Apr. 13, 2011 issue

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTH YEAR, Issue 133

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Walsh named permanent finance VP

by Matthew Chase THE CHRONICLE

Acclaimed author Salman Rushdie spoke about the power of literature to address human freedoms and conflict in the contemporary world, where public events increasingly impact private lives.

Rushdie, author of 10 novels including “Midnight’s Children” and “The Satanic Verses,” spoke Tuesday before a sold-out audience in Page Auditorium about instances when literature helped to bring down brutal regimes. In situations where the truth is obscured, Rushdie feels novels can shed light on true stories outside government reports and prejudiced information.

“Prose, the literary novel of the poet, has been historically and still is at the forefront of opposition of tyranny,” Rushdie said.

“No one owns the novelist’s vision except for the novelist... he has the power to make and remake reality and explore it in a manner and on the terms he chooses that are not dictated to him by anyone else.”

Rushdie’s speech, “Public Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics in the Modern World,” marked the eighth annual John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute’s Distinguished Lecture.

He was introduced by FHI Director Ian Baucom and Srinivas

After serving a nearly five-month term as interim vice president for finance, Tim Walsh will assume the position officially, effective immediately, the University announced Tuesday.

Since his arrival at Duke in 2004, Walsh has served as assistant vice president and controller for finance and has overseen Duke’s largest division of central finance. As vice president for finance, Walsh will be responsible for financial components across the University and the Duke University Health System, including accounting, reporting and other finan- Tim Walsh cial functions.

“The transition has been great,” Walsh said of his recent role as interim vice president. “I obviously had existing contacts from my work here over the past six years... and we have an outstanding team of professionals in finance on whom I was able to rely for support.”

Walsh replaces former vice president for finance Hof Milam. Milam left the post in December to become senior vice president for finance and administration and chief financial officer at Wake Forest University.

During the search for a replacement, the University hired a consultant to conduct a three-month national search, Executive Vice President Tallman Trask said. The University considered approximately 100 people—all of whom, except for Walsh, were external candidates, Trask noted.

“In the end, it seemed clear to me that [Walsh] was the best choice given what Duke needs right now,” he said, adding that administrators desired a candidate who “understands how Duke works under a period of some stress.”

Throughout the past seven years, Walsh has overseen projects such as the Duke Administrative Reform Team, which found ways to save the University more than $60 million annually in recent years. He has also worked on financing the University’s international activities and increasing transparency through a monthly reporting process of the University’s financial performance.

Walsh has also recently served as chair of the Research Administration Continuous Improvement initiative, which supervises the University’s $800 million research enterprise component.

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Strong winds caused a large tree on the lawn of the financial aid office to fall onto Campus Drive, around 3 p.m., hitting a moving vehicle and injuring one person.

Fallen tree causes detours, damage

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

One person was injured when a tree fell on a moving vehicle on Campus Drive in front of the financial aid office Tuesday afternoon.

The injured passenger was taken to the hospital, but their condition was unknown Tuesday night, said Chief John Dailey of the Duke University Police Department. Traffic was blocked on Campus Drive between the West Campus traffic circle and Anderson Street for more than two hours after the incident, with vehicles were redirected to Duke University Road. In order to access buildings along the blocked-off area, people had to walk around the scene. Police opened one lane at approximately 4:30 p.m. and allowed vehicles to proceed eastbound along the route.

The accident occurred around 3 p.m. when Amy Cleckler, coordinator for the Women’s Center’s gender violence prevention program, and a campus visitor were traveling toward East Campus. A tree on the lawn of the financial aid office fell onto the hood of their silver Honda Fit. Joe Jackson, director of grounds, sanitation and recycling, said older trees of this size—around 36 inches in diameter—tend to fall when there is a lot of wind and the soil is damp.

Although the smaller branches and debris in the street were cleared yesterday evening, the trunk, which remains in the financial aid office’s lawn due to its weight, will be removed within the next one to two days, Jackson said.

“In my 16 years [at Duke], never have I experienced this kind of situation,” Jackson said, adding that he has seen trees fall before, but never on a car.

Rushdie speaks on role of the novelist

by Joanna Lichter THE CHRONICLE

Special to the Chronicle

Author Salman Rushdie, pictured speaking to students, discussed the notion of viewing novelists as news gatherers bringing national issues to public attention.

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Although the state’s recidivism levels have edged up slightly since 2000, Virginia’s 28.3 percent recidivism rate for prisoners in the three years after their release in 2004 is well below the nation’s 43.3 rate percent during the same period, according to the Pew Center on the States study.

The Pew study comes as states battle skyrocketing prison costs amid steep budget shortfalls. Corrections spending by states tops $50 billion a year and is the second-fastest-growing budget expense, behind Medicaid, according to Pew. Virginia has cut prison spending and closed 10 corrections centers since 2009.

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BEIJING, China — When fears of radiation spreading from Japan prompted a rush on iodized salt in China, a weekly newspaper posted the story on its website under the headline: “Panic buying in Guangdong, Shenzhen and Dongguan; iodized salt out of stock, nuclear panic in Japan spreads.”

Within minutes, government censors called the Economic Observer’s vice chief editor, Zhang Hong,“and asked us to delete that post immediately,” he said.

In a small act of defiance, Zhang left the story on the site, but he changed the second part of the headline to read: “Salt bureau said the stock is sufficient.”

That March 17 incident is just one example of the daily, even hourly, tussle between editors of China’s state-controlled media and the Communist government’s army of propaganda officials and censors who want to shape every aspect of what Chinese citizens read, see and think.

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Knoerr leaves valued Nicholas School legacy

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Budget concerns may force state to cut ALE

by Kelly Scurry THE CHRONICLE

The streets may soon be clear of ALE. North Carolina is considering eliminating the state Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement in order to cut costs. The N.C. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee considered a proposal to cut ALE— along with 70 other potential cuts to the state’s public safety and justice programs— last Tuesday. The proposal was created by Republican legislative staffers and aims to trim costs, including closing some prisons and drug treatment centers. The proposal went before the budget subcommittee of the Senate’s appropriations on justice and public safety committee, though it is not yet determined when the committee will vote.

Cutting ALE would save the state approximately $9.5 million and cut 137 jobs, though its elimination could mean more work for the state, as police officers and other resources would have to compensate for the loss of ALE’s specialization, said Thomas Caves, special assistant to the secretary of the North Carolina Department

of Crime Control and Public Safety and is a legislative liaison for the department.

“In bad economic times, [legislative staff members] look at many options and show legislators ways to save money,” Caves said.

“The ALE elimination would be a hugely problematic option.”

According to its website, ALE is primarily responsible for enforcing laws regarding the sale, transport and consumption of alcohol, though it also enforces tobacco, controlled substances and gambling laws throughout the state.

Much of ALE’s efforts deal with underage drinking and undercover work, as the division works with various federal agencies on a variety of security issues, including terrorism, noted Patty McQuillan, a public information officer for the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety.

“ALE is unique in having full arrest authority for the entire state,” McQuillan said. “The cut of ALE would leave a hole in law enforcement— its agents have special training that would make

Kenneth Knoerr, former director of graduate studies for Environmental Sciences and Policy in the Nicholas School of the Environment, passed away Monday.

The professor emeritus of hydrology and environmental meteorology served on Duke’s faculty for more than 50 years, joining the faculty in 1961 as an assistant professor of forest cliKen Knoerr matology and gaining emeritus status in 2002.

“Ken has been a long time and valued member of our faculty, and someone who had a huge impact on building our school both physically and intellectually,” said Nicholas School Dean Bill Chameides in a statement issued by the Nicholas School. “He will be missed.”

Knoerr was promoted in 1966 to associate professor of forest meteorology and was appointed associate professor of biometeorology two years later. He became professor of forest meteorology and hydrology in 1972.

In addition, Knoerr was a wellknown researcher both at home and abroad. Authoring more than 50 peerreviewed studies, Knoerr was considered an expert in microclimatology,

mountain meteorology, forest fires and watershed hydrology. He was often cited for his research on managing forest lands and his studies helped to clarify how forests interact with the atmosphere. Knoerr was also one of the first to develop physical models which demonstrate how plants and the environment interact.

Most recently, Knoerr focused on investigating more than 100 forest fires that have occurred in the United States during the last hundred years. His goal was to use his findings to improve the safety of forest managers and firefighters. His research also identified common causes behind these unexpected changes—including wind behavior in mountainous terrain and the potential flammability of forest fuels.

Knoerr earned his bachelor’s degree in forest management in 1952 from the University of Idaho and received his PhD in forest meteorology in 1961 from Yale University. He also received a Master of Forestry degree in silviculture from Yale in 1955. Before joining the Duke faculty, he served as a research forester in the U.S. Forest Service from 1956 to 1961.

Knoerr was also a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Geophysical Union, the American Meteorological Society and the Sigma Xi honor society.

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AHA studies rate Pakistanis threaten to impose of cardiac death new restrictions on CIA activities in NCAA athletes

by Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung The Washington Post

by Michael Shammas THE CHRONICLE

March Madness is over without incident, but according to recent studies the threat of sudden death in athletes due to cardiac arrest remains too high for comfort.

A study released April 4 from the American Heart Association found the rate of sudden cardiac death in NCAA athletes is one in 44,000 a year, with basketball players at the highest risk. The research was spurred by several incidents early this year in which high school athletes’ hearts stopped during athletic events. The tragedies have spurred cardiologists at Duke and other universities to search for reasons why apparently healthy athletes are suffering from these attacks and to find ways to prevent them.

Dr. Thomas Bashore, cardiologist and Duke professor of medicine, and said electrocardiographs—which measure the heart’s electrical activity—could help detect abnormalities that could lead to sudden death when athletes exert themselves.

“An ECG helps pick up those [individuals] with a congenital long QT syndrome and those with a lot of premature beats,” he said. “I think athletes [are required to] get an ECG in Italy, but [they are not] in this country because of the potential costs.”

When athletes die due to a stopped heart, it is often sudden and unexpected, as in the case of Michigan high school junior Wes Leonard who collapsed in early March after scoring a game-winning shot during a basketball game. The audience’s cheers after the win quickly gave way to panic as the 16-year-old See cardiac arrest on page 8

Pakistani officials threatened Monday to impose new limits on CIA drone strikes in their country and to expel agency operatives whose missions are not approved by Islamabad, escalating a high-stakes feud between the counterterrorism allies, U.S. and Pakistani officials said.

The demands, which were conveyed as top spies from the two countries met at CIA headquarters in Virginia, represent an effort by Pakistan to exert more control over the covert CIA war being waged inside its borders.

Pakistani officials have expressed mounting frustration with the accelerated pace of the CIA’s Predator air campaign and the expanded presence of agency operatives, including a security contractor who fatally shot two Pakistani men in Lahore in January.

Still, any new restrictions on the CIA’s activities in Pakistan could have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. pursuit of al-Qaida and its top leaders, who are thought to be based in the country’s tribal belt.

The frictions were the focus of a meeting Monday between CIA Director Leon Panetta and the head of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha.

A senior Pakistani official called the tone of the meeting “cordial” but said Pasha made clear that the CIA-ISI relationship had suffered a “breach of trust” and had to be reconfigured with a “clear code of conduct.”

“We need to know who is in Pakistan doing what, and that the CIA won’t go behind our back,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue. “There has to be a greater sharing of information, in terms of what the CIA wants and is doing. They have to stop mistrusting the ISI as much as they do . . . you can’t have us as your

ally and treat us as your adversary at the same time.”

Pasha asked the CIA for a complete list of its employees and contractors in Pakistan and made clear that some may be asked to leave, the official said. The Pakistanis also said that they wanted a reduction in the number of Predator strikes and more timely information about intended targets before attacks are launched.

CIA officials sought to play down the disagreement and signaled that joint counterterrorism operations would continue.

“Director Panetta and General Pasha held productive discussions today, and the CIA-ISI relationship remains on solid footing,” agency spokesman George Little said. “Today’s exchange emphasized the need to continue to work closely together, including on our common fight against terrorist networks that threaten both countries.”

Even so, U.S. officials acknowledged that Pasha pushed to restructure the relationship and to impose new requirements on the CIA. “The Pakistanis have asked for more visibility into some things, and that request is being talked about,” a U.S. official said. The official said there have also been discussions on “ways to further expand the partnership. The bottom line is that joint cooperation is essential to the security of the two nations. The stakes are too high.”

For that reason, disagreements between the CIA and the ISI have generally led to more public recriminations than actual disruptions in their joint counterterrorism work. But Pakistani officials signaled Monday that the dynamic could change because of a perception in Islamabad that the CIA has overstepped.

Perhaps most worrisome for U.S. officials is the threat to place new limits on the drone campaign, See Pakistan on page 12

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Gadhafi rides out int’l pressure, sanctions

By Simon Denyer

The Washington Post

TRIPOLI, Libya — Forced on the defensive on the battlefield, Libya’s rebels are also struggling in the economic war of attrition with Moammar Gadhafi, despite the backing of the West.

Global efforts to isolate Gadhafi and cut off his economic lifeline have put significant pressure on his government.

But President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders may find that sanctions do not bring Gadhafi to his knees as quickly as hoped, if at all.

The panic that gripped the Libyan economy at the height of the crisis has substantially abated and the government has implemented a series of measures to cope with the sanctions and the loss of hundreds of thousands of foreign workers.

The economic situation appears more chaotic in the rebel-held east, with the collapse of much of the public sector and the shuttering of oil production.

“In the long run, sanctions will be quite devastating,” said Mustafa Fetouri, MBA program director at the Academy of Graduate Studies in Tripoli, the capital. “But we have had this situation before, and we have the experience to deal with it.”

Keeping the economy afloat amid tight international sanctions is costly and Finance Minister Abdulhafid Zlitni said in an interview that the government’s money might run out “in a few months.”

Nevertheless, the British-educated economist was optimistic that this would buy the government enough time—to probe for gaps in the international community’s resolve, to find a compromise that keeps Gadhafi in power or to persuade old friends to help.

“Just go back to history,” Zlitni said.

“When sanctions were imposed in the 1990s, Africans just broke them. They came over here with their planes and their presents.”

The current sanctions are considerably tougher than those imposed by the Unit-

ed Nations in 1992 and 1993 over Libya’s alleged role in the bombing of a Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Nevertheless, cracks are appearing in the global coalition seeking to isolate Gadhafi, after the African Union proposed a peace plan this week that called for a cease-fire and dialogue but would seem to leave Gadhafi firmly in power.

Gadhafi backed the plan, but the rebels rejected it.

“In the international arena, we are seeing a lot of interventions to find an end to this, and this is what makes me optimistic this is going to end soon,” Zlitni said.

In the meantime, sanctions are clearly having an effect in the areas under Gadhafi’s control, though his government appears to have found a way to manage.

In Tripoli, fuel is being rationed to a tank a week, while cash withdrawals from banks have been capped at the equivalent of $400 a month. Interest rates will be doubled this week to attract money, much of which is traditionally kept at home, back into the banking system.

The government has increased public-sector salaries by 50 percent to encourage Libyans to fill the gaps left by the exodus of a substantial proportion of the workforce.

That exodus left fuel pumps unmanned and bakeries, normally run by Egyptians, shuttered. But Libyans are gradually stepping in. The huge lines at gas stations reported a week ago have all but disappeared, and bread shortages have eased after young women were enlisted to help. On the black market, the Libyan dinar shot up to 3 against the dollar, from 1.3 before the crisis, before pulling back to less than 2.

Hospitals are functioning, but many factories and shops remain closed, construction work has stalled, and imported foods are starting to disappear from store shelves. The price of cooking oil

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Bipartisan group to guide president’s deficit plan

by Lori Montgomery and Zachary Goldfarb The Washington Post

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama plans this week to respond to a Republican blueprint for tackling the soaring national debt by promoting a bipartisan approach pioneered by an independent presidential commission rather than introducing his own detailed plan.

Obama will not blaze a fresh path when he delivers a much-anticipated speech Wednesday afternoon at George Washington University. Instead, he is expected to offer support for the commission’s work and a related effort under way in the Senate to develop a strategy for curbing borrowing. Obama will frame their approach as a responsible alternative to the blueprint unveiled last week by House Republicans, according to people briefed by the White House.

Letting others take the lead on complex problems has become a hallmark of the Obama presidency. On health care, last year’s tax deal and the recent battle over 2011 spending cuts, Obama has repeatedly waited as others set the parameters of the debate, swooping in late to cut a deal. The tactic has produced significant victories but exposed Obama to criticism that he has shown a lack of leadership.

Like the House GOP budget plan, the Senate effort— led by three Democrats and three Republicans known as the Gang of Six—aims to cut around $4 trillion from the debt over the next decade. But the group is looking to reduce spending in all categories, while urging a rewrite of the tax code that would raise revenue. The House budget would cut spending on domestic programs while protecting the military and preserving George W. Bushera tax cuts, including those for high earners.

Duke University Leadership and Service Awards Announcement of Nominees Congratulations to the following students, student organizations, faculty and administrators, who have been nominated to receive Duke University’s most prestigious campus-wide honors for leadership and service. Awards will be presented at the Duke University Leadership and Service Awards Ceremony, to be held at 5:00 p.m. on April 18, 2011, in Scharf Hall at the Michael W. Krzyzewski Center for Academic and Athletic Excellence.

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The work of the Gang of Six is modeled on recommendations of the fiscal commission Obama appointed last year. Asked Monday about their work, White House press secretary Jay Carney said the commission had “created a framework that may help us reach a deal and a compromise.”

“The fiscal commission showed that you need to look at entitlements, you need to look at tax expenditures, you need to look at military spending, you need to look at all of these issues,” Carney said. “You can’t simply slash entitlements, lower taxes and call that a fair deal.”

“Everyone,” he said, must “share in the burden of bringing our fiscal house into order.”

While lawmakers in both parties say they support the principle of shared sacrifice, its particulars are proving no less thorny than any other deficit reduction strategy.

The Gang of Six has been struggling for weeks to reach agreement on a framework for budget changes that would leave policy details to be worked out in legislative committees.

Aides say the group is very close to an agreement, and administration officials had hoped one could be announced this week. But two Republican members, Sens. Tom Coburn (Okla.) and Saxby Chambliss (Ga.), said Monday that no deal is likely to be announced until after lawmakers return in May from a two-week Easter recess.

“It’d be pretty hard for [Obama] to hitch himself to something that doesn’t exist yet,” Coburn said. “There’s nothing I’ve agreed to that could be announced this week.”

Democrats briefed on Obama’s speech said its purpose is to seize the initiative from Republicans as Washington turns from a bitter but narrow debate over spending cuts in this year’s budget to the broader matter of how to reduce the size of the government in coming years. The White House and congressional leaders in both parties are particularly concerned about a looming vote to raise the legal limit on government borrowing, set at just under $14.3 trillion.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has warned that Congress must raise the limit by early July or the Treasury Department will default on its obligations, destabilizing global financial markets and inviting a new recession.

Republican leaders, who recently won the single largest spending reduction in U.S. history in the fight over the 2011 budget, say they will be unable to muster the votes needed to help raise the limit unless Obama offers what they deem to be a meaningful plan to cut future spending even more deeply.

The White House has been pressing for a stand-alone debt limit bill, but no one thinks such a bill could pass the House. By offering a vision for deficit reduction that goes well beyond his most recent budget blueprint, administration officials said, Obama is acknowledging that a more serious conversation about entitlement spending and taxes will be required to persuade Republicans to lift the limit.

While Carney promised that the speech would offer explicit targets for reducing deficits over the long term, people briefed by the White House said they expect Obama to lay out a general approach with few details.

So far, neither party appears to have a clear strategy for the debt limit vote. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told the Chicago Tribune on Monday that his party wants to see statutory limits on federal spending—and ideally a framework for reining in the skyrocketing cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid—in exchange for Republican support.

Democratic strategists say they think independent voters crucial to Obama’s re-election next year want him to function as a centrist consensus-builder.

Independents abandoned the party last year as concern grew about government deficits and spending. But Obama also must worry about his liberal base, which views protecting entitlement programs central to Democratic Party orthodoxy.

One liberal group, the Campaign for America’s Future, began mobilizing Monday to ramp up pressure on the White House in advance of Obama’s speech.

The group sent an e-mail alert asking its members to contact the White House and warn against cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

Roger Hickey, co-director of group, said many on the left “fear” that Obama will try to find a middle ground with Ryan—eliminating the Democrats’ ability to present themselves as the saviors of Social Security.

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Rushdie from page 1 Aravamudan, dean of humanities and an English professor.

“For over a 30-year writing period [Rushdie has] transformed the history of the novel, altered and enriched the aesthetic possibility of the English language,” Baucom said. “[He] promises to continue and build on that rich tradition of challenging and opening common addresses, which our previous [FHI] guests have established.”

In the past, novelists served as news gatherers for society in bringing national issues to public attention, said Rushdie, pointing to authors like Charles Dickens and Harriet Beecher Stowe who used their works to expose the evils of slavery. In the modern world, Rushdie said novels can continue to serve an integral role in telling meaningful stories and uncovering cultural conflicts—as opposed to some contemporary news sources, which he said have ulterior motives that affect their ability to remain objective.

“We have a situation where opinion polls tell us the most trusted news network in this country is Fox News. This makes one feel worried about the American people... if they actually want the news or prefer the precarious fiction that appears on the Fox News program,” Rushdie said. “Literature is the place where you find truth.... It’s a level of news which is much more profound than what’s being offered in the so-called news media.”

Rushdie also addressed literature’s power to showcase individuality, as it imbues characters with unique—and sometimes inconsistent—qualities to reflect human nature. In an era where some influential figures promote conformity, Rushdie said the novel can act as a vehicle for both personal development and the establishment

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of common ground with others.

“The novel understands that the human self is plural, contradictory, fragmented, awkward and sometimes irreconcilable with itself and is changeable and mutable,” he said. “Yet we live in an age where the growing power of identity politics tries to urge us into... much more narrow, fixed, solid and unitary ideas of the self.”

Rushdie closed his speech by urging students to “push out boundaries” and become active in movements for change. He connected this to his own literary struggles when Iranian religious leader and politician Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa—or call for murder—against Rushdie for “The Satanic Verses.” Amid this threat to his life, Rushdie never faltered in his original intent to speak about hardship associated with Islamic identity and religion.

“The problem with the world we live in is that there are those who don’t want the universe opened a little more,” Rushdie said. “The counter force can be very powerful and very hard to resist and sometimes the consequences for the writer can be very serious... all of us do this kind of work knowing the risks, would still say it has to be done because that’s the job.”

After his speech, Rushdie responded to questions from the audience. When asked about his thoughts on multiculturalism, Rushdie said he fears that the mixing of cultures is becoming confused with cultural relativism—the ability of individuals to claim preferential treatment based on their different values.

“When you go down that road you’ve created not just a morally indisputable situation but [also] a divisive one,” he said. “In any open country, it must be possible to argue about value and practices, not to ring a fence around communities by virtue of their culture.”

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Senior Karan Chhabra, co-president of Diya, said he felt the author provided valuable insights and connected well with the audience.

“I was very pleased with how well he able to bridge the intellectual and the personal,” Chhabra said. “He managed to comment critically on work, politics and society, but was also [able] to engage the audience in a very human way and connect with students who have never heard of him as well as scholars who have studied him for years.”

The event was sponsored by the FHI, Diya, Office of the President; Office of the Provost; Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts; Office of the Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education; Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature; Duke Islamic Studies Center; North Carolina Consortium for South Asian Studies; and the John Spencer Bassett Memorial Fund.

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walsh from page 1 Walsh said his biggest challenge as vice president for finance will be to balance the University’s many diverse priorities, including its administrative research practices, its academic missions and the growth of the University health system.

“We have to support all three of those missions every day,” he said. “They all have their unique priorities and we have to help them achieve them.”

Walsh added that the University has effectively used technology in its core business processes—a practice it should continue to utilize in the future. He noted that the University has, for example, established an imaging system which was able to eliminate “millions of pieces of paper each year.”

Milam said he applauds Duke’s decision to hire Walsh, adding that he has strong organizational skills and was effective while working with DART. “It was a huge project that was critical to dealing with the budget gap at Duke, and it required an unbelievable amount of coordination, analysis and patience,” he said. “It was a very challenging project.”

Walsh added that his experience leading DART was important because it emphasized the need to develop relationships across Duke.

“We don’t want to operate as independent silos, we want to operate as a single University,” he said. “Duke is uniquely positioned to collaborate.

We want to build on the existing relationships across Duke in order to maximize the positive outcomes for our faculty, staff and students.”

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An American Heart Association study has revealed that basketball is the NCAA sport with the highest rate of sudden cardiac deaths. Overall from 2004-2008, 1 in 11,394 NCAA basketball players suffers a sudden cardiac death.

became unresponsive and fell to the floor. He was later pronounced dead at the hospital.

Despite the risks, many athletes with undetected heart problems continue playing sports until they suffer cardiac arrest. They are often unaware of the increased danger of heavy physical activity because many routine physicals are unable to detect the underlying problems that cause cardiac arrest. Abnormalities are also subtle and difficult to detect, Bashore said.

“The most common underlying problem with the athlete who has sudden death during exertion is... a profound thickening of the heart muscle,” he said.

Bashore said he does not know how the Athletics Department screens athletes for heart problems.

“I would guess that Duke does an ECG and probably an echocardiogram on their athletes, but I actually do not know that,” he said. “I suspect they use someone in sports medicine or the undergrad clinic to do their screening.”

Several members of the Athletics Department did not respond to requests for comment.

Sophomore Georgie Kerber, who played football last year, said the University did routine physicals to ensure football players were healthy when he was on the team.

“I know we definitely had to do a physical where they checked our hearts,” he said. “I know that they monitor us pretty closely every day [and] everyone always has to go check in with [football Director of Athletic Training Hap Zarzour]... to make sure that everything is physically okay.”

Kerber said he cannot remember whether or not Duke required players to have an ECG taken.

Sophomore Mary Nielsen, a member of the field hockey team, said she thinks the University takes adequate measures to screen its athletes.

“We get our blood pressure and pulse taken in physicals, then if you tell your trainer about your symptoms, you get ECGs, echocardiograms and stress tests,” she said. “My teammate actually got diagnosed with [a heart condition last week]... her heart would stop or beat excessively fast at random times. She can’t play again until a heart electrical specialist talks about potential surgery with her.”

Ultimately, no matter how often screening occurs, sudden cardiac death cannot be completely prevented, Bashore said. Athletes often subject their bodies to great amounts of physical stress, and much of this burden is placed on their hearts.

Although the thought of cardiac arrest is frightening, the heart is a persistent muscle, and the probability that it will stop beating is extremely small, he noted.

“The sudden death incidence is very low,” Bashore said. “[The reason they] quickly make the news [is] because it affects an apparently healthy young person.”

ale from page 3 it costly to train local police officers and sheriff deputies.”

Caves said ALE will likely experience some cuts, though he noted that if the entire division is eliminated, its duties and responsibilities may fall on the shoulders of local and county law enforcement.

Although ALE’s elimination would likely affect the Durham community, it would have a negligible effect at Duke, as enforcing the University’s alcohol policy on campus would remain in the jurisdiction of the Duke University Police Department, said DUPD Chief John Dailey.

“ALE doesn’t spend a lot of time on campus,” Dailey said. “[The agency] predominantly enforces alcohol use off campus.”

Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek also said that if ALE is eliminated it would have more of an impact off campus, but she added that students must recognize that every time they break the law, on or off of campus, they are taking a risk.

Currently, the Office of Student Conduct receives communication from ALE when a student is cited by an ALE officer—usually off campus, said Stephen Bryan, associate dean of students and director of the Office of Student Conduct. He added that there is currently only one ALE agent for Durham County.

“Duke has joined forces with ALE agents in giving educations programs for fraternities, sororities and other organizations on state and University policy on alcohol consumption,” Bryan said, adding that it is unknown whether students will change their behavior and whether this will increase the prevalence of underage drinking if students believe they would have a “smaller chance” of exposure.

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It only took one out for freshman Chris Marconcini to set the tone in last night’s victory over Davidson (16-16). Working with a 1-0 count, the Duke right fielder launched a solo home run over the right-center field wall.

The Blue Devil offense DUKE 7 never looked back, leading Duke (20-16) to a solid 7-5 5 DAV victory.

“I think that really set the tone for the first half of the ball game,” head coach Sean McNally said. “Chris was aggressive on a fastball.

He put a great swing on it.... [It] certainly gave us a jump start with one swing of the bat.”

Marconcini has been on fire as of late. Despite the fact that Duke dropped two of three from Boston College this weekend, Marconcini hit .538 in the series and had five RBI. The Blue Devil attack was not a one-man show, however, with fellow freshman Jordan Betts joining the long ball club. In the third, after an infield single

by Will Piwnica-Worms, Betts hit an opposite-field, two-run homer that cleared the right field fence by See baseball on page 10

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The relationship between college golfers and equipment companies may be closer than the casual fan knows— but it isn’t likely to change anytime soon.

The financial burden of playing golf, combined with amateur rules that allow and even encourage golf suppliers to provide players with reduced price or free equipment, has led to an unusual NCAA-sanctioned system that allows elite teams to receive better equipment from manufacturers. It’s all thanks to college golfers being allowed to maintain prior relationships with club manufacturers while competing at the collegiate level.

“What tends to happen,” head coach Jamie Green said,

“is that the better the player is... the more likely a company is to offer the player equipment, without charging the university for the equipment.”

An uneasy relationship?

While NCAA regulations prohibit companies from directly sponsoring or providing equipment to individual players while they are in college, suppliers are allowed to supply equipment to their favorite players. They do this at reduced or no cost, via athletic departments, who “loan” the equipment to players for use while at the university, according to Duke Assistant Director of Athletics See golf on page 11

April is the cruelest month The spring semester is coming to an end. The sun is out, the birds are chirping and preparations for LDOC are finally beginning in earnest.

Yet despite the cheery atmosphere, I’m betting that most of you still feel empty. For the first time in months, something is missing from the life of every Scott Duke student—college basketball.

Yes, Duke was unceremoniously knocked out of the tournament more than two weeks ago. But even in the team’s absence Blue Devil fans still had something to cheer for—first anyone that was playing North Carolina, and then for (or, in a surprising number of cases, against) Butler in the Final Four.

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Freshman Robert Huber won his fourth game of the season last night, pitching six innings and only allowing three earned runs.

Then students had a week of Kyrie Irving will-heor-won’t-he speculation to devour. But even that came to a close last week, albeit not with the ending Duke fans, who dreamed of an Irving-Austin Rivers megabackcourt, envisioned.

There are no more games to be played, no more statistics to be analyzed, no more questions to be asked. Except for the one no one wants to answer— what now?

At a school where life revolves around basketball even more than that impending Chemistry midterm or semi-formal, it’s a hard question to answer. How does one make use of the extra time once spent waiting in line for hours in K-ville? What do you talk about now that the brackets are complete and Irving’s decision See rich on page 10

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baseball from page 9 several feet. The home run was the freshman’s first career long ball and pushed Duke’s team season total to seven.

On the mound, the Blue Devils were led by freshman Robert Huber, who battled for six innings, surrendering three runs while striking out six Wildcat batters. The right-hander, however, ran into trouble with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. After conceding a walk, Huber gave up an RBI double to Davidson’s nine-hole hitter Daniel Gerow followed by an RBI single to center by lead-off man Seth Freeman. Huber was able to limit damage, though, as he got Forrest Brandt to fly out to centerfield for the final out.

“I’m really pleased with his growth and development,” McNally said. “He’s doing everything better and better each time up. Commanding his fastball, mixing his pitches and using his breaking ball and his change-up. You see his confidence growing.”

In the bottom of the eighth, holding onto a slim 6-4 lead, the Blue Devils added a crucial insurance run, using their typical small-ball approach to extend their lead. Sophomore Marcus Stroman laced a single to left field. He then proceeded to steal second and score on Aaron Cohn’s opposite field poke through the hole past the outstretched glove of the Wildcat second baseman.

“I thought the run was huge,” McNally said. “It gave us the cushion we needed. We knew the heart of their order would get up and battle us to the end. It ended up being a crucial run for us.”

Despite a perfect one-two-three 8th inning, junior Joe Pedevillano struggled in the final frame, giving up a twoout triple and double. After walking the clean-up hitter Danny Weiss, closer David Putman closed out the Duke victory, striking out Andrew Barna looking on beautiful 1-2 curveball.

After the victory over the Southern Conference foe, the road gets significantly harder for the Blue Devils. This weekend Duke will travel to Charlottesville, Va. to face the class of the ACC in No. 2 Virginia.

“Virginia’s going to be a tough series,” McNally said.

“They’ve got a great team and a great program. If we play well, we’ll have an opportunity to win. We played well tonight so we think that will help us get on the right track, [but] we’ll have to be at our best this weekend, no question.”

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After losing two of three to Boston College over the weekend, the Blue Devils rebounded last night, topping Davidson by two runs.

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With the basketball season past, Scott Rich is left to wonder how Duke students will get their sports fix in April.

is made?

Many Duke fans will utilize the tired-but-true “just wait until next year” approach—filling the void left by actual basketball news and competition with inane speculation and dreaming. That method serves its purpose, but loses effectiveness rather quickly—one can only salivate over Rivers’ potential or analyze the Plumlees’ improvement for so long while retaining his sanity.

Blue Devil diehards can turn to other Duke sports— the men’s lacrosse team is defending their national championship, both men’s and women’s tennis are once again Top-25 programs and Jack Coombs Field is once again home to baseball this season. But the lacrosse season doesn’t truly heat up until tournament time, tennis is an individual sport and the Blue Devils are struggling on the diamond this year. In short, Duke’s spring slate of sports will satiate only a niche of sports fans.

What about the world of professional sports? The NBA is full of former Blue Devils, and the best team in the Eastern Conference, the Chicago Bulls, is home to both Luol Deng and Carlos Boozer. But Duke basketball is defined by effort and teamwork—qualities that are a rarity in the star-powered NBA. That will leave most Blue Devil fans wanting more.

Other leagues, perhaps? The most highly contested two-month period in sport, the NHL playoffs, is about to begin—but even this hockey nut can admit that only the Northerners and playoff-beard lovers among us will navigate to Versus to catch a midweek playoff matchup.

Baseball season is also underway, but it is hard to invest the same energy into the first 20 games of a 162 game season that students did into every game in Cameron.

So, what now? There are a lot of answers, but I’m guessing for most fans none of them are too satisfying. At this point, all there is to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the lovely Southern weather.

Oh, who am I kidding. Can we begin the countdown to Countdown to Craziness already?

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golf from page 9 for Compliance Todd Mesibov.

Additionally, players will normally communicate both with the companies and the university to get their preferred equipment from their preferred supplier.

“Let’s say Ping wants to give a set of irons to one of our players, and our player would benefit from that,” Green said. “The company sends that equipment to us, to Duke, and then we distribute that equipment to the player. That’s kind of the way it needs to work under the NCAA umbrella.”

The university may act as a middle man between suppliers and players, but the motivation for the arrangement exists in part for companies’ benefit. Duke sophomore Brinson Paolini holds no illusions about companies’ reasoning for supplying equipment.

Paolini, who plays Ping clubs and has done so for at least four years, is thankful that the system, combined with Green’s policy of not forcing any brand of equipment on his players, has allowed him to continue playing with the equipment he is comfortable with. But he also acknowledges that companies expect players’ loyalty, both now and during their future careers, in return for equipment.

“From the suppliers’ standpoint, they’re developing these relationships for a reason,” Paolini said. “They’re trying to make us branded. They’re trying to make me branded to Ping for the rest of my life, so if I turn pro hopefully they’ll want to sign me, but for the rest of my life they’re going to want me to buy Ping clubs and the people around me to buy Ping clubs.”

“They’re trying to make me branded to Ping for the rest of my life, so if I turn pro hopefully they’ll want to sign me.”

— Brinson Paolini According to Green, many programs, Duke included, will encourage said relationships to allow players to compete with the best possible equipment.

“Sometimes we’ll even have equipment companies bring equipment for the guys to try and test,” Green said.

“Obviously the goal there is to try to find the best fit for the player. So there is some relationship building there.”

While it would seem that this conflicts with the NCAA’s amateur mission, Mesibov said that regulations regarding golf equipment are no different than those for other sports.

“The equipment that our players get is not equipment the suppliers are giving them, it is equipment that Duke University is letting them use for participation on the Duke University [team],” Mesibov said. “The golf program loans the equipment to our players the same way our basketball program gets basketballs.”

An uneven playing field?

The impact of suppliers on the college game goes beyond their relationship with players, however. Both Green and Paolini acknowledged that companies are more likely to provide equipment to schools or players who are more successful, and can display the equipment to a greater degree.

Paolini offered an example how the other company he deals with, golf giant Titleist, provides performance-based incentives.

“If you’re playing well they’re going to give you stuff that only tour pros can get,” Paolini said. “Titleist gives tour putters—they’re impossible to get—but they’ll give them to top amateur and college players.”

What’s more, higher profile amateurs who are exposed to potential suppliers before college will have more options and likely access to higher quality equipment. The combination gives the elite schools an added advantage over the competition in their equipment—in golf, the quality of clubs and balls has a much greater impact on a player’s ability to compete than equipment in other competitive sports.

“It’s a huge benefit to be able to have your clubs completely dialed into your characteristics as a golfer,” Paolini said.

While such disparities in equipment quality do exist, Green said that they’re simply a result of the infeasibility of supplying expensive golf equipment to every college and amateur golfer.

And among the top schools and golfers, he said the difference is often negligible.

“When you talk about every single player in college golf... at that point is it a little unfair? I think at that point

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the answer is probably, yeah,” Green said. “It probably does create an environment where there’s a bit of haves and have-nots.

“There might be a slight advantage, but in the end, I think it’s kind of negligible. It comes down to getting fit for the right equipment.... Our sport is such that the guys that come in and play, most of them play at courses at home that give them the chance to try different types of equipment.”

While Mesibov acknowledged that such disparities exist, he maintained that the NCAA treats golf no differently than any other sport, and likened the difference in equipment quality to programs having different quality practice facilities and even Southern schools being able to practice more often thanks to cooperative weather.

All sides, however, acknowledged the inherent discrepancies in the system, not only on the course but off it. Given the nature of the game, though, there doesn’t appear to be another alternative.

“It’s kind of a loophole in the system,” Paolini said. “But we’re not getting extra benefits by getting these clubs, because we need them.”

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which Panetta once referred to as “the only game in town” in terms of lethal operations against al-Qaida. The Pakistani threat was first reported Monday

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The CIA carried out 118 drone strikes in Pakistan last year, more than in all the previous years of the program combined, according to independent estimates. The campaign has been more sporadic this year, possibly because of CIA-ISI frictions, with the most recent strike conducted March 17.

Pakistani officials said they plan to press the CIA to restore the rules that were in place at the beginning of the program, when strikes were intermittent and the agency typically gave notice to —or sought permission from —the Pakistani government before a missile was launched.

The process was revised toward the end of the George W. Bush administration. Amid worries that Pakistan was not pursuing al-Qaida aggressively enough, the CIA ceased providing notifications and dramatically accelerated the pace of airstrikes.

More recently, Pakistani officials have expressed alarm over the scope of the CIA’s presence inside their country, as well as an alleged expansion of agency operations aimed at gathering intelligence on Pakistan’s nuclear program as well as militant groups with links to the ISI. The arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis heightened suspicions that the agency was conducting unilateral operations deep inside Pakistan.

The possibility that the country might seek to expel some CIA officers was first reported by he New York Times.

The CIA’s station in Islamabad is one of the agency’s largest in the world and is thought to employee hundreds of operatives, analysts and contractors.

The actual number of CIA employees there is classified.

Largely because of the Davis case, a U.S. official said, “they want us to have less of a footprint, less ability to maneuver and not to have operational capabilities in their cities and watch over what they’re doing.”

Pakistan was also angered by the tone of a progress report issued by the White House last week. The report praised the Pakistani military for confronting militants but concluded that there was “no clear path toward defeating the insurgency in Pakistan.”

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But Libya has more than a decade of experience living with, and subverting, sanctions. And the harder they bite ordinary people, the easier it will be for Gadhafi to blame the West, as he is doing with some success, Fetouri said.

In the east, the fighting and the temporary partition of the country have all but destroyed the economy.

Most of the country’s oil comes from the east, but Gadhafi’s forces have worked hard to disrupt production, which has halted. Rebels shipped out a tanker of crude last week, with Qatar acting as middleman, but just two tankers worth of oil remain in stock.

The vast majority of Libyans in the east work in the public sector and were paid out of Tripoli before the fighting began. Rebels have managed to keep salaries coming, but money is running out. Electricity is cut off for two hours a day, and unless oil production resumes, the diesel needed to power the generators will run out within two to three months, officials say.

Across the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, city engineers, doctors, lawyers and businessmen sit at home and wait for the violence to end. Lines for bread and gas are lengthening.

Gadhafi loyalists retain control of Ras Lanuf, home to the country’s largest refinery, and there is continued fighting over the oil town of Brega.

Rebels still believe they have the stronger hand economically as long as they control the border with Egypt and receive international support.

But for now, securing the oil fields “is our biggest source of concern,” said Ali Tarhouni, finance minister in the Transitional National Council, the self-appointed rebel government.

In Tripoli, Zlitni is trying to make a virtue out of a necessity, arguing that western Libya will just have to live without oil.

“Oil is not always a good thing. It is a depleting asset; one day it will stop,” he said. “If people don’t realize this and pull up their socks, there is going to be a disaster.”

Oil revenue has made many Libyans lazy, he said. “If you have children, sometimes you have to smack them to make them behave themselves. You don’t like to do it, but you have to.”

Correspondent Leila Fadel contributed to this report from Benghazi.

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DUU should plan LDOC Last week, indie-pop duo Student Government and The Cataracs sent the Last Campus Council have successDay of Classes Committee a fully merged, the composidisappointing message—the tion of the LDOC committee group had decided to cancel needs to change. In the future their scheduled LDOC per- LDOC should fall under the formance to atsole purview of tend an awards DUU, whose editorial show instead. broad experiThis development, which ence will ensure the commitseriously threatens the integ- tee can pick and hold on to rity of the entire LDOC lineup top-notch performers. only two weeks before the show, The Cataracs’ cancellation highlights a series of lackluster is disappointing, though it may results from the LDOC com- have been unavoidable. But it mittee and calls the structure highlights shortcomings in the of the group into question.

LDOC planning process and In the past LDOC has been in the structure of the LDOC planned by an independent Committee itself. committee and jointly funded In recent years, the LDOC

by Campus Council and the committee has tended to seDuke University Union, along lect one easily recognizable with an allocation from the headline act and filled out the student activities fee and fund- remaining docket with lesser raising. But, now that Duke known “filler” bands. The name

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recognition that comes with these primary artists can generate excitement. But these big name artists too often turn out to be heavy on style and short on substance, leaving students dissatisfied with the seemingly disinterested performers.

Instead of emphasizing name recognition or popularity for its own sake, the committee should place greater priority on the live performance prowess of the artists that they book. In order to accomplish these aims, we propose that DUU plan the logistics and execution of LDOC festivities.

The LDOC committee currently seeks applicants from the entire student body to fill some spots. The intent behind this is admirable. But even partially separating the LDOC committee from DUU

ignores the valuable resources and experience DUU members can and should provide.

DUU’s considerable experience and access to resources make it uniquely suited for the substantial undertaking that is LDOC. DUU members are genuinely committed to and well versed in student programming initiatives. DUU’s track record on recent performances is excellent. It has brought Lupe Fiasco, John Legend and Chiddy Bang to campus in the last year, with much success. These events are similar to LDOC, and we expect the group will be able to execute LDOC to similar acclaim.

The new LDOC subcommittee of DUU should focus on staffing the committee with individuals who are intimately familiar with live shows. These

students have invaluable knowledge about which performers will put on the best live shows, irrespective of name recognition of the potential acts.

The committee also needs to select students who have experience in dealing with music executives and drawing up contracts. Including these sorts of students could help avoid the cancellations that have hurt recent LDOC efforts.

The DSG-Campus Council merger has created an opportunity to improve one of Duke’s most exciting and enjoyable annual events. To ensure that LDOC continues to provide students with the endof-year experience that they are looking for, DUU needs to take the lead on coordinating and executing LDOC festivities from this point forward.

The best years of our lives

hen I look back at the time we have shared it means abandoning the premise that these four here at Duke, I see moments of great joy— incredible, fun-filled and richly rewarding years at taking the woman or man of our dreams Duke will be the best four years of our lives. to the formal, discovering the beauty Over the run of this column, I of a Shakespeare play and burning have tried to provide insight into benches after winning a national why you should consider pursuing championship. There have also a breadth of opportunities at the been instances of great sorrow when University of North Carolina at Chawe have lost friends and loved ones, pel Hill now, even though it seems when we have failed to get the grade like they will be there next weekend or the job we wanted and when or next semester or next year. It’s a our romantic relationships haven’t personal choice, but livchris edelman challenging worked out the way we envisioned. ing my life in two different shades of shades of blue But we have overcome these setbacks blue has enhanced my college expeand most of us will remember the rience tremendously. positive experiences and the successes more than When we graduate, a door will close to us—peranything else. Perhaps the sum of all these experi- manently. But countless other doors will open, and ences amounts to what many adults call “the happi- it will be up to us to choose which ones to enter and est four years” of their lives. which ones to close for good. This involves risk— But I don’t think that’s the case. I also believe risking reshuffling our priorities, risking missing out that this nostalgic thinking hinders our ability to on beneficial experiences and, ultimately, risking fully enjoy the pleasures in life outside of Duke making the wrong choice. both as students and after graduation. As Duke stuWe have all led unique lives here that have chaldents, we have been bombarded with an onslaught lenged us and rewarded us in ways we could never of opportunities—opportunities to study and en- have imagined. We all shared moments that will gage abroad, to join a dozen different groups and look great when we look at each other’s Facebook to teach courses to other students. pages and try to make sense of our experiences.

And if you are anything like me, you probably But the best is yet to come. had a hard time deciding which opportunities to Starting over summers in college and continupursue and which to pass up. (In fact, I was having ing after graduation, each one of us will begin our such a hard time that I actually designed my own lives away from Duke. They will take place in difmajor in Decision Science to try to figure it out!) ferent locations and be filled with different peoIt is exceedingly hard to accept the notion that you ple, but they will contain hints of our past as well. might never get to do something again if you pass The memories of our times here at Duke must reit up. main because anyone that has ever loved, anyone Yet the fear of passing up a temporary oppor- who has ever made a friend or lost one, anyone tunity makes us unwilling to choose options that who has ever stayed up all night cramming for a might be the most beneficial for us. Though we big exam (or had an all-night conversation with may know that a particular choice is best, all too a good friend when they should have been studyoften, we pass it up in favor of another that we know ing) has been changed by those experiences. will vanish soon. Anybody who has ever enrolled But we cannot remain in these moments. So in classes that are only offered during a single se- whether we will soon leave Duke for the summer mester knows what I mean. Anybody who has ever or for good, let’s celebrate our time together here, passed up the more practical romantic partner for but, more importantly, let’s celebrate our futures the one who plays “hard to get” understands what apart. Let’s celebrate our ability to discern between I’m talking about. the vanishing options and the best options and The solution? We must abandon our fear of dis- choose the ones that are best for us, whether that carding possibilities that will vanish. That means means taking a different job or simply taking a trip selecting the job we really want rather than the one down the road to Chapel Hill. that wants us to decide by next week. That means passing up on an exotic vacation to honor a commitChris Edelman is a Trinity senior and a Robertson ment to be there for a best friend. And most of all, scholar. This is his final column.

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Love letter to my campus

n 33 days, I’ll no longer be a student at Duke for the first time in eight years.

Since I’m staying at Duke for residency, I won’t be leaving, but I have a feeling it won’t be the same. I’ll never have an excuse to come to campus, park in the Allen Building parking lot, sit on the plaza eating a Loop burger, stand on Main Quad listening to a concert or watching a bonfire burn. alex fanaroff Now, when I walk around farewell tour campus, my own memories call out to me.

I remember pulling up in the parking lot in front of Blackwell on my first day, walking into the common room to pick up my room key. I remember painting the bridge underneath Main Street during orientation, standing on the East Campus quad at night while a band played, introducing myself to strangers, wondering if I’d ever find my place at this place.

I remember a Chronicle information session in West Duke, the reverence with which I held the editors recruiting us, never guessing that one day I’d be the one doing the editing and the recruiting. I remember a fall night where we drank whiskey, and then tried and failed to climb the fence to play field hockey on Williams Field.

I remember dressing up in a shirt and tie every Friday, carrying my pledge paddle to a 9:10 economics class, dressing up in a costume with the other pledges and standing in the Bryan Center parking lot pretending to be a statue, protesting Duke’s lack of a Viking studies department.

I remember sleeping in a tent with my friends so that we could go to the UNC game, staying up late to make personal checks, waking up the next morning to the sight of other people cleaning up my mess, realizing for the first time that I was lucky to be who I was.

I remember the Nappy Roots in Page Auditorium in front of 50 people, Sister Hazel on Keohane Quad in front of 500 and Kanye West on Main Quad in front of 5,000. I remember taking one of the promotional posters for a Ludacris concert in Cameron Indoor Stadium and hanging it on my wall for four years, even though I only kind of liked Ludacris.

I remember bonfires, five in all. I remember standing in Crowell Quad trying to convince a police officer to let us move the bench to the Quad. I remember when he finally relented. I remember how heavy the bench was and how hot the fire was when we got right next to it. I remember sitting on the ground watching the National Championship bonfire die down. I remember walking back to my apartment through a largely deserted campus with two of my best friends, still not quite believing that my team had won it all.

I remember sneaking down to the football field and kicking field goals until we were chased away by security guards. I remember playing intramural basketball games in Brodie and Wilson and Cameron.

I remember playing stickball in Few Quad. I remember when Larry Moneta swung and missed at a dozen or more pitches before finally making contact. I remember when two of my friends collided, and the beer in one friend’s pocket exploded and I fell over laughing. I remember ghost-riding my friend’s car down Campus Drive.

I remember LDOC barbecues, sitting on my fraternity’s bench wearing a tie and shorts in the sun. I remember Tailgate barbecues, standing in the Blue Zone wearing a tie and shorts in the sun. I even remember going to Duke Football games.

I remember eating chicken tacos at the Dillo and burgers at The Loop and smoked turkey sandwiches in Alpine Atrium and Pasta Pete’s daily specials at the Great Hall. I remember late night treks to Rick’s Diner, where you had to get your food quickly after they called your name, or else someone else would grab it first.

I remember walking across campus as the sun came up over the trees, or driving down Campus Drive on a sunny day looking up at the Chapel and marveling at the beauty of this place.

And as I prepare to really and truly graduate, to never be a Duke student again, I remember all of these things, and I smile. I was lucky to have eight years to call this place home.

Alex Fanaroff is a fourth-year medical student. His column runs every Wednesday.

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Why I love Duke

ell, it’s April, and that can only mean one see the right school, you’ll just know.” Walking through thing. It’s time for campus to be invaded by a Stanford, it was easy to see why so many of my predecessors myriad of high school seniors with obnoxiously had chosen it. It’s a beautiful school with stellar academlarge name tags and the enthusiasm that ics and championship athletics, very much so often characterizes those who have yet like Duke. But something was missing, and to become jaded by the pressures of colI concluded my tour uncertain. Months lege. Although some students here tend later, remembering a suggestion from my to find tour groups filled with inquisicollege counselor, I decided to visit Duke tive parents and overwhelmed students on a whim. No one from my school had irritating and bothersome, I personally gone to Duke in almost 10 years. My path consider them my favorite part of the to becoming a Blue Devil was certainly not West Campus scenery. Seeing them rean expected one. But after setting foot on scott briggs minds me of my first visit to campus and campus, I knew Duke was where I wanted as i see it of every reason why I love this school so to be. Like Stanford, Duke had all the much. It reignites in me the excitement tangibles: academic, athletics and atmothat I had upon first stepping into the Duke Chapel. sphere. But it was the intangibles that really sold me.

And that’s exactly why I’ll be hosting two prospective Most schools attract a certain type of student. If you freshmen during this week’s Blue Devil Days. make the wrong choice and aren’t that certain type, it can After spending a while at a school, it becomes all too be hard to find your place and make friends. Duke isn’t easy to point out the negatives and forget about the posi- one of those schools. We are incredibly diverse and emtives. Certainly, I’ve written my fair share of disparaging brace our differences. We make connections with people critiques in past columns. Despite its flaws, I still firmly unlike ourselves and develop exceptionally strong bonds believe that Duke is the best school out there and the best based on the tight-knit community for which Duke is faschool for me. I can only hope this article reaches a few of mous. If you’ve spent any time in the freshman dorms the p-frosh coming this week. To enlighten those of you on East Campus or in Cameron Indoor during a game, not blessed to have me as a host, this is why I love Duke. you know that the Duke community is alive and well. I I’m from Southern California, and I went to an inde- believe it is that strong community aspect that is the fipendent Catholic high school. With that combination, nal ingredient for a perfect school. In short, Duke has it it was almost assumed that I’d be going to Georgetown all—it is the quintessential college experience.

University, the University of Notre Dame or the UniIf there is one thing to take away, know this: You’ll hear versity of Southern California. Indeed, as I began the people say that Duke is “second tier” or that it’s a place process of applying for college, all of these schools were for people who got denied from the Ivies. We don’t really considerations, but one stood above the rest: Stanford care about the people who say those things. Duke is an University. All the best students from my school went absolutely amazing academic institution, but it is so much there, and I strove to be listed in those ranks. For at more than that. It is a spirited community filled with least five years, every student who had been admitted to friends that will be a part of your life forever. The energy Stanford had accepted, including those also admitted is contagious. It’s what I felt when I visited as a high school to Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia senior. It’s why there are people who turn down Harvard, University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- Yale or Stanford to come here. I’m one of them. ogy.

As I toured the country looking at colleges, I kept Scott Briggs is a Trinity freshman. This is his final column thinking about what everyone had told me, “When you of the semester.

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