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Durham on track with gang policy Wuhan’s role Officials reject prediction of gang war, optimistic about city’s direction

by Chinny Sharma THE CHRONICLE

Recent ominous comments from one controversial law enforcement official have drawn some attention to Durham gangs, a subject local officials make few statements about.

In January, Maj. Paul Martin of the Durham County Sheriff’s Office reported his personal belief that a war was pending between black and Hispanic Durham gangs in a recent paper. Martin’s statements have been called “unbelievable” by county officials and received no credence from the Sheriff’s Office and the Durham Police Department. Still, his inflammatory statements have prompted some officials and community members to discuss the status of gang activity in Durham. “[DPD] has been in contact with the Durham County Sheriff’s Office... and have found no data to support Major Martin’s allegations of an impending ‘gang war,’” said Lt. Patrice Vickers, executive officer to the DPD police chief. “Although [DPD] investigates and monitors gang activity, we realize any publicity about gangs is counterproductive because it inflates the egos of those who believe themselves to be gang members and instills unfounded fear in our community.”

A 2010 report from the Durham County Juvenile Prevention Council ranks Durham ninth in total number of gang members compared to “similarly sized communities” in the Southeast.

in partnership still developing

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s partnership with Wuhan University provides a new understanding of Duke’s planned campus in China, though many concrete details remain uncertain.

The joint effort between the two schools news was announced last week analysis after the deal to partner with Shanghai Jiao Tong University fell through last summer.

Duke is legally required to partner with a Chinese university before opening its own institution there. Although Wuhan is not located in the same province as Kunshan, it has an operating license in the province, Provost Peter Lange said.

The role of Wuhan in this relationship remains uncertain but will differ from original plans with SJTU. In developing the vision for what will be called Duke Kunshan University, Duke administrators will have control in determining curriculum, hiring faculty and setting admissions standards, President Richard Brodhead said.

Previously, SJTU was expected to be involved in hiring and curriculum development for joint programs, Brodhead added. This deal fell through in the summer, as Shanghai is not located

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Suspicious packages force Brightleaf evacuation

by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

After a report of two suspicious packages at the Duke University Press office in Brightleaf Square Monday morning, Durham Police Department officials declared the situation to be “all-clear” later in the afternoon.

Employees were allowed to return around 12:15 p.m., about two hours after the press office notified police of the packages at about 10 a.m. The alert prompted police to evacuate all facilities, vendors and offices in Brightleaf, said Kyle Cavanaugh, the University’s emergency coordinator and vice president for human resources. In addition to all vendors in the area, at least 120 Duke employees were evacuated due to the incident, Cavanaugh said.

The DPD Public Information office could not be reached for comment Monday. DPD officers worked in conjunction with the Duke University Police Department to address the scare, DUPD Chief

‘Simple 600’ allows students to count calories, Page 3

John Dailey said. Police officers instructed people inside every Brightleaf establishment to evacuate the area, Dailey added.

“The evacuation was orderly and staggered [by each Brightleaf facility],” he said.

After all individuals in Brightleaf Square were evacuated, which started at 10:20 a.m., authorities determined the packages needed “further scrutiny.” Law enforcement officials called the Durham County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad, which arrived at 10:45 a.m., Dailey said.

He declined to provide specific details about the nature of the packages, but he said the Duke University Press staff reacted appropriately to the situation.

Stephen Cohn, director of the Duke University Press, referred all questions to Cavanaugh.

Salvador Sanchez, an employee at Torero’s Mexican Restaurant in Brightleaf, said the restaurant was evacuated at 11:30 a.m., adding that the process was relatively calm.

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Brightleaf Square was evacuated Monday morning after the Duke University Press Office reported two suspicious packages to the Durham Police Department. The situation was later deemed “all-clear.”

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“I only have a few months left [in college] and after graduation, wearing T-shirts regularly is no longer socially acceptable.” ­—Senior Molly Lester in “No more T-shirts.” See column page 15

‘A World Together’ to host main event during Duke in Depth, Page 4

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“January 12, Duke lost to Florida State, ending its run of 10 straight weeks at No. 1 in the AP rankings. But after a month away, Duke again is back on top. The Blue Devils benefited from all four teams ranked ahead of them losing this week—the first time something like that has happened in eight years. Kansas, Texas, Ohio State and Pittsburgh all fell to lesser competition in an upset-filled few days, leaving the path open for Duke to take the No. 1 spot.”

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Pakistani trucks form a line at the Indian border. While they are allowed to cross the border, they must transfer their cargo to Indian trucks who then distribute throughout India. Tight border conditions like these have led to extremely high markup prices for goods traded between the two countries.

Now, the U.S. and business leaders hope that renewed peace talks will loosen the restrictions.

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1980: American team makes the Miracle on Ice

Federal agents facing increasing danger in job

Yemen’s president refuses to step down

WASHINGTON — The shooting deaths of two federal agents last week and three in two months highlight the heightened risk to federal investigators who are confronting increasingly violent fugitives, drug traffickers and other criminals, authorities said.

The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico Tuesday was followed by the slaying of a deputy U.S. marshal in West Virginia Wednesday, an unusual confluence of events that left officials deeply troubled.

A Border Patrol agent was fatally shot in Arizona in December.

The killings, while not connected, come amid a broadening federal role in fighting violent crime that was once left mainly to state authorities, investigators said. Federal-state task forces on violent crime have multiplied since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, bringing federal agents in closer contact with dangerous criminals.

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Monday rejected demands to resign immediately, declaring that protesters clamoring for an end to his rule must do so through elections rather than through violence and chaos.

But at the same time, he repeated his offer to hold a dialogue over power-sharing with Yemen’s main opposition parties.

The parties have rejected his proposal, saying they can’t negotiate with a government whose loyalists and security forces have attacked pro-reform protesters with “bullets and sticks and thuggery.”

Monday, Saleh defiantly accused his opponents of also using force and of not listening to the majority of Yemenis who, he said, want peace and stability. ”Yes to reforms,” Saleh told a news conference in the capital, Sanaa. “No to coups and seizing power through anarchy and killing.”

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New program offers meals in 600 calories

by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE

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Jewish Life at Duke, Muslim Students Association and Duke Arab Student Organization co-sponsored the Laugh in Peace Tour, which features interfaith stand-up comedy, in the Von Canon rooms Monday.

You are invited to hear a presentation by David Hinson, National Director of the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), US Department of Commerce

on Friday, February 25, 2011 at 1:30 PM in the RJR Auditorium of the Fuqua School of Business.

Hinson was appointed by President Barack Obama to head the federal agency with the mission to actively promote the growth and competiveness of minority business enterprises (MBEs). (http://www.mbda.gov/main/people/david-hinson)

Starting after spring break, students will have a new way to count calories at the Great Hall and the Marketplace.

The program, called “Simple 600,” will allow students to pick and choose different meal components that total 600 calories. The program will initially run Monday through Friday during lunch in the Marketplace and lunch and dinner in the Great Hall.

Bon Appétit Management Company, which runs both eateries, has been developing the program for approximately six months. The company operates similar calorie-counting programs at several other locations.

Bon Appétit Resident District Manager Nate Peterson and Marketing Manager Sarah McGowan announced the new meal program at the Duke University Student Dining Advisory Committee meeting Monday night.

“It’s a very extensive program; [it took] a lot of development to get it in place,” Peterson said. “We held a training session with chefs from all over the East Coast.”

Peterson acknowledged that “real estate is always an issue” in both facilities, adding that the stations would replace the existing vegan and vegetarian stations. He said the program would have vegetarian and vegan options, adding that all stations in both venues will soon begin offering at least one vegetarian meal option.

Franca Alphin, director of nutrition services at Student Health, said Bon Appétit worked closely with Nutrition Services on the project, adding that she predicts that the program will increase attention to vegetarian meals. “[The pilot program] will give those meals a little bit more exposure,” Alphin said. “It’s a win-win.”

To give students a chance to evaluate the program, the Student Voice Survey— an annual questionnaire which allows students to provide feedback on Bon Appétit venues—will likely come out several weeks after the program’s implementation.

In other business: DUSDAC members made several recommendations regarding the Student Voice Survey, which will be between 150 and 200 questions long.

When discussing the survey, sophomore Ari Ruffer encouraged questions on student fruit preferences and senior Tina Siadak pushed for the inclusion of questions about favorite salad dressings.

Members also suggested Bon Appétit incorporate questions about the clamshell initiative, student dietary restrictions and Bon Appétit employees. DUSDAC members noted that employee unions have received severe criticism in the past.

The survey will be evaluating the Devil’s Bistro for the first time, and it will also See dusdac on page 8

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‘World Together’ to host key event from Staff Reports THE CHRONICLE

Duke’s “A World Together” initiative will hold its main event Feb. 24-27 during the Alumni Association’s annual Duke in Depth weekend.

“A World Together” is the University’s year-long initiative to showcase Duke’s growing commitments to global development. The program this weekend will address modern worldwide challenges in academic collaboration and coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps.

Administrators, students and alumni—including former Peace Corps volunteers—will attend a variety of discussions related to thought-provoking global topics, including hunger, religion and education. The event brings together a diverse group of faculty across several departments and schools, including the Nicholas School of the Environment and the political science and biology departments.

Duke in Depth will bring to campus a variety of distin-

guished speakers, including Bill Drayton, founder and chief executive officer of Ashoka, a global social entrepreneurship foundation. In his Saturday conversation, “The Ethics of Global Development,” Drayton will be joined by President Richard Brodhead and Blair Sheppard, dean of the Fuqua School of Business.

Ashoka is also hosting its annual TEDx Ashoka U Event, “Universities Driving Global Change” Friday at Duke. The event will host a variety of keynote speakers and provides a forum where students can discuss steps to enhance social entrepreneurship in higher education.

Duke in Depth will also feature live conversations via video chat with alumni stationed in developing countries, which will be moderated by Marco Werman Trinity ’83, host of PRI’s The World. Video interviewees include Alex Fankuchen, Trinity ’10 and English teacher in the See a world together on page 8

From Cairo to Washington: Al-Jazeera English in Today’s Media Context Jennifer Salan al Jazeera, engliSh Jennifer Salan joined Al Jazeera English prior to its launch. She is currently a Sr. Producer for the network’s flagship, “Riz Khan” Show.

Previously she served as Communications Director for the Arab American Institute (AAI), a non-partisan organization dedicated to the political empowerment of Americans of Arab descent. During her time at AAI Ms. Salan also produced a weekly program for Abu Dhabi TV which won an award at the Cairo Radio and Television Festival--the equivalent of an Arab World Emmy.

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Bruce Johnson, Interim Chief Executive Officer Sears Holdings Corporation The University community is invited to attend.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Geneen Auditorium The Fuqua School of Business

RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES

Health care law inspires attacks and accomodations

by Amy Goldstein The Washington Post

With battles over the president’s signature health legislation underway in the courts and on Capitol Hill, a third line of attack is forming in the states: Practically every week, a Republican governor or lawmaker announces a new effort to kill the health-care law or undercut its implementation.

Some have returned federal funding to prepare for the rollout and halted early planning work. But others are moving forward even as they pursue efforts to overturn the law.

GOP-led states are staking out different approaches because, for all the tough talk of opposing the law, their room to maneuver is finite.

They are attacking a law whose major provisions do not take effect until 2014, which means that for now, there is not much to obstruct.

Meanwhile, because significant Republican wins in November 2012 could lead to amendments or outright repeal, GOP governors have an interest in trying to undermine voters’ confidence in the law by vowing to oppose it.

Yet if the law survives the aftermath of the 2012 election—and the court challenges—the governors will have an incentive to implement it themselves. That’s because the law empowers the federal government to step in where states fail to take the lead.

For instance, Republican governors would face a choice between letting a Democratic administration establish a potentially more regulated version of state-based private insurance markets known as “exchanges” or designing their own.

And if these governors don’t start laying the groundwork soon—deciding what new rules to issue and agencies to revamp—they risk missing the Jan. 1, 2013, deadline by which states must prove they have made enough progress to avoid a federal takeover.

So it’s not inconsistent for many Republican governors to be simultaneously opposing the law and instructing state agencies to begin setting its provisions in motion, said Alan Weil, executive director of the National Academy for State Health Policy.

“They are just expressing the two parts of their job,” he said. “Governors are both political leaders who advocate for positions and the chief executive . . . who (has) to make things work.”

The dynamic helps explain the range of tactics GOP state leaders are employing: After a federal judge in Florida not only struck down the health-care law but suggested that his judgment was the “functional equivalent of an injunction,” officials in three of the 26 states party to the suit—Alaska, Florida and Wisconsin—declared the law “dead.”

The Obama administration has asked the judge to clarify whether the decision means it must request a stay permitting the law to remain in effect pending appeals. If so, the government is virtually guaranteed to get one given that two other federal judges have already upheld the law, and a third struck only a portion of it.

Nonetheless, the governors’ mutinous stance kicked off speculation that they were about to launch a full rollback of the law. In practice, their actions have been more nuanced.

Last week, Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, a Republican, announced that he would not meet the deadline to apply for a $1 million federal grant to help states plan their exchanges, because doing so would “violate the court’s ruling.” Yet well before the Florida court weighed in, Parnell’s intention to pass up the money was clear, since it had been available for months. Meanwhile, Parnell has not returned the more than $15 million in federal funds Alaska has received through other provisions of the law.

Wisconsin, whose new Republican governor, Scott Walker, replaced a Democrat, recently returned a $637,114 “consumer assistance” grant the law provides. Yet last week the state accepted $37.8 million to help it design the technology infrastructure needed to operate an exchange.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, decided to return a $1 million exchange planning grant and another $1 million to pay for a system to help consumers track insurance rates.

But otherwise, the only work his administration appears to See health care on page 8

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Man accused in Pakistan shootings worked for CIA

by Greg Miller

The Washington post

The American who fatally shot two men in Pakistan last month and who has been described publicly as a diplomat is a security contractor for the CIA who was part of a secret agency team operating out of a safe house in Lahore, U.S. officials said.

The contractor, Raymond Davis, 36, has been detained in a Pakistani jail since his arrest. He has said he opened fire on two Pakistani men after they attempted to rob him at a traffic signal in Lahore.

The disclosure compounds an already combustible stand-off between the United States and Pakistan at a time of growing distrust between them and complicates U.S. efforts to win Davis’s release.

President Obama and other senior administration officials have repeatedly described Davis as a diplomat who was assigned to the U.S. consulate in Lahore and have said he is entitled to immunity from prosecution in Pakistan.

But in fact, Davis has spent much of the past two years working as part of a group of covert CIA operatives, whose mission appears to have centered on conducting surveillance of militant groups in large cities including Lahore.

At the time of his arrest, Davis was based at a house with five other CIA contractors as well as an agency employee, a U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

The official said the impact of the disclosure that Davis is a CIA contractor “will be serious.

“I think it’s going to make it a hell of a lot harder to get him out,” the official said. “I think ISI knows what this guy is, but I think this is just going to inflame the Pakistanis.”

The ISI is the acronym for Pakistan’s spy service, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate.

“Our security personnel around the world act in a support role providing security for American officials. They do not conduct foreign intelligence collection

or covert operations. Any assertion to the contrary is flat wrong,” said George Little, a spokesman for the CIA, without commenting specifically on Davis.

The Washington Post learned of Davis’s CIA affiliation after his arrest but agreed not to publish the information at the request of senior U.S. intelligence officials, who cited concern for Davis’s safety if his true employment status were disclosed.

Those officials withdrew the request not to publish on Monday after other news organizations identified Davis as a CIA employee, and after U.S. officials made a final attempt to prevail upon Pakistan’s government to release Davis or move him to a safer facility.

U.S. officials reiterated their concern for Davis on Monday, and provided new details on the conditions at the jail where he is being held. One U.S. official said Davis had been moved to a separate section of the facility where the guards’ guns had been taken away “for fear that one of them may kill him.”

The official added that the jail holds about 4,000 inmates and that three detainees have previously been killed by guards.

“The local police are allowing angry protesters very near the prison,” the official said. He added that jail authorities were using dogs to taste or smell the food given to Davis “to make sure it doesn’t contain poison.”

Even while shedding new light on the circumstances of Davis’s detention, U.S. officials continued to provide scant information about his assignment. A former member of the U.S. Army Special Forces, Davis was hired as a contract employee of the CIA’s Global Response Staff, a unit that is responsible for providing security for agency employees and facilities in other countries.

Current and former U.S. officials said Davis had previously been employed by the sprawling security firm once known as Blackwater. A spokeswoman for the company, now known as Xe Services, did not See cia on page 8

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Temple Grandin, author and Doctor of Animal Science and professor at Colorado State University, spoke in Baldwin Auditorium Monday. Grandin received an honorary Duke degree at last year’s commencement.

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gangs from page 1 As of November 2007, the most recent time for which comprehensive data is available, Durham had 33 distinct gangs with approximately 1,000 members, according to a comprehensive gang report submitted by youth gang experts to DPD and the Durham County Sheriff’s Office. The report, compiled by Deborah Weisel, now director of police research in North Carolina State University’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and James Howell, senior research associate with the National Youth Gang Center in Tallahassee, Fla., also noted that the average size of gangs was projected to increase at the time.

Contested predictions Martin’s predictions of increased gang violence reflect predictions he has made since the 1990s. He joined the sheriff’s office after he resigned from DPD in 1996 when he was suspended on charges of insubordination, criticism of the department, failure to supervise and causing disruption in the workplace.

In his most recent public prediction— which he said does not reflect the sheriff’s office’s views—Martin cited racial tensions between the African American and burgeoning Hispanic population in Durham as a possible cause for the impending gang war he foresees. According to the 2007 report, 79 percent of Hispanics and 71 percent of African Americans felt personally targeted by gang activity in Durham, compared to 52 percent of white citizens.

But Mayor Bill Bell said he does not believe any evidence exists to support Martin’s claims of the impending gang war. He added that such fears are not going unnoticed among city officials, noting that measures to improve safety in Durham have been taken.

“While my discussions with the city manager have shown that he is not aware of any racial tension that could lead to a gang war, we understand that Durham is no more immune to gangs than any other city,” Bell said. “Durham is, however, more open than other municipalities to discussing gangs.”

Bell noted that as chair of the North Carolina Metropolitan Mayors Coalition—a

post he has held since last March—he is able to discuss the condition of Durham in comparison to other cities in the state, and he emphasized that Durham has been looked to as a leader in the way it deals with gangs.

Durham’s response Although the 2007 report to DPD attributed 45 percent of Durham homicides each year from 2002 through 2006 to gang violence, the mayor said he believes the city’s efforts to alleviate the problem have led to significant improvement. Bell cited his January meeting with DPD officials at which he learned that only 7 percent of crimes are now perceived to be gang related.

City officials are optimistic about the direction Durham is taking, Bell said.

“Since the problem has been identified, vast improvements have been made,” Bell explained. “We can’t respond to every concern but we have to look at the facts.”

Despite city officials’ optimism, Gayle Harris, health director of the Durham County Board of Health, said Durham youths appear to perceive that the city has a problem. Fifty-four percent of Durham high school students believe gangs are a problem compared to 36 percent of their peers statewide, according to the results of the recently released Durham County Partnership for a Healthy Durham 2009 Youth Risk Behavior survey.

“This survey does not provide any concrete answers or solutions but it is meant to give a voice to the students,” Harris said. “However, the important thing is not whether the problem is real or not. It is that the students perceive it as real and therefore we must take it seriously, figure out the causes, and act on them.”

Harris noted that it is difficult to gather empirical evidence of gang membership and activity, but said she believes it is important to promote discussion about gang violence and understand student perceptions.

This bucks Durham’s traditional stance of not legitimizing gangs by acknowledging their existence.

“Durham’s official response to juvenile gang members is largely to ignore or downplay them—81 percent of School Resource Officers in Durham Public Schools said gang problems are downplayed,” accord-

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wuhan from page 1 in the same province as Kunshan, which made finalizing a legal agreement difficult, he noted.

Other details regarding the University’s presence in China have changed since Duke announced the new campus.

Initially, Duke planned to include the Chinese partner’s name in the campus title to help Duke establish credibility quickly, said Greg Jones, vice president and vice provost of global strategy and programs. But after several talks throughout the past year, the University decided Duke would gain more by building its own reputation instead.

“We wanted to be there as Duke,” Jones said. “It gives us the freedom and credibility to enter into more relationships with other universities.”

SJTU, with which Brodhead said Duke hopes to retain an academic partnership, is ranked 151 of 400 in the U.S. News and World Report’s “World’s Best Universities.” Wuhan does not appear on the list, which includes eight Chinese schools.

Administrators, however, maintain that Wuhan is a leading Chinese university with a record of academic excellence and esteemed reputation within China. In his annual address to faculty Thursday, Brodhead called Wuhan a “top 10” Chinese university, though he did not provide the ranking’s source.

ing to the 2007 report to DPD. Despite police silence about gang violence in Durham, Durham has implemented educational programs to counteract and monitor gang activity.

One of the six points in DPS Superintendent Eric Becoats’ new strategic plan is to address “wellness and safety,” and promote an assertive response to the issue. A survey will be redistributed every two years in order to track progress.

Durham has also implemented a statelaunched gang intelligence database to share criminal intelligence activity and the Gang Resistance Education and Training classroom curriculum.

The city must also face considerable

“[Wuhan] is ranked as one of the top universities in China, depending on what rankings you believe,” Jones said, adding that U.S. News’ rankings are unreliable.

“That ranking system has been widely discredited.... If you talk to Chinese people, Wuhan is highly respected.”

Jones noted that the most popular Chinese ranking systems, such as the Chinese Academy of Management Science rankings, consistently rank Wuhan between seven and 10.

Brodhead said that the U.S. News rankings are deceiving because they are based on standards set by “major developed countries,” and the program is being launched in China, not the United States.

“All I can tell you is the ranking game, as it applies to international universities, is an underdeveloped art form,” Brodhead said. “What metrics are you going to use? You’re going to use the metrics that major developed countries use.”

Lange said he is confident Wuhan will be a great partner for Duke. Although it is unclear when the Chinese Ministry of Education will respond to the University’s appeal to begin operations, which it will submit in the next few weeks, he said he still expects Duke Kunshan University to open Fall 2012.

“We are hoping that we get a fairly reasonable response in a reasonable time,” Lange said. “Wuhan has been an excellent partner. We have lots of documents to work through with them, and they’ve been superb.”

poverty—as of 2007, one-fifth of Durham’s youth lives below the poverty line, which may contribute to the instability in lifestyles and lead to the growth of gangs, according to the DPD report. To mediate this, Durham put in place the Department of Justice’s comprehensive gang prevention, intervention and suppression model, which provides sanctions and services for adolescents and adults. Raleigh-Durham has been using part of a $2.5 million federal grant to fund this model.

“We are still in a never-ending process of finding out what the root of the problem is and how we can mitigate it,” Harris said.

“The steps we have taken are in the right direction on the path to reform.”

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Peace Corps in Cape Verde, Carolyn Kent, Trinity ’08 and municipal development adviser in the Peace Corps in Guatemala and Heather Oh, Trinity ’03 and East Africa new business manager of TechnoServe.

Attendees can also walk through a traditional-style “bazaar” Saturday in the Gross Chemistry building’s Energy Hub, which will also feature an exhibit of global student initiatives, such as DukeEngage projects.

The original idea for “A World Together” was developed by faculty and staff members who have volunteered for the Peace Corps. With Duke’s recent increase in international programming, the volunteers decided to combine a Peace Corps alumni reunion with a larger effort to highlight the University’s increasing role in the underdeveloped world.

Last semester, “A World Together” brought several speakers to campus including Charles McCormack, president and CEO of Save the Children, in September.

respond to a request for comment.

U.S. officials said that at the time of the shooting, Davis was doing what CIA employees refer to as “area familiarization,” meaning basic surveillance designed to familiarize operatives with their surroundings.

The work would help to explain a collection of items found in Davis’s possession when he was arrested, including a camera, a small telescope, a first-aid kit, flashlights, and a Glock semi-automatic pistol.

The description of his activities is at odds with early accounts by U.S. officials who had indicated that he was not on a particular assignment when the shooting occurred and that he was attacked in his vehicle after withdrawing money from an automated teller machine.

Davis has testified that he was approached by two Pakistani men on a motorcycle, and that they brandished a weapon in an apparent attempt to rob him.

Pakistani authorities have threatened to charge Davis

with murder and have released pages from police reports indicating that he fired at the backs of the men he killed even as they attempted to flee.

A third Pakistani, a pedestrian, was hit and killed by a U.S. vehicle that apparently had been dispatched from the Lahore consulate to retrieve Davis.

Officials in Pakistan said the government has known that Davis worked for the CIA and that the U.S. acknowledgment bolsters Islamabad’s case that Davis was not a diplomat and therefore is not entitled to immunity.

Davis’s affiliation with the CIA was “one of the major reasons” for the complications surrounding the case, a senior Pakistani official said. The broader impact, the official said, will be in “adding to the public anger and anguish, and hence more pressure on authorities in Islamabad not to succumb to the American pressure to hand over Davis.”

State Department officials on Monday reiterated that Davis was entitled to diplomatic immunity under the terms of the Vienna Convention, which has been ratified by Pakistan, the United States and most other countries. A senior official, asked whether diplomatic immunity applied to CIA employees posted abroad, said Davis’s employer was irrelevant.

“Under international law, there are very few areas where the law is so clear,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity in accordance with ground rules.

The CIA and the ISI have cooperated extensively on counter-terrorism operations. Pakistan has secretly authorized CIA drone strikes in the country’s tribal belt, where al-Qaida and other militant groups are based. The CIA has mainly relied on the ISI to carry out arrests of senior alQaida and Taliban operatives, including Mullah Baradar, in Karachi and other major cities.

But the murky mission of the team that included Davis suggests that the CIA has sought to expand its own capabilities in Pakistan’s urban areas, where high-ranking militants are thought to have taken refuge from the deadly toll of drone strikes.

One U.S. official said Davis and the others working out of a Lahore safe house “were hooked up with JSOC,” the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command, which has taken on an increasingly important role in intelligencegathering missions in Pakistan.

dusdac from page 3 critique Trinity Cafe for the first time since the start of the new meal equivalency program. The initiative, which began in the Fall, allows freshmen to redeem their meal swipes for credit at the cafe.

Director of Dining Services Jim Wulforst reported that The Greek Devil will add a second cart to sell roasted nuts on the Bryan Center Plaza in upcoming weeks, as soon as the owner receives the new cart and nut toaster.

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health care from page 4 have halted are “rule workshops” to consider changes in Medicare services.

Rather than suspending implementation, the actual Republican strategy in these and and other states is more like decelerating it.

Experts say it’s impossible to predict whether those now taking the slower route will really end up obstructing implementation.

“If you take a yield sign or a bump in the road . . . as a bigger statement than it really is, you can reach the wrong conclusions,” Weil said.

Go ahead. Make our day. That was the undertone of a letter that 21 Republican governors sent Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius earlier this month.

Unless she allows states more flexibility in designing the exchanges, the governors wrote, “HHS should begin making plans to run exchanges under its own auspices.”

As Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels put it in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal the same day: “If there’s to be a train wreck, we governors would rather be spectators than conductors.”

But it’s not clear that the administration would have the authority to waive one of the limitations Republicans complain about most: the requirement that plans sold on exchanges offer a minimum package of “essential benefits—critics worry that the administration could make the package too generous, increasing the cost of insurance to unsustainable levels.

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Duke returns to top spot in rankings after five weeks away

Don’t panic—this isn’t that column. Re-read the headline. Take a deep breath.

Yes, a year ago one of my Chronicle colleagues wrote a now-infamous column advocating that Mike Krzyzewski should bench Kyle Singler. A firestorm ensued. And Singler ended up being named the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.

Funny how things turn out.

But although no one will admit it today, last season there actually was a growing group of Duke fans that were fed up with Singler’s Scott slump, and the Chronicle column did fairly represent those frustrations. Like it or not, there are similar rumblings now.

It’s time to calm those fans down.

Yes, the similarities between Singler’s slump last season and his current one are jarring. Last season Singler was coming off a dismal 2-for-13 shooting performance in a loss to Georgia Tech when the column was written. That poor shooting has come back in the senior’s current slump, during which he has averaged only 11 points per game in his last five contests while making less than a third of his shots.

Like last season, though, Singler has continued to play big minutes during his slump, and Duke has continued to be successful.

That is because Singler isn’t a player that can be

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After 10 straight weeks at No. 1, Duke lost to Florida State and St. John’s and fell as low as fifth in the rankings. Yesterday the team returned to the top spot. long time because we didn’t lose,” Krzyzewski said. “That’s just the nature of the polls. I never felt we were the No. 1 When Florida State tarnished Duke’s undefeated re- team in the country after that. I did when [Kyrie] was with cord with a 66-61 victory over the then-No. 1 team in the us. I think we’re a good team and we just have to keep country Jan. 12, the Blue Devils did not look like a team winning.” that had won 25 straight games.

Nonetheless, the Blue Devils have come a long way The Seminoles’ hard-nosed defense completely disrupt- from their first loss of the season, staying undefeated in ed Duke’s offensive rhythm: The Blue Devils shot 31 per- the ACC, winning 10 of their last 11 games and reeling cent from the field and relied too heavily on the 3-point off six in a row since Jan. 30. Over that stretch, Seth Curshot as a result of ineffective post ry shot his way into the starting play. Perhaps intensifying the sting lineup, freshman Tyler Thornton “The teams that are ranked proved he could take some of the of the loss, Florida State had fallen to Auburn, which currently occuoff Nolan Smith in the high all get great shots from pressure pies last place in the Southeastern backcourt and Smith established everyone.... We shouldn’t Conference, the previous week. himself as a legitimate contender But just a little more than a national player of the year worry about what it does in for month after the surprising defeat honors. in Tallahassee, Duke now sits back Smith in particular has prothe polls.” on top of the college basketball vided much-needed consistency — Mike Krzyzewski for Duke, scoring 20 or more world, jumping up four places to hold the No. 1 spot in both the AP points in nine of the games after and the USA Today/ESPN Coachthe Florida State defeat and never es rankings. This leap to the head of the pack is the largest putting up less than 18 during the same span. He leads the since 2003, when Kansas moved to the top spot from the ACC in both scoring and assists, showing his ability to adapt No. 6 position. But the Blue Devils benefited from road to the loss of Irving, the Blue Devils’ best distributor. losses by the previous top four teams—Kansas, Ohio State, “He keeps getting better,” Krzyzewski said of Smith. “I Texas and Pittsburgh­—and it would be difficult to argue don’t think anyone in the country has had that change conclusively that Duke is better than those squads, as all of [in ballhandling responsibility] and especially not the them still received No. 1 votes in AP Poll this week. preseason and the first part of the season to prepare for Moreover, head coach Mike Krzyzewski won’t place too your role. He just [said], ‘Ok I’ll be Spiderman. I’ll sing much stock in the Blue Devils’ top ranking, if his com- the lead. I’ll take all those.’ I think [he’s had] one of the ments after Sunday night’s victory are any indication.

“After Kyrie [Irving] got hurt, we were just No. 1 for a See no. 1 on page 10

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Singler may find himself mired in another shooting slump, but his defense and rebounding numbers make up for poor offense, Rich writes.

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judged solely by his scoring output. Despite Nolan Smith’s rapid maturation into one of the college game’s best players, fans often forget that opponents’ game plans still revolve around Singler more often than not. The 6-foot-8 perimeter player presents matchup problems for opponents whether he’s pulling up from 3-point range or battling in the post, something teams must design their defenses around. Singler is often guarded, then, by the opponent’s best defender, if not two of them.

An occasional slump is understandable when one has to face the opposing team’s elite defender every night.

Even when he struggles offensively, though, Singler remains one of the best defenders and rebounders in the ACC. He averages 6.3 rebounds per game, second only to Mason Plumlee for the Blue Devils, and consistently finds himself matched up against the most talented scorers in the nation—the senior held Harrison Barnes to nine points on 3-for-8 shooting against North Carolina, and he shut down Michigan State’s Draymond Green for a majority of that early season non-conference battle.

And while it’s hard to quantify one’s defensive presence statistically, consider this—Singler leads the nation in plus/minus, a statistic measuring how many more points a player’s team scores than its opponent while said player is on the floor. Yes, he’s even above Duke’s newly anointed savior in Smith, who is second on the list, and Singler’s plus/minus is 55 points higher than Jon Diebler of Ohio State’s third place total.

So despite the fact that Singler is struggling with his shot, there’s little doubt he’s still helping this team win, something that his coach firmly believes.

best performances in a long time in our league, especially when you consider those things.”

Duke’s frontcourt has also improved its toughness since it was overmatched down low against the Seminoles on a night in which Kyle Singler said the Blue Devils “weren’t ready for how physical the game was.” Mason and Miles Plumlee, along with Ryan Kelly, have caused problems for some of the best post players in the ACC, holding Maryland’s Jordan Williams, N.C. State’s Tracy Smith and North Carolina’s John Henson to a combined 13-for-31 shooting performance from Feb. 2 to Feb. 9.

The continued development of the big men along with the sustained production from Smith and Curry have Duke primed to capture another regular-season conference championship, provided the Blue Devils can survive road contests at Virginia Tech and North Carolina.

Yet, the past week of college basketball has shown that none of the top teams, not even the No. 1 squad, are safe when they leave the familiar hardwood of their home arenas. But if Duke does lose away from Cameron Indoor Stadium, chances are it won’t be because the Blue Devils let the top spot get to their heads.

“It’s the time of the year where people are desperate,” Krzyzewski said Sunday. “The teams that are ranked high all get great shots from everyone.

I do think that can make you better before going into the tournament. We shouldn’t worry about what it does in the polls. We want to finish well in the conference race.”

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The senior still leads the country in plus/minus and is 55 points higher than Ohio State’s Jon Diebler, Rich writes.

“We won’t win a really important game unless Kyle is playing with that spirit,” Krzyzewski said after Sunday’s game. “And if he hits his shots, then we’re a lot better.

It’s kind of a phase during a season, kind of like a hitter who is a .320 hitter but is hitting .250. We think he will hit .320 and balance out for the season.”

Even if Krzyzewski’s math doesn’t quite add up (unless Singler metaphorically starts hitting above .400), don’t forget we’ve seen

all this before. Singler struggled midway through conference play last season before blossoming in the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. As a senior, there’s little reason to doubt he can do so again. And even if he doesn’t, the senior will still positively impact the Blue Devils’ chances with his intensity, defense and leadership.

So, to the chagrin of trolling messageboard posters everywhere, my message is this—please, don’t bench Kyle Singler.

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More questions about Kunshan In his annual address to han University? the faculty last week President Brodhead’s comment Richard Brodhead announced that Duke “[appears] to have Duke’s new partnership with found a suitable partner” is Wuhan University. Wuhan scant on details. Further rereplaces Shanghai Jiao Tong marks such as the observation University—the of Greg Jones, original partner vice president editorial school in Duke’s and vice proeffort to construct a campus vost of global strategy and proin China. Last summer SJTU grams, that Duke is looking refused to sponsor the Univer- for a “silent sponsor,” indicate sity’s proposal before the Chi- Wuhan’s role will be limited nese government. to serving as an intermediary The Kunshan, China cam- to the Chinese government. pus has been a top priority for The original partnership Duke’s administration, in line with Shanghai Jiao Tong Uniwith its goal to globalize the versity called for involvement in Duke experience. While we “faculty hiring, post-doctorate see the potential benefits of a training” and other academic collaborative Chinese expan- ventures. Will Wuhan serve in sion, we feel recent events have these capacities? Will Shangraised further questions about hai Jiao Tong continue to be the viability of the project. involved academically? Or will First, what constitutes Duke navigate the many culDuke’s partnership with Wu- tural, political and educational

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Controversy ensued a year ago when Shanghai Jiao Tong was implicated in a hacking scheme—is Duke fully autonomous from Wuhan, or is Duke’s international reputation now in part dependent on this new Chinese partner?

Furthermore, how much will this actually cost?

Duke’s public accounting of monetary involvement in the Kunshan project has been hazy at best. In December 2009, administrators placed the costs of construction of the Kunshan campus at next to nothing. A year later, Jones noted the project would require an $11 million investment for the “first phase,” and that “additional funding” may be needed to ensure quality during campus construction.

We are not necessarily op-

posed to investment in a Chinese campus—it is unrealistic to think that Kunshan could be undertaken without substantial financial involvement. Still, the constantly shifting statements coming from Duke administrators do little to engender confidence within the greater Duke community as to the project’s economic feasibility.

Finally, if and when the Kunshan campus is completed, what will it be composed of academically?

In justifying expansion into a nation historically hostile to values like “open inquiry, freedom of expression and free access to information,” President Brodhead cited China’s admiration for the “broadbased, combinatory learning we call the liberal arts.”

This is a bold assertion, and one not entirely support-

ed by the fact that Kunshan will initially host almost all business-related programs.

Will future phases of the Kunshan program expose Chinese students to the “interdisciplinarity” needed to help China “accept and embrace” values like academic freedom?

Or will it cater mostly to an already globalized business class?

Unexpected costs and complications associated with such an innovative endeavor have always been, frankly, inevitable. Yet Duke’s administrative response has done little to pierce the cloud of obfuscation hanging over Kunshan.

When originally conceived, Board of Trustees Chair Dan Blue, Law ’73, characterized the risks of Kunshan as “not substantial.” The administration has so far said little else to prove Blue prescient.

The right way to eat

y favorite place to eat on campus is we’re going in the right direction.” the Refectory. My next favorite spot is One of the biggest changes on campus in the Chick-fil-A. near term is the transition to the house model.

And I get to pay an increased fee for the privi- It is a far cry short of the full residential college lege of eating at both. It should be system à la Yale demanded by clear to you by now that the so-called the late Reynolds Price. But that “emergency” dining fee added at the doesn’t mean we can’t work to end of last year isn’t a one-year thing. find the “synergies” (Johnson’s I wish DSG President Mike Lefevre term) between dining and housthe best in his continued efforts to ing in the new model. Johnson end the fee this spring, but I doubt shared that “a large part of the he’ll be successful. conversation [about changes in Last semester I wrote that Duke dining] is going to be: How do Student Government might make gregory morrison we connect dining to the house a real contribution to student life finish the thought model, and the house model to if they were to put together a longdining?” term plan for dining at Duke, someAs much as I bemoan the thing not yet done. Why not go ahead and be the University’s reliance on capital construction to first to state what we want and why and how we catalyze changes on campus, we really do need plan to get there? a West Union renovation. Without dining halls How we eat is part of campus life. Students attached to each house, or to groups of houses should be able to break bread together as an es- (something Johnson rightly calls “Physically... sential part of being a community. Food has a really difficult.”), students need a bigger and role to play in the social life of campus as well as more comfortable Great Hall and newer kitchin its intellectual life. Real changes to dining are ens. At the very least. needed to make the house model work, and they The idea behind dining at Duke must be comcould even, if done well, go a long way toward munity. The administration is looking for ways tackling the “campus culture” issues we so love to build a “framework” that allows student entreto discuss. preneurship when it comes to building commuThe recent addition to DSG of a vice president nities. Why wouldn’t students themselves set the for residence life and dining is a great opportu- objectives for that framework? nity to move forward with a new dining initiative.

It’s fair to say that we want better food, and Whoever is chosen to fill the position ought to we want it cheaper. And we’d like plenty of opmove ahead right away. tions—sit-down service, grab and go, open earThis new position in student government will ly, open late. But how do we see dining in the be of particular use to students because it paral- student experience? If it doesn’t matter all that lels another position recently created during re- much, then go ahead and pay the extra fee and organization of the divisions of Student Affairs: go on about your business. the assistant vice president of housing and dinIf, on the other hand, we think that dining, ing. On the administrative side that new position like housing, can play a transformative role in the is filled by Rick Johnson, who comes to Duke student experience, then we ought to come out from a similar position at Virginia Tech. He’s and say so. We ought to work with Assistant Vice been here all of three weeks and has jumped President of Housing and Dining Johnson and right in—learning about Duke’s dining opera- other administrators to build a plan for dining, tion, getting perspective on our coming transi- just as we helped build a plan for residential life tion to the house model and listening to his staff in the new house model. and to students.

In creating Johnson’s position, which comI sat down with Johnson at the Devil’s Bistro bines dining and RLHS, Vice President for Stuthis weekend and asked him some of the ques- dent Affairs Larry Moneta put “a huge chunk of tions that would need to be answered for any student life under one umbrella.” DSG is about thoughtful student-led dining initiative. to select Johnson’s student counterpart.

Where do we want to be when it comes to dinI wonder what type of plans the two might ing? Johnson says Duke ought to have “the best hatch together? dining program in the nation.” Along the way to that world-class program, Johnson will take a Gregory Morrison is a Trinity Senior and the former “student focused” approach, in which incremen- Executive Vice President of DSG. His column runs evtal changes are tested with students to “make sure ery Tuesday.

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hen I tire of Facebook, Shopbop baby in the Goodwill box. and Sporcle, I often come home When I finished the El Gigante burrito and take my procrastinations at my favorite Mexican restaurant senior to my closet. There, I like to rummage year, I got a souvenir T-shirt that read, “I surthrough my wardrobe, vived the El Gigante!” It was searching for old clothes of course not wearable—a to donate to Goodwill. This size XXL—and besides, did task never proved to be I really want to advertise overly daunting until this the fact that I stuffed my past weekend when I deface with refried beans and cided to skip the hanging cheese? No. So, it too went clothes and sift through in the Goodwill box. the dreaded ... (drum roll, And when I checked molly lester please) ... T-shirt drawer. into the Randolph dorm In this endless abyss of more taste, less filling freshman year, in addicotton memories, a lifetime tion to getting my Dukeof T-shirts makes its home. As I carefully re- Card and room key, I got a, you guessed moved the folded stacks, I was disgusted by it, Duke T-shirt. Needless to say it was the my accumulation. Do I belong on the TV first of many Duke shirts to come, but I show “Hoarders?” Or does everyone else in mainly blame all you BC Plaza tablers for the Western world own this many? convincing me just to “swipe for our shirt I only have a few months left as a col- on FLEX.” Half of my Duke T-shirt colleclege student and after graduation, wear- tion has now been donated. ing T-shirts regularly is no longer socially I bet you’ve never even thought about acceptable. Based on my observations, how the T-shirt became so popular and if real-world working people only wear T- you have, well, then you’re procrastinations shirts at night, for exercising purposes are far different from mine. and while lounging on the weekends­.

The modern T-shirt may have develUnless you’re Nick Umbs, who currently oped from cotton undergarments that holds the U.S. record for wearing the 19th-century miners and dockworkers most T-shirts at one time—183. loading ships used to cover themselves in And seeing as I’m not planning on the heat. The trend caught on with the challenging his title anytime soon, how’d folks in the U.S. Navy, who issued cotton I get so many?

T-shirts to sailors in 1942. Throughout the I’ll tell you. Consumer society today is second half of the 20th century, however, obsessed with the things, and my whole life T-shirts became a popular form of selfI’ve been tricked into wanting them. expression. Today, there’s a cotton T-shirt College visit? Buy a T-shirt! out there for everyone: tank top, crew Run a race? You get a T-shirt! neck, V-neck, tall T, crop top, long sleeve, Join a club? Wear our T-shirt! short sleeve. The styles are limitless.

Best way to raise money? Let’s sell Don’t get me wrong, I love a good TT-shirts! shirt, but there’s just no reason to have As I pulled out the stacks of my own so many. In concurrence with the warm T-shirts, I started to realize what a strong weather, my spring cleaning came early this presence T-shirts have in so many of year, and my closet is a bit more managelife’s pivotal experiences. able. Fifty-four of Molly Lester’s gently used When I got my braces on in middle T-shirts went to the Goodwill this weekend. school, my orthodontist handed me a And to all my tabling friends on the bright yellow T-shirt that read, “Smil- Plaza: I’ll donate the money for your cause, ing faces wear Dr. King’s braces.” As if but please, no more T-shirts. the free T-shirt made up for the pain and the thousands of dollars my parents Molly Lester is a Trinity senior. Her column spent on my metal mouth ... Tossed that runs every other Tuesday.

letterstotheeditor An invitation It is inadvisable for any Young Trustee candidate to make campaign promises.

However, I made two simple ones: First, that I would write a letter inviting members of the Duke community to contact me with any concerns and/or suggestions on whom to meet with before I graduate. Second, that I would call upon the next Duke Student Government president to continue and expand current DSG President Mike LeFevre’s tradition of trustee-student luncheons.

In this letter I plan to do both, but before I do so I would like to share my thoughts on the position of Young Trustee.

The Young Trustee is first and foremost a position of stewardship to Duke University. She or he serves on the Board of Trustees for three years, spending one as a non-voting member and two as a fullfledged voting member. The Board works as a strategic governing body rather than an administrative one. Trustees make decisions about Duke with the long-term advancement of our beloved institution in mind. The Young Trustee must work like any other member. However, the Young Trustee’s proximity to the undergraduate experience gives the rest of the Board invaluable insight to a prominent sector of the University. In this sense, I cannot advocate for any specific constituency, but I must bring a holistic undergraduate viewpoint to the larger University vision.

As such, I invite any and all members of the Duke community to contact me with any concerns or ideas about our University. I plan to meet with each cultural center as well as experts specializing in Duke’s regional and global strategy. If you think there is someone I should absolutely meet with, please do not hesitate to make a suggestion. I would like to gain as much insight as possible before I transition from student to alumna. (Go Class of 2011!) E-mail is the fastest way to get a hold of me: mms33@duke.edu.

Secondly, though April seems far away, it will be here before we know it. Before we are so absorbed by the talented lyricism of Ludacris that we completely forget about DSG election platforms, I want to give an early proposal for the next DSG president:

Please continue trustee-student meals. They give trustees an opportunity to keep up with undergraduate life in a relaxed setting. I suggest finding a way to include non-DSGrelated students to provide a wider spectrum of perspectives. If you are in the stages of thinking of making a presidential run, I ask that you keep my proposal in mind.

Finally, I do not plan on being invisible. I do not plan on being meek. I plan to be bold. Expect me to stay engaged even after graduation. That is the best way I know how to say thanks for allowing me this opportunity to serve.

Michelle Sohn Trinity ’11 Kunshan: Consult the experts I appreciate Antonio Segalini’s recent column in the Opinion section “In bed with the wrong person,” as well as The Chronicle’s close attention to the series of unfortunate developments with regard to Duke’s initiative in China. What strikes me as particularly notable is that Duke’s faculty specialists (in Political Science and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies for example) could easily have warned administrators to anticipate issues like provincial competitiveness or political and business practices—had they been asked.

In my judgment, institutional leadership has an absolute responsibility to consider and consult the wisdom of Duke’s faculty specialists when advancing major initiatives. My years as an administrator brought me into close contact with extraordinary faculty in the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Political Science and Asian Studies departments whose deep expertise in foreign policy issues lead our state department to continue to turn to them for advice. Why our own administrative teams seem less interested in that local knowledge is puzzling. Indeed, this disinterest may ultimately prove to be a costly selectivity.

Karla FC Holloway James B. Duke Professor of English Former Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences

The momentum of the moment In early 2010, for the first time in U.S. history, women recently elected their first female CEO, Chelsea Sassouni, became the majority of the workforce. It marked a major a junior. The company, established in1994, currently has step in the slow revolution that women have been working only 13 female shareholders out of 42. toward since before Susan B. Anthony. DeWhat does this mean? Is this the doomsspite this nominal gain, progress has been day forecast of men? An 1869 political carslow and frustrating for many feminists. toon produced by the Currier & Ives firm Some still lament that Barack Obama is curillustrates a “man as he expects to be.” A rently the president of the United States, husband stays behind at home to take care and not Hillary Clinton. of the children, while his wife goes out on However, if we look more closely we can the town. see that gradually women have become a However, women’s progress has not greater part of the economic, social and been at the expense of men. Even more rui dai political atmospheres internationally and than a century after the publication of the a picture’s worth within our own country. cartoon, its satiric prediction hasn’t come For the better part of the 20th century, true. Though women have made tremenmany families in the world tended to value male children dous progress in becoming part of the workforce, men still more than females. After the one-child policy was in- dominate the economic, social and political atmosphere. stated in China, for example, female children were often As of 2010, single women without children living in citsubject to infanticide or gender-selective abandonment ies earned, on average, 8 percent more than their male in favor of males. This is becoming less and less true as peers in 147 out of 150 major U.S. cities. (In the Raleighnations develop. However, that is not to say the problem Durham and Charlotte areas, that difference was 14 perno longer exists. cent.) However, out of the entire American workforce, the The same trend can be seen here on Duke’s campus. average woman still earns only around 80 percent of the Last week, Michelle Sohn became the third female Young average man’s income.

Trustee at Duke in the last 10 years. Though the gender An ongoing study at Rice University found that recomratio of Young Trustees from 2001 to 2011 is still not equal mendation letters describing candidates with traditionally (three females to seven males), Sohn’s election to the female traits were judged more harshly than those with Board is nevertheless a large step in the right direction. male characteristics, at least in academia and medicine.

In the same week, Laurie Patton was announced as the The experiment studied recommendation letters for applifirst female Dean of Trinity College since 1985. Similarly, cations to academic positions. Recommenders described a Duke student company named Devil Delivery Service job applicants along social characteristics of their genders:

Women were depicted as more “communal”, while men were described as more “agentic.” As Randi Martin, one of the professors involved in the study, summarized the conclusion, “The more communal characteristics mentioned, the lower the evaluation of the candidate.”

We are nowhere near gender equality.

Males continue to dominate the Forbes 500 list of CEOs, and women are still only 17 percent of the Senate. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2007 wives earned more income than their husbands in 22 percent of marriages, compared to 4 percent of marriages in 1970.

Although there are increasing numbers of marriages with these “breadwinner wives,” the situation rarely persists after the couple has children.

It is no news that social expectations disadvantage female leadership. Women are socially perceived as the weaker gender. And though there have been huge leaps recently to change that, it is not enough.

Duke has provided tremendous opportunities for women, but it is still a male-dominated campus. Men still dominate the social and political scene. True gender equality is still far from our reach. We should be proud of the progress we have made in the past few years, and even in the past few weeks.

However, we are far from the equality that women deserve.

There is still a long road ahead of us, and though we might be tempted to rest, it should only be a momentary pause.

We must propel ourselves forward with the momentum that we have already gained.

Rui Dai is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Tuesday.

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EXHIBITION. Sparkle and Twang: An American Musical Odyssey.

Country music icon Marty Stuart’s photographs of some of the most famous stars in American music.

Through March 31. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

EXHIBITION. Philanthropist, Environmentalist, Collector: Doris Duke and Her Estates. Through April 3. Perkins Library Gallery. Free.

EXHIBITION. Al Margen: Photographs by Petra Barth.

Through May 1. Perkins Library Special Collections Gallery. Free.

EXHIBITION. Jazz in New York. A Community of Visions.

Spanish photographer Lourdes Delgado documents in spectacular detail the lives and personalities of contemporary New York jazz musicians in their homes. Through July 9. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

Curator’s Gallery Talk: Doris Duke and Her Estates Meet the exhibit curators and watch Doris Duke’s original home movies.

4pm Biddle Rare Book Room Perkins Library Free

February 24 MUSIC. Duke Wind Symphony. Verena Mösenbichler-Bryant, conductor and The UNC-Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble, Evan Feldman, conductor.

Two Shades of Blue: works by Ticheli, Pitts, Newman, Holst, Bryant, Bonney, Grainger and others. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

February 25 TALK. The Atelier@Duke. The Idea of Archive-Producing and Performing Race. Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the John Hope Franklin Research Center. 1pm-6pm.

Gothic Reading Room, Perkins Library. Free.

PARTY. Mad Men and Mad Women: The Library Party.

Open to all members of the Duke community. 9pm. Perkins and Bostock Libraries. Free.

February 26 MUSIC. Spanish Song Recital.

Students perform works by Rosales, Pla, Valledor, Granados, de Falla, Obradors, and Saa. 5pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

February 28 MUSIC. Goethe in Song. Works

by Mozart, Schubert, Robert and Clara Schumann, Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Wolf.

Sandra Cotton, mezz-soprano and Ingeborg Walther, piano, with comments by Nicholas Rennie (Rutgers University). 7pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

March 2 TALK. Gallery Talk by Marty Stuart. In conjunction with an exhibition of his photographs, Sparkle and Twang. 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

MUSIC. Cello Master Class with Nancy Green. 5pm. Nelson Music Room.

March 3 TALK. First Thursday. Meet Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks, Senior Curator, as she leads a tour of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa’s The Heart of Trees installation on the Nasher Museum’s front lawn. 5:30pm, Cash bar; 6pm, talk.

Nasher Museum of Art. Free.

MUSIC. Marty Stuart. 8pm.

Reynolds Theater. $38/$32, $5 for Duke Students.

March 5 MUSIC. Duke University String School Concerts. Dorothy Kitchen, dir. 3pm, Beginning Ensemble and Intermediate I. 7pm, Intermediate II and Duke Youth Symphony Chamber Ensemble. Baldwin Auditorium. Free.

March 9 MOVIE. Full Frame Winter Series Screening. 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

March 11 MOVIE. Southern Stories. Two fiction films by Paul Harrill and a documentary by Ashley Maynor.

7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

March 14 MUSIC. Duke University Musical Instrument Collections. A Baroque Instrument Petting Zoo: Carlos Farina’s Capriccio Stravagante, with Andrew Bonner.

12pm. Biddle Music Building Lobby. Free.

THE TIME THAT REMAINS All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7 pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. W = Richard White Aud., N = Nasher Museum Auditorium, P = Perkins Rare Book Room February 28 THE TIME THAT REMAINS (Palestine, 2009) (8pm) Modern Cinemas of the Middle East Elia Suleiman’s intimate semi-biographical portrait of Palestinians living as a minority in their own homeland between 1948 and the present day.

March 15 MONICA AND DAVID, with director Alexandra Codina in person.

Kenan Ethics Series: ‘Communities’.

Blissfully in love, Monica and David are part of a new generation living with Down syndrome, who want what most adults want: love, work and independence. The documentary film chronicles their storybook wedding and the challenging start of married life together.

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For ticketed events and more info, visit tickets.duke.edu This advertisement is a collaboration of the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke Chapel Music, Duke Dance Program, Duke Performances, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke Music Department, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Department of Theater Studies, and William R. Perkins Library with support from Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts.