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A little more than two years ago, Aaron Graves arrived with great fanfare from the University ofSouthern California. . Appointed to the new post of associate vice president for campus safety and security, Graves was lauded by Duke administrators for his expertise leading USC’s Department ofPublic Safety. Now, Graves is dealing with the exodus of one-third of the Duke University Police Department force since his arrival, and some former officers at USC said they might understand why DUPD Part 2 of 3 officers are dissatisfied with current leadership. They said Graves may have brought more than just his resume from California. “There’s just this arrogance he had,” said Russ Enyeart, a former USC public safety officer. “He thought he was untouchable.” Enyeart is one of two former officers who filed suit in California superior court against USC. The cases, which involved their terminations from USC, name current DUPD Maj. Gloria Graham—aformer captain at USC under Graves—as a defendant. (The case has been transferred to arbitration, rather than going to trial). The officers allege discrimination and harassment based on ethnicity and national origin, retaliation in violation of government code and negligent and intentional infliction ofemotional distress. But Graham said Enyeart and other disgruntled employees were the exceptions in her tenure at USC. “All employees were terminated for good cause,” she said. Graves declined repeated requests for comment and cancelled a scheduled interview with a reporter for this story. Some current DUPD officers, however, echoed Enyeart’s concerns. “The core values ofcommunication and respectjust don’t apply,” one officer said of the current leadership. ‘Much less deep than you might hope’ Graves was hired by the University after a national search including approximately 50 candidates, according to a press release SEE DUPD ON PAGE 4

A Duke student’s participation in last Wednesday’s pro-Tibet and pro-China protests has led to retaliation against the student and her family and has attracted

international attention. The home of freshman Grace Wang in the city ofQingdao, China was allegedly vandalized as a result ofher involvement in the protests. The Chronicle has obtained an image of a bucket of what appears to be feces poured in front of an apartment door from the Chinese Internet forum bbs.cnhan. com. Wang confirmed in an irtterview that the apartment belongs to her parents. Her parents are no longer living in the apartment, and cameras have been installed around the building, according to an April 13 e-mail sent to Wang by her mother sent and provided to The Chronicle. Directions to the family’s residence were posted on the same Internet forum, along with photographs and video from the protests. Family members’ private information—including their Chinese identity numbers and workplaces—were also listed. A video of Wang standing in front of a Tibetan flag at Wednesday’s protests and appearing to confront pro-Chiina demonstrators was posted onYouTube.com last Thursday and has been viewed more than 600,000 times. Some viewers interpreted the video as evidence of a pro-Tibet stance on Wang’s part. Although she has acknowledged writing “Free Tibet” on junior Adam Weiss,' an organizer of the pro-Tibet protest, Wang denies

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Freshman GraceWang (bottom right) has been called a traitor since appearing to support Tibetan independence ata pro-Tibet demonstration April 21. Her parents' home in China was vandalized Wednesday.

advocating for Tibetan independence. “Freedom is not independence,” she said. “Freedom is freedom. I want people to have free thinking and freedom of speech.” Wang first spoke to The Chronicle, on conditions of anonymity, April 13, but has since decided to use her name publicly,

including with national media. “If I did not say anything, it would actually be easier for them to attack my parents,” she said. “Now, if the whole world knows about it, the Chinese government SEE TIBET ON PAGE 10

Judge deniesDuke, Durham motions Beaty cautions against media involvement in lax civil suit by

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Judge James Beaty warned both parties in the lawsuitfiled against Duke by 38 lacrosse players about media involvement in the case.

U.S. District Court Judge James WINSTON-SALEM denied motion the University and Durham to by a Beaty sanction a Web site posted by lawyers of the 38 unindicted members of the 2005-2006 men’s lacrosse team in a hearing Tuesday. Beaty, however, cautioned attorneys for both sides against attempting to sway the media in the case. “Attorneys are cautioned from issuing statements that will impact the adjudication of the case,” Beaty said. Representatives of the University criticized the players’ attorneys for publicizing the case in a U.S. District Court memo filed in late February. They accused the players’ attorneys of violating N.C. State Bar Rule 3.6—which prohibits extrajudicial statements that “have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding” —in publicizing their SEE LAX SUIT ON PAGE

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Pope visits U.S. for the first time

Plane crashes on African runway

Trash plagues beaches worldwide

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. Pope Benedict XVI stepped onto U.S. soil for the first time as pontiff Tuesday, arriving to a presidential handshake and wild cheering only hours after he admitted that he is "deeply ashamed" of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has devastated the American church. Benedict gave hundreds of spectators a two-handed wave as he stepped off a special Alitalia airliner that brought him from Rome.

GOMA, Congo A Congolese jetliner with about 85 people on board failed to take off Tuesday from an airport in the eastern town of Goma, slamming into a busy market neighborhood at the end of the runway and bursting into flames, officials said. Witnesses reported dozens of bodies at the scene of crash in the Central African nation. Regional Gov. Julien Mpaluku initially said there were only six known survivors from the crash. Later in the day, he said up to 75 people had escaped alive with injuries, though it was unclear whether they were passengers on the plane or passers-by.

WASHINGTON —The world's beaches and shores are anything but pristine. Volunteers scoured 33,000 miles of shoreline worldwide and found 6 million pounds of debris from cigarette butts andfood wrappers to abandoned fishing lines and plastic bags that threaten seabirds and marine mammals. A report by the Ocean Conservancy, to be released Wednesday, catalogues nearly 7.2 million items that were collected by volunteers on a single day last September as they combed beaches and rocky shorelines in 76 countries from Bahrain to Bangladesh and in 45 states from southern California to the rocky coast of Maine.

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Bush, stepping into the debate over global warming, plans to announce Wednesday a national goal for stopping the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. In a speech in the Rose Garden, Bush will lay out a strategy rather than a specific proposal for curbing emissions, White House press secretary Dana Perino said Tuesday. She neitherdisclosed detailsofhis announcement nor said whetherthe president would propose any kind of mandatory cap on greenhouse

France to make body image laws PARIS In image-conscious France, it may soon be a crime to glamorize the ultra-thin. A new French bill cracks down on Web sites that advise anorexics on how to starve—and could be used to hit fashion industry heavyweights, too. The ground-breaking bill, adopted Tuesday by Parliament's lower house, recomip to $71,000 and three-year s for offenders who encourinness." It goes to the Senate 'eeks.

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JuniorAndrew Tutt was docked 190votes—one perresident in Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall—for placing flyers under doors during his campaign for DSG president. University policy prohibits the practice.

President Richard Brodhead is recommending that both Provost Peter lange and Dr. Victor Dzau, chancellor for health affairs and chief executive officer of the Duke University Health System, be reappointed to five-year terms, Brodhead announced in an e-mail to select faculty and staff Tuesday. The Board ofTrustees will meet in May to discuss the reappointments of the two senior administrators following the periodic review process that takes place every five years. If approved, Lange will remain provost for his third five-year term and Dzau will head Duke Medicine for his second term. In his tenure, Lange has guided the development of two University strategic plans as well as DukeEngage. He also

penned the September 2007 Interim Report on Undergraduate Education. “Peter Lange has been a superb academic leader whose vision has been instrumental in shaping and implementing the University’s strategic academic priorides and securing broad support for them among the deans, faculty, students, Trustees and alumni,” Brodhead wrote in the e-mall. Dzau has led the streamlining of DUHS, School ofMedicine and School of Nursing under the umbrella ofDuke Medicine. “Victor Dzau has brought remarkable energy, dedicadon and vision to the leadership ofDuke Medicine’s clinical and educational enterprises,” Brodhead wrote.

The Associated Press and 10 North Carolina news organizations including The (Raleigh) News & Observer sued Gov. Mike Easley Monday, accusing his administration of violating the state’s Public Records Law by deleting several e-mails. The complaint accuses Easley’s administration of “the systematic deletion, destruction or concealment of e-

mail messages sent from or received by the governor’s office.” The coalition alleges that Easley violated the law by telling his staff to instruct Cabinet agency employees to delete e-mails sent to and from his office. According to the Public Records Law, all government e-mails concerning public business are public record and must be retained and provided upon request. The suit alleges that the state Department of Cultural Resources, which oversees government records, allowed workers to delete

Tutt lost 190 votes for Easley deleting sued for flyering in DSG election e-mails on public record by

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TheDuke Student GovernmentElection Commission penalized presidential candidate Andrew Tutt, a junior, 190 votes—one for each resident of Gilbert-Addoms Residence Hall who found one of his illegally distributed flyers beneath his or her door. When the final election results were released, DSG reported thatTutt won 7 percent of the 2,508 ballots cast March 27 and 28, but he would have gotten 17 percent without the deduction. Although presidential candidate Lawrence Chen, a junior, still would have finished third, he would have beat Tutt by only 3 percent as opposed to 13 percent.

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“I did think it was discouraging for people who voted for me to see that only 7

percent was attained when it wasn’t in fact the truth,” Tutt said. “The penalty seems absurd. It’s disenfranchising the people who went to the trouble to vote for me.” Slipping campaign advertisements under students’ doors is not expressly prohibited in the DSG election bylaws, but the document states that all candidates must adhere to University policy, which outlaws the tactic. DSG Attorney General Paul Zarian, a sophomore, said a resident of Gilbert-Addomsfiled SEE RULES ON PAGE 9

SEE EASLEY ON PAGE 8

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Journalism An Award for the best article by a freshman, sophomore or junior at Duke University

Pathways Come and encounter a spirituality focused on the sea, with meditative images (from the N.C. coast), biblical texts, music, prayers, stories, poetry, songs & blessings. The creators of Ocean Psalms, former Duke Divinity School Professor Teresa Berger (now at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music) and Dr. JLoma Collingridge (Australian composer and musician), will present this multimedia project, an attempt to deepen the life of the spirit by reverent attentiveness to the “ocean depths” (Psalm 68).

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2. Submissions may be sent by e-mail to lynn.furges@duke.edu or by mail (5 copies) to: The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy Box 90241 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 Faxed copies will be ineligible. Submissions should include all current contact information (phone, email, mailing address) and the source and date of publication.The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2008, although candidates are encouraged to send their pieces at any time before that date.

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The Melcher Family Award Committee will evaluate the submissions. The award will be presented in the fall of 2008. For questions about the award, please contact: Melissa Solomon at 613-7329.

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Logos affect mind's Gone Dirty’ site sees creativity, study says Duke gossip, photos 6

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Want to be more creative? Covering your room with Apple logos might help. Exposure to the Apple logo makes people think more creatively than exposure to the IBM logo, according to a recent study by researchers at the Fuqua School of Business and the University of Waterloo. The study was published in the April issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. Cavan Fitzsimons, Fuqua associate professor of marketing and psychology, said he asked the test subjects for possible uses of a brick after flashing either the Apple logo, IBM logo or no logo in front of them. He found that people who were shown the Apple logo came up with more unusual uses for a brick. “They don’t know that they are doing this,” Fitzsimons said. “Consumers had the desire to be more creative, and the Apple logo is the motivational mechanism that’s driving this fact.”

He added that although Apple and IBM share many similarities, consumers tend to view Apple as more creative and IBM as more competent. “Apple has been trying to make a connection between the Apple logo and creativity,” Fitzsimons said. “That’s a function of the millions of dollars that Apple has spent.” In the study, he also found that people were more honest when shown the Disney logo as opposed to the E! channel logo because of the associations people make with the two brands. Wendy Wood, James B. Duke professor of psychology and neuroscience, said Fitzsimons used a method known as priming to activate particular constructs of the brain related to viewing logos. “It’s a particularly creative demonstration of the associations we make to our products and how just getting exposed to the logos can activate the SEE LOGOS ON PAGE 8

Fuqua researchers found that exposure to an Apple logo elicits more creative thought than an IBM logo.

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A good friend might stab you in the back, but a random Facebook friend could prove equally venomous. At least that’s true for an individual under the alias of “Christy Boggs,” who has been adding students as friends on Facebook over the past two weeks and posting their pictures on DukeGoneDirty.com, a gossip forum accompanied by photographs of students, said Jamie Pootrakul, the athletic department’s assistant director for compliance. The site, a Duk» of USAGoneDirty.co] cated to showcasim “funniest, dirty, stu) and sfmply ridiculous pictures and videos' of“the city” of Duke, according to the site’s home page. Users e-mail o post unflattering embarrassing pici of their friends or which are then commented on by other individuals, said one of the creators of the site under the alias “Lance Lohan.” The entire process is anonymous. “Our goal is to obviously have people at Duke get into the Web site,” Lohan said. “We are hoping that kids are going to go out and get drunk at their [fraternity] parties and take funny pictures at those.” Although many students have complained that the pictures on the site have been posted without their permission, Lohan said pictures from Facebook—as well pictures taken in public places like bars and clubs—are public property. Hence, pictures are almost never removed from the site. “If someone complains the right way or has a good argument, then we’ll take [the picture] down,” he said. “But that’s really rare. We’ve taken down less than three pictures in our history.” Lohan added that the site does not dis-

play pornographic or especially offensive or incriminating material. “[We’ve] never had nudity on our Web site,” he said. “It never shows something porn-style-ish. Maybe just a girl by the lake and her friend pulling down her bathing suit showing her butt or something.” Pootrakul said sophomore Will Smith, a member of the men’s track and field team, informed Leslie Barnes, director of studentathlete development, about the fictitious Christine Boggs. Barnes then sent out an email to all student-athletes warning them not to friend the mysterious user. said he was eas,ble to determine tat the profile was not genuine. “She friended me, but I didn’t accept her because it looked ike a fake prohe said. “The •n was way too iking, didn’t go to theyjust friended everyone and their dog.” Lohan refused to comment when asked whether the individual sending in pictures was a student at the University but said there is someone in every one of the featured “cities” working for the Web site. The creators decided to make a Dukespecific site after receiving suggestions that a smaller private school like Duke with wealthy students would be interesting to feature, Lohan said. The site is usually popular with schools that have a vibrant greek life, he added. “Some sorority will start bashing another sorority, and that’s how it grows into something popular,” he said. New pictures are uploaded to the site every day. Lohan said the creators’ goal is to have 20 different cities or schools posted on the site, and he said he hopes to eventually include a gossip section similar to that of Juicy Campus.

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With hours spent training, practicing, lifting and running, varsity student-athletes seldom have the time to go abroad or participate in civic engagement projects. But five-of them will have an opportunity to do so this summer through the Coach for College program. The program—founded by former women’s varsity tennis player Parker Coyer, Trinity ’o7—will launch its pilot program this summer in Vietnam. Coach for College is a civic engagement curriculum designed exclusively for varsity student-athletes from both Duke and the University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill. In Vietnam, they will help build a multi-purpose court and run sports clinics for middle school students. Coyer—who started the program as part of her fellowship with theRobertson Scholars Program —said she came up with the idea after trips to Vietnam and Belize last summer. “When I was a student-athlete, I could never study abroad or do anything like Duke Engage because of my training schedule with tennis and balancing that with school work,” she said. “As I talked to more athletes, I realized this was a problem a lot of them were facing.” Dean of Undergraduate Education Steve Nowicki served on the committee to select the participants for the program and helped secure $60,000 to support it this summer. He said he supported Goyer’s vision and believed the program has a very good chance of succeeding. “We would like the Duke Engage kind of experience to be available to all Duke students,” Nowicki said. “Providing athletes with this kind of opportunity has been a challenge, but this is a useful attempt to create that opportunity for athletes.” Unlike the eight- to 10-week time commitment for DukeEngage projects, Coach for College offers two three-week summer sessions. Five Duke and five UNC student-athletes have committed to each session for this summer. Sophomore Ben Bubnovich, a member of the men’s

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Duke and UNC student-athletes will go to Vietnam this summer to build an athletic facility and run a clinic as part of Coach for College's pilot program. track and field team, said the program was appealing because it provides a chance to experience and see the world through a totally different lens. Through the sports clinics, Goyer said she hopes to instill values like perseverance, d’edication and cooperation, which she said are useful in other areas such as education. Freshman Nick Tsipis, a member of the men’s soccer team who went on the planning trip, said student-athletes provide a rare range of-talents that can benefit the Vietnamese children. “We can inspire these kids to go to college because of our

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unique combination as a highly skilled sports player and as a student at a top university,” Tsipis said. “This is an opportunity to give back using our talents.” Despite the language barrier, Goyer said she has no major concerns that the difference in languages will affect the ultimate impact ofCoach for College. “You can do a lot of things, such as demonstrating, which do not require many words,” Goyer said. “The other thing is that in many ways sports help transcend the language barrier because everyone has a passion for sports no matter what country you come from.”

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meaning of the product and then influence our thoughts,” Wood said. In a previous experiment, people were asked to complete a sentence with words describing older populations, and the test subjects then walked slower and acted more like the elderly, he said. Other experiments have shown that seeing pictures of Albert Einstein boosts participants’ ability to answer trivia questions, said Mark Leary, professor of psycholog)' and neuroscience. Wood also emphasized that the effects are stronger when the exposure is subliminal rather than overt. Leary added that exposure to certain logos can have real tangible effects on a person’s physical and mental performance. If students were to surround themselves with pictures of Einstein and Stephen Haw'king, for example, their mental processes would be more active, he said.

e-mail messages they deemed to be of“short-term value.” The lawsuit states that Easley personally violated the law last month when he discarded a handwritten note from former state Health and Human Services Secretary Carmen Hooker Odom explaining why she did not talk publicly about efforts at mental health reform. “If it needed to be saved, I would have saved it—if it had any kind ofvalue to it at all,” Easley said in a meedng last week with several newspaper editors of Hooker Odom’s letter. In the suit news oudets also ask Easley and his office to try to recover the deleted e-mails and provide access to them. Easley’s spokesman Seth Effron said the governor’s office had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment. In Easley’s meeting last week with editors he noted that his office saves documents ofadministrative value but has the option of deleting those of no determined value. His office is not required by law to save anything without value, he added.

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RULES from page 3 an e-mail complaint, which brought the violation to DSG’s-attention. Tutt said he was aware that the promotional strategy violated University policy but proceeded because he believes the rule infringed upon his right to free speech. “The DSC constitution guarantees every student a right to absolute freedom of speech,” he said. “The University policy... is basically unconstitutional. We believe candidates should be able to speak as much and as loudly as they want to try to get students to vote.” Zarian, who chaired the Election Commission charged with investigating the infraction, said DSG was forced to penalize Tutt because he violated University policy, regardless of his rationale for doing so. He added that the committee acted in accordance with DSG precedent —in 2005, presidential candidate Emily Aviki, Trinity ’O6 and a second-year medical student, was disqualified for violating another

campaign policy.

But freshman Andrew Brown, a current president for Durham and regional affairs, said the flyering rule should be communicated much more explicidy to candidates. This Fall, he and seven other students slipped flyers under nearly all East Campus doors and went unpunished, Brown said. “I had no idea that this rule existed until it came up in a DSG [Executive Board] meeting a few weeks ago,” he said. “That’s really confusing. There are a hell of a lot of University bylaws.” Tutt said he considered appealing the decision but did not think he could compile sufficient evidence in the 24-hour window allotted for candidates to file a complaint after polls close. He added that because the penalty did not affect the outcome of the election, he felt-he did not have a compelling reason to put up a fight. “It was not a fun election to be a part of, and in that sense I did not want it to go on longer than it had to,” Tutt said. “We decided it would be better to just unite behind the new government.” senator and next year’s vice

The final party of the year for seniors was the main topic of conversation"lat the Duke University Union’s meeting Tuesday night. Members heard plans for the Back to East party from the Senior Class Council and discussed a possible Central Funding Board at its second-to-last meeting of the semester. Senior Class President Hasnain Zaidi and Caroline Mix, both seniors, presented the Back to East party and requested sponsorship from the Union. The party, slated for May 8 on East Campus from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m., is intended to be a casual event for seniors to mingle and see their classmates before, graduation ceremonies start May 9. “It’s going to be the first event of its kind,” said Mix, co-chair of the party. She added that she hopes that the party will become a University-funded tradition. Zaidi and Mix said they have asked for sponsorship from the Office of Student Activities and Facilities, the Office of the Provost and various other organizations. The two also said they would like to have marketing support from DUU. The Back to East party will include dinner at the Marketplace, music provided by Who’s Bad?, a Michael Jackson cover band, and Kegs will also be offered at the event. To conclude the party, the seniors will gather to take a souvenir class picture that will be sent to them after graduation. Mix and Zaidi said they hope seniors will continue their night by hitting the bars on Main Street for one last taste ofDurham. Registration for the event will cost $5 to ensure students who sign up will attend, and the Marketplace dinner will cost an extra $10.35! DUU members offered the free services of WXDU as entertainment for the party. But they said they were skeptical about allocating money for the event and emphasized that the Union is designed to provide resources, not funds. Many Union members said they believe the party will be able to gain the funding it needs from the University.

Members also discussed the Central Funding Board—a potential organization consisting of the Union, Duke Student Government and Campus Council—for student groups to go to for funding. DUU President Chamindra Goonewardene, a junior, said he has talked about the idea for some time with DSC President—elect Jordan Giordano and Campus Council President Molly Bierman, both juniors, but no plans have been set in stone.

In other business: Goonewardene discussed DUU’s ideas for the Fall after the meeting. “There’s orientation plans, there’s going to be a Fall Page [Auditorium] show possibly still in the works [and] Joe College Day is happening again,” he said. Sophomore Christie Falco, DUU Special Projects committee co-director, said one of the new orientation plans for the Class of 2012 in the works is to break a world record. Possible ideas for the record, she added, include the world’s largest piethrowing fight or robot dance.

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TIBET from page 1 and the Chinese people would feel a lot of pressure to really consider the consequences before they take any irrationalaction.” Scott Savitt, Trinity ’B5 and a former foreign correspondent for United Press International and the Los Angeles Times in Beijing, said he believes the danger faced by Wang and her parents is real. “In the Chinese world, when you post her parents’ address, you know something is going to happen,” said Savitt, who is advising Wang on how to handle the e-mails and calls. He is also scheduled to be a panelist for a discussion on the conflict in Tibet to be held Wednesday in Griffith Film Theater. Never before have political actions by Chinese individuals abroad led to this level of internet vigilantism, he said. “This Internet mob mentality, that is unprecedented,” he said. “There is nothing typical here.... I mean, it’s crazy.” Some posters on Chinese-language Internet forums called Wang a traitor. A photograph of her with “traitor” written in Chinese on herforehead also appeared on some sites last week. Wang also said she has been receiving disturbing telephone and e-mail messages since Wednesday, some of which were sent over the Duke Chinese Students and Scholars Association e-mail listserv. One message sent to the listserv, dated April 10, contained Wang’s name, graduation year and information about her hometown, as well as a link to footage of the protests. Another April 10 message warned that Wang would be unable to return to China if she continued to speak publicly. The Chrohicle reviewed all messages sent to the DCSSA listserv since April 6. None of the e-mails contained Wang’s phone number, but her number is publicly available on the University’s online directory.

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Freshman Grace Wang (top) faces a crowd ofpro-Chinese protestors at a vigil held April 21. Her personal information, including her parents'address in China, has since been leaked. Chinese protestors (right) interrupted a vigil supporting Tibetan independence on theChapel quad. DCSSA removed the messages from its listserv archive and disabled the archive April 14. Previously, all messages sent to the e-mail listserv were archived on the DCSSA’s Web site. In a letter to the Duke community posted to the DCSSA site April 14 and signed by DCSSA President Zhizhong Li and vice presidents Weina Wang and Weining Bian, all graduate students, the organization “declares our unequivocal position that we strongly disagree and condemn the behavior of these few anonymous subscribers.” Attempts to reach Li were unsuccessful. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, said he met with DCSSA officials to

discuss the messages that were posted on their Web site and to help them develop a response. He said he did not see any need for a direct investigation of the group. Moneta added that he has been working with StudentAffairs and Wang’s residence hall staff to “make sure she has proper support.” Maj. Gloria Graham, operations commander for the Duke University Police Department, said DUPD began investigating the messages Tuesday and will attempt to determine who postedWang’s information. “Once we do that, then we would obviously want to speak with them and see what their intent was,” she said.

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For most first-year graduate students, Monday afternoons are a time to catch up on some reading, work on a thesis or maybe grade papers as a teacher’s assistant. Volunteer assistant coach Ed Douglas, meanwhile, plays one-on-one, full-court basketball at Wilson Gym with Sports Informaton Director Art Chase. “[Monday] Art and I had an epic battle, 100-97, and I won actually,” Douglas said. “But I kind offelt bad because people were standing around and I thought we should probably get into a bigger game...” When not dominating the leftmost court at the gym, though, Douglas, Pratt ‘O6, splits his time between pursuing a Masters of Arts degree and helping out the No. 2 Blue Devils. As an undergraduate, Douglas did not play lacrosse his freshman year and walked on to the team as a sophomore. Once on the squad, though, he made an immediate impact, starting his very first game as an attackman and recording a goal. The Baltimore, Md. native soon made the transition to midfield, where he went on to become a team captain and second-team All-American in 2007. “Eddie was the best player on the field in between the ears,” fifth-year senior Tony McDevitt said. “He was the smartest guy

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As Duke prepares for its Spring Game slated for Saturday at Wallace Wade Stadium, other programs across the ACC are making similar preparations, although with slightly different expectations. Neighbors N.C. State and Wake Forest along with familiar foes Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech all have their spring scrimmages scheduled for Saturday as well. Rival North Carolina’s Spring Game was cancelled due to weather April 5, and was played to far less fanfare two days later. While Saturday’s game will give fans their first look at the Blue Devils under head coach David Cutcliffe, no one expects the showcase to be a preview of the 2008 ACC Champions. Expectations at Duke may be notably higher this year than in years past, but they pale in comparison to the expectations at Virginia Tech and Clemson, the early favorites to represent their divisions in the ACC Championship Game in Tampa, Fla. The Hokies are used to the spotlight, as head coach Frank Reamer’s bunch has reached the title game in two out of the last three years after winning the ACC in 2004—the last season played without a conference championship game. But this spring, even as the experts still place Virginia Tech at the top of the Coastal Division for 2008, many questions still remain in Blacksburg, Va. Over the winter, running back Branden Ore, an All-ACC performer as a sophomore in 2006, was kicked off the team after a long string of rule violations. Last week, the team announced that expected first-string tailback Kenny Lewis, Jr. would be out four to six months after tearing the labrum in his Jeff shoulder. Making matters worse, Lewis’ backup, Jahre Cheeseman, broke his left leg in SEE FOOTBALL ON PAGE 16

Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer has led the Hokies to two ACC Championships in their four seasons in the conference, including last year's title.

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ciano tracked down two consecutive drives to right center, including one he had to stretch out and catch over his shoulder for the final out of the inning. “That’s the strength of our team,” Bunder said. “Duke Baseball—we just pitch and play defense. That’s what we strive to do everyday.” But the Blue Devils’ bats weren’t lacking at all either. Led by first baseman Nate Freiman, who returned to the lineup from a broken hand last weekend after sitting out 18 games, Duke followed up a strong performance in the first contest with a 22-run, 14-hit barrage in the second. After going down 1-2-3 in the first inning, the Blue Devils scored in every frame thereafter. Freiman finished 6-for-9 on the night, blasting his first career grand slam—and Duke’s first in two seasons—over the wall in center field en route to a seven-RBI performance. Although McNally made multiple substitutions throughout the

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NCAA nixes Douglas’ sixth year When all of Duke’s players were granted an extra year of eligibility last summer because of the 2006 season’s cancellation, Douglas’ situation became complicated. According to NCAA rules, student-athletes are allowed four years of eligibility, and are granted five years in which to complete it. For thi§ reason, players like McDevitt and Matt Danowski who started college lacrosse as freshmen are able to play an extra year this season. By the end of 2007, Douglas had only played three years worth of varsity athletics —not counting 2006’s suspended season—but because he had completed those seasons in five calendar years, he was out of luck. Douglas petitioned the NCAA for what essentially amounts to a sixth year of eligibility, but his appeal was denied. “I found out while I was watching the Tewaaraton awards dinner on TV last summer, and some guy comes on and is like, ‘ln other news, the Duke Lacrosse team was given an extra year of eligibility, except for Ed Douglas,”’ the former midfielder said. “I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ So I filed an additional appeal with the help of [interim Athletic Director] Chris Kennedy, and then found out in July they had denied the request. “The NCAA is reluctant to set precedent in that regard so I completely understand. I thought I was going to be back here playing too, but [coaching] is kind of the next best thing.” Regardless of the appeal’s outcome, Douglas probably would have been in Durham anyway while finishing his Masters degree. With that in mind, head coach John Danowski suggested that Douglas, whom he had coached for just one season, join the team as a volunteer assistant coach. “He was going to be here for school anyway, and it just made sense,” Danowski said. “You’re part of the program here for five years, and as long as you’re sticking around, why not come out and stick with the team?” “Coach Douglas” As a coach, Douglas’job is a mix of video work, managing substitutions during games and trying to connect with players close to his age when coaches have a hard time doing so. According to Danowski, Douglas also serves as a sort of English teacher for the players and coaching staff. “He’s great at correcting my vocabulary—anything out of context, he can certainly help me with that,” Danowski said. “He speaks like four languages, and he helps me with my English. I speak much gooder than I used to.” Despite Danowski’s good humor, Douglas acknowledges that it has been a bit odd coaching players almost as old and perhaps just as skilled as he is. In particular, Douglas said the tide of“Coach Douglas” just isn’t comfortable for him. “Some of the freshmen started to call me ‘Coach Douglas’ [early in the season], and I told them that if they did it again, I wouldn’t respond to it,” Douglas said. McDevitt added that he and the other upperclassmen try to call Douglas by his title during games to set a precedent for younger players, but it continues to feel strange since the players spent so much time together as undergraduates. Both Douglas and McDevitt say they remain extremely close friends, and Dan Oppedisano, a midfielder on last year’s team who graduated and decided not to return for a fifth season, also spoke highly of the relationship between members ofhis graduating class. “I don’t know if chemistry is as important as talent, but it’s damn near close, and we had awesome chemistry,” Oppedisano said. “We missed winning it twice, but I think we had everything it took, and I would just say those guys are my best friends. The way Duke Lacrosse is run just makes kids into best friends.” Oppedisano now works in finance in New York, and Douglas said he should soon be pursuing a career of his own. In the classroom, Douglas recently turned in a political science thesis about terrorism, and in the future, he hopes to work in foreign policy in some capacity, either at home or abroad. “Coach [Danowski] always talks about how fortunate we are to be in this position, and maybe volunteering is away I can start giving back to a program that has given me a lot,” Douglas said. “But as much as I’ve enjoyed this experience, I think that I’m ready to move on to some other things in my life.” But the Blue Devils plan on making Douglas stick around as long as possible—all the way to Memorial Day and the national championship game.

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VAISMAN from page 11 noticing that people had started to “Sean Dockery”, onto the court (as Coach "K would later describe the action), I strolled onto the hardwood and found myself giving a high-five to a bloody Lee Melchionni (apparently injured in the celebration). It was then that I turned around and found myself face-to-face with Sean Dockery. Unsure what to do, I patted him on the back and rubbed his sweaty head. To this day, I’m still unsure why I didn’t go for the man lujg, but it wound up on all the ESPN promos for Duke’s next game. Go me. Mascots: The Blue Devil Wipes Out I don’t want to mock our poor mascot for tearing his ACL while jumping off of the surfboard any more than he has already been in the comments section of YouTube, but the pun was irresistible. Band Members playing trumpets and trombones: D.U.M.B. in the blue zone In what was probably the most boneheaded move by a student organization this entire year, the marching band inexplicably decided to serenade Tailgate from within the war zone that is the first lot on the left. They would have been better off walking into a bear cave covered in honey. Needless to say, their Anderson Cooper doppelganger music director was displeased when revelers decided to steal conductor hats and batons-and lead the band in “Everytime We Touch.” Too bad they still cut off the jumping part after 10 seconds. Dunks: J.J. throws it down against Maryland Gerald Henderson will own the Duke highlight reel for the foreseeable future, but J.J. barely slamming home a breakaway dunk—instead of his usual layup—wins for

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Excited Players: Jamal Boykin For those that missed the Jamal Boykin era, Jamal slapped the floor more times in a 53-point win over Seton Hall than most Duke teams do in an entire season. Crying Players: Postgame locker rooms The worst part of a sports journalist’s job, and the one reason I could never do it as a career, is when you have to stick a microphone in the face of someone who just lost. Imagine publicly failing at your job, and then having to answer questions about it literally 30 seconds later; for me at least, it was no fun being the person asking those questions. Although games are bad, playoffs are obviously worse: seeing the men’s lacrosse and women’s field hockey teams come up short in 2005 were easily the hardest stories I ever had to write. Buzzer Beaters: Duke 71, UNC 70 February 9, 2005 Although not quite a buzzer beater, watching the ball roll off of David Noel’s hands out of bounds, looking up at the clock to see it go from :01 to 0:00, hearing the buzzer sound and realizing that Duke had just stopped UNC from taking a shot when the Tar Heels had the ball for the last 18 seconds of the game was the single greatest moment in Cameron for me. If only I had known that it would be the last home victory over UNC I would see, I would have celebrated harder that night. Clips from the Final Four: Whoops, never got to see one. But like Jim Nantz bolting the arena to go to Augusta, I’m departing the sports pages for the friendly confines of the back pages next week. So thanks for reading, and enjoy the tradition unlike any other—the senior columns of The Chronicle. And when it’s done / win or lose /you always did your best / cuz inside you knew. .. / ONE SHINING MOMENT YOU REACHED FOR THE SKY!

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FOOTBALL from page 11 the Hokies’ most recent scrimmage April 12. Without Lewis and Cheeseman, no healthy running back on Virginia Tech’s roster has ever taken a snap in a regular-season game. “It was time for us to pick it up when Branden [Ore] left,” said Darren Evans, a redshirt freshman tailback. “He left some big shoes to fill. But now we’ve all got to pick it up even more. We’ve got to get our mind right, get our protections down and understand the game better.” While Lewis and Cheeseman’s injuries will give Evans and fellow freshman Josh Oglesby some valuable experience in the Spring Game, Beamer would certainly prefer to see his top two running backs take the field Saturday. Instead, he’ll have to settle without last year’s top four widereceivers—all who graduated—and top three running backs. Down in Clemson, S.C., head coach Tommy Bowden’s team was able to avoid the injury bug at its Spring Game April 12. Bowden even said that the best thing about the game was that “no one got hurt.” The Tigers return eight starters on each side of the ball

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in 2008—including All-ACC tailback James Davis, who sat the Spring Game with a shoulder injury suffered earlier this spring. Unlike Virginia Tech’s Lewis and Cheeseman, Davis is already a proven back, and Clemson’s medical staff expects the senior to be ready for fall practice in August. Aside from the offensive line and at linebacker, the Tigers have proven players at every position. Expectations have been high for Clemson in recent years, but the squad has failed to reach the conference title game each time. If April 12 was any indication of how the Tigers’ skill players will perform in 2008, Clemson fans should be excited about the team’s prospects in the upcoming season. Quarterback Cullen Harper—who led the ACC in passing efficiency in 2007 —was his usual efficient self, completing 13 of 18 passes for 142 yards and two scores in only a half of play—and behind an inexperienced offensive line. Harper will be tested early, as the Tigers face Alabama at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in their first game of the 2008 season. “I’ve got some questions concerning the offensive line with ZACHARY TRACER/CHRONICLE FILE PHOTO them being so young,” Bowden said. “That will be a concern Clemson returns the of its from a team that finished majority players a But, with such our opener. especially quality opponent in with our returners and leaders, I feel good about the season.” 8-5 last season, just one game out of the ACC Championship game. out

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doubleheader, he said he left Freiman in for the duration of both games so the slugger could see as much live pitching as possible. “That was really important for him,” McNally said. “He’s incredible. He’s made a pretty seamless transition back into the heart of the order. He just totally changes the complexion of our lineup, not only with what he can do, but how it helps the other guys.... It’s just had a huge impact for us.” After a late night under the lights, Duke will board a bus to Buies Creek this afternoon in order to face Campbell (15-22), where Jonathan Foreman (1-0) will take the hill. Duke resumes conference play this weekend when it hosts Clemson for a three-game series.

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pie hide behind the anonymity that technology provides, but there is a point at which the University is obligated to intervene—especially in a case which threatens the .future of protest and discourse on campus. As a whole, the current situation is muddled and complicated by issues of ethnic tension and polarizing violent conflicts, and discussion of the issues has been overshadowed by the despicable threats made against one of our own. The highly emotional response these events have solicited does not befit a University where free speech and addressing nuanced issues should go hand in hand. Cooler heads, not irate emails, must prevail.

last week what I believe is the -A Chinese national was among the vigil atnastiest turn of events in my three years at tendees. After the protests, someone posted her name, phone number and other information to Duke. It all started one week ago when several students the DCSSA mailing list, which is archived on the joined together in organization’s Web site; DCSSA president and a vigil of the sort third-year biology graduate student Zhizhong I’ve written about Li wrote in a message on DCSSA’s Web site that before, calling for this was done by “a few subscribers,” that it was an end to Chinese “anonymous” and that DCSSA strongly con-*_ human rights abusdemns the action. es in Tibet. But How Li could tell the senders were subscribrather than let the ers without knowing their identity, and how event pass by, little they could have posted to an e-mail list without Oliver sherouse attended and little showing a return address, is not immediately noticed, a group of and Li did not return request for comclear, you tell me Chihese students ment on this column. In addition, though the and Web site makes clear that non-students can join community members decided to stage a pro-China rally at the the list, it is not apparent why someone outside same time and place. The Duke Chinese Students the Duke community would have known that and Scholars Association, at the very least, helped the student was at the vigil or would wish her to organize the protest, sending out guidelines on harm. their listserv. While all of this is in question, however, the efThis was, from a purely objective point of view, fect on the student is not. She has received threata bad PR move. As the badly outnumbered pro- ening phone calls and e-mails. She now worries Tibet students were forced back onto the Chapel that she has been blacklisted by the Chinese govsteps, they got to play the part of the principled ernment. few to the raucous lynch mob. Li is on record as dismissing this fear. If he so But what’s more troubling is the intent beconfident about the Chinese government’s respect hind this counterrally. If the pro-China crowd, for free speech, perhaps he can tell me where the as they claim, simply wanted to present an alterTank Man is. The truth is that this student’s wellnate view, then they could have held their rally being, along with thatof her family back in China, a day or an hour later and won the argument on have been put at risk, most likely by a fellow Duke attendance alone. student. The counterprotest’s intent, however, was not I don’t think that DCSSA should have its to add a perspective but to blot one out, as video charter revoked, as some have suggested. The of the event makes clear. The voices of the pro- organization has condemned the e-mails, and Tibet students were drowned out by the chants of there is little more that an organization as such the pro-China group; the Tibetan flags they held can do. were only visible if one could part the red sea that It can, however* help authorities find out who was blocking them out. It was not an attempt to sent out this information. These bullies, these change opinion, but to override it. In short, it was thugs who make up Duke’s very own Fifth Colmuch like what China does to Tibet. umn, do not deserve to be here. They should Feel free to disagree with that last statement as be cast from the University for endangering a soon as you tell me where the Panchen Lama is. fellow student, and no other institution should The real one. receive them. I am proud that the pro-Tibet students Moreover, the Durham Police Department, if stood firm in the face of this adversity. They they can spare timefrom having drug cases thrown defended the things Duke is supposed to be out, might find North Carolina’s Statutes §l4-196.3 about: freedom of expression, moral justice, (Cyberstalking), §l4-277.1 (Making Threats) and the dignity of humanity and not backing down §l4-277.3 (Just Regular Stalking) of interest. to a bully. Last Wednesday, DCSSA members This kind of cowardly intimidation has no place and other pro-China protesters stood against in our university, this nation or indeed, the world. all of these ideas, and in doing so shamed their We cannot, and we must not, let it stand. fellow students, and especially their fellow Chinese students. Oliver Sherouse is a Trinity junior. This is his final But what followed was far worse. column of the semester. --

fallout from the demonstration has squandered a wonderful opportunity for a civil, academic discourse on international issues at Duke, the potential involvement of Duke students in the dissemination of personal information and spreading of threats raises chilling questions about the role of free speech on Campus. At this time, it is imperative that the University investigate as to which individuals made attacks over the listserv and determinewhether Duke students were involved in threatening Wang. If student involvement is confirmed, the University should take strong action against those identified. It is easy to stand by in an Internet culture where peo-

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respond in removing damaging content from its archives and issuing its apology, but calls for its disbanding are both misguided and overhasty. Their public response, though delayed, was appropriate in “condemn [ing] the behavior of those few anonymous subscribers” who sent out the “troubling and heinous” messages. At the same time, when the lives and livelihoods of are at stake, any delay at all is too much. The DCSSA listserv was similarly involved in the spread of threatening e-mails involving a Duke professor last year, and we hope that the newly imposed strict filters are effective enough to prevent any similar action in the future. Beyond the fact that the to

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letterstotheeditor The reason for the pro-China protest We are 72 members of the Chinese community who participated in the voluntary protest against the “Pro-Tibet” vigil April 9. The purpose of sending this letter is not to argue, nor to educate, but rather to let the Duke community understand perceptions of Chinese community on this issue in order to encourage more and effectivexommunications. We are writing in response to your news report “ProTibet, pro-China” on April 10. The article failed to mention the reason behind the voluntary gathering of 400 Chinese people in front of the Chapel to protest a vigil participated in by about 15 people. Also, we want to clarify some facts during the protest. On the morning of April 8, the Duke Human Rights Coalition drummed up an event on Facebook. The event was described as “Forget the Olympic Torch Relay for China’s genocide Olympics, join in on the relay of the Tibetan Flag on Duke’s campus and a short Candle Vigil at the Duke Chapel,” and was to be held on the same day when the Beijing Olympic Torch was relayed in San Francisco. Their claim of a “genocide Olympics” was groundless and spiteful. Moreover, they wrote in the blurb “For over 50 years, China has occupied a formerly autonomous country, Tibet.” However, in Chinese history, Tibet was incorporated into China during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). It is a fact that no nation in the world has ever formally recognized Tibet as an independent country.. Therefore, the vigil severely denigrated the Beijing Olympics and the vigil’s description distorted the historical truth that Tibet belongs to China. More than 400 Chinese people voluntarily gathered to speak up and to counter attempts to mislead the public. Our chanting of “liars, liars” was not against any individual words the “Pro-Tibet” protestors said, but against the collective action they performed—their propaganda of “Genocide Olympics” and “a formerly autonomous country, Tibet.” Our protest was not to intimidate them but to express our disagreement with their intentions to mix politics with the Olympics and to boycott the Beijing Olympics with political excuses based on distorted historical facts.

Cong Jin, Graduate student, molecular genetics and microbiology, and 7,1 others. Full list available at www.dukechronicle.com. ASA is racist I found the barrage of letters to the editor from Asian Students Association members over the Chomicle article “China Invades Duke; SAT scores rise” very ironic. Senior Cristian Liu, the current president of ASA, wrote in his April 2 letter that he took great offense to the article for “exploit[ing] false racial stereotypes for the purpose of humor.” Yet at ASA’s biggest showcase of the year, the Lunar New Year show, MCs—including current ASA executive board member and next year’s president, Andrew Hsiao, a Pratt junior—repeatedly stereotyped Asians for the purpose of humor. For example, fake Asian accents abounded as well as plays on the attractiveness of Asian males. Remember the segment on the misting machine which gave Asian men confidence? (If not, look at Hsiao’s Facebook profile picture.) The most offensive part of ASA, however, is not the events it holds, but the ideas endorsed by people that it elects into office. For example, consider what a current executive board member and newly elected executive vice president, junior Jay Lee, wrote on the Facebook wall for the group “Everybody Loves a Taiwanese Girl:” “still compared with non-asian americans, whites, blacks, latinos, I think Asians tend to be the least slutty by far due to culture genes who knows my friend thinks its genetic too.” Interestingly, he even stereotypes down to the region saying, “you want a whore, go to china, they may not be good looking like Taiwanese girls, but ull actually be able to find lots there. As there is a word limit, I cannot list all the stereotyping done by future ASA executives, but I am left to wonder why members ofASA are so anxious to criticize others for stereotyping that they do themselves. ASA officers should be held to the same standards that they judge othersupon. While I do not believe thatASA represents the views of the majority of Asians on campus, I wonder whose views they do represent “

Craig Reeson Trinity ’O9

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and gendemen of Duke University of the ClassNobody understands the Stick It comic. Not even the es of 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011: guy who draws it. You’re not supposed to. Read The Chronicle even if it’s just the sports section. If I could only give you one piece of advice it would be that no matter what a senior boy tells you, there Do not read your textbooks. They cost too much money and is no sex in the Gothic Reading Room you’re likely to pass without them.Your professors are probably None. just trying to pawn off their own books onto you anyway. Oh, there are gargoyles Understand that buses come and go. Don’t run after them. This is not high school. in the Gothic Reading Room. And books. But you Live on East Campus once, but leave before you die of don’t want to read books heat exhaustion. You want sex. Live on Central Campus once, but leave before you get But there is no sex in robbed. Live in the Belmont... never. the Gothic Reading Room. Don’t lie to yourself. Air conditioning is important. None. Use the stacks instead. Go abroad. The long-term benAccept certain inalienable truths: You will quit the preback in braff med track. The Duke University Police Department will efits of avoiding sex in the Gothic Reading Room have conduct an ill-advised raid for illegal drugs in your resibeen proven by scientists, dence. And you will owe Duke lots of money. And when you do, you will fantasize that when you were whereas the rest ofmy advice has no basis orreliability other than my own meandering experience. But I will dispense in college you never were pre-med, the drug bags were this advice anyway now:Enjoy the power and beauty ofyour filled with oregano and the money was all worth it. The money was not worth it. freshman year. Thank the guy at McDonald’s. He is nice. Nevermind, you will not understand the power and beauBe nice to Larry Moneta. He can have you expelled. ty of your freshman year until you have become a sophomore. But trust me, in three years you will look back at FaceRespect Coach K. book photos of yourself and wonder, “Why did I let her tag Maybe you’ll have a trust fund. Maybe you won’t. What am I saying? Of course you have a trust fund. You go to Duke. that drunken, naked photo ofme? I need to get a job.” Don’t worry about the future. Unless you got a job at Food points aren’t real money, otherwise they wouldn’t Bear Stearns. Then be terrified. call them points. When walking on the Plaza, avoid the tablets by faking Your GPA doesn’t matter... if your last nameds Bostock. Eat one thing everyday that scares you. If you eat at the a phone call. The Plaza is where good things happen. If by Marketplace, you’ve got that one covered. good things you mean walking to class. Don’t be reckless with other people’s cars and don’t If you see a basketball player on the quad and you think put up with people who are reckless with yours. Otherwise, he recognizes you from a previous encounter, he doesn’t. Sneak into Cameron for the Carolina game. No one who how will you get to Southpoint? Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do considers themselves to be anything but a silly person lives with your life. Become an art history major instead. in a tent for three months only to watch us lose to UNC. If those rocks are good enough for jocks, they’re good LDOC. Don’t worry about getting into a good fraternity. The enough for you. Collect free T-shirts. But remember, they’re just T-shirts. most interesting people I know live in Mirecourt. Of It’s not worth punching some girl in the face to amass your course, homeless people are “interesting” too. ninth lime green shirt you will never wear. Drink. Go to DUl’s Big Show 11 this Friday at 8 p.m. in Page Be kind to your liver. You’ll miss it when it’s gone Maybe you’ll join a fraternity. Maybe you won’t. Maybe Auditorium. Shamelessly promote events for groups of you’ll be featured in a thread onJuicyCampus.com. Maybe which you are a part. Graduate. you won’t. Maybe you’ll join Mirecourt. Maybe you’ll ride the bull at Shooters at your 75th reunion. Eat free crackers at the Loop. Brandon Curl is a Trinity senior. This is his final column

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buried my great-grandmother this semester. Along with senior dinners, senior pictures and Senior Week, her funeral is a memory that is inextricably linked to my final year at Duke. As seniors we try to capture in photos those memories that show we have lived the “typical” college experience. Facebook fuels this fire when people can constantly construct personas to prove they’re living the good life. So, seniors: We enjoyed Duke, right? The kelley akhiemokhali pictures show that, right? I’ll remember this as an hyphenated view amazing four years, right? Of course, I have an inordinate numberof good memories at my soon-to-be alma mater. I traveled abroad for the first time and met people whom I will remember long after the communication between us has stopped. But one of my fondest memories of college was being able to take a picture with four generations of female family members. In that photograph, my greatgrandmother, grandmother, mother and I graced Gilbert-Addoms’ bench with an unmatched pride. Spring Break had ended, and they had just driven me back to school. It was one of thoseKodak moments. Duke has never been simply my own personal experience. As I walked across campus I carried with me the history of four living generations. Although for some people this can easily be a source of stress, for me it was a source of courage. When I didn’t want to take another test, board another flight to RDU or think about school, I could summon up an image of my family and be OK. At the end of the day, I understand that my life is ridiculously easy because of the sacrifices and hardships of past generations. That one picture tells it all. Myggreat-grandmaa—a former sharecropper—was able to live long enough to see her

offspring enter a world-renowned institution. She was able live long enough to even be allowed to step foot on a

campus such as Duke’s. My grandmother—who always said she would have loved to receive a college education, let alone the one I received—believes in me more than I believe in myself. Then there’s my mother. Language fails me when it comes to explaining the amazing power ofher love and friendship, so (knowing that I can’t give our relationship justice) I’ll simply say she’s my best friend and biggest supporter. Finally, sitting on the bench is me. Me with my Duke lanyard and a big smile. Me with the hopes, dreams and beliefs thatwould be radically transformed over a four-year period. As I leave Duke, I need time to process the sheer intensity that is college. So when people ask, “How does it feel to be a senior?” I often respond that I’m both excited and overwhelmed, depending on the hour. On one hand I’m ready to leave The Gothic Wonderland, but on the other I am terrified about stepping outside of the safety offood points and FLEX accounts. What if I fail? Failure is not simply a grade that shows up on ACES any more. It’s a job, it’s another life, it’s real. But what if I succeed? What if I am able to fully grasp and utilize the education thatis denied to so many people ofcolor and/or women the world over?What ifI am able to help honor the legacies ofmy life? There could be no greater success. Toward the end of her life my great-grandma was not able to recognize me. To my great-grandma, I had become my mother, a woman who people often say I resemble closely. Time and space had collapsed into one single entity. Although my great-grandma could not remember me, I will forever remember her and the generations she produced. So to conclude my final column as a Duke student, I dedicate my diploma to my family and my community. Yet, most importantly, I dedicate it to three women. To Mother. To Granny. To Momma. Amen.

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