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Duke football player Tyree Glover, a sophomore, was arrested Tuesday on charges of trafficking cocaine, among other offenses.

He was subsequently dismissed from the team Wednesday.

Durham Police Department officers arrested Glover, 20, on Gregson Street in the 400 block near Bright Leaf Square with 29.6 grams of powder cocaine, according to DPD Public Information Officer Kammie Michael.

Tyree Glover Durham police officers then obtained a search warrant to enter his dorm room, where they found 72.4 grams of marijuana. Duke Police Chief John Dailey said DPD is handling the case entirely.

According to DPD records, Glover is charged with trafficking cocaine, possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a schedule II controlled substance and possession with intent to manufacture, sell or deliver a schedule VI substance.

Schedule II substances, which include cocaine and opium extracts, are defined as those with a high potential for abuse.

Schedule VI substances, which include marijuana and hashish, are classified as

THE CHRONICLE

An ongoing partnership is putting research conducted in Duke labs into practice for the benefit of society.

The Duke Coulter Translational Partnership, an effort to fund projects that translate biomedical engineering research into practical applications for health care, will continue in perpetuity as a result of major gifts that created a $20 million endowment. The endowment consists of a $10 million contribution from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation—an organization that aims to improve health care through medical research and engineering—and $10 million in matching funds from Duke and the Fitzpatrick Foundation.

The Coulter Foundation began funding projects at Duke in 2005 as part of an experiment in applying scholarship practically. Given the success rate of the 19 projects Duke has started since that time, including the ability to attract venture capital funding and industry licensing agreements, the foundation chose to award the University with funding to make the effort permanent.

“Thank you, because you validated the experiment, you earned your endowment,”

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Sanford School Dean Bruce Kuniholm battles Professor Fritz Mayer in Sumo Showdown, a fundraising event to help facilitate a double lung transplant for Corey Gradin, daughter of a faculty member.

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DSG approves plan to Hyper Crush to join restore ‘Beer Trucks’ LDOC musical lineup

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

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DSG President Mike Lefevre presented a model for an alternative ‘Beer Trucks’ event, which was approved.

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Beer Trucks will live on—at least for another year.

At Duke Student Government’s meeting Wednesday, President Mike Lefevre, Chief of Staff Andrew Schreiber and Student Organization Finance Committee Chair Max Tabachnik, all seniors, presented a model to recreate “Beer Trucks,” a commencement week event traditionally organized by the Duke Alumni Association. The DAA canceled Beer Trucks because of financial restrictions.

“Apart from allowing the Class of 2011 to come together for one last time, there is one reason to pass this,” Schreiber said. “If [Beer Trucks] does not happen this year, it See dsg on page 4

by Matt Barnett THE CHRONICLE

The LDOC committee is putting the final touches on the grand finale of the school year.

Club act Hyper Crush will join the existing LDOC concert lineup, the committee announced Wednesday in an email to the student body, which also included a number of logistical details for the festivities scheduled.

Hyper Crush will replace The Cataracs, the duo that canceled its performance earlier this month due to a conflict with an award show at which they are nominated for “Pop Song of the Year.”

LDOC Committee co-Chair Lindsay Tomson, a junior, said the committee

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chose Hyper Crush because its musical style is similar to that of The Cataracs.

“We chose Hyper Crush because [they] really filled the space that The Cataracs left,” Tomson said. “We think they will be an adequate replacement.”

Hyper Crush will join rap artist Ludacris, electro-pop artist Dev and R&B crooner Rudy Currence.

Like many students interviewed for this story, freshman Lexi Antunez was not familiar with Hyper Crush before the announcement. She said she understood the difficult position the committee was in, however, given the limited time to find a replacement.

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Officials look to personalize academic advising

by Toney Thompson THE CHRONICLE

Members of Duke Student Government and the administration are working to improve the often-criticized undergraduate advising system.

Students have said one of the biggest weakness of advising is a poor matching process between student and adviser, as some students said advisers often do not necessarily fit their needs. This can especially be a problem for incoming freshmen who feel a lack in resources available to help in the academic process, said junior Kaveh Danesh, DSG vice president for academic affairs.

“As [an incoming] freshman, I remember feeling shocked that the only resources I was given was a blue book and an advising hotline,” Danesh said.

Danesh, who was reelected in early April, is spearheading academic and pre-major advising reform, which was a key issue on his platform. The majority of

complaints from students about advising is that advisers are not meeting the expectations of their advisees, noting that some students want a mentor, while others want quick appointments.

One of the changes Danesh is implementing is a system that will allow incoming students to bookbag their preferred classes based not only on the course synopsis but also on a short video about the course. Students’ selections will be compiled into a list forwarded to their advisers as well as archived, so students can refer back to the list or monitor how their interests have changed. He noted that it has not yet been determined if ACES can accommodate this new system featuring course videos.

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Some students, particularly incoming freshmen, have voiced concern over the lack of sufficient academic advising.

21 DSG Senate seats to be decided BP files oil

by Anna Koelsch THE CHRONICLE

Come tomorrow, the Duke Student Government Senate is going to look a little different.

Thirty-nine students are vying for DSG Senate spots in the election today. There are currently 30 seats to fill in the Senate—six spots for each of the five committees—but because DSG reserves two spots each for sophomores, juniors and seniors on each committee and not all the races are contested, some of the positions will be filled with at-large senators.

The Duke student body will also elect a class president and vice president for the classes of 2012 and 2014. No one chose to run for class president or vice president for the Class of 2013.

“I think it’s great and a pretty diverse set of people,” said sophomore Gurdane Bhutani, vice president for student affairs and executive vice president-elect. He added that this group of candidates is large compared to recent years.

Bhutani attributed an increased interest in running for

On the first anniversary of the explosion that triggered the giant Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the well operator BP has gone to court to force two other companies to share the blame—and the costs.

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the Senate—especially among freshmen—to an increase in student understanding about the significance of DSG’s work and its relationship with key administrators. He added that students realize they can make a tangible difference with issues that matter to them as a part of DSG, including the future of cable television service in dorm rooms.

Senate races this year are more competitive than in previous years, said junior Pete Schork, executive vice president and president-elect.

“It’s an exciting time to be involved in the University because of things like the house model,” Schork said. “People are excited that DSG is a good avenue for change, and that’s reflecting in this year’s campaigns.”

Schork added that he was impressed with this year’s crop of freshmen candidates, which includes both newcomers and those already involved in DSG.

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The Senate approved $19,500 with a vote of 45-2 to reinstate Beer Trucks with a few modifications.

When the DAA organized Beer Trucks, both undergraduates and graduate students were invited to the event, which was held in the Blue Zone underneath a large tent. Lefevre said the new event will occur in either the Blue Zone or the Bryan Center Plaza and will be geared toward undergraduates.

In order to devise a potential budget projection, Lefevre estimated that 3,500 students and guests will attend Beer Trucks. The DAA usually spent between $60,000 and $75,000 to hold the event, Lefevre said. The student-sponsored budget will provide beer, snacks, nonalcoholic beverages, utensils and security.

DSG will not rent a $35,000 tent, which was a key component of the DAA’s Beer Trucks.

Lefevre said the event will largely be DSG’s responsibility because Senior Class Council had not anticipated paying for Beer Trucks. Duke University Union will likely contribute funds, though Lefevre added that the amount DUU plans to give has not yet been determined. In an interview after the meeting, Lefevre said he believes DUU will pay for a DJ. Although the event caters to seniors, Lefevre, Schreiber and Tabachnik stressed that it has long-term consequences for all undergraduates.

A group of seniors attended the meeting in support of renewing Beer Trucks. Senior Becki Feinglos described the universal nature of Beer Trucks, emphasizing that it is a unique

opportunity to unite the graduating class one more time before commencement ceremonies.

Senior Joe Catapano, an academics affairs senator, said making the event student-run this year will set a precedent.

“This may seem like a lot of money, but we have a lot of money,” Catapano said. “It is open to everyone. Tradition is held over and over again so you guys can experience this, too.”

Freshman Andrew Hanna, a Durham and regional affairs senator, questioned whether Beer Trucks was the sole catalyst for uniting seniors before graduation.

In response, Lefevre said this event will be an important mechanism to connect students on one of the last possible nights to do so.

“I don’t know what attracts people, but beer seems to do the trick,” he said.

The new Beer Trucks will tentatively occur May 14 from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m., Lefevre said in an interview after the meeting.

In other business: Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta addressed the Senate to discuss new challenges for Duke. He named planning for the West Union Building renovations and the transition to the house model as some of the most important issues facing the University in the next few years.

In addition, the Senate unanimously approved three new student groups— Duke Social, Duke Brazilian Association and Duke Students for Gender Neutrality.

The Senate also considered budget cuts to the Duke student yearbook, The Chanticleer, but ultimately decided to allow the publication to retain its projected budget for next year.

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Of the five committees, the Student Life committee—formerly the Student Affairs committee—garnered the most competitors for the available positions. Junior Ebonie Simpson, a student affairs senator and vice president-elect for student life, said the committee is likely the most popular because of its applicability to every student.

The new Residential Life and Dining committee attracted the fewest number of potential senators. The candidates include three freshmen and three sophomores, though the committee was expected to attract more interest, as it was a result of the DSG-Campus Council merger. No one from the Class of 2012 is running for a senatorship on this committee and only two of the six candidates were involved in Campus Council.

Schork attributed the minimal carryover from Campus Council to the differing cultures between the council and DSG. He added that some former Campus Council members may be apprehensive to run for a position because of the differences between the Campus Council and DSG processes.

Schork said, however, he expects more students to apply to be at-large residential life and dining senators because of how integral the committee’s subject matter is to campus life.

Voter turnout hit record heights this year, with the Young Trustee election attracting 49.9 percent of the student body and the DSG executive elections drawing a voter yield of 49.2 percent. Schork said he expects that trend to continue with today’s Senate and Class Council elections.

Classes will elect two senators for each committee as well as their class president and vice president. Students can vote anytime between 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. today.

The London-based oil giant has asserted in court that "negligence" on the part of Cameron and Transocean caused the accident that killed 11 men and caused widespread environmental damage. BP said that Cameron's “faulty design” of the blowout preventer was one key reason for the disaster.

BP cited a recent federal investigation that found that the blowout preventer, which rested on the sea floor, was unable to fully close and secure the well, in part because the drill pipe was not centered in the place where the blind shear ram—the most powerful of the blowout preventer's devices—was supposed to cut and seal the pipe.

Cameron issued a statement noting that Wednesday was the deadline for the companies to file claims against one another, and that “in order to protect ourselves, we, too, have filed” claims against other companies involved in the accident.

Although on the day of the accident, senior BP managers were visiting the Deepwater Horizon to congratulate its crew on the rig's safety record, in a court filing Wednesday BP gave a litany of 17 errors and failings on the part of Transocean. They included items such as “failing to properly inspect” the rig, “failing to properly operate” it, “negligently hiring" personnel, and “failing to react to danger signs.”

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LDOC from page 1 “I’ve never heard of them, I don’t know what kind of music they play,” Antunez said. “I mean it was last minute—I don’t think you can blame them, they filled the spot.”

A wristband policy, which was first instituted last year, was extended by the committee. The security policy restricts the event to members of the Duke community by asking them to check-in with their DukeCards in advance of the concert.

Tomson said the wristband policy significantly reduced the damages sustained by the University during the event last year.

“It’s our celebration, so it really maintains the integrity of the event as a purely Duke event,” Tomson said. “There is more accountability among the guests to treat campus respectfully.”

The policy is a part of a larger effort to increase security during the event this year. Sophomore Alex Shapanka, the committee’s chief financial officer, said

advising from page 3 taken place, Lee Baker, dean of academic affairs of Trinity College, wrote in an email Monday.

Elizabeth Fox, associate dean of Trinity College, was appointed the new director of the Academic Advising Center in August, and the center underwent an external review as well as a “retooling” of their peer adviser program, Baker said. The center has also developed its global adviser program and will remodel the first floor of its office in the near future.

Baker added that some of the problems with the adviser-student relationship can be attributed to students.

“Most of our pre-major advisers work really hard and care deeply about the success of our students,” he said. “Too often, however, students view their advisers as simply ‘functional,’ which is not desirable.”

Fox said her two main strategic goals for advising are to make students feel as welcome as possible— especially throughout their freshman and sophomore years—and encourage advisers to promote the skills students need to become an intellectual in the public sphere, regardless of their eventual career paths.

“I’d like all first-year students to feel welcomed as a member of Duke’s community of scholars—a membership that confers both rights and responsibilities toward all of its members,” she wrote in an email Wednesday.

Many freshmen, however, said they do not feel comfortable with the academic choices they have to make as incoming students.

“I think it is a really inefficient system and [advisers] don’t really cater to the kids that much,” said freshman Christina Malliris, adding that she wished students were able to meet or communicate with their advisers before arriving at Duke and choosing classes for the first time.

Currently, students are matched with advisers based on their residence halls freshman year. Baker said this system is indeed arbitrary but noted that an element of randomness and having “generalist advisers” is important because students’ interests often change.

The key to resolving some of these issues within advising is matching students to more appropriate advisers, Danesh said, though he added that he does not think the current neighborhood assignment process poses major difficulties.

“The ideal model is for students to answer a questionnaire about what their passions are and what they want out of their advising relationships,” he said. “Asking advisers similar questions will allow us to better pair students with their advisers.”

Danesh also noted the importance of peer advising and current students’ ability to aid incoming freshmen.

For example, Danesh wants to send current students to the send-off parties to discuss the academic process.

He also wants to implement student liaisons between incoming students and specific academic departments and enable these students to post videos answering students’ questions online.

“The send-off parties give us a very nice mechanism for prospective students to meet and talk to students who can speak to the academic experience at Duke,” he said. “We want to change the dynamic of the sendoff parties, we want to make people feel comfortable about what they are getting into with the plethora of academic experiences they will be facing in the next four years.”

Danesh said he hopes most of the improvements he is working on will be ready for the Class of 2015.

the group significantly increased its security budget due to crowds expected as a result of the this year’s high-profile performers.

“We doubled the amount of money we’re spending on security [over what] we did last year, Shapanka said.

“It was general consensus that increased security would be better.”

Shapanka said it is against the committee’s policy to disclose specific budget figures but noted that unlike last year the event is debt-free. Last year, the artists cost $68,000, The Chronicle previously reported, but Shapanka said he could not provide an estimate for artist costs this year.

The committee has also instituted new policies regarding bags and seating. Bags are not allowed in the concert area, and students cannot bring couches or futons onto the Main West Quadrangle because it is a big hassle for maintenance, Tomson said.

In addition to the concert, the committee will also host a Grease sing-along and a Red Bull Chariot Race— in which teams of three will race around the Blue Zone in homemade chariots.

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pratt from page 1 said Sue Van, president and CEO of the Coulter Foundation, who addressed Duke faculty and students at a ceremony in the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences yesterday.

“You have made us successful, and I thank you very, very much for all of the hard work you have done and all of the hard work that you’re going to do.”

Van noted that of all the universities that entered into partnerships with the Coulter Foundation, Duke has received the most venture capital funding.

The partnership will continue to spend approximately $1 million a year on projects, said Wayne Barlin, vice president and general counsel for the Coulter Foundation. Excess returns on the endowment and future donations may allow for future growth of the partnership, he added.

Tom Katsouleas, dean of the Pratt School of Engineering, said Duke has already turned the funding into viable business ideas. He noted the importance of requiring that each project be led by a biomedical engineering faculty member and a clinical or medical researcher. This characteristic of the projects—which

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Biomedical Engineering Chair George Truskey, Kimberly Jenkins, the senior advisor to the president and provost for innovation and entrepreneurship and President Richard Brodhead visit professor Tuan Vo-Dinh’s laboratory.

Katsouleas said businessman and engineer Wallace Coulter came up with—ensures that the efforts have both market relevance and applications for patients.

In the United States each year, there is between $48 and $50 billion in fundamental research funding at universities that leads to 5,000 startups, but just 10 percent of these ventures typically succeed, he said. At Duke, however, since 2006 the funding that the Coulter Foundation and the University have allocated to this partnership have resulted in nine startups—three of which are now under professional management, Katsouleas said.

“When you compare that to national averages, in terms of investing in fundamental research and how many startups you get for every $10 or $100 million, this program has outperformed that by a factor of 100,” he added.

Katsouleas detailed examples of projects that have received funding from this program. One of the ideas now under professional management differentiates between healthy and cancerous breast tissue. The venture helps surgeons who otherwise cannot tell where exactly a tumor ends and thus have to remove more tissue than would otherwise be necessary in order to avoid risking the cancer spreading, he said.

“Now, with this, the doctor has an optical technique online as he or she is cutting,” Katsouleas said. “So this is just going to benefit thousands and thousands of women’s lives.”

President Richard Brodhead­—who, unlike most of the attendees, has a background in the humanities— recognized the potential that the endowment presents.

He spoke about the idea of “translation,” a word that comes from two Latin terms that together mean “carry across” but have come to take on new meaning in the medical community.

“Now we have come to use ‘translation’ in this more metaphorical sense... which involves carrying ideas outside of the realm of abstract inquiry and into the realm of application,” Brodhead said. “Particularly here, we’re talking about taking biomedical and bioengineering research out of the domain of pure research and into the domain of the invention of products and practices that can actually touch on human life and improve the quality of human life.”

glover from page 1 having low potential for abuse, according to the North Carolina Controlled Substances Act. Glover is also charged with maintaining a vehicle for sale of a controlled substance, a felony.

According to the state controlled substances act, the trafficking of 28 to 199 grams of cocaine is a Class G felony leading to 35 to 42 months in prison and a minimum fine of $50,000. Possession of more than one-and-a-half ounces—or approximately 42.5 grams—of marijuana is a Class I felony, which can leads to two years in prison.

Glover is currently being held under a $750,000 bond for all of the charges, Michael said, adding that as of 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Durham police report had not been turned in.

Head coach David Cutcliffe announced Wednesday that Glover had been dismissed from the football team “for conduct unbecoming of a member of the program,” according to a press release. Art Chase, director of sports information, said the program has no further comment at this time.

Glover’s status as a Duke student is still unknown.

Glover has played in a reserve role as a linebacker for the past two seasons, appearing in 23 games, including 11 games last season. He recorded 12 tackles this year and played primarily on special teams. In 2010, he started against Wake Forest and had a season-high four stops against both Virginia Tech and Boston College.

Glover’s arrest marks the fourth arrest of a Duke football player in the past 16 months. Former football players John Drew, Kyle Griswould and Brandon Putnam were arrested and charged with felonious possession and discharge of a weapon in January 2010, at which point they were dismissed from the team and barred from campus. The three players later pleaded guilty in court to misdemeanor charges of carrying a concealed weapon and possession of a weapon on educational property. Putnam returned to campus in Fall 2010 after applying for re-enrollment, though he is no longer on the football team.

In an email Wednesday night, Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek wrote that she cannot “comment on the status of individual students.”

Glover is currently scheduled to appear in court May 12.

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theSANDBOX. Last Saturday was Record Store Day, which for the uninitiated (everyone but the staff at Pitchfork) is a quaint annual celebration of independent music vendors. It’s a noble concept—numerous acts offer one-day only releases or perform in-store concerts, designed to give record stores at least one profitable day per year.

For my part, I stopped by Bull City Records to pick up the Fleet Foxes new 12”, “Helplessness Blues”/”Grown Ocean.”

The purchase made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, as though paying for music— innocent, pastoral folk at that—somehow cleansed my conscience of mass-torrenting the Weeknd’s nocturnal sex jams and Odd Future’s snarling misogyny. But in retrospect, there was something perverse about the whole exercise: buying a record despite not owning a record-player, at a record store I never visit, as a dude played acoustic Guided by Voices covers in the background. I couldn’t make this stuff up.

I told a friend about my experience, and he asked me an interesting question: “Why support a dying industry?”

And I didn’t really have a good answer.

Although Bull City remains a fixture, record stores likely are going the way of the phonograph. Wake me up when Vuze goes out of business.

Eventually, though, I realized that his question was misguided. Regardless of its initial intent, Record Store Day isn’t for record stores; it’s for the types who would go to Record Store Day, a sort of affirmation for those concerned they might be losing their edge. James Murphy once wrote a lyric for a now-defunct band: “I’ve never been wrong/I used to work in a record store.” I’ve never worked in a record store, but God knows I’ve never been wrong. And by purchasing a $10 dollar single—yes, you read that right—I ensured I never will be.

—Ross Green

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Once upon a time, I was a freshman. I thought the memories would remain perfectly clear, waiting patiently these past four years for my eventual nostalgia and recollection. Instead, I struggle to bring such moments back into consciousness. Against a vague backdrop of Soulja Boy’s “Crank That” and the smell of the Wannamaker basement, specific details stay slightly out of focus and my ability to follow a linear timeframe deteriorates.

Punctuating the haze, there are flashes of clarity. The faces of the students in my Writing 20 class; the purple skirt I wore when I kissed a Duke boy for the first time; the deafening silence of the Carpentener Reading Room during my first college all-nighter— these random moments stand out.

I also vividly remember the dual emotions of wanting everyone to know that I had it all figured out and at the same time realizing I had no idea what I was doing. In the months and years that followed, I developed the highly refined tactic of making everything up as I went along to fill my 500-word quota. Ultimately, I made a lot of mistakes. I learned and I changed and I came away with more stories than I’ll ever know what to do with.

And I also gained something that might resemble wisdom, which I impart to you now, wherever you may be going next.

Never assume the obvious. When someone invites you to order Dominoes, play Nintendo, watch the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, or admire their dorm room posters, their intentions should be transparent. Although Dominoes is probably a good call no matter what.

Put your friends first. Relationships come to an end, but sometime in the not-so-distant

future, your friends will be the ones reminding everyone about the time you accidentally left your boyfriend naked and tied up to your bed with the door open while your unsuspecting roommate wandered around the apartment.

Or when you role-played as a Dad and babysitter. Or when you sent a friend text updates about a sexual encounter in real time. You’ll be grateful for your friends then.

Don’t settle for anything less than your own personal pleasure. If you want something, ask for it. If you’re not enjoying yourself, stop.

At the very least, give in to your friends’ peer pressure and invest in a burgundy rhinestone vibrator.

Make things up for yourself. I have friends that have never had a one-night stand. Other friends have never had a serious relationship.

Some enjoy the novelty of creative positions and sexual props. Still others take pleasure in the routine of normalcy. Some have an insatiable desire for Law and Order: SVU characters, others for gingers. Liberate yourself from outside opinion and judgment. Approval is never worth the price.

Everything works out in the end. In a freefor-all Cancun spring break, a chance game of flip-cup, or an opportune classroom friendship, everything can change. At Duke, people and experiences you’ve written off forever suddenly come crashing back into your life with surprising regularity. You lose your virginity and its actually special. Your worst enemy becomes your significant other (or vice-versa).

You break up and its OK. Never be surprised.

Have a sense of humor. Make friends whose sexual exploits you can mock on a regular basis. Hate some days and enjoy others. Develop the ability to laugh about love and sex. After all, it’s a beautiful life. Go out and live it.

Brooke Hartley is a Trinity senior. This is her final column.

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The Best of Frenemies “Duke” is such a loaded word.

I’m not even referring to that one national sex scandal, that other national sex scandal or that other national sexism scandal. That stuff is boring—I’ve already commented on those issues. I have a Today Show interview and a referenced quote in the Atlantic to prove it (ask my inner feminist about it later).

What I’m referring to has more to do with my particular personality. I have spent countless hours mulling over how I am happy but not satisfied. The psychoanalysis usually boils down to, “What does it all really mean?” Then I take a break and continue indulging in other first-world problems. I’m a little neurotic.

And so I have spent the past four years embracing and turning my back on Duke as if it’s my dearest frenemy—a place and an experience the that I love to hate, and hate to love. My relationship with Duke is by far the most tumultuous I have ever been in—this coming from someone who has been in a long distance, open/closed/idk relationship for three years.

These sentiments are nothing groundbreaking—read any column in the Chronicle this semester, and you get a sense for how unoriginal I am in my declaration. Why is it so comforting to bash on this elite institution, only to feel all the

more feel guilty about falling in love with it? For me, it’s been the balancing act of being both an insider and outsider in the glorious Duke bubble.

As an outsider, I have shaken my head at the debacle that takes place at Tailgate, not fully understanding as a freshman why anyone would wake up at 7 a.m. to dress in Halloween costumes only to get soaked and exhausted by 12 p.m.

As an insider, I have waken up at 7 a.m. in the morning, riding around on my friend’s shoulders in a fairy skirt shooting liquid out of a Nerf gun.

As an outsider, I have written for Recess, the obscure, snobbish arts section of the Chronicle, reviewing culture in hopes that I may convert some unwashed souls.

As an insider, I have thrown a “Teenage Dream”-themed party, sang along to “I Love College” at frat parties and watched Rebecca Black’s “Friday” video unironically at least twice.

This list goes on and on. But what I’ve come to realize is that there is no need to be outside or inside the “Duke Experience.” I’m already living the Duke Experience, and it took me this long to figure that out.

Not everyone can relate to some of my experiences. I work at the Coffeehouse in the boondocks of East Campus and get paid to hang out with friends. I wrote a thesis on

health care reform and enjoyed it. I joined Round Table, the SLG that makes me feel like an underachiever. I study Public Policy and International Comparative Studies, because I thought I cared about the world, only to discover that online shopping is my true passion and selling out is the only way to go. I spend hours in Perkins watching cat videos.

At the end of the day, I have found some of the best and brightest people here, people who indulge and challenge me in ways that I am very grateful for. Friends who will stay up until 4 a.m. arguing with me about why my views on social life here are unfounded. Friends who like cat videos more than I do. Friends who DJ for WXDU, but will still dance to Ke$ha. Friends who care about the world and still like me, even though I’m selling out. Friends who joke about firstworld problems as much as I do.

“Duke” was never meant to be polarizing—it’s just a dear friend, one you’ve known a little too long. Sure, she (he?) has a few annoying quirks, but eventually you get past them.

Duke is far from perfect, but so am I. And I like it that way.

Jessie Tang is a Trinity Senior and former Recess content managing editor and arts editor. She thanks the Sports Hall for putting up with “Like a G6” on repeat.

The State of Film at Duke

I hate telling people my major.

When I talk to people outside of Duke, I say “Environmental Science and Film.” When I talk to people here, it’s more like “Environmental Science and Policy with the AMI certificate… but I think I’ve taken more film classes than classes for my major and I want to be a filmmaker.” And it’s actually true; I checked today on ACES! I’ve taken 11 FVD/ AMI classes—more than what’s required for most majors— and I’m leaving Duke with some lousy certificate that has a pretentious name and takes a mouthful to explain.

Duke has a lot of energy behind its arts programs right now—some more than others—and programming, classes and facilities are growing exponentially. However, in this formative time for the future of film at the University, all the momentum isn’t entirely productive. Administrators and faculty need your help shaping its unfolding evolution, especially because I hear that you young folk out there might be able to graduate with a Film major as early as 2012.

Excuse me, I meant an “Arts of the Moving Image” major.

I have to say, I have rarely been more disheartened than when I realized that all of the hard work I had done would land me a certificate with such a hoity-toity name. Thankfully, the program has not yet undergone a complete overhaul, but the choice of name spoke loudly: Duke is afraid to be known as normal. I feared the words “experimental documentary”

like none other.

I’ll start by saying there’s nothing wrong with experimental films; they’re actually quite lovely. But the mere fact that nearly everyone in an Intro to AMI class is making them is mind-boggling. You can’t teach someone who barely knows the alphabet of film to write a meaningful poem. One needs to learn and practice the conventions before meaningfully subverting them, and that can take years. I find the idea of having inexperienced freshmen running scratching pieces of film and capturing images of the ocean from funny angles offensive. Art film and the avant garde—while they can certainly be playful—aren’t children’s concoctions. They are experiments made through conscious choice and extensive knowledge of the medium, not by first-time filmmakers with Flip cams.

To my delightful surprise, production classes under AMI have blossomed. But as class membership has increased, equipment budgets have also decreased. Currently, the quality of the few cameras available to Duke undergraduates puts programs at USC and NYU to shame. The paltry quantity, however, has necessitated a clamp-down on student access and sometimes sending students home empty-handed; real film programs usually check out equipment for an entire semester. It is embarrassing that student groups and students themselves are forced to fill the gaps left by a fully funded academic program at one of the world’s wealthiest universi-

ties. Filmmaking is an industrial craft: it requires significant capital, without which making good films just can’t happen.

Despite my qualms, the state of student filmmaking on campus is strong. The Program in the Arts of the Moving Image and the Center for Documentary Studies make Duke one of the most unique schools in the filmmaking world, bridging documentary, narrative and experimental film in a unique and academic way and leaving students with an eclectic background of knowledge. Freewater Productions provides strong support and a fantastic forum for filmmakers outside of the classroom. Duke Student Broadcasting is also coming into its own, and the organization has lots of potential for growth if all of its resources are put to use—and back in the equipment room every once in a while.

Regardless of equipment or academic persuasion, filmmaking here is about the students. Help your peers. Work on projects with terrible scripts. Hold a boom pole. Take it all in.

Your experience at Duke is one big filmstrip: overexpose some frames, scratch some others. When you play the dailies back at the end of your production, you don’t want to see any black. Fill every frame; there’s no coming back for pick-ups.

Andrew O’Rourke is a Trinity senior. He has been Film Editor for Recess. He would like to thank the present perfect tense for being so efficaciously melodramatic.

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Yu concludes residence with a bang

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

The arts are coming into play as Duke increases its presence in China.

Nick Yu, one of China’s premier playwrights, has spent the past five weeks working with Duke students in a course called “The China Experiment,” taught by Theater Studies professor Claire Conceison. As a playwright and marketing director of the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre, Yu has not only pushed theatrical boundaries but has also lowered cultural barriers, Conceison wrote in an email. Although he has traveled to 35 countries for theater festivals and taught at several Chinese universities, this is the first time Yu has worked at an American university.

“Since I can’t bring Duke to China, I wanted to bring one of the most exciting of these artists to Duke in order to help provide that first-hand experience [of working with Yu],” Conceison said, adding that she has worked with Yu several times while visiting China.

It is no coincidence that the Theater Studies department commissioned Yu at a time when Duke is strengthening its relationship with China, Vice Provost for the Arts Scott Lindroth said. He added that Duke is participating in several other artistic projects with China, such as the DukeEngage arts education program in Zhuhai and the 11 student dance group will travel to Beijing this summer to perform at the World University Games.

“It’s a nice intersection,” Lindroth said. “As we are developing closer ties with China, we are also beginning to develop these new acts in the arts that complement them.”

Conceison, who was drawn to Duke because of its commitment to China, deliberately requested Yu because he is from Shanghai. The city is close in proximity to Duke Kunshan University, and she expects that Yu will “spread the news about Duke in the region.” She noted that since Yu began tweeting about Duke on “Weibo”—a Chinese version of Twitter—his followers have doubled from 2,000 to 4,000.

Drawing inspiration from contemporary society, politics and interpersonal relationships, Yu wrote in an email that he hopes his plays can help people in other countries to better understand Chinese culture. He noted that 32 of his plays have been performed around the world in many different languages. His desire for global interaction through theater is what brought him to Duke, he said. During his stay, Yu has delivered lectures on the topic, visited classes at

both Duke and UNC, conducted research and engaged in discussion with students and faculty about Chinese theater and politics.

“It is a challenge for me, but a great chance for me to let more people know about theater in China, and I think Claire [Conceison] is the right person to give me that experience,” he wrote.

Lindroth said that projects like this one, which combine cultural exchange with the arts, generate excitement abroad.

“There is a colorful diversity of expression [that] can enrich any kind of academic study,” he said.

Yu’s residency will culminate next Tuesday with a student performance of one of his newest plays—Das Kapital.

Inspired by Karl Marx’s writings, Yu said it is “a play about money, and all other things involved with money.”

He said Das Kapital shows the relationship between the arts, culture, politics and—the focus of most Chinese urbanites—money.

“Das Kapital is a really unique production in China,” Yu said. “It is…so close to our lives in many aspects.”

When Yu first produced the play in Shanghai last year, he took strategic measures to avoid government censorship, which prohibits theatrical demonstrations of pornography, nudity and political criticism. There was limited publicity prior to the show’s opening, and the company invited officials to view rehearsals and provide opinions.

Although the Chinese government has directly censored three of his plays, including a translated version of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues in 2004, Yu said the intervention opens a door for important dialogue between artists and government officials.

“In some ways censorship is a game to play,” Yu said.

“It’s usually not exactly that we stop doing something because of censorship, but that we need to keep struggling to make circumstances better [for artists].”

Yu said watching Duke students read and perform his plays is a memory that will stand out in his mind “just like the chapel stands out on West Campus.” He hopes that there will be more interaction between Chinese and American artists, academics and students.

“I think Chinese universities can learn a lot from this project, and I also want to do more for this kind of residency in the future, especially for Duke,” Yu said. “I have fallen in love with Duke in many different ways.”

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DenatureD Delves Into The context

of Modern German Art

by Michaela Dwyer THE CHRONICLE

Although small in scale and packed into a traditional gallery space, the Ackland Art Museum’s new exhibit, DE-NATURED: German Art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger, packs a punch. Featuring works by bigger names such as performance and installation artist Beuys and photographer Thomas Struth, DE-NATURED crosses artistic disciplines to explore the state of contemporary German art.

The exhibit’s historical fixation is difficult to ignore. To contextualize the exhibit, the gallery guide reads, “German artists have had to deal with a severe legacy of a traumatic history marked by the events of the Nazi dictatorship, the Holocaust of European Jews, the terror of World War II and the resulting tense divisions of the Cold War.” Such a disclaimer would seem to cast a shadow over the exhibit. Each work presented, however, explores this complex historical legacy through quirky or unexpected means. For example, one of the Beuys works is his cheeky “Noiseless Blackboard Eraser,” of which Beuys made hundreds of copies (termed “multiples”) in the 1970s. The piece consists of none other than that described in its title—an apparently typical blackboard eraser. Its simplicity is deceiving, though. Beuys was particularly attached to felt; while serving in WWII, his plane was shot down and Beuys constructed an origin myth in which he was rescued

by Tartars, who applied animal fat and felt to his body.

From that point onward Beuys incorporated felt into many of his pieces, including the “Noiseless Blackboard Eraser.”

The piece also features Beuys’ signature—a humanizing touch that juxtaposes the eraser’s otherwise industrial nature—and a stamp that reads, “Organization for Direct Democracy,” as a nod to his belief in inclusive social and political participation in art.

The exhibit’s emphasis on photography furthers these ideas of social and political reconstitution. The right wall of the exhibit features several of Struth’s photographs in addition to two large-scale photographic works by Thomas Ruff. Struth is perhaps best known for his giant photographs showing onlookers candidly observing famous works of art in museums around the world. His main works in the exhibit take a somewhat different approach: A series of four black-and-white photographs depict city streets in New York City and Yamaguchi, Japan. The superficial differences in urban and cultural organization are immediately apparent, yet the works reference the same pictorial theme. Three of the four photographs feature a roadway surrounded, even imposed upon, by both towering buildings and smaller multi-story structures. Each road extends into some abyss beyond the space shown in each photo, imbued with a reserved acceptance of both nothingness and possibility.

One of Ruff’s two photographs, “Andere Portrait Number 109/97,” was made through a photomontage program

originally used by the German police. To dilute the political weightiness, Ruff mixed in photographic images from his own series of works. The result is an enormous face of ambiguous gender, no longer belonging to a specific sex, race or political affiliation but instead indicative of a wider communal experiment.

The exhibit also features three works by Sigmar Polke, who studied under Beuys, as well as Gerhard Richter, whose pieces feature overpainted photographs with allusions to the destruction of the Berlin Wall.

Interestingly enough, the single-room offerings of DENATURED abut a related exhibit from a century earlier, entitled Romantic Dreams | Rude Awakenings: Northern European Prints and Drawings, 1840-1940. Most of the works are also

by German artists, including Otto Dix, though artists from neighboring counties, such as Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, are also included. The two exhibits, though at first seemingly disparate, create an intriguing dialogue in their exploration of social, political and personal consciousness.

Historical context is the major player here, and it’s fascinating to see this framework embodied in the work of two very different time periods.

DE-NATURED and Romantic Dreams | Rude Awakenings will run until July 10 at the Ackland Museum of Art in Chapel Hill.

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the loving story dir. nancy buirsky

guilty pleasures dir. julie moggan

Most people don’t stop and think about the ramifications of reading romance novels.

Director Julie Moggan thought about it for a year straight.

The resulting documentary, Guilty Pleasures, is a tender and hilarious exploration of Harlequin books and their effects on the lives of everyone from the writers to the readers to the scantily-clad cover models. Told through five interwoven stories—two couples, a single woman and two single men—the film offers a candid look at the divide between storybook romance and realities that are not quite so glamorous.

Roger Sanderson, who writes for Harlequin under the pseudonym Gill Sanderson, essentially narrates the film. He breaks down the writing process—there is in fact a rigid formula to which almost all romance novels adhere—as well as the business and production aspects. Bald

and bespectacled, he is living proof that fairy-tale love stories are the stuff of imagination.

Cover model Stephen proves consistently uproarious, detailing with brazen honesty the blessings and sacrifices that come with being thirty, single and really, really, ridiculously good-looking.

And then there are the women.

One—a demure Japanese housewife— longs for her husband to whisk her away like one of the heroes from her favorite books. Another, in India, hopes her life will follow a familiar story so that her estranged husband will return. The third, an Englishwoman, simply uses the books to break the monotony of everyday routine and to add some spark to a long and otherwise healthy marriage.

Moggan expertly weaves their stories together, portraying even their flaws with grace and dignity. The film may be about fictional romance, but the characters in Guilty Pleasures prove that the quest for love is just as powerful—and much funnier—in real life.

—Josh Stillman

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The Loving Story tells the tale of a conveniently named couple who fell in love and got married. But their love was more than just star-crossed: It was illegal.

In 1958 Virginia, marriage between whites and non-whites was a felony, but Mildred and Richard Loving didn’t know that.

One night, they were arrested and forced into exile by the police, making their new home in Washington D.C. The young, rural couple didn’t take well to life in the city, and they thus decided to embark upon a legal journey that would end with the repeal of anti-miscegenation laws around the country.

Although at times it reads like a sterile made-for-TV documentary, director and Full Frame founder Nancy Buirski’s first feature-length documentary blends archival footage, photographs and newly shot footage in a way that manages to be surprisingly

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emotive. The film makes superb use of never-before-seen newsreels of the Loving family as well as interviews with attorneys Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, painting a powerful picture of the simplicity and happiness of the Lovings’ marriage, while at the same time portraying the deep anxiety surrounding the case.

The documentary’s motivational energy centers on the two inexperienced lawyers— one so inexperienced that he wasn’t allowed to argue a case before the Supreme Court— and their coming-of-age through this case; the Lovings are surprisingly removed. But this wise directorial choice accurately reflects the involvement of the plaintiffs in the case. They did not care that the case was going all the way to the top; they just wanted to carry on with their lives. Richard’s advice to the attorneys before they faced the Supreme Court was simply, “Tell the court I love my wife.”

Just as the name implies, this is a story about love.

—Andrew O’Rourke

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Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, calls herself “new kind of woman.” She’s not afraid to use alternating caps, sings ambivalently of sex and violence, plays the ukulele and makes a kind of pop that draws from non-Western musical elements. Whether or not it’s “new,” her message certainly is complicated and is delivered with a unique vocal expressivity that demands more attention than her lofi rudiments might suggest.

BiRd-BrAinS, her debut, was a fully formed statement that showcased Merrill’s vocal flexibility harnessed to hypnotic (and sometimes annoying) looping elements and chintzy Casio keyboards and drums. But w h o k i l l, her new album, makes its predecesor look like a rough draft. It benefits from the accoutrements offered by a bigger label, including a sound that is expounded upon and brightened (plus a colorfully-produced music video for “Bizness”). But what at first sounds like a trade-off in intimacy is belied by the lyrics—she’s still telling you her secrets, but in an even more arresting caterwaul than before.

Her topical interests range from playful takes on negative body image to the joys of passionate sex, but the main fixation here is violence, evidenced by track titles like “Riotriot,” “Gangsta” and “Killa.”

“There is a freedom in violence that I don’t understand/and like I’ve never felt before,” she wails at the end of “Riotriot.” And the sentiment’s not hard to pick up on, given that the tUnE-yArDs project basically sounds like a one-woman vehicle for catharsis. Garbus lets it all hang out, and her sincerity is almost uncomfortable, at times evoking the ghost of Kurt Cobain. Still, a distinct female experience has a central presence on w h o k i l l and the tUnE-yArDs persona, a feature that aligns Garbus most with the excellent St. Vincent.

Both artists deliver mature statements about the complexities of womanhood, delivered in a musical package that is like a candy apple with razor blades hidden inside.

But Garbus is even less refined than her contemporaries; she lets her thong and the runs in her stockings show.

-—Brian Contratto

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Chapel Hill-based Lost in the Trees will perform at one of nine concerts as part of Duke Performances’ Music in the Gardens series this summer.

DP returns to Duke Gardens

by Laura Keeley THE CHRONICLE

With the end of the semester and final exams looming on the horizon, the thoughts of the majority of students have turned to Myrtle Beach and bolting from Durham as soon as possible. For those that have elected to stay local this summer though, Duke Performances’ Music in the Gardens series can erase the memories of all those late library nights.

On June 1, Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys will bring their Louisiana Cajun flavor to the Duke Gardens to kick off the annual series, which will feature seven independent rock or folk bands before concluding with two chamber music concerts.

Music in the Gardens features local bands that are starting to build national profiles. This year, the series’ geographic range has expanded—it includes performances by Lost in the Trees, a Chapel Hill-based orchestral pop group that will end the rock portion July 13, and the Parkington Sisters, a folk band from Cape Cod, Mass. that will swing by June 15, three days after performing at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

About 1,200 Duke students attended at least one of the concerts last year, Director of Duke Performances Aaron Greenwald said, and the series is expected to draw similar numbers this year. The series serves as an introduction to the Triangle’s vibrant indie music scene for students not already familiar with the local vibe. Most of the concertgoers in the past have been Durham natives, who are encouraged to bring their own food and drinks (or purchase them on site) and perhaps even a child or two.

“There’s a lot of people living in Durham that are in their 30s, 40s or early 50s, who have kids that grew up going

to rock shows around here,” Greenwald said. “For them, at this point in their lives, to see a 10 o’clock set at Cat’s Cradle on a Tuesday night is just not possible.”

Riley and his band will perform songs inspired by last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, among others, from their latest album Grand Isle. Their songs, which are primarily sung in Creole, are a reflection of the Cajun heritage found in Mamou, La., Riley’s hometown.

“It was just another low blow, especially after all the hurricane damage that we had to deal with,” Riley said of the oil spill. “But in our history as a Cajun people, it’s been a struggle to maintain our language and our culture, but we’re survivors. A poor household down here is one without an accordion.”

A few of the featured artists have appeared in a Duke Performances show before, including Fight the Big Bull, an eight-piece jazz collective from Richmond, Va. The band performed in Durham this past Sept. 17-19 at the Sounds of the South shows with Megafaun, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten.

Composer and guitarist Matt White, a 28-year-old graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University, hesitates to ascribe the band’s sound to a particular genre. His preferred term, he said, is “Avant Americana”—a mix of all types of Southern music, including gospel, historic slave spirituals, reggae, soul, funk, blues, folk and of course, jazz.

“There’s a lot of personality,” he said. “It’s a handful to be around. On the stage, it comes across, too. Everyone has their own voice.”

Music in the Gardens performances will run every Wednesday from June 1 to July 27 in the Duke Gardens.

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Carleton makes last stand in Cary

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On the way to the No. 3 seed in the ACC Tournament, Duke lost only two conference matchups. Those losses were to No. 1 Virginia and then-No. 19 North Carolina, and it is these two squads that lie in the Blue Devils’ path to the ACC ACC Tourney championship.

With a first-round bye as one of the THURSDAY-SUNDAY top four seeds, No. 13 Duke (18-8, 9-2 Cary Tennis Park in the ACC) will begin its tournament Cary, N.C. play on Friday at 3 p.m. at the Cary Tennis Park against the winner of the match between Virginia Tech (13-10, 5-6) and N.C. State (10-13, 2-9). The Blue Devils comfortably defeated the Hokies 6-1 in Blacksburg, Va., and whitewashed the Wolfpack 7-0 at home earlier in the season.

“I like the way the draw is laid out,” head coach Ramsey Smith said. “We’re healthy and playing some really good tennis, so I’m feeling very good about the tournament.”

If Duke again comes out on top, the Blue Devils will have the opportunity to avenge their regular season 4-3 loss against the Tar Heels in the semifinal, should North Carolina win its contest against the winner of the match between Wake Forest and Clemson.

“It certainly would be nice to get UNC again,” Smith said. “The guys are looking forward to that.”

In that April 13 meeting, the Blue Devils’ key players failed to perform as both Henrique Cunha and Reid Carleton lost against lower ranked opponents. Cunha, thenranked sixth in the nation, lost only his second conference singles match to Jose Hernandez, then-ranked No. 25.

Reid Carleton, then-ranked at No. 9, lost to an unranked player in what was arguably his worst performance of the season, losing heavily by scores of 6-1 in both sets.

“Since that match we’ve won two really good matches.

I felt like we really got back on track,” Smith said. “We’ve been working hard on doubles, and that’s going to be a big

point with all our matches. It’s also going to be at a neutral site as opposed to their place.”

However, the Tar Heels do not have the simplest path to the semifinals. Wake Forest, who upset North Carolina in last year’s tournament, has the opportunity to do so again.

Smith described them as “dangerous,” and if the Demon Deacons should advance to meet Duke, it may set up an uncomfortable meeting between Carleton and his brother Tripper, who plays for Wake Forest.

“Hopefully it won’t happen,” Carleton said.

Should Duke advance to the final, unless there is an upset, the Blue Devils will face the nation’s top-ranked and undefeated Cavaliers. On their visit to Charlottesville, Va., on April 1, the Blue Devils fell 6-1 to Virginia, with Cunha the only Duke player to record a win.

“We didn’t want to play them before the final,” Smith said. “If we get that opportunity [to play them], I think we’re ready. We’ve played them close the last couple of years. I have a lot of confidence in this team and it should be an exciting match should we get there.”

Earlier this season, Duke showed its ability to perform in the pressure rounds of tournament play, defeating thenNo. 2 Southern California and then-No. 11 Florida in February’s ITA National Team Indoors, before falling to thenNo. 3 Tennessee. The experience from that weekend has helped the freshmen adapt to tournament play.

“It may be a little different if they [didn’t have] that experience at the national stage,” Smith said. “I don’t sense any real nerves outside of the normal nerves from the freshmen.”

Freshman Chris Mengel echoed his coach’s thoughts.

“I don’t really know what to expect,” Mengel said. “I’m going to try to do the same things that I’ve been doing in singles. As long as we play well I think we’ll be alright.”

Carleton, Duke’s senior captain, is ready to help guide his young teammates through his last ACC Tournament.

“I’m fired up,” Carleton said. “We’ve got a really good team, really good momentum and a really good chance of winning the tournament.”

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Reid Carleton will try to lead the Blue Devils to an ACC title this weekend.

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ACC Championships return to Wallace Wade

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Senior Ryan McDermott will try to win his third consecutive ACC steeplechase title on Friday evening.

For the Duke seniors, the ACC Outdoor Championship’s return to Durham couldn’t come at a better time.

Today through Saturday, for the first time since 2000, the tournament will be held at Wallace Wade Stadium.

According to direcACC tor of track and field Champs.

Norm Ogilvie, this THURSDAY-SATURDAY only heightens the exWallace Wade Stadium citement and anticipaDurham, N.C. tion for the meet.

“We’ve been looking forward to [hosting] for a number of years,” Ogilvie said. “It’s a great way for the senior class to go out.”

That senior class, which comprises 16 of Duke’s 30 competitors, shares Ogilvie’s enthusiasm.

“I think it’s a really awesome experience to have my final ACC meet hosted at Duke,” senior Kate Van Buskirk said.

“It increases my pride for my school and my team.”

Van Buskirk plans to finally complete her medal collection by winning her first career gold at the ACC Championships.

The senior will compete in the 1500-meter run, and has posted the year’s second-fast-

est ACC 800-meter time.

Like Van Buskirk, senior Ryan McDermott is gunning for a gold. Unlike his classmate, though, this would be his third straight title. On Friday, he could become the first Duke athlete since Roger Beardmore to win the 3000-meter steeplechase at the ACC meet three times, and he is looking forward to playing on his home turf.

“I’m excited for the ACC meet,” McDermott said. “I’m really pumped that I get to defend my title on my home track…I think it plays to my advantage…I won easily at the Duke Invite, which gives me confidence. I just feel comfortable running on this track.”

As for the pressure that comes with being the two-time defending champion, McDermott’s outlook is relaxed and self-assured.

“I feel confident in my fitness,” he said, “Confident that I can beat anyone who steps on the track in the steeplechase.”

Of course, the seniors are not the only Duke athletes that will be relied on to score major points over the weekend. On the opposite side of the spectrum is redshirt freshman Michelle Anumba, who will look to win a title in her first ACC Championship.

Anumba, ranked first in the shot put and seventh in the hammer throw, is just

one of the many field athletes that have had impressive seasons. Joining her on the women’s side is sophomore Andrea Hopkins who is ranked first in the javelin, while Erica Brand, another successful freshman, sits at fourth in the discus.

On the men’s side, freshmen Tanner Anderson and Michael Krone are ranked fourth and eighth in the high jump, respectively. Senior Mike Schallmo and sophomore Austin Gamble hold the second and third spots for the discus, while in the shot put Schallmo holds third and junior Michael Barbas is ranked second.

As usual, Duke expects a strong showing in the running events where McDermott and Van Buskirk will pursue their respective titles. Sophomore Curtis Beach will make his debut for the Blue Devils in the 400-meter hurdles, running alongside several other Duke athletes ranked in the event.

“We expect a lot of points from the throws, and the men’s 5k and 10k are strong, as well as the 1500 with Kate Van Buskirk,” Ogilvie said. “The men and women are both equally capable of scoring more points than we’ve ever had before at an ACC Championship. We have a good chance of finishing in the top six teams.”

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Med School should not alter curriculum Medical schools across the year for scholarly pursuits country, in recognition that and research, Duke medical medicine is more than a strict students already maintain a science, are beginning to em- hectic schedule. phasize the importance of the Humanistic knowledge humanities in medicine. This plays a clear role in medical shifting attitude practice. A doceditorial brings shifting tor does more curriculums, than prescribe as schools such as Yale, Stan- medication. Medicine requires ford, Cornell and Mount Sinai doctors to be healers of minds move to implement humani- and bodies. A physician must ties classes into their already be able to talk to, understand, busy coursework. empathize with their patients.

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are simple examples that illustrate the uses of the humanities in medical practice.

Being able to talk with and understand people has great consequences. Physician and journalist Atul Gawande has argued that some of the vast medical spending that occurs at the end of life, which accounts for a large portion of health care costs, comes from the fact that doctors are reluctant to hold end-of-life discussions with their patients. It is clear that introducing doctors to the humanities may help in such areas.

Duke’s medical students, however, already have busy schedules without being forced to read “Les Miserables.” Students should gain these insights in their undergraduate studies, though we

understand that does not always happen.

Duke has positioned itself well by working hard to admit students who already have a sense of ethics and sagacity. With a rigorous six essay secondary application that asks students questions about ethical dilemmas and how to approach them, the Duke School of Medicine seeks students with a greater understanding of people and the importance of connecting with patients.

The humanistic spirit is alive at Duke’s medical school.

Students are perceptive to changes of thought and often send various articles highlighting such issues to each other through listservs. A course designed for the first- and second-years, “Practice Course,”

works tirelessly to emphasize the importance of listening, understanding and empathizing with patients. Finally, the open third year for academic pursuits allows students to pursue projects in the medical humanities, and some do.

Should the school wish to introduce more humanities into the curriculum, it could add more course options during the third year that fit well into students’ schedules.

Lectures or classes offered through Duke’s Trent Center for Bioethics would be especially appropriate.

Duke School of Medicine does not need to add humanities requirements— it has done well by adding humanities options and by seeking to enroll students with humanistic bents.

My Duke dictionary

he sweet, humid smell of spring at Duke of- muddy. At Duke, tenting became something I did ten reminds me of a day about four years outside while it was cold, wet and muddy—with 11 ago, when I moved into Gilbert-Addoms other people. Before Duke, terms like “gardens” Dormitory on East Campus. I reand “plaza” were unremarkable, member it in flashes: Beautiful cambut at Duke, I redefined them as pus. Sweat dripping down my face. the perfect places to shamelessly 105 degrees outside. 110 degrees take a nap on a hot spring day. inside. So much pastel clothing.

Some dictionary entries, such as Of all the novelties that held “engage” and “global,” are much my attention during those first few longer than others. weeks here, my classmates’ accents At our first-year convocation, and languages fascinated me the sandeep prasanna President Brodhead told us to get most. After coming from a relatively engaged. We do that: Every day, homogeneous hometown, I found hooked on phonetics hospital volunteers engage with it thrilling to walk down my hallway patients, young entrepreneurs with and hear voices from exotic and faraway places, like their big idea, and thesis students with their reZimbabwe and Pennsylvania. I felt like every per- search. The DukeEngage program allows hunson’s language provided an incredible window into dreds of us to define engagement by working with their lives, their experiences and their worlds. communities here and abroad. Some of us are I began to see language as a powerful matrix on even engaged to be married! which to view our world. Language defines our speAnd because Duke is building new programs cies, but our understanding of its mechanics is lim- around the world, it’s sometimes easy to forget ited because we aren’t provided any formal training that we can define “global” right here, too. Culin linguistics until college. And although many peo- tural shows like Awaaz and festivals like Springterple find the topic of language in society interesting, national remind me that Duke gives us opportunithe popular perception of linguists as dry, pedan- ties every day—in Durham—to define ourselves as tic academics steeped in elaborate theory cripples global citizens. their potential impact as descriptors of the world.

I also had to write down entries like sexism, racI wrote these columns on linguistics to attempt ism, classism and homophobia, when I saw them. to understand Duke through the useful, but un- But despite how painfully long those descriptions derrated, lens of language. This topic has been were, I had the choice to counterbalance them creatively productive for me in the past year, so with entries like community, friendship and comas I’ve begun to wind down my tenure at Duke, I mitment. I alone defined and redefined what each have been wondering how to describe the entirety of my experiences meant to me—my agency deof my time here through language. fined my time here.

My four years have been anything but consisAs I’m about to put the final entry in my coltent, but the amalgam of all my experiences has lection—“graduation”—and as I’m about to begin shaped who I am now. Perhaps my whole Duke my next adventure, I wonder how much I’ll look experience is some sort of motley collection, kind back to my Duke dictionary to define the experiof like terms in a dictionary—a Duke dictionary. ences that I haven’t yet had. How often will I use In fact, what if we all have been writing our own the things I learned here, in the classroom and Duke dictionaries? Maybe they’re complete with out of it, to define my world? definitions, tables, charts... and, for some of us, And how much will Duke look to us to define maybe even PowerPoints. itself? Because the truth is, we do define Duke just As we define our Duke experience, and as we as much as this University defines us. We are all let our Duke experience define us, our dictionar- entries in Duke’s own dictionary. ies fill up—entry by entry, page by page.

I am humbled to be in the company of stuMaybe we all write in our dictionaries daily as we dents who passionately and habitually redefine experience new things here, whether we spend our Duke and our world. And I am not only proud of nights in the lab, in the studio, in the library or in the collection of experiences that defined me as the cage at Shooters (or all of them). Each entry is a a student here, but I am so excited to be a part point in time, a memory that we all made together of a community that defined, and will continue to or alone. Even the most common terms transform define, Duke. into entries with new, deeply meaningful connotations, loaded with the memories that we made here.

Sandeep Prasanna is a Trinity senior and a Program For example, before Duke, “tenting” was just II major examining the dynamics of language. This is something I did outside while it was cold, wet and his final column.

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ast semester, after three and a half years at Duke, I felt exhausted. I was overwhelmed every time I found out that one more person I knew had been sexually assaulted. I was disgusted every time I heard the word “fa—ot” being used as an insult. I was frustrated every time I saw a whiteboard in my dorm drunkenly scribbled over with racialized comments. Most of all, I was angered that most people didn’t seem to notice or care that these problems existed at Duke. bhumi purohit The cancellation of Tailgate had got privilege? students passionately protesting, so why wasn’t something like the prevalence of rape on campus garnering the same reaction?

I resolved to thinking that some people will never understand, so there was no use in continually bringing up conversations about privilege—granted societal advantages or entitlements each of us has—whether they be related to race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, religion, or ability. It’s a lost cause—a battle not worth fighting. After reflecting on my own time at Duke, though, I realized that I didn’t understand most of these issues until I came to campus.

I grew up in an upper-middle class family in a happy suburb of Raleigh with neighbors who lived a very similar lifestyle. I was never forced to think about having been denied an opportunity because I couldn’t afford it. I was never forced to think about gender dynamics because all the women I knew led what I considered well-balanced, successful lives. I was never forced to think about race because my high school was mostly white and my ethnicity was only part of the conversation when people talked about Asians being smart.

Then I came to Duke, and the comforts slowly began to disappear. It started with the realization that being opinionated and being a woman meant I was a b—. I had to ensure that I wasn’t seen on campus with people of the same skin shade, because doing so would make me that self-segregating minority. Adding to the unease of fitting in on campus was the lack of designer labels in my wardrobe that could scream, “Hey, I’m worthy of being a part of the elite social circles!”

These discomforts were only the tip of the iceberg. As I began meeting different people on campus, I realized the world was much more complex than I had known. I became increasingly uncomfortable that my peers had not only been called names, but been physically beaten for identifying as LGBTQ on campus. The realization that rape wasn’t just a statistic took months to digest. Learning that several friends had considered suicide because they felt so alienated on campus was something I didn’t know how to deal with.

A part of me wanted to blame these problems on a larger Duke culture—on what I felt was the adamancy of many students to ignore the affects of their actions on others. The doggedness to be unaware of a world outside of our own, though, is such a blissfully easy perspective to live with. It is hard to recognize the privileges each of us has because being part of the majority often means taking the comforts we get for granted. It means having our actions go unquestioned. We can easily shut our eyes to the experiences that exist outside our own, especially when they’re a result of something so large and seemingly out of our control.

Racism, sexism, classism, homophobia—these words invoke systematic oppressions, but we fail to realize that systems are a creation of individual movements which we are all a part of.

Duke, though, grants each of us the privilege—a different kind—of understanding how our differences, our individual haves and have-nots, at times create barriers. But the bigger opportunity is the chance to open our eyes and see how, despite the differences, we all have commonalities that bind us together. The beauty of Duke is that it creates an ever-growing space for each of our stories to be created and heard. These stories, a result of the privileges and lack of privileges each of us has been granted, often define our roles and identities in the cultures and communities we inhabit. Duke is especially abundant with these stories, and being part of this community brings an individual responsibility to understand how our stories intertwine, and how our thoughts, words and actions affect others.

Last semester, my conversations—or often lack thereof—left me disillusioned with Duke. Now, I feel grateful and fortunate in knowing that my four years here have allowed me to understand myself and others in a much different light than I had ever imagined. I never knew the world as being such a complex place—so messy, yet so beautiful—where each individual has the power to impact another. I’m leaving Duke knowing that many of these problems will likely exist for decades to come, both on campus and in the outside world. I also know that we will realize over time that I don’t simply have my story and you have yours, but we also have a collective one. So what will you make of ours?

Bhumi Purohit is a Trinity senior. This is her final column.

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lettertotheeditor Take a stand against sexual assault We are excited to see that The Chronicle’s independent Editorial Board has taken an interest in sexual assault at Duke in their recent editorials, “New guidelines alone cannot fix gender issues” and “Students must work for positive gender relations.” In light of Vice President Joe Biden’s recent speech regarding sexual assault on college campuses, now is the time for Duke to be a leader on this issue. With the alarmingly high prevalence of gender violence at Duke, we as students must advocate for sexual assault prevention education as a first step toward changing our campus culture.

Out of our four years at Duke, only 30 minutes are spent on sexual assault prevention education. Combating gender violence requires more than just 30 minutes of freshman orientation programming. This is where a shift in campus culture must take place. Bystander Intervention Training, or the Prevent Act Challenge Teach program, equips all students, male and female, with practical methods to prevent gender violence from occurring. Select student groups have already received a pilot version of the training and can speak to its effectiveness.

This interactive training should be a staple in first-years’ introduction to Duke.

We plan to lobby administrators to mandate Bystander Intervention Training for all firstyears. As evidence of campus support for this initiative, we will present administrators with a petition signed by Duke undergraduates. If you believe this training should be mandatory for all first-years, please show your support by signing

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the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/ wal2011/petition.html. (You can also find the petition and more information on our Facebook event, “Preventing Sexual Assault at Duke: We Need to Do More.”)

Because upperclassmen often set the tone for life at Duke, we recognize the importance of spreading awareness of sexual assault prevention among upperclassmen as well. Thus, we will be offering PACT training, a more comprehensive curriculum, to student groups starting next year. If your organization is interested in receiving this training, please contact us at changeatduke2011@gmail.com.

We agree that student groups must step up as campus leaders to show that “gender violence and misogyny will not be tolerated.”

Extending Bystander Intervention Training to all first-years and making in-depth training available to students groups are positive first steps. We are confident that they will have a real impact.

Samera Beshir Trinity ’11 Lillie Carroll Trinity ’12 Sasha Kapur Pratt ’11 Catherine Meyer Trinity ’11 Emily Starrette Trinity ’12 Sherril Yuen Trinity ’11

Sorry I’m not sorry

am really, truly privileged. not talking about it. I know students who point out Two caveats follow this truth. The first is that where their parents lived on Main Quad and others I didn’t appreciate my privilege or recognize it who tell of professors who taught their parents deuntil this year. The second is that I’ve cades ago and still teach today. Since realized I shouldn’t have to express reI felt uncomfortable admitting what I gret about it. am a product of, I mentioned my tidMy grandmother graduated from bit to only a select few.

Duke in the Class of 1949. She was one But having the privilege to write a quarter of the Jewish sorority and left column should mean leaning into disas a Pi Beta Kappa. My uncle graduatcomfort, and so I am now confronting ed in the Class of 1974 and worked on this mildly awkward subject. Being at the Duke University Union Major AtDuke is a privilege, and one that means samantha tractions committee, back when they embracing both the positive and negalachman brought the Grateful Dead (twice), tive elements of the Duke experience.

Stevie Wonder, the Allman Brothers my favourite things I have come to love Duke in spite of and Jackson Browne. (When I learned and because of its flaws. this, I was like, “Yay, Jay Sean and Sugar Ray.”) Here, we have conversations about race, gender, And here I am, in my Duke journey, at a crossroads. sexuality, socioeconomic status, religion and everyTwo years in and with two left to go, I’ve been reflect- thing in between because these issues do challenge us ing on what my family history at Duke means to me. in our everyday lives, as students and as people. I now During the application process, I had strong res- view it as a privilege to go to a university where I am ervations about Duke. I felt confused when I was ac- able to stalk Campus Crusade for Christ for a semescepted, partly because coming here meant having ter (long story), discuss how to ameliorate housing to confront that history. Part of me wanted a school inequities for our future house model in the working where my last name had neither been written nor group, get to go on a retreat like Common Ground recognized. and debate the merits of the Black Student Alliance So I looked at other universities and found them Invitational weekend with friends. lacking. My day at Reed College involved significant Some satirize a perceived obsession with “culture” amounts of full-frontal nudity; I was witness to their on campus. I would say that being a college student at annual Hum play dress rehearsal. As much as I ap- a diverse school like Duke obligates us to have these preciate the human form and ancient Greek dram- conversations. On the plaza, in the backpages or in edy, that was a lot of bouncing parts for a prospie. HQ (von der Heyden), my interactions with people, Conversely, it would have been difficult to go nude both very similar and very different from me, have much of the year at McGill University or the Univer- made me grow as a person this year. sity of Toronto, and I nixed those because of freezing I am privileged to be exposed to these issues in a cold weather. fishbowl. S—t is real in the real world, and the opHaving found a soul mate and roommate in the portunities we have here aren’t available out there.

Class of 2013 Facebook group, I decided on Duke (it This is the time to talk about these issues. was meant to be, Superfine). These two years have I would not have known what the outcome of flown by. I’ve had the happiest days of my life here these conversations could be if I had not come to and also the most tragic ones. Each day feels like a Duke, and I’m not sorry for what I have been given, whole universe of space and time. There are people because this is who I am. here who have challenged me to admit my flaws and Next year in Jerusalem (!), and peace out, Duke. others who have frustrated me beyond belief because they don’t see their own.

Samantha Lachman is a Trinity sophomore. This is her Family history has meant, up until this semester, final column of the semester.

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