October 7, 2010 issue

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2010

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 31

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‘DuTrack’ site delayed by glitches

Despite gains, returns miss 10-year target

In remembrance

by Sanette Tanaka

by Matthew Chase

A bus-tracking system conceived and designed by students has been held up this Fall due to technical glitches and other delays.

DuTrack, a new GPS-based website designed to track University buses online, will eventually be able to update bus locations every five to 10 seconds.

But locations are currently only updating every 30 seconds or more depending on the signal strength of the trackers, said junior Dean Chen, chief operating officer of the Smart Home, who also serves as managing director of online operations for The Chronicle. Trackers have only been installed and powered in certain buses, he added.

“There are only 10 trackers out of 30 that are operating right now,” Chen said.

“The other buses just aren’t going to appear on the website right now.”

The DuTrack application uses GPS signals from prepaid Motorola phones installed on each bus to provide the real-time locations of all campus routes, including the Robertson bus and potentially the Bull City Connector. Originally developed by Matt Ball, Pratt ’10, the project was handed down to fellow members of the Duke

“We have had some hiccups here in the past couple of weeks, but the good thing is they are minor technical problems and fixable,” said Sam Veraldi, director of parking and transportation.

When the site initially launched in August, several hundred people accessed the website daily, said DuTrack Project Manager Andrew Brown, a senior who also serves

New financial documents for the 2010 fiscal year reveal that the University is somewhat back on track a year after the University’s investments dropped more than $1.5 billion.

The University’s investments rose 13.2 percent in the 2010 fiscal year, which ran from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Duke’s net assets, inclusive of the health system, increased by $469 million to about $8 billion, according to the 2009-2010 Financial Statements. Duke saw a $461 million investment return—a sharp contrast to fiscal year 2009’s investment loss of more than $2.3 billion. The endowment, a component of the University’s investments, also rose about 13 percent from $4.4 billion to $4.8 billion.

Duke’s investments provided 17 percent of the University’s revenue in fiscal year 2010, down from 18 percent in 2009 and 19 percent in 2008, according to the documents.

That investment return is slightly higher than that of other institutions that Duke compares itself to, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask. Of universities that have reported returns to date, the 50 institutions that the Duke University

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After a string of tragic suicides of LGBTQ youth across the nation, Blue Devils United held a candlelight vigil on the Chapel steps Wednesday. A crowd gathered to honor their memories.

Smart Home Program and managed by Duke Parking and Transportation Services and the Office of Information Technology.

The efforts to increase the frequency of the updates of the trackers on the phones are ongoing, Chen said. The project members will try a few different solutions, including supplementing the phones’ internal GPS system with more powerful external devices. He anticipates the problem will be resolved within the next few weeks.

DSG Judiciary Free flu vaccinations draw small crowd rules on DCR listserv removals

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

The Duke Student Government Judiciary heard two cases Tuesday concerning allegations that Duke College Republicans were selective in their membership, ruling in one instance in favor of the club and in the second of the plaintiff.

Both former DCR vice chair Cliff Satell and former DCR Chair Justin Robinette filed complaints that the club violated its charter by removing them from its listserv. Such action would be in violation of a Student Justin Robinette Organization Finance Committee bylaw of the DSG Constitution, which defines officially

Although the Centers for Disease Control does not project a severe year for the flu, Duke is still taking precautions aimed at preventing the virus from spreading this fall.

Duke held a free flu vaccination clinic Wednesday in the Bryan Center open to anyone with a valid DukeCard.

Jean Hanson, assistant director for Student Health, said she expected that the clinic would provide about 1,200 shots, but only 300 to 400 shots had been administered toward the end of the event.

Hanson said she believes it is important for all students to know the facts about seasonal influenza and the resources available to them, even if the flu is not considered to be as pressing a health risk as it was last year.

“It is extremely important in college. As students, you don’t have time to take off from class, and so should do everything in your power to prevent illness or recover fast,” she said.

Duke has hosted flu vaccine clinics for about 15 years, with an average attendance of 1,100. Hanson attributed the low attendance at this year’s clinic to inadequate publicizing efforts.

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Students’ pride flags torn down around campus, Page 3

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Duke held a free flu vaccinations clinic Wednesday. Attendance fell short of expectations and the clinic administered only 300 to 400 shots.

ONTHERECORD

“A positive attitude is like a British accent, it will give you an edge,”

­—Author and Duke graduate David Snider. See story page 4

DSG hears presentation on Parking and Transportation, Page 4

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Students find pride flags torn down throughout campus

by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

Widely recognized as an emblem of acceptance, rainbow flags have not been universally welcomed on campus.

Last Spring, Blue Devils United began the Pride Flag Visibility Campaign, which provides rainbow pride flags to students to display in their dormitory windows.

Since the campaign began, however, students have reported that some pride flags have been torn down or stolen.

BDU President Ollie Wilson, a junior, estimated that five or six flags have gone missing since the beginning of the school year. He added that other flags around campus have not been affected.

“Sometimes, it was just sort of random... but often it was systematic, like someone would put a flag up and it would get taken down, and this would go on for like two or three nights,” said Wilson, who had his own flag ripped down in Craven Quadrangle earlier this Fall.

“We think it’s important... to [show] that this isn’t tolerated because in our view, it’s like any other personal identity.”

Wilson said the flag campaign is an integral part of BDU’s mission.

“The point [of the campaign] is... to raise awareness about the [Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] community—not to impose or anything—just to say that, ‘We’re here, Duke is an accepting campus,’’ he said, also noting that the BDU blog has received comments from prospective and incoming students about how the flags made them feel more welcome at the University.

Though Wilson said the problem is most persistent on West Campus, flags have also been torn down on East Campus.

Freshman Jacob Tobia, who lives in Bassett Dormitory, put a pride flag in the window of his dorm’s third-floor common room. Tobia said the flag was taken down approximately 12 hours after he put it up, adding that the

flag was taken down many times, at one point only 40 minutes after he had installed it.

“I assumed that... at a university like Duke that... preaches diversity and acceptance of all... that kind of problem would [never] happen,” Tobia said. “If [the flag] had said something about... ‘Black is beautiful,’ and someone took that down, can you imagine what

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Blue Devils United President Ollie Wilson estimates that 5 to 6 rainbow flags have been torn down from dorm rooms this year. The flags, distributed by BDU, are an emblem of acceptance.

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people would have said about the person who took that down? But somehow because I’m gay it’s OK to take that flag down.”

BDU is currently establishing procedures to address the problem. This year, every flag that goes out is numbered and catalogued, Wilson said, adding that students should e-mail BDU when a flag disappears to have the flag replaced.

BDU has encouraged students to contact resident assistants and residence coordinators about flag disappearances, but the Duke University Police Department has not been contacted about the issue, Wilson said.

Although Duke does have an anti-discrimination policy that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, Tobia said he felt that sometimes this policy is not enforced.

“It is not clear to many of the employees of the University how exactly to use that,” he added. “In my opinion... the University should [take] administrative action against the individuals who are taking down flags.... That is discrimination.”

Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta said he believes the University takes its commitment to protection and advocacy of sexual orientation and gender identity seriously.

“Sadly,” he wrote in an e-mail, “that doesn’t mean that ignorance still doesn’t exist.”

Both Moneta and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek said if University officials had information about the identity of individuals responsible for flags being stolen, those individuals would be held accountable.

Senior Chris Perry, the editor of BDU’s blog and the head of the flag campaign, wrote in an e-mail that despite what has recently happened, he has seen positive changes since his freshman year.

“It’s encouraging, actually, that we’re clearly angering unaccepting students,” he said. “As much of a non-issue these flags should be, we’re hitting a nerve and pushing the envelope I guess, and as an LGBT organization, I feel like that means we’re doing our job right.”

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Grad offers finance career advice Facing deficit,

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by Michelle Choi THE CHRONICLE

Recent graduate David Snider shared his personal insight about career choices and paths in the financial industry as part of the Career Center’s Fannie Mitchell Expertin-Residence program in Social Psychology yesterday.

Snider, Trinity ’07, is co-author of the recently published book “Money Makers­: Inside the New World of Finance and Business,” which provides an inside look at the most selective fields of business and finance through interviews with top executives, including Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and David Rubenstein, Trinity ’70, co-founder of The Carlyle Group and a member of the Board of Trustees.

“The idea for the book was to give grounding for what these careers [in finance] were,” he said.

Snider previously worked at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm, but now works in the private equity group at Bain Capital, a private investing firm.

Snider said he used to wonder whether these fields in finance were actually valuable or simply helping the rich get richer.

However, through interviews for his book, Snider said he discovered that many people in the finance industry find their work personally fulfilling, despite the long hours and high levels of stress, and feel they positively contribute to society.

Snider emphasized the importance of creative networking for gaining access to the successful industry leaders that he interviewed for his book. He noted that Duke’s large alumni and employee network was incredibly helpful in reaching his sources.

In addition to speaking about his book, Snider gave personal insights on how to be successful in the business world.

“A positive attitude is like a British accent, it will give you an edge,” Snider said. “ No matter how smart you are at Duke, you still have no idea what you are doing when you start [a new career], so a positive attitude is crucial.”

He added that, in the work force, one works with some of the smartest and most driven individuals in the world, so having a positive attitude is even more important to surviving mentally.

Snider also gave tips on how to choose a company to work for by asking critical questions.

“Would I invest my money here? What are their expectations about my career trajectory? And where do people who leave here go to work?” he told audience members to ask themselves.

Snider also said students should not solely think about money when they choose a career in the finance industry.

“You never know how the industry will do in the future and it may take a long time before you reach a position to earn a fortune,” Snider said, noting that students

should truly enjoy the field they choose, regardless of the compensation.

After Snider’s lecture, students asked questions about his own career trajectory and the reasons behind his career choices.

Snider said he gained the most from his four years at Duke by writing his senior thesis, which he considered the most relevant practice for his later consulting work because he was able to formulate questions and do independent research.

Freshman Philip Srebrev, who attended the event, said he was excited to meet a Duke alumnus who had first-hand experience in the financial industry.

“Since he is a Duke alum, I felt his path can be my own,” Srebrev said. “I try to go to as many of these events such as this as possible so that I can test the waters in different fields.”

Margeir Asgeirsson, a graduate student in the Master of Engineering Management Program who is currently in the process of applying for finance jobs, said he thought the event could give him insider knowledge that he could not get from his professors. “[Snider] interviewed very interesting people who are in the middle of everything that’s going on [in the financial world],” he said.

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David Snider, author of“Money Makers: Insider the New World of Finance and Business,”detailed his personal experiences in the financial sector Wednesday.

PTS plans for a growing Duke

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

Duke Parking and Transportation Services is preparing for about 3,300 additional people expected on campus by 2012 largely stemming form the addition of the planned Duke Cancer Center and Duke Medicine Pavilion.

In an address to the Duke Student Government Wednesday night, Sam Veraldi, director of Parking and Transportation Services, said the campus requires a new, economically sustainable plan for the department by 2012.

“Every time we build one of these really gorgeous buildings, one of the first things that goes is parking,” Veraldi said. “The new medical plaza removes 75 spaces on the LaSalle [Street] block and the new addition to the engineering facility will take a number of parking spaces away. This certifies the fact that we need to find alternatives and find ways to discourage people from [driving alone].”

The department, which currently has a $5 million deficit, also requires significant financial restructuring. PTS has been asked to stop relying on the strategic initiative funds that account for 60 percent of its budget, Veraldi said.

The changes to bus routes and schedules at the beginning of the year saved the department half a million dollars, Veraldi said. But PTS may lose half of this amount, as it plans to run buses more frequently the remainder of the year in response to student demand.

Veraldi also stressed the importance of providing substantial parking to employees to in order to continue to attract professionals and remain competitive against other North Carolina institutions.

Following Veraldi’s presentation, the Senate approved a resolution allowing PTS to e-mail the student body in the event of a major change or disturbance.

In addition to the presentation on PTS, sophomore Chris Brown spoke about a new “Taxis on Demand” service that PTS will soon make available. The service will allow students to pay for taxis from certain companies with a taxi-specific debit card, said Brown, vice president for See dsg on page 6

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flu from page 1 “There was a lot of publicity last year about the possible H1N1 pandemic and you’re not hearing that this year,” she said. “Because people are less alarmed, they are not taking proper precautions.”

The CDC predicts each year’s overall flu outlook by measuring the prevalence of the virus in South American nations, which have already endured this winter’s flu season, and then makes a general prediction. This year’s vaccine protects against three strains of the virus.

“The three vaccine viruses are chosen to maximize the likelihood that the main circulating viruses during the upcoming flu season will be well covered by the vaccine,” ac-

cording to a statement issued by the CDC. The H1N1 vaccine is included in this year’s shot, unlike last year when it was administered separately.

Corrine Arunbel, a nurse precept from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who helped administer the shots at Duke, said she thinks no one is reading the posters outlining the benefits, side effects and general information about the vaccine.

“It’s for their own sake that we post this information,” she said. “[The posters] warn [people] about dangerous allergies, the contents of the vaccine and conditions such as a fever that preclude getting a vaccine.”

Viola Minicozzi a second-year MBA student at the Fuqua School of Business, said she has received the flu shot for years, yet only considers herself “moderately informed”

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chartered organizations like DCR as one that is “dependent on DSG funding and is not selective in its membership.”

The former club members filed the complaints July 16 and September 26, respectively.

In an unanimous ruling, however, the Judiciary found substantial evidence that Satell had expressed to the DCR Executive Board last year that he no longer wished to be a club member. In a letter written April 15, Satell referred to himself as a “(former) member” of the club who would formally boycott the club’s events, according to the Judiciary’s written opinion.

In the second case, the Judiciary found that Robinette’s removal was unsolicited because it did not find sufficient evidence that Robinette wished to disassociate himself from the club.

According to the Judiciary’s press release, the club was unaware that it had been violating the SOFC bylaw. After DSG was made aware of the DCR’s actions in July, DSG President Mike Lefevre sent a letter to the club notifying it of its illegal behavior. The College Republicans subsequently issued a statement of apology and since then have not restricted access to the listserv, the Judiciary noted.

Robinette and Satell were not the only DCR members that have been removed from the club’s listserv without warning in recent years prior to Lefevre’s letter. The Judiciary noted that this “illuminates” the fact that DCR was unaware this was a violation of SOFC bylaw. about the contents of the vaccine.

There have already been 10 reported cases of the flu this season at Duke, which Hanson said is in line with last year’s numbers. The University, however, does not test for the flu; Student Health simply identifies “flu-like symptoms.”

Student Health officials recommend that students wash their hands, drink plenty of liquids and get as much rest as possible when they exhibit flu-like symptoms. Hanson also urged the student body to utilize the University’s free vaccination program.

“Take advantage!” cried Thuy Nuygen, another nurse precept from UNC giving shots Wednesday.

Students who missed Wednesday’s clinic can set up an appointment with Student Health to receive a free vaccination.

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finances from page 1 Management Company tracks its gains against saw a median return of 12.2 percent, Trask said. DUMAC is a private firm that handles Duke’s investments.

Trask added that public equity and commodities were some of the more successful investments and that the “biggest drag” was in real estate investments. Duke held about $724 million of real estate in fiscal year 2010.

Missing the mark The University’s 10-year annualized return dropped to 6.5 percent a year in the 2010 fiscal year, putting it below the University’s targeted rate of return, which was 8 percent.

“I told the finance committee [Oct. 1] I think we need to watch this very carefully,” Trask wrote, adding that 6- and 11-year averages are above the target. “So we need to decide if this is a short term anomaly or a new reality.”

DUMAC tries to reach at least a 5.5 percent real rate of return to fund University spending. The target real rate of return is the increase in the endowment’s value after accounting for inflation and fees.

In recent years, though, the 10-year annualized return has surpassed the targeted rate.

Trask wrote in an e-mail that he cannot remember a time when the 10-year average rate of return fell below the target.

The 10-year annualized return is lower this year because the long-term pool saw negative returns in fiscal years 2001, 2002 and 2009. The 58.8 percent positive return seen in 2000 was not counted in the most recent calculation.

Looking to the future That lower value is not necessarily an

indicator of the University’s future, Vice President for Finance Hof Milam said.

“There is no magic to a 10-year measurement for one particular 10-year period,” Milam wrote in an e-mail. “I don’t think the 6.5 percent for the last 10 years tells me anything about future returns and certainly not the returns for the next five years.”

Duke’s 10-year annualized return is comparably much higher than the returns of its peer institutions, Milam added. DUMAC’s return placed it in the top 10 of its peer institutions, he said.

DUMAC also fared well relative to its benchmark, a blend of 70 percent stocks and 30 percent bonds, which saw 10-year annualized returns of 1.3 percent a year. $40 million to go The University largely uses data from the last three fiscal years to determine budgets for the upcoming year. In part because of the 13.2 percent investment growth for the 2010 fiscal year, the University announced plans for a “modest salary increase” for next fiscal year.

Administrators, though, still have to cut approximately $40 million this year and next year from the University’s roughly $2 billion budget. They plan to do so by seeking the attrition of 20 to 30 faculty members in the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and by reducing spending on supplies. The University will also run about 50 faculty searches this year, down from 58 last year.

Trinity departments will not have to make further budget cuts this year. Last academic year, departments cut their budgets 10 percent.

“You have to balance things over time,” Provost Peter Lange said in an interview. “We have made a set of administrative cuts, it is felt pretty widely across Arts and Sciences that further cuts would potentially damage the missions of the faculty.”

dutrack from page 1 as co-head of mobile development for The Chronicle. He added that though DuTrack was released prematurely, the high volume of traffic spoke to the student demand of a bus-tracking application.

“When we first put it up, it was for us to play around with and test everything,” he said.

“We made the mistake initially of putting it as a public website before it was ready.”

In September, the site worked on and off, as the mobile phones underwent technical problems as a result of unsolicited text messages. The Smart Home members had to write new software and install it on the phones in addition to unveiling a new version of the site. But switching over to the new software created a few problems, such as assigning the buses to the correct routes shown online, a process that is done manually by PTS officials, Brown said.

The original code for DuTrack was not designed to accommodate many users and had a high learning curve, Brown said. But

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“We’ve gone back to the first-come, first-serve system,” said Head Line Monitor John Reynolds, a senior. “Last year the biggest complaint we had was there was no community in K-ville... [there were] too many nights of grace.”

The Senate also passed a resolution expressing sympathy for those affected by the deaths of Tyler Clementi and Raymond Chase and encouraged the enforcement of Duke’s zero-tolerance policy for discrimination.

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the new code has three or four different parts to it and should be able to support the entire Duke community.

The project developers plan to continue expanding the application. Possible additions include predictions of bus arrival times, text versions of the site for cell phone users and an iPhone application.

PTS can also use the data from the tracking system to ensure the correct timing of the buses, said sophomore Chris Brown, Duke Student Government vice president for athletics and campus services.

DSG awarded a $5,000 Student Development Directive grant to fund the project, which will be supplemented by up to $15,000 from Parking and Transportation, Veraldi said.

Andrew Brown said the newest version of DuTrack was created to meet student demand for an operational, effective program.

“Six weeks ago, we had a service and put it up; it worked okay, but it wasn’t necessarily reliable,” he said. “But now, we have a system in place that is well understood and that puts us in a good position going forward.”

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EDIE WELLMAN Duke senior takes her shot at success with debut mixtape

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theSANDBOX. My family has a few mock adages. One of them is, “Trolls must be stopped!”

The declaration was made several years ago by my aunt, a third-grade teacher who was exasperated with a student’s constant need to turn every writing prompt into a story about troll dolls— the kind with gravity-defying felt hair of all the colors of the rainbow and a seemingly infinite variety of costumes.

My aunt said goodbye to the trolls when the student moved on to fourth grade, but trolls weren’t done with her.

This past summer, my mom bought my aunt a copy of Tove Jansson’s Who Will Comfort Toffle?—a children’s book about a lonely elf-like creature (Toffle) from Moominvalley—for her classroom. I couldn’t keep my eyes off it. If it seems odd to you that a reasonably mature college student would be obsessed with a Finnish children’s book, then you clearly haven’t seen this thing.

Moominvalley—inhabited by dogs with silky coiffes and umbrella hats, gardens of worm-plants and evil-looking hu-

manoids—is a world of pastels, grays and sparse primary colors, slightly tamer than a Seussical landscape. A Moomin troll (a minor character in WWCT?) looks like a cross between a hippopotamus and the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Out of this creepy fantastical world came multiple books, television series, a theme park and most recently, the 2010 movie Moomins and the Comet Chase. Just when you think Moominvalley can’t get any stranger, along comes Bjork with a soundtrack. In the music video for “The Comet Song,” felted Moomin troll puppets straggle through an apocalyptic, painted landscape. Against a lone woodwind and some distant clangs, Bjork mourns, “A co-met, oh dam-mit.”

Something tells me Katy Perry would have no problem guest-starring on the Finnish version of Sesame Street (Moominvalley?).

In any case, this cult classic has outlived Jansson, who died in 2001. Fortunately for those of us who appreciate a bizarre aesthetic, there’s no stopping these trolls.

—Maggie Love

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The librarians in the Rare Book Room are beginning to think I have a problem. There was probably sufficient reason for alarm after I spent enough time in the room to snag the title of Foursquare Mayor. In researching a history thesis on the nature of female sexuality in the 1950’s, however, my book requests are what truly raise eyebrows. Day in and day out, I’m camped out amongst the industrial furniture and fluorescent lighting, pouring through the pages of half-century-old sex manuals and marriage self-help guides.

I’m sure the staff is beginning to wonder why I am so desperate for outdated advice as I hand them another request slip for a 1956 pamphlet on the benefits of oral sex in marriage. Yep, this is my life.

A few nights ago, hunkered down in my usual spot and reading a 1953 sexual handbook for married couples, I came across an intriguing passage on the airing of past relationships, or what we would probably call hook-up baggage. The authors state, “With respect to a woman’s voluntary admissions of premarital experiences, even though the average man should at this date expect them to be the rule rather than the exception, nothing at all is to be gained.” In simpler words, talking about your sexual past will probably blow up in your face. Some things never change?

I didn’t want to talk about the PowerPoint. I was desperate for a reason to ignore it, looking for a way to avoid one of the only campus-events to ever fall under my journalistic jurisdiction. The whole topic seemed toxic to the touch, engulfing anyone who got near it. I’ve been frustrated with the nature

of the public debate thus far, though, if for no other reason than it reveals a discernable gap in Duke’s English curriculum regarding the use of satire. I’ve cringed a little as distinct parties unwittingly argued the same point, and I will be wholeheartedly disappointed if the “Monday, Monday” columnist retracts and apologizes for his statements, even though I disagree with the crude and obtuse method with which he made them.

This PowerPoint and its author are not crusaders for feminine principles any more than they are an appropriate medium for discussing profound gender-based symptoms in Duke’s hook-up culture. What leaves such a bad taste in our mouths is not the sexual events themselves, but rather the harsh public light in which we have been forced to view them. Perhaps the author should have read the 1953 edition of Sex: Methods and Manners.

With this in mind, the “thesis” and its author are not the platform on which to build an attack against sexism in Duke’s sexual culture. We have all been quick to condemn this woman’s crime of indiscretion and thus I am more interested in observing where we as women have failed our own cause, repulsed by the airing of this dirty laundry yet ready to blame anyone but ourselves.

You don’t read this column for polemical opinions or serious commentary. Everyone likes a good Thursday-morning chuckle about sex, and I honestly hope it stays that way. Awkward humor will be back in full force in my next installment. Still, to date, my most popular article remains my inaugural editorial, which begins, “A few nights ago, I found myself having the best sex of someone else’s life.”

You can’t say Duke doesn’t love controversy.

Brooke Hartley is Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Thursday.

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by Gracie Willert THE CHRONICLE

Senior Edie Wellman knows what it means to live life on the edge—or over it, in this case.

Full-time student, performer and songwriter, Wellman releases her first-ever mixtape “Over the Edge” Nov. 12.

She hopes to use the mixtape to spread her sound, described by Wellman as “hip-hop with an R&B sensibility,” and get her foot in the music industry’s daunting door.

Signing on with her manager, senior Jessie Mark, a year ago, Wellman took last semester off to concentrate entirely on her music. Wellman said the sacrifice was well worth it.

“I think a lot of misconceptions about the music industry at large [are] that you have to be really talented and it’ll happen, but it’s really more a question of how hard you’re willing to work,” she said.

Now that Wellman has committed to music professionally, she’s working on honing her signature style. Her earlier, more alternative songs, some of which can be listened to on Myspace, are not representative of the new direction her music has taken.

“Over the Edge” is named after her first single, and the songs mostly focus on issues that face modern women.

“I’ve found a lot of the songs I write deal with how girls—we’re normal in this generation but just something pushes us over the edge,” Wellman said. “We’re kind of... a little crazy about things, namely boys. So a lot of the songs deal with that sort of idea of being pushed over the edge and not being sure where you stand.”

Wellman is hesitant, however, to label herself strictly as a love songwriter.

“I write more about relationships,” she said. “As a 22-year-old, of course the predominant relationships you’re focusing on are the more romantic ones, just because they’re so interesting.”

The song “Over the Edge” commences with Coldplay’s “Clocks” for roughly eight bars. In addition to Coldplay, the mixtape also features samples from artists such as Kanye West, Usher and Seal. The recognizable sound is designed to draw in the listener initially, but Wellman hopes people will tune in long enough to hear what she has to offer.

Mark, who worked with Mike Posner, Trinity ’09—a musician who is climbing the charts in recent months— recognized potential when she saw Wellman’s talent and decided to team up with her.

“Edie’s sound is completely authentic. Edie writes all of her own material, is a lyrical poet,” Mark wrote in an email. “What you see is what you get, and to me, that kind of talent is undeniable.”

And sure enough, chief above performing and record-

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Senior Edie Wellman’s first mixtape, ”Over the Edge,” is set to be released Nov. 12. Wellman took a semester off to work on her music, which she describes as R&B-informed hip-hop. ing—and even Wellman’s love of singing—is her passion for songwriting.

“I think everybody has something [they’re good at], whether they find it early in life or late in life,” Wellmen said. “[Songwriting] is sort of the only way I think I can really fully express myself.”

Since age 11, Wellman has been writing her own lyrics. And although she regards writing as the most vital and personal part of the musical process, she hasn’t written off collaborating with other songwriters in years to come.

For now, Wellman focuses on her mixtape and an EP to be released in Jan. 2011, which will contain all original content by Wellman.

Pursuing what she loves is not without its sacrifices, though. Juggling classes, thesis writing and her music have been both a daunting and exciting feat.

“If you make the decision as to what you want to do with your life, you have to be prepared to make it the entirety of your life, and you really can’t have a plan B,” Wellman said.

“You have to push with plan A as hard as you can”.

Regardless of how her mixtape and EP are received, Wellman has every intention of pursuing music as her career. With that accepted, she can only anticipate the future and hope that her music speaks to a broad audience.

“I would really love to have music where you can say, ‘Yes, I know that feeling,’” Wellman said.

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When junior Aubrey Frazzitta was looking to get involved at Duke her freshman year, she wondered if she would ever find a club that combined her two main interests: medicine and art. With such different passions, it seemed unlikely. Then, she heard about the Health Arts Network at Duke.

“It was a perfect fit,” she said.

Frazzitta is part of the student offshoot of HAND, which has been bringing the visual, literary and performing arts to the Duke Medical Center since 1978, with the mission of providing comfort to patients and families who visit the center.

The visual arts program within HAND includes over 3,000 pieces of artwork in the hospital and waiting rooms, as well as six rotating galleries that often feature local artists and touchable art. In September, the group finished presenting their 32nd Annual Duke Employee Art Show, the winning pieces of which can still be seen in the Eye Center.

HAND also features performing arts, directed by Erin Dangler, which includes artists-in-residence who play music for patients in the hospital, during courtyard concerts in the spring and summer and in the Duke Medicine Orchestra.

Rounding out the program are the literary arts, with journaling sessions for patients, family and staff, as well as the Osler Literary Roundtable. The Roundtable, also known as “Lunch and Lit,” provides a forum for staff, patients and students to discuss the work of local authors in addition to their own original writing.

HAND students came out of volunteers at the Duke Eye Center, who took the initiative to create an official club three years ago. HAND Director Olivia Woodward said the majority of the students in the club are focused on pre-med and have an interest in arts.

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How did you first conceive of the film?

I’d heard of Facebook like I’d heard of a carburetor; I knew that it existed but couldn’t point it out if you opened the hood of your car. When Ben Mezrich’s [The Accidental Billionaires] book proposal first came to the publisher, I was sent the first couple of pages. I read the first 14, and knew I had to write a screenplay.

I worked with him, writing the screenplay as he finished his book.

Do you have a Facebook profile? ‘

View Photos of Aaron (19) View Videos of Aaron (5) Send Aaron a Message The Social Network is writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher’s take on the origin stories of Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. Sorkin spoke to Recess’ Tong Xiang about his own experiences with Facebook, the movie as a modern Rashomon and taking on a true story with actors and a script.

No, I don’t. I’ve got pages that fans and publicists have made me, but not my own [Laughs]. My assistant pulled out her iPad on the way here. Reading over her shoulder, looking at her wall posts, I couldn’t believe how inane they were! I’m an old man, but I don’t understand why anyone needs such continuous communication. There’s this narcissistic part of social networking, this “I’m doing something and I need to tell everyone I know that I’m doing it right now.”

Were there any plot changes made for artistic license? To what extent were the true events altered to make the film more engaging?

I didn’t embellish anything to make it thrillerish! Two lawsuits were brought against Facebook at the same time, and a bunch of people told a lot of different stories. I wanted to give the movie a kind of Rashomon feel. Nothing was “Hollywood-ed up.” I did this based on the available research—and legal documents—as well as first-person research.... What he writes in the movie, in the first blog post, was all true— comparing women to farm animals, calling [his ex-girlfriend’s family] self-hating Jews—all really true.

Did you work with Facebook at all during the research and writing process?

What we did was to make an aggressive attempt to have Facebook and Mark work with us… after a lot of deliberating, Mark decided that he didn’t want to. We told them during that courtship that whether they gave us that cooperation or not, there was going to be no retribution for not giving us cooperation. We told them that even if you don’t help us, we’ll still show you the script at the end. All their help was hacking— technical details with the script. Computer stuff.

Do you wish you had gotten more help from Zuckerberg and Facebook? Would it have strengthened the script?

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I think that it was smart of us to aggressively court Facebook, and I think we’re lucky that we didn’t get How do you respond to Facebook’s statements about the film? That it’s fiction?

Well, we disagree that it is fiction. I think that Facebook’s PR team is just as good as our PR team, and they’re doing exactly what you’d expect. First they were ignoring this movie, hoping that it’d be bad. Now they know they need to respond.

What motivates Mark Zuckerberg?

[Other original Facebook programmers] tell us that Mark was never motivated by money. But what makes Sammy run? I don’t know Mark, but I’ll tell you what motivates him in the movie. He’s a guy with his nose pressed to the glass of social life in college, which reflects back on you, tells you who you are. The world told him he was a loser. He was a member of this small subset of angry tech geniuses who don’t understand cheerleaders, and wonder why they don’t like them, even though they’re running the world. After being dumped and failing socially, he becomes anarchic with [Facebook precursor] FaceMash.

It seems that The Social Network belongs to a new genre of film which blends the content of a documentary with a fictional style. What are the ethical implications involved in writing a script with characters that are real and alive?

I’m not a journalist or documentarian. My fidelity is to the story I’m telling, and not to the who, what, where, why of the story. But you’re very aware when writing non-fiction that more people are going to get their impression of these people from the movie. The first rule is to do no harm. But this was first done by authors: Tom Wolfe with The Right Stuff, and before then it was Truman Capote with In Cold Blood, which started a trend of non-fiction entertainment. This isn’t a documentary about Facebook or Mark Zuckerberg. There are disputed facts about the story—entirely contradictory lines of court testimony. What I do is connect those dots in the character. I would look at [the film] as a painting, and not a photograph.

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First of all, do you have a Facebook profile?

Why am I so averse to it? I’m an actor who really values my privacy because I value my time in public. I had a Facebook page, but deleted it.

How was working with David Fincher?

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David Fincher demands a high quality of work from every department. He’s a very deliberate director. The costume designer looked at all the photos available of Mark Zuckerberg, and found every piece of clothing that he wears for me to wear in the movie. The costume designer found the exact pair of shoes Mark wore in this one picture. There was one pair available online of these really rare shoes and [the costume designer] found them. And they were in my size! I only wore them for one scene and you couldn’t even see them in the shot.

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What do you think motivated Mark Zuckerberg?

With a movie as driven by one personality as The Social Network, lead actor Jesse Eisenberg will receive Zuckerberg-levels of scrutiny.

Eisenberg spoke to Recess’ Tong Xiang about Facebook, Fincher and becoming Zuckerberg.

I’ll speak for the real character, since I don’t know him personally. He’s so singularly focused on the creation of Facebook that the other aspects of his life become meaningless or irrelevant. My character is about disengagement, and [Fincher] was very involved in directing how disengaged my character was. The character to me is very complicated. I was really sympathetic to the character of Mark Zuckerberg. I’d carry an iPod around with me with Mark’s voice on it; it helped me stay connected with the character. I equated success I’ve had acting with Mark’s success.

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David Fincher’s The Social Network is an entertaining, wellcrafted and compelling dramatization of the invention of Facebook, the subsequent legal battles for its control and the personal fallout for its primary creator, Mark Zuckerberg.

Using Ben Mezrich’s non-fiction book The Accidental Billionaires as source material, writer Aaron Sorkin spins a narrative revolving around the testimony given in two lawsuits levied against Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg)—the first by his close friend and co-founder, Eduardo Saverin (Andrew Garfield), the second by Harvard classmates Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss (both played

by Armie Hammer). Scenes alternate between Cambridge and Silicon Valley, where Napster founder and confidence-mancum-entrepreneur Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) mentors Zuckerberg.

Sorkin’s central claim about Zuckerberg is that the character’s emotional angst, stemming from social ineptitude, failed relationships and elitist exclusionism, develops a Nietzscheanstyle ressentiment directed against the more ostensibly successful. Zuckerberg’s only power is programming, and he creates high technology to rectify what he sees as social injustice. Zuckerberg’s first web venture of the film, drunkenly written after being dumped, asks users to compare the attractiveness of Harvard female undergrads. He secretly desires the social recognition offered by Harvard’s final clubs—fraternities with multi-million

dollar endowments—and resents Saverin and the Winklevoss brothers for being members.

Facebook, Sorkin implies, is Zuckerberg’s revenge against the rich, privileged and attractive—a claim, since levied against a living person, that is morally problematic.

The film, with a script and actors, is far from a documentary.

Yet Sorkin publicly maintains that The Social Network, if not whole truth, is a true representation of the court testimony from Zuckerberg, Saverin and the Winklevoss brothers.

Regardless, Fincher has a documentary-esque attention to detail. Real-life Zuckerberg does indeed wear Patagonia R4 jackets; his favorite beer is, in fact, Beck’s lager. In an elaborate visual joke, we see Zuckerberg furiously scribbling in a legal pad during the first three-quarters of the film’s deposition scenes.

In a final, flippant gesture, Zuckerberg turns the page to reveal spaceship doodles.

Fincher tautly paces the film and it steadily accelerates from a 10-minute opening scene to a frenetic zone of fast cuts, crack cocaine and burning beds—emphasizing Facebook’s meteoric rise and rabidly competing claims to its proprietary. Sorkin writes for Zuckerberg the hopscotching, nonlinear speaking form of manic genius, contrasting his coldly explosive utterances with the controlled, nuanced delivery of those around him.

The writer and director have beautifully conveyed a complex portrait of genius, anti-hero and tragic figure. And ultimately, Zuckerberg’s story strikes close to home for Duke undergrads: In a field of competitors with such numerous external advantages, how can I make a name for myself? And most importantly, how can I be happy here? ­—Tong Xiang

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Triangle Youth Ballet dances Dracula

by Ashley Taylor THE CHRONICLE

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The Triangle Youth Ballet’s performance of Dracula is being run in collaboration with Duke and the Duke Red Cross Club, with some of the proceeds from the show going towards the Red Cross Club. Performers include Duke students and alumni.

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Whether or not you’re an avid follower of HBO’s True Blood or a diehard Twilight fan, few can argue that vampires have made their mark in popular culture.

The Chapel Hill-based Triangle Youth Ballet, a nonprofit dance company and school, will capture that frenzy in its Oct. 9 performance of Dracula at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham. The one-night show is adapted from Irish author Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic novel featuring the infamous Count Dracula.

The production is a collaborative effort between the dance company, Duke and the Duke Red Cross Club. Members from the local ballet, as well as Duke student Courtney Liu, a sophomore, will perform, and a portion of the proceeds will go towards the Red Cross Club.

All of the leads will be danced by guest artists, Audrey Fenske, Director of Community Outreach at the Triangle Youth Ballet and Trinity ’09, wrote in an e-mail. Dancers include Liu, as protagonist Mina; Erick Uphoff, Skyline band member and former contestant on the television show Your Mama Don’t Dance, as Jonathan Harker; Devin Sweet, a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, as John Seward; and Fenske herself, as Lucy.

Fenske said she chose Liu for the lead role after working with her in a dance class last spring.

An accomplished dancer of eighteen years, Liu attended the San Francisco Ballet School and has trained and performed in professional productions with the Cincinnati Ballet and San Francisco Ballet. She chose to take part in the production not only because of her passion for dance, but also for the experience of playing Mina, Liu wrote in an e-mail.

“Mina is a very emotional role to play, and exploring her character within the context of a full-length ballet was simply an opportunity I could not pass up,” Liu said.

She added that she was one of the few newcomers in the production, as the Triangle Youth Ballet had performed Dracula in the past.

“It has been a challenging experience to be the ‘new girl’ who doesn’t necessarily see how the pieces of this beautifully creepy, yet untraditional ballet fit together,” Liu said. “Most of the dancers [were already] familiar with the choreography. However, the director Lauren Lorentz de Haas, [Fenske] and all the other members of the cast have been very helpful and encouraging.”

The Triangle Youth Ballet has partnered with the Duke Red Cross Club as part of its focus on community outreach.

Although the club has generally stayed away from fundraising efforts in the past, this performance collaboration presented a unique opportunity to raise funds, senior Samuel Heroy, president of the Duke organization, wrote in an e-mail.

“I’m really excited about this show in particular because it’s Dracula,” Heroy said. “I can’t help but think of the irony of it being about a vampire sucking blood for sustaining life and the Red Cross collecting blood for saving lives.”

The ballet company has a history of working with the American Red Cross Blood Donor Services, Triangle Youth Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Lorentz de Haas wrote in an e-mail. She added that working with the Duke organization seemed like a natural extension and plans to continue partnering with similar nonprofit organizations in the future.

This collaboration across seemingly unrelated organizations will allow the Triangle Youth Ballet to promote a worthwhile cause as well as entertain, especially when vampires are all the hype right now.

Dracula will be performed Saturday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham. Tickets are available for sale at www.carolinathreatre.org.

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To listen to Waka Flocka Flame’s debut album is to experience a new genre of music: guncore.

Flockaveli, so-titled after Waka Flocka fell in love with the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli (no, seriously) and Tupac’s stint as “Makaveli,” is obsessed with gunplay. Infatuated with it, even. The first song, “Bustin’ at ‘Em,” begins with machine-gun rounds firing for the initial 15 seconds.

And the rest of the record has enough weapon sounds— gunshots, clips unloading and reloading, onomatopoeic “blams” and “pows”—that one has to think this would be Charlton Heston’s favorite album if he were still alive.

The songs are, for the most part, predictably repetitive until the fifth track, “No Hands.” Wale guest-stars and delivers a verse half-assed by his standards—which is to say, the best on the album. He possesses more talent in his Wizards jersey than every other artist here, and it shows.

Perhaps Flockaveli’s most interesting song is its final track, “F*** this Industry.” Waka Flocka begins by warning aspiring rappers to watch out for shady music executives and other undesirables in the industry. Certainly, this is good advice. Then he proceeds to repeat the chorus, “F*** this industry/I’m in these streets,” over and over and over again. Pretty soon, he drops this line: “Shoutout to my grandma for all those ass-whuppings.” Wait, what?

I cannot in good faith recommend this album, yet there’s a small part of me that is afraid I’ll be shot by Waka Flocka if I give it a bad rating. Five stars.

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People You May Know seeks to illustrate Durham’s diversity

by Caitlin Moyles THE CHRONICLE

Myriad faces, both ordinary and renowned, will be featured in the Durham Arts Council’s newest exhibition People You May Know—the first show curated in-house by the DAC in its 56 years.

Displayed in the DAC’s Allenton and Semans Galleries, the collection consists of a series of portraits by nine local artists designed to express the diversity of the Durham community. The subjects of the portraits, who range from prominent figures to everyday next-door neighbors, are represented by a variety of media, including paintings, photographs, illustrations and design.

In addition, People You May Know will feature two artistic ventures by Durham community activists: the Community Portrait of Durham and the New Neighbors Project.

“We hope the exhibition will demonstrate something of the diverse energies and talents that make up the Durham community and provide an opportunity for people to reflect on what ‘community’ means to them personally,” said Margaret DeMott, director of artist services for the DAC. Artists include the well-known Beverly McIver, an African-American painter whose work has been shown in galleries across the United States; Titus Brooks Heagins, a documentary photographer who focuses on racial tensions; and Dave Alsobrooks, the mind behind the New Neighbors Project, which displays fictitious “new neighbors” in windows of vacant Durham buildings to demonstrate the infrastructure’s potential.

“I went looking for artists who were doing work that was more unusual and different,” said Barclay McConnell, artist services manager for the DAC and the curator of People You May Know.

McConnell added that the artists used subjects of all races, types and ages.

“Some of [the portraits] are really unusual—people who aren’t usually considered beautiful,” she said.

McConnell said her vision for the project was inspired

by Waste Land, an award-winning documentary featuring photographer Vik Muniz’s work in Brazil. Muniz encouraged local “catadores” (garbage pickers) to create portraits out of trash in one of the largest open-air landfills in the world and photographed the process. He then donated proceeds from his photos back to the community.

“I think there are artists now who are realizing that they can influence social changes through their art,” McConnell said. “I asked myself, ‘How can [art] be transformative to our community?’ and came up with this idea of building community through an exhibit.”

The idea of community is a central theme to the show, emphasized in the personal qualities of the portraits. Mc-

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“Do you think there is such a thing as evil?”

Contemplate this as you watch Matt Reeves’ Let Me In, an adaptation of the Swedish vampire novel and blockbuster Let the Right One In. Owen (Kodi Smith-McPhee), a lonely 12-year-old, notices a young girl who walks barefoot through the snow named Abby (Chloe Moretz). As a string of grisly murders appears in this once peaceful town—Los Alamos, N.M. in 1983—Owen must come to terms with what this “girl” actually is.

One night, Owen, tormented at school by bullies and ignored by his divorcing parents, sees Abby and a man who seems to be her father (Richard Jenkins) move into the apartment next door. Although Abby tells Owen they cannot be friends, a bond slowly builds between these two lonely youths. Meanwhile, “the Father” goes out at night, searching for prey so that Abby may feed and live. When he fails, which begins to happen as he grows older and less skillful, Abby is forced to take matters into her own hands.

A policeman (Elias Koteas) connects them to unsolved murders in Los Alamos, and his investigation leads him to Abby’s apartment, resulting in a confrontation that creates one of the most haunting scenes in the film.

Let Me In will appeal to all lovers of the horror genre.

This remarkable film somehow elicits the fear and suspense of the traditional horror film, as well as empathy and affection for the lonely boy and his friend. This is a well-made thriller that provides a fresh adaptation allowing one to see the American film in theaters, read the novel, rent the Swedish adaptation and still be surprised by what unfolds.

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Utilizing paintings, photographs, illustrations and design, People You May Know is the DAC’s first show curated in-house in its 56 years.

Connell said she hopes the intimacy and intensity of the works will encourage Durhamites to forge connections with each other.

During the artists’ reception Oct. 15, the DAC will officially present the Community Portrait of Durham, which McConnell describes as a “big human mosaic” of the Durham city flag. The reception will also feature live music, and members of SeeSaw Studio, a design organization for teenagers, will take Polaroid pictures of people at the event.

McConnell also said the DAC is “expecting a huge turnout” and hopes the convergence of people at the exhibition will produce a “ripple effect” to spread community awareness.

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“It makes waiting less stressful,” she said.

Students also perform music throughout the hospital and assist in journaling sessions. After 40 hours of service with HAND, they’re given the opportunity to shadow doctors and gain experience in the medical field.

The HAND directors, who work closely with the club executive board—comprised entirely of students—emphasized this dual opportunity to work in the hospital as well as connect on an emotional level with the patients.

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things] before all the training sets in,” said Eye Center Arts Coordinator Betty Haskins.

The students are also able to connect with a patient who may be feeling frightened and vulnerable, Woodward added.

For the members of the club, it’s the impact they have on patients that sticks with them. Frazzitta, who serves as the visual arts liaison and works with children in the Eye Center as well as those who are scheduled for surgery, most values getting to know patients and understanding what the hospital experience is like for them.

“It’s a lot of fun... to make [the kids] smile and have a good time,” Frazzitta said. “When a parent can come up and say ‘Thank you for the time you put in,’ it’s great.”

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For a while, it appeared that KT Tunstall was going to be yet another busker with a record deal (albeit a highly talented one).

With the release of Tiger Suit, however, the Scottish singer-songwriter has broken free of the mold to fantastic results. Like so many others, she has embraced the synthesizer and drum machine. And yet, unlike many unfortunate experiments from other artists, she avoids being swallowed by the electronics. Her breathy voice still commands full attention, and her rough style of guitar is enhanced, but not overshadowed by the new layers of sounds.

Tunstall’s latest album is an experimentation in what she dubs “nature techno,” which blends her old folksy flair with driving funk and electronic dance music.

The old, country-like ballads have been

transformed into pounding numbers like the lead single, “Fade Like A Shadow,” or the discotheque-ready “Come On, Get In.” She rarely lets up, either; the sheer energy of the album is palpable from beginning to end.

This is even true of the few slower tracks that initially appear to stick just to her roots. The ethereal introduction to “Lost,” for instance, gives way to a soaring, epic fanfare at the conclusion. But the real showstopper is saved for the final track, “The Entertainer.” Nothing sums up her new style quite as well as this one, as she juxtaposes campfire guitar with a climax on par with Arcade Fire.

Tiger Suit is the effort of an artist resistant to traditional classification, who is unlike the many acoustic singer-songwriters of today. While some try to make the leap into new territory, they often fall short along the way.

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by Tom Gieryn THE CHRONICLE

At first glance, it’s hard to imagine Cooper Helfet playing lacrosse. He’s listed at 6-foot-4 and 240 lbs., and he looks every bit that big. The average Duke lacrosse player, by contrast, weighed in at 191 pounds last year.

Fortunately for Duke’s football program, it’s also hard for junior Cooper Helfet to imagine himself playing lacrosse. In fact, he already tried that, and still ended up on a circuitous route back to his first love: football.

Helfet was a three-sport athlete in high school, lettering in basketball, football and lacrosse. But a back injury ended his junior football season early, and prior interest from FBS schools faded. Fully recovered for the spring, however, Helfet put up a strong showing on the lacrosse field.

Several FCS schools had interest in him for football, but when it came time to make a college decision, he couldn’t turn down a Division I lacrosse offer from Johns Hopkins.

His passion for football, however, never stopped gnawing at him.

“I found myself out there wishing I was

playing football,” Helfet said. “I couldn’t give 100 percent for lacrosse… because my passion was really for football.”

Helfet got in touch with his high school teammate Grayson Galloway, who as a quarterback had connected with Helfet 42 times for 811 yards in their senior season at Redwood High School in Larkspur, Calif., about 11 miles north of San Francisco. Galloway was playing at Santa Rosa Junior College in northern California, and head coach Keith Simons had seen Helfet play while recruiting Galloway in high school.

“I’ll get you to a D-I school if you come play for me,” Simons told Helfet.

Helfet transferred to Santa Rosa, and while he wasn’t a focal point of its offense in his first year, he shined in the team’s final game, the Premiere Bank Bowl, in which he snagged 12 passes for 188 yards and three touchdowns en route to a 2820 victory.

After that performance, attention from four-year schools starting pouring in. Duke wasn’t one of the first. He was faith robertson/Chronicle file photo

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A former member of the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, Cooper Helfet now lines up at tight end for Duke.

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Belshaw ready to win ‘silverware’ Duke heads to South English native is Duke’s top goalie in years Beach

by Maureen Dolan THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s starting goalkeeper holds a 0.6 goals against average and had a game against Louisville last month that head coach John Kerr called “the best performance I’ve ever seen live.”

And he had never even heard of Duke five months before starting his career at Koskinen.

Meet James Belshaw. At 6’2”, 174 lbs, he certainly has a presence in the goal, and his origins in Nottingham, England give the team an international vibe. He has displayed remarkable abilities over his past two years for the Blue Devils, finishing last year with a record of 12-6-0, 54 saves and only 24 goals against.

This year promises better: ten games into the regular season, the sophomore has already put up 48 saves and has given up only six goals.

Belshaw, like many of his peers, started playing soccer early during his youth in England. Also, like many of his peers, Belshaw envisioned himself playing professionally in England one day, never even knowing that American collegiate sports existed.

His path to Duke, then, came from an unexpected source: YouTube.

“I was playing for a men’s team back home and our manager has a company that sends kids over to the States and he was sort of in touch with John Kerr,” Belshaw said.

“They watched the video of me playing against Chelsea on YouTube and I sent a couple of game tapes over and then took it from there, really. The first time I ever came to America was to come here.”

Belshaw’s inaugural trip across the pond has only helped Duke. He has been an imposing force for the team, serving as a leader in the backfield and providing clutch saves on more than one occasion.

Against Louisville Sept. 5, he tallied 15 saves, including a penalty save in overtime.

Against North Carolina Sept. 17, he kept the Tar Heels at bay for nearly the entire game, only slipping once in the 1-0 loss. He also has three shutouts this year, already equaling his mark from last season.

And, as rumor has it, he could be a secret weapon outside of the box as well.

“Actually, I wasn’t a goalkeeper when I first started playing,” Belshaw said. “When I was really young I began playing in the field.

Then we had a summer tournament when I was like six, and our goalkeeper was on holiday or something so they said, ‘We need someone to get in goal, will you get in goal?’

So I started playing in goal and then got scouted for an academy team and then just carried on playing goalkeeper from there.”

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James Belshaw had not even heard of Duke until five months before he attended the school.

After a rough start to the ACC schedule that has seen Duke drop two of its first three games, the Blue Devils are hoping that a conference clash with Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., is just what Miami the doctor ordered. vs.

Last season, a deNo. 22 pleted Duke squad Duke started the ACC season winless through THURSDAY, 7:30 p.m. four games before Miami, Fla. thrashing the Hurricanes in a rainy 4-0 rout at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils went on to win three of their next five conference games and salvaged a spot in the NCAA tournament.

Flash forward to 2010—the scenario is eerily similar. Though Duke’s nonconference wins have it in a good postion for the postseason, a disappointing start in the ACC has left the No. 22 Blue Devils (6-3-3, 0-2-1 in the ACC) near the bottom of the conference table. With Miami (7-3-1, 1-1-0) up next, head coach Robbie Church hopes history will repeat itself.

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helfet from page 7 already midway through his second year at Santa Rosa before the Blue Devil coaching staff obtained his highlight tape.

But when they did get it, they were impressed. “It was one of the best I’ve ever seen,” special teams coordinator and tight ends coach Ron Middleton said of the tape.

Interest grew between Helfet and Duke as he finished his second year at Santa Rosa with 40 catches for 657 yards and seven touchdowns, and the Blue Devils offered the then-wide receiver a scholarship.

Helfet enrolled at Duke last spring with two years of athletic eligibility remaining.

The Blue Devil coaching staff moved him from wide receiver to tight end, and he led

the tight ends in spring practice with a 4.73 second 40-yard dash, a 345-pound bench press and a 30-inch vertical jump.

Despite his athleticism, Helfet had a lot to learn. He had to get used to being in a three-point stance instead of a receiver’s two-point stance. And while he’d seen plenty of individual talent in junior college, the defenses at that level were nowhere near as well-coached or as schematically complex as those of a Division I school. Most importantly, though, he needed to learn blocking techniques essentially from scratch.

“Asking him to block a defensive lineman a couple of years ago would’ve been unheard of [to him],” Middleton said. “In the run game, in the blocking aspect of it, he’s like an infant.”

And because two years of his eligibility

w. soccer from page 7 back on the road to Florida,” Church said. “It will be a real test of mental toughness. We’re 0-2-1 in the ACC, but everyone in our locker room believes we could easily be 3-0-0.”

Following a game last Sunday in which Duke outshot then-No. 10 Florida State 18-14 but fell 3-1, the Blue Devils have emphasized the importance of finishing in the final third in this week’s practices. Though Duke has created a myriad of scoring chances over its three ACC games thus far, the Blue Devils are scoring an average of just one goal per game in conference play—a continual source of frustration for Church.

“We cover every situation in the final third that we can in training,” he said. “We’ve just got to make some better decisions [in front of the goal].”

Duke will have to work hard to contain a talented group of Miami strikers, led by senior Brittney Steinbruch, who has five goals this season. Steinbruch, with an assist against Clemson in the Hurricanes’ last game, tied the all-time Miami points record with 73.

were already gone, Helfet would not only have to learn a lot but learn quickly.

“We told him that he’d have to come in with his feet moving when he hit the ground,” Middleton said. “It’s not his fault he was never asked to run block or pass protect, but he hasn’t backed away from it one bit.”

And while he may be an infant when asked to block, Middleton called him a “fish in water” in the receiving game. His rare combination of size, speed and good hands allow him to easily create mismatches.

Despite not being fully recovered from a foot injury that sidelined him for the team’s first game against Elon, Helfet has continued to work hard. An injury to tight end Brett Huffman created an opportunity for him to see game action, and he impressed in his debut against Wake For-

Playing at the Hurricanes’ Cobb Stadium presents its own unique challenges. Tightly bordered by a running track, the playing surface is neither as wide nor as long as other fields in the ACC, giving a very physical Miami team a tactical advantage. While the Hurricanes’ defense can sometimes be exploited on the road, its ability to stay compact means that Miami’s back line is much harder to break at home. To prepare, Duke has shortened its own practice field this week to try and simulate the conditions.

“They’re probably one of the toughest teams in the ACC at home,” Church said. “They get really physical at home because there’s no place to go hide from them on the field.”

With only seven games remaining on the ACC schedule, the Blue Devils must begin to grab maximum points if they hope to finish near the top of the conference and improve their seed for the ACC tournament. According to Church, anything less than a win against the Hurricanes will be a disappointment.

“This is the most important week of the season,” he said. “This is what it comes down to.”

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est, hauling in a nine-yard touchdown pass.

While he only has 22 total receiving yards on the year, he serves a multipurpose role in the Duke offense.

“We split him out some, we motion him some, we do all those things,” Middleton said.

Helfet and his coaches see a bright future for him. Continued mentoring from fellow tight ends Huffman and Brandon King­—who Helfet said have been like “big brothers”—will help him refine his game. A full season of a rigorous Division I weight-lifting regimen will give him even more speed and strength to use against his opponents.

“Once he gets more comfortable with the offense, once the offense gets more comfortable with him, he’ll catch a lot more passes,” Middleton said.

belshaw from page 7 draw American attention, Belshaw played for Walsall FC in the FA Cup in 2008 against Chelsea’s youth team, part of the farm system for one of Europe’s best teams.

“We played them in the fourth round,” Belshaw said. “I was watching Chelsea last week in the Champions League and I think five, possibly six of their players on that team were on the team that I played against a couple years ago. They killed us but it was fun, definitely an experience.”

Belshaw has started this season well and is playing at a new level.

His teammates and coaches think highly of him, both on and off the field.

“He’s our backbone of the defense and he’s the last line of defense,” Kerr said. “He’s come into camp really improved in a few aspects of his game, like his aerial game; he’s dominating his box and his decision-making has been much better. He’s been a real stalwart back there for us.”

Duke takes on N.C. State tomorrow in one of its final four conference games. Belshaw has high hopes for his team and this game.

“I’d like to win some silverware for the team within the next three years,” he said. “I think with the classes that we have coming in, and the great bunch of lads we’ve got now, there’s no reason why we can’t win anything.”

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to monitor and, when necessary, criticize these disparities as they exist in American society. But Duke’s situation as a private university is not analogous to the one faced

by AIG. Rickard’s column presented numbers in isolation, and did not consider the broader context of the current payment system.

To maintain our position in the top tier of universities, hospitals and business schools in the current market, Duke must offer competitive salaries or people will go elsewhere. To attract top talent we pay top dollar.

And when it comes to recruiting top talent, names sell. In order to bring in better administrators and faculty, we need to have prominent, productive people already

in place. Top administrators, such as Dzau, bring money and talent to the school. Oftentimes they are virtually irreplaceable. Dzau earns about $2 million in base salary and additional payments. Given that he could likely earn far more working at a for-profit company, we believe he is worth his hefty price tag.

It is also worth noting that Dzau’s so-called “bonus” was based on performance objectives from a contract written before the recession began in full. Upon fulfilling these objectives, he was paid as designated.

Money managers at DUMAC earn similar figures in base compensation and additional payments, but this is merely the industry standard.

Investment professionals,

whose unique skill sets make their services highly valuable in a competitive marketplace, manage huge funds that fuel the University’s endowment and long-term growth.

Duke is not alone in its current levels of payment, and to keep our position among the top universities, we must keep our payment plans competitive.

While we support the activist spirit that these students displayed and agree that there is plenty of room to question the huge disparities in income that exist at this university, it is clear that Rickards and the student protestors have mischaracterized this as an issue of “bonuses.”

A more effective dialogue about inequity at Duke would place these problems within their proper context.

House model a simple, good choice—and nothing more

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he move to implement the house model is a debate in exactly the wrong terms. logical attempt to address the basic unfairness First of all, we don’t know that the admittedly of campus housing policy. Let’s leave it at that. more balanced house model will be more conduThe house model promises to improve upon the cive to either “relationships” or “community.” Isn’t current quad model simply because it the SLG-favoring quad model alwill allow a larger number of indepenready fantastic at fostering both? dents to spend more of their Duke caLike them or not, SLGs are groups reers living on favored West Campus. of people who identify, with wideIn recent years, members of selective ly varying degrees of devotion, as living groups have had a much better members of a community. They chance of living on West as juniors or live together and socialize toseniors than independents have had. gether. Members of SLGs may not It hasn’t been a fair policy—in fact, it’s connor southard always exist in monkish harmony been an obnoxious one. Kudos to the and silence, but their relationdead poet administration and to Campus Counships, as friends and roommates cil, among others, for working to remand hall-buddies, are not someedy this glaring imbalance. how less valid than those of independents.

It can’t be that easy, right? There’s no doubt an SLG-ers are people, and students, too. If indeagenda behind this shift. pendents buried deep in Central Campus hold a The administration is doing two things: They’re grudge against SLGs because they sometimes get admitting that the quad model wasn’t their best better housing, then let’s hope that the house idea, and they’re doing away with it out of respect model does indeed bring us closer to ridding this for basic fairness. campus of unnecessary bitterness.

Our administration deserves credit for wanting More to the point, Duke and its various sub-into do the right thing. Steve Nowicki put it well in stitutions shouldn’t bother trying to enforce “comsaying, “We, right now, are in a state where hous- munity” or “relationships” from above. For one, ing is very unequal, so we have to do something.” there’s no way to artificially will these rosy things He’s right on all counts. That this is an obvious into existence. Since when does cajoling people statement that doesn’t pretend to be a deep insight into sustained proximity with one another—for is what makes it so incisive: Everyone knows what two or three years versus one year—lead only to Nowicki is talking about, and everyone knows that happy outcomes? If we start making housing polhe’s right. Given the tendency of administrators icy into a series of prescriptions about what Duke to shroud their on-the-record opinions in vague should look like socially, West Campus won’t just terms—three years at Duke and I still don’t know be Disneyland: It will be a failed Potemkin Village what “global education” means—it’s always nice to featuring some very patronized-feeling students. hear some plain talk.

Good thing we can justify the house model shift In contrast, it was disconcerting—if entirely on stronger grounds. Temple’s comments aren’t predictable—to hear Campus Council President all that bad; they just happen to hint at the kind Stephen Temple say of the house model, of thinking we’re better off avoiding. Where the “In Campus Council, our mission is to foster house model is concerned, the important thing to community within the residential campus, so I’m keep in mind is that dumping the quad model in excited about this because this will give Duke favor of the house model is the right thing to do students the opportunity for relationships to because it is the fair thing. That’s it and that’s all. flourish in residence halls.”

There are many complex and even conspiratorial Looks like another harmless line in the chatter agendas that might conceivably be behind decision about “community” (or lack thereof) that never seems like this one. Pushing frats onto Central? Moving toto cease at Duke. You could see a quote like this one ward a residential college system? Fostering commucoming at you all the way across the Main Quad. nity? It’s tempting to speculate. But it’s a better idea If Stephen Temple puts in the time required to focus on what’s simply right, simply fair. to lead Campus Council, he must genuinely care about doing right by his fellow undergraduates.

Connor Southard is a Trinity junior. He is studyBut I do feel compelled to point out that Temple’s ing in New York for the semester. His column runs every well-meant statement frames the residential policy Thursday.

the chronicle

lettertotheeditor Dawkins disappoints Is Professor Richard Dawkins really a voice of reason? We were left with this question at the end of his talk on Sunday at Page Auditorium.

Professor Dawkins provided a lucid and rigorous exposition of the factual basis of evolution by natural selection. But, we believe that he fell well short in addressing issues related to religion, especially in the Q&A session following his talk.

His comments were peppered with disparaging references to the need for educating “religious people,” falsely implying that “religious people” by definition do not accept the science of evolution.

But most shocking was his response to a question on the appropriateness of the presence of a divinity school and chapel on Duke’s campus.

Professor Dawkins’ comment that the chapel was only good for its pretty stained glass windows and good music completely disregarded the important healing, guiding, sustaining and reconciling roles of worshipping communities in the lives of count-

less people. Similarly, his comment that the Divinity School is appropriate only for studying history and literature betrayed a lack of understanding of the mission of the Divinity School to train ministers in all aspects of congregational life. This mission is in keeping with its professional character, consistent with the nature of all the other professional schools which give Duke its unique flavor.

The lack of a nuanced and intellectually compelling exposition of the fact that both science and religion are powerful and valid forces in the world today (perhaps as a result of human evolution itself?) was disheartening. In the end, we left feeling that we had heard a fundamentalist discourse— the very type of discourse that Professor Dawkins purports to stand against.

Prasad Kasibhatla. Associate Professor at the Nicholas School of the Environment Susan Dunlap, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Divinity School

Translating the world

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grew up in a bilingual household and a multilin- but ferociously follows Japanese pop culture. gual community.

Foreign-language-speaking descendants of immiMy family speaks a mixture of Kannada and grants are, in linguistics parlance, “heritage language” English at home. The priests at the local temple speak speakers. The U.S. has a large population of heriTamil to each other and Sanskrit to the tage language speakers, but it is not gods. In the latest Bollywood film, the imunique in that respect. possibly beautiful couple lip-syncs songs Non-indigenous Latin Americans, in Hindi, inserting Persian, Urdu and for example, come from all corners English lyrics as they please: a highly unof the Eastern Hemisphere. Yet withusual combination translated at the botin a few generations, the children tom of the screen with rolling subtitles of of these immigrants started speakbroken English. My neighbors speak Bening Spanish exclusively and began gali, Italian, Korean and Chinese, each sandeep prasanna identifying themselves primarily as language more exotic and unintelligible, Hispanic, rather than Italian-Argenbeautiful and confusing and frustrating hooked on phonetics tinean, like Lionel Messi, or Lebaand enchanting than the others. nese-Mexican, like Salma Hayek. But Just two weeks into my freshman year here, I members of visible minorities, like Peru’s ex-president found inspiration in a dark corner of the fourth floor Alberto Fujimori, a Japanese-Peruvian, are often still of Perkins Library. It was an orange and gray book, identified with the hyphenated term, even if they thick and dusty. The front cover had a title in two don’t speak their heritage language any longer. languages—one in English, and the second in the faThe U.S. seems to embrace monolingualism as miliar loops of my family’s native language. Kannada- enthusiastically as apple pie, so we don’t always get Inglish Nighantu. Kannada-English Dictionary. the same encouragement to learn other languages as I opened to the introduction and found my great un- citizens of other countries do. Europeans are usually cle’s smiling, wrinkled face looking back at me. He spent multilingual—Scandinavians, in particular, could his entire career translating the beautiful, but limited, school us in English grammar. In many African counworld of Kannada into English. As I flipped through the tries and in India, dozens of languages might be spothousands of definitions, so painstakingly assembled, I ken within one state’s borders. We might even think thought about how this was completed by a mind wholly of multilingualism as the norm and monolingualism absorbed in both Indian and Western literatures. as unusual, rather than the other way around.

I couldn’t help but see his massive project mirBecoming multilingual is difficult, I think, not only rored in my experience as an Indian-American— because of the time involved in learning a second or translating between worlds, at once immersed in and third language, but also because a language is the reseparate from both. pository of a culture. We spend our entire lives learnThe first language I ever used as a child was Kan- ing about our own native culture, let alone others. nada, and I learned about my world through that But being multilingual is also difficult. For those lens. I chased after the yellow chitte (butterfly) in our of us who belong to two or more cultures, we have backyard garden and I cried for haalu (milk) when I to work to earn membership in different worlds. Dewas thirsty. My grandmother, my ajji, taught me how spite our best efforts, we might not ever feel comto speak and my father, my thande, taught me how to pletely at home in any of them. write the curves of our script. My Indian classical vocal It’s unrealistic for me to expect that everyone guru has trained me from suburban New Jersey to ur- should become multilingual. Learning new languages ban Bangalore, and I cut my teeth on the immensely is great, but not everyone has the time or the resources rich tradition of medieval Kannada devotional poetry. to do so. The global near-ubiquity of English has made I still know my brother only as anna (elder brother). multilingualism almost unnecessary for Americans.

So my entire life has been consumed with translatBut maybe there is still something beautiful about ing from one world to the other—creating a Kanna- the effort of keeping many different language lenses da-English “dictionary” of my experience. Those of us in focus. who are caught between two cultures don’t only transSince my parents arrived only 30 years ago, my family late within one world; we translate between worlds. hasn’t completely melted into the American pot yet. My Despite learning about multilingualism in the children and grandchildren might not either, whether classroom, I still ache to understand how my brain because of the color of their skin or the fact that they’ll works. Everyone’s experience learning and using lan- celebrate Holi instead of Easter in the spring. guage is radically different, so each of us deals with it But when it gets cloudy in late March, I hope my in totally unique ways. grandchildren, just like me, taste rich, thick sweetOne of my friends is so terrified of forgetting her ness in a spring rain because hani (drizzle) and “honmother tongue that she devours Spanish romance ey” sound exactly the same. novels. Another has embraced his ABC (AmericanBorn Chinese) status and refuses to speak Mandarin.

Sandeep is a Trinity senior and a Program II major A third friend is a fourth-generation Japanese-Amer- studying the dynamics of language. His column runs every ican who can’t speak a full sentence of the language other Thursday.

The case for doing good in the neighborhood

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he case for the Doing Good in the Neighborhood employee giving campaign is being made everyday in every department at the University and throughout the health care system. The civic engagement, the social innovation projects, the generous hours given by Duke tutors and mentors in our Sam Miglarese schools and the many volunteers guest column in the health care system, all give witness to Duke University being engaged with Durham City and County as well as this region of North Carolina.

More than three years ago, President Brodhead and our Board of Trustees created a new vice presidency—the Office of Durham and Regional Affairs. Durham and the region now have a seat at the table among senior leadership at Duke. This new office symbolizes, in the person of vice president Dr. Phail Wynn, the on-going importance of Duke to Durham and Durham to Duke.

The Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign provides Duke employees with an exciting opportunity to recapture the Duke spirit of community-based philanthropy. Everyone is now given the option of “making a difference” in Durham and beyond. Under the banner of Doing Good in the Neighborhood, giving opportunities abound at Duke and through the United Way of the Greater Triangle.

What is the vision behind this appeal to give? It is all about the community in which we live, the community we love and want to see thrive and grow as the best-kept secret in North Carolina. This is a moment filled with opportunities.

• We have an opportunity to build a community that calls our Duke students to a higher level of civic engagement and citizenship so that they can participate in helping make Durham a better place to live for all.

• We have an opportunity to build a community that motivates, inspires and cares for children from cradle to college so that they can learn and hope for a better future.

• We have an opportunity to build a community that supports subsidies for home ownership and encourages neighborhood growth and development.

• We have an opportunity to build a community that creates and sustains social innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit.

• We have an opportunity to erect an education architecture and infrastructure that recognizes education as essential to advancement.

• We have an opportunity to cherish the value of diversity in our community so that our differences enrich rather than divide.

When so many others are focused on problems and limitations, Duke employees have an unparalleled opportunity to share in creating a future filled with promise and hope. We invite all Duke employees to join in the Doing Good in the Neighborhood campaign: • by making a pledge at doinggood.duke.edu and • by volunteering in the Durham community with a Duke community partner (For more information, visit community. duke.edu/campaigns/volunteer/index.php).

Come join us in Doing Good in the Neighborhood!

Sam Miglarese is the director of community engagement for the Office of Community Affairs.

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The student becomes the teacher

Stewart Cheatwood saw opportunity, found a mentor and changed his career. Now he finds time to coach others. Every day, he’s feeding his life, his career and his future.

Feed your future at www.pwc.tv

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