations before settling into a faculty position.

To that end, the seven humanities courses in Pratt’s curriculum do not suffice for liberal education. This requirement does not solve any problems, and we should not pretend that it does. Pratt’s failure to provide a liberal education still remains a fundamental and problematic distinction between Pratt and Trinity.

Duke is clearly committed to its mission statement and successfully provides “a superior liberal education” to many students—but not to all. This reality forces us to question: should such a discrepancy between Pratt and Trinity exist?

Rui Dai is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Wednesday.

Chris Bassil’s weekly column “Just a minute” is available at dukechronicle.com.

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