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‘A Long and Happy Life’ Family, friends gather to celebrate Reynolds Price

by Julia Love THE CHRONICLE

by Nicole Kyle THE CHRONICLE

Duke medical researcher Dr. Victor Tapson has become the focus of a U.S. Senate Finance Committee report issued Wednesday, which is now under investigation by the University.

Tapson, a thrombosis expert and faculty member in the Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine division of Duke Medicine, was named in the committee report as receiving $260,604 for consultant services from the drug compaDr.Victor Tapson ny Sanofi-Aventis. Tapson recommended that the Federal Drug Administration delay approval of the generic version of Sanofi’s fast-acting blood thinner Lovenox. The report suggests that Tapson did not specify the nature of his financial connection to the drug company to the FDA at the time of his recommendation.

“An investigation of the... report related to Dr. Tapson has been initiated by the Duke University School of Medicine Conflict of Interest committee,” wrote Dr. Ross McKinney, committee chair and director of the Trent Center for Bioethics, in a statement to The Chronicle Wednesday. “At the conclusion of this process, we will be providing a report of our findings to

The voice of Reynolds Price reverberated in the Chapel once more last week.

Nearly 400 friends, family, colleagues and students traveled from as far as London and San Francisco to celebrate the life of the late professor last Thursday in an event coined “A Long and Happy Life,” echoing the title of his first novel. In addition to tributes from friends, the celebration showcased Price’s art across genres with snippets of drama, poetry and song.

In a set of instructions he wrote more than two decades ago, Price, Trinity ’55, insisted that the ceremony last no more than 45 minutes— he refused to bore an audience. The celebration opened with an audio recording of Price reading a Ben Jonson poem, which ends, “In small proportions we just beauties see. And in short measures life may perfect be.”

Price, who passed away in January at 77, was a preeminent Southern author whose books sold millions of copies. He arrived at Duke as a teenager and stayed a lifetime, save for “a brief truancy” at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, President Richard Brodhead remarked in his address.

“We’re not ready to send you onward to the great beyond, Reynolds, and yet we know we must,” said former Duke president Nannerl Keohane. “We do so confident that your love and friendship, wit and humor, passion and intelligence will always SEE PRICE ON PAGE 6 TED KNUDSEN/THE CHRONICLE

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New fund to funnel athletics revenue to Duke Libraries

by Chris Cusack THE CHRONICLE

Blue Devil fans will support more than just the athletes starting this Fall.

When Deborah Jakubs, University librarian and vice provost for library affairs, sat down next to Vice President and Director of Athletics Kevin White at a dean’s meeting in February, she suggested the idea of a partnership between athletics and the libraries.

Their conversation was cut short, though, Jakubs said, and during the next few weeks, she forgot the discussion had taken place.

White, however, did not. Less than a month after their initial exchange, athletic officials called Jakubs

and proposed creating a fund for Duke University Libraries based on proceeds from ticket sales.

According to a Duke news release May 11, Duke Athletics will donate $1 to the libraries from every regular season home ticket sold, establishing the Duke Athletics Library Fund this Fall. Non-students are currently charged admission for eight Blue Devil sports—baseball, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, football, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse, men’s soccer and women’s soccer. Each ticket stub will now indicate that $1 has been added to the ticket price and will be invested in the fund. Proceeds from the SEE LIBRARIES ON PAGE 12

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THE FINAL FRONTIER Men’s lacrosse team powers past Notre Dame, looks to defend title in Baltimore, PAGE 7 Women’s lacrosse team downs Florida, earns sixth trip to Final Four in program history, PAGE 7

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The next phase of the Obama’s signature Race to the Top program will distribute $500 million among states that plan to expand access to early learning programs for children from low-income families and establish clear academic goals and strong evaluation systems.

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CAIRO — Egypt will permanently open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip this weekend, the government announced Wednesday, suggesting that military leaders are being swayed by growing sentiment here in favor of distancing the country from Israel.

Opening the Rafah crossing, the only official entry point outside Israel into the Palestinian territory, would ease the blockade imposed after the militant group Hamas took control of the strip in 2007. A report by Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency said the move was being adopted to “end the status of the Palestinian division and achieve national reconciliation.”

The report said the border would reopen Saturday but provided no other details. Israel warned that fully reopening the crossing could allow Hamas to build up its arsenal and create a dangerous situation.

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Government reductions force $15M gift to allow for cuts to language programs Nursing School expansion

by Lauren Carroll THE CHRONICLE

Several academic centers at Duke are expected to lose nearly $4 million because of cuts to government spending on international and foreign language education.

Last Fall, the University was awarded more than $12 million in competitive federal grants—from Title VI of the Higher Education Act—to be distributed over four years.

Because of the government’s spending reductions for fiscal year 2010-2011, however, Duke’s seven Title VI-funded centers will receive a lesser amount than promised. The exact size of the reductions to Duke’s programs will be confirmed in coming weeks.

The seven affected centers—including the Center for International Studies, the Middle East Studies Center and the Language Resource Center for Slavic and Eurasian Languages—offer a variety of cultural studies programs and less commonly taught foreign languages. These topics are critical to national security and business interests, said Gilbert Merkx, vice provost for international affairs and director of international and area studies. “[The United States] won’t have any capabilities in these languages unless the federal money supports the teaching of those languages,” Merkx said. “Virtually everyone who works in these languages in these strange places has been trained in Title VI [centers].”

Merkx added that military officers are often trained at Title VI centers in universities across the country—including Duke.

Carl Herrin, senior partner at the consult-

ing firm Global Education Solutions, said the government’s total cuts to Title VI funding nationally are expected to reach 40 percent, or approximately $50 million. Herrin added that these cuts were unexpected.

“Given the rhetoric of [the federal] administration, it was very unlikely that there would be significant reductions,” Herrin said. “That they would be on the order of 40 percent was beyond the pale.”

Although expected cuts have yet to be confirmed, some of Duke’s centers have begun to discuss strategies for combatting their anticipated budgetary reductions. Edna Andrews, director of the Title VI Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European studies, said her program will have to reduce its extracurricular spending—used to host guest speakers or hold conferences—in order to focus on graduate studies.

“We’ll have to put most of our efforts into what we believe in most—graduate fellowships and courses,” Andrews said.

Merkx said the Center for International Studies is spending as little as possible this summer in order to save for the Fall because it may have to cut “virtually all” programming in order to maintain core staff members.

He also noted that the centers may have to cut some programs that are required in order to receive Title VI funding—an obstacle that could prevent them from effectively competing in the next grant competition in three years.

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Some might say the Duke School of Nursing is often one of the most forgotten aspects of the University, but an alumnus’ recent donation is bringing the School’s “unbelievable trajectory” the attention it deserves.

J. Michael Pearson, chairman and CEO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. and Pratt ‘81, donated a $15 million gift to the School of Nursing in the name of his wife Christine Pearson, Nursing ’84.

The donation will name the School’s building after Christine Pearson, though the family did not request the name change, as well as allow the rapidly growing School— which has jumped in seven years from num-

ber 29 to number seven in the U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of top nursing schools—to physically expand.

“I am really proud of where the School had come and I was really proud of what they’d done,” Christine Pearson said. “I’m really hoping that our gift is going to make a difference in the School but hopefully [also] perpetuating the path it’s already on.”

Christine Pearson started at Duke Nursing School in the Fall of 1980. At that time, Nursing was an undergraduate school— prospective Duke students applied to the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, the Pratt School of Engineering or the School of Nursing. During her first semester, SEE DONATION ON PAGE 12

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Researchers find methane in water near hydrofracking sites

by Julia Ni THE CHRONICLE

Some types of water can now sustain fires, instead of putting them out.

A team of Duke researchers has found high levels of leaked methane in well water collected near hydrofracking and shale-gas drilling sites, according to a study funded by the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Center for Global Change. The 60 samples were gathered from private groundwater wells from five counties in Pennsylvania and New York.

“Eighty five percent of samples contained detectable levels of methane,” said Stephen Osborn, an earth and ocean sciences research associate at the Nicholas School. “We noticed that, on average, natural gas concentrations in homeowners’ wells where there is natural gas extraction is 17 times higher [than areas where there is not natural

gas extraction].”

Although nine of the 26 water wells located within one kilometer of a gas well had hazardous methane concentrations, none of the 34 wells located more than a kilometer away did, Robert Jackson, Nicholas professor of global environmental change and director of the Center on Global Change, wrote in a email Monday.

Hydrofracking, a method that extracts natural gas from shale rock formations, involves injecting over seven million gallons of highly-pressurized, chemicallytreated water into the Appalachian basin, Osborn said.

“The whole object is to increase fluid flow between geologic formations and the gas wells,” he said.

By extending underground natural fractures, hydrofracking creates conditions that facilitate gas flow back into the gas wells, where it is subsequently harvested.

Last July, the researchers began collecting groundwater samples and analyzing them for dissolved gas concentrations and major inorganic components. Although the analyses showed no evidence of contamination from the chemically-treated water, many samples contained methane levels as high as 64 milligrams per liter—enough to pose a flammability hazard.

Prior to the study, some homeowners in Pennsylvania had contacted the Nicholas School because they were concerned about the quality of their water after natural gas wells were drilled and fracked.

“In some cases, [the homeowners] noticed that they’ve been able to light their water on fire,” Osborn said.

Methane accumulates naturally in water systems in concentrations less than 1 milligrams per liter. Concentrations greater than 28 milligrams per liter are sufficient to generate cause for concern,

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The gas can act as an asphyxiant in enclosed spaces, but the effects of consuming methane are currently unknown.

Approximately 44 million Americans rely on a private water supply for household and agricultural use, Jackson said, adding that his team has called for a medical review of chronic, low-level exposure to methane through ingestion or breathing.

Nathaniel Warner, a doctoral student at the Nicholas School, said though the study is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between proximity to a gas well and the likelihood of having contaminated water, it is uncertain whether the relationship between methane levels and proximity to a gas well extends elsewhere.

“It would be difficult to produce usable gas without hydraulic fracturing [so] I think [the results] just point to more research needing to be done [on this type of technology],” he said.

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PRICE from page 1 remain vivid among us, and that this will be true both for each of us personally and for the University you loved so well and did so much to shape for good.”

The pair of presidents spoke to the professor’s dual genius for language and friendship. For more than half a century, Price was Duke’s “embodiment of a man of letters,” Brodhead said.

Yet as Price’s renown grew, his warmth never dampened. After his paralysis in 1984, he reached out of his wheelchair to give hugs, Keohane recalled.

Countless readers felt a bond with Price, even if they had never met him.

Early in his first term, Bill Clinton invited Price to the White House. The former president greeted the author by reciting the first page of “A Long and Happy Life” from memory, English professor Victor Strandberg said in an interview.

Novelist Josephine Humphreys, Trinity ’67, went on to become close friends with Price, but they conversed just a few times while she was an undergraduate.

Yet even then, she felt like a member of his inner circle.

“He was the one I followed, the one I wrote for,” she said. “He had that gift, the ability to lasso the hearts of strangers. A real star or outlaw does that…. Each of us thinks, ‘He’s singing to me.’”

Like many young writers on campus, Daniel Voll, Trinity ’83, was told to find Price if he was serious about the craft.

Their conversation began a decades-long friendship. Voll, now a writer and producer, was the first of Price’s 30 live-in assistants after his paralysis.

Voll quoted a chat he had about Price with Harper Lee, author of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” that morning: “She said,

‘He was the best of us. Homegrown. A kind of angel.’ And then she paused for a long time, and she said, ‘We were kin, you know what I mean?’”

Strandberg said for those who were close to Price, it is impossible to set the memory of him aside. His mind turns to Price at least once a day, often before he leaves home.

Each morning, he lifts weights in his basement with a portrait of the author in view.

Keohane shared the treasured memory of an evening she spent with Price at a University party. Sitting at the edge of the dance floor, Price tapped his finger to the handle of his wheelchair as the music throbbed. Eventually, Keohane asked him if he would ask her to dance.

“We swung around the room holding hands encircling one another, at first sedately and then with more abandon,” she said.

The event was planned by a committee led by one of Price’s thousands of students, Rachel Davies, assistant director for the University’s Lifelong Learning and Travel organization, who knew him all her life.

Emotions were so raw following Price’s death that Davies, Women’s College ’72, decided to wait to hold the event. After several months, Humphreys said it was easier to hear his voice, though the recording still brought tears to her eyes.

“His death shocked people—the sudden realization that he’s not here, you can’t call him up, you’re never going to hear that voice again,” she said in an interview. “[The recording] was one of the high points of the service. Suddenly, there he was. I get a little shaky just thinking about it—the voice.”

The service closed with a recording of “Copperline,” a song by Price and James Taylor. As those in attendance prepared to exit the Chapel, the voice that rang out belonged to Taylor, but Price had the last words.

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TAPSON from page 1 the dean [of the School of Medicine].”

According to the committee report, Tapson wrote a letter in May 2008 to the FDA asking its members to consider the findings of a scientific roundtable, which was sponsored

by Sanofi regarding the potential threats of the generic drug. In May 2010 Tapson spearheaded another letter on Duke Medical Center letterhead similarly arguing for the generic drug’s delay.

The report also named two medical societies—the North American Thrombosis Forum and the Society of Hospital Medicine—as receiving a combined $4.9 million from Sanofi between 2007 and 2010.

Tapson, however, refutes many of the report’s claims, though he stands by his opinion that the FDA should have considered further clinical data before making its decision.

In a statement to The Chronicle Wednesday, Tapson wrote he was invited by the FDA in March 2010 to discuss his thoughts on the generic version of Lovenox.

“During that visit... I disclosed my relation-

FUNDING from page 3 April, Duke has been lobbying to try and maintain its share of the total Title VI funding, said Chris Simmons, associate vice president for federal relations. President Richard Brodhead also sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asking the secretary to consider the importance of international studies programs while assessing potential cuts. Simmons noted, however, Duke’s options for appeal are limited.

Herrin said that though the federal government may support Title VI programs, the cuts

ship with Sanofi and indicated that I had done research funded by them, served on international steering committees for clinical trials funded by Sanofi and that I had received consulting fees and honoraria from Sanofi,” Tapson said, adding that his visit to the FDA was neither prompted nor funded by Sanofi.

Tapson said his primary concern was always patient safety, adding that the amount of money he was paid by Sanofi was incorrectly reported by the committee.

“The figure in the report... does not match my 1099 forms, which I carefully reviewed and which totaled less than half of that amount,” he said. “I am continuing to research the source of the disparity, which perhaps includes funds allotted for research.”

Tapson did confirm that his financial connection to Sanofi was not disclosed in his May 2010 letter to the FDA. The Senate Finance Committee began its investigation into Sanofi after The Wall Street Journal reported in June 2010 that the NATF, SHM and Tapson had financial ties to Sanofi.

The investigation was led by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Both senators could not be reached for comment. originate from pressure to reduce discretionary spending in order to maintain substantial funding for programs such as Pell grants— need-based grants for higher education.

“The longer that the money [for Title VI programs] isn’t there, the harder it is to get it back,” he said. “It’s not a question of whether Title VI is important for education, it’s ‘Is that more important than a Pell grant?’”

Still, Simmons said Duke is hopeful that lobbying efforts and government budget restoration will allow for renewed Title VI funding as soon as fiscal year 2011-2012.

“We’re hoping that this is just a bad gash,” he said.

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Going into the NCAA Tournament, Duke knew that any deep run in the NCAA Tournament would mean matchups against familiar foes.

After the fifth-seeded Blue Devils beat ninth-seeded, and recent postseason nemesis, Penn in the first round, they were tempted to look past fourthseeded Florida Duke 13 in anticipation of a potential Gators 9 semifinal matchup with ACC champion, and No. 1 seed, Maryland.

Duke, though, did not fall into the trap on Saturday, sliding past the Gators 13-9 in the quarterfinals.

Now, Duke is eager for its second chance against the Terrapins.

“A rematch against Maryland is something we feel really excited about,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said. “I think we are a much more seasoned group now and in a much better position to defend Maryland than we were in February.”

Along with the three months of preparation, the Blue Devils are riding high after closing out Saturday’s contest with a 5-0 run, defeating Florida despite seeing their three-goal lead diminish early in the second half behind the Gators’ impressive transition attack.

“Florida is a really good team and does a lot of scoring in transition, and part of our goal is to limit transition goals. They really came at us but I think we stayed very calm as a team,” Kimel said. “We had a couple big pivotal plays that put us up 10-9... around the 6-minute mark. We felt we needed to stall the ball, so I think that Florida was kind of able to capture momentum, but we were able to quickly capture it back.”

With this past weekend’s successes against the Gators—whose program is just two years old—the Blue Devils feel confident despite playing a rival and perennial powerhouse in the Terrapins. In fact, the win over Florida bodes well for the semifinals, as the Gators’ transition offense closely mirrors Maryland’s.

“One good thing is that the way we prepared for Florida is the way we have to prepare for Maryland, so it’s not that different,” Kimel said. “Both transition and score in bunches, and I think we’ll need to be able to stop them in transition and slow the ball down.”

As in any rematch, Duke will try to evaluate what went wrong in February as it prepares for Friday’s semifinal.

“Our first half against Maryland earlier this year from an offensive standpoint was great, so we want to look back... and kind of construct our offensive game plan on those things and on where Maryland is now,” Kimel said. “They’re not only a great offensive team but also good at closing offensive teams as well.”

Men’s golf won the NCAA East Regional by four strokes last weekend.

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Sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer was a wall on Sunday, recording 14 saves while allowing just 5 goals.

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Head coach John Danowski and his coaching staff didn’t decide on their starting goalie until nearly midnight before Duke’s quarterfinal matchup against Notre Dame.

Duke 7 Just hours later, their decision paid off.

5 Irish After sustaining a concussion in practice last week and missing the first round of the NCAA Tournament, goaltender Dan Wigrizer showed no rust Sunday in leading fifth-seeded Duke to a 7-5 victory over the fourth-seeded Fighting Irish at Gillette Stadium.

Wigrizer made 14 saves in the game, including six key first quarter stops that prevented Notre Dame from opening up a big lead.

“Having Dan back in the goal was terrific,” Danowski said. “Mike Rock did a great job, but Danny has been our starter all year so it was great to have [him] back.”

The Fighting Irish broke out to an early 2-0 lead behind scores from Eric Keppler and Westy Hopkins, but Wigrizer quickly rebounded with a string of saves.

The Blue Devils finally got on the board with 2:26 left in the opening period when freshman Christian Walsh fired a low shot past Fighting Irish goaltender John Kemp.

However, Hopkins answered with his second goal of the game with just 11 seconds left to put Notre Dame back up by a pair.

With the Fighting Irish held at bay in the second period by the Duke defense, the Blue Devil offense took advantage with goals from midfielders Justin Turri and David Lawson to send the teams into the locker room tied at halftime.

“Our defense did do a great job, and Danny especially, of keeping us in the game and going into halftime 3-3,” Turri said. “We knew that looks were going to fall, we knew we were going to open some stuff up in the second half

and our defense allowed us to do that.”

After the break, Duke’s stellar defense continued to thwart the Notre Dame attack, but the Fighting Irish also offered few chances for the frustrated Duke offense.

“I remember it was 3-3 for quite a while,” Wigrizer said. “It’s just [about] staying with the flow, not dwelling on the three goals and not thinking about a save I had. There are times when I can get really excitable and for me, I just wanted to stay relaxed.”

Duke took the lead with 4:21 left in the third period when Turri beat Kemp for his second goal of the game.

The lead lasted only a few minutes though, until an undisciplined penalty by senior Tom Montelli gave the Fighting Irish a man-up opportunity. Junior Max Pfeifer fired a shot past Wigrizer to tie the game, breaking a 28-minute scoreless drought for the Fighting Irish.

The teams entered the final 15 minutes tied at four goals apiece and Wigrizer made sure to stay calm in the net.

“You can’t let anything get into your mind because the second you start thinking is the second you’ll start letting in goals,” Wigrizer said. “You’re thinking on a shot and just like that, you’re a second too late.”

Freshman Jordan Wolf put Duke back on top early in the fourth quarter and Tucker Virtue doubled the lead at the 10:57 mark on a bounced shot that snuck past Kemp.

“Once the goals start racking up, it kind of takes a little bit off of you,” Wigrizer said. “You want to stay poised because three goals... is nothing.”

With 3:41 left in the game, Robert Rotanz sealed the win on a de-facto man-up opportunity created when Notre Dame’s Keppler went down with an injury but play was not stopped.

Notre Dame’s Hopkins completed his hat trick with 16 seconds remaining in the contest, but it was too little too late for the Fighting Irish as Duke advanced to the Final Four for the fifth consecutive season.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — After the first quarter of Sunday’s game, Duke found itself down 3-1 and had been outshot by the Fighting Irish 13 to six. They picked up just three groundballs, compared to Notre Dame’s nine, and won just oneof-five faceoffs. If things Game continued this way, the Analysis Blue Devils were going to be in trouble.

While Duke marginally improved in those statistical categories, those trends largely continued throughout the remainder of the game.

But when the final horn sounded, head coach John Danowski and his staff were the ones celebrating a 7-5 victory thanks to their defense, specifically sophomore goaltender Dan Wigrizer.

“This was our best performance defensively and that’s part of just gaining experience together and playing together,” Danowski said. “Defensively, after giving up 14 goals last week, I think our guys took it personally. I know our coaches took it personally, so that was a tremendous focus.”

Wigrizer, who suffered a concussion last week and missed the opening round of the NCAA Tournament, made six of his 14 stops in the first quarter alone as Notre Dame repeatedly attacked the Blue Devil goal.

“They were going to start taking shots right away, which they did,” Wigrizer said.

“The first possession they had, they just kept shooting and shooting. Unlike last year, when they had 10 total shots on goal in the championship game, they got a lot of shots on goal today.”

Last season, assistant coach Pat DeBolt worked with Wigrizer on staying composed in goal and not thinking too much.

When all was said and done, Wigrizer became just the sixth freshman goalie in NCAA history to lead his team to a national championship “When I first came in here, I used to always tell him, ‘Just take a big breath. Take a big breath.’” DeBolt said in the middle of last season. “If you ever watch us during warm-ups I’ll say, ‘Wiggy just take two big breaths for me and just relax. Find the ball,’ That was probably the biggest thing that he had to overcome as far as just his breathing and just calming himself down so he’s not really tense.”

The results were on display on Sunday as Wigrizer demonstrated great poise in goal despite not having DeBolt on the sidelines, who joined Ohio State’s coaching staff this past offseason.

“I was just ready and prepared to be seeing shots the entire day. I just wanted to stay calm and relaxed and just let the shots come from them,” Wigrizer said.

“It’s like riding a bike, playing goalie, so I just didn’t let that get to my head that I hadn’t seen too many shots. Today I just decided to stay calm and relaxed and that helped me out.”

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Just two days after beating Georgia Tech in a rollercoaster tilt in the third round of the NCAA Tournament, Duke fell victim to UCLA in yet another thriller.

On Sunday. the sixth-seeded Bruins snuck by the thirdseeded Blue Devils in the quarterfinals 4-2.

Duke’s day started off poorly after the Bruins secured the douDuke 2 bles point after victories at the UCLA 4 No. 2 and No. 3 spots. According to Duke head coach Jamie Ashworth, aggressive play by UCLA may have been key to the Bruins’ early lead.

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Senior Nadine Fahoum fell to UCLA’s McCall Jones in the No. 1 singles match 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 in Sunday’s NCAA quarterfinal matchup.

“We were on our heels from the start and we never recovered,” said Ashworth. “They did a really good job of being aggressive and being on top of the net and really intimidating us. It’s weird to think, but they were more aggressive than us.”

Despite the early hole, it wasn’t the first time the Blue Devils would have to overcome the doubles point, having done so just two days earlier against the Yellow Jackets. Ashworth remained confident in his team’s ability to do damage in singles.

“The character we have is to fight,” said Anderson. “We had a chance to win six first sets and put ourselves in a position to win.”

Freshman Rachel Kahan tied the score up quickly, winning her match 6-4, 6-4 to bring her overall singles record to 28-0 for the year. UCLA then responded with singles victories of its own, though. After winning her first set 6-2, Nadine Fahoum dropped the last two sets to McCall Jones, giving the Bruins a 2-1 lead. This was swiftly followed by a straight-set victory from Pamela Montez at No. 4 to extend the advantage.

Mary Clayton put forth an excellent effort on court six, winning her match in three sets 6-0, 6-7 (4), 6-3 to cut the deficit to two. With Reka Zsilinszka fighting hard at the No. 3 spot, leading 4-1 in the final set, it looked like the Blue Devils could pull off yet another tight match. But, Ellah Nze lost a three-set match to Noelle Hickey, securing the victory for UCLA. “They realized they had nothing to lose,” Ashworth said.

“If you’re going to get beat, you better leave everything you have on the court. It’s hard to win 4 singles matches against this kind of team.”

Duke finishes the season with an overall record of 25-5 after making its third consecutive appearance in the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. Fahoum, Zsilinszka, and Nze are staying in Palo Alto for the singles and doubles championships. And while the team season is coming to a close, Anderson already considers this squad “special.”

“They have a lot of heart and a lot of character,” Anderson said. “The tenacity and character we showed is what we build our program on. If we get the same fight and belief in doubles that we do in singles in the future, we’ll be a tough team to beat.”

fromstaffreports A successful week for Lindy Duncan For Lindy Duncan, it started with a tie for eighth place at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship last weekend, shooting an even-par 288 over four rounds.

Two days later, the sophomore was honored as an NGCA First Team All-American for the second straight year. Meanwhile, Duncan was busy qualifying for the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open. Her two-round total of 142 gave her one of the seven automatic berths into next month’s Open.

The week was a fitting way for Duncan to cap one of the 10 best seasons in school history by stroke average, a statistic that also led the ACC. She had five top-five finishes during the season and nine top-10s, highlighted by a victory at the LSU Golf Classic.

She has now been named both the ACC Player of the Year and an NGCA First Team All-American in both of her collegiate seasons, becoming just the sixth Blue Devil to be a First Team All-American in each of her first two seasons.

Bulldogs take down Duke 4-1 in NCAA Championship Round of 16 The Blue Devils faced two opponents on the tennis court last Thursday: sixth-seeded Georgia and food poisoning.

While the team overcame the latter just to make it to the venue, they were no match for the Bulldogs in their weakened state.

Eleventh-seeded Duke started out energized, though, producing a tightly-contested battle for the doubles point. The two teams split the first two doubles matches, leaving the point to be decided by two top-10 pairs. When the Blue Devils’ No. 7-ranked duo of Reid Carleton and Henrique Cunha narrowly fell to Georgia’s No. 6-ranked tandem of Javier Garrapiz and Hernus Pieters 9-7, conceding the doubles point, the match was all but over.

Chris Mengel was the only Duke player to win a singles match, taking down Sadio Doumbia 6-2, 6-4. The Blue Devils were not without their chances, though, as they won the first set in three of the four singles matches they lost.

Carleton and Cunha will now compete in the NCAA singles and doubles championships, which started yesterday.

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Keep language centers afloat A federal budgetary de- language and international cision for fiscal year 2011- studies centers, which may 2012 may result in sig- total up to $4 million in nificant funding cuts for cuts at Duke academic cenforeign language and inter- ters over the remainder of national programs at Duke. the current cycle.

The funding, At this allocated in point, it is editorial the form of difficult to competitive grants under determine the precise conTitle VI of the Higher Edu- sequences of a potential cation Act, was awarded to lack of funding. Since 2010, seven different Duke cen- when the grant money was ters, including the Center first awarded, Duke’s cenfor International Studies ters have diverted the funds and the Asian/Pacific Stud- to multiple sources includies Institute. The funding ing programming activities, is administered through such as conferences and visthe Department of Edu- iting faculty lectures, as well cation in four-year cycles as support for doctoral and with yearly installments of graduate fellowships. $3 million. The federal bill It remains to be seen has allowed the DOE to ex- whether the University will ercise discretion regarding compensate for funding lost the specific cuts to foreign should the cuts pass in full.

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As its official response to the impending cuts, the University has submitted a letter sent from President Richard Brodhead to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The letter calls for a serious reconsideration of the federal decision. Brodhead emphasizes that it is strategically advantageous for the nation to help train its top students in foreign languages. Although it is commendable that Brodhead has already sought to curtail the proposed cuts, it is imperative that the University— particularly the Office of Federal Relations, which serves as Duke’s lobbying arm—to take more decisive action with respect to lobbying the federal govern-

ment to reduce the effects of its cuts. In doing so, the University must be sure to further highlight the strategic value achieved by teaching lesser known languages such as Pashto.

Should lobbying efforts be unsuccessful, the University ought to allocate enough funds to the affected centers, so the centers can maintain their current level of activity. Some centers with small operating budgets, such as the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, use grant funding in part to support both graduate and undergraduate students. If their funding was suddenly cut, much of the interdisciplinary coursework and unique research opportuni-

ties, which likely attracted students to the department in the first place, could no longer be offered. Students should not be confronted with this possibility, as some of them may have chosen to attend Duke primarily on the strength of these language and international studies centers. One cannot expect these students to adjust their academic plans midway through their academic careers.

Duke must be prepared to assist the seven language centers as the endure the current budgetary storm.

Especially when bearing in mind that it is possible Congress may choose to reverse its decision as early as the next fiscal year, this is not an unreasonable expectation.

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Everyone If you want to keep up with when you walk into work on Monday after you quit the world, get a Twitter #nobutsrsly your job and cursed everyone out #rapture.” And, #peerpressure. true to the fluidity of Twitter, less than 24 hours later, There’s no question that there’s been some sig- Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake were already trendnificant upheaval in the world lately. From uprisings ing above God and Harold Camping. in Africa and the Middle East in late January, to the The fact is that Twitter has revolutionized killing of Osama bin Laden by SEAL Team Six ear- news reporting. The conventional concept of lier this month, to the lack of the rapture May 21, news fixes itself to specific arenas: televisions, not a day passes when there isn’t newspapers, magazines, websites. some sort of significant news of sorts With Twitter, the arenas comindu ramesh from around the world. And there’s bine. News expands into a real hooked oninformation time space for open dialogue, no question that Twitter has factored prominently in the broadcasting of all melding multiple forms of media of these events—reporting the events —pictures, videos, websites— in real time, concisely and at times with humor. and multiple perspectives into neatly packed, Take the revolutions in Egypt. Twitter users 140-characters-or-less messages, all convenientlive-tweeted the political turmoil in Egypt, provid- ly located in your Twitter feed the moment you ing a much needed news source. #Egypt became log in. Twitter users can read, react, reintera cry to discuss and react to the issue, trending on pret and re-share news as soon as they view it.

Twitter to such a degree that the Egyptian govern- The degree of simplicity, speed and accuracy ment attempted to ban the site. of news reported on Twitter is one that other Or, consider the raid that resulted in the death of news outlets can only dream of achieving.

Osama bin Laden. The news was essentially broken In 2009, a Pear Analytics study found that 40 on Twitter, as those in Abbottabad, Pakistan, realized percent of tweets could be described as “pointless what was going on, and tweeted the events to their babble.” This was probably true then, and is probfollowers, ultimately alerting the media. Twitter user ably true now. The point of Twitter, however, is not @ReallyVirtual, an IT consultant located in Abbot- the nonsense itself, but the flow of that nonsense. tabad at the time of the raid, received such a flurry That is, to say, the significance of every tweet is deof queries about the event that he, much to his cha- termined not purely by its content but by the way grin, unintentionally live tweeted the entire thing. it establishes its presence throughout the TwitterResponding to everyone from average civilians to the verse, through conversations and connections with national media, he tweeted, “The gunfight lasted per- other tweets, through hashtags, retweets, replies or haps 4-5 minutes, I heard. That was around 10 hours @mentions. Take the nonsensical “sitting on the ago. There are no other gunfights that I know of.” toilet” tweet: Lying unnoticed by 35 followers, it’s Later, he posted a picture of his street outside, just be- relatively insignificant. But if someone searched for fore the raid. Indeed, @ReallyVirtual received such a “toilet,” found that tweet, and retweeted it to his folbombardment of attention that finally, frustrated, he lowers, who, in turn, retweeted it to their followers, tweeted, “Bin Laden is dead. I didn’t kill him. Please that toilet tweet’s significance rises exponentially. let me sleep now.”

And if that toilet tweet were in Abbottabad, PakiOr, take the rapture, which was slated to occur at 6 stan, at the time of the SEAL Six raid, it becomes p.m. Saturday. Although few believed the event would pretty important. actually happen, the event exploded into the TwitterIn short, Twitter combines the best of the Inverse with a flurry of humorous tweets. #Myrapture- ternet into one singular mission: alerting its users playlist and #endoftheworldconfessions trended on about the world—and each other. Twitter users Twitter Friday, as people tweeted their preparations are numerous. Newspapers, celebrities, athletes, for the apocalypse. One user tweeted, “#myrapture- companies, regular human beings and even some playlist: 1. The Final Countdown 2. The Final Count- pets all have Twitter accounts. And it’s certainly down 3: Birthday Sex?” Another user tweeted, “#end- not too late to get one. I, for one, got mine less oftheworldconfessions: I ‘let the dogs out.’ It was me.” than two months ago, and it was the best decision As the proposed moment of the rapture arrived in sev- I ever made, even if the “babbling nonsense” poreral countries, people tweeted various happenings as tion of my tweets probably approaches a steep 80 the world allegedly commenced ending. In Australia, percent. Still, in today’s fast-paced world, joining Jon Gall tweeted, “Rapture time here in Melbourne. Twitter is the only way to guarantee staying comA rather quiet sort of rapture if you ask me.” As the pletely informed about world news. Get a twitter weekend progressed, with no earthquakes, volcanoes and #getonourlevel. or people beamed to heaven, users tweeted their humorous insights, recognizing, “#thatawkwardmoment Indu Ramesh is a Trinity junior.

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urham calling to the Gothic Wonderland: Summer session has begun, reading lists and pre-labs already in hand.

Durham calling to Duke’s academic halls: Come from your partitioned caves on Central, Belmont and wherever your feet fall.

Durham calling: Duke cowers and recedes.

Hold! Abandon your tomes, frat music and josh brewer bad beer.

For Durham is coma nook in time ing, brilliant in the summer sun.

Your fake friend mosaic shattered, Durham’s breeze blows through—yes, it has won.

A social or situational miscalculation? No, I have no fear.

For Durham’s thriving, expanding to our domain, and I, thankfully, lie in its grasp.

Of Durham’s secondhand bookstores—all of which I insist you visit before ordering on Amazon—Books Do Furnish A Room remains unapologetically unique. Located off of East Campus on West Markham, the store and its owners—Gordon Matthews and Richard Lee— are seemingly modeled after Anthony Powell’s 1971 novel of the same name, the 10th in his wondrous and prolific series, A Dance to the Music of Time.

In this novel, a generation returns from world war amid the type of austerity measures the world has only begun to suffer in Tory Britain and Tea Party America.

These “representative” (albeit oligarchical, usually plutocratic) governments scream that to save the economy we must pummel the poor in the name of rescuing the rich. In their futile attempt to ignore the constant pile of metaphorical corpses following these wars—social programs, morality and intellectualism—the wounded embrace nostalgia for the time before violation.

Like the characters in the novel, this Durham bookstore, beyond Luddite fears, teems with a rejection of the technological rat race of a never questioned worth despite the always apparent sacrifices. Within this blue building at the end of a long gravel driveway, a time warp lies behind a shabby white door near a sign advertising that the store is “Open 364 Days a Year.”

The three men who you will immediately encounter within the building—the two owners and staff member Yancee Perrish—are, admittedly, niche nostalgists.

When Richard Lee first approached Gordon Matthews with a business proposal, he had already discovered his knack for identifying valuable comic books at a Chapel Hill secondhand bookstore. Matthews, a quirky,

unabashed audiophile, loves classical music and vinyl records. Despite these two specific interests, the men share a passion for the aged and the old pages of secondhand books. Combining vinyl records, collectable comic books and secondhand books of all genres, Lee and Matthews have created a seamless and beautiful “menage a trios” of nostalgia.

Our generation, like that which fought in the mechanized schizophrenia that was the Great War can never really know of the time before our never-ending War on Terror and the resultant programmed paranoia. In more subtle violence enabled by the emergence of the Internet, texting and e-readers, we have abandoned that which humanity once held so dear. We are the ADD generation, “multitasking” but never doing anything extremely well. When speaking with Matthews one afternoon, he turned to me with a deep sadness and, like an extended sigh, told me that which he has come to accept: “I’ve had moments of great anxiety running this place. We are living in a shifting world. It used to be that people listened to music for quality—now they just want it for free. People are growing up not knowing what a physical copy of music is—that’s already happened, and I think it’s too late to save them. I always thought the most boring part of an album was the hit songs. It’s everything else that makes it an album. Now people only have the hit songs. I don’t even know if they know about the rest of the songs. The same is true for books. I think we have a less literate population than we did 30, 40, even 50 years ago. What I mean is that people read less.

When people do read books, they read them on some electronic device. They don’t read a real book and appreciate what it is. People like me, places like this—we’re a dying breed. Like you saw at the Book Exchange, the next generation doesn’t want a place like this. I hope I’m wrong, but that’s just what I think.”

Students and faculty, I pray we can prove Matthews wrong. Go to Books Do Furnish A Room and browse.

Yes, look for the books on your school list—the store’s “hits”—but also walk around and find the title that attracts you personally. Bring life back into an aged book or vinyl and take a moment to learn from those now long gone voices chronicled within. A paradox and its solution are written within Books Do Furnish A Room: The roots of “to furnish” suggest advancement and progress, but even in this forward march, we can never forget our history lest we live with nostalgia the word derived from the Greek “nostos” and “algos,” which literally describes a painful yearning for homecoming.

Josh Brewer is a Trinity senior.

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Record-breaking disasters Caution: It is vitally important not to make connections.

When you see pictures of rubble like this week’s shots from Joplin, Mo., you should not wonder—Is this somehow reBill McKibben lated to the tornado outbreak special to The three weeks ago in Tuscaloosa, Ala., or the enormous outbreak Washington Post a couple of weeks before that (which, together, comprised the most active April for tornadoes in U.S. history)? No, that doesn’t mean a thing.

It is far better to think of these as isolated, unpredictable, discrete events. It is not advisable to try to connect them in your mind with, say, the fires burning across Texas—fires that have burned more of America at this point this year than any wildfires have in previous years. Texas, and adjoining parts of Oklahoma and New Mexico, are drier than they’ve ever been—the drought is worse than that of the Dust Bowl. But do not wonder if they’re somehow connected.

If you did wonder, you see, you would also have to wonder about whether this year’s record snowfalls and rainfalls across the Midwest—resulting in record flooding along the Mississippi—could somehow be related. And then you might find your thoughts wandering to, oh, global warming, and to the fact that climatologists have been predicting for years that as we flood the atmosphere with carbon, we will also start both drying and flooding the planet, since warm air holds more water vapor than cold air.

It’s far smarter to repeat to yourself the comforting mantra that no single weather event can ever be directly tied to climate change. There have been tornadoes before, and floods—that’s the important thing. Just be careful to make sure you don’t let yourself wonder why all these record-breaking events are happening in such proximity—that is, why there have been unprecedented megafloods in Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan in the past year. Why it’s just now that the Arctic has melted for the first time in thousands of years. No, better to focus on the immediate casualties, watch the videotape from the store cameras as the shelves are blown over. Look at the news anchorman standing in his waders in the rising river as the water approaches his chest.

Because if you asked yourself what it meant that the Amazon has just come through its second hundred-year drought in the past five years, or that the pine forests across the western part of this continent have been obliterated by a beetle in the past decade—well, you might have to ask other questions. Such as: Should President Obama really just have opened a huge swath of Wyoming to new coal mining? Should Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sign a permit this summer allowing a huge new pipeline to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta? You might also have to ask yourself: Do we have a bigger problem than $4-a-gallon gasoline?

Better to join with the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted 240 to 184 this Spring to defeat a resolution saying simply that “climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare.” Propose your own physics; ignore physics altogether.

Just don’t start asking yourself whether there might be some relation among last year’s failed grain harvest from the Russian heat wave, and Queensland’s failed grain harvest from its record flood, and France’s and Germany’s current droughtrelated crop failures, and the death of the winter wheat crop in Texas and the inability of Midwestern farmers to get corn planted in their sodden fields. Surely the record food prices are just freak outliers, not signs of anything systemic.

It’s very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies. If worst ever did come to worst, it’s reassuring to remember what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the Environmental Protection Agency in a recent filing—that there’s no need to worry because “populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological and technological adaptations.” I’m pretty sure that’s what residents are telling themselves in Joplin today.

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DONATION from page 3 however, administrators informed Pearson and her classmates that they would be the last-ever class of undergraduate nurses. The University had decided to phase out the school, ostensibly for budget reasons, she said.

“We were so sad [because] they were closing the school and we felt it was wrong they didn’t tell us,” Pearson recalled. “There was a whole tradition that got lost.”

The well-loved traditions included a big-sister mentoring program and ceremonies for the presentation of the graduates’ uniforms and nursing school pins, she added.

“There was a sense of family almost,” she said. “There was a progression—each class was sort of special.”

The Nursing School transitioned from an undergraduate school to an accelerated nursing program, which now offers a degree in 16 months to students who already hold a Bachelors in Science. Pearson became reacquainted with the School two years ago when she decided to join the Nursing School Alumni Council.

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After joining the Council, she said she was impressed by the School’s growth—and surprised by the general lack of awareness about the School itself throughout the University.

“The Nursing School is sort of like the stepchild of the University—nobody really knows about it,” Pearson said.

“But it’s one of the biggest schools on campus and was recently ranked seventh in the country!”

Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and president and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System, said the Nursing School’s increase in ranking is particularly notable given how quickly it occurred.

“The last seven years have been a remarkable and almost unbelievable trajectory for the School of Nursing,” Dr. Dzau said. “The Nursing School going from number 29 to number 27 would [have been] an improvement, but going from number 29 [in 2004] to number seven [in 2011] in seven years is unbelievable all together.”

Dr. Dzau cited Dean of the School of Nursing Catherine Gilliss’ leadership, vision and execution as the catalyst for the School’s sudden rise in ranking. The School’s nursing

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For most Duke students, their stay in Durham has a four-year time limit. Senior year ends and the boys and girls in gowns blow Durham a big fat goodbye kiss before they hit the road. The Lucky Strike smokestack tower recedes in the rearview mirror, and they don’t look back. The migration begins in the weeks after the words of the commencement speaker stop echoing in the heads of the cap-wearers: the graduated class packs its futons into rented U-Hauls and leaves behind its Durham digs, moving on to jobs in trendy hubs of culture and commerce. The farther these fresh alums get from the Bull City, the more expansive the Duke Diaspora becomes.

But what about those who stay? The RaleighDurham area is the third most likely place for alumni to end up, behind only New York and Washington, D.C., according to an exit survey of the Class of 2009.

Chris O’Neill, Trinity ’95, who is the assistant director of regional programs for the Duke Alumni Association and the coordinator of the Duke Club of the Triangle, noted that in the past 10 years he’s seen an

uptick in the number of Duke graduates who stick around post-graduation.

“As Durham grows and develops it’s been a more attractive place to live,” he said. “The economy has played into that—it’s a reasonable place to live.”

With the economy still freezing students out of the job market, more people are enrolling in graduate school to help their chances in landing the perfect gig, O’Neill said. And if you’re going to pay for graduate school instead of actually making money, he added, you’ll need to live in a city that won’t bleed you of your money.

Other students have found positions as research assistants for Duke professors, jobs in the admissions office or placement elsewhere within the Duke sphere, according to the Class of 2010 exit survey that was compiled by the Duke Alumni Association. Others who responded to the exit poll—which consists of information from 433 members of the class of 2010—are sticking around to study for the MCAT or other entrance exams, with the intent of leaving Durham after they take the test. In the survey, nearly 50 people said they intended to stay in Durham, Raleigh or Chapel Hill.

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Ph.D. program began during her tenure as dean, and enrollment now exceeds 700 students—the largest number of students in the school’s 80-year history.

Gilliss said the Pearson donation is an affirming response to the School’s changes throughout recent years and is a testament to the hard work of the School’s faculty and staff.

She also noted that the donation is the second largest gift ever given to a school of nursing, next to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s $100 million dollar donation to the University of California-Davis to create their nursing school, which admitted its first class Fall 2010. The largest previous gift to Duke’s School of Nursing was a $6,000,000 donation from the Helene Fuld Health Trust Fund.

J. Michael Pearson said he hopes the donation will attract awareness to the importance of the nursing profession as well as inspire others to give to the School.

“I hope the gift brings some publicity to this School and will trigger other people willing to give anything of themselves,” he said. “Duke has the potential to be the best nursing school in the country and the world, just like they do in everything else.”

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“Unfortunately, libraries typically do not have an immediate fundraising constituency from which to secure badly needed philanthropic and otherwise support,” White wrote in an email Monday. “Hopefully, much more than the resource generated, the real significant impact will be... heightened awareness of more needed resources in this regard.”

Duke Athletics had been interested for some time in investing in one of the University’s academic departments, White added.

“The library is the heart and soul of any university,” White said. “Athletics simply decided that all fans... should invest in truly our greatest asset.”

Jakubs called the fund “brilliant” and said she is pleased that it supports everyone on campus.

Duke is not the only school to foster a connection between athletics and libraries. The University of Notre Dame, where White served as director of athletics until 2008, donates to its libraries following every bowl game appearance, and Ohio State University’s athletic department recently aided the university library in paying for major renovations.

Jakubs said, however, she believes the ticket sales-based model is unique to Duke.

“Athletics at many places are perceived as a separate unit of the university,” she said. “[White] doesn’t see athletics that way.... It’s part of the work hard, play hard mentality [here].”

Library officials are also hopeful that the publicity generated from the new partnership will be mutually beneficial, encouraging a greater subset of the Duke community to attend athletic events while raising awareness about the libraries’ need for outside funds.

“People assume Duke’s a great University with a big, distinguished library,” Jakubs said. “But we don’t get all the money we need from the University.”

Jakubs referred to the recent completion of Bostock Library, along with the increasing necessity of digitizing archives, as major projects made possible by the support of outside donations.

Both athletics and the libraries declined to give an estimate of the potential value of the fund.

The inception of the Duke Athletics Library Fund represents just one part of a multifaceted effort to bring athletics and the libraries closer together. In the near future, Jakubs said National Signing Day events may be headquartered at Perkins Library, and the library may also begin to extend its resources to the Krzyzewski Center. Jakubs added that she would like to see the libraries host future events for the Iron Dukes, who are donors to the athletics department.

“I’m already the envy of the [American Library Association],” she said. “I’m getting tons of emails from all over asking me, ‘How do I get that here?’”

If White is representative of athletics directors nationwide, all you have to do is ask.

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