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Sex list draws media to Duke
Gun discharges in West Union
Casual depictions of sex revive lax-era concerns by Zachary Tracer THE CHRONICLE
The sexual practices of Duke students are back in the spotlight, four years after lacrosse case coverage subjected campus culture to national examination. Reporters from major news outlets descended on campus yesterday after a detailed list of a Duke alumna’s sexual encounters went viral. For some, the attention the list has attracted revives questions about Duke’s social norms and rekindles concerns over public perceptions of the University. “People have this impression that Duke is this culture of these hypersexual people, and unfortunately events like this don’t help our case,” said Duke Student Government President Mike Lefevre, a senior. He said he was disappointed to see national media outlets like The New York Times and NBC’s Today Show on campus covering the situation. Lefevre said a New York Times reporter interviewed him Thursday about the sex list. “This is not the kind of story that should be getting national attention,” Lefevre said. “It doesn’t reflect well on the University, on the student body, and it certainly doesn’t reflect well on the national media.” The 42-slide PowerPoint that has drawn widespread attention was meant to be shared
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A revolver discharged between Chick-fil-A and the Great Hall Thursday when a part-time employee dropped his backpack to the floor in a back office. Jamiles McElveen, who works for the Great Hall, was charged with carrying a weapon on campus and carrying a concealed weapon after police responded to the incident
at approximately 5 p.m., said Duke University Police Chief John Dailey. The bullet lodged in the ceiling and no one was injured. McElveen has been barred indefinitely from stepping onto campus. “He said he put his bookbag down and it went off—he said he didn’t know it was in there,” said Princess, an employee at Chick-fil-A, adding that McElveen said he had left his bag unattended briefly at the
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bus station before coming to work. “He made history—today is Duke history,” Princess said. “He goes down as the dumbest criminal.” In addition to the gun charges, McElveen was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana, Dailey said. McElveen has worked at the University since the end of 2009. Dailey said he could not comment on McElveen’s future employment status.
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Budget cuts force chemistry dept. to hold some labs online by Jessica Kim THE CHRONICLE
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Due to budget cuts in recent years, some chemistry classes now alternate between “wet” and “dry” labs, with the dry labs graded online.
In an effort to cut costs, students in general chemistry and organic chemistry classes this semester are conducting half of their laboratory sessions outside of class on their computers. The new curriculum includes “wet” and “dry” labs, with the dry labs consisting of work in an online program called Sapling Learning. Dry labs typically consist of reading and written exercises graded online, James Parise, instructor of chemistry and organic chemistry laboratory manager, wrote in an e-mail. The wet labs will consist of traditional experiments that introduce a technique or focus on a synthetic method, he added. The changes will affect students in Chemistry 31, 32, 151 and 152, he said. During the previous two fiscal years, the chemistry department’s budget was reduced by 5 and 10 percent, respectively, Warren Warren, James B. Duke professor of chemistry and chair of the chemistry department, wrote in an e-mail. “As you know, all departments in Trinity [College of Arts and Sciences] were directed to make significant cuts last year,” Warren said. “We felt that decreasing the organic [and general chemistry labs] was a constructive
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solution which was consistent with what our peer institutions were doing, and which would open up new educational opportunities.” The cost of operating undergraduate laboratories is one of the largest components of the chemistry department’s operating budget, Richard MacPhail, associate chair and co-director of undergraduate studies for the chemistry department, wrote in an e-mail. The new format will achieve cost-savings estimated between 25 and 50 percent on various lab materials such as chemicals, pipettes, glassware and gloves. Further savings will result from lighter staffing, but exact estimates for savings are not currently available. “Because the budget for these operations is so complex, we do not expect to have an exact accounting of our savings until the year is over,” MacPhail said. Unhappy customers Some students noted that the new curriculum is both less conducive to learning and less demanding. Sophomore Billy Kim, who spends an average of less than half an hour doing the dry lab but more than three
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Marriage gap lessens for Pakistan border crossing college educated women still shut after US strike WASHINGTON — White women with college degrees are now just as likely to get married as their less-educated counterparts, ending what researchers once thought of as a “marriage penalty” for generations of young women who pursued higher education. A new report shows that the oncelarge marriage gap for white women turned around starting with a cohort of women who were born in the early 1970s. Those women, now ages 35 to 39, have been as likely to marry as those who did not graduate from college, according to the report by the Pew Research Center. For both groups, an analysis of 2008 figures shows 84 percent had married at some point before age 40. “It’s a historic reversal,” said Richard Fry, author of the study.“There was a time in the early 20th century when there was a huge marriage gap.”
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KARACHI — Pakistan kept shut its main border crossing used to supply NATO troops in Afghanistan a day after the United States apologized for killing three Pakistani soldiers in the air strike that triggered the transit point’s closure. At least 2,500 trucks are backed up waiting for permission to enter Afghanistan, Khawaja Muhammad Khan, president of the nationwide truckers body, said by phone from Peshawar, the main city in Pakistan’s northwest. Khan Pasand Khan, a government official in Khyber Agency, confirmed there had been no order to allow trucks and fuel tankers, dozens of which were set ablaze by militants in the past week, to cross the Torkham border post. Pakistan closed the Khyber Pass route into Afghanistan after the Sept. 30 attack by U.S. helicopters, which the American ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson Wednesday called a “terrible accident.”
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Group hears update on house model transition by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE
As construction of the new K4 residence hall progresses, Duke’s residential experience is taking new shape. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta presented students with a look into Duke’s residential future at Campus Council’s meeting Thursday night. Moneta discussed the new house model, which will be implemented Fall 2012. “The fact is that the economy has inhibited us from doing things as rapidly as we might like,” Moneta said. “As the economy improves over the next few years, however,
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Campus Council President Stephen Temple discusses the Fall 2012 switch to the house model.
we want to get back to an accelerated pace of facility upgrades.” Moneta also briefed the council on Dining, a responsibility that the Office of Student Affairs assumed over the summer. The relationship between residential life and Dining is being re-evaluated, he said, adding that a new position of Assistant Vice President for Student Housing and Dining has been created but not yet filled. Campus Council will have the opportunity to interview candidates. Renovations to the West Union Building and expansion of the Marketplace should begin within the next two years. This will present a “dramatic challenge,” especially when parts of the Union have to be closed, he said. Moneta said the University will continue renovations to Central Campus and hopes to start renovations to Craven and Crowell quadrangles in the near future. He added that the presence of selective living groups on Central has brought life to the area, indicating that the new house model could achieve similar results. “[Central] has demonstrated that we can take buildings that aren’t necessarily the best designed and create a great, unique opportunity for community,” he said. For now, no new living groups will be able to petition for housing on West Campus, but Moneta said the opportunity is still available on Central.
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labs from page 1 hours doing the wet lab, described the new curriculum as easier but less hands-on. The dry lab is designed to reinforce concepts from the wet lab, but sophomore Sharon Chan finds that doing the dry lab does not supplement her understanding of the material. “Half the questions for dry lab are really procedure questions that I don’t find very useful at all for learning the concepts,” Chan said. “The other questions... are very specific but don’t really help you learn the concepts. You can find the answer by looking it up in the back of the book.” She added that “nobody likes Sapling” because if answers are not entered exactly, students are not awarded the points. Sophomore Thomas Liu sees the dry labs as helpful for learning the concepts but still prefers the wet labs. “The dry labs are useful in helping you learn the concepts more and it’s just a good complement to the craft,” Liu said, “[but] definitely the wet labs are more helpful, because there’s more work you do in the postlab write-ups.”
The bright side Although he said there are “inevitably trade-offs” in the decision to eliminate some wet lab time, MacPhail said he hopes that the addition of more dry labs will open up other soft-skill learning opportunities in scientific writing, experimental design and data analysis. The chemistry department will also use the online labs to prepare students more fully for the hands-on laboratory experience and require more thorough analysis of their results, he added. The new curriculum will incorporate aspects of chemistry learning that are hard to include in a wet lab due to time and resource constraints, such as experimental design and computational chemistry exercises, MacPhail said. “It is also worth noting that fewer wet labs will... result in a substantial reduction in our waste stream, and hence, a ‘greener’ curriculum,” he wrote. Warren noted that the chemistry department has undergone a number of changes over the past decade that have strengthened the undergraduate experience. The department has upgraded lab equipment and added 10 classes at the undergraduate level in topics such as chemistry outreach and ethics, as well as a graduation with distinction program.
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between friends. In it, Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, vividly describes the sexual performance of 13 current and former Duke students, all of them varsity athletes and many of them lacrosse players. After Owen sent the PowerPoint to a few friends, it eventually made its way across listservs at Duke and then onto sites such as Jezebel, The Huffington Post and CNN. At one point Thursday night, “Karen Owen Powerpoint” was the second most-searched term in the United States on Google. “Duke Powerpoint” was 10th. Deadspin, a sports blog, and Jezebel, a blog that covers women’s interests, first posted the PowerPoint last Thursday. The document has since been viewed more than 2 million times on the sites. Deadspin initially posted the presentation complete with the names of the men, but later removed them. Jezebel interviewed Owen, but did not initially identify her. “I regret it with all my heart,” Owen told Jezebel. “I would never intentionally hurt the people that are mentioned on that.” Jezebel later posted e-mails suggesting that Owen might be offered a book deal related to her PowerPoint. Owen did not respond to an e-mailed request for comment Thursday evening, and a message left on her home telephone was not returned. The men named in the PowerPoint could not be reached for comment or declined to speak with a Chronicle reporter. Duke Sports Information Director Art Chase said, “Duke Athletics has no comment on this.” Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said his department has contacted the students mentioned in the
campus council from page 3 In other business: The council also re-evaluated its outreach to student groups and passed a policy to invite groups with connections to residential issues to send liaisons to Campus Council meetings. The groups include the Interfraternity Council, the National Panhellenic Council, the Selective House Council and the InterGreek Council, among others. The effort will represent a broader spectrum of students in residential policy and increase transparency, said President Stephen Temple, a senior. The council is taking applications for the studentdriven “House Model Working Group” until Oct. 14. The working group will discuss the house model, its implementation and its effect on students. Temple added that the co-chair of the Approval and Removal Committee—which has a say in the status of residential groups—will be elected Oct. 21. He also said a survey on gender-neutral housing policy will go out to the student body sometime next week. PowerPoint to offer support. “On a personal basis, I’m saddened by the behavior,” he said. “Many of the circumstances that are referenced in it continue to make me really concerned about some of the judgments and some of the norms that persist.” But Moneta and several students pointed out that Duke is far from the only college where people have alcohol-fueled sexual encounters. “I don’t find it that big of a deal,” said freshman Grace Benson. “A lot of college campuses are really promiscuous. I don’t think [Duke] should be singled out.” Moneta said the PowerPoint should not be linked to past depictions of Duke’s social scene. But a Today Show segment broadcast Thursday drew parallels between Owen’s list and seamier elements of Duke culture highlighted during the lacrosse case. The reporter, Jeff Rossen, mentioned the Duke lacrosse case—in which several players were accused of rape before being cleared—and called the list a “new sex scandal.” “In 2007, the charges were dropped, but the damage was done,” he said on the show. During the lacrosse case, the Duke social scene was commonly portrayed as an atmosphere that embraced a cavalier attitude toward sex. Publications such as Rolling Stone described Duke nightlife with images of drunken hookups, foam parties and casual sex. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said he was concerned that coverage of the PowerPoint could revive those perceptions of Duke. “What’s concerning about it is the potential for something like this to reinforce stereotypes,” Schoenfeld said. “Do I think this is going to long-term define Duke? The answer is no, of course not.” Matthew Chase and Joanna Lichter contributed reporting.
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Blue Devils take on ACC doormat by Stuart Price THE CHRONICLE
goal from Tara Schwitter with one second left in the match gave the Hurricanes (8-3-1, 2-1-0) the 2-0 win. Church and the players were all frustrated with the team’s inefficiency in the loss—the Blue Devils created several scoring chances in the game, but they were unable to capitalize on them. They outshot Miami 10-0 in the first half, and freshman Natasha Anasi got off three shots of her own during the game, but it was all to no avail. “We worked so hard all week, in training, in scouting and in pregame preparation,” Church said. “They were ready to play, but we need to finish opportunities and score goals.”
In a statement game against Davidson Tuesday, Duke’s offense finally clicked on all cylinders. Riding this momentum, the No. 19 Blue Devils (5-2-3, 1-2-1 in the ACC) look to match N.C. State’s offensive firepower tonight N.C. at 7:00 p.m. in Raleigh. State “We’re obviously more intense vs. going into an ACC game rather than a Tuesday night game,” sophNo. 19 omore forward Ryan Finley said. Duke “This game on Friday is huge for FRIDAY, 7 p.m. us. We’re definitely going to bring Raleigh, N.C. the intensity.” A motivated Finley could pose a serious problem for the Wolfpack (5-5-0, 0-4-0)—which possess the worst defense in the conference. Through ten games, N.C. State has allowed 19 goals, good for a 1.90 goals against average. Finley, by himself, averages one goal per game. “Whether he’s scoring or not, he’s a dangerous threat,” head coach John Kerr said. “Teams have to be aware of him and allow other guys space on our team to operate in the final third. Every team wants a guy
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Freshman Natasha Anasi tallied three shots against Miami last night, but she and the rest of the Blue Devils were unable to find the back of the net once.
Duke allows late goals in loss by Jay Vitha THE CHRONICLE
After the Blue Devils’ 3-1 loss to Florida State Oct. 3, head coach Robbie Church warned that a five-minute stretch can change any game. His admonition became reality DUKE 0 last night as No. 22 Duke (6-4-3, 2 MIA 0-3-1 in the ACC) lost to the Hurricanes after they scored two goals in the game’s final two minutes of play. The Blue Devils controlled the ball for the majority of the game, and outshot Miami 17-7, but Duke saw the game fall from its grasp when Brittney Steinbruch scored in the 89th minute. A second
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Duke honors late coach by renaming tourney by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
It would be nearly impossible to find somebody who met former Duke men’s golf coach Rod Myers without coming away having learned something—whether it was about golf, life or something in between. Myers, who was head coach of the team for 34 years beginning in 1974, passed away on March 30, 2007 after a battle with an acute form of Rod leukemia. Duke is now taking the Myers steps to honor this man who had Invite such a profound influence on the SUNDAY-MONDAY program and those around him. Duke Golf Club The first step in this begins this Durham, N.C. Sunday and finishes Monday, when the team hosts the inaugural Rod Myers Invitational at the Duke University Golf Club. This follows a 37-year tradition of the Blue Devils hosting an annual golf tournament. Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy emphasized the importance of Duke commemorating his legacy. “I could say without any reservation he was the most revered, nicest head coach ever at Duke,” Kennedy, who worked with Myers for over 30 years, said. “He’s one of the best people I’ve ever known and I think you look for ways to try and remember people like that.” Colleagues and former players alike similarly revere the storied Blue Devil coach. “We really looked up to him and he focused on making each of us better people, so that you wanted to give everything for him,” Mike Castleforte, who played on the team under Myers from 2002-2004, said. “You wanted to win so badly for coach because of the way he
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Rod Myers, who passed away from an acute form of leukemia in 2007, was known for his coaching prowess on the course and kindness off it. conducted himself and treated us.” In addition to naming the tournament after him, the school is naming the newly renovated golf facility the Rod Myers Training Center. The still-under-construction facility, to be used by both the men’s and women’s
teams, includes new target greens, new bunkers and a laser-level teeing ground. “Our golfers every day will see Rod Myers’s name,” See myers on page 8
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Important series awaits Duke hopes to change its season’s trajectory by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE
Tonight will be one of the biggest volleyball games in the ACC this season, pits the only two remaining undefeated teams in the conference—Duke and North Carolina— UNC against each other in a crosstown rivalry in vs. Cameron Indoor Stadium at 7 p.m. Duke Embarking on their third match of a fourFRIDAY, 7 p.m. Cameron Indoor game homestand, the Blue Devils (13-2, 5-0 in the ACC) are lookN.C. ing to break the lock State for first place against vs. a Tar Heel team that leads the ACC in three Duke offensive categories: kills per set (14.38), asSATURDAY, 7 p.m. sists per set (13.51) and Cameron Indoor digs per set (17.90). North Carolina (15-4, 6-0) is on an 11-match winning streak and ranks third in opponent hitting percentage at .147—just shy of Duke’s .144 mark. “It’s always such a big rivalry, and North Carolina is very competitive and plays with a lot of intensity, so it’ll be a good battle,” head coach Jolene Nagel said. “They’re very scrappy on defense, and they get balls up that you think will be down, and they keep rallies going, so they’ll be a tough opponent for us.” Despite tonight’s implications for the conference standings, Nagel said the team is focusing less on the big picture and more on facing the Tar Heels as just the
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Megan Hendrickson and the rest of the Blue Devils will face their nearby rivals this weekend. next opponent—no more or less than any other conference foe. “The Duke-Carolina rivalry does make the game that much more exciting, but we’re trying not to put too much emphasis on the fact that both teams are undefeated because we’ve had different opponents and different schedules, so it See volleyball on page 8
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Duke to play in Tar Heel Invitational Duke heads down 15-501 today for the Tar Heel Invitational. The tournament, held at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Tar Heel Hill, features many of the nation’s Invite top teams. No. 6 FRIDAY-SUNDAY Alabama and No. 5 Finley Golf Course Auburn represent Chapel Hill, N.C. the highest ranked teams participating. Other squads include ACC rivals No. 10 Wake Forest, No. 11 Vir-
ginia, N.C. State and North Carolina. The No. 8 Blue Devils will send senior Kim Donovan, sophomore Lindy Duncan, sophomore Courtney Ellenbogen, freshman Alejandra Cangrejo and freshman Laetitia Beck to the tournament. Duke’s performance its last time on the links was below its usual standards. The team fell apart on its final 36 holes and finished tied for 10th at the Mason Randolph Championship. —from staff reports
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Duke hopes the narrative of its season will change dramatically this weekend. Last weekend, the No. 14 Blue Devils (6-6, 0-3 in the ACC) played the sort of game that has typified their year—dominating possession and creating more shots than their opponents, but struggling to put the ball into the cage. In its road games against No. 2 Maryland Saturday and No. 10 American Sunday, Duke’s focus will simply be to score some goals. “It’s been the story of the season,” No. 2 head coach Beth UMD Bozman said. “We vs. dominate teams but No. 14 we are unable to finDuke ish.... We want some reward right now SATURDAY, 1 p.m. and that’s what we’re Jack Katz Stadium shooting for.” The first game No. 10 against the TerraAmerican pins (10-1, 3-0) pits vs. the Blue Devils, No. 14 who have scored a Duke mere 15 goals this season and are still SUNDAY, 1 p.m. seeking their first Jack Katz Stadium win in conference play, against a team that leads the ACC with 47 goals scored. Duke will look to its defensive prowess to stifle Maryland’s attack, and it aims to put a
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few scores into the Terrapins’ own cage. “We are in the top group in terms of goals against,” Bozman said. “We’re not giving up too many goals. We do a good job of limiting the amount of goals the other team scores.” This solid defense will again be important on Sunday against American (9-2), which is riding an eight-game winning streak, and has also been lights-out offensively with 40 scores in the net so far this season. The Eagles put nine goals past Lehigh in their demolition of the Mountain Hawks last weekend. Duke will rely on senior goalkeeper Samantha Nelson to be on top of her game to stop the two potent attacks. She has had a strong season so far, posting four shutouts, with her last coming in last Sunday’s victory against Boston University. Building from its defense, Bozman believes it is only a matter of time before the goals start to flow. “The whole team has been playing particularly well,” Bozman said. “We’re confident that it’ll break open and we’ll start scoring.” The Blue Devils are approaching the final stretch of their season, with only two conference games remaining. This heightens the significance of the game against the Terrapins, and Bozman was quick to point out that at this stage in the season each contest is key. “Every game is important,” Bozman said. “We’d like to sweep the weekend… [and] give us confidence heading toward the postseason.”
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matches up differently,” she said. Following tonight’s match, the Blue Devils host an N.C. State team against whom they have had much recent success, sweeping the Wolfpack in each of the last three meetings. But N.C. State boasts a revamped squad this year, led by first-year head coach Bryan Bunn, as well as several newcomers on the court, including two Colorado transfers who form the core of the Wolfpack offense. Despite its relative youth, N.C. State (125, 2-3) is the top defensive team in the conference, boasting a .141 opponent hitting percentage. “The team looks very different this year with a new coach and new players, and we don’t expect them to be the same team as last year,” Nagel said.
Church stressed that he is proud of this team and does not doubt their ability, despite their winless record in conference play. “They want to do well and they’re playing hard,” Church said. “I think we can win out the rest of the season. We just need to finish up each game.” Senior captain Molly Lester shared Church’s optimism and disappointment that Duke is still winless in ACC play. “I cannot believe we aren’t getting the results because we have been playing so well,” she said. “The ball will bounce our way and the postseason will be a positive experience for us.” Church and his coaching staff now look to change up some of the team’s for-
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myers from page 5 Kennedy said. “The ones who didn’t know him, and we’re getting to the point now that there’s [no players] here who knew him personally, will still learn about him.” These two tributes to his name can perhaps symbolize the dual importance he had on the community, both on and off the course. On the course, Myers established Duke as a perennial contender and won an ACC championship towards the end of his tenure in 2005. He left current coach Jamie Green with a strong foundation to build on into the future. “We expect the highest level from our players and I’m sure that was the same for Coach Myers,” Green said. Off the field, Myers focused on developing his players’ character and running a program that would represent Duke in the best of lights. “His legacy reaches to all his former
m. soccer from page 5 like Ryan Finley wreaking havoc and scoring goals.” Despite the individual recognition he is receiving, Finley stresses that his personal accolades are a reflection of his teammates’ strong play. He noted his satisfaction with Duke’s play recently, and was particularly proud of its resilient effort against Davidson Tuesday, despite the team’s tough 2-0 loss to Maryland before it faced the Wildcats. “After our loss against Maryland… some people might have thought we should have won that game,” Finley said. “There are two ways we could have come out of that game. We could have come out on Tuesday… and had a bad game, but I think it shows a lot about our team that we came out and had a dominating performance. It could definitely be a turning point in the season.” Although N.C. State is known for its defensive inefficiencies, the offensive unit
day at 2:00 p.m. for a matchup with Clemson (5-7-0, 0-4-0). Church said he is expecting to see a lot more confidence from the team on Sunday. “Nobody is dropping their heads and nobody is quitting,” he said. “We are still here together and we are going to get through this.” players who he raised and instilled values in while at Duke,” Castleforte said. “He was focused on building us in golf and as people.” With this in mind, Duke will look to win not only for the sake of winning but also to honor its former coach’s legacy. If the past is any indication, they should have a decent shot. The Blue Devils have won nine of the 37 times they have hosted, including four of the last six. “I think more than anything, having the community, university, Nancy Myers and the family be excited about hosting a tournament in Rod’s memory, that’s the greatest thing of all,” Green said. Ultimately, the athletic office hopes that memorializing Myers’ name will ensure that his legacy of success—both on and off the course—will not be forgotten. “If you make a list [of] the things you want in a coach, you’re describing Rod Myers,” Kennedy said. “The kind of program he established, the way he treated people, you want to keep that alive.” leads the ACC with 2.40 goals per game and 2.60 assists per game. Unlike Duke’s attack, which features the hot-footed Finley, the Wolfpack is known for its balanced offense that has five players who have scored three or more goals. “We just have to be sharp... and make sure their weapons are neutralized,” Kerr said. “We just have to come to play.” After their game Friday, the Blue Devils will finish out the season against six straight unranked opponents, three of them outside the conference. Duke, with its recent strong play, has a legitimate chance to run the table the rest of season and enter the ACC Tournament riding a large wave of confidence. “We’ve made some huge strides since the beginning of the season,” Kerr said. “We’re still altering the lineup here and there, mostly due to injuries. But we’re getting there. We’re really improving every day. And that was the goal throughout the season—to improve every day.”
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he Duke Conversations program, for those presentation and program, which still fulfills the unfamiliar with it, affords students the oppor- goal of Duke Conversations anyway. tunity to apply for the funding necessary to However, simple solutions such as these are putbring speakers that catch their interest to campus. ting the fix on a problem that seems to be garnering The funding goes toward the travel too much focus instead of concenand accommodations of the guest, trating on improvement itself. This who during his brief stay will host a cacould most likely be accomplished sual Dinner Dialogue with up to 16 stuthrough a more extensive advertisdents as well as a more structured Coming campaign concerning Duke munity Hour devoted to the speaker’s Conversations. After all, there must story and craft. The program, needless be some reason that the number of to say, allows for intimate interactions Duke Conversations went from 85 that cater directly to the interests of one year to 11 the next, and it is chris bassil the students involved. highly unlikely that some sort of just a minute Unfortunately, the University has general shift in student body disdecided to cancel the program, at position is responsible for such a least for the academic year. In a recent report by drastic decline. It is preposterous to suggest that The Chronicle, Dean and Vice Provost of Under- the entire student body is aware of the existence graduate Education Steve Nowicki claimed that “it of a program that allows them, at no charge and was a lot of money; it just wasn’t doing what it was with little red tape, to bring whomever they want to hoped to originally accomplish.” Of course, he also Duke’s campus in an intimate, small group setting, stated that the temporary elimination of the pro- but are simply disinterested. Perhaps not every stugram, which ran up a tab to the tune of $100,000 dent’s speaker of choice would be entirely in keeplast year, wasn’t a “cost-cutting measure.... it’s mar- ing with the intended goal of Duke Conversations, ginal savings.” but there must be more than 11 worthy causes out The contradiction inherent in citing expendi- of over 6,000 students. ture as a reason for elimination while at the same It is possible that I am wrong, and that Duke Contime undermining the figure of that expenditure versations is in some way a largely flawed program seems to suggest that the problem with Duke Con- that attracts dishonesty more heavily than scholarly versations, at least for the administration, lies more curiosity. My contention, though, is that the prowith its failure to achieve its goals. This notion is gram is actually suffering from the same downfalls buttressed by the fact that a 2008 review committee as the previously hampered Flunch program (which for the program, which has seen the number of con- has now thankfully been re-expanded). Instead of versations drop from 85 two years ago to just 11 last cutting back on the program, the University should year, discovered that some students were attempting seek to expand student awareness of it and to moto abuse the system by using the funding to invite bilize the student body to embrace it. Not only will back friends who had recently graduated. this result in greater success for the program, but Although this sort of misuse of University fund- heavy competition in Duke Conversations applicaing should certainly raise eyebrows, it should not tions will also put a de facto end to funding abuse be responsible for even a temporary elimination of in a way that regulation cannot. a program with such potential value for students. Hopefully, the student body will see the return It’s difficult to believe that whoever is reviewing the of the Duke Conversations program next year, if not applications to the program cannot be vested with sooner. Perhaps the coverage that will run in the paenough investigative power to easily ensure against per will be advertisement enough to renew student such abuses in the future. Furthermore, it is not interest but, if not, then the administration should unreasonable to suggest that Duke Conversations have other means of spreading awareness in place. It could eradicate this kind of misuse by requiring would be a shame to see a program with such potenan official’s silent presence at the Dinner Dialogue tial for student and University enrichment go to waste and the Community Hour. Advertisement of such as a result of ill-conceived correction measures and a measure would most likely either deter any stu- stillborn thought processes. dents seeking to game the system or would force their alumni friends to earn their brief stay back Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs at the school by putting together a comprehensive every Friday.
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Building to LEED
nce the medical part of the ho- ing the passage of the Volstead Act and micide autopsy was completed, the ratification of the 18th Amendment or at least the part that involved in 1919 is correctly viewed as one of this the documentation and classification country’s most ridiculous and counterof injuries, the evisceration of the body productive eras. Well-intentioned to and macroscopic inspecprotect families and sotion of the internal organs, ciety from alcohol abuse, the remainder of the proProhibition had the net cedure for those charged effect of engendering a with the investigation of the rampant underground whys and wherefores of the importation of alcohol newly dead was an exercise from Mexico, Canada in paperwork. and the Caribbean, acAnd possibly its most teby a burthomas sporn companied dious component was the geoning and violent ortable for one submission of evidence to ganized crime network law enforcement: the buland endemic corruption lets, the decedent’s clothing and person- at the police and government level. Exal effects, the blood standards, all neatly ceptions were made for the medicinal tagged, bagged, signed and sealed and use of alcohol, its use for religious puraffixed to a Chain of Custody form. The poses and limited amounts of beer, hard police jurisdiction handling the case cider and wine as home brews. would send a detective to pick up the Similar to the modern prohibition items and review the findings with the on recreational drugs, Prohibition enpathologist. One morning at the state joyed support from a diverse number of medical examiner’s office, an example groups, encompassing the radical right of “multiple multiples”—multiple vic- (including the Klan), religious groups tims with multiple gunshot wounds— and contemporary puritanical as well as took center stage. progressive factions and politicians from I had spent the morning tracking both sides of the aisle. An abject failure, and documenting entry and exit gun- Prohibition was repealed with the passage shot wounds, digging copper-jacketed of the 21st Amendment in 1933. 9 mm bullets out of the bodies and July 2009 marked the 40th annivertaking photographs to show in court. sary of President Richard Nixon’s decThese were typical victims from a typi- laration of the War on Drugs, and the cal scenario: a blighted area known for view from the trenches is that it, too, drug trafficking from some nondescript has been a colossal and monstrously town; the law and medical examiner expensive failure on all social and pocalled to confer order and explanation litical fronts. The similarities between to the chaos and body count of young the current War on Drugs and the men amidst the scattered shell casings, feckless prohibition of Demon Rum broken glass and blood spilled onto the are staggering, but the stakes and the sidewalk. miseries are greater today. The War Turning over the evidence to a de- has depleted our financial resources. tective, I asked, so what was that all In his report “The Budgetary Implicaabout? Just drugs, doc, he shrugged. tions of Drug Prohibition,” Harvard All the violent crime down our way is economist J.A. Miron estimates $44 somehow tied to drugs. People getting billion per year are spent on financing crossways with each other over buying, the world’s highest incarceration rates, selling or running drugs. Robbing and inept interdiction and lame social prokilling to get money to buy drugs and grams (DARE, “Just Say No”). The war pay off drug debts. has facilitated a global expansion of I believed him. organized crime and created fabulous Twenty-five years ago, I watched wealth. Simple economics: Interdicdrugs destroy the heart of my native tion raises prices and increases profit Washington D.C., and drugs are kill- margins. The drug trade is on its way to ing North Carolina. Where do all the destabilizing Mexico as well as Central drugs come from? According to the and South America. Our neighbors to Drug Enforcement Administration, the South beg for help, their countries most cocaine is transported in pow- wracked by skyrocketing violence as der form into the state and distributed criminals vie to supply drugs to the inwholesale by drug cartels from south of satiable U.S. market. The answer lies in the border aided by their white, black legalization, taxation and societal help and Caribbean national rivals, as well for the substance abuser. as outlaw motorcycle gangs. The vast I despise drugs. No responsible indimajority of powder cocaine is convert- vidual could ever advocate their usage, ed to crack and used by predominantly and the last thing our society needs is lower-income individuals in both ur- more ways and means to intoxicate itban and rural settings. The affluent use self. But the cat is long since out of the both powder cocaine and, to a lesser bag and America collectively possesses extent, crack. the most enormous appetite for illicit The vast majority of drug-related drugs and the greatest number of subfederal sentences in this state are for stance abusers on the planet. The monoffenses related to cocaine. Marijuana, ey spent on failed interdiction would another prevalent drug in this state, is be better spent on studying why that is cultivated from the swamps along the so, and fixing it. coast to the Appalachian Mountains and The tragedy is that our nation and its its exotic hydroponic strains are grown leadership lack the resolve to make that indoors. There is no end to the supply happen, to end this bloody and unwinof drugs, and any illegality provides no nable war. serious deterrent to their usage. The prohibition-interdiction-incarDr. Thomas Sporn is an associate professor ceration model has a sorry history in the in the Department of Pathology. His column U.S. The period of Prohibition follow- runs every other Friday.
work in a building on campus. He’s Initiative presented a plan to the Board a mean dude. He swallows me whole of Trustees in 2003, which stated that “all to a quiet place in his bowels, then new construction meets green standards.” hums and belches air in my face all day. Why LEED? Alternative rating systems He can’t decide if it should be hot or include Energy Star and Green Globes. cold, though in the interior, it’s usually And, LEED is based on the successful cold. Sometimes the heater is on, even and older BREEAM system developed in though it’s summer. the United Kingdom, a My building has a neighsystem that has been adbor, and she is clean and opted in several other forbright, full of daylight, with eign countries. LEED has signs pointing toward the rethe credibility of being cycling bins and motion senthe most popular framesors on the lights. work in use in the United I don’t work in a LEED States, and there is a clear building. But the building next to having credliz bloomhardt advantage door is a LEED Silver certified ibility in the marketplace. green devil building. It has a plaque. LEED is also a memberLEED distinguishes more driven, consensus-based than just old versus new, standard, so while it has plaque versus no plaque. So, what is LEED? evolved over time, the advantage for users And what does a silver building have that is the ability to provide input. mine doesn’t? How strong was the University’s comLEED (Leadership in Energy and Envi- mitment? With the backing of the Board ronmental Design) was developed by the and Executive Vice President Tallman U.S. Green Building Council, a national Trask, a level of Silver certification was set nonprofit, member organization. There as the goal for future projects, while all are currently nine LEED rating systems, projects aim for certification. and each provides a framework and nuIn terms of points, a certified project merical score to evaluate green buildings must achieve 40-plus points—fairly easy and developments. to achieve according to the LEED profesSo, in one sense, LEED is a checklist. sionals I spoke with based on prerequisite Points are awarded for meeting criteria in requirements and meeting building codes categories including water efficiency, en- and minimum standards; a silver-certified ergy efficiency, access to public and alter- project must achieve 50-plus points. native transportation, indoor air quality, By all accounts, the timing of the Unireduction of construction waste, use of versity’s commitment was good. A spate sustainable materials and resources and of building projects in the last seven innovation. In the latest version, LEED years has resulted in a total of 17 certified projects can earn up to 110 points (10 bo- buildings on campus, including one gold, nus points are available for achievement one platinum and seven silver buildings, in Innovation & Design and Regional Pri- while another 10 projects are registered ority) and are awarded levels of certifica- for certification. tion based on the total number of points I asked Associate Vice President of received. For example, the highest rating, Facilities John Noonan in an e-mail how Platinum, requires projects to score at the LEED policy benefits Duke from a faleast 80 points. In grade terms, that trans- cilities perspective. He wrote, “Generally, lates to a B, but in reality, achieving that our LEED buildings feature products and many points can be difficult. systems that have a longer life cycle resultBeyond points, LEED provides a de- ing in lower maintenance and renewal sign team with a framework for weighing costs,” and our LEED standards “generdifferent sustainable building practices ally result in buildings that use less energy and incorporating different strategies and water which translates into lower opinto a design. For instance, USGBC offers erational costs.” training and certification in LEED design Generally, I don’t like that we have principles and practices to professionals, to speak generally. Measurably would something that is not offered through be better. traditional architectural curricula. USGThe achievement of the goal of silver BC then provides third-party verification certification on such a large number of on the project’s achievement. projects is commendable, but the question According to the Sustainable Duke remains, are we doing enough? And is the website, in 1993–five years before USGBC University getting the most out of its comcame into existence—the University ad- mitment? opted a set of Design Guidelines under the Buildings Initiative, which included a Liz Bloomhardt is a fourth-year graduate commitment to sustainable development student in mechanical engineering. Her colprinciples. The documents have been pe- umn runs every other Friday. This is the first of riodically revised to include language spe- a two-part series on Duke’s LEED commitment. cifically relating to LEED. Specifically, the Part II will explore the future direction of the newly formed Duke University Greening University’s LEED policy.
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A guide to buying, renting and furnishing a home or apartment for Duke University and Medical Center. Week of October 8, 2010