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Durham Kenyans unite amid strife Student dies after Locals come together for support as violence continues collapsing in Wilson Aalok Modistricken Thursday night during IM basketball game by

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Caren Ochola,owner of the Palace International Restaurant on Broad Street and a native of Kenya, says the recent violence in Kenya has sparked the Kenyan community in Durham to come together and donate money to the African country. Mingyang Liu THE CHRONICLE

Dozens of Kenyans gather each week at the Palace International Restaurant for some genuine Kenyan chapati, Tusker beer and mutual support at a time when uncertainty looms over thefuture of their

homeland. Caren Ochola, a native of Kisumu, Kenya, and owner of the Broad Street establishment, began

hosting the gatherings after President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed victory

in the country’s Dec. 27 elections spawned a wave of tribal violence. The meetings provide a network for Triangle area Kenyan natives to support each other and their families back home, she said. “Everyone in Kenya is a victim regardless of which tribe they are from,” Ochola said. “We’ve been trying to get people together for

support and to donate money for people who are displaced and who are going withoutfood. Every now and then we talk about the political views, but we try not to let that get between the different tribes.” The violence, which has killed more than 1,000people so far, came as a surprise to both the people ofKenyaand many Kenyan-Americans. SEE KENYA ON PAGE 5

Pratt officials name 5 candidates for top post by

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Officials at the Pratt School of Engineer-

ing have announced five finalists to replace former dean Kristina Johnson.

The candidates are Robert Clark, interim

dean of Pratt, Frangois Sainfort, senior associate dean for Interdisciplinary Programs in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Frank Doyle, a professor at the University of California at Santa

Barbara, Tom Byers, a professor at Stanford University and Tom Katsouleas, a professor the University of Southern California. “The selection committee is looking for someone who is going to take their viat

sion and help us build on whatKristina has done,” said April Brown, chair of the Pratt dean search committee. “We want someone great for this position.” Much of the debate among the candidates focused around their individual vision for the school, its current ranking among graduate and undergraduate programs and the potential to obtain a higher ranking in the future. “Right now, [Pratt is] ranked in the top 30 among graduate engineering programs and in the top 25 in undergraduate engineering programs,” Clark said. “But we’renot going to be in SEE PRATT ON PAGE 4

Junior Aalok Modi collapsed and died Thursday night. He was 21. Modi collapsed around 9:45 p.m. during an intramural basketball game in Wilson Recreation Center and was taken to Duke University Hospital emergency room. He died at about 11 p.m. At the hospital shortly after midnight, Modi’s friends and acquaintances came to pay respects. Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, who was at the hospital, said the cause of death was not yet known and that there was no obvious reason for the collapse. Junior Xiaoyu Wang, a member of Modi’s basketball team, said in a telephone interview that he had just subbed into the game for Modi when the incident happened. “I high-fived him when he was getting off the court, and I looked in his eyes, and he was panting a little, but that’s normal in an IM game,” Wang said. “We kept playing, and we didn’t think anything of it. It was not more than two or three seconds when we were down the court, and I think some-

one shouted or someone blew a whistle and we all ran over. As soon as he got out of the game he basically collapsed. He was on the ground, and he was having [what seemed] like a seizure.” Modi had played the first half of the game without any indications of trouble. Wang said a bystander attended to Modi until

professionals arrived. He added that Duke University Police Department, Duke Emergency Medical Services and professional EMS all responded. Modi was a chemistry major and premedical student from

Pickerington, Ohio, according to his Facebook profile. Moneta said the University had notified Modi’s parents and was preparing a response plan with Modi’s friends. Staff from Counseling and Psychological Services will be on call to assist students with grief, and plans for commemoration will be worked out in a few days, he said.

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Students interested in both genetics and public policy can now find their niche with the new Genome Sciences and Policy certificate. The program was approved by unanimous vote at the Arts and Sciences Council meeting Thursday. Additionally, Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College ofArts and Sciences, presented to the council the importance of certificate programs and the crucial role they play in a liberal arts education. The certificate will incorporate the biology and public policy studies departments and the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy. The program will require a gateway course, a capstone course and an intensive research component. Huntington Willard, director of the IGSP, said the new program will emphasize the intersection between science and its practical policy applications. “There couldn’t be a better example of what Duke could create with its undergraduate experience,” Thompson said. “You know Duke is going to make a commitment to be world-class in genomics.... There is a lot of enthusiasm here.” The council evaluated the role of certificates in advancing interdisciplinarity and collaboration between academic departments. Members took note of the unique demands certificates address, but questioned how a certificate is deemed successful after it its creation. Certificates can also act as stepping stones to new majors and institutes. Thompson said the process in which cer-

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Robert Thompson, dean of Trinity College, speaks to Arts and Sciences Council about the importance of certificate programs in liberal arts education. tificates tunr into new majors is “natural and authentic.” As interdisciplinary units, certificate programs include classes that are often cross-listed in different departments. “This is one of the distinctive aspects

of the Duke undergraduate education,” Thompson said. “It has garnered us national attention for addressing the task of taking maximum advantage ofwhat a research university has to offer for undergraduate education.”

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PRATT from page 1 die top 15 in the next decade. That’s not going to happen.” He added that the goals for Pratt should not be focused solely on the rankings, which he said include arbitrary categories, but should be to improve the educational and research experience within the school. “We need to focus on quality,” he said. “We’re not going to move up in terms of size.” Other candidates, however, had loftier goals for the undergraduate program and the ranking of Pratt. “My vision for Pratt is that we should be in the top

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Council backs loosened rules for lofting beds by

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Campus Council endorsed the enforcement of safer

practices and flexibility in lofting in a resolution passed at its general body meeting Thursday night. “There’s such a great risk in some of theseelaborate structures [of lofts],” Vice President Kevin Thompson, ajunior, said of the reasoning behind the proposal. The resolution calls for Residence Life and Housing Services to allow students in the East Campus dormitories ofBassett, Bell Tower and Giles to build high lofts. Currently, students living in these dormitories are limited to the lowloft beds provided. Joe Gonzalez The option of constructing high lofts should also extend to Keohane Quadrangle, the resolution reads. “Lofts wear and tear the building faster,” said Joe Gonzalez, associate dean for residential life. “When Keohane was a new building, it was decided that lofting would not be allowed.” Since RLHS first published its lofting guidelines in 2003, the importance of maintaining a safe, strict loft policy has waned, Thompson said, adding that the council is proposing its own guidelines before RLHS is forced to limit students to a low-loft-only policy for safety reasons. Members also resolved that residents should complete a permit prior to lofting, flammable materials should not be attached to or enclose the loft and the University may review the construction and framework for general compliance. “If a resident assistant discovers problems during the normal course of his work, he will report it,” Gonzalez said. Thompson said RLHS should suggest loft designs to students as it does forbench designs, but the University should not be liable for the safety of the loft user and all those nearby. In addition, students living in residence halls with highloft furniture should be allowed to construct or purchase their own lofts so long as they adhere to RLHS’s safety criteria, the resolution reads. Council members added that they believe side rails are necessary to prevent students from falling out ofbed. “I think this [resolution] will at least increase information about safety and encourage students to follow the rules,” said Treasurer Molly Bierman, a junior.

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ThePalace InternationalRestaurant on Broad Street has been the gathering place for manyKenyans in Durham to talkabout theviolence in their homeland.

KENYA from page 1 “It’s a very foreign feeling,” said Jackie Ndirangu, who grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and moved to Durham three months ago. ‘You read about it about otherAfrican countries, but now we’re having ethnic clashes.” Until recently, the country had a reputation for being one of the most politically stable in Africa. “Everyone was very optimistic and looking forward to the elections,” said Charles Muiruri, a Nairobi native who serves as international service coordinator for Duke’s Global Health Institute and last visited Kenya in November. “After the elections, everything took a huge twist.” Kenya Christian Fellowship in America, one of the largest Kenyan organizations in the United States, works to bring Kenyans together to dicuss issues affecting their community, said the Rev. Joe Karogi, KFCA’s founder and president emeritus. The organization’s Raleigh chapter hosted a fundraiser at the Crabtree Valley Baptist Church three weeks ago. Approximately 200 Kenyan natives raised more than $2,000 for needy families in Kenya and the Kenyan Red Cross. “One of the good things that we are learning from this is that our diversity is our strength and not something that divides us,” Karogi said. “What we should try to do is try to look for that strength in every group and work together.” News of the turmoil has sparked awareness in the Durham community as well. Muiruri, who lost an uncle and a cousin in Kenya last

In other business: Communications Coordinator Hope Lu, a junior, introduced Date Week, which will begin March 26 and include dance lessons for two and a spaghetti night on the West Campus Plaza to promote healthy relationships among Duke students. “We want to let it gear toward a change in Duke’s social culture,” Lu said. “It’s away to have fun without drinking.”

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month due to the violence, attended a vigil hosted by the Women’s Institute for Secondary Education and Research outside the Duke Chapel last Thursday. “It was really surreal,” he said. “I saw some brothers and sisters so it was really good. I thought it was welltimed and well-executed.” Karogi said there are similar stories of loss and support among Kenyans throughout the state. “Almost every member of the Kenyan community in North Carolina is affected one way oranother,” he said, adding that although tribal differences have caused disagreements among Kenyans in some parts of the United States, he has not heard of any such issues in North Carolina. “Everyone feels kind of let down, and nobody knows who to blame,” Muiruri said. “I don’t think there’s been any suspicions here because we’re so far away from home.” The events have also provoked dialogue about Kenyan identity in the states. “Here in the U.S. it’s kind of differentbecause first and foremost, you’re identified as an African,” Muiruri said. “Now that the bad stuff has come out, people ask ‘are you Kenyan?’ and it becomes a hard thing to discuss.” Ndirangu said Durham’s distance from Kenya has made it difficult to keep in touch with the reality of the situation. “Being so far away from home, you’re not close to your family and you never know what’s happening,” Ndirangu said. “It’s something that’s disheartening, but we hope that it doesn’t create a stigma and things will go back to how they used to be.”

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Sometimes, teams must reach for ample motivation to get up for a game. That’s not the case tonight for the Blue Devils. No. 12 Duke (19-6, 8-2 in the ACC) looks to get its revenge against No. 4 Maryland (26-2, 10-1) Sunday night at 5:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The last time the two teams met in College Park, Md. on Jan. 14, the Blue Devils had their streak of 18 consecutive conference wins broken and lost to the Terrapins at home for the first time since Jan. 30,1998. In that game, however, Duke’s No. 1 offensive threat, center Chante Black, was hampered by a hyperextended knee that limited her to shooting 2-for-l 1 from the field. In recent games, Black has been facing double and triple teams whenever she gets the ball down low, but she does not see this as a negative. “It’s good when they double team because it draws more attention and gets players open,” Black said. “So as long as we execute and find the better shot, then things go well.” Luckily for Duke, one of their standby go-to scorers from the outside reemerged in the last game against Clemson. Junior Abby Waner led the team with 15points, including 12 from behind the arc. Waner’s hot hand is coming at just the right time with the Blue Devils’ opponents focusing more heavily on Black under the basket.

With Black drawing double-teams down low, Waner has been getting more open looks—she just needs to hit them tonight to take down a top Maryland squad. Another thing the Blue Devils have been preparing to do is protect the ball. In Wednesday’s tilt against the Tigers, Duke committed 25 turnovers, something coach Joanne P. McCallie was not happy about. “That’s troubling,” McCallie said. “Twenty-five turnovers and everyone contributed.” In addition to holding onto the ball, the Blue Devils will need to turn out a better defensive effort than the previous time the two teams collided. In that game, Duke allowed Maryland to attempt 42 free throws that they converted into 33 points, both season-highs for the Blue Devils. More recently, however, Duke has corrected this problem. Last time out, they allowed Clemson only half that many chances from the charity stripe. Coming off such a dominating win has the Blue Devils feeling well prepared. Despite the lopsided final score in the last game against the Terrapins, McCallie is confident in her team’s abilities and even was able to draw some positives from the

January meeting. “They are an excellent team,” McCallie said. “We did some very good things when we played the first time. We did not do enough good things, and I think [this time] we will just look for the opportunities.” With a strong presence underneathand valid options on the outside, Duke is ready

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Kyle Singler enters Sunday's gameas the reigning national Rookie of theWeek.

After rolling to their 12th consecutive win in a charged contest against Maryland Wednesday, the Blue Devils could face another emotional challenge at Wake Forest Sunday. Despite being in the middle of the pack in the conference, the Demon Deacons (15-8, 5-5 in the ACC) are far from just another ACC foe. Duke’s visit to Lawrence Joel Coliseum Sunday at 7:30 p.m. will mark its first game against Wake Forest since former head coach Skip Prosser passed away July 26, 2007 of a heart attack. Prosser’s death shocked the basketball world, including Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski, and each game has taken on a bit more meaning for the Demon Deacons. “We lost one of the best coaches and best people in our sport,” Krzyzewski said of Prosser. “He was ultimately respected for his coaching ability, his quick humor and, most importandy, for being a quality person. We lost him far too soon.” The Demon Deacons promoted associate head coach Dino Gaudio to replace Prosser Aug. 8. At his introductory press conference, Gaudio said it was “a very bittersweet moment.” Gaudio’s team has channeled its emotion, however, to defy expectations in his first year at the helm. Picked to finish 11th in the ACC before the season, Wake Forest has stayed competitive in the conference, notching wins over Miami, Florida State and Virginia Tech as well as a non-conference defeat of

Brigham Young. No. 2 Duke (22-1, 10-0), like the Demon Deacons,

has performed better than expected this season—albeit at a much higher level than Wake Forest. The team is perfect in conference play, and it currently holds a twogame lead over second-place North Carolina. The Blue Devils have hit 54-of-127 shots from beyond the arc in their last five games, propelling themselves past top-tier ACC teams such as the Tar Heels and Maryland. Duke looks to maintain its offensive flow and transition game to win in Lawrence Joel Coliseum, where the Demon Deacons are 13-1 this year. The Blue Devils also will be hoping for a healthier Gerald Henderson. The sophomore guard has been hampered recently by a wrist injury and has had a difficult time contributing on offense. He still has been able to chip in defensively, however, recording five steals and pulling down seven boards against the Terrapins Wednesday. “[Henderson’s] wrist has been really bad for the last week,” Krzyzewski said. “His scoring’s affected because of that wrist, and hopefully with the day off [Thursday] and we don’t play till Sunday, he’ll get some recovery.” Even with Henderson injured, the Blue Devils have been able to maintain their winning ways, largely due to the play of freshman Kyle Singler. The 6-foot-8 forward has averaged 21.3 points and nine rebounds over the last three contests, posting double-doubles against North Carolina and Boston College. He was named the ACC Rookie of the Week Monday and added National Rookie of the Week honors Wednesday. With the way he’s playing, though, he—and Duke—could be headed for even more accolades. “Forget about Freshman of the Week,” Krzyzewski said. “He’s one of the better players in the league right now.”

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online Implementing course materials may decrease the number of students in attendance in most big lectures. That said, MIT, which hasbeen using this program for a while, reports less than four percent of the faculty reporting drops in attendance. This number seems low, but we hope that would stay true for Duke, too. In the end, though, the success of this venture ultimately rises and falls on the participation, understanding and ability of faculty. After all, they’ll be the ones who determine how it is used—and whether or not students will show up for that 8:30. There is one core truism: Faculty that lead engaging and/or interactive classes will get students to come to their classes. And those who do not should have absolutely no creases in their brows if students choose to take the easy

way out bylogging on. So, yes, thisboard is on board with such a new initiative. But a more fundamental issue also must beaddressed prior to adoption ofany such plan thefact that many professors at this University still struggle with —

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meeting in Hong Kong. To reiterate a trite phrase, the options are endless. Even with its potential shortcomings (read; smaller class sizes), OpenCourseWare appears to be the way to go as Duke looks to further its goal of global reach and push in the way of integrated education.

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weeks ago, Duke was treated to a day-long showcase of environmental awareness events, culminating in an invasion ofCameron Indoor Stadium by a swarm of green. If you are a Duke undergrad like me, then you were informed of this event by an email. The e-mail also implied that all hot weather is caused by global warming and challenged you on what I can only call “polar bear credschwartz ibility.” (I regret now do the evolution that The Chronicle cannot print one of those frowning-question-mark-face emoticons.) OK, OK Although I did have a good laugh at the email’s expense, I’m going to focus on the issues at hand—the issues manifested in buzzwords such as “green.” Focus the Nation, the national educationinitiative responsible for coordinating the events ofjan. 31 at Duke and nearly 2,000 other institutions across the nation, deserves to be commended for its extraordinary efforts to foster education and dialogue about the environment That said, I don’t think an event billed as “Crazies Go Green” should be orchestrated by an outside group that hands out its own green T-shirts. The intent was evidently to create a powerful image and maybe prompt someone like Mike Patrick to utter some colorfully dumb words of praise on national television. Being colorfully dumb, after all, is the only thing Mike Patrick is good for. I’ll admit I was cynical about the “green game” from the beginning. I felt that it was a slightly invasive thing to do to a basketballprogram that has been dear to my heart my whole life. Furthermore, I don’t like to see the environment being reduced to something that even requires a symbol of unity—like green. Yeah, I get it. Green is the color of chlorophyll; chlorophyll is in plants; plants are good for the environment, etc. But theenvironment is not a sports team or a breakfast cereal. These types of things—which require similar symbols for distinction—serve to unite only within a confined body, usually when there is some opposing force at hand. As an optimist, I prefer to believe that everyone worth acknowledging does care about the environment, even ifwe can’t seem to help slipping into terribly wasteful lifestyles as a result of cultural habit As it turned out, this concern didn’t matter. At the end of the first half—possibly the team’s worst-played halfofbasketball all season long—the Crazies nearly rioted and ripped off thegreen shirts and the Blue Devils proceeded to play their best basketball of the season. ■

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Speaking strictly as a basketball fan, it was one of the more awesome things I’ve seen in my life. Despite its utterly failed presence in Cameron, Focus the Nation’s efforts to awaken the collective environmental conscience was successful on other levels. To me, in addition to highlighting the importance of environmentalism, it shed light on the fact that the “green” movement needs a swift kick in the rear. A1 Gore, our Nobel Peace Prize winning almostpresident, stresses that the environmental crisis is necessarily “inconvenient.” That sounds about right, given the energetically costly lifestyle we have grown accustomed to, which includes incessantly whining about gas prices that amount to sometimes as little as one third what Europeans pay. I, for one, am not ashamed of having a lifestyle that is largely centered on convenience. That doesn’t mean that convenience and environmental responsibility must be mutually exclusive. Even when I perform a task such as recycling an empty bottle, I usually do so because there are recycling bins all around me. This is precisely how the recycling movement has become the single most successful component of the environmental social movement of the past 15 years—it has fostered convenience rather than chastising it. With the global warming crisis in full swing, the same movement has failed to implement the same strategy. By attacking the emphasis on convenient lifestyles rather than the hazards of our energy sources, the environmental movement accomplishes nothing. As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, as is reflected in the skyrocketing sales of products such as hybrid cars. Some years ago, it was widely thought that wars would be fought over tin (as many would claim, with some merit, we are fighting a war over oil), but lo and behold, we started using aluminum. As a nation, we need to get serious about exploring alternate energy sources, which will simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas emissions and act as an economic boon that could be so profitable that it will force other nations to follow suit. On the cover of their book “Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility,” environmental strategists Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus depicted the Chinese ideogram for “crisis.” The symbol is comprised of the characters for “danger” and “opportunity.” For too long, the environmentalist movement has focused merely on reducing the danger component, as if there was no other part ofit.

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letterstotheeditor Schoenfeld edit off mark on two points We share your enthusiasm about the selection of Mike Schoenfeld to lead Duke’s public affairs and government relations (“Welcome Back, Mike,” Feb. 14). He’s a great choice, and we can’t wait to join with him in telling Duke’s stories in new ways. Your editorial says one of his challenges will be to develop satellite facilities to reach out to reporters and others. Happily, Duke has on-campus television and radio studios that it has been using actively for years. Within the past two weeks, for instance, Duke experts have appeared on NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, CNBC, ABC News, National Public Radio, the BBC and many other broadcast outlets. The editorial also chides Duke Today for not serv-

ing the entire Duke community. Fair enough, but that was never the purpose ofDuke Today, which was created especially for faculty and staff two years ago, along with the publications Working@Duke and This Month at Duke, the Primetime town hall meetings and other initiatives, several of which have received national awards. Susan Kauffman, the director of communications in the new Office of Undergraduate Education, is now leading a similar effort to improve communications for Duke students and she is eager to hear ideas and advice from your readers.

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applying for colleges: percentage of classes taught by a professor. Not a grad student. Not a teaching assistant. A Ph.D.-ed professor. As I understood it at the time, professor good, anything else bad. =

and my father had shared the same lonely struggle. I imagine it was this fellow feeling—the ability to see snapshots of our lives within Abhijit’s—which contributed to the powerful response to his death among international students in the United States and commentators in India. Some publicly questioned the wisdom of sending students to the United States. Close to 5,000 people signed a petition demanding protection for SouthAsian students in America. The chief minister of the state of Jharkand suggested that there was a “deep conspiracy” behind the murder. This is, of course, an understandable response; Abhijit’s death came closely on the heels of the murder of two Indian graduate students at Louisiana State University. It’s also a natural one: conspiracy is a soothing balm in thewake ofsudden loss. It’s our way of ascribing order to chaos, of renewing our faith that violence so unthinkable and senseless and random can’t possibly exist In time, we accept that there was no plot at work, and we’re left with a kind of helpless pain and rage. A tragedy like this is felt particularly hard in a university community. A university grieves not only the direct memory of what was, but also the unfinished portrait of what might have been. That Abhijit—someone of such uncommon character and promise, who already had patents to his name, who was sure to have an outsized impact on his field, who had traveled all this way—that his life would be so tragically cut short is almost more than we can bear. But then we remind ourselves that the campus’ collective sorrow is a small fraction of what his family must be feeling. We remember that they are mourning Abhijit the son, Abhijit the brother, Abhijit the uncle. And we pause to consider that perhaps this volume of grief, shared across two continents, is a convincing argument against leaving one’s home to pursue further study. Yet I worry about this feeling, as I think many do. With the impediments that would-be immigrants face in getting here, and the difficulties they must overcome once they settle here, maybe the deck is sufficiently stacked against even trying. Yet, as I learned about Abhijit’s life, I found two facts that suggest that he would’ve held precisely the opposite view. I learned that he worked for two years in Bangalore, in the private sector, at a time when the boomtown was beginning to attract the world’s attention. That this young man, who could, if he had chosen, been a brilliant success in his native country, would give up private comfort and travel half a world away to contribute to public knowledge in his field suggests something more than ambition. It’s a mark of selflessness. It speaks to the best tradition of international student scholarship which believes that you can take your wisdom and uncommon perspective and bring it, like Promethean fire, to light another comer of the world. The second fact about Abhijit’s life is a simple observation, but it is the piece of his story that speaks to me most powerfully. In the face of hardship and homesickness, while finding his footing in the new world and feeling the tug of the old, Abhijit never stopped smiling. I’m confident that this smile will find a permanent place in the hearts of those who knew him best, and that, over time, the joy he brought to two continents will replace the pain of this tragedy. We can all benefitfrom reflecting on how Abhijit lived, and we can only hope that others who possess his combination of mind, spirit, and heart will share those gifts with the world.

I’m pretty sure we can all agree that having a professor teach every single class does not inherently make it a good course. Just because they went to school a few extra years definitely does not mean that they are any better at sharing their knowledge with us undergraduates. In fact, someallie vergotz times I think after going with a grain of salt through all of that schooling, people become surprisingly worse at explaining the basics That is not to say that all professors are terrible teachers, but there is some room for improvement. Enter the Teaching Assistant. This magical person bridges the divide between knowledge-seeking undergraduate and knowledge-laden professor. Whether a graduate or an undergraduate himself, he falls somewhere in the middle of “I have no idea what’s going on” and “I know this stuff so well I dream about it.” Admittedly, I have only just recently discovered this wonderful power of TAs. I used to think you should always go to the source (and the person who writes the tests) for help. I thought that the TA was really just a person used by the professor as a buffer to prevent students from coming directly to him or something equally absurd. But then last semester, I did very poorly on my first probability exam. I went to my professor for a lot of help prior to the next exam, help he willingly and enthusiastically offered. I still struggled. So, the night before the exam, I stationed myself at my TA’s office hours. I asked him almost every single question I had asked my professor. I sat there while he explained things to other people. And surprisingly, I actually started to understand. Now, you could say that it was just because I’d already gone over the material with my professor, but I think a lot of it had to do with the fact that my TA is still somewhere in the midst of learning. He understood the frustration of “I have absolutely no idea what’s going on here.” In fact, I had so terribly confused myself by that point, I’m a little surprised that he didn’t review addition and subtraction. (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, anyone?) I camped out at his office hours so often you would have thought it was Cameron Indoor Stadium. Then there was this past weekend. I had a lab due in my statistics class on Monday. Friday, utterly perplexed by the beast that is MATLAB, I went to see my professor. He helped me out and pointed me in the right direction for most of the areas that were confusing me. I worked on it a good bit on Saturday but managed to confuse myself even more in some parts. Again, enter, the TA. With a series of e-mails back and forth, beginning at 2:29 p.m. and ending at 11:57 p.m., and a visit to his office hours thrown in the mix, my TA worked with me until I had a good understanding of what I was doing Maybe I’ve just been blessed with particularly helpful TAs (and based on what my friends tell me, that is the case). Regardless, it delights me to know that there are these people out there whose sole job is not to teach you, but they do it anyway. Yes, they can’t really get out of it most of the time, but they could just as easily not respond to e-mails, bail on office hours and otherwise make themselves unavailable and unhelpful. To the TAs who do that: please stop. But today, I salute you, Mr. Teaching Assistant Who Actually Cares About His Students. We are happy that you show up to office hours. We appreciate that you check your e-mail compulsively and sometimes reply at 2:03 a.m. You really are making a positive difference in our undergraduate education.

Jimmy Soni, Trinity ’O7, is currently studying in Ireland on a Mitchell Scholarship.

Allie Vergotz is a Trinity sophomore. Her column runs every other Friday.

David Jarmul Associate Vice President, News and Communications

Remembering Abhijit took special notice when I learned that Abhijit Mahato, a graduate student at Duke University, was murdered in late January. I graduated from Duke last year, and though I didn’t know Abhijit during my time there, his death made an impression in the way that these stories do when the landscape of your life touches someone else’s. I could gather only a few accounts of his life, but they were enough to make me wish I had known him. He jimmy som seems to have been one gyest Column of those rare individuals whose face was fixed with a permanent smile. He was a lover of poetry and literature, and was well-read in both—no mean feat for someone who had spent the bulk ofhis young adulthood immersed in the engineering sciences. His friends described him as generous, humble and soft-spoken, with a self-efiacing sense of humor; the introduction of his Duke Web page featured this conclusion: “This is indeed a very lame introduction. But what else can I sayabout myself, except that I am the son ofmy parents, brother ofmy sister and brother-in-lawofher husband.” He was only in thesecondyear ofhis Ph.D. program, but was already blossoming into a first-rate scholar of computational mechanics; his research stretched beyond the boundaries of the academy, with real applications for industry. In each of the accounts I read, he came across as the type of person who got along with just about everyone, a fact that contributed to my sense that this tragedy was a particularly cruel brand of injustice. The more I thought about Abhijit’s time at Duke, the more I concluded that our tenures at the University probably had something in common: our years there were deeply shaped by what we had left behind. In Abhijit’s case, it was India, his native soil; in my case, it was a Midwestern house that my parents had struggled to convert into an Indian home. The result was a subtle estrangement from both the new home and the old one. In my experience, and perhaps also in Abhijit’s, this distance frequently morphed into an acute awareness: the memories evoked by songs at the annual Indian culture show, or the addition of rice and daal to the menu of the campus eatery, the small but consequential reminders of a life we did not sharewith our faculty membersand classmates. And there was the new world we entered, one of research and mentors and possibility, one which our parents had little knowledge of and which we couldn’t fully explain to them. But then I realized I was giving myself too much credit, and giving Abhijit too little. The truth is that his experience more accurately resembled my father’s: both completed degrees in Kanpur, and both left India in their late 20s to pursue careers elsewhere. This meant Abhijit’s move to Duke was marked by the same newness and excitement that filled my own first days there, but also that these feelings were probably mixedwith a greater measure of worry over what was to come and guilt at what was left behind. What I’ve learned from my father’s story is that anyone who struggles to educate and establish themselves abroad needs something that’s best understood as spiritual resilience. The first steps away from home are tough, but the real challenges are day-to-day. Friends, family and money are all in short supply. Ordinary things—street signs, channels on television, aisles in a grocery store—have a fuzzy unfamiliarity. And even when these things come into greater focus, there is the nagging sense that your efficiency apartment isn’t home; that home is contained in the mementos you manage to bring along and the moments you spend with anyone who looks like you. Abhijit’s life at Duke required more courage than my own, but I felt a kinship with him knowing that he

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY

THE CHRONICLE

15,2008

President Richard Brodhead and Provost Peter Lange invite you to a lecture and reception in celebration of

the opening of the new home of the Departments of African African American Studies and Cultural Anthropology, the Programs in Literature and Latino/a Studies, the Institute for Critical US Studies, and the Duke Human Rights Center &

Monday, February 18, 2008, 4:00-5:30

Nelson Music Room, East Duke Building

Alternative Knowledges, Social Spaces, and Historical Times: Mind Work as Exercise of Citizenship Lecture

George Lipsitz, PhD

Professor of Black Studies and Sociology University of California at Santa Barbara

Universities can be places where evidence and argument matter more than influence, where original and generative thinking matters more than entertainment. Yet the public, which the university is supposed to serve, becomes constructed as a series of market interests.

Countering that understanding requires interrupting current and recycled attempts to distract our attention away from the consequences of various domestic and foreign policies by fixing on the university as the problem needing management. However, the mind work possible in the university, necessarily difficult, offers not simply critique of existing conditions but demonstrations also of the transformative power of educational ideas and civic activism. And such work expresses itself not just in complicated epistemological practices but in activism as well, born out of the seemingly ordinary processes of everyday life. Mind work as citizenship is away of thinking both about the university and about activism.. Response from

Following lecture

Michael Hardt, Program in Literature, and Wahneema Lubiano, African & African American Studies Duke faculty members

A brief program and reception in the Science Building (formerly the Duke Art Museum) and tours of the building