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Mayer discusses CIA interrogation tactics

by Praveen Tummalapalli THE CHRONICLE

Prize-winning investigative journalist Jane Mayer spoke in the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday night about covering the war on terror.

Mayer said she began investigating the legality and effectiveness of extraordinary rendition—in which prisoners are transferred to other countries—after she became aware that the practice was being used by the CIA to torture prisoners. During her reporting, she was surprised to find numerous military and FBI officials opposed to the use of renditions and torture, she said.

In fact, one of the first experts Mayer interviewed on the subject was Dan Coleman, an FBI agent who worked with the CIA’s bin Laden unit and was vehemently opposed to the practice. According to Mayer, Coleman told her that torture would yield bad information because prisoners were willing to say anything to stop the interrogations.

Mayer’s appearance, presented as a discussion between her and Philip Bennett, Eugene C. Patterson professor of the practice of journalism and public policy and former managing editor of The Washington Post, was this year’s Ewing Lecture on Ethics. The discussion centered on her coverage of the war on terror and the legally and ethically questionable actions committed by the CIA and the administration of former President George W. Bush. Mayer is a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine See mayer on page 7

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

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Jane Mayer spoke at the Sanford School of Public Policy Monday. The investigative journalist offered her thoughts on the war on terror and disputed the effectiveness of FBI and CIA interrogation tactics.

DUke University student dining advisory committee

Plate & Pitchfork adds new menu options

by Ray Koh

THE CHRONICLE

Plate & Pitchfork revamped its menu in an effort to attract more students to the restaurant, adding 10 new items to its menu.

At its meeting Monday night, the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee sampled the eatery’s new food and discussed ways in which the venue could further improve the dining experience.

“We are listening to students and taking in suggestions and advice,” said Plate & Pitchfork pastry chef Amelia Lindsey. “We want to make sure students feel comfortable and taken care of.”

The Faculty Commons becomes Plate & Pitchfork during dinner hours and is open Monday through Friday. The restaurant promotes healthy and locally grown dining options. Lindsey noted that the restaurant’s meat is freshly ground and from local areas, adding that Plate & Pitchfork provides gluten-free and vegan choices.

The dishes DUSDAC members sampled included pork buns, two different pizzas, vegan stuffed pumpkin and various desserts.

The restaurant’s new menu items include an appetizer, six main menu dishes and three desserts. New dishes include a seared salmon hotpot, braised beef short ribs and a seafood pasta

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bowl. Pumpkin chocolate chip bread pudding and vegan apple crisp are two of the new desserts.

In addition to tasting the food, committee members gave a number of suggestions to improve Plate & Pitchfork’s visibility among Duke students. DUSDAC co-Chair Alex Klein, a senior and former online editor for The Chronicle, recommended that the group provide suggestions for new ways to advertise.

Members noted that although the food is high-quality, many students are not especially familiar with Plate & Pitchfork. The committee noted the importance of prominent signs bringing attention to the new menu.

Franca Alphin, director of nutrition services at Student Health, suggested that Plate & Pitchfork focus on a signature dish with a name that could spread among students.

The committee also recognized the positive effect that serving beer, liquor and cocktails could have on the restaurant’s business.

DUSDAC dedicated its meeting to Drew Everson, a senior who passed away Saturday after sustaining severe head and body trauma from an accidental fall. Everson served as Campus Council liaison for the group last year. At the start of the meeting, Klein and rest of the committee members held a moment of silence for Everson.

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“[The park] is intended to foster Franklin’s approach to history: acknowledge the past, learn from it and look to the future.”

­—Tulsa officials on John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park. See story page 3

The house model is not the only residential reform in Duke’s near future: RoomPicks may offer gender-neutral and coed housing options as soon as 2011.

Campus Council recommended policies for Residence Life and Housing Services to review at its last meeting Thursday. Genderneutral housing will allow male and female students to live in the same apartment on Central Campus. Coed housing allows males to live next to females with singlegender bathrooms.

RLHS will consider the proposals immediately, said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean of residence life.

“We’ll begin the discussion [Tuesday],” Gonzalez said. “[This] is a topic we are genuinely interested in supporting, but now comes the real conversation to formalize our support level. I’m hopeful that we will be able to respond fairly quickly.”

Participants in gender-neutral housing would be placed in the same housing lottery as all other Central residents, according to the policy proposals.

Coed housing is currently proposed as a small, opt-in program on West Campus, similar to the Women’s Housing Option and the Wellness Community. If passed, coed housing will likely be offered in See housing on page 7

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RLHS will begin considering new proposals for gender- neutral and coed housing options.

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“With their final possession, the women had the ball in the hands of Chelsea Gray who had the ball stripped from her, giving the men a 27-26 victory. It should be noted that the women were clearly exploited with out their inside presence Krystal Thomas in the game, so hopefully for the Blue Devils the injury is not serious. ’” — From The Chronicle Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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A storm last week finally sank the last house on a historic Chesapeake Bay Island. Former minister Stephen White has been trying to hold back the waters for 15 years but finally gave up last week.The two-story victorian sank due to rising oceans and sinking land on the island. Rising waters have effected the Chesapeake Bay more than other regions.The house was built in 1888 and one of 60 houses on the once three-mile island.

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Some Virginia Gun Dealers Karzai Discredits Security Have a Bad Record Firms in Afghanistan WASHINGTON — Outside an Ace Hardware in Lynchburg, Va., a teen paid a man $70 to buy a Hi-Point handgun for him in April 2008. Seven days later, the teen’s gang stormed a gas mart, shot the clerk in the head and fled with wads of bloody cash.

These three guns tell part of the hidden story of how firearms move from gun dealers to crime scenes across Virginia.

A year-long Washington Post investigation broke through the congressionally imposed secrecy surrounding federal gun tracing and, for the first time, has identified the dealers that sell the majority of “crime guns” in Virginia. There have been thousands of firearms dealers licensed in the state since 1998, but 60 percent of the 6,800 guns sold in Virginia in that time and later seized by police can be traced to just 40 dealers. The merchants include mom-andpop gun shops, inner-city pawn dealers and suburban sporting-goods outlets.

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KANDAHAR,Afghanistan — The confrontation between President Hamid Karzai and the NATO coalition over the fate of private security companies accelerated Monday as Karzai lashed out again about the damaging role the hired guns play in Afghanistan.

Karzai has come under intense pressure to back down from his intention to ban private guards from protecting development projects in Afghanistan, including a call from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as U.S. officials have warned that the ban could shut down billions of dollars in programs and put thousands of Afghans out of work.

Behind the scenes, foreign diplomats have been working furiously to forge some face-saving compromise that allows Karzai to phase out the private security companies over time while not jeopardizing a key component of NATO’s counter-insurgency strategy.

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DUPD releases Franklin’s memorial park set to open sketch of suspect in Jarvis robbery from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

The Duke University Police Department released a composite sketch Monday of the man who attempted to rob a female student Oct. 9 near Jarvis Dormitory on East Campus.

DUPD is asking members of the public to contact investigators if they recognize the man and know his name or location. The suspect is described as a Hispanic male between 18 and 25 years old and weighing between 150 and 160 pounds. He was described as between 5-foot-4 See sketch on page 7

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After nearly a decade of discussion, planning and development, the park located in Tulsa, Okla., commemorating the late John Hope Franklin—one of America’s most prominent African American historians—will formally open Wednesday, according to a Tulsa World release.

John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park was also built in memory of the dozens who died and hundreds who were injured in the Tulsa race riot of 1921.

The riot, fueled by previous racial tension, occurred in Tulsa’s historic Greenwood District after a black man was accused of assaulting a white woman in an elevator. Fires from the riot left thousands homeless and penniless, the release said.

The park features two sculptures by artist Ed Dwight and several “story boards” describing Greenwood District and the 1921 race riot, the release noted. “[The park] is intended to foster Franklin’s approach to history: acknowledge the past, learn from it and look to the future,” officials told Tulsa World.

The release also stated that long-term plans for the park include a research library and a conference center, which will host national and local events “focused on community understanding.”

Franklin, a James B. Duke professor emeritus of history, was the namesake for The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, which opened in 2000 to celebrate his ideals.

Franklin spent more than 30 years at Duke, but he grew up in Tulsa and his family essentially lost everything during the 1921 riot, according to Franklin’s obituary in the Washington Post. He went on to attend Fisk University and Harvard University and taught at several other institutions in addition to Duke, including Howard University and University of Chicago.

Franklin specialized in African-American history and the role of race in the United States. Some of his most notable publications include “From Slavery to Freedom,” “The Militant South” and “A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Antebellum North.”

He also earned an array of honors such as the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Organization of American

Historians’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. He was also an adviser to Thurgood Marshall’s legal team in the momentous Brown v. Board of Education case that helped end segregation.

Franklin died from congestive heart failure at the age of 94 in Durham, N.C. —from staff reports

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John Hope Franklin Reconciliation Park will open Wednesday in Tulsa, Okla.

The park was also built in memory of those who died in the Tulsa riots of 1921.

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Sarkozy pays heavy price for doing ‘dirty work’

by Gregory Viscusi and Helene Fouquet Bloomberg news

PARIS—When Nicolas Sarkozy was running for president, he promised to be a new type of French leader: more involved and less aloof.

Once elected in 2007, he set up a Facebook page that details movies he’s seen and his comments on sporting events. He created a “war room” within his office to push for export contracts, even though the Trade Ministry is charged with that.

Now this hands-on style is backfiring.

Sarkozy, 55, is taking the brunt of voter discontent over France’s wave of strikes and demonstrations against raising the retirement age, the country’s 9.7 percent jobless rate and a law limiting taxes for the wealthy.

“There is no prime minister or other minister who is out there on the front line for him,” said Nicolas Tenzer, a former member of France’s state planning board and author of a book called “France: The Impossible Reform?” “Sarkozy crystallizes all the passion and maybe the hatred on himself.”

Final parliamentary approval of a controversial pension bill should be completed

by Wednesday, a day before unions hold their fifth national strike. France’s refineries have been on strike for 10 days and about a quarter of service stations are dry.

The strikes are costing the French economy between $142 million and $285 million a day and are hurting France’s image overseas, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said Monday.

Sarkozy’s unpopularity -- almost seven

in 10 respondents disapproved of his performance in a recent poll -- is curbing his agenda. In March, after his party suffered losses in regional elections, Sarkozy was forced to scrap a pledged tax on carbon emissions that would have raised $2.1 billion a year. A promised “Marshall Plan” for France’s violence-plagued suburbs also never materialized.

The president’s poll ratings are as much as 26 points below those of his prime minister, Francois Fillon. Sarkozy doesn’t have the same buffers as predecessors Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, who fired unpopular prime ministers when times got rough.

“Traditionally in France, the prime minister did the dirty work, and when he stunk too much the president threw him out,” said David Bell, professor of French government and politics at the University of Leeds in Britain. “This time it’s different because Sarkozy has put himself out in front of the government.”

Sarkozy has announced all his government’s main policies himself, from the pension changes to a crackdown on illegal Roma camps. He travels weekly to provincial towns and lays out new policies dealing with education, agriculture or industry. On Sept. 24, he went to a work site near Paris to announce a new Metro line to serve a university campus under construction.

Sixty-nine percent of those questioned in a BVA poll published in L’Express magazine Tuesday said they disapprove of Sarkozy, making him the most unpopular president since the Paris-based institute started polling in 1981. The poll questioned 962 people and no margin of error

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A poll published Sunday by the Ifop firm commissioned for the newspaper Journal du Dimanche said his approval rating fell to 29 percent this month from 32 percent in September, the lowest since his May 2007 election. Paris-based Ifop called 1,828 respondents aged 18 and over between Oct. 14 and 22. No margin of error was given.

Sarkozy’s signature legislative measure, raising the minimum retirement age, has led to four national strikes in the past two months. Unions voted Oct. 21 to call two more days of protests in coming weeks.

The export office also hasn’t been a big success. France lost a tender in December 2009 to sell nuclear reactors to the United Arab Emirates. London-based Eurostar Group Ltd. chose Germany’s Siemens AG trains over France’s Alstom SA. Sarkozy personally announced the retirement measure on June 15, appeared in a television interview July 12 to defend it, and has spoken about it during his trips around the country. On Sept. 14 he spent 20 minutes explaining it to a group of construction workers south of Paris.

The president has repeatedly vowed not to retreat on the bill. One out of 10 pensions is paid for through government borrowing and the state pension fund will lose $15 billion this year. The shortfall will reach $70 billion in 2020 without a change in policy, according to the Budget Ministry.

“This reform had been postponed for too long and the deadline couldn’t be pushed further anymore,” Sarkozy said at a press conference in Deauville on Oct. 19.

It may be too late for Sarkozy’s Union for a Popular Movement party to win back swing voters ahead of elections in 2012, said BVA poll director Gael Sliman.

“His party’s traditional voters will stick to him, but all potential others are likely to go for whoever the other will be,” Sliman said. “This reform will certainly become a handicap.”

Sarkozy may still be able to rebound.

The opposition Socialist Party is divided over whom to nominate in 2012.

In the near term, the government is counting on school vacations running into early November to cool the demonstrations, and on the behavior of protesters to turn public opinion against them: Strikers have blocked access to airports and youths have battled police and broken windows.

France takes over the presidency of the Group of 20 nations next month, giving Sarkozy an international stage to push issues popular with French voters, such as regulating financial markets and challenging the dollar’s reserve status.

Sarkozy advertised his approach to governing in a book, “Testimony,” published the year before he was elected. Mitterrand and Chirac, he wrote, “were statesman who focused more on history and French traditions than on reforming France. My focus as president will be on what I want to build.”

Such a style was always inherently risky if things went bad, said Jim Shields, who holds the chair in French at Aston University in Birmingham, England. “By maximizing his personal authority, he has also maximized his personal responsibility.”

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Ohio voters may boot governor trying to retool economy

by Lisa Lerer

Bloomberg News

UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio—Gov. Ted Strickland sees the future of Ohio reflected in 159,000 gleaming solar panels nestled between fields and factories outside Upper Sandusky.

The 84-acre solar farm is the product of months of negotiations between developers, utilities and state agencies.

The panels were made by First Solar Inc. in its Perrysburg plant 60 miles away, and 80 people spent seven months building the facility. Now, it’s producing power for some 9,000 homes -- and employing three full-time maintenance people.

Democrat Strickland has sought to retool Ohio’s economy by focusing on renewable energy, biotechnology and aerospace. But that future-oriented plan is colliding with the reality of this election season: a 10 percent state jobless rate that tops the national average. As a result, he’s struggling to fend off a challenge by Republican John Kasich to win a second term.

“The solar plant isn’t putting food on the table for the people that need it,” said Upper Sandusky Mayor Scott Washburn, who has watched a dozen companies including auto-parts makers dismiss almost 1,400 workers over the last six years in his town of about 6,700 people in northcentral Ohio. “We’re still left with all these people without jobs.”

In surrounding Wyandot County, the number of those on food stamps grew by a third in 2009, according to Ohio’s Department of Job and Family Services. Washburn, 37, an independent, said his town collects about $1 million less in income taxes than five years ago.

“A job 10 years down the line doesn’t mean anything,” said Thomas Bennett, director of the county’s Department of Job and Family Services. “We have needs now.”

Economists say there’s little that Strickland, Kasich or other policy makers can do in the short term to stop the bleeding. What will help Ohio, they say, are investments in education to develop technology and attract scientific and business talent.

“Politicians arrive on the scene and say they’ve got the fix,” said Guhan Venkatu, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. “The problem is you have these longer-term trends that are overwhelming what policy makers can do.”

Manufacturing employment in the state has declined every year since 2000, with 400,000 jobs lost, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Overall employment has fallen each year since 2005, the data shows. New building permits fell more than 45 percent from January 2007 to August of this year. And the extra cost Ohio pays over top-rated debt on general obligation bonds has almost doubled since the beginning of 2010, according to the data.

While there are signs of recovery — the unemployment rate has dropped for six straight months — Strickland, 69, may pay the price for the economy’s weakness. Public opinion polls have consistently shown Kasich leading, though a poll commissioned by the Ohio Newspaper Organization shows his lead at just 2 percentage points, 49 percent to 47 percent. The poll, conducted Oct. 14-18, has a margin of error of 3.3 points.

“I didn’t cause the recession,” Strickland, who became the first Democrat elected governor of Ohio since 1986, told a crowd on Oct. 14 at a parts-manufacturing plant in Springfield. “The recession was caused by mismanagement in Washington and shenanigans on Wall Street.”

Strickland argues that he helped stem the bleeding by reducing business taxes, erasing many state regulations, and encouraging universities to develop new technologies in areas like alternative energy and biotechnology.

The race has become as much a referendum on his four years in office as on Barack Obama’s presidency. On Oct. 17, Obama made his 11th trip to Ohio as president to campaign for Strickland in this battleground state, which has voted for every winning presidential candidate since 1964.

“We have gone through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, so when times are that difficult, elections are going to be difficult,” Obama told donors in Cleveland.

Strickland, the son of a steelworker who grew up in such hardship that he once said his family had to briefly stay in a chicken coop after a fire damaged their house, says his administration is laying the foundation for a new economy.

He points to projects like the 500 wind turbines approved in the state and legislation that mandates 25 percent of energy sold in Ohio by 2025 be from alternative sources.

“There will come a day when Ohio will be the undisputed home of advanced energy,” the governor, who has served as a Methodist minister and a prison psychologist, said in his state-

of-the-state address in January.

Kasich, 58, is promising a return to past prosperity, pledging to restore the economy through industries such as coal and to put the state on a more fiscally sustainable path.

“Small-town Ohio, rural Ohio is the heartbeat of Ohio,” Kasich told an audience on Oct. 16 gathered in a barn in Gallipolis, a town of 4,000.

Kasich blames Strickland for the loss of 400,000 jobs since the start of his administration. He said his own plan to phase out Ohio’s income tax, which last year accounted for about 34 percent of state revenue, will attract companies and spur growth.

The former nine-term congressman says he would cut spending and replace the economic-promotion functions of the Ohio Department of Development with a not-forprofit corporation governed by business executives. As House Budget Committee chairman in 1997, Kasich

helped shape the first balanced federal budget since, as he put it, “Man walked on the moon” in 1969.

He left the House, then became a Fox News commentator and managing director at Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., whose 2008 collapse triggered the financial crisis.

Kasich, the son of a mailman, takes a more critical view of renewable energy, raising concerns that it will increase costs for manufacturers and farmers.

“Alternative energy is important, but it’s a small industry right now,” he said in an interview. “We need to concentrate on the things we know how to do.”

In the nine years that Bennett of the Department of Job and Family Services has lived in the town, he’s seen two carpet stores, an appliance shop, a shoe store, a lumber company, a restaurant and a grocery shut down.

In nearby Marion Centre shopping mall, half the 35 stores are shuttered, filled with empty display cases and dust-bunnies.

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Obama admin starts anti-bullying campaign in schools

by Nick Anderson The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Obama administration is launching a campaign to prevent anti-gay bullying and other harassment at school, advising educators that federal law protects students from many forms of discrimination.

The advisory from the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, to be made public Tuesday, does not break new legal ground, officials said. But the officials described it as the federal government’s most comprehensive guidance to date on how civil rights law applies to the sort of campus situations that in some cases have led persecuted students to commit suicide. President Barack Obama is expected to help promote the initiative.

“We’ve got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage,” Obama said in a video posted last week on the White House Web site.

“Our goal here is to provide school districts, colleges and universities with details about when harassment can rise to the level of a civil rights violation and what they should be doing about it,” Russlynn Ali, assistant education secretary for civil rights, said Monday. Ali wrote the advisory.

As an example, Ali noted in the advisory that a gay student might withdraw from school activities after being subjected to anti-gay slurs and other intimidation. If the school reprimands the perpetrators to stop the bullying, her advisory said, that would not necessarily be enough to ensure that students are free from harassment based on gender stereotypes.

“The school had an obligation to take immediate and effective action to eliminate the hostile environment,” Ali wrote.

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Plate & Pitchfork recently updated its menu items in an effort to attract more students to the restaurant. DUSDAC met to sample the new items as well as discuss new ways of bringing in more students. The meeting was dedicated to Drew Everson, who served as Campus Council liaison last year.

dusdac from page 1 Klein noted that Everson “meant a whole lot to DUSDAC” despite coming in at a time when the committee’s members did not necessarily want to include a Campus Council member. He called Everson the best liaison he could have asked for and someone who created a deep bond between the two organizations.

In other business: Additionally, DUSDAC will host a table at the Clock Tower Quad on Friday for Foodweek from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m.

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Mayer from page 1 and recently wrote a book about the war on terror titled “The Dark Side.”

Mayer discussed the difficulties involved in her investigations, stating that the refusals of CIA and government officials to comment on the issues made her reporting a challenge. It was not until the release of pictures of detainees being tortured at Abu Ghraib, an American military prison in Iraq, that government officials were emboldened to comment on the practices and be more openly critical, she said.

“I think Abu Ghraib was the turning point in a lot of ways,” she explained. “I’m sorry to say as someone who works with words that when you look at pictures, it makes things more real to people.”

Mayer eventually reported on the CIA’s development of an extensive and sophisticated program of torture. She explained that military psychologists involved in direct-

housing from page 1 several locations throughout West Campus, Gonzalez said. RLHS hopes to organize the program in such a way that students choose to participate for reasons beyond the housing’s location.

“Clearly we prefer for the community program itself to appeal to students versus the location of the program,” Gonzalez said. “Just by the geography of our buildings, some areas [are] coed already—we have to see what architecture best allows for coed housing to determine how far to pursue it.”

“A more open place” The goal of the policies is to provide students with the sort of housing experience that they want, said Steve Nowicki, dean and

sketch from page 3 and 5-foot-6 and was wearing blue jeans, a green baseball cap and a dark blue American Eagle hoodie at the time of the crime.

The University sent a DukeAlert at approximately 5 a.m. the day of the attempted robbery. The alert noted that the suspect told the student he had a gun and demanded her purse. After he walked her to the side of building closest to Campus Drive, however, the student was able to run free.

The DukeAlert was sent as part of the federal Clery Act, which requires DUPD to

ing Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape—a program that trains soldiers to survive and resist hostile situations­, including torture– were being consulted on how to “psychically demolish” detainees by using techniques such as waterboarding as well as more subtle methods, such as playing unpleasant sounds.

“The experts who had been trained on fighting torture had become the experts on designing torture,” she said.

Mayer said she believes that questioning whether torture is justified if it helps to save lives is a false dilemma.

Indeed, according to Mayer, the FBI and the military knew that torture was not only an ineffective means to obtain accurate information, but also led to negative sentiments regarding the United States. However, she said, members of the CIA had little interrogation experience and truly believed in the necessity of their actions.

Mayer added that these techniques were “designed in desperation by frightened officials who didn’t know what to do.”

Reporting on the issue was important because it gave

vice provost for undergraduate education.

Nowicki called the logistical decisions that RLHS will have to make manageable and noted that this sort of program is common among schools in the Northeast.

“I think this is a great idea,” he said. “To tell the truth, this is commonplace on college campuses—I was living in a true coed dorm in 1974.”

Gender-neutral policies will probably be beneficial in the transition to the house model, Nowicki said, adding that houses will to an extent have self-governance.

“In general, more freedom and fewer arbitrary rules is a good thing,” he said. “I would expect the typical house to be coed and if that distribution is room-by-room or floor-by-floor—[it’s up to the students.]”

The new proposals would broaden options for students, Gonzalez said, catering to the specific needs of certain students in

provide timely crime alerts to members of the Duke community.

The incident has been recorded as first degree kidnapping, armed robbery and assault on a female, according to DUPD’s website. A person is guilty of first-degree kidnapping if the individual kidnapped “either was not released by the defendant in a safe place or had been seriously injured or sexually assaulted,” according to North Carolina general statutes.

Anyone with information pertaining to the case should contact Duke Police Investigator Christine Autry at (919) 684-6424, Durham Police at (919) 560-4427 or Durham CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200.

people information about government activity, which Mayer said is important to democracy.

“I’ve got a lot of trust in the American people and what they will do with the information,” she said. “If the reaction to what the government is doing is this toxic, then [the government] shouldn’t be doing it. I think that’s the answer.”

Though many of the topics discussed were addressed in “The Dark Side,” sophomore Fei Chen said she appreciated Mayer’s insight beyond what was written in the book.

Following the discussion, members of the audience were given the chance to ask questions. John Karugia, a visiting scholar from the University of Leipzig who is originally from Kenya, asked Mayer whether she, like reporters in some other countries, ever felt threatened when questioning important officials. Mayer replied that she has never received a death threat.

“I thought it was very informative,” Karugia said of the talk. “What surprised me is that you can talk about these things so openly in the U.S.”

the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer community.

Senior Lauren Haigler, ad hoc member of Campus Council’s policy committee, spearheaded the creation of the genderneutral and coed housing policies. She said she received the input of Blue Devil United’s president, Ollie Wilson, a junior, and senior Michelle Sohn, Duke Student Government liaison for gender studies and a member of The Chronicle’s Editorial Board.

The housing policies were largely motivated by a report from the LGBTQ Life for the 2010 Committee on Gender, Sohn said.

Last Spring, the committee submitted a report to DSG, which voted to recommend that the University explore gender-neutral housing options. “[The policies are] going to make Duke a more open place and give more housing options to everyone,” Haigler wrote in an e-

mail. “It’s about accommodating everyone.”

Sohn also referenced an issue with a transgender student in 2007—when the student was forced to switch housing accommodations after complaints from students and parents—as a catalyst for the policies. Sohn added that the policies are meant to improve the residential experience of the entire Duke community.

“I can’t really say it will be attractive only to LGBTQ people or straight people,” she said. “[The] bottom line is we need housing to accommodate both men and women. We’re old enough to make a decision of how we want to live and who we want to live with.”

Wilson also noted the housing policy’s wide-spread benefits. He said it will more accurately reflect Duke’s non-discrimination policy and that it will benefit all of the University’s students.

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Carnatic singer and visiting Fulbright scholar Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam will give a free recital on Thursday, Oct. 28 in the Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building. She will be accompanied by violinist L. Ramakrishnan and mridangam player Vijay Ganesh.

Internationally recognized Odissi dancer Sujata Mohapatra will perform at the Hayti Heritage Center on Saturday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $15 general/$5 students. Odissi is a classical dance characterized by fluid movements and sculpturesque poses.

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ART. Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba, 19631964. Stryker’s black-and-white photographs of revolutionary Cuba open a window into an unsettled time in that country’s history. Through Dec. 12. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.

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6:30pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

ART. Literacy Through Photography–Arusha, Tanzania. Work from a Center for Documentary Studies project with DukeEngage students in Africa. Thru January 8, 2011. CDS Gallery. Free.

October 31 MUSIC. The Vorticists: Musical Allies. Concert inspired by the Vorticists exhibition. Featuring cellist Fred Raimi, soprano Penelope Jensen, Jane Hawkins and Randall Love on piano, and comments by musicologist Philip Rupprecht. 2:30pm. Nasher Museum Aud. Free with museum admission.

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Carrying a hidden burden How college football supports carriers of the sickle cell trait

by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE

It is an image sickening to the sports fan. A hot August day, a brutal practice, a player collapsing, never to wake again.

It is also an event that doctors think they can help prevent. According to a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, 30 years of research has indicated that athletes who possess a specific genetic trait are 10 to 30 times more likely to die during strenuous football practices. That trait—sickle cell disease—is now required testing for all NCAA athletes.

Several Duke Football athletes tested positive as carriers of the gene, and the program now structures its training to minimize the players’ risk of death. These athletes are monitored on hot days for signs of overexertion and trainers make sure they stay properly hydrated.

“Some of our best players on the team have been kids who Genetics have the sickle cell trait,” Director of Athletic Training Hap and sports: Zarzour said. “Knock on wood, we haven’t had any problems.”

Part one

A hidden ailment The Duke football players who have the sickle cell trait carry only one copy of the gene that causes the disease. Individuals who suffer from sickle cell anemia carry two copies of the gene.

In the United States, sickle cell anemia primarily affects Americans of African descent. Due to a genetic mutation, those who suffer from it have red blood cells with a rigid, sickle shape, and a decreased capacity to carry oxygen through the body.

The effects of sickle cell anemia are easily seen. And those who suffer from it typically cannot play college sports.

Carrying the trait for sickle cell, however, is a different story. Carriers do not show See sickle cell on page 12 graphic by melissa yeo/ the Chronicle

Stay classless, Crazies Apparently, Mike Krzyzewski doesn’t appreciate swearing.

He could’ve fooled me.

An e-mail sent to the K-Ville listserv last Wednesday, titled “Message from Coach K,” made a few interesting requests for the most famous student section in college basketball. Two of them, eliminating the “O” chant during the national anthem and refraining from yelling “You suck” at opposing playScott ers during the pregame introductions, seemed reasonable.

They were uncreative and should be beneficial in differentiating the Cameron Crazies from other fan bases, such as Maryland’s.

But Coach K’s other request was strange, to say the least. He gave instructions, paraphrased by head line monitor John Reynolds, for students to refrain from profanity during chants this season.

He said he wants the student section to remain “classier and more creative” than other fan bases.

Now, creativity has always been one of the defining traits of the Cameron Crazies.

Classiness? Not so much.

Rich

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Scott Rich writes that Krzyzewski’s email ignored that classlessness breeds creativity with the Crazies.

In fact, it is the fans’ classlessness that enables their creativity.

The Crazies are notorious for making fun of the legal, academic and even relationship troubles of Duke’s opponents. Remember, this is the student section which once chanted “Sean May eats babies.” They once chanted a sexual pejorative at a particularly hated referee named Richard. They were once told by those in charge of K-Ville to chant “She said ‘No’” to Wayne Ellington after he was spurned numerous times by his would-be finance, and they did.

And Coach K thinks eliminating swearing is going to make the Crazies “classier”?

Lets face it—class has no place in a college basketball student section. When the same email from Reynolds that discouraged swearing encourages researching an opponent’s romantic history, there is no class involved. If the Cameron Crazies truly wanted to be classy, their repertoire of cheers would likely be reduced to variants of “Lets Go Duke!” Any semblance of the “creativity” Krzyzewski desires would have to be thrown out the window. And the Crazies would actually cease to be “crazy” any more.

Now, lets be clear—eliminating cursSee rich on page 10

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Furman offers final test before ACC crunch time Duke faces last non-conference opponent

by Bo Triplett THE CHRONICLE

A killer instinct—one of the key components to a successful team—was lacking in Duke last Friday in an agonizing overtime defeat to Clemson.

This has been an issue for the No. 24 Blue Devils (6-4-4) all season, and it has Furman been exemplified

by Duke’s six overvs. time appearances.

No. 24 One would think Duke fatigue from this extra action might also TUESDAY, 7 p.m. negatively influence Koskinen Stadium the Blue Devils—a thought that head coach John Kerr denies, instead saying the team needs a “spark.”

Duke will look to regain that killer instinct and avoid the perils of fatigue tonight against Southern Conference opponent Furman (7-4-4) at Koskinen Stadium. Although the Blue Devils have fallen to sixth in the ACC, they remain confident moving forward due to their challenging slate.

“We have one of the more difficult schedules in the country,” Kerr said.

“Winning the next three games will put us in a good position as we finish conference play.”

Duke has shown an inability to close out games this season, partly due to a lack of production from Duke’s supporting

cast. Sophomore forward Ryan Findley has carried the Blue Devils thus far, netting five game-winners this season, the most recent coming against High Point.

Kerr said that tactical adjustments are not what the team needs at this point in the season, however, even with the need to energize other offensive playmakers.

“We need inspiration, not change,” he said.

A key piece of this attack rests on sophomore Andrew Wenger, who Duke will rely on to make the most impact on set pieces. The Blue Devils will also be looking to the return of junior Daniel Tweed-Kent as a spark of inspiration on the pitch.

Duke top performance at home—where it has only lost one game all year—will be tested by the Paladins. They are on a five game unbeaten streak, and coming off a big win against No. 25 College of Charleston Oct. 22.

One key duel in tonight’s matchup lies with the goalkeepers. Duke goalkeeper James Belshaw is coming into the game with five shutouts, while Furman goalie Alec Kann also has five clean-sheets. Kann comes into the game with confidence from the team’s recent unbeaten run— not to mention his shutout performance against College of Charleston.

But for the Blue Devils to find the net against Kann, they will need production not only from their star in Findley, but his supporting cast as well.

rich from page 9 ing from cheers is not a bad suggestion. It would prevent students from reverting to clichéd chants and instead foster new ideas from the same group that once created the “Air Ball!” chant. But it won’t make the Crazies classy.

And if you want a perfect example of the divide between vulgarity and class, look no further than Krzyzewski himself. Krzyzewski is notorious for his foul mouth on the sidelines, which often carries over into his annual pep talk for students on the eve of the North Carolina game. But if Krzyzewski were to cease swearing, would he immediately become more classy? No. He’d be classy because of his grace in both victory and defeat, and the way he has led his program without any NCAA sanctions

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The Blue Devils face Furman, which has won five straight games including a shutout over College of Charleston.

for more than three decades.

And he does all those things already, whether or not he swears.

So Crazies, take the “Message from Coach K” with a grain of salt. Eliminating the “O” chant is a good idea. So is getting rid of “You suck.” And on its own merits, ending swearing isn’t a half-bad suggestion either.

But if the Crazies want to remain original and a critical part of Duke’s home court advantage, class shouldn’t play a factor. The less class a cheer has, the more likely it is to do its job: Namely, get under the skin of the opposition and creatively distract them from the task at hand.

Classless chants are what make the Cameron Crazies the most famous student section in the land. Suggesting anything else would be, pardon my French, bull.

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The Cameron Crazies are known for inappropriate chants and at-times vulgar language—two qualities that the K-Ville listserv email dismissed, Scott Rich writes.

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sickle cell from page 9 any external signs of disease. If it were not for genetic testing, they would most likely never know they have the trait.

“These are people who are otherwise normal,” said Doriane Coleman, co-director of the Duke School of Law’s Sports and Law Center. “They are worried that they will be stigmatized for something they didn’t even know they had.”

sign a waiver instead of being tested for the trait, releasing the NCAA and Duke from any responsibility if an athlete dies.

Zarzour said he encouraged football players to be tested, and every member of the team did so.

“What you don’t want [the waiver] to be is a convenience,” he said. “‘I know I don’t have it because I’m a white male’ and that. The only time I think [not signing] would come into play is a religious or family reason.”

Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy said the NCAA did not include any rules on protection because “they tend to not get into prescribing health procedures.”

Zarzour said the lack of NCAA rules regarding players with the sickle cell trait is not a problem at Duke. He said the team adequately cares for those with the trait.

“The kids who have it here, we manage them, make sure they’re hydrated,” he said. “We educate them and explain how they need to manage it and what we need to do with them.”

Deaths spur testing Carriers of the trait are able to play high level football, An imperfect policy? generally without incident.

While the NCAA’s new policy has drawn praise, others Except, that is, when rigorous exercise and extreme point to possible flaws.

Ensuring player privacy heat cause their red blood cells to sickle, which may lead Coleman noted that, while the policy protects the Privacy is another concern. Although Zarzour said to death. In the past 10 years, at least eight college football NCAA from liability, it also does not require the university those affected are not visibly treated differently in practice, players with the sickle cell trait have passed away during or sports teams to take measures to protect players with the other issues remain. workouts. sickle cell trait.

Coleman said she is concerned that the players’ genetIncluded in that number is Florida State’s Devaughn “Does the rule do a good job addressing the concerns ic information may be shared widely or that the informaDarling. Devaughn carried the sickle cell trait and passed that led to its promulgation? It does address the liability tion may be used to discriminate against players. away after a workout on a hot day in 2001. His identical concern,” she said. “It doesn’t address the concerns of the “Will the information remain private?” Coleman twin Devard had his scholarship revoked after the death student-athlete, though, unless you put into place mea- said. “This is classic medical information.... But in orbecause Florida State felt his carrying of the trait made sures to address concerns related to the sickle cell gene.” der for the information to be useful, it cannot remain him unsafe to play. private. If an athlete tests Also included in the positive for the sickle eight is Rice University’s cell trait, you want to Dale Lloyd II, whose famimplement provisions to ily took legal action after protect the athlete.” his 2006 death, pushing She added that some the NCAA to make sickle may see black athletes becell testing mandatory. ing singled out for carryThis year, Lloyd’s faming the trait as unsettling. ily finally got their wish, “Will the existence of and each school sent out the information stop fua form much like Duke’s ture opportunities is the message to the parents discrimination concern,” of its athletes: Coleman said.

“As of August 2, 2010, Kennedy said the all incoming studentDuke athletic departathletes will be required ment initially opposed to show official testing the testing, thinking it documentation or be would be a waste of montested prior to participaey to test white athletes. tion.... We are asking you But after looking over to locate any records of demographic informasickle cell testing your tion about Duke athletes, son or daughter has had he realized that anyone and send us those recould hold the trait for sults. If you have difficulsickle cell. ty locating these records “I could see that a kid your son or daughter will who looks white... might need to be tested either carry the sickle cell trait,” at home or when they arhe said. “If we catch that rive on campus.” one kid and treat him apmargie truwit/Chronicle file photo The form also inpropriately in practice, cluded an option to The Duke football members who carry the trait for sickle cell disease are closely monitored during their fall practices to see if they are overexerting themselves. then it’s all worth it.”

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First and most importantly, faculty must play a key role in this committee. Ultimately, students’ educational experience finds its roots in the classroom, and professors can make basic changes to class structure in order to promote continued discussion and thought about subject material in students’ free time. Engaging faculty in the discussion on intellectual culture is the first and most important step toward enhancing it.

In the same vein, DSG has stated its intention to reassess Curriculum 2000. This measure will be an important one in changing the classroom dynamic at Duke. At present, the

curriculum sets forth broad requirements, such as “small group learning experiences,” that, by their vague nature, do not necessarily bolster intellectual climate on campus. Rethinking curriculum structure is necessary in a reassessment of Duke’s intellectual climate.

Finally, the committee must examine the plethora of factors that can influence campus culture, including the diversity of experiences of the student body. For example, the differences between the academic experiences of Pratt School of Engineering and Trinity College students cannot be neglected. Only when the committee understands the University holistically can it begin to explore measures for improving intellectual culture.

With a thorough understanding of the academic experience, the committee should look to other aspects of the Duke experience, such as extracurricular activities and residence life, as outlets for fostering stronger intellectualism outside of the classroom.

DSG’s student-led committees face a daunting task. Pinpointing tangible, realistic solutions to an issue of campus culture is not a simple matter.

Duke provides its students many opportunities to engage with one another intellectually during their four years at the University. Individual students themselves should choose to take advantage of these opportunities in collaboration with their professors—committees alone cannot and will not make this happen.

Born to Run

ctober marks the beginning of Gradua- know my own face.7 tion Speaker Picking season. Most years, Now a life of leisure and a pirate’s treasure that hasn’t meant much to me, since I don’t make much for tragedy. But it’s a sad man, wasn’t graduating and I didn’t remy friend, who’s living in his own ally care what lame-o speaker the skin and can’t stand the compaschool convinced to deliver trite ny.8 I put my heart and soul I generalities to several hundred put ’em high upon a shelf, right graduates and their assorted family next to the faith the faith that members. But this year is different.

I’d lost in myself. I went down This year I am graduating. And if into the desert city just tryin’ so the designated celebrity speaker is hard to shed my skin. I crawled anything like the speaker the first deep into some kind of darkness alex fanaroff time I graduated (the eminent and lookin’ to burn out every trace farewell tour eminently unemployable Richard of who I’d been.9 Wagoner), I will be sorely disapIs a dream a lie if it don’t pointed. come true, or is it something worse?10 So I’m throwing a name out. A name with You can’t start a fire worrying about your lita Duke connection (via his daughter, a fresh- tle world falling apart.11 man). A big name. Correction: The biggest You can hide ’neath your covers and study name. Enough with the suspense. It’s Bruce your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw Springsteen. roses in the rain, waste your summer praying in And rather than make the exquisitely obvi- vain.12 You end up like a dog that’s been beat ous and self-evident argument that there could too much, ’till you spend half your life just covbe no better graduation speaker than The Boss, ering up.13 I decided to illustrate Springsteen’s excellence Talk about a dream. Try to make it real.... You as a graduation speaker by constructing a gradu- spend your life waiting for a moment that just ation speech entirely from his own lyrics. don’t come. Well, don’t waste your time waiting.14 Class of 2011: Wherever there’s somebody fightin’ for a Grab your ticket and your suitcase, thunder’s place to stand, or decent job, or a helpin’ hand; rolling down the tracks. You don’t know where wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free, look you’re going, but you know you won’t be back.1 in their eyes.15 Don’t make no difference what Don’t try for a home run, baby, if you can nobody says, ain’t nobody like to be alone.16 Evget the job done with a hit. Remember a quitter erybody’s got a secret, Sonny, something that never wins and a winner never quits. The sun they just can’t face.17 don’t shine on a sleepin’ dog’s ass. And all the Hard times, baby, well they come to us all, rest of that stuff.2 sure as the tickin’ of the clock on the wall.18 Once I spent my time playing tough guy [So] take a right at the light, keep goin’ straight scenes.3 I had skin like leather and the diamond- until night, and then you’re on your own.19 hard look of a cobra. I was born blue and weathered but I burst just like a supernova. I could Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. walk like Brando right into the sun, then dance His column runs every Wednesday. just like a Casanova with my blackjack and jacket and hair slicked sweet, silver star studs on my Streets of Philadelphia, 1995 duds just like a Harley in heat.4 But I was living 7 8 Better Days, 1992 in a world of childish dreams.5 Living Proof, 1992 Then I came crashing down like a drunk on 9 a barroom floor.6 I was bruised and battered, I 10 The River, 1980 couldn’t tell what I felt. I was unrecognizable to 11 Dancing in the Dark, 1984 myself. I saw my reflection in a window; I didn’t 12 Thunder Road, 1975 13 Born in the U.S.A., 1984 1 Land of Hope and Dreams, 2001 14 Badlands, 1978 2 My Best Was Never Good Enough, 1995 15 The Ghost of Tom Joad, 1995 3 Two Hearts, 1980 16 Hungry Heart, 1980 4 It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City, 1973 17 Darkness on the Edge of Town, 1978 5 Two Hearts, 1980 18 Waitin’ on a Sunny Day, 2002 6 My Beautiful Reward, 1992 19 Blinded by the Light, 1973

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Thermopylae?

s the new housing model anti-greek? all-sophomore West Campus.

And should greeks resist it?

Fraternities and social selectives still had Residential space has long been too much power in residential governance a battlefield at Duke, and because their houses were sometimes it feels like the better organized and coheGreek community is under sive than those of non-afinterminable siege. In 1993, filiated students. Welcome, William Willimon, then quad model! Aggregate Dean of Duke Chapel, wrote enough independents, emin his report for President power them with numeriKeith Brodie on campus life, cal superiority and they titled “We Work Hard, We will surely overwhelm those Play Hard,” that the Univer- gregory morrison pesky greeks. finish the thought sity urgently needed to “end The 2007 Campus some of the fraternities’ hisCulture Initiative recomtoric hold on the best housmended that the University ing on West Campus. By providing frater- discontinue “the practice of assigning housnities with the best housing on campus, we ing to selective living groups and social/ are... giving them an administrative sanc- affinity groups.” In other words, no more tion which they do not deserve.” fraternity or selective living group sections.

Ouch!

Period. Seven months later, however, this In the 1990s, kegs on campus were suggestion was walked back in the Provost’s banned (to end large frat parties). Fresh- “Interim Report on the Undergraduate Exmen were “quarantined” on East Campus perience at Duke University.” in 1995 (to protect freshmen from the Is the new house model somehow, baleful proximity of fraternity men). All like the attempted housing shuffle of last fraternities were moved off Main Quad (to Spring and the continual administrative ashide them from view). sault on Tailgate, another salvo against the In 2000, Dean Willimon authored a fol- walls of the besieged? low-up report to his successful 1993 opus.

It certainly looks that way when this In the report for President Nan Keohane, newspaper’s editorial board thunders that “Old Duke, New Duke,” Willimon suggest- the house model will remedy the “fundaed the all-sophomore West Campus noting mental problem with housing on West,” that “such a campus would enable us to specifically the “presence of selective livchallenge the sense of entitlement of some ing groups, especially fraternities.” Finally, of the unproductive West Campus groups.” this residential reorganization, they hope, Read “fraternities” for “unproductive West will at last strangle that too-damn-vivacious Campus groups.” And so we moved to an greek community.

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commentaries

In this narrative, greek resistance to the institution of the house model will be a campus Thermopylae, a valiant but ultimately doomed last stand to protect the greek way of life.

Fortunately though, none of this antigreek mumbo jumbo is coming from the Allen Building or from the student leaders of Campus Council.

Certainly, there is talk of inequality.

Dean Steve Nowicki told The Chronicle in September that, “We, right now, are in a state where housing is very unequal, so we have to do something.” Earlier that month he noted that “social selective groups have a level of privilege, and then there are the independents who have a much lower level of privilege.” Campus Council President Stephen Temple told me that this transition is “to increase community and decrease inequities.”

Both Temple and Nowicki are 100 percent correct in noting the obvious inequality of the current system.

But instead of seeking to attack the greek community, this time the discussion centers on the empowerment of independents. Temple offered, “The desire to go to the house model in many ways shows how the residential experience of the greeks has been successful.” Even Willimon eventually noticed that what was special about fraternities was not their privilege, but their community. He thought that the University would do well to encourage “more selective housing, rather than less” and that the system of fraternity review (equivalent to our cur-

rent RGAC process) should put more emphasis on “guidance and reward” rather than “sanctions and punishment.”

Greeks and SLGs provide more than their fair share of campus leaders (both the presidents of DSG and Campus Council and two of the three current Young Trustees, for instance). Greek organizations are deeply committed to philanthropy and provide needed social programming. They also provide interclass opportunities for multiyear mentorships and lifelong friendships.

In the recently signed “Statement of Relationship between Duke University and the Greek Community,” the University committed, at the highest levels, to continue to allow new fraternities and sororities to come to campus and to allow both fraternities and sororities to continue to “apply for dedicated housing.” Maybe, even, greeks will be allowed real fraternity and sorority houses when New Campus becomes a reality.

The greek community at Duke is secure.

Many questions remain to be answered about how the house model will work in practice, but one thing is clear from the residential leadership on this campus: the house model is not anti-greek. And we need not be afraid that it is some subterfuge in prelude to our extinction.

The house model necessitates no Thermopylae.

Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior and former Duke Student Government EVP. His column runs every Tuesday.

What’s the difference?

n America’s current political atmosphere, one instance inevitably backfires. can be cited as proof of two different realities. Consider This week’s Washington Post magazine includes a National Public Radio’s recent decision to fire analyst feature titled “Tea Party roadtrip: What the movement Juan Williams based on now infamous comwants—and why,” a story that chronicles ments he made last Monday on Fox News’ writer Bill Donahue’s travels with a group The O’Reilly Factor about being “worried” of 51 tea party supporters from Dayton, and “nervous” when seeing people in “MusOhio to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” lim garb” boarding a plane. rally on Aug. 28 at the National Mall.

Many are decrying NPR’s action, but The author details his exchanges with those on the other end of the spectrum see several of his roadtrip companions. He the move as a necessary protection against meets 41-year-old Dale Unroe, who was small-minded paranoia. Conservative leadinspired to buy a gun shortly after joining eliza french ers like Mike Huckabee claim the news serthe Tea Party movement and explains he je ne sais quoi vice “has discredited itself as a forum for “began thinking, ‘Hey, we need to be able free speech and a protection of the First to exercise our rights.’ I just felt that, as Amendment rights of all and has solidified itself as the a citizen, I needed to honor the vision of the founders purveyor of politically correct pabulum and protector of and, you know, buy a gun.’” Donahue also meets Chuck views that lean left.”

Henthorn, a veteran who decided to run for U.S. Senate NPR’s Ombudsman Alicia Shephard acknowledges the in 2012 because God woke him up in the middle of the network could have handled the situation more delicately, night and urged him to run. but ultimately offers a compelling defense for the dismissThe article portrays a small subsection of a much al. “Williams was doing the kind of stereotyping in a public greater contemporary political movement in America. Its platform that is dangerous to a democracy,” she wrote in title, though, claims that the piece is much more than it blog post last Thursday. “It puts people in categories, as is. The title invites the reader to extrapolate from the imtypes—not as individuals with much in common despite pression these 51 people made on one writer to explain their differences.” the goals and motivation of an entire political group that, Our culture fixates obsessively on differences, but not according to an Aug. 25 Rasmussen poll, 26 percent of the ones Ms. Shephard discusses. We continuously delin- Americans self-identify as or have close friends or family eate these crude differences in our cultural landscape, and members who are involved with. As tempting as it may be we commit the fallacy of assuming false similarities. We are to assume that impulse gun purchases and late-night perso focused on how others are different from us, we fail to sonal conversations with God are commonplace among draw the most nuanced and important distinctions that Tea Party members, any discerning reader knows this asdifferentiate people from one another. sumptions is off base.

True, we sometimes self-identify as members in special We all struggle enough just being ourselves, whoever interest groups, political parties, religious groups, ethnic that may be, without assuming the weight of culturally groups and other affinity organizations. We do this be- prescribed identities and casting that burden on others, cause we share common interests with others, and we want as well. In becoming a representation of a segment of the to bond together to further those interests. This tendency population, we also become repositories for other peo-

ple’s biases, prejudices, emotions and fears. And when we blunder into assumptions of what other people are “identifying themselves first and foremost as,” as Williams did, we succeed only in finding a convenient cache for our own neuroses.

Senatorial hopeful Henthorn sets us back in his own way, too, by saying, “I think we’re all Americans first.” We can’t privilege one aspect of our identities without temporarily losing touch with the others. This is precisely what causes dangerously reductionist readings of ourselves and of each other.

Even in the much more limited context of a college campus, our affiliations can lead people to jump to premature conclusions about who we are. It may be comforting to think you can understand something about someone just by looking when you pass each other on the Plaza. We hope that when people see our physical appearance, including a club logo or Greek letters on our T-shirt, they might gain insight into our personalities and interests before they even come over to introduce themselves.

More often than we’d like to admit, we notice these details about each other and decide that introductions need not be made. We mistakenly presume that whichever category happens to be the most visible to us at the time—be it racial, social or sexual—constitutes that person’s entire identity.

We need to consider each part of ourselves—our political views, our religious beliefs, our cultural values, our sexual orientation, our academic interests—as just a piece of an adaptive whole. Only then can we learn to keep our perspectives in balance. It is almost impossible to feel completely offended, marginalized or threatened when maintaining a balanced identity and acknowledging the same sense of self in others.

It’s time to stop asking what’s the difference and start noticing the differences that matter.

Eliza French is a Trinity senior. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

The Chronicle is accepting letters remembering Drew Everson until 8 p.m. tonight for publication Wednesday. Please submit letters of up to 325 words to chronicleletters@duke.edu.

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