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Fifty years of Goodall work to be digitized

Duke to end pay freeze for fiscal year ’11

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terns and so on. It’s a wonderful resource on several levels.” Although time-consuming, digitizing the data will make it easier for primate researchers to draw conclusions about trends and patterns, Goodall said. She said jokingly that until recently, her pages of field data remained unexamined,

University employees meeting certain performance qualifications will receive pay raises starting in the 2011-2012 fiscal year, President Richard Brodhead officially announced Monday. The raises will go into effect July 1, Brodhead wrote in a Monday email to University faculty and staff, who have not received salary increases since 2009, when Duke froze salaries across the University. “The suspension of the annual pay raise for the last two years protected hundreds of jobs at Duke and prevented the Richard Brodhead widespread layoffs suffered elsewhere,” Brodhead said. “But it’s time to return to a more normal approach to recognizing the good work of Duke employees.” Each school within the University will receive a 3 percent increase in funding that deans can use for salary increases and other expenditures, such as promotions and faculty retention efforts, said Provost Peter Lange. Individual employee raises will be at the discretion of each school’s dean and will be based on performance evaluations. “What we announced was that a 3 percent pool would be available as a minimum within each school,” Lange said. “Different deans are approaching this differently.” The process for instituting salary

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Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall has brought her research to Duke. In a keynote address titled “Gombe and Beyond: The Next 50 Years,” Goodall formally announced the transfer of 50 years’ worth of research and called on the world’s youth to protect rapidly vanishing chimpanzee habitats and the environment. She spoke Monday to a packed Page Auditorium, with an overflow crowd filling Reynolds Industries Theater. The speech marked the conclusion of the recent Primate Palooza, the week-long festival on primate conservation presented by Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department and the Duke and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Roots & Shoots, a local chapter of an organization founded by Goodall to promote people, animals and the environment. “The tragedy is that even as we speak, there are chimpanzee populations being threatened by human development,” Goodall said during a press conference before her speech. “This points to how important it is to preserve and protect chimpanzees.” Anne Pusey, chair of Duke’s evolutionary anthropology department, and a team of researchers are currently in the process of digitizing approximately 400,000 documents from more than 50 years of research Goodall conducted at Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Pusey previously worked on the collection at the University of Minnesota before coming to Duke about a year ago.

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Primatologist Jane Goodall spoke Monday in Page Auditorium, discussing the digitization of more than 400,000 of her documents on chimpanzees and the need to preserve their habitats. Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said in an interview that the arrival of Goodall’s documents provides multidimensional benefits to the University, such as introducing new methods of data mining. “If you have 50 years of data, you can digitize that and have it available in a meaningful form,” Crumbliss said. “You can form hypotheses, look for data pat-

vice president for athletics, services and the environment

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Lieu, Liberman vie for renamed VP spot Smith named All-American by Sony Rao

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Junior Christina Lieu plans to encourage student engagement to further Duke’s goal to be green.

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Two candidates will run for an established DSG committee with a new name. Current Duke Student Government senators Harry Liberman, a sophomore, and Christina Lieu, a junior, will compete to serve as vice president for athletics, services and environment in the organization’s April 5 election. Earlier this semester, DSG changed the name of the committee—which currently exists as the athletics and campus services committee—to reflect internal restructuring. Both Liberman and Lieu serve on the athtyler seuc/The Chronicle letics and campus services committee this year. Dining, once a responsibility of the committee, now Sophomore Harry Liberman, also a member of the Duke Debate team, See dsg on page 4 worked to shorten C2 bus routes.

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For the first time in five years, a Blue Devil was named to the AP All-American first team. Senior Nolan Smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media after a stellar campaign that saw him win the ACC Player of the Year award, ACC Tournament MVP and be named to the ACC All-Defense Team. He averaged 21.3 points, 5.2 assists and 4.6 rebounds Nolan Smith

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“Measure the candidates by those criteria, not by what they promise in their platforms.”

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“Senior Nolan Smith received 61 of 65 votes from a panel of national media after a stellar campaign that saw him win the ACC Player of the Year in a runaway and ACC Tournament MVP and be named to the ACC All-Defense Team. He averaged 21.3 points, 5.3 assists and 4.6 rebounds per game and assumed primary ball-handling duties while freshman point guard Kyrie Irving was sidelined for 26 games.’” — From The Chronicle’s Sports Blog sports.chronicleblogs.com

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New budget would defund valued summer program

Open door policy

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The Humanities Lab held an open house in Smith Warehouse Monday for undergraduates to learn more about the study opportunities offered by the Haiti Lab and two others, coming in 2011-2012.

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Ray Morgan, chief executive of the Woking Borough Council in the United Kingdom, spoke in Gross Chemistry Laboratory Monday on Woking’s role as a leader in sustainability measures despite budget constraints.

Tuesday 3/29/2011 Event: Rick Anicetti Location: West Campus Time: 7:00P.M. – 10:00P.M. Event: Conservation is…Art: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Biodiversity through Art Location: Bryan Center Event: Autism Awareness Day Location: Plaza Event: Panel on Development Organization Models: International Non-Profit Location: FFSC 2231 Time: 6:00 P.M. Event: Q&A Session with Dr. Francis Hasso on Middle East Uprisings Location: 1st floor Few GG Commons Time: 6:00 P.M. Wednesday 3/30/2011 Event: Autism Awareness Day Location: Plaza Event: Aloha Shirt and Mochi Social Location: Duke Multicultural Lounge Time: 6:00P.M. – 8:00P.M. sday 3/31/2011 Event: Kurosawa and Philosophy: A

Thursday 3/31/2011 Event: Kurosawa and Philosophy: A Retrospective Event: Global Health Week – Displaced Day Location: West Campus Friday 4/1/2011 Event: Springternational Location: Main Quad Time: 12:00P.M. – 6:00P.M. Saturday 4/2/2011 Event: Jabulani Location: Von Canon Time: 4:30P.M. – 7:00P.M. Event: Exploring your role in Global Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach Location: FFSC 2231 Time: 5:00P.M. – 7:30P.M. Event: Charity Banquet for NA NAPAWF Location: Freeman Center for Jewish Life Time: 7:00P.M. – 9:00P.M.

Attending Governor’s School of North Carolina the summer after her junior year in high school gave sophomore Elena Botella a unique perspective on learning, and she called the program “one of the best experiences of her life.” Yet North Carolina’s state deficit may signal the educational program’s demise. Governor’s School is a six-week summer residential program designed to give gifted rising high school seniors opportunities to study specialized subjects at either Salem College in Winston-Salem or Meredith College in Raleigh. The North Carolina General Assembly suggested the complete defunding of Governor’s School this month after releasing the proposed education budget in its efforts to reduce the projected $2.4 billion state deficit for fiscal year 2012. The program has touched students at Duke as well as across the state. Botella said the program was instrumental in making her loyal to North Carolina. “I want to live and work in North Carolina, and I don’t think that would have been true had I not gone to Governor’s School,” she said. The general assembly currently allots $849,588 to Governor’s School to cover the program’s costs, and its budget for this year is considered safe from the cuts. Governor’s School was funded entirely by the general assembly until last year, when the body cut its budget by $475,000 forcing of-

ficials to charge a $500 per student. Now, in an effort to cut the state’s deficit, the general assembly has proposed eliminating all money for the program and funding Governor’s School entirely through tuition by charging a fee of $1,700 per student. Gov. Bev Perdue’s Press Secretary Chris Mackey said the final version of the education budget will be signed by the end of the fiscal year, no later than June 30. The budget, which was written by the education subcommittee, will go from the North Carolina House to the Senate before being presented to Perdue, who has veto power. Mackey noted that education is a priority for Perdue and she has not targeted Governor’s School in cuts, but the magnitude of the budget deficit will force Perdue to look at the budget as a whole. [Governor’s School] is very important for her, but it’s a lousy budget year,” she said. The program was founded in 1963 by Gov. and Duke President Terry Sanford. Participating students are nominated by teachers, principals and counselors in their schools, and the school district’s superintendent or then determines which students should submit applications to a statewide selection committee. Two spots are guaranteed for representatives from each school district. Mary Watson, director of Governor’s School of North Carolina, said she does See governor’s school on page 4

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dsg from page 1 falls under the residential life and dining committee, a new unit formed as a result of the merger of DSG and Campus Council. Environment now appears in the committee’s title to reflect one of the committee’s existing missions, to consider the implications of policy on the environment, said DSG President Mike Lefevre, a junior. “We’re not creating a new purview for the committee, but we’re highlighting something that has always been a part of the work that they’ve done,” Lefevre said. Improving transportation is a top goal for Liberman. The lack of buses at night remains an issue, he noted, but he has experience pushing for policy change. In the Fall, he worked on the legislation that made the C-2 bus route shorter at night, which allows buses to pick up students on Central Campus more frequently. Liberman also hopes to make campus more friendly for bikers, which will encourage students to take advantage of bikes available for rent at the Outpost. To improve Tailgate, Liberman said that he would like

to focus on incorporating traditional activities to Tailgate. He noted that there were some aspects of Tailgate that were positive, but the event did not fit with the administration’s view of how the event should be connected to football. “[Tailgate’s] virtue was that it was inclusive—it allowed people from different areas to get together. I want to make sure that Tailgate continues to do this.” Liberman also hopes to support environmental reform on campus, a topic he hopes to continue to learn more about. Finally, Liberman hopes to increase communication between DSG senators and the organization’s executive board. He hopes to have committee members reach out to students and play an increased role in shaping DSG policy. “One person alone will not be effective in reforming student policies,” he noted. Lieu said she hopes she can improve the student experience and allow undergraduates to have a voice in policy changes. “Whether you are taking the C-2 over to West [Campus], going to club soccer practice or recycling an empty water bottle, athletics, campus services and the environment are a constant presence on campus and contribute

to our experience as Duke students,” she said. Lieu’s vision for athletics includes changes to Tailgate, Krzyzewskiville and renewing student engagement in athletics. In reference to Tailgate, Lieu’s platform acknowledges the reasons why many students liked Tailgate—in specific the sense of community it created—but suggests changes that include moving the event closer to Wallace Wade Stadium and having students walk to the game with members of the team. In an interview, Lieu cited the results of DSG’s recent survey as evidence that students support reform but recognized that there students have a variety of opinions on the event. “Because there isn’t a unified student opinion, it is important looking forward to see how we can best integrate these different aspects into a cohesive set of ideas,” Lieu said. Lieu also supports improvements to transportation, including changing bus routes and publicizing the Bull City Connector, which allows students to explore Durham. A member of Duke’s Environmental Alliance, Lieu said she plans to make environmental issues a priority for DSG. The administration’s emphasis on having a green campus is not possible without student engagement, she added.

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not think the program can continue without legislative funding, and added that the elimination of Governor’s School would be detrimental to statewide education. Providing educational opportunities to advanced students is key to helping North Carolina improve its economic environment, Watson said. Governor’s School was recently forced to decrease its enrollment from 800 total students to 600, with 300 on each campus, according to the program’s website. Although the program received 18,000 applicants this year, Watson added that many students were discouraged from applying because of the tuition fee. As a result, she believes the program’s current population and applicants have become more economically elite. “We’re still a quality program, but we’re not able to reach students who are not financially able,” she said. Jim Hart, president of Governor’s School Alumni Association, said in an email Friday that the program helped ease the state’s transition from an economy based on tobacco and textiles to one focused on high tech industries. He compared cutting Governor’s School funding to “deciding to stop putting fuel into the economic engine that has made N.C. one of the best places to live and work in the world.” Hart added that he thinks Governor’s School has compensated for the poor job North Carolina high schools do with gifted students’ education. He said schools focus on getting as many students to graduate as possible and teaching only the things on which students will be tested. “GS does not teach facts,” wrote Hart, who attended the program in 1979. “It teaches theories, how to generate them, how to challenge the ones that are currently in vogue, and how to think critically about situations. No other school in the state does that.” Botella also said Governor’s School’s interdisciplinary curriculum—which features courses in subjects such as ethics and philosophy—enabled her to learn “more in those weeks of the program than in many years of academic study.” Because the budget is not yet finalized, Watson said she remains optimistic that the program will continue. On the other hand, Hart said that while the Governor’s School Alumni Association is considering holding a rally in support of the program or purchasing advertising to raise awareness, its voice is “only one of hundreds and many of those other voices come with well-funded PACs.” Benjamin Ward, associate dean for student development at Duke, said he is “unequivocally opposed” to the budget plan, which he called “very short-sighted.” In addition to his post at Duke, Ward taught at Governor’s School at Salem College for more than 12 years. He said the program was “the highlight of his teaching career” and added that it provides opportunities students may not otherwise receive in their hometowns. For some Governor’s School alumni, the experience of the program has lasted well beyond the six-week session. Sophomore Ethan Mann still keeps in touch with friends he met at Governor’s School of North Carolina nearly three years ago. Mann called Governor’s School “a huge part” of his life, as it enabled him to learn about topics he could not be exposed to in a traditional school environment. “Its something I want other kids to have the opportunity to have,” he said.

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salaries from page 1 increases for University staff will be similar. Administrative managers—who will also receive a 3 percent increase in their funding pool—will be able to determine individual pay raises for administrative staff, said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. The announcement does not pertain to Duke University Health System employees—whose pay operates on a different calendar—or to employees covered by collective bargaining agreements. The announcement of the increase comes almost two months before the Board of Trustees meeting in May, when Trustees will officially approve the pay raise. The University received pre-approval for the increase during the Trustees’

goodall from page 1 “chewed up by mice, termites and leaf-eating insects.” Still, she said parting with her research will be a “bittersweet” experience. Much of it was painstakingly collected in handwritten notes that she worked on in the field while she was in her mid-20s. “These amazing things that are now happening are going to make it so easy compared to what I had to do, which was all by hand and on paper,” she said. “Coming back and seeing what is going on makes me quite homesick for the days when I was doing that, [but] it’s wonderful to know that this data is being analyzed and that we will gain answers from analyzing it.” Goodall’s keen interest in animals dates back to her childhood. She recalled one day when, charged with picking up eggs on a farm, she hid in the hay of the henhouse in order to figure out how an egg could possibly come out of a hen. She began observing chimpanzees in July 1960 at the age of 26. While in Gombe, Goodall revolutionized primate studies when she overturned the dominant anthropological belief at the time that the use of tools set humans apart from animals. The discovery also paved the way for National Geographic funding, allowing Goodall to continue her research. She went on to relate some of her notable discoveries about the behavior of chimpanzees, which spanned from brutality to altruism. Although Goodall acknowledged the many imminent dangers facing chimpanzee populations from loss of habitat, hunting and global climate change, she ended on a note of optimism—citing the accomplishments of Roots & Shoots organizations, the potential of human intellect for correcting self-destructive policies, the resilience of the environment and “the indomitable human spirit, the people who tackle seemingly impossible problems and never give up.” Goodall demonstrated a similar spirit, appearing at Duke despite recently breaking her arm after taking a fall. Goodall also drew a sizable audience from beyond the Duke community. “As a teacher, it was really helpful to hear how she’s working with kids [about threats to the environment]— I’ve felt that factor, too, of we’re just scaring the hell out of them, and how do you teach conscientiousness without scaring kids?” said elementary school science teacher Kirsty Lubicz-Nawrocka, who traveled from Atlanta. “I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to see somebody more in person than [Goodall].”

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February meeting in order to give administrators time to plan for the change, Schoenfeld said. “Since salary increases are effective July 1, the work and recommendations have to come soon,” he noted. No University employees have received raises since the suspension announced in March 2009 with the exception of a select group of employees below a certain pay grade. Those who made $50,000 or less in fiscal year 2010 and $80,000 or less in fiscal year 2011 were granted one-time payments of $1,000 in each respective year if they received satisfactory performance reviews. Although Brodhead’s email officially announced the salary increase, public talk of pay raises began in the Fall. Brodhead referenced plans for a “modest salary increase” in a Sept. 22 email to employees when he also revealed the 13 percent return of the University’s endowment in fiscal year 2009-2010.

“Everybody is feeling very pleased that we’re in a position, based on all the aggressive cost management that’s gone on over the past two years, to reinstate our performance-based salary increases,” said Vice President for Human Resources Kyle Cavanaugh, who came to Duke in February 2009, shortly before the suspension of pay raises. “Now we’ll return to the more normal, performance-based system.” The combination of “reviving financial markets” and cost-cutting measures led to the increase, Brodhead wrote in his email, adding that the University will still need to be cautious in the future due to the uncertain nature of its revenue sources. “It is appropriate that the whole Duke community should benefit from our improving financial circumstances, since you helped to create the improvement,” he said. Zachary Tracer contributed reporting.

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PHILADELPHIA — When Duke first faced Connecticut in late January, the Blue Devils weren’t ready for the matchup, coming away with their first loss of the season, 87-51. “We got thumped. There was no game,” head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “We got hit hard there.” But two-seed Duke took the loss as a learning experience and proceeded to beat then-No. 18 Miami 82-58. “[Connecticut] was a game where we were obviously outplayed,” senior Jasmine Thomas said. “And you learn things from that game–you watch film, you practice and you work on things to get better. You’ve got other opponents, so you can’t just think about that UConn game for the rest of the season.” But that was almost two months ago. Tonight, when the Blue Devils step into the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, they will come out as a seasoned—albeit young— team boasting a very deep bench that has experienced one of the hardest schedules

in the nation. “This is a great opportunity for any team, and we have a great bench and terrific young players, and I’m hoping that we can get more involved in that,” McCallie said. “I think that speaks to playing 40 minutes, going beyond the way we played against DePaul and growing from there.” Although many of the younger Blue Devils—including all five members of Duke’s freshman class—have seen significant playing time, only three of the team’s 11 members competed in the Elite Eight last year against Baylor, something McCallie sees as a weakness. “We’re quite young relative to experience, and our seniors have done a good job trying to cover that up,” she said. “We’re still developing, and hopefully we can do that quickly and ignite those young kids because we’re going to need them.” Two of the team’s freshmen, forward Haley Peters and guard Chelsea Gray, started in Sunday’s matchup against the Blue Demons, contributing a combined 20 margie truwit/Chronicle file photo

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In the last meeting between Duke and UConn, the Blue Devils were blown out. They hope to change that tonight.

How optimistic should we be next year? When it comes to sports, I’m painfully and naively optimistic. That comes about from a decade of rooting for the worst baseball team in America (the Detroit Tigers) and a lifetime of rooting for the most pathetic professional sports franchise in the world (the Detroit Lions). After every Scott loss, every injury and every season, something in me still maintained hope that next year would be the year that we would win a championship. Which is why it pains me to admit that I don’t feel the same way about Duke’s chances next year. Now let me clarify, making predictions eight months before the 2011-12 Blue Devils begin practice is premature to say the least. And even if we do make predictions, Duke by any measure will

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Whether Kyrie Irving will return is just one of the questions Duke fans will be faced with in the future.

still be very good. Austin Rivers will likely be the best freshman in America, and Duke should still compete for the ACC title. But as we all know, expectations at Duke—fair or not—are always a national championship, even if the program is a mere season removed from last reaching that summit. Immediately after the Blue Devils’ painful loss to Arizona last week, I started to hear the same words fluttering around campus—”It’s OK, we’ll win it next year.” It’s time to temper those expectations, folks. Unless something major changes, next year’s Duke team will be a near carbon copy of this year’s, but with less experience and talent. The Blue Devil backcourt will once again be loaded, with Seth Curry, Tyler Thornton and Andre Dawkins joined by Rivers, the No. 1 recruit in the country, along with fiveSee rich on page 8

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rich from page 7 star perimeter players Quinn Cook and Michael Gbinije—but Duke will conceivably be starting two freshman in Rivers and Cook, and there won’t be a senior guard on the team. The frontcourt will have another year of experience—but it’ll be led by the same players that were outrebounded 25-9 by a much shorter Arizona team during the second half last week. Blue Devil fans will be hounded by the same questions all season—whether Duke lives by the three and whether the Plumlees (now all three) will ever become legitimate big men, as opposed to just men who happen to be very big. But what if Kyrie Irving comes back, you might say? Even though there’s a miniscule chance of that happening, given Irving is a consensus Top-5 pick despite only playing 11 collegiate games, how would that team be any different? Despite Rivers’ abundance of talent, a freshman and a committee of Curry, Dawkins, and Gbinije can’t replace two of the best players in Duke history in Kyle Singler and Nolan Smith. And even if they could, the Blue Devils

w. basketball from page 7 points and seven rebounds. But the freshman class will have to step up even more if Duke is looking to upset the one-seed Huskies, who boast only one loss for the season as well as top player Maya Moore. “I don’t think I can expand on anything except to say that [Moore] is the best women’s basketball player in the world,” McCallie said. “I think she obviously has a tremendous work ethic, plays really hard, has a smooth jump shot... and she will just absolutely get you on the boards.”

would still be burdened by the same issues down low. No one player is to blame for the Arizona annihilation. The Wildcats could not have played any better. But being outrebounded definitively by a team that was 193rd in the country in that category is a rather humbling statistic. All season, we’ve heard that all the Blue Devils needed was for Miles and Mason Plumlee to fill the roles of Brian Zoubek and Lance Thomas as rebounders and defenders—but when it mattered most, they showed little evidence that they ever will. Still, though, we’re eight months away from the season. Duke fans have time to beg Irving to return for one more season, salivate over Rivers’ enormous potential and analyze the development of the Plumlees, Ryan Kelly and Josh Hairston down low. Who knows—Irving could shock the world and return for his sophomore year, Rivers could actually be a basketball messiah and Duke’s frontcourt could put on a collective 100 pounds of muscle and develop consistent post moves. Perhaps Duke can win its second national title in three years. Oh no. I’m doing it again. To combat this, the Blue Devils will rely on better rebounding and a stronger presence in the post, as well as an aggressive attitude on both sides of the court. “Rebounding is always a critical component of every game, and being able to control the glass allows you to dictate the tempo on the offensive and defensive end,” said forward Karima Christmas, who will be one of Moore’s primary matchups during the game. “That’s something we’ll be working on—to allow ourselves more than one shot on the offensive end and to allow UConn only one shot at the basket.”

smith from page 1 per game and assumed primary ballhandling duties while freshman point guard Kyrie Irving was sidelined for 26 games. Smith, who is also a finalist for the Naismith Award given annually to the top college basketball player, finished second in voting only to Brigham Young guard Jimmer Fredette. Fredette received 64 of 65 votes from the panel after leading his team to a 30-4 record and a trip to the Sweet 16, and is one of the three other finalists for the Naismith Award. The two other finalists for the Naismith—Ohio State freshman phenom Jared Sullinger and Connecticut junior Kemba Walker—also earned All-America honors. Sullinger, the Big 10 tournament player of the year, averaged a double-double this season and shot over 58 percent from the field for the

Buckeyes, who earned the No. 1 overall seed in the Tournament. Walker burst onto the national stage with an MVP performance at the Maui Invitational in November and recaptured the nation’s hearts as his Huskies won five games in five days en route to winning the Big East tournament. Walker is averaging 23.5 points, 5.3 rebounds and 4.3 assists and is the only AllAmerican to still be playing in the NCAA Tournament. He and Fredette figure to be Smith’s primary competitors for the Naismith Award. Senior JaJuan Johnson of Purdue was the final member of the All-American team. The senior was the Big 10 Player of Year after averaging 20.5 points and 8.2 points per game and carrying the Boilermakers in the absence of Robbie Hummel, who suffered a season-ending knee injury in preseason. Johnson and Fredette were both named to the AP preseason All-America team.

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Vote Simpson for Student Life VP Both candidates for the po- As a senior next year, Simpson sition of Duke Student Gov- will have the knowledge from ernment vice president for previous committees and the student life—Ebonie Simp- experience in management son, a junior, and Michael roles required to lead the stuHabashi, a sophomore—are dent life committee. personable, Habashi well spoken demonstrated editorial and have a a broad knowlgood grasp of the social is- edge of the position and sues that affect students. seemed to be focused on reWe endorse Simpson for sults. But he attributed most the position of vice president of his leadership experience for student life because she has to founding and chairing the more experience under her DSG commission that probelt and a skill set more specifi- duced a campus survey this cally tailored to student life. semester—the value of which Simpson’s platform is solid is still unclear. and obviously informed by Both candidates are interher diverse experiences as a ested in collecting and comresident assistant, her lead- municating student opinion, ership within the Black Stu- but Simpson’s idea to create dent Alliance, her work with action-based focus groups the Women’s Center and her comprised of student life three terms as a DSG senator. senators and student lead-

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ers who are invested in these issues seems to be a more substantive way to forward campus dialogue and, as the name implies, encourage action on behalf of students. Campus-wide surveys, like the one championed by Habashi, while useful in gauging attitudes and opinions, do not produce meaningful answers about how to fix the problems themselves. That said, we suggest that Simpson limit the number of action-based focus groups she plans to form and instead focus on instituting a few productive and efficient groups. The knowledge gained from these specialized action-based focus groups can then be used not to limit or compartmentalize thinking about student life at Duke, but to influence

our thinking about the different aspects of student life as a whole. We also appreciated Simpson’s desire to speak with students rather than go straight to administrators. Simpson and Habashi would both benefit from more focused goals and more concrete ideas for change. Although the scope of this position is wide-ranging, a concentrated effort to address key issues will produce better results than trying to address every campus culture issue within one year. Simpson, for example, writes in her platform that she wants to “work with CAPS to find creative ways to allow students to be served more frequently with less waiting,” but does not outline how she intends to do this. At the same

time Habashi wants to “work to secure more facilities for performing arts groups and club sports,” but does not offer any suggestions on tackling this issue. Michael Habashi is a young senator and we believe he could be a good candidate for this position in the future. Simpson will have a steep learning curve, but she separates herself through her longstanding involvement with the student life committee and her varied experiences across campus. The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board formally endorses Ebonie Simpson for vice president for student life. Precious Lockhart and Katherine Zhang recused themselves due to their roles in DSG.

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lthough you might not know it, we’re in the Mike Lefevre, the current DSG president who middle of the campaign to decide who will be served on the executive boards of both Giordano the next president of Duke Student Govern- and Nur, campaigned on his ability to protect Tailment. Election day is April 6. The DSG gate and to end the so called “emerPresident is the single most important gency” dining fee. The disappointstudent when it comes to policy making ments suffered on those fronts at this University. Current DSG Presihardly make his administration a dent Mike Lefevre, a senior, said of the failure. He oversaw the merger of job: “It’s such a huge opportunity; [the Campus Council and DSG. The president is] the most empowered stumerger reduces redundancy and dent at the University.” improves the quality of representaThe president of DSG serves two gregory morrison tion available to students. Surely, roles. Lefevre told me that good DSG that improvement is a legacy worth finish the thought having. presidents “[are] not buddy-buddy with the administration. They are lobWhat is clear from these exambyists.” He also noted that a good president must ples is that what the candidates say to you in their have a firm command of “grand management and campaigns will probably not be the major issues of longevity.” In other words, the DSG president is their presidency. Indeed, DSG presidents are handithe advocate-in-chief for students but must also be capped because they work on shorter time frames a manager of a 100-plus person organization re- than the other major policy makers at the Universponsible annually for more than $600,000. sity. Giordano noted that, “One of the most difficult I’ve worked with the past three DSG presidents things is that a DSG president is on a one-year horipretty closely. Each had a distinct style. Each had zon whereas the administration is really in a multisuccesses. Each suffered setbacks. year time frame. Being aware of that, in terms of the Jordan Giordano—who was president in disconnect between the two, is really important. If 2008-2009—recognized that the number of student you operate on their horizon, you can really make groups was growing much faster than the funds a difference.” available to sustain them. He sought approval from There is no cookie-cutter candidate who will the student body for an increase in the student have all of the right answers either. As Giordano activities fee. The increased fee was to pay for ad- told me, “To be honest, different styles and differditional funds for student groups, Zipcars, student ent methods work for different people in different legal services and a bus tracking system. The stu- atmospheres.... Being student government presidents rejected his proposal in a major early setback. dent under lacrosse is very different than being During the rest of his term, Giordano found other student government president during the recesways to pay for student legal services and Zipcars. sion and dealing with all the budget issues.” Elliot He also oversaw a reform of the budgeting process Wolf—who was president in 2006-2007—and Nur for student groups that extended the solvency of were drastically different in their approaches to the student group funds. Giordano recovered from an job, but each style was generally appropriate to the early setback to deliver better services to students. task at hand. Awa Nur—who was president in 2009-2010—unA good DSG president shows perseverance in der whom I served as executive vice president, en- the face of adversity, adaptability and the ability to tered office when the central administration was seize opportunities when they present themselves. ramping up its efforts to close a University-wide When electing our next DSG president, measure budget shortfall of $100 million. Nur had to throw the candidates by those criteria, not by what they out her platform. During the recession, the DSG promise in their platforms. We will get the governpresident didn’t lobby for new programs. She had ment we deserve. to lobby simply to keep successful existing ones To the candidates—Ashley Jordan, Isaac Mizragoing. Her defining moment was, perhaps, when hi and Pete Schork—Giordano offers this wisdom: she told the DSG Senate that there was “no way “At the end of the day there is nothing in student in hell” students would accept a directed choice government that is life or death. Everyone is there solution to the multi-million dollar dining deficit. for the same reason: Everyone wants Duke to be a Circumstances forced upon Nur a very different better place.” presidency than she campaigned to have. Her Just make sure you elect the person who can adaptability—and poise in meetings, what Lefevre work most effectively toward that goal. termed “a strong sense of meeting etiquette”— meant that students were largely sheltered from Gregory Morrison is a Trinity senior and the former execudrastic service cuts. tive vice president of DSG. His column runs every Tuesday.

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Should we care where charity come from?

n a 2008 New York Times Magazine article titled “The Moral Instinct,” Steven Pinker asks who is the more moral character: Bill Gates or Mother Teresa? By conventional, Judeo-Christian, rich-people-can’t-get-intoheaven morality, it appears to be black and white: One is the world’s richest man and the other is a poverty-vowing nun on the fast track to sainthood. But Gates’ munificent donations to malaria prevenderek speranza tion have saved countless am i doing this right? lives around the world, even though he has still kept billions for himself. Mother Teresa’s missions were well publicized and superficially pious, but they subjected many patients to substandard medical care and debatably backward methods of diagnosis. With an eye toward the ongoing efforts to raise aid money for Japan, we must be sure to ask ourselves an important question: To what extent is the righteousness of charity judged by intent, and to what extent is it judged by outcome? If I donate $100 to an earthquake relief effort and ask nothing in return, but Milburn Pennybags offers to donate $1 million for every person who comes into his store, which is more morally acceptable? My donation is more in line with traditional altruism, to be sure, and Pennybags’ is likely to be seen as exploitative of a tragedy for publicity gains. But if the ultimate concern is indeed for the victims, it would seem that my gift of a few dollars would fall short of a larger donation’s philanthropic potential. This hypothetical manifests itself in real terms on a daily basis in the form of cause-related marketing. Most recently, Microsoft found itself under intense criticism after its Bing service (via Twitter) offered to donate a dollar to the Japanese relief effort for every retweet of their offer, up to $100 thousand. The seemingly benign offer caused somewhat of an uproar, with many people claiming that Microsoft was trying to seek marketing gain in the wake of disaster. Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an article with the headline “Cause-tied marketing requires care,” which examines the various ways corporations were approaching relief efforts and the potentially dangerous questioning of intentions that is likely to occur with any cause-related marketing. Critics asserted that if companies were really trying to help the cause, they should have simply donated the money without making gifts conditional on the success of marketing ploys. Others contend that the use of social media helps to spread awareness as well as donations. The important thing to realize is that all donations are made with personal gain in mind—and that’s not a bad thing. In fact, acknowledging the self-interested aspect of charity is far from a cynical critique. Instead, people should accept this reality as the grease that allows all private charity to function. Whether it is Walmart’s gain from a generous donation, which is likely to come in the form of improved public relations, or an individual’s gain from helping the relief effort, which comes from his ability to feel good about himself, it is a mutually beneficial exchange. Every consensual transaction is mutually beneficial—or else people wouldn’t consent to it. People must accept that placing moral judgments on a company’s philanthropic efforts is more of an insult to the intelligence of the consumer than it is to the company. When you cry, “They should have just donated the money,” what you are really saying is not that they shouldn’t seek personal gain from charity, but that they should be better at and less obvious in seeking personal gain from charity. In essence, you would prefer that they more convincingly trick you into appearing more selfless. This does not only attach a strange form of dishonesty to philanthropy—it may well be a disincentive for companies to act charitably. Consider this: If I am wary, as Microsoft now doubtless is, that the way in which I choose to give away my fortune is going to be criticized, I might just keep it for myself. Derek Speranza is a Trinity junior. His column runs every other Tuesday.

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lettertotheeditor In defense of BSAI Reading Brandon Locke’s March 28 letter to the editor, I was astounded by his obliviousness. The Black Student Alliance, and their Invitational weekend, does not act to the exclusion of anyone. Locke failed to recognize that not all BSA members and BSAI hosts are black. This past weekend, I hosted a truly impressive young woman who is eagerly anticipating her first semester at Duke this Fall. I signed up for the weekend after attending several BSA meetings and events. I proudly count myself as a member. And I am white—as pale as they come. I joined BSA because I support their mission of “promot[ing] academic achievement and intellectual pursuit, cultivat[ing] dynamic leadership and

striv[ing] to eliminate social barriers for all.” The problem here is not that BSA and the BSAI weekend exclude non-black students. It’s that the Duke community has already decided to exclude its black students. Everyone was welcome to the open events—color was no determinant for admission. Do not push the blame of the color line onto members of a group who only seek to assert themselves in full. If you worry that BSAI weekends foster segregation and fail to truthfully reflect the campus, then change it by involving yourself, not breaking down such a positive tradition. Carrie Mills Trinity ’12

What would Geraldine do?

n July 1984, Geraldine Ferraro stood on the dent Government president in the last decade—and podium at the Democratic National Conven- only seven since the University went coed in 1972. tion to accept her party’s nomination for vice Only 25 percent of current DSG senators are wompresident—the first woman in U.S. hisen, and three women were appointed tory to see her name on a major party to the 13-person executive cabinet for presidential ticket. this academic year. There are five vice Although she never actually made presidents this year, and five of them it to the White House, Ferraro—who are men. died Saturday at the age of 75—did Don’t get me wrong, I think that something audacious. She issued an most of the day-to-day functions of unforgettable challenge to the presiDSG are highly pointless. As in Writdency’s long-standing program of afing 20 pointless. Ugg boots in May ryan brown firmative action for white, straight pointless. Trying to convince Duke men. You may have heard of it. It’s first world problems students that they don’t need to dress called Basically the Entire History of like they’re on a yacht all the time the World. pointless. But if this is the field from That white-dude-industrial complex proved so which our generation’s female politicians are being formidable that it took over two decades before drawn, it’s worth thinking about who we’re choosanother woman managed to put her own Alaskan ing to represent us, and why. Because right now, it’s soccer mom-shaped crack in the Oval Office glass slim pickings. ceiling. But on the day Ferraro died, there still had And the thing is, diversity at the top does make a never been a woman in our nation’s highest office. difference. When Ferraro was asked about abortion Welcome to American politics (or as Will Smith during the 1984 vice-presidential debate, she was the once said, bienvenidos a American politics), where first candidate in the history of that position who we’re nothing if not awkwardly low on women in could begin her response, “If I were pregnant ...” high places. In 2011, 27 years after Ferraro’s historHere at Duke, it was Nan Keohane, the Univeric run, women make up only 17 percent of the U.S. sity’s first and only female president, who launched Congress (22 percent in North Carolina’s General the Women’s Initiative, one of the most sweeping Assembly). In fact, the United States currently ranks attempts to reform structural gender inequalities in 72nd in the world for female political representa- the school’s history. tion, sandwiched between a couple of other interA man could have done that, too, but it was a national beacons for democracy, Turkmenistan and woman who finally did. Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the 1984 presidential campaign, BarbaBut before I came to Duke, I have to admit these ra Bush once infamously referred to Ferraro as a statistics always felt to me a little like John Boeh- “I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.” Those are ner’s tears—pretty meaningless. As far as I could fighting words, but I like to imagine Ferraro took tell, those numbers were the last remnants of an era it as a challenge. If getting ahead in politics meant when women like Ferraro and Shirley Chisholm and being aggressive and no-nonsense, she was all for Hillary Clinton had taken heat for simultaneously it. She later wrote that her candidacy “said to the possessing a hunger for political power and two X world that no longer in this country would people chromosomes. But now that they’d kicked the crap be kept from participating in national leadership out of all the stereotypes about female politicians, because of gender.” I thought, it was going to be smooth sailing for the But that’s not something you can just say once. women of my generation. It takes people making it happen over and over That logic held up great until it smacked straight and over again, until it doesn’t even warrant a secinto this annoying thing called reality. As it turns ond glance when a woman is DSG President. Or a out, most of those older female politicians got their congressperson. Or even President of the United start when they were in college. In fact, more than States. half the women in Congress today served on their I don’t know about you, but I think having womuniversity or high school student governments. en that well integrated into our political landscape (Elizabeth Dole, who you may know from such would be ... oh, I can’t say it, but it rhymes with blockbuster roles as Being Your Senator (2003-09), shmawesome. was president of the Women’s College student government at Duke in 1958.) Ryan Brown is a Trinity senior. Her column runs evBut there has been exactly one female Duke Stu- ery other Tuesday.

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The Laramie Project By Moisés Kaufman & Company

The landmark play about the reaction to the 1988 murder of University of Wyoming gay student Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming. Directed by Jeff Storer, Theater Studies faculty. Thursday, April 7 8pm. Sheafer Theater, Bryan Center. $10 general public; $5 students/Sr. citizens. This show will aslo take place on April 8 and 9 at 8pm and on April 10 at 2pm. EXHIBITION. Sparkle and Twang. Marty Stuart’s 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. Stacy-Lynn Waddell: New York. Curated by Jennifer Brody. Thru April 15. FHI GalleryBay 4, first floor, Smith Warehouse. 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. March 31 MUSIC. Faculty Recital. Randy Reed, classical guitar, with Ariel Reed, soprano and Catherine LeGrand, flute. Piazzolla, Histoire du Tango; Frank Martin, Drey Lieder; Seiber, Four French Folk Songs; Giuliani, Gran Duetto Op. 85. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

EXHIBITION. Photography archivist and historian William Johnson on W. Eugene Smith. In conjunction with The Jazz Loft Project exhibition. Reception to follow. 7pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free. April 1 TALK. American Uprising. Lecture and book signing by Daniel Rasmussen about his bestselling account of the largest slave rebellion in American history. 4pm. Perkins Library, Rare Book Room. Free. FILM. April Fools on the Quad. Outdoor screeing of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” on the East Campus Quad. Popcorn and beverages provided. 8:15pm. East Campus Quad. Free. April 3 MUSIC. Mendelssohn’s St. Paul. This grand oratoriao presented by the Duke Chapel Choir and Duke Chorale with full orchestra tells the dramatic story of a founding church father. 4pm. Duke Chapel. Free for Duke Students, $5 other students, $15 gen. admission. MUSIC. Duke New Music Ensemble [dnme]. David Kirkland Garner, dir. Music from the 20th and 21st centuries. 8pm. Bone Hall, Biddle Music Building. Free. April 4 MUSIC. Graduate Composers Concert. New works by graduate student composers. 8pm. Nelson Music Room. Free.

April 7 FILM. Working with Words: The Films of David Gatten. Screening of three short films by award-winning filmmaker David Gatten and discussion with the filmmaker. Reception, 6:30pm. Program, 7pm. Perkins Library, Rare Book Room. Free. April 8 MUSIC. Neil Lerner (Davidson College). Searching for the Origins of Video Game Music, 1975-1983. 4pm. Room 101, Biddle Music Building. Free. MUSIC. Wind Master Class with Laura Gilbert. 5pm. Nelson Music Room. Free. MUSIC. Duke Jazz Ensemble. John Brown, dir. Notes From Home, highligting outstanding regional musicians, with guest artist Jon Metzger, vibraphone. 8pm. Baldwin Auditorium. $10 general/$5 students/seniors. FILM. Scrappers. Set in Chicago’s labyrinth of alleys, a vérité portrait of Oscar and Otis, two metal scavengers who search for a living with brains, brawn, and battered pickup trucks. With filmmakers Brian Ashby & Ben Kolak. 7pm. Center for Documentary Studies. Free.

LARS AND THE REAL GIRL All events are free and open to the general public. Unless otherwise noted, screenings are at 7pm in the Griffith Film Theater, Bryan Center. W = Richard White Auditorium, N = Nasher Museum Auditorium, P = Perkins Rare Book Room. 3/31 IKIRU (JAPAN, 1952) (W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema—Kurosawa and Philosophy. 4/5 LARS AND THE REAL GIRL Kenan Ethics Film Series. Discussion to follow. 4/6 SANTIAGO (W) BRAZILIAN FILM SERIES. NC premiere of the award winning film! Q&A to follow. 4/7 TURNING POINT 1977 (China, 2009) (W) Cine-East: East Asian Cinema. Panel discussion to follow. 4/10 RASHOMON (Japan, 1950) (W) Cine-East: East Asians Cinema. Panel discussion to follow.

April 10 ART. Free Family Day. Gallery talks, gallery hunt, make-and-take crafts, live entertainment. Noon-4pm. Nasher Museum of Art. Free. April 12 MUSIC. Duke Jazz Combos. 7pm. Mary Lou Williams Center. Free. LECTURE. Salman Rushdie. Public Events, Private Lives: Literature in the Modern World. 6pm. Page Auditorium. This is event is “SOLD OUT”.

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