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Despite discouraging market research, administrators are confident that the academic offerings of Duke Kunshan University will attract Chinese students.

A consultant report commissioned by Duke has found that many students in China are uncertain about the potential benefits of receiving an American degree in their home country. The report—leaked in late April— was compiled by the China Market Research Group. These results—in conjunction with discussion among the faculty and administration regarding financial concerns—have led Duke to rethink its academic approach to the new campus.

For the past several months, two committees made up of faculty members from the Fuqua School of Business have been developing degree programs for DKU—a Master of Management Studies and Executive Master of Business Administration—both to be modeled after the respective Fuqua programs.

The MMS and EMBA committees presented the programs to all members of the Fuqua faculty at a closed meeting Wednesday.

It was anticipated that the faculty committees would vote on the academic programs June 20, according to a May 12 email from Fuqua Deputy Dean Bill Boulding. Boulding could not be reached for further comment.

A new grant will allow DukeEngage to expand its reach beyond the summer months.

The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations of Jacksonville, Fla., granted $190,000 to the DukeEngage program in late May. The grant is targeted toward improving the student experience before and after the actual program— specifically the DukeEngage Academy as well as programming to be scheduled after students complete their summer experiences.

This grant is the first form of foundational support for DukeEngage since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Charlotte-based Duke Endowment funded the launch of the program July 2007, which began in full in Summer 2008. Since its creation, more than 1,400 Duke students will have participated by this Fall.

“One of the things that we’re really emphasizing as [DukeEngage] evolves is enhancing the training that students get before they leave and providing opportunities for them to follow up on their experiences,” Executive Director of DukeEngage Eric Mlyn said.

The grant money will allow the program to hire more staff members, including staff unaffiliated with the University, to help with the DukeEngage Academy, Mlyn said.

As it exists now, the DukeEngage Academy

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Unseeded Maryland sent the Blue Devils home early in the men’s lacrosse Final Four, as Duke failed to defend thier national championship in Baltimore, losing 9-4. SEE STORY PAGE 7.

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NC bill could add steps to obtaining abortions

by Chinmayi Sharma THE CHRONICLE

Women exercising the right to choose in North Carolina may soon face additional obstacles.

House Bill 854 mandates additional requirements before women can receive an abortion. The bill would require that doctors provide counseling before performing an abortion, as well as a 24-hour waiting period, a state-verified ultrasound to be administered at least four hours before the procedure and written consent from an adult in the case of a minor.

State representatives Patricia McElraft, R-Cateret, Jones, and Ruth Samuelson, RMecklenburg, introduced the bill in early April. The bill was approved by the House appropriations committee May 19. The House could vote on the bill as early as Friday, Samuelson wrote in an email Tuesday.

“This bill doesn’t change abortion law— that is not our goal with this,” Samuelson

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said in an interview May 23. “This bill is meant to afford women the respect of giving them all the available information about this tough decision and trust that after that, they will be better able to make the best decision for themselves in the long term.”

According to a Civitas poll, 56 percent of North Carolinian voters are in support of this bill with 36 percent in opposition and 8 percent who either do not know or refuse to give an opinion.

Samuelson noted that there are 25 other states that impose a waiting period, which she said is partially to allow physicians to discover the signs of rape or incest and offer help if the woman does not want an abortion. She added that regional studies show that the bill is projected to prevent about 2,900 abortions per year. It is estimated that these births would cost $7 million, though the bill states that Medicaid will cover the cost of these births.

Opponents of the bill, however, are con-

cerned that many women may not merit Medicaid coverage and that these requirements could become financial burdens.

State representative Beverly Earle, D-Mecklenburg, said it is important to remember the stigma attached to Medicaid and the hesitation with which some women may or may not use it.

“If women don’t qualify for, or want to use, Medicaid then they must bear the burden for the cost of not only the ultrasound and procedure but also the travel and overnight stay costs,” Earle said. “There are many small towns in North Carolina that would not have the facilities for an abortion or ultrasound after 24 hours wait.”

Samuelson said, however, that the bill’s budget also includes the creation of a website detailing pregnancy counseling centers, so that women can find clinics in their vicinity.

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Duke Kunshan University is undergoing construction and is on target for a Fall 2012 opening.

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—Rui Dai in “The nightclub phenomenon.” See column page 11

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The movement to transform Syria appeared Wednesday to take a critical step forward in an unlikely spot: With this sunny beach resort town as a backdrop, about 300 Assad opponents gathered at a hotel to try to give structure and voice to a movement that has been leaderless and disparate. Because most activists in Syria were prevented from attending the conference because of security concerns, and, given the history of squabbling within the exiled Syrian community, it was unclear whether the effort would succeed.

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University joins initiative to curb binge drinking

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The key to combating binge drinking might lie beyond Duke’s campus.

Duke recently joined 13 other universities in a new collaborative informationsharing initiative that uses joint data to determine which programs are most effective in curbing dangerous drinking habits. The Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking is the first action of Dartmouth College’s National College Health Improvement Project. Founded in 2010, NCHIP uses a practical model to make recommendations and measure the progress of various strategies that strive to decrease binge drinking.

“The collaborative will build on existing efforts ongoing at each participating college or university,” said Justin Anderson, director of media relations at Dartmouth. “The collaborative will promote sharing across participants that includes data, outcomes, processes, approaches to change and contextual factors that may influence change.”

Anderson said about 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking, which involves consuming five alcoholic drinks in two hours for men and four drinks in two hours for women. According to the the National Institute on Alcohol SEE ALCOHOL ON PAGE 4

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Duke has joined the Learning Collaborative on High-Risk Drinking, along with 13 other universities, to share data that will determine which strategies best control binge drinking on college campuses.

PAVE and SOC combine to quell sexual violence

by Maggie Spini THE CHRONICLE

In the past several months, lawmakers have renewed efforts to battle sexual assault on college campuses, highlighted by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s emphatic “No means no” in a speech at the University of New Hampshire on behalf of the Department of Education during which he introduced new guidelines on campus sexual assault for schools receiving federal funds.

But some Americans think legislation is not enough to effectively combat sexual violence on college campuses. Two national organizations—Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment as well as Security On Campus, Inc.—are partnering to sponsor the Safe Campus, Strong Voices national campaign, launched May 26.

Announced to follow the Senate’s April 14 introduction of the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (SaVE) Act, the campaign aims to prevent sexual assault, raise awareness of the underreporting of sexual crimes and empower students as bystanders.

“We want to give students creative ways to be involved in preventing violence against women,” said Melissa Lucchesi, SOC’s outreach education coordinator. “If [a student] sees someone leaving a party intoxicated, they might feel uncomfortable stepping in directly so we want to give them creative ways [to intervene].”

Toolkits assembled by SOC and PAVE are components to the campaign and include educational handouts and DVDs students can use at awareness events, Lucchesi said.

Though the campaign will take place only

in September—Campus Safety Awareness Month—it aims to change campus cultures over the long term to promote awareness about sexual assault and to encourage more open environments to report its occurrence, she added.

Sheila Broderick, sexual assault support services coordinator for the Women’s Center, said she does not know if Duke will participate in this campaign, but noted that the University promotes many sexual assault awareness and prevention initiatives, including student group programs and posters on buses. She also noted that it is important for initiatives to happen over the course of the school year.

Though there have been national efforts to combat sexual violence on campuses in the past, Lucchesi said the Safe Campus, Strong Voices Campaign is unique because of its national status—PAVE and SOC hope the campaign will be on at least one campus in every state—but also due to its association with the SaVE Act, introduced by Senators Bob Casey (D-P.A.) and Patty Murray (D-W.A.).

“Eventually we’re hoping this campaign will become part of mandated education [if SaVE passes],” Lucchesi said. “We don’t want [sexual assault] just to be something that’s an issue for just survivors themselves or people who know survivors. This is [everyone’s] issue.”

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As part of the initiative, Duke will participate in face-toface workshops every six months, with the first session set for June 29 to July 1 at Dartmouth. Participating universities will also attend monthly virtual meetings with experts.

Results from the findings are expected to be published in July 2012.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said joining the project was part of the University’s continuing efforts to reduce alcohol abuse, noting that it was not a response to any specific event.

Duke’s alcohol policy has, for the most part, remained consistent over the past few years. Moneta added that Duke will maintain its alcohol amnesty policy, as defined in the health and safety intervention section of Duke’s undergraduate alcohol policy. The policy states that students who seek medical assistance for themselves or others will not undergo formal disciplinary action for alcohol-related violations as long as they have not broken other University rules.

“Our response to harmful drinking is ongoing, it’s persistent,” Moneta said. “[The Learning Collaborative] is not a quick fix—it’s not something focused on short-term problems.”

To address the existing culture of dangerous drinking, the University will work with NCHIP to make campus events “more celebratory and safer at the same time,” said Tom Szigethy, associate dean and director of the Duke Student Wellness Center. He cited the recent changes to the Last Day Of Classes celebration as an example of successful policy implementation.

“After the prevention strategies were put in place, students said they had the best LDOC ever,” Szigethy said. “You want… to not have behaviors that lead to hospitalization.”

Szigethy said though he cannot predict the results of joining the initiative, he hopes it will reduce risky drinking behaviors.

“I would not say it’s a move against drinking,” Szigethy said. “It’s a move against high-risk drinking.”

Moneta said hazardous drinking is not a Duke problem, but rather a universal college problem.

“There’s no dispute anywhere that every campus in America has some percentage of students that abuse alcohol,” Moneta said.

The idea for NCHIP came from President of Dartmouth College Jim Yong Kim. Kim sought to address binge drinking problems using collaborative learning practices, Anderson said.

“The problem [of binge drinking] is often thought of as intractable,” Anderson said. “We think approaching it from a new way—as a public health problem—will yield positive results. We have to try.”

is a two-day intensive program, which occurs between final exams and commencement, and offers informational sessions to students who are about to begin their summer experience.

Upon completion, students evaluate the academy. Evaluation results have improved since its creation, Mlyn noted.

“One question we ask is should the academy be mandatory, and the majority of students always say yes,” he said. “Despite the fact that there may be other things students want to do, they feel it is a valuable experience.”

Mlyn said DukeEngage plans on offering a series of retreats upon students’ return to campus, such as continuing a civic engagement leadership retreat that was piloted last year. The funding will create a second retreat to help students connect their summer experience with public policy, which would include a trip to Washington, D.C. The funding may also be used to supplement budgets for program directors to host events once students are back at Duke.

Third-party DukeEngage programs, which are run by nonDuke organizations like Social Entrepreneur Corps in Guatemala, will also benefit from the grant. Mlyn said students who participate in a third-party program will be able to participate in the retreats. The program may also begin funding the thirdparties directly or fund a University staff member to follow up with third-party program participants.

The fact that the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations decided to award the grant to Duke is notable because the organization tends to fund smaller liberal arts colleges as opposed to research universities, said Mimi O’Brien, assistant vice president for corporate and foundation relations at Duke. She added that President Richard Brodhead was in Jacksonville last year, where he visited the Foundations to discuss grant possibilities for a variety of Duke programs, but the Foundations was especially attracted to DukeEngage.

Jonathan Howe, executive director of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, said he was impressed by Brodhead’s deep dedication to DukeEngage, as well as how innovative the program has been for Duke. It has served as a model for similar ventures at other universities, he added.

“This seemed like an outstanding program, and our money could be used very well in further developing the preparation and for when students come back so that they get real value from their [civic engagement] experience,” Howe said. “In the special case of a university like Duke, [if we decide to award a grant] it has to be a particularly sterling program that is making a difference both at the University and at other universities.”

The grant comes at a time when applications for DukeEngage are at an all-time high, experiencing a 20 percent increase during 2010-2011 compared to last year. High school seniors also mark DukeEngage as the number one reason why they applied to Duke in their admissions essays, Mlyn said.

“The fact that DukeEngage is attracting external support, [that] a foundation that is outside of the University has decided to support DukeEngage is huge,” he said. “It’s going to allow us to do so much.”

all women in college become victims of either attempted or completed rape each academic year. Less than 5 percent of these rapes, however, are reported to campus authorities or law enforcement.

If passed, SaVE would amend the current Jeanne Clery Act to update assault policy requirements for institutions of higher education. It would also address a broader scope of intimate partner violence—such as stalking, date violence, sexual violence and domestic violence offenses—in addition to requiring more comprehensive prevention education and victims’ rights provisions.

Proponents of the bill hope these changes, if passed, will facilitate collaboration between the departments of justice and education to prevent and respond to sexual assault and other intimate partner violence. Currently, the Clery Act requires postsecondary institutions to adopt a policy regarding sexual assault and to report its crime statistics.

Duke’s most recent Clery Security Report, released Sept.

30, 2010, showed an increase in the number of forcible sex offenses—13 in 2009 compared to five in both 2008 and 2007—which University officials attributed to revisions in Duke’s sexual misconduct policy. The policy now requires University officials, including resident advisors and first-year advisory counselors, to report all student-on-student sexual misconduct incidents.

“We can definitely say that the increased number is due to more reporting by Student Affairs and that policy that they changed last year,” Duke Police Chief John Dailey, told The Chronicle in October 2010.

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Blue Devils stymied by Maryland Terrapins’ physicality too much for Duke

by Jacob Levitt THE CHRONICLE

BALTIMORE— Duke’s spectacular opening minutes were reflected everywhere except where it counted—the scoreboard.

Despite a host of opportunities, the fifthseeded Blue Devils Terps 9 mustered just one Duke 4 early goal because of spectacular play

by Maryland goaltender Niko Amato. As the game became a defensive struggle to the finish, Duke lived to rue those lost chances.

In a defensive struggle characterized by physical play on Saturday afternoon at M&T Bank Stadium, the unseeded Terrapins moved past the Blue Devils 9-4 to advance to the NCAA championship, where they eventually lost to Virginia.

Duke’s failure to control the ball meant that its defense was pressured constantly by the Terrapin attack. More than 15 minutes passed between each of the Blue Devils’ four goals as Maryland was able to kill any momentum the Blue Devils’ might have been able to build with bone-jarring hits, faceoff wins and a methodical attack.

“Maryland was too physical, too strong and too athletic today,” said Duke head coach

John Danowski. “And, I think it showed.”

Despite the Terrapin’s obvious advantage in size and strength, the biggest factor throughout the game was controlling momentum. After Greg DeLuca won the opening faceoff against Curtis Holmes, who had positively dominated the Blue Devils in the ACC championship, the Duke offense worked quickly, and sophomore midfielder David Lawson buried the first shot of the game. As the first quarter wore on, the Blue Devils appeared to be in solid control of the game despite leading by only one goal.

They rolled off another four shots, three which required saves, before the Terrapins got a chance to really run their offense. “[Amato] is a great goalie to play the way he has all season. We knew he was good coming in,” junior midfielder Justin Turri said.

“He made some great saves early that got them momentum, some saves inside… I’ve got to tip my cap to him—he played well.”

By the end of the first half, though, the Terrapins had clawed back to amass a 5-2 lead and seemed to be feeding off the energy from a raucous pro-Maryland crowd of 45,039 in the Baltimore Ravens’ M & T Bank Stadium. Even SEE M. LACROSSE ON PAGE 8

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Midfielder Robert Rotanz assisted David Lawson on the game’s first goal but Duke could not hold the momentum.

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BALTIMORE— For the defending national champions and sixth ranked team in the nation, a meeting with an unranked team in the national semifinals should seem like a gift from above. Unfortunately Game for Duke, that team Analysis had just beaten the Blue Devils for the ACC championship, and was playing just 30 miles from its campus.

In front of over 40,000 fans in Baltimore—most of whom cheered rabidly for Maryland—the Blue Devils simply couldn’t match the intensity and emotion that characterized the Terrapins’ performance, and Duke was bounced from the Final Four in shocking fashion.

“They hit us to the ground a lot in the first half. Ultimately, they kind of beat us up and there wasn’t too much we could do about it,” midfielder David Lawson said.

Against a veteran team, the Blue Devils were physically outmatched for the majority of the game, and Maryland capitalized on a key Duke injury that changed the complexion of the game. Longstick midfielder CJ Costabile, who scored the national championship-clinching goal last year just seconds after a faceoff win, was forced to play with a broken bone in his hand—meaning Duke could not rely on their primary faceoff threat.

Without Costabile at the faceoff, the Blue Devils won a paltry six of the game’s 17 faceoffs, giving the Terrapins a huge advantage in possession, which they often

quickly turned into offense.

“We weren’t as athletic… CJ at full strength can give us a little more. We faced off two freshmen and a sophomore and obviously CJ has taken a lot of draws throughout his career,” Danowski said.

Seconds after Josh Offit’s goal cut the Maryland lead to one in the second quarter, Curtis Holmes’s faceoff win—one of his 11 in the game—turned into a goal that the Blue Devils would never recover from. Holmes scooped up the ball, sprinted downfield and rocketed a shot to the top left corner of the net past Duke goalkeeper Dan Wigrizer, and the Terrapins would never look back.

“I think it was going to be about discipline and the ground ball battle and the face-off battle.... Stealing a few extra possessions with the face-offs and the rides and the clears was huge. Those made the biggest difference today,” Terrapin attacker Grant Catalino said.

To make matters worse for Duke, the Blue Devils’ uncharacteristic inability to secure ground balls combined with a suffocating Maryland defense made it difficult for Duke to stage a comeback. After scoring inside of a minute to start the game, the Blue Devils went scoreless for 18:23, and allowed three Terrapin goals in that period. It took another 15:57 before Offit’s goal gave Duke three for the game.

Against a hungry Maryland team feeding off of its home crowd, the anemic Blue Devil offense wasn’t enough to stay in the game. Though Duke entered the weekend with high hopes of championship repeat, the Terrapins caught the Blue Devils in the right place at the right time.

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The Blue Devils’ points leader, Zach Howell, was well-defended all day and scored just one goal.

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Blue Devils can’t stop Terrapins

by Patricia Lee THE CHRONICLE

After earning a quick goal to take an early advantage over Maryland, Duke looked as if it was ready to upset the topseeded Terrapins.

But the Blue Devils’ were quickly put in their place, as Duke 8 the defending national champions Terps 14 quickly went on to outscore Duke 8-1 through the rest of the first half en route to a 14-8 win Friday night in Stony Brook, N.Y., to advance to the NCAA championship, where they lost to Northwestern.

The Terrapins’ defense forced 18 Duke

turnovers, 12 in the first half, effectively putting the Blue Devils on their heels for the entire contest.

“I thought that they were outstanding tonight,” head coach Kerstin Kimel said.

“They did not make a lot of mistakes, and they made us make mistakes, and they made us pay for them as well.”

Going into the game, Kimel knew firsthand that fifth-seeded Duke would have to play at the top of their game if they wanted to come away with a win. The two teams already met in ACC play on Feb. 26, with Maryland coming out on top 18-11.

Before the contest, however, the coach said the two teams would be very different from the way they were when

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they first met. She also knew that the team would especially have to watch out for Maryland’s offense, especially scoring on the transition.

What they didn’t expect, however, was such a strong defensive show from the Terrapins.

“I definitely think that we got taken out of our offensive game,” Kimel said.

“We are a team that likes to pass the ball and to move it, and that was our game plan.... They did a great job defensively forcing us into some mistakes. Maryland just wore us down with possessions, and eventually they [were] going to score.”

Not gaining a championship berth, however, did not put a damper on Duke’s successes throughout the year.

One thing the team constantly faced was having players injured or ill, forcing the Blue Devils to adopt a constantly-rotating lineup as they adapted to a variety of ailments.

“This was a very special group for us, and in general, I’m extremely proud,” Kimel said. “We’ve had a lot of adversity with injuries, sicknesses, things like that that caused our lineup to flux. I think our team just reacted really well to that.

I think our younger players, particularly our freshmen and sophomores, really stepped up to the plate and performed for us.”

Though various key seniors—like Sarah Bullard and Caroline Spearman—were missing from the lineup during the season because of injuries, they still provided valuable experience and support for their teammates, both on and off the field.

“I think it was really neat for the team to listen to this senior class reflect back on lessons that they learned when we met for the last time over the weekend,” Kimel said. “They will leave behind a tremendous legacy of leadership, and they did a great job in investing in their team and teammates this year and helping to create a tremendous culture for this group, and a lot of what they did will be carried on into the future.”

trailing by three going into the half, Duke did not feel out of the game, but the physicality of the game was starting to take its toll on a young Blue Devil team that was without two of its best athletes.

“We never make excuses, but we would have liked to have CJ Costabile. He played with a broken bone in his hand so he hasn’t taken any faceoffs the last two games,” Danowski said. “The loss of Jake Tripucka made us a little thinner at midfield. We weren’t as athletic. Jake is a terrific athlete.”

As much as the lopsided first-half tally veiled the fact that the Blue Devils played almost as well as the Terrapins in every facet of the game but scoring, the second half score reflected the complete opposite. Despite only beating Duke 4-2 in the third and fourth quarters, Maryland’s physical dominance had begun to give the team overwhelming momenum.

Senior attacker Zach Howell, the Blue Devils’ leading scorer, tried to singlehandedly spur a second-half comeback, cutting the deficit to two early in the third quarter. But momentum swung back for good after Maryland stymied Duke’s extra man opportunity with five minutes left in the period.

Less than 20 seconds after the Terrapins killed the penalty, Maryland senior Greg Catalino scored the second of his three goals on a transition opportunity, and the rout was on.

Duke surrendered another three goals while unsuccessfully trying to pressure the slowpaced Terrapin attack into a mistake.

Every time Maryland turned the ball over or appeared to open the door for a comeback, Duke was unable to come up with the play it needed to make.

“It was a little bit of a lack of poise,” Turri said. “We turned the ball over too much. We made atypical plays for us that we haven’t made in a while... their pressure did force us into a couple of those.”

Ultimately, this Duke team was a very young one, starting more freshmen than seniors while the Terrapins started five seniors and two juniors. While the young Blue Devils showed poise in their NCAA tournament run, they were unable to match Maryland’s physical ability and intensity this late in the season.

“It was tough to match their emotion,” Lawson said. “Their seniors made all the big plays and we didn’t.”

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Duke, engage the students The University announced lives at Duke. The grant presin May that DukeEngage, its sig- ents an excellent opportunity nature civic engagement pro- for program administrators gram, will receive a $190,000 to ensure that DukeEngage is grant, which will be used to en- more than just an eight-week hance the student experience paid vacation that looks good both before and on a resume. after their sumWith the editorial mers of service. help of this The grant will go toward im- funding, DukeEngage ought proving pre- and post-program to be rebranded as an ongoactivities, integrating students’ ing form of engagement that in-field experiences with their will last throughout a student’s other academic and social en- time at Duke, rather than an deavors. This welcome distinc- isolated experience. tion thus places the focus of Naturally, there is an incenDukeEngage on the students. tive for DukeEngage to focus Although some distinct on expansion in order to proDukeEngage projects have oc- vide more options for students casionally drawn criticism, even and increase the number of the most productive experience available opportunities. But will not live up to its full poten- doing so may spread the protial if post-immersion activities gram too thin and reduce its do not challenge students to impact. DukeEngage should apply their experiences to their place more emphasis on pre-

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The required two-day orientation that precedes the summer programs, DukeEngage Academy, offers an excellent starting point for optimizing the program experience. The academy should focus on educating students about their specific programs and the issues that will arise there, rather than generic lectures about the importance of service. These two days could be spent learning about other cultures and how shared experiences at Duke can be applied to civic engagement work.

Once students return

to campus, DukeEngage should draw on aspects of other Duke programs. Some classes are offered, but the University should consider additional types of learning ventures as well. Similar to the FOCUS program, which offers a seminar-style learning experience centered on a theme, past DukeEngage participants could meet periodically to discuss ways in which they are continuing the process of civic engagement at Duke. In the same way that many majors and certificates require a capstone experience, DukeEngage could mandate a final project where students show ways in which they have combined their DukeEngage and Duke experiences.

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maintaining group unity after participants’ immersive experiences would be to enhance the peer-to-peer mentoring system. For example, this system, which helps create accountability and collaboration for continuing civic engagement at Duke and Durham, could be instated in the Fall rather than in the Spring.

Although $190,000 does not allow DukeEngage to radically change its programs, the fact that the grant was designated for pre- and post-program activities is an excellent and efficient use of funds. Without changing any of the program-specific details, this grant presents an opportunity for DukeEngage to expand its influence far beyond just eight weeks.

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ecause it is college graduation season, it is easy to forget that much of the success youth will experience in the future is not directly linked to their higher education. Americans should take pride in the fact that they have nurtured a university system unparalleled in the number of opportunities offered to its students. But more than focusing on “the end,” they should also take time to reflect on paul horak where the educathe road ahead tional journey begins.

For better or worse, the foundations of success—or failure—are laid early in life, well before college enters into the equation. Those foundations are becoming less adequate each year.

America is an increasingly polar society. Its universities are churning out more degree-holders than ever before, yet its high schools are losing more students than ever before. This widening educational divide has dense implications for American society as a whole. There are two major economic implications to this growing polarity—the productivity gains and losses from disparities in educational attainment and the development of a distinct “underclass” of people unequipped to flourish in a serviceoriented economy. Both outcomes are worrisome.

And they feed a multitude of other policy concerns ranging from public health to future income levels and GDP. Socioeconomic inequality is at the heart of most of these problems.

That inequality is often mirrored in educational attainment. Ability gaps open early and are hard to close. Students who do well in preschool tend to do well in high school and their underperforming peers continue to underachieve. Achievement gaps at the age of 18 are the same as they were at age five, suggesting that poor public schooling may have a less significant effect than popularly believed. On the surface this may seem surprising, but biology has a convincing explanation. The critical and sensitive periods for human development come early in life. As toddlers our minds act like sponges, seeping up whatever stimuli our environments provide us with.

Better environments early in life mean better outcomes later. Investments—in schooling, travel or good nutrition—made in children before their school years are the ones with the most impact on their later development. Investments, however, vary between families. The most at-risk children are the ones least likely to receive the necessary investments.

They are “doomed” to remain in the lower classes as their wealthier peers graduate from high school, go on to college and eventually land high-paying jobs that support their families. This is not to say that it is ever “too late” to invest in a child, but what it does sug-

gest is that the return on your investment diminishes with time. The best investments are the ones made early in life, since the benefits accrue over a longer timespan.

The American emphasis on test scores and academic achievement has only precipitated a cyclical phenomenon where the privileged remain privileged and the underprivileged, underprivileged. An emphasis on cognitive skills, however, as measured in standardized tests only paints part of the picture. More than “smarts” are needed to succeed—self-esteem, motivation, perseverance and character are also important. These are the noncognitive skills that influence the ways we learn and interact with others. Whereas cognitive skills are largely determined by age 10, non-cognitive skills take longer to develop. This is because the prefrontal cortex—the area of the brain responsible for executive function—continues to develop well after early childhood and into adolescence.

Government-run early childhood intervention programs, like Chicago Child Parent Centers, have proved effective in maximizing positive outcomes and minimizing negative ones associated with the cultivation of these skills. They also make sure that parents are involved in the rearing of their children—a “no child left behind” philosophy inherently entails a “no parent left behind” one, too.

The path to building a better future starts early in life. Government policy should reflect this, and certainly not forget it. Policy should also match our scientific understanding. By emphasizing good nutrition and amendable environments, programs like the Chicago Child Parent Centers serve to enhance cognitive skills more than non-cognitive ones. This is a good start, but until non-cognitive skills receive the same amount of attention, our investments will never be fully realized.

That is because cognitive and non-cognitive skills cross-fertilize each other—a gain in one is a gain in both. The best students don’t just solve problems, they stick with them even if they seem insolvable.

American schools may do a better job at building “brains” than they are given credit for, but they do little to build character, which counts just as much. And even though biology suggests that there is an expiration date on the ability to nurture cognitive skills, no such deadline exists for non-cognitive ones. People will live and learn. So when we think of the educational journey that we want our children to embark on, we should acknowledge the importance of amassing cognitive skills early, but never forget the impact that cultivating non-cognitive skills can have—even when it seems too late.

Paul Horak is a Trinity junior.

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Government: here to help unpaid interns?

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onald Reagan used to say that the nine scariest words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

So it’s a safe bet that he wouldn’t have supported the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision last year to help unpaid interns by threatening their employers.

And you shouldn’t, either—even if, like my mother, you think “Ronald Reagan” constitutes the scariest jeremy ruch name in any language. I’ll run and tell that explain why in a minute.

First, though, pop quiz.

There are two unpaid internships: One in which you get to prepare a marketing campaign and then pitch it to a Fortune 500 CEO, and another in which you sit in a chair and read a book about the history of marketing campaigns. Which sounds better? And which one is legal under current law?

You guessed it. According to government guidelines released in April 2010, unpaid interns must engage in work that could reasonably be performed in an educational environment and is of “no immediate advantage” to the employer—and at times may impede the employer’s work.

The employer also cannot promise future employment as a reward for interns.

Save for a few politicians and the Minnesota Twins’ pitching staff, I’m hard pressed to think of anyone who, at zero pay, would be more of a burden to their employer than a benefit.

Why are these requirements so bonkers? Because they’re archaic. They seem to apply to a time when interns were mostly apprentices in factories or additional handson farms and required the additional help. Until last year, the government did not meddle with unpaid internships much. Violations didn’t get reported, and as a result, companies in violation didn’t get investigated.

But the spotlight recently placed on unpaid internships has labor officials in multiple states promising crackdowns on violators of the current law. Of course, that’s just about everybody. The result will be cutbacks in internship programs.

And that’s not good for anybody.

When I reached out to Willy Franzen—who is the founder of the One Day, One Internship and One Day, One Job blogs—I was expecting pushback. Franzen is hardly an apologist for the devious internship practices of corporate America—in fact, he wrote a passionate blog post positing that unpaid internships are unethical. But instead of telling me why they should be banned, he said while additional government regulation sounds good, it would be “very disruptive.”

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Faced with a ban, bosses could offer a few very competitive paid internships, Franzen explained, or simply end their internship programs altogether.

Neither would be good news, especially for the low-income students who advocates of a ban often claim to be looking out for. The few paid internships that are offered are likely to go to kids whose daddy or mommy knows the boss. Moreover, the wage rate for the average paid internship will go down, so students who were hoping to spend the summer in Hollywood for their dream internship will have to do so on minimum wage.

It is true and unfortunate that many unpaid internships are out of reach for low-income students who can’t afford to take them. But a job that doesn’t exist is no better than an unpaid one.

Maybe I’m just being cynical. After all, one strong advocate of a government ban, Ross Perlin, wrote me in an email that government regulation would cause companies to alter their policy toward interns. He said a ban would be “tantamount to ensuring a minimum wage for this subset of workers.” Since minimum wage legislation is usually successful, he said, this would work, too.

But the minimum wage works because (most) employers can’t get by without people working for them. If they have to fork up seven bucks an hour, so be it. It is unclear that the same necessity exists for interns who are currently unpaid. And if the argument for enforcement rests on employers having some dire need for 20-year-olds to get them Starbucks, well, I’m not convinced.

College students ambitious enough to secure internships should know what they’re in for when they sign up for a summer job without pay. If they don’t like it, unlike slaves, indentured servants or the other peers detractors have compared them to, interns are always free to leave.

As Franzen explained, prospective interns—like other employees—should assess their value to the company and demand it from employers.

But if the government insists on trying to help, here’s an idea for President Obama, humbly presented by someone who isn’t on the payroll but still wants to contribute (call me an illegal unpaid intern): Tell the Department of Labor to stop trying to enforce an unenforceable set of regulations. Ask Congress to allocate the fortune that would have undoubtedly been spent on this futile undertaking for a tax credit to go to cash-strapped startups that hire paid interns, promoting two of your main priorities—corporate innovation and education.

Just so long as I’m not the unpaid intern who is asked to mail the checks.

Jeremy Ruch is a Trinity junior.

The nightclub phenomenon

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aybe it’s just me, but I have never had a motivation or a rational desire to go to nightclubs.

It’s not as though I haven’t tried. I have ventured into Shooters II in Durham, Spanish Galleon at Myrtle Beach, Ministry of Sound in London, Babi in Chengdu, China, and numerous others throughout Europe and Asia. Each experience has been unique and interesting, but I would never voluntarily go a second time to any of the clubs.

Maybe it’s the sweat or the claustrophobia I feel when a sea of people jostle against me for an inch of space. Every time I exit a nightclub, I rui dai can feel the perspiration of everyone in the club soaking a picture’s worth into my clothes. I always rush home immediately and take a long, hot shower.

And then there’s the dreaded hazy stupor I experience the next day, when I don’t feel like doing anything but sleeping and watching TV. I have constantly pondered why nightclubs are such a large phenomenon among our generation. They are not only physically uncomfortable, but also socially inexplicable. I have yet to meet someone at a nightclub whom I would like to meet again in broad daylight.

I have tried to convince myself that my dislike of nightclubs is exclusive to the few that I have had the misfortune to visit.

With each visit to a new club, however, I have gradually come to accept that perhaps I am simply not cut out for nightclubs.

I can’t imagine anyone remembering a night at a club with happiness, if they remember it at all.

I thought maybe people go to nightclubs to find one night stands, But why? One night stands can’t lead to any kind of valuable relationship, platonic or otherwise. It is human nature to assume that, after a night of debauchery, the other person is sexually and perhaps even morally loose. This assumption cannot possibly engender any kind of respect toward each other or form any solid foundation for a relationship.

It still does not explain why floods of people go to nightclubs every weekend.

When I was going back home one late night, I saw couples and small groups of people nauseously sway and stumble their way onto the Berlin underground train. One girl’s face was as white as sheet. She looked as though she was about to lose her dinner. After a few dry heaves she simply collapsed onto her boyfriend’s lap and lost consciousness.

I am clearly not the only one who experiences the negative effects of going to nightclubs. So why is Generation Y so attracted to nightclubs?

Rachel Uchitel, one of Tiger Wood’s many alleged mistresses, provided a rare look at the behind-the-scenes of many New York and Las Vegas nightclubs in a 2010 New York Magazine feature. The atmosphere that she and another “bottle girl,” or cocktail waitress, describe in the article is both business-oriented and socially cutthroat. At the end of the day, the purpose of nightclubs is to generate money. What the nightclubs really want are the cash cows who come in the form of insecure workaholics.

In order for clients to continue to shell out as much as $300,000 per night, bottle girls make sure that overpriced bottles of champagne are constantly bought by the barrel.

Whether it is through alcohol, sex or drugs, bottle girls’ jobs are to lure the cows in and keep them spending. If the client is financially fat enough, the girls will maybe even add a little favor on the side, for a fee of course.

It is the job of nightclubs to appear as the exclusive place to be on weekends. The image that nightclubs carefully construct is that of one filled with hot girls, rich guys and crazy things that you can find nowhere else. They have to appear as the place where only the beautiful, rich and powerful congregate.

This business model works because by the transitive property of flawed human logic, many believe that if they go to clubs, they must also be beautiful, rich or powerful.

In the dim light and loud music, insecurities and identities can fade into anonymity and possibilities become infinite. It is the perfect place to meet some famous celebrity without feeling inadequate. Although the chance that the person you’re dancing next to is Lindsay Lohan is probably infinitesimal, it is nevertheless a very mysterious and attractive possibility.

Shouldn’t we all know better than that?

Rui Dai is a Trinity junior.

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KUNSHAN from page 1 Due to a lack of significant market research, however, faculty members chose to postpone the vote, possibly to August or September, said Fuqua professor Jeannette Song, a member of the EMBA committee.

“Everybody knows that China is important, but you still have to deliver—you still have to have all the research done,” Song said.

The leaked report found that Chinese students believe that DKU would offer a better education than many Chinese universities.

Chinese students are concerned, however, that a Duke education in China would not be the same quality as it would be in Durham. Also according to the report, the students heavily value international experience and see it as the main reason for obtaining a graduate degree at a foreign university.

China native Norah Yang, Fuqua ’11, said she understands how DKU could be appealing to students who hope to pursue a domestic career because a degree obtained in China could help the students connect with Chinese employers. She noted, however, that given the opportunity, she probably would not have chosen DKU for herself.

“I still would have preferred to come [to Durham],” Yang said. “In addition to the academic experience, I also wanted the cultural experience of being in the U.S., which I couldn’t get if I went to school in Kunshan.”

The report has prompted Fuqua to consider programs that would allow DKU students to spend part of their time in China and part of their time studying in Durham. This is an effort to satisfy students’ anticipated desire for an international experience, Director of Global Strategy Nora Bynum wrote in an email Wednesday. She noted that DKU’s aca-

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Provost Peter Lange said this report is only one of many that Duke has commissioned on the subject, adding that he still believes there will be substantial interest coming from Chinese students. He noted that this particular report surveyed only “a very small sample” of 50 students.

“You would no more generalize the educational needs of a country of 1.3 billion people from conversations with 50 students than you would make assumptions about what Duke students want from talking to the same number of people,” Bynum said.

The consultant report also found that Chinese students would not be willing to pay as high a tuition for a DKU degree program as they would for one at the Durham campus. DKU tuition costs will be finalized when Duke receives its official approval from the

Chinese Ministry of Education—a procedure required to open up a foreign university in China. Administrators expect to submit the proposal for approval within the next week, Bynum said. They anticipate a response from the Chinese MOE in six to nine months.

“We believe that the discounted rate of tuition we [will] offer is reasonable,” Lange said, noting that administrators are developing scholarship support that is expected to lower net tuition.

This summer, the Fuqua committees will continue to research financial issues, Song noted. The committees hope to raise overall Fuqua revenue through fundraising and possibly enrolling more students in Durham programs. They are also researching ways to offer DKU faculty members the same salary as Duke faculty members, though DKU students will pay a reduced tuition.

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upon doctor-patient confidentiality.

Fisher added that she believes the bill will deter women from going through the formal and regulated abortion process, pushing them to seek alternative abortion options, perhaps from individuals who are not qualified to perform the procedure—thus increasing health risks.

Samuelson added, however, that women will be informed the name of the doctor carrying out their procedures, medical liability, legal responsibilities of the father, probable gestation period and developments of fetus and the complications of not only abortions but the birthing process as well. Samuelson believes this information is necessary in the decision-making process.

If passed, the bill will become a standard for all health facilities in North Carolina that offer abortion services, including the Duke clinic.

This bill follows the recent provisions proposed for the state budget, which prevent Planned Parenthood from receiving state or federal grants, specifically for teen pregnancy prevention and women’s health. The provisions will also limit funding to the Department of Social Services.

“I do not understand the logic of reducing funding to important organizations that provide free birth control thus reducing access to it while making it harder to have an abortion,” she said.

State Representative Susan Fisher, DBuncombe, said she believes this is a prolife piece of legislation intended to pressure women into not having an abortion. She added that by forcing a woman to undergo counseling and verifying that she is receiving an ultrasound, invades her privacy and infringes