October 27, 2010 issue

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2010

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Scientists prep for trials of HIV vaccine

Community to gather for memorial

Just kickin’ it

by Julia Ni

by Matthew Chase

Researchers are preparing for trials of a new HIV vaccine that accounts for the diverse nature of the deadly virus’ strains.

An international group of scientists is preparing for human trials of a mosaic HIV vaccine. The team will be led by Dr. Barton Haynes, director of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute and the Center for HIV/ AIDS Vaccine Immunology.

The team hopes to launch a small human trial with approximately 150 participants by 2012, said Bette Korber, a senior scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Mosaic vaccines consist of many synthetic sequences of proteins that are generated by computer software. Relative to traditional HIV vaccines, this key characteristic helps the immune system respond to the diverse strains of HIV. “HIV is really very variable,” Korber said. “It plays a cat-and-mouse game with its host.”

The HIV virus is a diverse pathogen and mutates very quickly because it contains an error-prone enzyme that makes mistakes as it replicates. As the body’s immune system fights the virus, the resulting mutations

A memorial service remembering senior Drew Everson will be held in the Duke Chapel at noon today.

Everson died Oct. 23 after an accidental fall the previous day left him with two collapsed lungs and head injuries. He will be honored at both the memorial service and at a reception following the service in the Scharf Commons, which Drew Everson is next to Cameron Indoor Stadium. Both the memorial and reception are open to the public.

At the memorial, three of Everson’s friends plan to offer tributes, and two other friends will read from scripture. President Richard Brodhead and Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost for undergraduate education, will also make remarks at the memorial. Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells will preside over the service.

Family members and close friends will also present certain mementos from Everson’s life. Members of Everson’s fraternity,

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Last night at Koskinen Stadium, Duke defeated its final non-conference opponent of the regular season, Furmon, 4-0. The Blue Devils showcased a balanced offensive attack in the win.

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Duke receives recognition for encouraging male nurses

by Christine Chen THE CHRONICLE

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The University’s work in promoting nursing as a course of study for males has earned it the 2010 “Best Nursing School for Men in Nursing.”

Friends and family pay tribute to Drew Everson’s memory, Page 15

Efforts to encourage men to study nursing recently led to national recognition for Duke.

Earlier this month, the University received the 2010 “Best Nursing School for Men in Nursing” award from the American Assembly for Men in Nursing. Catherine Gilliss, the dean of the School of Nursing, said she was pleased that the school’s efforts were being recognized but said she was not surprised given Duke’s efforts.

“We have worked to create a more inclusive environment and our faculty, staff and student body are committed to building a community in which diversity is celebrated,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Nursing has sold itself to many of our male students and faculty members.”

Gilliss said she thinks the inclusion of men in the field enriches disciplinary perspectives and allows the public to view nursing in a different light.

“Men bring fresh approaches to nursing, just as women brought new insights to the practices of medicine and law,” she said.

Students and recent alumni said Duke’s program is very inclusive of male students, but that reputation was not necessarily what brought them to the University.

Robb Holton, Nursing ’09 who will also graduate from

the Family Nurse Practitioner program in 2011, wrote in an e-mail that he chose Duke because of the quality of its research and instruction. The presence of male faculty, though, has also enhanced his experience.

“There are excellent male role-models in the clinical faculty at Duke, and it has certainly provided support and personal growth during my education,” he said.

In recent years, the University has continued to attract more male students, noted Clark Schmutz, Nursing ’09.

Schmutz was one of four men in a class of 65 students, but the number of men enrolled in the School of Nursing has increased every year since he joined, he wrote in an e-mail.

“We worked hard to include men in the program,” Schmutz said. “The male faculty at Duke were also really helpful and some of them have continued to be great resources in the nursing profession.”

Chris Woods, who graduated with nursing degrees in 2005 and 2008, also said he felt included by the student body as a male nursing student. “[The School of Nursing] is far advanced in focusing to attract the best students regardless of sex, race or ethnicity. I never once felt excluded based on my sex,” he wrote in an e-mail.

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“Many voters... are holding the Democrats responsible for the problems. This is true even if they aren’t Republican.”

­—Political Science Professor David Rohde. See story page 3

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“A few weeks after the Los Angeles Clippers cut Jon Scheyer, the last remaining Blue Devil with a chance to make an NBA roster, Brian Zoubek, was waived by the New Jersey Nets. Zoubek missed the end of the preseason for the Nets, making it all but an inevitability that the 7-foot-1 center wouldn’t make the team. Zoubek represented the last and best hope of seeing a Blue Devil rookie in the NBA this season..’”

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Rob Collins, American Action Network’s president, has openly boasted of injecting $16 million into ad campaigns targeting 22 House Democrats. In a political era marked by closed doors and anonymous donors, Collins, a former chief of staff and verteran of a dozen campaigns, is not shying away from the attention.

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Threat of global extinction Russian government rises looming for many species in corruption rankings WASHINGTON, D.C. ­— A growing number of creatures could disappear from the Earth, with one-fifth of all vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays now facing the threat of extinction, according to a new survey assessing nearly 26,000 species across the globe.

In addition, forces such as habitat destruction, over-exploitation and invasive competitors move 52 species one category closer to extinction each year, according to the research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science.

At the same time, the findings demonstrate that these losses would be at least 20 percent higher without conservation efforts now under way.

The survey, conducted by 174 researchers from 38 countries, came as delegates from around the world are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, to debate conservation goals for the coming decade.

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MOSCOW — Corruption in Russia has grown even more blatant over the past year, according to a report issued Tuesday by Transparency International, and the country has fallen from 146th place to 154th on the organization’s Corruption Perceptions Index.

Russia tied with Tajikistan, Papua New Guinea and several African countries, and was ranked most corrupt among the G-20 nations. The rankings come as Moscow is moving closer to joining the World Trade Organization, and as President Dmitry Medvedev hopes to foster a new high-tech industry that would make Russia a digital leader.

“How can a country claiming to be a world leader, claiming to be a major energy power, be in such a position?” asked Yelena Panfilova, director of the Moscow office of Transparency International. “It’s a situation of national shame.

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Congressional race heats up

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

President Barack Obama’s popularity in North Carolina in 2008 helped land victories for Democratic congressional candidates across the state. This year, though, Democratic incumbents are facing challenges to defend their posts.

Democratic Rep. Larry Kissell—currently the eighth district’s congressional representative—unseated five-term Republican incumbent Robin Hayes four years ago.

One election cycle later, however, Kissell is finding himself on the wrong side of anti-incumbent sentiment, according to Political Science Professor David Rohde, and is facing a strong challenge from Republican candidate Harold Johnson. The most recent poll Larry Kissell published by The New York Times shows the two candidates essentially in a dead heat.

Rohde explained that the reason the race has grown so close is because of the Democratic Party’s current national problems.

“Many voters who are unhappy are holding the Democrats responsible for the problems,” he said. “This is true even if they aren’t Republican.”

The Tea Party is also making things difficult for Kissell and the Democratic Party, Rhode said. Although the movement is not officially aligned with the Republican party, its members are largely conservative.

“The Tea Party is definitely a resource for spurring Republican turnout,” Rhode said. “Both nationally and in the state, Republicans are angry and are extremely motivated to vote.”

Eric Heberlig, a resident of the eighth district and political science professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, said he believes the Tea Party will give Johnson more Republican support in the eighth district.

“I don’t know if the Tea Party movement is that much better organized here in the eighth district than anywhere

else,” he said. “But it’s probably undeniable that they will affect the election’s turnout, because the movement reflects the increased national enthusiasm of conservatives.”

A lower turnout of African-American voters would also have a major effect on the race. African-American turnout usually is lower in midterm elections than in presidential elections, he said.

One move frequently debated in the race is Kissell’s vote against the health care bill. Yet Christopher Schuler, the director of communications for Kissell’s campaign, said the vote was the congressman keeping his word.

“A promise that the congressman made to the people of his district [was] that while we do need health reform, he would never vote to cut Medicare,” said Schuler. “Half of Obama’s bill was going to cut Medicare. That’s why he voted against it.”

Nonetheless, many Democratic voters will be “substantially less likely to turn out and vote [in this mid-term election] than in 2008,” Rohde said.

While Kissell continues to try to reassure the eighth district’s Democratic base, Johnson is working on identifying with the district’s residents. A former sportscaster, Johnson worked for a Charlotte sports channel and was known as “the big guy” among locals.

“Johnson’s popular here,” said David Black, chairman of the eighth district’s Republican Party. “Kissell promised to give our district more jobs and he failed.”

Johnson is using his local popularity to run as an outsider against politicians in Washington DC. “Harold Johnson is a family friend,” said sophomore Jillian Becker, who is also from the eighth district. “He knows a lot of people around Charlotte.”

Although Kissell faces a tough election, his campaign believes he is the best man for the job.

“The congressman’s got a record of standing up for his district,” Schuler said. “He’s been voted one of the most moderate members in Congress. He has no party lines. And most importantly, he’s a former textile worker and school teacher who understands the needs of normal working-class people.”

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At its meeting Tuesday night, the Duke University Union outlined ideas to reinvent Joe College Day as a celebration of the first week of classes.

Sophomore Nathan Nye, Joe College Day programming chair, said event attendance has been steadily declining in recent years. Nye attributed the event’s lack of popularity to an unappealing lineup of bands and a minimal level of marketing.

“The big reasons I heard for why people didn’t come [this year] are they didn’t like the music, had a midterm or were going out that night to party,” Nye said.

Nye proposed moving Joe College Day to the first week of classes to attract a larger crowd. He said renaming Joe College Day may also help better market the event to students but added that he wants the event to retain a “mellow, laid back” feel. He also suggested allowing larger student groups to set up tents at the event.

The artists this year were chosen after a long artist selection process. Cute is What We Aim For—the headlining band for this year’s Joe College Day—was meant to be “reminiscent” of middle school for Duke students, Nye said. Typically chosen artists are edgy and on the rise, but Nye said this year’s headliner was not ideal according to these criteria.

“We want to [choose artists] that people can sing along to more,” Nye said.

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Investors use scandal to press banks to buy back securities

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Since the financial crisis broke out two years ago, unhappy investors in mortgage securities have struggled to organize themselves and achieve a common goal - force big banks to buy back loans that went bad because of shoddy lending practices.

Now, widespread reports of the banks botching their loan paperwork have breathed new life into the efforts by investors, and they say they are organizing their most aggressive legal offensive yet against the biggest bank in the country, Bank of America.

Once run by a loose group of hedge funds, the investors’ campaigns have bulged in size in recent weeks, turning them into a force that could recoup tens of billions of dollars from Bank of America and other large lenders and act as a major drain on their earnings.

Previously, this group struggled to force the banking industry to hand over data critical to their lawsuits. Now with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the regulator of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and some of the world’s largest funds on board, the investors may be able to compel banks to reveal more about their lending practices.

The newly energized investors present a troubling scenario for the big banks that packaged loans and sold them as securities. On top of fighting off lawsuits from homeowners seeking to challenge foreclosure proceedings, these companies could face months of bitter and costly litigation as angry investors finally unite.

On Wednesday, a team of attorneys leading the charge is holding a conference in New York about failures by banks to properly service loans and their practice of hiring “robo-signers” who signed off on thou-

sands of foreclosure files each month without verifying their accuracy.

The prospect of more lawsuits has already spooked Wall Street. On Monday, Bank of America’s stock hit a 52-week low.

“If you think about people who come back and say, I bought a Chevy Vega, but I want it to be a Mercedes with a 12-cylinder, we’re not putting up with that,” said chief executive Brian Moynihan in an earnings call last week. “We will diligently fight this.”

Still, the foreclosure debacle represents a turning point for mortgage investors who have long accused banks of misrepresenting the mortgages they issued. For instance, some investors have accused banks of overstating how many loans were taken out by borrowers using their properties as primary residences, which made the mortgages seem less risky than they actually were.

The robo-signer issue is one more piece of evidence, say investors, that the banks have failed to keep their end of the bargain.

“I think the robo-signers are a battle in a long war,” said Bill Frey, chief executive of Greenwich Financial, which filed a suit in 2008 against Countrywide, now owned by Bank of America.

So far, investors have faced two major hurdles in their battle against the banks.

First, the plaintiffs have to prove in court that they hold more than 25 percent of the mortgage securities that they say have problems. This has been tough because investors can’t easily find one another. Mortgage securities were sold by banks to investors all over the globe and the names of the buyers are not publicly disclosed.

And, added Isaac Gradman, an attorney in San Francisco, “The big issue was originally that investors did not want to come forward to reveal what their holdings were.”

Earlier this month, New York state Supreme Court Judge Barbara Kapnick in New York County tossed out Greenwich’s lawsuit against Countrywide for failure to gather enough investors to meet this 25 percent mark.

In recent weeks, the headlines about shoddy lending practices has drawn more investors out of the shadows.

Many have begun exploring whether they should join ongoing lawsuits.

“The level of interest has just risen dramatically,” said Tal Franklin, a Dallas-based attorney representing investors. Franklin said he has been receiving two or three calls a day from new clients. Franklin has organized a clearinghouse through which investors can band together and yet keep their holdings private.

The other barrier for investors has been proving exactly how banks have broken the contracts attached to the sale of the mortgage securities. The investors are seeking specific information on how loans were underwritten, including whether the bank checked to see if borrowers were being truthful in their income statements, and whether banks lived up to the promises they made to investors in prospectus materials attached to the mortgage securities. The trouble is that banks hold that information and have been unwilling so far to hand any of it over.

Franklin said investors are making progress in this respect. They’re analyzing public records and now getting phone calls from attorneys representing homeowners who are offering information on how banks have handled individual loans.

Also, in July, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, acting on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, issued 64 subpoenas seeking documents on private mortgage securities bought by the government-controlled firms.

That information, if shared, could prove critical to investor lawsuits.

Estimates range widely on how much banks stand to lose from investor lawsuits. Analysts at Compass Point Research & Trading estimate that the total liability for such private securities is likely to be $133 billion, with a worstcase estimate of $179 billion and a best-case estimate of $55 billion.

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Q&A with Chloe Rockow Sophomore Chloe Rockow is the president of Duke Quidditch, a club that brings the magical sport from J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter” series in the real world and on Duke’s Gothic campus. The team, which was officially recognized by Duke Student Government in the Spring, played its first match of the year against North Carolina State University Sunday. Although the team lost the match, Duke Quidditch has lofty goals for the year and for its burgeoning membership.

The Chronicle’s Sarah Zuk sat down with Rockow to discuss Quidditch in the “muggle world” and the team’s plans for the future.

The Chronicle: How did the game go against N.C. State?

Chloe Rockow: The final scores of the games were like 180 to 60 and 170 to 70, which is kind of embarrassing, but we caught the Snitch!

TC: So how do you adapt Quidditch to the real world?

CR: There is an International Quidditch Association—they have a very intense rule book.... There is a World Cup every year. It’s way more involved than I thought it would be when we got involved.

TC: How did you get involved in Quidditch?

CR: [Junior] Mia Lehrer, our vice president started it as a freshman [in 2008-2009].

Then I came and told her I’d help her out.

This year we went out to the Student Activities Fair and had over 250 people sign up. We started having practices and over 80 people showed up.

TC: So what is Quidditch like?

CR: It’s a mix between soccer and dodgeball, with a football [and] rugby element. It’s a lot more physical than I thought it would be. A guy from N.C. State broke his rib! The snitch has to be fast. It’s usually a cross coun-

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Sophomore Chloe Rockow, president of Duke Quidditch, and the rest of her team bring a real-world adaptation of the “Harry Potter” sport to Duke’s campus. The club was officially recognized by DSG last Spring. try runner. We can’t fly, which is depressing, but we have brooms. It is a heavy contact sport, so there’s tackling. You can only tackle people of your same position. Beaters use dodgeballs to tag people out.... We have a competition team, and then we have Houses, and then we have our listerv, [which is] our general membership. For people who come out and actually play at our practices, you’ll get sorted into a House. People who are really dedicated and can devote more time are on the competition team. So anybody who wants to be on anything can be, it’s just how much time you put into it.

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TC: How many local schools have Quidditch teams?

CR: We are a member of the Intercollegiate Quidditch Association of the Carolinas, which has about 15 schools involved.

TC: How do you plan to grow the Quidditch team at Duke? What are your longterm goals?

CR: We are planning a Carolina Cup, so we are going to host at Duke all the schools from North and South Carolina for one day and just have a round robin tournament to determine the winner of the Carolinas. Mia [the team’s vice president] is Oliver Wood

and she wants to go to the World Cup before her senior year. Since next year is her senior year, our goal is to get to the World Cup. TC: What do you win at a Quidditch match?

CR: We actually had a little trophy for the [N.C. State] game. We have an artistic director [sophomore Rebecca Kuzemchak], and she is fantastic. She designed our trophy for this [the N.C. State] game. It was a little Dumbledore figure and on the back of his cape it said ‘Pack-Devils Dual 2010’ and the date. She’s going to make little trophies for each of the games and at the Carolina Cup we will have an official trophy.

TC: Which Hogwarts House would you be in and why?

CR: I feel like if I was actually at Hogwarts I would be in Ravenclaw. I’m one of those major overachievers, super organized, and I feel like that’s very Ravenclaw, kind of witty and very organized. But everyone wants to be in Gryffindor.

TC: Who is your favorite Harry Potter character?

CR: I’m going as Luna Lovegood to [the new Harry Potter movie]. Well, I kind of look like her, obviously. She is so quirky and funny—she could be my favorite character.

TC: What other aspects of your life does J.K. Rowling significantly impact?

CR: She went through so much hardship. Thinking about how she overcame so much adversity and did what she wanted to do with her life. She writes books, [and] I want to write books but that’s hard for me to admit because it’s not a profitable or practical thing to do.... I think it’s great she followed her dreams and did what she wanted to do, and that’s inspirational to me.

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Global extinction crisis looms, study says

by Juliet Eilperin the washington post

A growing number of creatures could disappear from the Earth, with one-fifth of all vertebrates and as many as a third of all sharks and rays now facing the threat of extinction, according to a new survey assessing nearly 26,000 species across the globe.

In addition, forces such as habitat destruction, overexploitation and invasive competitors move 52 species one category closer to extinction each year, according to the research, published online Tuesday by the journal Science.

At the same time, the findings demonstrate that these losses would be at least 20 percent higher without conservation efforts now under way.

“We know what we need to do,” said Andrew Rosenberg, senior vice president for science and knowledge at the advocacy group Conservation International and one

of the paper’s co-authors. “We need to focus on protected areas, both terrestrial and marine.”

The survey, conducted by 174 researchers from 38 countries, came as delegates from around the world are meeting in Nagoya, Japan, to debate conservation goals for the coming decade.

The researchers analyzed the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s “Red List” - a periodic accounting that classifies mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish along a spectrum of how imperiled they are.

While many industrialized countries have undertaken conservation efforts at home and helped fund this work overseas, “the reality is we’re still exporting degradation across the world” by taking food and other resources from the developing world, said co-author Nicholas Dulvy.

“We’ve transformed a third of the habitable land on Earth for food production,” said Dulvy, who co-chairs the

IUCN’s shark specialist group. “You can’t just remove that habitat without consequences for biodiversity.”

Southeast Asia’s animals have experienced the most severe hit in recent years, stemming from a combination of agricultural expansion, logging and hunting. Species in parts of Central America, the tropical Andes of South America and Australia have also all suffered significant population declines, largely due to the chytrid fungus killing off amphibians. Forty-one percent of all amphibians are now threatened with extinction.

Norway’s environmental minister, Erik Solheim, who is attending the talks in Nagoya, said in an interview that this sort of accelerating biodiversity loss, coupled with climate change, should compel nations to act boldly: “Very clearly, there’s an increasing sense of urgency here,” he said.

The grim study underscores the failure by parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity to fulfill a 1992 pledge to achieve “a significant reduction in the current rate of biodiversity loss at the global, regional and national level” by this year. The convention’s 193 signatories meeting this month in Japan will set a conservation target for 2020; a U.S. delegation is attending the two-week session even though the United States has not ratified the pact.

Environmental groups are pushing for a goal of protecting 25 percent of all land on Earth and 15 percent of the sea by 2020. At the moment, roughly 14 percent of terrestrial areas and less than 1 percent of the ocean enjoy some degree of environmental safeguards.

The new study documents the impact of such policies - 64 vulnerable species have begun recovering due to concerted conservation efforts, the article says. It provides a snapshot of how the world’s birds, mammals and amphibians has evolved over three decades.

Two American species that had become extinct in the wild, the California condor and the black-footed ferret, have both made gains after being reintroduced, while several island species have boosted their numbers after humans took steps to shrink populations of invasive predators that were targeting them. The global population of the Seychelles Magpie-robin, for example, rose from fewer than 15 birds to 180 between 1965 and 2006 after the island’s brown rat numbers came under control.

In some instances, policymakers and scientists are just beginning to grapple with the challenges faced by some species - such as sharks, skates and rays. Jack Musick, professor emeritus at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, helped oversee a global study that suggests roughly 33 percent of cartilaginous fishes are threatened.

memorial from page 1 Pi Kappa Phi, will sing a song to honor Everson, and a vocalist and a cellist will perform.

“I am sure there will be a very good showing [Wednesday],” said Associate Dean of Students Todd Adams.

The Chronicle’s editorial pages today feature letters submitted from Everson’s friends and family members.

Additional letters have been published online. Everson was a columnist for The Chronicle during his sophomore year, and his final column is also published on the editorial pages.

In a letter submitted to The Chronicle, members of Everson’s family described him as “truly a Renaissance man with passionate interests spanning sports, comedy, politics, public speaking, writing, finance, film and fashion.”

A member of the Duke Debate Team, Everson also coached student members of the East Chapel Hill High School debate team and was a four-year member of his high school debate team at Mauldin High School in Greenville, S.C. Everson was also a “true Cameron Crazy” who became a line monitor and attended the 2010 Final Four to witness the men’s basketball team win the national championship.

He was involved in many other student organizations, including the Inside Joke comedy troupe, Campus Council and other campus committees.

In addition to his heavy involvement on campus, Everson achieved a 3.8 GPA. He spent the last summer in New York interning with Goldman Sachs and was deciding between job offers at the time of his death.

The Everson family added that “Drew’s final departing gift” was his status as an organ donor.

“A piece of him will live on in many others who are desperately clinging to life,” the family wrote.

Editor’s note: Following today’s service, The Chronicle will write an obituary honoring Drew’s memory. Our thoughts are with Drew’s family and friends.

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duu from page 3 Vice President of Internal Affairs Elliot Johnson, a senior, said timing also significantly affected the success of this year’s Joe College Day. “There was nothing we could do about it this year because it was football game, football game, homecoming,” Johnson said. “Nobody can compete when we play Alabama.”

This year, Joe College Day featured a beer garden, which allowed students 21 and older to sample three local beers for free and purchase two additional beers on food points. DUU members agreed that the beer garden setup was “alienating” to the majority of students.

Duke Student Broadcasting President Maddie Burke, a senior, said changing the

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feel of Joe College Day to something similar to LDOC may increase the event’s success.

“I think a more LDOC model of this as a big social event, seeing your friends and interacting with music playing,” Burke said.

“That could change the mission [of Joe College Day].”

In other business: Freddie Gibbs is opening for Matisyahu Nov. 17 in Page Auditorium. Tickets go on sale for students and employees Nov. 2.

Innovations Committee Chair Dustin Gamza, a senior, said the Duke Laser Tag tournament is scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 30. He said hundreds of people have already signed up and more are anticipated to register the day of the tournament.

Equipment ranging from laser guns to grenades have already been rented.

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Members of Duke University Union discussed the Duke Laser Tag tournament they will host this Saturday.

Equipment for the event has already been ordered, and turnout is expected to be high.

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male nurses from page 1 Although many male nurses said they felt the University provides an inclusive atmosphere, they said the perception that nursing is mostly a female profession still exists.

Amato said throughout nursing school he was asked if he was a doctor or in medical school by his patients and their family members. But men can find a place in the profession.

“There are plenty of manly nurses,” he said, adding that he objected to the stereotypes. “The job can be full of heart-pumping, testosterone-pumping moments.”

For some male nurses, it takes a bit of time to get used to being a man in a female-dominated profession.

Schmutz said although it required getting adjusted to, he does not think about it as often anymore.

Holton said men are often always visible in nursing but work everywhere from intensive care units to emer-

gency rooms, management and Duke Life Flight, a critical care transport program.

For Woods, serving as an emergency medical technician in the armed forces helped him see the presence of men in nursing as “more of the norm than the aberration.”

He said that the public’s perception of the profession likely limits the number of qualified men willing to pursue a career in nursing. But working in neonatal intensive care—where he is one of three men in a group of nine nurses—Wood said he has never felt like he did not belong.

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vaccine from page 1 may evade the immune system and then take over.

A mosaic vaccine tends to account for the diversity of these forms. For the past 25 years, Korber has led a team of researchers in collecting hundreds of thousands of sequences of the global HIV epidemic. That data has been analyzed by a computer system and used to create the mosaic genes contained in the vaccine.

By switching different portions of the HIV genome, the computer tries millions of combinations until it obtains the most common sequence out of all the known databases, Haynes said.

“Computational analysis [has generated] an envelope of genes that has the best coverage over several natural HIV genes,” said Dr. Hua-Xin Liao, research director of HVI and developer of the vaccine.

Mosaic vaccines are expected to result in better outcomes than their traditional counterparts. In trials conducted on monkeys, mosaic genes generated a broader and better immune response than any natural gene.

In addition to the synthetic genes the group will use the NYVAC vaccinia vector, a part of the smallpox vaccine.

It has already been tried in humans and gives an anti-HIV immune response, Haynes said. A trial of more than 16,000 volunteers from Thailand generated an anti-HIV immune response, having a protection rate of 31 percent.

Using the NYVAC vaccinia vector in the mosaic HIV vaccine may induce better immune responses from humans, Liao said.

Together, the trials give researchers hope that their work might yield positive results for humans.

“All of the vaccine candidates up until today that have been tried have not addressed at all the diversity of the virus,” Haynes said. “If this trial is successful in inducing more broad responses, then we think it will have the possibility of improving upon the good results [indicated in the Thai trial].”

The next two years will primarily be spent on designing the initial phase of the clinical trial for the mosaic vaccine.

Funding for the trial will come from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a part of the National Institutes of Health.

“It is one of several good ideas out there… [and] it has a chance of working,” Korber said.

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Kicking game a bright spot for Duke

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On April 8, 2009, Dr. Hunt Willard and four of his students met David Cutcliffe in his office. The topic of the 90-minute talk was not game plans or football strategy, but genetics: how to Genetics predict athletic success by studying and sports: gene codes, and how to prevent injuries by identifying particular genes.

Part two The discussion was new to the Yoh Football Center, and it promised a collaborative—if improbable—future between Duke’s football program and the Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. “[Cutcliffe] was very forthcoming and said he was a big believer in it,” said Willard, the Institute’s director. “He said

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As the 2010 football season opened, a follower of Duke football would not have expected to see redshirtjunior kicker Will Synderwine and junior punter Alex King atop the special teams depth chart. But the duo is there, combining to form a stabilizing force in the kicking game.

For Synderwine, a rugby and soccer player while at the Landon School in Bethesda, Md., football was not even on his mind until Jason midway through his freshman year of college. That was when Ted Roof, Duke’s On Football head coach in 2007, placed an ad in The Chronicle announcing an open tryout for the kicking position. At the time, Synderwine was on the club rugby team and was coaxed into attending with a few of his friends from that squad.

“My freshman year, they were having struggles in the kicking game,” Synderwine said. “My friends and I came over for the tryout, and I hit the ball pretty well that day.”

The coaching staff was impressed enough that their

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‘Spark’ from veterans leads Duke over Furman

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Prior to the game, head coach John Kerr said Duke needed a “spark.” It got just that from veterans Matthew Thomas, Chris Tweed-Kent and Cole Grossman, who stepped up to provide energy and lift the Blue Devils past Furman 4-0 last night at Koskinen Stadium.

Although the Paladins (7-5-4) 4 DUKE came into the game 0 FUR with strong wins under their belt, including a victory over No. 25 College of Charleston Oct. 22, they failed to contain an invigorated Duke offense that scored twice in both halves of the match.

The No. 24 Blue Devils (7-4-4) first got on the scoreboard in the 13th minute when redshirt-senior Thomas put away a corner kick from sophomore Ryan Finley for his second goal of the season. Finley’s service into the box was batted around by Sebastien Ibeagha and Andrew Wenger before Thomas finally put the ball past goalkeeper Alec Kann.

“We got the first goal, which is always key for us,” Kerr said. “If we get on the scoresheet early, it always gives us a little more confidence and our movement was a little bit better tonight.”

The Blue Devils’ improved movement was evident later in the half when Grossman increased Duke’s lead to 2-0 after he poked in a cross from Chris Tweed-Kent.

He also assisted both goals in the second half, and he has a team-leading nine assists on the season.

The Blue Devils, coming off a disappointing conference loss to Clemson, knew that establishing an early presence was critical.

“I think we all feel the added pressure,” Grossman said. “I don’t have too many games left, so there’s definitely some added intensity. I wanted to definitely get on the scoreboard.”

Part of Duke’s early success came from their physical play, resulting in nine first half fouls that stagnated the Furman attack. Perhaps more notable were the noncalls throughout the half that drew the ire of coaches and players from both teams.

Finley received a yellow card in the 28th minute for arguing a foul call outside the Blue Devils’ box. Fortunately for Duke, the Paladins could not convert as freshman midfielder Josh Fusan’s free kick skimmed off the post. “[The defense was] more compact, tight as a unit,” sophomore goalkeeper James Belshaw said. “Our communication was a ted knudsen/The Chronicle

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Junior Temi Molinar and the rest of the Blue Devils found a more balanced scoring attack Tuesday night.

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job of a Division I punter.

After high school, King attended an extra year of new kicker was dressed and on the sideline for that week’s prep school with the dream of playing either basketball game. Snyderwine wouldn’t see game action in either the or football at the next level in the ACC. Duke football 2007 or 2008 season, but he still stuck with the team. would be the only program to express any interest, and His efforts would eventually be rewarded, though, he soon found out he would not be able to play his preas he became the starting kicker early in the 2009 cam- ferred position, quarterback, in Durham. paign after then-starter Nick Maggio struggled. The “Pretty quickly I realized that I wasn’t going to be good former rugby star rewarded the coaching staff’s faith, enough to play quarterback here,” King said. “I’ve always connecting on 17-of-20 field goal attempts and nailing punted, so I knew that I had a chance to do that. Coming all 24 of his PATs. With a five-field-goal game on his re- from a small school, I ended up having to do it all.” cord and a 51-yarder against Wake Forest, Synderwine Last season against Georgia Tech, King got his first garnered some national attention and was a Lou Groza start with regular punter Kevin Jones struggling. But he Award semifinalist. didn’t perform well enough and soon ended up back on Even with all of his success last season, Snyderwine stum- the bench. After being outplayed by Jones in spring ball, bled a bit this spring, and his struggles continued over the King didn’t expect a great deal of opportunity this year. summer, perhaps due to his increased focus on kickoffs. In However, Cutcliffe was more optimistic. fact, after missing a chip shot in the Blue-White scrimmage, “Alex has really exceeded expectations,” Cutcliffe Synderwine was passed on the depth chart by Maggio. said. “We always knew he was somewhat of a factor. We “There was definitely a time when I lost the job,” Synder- gave him a shot last year, but this year he has taken it wine said. “Fortunately, and run with it.”

Coach Cutcliffe gave As a result of the me another chance, offense’s struggles and I think I’ve made this year, King has him proud.” been busy. Having The Thursday bealready recorded 36 fore the season opener punts since taking against Elon, Snyderover for Jones midway wine was informed through Duke’s loss that we would be that to Wake Forest, King week’s starter and nevposts a respectable er looked back. On the average of 42.1 yards season, he has booted per attempt. More of 11-of-12 field goals impressively, he has and made all 18 of his pinned the opponent extra points. After missinside their own 20ing a 47-yarder in the yard line on 12 differopener, he has convertent occasions. ed on nine consecutive Just like his kicking attempts. Additionally, partner Snyderwine, he has already recordKing has had exposure ed more touchbacks to the game of rugby. this year than last and He now incorporates even successfully conthe rugby punt in his verted two onside kicks regimen, allowing him in the last two games. to confine the danger“I don’t know of a ous returners in the better kicker in the conference. country,” Cutcliffe While there has not said. “He has a great been a lot of consistenrepertoire as you can cy associated with the see with his onside Blue Devils this year, kicks, and his range is one area that has exspectacular.” ceeded expectations is dianna liu/Chronicle file photo King took a similar the kicking game. Not indirect route to the Will Snyderwine [pictured] and Alex King make up a formidable kicking duo. bad for two walk-ons.

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Defender Matthew Thomas struck first for Duke, scoring his second goal of the year 13 minutes into the contest against Furman. lot better tonight than it was at Clemson.”

The Blue Devils came out a little flat in the second half and seemingly coasted along, until Duke eventually scored two goals within 29 seconds of each other—the first by Grossman, the second by Finley—to give Duke an insurmountable 4-0 lead.

Finley’s goal ties him for the Division I scoring lead with 14 on the year.

Yet, while the offense will receive the majority of the credit for their four-goal performance, the defense deserves much of the praise as Duke pitched its sixth shutout of the season.

“For us, I think like most teams in Division I college soccer, it starts with our defensive intensity,” Grossman said. “We just didn’t have any of that for most of the Clemson game.”

Indeed, the Blue Devils will have to continue with that intensity as they finish regular season play with two consecutive ACC games, first at Virginia Tech and then at home against Wake Forest. “[The win] gives us a lot of confidence, and we feel good about what we’re doing,” Kerr said. “Coming off a bad loss against Clemson, this really helps get our morale and team going again.”

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genetics from page 9 he can sort of see the kids who have an in-born talent.”

Few tangible results for Duke Football, though, have come from the meeting. The more immediate issues awaiting the football program and the rigors of a 12-game season have taken precedent with the program and the athletic department.

But a unique opportunity awaits Cutcliffe and his team.

One day, given the Institute’s early data, the football program will be able to look at athletes’ gene codes and identify the injuries to which they are most susceptible. This information could change the way all of Duke’s varsity teams train, practice and play. “[Hunt] is a pretty phenomenal individual,” Cutcliffe said. “If [the plan] prevents injuries then I’m all for it.”

From success prediction to injury prevention Willard is a lithe man with a body more suitable for a running track than a football field. He was a realist about his football talent, knowing it would take him no farther than high school, and he would have to get his football fix in the future by rooting for his beloved Boston (now New England) Patriots.

All of this—other than the rooting allegiances, perhaps—would not change if he had been dropped on the doorstep of, say, Archie and Olivia Manning as an infant, he said. He would have grown up in an environment that fostered football excellence, but his body would never allow that level of success. Willard’s genes simply are not supportive of someone who is a high-level football player.

He denied, though, that simply looking at genes allows someone to see whether an athlete will be successful. Intelligence and work ethic, not to mention the sheer number of human genes, ensure that.

“I think genetics plays a role in our physical abilities, but I think there are thousands of genes that contribute to that,” Willard said. “So testing for them is naive.”

Predicting the degree of success an athlete will have in a given sport is such an imperfect science, in fact, that Willard and his students began to move away from it early in their studies. Instead, they began focusing on injury prevention. “[The genome sciences] have limited capability for predicting athletic ability,” said Sally Liu, a student in Willard’s capstone class and Marshall scholar who is now a first-year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. “I think from a medical standpoint, it can have an impact on the type of training you can do.”

Around the same time that Willard’s students set up a meeting with Cutcliffe, the doctor identified 18 genes with variants related to athletics. Willard found the gene C0L1A1 relates to ACL tears—it manufactures collagen, the protein crucial to keeping ligaments strong. If an athlete has a “wonky” version of this gene, in the words of Willard, he has an increased risk of injury.

“They’re not going to bother you walking around,” he said. “But when you’re putting stress on [the knee], there’s an increased risk that it might tear.”

Another gene identified by Willard was the AP0E gene, which has implications for athletes suffering from head injuries. A variety, TT, may increase the risk of dementia and long-term neurological damage, especially if a football player takes repeated hits to the head. Another variance, AP0E4, may contribute to early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Willard said he never sees a day when those who test positive for the variance are not allowed to play football.

He does, however, believe that if testing becomes common, these athletes would have to sign a liability waiver.

“The genetics angle is much trickier with concussions,” he said. “If someone came to me and said, ‘Your kid is at a genetically increased risk for suffering early memory loss or early dementia,’ I’m buying the kid a tennis racket.”

Possible drawbacks The scientific findings had the athletic department excited. The overall health of the athletes could rise with the project, and the school would have an impressive recruiting tool.

“He got me fired up... on a level of the welfare of the kids and doing what we can to prevent injuries,” Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy said. “It’s a lot cheaper to prevent injuries than it is to treat them, and it’d be a heck of a recruiting thing. High school kids and their parents see we’re on the cutting edge of this stuff, and that’s attractive.”

High costs, however, have contributed to that attractive idea from becoming a reality. Like other projects, including some detailed in the 2008 strategic plan, the injuryprevention program has been curbed, in part because of the economic recession.

“For us right now, everything is about cost. We got out of the last budget year in the black, which is a miracle,”

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Kennedy said. “Since Hunt did his initial blitz, I haven’t had much to do with it so I’d have to go back and look and see where we are and what’s changed.... But in theory, I’m pretty excited about it.”

The sum of the program’s costs are difficult to calculate. Athleticode, a company that Willard co-founded with former NFL player Jim Kovach, charges $450 for a wholebody genetic test. It identifies the AP0E gene involved with concussions and looks for gene variances related to other muscle tears. Giving a test like Athleticode’s to 100-plus football players would give the athletic department a significant new cost.

As with testing for the sickle cell trait, some have privacy concerns about athletes’ genetic information becoming known for the wrong reasons.

“I think that if we lived in a world where this information was only used for the good, then it wouldn’t be a problem at all,” said Doraine Coleman, co-director of the Duke School of Law’s Sports and Law Center. “If it doesn’t mean the athlete doesn’t get the job, it just means accommodations are made.... I think what people worry about is that is

not the world we live in.”

Privacy concerns also hit home for retired NFL player Lennie Friedman. Friedman was a three-year starter for Duke in the late 1990s and played for eight seasons in the NFL as an offensive lineman. Now a student at the Fuqua School of Business, Friedman was a part of a sample group tested by Willard for genetic predisposition to injuries. He admired the study but worried about how private the findings would be for others in the future.

“You certainly want to be careful about the privacy issue,” he said. “You don’t want athletes not getting playing time or not getting drafted because of their injury tests.”

After all the privacy concerns and controversies about genetic testing are put aside, though, one fact remains: Injuries will still never be fully eliminated from football. It is simply the nature of the sport.

“Football is an extremely violent game,” Friedman said.

“I think there’s a genetic component, but anytime you play a sport like football, there is the risk of injury. That’s just the game.”

Jason Palmatary contributed reporting.

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A life worth celebrating Last weekend the Uni- charisma made him a skilled versity suffered the devastat- debater and team member ing loss of a gregarious and for Duke Debate. promising student.

As a line monitor, Drew Drew Everson, a senior, led the Cameron Crazies with passed away Saturday night his unmistakable presence, after suffering Viking accesan accidental sories and uneditorial fall on campus. matched enThe loss of a student is a thusiasm. tragedy for the entire UniAdditionally, Drew was a versity community, and in valued contributor to CamDrew’s death we face a loss pus Council and a committhat has touched every cor- ted brother of Pi Kappa Phi ner of campus. fraternity. He authored a Drew took advantage of vir- column for The Chronicle tually everything that college in 2008-2009 that he titled life had to offer, and the list of “Why so serious?” organizations he committed In short, Drew representhimself to is staggering. ed what being a Duke underDrew’s energy and clever- graduate is all about. ness were on display in his He was a brilliant mind improv performances for deeply engaged in the world Inside Joke. His intellect and around him, but he always

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made sure that having fun was a priority. Last summer Drew interned for Goldman Sachs. He was bound for a career on Wall Street, yet he was in no rush to get there too quickly. Drew’s youthful exuberance was evident in the Play-Doh key chain he carried with him everywhere, and his affable nature rubbed off on all who knew him.

Drew’s death comes as a sudden shock to all of us. It is difficult to understand how a young man with so much potential could be gone so quickly.

We can never forget him, but we can begin to cope with his passing by envisioning what he would want his legacy to be at the University.

“I love finding reasons to celebrate anything. When anything remotely good happens, I use it as an excuse to celebrate,” Drew wrote in his Oct. 16, 2008 column for The Chronicle. “It’s fun to love life. So join me every day in celebrating whatever it is you want to celebrate.”

That outlook of celebrating life and living every moment to its fullest potential is the legacy that Drew will leave at Duke. Even as we reach the lowest points of our grief and struggle to fathom this loss, Drew’s words remind us that there will be “days worth celebrating” yet again.

Drew’s optimism and positive outlook left its mark at Duke. If we can begin to feel that we are joining him when-

ever we celebrate and value of every moment of our own lives, we can carry on his legacy.

Drew Everson, you made your warm presence felt at The Chronicle, and your vibrant spirit touched every part of Duke’s campus. You will be sorely missed and forever remembered.

The University will host a memorial service in the Chapel at noon today to honor Drew’s memory, followed by a reception in the Scharf Commons. The memorial will be open to the student body.

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et’s admit it: We’re all overachievers here. Instead, these organizations should stop taking We worked hard to get here, and we work things too seriously and remember that they are hard now that we are here. I would even say putting on a show for students’ enjoyment. If the that we work too hard. Rather than group is enjoying itself, the audience treat college like they do in classic will enjoy the show way more. Third movies like “Animal House” or “Van are semi-competitive organizations, Wilder,” we schedule lunches like to which I have to say, working hardwe’re already in the real world. er won’t make you win. It will only It all boils down to one question— waste more of your precious college a question that I’ve asked myself betime, causing you to lose out on way fore writing every column. Why so more than just a debate trophy or serious? As writer Brendan Gill tells club sports championship. Learn drew everson us, “Not a shred of evidence exists in the lessons the organization is trying favor of the idea that life is serious.” to teach you without allowing it to why so serious?

Ask any alum about his or her take over your life.

Duke stories. Their experiences are Then there is politics. We drive nothing like ours: shooting fireworks across the each other crazy, shouting about the national hotquad. Burning furniture to celebrate a fraternity button issues (most of which will be embroiled in getting kicked off campus. Driving to UNC to pick the status quo as a result of this passionate debate up random girls to drive back to epic parties where where both sides are so inflexible that they can’t nobody was yelling, “Get in rooms!” Tailgate with come to a consensus). Oh, and the small fraction cars! Life just sounded more fun and less serious of the Duke population that actually cares about back then. campus politics takes it way too seriously.

No, these days we’re so stressed out that we I am not against passion or hard work. We just need a special branch of student health to deal need to realize that everything we do in college with it, like The Oasis in Bell Tower, a room with must be taken with a grain of salt; college is just massaging recliners and fish tanks in the bottom one stage of our life, and an early one at that. of a dorm. We’re so wound up we could really use Duke is about preparing and learning to enter a drink. Oh wait, that’s illegal for most of us. the global community and make an impact. Don’t Many blow off stress by going to the gym. But be afraid to be young and stupid while we work toeven in the gym people aren’t usually trying to en- wards graduation. Enjoy college, because life just joy themselves, they are just trying to reach some might get real after we leave the Gothic Wonderend of attractiveness. That’s not very relaxing. land. Whatever you do, don’t ever, ever take life Then we have student groups that take them- too seriously. selves way too seriously. First are the service organizations. I’m all about helping people, but your Drew Everson was a Chronicle columnist from Fall organization cannot save the world. Chill out and 2008 to Spring 2009. This column originally ran April enjoy helping those people; you may learn some- 9, 2009 and was his final column for The Chronicle. thing from them. Second are the entertainment or- Weekly columnist Metty Fisseha will return to the opinganizations. These organizations get anxious about ion pages next week. She donates this space in loving putting on a show, causing tension and arguments. memory of Drew’s contributions to The Chronicle.

The Chronicle dedicates the opinion pages to the memory of former columnist Drew Everson. Additional letters remembering Drew can be found on The Chronicle’s website at www.dukechronicle.com.

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A Tribute to Drew Everson 1989 - 2010

remembrances Drew was the light of our lives and made our hearts beat with joy and pride. He had a zest for life that was unquenchable and his passionate interests in so many diverse areas were contagious to everyone around him.

We had the good fortune to create many wonderful memories with Drew over the past 21 years, but we are devastated that we can create no more. Every parent strives to raise a child who will make the world a better place, and Drew was fulfilling that potential and had so much more to give before his life was abruptly ended a few days ago. Everything has changed for all of us who loved him so dearly.

He was our source of endless happiness, love, entertainment, conversation and laughter. We cannot begin to express the emptiness and sadness that his senseless passing has created in our hearts. We are so extraordinarily proud and honored to have had Drew as our beloved son.

We love you tremendously and will miss you every minute of every day forever son.

Mom & Dad As I sit down to write this remembrance of Drew, all that I think is, “I wish he were here right now to help me write it.” He would know exactly how to make it smart, meaningful and a little bit funny.

Drew was a uniquely special individual. He had so many talents, and it is a shame that he was only able to share his infectious personality for a short 21 years.

He was the best little brother anyone could ever ask for. I looked up to him so much, and I am unbelievably proud of the amazing person that he turned out to be.

I love you so much, and will think about you every single day for the rest of my life.

Your Big Brother, AJ Everson, Pratt ’09 As Drew’s roommate for the past two years, I have had the pleasure of seeing him almost every day. I’ve been able to do so much with him, everything from visiting the Pi Kappa Phi monuments at the College of Charleston in bowties to jumping into a fountain in Indianapolis at 4 a.m. after winning the national championship. Our daily interactions normally consisted of me saying something stupid and Drew promptly calling me out on it with his typical “Pat, really?” His involvement with the debate club and local debate teams made it completely impossible to ever win an argument against him, and I’ll miss being consistently frustrated.

Drew also had some peculiarities. Drew rarely slept. He was extremely jealous that I could fall asleep within 20 seconds, and I was extremely jealous he was able to watch so much television. He was the only person I know who worked at a restaurant like Applebee’s, which has a variety of foods from different food groups, yet only ate variations of bread, cheese and marinara sauce. The majority of my meals last year had pasta involved, which should be easy to make, but Drew, of course, found a way to almost burn our apartment down. Nice.

The apartment feels empty without him, and all the little things he did to make this a happier (and most definitely goofier) place will be dearly missed.

Due to the decibel count of his laugh, my hearing may also be impacted for years to come as his lasting legacy.

I wasn’t able to see you much the past few weeks because you were constantly at Super Days: everyone wanted Drew at their company (and for good reason). I’ll never forget our time together, even if it was so short. You lived the life the way it was supposed to be lived—it was refreshing knowing somebody who made sure he didn’t ever, ever take life too seriously.

Yours in Pi Kappa Phi, Patrick Rutter, Trinity ’11 Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity Dear Drew, We know your secret: You promised your hand in marriage to not one, but two girls. Well, guess what?

We have found each other, and we’re okay with that.

After all, that’s just what you do: you bring people together. We know this arrangement makes you quite happy, seeing as you have wanted us to become best friends for some time now. And while the circumstances are certainly not ideal, we have come to recognize the sheer beauty of your plan. Having spent so much time together these past few days, we realize why each of us fell so deeply in love with you. Only you, Drew Everson, could make the two most neurotic, crazy, clinically insane women at Duke want to cast caution to the wind and simply enjoy life—rather than stress about it.

For that, we will be eternally grateful, and, most importantly, we will be eternally bonded. Hell, at this point, the two of us could just marry each other. Who needs a stubborn, brilliant, hilarious, devastatingly charming, unconditionally loyal husband anyway?

You have given us so much happiness and so much joie de vivre we cannot even begin to describe, but— you know us—we’re damn well gonna try. Whether it was convincing three fathers and a group of friends to jump into a fountain that happened to be a state monument to celebrate a national championship or just casually sipping Macallan and watching every Zac Efron movie ever made while all the other Duke students were desperately cramming for finals, you showed us what it means to truly live. While your superior intellect and convenient insomnia allowed you to eventually ace those finals (without even cracking a book), we, on the other hand, tended to receive less than mediocre grades. Normally, this would be upsetting to two girls as obsessive and anxious as us, but, in the end, we learned more procrastinating with you than we could ever learn from any book.

We will never ever love a man the way that we have loved and will always love you. You are our everything.

Enjoy that scotch while you watch over us, Drewbie :) Edie Wellman,Trinity ’11 Lauren Haigler, Trinity ’11 As a family, we used to make a traditional Irish toast to each other: “May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you’re dead.” In present circumstances this could bring a lot of pain into our hearts.

But we know that if the devil did ever come for Drew, two things would happen: He would convince the devil that hell did not exist and invite him for a glass of scotch in heaven.

Drew, we always knew you had that special ability to make the impossible seem within reach. We never were able, however, to fully appreciate just how many members of the Duke community you touched with your gifts. While all of your commitments made scheduling family dinners difficult, your great sense of humor, constant positivity and witty honesty made getting together so much fun.

You are absurdly intelligent, but of course you know that. It will always be shocking to us how much you were able to accomplish academically and in the numerous organizations with which you were involved. You are an inspiration in Guinness, oops, genuineness, and have always set a great example in being true to yourself and your beliefs. You are always Drew.

Because neither he nor we had a proper chance to say goodbye, we are left to imagine that it would play out just as countless encounters before: filled

with laughter, a big goofy smile, a bear hug and some esoteric jargon that we might half understand.

Drew has left a legacy that Mu Family will never forget: “Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.... This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.” —William Penn Tyler Donahue, Trinity ’12 Ryan Knowles, Trinity ’10 Chris Brown, Trinity ’13 Matt Schoen, Trinity ’13 Tyler Seuc, Trinity ’12 Andrew Ruffin, Trinity ’10 Mu Family Forever As the rest of these letters undoubtedly express, it is still difficult and painful to even fathom the occasion of our remembrance. More challenging still is to give a singular description that does justice to how amazing it was to know Drew Everson. He was an anomaly in the best sense of the word: Drew found the things in his life that he cared about and that interested him, and he involved himself in them out of a genuine love for each new day. Though Drew defied convention in so many ways, most uplifting among them was his mood, which never strayed far from the upbeat smiles that we will all undoubtedly remember him by.

I think what many of us loved most about Drew was that he relished the perfections of life and was refreshingly aware of the absurdity of the rest. Drew looked at the world with an inquisitive heart and open mind that embraced our society for its imperfections and was always willing to share a minute with anyone who wished to explore those boundaries with him—including the readers of these very pages as a columnist. I for one will miss his intelligent and satirical love for all aspects of the human condition and his unique ability to make the lives of those around him better simply by sharing his time.

All of us at Duke who were lucky enough to spend time with Drew—be it as an editor, a co-worker, a fraternity brother, a classmate, a Crazie or best, as a friend—collectively share a memory of a young man with doors opening to all the possibilities of our world.

As someone who knew Drew in all of these capacities, I am proud that the memory that will live on for me is of an individual who lived his life to the fullest every day with the distinct intention of sharing that passion with all who surrounded him.

Austin Boehm, Trinity ’10 Editorial Page Managing Editor and Editorial Board Member, The Chronicle I knew Drew Everson was a special person when I met him, now a lifetime ago, our senior year of high school. I was lucky to grow closer to him in college, traveling to debate tournaments with him, sharing late night heart-to-hearts, joking, laughing, daring and adventuring. I can’t remember a single time when I was not uplifted by Drew’s presence. Even when we talked about our troubles, he never tended toward anger or despair. His life was a celebration, full of passion, charisma and love freely given and returned. I am still inspired now by Drew’s good humor and perspective. I am also grateful to be surrounded by people who knew and loved him as I did. That none of us are alone in our grief is a gift and a testament to his spirit.

Drew, your bright spirit will continue to shine within us. I miss you deeply.

Swapanthi Nagulpally, Trinity ’11

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