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Calif. students apply in record numbers Patton to tal applications increased by 45 percent. As more Californians apply to Duke, more are matriculating as well. In 2001, 74 students enrolled at Duke—last year 149 did. This increase could be a result of a number of factors, including efforts by Duke recruiters and the California public education system’s budget crisis that has limited the financial and educational resources available to students.
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An increasing number of students are trading the Golden Coast for Bull City. Out of the 29,550 students who applied to Duke this year, 3,416 are from California, the highest number of any state by a large margin, according to Duke admissions data. The number of applications from California to Duke increased by 93 percent between 2008 and 2011. In comparison, the number of to-
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take reins of Trinity New dean first female in position since 1985 by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE
The University does not expect scandal—whether a PowerPoint or Tailgate-gate—to affect its overall Duke brand. Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, addressed Duke Student Government about the Duke brand at the group’s meeting Wednesday night. Schoenfeld acknowledged the impact of recent incidents on the University’s image, but noted that Duke simply must redirect its focus to maintain its reputation of excellence. “What I can say with some reasonable certainty is student conduct will always have some impact on reputation,” Schoenfeld
Laurie Patton, a professor at Emory University, will join Duke July 1 as the new dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange announced Wednesday. Patton, Charles Howard Candler professor of religions at Emory University and director of Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, is the first Laurie Patton woman to serve in the position since 1985, when Ernestine Friedl stepped down from the position, said University Archivist Timothy Pyatt. The dean oversees 34 academic departments and more than 600 professors within Arts and Sciences. She will be the primary authority on Trinity’s budget and responsible for ensuring financial stability and developing profitable programs. Patton will lead Trinity College with new initiatives and strategic planning regarding educational programming and faculty decisions. “I am tremendously excited about coming to Duke. From the minute I met the search committee, and then later other faculty, students and administrators, I sensed a likeness of mind and spirit about the next step that a great university might take in twenty-first century education,” Patton wrote in an e-mail Wednesday. “I think Duke has a record of both rigor and creativity that makes it more nimble in responding to crucial educational challenges.” Patton was recommended by the Arts and Sciences search committee composed of 15 administrators, faculty members and students. The pool was narrowed to three finalists in the last two weeks. “I am enormously pleased that Laurie Patton has agreed to become the next dean of Arts and Sciences,” Lange said in a Duke news release. “She is a most gifted scholar and teacher whose career has demonstrated a commitment to research and teaching and to how the two can most productively be combined. She has a breadth of vision about how Arts and Sciences can continue
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Despite scoring a season-low 56 points, the Blue Devils came out on top in Charlottesville, Va. last night. Nolan Smith led all scorers with 22 points.
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Ronald McDonald house to undergo major expansion by Melissa Dalis THE CHRONICLE
The Ronald McDonald House of Durham on campus plans to “supersize” itself. Located off Alexander Avenue on Central Campus, the facility will undergo a $6.7 million project to drastically expand its physical size starting at the end of the year. Providing a home-like atmosphere for families whose children are receiving treatment in the Duke Children’s Hospital, the facility will be doubled to have 55 rooms and suites. The project should be
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A hearing was held Wednesday night after senior Christine Hall filed an injuction over the Young Trustee election ballot because students were forced to vote on a Duke Student Government referendum in order to submit a ballot. See the full story at dukechronicle.com tomorrow afternoon.
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The Ronald McDonald House will undergo a $6.7 million expansion to increase patient capacity. The facility houses approximately 1,200 families every year, be turning down approximately 700 this year. OIE21011 Chron ad_Layout 1 2/10/11 1:50but PMwill Page 1
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Skirmish erupts at Iran Most Americans reject protest victim’s funeral single motherhood by Thomas Erdbrink The Washington Post
TEHRAN — Skirmishes broke out Wednesday at the funeral of a man killed during anti-government demonstrations, Iranian state television reported, as the state prosecutor declared that opposition leaders would face trial. Although opposition websites say the two people killed in protests Monday were anti-government demonstrators, state television said the victims were members of a paramilitary organization and were killed by opposition supporters, as governmentbacked entities have asserted. The skirmishes occurred near the College of Fine Arts in Tehran, where one of the victims, Sane Jhaleh, had been a student. Witnesses said that about 500 members of the paramilitary Basij organization gathered there and were joined by other people. Dozens of the college’s students have been arrested, witnesses said, but it was unclear whether they participated in protests. The pro-government demonstrators called for the death of leaders of the grassroots opposition movement, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi. They said the opposition protests Monday were part of a plot organized by the United States and domestic followers to topple Iran’s leaders. Iran’s national prosecutor said Wednesday that opposition leaders would “certainly” be put on trial. “The recent actions of the heads of sedition are unforgivable,” said Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, according to the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance told the few foreign media representatives in Iran to stay in their offices Wednesday. The Basij militia accused opposition activists of shooting Jhaleh, a 26-year-old Iranian Kurd, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported. The Basij said Jhaleh was a member of the group, but opposition websites said he had nothing to do with the it and was a known opposition supporter. An opposition website, Kaleme.com, said pro-government militants occupied the arts faculty Wednesday. It said several people were attacked and a large number arrested. “The martyr’s fellow students were standing against the walls watching a large crowd of strangers who had entered the university,” said Sajjad Rezaie, head of the faculty’s pro-government Islamic Association, according to Kaleme. “University occupied by the military martyr’s body carried on the shoulders of murderers,” read a headline on the Kaleme website after Jhaleh’s coffin, draped in the Iranian flag, was carried through the streets by Basij members. During the procession, the militiamen chanted, “I will kill the person who killed my brother,” and shouted other slogans against Karroubi and Mousavi. The Sahamnews.org website, which is connected to Karroubi, said the government was trying to turn “killed demonstrators” into their own martyrs. The website and several student organizations connected to the See iran on page 6
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WASHINGTON — Even as they’ve grown more comfortable with same-sex or unmarried couples raising children, most Americans still view single mothers as detrimental to society, according to a new poll of attitudes toward the country’s soaring number of non-traditional families. Most types of non-traditional families are broadly accepted or at least tolerated, including same-sex couples with kids, unmarried parents and childless women, according to a poll from the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends. But two decades after TV’s Murphy Brown caused a public furor by having a child without a husband around, many people still draw the line when it comes to single motherhood. The poll illustrates how dramatically attitudes have changed from the not-so-distant past when the typical family was a married couple with children and virtually every other kind of family was considered abnormal. Today nuclear families make up barely one in five households in the United States, census statistics show. And nearly four in 10 births are to unmarried women, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. “People aren’t embracing these changes, but they are accepting them,” said Rich Morin, a senior editor at the Pew Center
and author of the report. “The days when people were made to wear a scarlet letter or were shunned after a divorce are ancient history.” The poll asked about 2,700 people their thoughts about seven trends in modern relationships that are upending what used to be considered the traditional family: unmarried parents raising children; gay couples raising children; single mothers; partners living together outside of marriage; working mothers; interracial marriage; and women who never bear children. The poll results suggest that Americans fall largely into three equally sized camps. Roughly a third said the trends have no impact on society or are positive. People who were positive about the changing family were overwhelmingly women, Hispanics and East Coast residents who rarely if ever attend religious services. Another third considered most of the changes harmful to society. The only trends they accepted were interracial marriage and fewer women having children. People who were unhappy with the trajectory tended to be older, white Republicans who are married and religiously observant. They also were more likely to be from the Midwest or South. The third group tended to accept See Mothers on page 6
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DSG from page 1 said. “But, it’s background noise. We need to focus on academic quality.” Vice President for Academic Affairs Kaveh Danesh, a junior, asked how student conduct issues, such as those faced by the University last Fall, can be dismissed given the impact of the lacrosse scandal. Schoenfeld said that few people were initially introduced to the University through the lacrosse case. Among those not familiar with Duke before the case, the University’s reputation was damaged, but for those more familiar with Duke, the lacrosse case did not dramatically change their high opinions of the University. “In the next two or three weeks, it will be five years since [the lacrosse case] happened,” he said. “I think of it as a radioactive half-life because the impact continues to decline. Memories [of] those kinds of things tend to be pretty short.” Schoenfeld added that the intense scrutiny of Duke’s image by the student body can lead students to make broad and often incorrect conclusions about the public’s opinion of the University. “We tend to focus a laser light on the things about Duke, and we assume that the whole world is as focused as we are,” Schoenfeld said. “[Still,] because of our visibility, it is true that our successes [as well as] our controversies and failures will be magnified.” He also said that in order of importance, the things that have
the greatest influence on the University’s reputation are academic quality, athletics and medicine. He spoke in particular about the role of the basketball team. “In your neighborhood... you might know 20 people,” Schoenfeld said. “You will have no idea where 19 people went to college, but you will know the Duke person. The Duke person is always wearing their basketball stuff.” In other business: Sophomore Ari Ruffer, a senator for Durham and regional affairs, asked the executive board why they thought 49.94 percent of students—the largest voter turnout in recent history—voted in the Young Trustee election Tuesday. Executive Vice President Pete Schork, a junior, attributed the heightened voter turnout to an
increase in student understanding about the election process and recent election bylaw changes. The Senate also unanimously approved three new student groups: To Write Love On Her Arms, the Alexander Hamilton Society and the Paradigm Shift Forum. Freshman Patrick Oathout, an academic affairs senator, proposed a statute to better advertise to students that classrooms are available for use after-hours. The statute was approved unanimously and is a response to student feedback expressing a desire for additional study space. The Senate also unanimously approved a statute that will require the DSG Rules Committee to post a schedule detailing when it will certain measures for discussion. Senior Joe Catapano, an academic affairs senator, proposed the statute.
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Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, told Duke Student Government Wednesday that academics, athletics and medicine, respectively, have the greatest influence on Duke’s reputation.
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opposition have called on protesters to prevent the “hijacking of the blood of Jhaleh.” A more subdued funeral ceremony was held for the second man killed Monday, 22-year-old Mohammad Mokhtari, Fars reported. The agency said he was “shot by hypocrite groups.” On Tuesday, in an ominous turn to the Iranian unrest, scores of hard-line lawmakers called for the execution of Mousavi, 68, a reformist former prime minister, and Karroubi, 73, who once served as speaker of parliament. Both men ran against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a June 2009 election that the government said Ahmadinejad won in a landslide but that the opposition said was stolen. Mousavi and Karroubi have been under house arrest for some time. Karroubi and Mousavi issued statements Wednesday praising the protests. Karroubi said he was willing to “pay any price” to bring social and political change to Iran, Sahamnews.org reported. Intelligence officers raided the house of his son Hossein, but he was not at home, the website reported. Mousavi denied accusations that the opposition had ties to Western nations, as its critics contend. He said the opposition was under attack from “authoritarian leaders” inside and “foreigners, trying to ride the wave of our movement.”
all the changes except for single motherhood. Virtually all said the growing prevalence of mothers who have no male partners around to help them raise children is bad for society. This group tended to be young, Democratic or independent, and more heavily minority. With so many different kinds of families in suburban and rural areas as well as in big cities, many people see firsthand the impact on children, Morin added, and consider it mostly positive. “We see gay and lesbian couples raising children in loving environments,” he said. “We see young mothers going off to work and coming home to raise happy, well-adjusted children. Then we see the sometimes tragic consequences of single parenthood, with just one person juggling so many roles.” Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociologist who studies families, said the Pew poll underscores the widespread acceptance of two-parent families, of almost any ilk. “Working mothers are acceptable to almost everybody,” he said. “Two parents who are unmarried are tolerated or acceptable. But many people, including single parents themselves, question single-parent families. There’s still a strong belief that children need two parents.”
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perdue from page 3 of hiding a donation to the Perdue Committee ahead of the 2008 gubernatorial election—money that paid for a campaign flight—when he had already given the campaign $4,000, the maximum amount allowed by N.C. law. “The maximum sentence for such a charge is, I believe, 30 months,” Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby said. Marc Farinella, a Florida political consultant and a spokesman for the governor, said Perdue was not aware of any wrongdoing. “The Perdue Committee was unaware of this scheme,” he said in a statement to the press. “We do not condone any ac-
patton from page 1 to sustain and enhance its existing great strengths while innovating and thereby advancing its highest priorities and those of the University.” Patton will replace Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of Trinity College and dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences. The University will retire the title of dean of Trinity College at the end of the academic year—meaning the new dean will only be referred to as the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As part of the change, Steve Nowicki, dean and vice provost of undergraduate education, will take on a greater role in enhancing the student experience across schools, according to a letter sent to deans and senior leaders Oct. 8. “Duke has already impressed me as a place with a clear openness to innovation as well as a healthy understanding of tradition,” Patton said. “It is in the ‘DNA’ of the institution to work at the cutting edge in unexpected ways.” Crumbliss, Bishop-MacDermott chemistry professor, has taught at Duke for 40 years. He said he plans to spend a sabbatical in Genoa, Italy. Crumbliss was appointed interim dean in May 2010 following the departure of George McLendon, who left Duke to serve as provost of Rice University. Patton received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College in 1983 and a doctorate degree in religion from the University of Chicago in 1991. She has conducted extensive research on early Indian ritual and narrative, comparative mythology, literary theory in religion and women in Hinduism in modern India. She is the author or editor of eight books and has written more than 45 scholarly articles. Patton also studied as a Fulbright scholar in Israel in 2000, and again in India in 2004. “Everyone who met Laurie was impressed by her intense involvement in interdisciplinary, translational, global scholarship,” said Lynn Smith-Lovin, professor of sociology and chair of the search committee, in the news release. “They were stirred by her vision for Arts and Sciences. I was struck by the enthusiasm about her candidacy across students and faculty from many different disciplines and academic positions.” Patton said she hopes to lead the University in innovative ways in four major areas: interdisciplinary work within and between departments, international partnerships, civic engagement and interdisciplinary digital initiatives. In the past two years, Patton has offered a new translation of “The Bhagavad Gita,” a sacred Hindu text for the Penguin Classics Series, and edited a series of new essays, “Notes from a Mandala: Essays in the Indian History of Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger.” Patton served as chair of Emory’s religion department from 2000 to 2007, as founder and co-convenor of the Religions and the Human Spirit Strategic Plan and as Winship Distinguished Research Professor. She received the Emory Williams Award—Emory’s most prestigious honor for teaching—in 2005. She also recently consulted with the White House Office of Faith-Based Community Partnerships on interfaith literacy and the U.S. Department of Education’s Initiative on Civic Engagement. Trinity has accomplished a number of goals this year related to programming, budget stability and interdisciplinary research. Arts and Sciences has maintained a balanced budget for the 2010-2011 academic year, built new programs for undergraduates like the neuroscience major, promoted faculty-mentored research, recruited new faculty members and enhanced interdepartmental teaching, Crumbliss wrote in a Tuesday e-mail. “In a real sense, the most important job of the dean is to make others successful, so that the institution can be successful in providing stellar educational and research opportunities for our students,” Crumbliss noted. Patton said she will be “following [Crumbliss’] lead on budget decisions” this Spring, and continuing his policy of careful evaluation and efficiency. She will formally step into her position this July concurrent with planning for the 2011-2012 academic year.
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tivity that violates campaign finance laws, and we believe strongly that North Carolinians are entitled to truthful and accurate reporting of campaign contributions.” A recent report released by the FBI found that Perdue abused her power in the 1990s as a state senator to promote her longtime friend, Randy Glover, to a higher rank within the N.C. Highway Patrol. The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Friday that in 2009, Perdue encouraged the resignation of Walter Wilson, Jr, thencommander of the highway patrol and replaced him with Glover. Less than a year later, Glover resigned amid a series of ethical scandals within the force. Willoughby has closed his investigation into the governor’s former air travel payments and determined that Perdue herself was not involved in any wrongdoing. “The indictment made it clear that the governor is not suspected of engaging in anything illegal,” he said. Regardless of whether Perdue committed any crimes, the controversies are generating negative press that may be contributing to her low poll numbers. Survey results released by Public Policy Polling Jan. 26 showed the governor trailing by 7 points in a hypotheti-
cal 2012 match-up against her most likely contender, Republican Pat McCrory, whom she narrowly defeated for the position in 2008. Associate political science professor Kerry Haynie said despite the numbers, he believes Perdue’s prospects for re-election are better than they appear. “Actually, I think right now the 2012 [gubernatorial] election is up in the air,” he said. “A lot will depend on the state of the economy at that time and also the national political climate. If the president continues to rise in the polls and if the economy continues to improve, the chances are good that Perdue will be re-elected.” Haynie added that even if Perdue’s donors or other elements within her campaign are found guilty in court, the governor is unlikely to be found directly responsible for any wrongdoing. “From what we know, [Caldwell’s actions] were done without the knowledge of the campaign,” he said. “These campaigns raise millions of dollars from thousands of donors, so candidates like Perdue are very much detached from the… financing part of the campaign. I’m sure the governor thought everything was being paid for the proper way.”
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admissions from page 1 “I think that part of the increase in applications from California reflects the fact that up until recently, California was underrepresented in our applicant pool, among colleges of our type,” said Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Christoph Guttentag. “Duke has risen in visibility of students from the West Coast. Part of that has been because of recruiting we’ve done and part of it is a selfperpetuating phenomenon. As mores students apply, or as students enroll, that itself increases our visibility.” Guttentag added that the California economy may have affected some students’ decisions to come to Duke. Applicants are increasingly looking outside the state for options, while in the past they may have assumed they would be going to a University of California school, he said. Budget shortfalls in the system have prompted significant cuts and increases in tuition. California Gov. Jerry Brown proposed cutting $1.4 billion from the state’s budget Jan. 10—$500 million each from the University of California and California State University and $400 million from the California Community College system. The next academic year may be the first time in the history of the UC system that student money would pay for more of the operating budget than the state general fund. These budget cuts, which limit the resources California schools have available for students in the system, deterred some Duke undergraduates from staying in state. Freshman Celina Rodriguez, who is from Burbank, Calif., considered several UC schools, but in the end chose Duke for financial reasons. “Part of the reason I came to Duke was because the UCs weren’t giving me very much financial aid, and Duke gave me more, so it was cheaper to come to Duke,” Rodriguez said. Freshman Dawei Liu, from Fremont, Calif., was accepted
to the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California at San Diego and received scholarships to all three schools. He decided to attend Duke, however, because he thought that it would offer him more educational opportunities. “The UCs are understaffed and the resources are just not the same as they would be in a private school,” Liu said. “I’d say that budget cuts and the California economy partially affected my decision to come to Duke because they made California schools not as attractive.” Camila McHugh, a member of the Class of 2015, said she did not consider UC schools because of their large undergraduate populations. Instead, McHugh, a current senior at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, Calif., applied to Duke and was accepted early. For some students, growing class sizes and shrinking faculties have sparked concerns that they will not be able to enroll in classes they need for their majors, she said. “Stories of huge classes and graduating in five years have definitely made people consider the UCs less desirable,” McHugh said. At Duke, Rodriguez said she will be able to graduate in four years, while at the UC schools she “wasn’t guaranteed that.” Issues for public universities extend beyond the California system. State operating support is the top issue facing public higher education in 2011, according to a policy brief by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Although the recession is technically over, public universities will not likely receive pre-recession revenues for another two to three years, the report noted. To compound the problem, the stimulus funds many states have used to fund higher education will nearly run out by the end of the fiscal year. States whose higher education budgets have relied on those funds will have to find alternative sources of revenue, the report noted.
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Budget cuts in public California universities and increased Duke recruiting efforts have resulted in a rapid increase of California applications.
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Ronald McDonald from page 3 year, but the demand for space is much higher, St. Geme said. This year, for instance, the house had to turn down 700 families due to lack of space. When the house does not have space, families are often sent to the Millennium Hotel and other local hotels at special rates that the Ronald McDonald House covers. Currently, the Ronald McDonald House has received pledges totaling almost $4 million, said Bill Donovan, executive director of the center. Donovan added that raising the remaining money will take about two years. The house publicly announced a capital campaign to raise the remaining approximate $3 million Feb. 11. Some of its current gifts have come from large donors such as the University, the McDonald’s Corporation and individual McDonald’s owners and operators, including the store in the Bryan Center. The rest of the money will come from the community and other companies that support charities. “We’ll break ground when we have 80 percent of our target, and we’re expecting to break ground later this year,” Donovan said. With the new expansion, the house will also need more volunteers, who come from the Durham community and Duke. The Alpha Delta Pi sorority, men’s lacrosse team, men’s football team, women’s basketball team and other Duke volunteers regularly come to the house to cook meals, talk with the families staying in the facility and help with fundraising, Donovan said. “We actually compete with a lot of other people on campus for time there,” said junior Erica Nagi, president of ADPi. “Now, with more room, there will be more opportunities to volunteer.” Every semester, ADPi has a waffle breakfast to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. For the sorority’s 100th anniversary, members will host a large anniversary celebration and a waffle breakfast the next morning, with all proceeds benefiting the Ronald McDonald House and its expansion. With the new families that will be staying in the house, Nagi said that she hopes there will be more large-scale interactive programs with the kids beyond just cooking. McKids, another student organization on campus, volunteers at the house on a weekly basis. By visiting twice a week, McKids volunteers have come to know many of the families staying at the house, said the club’s treasurer, Rachel Vorwaller. “We just do arts and crafts or bingo or holiday activities with the kids,” said Vorwaller, a sophomore. “There’s this one girl who is in high school... she’s on the older end of people staying there, so my roommate and I went out to dinner with her at Devil’s Bistro because for her it was difficult.” The McDonald’s in the Bryan Center feeds families in the center every Friday night, said Ric Richards, president of the board of trustees at the house. The restaurant prepares quarter pounders, salads and french fries for the families, he said. He added that families enjoy when volunteers come to serve dinner and listen to their stories. “It breaks your heart,” Richards said. “It really hits home, some of these health issues. The kids that are sick come from all over the country.”
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theSANDBOX. I couldn’t care less about the Grammys, which actually surprised me this year by bestowing their “prestigious” Album of the Year distinction on Arcade Fire, a tremendous band represented by Durham independent label Merge Records. But the problem with these fluffy award shows is you can catch all the interesting bits on YouTube now and avoid the soul-sucking pomp. Contrast Friday Night Lights, a television drama whose 76 episodes cannot be contained by a highlights reel. The show just aired its final episode after five seasons producing the best television around—no, I’ve never missed an episode of the overrated Mad Men. While Mad Men offers subtle moments of tenderness amid a brooding 1960s dystopia, Friday Night Lights uses more banal conflict to color the tone of decent humanity and grace contained by its characters. The show’s pilot is inspired by the book and movie, but after that its scope diverges outwards, touching upon all topics close to the heart of America. The setting is a too-small town in Texas where the
football team prays together before every game. It is a place where there are no villains. The greatest magnitude of town hero to be found is a high school counselor—and even she isn’t unanimously adored, after offering controversial advice to a student considering an abortion. Despite the modesty of its content, Friday Night Lights captures something universal: how enormous dreams can be. It’s only a show about football in the sense that Moby Dick is just a novel about a whale. There’s a moment in the final episode where the star quarterback pauses in reflection and says, “You changed my life, coach.” It brings to mind the lyric by legendary punk band Minutemen that’s become immortal: “Our band could be your life.” It’s a romantic idea—a mission statement, really—that speaks to the upper reaches of art’s potential. In a co-production deal with DirecTV, NBC brings season five to air starting April 15. Hopefully they can help lend Friday Night Lights some immortality of its own. —Brian Contratto
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In kindergarten, I was a player. One man’s love simply could not satiate me. I collected boyfriends like commodities and ended up with more beaus than I had American Girl dolls. When one boy toy became distracted during recess and decided to join in an all-male kickball game, I simply meandered over to a more attentive significant other. To avoid acquiring a reputation for coquettishness, I worked hard to obscure the breadth of my affection. On one such occasion, a boyfriend presented me with a fake pearl bead during playtime. Upon receiving the gift, another boyfriend approached us. Fearful that the bead would elicit uncomfortable questions, I popped the present into my mouth as the only available hiding place, and preceded to choke on it. The kindergarten teacher saved me with the Heimlich maneuver and the experience was traumatic enough that I was allowed to go home for the rest of the day. Since then, I’ve been much more appreciative of monogamy. Things have also become more serious since kindergarten’s innocent romantic encounters. When I first arrived here, I thought undergraduate dating might resemble my pregrade school escapades. After all, this was the supposed epicenter of the infamous hook-up culture. Everyone with an opinion on Duke and college life constantly reminded me that sober sex had become an antiquated behavior on campus and that commitment was a four-letter word. In this world, inebriated coeds shuffled from quad to quad in an endless game of bedroom musical chairs, pausing only long enough in their hedonism to change a condom or open a fresh Busch Light. Four years later, instead of casual licentious-
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ness, my fellow students keep asking me when I’m going to get married, assuming it’ll be soon. As the majority of my friends enter into committed relationships, many individuals approach the topic of love, sex, and romance with increased gravity. Following the anxious logic of one friend, if you don’t find a suitable mate in college and eternally pin their fate to yours, you may still be an old maid at the ripe age of twenty-five, certainly well past the apparent suitability of a single lifestyle. As the graduation date looms, the stakes seem to escalate and passion seems more like an obligation than a desire. When did things get so serious? Sexually, Duke is often a place of extremes. You can sleep around until your genitals fall off and never buy anyone dinner. Or you can coexist in the severest fashion possible, living as individuals engaged to be engaged. Where’s the true fun in either experience? Can’t there be more balance or at least a give and take between the two? Can someone please take me to a movie, compliment my legs, kiss me goodnight and then maybe not call me back? I’m not trying to rehash the hackneyed lament of Duke’s struggling dating culture or belittle those who find satisfaction within the comfort of commitment. I’m also not so cynical as to dismiss the potential of significant college romance. Yet, does everything have to be so serious? Can life sometimes be more unpredictable than the inevitable union between dormcestous hall mates or the drunken sexual regret shared between the last two people to leave Devines? Does everyone really want a ring on the finger or a stranger in his or her bed? Sometimes, the game seemed so much easier in kindergarten. Minus the plastic beads. Brooke Hartley is a Trinity senior.
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PlayMakers performs Angels in America by Emma Miller THE CHRONICLE
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America soars under the able direction of Brendon Fox. Performed by PlayMakers Repertory Company at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the two-part play spans seven hours and explores the tragedy of AIDS in Reagan-era America. “Part One: Millennium Approaches” runs slow at times, the momentum occasionally disrupted by Kushner’s verbosely philosophical dialogue. “Part Two: Perestroika,” however, surges to emotional heights. Angels in America has previously been likened to a modern-day Shakespearean tragedy; much like the Bard, Kushner artfully weaves zingy one-liners between poetic language and reflections on the heartbreak and struggles of the human experience. Angels revolves around two couples, one gay and one (seemingly) straight. In “Millennium Approaches,” characters are at a crossroads and relationships are crumbling. Louis, a neurotic, liberal Jew prone to pretentious intellectualizing, can’t handle the news that his boyfriend Prior has AIDS. After Louis leaves him, the ailing Prior is visited by his dead ancestors and a sexual angel with a booming voice who reveals in “Perestroika” that Prior is, in fact, a prophet. In the meantime, married Mormons Joe and Harper are battling Harper’s Valium-induced hallucinations and Joe’s closeted homosexuality. Angels also depicts a fictionalized version of Roy Cohn, the real-life New Yorker and power broker who aided Joseph McCarthy in his anti-
Communist crusades and who eventually died of AIDS. As the characters’ lives become interwoven through a series of coincidences and supernatural occurrences— Harper and Prior first meet when their respective hallucinations and dreams converge—they are forced to question religion, politics, sexual identity, love and personal responsibility. Despite the heaviness of the play’s themes and the fact that each of the main characters is wrought with emotional or physical turmoil, frequent moments of levity and laugh-out-loud humor keep the characters’ metaphysical philosophizing from lagging too much. Several actors who make up Angel’s eight-person ensemble play multiple roles, adding to the dreamlike interconnectedness of the characters’ lives. PlayMakers veteran Julie Fishell is particularly remarkable, crossing gender lines to play a rabbi, Roy Cohn’s doctor, real-life executed Communist Ethel Rosenberg and Joe’s strong and dynamic mother Hannah, who moves from Salt Lake City to New York at the end of “Millennium” when she learns her son is gay. The thrust stage of the Paul Green Theatre adds to the creation of a beautiful and deceptively minimalistic set that shifts action from New York to Utah to heaven itself. Floor lights flood through wooden panels to transform the stage into the ethereal land where the eponymous angels live, and a rippling white sheet morphs the stage into the snowy landscape of Antarctica dreamt up by pill-addled Harper’s See angels on page 8
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STRANGE At Manbites Dog, Strange Beauty features more than 40 short films by Gracie Lynne THE CHRONICLE
Jim Haverkamp defines Strange Beauty the same way the Supreme Court defines porn: You know it when you see it. The second annual Strange Beauty Film Festival at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham features more than 40 short films selected by co-organizers and local filmmakers Haverkamp and his wife Joyce Ventimiglia. Haverkamp, who is also an instructor in the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image at Duke, said they received more than 110 submissions from all over the world. Types of films featured include documentary, experimental, animation and short fiction—all related to the same ineffable theme. “The films are simpler this year; they revert to the basics as a sort of a rebellion against the digital age,” Haverkamp said. “We saw a lot of simple animation, clay and forms of mixed media.” This year’s selections are markedly different than last year’s 46 shorts, he added. Former Durham resident Jason Middleton’s world premiere of “Sound Between Lines: Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra” is one of the most highly anticipated shorts of the festival. The documentary follows a Durham ensemble improvisational orchestra that relies on hand gestures and minimalist musical experimentalism. Shannon Morrow, founder and artistic director of the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra, and the musicians communicate signals through body language, ranging from specific commands like an order to the brass section to hold a note to ambiguous suggestions like a recommendation of pointillism. The screening will include a live performance by the orchestra. Middleton added that his past experience making music videos taught him how to manipulate sound in film. “I’ve seen how music can serve as a backdrop to the emotion on screen, as well as how moving images can serve as a way to forward the music,” he said. “With this film, I wanted to blend moving images and music, so that they exist on the same level.” Two additional Durham-based artists
—Tom Whiteside, a filmmaker and special-events technician at Duke, and Khristian Weeks, a sound artist and designer—will present “Interviewed,” a collection of 1960 clips on 16mm film. Shot in Salt Lake City, Utah, the strips contain six seven-minute interviews conducted without obvious purpose or evidence as to who orchestrated them. Whiteside and Weeks basically left the original archival film intact, inserting only a few minutes of video to give context to the people’s responses. “What distinguishes this piece is that it shows real people, answering actual questions,” Whiteside said. “It says a lot about how we communicate. The answers these people give are so honest. The strangeness is present, but not [contrived.]” Similarly, “Yellow Movie” by Josh Gibson, an instructor and associate director for the Program of the Arts of the Moving Image and the, presents an unaltered view on daily life. The eightminute film features Gibson’s two-yearold son Kavi doing routine activities, like finger painting, taking a bath and getting dressed. “From the time my son was born, I began sort of obsessively filming him, making all of these home movies to capture as many moments as possible,” Gibson said. “But somehow everything digital felt very ephemeral. I wanted something tangible to remember things by.” Gibson then asked his son what kind of movie he wanted to create, to which Kavi replied “a yellow movie.” After Gibson and his wife hand processed the 16mm film, they tinted it yellow and eventually compiled the shots. Though the shorts are disparate at first glance, Haverkamp recognized the underlying connection. “I think there’s this emotional core to every film,” Haverkamp. “And that’s what really makes them both strange and beautiful.” Strange Beauty will run Feb. 17 to 19 at Manbites Dog Theatre in Durham. Tickets are $12 for individual screening blocks and $5 for students. For more information, visit www.strangebeauty.org.
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Jim White half of DP’s diverse folk bill by Josh Stillman THE CHRONICLE
Does folk music still matter? This Friday in Reynolds Industries Theater, Jim White and the South Memphis String Band will answer that question with an emphatic “yes.” The two groups share a bill that highlights roots music’s enduring place in American culture. Citing channels as diverse as African-American blues and the storytelling traditions of 16th-century ScotchIrish immigrants, White posits that the foundations of American folk remain highly influential. “Folk music informs everything,” he said. Friday’s show is part of Duke Performances’ “Liars, Thieves and Big Shot Ramblers” series, which showcases the ways in which traditional American musical strains are evolving and adapting to the contemporary world. Past artists included folk heavyweight Loudon Wainwright III and emerging indie-folk iconoclast Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Aaron Greenwald, director of Duke Performances, said a key element of the series is the notion that artists can draw from a multitude of influences to create unique musical identities. “With ‘Liars,’ I was interested in how American artists are able to take on different guises,” he said. “You can become something that’s quite different from who you were born as. You can invent a persona.” The two groups both conform well to this concept, developing individual styles from a host of sources. Jim White was born to a Pentecostal family in Pensacola, Fla., a small town that at the time had only one AM radio station. He went on to attend New York Uni-
versity, and worked as a cab driver in New York City for many years before performing for the first time at age 41. His style, he said, incorporates everything from the songs he listened to as a child to the tapes he would exchange with the Haitian and African immigrants he worked with in New York. “Every kind of music is versed in me,” he said. “I’m a musical collagist with a folk-music base.” The South Memphis String Band embodies a similarly diverse spirit. Although the group plays an eclectic blend of acoustic blues, country, ragtime and gospel, their origins are in rock and roll. The band consists of notable blues guitar player Alvin “Youngblood” Hart, Jimbo Mathus of Squirrel Nut Zippers and Luther Dickinson of the Black Crowes and the North Mississippi Allstars. All three have worked and played together for years in their respective rock outfits, but it wasn’t until recently that they discovered their shared love of oldtime string and jugband music. “This type of music goes back to early childhood,” Dickinson said. “It took us all this time to find the right like-minded people to do it with.” With a lively combination of storytelling and performance, tradition and innovation, Friday’s show should affirm folk music’s role as an enduring form. “You can trace lots of music back to the roots of blues and country,” Dickinson said. “The thing is it’s still contemporary music—it never died off.” Jim White and the South Memphis String Band will perform at 8 p.m. Friday in Reynolds Theater. Tickets are $5 for students. For more information, visit www.dukeperformances. com.
gnomeo and juliet dir. kelly asbury walt disney studios
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If the 3-D slow-motion hair flip didn’t make you swoon, then you’re probably not a 12-year-old girl. In which case, you probably shouldn’t bother seeing Justin Bieber’s new movie at all. Never Say Never is a documentary-style film chronicling the life of the adolescent star from his early childhood to his, well, later childhood. Admittedly, the first 30 minutes of the documentary were much more interesting than I had expected. Who knew that the young Bieber was actually talented? The home videos inserted into the beginning of the film depicts the adorable blonde two-year-old drumming and playing the guitar like a true prodigy. The subsequent interviews of Bieber’s family and friends are also
surprisingly heartfelt and endearing. I’ll confess that I even started to think that this film would make me a Belieber after all. After the tenth concert clip of Bieber winking and shaking his hips and flipping his girlish hair—all in 3-D—I was bored. While the tweens watching the movie squealed and burst into tears each time Bieber smiled, I felt no such rapture. Instead, I spent my time looking at my watch and wondering when he was going to sing “Baby.” Even the onscreen appearances of Usher, Ludacris, Miley Cyrus and Jaden Smith could not shake me out of my stupor. By the end of the film, I decided I would be perfectly happy if I never had to hear another Justin Bieber song ever again. Will this film give you Bieber fever? Probably not. Will Never Say Never appeal to a wider audience than just middle school girls? I’d say never. —Holly Hilliard
There is something inherently charming about garden gnomes—their diminutive stature, their shiny, pointy hats, not to mention their flair for finding travel tickets at reasonable rates. So it is no surprise that these inanimate lawn decorations ended up as the protagonists of Gnomeo and Juliet, an animated take on the classic Shakespearean drama, but redone with warring gnomes. With a run time of 84 minutes, Gnomeo rehashes the tale of star-struck lovers without any complicated subplots or diversions. Gnomeo (James McAvoy) is a blue garden gnome, destined to hate the red garden gnomes as part of a long standing grudge that originated before his time. But when he meets Juliet (Emily Blunt), the spunky daughter of the red gnome leader, he questions their prolonged rivalry and the frivolousness of their feud. The movie is filled with running jokes and witty puns, but the best gags were undoubtedly packed into the movie trailer, which is perhaps why it did relatively well over the weekend. The film has a few standouts—such as the duet between Elton John and Lady Gaga during the titular characters’ first encounter—but it lacks the extra elements that make certain children’s movies lasting and celebrated. Director Kelly Asbury’s previous directorial effort, Shrek 2, was filled with memorable characters and dry wit, something that Gnomeo and Juliet would need if it intends to stay relevant. So will the film please audiences? Yes and “gno.” For younger audiences, the movie provides fastpaced instant gratification but an age-appropriate ending that would have made Shakespeare cringe. Gnomeo, however, will be unable to transcend the category of a harmless, pleasant children’s movie. —Katie Zaborsky
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Alum creates doc on women and microlending by Kinnari Bhojani THE CHRONICLE
Rachel Cook, Trinity ’06, is a testament to the virtues of a liberal arts education. Drawing on her Duke undergraduate majors, English and economics—the former having cultivated an interest in storytelling, the latter an attention to detail—she is producing and directing the unfinished documentary Microlending Film: A Documentary about Enterprising Women. After graduation, she worked as an equities and Eurodollar futures trader by night, using yield curves to predict the behavior of the economy. This experience informed Cook’s approach to her first endeavor in film, constructed from three interwoven vignettes of microfinance in Paraguay, Kenya and Bangladesh. Cook’s work in the financial sector and interest in the work of op-ed New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof initially drew her attention to microfinance. A microloan is an advance as small as $25, usually given to impover-
ished but enterprising people of the developing world who might otherwise not have proper collateral to earn credit. Microlending Film will highlight the role of microlending institutions in the financial education of women, who are often at a disadvantage in their own societies. “A work situation completely dominated by one gender or the other [makes] the climate less productive overall,” Cook said. Following the progress of several individuals, the documentary depicts them working to overcome gender biases and become viable members of their communities. One of these women is Pablina, whose hometown of Ita is located 25 miles from Asuncion, Paraguay, where the microlending institute Fundacion Paraguay is located. Due to an invasive medical procedure to remove a cancerous tumor growing on her son’s liver, Pablina exhausted her life savings, leaving her too poor to continue making pan
de miel, a local sweet bread that she sells to tourists at her makeshift roadside stand. The first microloan Pablina accepted from Fundacion Paraguay was for $50. With this advance, she turned an existing skill into a profitable business. Pablina’s success enabled her to take on financial responsibilities in a male dominated society, such that her daughter Antonia can now attend agricultural school. Additionally, she has empowered other women to follow in her footsteps. As the president of a community of enterprising women, she is in charge of the management and repayment of the group’s loan. “This documentary is important in order to highlight [how the effects of microfinance] percolate up from the local level to the international level, influencing communities of women on a micro and macro scale,” Neha Sabharwal, a sophomore member of the See cooke on page 8
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Conor Oberst has fallen victim to expectations. Back in the late ’90s/early ’00s, Oberst plied a particular brand of angsty folk as Bright Eyes, and he was good at what he did: the emoting of youth, with prodigious lyricism and songcraft. And he’s back with a new Bright Eyes record, The People’s Key—the first since 2007. The problem is, between then and now Oberst showed his hand. Released under his own name, 2008’s Conor Oberst, a swinging, country-inflected, highly mature rock album, showed him as an expert storyteller and an artist tapped into an American vein. Although The People’s Key isn’t a step backwards from that album, it’s at best a lateral move. Like Sufjan Stevens on his recent The Age of Adz, Oberst trades some of his acoustic instrumentation for cellar electronics, but he lacks Sufjan’s sense of innovation. It’s not quite as inorganic as 2005’s Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, but that’s not a
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bad comparison. When Oberst ratchets up the pace, as on the tense “Triple Spiral” and the throbbing, locomotive “Haile Selassie,” Bright Eyes gets at least some cylinders humming, but with the soft, bleating instrumentation of the weaker tracks blends into a sort of narcoleptic stagger. The People’s Key lacks the humanistic quiver of Digital Ash, and though nothing sounds bad—every song is solid, really—whole sections slide by without leaving a mark. Lyrically, Oberst seems to be going for a more impressionistic bent than on his self-titled album or past Bright Eyes records, but though this style avoids the near-emo tendencies of his earlier work, it also disorients the songs. “Stay a while, my inner child/I’d like to learn your trick,” from “Beginner’s Mind,” is not only toothless but ambiguous, and most of The People’s Key trades in similar mediocrity. It’s only in view of his recent successes that The People’s Key really suffers; though it’s a capable if unspectacular album, Oberst has revealed himself to be a much better writer than these songs indicate. Here’s hoping he comes to this realization himself. —Kevin Lincoln
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mind. Despite the fact that Kushner’s characters are deeply flawed people, the cast’s nuanced performances and Kushner’s brilliant script prevent them from becoming onedimensional. The characters grow and evolve throughout the achingly moving, funny and sad theatrical journey. “Perestroika” ends on an optimistic note about progress and forgiveness, sending last Sunday’s audience leaping to their feet. PlayMakers’ Artistic Director Joseph Haj, who worked on one of the first regional productions of Angels in America in 1996, rightly calls “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika” “the most progressive and beautifully written plays that the modern theatre has to offer.” Although rooted in a particular moment in history, PlayMakers’ production of Angels in America is no less relevant and impactful today. Angels in America’s “Millennium Approaches” and “Perestroika” will run on a rotating schedule through March 6 at PlayMakers’ Paul Green Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Visit www.playmakersrep.org for tickets and performance times.
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Established in 1951, the Soldier Acrobatic Troupe of PLA performed in Reynolds Theater last night. In 2008, the troupe was a part of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games.
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“Part One: Millenium Approaches” and “Part Two: Perestroika” sport an eight-person ensemble, with many actors handling multiple roles over the course of the production.
cooke from page 6 Duke Microfinance Leadership Initiative, wrote in an e-mail. Sabharwal is one of four Duke students who accompanied Cook on her trip to Kenya last summer. Sabharwal said she values this project as a prototype for future innovative and artistic efforts to affect social change. The mismanagement of loans both on the lending and receiving ends, however, is one unfortunate consequence of microfinance, Cook said. Plans to shoot in Bangladesh in the next month hope to shed light upon the microcredit controversy surrounding the Grameen Bank, founded by 2006 Noble Peace Price Winner and 2010 Duke Commencement Speaker, Mohammed Yunus. In the recent documentary Caught in Microdebt, Yunus was accused of using international donations towards for-profit ends, threatening both the future of the Grameen Bank as well as the very idea of microfinance. Footage from other microlending initiatives in Kenya and Paraguay will also be integrated into the final documentary feature, which Cook expects to finish in Sept. 2011.
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UVA 41 ACC deals with 56 DUKE low attendance Blue Devils grind out win by Andy Moore THE CHRONICLE
The day before the North Carolina game, head coach Mike Krzyzewski did something unusual—he talked for roughly six minutes about the state of Duke’s conference, the ACC. In his comments, he acknowledged the downturn in attendance at ACC games, stressing that conference officials must continue to remain vigilant to keep fans coming. “It’s a constant struggle [to draw] attendance in the league,” Krzyzewski said. “Too much TV? I don’t know. You have to keep working at it.”
The game the following day against the Tar Heels was sold out—like many games in Cameron Indoor Stadium before it. Deputy Director of Athletics Chris Kennedy said that attendance numbers at Cameron have not been affected by the economic downturn. Similarly, ESPN spokesman Michael Hume said in an e-mail that television ratings for ACC contests are “essentially the same as last year.” But not all ACC games have garnered similar demand for tickets as Duke—nor is the interest of television viewers paying off with
Points hard to come by, but Smith scores 22 in victory
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Duke looks for solid win vs. UMD by Danny Nolan THE CHRONICLE
The long-standing rivalry between Duke and Maryland may be hotly contested in many sports, but in women’s basketball it hasn’t No. 16 been quite UMD as fair. The vs. Blue DevNo. 7 ils have Duke won 25 of the last 32 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. College Park, Md. contests,
and No. 7 Duke (23-2, 9-1 in the ACC) will try to beat the No. 16 Terrapins (20-5, 6-4) once again in College Park tonight. But the recent contests between the two teams haven’t been without their share of drama. In the last contest, Maryland led with only two minutes remaining in the game, but Jasmine Thomas scored seven points down the stretch to secure a 71-64 win for her team. See w. basketball on page 12
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Last time against Maryland, Duke battled back from a deficit to win 71-64.
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Ryan Kelly scored 11 on an efficient 5-for-7 shooting performance to help lead Duke to a win. Kelly also had four blocks against Virginia. by Tim Visutipol THE CHRONICLE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — It wasn’t a pretty game in Charlottesville last night. But the Blue Devils got the job done. In a game where both Duke and Virginia scored their season low in points—and the total points scored was less than the combined score between the same two schools in football—the Blue Devils managed to grind out a win to end a successful week. Fifty-six points was enough for No. 5 Duke (24-2, 11-1 in the ACC) to win the defensive battle against Virginia (12-13, 3-8), and secure the 15-point win. Most importantly, 56 points allowed the Blue Devils to maintain their lead in the conference. This game was highlighted by strong defense from both teams. Duke had a total of 18 turnovers, its third most turnovers this season. Its defense, on the other hand, limited the Cavaliers to 28.6 percent shooting from the field and just 3-for12 from 3-point range.
“We won a defensive struggle,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “Points were hard to come by.” With Kyle Singler in foul trouble—the senior was limited to two points in just 23 minutes—Duke needed other players to pick up the offensive burden. Again, that duty fell to Nolan Smith, who led the team with 22 points and also grabbed seven rebounds while dishing out four assists. The senior was aided by big men Ryan Kelly and Mason Plumlee, who combined for 20 points. “Nolan was a huge difference in the game,” Krzyzewski said. “To get 22 points in a game like that… that’s a lot of points.” Both Smith and Singler started the game slowly, with Smith scoreless for the first 10 minutes of play and Singler scoring his only bucket at the 16-minute mark of the second half. Smith, however, got it going, displaying his whole arsenal of offensive weapons by scoring from the outside, off the dribble and in traffic. “When they needed a buck-
et, Nolan Smith just took over,” Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said. “You saw why he’s the player he is.” Smith’s senior counterpart, Singler, struggled while his teammate excelled. Krzyzewski, though, was quick to defend Singler’s performance, preferring to focus on the strong play and impact of Kelly and Seth Curry and the team’s win. “Kyle had an unusually poor game,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s entitled to not playing well once in a while.… He’s a champion.” Kelly again had an efficient shooting night, hitting five of his seven shots from the floor while also amassing four blocks throughout the game. Offensively, Kelly along with Mason Plumlee, was essential in providing mismatches against the undersized Virginia team. “We try and make a point to get our big guys involved,” Smith said. “We know if we do that we’ll be a deeper team and See m. basketball on page 11
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Duke takes win against Camels on Senior Night Duke took down Campbell 39-18 last night to break a streak of five matches without a win. On Senior Night in Cameron Indoor Stadium, the Blue Devils (2-5-1) overcame three forfeited DUKE 39 matches to earn a convincing victory CAMP 18 over the Camels (4-17). Duke swept the other seven individual matchups, earning four pins in the process. The team’s four seniors—Mike Bell, Willy Mello, Brent Jorge and Jared Sernoffsky—were recognized before the match, although just Bell and Mello competed on the night. At 141 pounds, Bell almost pinned his Camel opponent in each period, but ended up settling for a 17-2 victory. The senior improved his season record to 17-15, leaving him with a career 54-65 record heading into his last regular season match against Maryland on Saturday. Mello’s match ended just minutes after the start when his competitor, Ryan Ham, withdrew with an injury. The rest of the match showcased even more dominant performances by Blue Devils. At 149 and 157 pounds, A.J. Guardado and Ryan Harding earned pins in a combined total of just over six minutes. Bret Klopp and Diego Bencomo pinned Campbell’s Peter Comis and John Nichols, respectively, in just over four minutes apiece. Heavyweight Andrew Fulk faced
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Willy Mello was recognized before the matches, then won by forfeit against Campbell on Senior Night. the Camel’s best wrestler in Parker Burns, who qualified for the NCAA individuals last season, earning a 13-4 victory to complete the Blue Devils’ outstanding day. On Saturday, Duke will take on Maryland at Cameron in its final regular season match. — from staff reports
acc from page 9 fans in seats. The 2010 ACC Tournament in Greensboro, for example, drew about 15,000 fewer fans than in 2006 in the same city. And, as originally reported by USA Today last week, attendance numbers for the league as a whole this year have declined. With an average crowd of 9,634 people, this could be the first time in 20 years that the conference has failed to break doubledigits in average attendance. Still, officials at the ACC believe the conference is not in dire shape. They said the attendance numbers for regular season games will go up, and that the tournament will draw large numbers. “Is attendance [for the regular season] down at this point? Yes, but I think you’re going to see that gap close,” ACC associate commissioner Amy Yakola said. “You have conference games in play, you have some pretty big rivalries still to take place.” “[With the numbers we have], I think attendance will be good for the Tournament,” added Karl Hicks, ACC associate commissioner in charge of men’s basketball operations. Hicks also said yesterday that he agreed with Krzyzewski’s thoughts on the attendance issue facing the tournament. The associate commissioner said, though, that the economic downturn of recent years has factored into hurting its numbers, forcing the league to “tweak the tournament.” This year, for instance, the league has changed the allocations for different schools, giving out more tickets to schools closer to the host site. “You’re never going to get it completely right,” Hicks said. “It’s an evolution, and I’m encouraged by the numbers this year.” The conference declined to release ticket sales so far for the 2011 tournament. At the press conference last week,
Krzyzewski also had strong words for the possible ACC expansion from 16 conference games to 18. “You’ve got to stay with 16,” Krzyzewski said. “We’re a one time zone league. You have to give us a chance to play in different time zones.... This conference did not become what it is because we stayed isolated in this region. It became what it is because we got out of it.” The ACC’s 16-game conference schedule is a rarity among the major conferences. The only major conference other than the SEC without an 18-game schedule, the ACC considered switching to 18 contests in 2009. No plans materialized two years ago, but coaches and league officials are again discussing the idea of moving to 18 games, Hicks said. Extending league play could have some negative consequences, Hicks said. Some coaches might eliminate marquee nonconference games from their schedule. “If you add two more battles on the floor, will a coach be disinclined to have those marquee matchups that spread the word about the ACC?” the associate commissioner asked. “It’s hard to say whether it’s a good thing to do or not.” For Duke, extended league play could mean fewer opportunities for out-ofconference rivalry games, like contests against St. John’s or Temple. “The ACC is great, it prepares you in its own way for the NCAA Tournament,” Kennedy said. “But we know each other so well that it’s great to play a team like Temple in early February. They play different.” The Duke athletic department will back Krzyzewski’s position on the matter, Kennedy said. “Our position is going to be whatever Coach K’s position is in that regard.” ESPN, which has a 12-year, $1.86 billion deal with the ACC, declined to comment on the possible move to 18 games.
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Perimeter defense keys Duke victory by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Opposing teams only need one thing on their mind when developing a game plan to beat the Cavaliers: Stop the perimeter offense, and everything else follows. Virginia entered the game ranked second in Game the conference in 3-point field goal and with four starting Analysis percentage, guards, the team clearly strategizes around its outside play. Fortunately for the Blue Devils, their exterior defense was well up to the challenge. For the entire 40 minutes, Duke’s half-court pressure harassed the Cavalier guards, with starters Nolan Smith and Seth Curry regularly sticking close to their men well beyond the 3-point arc. Sharpshooting junior guard Sammy Zeglinski entered last night’s action with 12 treys in the last three games, but he only went 0-for2 from downtown against the Blue Devils. “Our defense of the three was good.... We’ve been the best in the league in 3-point shooting defense,” head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “We tried to just stick with their 3-point shooters and make them two-point shooters.” As a team, Virginia finished 3-for-12 from downtown, far below their season average of over seven makes on about 18 attempts per game. Notably, two of the three treys that the Cavaliers nailed came in transition—a further testament to the efficacy of Duke’s pressure halfcourt defense when it had time to set up. “They were going to make us finish over the outstretched hand of their big kids inside,” Virginia head coach Tony Bennett said. “Was it a shock? No, but it was frustrating.” But perhaps even Bennett did not give proper credit to the Blue Devils’ “big kids,” who played tenacious defense both inside and outside. Kyle Singler—used to playing defense anywhere on the court as a swingman—played excellent 3-point defense despite a weak offensive performance and limited playing time due to foul trouble. Ryan Kelly, on the other hand, rarely has to play defense on the outside. Yet, due to the Cavaliers’ unusually small lineup, he was thrust into the role, and ended up thriving on both ends. Kelly finished the evening with four blocks, taking advantage of the size advan-
m. basketball from page 9 a more explosive team.” Kelly’s strong play showed the significant improvement the sophomore forward has gone through over the course of a year. From a freshman who rarely played, who himself admitted he was “too skinny” to guard bigger players at the college level, Kelly is now one of the most important players for the Blue Devils on both ends. “I think it was Ryan Kelly’s best defensive game,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s not a leaper, but he’s long and he’s got good timing…. He’s had a terrific year…. We’re a much better team because of Ryan Kelly.” Curry, another player who has improved since the start of the season, also had an important role on the defensive end of the court. The guard finished with three steals to add to the five he had last game. His defense was especially important in light of Duke’s game plan of limiting the Cavaliers’ shots from downtown. Singler called the defense beyone the arc the “primary reason” for the win. “Our defense of the three was very good,” Krzyzewski said. “We tried to just stick with their 3-point shooters and make them two-point shooters.” The win caps a successful week for the Blue Devils, starting with the comeback win against North Carolina and followed by two tough road wins. “I’m proud of them for what they’ve done over the week,” Krzyzewski said.
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Thanks to tenacious defense from Nolan Smith and the rest of the Blue Devils, Duke was able to survive a slow-paced, monotonous contest. tage he had on his opponents. He also was second on the team with 11 points “I’m not sure anyone in the league has improved more than Ryan Kelly,” Krzyzewski said. “Ryan Kelly is a very, very good player and he’ll keep getting better because he’s smart, he’s a hard worker and he doesn’t play outside of himself.” Duke’s strong defense on the outside was complemented by efficient play from the post players, particularly the Plumlees. Together, they shut down Virginia’s 7-foot cen-
ter Assane Sene to four points and five rebounds. Mason Plumlee was particularly skillful, going 4-for-5 from the field, totaling nine points to match his nine rebounds. This type of slow-paced defensive game is not Duke’s style. In fact, even though it was a decisive victory, this was Duke’s lowest scoring total of the season. Still, the team’s ability to persevere with tough defense speaks to their resilience. “Now we have to take a day off and get rejuvenated,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s a long season.”
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w. basketball from page 9 Head coach Joanne P. McCallie was not pleased with her team’s effort in that game. “We were awful. We did not play a good basketball game,” McCallie said. “They took a 12-point lead. We didn’t play extremely well—much better second half than first—and it would be nice to try and play 40 minutes. We haven’t played 40 minutes against them.” The Blue Devils are coming off a great defensive performance against Boston College, shutting down center Carolyn Swords, the ACC’s third-leading scorer, for most of the game. Maintaining that kind of defensive toughness will be key against the Terrapins, who average about 73 points per game, 10 more than the Blue Devils typically allow. Like the Eagles’ attack, Maryland’s offense revolves primarily around a post player: Junior Lynetta Kizer has racked up 13.4 points and 7.6 rebounds per game this season. She’s not alone contributing down low, as sophomore forward Diandra Tchatchouang adds another 9.4 points
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Ban smoking in residential quads As James B. Duke stands in lowed within 10 feet of a resifront of the chapel oversee- dential building. While we being his campus and his legacy lieve the referendum should founded on tobacco—cigar extend the smoking ban to in hand—the University may cover all residential areas on be taking steps to rid itself campus, extending the ban from the ashen to cover all of connections campus should editorial to Durham’s not be a decitrademark industry by disal- sion made by undergraduates lowing smoking on campus. alone. Campus Council is considThere are several pros and ering introducing a referen- cons to enacting a smoking dum that would ban smoking ban on campus, but to see a across campus—a push similar campus-wide ban enacted, to a proposed residential smok- more stakeholders should be ing ban that did not come to involved. Graduate students fruition in 2009. The group’s outnumber undergraduates, upcoming merger with DSG and on top of that, faculty would make a student body- and staff members on camwide referendum possible and pus that should be accounted allow all undergraduates to for in this decision. Allowing vote on the proposal. a referendum to be voted on The current regulations through DSG and strictly unstate that no smoking is al- dergraduate channels is not
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fair to the campus as a whole. However, if the administration chose to eliminate smokers’ rights on campus, several problems could arise. First and foremost, it is worth asking how such a ban would be enforced. Cigarettes are certainly seen lit on other smoke-free college campuses throughout the nation. Peer pressure tends to be the strongest way to enforce such a policy. Duke Police officers are not likely to take the time to stop a smoker and write a ticket. Administrators could conceivably set up a system of grievance reporting, but unless the problem became severe enough, people are also not likely to report it. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill does not allow smokers to light up
within 100 feet of any campus building, effectively relegating smoking to isolated parts of campus. Although this approach makes some sense, it is difficult to imagine where similar suitable areas exist at Duke. On the other hand, there are certainly benefits to banning smoking outright on campus. First, smoking can irritate medical problems in those who do not choose to smoke. Eliminating smoking could prevent externalities, such as allergic reactions or asthmatic attacks from breathing in second-hand smoke. As a health-conscious campus and a campus that understands and sees many of the consequences of smoking, we should be one of the first to avoid compromises and strongly discourage smoking.
Understandably, the Duke University Medical Center has already banished smoking from its own campus. We believe that there is no immediate need to push smokers off campus entirely, but the current 10-foot designation is arbitrary and difficult to enforce. Campus Council and DSG should work together to draft a resolution that bans smoking from all residential areas. While banning smoking from campus entirely may be a worthwhile long-term goal, the first priority for undergraduate students should be to keep smoke away from their living spaces. If James B. Duke ever does witness the elimination of smoking from his namesake campus, a broader dialogue must occur first.
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t’s that time of year folks. Ace Ventura walk- can commiserate together about how crappy ing around kicking boxes of plastic cutlery, their crap is, while anticipating the next night’s the “Peanut Butter Jelly Time” banana bro crap. Furthermore, they can then commiserate hopping on the C-1, and Tony Jabronies walking with their Brothers, barring the Brothers let the around in their un-tucked, half-butstupid pledges speak with them, toned Sunday best with Nikes on. No about how the Brothers had to it’s not Halloween on “Maury, ” it’s do the same crap when they were Pledging Season, y’all! stupid pledges. Anyway, the con Yes, now two of my bicept is one thing, but who betweekly, 800-word status updates have ter to trust to appropriately and been about greek life, but know that efficiently execute that concept the point of my musing is to muse than a bunch of testosteroneon Duke Life, and everyone knows engorged frat boys who are still that greek life is Duke life. Just ask david rothschild full of memories of their own the administration! But even if no one said otherwise terrible pledging experiences, you’re not one of the silent minorand ready to exact some sort of ity tempted by social living groups, a-parallel revenge. Let’s be real, you certainly have an opinion, or at least an im- if I had pledges I’d probably do the exact same pression, of what I’m talking about: everyone’s thing. I mean what irresponsible, egocentric20favorite form of subservient social denigration something wouldn’t? But can we at least agree and member integration, pledging. And do you that there might be better ways? think drunk 20-year-olds are the best facilitators Ask any kindergarten teacher: You don’t of efficiently and responsibly handling the pro- spend your time reprimanding the little jerkcess of integrating bros into the frat? I sure as offs, you positively reinforce the little darlings ... hell wouldn’t be the best man to pledge ‘em up. unless you’re the Tiger Mother, or in Germany. Seeing as I’m only in a fake frat, I’ve missed Positive incentives are always more effective than out on the pleasure of mandatory vomiting and telling people they are “so effed” if they don’t the ability to yell “Pour that milkshake on your accomplish a task. So if you are attempting to head, pledge!” But I have had my own experi- integrate new members into a tight-knit organience with new-member initiation and integra- zation, wouldn’t some sort of positive incentive tion. Maybe it’s not the best (or cliché) expe- be more useful than giving them mullets and rience, but it’s an experience nonetheless. mohawks and making them slip-n-slide down a However, let me say, tongue momentarily re- ramp of their own throw up? Jesus, there’s a lot moved from cheek, that my decision to join the of throw up in this piece. group that I did was not at all based on pledging Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly many or lack thereof. Personally, I was fully willing to aspects of the fraternity member integration go through the process of joining an official IFC that are very worth while. Having kids memorize fraternity if, based on the people, I had decided names and interests of the Brothers instantly it was the best place for me. gives a baseline connection, and the idea of havBut where were we? Oh yeah, pouring that ing to pledge their commitment to the organizamilkshake on your head. True story. I saw it hap- tion through a month of hell almost guarantees pen. So how does an act such as that turn rela- continued involvement in the group for a long tive strangers into “Brothers” with a capital B? time. However, something like incentivizing their I understand that misery loves company, and accomplishment of tasks that benefit the organithe militaristic “Band of Brothers” concept. Go- zation with a giant party while also putting them ing through hell and back can certainly bring through a little bit of well-planned and producpeople together, but something about making tive misery sounds a lot more effective. Sorry if kids carry around bags full of chewing tobacco it’s not “National Lampoon” enough for you. and condoms at all hours of the day for the conI know what you’re thinking: cllleeaarly tier venience of some upperclassmen doesn’t really 2.5. Now hazing is an American tradition, as old as sound like surviving battle to me. For that mat- money laundering and shoddy manufacturing, but ter, neither does forbidding kids to sleep, shower don’t you think the current practice has strayed a or shave, or trapping them in vomit-filled closets little too far from its intended purpose? Well, at for hours on end. least there’s always the entertainment value. So putting kids through a month full of mutual suffering in theory would bring them togethDavid Rothschild is a Trinty Junior. His column er. They all have to do the same crap, and then runs every other Thursday.
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Living our values
t would appear that the events in Egypt over the last three weeks have opened the floodgates for change in the Middle East. The world shared in all of the exhilarating highs and frustrating lows of Egypt’s rollercoaster ride to freedom, which ended—at least for now—when the long-serving President, Hosni Mubarak, ceded power last Friday. Now we wait. In Egypt, a council of military leaders is overseeing the drafting of a new constitution that will be ready for public scrutiny soon, and paul horak which should include the the road ahead democratic values and freedoms that so many Egyptians fiercely fought and bravely died for. We in the United States shared in their victory, even if we did much to jeopardize it and little to help it along. Indeed, the United States was almost on the wrong side of history. In 2005, while in Egypt, Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice said, “For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.” The United States’ premium on stability—often provided by autocracy—has resulted in stagnancy rather than prosperity in many parts of the Middle East, including Egypt. Egyptians, a moderately educated and deeply oppressed people, have finally broken free of the shackles we felt content not to unburden them of, and others will follow their example. There have already been protests held in Bahrain and Iran inspired by Egypt’s model and infused with its spirit. We do not know how these will turn out, nor should we meddle in their affairs as we did in Iraq’s. Egypt’s recent success has provided the Muslim world with a new model for achieving freedom that resembles the revolutions that took place in 1989 as the Soviet Union was crumbling—revolutions from within. If the newly prosperous, peaceful and stable democracies of Eastern Europe are any indication, we can predict that short-term instability and popular protest will bring progress in many places, including the Middle East. Stability is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prosperity. The Unites States should realize this and change its approach to fledgling democracy and democratic consciousness everywhere, especially in the Middle East. Pragmatism and idealism need not always be in conflict. We can promote our strategic interests and assert our values if decide to change our responses to potential revolutions like the one currently taking place in Egypt. We should not confuse a minor protest for a nation-changing revolution, but nor should we permit our values and the people who share them to be oppressed if they themselves are ready to die for them. Freedom, dignity and justice are the values the United States stands for. But they are hardly the values the country has stood for in the Middle East, where its narrow strategic interests have made it an enemy of the people. As Americans, we should be critical of our government for its past shortsightedness and pressure our policy makers to change their response to future Tahrir Squares. We should value stability but realize that once the boat is rocked—as it was in Egypt with tremendous force—it would be foolish and hypocritical not to support peaceful popular protest. In the long run, short-term instability and uncertainty will be replaced by greater prosperity, peace and trust. Why work against these things when we can work for them? As the prominent Israeli, Natan Sharansky has said, “If the free world helps the people on the streets, and turns into the allies of these people instead of being the allies of the dictators, then there is a unique chance to build a new pact between the free world and the Arab world.” In the coming weeks the United States will have ample opportunity to put this new kind of thinking into practice: toward Egypt, and other countries like Bahrain and Iran where the tides are turning. In America, we should no longer be content to passively watch as our values are denied to people who aspire to them. We need to live by our values if we expect other people to die for them. Paul Horak is a Trinity sophomore. His column runs every other Thursday.
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f our trustees care at all about what a Duke edu- programs, there’s been at least one damning, credcation means to individual students, they should ible denunciation published in these pages in January value the advice of someone with up-to-date, 2010 by a student who dropped out of a DukeEngage firsthand knowledge about Duke students. That’s program in Trinidad and Tobago. So, experience has the significance of new Young Trustee taught us that even initiatives which Michelle Sohn’s “unique perspective,” uniformly benefit our brand do not unitaken generally. formly benefit our students. But what, exactly, can the YT conUn-glamorous questions like “Who tribute to trustee meetings that other actually benefits from Kunshan?” and trustees can’t? Bear in mind, by the “Why was this DukeEngage trip such a way, that the YT is not a representative waste of time and money?” occur natof students. That doesn’t mean the YT urally to us as students. We care less can’t or shouldn’t advocate on behalf about Duke’s brand than about how rachna reddy of students. Duke actually educates us. A good YT dead poet Consider the case of a concept we will know and sympathize with this in a hear about a lot around here, and a much more direct way than will other word which can be found eight times in Sohn’s YT ap- members of the Board of Trustees. plication: “global.” As in, “global strategy.” Sohn should investigate all proposals for signs of You can dig through Duke’s 2009 Quality Enhance- exactly that tension: Duke as a brand vs. Duke as a ment Plan—“GLOBAL DUKE: Enhancing Students’ place of learning. Capacity for World Citizenship”—if you want to know Not all things brand-related are bad for students. more about Duke’s official line on all matters “global.” But to assume that what’s good for one is good for But there’s one aspect of Duke’s relationship to the the other would not be a betrayal of the students who adjective “global” about which we can all agree: Label- elect the YT, as much as it would be a betrayal of the ing stuff as “global” makes for great marketing. Board of Trustees itself. Duke’s mission statement, as DukeEngage, the Global Semester Abroad and our approved by past trustees, states the following aim beKunshan, China campus/facility thingy don’t share fore all others: “to provide a superior liberal education much in common beyond the fact that they’re all part to undergraduate students.” As the next YT, Sohn will of Duke’s “global” stratagem, which is about image be better equipped than any other trustee to honestly as well as supposed substance. DukeEngage: Kenya is assess whether a given initiative will help accomplish much more likely to figure in pamphlets, news releas- this goal in a substantive way, or not. es, e-mails, slideshows and speeches promoting Duke Leaving aside the complexities inherent in trying than is, say, our venerable and untrendy Department to figure out what “a superior liberal education” is in of Classical Studies. “Global” is how we want to be per- practice, it won’t be easy for the youngest member ceived—it’s a major part of the brand we’re maintain- of the Board of Trustees to actively defend the intering and building. ests of students. It’s not as if Sohn’s skepticism will be Duke’s brand will profit from the Kunshan campus enough to alter the course of Duke policy, all by its as long as nothing horrifying and therefore newswor- lonesome. thy happens there. DukeEngage will enhance our imBut the University will be better served by a YT who age as long as it doesn’t actively do anyone harm. As is willing to ask tough questions. Nothing, not even a long as “global” continues to connote “hip, in a good glitzy attempt to further the idea of the Duke brand way” in the broader culture, Duke will appear to be as, say, “global” or “interdisciplinary,” should be treatvery obviously in the right when it spends money on ed as self-justifying unless it can be defended in conprograms like these. crete terms that make sense in light of the realities of But what’s good for Duke’s brand is not necessarily undergraduate education. good for Duke’s students. If Sohn does her job, she will occasionally have to There was plenty of head-scratching by myself and challenge the thinking of her older peers. Guts will other columnists when the Kunshan project was finally be just as important as self-awareness and intellectual approved—was this really the best way to spend Duke’s honesty. money in a time of cutbacks? We probably weren’t the only ones on campus thinking that. And while I have no Connor Southard is a Trinity junior. His column runs reason to doubt the effectiveness of most DukeEngage every other Thursday.
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