November 18, 2015

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WINLESS IN THE WINDY CITY Blue Devils show youth as Wildcats hand Duke first loss

Abigail Xie The Chronicle After the Office of Research Integrity released a report Nov. 9 concluding that cancer researcher Anil Potti engaged in scientific misconduct, some are expressing indignation at a lack of justice and concern that larger research integrity and institutional transparency issues persist.

On Friday, The Cancer Letter published a guest editorial titled “Penalty Too Light” written by Keith Baggerly, biostatistician from the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and C.K. Gunsalus, a scientific misconduct expert and director of the National Center for Professional and Research Ethics. In it they wrote, “a strong argument can be made that neither justice nor the research community have been served by this outcome.”

Baggerly and Gunsalus cite the “millions of taxpayer dollars misused, totally fabricated research, damage to hundreds of patients recruited for treatment with ‘the holy grail’ of cancer treatment, and a poor institutional response” in their editorial, asking “How could this case not be one deserving the most serious penalties?”

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Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Kentucky point guard Tyler Ulis controlled the pace as Grayson Allen struggled, propelling the Wildcats to an 11-point win.

Nick Martin The Chronicle CHICAGO—Despite a standout performance from Marshall Plumlee and the Duke veterans, it was the Blue Devils, not their shots, that fell Tuesday.

No. 2 Kentucky dispatched No. 5 Duke 74-63 Tuesday at the United Center in the opener of the Champions Classic.

The Wildcats were led by a dominant performance from guard Tyler Ulis, who

finished the game with 18 points, six assists and four rebounds. The victory marked Wildcat head coach John Calipari’s first career victory against the Blue Devils.

“We weren’t who we should be tonight, from the start,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “I didn’t feel like our team was here tonight like it needed to be, and Marshall kept us in.”

Heading into Tuesday’s contest, much of the talk surrounding the game concerned the play of Duke’s and Kentucky’s vaunted freshmen and how the emergence of Duke

sophomore Grayson Allen as a bona fide star would translate against the length of the Wildcats (3-0). But despite all the hype, it was the Blue Devil veterans that came to Duke’s rescue through the first 20 minutes.

After falling behind 7-2 in the early going, the Blue Devils (2-1) turned to their muscle in the paint. Through the first 4:16, Plumlee poured in Duke’s first nine points and grabbed five rebounds, all from under the basket, to put his team back in the game.

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Chronicle File Photo Students raised concerns about the diversity of CAPS staff at Friday’s community forum.

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After students at Friday’s open forum called into question the diversity of Counseling and Psychological Services staff, administrators are looking to tackle the problem.

At the community conversation hosted by administrators Friday, junior Christine Wei raised concerns about the lack of diversity in CAPS staff, noting that there is only one Asian-American counselor available to students. Wei explained that the ethnic composition of the staff at CAPS does not reflect the ethnic composition of the Duke student body.

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“This misrepresentation may prevent students of color who are experiencing culture shock at Duke from receiving proper treatment that aligns with their own cultural values,” Wei wrote in an email.

Provost Sally Kornbluth, one of the administrators at the Friday forum, said she agreed with Wei on these issues and explained that immediate action would be taken to address the issue of staff diversity raised at the forum. She explained that diversity in hiring is a priority for CAPS. “There will be several positions opening in CAPS, and we want to ensure that the counselors in CAPS are as diverse as possible and can serve the whole student body,” Kornbluth wrote

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CAPS will be opening up a national search for two additional clinical social workers in the next fiscal year, and the search for a new director has already begun, wrote Sue Wasiolek, assistant vice president for student affairs and dean of students, in an email. She explained that these searches will involve distributing the job announcements to professional organizations “whose members reflect the membership of underrepresented communities at Duke.”

Wasiolek echoed Wei’s beliefs that a more culturally representative CAPS staff would benefit students in need of support.

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Claire Ballentine The Chronicle While Duke Student Government maintains its large surplus fund, the Interfraternity Council has decided to repurpose extra cash.

To reduce its surplus—which reached more than $60,000 this year—IFC decided to eliminate chapter dues, create a new philanthropy funding system and move its scholarship funding into a new entity.

IFC president Max Schreiber, a senior and columnist for The Chronicle, explained that the changes resulted after three years of deliberations within the council.

“There’s been pressure to do something about [the budget surplus] for a while now,” he said. “We finally found a solution that works.”

Schreiber explained that the surplus is the result of IFC growing in size— which has resulted in increased dues from members—and cutting back on spending

during recruitment events.

Recruitment events will now be the council’s sole source of revenue with the elimination of chapter dues—currently $30 per member of each chapter—he said. Each student who chooses to go through the IFC recruitment process in the Spring pays a one-time fee of $75.

Getting rid of chapter dues will help chapters who choose the 20/exec standard housing option, Schreiber explained. Housing, Dining and Residence Life announced in September that selective living groups can choose to meet the 30/10 housing guideline— which states that 30 percent of a house’s occupants must be upperclassmen and 10 percent must be seniors— or opt for the 20/exec standard, in which upperclassmen make up 20 percent of the house and three of six HDRLdesignated executive members live in section. However, opting for the 20/ exec standard results in a loss of house

Anupriya Sivakumar The Chronicle Although most Duke students tuned in to Duke-Kentucky at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, a few skipped the game to voice their grievances about living conditions on Central Campus.

The event was sponsored by Housing, Dining and Residence Life and Duke Student Government in order to give residents an opportunity to voice their concerns about recent health and safety issues in the apartments, which were built in the 1970s. Joe Gonzalez, dean for residential life, acknowledged the poor scheduling of Tuesday’s forum, as the start time coincided with the tip time of No. 2 Kentucky’s 74-63 win against the No. 5 Blue Devils.

“If I had known there was a game today, I would have chosen a different day to hold the forum,” he said.

The forum was supposed to be an opportunity for students to ask questions

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Chronicle File Photo A forum to address student concerns about various issues on Central Campus—including bats, insects and mold—was poorly attended Tuesday evening.

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“The amount of people here today isn’t representative of the amount of residents that have concerns,” said a student at the forum.

Students in attendance noted that common problems in their apartments include cockroaches in bathrooms, extreme condensation, mold and that HDRL fails to adequately respond to these issues. They also complained about staff finding temporary solutions, such as stuffing cardboard into a hole through which spiders were entering apartments, and ignored maintenance work requests. Many called for an improved email system that would confirm work requests were sent in and provide updates about potential follow-up responses.

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Experts compare Duke lawsuit to other antitrust cases Kenrick Cai The Chronicle Experts are uncertain how antitrust law will be applied to the antitrust case involving Duke’s alleged no-poaching agreement for medical faculty.

Seaman v. Duke University, et al. is a class action lawsuit filed by Dr. Danielle Seaman, assistant professor of radiology, on behalf of all similarly situated medical faculty at Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 2012. Filed June 9, the suit alleges that Duke and UNC entered into an agreement not to hire each other’s staff for parallel positions—an agreement that violates antitrust laws. The defendants are currently attempting to get the case dismissed. However, Clark Havighurst, Willam Neal Reynolds professor emeritus of law, explained that the outcome of the case is unpredictable.

“The way judges think is anybody’s guess,” Havighurst said. “How lawyers present their cases is their business. But the judges tend to rule in these matters by how it strikes them.”

Despite the potential for inconsistencies by judges handling the suit—which was filed to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina—a number of historical cases provide precedents for the direction the case could take.

“There have been many [antitrust cases involving educational institutions], particularly concerning agreements restraining the commercial activities of college sports programs,” wrote Einer Elhauge, a law professor at Harvard Law

Chronicle File Photo The plaintiff alleging that Duke and UNC had an illegal no-hire agreement will have to show that the agreement was formally codified, experts say.

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Elhauge referred to two cases in particular: NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma—a 1984 Supreme Court case challenging the NCAA’s limitation on the number of television broadcasts permitted for each university—and Law v. NCAA—a 1998 U.S. Court of Appeals case challenging a salary cap for college coaches. Both decisions deemed the NCAA to be in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. In a 1993 case, United States v.

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Additionally, the High-Tech Employee case—concerning an agreement by tech companies not to hire away each others’ workers—also provides a precedent for the Duke and UNC case, Elhauge said. In 2010, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed a complaint alleging that a number of major Silicon Valley tech

companies—including Google, Apple and Adobe—had agreed to a no-hire agreement in order to prevent rampant employee turnover.

The resultant class action lawsuit was handled by Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, the same law firm that is representing Seaman in the lawsuit against Duke and UNC. The High-Tech Employees case ended when a district court approved a $415 million settlement.

“These are class action lawyers. They don’t like to try cases, they like to settle them,” Havighurst said. “A fair amount of cases are settled with very little benefit to the people allegedly injured, but a lot to the lawyers who never actually had to prove the case.”

Approximately 90 percent of antitrust cases are settled out of court, he noted.

For civil suits in general, this figure is even higher.

“An institution might decide that they want to settle rather than litigate it because it’s too expensive to litigate,” Havighurst said.

However, the University Health System may be more willing to pursue this case in court. The defendants submitted a motion to dismiss the case on grounds of the Parker immunity doctrine, which allows certain state actions to be immune from antitrust laws, though Elhauge explained this is unlikely to succeed.

“Even if UNC counted as a state agency, it would be immune only if an agreement to divide the labor market for faculty was clearly authorized by the state,” he said.

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Duke researchers contribute to largest tree of life in existence Vir Patel The Chronicle Researchers at Duke have helped develop a first draft of the most comprehensive map of biological evolution ever made—the Open Tree of Life.

In collaboration with 10 primary investigators from across the country, Duke faculty have been instrumental in assembling the Open Tree of Life, an undertaking that has mapped the evolutionary histories of more than 2.3 million species. The Open Tree of Life has systematically incorporated existing trees into an extensive phylogenetic tree— which characterizes the evolutionary relationships between groups of organisms through branching networks. In addition to presenting a “supertree” of life, the researchers have enabled users to search for conflicts between existing trees that could be the subject of future research.

“There are a couple of things that make Open Tree of Life unique,” wrote Karen Cranston, a principal investigator at Duke who has been involved in the making of the supertree, in an email. “First, it aims to be comprehensive. The tree contains 2.3 million tips, making it orders of magnitude more complete than other tree of life projects. Secondly, we are building this tree by writing algorithms that combine published trees, not by inferring trees directly from DNA or other data.”

Cranston and her fellow investigators were awarded a grant to develop a “supertree” after a 2011 National Science Foundation workshop focused on solving the major challenges associated with a comprehensive tree of life.

“The NSF had an interesting model for this program where researchers could apply to come to a meeting where radical and risky tree of life research was to be discussed,” wrote Stephen Smith, a principal investigator at the University of Michigan, in an email.

The phylogeny shows how the various forms of life on Earth were derived, depicting evolutionary relationships through a branching structure that resembles family trees on services like Ancestor.com.

Cranston, however, noted that the published phylogeny does not fully reveal the dissent among the researchers that study the evolutionary relationships between organisms—a result of the vast number of phylogenetic trees the project has stitched together.

“Our database contains many conflicting trees, so while the tree presented on the website is only one way to summarize this data, we have the underlying data that would also [allow] us (or others) to dig deeper into alternate resolutions,” she explained.

“We are working now on ways to report or visualize the ways that the input trees agree and disagree with each other and with the synthetic tree and taxonomy.”

Smith, whose lab at Michigan focuses on developing computational tools to study evolution, explained that the collaborative aspect of the project was one of the key challenges the researchers faced. “[My lab’s role in] this project was [to] work on new computational problems, but we are also interested in the biological results,” he wrote. “In order to communicate with so many people, we used a lot of tools and frequent conference

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The design of the initial phylogeny allows other researchers to easily contribute to the Open Tree of Life, wrote Jonathan Rees, a software engineer in Duke’s biology department, in an email.

“A big concern has been the future prospects

for the project,” he explained. “We want the work we’ve done with the phylogenetic trees to be of use to the community for years into the future, and we need the community’s help in order for the tree collection to grow. To these ends, one tactic we’ve used has been to put as much data and code as we can [online] so that anyone can see what we’re doing and run with it if they want.”

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POTTI from page 1 in a consistent, resolute manner,” Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter and Trinity ‘81, told The Chronicle. “The systems are inadequate from start to finish, and now with the ORI report you can see that there are no serious consequences.”

Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said Wednesday that the University is declining to respond to the editorial.

Baggerly, along with Kevin Coombes, another biostatistician at MD Anderson, were the first to publicly report problems with Potti’s data.

“The Office of Research Integrity investigation has now ended with no admission of wrongdoing by Dr. Potti.

The malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Potti, [his mentor, Joseph] Nevins, and Duke University was settled out of court, with no admission of guilt by anyone involved,” Coombes told The Cancer Letter in an article by Goldberg. “Apparently, mistakes were made, but no one was responsible for them. That doesn’t really feel as though justice has been served.”

The ORI’s report also included a sanction that prevents Potti from conducting research under federal funding without supervision for the next five years. Typical ORI sanctions, or “administrative actions,” are imposed for three years, but have ranged from one year to a lifetime, according to the ORI website.

“I think this is pretty dreadful,” Joyce Shoffner, one of the patients enrolled in Potti’s clinical trials and one of only two living plaintiffs in the lawsuit settled confidentially earlier this year, told The News & Observer. “Five years, what is five years? I’m absolutely disgusted.”

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According to The Cancer Letter, Potti currently continues to practice at the Cancer Center of North Dakota.

“I have personally interacted with Dr. Potti for the past three-plus years and can say with utmost confidence that Dr. Potti has always had a reputation of providing the highest quality of clinical care for his patients,” said William Noyes, lead oncologist at the CCND, to The Cancer Letter. “His patients have always responded with the highest of recommendations per patient surveys.”

Goldberg added that the Potti case was atypical in the sense that his fraudulent research was actually caught. He added that the reason this case came to light was because Baggerly and Coombes spent hundreds of hours analyzing Potti’s data, which researchers do not typically do.

Gunsalus explained to The Chronicle that the system of conducting research comes with pressures and incentives that are not always aligned with research integrity, and that plagiarism is more common across all disciplines than people want to admit.

“My personal opinion is that there’s a lot more carelessness and rush to publication than there is outright faking and falsification of data,” she said.

In their editorial, Baggerly and Gunsalus also described the institutional response from Duke and its administrators as even more “worrisome” and “pressing.”

“I think that one of the places we can improve the system is making it more transparent and easier for people to raise questions without being labelled as tattletales or whistle-blowers,” Gunsalus said. “Because it’s the obligation of everyone working in the system, and really everybody’s concern is the integrity of the research that the rest of the community relies on and that affects the public health of the country. It’s in all of our

interest for the research to be conducted with integrity.”

After Dr. Bradford Perez, a member of Potti’s lab when he was a medical student, came forward in 2008 with criticisms about the data, Duke professors and deans allegedly tried to quiet him and downplay his critique.

“Perhaps the saddest bit is that Duke has not had to learn any lessons from this. After all, they did not act on multiple warnings. They bought their way out of having to address this matter publicly by settling with patients. And the ORI report doesn’t deal with institutional responsibility,” Goldberg added. “An opportunity to learn was lost.”

IFC from page 2 council funds.

Because IFC chapter dues annually cost approximately the same amount as a chapter’s house council funds provide, eliminating chapter dues will not cost chapters selecting the 20/exec standard much. Schreiber noted that the decision will prevent chapters from feeling pressured to chose a housing option based on finances, which is especially important because about half of Duke’s 17 IFC chapters are choosing that option.

“It gives chapters the flexibility to decide what works best for them,” he said.

Another measure to reduce IFC’s surplus is the new philanthropy funding system that will allocate $4,000 per semester over the next eight semesters to invest in the service initiatives of its members. For instance, Schreiber explained that if a member is coaching a junior league basketball team and needs money for his players’ jerseys, he can apply for funding from the IFC. “We’re not only investing in service but in the service of our own guys,” he said. “We hope it leads to more interest in service.”

The third effort to reduce the council’s surplus is the creation of IFC scholarships that will now be distributed from a nonprofit organization, instead of the council’s account in University Center Activities and Events.

Scholarships will be merit awards for one member of each chapter on campus to cover part of the member’s mandatory fees to a chapter’s national organization each semester.

Senior Jonathan Kersky, IFC executive vice president, explained that moving the scholarships to a new nonprofit will facilitate easier transactions.

“We don’t have to worry about the difficulty of going through UCAE red tape to get our members money that they need to be able to afford their dues,” Kersky said.

He added that this will make it easier for alumni to donate to the scholarship funds because they will not have to worry about their money being tied up with UCAE. Schreiber noted that because this transfer process will take time to set up, IFC is deferring its scholarship funds for this semester to the Spring 2016 budget.

Although the philanthropy funding system is a temporary initiative, the elimination of IFC chapter dues could remain in place even once the surplus budget is reduced, he added, explaining that IFC finances may be self-sustainable with just recruitment fees.

Kersky noted that the progress of the plan will be evaluated in four years to determine if it was effective.

“The next generation of IFC leaders will have the opportunity to redefine the policy as it fits their needs,” he said.

LAWSUIT from page 3 rejects Duke’s motion, Seaman will face challenges in proving the existence of an explicit agreement.

Havighurst explained that the Duke School of Law and the UNC School of Law had a similar coordinated effort not to cross-hire but that it was not unlawful. In addition, former Duke administrators have previously stated that Duke and UNC avoided hiring each other’s faculty in the past.

“For years, we did not consider recruiting people from UNC because it was just not thought to be good for relationships,” Havighurst said.

“It wouldn’t have been good for the mission of either school.”

Seaman will have to prove that the dialogue between Duke and UNC resulted in an agreement rather than a loose guideline, Elhauge added.

“Mere coordination is not illegal.

If there is an actual agreement, then it would be,” he said.

Havighurst explained that he fears both schools’ work will be made more difficult if the poaching claims are proven.

“I would be afraid we’d start seeing raids to attract the doctor’s patients,” he said. “That would be truly regrettable because all it does is raise the cost of medical care so everybody’s scrambling for the chance to milk the financing system for more and more money.”

CAPS from page 1 “It’s important...for students to believe there may be a shared cultural understanding of stress and unease and to reduce any reluctance to seeking counseling services,” she wrote.

Wei explained that a diverse staff at CAPS would lessen the cultural divide between some staff and students.

“You can learn as much as you want about a culture and its values, but you can never fully understand the challenges that a person has faced until you have lived through them yourself,” she wrote.

Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, similarly noted that some students’ issues are so tied to their cultural identity that having faculty who can relate to their struggles would be helpful. He added, though, that there needs to be a balance between having culturally literate staff who can help students coming from different backgrounds and having staff who reflect the distribution of identities on campus.

“One can’t have a staff that is absolutely aligned with every individual on campus,” he said.

Although Moneta is “pretty proud of the overall diversity” of Duke’s current CAPS staff, he noted that more than one Asian-American counselor would be beneficial given the size of Duke’s Asian-American population.

He said that CAPS previously had two Asian-American counselors but that one of them recently left.

Wasiolek explained that maintaining faculty diversity at CAPS is considered during every hiring process, noting that currently seven of the 22 clinical staff members are persons of color.

“When we have open positions, we look at our current demographics and discuss our needs for the position related to areas of expertise as well as broadening CAPS’ staff diversity,” she wrote.

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LOSS SHOWS SIGNS OF GROWING PAINS Meredith Cash The Chronicle CHICAGO—One-and-done.

That was the key phrase swirling around the college basketball world heading into Tuesday’s highly anticipated matchup between No. 2 Kentucky and No. 5 Duke, and rightfully so. As masters of the oneand-done era, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski and Kentucky head coach John Calipari have reeled in the No. 1 and No. 2 recruiting classes, respectively, in each of the last two seasons, and the expectation was that the cornucopia of young talent would provide the night’s highlights.

But if anything was learned from Kentucky’s fall to a veteran-laden Wisconsin squad in the Final Four a short seven months ago, it is that, sometimes, even the top young talent is no substitute for experience.

Tuesday at the United Center, Duke’s freshmen took their lumps in their first big game on one of November basketball’s brightest stages.

“In some respects, the game was a little bit bigger for our guys than they anticipated,” Krzyzewski said. “You can’t win games unless you respond to that, and we have to learn to do that at this level.”

The young Blue Devils simply could not get hot. It took more than 17 minutes for a member of Duke’s freshman class to score. Of

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Tuesday’s loss to No. 2 Kentucky was a learning experience for Duke’s freshmen, including Brandon Ingram (left) and Derryck Thornton (12).

the four Duke newcomers ranked among the top 25 in the Class of 2015, only point guard Derryck Thornton managed to put any points on the board in the first half.

On top of that, sophomore Grayson Allen—who became a national figure after his 16-point breakout performance in the national title game last year—

could not connect in the first 20 minutes.

With Allen and freshman swingman Brandon Ingram struggling, Duke had trouble scoring, unless it came off the offensive glass. Allen and Ingram entered Tuesday’s game averaging a combined 45.0 points per game—and headed to the locker room with a total of zero.

“We’re a young team and we’re still putting all the pieces together,” Allen said.

“We have a lot of really good individual talent on our team, but because we’re so young we need to learn how to play together. We’re playing hard out there but we have to play hard together, not just as a bunch of individuals.”

Things did not improve much for the new Blue Devils in the final 20 minutes of the game. Ingram finished with just four points on 1-of-6 shooting from the floor.

He committed four turnovers and battled through foul trouble—finishing with four personals—and secured only one rebound in his 19 minutes on the court.

Luke Kennard did not see the ball go through the basket from the floor, though he did sink both of his free throws for his two points on the night. In his four minutes of play, Chase Jeter committed three fouls and a turnover and did not score.

Thornton had the best game among the Duke freshmen, scoring seven points, corralling three rebounds and dishing out three assists after coming off the bench.

But the Chatsworth, Calif., native also committed four turnovers, some of which led to easy run-outs for the youthful Wildcat backcourt of Tyler Ulis, Jamal Murray and Isaiah Briscoe.

And Allen? He finished with six points

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Barnes, Alls, Holmes dismissed from program Ryan Hoerger and Sam Turken The Chronicle Junior wide receiver Johnell Barnes, redshirt sophomore linebacker Chris Holmes and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Terrence Alls have been dismissed from the program, Duke head coach David Cutcliffe announced Tuesday.

“This is, without doubt, the most difficult thing teams and coaches face. This is not a reaction to anything that has occurred during the last couple weeks. This has been something that we have worked very hard with these young men to continue to understand what’s expected of them,” Cutcliffe said in a press release announcing the dismissals. “We have standards in this program that we’re committed to. When we’re recruiting, we let them and their parents know these things.

We’re responsible to the parents and the players we have here currently. We’re going to uphold those standards and work with everybody we can to give people opportunities to be successful.”

Cutcliffe delivered the same statement at his weekly press conference Tuesday afternoon.

Barnes was expected to emerge as a

top offensive weapon for redshirt junior quarterback Thomas Sirk. The Miami Gardens, Fla., native ranked second on the team with 34 receptions for 411 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

Alls was suspended from game competition indefinitely in March for failure to “uphold the academic, athletic and community standards required of a member of the Blue Devil program.”

Alls had been named the Blue Devils’ Co-Most Improved Offensive Player after spring practice. He was reinstated prior to Duke’s Oct. 16 game at Virginia Tech and caught six passes for 56 yards before Tuesday’s announcement.

Holmes played in six games this season, recording four tackles and one for loss. His career concludes with 34 total tackles.

Cutcliffe said redshirt junior Anthony Nash and freshman T.J. Rahming would join senior Max McCaffrey as the starting wide receivers for Saturday’s game at Virginia. Redshirt freshmen Chris Taylor and Trevon Lee—both of whom are coming off injuries—will also be looked to for increased production.

In September, Cutcliffe dismissed defensive back T.J. Douglas after the redshirt sophomore was arrested for driving while impaired.

Darbi Griffith | The Chronicle Junior Johnell Barnes ranked second in catches and receiving yards but was dismissed Tuesday.

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Hank Tucker The Chronicle Duke was in control last season in College Station, Texas, on its way to a big road win before a 15-point second-half lead evaporated in the blink of an eye.

The Blue Devils will have their home crowd behind them this time when they try to avenge that painful 63-59 loss.

No. 12 Texas A&M brings a very familiar team to Durham for a showdown Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Cameron Indoor Stadium against No. 14 Duke, but the Aggies will have to deal No. 12 Texas A&M with several unfamiliar faces. It will be the vs. first game against a No. 14 marquee opponent for Duke the five freshmen that WEDNESDAY, 7 p.m. make up Duke’s topCameron Indoor Stadium ranked recruiting class, and the Blue Devils’ veterans are making sure the newcomers understand the importance of this contest.

“For the returners, we all remember [last year], and how we were up and they came back and we lost,” sophomore forward Azurá Stevens said. “We’re using that and trying to tell our younger players this has got to be a comeback game for us.”

The Blue Devils (2-0) started two freshmen and three sophomores in Sunday’s win against Winthrop, but Texas A&M (2-0) started three seniors in its season opener Friday against Texas State, with two more seniors contributing off the bench. Senior starters Courtney Williams, Courtney Walker and Jordan Jones—the older sister of Duke shooting guard Matt Jones—combined for 52 of the Aggies’ 63 points against the Blue Devils last season and 16 of the team’s 17 assists.

These experienced guards will have to face a revamped Duke backcourt that features some of the most electric young players in

on 2-of-11 shooting. His three rebounds and one assist were accompanied by four personal fouls and four turnovers. Duke’s most explosive driver attacked the basket the same way he did last weekend against Siena and Bryant—when he combined to score 54 points—but Kentucky’s length was waiting for him every time, ready to turn away his shot with a forceful rejection or

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Sophie Turner | The Chronicle Sophomore Azurá Stevens will once again look to use her height to her advantage Wednesday when the Blue Devils welcome the Aggies for a top-15 showdown at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

the nation. Speedy freshman point guard Kyra Lambert started the Blue Devils’ first two games alongside classmate Crystal Primm, and Angela Salvadores—the No. 5 overall recruit in the Class of 2015—is gradually taking on a bigger role in limited minutes to start the season. Although Duke’s young backcourt will present Texas A&M with new challenges, its inexperience was evident when the Blue Devils combined to commit 47 turnovers in their first two games.

“We’ve got to slow down on offense and understand there’s a time and place, when to go fast, when to slow down, and just give the right passes to each other, play simple basketball and execute,” Duke head coach Joanne P. McCallie said. “The turnovers are unnecessary, and it’s very important that we get those down to 12 or less.”

Although the Blue Devils’ deep backcourt received most of the attention entering this season, Duke’s biggest advantage against the Aggies may be its height. The Blue Devils have five players that are at least 6-foot-4, and Texas

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Freshman Brandon Ingram struggled with foul trouble for much of the night, finishing with four points on 1-of-6 shooting.

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A&M’s roster only features two players taller than 6-foot-1.

Stevens led the team in scoring in both games last weekend and dominated Winthrop inside with 18 points, 14 rebounds and eight blocks. The 6-foot-6 forward will need to continue to use her size to her advantage against 6-foot-5 Khaalia Hillsman and the rest of the Aggies. Duke’s guards are also much taller than their Texas A&M counterparts.

Sharpshooters Rebecca Greenwell and Haley Gorecki are both at least six feet tall and should be able to shoot over their defenders either on their perimeter in the post.

“Especially if there’s a mismatch with Azurá, that seems to be the one that works the best for us,” McCallie said. “We’re always looking for mismatches, and the guards as well—our guards know how to get to the block and post up, and we’ve got to do some more of that.”

Duke finished with a 48-37 rebounding edge last season against Texas A&M, and

Sitting at midcourt at Cameron Indoor Stadium to cover a Duke basketball game is an opportunity few get to experience.

When the Blue Devils played Siena Friday night, though, there was no one between me and the floor and the raucous Cameron Crazies breathed down my neck as I watched the nation’s No. 1 recruiting class play its first real game.

I was 100 percent into the game—my laptop was open annotating the contest, I was tweeting live updates and contemplating how to take an angle on the game unfolding before me. Would I write about Grayson Allen’s monstrous season debut? How about the double-double from Amile Jefferson? Or what about the phenomenal freshmen?

But then, sitting at center court, that no longer seemed to matter. As the game unfolded, I was drawn to my Twitter feed, which was plastered with countless headlines growing increasingly dire: “Paris under attack.”

It’s hard to care about a blowout, season-opening basketball game while something so shocking unfolds somewhere else. Given my spot on press row, it was even more difficult when one of the attacks was made at the Stade de France during a soccer friendly between France and Germany—another arena, in another place, at the same time.

Sitting at Cameron while the soccer stadium in Paris was evacuated put things in perspective: That could be here. That could

alter his release just enough to send the ball bouncing harmlessly off the rim.

“Grayson, you know, he would tell you he didn’t play well,” Krzyzewski said. “You can’t expose the ball on a drive against shot blockers the way he did.... On the perimeter those three kids had tough nights, going 3-for-22. They’re three really good players, Grayson, Luke and Brandon.”

Luckily for Duke, the Blue Devil veterans kept their composure against a Wildcat roster loaded with talent. Senior Amile Jefferson

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Derryck Thornton was the first Blue Devil freshman to score Tuesday, but four turnovers helped Kentucky get out on the fast break and pad its lead.

posted his third straight double-double with 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting and 15 rebounds and stayed out of foul trouble against a physical Kentucky frontcourt. Junior Matt Jones also scored 16 points—including nine from beyond the arc—after posting a careerhigh 19 points against Bryant. Marshall Plumlee was the hero of the first half, scoring the Blue Devils’ first nine points, securing eight rebounds and notching five blocks in the opening 20 minutes on his way to his second career double-double.

Despite the consistent play of Duke’s captains, it will take a full team effort for the Blue Devils to make it through the rest of their early-season stretch without another hiccup. Duke has just two days to recover from Tuesday’s loss before it travels to New York to take on Virginia Commonwealth in the 2K Classic benefitting Wounded Warrior Project at Madison Square Garden in New York.

“We have a lot of improvement ahead of us,” Krzyzewski said. “We just have to accept that and go on.”

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“The four guys coming back [for us] were really good, and they are good and they’re better now,” Krzyzewski said. “When you’re put in a position when you’re ‘the man,’ it’s different. It’s different. And you’ve got to learn to do that, and hopefully we’ll be able to do that.”

Plumlee combined with Matt Jones and Amile Jefferson to score 26 of the Blue Devils’ 31 first-half points. But their success was short-lived.

Kentucky opened the second half by cleaning up on the glass—preventing Plumlee from finding more scoring opportunities—and playing lockdown defense, forcing four turnovers in the first four minutes of play. Forward Marcus Lee and guard Jamal Murray scored four points apiece during the Wildcats’ opening run, which resulted in a 47-36 Kentucky lead with 15:18 remaining in the contest.

The Wildcat guards consistently penetrated the lane, creating easy dump passes for the Wildcat frontcourt to finish at the rim.

Kentucky scored all eight of its second-half opening baskets on either layups or dunks to build up a double-digit lead. Part of the reason for the abundance of easy looks stemmed from the fact that the Blue Devils failed to stop Kentucky in transition, as the Wildcats often leaked out on the break. Kentucky outscored Duke 18-4 in fast-break points, and after the fast start for Duke sudoku_507A underneath, Kentucky

commanded the paint, outscoring the Blue Devils 48-30 down low.

Although it was not initially apparent in the first half, Kentucky, unlike Duke, depended on a plethora of scoring options throughout the game, with four Wildcats ending the game in double-figures. Ulis and Murray spread the wealth all evening, combining for 11 assists, and Ulis—a sophomore who returned to Lexington while most of his classmates departed for the NBA—played a turnover-free 40 minutes.

“We’re going to be trouble in a fastpaced game like that,” Ulis said. “We understand that we have a different kind of game and can do a lot of great things, so we play well off each other.”

On the other side of the floor, nothing seemed to work offensively for Duke’s guards.

Allen struggled mightily on the offensive end all evening, running into the length of Lee, freshman Skal Labissiere and other Wildcats when he tried to attack the rim. The sophomore entered the game averaging 27.0 points per contest after a blistering opening weekend in Durham but shot 0-for-9 in the first half.

Allen finally saw the ball go through the basket when he nailed a corner 3-pointer with 12:08 remaining—closing the gap to 53-45—though by that time, the Wildcats’ well-oiled machine was already up-andrunning and well out in front. “[Kentucky] is a very athletic and physical team,” Allen said. “The bigs were a lot taller than the teams we played so far. They did a great job just rotating over, the guards did a great job pressuring the ball. They played a great team defensive game today. [Ulis] is a great point guard. He’s real steady out there.”

The Blue Devil rookies did not fare much better, shooting 4-of-18 from the field.

Freshman Brandon Ingram managed four

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points on 1-of-6 shooting and battled foul trouble much of the night, and sharp-shooter Luke Kennard was 0-of-3 from downtown and 0-of-5 overall.

“We really made an emphasis on stopping the ball and finding 3-point shooters and limiting their shots—they all can shoot and spread the floor, too,” Murray said. “We tried to stop them in transition and make them go over our defense.”

Jones and Jefferson scored 16 points apiece for Duke. Jefferson also added 15 rebounds for his third straight doubledouble to begin the year.

Duke will have a two-day break before heading to Madison Square Garden in New York to take on Virginia Commonwealth Friday at 7:30 p.m. as part of the 2K Classic benefiting Wounded Warriors Project.

Sanjeev Dasgupta | The Chronicle Amile Jefferson posted his third straight double-double Tuesday, but it was not enough.

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ith next semester’s registration wrapping up, our curriculum and its requirements have been on students’ minds. For juniors and seniors, this often means scouring ACES for those last Trinity requirements (in classes that meet after noon on any day except Friday). For underclassmen, it means exploring different fields of study and finding classes that give them a start on an overwhelming variety of requirements. Registration is just one occasion to remember the many ways the current undergraduate curriculum stands to be improved.

Fourteen months ago, the Imagining the Duke Curriculum committee began a three-year process aimed at reviewing and revamping the foundation of the undergraduate academic experience. After a year of reflection, the committee will spend this year developing proposals from faculty and students with final discussions and voting to be done next year.

After meeting with the committee’s chair, Professor Suzanne Shanahan, and Trinity’s Dean of Academic Affairs, Lee Baker, we applaud the narrative forming around the “big tweak” of curriculum. It recognizes the tremendous potential to make Duke’s academic experience an exceptional one but, more importantly, the intimately connected socio-cultural problems of the Duke experience. Today, we survey facets of curriculum

change, a reflection of sorts like last year’s process.

First, we encourage the curriculum to become a space where Duke’s myriad programmatic offerings, ranging from DukeImmerse to Bass Connections to DukeEngage, can be made integral to students’ academic experiences instead of being self-selecting, one-off experiences. A requirement would ensure every Duke student comes to offer program-developed project skills with a story behind them, perhaps with a partial-credit on-campus seminar

Editorial for writing up and sharing experiences with other students. It would certainly help students envision ways to leverage their education outside of Duke and remind them of alternative paths to leadership other than the most popular post-graduation choices.

Theseexperiencesalsorevealhowacademicprogramming is a fruitful source of a diverse community. After our first year, we often fall into caricature with communities siloed by living group or extracurricular choices. We should improve the intellectual nature of students’ social environments as best we can by inspecting FOCUS programs’ contributions to residential spaces. After the first year, having sustained academic bonds with a residential house can marshall Duke’s

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We view this interdisciplinary boost as central to facilitating a broader academic community that we all know to be lacking. It could take the form of short classes, lecture and faculty conversations or other requirements that force diverse segments of Duke to engage with each other. The burden of the committee is to figure out how best to do this. Rather than inoculating students in the first year with academic social spaces and rich programmatic offerings, we agree with the committee that we stand to gain from sustained and iterated academic experiences.

A revamped curriculum can help enshrine and perpetuate the ethos of the University we see emerging: leadership oriented around thoughtful engagement with issues, incorporating different analytic approaches to solve problems. The drive of students to strike out and try new things in the pursuit of this education is, as Shanahan noted, part of what excites our faculty most about Duke. Many of the problems we have discussed with the undergraduate experience stem around the lack of a united, smushed together Duke community that makes us reflect, solve problems and lead together with our skills, in and out of the classroom. Curricular change is no panacea, but it can become the groundwork for the academic journey at Duke as we envision it.

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he world is watching Paris with a heavy heart, drumming a beat that is at once weary with fatigue and quick with panic.

At the same time, the environmental community has been watching Paris for many months—for a different reason. It is hard to believe that in less than two weeks, COP21, the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change, will meet in a city

extra pressure on already tense and struggling populations. While some will find resilience in the face of climate change, others will devolve to further conflict. Thus, swift and meaningful action on climate change is not simply about saving this species or that landscape; it is about the very fabric of our society and the threads that are posed to unravel if we do not.

Rachel Weber TREE SAP still reeling from a tragedy of loss, hatred and fear.

While gathering my thoughts for this biweekly column, I debated whether or not it was appropriate to discuss the upcoming climate talks in Paris with or without fully unpacking the implications of the attacks themselves as well as their responses.

But then I received an e-newsletter from 350. org’s French campaigner Nicolas Haeringer. Nico wrote from France, telling us that the upcoming Paris Climate Summit is in some sense “a peace summit.” He reminded 350.org followers like me that, especially now, solidarity and love are of the utmost important as we make every attempt to avoid the most threatening climate disasters.

As Sierra Club founder John Muir once said, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.”

I worried that I would be conflating headlines, but I realize that it is impossible to treat terror and hate and the climate crisis as disparate threats.

Acts of terror shake us. They make us mourn for the specter of peace, peace that violence and division make seemingly unachievable. For that reason, it can be difficult to approach issues of terrorism with anything but raw emotion. The intersection of this tragedy with the upcoming Climate Summit, however, reflects the ever mounting urgency to address the climate crisis before it leads to even more conflict.

Again and again, the latest research on this topic points to the same conclusion: that with changing and warming climate, we should “expect more wars, civil unrest, and strife, and also more violent crime in general.” Numerous studies have demonstrated a link between the effects of climate change and the increase of violence, not only among individuals but also among groups. The dangers posed by climate change—such as drought, crop failures, scarcer water and more extreme weather events—put

To be sure, climate action is not the only policy we must enact nor the only element of our culture we must shift to achieve a more peaceful future. Climate policies must be implemented in concert with efforts to increase both equity and equality, just as environmental activists must work in solidarity with other justice-seeking individuals and groups. Environmental change is one sector of several where people in power must decide whether they want to perpetuate injustices— like those that accompany an ever warming and changing climate—or strive to correct them.

Another notable yet unfortunate intersection is between the media and the social response to the attacks in Paris. The ease at which popular media can ignore tragedy in non-western nations is disgraceful, and to me it feels all too reminiscent of the nonchalance with which world powers like the U.S. have approached climate policy. For decades, leaders have dragged their feet in making meaningful commitments to reduce emissions.

The nations, communities and groups of people most vulnerable to climate change are the same ones whose stories escape our headlines and whose flags do not color our Facebook profile pictures.

This must end now. It must end with a meaningful commitment to address climate by global leaders at the U.N. Climate Summit later this month. In light of the recent attacks, Prime Minister Valls confirmed that the U.N. Climate Conference will still be held “because it’s an essential meeting for humanity.” Our leaders will not convene in spite of the terror that was sparked in France or in Beirut or Baghdad or anywhere in the world; our leaders will convene because of this pain, and they will convene because the prospect of peace depends upon it.

Rachel Weber is a Trinity senior. Her column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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s the fall semester winds down, Thanksgiving provides a welcome respite. The break allows us to catch up with friends and family, enjoy a great meal and bask in the nostalgia of old times at home.

But Thanksgiving Day is—or at least was—meant to be more. The day’s very name invites us to “give thanks.” But for what are we giving thanks, and just whom are we supposed to be thanking? A look at history provides some guidance.

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and the material and to marginalize and privatize, if not eliminate, the godly. As I have written, the transcendent has been expelled from Duke’s undergraduate academy. Even speaking of God has become in some circles an offensive imposition of one’s “private, individual beliefs” on the listener. And the “common good”— understood historically as both the material and moral welfare of the populace—has largely devolved into the maximization of individual preferences and GDP. In such a culture, many will effuse

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atthew, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate at Duke, has to cobble together odd jobs in order to pay the bills. As an international student, he is prohibited from working outside the university, but he is also restricted—per Graduate School policy— to 20 hours a week within it. He received a contract to teach two courses during the 2015-2016 academic year, with pay totaling $12,000, and he has been fortunate enough

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“first thanksgiving,” a three-day feast in 1621 between Mayflower pilgrims and Wampanoag Natives, was a celebration of health, a fruitful harvest and genuine fellowship. Of the 100 pilgrims who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower, only half survived a harsh winter and the challenges of building a new settlement. Despite great sufferings, the pilgrims offered thanksgiving to express gratefulness to God for having successfully endured hardship and for the opportunity to establish a new way of life in a new land. Moreover, the occasion celebrated the hospitality and community that the Native Americans had generously afforded the pilgrims.

The practice of thanksgiving continued with varying formality until 1789, when George Washington established a national Day of Thanksgiving. In the first year of his presidency of the newly established United States, Washington proclaimed, “[I]t is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.” At the recommendation of both houses of Congress, Washington established for “the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

The annual tradition of our giving thanks, as a political community, to God proceeded for the next 64 years. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln ratified the importance of that communal offering by officially proclaiming Thanksgiving Day a federal holiday. Despite a nation “in the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity,” Lincoln underscored that the “gracious gifts of the Most High God” merited “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. … It has seemed to me fit and proper that [these gifts of God] should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.”

Today, Thanksgiving remains an enormously popular holiday, celebrated by all segments of society. Many travel to kin while others reunite at high-school football games or “turkey trots,” and, in the tradition of the pilgrims, much effort is spent on turkey and trimmings. Major football games and Macy’s Parade floats lead news headlines, culminating in the busiest travel day of the year on Sunday.

So what are we celebrating? Whom are we thanking? Our culture, from the Supreme Court to Silicon Valley to Wall Street, has come to exalt the individual

“Happy Thanksgiving” without giving a second thought to their greetings, simply wishing goodwill and continued prosperity to all. Those who pause for the second thought might say that we thank each other for family, friendship, health, and general well-being. Those would be good answers, for truth and the spiritual life are evident in all constructive human relationships. But those answers would also be significantly incomplete, especially in a country where 89 percent of citizens still say they believe in God. The cornucopia of Thanksgiving should represent not only, or even mostly, the material fruitfulness of our lives but also, and primarily, the flourishing that comes from cleaving to the truth that is God himself. When we indulge in abundance and limit our thanksgiving to worldly blessings, crediting them only to ourselves, we assert a false supremacy and self-sufficiency.

We replay the drama of the primordial Garden, in which the serpent falsely whispered to Eve that man and woman, through self-indulgence, would become “like gods,” defining for themselves good and evil (truth and falsehood) and providing their own satisfaction. Age after age has demonstrated that such selfexaltation, by either the individual or the state, always ends badly, with the dominant imposing their will on the weak as they futilely seek fulfillment in the fleeting goods of power, wealth, fame, pleasure and autonomy.

As this column is wont to declare, for us to flourish meaningfully, we must acknowledge our creaturehood—that we and the world did not will ourselves into existence and that we are dependent on God for his creating and sustaining, with complete gratuity, our very being. We, as creatures, have been given an intellect and a will by which we deliberate, choose and act. We should use those gifts to pursue a path to the Absolute along which lies true happiness. Made in the imago Dei, the image of God, we all find our deepest satisfaction in giving thanks and praise to the Source of our being.

Often, that fact seems more evident to the poor and the marginalized. Lincoln rightly observed that the more fortunate, whose bounties “are constantly enjoyed . . . are prone to forget the source from which they come.”

Whom we thank is thus crucial. This Thanksgiving, let us join with generations past, with Washington and Lincoln, William Bradford and Squanto, and raise our glasses to Him who is the origin and sustainer of existence, relationships, joy and true fulfillment.

William Rooney is a Trinity senior. His column runs on alternate Wednesdays.

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to find a TA position in his department, a part-time internship and occasional tutoring opportunities. With so many scattered responsibilities, it is no wonder that Matthew has found it impossible to focus on finishing his dissertation. What may surprise readers, however, is that a large portion of his financial burden comes from Duke itself, in the form of a $6,580 continuation fee.

When admitted to one of Duke’s prestigious Ph.D. programs, prospective students like Matthew receive a letter outlining the University’s offer of financial support, a bundle that includes a tuition scholarship, health insurance coverage and a competitive fellowship stipend.

According to the letter, the Graduate School “will ensure that you are supported at least through your fifth year of study, provided that you remain in good academic standing and are making satisfactory progress toward your degree.” From this, prospective doctoral students will deduce that funding is not guaranteed beyond their fifth year of study, but they won’t find any indication that, come sixth year, they will be required to pay thousands of dollars annually to finish their degree.

Many students will continue into their seventh year. National Science Foundation data show that, in 2013, the median time to degree for Ph.D. recipients was 9.2 years in the humanities and 7.7 in the social sciences. On top of continuation fees, graduate students beyond the sixth year will face a charge of $2,163 to keep their health insurance, bringing the total amount owed to over $8,700. And while hefty charges might seem like a powerful incentive to graduate as quickly as possible, the resulting need to take on ever more work distracts students from their own research and delays completion, sometimes indefinitely.

It is unclear why continuation fees are assessed; most sixth- and seventhyear students use few university resources besides the library, which offers free borrowing privileges to all Duke alumni and access to anyone else for $50 a year.

The Graduate School has so far failed to answer repeated requests for clarification about what resources and services these fees are intended to cover.

Other top-tier universities assess continuation fees, too, yet a survey of peer institutions situates Duke as an outlier. To take a sampling, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia charge approximately $4,500, Princeton $3,000, Columbia $2,000, NYU and Yale $1,000 and Harvard as little as $300. Despite the range, these figures are all significantly lower than what Duke charges its doctoral students. Other universities, such as Stanford, Cornell and the University of Michigan, impose

continuation fees that are nominally higher than Duke’s but are absorbed by a student’s home department in exchange for service as a teaching assistant.

At Duke, where continuation fees are unavoidable, upper-level graduate students confront an intimidating bill before even beginning to consider how to pay the basic living expenses of housing, utilities and food. The meager stipends that many students receive for work as instructors

or teaching assistants barely allow them to recoup the cost of fees, let alone live comfortably. As a result, they must increase their teaching load, apply for loans, seek additional forms of employment or do some combination of the above. The situation is even more dire for international students like Matthew, who can’t take out student loans in the U.S., and students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have no recourse to financial support from their families. Continuation fees raise the specter of indebtedness amid a dismal job market for doctoral graduates and undermine Duke’s status as an outstanding institution for graduate education.

Matthew’s case—by no means unique— illustrates the harm continuation fees cause graduate students. But the fees also do a serious disservice to Duke’s undergraduate population; when graduate students are forced to divide their energy among research, outside jobs and teaching, the students in their classes lose out. In short, continuation fees are bad for graduate students, bad for undergraduates and bad for Duke.

Over the past year, graduate students from across affected disciplines have united to form a Committee on Continuation Fees. Last fall, shortly after the Committee’s initial meetings, Duke’s Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) passed a resolution urging the Duke Administration to reduce or eliminate continuation fees for upperyear doctoral students. The overwhelming support this resolution garnered in a body that represents nine graduate and professional schools—eight of which are not subject to these fees—indicates just how evident it is that Duke’s comparatively severe continuation fees endanger its competitiveness and its reputation as a producer of talented academics.

For now, the fees remain. As the fall semester comes to an end, hundreds of prospective students will submit applications to graduate programs at Duke. Some of these bright and eager young scholars will receive a letter of acceptance and notification that they have been awarded a competitive financial aid package. Most, however, will be unaware of the hidden costs. At the very least, we believe these students should be made aware of the continuation fees imposed at Duke so that they have complete information when making a decision about where to enroll. But we also hope this column will encourage the administration to come together with students and faculty with a shared commitment to eliminating or reducing these burdensome fees for the benefit of all.

Brendan Higgins is a graduate student in the Department of English.

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PARIS from page 12 be us. That could be me.

When an attack like that occurs at a place that has always seemed so safe, so divorced from the “real world” as a place for me to escape from reality, it hits home. I struggled through postgame interviews, finished my story and wandered off to bed so that I could get some rest before the Duke-Pittsburgh football game that I was covering the next day. I hoped that as I sat in the press box for the Blue Devils’ final home game of the year, there would be no further terrifying developments.

For once, I was right. Rather than find myself disenchanted by the terror around the world, I saw a beacon of hope—the rallying cry of the sporting world.

First, a single College GameDay tweet: “The only sign we plan on sharing today.” What followed was an image of the “Peace for Paris” sign drawn by Jean Jullien.

Then another tweet from ESPN: “Ohio State quarterback Cardale Jones pays tribute to Paris”—the insignia used as a show of support for Paris was drawn on his cleats for the Buckeyes’ showdown against Illinois.

And then another: “Army football stands with France,” followed by a video of defensive back Caleb McNeill running out of the tunnel at West Point proudly carrying a French flag beside the American flag—a symbol of unity, of support and of solidarity against the hell that had erupted the night before halfway around the world.

Do I think that these acts of support make a difference in the larger scheme of supporting France? No. Do I agree

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with the massive support for France, while Beirut, Baghdad, Japan and Mexico are idly ignored in the media?

Not at all. But am I reminded why I care so much about sports? Without a doubt. Despite the meaningless results of what may or may not occur on the field, athletes are acutely aware of the spotlight they command and how they can draw attention to the bigger, real-world issues that swarm around us.

It’s heartening—at least for me— to know that even though it’s just a game, the athletes, the fans and those absentmindedly watching at home can rally around one another at a time of such tragedy. Sure, the terror is still there, but somehow I feel better knowing that keeping things in perspective is still on the minds of those that pour blood, sweat and tears dayin and day-out for the chance to play the games they love. The world matters more than a “W” in the box score, and it’s good to see that acknowledged in the NFL, NBA and other major sports giants of the world.

I don’t intend to make an argument or start a debate about the merits of activism in athletics. I’ve dealt with enough Tim Tebow-bashing for his religious activism and heard enough excuses from the NFL regarding uniform regulations stopping breast cancer awareness displays.

But just remember, although terror can strike when you least expect it, there is solidarity and support from those that command the limelight on the gridiron, the hardwood and the pitch. With that in mind, look up to those that make the less meaningful moments in life about what truly matters.

W. BASKETBALL from page 12 McCallie noted that rebounding would be a key to the game again Wednesday, along with transition defense. The only two starters the Aggies lost from last season were both frontcourt players, giving McCallie’s squad the opportunity to dominate the glass even more this year.

The Blue Devils’ size helped them outrebound both Penn and Winthrop by 15, with Stevens leading an impressive team effort on the boards. Greenwell, junior Oderah Chidom and graduate student Amber Henson combined for 40 rebounds during the first two games, thanks in part to their activity on the offensive glass.

“When you stand around on offensive boards, it’s really easy just for someone to stand in front of you,” Stevens said.

“But if you’re moving all the time, it’s hard for them to try to find you and then box you out.”

If Stevens has another big game against a smaller team and stays out of foul trouble—which she struggled with last weekend—she could help ease the pain of last year’s crushing loss and help Duke notch an impressive early season victory.

FORUM from page 2 between students and maintenance,” said junior George Mellgard, DSG vice president for residential life, referring to the numerous posts on the Fix My Campus Facebook page calling for action.

Attendees also voiced their desire for guidelines that could provide information about when an issue becomes a serious health concern and

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“For a lot of us, this is the first time we’ve lived in a home like this without our parents and where it’s up to the students to bring up these concerns,” said a student forum attendee. “We don’t really know when to bring it up to HDRL. It’s our responsibility to tell you what’s going on and if we’re unaware what’s going on, then that can be hard.”

Thomann attempted to provide guidelines, noting that condensation and mold often arise from water sources and outside infiltration. He explained that when air conditioners are on and windows are slightly open, there is a high likelihood of mold spores coming indoors and growing.

Most organisms found inside can be traced to the surrounding environment.

He suggested students request HDRL to inspect the apartment if they are concerned and then seek to identify sources of water intrusion.

“Another important thing to prevent infiltration is cleaning,” Steigel added.

“Vacuuming and taking care of your apartment can really help.”

Beville noted that the most common sources of spore development are towels.

Central Campus living conditions have long been a concern for students. A number of problems have been reported in the past year alone, including bats, insects, asbestos, water damage and reported black mold.

In addition to health concerns, sophomore Sara Waite asked whether Central Campus was built with the intent of being a permanent living area.

“Central Campus is clearly not permanent,” said Gonzalez. “It’s not intended to be a hundred-year campus and isn’t meant to be here as long as the buildings on East and West. We’re looking to recreate a new Central, though we don’t have an exact window on that.”

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