February 4, 2011 issue

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 90

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Baker gives Pres tells students to ‘think hard, play well’ analysis of Pres. Obama

by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

The way the public views a presidency is shaped not only by an administration’s policies, but also by the people who stand on the sidelines of history and document it. Peter Baker, The New York Times’ White House correspondent, relayed his experiences as the interface between government and citizens Thursday evening.

Journalism is about illuminating issues and holding people accountable, Baker told a large audience of students and faculty gathered in the Sanford School of Public Policy. For Baker, this assertion comes from comprehensive experience. Before joining The New York Times in 2008, Baker was a reporter for The Washington Post, for which he covered both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations. In the lecture, which was formatted as a conversation with Peter Feaver, Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science, Baker spoke extensively on President Barack Obama, particularly with regard to his foreign policy approach.

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In an open forum, President Richard Brodhead and other top administrators answered student questions, discussing campus life and administrative decision-making.

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

Students got the rare opportunity to question top administrators about campus culture, scandals and decisions that take place behind administrators’ closed doors.

Much of the discussion at the hourand-a-half open forum Thursday night,

however, came back to what students themselves do behind closed doors—especially what happens when those actions quickly spread beyond campus walls.

“At the end of the day, there are things that you have to learn in college... and one of them is the appropriate use of freedom for yourself and for those you love,” Presi-

Athletic facilities undergo facelift

by Laura Keeley THE CHRONICLE

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Jack Coombs Field, which had major drainage problems last year, is one of several Duke facilities to undergo renovations in recent months.

On April 26, 2008, the department of athletics published its first-ever strategic plan, boldly titled, “Unrivaled Ambition.” It detailed plans establishing an endowment for athletics, updating several facilities and “changing the entire culture” of the football program to name a few.

Then the U.S. financial system nearly imploded, triggering a global credit crisis. Needless to say, the University’s “Unrivaled Ambition” was held in check.

Almost three years later, though, the athletic department has managed to complete nearly all of its immediate facilities priorities. The recent renovations of Jack Coombs Field for baseball, the Rod Myers Training Center for both golf teams and the start of construction on the multi-purpose fieldhouse, to be used by the football team as well as intramural sports, have all taken place within the past six months.

But it may be quite some time before any other construction crews come rolling down Whitford Drive, unless donors resume giving large gifts. The University is considering reducing its annual subsidy to athletics, which is currently around $14.6 million, down from $15 million two years ago, said Executive Vice President Tallman Trask.

“We’ve weathered most of the problem, but it puts us in a place where we don’t have a lot of new money for new things,”

dent Richard Brodhead said at the event, which drew more than 100 students. “It seems to me that a school has to allow freedom to students to give them the space to become responsible, and [the school has] to work with students to accept that responsibility.”

Although her name was never explicitly stated in the forum, much of the discussion centered around the negative publicity nationwide that came after a salacious PowerPoint produced by Karen Owen, Trinity ’10, spread to far more than the three friends to whom she initially sent it. In addition to discussing Owen, students raised questions about fraternity “progressive” parties and social e-mails, Tailgate and the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

The panel—which consisted of Brodhead, Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, and Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek—spent a large portion of the forum addressing the media’s “negative perception” of Duke.

“I think it’s very simple how we change that,” Wasiolek said, noting the viral nature of the media. “We have complete control over our behavior... and if we choose to behave in a particular way and someone chooses to capture that and then spread it all over the world, we have the ultimate control over that.

If that’s the way we are going to behave, that’s the way we are going to be perceived.”

Although many students in the audience enjoyed the opportunity to hear administrators speak about controversial topics— especially the campus social scene—some audience members voiced concerns that in focusing on the negative media attention

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“You could... watch a movie if the squids were able to project it...”

­—Sonke Johnsen on patterns squids can make on their skin, See story page 5

Keohane discusses her legacy at Duke and new book, Page 3

Number of job recruiters on campus increases, Page 4

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“Last night’s game in Maryland went mercifully riot-free.

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We had heard rumors that there was a prayer rally on Tuesday to ensure the safety of College Park after the Duke game Wednesday night. Yesterday, we got confirmation: Flyers were found leading up to the game advertising the rally.”

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The bill, called the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, seeks to permanently bar federal funds from being used to subsidize abortions. It allows exceptions in cases in which the pregnancy resulted from incest or when the mother’s life would be threatened if the fetus was carried to term.

In the original language, it also allowed exceptions in cases of “forcible rape.” The term provoked an outcry from critics, who said rape is by definition committed by force and that lawmakers were seeking to exclude from coverage certain kinds of rape by adding the modifier— for example, cases in which the victim was underage or unconscious.

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Omar Suleiman, a former intelligence chief and Mubarak confidant who was appointed vice president last week, said in an interview on state television that Mubarak would keep his word not to run in the next presidential election, to be held no later than September. Suleiman said Mubarak’s son Gamal, who had been considered his heir apparent, would not run either.

“The issue of stepping down is an alien philosophy to the ideology of the Egyptian people,” Suleiman said.“We all respect the father, the leader.”

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Q&A with Nan Keohane The former Duke president frequently credited for establishing Duke as a world-class university is visiting campus today to discuss her recently published book, “Thinking About Leadership.” Former President Nan Keohane, who served between 1993 and 2004 and is Duke’s only female president, will speak at 1:30 p.m. in the Sanford School of Public Policy. Keohane’s achievements as president of Duke include the establishment of the Robertson Scholars Program, the Women’s Initiative and the Campaign for Duke, which raised more than $2 billion. Currently, Keohane is teaching at Princeton University as the Laurance S. Rockefeller Distinguished Visiting Professor of Public Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. The Chronicle’s Amanda Young talked with Keohane about her new book and past accomplishments.

The Chronicle: Could you describe what you have done since leaving Duke?

Nan Keohane: First, I took a sabbatical year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford [University], where I’d been a fellow twice before. I went back there in 2004-2005. I had a very productive year, did some work on a collection of essays and speeches from Duke. Then, my husband and I were recruited to Princeton, and we’re both teaching at the Woodrow Wilson School. We live here in Princeton and that’s where we expect to be.

TC: What do you think were your biggest accomplishments as the president of Duke?

NK: Of course, it’s hard to distinguish things that I did as my accomplishments because so much of it was a team effort. But in terms of accomplishments during my Duke years, I would think of several. First is the Campaign for Duke that raised several billion dollars to support financial aid and a number of programs at Duke. That was a major effort to get people to support Duke and was one significant legacy. We also built a lot of buildings. We transformed the face of Duke campus. Before, when I came to give lectures in the late 1980s, I found a bewildering campus—everything was very disconnected. So we built a number of useful new buildings in science and engineering and medicine and in arts. That was an important contribution to Duke campus. I also think that Duke became a more diverse and open place through expanded financial aid and reaching out to students in a variety of backgrounds. Over the past decades, Duke has became significantly more international. An-

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other thing we did was reach out to the University of North Carolina [at] Chapel Hill. Continuing to be fierce sports rivals, we organized the Robertson Scholars Program. This way, more people could teach and take classes on the other campus.

TC: Do you have any regrets about your time at Duke?

NK: I wish we could’ve connected to UNC more and put our part of North Carolina on the map. I wish we could’ve done more collaboration with neighboring universities.

TC: What are the most important things that you learned as president of Duke?

NK: The most important things I learned about leadership were things I learned by being president of both Wellesley [College] and Duke. I learned about how to make tough decisions and hold stuff from inside. Most people look at leadership from outside, but I had a chance to do it for a See keohane on page 7

Programming to fall under DUU in case of merger

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Campus Council has recommended that residential programming responsibilities fall under DUU’s purview.

This suggestion, made at the council’s meeting Thursday, follows the proposed merger of Duke Student Government and Campus Council, which was announced Jan. 20. Undergraduates will vote on the merger Feb. 15 as a referendum on the Young Trustee ballot. If the DSG-Campus Council merger passes, Duke University Union’s executive board and its parent body, the University Union Board, will vote to accept residential programming duties.

“An undue sense of competition exists between Campus Council and DUU,” said junior Betsy Klein, programming chair for Campus Council. “The solution is to merge with DUU. We know that in the future these events will be somewhat different but we hope the community-building nature of them will be preserved.”

The proposal also recommends that larger campuswide events such as Homecoming and Old Duke be assigned to existing DUU committees and smaller-scale event planning shifted to house councils—which will then likely receive an increase in funding, said senior Annie Kozak, DUU executive vice president.

The DUU-Campus Council merger aims to maximize event attendance and promote efficiency, Klein said in a presentation to the council. Although residential programming is not DUU’s area of “expertise,” Kozak

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Former Duke president Nan Keohane will speak today on her new book.

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Job outlook positive as more Number of sick recruiters visit Duke campus tenters consistent

by Jie Wang

THE CHRONICLE

With advice and guidance from the Career Center and more recruiters coming to Duke’s campus, students worrying about their futures may be relieved to hear that the Career Center is optimistic about opportunities for students.

There were more companies on campus recruiting students in Fall 2010 than during the previous Fall, Kirsten Nicholas, associate director of the Career Center, wrote in an e-mail Jan. 31. She said she expects this Spring’s numbers will either meet or break Spring 2010 figures.

The number of jobs and internships listed on eRe-

cruiting increased from 1,194 in Spring 2009 to 1,785 in Spring 2010. In that time period, the number of companies listing jobs increased from 571 to 722. Nicholas said this year she expects the totals to either meet or exceed last year’s.

How many of those postings have resulted in job offers thus far, however, remains unclear.

“We don’t collect data on offers or accepts until the end of the academic year, but the amount of companies posting positions has increased over last year,” Nicholas said.

Increases in job listings and recruiting companies See jobs on page 5

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Former Duke University President Nan Keohane talks with Kristin Goss, assistant professor of public policy, and Mike Lefevre, president of Duke Student Government.

They will discuss the ideas presented in Keohane’s new book, “Thinking about Leadership.”

Book-signing and reception to follow.

Co-sponsored by Hart Leadership Program and Kenan Institute for Ethics.

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Cameron Crazies may have braved the cold this tenting season, but Student Health has remained bustling during its busiest time of year.

Student Health has treated 89 tenters with flu-like symptoms this year, said Jean Hanson, assistant director of Student Health. Living and sleeping in close proximity to others who may be sick increases the risk of exposure in Krzyzewskiville, Hanson said. However, staying away from other tenters when ill can be difficult due to obligations to remain in the tent.

“The bottom line is that the whole environment over [in K-ville] is more likely to allow people to be sick,” Hanson said. “They’re living in the small space, they’re breathing on each other and all the germs are flying around. It makes sense that the people over there are sicker than the overall population.”

Those high numbers, however, may be a result of the cold weather and not tenting specifically. Hanson said the 89 tenters that have seen Student Health represent only 3 percent of the total visits from undergraduate and graduate students this January and February. That 3 percent rate is a decrease from 2007, when tenters represented about 5.8 percent of visits. The number of tenters visiting Student Health has been relatively consistent since 2008, which may be partially attributed to greater health awareness initiatives, she added.

Staying warm, eating balanced meals and steering clear of alcohol are key to preventing illness, said Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center. He noted that alcohol will speed up any weathergenerated health problems.

“If people drink in order to stay warm, the blood comes to the surface of the extremities,” Szigethy said. “So you feel like you’re warm initially, but, because the blood is at the surface, you would end up having problems with hypothermia quicker if you’re drinking.”

Students agree that late-night tent checks—and in some cases a busy start to the Spring due to rush events—have contributed to sickness among tenters.

“I’ve felt physically exhausted and definitely have a cold,” said freshman Sam Miller, a black tenter. “But my social health is awesome. I’m closer to all my friends, and [I] am very happy. It’s all worth it, no question.”

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Researchers study cephalopod camouflage abilities

by Julia Ni

THE CHRONICLE

Being the best requires learning from the best, and studying the fine art of camouflage in squids is no exception.

With a grant from the Office of Naval Research, researchers from Duke and two other institutions are collaborating to investigate the camouflage abilities of squids and other cephalopods. The study will have environmental, educational and perhaps military applications.

Sonke Johnsen, an associate professor of biology and principal investigator, said the study has several components: understanding how light changes at the surface of the water, determining what the animals can actually see and how they behave in response to it and studying the processes occurring in the skin.

“We’ve known forever that cephalopods... are really good at camouflage, it’s just that now we’re able to study it in a lot of ways we couldn’t before,” he said.

The researchers, also hailing from the University of California at San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of California at Santa Barbara, are using a special camera and a holodeck—similar to the virtual reality facility in Star Trek—to study these marine creatures.

The camera, called an omnicam, can film in six directions and collects information about the light around the animals,

said Jules Jaffe, an engineer and research oceanographer at Scripps. The holodeck is a fish tank with plasma screens and projection TVs on every side. It allows researchers to investigate the parts of the visual background most important to cephalopods.

Combined, these two pieces of technology allow the researchers to create a virtual reality environment for the squids, explained Alison Sweeney, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of a participating UCSB researcher. Various scenes, both natural and manipulated, can be shown to the animals without disturbing them.

“By studying [the squids’] camouflage response, we can get a sense of how their perception is,” Johnsen said. “Part of the project is to look at a lot of cephalopods and see the world through their eyes.”

Cephalopods have bags of pigment underneath their skin that they can either expand or contract to change color. Beneath these bags lies a series of reflecting cells— which behave similarly to soap bubbles— that control the color and the amount of color reflected.

Although the animals are colorblind and only have a limited view of themselves, they can change the texture of their skin to blend in completely with their surroundings.

“They can basically make any pattern they want on their skin,” Johnsen said.

“They’re pretty phenomenal at it.”

These patterns are made “almost as fast as a TV set. You could... watch a movie if [the squids] were able to project it,” he added.

The research is currently being conducted at the three institutions as well as in the Gulf of California during this summer.

Both Sweeney and Jaffe lauded the multidisciplinary, trans-university nature of the

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With a special camera, which can film in six directions, and a holodeck, researchers from Duke and two other institutions study squids’ incredible camoflauge abilities.

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From Fall 2009, the number of companies represented at the Fall Career Fair and who posted job or internship openings on Duke’s eRecruiting website has increased, an optimistic sign for students.

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project, which has a total staff of about 40 biologists, physicists, engineers and molecular modelers.

While the research may help improve camouflaging technology, it is not likely to lead to an invisibility cloak any time soon.

“This sort of invisibility is operationally very good, but we won’t be doing Harry Potter,” Johnsen said. “That would be too cool.”

could lead to an increase in the number of students with job offers by graduation. In April last year, 31 percent of seniors reported accepting jobs, 31 percent planned to continue on to graduate education, 19 percent were still seeking employment and 9 percent were unsure about their future plans, according to the Career Center’s annual exit survey that received 1,240 responses. Compared to the Class of 2009, a similar number of students accepted job offers and fewer graduating seniors were still looking for employment.

Some students are unsure whether or not this year’s market is better than last year’s. Senior Cameron Lambe said it is difficult to compare this year to other years, but added that she felt a lot of students settle for jobs instead of attaining the ones they really wanted.

“A lot of people I know are having to settle for jobs they kind of like just to get a foot in the door,” Lambe said.

To find the right job, some students noted that it is important to go beyond the eRecruiting system. Lambe, a political science major, found job positions not only through the Career Center’s eRecruiting website, but also at job fairs and through

her professors.

“Don’t limit yourself to only finding jobs through one channel. I found several openings through my professors because they had contacts with organizations that weren’t in contact with the Career Center,” she said.

Lambe added that she utilized the political science department’s website to search for an internship, which helped her understand what type of job she wanted.

Junior Stephen Zhu, who is currently applying for summer internships, said he obtained information about positions from several places, including the Career Center and upperclassmen who have been through the process before.

Zhu added that the process is long and strenuous but worth it.

“It’s a pretty stressful process, which feels like another class with all the time put into going to [information] sessions, applying and worrying about interviews,” he said.

When asked if students were generally happy with their job offers, Nicholas felt students had a range of emotions.

“Some are excited, some are relieved, some a [little] worried. At the end of the day we work with students to make well thought-out decisions for their own personal situations,” Nicholas said.

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Baker from page 1 The recent unrest in Egypt has presented Obama with an unexpected test, Baker said, especially because the first two years of his presidency have been defined more by domestic issues than international concerns.

“Foreign policy doesn’t go away. Foreign crises can happen at any time, at any place,” he said, adding that it is often difficult to balance competing interests.

Baker also touched on Obama’s successful campaign to push through the Senate the “New START” treaty with Russia, asserting that it showed the president’s critics that Obama could take a hard-line stance when he wanted to.

The reporter also provided the audience with some insight into Obama on a more personal level.

“I think you have to be confident to the point of almost arrogance to be president of the United States,” he said, responding to a question about the president’s possible weaknesses. Baker added, though, that he thinks Obama is cognizant of his own limitations, calling him “open.”

In part, he noted, this flexibility stems from Obama’s realization that the promises he made on the campaign trail—like a commitment to open dialogue with enemies—are easier said than done.

Drawing from his own experiences covering the Clinton and Bush presidencies, Baker highlighted similarities between the current administration and the two preceding ones. Clinton and Obama, he said, are alike in that they both like to dive deep into policy decisions, and both were academic instructors before assuming executive office. Obama’s staff, in particular, is composed of many academics, although he has a wide range of advisers, he added.

Even Bush, Baker declared, shares some similarities with Obama, ideology aside.

“Obama shares some of the discipline that Bush showed,” he said, noting the two men’s timeliness in particular. Recently, Baker added, Obama has even used language reminiscent of his predecessor, noting his commitment to “do[ing] big things.”

Baker’s remarks also centered on the changing nature of journalism—he believes that the advance of new technologies like Twitter has altered the journalistic landscape.

In looking to the future, Baker tied his lecture back to his audience. It will be the responsibility of up-and-coming reporters, he said, to maintain journalism’s “core values” in a profession that is rapidly changing.

“Journalists have to be fair,” he said. “Journalists have to be accurate.”

Feaver said he thought it was beneficial for students to hear Baker speak and see the person behind the byline.

“I think he’s one of the best White House beat reporters in the business, and of course he writes for one of the most important papers,” he said.

“We’ve all read his stuff, we all teach his stuff and it’s great to meet him in person.”

Students seemed receptive to Baker’s message.

Junior Lauren Pfeiffer said she came to Baker’s lecture because of her interest in journalism. Although she said she thought Baker did a “great job,” she was also intrigued by the audience’s questioning.

Junior Nick Setterberg said he especially appreciated how Baker was able to apply his own experiences—like living in Moscow—to analyze present issues.

“I think he had some great insight about Russia. I just spent last semester there, and a lot of what he talked about was definitely true,” he said.

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Peter Baker, White House correspondent for The New York Times, spoke Thursday in the Sanford School of Public Policy on President Obama’s policies and his own role as a liaison between the government and its constituency.

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Brodhead from page 1 the University has received administrators were overlooking more relevant concerns.

“I believe [the crude fraternity e-mails] highlighted extremely concerning gender relations on this campus—the poor treatment of women and the often hostile environment for students such as myself who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or queer,” senior Jessica Macfarlane said. “That is the Duke that I do live everyday and that is my experience, and I don’t think that I am alone in that. So I feel that to say that the media is making us look bad completely invalidates my experience.”

In responding to the perception that the administrators were minimizing real problems on campus, Moneta said administrators will have to continue to deal with pervasive issues.

“I think this is going to be our constant battle,” he said. “This is something that we are going to have to roll up our sleeves and just attack every element that makes the negative part of your experience something you have to live with.”

In addressing the ethical and moral actions of students—especially concerning social life—administrators argued for a change in the notion that Duke students should live in a “work hard, play hard” atmosphere.

“I heard a better [motto] today—think hard, play well,” Brodhead suggested. “The goal is to use your intelligence in the work that you do, or through the work that you do. That is our aspiration.”

In light of the controversy surrounding the social scene that reemerged last semester, students asked administrators if the greek system should be overhauled, or even eliminated entirely. “[Fraternities] have the potential to be so much more than I think they themselves showcase within the Duke community,” Moneta said. “I know that we can get there, but it does require us looking ourselves

in the face and acknowledging that there are parts of what [fraternities] do that we have to end.”

In answering one of the more controversial questions of the night about what he most regrets most about his presidency, Brodhead brought up a topic many Dukies avoid—the lacrosse scandal, which also brought national attention to campus five years ago.

“It was all based on a district attorney who, as we came to learn one year later, lied and lied and lied about the nature of the evidence that was there, precipitating all of the massive emotion at that time,” he said. “Believe me, I would have loved to have made that situation stop in its tracks.”

Brodhead and Nowicki also addressed questions about the elimination of courses and professors, saying that most of those rumors emerged from a “misunderstanding.” Although they mentioned that the University has eliminated the equivalent of about 450 positions since the economic recession hit in 2008, they noted that many of those positions were eliminated through attrition.

Moving beyond Durham, Brodhead responded to the perception that expanding into foreign locations like China is a “trade-off” because it takes resources away from the Gothic Wonderland.

“I just don’t see the truth in that at all,” Brodhead said. “The day will come when the kind of students that we want to come here will not come here if this University doesn’t expand its horizons to become as interesting as the world that will be relevant in your lifetime.”

After the forum, freshman Leilani Doktor said she was concerned that some of the responses administrators gave were too predictable.

“I was hoping that it would be a little more of a realistic interpretation of the events than just the statements that they e-mail out to us every day,” Doctor said. “I did feel that a lot of it was orchestrated since a lot of the questions were pre-submitted.”

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council from page 3 said the union will strive to incorporate the majority of the council’s events into its own programming.

Kozak added that DUU would like students to take increased ownership of smaller quad or house events—but hesitated to call the new procedure “hands-off.”

“We want [more programming] to be autonomous and student-driven,” Kozak said in an interview Thursday. “Our hope is that this will create a greater diversity of events which appeal to more students while encouraging individuals, houses and groups of houses to pursue new ideas and collaborations.”

The proposal also recommends that DUU create a new executive position, vice president for programming, to facilitate communication between house councils, Kozak said.

“The VP for programming will mainly act as a consultant,” Klein said in an interview Thursday. “This is going to have to be somebody that will really focus on communication between house council vice presidents and serve as a resource and networker.”

As the University transitions to the house model in the coming year, changes to the planning structure of residential programming will be important and challenging, Klein noted.

“Its not going to be perfect in the next year,” she said. “We have the general framework of getting people together and being connected. It will really improve the quality of quad council programming, which always had room for improvement—this is going to be the missing link that could work under either [the house or the quad] model.”

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The distribution of Campus Council’s funding to the appropriate groups will be determined within the next few months, Klein said.

In the transition, Campus Council President Stephen Temple, a senior, said DUU and Campus Council should continue to prioritize the student body’s interests.

“There are opportunities for synergies between current DUU and Campus Council events, and providing additional events can certainly provide further benefit to the student body,” he said in an interview Thursday. “But it’s my hope that at least the essence of the events will continue to exist in one form or another.”

He also noted that the house model, which is scheduled to be implemented in Fall 2012, may impose new challenges on programming and residential life.

“There are a lot of benefits coming out of the house model, but I think that maintaining a cohesive Duke culture is going to hinge upon programming and interactions among different houses,” he said. “The responsibility that the Union is obligated to take on will be to make those connections happen, to be a resource to different residential groups and to make sure we’re not having ancillary entities.”

In other business: The council’s policy committee will review University smoking policies, said senior Jon Pryor, council vice president and chair of the policy committee.

Sophomore Jeremy Ruch, chair of the public relations committee, said Residence Life and Housing Services has approved the installation of white board walls in K4 residence hall. He added that the administration plans to add them to existing dormitories as well.

keohane from page 3 while, and I learned a lot about leadership.

This has been very helpful to me as a political scientist. I also learned about the history and traditions of Duke that led me to feel very loyal to the place.

TC: Could you describe what your book is about?

NK: The book is called “Thinking About Leadership.” It is a way of bringing together my long time training as a political theorist with my experience as a leader. There are a few anecdotes about my experiences at IBM board and Duke. It also brings together mini case studies of leaders whom I admire, which include Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher and Lyndon Johnson. These were people who were complicated and who achieved a lot. There are more heads of organizations than leaders at other levels, but leadership comes in all shapes and sizes. People can be very effective leaders in all different sizes of organizations. The book is a way of bringing together theory and practice.

TC: Why did you decide to write this book?

NK: One of the reasons I took the first job as an administrator at Wellesley was because I was curious about having power. I wondered what it feels like to really be a leader instead of just studying leadership. That was one motivation.

I said to myself at the time, “Someday after I’m finished as an administrator, I’d like to write a book about this and describe leadership in a distinctive way that only someone who’d done it can do.” This was something I’d been pondering at some level since I left Stanford.

TC: As the first female president of Duke, how do you think your gender affected the way people saw you and your impact on the University?

NK: It’s important to remember that I started off my career as president of Wellesley. I was used to places that women were presidents.

When I got to Duke, I brought that self-confidence and it didn’t occur to me that I couldn’t do it. There were some people who thought, “How on earth could this young woman from Wellesley be president of Duke?” However, I had a sense of support because people were willing to give me a chance. That was very empowering. In the end, being a woman was only relevant in two ways. It was relevant to students, that a woman could be president of Duke. It could help people set their own ambitions a little higher. Also, being female helped explain why I spent a fairly large proportion of time working on the Women’s Initiative. I formed the steering committee of women faculty who were going to look at the situation of women in every area at Duke.

TC: What did the Women’s Initiative discover?

NK: We found that women at Duke feel like they are supposed to be perfect but can’t seem to be trying too hard. One sophomore coined the phrase “effortless perfection.”

That stuck for people at that time. The first thing we discovered was that people needed more childcare. We doubled size of childcare buildings and created some partnerships with childcare day care centers in area. We could make their lives easier. They were more practical for graduate students, faculty and staff.

For undergraduate students, we organized the Baldwin Scholars, one of the direct fruits of the Women’s Initiative. I probably wouldn’t have been as likely to have undertaken that if not a woman.

TC: What are your plans for the future?

NK: I’m 70 years old—I can’t think about being president of another university after already doing it twice for 23 years of my life. I was ready to get back to teaching and research, which I love, and I will continue teaching for a couple of years. So I think I’ll retire afterwards and then have time to read and write and spend time with my grandchildren. I’ll also travel, which was hard to do in 23 years of presidency.

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82 DUKE MIA 58 Duke bounces back with win

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In a week in which both of No. 5 Duke’s fiercest in-state rivals will visit Cameron Indoor Stadium, many fans are already looking ahead to the looming matchup between the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels on Wednesday. However, N.C. State cannot be forgotten, and Duke first needs to take care of business against the Wolfpack Saturday at 6 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Coming off their win at Maryland, which head coach Mike Krzyzewski said was the team’s best game since freshman point guard Kyrie Irving injured his toe, the Blue Devils (20-2, 7-1 in the ACC) will look for another strong performance to cement their place atop the conference standings.

This will be the second time Duke has faced the Wolfpack (12-10, 2-6) this season with the Blue Devils comfortably winning the previous meeting Jan. 19 by a score of 92-78. In that game senior captains Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler led the way, with Smith putting up 22 points and Singler contributing 18.

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Karima Christmas scored 14, and Duke rolled to a bounce-back victory over the Hurricanes in Cameron Indoor Stadium last night.

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Kyle Singler benefited from open looks to score 22 and lead Duke to a win against Maryland. He’ll look to continue his strong play Saturday.

Duke came into Thursday night’s game with something to prove. Needless to say, the team showed that it still is one of the best in the country.

Coming off their worst performance of the season, the No. 3 Blue Devils (21-1, 7-0 in the ACC) used constant defensive pressure and smart shot selection to beat No. 18 Miami 82-58.

The theme of the night was the outstanding play in transition on both the offensive and defensive ends of the floor.

Shay Selby, Chloe Wells and Karima Christmas kept the full-court pressure on Miami (20-3, 6-2) in the first half, forcing 12 turnovers. The swarming Duke pressure was the catalyst for an early 9-0 run in which the Hurricanes were held scoreless for six straight possessions, including back-to-back stops before Miami could reach halfcourt. With the exception of two Riquna Williams free throws, the Hurricanes were held scoreless for a stretch of over five minutes in the half.

Williams was the leading scorer for the Hurricanes, accumulating 27 points in the game on just 8-for-25 shooting from the field. The rest of the team also struggled to score with efficiency due to a tenacious defensive effort from Duke, with only one other player reaching double figures for the game.

Perhaps the most impressive statistic of the night was the 58-16 points in the paint advantage for Duke. Krystal Thomas and Christmas dominated the boards, ripping down 17 rebounds combined on the night. Thomas’s

biggest play came late in the first half when she blocked Shenise Johnson on a drive to the lane, setting the tone for the rest of the game.

The Blue Devils also had a 37-8 scoring advantage in bench production. Haley Peters led the effort off the bench with a team-high 15 points, and Wells added eight points as well.

Duke came into the second half with an intensity that was noticeably different than that of its opponent, scoring six transition points in the first four minutes. Over the course of the game, the Blue Devils scored around 26 points in transition, a direct result of great rebounding and smart passing, two things head coach Joanne P McCallie stressed were necessary components for the team to be successful. Freshman Richa Jackson was key in the transition game, and she scored a career-high 13 points in her first start of the season.

“As a team you have to be completely resilient, and I think it was very clear tonight that we did,” McCallie said.

“We’ve got to be that 22 assists, strong rebounding team and that’s something to build off of.”

Miami started to claw back midway through the second half, shrinking its deficit to 49-40. From that point on, Duke showed it was still the class of the ACC. The Hurricanes were held to another four-minute scoring drought, and the Blue Devils took advantage, using the porous offensive production to spring an 18-3 run to close out the game.

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Blue Devils travel to midwest for road swing Snow postpones Illinois match until Monday

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It wouldn’t seem that winter weather would be grounds to cancel indoor tennis, but while snow doesn’t fall on the courts, it does fall on airports. One of the worst winter storms in recent memory Notre left No. 14 Duke (5Dame 0) unable to travel vs. to its planned Friday No. 14 matchup against No. Duke 16 Illinois (2-1).

The match has SUNDAY, 12 p.m. been tentatively reSouth Bend, Ind. scheduled for Monday afternoon. The Blue Devils’ battle No. 16 against the Illini will Illinois now take place a vs. day after Duke faces No. 14 Notre Dame (2-2) in Duke South Bend, Ind. Head coach RamMONDAY, 1 p.m.

Champaign, Ill. sey Smith hasn’t had much time to focus on the match as he’s tried to concentrate on getting his team to the snowy Midwest.

“We’re looking to get there first,” the coach said.

He did emphasize, however, that his team is ready to play on either a normal or delayed schedule.

“We’re prepared for two very tough matches,” Smith said. “They’re both very aggressive in doubles. Singles-wise, there’s

no real holes in their lineup. I feel like most of the teams we’ve played so far are a little bit weaker in certain areas, and I think both the teams are pretty solid one through six.”

He added that he believes the Illini are “much better than they were last year.”

It’s significant that Illinois might have improved since last season, since the then12th-ranked Illini took down Duke 5-2 in Durham last year.

This year’s version of Illinois should indeed prove dangerous. Its one loss was on the road to Virginia, the No. 1 team in collegiate tennis. Moreover, 11th-ranked Dennis Nevolo and No. 111 Johnny Hamui were named athletes of the week for the entire Big Ten on Feb. 1 and Jan. 18, respectively.

Smith also said Illinois does a good job drawing crowds, and the Blue Devils know how important a raucous home crowd can be.

“I really think having a couple hundred people going crazy here was a huge part of winning the doubles point [last week],” he said.

Notre Dame, though not ranked as high as Illinois, is still a dangerous opponent. The Fighting Irish fell to the Illini Jan. 29, but won the doubles point and won five out of six first sets in singles competition before eventually dropping the match 4-1. Notre Dame’s other loss has also come to the country’s topranked Virginia squad. margie truwit/Chronicle file photo

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Head coach Ramsey Smith expects a raucous crowd in Illinois that should be similar to Duke’s last week.

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Duke ready to take Duke looks to replicate on Big 10 competition last year’s success at meet

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Traveling for the just the second time in 2011, Duke opens up its spring road schedule with a pair of Big Ten matchups this weekend.

The Blue Devils square off today against Indiana (5-0) and hope to repeat their performance from a season ago when they handily swept the Hoosiers 7-0. Sunday will mark the bigger Indiana test of the weekend, however, as vs.

Duke travels to No. 7 No. 20 NorthwestDuke ern (2-2), in its first match against FRIDAY, 4:00 p.m.

Bloomington, Ind. a top-25 opponent this year.

“Overall No. 20 we’re really exNW cited about bevs. ing on the road,” No. 7 sophomore Duke Mary Clayton said.

“Obviously SUNDAY, 7 p.m.

Northwestern is Evanston, Ill. a good team, but we’re going in playing really well so I think we have a great chance.”

Historically, the No. 7 Blue Devils (4-0) have dominated Indiana, both on the road and in the friendly confines

When the Blue Devils participated in the New Balance Collegiate Invitational a year ago, they left with championship wins in three events, and a school record in the men’s 4x800-meters.

For the majority of the team, this weekend is a chance to replicate the previous year’s record-setting success against some Armory of the top teams Collegiate in the nation. This year, the Blue DevFRIDAY-SATURDAY ils return to the ArNew York, NY. mory Track & Field Center in New York with added confidence and energy, as some look to defend their titles. The team also has set its sights on a larger array of events than it has in the past, and is looking to make an impression in the field as well as jumps and hurdles, rather than just in distance.

“This is always a highlight of the indoor season,” Director of Track and Field Norm Ogilvie said. “We’re really excited about the balance, this is the most balance we’ve ever had…. We won’t just be making a splash in distance which is what we tended to do in the past.”

This year Duke will not attempt to break its school record in the men’s 4x800-meter race.

Instead, the Blue Devils are focusing on the individual events where they feel most comfortable. For senior Sean-Pat Oswald, that means

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being able to run in the 1000-meter race and getting the chance to break his own school record in the 800-meter race. Freshman Tanner Anderson has a similar goal in mind as well, as he hopes to break the school pole vault record he set earlier in the season. In the championship mile, seniors Ryan McDermott and Kate Van Buskirk look to take the win in their respective races, while athletes such as senior Amy Fryt and sophomore Michelle Anumba will bring strong performances in the field.

Freshmen Brian Atkinson and Clint McKelvey will compete on the opposite coast, running in San Diego. Tomorrow, they will race against other college freshmen as well as high school seniors in USATF U.S.A. Cross Country Championships.

The reward for a top spot in this race is a chance to have the honor of competing in a U.S. jersey at one of two upcoming competitions. A finish in the top six will guarantee that athlete a spot at the 2011 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Punta Umbria, Spain. Athletes who finish in the next four spots will have an opportunity to run for their country as well in the North America, Central American & Caribbean (NACAC) Cross Country Championships, which will take place later this month.

According to Ogilvie, the two men representing Duke at the event stand a good chance of qualifying for these races and will head in with confidence.

“I’m pretty excited, but not too nervous,” Atkinson said. “There’s not much to lose but a lot to gain.”

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m. basketball from page 8 this weekend. The two combine for an average of over 39 points per game, contributing the bulk of the offense. However, as with Duke’s recent wins, it is only when other players step up that the Blue Devils’ dominance really shows. In their two losses this season, the only players who scored in double digits have been Singler and Smith.

MORE In contrast, ONLINE N.C. State’s top two scorers TraFollow our live-blog cy Smith and Ryan Harrow for the N.C. State average about game Saturday at 26 points per 6:00. sports.chronicleblogs. game combined, slightly less than com the dynamic Duke duo.

Freshman Tyler Thornton was given his first start against the Terrapins, relieving Smith of his ball-handling duties. It will be interesting to see whether Thornton will hold his starting spot tomorrow night and allow Smith to “position himself in other positions,” in the words of Krzyzewski. The swap was a big change for the team, but it was a move that allowed Smith to switch back to his natural role as a shooting guard, an improvement that was reflected not only by his shooting, but that of the whole team as well.

w. tennis from page 9 of Ambler Stadium. Since 2004 Duke has won six straight matches and outscored the Hoosiers 37-5. Throughout that same stretch, the Blue Devils have never lost the doubles point.

The Wildcats, however, have proven significantly harder to tame, especially on the road. While the Blue Devils won in their last trip to Evanston in 2009, the victory was less than decisive as Duke narrowly escaped 4-3. In the Blue Devils’ two previous trips in 2007 and 2005, Northwestern won resoundingly 6-1 and 5-2, respectively.

Yet Duke comes into this weekend playing great tennis, having dismantled both Texas A&M and Brown this past week. In both matches the Blue Devils dominated play more than both 6-1 victories would indicate. Seniors Reka Zsilinszka and Ellah Nze won all of their singles matches in straight set, while freshman Rachel Kahan also played exceptionally well in her first two collegiate matches.

“I think we’ve had a few really good matches these past few weekends,” Clay-

m. tennis from page 9 “I think they’re definitely a top-25 team,” Smith said.

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Last time out, Ryan Harrow scored 15 points and dished out five assists in N.C. State’s 92-78 loss to Duke. The freshman will look for revenge against Duke Saturday.

“Right now, we just have to keep developing as a team,” Krzyzewski said. “We have no visions of grandeur. Right now we have to keep getting better and prepare for N.C. State.”

ton said. “That’s given us a ton of confidence going in.”

Adding to the competitive environment of the Northwestern match is a reunion of two former teammates. Duke freshman Hanna Mar will match up against fellow Hinsdale Central High School (Illinois) product freshman Nida Hamilton, in what is sure to be an environment filled with mixed emotion.

While Northwestern may be the bigger headline this weekend, Duke will need to keep its focus on Indiana first in order to come away with a victory. Making the mistake of looking past unranked N.C. State in 2007 to then-No. 11 North Carolina, the then-No. 18 Blue Devils lost in an embarrassing road upset that could easily parallel this weekend’s away series if Duke is not careful.

The Blue Devils are making sure to focus on each match to come away with the pair of victories this weekend, however, as Clayton reiterated.

“While it is our first trip away from home to start the season… we’re making sure to take it one match at a time,” she said. a way to get there.

NOTES: Sophomore Henrique Cunha was named the ACC player of the week Tuesday, Feb. 1. This marks the seventh time Cunha has won the award, and the first time he has won it this season.

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In addition to stronger guard play and a much improved 3-point shooting percentage from the loss at St. John’s, Duke’s post players also stepped up a level. Mason Plumlee had one of his strongest performances as a Blue Devil against Maryland, finishing with a double-double of 12 points and 11 boards against Terrapins’ star Jordan Williams.

This showing came only one game after he struggled against St. John’s, putting

up only two points and four rebounds in 18 minutes.

“I really think it was Mason’s best game at Duke,” Krzyzewski said. “And he played well for 36 minutes.”

Things may be coming together at the right time for the Blue Devils—effective post players, more natural positions and a better shooting percentage. Just in time for the week where Duke can show who’s best in the state of North Carolina.

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w. basketball from page 8 Monday at Gampel Pavilion, the team knew it had a lot of things to work on. Christmas, who had 14 points and 6 assists for the game, had one of her worst shooting performances of the season against the Huskies. According to Christmas, Duke’s performance against the Huskies sparked the team.

“We were embarrassed, we just wanted say, ‘Forget that game, that’s not how we play,’ and we wanted to come out there and just go at them,” Christmas said.

Peters also struggled from the field last game, but stressed that Duke wanted to make a statement against its ACC opponent.

“We got punched in the face and it was embarrassing, but now we have something to build off of,” she said. “We came into [this game wanting] to put a hard footprint on [Miami], and that’s what we did.”

The Blue Devils will be back in action Monday in Chapel Hill against rival North Carolina, who is tied for second in the ACC. While Duke has had an up-and-down couple of weeks, McCallie knows that the season is far from over.

“We’ve been through a lot, but we want to get a whole lot better,” she said.

facilities from page 1 said Trask, who is the chief administrative and financial officer for the University.

“Donations are not up that much. We still haven’t seen a lot of big gifts, which is the difference.”

‘Anything short of a Monsoon’ The three most recent projects were funded through a combination of gifts, money from the athletics budget, general University funds and the executive vice president’s discretionary fund.

The most pressing need was a renovation to Jack Coombs Field. In the 2008 strategic plan, the field was deemed “the worst baseball facility in the ACC” mainly due to its poor drainage system, which hadn’t been updated since it was installed in the 1950s, according to Brad Berndt, an associate director of athletics. The outdated system, combined with a grass surface and a wet spring last year, forced the Blue Devils to move all but one of their home games off campus.

The majority were relocated to nearby Durham Bulls Athletic Park, with which Duke signed a three-year contract in 2010 to host primarily weekend ACC series.

When that facility was unavailable last season, however, the team had to bus to the USA Baseball Complex in Cary, 30 minutes from campus, causing more expenses and time out of class, Berndt said.

“The cost associated with playing games away from campus had become an issue,”

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Freshman Richa Jackson took advantage of her first start last night to score a career-high 13 points in Duke’s winning effort.

Berndt said.

The field underwent several changes this winter. The drainage system was updated, the grass playing field was replaced with a sports turf artificial surface and the entire field was moved closer to the backstop, necessitating that the outfield fences be moved in as well to maintain the current dimensions. Additionally, a few light poles were readjusted and one was added.

“We decided to fix all of it to get an allfield surface that would drain in anything short of a monsoon,” Trask said. “And even in a monsoon, it will drain fairly quickly.”

The total cost was a little over $1.5 million, with one-fourth of that total coming out of Trask’s discretionary fund to ensure the club baseball team has access to the field. Another fourth came from a central deferred maintenance fund, about onehalf came from athletics and a six-figure gift helped cover the rest.

The team will still look to renew its contract with the Durham Bulls after next year, Trask said, because “everyone likes that park downtown,” and the on-campus field is not capable of hosting NCAA events, as it was hoped for in the 2008 strategic plan.

Six- and Seven-Figure Gifts The other two recent projects—the renovations to the golf teams’ practice area and the start of construction on the multipurpose fieldhouse—are almost entirely gift-funded.

A $200,000 gift to the golf program al-

tered the terrain of the driving range, chipping green and bunkers. The practice area, which is shielded by trees to the left of the 10th hole, has two split fairways with a variety of different types of grass to better prepare the teams for their travels.

“We play tournaments on Zoysia, Bermuda, and we have two different kinds of dead grass for our greens down there, so we are trying to simulate the conditions we play in tournaments,” said Dan Brooks, the head women’s golf coach.

The fieldhouse, which is currently under construction adjacent to the Brooks Practice Facility directly behind Wallace Wade Stadium, is a considerably more expensive undertaking and is funded by a substantial gift. Bob Pascal, Trinity ‘56, donated $6 million, the largest individual gift in Duke athletics history, for the field house in April 2009. Steve Brooks, T ‘70, the namesake of the football team’s current practice area, also donated $4 million to the program at the same time.

The university is contributing about $1 million from the executive vice president’s discretionary fund to cover the costs of the field, so the facility can truly be multipurpose and be used by IM and club teams when the football squad isn’t practicing.

The facility—which the Trustees have not proposed naming for Pascal yet, said Mike Cragg, senior associate director of athletics and head of facilities planning—will be done in time for next school year and hopefully for the start of fall football practice, according to Trask.

‘A Domino effect’ The long-term plan for football, though, is likely to run a tab of $80 to $90 million, if the planners get their wish. The Bostock Group, made up of influential donors and alumni, has a four-phase plan to completely renovate Wallace Wade. The group is close to presenting a more precise estimation than the $80 to $90 million that was brought up last semester.

“We want to create a more fan-friendly environment like Cameron where our students are right on the court,” Cragg said. “We’re looking at areas to build a new track stadium and think we have a good plan for that, which would require changes or renovations for practice fields for soccer and lacrosse. It’s kind of a domino effect.”

Cameron Indoor Stadium might one day be a part of that domino effect. In the 2008 strategic plan, the idea of adding suites to generate additional income from Cameron was proposed. Since then, several architects have tried, and failed, to come up with an “architecturally doable and financially workable” plan, Trask said.

“It’s architecturally close to impossible,” he said. “I’ve seen a lot of people try, and they all give up eventually. You could take the roof off, but the problem is if you do that and put in 25 suites, they would never pay for themselves. And why would you want to move to the very back?

“Cameron is a special place and we want to keep it a special place.”

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File sharing issues remain Ten years after the shut- legally sharing files, noting tering of Napster—the infa- that students who violated mous peer-to-peer file-sharing copyright laws in the past had website created by a student faced substantial lawsuits. at Northeastern University— At a Duke Student Governfile sharing remains on the ment meeting Wednesday, minds of Duke the Senate apstudents and proved funding editorial administrators. for a UniversityTwo events this week high- based file-sharing network, light the continuing debate DukePie, which would faciliover the legality and ethics tate easier file sharing among of file sharing, the practice students and faculty. of using software to dissemiAlthough very different in nate songs, movies or written approach, both the adminworks via the Internet. istrative e-mail and the poThis Monday, Vice Presi- tential initiation of DukePie dent for Student Affairs Larry illuminate the difficulty in Moneta and Vice President dealing with file sharing at for Information Technology the University level.

Tracy Futhey e-mailed the In the past, we have made student body reiterating the our positions on both filpotential for both University ing sharing and intellectual and legal sanctions against property clear. Heavy-handed any student found to be il- crackdowns on individual stu-

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dents, even when legally justified, are troubling. Intellectual freedom and the sharing of information constitute the lifeblood of any university.

Yet, intellectual property laws ensure that innovative new ideas are protected and thus they must be maintained.

Still, for many college students file sharing, even if technically illegal, is a part of daily life. The proliferation of music and video files online makes downloading even the most obscure works relatively easy and, more importantly, free.

Our generation in particular has grown up accustomed to the notion that information and data shared on the Internet wants to be free.

Both the benefits and drawbacks of easy accessibility to free content, for artists

and industries as a whole, have been thoroughly discussed.

While file sharing allows relatively obscure artists to quickly develop a devoted following— witness the rise of Mike Posner, Trinity ’10, for evidence of this phenomenon—illegally downloading free materials jeopardizes the ability of new artists to make money on their work.

Students who one day hope to profit from their intellect and skills should be aware of the damaging impact that downloading materials illegally has on creative innovation.

But there is still a place for file sharing on campus. Faculty members, for example, share educational materials by posting portions of textbooks or academic papers for students to access on E-Reserves. Importantly, these activities fall within

the principles of fair use, as professors are not profiting off the limited materials they make available to their classes.

Illegally downloading a hit single violates both copyright law and University policy. The issue lies in understanding how to promote the free flow of information and ideas while simultaneously protecting intellectual property and stimulating an environment that nurtures creativity, a question extending beyond the cat-andmouse game of downloads and lawsuits played by individuals and the music industry.

In the end, colleges must seek a middle ground, balancing the necessity for intellectual property protections with the contingencies of societal expectations in an increasingly connected, digitized world.

Inertia and lack of reason

very time I look at my American passport, I a clear fingerprint of our representatives peddling smile with joy. Before I immigrated to this tax loopholes—and we wouldn’t have to waste one country I could not take the freedom to or two days a year on filling our tax returns. travel for granted. For my sons, however, whose If we kept checking the structural integrity of freedom was never threatened, a our Social Security system, our impassport doesn’t carry the same zbignew kabala migration policy (or the lack of it) meaning—you have to lose someand our public education, we would the professor thing or have it threatened to aphave seen the jarring incongruity next door preciate it. I cherish the freedoms between them a long time ago. You and opportunities granted by this can’t have a retirement system, in country, and it pains me to see dark clouds slowly which the next generation funds the retirement gathering on the horizons. It’s important we make of the previous one when there is a growing disourselves aware of the threats and react to them. crepancy between the number of retirees and the Deaf and blind since the age of two, Hellen number of tax earners, and when the latter group Keller famously said, “The only thing worse than cannot find decent jobs because of poor educabeing blind is having sight but no vision.” And tion. Lower birth rates could have been corrected yet the voting majority of our politicians have with a responsive, dynamic immigration policy, no vision. They spend so much time on their re- but they weren’t. The new generation could have election fundraising that they don’t even bother been better prepared for the increasingly global reading the bills they bind us with. Even former job market, but they weren’t. This is not surprising, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi infamously considering that most of our kids graduate from acknowledged, “We [had] to pass the [health the dysfunctional public school system ranked recare] bill, so you can find out what’s in it.” Is this cently 48th in the world in science and math. The what we expect, deserve and settle for from our baby boomers are about to find out how well our representatives? senators and representatives “planned” Social SeWhat is missing is a rational, big-picture ap- curity for them.... proach to politics, i.e., an engineering approach.

On an even bigger scale, we can see unmistakWouldn’t it be nice to add an extension on the able signs of climate change. Our Glacier National side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and build Park is losing its glaciers rapidly, as seen from maps a house or two there? New York could easily sell and photographs. Of the original 150 glaciers that such a piece of real estate for tons of money, and existed there 100 years earlier, only 37 remain tothe owners would enjoy a magnificent view and the day and are expected to be gone between 2020 envy of everybody. So why don’t we see houses at- and 2030—clear evidence that the structural intached to our bridges? Because they would threat- tegrity of our coal and petroleum-based society is en the structural integrity of these bridges and beginning to crumble. likely cause them to fail. All engineered structures There are many more disconcerting issues. and systems that would threaten lives if failed are What can we do about them? Well, talk about them, regularly checked for structural integrity—build- strive to see their big picture, check the structural ings, railroads, airports, dams, power plants, cars, integrity of the proposed or implemented soluairplanes and flight control systems. tions and get involved—we desperately need active Question: How many people die annually on and educated citizenry! Consider Teach for Ameraverage in the U.S. due to equipment or human ica, Peace Corps or other worthy endeavors after errors in commercial aviation and due to analo- graduation. Start now, even if small. For example, gous errors in our health care system? Answer: less if climate change is your concern, and it should than a 100 versus a whopping 230,000 or more. be, help save the energy—turn off the lights and The difference: frequent structural integrity TV when you’re last to leave a room, turn off the checks in the former and the lack of them in the water when you brush your teeth. As Helen Keller latter. So why don’t we regularly check the struc- put it: “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot tural integrity of at least those political structures do everything, but still I can do something; and that could threaten our lives if failed? because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse If we did, we wouldn’t have senators and rep- to do something that I can do.” resentatives running around 95 percent of their time peddling influence to raise re-election funds Zbigniew Kabala is an associate professor in the Dewithout finding time to read the bills they vote on. partment of Civil and Environmental Engineering and If we did, we wouldn’t have the tax code more than a faculty-in-residence in Southgate Dormitory on East 71,000 pages long and growing exponentially on Campus. This is the fourth in a weekly column from facaverage at a rate of about 3.3 percent every year— ulty members in residence on East Campus.

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he toad beneath the harrow knows/exactly where each tooth-point goes/the butterfly upon the road/preaches contentment to that toad”- Rudyard Kipling Happy Days are here again, the butterflies tell, as they dance above our heads and live large.

The recession’s over, or at worst in a “jobless recovery,” and it’s high time for the rubes to get off the sidelines and join the highrolling investors. The Dow is at 12,000, and on Wall Street benethomas sporn fits and compensation at publicly table for one traded securities and banks are at a record $135 billion. New car sales for Ford and GM are booming.

For some reason, I am not in a particularly celebratory mood, and morose even for a pathologist. Maybe it’s the horrific and endless winter, nice here in Durham today for a change, but the tales one hears from friends in the frozen Midwest and family in northern New England make one glad to live around here and not have to deal with the apocalyptic amount of snow, ice and frozen misery currently afflicting a vast swath of the country.

Maybe it’s because Green Bay and Pittsburgh are vying in the Super Bowl, the biggest bread-and-circus spectacle in the vanguard of our popular culture, instead of two teams I could give a hoot about. And I stand to get fleeced in the departmental Super Bowl pool, by the way. Again.

Maybe it’s because this week I had to explain to someone I know the nuances of a new and completely unexpected diagnosis of malignancy, knowing that this individual would soon face a tough road and some serious decision-making. Ordinarily, such discussions just come with the territory as a pathologist, what with the intimate knowledge of the body in disease states that we keep on hand, but the familiar and quotidian bad actors become unsettling when they pay visits close to home. Yes, this week there are many toads beneath the tines of the harrow, and damn the butterflies anyway.

And things have hit the fan and gotten extremely ugly in Egypt, a heretofore more or less stable and secular island in a sea of instability. If you were around in 1979 to witness the revolution in Iran, the overthrow of the hated and U.S.-backed Shah and the ascendancy of at least an equally repressive Islamic theocracy, you’d find the current situation in Cairo highly disturbing. Although there are significant differences in the countries, the local religious climates, the times and the principals, the resemblance and parallels in the Egyptian capital to the historic events in Iran are striking. Once again, the U.S. has found itself propping up an unpopular and repressive regime, as a secular dictator in our estimation is preferable to yet another radical Islamic state. Should the Mubarak government begin to fall precipitously, unlike the reunification of Germany with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, or the collapse of the communist rule in Poland following the Solidarity demonstrations in the Lenin Shipyards, there’s no evil Soviet empire to rally the crowds against. There’s only the Great Satan in this case, and the considerable financial aid from America helps supply the tanks, tear gas and rubber bullets the Mubarak government turns on its own people. There will be hell to pay.

Despite the cessation of open hostility following the four wars fought between the two countries in the first 25 years of Israel’s existence and the cold peace following the assassination of Anwar Sadat, anti-Israel and anti-Jewish sentiments run high in Egypt. I don’t think anyone really knows what a post-Mubarak Egypt will look like, or around what force the secular and Islamic opposition will coalesce, or whether the instability in Egypt will spread to other dictatorial and secular states that dot the Middle East. But we’ll have a good idea when and if the crowd in Cairo’s anger becomes focused upon this country with the familiar refrain of Death to Israel, Death to the Zionists, Death to the U.S.A. The contentment preached by the butterflies isn’t completely hollow. As I close this column out, our Blue Devils have chopped up and finished off the Terps in College Park. I enjoyed watching the louts in attendance make for the exits in the Comcast Center, and there was no repeat of last year’s execrable display up there. And finally, large burrowing rodents emerging from dens at various spots around this fair land failed to see their respective shadows. Spring is on the way—if you believe in this type of portent—and life in the waning minutes of the day is good.

Dr. Thomas Sporn is an associate professor in the Department of Pathology. His column runs every other Friday.

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or the past week and a half, the world has had its Mubarak’s regime is responsible, but many following the eyes on Egypt. The political unrest there has held developments feel strongly that there is little other explathe focus of news networks across the globe and nation. Regardless, it appears that Google sympathizes, maintained its place on the front pages as on Tuesday the web giant launched of newspapers. By now, mere news rea program that will allow Egyptians to ports have been joined by a multitude of continue to make their tweets known to op-ed pieces; live blogs have shifted the the world. By calling one of three interconversation into the present tense; and national phone numbers, Egyptian users Glenn Beck has made an appearance on can leave a voice recording of their dethe O’Reilly Factor because apparently sired message, and the company will take one of them at a time just doesn’t suffice. care of the rest. As noble as this TwitterIf live coverage is what you’re after, howbased aid is, it should be noted as well chris bassil ever, your best bet is probably Twitter. that it relies upon the maintenance of That may sound surprising to some, mobile phone and landline connectivity, just a minute especially since the social networking site a luxury which is far from certain. is often accused of serving no real purFrom the fears of the Egyptian govpose. For those of us interested in Egypt and looking on ernment to the eyes and efforts of people across the from overseas, however, the exact opposite is true: Twit- world, the role of Twitter and the Internet in the recent ter brings us news in a way that no other outlet can. goings-on raises an important question: To what extent For one, Twitter is about as real-time as it gets, which is it a governing body’s duty to permit free access to the means that it exhibits the same strength in relation to Internet within its borders? Without Internet access, a mainstream media as Wikipedia does in relation to tra- modern country cannot maintain its connections with ditional reference sources. Its information evolves as other world nations, markets and the masses, and so the story does, and the typical disregard for sentence the deprivation of access constitutes censorship and a structure and syntax allow for second-to-second updates violation of civil liberties. Social networking products (after all, tweets are limited to only 140 characters). which at one time seemed frivolous are quickly revealFree from the restrictions of major networks, Twitter’s ing themselves to be platforms of free speech in our by-product form of reporting can turn on a dime and, globally integrated world. as a result, is often more reliable when it comes to imFor those who might scoff at the notion of Internet mediately discerning the gist of an incident. It also of- use as something akin to an inalienable right, rememfers the brand of unintended neutrality that arises from ber that rights must be granted relative to the context in discussion in a public forum. The thread becomes an which they exist. For example, our right to free speech aggregate of all kinds of reports and analyses, allowing has not always been bound up inextricably with manthe user to discern where the truth lies. Consequently, kind, because for a time man existed without speech.

Twitter can replace the thorough approach to media Only after the development of language, society and govconsumption that often requires hours of digging ernment did we recognize our right to speak our minds around in order to discern the biases between different and demand it as a guarantee. Perhaps it is time that we mainstream media sources. grant the Internet a similar status, with the revolution in In the end, however, the Egyptian government’s al- Egypt as its strongest contemporary testament. leged act of banning Twitter in recent days is probably the most impressive testament to its efficacy as a news Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every outlet. Of course, no one can say for certain whether Friday.

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ike most Americans, I am closely following the Who are these people? They are the Muslim moderhistorical turn of events going on in the Middle ates we keep searching for. Time and again, I am asked East. Unlike most Americans, I am watching by the media, by colleagues and by friends, “Where are them through the distinct lens of an inthe moderates?” They are everywhere, sider and an outsider. but there are three general reasons why jen’nan read I am part of a small, largely affluent we haven’t heard them before now: and assimilated group of Americans 1. In Muslim majority countries, guest column that has been displaced from the MidMuslims often have few rights and little dle East under these various regimes. voice to speak out against extremists.

Born in the U.S., I spent 14 years of my youth living in Why speak when the outcome is likely going to be less Libya and Egypt under Gadaffi and Mubarak’s rule. I than favorable? was in Tripoli during the 1986 bombings. I read, write 2. In Muslim minority countries, the last thing a and speak Arabic. I know the cultures well. moderate Muslim wants to do is associate with extremI am also an American academic who has spent the ism. In my many conversations with Muslim Americans, past decade researching the assimilation experiences of that is exactly what they fear will happen if they speak Muslims and Arabs in the U.S. and western Europe. out. Even Christian Arabs, like myself, are cautious in I watch the images of unrest on my TV and com- conversations on these sensitive topics here in the U.S. puter screen through this dual lens. The insider views 3. When Muslim moderates do speak out, their voices the events as historic, shocking and inspiring. The are often drowned out by the noise on each end of the outsider understands the temptation to see them as spectrum—on one end by the extremists, on the other the latest examples of Islamic hostility, of Muslims act- by those responsible for the victimization. ing violently.

The fact is that the overwhelming majority of MusBased on my years of research and on my experi- lims worldwide are moderates. The same is true in the ences as a Christian living in that part of the world, I U.S; if you know a Muslim, you very likely know a modwould urge us to resist this temptation. erate Muslim. I know a lot of Muslims—some are conThese are not extremists. These are people pro- servative, some are liberal, most are moderates. None testing economic and political oppression in Tunisia. are extremists.

These are people demanding fair elections in Egypt.

So let’s not make the goings-on in the Middle East These are people in Lebanon crying out for justice. about violence and extremism.

These people are fighting for their civil and human Let’s not make it about being Muslim. rights. They are tired of oppressive regimes that limit Let’s make it about being human. their opportunities in life. They are rational, thoughtful and care enough about the conditions in their reJen’nan Read is an associate professor of sociology and globspective countries to take to the streets, even though al health at Duke. She is a Carnegie Scholar studying Muslim doing so comes with considerable risk.

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