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Administrators are confident that academic standards will be maintained at Duke Kunshan University despite restrictive Chinese Internet policy. How the University will maintain these standards, however, remains unclear. In a document released in March, administrators guaranteed academic freedom—including unrestricted Internet and library access—because it is an integral component of DKU’s success as a model of western education in China. The joint agreement document between Duke, the city of Kunshan and DKU’s legal partner, Wuhan University, stipulates that certain academic quality standards must be met, Provost Peter Lange said in an interview March 29. The agreement is expected to be completed and approved in coming weeks, though Lange said he was not at liberty to discuss the terms of the agreement. “Academic freedom in teaching, research, scholarly communication and access to information [are] key ingredient[s] of academic quality,” the document, which was prepared by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Strategy and Programs, states. “Duke will need to take the lead in ensuring that these principles are woven into the fabric of daily life at Duke Kunshan University.” Although administrators have repeatedly expressed their confidence in obtaining unrestricted Internet, certain details have yet to be revealed. When the issue of academic freedom was raised at the Academic Council meeting in March, President Richard Brodhead said he is “fairly certain” that the DKU campus will have unrestricted Internet, noting that he believes some Chinese universities already have unlimited access on their campuses. Brodhead did not, however, explain the details of the Internet arrangement between DKU and the Chinese government. “We need to insist on [these values], but we can’t be naive to think they will be practiced the same way [as in the United States],” Brodhead said at the meeting. “It does seem better to learn something about China—to help our students to learn to negotiate these differences—than just to say it’s impossible.” The Chinese government monitors Internet traffic, censoring content that it believes to be threatening to the state, said Ken Rogerson, who has expertise in international Internet policy and serves

A female graduate student was robbed at gunpoint on Ninth Street early Thursday morning. An armed man approached and proceeded to rob the graduate student, who is pursuing degrees in the Fuqua School of Business and the Nicholas School of the Environment, around 12:25 a.m. The 28-year-old was walking from her vehicle near the 1000 block of Ninth Street. The male took the victim’s purse before fleeing in a red, large-body pickup track that was driven by a second male, Kammie Michael, Durham Police Department public information officer, wrote in an email Thursday. The victim’s handbag and its contents were valued at $145, according to the DPD incident report. The victim did not suffer any injuries from the robbery, the report states. The suspects have not been discovered. The armed man is described as a Hispanic male, age 18 to 24, with a medium build and height ranging from 5 feet 4 inches to 5 feet 6 inches. At the time of the robbery, he was wearing dark clothing and a hooded sweatshirt. The accomplice in the truck was described as a male with medium build, 5 feet

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Re-evaluation of roles needed for health reform by Dana Kraushar THE CHRONICLE

Health care reform requires a comprehensive re-examination of our shared responsibilities both in Durham and across the Unites States, a local hospital administrator said Thursday. Kerry Watson, president of Durham Regional Hospital, spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells Thursday about health care challenges. The talk was the fourth and final installment in the Chapel’s lecture series “Dean’s Dialogues: Listening to the Heart of Durham.” Watson explained the ways in which his career path has shaped his approach toward health care and man-

agement. When he was a young man, he participated in a job opportunity program for underprivileged youth at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hospital system, where he experienced the menial aspects of hospital operations, such as cleaning the facilities. “I have worked in the trenches of a hospital, which I think has given me a unique perspective on the so-called ‘lower levels,’” Watson said, noting that each employee, regardless of position, plays a crucial role in ensuring that every patient receives quality care. When asked by Wells about his SEE WATSON ON PAGE 16

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The armed man approached the victim near the 1000 block of Ninth Street and took her purse before fleeing around 12:25 a.m. Thursday morning.

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After the Spring semester, cable services will no longer be offered in student dorm rooms. Associate Dean for Residence Life Joe Gonzalez announced the change April 6 in an email to the student body and discussed Duke Student Government’s concerns about the change at its meeting Thursday night. Although individuals will lose the ability to purchase cable services, all televisions in

common rooms on East and West Campus will switch to high-definition television delivered over the internet, Gonzalez said. “As part of the transition [away from cable], we will be instituting HD [IPTV] in the common rooms, but one of the things that we do lose is the cable support for the student rooms,� he said. He added that the University decided to downsize because of the high expenses required to support the system. In the email SEE DSG ON PAGE 16

Federal funding for student loans may not be guaranteed for the thousands of community college students in North Carolina, after the state Senate ratified House Bill 7 Monday. Under the new bill, community colleges are allowed to opt out of the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program, which assures student access to low-cost federal loans. This means colleges will not be required to provide students with the resources to obtain federal loans, which reverses a 2010 Senate decision that mandated that all 58 of the state’s community colleges offer the program by July 1, 2011. The state House of Representatives passed the new bill in March and after Monday’s Senate vote, it awaits the signature of Gov. Bev Perdue. Rep. Glen Bradley, R-Franklin, Halifax and Nash—a co-sponsor of the bill— said that with its ratification, North Carolina is able to offer “more education to more people� in a manner that will work better for the economy and North Carolina schools. “When community colleges participate in this federal loan program, it places a lot of strings on what they cannot do,� Bradley said. “Colleges are then having to go after people to pay back loans who will have no hope of paying them back whether or not they have a successful education.� Senate Minority Leader Martin Nes-

bitt, D-Buncombe, however, called the bill a “step in completely the wrong direction� in supporting education. Nesbitt said all North Carolina Democrats in the Senate voted strongly against the bill, indicating the vote was along party lines. He also said Democrats proposed amendments such as conducting a survey to more effectively assess student needs before passing the bill and prohibiting community colleges from offering student loans at a higher interest rate than that of the previously required program. All of the proposed amendments were ultimately rejected. “The answer [the Republicans] were giving me was that they don’t really know what is going on out there, they don’t care what is going on out there and they don’t want to know what is going out there,� Nesbitt said. According to a North Carolina Senate Democrats news release, more than 850,000 students were enrolled in community college classes in the 2008-2009 school year, making North Carolina’s community college system the third largest in the country. Rep. W.A. Wilkins, D-Durham, Person, who opposed the bill, said it is unclear how many students will lose access to federal loans—and subsequently, an education—due to the ratification of the bill. Bradley said the government is obligated to help the poor gain an education but noted that the current SEE LOANS ON PAGE 5

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Students may perform better academically if they are treated as gifted, according to a recent U.S. Department of Education study of a North Carolina program. The research is an evaluation of Project Bright Idea, a program that ran from 2004 to 2009 in North Carolina and was designed to increase the number of children from underserved populations in gifted and academically challenging programs. Between 15 and 20 percent of the 5,000 kindergarten through second-grade students who participated in the program met their district’s criteria as academically gifted within three years compared to 10 percent of the 5,000 students in a control group. The students who participated in Project Bright Idea were from 11 North Carolina school districts that received federal funding for low-income students. The premise behind the program originally came from a report for the North Carolina State Board of Education in 2001 compiled by William Darity, chair of African and African American studies at Duke. The report studied the lack of participation of kids from underrepresented groups in accelerated educational tracks, Darity said. “Giftedness is associated with a set of behaviors,� Darity said. “Everyone can develop these sets of behaviors. It is something that can be nurtured—it’s not innate.� Margaret Gayle, director of the American Association for Gifted Children at Duke, co-designed Project Bright Idea more than 10 years ago because Darity’s report reflected the need for change in school curricula. She aimed to create “nurturing programs� to expose all children to a higher level of thinking at a young age rather than assume some students are more capable than others. In these programs, students are obligated to speak in complete sentences at all times and participate in activities often reserved for older children, such as debates. Project Bright Idea emphasizes teaching “gifted intelligent behaviors� compiled from prominent research-

ers who study behavioral patterns in the field of talent identification and education, Gayle said. Teachers in the program undergo three years of intense re-training that addresses classroom techniques and expectations about students’ potential. “Part of our work is changing teacher dispositions of students,� Gayle said. “They don’t challenge them because they don’t believe these kids can do these things.� The results may impact the long-term planning of elementary school curricula. “It has really shown us that children can learn at very high levels when teachers can teach these behaviors,� said Mary Watson, principal investigator for the project and director of the Exceptional Children Division of the Public Schools of North Carolina. “It’s a transformational model for improving scores for all students.� Two North Carolina schools, Northeast Elementary in Kinston and Town Creek Elementary in Winnabow, have continued the teachings in a program now called Project Bright Tomorrow. Terry Cline, superintendent of Lenoir County schools, said he implemented the program when he first came to the district in 2004, and since then the program has scaled up into higher grades and into a middle school. “These are high-minority, low-income schools where people haven’t expected a lot,� Cline said. “But this [program] has changed our whole school system. Scores have gone up, the students’ language is different and it has helped build thinking skills.� The program impacts children immediately, Cline noted. Northeast Elementary School, a Project Bright Tomorrow school in the district, has seen a nearly 20 point increase in its end-of-grade exams since the program’s inception. These results have compelled educators to take the program seriously and spurred interest throughout North Carolina and in other states to implement similar curriculums. “I’ve had other states express interest,� Watson said. “This may be our next step.�

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as the director of undergraduate studies for public policy. Many Chinese Internet regulations are similar to those in the United States, such as blocking content that includes violent threats against the government or child pornography, but with even stronger restrictions, he added. He also noted that through negotiation, foreign journalists were allowed to freely browse the Internet in designated locations during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Limited freedom of information would pose many challenges for DKU students, particularly those studying business, said Helen Sun, author of “Internet Policy in China: A Field Study of Internet Cafes� and a communications professor at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. The restrictions the Chinese government imposes to protect its own interests make it difficult for people to learn about western business practices, Sun said, noting that people are even unable to search for the term “Communist Party.� “There’s no way you can do business without dealing with the government,� she said. “[DKU] is going to see those barriers.� There are, however, ways to navigate around what some call the “‘Great Firewall of China,’� Sun said, noting that young people are finding ways to access restricted pages like Facebook. People are able to use virtual private network software to access the Internet through foreign countries. The University has already established its own VPN that allows faculty and students to access Duke email and library information from abroad and remote locations, Rogerson said. Students participating in study abroad and DukeEngage programs in China told The Chronicle in November that they were able to access sites blocked in the country by using the VPN. Rogerson added that it is possible for DKU and the Chinese government to come to an agreement about Internet freedom through an official contract. “The best possible thing to do is have a line in the contract that says, ‘We have free and open access to the Internet,’� he said. “Past history says conversations could work, but not every conversation has worked.�

Iraq, with a year-end deadline looming for the departure of the remaining 47,000 troops. U.S. combat operations ended last year, though many still leave bases for training operations with Iraqi soldiers. Gates said the United States is open to continuing a smaller U.S. presence if Iraqi officials make a formal request, preferably sometime soon. U.S. Ambassador James Jeffrey told Gates in a meeting Thursday that U.S. troops were “the glue� holding Iraq’s security together. In his remarks to the troops, Gates recalled that during his first visit as secretary, in December 2006, a firefight was taking place in the background at a similar event. About one third of the troops he addressed Thursday were from the Army’s Second Brigade, First Infantry Division. “This brigade lost 100 soldiers during the surge, but the difference you and those around you made in this country is evident around you every single day,� Gates said. “This has been an extraordinary success story for the U.S. military.� In brief remarks afterwards to journalists, Gates reflected on his tenure, saying, “When I took this job, I was asked what my agenda was, and I said, Iraq, Iraq and Iraq.� He declined to rate his own performance as the end of his tenure approached, saying, “I’ll let people judge for themselves.� In a half-hour briefing with journalists, Gen. Lloyd Austin, the U.S. military’s top commander in Iraq, said Iraq’s national security forces have developed to the point where they could handle most internal threats. But he said the same was not true of foreign enemies. Iraq has little air power and too few tanks and artillery; the U.S. military also still provides significant logistical and intelligence assistance, including airborne radar capacity. Austin expressed concern as well about al-Qaida in Iraq, which took responsibility for an attack last week in Tikrit that killed at least 57 people. “AQI has never left,� Austin said. “They are still here. They still have capability.�

framework is doing more harm than good, putting students “in debt for the rest of their lives.� Using the 2006-2007 U.S. housing crisis as an example, he noted that education subsidies—like housing—can often raise consumer costs, as the required program was doing for North Carolina students. Nesbitt agreed that statistics show an increasing number of students are going into debt after graduating from college, but added that community colleges that opt out of the program will force students to pay even higher interest rates. According to the release, the current program allows students wanting to enroll next Fall to pay a 3.4 percent interest rate on federal loans. The current interest rate on most private student loans is approximately 7 percent. “[The Republicans] don’t want to prohibit loans,� he said. “They want to prohibit federal loans to drive people into the private market so they can make money off of these students.� Nesbitt also said if the state wants to continue working to give all North Carolina residents equal access to education, the state must be proactive. “Ignorance is a terrible thing,� he said. “But I think some people think education will happen without even trying. But it wont—not in this world.�

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Playing time Duke freshmen shine on attack up for grabs in off-season by Dawei Liu THE CHRONICLE

by Andrew Beaton THE CHRONICLE

For the Blue Devils, this season ended much like last season: losing in the Elite Eight, and wondering what could have been. This off-season, however, feels different. Not only are three key seniors graduating, but former head coach Gail GoestenOff-season kors’ final recruiting class is departing. Although head coach Joanne P. Preview McCallie coached Jasmine Thomas, Krystal Thomas and Karima Christmas for all four of their seasons at Duke, their absence means that it would seem like this upcoming team is Coach P’s first from top to bottom. Regardless of perception, though, McCallie sees no difference in the two teams. “To me it’s no different,” she said. “This year was the year it was entirely my players for me.” The three seniors’ absence next year will undoubtedly shake up how playing time is distributed throughout the team. The seniors, led by Jasmine Thomas, combined for over 86 minutes per game this year and started together in all but one of the games. “You feel so grateful for what you’ve had…. They’ll never be replaced,” McCallie said. While their leadership may not be replaceable, their minutes will have to be taken by somebody. The natural reaction may be to look to next year’s class of incoming freshmen— highlighted by prized five-star post player Elizabeth Williams—but much of the solution may already be on the roster with the current class of freshmen. At the beginning of the season, it boasted five of the nation’s top recruits. Despite their early season hype, not all of the freshmen lived up to their potential this season. Caught up in a rotation that made use of all 11 players on the roster, Richa Jackson, Tricia Liston and Chloe

It may have been the move that changed Duke’s entire season. With the team off to a slow start after two straight defeats, head coach John Danowski decided to switch freshman Jordan Wolf and Christian Walsh from midfielders to attackers. “It just seemed on paper to be a better fit [for them to be midfielders],” Danowski said. “But after we lost to Penn 7-3, we No. 10 Denver decided to get them back into their comfort zone…. The rest is vs. kind of history.” No. 4 The two starting attackers Duke helped the Blue Devils (8-3) reel off seven straight victories before SATURDAY, 2 p.m. they finally lost to Syracuse, the Bethpage, N.Y. No. 1 team in the nation. As the second and third-leading scorers on the team, both players have been critical to No. 4 Duke’s success. Walsh, at 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds, is the bigger of the two players. From Baltimore, Md., Walsh has scored 13 goals this season and assisted on seven more. At this point in the year, though, the freshman believes there’s still much room for him to improve. “I don’t know if it has clicked.” Walsh said. “I’m still waiting for that moment. I’ve had a couple good games, but also a few really bad games that I haven’t been satisfied [with].” Wolf, at 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, has accumulated 20 goals and 12 assists. Hailing from Wynnewood, Pa., he is currently leading the team in assists and ranks second in goals scored. The freshman made his impact felt in the first game he ever started, scoring the winning goal in overtime against ACC rival, and No. 7 team in the nation, Maryland. “I attribute everything to my coaches and teammates,” Wolf said. “They’ve helped me out along the way. I’ve been fortunate to be at the right spot at the right time.” This upcoming Saturday, the freshmen and their teammates travel to Bethpage, N.Y., to face No. 10 Denver (7-2) in a neutral field contest. The Pioneers average 13.11 goals per game, the second-best scoring offense in the nation. Denver has two of the top six players in the nation in terms of points per game, as well as the third-best goal scorer in the country, 6-foot-4 junior Mark Matthews. The Blue Devils will have a tough game as they look to rebound from their 13-11 loss against Syracuse

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Christian Walsh [top] and Jordan Wolf [bottom] comprise a dynamic freshman duo that has combined for 33 goals this season.

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Spearman, Bullard return after injuries by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

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Caroline Spearman is one of many Blue Devils to battle injuries—she played for the first time this year on Saturday.

Over the past couple of years, the Blue Devils have grown used to dealing with injuries. With several of their top veteran players—including junior goalkeeper Mollie Mackler and redshirt junior Emma Hamm—missing most of the season last year, No. 4 Duke had to deal with changes in both its offensive and defensive

play. This season has been no different. Despite returning four starters, the Blue Devils (9-2, 2-1 in the ACC) have dealt with two other significant injuries. One of their losses on the defensive end was senior Caroline Spearman, who battled injuries all fall. The offense also lost veteran midfielder Sarah Bullard to a stress fracture. SEE W. LACROSSE ON PAGE 11

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Back on the road, Duke to face ACC opponents by Alex Young THE CHRONICLE

The Blue Devils hit the road this weekend for a pair of key ACC matches. No. 11 Duke (14-7, 5-1 in the ACC) travels to Atlanta to face No. 18 Georgia Tech (15-2, 6-1) on Friday and then to Clemson No. 18 Ga. Tech (15-7, 2-5) on Sunday. The main concerns vs. for the Blue Devils will No. 11 be stopping Yellow Duke Jacket senior Guillermo Gomez and winFRIDAY, 3 p.m. ning doubles matches, Atlanta, Ga. according to head coach Ramsey Smith. Clemson “We’ve been focusing on doubles all vs. week,� said Smith. “I No. 11 think that’ll be the Duke key this weekend. Their No. 1 doubles SUNDAY, 1 p.m. beat us in the fall, Clemson, S.C. and we’re really looking forward to that rematch.� Back in November, then-No. 1 Reid Carleton and Henrique Cunha fell to then-No. 43 Kevin King and Juan Spir of Georgia Tech 8-5 in the quarterfinals of the USTA/ ITA National Indoor Championships. This weekend’s rematch will pit the No. 14 Yellow Jacket pair against the sixth-ranked duo of Carleton and Cunha. Last weekend, Duke’s top doubles team

split matches against Virginia and Virginia Tech, losing to the Cavaliers’ No. 2-ranked Drew Courtney and Michael Shabaz but bouncing back by defeating the Hokies’ Will Beck and Pedro Graber. As a team, the Blue Devils fell 6-1 to top-ranked Virginia— snapping a four-match winning streak—but bounced back on Sunday against Virginia Tech by the same margin. The Yellow Jackets, meanwhile, are coming off a five-match winning streak. Led by Gomez—who is 26-6 in singles matches this season—and Spir, they are undefeated at home. “Georgia Tech is really good,� Smith said. “I think this is the best team they’ve had in 10 years. They’re strong from top to bottom.� Gomez enters the weekend on a ninematch winning streak, and will face Cunha in what Smith referred to as the “most important� singles match of the weekend. Despite the high-profile status of that match, Duke will rely heavily on its freshmen, who have played a central role in Duke’s success so far this season. Chris Mengel has won seven of his last nine outings and Fred Saba has gone 22-14 overall for the Blue Devils. “We knew it was a good class on paper— the No. 1 class—but they’ve really proven to be a special group of guys,� Smith said. “I knew Fred and Chris were going to be slated into singles, but Cale [Hammond] snuck into the doubles line-up and is 5-0 [in dual match play]. He’s been working as hard as anyone and earned his spot.�

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Freshman Chris Mengel has come into his own lately, winning seven of his last nine matches.

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W. LACROSSE from page 9 “This has happened to us so frequently in the past few years that it doesn’t really faze us anymore,� said Bullard, who will return to action this weekend. “I think we’ve done an amazing job stepping up in the past few years to make up for what we’ve lost, and we’ve shown a lot of resilNo. 14 ience.� B.C. With the senior vs. back for this weekNo. 4 end’s road matches Duke against No. 14 Boston College (8-4, SATURDAY, 1 p.m. Boston, Mass. 1-3) Saturday and Brown (5-4) Sunday, the Blue DevBrown ils will have a more powerful offensive vs. presence—Bullard No. 4 led the team in Duke goals last season— as well as increased SUNDAY, 1 p.m. senior leadership Providence, R.I. and higher morale. “I’m really excited for Sarah, and I think any time you’ve had a First Team All-American player... who misses that much of the season, that’s a really tough thing to experience,� head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “It’s clearly not how she envisioned her senior year being, and we’re just trying to keep her expectations and our expectations very realistic. I’m not necessarily worried about how she’ll fit back in, and it’s more of her being comfortable and having the chance to ease back on to the field.� Spearman’s return also bodes well for the Blue Devils. The senior, who played her first game in 11 months this past Saturday against No. 2 Northwestern, will

help anchor Duke’s defensive effort. “She’s one of our top returning defenders and she’s taken a couple of weeks to get back, but we’re excited that she’s an option for us now,� Kimel said. “Now, it’s up to us coaches to figure out how we can best utilize her.� Both of the players are excited for this weekend’s contests and look forward to playing more minutes, especially after taking away a different perspective of the game from watching their team’s matches over the past couple of months. “It’s very challenging to be on the sideline, but you have to work extra hard outside

of practice to come back, and I’ve learned so much by watching,� Spearman said. “I’ve been working my way back into practice and I realized how much I miss it.� And with these two players getting back into the rhythm of things, Duke will hope to come away from the weekend with two victories in two straight days. “It’s exciting to have two games in a row, and it’s really going to help us prepare for playing the next game, fatigued and challenged to play just as hard as we did the day before,� Spearman said. “It’ll be great for the ACC Tournament coming up in the next couple of weeks.�

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Sarah Bullard is back on the team after suffering a stress fracture while playing for the national team.

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last weekend. “We were very disappointed about our overall approach to the [Syracuse] game.� Danowski said. “Denver is an excellent team, and this is a big game in the national picture.� With only four more regular season

W. BASKETBALL from page 9 Wells saw limited playing time throughout the year and were unable to make the quick impact that many expected. The prize of the class, Chelsea Gray, excelled in running the point, though, and Haley Peters proved to be an effective offensive weapon during her time on the court. McCallie, however, expressed disappointment in how the girls transitioned to college as a unit. “Time management is something that those young players have to learn,� the coach said. “They can do it all, but they have to learn how to do it all. What I noticed is that not everybody was in the gym extra.... I’m hungry for more—those kids can do more.� Next year, McCallie expressed optimism that the freshmen will have matured enough that they can make sure to get in the proper workouts, and be comfortable in welcoming the new class. Those new recruits include two big frontcourt players in Williams and Amber Henson, who should be able to replace the strength of Christmas and Krystal Thomas. The lone guard is Ka’lia Johnson, who joins an already deep backcourt with Gray, Wells, Liston and rising senior Shay Selby. “The returning group of eight must integrate the new group of three very quickly,� McCallie said. “It has got to be an extremely special summer.� Next year, McCallie is cognizant that there is no replacing an All-American in Jasmine Thomas and a go-to scorer like Christmas. So, it will have to be a group effort to match their production, even if the coach isn’t quite sure how things will turn out. “The whole team will step up, everybody has an opportunity. I don’t know the answers yet,� she said. “You want [the graduating seniors] to come back next year and be really proud of the team.� games left, the Blue Devils will try to build momentum before the ACC Tournament, held on the weekend of April 22-24. Duke finishes the season against Presbyterian and Jacksonville, as well as a final ACC match against No. 9 Virginia. The Blue Devils hope that the two freshmen will continue to have a great impact on the team’s success, as Duke goes down its final homestretch.

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Yes. would also like the practices of the University to We also wanted to have confidence we could actually sit before the students as silent instructors about live up to the commitment, which pledges some de- choices they themselves should reflect on. gree of reduction over time, so we did some analysis GD: As the University’s priorities shift and to make sure that there was a realistic path by which evolve, does sustainability remain a priority? we could actually achieve those reductions. RB: I do not regard sustainability as in comGD: Have any outcomes of the University’s petition with other priorities of the University. I commitment surprised you? regard it as a good thing to do, and therefore it’s RB: I never would have foreseen the change a value that we continue to try to understand and in energy sources [from coal to natural gas]. 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here is, perhaps, no time more fondly remembered for me than that of America in the 1920s, when wealth was there for the taking, jazz was the sound of the times and the Prohibition was making millions for the men we now call bootleggers. It was utterly and entirely a time all its own, and I speak without sarcasm. I sincerely wish that I could have been there. At the height of the era, a man named F. Scott Fitzgerald chris bassil delivered a novel that painted just a minute a picture of life in the Jazz Age, replete with the relaxed splendor of the rich and the hard-learned lessons of the upwardly mobile, a bildungsroman of sorts for the America of the age. It was more, though, than just a portrait or a snapshot of the times—it was a book that, like its readers, hesitated to tip its hand, and delayed indefinitely its judgment of its characters in favor of reserving the right to simultaneously condemn and to admire them. “I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life,” the narrator says, and so, it seems, the author was as well. Fitzgerald does not, at any point, hand down his verdict on the wealthy. He elects instead to do battle with himself—wanting while wanting not to want. A man who seemed to be constantly in conflict with himself, he longed for something he thought he shouldn’t have, like an addict. There was a reason that Fitzgerald always wrote about the rich, and there was a reason that what he wrote always sold—not the novels, at the time at least, but certainly the stories. Americans wanted to read, and Fitzgerald wanted to write, all about the wealthy. They wanted both to condemn and to admire, to be disgusted and to be entertained, to be both enchanted and repelled by what the author rightly dubbed “the inexhaustible variety of life.” And it worked—Fitzgerald made money off his stories, and America subsisted on the consumption of his inbetween dreams of the ruling social elites. So what’s changed since then? Well, the short answer is everything, not least of all our relations with those ruling elites. Elements of American history as disparate and divorced from one another as the G.I. Bill and reality television brought down the divide between the wealthy and the rest of our world and brought their lifestyles and lives into our collective mind in a way that demystified them and made them more accessible. Their lives are no longer the stuff of legends, but of late night television and cheap periodicals. But the more things change, the more they stay the same—if the title of the song “Mo Money, Mo Problems” isn’t a contemporary paraphrasing of Gatsby, then I’m not sure what is. Sure, it’s missing the codified language and lyrical dexterity of “The Great Gatsby,” but what use are they in a world that’s now narrated by those aforementioned upwardly mobile? Those are decadences of a distant past, when the wealth was not accessible and language was a signifier, and the lifestyle of the elite could only be recounted to us by someone who’d always been a part of it. So what, then, is Kanye West? Well, in many ways he’s the celebrity we’ve always loved to watch, one who agrees with Fitzgerald that, when it comes to the wealthy, he can’t make up his mind. Surely, he makes up part of a larger trend in hip-hop music where wealth is still, as it has always been, something to be shown off, and Prohibition is still making millionaires, albeit with weed rather than whiskey. But West also brings more to the table. Kanye West, unlike others, uses his rags to riches story as a source of introspection and personal meditation, just like Fitzgerald did. West is confused by his wealth and is unsure, publicly as well as within himself, what exactly to make of it. It has been his dream, as it has been ours, for his waking life. Now that the wealth is here, it’s hard to cope with the fact that it brings its own problems. It’s hard for him to believe that he might not want parts of that which he has always wanted, and he resists coming down on one side or the other, perhaps for his own good. In that, though, he is in good company. Fitzgerald never figured out how he felt about wealth and the variety of life, and so we’ve been trying to do it for him for close to a century. You might even say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that “The Great Gatsby” paved the way for “The College Dropout,” and that so long as West remains deadlocked, he will enjoy longevity as we try to figure it all out for him. Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs every Friday.

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ouise is undoubtedly dead by now, but 35 years ago created more characters than any other Russian writer she was a 72-year-old waitress at George’s Greek (yes, more than Dostoevsky and Tolstoy) and who revoluRestaurant in Athens, Ohio—a tough, assertive tionized the world theater and the short story—all while woman with an unruly mop of snow white curls. In her suffering from the tuberculosis that caused his death at white work shoes, she measured 4 feet 10 age 44—used to complain constantly of inches, which meant she was close to the his laziness, hanging around and “shoottabletops and the customers’ faces; she ing the breeze,” he would say. could take orders and lay the plates down Given the result, you have to assume without bending over and was the fastest that some of that downtime was a necesserver in the place. That translated into sary part of the writer’s work. You can see more tips. And in an era when we made a lot when you’re not moving fast, after 80 cents per hour, tips meant the differall. One way to test this is to walk down a ence between paying the rent and dying road you usually drive. When you do this, in a ditch. Louise was one of the best cocarol apollonio you don’t have to look constantly straight workers I’ve ever had, a wisecracker with a ahead to the next strip of highway. There’s the professor real talent for complaining and commisthe teeming of microworlds below, the vast, next door erating. At the end of the lunch rush, we infinite sky above and, with luck, someone used to sit at the counter and count the by your side. Do this enough and you’ll tips—mostly coins in those days—and she used to groan, wonder why you’re in a hurry to get anywhere else. rubbing her arthritic knees, and say, “What I need is a Writers offer you this option. They’ll create an interestgood lying down job.” I think she had something else in ing character and set him off on a plot of flight or quest, mind, but I took what I needed of her advice and went to a journey from one place to another, from childhood to graduate school in the humanities. adulthood, from East to West, from something to nothThousands of books and several languages and coun- ing or from nothing to something. Something like your tries later, I find myself craving a lying down job of my journey through life. At the end, you’ll realize that the own. Turns out there’s no such thing. Though it is true point was not to get to the end but to spend some time that some of my work can be done in jammies, there’s on the road with the guy, looking around. a lot of running around and shouting, too. Done right, Consider this a possible plan for your time at Duke. reading the great books should keep you up at night, One of my sophomores emailed me this past Fall to let should stir dormant parts of your brain, should present me know that she couldn’t enroll in any of the courses you with new ways of looking at the world, should make she wanted this Spring. Turns out, all of them were in you strap on your hoppin’ shoes. future business, practical skills, money making, manOne of Anton Chekhov’s characters says that outside agement, startups and pre-careers, and every last one of the house of every satisfied person, there should be a them was filled up. “Chto delat?” the Russians would say: man standing at the door, tapping on it with a hammer to “What is to be done?” remind him that misfortune—illness, poverty, loss—lurks One option is to consider taking a course that has out there, claws ready. Some people view a great novel as to do with where you are, rather than where you think something like that hammer-wielding man—a disgrun- you’re going. While you’re waiting for things to happen tled, restless, maladjusted psychopath who just can’t wait in your life, sign up for a few good books. Call it a lying to ruin your day. Some books are like that. But others down course. become your friends. And some great books hammer at your door shouting to you that the world is full of unCarol Apollonio is an associate professor of the practice in speakable joy, if you’d only take the time to peek outside. Slavic and Eurasian studies and a faculty member in residence One of Tolstoy’s early readers wrote him that he loved in Wilson Dormitory. “War and Peace” so much that when he reached the end, he immediately turned back to the first page and read it again straight through. Somewhere in there, there has to be some lying around. Writer, medical doctor and global health speSamantha Lachman’s “Making an (im)PACT” cialist Chekhov—who crossed 10 time zones in a peasant column April 7 incorrectly stated the years of Kevin cart, who built schools and libraries, who toiled to rid the Jones and Andrei Santalo. Jones is a senior, and Russian countryside of cholera and famine, who treated Santalo is a sophomore. The Chronicle regrets the a wide variety of the uglier and more disgusting peasant errors. ailments without charging fees, who wrote a huge demographic study of the penal colony on Sakhalin Island, who

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lettertotheeditor In response to “Get faculty on board with Kunshan” It ought to be pointed out that the proper procedure would have been to present a coherent and responsibly detailed vision for Kunshan to the faculty before committing to this venture. Once again, however, the Duke administration has chosen to bypass faculty counsel on another major issue of strategic planning, preferring instead to present the Kunshan adventure as a “fait (presque) accomplit.” Even more disturbing is that this particular initiative highlights the administration’s growing confusion as to Duke University’s identity. We are (and hopefully will remain) a dynamic and complex research institution in Durham. What we are not (and should not pretend to be) is some multinational corporation peddling an increasingly amorphous and empty commodity marketed as the “Duke Experience.” Had The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board done due diligence, they would have inquired about the collateral effects of the Kunshan adventure on our finances here at Duke, which, contrary to the starry-eyed projections of our administration, remain a zero-sum game. For some time now, the administration has been financially squeezing and intellectually starving its academic core units (aka departments), and it continues to do so even now, ostensibly because of a sizeable budget deficit in Arts and Sciences. This worrisome devel-

opment has manifestly reinforced the University leadership’s strategy (well known to observant faculty) to shift attention and support to new centers, programs and a flurry of often uncoordinated and ephemeral initiatives—of which Kunshan is only a recent and conspicuous instance. Much of the growing resistance to the Kunshan adventure (correctly noted in the editorial) stems from the faculty’s pervasive alienation from, and distrust of, a University administration that consistently fails to consult its faculty’s collective expertise and wisdom before the fact. No doubt, it is assumed that the Academic Council and other relevant bodies will eventually rubber-stamp a project in Kunshan that, when the question is posed, will have advanced beyond recall, even as its intellectual merits, financial rationale and institutional necessity were never convincingly articulated. A less high-handed and more timely, consultative approach would have allowed everyone to consider and evaluate the Kunshan adventure’s comparative merits vis-a-vis various other, far less cost-intensive (albeit less headline-grabbing) proposals, such as a formal and focused comprehensive faculty exchange initiative. Thomas Pfau Professor of German and Eads Family Professor of English

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WATSON from page 1 approach to improving the quality of patient care, Watson explained that hospital workers need to show empathy toward patients, stressing the need for “sensitivity and responsiveness” in order to view the patient as a person and not merely a disease to be treated, as practitioners are often trained to do. With regard to more controversial health care issues on the national stage, Watson explained his concern with growing socioeconomic gaps in care delivery. He cited the inadequacy of primary care as a contributing factor to stresses on emergency rooms, which he has witnessed in Durham Regional. “The difficulty is how to accept that the system needs to change,” Watson said, adding that vague notions of responsibility among the many participants in health care—such as hospitals, patients and insurance companies—contribute to the problem. The stakes are high, Watson noted, predicting that the nation will face a “system of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’” unless it forms the necessary partnerships between physicians, patients, primary care givers, insurance companies and government to confront an aging population with fewer resources and caregivers. In his capacity as president of Durham Regional, Watson has spearheaded efforts to foster accountabil-

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ity among these groups in order to improve the quality of care. He explained a project aimed at training and educating patients to monitor their health outside the hospital in order to combat the significantly higher rates of readmission they saw among poorer patients. Watson said this project led to a 50 percent decrease in readmission rates—a triumph for the hospital’s efforts to make individuals feel more responsible for their own health. “If you expand that as a practice process beyond that small group, you can imagine what we can be doing to help people take control of their own health,” he said. Watson stressed this individual responsibility with regard to Durham, where he said that a sense of despair and low expectations prevails among the socioeconomically disadvantaged. Nurturing a sense of personal accountability in the medical arena is merely one element of empowering people to improve their vision for what they can accomplish in life, he noted. Jordan Thomas, a prospective freshman visiting campus, said he can understand how Watson’s background enabled him to better empathize with patients. “It is inspiring how Mr. Watson had a story about conquering the despair he found in Durham to rise to the position he has in his administration,” he said.

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Kerry Watson, president of Durham Regional Hospital, spoke with Dean of the Chapel Sam Wells Thursday on local and national health care reform.

DSG from page 3 to students, Gonzalez wrote that the necessary upgrades to continue to offer cable would cost “in the neighborhood of $1 million.” “Less than 15 percent of our rooms have cable, so most students are doing something different, if they’re even watching TV,” he said. “Should Duke transition to a different model, we would need [everyone] to pay for cable. There just wasn’t a clear student consensus that all on campus were willing to foot the bill for that type of service.” Junior Ben Goldenberg, interim vice president for residence life and dining, said cutting the cable services may affect more students than Gonzalez initially considered. “I think people [on East and West] will survive, and their quality of living won’t be tremendously affected,” Goldenberg said. “But on Central, I see that as being a huge issue [because] Central living is much more self-sufficient. In your apartment, you want the amenities of apartment-style living, so that’s where I see the issues.” To make up to students for the loss of cable, the University will try to provide other services. “We are willing to look at [instituting satellite TV] for Central in particular, given the different levels in need,” Gonzalez said. “This is one avenue we’re exploring, in addition to others, such as subsidized Netflix.” In other business: Freshman Patrick Oathout, an academic affairs senator, gave a presentation on why he filed a complaint with the DSG Judiciary last night regarding the way in which names were presented on ballots. He said the change from alphabetical ordering of candidates’ names to a randomly generated ballot was not approved by the Senate and was thus unconstitutional, though the Judiciary unanimously upheld the decision in the election Tuesday night. Sophomore Alex Swain, next year’s vice president for Durham and regional affairs, gave a presentation on creating new committees within DSG. She and others proposed both internal and external committees.

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