Apr. 15, 2011 issue by Duke Chronicle

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Role of RGAC scores remains up in the air

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by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

The Residential Group Assessment Committee will submit its evaluations of selective living groups today to the body that will determine whether groups will be placed on probation. Administrators said the scores’ role in the transition to and placement of groups in the house model in Fall 2012 is yet to be determined. The scores reflect the completion of RGAC’s contribution in the inaugural year of the Collaborative Housing Process. Under the process, RGAC—made up of student representatives—evaluates residential living groups based on their contributions to campus, among other factors. The Approval and Removal Committee—composed of students and administrators—then uses the scores to determine if any group should be placed on residential probation. CHP was created last April, after administrators decided to end campus-wide shuffling of living groups. The ARC will begin its process of evaluating fraternities and selective living groups today to ensure that groups are adhering to residential policies, said junior John Nelson, ARC student co-chair. “RGAC scores will be released, and then after ARC will meet to determine whether or not action should be taken against one or more SLGs,” Nelson said. Deb LoBiondo, assistant dean for residence life, said CHP is assessing the contributions campus living groups make to the community

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

RLHS officials said in March that RGAC scores will likely not be used to determine where groups are placed under the house model, using size and groups’ historical ability to recruit instead. It remains unclear, however, how exactly RGAC scores or assessments

It’s time for students and faculty to get a little closer. Across all academic disciplines of the University, there is potential for increased interaction between faculty and students, said Laurie Patton, the incoming dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, in her address to the Arts and Sciences Council Thursday. “I have a profound commitment to collective genius,” Patton said. “It will drive the educational communities of the 21st century.” Patton, who currently serves as Charles Howard Candler professor of religions at Emory University and director of Emory’s Center for Faculty Development and Excellence, shared her expectations for her new position. As dean, she hopes to answer three questions she said are challenging modern universities, and Duke in particular: how to maintain a balance between online and face-to-face learning, how to remove the boundary between the University and the outside community and how to evaluate Duke’s global impact as it increases its international efforts. She said this is possible by ensuring research collaboration between Duke faculty, graduates and undergraduates.

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Students enjoy free food at Nash-Up, an event Thursday to celebrate the Nasher Museum of Art’s fifth anniversary. The event featured musical performances and free tote bag making. to determine if groups should continue to have space on campus. “It is a privilege to have space in our halls and with that comes certain responsibilities,” LoBiondo wrote in an email Wednesday. “The generated scores [and] the assessment process will assist [RGAC] to determine what groups should continue to have space.”

Sororities petition against Duke College ACB forum by Yeshwanth Kandimalla THE CHRONICLE

The nine sororities in the Panhellenic Association have initiated petitions among their members to end Duke’s affiliation with the gossip website CollegeACB.com. Panhel President Jenny Ngo, a junior, said members of the group’s leadership have learned that their counterparts at other institutions successfully removed their schools’ forums from the site earlier in the academic year. After Ngo became president in January, many sorority members began searching for ways to curtail the site’s presence, which they consider detrimental to Duke student life. Ngo said Panhel aims to have the majority of members in each chapter sign petitions and then present them to Student Affairs. As of now, she said there are two options to remove Duke from the website: blocking the site internally—which Ngo said she does not think is feasible—or attempt to take some sort of legal action. Panhel will continue to explore options as well, she said. “It has affected our chapters on a collective level,” she said. “It fuels a social hierarchy that leads to competitive-

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ness between our sororities.” Ngo added that she knows members of sororities who have deactivated their sorority membership or withdrawn from Duke based on negative posts on the Duke forum of the site. Each chapter is distributing its own petition, she said, though a number of the petitions consist of similar wording. One such petition obtained by The Chronicle is an online form that reads “College ACB has become a negative forum for hurtful gossip that should no longer be associated with this school. Campus organizations have come together to petition against Duke’s affiliation with this site. Sign the petition and help demonstrate to our administrators that we do not want to be exposed to College ACB any longer.” Ngo said students at Cornell University and Tulane University are also attempting to remove their schools’ forums from the site, but Panhel chapter presidents are still researching which schools have already had success See college acb on page 3

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Members of the Panhellenic Association sororities on campus have signed petitions to remove College ACB’s presence in Duke student life.

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“So far, the North has yet to release its own balloon bombs in response.”

—Professor Hwansoo Kim in “Balloon bombs.” See column page 11

MCAT could see first change in 20 years, Page 3

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MCAT changes would require wider range of knowledge by Julia Ni

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Students taking the MCAT tomorrow may feel lucky they will not be taking the revised test. A 22-member advisory panel appointed by the Association of American Medical Colleges recently released 14 preliminary recommendations for a new version of the MCAT that may require students to prepare differently for the test in the future. The panel, otherwise known as the “MR5 Committee,” solicited advice from advisory groups and then reviewed 2,700 surveys from undergraduate and medical school faculty, administrators and students. The recommendations were developed over a series of three years and, if approved next February, would be introduced in the 2015 MCAT. “The MCAT revision is a reflection of this change in science competencies that [is] being required of current applicants to medical school,” wrote Dean Dan

Scheirer, director of the Office of Health Professions Advising, in an email. Scheirer wrote that the basic guiding philosophy of the revisions was to preserve what works best in the test while eliminating what does not work. The new version of the test, which includes changes to all of the exam’s four areas, would be the fifth revision since the MCAT originated in 1928, but the first in the last 20 years. The two natural science sections of the MCAT—physical sciences and biological sciences—would be revised to reflect the changing face of science and the current verbal section would be replaced by a critical analysis and reasoning section. The writing sample would be eliminated and a behavioral and social sciences section would be introduced in its place, meaning students may need to take additional courses to learn the material. “The addition of a behavioral and social sciences section will necessitate Duke students taking an introductory psychology or

college acb from page 1 disassociating themselves from the site. “We have the capability to educate our members, and we’ve already done a lot of that,” she said. “Now the question is, ‘What can the administration do to support us?’” Interfraternity Council President Zachary Prager expressed support for Panhel’s efforts and said that IFC has been working “to start the conversation” among its members. “It’s an issue that affects all greek life at Duke,” he said. “We got the ball rolling at our [most recent] meeting with Panhel.”

sociology course,” Scheirer wrote. Camille Carre, a freshman pre-medical student, said these proposed changes would force pre-medical students to take a broader range of courses in the humanities, instead of only taking classes to fulfill requirements. However, the changes may pose problems for students in terms of when they can fit all necessary coursework before taking the exam. “Biochemistry will [now] be a required course because it will be tested in one of the science sections,” Scheirer wrote. “Most Duke students take biochemistry currently in their senior year. Some students will have a hard time taking biochemistry by their junior year.” Also, because the committee has included additional course requirements to the set of prerequisite courses embedded in the new exam, non-science majors may have a harder time completing all of these requirements, Scheirer wrote.

Ngo plans to open a broader dialogue about College ACB with other greek organizations, including the National Panhellenic Council and Inter-Greek Council. “It’s very rare to find a person who isn’t in support of [the petition],” Ngo said, noting that a forum held last year on Internet gossip drew a diverse crowd of greeks and independents who objected to the content on College ACB and similar websites. Ngo said that Panhel leadership met with University officials such as Vice President of Student Affairs Larry Moneta and Zoila Airall, assistant vice president for student affairs, to discuss their concerns about the web site. Moneta said that he considered some of the posts on the website “disgusting” and said the University should ac-

Additionally, the revisions would increase testing time by 90 minutes. The formerly five-and-a-half hour exam would be increased to seven hours, which includes an hour-long lunch break. “The general concept is a good idea,” said Andrew Wong, a junior pre-medical student. “I’m just wary about extending the test to seven hours because a five-and-a-half hour test is already grueling enough as it is.” Regarding the changes, Carre believes they make the MCAT more relevant to doctors today. “A career in medicine requires the doctor to keep up with medical and pharmaceutical advances in the world,” she said. Still, the proposed revisions could make a daunting task even more stressful for students preparing for a career in medicine, said senior Eunji Yim, who has already taken the MCAT. “As someone who might be taking the MCAT, if I were in their position, I would just be scared out of my mind.”

tively try to understand what aspects of the social culture at Duke motivate students to anonymously post negative comments about others. “The long-term solution is... to raise awareness of the outrageousness of the comments on this site to the Duke community,” he said. Airall said that students will raise concerns about free speech if Duke’s forum is removed from the website. She said she too believes in free speech and added that an effort to confront hateful speech would require legal considerations. Ngo also anticipates objections but noted that the anonymity of the posts does not hold individuals accountable for what they write.

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made by the ARC will affect groups when the house model is implemented Fall 2012. “The house model committee has not discussed this particular question yet,” Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residence life, wrote in an email Wednesday. Junior Zachary Prager, president of the Interfraternity Council, said he would not have a problem with RGAC scores being used for the house model if it ensures that only living groups deserving of space are extended the privilege. “My understanding is that their goal is not to use RGAC for placement going into the house model,” he said. “I think that’s a good thing.” Nelson said he could not comment on whether any groups may face disciplinary action. The ARC does not make decisions before data is publicly available in the interest of maintaining transparency, he said, adding that the ARC will make decisions holistically by analyzing reports submitted by residence coordinators, Residence Life and Housing Services and the individual living groups. “We don’t have a bright-line distinction in terms of what scores mean [or how] you would or wouldn’t be on probation. We try to make sure every aspect of the SLG aligns with the Duke standard,” he said. “When the CHP was originally envisioned the idea was that a group could have good RGAC scores but... could [also] have a significant select instance that we would want to take into account.” This lack of clear criterion to avoid probation was unsettling to some living group leaders last year. “I’m interested to hear what the final process will be for probation,” Prager said. “I know they’re not trying to punish but more just making sure people are keeping up with things and they deserve a section on campus.”

In particular, she emphasized a need for global engagement, considering that as a result of technological advancement, distance is no longer a barrier separating American students from those in other countries. “There are no more distant strangers, only approximate strangers,” Patton said. “When everyone now has a stake in globalization, we must create new classroom environments where no one is the subject of study, and everyone is the subject of study.” Patton added that she hopes to spend her first year listening and learning about Duke’s needs and she encouraged faculty members to look to her as a resource. Additionally, Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, spoke to the council about his office’s progress over the past year. He said Trinity College has been successful in balancing the budget, hiring professors that complement the talents of the current faculty and increasing outsidethe-classroom learning with programs such as the Winter Forum and the Bass Society of Fellows lecture series. Although Crumbliss said Trinity will continue to face challenging budgetary constraints, he noted that he is “optimistic about the future of the college.”

ous review of majors, minors and certificate programs, the members addressed course credit policies such as limits on transfer courses and the number of requirements a course can fill. Whitfield noted that some significant changes throughout the year included the elimination of the Early Childhood Education and Modeling Biosystems certificate programs and the addition of the South Asian Studies certificate program. “This is the natural evolution of certificates,” Whitfield said. “Things have changed, they’ve connected with other programs.” Tom Robisheaux, chair of the global education committee and professor of history, also addressed the council, discussing the importance of creating a truly global experience for students who go abroad so that students are not “just going to islands of American students.” The committee’s efforts include strengthening language requirements and increasing oversight for abroad programs, particularly those not administered through Duke. “We want students to forget Duke and learn about the world from an entirely different perspective,” Robisheaux said.

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Alvin Crumbliss, interim dean of the faculty of Arts and Sciences, said Trinity has been successful in balancing its budget in the past year.

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In other business: Keith Whitfield, chair of the curriculum committee and professor of psychology and neuroscience, gave the council an overview of the curriculum committee’s accomplishments during the past year. In addition to performing a continu-

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As the year draws to an end, Duke has only one more match in the regular season. It’s only fitting that the contest is at home against the team’s rival, North Carolina. Tonight’s matchup at Koskinen Stadium marks the 25th time the two teams have played each other, with each holding 12 wins over the other. Despite their overall tie, the No. 6 Tar Heels have come away with four of the two’s last five meetings, including a 14-4 victory last year. No. 6 “It’s really a great game every UNC year, and I think for both of our vs. teams, it’s a very special game,” No. 4 head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “I Duke think it’s an enormous privilege to be part of such an incredible FRIDAY, 7 p.m. rivalry, and when we get to battle Koskinen Stadium each other, no matter the sport, it’s always really special.” The No. 4 Blue Devils (11-2, 3-1 in the ACC) are coming off two victories after topping No. 16 Boston College 14-11 and Brown 13-12 in double overtime last weekend. North Carolina (10-3, 3-1) boasts victories over seven of its eight latest opponents. “I think that UNC is always a really fast, athletic team, and I think they’re really very seasoned on defense, so we expect there to be really great effort from their defense to help try to contain our offense,” Kimel said. “It’s typically a very close game, so both of us are expecting a big battle [tonight].” In defensive play, both teams hold separate advantages. Duke’s defense is ranked first in the ACC and 11th nationally to North Carolina’s 61st. However, the Tar Heels have the advantage in scoring defense, coming in ninth nationally to the Blue Devils’ 39th. On the offensive end, though, Duke has a much more clear-cut advantage. The Blue Devils have a more seasoned offense, led by senior Christie Kaestner, who has scored 26 goals and 33 assists this year. They pose a very real scoring threat as well, with the offense boasting five players with 20 or more points on the season. The matchup between the two teams is one that is much anticipated, especially since the winner of the contest will top the other in the conference’s rankings—both are now tied for second—and could have a first-round bye in the upcoming ACC Tournament. “People go into the game expecting a great win,” Kimel said.

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Riding an uncharacteristically long 12-tournament winless streak, No. 5 Duke has yet to take home a trophy this season despite being in contenACC tion nearly every tournament. Tournament The young Blue Devils look to finally get over the hump at storied FRIDAY-SUNDAY Sedgefield Country Club as the Sedgefield ACC Championships tee off this Greensboro, N.C. morning in Greensboro, N.C. Duke has owned Sedgefield and the ACC Championships in the past, winning 13 of the previous 15 titles, including 13 in a row from 1996 to 2008. The rest of the ACC has caught up to the Blue Devils in recent years however, with Wake See w. golf on page 12

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Duke and Virginia faced each other in three intense games last year. Their rivalry is renewed Saturday afternoon in Koskinen. by Dawei Liu THE CHRONICLE

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Lindy Duncan, who had her worst performance of the year Duke’s last time out, will look to play well again in the ACC Championships.

For the Blue Devils, this may be the most important game of the season. Coming off two losses against the last two ranked opponents it No. 6 has faced, No. 9 Duke is looking UVa for some much needed confivs. dence against the streaking CavaNo. 9 liers. While the Blue Devils (9-4, Duke 2-0 in the ACC) have lost to No. 1 Syracuse and No. 7 Denver on SATURDAY, 12 p.m. consecutive weekends, No. 6 VirKoskinen Stadium ginia (8-3, 1-1) beat No. 10 North Carolina 11-10 in overtime last weekend. The match also happens to be the final conference See m. lacrosse on page 12

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Highly recruited freshmen haven’t disappointed by Alex Young THE CHRONICLE

No. 1. On one hand, it brings prestige, the title of “the best.” On the other hand, it brings pressure and the expectations that come with being the best. No. 10 Duke (16-8, 7-2 in the ACC) came into this season with the No. 1 recruiting class in the nation. And if you ask people around the courts, they’ll tell you the Blue Devil freshmen haven’t disappointed. “It’s hard to really know what you have with freshmen until they get on campus,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “You watch them at juniors, and obviously all three were very good players, but everyone adapts to college tennis a little bit differently, and I think all three of them have

exceeded any expectations.” Chris Mengel, Fred Saba and Cale Hammond composed Duke’s class of 2010. Saba came ranked No. 1 overall according to the Tennis RPI rankings. Mengel stepped on campus ranked 10th, and Hammond was ranked No. 40. “I knew that Fred and Chris were going to play singles and be in the lineup,” Smith said. “But right now they’re playing three and four, two of our more solid spots, and they’ve done unbelievably.” It’s hard to overstate how important the three have been to the Blue Devils this season. Mengel—playing primarily out of the third position—has gone 27-10 overall in singles play, trailing only No. 6 Henrique Cuhna and No. 9 Reid Carleton on Duke’s squad in wins.

Saba has settled in at the fourth position and is right behind Mengel with a 25-14 record in singles play. He is 7-2 in ACC play. Even Hammond—who didn’t start the season in the lineup—has played more than expected. In doubles play with Torsten Weitoska, Hammond owns a 6-2 record in dual match play. The transition, though, hasn’t been without its share of bumps. Mengel cited dropping the pivotal match of a 4-3 loss to Michigan in February as a low point. Losing two to Pepperdine and California during a trip over spring break was Saba’s most disappointing part of the season. See m. tennis on page 12

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Students must work for positive gender relations It is no secret that troubles work ahead of them in the surrounding gender relations arena of gender relations. at Duke are deeply entrenched Panhel, which represents in campus culture. Yester- the nine National Panhellenday we discussed how federal ic Conference sororities on guidelines are impacting gen- campus, has become more der equity at vocal this year our nation’s in response to editorial universities. Toa number of day we turn to the root of the disturbing gender-related inproblem: students and their cidents. First, Panhel strongly interactions with one another. condemned the sexist fraterStudent organizations, not nity emails that emerged last the administration, must direct November. Soon thereafter, the conversation about gender they started a petition to ban issues. At Duke, initiatives led fraternity progressive parties. this year by the Panhellenic And most recently, Panhel Association illustrate the pow- has begun a campaign that er that student organizations aims to disassociate Duke have to bring positive change from the gossip web site Colto campus culture. Neverthe- lege ACB, an online hub for less, Panhel does not yet pos- often offensive and venomsess a fully developed advocacy ous anonymous comments. voice. They and other student Panhel has the power to organizations still have much influence campus culture in

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make sorority women much more open and honest about their own experiences. Panhel is by no means the only student organization that should take a more active stance on gender issues. The Interfraternity Council in particular has untapped power to change attitudes about gender in the sphere of Duke social life where change is needed most. Under pressure from Panhel, fraternities have already begun to adjust their social event planning. However, changes in attitude are just as important as changes in practice. Real improvement in gender relations will come from heightened awareness and a shift in values, not a fear of exposure. SLGs and, when they ar-

rive, house councils also have a responsibility to contribute to the student dialogue about gender. Across the board, gender relations should be reconceptualized as an important issue for students of all genders and affiliations. The moment is ripe for more positive gender relations on campus. This push for change is coming from many sides, including the administration, the trustees and the media. However, true change must come from students themselves. It will take courage and honesty on the part of student organizations and leaders to make this happen. Gender relations are a nebulous concept, but with effort and honesty, we can improve them by changing the way we treat each other.

Literature and the tyrant

arlier this week, famous author Salman twisted end? Rushdie spoke at Page Auditorium. The Far from being enemies, literature and tyrwriter, who has published over a dozen anny have been friends before. This is a theme books, won the 1981 Booker Prize and was ac- taken up by Roberto Bolaño in a number of his cepted into the exclusive Amerinovels—“By Night in Chile” and can Academy of Arts and Letters “Nazi Literature in the Ameriin 2008. He is perhaps most widely cas” among them—and one that recognized, however, for the conexists as a practical concern troversy surrounding The Satanic within the world of propaganda. Verses. Published in 1988, the novel And it’s not always easy to see, earned him not only a profusion either. It’s not always as easy as of protests from the Muslim compointing to “Mein Kampf” or munity, but a price on his head to “The Prince,” and dismissing chris bassil boot. them as the exceptions. SomeRushdie, who was invited to times it’s the fact that authors just a minute speak as this year’s John Hope don’t speak out, stop writing Franklin Humanities Institute’s Disentirely to avoid any form of tinguished Lecture, gave a speech entitled “Pub- reprimand. Sometimes they write about other lic Events, Private Lives: Literature and Politics things. And sometimes the link between literain the Modern World.” The speech, which dealt ture and tyranny is so much less even than that, with the way literature works in the contempo- so subtle and tucked away in topics and strucrary political climate, denounced not only to- ture and word choice that neither we nor the talitarian regimes and brutalizing governments, writers themselves can see it. No one can see but modern media as well. the ways in which tyranny has taken control of “We have a situation where opinion polls tell literature and bent it to despotism’s own evil us the most trusted news network in this country ends. is Fox News,” Rushdie said. “This makes one feel And, lest we forget, isn’t the writer a tyrant as worried about the American people … if they well? Doesn’t the writer decide for himself that actually want the news or prefer the precarious which he will, and will not include and the light fiction that appears on the Fox News program.” in which he’ll show those things? And, in doing He went on to explain that literature is a superi- so, doesn’t the writer decide for everyone else or source of news, because “it is the place where the ways in which they will take those things to you find truth.” be, at least so long as they are reading? Yes, in Rushdie’s philosophy seems to stem from a that way, Rushdie is right. The novelist owns his belief that literature and tyranny are diametri- own vision, indeed. cally opposed, if not altogether contradictory. Although it is a sad and unfortunate truth “Prose,” he explains, “has been historically and that we cannot always agree with Rushdie on still is at the forefront of opposition of tyranny. this, he is not entirely incorrect. In fact, he is No one owns the novelist’s vision except for the not really incorrect at all—he is merely being a novelist.” It’s certainly a nice image, and one bit incomplete. And, like Rushdie’s claim, the that does its part to inspire hope, especially in notion that one novel can, on its own, impart a time of quelled uprisings and brooding civil truth is, too, incomplete. To find truth in litwars. erature, we must read not one novel, and not But what about when literature doesn’t op- only a few. We must read endlessly and exhauspose tyranny? What about all of the times in the tively, and put together the bits and pieces of past when literature laid down and carried on the truths that we find as we move from work to with something less important while tyranny ran work. Only then can we begin to find the truth rampant through the streets? And, most disturb- without the tyrant. ingly, what about the times when tyranny and literature worked together, went hand in hand Chris Bassil is a Trinity junior. His column runs with one another en route to some perverse and every Friday.

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Balloon bombs

s a native of South Korea, I grew up constantly hearing on the news that war could break out at any moment between the North and the South. The most recent skirmish last spring, in which North Korea attacked a South Korean warship and an island hwansoo kim village near the border, is the professor just one in a long series next door of tense moments since the armistice in 1953. All of these conflicts have involved missiles, bombs and guns—heavy military equipment. Imagine my surprise when I recently heard about how one of the most innocent things in this world became one of the most startlingly effective campaigns against North Korea to date: the balloon. Several decades ago, South Korean activists began sending balloons with pamphlets urging North Koreans to rise up against their leader. But it was not until 2003 that a group of South Korean civilians, Christians and North Korean defectors organized a large-scale effort. These “balloon bombs,” which of course contained no explosives, were released near the Demilitarized Zone along northbound winds with the hopes that they would land among civilians in North Korea. Since the Korean War (1950 –1953), both countries have engaged in a psychological war, employing leaflets, loud speakers, radio, TV and most recently the Internet. However, North Korea’s economic disasters have resulted in few resources to counter the South, giving South Korea the upper hand in these psychological wars. The balloon bombs have emerged as one of the most effective tools to destabilize North Korea from the inside by injecting epidemic viruses—that is, external information and commodities. The North has not yet developed any effective immune system to fight these. North Korea’s regime has been bewildered, particularly since there is little way to use

military or nuclear power against floating latex. The balloons used initially were primitive. South Koreans began with the typical watermelon-sized party balloons. These could barely lift one small leaflet and could not fly that high or far. Many did not even make it over the two-and-a-half-mile wide DMZ into North Korea. All these problems were solved with technological innovation. These days, the group uses heliumfilled balloons, one foot wide and 26 feet high, each of which can airlift the weight of three bundles holding tens of thousands of leaflets. They are also equipped with an automatic timer and GPS. If the northbound wind blows strongly enough, the balloons can soar more than 25,000 feet high within minutes and reach Pyongyang in four hours. A preset timer releases the bundles dangling at the bottom of the balloons. Those bundles include not only fliers but also North Korean won, Chinese yuan, and U.S. dollar bills, along with rice, medicine, vitamins and clothes. They even carry CDs, DVDs and USB drives full of negative information about the North Korean leader. When scores of balloons were flown to North Korea on the 70th birthday of Kim Jong Il this past February, South Koreans included in these gadgets news about democratic movements in the Middle East. According to recent North Korean defectors, people in North Korea are well aware that these bundles carry valuable items. Despite severe threats from the government that anyone caught with a bundle will receive harsh punishment, people hunt for them. In fact, many North Korean defectors—now numbering in the thousands annually—say that one reason they left was because the information in the balloons caused them to become disillusioned with their leader. It is reported that some balloons have landed within prison compounds deep within North Korea, causing the prison guards to become hysterical with fury. Not only that, but apparently some

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Why we are not impervious to impervious surfaces

lettertotheeditor Bring back ‘Beer Trucks’ Like many others, I was very disappointed to see that Beer Trucks was cancelled. We can all agree that $65,000 is a lot of money for a single event, and we recognize the need to reduce costs. So, find a way to do it differently and cheaper—get creative. However, eliminating Beer Trucks altogether without a viable alternative is unacceptable. I was on the Senior Gift Committee. I spent a good amount of effort extolling the benefits of giving back to Duke to support its many traditions and opportunities—efforts to ensure that they remain available for future students and to ensure that Duke continues to be Duke, not just another university. Beer Trucks is—and let’s not shy away from calling it what it is—surely one of those traditions to be preserved. Beer Trucks was the “last hurrah” that everyone looked forward to. We started together as new friends on East, and we ended together as best friends saying goodbye on West. We drank, we danced, we cried with that one kid from Econ 55, we played flip cup with our moms and most of all we celebrated and toasted to our achievements. We did it together, not scattered across Durham. It made our last night as students a common experience and gave us one final reason to love Duke—and one final reason to want to give back. Just a few years ago, we discussed the Campus Culture Initiative and had visions for events that brought the whole community together. Beer Trucks is one such event—a prime example, in fact—and you’re throwing it away, Duke. Sure, it will be hard to come up with the funds, but figure it out. Really, figure it out. Give the Class of 2011, and future classes, that one great and final memory to cap off their experiences at Duke.

leaflets fell right on one of Kim Jong Il’s residences, completely shocking and discomfiting him. These balloon bombs make no sound during flight and are undetectable by radar. North Korean authorities have tried to quickly dispose of the millions of leaflets and other items as soon as they land on the ground. But the effort to keep the balloons away from people has largely failed. Enraged and frustrated, the North Korean government demanded that the South stop sending the balloons immediately and, if not, they would bomb the balloon launch sites. The current, hawkish South Korean government rebuffed this demand by declaring that it has no legal right to prohibit its citizens from freedom of speech. Some South Koreans have been critical of the balloon bomb initiative, too. The residents of the cities and villages near the DMZ where most balloons are released are particularly concerned. What if the North attacks these areas? Out of fear, tourists have stopped visiting these areas, which has damaged the local economy. As such, residents have tried to block activist groups from launching these balloons. The activists, especially defectors from the North, vowed to continue to exercise their rights. The authorities are taking a wait-and-see approach. People elsewhere in the South, both left and right, are both scared and hopeful about whether these balloon bombs can be a game changer. So far, the North has yet to release its own balloon bombs in response. My thanks to Eric Kim, Trinity ’11, for his contribution to this subject.

grew up in the San Fernando Valley just outside tell the whole story, there is an indication of what is of Los Angeles. When I was younger, my fam- occurring in many areas around the country. ily and I would take walks through a local canWhile some may view the increase in impervious yon. The path we followed led out to surfaces as an inevitable consequence an area that had at that point been of human population increase, there undeveloped. As I grew older, these christopher packer are actually many alternatives availguest column relatively untouched areas became able. One approach in particular, few and far between, with one area low impact development, manages developing into a massive shopping the problem at the source. LID seeks complex. The soil my family and I once walked on to minimize the imperviousness of an area by emis now sealed off by concrete and asphalt. Unfortu- ploying a variety of techniques. Among these technately, the soil beneath is also sealed off from infil- niques include using pavements such as porous trating water. asphalt, porous turf or pervious concrete. Other As I near the completion of my first year at the permeable pavements are also available and gaining Nicholas School of the Environment, I am increas- acceptance. By implementing LID, developers can ingly aware of the problems associated with imper- preserve the local flow of water within an ecosystem vious surfaces. Aesthetics and nostalgia over family to the greatest extent possible. walks aside, these impervious surfaces have imporConcerns of increased cost for these practices tant environmental consequences. Rainwater that are often unfounded because management stratefalls on impervious surfaces is unable to infiltrate to gies can often decrease development costs. In fact, the ground below. Runoff from these areas picks up a 2007 study by the EPA found that low impact depollutants such as heavy metals, nutrients and patho- velopment reduces stormwater costs. Furthermore, gens that have been deposited over time. Addition- research by 2008 Master of Environmental Manageally, runoff picks up the large amounts of heat which ment graduate Rachel Thompson found that it is these surfaces are able to collect. Introduction of less expensive to build conservation developments, pollution from this urban runoff can decrease water a practice that often shares similar principles to quality to receiving areas and harm plants, aquatic LID, than conventional developments in western life and potentially humans as well. North Carolina. As part of a project for one of my geographic inforAlthough these management practices and techmation systems classes, I analyzed the 2001 and 2006 nologies have existed for some time, continued National Land Cover Dataset for impervious surfaces increase in their acceptance is dependent on our for the areas surrounding Minneapolis. When I as- recognition of the problem. At the local level, it sessed the changes in coverage, a circle of outward will be important to encourage and give incentives expansion far from the city center was evident. No to developers to employ techniques which seek to doubt, as population has increased and expanded minimize imperviousness. We are not impervious to outward, so too have the impervious surfaces. The the impact of impervious surfaces, and we must be project prompted me to similarly study the changes open to better management strategies. that had occurred in the San Fernando Valley. Indeed, there were many areas of increased imperviChristopher Packer is a first-year Master of Environousness, something I could attest to in the areas sur- mental Management student at the Nicholas School of the rounding my neighborhood. While the data doesn’t Environment.

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m. lacrosse from page 7 game of the season for both teams and will be the deciding factor for each team’s seeding in the ACC Tournament. With so much on the line, both Virginia and Duke need this victory. “We respect their program so much. We respect their coaching staff and their players,” head coach John Danowski said. “For us, we want to measure ourselves against the best.... It’s really easy for us to get our guys to be focused for [this] game.” Both squads are powerful offensively, with Duke’s scoring offense ranking fourth in the country—three spots behind the Cavaliers’ NCAA-best 13.18 goals per game. The game will most likely be an offensive duel as both teams will look to score early and often. “Virginia is an extremely talented team. Every year it seems like they have the best recruiting class in the country,” Danowski said. “We need to compete.” The Cavaliers boast two consensus preseason first team All-Americans in Shamel Bratton and Steele Stanwick. They return seven starters, and nine of the top ten scorers off their prolific 2010 team. Nevertheless, Virginia lost a few games early in the season and has not fulfilled the media’s lofty expectations. In contrast, Duke had a relatively inexperienced team this year, with their second and third leading scorers on the team being freshmen. After losing many of the team’s key players from the national championship campaign, Duke began the season ranked No. 5. The loss of such

W. golf from page 7 Forest capturing the crown in 2009 and 2010. Currently, the national rankings feature four ACC teams in the top 25, with Virginia at No. 8, Wake Forest at No. 16 and North Carolina at No. 22. Given the competitiveness of the conference, reigning ACC Player of the Year Lindy Duncan expects to see a tightly packed leaderboard in Greensboro throughout the weekend. “I think... we’ve all established ourselves near the top at a lot of the tournaments [this year], so I think it could be a pretty tight race,” Duncan said. The Blue Devils fortunes will likely be tied to the success of Duncan, who has buoyed Duke the entire year. The sophomore is coming her worst performance of the year, though. At the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic two weeks ago, Duncan failed to defend her championship, and blew up on the final day to finish tied for 78th. Duncan returns to a course where her shotmak-

key leadership did lead to an early season swoon, as the team fell all the way to No. 15. “I think we overachieved. I think we surpassed expectations for a young team when going on that streak,” Danowski said. “We’re playing so many young people. This may be the part of the season they get tired.... We’re playing seven freshmen and eight sophomores and this is just a pace they’re not used to.” For the seniors on the Virginia squad, victory has been the only thing they’ve been used to, except against Duke. Boasting a 53-12 overall record, half of their losses have come against the Blue Devils. Last year, as the number one overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, the Cavaliers were defeated by the Duke in the national semifinals. Incidently, prior to that match, the only loss Virginia suffered in 2010 had also been to Duke. Playing at home, Duke should come into the game with an advantage, as it tries to secure the number one seed in the ACC Tournament, which will also be held at Koskinen Stadium next week. With two teams so closely familiar with one another, the game promises to be one full of emotion and passion, but according to Danowski, his team is simply preparing to make another postseason run. “It’s like the basketball season,” Danowski said. “You can lose some games at some point. As long as you learn from those losses, you’re going to be a better team at the end. That’s the hope.” With both teams again at the crossroads, each squad will look to finish the ACC season strong.

ing ability should set her apart from the pack, as the par-71, 6,185-yard Sedgefield layout both demands and rewards accurate drives and approaches to the green. A Donald Ross design, Sedgefield is famous for its enormous dome-shaped greens which commonly feature multiple tiers, requiring players to be accurate with their irons into the green. “It’s a thinking course. Donald Ross [designs] are always courses where if you fall asleep, you’re going to land it onto the wrong part of the green and run off,” head coach Dan Brooks said. The rest of Brooks’ inexperienced squad will need to be sharp if the Blue Devils hope to bring home their 17th ACC Championship. Brooks is confident, however, that his team can finally put together a title-worthy weekend, from top to bottom. “If you look at the numbers, our gaps between our top one or two players and the rest were [large early in the season],” he said. “And as you look at it in these last few tournaments we’re starting to close the gap a little bit.... That’s really what I want—everyone’s really got to help the top player or two out.”

m. tennis from page 7 “It’s a long season,” Mengel said. “I don’t think I quite realized how long this season was, but it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Physically, I was pretty beat up playing a couple matches a week for an extended period of time. It was something I had to get used to for sure.” Mengel is 9-1 in his last 10 singles matches and is currently riding a four-match winning streak. Saba is 7-3 and has taken his last three. Both won their respective matches Wednesday at Chapel Hill despite the team falling to No. 19 North Carolina 4-3. “I knew we had top 10 potential,” Smith said. “I don’t think anyone is looking forward to playing us because when we’re clicking, we’re tough to beat.” That potential will be tested this weekend as the Blue Devils host Florida State (9-11, 4-5) today, and Miami (14-5, 8-1) on Sunday at Ambler Stadium. Currently tied for third in the ACC with Georgia Tech and North Carolina, Duke will most likely ensure a spot in the top four and a bye in the ACC Tournament if it beats both teams this weekend. “We need these this weekend,” Mengel said. “We need to take care of business and bounce back from Carolina.”